 Joining us on I-24 News at this hour, I'm Jeff Smith. Day 39 of the Israel Hamas War, rockets fired from Gaza into Israel minutes ago, and sadly also the casualty count continues to rise. The IDF has just confirmed that 19-year-old female soldier, Nola Marziano, was killed in Hamas's captivity. This teenage soldier was captured from her army base during the massacre and invasion of October 7. Hamas used her just a day ago in a hostage propaganda video, and now the IDF sadly confirming her death in captivity, further details of her death remain unknown. The IDF overnight announcing also two more soldiers killed in firefights against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and the violence continuing on the northern front as well. The IDF says Khizbullah fired several rockets from Lebanon at an IDF position. No one was hurt. But a short time ago, another suspicious incident along the border, an aerial target launching out of Lebanon and landing in the sea without incident. With us now in southern Israel as I-24 News correspondent Pierre Klochenler, Pierre, another round minutes ago of rocket fire from Gaza, tell us more about this incident. Right, there was a heavy salvo, it seems, of rocket fire, and as a result there were three hits on the city of Ashkelon, a city of 100,060 inhabitants, amongst which 70,000 people do not have a private shelter. There was a direct hit also on her house. We don't know of any casualties reports at this moment. In addition, the pounding of the Gaza Strip on Hamas targets and other terror targets has been intensifying in the past hour, involving the artillery tanks and also the Israeli air force. You mentioned the death of Corporal Noa Martiano. She was a spotter in the Intelligence Gathering, Combat Intelligence Gathering Corp in Nahal Oz, one of the sites of the October 7 massacres. She was kidnapped, Hamas, yesterday, around midnight, published a video of her pleading for her life, accusing Netanyahu of not doing enough, and then there is a still picture of her, inanimated, and with gory details that I will not share with you, but it seems that the IDF, according to the still picture that was published on social media, it seems the IDF reached the conclusion that she died. Now she was alive when she was taken hostage because she made some sort of propaganda confession, reading a text that Hamas had dictated her. You can see her clearly reading for a piece of paper out of camera. And then that stills picture. That means that she was alive in Hamas's hand. That means she dies. The circumstances of her death are unclear, but she was probably in a bunker. According to what we've seen at the Rantisi Hospital, the same kind of setup with the curtain just covering a cement wall, just like other confessions of other hostages that were already published by Hamas, part of the psychological war. The army has reached the conclusion she died. In Rantisi Hospital, a bloodstained knife was found. Forensic experts are on the site collecting evidence, trying to find any evidence of the whereabouts and the fate of hostages. Right now they're going to take the DNA of that blood and maybe we will have new evidences about the fate of the hostages. Pierre Colchrane will lie for us. Thank you so much for that update. Let's turn in studio where I'm joined by IDF Reserves Colonel Olivier Rafovich. Thank you so much for being with us. This is another horrible detail, another horrible turn in this already horrific situation. The timeline, as Pierre noted, is important here. There are talks, reports about ongoing negotiations for a hostage release plan. Israeli officials confirm there are negotiations, but details, anything specific they say is too premature. We will not release any details about the nature of talks, but there could continue to be reports about some kind of hostage release negotiation. In this case, we have a teenage soldier put on a propaganda video only yesterday. It was released yesterday. Now she's confirmed to be killed. Do you, what do you make of that and is Hamas sending a message, are they trying to send a message about what may happen to other hostages as well? Just thank you to have me here. I'm a spokesman of the Israeli army for international media. I'm not going to elaborate or to analyze the psychological warfare that Hamas is actually using against Israel and against the Israeli population. They are using many means. It's not new as a psychological warfare and fake news in order to influence, to make the population, to make the public here, public opinion actually, very nervous, very concerned. What we know, it is that on the 7th of October, 239 people were kept as hostages and kidnapped by Hamas. They are now in the Gaza soil under Hamas' responsibility and the Israeli army will do and is doing everything in order to rescue them and to bring them back home. Now what they are doing, what people talk about, I cannot and I will not speak about it. The battles continue inside Gaza to destroy Hamas and also to find and locate these hostages. We have from the IDF spokesperson's unit this very powerful and very compelling video in TV news you call it a walk and talk. It's very simple. This time you have an IDF admiral with a camera just walking through the basement of a hospital in Gaza City showing the sights and proof of it was a headquarter base for Hamas underneath the hospital. The weapons that were found there, the documents that were found there and evidence likely the hostages may have been kept there as well. Underneath the hospitals and medical centers, this seems to be Hamas is taking them over as a command center. It is a systematic behavior and used by Hamas to use actually civilian facilities and of course hospitals like the Rantisi hospital that you just mentioned Jeff. In this basement everything was actually prepared for a very planned, very prepared kidnapping action. We talk here about a mass kidnapping without any precedent in Israeli history and 239 people have been and then they plan and they prepare the different places like this basement in the hospital. We also saw the equipment used for babies so we can assume, we can maybe think we are not sure everything is under investigation with intelligence that maybe children babies were there. But what is sure that Hamas is using hospital, we are going to continue the investigation to continue to look into these facilities even if it's very complicated, very delicate. We are aware about the fact that these places are screened by the world as being strictly hospital but they are not only hospital as you can understand. So we make the difference by sharing information, by showing the world what's really going on with Hamas in these hospitals. The IDF has also started transferring Israeli equipment, medical equipment, incubators from hospitals into at least one hospital in Gaza City, the main Shifa hospital. That's where the Hamas terror organization has its headquarters below that hospital complex but the IDF says it's committed to protecting civilians and helping the transfer of vulnerable patients here now in the screen or images of the incubators being delivered to help keep vulnerable babies premature babies alive. And here's a phone call also released from Israeli officials and with the director general of Shifa. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Back now in studio, Colonel, why is the IDF doing this? They don't have to do this. They're going above and beyond to deliver medical equipment. They're coordinating with Palestinian medical officials and doctors are delivering equipment that they're taking the time and the effort. And the manpower to do that, to facilitate the delivery of medical goods. Why do that? First of all, we have the, we have the Eusez mission to destroy Hamas but to help innocent people and to put them outside the combat. And if we need to give assistance like incubators, we'll do it. It is also our duty to do it. We are a democracy in war but we are not a country or state or an army, of course, against people just because they are there. So we are doing this. It's very important to use our liaison units specifically dealing with Palestinian daily life and this phone call is very important because it is actually showing the willingness and the desire from the Israeli army, from the state of Israel to give this assistance and hopefully it will be given to the hospital of Shifa again. In spite of many critics and many talks about Shifa hospital, we are not against the hospital. We are against the terrorists within the hospital, within the basement of the hospital, within the tunnels beneath the hospital. So we'll do everything in order to help the people, to help the patients, to help the babies of course and to find a way to go against the terrorists themselves. An update, a quick update my producer in my year telling me we have an update on the rocket attacks emanating minutes ago from Gaza into Israel. A big barrage of rockets, many intercepted. At least two rockets appear to have made a direct impact in Ashkelon and the city of Ashkelon and now we can confirm that two men, Israeli civilian men, lightly wounded, minor injuries but they were hurt from those rocket impacts. We'll keep you posted as we learn more details on that. And now let's go live to the north of Israel where I'm joined by I-24 News correspondent Nicole Tzedek in northern Israel. Nicole, rocket fire today minutes ago from the south. At least two people hurt from that rocket fire in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. You're in the north. Has there been violence and rocket fire today also on the northern front as well? You know it's been a relatively quiet day here on the northern front. In fact we haven't even seen any red alerts in the area all morning. Not since yesterday but that doesn't mean there haven't been any incidents on the northern front. Just several hours ago we heard from the IDF that they intercepted a suspected target over the northern city of Akko, Acre in English. It's a coastal city and so there was that suspected target that was off the coast over the sea and so no red alerts or sirens went off because that's due to protocol. If it's going to be intercepted over the sea and it's not posing a risk to any civilians then they don't warrant the civilians for anything like that. But as far as exactly what the suspected target was, the IDF has not clarified that. And we're also seeing some reports that some anti-tank guided missiles were fired from the southern Lebanon into the northern town of Margaliot. It's an evacuated area mainly just military up there as well. But no comment from the IDF as to exactly what's happening there and if anyone was injured or if those just fell in some of these open areas that we mainly see here in the north. It's a very hilly area. There's many valleys and open areas as well. And so when we see many of these different missiles, rockets, a lot of them are just falling in these open areas. In fact overnight we heard from the IDF that several rockets were launched towards different Israeli army positions. The Iron Dome did intercept one of them but the rest of them fell in these open areas. So as far as what we've seen from this morning, it has been relatively quiet but definitely the sense that that could change at a moment's notice because the IDF is preparing for that. We continue to see these escalations just yesterday. Two soldiers injured here on the northern front as well. So it's definitely the sense that it could change at a moment's notice because day after day, week after week, it's these minor minor escalations but day after day they certainly build up. So we are seeing that here on the northern front. Thank you so much for that live update from the north of Israel. Nicole, stay safe. Back here in Sunyo, Kirtle, the situation in the north where Hezbollah fires rockets, Israel responds with force. They are taking out and killing Hezbollah fighters but Hezbollah keeps attacking every day. There's still incidents every day and tens of thousands of Israeli families have had to leave the north. Dozens of towns have been evacuated. When can they go home? When will this situation be... This can't continue like this, can it? It is not a war situation. It is a combat, daily combat situation. In Hebrew there is a word milchama, which means war, and lechima, which means combat. It's not a quiet border right now but it's not a war. And there is a kind of, I would say, secured or kind of low intensity conflict right now. But it could change. It could change like just your reporter just mentioned in the case that Hezbollah will change the rules of the game now if it is a game. But where you are totally right, Jeff, it is totally unbearable that tens of thousands of Israeli families, children have to leave this area. Now there are refugees. There are educated people in the country, like from the south part, and for now this situation means that there is a problem in the north. For now the Israeli army is actually hitting back and strutting back the Hezbollah cells from the other side of the border, around 70 people from Hezbollah. Terrorists have been killed, which is a high number of operatives from Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is actually trying to, for now, according to what we see, to keep a kind of tension without going further. But everything is possible and we have all the troops, all the means, military means, along the border from the sea to the Golanite in order to face if there is a development and, like just said, the chief general staff or the Minister of Defense, if you go against us with a war, Beirut will be like Gaza. Is Hezbollah controlling the pace? I mean, Hezbollah decides when to attack, where to attack, how deep to attack, and then the IDF is successfully responding. But it's only a counter attack. Is there a need for the IDF to be more proactive in this, not war, as you mentioned, but combat? Right now there is a high priority, which is the south against Hamas and the rescue and the return of all the kidnapped and the hostages back to Israel. And we know that all their parts in the Middle East, also in the north, want us to leave this focus to another thing. So we are keeping the focus on Hamas. We are not leaving the south's mission against Hamas. We are dealing with Hezbollah's threat in the case that we need to intervene in a more deeper effort. We will do it. As the war goes on, Israelis, and not just Israelis, also just Jews, Jewish people are facing increased harassment, threats, and violence just for being Jewish. And this is a pronounced issue, especially on college campuses and universities around the world. With us now at Zepienza University in Rome, Italy, I'm drawn by Mikhail Mizrachi to talk about what she is facing in the classroom and on the college campus as the war continues. Thank you so much for being with us. I know that your goal is supposed to be focusing on your studies and getting an education, but because you are Jewish and because you are aware and active in staying with the news here in Israel, how are your fellow students treating you? How are your professors treating you? And are you able to focus on your studies at all? Okay, so first of all, I would like to say I'm from South America originally, so I'm quite lucky to have never experienced anti-Semitism as much as I am experienced in here in Italy. I am doing an international course and I've got to say until now it has been very, very difficult. We've had several instances of classmates sending us threats or seeing post students around demonizing not only Israel, but also Jews in general. I'm going to say we're very lucky in the sense that the university has posted a declaration saying that they are in favor of Israel. However, the students do not seem to agree. Right now I'm currently not attending university, not only because of the situation, but partly because of it. And our university is currently occupied by the pro-Palestinian students who refuse to occupy it, saying crazy demands as stop the flights to Israel and stop Italian Jewish people from enlisting in the army, which in my opinion is just insane. Particularly in my course I would say since it's an international course we have faced a lot of issues in general. I used to be a representative for my course and I actually had to quit. The reason why I quit was because I have to represent, I have a duty to represent every single student in general. I did it when the Afghani students were escaping the Taliban, I hosted a refugee from Kazakhstan when the war erupted in Ukraine and the moment I had to come forward and mention to my superior is that my fellow Jewish students, there were three Jewish students with me in the course, were really scared, they were afraid to go to class. The response was basically that they couldn't do anything. I was told to approach a Jewish professor which in my opinion was given an insult because you wouldn't ask for an Afghani student to direct himself to an Afghan professor. Why were your professors and the administrators, when you were saying the Jewish students don't feel safe, we don't feel safe coming to class we're being harassed, we're being threatened, why did they say they can't do anything about that? Well the response in general was that the university as I said before already gave a statement in support to Israel but European universities tend to focus a lot on the right to express yourself which I always ask myself well yes there's freedom of speech but where does your freedom start and where does it end? I want to ask lastly just about how has this changed your own personal views moving forward and your own views on the conflict and the reality of being a Jew or being Israeli abroad, outside of the country? I've heard to say that before I moved to Europe I saw Europe as a place where it was more developed and where people could find their place I saw little immigrants I thought I would feel safe and then I discovered that in reality it's not really a place for Jews and I feel sad most of the day seeing people who I love who I care about, who I study who know me, who have the opportunity to even talk to a Jewish student who lived in Israel most of her life and yet chose to follow this trend and personally I do not think I will be living in Europe anymore I have chosen to do aliyah I don't feel like there is a place for me as a Jew here which is very very sad Michal thank you so much for sharing your personal experiences with us and I 24 news that here in Israel Israeli forces still trying to locate and return personal items of the murdered and kidnapped back to their grieving families here's more on that emotional task in the last few days officers of the Israeli police Laha 443 unit have taken on a role they never thought they would they're responsible for returning personal effects to families of the murdered and abducted on October 7 this week the police arrived at Ziv's house and returned some of her boyfriend Elia's personal belongings left at the Nova Festival site Elia was kidnapped to Gada from the festival in Kibbutz Reim there's an after-sale to be served you're passing the after-sale to Kibbutz and to Kibbutz to Kibbutz to Kibbutz you're passing the after-sale to Kibbutz because I realized that there's an after-sale to be served to Elia that they never thought they would so at the time I had to open it I hope he'll come back Ziv was rescued from the party but her nephew Amit was murdered right next to her his belongings were returned to the family and as a result we had a lot of trouble and I came back this is the phone I got from Ido Ido Peretz from Ramat Gan was murdered at the Nova Festival at Reim he was 23 years old this week after a month of examinations and clean-ups of the scene the police came to his parents' house which he had during his last moments do you think it's from home to home? no of course not not the one who saved and the one who came here we thank you thank you at the center established in Lahav Building 443 there are many belongings of the murdered and kidnapped more than a month after that Black Saturday the identification procedure has yet to be completed we've received things which have yet to be identified and we still have no way of knowing who it belongs to the police are currently working on the process of photographing and cataloging all these things and we will make sure to return all the items to the families in an orderly and organized manner thanks for watching I'll see you soon in the next video we have no idea where he is as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well joining us on I point for news at this hour I'm Jeff Smith day 39 of the Israel Hamas war many more rockets fired from Gaza into Israel minutes ago and sadly also the casualty count continues to rise the IDF has just confirmed that 19 year old female soldier Nola Marziano was killed in Hamas captivity this teenage soldier was captured from her army base during the massacre and invasion of October 7th Hamas used her just a day ago in a hostage propaganda video and now the IDF sadly confirming her death in captivity further details of her death remain unknown the IDF also announcing two more soldiers killed in firefights against Hamas terrorists in Gaza and the violence continuing on the northern front as well the IDF says Hezbollah fired several rockets from Lebanon at an IDF position no one was hurt another suspicious incident along the border an aerial target launching out of Lebanon and landing in the sea without incident with us now in southern Israel as I-24 News correspondent Pierre Colchennel Pierre another round minutes ago of rocket fire from Gaza tell us more about this incident right there was a heavy salvo it seems of rocket fire and as a result there were three hits on the city of Ashkelon a city of 100,000 and 60 inhabitants amongst which 70,000 people do not have a private shelter there was a direct hit also on her house we don't know of any casualties reports at this moment in addition the pounding of the Gaza Strip on Hamas targets and other terror targets has been intensifying in the past hour involving the artillery tanks and also the Israeli air force you mentioned the death of Corporal Noa Martiano she was a spotter in the intelligence gathering combat intelligence gathering corp in Nachal Oz one of the sites of the October 7 massacres she was kidnapped Hamas yesterday at around midnight published a video of her pleading for her life accusing Netanyahu of not doing enough and then there is a still picture of her inanimated and with gory details that I will not share with you but it seems that the IDF according to the stills picture that was published on social media it seems the IDF reached the conclusion that she died now she was alive when she was taken hostage because she made some sort of propaganda confession reading a text that Hamas had dictated her you can see her clearly reading for a piece of paper out of camera and then that stills picture that means that she was alive in Hamas's hand that means she died the circumstances of her death are unclear but she was probably in a bunker according to what we've seen at the Rantisi hospital set up with a curtain just covering a cement wall just like other confessions of other hostages that were already published by Hamas part of the psychological war the army has reached the conclusion she died in Rantisi hospital a bloodstained knife was found forensic experts are on the site collecting evidence trying to find any evidence of the whereabouts and the fate of hostages right now they're gonna take the DNA of that blood and maybe we will have we will have new evidences about the fate of the hostages Pierre Colchrane live for us thank you so much for that update this is another horrible detail another horrible turn in this already horrific situation the timeline is Pierre noted is important here there are talks reports about ongoing negotiations for a hostage release plan Israeli officials confirm there are negotiations but details anything specifically say it's too premature we will not release any details about the nature of talks but continued to be reports about some kind of hostage release negotiation in this case we have a teenage soldier put on a propaganda video only yesterday was released yesterday now she's confirmed to be killed do you what you make of that and are they trying to send a message about what may happen to other hostages as well just thank you to have me here I'm a spokesman of the Israeli army for international medias I'm not going to elaborate or to analyze the psychological warfare that Hamas is actually using against Israel and against the Israeli population they are using many means it's not new as a psychological warfare on the fake news in order to influence to make the population to make public public opinion actually very nervous, very concerned what we know it is that on the 7th of October 239 people were kept as hostages and kidnapped by Hamas they are now in the Gaza soil and Hamas responsibility and the Israeli army will do and is doing everything in order to rescue them and to bring them back home now what they are doing what people talk about I cannot and I will not speak about it the battles continue inside Gaza to destroy Hamas and also to find and locate these hostages we have from the IDF spokesperson's unit this very powerful and very compelling video news you call it a walk and talk it's very simple this time you have an IDF admiral with a camera just walking through the basement of a hospital in Gaza city showing the sites and proof it was a headquarter base for Hamas underneath the hospital the weapons that were found there the documents that were found there and evidence likely the hostages may have been kept there as well underneath the hospitals and medical centers this seems to be just taking them over as command centers it is a systematic behavior and news by Hamas to use actually civilians facilities and of course hospitals like the that you just mentioned Jeff in this basement everything was actually prepared for a very planned very prepared kidnapping action we talk here about a kidnapping you know without any precedent in Israeli history and 239 people have been and then they plan and they prepare the different places like this basement in the hospital we also saw the equipment used for babies so we can assume we can maybe think we're not sure you know everything is under investigation with intelligence that maybe children babies were there but what is sure that Hamas using hospital we are going to continue the investigation to continue to look into these facilities even if it's very complicated very delicate we are aware about the fact that these places are screened by the world as being strictly hospital but they are not only hospital as you can understand so we'll make the difference by sharing information by showing the world what's really going on with Hamas in these hospitals the IDF has also started transferring Israeli equipment medical equipment incubators correct from hospitals into at least one hospital in Gaza city the main Shifa hospital that's where the Hamas terror organization has its headquarters below that hospital complex but the IDF says it's committed to protecting civilians and helping the transfer of vulnerable patients here now in your screener images of the incubators being delivered and help keep vulnerable babies premature babies alive and here's a phone call also released from Israeli officials and with the director general of Shifa incubators 33 incubators was about 30 oxygen. 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And this phone call is very important because it is actually showing the willingness and the desire from the Israeli army, from the State of Israel, to give assistance, and hopefully it will be given to the hospital of Shifa again. In spite of many critics and many talks about Shifa hospital, we are not against the hospital. We are against the terrorists within the hospital, within the basement of the hospital, within the tunnels beneath the hospital. So we'll do everything in order to help the people, to help the patients, to help the babies, of course, and to find a way to go against the terrorists themselves. An update, a quick update, my producer in my year telling me we have an update on the rocket attacks emanating minutes ago from Gaza into Israel, a big barrage of rockets, many intercepted, two, at least two rockets were, appear to have made a direct impact in Ashkelon and the city of Ashkelon, and now we can confirm that two men, Israeli civilian men, lightly wounded, minor injuries, but they were hurt from those rocket impacts. We'll keep you posted as we learn more details on that. And now let's go live to the north of Israel where I'm joined by I-24 News correspondent Nicole Tzedek in northern Israel, Nicole Rocketfire today, minutes ago from the south, at least two people hurt from that rocket fire in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. You're in the north. Has there been violence in the rocket fire today also on the northern front as well? You know, it's been a relatively quiet day here on the northern front. In fact, we haven't even seen any red alerts in the area all morning, nothing since yesterday, but that doesn't mean there haven't been any incidents on the northern front. Just several hours ago, we heard from the IDF that they intercepted a suspected target over the northern city of Akko, acre in English. It's a coastal city, and so there was that suspected target that was off the coast over the sea. And so no red alerts or sirens went off because that's due to protocol. If it's going to be intercepted over the sea and it's not posing a risk to any civilians, then they don't warrant the civilians for anything like that. But as far as exactly what the suspected target was, the IDF has not clarified that. And we're also seeing some reports that some anti-tank guided missiles were fired from the southern Lebanon into the northern town of Margaliot. It's an evacuated area, mainly just military up there as well. But no comment from the IDF as to exactly what's happening there, and if anyone was injured or if those just fell into these open areas that we mainly see here in the north. It's a very hilly area. It's very, there's many valleys and open areas as well. And so when we see many of these different missiles, rockets, a lot of them are just falling in these open areas. In fact, overnight, we heard from the IDF that several rockets were launched towards different Israeli army positions. The Iron Dome did intercept one of them, but the rest of them fell in these open areas. So as far as what we've seen from this morning, it has been relatively quiet, but definitely the sense that that could change at a moment's notice because the IDF is preparing for that. We continue to see these escalations just yesterday. Two soldiers injured here on the northern front as well. So it's definitely the sense that it could change at a moment's notice because day after day, week after week, it's these minor, minor escalations. But day after day, they certainly build up. So we are seeing that here on the northern front. Thank you so much for that live update from the north of Israel. Nicole, stay safe. Back here in Sunil, Kirtle, the situation in the north where Hezbollah fires rockets Israel responds with force. They are taking out and killing Hezbollah fighters, but Hezbollah keeps attacking every day. There's still incidents every day and tens of thousands of Israeli families have had to leave the north. Dozens of towns have been evacuated. When can they go home? When will this situation be, this can't continue like this, can it? It is not a war situation. It is a combat, daily combat situation. In Hebrew, there is a word milchama, which means war, on lechima, which means combat. It's not a quiet border right now, but it's not a war. And there is a kind of, I would say, measured or kind of low-intensity conflict right now. But it could change. It could change, like just your reporters just mentioned, in the case that Hezbollah will change the rules of the game now if it is a game. But where you are totally right, Jeff, it is totally unbearable that tens of thousands of Israeli families, children have to leave this area. Now there are refugees. There are, like, evacuated people in the country, like from the south part. And for now, this situation means that there is a problem in the north. For now, the Israeli army is actually hitting back and strutting back the Hezbollah cells from the other side of the border, around 70 people from Hezbollah. Terrorists have been killed, which is a high number of operatives from Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is actually trying to, for now, according to what we see, to keep a kind of tension without going further. But everything is possible, and we have all the troops, all the means, military means, along the border from the sea to the Golanite in order to face if there is a development. And, like Jeff said, the chief general staff of the Ministry of Defense, if you go against us with a war, Beirut will be like Gaza. It is Hezbollah controlling the pace. I mean, Hezbollah decides when to attack, where to attack, how deep to attack. And then the idea is successfully responding. But it's only a counterattack. Is there a need for the IDF to be more proactive in this, not war, as you mentioned, but combat? Right now there is a high priority, which is the south against Hamas and the rescue and the return of all the kidnapped and the hostages back to Israel. And we know that other parts in the Middle East, also in the north, want us to leave this focus to another thing. So we are keeping the focus on Hamas. We are not leaving the south's mission against Hamas. We are dealing with Hezbollah's threat in the case that we'll need to intervene in a more deeper effort. We'll do it. As the war goes on, Israelis and not just Israelis, also just Jews, Jewish people are facing increased harassment, threats and violence. Just for being Jewish, and this is a pronounced issue especially on college campuses and universities around the world. With us now at Zepienza University in Rome, Italy. I'm joined by Mikhail Mizrachi to talk about what she is facing in the classroom and on the college campus as the war continues. Thank you so much for being with us. I know that your goal is supposed to be focusing on your studies, getting an education. But because you are Jewish and because you are aware and active in staying with the news here in Israel, how are your fellow students treating you? How are your professors treating you? And are you able to focus on your studies at all? OK, so first of all, I would like to say I'm from South America originally, so I'm quite lucky to have never experienced autismism as much as I am experienced in here in Italy. I am doing an international course and I've got to say until now it has been very, very difficult. We've had several instances of classmates sending us threats or seeing posts on Instagram demonizing not only Israel, but also Jews in general. And I'm going to say we're very lucky in the sense that the university has posted a declaration saying that they are in favor of Israel. However, the students do not seem to agree. Right now, I'm currently not attending university not only because of the situation, but partly because of it. And our university is currently occupied by the pro-Palestinian students who refuse to occupy it, saying crazy demands as stop the flights to Israel and stop Italian Jewish people from enlisting in the army, which, in my opinion, is just insane. Particularly in my course, I would say since it's an international course, we have faced a lot of issues in general. I used to be a representative for my course and I actually had to quit. The reason why I quit was because I have to represent, I have a duty to represent every single student in general. I did it when the Afghani students were escaping the Taliban. I hosted a refugee from Kazakhstan when the war erupted in Ukraine. And the moment I had to come forward and mention to my superior is that my fellow Jewish students, there's over three Jewish students with me in the course, were really scared. They were afraid to go to class. The response was basically that they couldn't do anything. I was told to approach a Jewish professor, which in my opinion was even an insult because you wouldn't ask from, for example, an Afghani student to direct himself to an Afghan professor. But why were your professors and the administrators, when you were saying the Jewish students don't feel safe, we don't feel safe coming to class, we're being harassed, we're being threatened, why did they say they can't do anything about that? Well, the response in general was that the university, as I said before, already gave a statement in support to Israel. But European universities tend to focus a lot on the right to express yourself, which I always ask myself, well, yes, there's freedom of speech, but where does your freedom start and where does it end? I wanna ask, lastly, just about your... How has this changed your own personal views moving forward and your own views on the conflict and the reality of being a Jew or being Israeli abroad, outside of the country? I've got to say that before I moved to Europe, I saw Europe as a place where it was more loved and where people could find their place. I saw a few immigrants, I thought I would feel safe. And then I discovered that in reality, it's not really a place for Jews, I feel scared. I feel sad most of the day seeing people who I love, who I care about, who I study, who know me, who have the opportunity to even talk to a Jewish student who lived in Israel most of her life and yet chose to follow this trend. And personally, I do not think I will be living in Europe anymore. I have chosen to do Aliyah. I don't feel like there is a place for me as a Jew here, which is very, very sad. Michal, thank you so much for sharing your personal experiences with us on I-24 News. Back here in Israel, Israeli forces still trying to locate and return personal items of the murdered and kidnapped back to their grieving families. Here's more on that emotional task. In the last few days, officers of the Israeli police LaHav 443 unit have taken on a role they never thought they would. They're responsible for returning personal effects to families of the murdered and abducted on October 7. We heard the story, the story that comes to mind. Also, everything that has passed, the fact that we have succeeded in everything, it's a real free speech. Thank you. And with the help of God, only in good times, in the near future. Thank you very much. Thank you. This week, the police arrived at Zeev's house and returned some of her boyfriend, Aliyah's personal belongings, left at the Nova Festival site. Aliyah was kidnapped to Gaza from the festival in Kibbutzireim. There's the opening to the festival. I took the opening to the festival because I realized that there is, in the middle of the festival, a woman named Aliyah, that she was the one who told me about it. So, in time, I took the opening. I hope she will come back. Zeev was rescued from the party, but her nephew, Amit, was murdered right next to her. His belongings were returned to the family a few days ago, objects that have become a living memory. Ido Peretz from Ramat Gan was murdered at the Nova Festival at Reim. He was 23 years old. This week, after a month of examinations and clean-ups of the scene, the police came to his parents' house with belongings he had during his last moments. Thank you. Thank you. You're taking it from house to house, it's not easy. Nothing is impossible. Not the one who saved, not the one who escaped, not the one who came to the house, not the one who came here. So we thank you for everything. Thank you. At the center established in Lahav Building 443, there are many belongings of the murdered and kidnapped. More than a month after that black Saturday, the identification procedure has yet to be completed. We've received things which have yet to be identified and we still have no way of knowing who it belongs to. The police are currently working on the process of photographing and cataloging all these things. And we will make sure to return all the items to the families in an orderly and organized manner. Thanks for watching. I'll see you soon. In a state of war families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. The Israel story to the world. I'm here watching i24 news. We're coming to you live from Tel Aviv on this day 39 of Israel's war with Hamas. The IDF has opened another safe corridor for civilians leaving northern Gaza. It will run until four o'clock this afternoon. The UN has confirmed that 200,000 civilians have already left northern Gaza over the past 10 days. The IDF has confirmed that 19 year old hostage Noah Marciano has died. Hamas played a propaganda video of the young soldier in captivity before claiming she had been killed in an airstrike. Israeli officials say they believe a pregnant woman who was taken hostage on October 7th has likely given birth in captivity. Her child, if he or she survived, will now be the youngest of the 240 hostages. More Israeli soldiers have been killed, bringing to 46 the number of troops killed in the fighting so far. They've been named as Staff Sergeant Roy Marom, 21 years old from Ranaana and Master Sergeant Raz Abulafia, 27 years old from Rishpo. And in the north of Israel, air defences have intercepted a suspicious target that was identified off the coast of the city of Akko in the north. Let's get the very latest on that, our Nicole Zedek is in northern Israel for us. Now, Nicole, what's the latest with regard to this aircraft? Well, with much that suspicious target you're talking about, the IDF says they were able to intercept it with their air defense systems off the coast. So over the sea, over near Akko or Acre in English, which is one of the major northern towns here in Israel. However, because it was off in the sea due to different protocols, no red alerts were siren because it was not any threat to any of the residents in the area. Now, this comes as we also hear reports that two different instances of anti-tank guided missiles have been fired towards northern Israel throughout the day as well, but no reports of injury so far. I can tell you where I am in northern Israel within the past 20 minutes or so, I've heard at least four to five very loud explosions. It sounds almost like outgoing Israeli artillery firing towards southern Lebanon, but no official confirmation from the IDF at this time. I can tell you, Lebanese media reports, they're saying an Israeli drone bombed the outskirts of two southern Lebanon towns as well as Israeli shelling hit 11 border towns. This, as they say, has a lot targeted Israeli army posts throughout the day. So as I said, that's according to different Lebanese media reports and official reports from the IDF. We have little known statements as far as their activity today, but they say, as of yesterday, they are heavily monitoring the situation and responding to all of the different incidents that we've seen. And that seems to be over the past few days, the routine here as has blow fires, different rockets, mortars, anti-tank guided missiles. The IDF then responds in retaliatory attacks to all of these different instances. And so for the time being, it remains a very volatile situation. And you can really hear the sounds of war in the distance here, but no red alert is actually siren-ing in any of these northern border towns for the entire day so far, Laura. Nicole, thank you very much. Nicole Zedek there in the north of Israel. Well, with me in the studio at this hour, Shui Fangosman is the former head of the foreign policy branch at the Israel National Security Council. Good to see you again, Shiri. Let's leave the north aside for a second because we've had a lot of developments, of course, overnight from Gaza, including, of course, the IDF spokesman Daniel Higari going in to Gaza, underneath a hospital, a children's hospital, to show not only a large weapons depot, but also what is possibly evidence that hostages were held there. Yeah, it's not only that. He's basically showing that compound was especially built to keep hostages, most probably, and that they kept these explosives near children's civilians in the hospital, Palestinian one, and maybe near the hostages. They had an improvised toilet made there. All evidence we see, children's bottles there, and we saw ropes to possibly tie up the hostages. So those images are very hard for Israelis to see. And last night was very, very tough for Israelis. And also, but it shows a cynical use of civilian population and installations by Hamas. And by the way, Hamas has obviously seen this like he's being caught with his pants down because already three senior spokesmen of Hamas has denied this, which is the first time we've seen such a... They're trying to push back on it. Yeah, they're trying to push back. And it's a system. I look at all western posts about free Palestine and I see a system. It's denial that they've done anything wrong, that we're lying all the time. And that's the way to live with this reality of this sort of organization. It's just to deny everything that we're showing to the world. But I'm certain the world leaders and people that really know what's going on, they understand how severe this is. Because Israel is really documenting this conflict step by step, isn't it? Releasing more information than any other army would do. They've also released an audio recording, which is a conversation between an Israeli liaison officer and the director of the Shefa Hospital, another hospital because we know that there are patients and babies in that hospital. Israel is trying to get those people to safety. Let's take a listen to that recording right now. So that is a recording that the IDF has released, which shows an Israeli soldier speaking to the director of the Shefa Hospital. And as you can see, the two sides are working to try and save the people in the Shefa Hospital. Hamas, of course, does not want the civilians to leave or be helped. Let's go to southern Israel now. Our Pierre Kloshendler is there with the latest on the situation. So we just heard Pierre, that audio recording proof that Israel is trying to help the people inside Shefa Hospital. You've also got the UN now confirming that 200,000 gardens have fled south in the past 10 days. Over 200,000, I would say even. In Shefa Hospital, the situation is dire because you have people under dialysis treatment. You have people that are under treatment for cancer, and you have 37 premature babies that need to be evacuated urgently. And the army is trying to entice the medical personnel to evacuate the patients and the medical personnel in order to provide them a safe haven in the southern Gaza Strip in locations that are dedicated for those people that have been displaced by the war. Now, these are ongoing negotiations. It's been going on for already three or four days. Since the army has encircled, basically, the Shefa Hospital, they've offered even a safe passage on Al Wakhda Street to connect themselves to the open humanitarian corridor, which has been going on for over 10 days now. The Salahadine access that crosses east of Gaza City from north to south, and which has been used by over 200,000 people. Now, the safe passage to that access from Shefa Hospital is provided by the army under the guard of the army. It's also not only for people by foot, but also for ambulances. So the army is making a lot of efforts to neutralize the humanitarian predicament of the Gaza population at Shefa Hospital. Will that work? I don't know. But I think that the army is very patient with that because this is a test case of the humanitarian dimension of the army's ground offensive. And this is also the lightning rod for any kind of criticism against Israel in its operation inside Gaza since October 27. And talk us through the latest with regard to the fight in Pierre. The IDF says that they have captured several Hamas government buildings in the past 24 hours. Absolutely. And this is more symbolic than operational, basically. They've captured the Palestinian Legislative Council that was established after the former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, came into the Gaza Strip according to the terms of the Oslo Accords in 1994. There's been a Palestinian Legislative Council that was taken over by Hamas. That's been taken over. And images of Infantry Golani Brigade soldiers posing like a school yearbook with Israeli flag have been spread on social media. This is a psychological blow for the sympathizers of Hamas, of course. In addition, they've taken the military police headquarters of Gaza City. They've taken as well the house of the governor of Gaza City. In other words, the headquarters of both the administration and the military of Hamas in Gaza City has been taken over, basically. Now, there are three hospitals, Shifa, Al-Quds, Indonesia that are still being encircled. In addition, there's heavy fighting in this direction in Shatti refugee camp, beach camp, which is on the northwestern exit of Gaza City along the coast. And as a result of that heavy fighting, the humanitarian corridor unilaterally installed by the IDF along the Mediterranean coast on Aruna Rashid Street has been closed. And the residents of Shatti that are trapped into the battleground are urged by the IDF to move to the other axis east of Gaza City, the Salahadin axis, via a dedicated road that is under Israeli control and which the Israelis can guard in order to protect the non-involved civilians that desire to leave the Shatti refugee camp and the battleground. Pia, thank you very much. Pia Kloshendler with the latest updates from Gaza. Shufan Grossman is still with me in the studio. It is an extraordinary situation, isn't it, when you've got the IDF working with civilians like the head of the Shifa hospital to try and get those civilians out of the way as quickly as possible. Yeah, two points that I would like to emphasize. First, there were Hamas terrorists that were caught on October the 7th. And during their interrogation and the IDF released it, they said that there are ground posts, Hamas strongholds beneath the hospitals, because they are sure it's the last place IDF would like to attack. And it says we're hiding in schools, hiding in Mosul. That's very important. The other important point that we're seeing IDF is assessing that there may be hostages underneath these hospitals or somewhere in those hospitals. So that's two major causes for the IDF to move in and to the hospital. It does so slowly as you can. The hostages are really key, aren't they, to this complex? Yeah, it would seem so in a very cynical way. You mentioned the hostages. And it's a war crime, right, if someone doesn't understand. Yeah, I mean, it seemed to be sinking in slowly when we were talking last night about the EU finding a condemning mass for using hospitals. So there is certainly some awareness that Hamas is using these hospitals for military purposes. Let's talk about the hostages then, because the head of the Red Cross will be meeting families of the hostages today. They have come under a lot of criticism for not seemingly doing enough to try and find out the state the hostages are in after 39 days. Yeah, well, it is the responsibility of the Red Cross, but the Hamas and other terrorist organizations just explain have no respect whatsoever to the rules of armed conflict. And the Red Cross has some connections and ways to beat with Hamas. And we saw the terrorists that were released were giving to the Red Cross. I wish it would do more. It is limited in what it can do. That's just the reality when we're faced with such evil. But hopefully, yeah, I mean, right now the assessment in Israel, because of the way Hamas has been behaving, is that the only way to to freedom is with military pressure, unfortunately. But that's that's that's kind of what we're seeing last night. A terrible video came out of Noam Marziana, which you mentioned 19 year olds, 19 year olds. She's a soldier. And she was kidnapped from from the base. And then she's seen on the video. And then her body is being appeared as very severely injured. So we're dealing with with with an organization that it isn't adhering to any moral conduct that we in the Western or liberal world would would imagine. And I fear on the other side, they just start believing us when we say it. All right, Sherry, for now, thank you very much. Well, we've got a report now on the weapons that the IDF uncovered in the basement of that hospital last night. Here's Omer Rabi. Inside this tent, the full array of Hamas firepower, vast in size, and very sophisticated. The Israeli army invited the foreign media to come and see for themselves the weapons the terrorists used in their October 7th onslaught on southern Israel. Some of these weapons were left by the terrorists before they withdrew and went back to Gaza. Other arms were captured after terrorists were killed in battles. This tire filled with explosives was specially made for the border fence posts. I open it now. It can be closed like this so that it surrounds the fence post on all sides. It is connected to a detonator from this side. And when it is detonated, the column will collapse and Hamas militants will be able to infiltrate the Kibbutzim on the Gaza Strip. This means that they had the exact measurements beforehand. Yes, they took the measurements of the fence posts under the pretext of demonstrations and other civil activities. This frame is handmade. Some 80 percent of Hamas's weapons are made locally. The remaining 20 percent Russian made from the Soviet era or North Korean, Egyptian and Iranian. Russian, North Korean and Egyptian weapons were smuggled to Hamas through a third and perhaps even a fourth party. They were dismantled and parts of them were hidden in food and aid shipments. And Hamas manufactures their duplicates inside the Gaza Strip and even explosive devices. This is a list of medical equipment explaining everything that this bag contains. It is intended to enable wounded Hamas terrorists to continue fighting. The large quantities of this equipment were intended to allow Hamas to continue the fighting inside Israeli territory for a long period of time. A huge amount of weapons indicates the amount of intelligence and financial resources that Hamas invested in its military action throughout the years. But it also shows the extent of the difficulties and dangers facing the Israeli forces now during their measured ground advance in Gaza. Well, we've got more now on the IDF's efforts to try and coordinate the transfer of incubators for newborn babies who are in the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. Ariel, us around reports. We are now in the area of the basement of the hospital. I want to show you a room where we found all the gear, the operational gear of Hamas. Hamas is using hospitals, like we showed the evidence in Shifa Hospital, in other hospitals. We are now seeing it in life in Rantisi Hospital. Operation is still conducting right now. As fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas edges deeper into the heart of Gaza City, hospitals have become a key focus of the IDF. The reason they're used by Hamas terrorists to hide weapons and possibly hold any of the 239 hostages kidnapped on October 7. This kind of gear is a gear for a major fight. These are explosives. These are vests, vests with explosives. Yeah, it's a body vest for terrorists to explode on forces. Among hospitals, among patients, we have hand grenades, Kalachnikovs. And then we have the RPGs, people shooting RPGs from hospitals. This is Hamas. The booby-trapped hideout beneath the Rantisi Children's Hospital in Northern Gaza is located near the home of a senior Hamas commander. It was uncovered by the IDF's Navy Elite Cheyate 13 commando unit and the 401st Armored Brigade. As they raided the hospital, which was evacuated days earlier, they came in contact with Hamas fighters hold up in there. A woman, clothes and a rope. A rope next to the legs. And look above this. Look above it. It's a baby bottle. It's a baby bottle in a basement above a World Health Organization sign. This is a suspicion for area where hostages were being held. A few feet away was a motorcycle believed to be used to transport hostages from Gaza into Israel on October 7, as well as what appeared to be makeshift bathrooms, a kitchenette, and improvised ventilation pipes. In this room, there is a list. This list in Arabic. In Arabic, this list says we are in operation. The operation against Israel started in the 7th of October. This is a guardian list where every terrorist. Over Israel's fighting near hospitals, the IDF said it is coordinating with Shifa's management the transfer of incubators for newborns from an Israeli hospital to Gaza's biggest hospital and released a phone call with the manager. And so as the fighting continues and nears Gaza's hospitals, used by Hamas as their above ground shields, Israel will continue to send in special forces rather than airstrikes to avoid hurting patients and also to uncover further evidence that can shed light on the situation of its hostages. So they go a roundup of the information that the IDF has released over the past 24 hours. It's a spokesman there, Daniel Hagari, revealing underneath the children's hospital in Gaza evidence perhaps that hostages were held there and also a large weapons cache, which is yet more evidence of Hamas war crimes using hospitals as military command centers. All right, well, Shiref and Grossman is with me in the studio. And as we were listening to that report, Shiref Hamas has fired more rockets. They fired rockets this morning. There was a direct hit in the city of Ashkelon, two people likely wounded. There have been more sirens going off in the communities around the Gaza envelope. So here we are, 39 days into the war. And they do still have the ability to fire rockets, it seems. Yes. People need to understand how does a rocket work, right? So there is a hole in the ground. It's one time to shoot it from there. So there are thousands of these holes and maybe have been hundreds of thousands of these holes throughout Gaza. And what we saw it slowed down a little bit, the pace of the rockets, and they haven't been firing it from northern of Gaza because the IDF is taking charge of all the area, the occupied area. So now southern Gaza, where all the civilians are, this is the place where these rockets are being fired from. And here's another walker. Exactly. And there are thousands of these underground tunnels. It's industrialized. They're very good at it. We assess tens of thousands of rockets can be launched from there. What we've seen in the past few days, as you know, as people that live here and experience it, is that they save up some rockets for a few days. We're seeing like longer breaks between days. And then mass, mass firing of rockets, that's in order to try to catch the iron dome off guard and not being able to intercept as many rockets as they would like to see some sort of a weak spot or catch people off guard, you know. People feel safe again. They go to the mall. They try to live their lives. And then boom, the iron will catch them where they least expected. And it's a psychological warfare as well as a physical. Right, because we had, we were kind of getting used to the routine. Well, we were at lunchtime, rockets at night time, evening and late. But I'm going to ask, with so many Hamas, commanders now killed. I mean, surely that will have disrupted the chain of command. I wonder where the command is coming from. As you know, IDF has released a formal number of about 30,000 terrorists of Hamas. Yes, we have thousands of terrorists. You know, people say there are 11,000 people killed in Gaza, but they don't count who is the combatant and who is not the combatant, right? Which is a major fact when dealing in the law of armed conflict because it's a justified target if you kill a terrorist or a fighter. So we don't know exactly how many combatants were killed, but we should say hundreds if not thousands. We haven't seen the leadership, the top leadership of Sinuah, of Muhammad death, the people that actually planned this attack. And there are thousands of others. Okay. All right, Siri, thank you very much. Do stay with us. We're going to take a very short break. We'll be back with more right after this. Don't go away. You're watching I-24 News. We're coming to you live from Tel Aviv on this day, 39 of Israel's war with Hamas. Two people have been likely wounded in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. This after rockets fired from Gaza hit property and cars in the city. And in the last hour, sirens have been blaring in the communities around Gaza. In the north of Israel, air defenses have intercepted what's being described as a suspicious target. It was identified off the coast of the city of Akol, the target not deemed to be a threat to civilians. Let's get the very latest, though, from the north. Our correspondent, Nicole Zedek, is there. Nicole, some developments in the last hour. I understand. Yes, Laura, actually within the past five minutes, we got our first red alert, red rocket alerts sirening throughout some of these northern, northern border towns, specifically Shula, Azarit, Shomer. They're right within maybe one to two kilometers of the Lebanon border right up there in the north. And so we don't have any information as to if there have been any incidents on there because, as I said, within the past five minutes, we have these red alerts going off for the first time in more than 12 hours. These are the first red alerts that we've had in these northern border towns. For many of those areas that I mentioned, they're already evacuated areas because the border within four kilometers of the Lebanon border, all of those residents have been asked to evacuate because if you are in those areas, you have 10 to 15 seconds to get to your safe place to get to a shelter. In fact, when I was in some of those very close areas just yesterday, when I look on my home front command app, it doesn't even tell me 10 to 15 seconds. It says immediately, that's how much time you have to get to your safe place. So we continue to see these different, different incidents throughout the day. This also comes after two different reports of anti tank guided missiles fired towards northern Israel from southern Lebanon. Now, only two incidents that we've seen so far reported. And this is less than really the past previous days. However, I do want to note that it's been pretty terrible weather throughout the day. It's been cloudy, it's been rainy, and that makes it difficult to fire those anti tank guided missiles. It makes it difficult to quite literally see through the fog of war. And so that could be why up until now, now that the sun is finally coming out, this is when we are finally seeing those red alerts and some increased tension. So definitely an area to keep an eye on as we continue to get more information as to exactly what caused those sirens to blare in some of these northern, northern Israeli towns. And Nicole, we're looking at a live shot from the north, or we were looking at a live shot, there we go, from the north. And then we can see large columns of smoke somewhere on the border. Do you have any idea what we're looking at there? Lebanese media reports that some of these southern Lebanese towns, specifically the southern Lebanese town of Glida has fallen under different Israeli artillery shelling and Israeli drone bombing. That's according to Lebanese media reports. They said about 11 different border towns throughout Lebanon within the past hour or two had been hit by different means of Israeli fire. Now the IDF has not confirmed any of those reports. What we've seen in the past, though, is when we do see some of these anti-tank guided missiles, different even live firing being fired from the Lebanese border than Israeli military response to each of those different incidents. So that could be exactly what we're hearing even from where I am, which is still a few kilometers away from the border. Within the past 30 minutes we heard about four rounds of very loud explosions that sounded like outgoing Israeli artillery firing towards southern Lebanon. As I said, no official confirmation from the IDF, but that's what you're hearing and what you're really seeing on the ground in these northern communities. It's the fog of war right in the distance and you can see that the main battle is really happening right on that confrontation line between Israel and Lebanon. And for the most part, that's exactly why it's mainly military there. There's no civilians because they have been asked to evacuate because it is such a heated situation there. Nicole, thank you very much. Nicole Zedek there up in northern Israel where we have had red alert sirens blaring in the last few minutes. Well, rockets have been fired from Gaza as well in the last hour. There has been a direct hit on Ashkelon in the south. Let's head to Stelot in the south. Our correspondent Pierre Kloschenler is there for us now, 39 days in. Pierre, there are still firing rockets. Absolutely. And there is no prospect that they're not going to keep on firing rockets. That's obvious. What they're trying to do is probably budgetize their rocket launching in order to save some ammunition, although it's very possible that inside the tunnels, Hamas is manufacturing new rockets as we speak. There was a rocket alert on the localities, the communities that are facing the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, but further south from where we are, Nakhal Oz, Kfar Azar, sites of massacre on October 7. These villages have been basically abandoned, except for the army that has taken over. But we have no reports of casualties two hours ago. There was a bigger salvo of rockets on Ashkelon. There there were two impacts with a lot of damage on buildings. Now Ashkelon is a city, maybe probably the city that has been hardest hit by the rocket fire. Over 160,000 inhabitants, 70,000 of them, do not have a private shelter in their flat. The result of these two impacts today were two people wounded by the shockwaves and two people stricken with anxiety. That's the result of that rocket salvo. And Pierre, talk to us a bit about what is happening inside Gaza today. The focus very much on the hospitals once again. Right, I'm going to ask Igor to pan on a column of black smoke that has been emanating from probably one of the terror targets that the Israeli Air Force has hit. It's probably close to the coast. Now there's heavy fighting in the Shati refugee camp or beach camp, which is at the northwestern entrance of Gaza City. Inside Gaza City, the army has taken over all the administrative and military compound of Hamas inside Gaza City. It includes the Palestinian Legislative Council. It includes the governor's building. It includes the military police headquarters. And in addition, the encirclement of three hospitals inside Gaza City, Indonesia Hospital, Al-Quds, and especially Shifa Hospital, is still going on for a few days already. Now the thing is the army is not bombing, neither shooting at those hospital buildings and complexes. What they're trying to do is entice the medical personnel, the patients, and the population that are sick shelter inside those hospital compounds to get out, use a safe passage, and reach the access on Salah Hadin, which is east of Gaza City, that crosses the Gaza Strip from north to south, reach that access in order to join the cohort of tens of thousands that are daily evacuating the battleground in the northern Gaza Strip. These safe passages are usable not only for people by foot, but also by ambulances, says the IDF. Whether this is working, we don't know yet. What we know is that Rantisi Hospital was evacuated, so it worked to a certain extent. Now regarding Shifa, there is an ongoing negotiation with the medical personnel, especially the head of the hospital. In order to entice the hospital to evacuate, they've offered to bring 37 incubators for 37 premature babies newborn that are inside the hospital. They've also offered a safe passage on Al-Wakhda Street to reach the Salah Hadin access. They've offered them to bring in ambulances, as I said. All that negotiation is very slow. And we heard the recording of the conversation between an IDF officer and the head of the hospital. The guy is asking, the head of the hospital is also asking for oxygen. So the IDF commander is saying, okay, fine. How much do you need? How much oxygen? So there is that ongoing negotiation, and hopefully the IDF will be able to neutralize all the terrorist cells that are located very nearby the hospitals. And once they're neutralized, maybe there will be a window of opportunity for the patients, for the medical personnel, for those who seek refuge inside the hospital compounds to evacuate safely. Pia, thank you very much. Pia Kloshendler there, he's in stalemate with the very latest on the situation inside Gaza. Let me remind you, who's with me this hour, Shuri Fang Grossman, is the former head of foreign policy at the Israel National Security Council. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osaran, has joined us as well. So Ariel, we've had a lot of developments in the last hour, haven't we? Rockets fired from Gaza, rockets fired from the north, and we don't know if this was coordinated, we don't know if this was Hezbollah or if it was Palestinian groups operating inside Lebanon. But it is a significant escalation, isn't it? And after that sirens in Elat, and the IDF just now issuing a statement saying that an interceptor was fired at, a flying object that was approaching Israel, it was intercepted prior to entering Israeli territory. And so as we've been seeing throughout these past few weeks, we have, you can have sometimes simultaneous barrages to the south, to the north, and also the far south as happens often. And this is part of what Hamas wants to see. They want to see Israel's attention averted elsewhere to additional fronts. I don't know if sending a few rockets or a few mortars every once in a while, that is really what is going to help in averting the Israeli focus from Gaza. But indeed, this is something that they've been trying to promote, trying to increase. But also not only there, we also have the West Bank. That is, I think, perhaps the third biggest arena that Israeli forces have been operating since the start of the war, obviously prior to the war that was most activity going on there. And indeed, overnight during Israeli activity in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, it's in the northwestern part of the West Bank, west of Nablus and Genine, IDF forces operating there for quite a significant amount of time, over 12 hours their activity there during this activity to uncover explosive devices placed on the routes. We've seen in recent months IDF bulldozers trying to uproot these devices planted on the route. So also forces on the ground, also airstrike, eliminated seven Hamas terrorists. Now, usually the Palestinian health ministry just says the quantity of casualties, but Hamas took a point of noting each and every one of these as their fighters in Tulkarem. And so this coinciding also with a widespread arrest rate in the West Bank over 20 arrests. And if we're looking at the total, we have about 1,700 terrorist suspects arrested since the start of the war. Nearly 1,000 of them are Hamas members. Yes. Wow. Okay. Shiri, we've got all of this activity in the last hour or so. As we were talking about earlier, you know, people are in Israel are starting to get used to the rhythm of the war. People are getting tired. And also, do you think that there's an effort on the part of Hamas to kind of get the attention away from what we saw the IDF spokes Daniel Hagari unveil last night in that hospital? Definitely. We see that it's not a coincidence that in the time that Hagari is speaking about hiding, also just on their hospitals, we've seen the release of the footage of Noamatsiano and killing her in captivity. Look, Hamas's goal is just to stay alive, to survive this, and to keep up a perpetual state of war. It's not me saying it's them saying it to the New York Times. So it's not about winning. He doesn't care. Every day there's a war going on. Israel is thinking we're demoralized. But we're actually, every video he releases, like of Noam, just makes us feel much stronger about our goals and by the need to eliminate Hamas. And he's actually showing it to world leaders as well, and especially in the region. I mean, the fact that he's undermining the stability in the entire region is something for the leaders of the Arab world to watch and to be very aware of. That's the point. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just been making in an interview with US media, with Fox News. He says, you know, it's our fight now, but next it will be Europe, and then it will be the United States. It's kind of an effort to kind of make up that this is a broader conflict. This is a global conflict. This is not limited to Israel and the Palestinians. You know, I've been watching the videos coming out of London and the US, and it's just unbelievable. I mean, even if you care about Palestinians, and I think I care more about Palestinian than Hamas, you just the fact that they made this brand by the help and support of Qatar, by the way, and Al Jazeera, that this brand is permitted to kill and rape and butcher civilians. That's okay. All in the name of freeing Palestine, which is Jew free. So it's really... And when you hear that Hassan Nasrallah and President Raisi of Iran are the butcher of Tehran, this is nicknamed, they have made direct calls for protests on the streets of Western cities. So you've got the people in those countries actually responding to that call. Yeah, it was one of their goals from day one on October 7th. They called on their supporters in the West Bank, in Jerusalem, in Israel, as well as across the world to take to the streets and join their fight. And what we're hearing in these rallies from London, from New York, is to globalize the Intifada. I mean, again, this is not stuff that we're making up to try and tarnish the good name or the names of the Palestinian cause or of those protesters. But this is what is coming out from there. And obviously, you can debate what's good for the Palestinians, what's not good for the Palestinians. But I mean, tearing down the posters that are the clearest proof of the process of dehumanization of Israelis, of Jews, the fact that they don't even deserve to have their missing poster hung up. Children, right. Well, they took down the U.S. flag on the streets of New York on Veterans Day. I don't think there's better proof of what's going on. Yeah, quite. And in London on Remembrance Day, we didn't see many Union Jacks either for the British soldiers who have fallen. All right, well, let's talk about what's happening here in Israel because the country is still working to identify all of the victims of the October 7 massacre. Zaka is an organization which, in keeping with the Jewish tradition, seeks to collect every part of the remains of the dead. This is hard and traumatic work, not least because the bodies of the victims were in many cases burned or destroyed beyond recognition. Well, joining me now, Nakhwan Dikstein is a volunteer with Zaka. He's been with them for over a decade. Thank you very much for being with us. Now, your teams, your volunteers were among the first at the scene following the massacre of civilians in the south. Can you tell us a bit about what you saw? We start like it was Saturday afternoon. We went to the Nova Festival and there we started to see everything that happened. Evening, night, and two weeks I was in Israel, two and a half weeks every day, the old kibbutz in every place and tried to find something to bring back for the families. Because in some cases entire families have been murdered, haven't they? It was very difficult because a lot of people was on pieces like burned pieces we find here, piece here, piece we have like a story like one day that was like to bring the person to bury and we find a piece of this person and we came urgently to bring the one piece to put the body together and then to do the work. Now, your organization, Zakhar, you work in the aftermath of terrorist attacks. You're working in Ukraine right now, where of course tragically a lot of people are also being identified. I just want to ask you, have you ever seen anything in your career, in your life compared to what you saw in the south of Israel? No, no, no. I didn't see and for sure I didn't see something that happened in like six, seven hours. So many people was killed. It's something that I didn't see also in Ukraine. No, I didn't see something. It seems like gratuitous violence. Some of the witnesses have said that these men, these terrorists were enjoying what they were doing to their victims. Yes, we can, we saw it on the bodies that, we saw it on the bodies that yes, it was like people was enjoying to kill and to brand and to, what I saw, I cannot explain it. It's something that we are living with this and it's something that happened. And like for me, it's like Daesh and from the other side, like a Shoah. It's the same like what happened there. It's like something that you cannot, it cannot be explained. It's something that you didn't see it. You cannot understand. How do you, you know, as an individual, how do you cope with that with the images that you saw? How do you go about your life after that? This is the power of Am Israel. This is the power that we have that it's difficult, but I'm a father of five children, three grandchildren, and we need to go. The life is didn't stop by me and we need to do what we can do and for sure to be there for the help of other people. Wow. Well, lots of love to you and your family, five children, amazing. And thank you for the good work you do. And really, thank you for your words. Thank you for talking to us. Well, Jamal Waraqi is a Muslim volunteer at the same organization, Zaka, and he was among the first responders as well who traveled to southern Israel, trying first to save lives, but then later to collect the remains of the deceased or he said the terrorists attacked out of hatred, cruelty and cannibalism. But he also has a message of hope for the future of Jews and Arabs in Israel. This report from Israel's Channel 12. Something good to hear in the Koran. I don't want children, I don't want women, I don't want children. It's not a blessing from someone who is a blessing. It's a blessing from someone who is a slave, a cannibalism, also in the Arab-Muslim, and I'm sure there's a lot of people who think the same thing, that we, it's not us, it's not, it's not that. It's for terrorists who don't communicate with anyone. On the way, we haven't been able to do it yet, I don't understand what's going on there. We're starting to move forward to the next step, and I'm starting to realize the consequences. I see people walking on the side of the road, I see people walking in the streets, I see people walking in the streets, I see people walking everywhere. You see that there are two streets in front of you, you see a minibus, that the person on the road is walking next to the street, you see him walking and then you see a few people walking there. Where do I start and where do I live? What do I do? How do I do it? You don't even have to talk, you don't even know the circumstances, you just sit down and work. You're not aware of anything here. It's not a blessing. It's a blessing, it's a blessing. It's a blessing that I've been And I found myself at Yushen's house. We came to the area in Ri, in Kfar Azza. You enter the house, you go to the kitchen, you see a picture of five women, a family, the father, the mother, the children. You go to the kitchen, you see five women, you go to the kitchen, you say, oh, I'll take care of the whole family. They just threw them away and put them on the other side of the house. Like, who was the first one? And what was the family's most important thing about it? Open rooms, food outside. They made Jews. Not at home, not at one, not at two. And on our day-to-day, we took him to the kitchen, we took him on a three-day trip, to eat from the fruits we saw. And suddenly you see five women in one house. You leave. You enter the house, you go to another room. You enter another house, you see a picture of five women, you go to the kitchen, you leave, and you enter another room. And then you get close to the kitchen of the village. You come to the kitchen of the man, to eat, to eat, to eat, to drink. And every time, he's sitting next to the kitchen. I remember this ceremony, when he just left the kitchen, and I took him to the kitchen, to see how I got out of the man. The kitchen is empty, and we're not there. During the work period, you get a room of clothes and clothes, and clothes, and you have to go to the kitchen. Sometimes you have to go to the kitchen, to the kitchen where you sleep, so... You sleep after that, you continue to sleep again. Like, at the moment, everything is fine. We try to fix what we have left, to put the first clothes, in part one, and in part two, to put on the clothes, to try to return the life, the memory there. You enter the house, and you see, the person of the people that you love, it's everywhere in the house. It's not... I don't think it's normal, so we do this work, this is what we do. In some way, you are also a person, you continue... You have to be a person, so you can continue working. You wake up, you wake up, you say, okay, I have to get up, continue working, there's no room here. I can't let myself get up and go. I have to self-test myself, and continue. You wake up the same day, you go back home, there's a 40 to 50 minutes, 50 minutes, the ambulance is gone, with all the people that are there, no one is left, no one is going anywhere. All the patients are sick, they don't talk. I looked at my friend in my eyes, I understood what he was going through, and he understood what I was going through. After that, I went back to see my regular life. He said, I have been in Ghana for 40 minutes now. You are part of this country, and I know what it's like to be a Israeli. There is no...