 barrage of rockets fired into the south of Israel and there are reports of some back-channel talks of the ceasefire but there is no ceasefire. Israel is expecting a new barrage of rockets. This comes after the assassination of the commander of the Palestinian Islamic jihad's rocket brigade. We have a team of reporters found all across the region. Let's first now go to Pia Sahaba, I-24 news correspondent. She's joining us live from Tel Aviv. Pia, the Islamic jihad put Tel Aviv right in its crosshairs. Right, Albert. We have seen quite some propaganda images and videos throughout the day where the Palestinian Islamic jihad announces that it will target Tel Aviv sooner or later that the residents should be ready for some kind of reaction. What we're expecting to see what we're already seeing in the south is of course the retaliation for the commander that was assassinated by Israel earlier in the morning. Ali, he was the one responsible for launching rockets from Gaza. Now we're also hearing reports that only shortly before our conversation, Albert, another senior commander responsible for launching rockets from Gaza, Ali's deputy was assassinated as well. So we are waiting for some form of retaliation that, as Pij announced, might reach as far as Tel Aviv. Now we've also seen some video footage released by the Palestinian Islamic jihad showing long range rockets that could even reach further north than Tel Aviv. Here in the city, Albert, you don't have the feeling that there is some form of tension among the residents. As you can see, people are out and about. They're enjoying their time at the beach. It is the beginning of summer. It is a Thursday afternoon tomorrow, the weekend begins. So people here don't really share that sense of tension that residents in the south feel. Although there is a warning, the shelters are open. They have been open for the past 48 hours. The loudspeakers here appear. We've had some sort of audio difficulties with her. We'll check back in with her. Everything's fine. We'll check back with her in just a few minutes. I just want to now come in back in studio now. Guy Azrael, I-24 News Correspondents joining me as is Avi Pazner. Avi Pazner is the former Israeli ambassador to France and Italy and the former world chairman of Karen Haseo. But let me first start with you, Guy. This seems to be contained to just Gaza, to just the Pij. Talk about that. Yes, but let's recap to our viewers because there's some interesting and important developments with the assassination of this another major Pij commander, Ahmed Abu Dhaka, is now the fifth senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member to be taken down by Israel. Now three days into this operation and it happens amid all these talks of a ceasefire that we've been hearing already since yesterday. Well, the situation is such that Israel has managed to continue the pressure on the Islamic Jihad as it understands that these negotiations for now are not going anywhere that they're being stalled that the Islamic Jihad is not ready to sign that agreement. And it was highly important for Israel to keep the pressure on and the message is very clear. If the ceasefire will not arrive anytime soon, more senior commanders could be targeted. And the thinking is that it is Iran in backstage that prevents the Islamic Jihad or at least convinces the Islamic Jihad to continue with this operation. As you can see, the results for these organizations are not good. We're seeing this major damage, not just to the senior officials, also to the infrastructure. This organization is in chaos right now. Hamas on its side voices some support, but we're not seeing any participation of Hamas members in the rocket fire. We're also not seeing other arenas. This was the major fear that was spoken about so much. We're not seeing the West Bank. We're not seeing East Jerusalem. We're not seeing Israeli Arabs, which are certainly not seeing any launches from Iranian factions in Syria, sorry, or in Lebanon. The PIJ, the Islamic Jihad, is alone in this battle and it is making a very badly calculated risk here continuing with this escalation as more and more of its commanders are being targeted unless they agree to ceasefire. And they're going through a list. They go, here's the top, here's number two, here's number three, and they're going down their list. I mean, it's a one by one. They're being plucked off. Look, I think the great success of this operation so far is the very tight cooperation between the Shin Bet, the Secret Security Service, and the IDF, the members of this PIJ. Their identity is known. Their location is known. The whereabouts are known at any given time and we saw this. It was one thing to target them in the middle of the night without any preparation. It's another story to hit both these officials, both overnight and just an hour or two ago. You're looking at pictures of that, just that strike right there. Right. It's another story to strike them in the middle of the day in broad daylight when they already know that the operation is ongoing and that is a great success for the IDF. Ambassador Pasa, there's been quiet, relative to quiet, by the international community. Why so? Why do you think? I would put emphasis on relative because, for example, in the media, in the international media, it's not quiet. There is quite a lot of criticism of Israel because some civilians were killed when we took out those terrorists, but we managed with the help of our good friends in the United States to prevent a debate at the Security Council because Russia, China and the Emirates, who are now the representative of the Arab League in the Security Council of the UN, wanted to have a full-fledged debate at the Security Council and the Americans said, okay, you want to debate. We want you to know that there will be a veto. So there was no debate. So I can say that for the time being, the reactions are muted. We are used to that, that when we engage in military operation, we have a limited time. We have a few days until there is a big wave of negative reports and negative comments and negative reaction from the international community. So we have to take that into account. And from this point of view, I think we did well, we took out now five heads of the Islamic jihad of Palestine. This is an important blow to this organization. And I think that we will continue as long as there is no ceasefire. And I completely agree with Guy, we have no ceasefire because the Iranians don't want a ceasefire. We don't, we have not to forget what the Islamic jihad is. It is an arm of Iran, more than the Hamas, more than other organization. This is an organization which is completely identified with Iran. And if Iran doesn't want now a ceasefire, then we have no ceasefire. What do you think, why is Egypt getting involved? Egypt wants to quiet things down. It is Egypt's interest not to have a flare up near her borders with Israel. It has become, I think, a traditional role of Egypt. Go back, Albert, 10 years. It's a traditional role. Egypt and Qatar, they are the go-betweens. Qatar, because they are engaged with the Hamas. And Egypt, because Egypt is interested to have quiet on its border, not to have the situation in Gaza coming down into Sinai like they had a few years ago, when they had a lot of trouble with the Islamic extremists. So Egypt is really investing efforts. And yesterday we almost were there. Yesterday we almost were there. But at eight o'clock, one hour before the ceasefire, there was a new demand by the Islamic jihad that we do not do any more targeted killings of leaders. Of course, we refuse, because this is what this operation is all about, to get rid of the heads of this murderous organization. And we're hearing from the commander of the IDF's southern command just over the past couple of minutes. He says the IDF will continue with this policy of targeting PIJ officials, this policy of implying the pressure on PIJ will continue in the country. That's the whole point. Great. We're going to continue our live team coverage of Operation Shield and Arrow as I-24 news continues. 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Yes, this is one of the fears, perhaps, definitely the main force of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza is, of course, the rockets and they also presented a new long range rocket today, the Burak 85, 85 kilometers, that's the range of this new rocket, so that is the primary concern when it comes to the Islamic Jihad, but of course one of the officials that was assassinated that night three days ago was the one in charge of inflaming the situation in the West Bank, and of course that is the secondary concern. We have seen a growing wave of violence in the West Bank for the past several weeks and months, so this is nothing new, but of course for the PIJ, if you look at this operation so far, we certainly hope this situation continues this way, but there have been very few achievements for the PIJ. Obviously, no bodily damage to Israeli civilians from all these rockets that were fired, over 550 rockets fired towards Israel so far, not one Israeli injured directly from a rocket, and there's certainly not any major injuries, 400 of those rockets crossed into Israel, 175 of them have been intercepted, so the IDF is already a very high alert in the West Bank as it is on other fronts, that is certainly something that the defense establishment is well aware of, prepared for, and this is also part of the reason why the Israeli government wishes to end this operation as quickly as possible. The longer it takes, the more chances for achievements for the PIJ, for more casualties on the Israeli side, this is not something that Israel wants to do, and Israel said already after the first day, our goals have been accomplished. If the PIJ stops firing rockets as long as it continues and it continues every single hour on the day, until that those stop Israel will continue to target, continue to apply pressure, we're hearing of more IDF strikes inside Gaza as we speak, after taking down this fifth senior PIJ member just an hour ago, the pressure continues, the question is what will the PIJ decide, continue to suffer losses, or listen to Iran and make the life of people not just here in Israel but also in Gaza miserable for another day. I'll hold that thought for just one second, we have some breaking news coming in. I just want to, before I get to you Ambassador, I want to go to Pierre Klosch Lender, who's joining us live from Sterot, Israel, where there were sirens going off very recently. Pierre, tell us a little bit what's happening where you are. Well right now it's calm, Albert, it's been an hour and a bit since the last rocket interception over Sterot. I'm here with a rabbi from Sterot, his name is Dov Fender, Dov, Rabbi Dov. How do you take care of the people you're responsible for? Well, they have many hundreds and they really, they know how to do it themselves. They're young, energetic, idealistic, they realize they're also on reserve duty to be first rescuers and to run and try to help people and to learn and to pray and they feel that's their responsibility and we, unfortunately, it's not our first time. And what's different from this time, from the previous times? I think we're even more energized that they should not have any ceasefire. We should make sure that they seize their fire. Doesn't mean any type of agreement. They have no, this isn't fair. We can't live like this for 30 years. We're willing to wait. The hideous mistake of the disengagement has to be corrected. There's no reason not to go back to the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Palestinians thought they'd make this place into a ghost town. We're not letting them. We're turning into a capital of Zionism and Torah. They thought to destroy, they can't keep up with the base of all the building that's going on. They try to break our spirit. They didn't realize that there's a spirit that's invincible, unbreakable, thousands of years old. We're here to stay. So we don't mind waiting another few days till there's a ceasefire because there's no fire left. Well, last week there was a round of tit for tat and I saw you after that round last week demonstrating with the far right party Jewish power and Zionist religious party. Now, what will happen after this round of violence? You think that you'll have again to demonstrate at the junction? We're very proud and it's a beautiful thing that the Israeli government in a very special way, almost like an operation, was able to reach the heads and they deserve not to be here with us and it could be that many of the people would rather live with us in peace and they're gonna have to live with us in peace. So that's what we asked for and we got it. We'd like them to continue. This boost the resilience of the people? 100 percent. People went away, they're enjoying themselves, they didn't run away. They left temporarily as if you're fixing up your house. Sometimes you leave the house for operations. That's what's happening. We as students and as Talmud scholars felt it's our responsibility to continue staying here. Thank you very much Rabbi Dov. So as you see, there is some sort of satisfaction about what's going on. Last week there was another round of violence for 24 hours and the people were very frustrated because they thought that the Israeli government was acting passively in response to rocket fire and this time since Israel took the initiative, many of the people and this Rabbi is very, I would say, representative of the population of this city of 30,000 inhabitants. People are more satisfied with this particular round of violence because Israel took the initiative. Great, Peter Klosch under joining us live from Sterone Israel. Stay tuned. There are some alerts that were going off just moments ago. Within 12 minutes ago there were some alerts going on in Karim Shalom. So we'll come back to you a little bit later on in the broadcast. Ambassador, if I can come back to you for one second, something that the Rabbi mentioned that there was a lot of criticism that the government wasn't doing enough last time around. What changed? What do you think changed? I think that the government did more than enough, reserved the right of surprise, which is maybe one of the most important secrets of a good success in war. In Hebrew, you say how do I translate that into English? A success in war would be through tricks. So surprise. This is exactly what the government did. Stay put for three, four, five days and then act vigorously. And we took out three, on the first night, three of the main leaders of the terrorist organization. What is maybe even more important and more difficult, much more difficult, that the last two we took during the military operation when they are aware that they were targeted, when they were extremely cautious, and still we found them. So I have absolutely no criticism about the way the government conducted this affair. I know that there are criticism from right and from left. It's normal, but you know I have seen so many rounds of fighting for so long a time. I think for the time being, this one is extremely successful. I don't think we should wait too long to get a ceasefire if we can get a ceasefire, because there is a danger of spreading, but until we know it is successful. But there's an issue here, Guy. And you and I talked about a moment ago that the fact that they have gone through number one, number two, number three, it's like a multi-headed hydra. They'll pop up somebody new. There's that guy over there. Now he's been moved up, he's been promoted. How do you stop this one by one? Look, the IDF is saying that this policy of targeted killings is proving itself. We can see the fact that the PIJ is in disarray. There is so much chaos in the organization over the past three days. The PIJ, unlike Hamas, which is a much more established and an organized group, is a lot less so. And after these major strikes, after the damage to the infrastructure, to these so many senior commanders, the pressure is on. And I think we will see the results of that very soon. Great, Guy. Give me one second. We're getting some more just in right now to I-24 that there are some rocket attacks going on right now in the towns of Sufa. And also, let's see, in another town near it's khak that's also in the south. So they are not stopping. The barrage continues. I'm going to go now right now to Pia Sakhabakh. She's back with us live from Tel Aviv. Pia, one question I have for you. I was speaking with some tourists today on the Tayela and they said to us, what do we do? How do I know? Like, how do I know things happen? Tell us, what are the people there being told as to what to happen in the event they hear a siren? Well, in the event of a siren, of course, people need to get to the next public shelter as soon as possible. Here in Tel Aviv, you have about one and a half minutes to get to a shelter. Here, the people who are spending their time on the beach here on that very warm and sunny day. There are quite a lot of them outside that do not seem to bother. As of now, you there's no tension that you can feel here. They are advised to run close to the hotels here that are closed by the hotel. As you can see right now, it has a shelter inside that needs to be open in the case of an alert. So people have to run there from the beach within one and a half minutes. Of course, this is also the start of the tourist season right now and tourists might not be sure as in terms of what to do. There are also the municipality has also tested the loudspeakers also throughout yesterday to make sure that everyone is really informed, especially here at the beach. And we also had the chance to speak to some tourists or to better to say businessmen who came to Israel from Kenya for the first time. And they were also not too concerned. They said that they were told that it is relatively safe in Israel. Albert, let's take a listen to what they told us. We all felt that Israel is safe enough. You have the Iron Dome. People are on the beach, so if they can be on the beach, why can't we be here having a nice holiday and learning about Israel? It's our first time, so we're really excited. Well, so far we came this morning. We don't feel any tension so far. We feel safe. We spoke to a few of our Israeli friends in Kenya, and they said you have to be careful, but nothing to worry. We'll try back in with Pia. Just stay tuned to where you are, Pia. We'll come back to you a little bit later on in the broadcast. I want to go to Ambassador for just a while. We have 30 seconds, 45 seconds left. There was a specific mention of the Americans by the PIJ. When they sent out a statement, they said Israel plus the help of the Americans. Why make mention? This is completely ridiculous, and here you can see the trace of the Iranian influence, because with the Iranian there is the big Satan and the small Satan. The small Satan, it's us. We cannot act alone. We have to act with the big Satan. So you can see here the Iranian influence on the Jihad thinking. I can assure them they can be completely confident we are doing all this alone. And no involvement by the Americans? No involvement whatsoever by the Americans. Nothing, zero. And what about the UN? You have 30 seconds. Yeah, at the UN. Yes, diplomatically, we do get help from the Americans. They are good friends. And yesterday they prevented a Security Council debate, which was sponsored by our enemies. And this is very important. This is diplomatic support. This is not military support. Military support. We do it all alone. Great. Ambassador Abi Pazzo, thank you so much for joining us. I also thank you for joining us. We're going to continue on live. Let me give you a little bit of an update. Over 500 rockets being lobbed into Israel, sirens going off in the south with the expectation that this will not end anytime soon. Stay tuned on air and online on I 24 News dot TV. The I 24 News app in Tel Aviv. 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There was a new barrage of rockets fired into the south of Israel. And there are reports of some back channel talks of the ceasefire, but there is no ceasefire. Israel is expecting a new barrage of rockets. This comes after the assassination of the commander of the Palestinian Islamic jihad's rocket brigade. We have a team of reporters fan all across the region. Let's first now go to Pia Sahaba 24 news correspondent. She's joining us live from Tel Aviv. Pia, the Islamic jihad put Tel Aviv right in its crosshairs. Right, Albert. We have seen quite some propaganda images and videos throughout the day where the Palestinian Islamic jihad announces that it will target Tel Aviv sooner or later that the residents should be ready for some kind of reaction. What we're expecting to see what we already seeing in the south is of course the retaliation for the commander that was assassinated by Israel earlier in the morning. Ali, Ali, he was the one responsible for launching rockets from Gaza. Now we're also here in reports that only shortly before our conversation, Albert, another senior commander responsible for launching rockets from Gaza. Ali's deputy was assassinated as well, so we are waiting for some form of retaliation that SPIJ announced might reach as far as Tel Aviv. Now we've also seen some video footage released by the Palestinian Islamic jihad showing long range rockets that could even reach further north than Tel Aviv. Here in the city, Albert, you don't have the feeling that there is some form of tension among the residents. As you can see, people are out and about. They're enjoying their time at the beach. It is the beginning of summer. It is Thursday afternoon. Tomorrow the weekend begins. So people here don't really share that sense of tension that residents in the south feel. Although there is a warning, the shelters are open. They have been open for the past 48 hours. The loudspeakers here. Hi, Pio, we've had some audio difficulties with her. We'll check back in with her. Everything's fine. We'll check back with her in just a few minutes. I just want to now come in back in studio now. Guy Azrael, I-24 News Correspondents joining me, as is Ali Pazner. Ali Pazner is the former Israeli Ambassador to France in Italy and the former world chairman of Karen Haseyo. But let me first start with you, Guy. This seems to be contained to just Gaza, to just the PIJ. Talk about that. Yes, but let's recap to our viewers because there's some interesting and important developments with the assassination of this another major PIJ commander, Ahmed Abu Dhaka, is now the fifth senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member to be taken down by Israel now three days into this operation. It happens amid all these talks of a ceasefire that we've been hearing already since yesterday. Well, the situation is such that Israel has managed to continue the pressure on the Islamic Jihad as it understands that these negotiations for now are not going anywhere that they're being stalled that the Islamic Jihad is not ready to sign that agreement. And it was highly important for Israel to keep the pressure on and the message is very clear if the ceasefire will not arrive any time soon more senior commanders could be targeted and the thinking is that it is Iran be in backstage that prevents the Islamic Jihad or at least convinces the Islamic Jihad to continue with this operation. As you can see, the results for for these organizations this organization are not good. You know, we're seeing this major damage not just to the senior officials also to the infrastructure this organization is in chaos right now. Hamas on its side voices some support but we're not seeing any participation of Hamas members in the rocket fire. We're also not seeing other arenas. This was the major fear that was spoken about so much. We're not seeing the West Bank. We're not seeing the East Jerusalem. We're not seeing Israeli Arabs which are certainly not seeing any launches from Iranian factions in Syria or in Lebanon. The PIJ, the Islamic Jihad is alone in this battle and it is making a very badly calculated risk here continuing with this escalation as more and more of its commanders are being targeted unless they agree to ceasefire. And they're going through a list. They go here's the top here's number two here's number three and they're going down their list. I mean it's a a one by one. They're being plucked off. Look, I think the great success of this operation so far is the very tight cooperation between the Shin Bet the secret security service and the IDF the members of this PIJ their identity is known their location is known their whereabouts are known at any given time and we saw this. It was one thing to target them in the middle of the night without any preparation. It's another story to hit both these officials both overnight and just an hour or two ago you're looking at pictures of that just that that strike right there right. It's another story to strike them in the middle of the day in broad daylight when they already know that the operation is ongoing and and that is a great success for the IDF. Now Ambassador Pazzo there's been quiet relative to quiet by the international community. Why so? What do you think? I would put that emphasis on relative because for example in the media in the international media it's not quiet there is quite a lot of criticism of Israel because some civilians were killed when we took out those terrorists but we managed with the help of our good friends the United States to prevent a debate at the Security Council because Russia China and the Emirates who are now the representative of the Arab League in the Security Council of the UN wanted to have a full-fledged debate at the Security Council and the Americans said okay you want to debate we want you to know that there will be a veto so there was no debate so I can say that for the time being the reactions are muted we are you know we are used to that that when we engage in military operation we have a limited time okay we have a few days until there is a big wave of negative reports and negative comments and negative reaction from the international community so we have to take that into account and from this point of view I think we did well we took out now five heads of the Islamic jihad of Palestine this is an important blow to this organization and I think that we will continue as long as there is no ceasefire and I completely agree with Guy we have no ceasefire because the Iranian don't want a ceasefire we don't we have not to forget what the Islamic jihad is it is an arm of Iran more than the Hamas more than other organization this is an organization which is completely identified with Iran and if Iran doesn't want now a ceasefire then we have no ceasefire what do you think why is Egypt getting involved? Egypt wants to quiet things down it is Egypt's interest not to ever flare up near her borders with Israel it has become I think a traditional role of Egypt go back Albert 10 years it's a traditional role Egypt and Qatar they are the go-betweens Qatar because they are engaged with the Hamas and Egypt because Egypt is interested to have quiet on its border not to have the situation in Gaza coming down into Sinai like they had a few years ago when they had a lot of trouble with the Islamic extremists so Egypt is really investing efforts and yesterday we almost were there yesterday we almost were there but at eight o'clock one hour before the ceasefire there was a new demand by the Islamic jihad that we do not do any more targeted killings of leaders of course we refuse because this is what this operation is all about to get rid of the heads of this murderous organization and we're hearing from the commander of the IDF's southern command just over the past couple of minutes he says the IDF will continue with this policy of targeting PIJ officials this policy of implying that pressure on PIJ will continue that's the whole point great we're going to continue our live team coverage of Operation Shield and Arrow as I-24 news continues we have correspondents found all across the region there are sirens going off right now in Kerem Shalom in some other towns in the southern part of Israel we'll have live team coverage right after the break the Middle East is changing old alliances make way for new partnerships bigger threats lead to new relationships insured goals mean new opportunities we speak to those who know the inside story and are at the heart of the changes don't get caught up with the same old story find out what's happening in Middle East now Middle East now on I-24 news I'm Albert Lewitt in the I-24 newsroom we're continuing our live team coverage of the Operation Arrow and Shield I'm joined here in studio by Guy Azrael and Avi Passner the former Israeli ambassador to France and Italy Guy, we have always been worried that if there wasn't the missiles there'd be something else here within Israel there would be an internal there would be a terrorist attack of some sort talk a little bit about like why was it so important to contain this to where it is yes this is one of the fears perhaps definitely the main force of the Islamic jihad in Gaza of course the rockets and they also presented a new long-range rocket today the Burak 85, 85 kilometers that's the range of this new rocket so that is the primary concern when it comes to the Islamic jihad but of course one of the officials that was assassinated that night three days ago was the one in charge of inflaming the situation in the West Bank and of course that is the secondary concern we have seen a growing wave of violence in the West Bank for the past several weeks and months so this is nothing new but of course for the PIJ if you look at this operation so far we certainly hope this situation continues this way but there have been very few achievements for the PIJ obviously no bodily damage to Israeli civilians from all these rockets that were fired over 550 rockets fired towards Israel so far not one Israeli injured directly from a rocket and there's certainly not any major injuries 400 of those rockets crossed into Israel 100 and 75 of them have been intercepted so the IDF is already a very high alert in the West Bank as it is on other fronts that is certainly something that the defense establishment is well aware of prepared for and this is also part of the reason why the Israeli government wishes to end this operation as quickly as possible the longer it takes the more chances for achievements for the PIJ for more casualties on the Israeli side this is not something that Israel wants to do and Israel said already after the first day our goals have been accomplished if the PIJ stops firing rockets as long as it continues and it continues every single hour on the day here until that those stop is well will continue to target continue to apply pressure rehearing of more IDF strikes inside Gaza as we speak after taking down this fifth senior PIJ member just an hour ago the pressure continues the question is what will the PIJ decide continue to suffer losses or listen to Iran and make the life of people not just here in Israel but also in Gaza miserable for another day I'll hold that thought for just one second we want we have some breaking news coming in I just want to before I get to you ambassador I want to go to Pierre Kloschlender who's joining us live from Steroid Israel where there were sirens going off very recently Pierre tell us a little bit what's happening where you are well right now it's calm Albert it's it's been an hour and a bit since the last rocket interception over Steroid I'm here with a rabbi from Steroid his name is Dov Fender Dov Rabbi Dov how do you take care of the people you're responsible for well they have many hundreds and they really they know how to do it themselves they're young energetic idealistic they realize they're also on reserve duty to be first rescuers and to run and try to help people and to learn and to pray and they feel that's their responsibility and we unfortunately it's not our first time and what's different from this time from the previous times I think we're even more energized that they should not have any ceasefire we should make sure that they seize their fire doesn't mean any type of agreement they have no way and this isn't fair we can't live like this for 30 years we're willing to wait the heaviest mistake of the disengagement has to be corrected there's no reason not to go back to the northern part of the Gaza Strip Palestinians thought they'd make this place into a ghost town we're not letting them we're turning into a capital of Zionism and Taro they thought to destroy they can't keep up with the base of all the building that's going on they try to break our spirit they didn't realize that there's a spirit that's invincible unbreakable thousands of years old we're here to stay so we don't mind waiting another few days till there's a ceasefire because there's no fire left well last week there was a round of tit for tat and I saw you after that round last week demonstrating with the far right party Jewish power and the Zionist religious party now what will happen after this round of violence you think that you'll have again to demonstrate at the junction we're very proud and it's a beautiful thing that the Israeli government in a very special way almost like an operation was able to get reach the heads and they deserve not to be here with us and it could be that many of the people are would rather live with us in peace and they're gonna have to live with us in peace so that's what we asked for and we got it we'd like them to continue this boost the resilience of the people a hundred percent people went away they're enjoying themselves they didn't run away they left temporarily as if you're fixing up your house sometimes you leave the house for operations that's what's happening we as students and as as Talmud scholars felt it's our responsibility to continue staying here thank you very much so as you see there is some sort of satisfaction about what's going on last week there was another round of violence for 24 hours and the people were very frustrated because they thought that the Israeli government was acting passively in response to rocket fire and this time since Israel took the initiative many of the people and this rabbi is very I would say representative of the population of this city of 30 000 inhabitants people are more satisfied with this particular round of violence because Israel took the initiative great pair close under joining us live from Israel stay tuned there are some alerts that were going off just moments ago within 12 minutes ago there were some alerts going on in Karim Shalom so it will come back to you a little bit later on in the broadcast ambassador if I can come back to you for one second something that the rabbi mentioned that there was a lot of there was a lot of criticism that the government wasn't doing enough last time around what changed what do you think changed I think that the government did more than enough reserved the right of surprise which is maybe one of the most important secrets of a good success in war in Hebrew you say how do I translate that into English a success in war would be through tricks so surprise so surprise this is exactly what the government did stay put for three, four, five days and then act vigorously and we took out three on the first night three of the main leaders of the terrorist organization what is maybe even more important and more difficult Albert much more difficult that the last two we took during the military operation when they are aware that they were targeted when they were extremely cautious and still we found them so I have absolutely no criticism about the way the government conducted this affair I know that there are criticism from right and from left it's normal but I have seen so many rounds of fighting for so long a time I think for the time being this one is extremely successful I don't think we should wait too long to get a ceasefire if we can get a ceasefire because there is a danger of spreading but until now it is successful but there's an issue here Guy and you and I talked about it moments ago that the fact that they have gone through number one, number two, number three it's like a multi-headed hydra they'll pop up somebody new there's that guy over there now he's been moved up he's been promoted how do you stop this one by one? look the IDF is saying that this policy of targeted killings is proving itself we can see the fact that the PIJ is in disarray there is so much chaos in the organization over the past three days the PIJ unlike Hamas which is a much more established and an organized group is a lot less so and after these major strikes after the damage to the infrastructure to these so many senior commanders the pressure is on and I think we will see the results of that very soon great Guy give me one second we're getting some more just in right now to I-24 that there are some rocket attacks going on right now in the towns of Sufa and also let's see in another town near its khak that's also in the south so they are not stopping the barrage continues so I'm going to go now right now to Pia Sachaba she's back with us live from Tel Aviv Pia one question I have for you I was speaking with some tourists today on the Tayela and they said to us what do we do how do I know like how do I know things happen tell us what are the people there being told as to what to happen in the event they hear siren well in the event all the siren of course people need to get to the next public shelter as soon as possible here in Tel Aviv you have about one and a half minutes to get to a shelter here the people who are spending their time on the beach here on that very warm and sunny day there are quite a lot of them outside that do not seem to bother as of now you there's no tension that you can feel here they are advised to run close to the hotels here that are closed by the hotel that as you can see right now it has a shelter inside that needs to be open in the case of an alert so people have to run there from the beach within one and a half minutes of course this is also the start of the tourist season right now and tourists might not be sure as in terms of what to do there are also the municipality has also tested the loudspeakers also throughout yesterday to make sure that everyone is really informed especially here at the beach and we also had the chance to speak to some tourists or to better to say businessmen who came to Israel from Kenya for the first time and they were also not too concerned they said that they were told that it is relatively safe in Israel Albert let's take a listen to what they had told us we all felt that Israel is safe enough you have the iron dome people are on the beach so if they can be on the beach why can't we be here having a nice holiday and learning about Israel it's our first time so we're really excited well so far we came this morning we don't feel any tension so far we feel safe we spoke to a few of our Israeli friends in Kenya and they said you have to be careful but nothing to worry we'll try back in with Pia just stay tuned to where you are Pia we'll come back to you a little bit later on in the broadcast I want to go to Ambassador for just about we have 30 seconds 45 seconds left there was a specific mention of the Americans by the PIJ when they sent out a statement they said Israel plus the plus the help of the Americans why make mention this is completely ridiculous and here you can see the trace of the Iranian influence because with the Iranian there is the big satan and the small satan the small satan it's us we cannot act alone we have to act with the big satan so you can see here the Iranian influence on the jihad thinking I can assure them they can be completely confident we are doing all this alone and no involvement by the Americans no involvement whatsoever by the American nothing zero and what about the UN you have 30 seconds yeah at the UN yes diplomatically we do get help from the American they are our good friends and yesterday they prevented a security council debate which was sponsored by our enemies and this is very important this is diplomatic support this is not military support military support we do it all alone great Ambassador Abbey Pazer thank you so much for joining us guys I also thank you for joining us we're going to continue on live let me give you a little bit of an update over 500 rockets being lobbed into Israel sirens going off from the south with the expectation that this will not end anytime soon stay tuned on air and online on i24news.tv the i24news app in Tel Aviv I'm Albert Lewin to i24news the news continues right after the break