 You are rolling coverage of the war here in Israel, now in its 22nd day at the Pulsatik live in Tel Aviv. Overnight, Israel expanded their military activity in the Gaza Strip, setting in tanks and ramping up airstrikes. The largest amount of activity in Gaza since the start of the war and killing the head of Hamas' aerial operations. Communication and internet networks in the Strip have reportedly been cut off, following what Palestinians are calling intense and unprecedented airstrikes. This follows an IDF statement that the main Hamas headquarters are located under Sheva Hospital in Gaza City. Hamas is using the largest hospital in the Strip as a human shield against Israeli attacks. Hamas, however, claims these findings are untrue. Meanwhile, Iran threatens Israel, stating troops in Lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the IDF begins its larger ground offensive in Gaza. IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Higari said troops are expanding activity in the Gaza Strip. In the last few hours, we have increased the attacks in Gaza. The Air Force widely attacks ground targets and terrorist infrastructure in a very significant way. In continuation of the offensive activity we have carried out in the last few days, the ground forces are expanding ground activity this evening. The IDF works powerfully in all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. With this increase in activity we're seeing in the Gaza Strip, I'm going to go live now to our correspondent Jonathan Regev, who is in southern Israel near the Gaza border. Jonathan, overnight, the IDF confirming that they are ramping up activity in the Gaza Strip, sending in troops, tanks. What exactly does this increased activity mean? It means that the IDF is looking for every possible infrastructure in the, especially in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Just a few minutes ago, the IDF releasing a statement saying it hit, excuse me, a hundred and fifty underground targets, the understanding that Hamas is currently not above the ground but under the ground, they're waiting for the IDF to come in, they're waiting in tunnels, they're waiting in bunkers. All of them underground, and the Israeli army understanding that is working against all that underground infrastructure before that major ground operation begins. Therefore, the IDF is dealing with all of these infrastructures, a hundred and fifty underground installations, tunnels, bunkers, everything possible. All of them hit under the ground. Those were the main targets of the extensive operation overnight. The ground here in many, many locations in southern Israel simply shook overnight because of the intensity of this attack. And you can see it's very foggy here in Esderot, where we are a lot of fog. We cannot really see what is happening currently. Just about half a mile or so behind us in the Gaza Strip, but we can hear the sounds after a very loud night. There's constant explosions all the time. Still this attack is going on, and I think it was perhaps after three weeks, the first time that hell literally broke loose inside the Gaza Strip. Three weeks later, Jonathan, even behind you, it's just an eerie scene down there in the south. Now, we know overnight the IDF confirming that they killed the head of Hamas' aerial operation. So they're continuing to eliminate the leadership. But I'm curious how this truly impacts Hamas and their plans of resisting Israel's attacks as the leadership continues to be eliminated. The leadership continues to be eliminated, but at least up until now not enough, although it has to be said that the leadership, everyone in the main leadership beat Ishe Sinwar, Mohammad Def, and all the rest of them are hiding under the ground. IDF spokesman Daniel Agari exposed yesterday the fact that there's a very extensive Hamas compound under the ground, and especially under Shefa Hospital, the main hospital of the Gaza Strip, understanding that if Israel wants to act against that, the main head quarter of Hamas, it would have to do it through the hospital, and that of course would create a major humanitarian crisis, which may lead to the involvement of global powers. But anyone popping up is killed. Any of the Hamas leaders who pops up is killed. That is the main reason why Israel wants to stop fuel coming into the Gaza Strip, because it's the fuel that allows these bunkers to continue with electricity, with communications. It's the fuel that allows all this to continue, to provide the electricity, if there's no fuel, and eventually that electricity will go out, all of those leaders will eventually have to pop up, and then they will be killed. Anyone coming up will be killed, for now they're under the ground. That is why they're so difficult to reach. Jonathan, you mentioned also just when it comes to the humanitarian crisis, Hamas continuing not only to use Shefa Hospital as you said, which is a major development, but also reports that they're still continuing to block people from leaving the North as Israel is increasing their airstrikes, they're keeping their civilians there, refusing to let them go south. I would have, I'd have to say this. We learned how cruel and ruthless and vicious and terrible Hamas terrorists are when they came into the Israeli communities, they're just as evil and ruthless and inhumane when it deals with their own population, they're hiding behind the civilian population, they're hiding under hospitals, and they have no problem with sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians just in order to protect themselves. They know that a large amount of Palestinian victims and casualties would lead to global condemnation, and that's what they're looking for. And if, as far as Hamas leaders are concerned, the people who are meant to lead the Palestinian population, if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are killed for that, no problem for them. Correspondent Jonathan Oragiv in southern Israel near the Gaza border, thank you for giving us the latest updates. Now I want to bring in my guest in studio right now. I'm joined by retired Colonel Dr. Jacques Naria, former Deputy Head of Assessment for Israeli Military Intelligence and former Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Jacques Naria, thank you so much for joining me. As we were just hearing from our correspondent, Jonathan Oragiv, in the south, the IDF saying that they are increasing, expanding their activity in the Gaza Strip. But I'm curious exactly what this means because we've seen troops in there for the past several days, but this is much stronger. Nicole, if you expect, if the world is expecting a Blitzkrieg inside Gaza, well, forget about it. This is going to be a long, a long struggle. We will, I mean, the Army will continue its, I would say, its incursions into Gaza, but stage by stage. We are now in stage two. Stage two means that we are taking control of the northern part of the Gaza Strip, all the way from Beit Hanun, Beit Lahiya, and the refugee camps of Sarjaya that are included in that. And this will, in my view, create a movement of population because they will be afraid from seeing the Israeli troops advancing, and they will go southward. And Hamas will not be able to stop that. Maybe he can stop it on the main road to Gaza. But I mean, there are several ways to go down, to go downward and southward. So I think that this is going to be the beginning of a sort of movement of population, which Hamas will not be able to control. Then, I mean, in this state, I mean, it's very foggy as the weather is, and the intention is very clear, not to give any clues to Hamas as to the main effort that Israel is undertaking. And basically, we have to eliminate stage by stage the presence, the military presence of Hamas. So it be tunnels, be it command centers, be it commanders. And everything will be targeted, and the place will be left clean from Hamas. And then we will advance more. This is why, I mean, everybody is bewildered. Where is the ground invasion? Well, we are in the ground invasion, but we are doing it easily and not swiftly as it was in the 1967 war. This is completely different. This is a war inside cities, and it's very difficult. We know that from the American experience in Mosul, it took them months to get rid of Daesh from the old city of Mosul. And thousands of militants of Daesh were killed there, and the coalition suffered more than 1,000 casualties. So we have to be very careful not to go into this trap and to do it easily and at our own pace. Planning out every step by taking all of the necessary precautions, and something else that makes this even more difficult is just the underground bunkers, the tunnels, even the IDF spokesperson just yesterday confirming what many people already suspected, that the Hamas headquarters are located under the largest hospital in Gaza City. Take a listen to what the IDF spokesperson had to say about where Hamas is hiding out right now. Hamas is cynically using hospitals and as a shield for its underground terror complex. I want to explain. There is an underground metro tunnels in Gaza City, not just in Gaza City. Usually it's based next to unique sites or sensitive sites, not just the hospital, but other sites, as mosques, etc., etc., UNRWA places, hospitals, schools, etc., etc. This is a philosophy of Hamas, and Shifa is one of them. This is an illustration of Shifa Hospital and the underground facilities. I want to repeat, this is only an illustration. We will not share here the true material. We will not share here the true material that we have in our hands. This is only an illustration. Right now, terrorists move freely in Shifa Hospital and other hospitals in Gaza. We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7th. Hamas uses Shifa Hospital as a shield for Hamas' terror infrastructure. Hamas wages war from hospitals. By operating from these hospitals, Hamas not only endangers the lives of Israelis, civilians, but also exploit innocent Gaza civilians as human shield. Now, as we just heard from the IDF spokesperson confirming that Hamas is using the Shifa Hospital as a shield for their activity, but this isn't necessarily something new. I feel like in Israel, people have known this for quite some time now. So why is the IDF just now coming out and confirming this? Well, it seems that the intention is to make clear to Hamas and all others, civilians that are in the area, that we might take that as a target. And this is why we are saying it loud and clear that this is a place where Hamas is hiding. And we might ask, at a certain point, the hospital to be evacuated, because we cannot accept the fact that the command and control of Hamas stays there, cleaned out of range and protected by citizens and by sick people and patients in the hospital. So this is the idea. I mean, we know that for a long time already. I mean, during the military clash we had in 2014, I mean, we had this report done by Gladstone from the UN report. And this was quite clear at the time that they use schools, they use hospitals, they use clinics, they use every possible way to hide and to fire from there against Israeli targets. So I mean, are we surprised? No, we are not surprised. But what the spokesman is saying is something very interesting is that we have concrete material about the structure of the tunnels and the command and control. We will not release it to the public. So it means very clearly that since we know that how to get there, we might get there also. And I think that's what everyone will certainly be keeping an eye on. I mean, speaking of the hospital itself, there's also just been all these calls for humanitarian aid, calls that the hospital is running out of fuel, running out of electricity. However, the IDF also, I want to play a quick sound bite, the IDF also just released a phone call that they intercepted, but basically confirming that Hamas is in control of the fuel and that they have plenty of it to continue running the hospital. According to the information from this phone call, he claims that the Hamas has at least half a million liters of fuel underground. They're keeping it to themselves, continuing to pose a risk to civilians. But then themselves, they're fine and they could use that for the hospitals at any time if they choose to. Well, this is as the spokesman says, this is very cynical. This is the way that manipulation of information by Hamas, Hamas did not begin this war by surprise. They prepared for it for almost two years. So they have in stock enough fuel, enough medicine, enough the enough generators for electricity. This is something that they have planned ahead of time with the help with the assistance of Iranian, Iranian advisors and Hezbollah advisors. So they know very well how to how to behave. We are in the press and the public is hostage to the way, to the manipulation that Hamas is doing. I mean, look at what happened at the Ahli hospital, a missile was mis-fired, hit the parking lot. And three minutes later, there was 500 people killed. Did you have the time to count the bodies? 500 people killed in one shot in Beirut, the whole explosion of the port. You had 200 people killed and 3,000 injured. How can you compare? And later, everybody realizes that this was a phony information. This was a misinformation, disinformation. And in fact, you had barely 50 people killed there and because of their own fire. So this is what it is all about. And I suggest also to look very closely at the trucks that are entering Gaza and to check the gas tanks when they are out. I think that's a very interesting point to bring up. I mean, the humanitarian crisis in general, the humanitarian aid entering definitely needs to be- Nobody's checking the tanks of the trucks, huge trucks, huge tanks. Well, and you also mentioned just how Hamas has been planning this. Hamas has been planning this with, we know, intelligence from Iran as well. That continues to be one of the significant threats. In fact, I want to move our attention to the north now where our correspondent, Mary McAuliffe, is standing by Mary. Just yesterday, Iran says that troops in Lebanon, they are ready to get involved. Is Israel, and when Israel does begin this larger ground offensive in Gaza. So clearly our attention is up in the north as well. That's right, Nicole. So that was the Iranian foreign minister yesterday saying that Hezbollah troops based in southern Lebanon are standing with their finger on the trigger, ready to get involved if necessary, if this escalates. Also the Iranian foreign minister calling for a cease of the escalation of hostilities, calling on Israel to halt its ground operation. But we do know that the ground operation, if this truly is the major ground operation that occurred last night, again, we're still operating sort of under the spog of war, where we don't really exactly know what's going on inside Gaza. We do know that Hezbollah is watching very closely and Iran is watching very closely. This is the message that we've heard from both of them over the past couple of weeks. And it's not just the rhetoric that we've heard warning Israel and cautioning Israel against not taking further actions against Gaza. But we've also seen dozens of cross-border attacks by Hezbollah and other Palestinian groups which are based in southern Lebanon. It has been a relatively quiet night and morning here in northern Lebanon. We haven't had rockets or any mortar attacks in about a couple of days now. But I can tell you Israeli forces here are on high alert. And we've also experienced some GPS signal jamming this morning. We've seen this happening in the past couple of weeks as well. But Israel jamming the airspace overhead in attempt to try and prevent missiles that could be fired from southern Lebanon from landing within targets inside Israel. It's also possibly why we saw a rocket that were fired from Lebanon landing inside of Syria rather than Israel yesterday evening. Mary McCulloch up there on the northern border with Lebanon. Thank you as we continue to keep our eye up there. Certainly could erupt into tensions at any moment there. Now, as Mary mentioned, Iran continuing to call for no more action in the Gaza Strip. But they are not the only ones. In fact, three weeks into this war and there continue to be calls for a ceasefire, specifically from the United Nations General Assembly, who just recently passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Now the resolution overwhelmingly passed with a 120 to 14 vote. However, the resolution fails to mention or even condemn Hamas for the October 7th massacre that sparked the war in the first place. The resolution is non binding, but clearly highlights the overwhelming international support for the Palestinians amid the war between Israel and Hamas. And many Israelis are outraged. Today is a day that will go down in infamy. We have all witnessed that the UN no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance. This organization was founded in the wake of the Holocaust for the purpose of preventing atrocities. Yet, the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the UN is committed, sadly, tragically, not to preventing but ensuring further atrocities. Israel has the right to defend itself. And the realization of this right is to ensure that such atrocities are never repeated. The only way to ensure this is the eradication of Hamas' terror capabilities. The only way. Yet this resolution does not even name Hamas, as if this war started on its own. Why are you defending murderers? Why are you defending terrorists that deliberately beheaded children and abducted babies? What is going on here? This must make each of you ask yourselves what the true aim was when this resolution was submitted. Yet this dangerous resolution demands that Israel call for Gazans to return. Return to this active war zone. Is the goal here to further endanger human lives? This ridiculous resolution has the audacity to call for a truce. The goal of this resolution's truce is that Israel should cease to defend itself to Hamas, so Hamas can light us on fire. Israel is closely monitoring the humanitarian situation in Gaza. And we know that there is no humanitarian crisis in accordance with international humanitarian law. Trusting the reports coming out of Gaza is exactly like trusting reports from ISIS. This is a dark day for the UN and for mankind. Mr. President, Israel will continue to defend itself. We will defend our future, our very existence, by reading the words of Hamas' evil, so that it can never threaten anyone else again. No, Israel says they have no plans to actually begin this ceasefire, despite the United Nations unanimously or overwhelmingly, might I say, passing this resolution. So I'm curious, Jacques, what exactly does this UN resolution mean? It basically just continues to amplify their anti-Israel rhetoric, but Israel doesn't have to listen. Well, just remember that there were 55 countries that were against and about 22 who abstained. So this is one-third. One-third is still, I mean, logical and understand the situation. We do not expect, I mean, we always knew that the automatic majority would be against us in the UN and shame on this organization as it is today. So, I mean, not even condemning what happened on the 7th of October, not even mentioning the fact that Hamas is a terrorist organization, as the whole civilized world has defined it as a terrorist organization, and just blame us, blame us, as if we were the one who started this war, as if we were not the victims, as we were not surprised on the 7th of October, we were not butchered and raped and put into captivity. This is definitely something that Israel cannot accept, and we will always ignore such resolutions. We will always concentrate on the Security Council. There we have a say. There we have also allies. And this is the way it is. This is the way the world behaves, and the world would like to see us defeated. Unfortunately, we're not ready to put our head on the guillotine. I mean, if Israel did agree to a ceasefire, what exactly would that mean for Israel? Well, the moment ceasefire is announced in these conditions, you will see the masses in Gaza and the West Bank and all the Arab world just demonstrating with joy, with flags. We have won the war. We have defeated Israel. This is what is expected in a ceasefire. So let's forget about it right now. And even as you just mentioned the reaction from the Arab world, we're continuing to see more protests in the region, not only in the Arab world, but also in the West Bank. We're continuing to see more of these protests fueling. You know, look what's happening. Jordan is being terrorized by Iraqi militias on its border. Egypt is being hit by missiles coming from Yemen in the Tava. This is what's happening behind the corridors. Believe me, all the leaders of those regimes are just hoping to see Hamas eliminated because what is Hamas? Hamas is the personification, not the personification of the Muslim brother. And Muslim brother are the enemies of most of the regimes in the Arab world. So this is what we are talking about. So there's a double language on the one hand. Okay, you have to appease the protests and so on. But in your inner circles, you say Israel is waging our war. It's raging our world. But I think to bring up something interesting because while many of the Arab countries might be against it, we do see Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic jihad, all these Iranian-backed forces coming together. I guess the question remains, who actually ends up getting involved in the end? Well, you know, this is a grand plan designed and designed by Iran. Iran has read the situation wrongly. They have, they have assessed the situation as if Israel was so weak that it would crumble under the attack. And the surprise was that Hamas surprised Hezbollah. They hoped to see Hezbollah joining them in the attack. Had this happened, we would be in a different position today. But this is not the case luckily for us. And what's happening is that there are two forces in the region that are fighting in order to leave this conflict as limited as possible. The United States is not interested in the regional conflict and Iran is not interested in Israel getting into the Gaza because also it would widen the scope of the conflict. So we all continue to keep an eye on it. Retired Colonel Jack Naria, thank you so much for your insight. I want to end on a quick note of light as we do continue to see Shabbat tables around the world standing in solidarity with Israel. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Welcome to our rolling coverage of the war here in Israel now and it's 22nd day. I'm Nicole Zadig live in Tel Aviv. Overnight Israel expanded their military activity in the Gaza Strip, sending in tanks and ramping up airstrikes. The largest amount of activity in Gaza since the start of the war killing the head of Hamas' aerial operations. Communication and internet networks in the Strip have reportedly been cut off following what Palestinians are calling intense and unprecedented airstrikes. This follows an IDF statement that the main Hamas headquarters are located under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. As Hamas uses the largest hospital in the Strip, it's a human shield against Israeli attacks. Hamas, however, claims these findings are untrue. Meanwhile, Iran threatens Israel. Seating troops in Lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the IDF begins its larger ground offensive in Gaza. IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Higaring said troops are expanding activity in the Gaza Strip. In the last few hours, we have increased the attacks in Gaza. The Air Force widely attacks ground targets and terrorist infrastructure in a very significant way. In continuation of the offensive activity we've carried out in the last few days, the ground forces are expanding ground activity this evening. The IDF works powerfully in all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. I want to begin with that increased activity in the Gaza Strip, where our correspondent Jonathan Oragib is standing by near the Gaza border in southern Israel. Jonathan, they are ramping up their activity, troops, tanks going into the Gaza Strip, preparing for a larger ground operation possibly. Yes, it seems as if the activity now is not the ground maneuver that we're expecting for quite some time, but sort of a preparation for that. What do I mean? We're hearing that last night the activity was targeting some 150 underground sites used by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. The notion is that all of the installations and infrastructure and Hamas terrorists and warfare and weapons, everything is under the ground in that underground cities that Hamas has prepared all along the Gaza Strip. And the activity last night was conducted against all of those underground sites in the northern Gaza Strip to allow an easier access when the Israeli army comes in. When the army comes in, Hamas is preparing to fight against them from tunnels and from bunkers under the ground. The whole operation was meant to target those sites, at least 150 of those were targeted overnight. Speaking of those underground tunnels, underground bunkers, the IDF also confirming now that one of the main headquarters of Hamas is under Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza. So that absolutely poses a bigger risk for the IDF as they are conducting these operations and trying to eliminate Hamas. Of course, because what Hamas is aware that in order to eliminate that headquarter where we can assume that all of the main leaders are, Israel would have to go through Shifa Hospital and that would create a major humanitarian crisis that would lead the global community to intervene. Hamas is no problem sacrificing thousands and thousands of Palestinians to protect their own leaders. When we're speaking about hiding behind civilians, this is exactly the case. Hamas is no problem using the underground infrastructure right beneath Shifa Hospital. How about the people coming there for treatment? How about the doctors? How about all of the hospital infrastructure which is meant to protect people not to hurt them? They don't care about that. They're using this infrastructure to hide understanding that it would be a problem for Israel to access that place because of the humanitarian crisis it would create. We'll certainly be keeping an eye on the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to ramp up activity there. Jonathan Regev, thank you for your coverage in Israel's southern border. Now I want to bring in my studio guest right now. I'm joined by retired Colonel Amit Asaf, former member of the Israeli Security Agency. Amit, thank you so much for joining us. As we were just talking to our correspondent Jonathan Regev near the southern border, speaking about this increased Israeli activity that we're seeing in the Gaza Strip, the largest activity since the start of this war. We also know that as this is happening, communication networks have been cut off. So I know the United Nations, the World Health Organization, they're claiming that they can't get in contact with any of their people in Gaza right now. Yeah, I think that it had to be happening from the beginning, okay? When you are acting against some area of the enemy. And as we are speaking, we can understand that Gaza is the main headquarter of Hamas for us, is the main headquarter that we have to hit. So first thing that you have to do is disconnect the communication and all the communication that they have between themselves and also to get out information to the world is better to cut from the beginning. So I'm very surprised that it happened just now, but this is part of the war. You have to disconnect their ability to connect from inside to outside and also between each other. Well, I think you bring up a great point. The fact that this is happening three weeks after the initial attack, October 7th, just now they're starting to cut off that communication. One of the largest problems over the past three weeks has been the propaganda that Hamas continues to release, trying to gain sympathy for their terrorist organization. So do you think that this will help eliminate some of that propaganda? I think it's not eliminated for sure, not 100 percent because they have the ability to do propaganda from outside. We have leaders outside. We have leaders that are staying now in Qatar in any place in the world that will have to do the propaganda from the outside. And they have the ability for that. But pictures, speaking about acting inside and also confidential information about the action of IDF inside is better to be sealed out and not in the media. Well, it's just speaking about that propaganda. Also, one of the statements that is going around is the fact that there's no more fuel left in Gaza strip, causing a humanitarian crisis for the hospitals without fuel, without energy for their ambulances. However, the IDF just yesterday released a phone call that they have from someone in Gaza, stating that that's actually not the case. And there is plenty of fuel. Hamas is just controlling it. So according to this phone call, at least half a million leaders of fuel still in the Gaza strip. That's plenty for them to continue to use, operate in these underground bunkers. So as far as all of these claims from mainly international sources are urging for more humanitarian aid to be let into the Gaza strip, Israel says fuel will not be on the table. Yeah, I think that first we know that fuel is actually needed for all the activity down in the tunnels, of course, for their air condition, for their electricity inside. And if we are giving them a fuel, we are giving them ammunition for the activity. So fuel is not going to be on the table, I think in that time. And actually, you see that they have enough. They are using the fuel for the war, not for the people inside the hospitals. This is the sad thing that people in the world have to know. They are not concerning their people. They are concerning their leadership and holding as a terror organization in the region. They continue to use their own civilians as human shields, as the IDF just released, to the new documents showing that their main headquarters are under a hospital. But I want to bring up another point. They're not just using their own citizens as human shields. The hostage situation remains one of the most critical ones. Many of the families of the hostages right now are urging the Israeli government to hold off on a ground operation because how exactly does the ground operation impact the hostage situation? As from the beginning, we have to understand that the information about what's happening in Gaza is divided into two. First, we have to know where is the terrorist is hiding and where is the tunnels that will lead us to a terrorist to eliminate them. And the other line is to collect information about the hostages, where they're holding the hostages, how they can be inside in this situation. So we are all the time going into these two lines parallel. So if we are getting into some area, it's to collect information about terrorists and the hostages does, because this is one of our aim, to get them back home. And three weeks into the war, there's still more information coming out about the hostage. It's 229 now confirmed. So the fact that three weeks later, they're still trying to get some of this information, even just the number, let alone where they are, how many are in different underground bunkers. It absolutely complicates the situation. It's very complicated. It's very complicated, because we understand that they are not in the same place. They spread it. They spread them because they know that if we are getting into a situation of any action inside the tunnels, we will have to be careful about the hostages. It's a situation of hostages, as we know outside, but spread to a lot of places. It's very, very complicated. And a lot of units, special units, will have to deal with it, very specific with the abilities, of course, for hostages' situation. Meanwhile, while our attention right now is mainly on the south near the Gaza border, as that ground operation does start very quickly, Iran continues to threaten from the northern front as well. That's where our correspondent, Mary McAuliffe, is right now in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. Mary, what's the latest on the ground right now? That's right, Nicole. It's actually been, it was a fairly quiet evening all throughout the night. There hasn't been rocket sirens since the day before yesterday, but we do continue to see cross-border attacks between Lebanon and Hezbollah. We actually just moments ago saw one now. I'm going to move out of the way so Igor behind the camera can show you. Massive plumes of smoke that are rising from this hillside, that hillside you're looking at, is the Israel-Lebanon border. And this is an area that over the past three weeks, over the past really two weeks, I guess, when this began in earnest between these cross-border attacks, we have seen many of these fires atop this hillside. It's really unclear which side of the border it's on. It could either be Israel launching strikes into Lebanon or Lebanon also trying to strike IDF surveillance posts on top of that hill. I'm pointing out because Hezbollah knows very well where they are. They've released many videos of it this week. Many IDF surveillance posts right along that border looking into southern Lebanon. And we have seen Hezbollah forces continue to try and target some of this really military infrastructure on the ground. But for now, Hezbollah's attacks seem to be limited to these sort of cross-border incursions, raids, Israeli retaliatory attacks. For now, it doesn't seem they have a willingness to really fully get fully involved into this war. But we are certainly hearing the message in coming from both Iran as well as Hezbollah that if they decide the time is right to do so, they will not hesitate to do it. And Iran also may be using their proxies to target the United States as well. We just heard reports the United States striking some weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria in response to some attacks on American forces. I believe 19 times they've been attacked in Iraq and Syria in the past week. So the United States possibly getting more involved in this too as Iran continues to attack them. That's absolutely right, Nicole. So yesterday, Friday, the U.S. came out and said that it had launched these retaliatory strikes because a number of U.S. bases had been attacked. It's important to know that this was the first time the U.S. attacked in the Middle East since March. And obviously the first time it had attacked since this conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out when everybody is fearing for this wider regional war. We also know last night an American base in Syria, so in Tanakh. So this is an area that straddles the Syria-Iraqi- Jordan border, where there are American troops there on the ground, was attacked by an Iraqi group calling itself the Islamic Resistance. It's an Iranian-backed group and saying that their attacks on the U.S. bases was in response to what it's calling the U.S. support for Israeli massacres against Palestinians. So we continue to see this war, this area very on edge. The U.S. again warning citizens in Lebanon to evacuate immediately, telling them to take any situation they can to try and get out before a crisis erupts. We also saw the Netherlands warning its citizens in Iraq to leave the area, so certainly we hear many countries on high alert here just watching to see what will happen as Israel's operation in Gaza continues. All I certainly on how this is impacting the entire Middle East region, Mary McAuliffe, thank you for your coverage up near Northern, Israel's Northern border. Now I want to come back to my guest in studio Amit Asad. Now Amit, as we were just hearing from our correspondent Mary McAuliffe about the United States and their hand in this. It seems that Iran, although it's going back and forth, do they want to get involved? Don't they want to get involved by targeting the United States? That's a pretty clear symbol that they're getting involved. Yes and no. Okay, esoterically what I think it's my estimation is that Iran doesn't want to get into this conflict now in that time because they have a lot of to lose here than the other. But still they own the Hamas, they own the Palestinian, for their words, because the words were if the Israeli will attack Hamas, we will have to get into that. So they own some thing for somebody because their words. So they act. They act, but it's not an act of war. It's an act of see we are here. We are here to attack you. We are here to be with you, the Hamas, and we are helping you by striking the Americans. But it's just a sign. It's not getting involved in the whole war because they know that this can be escalating very fast and it will lead them to a war in all the region. And although we know that Iran has helped Hamas train for this attack on October 7th in the first place, now we're also hearing reports that Hamas is not happy with Hezbollah's decision to not do more to join the fight so far. Yeah, Hezbollah, if they were joining this action at the beginning, they have the advantage of surprise. They had the adventures of getting into the Israeli border at the north and do the same as the Hamas did in the south, but they have no advantage of surprise now. So they have a problem. We have all the troops of Hezbollah staying on lines and not getting in because they know that Israel now is preparing for them. And for us, we have to understand that sometimes it's better to act before, not stand by and wait for them to attack us. All these forces of Radawan for Hezbollah is waiting to get into Israel to settlements and to places in Israel to get hostages as the Hamas did in the south. And we have to strike them first. That's what I think. And they are preparing themselves because there is an event in the north. We see troops that are winning to take some advantage of the Israeli IDF and to put some rocket on some pole. And everybody in the world, you can see that they are laughing on them, that they are using missiles for poles, not for attacking actually Israel. But that's what they want to do now. They want to be on the other side quiet. And in the other hand, to leave the message to Hamas, we are with you. Well, I'm curious. Also, you say it's time for Israel to strike back, strike back with Hezbollah as we saw with Hamas. It's not back, it's first. First, okay. So I think that you bring up a great point that we saw the activity that happened under our noses in Hamas this entire time. Although the activity is focusing in the south now also seems to be the time that if Israel is going to eliminate or eradicate Hamas, shouldn't they do the same with Hezbollah? Actually, Hezbollah is not Hamas. It's not Palestinian. They are Ashiah. They are having their affairs in Lebanon. Hezbollah has to understand that there's not business for them inside Israel. And they are not our enemies. They are standing like an enemy because they want to eliminate Israel. But they have to understand that they have to get back. And if they will see how we are treating Hamas and what is the result of the war against Hamas, they will stop. They will stop because they have their own problems inside Lebanon and they have it enough. So that's what I think will be the situation strategically. But as I said before, war, you know how you started. You can never know how it developed and what happened. So we will have to be very, very careful about what they want to do and the activities in the north because it can be a strike any minute now. And we have to be prepared for it. And IDF is prepared for it. There's no surprise anymore, like the assault. We'll certainly be keeping an eye on all of the different borders and how this is impacting the entire region. Retired Colonel Amit Assad, thank you for your insight as always. Now as we talk about everything that's happening on the ground here, I think it's important to remember that there are so many signs of hope right now. People coming together, helping Israel win this war. In fact, the largest volunteer organization in Israel with more than 60,000 volunteers, they've been ramping up efforts for the past three weeks, focusing on helping displaced residents, organizations and even military units. Here's more on efforts of Yedidim in this report. This small school in the central city of Petah Tikva has become the temporary headquarters of Yedidim, the Hebrew word for friends, and to the biggest volunteer organization in Israel. The organization is known mostly for helping cars stuck on the road, but now does much more. We are acting on three main levels. The first level concerns the people's spirit. We are organizing barbecues and military bases. We are taking care of the families. We even do their laundry. The second level is helping the public. We fix security rooms. We deliver food and supplies. The third level is the front. We understand what they lack and we supply them with everything they need. I-24 News joined a team on their daily mission. Our first stop is in a makeshift military base near the southern city of Ofakim. A group of reserve soldiers are asking for ratchet straps. Look, I don't try to find out why things are missing here, but as someone who serves for two years in this unit, I know that whenever I need something, I can turn to Yedidim Organization. The second stop is in Bershevah, where the team joins another group of volunteers on their way to fix the window of a security room. One member of the Bershevah team tells us about his experience on October 7th. Starting from 5 p.m. Saturday, we started to help the forces to collect the bodies from the party at Reim. I was there until Monday morning. In the organization's warehouse, we see a variety of objects donated to soldiers and civilians, from simple shirts to drones worth thousands of dollars. This is perhaps another example of the rare spirit of giving, helping, and caring in the Israeli society today. Now, the volunteer efforts in Israel and really around the world have been such a bright light right now. I'm actually joined by one of the volunteers who has joined the efforts here in Israel, Jacob Diamond, an American Jew who came to volunteer here in Israel after the war broke out. Jacob, I want to know, what brought you here in the first place? Why did you feel a need to come volunteer in Israel? I felt a need because I was seeing what was going on on the TV. It was very difficult to just sit by and watch. So I decided that I needed to be here and hopped on a plane and came. And what have you been doing while you've been here? Lots of different volunteer positions. First, I went and helped make up meals for IDF, worked in the cauliflower fields. I was on actually Civil Patrol with the municipality of Tel Aviv for a couple of days. In fact, they called me this morning and were like, can you help next week? I can, absolutely. What does that entail, Civil Patrol? Working for the municipality, we wore vests and hats and just walked around making sure that people knew that we were present and that they were safe. There are such increased tensions right now. Absolutely. Seeing everyone come together, how has that made you feel to have your own hand in it here in Israel as well? It's been great. The people have been so so friendly and nice. And I see how everybody's working together for one cause and that's to keep Israel safe and it to continue to be a state of Jews. Which is the most important part right now. Absolutely. I'm curious. The next steps for you, you're here for about another week. What are you aiming to do? I'm aiming to go ahead and volunteer. I would prefer working in the farms. I know that there's a lot of need in the farms in the south. And yeah, I would love to go to some other farms. I did the cauliflower farm, now avocados, citrus trees, whatever, wherever they need me, I will go. And how can people help you and help out in Israel right now? People, as far as for me, I need transportation. I don't drive here. And so any help I can get with transportation to the farms would be very much appreciated. And yeah, I just think that people here are amazing. I don't know that, given the situation, if something were to happen like that back home, that it would be the same as it is here. I'm so curious, as you do head back to the United States, we are seeing an increase in anti-Semitism. Are you worried to be going back almost? We're hearing some of these reports. People almost feel safer in Israel right now than they do back home. Well, I feel very, very safe here. I have, there has not been a point even with the rocket fires. And I've been feeling very safe. I don't know if I'm really worried when I get back home. I don't know how it will affect me. I do know that I will be coming back again. I'm hoping to come back in December for a couple weeks and then also in February. Well, thank you so much for all of the efforts that you've been doing, Jacob Diamond, everything that you've been helping to on the war efforts here in Israel. We so appreciate you. Thank you for tuning in. Israel is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene, and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant, and we are ready, and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. Welcome to our rolling coverage of the war here in Israel now, and it's 22nd day. I'm going to close out of Goliath in Tel Aviv. Overnight, Israel expanded their military activity in the Gaza Strip, sending in tanks and ramping up airstrikes. The largest amount of activity in Gaza since the start of the war, killing the head of Hamas' aerial operations. Communication and internet networks in the Strip have reportedly been cut off, following what Palestinians are calling intense and unprecedented airstrikes. This follows an IDF statement that the main Hamas headquarters are located under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. As Hamas uses the largest hospital in the Strip, it's a human shield against Israeli attacks. Hamas, however, claims these findings are untrue. Meanwhile, Iran threatens Israel. Seating troops in Lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the IDF begins its larger ground offensive in Gaza. IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Higaring said troops are expanding activity in the Gaza Strip. In the last few hours, we have increased the attacks in Gaza. The Air Force widely attacks ground targets and terrorist infrastructure in a very significant way. In continuation of the offensive activity we've carried out in the last few days, the ground forces are expanding ground activity this evening. The IDF works powerfully in all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. I want to begin with that increased activity in the Gaza Strip, where our correspondent Jonathan Oregov is standing by near the Gaza border in southern Israel. Jonathan, they are ramping up their activity, troops, tanks going into the Gaza Strip, preparing for a larger ground operation possibly. Yes, it seems as if the activity now is not the ground maneuver that we're expecting for quite some time, but sort of a preparation for that. What do I mean? We're hearing that last night the activity was targeting some 150 underground sites used by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. The notion is that all of the installations and infrastructure and Hamas terrorists and warfare and weapons, everything is under the ground in that underground city, underground cities, actually, that Hamas has prepared all along the Gaza Strip. And the activity last night was conducted against all of those underground sites in the northern Gaza Strip to allow an easier access when the Israeli army comes in. When the army comes in, Hamas is preparing to fight against them from tunnels and from bunkers under the ground. The whole operation was meant to target those sites. At least 150 of those were targeted overnight. Speaking of those underground tunnels and around bunkers, the IDF also confirming now that one of the main headquarters of Hamas is under Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza. So that absolutely poses a bigger risk for the IDF as they are conducting these operations and trying to eliminate Hamas. Of course, because what Hamas is aware that in order to eliminate that headquarter where we can assume that all of the main leaders are, Israel would have to go through Shifa Hospital and that would create a major humanitarian crisis that would lead the global community to intervene. Hamas is no problem sacrificing thousands and thousands of Palestinians to protect their own leaders. When we're speaking about hiding behind civilians, this is exactly the case. Hamas is no problem using the underground infrastructure right beneath Shifa Hospital. How about the people coming there for treatment? How about the doctors? How about all of the hospital infrastructure which is meant to protect people not to hurt them? They don't care about that. They're using this infrastructure to hide understanding that it would be a problem for Israel to access that place because of the humanitarian crisis it would create. We'll certainly be keeping an eye on the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to ramp up activity there. Jonathan Raghav, thank you for your coverage on Israel's southern border. Now I want to bring in my studio guest right now. I'm joined by retired Colonel Amit Asaf, former member of the Israeli Security Agency. Amit, thank you so much for joining us. As we were just talking to our correspondent Jonathan Raghav near the southern border, speaking about this increased Israeli activity that we're seeing in the Gaza Strip, largest activity since the start of this war. We also know that as this is happening, communication networks have been cut off. So I know the United Nations, the World Health Organization, they're claiming that they can't get in contact with any of their people in Gaza right now. Yeah, I think that it had to be happening from the beginning, okay, when you are acting against some area of the enemy. And as we are speaking, we can understand that Gaza is the main headquarter of Hamas for us is the main headquarter that we have to hit. So first thing that you have to do is disconnect the communication and all the communication that they have between themselves and also to get out information to the world is better to cut from the beginning. So I'm very surprised that it happened just now, but this is part of the war. You have to disconnect their ability to connect from inside to outside and also between each other. Well, I think you bring up a great point, the fact that this is happening three weeks after the initial attack October 7th, just now they're starting to cut off that communication. One of the largest problems over the past three weeks has been the propaganda that Hamas continues to release, trying to gain sympathy for their terrorist organization. So do you think that this will help eliminate some of that propaganda? I think it's not eliminated for sure, not 100% because they have the ability to do propaganda from outside. We have leaders outside, we have leaders that are staying now in Qatar in any place in the world that will have to do the propaganda from the outside and they have the ability for that. But pictures speaking about acting inside and also confidential information about the action of IDF inside is better to be sealed out and not in the media. Well, it's just speaking about that propaganda. Also, one of the statements that is going around is the fact that there's no more fuel left in Gaza Strip, causing a humanitarian crisis for the hospitals without fuel, without energy for their ambulances. However, the IDF just yesterday released a phone call that they have from someone in Gaza, stating that that's actually not the case and there is plenty of fuel, Hamas is just controlling it. According to this phone call, at least half a million leaders of fuel still in the Gaza Strip, that's plenty for them to continue to use, operate in these underground bunkers. So as far as all of these claims from mainly international sources are urging for more humanitarian aid to be let into the Gaza Strip, Israel says fuel will not be on the table. Yeah, I think that first we know that fuel is actually needed for all the activity down in the tunnels, of course, for their air condition, for their electricity inside. And if we are giving them a fuel, we are giving them ammunition for the activity. So fuel is not going to be on the table, I think, in that time. And actually, you see that they have enough. They are using the fuel for the war and not for the people inside the hospitals. This is the sad thing that people in the world have to know. They are not concerning their people. They are concerning their leadership and holding as a terror organization in the region. They continue to use their own civilians as human shields, as the IDF just released, to the new documents showing that their main headquarters are under a hospital. But I want to bring up another point. They're not just using their own citizens as human shields. The hostage situation remains one of the most critical ones. Many of the families of the hostages right now are urging the Israeli government to hold off on a ground operation because how exactly does the ground operation impact the hostage situation? As from the beginning, we have to understand that information about what's happening in Gaza is divided into two. First, we have to know where is the terrorist is hiding and where is the tunnels that will lead us to terrorists to eliminate them. And the other line is to collect information about the hostages, where they're holding the hostages, how can be inside in this situation. So we are all the time going into these two lines parallel. So if we are getting into some area, it's to collect information about terrorists and the hostages does because this is one of our aim, to get them back home. Well, in three weeks into the war, there's still more information coming out about the hostage. It's 229 now confirmed. So the fact that three weeks later, they're still trying to get some of this information, even just the number, let alone where they are, how many are in different underground bunkers. It absolutely complicates the situation. It's very complicated. It's very complicated because we understand that they are not in the same place. They spread it. They spread them because they know that if we are getting into a situation of any action inside the tunnels, we will have to be careful about the hostages. This is a situation of hostages, as we know outside, but spread to a lot of places. It's very, very complicated. And a lot of units, special units will have to deal with it, very specific with the abilities, of course, for hostages situation. Meanwhile, while our attention right now is mainly on the south near the Gaza border, as that ground operation does start very quickly, Iran continues to threaten from the northern front as well. That's where our correspondent, Mary McAuliffe, is right now in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. Mary, what's the latest on the ground right now? That's right, Nicole. It's actually been, it was a fairly quiet evening all throughout the night. There hasn't been rocket sirens since the day before yesterday, but we do continue to see cross-border attacks between Lebanon and Hezbollah. We actually just moments ago saw one now. I'm going to move out of the way. So Igor behind the camera can show you massive plumes of smoke that are rising from this hillside, that hillside you're looking at, is the Israel-Lebanon border. And this is an area that over the past three weeks, over the past really two weeks, I guess, when this began in earnest between these cross-border attacks, we have seen many of these fires atop this hillside. It's really unclear which side of the border it's on. It could either be Israel launching strikes into Lebanon, or Lebanon also trying to strike IDF surveillance posts on top that hill. I'm pointing out because Hezbollah knows very well where they are. They've released many videos of it this week. Many IDF surveillance posts right along that border looking into southern Lebanon. And we have seen Hezbollah forces continue to try and target some of this really military infrastructure on the ground. But for now, Hezbollah's attacks seem to be limited to these sort of cross-border incursions, raids, Israeli retaliatory attacks. For now, it doesn't seem they have a willingness to really fully get fully involved into this war. But we are certainly hearing the messaging coming from both Iran as well as Hezbollah that if they decide the time is right to do so, they will not hesitate to do it. And Iran also may are using their proxies to target the United States as well. We just heard reports the United States striking some weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria in response to some attacks on American forces. I believe 19 times they've been attacked in Iraq and Syria in the past week. So the United States possibly getting more involved in this too as Iran continues to attack them. That's absolutely right, Nicole. So yesterday, Friday, the US came out and said that had launched these retaliatory strikes because a number of US bases had been attacked. It's important to know that this was the first time the US attacked in the Middle East since March. And obviously, the first time it had attacked since this conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out when everybody is fearing for this wider regional war. We also know last night of an American base in Syria, so in Tanaf. So this is an area that straddles the Syria-Iraqi-Jordan border where there are American troops there on the ground was attacked by an Iraqi group calling itself the Islamic resistance. It's an Iranian backed group and saying that their attacks on the US bases was in response to what it's calling the US support for Israeli massacres against Palestinians. So we continue to see this war, this area very on edge. The US again warning citizens in Lebanon to evacuate immediately telling them to take any situation they can to try and get out before a crisis erupts. We also saw the Netherlands warning its citizens in Iraq to leave the area. So certainly, we hear many countries on high alert here just watching to see what will happen as Israel's operation in Gaza continues. All eyes certainly on how this is impacting the entire Middle East region. Mary McAuliffe, thank you for your coverage up near Northern Israel's Northern border. Now I want to come back to my guest in studio Amit Asad. Now Amit, as we were just hearing from our correspondent Mary McAuliffe about the United States and their hand in this. It seems that Iran, although it's going back and forth, do they want to get involved? Don't they want to get involved by targeting the United States? That's a pretty clear symbol that they're getting involved. Yes and no. Okay, esoterically what I think it's my estimation is that Iran doesn't want to get into this conflict now in that time because they have a lot of to lose here than the other. But still, they own the Hamas, they own the Palestinian, they own for their words because the words were if the Israeli will attack Hamas, we will have to get into that. So they own something for somebody because their words. So they act. They act, but it's not an act of war. It's an act of see we are here. We are here to attack you. We are here to be with you, the Hamas, and we are helping you by striking the Americans. But it's just a sign. It's not getting involved in the whole war because they know that this can be escalating very fast. And it will lead them to a war in all the region. And although we know that Iran has helped Hamas train for this attack on October 7th in the first place. Now we're also hearing reports that Hamas is not happy with Hezbollah's decision to not do more to join the fight so far. Yeah. Hezbollah, if they were joining this action at the beginning, they have the advantage of surprise. They have the adventures of getting into the Israeli border at the north and do the same as the Hamas did in the south. But they have no advantage of surprise now. So they have a problem. We have all the troops of Hezbollah staying on lines and not getting in because they know that Israel now is preparing for them. And for us, we have to understand that sometimes it's better to act before, not stand by and wait for them to attack us. All these forces of Radwan for Hezbollah is waiting to get into Israel to settlements and to places in Israel to get hostages as the Hamas did in the south. And we have to strike them first. That's what I think and they are preparing themselves because there is an event in the north. We see troops that are waiting to take some advantage of the Israeli IDF and to put some rocket on some pole. And everybody in the world, you can see that they are laughing on them, that they are using missiles for poles, not for attacking actually Israel. But that's what they want to do now. They want to be on the other side, quiet. And in the other hand, to leave the message to Hamas, we are with you. Well, I'm curious also you say it's time for Israel to strike back with Hezbollah as we saw with Hamas. It's not back, it's first. First, okay? So I think that you bring up a great point that we saw the activity that happened under our noses in Hamas this entire time, although the activity is focusing in the south now also seems to be the time that if Israel is going to eliminate or eradicate Hamas, shouldn't they do the same with Hezbollah? Actually, Hezbollah is not Hamas, is not Palestinian. They are Ashiah. They are having their affairs in Lebanon. Hezbollah has to understand that there's not business for them inside Israel. And they are not our enemies. They are standing like an enemy because they want to eliminate Israel. But they have to understand that they have to get back. And if they will see how we are treating Hamas and what is the result of the war against Hamas, they will stop. They will stop because they have their own problems inside Lebanon and they have it enough. So that's what I think will be the situation as strategically. But as I said before, war, you know how you started. You can never know how it developed and what happened. So we will have to be very, very careful about what they want to do and the activities in the north because it can be a strike any minute now. And we have to be prepared for it and IDF is prepared for it. There's no surprise anymore, like in the south. We'll certainly be keeping an eye on all of the different borders and how this is impacting the entire region. Retired Colonel Amin Assad, thank you for your insight as always. Now as we talk about everything that's happening on the ground here, I think it's important to remember that there are so many signs of hope right now. People coming together helping Israel win this war. In fact, the largest volunteer organization in Israel with more than 60,000 volunteers, they've been ramping up efforts for the past three weeks, focusing on helping displaced residents, organizations and even military units. Here's more on efforts of Yedidim in this report. This small school in the central city of Petah Tikva has become the temporary headquarters of Yedidim, the Hebrew word for friends and the biggest volunteer organization in Israel. The organization is known mostly for helping cars stuck on the road, but now does much more. We are acting on three main levels. The first level concerns the people's spirit. We are organizing barbecues and military bases. We are taking care of the families. We even do their laundry. The second level is helping the public. We fix security rooms. We deliver food and supplies. The third level is the front. We understand what they lack and we supply them with everything they need. I-24 News joined a team on their daily mission. Our first stop is in a makeshift military base near the southern city of Ofakim, a group of reserve soldiers are asking for ratchet straps. Look, I don't try to find out why things are missing here, but as someone who serves for two years in this unit, I know that whenever I need something, I can turn to Yedidim organization. The second stop is in Bersheva, where the team joins another group of volunteers on their way to fix the window of a security room. One member of the Bersheva team tells us about his experience on October 7th. Starting from 5 p.m. Saturday, we started to help the forces to collect the bodies from the party at Reim. I was there until Monday morning. In the organization's warehouse, we see a variety of objects donated to soldiers and civilians from simple shirts to drones worth thousands of dollars. This is perhaps another example of the rare spirit of giving, helping and caring in the Israeli society today. Now the volunteer efforts in Israel and really around the world have been such a bright light right now. I'm actually joined by one of the volunteers who has joined the efforts here in Israel, Jacob Diamond, an American Jew who came to volunteer here in Israel after the war broke out. Jacob, I want to know what brought you here in the first place? Why did you feel a need to come volunteer in Israel? I felt a need because I was seeing what was going on on the TV. It was very difficult to just sit by and watch. So I decided that I needed to be here and hopped on a plane and came. And what have you been doing while you've been here? Lots of different volunteer positions. First, I went and helped make up meals for IDF, worked in the cauliflower fields. I was on actually Civil Patrol with the municipality of Tel Aviv for a couple days. In fact, they call me this morning and were like, can you help next week? I can, absolutely. What does that entail, Civil Patrol? Working for the municipality, we wore vests and hats and just walked around making sure that people knew that we were present and that they were safe. There are such increased tensions right now. Absolutely. Seeing everyone come together, how has that made you feel to have your own hand in it here in Israel as well? It's been great. The people have been so friendly and nice. And I see how everybody's working together for one cause and that's to keep Israel safe and it to continue to be a state of Jews. Which is the most important part right now. Absolutely. I'm curious, the next steps for you, you're here for about another week. What are you aiming to do? I'm aiming to go ahead and volunteer. I would prefer working in the farms. I know that there's a lot of need in the farms in the south. And yeah, I would love to go to some other farms. I did the cauliflower farm. Now, avocado, citrus trees, whatever, wherever they need me, I will go. And how can people help you and help out in Israel right now? People as far as for me, I need transportation. I don't drive here. And so any help I can get with transportation to the farms would be very much appreciated. And yeah, I just think that people here are amazing. I don't know that given the situation, if something were to happen like that back home, that it would be the same as it is here. I'm so curious, as you do head back to the United States, we are seeing an increase in anti-Semitism. Are you worried to be going back on most? We're hearing some of these reports. People almost feel safer in Israel right now than they do back home. Well, I feel very, very safe here. There has not been a point, even with the rocket fires. And I've been feeling very safe. I don't know if I'm really worried when I get back home. I don't know how it will affect me. I do know that I will be coming back again. I'm hoping to come back in December for a couple weeks and then also in February. Well, thank you so much for all of the efforts that you've been doing, Jacob Diamond, everything that you've been helping to on the war efforts here in Israel. We so appreciate you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in. Israel is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. Red Wolf is the most endangered wolf in the entire world. And the American Red Wolf is the only wolf that is only native to the United States. And in that regards, they should be a national treasure. So it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care. And it's very important for people to be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct. Welcome to our rolling coverage of the war here in Israel now in its 22nd day on the cool static live in Tel Aviv after an eight hour lol red alerts once again Blair through southern Israel as rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip. This follows Israel's expanded military activity in Gaza, sending in tanks and ramping up air strikes killing the head of Hamas's aerial operations. Communication and internet networks in the strip have reportedly been shut down following what Palestinians are calling intense and unprecedented airstrikes. This follows an IDF statement that the main Hamas headquarters are located under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and Hamas uses the largest hospital in the strip as a human shield against Israeli attacks. Hamas however claims these findings are untrue. Meanwhile Iran threatens Israel stating troops in Lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the IDF begins its larger ground offensive in Gaza. IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Higari said troops are expanding activity in the Gaza Strip. And that's where I want to begin now where our correspondent Jonathan Regev is near southern Israel near the Gaza border. Jonathan we know red alerts once again blaring in southern Israel strikes from Gaza continuing to be fired towards Israel. Yes there was an alert about 10 15 minutes ago after quite a long break there were there were more than eight hours without sirens now a siren sounding in one of the Gaza border communities a few minutes ago this as artillery continues to pound all the time we're constantly hearing the Israeli artillery pounding pounding hard on the Gaza Strip right behind us says the Palestinian town of Bet Hanun one of the places where Israeli forces have reportedly entered overnight and we're still hearing constant sound of a shelling throughout this morning. We know Jonathan that the IDF says that they are ramping up their activity in the Gaza Strip sending in troops sending in tanks continuing with those airstrikes so all signs point that they're really laying the ground for a larger operation. That is correct and the main aim is to destroy any underground resistance because Hamas is the main way that they wish to fight is to surprise the IDF from beneath from the the underground installations of various underground installations they have built they've dug through the years in this area so a lot of underground installations have been hit over the night making sure at least trying to make sure that as many of them are destroyed as much as possible so that they would not hurt the IDF forces once they choose to make that big incursion inside. Meanwhile we're also hearing reports that communication networks have been cut off in the Gaza Strip so how does that impact how Hamas is able to communicate with one another? It is impacting because Hamas simply the aim is to basically keep them blind not to know what's what's happening where is it happening to prevent them from from sending forces and we do understand that much of the communication network in Gaza is off. Well and I also want to reiterate that Hamas continuing as you said not only in those underground bunkers but also still using these human shields we have the report that the IDF confirmed their main headquarters are under Shiva Hospital also reports Hamas continuing to block off their residents in the north from heading south and leaving that very heavy military activity from Israel. Yes Hamas has no problem sacrificing their own people and they're hiding under hospitals understanding that for Israel in order to reach the headquarters it would have to reach the hospital first and that would create major global outcry and a big humanitarian issue and that is why that is what they're doing they're preventing citizens to leave to safety understanding that their best chance is to have as many Palestinian people killed which would create a global outcry. Hamas that is one of their main strategies hiding behind the people basically the Palestinian people serving as human shields for those evil evil terrorists. I'm curious Jonathan as we talked about the communication cut off between a different Hamas members and everyone in the Gaza Strip truly this as Israel continuing to target many of the leaders overnight saying that they they killed the head of Hamas' aerial operations so how does that impact just how Hamas is able to operate as well? Still it's true that many leaders in Hamas have been targeted but it's not the serious leaders not the main leaders they're still hiding in their bunkers and we just heard a major explosion there inside the Gaza Strip. The main leaders are still hiding in their bunkers and what Israel is hoping is that with while preventing the fuel the fuel is what runs the electricity and communications and ventilation and everything in those bunkers when you basically take away the fuel the hope is that it would make the the bunkers impossible to stay in and then those leaders will have to pop up and as soon as that will happen they will be killed. We'll certainly continue to keep our eye as we do see that increased activity in the Gaza Strip by our correspondent Jonathan Raghav thank you for the latest. Now moving from southern Israel to northern Israel I want to cross live now to our correspondent Mary McAuliffe who is standing by in the north Mary we continue to see still some activity there on the Lebanon border what exactly are you seeing up there? That's right Nicole so really we've only had one incident as of this morning and we haven't even seen the IDF officially acknowledge what that incident was but on the hills that you can see just behind me that it's dissipated at the moment it's just a very very very tiny smoke fire that's rising on the hills but this is an area that we've seen numerous fires breaking out over the past two weeks as Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire there's a number of different IDF military installments observation posts that are located right on this border and that's why we continue to see Hezbollah trying to target it both artillery as well as anti-tank guided missiles we don't have any confirmation from the IDF as of this morning as of what the smokes could be but we do know the IDF so that it did launch strikes overnight or early this morning into southern Lebanon on a tarot cell that had tried to launch rockets into Israeli communities yesterday that ended up falling in the Golan Heights we do continue to see Israeli forces here on high alert bracing for all possibilities all eventualities since it does seem to have begun its ground division into Gaza what the response from Hezbollah is going to be it's what we've all been waiting for we've heard a lot of what we've heard a lot of messages coming out from Iran and Hezbollah and this is what I mean is what we're waiting for because they've issued so many warnings saying what's going to happen once Israeli forces step foot inside the Gaza Strip so far we haven't really seen any type of response we know there's heavy pressure in the region to try and tamp down some of this violence and escalation and some of the rhetoric that's coming out from these Iranian backproxies including Hezbollah we know the U.S. is also moving to evacuate all of its citizens from Lebanon calling on all civilians to take matters into their own hands and leave before a crisis erupts but we do continue to see here heavy Israeli fighter jets in the air above us GPS continues to be blocked on our phones trying to access this you can just see it shows them somewhere in the South Atlantic Ocean I'm obviously not this is a tactic by Israeli Air Force to try and protect one its weapons its fighters its military infrastructure but also try and prevent missiles that are using GPS guiding to hit Israeli communities to try and block those from happening so this is what we've seen over the past two weeks just Israeli military trying to do everything it can to try and prevent attacks from Israeli citizens but also against its soldiers in the area and Mary even as you're speaking we're keeping an eye on the north but more red alerts continuing to blare through southern Israel rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip targeting Israel as we're speaking right now also you mentioned we're waiting on an update from the IDF we're waiting on a press conference actually to hear from the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagar you can see waiting for him to address the podium right now so hopefully we'll get some more updates as to just the military activity that we are expecting today but Mary I want to come back to you just for one more question as you mentioned the activity that we are seeing just yesterday even the IDF saying that a a strike from Lebanon falling in Syria and they said overnight they continue to target some of those Hezbollah posts following that launch from Lebanon that's right Nicole so that's what we saw yesterday and again as we see the GPS blocking as I just talked about moments ago that's also possibly why a missile that was fired from southern Lebanon managed to cross all the way over Israel's Golan Heights and end up in the Syrian territory but we also don't know it could also just be a case of bad aim but what we do know is every time Israel says there's somebody who's trying to attack its forces and its civilians Israel is going to respond that's exactly what we saw in the statement saying that they had launched terror cells they're at least some 30 Hezbollah fighters who have been killed in the course of this fighting over the past two weeks for now it does seem to be contained to these cross-border raids though so we do continue to see one Hezbollah firing Israel firing back this is the stratagem that's been going on for weeks now but all eyes are just watching to see if something changes and if something more significant happens in this ward certainly that tense period right now Mary and Nicole if thank you for joining us and covering all the latest developments on the northern border as well I want to bring in my studio guest right now I'm joined by reserve captain Guy Puran a former Air Force pilot and co-leader of the Air Force Pilots protests guy thanks so much for joining me quite a lot happening both in the south and the north as we heard from our correspondents I want to begin in the south though because Israel clearly ramping up their attacks ramping up their airstrikes as well I mean we talk about the impending ground operation but the air attacks seem to be a crucial part of this absolutely and you know you would think that it can't go any more intensive than it was in the last week but apparently it does and I think that is very clearly now the strategy of the operation of the of the of the government is to continue to do that while as we know some ground entry had happened in fact some tanks are actually there now which I believe a part of testing the water in the sense of what kind of resistance the Hamas was preparing for them etc but it's interesting that you know you corresponded talked about the the rhetorics in Lebanon of the Hezbollah that once the Israeli step ground into Gaza they're going to react so one they have stepped we have entered Gaza and we're not seeing a major difference in the reaction of Hezbollah and secondly you know stepping when you see all this destruction that's caused by the air I would think that the Hezbollah if in Iran if they had the intention of actually telling the Hezbollah to participate full force in launching missile they would have done that after those images that are coming out of half of Gaza and million refugees so I'm optimistic carefully optimistic in the sense that they have decided not to participate full force and these are the kind of intelligence that's coming out of the US right now the US the ambassador said and that US intelligence says that Iran is not interested in entering going in allowing their proxy to enter full force so this is good I think good news as far as as Israel well and speaking of the United States we know that some American troops have been attacked by Iranian proxies both in both in Iraq and Syria so we know that Iran is trying to send a message to the United States also absolutely but a limited message you know this is something the kind of like the Hezbollah it's allowing them to say look we're not staying out of the game altogether and we are participating in a way but everybody knows that this is not a significant involvement on behalf of neither Iran nor the Hezbollah and we hope it's going to stay that way so that the focus can continue of the IDF can continue to be on the south on focusing on the south again as we know that this ground operation as you said it's it's clearly going to be starting we're seeing more and more activity there some people that are not happy about this the families of the hostages they're now sending a clear message to the government asking to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking to meet with the war cabinet because this impending ground operation they're worried it poses a major risk to their loved ones who are still held captive we know about 229 at least absolutely and uh i think that you know even from the point of view of the release of the hostages which has become a major issue of of this war unlike the first few days were destructing destroying Hamas was the only thing on the agenda and the prime minister talked basically only on that now with the mounting pressure of the families and of the general Israeli public and abroad it's become a major point now as far as what would be the strategy that would increase the chances of releasing those people it's divided a lot some of the people some of the families saying let's try to make a deal without entering Gaza because this would risk the deal and would risk the lives of the hostages on the other hand we do know that some part of the military of the of the army and part of the war cabinet is insisting that on the contrary entering the Gaza and increasing the pressure and leverage over the Hamas will uh uh uh make the chances of forcing them to make a deal bigger so this is a sort of a dilemma that's out there we know that for a fact that this is now something that's not agreed by all the members of the Israeli government and we know three weeks now they still have only released four hostages the number of hostages confirmed by the guys yes continues to grow every day as we said 229 now they're still getting intelligence about these hostages how many they are where they're being kept dispatched throughout different underground bunkers so this makes the whole operation that much more complicated that there is no doubt everybody knows that and this is for the first time from all you know 15 or 19 years of ground operations of Israel in Gaza we've never been in a situation where so many Israelis alive are are influenced by the ground operation so this is a and this this is where the dilemma comes this is what I believe that otherwise we would have seen the military in there long ago well and I think something else to notice is they're not only using Israeli hostages as human shields as the IDF now confirmed yesterday they're using their own civilians which we've known now but showing some of those documents from that their headquarters are located under the largest hospital in Gaza city this is something that Israel has known for a while now though but really just now confirming to the international public yeah absolutely I mean the details the intelligence of are being able to show what's happening underneath Shifa hospital and presenting it to the world is is very clear however on the on the issue of of evacuating evacuation from the northern part of the of the Gaza I know this this information that Hamas is trying to prevent that obviously because for them getting images of civilians being killed is something that is useful for them they're they want that and from that point of view Israel should not play into their hands in other words I believe that that keeping the trying to do the maximum not to kill civilians is still a major goal of the of the Israeli IDF while at the same time continuing to hit where we believe the Hamas people are and most of the people of the north or a lot of them have evacuated so Hamas is not successful in preventing those people from leaving exactly the majority of the majority have have left which created a lot of the humanitarian issues that we that we know about you know close to a million people out there on the beach in tents or in having 10 to 20 trucks bringing them the essentials is going is a humanitarian problem an issue but we should continue to emphasize that this humanitarian disaster is caused primarily by the actions of the Hamas and this is I believe that most of the western world although we see a lot of you know demonstrations of people around and in the western world calling the Israel as being the the the cause of this humanitarian disaster I believe that on the on the on the front of the a lot of the main media we're seeing more and more channels that are supporting Israel's point of view which is as important as the success on the on the military side in the ground absolutely but I think we're getting some more alerts of rockets continuing to siren throughout the south as we're speaking let's see red alerts again nacho those many of these southern Israel communities so we see the 22 days into the war they're still firing rockets absolutely and this is pretty pretty amazing because from what we know that they've gone through I mean the destruction over there and where they are the fact that they're still launching shows that they have prepared it's not you know it's not the rocket launchers over ground that the the air force can see and destroy on the first day they have prepared this kind of situation a lot of these launches are from areas where they're hidden and from underground shelters but it's it's pretty it's pretty pretty amazing that after all that time they're still busy doing that I want to talk about just the the difficulties that it comes to from the air force perspective because as you say the targets are so small and and sometimes they open up for a minute a minute and a half and immediately close again exactly so unless there is intelligence you know the chances of a plane which is normally flying quite a distance away and they are those airplanes or those attack aircraft are looking at and guy I hate to cut you off but we are about to hear from IDF spokesperson Daniel Higari let's listen advance with the stages of the war tonight IDF troops entered the northern Gaza Strip and expanded their ground operation in this operation is being taken used by ground armored corps engineering and artillery followed with heavy fire that serves the goals of the war the IDF continues to assess the situation and progresses according to the stages of the war the IDF continues with massive strikes from the air and my take on terrorists over the night the sheen bet and the IEF took down commanders other commanders of the Hamas terrorists among them the commander of the aerial force of Hamas which was a primary partner to the massacre of 7th of October over the night we also killed the commander of Hamas's naval force these commanders are commanders of the top commanders of the tactical part of the group and they're killing brings a good progress in the sentiment of IDF troops and allows the troops to advance on the ground on the ground and continue the war as for now there are no casualties to the IDF or night we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against goals that we set for ourselves eliminating Hamas security on the borders and goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of their of our assessment and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions when these goals our campus will continue to expose in the near time as we did yesterday the chief of hospital will continue to expose more details about the use of Hamas of the civilian population in Gaza foreigners and locals who will expose in the near time to the citizens that have left the northern Gaza strip will continue the humanitarian efforts will continue to bring in trucks of water medicine and food this is a safe area and those who will move to that area will be provided with water medicine and food in the north we struck the ballah infrastructure that was targeting Israel overnight there were no unusual events in the north and in the wet bank were spread out with high readiness and that is right for all the arenas we look at all the regional threats as we sorted yesterday in the area of the Red Sea that's for the home front I call the public to continue to listen to the instructions of the home front command readiness and and the way you follow the orders is saving lives we will update the information tonight so that people would know what is expected on Saturday follow these instructions they save lives so far we've given notices to the families of 311 IDF fallen soldiers and 229 kidnapped as for the reports in media yesterday this is a an intentional will of a lot to cynically use and psychological terror and influence our population that is in such a sensitive situation we operate together the IDF operate together with the families of the kidnapped and we will provide the real-time information as we have it when we have the information we will provide it returning the kid next back home is a primary national goal all our operations are directed at achieving this goal thank you very much I will give another update in the evening you were just hearing from the IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Higari talking about the latest developments on this 22nd day of the war here in Israel I want to come back to my guest in studio I'm still joined by uh reserve captain Guy Perin we were just hearing from Daniel Higari about the latest developments one of the the main things being just the regional threats to the area and how reiterating their goals which is not only to eliminate Hamas but get those 229 hostages right no part of that is mentioning all the time that this is a goal and the main goal has become is obvious the question of course is what does it mean and how in term how and and the level of you know if this is the main goal okay how does that relate to your operational orders but these days will tell but I want to say a word about the the guy that was taken out that he just mentioned responsible of the air activity you know I don't want to underestimate the fact that the importance of of the IDF being able to pinpoint and eliminate one of the commanders this is this is very important in terms of intelligence however you know the the the aerial activity of Hamas let's not get carried away with its importance we're talking about the guy that was responsible for the unmen you know drones and those motorized parachutes this is an activity that does not exist anymore and so the it's not like you are a major contribution to the to the victory however again it's important the fact that intelligence still exists and able to give those pinpoint personal targets to the planes that have taken them out and this is a good a good sign as far as the capabilities as far as the capacity of the air force to act there because a lot of people said you know after all this chaos and all this loss of intelligence we are blind in there we're not blind if we're able to find that guy and eliminate him it means we have eyes and intelligence that is very important for the continuation of this operation I think that's a great point you bring up because ever since october 7th that has been the main question so many people have how did this happen and how do we make sure this doesn't happen again because clearly some sort of intelligence failure was there and yet and yet it exists now well I want to know also just as we're looking at the the intelligence when it comes to the the hostages also noting the more fallen soldiers none last night however so when we look at this increased activity the IDF seems to really be more in control of what's happening it's been three weeks now they've been planning this maybe that's why it's taken so long yes yes a lot of it is there is the the the uncertainty and the and the missing information that's there is obvious but but I do feel that that they are beginning to more and more get more and more control of the situation which is a good sign I want to note also earlier we were talking about just the international response to everything that's happening here um we heard from Daniel Higari just talking about Hamas using this propaganda in a sense to gain more international attention more international sympathy we've even seen it with the United Nations the United Nations General Assembly voting to to have a ceasefire urging Israel to do a ceasefire Israel however said that's not going to happen but still you see this time and time again from the United Nations yeah but well everybody knows you know for since ever that the United Nations is an organization that's automatically against anything that that Israel is there and they have the 120 or the 150 nations that would automatically vote against fortunately the United States and not only the United States western countries are not allowing this to become a real pressure to consider by Israel so we are Israelis basically ignoring any kind of decision that's that's out there by the United Nations which is definitely the positive sign in this Reserve Captain Guy Perran thank you for your insight as always now I want to note it's not just as you said the United Nations that is speaking out against we are seeing time and time again so many signs of people coming together right now even just last night as it was Friday night Shabbat the third Shabbat that this situation has happened we see some Shabbat dinner tables being set up throughout Times Square really around the world setting out tables chairs reminding people of the hostages that have been taking reminded people of exactly what sparked this 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reportedly been shut down following what Palestinians are calling intense and unprecedented airstrikes this follows an IDF statement that the main Hamas headquarters are located under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City as Hamas uses the largest hospital in the strip as a human shield against Israeli attacks Hamas however claims these findings are untrue meanwhile Iran threatens Israel stating troops in Lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the IDF begins its larger ground offensive in Gaza IDF spokesman we're Admiral Daniel Higari said troops are expanding activity in the Gaza Strip and that's where I want to begin now where our correspondent Jonathan Oregov is near southern Israel near the Gaza border Jonathan we know red alerts once again blaring in southern Israel strikes from Gaza continuing to be fired towards Israel yes there was an alert about 10 15 minutes ago after quite a long break there were there were more than eight hours without sirens now a siren sounding in one of the Gaza border communities a few minutes ago this as artillery continues to pound all the time we're constantly hearing the Israeli artillery pounding pounding hard on the Gaza Strip right behind us is the Palestinian town of Bet Hanun one of the places where Israeli forces have reportedly entered overnight and we're still hearing constant sound of a shelling throughout this morning we know Jonathan that the IDF says that they are ramping up their activity in the Gaza Strip sending in troops sending in tanks continuing with those airstrikes so all signs point that they're really laying the ground for a larger operation that that is correct and the main aim is to destroy any underground resistance because Hamas is the main way that they wish to fight is to surprise the IDF from beneath from the underground installations of various underground installations they have built have dug through the years in this area so a lot of underground installations have been hit over the night making sure at least trying to make sure that as many of them are destroyed as much as possible so that they would not hurt the IDF forces once they choose to make that big incursion inside meanwhile we're also hearing reports that communication networks have been cut off in the Gaza Strip so how does that impact how Hamas is able to communicate with one another it is impacting because Hamas simply the aim is to basically keep them blind not to know what's what's happening where is it happening to prevent them from from sending forces and we do understand that much of the communication network in Gaza is off well and I also want to reiterate that Hamas continuing as you said not only in those underground bunkers but also still using these human shields we have the report that the IDF confirmed their main headquarters are under Shiva hospital also reports Hamas continuing to block off their residents in the north from heading south and leaving that very heavy military activity from Israel this Hamas has no problem sacrificing their own people and they're hiding under hospitals understanding that for Israel in order to reach the headquarters it would have to reach the hospital first and that would create major global outcry and a big humanitarian issue and that is why that is what they're doing they're preventing citizens to leave to safety understanding that their best chance is to have as many Palestinian people killed which would create a global outcry Hamas that is one of their main strategies hiding behind the people basically the Palestinian people serving as human shields for those evil evil terrorists and curious Jonathan as we talked about the communication cut off between different Hamas members and everyone in the Gaza Strip truly this as Israel continuing to target many of the leaders overnight saying that they they killed the head of Hamas's aerial operations so how does that impact just how Hamas is able to operate as well still it's true that that many leaders in Hamas have been targeted but it's not the serious leaders not the main leaders they're still hiding in their bunkers and we just heard a major explosion there inside the Gaza Strip the main leaders are still hiding in their bunkers and and what Israel is hoping is that with while preventing their the fuel and the fuel is what runs the electricity and communications and ventilation and everything in those bunkers when you basically take away the fuel the hope is that it would make the the bunkers impossible to stay in and then those leaders will have to pop up and as soon as that will happen they will be killed we'll certainly continue to keep our eye as we do see that increased activity in the Gaza Strip Correspondent Jonathan Regev thank you for the latest now moving from southern Israel to northern Israel I want to cross live now to our correspondent Mary McAuliffe who is standing by in the north Mary we continue to see still some activity there on the Lebanon border what exactly are you seeing up there that's right Nicole so really we've only had one incident as of this morning and we haven't even seen the IDF officially acknowledge what that incident was but on the hills that you can see just behind me that dissipate at the moment just a very very very tiny smoke fire that's rising on the hills but this is an area that we've seen numerous fires breaking out over the past two weeks as Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire there's a number of different IDF military installments observation posts that are located right on this border and that's why we continue to see Hezbollah trying to target it both artillery as well as anti-tank guided missiles we don't have any confirmation from the IDF as of this morning as of what these smokes could be but we do know the IDF said that it did launch strikes overnight or early this morning into southern Lebanon on its hair cell that it had tried to launch rockets into Israeli communities yesterday that ended up falling in the Golan Heights we do continue to see Israeli forces here on high alert bracing for all possibilities all eventualities since it does seem to have begun its ground division into Gaza what the response from Hezbollah is going to be it's what we've all been waiting for we've heard a lot of what we've heard a lot of messages coming out from Iran and Hezbollah and this is what I mean is what we're waiting for because they've issued so many warnings saying what's going to happen once Israeli forces step foot inside the Gaza Strip so far we haven't really seen any type of response we know there's heavy pressure in the region to try and tamp down some of this violence and escalation and some of the rhetoric that's coming out from these Iranian back proxies including Hezbollah we know the US is also moving to evacuate all of its citizens from Lebanon calling on all civilians to take matters into their own hands and leave before a crisis erupts but we do continue to see here heavy Israeli fighter jets in the air above us GPS continues to be blocked on our phones trying to access this you can just see it shows them somewhere in the South Atlantic Ocean I'm obviously not this is a tactic by Israeli Air Force to try and protect one its weapons its fighters its military infrastructure but also try and prevent missiles that are using GPS guiding to hit Israeli communities to try and block those from happening so this is what we've seen over the past two weeks just Israeli military trying to do everything it can to try and prevent attacks from Israeli citizens but also against its soldiers in the area and Mary even as you're speaking we're keeping an eye on the north but more red alerts continuing to blare through southern Israel rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip targeting Israel as we're speaking right now also you mentioned we're waiting on an update from the IDF we're waiting on a press conference actually to hear from the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagar you can see waiting for him to address the podium right now so hopefully we'll get some more updates as to just the military activity that we are expecting today but Mary I want to come back to you just for one more question as you mentioned the activity that we are seeing just yesterday even the IDF saying that a a strike from Lebanon falling in Syria and they said overnight they continue to target some of those Hezbollah posts following that launch from Lebanon that's right Nicole so that's what we saw yesterday and again as we see the GPS blocking as I just talked about moments ago that's also possibly why a missile that was fired from southern Lebanon managed to cross all the way over Israel's Golan Heights and end up in the Syrian territory but we also don't know it could also just be a case of bad aim but what we do know is every time Israel says there's somebody who's trying to attack its forces and its civilians Israel is going to respond that's exactly what we saw in the statement saying that they had launched terror cells there are at least some 30 Hezbollah fighters who have been killed in the course of this fighting over the past two weeks for now it does seem to be contained to these cross border raids though so we do continue to see one Hezbollah firing Israel firing back this is the stratagem that's been going on for weeks now but all eyes are just watching to see if something changes and if something more significant happens in this war certainly that tense period right now Mary and Nicole thank you for joining us and covering all the latest developments on the northern border as well I want to bring in my studio guest right now I'm joined by reserve captain guy Puran a former Air Force pilot and co-leader of the Air Force pilots protest guy thanks so much for joining me quite a lot happening both in the south and the north as we heard from our correspondents I want to begin in the south though because Israel clearly ramping up their attacks ramping up their airstrikes as well I mean we talk about the impending ground operation but the air attacks seem to be a crucial part of this absolutely and you know you would think that it can't go any more intensive than it was in the last week but apparently it does and I think that is very clearly now the strategy of the operation of the of the of the government is to continue to do that while as we know some ground entry had happened in fact some tanks are actually there now which I believe a part of testing the water in the sense of what kind of resistance the Hamas was preparing for them etc but it's interesting that you know you corresponded talked about the the rhetorics in Lebanon of the Hezbollah that once the Israeli step ground into Gaza they're going to react so one they have stepped we have entered Gaza we're not seeing a major difference in the reaction of Hezbollah and and secondly you know stepping when you see all this destruction that's caused by the air I would think that the Hezbollah if in Iran if they had the intention of actually telling the Hezbollah to participate full force in launching missiles they would have done that after those images that are coming out of half of Gaza and million refugees so I'm optimistic carefully optimistic in the sense that they have decided not to participate full force and these are the kind of intelligence that's coming out of the US right now the US the ambassador said and that US intelligence says that Iran is not interested in and entering going in allowing their proxy to enter full force so this is good I think good news as far as as Israel well and speaking of the United States we know that some American troops have been attacked by Iranian proxies both in both in Iraq and Syria so we know that Iran is trying to send a message to the United States also absolutely but a limited message you know this is something the kind of like the Hezbollah it's allowing them to say look we're not staying out of the game altogether and we are participating in a way but everybody knows that this is not a significant involvement on behalf of neither Iran nor the Hezbollah and we hope it's going to stay that way so that the focus can continue of the IDF can continue to be on the south on focusing on the south again as we know that this ground operation as you said it's it's clearly going to be starting we're seeing more and more activity there some people that are not happy about this the families of the hostages they're now sending a clear message to the government asking to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking to meet with the war cabinet because this impending ground operation they're worried it poses a major risk to their loved ones who are still held captive we know about 229 at least absolutely and I think that you know even from the point of view of the release of the hostages which has become a major issue of this war unlike the first few days were destroying Hamas was the only thing on the agenda and the Prime Minister talked basically only on that now with the mounting pressure of the families and of the general Israeli public and abroad it's become a major point now as far as what would be the strategy that would increase the chances of releasing those people it's divided some of the people some of the families saying let's try to make a deal without entering Gaza because this would risk the deal and would risk the lives of the hostages on the other hand we do know that some part of the military of the of the army and part of the war cabinet is insisting that on the contrary entering the Gaza and increasing the pressure and leverage over the Hamas will make the chances of forcing them to make a deal bigger so this is a sort of a dilemma that's out there we know that for a fact that this is now something that's not agreed by all the members of the Israeli government and we know three weeks now they still have only released four hostages the number of hostages confirmed by the guys yes continues to grow every day as we said 229 now they're still getting intelligence about these hostages how many there are where they're being kept dispatched throughout different underground bunkers so this makes the whole operation that much more complicated that there is no doubt everybody knows that and this is for the first time from all you know 15 or 19 years of ground operations of Israel in Gaza we've never been in a situation where so many Israelis alive are are influenced by the ground operation so this is a and this this is where the dilemma comes this is what I believe that otherwise we would have seen the military in there long ago well and I think something else to notice is they're not only using Israeli hostages as human shields as the IDF now confirmed yesterday they're using their own civilians which we've known now but showing some of those documents from that their headquarters are located under the largest hospital in Gaza City this is something that Israel has known for a while now though but really just now confirming to the international public yeah absolutely I mean the details the intelligence of are being able to show what's happening underneath Shifa hospital and presenting it to the world is is very clear however on the on the issue of of evacuating evacuation from the northern part of the of the Gaza I know this this information that Hamas is trying to prevent that obviously because for them getting images of civilians being killed is something that is useful for them they're they want that and from that point of view Israel should not play into their hands in other words I believe that that keeping the trying to do the maximum not to kill civilians is still a major goal of the of the Israeli IDF while at the same time continuing to hit where we believe the Hamas people are and most of the people of the north or a lot of them have evacuated so Hamas is not successful in preventing those people from leaving exactly the majority of the majority have have left which created a lot of the humanitarian issues that we that we know about you know close to a million people out there on the beach in tents or in having 10 to 20 trucks bringing them the essentials is going is a humanitarian problem an issue but we should continue to emphasize that this humanitarian disaster is caused primarily by the actions of the Hamas and this is I believe that most of the western world although we see a lot of you know demonstrations of people around and in the western world calling the Israel as being the the cause of this humanitarian disaster I believe that on the on the on the front of the a lot of the main media we're seeing more and more channels that are supporting Israel's point of view which is as important as the success on the on the military side in the ground absolutely but I think we're getting some more real alerts of rockets continuing to siren throughout the south as as we're speaking let's see red alerts again nacho those many of these southern israel communities so we see it the 22 days into the war they're still firing rockets absolutely and this is pretty pretty amazing because from what we know that they've gone through I mean the destruction over there and where they are the fact that they're still launching shows that they have prepared it's not you know it's not the rocket launchers overground that the the air force can see and destroy on the first day they have prepared this kind of situation a lot of these launches are from areas where they're hidden and from underground shelters but it's it's pretty it's pretty pretty amazing that after all that time they're still busy doing that I want to talk about just the the difficulties that it comes to from the air force perspective because as you say the targets are so small and and sometimes they open up for a minute a minute and a half and immediately close again exactly so unless there is intelligence you know the chances of a plane which is normally flying quite a distance away and they are those airplanes so those attack aircraft are looking at and guy I hate to cut you off but we are about to hear from IDF spokesperson Daniel Higari let's listen we advance with the stages of the war tonight IDF troops entered the northern Gaza Strip and expanded their ground operation in this operation is being taken used by ground armored corps engineering and artillery followed with heavy fire that serves the goals of the war the IDF continues to assess the situation and progresses according to the stages of the war the IDF continues with massive strikes from the air and by sea to take down terrorists over the night the Cheen Bet and the IDF took down commanders other commanders of the Hamas terrorists among them the commander of the aerial force of Hamas which was a primary partner to the massacre of 7th of October over the night we also killed the commander of Hamas's naval force these commanders are commanders of the top commanders of the tactical part of the Hamas group and they're killing bring good progress in the assessment of IDF troops and allows the troops to advance on the ground on the ground and continue the war as for now there are no casualties to the IDF for tonight we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against goals that we set for ourselves eliminating Hamas security on the borders and goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of our assessment and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions when these goals our campus will continue to expose in the near time as we did yesterday the chief of hospital will continue to expose more details about the use of Hamas of the civilian population in Gaza foreigners and locals who will expose in the near time the citizens that have left the northern Gaza strip will continue the humanitarian efforts will continue to bring in trucks of water medicine and food this is a safe area and those who will move to that area will be provided with water medicine and food in the north we struck the infrastructure that was targeting Israel overnight there were no uh unusual events in the north and in the red bank were spread out with high readiness and that is right for all the arenas we look at all the regional threats as we sorted yesterday in the area of the red sea as for the home front i call the public to continue to listen to the instructions of the home front command your readiness and uh and the way you follow the orders is saving lives we will update the information tonight so that people would know what is expected on Saturday follow these instructions they save lives go far they've given notice to the families of 311 IDF fallen soldiers and 229 kidnapped as for the reports in media yesterday this is an intentional will of uh Hamas to cynically use and biological terror and influence our population that is in such a sensitive situation we operate together the idea for very together with the family of the kidnapped and we will provide the real-time information as we have it when we have the information we will provide it returning the kidnapped back home is a primary national all our operations are directed at achieving this goal thank you very much i will give another update in the evening you were just hearing from the idea of spokesperson rear admiral daniel hagari talking about the latest developments on this 22nd day of the war here in Israel i want to come back to my guest in studio i'm still joined by uh reserve captain guy perana we were just hearing from daniel hagari about the latest developments one of the main things being just the regional threats to the area and how reiterating their goals which is not only to eliminate hamas but get those 229 hostages right no part of that is mentioning all the time that this is a goal and the main goal is has become is obvious the question of course is what does it mean and how in term how and and the level of you know if this is the main goal okay how does that relate to your operational orders but these days will tell but i i want to say a word about the the guy that was taken out that he just mentioned responsible of the air activity you know i i don't want to uh underestimate the fact that the importance of of the idea of being able to pinpoint and eliminate one of the commanders this is this is very important in terms of intelligence however you know the the the aerial activity of hamas let's not get carried away with its importance we're talking about the guy that was responsible for the unmen you know drones and those motorized parachutes this is an activity that does not exist anymore and so the it's not like you are a major contribution to the to the victory however again it's important the fact that the intelligence still exists and able to give those pinpoint personal targets to the planes that have taken him out and this is a good a good sign as far as the capabilities as far as the capacity of the air force to act there because a lot of people said you know after all this chaos and all this loss of intelligence we are blind in there we're not blind if we're able to find that guy and eliminate him it means we have eyes and intelligence that is very important for the continuation of this operation i think that's a great point you bring up because ever since october 7th that has been the main question so many people have how did this happen and how do we make sure this doesn't happen again because clearly some sort of intelligence failure was there and and yet and yet it exists now mm-hmm well i want to know also just as we're looking at the the intelligence when it comes to the the hostages also noting the more fallen soldiers none last night however so when we look at this increased activity the idea seems to really be more in control of what's happening it's been three weeks now they've been planning this maybe that's why it's taken so long yes yes a lot of it is there is the the the uncertainty and the and the missing information that's there is obvious but but i do feel that that they are beginning to more and more get more and more control of the situation which is a good sign i want to note also earlier we were talking about just the international response to everything that's happening here um we heard from daniel higari just talking about hamas using this uh propaganda in a sense to gain more international attention more international sympathy we've even seen it with the united nations the united nation's general assembly uh voting to to have a ceasefire urging israel to do a ceasefire israel however said that's not going to happen but still you see this time and time again from the united nations yeah but well everybody knows you know for since ever that the united nation is an organization that's automatically against anything that that israel is there and they have the 120 or 150 nations that would automatically vote against fortunately the united states and not only the united states uh western countries are not allowing this to become a real pressure to consider by israel so we are israel is basically ignoring any kind of decision that's that's out there by the united nations which is definitely the positive sign in this reserve captain guy brand thank you for your insight as always now i want to note it's not just as you said the united nations that is speaking out against we are seeing time and time again so many signs of people coming together right now even just last night as it was friday night shabbat the third shabbat that this situation has happened we see some shabbat dinner tables being set up throughout time square really around the world setting out tables chairs reminding people of the hostages that have been taking reminded people of exactly what sparked this war on october 7th in the first place and why israel has to continue to defend its country and its people here in israel so we are seeing these little beams of light throughout the world thank you for tuning in on the i-24 news desk 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survive and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i-24 news we are entering the third week of this war declared by hamas that started on october 7th against israel leaving more than 1400 murdered 2500 serious injured 212 rns and a country that in the middle of the generated chaos is composing its lines both in social and looking for the military to eliminate the operative capacity and the terrorist hamas in gas i would like to start reading the beginning of a long article that published by pila raola on the portal of the national of cataluña and says i start this article with a despair that paralyzes me although I have always felt comfortable in the territory of the word and I have never avoided a dialectic scream in the defense of my convictions these days so terrible they have left me without breath i have the impression that the madness wins land and that there are no lights that light up so much darkness all that has happened in the reactions that many of the people I know have had open us in a moral void and in an intellectual poverty that they treat us as a very sick society has lost the sense of the limits of humanity and in confusion the pure evil has made its way banalized by some justified by others even in some cases has plagued very hard, isn't it, Nicole, the right words are very hard, but for them we are going to be talking today because we have as invited to one of the most distinguished journalists of Israel recognized in Europe, Latin America and also in the Arab countries, I am talking about Enrique Simerman who has joined today in news 24 to analyze everything that is happening since the beginning of the war thanks Enrique for being with us, a pleasure Nicole, a pleasure Carlos acerca de como recomendar y repensar un recalculando de esta región por eso Enrique me gustaría que comenzara a darnos pues una visión amplia de lo que ha sido el antes y después del 7 de octubre cómo ha jugado el papel algo muy importante la autoridad nacional palestina enrique la autoridad nacional palestina está perdida ellos perdieron el gps no saben hacia dónde tienen que tirar por varios motivos y el principal es que para ellos jamás es un rival un rival muy fuerte por eso no hay elecciones en la autoridad palestina hace 17 años porque ellos saben que probablemente jamás ganaría y como tienen miedo de ello mantiene la autoridad palestina sin democracia pero al mismo tiempo ellos siguen luchando por la opinión pública palestina entonces no se pueden enfrentar a jamás yo os puedo decir que la semana pasada días después de la matanza más atroz y sadista que yo he visto desde que estoy aquí y llevo muchos años cubriendo esta región estuve en iraq vi el estado islámico debo decir que lo que vimos aquí es realmente sin precedentes y además planificado durante cuatro años por irán juntamente con jamás yo llamé a la muhata a la autoridad palestina y les dije señores si ustedes no se desmarcan de jamás pasarán a la historia como algo irrelevante y me dijeron pero si no pasó nada si lo que hubo es que hubo algunos incidentes y le dije las violaciones y los saqueos y los secuestros y me pidieron que les enviase películas y les envié y el día siguiente el presidente palestino Mahmoud Abbas anunció jamás no representa el pueblo palestino la olp representa el pueblo palestino lo dijo en una conversación con el presidente de venezuela y lo escribió en un tweet imediatamente lo borró y dejó solo la olp representa al pueblo palestino ellos tienen un problema y nosotros tenemos un problema como israel en la medida en que creíamos que podíamos tener algún tipo de diálogo diría yo indirecto con jamás permitir que llegue algo de dinero de catar hacia jamás maletines llenos de trabajadores 20 mil trabajadores al día que entraban que dan de comer a cientos de miles de personas todo tipo de entrada y salida de ayuda humanitaria hoy nosotros entendemos que no podemos entendernos con jamás que jamás no puede estar allí del otro lado de la frontera jamás es una sensación neofastista por eso quiero preguntarte los ataques que ha hecho con su defensa israel han muerto civiles que son siempre escudos humanos de jamás allá en gaza y ellos alegan la autoría nacional palestina que esas muertes son inocentes esos niños existen y crees en el ojo por ojo diente por diente no es una cuestión de ojo por ojo es una cuestión de que si tú decides que no puedes tener un vecino así porque él hace cosas que el mundo civilizado no conoce ni ha visto y los conocemos ya de sobras las pero empieza saliendo ahora yo estuve en el quibut ni rose y verte verlo con tus propios ojos ver las historias una por una casa por casa de hecho me llegó una prueba de que estaban drogados los los terroristas de jamás estaban drogados eso fue parte de la preparación hecha en iran pero tú ves exactamente el grado de sadismo que no tiene precedentes en mi opinión desde la segunda guerra mundial bueno también estuvo en el sur en nicol fue la ciudad de esterot que se encuentra cinco kilómetros de la frontera y nos preparó este informe con su visión en esta ciudad tan golpeada en medio de la catástrofe de la estación de policía en la ciudad de esterot tomada por dos días por los terroristas de jamás ver una estación de policía israeli heches combros era algo inimaginable antes del 7 de octubre el olor a cloaca aquella que imana el terrorismo se siente entre los charcos de agua sucia que se entre mezclaron con los trozos de cemento que quedó de la demolición el ejército israelí había llegado el 8 de octubre es de rod una ciudad capturada por los terroristas que se atrincheraron en la estación policial matando a los pocos oficiales de guardia la única manera de eliminarlos de moler la estación observo y no comprendo la policía israelí vulnerada por el vecino enemigo terrorista al que creían pequeño en esterot perdieron la vida más de 200 civiles israelíes un sábado de descanso de shabbat las calles son un desierto fantasmal la lluvia de balas están marcadas en su cotidianidad un consencionario de autos refleja sin sangre el horror donde lo doloroso no es la pérdida material sino que esas balas eliminaron vidas innocentes carros familiares con manchas de sangre sangre sangre la silla del niño en el coche se imaginan si ese niño hubiese estado allí sentado lo estuvo no sabemos pero de repente la vida nos envía un mensaje una camioneta blanca como la paz cargada de banderas de israel apareció a lo alto alguien colocaba en los postes de luz la bandera con la estrella de david como señal de identidad recuperamos la ciudad y conocí al encargado de colocarlas en esterot vemos cómo esta bandera de israel está siendo colocada por un árabe israelí que está allá arriba salá malécum toda roba más en suelja cuál es tu nombre ali su cram de rote no volverá a ser la misma como toda israel como todo judío del siglo 21 porque ahora toca ser resiliente sam harry's filósofo americano escribio la verdad es que todos vivimos en israel lo único es que alguno de nosotros no lo entendemos hay enemigo pequeño de gran británea el canciller schultz de alemania qué importancia tiene estas visitas en la región y sobre todo con los países del golfo todo lo que se hablaba antes con aria saudita hacia dónde vamos con todo esto la importancia es enorme porque ellos los líderes empezando por biden entiende que este no es un conflicto entre israel y jamás esto es algo mucho más amplio estos son coaliciones que de hecho se están enfrentando en el lugar que es el punto de encuentro entre occidente y el mundo libre y los yadistas islamistas entonces hay aquí un punto de encuentro en el que nosotros israel está en primera línea y yo creo que ellos empiezan a entender que también ellos tienen algo que ver con todo esto y por eso israel está recibiendo el apoyo internacional que está recibiendo incluso de países europeos como gran británea como francia como alemania como italia siempre han tenido una tendencia palestina mucho más mucho más pero entienden aquí que jamás no es palestina entienden aquí que jamás es un fenómeno muchísimo más grave que ha sido alimentado por iran en los últimos años no era si hace los primeros años de jamás pero lo es ahora hoy en día jamás es una organización totalmente iraní absolutamente financiada ahora arabia saudí arabia saudí está en un en una situación difícil porque ellos estaban muy cerca muy cerca de la normalización con israel iran lo sabía y por eso decidieron esta fecha como ataque hay que entender que jamás destrozó después de oslo cuando había esperanza de paz real en esta región cuando todo era positivo ellos empezaron los atentados suicidas y mataron el proceso de paz ahora están haciendo lo mismo dos dos décadas y media después están haciendo exactamente lo mismo están 30 años después están intentando matar la posibilidad de que israel y arabia saudí se lleguen a un acuerdo de paz y que se amplían los acuerdos de abram yo tengo una pregunta el logro con los acuerdos de oslo fue casi total consiguieron paralizarlo que es un estatus cubo donde ninguna de las dos partes fue a ningún lado pero lo que ha pasado el 7 de octubre es un game changer o sea no va a volver a hacer lo que había antes y irán irán va a conseguir de alguna manera evitar de que haya un cambio tal donde ellos de repente se encuentran en una situación aislada frente al mundo que se opone a su actitud mi esperanza es que irán no lo logre a medio plazo pero irán ha logrado a través de jamás son sus brazos postergar el proceso hoy este proceso está postergado pero yo creo que no está muerto todo lo contrario yo recibo indicios del golfo incluso os puedo citar alguien muy destacado en el golfo que me llama cada dos tres días y que me dijo una frase me dijo mientras no cortéis la cabeza de la serpiente la serpiente seguirá intentando matar y lo dice enrique que cuántas veces has estado en el radio saudita cinco cinco este año conoce muy bien bueno pero hay algo es un tema bastante amplio hay algo importante enrique que uno de los fenómenos que hemos visto es que el manipuleo y la desinformación que hay en las plataformas sociales y que es base fundamental de la información actualmente no nosotros vamos a escuchar ahora y quiero que me ayude a analizar lo a frey bernal frey bernal es el gobernador del estado tachina en venezuela sabemos la alianza que tiene venezuela con iran quizás la la alianza más fuerte de iran para en america latina no y luego a carloste va a mostrar unas gráficas que vamos a comentar sobre los caos y las opiniones que han tenido el respecto sobre toda esta situación vamos a verlo en agua sin electricidad bombardeado mientras estamos aquí tranquilos tomándonos un caso en san cristóbal ese pueblo está siendo bombardeado y hay que decirle al mundo libre que se pronuncie a las naciones unidas a la oea que dice la corte interamericana de derechos humanos que dice la corte penal internacional a nosotros y nos sanciona a nosotros y nos llaman las cortes y que pasa con el estado de real que pasa con el estado de real el estado de real si puede asesinar y exterminar a un pueblo es inadmisible en pleno siglo 21 que te parece las opiniones este gobernador del estado tachira de nicolas maduro presidente venezuela una caricatura tan simple como eso pero una caricatura premeditada o sea intent es un intento de engañar a la opinión pública presentando algo que es sólo una pequeña parte de la realidad es verdad hay sufrimiento civil en gasa es un hecho pero quien abrió toda esta guerra quien abrió las puertas del infierno quien empezó todo esto o sea estamos hablando de un grupo se olvidan que es homófobo que rechaza la mujer que no permite que la mujer tenga libertad y que además no acepta la existencia de israel y además de todo envía 1500 hombres drogados para matar judíos con el único objetivo de matar y secuestrar judíos obviamente no se puede defender en el mundo libre en el mundo democrático alguien así y debería preocuparle israel esa alianza que tiene iran con en américa latina con venezuela un pez petrolero de obviamente pero no sólo con venezuela con toda américa latina yo hace años que que sé que hay una presencia de grupos islamistas radicales entre ellos un país que es iran que es el padre de todos ellos que están en estos países cada vez más arraigados cada vez más agasajados y eso es un error porque es traer células cancerígenas a tu propio país si creo que vamos a un breve comentario acerca de la actitud que tiene el presidente petro de colombia bosque manejas relaciones internacionales ahí lo estamos viendo amenazar de cortar las relaciones con israel a que se debe esto se debe a sus intereses propios se debe a mucha mucha propaganda se debe a cuestiones económicas yo me imagino se debe a estereotipos muy profundos de si Einstein que es más fácil destruir un átomo que destruir un estereotipo y aquí estamos viendo gente que tiene no solamente intereses sino también todo tipo de prejuicios que han sido acumulados que venga este señor aquí le llevaremos al sur a la frontera de gaza le enseñaré el que bouts en el que yo estuve ayer en el que bouts near us en la enseñaré a carmela la casa de carmela una señora de 80 años que estaba siendo babysitter a su nieta el viernes por la noche y que de repente ve cómo entran en su casa y como ya está encerrada en el bunker le lanzan una granada y le incendian a casa y matan diva a su nieta autista y a carmela esto ocurrió en decenas de lugares esto esto sí que es genocidio y además premeditado lo otro es una reacción de autodefensa hablando de genocidio quisiera comentar algo que la gente no tiene idea como fue que gaza quedó tipo sandwich entre egypto y israel y la historia es que el presidente saddam se reunió con con beguin el primer ministro de israel para acordar el desenganche de las fuerzas en esa época saddam dijo mire yo recibo todo la península sinad pero gaza no lo quiero y vos sabes cuánta gente vivía en gaza en el año 1978 tenés una idea cientos de miles trescientos ochenta mil gasatíes y hoy cuántos viven más de dos millones y te diré que el promedio de hijos es uno de los más altos del mundo son siete niños por familia entonces cuando todo el mundo utiliza la palabra genocidio genocidio cuando tu población merma desaparece no cuando se incrementa no cierto hay aquí un problema muy serio con los conceptos israel es visto como un centro de colodialismo como fueron yo recuerda a los líderes de jamás diciéndome yo entrevisté a todos 14 veces entrevisté al fundador de jamás el jeque ajmedia sin en su casa y ellos siempre hablaban de los israelí es como los nuevos cruzados van a estar aquí una época y al final los terminamos por por echar y por derrotar de aquí y piensan que israel es como argelia es como afghanistan para estados unidos no entienden que la realidad es totalmente distinta aquí y vemos lo que está pasando en la sociedad israeli si me pedís para resumiros en una frase que ocurrió aquí el 7 de octubre esto es un intento de iran que olio debilidad dentro de la sociedad israel y olio sangre debido al debate político interno israelí en torno a la reforma judicial a la revolución judicial ellos lo interpretaron como una debilidad y decidieron atacar para dos cosas una para acabar con israel porque creían que esto haría que todos nosotros correríamos al aeropuerto de vengurion y tendríamos miedo y nos iríamos de aquí es la palabra a terrorizar y lo segundo acabar con el proceso negociador que nos está llevando a la paz posible con países árabes del de todo de toda esta región y fracasaron no lograron y yo estoy convencido que el tema de arabes sauditas será postergado pero no está muerto ni mucho que conoce la sociedad israelí será resiliente a toda esta situación que han conseguido el efecto puesto hoy en día los israelíes que estaban muy divididos en los últimos 10 meses están más unidos que nunca yo quiero decir algo porque mencionaste argelia yo he leído los libros de francis fanon que el ideologo de la revolución argelina y el consiguió a través de este mismo tipo de acciones echar a los franceses los franceses tenían a donde irse que la volverse a francia los judíos no israel no tenemos donde ir y yo nada por el mediterráneo no creo que pueda quisiera terminar nuestro encuentro con una propuesta has escrito un artículo que se llama se requiere una coalición internacional y árabe tenemos seis minutos para que nos expliques de qué estás hablando porque aunque no querramos hay que pensar en el futuro hablé otro día con el hijo del líder de jamás en cisjordania el jeque haza nussef que acaba de ser detenido de nuevo por israel y su hijo se llama moza biosef y luego se descubrió que era el príncipe verde que había sido un espía de israel de jun y cuando yo iba a su casa le entrevistaba no sabía que él ya era un espía de israel y él me dijo jamás odia los israelíes más de lo que ama sus propios hijos lo que decía guldameros y eso lo dice el hijo del líder de jamás en cisjordania lo que yo escribía aquí es algo que es difícil de hablar de ello en este momento cuando todo está ocurriendo pero creo que es vital que lo hagamos israel es la gran experta en la táctica pero fracasamos a veces en la estrategia hay que pensar en el día después hay que pensar hacia dónde vamos hacia dónde vamos a llevar todo digamos y es legítimo y creo que hoy en día en el mundo libre se entiende que israel tiene todo el derecho a defenderse y acabar con un grupo terrorista como jamás cuidado con la población civil separemos las dos cosas pero acabar con la pregunta es qué pasa el día después nos vamos a quedar en gaza ocupando gaza como hasta el 2005 yo no quiero que mis hijos estén ocupando gaza son dos millones y medio de gassatí es que tampoco egipto no los quiere a jordan y no los puedes mandar a levano tampoco están ahí se van a quedar ahí pero te acuerdas que vegin propuso a sadat y sadat lo rechazo es como un problema que nadie quiere tocar lo y hasta ahora qué hizo así si el presidente de egipto cerrar la frontera él no quiere que pase gente de gaza hacia el sinai el el tema eso profundamente y es un gran enemigo de famas también porque son los hermanos musulmanes a mí me gustaría que tú aprovecharas aquí las cámaras de este programa en español y que lo van a ver en cualquier otro idioma y si tú vices que hablarle a la autoridad nacional palestina al primer ministro no habas el presidente que quizás puede ser un sucesor a uno de los consejeros de aba josein que también puede ser un sucesor que le dirías tú con la experiencia que tiene que es entrevistado tanto en texto yo les diría que en un primer término tendremos que traer una coalición internacional por un lado pero árabe también tenemos que traer a los saudís que tienen el poder moral y el poder económico tenemos que traer a los egipcios que tienen poder político y tenemos que traer a los emiratís que tienen visión de futuro y que me dicen os voy a contar algo que nunca dije que están dispuestos a hacerlo y están dispuestos a coordinarlo abudabi los emiratís y dos reinos el marroquí y el jordano estos países tienen que venir aquí y tienen que preparar el terreno no pienso que israel tenga que permanecer muchos tiempo allí estuvimos en el libano 18 años no quiero repetir libano dos nosotros tenemos que estar vencer a jamás limpiar el terreno entregarlo a esta coalición que incluirá estados unidos y la única posibilidad real de futuro es que esta coalición agasaje la autoridad palestina y la traiga allí quien será en la autoridad palestina está por ver pero sin escuche muy bien a todas las naciones que mencionaste lo que deja fuera a los que financian ahora que escatar y de una manera es impedir el acceso de iran o sea de esa manera se cerraría un círculo en el cual quizás podemos pensar en un futuro mejor iran tiene que estar fuera de todo iran es un estado terrorista que está desestabilizando el mundo libre entero israel es parte de ello y cómo será para para apartar iran hay que hacer una coalición internacional con todos los países que están que tienen que preocuparse por el futuro iran no es una amenaza para israel iran es una amenaza para el mundo libre y para el mundo árabe suni que está amenazado por ello y cuando dice todos países europa medio oriente america latina también aparte estados sin duda yo creo que países de america latina tendrían la obligación de ser parte de la reconstrucción de gaza y ser parte del futuro de esta región bueno realmente enrique muchísimas gracias por tu análisis creo que de esta manera desde nuestro pequeño rincón contribuimos a que la gente comprenda mejor que es lo que está pasando y compartimos tu visión de que el futuro también hay que pensarlo porque hoy están todos enfrascados con lo que pasa en este momento con el dolor de las víctimas de israel con los desaparecidos que hay que mencionar y que nosotros de aquí pedimos a las organizaciones internacionales que hablan de humanitarismo en el mundo que se ocupa en eso también muchísimas gracias y esperamos más adelante quizás volver a contar contigo para explicarle el mundo esto que está gracias enrique con nosotros nicole realmente un tema sobre el que vamos a seguir hablando y los que quieren nos pueden seguir en facebook en twitter en el canal 34 de jod responde a nuestra encuesta y seguimos hablando de israel bajo ataque gracias por estar con nosotros 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside school on what's going on only on i-24 news is the most endangered wolf in the entire world and it the american red wolf is the only wolf that is only native to the united states and in that regards they should be a national treasure so it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care and it's very important for people to be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct only coverage of the war here in israel now in its 22nd day and it calls out a glide in Tel Aviv israel is expanding their military activity in the Gaza Strip sending in tanks and ramping up airstrikes working the largest amount of activity in Gaza since the start of the war and killing the head of hamas's aerial operations meanwhile rockets from Gaza continue to target israel with threat alerts blaring through the south as the activity in the strip ramps up there's a new call from families of the 229 confirmed hostages to halt the impending ground operation with families demanding a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and israel's war cabinet meanwhile iran is threatening israel stating troops in lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the adf begins its larger ground offensive in Gaza adf spokesman rear admiral daniel higari said troops are expanding activity in the Gaza Strip and that's where we want to begin now near the Gaza border where our correspondent jonathan or aga is standing by in southern israel and jonathan there has been a steady stream of rockets continuing to fire into southern israel throughout the morning yes we have heard of three separate incidents of red rocket red alert sirens in the area around the Gaza Strip in the communities around the Gaza Strip which are mostly empty we're also hearing a lot of israeli artillery really pounding the Gaza Strip same as last night maybe not as intense as was heard last night but but there's constant artillery towards the Gaza Strip clearly an optic in in the military operation in the past 20 hours or so and the idea says that that is exactly what they're continuing to do ramp up those those attacks at the Gaza Strip we're taking a look at some of those live visuals right now in Gaza right now you can see just these smoke really clouding the entire area there so jonathan what you're hearing it's happening we're seeing it right there i want to talk about some of the targets that the IDF has said that they have been targeting especially some of these Hamas commanders that they're really trying to pinpoint and locate absolutely the commanders and and let's remember they're not killed by the hundreds simply because they're hiding under the ground Hamas as as we've heard yesterday in one of the briefings by the IDF spokesperson has basically built an underground city second Gaza under the ground with the main headquarters being under the Shifa hospital the main hospital of the Gaza Strip Hamas using the Shifa hospital as one of its basically a place to shield itself knowing that Israeli forces will have trouble getting there because of the humanitarian crisis as such a thing will produce so so Hamas is no problem using schools using mosques using hospital using the entire Gaza population as its own shield they're hiding under the ground anyone that does it pops up is eventually killed jonathan the IDF is working to limit the communication however between some of these Hamas commanders Hamas terrorists even targeting some of the different networks cutting off communication how does that help in Israel's aims also in this operation it helps basically in creating confusion among Hamas terrorists they don't know where exactly the place where Israeli operations are taking place if there's a blackout and they cannot send forces to the area and Israel is especially working on these underground bunkers underground tunnels this is the place where from which Hamas is hoping that its terrorists will come up to the ground and face up with Israeli with Israeli soldiers that this is especially and these are especially the targets that Israel is looking for our correspondent jonathan rega reporting from the southern border with Gaza as we're taking a look at some of those live images in Gaza right now thank you for your coverage now as we were speaking to jonathan rega if he mentioned everything that the IDF is working from we actually heard from IDF spokesperson daniel higari earlier today about the latest developments 22 days into the war now in Israel we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against um it goes but we set for ourselves eliminating Hamas security on the borders and the goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of their of our assessment and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions when these goals are our campus while the idea of spokesperson daniel higari mentioned the main goal right now is focusing on the Gaza Strip we also know another threat that they're keeping an eye on is up north on the northern border with lebanon as well that's where our correspondent miric oliv is standing by right now mary we continue to hear about more IDF activity up up there near the northern border what can you tell us that's right now close from the past hour we've heard a number of different explosions originating from just behind me of course this area right behind me is the israel lebanon border you can see that mountain side on the opposite side that is lebanese territory so we heard a number of different explosions from this area but they did sound pretty distant now we do also know that the IDF is saying that it responded so air defense systems were activated in the region to intercept a missile that was fired at israeli an unmanned israeli aircraft in the sky saying that missile then targeted that missile and luckily there were no injuries from any of the crews on the ground or nor reports of injuries from shrapnel that could have caused from that explosion because we did hear the explosions which were quite far away from where we are we do know the IDF said it is returning fire and it is once again launching the source of where they believe these missiles were launched from this is something we've seen the IDF doing repeatedly over the past two weeks every time we have an incident across the border israelis saying it's then responding by trying to target those who are trying to harm israeli civilians and the soldiers and infrastructure on the ground here in northern israel and mary as you're speaking we're taking a look at some of those live images right now from from near where you are looking towards the lebanon border now all of this slights couples that we've seen on the northern border hezbollah i'm slightly getting involved but iran says once israel does step up its operations in the gaza strip hezbollah is ready to get even more involved and continue attacking israel that's absolutely right so the iranian foreign ministry last night saying that hezbollah is waiting with its finger on the trigger saying that it's very carefully watching what the idf is doing inside the gaza strip and that they are ready to retaliate if it deems necessary but this it really is a warning that we've heard over the past two weeks repeatedly coming out from the iranian side also coming out from these hezbollah or an iranian-backed proxies which are inside southern lebanon but the more worrisome development is also the role of other actors iranian-backed actors in the region who are now also increasing the frequency of attacks on us bases so it's not just israel which is being attacked a number of us bases at least 20 bases so far we haven't confirmed one attack last night but a rocky militia that it's linked to the iranians saying they did attack a us base in tanaf in syria so that's an area that straddles a syrian iraqi-jordan border and they said two explosive drones were launched in response to israel's operation inside gaza we so far do not have a response from the united states but it of course comes as us continues to beef up its security presence in the region setting troops heavy vehicles also the uss carrier the second us strike carrier which has been sent to the eastern ministry and just today now arriving in the mediterranean sea to try and back up and support and prepare for the eventuality that this could spiral out of control but right now diplomatic efforts are ongoing to try and prevent that from happening all of the western ally certainly coming together trying to support israel right now from some of those threats i'm curious mary as we continue to talk about just iran threatening israel saying it will get involved what's the sense on the ground right now and how are these communities reacting sorry nicole so over 42 communities in israel have been evacuated in the past two weeks earlier this week they want to announce an additional 12 communities that were going to be evacuated here if you go further past up in haria so again to these communities which are really right on the lebanese border within less than a kilometer range some of them so near the border and so near some of these terror cells that are firing into northern leban northern israel and many of them are evacuated i just spoke to a woman just a few moments ago she's lived in haria all her life she was here for the 2006 war between israel and hezbo and she says this time she's just simply had enough she said she's not going back to her house she's leaving the haria and she's not coming back until there's a final solution to this threat on israel's northern borders this is a situation for many residents here who have just become really sick and fed up of dealing with this situation most of the residents evacuate communities are now staying in guest sponsored so government-funded hotels or guest houses that they've been asked to evacuate to also staying just with family throughout the region so certainly there is high alert and a lot of tension from the residents who are remaining here but most of them have tried to go to safer parts of the country everyone's certainly keeping an eye on there that area as well mayor mcall of thank you for your coverage up on israel's northern border now i want to bring in my guests who are joining me right now i'm joined in studio by daniel shek former israeli ambassador to france and political commentator uh along with via zoom i'm joined by reserve colonel dr moshay alad former coordinator to palestinian authority on security issues for the idf and lecture at western galley academic college thank you both for joining us uh uh dr moshay i want to begin with you as we're seeing more of this activity ramping up in the gaza border the idf continuing to not only strike by the ground but also now sending in troops sending in tanks really preparing for what seems to be their larger ground operation that they continue to talk about well i think that the ground action has actually already begun it may look a little bit different to the enemy because he was he was expecting something else and he mentioned probably you know uh something else but sometimes the enemy's expectations uh do not align with our ambitions so if you're asking about the so-called the ground action it is there it looks different maybe in the next couple of days we'll see more and more troops on the ground troops entering in gaza but the one thing is very obvious there is a very good plan that they are moving along and maybe we'll see the next couple of days more and more uh hamas people killed or trapped or whatever would happen because this plan that they are moving now according to was prepared for many years so i guess that so far is going very well and does the idf continues to target some of those commanders in hamas we know how difficult it is because many of them are hiding underneath civilian infrastructure specifically the shifa hospital the shifa medical center in gaza city this pose is one of the most difficult tasks for the idf because as they say they want to eliminate hamas uh that means going into the underground bunker directly below that hospital oh yeah targeted killing is one of the most difficult issues because you have to be very careful not to hit uh uninvolved people so we knew that uh down there beneath uh shifa hospital there are i would say uh a full headquarter maybe few headquarters and in the past we didn't want to hit just in order not to touch any of those wounded or um you know doctors and staff inside but now we israel has already warned the people of shifa to evacuate because something will go is going to be there in any case the work of the intelligence together with the gsn the general security services in order to kill palestinian leaders i mean hamas leaders is good is giving very good fruit so far because it's a kind of a conjunction between intelligence good intelligence good work of the pilots and this brings some good targeted killing without touching any people around it might happen and it happened however we do not do that on purpose and this is the main difference between us and them dr mosher a lot i want you to stay with us right now um we're actually taking a look at some of these visuals from the the gaza strip huge plumes of smoke as israel continues with those massive airstrikes really ramping up activity in the gaza border uh i want to bring in my guests right now daniel schek in studio now as we're looking at just this ground operation continue continued activity even what we're looking at right now uh now what we're seeing also continued calls from the families of the hostages because this ground operation and as we see more activity they're worried that it definitely poses a risk to the 229 at least hostages that remain in the hands of the most terrorists correct um they have published a statement this morning uh stating roughly that this has been this had been the most difficult night for them uh they live in great concern uh because of the beginning of what looks like a more massive ground operation um and their concern is understandable since hamas doesn't hesitate to use their own citizens as human shields they definitely won't have any trouble using the hostages as human shields and i remind you hostages in this case goes from infants nine months old to elderly people 87 years old so they are very concerned and they i hear now that they are demanding uh to see the prime minister and to plead with him the case of their loved ones you know i think although understandably they have a one-track mind they are interested only in the well-being of their loved ones and everyone in israel can understand that they want to plead with the government which on its side has other concerns too it's not the only one i remind our viewers though that just yesterday there was a poll published about the israeli public there was a shift about two weeks ago the main concern was to destroy hamas and currently a majority of israelis feel that the number one priority is to safeguard and bring back the the hostages doesn't mean that you shouldn't do both but this is the state of mind of the israeli public currently well three weeks in it's interesting to see how it has changed but we have to remind everyone this is hamas's main goal they want to keep these sausages in exchange for more uh resources from israel in fact for statements more calls for humanitarian aid to come in uh we're continued to see that they're even urging some protesters around the era world to join in some of these protests to get humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip we're actually hearing from uh someone with the international red cross about just the necessity of some of this aid for the innocent palestinians fuel is essential to not only to keep the hospitals and healthcare centers operational fuel is required also to run bakeries to run uh water and wastewater pump stations that if they stop we will witness also an environmental crisis at a population level fuel is required to pump water in the households and to also get the water to the hundreds of thousands of families who are internally displaced who are staying in and and shelters without access to any essential services it's important also to restore power to to keep the essential infrastructure in Gaza operates people in Gaza lost communication with the outside world this is another challenge families do not find cannot find the the whereabouts of their beloved ones they're still as the health authorities indicated more than 1600 people under the rubble who are unaccounted for this fuel will also help the civil defense teams to reach them and try to save as many as possible that would be a spokesperson for the international red cross sorry for jumping in but whoever currently pleads in wants to plead in a credible manner for humanitarian aid for the Gazans must in parallel also speak about the humanitarian emergency of the 229 hostages who have medical needs who need access by the Red Cross need urgent medical care etc etc you can't have it just one way and then disregard the other exactly and as we're hearing from you know some of this spokesperson for the international Red Cross we also are hearing from the IDF who as the spokesperson said we need fuel we need we need resources to help people here in Gaza the IDF publishing just yesterday a phone call that stated clearly Hamas has enough fuel enough electricity to help all of its citizens but they're safeguarding it they're safeguarding at least a half a million leaders of fuel using it to help them fuel their underground bunkers and leaving their civilians without energy without power in many of these cases i'm curious dr. Moshe a lot as Israel has agreed now to allow some more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip but what are the chances that that aid whether it be food water medicine just ends right back up into the hands of Hamas i guess that's what would bring more pressure in the case of the hostages would be the ground operation however if people will see that we are referring to send all this humanitarian aid to the southern part of Gaza they will definitely move that to there and they will prefer to have it there so this might also do some pressure on the Hamas people i mean the commanders that are down there very underground and waiting to see what's going on by the way they have no internet now i guess also the phone the phones will be also out of of any kind of use in the next couple of days so you'll see more and more pressure however what i would like to add you know war brings destruction the killing wounded and some of us may be also saddened by this but i must always say that you know it might happen it's hard not to remember the reason why it happened as mr shek said exactly sometimes people in the world forget forget the Israeli side it's not only the hostages why it happened why all these started people forgot that and we have to remind them all the time that there were about 1400 uh big teams that were killed women that were raped small kids that are still there people that they are beheaded like exactly like the isis and if we're not reminding the world this they might of course you know as it happened yesterday in the un they might forget about that so we have to put it the old all this time it should be in their minds why all these happened exactly it happened for a reason and that was the october 7th massacre that hamas took the surprise attack on israel you bring up a great point with the united nations the united nations general assembly voting to for israel to have a ceasefire against hamas however not even stating hamas in their resolution that they passed they don't mention it they don't condemn hamas they just call on israel to stop targeting gaza today is a day that will go down in infamy we have all witnessed that the un no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance this organization was founded in the wake of the holocaust for the purpose of preventing atrocities yet the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the un is committed sadly tragically not to preventing but ensuring further atrocities israel has the right to defend itself and the realization of this right is to ensure that such atrocities are never repeated the only way the only way to ensure this is the eradication of hamas's terror capabilities the only way yet this resolution does not even name hamas as if this war started on its own why are you defending murderers why are you defending terrorists that deliberately beheaded children and abducted baby babies what is going on here this must make each of you ask yourselves what the true aim was that was when this resolution was submitted now the united nations has a long-standing history of anti-israel rhetoric but uh daniel check i think it's interesting what dr moche a lot was talking about people seem to forget why exactly this started three weeks into the war and this was sparked for a reason that was because of brutal attacks by hamas the united nations not recognizing that at all well people might be forgetting as time goes by but that has nothing to do with the resolution that was adopted yesterday in the general assembly of the un they didn't forget they just prefer to disregard it it's the majority of member states uh are you know they're not interested in uh uh depicting a true and precise picture of the realities they have an agenda and that agenda uh doesn't include condemning hamas it doesn't include protecting israelis it doesn't include uh condemning hostage-taking massive hostage-taking of civilians they're all not interested in that uh from uh over 40 years of experience with that organization i have just one suggestion to make to people as infuriating as this may be when you read it just take a deep breath and remember it is meaningless i think that's a great point to bring up it is a non-binding resolution non-binding resolution no reason to follow it no it's just infuriating and it shows the hypocrisy in in many of these countries but you know luckily there are other channels for real diplomacy that has the ambition to actually resolve this situation and to actually help the hostages for example right and i think we do see that time and time again i want to quickly come back to dr. Moshe a lot because as we're talking about this calls for a ceasefire from israel i think it's important for people to realize what exactly that would mean for israel if they were to agree to this which they're not going to it will definitely disturb the plan to defeat uh hamas uh let me tell you there's indeed a difficult dilemma for the members of our security people our security establishment since the two announced uh goals were first the elimination of hamas and of course the release of the hostages and those two are definitely in conflict so it should be hoped that the security chiefs uh first of all prime minister and tanyao and gallant and guns and so on know this and will act wisely and with the required sensitivity because um it's very difficult to believe that that will be able to hold both of them in any case ceasefire now would definitely disturb idf it might probably run for a day or two but not no no more than that and we'll certainly be keeping an eye on that uh the reserve colonel uh dr moshe a lot along with daniel shek former israeli ambassador of france thank you so much for coming here giving your insight i do want to state that as we're talking about the united nations and their anti-israel sentiment we are still seeing so many signs of hope and people standing with israel among these difficult times as well just yesterday it's been the third shabbat since this horrific attack and you can see some of these images of people setting out major shabbat tables all throughout the world this specifically in new york cities setting that shabbat table and setting up chairs for all of those that are taken hostage the at least 229 remain in the hands of famas terrorists so people are setting out these reminders to remind people exactly why israel continues to fight all over the world you're seeing these signs of solidarity it truly is meaningful impactful as israel continues to fight this war against amos now 22 days since that initial attack on 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of the 229 confirmed hostages to halt the impending ground operation with families demanding a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and israel's war cabinet meanwhile iran is threatening israel stating troops in lebanon are ready to pull the trigger if the adf begins its larger ground offensive in gaza adf spokesman rear admiral daniel higaring said troops are expanding activity in the gaza strip and that's where we want to begin now near the gaza border where our correspondent jonathan or agave is standing by in southern israel and jonathan there has been a steady stream of rockets continuing to fire into southern israel throughout the morning yes we have heard of three separate incidents of red rocket red alert sirens in the area around the gaza strip in the communities around the gaza strip which are mostly empty we're also hearing a lot of the israeli artillery really pounding the gaza strip same as last night maybe not as intense as was heard last night but but there's constant artillery towards the gaza strip clearly an optic in in in the military operation in the past 20 hours or so and the idf says that that is exactly what they're continuing to do ramp up those those attacks at the gaza strip we're taking a look at some of those live visuals right now in gaza right now you can see just these smoke really clouding the entire area there so jonathan what you're hearing it's happening we're seeing it right there i want to talk about some of the targets that the idf has said that they have been targeting especially some of these hamas commanders that they're really trying to pinpoint and locate absolutely the commanders and and let's remember they're not killed by the hundreds simply because they're hiding under the ground hamas as as we've heard yesterday in in one of the briefings by the idf spokesperson has basically built an an underground city second gaza under the ground with the main headquarters being under the shefa hospital the main hospital of the gaza strip hamas using the shefa hospital as one of its basically a place to shield itself knowing that israeli forces will have trouble getting there because of the humanitarian crisis as such a thing will produce so so hamas is no problem using schools using mosques using hospital using the entire gaza population as its own shield they're hiding under the ground anyone that does pops up is eventually killed jonathan the idf is working to limit the communication however between some of these hamas commanders hamas terrorists even targeting some of the different networks cutting off communication how does that help in israel's aims also in this operation it helps basically in creating confusion among hamas terrorists if they don't know where exactly the place where israeli operations are taking place if there's a blackout and they cannot send forces to the area and israeli is especially working on these underground bunkers underground tunnels this is the place where from which hamas is is hoping that its terrorists will come up to the ground and and face up with israeli with israeli soldiers this is especially the these are especially the targets that israel is looking for are corresponding jonathan reggae reporting from the southern border with gaza as we're taking a look at some of those live images in gaza right now thank you for your coverage now as we were speaking to jonathan reggae if you mentioned everything that the idf is working from we actually heard from idf spokesperson daniel higari earlier today about the latest developments 22 days into the war now in israel we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against uh i mean goals that we set for ourselves eliminating hamas security on the borders and uh the goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of the of our assessments and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions when these goals are our compass well the idf spokesperson daniel higari mentioned the main goal right now is focusing on the gaza strip we also know another threat that they're keeping an eye on is up north on the northern border with lebanon as well that's where our correspondent miric olive is standing by right now mary we continue to hear about more idf activity uh up up there near the northern border what can you tell us that's right now close on the past hour we've heard a number of different explosions originating from just behind me of course this area right behind me is the israel lebanon border you can see that mountainside on the opposite side that is lebanese territory so we heard a number of different explosions from this area but they did sound pretty distant now we do also know that the idf is saying that it responded so air defense systems were activated in the region to intercept a missile that was fired at israeli an unmanned israeli aircraft in the sky saying that missile then targeted that missile and luckily there were no injuries from any of the crews on the ground or reports of injuries from shrapnel that could have caused from that explosion because we did hear the explosions which were quite far away from where we are we do know the idf said it is returning fire and it is once again launching the source of where they believe these missiles were launched from this is something we've seen the idf doing repeatedly over the past two weeks every time we have an incident across the border israelis saying it's then responding by trying to target those who are trying to harm israeli civilians and the soldiers and infrastructure on the ground here in northern israel and mary as you're speaking we're taking a look at some of those live images right now from from near where you are looking towards the lebanon border now all of this slights couples that we've seen on the northern border has a lot slightly getting involved but iran says once israel does step up its operations in the gaza strip hezbollah is ready to get even more involved in continue attacking israel that's absolutely right so the iranian foreign ministry last night saying that hezbollah is waiting with its finger on the trigger saying that it's very carefully watching what the idf is doing inside the gaza strip and that they are ready to retaliate if it deems necessary but this it really is a warning that we've heard over the past two weeks repeatedly coming out from the iranian side also coming out from these hezbollah or an iranian backed proxies which are inside southern lebanon but the more worrisome development is also the role of other actors iranian backed off actors in the region who are now also increasing the frequency of attacks on us bases so it's not just israel which is being attacked a number of us bases at least 20 bases so far we haven't confirmed one attack last night but iraqi militia that it's linked to the iranians saying they did attack a us base in tunaf in syria so that's an area that straddles the syrian iraqi jordan border and they said two explosive drones were launched in response to israel's operation inside gaza we so far do not have a response from the united states but it of course comes as us continues to beef up its security presence in the region setting troops heavy vehicles also the uss carrier the second us strike carry which has been said to the eastern mandatory and just today now arriving in the mediterranean sea to try and back up and support and prepare for the eventuality that this could spiral out of control but right now diplomatic efforts are ongoing to try and prevent that from happening all of the western ally certainly coming together trying to sport israel right now from some of those threats i'm curious mary as we continue to talk about just iran threatening israel saying it will get involved what's the sense on the ground right now and how are these communities reacting sorry to close so over 42 communities in israel have been evacuated in the past two weeks earlier this week they want to announce an additional 12 communities that were going to be evacuated here if you go further past up in haria so again to these communities which are really right on the lebanese border within less than a kilometer range some of them so near the border and so near some of these terror cells that are firing into northern leban northern israel and many of them are evacuated i just spoke to a woman just a few moments ago she's lived in naharia all her life she was here for the 2006 war between israel and hezbo and she says this time she's just simply had enough she said she's not going back to her house she's leaving naharia and she's not coming back until there's a final solution to this threat on israel's northern borders this is a situation for many residents here who have just become really sick and fed up of dealing this this situation most of the residents evacuate communities are now staying and guests sponsored so government-funded hotels or guest houses that they've been asked to evacuate to also staying just with family throughout the region so certainly there is high alert and a lot of tension from the residents who are remaining here but most of them have tried to go to safer parts of the country everyone's certainly keeping an eye on there that area as well mayor mccollough thank you for your coverage up on israel's northern border now i want to bring in my guests who are joining me right now i'm joined in studio by daniel shek former israeli ambassador to france and political commentator uh along with via zoom i'm joined by reserve colonel dr moshay alad former coordinator to palestinian authority on security issues for the idf and lecture at western galley academic college thank you both for joining us uh dr moshay i want to begin with you as we're seeing more of this activity ramping up in the gaza border the idf continuing to not only strike by the ground but also now sending in troops sending in tanks really preparing for what seems to be their larger ground operation that they continue to talk about well i think that the ground action has actually already begun it may look a little bit different to the enemy because he was he was expecting something else and he mentioned probably you know uh something else but sometimes the enemy's expectations uh do not align with our ambitions so if you're asking about the so-called the ground action it is there it looks different maybe in the next couple of days we'll see more and more troops on the ground troops entering in gaza but the one thing is very obvious there is a very good plan that they are moving along and uh maybe uh we'll see the next couple of days more and more uh how much people killed or trapped or whatever would happen because this plan that they are moving now according to was prepared for many years so i guess that so far it's going very well and does the idf continues to target some of those commanders in hamas we know how difficult it is because many of them are hiding underneath civilian infrastructure specifically the shefa hospital the shefa medical center in gaza city this poses one of the most difficult tasks for the idf because as they say they want to eliminate hamas uh that means going into the underground bunker directly below that hospital oh yeah targeted killing is one of the most difficult issues because you have to be very careful not to hit uh uninvolved people so we knew that uh down there beneath uh shefa hospital there are i would say uh a full headquarter maybe few headquarters and in the past we didn't want to hit just in order not to touch any of those wounded or um you know doctors and stuff inside but now we israel has already warned the people of shefa to evacuate because something will go is going to be there in any case the work of the intelligence together with the gsn the general security services in order to kill palestinian leaders i mean hamas leaders is is giving very good fruit so far because it's a kind of a conjunction between intelligence good intelligence good work of the pilots and this brings some good targeted killing without touching any people around it might happen and it happened however we do not do that on purpose and this is the main difference between us and them dr mosher a lot i want you to stay with us right now um we're actually taking a look at some of these visuals from the the gaza strip huge plumes of smoke as israel continues with those massive airstrikes really ramping up activity in the gaza border uh i want to bring in my guest right now daniel scheck in studio now as we're looking at just this ground operation continue continued activity even what we're looking at right now uh now what we're seeing also continued calls from the families of the hostages because this ground operation and as we see more activity they're worried that it definitely poses a risk to the 229 at least hostages that remain in the hands of the most terrorists correct um they have published statement this morning uh stating roughly that this has been this had been the most difficult night for them uh they live in great concern uh because of the beginning of what looks like a more massive ground operation um and their concern is understandable since chamas doesn't hesitate to use their own citizens as human shields they definitely won't have any trouble using the hostages as human shields and i remind you hostages in this case goes from infants nine months old to elderly people 87 years old so they are very concerned and they i hear now that they are demanding to see the prime minister and to plead with him the case of their loved ones um you know i think although understandably they have a one-track mind they are interested only in the well-being of their loved ones and everyone in israel can understand that they want to plead with the government which on its side has other concerns too it's not the only one i remind our viewers though that just yesterday there was a poll published about the israeli public there was a shift about two weeks ago the main concern was to destroy chamas and currently a majority of israelis feel that the number one priority is to safeguard and bring back the the hostages doesn't mean that you shouldn't do both but this is the state of mind of the israeli public currently well three weeks in it's interesting to see how it has changed but we have to remind everyone this is hamas's main goal they want to keep these hostages in exchange for more uh resources from israel in fact we're seeing more calls for humanitarian aid to come in uh we're continue to see that they're even urging some protesters around the Arab world to join in some of these protests to get humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip we're actually hearing from uh someone with the international red cross about just the necessity of some of this aid for the innocent Palestinians fuel is essential to not only to keep the hospitals and healthcare centers operational fuel is required also to run bakeries to run uh water and wastewater pump stations that if they stop we will witness also an environmental crisis at a population level fuel is required to pump water in the households and to also get the water to the hundreds of thousands of families who are internally displaced who are staying in and and shelters without access to any essential services it's important also to restore power to to keep the essential infrastructure in Gaza operates people in Gaza lost communication with the outside world this is another challenge families do not find cannot find the whereabouts of their beloved ones they're still as the health authorities indicated uh more than 1600 people under the rubble who are unaccounted for this fuel will also help disabled defense uh teams to reach them and try to save as many as possible that would be a spokesperson for the international red cross sorry for jumping in but whoever currently pleads in wants to plead in a credible manner for humanitarian aid for the Gazans must in parallel also speak about the humanitarian emergency of the 229 hostages who have medical needs who need access uh by the Red Cross need urgent medical uh care etc etc you can't have it just one way and then disregard the other exactly and as we're hearing from you know some of this spokesperson for the international red cross we also are hearing from the IDF who as the spokesperson said we need fuel we need we need resources to help people here in Gaza the IDF publishing just yesterday a phone call that stated clearly Hamas has enough fuel enough electricity to help all of its citizens but they're safeguarding it uh they're safeguarding at least a half a million liters of fuel using it to help them fuel their underground bunkers and leaving their civilians without energy without power uh in many of these cases I'm curious Dr. Moshe Alad uh as Israel has agreed now to allow some more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip but what are the chances that that aid whether it be food water medicine just ends right back up into the hands of Hamas I guess that's what would bring more pressure in the case of the hostages would be uh the ground operation however if people will see that we are preferring to send all this humanitarian aid to the southern part of Gaza they will definitely move that to there and they will prefer to have it there so this might also do some pressure on the Hamas people I mean the commanders that are down there very underground and waiting to see what's going on by the way they have no internet now I guess also the phone the phones will be also out of of any kind of use in the next couple of days so you'll see more and more pressure however what I would like to add you know or brings destruction the killing wounded and some of us may be also saddened by this but I must always say that you know it might happen it's hard not to remember the reason why it happened as Mr. Shek said exactly sometimes people in the world forget forget the Israeli side it's not only the hostages why it happened why all these started people forgot that and we have to remind them all the time that there were about 1400 uh victims that were killed women that were raped small kids that are still there people that they are beheaded like exactly like ISIS and if we're not reminding the world is they might of course you know as it happened yesterday in the UN they might forget about that so we have to put the old all this time it should be in their minds why all this happened exactly it happened for a reason and that was the October 7th massacre that Hamas took the surprise attack on Israeli bring up a great point with the United Nations the United Nations General Assembly voting to for Israel to have a ceasefire against Hamas however not even stating Hamas in their resolution that they passed they don't mention it they don't condemn Hamas they just call on Israel to stop targeting Gaza today is a day that will go down in infamy we have all witnessed that the UN no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance this organization was founded in the wake of the Holocaust for the purpose of preventing atrocities yet the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the UN is committed sadly tragically not to preventing but ensuring further atrocities Israel has the right to defend itself and the realization of this right is to ensure that such atrocities are never repeated the only way the only way to ensure this is the eradication of Hamas's terror capabilities the only way yet this resolution does not even name Hamas as if this war started on its own why are you defending murderers why are you defending terrorists that deliberately beheaded children and abducted baby babies what is going on here this must make each of you ask yourselves what the true aim was that was when this resolution was submitted now the United Nations has a long-standing history of anti Israel rhetoric but uh Daniel check I think it's interesting what Dr. Moshe Elad was talking about people seem to forget why exactly this started three weeks into the war and this was sparked for a reason that was because of brutal attacks by Hamas the United Nations not recognizing that at all well people might be forgetting as time goes by but that has nothing to do with the resolution that was adopted yesterday in the general assembly of the UN they didn't forget they just prefer to disregard it it's the majority of member states are you know they're not interested in depicting a true and precise picture of the realities they have an agenda and that agenda doesn't include condemning Hamas it doesn't include protecting Israelis it doesn't include condemning hostage-taking massive hostage-taking of civilians they're all not interested in that from over 40 years of experience with that organization I have just one suggestion to make to people as infuriating as this may be when you read it just take a deep breath and remember it is meaningless I think that's a great point to bring up it is a non-binding resolution is no reason to follow it no it's just infuriating and it shows the hypocrisy in in many of these countries but you know luckily there are other channels for real diplomacy that has the ambition to actually resolve this situation and to actually help the hostages for example right and I think we do see that time and time again I want to quickly come back to Dr. Moshe Elad because as we're talking about this calls for a ceasefire from Israel I think it's important for people to realize what exactly that would mean for Israel if they were to agree to this which they're not going to it will definitely disturb the plan to defeat Hamas let me tell you there's indeed a difficult dilemma for the members of our security people a security establishment since the two announced goals where there's the elimination of Hamas and of course the release of the hostages and those two are definitely in conflict so it should be hoped that the security chiefs first of all prime minister Antonio and Gallant and guns and so on know this and will act wisely and with the required sensitivity because it's very difficult to believe there that we'll be able to hold both of them in any case ceasefire now would definitely disturb IDF it might probably run for a day or two but no no no more than that and we'll certainly be keeping an eye on that the reserve colonel Dr. Moshe Elad along with Daniel Shek former Israeli ambassador to France thank you so much for coming here giving your insight I do want to state that as we're talking about the united nations and their anti-israel sentiment we are still seeing so many signs of hope and people standing with Israel among these difficult times as well just yesterday it's been the third shabbat since this horrific attack and you can see some of these images of people setting out major shabbat tables all throughout the world this specifically in new york cities setting that shabbat table and setting up chairs for all of those that are taken hostage the at least 229 who remain in the hands of Hamas terrorists so people are setting out these reminders to remind people exactly why Israel continues to fight all over the world you're seeing these signs of solidarity it truly is meaningful impactful as Israel continues to fight this war against Hamas now 22 days since that initial attack on october 7th thank you for tuning into this edition of by 24 news 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i-24 news special broadcast here on i-24 news we continue our ruling coverage day 22 of the war in israel the war and the fog of war renewed rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards southern israel as we speak yet another barrage of rockets heading from the strip towards the israel southern communities and cities as the IDF is expending its activity combined aerial and ground operations killing the heads of Hamas's aerial and naval operations against the backdrop of a ridiculous un call for a ceasefire the idea of revealing further proof of what was known main Hamas headquarters are located under the chief hospital in Gaza city as Hamas is using the largest hospital in the strip as a human shield this very morning idea of spokesperson once again urging Palestinians in the northern part of the strip to move south where humanitarian centers are set up food water medicine all available but Hamas continues to prevent many from mobilizing there while stocking up on fuel and and continuing its terrorist operations the expense of civilians there here's the latest from the IDF spokesperson we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against goals that we set for ourselves eliminating Hamas security and the borders and goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of their of our assessments and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff the relevant team and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions these goals our campus and we begin this broadcast up north let's cross now live to i-24 news correspond mary mccolliff with the i-24 news team they're on the ground mary uh iran is uh harshening or elevating its war of war saying troops in lebanon are ready to pull the trigger should israel begins a larger ground offensive in gaza but do we have any indication of what's going through hasan astralis mine at this point in time we really don't know at least we've heard a lot of warnings in the past couple weeks since this really began where we began to see attacks between hezbollah and israel across this border that you can see just behind me but so far at this point it stayed to mostly rhetoric and mostly limited to these small incursions or small cross border attacks but we do know that again as you said iran saying that hezbollah forces are ready with their finger on the trigger that's probably the most serious of the warnings we've seen but it also is calling them on to halt the ground operation the ground operation began hours ago now and so far we haven't really seen very much activity from hezbollah that's different than what we've seen in the past two weeks we continue to see them trying to launch anti-tank missiles trying to also target unmanned aerial israeli aircraft that happened just about an hour ago and then israel in turn responding with retaliatory strikes and just moments ago moments before we began speaking with you we heard successive numerous booms from just this hill behind me this is an area inside southern lebanon that's being shelled extremely heavily at the moment it seems it said have died down a little bit but we do know from sources inside lebanon saying there's heavy shelling in in the area of alma el shab which is just across the border from the israeli community of hanida of course we should mention all of the israeli communities on the northern israeli border have been evacuated especially hanida which is less than a kilometer away from that opposing village so we do continue to see the israeli forces on high alert saying they're ready to respond to any threat from hezbollah or iran if necessary and the or iran here is particularly important since the us is striking weapons and ammunition facilities in syria in response to attacks on american forces here in the region in iraq in syria by iranian-backed forces in the past week and it has a significant meaning to the rest or the continuation rather of the of the war here in israel on the northern front absolutely ellie and this is again this is something that we have seen over the past few years we've seen increasing attacks against us forces by iranian backs proxies in the region whether it's syria lebanon other places in the middle east very near israel's border but since october 7 since the beginning of this war there have been 19 attacks on us bases or us infrastructure stationed throughout the middle east and that was the first time we saw the us respond yesterday since then an iraqi group has also claimed responsibility for an attack by two explosive drones that was flown by the iranian backed group towards a us base we don't have any reports about injuries and we don't have any official confirmation from the us forces at the time about that attack but we do know of course is that the us is beefing up its security forces throughout the region another us air aircraft carrier just arriving in the region in the Mediterranean earlier today this is the uss eisenhower which of course is joining the uss ford both of these aircraft carriers and their accompanying strike teams have all been relocated received new deployments to the middle east and closer to israel to be prepared for any eventuality if this war does spiral out of control and i'm just not sure if you could hear that on my mic we just heard another one of those artillery shells from that area just right behind me so it is as i said ongoing yeah deceiving quiet if we can even use the term quiet at this point in time i-24 news correspond mary mccullough thank you very much for this much more from mary of course on her ex-account and here on i-24 news throughout the day and joining us now here in studio lieutenant colonel mr dronevita former commander of the special forces of the idf thank you very much lieutenant colonel of ital before we head down south perhaps the main arena as mary just mentioned the uss eisenhower arriving here in the mediterranean and among the different explanations if you will for why we haven't seen a vast extensive ground operation in the strip so far was was this the american desire to have its deployment here in the region fully intact before anything goes ahead this is true this was one of the consideration of course the hostages dilemma also there are many considerations that the idf had to take into account also we had to stabilize our forces to gain the competency again it's not an easy thing after the terrible setback we had and of course what we did i think very good in the north to this stabilizing the border i mean the others exchanged but we are there the exchanges are now limited but we allow us to hit his ballah when we feel they cross some lines so waiting there the deterrence of the american carriers in terms of the the north the syria the northern border the iranian involvement is important and now we have to put our eyes on the south on the south and we had this very important ground incursion last night to the to those moments right and still one another point when it comes to the northern front before we again talk about the the main active scene as we put it nowadays we we have seen those poking and provoking and the term deterrence obviously in the aftermath of october 7th this should be used very carefully and yet if in the earlier days we were talking about a potential mistake that that could ignite ignite the scene here now the rhetoric seems to be changing not a mistake but rather an intention of one of the sides to exactly i think what we in the beginning there were talks there were like israel voices talking about pre-emptive strike in the north and border it was a mistake i think now it's i think it's a proven mistake there's no element in surprise we should not have taken it we had to stabilize the border and we had to show to the hezbollah that we react i think like 50 or more hezbollah soldiers got killed in those exchange and we had also our casualties but not in this magnitude we evacuated the citizen we are ready and we are ready for every either miscalculation or a decision made by nasa al nasa ala the common wisdom i i rather not use this term common use them but the common wisdom now that is not there's no nothing is common and nothing is common exactly exactly a very much right so we are very careful and ready to escalate into a full blown hit on hezbollah once some threshold is crossed so this is the northern scenario right so let's do refocus our conversation as to what's happening down south because we you know let me let me phrase it that way i'll attend kernel avital what we're saying this morning and overnight this is not the ground operation the grand ground operation we're talking about but but rather those in and out that are achieving what exactly as as much as we can say first of all we always declare it's not the ground the the major ground invasion the question what how does a major ground invasion would look like in the end but what we achieve first of all is taking positioning hitting we had tens of Hamas commander we had two leaders of the of Hamas that the aerial defense the aerial leader and the naval commander leader so this is a those are important achievements and then also i want to say that we need this competency of entering crossing the border to attack in positioning the new soldiers the new officers they don't know the terrain they know the terrain better this closing getting gathering intelligence i'm sure there's also covert operation that we know nothing about a lot of things is under under the surface the main dilemma the hostages where are they in what localities and this would go into our consideration in terms of this great invasion great incursion of great maneuvering that we are considering what talking about yes and and before we continue to talk about the hostage element here that some are suggesting that perhaps if the notion for the time being was that as long as as the time progresses it plays against the objective of releasing the hostages now we're hearing different voices that perhaps it is actually working in the benefit of israel but let's do go back to the ground and across now to our 24 news senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae in southern israel so jonathan we were just talking here in studio about those troops and tanks that are getting in the strip what does it mean and obviously as we've just discussed this is not the ground operation itself but we are seeing those ramped up airstrikes and those targeted assassinations try to map out for us what we're seeing now on the ground so first of all ellie we're hearing heavy artillery throughout the morning and even perhaps a little more intensifying in the past hour or so and the idea is not giving a lot of information but but the notion is that it's not the ground invasion but sort of a the ground invasion before the ground invasion let's define it this way it's not the army going all in but trying to clear out a portion of the gaza strip at the northern part of the gaza strip and the very interesting point that you brought brought up and maybe you could hear the the artillery now pounding right next to us the question of the hostages and what is better to try to secure the release is it refraining from a a big ground maneuver or going on with it i think the notion in the army is option number two going on with the ground invasion because we know that the hostages are perhaps the greatest asset maybe even the only asset that hamas has at this time and as long as israel does not invade the gaza they they feel that they can they have time and they can play with it and manipulate israel israel with this issue which is of course the hamas is very good at playing psychological games with a very sensitive israeli society and as long as israel is not invading hamasa is allowing itself to to demand very high prices which israel is not willing to accept all this i hope you're hearing the all the explosions around us and the notion is that the ground invasion is sort of a pressure on hamas and we're going in if we're not going to pay the very high prices that you're asking if you want to have any kind of price for the hostages if you want israel to pay anything do it now because if you don't we will come in with all our forces we know that the hamas in qatar in egypt even perhaps the united states have tried to to delay or postpone some kind of a ground maneuver israel is perhaps a signaling in the past 24 hours the time is up right if we need to quote unquote give credit to the iranians or to hamas is that they're they they identified israel's moral compass as a weak point and yet did not take into consideration that this very same compass can turn into the strength the point of strength and in this respect jonathan it is also important to perhaps refer to the idea of spokesperson revealing what was known here for a long while and yet to the international community these proofs are are essential that one of the main headquarters of hamas is under the chief of hospital the biggest hospital in the strip the strip using once again civilians that are humanitarian alleged humanitarian causes that too as human shields no other way to put it and this joins an interesting report by the new rick times today that hamas was able to store up fuel and water and food and all it needs to maintain its terrorist operations and enough for four months of fighting so this connects to the to the hail mary calls of the humanitarian state in the strip what do you make of it how long does israel know that there's some kind of a compound hospital that was released from from hamas prison more than 12 years ago that there was a thought in israel that at least for some time he was held under the shefa hospital in some hamas compound meaning this exists for about 15 years or so at least and i don't think anyone in israel is surprised the international community may be ease i think we learned some very sad things about the international community and the way it views hamas over the past three weeks they may have been surprised we were not and hamas uses this we know that hamas is using the civilian population in gaza as human shields just as ruthless and evil and terrible as they were to the israeli population they can be to their local population that's the kind of i don't even know if to describe them as human beings but that's the kind of subhumans that they are and and and yes you know we speak of there's constant call again from the a bit strange international community saying about the human catastrophe in gaza the lack of water the lack of fuel the lack of electricity there's all of it all of it and in abundance just get it from hamas but hamas keeps it for itself and letting the civilian population rot and die and or at least let them mobilize down south yeah or mobilize down south where humanitarian camps are being set up and there they can find all they they need uh until this campaign is uh is over i-24 news senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae thank you very much for this much more from jonathan of course in the i-24 news team later on in the day uh and speaking to that point exactly um when it comes to the human humanitarian state of the strip let's take a listen to um the international spokesperson of the committee of the red cross in gaza fuel is essential to not only to keep the hospitals and healthcare centers operational fuel is required also to run bakeries to run uh water and wastewater pump stations that uh if they stop we will witness also an environmental crisis at a population level fuel is required to pump water in the households and to also get the water to be hundreds of thousands of families who are internally displaced who are staying in and and shelters without access to any essential services it's important also to restore power to um to keep the essential infrastructure in gaza operates in gaza lost communication with the outside world this is another challenge families do not find cannot find the whereabouts of their beloved ones they're still as the health authorities indicated uh more than 1,600 people under the rubble who are unaccounted for this fuel will also help disabled defense uh teams to reach them and try to save as many as possible and uh it goes without saying unfortunately that all uh attempts to get uh sign of life uh any humanitarian aid to the uh to over 229 israeli hostage still being uh uh held captive in the gaza strip by vile homesteaders remained unanswered back in studio here with the lieutenant colonel doron avital um lieutenant colonel avital earlier in the broadcast we've been discussing and perhaps this is a positive thing that those notions that are assessed and reassessed and thought over again and again if there was a notion that um the two objectives of the of the of the war bringing back the hostages and eliminating hamas cannot be achieved at the same time or cannot be achieved both through a ground operation it seems that again in the fog of war the um this sense of ambiguity at this point in time it might be challenge it's a challenge i think it's a necessity right now because there was no way to stop the the fighting with hamas for an op and open a window that has no limit and wait for some miracle that didn't seem to happen and israel was weighing it for a few days or so so in the meantime keeping the pressure in terms of the ground incursion is important of course involving special forces and if we have intelligence and we cannot negotiate in some locality when we know hostages are there this would be excellent and we have a very good officer general appointed to this mission so this is the game right now and i think the ground invasion we'll see as as the as the spokesman of the idea says about the next stage we don't the next stage might involve more ground incursion until we got a better picture and enough pressure on hamas either to force them to a deal or to go in full in and try to rescue the hostages and kill the and in this respect the american component here obviously plays a key pivotal a role and we do understand that according to american officials and again we need to take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to intelligence they're saying to the american president that iran so far is deterred in terms of escalating the situation but but how how reliable that information is at a point in time where we're seeing the true clear intentions of iran without it being pinpointed as the arch terrorist the architecture of this campaign i think in the future we'll have to investigate exactly in what fashion was the role the actual role of iran in this we know is it only in retrospect or no we know financially we know backing but whether they were notified in advance it's not it's not fully clear for sure they are in they they're trying to orchestra a long campaign that in the end undermine israeli society in the israeli state but and they have the patience and they run is not going to pay an immediate price that's my question but yeah but the question is you know this is this event in a long campaign who knows what's the next event who knows if there's no real campaign with hezbollah who knows if campaign with hezbollah uh erupts whether we don't have the the syrian front with the shia militia that's completely a backup by iran also participating so we have a very big theater here and i think the americans are very much worried about this theater and they're looking at all and get trying to de-escalate or to limit it to the gaza to the gaza front i'm not sure it's possible in the long term but it might be it takes when i say long term it's months and years yeah the the the concept of time is changing as well and and just as an update in the last few minutes a second incident in the northern border today the rdf is attacking heading rather another squad that attempted to launch an anti-tank missile in the same area that mary mccollif is is standing by there it is an unfair question um and and i'm not sure what is the ability to to to provide an answer and yet starting the fourth week of the war um in a few hours what are we to see down south down south what are the uh more immediate objectives of of of israel i've seen the objectives were stated and then we have to uh we have to break in hamas all its military capacities we we hit even in disincursion we hit many tunnels and so on the whole military infrastructure cannot be cannot stay in hama cannot stay in the gaza strip after we end this war but we have to rescue the hostages in whatever fashion diplomatic militarily creating pressure holding on it's really a back and forth campaign that we have to handle in a very wise movement but we have to show competency we have to show that we all the time kept hamas under pressure how would it end there's no telling but i think the objectives are clearly stated and i hope the tension between the two objectives even in the israeli public because you see the outcry of the hostage family and it's of course understood and they're saying clearly that they will escalate again if those terms are applicable um uh they're they're they're plea uh to get back your love something in in uh in in such uncertainty you you work with what you have in your hand by necessity so if you there's an open there's a window that opens up you use it that's the way you do back and forth but you have to keep the military pressure on in terms of also grounding kerson and that's what we do and speaking of of uncertainty um and going back to the american uh involvement here and the desire on behalf of washington to get a clear or a better sense of the day after even though it it it is still a long way ahead my question to lieutenant colonel avatara and obviously the american trauma in iraq and afghanistan with the lack of a clear exit point or an end goal is evident and yet at this in this situation is an end goal really crucial to the to the operations underground now we cannot think about it later we should we can but now the objective is very clear you have an enemy under your aims and you have to go forward this is what we do okay of course had we taken the whole gaza strip then we would have to re to rethink what do we do next but i think it's important also for us the israelis to understand that these are lines around us okay the u.s europe nato and also our allies in the middle east and i would put egypt jordan even saudi arabia the pa if it comes back to its to its forces would demand after this ends some kind of resolution a new resolution in the middle east we won't be able to avoid it so i'm saying now we're at war we have to complete it but afterwards we should expect some serious attempt from our allies to work with us to some kind of no resolution in the middle east and this is perhaps uh the silver lining in this uh i mean this darkness that the clear line that is being drawn uh this renewed version of the axis of evil also means that the powers of light will have to align themselves together and uh i don't know normalization between israel and saudi arabia sounds like uh like a solid response to iran's attempts to destabilize the region exactly and we have to understand that the hamas move was in some sense in the context of the initiative the saudi initiative and attempt to intercept it and now so it would go through shedding a lot of blood but in the end maybe this would be the direction long days ahead but uh good is on its way to uh elizabeth carnala doron of ital thank you very much for joining us on this broadcast we appreciate your time and your insight as per always thank you uh and we want to conclude this broadcast uh with what is bleeding inside all of us as we speak at least 229 israeli hostages still being held captive in the goddess by vile hamas terrorist their families demanding to meet his really prime minister benjamin teniao immediately while the relentless global campaign to release them continues in full swing as well you're seeing now on your screens a massive 200 meters poster saying never again yes again never again it was uh hung this weekend uh at the levganin senior's facility in natanya focusing on the elderly that are being held by hamas among them holocaust survivors what if it was your own grandmother and grandfathers well these are our grandmothers and grandfathers and we will uh the nation's heart will will not stop beating now will not be beating again rather until they're all back home this is it from us now we'll be back at the top of the hour thank you for watching over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news and connected with the latin community in israel news 24 only in i24 news phrases that you know from where it comes from here and the package for when you recharge that you already know where you're going on international recharge days altiza your people in rd access our website recharge dot altis dot com dot b select recharge and digit the number you want to place the recharge ademas ellos reciven el doble de balance en recargas de ocho dólares o más altis la red global de los dominicanos come to the special broadcast here on i24 news we continue our ruling coverage day 22 of the war in israel the war and the fog of war renewed rocket fire from the gaza strip towards southern israel as we speak yet another barrage of rockets heading from the strip towards the israel southern communities and cities as the idf is expending its activity combined aerial and ground operations killing the heads of hamas's aerial and naval operations against the backdrop of a ridiculous un call for a ceasefire the idf revealing further proof of what was known main hamas headquarters are located under the xifa hospital in gaza city as hamas is using the largest hospital in the strip as a human shield this very morning idf spokesperson once again urging palestinians in the northern part of the strip to move south where humanitarian centers are set up food water medicine all available but hamas continues to prevent many from mobilizing there while stocking up on fuel and continuing its terrorist operations the expense of civilians there here's the latest uh from the idf spokesperson we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against uh i mean goals that we set for ourselves eliminating hamas security on the borders and uh the goal of returning the all of these together are part of the of our assessments and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions when these goals are our compass and we begin this broadcast up north let's cross now live to our 24 news correspondent mary mccolliff with the our 24 news team there on the ground mary uh iran is uh harshening or elevating its war of war saying troops in lebanon are ready to pull the trigger should israel begins a larger ground defensive in gaza but do we have any indication of what's going through hasan astralis mine at this point in time we really don't know ellie we've heard a lot of warnings in the past couple weeks since this really began where we began to see attacks between hezbollah and israel across this border that you can see just behind me but so far at this point it stayed to mostly rhetoric and mostly limited to these small incursions or small cross border attacks but we do know that again as you said iran saying that hezbollah forces are ready with their finger on the trigger that's probably the most serious of the warnings we've seen but it also is calling them on to halt the ground operation the ground operation began hours ago now and so far we haven't really seen very much activity from hezbollah that's different than what we've seen in the past two weeks we continue to see them trying to launch anti-tank missiles trying to also target unmanned aerial israeli aircraft that happened just about an hour ago and then israel in turn responding with retaliatory strikes and just moments ago moments before we began speaking with you we heard successive numerous booms from just this hill behind me this is an area inside southern lebanon that's being shelled extremely heavily at the moment it seems it said have died down a little bit but we do know from sources inside lebanon saying there's heavy shelling in in the area of alma el shab which is just across the border from the israeli community of hanita of course we should mention all of the israeli communities on the northern israeli border have been evacuated especially hanita which is less than a kilometer away from that opposing village so we do continue to see the israeli forces on high alert saying they're ready to respond to any threat from hezbollah or iran if necessary and the or iran here is particularly important since the u.s. is striking weapons and ammunition facilities in syria in response to attacks on american forces here in the region in iraq in syria by iranian-backed forces in the past week and it has a significant meaning to the rest or the continuation rather of the of the war here in israel on the northern front absolutely ellie and this is again this is something that we have seen over the past few years we've seen increasing attacks against us forces by iranian-backed proxies in the region whether it's syria lebanon other places in the middle east very near israel's border but since october 7 since the beginning of this war there have been 19 attacks on us bases or us infrastructure stationed throughout the middle east and that was the first time we saw the us respond yesterday since then an iraqi group has also claimed responsibility for an attack by two explosive drones that was flown by the iranian-backed group towards a us base we don't have any reports about injuries and we don't have any official confirmation from the us forces at the time about that attack what we do know of course is that the us is beefing up its security forces throughout the region another us air aircraft carrier just arriving in the region in the Mediterranean earlier today this is the uss eisenhower which of course is joining the uss ford both of these aircraft carriers and their accompanying strike teams have all been relocated received new deployments to the middle east and closer to israel to be prepared for any eventuality if this war does spiral out of control and i just i'm not sure if you could hear that on my mic we just heard another one of those artillery shells from that area just right behind me so it is as i said ongoing yeah deceiving quiet if we can even use the term quiet at this point in time i-24 news correspond mary mccullough thank you very much for this much more from mary of course on her ex-account and here on i-24 news throughout the day and joining us now here in studio lieutenant colonel mister donovital former commander of the special forces of the idf thank you very much lieutenant colonel of it all before we um heads down south perhaps the main arena as mary just mentioned uh the uss eisenhower arriving here in the Mediterranean and among the different explanations if you will for why we haven't seen um a vast extensive ground operation in the strip so far was was was this the the american um uh desire to have its uh um uh deployment here in the region fully intact before anything uh goes ahead this is true this was one of the consideration of course the hostages dilemma also there are many considerations that the idf had to take into account also we had to stabilize our forces to gain the competency again it's not an easy thing after the terrible setback we had and of course what we did i think uh very good in the north this stabilizing the border i mean the others exchanged but we are there the exchanges are now limited but we allow ourselves to hit hezbollah when we feel they cross some lines so waiting there the deterrence of the american carriers in terms of the the nor the syria the northern border the iranian involvement is important and now we have to put our eyes on the on the south and where this very important ground incursion last night to the to those moments right and still one another point when it comes to the northern front before we again uh um i talk about the the main um uh active scene as we put it nowadays um we we have seen those uh poking and provoking and the term deterrence obviously in the aftermath of october 7th should be used very carefully uh and yet um if in the earlier days we were talking about a potential mistake that that could uh ignite ignite the scene here now the rhetoric seems to be changing not a mistake but rather an intention of one of the sides to exact i think what we in the beginning there were talks they were like israel voices talking about pre-emptive strike in the northern border it was a mistake i think now it's i think it's a proven mistake there's no element in surprise we should not have taken it we had to stabilize the border and we had to show to the hezbollah that we react i think like 50 or more hezbollah soldiers got killed in those exchange and we had also our casualties but not in this magnitude we evacuated the citizen we are ready and we are ready for every either miscalculation or a decision made by nasa ala the common wisdom i i rather not use this term common use them but the common wisdom now that is not there's no nothing is common and nothing is common exactly exactly very much right so we are very careful and ready to escalate into a full blown hit on hezbollah once some threshold is crossed so this is the northern scenario right so uh let's do um refocus our conversation as to what's happening down south because we you know let me let me phrase it that way uh i'll attend colonel avital what we're saying this morning and overnight this is not the ground operation the grand ground operation we're talking about but but rather those in and out that are um achieving what exactly as as much as we can say first of all we always declare it's not the ground the the major ground invasion the question what how does a major ground invasion would look like in the end but what we achieve first of all is taking positioning hitting we had tens of hamas the commander we hit two leaders of the of hamas that the aerial defense the aerial leader and the naval commander leader so this is uh those are important achievements and then also i want to say that we need this competency of entering crossing the border to taking positioning the new soldiers the new officers they don't know the terrain they know the terrain better this closing getting gathering intelligence i'm i'm sure there's also covert operation that we know nothing about a lot of things is under under the surface the main dilemma the hostages where are they in what localities and this would go into our consideration in terms of this great invasion great incursion of great maneuvering that we are considering or talking about yes and and before we continue to talk about the hostage element here that some are suggesting that perhaps if the notion for the time being was that as long as as the time progresses it plays against the objective of releasing the hostages now we're hearing different voices that perhaps it is actually working in the benefit of israel but let's do um go back to the ground and across now to our 24 news senior um defense correspondent jonathan reggae in southern israel so jonathan we were just talking here in studio about those troops and tanks that are getting in the strip uh what does it mean and um obviously as we've just uh uh discussed this is not the ground operation itself but we are seeing uh those ramped up airstrikes and those targeted assassinations try to map out for us what we're seeing now on the ground so first of all uh early we're hearing a heavy artillery throughout the morning and even perhaps a little more intensifying in the past hour or so and the idea is not giving a lot of information but but the notion is that it's not the ground invasion but sort of a the ground invasion before the ground invasion let's let's uh define it this way it's not the army going all in but trying to clear out a portion of the gaza strip uh the northern part of the gaza strip and the very interesting point that you brought brought up and maybe you could hear the the artillery now we're pounding right next to us uh the question of the hostages and what is better to try to secure the release is it refraining from a a big ground maneuver or going on with it i think the notion in the army is option number two going on with the ground invasion because we know that uh um uh that the hostages are perhaps the greatest asset maybe even the only asset that Hamas has at this time and as long as Israel does not invade the gaza they feel that they can they have time and they can play with it and manipulate Israel Israel with this issue which is of course the Hamas is very good at playing psychological games with a very sensitive Israeli society and as long as Israel is not invading Hamas is allowing itself to to demand very high prices which Israel is not willing to accept all this i hope you're hearing that all the explosions around us and and the notion is that the ground invasion is sort of a pressure on Hamas and we're going in if we're not going to pay the very high prices that you're asking if you want to have any kind of price for the hostages if you want Israel to pay anything do it now because if you don't we will come in with all our forces we know that the Hamas and Qatar and Egypt even perhaps the united states have tried to delay or postpone some kind of a ground maneuver Israel is perhaps a signaling in the past 24 hours the time is up right if if we need to quote unquote give credit to the Iranians or to Hamas is that there they they identified Israel's moral compass as a weak point and yet did not take into consideration that this very same compass can turn into the strength the point of strength and in this respect Jonathan it is also important to perhaps refer to the idea of spokesperson revealing what was known here for a long while and yet to the international community these proofs are essential that one of the main headquarters of Hamas is under the chief of hospital the biggest hospital in the strip the strip using once again civilians and a humanitarian alleged humanitarian causes that to as human shield shields no other way to put it and this joins an interesting report by the New York Times today that Hamas was able to store up fuel and water and food and all it needs to maintain its terrorist operations and enough for four months of fighting so this connects to the to the Hail Mary calls of the humanitarian state in the strip what do you make of it how long does Israel know that there's some kind of a compound under the shefa hospital gilat shalit that was released from from Hamas prison more than 12 years ago there was a thought in Israel that at least for some time he was held under the shefa hospital in some Hamas compound meaning this exists for about 15 years or so at least and I don't think anyone in Israel is surprised the international community may be ease I think we learned some very sad things about the international community and the way it views Hamas over the past three weeks they may have been surprised we were not and Hamas uses this we know that Hamas is using the civilian population in Gaza as human shields just as ruthless and evil and terrible as they were to the Israeli population they can be to their local population that's the kind of I don't even know if to describe them as human beings but that's the kind of subhumans that they are and and and and yes you know we speak of there's constant call again from the a bit strange international community saying about the human catastrophe in Gaza the lack of water the lack of fuel the lack of electricity there's all of it all of it and in abundance just get it from Hamas but Hamas keeps it for itself and letting the civilian population rot and die and or at least let them mobilize down south yeah or mobilize down south where humanitarian camps are being set up and there they can find all they they need uh until this campaign is uh is over i-24 news senior defense correspondent Jonathan uh regiff thank you very much for this much more from Jonathan of course in the i-24 news team later on in the day uh and speaking to that point exactly um when it comes to the human humanitarian state of the political listener to the international spokesperson of the committee of the red cross in Gaza fuel is essential to not only to keep the hospitals and healthcare centers operational fuel is required also to run bakeries to run uh water and wastewater pump stations that uh if they stop we will witness also an environmental crisis at a population level fuel is required to pump water in the households and to also get the water to the hundreds of thousands of families who are internally displaced who are staying in and and shelters without access to any essential services it's important also to restore power to to keep the essential infrastructure in Gaza operates people in Gaza lost communication with the outside world this is another challenge families do not find cannot find the the whereabouts of their beloved ones they're still as the health authorities indicated uh more than 1600 people under the rubble who are unaccounted for this fuel will also help the civil defense uh teams to reach them and try to save as many as possible and uh it goes without saying uh unfortunately that all uh attempts to get uh sign of life uh and humanitarian aid to the uh two over 229 Israeli hostage still being uh uh held captive in the Gaza strip by vile homestayers remained unanswered back in studio here with the lieutenant colonel Doron Avital um lieutenant colonel Avital earlier in the broadcast we've been discussing and perhaps this is a positive thing that those notions that are assessed and reassessed and thought over again and again if there was a notion that um the two objectives of the of the of the war bringing back the hostages and eliminating Hamas cannot be achieved at the same time or cannot be achieved both through a ground operation it seems that again in the fog of war this sense of ambiguity this point in time it might be challenged it's a challenge I think it's a necessity right now because there was nowhere to stop the the fighting with Hamas for an open a window that has no limit and wait for some miracle that didn't seem to happen and Israel was weighing it for a few days or so so in the meantime keeping the pressure in terms of the ground incursion is important of course involving special forces and if we have intelligence and we cannot negotiate in some locality when we know hostages are there this would be excellent and we have a very good officer general appointed to this mission and so this is the game right now and I think the ground invasion we'll see as as the as the spokesman of the IDF says about the next stage we don't the next stage might involve more ground incursion until we got a better picture and enough pressure on Hamas either to force them to a deal or to go in full in and try to rescue the hostages and kill the Hamas and in disrespect the American component here obviously plays a key pivotal role and we do understand that according to American officials and again we need to take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to intelligence they're saying to the American president that Iran so far is deterred in terms of escalating the situation but but how how reliable that information is at a point in time where we're seeing the true clear intentions of Iran without it being pinpointed as the arch terrorist the architecture of this campaign I think in the in the future we'll have to investigate exactly in what fashion was the role the actual role of Iran in this we know is it only in retrospect or we know financially we know backing but whether they were notified in advance it's not it's not fully clear for sure they are in they're trying to orchestrate a long campaign that in the end undermine Israeli society in the Israeli state but they and they have the patience and they run is not going to pay an immediate price that's my question militarily but yeah but the question is you know this is this event in a long campaign who knows what's the next event who knows if there's no real campaign who knows if Kopenhub Hizballah erupts whether we don't have the the Syrian front with the Shia militia that's completely abecked up by Iran also participating so we have a very big theater here and I think the Americans are very much worried about this theater and they're looking at all angle trying to de-escalate or to limit it to the Gaza to the Gaza front I'm not sure it's possible in the long term but it might be it takes when I say long term it's months and years yeah the the the concept of time is changing as well and and just as an update in the last few minutes a second incident in the northern border today the IDF is attacking heading rather another squad that attempted to launch an anti-tank missile in the same area that Mary McAuliffe is is standing by there it is an unfair question and and I'm not sure what is the ability to to to provide an answer and yet starting the fourth week of the war in a few hours what are we to see down south down south what are the more immediate objectives of of of Israel I think the objectives were stated and we have to we have to break in Hamas all its military capacities we we hit even in this incursion we hit many tunnels and so on the whole military infrastructure cannot be cannot stay in Hamas cannot stay in the Gaza strip after we end this war but we have to rescue the hostages in whatever fashion diplomatic militarily creating pressure holding on it's really a back-and-forth campaign that we have to handle in a very wise moment but we have to show competency we have to show that we all the time keep Hamas under pressure how would it end there's no telling but I think the objectives are clearly stated and I hope the tension between the two objectives even in the Israeli public because you see the outcry of the hostage family and it's of course understood and they're saying clearly that they will escalate again if those terms are applicable they're they're they're plea to get back their love so I think in in in when in such uncertainty you you work with what you have in your hand by necessity so if you there's an open there's a window that opens up you use it then that's the way you do back and forth but you have to keep the military pressure on in terms of also ground incursion and that's what we do and speaking of uncertainty and going back to the American involvement here and the desire on behalf of Washington to get a clear or a better sense of the day after even though it it is still a long way ahead my question to you lieutenant colonel avatar and obviously that the American trauma in Iraq in Afghanistan with the lack of a clear exit point or an end goal is evident and yet at this in this situation is an end goal really crucial to the operations on the ground now can we cannot think about it later we should we can but now the objective is very clear you have an enemy under your aims and you have to go forward this is what we do okay of course had we taken the whole Gaza Strip then we would have to rethink what do we do next but I think it's important also for us the Israelis to understand that this aligns around us okay the US Europe NATO and also our allies in the Middle East and I would put Egypt Jordan even Saudi Arabia the PA if it comes back to its to its forces would demand after this ends some kind of resolution a new resolution in the Middle East we won't be able to avoid it so I'm saying now we're at war we have to complete it but afterwards we should expect some serious attempt from our allies to work with us to some kind of no resolution in the Middle East and this is perhaps the silver lining in this this darkness that the clear line that is being drawn this renewed version of the axis of evil also means that the powers of light will have to align themselves together and normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia sounds like like a solid response to Iran's attempts to destabilize the region exactly and we have to understand that the Hamas move was in some sense in the context of the initiative the Saudi initiative and attempt to intercept it and now so it would go through shedding a lot of blood but in the end maybe this would be the direction long days ahead but good is on its way to Alexander Karnola the long the run of it all thank you very much for joining us on this broadcast we appreciate your time and your insight as per always thank you and we want to conclude this broadcast with what is bleeding inside all of us as we speak at least 229 Israeli hostages still being held captive in the Gaza Strip by vile Hamas terrorist their families demanding to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Tanyao immediately while their relentless global campaign to release them continues in full swing as well you're seeing now on your screens a massive 200 meters poster saying never again yes again never again it was hung this weekend at the Levganim Seniors Facility in Tanya focusing on the elderly that are being held by Hamas among them Holocaust survivors what if it was your own grandmother and grandfather's well these are our grandmothers and grandfathers and we will the nation's heart will will not stop beating now will not be beating again rather until they're all back home this is it from us now we'll be back at the top of the hour thank you for watching Israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity come to the special broadcast here on 9 24 news we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war in Israel the war and the fog of war a second terror squad eliminated this afternoon in southern Lebanon after trying to launch an anti-tank missiles towards Israeli troops in the south renewed rocket fire from the gulf strip towards southern Israel the IDF is expanding its action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of Hamas's earlier aerial and naval operations against the backdrop of a ridiculous U.N. call for a ceasefire the IDF revealing further proof to what was known main Hamas headquarters located under the Shifa hospital in Gaza city as Hamas is using the largest hospital in the strip as a human shield this morning IDF spokesperson once again urging Palestinians in the northern part of the strip to move south where humanitarian centers are set up food water medicine all available but Hamas continues to prevent them from mobilizing whilst talking up on fuel to continue its own terrorist operations going at the direct expense of civilians here's the latest from the IDF spokesperson we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against goals that we set for ourselves eliminating Hamas security on the borders and goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of their of our assessments and our advancement in the decision-making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders we will receive the right operational decisions when these goals are campus and as we speak red siren alerts are being held here right here in Tel Aviv we can hear it from our studios at the jaffa port here as you can see perhaps our colleagues rushing to shelter yet again ongoing barrages of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards different parts of Israel let's cross now by phone to i-24 news senior defense correspondent Jonathan reggaev Jonathan again as we speak it's another barrage of rockets this time targeting Israel's center earlier in the day Israel south was under a constant constant attack what can you tell us all right we will try to reconnect with i-24 news as senior defense correspondent Jonathan reggaev later on but joining us now here in studio dr. David Shimoni from commanders for Israel security thank you very much dr. Shimoni for joining us once again the not once again ongoing rocket fire from the Gaza Strip nor the way to put it and many here in Israel and abroad are wondering how come would the scope and scale and intensity of israeli strikes there in recent in recent days in the past 20 days or so how come they still have the ability to launch this amount of rockets that's a good question it's a concern to all of us of course okay so we understand that they have huge stockpiles of ammunition we can hear the interceptions hopefully this is a sound of boom again this is we are reporting it live to our audience so we will so they get at least perhaps a glimpse to what it's been like here in the past 22 days please dr. Shimoni yeah so we're sitting here in the studio and hearing the explosions above our heads i say that first of all the Hamas has been stockpiling for many years and protecting their ammunition underground and i think the israeli air force is capable of wiping out this ability but there's a huge consideration for the civil population in Gaza so you cannot just bomb the entire Gaza Strip and every place that we know and we know where these ammunitions are hidden because they are hidden under civilian buildings and schools and facilities hospitals we now hear from the IDF spokesman so there's a there's a big dilemma here how much do you want to strike how fast do you want to try to eliminate this rocket ability without causing too much damage upon the civilian population the question is always at what price and in this respect dr. Shimoni we have seen the israeli operations intensifying with the idea for spokesperson reiterating or clarifying whether what we're seeing those in and out of ground forces in the strip in the past two days or so this is not the grand ground operation and yet we will see more of that yes this is not the big major offensive of tens and thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops rolling into the Gaza Strip we're talking about limited operations both in scope and in depth okay so we're talking about incursions that are about one kilometer one and a half kilometers into the Gaza Strip there are engagements between our troops and Hamas fighters according to what we know successful as from our side engagements inflicting casualties upon the Hamas fighters and we can imagine that these incursions are supposed to improve our conditions for a ground big ground offensive to clear access roads to clear mines to clear booby traps to position observation preparing the ground for the ground operation exactly as precisely and as we know also there's a ongoing attempt to try to find bodies of people who were kidnapped and killed upon on the way into into Gaza so the idea of forces is unfortunately have to deal also with this terrible mission so to that point doctor Shimoni in the earlier days of the of the war and perhaps on as a sign it is a side note this is a good thing that there are assessments and reassessments and thinking and rethinking of of of existing notions um nowadays at this point in time at the earlier phases there was this notion that both objectives of the war the hostages release and eliminate eliminating Hamas I wouldn't say are contradicted but cannot be achieved at the same time together cannot be achieved both through a ground operation and we're seeing perhaps a change in tune here it's a big question if they can be done simultaneously I believe this should be done simultaneously I think if asking my opinion top priority is the hostages is the captives bring them home as soon as possible as safely as possible and we have time to destroy the Hamas I believe the destruction of the Hamas can be a long operation not necessarily all on the battlefield there also you can choke their finances and you can isolate you should right all yeah all means so we're talking now about some some kind of attrition that is inflicted upon Hamas trying to deplete their their stockpiles without them having an ability to replenish but according to the New York Times report from today overnight rather dr. Shimoni it seems that Hamas has been um um readying itself preparing its stocks for more or less four four months of fighting when we talk about fuel and water and food and everything they need to to pursue their operations it's good that it was exposed by the New York Times because the world is not aware of that and there's a lot of pressure on Israel to allow supplies to allow a fuel and as far as even the New York Times reports they have big supplies of food of ammunition Hamas Hamas not the civilians and this is uh what's unfortunate perhaps yes Hamas is not very considerate of their own population that's that's a way to put it not very considerate an understatement uh indeed um and yet I do want to go back to the hostage situation because once again if we're talking about um progressing notions I wouldn't say changing notions time obviously is running out because every second under in the captivity of vile Nazi Hamas terrorists is eternity and yet if there was a thought that the longer um for them to be released the higher the price will be quote unquote for Israel now we're again hearing different voices saying this time is not necessarily is going against the Israeli objectives and that Hamas with its you know double game with the Qatari assistance of reporting here and there progress and it goes into that if a ground operation or rather the power will be um uh will be put on the table the gun of power will be put on the table not the diplomatic one that might also help the hostages objective yeah I believe the more pressure on military pressure on Hamas the more encouragement they'll have to try to negotiate a deal with the hostages for a ceasefire for reduction or for a temporary ceasefire to to improve their military situation their their survival so yes the more pressure we apply upon Hamas the better conditions we have for negotiations but as you mentioned time is a major factor for the hostages they're they're in a terrible situation I would also want to say that I think for our leaders to to do the utmost to save the the captives that the hostages is something that is a message to the entire Israeli people that we care about our people that we do everything to to save them to rescue them it's a message to our troops that if they fall captive Israel will do everything to get them out I think there's even a message to the Jews of the world absolutely that we are there to to be their anchor their security so I think there's a very big reason why our leaders should put this on top top priority above the the care for the these poor people and their families yeah the backbone the moral backbone of of of israel is exactly that and this is what we're fighting for about maintaining for maintaining this moral backbone of a light and of life but we do want to jump now to the north yet another active scene as we put it nowadays i-24 news correspondent mary mccollif standing by there with the i-24 news team area thank you very much for joining us well since the last time we talked exactly an hour ago yet another squad terrorist squad eliminated on the border with Lebanon attempting to launch entire tank missiles that's right ellie so this coming from a statement just in from the Israeli defense forces in the past hour saying that had struck a tear cell in southern Lebanon just as you mentioned using an explosive blade and drone to attack those cells i can tell you here on the border for the past couple of hours we've heard successive strikes from israelis into southern lebanon we can't actually see the smoke rising but we can hear it so near it's probably about eight kilometer eight miles from where we're standing and they really have not stopped we've only seen a couple statements though talking about different strikes but certainly the statements we have from the Israeli military is not adding up to what we're hearing on the ground and that is very high frequency of the attacks into southern lebanon but this course is coming as part of israel's response to hezbollah and other terror groups which are acting in southern lebanon saying that they are prepared to defend in any way shape or forms necessary to all threats and they're very carefully keeping an eye on this northern border as its operation in gaza continues we've seen many warnings coming out from people in the region warning what's going to happen if israel goes further into gaza notably those of ronnie and back proxies including hezbollah who are in the area saying that they are ready to fight and ready to step up their resistance if the time does come and speaking to that point america the u.s. is two striking weapons and munitions facilities in syria in response to attacks on american forces here in the region 19 times in iraq and in syria all by iranian-backed forces of course yes elix we do believe that number has actually reached 20 now though we don't have official confirmation from the united states but we did hear overnight that there were some attacks on a base that was housing american soldiers in syria in the tanaf area by explosive laden drones all we really have though is the statement from this iranian-backed iraqi group saying they did attack the base we have nothing from the american side no confirmation that there was an attack and no reports of injuries yet but we do continue to see attacks on forces in the region especially american forces through the course of this and really escalating those attacks since this operation with gaza began and we've seen many of the warnings coming out as well as from the united states warning all actors in the region to not escalate the situation in the u.s. is saying if there is going to be an escalation escalation in the region it's going to be because of these iranian-backed groups who continue to try and staying both u.s. back to us back forces as well as its allies in the region and to this note we also saw the netherlands issuing a warning to its citizens telling them to leave iraq immediately it also comes as the u.s. itself is once again urging its citizens in lebanon to leave before it's too late to leave saying once the crisis erupts it could be too late for them so urging all civilians to try and manage their own way out in lebanon and this is also perhaps one of the reasons so to speak that were provided when asked why the israeli ground operation down south is taking time for the americans to conclude its deployment their deployment of all their systems here in the region and earlier today the u.s. isenhower reaching the mediterranean yeah all forces are ready that's for certain at 24 news correspondent mary mccolliff on the northern front with lebanon thank you very much for this and from north we're jumping down to the south at 24 news a senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae of jonathan the beginning of this broadcast a fresh barrage of rockets this time targeting israel's center including at the city of tilaviv yesterday it is important to note a direct hit in a building in tilaviv which goes to say that the home front command instructions are of paramount importance obviously the iron dome entire entire missile system is intercepting most rockets being launched but it is enough for one direct hit to cause great damage so adhering to those on front command protocols is crucial uh what can you tell us about what's happening down south jonathan troops tanks are in and out but this is not it this is not the big ground incursion no not it and i don't know if you can hear but around me a lot of artillery pounding artillery towards the gaza strip it seems as if again there's no official word but israel is is perhaps instead of going massively with a massive ground invasion little by little we saw some ground operations on thursday night and then a perhaps a larger operation for which came along with massive artillery shelling on friday night a little by little more forces and more forces coming in instead of perhaps announcing a major major operation which will begin all at once little by little step by step the israeli army taking more and more territory and especially targeting underground installations in in the area we understand from the idea for speaking of some 150 underground targets because this was the hamas mode of operation letting the israeli come in and then surprise the army from underground it's the same as they're doing in gaza city in gaza city under the shifa hospital that's where the hamas leadership is hiding again using human shields and it's the same story in other places around gaza there's a second gaza under the ground this is where the the hamas terrorists are hiding trying to draw the israeli army in and then surprising from underground so these underground installations this is what the israeli artillery is trying to target first yeah surgical operations for the time being where the specific targets that are being hit and jonathan due to the justifiable and understandable intensifying outcry of the families of over 229 israelis still being held hostage in the gaza strip they threatened to i'm not sure that this term is applicable here to escalate their their protest but we now hear that the defense minister you have gallant will be meeting them tomorrow to try and provide a clear picture of the efforts that are underway and here it is important to note jonathan the fog of war is is one of the tools this ambiguity um on the hostage issue is part of the game and the question is a ground operation which is already beginning is it helping or not helping any efforts to release hostages it seems the hamas was allowing itself as long as there was no ground operation to say that it's demanding huge numbers of prisoner release from israel and lots of fuel to be coming into gaza demands which israeli simply is is not agreeing to and perhaps the fact that some some kind of a ground invasion is beginning that perhaps could be putting more pressure on the other side the reality is we do we do not know we do not know which will what what is it that will benefit the hostages more we do know that the state of israel has to do everything everything in its power to get them out yes no doubt about that type 24 news a senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae down south thank you very much for this jonathan reggae and back here in studio with dr david shimoni thank you very much dr shimoni for staying with us um when when we're talking about um about the immediate objectives down south as part of this as we've put it earlier preparing the ground for a ground operation what are we to see in the coming days until uh the second phase of the war if you will i think you began our broadcast with the word fog which is a characteristic of war and the more it intensifies the more fog will have and the less we will see and know because things become very very clarity is nowhere in sight clarity is nowhere in sight uh shouldn't be the insight both regarding our operations and regarding the negotiations to free the hostages a lot of noise a lot of rumors but i think we should maintain this obscurity of what's going on again it also depends who is making the decisions if uh the idea makes decision to invade if the president of the united states is restricting our our actions in the south is chiz bala deciding to conduct its own warfare independently full-scale so there are many many factors deciding who is going to make the next call simply put yeah as far as i i can uh hope uh we'll try to maintain a low scale uh operation in the south while trying to advance the release of the hostages to retaliate to continue to to uh pounds uh hammers abilities to to cause the damage to them inflict casualties and loss of their equipment but i think again nobody knows what would be the threshold under which the chiz bala will join the fighting full-scale for the time being they're not right they're holding fire right and of course the different fronts are profoundly intertwined and in this respect a front that we are talking uh less about and thankfully that's indeed the case and yet volatile more than ever before the west bank um so far quiet but this is due to ongoing operations of idea forces there well that's uh it's very important to remember what's happening in in the west bank uh it's very explosive it can be uh ignited by some irresponsible small action by any extremists from any side of the uh political map or the uh Israelis or the Palestinians so yes we have to maintain a force there unfortunately because it's taking our effort from from the south and from the north but the the west bank is very very dangerous very explosive and if you ask me what's happening in the next few days the big question is what's happening in the next months and years because we have to find a political solution not only a military solution from north from south from east luckily for us the fish are not yet against us dr david shimoni from commanders for israel security thank you very much sir for your time for your insight we appreciate it very much and we do want to end this broadcast perhaps for the positive note yadidim is the biggest volunteer organization here in israel more than 60 000 volunteers are involved in since the beginning of the war of course helping out with everything that they can i displaced residents and organizations and even military units here's more in the next report this small school in the central city of pay taktikba has become the temporary headquarters of yadidim the hebrew word for friends and the biggest volunteer organization in israel the organization is known mostly for helping cars stuck on the road but now does much more we are acting on three main levels the first level concerns the people's spirit we are organizing barbecues and military bases we are taking care of the families we even do their laundry the second level is helping the public we fix security rooms we deliver food and supplies the third level is the front we understand what they lack and we supply them with everything they need i24 news joined a team on their daily mission our first stop is in a makeshift military base near the southern city of of akim a group of reserve soldiers are asking for ratchet straps i don't try to find out why things are missing here but as someone who serves for two years in this unit i know that whenever i need something i can turn to yadidim organization the second stop is in berseva where the team joins another group of volunteers on their way to fix the window of a security room one member of the berseva team tells us about his experience on october 7th starting from five p.m. saturday we started to help the forces to collect the bodies from the party at rayim i was there until monday morning in the organization's warehouse we see a variety of objects donated to soldiers and civilians from simple shirts to drones worth thousands of dollars this is perhaps another example of the rare spirit of giving helping and caring in the israeli society today and as a constant reminder not that we need any because it is a bleeding wound inside all of us as we speak at least 229 israeli hostages are still being held captive by vile hamas nazi hamas terrorists in the gaza strip their families demanding to see action and tomorrow they will meet with israeli defense minister you have gallant uh while the relentless global campaign to release them continues of course in full swing you can see now on your screens a massive 200 meters posters saying never again again we're using the term never again hung this weekend at the levganima seniors facility in the city of natanya focusing on the elderly that are being held by hamas terrorists among them holocaust survivors yes what if it was your grandmother it is asked there in hebrew in arabic and in english well these are our grandmothers our grandfathers and this nation's heart will not be beating properly until until they're all back home yes indeed and by that we're concluding this broadcast but you can always stay updated by following us online i24news.tv or on social media or the latest you can find there and we will be back here from the i24news room at the top of the hour with all the latest day 22 of the war here in israel 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24news the american red wolf is the most endangered wolf in the entire world and the american red wolf is the only wolf that is only native to the united states and in that regards they should be a national treasure so it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care and it's very important for people to be aware of the 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gaza city as hamas is using the largest hospital in the strip as a human shield this morning idf spokesperson once again urging palestinians in the northern part of the strip to move south or humanitarian centers are set up food water medicine all available but hamas continues to prevent them from mobilizing whilst talking up on fuel to continue its own terrorist operations going at the direct expense of civilians here's the latest from the idf spokesperson we will continue to maintain the security of our forces while employing heavy fire from the air we operate against uh i mean goals that we set for ourselves eliminating hamas security on the borders and the goal of returning the kidnapped all of these together are part of the of our assessment and our advancement in the decision making by the chief of led by the chief of staff and the other commanders will receive the right operational decisions when these goals are campus and as we speak red siren alerts are being hailed right here in televiv we can hear it from our studios at the jaffa port here as you can see perhaps our colleagues rushing to shelter yet again ongoing barrages of rockets from the gaza strip towards different parts of israel let's cross now by phone to i-24 news senior defense correspondent jonathan regive jonathan again as we speak it's another barrage of rockets this time targeting israel's center earlier in the day israel south was under our constant constant attack what can you tell us all right we will try to reconnect with i-24 news senior defense correspondent jonathan regive later on but joining us now here in studio dr david shimoni from commanders for israel's security thank you very much dr shimoni for joining us once again the not once again ongoing rocket fire from the gaza strip no other way to put it and many here in israel and abroad are wondering how come with the scope and scale and intensity of israeli strikes there in recent in recent days in in the past 20 days or so how come they still have the ability to launch this amount of rockets that's a good question it's a concern to all of us of course okay so we understand that they have huge stockpiles of ammunition and we can hear the interceptions hopefully this is a sound of boom again this is we are reporting it live to our audience so we will so they get at least perhaps a glimpse to what it's been like here in the past 22 days please dr shimoni yeah so we're sitting here in the studio and hearing the explosions above our heads i say that first of all the hamas has been stockpiling for many years and protecting their ammunition underground and i think the israeli air force is capable of wiping out this ability but there's a huge consideration for the civil population in gaza so you cannot just bomb the entire gaza strip and every place that we know and we know where these ammunitions are hidden because they are hidden under civilian buildings and schools and facilities hospitals we now hear from the idea of a spokesman so there's a there's a big dilemma here how much do you want to strike a how fast do you want to try to eliminate this rocket ability without causing too much right damage upon the civilian population the question is always at what price and in this respect dr shimoni we have seen the israeli operations intensifying with the idea for spokesperson reiterating or clarifying whether what we're seeing those in and out of ground forces in the strip in the past two days or so this is not the grand ground operation and yet we will see more of that yes this is not the big major offensive of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops rolling into the gaza strip we're talking about limited operations both in scope and in depth okay so we're talking about incursions that are about one kilometer one and a half kilometers into the gaza strip there are engagements between our troops and chamas fighters according to what we know successful as from our side engagements inflicting casualties upon the chamas fighters and we can imagine that these incursions are supposed to improve our conditions for a ground big ground offensive to clear access roads to clear mines to clear booby traps to position observation devices preparing the ground for the ground operation exactly as precisely and as we know also there's an ongoing attempt to try to find bodies of people who were kidnapped and killed on the way into into gaza so the idea forces unfortunately have to deal also with this terrible mission so to that point dr shimoni in the earlier days of the of the war and perhaps on as a signal it is a side note this is a good thing that there are assessments and reassessments and thinking and rethinking of of existing notions nowadays at this point in time at the earlier phases there was this notion that both objectives of the war the hostages release and eliminate eliminated chamas i wouldn't say are contradicted but cannot be achieved at the same time together cannot be achieved both through a ground operation and we're seeing perhaps a change in tune here it's a big question if they can be done simultaneously i believe this should be done simultaneously i think if asking my opinion top priority is the hostages is the captives bring them home as soon as possible as safely as possible and we have time to destroy the chamas i believe the destruction of the chamas can be a long operation not necessarily all on the battlefield also you can choke their finances and you can isolate right all yeah all means so we're talking now about some some kind of attrition that is inflicted upon chamas trying to deplete their their stockpiles without them having an ability to replenish but according to the new york times report from today overnight rather dr. shimoni it seems that chamas has been um um readying itself preparing its stocks for more or less four four months of fighting when we talk about fuel and water and food and everything they need to to pursue their operations it's good that it was exposed by the new york times because the world is not aware of that and there's a lot of pressure on israel to allow supplies to allow a fuel and as far as even the new york times reports they have big supplies of food of ammunition chamas chamas not the civilians and this is uh what's unfortunate perhaps yes chamas is not very considerate of their own population that's a that's a way to put it not very considerate an understatement indeed um and yet i do want to go back to the hostage uh situation because once again if we're talking about um progressing notions i wouldn't say changing notions time obviously is running out because every second under in the captivity of vile nazi chamas terrorist is is eternity and yet if there was a thought that the longer um uh for them to be released the higher the price will be quote unquote for israel now we're again hearing different voices saying this time is not necessarily is going against the israeli objectives and that chamas with its you know double game with the qatari assistance of reporting here in their progress and it goes into that if a ground operation or rather the power will be um uh will be put on the table the gun of power will be put on the table not the diplomatic one that might also help the hostages objective yeah i believe the more pressure on military pressure on chamas the more encouragement they'll have to try to negotiate a deal with the hostages for a ceasefire for reduction or for a temporary ceasefire to to improve their military situation their their survival so yes the more pressure we apply upon chamas the better conditions we have for negotiations but as you mentioned time is a major factor for the hostages they're in a terrible situation i would also want to say that i think for our leaders uh to to do the utmost to save the uh the captives that the hostages is something that is a message to the entire israeli people that we care about our people that we do everything to to save them to rescue them it's a message to our troops that if they fall captive israel will do everything to get them out i think there's even a message to the jews of the world absolutely that we are there to to be their anchor their security so i think there's a very big um uh reason why our leaders should put this on top top priority above the uh the care for the these poor people and their families yeah the backbone the moral backbone of of of israel is exactly that and uh this is what we're fighting for about maintaining for maintaining this moral backbone of a light and of life but uh we do want to jump now to the north yet another active scene as we put it nowadays i24 news correspondent mary mccollif standing by there with the i24 news team area thank you very much for joining us well um since the last time we talked exactly an hour ago yet another um squad terrorist squad eliminated on uh the border with uh lebanon um attempting to launch entire tank missiles that's right ellie so this coming from a statement just in from the israeli defense forces in the past hour saying that had struck a tear cell inside the lebanon just as you mentioned using an explosive blade and drone to attack those cells i can tell you here on the border for the past couple of hours we've heard successive strikes from israelis into southern lebanon we can't actually see the smoke rising but we can hear it so near it's probably about eight kilometer eight miles from where we're standing and they really have not stopped we've only seen a couple statements though talking about different strikes but certainly the statements we have from the israeli military is not adding up to what we're hearing on the ground and that is very high frequency of the attacks into southern lebanon but this course is coming as part of israel's response to hezbollah and other terror groups which are acting in southern lebanon saying that they are prepared to defend in any way shape or forms necessary to all threats and they're very carefully keeping an eye on this northern border as its operation in gaza continues we've seen many warnings coming out from people in the region warning what's going to happen if israel goes further into gaza notably those iranian back proxies including hezbollah who are in the area saying that they are ready to fight and ready to step up their resistance if the time does come and speaking to that point america the us is two striking weapons and munitions facilities in syria in response to attacks on american forces here in the region 19 times in iraq and in syria all by iranian-backed forces of course yes elix we do believe that number has actually reached 20 now though we don't have official confirmation from the united states but we did hear overnight that there were some attacks on a base that was housing american soldiers in syria in the tunaf area by explosive laden drones all we really have though is this statement from this iranian-backed iraqi group saying they did attack the base we have nothing from the american side no confirmation that there was an attack and no reports of injuries yet but we do continue to see attacks on forces in the region especially american forces through the course of this and really escalating those attacks since this operation with gaza began and we've seen many of the warnings coming out as well as from the united states warning all actors in the region to not escalate the situation in the us is saying if there is going to be an escalation in the region it's going to be because of these iranian-backed groups who continue to try and staying both us back to ala us back forces as well as its allies in the region and to this note we also saw the netherlands issuing a warning to its citizens telling them to leave iraq immediately it also comes as the us itself is once again urging its citizens in lebanon to leave before it's too late to leave saying once the crisis erupts it could be too late for them so urging all civilians to try and manage their own way out in lebanon and this is also perhaps one of the reasons uh uh so to speak that uh were provided uh when asked uh why the israeli ground operation down south is taking time for the americans to conclude its deployment their deployment of all their systems here in the region and earlier today the uss eyes and how are reaching the mediterranean um yeah all forces are ready that's for sure tonight 24 news uh correspondent mary mccullough on the northern front with lebanon thank you very much for this and from north we're jumping down to the south that 24 news is senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae of jonathan the beginning of this broadcast a fresh barrage of rockets this time targeting israel's center including at the city of televiv yesterday it is important to note a direct hit in a building in televiv which goes to say that the home front command instructions are of paramount importance obviously the iron dome entire anti-missile system is intercepting most rockets being launched but it is enough for one direct hit to cause great damage so adhering to those on front command protocols is crucial what's going to tell us about what's happening uh down south jonathan troops tanks are in and out but this is not it this is not the big ground incursion no not it and i don't know if you can hear but around me a lot of artillery pounding artillery towards the gaza strip it seems as if again there's no official word but israel is is perhaps instead of going massively with a massive ground invasion little by little we saw some ground operations on thursday night and then a perhaps a larger operation for which came along with massive artillery shelling on friday night a little by little more forces and more forces coming in instead of perhaps announcing a major major operation which will begin on it once little by little step by step the israeli army taking more and more territory and especially targeting underground installations in in the area we understand from the idf we're speaking of some 150 underground targets because this was the chamas mode of operation letting these really come in and then surprise the army from underground it's the same as they're doing in gaza city in gaza city under the shefa hospital that's where the chamas leadership is hiding again using human shields and it's the same story in other places around gaza there's a second gaza under the ground this is where the the chamas terrorists are hiding trying to draw the israeli army in and then surprising from underground so these underground installations this is what the israeli artillery is trying to target first yeah the surgical operations for the time being where the specific targets that are being hit and jonathan due to the justifiable and understandable intensifying outcry of the families of over 229 israelis still being held hostage in the gaza strip they threatened to i'm not sure that this term is applicable here to escalate their protest but we now hear that the defense minister yov galant will be meeting them tomorrow to try and provide a clear picture of the efforts that are underway and here it is important to note jonathan the fog of war is is one of the tools this ambiguity um on the hostage issue is part of the game and the question is is a a a and a ground operation which is already beginning is it a helping or not helping any efforts to release a hostages it seems as if chamas was allowing itself as long as there was no ground operation to say that it's demanding huge numbers of prisoner release from israel and lots of fuel to be coming into gaza demands which israeli simply is is not agreeing to and perhaps the fact that some some kind of a ground invasion is beginning that perhaps could be putting more pressure on the other side the reality is we do we do not know we do not know which will what what is it that will benefit the hostages more we do know that the state of israel has to do everything everything in his power to get them out yes uh no doubt about that tai 24 news a senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae down south thank you very much um for uh this jonathan reggae and back here in studio with dr david shimoni thank you very much dr shimoni for staying with us um when when we're talking uh about um about the immediate objectives down south as part of this as we've put it earlier preparing the ground for a ground operation what are we to see in the coming days until uh uh the second phase of the war if you will i think you began our broadcast with the word fog which is a characteristic of war and the the more it intensifies the more fog will have and the less we will see and know because things become very very clarity is nowhere in sight clarity is nowhere in sight shouldn't be in sight both regarding our operations and regarding the negotiations to free the hostages a lot of noise a lot of rumors but i think we should maintain this uh uh obscurity of what's going on um again it also depends who is making the decisions if uh the idf makes decision to invade if the president of the united states is restricting our our actions in the south is jizbala uh deciding to conduct its own warfare independently full scale so there are many many um factors deciding who is going to make the the next was calling the shop simply put yeah as far as i i can uh hope uh we'll try to maintain a low scale uh operation in the south while trying to advance the release of the hostages to retaliate to continue to to pounce uh hamas abilities to to cause the damage to them inflict casualties and loss of their equipment but i think again nobody knows what would be the threshold under which the jizbala will join the fighting full scale for the time being they're not right they're holding fire right and of course the different fronts are profoundly intertwined and in this respect a front that we are talking uh less about and thankfully that's indeed the case and yet volatile more than ever before the west bank um so far quiet but this is due to ongoing operations of idea forces there well that's uh it's very important to remember what's happening in in the west bank uh it's very explosive it can be uh ignited by some irresponsible small action by any extremists from any side of the political map or the uh uh israelis or the palestinians so yes we have to maintain a force there unfortunately because it's taking our effort from from the south and from the north but the the west bank is very very dangerous very explosive and if you ask me what's happening in the next few days the big question is what's happening in the next months and years because we have to find a political solution not only a military from north from south from east luckily for us the fish are not yet against us dr. david shimoni from commanders for israel security thank you very much sir for your time for your insight we appreciate it very much and we do want to end this broadcast perhaps with a positive note yadidim is the biggest volunteer organization here in israel more than 60 000 volunteers are involved in since the beginning of the war of course helping out with everything that they can i displaced residents and organizations and even military uh units here's more in the next report this small school in the central city of pey tach tikva has become the temporary headquarters of yadidim the Hebrew word for friends and to the biggest volunteer organization in israel the organization is known mostly for helping cars stuck on the road but now does much more we are acting on three main levels the first level concerns the people's spirit we are organizing barbecues and military bases we are taking care of the families we even do their laundry the second level is helping the public we fix security rooms we deliver food and supplies the third level is the front we understand what they lack and we supply them with everything they need i24 news joined a team on their daily mission our first stop is in a makeshift military base near the southern city of of akim a group of reserve soldiers are asking for ratchet straps i don't try to find out why things are missing here but as someone who serves for two years in this unit i know that whenever i need something i can turn to yadidim organization the second stop is in bersheva where the team joins another group of volunteers on their way to fix the window of a security room one member of the bersheva team tells us about his experience on october 7th starting from five p.m. saturday we started to help the forces to collect the bodies from the party at reyem i was there until monday morning in the organization's warehouse we see a variety of objects donated to soldiers and civilians from simple shirts to drones worth thousands of dollars this is perhaps another example of the rare spirit of giving helping and caring in the israeli society today and as a constant reminder not that we need any because it is a bleeding wound inside all of us as we speak at least 229 israeli hostages are still being held captive by vile hamas nazi hamas terrorists in the gala strip their families demanding to see action and tomorrow they will meet with israeli defense minister jov galant while the relentless global campaign to release them continues of course in full swing you can see now on your screens a massive 200 meters poster saying never again again we're using the term never again hung this weekend at the levganima seniors facility in the city of natalia focusing on the elderly that are being held by hamas terrorists among them holocaust survivors yes what if it was your grandmother it is asked there in hebrew in arabic and in english well these are our grandmothers our grandfathers and this nation's heart will not be beating properly until until they're all back home yes indeed and by that we're concluding this broadcast but you can always stay updated by following us online i24news.tv or on social media or the latest you can find there and we will be back here from the i24news room at the top of the hour with all the latest day 22 of the war here in israel 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24news dozens of correspondents throughout the world brings the truth from israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries bringing israel's story to the world i24news channels the special broadcast here in i24news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel the war and the fog of war sirens being heard this hour in the north in the center and the south of israel ongoing rocket fire on the northern front third terror squad eliminated today in southern lebanon after trying to launch entire tank missiles towards israeli troops in the west bank more arrests of hamas operatives there in the south the idf expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of hamas's aerial and naval operations against the backdrop of the intensifying idf activity in the strip the families of the over 229 hostages demanding answers from the government defense minister yov galant is set to meet with them tomorrow and as we speak right alerts being heard once again down south and the community is adjacent to the border with the gaza strip currently no civilians there as it is all dubbed a war zone completely empty of israeli civilians there but we do want to begin the broadcast up north on the israel lebanon border i-24 news correspondent mary mccall if standing by there with the rest of the i-24 news team there underground mary sirens in the north this past hour as a third squad eliminated yet another busy day on the northern front yes that's right le so you've seen a number of different attacks coming from inside southern lebanon i want to say it's actually been fairly quieter than it has been in recent days but we do continue to hear these sporadic explosions especially here in northern israel we can hear explosions coming from southern lebanon that's what lebanese lebanese news sources are saying is a heavy israeli artillery shelling in a village that's just over the northern border i'm going to get out of the way so we you go or best of line go behind the camera can show you a little what's going on just moments ago so he's going to zoom in on these observation posts up here normally we would not show this military information but these are videos in the installations have been posted numerous times in the past couple weeks by hezbollah claiming that they were targeting these surveillance outposts and aspects of what it's called the enemy's military forces in the area just moments before it began speaking to you we actually saw the glow of something coming from southern lebanon and once again targeting that red and white tower you can see just about 20 minutes ago we also saw large plumes of smoke rising from this area so we know this is an area that lebanese forces hezbollah forces acting in lebanon continue to keep targeting over and over again these are areas that are also very near israeli communities these israeli communities have of course been evacuated due to the constant threats that we're seeing but israel is saying it's continuing to retaliate against these hezbollah and palestinian terror groups in the area that they will continue to do so and are very carefully keeping an eye on to see what happens next to see if hezbollah decides to escalate its attacks as it continues to watch the ongoing operation in gaza unfold and to that point exactly married the iranian foreign minister of the leon is saying that iran has did not mobilize or or spread new forces in syria or in lebanon or in the area all together in iraq as well it is mentioning but we have seen several assaults against american forces there and in response to some american strikes in syria that's right well orance might not be moving troops into the area moving troops what we do know is that they're absolutely on the ground at least these iranian back proxies this is something that we've seen in the middle east for years now but since the war with gaza began between israel and gaza we have seen an increase in frequency in attacks on us bases not just attacks inside northern israel but also on us bases another one happened last night we're still waiting for confirmation from the us to confirm that there were a number of attacks but at least an iranian backed iraqi group is saying that it launched explosive drones at a number of different us bases in syria again we don't have any confirmation from the american side nor do we have any reports of injuries or casualties as a result of the strikes but it's certainly not the first time they have been attacked and the us response just days ago was the first time since march the us has actually launched a strike so everyone is very carefully keeping their eyes open in this region the us is sending air force strike carrier groups a new aircraft carrier just arrived to the Mediterranean earlier this morning and that's all part of the israeli of the missions by those in the air so i'm just going to cut off now eager showing you can see these are the rockets that i was talking about rockets mortarshells artillery we don't really know what exactly they are but just moments before we begin talking to you we saw one of those land on those observation posts since i've turned around i've seen at least three i'm not sure how many were there before but we can see we can see them heavily targeting this is really military infrastructure yes an ongoing situation uh there on the northern uh front marine as you've put it one eye more than one eye always open on what is happening uh there uh now the entire middle east on edge um that's perhaps an understatement i-24 news correspondent Mary McAuliffe and the i-24 news team they're underground following and monitoring every single development there thank you very much for this and joining us now in studio mr afel you're showing me security analyst and former intelligence officer thank you very much mr you're showing me for joining us well we're we're saying that in the northern border and again we continue to see those images that our team there is is showing us even a perceived calm is a deceiving one it could be deceiving i mean i would say so far so good yeah we're containing the north we do not need an escalation right away i do think that once we've dealt with the Hamas we will have to deal with the because otherwise it will be in the same scenario in the north over taking bomb yeah or being hostages held hostages by terrorist faction right so of course it would be preferable to do this in our own time and when we decide but would the risbala decided to enter now in conflict with israel we are prepared the troops are deployed the reservists have been called and there is a difference because in the south there was the wrong conception there was a misreading of what was going on with the Hamas which was not the case in the north we've always been on edge we know it's a threat existential existential threat much more serious than Hamas we've been training for it the americans know about it that's why they came and they're afraid that the risbala the Hamas i don't think on its own will not need to any extension of the conflict in the middle east it will remain quite uh localized localized even though from yemen they will shoot a few missiles you and the risbala will shoot a few missiles it is not going to be an extension of the conflict but his bala that's another ballgame together it brings iran i run more directly into a conflict with the israelis and the americans so so far so good but we do not know uh we must admit that we do not know what mr nasrallah has decided or will decide because he himself might not have decided yet right and then he might decide to romaning because and obviously this notion of the enemy is the third cannot or should no longer be used at this point in time and and mr shalmi while we were speaking on what's happening on the northern border yet another fresh barrage of rockets targeting israel south this barrage hitting or reaching rather sounding the red alerts in the negative capital the city of berishiba and we've seen ongoing rocket fire throughout the day to israel south and center and this is perhaps bringing me to to ask what is the hamas is remaining a capability because a fresh new york times report is indicating that according to biden administration uh estimations hamas is holding as we speak i'm not just talking about the fuel that it has been storing up in the food and the water that will enable it to pursue the fighting for roughly four months according to estimations we're talking about assets that are worth around half a billion dollars that are helping it hamas to to keep on going exactly and before the war started we estimated the number of missiles at the end of the hamas at around seven thousand i think now we have to be a little more pessimistic and think about ten thousand meaning they would have five thousand left they only have shot like half of the ammunition they have in stock but they can also produce as we know 80 percent of this i suppose that some of not everything has been destroyed yet the very uh game changing situation here is the launching pads because you can have as many missiles as you want if you can't launch them that's it right so how many launching paths do they have i remind the the viewers that most of the launching pads are on trucks because these missiles are short and medium range missiles that you can move around you can hide at night in an orchard and then shoot and then go somewhere else they're mobile for the larger missiles like those who were shot right now a few moments ago towards the center of isran to in berceva that requires a more a concrete built a launching pad something that requires a quite a bit of architecture that can be easily detected and there the problem is we know some of them where they are but they are near a hospital or near a school and there are many that are there is a human shield around it so we can only destroy if we come on the ground with our forces to destroy it because by air or by artillery and there's too much collateral damage even though i will remind also which is very important to know that by the protocol number one of the geneva convention collateral damage is legal if it's proportionate to the threat of the target so these these launching pads are if we wouldn't have the iron dome we would be justified in hitting them even though there are civilians around because we have the iron room we're trying to avoid to kill innocent people but that's only because we have this very big defense that's the calculation i personally think we should calculate our strategy as if we didn't have the iron dome and as we did have thousands and thousands of dead which would be the case in the so as counterintuitive as it may sound the defense mechanisms are essentially exposing or undermining the ability of israel to protect itself yes if i may say also the palestinian innocent civilians do not have shelters israelis have shelters some most israelis can some don't but the the civilians in gaza do not have any shelters of course the only shelter they have it's the ethical standards of israel and it is protecting them as much as possible and to that point exactly mr ill shall me will want to head down south at 24 news a senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae is standing by there with the at 24 news team jonathan i'm not sure if you could hear the conversation here in the studio with mr ill shall me about the um extra precautionary measures the idf is has is taking and will continue to take in order to protect gaza civilians to this day still urging begging gaza's residents in the northern part of the strip to move south because a there is humanitarian shelters there food water everything that they need and hamas is still proactively preventing them from doing so and connecting that and as we speak jonathan another round of red sirens alert being heard down south in the city of ashkelon you can i think maybe maybe you can see tally maybe you can see it right above our heads the those are the interceptors and we are just outside the city of ashkelon we're not in the city itself and yes the first sirens today i think in the ashkelon area we're seeing one two interceptions so far a third one now we see a third one so as we speak three interceptions right above us this happening as we speak you can hear the sound of it as well three sirens three interceptions we're seeing right above us we're hearing more explosions so there could be more a first barrage of rockets into ashkelon today you asked me about collateral damage how about this hamas is firing hamas is firing at civilians to hit civilians the only reason that we're not seeing hundreds of thousands of israelis killed is because of iran dome so so yes i do i do i want to see thousands of civilians dead in in gaza absolutely not does anyone want does anyone in israel want to see thousands of people dying in gaza absolutely not but this is a war zone and this war has been inflicted on israel and israel has to respond severely because this is the worst act of war on on the israeli home front ever by far and there has to be a response the enemy hamas is is putting civilians on its way launching from schools launching from hospitals launching from mosques that is what they do so so yes it's unfortunate it doesn't make me happy at all but there will be civilian casualties because hamas deliberately is putting them in the way israel is doing whatever possible to make sure that these people leave they're being asked to go south again and again to protect their lives and show me another country in the world Jonathan yes that that that will expose would have had a situation in which its civilians would have been exposed to this ongoing assault of rockets etc day in day out and would not respond israel perhaps in the most restrained manner possible and in this respect Jonathan we have seen 1.5 stage of the war right I wouldn't say the second stage of the war all together but we've seen those in and outs of troops and tanks entering and leaving the Gaza Strip surgical operations if you will alongside the aerial campaign that we're seeing and yet this is not the ground operation yes and now I'm not sure we will see a ground operation beginning we might but but not sure we'll see a ground operation beginning at once but possibly surgical incursions again and again cleansing another area and cleansing another area making sure it's it's clean of terrorists and making sure it's clean over there underground bunkers and whatever they have cleaning that area from the terrorists which which made this area their homes invading into people's homes building an underground city perhaps incursions here incursions there and from there leaping forward that might be the mode of operation it may be that it may be something bigger but at least for the past two nights we've seen a incursions small incursions will they be the ones eventually leading to a bigger incursion we'll have to wait and see I-24 News senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev down south thank you very much for your reporting today Jonathan and now we're moving back here in studio Mr. Afali Rushalmi still here with us so we're seeing this intensification in the operations down south what we can't say much and at this point of the war the fog of war is mentioned at the opening of the broadcast is a crucial element in what we're seeing to maintain this ambiguity and yet what what could be the objectives of those surgical operations in the strip from so far as we know since last night more than 150 tunnels assets were hit so when I mean assets I mean it's not necessary the tunnel itself that was destroyed but the access to the tunnel or the electricity for the tunnel some air vent that you know when people can't breathe in it so they have to abandon it that's one of the objectives a lot of infrastructure dozens of terrorists killed probably most a lot arrested which would be excellent for intelligence gathering and and the main operation on the main objective right now even though we are preparing maybe a wider operation even we are doing a cleanup is the hostages we are trying now as as the troops are moving they are trying to liberate hostages that's what they're looking for with the utmost priority so this this operation which is a very large-scale one we do not realize but this is like huge the amount of bombing that is being happening is huge it involves the artillery the air force the tanks and the navy and the navy is being very very efficient with four beds from the sea the navy has done zero mistake from the start I mean they're amazing and they shoot from from the sea so it's like a very heavy pounding that kind of strength that power might put the hammers on their knees and say okay take hostages please stop that could work because the negotiation is not going nowhere right now so and this new strategy we have to thank the americans for it because they are the ones who advise the Israelis saying okay hold on your horses we understand what you want to do maybe you just do it gradually maybe you wait and look how successful these incursions smaller bigger it's very good in out in out and then after a certain time when we really have weakened very very much the Hamas we can have the final incursion going in and I think this was coordinated with the americans they came with that advice and the Israeli is being not stupid and clever people who can listen are clever right they listen to that advice they're trying this this thing this thing seems to be actually working very well for us and until a couple of hours ago or so we had no casualties yet and let's do hope of course that it remains the case Mr. Afalil, thank you very much for joining us on this broadcast and Kibbutz Berry has tragically become the symbol of the atrocities that the Hamas terrorists committed on October 7th that the biggest Kibbutz in the area very some of the fiercest fighting between terrorists and IDF forces and now more than two weeks later three weeks in the Kibbutz in ruins but some of the residents are already trying to pick up the pieces our Middle East correspondent also on visited Berry and filed this report Kibbutz Berry wants a peaceful paradise now a small community in ruins notorious for the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists I've been in here in 7 october my name is Oriel and I'm 30 years old we for many decades we've been in the front line mainly for a peaceful purpose to be in here together this what was our willing but at the end they didn't want it what they what they did want and this what I'm going to tell you now it's what actually happened in the reality that I see in my own eyes all is the son of the former regional council head Haim Yelin like all the survivors of the October 7th attacks he was evacuated to a hotel but he's back to guide foreign journalists who came to the Kibbutz and on that horrific day all was hiding in the safe room along with his wife his parents and their two dogs if you want afterwards we can go and I can show you the stories inside the shelters when they kill, torture and did things that they are indescribable to the humanity, civilians, regular people and I tell you the time privilege regarding I'm not three of my garden and I'm privileged this community they are all of survivors this what we feel walking through the small pathways of the Kibbutz feels like entering a war zone small and quaint homes bombarded or destroyed children's toys lying around while maintained lawns of grass ripped up by the tracks of an armored vehicle perhaps a tank the smell of death fills the air this is just one of hundreds of homes that remain either completely demolished or burned to the ground after the October 7th rampage Kibbutz Berry is the biggest Kibbutz in the area until October 7th there were 1200 residents now following the attack 130 were killed and an unknown number are missing and the Kibbutz is left with lines and lines of homes just like these homes over here that are a sad monument to the vibrant life that used to be here all walks us through the destroyed home of the Bachar family like many households in Berry suffered a devastating tragedy what they did in here they start they break the door you can see it and then they burn all the house when they burn the house they open the gas they put inside a tire to make a flame and they hope that the people will run away and they can catch them what is actually happened that the people didn't and they hide in the shelter let's get inside and we show you what happened then he takes us to the safe room where the Bachars two parents a boy and a girl were hiding they put what tells on the floor to keep the smoke from entering as a group of five or six terrorists broke into the house and began shooting at the safe room and you see all of this blood at 12 years old what she needed she needed to protect her family and 12 years old put a tourniquet in each one of them that she don't have a tourniquet she need to immobilize to take something to to to stop the bleeding so what happened to the Bachar family here so Carmel 15 years old is died he murdered by the terrorist of Isis and Hamas Dana Bachar blessed memory died as well murdered by the terrorist of Isis and Hamas Avida Bachar the the father he lost his leg and he injured badly and Adar Bachar that she is the 12 years old she injured as well but she saved her father at 12 years old outside the house all tells us about his own experience in the shelter when he and his wife thought that this was their end too she told me all if they coming for us you have just a kitchen knife please kill me before and you know what i will say to her yes because i know what they aim to come what they aim to do to torture maybe they will rape her and after that they will tear her apart and then kill her this is the reality and if we're not going to face with the reality or the world will not face with the reality it will come back to everyone in the world that's it like many of the residents of these devastated border communities old says he hopes to one day return to Berry but only after a clear and decisive victory over Hamas as long as there is still a threat from Gaza they will not return he says but not all of Berry was destroyed that day just nine days after Hamas's horrific attack the local printing factory which emerged unscathed was up and running again even as bodies were still being pulled out from the destroyed homes so actually this is amazing the CEO Ben my friend his mother also murdered and and this is the biggest print factory in the Middle East not just in Israel and let's say that it's not for profit what we're doing now it's to serve the community and yes this is establishment and a statement that we're going to move on if you're going to help us and we will do whatever we can to do it on that cursed day of October 7th hell opened its mouth and swallowed Berry and the nearby kibbutzim and despite 50 of its residents still unaccounted for the rest of the survivors who have temporarily relocated as a community to the Dead Sea are starting to pick up the pieces a much needed sign of resilience in a place that suffered so much pain and devastation this is it from us for now but you can always of course stay updated by following us on social media facebook instagram tiktok twitter x we are there or online of course at 24 news dot tv all the latest updates are right there and we will be back at the top of the hour with another broadcast as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north yet the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news the special broadcast here in i24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel the war and the fog of war sirens being heard this hour in the north in the center and the south of israel ongoing rocket fire on the northern front third terror squad eliminated today in southern Lebanon after trying to launch anti tank missiles towards the Israeli troops in the west bank more arrests of Hamas operatives there in the south the idf expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of Hamas's aerial and naval operations against the backdrop of the intensifying idf activity in the strip the families of the over 229 hostages demanding answers from the government defense minister you have gallant is set to meet with them tomorrow and as we speak right alerts being heard once again down south and the community is adjacent to the border with the Gaza strip currently no civilians there as it is all dubbed a war zone completely empty of Israeli civilians there but we do want to begin the broadcast up north on the israel-lebanon border i24 news correspondent mary mccall if standing by there with the rest of the i24 news team there on the ground mary sirens in the north this past hour as that third squad eliminated yet another busy day on the northern front yes that's right so you've seen a number of different attacks coming from inside southern Lebanon i want to say it's actually been fairly quieter than it has been in recent days but we do continue to hear these sporadic explosions especially here in northern israel we can hear explosions coming from southern lebanon that's what lebanese health lebanese news sources are saying is heavy israeli artillery shelling in a village that's just over the northern border i'm going to get out of the way so we you go our bazaar and go behind the camera can show you a little what's going on just moments ago so he's going to zoom in on these observation posts up here normally we would not show this military information but these are videos in the installations have been posted numerous times in the past couple weeks by hezbollah claiming that they were targeting these surveillance outposts and aspects of what it's called the enemy's military forces in the area just moments before it began speaking to you we actually saw the glow of something coming from southern lebanon and once again targeting that red and white tower you can see just about 20 minutes ago we also saw large plumes of smoke rising from this area so we know this is the area that lebanese forces hezbollah forces acting in lebanon continue to keep targeting over and over again these are areas that are also very near israeli communities these israeli communities have of course been evacuated due to the constant threats that we're seeing but israel is saying it's continuing to retaliate against these hezbollah and palestinian terror groups in the area that they will continue to do so and are very carefully keeping an eye on to see what happens next to see if hezbollah decides to escalate its attacks as it continues to watch the ongoing operation in gaza unfold and to that point exactly married the iranian foreign minister of the leon is saying that iran has did not mobilize or or spread new forces in syria or in lebanon or in the area all together in iraq as well it is mentioning but we have seen several assaults against american forces uh there and in response to some american strikes in syria that's right well iran say might not be moving troops into the area moving troops what we do know is that they're absolutely on the ground at least these iranian backpoxies this is something that we've seen in the middle east for years now but since the war with gaza began between israel and gaza we have seen an increase in frequency in attacks on us bases not just attacks inside northern israel but also on us bases another one happened last night we're still waiting for confirmation from the us to confirm that there were a number of attacks but at least an iranian backed iraqi group is saying that it launched explosive drones at a number of different us bases in syria again we don't have any confirmation from the american side nor do we have any reports of injuries or casualties as a result of these strikes but it's certainly not the first time they have been attacked and the us response just days ago was the first time since march the us has actually launched a strike so everyone is very carefully keeping their eyes open in this region the us is sending air force strike carrier groups a new aircraft carrier just arrived to the Mediterranean earlier this morning and that's all part of the israeli of the missions by those in the air so so i'm just going to cut off now eager showing you can see these are the rockets that i was talking about rockets mortar shells artillery we don't really know what exactly they are but just moments before i began talking to you we saw one of those land on those observation posts since i've turned around i've seen at least three i'm not sure how many were there before but we can see we can hear them heavily targeting this is really military infrastructure yes an ongoing situation there on the northern front marine as you've put it one eye more than one eye always open on what is happening there now the entire middle east on edge that's perhaps an understatement i-24 news correspondent mary mccullough and the i-24 news team they're underground following and monitoring every single development there thank you very much for this and joining us now in studio mr afel you're showing me security analyst and former intelligence officer thank you very much and mr you're showing me for joining us while we're saying that in the northern border and again we continue to see those images that our team there is is showing us even a perceived calm is a deceiving one it could be deceiving i mean i would say so far so good yeah we're containing the north we do not need an escalation right away i do think that once we've dealt with the hamas we will have to deal with the his bala because otherwise it will be in the same scenario in the north of taking bomb yeah or being hostages held hostages by terrorist faction right so of course it would be preferable to do this in our own time and when we decide but would there is bala decided to enter now in conflict with israel we are prepared the troops are deployed the reservists have been called and there is a difference because in the south there was the wrong conception there was a misreading of what was going on with the hamas which was not the case in the north always been on edge we know it's a threat existential existential threat much more serious than hamas we've been training for it the americans know about it that's why they came and they're afraid that the his bala the hamas i don't think on its own will not need to any extension of the conflict in the middle east it will remain quite uh controlled they're localized even though from yemen they will shoot a few missiles you and his bala will shoot a few missiles it is not going to be an extension of the conflict but his bala that's another ballgame all together it brings iran iran more directly into a conflict with the israelis and the americans so so far so good but we do not know we must admit that we do not know what mr nasrallah has decided or will decide because he himself might not have decided yet right and then he might decide to go morning because and obviously this notion of the enemy is the third cannot or should no longer be used at this point in time and and mr shalmi while we were speaking on what's happening on the northern border yet another fresh barrage of rockets targeting israel south this barrage hitting or reaching rather sounding the red alerts in the negative capital the city of berishiba and we've seen ongoing rocket fire throughout the day to israel south and center and this is perhaps bringing me to to ask what is the hamas is remaining a capability because a fresh new york times report is indicating that according to biden administration uh estimations hamas is holding as we speak i'm not just talking about the fuel that that has been storing up in the food and the water that will enable it to pursue the fighting for roughly four months according to estimations we're talking about assets that are worth around half a billion dollars that are helping it hamas to to keep ongoing exactly and before the war started we estimated the number of missiles at the end of the hamas at around seven thousand i think now we have to be a little more pessimistic and think about ten thousand meaning they would have five thousand left they only have shot like half of the ammunition they have in stock but they can also produce as we know eighty percent of this still to this day i suppose that some of not everything has been destroyed yet the very uh game changing situation here is the launching pads because you can have as many missiles as you want if you can't launch them that's it right so how many launching paths do they have i remind the the viewers that most of the launching pads are on trucks because these missiles are short and medium range missiles that you can move around you can hide at night in an orchard and then shoot and then go somewhere else they're mobile for the larger missiles like those who were shot right now a few moments ago towards the center of isran to in berceva that requires a more concrete built a launching pad something that requires a quite a bit of architecture that can be easily detected and there the problem is we know some of them where they are but they are near a hospital or near a school and there are many that are there is a human shield around it so we can only destroy if we come on the ground with our forces to destroy it because by air or by artillery there's too much collateral damage even though i will remind also which is very important to know that by the protocol number one of the Geneva convention collateral damage is legal if it's proportionate to the threat of the target so these these launching pads are if we wouldn't have the iron dome we would be justified in hitting them even though there are civilians around because we have the iron room we're trying to avoid to kill innocent people but that's only because we have this very big defense that's the calculation i personally think we should calculate our strategy as if we didn't have the iron dome and as we did have thousands and thousands of dead which would be the case in the so as counterintuitive as it may sound the defense mechanisms are essentially exposing or undermining the ability of israel to protect itself yes if i may say also the palestinian innocent civilians do not have shelters israelis have shelters some most israelis but the the civilians in Gaza do not have any shelters of course the only shelter they have it's the ethical standards of of israel and it is protecting them as much as possible and to that point exactly mr. Elshalmi will want to head down south at 24 news a senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae is standing by there with the at 24 news team jonathan i'm not sure if you could hear the conversation here in the studio with mr. Elshalmi about the the extra precautionary measures the idf is has is taking and will continue to take in order to protect gazon civilians to this day still urging begging gazon's residents in the northern part of the strip to move south because a there is humanitarian shelters there food water everything that they need uh and hamas is still proactively preventing them from doing so and connecting that and as we speak jonathan another round of red sirens alert being heard down south in the city of ashkelon you can maybe maybe you can see tally maybe you can see it right above our heads the those are the interceptors and we're just outside the city of ashkelon we're not in the city itself and yes the first sirens today i think in the ashkelon area we're seeing one two interceptions so far a third one now we see a third one so as we speak three interceptions right above us this happening as we speak you can hear the sound of it as well three sirens three interceptions we're seeing right above us we're hearing more explosions so there could be more uh first barrage of rockets into ashkelon today you asked me about collateral damage how about this hamas is firing hamas is firing at civilians to hit civilians the only reason that we're not seeing hundreds of thousands of israelis killed is because of iran dom so so yes i do i do i want to see thousands of civilians dead in in gaza absolutely not does anyone want does anyone in israel want to see thousands of people dying in gaza absolutely not but this is a war zone and and this war has been inflicted on israel and and israel has to respond severely because this is the worst act of war on on the israeli home front ever by far and there has to be a response the enemy hamas is is putting civilians on its way launching from schools launching from hospitals launching from mosques that is what they do so so yes it's unfortunate it doesn't make me happy at all but there will be civilian casualties because hamas deliberately is putting them in the way israel is doing whatever possible to make sure that these people leave they're being asked to go south again and again protect their lives and show me another country in the world Jonathan yes that that that will expose would have had a situation in which its civilians would have been exposed to this ongoing assault of rockets etc day in day out and would not respond israel perhaps in the most restrained manner possible and in this respect Jonathan we have seen 1.5 stage of the war right i wouldn't say the second stage of the war all together but we've seen those in and out of troops and tanks entering and leaving the gaza strip surgical operations if you will alongside the aerial campaign that we're seeing and yet this is not the ground operation yes and now i'm not sure we will see a ground operation beginning we might but but not sure we'll see a ground operation beginning at once but possibly surgical incursions again and again cleansing another area and cleansing another area making sure it's it's clean of terrorists and making sure it's clean over there underground bunkers and whatever they have cleaning that area from the terrorists which which made this area their homes invading into people's homes building an underground city perhaps in incursions here incursions there and from there leaping forward that might be the mode of operation it may be that it may be something bigger but at least for the past two nights we've seen incursions small incursions will they be the ones eventually leading to a bigger incursion we'll have to wait and see i-24 news is senior defense correspondent jonathan reggaev down south thank you very much for your reporting today jonathan and now we're moving back here in studio mr feli rushalmi still here with us so we're seeing this um um intensification in the operations that down south what we can't say much and at this point of the war the fog of war is mentioned at the opening of the broadcast is a crucial element in what we're seeing to maintain this ambiguity and yet what what could be the objectives of those surgical operations in the strip from so far as we know since last night more than 150 tunnels sets were hit so when i mean assets i mean it's not necessary the tunnel itself that was destroyed but the access to the tunnel or the electricity for the tunnel some air vent that you know when people can't breathe in it so they have to abandon it that's one of the objectives a lot of instruct structure dozens of terrorists killed probably most a lot arrested which would be excellent for intelligence gathering and and the main operation on the main objective right now even though we are preparing maybe a wider operation even we are doing a cleanup is the hostages we are trying now as as the troops are moving they are trying to liberate hostages that's what they're looking for with the utmost priority so this this operation which is a very large-scale one we do not realize but this is like huge the amount of bombing that is being happening is huge it involves the artillery the air force the tanks and the navy and the navy is being very very efficient with four beds from the sea the navy has done zero mistake from the start i mean they're amazing and they shoot from from the sea so it's like a very heavy pounding that kind of strength that power might put the hammers on their knees and say okay take hostages please stop that did good work because the negotiation is not going nowhere right now so and this new strategy we have to thank the americans for it because they are the ones who advise the israelis saying okay hold on your horses we understand what you want to do maybe you just do it gradually maybe you wait and look how successful these incursions smaller bigger it's very good in out in out and then after a certain time when we really have weakened very very much the hammers we can have the final incursion going in and i think this this was coordinated with the americans they came with that advice and israeli is being not stupid and clever people who can listen are clever they listen to that advice they're trying this this thing this thing seems to be actually working very well for us and until a couple of hours ago or so we had no casualties yet and let's do hope of course that it remains the case mr. alil shall we thank you very much for joining us on this broadcast and kibbutz baeri has tragically become the symbol of the atrocities that the hamas terrorists committed on october 7th that the biggest kibbutz in the area baeri saw some of the fiercest fighting between terrorists and idea forces and now more than two weeks later three weeks in the kibbutz in ruins but some of the residents are already trying to pick up the the pieces are middle east correspond to real answer on visited baeri and found this report kibbutz baeri once a peaceful paradise now a small community in ruins notorious for the atrocities committed by hamas terrorists i've been in here in seven october my name is orielly and i'm 30 years old we for many decades you've been in the front line mainly for a peace first purpose to be in here together this what was our willing but at the end they didn't want it what they what they did want and this what i'm gonna tell you now it's what actually happened in the reality that i see in my own eyes all is the son of the former regional counsel head haim yelin like all the survivors of the october 7th attacks he was evacuated to a hotel but he's back to guide foreign journalists who came to the kibbutz and on that horrific day ol was hiding in the safe room along with his wife his parents and their two dogs if you want afterwards we can go and i can show you the stories inside the shelters when they kill torture and did things that they are indescribable to the humanity in civilians regular people and i tell you the time privilege regarding i'm law three of my carton and i'm privileged this community there are all of survivors this is what we feel walking through the small pathways of the kibbutz feels like entering a war zone small and quaint homes bombarded or destroyed children's toys lying around while maintained lawns of grass ripped up by the tracks of an armored vehicle perhaps a tank the smell of death fills the air this is just one of hundreds of homes that remain either completely demolished or burned to the ground after the october 7th rampage kibbutz berry is the biggest kibbutz in the area until october 7th there were 1200 residents now following the attack 130 were killed and an unknown number are missing and the kibbutz is left with lines and lines of homes just like these homes over here that are a sad monument to the vibrant life that used to be here all walks us through the destroyed home of the bacher family who like many households and berry suffered a devastating tragedy what they did in here they start they break the door you can see it and then they burn all the house when they burn the house they open the gas they put inside the tire to make a flame and they hope that the people will run away and they can catch them what is actually happened that the people didn't and they hide in the shelter let's get inside and we show you what's happening then he takes us to the safe room where the bachas two parents a boy and a girl were hiding they put wet towels on the floor to keep the smoke from entering as a group of five or six terrorists broke into the house and began shooting at the safe room and you see all of this blood at 12 years old what she needed she needed to protect her family and 12 years old put a tourniquet in each one of them that she don't have a tourniquet she need to immobilize to take something to to stop the bleeding so what happened to the bachal family here so carmel 15 years old he's died he murdered by the terrorist of isis and chamas dana bacher bless her memory died as well murdered by the terrorist of isis and chamas avida bacher the the father he lost his leg and he injured badly and adar bacher that she's the 12 years old she injured as well but she saved her father at 12 years old outside the house all tells us about his own experience in the shelter when he and his wife thought that this was their end too she told me oh if they're coming for us you have just a kitchen knife please kill me before and you know what i will say to her yes because i know what they aim to come what they aim to do to torture maybe they will rape her and after that they will tear her apart and then kill her this is the reality and if you're not going to face with the reality or the world will not face with the reality it will come back to everyone in the world that's it like many of the residents of these devastated border communities all says he hopes to one day return to baeri but only after a clear and decisive victory over hamas as long as there is still a threat from gaza they will not return he says but not all of baeri was destroyed that day just nine days after hamas's horrific attack the local printing factory which emerged unscathed was up and running again even as bodies were still being pulled out from the destroyed homes so actually this is amazing the ceo ban my friend his mother also murdered and and this is the biggest print factory in the middle east not just in israel and let's say that it's not for profit what we're doing now it to serve the community and yes this is establishment and a statement that we're going to move on if you're going to help us and we will do whatever we can to do it on that cursed day of october 7th hell opened its mouth and swallowed baeri and the nearby kibbutzim and despite 50 of its residents still unaccounted for the rest of the survivors who have temporarily relocated as a community to the dead sea are starting to pick up the pieces a much needed sign of resilience in a place that suffered so much pain and devastation this is it from us for now but 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be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct come to the special broadcast here on i24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel the war and the fog of war sirens heard in the north the center and the south of israel today ongoing rocket fire in the north that third terror squad eliminated today in southern lebanon after trying to launch anti-tank missiles towards israeli troops in the west bank more arrests of hamas operatives there in the south the idea of expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of hamas's aerial and naval operations israeli defense minister yov galant who is said to meet with our families of over 229 israeli hostages tomorrow wrapping up a security assessment this hour saying the war is entering a new phase i've now completed the daily situation assessment i have summarized the directions of action regarding the main efforts the military effort the effort to free the hostages the civilian effort and the humanitarian effort we passed a stage in the war tonight the grounding guards are shook we attacked above ground and below ground we attack terrorist operatives at all levels in all places the instructions to the forces are clear the operation will continue until new orders are given in the other sectors we are preparing to protect the civilians of israel to maintain their safety we do this in the north in the center and everywhere else and we begin this broadcast by heading down south i-24 news correspondent robert swift standing by there with the i-24 news team on the ground robert the defense minister is dubbing it the next phase of the war but they wouldn't say it's 2.0 but rather 1.5 so to speak those in and out of troops and tanks not the grand ground operation if you will yeah that's right it's not really a binary shift it's more of a gradual escalation this is my third the third day in a row that i've been here on the gas or border and there's been a noticeable increase on each of those days that the bombardment by israel has stepped up a notch if i just step to the side and you'll be able to see the black smoke from one of the buildings behind me this is where some sort of israeli ordinance has gone into a building there at the minute we're here in quite a lot of artillery fire coming from just to the south of our position and also to the north of us we're here in machine gun fire it sounds like a mixture of 50 caliber machine gun and smaller 7.62 machine guns firing which gives you the idea that the targets they're shooting at are likely to be a bit closer you know this is not them just firing artillery for longer ranges this is using machine guns on targets they can see a kilometer's distance perhaps and that's you know that's the kind of activity that's been taking place here on the border for the last three days but like i said it does seem to be increasing escalating in terms of the frequency of the different security incidents that are taking place here on the border but also the intensity of the israeli fire right and robert um you know as we speak we've seen heavy barrages of rockets from the gazelstrip towards israel south and center and many of our viewers here in israel and abroad are wondering how come the hamas still has the ability to launch rockets considering those heavy aerial strikes and those targeted ground operations raids perhaps more accurately and the answer might lie in the fact that there are two types of rocket pad launchers the those who are hidden in humanitarian facilities such as schools and kindergartens hospitals etc and mobile ones who are that are naturally um more challenging to to detect well that's right the the military the israeli militaries is having to hit uh artillery positions which are hidden throughout gaza city so some of these could be deep into city far away from the fighting and still able to fire on to israeli cities i-24 news correspondent robert swiftown sound thank you very much for this much more of course from robert throughout the evening and now we're i want to welcome now we're in studio brigadier general mr israel relic shafir former commander of the telenova air force base thank you very much brigadier general shafir for joining us and i do want to begin with what we're seeing down south because um at this point in time it seems that the fog of war um with emphasis on the fog the ambiguity is becoming a crucial part of the fighting itself yes the fog of war is for us uh onlookers from the outside it's certainly not so for the israeli forces themselves who are in a very controlled situation in the sense that they have above them uh helicopters unmanned vehicles uh scanning the ground all the time so that they have a picture of where our forces are where uh maybe hidden uh hamas forces are shooting from or looking for places where they would shoot from and the targets themselves and the path that needs to be taken by the ground forces so uh we may be in a fog and it's a good thing that we are certainly the enemy is but the forces aren't but this is a the fog of war is uh something that was named by clausowitz right about 200 years ago who wrote about the art of war and everybody uses those terms to this very day uh perhaps the most relevant uh military bible if we you will about the uh art of war if we can call it as such uh and speaking of which uh perhaps mr sheffield with their general sheffield the strategic objectives of the war remain as is what we're seeing on the ground is perhaps a change in the um uh tactics um uh in the sense that we are likely what we're seeing now and we're likely to see more of those surgical operations uh let's make no mistake about this the fact that uh you use the term uh 1.5 yeah is namely part of the fog of war rather than use 2.0 which means okay we've done with the aerial now we're on the ground phase so in order not to to save this and not uh cause a psychological change in the way it is perceived outside we're still using that fog of war by using 1.5 right uh but we're certainly in a new stage and uh part of using those terms is such that uh up in the north there won't be a uh a very uh acute change in the uh in what we saw up to date so they have no excuse or they have an excuse not to overdo what they're doing now in the north so we're kind of normalizing what is happening amid all the mess that we are seeing and there's really no mess uh and the mess is in the eyes of the people looking from the outside but as far as the IDF is concerned it's part of a concerted and and well planned attack yeah chaos uh no longer uh prevails if you will um but if we're trying to connect the dots and look look for more dots to connect rather um the Israeli IDF continues to urge essentially beg uh citizens of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to head south to mobilize there were humanitarian shelters already set up food water medicine are all to be found there and Hamas actively preventing them from doing so and at this hour the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagar is releasing the following plea to the northern residents of the Strip uh let's take a listen um to the IDF spokesperson this hour right okay we will get um this uh clip all right let's take a listen we urge all residents of northern Gaza and Gaza city to relocate south immediately this is a temporary measure moving back to northern Gaza will be possible once the intense hostilities end Hamas puts your life in danger by placing weapons and forces within civilians area in Gaza including schools masks and hospitals the impending IDF operation is said to neutralize these threats of Hamas with precision and intensity humanities remains haunted by the massacre unleashed by Hamas on october 7th a massacre of innocent lives Israeli men women children and babies were beheaded executed raped and burnt alive we won't forget that and the kidnapping of over 200 Israelis we will not forget to the residents of northern Gaza and Gaza city your window to act is closing move south for your own safety move south this is not a mere precaution it is an urgent plea for the safety of the civilians in Gaza and now back here in Syria with the Brigadier General Israel Relica Shafir Brigadier General Shafir um those ongoing pleas on behalf of the IDF to the northern residents of the Gaza Strip are particularly interesting considering two reports by the New York Times today the first that Hamas was stocking piles of fuel and food and water and whatever it needs to continue its terrorist operations for roughly four months so Hamas is prepared for for a long campaign according to these reports regardless of of the regardless if we can say that regardless of the humanitarian situation industry yes this is if you do not consider that the IDF knows where those caches are weapons and fuel etc and can't get to them to bomb the fact Hamas has it doesn't mean that it will be able to exactly that's one thing to note another thing to note is that the spokesperson is speaking not only to the Gazans but also into international media and to the public domain to show that Israel is concerned with Hamas and if Hamas leaders so choose they can have a cease fire tomorrow by stopping the fire and actually changing their policies of trying to annihilate Israel so the citizens of Gaza are actually held hostage by Mr. Sinwar and the Hamas leadership and it's a I would say a quite a strange phenomena where Hamas who's under attack and those who are fleeing south can change their fate by just making a decision that they want to do so rather than anything else so this is something that's important to relate to the public and that adds up to what was perhaps known here in Israel for a long while but since this weekend is also known to the world the IDF are revealing further proof that that Hamas is using civilian infrastructure and the strip is human shields most notably the Shifa hospital the largest hospital in the strip in the city of Gaza underneath the one of the main Hamas headquarters obviously making it more challenging for the Israeli army to operate there and we do want to jump up north now because whatever is going is is happening in the south has a direct impact on the northern front 24 music correspond Hamas al-Huta on the northern border of Israel with the Lebanon Hamda sirens in the north heard earlier this afternoon with three squads eliminated squads attempted to launch a anti-tank missile that's right le these really military is saying that anti-tank missiles and mortars triggered those alerts in the north but there were no injuries the Israeli military says that it responded by striking several Hezbollah cells who were able to hear a lot of those explosions in the distance behind us we've been additionally seeing tanks and other types of battle vehicles being moved to and from the northern front at this time the Israeli military remains prepared for any continuation or escalation of the conflict that may erupt between Hezbollah and the Israelis the United States I'll remind you has been both publicly and privately pressuring all sides to remain calm while the southern front is open they do not want this to break out into a larger more semi-regional conflict because of how sensitive the situation is communities here have all been evacuated it's really like a ghost town when you're driving up here the same goes for the other side of the border around 20,000 Lebanese citizens have evacuated 100 kilometers along their southern border moving more central and northern places inside of the country so both people on high alert for anything that could really erupt in the coming days Ellie right and Hamda while the Israeli forces there on the border obviously on on high alert to the U.S. that is striking weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria overnight in response to attacks on American forces in Iraq and in Syria by Iranian-backed forces all of which happening as the USS Eisenhower is entering the Mediterranean definitely sending a clear message to Tehran that's correct we've been hearing a lot of American officials saying that how they will choose to strike anything that has been engaged in strikes on U.S. assets or U.S. troops is self-defense and they will do it at a time in place of their choosing the Americans have also given assurances to the Israelis that they will help them fight Hezbollah if Hezbollah is the aggressor in a larger confrontation the USS Eisenhower also docking in the Mediterranean a clear sign to not only Iran but everyone else who would be considered an adversary in the region when we talk about a semi-regional war you're talking about Iran you're talking about Iran you're talking about Yemen potentially Lebanon and Syria so this is something the United States doesn't want to see an east versus west type of war that could break out and really be detrimental to the entire region and ultimately the world so the Americans do have their hand in this game trying to urge calm on all sides but remember there's a lot still on the line here like when the you when the Israelis will invade the Gaza Strip on foot all eyes are still waiting for that larger ground operation the military has said they're expanding their operational capabilities via ground but it's still not the main ground offensive and when that happens we really don't know what else we can see from other countries in the Middle East like right all France profoundly intertwined this notion that they could be you know divide and conquer so to speak no longer relevant obviously I-24 news correspondent Hamd al-Hut up north with the I-24 news team they're underground thank you very much for this Hamd back here in studio with Brigadier General Israel Relic Shafir Brigadier General Shafir the northern front it's let's put it that way it is impossible to know what is going through Hasan Astral's mind at this point in time and maybe he himself is not sure what he's planning to do in the near future one thing's for certain any operation on the southern front and the Gaza border will in the Gaza Strip rather will have a direct impact on what we're seeing in southern Lebanon it's a yes and no answer I think one thing that I'd like to note is when the United States is saying that it might take part in sending an Eisenhower it doesn't mean that the aircraft off the Eisenhower will partake a mission but rather uh the b1 b2 bombers with bunker busters um normal fighters can carry uh weapon loads of up to about 3 000 pounds okay the bunker busters yeah are up to 25 000 pounds and they can and they can enter or the word is impregnate a bunkers that are buried deep underground under a lot of concrete so what they're saying to Nasrallah is if you think the concrete that you are under makes you it makes it a safe place watch out thank you again and and that is something that is behind the scenes that's one element the other element is that Hezbollah need to think of Lebanon and what is happening in Gaza now and has been happening for the last three weeks is a preview a note on what may happen in Lebanon if they take part also they've lost about 50 men uh during the incursions or during the the clashes that had taken place so far and uh every day they lose more people and are not able to actually fire for the last few days because they're taken out before they even fire so uh I think they're thwarted to the sense that if if need be we'll take care of you later but not now yeah and the Americans definitely putting a gun on the table not necessarily using it but placing it right there Brigadier General Israel relics a few of former commander of the Tunnel Force base thank you very much sir for your time for your insight we appreciate it as per usual and we continue our special reports from the ground this time the kibbutz of Kisufim take a look we also placed explosives on children's bags here I ask you not to touch anything nothing that isn't really needed right now okay we've suffered enough losses here we have enough people dead I really want you all to get out of here alive on the ground in kibbutz Kisufim a group of 20 members are returning for the first time to what was once their paradise to collect leftover equipment to map the damages a paradise that turned into hell this is my grandmother's home I will not go there if you may it's hard very hard incomprehensible I still can digest the fact that I'm here and she's not we were here a lot now I'm here and she isn't around she was taken away from us she was murdered pure murder when she comes in shashi examines the damage to her house on the kitchen table she finds a letter left by idf soldiers who stayed there during the fight dear shaked family thank you very much for your contribution to the country by making your home here you are the shield of our society and our country and hope for quiet days soon wow is this just a bad nightmare they're setting the neighbors house on fire here we woke up at 6 25 am by the vibration of the rocket fire alert on my phone and it went on and on then came sounds that we're not used to something about the feeling it was different from the last 20 years when did you realize this is something else when I heard gunshots the time is now 141 power has gone out I'm afraid that terrorists will get into our house as well don't worry my love dad has a gun we sat in the security room until half past six in the evening after seven hours troops entered the kibbutz for seven hours the person who led the battle in the kibbutz was the deputy commander of our emergency team shy asher the emergency team that day was small three close friends ronnie the commander sar mulgolis and shy asher on the 7th of october when the alarms rang it looked like an ordinary incident of rocket fire as far as you can call this reality ordinary shy immediately joined his friend sar sar took one i took the other sar took two more what do you mean by two i mean they were no longer able to threaten the safety of our community to mislead the terrorists shy breaks his house window and spreads ketchup on it in order for the terrorists to believe that this house was already massacre they continue fighting trying to join ronnie i encountered a very massive force of hamas terrorists and it's only the two of you two of us me and sar as far as we are concerned ronnie is unaccounted for he is either kidnapped or killed i have two security rooms in this house in one of them my two daughters were sleeping they didn't even hear the gunshots and in the other room two more children i moved the two girls to the other room closed the door on them and sat here at the kitchen counter i took out the first terrorist here i shot him with the m16 then i had a malfunction so i took out the gun and fired several bullets at the other terrorist he fell to the ground almost instantly an explosive was thrown at me through this window it exploded i was hit with shrapnel i realized my time was running out i ran to the security room and held on to the door i locked it with my left hand and stood against it they went into Eliminator throwing grenades and explosives inside the house i didn't move from the door i fought them to keep it shut they came over and each time they pushed the door to break in they pushed with force and then with more force but my hand was locked in it did not move even an inch and they also shot at me through the door in the process in my mind i pictured them breaking in and you stood against and just held on what's going through your mind that they will not take them away the terrorists were unable to penetrate and thus Ronnie's children were saved thanks to his bravery and resilience but Tsar Margolis a member of the emergency team was killed after a fierce battle with the terrorists who has murdered along with nine other members of the kibbutz and six Thai nationals who worked there this week the members went from house to house to collect memories the meaning of the name Kisufim in Hebrew is longing a word that reflects so much of what they all feel today the horror is inconceivable and so does the heroism we've seen on and since October 7th this is it from us for now we will be back at the top of the hour with another broadcast as we continue our special coverage day 22 of the war here in Israel thank you very much for watching Israel is at war make an investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israel bonds dot com and invest now web recargas punto altis punto com punto b o seleccionar recargas y digita el número al que deseas colocarle la recarga además ellos reciben el doble de balance en recargas de ocho dólares o más officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking but in a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped tell us we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity exclusives reports de la zona de guerra la reacción de los países hispano parlantes a special broadcast here and i-24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel the war and the fog of war sirens heard in the north the center and the south of israel today ongoing rocket fire in the north that third terror squad eliminated today in southern lebanon after trying to launch anti-tank missiles towards israeli troops in the west bank more rest of hamas operatives there in the south the idea of expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of hamas's aerial and naval operations israeli defense minister yov galant who is said to meet with our families of over 229 israeli hostages tomorrow wrapping up a security assessment this hour saying the war is entering a new phase i've now completed the daily situation assessment i have summarized the directions of action regarding the main efforts the military effort the effort to free the hostages the civilian effort and the humanitarian effort we passed the stage in the war tonight the grounding guards are shook we attacked above ground and below ground we attack terrorist operatives at all levels in all places the instructions to the forces are clear the operation will continue until new orders are given in the other sectors we are preparing to protect the civilians of israel to maintain their safety we do this in the north in the center and everywhere else and we begin this broadcast by heading down south i-24 news correspondent robert swift standing by there with the i-24 news team on the ground robert the defense minister is dubbing it the next phase of the war but they wouldn't say it's a 2.0 but rather 1.5 so to speak those in and out of troops and tanks not the grand ground operation if you will yeah that's right it's not really a binary shift it's more of a gradual escalation and this is my third the third day in a row that i've been here on the gas or border and there's been a noticeable increase on each of those days that the bombardment by israel has stepped up a notch and if i just step to the side and you'll be able to see the the black smoke from one of the buildings behind me this is where some sort of israeli ordinance has gone into a building there at the minute we're here in quite a lot of artillery fire coming from just to the south of our position and also to the north of us we're here in machine gun fire it sounds like a mixture of 50 caliber machine gun and smaller 7.62 machine guns firing which gives you the idea that the targets they're shooting at are likely to be a bit closer you know this is not them just firing artillery for longer ranges this is using machine guns on targets they can see a kilometer's distance perhaps and that's you know that's the kind of activity that's been taking place here on the border for the last three days well like i said it does seem to be increasing escalating in terms of the frequency of the different security incidents that are taking place here on the border but also the intensity of the israeli fire right and robert you know as we speak we've seen heavy barrages of our rockets from the Gaza Strip towards israel's south and center and many of our viewers here in israel and abroad are wondering how come the hama still has the ability to launch rockets considering those heavy aerial strikes and those targeted ground operations raids perhaps more accurately and the answer might lie in the fact that there are two types of rocket pad launchers the those who are hidden in humanitarian facilities such as schools and kindergartens hospitals etc and mobile ones who are that are naturally more challenging to to detect well that's right the the military the israeli militaries is having to hit artillery positions which are hidden throughout gaza city so some of these could be deep into city far away from the fighting and still able to fire on to israeli cities i-24 news correspondent robert swiftown sound thank you very much for this much more of course from robert throughout the evening and now we want to welcome now we are in studio brigadier general mr israel relic shafir former commander of the telenova air force base thank you very much brigadier general shafir for joining us and i do want to begin with what we're seeing down south because at this point in time it seems that the fog of war with emphasis on the fog the ambiguity is becoming a crucial part of the fighting itself yes the fog of war is for us uh onlookers from the outside it's certainly not so for the israeli forces themselves who are in a very controlled situation in the sense that they have above them helicopters unmanned vehicles scanning the ground all the time so that they have a picture of where our forces are where maybe hidden hamas forces are shooting from or looking for places where they would shoot from and the targets themselves and the path that needs to be taken by the ground forces so we may be in a fog and it's a good thing that we are certainly the enemy is but the forces aren't but this is the fog of war is something that was named by clausowitz right about 200 years ago who wrote about the art of war and everybody uses those terms to this very day perhaps the most relevant military bible if you will about the art of war if we can call it as such and speaking of which perhaps mr shafir their general shafir the strategic objectives of the war remain as is what we're seeing on the ground is perhaps a change in the um uh tactics um uh in the sense that we are likely what we're seeing now and we're likely to see more of those surgical operations uh let's make no mistake about this the fact that uh you use the term uh 1.5 yeah is namely part of the fog of war rather than use 2.0 which means okay we've done with the aerial now we're on the ground face so in order not to to save this and not cause a psychological change in the way it is perceived outside we're still using that fog of war by using 1.5 right but we're certainly in a new stage and uh part of using those terms is such that up in the north there won't be a uh a very uh acute change in the in what we saw up to date so they have no excuse or they have an excuse not to overdo what they're doing now in the north so we're kind of normalizing what is happening amid all the mess that we are seeing and there's really no mess uh and the mess is in the eyes of the people looking from the outside but as far as the IDF is concerned it's part of a concerted and and well-planned attack yeah chaos that no longer uh prevails if you will um but if we're trying to connect the dots and look look for more dots to connect rather um the Israeli IDF continues to urge essentially beg uh citizens of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to head south to mobilize there where humanitarian shelters already set up food water medicine are all to be found there and Hamas actively preventing them from doing so and at this hour the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagar will be seeing the following plea to the northern residents of the Strip uh let's take a listen um to uh the IDF spokesperson this hour right okay we will get um this uh clip all right let's take a listen we urge all residents of northern Gaza and Gaza city to relocate south immediately this is a temporary measure moving back to northern Gaza will be possible once the intense hostilities end Hamas puts your life in danger by placing weapons and forces within civilians area in Gaza including schools masks and hospitals the impending IDF operation is said to neutralize these threats of Hamas with precision and intensity humanity remains haunted by the massacre unleashed by Hamas on october 7th a massacre of innocent lives Israeli men women children and babies were beheaded executed raped and burnt alive we won't forget that and the kidnapping of over 200 Israelis we will not forget to the residents of northern Gaza and Gaza city your window to act is closing move south for your own safety move south this is not a mere precaution it is an urgent plea for the safety of the civilians in Gaza and now back here in Syria with the Brigadier General Israel Reliquish Shafir Brigadier General Shafir um those ongoing pleas on behalf of the IDF to the northern residents of the Gaza Strip are particularly interesting considering two reports by the New York Times today the first that Hamas was stocking piles of fuel and food and water and whatever it needs to continue its terrorist operations for roughly four months so Hamas is prepared for for a long campaign according to these reports regardless of of the regardless if we can say that regardless of the humanitarian situation in the Strip yes this is if you do not consider that the IDF knows where those caches are weapons and fuel etc and can't get to them so in fact Hamas has it doesn't mean that it will be able to use it exactly that's one thing to note another thing to note is that the spokesperson is speaking not only to the Gazans but also into international media and to the public domain to show that Israel is uh uh concerned with Hamas and if Hamas leaders so choose they can have a ceasefire tomorrow by stopping the fire and uh um actually changing their policies of trying to annihilate Israel so the citizens of Gaza are actually held hostage hostage by uh Mr. Sinwar and the Hamas leadership and it's a I would say a quite a strange phenomena where Hamas who's under attack and those who are fleeing south uh can change their fate by just making a decision that they want to do so rather than anything else so this is something that's important to relate to the public and that adds up to what was perhaps known here in Israel for a long while but since this weekend is also known to the world they had the idea for revealing further proof that that Hamas is using civilian infrastructure and the strip is human shields most notably the Shifa hospital the largest hospital in the strip in the city of Gaza um under underneath the one of the main Hamas headquarters obviously making it more challenging for the Israeli army to operate there and we do want to jump up north now because whatever is going is is happening in the south has a direct impact on the northern front 24 music correspond Hamas al-Hut on the northern border of Israel with the Lebanon Hamda sirens in the north heard earlier this afternoon with three squads eliminated squads that attempted to launch an anti-tank missile that's right LED Israeli military is saying that anti-tank missiles and mortars triggered those alerts in the north but there were no injuries the Israeli military says that it responded by striking several Hezbollah cells who were able to hear a lot of those explosions in the distance behind us we've been additionally seeing tanks and other types of valuable vehicles being moved to and from the northern front at this time the Israeli military remains prepared for any continuation or escalation of the conflict that may erupt between Hezbollah and the Israelis the United States I'll remind you has been both publicly and privately pressuring all sides to remain calm while the southern front is open they do not want this to break out into a larger more semi-regional conflict because of how sensitive the situation is communities here have all been evacuated it's really like a ghost town when you're driving up here the same goes for the other side of the border around 20,000 Lebanese citizens have evacuated a hundred kilometers along their southern border moving more central and northern places inside of the country so both people on high alert for anything that could really erupt in the coming days Ellie right and Hamda while the Israeli forces there on the border are obviously on on high alert it's the U.S. that is striking weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria overnight in response to attacks on American forces in Iraq and in Syria by Iranian vector forces all of which happening as the USS Eisenhower is entering the Mediterranean definitely sending a clear message to Tehran that's correct we've been hearing a lot of American officials saying that how they will choose to strike anything that has been engaged in strikes on U.S assets or U.S troops is self-defense and they will do it at a time and place of their choosing the Americans have also given assurances to the Israelis that they will help them fight Hezbollah Hezbollah is the aggressor in a larger confrontation the USS Eisenhower also docking in the Mediterranean a clear sign to not only Iran but everyone else who would be considered an adversary in the region when we talk about a semi-regional war you're talking about it on you're talking about Iran you're talking about Yemen potentially Lebanon and Syria so this is something the United States doesn't want to see an east versus west type of war that could break out and really be detrimental to the entire region and ultimately the world so the Americans do have their hand in this game trying to urge calm on all sides but remember there's a lot still on the line here like when the you when the Israelis will invade the Gaza Strip on foot all eyes are still waiting for that larger ground operation the military has said they're expanding their operational capabilities via ground but it's still not the main ground offensive and when that happens we really don't know what else we can see from other countries in the Middle East right all fronts profoundly intertwined this notion that they could be you know divided and conquer so to speak no longer relevant obviously I-24 news correspondent Hamd Salhout up north with the I-24 news team they're on the ground thank you very much for this Hamd back here in studio with Brigadier General Israel Relic Shafir Brigadier General Shafir the northern front it let's put it that way it is impossible to know what is going through Hasan Asrallah's mind at this point in time and maybe he himself is not sure what he's planning to do in the near future one thing's for certain any operation on the southern front and the Gaza border will and the Gaza Strip rather will have a direct impact on what we're seeing in southern Lebanon it's a yes and no answer I think one thing that I'd like to note is when the United States is saying that it might take part in sending an Eisenhower it doesn't mean that the aircraft off the Eisenhower will partake a mission but rather the b1 b2 bombers with bunker busters normal fighters can carry weapon loads of up to about three thousand pounds okay the bunker busters yeah are up to twenty five thousand pounds and they can and they can enter or the word is impregnate a bunkers that are buried deep underground under a lot of concrete so what they're saying to Nasrallah is if you think the concrete that you are under makes it makes it a safe place watch out thank again and and that is something that is behind the scenes that's one element the other element is that Hezbollah need to think of Lebanon and what is happening in Gaza now and has been happening for the last three weeks is a great note a note on what may happen in Lebanon if they take part also they've lost about 50 men during the incursions or during the the clashes that had taken place so far and every day they lose more people and are not able to actually fire for the last few days because they're taken out before they even fire so I think they're thwarted to the sense that if we need be we'll take care of you later but not now yeah and the Americans have to be putting a gun on the table not necessarily using it but placing it right there Brigadier General Israel relicts a few former commander of the three no fair force base thank you very much sir for your time for your insight we appreciate it as per usual and we continue our special reports from the ground this time the kibbutz of Kisufim take a look we also placed explosives on children's bags here I ask you not to touch anything nothing that isn't really needed right now okay we've suffered enough losses here we have enough people dead I really want you all to get out of here alive on the ground in kibbutz kisufim a group of 20 members are returning for the first time to what was once their paradise to collect leftover equipment to map the damages a paradise that turned into hell this is my grandmother's home I will not go there if you may it's hard very hard incomprehensible I still can digest the fact that I'm here and she's not we were here a lot now I'm here and she isn't around she was taken away from us she was murder pure murder when she comes in shashi examines the damage to her house on the kitchen table she finds a letter left by IDF soldiers who stayed there during the fight dear shaked family thank you very much for your contribution to the country by making your home here you were the shield of our society of our society and our country in hope for quiet day soon wow is this just a bad nightmare they're setting the neighbor's house on fire here we woke up at 6 25 a.m. by the vibration of the rocket fire roller on my phone and it went on and on then came sounds that we're not used to something about the feeling it was different from the last 20 years when did you realize this is something else when I heard gun shots the time is now 141 power has gone out I'm afraid that terrorists will get into our house as well don't worry my love dad has a gun we sat in the security room until half past six in the evening after seven hours troops entered the kibbutz for seven hours the person who led the battle in the kibbutz was the deputy commander of our emergency team shy asher the emergency team that day was small three close friends ronnie the commander sar mulgolis and shy asher on the seventh of october when the alarms rang it looked like an ordinary incident of rocket fire as far as you can call this reality ordinary shy immediately joined his friend sar sar took one i took the other sar took two more what do you mean by two i mean they were no longer able to threaten the safety of our community to mislead the terrorists shy breaks his house window and spreads ketchup on it in order for the terrorists to believe that this house was already massacre they continue fighting trying to join ronnie i encountered a very massive force of hamas terrorists and it's only the two of you two of us me and sar as far as we are concerned ronnie is unaccounted for he's either kidnapped or killed i have two security rooms in this house in one of them my two daughters were sleeping they didn't even hear the gunshots and in the other room two more children i moved the two girls to the other room closed the door on them and sat here at the kitchen counter i took out the first terrorist here i shot him with the m16 then i had a malfunction so i took out the gun and fired several bullets at the other terrorist he fell to the ground almost instantly an explosive was thrown at me through this window it exploded i was hit with shrapnel i realized my time was running out i ran to the security room and held on to the door i locked it with my left hand and stood against it they went into Eliminator throwing grenades and explosives inside the house i didn't move from the door i fought them to keep it shut they came over and each time they pushed the door to break in they pushed with force and then with more force but my hand was locked in it did not move even an inch and they also shot at me through the door in the process in my mind i pictured them breaking in and you stood against and just held on what's going through your mind that they will not take them away the terrorists were unable to penetrate and does Ronnie's children were saved thanks to his bravery and resilience bazaar margolis a member of the emergency team was killed after a fierce battle with the terrorists who has murdered along with nine other members of the kibbutz and six Thai nationals who worked there this week the members went from house to house to collect memories the meaning of the name kisufim in Hebrew is longing a word that reflects so much of what they all feel today the horror is inconceivable and so does the heroism we've seen on and since october 7th this is it from us for now we will be back at the top of the hour with another broadcast as we continue our special coverage day 22 of the war here in israel thank you very much for watching after having crossed a mohsoul in ruin we finally found ourselves in the middle of kazba in the west part of the city closer to the combats and the bombing of the international coalition we are here a few hundred meters away from the mosque nourish it is the same we passed from house to house to stay covered by daesh snipers before arriving on a roof at the level of the front line where the young Iraqi soldiers were able to do the cleaning of their arsenal and their firepower in front of our cameras this is only after leaving this theater of war that i took the measure of what i wanted to live when the information fell according to which a french television team had been killed by an explosive machine a mine in the same place where we found ourselves a few days earlier 1,500 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i-24 news welcome to this special broadcast here on i-24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel the war and the fog of war sirens heard in the north the center and the south of israel ongoing rocket fire in the north our third terror squad eliminated today in southern lebanon after trying to launch anti-tank missiles towards israeli troops hezbollah claiming responsibility this hour in the west bank more arrests of hamas operatives in the south the idea of expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of hamas's aerial and naval operations israeli prime minister benjamin itzanyahu said to meet families of over 229 israeli hostages this hour defense minister you have gallant wrapping up a security assessment saying the war is entering a new phase i've now completed the daily situation assessment i have summarized the directions of action regarding the main efforts the military effort the effort to free the hostages the civilian effort and the humanitarian effort we passed a stage in the war tonight the grounding guards are shook we attacked above ground and below ground we attack terrorist operatives at all levels in all places the instructions to the forces are clear the operation will continue until new orders are given in the other sectors we are preparing to protect the civilians of israel to maintain their safety we do this in the north in the center and everywhere else and joining us now we're in studio for further insight minister of failure shall me former senior intelligence officer and security analyst and of course our very own at 24 news a senior correspondent it's in your editor guy as real thank you to our gentlemen very much for joining us on this broadcast guy i do want to begin with you because this hour not something that was planned in advance israeli prime minister benjamin itzanyahu is going to meet representatives at least of the families of those who are still for 22 days are being held captive hostage by a hamas terrorist indagaza strip and this is due to their pressure or rather their the terminology here is is quite tricky their threats to escalate their protest their their demanding answers simply put guy yes literally i think emphasizes the urgency right now the very difficult time for these families as israel intensifies its operation in gaza not a wide scale of ground operation just yet but we have seen israeli troops entering gaza on on on a smaller scale last night but at the same time an increase in the airstrikes really applying more and more pressure on hamas and as a result the as a result the families are obviously extremely concerned because we know very well that those kidnapped israelis those civilians those children those elderly those women are being held in the tunnels together with hamas operatives who are hiding there last night they publish this morning they publish a statement saying that they are obviously suffering anxiety and frustration not knowing what's happening they demanded to meet the security cabinet you have gallant the defense minister promised to meet them tomorrow and in the recent development netanyahu is meeting them at this very hour and just to explain to our viewers what is the situation right now israel really has to decide whether it has a choice between two two difficult choices right now the first is to go ahead with some sort of an agreement some sort of a deal with hamas for the release of these kidnapped at least some of them that hamas will be willing to release and on the other hand the other option is to go ahead with this planned operation this ground operation and then hope that based on the success and the results that massive operation that hamas will be more willing more inclined to go for a deal and to bring to the release of those prisoners and hamas on its side once fuel it once release of prisoners it has many other demands that israel for now is not willing to pay the price but time is ticking obviously and yet perhaps more than at any point in time before notions existing notions are being challenged assessed and then reassessed and assessed again and if in the earlier days of the war there was this notion that one necessarily contradicts the other as in a ground operation and hostage release cannot come hand in hand now this notion appears at least to be changing in the sense that it becomes quite clear that part of hamas's manipulation facilitated surprise surprise by katar there is an attempt to stall any activity or action on behalf of israel and the best way to do it is to to try and capital is on on the weakness and strength of israel the moral backbone right in this respect my question to you mr yoroshami is whether the way to apply pressure on hamas in a bit to release hostages cannot or should not be made through a ground operation or ground activity and say that for now we stop one thing hamas was playing for time okay they were there negotiating we have time the americans were asking us to hold our horses while they negotiate give a chance to the diplomatic channels which we did and then we noticed that it became a tool a tool to delay the ground operation a tool to play for time and the at first people accepted to to play that game even the israelis in the vague hope but unfortunately you saw the results out after three weeks of this war we have only four hostages liberated there are 230 left there the question is do we want to accept this little by little liberation of hostages this cynical use of the hostages while we have leverage because apart from the muscle approach that might intimidate the hamas or even frighten them enough to ask for a ceasefire temporary ceasefire force them to liberate some hostages we have other leverage we have the prisoners the terrorists that we hold in our jails we were just arrested another thousand in the west bank from the beginning of the war we've got now seven eight thousand people that we can exchange for 230 israelis and we also have and this year has not been used and i regret it hasn't but that's a little because of the international community's pressure the humanitarian aid we should not allow the humanitarian aid to enter gaza until the hamas gives out the hostages the hamas is responsible for what is happening they're not us so why are we asked to do the job we are we have our priority it's to liberate these hostages this is the number one priority so we have enough leverage we can apply force because we see that the bargaining the diplomatic channel this doesn't work the katar and they're lying through their teeth all the way so we have no choice unfortunately we have no choice that to go the strong way yeah you know and this last issue you addressed mr ishalmi is just mind-blowing no other country on this planet other than israel would have been put in this situation um uh a force to provide humanitarian aid to the enemy that wants to to to eliminate if i made one sentence this is the shawar replay replayed again yes it's first of all a selection of people and the hostages and and many comparisons but we'll get back to that in a second we just want to jump up north to get the latest uh from there because uh even uh relative calm is is extremely deceiving uh at this point in time my 24 news correspondent hamda salhout with the 24 news team there on the israel uh lebanon border hamda has bala claiming responsibility for the attempts to launch entire tank missiles at israeli troops today that's correct his bala has announced that they've targeted several israeli positions and the israeli military in retaliation hitting several his bala cells inside lebanese territory these kind of tit-for-tat exchanges of fire have been continuous since october 7th and i want to point to an interview that the iranian foreign minister gave yesterday to npr saying that groups like his bala are poised with their finger on the trigger and he said quote if the situation and women and children and civilians are killed in gaza and the west bank anything will be possible this is a sentiment the iranians have been echoing for weeks now since the start of the war but we haven't really seen a larger involvement we've also heard from hamas in the last few days that have been saying they're hoping the hezbollah response will be bigger and that's because the weapons capabilities that hezbollah possesses is much greater than what palestine infactions operating out of southern lebanon have and additionally what hamas has inside of the gaza strip so while all eyes are on the southern front waiting for that inevitable in israeli ground incursion and operation inside of the gaza strip we're looking to see that that can actually shift how the northern front will develop how it will open and how the israelis will continuously respond to that so a lot to look out for at this hour while there is a quiet it's a tense calm that we have repeatedly been discussing so the situation is evolving it's ever-changing this is a war it is a dynamic situation and as to what other types of third parties could be involved it's really just a wait-and-see type of game ellie dynamic evolving and you i-24 news correspondent hummus al-hut keeping an eye on all those developments underground thank you very much hummus al-hut for this much more from humda later on in the evening of course back here in the studio with mr. failure shall me and i-24 news that um uh senior correspondent guy israel uh i do want us to take a listen to yet another plea uh of the idfs spokesperson with the idea of essentially begging uh northern residents of the gaza strip to move south where humanitarian shelters are already up and running food medicine water everything they need is there but hummus continues to proactively prevent them from doing so let's take a listen to this message by the idea of spokesperson uh this afternoon we urge all residents of northern gaza and gaza city to relocate south immediately this is a temporary measure moving back to northern gaza will be possible once the intense hostilities end hummus puts your life in danger by placing weapons and forces within civilians area in gaza including schools masks and hospitals the impending idf operation is said to neutralize these threats of hamas with precision and intensity humanities remains haunted by the massacre unleashed by hamas on october 7th a massacre of innocent lives israeli men women children and babies were beheaded executed raped and burnt alive we won't forget that and the kidnapping of over 200 israelis we will not forget to the residents of northern gaza and gaza city your window to act is closing move south for your own safety move south this is not a mere precaution it is an urgent plea for the safety of the civilians back here in studio gentlemen this statement joins what was known here in israel for a long while and now revealed to the world that the shifa hospital the biggest hospital in the gaza strip in gaza city is being used by hummus as a main headquarters underneath the hospital physically literally a main hamas headquarters and this is a new york times report indicating that hamas has stored up enough fuel and food and water and whatever else it needs to pursue its a terrorist activities for four months of fighting guy yes obviously the idf and i think many israelis knew for so many years about that use of hamas of civilian infrastructure of such sensitive sites like hospitals and schools etc but it's important for israel to emphasize that to the world both with this message from the idf spokesman this time in in english but that message obviously was conveyed in the arabic language to the local residents also using pamphlets using phone calls the idf is doing whatever it can to persuade those residents that haven't moved to do so it also releases in the past hour segments from interrogations of hamas operatives released just this hour about that use about the fact that hamas terrorists whenever they need to hide they go under the hospital as simple as that and perhaps obviously that is a preparation ahead of something that israel will have to do and that's why stressing the importance of removing those innocent people from the hospital and the need to target hamas as it's hiding in those very sensitive sites we saw the false accusation of the israeli strike on the hospital that turned out to be a failed launch of the palestinian militants the palestinian terrorists in gaza we saw what sort of international outrage and damage that was when it wasn't even israel's fault not to mention all the other misconceptions that was represented there at the end of the day should israel engage in an operation against the terrorists under the hospital it does and it will do whatever it takes to remove everyone from there and speaking of what israel is doing and should be doing and will be doing we want to jump down south i-24 news correspondent robert swift with the i-24 news team there on the ground robert the idf indicating that what we've seen in the past couple of nights likely to persist those in and outs of troops and tanks surgical operations if you will not the war 2.0 but war 1.5 if you will yeah that's right the the operation here definitely is escalating at the minute where if i'll step to the side and you'll be able to see the smoke screen that the israeli artillery have just been deploying if you can see all that smoke especially the white billowing clouds those that is a cloud of smoke which has been deployed by artillery shells there's a artillery position just to the south of us which has been firing constantly i'd say two or three rounds per minute and some of those rounds were smoke but some of them i suspect were high explosive rounds and this goes to show that the that the operation here on the ground is is stepping up because israel hasn't needed to deploy smoke in this way before when it deploy smoke like this this is to enable its troops to move using the smoke as a screen so this is possibly troops looking to extract from that area or possibly using the smoke is covered to push more troops in and this all takes place whilst over our heads there are jets there are drones and this is all part of the escalating actions that we're seeing here as israel steps up the ground operation literally the fog of war and robert as we speak another round of rockets being fired from the fellowship towards israel red sirens being heard in several bedouin villages in the southern part of the negative desert several bedouin villages are now not residents rather not even rushing to shelter because there are no shelters there we've seen several bedouin fatalities since the beginning of the war and this is still and going rocket fire all day long from the strip to the south end center of israel robert briefly before we let you go we have seen the assassinations of hamas leaders continue overnight as well we're talking about the leaders of the aerial and naval operations of hamas that's right the israeli military has been using airstrikes and intelligence in order to try and take out the some of the key commanders as well as those commanders that you mentioned and previously in the last few days they've also taken out important intelligence officials as well as as well as battalion commanders they're trying to reduce the command and control of the hamas infantry groups you could call them and this is all part of the preparations before they go on the ground if they can remove the command elements of these units then it'll make it easier to fight them yeah and we're hearing the artillery sound yeah yeah of course we can i think it is well heard all over the region my 24 news correspondent robert swift thank you for this and stay safe of course much more from robert swift later on in the evening back here in studio with mr farah ushal me guy israel mr you're showing me we're likely to see more of these in and out so to speak in the coming days and obviously we cannot say much because part or one of the tools that that are being used now is exactly that this ambiguity what seems to us ambiguous not at all for the army yes it's uh i feel crab in hebrew fog in here the fog of war and that's very very useful uh first of all the fog of war is also for the enemy meaning that we have disrupted first of all the chain of command that is what obliges some of the commanders to come out of their bunkers on their holes because they cannot give orders and regroup their troops without physically appearing it doesn't have to come out we have disrupted the chain of communication and we have separated different battalions and brigades from one from the other so right now we the traditional strategy of the idea for us always in the former rounds to separate the north from the south to cut the Gaza Strip into in this particular instance we are actually separating neighborhoods uh during the last hours the different neighborhoods and refugee camps have been attacked they've been dealt with separately and according to the terrain because some areas in Gaza Strip are residential other are industrial areas other are poor areas so the operation is different but also you isolate one from the other these brigades cannot coordinate so all these weekends uh operationally and structurally the the troops and of course uh because of that uh as we saw they have to move around they have to come out of the bunker I just want to say that even though they have four months of supplies there are two things first of all we can wait four months we'll wait four months and then they'll come out and then we'll get them yeah but we also need the participation of the egyptian this matter because out of 500 kilometers of underground tunnels in Gaza there's a few going towards Sinai and they might escape towards Sinai and we just would like the egyptians to pick now and the other side would they escape you know the leaders of the Hamas are not brave people they are cowards and when they will see that the the situation gets very bad they will escape one way or another they will not stay they will let everybody else die of course so we can wait the four months as well so long as they're under the ground would not be for the hostages we could do a lot more things we could bury them alive we could asphyxiate them in the tunnels you know you need air you can have a lot of fuel and a lot of food but if you don't have air that's it so unfortunately we cannot do it because we might kill the very people we want to save so our hostages that's the problem yeah guy yes um as we speak about the Israeli operations and we heard uh with our own camera with our own uh ears the ongoing battles the Israeli troops engaged in this war and we've seen the an amazing turnout as well of the Israeli reservists I think Israeli civilians the Israeli military all understand the importance of the hour right the what we're facing and the IDF has released a recording we'll play to you right now of the commander of the IDF's seventh armed brigade his name is Elad Suri he speaks to his soldiers on the radio emphasizing both the tasks ahead and why they are there and let's let's take a listen certainly hearing it in Hebrew from the voice of this commander you can you cannot stay indifferent to it I will say that that is an original recording by one of the soldiers it was not even officially released by the by the IDF and what really stands out there is the mention of Yom Kippur war anyone who knows Israel what is this channel really knows what Yom Kippur war means for Israeli civilians what sort of national trauma that was to this day and what trauma we have just faced 22 days ago 50 years plus a day since the 1970s even even worse than that of Yom Kippur with the severe damage the severe casualties to Israeli civilians to the Israeli population in their very homes I think the soldiers knew very well but to hear it from their commander in their tanks as they're about to enter Gaza last night it tells the whole story tells the story of the state of Israel now emphasizes the emergency situation that we're in and again if if if anything the the it's on the one hand the scope the scale the intensity the depth of the horror but at the same time the scope the scale the intensity the depth of the heroism the spirit that we're seeing it's just you know transcends it all I think it's important to emphasize here because it will be discussed the fact that many in the world are calling for a ceasefire and there's nothing that Israel wanted more than calm on its border with Gaza Israel did everything possible to maintain calm on the Gaza Strip completely ignoring the fact that Hamas continued to fire rockets and to prepare this and there's not the last thing that Israeli mothers want is for their children to risk their lives and you know tragically enough at those it is those exact border communities who were considered to be on the Israeli left peace-seeking employing those Gazans that entered their communities in order to collect intelligence to massacre them on October 7th so again we will have a lot of time to talk about that the misconceptions the new conceptions but more than all the Israeli sphere one of the many many tragedies of this event yes all right and and all the swallows who speak a mass protest in Istanbul for example with the Turkish president Rajip Tayyip Erdogan not sparing and the anti-Semitic remarks so if there's any silver lining in this darkness is that the forces of evil and the forces of light are getting clear more than ever before Mr. Afali Oshalmi and Guy Israel thank you very much gentlemen for joining us on this broadcast this is it for us for now but at the top of the hour Guy Israel will continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in Israel thank you for watching Israel is at war make an investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israelbonds.com and invest now from Israel with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries completely sundown in their best bringing Israel's story to the world by 24 news channels these kids innocent kids who are now in some tunnel in Gaza who knows what's happened to them kids who saw their parents being shot and then were kidnapped into Gaza welcome to this special broadcast here on i-24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in Israel the war and the fog of war sirens heard in the north the center and the south of israel ongoing rocket fire in the north that third terror squad eliminated today in southern Lebanon after trying to launch anti-tank missile source israeli troops hezbollah claiming responsibility this hour in the west bank more arrests of hamas operatives in the south the idea of expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of hamas aerial and naval operations israeli prime minister bandra minis and yaw said to meet families of over 229 israeli hostages uh this uh our defense minister you have gallant wrapping up a security assessment saying the war is entering a new phase i've now completed the daily situation assessment i have summarized the directions of action regarding the main efforts the military effort the effort to free the hostages the civilian effort and the humanitarian effort we passed the stage in the war tonight the grounding guards are shook we attacked above ground and below ground we attack terrorist operatives at all levels in all places the instructions to the forces are clear the operation will continue until new orders are given in the other sectors we are preparing to protect the civilians of israel to maintain their safety we do this in the north in the center and everywhere else and joining us now we are in studio for further insight i'm mr. filial you're showing me former senior intelligence officer and security analyst and of course our very own at 24 news senior uh correspondents in your editor guy israel thank you turn to him and very much for joining us on this broadcast guy i do want to begin with you because this hour um not something that was planned in advance israeli prime minister benja minis and yaw is going to meet uh representatives at least of the families of those who are still for 22 days are being held captive hostage by a hamas terrorist in the gaza strip and this is uh due to their pressure or rather their the terminology here is is quite tricky their their threats to escalate their protest their demanding answers simply put guy yes literally i think emphasizes the urgency right now the very difficult time for these families as israel intensifies its operation in gaza not a wide scale ground operation just yet but we have seen israeli troops entering gaza uh on on um on a smaller scale last night but at the same time an increase in the airstrikes really applying more and more pressure on hamas and as a result the as a result the families are obviously extremely concerned because we know very well that those kidnapped israelis those is civilians those children those elderly those women are being held in the tunnels together with hamas operatives who are hiding there uh last night they publish uh this morning they publish a statement saying uh that uh they are obviously suffering anxiety and frustration not knowing what's happening uh they demanded to meet the security cabinet yaw galant the defense minister uh promised to meet them tomorrow and in the recent development netanyahu is meeting them at this very hour and just to explain to our viewers what is the situation right now israel really has to decide whether uh it has a choice between two two difficult choices right now the first is to go ahead with some sort of an agreement some sort of a deal with hamas for the release of these kidnapped at least some of them that hamas will be willing to release and on the other hand the other option is to go ahead with this planned operation this ground operation and then hope that based on the success and the results of that massive operation that hamas will be more willing more inclined to go for a deal and to bring to the release of those prisoners and hamas on its side once fuel it once release of prisoners uh it has many other demands that israel for now is not willing to pay the price but time is ticking obviously and yet um uh perhaps more than um at any point in time before um notions existing notions are being challenged assessed and then reassessed and assessed again uh and if in the earlier days of the war uh there was this um notion that one necessarily contradicts the other as in a ground operation and hostage release cannot come hand in hand now this notion appears at least to be changing in the sense that it becomes quite clear that part of hamas's manipulation um facilitated surprise surprise by katar um there isn't an attempt to stall any um activity or or action on behalf of israel and the best way to do it is to to try and capitalize on on the weakness and strength of israel the moral backbone right in this respect my question to you um mr uh yoroshami is whether the way to apply pressure on hamas in a bit to release hostages cannot or should not be made through ground operation or ground activity at least let's say that for now we stopped one thing hamas was playing for time okay they were there negotiating we have time the americans were asking us to hold our horses while they negotiate give a chance to the diplomatic channels which we did and then we noticed that uh it became a tool a tool to delay the ground operation a tool to play for time and the at first people accepted to to play that game even the israelis in the vague hope but unfortunately you saw the results uh out after three weeks of this war we have only four hostages liberated there are 230 left there uh the question is do we want to accept this little by little liberation of hostages this cynical use of the hostages while we have leverage because apart from the muscle approach that might intimidate the hamas or even frighten them enough to ask for ceasefire temporary ceasefire and force them to liberate some hostages we have other leverage we have the prisoners the terrorists that we hold in our jails we have just arrested another thousand in the west bank from the beginning of the war we've got now seven eight thousand people that we can exchange for 230 israelis and we also have and this has not been used and i regret it hasn't but that's a little because of the international community's pressure the humanitarian aid we should not allow the humanitarian aid to enter gaza until the hamas gives out the hostages the hamas is responsible for what is happening there not us so why are we asked to do the that job we are we have our priority it's to liberate these hostages this is the number one priority so we have enough leverage we can apply force because we see that the bargaining the diplomatic channel this doesn't work the katar and they're lying through their teeth all the way so we have no choice unfortunately we have no choice that to go the strong way yeah you know and this last issue you addressed mr shalmi is just mind blowing no other country on this planet other than israel would have been put in this situation forced to provide humanitarian aid to the enemy that wants to to to eliminate if i made one sentence this is the shawar replay replayed again yes it's first of all a selection of people and the hostages and and many comparisons we'll get back to that in a second we just want to jump up north to get the latest from there because even relative calm is is extremely deceiving at this point in time my 2040s correspondent hamda salhout with the 24 news team there on the israel uh lebanon border hamda hezbollah claiming responsibility for the attempts to launch entire tank missiles at israeli troops today that's correct hezbollah has announced that they've targeted several israeli positions in the israeli military in retaliation hitting several hezbollah cells inside lebanese territory these kind of tit-for-tat exchanges of fire have been continuous since october 7th and i want to point to an interview that the iranian foreign minister gave yesterday to npr saying that groups like hezbollah are poised with their finger on the trigger and he said quote if the situation and women and children and civilians are killed in gaza and the west bank anything will be possible this is a sentiment the iranians have been echoing for weeks now since the start of the war but we haven't really seen a larger involvement we've also heard from hamas in the last few days that have been saying they're hoping the hezbollah response will be bigger and that's because the weapons capabilities that hezbollah possesses is much greater than what palestinian factions operating out of southern lebanon have and additionally what hamas has inside of the gaza strip so while all eyes are on the southern front waiting for that inevitable in israeli ground incursion and operation inside of the gaza strip we're looking to see that that can actually shift how the northern front will develop how it will open and how the israelis will continuously respond to that so a lot to look out for at this hour while there is a quiet it's a tense calm that we have repeatedly been discussing so the situation is evolving it's ever changing this is a war it is a dynamic situation and as to what other types of third parties could be involved it's really just a wait and see type of game ellie dynamic evolving and you i-24 news correspondent hamda selhut keeping an eye on all those developments underground thank you very much hamda selhut for this much more from hamda later on in the evening of course back here in the studio with mr. filial shall me and i-24 news senior correspondent gai israel i do want us to take a listen to yet another plea uh of the idfs spokesperson with the idea of essentially begging uh northern residents of the gaza strip to move south where humanitarian shelters are already up and running food medicine water everything they need is there but hamas continues to proactively prevent them from doing so let's take a listen to this message by the id of spokesperson uh this afternoon we urge all residents of northern gaza and gaza city to relocate south immediately this is a temporary measure moving back to northern gaza will be possible once the intense hostilities end hamas puts your life in danger by placing weapons and forces within civilians area in gaza including schools masks and hospitals the impending idf operation is said to neutralize these threats of hamas with precision and intensity humanities remains haunted by the massacre unleashed by hamas on october 7th a massacre of innocent lives israeli men women children and babies were beheaded executed raped and burned alive we won't forget that and the kidnapping of over 200 israelis we will not forget to the residents of northern gaza and gaza city your window to act is closing move south for your own safety move south this is not a mere precaution it is an urgent plea for the safety of the civilians here in studio gentlemen this statement joins what was known here in israel for a long while and now revealed to the world that the shifa hospital the biggest hospital in the gaza strip in gaza city is being used by hamas as a main headquarters underneath the hospital physically literally amena hamas headquarters and this is a new york times report indicating that hamas has stored up enough fuel and food and water and whatever else it needs to pursue its a terrorist activities for four months of fighting guy yes obviously the idf and i think many israelis knew for so many years about that use of hamas of civilian infrastructure of such sensitive sites like hospitals and schools etc but it's important for israel to emphasize that to the world both with this message from the idf spokesman this time in in english but that message obviously was conveyed in the arabic language to the local residents also using pamphlets using phone calls the idf is doing whatever it can to persuade those raid residents that haven't moved to do so it also releases in the past hour segments from interrogations of hamas operatives released just this hour about that use about the fact that hamas terrorists whenever they need to hide they go under the hospital as simple as that and perhaps obviously that is a preparation ahead of something that israel will have to do and that's why stressing the importance of removing those innocent people from the hospital and the need to target hamas as it's hiding in those very sensitive sites we saw the false accusation of the israeli strike on the hospital that turned out to be a failed launch of the palestinian militants the palestinian terrorists in gaza we saw what sort of international outrage and damage that was when it wasn't even israel's fault not to mention all the other misconceptions that was represented there at the end of the day should israel engage in an operation against the terrorists under the hospital it does and it will do whatever it takes to remove everyone from there and speaking of what israel is doing and should be doing and will be doing we want to jump down south that 24 news correspondent robert swift with the i-24 news team there on the ground robert the idf indicating that what we've seen in the past couple of nights likely to persist those in and outs of troops and tanks surgical operations if you will not the war 2.0 but war 1.5 if you will yeah that's right the the operation here definitely is escalating at the minute where if i'll step to the side and you'll be able to see the smoke screen that the israeli artillery have just been deploying if you can see all that smoke especially the white billowing clouds those that is a cloud of smoke which has been deployed by artillery shells there's a artillery position just to the south of us which has been firing constantly i'd say two or three rounds per minute and some of those rounds were smoke but some of them i suspect were high explosive rounds and this goes to show that the that the operation here on the ground is is stepping up because israel hasn't needed to deploy smoke in this way before when it deploy smoke like this this is to enable its troops to move using the smoke as a screen so this is possibly troops looking to extract from that area or possibly using the smoke is covered to push more troops in and this all takes place whilst over our heads there are jets there are drones and this is all part of the escalating actions that we're seeing here as israel stepped up the ground operation literally the fog of war and robert as we speak another round of rockets being fired from the fellowship towards israel red sirens being heard in several bedouin villages in the southern part of the negative desert several bedouin villages are now not residents rather not even rushing to shelter because there are no shelters there we've seen several bedouin fatalities since the beginning of the war and this is still ongoing rocket fire all day long from the strip to the south end center of israel robert briefly before we let you go we have seen the assassinations of ahamas leaders continue overnight as well we're talking with the leaders of the aerial and naval operations of hamas that's right the israeli military has been using airstrikes and intelligence in order to try and take out the some of the key commanders as well as those commanders that you mentioned and previously in the last few days they've also taken out important intelligence officials as well as as well as battalion commanders they're trying to reduce the command and control of the hamas infantry groups you could call them and this is all part of the preparations before they go on the ground if they can remove the command elements of these units then it'll make it easier to fight them yeah and we're hearing the artillery sound yeah yeah of course we can i think it is well heard all over the region my 24 news correspondent robert swift thank you for this and stay safe of course much more from robert swift later on in the evening back here in studio with mr faryoshalmi guy israel mr irishalmi we're likely to see more of these in and out so to speak in the coming days and obviously we cannot say much because part or one of the tools that are being used now is exactly that this ambiguity what seems to us ambiguous not at all for the army yes it's uh i feel crab in hebrew and fog in here fog of war and that's very very useful first of all the fog of war is also for the enemy meaning that we have disrupted first of all the chain of command that is what obliges some of the commanders to come out of their bunkers on their holes because they cannot give orders and regroup their troops without physically appearing they have to come out we have disrupted the chain of communication and we have separated different battalions and brigades from one from the other so right now we did the traditional strategy of the idea was always in the former rounds to separate the north from the south to cut the gaza strip into in this particular instance we're actually separating neighborhoods uh during the last hours the different neighborhoods and refugee camps have been attacked they've been dealt with separately and according to the terrain because some areas in a gaza strip are residential other are industrial areas or there are poor areas so the operation is different but also you isolate one from the other these brigades cannot coordinate so all these weekends uh operationally and structurally the the troops and of course uh because of that the as i we saw they have to move around they have to come out of the bunker i just want to say that even though they have four months of supplies there are two things first of all we can wait four months we'll wait four months and then they'll come out and then we get them yeah but we also need the participation of the egyptian this matter because out of 500 kilometers of underground tunnels in gaza there's a few going towards Sinai and they might escape towards Sinai's and we just would like the egyptians to pick now on the other side would they escape you know the the leaders of the Hamas are not brave people they are cowards and when they will see that the the situation gets very bad they will escape one way or another they will not stay they will let everybody else die of course so we can wait the four months as well so long as they're under the ground uh would not be for the hostages we could do a lot more things we could bury them alive we could asphyxiate them in the tunnels you know you need air you can have a lot of fuel and a lot of food but if you don't have air that's it so unfortunately we cannot do it because we might kill the very people we want to save so our hostages that's the problem yeah guy yes um as we speak about the israeli operations and we heard uh with our own camera with our own uh ears the ongoing battles the israeli troops engaged in this war and we've seen the an amazing turnout as well of the israeli reservists i think israeli civilians the israeli military all understand the um importance of the hour right the um what we're facing and the idf has released a recording uh we'll uh play to you right now of the commander of the idf's seventh armed brigade his name is elad suri he speaks to his soldiers on the radio um emphasizing both the tasks ahead and why they are there and let's let's take a listen certainly hearing it uh in hebrew uh from the voice of this commander uh you can you cannot stay indifferent to it i will say that that this uh an original recording by one of the soldiers that was not even officially released by the by the idf and what really stands out there is the mention of yom kippur war anyone who knows israel watches this channel really knows what yom kippur war means for israeli civilians what sort of national trauma that was to this day and uh what trauma we have just faced 22 days ago uh 50 years plus a day since the 1970s even even worse than that of yom kippur with the severe damage the severe casualties to israeli civilians to the israeli population in their very homes i think the soldiers knew very well but uh to hear it from their commander in their tanks as they're about to enter gaza last night uh it tells the whole story it tells the story of the state of israel now emphasizes the emergency situation that we're in and and again if if if anything the the it's on the one hand the scope the scale the intensity the depth of the horror but at the same time the scope the scale the intensity the depth of the heroism the spirit that we're seeing is just you know transcends at all i think it's important to emphasize here because uh it will be discussed the fact that many in the world are calling for a ceasefire and there's nothing that israel wanted more than calm on its border with gaza israel did not initiate israel did everything possible to maintain calm on the gaza strip completely ignoring the fact that hamas continued to fire rockets and put to prepare this and there's not the last thing that israeli mothers want is for their children to risk their lives and and you know tragically enough at those it is those exact border communities who were considered to be on the israeli left uh peace seeking employing those gaza that entered their communities in order to collect intelligence to massacre them on october 7th um so again we will have a lot of time to talk about that um the the misconceptions the new conceptions but more than all the israeli spear one of the many many tragedies of this event yes um all right and and all this while as we speak a mass protest in istanbul for example with the turkish president rajeeb tape erdogan not sparing and the anti-semitic remarks so if there's any silver lining in this darkness is that the forces of evil and the forces of light are getting clear more than ever uh before mr afaelio shalmi and guys real thank you very much gentlemen for joining us on this broadcast this is it for us for now but at the top of the hour guys will will continue our rolling coverage day 22 of the war here in israel thank you for watching well is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we don't know what to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity the american red wolf is the most endangered wolf in the entire world and it the american red wolf is the only wolf that is only native to the united states and in that regards they should be a national treasure so it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care and it's very important for people to be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct come to this special broadcast here on i24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 22 of israel's war against hamas in gaza 22 days after the horrific onslaught resulting in the slaughter of 1400 israelis on october 7 some of the worst atrocities committed in modern times and the worst massacre of jewish people since the holocaust today sirens heard in the north the center and the south of israel ongoing rocket fire a third terror squad eliminated today in southern lebanon after trying to launch an anti-tank missile toward israeli troops in the west bank more arrests of hamas operatives and in the south the idea of expanding action combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of hamas' aerial and naval operations at this very hour israeli prime minister benjamin etenyao meeting the families of at least 229 israelis most of them civilians held at the hands of the hamas terror group meanwhile israeli defense minister yav galant wrapping up a security assessment saying the war is entering a new phase i've now completed the daily situation assessment i have summarized the directions of action regarding the main efforts the military effort the effort to free the hostages the civilian effort and the humanitarian effort we passed a stage in the war tonight the grounding guards are shook we attacked above ground and below ground we attack terrorist operatives at all levels in all places the instructions to the forces are clear the operation will continue until new orders are given in the other sectors we are preparing to protect the civilians of israel to maintain their safety we do this in the north in the center and everywhere else israeli defense minister yav galant speaking there let's take you now to israel's northern border where 24 news corresponded hamda salhut is standing by for us hamda attends calm if you can call what we're experiencing in the north now calm but it comes as the hezbollah terror group is claiming responsibility for attempting to fire towards israel well look the exchanges of fire have been continuous between the israeli military and hezbollah today siren sounding in parts of northern israel and that's because the israeli military said it was due to anti tank fire from the lebanese side the military responding with artillery getting rid of the artillery units here we could there's actually been just a boom in the distance behind us here but we're not really sure um what it is but it is the continuous exchanges of fire here now the israeli military has been clear that they will respond to any sort of aggression into their territory hezbollah has also been clear that they're ready with their finger on the trigger for a larger scale operation but that simply hasn't happened yet the israelis have been receiving pressure from the united states both publicly and privately to urge all parties to remain calm urging them not to have a larger preemptive strike inside lebanese territory that could turn into a larger scale war now the situation at the moment while it is calm it is still tense as the israeli military and hezbollah alike both on high alert and khamda as you speak we're hearing on rocket fire towards the north through the area of zahriit in the north of israel we'll come back to you for updates on that khamda salchou thank you very much for now now let's go in studio joining me here is yakov lapian military and strategic affairs analyst at the jewish news syndicate as well as a military and strategic affairs analyst at miriam institute yakov thank you for being with us so israeli prime minister benjamin ethaniau is meeting the families of those 229 israelis that are being held by this terror group in those underground tunnels now we don't know their condition um what could he possibly have to say to them to ease their minds somehow as they're obviously terrified about the condition of their loved ones without knowing the exact details of this conversation my assumption is that he has likely some intelligence updates for them about the conditions of some of the hostages i would imagine that that would be a primary reason for that meeting to update them on what the defense establishment knows we've had representatives of the idf saying repeatedly that as soon as they get corroborated real information on the condition of these hostages and you know i remind all our viewers that we're talking about infants small children whose parents have been killed who have been orphaned whole families women and men and they're all you know being held likely in tunnels under unimaginable conditions so i would imagine that this is an update meeting and we're going to have to wait to see exactly what the update is it's absolutely horrific to think about these babies bees we saw a baby as young as nine months old being carried out carried by these Hamas terrorists elderly people women we saw many brutalities already in Israeli territory but also from videos that was were taken out of Gaza but as well now is in a complicated position obviously everything here is complicated every decision is extremely difficult the idf starting this some minor operation ground operation in in Gaza not the wide scale operation that we're maybe expecting to see and nonetheless it needs to decide now whether it wants to seek a deal with these terrorists or continue with this ground operation what are the stakes right now so it seems that you know the Israeli political echelon the war cabinet and the senior command structure of the idea have taken a decision that there's not going to always be a direct clash between these two objectives of securing the hostages and proceeding with the war i mean it seems that they've made the decisions to turn up the pressure on Hamas and by beginning the ground offensive the fact that these forces you know these tanks infantry engineering corps units have not come out of Gaza since entering last night i think is very important it shows that this is not just another raid this is the beginning of a larger offensive even if it's staged and gradual and so i think the message here to yehi senwar the commander of Hamas the chief of Hamas in Gaza is if you think you're going to play for time by releasing two hostages a week you know it would take two years to release all of the hostages at that pace as as Amos Yadlin has noted today you know that's not going to work for you and Israel's not going to be dictated to and paralyzed through this ransom effort by Hamas so i think they're turning up the pressure advancing the ground offensive and trying to secure a release all at the same time it's a very very complex as you note correctly very complex impossible situation and we heard from the families we'll hear from them very soon now after the meeting with Netanyahu but we already heard from them this morning following the those extensive airstrikes and this minor ground operation that they're terrified for their loved ones and this is why they're requested for this urgent meeting with Netanyahu and tomorrow also with Galant let's speak about what Hamas is looking to get in in a future deal of this kind at what could Israel be willing to give back well look you know the Hamas terrorists who have been arrested from the October 7th mass murder raid and you know when they were questioned they said that the goal of the hostages is to release security prisoners in Israeli jails and of course that's what Hamas wants but i think you know now that it's completely clear that the objective by israel is to destroy Hamas i think Hamas is also playing for time and it's trying to take the momentum out of the gathering Israeli offensive and that's just as important to Hamas as securing the release if not more important and if that's Hamas's goal then the hostage deal is in great doubt any any deal would be in great doubt and if Hamas you know can be can it can change its position to seeing a need to do a major swap under pressure then that would change things for the better i think that's exactly pretty much where we're at right now it's it's devastating for the families that all scenarios here are terrible for them and as israel continues with its ground operation in some parts of the Gaza Strip it is also asking Gazans to leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip and also emphasizes how Hamas uses very sensitive sites like hospitals and schools as human shields using these people there as human shields and just a short while ago the IDF releasing a part of an interrogation of a Hamas operative speaking exactly about that let's take a listen okay after leaving to go to the south of now Is it okay? Perfect. We've been talking for five minutes now about 3 years since we started this channel. Yes. It's a shame. Okay, so now… If you see a red bar, let me know. What? If you see red bars, let me know. No. If you see a red bar. There's no red bars. Oh. Because you can't see them And you can't see them You can't see them all What do you mean? We have weapons We don't have medicine We don't have medicine We don't have medicine Why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell us? Because we trust them What do you think? What do you think about the gas? The gas is like you said It's important that it's not a gas It's not a gas to people They're giving you a gas And they're making you a gas I also have a question About the The power of the gas The power of the gas The power of the gas The power of the gas Is it a power or what you're saying? I mean It's a power As we're listening to That part of the interrogation We're seeing live images Out of Tel Aviv as rocket Sirens are being heard Right now all across Central Israel Also in the south Mainly in Tel Aviv In Rishon Etzion And north of Tel Aviv As well it's a massive barrage Here in studio we could Hear the Explosions just over our heads Right now this is a live Event now this is an ongoing Situation a massive barrage Of rockets into Israel Out of Gaza right now So many Israeli cities Now are under Rocket attack Millions I could say of Israelis Having to rush to Shelter at this very Moment we're seeing these live images From Tel Aviv as We speak while These are people outside On the streets seeking shelter They do not have shelter They go down to the ground Others are making the mistake Of just filming and they're taking A big risk by doing so Everyone is advised To seek shelter right now As we already saw yesterday Those rockets Not all of them Are being taken down by the Miyaakov Lapin Despite the massive operation Of the IDF the airstrikes And the ground operation Rocket fire continues by Hamas Many of these launchers are Underground and it's going to take A lot much larger ground offensive To extinguish this rocket fire We've always known that these are the Assessments that we've heard for years From the defense establishment If we want to extinguish rocket fire There has to be a large ground force Moving in gradually and systematically Destroying those launchers Because a lot of them are on timers Activated with the press of a button And airstrikes alone simply won't do it Although they are doing a lot of damage And as we speak about them The IDF is not just Targeting infrastructure Also targeting Many operatives, many senior operatives We heard This morning from the IDF About taking down both the Terror of an aerial unit and naval unit How much effect does that have On the operations of Hamas As it engages in this war A very significant effect These are senior tactical field Hamas officers You can call them that terrorist officers And they are in charge of activating Very significant units They played big roles in the October 7th Mass murder raid Some of them the head of the Aerial array unit In charge of coordinating those paragliders Those infamous paragliders now As they flew over the border As well as UAV attacks Every one of these assassinations Is going to further damage Hamas' ability to function But they are built Hamas in a Decentralized manner So they can continue to function Even if some of these units are already Decapitated I also think it was very interesting The interrogation that we saw just now Has been trained ahead of time On what they can say and what they can't say When they are caught Because I assume that they would think ahead And think they might be caught So even though the sheen bed Is doing phenomenal work In getting information out of them Absolutely phenomenal work I don't think that they are saying Everything they know yet And it's going to be a long term I think questioning process To get more and more information out of them Is talking about how Shifa hospital Is used as a terrorist compound How Hamas gambles on The fact that Israel distinguishes Between civilians and terrorists So he gave very valuable information Absolutely no question about that I just wonder what else they know The cynical use of Hamas Is nothing new for anyone That knows what's going on And for the IDF but also important To emphasize that to the world As it is not for nothing That Israel emphasizes what's going on there Both with these interrogations And with the statements of The IDF spokesman Because it is clear that As this operation continues Those major hubs The most serious hubs of Hamas Will have to be targeted If Israel indeed is willing to go ahead And eliminate Hamas Yes and yesterday we saw the IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagaris say That as far as the IDF is concerned When a hospital is used As a central command and control structure And as a way to attack Israeli civilians It loses its defensive Or protection status Under international law And he's absolutely right under the laws Of war there is no Obligation on any military Or state to continue to View a hospital that's being Used to orchestrate Murderous attacks on civilians As an off-limits site So I think Israel is sending out warnings To putting red flags on these hospitals And the mosques and the clinics And all of the UNRWA sites that Hamas Use and build tunnels under and saying These are military sites Civilians better start preparing to leave these sites Because as far as we're concerned These are fair for Targeting What I find interesting and Perhaps many of our views as well Is how despite The massive strikes of the IDF The Chain of command of Hamas seems to be intact in the Sense that obviously We see this rocket fire Well planned in terms of the times I assume the rockets are Being fired from multiple Spots so there is a coordination Of some sort despite This such heavy pressure that Israel applies and maybe It goes together with the fact that Had little or zero We will know One day information about the plans Of Hamas So is the communication That they're holding within the tunnels So secure that they can Can continue to operate On almost a Regular manner While they're being attacked Is this what it's about? The answer in my opinion is yes They have an internal communication system It's a closed phone line Wire based communications And the only way I could assume That that could be disrupted is to Destroy it physically It's not something I think that can be stopped Like radio communications Through electronic warfare And electromagnetic spectrum operations Which the IDF I'm sure is conducting Across the Gaza Strip This is an internal closed circuit Communication system and it's very Very valuable for Hamas and it does coordinate further terrorist and Military activities It's in the tunnels, it's in the bunkers And it's in these multi-story buildings And as we speak we mentioned These rocket fire We can report some heads in Cholon and Kiryat Ono Initial information now No word on casualties just yet We will give you that information As that comes in, Jakob stay with me We're going to change gears now We're going to go to Dr. Chen Kugel At the National Institute of Forensic Medicine Dr. Kugel thank you for taking Your time to be with us We know that you And many volunteers are working For you tirelessly over the Last 22 days Working to identify 1400 Israeli victims Of this massacre So many days have passed Dr. and yet hundreds of those bodies Have yet to be identified Try to break down For our viewers What is it about this massacre That is so different from many other Mass casualty events you have dealt With throughout your career First of all The problem with the identification Here that some of the bodies Are charred and even The bones Are brittle and All that left for me is just ashes And some people I am I afraid Is never found We've been never found sorry for my English By the way I'm kind of tired now And the thing is that Also we don't have anti-mortem Data of some of the victims Because all the identification Methods are based on comparison Between The data that you take from a dead Person for example fingerprints And you compare it to data that you take From the same person while he was alive Same fingerprints Now if we don't have anti-mortem data The data from the person before He died for example foreign workers That were murdered Also so we cannot identify Their bodies So one problem is The condition of the bodies Which are many of them Are charred and Are just carbon or coal And other Problem is the anti-mortem data I think that Most of the bodies will be identified But I'm afraid that we will Left with some bodies That are not identified It's Absolutely horrific to say the least What you have to deal with What these people had to deal with I know it's Obviously extremely difficult for you As it is for all of us To hear these stories Was there one particular case That you had to deal with That really stood out for you Out of the many hundreds of tragedies You've dealt with this past 22 days Well There are many tragedies As you said And when I'm talking to you I remember many of them You know when I'm in the autopsy room In the mortuary I'm doing my work I don't remember but I remember One case for example It got published That we just saw A piece of coal A burnt piece of coal And we put it in the CT scan And in the CT scan you see Two spine and two spine And two set of ribs Rib cages And this is an adult hugging A younger boy or girl Cannot say if it's a boy or girl And they were rocked with a wire Metal wire Actually they were rocked and burned in life While they were hugging each other And this is heart wrenching We saw other cases That are heart wrenching I do not want to Describe because this is really difficult For the audience to hear this But the people that did it Are monsters They're not human beings And there are so many cases That are horrible Horrific We see people that were tied And shot from Contact range And we saw people that were burned While people put more Accelerators into the fire To make them ashes and not more And there are many other things That we saw and People should know It happened here in Israel Simply unimaginable doctor What you have to deal with What these innocent Miserable people Israeli civilians who were just In their homes on that Saturday morning Had to go through I want to talk to you about the fact That you are giving this interview The fact that While doing your very sacred Work You're having to speak to the media To us but also to the world As a whole To reiterate and to explain What happened here on October 7th How do you find that Aspect The fact that You need to detail What has happened for the world To understand There are some who even doubt What we're saying here Well, we never opened The institute to the media This is the first time that we did it And I think it was important It was difficult for us But I think That when the journalists So what we are seeing List some Very few of the cases And got the impression I think nobody could say it didn't happen Now we are dealing In many cases in separating The bodies which are charged Together, not just the father And the son or the baby Many bodies are Combined or conjoined together And dealing with separating We have many bags that in the same bags There are several bodies Or Part of body parts And I wanted the media To see it I wanted them to see the horrors And I think That when they are filming it And they are reporting it It is an objective report Like what you are doing now You could never say in the future Oh, it didn't happen Or they are just inventing And so on, no, it is here And you should see it Absolutely unbelievable That we have to even discuss this Dr. Khen Kogel, we thank you so much For being with us, but more than that Thank you for the sacred work That you are doing for these visible victims Thank you for being with us Rocket fire over the past Several minutes, some hits To Central Israel At this very hour Will keep you updated On more of the result of these Rocket fire during the broadcast For now Guy Azrael, thank you for watching Officially in a state of war This is a very active scene And we need to get in the car as we are talking More than a hundred soldiers And civilians have been kidnapped Help us, we don't know what to do We just don't know anything Our families including babies And children and elderly were butchered In their beds Awaken the giant And we are ready and we are strong Everyone is showing up, this is the unity It is the most powerful And direct way to stand with Israel Visit israelbonds.com And invest now Schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il Welcome to this special broadcast Here on I-24 News As we continue our rolling coverage Day 22 Of Israel's war against Hamas In Gaza 22 days after the horrific onslaught Resulting in the slaughter Of 1400 Israelis On October 7 Some of the worst atrocities Committed in modern times The massacred massacre of Jewish people Since the Holocaust Today sirens heard in the north The center and the south of Israel Ongoing rocket fire A third terror squad eliminated today In southern Lebanon After trying to launch an anti-tank Missile toward Israeli troops In the West Bank More arrests of Hamas operatives And in the south the IDF Expanding action Combined aerial and ground activity Of Hamas' aerial and naval operations At this very hour Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Meeting the families Of at least 229 Israelis Most of them civilians Held at the hands Of the Hamas terror group Meanwhile Israeli Defense Minister Yav Galant Wrapping up a security assessment Saying the war Is entering a new phase I have now completed The daily situation assessment I have summarized the directions Of action regarding the main efforts The military effort The effort to free the hostages The civilian effort And the humanitarian effort We passed the stage in the war Tonight the grounding guards are shook We attacked above ground And below ground We attacked terrorist operatives At all levels In all places The instructions to the forces Are clear The operation will continue Until new orders are given In the other sectors We are preparing to protect The civilians of Israel To maintain their safety We do this in the north In the center And everywhere else Israeli Defense Minister Yav Galant Speaking there To Israel's northern border Right 24 news corresponded Hamda Salchut is standing by For us, Hamda, a tense calm If you can call what we're experiencing In the north now calm But it comes as the Hezbollah terror group is claiming Responsibility for attempting To fire towards Israel Well look, the exchanges of fire Have been continuous between the Israeli Military and Hezbollah today Siren sounding in parts of northern That's because the Israeli military said It was due to anti-tank fire From the Lebanese side The military responding with artillery Getting rid of the artillery Units here There's actually been just a boom In the distance behind us here But we're not really sure What it is, but it is the continuous Exchanges of fire here Now the Israeli military has been clear That they will respond to any sort Of aggression into their territory And Hezbollah has also been clear That they're ready with their finger On the trigger for a larger scale operation But that simply hasn't happened yet The Israelis have been receiving Pressure from the United States Both publicly and privately To urge all parties to remain calm Urging them not to have a larger Pre-emptive strike inside Lebanese territory that could Turn into a larger scale war Now the situation at the moment While it is calm it is still tense As the Israeli military and Hezbollah Are like both on high alert And Khamda, as you speak, we're hearing On rocket fire Towards the north through the Area of Zar'it in the north Of Israel, we'll come Back to you for updates On that, Khamda Salchou, thank you very much For now Now let's go in studio, joining me Here is Yakov Lapin, military and Strategic Affairs Analyst at the Jewish News Syndicate, as well as Strategic Affairs Analyst at Miriam Institute. Yakov, thank you for being With us. So Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting The families of those 229 Israelis that are Being held by this terror group In those underground tunnels now We don't know their condition What could he possibly Have to say to them To ease their minds Somehow, as they're obviously Terrified about the condition of their Hostages, without knowing the exact details Of this conversation, my assumption Is that he has likely some intelligence Updates for them about The conditions of some of the hostages I would imagine that that would be A primary reason for that meeting To update them on what the defense Establishment knows. We've had Representatives of the IDF saying Repeatedly that as soon as they get Corroborated real information On the condition of these hostages And I remind all our viewers About infants, small children Whose parents have been killed, have been orphaned Whole families Women and men And they're all being held Likely in tunnels under unimaginable Conditions. So I would imagine That this is an update meeting and We're going to have to wait to see Exactly what the update is It's absolutely horrific to think About these babies. We saw a baby As young as nine months old Being carried out, carried These Hamas terrorists Elderly people Women We saw many brutalities Already in Israeli territory But also from videos that were Taken out of Gaza. But Israel now is in a complicated Position Obviously everything here is complicated Every decision is extremely difficult The IDF Starting this Some minor operation Ground operation in Gaza Not the wide-scale operation That we're maybe expecting To see. And nonetheless It needs to decide now Whether it wants to seek A deal with these terrorists Or continue with this ground Operation What are the stakes right now? So it seems that The Israeli political echelon The war cabinet and the senior Command structure of the IDF Have taken a decision That there's not going to always be A direct clash between these two objectives Of securing the hostages and proceeding With the war. It seems that they've Made the decisions to turn up the pressure On Hamas by beginning The ground offensive. The fact that These forces, these tanks, infantry Engineering corps units have not come out Of Gaza since entering last night I think is very important. It shows That this is not just another raid This is the beginning of a larger Actual. And so I think the message here To Yehi Senwar, the commander Of Hamas, the chief of Hamas in Gaza Is if you think you're going to play for time By releasing two hostages a week It would take two years to release All of the hostages at that pace As Amos Yadlin has noted today That's not going to work for you And Israel's not going to be Dictated to and paralyzed Through this ransom effort by Hamas So I think they're turning up the pressure Advancing the ground Offensive and trying to secure a release All at the same time It's a very, very complex as you note Correctly very complex. Impossible situation and we heard from the families We'll hear from them very soon now After the meeting with Netanyahu But we already heard from them this morning Following those extensive airstrikes And this minor ground operation That they're terrified for their loved ones And this is why they're requested For this urgent meeting with Netanyahu And tomorrow also with Gallant Let's speak about what Hamas Is looking to get In a future deal of this kind And what could Israel Be willing to give back Well, look, the Hamas terrorists Who have been arrested From the October 7th mass murder raid And when they were questioned they said That the goal of the hostages is To release security prisoners In Israeli jails And of course that's what Hamas wants But I think now that it's completely clear That the objective by Israel Is to destroy Hamas I think Hamas is also playing for time And it's trying to take the momentum out of the gathering Is really offensive and that's just as important To Hamas as securing the release If not more important And if that's Hamas' goal then the hostages Deal is in great doubt Any deal would be in great doubt And if Hamas, you know, can be Can change his position To seeing a need to Do a major swap Under pressure Then that would change things for the better I think that's pretty much where we're at right now It's devastating for the families That all scenarios here are terrible for them And as Israel Continues with its Ground operation In some parts of the Gaza Strip It is also asking Gazans To leave The northern part of the Gaza Strip And also emphasizes how Hamas Uses Sites like hospitals and schools As Human shields Using these people there as human shields Just a short while ago the IDF Releasing a part of an interrogation Of Hamas operative Speaking exactly about that Let's take a listen I've heard That There's a lot of talk about this From the beginning I haven't heard anything about it I've heard about it before There's a lot of talk about this Not all of the region Not all of the region There's a lot of talk But not all of the region Okay There's a lot of talk About this There's a man who's a lawyer And a lawyer I've heard about it What is the most important thing Of the country What are the most important things Of the country The most important thing Is the country What do you want? There's a lot of talk About the country There's a lot of talk About something small What do you want me to go to? We're going to be together We are going to be together We're going to be together We're going to talk You can have a conversation With me Can I Can I Can you Can I Can I Can I Can I took a picture of it. It was this one. It was what it was. When you see a red light, you ask, it's in the middle of the sky. It was this one. It was a white light. Now it's... the white light. It's in the middle of the sky. The different colors, I give it a good look. The color. Do you have medical care? No, I just want to do my job. How are you going to do it? I want to see my mother and we'll sign it. I want to show her even more. It's not my job to do it. What about the gas? The gas is like I said. They charge you, they give you extra money. You can't pay for the gas. They pay for the gas. And they charge you for the fuel. I'm going to get a job. And as we were listening to that part of the interrogation, we're seeing live images out of Tel Aviv as rocket sirens are being heard right now all across central Israel, also in the south, mainly in Tel Aviv, in Rishon Etzion, and north of Tel Aviv as well. It's a massive barrage. Here in studio we could hear the explosions just over our heads right now. This is a live event now. This is an ongoing situation, a massive barrage of rockets into Israel out of Gaza right now. So many Israeli cities now are under rocket attack. Millions, I could say, of Israelis having to rush to shelter at this very moment. We're seeing these live images from Tel Aviv as we speak while these are people outside on the streets seeking shelter. They do not have shelter. They go down to the ground. Others are making the mistake of just filming, and they're taking a big risk by doing so. Everyone is advised to seek shelter right now as we already saw yesterday. Those rockets, not all of them are being taken down by the Iron Dome still with Miyako Vlapin. Despite the massive operation of the IDF, the airstrikes, and the ground operation, Rocket Fire continues by Hamas. Many of these launchers are underground, and it's going to take a much larger ground offensive to extinguish this rocket fire. We've always known that these are the assessments that we've heard for years from the Defense establishment. If we want to extinguish rocket fire, there has to be a large ground force in the Gaza Strip, moving in gradually and systematically destroying those launchers, because a lot of them are on timers, a lot of them are activated with the press of a button, and airstrikes alone simply won't do it, although they are doing a lot of damage. And as we speak about them, the IDF is not just targeting infrastructure, also targeting many operatives, many senior operatives. We heard this morning from the IDF about taking down both the commander of an aerial unit and naval unit. How much effect does that have on the operations of Hamas as it engages in this war? A very significant effect. These are senior tactical field Hamas officers, you can call them that, terrorist officers. And they are in charge of activating very significant units. They played big roles in the October 7th mass murder raid. Some of them, the head of the aerial array unit, was in charge of coordinating those paragliders, those infamous paragliders now, as they flew over the border, as well as UAV attacks. Every one of these assassinations is going to further damage Hamas' ability to function, but they are built Hamas in a decentralized manner, so they can continue to function even if some of these units are decapitated. I also think it was very interesting, you know, the interrogation that we saw just now, it seems that some of these Hamas terrorists have been trained ahead of time on what they can say and what they can't say when they're caught, because I assume that they would think ahead and think they might be caught. So even though the Shin Bet is doing phenomenal work in getting information out of them, absolutely phenomenal work, I don't think that they're saying everything they know yet, and it's going to be a long-term, I think, questioning process to get more and more information out of them. But even the information they did share, this terrorist here, he was talking about how Shifa Hospital is used as a terrorist compound, how Hamas gambles on the fact that Israel distinguishes between civilians and terrorists. So he gave very valuable information, absolutely no question about that. I just wonder what else they know. The cynical use of Hamas is nothing new for anyone that knows what's going on and for the IDF, but also important to emphasize that to the world as it is not for nothing that Israel emphasizes what's going on there, both with these interrogations and with the statements of the IDF spokesman, because it is clear that as this operation continues, those major harps, the most serious harps of Hamas, will have to be targeted if Israel indeed is willing to go ahead and eliminate Hamas. Yes, and yesterday we saw the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Higari, say that as far as the IDF is concerned, when a hospital is used as a central command and control structure and as a way to attack Israeli civilians, it loses its defensive or protection status under international law. And he's absolutely right under the laws of war, there is no obligation on any military or state to continue to view a hospital that's being used to orchestrate murderous attacks on civilians as an off-limits site. So I think Israel is sending out warnings to putting red flags on these hospitals and the mosques and the clinics and all of the UNRWA sites that Hamas use and build tunnels under and saying, these are military sites, civilians better start preparing to leave these sites because as far as we're concerned, these are fair for targeting. What I find interesting and perhaps many of our viewers as well is how despite the massive strikes of the IDF, the chain of command of Hamas seems to be intact in the sense that obviously we see this rocket fire well planned in terms of the times. I assume the rockets are being fired from multiple spots so there is a coordination of some sort despite this such heavy pressure that Israel applies and maybe it goes together with the fact that Israel had little or zero, we will know one day information about the plans of Hamas. So is the communication that they're holding within the tunnels so secure that they can continue to operate on almost a regular manner while they're being attacked? Is this what it's about? The answer in my opinion is yes. They have an internal communication system within the tunnels. It's a closed phone line, wire-based communications. And the only way I could assume that that could be disrupted is to destroy it physically. It's not something, I think, that can be stopped like radio communications through electronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum operations, which the IDF, I'm sure, is conducting across the Gaza Strip. This is an internal closed circuit communication system and it's very, very valuable for Hamas and it does enable them to continue to coordinate further terrorist and military activities. It's in the tunnels, it's in the bunkers, and it's in these multi-story buildings. And as we speak, we mentioned these rocket fire. We can report some hits in Kholon and Kiryat Ono. Initial information now. No word on casualties just yet. We will give you that information as that comes in. Jakob, stay with me. We're going to change gears now. We're going to go to Dr. Gen Kugel. He's the director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine. Dr. Kugel, thank you for taking your time to be with us. We know that you and many volunteers are working for you tirelessly over the last 22 days working to identify 1,400 Israeli victims of this massacre. So many days have passed, Dr. and yet hundreds of those bodies have yet to be identified. Try to break down for our viewers. What is it about this massacre that is so different from many other mass casualty events you have dealt with throughout your career? First of all, the problem with the identification here that some of the bodies are charred and even the bones are brittle and all that left for me is just ashes. And some people I am, I afraid that we will never found. We've been never found. Sorry for my English, by the way. I'm kind of tired now. And the thing is that also we don't have anti-mortem data of some of the victims because all the identification methods are based on comparison between the data that you take from a dead person, for example fingerprints, and you compare it to data that you take from the same person while he was alive. The same fingerprints. Now, if we don't have anti-mortem data, the data from the person before he died, for example, foreign workers that were murdered also, so we cannot identify their bodies. So one problem is the condition of the bodies, which are many of them are charred and are just carbon or coal. And another problem is the anti-mortem data. I think that most of the bodies will be identified, but I'm afraid that we will be left with some bodies that are not identified. It's absolutely horrific to say the least what you have to deal with, what these people had to deal with. I know it's obviously extremely difficult for you as it is for all of us to hear these stories. Was there one particular case that you had to deal with that really stood out for you out of the many hundreds of tragedies you've dealt with this past 22 days? Well, there are many tragedies, as you said. And when I'm talking to you, I remember many of them. You know, when I'm in the autopsy room in the mortuary, I'm doing my work. I don't remember, but I remember one case, for example, which got published, that we just saw a piece of coal, burnt piece of coal, and we put it in the CT scan. And in the CT scan, you see two spines and two spines and two set of ribs, rib cages. And this is an adult hugging a younger boy or girl, cannot say if it's a boy or girl. And they were wrapped with a wire, metal wire. And actually, they were wrapped and burned alive while they were hugging each other. And this is heart-wrenching. We saw other cases that are heart-wrenching. I do not want to describe because this is really difficult for the audience to hear this. But the people that did it are monsters. They're not human beings. And there are so many cases that are horrible, horrific. And we see people that were tied and shot from contact range. And we saw people that were burned while people put more accelerators into the fire to make them ashes and not more. And there are many other things that we saw. And people should know it. It happened here in Israel. Simply unimaginable, doctor, what you have to deal with. These innocent, miserable people, Israeli civilians who were just in their homes on that Saturday morning, had to go through. I want to talk to you about the fact that you are giving this interview, the fact that while doing your very sacred work, you're having to speak to the media, to us, but also to the world as a whole, to reiterate and to explain what happened here on October 7th. How do you find that aspect? The fact that you need to detail what has happened for the world to understand there are some who even doubt what we're saying here. Well, we never opened the Institute to the media. This is the first time that we did it. And I think it was important. It was difficult for us. But I think that when the journalists saw what we are seeing, at least some, very few of the cases, and got the impression, I think nobody could say it didn't happen. Now we're dealing in many cases in separating bodies, which are chad together, not just the father and the son or the baby. Many bodies are combined or conjoined together and we are dealing with separating. We have many bags that in the same bags, bags that there's several bodies or body parts. And I wanted the media to see it. I wanted them to see the horrors. And I think that when they are filming it and they are reporting that it is an objective report, like what you are doing now. And people could never say in the future, oh, it didn't happen. Or they just inventing and so on. No, it's here. And you should see it. Absolutely unbelievable that we have to even discuss this. Dr. Hengkogel, we thank you so much for being with us. But more than that, thank you for the sacred work that you're doing for these visible victims. Thank you for being with us. Rocket fire over the past several minutes, some hits into central Israel at this very hour will keep you updated on more of the result of these rocket fire during the broadcast for now. Guy Azrael, thank you for watching. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured. And the war with Hamas continues. We bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived, and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I 24 News. The American Red Wolf is the most endangered wolf in the entire world. And the American Red Wolf is the only wolf that is only native to the United States. And in that regards, they should be a national treasure. So it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care. And it's very important for people to be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct. Made For Me, a unique concept in Israel. Custom made men's fashion to your measurements. Made For Me, designer of all your events. Schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il. Made For Me, official dresser of I 24 News. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. La tercera semana de esta guerra declarada por Hamas que comenzó el 7 de octubre contra Israel, dejando más de 1400 asesinados, 2500 heridos graves, 212 renes y un país que en medio del caos generado está recomponiendo sus filas tanto en lo social como buscando en lo militar, eliminar la capacidad operativa y a los terroristas de Hamas en Gaza. Pilar Raola, en el portal del Nacional de Cataluña, dice, ha tenido nos vierten en un vacío moral y en una podedumbe intelectual que nos retratan como una sociedad muy enferma. Se ha perdido el sentido de los límites de la humanidad y en la confusión, el mal puro se ha hecho camino, banalizado por unos, justificado por otros, incluso en algunos casos, ha plagudido. Muy duro, ¿cierto, Nicole? Palabras acertadas, muy duras, pero para ello vamos a estar hoy hablando, porque tenemos como invitado a uno de los periodistas más distinguidos de Israel, reconocido en Europa, en América Latina y también en los países árabes. Estoy hablando de Enrique Simmerman, que se ha sumado hoy a News24, para analizar todo lo que está pasando desde el inicio de la guerra. Gracias, Enrique, por estar con nosotros. Un placer, Nicole, un placer, Carlos. Comencemos por lo siguiente. Te digo de qué vamos a hablar en esta emisión especial. Primero, queremos tu análisis sobre las relaciones Israel, Hamas, la Autoridad Nacional Palestina. Luego, queremos ver cómo toda esta situación afecta a la región, Estados Unidos, Europa, los países árabes. Queremos tratar el tema de la guerra digital, de las fake news, y también el incidente con el presidente Petro, que no lo quisiera dejar pasar. Y, finalmente, hemos leído un artículo que has escrito acerca de cómo recomenzar y repensar un recalculando de esta región. Por eso, Enrique, me gustaría que comenzaras a darnos una visión amplia de lo que ha sido elante y después del 7 de octubre. ¿Cómo has jugado el papel, algo muy importante, la Autoridad Nacional Palestina? Enrique. La Autoridad Nacional Palestina está perdida. Ellos perdieron el GPS, no saben hacia dónde tienen que tirar por varios motivos. Y el principal es que para ellos jamás es un rival, un rival muy fuerte. Por eso no hay elecciones en la Autoridad Palestina hace 17 años, porque ellos saben que probablemente jamás ganaría. Y como tienen miedo de ello, mantiene la Autoridad Palestina sin democracia. Pero, al mismo tiempo, ellos siguen luchando por la opinión pública palestina. Entonces, no se pueden enfrentar a jamás. Yo os puedo decir que la semana pasada, días después de la matanza más atroz y sadista que yo, he visto desde que estoy aquí y llevo muchos años cubriendo esta región, estuve en Irak, vi el estado islámico, debo decir que lo que vimos aquí es realmente sin precedentes. Y además, planificado durante cuatro años por Irán, juntamente con jamás. Yo llamé a la MUHATA, a la Autoridad Palestina y les dije, señores, si ustedes no se desmarcan de jamás, pasarán a la historia como algo irrelevante. Y me dijeron, pero si no pasó nada, si lo que hubo es que hubo algunos incidentes y les dije las violaciones y los saqueos y los secuestros. Y me pidieron que les enviase películas y les envíe. Y el día siguiente, el presidente palestino, Mahmoud Abbas, anunció jamás no representa al pueblo palestino. La OLP representa al pueblo palestino. Lo dijo en una conversación con el presidente de Venezuela. Y lo escribió en un tweet, inmediatamente lo borró y dejó solo la OLP representar al pueblo palestino. Ellos tienen un problema. Y nosotros tenemos un problema, como Israel, en la medida en que creíamos que podíamos tener algún tipo de diálogo, diría yo, indirecto, con jamás. Permitir que llegue algo de dinero, de Qatar, hacia jamás, maletines llenos de... Los trabajadores que entraban en Israel. Los 20,000 trabajadores al día que entraban que dan de comer a cientos de miles de personas. Todo tipo de entrada y salida de ayuda humanitaria. Hoy nosotros entendemos que no podemos entendernos con jamás, que jamás no puede estar allí del otro lado de la frontera, que jamás es una una sesión neofascista. Por eso quiero preguntarte. Los ataques que ha hecho con su defensa Israel han muerto civiles, que son siempre escudos humanos de jamás allá en Gaza. Y ellos alegan, la Autoria Nacional Palestina, que esas muertes son inocentes de esos niños. ¿Existe y crees en el ojo por ojo, diente por diente? No es una cuestión de ojo por ojo. Es una cuestión de que si tú decides que no puedes tener un vecino así, porque él hace cosas que el mundo civilizado no conoce ni ha visto. Y los conocemos ya de sobras. Pero empieza saliendo ahora y yo estuve en el Kibbutz ni Rhoz. Y verte, verlo con tus propios ojos. Ver las historias, una por una, casa por casa. De hecho, me llegó una prueba de que estaban drogados. Los terroristas de jamás estaban drogados. Eso fue parte de la preparación hecha en Irán. Pero tú ves exactamente el grado de sadismo que no tiene precedentes, en mi opinión, desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Bueno, también estuvo en el sur. Nicole fue a la ciudad de Esderot, que se encuentra a cinco kilómetros de la frontera y nos preparó este informe con su visión en esta ciudad tan golpeada. En medio de la catástrofe de la estación de policía en la ciudad de Esderot, tomada por dos días por los terroristas de jamás. Ver una estación de policía israelí hechas con bros era algo inimaginable antes del 7 de octubre. El olor a cloaca, aquella que imana el terrorismo, se siente entre los charcos de agua sucia que se entremesclaron con los trozos de cemento que quedó de la demolición. El ejército israelí había llegado el 8 de octubre a Esderot, una ciudad capturada por los terroristas que se atrincheraron en la estación policial matando a los pocos oficiales de Guardia. La única manera de eliminarlos de moler la estación. Observo y no comprendo la policía israelí vulnerada por el vecino enemigo, terrorista, al que creían pequeño. En Esderot perdieron la vida más de 200 civiles israelíes, un sábado de descanso, de Shabbat. Las calles son un desierto fantasmal. La lluvia de balas están marcadas en su cotidianidad. Un consencionario de autos refleja sin sangre el horror, donde lo doloroso no es la pérdida material, sino que esas balas eliminaron vida sinocente. Carros familiares con manchas de sangre, sangre, sangre. La silla del niño en el coche. ¿Se imaginan si ese niño hubiese estado allí sentado? ¿Lo estuvo? No sabemos. Pero de repente la vida nos envía un mensaje. Una camioneta blanca, como la paz, cargada de banderas de Israel, apareció. A lo alto, alguien colocaba en los postes de luz la bandera con la estrella de David. Como señal de identidad, recuperamos la ciudad y conocí al encargado de colocarlas en Esderot. Vemos cómo esta bandera de Israel está siendo colocada por un árabe israelí que está allá arriba. Salam alaikum. Toda roba. Mashem Shalha. ¿Cuál es tu nombre? Ali. Shukram. Esderot no volverá a ser la misma, como toda Israel, como todo judío del siglo XXI, porque ahora toca ser resiliente. Sam Harris, filósofo americano, escribió. La verdad es que todos vivimos en Israel. Lo único es que alguno de nosotros no lo entendemos. No hay enemigo pequeño. Seguimos en esta emisión especial de 2024 en español dedicada a Israel bajo ataque con un invitado de lujo que es el periodista Enrique Zimmermann. Enrique, la semana pasada tuvimos la visita del presidente de Estados Unidos, Biden, bien el primer ministro Sunak de Gran Bretaña, el Canciller Schulz de Alemania. ¿Qué importancia tiene estas visitas en la región? Y, sobre todo, con los países del golfo, todo lo que se hablaba antes con Arabia Saudita, ¿hacia dónde vamos con todo esto? La importancia es enorme, porque ellos, los líderes empezando por Biden, entiende que este no es un conflicto entre Israel y Hamas. Esto es algo mucho más amplio. Estos son coaliciones que, de hecho, se están enfrentando en el lugar que es el punto de encuentro entre Occidente y el mundo libre y los lladistas islamistas. Entonces, hay aquí un punto de encuentro en el que nosotros, Israel, está en primera línea. Y yo creo que ellos empiezan a entender que también ellos tienen algo que ver con todo esto. Y por eso Israel está recibiendo el apoyo internacional que está recibiendo, incluso de países europeos, como Gran Bretaña, como Francia, como Alemania, como Italia. Siempre han tenido una tendencia más palestina. Mucho más, mucho más. Pero entienden aquí que jamás no es palestina, entienden aquí que jamás es un fenómeno muchísimo más grave que ha sido alimentado por Irán en los últimos años. No era así hace los primeros años de Hamas, pero lo es ahora. Hoy en día, Hamas es una organización totalmente iraní, absolutamente financiada. Ahora, Arabia Saudí. Arabia Saudí está en una situación difícil, porque ellos estaban muy cerca, muy cerca de la normalización con Israel. Y Irán lo sabía. Y por eso decidieron esta fecha como ataque. Hay que entender que Hamas destrozó después de Oslo cuando había esperanza de paz real en esta región. Cuando todo era positivo, ellos empezaron los atentados suicidas y mataron el proceso de paz. Ahora están haciendo lo mismo, dos décadas y media después, están haciendo exactamente lo mismo. Están 30 años después. Están intentando matar la posibilidad de que Israel y Arabia Saudí se lleguen a un acuerdo de paz y que se amplíen los acuerdos de Abraham. Yo tengo una pregunta. El logro con los acuerdos de Oslo fue casi total. ¿Consiguieron paralizarlo? ¿Qué es un estatus cubo? ¿Donde ninguna de las dos partes fue a ningún lado? Pero lo que ha pasado el 7 de octubre es un game changer. O sea, no va a volver a hacer lo que había antes. Irán va a conseguir, de alguna manera, evitar de que haya un cambio tal donde ellos de repente se encuentran en una situación aislada frente al mundo que se opone a su actitud. Mi esperanza es que Irán no lo logre a medio plazo. Pero Irán ha logrado, a través de Hamas, son sus brazos, postergar el proceso. Este proceso está postergado, pero yo creo que no está muerto. Todo lo contrario. Y yo recibo indicios del Golfo. Incluso os puedo citar alguien muy destacado en el Golfo que me llama cada dos, tres días y que me dijo una frase. Me dijo, mientras no cortéis la cabeza de la serpiente, la serpiente seguirá intentando matarnos. Y lo dice Enrique, ¿qué? ¿Cuántas veces has estado en Arabia Saudita? Cinco este año. Cinco este año y conoce muy bien. Pero hay algo, es un tema bastante amplio. Hay algo importante, Enrique, que uno de los fenómenos que hemos visto es que el manipuleo y la desinformación que hay en las plataformas sociales y que es base fundamental de la información actualmente. Nosotros vamos a escuchar ahora y quiero que me ayude a analizarlo. Fredy Bernal. Fredy Bernal es el gobernador del Estado Tachina en Venezuela. Sabemos la alianza que tiene Venezuela con Irán. Quizás la alianza más fuerte de Irán en América Latina. Y luego a Carlos te va a mostrar unas gráficas que vamos a comentar sobre el caos y las opiniones que han tenido el respecto sobre toda esta situación. Vamos a verlo. En agua sin electricidad, bombardeado. Mientras estamos aquí tranquilos, tomándonos un caso insanquirtual, ese pueblo está siendo bombardeado. Y hay que decirle al mundo libre que se pronuncie a las Naciones Unidas, a la OEA, que dice la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, que dice la Corte Penal Internacional, a nosotros si nos sancionan, a nosotros si nos llevan a las Cortes. Y qué pasa con el Estado Israel, qué pasa con el Estado Israel, el Estado Israel si puede asesinar y exterminar a un pueblo es inadmisible en pleno siglo XXI. ¿Qué te parece Enrique, las opiniones? Este gobernador del Estado tachira de Nicolás Maduro, presidente de Venezuela. Una caricatura tan simple como eso. Pero una caricatura premeditada. O sea, es un intento de engañar a la opinión pública presentando algo que es solo una pequeña parte de la realidad. Es verdad. Hay sufrimiento civil en Gaza. Es un hecho. Pero ¿quién abrió toda esta guerra? ¿Quién abrió las puertas del infierno? ¿Quién empezó todo esto? O sea, estamos hablando de un grupo se olvidan que es homófobo, que rechaza a la mujer, que no permite que la mujer tenga libertad y que además no acepta la existencia de Israel y además de todo, envía 1,500 hombres drogados para matar judíos con el único objetivo de matar y secuestrar judíos. Obviamente no se puede defender en el mundo libre, en el mundo democrático a alguien así. Y debería de preocuparle a Israel esa alianza que tiene Iran en América Latina con Venezuela, un país petrolero. Obviamente. Pero no solo con Venezuela, con toda América Latina. Yo hace años que sé que hay una presencia de grupos islamistas radicales, entre ellos un país que es Iran, que es el padre de todos ellos, que están en estos países cada vez más arraigados, cada vez más agasajados. Y eso es un error porque es traer células cancerígenas a tu propio país. Yo creo que hagamos un breve comentario acerca de la actitud que tiene el presidente Petro de Colombia. Bosque maneja las relaciones internacionales. Ahí lo estamos viendo, amenazar de cortar las relaciones con Israel. ¿A qué se debe esto? Se debe a sus intereses propios. Se debe a mucha, mucha propaganda. Se debe a cuestiones económicas, yo me imagino. Se debe a estereotipos muy profundos. Decía Einstein que es más fácil destruir un átomo que destruir un estereotipo. Y aquí estamos viendo gente que tiene no solamente intereses, sino también todo tipo de prejuicios que han sido acumulados. Que ven este señor aquí. Le llevaremos al sur a la frontera de Gaza. Le enseñaré el kibbutz en el que yo estuve ayer en el kibbutz near Oz. Le enseñaré a Carmela, la casa de Carmela, una señora de 80 años que estaba haciendo babysitter a su nieta el viernes por la noche. Y que de repente ve cómo entran en su casa. Y como ya está encerrada en el bunker, le lanzan una granada y le incendian a casa y matan viva a su nieta autista y a Carmela. Esto ocurrió en decenas de lugares. Esto sí que es genocidio y además premeditado. Lo otro es una reacción de autodefensa. Hablando de genocidio, yo quisiera comentar algo que la gente no tiene idea. ¿Cómo fue que Gaza quedó tipo sandwich entre Egipto y Israel? Y la historia es que el presidente Sadat se reunió con Begin, el primer ministro de Israel, para acordar el desenganche de las fuerzas en esa época. Sadat dijo, mire, yo recibo todo la prensa lesionada, pero Gaza no lo quiero. ¿Y vos sabes cuánta gente vivía en Gaza en el año 1978? ¿Tenés una idea? Cientos de miles. 380,000 gasatíes. Imagínate. ¿Y hoy cuántos viven? Más de 2 millones. Y te diré que el promedio de hijos es uno de los más altos del mundo. Son siete niños por familia. Entonces, cuando todo el mundo utiliza la palabra genocidio, genocidio es cuando tu población merma desaparece, no cuando se incrementa, ¿no es cierto? Hay aquí un problema muy serio con los conceptos. Israel es visto como un centro de colodialismo. Como fueron, yo recuerdo a los líderes de jamás, diciéndome, yo entrevisté a todos. 14 veces entrevisté al fundador de jamás, el GQ Ahmed Yassin, en su casa. Y ellos siempre hablaban de los israelíes como los nuevos cruzados. Van a estar aquí una época y, al final, los terminares. No vemos por hechar y por derrotar de aquí. Y piensan que Israel es como Argelia, es como Afganistán para Estados Unidos. No entienden que la realidad es totalmente distinta. Aquí, y vemos lo que está pasando en la sociedad israelí, si me pedís para resumiros en una frase que ocurrió aquí el 7 de octubre, esto es un intento de Irán que olió debilidad dentro de la sociedad israelí. Olió sangre debido al debate político interno israelí en torno a la reforma judicial, a la revolución judicial. Ellos lo interpretaron como una debilidad y decidieron atacar para dos cosas. Una, para acabar con Israel. Porque creían que esto haría que todos nosotros correríamos al aeropuerto de Ben Gurion y tendríamos miedo y nos iríamos de aquí. Es la palabra a terrorizar. Y lo segundo, acabar con el proceso negociador que nos está llevando a la paz posible con países árabes de toda esta región. Y fracasaron. No lograron. Y yo estoy convencido que el tema de Arabia Saudita será postergado, pero no está muerto ni mucho menos. ¿Y tú qué conoce la sociedad israelí? ¿Será resiliente a toda esta situación? Yo creo que han conseguido el efecto opuesto. Hoy en día los israelíes, que estaban muy divididos en los últimos 10 meses, están más unidos que nunca. Yo quiero decir algo, porque mencionaste a Argelia. Yo he leído a los libros de Franz Fanon, que era el ideólogo de la revolución argelina. Y él consiguió a través de este mismo tipo de acciones echar a los franceses. Los franceses tenían a dónde irse, que era volverse a Francia. Los judíos no. Israel no tenemos dónde ir y yo nada por el Mediterráneo no creo que pueda. Quisiera terminar nuestro encuentro con una propuesta, has escrito un artículo que se llama, se requiere una coalición internacional y árabe en Gaza. Tenemos seis minutos para que nos expliques de qué estás hablando, porque aunque no querramos, hay que pensar en el futuro. Hablé otro día con el hijo del líder de Hamas, Nancy Jordania, el jeque Hassan Yussef, que acaba de ser detenido de nuevo por Israel. Y su hijo se llama Mosa Yussef y luego se descubrió que era el príncipe verde que había sido un espía de Israel de Jun. Y cuando yo iba a su casa y le entrevistaba, no sabía que él ya era un espía de Israel. Y él me dijo, jamás odia los israelíes más de lo que ama a sus propios hijos. Lo que decía Goldamero. Y eso lo dice el hijo del líder de Hamas, Nancy Jordania. Lo que yo escribí aquí es algo que es difícil de hablar de ello en este momento, cuando todo está ocurriendo. Pero creo que es vital que lo hagamos. Israel es la gran experta en la táctica, pero fracasamos a veces en la estrategia. Hay que pensar en el día después. Hay que pensar hacia dónde vamos, hacia dónde vamos a llevar todo. Digamos que es legítimo y creo que hoy en día en el mundo libre se entiende que Israel tiene todo el derecho a defenderse y acabar con un grupo terrorista como jamás. Cuidado con la población civil. Separemos las dos cosas. Pero acabar con Hamas. La pregunta es qué pasa el día después. Nos vamos a quedar en Gaza ocupando Gaza como hasta el 2005. Yo no quiero que mis hijos estén ocupando Gaza. Son dos millones y medio de gasatides que tampoco Egipto no los quiere a Jordania. No los puedes mandar a Líbano tampoco. Están ahí y se van a quedar ahí. ¿Te acuerdas que Beguin propuso a Sadat? Y Sadat lo rechazó. Si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, si, I would like you to take advantage of the cameras of this program in Spanish and that they are going to see it in any other language. And if you had to talk to the National Palestinian Authority, the Prime Minister, don't make the President who may be a successor to one of the advisers of Abba, Hussein, who may also be a successor. What would you say to him with the experience you have that you have interviewed so many people? Exactly this. I would tell them that in a first term we will have to bring an international coalition on the one hand, but also Arab. We have to bring the Saudis who have the moral power and the economic power. We have to bring the Egyptians who have political power. And we have to bring the Emiratis who have a vision of the future and who tell me, I'm going to tell you something I never said, that they are willing to do it and they are willing to coordinate it, Abu Dhabi, the Emiratis, and two Kingdoms, the Marroquí and the Jordan. These countries have to come here and they have to prepare the terrain. I don't think Israel has to stay there for a long time. We were in Lebanon for 18 years. I don't want to repeat Lebanon 2. We have to never win, clean the terrain, deliver it to this coalition that will include the United States and the only real possibility of the future is that this coalition crushes the Palestinian Authority and brings it there. Who will be in the Palestinian Authority? It's up to you. I listened very well to all the nations that you mentioned. What it leaves out to those who finance it now have to escape and in a way it is to prevent the access of Iran. In other words, that way a circle would be closed in which maybe we can think of a better future. Iran has to be out of everything. Iran is a terrorist state that is destabilizing the entire free world. Israel is part of it. And how will it be to separate Iran? It has to be an international coalition with all the countries that have to worry about the future. Iran is not a threat to Israel. Iran is a threat to the free world and for the Arab world, Sunni, that is threatened by it. And when you say all the countries, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, also, apart from the United States? Without a doubt. I think that countries from Latin America would have the obligation to be part of the gas reconstruction and to be part of the future of this region. Well, really, Enrique, thank you very much for your analysis. I think that in this way, from our little corner, we contribute so that people understand better what is going on and share your vision of the future. We also have to think about it, because today all of you are frustrated with what is happening at this moment, with the pain of the victims of Israel, with the disappearances that we have to mention and that we here ask for the international organizations that speak of humanitarianism in the world that also take care of that. Thank you very much. We look forward to telling you again to explain to the world what is happening. Thank you, Enrique, for being with us. Nicole, really, a topic on which we will continue to talk. Sure. Those of you who want can follow us on Facebook, on Twitter, on the channel 34 of HOT. You can answer our survey and we will continue to talk about Israel under attack. Thank you for being with us. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. We're reporting in Tel Aviv. Since the outbreak of this war in Israel, our journalists here at I-24 News have been providing around-the-clock coverage, giving a voice to all of those impacted by the October 7th massacre. We're getting perspective on the whole left throughout Israeli society and the impact on the entire Middle East. Here are some of the best stories from our coverage since the war began. A little closer. Can I get out of the car? Right here is the house. Can you smell it? I have to go inside. At the gate of Kibbut Nakhaloz, Mayan, the mother of 15-year-old Daphna and 8-year-old Ella, tries to enter. She's trying to get an impression of what happened to them when they were kidnapped by Hamas into Gaza. Last week, she learned that the father of her daughters, her ex-husband Noam Eliakim, was found dead after he was murdered by the terrorists who broke into their home on October 7th. His body was found a few hours after his wife and 17-year-old son were laid to rest, side by side. I was in my home in the Kibbutz. I woke up from rocket alert sirens. I then heard unusual gunshots, which were right outside my window. I immediately ran to the security room and called my mom. I said to her, Mom, do you also hear gunshots? It sounds really close. Are there terrorists? She told me, no. And I said, Mom, are you sure? I'm telling you, I can hear it. It's outside my window. They're here. We don't understand what was happening. Friends called me in the morning. They asked me how the situation was in the Kibbutz if everything was okay. It was about 8 in the morning. From that moment, I was on the phone non-stop with Mom and Noam and Tomel. Video calls, trying to see what was going on with him. I spoke to them until half past 10. And then it was all over. No one answered anymore. A few hours passed and then I get a call. Stav, there's a live feed from your mother's Facebook. Their last hours were recorded in a video that is now part of the collective memory of the attack. The horrific use of cameras and Facebook live streams by the terrorists. You are not about. You are not about. In an unprecedented act of cruelty, Hamas terrorists used 17-year-old Tomel to lure other families out of the security rooms and murdered them. Hello, open the door. Open the door. I will not shut. Open the door. I will not shut. Open the door. I will shut. I will shut now. Open the door. I just want to get the nachalos. I just want to get the nachalos. To my daughter's room, I want to see my little daughter's teddy bear. The big girl's dressing table. To see where they sat in the video, Dapna, Noam, Dikla, Ella, Tomel, I want to get there to the place from where my family was taken. They want to sleep at home and woke up in Gaza. What a nightmare, the place they should be safest. For any person in the world. They were pulled out of their bed by terrorists by the most brutal murderers into hell, into horror. Her daughters, Dapna and Ella, are among the only victims documented alive inside Gaza. We miss them so much. It's hard for me to think that they're there. I don't know what's going on with them. If they're okay, what are they thinking? I don't know anything at all. I will cross oceans to reach them. Hamas messed with the wrong mother. My girls are my life. On the way to nachalos, we pass through the slaughter zones, the fields of death, and to the place is still dangerous. We are stopped at the checkpoint. They fear fire of anti-tank missiles on the road. Even after the threat was removed, the soldiers received orders not to allow anyone through. The threat is too real. Excuse me, is there any chance you'll let me in? Who are you? I'm the mother of Dapna and Ella, who are kidnapped in Gaza. Wait a minute, please. Finally, the gate opens. There's no other way to get in. Come on. The sight that it was so important for her to get out was impossible. But in front of the house, things get even more difficult. The soldier who assisted us wants to spare her the terrible sight and finds himself in a heartbreaking situation. I'm begging, please, you have to let me in. Mayan, I ask not. I beg of you, don't enter. If it's hard for me, I'll turn my head. I'm a strong woman, really. If my daughter stood up to it, I will stand up to it, too. No, no, no. They did not see what I see now. Most of the members of this kibbut, which was infiltrated by more than a hundred terrorists, are displaced from their homes and have yet to return. You want me to bring your daughter's clothes? Both Dapna's and Ella's, please. She fought to bring them to the world. Now they are all she has left. The whole world has to see what they did here. Two little girls. After the IDF shared with hundreds of foreign journalists body cam videos and pictures from Hamas's October 7th onslaught on Southern Israel, the Shin Bet and Israeli police shared footage from interrogations of Hamas terrorists from Gaza who participated in a destruction in mass murder. In it, they describe in detail how they were ordered to kill and kidnap women and children. The detainees said in their investigations that they received orders to kidnap as many people as they could. The detainees said in their investigations that they received orders to kidnap as many people as they could, specifically women and children, and to kill the rest. They entered the house. There was a room in the house, locked. The door was closed. There was a sound inside. They entered the house. There was one woman on the door. She was in the bathroom, of course. There was a man inside the door. The whole house was closed. The first door was closed. The woman's room was closed. The door was closed. The woman's room was closed. The woman's room was closed. The woman's room was closed. The door was closed. The dog was walking in the street. They took her away. What happened? We were taken away by the police. Yes. Where were you taken? I was taken by a lot of people. Yes, three people. Yes, I was taken by a lot of people. What did you do in the house? We were taken away by police. The door that came in was closed. The woman inside the door was locked. They left the door and were taken open. They looked at each other. They were said to go to the entrance. They opened the door and went inside. They didn't realize that they were scared. They took her to the police station. They put her on the door. They locked her in the door. She opened the door and left. When one of them came in, he said that we should go in and take a rest. Do you have any weapons in case of an accident? No, I don't have any weapons. With many around the world denying the atrocities that were committed against innocent Israeli civilians, Israeli interrogators asked the detainees what Islam has to say about what they did. According to the old religion, isn't it Islam? Yes. The old religion says that you should come and kill them. No. No? Let me stop. These atrocities, you don't see how they killed civilians? Yes. The religion forbids, the Prophet said, Don't kill a woman. Don't kill a child. Don't kill a woman. The arrested Hamas terrorists point a blaming finger at their leadership, who seeks refuge abroad, while Gaza is laid to rubble. It's been nine days since the horrific slaughter in the community surrounding the Gaza Strip, and the dust is still settling. But at Israel's National Medical Forensic Center, examiners are working around the clock to identify as many of the 1,400 bodies. And at times, it's an impossible task. And the remains here are a child. You cannot see what is there. Again, go another one. And this, when we separated it, we see that there are two people there at least. We don't know how many people are there. So these people were sitting in the room. And they were not shot because we don't see any metal fragments there. But they were banned because they were not shot. This is like a crematorium. They were banned in the security room. And this is what is actually left from them. I don't know if you will be able to take DNA from these samples because they are very childlike. You can see here two spines, another one. You can see two spines. And Dr. Nachman can show two ribs, two sets of ribs. And this is an adult with a child. They're sitting together and hugged. Sorry. An adult is hugging the child. No, no. The first one. Dr. Nachman thinks it might, this metal wire that you see here might use to tie two bodies together. And they were banned like this. Since last Saturday, the center's examiners have checked over 950 body bags. Some have the remains of more than one body of victims from the border communities, the Desert Music Festival, and security forces. So far, there are about 500 bodies that were identified. And there are still close to 300 bodies that remain unidentified. And new ones keep coming in. We're beginning samples from the deceased. We're sampling them for the right amount of material that we need to extract DNA for. Then we'll use that to create a genetic profile and compare it to the family members who wait for the answers. Many of the bodies have bullet wounds, some also in the hands, as the victims were trying to protect themselves in their final moments. Burnt babies, headless bodies. Some of the bodies are in such bad condition that they may never be identified. So this is a baby mattress. Just by addition of the size of the spot, it seems that he or she was bleeding in the bed. I never saw anything like this. This is heart-wrenching because you can see innocent people that were just butchered. And people that were shot where they were tied, people that were burned to death, people that were tied together. So this cruelty is something that you cannot imagine anything like that. With a ground invasion looming and increasing international criticism over Israel's response, there is also a growing movement of people denying that Hamas terrorists committed such horrific acts of violence and torture. Hundreds of people from first responders to the medical examiners at this center have seen it all. You've seen this happen. I saw you pictures of dead bodies and also babies. You've seen it. And I don't know how many were decapitated and so on. We see people without heads. But things have happened. Just to deny it didn't happen, you saw the picture. You see the bodies. It's here. You can tell yourself any story that you want and you can believe it. So if you don't want, if you refuse to believe that this happened, even though you see the pictures, you see the videos, you see the signs, it is all recorded. In the Makabi House, if you could believe this is normally the professional basketball stadium Makabi Rishon Lezion Basketball Team, a very good team here. Now that we're in the middle of this war, this has literally turned into an emergency place to collect special items that are going directly to the soldiers in the south of Israel right now along the border preparing to do whatever is being prepared to do. You can see here we have clothes, underwear, supplies, hygienic items and a very enthusiastic crowd, which we're going to get to in a second. I want to also share here, if you look at some of these boxes, it's been over 2,000 boxes that have been packed with individual notes. Look at this. Individual notes, this is going to our children that are fighting and defending Israel at this time. Shampoo, toothpaste, underwear, basic supplies that human beings need that are going to be fighting this war. And this is the heart and soul again of this country, this group of people that have been here every single day. Even the supply isn't that full because they've given it all away, all away. So now we are joined by a very special man. He's a deputy mayor of Rishon Lezion. Thank you so much for number one being so on top of your beloved city and all of these wonderful people who already feel like family. And I've only been here an hour with you. It feels good to be here in spite of the fact that we're here for the worst possible reason. Yeah, in order to overcome the atrocities we hear from the front, the best way for us and to boost the morale is just bring all these wonderful volunteers to do everything they can in order to help our troops on the Gaza border, unfortunately now even on the northern border, and to help all the families that lost their best friends and all their kings and everything. And don't forget there are so many missing people. After six days they still don't know where they are. It's unbelievable how they kidnapped babies, elderies, 90 years old in wheelchairs and everything and they just want to have any news from their families. So these boxes that you guys are preparing, there have been more than 2,000 that are literally being delivered in armored cars directly to the soldiers at the border of Gaza that we know of right now. Exactly, they take everything directly to the soldiers and to the Kibbutz near the border which all the homes were burned and they don't have any clothes, any food, nothing. And we give them the first aid to survive the first days. Also with Rishon, a very tight community as we can see here, this is really, I'm loving being here in Rishon with you all right now. It gives me a lot of comfort to be here with such strong, warm people. And I just want to know, I mean how are you dealing with the fact there are what, how many people from Rishon have been killed? 30? 30 was delivered to us this data on Sunday. I'm very sad to say that the numbers are growing by each day. So how do we deal with this? Explain why this is how Amis-Rail deals with this. We have mainly our viewers in the United States. So what is your message besides what we're going to get to in a moment? Our message is that we don't have any other country and that's our secret weapon. We don't have anywhere to go. This is the only country in the world that can safeguard all the Jews. So nobody will drive us away from our country and from our homeland. Amen. All right now, all of you do you have something to say? This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. Within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. It's very hard to see these innocent kids who are now in some tunnel in Gaza. Who knows what's happened to them. Kids who saw their parents being shot and then were kidnapped into Gaza. Special broadcast here on I-24 News as we continue our rolling coverage. Day 22 of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. 22 days after the horrific onslaught resulting in the slaughter of 1,400 Israelis on October 7th. Some of the worst atrocities committed in modern times and the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust. This evening Hamas terrorists firing several barrages of rockets into central and southern Israel. Sending millions of Israelis into shelters. Alerts rang in Tel Aviv. Resionate Zion, Give a Time, Ashkelon and many other communities. A direct hit was recorded in the city of Kiertono also in Ramadan just east of Tel Aviv. Earlier a third terror squad eliminated in southern Lebanon after trying to launch anti-tank missiles towards Israeli troops. In the West Bank more arrests of Hamas operatives and in the south the IDF expanding action. Combined aerial and ground activity killing the heads of Hamas' aerial and naval operations. At this very hour Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just wrapping up a meeting with the families of at least 229 Israelis. Most of them civilians held at the hands of the Hamas terror group. Those families about to speak up and will bring it to you live. Meanwhile IDF Chief Herzi Alevi publishing the following message saying the objectives of this war require a ground operation. The best soldiers are now in operation in Gaza. Let's take a live to Tel Aviv now. The families of the Israeli kidnapped are holding a press conference. Let's take a listen. The fate of the kidnapped and the MIAs and it is going to be together with the government of Israel. We demanded that nothing is done that may jeopardize our family members and every process will take into account our problem. The second thing is that as far as the family goes any deal of bringing the MIAs and the abducted. All of them it's only in account and it will have a national support. The whole country will support it. Back now bring them back now. All of them now. Now the Prime Minister listened to us. He realized the severity of the situation and our determination. The family members we are going to fight for doing these things. The Prime Minister listened. He understood. He took it into account. We are here. We are here. All of us are here in order to make sure that the things that we are supposed to do today, things that we demanded as the people of Israel will actually take place. People please allow us to finish. You spoke to him on my behalf. I want to understand somebody says from the crowd. Everybody is here for 22 days. We demand that you do something. Okay guys please listen. The Prime Minister heard us. He didn't throw us out so to speak. He will take into account everything that we said. He assimilated it very well. He understands. All of them will come back together. All the hostages will come to their homes safe and sound. We don't have a need at the moment to do things that will only cause problems. We have to unite. We have a vicious enemy. We have an enemy who listens to us. And he draws conclusions from everything we say. We want all the hostages safe and sound now. Obviously as Marav said, a deal of all of them and I reiterate all of them vis-à-vis all these vicious people is accepted by the families of the abducted and we hope that very soon it is going to happen. Chanting all of them. All of them. All of them. We have been here for 21 days. It's looked like 21 years. We have been for a long meeting with the Prime Minister, Galliers and other people. We were very loud and clear speaking about the situation now. We were speaking about our concern, about what we feel and about our worries about the military operation that has been done or done now. We are very worried about our dearest that they are there. And we don't know that if the military operation takes all these hostages under consideration that nobody will be injured. And of course we say that we want all the hostages back home. All the hostages. It will not be... Yes we're seeing live images there from this protest of the Israeli families. More than 229 Israelis held in the hands of Hamas in Gaza in underground tunnels. We're hearing demands from the families not to risk their loved ones. Also demanding that any deal that will be executed will include all of those who are abducted together. Very difficult to see these families. So many families. So many voices. So many worried people there for their loved ones just concluding their meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Joining me in studio now is IDF Colonel in Reserves Grisha Yakubovich, the former head of the civilian department of Kogat and Israeli-Palestinian relations expert. Grisha, welcome in studio. As we see these images, people are obviously extremely emotional, extremely worried, concerned about their loved ones. Israel is engaging in a war with Hamas after this brutal massacre, that brutal attack. Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas, but at the same time the fate of so many innocent Israelis is at the end of Hamas right now. How does Israel manage these two conflicting realities? Well, I don't envy our leadership, the political one and the IDF commanders. There are two efforts here. Effort number one is to continue the goals of the war and to reach and to implement the decision that was taken by the government of Israel. Israel, it means a full collapse of Hamas at the gadget strip with a possibility to a multi-arena war. We need to understand that this is also some sort of obstacle, if I may say, that may delay a little bit the entries to the gadget strip. Or it will be like some sort of a test. Move in and out, move in and out to see what we will respond in other arenas. The second effort is the effort to release all the captives, all the people who are kidnapped. We are talking about innocent civilians, we are talking about babies, the age of six months, nine months. We are talking about women, old men. And the state of Israel, the government, the IDF, everybody will do whatever in their abilities to release them. And it's a build-in catch, because if I understand correctly what is happening now in Gaza, Hamas are in huge pressure. The fact that Abu Abaydah, that we already know his name, Hadifa al-Kahloot. That's a spokesman of Hamas, yes. With his interview, it's a statement that he gave. It's a statement on steroids, 100% of propaganda. There's nothing new about him, what he said. But I think that there was probably an attempt or a certain reality maybe 24, 48 hours ago that a deal could be made. And I understand from the reaction that Israel denied it. Because what Hamas are trying to do is to play with our emotions, with the families. It's like, you know, you have a wound, and it hurts, and you stick your finger and you press it, that it will hurt you. Yeah, much more than salt on the wound. And psychological warfare here of Hamas. And there's a possibility that the deal is not on the cards at all. And they're just trying both to hurt the Israeli population, especially these families, while delaying that ground maneuver. Hamas plan, the strategy is a campaign management in parallel axes, six parallel axes. Captives and kidnaps, pressure from the north, policies. It's like they stop the normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The humanitarian card that they pulled quite fast. I think on the full day, automatically, we started to hear about the humanitarian crisis, fire management, and the psychological warfare. And all of them is to put Israel in a certain situation that as the ground operation will move, as the ground operation will be closer, we will see them releasing more psychological, let's say such a psychological war to create what we've just saw demonstrations inside Israel against the government. And it will allow them to manage, okay, to manage this strategy, to manage this campaign by pulling all those strings. Okay, fire management, psychological war, families, demonstrations in Israel. And pressure from the north, and they are playing with it, with all those tools. It's like, just imagine a certain, like puppets on the streams, and somebody is pulling the ropes, and each time he pushes something else. I think that it's just as severe as that criminal attack that we saw on a Saturday. Just the fact that Hamas is pulling the strings here, Hamas is so much leverage as Israel increases its pressure. Let's talk about the ground operation. What would that mean in practice in terms when we hear that the target, the goal is to eliminate Hamas? What would that mean in practice? Is it infrastructure, Hamas officials? Where is the point where Israel says, well, Hamas no longer exists as a political entity, as a terror entity? What would it take for the IDF to do? First of all, let's be clear. I understand that Hamas started to understand that Israel is going to achieve the goals given to the IDF. Okay, that's why they are in pressure. That's why Obama released a statement that they are ready to release all the captains, all the prisoners, but they want or they expect to see all the prisoners being released. I think it will not happen. The ground attack, the ground entry, the ground operation, if you ask me, I look at it as it's already started. It's a different way to look at things I know. Let's go back. October 13th. The first exam, Hamas wanted to flame the borders of Israel so the whole Arab world will start demonstrating against Israel, Al-Aqsa, the West Bank, they failed. And I said then that the second test will be the ground attack. Israel, let's say the only luxury that Israel has is time. And we know that the Gaza Strip is booby trapped. We know that they prepare traps. We know that they have a lot of explosives. They know that they prepared surprises. So why to run? Why to rush? We have time. The Air Force will continue bombing the Gaza Strip. The IDF will continue entering with raids. And the ground operation in a way started differently. So much still to discuss. Grisha stayed with me because the recent developments here in Israel also result in serious implications overseas as well. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this evening addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters at one of the largest pro-Palestinian rallies since the start of the war. Arguing, quote, Israel has been openly committing war crimes for 22 days while also repeating his assertion that Hamas was not a terrorist organization and describing Israel as an occupier. But responding to these developments, Israeli Foreign Minister Eddie Cohen has ordered Israeli diplomats stationed in Turkey to return to Israel for a reassessment of diplomatic ties with Ankara. Let's take a listen to Erdogan's rent a short while ago. Just as Netanyahu is a terrorist, the opposition says Hamas is a terrorist organization as well. Shame on you. Israel, we will declare you as a war criminal to the world. Right now we are making preparations for this. Hey Israel, how did you come here? How did you enter here? You are an occupier. You are an organization. The Turkish people know this. And meanwhile, thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators also took to the streets in central London today demanding of the British government to call for a ceasefire. The march organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign with a protest due to end outside the houses of parliament after passing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Downing Street office. Let's take you live now to London. I'm joined by human rights activist Vahid Behesti who's been following the anti-Israel protests for very closely there in London. Vahid, thank you for your time. The protests obviously, the protesters obviously strongly oppose Israel's war on Hamas. Any word from the protesters on the heinous crimes committed by Hamas in this attack? There is no way they come and they surrounded us. A few days ago, I asked every one of them because they were asking me to bring the flag of Israel down. That I said, are you condemning Hamas suicide in a genocide barbaric attack on 7th of October? None of them condemned that. When I said the only way to reach peace in Middle East is to get rid of this terrorist organization such as Hamas, Islam, Jihad and IRGC, the head of October, who they said to me, they respond back to me, these people who they call themselves pro-Palestinians, protesters, they said to me, in your dreams, today they gone far, they attacked a police officer just outside of our camp here. So this is happening in London. And this demonstration, today actually I would like to use this opportunity and invite our intelligence in the UK and other countries in Europe to follow the money, to follow the links, see how this demonstration, how the money comes to organize this demonstration. Because if you look at the speech of Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iranian regime and the deputy coordinator of IRGC, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, two days ago they called for this. They said actually, they proudly and publicly, they said we asking our Muslims allies to attack UK's and USA's interests in their lands in Europe. So basically this protest which we are witnessing today, heading to violence and attacking our police officers who they risk in their lives to protect us has been designed, I think, from Iranian government, from Tehran, and we have evidence. Today article in Times in London speaks about that. We had evidence that police reached the evidence that Iranians hijacking these protests, pro-Palestinian protests in London and other European countries in order to put pressure on European countries to not defending Israel. But let me close my speech with this then. Today our main focus should be defending Israel in this war because this is not Israel war. This is our war. We are witnessing today this is a war against terrorism. And unfortunately, unfortunately, this time, the only way to reach peace in Middle East is through this war. We have no choice. We have to get rid of Hamas, Hezbollah, Jihad, Islam and the head of Octopus, IRGC, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which they found this terrorist organization and basically they are founder of these terrorist organizations. Yes, we know Iran's malign activity is not limited just to weapons and to proxies to terror groups, but also trying to influence public opinion around the world. Maybe a word about the British police. We know they've faced criticism for not being tougher over slogans shouted by some of the protesters. They have, however, stopped a vehicle that has simply displayed the faces of innocent civilians held by Hamas. Unfortunately, we are facing police doing great job from one side, but from the other side is the policy, which I've been advised a few times to bring the flag of Israel down from here. I said there is no way I do that. This is the free democratic country in 21st century. They have their flags, they have their slogans, they have their reason. We have our reason, we have our flags and we have our demonstration here. We've been here for eight and a half months calling for UK government to prescribe IRGC, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. I think it is the time now. Look, look, this is the first step in order to control Iranian regime is to prescribe IRGC and send them strong message that we are not going to tolerate these kind of interfering in our soil here. Again, I insist in supporting Israel in this war because this is not just Israel war. This is war for humanity. This is war for human rights. The only way to reach peace this time is through this war. A very strong message from you and we certainly hope that many in the Western world are hearing what you are saying. Vahid Bahashti is in London for us. We thank you so much for your time. Now let's go to southern Israel. Robert Swift is standing by for us there. Rob, a barrage of rockets in central and southern Israel over the past couple of hours. What do we know? That's right. There's been two major barrages in the last two hours. One of them was just over an hour ago and the other one I would say about an hour before that. Those targeting central Israeli cities to the site of Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv itself in the earlier of those two barrages. But it's worth bearing in mind that those are not the only launches out of the Gaza Strip. There has been a couple of smaller launches aimed at communities closer to the Gaza Strip including Kibbutz Berri where there was a launch against it a little earlier this evening. And Rob, we know there's the ground operation continues at the idea of also eliminating several senior Hamas officials. That's right. So troops went in just over 24 hours ago and they remain there on the ground. This is troops backed by armor and by engineering assets. And it's worth bearing in mind that this is a longer prolonged presence on the ground inside Gaza while the IDF has gone in twice before this in the last few days. These were temporary raids where troops went in, attacked various positions and then withdrew. In this instance the troops have gone into the ground and they have remained there. And that in itself is likely part of the beginning of the ground invasion. Robert Swift reporting from Southern Israel. More updates from Rob will come in throughout the evening. We are taking a very short break now. But when we get back we will go live to a press conference of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. First time speaking to the press taking questions from journalists. So many questions from the Israeli public to the Israeli Prime Minister with him will be Defence Minister Yad Galant and also Minister Benny Gantz. All members of Israel's war cabinet still with me in studio is IDF Colonel-in-Reserves Grisha Yakubovich. We'll cover that press conference right after the break when it begins. I'm Guy Azrael. Stay tuned. Made For Me, a unique concept in Israel. Custom made men's fashion to your measurements. Made For Me, designer of all your events. Schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il. Made For Me, official dresser of I-24 News. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. 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You can see the podium right there. Awaiting Israeli Prime Minister to address the nation, to address the press for the first time since the start of this war. Still with me in studio Grisha Yakubovich. Grisha, there's so many questions for the Israeli public of the Prime Minister. Obviously of the defense establishment as well just as much. Both the Israeli government that has enabled Hamas to grow on its borders for so many years, allowing Hamas to get the funds from the Qataris, from other entities to continue to arm itself to such degree. At the same time, questions for the defense minister, for the defense establishment. For Benny Gantz as well, who was also a defense minister. All of these also had shared the same concept, the misconception that you can live side by side with Hamas. What do you expect to hear from them tonight? Well, I know what I will not going to hear. I'm not going to hear that they are responsible, okay? For sure. About the concept we were all, if I may say, mislead it. Because if we go back to June 2007, Hamas conquered the Gaza Strip. And there was a dilemma at the state of Israel. What should Israel do? Should we accept that and say this is something between Fatah and Hamas? Or should Israel enter and interfere? And since June 2007, the policy was a very simple policy. We disengaged 2005. This is an interior Palestinian problem. And I remind our viewers, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Strip. In 2005, Israel withdrew from the country. Thousands of Israeli civilians out of their homes in hope for a better future for the people of Gaza. In hope that they would use the opportunity when there's no more occupation. Let's be very clear about that. And they can rule themselves. Well, the results? Well, it's actually to do the same thing that we did in Lebanon. We withdrew from the southern part of Lebanon. That was the idea that Hezbollah will have no, let's say, no reason to attack the State of Israel. And as we can see, they found reasons. The same thing happened in Gaza. We withdrew from the Gaza Strip 2005. And the policy was to disengage. It means five years and Israel will stop supplying the Gaza's needs because this is a terror entity. And it became a terror entity in June 2007. And since then, slide by slide, step by step, a very planned, not a very planned policy by Hamas, actually, to establish themselves with a very clear goal to the future, okay? The day after. The day after Abbas. He is the president. And in the future, when he will leave us naturally, because we understood there will be no elections, they will win the elections and gain the legitimacy to lead the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank and all over the world. And the policy implemented by Israel actually played to their hands. Because in Israel, we developed a policy after four rounds of escalation in 2014. It's like, why not? Let's empower them in the Gaza Strip. And by doing that, they will become a separate entity. So we will actually be in the reality of a three-state solution. And with a three-state solution, you cannot reach to the final solution that was supposed to happen during the Osloi Code to reach to a two-state solution. Yeah, I think Hamas was looking for one other final solution. Yes. A Nazi-like ideology of slaughtering Israelis because they are Jewish. And one of the major tactics of Hamas in defending itself is using civilian infrastructures in the Gaza Strip, mainly hospitals and schools for so many years. Building their underground tunnels, their main headquarters under these sensitive facilities, making it even more difficult for Israel to strike them, to hit where it counts. And Israel is making it very clear to the world ahead of a possible hit on these places while pressuring Palestinian civilians to leave those areas, providing more and more evidence to the fact that Hamas is misusing these facilities, the hospitals. Let's take a listen to an interrogation of Hamas operatives, one of those Hamas operatives just from a few days ago. Not all of the areas, not all of the areas. There are areas under the areas, but not all of the areas. Okay. So, the headquarters and all of the facilities? The headquarters is one of Osama and one of the facilities. And the headquarters is one of them. The headquarters is one of the areas where the hospitals are located, and the hospitals are located under the facilities. And the headquarters under the facilities? There is nothing. Nothing. For example, there is a border area, not near the border area. There is a large area. Okay. A small area where they are located. Is there a place where they are located? We are sure maybe let's use this opportunity to speak about about what Hamas has underground there, both in terms of its headquarters, it, the Israeli captives there, the civilians as young as nine months old who are held in those tunnels and the ammunition. What is the underground world of Hamas? If I may, I wanna be focused on one thing, fuel, if you don't mind. And why fuel? Fuel is equal to oxygen. And I wanna explain that. And I wanna add to that. I wanna explain the holy fuel triangle, if I may. In the Gaza Strip, and as an expert on Gaza infrastructure in the past, I used to deal with that, everything is based on energy. So Israel supplied 45% of the electricity consumption to the Gaza Strip. So in Gaza, they could operate sensitive, or let's say, facilities, like hospitals, like wells, like sewage treatment plants, according to the electricity that was supplied to Gaza, 10, 12 hours a day. Now you need to operate the hospital the second half of the day. How do you do it? With generators. And who brought the generators, the international community, donated the generator to the hospital. Now you need to operate the generator. How do you operate it? You need to operate it with fuel. Now all the headquarters in Gaza, Hamas headquarters, the major tunnels, the major command rooms are under the most sensitive places in Gaza, hospitals, clinics. I don't know that, but I assume also UN. You don't need to assume UN right itself as admitted several months ago about the use of their schools. I know. I've dealt with one of the schools when there was some rockets there during protective edge. I'm talking about UN headquarters, maybe, I don't know, but maybe there is, if they were so unsensitive, Hamas said, and they build their headquarters on the chief hospital, I assume that they did the same thing under one of the UN. I would not search for any humanitarian considerations when we speak about Hamas after the atrocities that we saw on October 7th. So hospitals are underneath the hospitals, there are the headquarters. So if Israel stopped supplying electricity, now they need to operate the hospital with generators, 24-7. Now the moment you operate the generator of the hospital, you actually produce oxygen to the people who are underground under the hospital. If the hospital will stop functioning, the people underground will not be able to live. This is one piece of the triangle. The second one, wells. You need also to operate the wells in Gaza. I wanna be clear about that. Israel supplied 12% of the water consumption in Gaza. The rest of the water are coming from the underground water, from the aquifer. And again, you have wells like in Gaza, Saffa wells, nine wells. Above each one of them, you have a compact deceleration plant, you know, small ones. So the water that are with high salinity will come out clean. How do you operate it? You have electricity from Israel. Now you don't have it. So you will operate the generator that was donated by the international community. So the well will be functional and you need fuel. How do you bring fuel to there? You use big trucks with fuel to drive it through the neighborhoods, through the districts in Gaza. And this is the way also to fuel Hamas cars. So if you fuel the well, you fuel Hamas cars. You fuel Hamas weapons. This is the second part of the triangle. The third one, command, control, phones. If everything is closed, okay? You need also to charge. Let's say if you have satellite phones, you need to charge them so you'll be able to send commands. If you don't have it, what do you use? And they used it in the past. I remember that in Saja'i neighborhood during protective air 2014, we saw ambulances driving Hamas terrorists to our lines, okay? So it's also used for communication. So actually fuel is the oxygen of the most sensitive things in Gaza, but it's also the fuel that fuels terror, the command, the weapons, the people. So if you stop fuel, you will have, you will reach in Gaza, you will reach in two, three, four weeks to a humanitarian crisis, but you also eliminate Hamas abilities. And it will always be like something that each one of those things will have impact on the other. All of this as the pressure grows both on Hamas but also on Israel with the Israeli, who are the Israelis who are kidnapped, also stored in these tunnels and will also suffer from this possible lack of fuel. Having said that the New York Times today reporting that Hamas may have enough fuel to last for four months in storage, we'll see whether that is right or not. And meanwhile, the IDF continues its efforts to evacuate Palestinians out of the northern part of the Gaza Strip into the southern part, promising them a safe zone with water, food and medicine. Let's take a listen to what the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Higari, had to say earlier today. We urge all residents of northern Gaza and Gaza City to relocate south immediately. This is a temporary measure. Moving back to northern Gaza will be possible once the intense hostilities end. Hamas puts your life in danger by placing weapons and forces within civilians area in Gaza, including schools, masks and hospitals. The impending IDF operation is set to neutralize these threats of Hamas with precision and intensity. Humanities remains haunted by the massacre unleashed by Hamas on October 7th. A massacre of innocent lives, Israeli men, women, children and babies were beheaded, executed, raped and burnt alive. We won't forget that. And the kidnapping of over 200 Israelis we will not forget. To the residents of northern Gaza and Gaza City, your window to act is closing. Move south for your own safety. Move south. This is not a mere precaution. It is an urgent plea for the safety of the civilians in Gaza. There's very strong words from IDF spokesperson, Daniel Higari there, still with me in studio, Grisha. Grita, let's speak about the ground operation. I want to break down to our viewers, what would that actually mean? Yes, the IDF troops entering Gaza with tanks and armored vehicles, but what do they do when they get there? Do they check out any building? Do they enter any building they see? Do they have to enter every tunnel? Or is it better to bomb these places in advance and then check whatever is left there? How is this going to happen step by step? First of all, air force and artillery. That will, it will be like a rain on the Gaza Strip. Okay, to make sure that any intelligence that the IDF got would be destroyed immediately. And in between those bombs on Gaza, we will see more and more reports about possible ground attacks in Gaza. It scares Hamas terrorist underground. It makes them run in their tunnels and it makes them also to raise their heads up to connect the booby trap traps that they prepare them. And this is the time that the IDF will probably kill them. And then you have the raids that already started. The raids will be only to the, let's say to the first or weekend, weekend said this is the security parameter that will be created in the following weeks. So we will see in the following weeks more and more raids every night, every day in many areas around the Gaza Strip to create this security parameter. Prime Minister is on the podium now about to speak, let's take a listen to what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, together with Defense Minister Yav Galant and Benny Gantz, has to say. Citizens of Israel. Last night, the ground forces of ours went into the gates of Gaza, the entrance to evil. This is a war with designated goals. Eliminating the sovereignty of Hamas and bringing these hostages back, we decided this unanimously, both in the cabinet and both in the government. We did it in a very educated manner out of commitment to ensure the fate of the country and the fate of our soldiers, the commanders and the combatants. Now in the battlefield, they know that the nation and the leaders are behind them. In the last few days, I met our combatants in their bases, both in the North and in the South. We have a wonderful army, wondrous soldiers, heroes, Jews and non-Jews, secular and religious, left and right. All of them are united. All of them have the spirit of battle the way I've never seen before. They are ready to fight fiercely against an enemy which is fierce and cruel. In order to pay back for the atrocities, they committed to our children, our wives, our parents, our friends. We have to eliminate this evil from the world for our existence. And I say for the benefit of the entire humanity, the entire nation and all the leaders are embracing them and believing them. Remember what your enemy did to you, says the Bible. We do remember and we are fighting. Our combatants and our brave soldiers who are now in Gaza or around Gaza and the other arenas in the country are joining the chain of Israeli heroes of 3,000 years from Joshua, Binun, Judea, Smakkabid and the heroes of the Independence War, Six Day War at Yom Kippur and others. They have one supreme goal to eliminate the murderous enemy to ensure our existence in our country. We always said, never again, never again is now. I also met families of the hostages, bereaved parents, my heart broke. I kept saying to them that at any stage up to now and any stage from now on, we are going to do everything possible in order to bring back our brothers and sisters. Their abduction is a crime against humanity. Anybody who dares to blame our soldiers for war crimes are people that are hypocrite. They have no moral ethics. The IDF is the most ethical army in the world and it does everything in order to prevent harming innocent people. And again, I say to the civil society in Gaza to evacuate to the South. As opposed to us, this cynicism is endless. They commit war crimes because they use humans as a human shield and hospitals as headquarters, as fuel stations. Many people in the world now understand what we have been claiming all these years. Israel is fighting not just its own war, but the war of the entire humanity. And also the war of humanism against barbarous attacks. Our partners in the Arab world believe and understand today that unless Israel wins, they will be next in line in this conquer and murder. Since the beginning of the war, we managed to consolidate vast international support. It starts with the United States, Europe headed by President Biden, the head of French and Germany, Holland, Greece, Cyprus and many other leaders. Many of them came to us during the war and they conveyed a definite message. We don't only just support you, we also hope you win. We congratulate you for winning and we are going to stand alone, but it's good to stand together because we have no other choice. We also want and we clarify, we clarify there's one thing we have to recognize. There are moments where a nation faces two possibilities, to be or not to be. We are now in such a test and there's no question how it's going to end. We are going to be the ones to prevail. We are going to be here and we shall win. In the first weeks of the war, we bombed the enemy with massive air attacks and the last few days even more so in order to help our forces to go in, land in the most safe way. We eliminated a lot of leaders of the Hamas and a lot of infrastructure, but we're only in the beginning of the road. The war within the Gaza Strip will be harsh and long, but we are ready. This is our second war of liberation. We are going to fight to protect the country. We're going to fight. We will not repeat by land, by sea, by air. We shall eliminate the enemy on top of the land and the bottom and we shall prevail. It'll be the good over evil, light over darkness, life over death. In this war, we are standing together, united more than ever, sure of our justice. This is the mission of our life. This is also the mission of my life. On your behalf, on behalf of all of us, I pray for the peace of our soldiers. May God defeat our enemies. May God will give them victory. Together, we shall fight, and together, we shall prevail. Citizens of Israel, IDF soldiers who are now fighting by air, by land, by sea, out of the Gaza Strip and within. And before everything else, the members of the bereaved families, as well as the families who lost their dear ones during the battle in the last few weeks and the families of the hostages, there's not one moment when I don't think about you. There's not one moment that when I consider to approve the plans and the modus operandi of our forces that I don't take into account this issue. In the last 24 hours, we went through another stage.