 This is Breaking News Edition. I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv, starting with the latest reaction to a tragic development that Israelis are still trying to process. The country's defense leaders say they have accepted responsibility for the accidental killing of three hostages trying to escape from captivity in Gaza, vowing steps to ensure no repeat of the tragic incident. They also pointed out the difficulties soldiers are facing in complex urban battlefields. Yotam Haim, Samaritsa Lalka, and Alon Shamris were killed on Friday as they ran towards a group of soldiers in Gaza City's Shejahiya neighborhood while waving a white cloth and calling for help in Hebrew. The trio had escaped their Hamas abductors nearly 10 weeks after the brutal kidnapping during the terror onslaught on the 7th of October. The initial IDF probe, finding the soldiers, feared that the three were part of a trap and open fire, killing them before realizing their mistake. Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi calling the killings a difficult and painful event. A short while ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to secure the release of all the hostages. I would like to respond to the dear families. The testament of the fallen is what guides us. We will fight to the end. We will achieve all of our goals, eliminating Hamas, releasing all of our hostages, and ensuring that Gaza does not again become a focus of terrorism, incitement, and attacks against the State of Israel. We will continue to fight until the end on behalf of the fallen and to ensure our lives here in the land of Israel. So for the latest updates on the ground, let's go first to our senior defense correspondent, Jonathan Regiv, and he joins us from southern Israel. So fighting continues, Jonathan, and there are dramatic discoveries by the IDF troops inside Gaza, including a tunnel shaft inside a children's bedroom. Tell us more. That is right. Israel constantly says that Hamas uses every possible civilian infrastructure for its terror purposes. We saw it in hospitals. We saw it in schools. Now we see it in private homes. Next to a baby's bed. The baby sits in one place. Right next to it is a terror tunnel with every infrastructure needed for terrorism. Let's see what it looks like. We're in a house that seems like what might be an innocent home. But if you follow me here until the children's room. Looks like an innocent children's room under this child's cot, not the baby's cot. You see a tunnel that was used for terror by Hamas Isis. Hamas Isis uses children's room, uses baby's cot to hide what is used for terror, for murder, and for slaughter. So when Israel says that Hamas uses the civilian as human shields, this is exactly what it looks like. A baby's bed, this is where the baby was sleeping when right next to it are their toys, are their babies things? No, they terror tunnel. Quite unfathomable to see that and to look at those pictures at the same time. Jonathan, separately, Israel has approved the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Kerim Shalom crossing, allowing Israel to stick to its commitment to allow the entry of 200 aid trucks a day. That was part of last month's hostage deal. Separately, there is footage of looting at the Rafa crossing. What is the latest on that front? That is true. The Rafa crossing, according to international organizations, cannot provide enough assistance for Gaza. That is why Israel was requested to allow entry through the Kerim Shalom crossing. Whatever comes in through Rafa, some of it is looted. Other assistance, I'd say that most of it is being confiscated by Hamas for its own purposes. It's the fate of the assistance coming through Kerim Shalom. Is it going to be any different? I'm not so sure. Once it goes into Gaza, there's no control really where it goes, whether Hamas takes it by force, whether people just loot the trucks. Israel can perhaps control this once it's in Israeli territory when the assistance crosses into Gaza. It's in the hands of Hamas. Bringing us all the latest developments as they happen. Thank you so much, senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev, live from southern Israel. And from the south, we now turn to the north. Let's go to our correspondent, Zach Anders. He joins us from northern Israel and Zach Hezbollah claiming responsibility for five attacks out of southern Lebanon today, including one on Aikibut. What is the latest there? What can you tell us? And what we'll often see after events like today's is it will be a little bit difficult for some of these northern communities to be able to get access to where the strikes were taking place to assess the damage because the evacuation notice is still in place and they do not, the IDF does not want these community leaders to put themselves at risk to go and take stock of the damage to some of these buildings, especially after the events of yesterday with an IDF reservist killed, two others wounded. We still don't have any update on their conditions as they're receiving treatment. What we have seen though is continued rocket attacks as well as drone attempts, drone infiltrations through Israeli airspace. We've been watching as the Israeli jets circle overhead today, as well as the outgoing artillery targeting these Hezbollah positions, smoke plumes seen in southern Lebanon, indicating some heavy strikes at some of these targets that we can only surmise belong to Hezbollah as the IDF has been targeting these launch sites as well as continuing to step up. And it seems like push the thumb in the, apply the pressure to Hezbollah at some of these other sites that they have been using to their advantage to try and stage and then move maneuver and fire on these northern border positions. Thank you so much. We will be coming back to our correspondent, Zach Anders in Northern Israel for regular updates. For now, thank you, Zach. And joining me in studio, it's a pleasure to welcome our correspondent, Robert Swift. And Rob, you specifically have been covering this region for a long time and specifically up north, where we just heard Zach updating the latest developments. The concerns for so long have centered around Hezbollah getting fully involved in this war. At this juncture, believe it or not, despite what we're hearing, these developments Hezbollah is not fully involved at this stage. Talk us through the concerns. So it's worth bearing in mind that as significant as the fighting has been up there, these represent essentially just skirmishes. Since about the second day of the war, there's been these attacks, anti-tank weapons being fired across rockets, mortars being launched across the border. But these are maybe not low intensity, but they certainly are much smaller than the actions that either the IDF or Hezbollah could be taking. One of the major concerns is that Hezbollah would launch the rockets and missiles, these are guided rockets, which would be far more accurate and would be a much greater threat against the Israel's iron dome system, that they would use those weapons and launch them to target Israeli cities. Now, if they were to do that, that represents a much more significant threat than the rocket threat that Hamas has been able to use against Israeli cities from the south. So that's one of the major threats. At the moment we've seen essentially there's a border along, there's a strip along the northern border where Israeli communities have had to depopulate to avoid the threat. If the fighting up there was to escalate significantly, that area could become much larger, it could begin to affect cities in the north such as Haifa, and that is the threat that the IDF is very much aware of. That's just talking in terms of the artillery threat from Hezbollah to Israeli civilians. Actually, with regards to the fighting, Hezbollah themselves would be a significant threat to the Israeli military. IDF has much better firepower, has armored vehicles, et cetera, but in 2006 it was seen that when fighting on Hezbollah's territory in the south of Lebanon, they did put up a significant fight, and that's something that the IDF would have to take into account. That being said, the current situation is not that bearable either. There's increasing voices in Israel suggesting that despite the price that would likely be required, the IDF may need to take some sort of action against Hezbollah. Something we will unpack in a short while. Rob, stay with us, we've got much more to discuss, but now two of the world's largest shipping firms, the Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA, CGN, have announced they are suspending passage through the Red Sea after attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on the area. Now the announcement on Saturday follows similar decisions by other major shipping companies threatening freedom of navigation in one of the world's most vital trade arteries. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Ossiran, has more in this report. The world's biggest shipping companies are diverting their ships away from the Red Sea amid increased attacks by the Houthis in Yemen. The tidal wave of announcements comes as the U.S. and British navies shot down 15 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea on Saturday. The Iranian-backed Houthis said they launched a large batch of drones at Israel's southern city of Elat and will continue their attacks as long as the war in Gaza carries on. The Yemeni armed forces shoe all ships heading to all ports around the world, except for the Israeli ports, that they won't be harmed, but must keep their identifying devices open. The Mediterranean Shipping Carrier MSC, along with French CMA, CGM, said on Saturday that they were suspending passage to the Red Sea. This followed similar steps by Danish shipping giant MERSC, German-based chipper Hapag Lloyd, Taiwanese Yang Ming, and Israeli shipping line Tzim, raising concern over the impact of the flow of goods through the major global trade corridor connecting Asia and Europe. The Houthis represent a material threat to freedom of navigation, to commercial shipping, to lawful commerce, and they're doing so in a vital artery there at the Babal Mandab and into the Red Sea. And the United States is working with the international community, with partners from the region and from all over the world to deal with this threat. Despite the expected blow to its economy, Israeli leaders say they will respond to the Houthis' attacks in due course. We are ready to act. We know what to do, and we will find the right timing to act. We are giving a chance in the maritime issue to the international system. If we reach a situation where we are the last option, we will know what to do. And so as the scale and frequency of Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping reach unprecedented levels, the Pentagon is reportedly weighing its striking options. But after years of reluctance to act against Iran's proxies, these steps might turn out to be too little and too late. And still in studio, correspondent Robert Swift served over and above the threat from Hezbollah, which we were talking about a short while ago. The Iranian proxies in Yemen have been busy targeting vessels, but this isn't only a regional issue, it's becoming a global issue. What does a response from Israel realistically look like? So Israel has essentially wanted its allies to help with this burden, obviously. Israel has plenty going on itself, and it is not a maritime power. Israel does have a navy, but it's not where its strength lies, as opposed to allies like the United States, which have far more significant navies or even a country like the UK, which is small, but does have good naval capability. So Israel has been keen to allow its allies to help in this area, and that's why the US has deployed such large amounts of forces to the area. Now, one of the two aircraft carriers which the US dispatched to the seas around Israel, the USS Eisenhower, it had passed through the Mediterranean and on towards the waters outside of Iran, but it has actually returned further south and parked back next to Yemen in the last few days it's understood. This is possibly the US realizing that while the Houthis attacks at the start of the war seem to be quite ineffective with them launching waves of missiles at Israeli cities with little impact, their attacks in the last weeks, especially have been far more significant. Not only have they increased the number of attacks they're conducting, they've increased the number of drones that they're launching in each attack and they're scoring more hits. So it feels like, as Ariel was just saying in his report, that possibly we're reaching the time where something has to be done. That may be why the US are deploying this aircraft carrier off the coast of Yemen. Thank you so much, correspondent. Robert Swift matched to unpack across not only the region, but as you say across the Red Sea as well as we watch those threats out of Yemen. Thank you, Robert, for being here in studio. And now we bring you tragic images. This is the funeral of one of the hostages, Alon Shamriz, one of three hostages killed on Friday inside Gaza while trying to flee from their abductors, from Hamas terrorists. And they were shot by Israeli troops, by accident. Difficult to imagine the pain that their family must be going through right now. The nation of Israel mourns the loss of these three hostages killed by so-called friendly fire inside Gaza, shot by mistake by Israeli troops. Devastating indeed. Meanwhile, the IDF is confirming that troops of the 7th Armored Brigade have raided the offices of the commander of the Hamas Khan Yunus Battalion and wait for it the holiday homes of several senior Hamas commanders, including leader Yahya Sinwar. The commander of that brigade, saying his troops have also reached the main square on the outskirts of Khan Yunus. He says many terrorists have been killed. So now for more, we welcome Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Ravivich, the IDF spokesperson for international media. He joins us from the Shura base in central Israel. Olivier, thank you so much for your time, much to discuss on this day. But I want to start with those tragic images we just saw of the funeral of one of the three hostages who were shot dead by mistake by Israeli troops, Alon Shamrez, one of three Israelis who had survived 10 weeks of captivity at the hands of Hamas and then were killed by mistake by Israeli troops. Your thoughts, Olivier. Shalom ben Ita, thank you to have me on your program. This tragic incident is terrible and our hearts are really with the families. What happened two days ago in the morning in Sajaya in a combat area in the northern part of Gaza is actually a tragedy. All soldiers identified by mistakes, three hostages as terrorists on the open fire in spite of the fact that they were, and we know it from the investigation. They were without a shirt, they were one of them with a stick, with a white rope, and they were shot dead. The third one wounded, a runaway, escaped in the house, but he was also at the end shot dead by the troops. And of course, it's a terrible tragedy and we see it as a terrible mistake. The rules of engagement have not been respected by our troops. It is against the regulation of the army and as a result of his tragedy, the instructions on the, I would say the regulations in order to prevent such an incident have been reinforced all over the Gaza Strip among the IDF troops. It is difficult to even look at these images, a family in so much pain, a nation mourning this tragic loss. Olivier Benjamin Netanyahu has been outlining Israel's goal, also saying that Israel will do everything it can to get back all the hostages. There are now 129 hostages still in captivity. After this tragic accident on Friday, how does Israel plan to do that exactly? This tragedy, this tragic incident will not change in any case the goals which have been actually decided by the war cabinet. Number one, to release the hostages and at the same time to go and continue to eliminate Hamas military capabilities all around the Gaza Strip by a very serious, strong military effort. These two targets will be achieved at the end of the day. We heard the defense establishment, first of all, taking responsibility for this tragedy, also pointing out the difficulties that soldiers are facing in what they call complex urban battlefields. Talk us through the risks right now, more than 10 weeks into this war, as fighting intensifies. First of all, I do agree and do say that the IDF is actually taking full responsibility for this tragic incident. Containing now the general atmosphere in the combat areas, mostly in Sajaya but also in Jabalia and also in Hanyunes, we're actually facing fierce fights against terrorists while using actually all means to try to manipulate our minds, our brains, for example, they are using tape recorders in Hebrew to make like puppets or kind of look like person speaking Hebrew to attract the IDF soldiers, then they're opening fire. They're trying to ambush our troops in many ways by many means in order to kill us. That's why our troops, our soldiers, are in a very high and intense situation. I would say physically but also mindfully and altogether that could maybe explain what happened but of course it will not excuse what happened and of course we are fully again taking responsibility for this tragedy and our hearts are with the families of the deceased of stages and we are still trained by all means, by all efforts to bring back home all the hostages, 129 right now. Olivia, you talk about the developments on the ground. We heard just a short while ago that IDF troops had raided the holiday homes of several senior Hamas commanders including leader Yahya Sinwar. Perhaps some might be surprised to know that Hamas leaders have vacation homes, perhaps others are not surprised. Talk us through what has been found, what has been uncovered that stands out for you. First of all, you mentioned holiday's house. I would say that Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Aniye and Khaled Mashal are most the most rich people in the Middle East. Khaled Mashal has five billion dollars in the account somewhere. Ismail Aniye is around two billion dollars. I don't know exactly how much as Yahya Sinwar in his account but all this money has been stolen by Hamas to their own people they are actually using, their own people not only as human shield but as I would say human material to make money on their back and they don't care in any way on the situation, on the humanitarian, on the human situation of the gathered people. Concerning what have been found in this holiday house, I want to be clear I was now in another mission so I need to get more information in order to give more uncertainty to this issue and then I will get back to you as soon as possible. Well we certainly appreciate you speaking to us on this day Colonel on the Reserves, Olivier Rafavich the IDF spokesperson for international media at the Shura base in central Israel. Thank you Olivier, appreciate your time. And now France says it's deeply concerned by the situation in Gaza and is calling for a new immediate and lasting truce. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is in Israel right now meeting earlier in the day with her Israeli counterpart, Elie Cohen. She says after Israel France is the country that suffered most from the October 7th attacks reiterating that Paris will spare no effort to ensure the unconditional release of all hostages. Our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman was at the airport earlier and filed this report. Israeli Foreign Minister Elie Cohen met with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna here at Ben-Gurion Airport earlier on in the day. They spoke at the podiums you see behind me and had this to say Elie Cohen about the issue of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Hamasler organization celebrate last week's UN General Assembly Resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. No wonder they celebrate it. It's exactly what they wish for. Let me send a clear message to the international community, to the UN member states. If the organization celebrates your decision, it means yours made a wrong decision. That's a charged message with the French Foreign Minister standing next to Elie Cohen. Of course, the French government at a relatively early stage through President Emmanuel Macron himself having come out and called for that ceasefire that the Israeli government sees at this stage as so unwanted. On another issue, the two sides may well see eye to eye the issue of Israel's northern border and finding a diplomatic arrangement to move Hisbola's military presence away from the border north of the Letani River. Here's what Foreign Minister Colonna had to say to a question from I-24 News. I'll be in Beirut tomorrow and France, just like its partners, is calling on its Lebanese counterparts to do everything they can to avoid a flare-up in Lebanon that would make it the first victim. And I'll be bringing that message to Beirut. Our partners there, I believe, feel similarly. I would like to add that very clear messages have been sent to Hezbollah as well so that the security of Israel, end of Lebanon, I must add, should not be threatened even more. For the Israeli government, this is a tricky visit. On one hand, the deep disagreements about the war in Gaza, even with the full-throated expressions of support for the Israeli public from Foreign Minister Colonna, the fact that the French government has come out as such an important European power calling for a ceasefire, obviously brings in tension with the Israeli government. On the other hand, I think the understanding in Israel that the French government is certainly not a hostile actor and also has an important role to play in the diplomacy with Lebanon, given France's ties with Lebanon and its special relationship with Lebanon and the expressed desire of the Israeli government through the statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night and the statements here at these podiums from Foreign Minister Eli Cohen earlier on today that the Israeli government wants a diplomatic solution in Lebanon as a plan A and a military operation only as a plan B. Owen Alterman, I-24 News, at Ben-Gurion International Airport. And that's where we wrap up this edition of our breaking news coverage. I'm Benita Levine. Our rolling coverage continues shortly. Back in a bit. Stay tuned. Thank you for watching. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. The I-24 News channel broadcasting from Israel with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. The country is completely done down in their beds. De la frontière qui sépare l'Israël. The state of emergency and war in Israel. Bringing Israel's story to the world. I-24 News Channels, now on Hot. This is Breaking News Edition. I'm Benita Levine, coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Starting with the latest reaction to a tragic development that Israelis are still trying to process. The country's defense leaders say they have accepted responsibility for the accidental killing of three hostages trying to escape from captivity in Gaza, vowing steps to ensure no repeat of the tragic incident. They also pointed out the difficulties soldiers are facing in complex urban battlefields. Yotam Haim, Samarat Talalka, and Alon Shamri's were killed on Friday as they ran towards a group of soldiers in Gaza City's Shazair neighborhood while waving a white cloth and calling for help in Hebrew. The trio had escaped their Hamas abductors nearly 10 weeks after the brutal kidnapping during the terror onslaught on the 7th of October. The initial IDF probe, finding the soldiers, feared that the three were part of a trap and open fire, killing them before realizing their mistake. Chief of Staff Herzi Halavi calling the killings a difficult and painful event. A short while ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to secure the release of all the hostages. I would like to respond to the dear families. The testament of the fall in is what guides us. We will fight to the end. We will achieve all of our goals, eliminating Hamas, releasing all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza does not again become a focus of terrorism, incitement, and attacks against the state of Israel. We will continue to fight until the end on behalf of the fallen and to ensure our lives here in the land of Israel. So for the latest updates on the ground, let's go first to our senior defense correspondent, Jonathan Regive, and he joins us from southern Israel. So fighting continues, Jonathan, and there are dramatic discoveries by the IDF troops inside Gaza, including a tunnel shaft inside a children's bedroom. Tell us more. That is right. Israel constantly says that Hamas uses every possible civilian infrastructure for its terror purposes. We saw it in hospitals. We saw it in schools. Now we see it in private homes. Next to a baby's bed, the baby sits in one place. Right next to it is a terror tunnel with every infrastructure needed for terrorism. Let's see what it looks like. We're in a house that seems like what might be an innocent home. But if you follow me here into the children's room, it looks like an innocent children's room under this child's cot, not the baby's cot. You see a tunnel that was used for terror, like Hamas ISIS. Hamas ISIS uses children's rooms, uses baby's cots to hide what is used for terror, for murder, and for slaughter. So when Israel says that Hamas uses the civilian as human shields, this is exactly what it looks like, a baby's bed. This is where the baby was sleeping, when right next to it are their toys, are their babies' things? No, they terror tunnel. Quite unfathomable to see that and to look at those pictures at the same time. Jonathan, separately, Israel has approved the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Kerim Shalom crossing, allowing Israel to stick to its commitment to allow the entry of 200 aid trucks a day. That was part of last month's hostage deal. Separately, there is footage of looting at the Rafa crossing. What is the latest on that front? That is true. The Rafa crossing, according to international organizations, cannot provide enough assistance for Gaza. That is why Israel was requested to allow entry through the Kerim Shalom crossing. Whatever comes in through Rafa, some of it is looted. Other assistance, I'd say that most of it is being confiscated by Hamas for its own purposes. It's the fate of the assistance coming through Kerim Shalom. Is it going to be any different? I'm not so sure. Once it goes into Gaza, there's no control, really, where it goes, where the Hamas takes it by force, whether people just loot the trucks. Israel can perhaps control this once it's in Israeli territory. When this assistance crosses into Gaza, it's in the hands of Hamas. Bringing us all the latest developments as they happen. Thank you so much, Senior Defense Correspondent, Jonathan Regev, live from Southern Israel. And from the South, we now turn to the North. Let's go to our correspondent, Zach Anders. He joins us from Northern Israel, and Zach Hezbollah, claiming responsibility for five attacks out of Southern Lebanon today, including one on a kibbutz. What is the latest there? What can you tell us? And what we'll often see after events like today's is it will be a little bit difficult for some of these Northern communities to be able to get access to where the strikes were taking place, to assess the damage, because the evacuation notice is still in place, and they do not. The IDF does not want these community leaders to put themselves at risk, to go and take stock of the damage to some of these buildings, especially after the events of yesterday with an IDF reservist killed two others wounded. We still don't have any update on their conditions as they're receiving treatment. What we have seen, though, is continued rocket attacks, as well as drone attempts, drone infiltrations through Israeli airspace. We've been watching as the Israeli jets circle overhead today, as well as the outgoing artillery targeting these Hezbollah positions, smoke plumes seen in southern Lebanon, indicating some heavy strikes at some of these targets that we can only surmise belong to Hezbollah as the IDF has been targeting these launch sites, as well as continuing to step up. And it seems like push the thumb in the, apply the pressure to Hezbollah at some of these other sites that they have been using to their advantage to try and stage and then move maneuver and fire on these northern border positions. Thank you so much. We will be coming back to our correspondent, Zach Anders in Northern Israel for regular updates for now. Thank you, Zach. And joining me in studio, it's a pleasure to welcome our correspondent, Robert Swift. And Rob, you specifically have been covering this region for a long time and specifically up north, where we just heard Zach updating the latest developments, the concerns for so long have centered around Hezbollah getting fully involved in this war. At this juncture, believe it or not, despite what we're hearing these developments, Hezbollah is not fully involved at this stage. Talk us through the concerns. So it's worth bearing in mind that as significant as the fighting has been up there, these represent essentially just skirmishes. Since about the second day of the war, there's been these attacks, anti-tank weapons being fired across rockets, mortars being launched across the border. But these are maybe not low intensity, but they certainly are much smaller than the actions that either the IDF or Hezbollah could be taking. One of the major concerns is that Hezbollah would launch the rockets and missiles, these are guided rockets, which would be far more accurate and would be a much greater threat against the Israel's iron dome system, that they would use those weapons and launch them to target Israeli cities. Now, if they were to do that, that represents a much more significant threat than the rocket threat that Hamas has been able to use against Israeli cities from the south. So that's one of the major threats. At the moment we've seen essentially there's a border along, that there's a strip along the northern border where Israeli communities have had to depopulate to avoid the threat. If the fighting up there was to escalate significantly, that area could become much larger. It could begin to affect cities in the north such as Haifa, and that is the threat that the IDF is very much aware of. That's just talking in terms of the artillery threat from Hezbollah to Israeli civilians. Actually, with regards to the fighting, Hezbollah themselves would be a significant threat to the Israeli military. IDF has much better firepower, has armored vehicles, et cetera, but in 2006 it was seen that when fighting on Hezbollah's territory in the south of Lebanon, they did put up a significant fight, and that's something that the IDF would have to take into account. That being said, the current situation is not that bearable either. There's increasing voices in Israel suggesting that despite the price that would likely be required, the IDF may need to take some sort of action against Hezbollah. Something we will unpack in a short while. Rob, stay with us. We've got much more to discuss, but now two of the world's largest shipping firms, the Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGN, have announced they are suspending passage through the Red Sea after attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on the area. Now, the announcement on Saturday follows similar decisions by other major shipping companies threatening freedom of navigation in one of the world's most vital trade arteries. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osaran, has more in this report. The world's biggest shipping companies are diverting their ships away from the Red Sea amid increased attacks by the Houthis in Yemen. The tidal wave of announcements comes as the U.S. and British navies shot down 15 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea on Saturday. The Iranian-backed Houthis said they launched a large batch of drones at Israel's southern city of Elat and will continue their attacks as long as the war in Gaza carries on. The Yemeni armed forces shoe all ships heading to all ports around the world, except for the Israeli ports, that they won't be harmed but must keep their identifying devices open. The Mediterranean shipping carrier MSC, along with French CMA CGM, said on Saturday that they were suspending passage through the Red Sea. This followed similar steps by Danish shipping giant Maersk, German-based chipper Hapag Lloyd, Taiwanese Yang Ming, and Israeli shipping line Tsim, raising concern over the impact of the flow of goods through the major global trade corridor connecting Asia and Europe. The Houthis represent a material threat to freedom of navigation, to commercial shipping, to lawful commerce, and they're doing so in a vital artery there at the Baba Mandeb and into the Red Sea. And the United States is working with the international community, with partners from the region and from all over the world to deal with this threat. Despite the expected blow to its economy, Israeli leaders say they will respond to the Houthis' attacks in due course. We are ready to act. We know what to do, and we will find the right timing to act. We are giving a chance in the maritime issue to the international system. If we reach a situation where we are the last option, we will know what to do. And so as the scale and frequency of Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping reach unprecedented levels, the Pentagon is reportedly weighing its striking options. But after years of reluctance to act against Iran's proxies, these steps might turn out to be too little and too late. And still in studio, correspondent Robert Switzer over and above the threat from Hezbollah, which we were talking about a short while ago, the Iranian proxies in Yemen have been busy targeting vessels, but this isn't only a regional issue, it's becoming a global issue. What does a response from Israel realistically look like? So Israel's been essentially wanted its allies to help with this burden, obviously. Israel has plenty going on itself and it is not a maritime power. Israel does have a navy, but it's not where its strength lies as opposed to allies like the United States, which have far more significant navies or even a country like the UK, which is small but does have good naval capability. So Israel has been keen to allow its allies to help in this area and that's why the US has deployed such large amounts of forces to the area. Now, one of the two aircraft carriers which the US dispatched to the seas around Israel, the USS Eisenhower, it had passed through the Mediterranean and on towards the waters outside of Iran, but it's actually returned further south and parked back next to Yemen in the last few days it's under suit. This is possibly the US realizing that while the Houthis attacks at the start of the war seem to be quite ineffective with them launching waves of missiles at Israeli cities with little impact, their attacks in the last weeks especially have been far more significant. Not only have they increased the number of attacks they're conducting, they've increased the number of drones that they're launching in each attack and they're scoring more hits. So it feels like as Ariel was just saying in his report that possibly we're reaching the time where something has to be done, that may be why the US are deploying this aircraft carrier off the coast of Yemen. Thank you so much, correspondent Robert Swift, much to unpack across not only the region, but as you say, across the Red Sea as well as we watch those threats out of Yemen. Thank you, Robert, for being here in studio. And now we bring you tragic images. This is the funeral of one of the hostages, Alon Shamrez, one of three hostages killed on Friday inside Gaza while trying to flee from their abductors, from Hamas terrorists, and they were shot by Israeli troops by accident. Difficult to imagine the pain that their family must be going through right now. The nation of Israel mourns the loss of these three hostages killed by so-called friendly fire inside Gaza, shot by mistake by Israeli troops. Devastating indeed. Meanwhile, the IDF is confirming that troops of the 7th Armored Brigade have raided the offices of the commander of the Hamas Khan Yunus Battalion and wait for it the holiday homes of several senior Hamas commanders, including leader Yahya Sinwar, the commander of that brigade, saying his troops have also reached the main square on the outskirts of Khan Yunus. He says many terrorists have been killed. So now for more, we welcome Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Ravivich, the IDF spokesperson for international media. He joins us from the Shura base in central Israel. Olivier, thank you so much for your time, much to discuss on this day. But I want to start with those tragic images we just saw of the funeral of one of the three hostages who were shot dead by mistake by Israeli troops, Alon Shamrez, one of three Israelis who had survived 10 weeks of captivity at the hands of Hamas and then were killed by mistake by Israeli troops. Your thoughts, Olivier. Shalom ben Ita, thank you to have me on your program. This tragic incident is terrible and our hearts are really with the families. What happened today, the other morning, in Sajaya, in a combat area in the northern part of Gaza, is actually a tragedy. All soldiers identified by mistakes, three hostages as terrorists on the open fire in spite of the fact that they were, and we know it from the investigation, they were without a shirt, they were one of them with a stick, with a white rope, and they were shot dead. The third one, wounded, ran away, escaped in the house, but he was also, at the end, shot dead by the troops and of course, it's a terrible tragedy and we see it as a terrible mistake. The rules of engagement have not been respected by our troops. It is against the regulation of the army and as a result of his tragedy, the instructions and the, I would say the regulations, in order to prevent such an incident, have been reinforced all over the Gaza Strip amongst the IDF troops. It is difficult to even look at these images, a family in so much pain, a nation mourning this tragic loss. Olivier Benjamin Netanyahu has been outlining Israel's goal, also saying that Israel will do everything it can to get back all the hostages. There are now 129 hostages still in captivity. After this tragic accident on Friday, how does Israel plan to do that exactly? This tragedy, this tragic incident will not change in any case the goals which have been actually decided by the war cabinet. Number one, to release hostages and at the same time to go and continue to eliminate Hamas military capabilities all around the Gaza Strip by a very serious, strong military effort. These two targets will be achieved at the end of the day. We heard the Defence establishment, first of all, taking responsibility for this tragedy, also pointing out the difficulties that soldiers are facing in what they call complex urban battlefields. Talk us through the risks right now more than 10 weeks into this war as fighting intensifies. First of all, I do agree and do say that the idea is actually taking full responsibility for this tragic incident. Containing now the general atmosphere in the combat areas, mostly in Sajaya but also in Jabalia and also in Hanyunes, we're actually facing fierce fights against terrorists while using actually all means to try to manipulate our minds, our brains. For example, they're using tape recorders in Hebrew to make like puppets or kind of look like person speaking Hebrew to attract the idea of soldiers. Then they're opening fire. They're trying to ambush our troops in many ways by many means in order to kill us. That's why our troops, our soldiers are in a very high and intense situation. I would say physically but also mindfully and all together that could maybe explain what happened but of course it will not excuse what happened and of course we are fully again taking responsibility for this tragedy and our hearts are with the families of the deceased, of stages that are still trained by all means, by all efforts to bring back home all the hostages. 129 right now. Olivia, you talk about the developments on the ground. We heard just a short while ago that IDF troops had raided the holiday homes of several senior Hamas commanders including leader Yahya Sinwar. Perhaps some might be surprised to know that Hamas leaders have vacation homes. Perhaps others are not surprised. Talk us through what has been found, what has been uncovered that stands out for you. First of all, you mentioned the holiday house. I would say that Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Aniye and Khaled Mashal are the most rich people in the Middle East. Khaled Mashal has 5 billion dollars in the account somewhere. Ismail Aniye is around 2 billion dollars. I don't know exactly how much as Yahya Sinwar in his account but all this money has been stolen by Hamas to their own people they are actually using their own people not only as human shield but as I would say human material to make money on their back and they don't care in any way on the situation, on the humanitarian, on the human situation and on the people. Concerning what has been found in this holiday house I want to be clear, I was now in another mission so I need to get more information in order to give more uncertainty on this issue and then I will get back to you as soon as possible. We certainly appreciate you speaking to us on this day, Colonel on the Reserves, the idea of spokesperson for international media I appreciate your time. And now, France says it's deeply concerned by the situation in Gaza and is calling for a new immediate and lasting truce. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is in Israel right now meeting earlier in the day with her Israeli counterpart, Elie Cohen. She says after Israel, France is the country that suffered most from the October 7th attacks reiterating that Paris will spare no effort to ensure the unconditional release of all hostages. Our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman was at the airport earlier and filed this report. Israeli Foreign Minister Elie Cohen met with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna here at Ben-Gurion Airport earlier on in the day. They spoke at the podiums you see behind me and had this to say, Elie Cohen about the issue of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Hamasler organization celebrate last week's UN General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. No wonder they celebrate it. It's exactly what they wish for. Let me send a clear message to the international community, to the UN member states. If the organization celebrates your decision, it means you have made a wrong decision. That's a charged message with the French Foreign Minister standing next to Elie Cohen. Of course the French government at a relatively early stage through President Emmanuel Macron himself having come out and called for that ceasefire that the Israeli government sees at this stage as so unwanted. On another issue, the two sides may well see eye to eye the issue of Israel's northern border and finding a diplomatic arrangement away from the border north of the Letani River. Here's what Foreign Minister Colonna had to say to a question for my 24 news. I'll be in Beirut tomorrow in France, just like its partners is calling on its Lebanese counterparts to do everything they can to avoid a flare-up in Lebanon that would make it the first victim. And I'll be bringing that message to Beirut. Our partners there, I believe, feel similarly. I would like to add that very clear messages to the Israeli government as well, so that the security of Israel and of Lebanon, I must add, should not be threatened even more. For the Israeli government, this is a tricky visit. On one hand, the deep disagreements about the war in Gaza, even with the full-throated expressions of support for the Israeli public from Foreign Minister Colonna, the fact that the French government has come out as such an important European power calling for a ceasefire on the other hand, I think the understanding in Israel that the French government is certainly not a hostile actor and also has an important role to play in the diplomacy with Lebanon, given France's ties with Lebanon and its special relationship with Lebanon and the expressed desire of the Israeli government through the statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night and the statements here at these podiums from Foreign Minister Eli Cohen earlier on today that the Israeli government wants a diplomatic solution in Lebanon to plan A and a military operation only as a plan B. Owen Alterman, I-24 News at Ben-Gurion International Airport. And that's where we wrap up this edition of our Breaking News coverage. I'm Benita Levine. Our rolling coverage continues shortly, back in a bit. Stay tuned. Thank you for watching. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. This is Breaking News Edition. I'm Benita Levine, coming to you live from Tel Aviv Development. Israelis are still trying to process. The country's defence leaders say they have accepted responsibility for the accidental killing of three hostages trying to escape from captivity in Gaza, vowing steps to ensure no repeat of the tragic incident. They also pointed out the difficulties soldiers face in complex urban battlefields. Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Shamriz were killed on Friday as they ran towards a group of soldiers in the Sejaiya neighborhood while waving a white cloth and calling for help in Hebrew. The trio had escaped their Hamas abductors nearly 10 weeks since the brutal kidnapping during that terror onslaught on the 7th of October. The initial IDF probe finding the soldiers feared that the three were part of a trap and open fire, killing them before realising their mistake. Chief of Staff Haritzi Hailevi called the killings difficult and painful. The funeral of Alon Shamriz taking place in Shvaim a short while ago. Here's more from his brother Ido Shamriz let's take a listen. We turned over every stone knocked on every table for us to be reunited but it wasn't enough. We didn't do everything but you did. You were on your own journey in the dark without glasses. You were held by monsters in harsh conditions. No water, no food, no oxygen and no daylight. You did all this and ran. You acted bravely. That is reserved for unique people like you. And you waited for redemption. I talked about you so much in every meeting or interview. But I didn't say how brave you are. You always knew what was good for you. You did things your way. And this time too you ran away against all odds and did all things to get home. My poor brother, what happened to you in those moments when you already had the power? Whoever abandoned you also murdered you after you did everything right. Beyond devastating. Now let's find out exactly what is happening on the ground this hour. Our correspondent Pierre Stegelbach is in southern Israel and Pierre we know that aid is now coming into the Gaza Strip through the southern part of the Gaza Strip. But I want to bring to your attention that also heavy fighting is going on in the northern part. I want to have our cameraman Ego Basilenco zoom in. We're looking into bed this is where the idea of is concentrating on destroying left and right. We're looking into the northern part of the Gaza Strip. We're looking into the northern part of the eastern part of the Gaza Strip. We're Matt conce revving voila feeding. And that's concentrating on destroying leftover infrastructure. You can see small rising from operations there on the ground. You brought up to Karen show them crossing your right to say that it was opened today for the entry of further humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. And this is part of the demand that the U.S. has put forward open both for the inspection of goods and the entry of goods. And Rafa has become very much a bottle like it took a long time to inspect and enter the aid trucks. We have seen them lining up on the Egyptian side before they were able to enter and to be processed. Now Kerem Shalom, another crossing will open and that means that more aid will flow in. Yet we don't know how much will indeed be able to get processed that will be proven in the next coming day. So every week can assume that it would still be not even close enough to cater to the civilian population. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening every day this war goes on. But we have seen these images emerging from Rafa of the civilian population trying to encircle the trucks that are going in and trying to grab some of the packages and really complete despair. But another issue is Israel is accusing and has been accusing Hamas of really stealing and trying to steal the humanitarian aid that is coming in to try to take it away from the civilian population. So that will be something that also needs to be of course be paid attention to once the aid is going to enter through Kerem Shalom now Benita. We are looking at those images on our screen as you are speaking Pia. Meanwhile some dramatic discoveries by the IDF troops raiding the holiday homes of several senior Hamas commanders including Yahya Sinwar. Right Benita well the IDF is in need to present also some successes after the tragedy where three hostages were killed. One of the successes that were presented today was the discovery of those vacation homes of senior Hamas officials. This is part of the campaign in the south specifically to really locate not only their vacation homes but really the Hamas leaders that are still believed to be in Gaza. First and foremost Yahya Sinwar one of his vacation homes was discovered today and not only that but the IDF also published that they found several tunnel shafts more. One of them has been located in children's room and next to a crib this is part of the IDF's claims. They've been making those claims since basically the beginning of the war that Hamas is hiding its weapons and its ammunition and its tunnels amid civilian infrastructure this time in a children's room and let's take a listen to one of the commanders there in Gaza on the ground talking about this specific discovery. We're in a house that seems like what might be an innocent home but if you follow me here until the children's room looks like an innocent children's room under this this child's cot not the baby's cot using a tunnel that was used for terror by Hamas ISIS. Hamas ISIS uses children's rooms uses baby's cots to hide what is used for terror for murder and for slaughter. Those images speak for themselves. Thank you so much correspondent Pierre Stegelbach live from Southern Israel thanks Pierre. And now for more we welcome to studio Martin Himmel political analyst and international security analyst thank you so much Martin for being here in studio. So there's so many different developments to unpack but I want to start with this tragic killing on Friday three hostages escaping trying to flee from their abductors and being shot by so-called friendly fire by Israeli troops we know the Israeli defense establishment is taking accountability for it but many questions remain your assessment. Well first of all I probably rehashed it 20,000 times since it happened they almost got free they almost got out it's really truly a terrible thing a terrible tragedy and it takes your breath away so that's on the the more personal emotional front on the more professional front or the eye or in analyzing it all you know you can't put yourself in the place of a soldier who in a millisecond has to decide whether he's to fire or not and if he doesn't it could be his life that doesn't mean it justifies anything they do have they do have procedures went to fire or not to fire but life is very random there and it's all in milliseconds and it's very hard to judge soldiers who are in such a difficult situation. And according to the initial probe it seems that those soldiers felt that they were being duped or tricked into believing that these were people running and that they actually were speaking in Hebrew and were Israeli hostages clearly the investigation will unpack the details it is too soon to know exactly what happened obviously many questions are being raised having said that how important is it that the defense establishment put their hands up and said we are accountable as we look as these images on our screen right now that is from the funeral of Alon Shinri's just devastating to think what their families are all going through those three hostages. Well it's important they say they're accountable but I have other questions why isn't the government saying it's not accountable because after all it's their policy they believe that fighting the war harder more aggressively taking the fight very harsh against Hamas will release hostages and that has been yet to be proven and they should take some responsibility too for this whole thing this is part of the problem with this whole war is the apparently taking responsibility by many people who are actually involved in the fight and people who represent the policy don't take responsibility like the Prime Minister. Well the Prime Minister did outline Israel's goals vowing that they would get all hostages back also obviously reiterating that they will eliminate the Hamas threat there are 129 hostages still in captivity more than 10 weeks devastating to think where they might be as we see more and more images of tunnels and civilian infrastructure being used for terror purposes as well what do you make of the efforts right now to get those hostages back is it in a deal or is it in eliminating the threat of Hamas and then finding those hostages. It has to be ultimately in a deal Hamas is an extremely ruthless organization there's one deal that they're interested in and that is first of all Israel ceases permanently the fight and then it wants to make a deal based on a transfer of prisoners there's as long as the fight's going on what's incentive do they have to make a deal it might be too big a price for Israel to pay to cease hostilities because of the hostages but that's the deal that Hamas is looking for they want to survive Israel's out to destroy them so why make a deal if it's ultimately going to leave to your lead to your destruction and so it's an extremely complex situation and so far we're finding dead hostages unfortunately not live ones because of the war what do you make then of the pressure from the United States there are hostages with dual Israeli-American citizenship the French foreign minister is here as well there are hostages who have French citizenship as well why hasn't there been enough pressure from abroad on Qatar or any other players to try and secure a proper deal that gets all hostages home as soon as possible well we don't know if there's not been proper pressure we don't know what the United States has said to Qatar we don't have the French has said to Qatar they might have put a lot of pressure on Qatar and on the Egyptians for that matter but the real address is Yahya Sinwar and Hamas and they're still functioning and they want to survive and the only way they think they can survive is give cease hostilities and then we'll talk about your need for the hostages so it's logical it's brutal it's horrible but it's logical why should they make any deal before that so the question then remains where does Israel going to do is it going to stop hostilities and the war to free these hostages or does it continue the war and therefore it only other way we're going to see the hostages that they actually retrieve them alive which has proven to be extremely difficult Martin him will stay with us because as we're discussing France says it is deeply concerned by the situation in Gaza and is calling for a new immediate and lasting truce the foreign minister is in Israel meeting earlier with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman was at the airport earlier and filed this report Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen met with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna here at Ben-Gurion airport earlier on in the day they spoke at the podiums you see behind me and had this to say Eli Cohen about the issue of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza the Hamas organization celebrate last week's U.N. general assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire no wonder they celebrate it it's exactly what they wish for let me send a clear message to the international community to the U.N. member states if the organization celebrates your decision it means you have made a wrong decision that's a charged message with the French foreign minister standing next to Eli Cohen of course the French government at a relatively early stage through President Emmanuel Macron himself having come out and called for that ceasefire that the Israeli government sees at this stage as so unwanted on another issue the two sides may well see eye to eye the issue of Israel's northern border and finding a diplomatic arrangement to move his bullish military presence away from the border north of the Letani river here's what foreign minister Colonna had to say to a question from i24 news I'll be in Beirut tomorrow and France just like its partners is calling on its Lebanese counterparts to do everything they can to avoid a flare-up in Lebanon that would make it the first victim and I'll be bringing that message to Beirut our partners there I believe feel similarly I would like to add that very clear messages have been sent to Hezbollah as well so that the security of Israel end of Lebanon I must add should not be threatened even more for the Israeli government this is a tricky visit on one hand the deep disagreements about the war in Gaza even with the full-throated expressions of support for the Israeli public from foreign minister Colonna the fact that the French government has come out as such an important European power calling for a ceasefire obviously brings intention with the Israeli government on the other hand I think the understanding in Israel that the French government is certainly not a hostile actor and also has an important role to play in the diplomacy with Lebanon given France's ties with Lebanon and its special relationship with Lebanon and the express desire of the Israeli government through the statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night and the statements here at these podiums from Foreign Minister Eli Cohen earlier on today that the Israeli government wants a diplomatic solution in Lebanon as a plan A and a military operation only as a plan B Owen Alterman I-24 News at Ben-Gurion International Airport and still in studio Martin Himmel and we were talking about the threat out of the Gaza Strip but let's turn to what Owen was discussing A the threat out of Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon and B the role that France could play and soon to make sure that there is a buffer zone there very very soon well you're mentioning France you're mentioning Hezbollah but the one person that really controls all this is Tehran Iran sure what do they want and it that's a very complex answer so far it appears Iran does not want a full-fledged head-on collision between Israel and Hezbollah and there's many reasons for that people forgot about the Syrian civil war but Hezbollah is a major reason why Syria's Haffas al-Assad is in power they're a key ally and they keep the Syrian alawi al-await Shiite axis in power if Hezbollah is severely weakened in a war with Israel then Syria could be threatened also so it doesn't want this domino effect Iran doesn't want this domino effect so there is room for some sort of diplomatic movement but it means to be seen I can't see Hezbollah voluntarily moving to the tiny river maybe we'll want a limited conflict with Israel but it's extremely hard to keep these conflicts limited and if not voluntary as you say then there are other options that Israel needs to think about Martin Himmel political analysts and international security analysts always appreciate you being here in studio thank you so much now on to another growing concern linked to the war the association for infectious diseases is raising concerns around the amount of resistant bacteria and infections detected among soldiers who were wounded in the Gaza Strip since this war started the organizations professor Gallia Rahav saying they have seen infections and bacterial infections specifically among soldiers who have just returned from the battlefield adding that the contact with the soil and mud there is causing exposure to such resistant bacteria and also to molds so to help make sense of all this we now welcome professor Cyril Cohen head of the laboratory of immunotherapy at Barry line university and member of the advisory committee for clinical trials of gene therapy in the ministry of health professor thank you as always for joining us good to see you but there are new concerns amidst all the concerns associated with a physical war we are now hearing about these health worries linked to infections and bacteria tell us more break it down for us yes hello Veneta also good to see you basically what we know is that human conflict usually has a potential to drastically accelerate the evolution the spread of what we call anti microbial resistance meaning we have now bacterias that are resistant to the common treatments we give like for example certain types of antibiotics so we know that this is associated with war we've known that for the past 20 years since Afghanistan for example when US soldiers were coming back with certain types of I would say microorganisms that are resistant to the treatment we are giving why because we know that there is damage to infrastructure there is contact and exposure as you say to you know certain conditions in the battlefield and and you can't always give the best treatment to those soldiers and therefore there are infections and then it's much more difficult to treat those infections and basically what we have seen here what we are seeing here again it's limited okay I don't want the people to get you know into panic but still what we're seeing here is that instead of seeing microbes that are resistant in hospitals that's usually I would say the first of the most important source of microbial resistance we're seeing that bringing we seeing that in soldiers that are bringing that back to hospitals you know when they were in the field that were wounded and they get treated and suddenly we discovered that they have like infections like fungus that are resistant like bacteria so it's a source of concern again because we don't want that to get into Israel we don't want that to spread into Israel but again I don't want people to get hysterical regarding that certainly nobody wants to create any panic but is Israel equipped to deal with it what steps can be taken so basically you know it depends on the type of infection certain types of fungus for example if they infect you know the skin so what you can do is a certain type of surgery to prevent the spread of the infection other than that we have certain medicines and that can treat certain types of resistance usually we don't use those medicines commonly because we know that the more antibiotics you give the more resistance is building up in in those microorganisms so we have ways to treat that but nonetheless the WHO as really in general okay not only in times of war has turned that I would say issue of microbial resistance or antimicrobial resistance is one of the most concerning issues that we will have in the next 10 years in terms of treating diseases and very briefly talking about the world health organization there is a fear of an outbreak of epidemics in the Gaza strip due to the damage to sanitation infrastructure what exactly does that involve briefly please quickly it means that you know wherever you have a damage to infrastructure damage to sanitation you know and and and you can you don't have a way to give proper treatment you will have you know infectious disease spreading so that's you know that's something we know we of course we don't want that to happen but this is usually a collateral damage of war always appreciate your insights on all the health developments at once thank you so much professor Cyril Kern thank you for speaking to us on i24 news thank you now on the morning of october 7th the day of the Hamas terror assault farmer Yarev Hajabi raced to a nearby moshav as soon as he realized his entire family was being targeted there weeks later i24 news went back to that site with him here is his story he says there are people and then suddenly I turn on the phone and he tells me that they were in my brother's room at that moment when my mother told me that they were in the room so I went to the friend I took him and two more years we were four all of us were injured and in fact we were killed in three or four minutes we got here he split us over the fence there and we were born in the middle of the fence until the soldiers came here to Matta and on the way the soldiers and in the part here we started to move forward we saw three or four soldiers here I started to see the direction so that I could push them away from us to take them out of the houses there are many on our side, we realized that someone was looking at us, in the middle of the road, in fact, there was some kind of army here and in fact, they were shooting at us and in fact, they started to look at us and then they also sent some kind of force to take us away from the village and then we realized that the situation was very very dangerous it was already with the soldiers above us, we just had to move because we were still in the middle of them, so on and with the understanding that we do not like the force that continues there and we actually stayed here forever, we started to tear down all the soldiers here and actually destroy the area, all this area was actually my favorite area because it was full of soldiers, my brother was here as a soldier, all this was a challenge for me to go there, all this area was actually full of soldiers and all the soldiers that I put here, actually, I went to a small village of my soldiers who were soldiers, I saw that it was a village, I left some of the two soldiers who were here around us, we went to the front of the village and then we realized that my soldiers were actually wounded in front of them, so to speak, from the ground, they were wounded in the same situation with my brother, in fact, everyone was injured, when we realized that there were soldiers here, he had to get to his own unit to get rid of them in front of him, but it was more than a time, we had to live to be modeled with all this work and nothing else started actually, there was a war, my friend, because the situation was different and it was all a struggle, you just have to make sure that every day is worth it, if you manage to get rid of it and to go beyond, to another day and to another day, that's the biggest mentality here, because the work is a work, but we are not at the same level as it was before. War, families completely done down in their beds, we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. This is breaking news edition, I'm Penita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv, starting with the latest reaction to a tragic development, Israelis are still trying to process the country's defense leaders, say they have accepted responsibility for the accidental killing of three hostages trying to escape from captivity in Gaza, vowing steps to ensure no repeat of the tragic incident, they also pointed out the difficulties soldiers face in complex urban battlefields, Yotam Haim, Samar Tzalalka and Alon Shamriz were killed on Friday as they ran towards a group of soldiers in the Sejaiya neighborhood while waving a white cloth and calling for help in Hebrew, the trio had escaped their Hamas abductors nearly 10 weeks since the brutal kidnapping during that terror onslaught on the 7th of October, the initial IDF probe finding the soldiers fear that the three were part of a trap and open fire killing them before realising their mistake, Chief of Staff Heretsi Halevi called the killings difficult and painful, the funeral of Alon Shamriz taking place in Shvaim a short while ago, here's more from his brother Ido Shamriz, let's take a listen. we turned over every stone knocked on every table for us to be reunited but it wasn't enough we didn't do everything but you did you were on your own journey in the dark without glasses you were held by monsters and harsh conditions no water no food no oxygen and no daylight you went through all this and ran you acted bravely that is reserved for unique people like you and you waited for redemption I talked about you so much in every meeting or interview but I didn't say how brave you are you always knew what was good for you you did things your way and this time too you ran away against all odds and did all things to get home my poor brother what happened to you in those moments when you already saw the light it became dark whoever abandoned you also murdered you after you did everything right beyond devastating. Now let's find out exactly what is happening on the ground this hour our correspondent Pierre Stegelbach is in southern Israel and Pierre we know that aid is now coming into the Gaza Strip through the Kerim Shalom crossing Israel committing to allow the entry of 200 aid trucks a day that was part of last month's hostage deal at the same time though footage emerging of looting at the Rafah crossing what is the latest there? Right Benita those are news coming out of the southern part of the Gaza Strip but I want to bring to your attention that also heavy fighting is going on in the northern part I want to have our cameraman Igor Bazilenko zoom in we're looking into Bet Lahian Bet Hanoon this is where the idea of his concentrating on destroying leftover infrastructure as you can see smoker rising from operations there on the ground you brought up the Kerim Shalom crossing you're right to say that it was open today for the entry of further humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and this is part of the demands that the US has put forward to first of all avoid more large numbers of civilian casualties and to allow more aid to enter and this comes after until now since the beginning of the war only Rafah has been open both for the inspection of goods and the entry of goods and Rafah has become very much a bottle like it took a long time to inspect and enter the aid trucks we've seen them lining up on the Egyptian side before they will be they were able to enter and to be processed now Kerim Shalom another crossing will open and that means that more aid will flow in yet we don't know how much will indeed be able to get processed that will be proven in the next coming day so every week can assume that it will still be not even close to enough to cater to the civilian population the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening every day this war goes on but we have seen these images emerging from Rafah of the civilian population trying to encircle the trucks going in trying to grab some of the packages and really complete despair but another issue is Israel is accusing and has been accusing Hamas of really stealing and trying to steal the humanitarian aid that is coming in to try to take it away from the civilian population so that will be something that also needs to be of course be paid attention to once the aid is going to enter through Kerim Shalom now Benita we are looking at those images on our screen as you are speaking Pierre meanwhile some dramatic discoveries by the IDF troops raiding the holiday homes of several senior Hamas commanders including Yahya Sinwar right Benita well the idea of is in need to present also some successes after the tragedy where three hostages were killed one of the successes that were presented today was the discovery of those vacation homes of senior Hamas officials this is part of the campaign in the south specifically to really locate not only their vacation homes but really the Hamas leaders that are still believed to be in Gaza first and foremost Yahya Sinwar one of his vacation homes was discovered today and not only that but the IDF also published that they found several tunnel shafts more one of them has been located in children's room and next to a crib this is part of the IDF's claims they've been making those claims since basically the beginning of the war that Hamas is hiding its weapons and its ammunition and its tunnels amid civilian infrastructure this time in a children's room and let's take a listen to one of the commanders there in Gaza on the ground talking about this specific discovery we're in a house that seems like what might be an innocent home but if you follow me here until the children's room looks like an innocent children's room under this this child's cot the mother baby's cot using a tunnel that was used for terror like Hamas ISIS Hamas ISIS uses children's rooms uses baby's pots to hide what is used for terror for murder and for slaughter those images speak for themselves thank you so much correspondent Pierre Stekelbach live from southern Israel thanks Pierre and now for more we welcome to studio Martin Himmel political analyst and international security analyst thank you so much Martin for being here in studio so there's so many different developments to unpack but I want to start with this tragic killing on Friday three hostages escaping trying to flee from their abductors and being shot by so-called friendly fire by Israeli troops we know the Israeli defense establishment is taking accountability for it but many questions remain your assessment well first of all I've probably rehashed it 20 000 times since it happened they almost got free they almost got out it's really truly a terrible thing a terrible tragedy and it takes your breath away so that's on the the more personal emotional front on the more professional front or the eye or analyzing it all you know you can't put yourself in the place of a soldier who in a millisecond has to decide whether he's to fire or not and if he doesn't it could be his life that doesn't mean it justifies anything they do have they do have procedures went to fire and not to fire but life is very random there and it's all in milliseconds and it's very hard to judge soldiers who are in such a difficult situation and according to the initial probe it seems that those soldiers felt that they were being duped or tricked into believing that these were people running and that they actually were speaking in Hebrew and were Israeli hostages clearly the investigation will unpack the details it is too soon to know exactly what happened obviously many questions are being raised having said that how important is it that the defense establishment put their hands up and said we are accountable as we look at these images on our screen right now that is from the funeral of Alon Shinri's just devastating to think what their families are all going through those three hostages well it's important they say they're accountable but I have other questions why isn't the government saying it's not accountable because after all it's their policy they believe that fighting the war harder more aggressively taking the fight very harsh against Hamas will release hostages and that has been yet to been proven and they should take some responsibility too for this whole thing this is part of the problem with this whole war is the apparently to taking responsibility by many people who are actually involved in the fight and people who represent the policy don't take responsibility like the prime minister well the prime minister did outline Israel's goals vowing that they would get all hostages back also obviously reiterating that they will eliminate the Hamas threat there are 129 hostages still in captivity more than 10 weeks devastating to think where they might be as we see more and more images of tunnels and civilian infrastructure being used for terror purposes as well what do you make of the efforts right now to get those hostages back is it in a deal or is it in eliminating the threat of Hamas and then finding those hostages has to be ultimately in a deal Hamas is an extremely ruthless organization there's one deal that they're interested in and that is first of all Israel ceases ceases permanently the fight and then it wants to make a deal based on a transfer of prisoners there's as long as the fight's going on what's incentive do they have to make a deal that might be too big a price for Israel to pay to cease hostilities because of the hostages but that's the deal that Hamas is looking for they want to survive Israel's up to destroy them so why make a deal if it's ultimately going to lead to your destruction and so it's an extremely complex situation and so far we're finding dead hostages unfortunately not live ones because of the war what do you make then of the pressure from the United States there are hostages with dual Israeli-American citizenship the French foreign minister is here as well there are hostages who have French citizenship as well why hasn't there been enough pressure from abroad on Qatar or any other players to try and secure a proper deal that gets all hostages home as soon as possible well we don't know if there's not been proper pressure we don't know what the United States has said to Qatar we don't have the French has said to Qatar they might have put a lot of pressure on Qatar and on the Egyptians for that matter but the real address is Yahya Sinwar and Hamas and they're still functioning and they want to survive and the only way they think they can survive is give cease hostilities and then we'll talk about your need for the hostages so it's logical it's brutal it's horrible but it's logical that why should they make any deal before that so the question then remains where does this we're going to do is it going to stop hostilities and the war to free these hostages or does it continue the war and therefore it only other way we're going to see the hostages if they actually retrieve them alive which has proven to be extremely difficult Martin him will stay with us because as we're discussing France says it is deeply concerned by the situation in Gaza and is calling for a new immediate and lasting truce the foreign minister is in Israel meeting earlier with her Israeli counterpart Ellie Cohen our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman was at the airport earlier and filed this report Israeli foreign minister Ellie Cohen met with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna here at Ben Gurion airport earlier on in the day they spoke at the podiums you see behind me and had this to say Ellie Cohen about the issue of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza the Hamas organization celebrate last week's UN General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire no wonder they celebrate it it's exactly what they wish for let me send a clear message to the international community to the UN member states if a federal organization celebrates your decision it means you have made a wrong decision that's a charged message with the French foreign minister standing next to Ellie Cohen of course the French government at a relatively early stage through President Emmanuel Macron himself having come out and called for that ceasefire that the Israeli government sees at this stage as so unwanted on another issue the two sides may well see eye to eye the issue of Israel's northern border and finding a diplomatic arrangement to move his bull's military presence away from the border north of the Letani River here's what foreign minister colon had to say to a question for my 24 news I'll be in Beirut tomorrow and France just like its partners is calling on its Lebanese counterparts to do everything they can to avoid a flare up in Lebanon that would make it the first victim and I'll be bringing that message to Beirut our partners there I believe feel similarly I would like to add that very clear messages have been sent to Hezbollah as well so that the security of Israel and of Lebanon I must add should not be threatened even more for the Israeli government this is a tricky visit on one hand the deep disagreements about the war in Gaza even with the full-throated expressions of support for the Israeli public from foreign minister Kelowna the fact that the French government has come out as such an important European power calling for a ceasefire obviously brings in tension with the Israeli government on the other hand I think the understanding in Israel that the French government is certainly not a hostile actor and also has an important role to play in the diplomacy with Lebanon given France's ties with Lebanon and its special relationship with Lebanon and the expressed desire of the Israeli government through the statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night and the statements here at these podiums from Foreign Minister Ali Cohen earlier on today that the Israeli government wants a diplomatic solution in Lebanon as a plan A and a military operation only as a plan B Owen Alterman I-24 News at Ben-Gurion International Airport and still in studio Martin Himmel and we were talking about the threat out of the Gaza Strip but let's turn to what Owen was discussing A the threat out of Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon and B the role that France could play and soon to make sure that there is a buffer zone there very very soon well you're mentioning France and you're mentioning Hezbollah but the one person that really controls all this is Tehran Iran sure what do they want and it that's a very complex answer so far it appears Iran does not want a full-fledged head-on collision between Israel and Hezbollah and there's many reasons for that people forgot about the Syrian civil war but Hezbollah is a major reason why Syria's Hafez al-Assad is in power they're a key ally and they keep the Syrian Alawi Alawite Shiite axis in power if Hezbollah is severely weakened in a war with Israel then Syria could be threatened also so it doesn't want this domino effect Iran doesn't want this domino effect so there is room for some sort of diplomatic movement but it means to be seen I can't see Hezbollah voluntarily moving to the tiny river maybe we'll want a limited conflict with Israel but it's extremely hard to keep these conflicts limited and if not voluntary as you say then there are other options that Israel needs to think about Martin Himmel political analysts and international security analysts always appreciate you being here in studio thank you so much now on to another growing concern linked to the war the association for infectious diseases is raising concerns around the amount of resistant bacteria and infections detected among soldiers who were wounded in the Gaza Strip since this war started the organization's professor Galya Rahav saying they have seen infections and bacterial infections specifically among soldiers who have just returned from the battlefield adding that the contact with the soil and mud there is causing exposure to such resistant bacteria and also to molds so to help make sense of all this we now welcome professor Cyril Cohen head of the laboratory of immunotherapy at Barry line university and member of the advisory committee for clinical trials of gene therapy in the ministry of health professor thank you as always for joining us good to see you but there are new concerns amidst all the concerns associated with a physical war we are now hearing about these health worries linked to infections and bacteria tell us more break it down for us yes hello venita also good to see you basically what we know is that human conflict usually has a potential to drastically accelerate the evolution the spread of what we call anti microbial resistance meaning we have now bacteria that are resistant to the common treatments we give like for example certain types of antibiotics so we know that this is associated with what we've known that falls the past 20 years since Afghanistan for example when us soldiers were coming back with certain types of I would say microorganisms that are resistant to the treatment we are giving why because we know that there is damage to infrastructure as there is contact and exposure as you say to you know certain conditions in the battlefield and and you can't always give the best treatment to those soldiers and therefore there are infections and then it's much more difficult to treat those infections and basically what we have seen here what we are seeing here again it's limited okay I don't want the people to get you know into panic but still what we're seeing here is that instead of seeing microbes that are resistant in hospitals that's usually I would say the first or the most important source of microbial resistance we're seeing that bringing we seeing that in soldiers that are bringing that back to hospitals you know when they were in the field they were wounded and they get treated and suddenly we discovered that they have like infections like fungus that are resistant like bacteria so it's a source of concern again because we don't want that to get into Israel we don't want that to spread into Israel but again I don't want people to get hysterical regarding that certainly nobody wants to create any panic but is Israel equipped to deal with it what steps can be taken so basically you know there it depends on the type of infection certain types of fungus for example if they infect you know the skin so what you can do is a certain type of surgery to prevent the spread of the infection other than that we have certain medicines that can treat certain types of resistance usually we don't use those medicines commonly because we know that the more antibiotics you give the more resistance is building up in in those microorganisms so we have ways to treat that but nonetheless the WHO has really in general okay not only in times of war as term that I would say issue of microbial resistance or antimicrobial resistance is one of the most concerning issues that we will have in the next 10 years in terms of treating diseases and very briefly talking about the world health organization there is a fear of an outbreak of epidemics in the Gaza Strip due to the damage to sanitation infrastructure what exactly does that involve briefly please quickly it means that you know wherever you have a damage to infrastructure damage to sanitation you know and and and you can you don't have a way to give proper treatment you will have you know infectious disease spreading so that's you know that's something we know we of course we don't want that to happen but this is usually a collateral damage of war always appreciate your insights on all the health developments at once thank you so much professor Cyril Kern thank you for speaking to us on i24 news thank you now on the morning of october 7th the day of the Hamas terror assault farmer Yarev Hajabi raced to a nearby moshav as soon as he realized his entire family was being targeted there weeks later i24 news went back to that site with him here is his story a couple of minutes later my mother called me from here and told me they were here and told me there are walls and then so I turned on the phone and told me that they were behind me in that moment when my mother told me that they were here so I went to the friend I killed him and two more years we were four we were all sleeping and in fact we were asleep for three or four minutes we arrived here he broke us over the fence there and we went in the middle of the hills until the sun came out here and by the way the sun came out and in the part of here we started to move forward we saw three or four soldiers here I started to see the army to put them in front of us in order to take them out of the houses we have a lot of soldiers on our side we realized that someone was looking at us in order to actually get some kind of power the army was here and in fact the most powerful of the soldiers they saw us and in fact they started to look at us and then they also sent some kind of power to take us out of the village and then we realized that the situation was very, very dangerous it was already in our hands, we just had to put our hands on it and pass them through the hills and in the understanding that we do not have the power to continue there and we actually stayed here for a long time we started to steal all the soldiers here and actually all this area was actually my favorite of the army because it was the army and my brother stayed here for a long time all this was very hard for me to get there all this area was actually very crowded with soldiers and it was all the soldiers that I put here actually. I went to a small village of the soldiers that they know I saw that it was actually a cloud. I left some of the two Mamnikis around here. We saw the front of the building, and then we found that my parents were actually in front of it. They were really from Ibudam. They were in the same situation with my brother. In other words, everyone was surprised when they saw that there were people here. He had to come to his brotherhood, to get rid of them in front of him, but he passed away more than the time. We had to live a normal life with all this work. And nothing else really started. There was a war around, because the situation was different. And it was... It was all a mess. You just have to make sure that every day is fine, if you manage to get rid of them, and get through to the next day, the next day. For the mental health issue, we have to do the best we can. Because the work is work, but we are not at all in the process of getting rid of it.