 Welcome. Good evening from Israel. This is Middle East now and, of course, only one story here tonight as we continue our coverage of the unprecedented events unfolding here. 800 Israelis are now confirmed dead following the worst onslaught this country has ever seen, the deadliest day in Israel's history. Three days ago, Hamas terrorists overran the southern border, murdering more than 200 people at a music festival, and many, many more as they went on to raid towns and villages in the area. Dozens of hostages, including women, children, babies, and elderly people were seized and are now being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. There's been a heavy barrage of Hamas rocket fire on the south of Israel and just recently around the Jerusalem area, many wounded, including a 10-year-old boy, two people in a serious condition. There's been a night of heavy IDF airstrikes on Gaza. The Israeli Defence Minister says he has ordered a complete siege of the territory, water, and electricity supplies have been completely cut off. Well, hundreds of wounded survivors are right now being treated at the Bazele Hospital in the southern city of Ash Golan, and that hospital was hit by a Hamas rocket yesterday. Our correspondent, Ariel Ossaran, is there. Ariel, it's a lot to take in. Tell us what is happening. Survivors there being treated in the hospital, which was hit by a rocket just yesterday. Tell us what's the latest, what's happening. Right, Laura. So as just a few moments before we came on air, there was a very significant barrage of rockets to Ash Golan and the area. Of course, the moment the sirens went out, we ran inside as everyone did, as everyone are instructed to do. We have 15 seconds to make it in. And really, within moments, we could already hear multiple booms. The walls here at the hospital were shaking, and after the booms ended and they were safe to go out, we could see six, at least six, little clouds of smoke, which indicate interceptions right above the hospital here at Bazele, the biggest, closest hospital to the Gaza Strip, to the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. And since the beginning of this war, of the surprise attack by Hamas on Saturday morning, around 400 people have been taken here to this hospital. Today, just today, we're talking about 85 injured people who came here. The vast majority of them are in mild and medium condition. Two people are in critical condition. One is in a life-threatening situation. Doctors are working as hard as they can to stabilize their situation. And this comes as throughout every few minutes, we get alerts of additional barrages of rockets towards towns closer to the Gaza Strip. We hear those booms. We also hear the constant booms of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. About half an hour ago, an hour ago, very significant wave of airstrikes throughout the Gaza Strip. We could also feel the ground shake here from those strikes. According to Palestinians, in these strikes, a communications building was hit, cutting off all internet service throughout the Gaza Strip. And as we're talking, I can still hear the booms of the strikes in Gaza. Ariella, thank you very much. Ariella Saran there. Well, joining me now, Ruth Wasserman-Land is a former member of the Knesset and a former diplomatic envoy to Egypt. Thanks for being with us, Ruth. The latent evidence of Hamas war crimes, that's what the Israeli ambassador to the UN is saying about what happened in the south in the last few days. There's nothing less than crimes against humanity. It is despicable, shameful, grotesque, inhumane acts of barbarism. Nothing less than a massacre against civilians, unarmed civilians, busting into their private homes, taking hostage children, women, raping women. And the reason why we know it is because they paraded it unapologetically and proudly on the social media. It is too awful, too shocking for words. I cannot convey in words. It is shocking. It's hard. Jacques Neria is with us in the studio as well. Former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence. Jacques, how is this allowed to happen? There is a report that Prime Minister Netanyahu ignored a security warning from Egypt. Well, there are several signs that were ignored by the government and by the military. It's not the only one. It's not the only one, I think that, but it is not the time for accounting right now. I think that it is time for war, waging war, and ending it with the victory, with the aim of finishing Hamas and destroying its control over the Gaza and the Gaza Strip. I think that we will go back afterwards because to seek some explanations from the Prime Minister, from the Minister of Defense, from the Chief of Military Intelligence, from the Chief of Staff, from the Chief of Assessment. All these have to respond and to explain where was the failure. How come that this plan was devised for several months? Several months. We saw them training. We saw them repeating exactly the same scenario that Hezbollah had written 12 years ago. And then so many factions were involved in it, the Hamas, the Hezbollah, the Islamic Jihad and other smaller factions, Palestinians, and all this happened without knowledge of Israel. This is really serious because this means that we have to shake up the intelligence once more 50 years after what happened to us in 1973. And this, Ruth, was the deadliest day in Israel's history, a country that is no stranger to wars and terrorism? This is unprecedented. You know, it's not just an issue of the numbers that are preposterous. It's an issue again of the inhumanity of the acts. This is not a human thing to do. And one needs to see the videos and the pictures and the bloodied bodies and the horrifying scenes. Again, I stress, innocent civilians unarmed in order to comprehend the despicable acts that were perpetrated. It is not the time to account. Quite. You've got a lot of Palestinian officials going on to other media channels and saying that there was no attack on civilians when, as you say, there is documents. You know what? It's so ridiculously bluntly. It's just despicable to say that. There's no word strong enough for me to use. It is not only a blatant lie. It's a crime against humanity. This should be denied by every Muslim. The more observant, the more it should be denied. This is not permitted by Islam. In Islam, you can only fight and take hostages if you are fighting armed combatants. These people were unarmed. Our grandmothers were 84 years old Holocaust survivors. Three-year-old children that were kidnapped. Children that were kidnapped with their mothers. They can say whatever they want, but the Hamas themselves paraded these pictures. They are sending these pictures. They are unashamed, unashamedly showing the world their crimes against humanity. So there's just no way this time that the Palestinians can lie. Perhaps, Jacques, one of the reasons that the European Union has announced it's suspending all aid to Palestinians. The EU, one of the biggest donors. Well, they should think that Hamas has used the money that we have allowed. This government and other governments have allowed to come from Qatar with the huge dollars and dollars. And these dollars were used by Hamas in order to rearm and prepare itself in the war. Going back to your question about the atrocities, I think that what was published by Hamas has to be republished by Israel. We have to show the world what these animals have their behavior. And these horrendous pictures. And we should not be so delicate and say no, this is not suitable for a public. We have to show exactly what happened. See people decapitated, the women decapitated. We see the children killed and old women and then hostages taken. This is crazy. With your permission, I think that this is the 9-11 of Israel. There is no longer that Israel that will be delicate about showing those horrific pictures and the crimes against humanity. This is something that has gone so beyond anything that is at all, at all in any sense, in any way, humanly acceptable that the delicacy is already put aside. This is not a time for politically correct. These pictures must be shown. They must be shared in order for the world to finally comprehend what we are talking about and that we are not dealing with people. Those who perpetrated this by the way perpetrate crimes against humanity to their own people as well. We were treating Hamas in Hebrew. We should treat them in Arabic, like Arab street Arabs. Okay. Well, let's talk about because Israel is in a terrible situation now. There is a harsh military response going on in Gaza, but there are Israeli citizens, as you say, women, children. Well, if you talk Arabic, if you talk Arabic, the way is, first of all, to ask the siege. This will create a humanitarian crisis. But what about the Israeli citizens Let me explain. So by stopping water, stopping electricity, stopping the fuel and so on, we are creating a humanitarian crisis. This will happen in a few days, maybe in a week. They will begin shouting. The world will begin shouting and ask us to stop. And we say, okay, we are stopping. We will stop if you just release our hostages. This is the way, the only way that you understand. You think that's the strategy? This is the strategy. If I were in a position of decision, this is what I would have done. What do you think of the reports that Qatar is apparently trying to mediate? Qatar hates us. Qatar hates us. We have to understand that they have other interests in the Arab world. And they are using our services in order to advance and put the influence in the area. So we cannot trust the Qatar. The only people that we can trust are maybe the Egyptians. But right now, this is a problem, because inside Egypt today, there's criticism, very harsh criticism about the fact that the Minister of Intelligence communicated to Netanyahu the information about Hamas planning to attack Israel. The Egyptians. Laura, I just want to comment with your permission. Yes, of course. Laura, with your permission, I'd like to comment. There's been a denial that this information has been passed, not only from the Prime Minister's office in Israel, which is obvious, but also from my contacts, the Egyptian contacts have denied that this specific information was passed, but this remains to be seen. Also, I'd like to say a word about Qatar and Iran. There is anything that is a call for action for the world. And I think that the world is finally understanding. The United States has shown unparalleled support. It's moving military power to the region. A fleet of aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean. Which is not something to be ignored, to put it very likely. But also, there's been a huge outburst of support from a number of countries that respect, let's say, humanly human values that are very basic. And I think that this is an opportunity to call for action against Qatar and Iran. There is there are two very very destabilizing forces. Let's sorry to interrupt you. Let's remember Qatar is a non NATO ally state of the United States. It has a special status. It's considered a close ally of the United States. Do you do you see that changing as the European Union is perusing once more? It's very high granting of funds to the Palestinians. And this is something that I'm surprised to see it. And I'm happy to see it in the same manner. I think that they need to be repraisal and reevaluation. One obviously of Iran, which is a very manipulative player in the region, a huge destabilizing force. And it's not only for Israel and Qatar. There is a huge destabilizing issue that they've been manipulating for years. And if we needed to be the guinea pig, and that is exactly what happened, the world needs to wake up. Well, I want to go back to the information published by AP. Associated Press is a very serious business, very serious media. And I think that they would not dare publish such an information without having a sources. And I think that we are just challenging them. And we are to wait to see how AP will explain what happened. This is not the first time that such a thing happened. Remember, in 1973, King Hussein came and met Golda. And he told her, the Arabs are going, Egypt and Syria are going to attack you. And she said, well, one moment, she took the phone and spoke to somebody and said, okay, thank you, this is not serious. Okay. By the way, Laura, Hamas and Iran are saying very clearly, as does the Hezbollah, what they are planning to do, Gaza first, West Bank second, the North and Hezbollah third, they are very, very clear in Arabic about what they intend to do and what is their game plan. Okay. Both of you, please do stay with us. Because we're talking a lot in the abstract, perhaps, but I mean, it is an absolute unthinkable nightmare for any human being to have your family members taken by terrorists into enemy territory. And in some cases, in the last few days, Hamas have taken entire families. Many, many Israelis are suffering that agony right now. One of them, I'm very sad to say, Sharon Kaderon, Sharon's cousin, Orfe, was taken along with his 11-year-old son, Hez, his 16-year-old daughter, and the children's grandmother, Karnela, another cousin, Noya, was also taken. It's very hard, Sharon. I'm so sorry this has happened to you. Can you tell us a bit about your family and what happened? Last Saturday, we woke up at 6.30 in the morning. We have a lot of alarms. We live next to the Gaza Strip. The alarm tells us to get into a safe place because there is bombs. So we got into the safe place, and then the terrorist attack started. We had, in our village, all of, was full of terrorists that were shouting and were shooting and killing and just destroyed everything and get into houses and knocking on our doors and windows and yelling that I'm here to kill you. We'll never see a daylight again. We were like this 24 hours, almost 24 hours. In our next village, Orfe lived with his daughter and his son. And the terrorists got into their house, and then they decided to go out through the window and run away. At 8.30 in the morning, we got their last message for them that they hid in bushes, and they're very afraid, and the terrorists are very close to them. And since then, we didn't hear anything from them. We don't know anything if they're okay, if they're not. Later, we discovered that also Kormela and Noia are not there. And that's it. Since then, we didn't hear anything from them except one video that the Hamas posted. One of the others they're taking over one of the terrorists. We're looking at pictures of your beautiful family right now, and I hope the world is seeing its images and we all fill your page. It's a beautiful family, I know. Our family, and we don't know anything about them. We don't know if they're alive, if someone killed them, if someone took them, we don't know if they use them, if they behave nice, if they're taking care of them. If they abuse them, we don't know anything. No one tells us anything. It's everyone's absolute worst nightmare. My heart really goes out to Sharon. Have you been given any advice? What are the authorities telling you? No one tells us anything. Everyone is very busy right now. But the most important thing to remember that there are a lot of people that took the terrorists took with them to the Gaza Strip. We don't know anything about them. They have to come back home weekly because now we know that most of them alive. We don't know how longer they will be alive. We want our family back. We want all the people here back. Look at them. They're so beautiful but we don't know what's with them. We don't know if they're alive. We don't know anything. Sharon, imagine to yourself, but you're sitting on Saturday morning at home and there are terrorists outside shooting and yelling and they want to take us, they wanted to take our life. So we are here and we're thankful for that. But we have family that doesn't. So please help us bring them back. Are you, Sharon, you have family with you? There are people with you? Yeah, yeah. My sons, my husband and my sons are here with me. We are okay physically. But that's it because we're broken. We don't know if we can go back home. We don't know if we have a home. We don't know what's going on over there. Right now the government took us to a lot of heroes staying in a hotel with the clothes that we have on us and that's it. It's a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare. Listen, I'm a mother myself and I can't quite get my head around what I'm hearing, what I'm seeing. It's very, very hard. It was terrible 24 hours. It was terrible 48 hours and we don't know how longer it's going to be. It's not going to end quickly, but please, please, please help us to bring our family back. This is all that we wanted. Leave the house, leave the cars, leave everything. Just want our family here. Of course. Sharon, we are praying for you. We're praying for your family. We hope they're safe and that they return to you. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you very much. Thank you, Sharon. Well, it happened in Steroz in the south of Israel, a city that was under full Hamas control for many hours. And when the Israeli forces arrived, they found the bloodied bodies of civilians piled up in the streets, men, women, children. The idea is now back in control of that city. Jonathan Regev is there now. Jonathan, very, very hard scenes in Steroz. Very hard scenes in Steroz, very hard scenes all over the roads here. These are roads I've been here, I think, in the past few years, at least 50 times. I've been here around the roads. I've never, ever seen the roads here like this full of debris, full of cars, full of bodies, full of everything inhumane. That's what this part of the beautiful state of Israel looks like today and has been looking like for the past 48 hours. Since basically Saturday morning, more than 48 hours by now, 60 hours or so. And the army is basically in control of the area. They're no more, as far as the army knows, they're no more Hamas terrorists in the communities. But you never know who can be hiding behind some tree or some in the house. Maybe houses are booby trapped. Many, many things are unclear. That is why the army is not yet willing to say that it's in full control because you don't know who may be walking around here on the roads in the many communities here along the Gaza border and clearly very sad and difficult scene here today and unfortunately for the days to come. Is there a heavy troop presence in the city right now? Very heavy troop presence in the city itself and all across the Gaza border community. First, trying to make sure that there are no more terrorists in Israeli territory and then in preparation for the next stage of this war, possibly ground incursion, no one really knows for sure. There are also constant barrages of rockets mostly to the communities here around being mostly to Zderot, to Ashkelon. We've also seen rockets sent further away still today to the Tel Aviv area, to the Jerusalem area and a very heavy presence of troops here, absolutely. And of course this is a city it's close to Gaza. For many, many years they've been dealing with horrific rocket attacks but nothing could have prepared them for what happened in the last few days. All of it filmed, uploaded to social media by the terrorists themselves. How are people dealing with that? How are survivors dealing with that? It's a terrible feeling basically. I think the people of Zderot and the communities and not only them, they're feeling that they've been lied to because they were told that basically the army is ready to deal with everything. There is a fence which on paper was impossible to cross. There's an underground barrier. There is an overhead barrier. There is a fence and everything that should have prevented crossings or maybe you cannot, they were told all right you cannot prevent 100% of crossings but you can prevent most of them and even if someone crosses the army will very fast be in the area and react. Both of these concepts were proved absolutely wrong. The border fence was simply crossed all over the Gaza border. The army was very slow to react and we're now dealing with a terrible, terrible consequences of this. You just spoke with people from the communities. You suffer yourself. What it feels like vast huge numbers of the people living in the communities are killed or kidnapped. The situation for them is terrible and even after all this ends a week or a month from today the situation here will never ever be the same as it was before Saturday morning. Absolutely. Jonathan, thank you very much. Jonathan, I gave that instead with some of the worst atrocities ever committed on Israeli soil happened just three days ago. Well, before we go to the doors because there is a situation in the north as well. Jacques, I mean, it's hard to imagine will people go back to the city? Do you think the city can ever recover from this? This is a city that has suffered so much over the years. I think most of us, not only the people of the north, most of us will suffer from post trauma because this is the explosion of a myth. This is an explosion of a concept that the border could be protected by a fence. And the concept just dissipated. And we were proved wrong. We also were proved wrong by saying that we have to contain Hamas. We have to 15,000 Garzans had work permits just a week ago. Not only that we have to contain Hamas. We have to please Hamas. We have to speak with Hamas. We have to maybe to in order to just enhance Hamas and giving a better position vis-à-vis the Palestinian Authority, we have to weaken the Palestinian Authority so we can, and we have with our own hands, nourished the monster, the monster on our border. And this is what the price of our foolish and stupid policy. I completely agree. The feeding the monster by Qatar in terms of money, is a complete wrong policy. Hamas is a terrorist organization, clearly stating that it wants the destruction of the state of Israel. The Iranians are using it for their own interests that have absolutely nothing to do with the Palestinians themselves, but rather seeking hegemony over the region and destabilizing the region. One can see it in Jordan, in Lebanon, in Syria, in the West Bank, and they are trying very hard to do that amidst the Arab Israelis in Israel, until now with not huge success, but they are trying, they continue to try. And that's how they work, destabilizing the region. This is a very bad policy to have followed. And as I said before, Qatar and Iran need to be dealt with because it's not just a destabilizing force for Israel, but rather for the whole Western world, not to mention Arab countries that seek stability in the Arab Gulf and in the region, like Egypt and so on. Ruth, thank you very much. I think you have to leave us, Ruth. But thank you, thank you so much for joining us, Ruth, while I'm alone there. Thank you. Well, as Israel continues to battle Hamas in Gaza and in southern Israel, a new threat has opened up in the north. Two terrorists infiltrated from Lebanon today. They were neutralized by IDF forces. Well, our correspondent, Hamda Salhout, is there. We're having trouble getting hold of her right now. Jacques Naya, you are a Lebanon expert. The nightmare scenario, isn't it? Well, it was expected. This was expected. And I think that the Hamas has just disturbed Hezbollah plans because, in fact, what we have seen done by Hamas is a repetition of the action plan of Hezbollah. If you remember, two months ago, there was a drill in South Lebanon where Hezbollah showed his units, the Radoan units, blowing up the obstacle and just riding with motorcycles inside and taking hostages. Exactly the same scheme. This is what they did. They had repeated one by one. The only thing is that they should have done it on both sides immediately, I mean, synchronized. And they did not. So on the one hand, we were surprised. On the other hand, Hezbollah cannot surprise us anymore. Well, just to point out, just in the last minute or so, Hezbollah has threatened retaliation because of the shooting of the two terrorists, because one of them was Hezbollah has said, since I mean, as always said, that whatever we do, it stick for attack. I mean, we have today attacked an area in South Lebanon, he will attack an area in northern Israel. And I think that we threw a chair, he will throw a closet, and we are in war. So we are to expect from this northern part a much more aggressive attitude of Hezbollah since he has expressed his solidarity with the Palestinians. So and what we see right now is from the Hamas point of view is that they are trying to remain alive, if I can say so, until Hezbollah comes and introduces himself in the arena. And I think that the ones who understood that very well were the Americans. The American administration just sent a warning to Iran, say, just leave Israel with Hamas. Don't mess around. And just to make them, the serious move was to move the strike force with a carrier with the fleet around this, and, of course, announcing the supply of ammunition and of missiles to Israel in order to replenish its depots. Jack, stay with us. Dr. Barak Books is with us as well. He's a senior research fellow at the Europa Institute. Thanks for being with us, Dr. Books. Do you agree with that? Do you think Hezbollah is biding its time? It's preparing to get involved? And can the IDF deal with the two threats at the same time? I can say this is the million dollar question. Hezbollah, meanwhile, until the last incursion, had done some symbolic gestures in order to see that it sympathizes with the Hamas. We're now at the end of a very serious incursion of four terrorists. One of them, according to the reports, fled to Lebanon. And I saw the radio of Lebanon, voice of Lebanon reporting of significant and hard Israeli bombings of villages in South Lebanon. This is a report from five o'clock. And according to reports, a commander of Hezbollah was killed. And now this is the time to see whether Hezbollah will linger and bide the fighting, or will it stay with the isolated skirmishes? Do you think that the presence of the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean will deter Hezbollah at all? The U.S. is involved with the gas agreement, and only at the end of August and September, Amos Shteyn was in their route in order to promote the continuation and implementation of the agreement. And at that time, they began digging the gas rig. They call it the research digging, which is due to be finished in a week or two. Now there are processes of stabilization in Lebanon, also support of the U.S. and Western countries of the Lebanese army in order to maintain order. The U.S. last act is a part of that in order to promote stability and maybe to pressure Iran not to intervene of Hezbollah, not to act. Jack, you agree with that? Well, I see that there is a plan, the grand design of Hezbollah that has been expressed several months ago. And if you remember, we had the Minister of Defense who presented, who was sacked from his position because he said the truth, that Hezbollah was, in fact, uniting France around Israel, trying to put a siege around Israel from the northern border in the West Bank and in Gaza, and maybe also in Yemen and Iran. And our prime minister just sacked him and he was just called back because of the protests. We saw also the commission of foreign affairs and security refusing to sit with two generals, Israeli generals who were supposed to explain to them what was the danger with Hezbollah. Hezbollah was planning to attack and he was synchronizing his plan with Hamas. We saw the chief of Hamas meeting with Hassan Nasrallah only a week ago, according to intelligence in Lebanon. The head of the Quds, the Quds force is there. So we remember in the Lebanese Second War that Qasim Shulemani was sitting near Hassan Nasrallah and directing the battles against Israel. So we shouldn't be surprised. We shouldn't be surprised if we shouldn't be surprised. Can the idea deal with these two conflicts? Well, I always say in 1948, we are attacked by five Arab armies, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, the Jordanian and Egyptian. And we stood, we were barely 600,000. We just stood on several fronts and we'd survived. This is what we are today. We are today with, we have just called reservists 300,000. 300,000. So half of it could be sent to Gaza and maybe less than that could be sent to the Lebanese front. We can withhold, there's no problem at all for the Israeli army to conduct a war on two fronts. Okay. Dr. Bergbergs, I have to let you go. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jack. Stay with us if you would. We're going to, just one more word on that, on Lebanon, Jack, and on the threat from Lebanon. Do you think that the U.S. strategy has been has been solid enough up to now? I think that the U.S. presence is a signal to Iran not to do foolish things, meaning not to push Hezbollah forwards. But the thing is that Hezbollah on the Lebanese ground has its own independent decision making. He can always consult with Iran, but the ultimate decision is Hezbollah. So if he feels that he has not only to express solidarity but to react because he needs to have some credibility, he always said that if Israel attack us, we will attack. If Israel does this, we will do that. And this is the case today. We have attacked Hezbollah positions. A commander of Hezbollah was killed. So what can we expect that he sends us flowers? You think people in Beirut are worried tonight? I think that according to the information from South Lebanon, there is a huge movement of population from the south towards Beirut because they understand better maybe the situation is such that Israel is going to attack. And if they want to survive, they should be in Beirut. Thanks very much, Jack. We're going to take a short break. Stay with us. Thank you. We'll be back right after this. Don't go away. We're going to bring you the latest from the Jewish world, from politics to religion, entertainment to the latest trends, and everything in between. Don't miss Jewish World Weekly only on I-24 News. Strictly security, your weekly look into security, intelligence, and strategic affairs. Our team brings the latest on the major international conflicts, analysis of the major security issues right here in the Middle East and around the globe. Saturdays only on I-24 News. 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 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. And a reminder of the situation here in Israel this hour. Israelis are dealing with the worst atrocities perpetrated on its soil in this country's history. The deadliest 24 hours in Israel's history, a country which is no stranger to wars and terrorism, 800 people including many civilians have been murdered by Hamas terrorists. That figure is expected to be higher. Entire families have been kidnapped and taken to Gaza. The IDF is fighting back with airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and there is a new threat from the north. Hezbollah has threatened retaliation for a deadly border flare-up to terrorists infiltrated from Lebanon. Hamda Salhout is at the border with Lebanon. Hamda, what's the latest? Laura, several Israeli strikes happening within Lebanese territory. One Hezbollah operative has been killed and sources are indicating that Hezbollah will respond, quote, within the rules of deterrence. Now, senior Israeli officials are saying that Iran actually pushed Hamas to start this conflict. We do know that they were in contact but as to how much there the coordination between them is still unclear but the same report is also indicating that Iran is telling Hezbollah to be prepared for the conflict. At the same time, Palestinian factions operating out of southern Lebanon are saying that they're ready to fight if Hezbollah takes the lead on the operation. The infiltration today happening at the border resulting in the injury of at least six Israeli soldiers was at the hands of Palestinian Islamic jihad. One of those factions who's operating in southern Lebanon who says that they are ready to fight. Civilians in Beirut are moving to the north of Lebanon in anticipation of some kind of Israeli offensive. Do you have any information? Right, so both the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army are encouraging citizens who live near the border area to move out of fear of a wider conflict and escalation. Hezbollah targets are all over southern Lebanon and it's kind of unclear where Israel will hit next if they do. So the authorities there are asking Lebanese citizens to move coming out of Lebanon as well fears of a wider escalation going deeper into Lebanese territory. The Lebanese people are suffering on a wide variety of scales both economically and on the home front a lot of issues they have with their own government. So a war on their own territory is something they're extremely afraid of. The accounts from Lebanese citizens today of fear and of the unknown because of the continuation of the threat along the northern border here. The Israeli military reinforcing the area with dozens of tanks and other types of military vehicles that we saw in a convoy a heavy presence of the Israeli military. A lot of reinforcement troops on foot brought in really patrolling almost every area blocking off roads that lead closer to the border where you can hear some of that shelling artillery and mortar fire happening. But as of now both Israelis and Lebanese on both sides of the border encouraged by their own authorities to move away from the area. Okay, thank you Hamda. Hamda Salhout there in the north. Jack, we're getting a report. Yeah, I know that we there was a anti-tank firing from Hezbollah towards Israeli vehicles and the position. This is the second time in the 24 hours. The first one was the anti-tank firing against positions in the hard dove in the mountains. And now this happens again. I mean, but this is not the end of it. This is not the end of it. Hezbollah, yes, Hezbollah is preparing its retaliation and this will come during the night, certainly. I mean, we will have to wait for that because it is a situation that Hezbollah cannot accept. His credibility is at stake here and Hassan Nasrallah has to act. And unfortunately, this could develop into a full gear war between us and Hezbollah. And this is one of the explanations of such a possible flare up is the fact that UNIFIL has left its positions. They were deployed along the border and they left. They left. That means that, I mean, like the Russians at the time in Egypt and the Russian advisors in Syria, they left why? Because of the war. So the UNIFIL has information that something is going to happen on this border. And this something is only a confrontation with Israel. All right, Jack. Thank you very much, Neriya. There. Well, not a lot of good news for you tonight, but some consolation for people here in these very dark days. And that is the way Israelis have been pulling together in recent days, dealing with absolutely horrendous traumatic news. But they are pulling together. They're getting aid packages together. They're helping people in the south. I'm joined in the studio by Aviv Gvili. You're the co-founder of an organization called Hamal, right? And you're helping citizens, survivors in the south of Israel. Yeah, focusing on helping civilians come together because there's truly a lot of people who truly want to help because of all this situation. And our main focus is on three aspects. Immediately, the first one is helping transportation for families and soldiers. So families to come from the Gaza Strip and from them south to a safe place in central Israel and so many people who want to help. The second thing is helping as many forces as we can to join at the Gaza Strip. Our second aspect is focusing on hosting. So there's a lot of people who want to host all the families to keep them safe and to really come together. And it's amazing how it doesn't really matter, but we will go through each and every step along the way. We just get stronger mentally and physically. And it's so important, especially in these days where there's so much, what we don't know. So being together, supporting each other is so important. And the third thing is services, physically, mentally service, so that each and every day we can really support each other. And so the next day can hopefully will be just better. Because staying at home on your own and scrolling through all these terrible images is probably the worst thing to do, isn't it? Being out with your people, working together. Yeah, it's more than that. I mean, staying alone is not part of our personality. I mean, staying and watching television is only a force that truly drives us to really support each other in these specific days. Yeah. And what is it that people need the most? I think it's two things. First of all, certainty. And certainty sometimes come about things that you can rely on. And the most amazing thing that we can see with our people is that we can rely on each other. Yeah. And the second thing is obviously, what should we do next? Where should we go? Where do we sleep? Where do we eat? Who do we stay with? Because when we don't have certainty about where our families are, we have friends who were the party and our soldiers who we don't know what their states are. So relying on each other can really be a very stable ground to rely on. So I think these are the most important things. And it's no secret, is it, that Israel has been quite divided in the past few months with the protests and everything and the government. This seems to have just really brought the country together in a time of crisis. I think in every healthy family, we have disagreements. And it's no secret that we don't agree on everything. And that's the truth about every single aspect of us as a country. However, we agree on one thing and that's being together no matter what. And I think this is what a strong family truly means. That even at these days, all of our disagreements, we just put them aside and really focus on what's truly important that's surviving, being strong together and really creating peace as long as we can. Yeah, absolutely. This is the Israeli spirit, isn't it? Of course. I stayed 24 years in the army. At least I had some hope. I began at 17, 17 and a half, and I finished when I was 40, 42. So there's hope. Just getting a report and now the IDF says it is now 100% in full control of the southern border. So that is good news. I said that it will take some time. We are not in a hurry. And the roads are blocked back to Gaza. You will see to the tomorrow and the day after tomorrow hundreds, hundreds of Palestinians of terrorists killed inside Israel and on the border because they tried to go back and to flee back into Gaza. And there they were intercepted. So and then we and then, you know, this is this is not the finish. This is the beginning. This is the beginning and they will do. We have to deal. I mean, you know, vengeance and sometimes the revenge is a plate that you eat not only cold, but also frozen. Oh, really? Yes. A dish better called. I want to talk about your organization again. Hamal. And we're going to put the number up on the screen. So you're the name. The name is so Hamal is in Hebrew. And the meaning is war room. And the name is in Hebrew. It's called the initials is guy, meaning that we focus on how as civilians you can come together in order to create peace for the military to do what it's supposed to do and not deal with the back end of the citizenship and just come together to really support. And the numbers on the screen there. You can see it. So if you're sitting at home feeling really helpless about what is happening here in Israel, here is a very practical way for you to help get on the phone, call that number. I can't read that from here, but you can see it on your screen. Get in touch, wonderful organization, helping the people who are really needing it right down here through things that no human being should ever go through. You can help them today. So call that number. And the lovely people like Aviv will make sure that those people get there. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. Aviv Kavili there from Hamal. Okay, Jack, we're going to wrap things up. We have a couple of minutes left. We don't want to leave people having terrible nightmares. Well, I have to inject some hope. I always take this example. 1948, we're 600,000 people in Israel. And we lost at the War of Independence. 1% of our population, 6,000 people killed. And we survived and we flourished. And today we are one of the best nations all over the world. We have shown the world that we have the most noble prices here. We have created a paradise here. And this is not going to disappear. We are trained and we have an army. We have to trust our army. Our army will bring us finally to a safe haven. This is a blip. We can get past it. We will put mail. That is your message tonight, but we are in for the long haul. Yes. That is what you're saying. Okay, well, does it give you, does it encourage you, Jack, the response that we've had from around the world? We spoke at the beginning about the EU. Very, I think a lot of people were surprised by that. They're cutting off the paper. Well, you know, my phone is full of people who send us, who express their solidarity from Africa, from the United States, from France, from Switzerland, from Romania, from Croatia, all over the world. I received those messages of solidarity. Iranians as well. Great solidarity from the Iranian people. Yeah, definitely so. I mean, and there are some Arabs also who just are expressing their view that they do not connect with what happened on the ground here. But let's not forget that there are 20% of Israel, I think, are Arab citizens. Yeah, but look at the fact, I mean, a president, the Democratic president, who just expressed his support to Israel like no other president did in the past, and immediately released ammunition, and then he sent his task force. I mean, this is really a sign of a real alliance between us and the United States. A real, I mean, a concrete step that just illustrates for us how close we are to the United States and how important is the United States for Israel. A friend in need is a friend in need. Absolutely. Jack Neria, thank you very much indeed. And we're going to end it there. There is some news, the IDF saying it now has information on every single Israeli hostage who's being held in Gaza tonight. That is everybody's first concern. Those Israeli citizens who are being held by Hamas terrorists. And as Jack says, it's going to be a long haul, but good news is that the southern border has now been secured. Israel is fully in control. There is some worrying information coming from the north, and they have all the information on the hostages. We're going to leave it there for this edition. But do stay with us.