 news edition I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Rockets are again being launched from the Gaza Strip to Israeli cities. Siren sounding in Jerusalem F-Rite and Shores just a short while ago reports of six interceptions over the capital during that barrage and a little earlier siren sounding in the south in Atif Haasara and in Beersheba as well. Earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of Niti Vot with a direct impact on this home. Take a look at the damage to this building after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip on day 24 of the war. Right now as we are speaking sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country that coming in right now sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country right now including in Shlomi and Rosh Hanekra. Meanwhile the IDF has expanded its ground operation in the Gaza Strip carrying out strikes against some 600 Hamas targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts. Spokesman Daniel Higari saying the IDF is attacking from the air. Israeli tanks reportedly entering the edge of Gaza city on Monday morning and cutting a key road from the north to the south of the enclave. The IDF says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the Gaza Strip and tried to attack troops. In one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a Hamas station killing more than 20 operatives. In another incident the IDF says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of Hamas operatives. A soldier was killed and two others seriously injured when a tank overturned in northern Israel on Sunday. Confirmation that 31 year old sergeant first class non-Fleishman a reserve soldier from Jerusalem died in that incident. Meanwhile US Vice President Kamala Harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of US soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground. How close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in US troops? We have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into Israel or Gaza period. Now let's find out what is happening on the ground. We go live to our correspondent Pier Stechelbach. She's in northern Israel and just as we came to air pier we heard that sirens were sounding in some parts of the north. Also the IDF is striking in Lebanon right now. What update can you share? Right beneath the tensions do remain very high and this is the first time for today that sirens are sounding in northern Israel. We are speaking about a region that is at the very western part of the Israel-Lebanon border, the communities of Roshanikra, Shlomi, Batzeret, these communities that have been widely evacuated when we especially speak about communities like Hanita and Shlomi. That comes after yesterday evening several barrages of rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into Israel into different localities in Israel. We are speaking about Kiryat Shmoni in the east and also in the western region. Also yesterday receiving a red a lot rocket sirens for that barrage onto the western part of the Israel-Lebanese border. Yesterday Hamas's military wing in southern Lebanon claiming responsibility for how itself said sick firing 16 rockets into southern Israel and we've been really seeing an uptick in those rockets being fired from southern Lebanon. Also last night rockets fired from Syria into the Golan Heights region communities there. So we have been really seeing an uptick and that comes in it. The Israeli military striking back as per protocol towards the origin of those strikes both coming from southern Lebanon and also from Syria. There earlier we've been a little bit closer to the border. We could really see those the smoke arising from those strikes and also smoke arising from Israeli territory coming from those shelling that shelling coming from southern Lebanon into Israel there Benita. Thank you so much live from northern Israel our correspondent P.S. Dekalbach. Thank you very much for that update. Stay safe because as we are talking right now sirens sounding right now in the Gaza envelope that is in the south of the country and as we heard from P.S. Dekalbach also in the north at the same time. So for more here in studio former Shin Bet agent Konan Ben Yitzhak and our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaran and Ariel I'm going to start with you because as we came to air we saw that rocket sirens were sounding both in the south and in the north at the same time and just a short while ago Jerusalem as well six interceptions. Indeed Benita they've been Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza and also in Lebanon have been firing rockets pretty much non-stop since this began on October 7th. Most of these rocket launches are indeed on southern Israeli communities but every once in a while they also make it to central Israel. Jerusalem is a little more rare we haven't seen this in a few days but six interceptions there as you were speaking also additional sirens heard in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip and this is an attempt by Hamas to show that even though we're more than three weeks into this campaign that they still have firepower that even as Israeli ground forces are advancing deeper and deeper further into the Gaza Strip already making it south of the of Gaza city and are positioning themselves there this is an attempt to show that they still are part of this fight and they can still hurt the Israeli communities while the fighting continues. Konan Ben Yitzhak your take on exactly this right now it's day 24 there are 239 hostages still being held by Hamas inside Gaza and right now as we're speaking just moments ago rocket sirens still being launched towards the north and the south your assessment. I think that Israel knew from the beginning that Israel cannot stop the rockets permanently so this ability is still there and from time to time they show us that they can launch missiles it's not any surprise for the Israeli intelligence or IDF we see that the IDF doesn't go deep into Gaza right now I think that the way this operation is managed is very smart they go slowly I think the military got ready into going into Gaza going into Gaza is not a simple thing it's a very complex area you have civilians you have many many militias we see that the outcome of the operation is many militias that got injured and died during the operation and I think that and I hope that the Israeli government understands that the first goal and the most important goal for now is to bring back the hostages later on we have enough time to fight Hamas and to hit Hamas hard for what happened but right now we have an obligation for the hostages to bring them back and I want to bring you in Ariel on this expanded ground operation that is happening inside the strip just seconds ago we had live images on our screen out of Gaza we do know that the IDF is continuing with its strikes and update as to how things are progressing on the ground in terms of the IDF making dense in its aim to eliminate Hamas right so as as the ground operation starts to take form because I I agree with my friend here it's not it started slowly gradually and quietly but it is advancing and this is this main stage is preparation for further wide-scale operations so a lot of this are engineering operations you see a lot of the denies tractors trying to shape the terrain in its own in a way that serves the forces best but also Israeli Air Force pummeling down on Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip at least four senior commanders were eliminated in the last few hours in coordination between Israeli military forces and she embed this includes the head of the Navy for Hamas's naval commando forces in the central part of the Gaza Strip also key anti-tank unit commanders these are this is the level of commanders that sent Hamas operatives into Israel on October 7th but they stood back they remained in their command posts and these are the ones who are being targeted now obviously with the more lower level lower level operatives and terrorists but indeed as the forces continued to advance and try to take out different outposts and different infrastructure we're seeing a gradual and positive advancement of the Israeli forces I think as far as militarily the way they would like to see this I would note that we're not seeing a lot of footage coming out of the Gaza Strip I think that's mainly due to the fact that a lot of Gazans in the northern part of the strip evacuated down south they listened to the warnings and calls by the Israeli military also issues of electricity and connectivity this is something that also helps the forces advance without this shed of footage depicting what they're doing every step something which we're going to discuss in depth in a short while but first let's go to our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev he joins us from southern Israel in siren sounding just a short while ago in Nativa in Beersheba as well and other communities what is the latest where you are yeah so as you mentioned the siren sounding in various communities in southern Israel some of them right on the Gaza border itself like in Nativa Sara for example roughly seven eight miles to the south of where we are and also in places further upon further afield like Beersheba for example I wouldn't be surprised to see rockets later on fired even to places further afield maybe even to central Israel because the ability is still there Hamas doesn't need to send too many rockets to ignite to ignite sirens when you send a rocket to central israel a very densely populated area you ignite sirens in various communities you don't need to send more than two or three and and the whole central israel gets a sirens and and I wouldn't be surprised to see Hamas doing that today and for days to come and just to give us an understanding of the number of communities where you are that have been evacuated not a lot of people still staying close to the border your sense of the number of people impacted by the sirens in the southern parts of the country right now if we're speaking of the the communities that are right on the border fence roughly 30 communities or so are practically empty very few people still there and mostly soldiers the army is present in many of those communities is the road the biggest city right on the Gaza border it's a town of roughly 25 000 people I'd say about 90 percent of the people are gone in Ashkelon where we are the biggest city which is closest to the Gaza border here it's a major city more than 150 000 people therefore many are still here and we do see movement we do see shops much more than we see in Sderot for example but still obviously this is this is far from being a normal day here senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev in southern Israel thank you for that update more to come from our team on the ground in the coming hours and in Jerusalem earlier in the day a police officer is now in a stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister Itamar Ben Gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on Monday telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what I've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still in studio for machine bed agent Gonen Ben Yitzhak and our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaran and Gonen I want to pick up on this incident that happened in Jerusalem a stabbing of a police officer in a stable condition what do you make though of the message from Itamar Ben Gavir right now start maybe with the the disability of Hamas right now to attack in the West Bank and I think that when we look at it's Hamas Gaza thought that it will be able to bring Hezbollah bring maybe other groups in Syria and in the West Bank to attack Israel while they are suffering or suffering the attacks in Gaza and I'm very happy to see that until now of course we saw during the last three or more weeks that they are trying from time to time to attack but basically they couldn't do anything today unfortunately we we had this incident they start attacking in Jerusalem regarding what the the minister Ben Gavir said you know I would expect Itamar Ben Gavir first of all to say that police Magav they are responsible to the defense of people in in Jerusalem I'm not sure that for the long run right now everybody wants to get a weapon we feel insecure because the government doesn't give us this security but in the long run we see what's going on in the United States I don't know if this is something that is going to be a very positive process in Israel the fact that so many people are carrying weapons Gonen obviously the focus right now in the country is the war and Israel working to eliminate Hamas so that what happened on the 7th of October never ever happens again however one cannot ignore the huge intelligence failures of the 7th of October the New York Times a staggering article outlining information that is actually difficult to understand how intelligence experts Shin Bet knew that activity was happening across the border in the early hours before this attack that they didn't see it fit to report to authorities that they never sought fit to wait the prime minister and tell him what was happening and the understanding according to this article is that the defense establishment was not interested they thought that Hamas was not interested in a conflict knowing now what we know about what happened your reaction well first of all we need to be very careful about the information that is spread although it gets to the New York Times because right now we see that in Israel we have a big issue with the fact who is responsible for what happened on October 7th but I would say first of all it's obvious that the intelligence failure is huge but alongside we know that the policy of the state of Israel for the last 10 or 15 years was something that I'll say the intelligence and the policy went together the fact that Israel allowed Qatar to put so many billions of dollars into Gaza we thought that as much as we will pay Hamas money they will keep it quiet I think this is not only it is a huge intelligence failure but it's also a policy and decision makers mistake and we don't have right now all you know all the information to understand what exactly happened but I think one thing I tell myself okay as a citizen that looks at everything I tell myself everybody including me including everybody we need to rethink about what we thought before the October 7th massacre and we need to change the situation I am looking at what's going on on our northern border and I'm afraid that on the north we are going on the same mistake that we did in Gaza meaning we let Hezbollah decide when they will attack and when they'll open the war something that we need to think when we look at what happened in the south knowing that it was big big mistake if you look at that article and you look at the information that is released right now it is very clear that there is a problem with arrogance within the security establishment would you agree with that assessment no doubt no doubt I I'm sure I think that the fact that everybody thought that technology would give an answer to everything you know I came from a less maybe a sexy field which is the human the human intelligence and for the last 10 years I'm saying again again including in this studio I'm saying don't forget human don't forget the fact that in the end only human source can give you the thought or the real motivation and when you rely only on technology we saw what what happened we're going to discuss that in a little bit more detail but right now I want to bring in our Middle East correspondent Ariel O Serran because we all know that there are 239 hostages still being held by the Hamas terror group a new video has just been released we are not going to be showing that video on this channel at the moment but what details are contained in that right Benita so as we've been speaking here in studio Hamas releasing a video of three female hostages and apparently berating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not agreeing for a ceasefire saying that that ceasefire would have seen the hostages released this is I mean they also mentioned the press conference I'm going to stop you right now because this is a screenshot of what is contained in the video again we won't be showing this actual video but this is the screenshot released just moments ago from Hamas continue Ariel so the woman in the center who is speaking she is mentioning the press conference that Prime Minister Netanyahu held with the families of the hostages and saying accusing Netanyahu of the failure on October 7th but also ever since this is clear psychological warfare on the part of Hamas this is also the reason why we're not showing the video right now the families of these hostages first need to be notified and this is the most cynical use of these innocent victims who were taken on October 7th who continue to be victims throughout and their families as well here they're being used to try and create additional pressure so more discord among Israelis between the leadership and the civilian population we don't need to be surprised that Hamas knows no laws in terms of their use of of human emotion and psychological warfare this obviously the latest example Gonen Ben Yitzchak your take on the strategy now difficult to be honest to even look at the screenshot of this video that Hamas has just released what do you make of the moves out of this terror group right now first of all I want to thank I-24 for being careful not showing right now the video before the families see and know about it the war criminals of ISIS Hamas in Gaza it's not a surprise that they're going to use from now on until this problem will be solved in a brutal way the fact that they hold hostages there I hope that the Israeli government will be smart enough to know how to handle this terrible situation because a humanitarian aspect is terrible we have babies there we have women we have men that are hostages this is a war crime the world must understand that the way they've been taken from Israel is a war crime but of course we need to be strong enough I think the the Israeli society need to be strong and understand that as Ariel said they're going now to try and play with our minds they're going to show things they're going to use the hostages in order to try and push and somehow change the way that the operation is handled this is a very terrible situation and I hope it will be solved soon devastating and again we watch to see how things unfold Bonin Ben Yitzchak and Ariel Osaran thank you both so much for this update now one of the community's hardest hit on the 7th of October was Kibbutz near us Ranana Goma Yaakov's two sons were alone at home 16 year old or and 12 year old Yagil they were both abducted by Hamas and are being held in Gaza Ranana has asked for the help of animator Yoni Goodman to raise awareness about the hostages we've just been talking about the ones who are being held by the terror group and let's take a look at what has happened in this animation on saturday morning october 7th at 6 30 in the morning the red alert went off and a barrage of missiles fell on our house in Kibbutz near us my sons 12 and 16 were alone in my house sleeping they got into the safe room they called me scared to death they said they hear someone breaking into our home over the phone i heard voices speaking in arabic even though my son was trying hard to hold it closed the door to the safe room was pushed open last i heard was my youngest saying don't take me i'm too young 70 people were kidnapped from their home in iraaz i think of them alone in a pit or a dark tunnel with no sense of time i hope that they are together keeping each other strong and that they are with other children who were also kidnapped until i see them again waiting to hug them again soon so much heartache around the country right now what realistically can israel do to help these families 239 hostages what can they do i guess that two asses the israel has one is the fact that we have prisoners in the israeli prison the prisoners is a very sensitive issue among the palestinian society and i'm not sure that until now israel used it wisely we need to use it we need to use it because we just so now how brutal is hamas in using the fact that they are holding our people the second thing is the fact that israel is now going deeper and deeper into gaza they understand and i think what the the spoken of idf daniel agar he said uh yecha sinuar is not going to get out alive from this a massacre they understand it and you know that they are going to use the hostages but also israel can use it i think that maybe israel should rethink how much humanitarian aid is coming into gaza of course there is the international law i think israel should should behave according to the international law but not even one inch farther than the international law so i hope that this pressure will make them eventually do some exchange of fair hostages 239 hostages still being held by the hamas terror group in gaza right now ginen ben yitzchak aril osaran thank you very much for being part of this breaking news edition and that is where we wrap up for now for this edition of our breaking news coverage i'm benny sylevine intel abe of our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is i-24 news over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside school on what's going on only on i-24 news israel's story must reach the whole world 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 completely done down in their best bringing israel's story to the world i-24 news channels now on hot in news edition i'm benny sylevine coming to you live from tel aviv rockets are again being launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities siren sounding in jerusalem f right and shores just a short while ago reports of six interceptions over the capital during that barrage and a little earlier siren sounding in the south in nativ haasara and in bir shiba as well earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of nativot with a direct impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets were launched from the gaza strip on day 24 of the war right now as we are speaking sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country that coming in right now sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country right now including in shlomi and rosh hanikra meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the gaza strip carrying out strikes against sun 600 hamas targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel higari saying the idf is attacking from the air israeli tanks reportedly entering the edge of gaza city on monday morning and cutting a key road from the north to the south of the enclave the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the gaza strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives a soldier was killed and two others seriously injured when a tank overturned in northern israel on sunday confirmation that 31 year old sergeant first class yinon fleishman a reserve soldier from jerusalem died in that incident meanwhile us vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of u.s soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in u.s troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into israel or gaza period now let's find out what is happening on the ground we go live to our correspondent pierce tackle but she's in northern israel and just as we came to air pier we heard that sirens were sounding in some parts of the north also the idf is striking in lebanon right now what update can you share right beneath of the tensions do remain very high and this is the first time for today that sirens are sounding in northern israel we're speaking about a region that is at the very western part of the israel lebanon border the communities of rosa nikrat shlomi baserit these communities there that have been widely evacuated when we especially speak about communities like hanita and shlomi that comes after yesterday evening several barrages of rockets were fired from southern lebanon into israel into different localities in israel as we are speaking about kirech mon in the east and also in the western region rea also yesterday receiving a red a lot rocket sirens for that barrage on to the western part of the israel lebanese border yesterday hamas's military wing in southern lebanon claiming responsibility for how itself said sick firing 16 rockets into southern israel and we've been really seeing an uptick in those rockets being fired from southern lebanon also last night rockets fired from syria into the golan hides region communities there so we have been really seeing an uptick in that comes in it the israeli military striking back as per protocol towards the origin of those strikes both coming from southern lebanon and also from syria there earlier we've been a little bit closer to the border we could really see those the smoke arising from those strikes and also smoke arising from israeli territory coming from those shelling that shelling coming from southern lebanon into israel there benita thank you so much live from northern israel our correspondent pierce dekelbach thank you very much for that update stay safe because as we are talking right now sirens sounding right now in the gaza envelope that is in the south of the country and as we heard from pierce dekelbach also in the north at the same time so for more here in studio former shinbet agent ginen benitzhak and our middle east correspondent ariel osiran and ariel i'm going to start with you because as we came to air we saw that rocket sirens were sounding both in the south and in the north at the same time and just a short while ago jerusalem as well six interceptions and they've been hamas and other palestinian infections in gaza and also in lebanon have been firing rockets pretty much non-stop since this began on october 7th most of these rocket launches are indeed on southern israeli communities but every once in a while they also make it to central israel jerusalem is a little more rare we haven't seen this in a few days but six interceptions there as you were speaking also additional sirens heard in the community surrounding the gaza strip and this is an attempt by hamas to show that even though we're more than three weeks into this campaign that they still have firepower that even as israeli ground forces are are advancing deeper and deeper further into the gaza strip already making it south of the of gaza city and are positioning themselves there this is an attempt to show that they still are are are part of this fight and they can still heard the israeli communities while the fighting continues gonnen ben-yitzhak your take on exactly this right now it's day 24 there are 239 hostages still being held by hamas inside gaza and right now as we're speaking just moments ago rocket sirens still being launched towards the north and the south your assessment i think that israeli new from the beginning that israeli cannot stop the rockets permanently so this ability is still there and from time to time they show us that they can launch missiles it's not any surprise for the israeli intelligence or idf we say that the idf doesn't go deep into gaza right now i think that the way this operation is managed is is very smart they go slowly i think the military got ready into going into gaza going into gaza is not a simple thing it's a very complex area you have civilians you have many many militias we see that the outcome of the operation is many militias that got injured and died during the operation and i think that and i hope that the israeli government understands that the first goal and the most important goal for now is to bring back the hostages later on we have enough time to fight hamas and to hit hamas hard for what happened but right now we have an obligation for the hostages to bring them back and i want to bring you in ariel on this expanded ground operation that is happening inside the strip just seconds ago we had live images on our screen out of gaza we do know that the idf is continuing with its strikes and update as to how things are progressing on the ground in terms of the idf making dense in its aim to eliminate hamas right so as as the ground operation starts to take form because i i i agree with my friend here it's not it started slowly gradually and quietly but it is advancing and this is this main stage is preparation for further wide-scale operations so a lot of this are engineering operations you see a lot of the denies tractors trying to shape the terrain in its own in a way that serves the forces best but also israeli air force pummeling down on hamas targets throughout the gaza strip at least four senior commanders were eliminated in the last few hours in coordination between israeli military forces and she embed this includes the head of the navy for of hamas's naval commando forces in the central part of the gaza strip also key anti-tank unit commanders these are um this is the level of commanders that sent uh hamas operatives into israel on october 7th but they stood back they remained in their command posts and these are the ones who are being targeted now obviously with the more lower level lower level uh operatives and terrorists but indeed as the forces continued to advance and try to take out different outposts and different infrastructure we're seeing a gradual and positive advancement of the israeli forces i think as far as militarily the way they would like to see this i would note that we're not seeing a lot of footage coming out of the gaza strip i think that's mainly due to the fact that a lot of guzzins in the northern part of the strip evacuated down south they listened to the warnings and calls by the israeli military also issues of electricity and connectivity this is something that also helps the forces advance without this shed of of footage depicting what they're doing every step something which we're going to discuss in depth in a short while but first let's go to our senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae if he joins us from southern israel and siren sounding just a short while ago nativa asa ra in bea sheba as well and other communities what is the latest where you are yes so as you mentioned the siren sounding in various communities in southern israel some of them right on the gaza border itself like in nativa asa ra for example roughly seven eight miles to the south of where we are and also in places further upon a further afield like a beresheva for example i wouldn't be surprised to see rockets later on fired even to two places further afield maybe even to central israel because the ability is still there hamas doesn't need to send too many rockets to ignite sirens when you send a rocket to central israel a very densely populated area you ignite sirens in various communities you don't need to send more than two or three and the whole central israel gets a sirens and i wouldn't be surprised to see hamas doing that today and for days to come and just to give us an understanding of the number of communities where you are that have been evacuated not a lot of people still staying close to the border your sense of the number of people impacted by the sirens in the southern parts of the country right now if we're speaking of the the communities that are right on the border fence roughly 30 communities or so are practically empty very few people still there and mostly soldiers the army is present in many of those uh communities it's thereot the biggest city right on the gaza border it's a town of roughly 25 000 people i'd say about 90 of the people are gone in ashkelon where we are the biggest city which is closest to the gaza border here it's a major city more than 150 000 people therefore many are still here and we do see movement we do see shops much more than we see in sderot for example but still obviously this is this is far from being a normal day here senior defense correspondent jonathan regev in southern israel thank you for that update more to come from our team on the ground in the coming hours and in jerusalem earlier in the day a police officer is now in a stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister itamar ben gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on mandate telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what i've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still in the studio for machine bit agent ginen ben yitzhak and our middle east correspondent ariel osaran and ginen i want to pick up on this incident that happened in jerusalem a stabbing of a police officer in a stable condition what do you make though of the message from itamar ben gavir right now start start maybe with the the disability of ramas right now to attack in the west bank and i think that when we look at it's a ramas gaza thought that it will be able to bring he's bala bring maybe other groups in syria and in the west bank to attack israel while they are suffering or suffering the attacks in gaza and i'm very happy to see that until now of course we saw during the last three or more weeks that they are trying from time to time to attack but basically they couldn't do anything today unfortunately we we had this incident this terror attack in in jerusalem regarding what the minister ben gavir said you know i i would expect itamar ben gavir first of all to say that police my gav they are responsible to the defense of people in in jerusalem i i'm not sure that for the long run right now everybody wants to get a weapon we feel insecure because the government doesn't give us this security but in the long run we see what's going on in the united states i don't know if this is something that is going to be a very positive process in israel the fact that so many people are carrying weapons gone in obviously the focus right now in the country is the war and israel working to eliminate ramas so that what happened on the seventh of october never ever happens again however one cannot ignore the huge intelligence failures of the seventh of october the new york times a staggering article outlining information that is actually difficult to understand how intelligence experts shin bet knew that activity was happening across the border in the early hours before this attack that they didn't see it fit to report to authorities that they never sought fit to wake the prime minister and tell him what was happening and the understanding according to this article is that the defense establishment was not interested they thought that ramas was not interested in a conflict knowing now what we know about what happened your reaction well first of all we need to be very careful about the information that is spreaded although it gets to the new york times because right now we see that in israel we have a big issue with the fact who who is responsible for what happened on october 7th but i would say first of all it's obvious that the intelligence failure is huge but alongside we know that the policy of the state of israel for the last 10 or 15 years was something that i'll say the intelligence and the policy went together the fact that israel allowed katar to put so many billions of dollars into a gaza we thought that as much as we will pay hamas money they will keep quiet i think this is not only it is a huge intelligence failure but it's also a policy and decision makers mistake and we don't have right now all you know all the information to understand what exactly happened but i think one thing i tell myself okay as a citizen that looks at everything i tell myself everybody including me including everybody we need to rethink about what we thought before the october 7th massacre and we need to change the situation i am looking at what's going on on our northern border and i'm afraid that on the north we are going on the same mistake that we did in gaza meaning we let chisbala decide when they will attack and when they'll open the war something that we need to think when we look at what happened in the south and knowing that it was big big mistake if you look at that article and you look at the information that is released right now it is very clear that there is a problem with arrogance within the security establishment would you agree with that assessment no doubt no doubt i i'm sure i think that the fact that everybody thought that uh technology would give an answer to everything you know i came from a less maybe a sexy field which is the human the human intelligence and for the last 10 years i'm saying again again including in this studio i'm saying don't forget human don't forget the fact that in the end only human source can give you the thought or the real motivation and and when you rely only on on technology we saw what happened we're going to discuss that in a little bit more detail but right now i want to bring in our middle east correspondent ariel o saran because we all know that there are 239 hostages still being held by the hamas terror group a new video has just been released we are not going to be showing that video on this channel at the moment but what details are contained in that right benita so as we've been speaking here in studio hamas releasing a video of three female hostages and apparently berating prime minister benjamin attenyao for not agreeing for a ceasefire saying that that ceasefire would have seen the hostages released this is i mean they also mentioned the press conference i'm going to stop you right now because this is a screenshot of what is contained in the video again we won't be showing this actual video but this is the screenshot released just moments ago from hamas continue ariel so the woman in the center who is speaking she is mentioning the press conference that prime minister attenyao held with the families of the hostages and saying accusing attenyao of the failure on october 7th but also ever since this is clear psychological warfare on the part of hamas this is also the reason why we're not showing the video right now the families of these hostages first need to be notified and this is the most cynical use of of these innocent victims who were taken on october 7th who continue to be victims throughout and their families as well here they're being used to try and create additional pressure so more discord among israelis between the leadership and the civilian population we don't need to be surprised that hamas knows no lows in terms of their use of of of human emotion and psychological warfare this obviously the latest example go ahead ben yitzhak your take on the strategy now difficult to be honest to even look at the screenshot of this video that hamas has just released what do you make of the moves out of this terror group right now so i want to thank i-24 for being careful not showing right now the video before the families see and know about it the war criminals of isis hamas in gaza it's not a surprise that they're going to use from now on until this problem will be solved in a brutal way the fact that they hold hostages there i hope that the israeli government will be smart enough to know how to handle this terrible situation because a humanitarian aspect is terrible we have babies there we have women we have men that are hostages this is a war crime the world must understand that the way they've been taken from israel is a war crime but of course we need to be strong enough i think the the israeli society need to be strong and understand that as arielle said they're going now to try and play with our minds they're going to show things they're going to use the hostages in order to try and and push and and somehow change the way that the operation is handled this is a very terrible situation and i hope it will be solved soon devastating and again we watch to see how things unfold gonen ben yitzchak and arielle osiran thank you both so much for this update now one of the community's hardest hit on the 7th of october was kibbutz near us renanna goma yakov's two sons were alone at home 16 year old or and 12 year old yakil they were both abducted by hamas and are being held in gaza renanna has asked for the help of animator yoni goodman to raise awareness about the hostages we've just been talking about the ones who are being held by the terror group and let's take a look at what has happened in this animation saturday morning october 7th at 6 30 in the morning the red alert went off and a barrage of missiles fell on our house in kibbutz near us my sons 12 and 16 were alone in my house sleeping they got into the safe room they called me scared to death they said they hear someone breaking into our home over the phone i heard voices speaking in arabic even though my son was trying hard to hold it closed door to the safe room was pushed open last i heard was my youngest saying don't take me i'm too young 70 people were kidnapped from their home in iraq i think of them alone in a pit or a dark tunnel with no sense of time i hope that they are together keeping each other strong and that they are with other children who were also kidnapped until i see them again waiting to hug them again soon so much heartache around the country right now ginen ben yitzchak what realistically can israel do to help these families 239 hostages what can they do i guess that two asses the israel has one is the fact that we have prisoners in the israeli prison the prisoners is a very sensitive issue among the palestinian society and i'm not sure that until now israel used it wisely we need to use it we need to use it because we just saw now how brutal is hamas in using the fact that they're holding our people the second thing is the fact that israel is now going deeper and deeper into gaza they understand and i think what the the spoken of idf daniel agar he said yesi noir is not going to get out alive from this massacre they understand it and you know that they are going to use the hostages but also israel can use it i think that maybe israel should rethink how much humanitarian aid is coming into gaza of course there is the international law i think israel should should behave according to the international law but not even one inch farther than the international law so i hope that this pressure will make them eventually do some exchange of fair hostages 239 hostages still being held by the hamas terror group in gaza right now ginen ben yitzhak aril osaran thank you very much for being part of this breaking news edition and that is where we wrap up for now for this edition of our breaking news coverage i'm benisa levine in tel aviv our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is i24 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 a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity is addition on benisa levine coming to you live from tel aviv and we start with breaking news hamas has released a video in which three israeli women held hostage by the terror group in the gaza strip slam benjamin netanyahu calling on him to secure their release they also accuse the israeli prime minister of failing to prevent the terror groups onslaught on the 7th of october now i24 news is choosing not to play the video at this point because this is part of the terror group psychological warfare this is a screenshot of the three women hamas is currently holding 239 known hostages inside gaza meanwhile rockets have again been launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities in recent hours siren sounding in jerusalem if rat shawrish just a short while ago reports of six interceptions in the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south netiva asara and bear sheba as well earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of neti vot with a direct impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the gaza strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the gaza strip carrying out strikes against some 605 targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel hagari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives meanwhile u.s vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of american soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in u.s troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into israel or gaza period now for the latest on the ground let's go straight to our correspondent khamda salhut she joins us from southern israel and we know khamda that sirens were sounding in several regions including communities of nativa asarar and bishiba earlier and also as far as jerusalem effratt and shorish what is happening where you are in the south well look benita the israeli military continues to strike targets inside of the gaza strip both via land air and sea but the situation now is escalating you can hear that artillery fire behind me in the distance the military is saying that it is now entering its second phase of this war and the military spokesperson also saying yesterday that this is an expansion of the operation that they have against hamas overnight eliminating several hamas targets as tanks made several uh more advances inside of the gaza strip but now the mission is clear by the israeli military to eliminate hamas eliminate as many targets as they can and free those hostages now on the other side of the border sources with inside the gaza strip are telling me that it's becoming increasingly difficult for residents to evacuate the north where a lot of this bombardment is going on these are continuous strikes here behind me in the distance here at a fresh israeli airstrike on the north part of the gaza strip the neighborhoods we're talking about here are betlaya jabalia and so on so the this is the exact area that the military has been asking civilians inside of gaza to evacuate but the reality on the ground according to sources is that there's simply no place to go you can continuously hear that bombardment here as the military is fresh trying to really apply this pressure on hamas you could see here these fighter jets in the distance as they're making their circles continuing to watch the area they have been buzzing overhead really all afternoon as the situation here continues to escalate benita thank you so much we will be coming back to our correspondent khamdes al-hut in southern israel stay safe khamdes and now for more we welcome to studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and our middle east correspondent ariel osara and gentlemen thank you both so much for being here in studio ariel i want to pick up on the latest news development and that is this hamas video released just a short while ago of three israeli hostages again i-24 news is choosing not to air the contents of the video we do have a screenshot of it three israeli women bring us up to speed on what unfolded in the last hour right so a few minutes before the video hamas on its social media platforms announced that they were going to release it that's already even before they released the video they continued with their psychological warfare and then once published this is a perfect example of hamas psychological warfare trying to use innocent civilians who were kidnapped from their homes talking about 239 30 of them are over 30 of them are our children our minors our babies and in this video we see the woman in the middle basically berating uh prime minister benjamin tanyahu accusing him of the failures of october 7th of uh not not doing enough to release them not bringing on a ceasefire um you can see and feel the emotion in uh in her in her words and in her delivery but again this is aimed to do nothing but so fear and discord among israeli's mainly among the families of these poor victims um who on the one hand this um they're receiving a first proof of of life of their condition so i think that is the only silver lining that we can see for those three families other than that this is complete and utter uh cynical use of uh human hardship and this is something that is not new on the part of hamas obviously after the atrocities of october 7th we shouldn't be surprised from anything that they do but they've been promising to continue to do this through videos using the hostages which on the one hand is their strongest card against the israeli population to try and and pressure it to bring a ceasefire to bring a prisoner swap deal um on the other side this is also i think israel's strongest card to the world to show that in terms of morality there there is nothing that justifies israel's actions more than uh releasing the hostages for instance if the hostages were released there would probably be an immediate ceasefire and then they could talk about it so i mean that's just one example and unfortunately hamas continues with its cynical psychological warfare against israeli public richard kemp your thoughts looking at that video of those three israeli women the strategy being used right now by hamas the nation is traumatized the nation is waiting for word the 239 hostages the family is waiting for some kind of confirmation about what is happening and this video is released your take i myself i've been involved in hostage release operations in afghanistan and in iraq of british citizens kidnapped by al qaeda and other groups and this this tactic is classic to to try and force concessions in this case from the israeli government those concessions including of course the release of of hamas prisoners but also i think this shows the in some ways the desperation of hamas who believe i think that the game is up for them now with the massive attacks israel's been inflicting on them and they will be using these hostages i think and the and the psychological operations that go with it to try and get israel to cease attacking them and so it's a terrible situation but israel's challenge is is massive as well both in terms of effectively dealing with mass but also making any attempt to rescue hostages the situations i was involved in involved maybe one and two hostages individually in separate cases but the idea of being trying to rescue 220 of them is a task that is almost unimaginable and trying to get into the heads so to speak of hamas being compared to isis some saying worse than isis you have lost experience in dealing with terror organizations what would you advise the war cabinet right now how do they handle the situation well i think the the only thing that the war cabinet can do is what the prime minister spelt out a couple of days ago which is to to continue to operate to destroy hamas and at the same time to to try everything to release the hostages and and you know we don't know what goes on behind the scenes i think if anyone can get at least some of those hostages out it is the idea of who have phenomenal experience of this but i'm not overly confident that even they can succeed in these circumstances my my thinking and this is a horrible thing to say is that israel cannot contemplate a ceasefire now because what that means it doesn't mean that these hostages will be released it means that the hamas will be stringing israel alarming it doesn't mean hamas is going to cease firing it doesn't mean hamas is going to do anything other than to hope that the idf get out of gaza and leave them to rebuild their operation so i think those who are calling for a ceasefire now are saying israel shouldn't be defending itself even against the attacks that took place three weeks ago something we're going to discuss in more detail in a short while ritchard camp ariel osaren stay with us but right now news just in rocket siren sounding once again in the northern communities of israel we go straight to our correspondent robert swift he is in northern israel right now siren sounding in several communities in the galilee including shlomi and roshan ikrah earlier what is the latest right now there what can you tell us rob so the the latest incident has just taken place that's in the community of al kosh which is a little bit further to the east than where the fire earlier today was just over an hour ago there was mortar fire into communities around shlomi which is on the far western end of israel's northern border the lebanese militias fired mortars across the border with and the israeli military returned fire using artillery and mortars of its own no reports as yet on casualties but we're seeing a you know stepped up activity around the border in general we're just showing you some footage right now of two apache gunship helicopters they're patrolling over our heads and they've been going backwards and forwards in some sort of patrol pattern around the communities where we are which is a little bit further south than the the mortar incident that i just referred to so rob from your vantage point we are hearing also about idea of activity in lebanon what kind of update can you share from where you are what is the latest unfolding on that front what can you share well the israeli military have been doing their best to degrade the capabilities of khizbullah without uh without getting heavily involved with it they don't want to get they don't want to cross a certain threshold so the main priority for them so far has been to attack the anti-tank teams that khizbullah has been using to inflict casualties so far the anti-tank weapons have proven to be the most dangerous weapon and so they are the priority for the israeli military to destroy thank you so much our correspondent robert swift in northern israel we will be coming back to rob for regular updates in the coming hours stay safe rob and in jerusalem a police officer is in stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station earlier in the day the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister itamar ben gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on monday telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what i've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still with me in studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and you have written an article saying khamas is the only army who wants its civilians killed i want some context in terms of what we are talking about right now we spoke earlier on about the hostages 239 this video released of three women the context of the one-year planning for this brutal assault on the 7th of october and the fact that there's a stabbing in jerusalem and other incidents happening all at once you'll take your insight into khamas and the risks it's prepared to take right now in terms of its own civilians shouldn't we shouldn't forget that behind khamas behind some of the violence in the west bank behind his bala are lebanon is iran i think this is iran the whole plan is iran's plan whether it's going according to plan or not is another issue but it's iran's plan and i would be not at all surprised if iran orders his bala to intensify attacks from the north at some point maybe once they feel that israel is very heavily committed inside gaza on the ground but in terms of your your specific question their whole strategy is not based on destroying israel they know they can't destroy israel they can't beat the idea if they had they were very successful three weeks ago unfortunately but they know that it's not a long-term proposition so their strategy is based on carrying out attacks which will draw israel into gaza either from the air on the ground in order to kill palestinian civilians they that is what they want to do they're only army in history that has wanted their enemies to kill their civilian population the reason so that they can use the the global vilification isolation delegitimization that follows and that we've seen we're watching it unfold now accusing israel of war crimes accusing israel of acting illegally uh to to undermine israel undermine the state of israel that is their policy and that's why they use their civilians for this purpose why does the world though broadly speaking not see that and understand that there has been evidence since the 7th of october recordings of gaza saying they want to get out as instructed by the idf they can't because hamas had ordered them not to do so there is evidence satellite footage imagery showing trucks from hamas stopping civilians palestinian civilians from getting out why does broadly speaking the world not see and understand that verified evidence and assessments like the one you are just making well that technique of stopping civilians leaving when israel warns them that attacks gonna take place is certainly not new it's happened in every conflict in gaza since hamas took control of it they they want their civilians to die why the world doesn't see it the world doesn't want to see it the and i say the world obviously a lot of people do understand this but the organizations like the united nations the international criminal court many governments around the world they they don't want this to be true they they want israel to be the guilty party and you know you have to you have to step back before the events three weeks ago to recognize that so much of the world so much of organizations like the un e u other countries feel israel is illegitimate israel are illegal occupiers they've stolen arab land so that's the start point you you're at and no matter what you do or no matter what you've you have done to you it's you israel which is a fault that is the way the world sees it not hamas hamas of freedom fighters and even the organizations like the bbc refuse to call hamas terrorists and many other media organizations do the same thing because they think they're fighting a legitimate struggle for freedom and resistance it's quite staggering because anyone who had seen the footage from the 7th of october and make no mistake hamas wanted the world to see the footage they filmed it with go-pros and videos butchering of children on video heinous atrocities that have been captured on film and yet there are some still questioning what exactly happened how is this possible in 2023 again the terror group wanted the world to understand what they were doing and this is this is straight out of the isis playbook isis did the same thing they filmed themselves burning people alive and and chopping people's heads off it's part of their way of of inciting terror and i think i think i go back to the fact that you know and we i've i've seen people i've got people on my own social media feed saying that this didn't happen it was the israelis that killed the israelis three weeks ago it wasn't hamas and we've seen hamas leaders even hamas leaders being interviewed saying the same thing but but i go back to what what i said before which is that doesn't matter what you do it doesn't matter what's done to you you're wrong you're in israel you're in the wrong and it's it's it's the result of decades and decades of anti-israel propaganda the greatest slur campaign in the history of the world which was started interestingly enough in the kremlin in the soviet union in order to undermine israel as an ally of the united states and that's what it's all about and it's shaking that narrative many of us try to do so but shaking that narrative is so hard after so many decades of it really gaining credibility and strength in the media too much of the world's media in universities in organizations like the like the un and yet post the 7th of october so many observers saying this is clearly a war between good and evil the concept of the human shield a tool used as you say not a new concept used within gaza in terms of using baby's women children to protect terrorists we know that the terror command center is built underneath a hospital how does israel deal with that evil well it's it's it's something that israel whatever israel does it will be blamed for war crimes but the the laws of war say that if there's a even if a protected object like a school a hospital a mosque or any other protected object or a civilian apartment building if that's used as a military objective then israel or any other competent is entitled to attack that objective even if there are civilians in it there is a there is a formula laid down by the laws of war which tell you how in what circumstances you can do it etc but ultimately you're allowed to do it and even if civilians are going to die in the process it's not a war crime necessarily and and the idea if i think you know over the years the idea of have developed some very effective techniques for clearing civilians out when it comes to a hospital full of patients i think i think you know i think i'm right in saying that the likelihood of israel carrying a massive airstrikes on that hospital even though it might be entitled to do so but under the law is very low and i think israel is probably going to have to either find a way of getting those civilians out or do it deal with the the the the structure from the ground in a more clinical sort of way now war is not clinical but i i think i think israel will do whatever it can to avoid striking hospital but ultimately this is where it's being controlled from colonel richard kim thank you very much stay with us we've got more to discuss but right now as we continue to hear stories of survival from the october 7th massacre some stories have been spanning decades since the holocaust in this adaptation from israel channel 12 news we hear a holocaust survivor recount his experience from nearly 80 years ago and how now his family has their own story of surviving against the odds every holocaust day they say never again there will never be a second holocaust like there had been but the fact that my family would have to sit in a secure room two and a half year old neto with his parents shivering for 20 hours never occurred to me my name is naftali in two months i will be 91 years old from 1942 to 1945 i was in concentration camps where this photo was taken i'm here on the third bunk this photo was taken four days after the liberation i thought i was free but i was very sad as if i was left alone in the world we came to the conclusion that jews have a certain place in this world it's here in the land of israel we thought that here we would build a strong and secure state for all the jews of the world on saturday morning i heard there were alarms in the south so i immediately called my daughter ronnie and i asked her what was happening with my granddaughter and faraza and she said that at the moment she had no contact and she hoped everything was fine we didn't hear anything we didn't know we were terribly anxious and they started showing how a tractor dismantled the fence there and they walked in as if on a straw and just here's the big thing i believed in the government i believed in the army but no one came and mika my granddaughter with her husband sefi and my two and a half year old great grandson neta were inside the safe room they were shaking and afraid they were left without electricity without a telephone without food sefi tied the handle of the safe room with a telephone wire so they wouldn't get in they both stood with knives in their hand maybe that would save them they heard shouting and gunshots the house of their neighbors the good friends burned down she didn't know if they would come or not only at two in the morning i think that the idf finally arrived at their house and released them and all three are in good condition healthy so at the moment a weight was lifted from my heart we all relaxed neta's grandparents grandmother tommy and her partner javik were murdered in kfar aza brutally murdered as far as we know they say they are nazis it's hard for me to compare them to nazis they use the method of the nazis they came to murder israeli jews they have intentions of destroying the entire jewish people it's similar it's scary but it's not the same it's it's not a holocaust it's a mini holocaust the number on my forearm shows that i was in the holocaust and passed through auschwitz i know that some kibbutz survivors from the gaza strip tattooed the date on their forearms they have a right to do that because that's how they feel so if it makes them feel better might shouldn't they do it in the holocaust a bit of luck was not enough to survive i must have survived because i had a lot of luck and what happened on october 7th is another huge bit of luck that my granddaughter and her husband and my sweet great grandson were saved from the inferno that happened to all the discouraged people i can say that time has an effect it's impossible to remain in internal trauma and it's human nature to recover and move on man is looking to the future heart wrenching stories of survival colonel richard camp we have a few seconds left i'm going to put you on the spot and put you in the war cabinet and say what advice would you be giving to leaders right now day 24 of the war the first thing i'd say is that i don't think the war cabinet needs my advice i think they've got some very talented people there and in the idf who know what they're doing but what i would say is that it's essential that that israel maintains their offensive until her mass has been destroyed or thrown out of guards or one way or the other that's got to happen there's no alternative to that in my view obviously that is not the easiest haven't done not militarily but from the point of view of international relations which obviously could have a bearing on what israel does and the second thing i'd say is that israel has to deal with his balar in lebanon whether it's concurrently or immediately afterwards somehow it has to deal with lebanon colonel richard camp a pleasure here in your insights thank you very much for being here in our studios and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news i'm benita levine intel aviv our coverage continues soon stay tuned thank you for watching israel is at war make an investment in 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the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south netiva asara and bir shiba as well earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of netiva with a direct impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the gaza strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the gaza strip carrying out strikes against some 600 hamas targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel hagari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives meanwhile u.s vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of american soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in u.s troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into israel or gaza period now for the latest on the ground let's go straight to our correspondent khamda salhot she joins us from southern israel and we know khamda that sirens were sounding in several regions including communities of nativa asrar and piershi but earlier and also as far as jerusalem efrat and shorish what is happening where you are in the south well look benita the israeli military continues to strike targets inside of the gaza strip both via land air and sea but the situation now is escalating you can hear that artillery fire behind me in the distance the military is saying that it is now entering its second phase of this war and the military spokesperson also saying yesterday that this is an expansion of the operation that they have against hamas overnight eliminating several hamas targets as tanks made several uh more advances inside of the gaza strip but now the mission is clear by the israeli military to eliminate hamas eliminate as many targets as they can and free those hostages now on the other side of the border sources with inside the gaza strip are telling me that it's becoming increasingly difficult for residents to evacuate the north where a lot of this bombardment is going on these are continuous strikes here behind me in the distance here in a fresh israeli airstrike on the north part of the gaza strip the neighborhoods we're talking about here are bethlehia jabalia uh and so on so the this is the exact area that the military has been asking civilians inside of gaza to evacuate but the reality on the ground according to sources is that there's simply no place to go you can continuously hear that bombardment here as the military is trying to really apply this pressure on hamas you could see here these fighter jets in the distance as they're making their circles continuing to watch the area they have been buzzing overhead really all afternoon as the situation here continues to escalate benita thank you so much we will be coming back to our correspondent khamdes al-hut in southern israel stay safe khamdes and now for more we welcome to studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and our middle east correspondent ariel osara and gentlemen thank you both so much for being here in studio ariel i want to pick up on the latest news development and that is this hamas video released just a short while ago of three israeli hostages again i24 news is choosing not to air the contents of the video we do have a screenshot of it three israeli women bring us up to speed on what unfolded in the last hour right so a few minutes before the video hamas on its social media platforms announced that they were going to release it that's already even before they released the video they continued with their psychological warfare and then once published this is a perfect example of hamas psychological warfare trying to use innocent civilians who were kidnapped from their homes talking about 239 30 of them are over 30 of them are our children our minors our babies and in this video we see the woman in the middle basically berating uh prime minister benjamin tanyahu accusing him of the failures of october 7th of uh not not doing enough to release them not bringing on a ceasefire um you can see and feel the emotion in uh in her in her words and in her delivery but again this is aimed to do nothing but so fear and discord among israelis mainly among the families of these poor victims um who on the one hand this um they're receiving a first proof of of of life of their condition so i think on that is the only silver lining that we can see for those three families other than that this is complete and utter uh cynical use of uh human hardship and this is something that is not new on the part of hamas obviously after the atrocities of october 7th we shouldn't be surprised from anything that they do but they've been promising to continue to do this through videos using the hostages which on the one hand is their strongest card against the israeli population to try and and pressure it to bring a ceasefire to bring a prisoner swap deal um on the other side this is also i think israel's strongest card to the world to show that in terms of morality there there is nothing that justifies israel's actions more than uh releasing the hostages for instance if the hostages were released there would probably be an immediate ceasefire and then they could talk about it so i mean that's just one example and and unfortunately hamas continues with its cynical psychological warfare against israeli public richard kemp your thoughts looking at that video of those three israeli women the strategy being used right now by hamas the nation is traumatized the nation is waiting for word the 239 hostages the family is waiting for some kind of confirmation about what is happening and this video is released your take myself i've been involved in hostage release operations in afghanistan and in iraq of british citizens kidnapped by al qaeda and other groups and this this tactic is classic to to to try and force concessions in this case from the israeli government those concessions including of course the release of of hamas prisoners but also i think this shows the in some ways the desperation of hamas who believe i think that the game is up for them now with the massive attacks israel's been inflicting on them and they will be using these hostages i think and the and the psychological operations that go with it to try and get israel to cease attacking them and so it's it's a terrible situation but israel's challenge is is massive as well both in terms of effectively dealing with mass but also making any attempt to rescue hostages the the situations i was involved and involved maybe one and two hostages individually in separate cases but the idea of being trying to rescue 220 of them is is a a task that is almost unimaginable and trying to get into the heads so to speak of hamas being compared to isis some saying worse than isis you have lost experience in dealing with terror organizations what would you advise the war cabinet right now how do they handle the situation well i think the the only thing that the war cabinet can do is what the prime minister spelt out a couple of days ago which is to to to continue to operate to destroy hamas and at the same time to to try everything to release the hostages and and you know we don't know what goes on behind the scenes i think if anyone can get at least some of those hostages out it is the idea of who have phenomenal experience of this but i'm not overly confident that even they can succeed in these circumstances my my thinking and this is a horrible thing to say is that israel cannot contemplate a ceasefire now because what that means it doesn't mean that these hostages will be released it means that the hamas will be stringing israel alone it doesn't mean hamas is going to cease firing it doesn't mean hamas is going to do anything other than to hope that the idf get out of gaza and leave them to rebuild their operation so i think those who are calling for a ceasefire now are saying israel shouldn't be defending itself even against the attacks that took place three weeks ago something we're going to discuss in more detail in a short while richard kimp ariel osir and stay with us but right now news just in rocket siren sounding once again in the northern communities of israel we go straight to our correspondent robert swift he is in northern israel right now siren sounding in several communities in the galilee including shlomi and roshan iqra earlier what is the latest right now there what can you tell us rob so the the latest incident has just taken place that's in the community of al kosh which is a little bit further to the east than where the fire earlier today was uh just over an hour ago there was mortar fire into communities around shlomi which is on the far western end of israel's northern border the uh lebanese militias fired mortars across the border with and the israeli military returned fire using artillery and mortars of its own no reports as yet on casualties but we're seeing a you know stepped up activity around the border in general we're just showing you some footage right now of two apache gunship helicopters that are patrolling over our heads and they've been going backwards and forwards in some sort of patrol pattern around the communities where we are which is a little bit further south than the the mortar incident that i just referred to so rob from your vantage point we are hearing also about idf activity in lebanon what kind of update can you share from where you are what is the latest unfolding on that front what can you share well the israeli military have been doing their best to degrade the capabilities of khizbullah without without getting heavily involved with it they don't want to get they don't want to cross a certain threshold so the main priority for them so far has been to attack the anti-tank teams that khizbullah has been using to inflict casualties so far the anti-tank weapons have proven to be the most dangerous weapon and so they are the priority for the israeli military to destroy thank you so much our correspondent robert swift in northern israel we will be coming back to rob for regular updates in the coming hours stay safe rob and in jerusalem a police officer is in stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station earlier in the day the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister itamar ben gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on monday telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what i've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still with me in studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and you have written an article saying hamas is the only army who wants its civilians killed i want some context in terms of what we are talking about right now we spoke earlier on about the hostages 239 this video released of three women the context of the one-year planning for this brutal assault on the 7th of october and the fact that there's a stabbing in jerusalem and other incidents happening all at once you'll take your insight into hamas and the risks it's prepared to take right now in terms of its own civilians i shouldn't we shouldn't forget that behind hamas behind some of the violence in the west bank behind his balar elebanon is iran i think this is iran the whole plan is iran's plan whether it's going according to plan or not is another issue but it's iran's plan and and i would be not at all surprised if iran orders his balar to intensify attacks from the north at some point maybe once they feel that israel is very heavily committed inside gaza on the ground but in terms of your specific question hamas the whole strategy is not based on destroying israel they know they can't destroy israel they can't beat the idea if they were very successful three weeks ago unfortunately but they know that it's not a long-term proposition so their strategy is based on carrying out attacks which will draw israel into gaza either from the air on the ground in order to kill palestinian civilians that is what they want to do they're the only army in history that has wanted their enemies to kill their civilian population the reason so that they can use the the global vilification isolation delegitimization that follows and that we've seen we're watching it unfold now accusing israel of war crimes accusing israel of acting illegally uh to to undermine israel undermine the state of israel that is their policy and that's why they use their civilians for this purpose why does the world though broadly speaking not see that and understand that there has been evidence since the 7th of october recordings of gaza saying they want to get out as instructed by the idf they can't because hamas had ordered them not to do so there is evidence satellite footage imagery showing trucks from hamas stopping civilians palestinian civilians from getting out why does broadly speaking the world not see and understand that verified evidence and assessments like the one you are just making well that technique of stopping civilians leaving when israel warns them that attacks going to take place is certainly not new it's happened in every conflict in gaza since hamas took control of it they they want their civilians to die why the world doesn't see it the world doesn't want to see it the and i say the world obviously a lot of people do understand this but the organizations like the united nations the international criminal court many governments around the world they they don't want this to be true they they want israel to be the guilty party and you know you have to you have to step back before the events three weeks ago to recognize that so much of the world so much organizations like the un e u other countries feel israel is illegitimate israel are illegal occupiers they've stolen arab land so that's the start point you you're at and no matter what you do or no matter what you've you have done to you israel which is a fault that is the way the world sees it not her mass her mass of freedom fighters and even the organizations like the bbc refused to call her mass terrorist and many other media organizations do the same thing because they think they're fighting a legitimate struggle for freedom and resistance it's quite staggering because anyone who had seen the footage from the 7th of october and make no mistake her mass wanted the world to see the footage they filmed with gopros and videos butchering of children on video heinous atrocities that have been captured on film and yet there are some still questioning what exactly happened how is this possible in 2023 again the terror group wanted the world to understand what they were doing and this is this is straight out of the isis playbook isis did the same thing they filmed themselves burning people alive and and chopping people's heads off it's part of their way of of inciting terror and i think i think i go back to the fact that you know and we i've i've seen people i've got people on my own social media feed saying that this didn't happen it was the israelis that killed the israelis three weeks ago wasn't her mass and we've seen her mass leaders even her mass leaders being interviewed saying the same thing but but i go back to what what i said before which is that doesn't matter what you do it doesn't matter what's done to you you're wrong you're in israel you're in the wrong and it's it's it's the result of decades and decades of anti-israel propaganda the greatest slur campaign in the history of the world which was started in interestingly enough in the kremlin in the soviet union in order to undermine israel as an ally of the united states and that's what it's all about and it's shaking that narrative many of us try to do so but shaking that narrative is so hard after so many decades of it really gaining credibility and strength in the media too much of the world's media in universities in organizations like the like the un and yet post the 7th of october so many observers saying this is clearly a war between good and evil the concept of the human shield a tool used as you say not a new concept used within gaza in terms of using baby's women children to protect terrorists we know that a terror command center is built underneath a hospital how does israel deal with that evil well it's it's it's something that is whatever israel does it will be blamed for war crimes but the laws of war say that if there's a even if a protected object like a school a hospital a mosque or any other protected object or a civilian apartment building if that's used as a military objective then israel or any other competent is entitled to attack that objective even if there are civilians in it there is a formula laid down by the laws of war which tell you how in what circumstances you can do it etc but ultimately you're allowed to do it and even if civilians are going to die in the process it's not a war crime necessarily and and the idf i think you know over the years the idf have developed some very effective techniques for clearing civilians out when it comes to a hospital full of patients i think i think you know i think i'm right in saying that the likelihood of israel carrying a massive airstrikes on that hospital even though it might be entitled to do so but under the law is is very low and i think israel is probably going to have to either find a way of getting those civilians out or do it deal with the the the structure from the ground in a more clinical sort of way now war is not clinical but i i think i think israel will do whatever it can to avoid striking hospital but ultimately this is where it's being controlled from colonel richard kim thank you very much stay with us we've got more to discuss but right now as we continue to hear stories of survival from the october 7th massacre some stories have been spanning decades since the holocaust in this adaptation from israel's channel 12 news we hear a holocaust survivor recount his experience from nearly 80 years ago and how now his family has their own story of surviving against the odds every holocaust day they say never again there will never be a second holocaust like there had been but the fact that my family would have to sit in a secure room two and a half year old neto with his parents shivering for 20 hours never occurred to me fool my name is naftali in two months i will be 91 years old from 1942 to 1945 i was in concentration camps where this photo was taken i'm here on the third bunk this photo was taken four days after the liberation i thought i was free but i was very sad as if i was left alone in the world we came to the conclusion that jews have a certain place in this world it's here in the land of israel we thought that here we would build a strong and secure state for all the jews of the world on saturday morning i heard there were alarms in the south so i immediately called my daughter runi and i asked her what was happening with my granddaughter in kvara and she said that at the moment she had no contact and she hoped everything was fine we didn't hear anything we didn't know we were terribly anxious and they started showing how a tractor dismantled the fence there and they walked in as if on a strong and just here's the big thing i believed in the government i believed in the army but no one came and mika my granddaughter with her husband sefi and my two and a half year old great-grandson neto were inside the safe room they were shaking and afraid they were left without electricity without a telephone without food sefi tied the handle of the safe room with a telephone wire so they wouldn't get in they both stood with knives in their hand maybe that would save them they heard shouting and gun shots the house of their neighbors the good friends burned down she didn't know if they would come or not only at two in the morning i think that the idf finally arrived at their house and released them and all three are in good condition healthy so at the moment a weight was lifted from my heart we all relaxed neto's grandparents grandmother tamie and her partner javik were murdered in kvara asa brutally murdered as far as we know they say they are nazis it's hard for me to compare them to nazis they used the method of the nazis they came to murder israeli jews they have intentions of destroying the entire jewish people it's similar it's scary but it's not the same it's not a holocaust it's a mini holocaust the number on my forearm shows that i was in the holocaust and passed through ashwats i know that some kibbutz survivors from the gaza strip tattooed the date on their forearms they have a right to do that because that's how they feel so if it makes them feel better why shouldn't they do it in the holocaust a bit of luck was not enough to survive i must have survived because i had a lot of luck and what happened on october seventh is another huge bit of luck that my granddaughter and her husband and my sweet great grandson were saved from the inferno that happened to all the discouraged people i can say that time has an effect it's impossible to remain in internal trauma and its human nature to recover and move on man is looking to the future heart wrenching stories of survival colonel richard camp we have a few seconds left i'm going to put you on the spot and put you in the war cabinet and say what advice would you be giving to leaders right now day 24 of the war the first thing i'd say is that i don't think the war cabinet needs my advice i think they've got some very talented people there and in the idf who know what they're doing but what i would say is that it's essential that the israel maintains their offensive until her mass has been destroyed or thrown out of guards or one way or the other that's gotta happen there's no alternative to that in my view obviously that is not the easiest head and done not militarily but from the point of view of international relations which obviously could have a bearing on what israel does and the second thing i'd say is that israel has to deal with his balar in lebanon whether it's concurrently or immediately afterwards somehow it has to deal with lebanon colonel richard camp a pleasure hearing your insights thank you very much for being here in our studios and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news i'm benita levine intel avev our coverage continues soon stay tuned thank you for watching over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news there have been countless memorable moments broadcasting with i24 news in the past six years but for me the one that stands out the most was the first time that i had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding intel avev and at that moment we were live on air in studio i will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear the sirens are sounding intel avev the control room is going to the shelter with me in studio at the time were michael herzog a former brigadier general today the israeli ambassador to the united states and arson ostrowski an international human rights lawyer and their responses were completely different michael herzog was calm and composed and on the other hand arson ostrowski was trying to phone his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were okay the camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above there was an overhead shot of the three of us in studio you could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio and obviously we lost contact with our team on the ground our reporters in ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time when rockets are coming towards a residential area they don't distinguish between race religion political views cultural views they just intend to harm civilians and that moment being in studio hearing those interceptions overhead was the most real coverage i've ever been involved in breaking news edition i'm bonita levine coming to you live from tel aviv we start with breaking news hamas has released a video in which three israeli women held hostage by the terror group in the gaza strip slam benjamin netanyahu calling on him to secure their release they also accuse the israeli prime minister of failing to prevent the terror groups onslaught on the 7th of october now i24 news is choosing not to play the video at this point because this is part of the terror groups psychological warfare this is a screenshot of the three women hamas is currently holding 239 known hostages inside gaza and a short while ago the prime minister's office lamb basting what it calls quote the cruel psychological propaganda by hamas in releasing a video showing three israeli hostages the office is naming the women as danielle aloni remon cursed and yelena trope nub benjamin netanyahu says he is reaching out to embrace the three women saying quote our heart is with you and with all the other hostages we are doing everything we can to bring all the kidnapped and missing home meanwhile rockets have again been launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities in recent hours siren sounding in jerusalem evrite and shorish in recent hours reports of six interceptions in the area around the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south sirens in nativa sarah and beer earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of nativa with a direct hit impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the strip carrying out strikes against some 600 hamas targets including weapons storage sites and high doubts spokesman danielle higari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the gaza strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives now for more insight we welcome to studio international affairs analyst dan perry the former europe editor at the associated press dan thank you very much for being here day 24 of the war still such a tough time a nation traumatized and now adding and compounding the trauma is a video released by hamas three israeli women again i-24 news is choosing not to show the contents of the video but i'd like your take you've covered wars in this part of the world for a long time the strategy being used by hamas right now your thoughts i find myself agreeing with the prime minister's office that this is like a logical warfare and you don't often agree perhaps occasion to celebrate uh i don't envy i-24 the decision because there's clearly a trade-off between wanting to broadcast news your news station and this is news and not wanting to be a tool of hamas and this is clearly psychological warfare and the cruel one attack people who want to see the video are going to be able to see it on al jazeera and on social media and if it were my decision i would have made the same one by the way i wouldn't even quote what they were made to say in the video if i criticize netanyahu in the studio it's okay i'm doing so of my own volition but if i do so in hamas captivity i would assume you know it was coerced and 239 hostages are being kept their families still waiting for word reports that katar is involved in some kind of deal reports of a potential exchange which has been denied by many your take on what it's going to take to get the freedom of these hostages right now day 24 of the war the issue for israel's if you leave any behind then it's as if you've left all of them behind from the point of view of strategy the broader strategy now obviously every person that comes out every life is a world unto itself and so they're going to try to get anyone out who they can but if anyone remains behind then hamas will always be able to impose a maximalist terms as they did when they got a thousand or more terrorists for gilac elite and israel wants to avoid that it's pretty clear that the retail price for releasing all of them today is a release of all six thousand and however many people in israeli custody and it's an open question and legitimate debate whether israel wants to do that i've heard plenty of people saying release them and then then then you know do targeted killings against them once they're in gaza it's so complex that it really defies armchair quarterbacking and of course it also affects the question of how freely you can operate on the ground in gaza and it also raises a question about the nationalities of many of the hostages they are from 25 different nations and presumably the leaders of those nations also hoping to be involved on some level to secure the hostages as well we're going to unpack a little bit more of that but right now i want to go up north our correspondent robert swift is in northern israel and robert siren sounding in northern communities earlier in the western galley including in shlomi and russia necra also the idea of striking in lebanon earlier on what update can you share right now that's right there's been cross border clashes here including in the village that i'm standing in which i'm not going to name for security reasons and there has been mortars fired over the border into the village that we're now standing in and just in the last few minutes we've been hearing what appears to be is really artillery responding to additional mortar fire about 10 minutes ago we saw mortar rounds being fired into the area it appeared to us and fires on the ground as a result of that and then shortly after that the israeli military have fired two rounds of artillery onto positions behind me now if you see to my back this is the hill here this is the israeli lebanese border and i'll draw your attention to the towers that are on top of the hill this is often what his bullet are directing their fire at they've been using as rifles to shoot at these inocations and today they appear to have been perhaps firing mortar rounds at them as we saw what appeared to be two mortar rounds landing close to these towers that's the situation here as it stands on the on the on the border correspondent robert swift live from northern israel we will be coming back to you of course in the coming hours thank you rob stay safe and still with me in studio dan perry and we were talking a little bit earlier about the international impact potentially leaders around the world wanting to make sure that people from their countries are secure and can be freed obviously this is highly complicated i want to take a deeper look at the us role right now vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of us soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen then i'd like your thoughts how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in us troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plan israel or gaza period so perhaps not that surprising the us role has been clear though since the start yeah the us supports israel uh very strongly um i wouldn't say without limit but they have uh a very clear understanding what happened october 7th and i think they also appreciate the israeli argument uh that this is more than a squabble between tribes over some small territory but israel being on a front line of the war against global jihad and that hamas is also other things linked to his fellow link to iran linked even to isis at least holistically i think us gets all that but as we just heard from vice president they have no particular desire to be involved with troops on the ground remember that the american uh public uh what was uh clearly overwhelmingly tired of what became known as forever wars in iraq and in feganistan and gaza has potential to be uh even more forever than any either of those if if if outsiders get involved that said uh among the scenarios being thrown around for a possible day after uh re outing gaza should hamas really be deposed i believe the foreign forces including u.s forces and maybe arab forces as well is is one of the more plausible dan stay with us we've got much more to discuss right now rocket siren sounding in some southern communities let's go straight to al khamde soho she joins us from southern israel what update can you share this hour khamde well look benita the israeli military is continuing to strike targets inside of the gaza strip and the military has been firm about what their tactics are going to be with this new ground operation inside the gaza strip saying that it is progressing now on the other side of the border residents are reporting that they're unable to leave the northern part where a lot of these air strikes have been taking place but the military is saying that upon further entry into the gaza strip troops encountering a number of hamas cells eliminating them eliminating anyone who tried to attack them using various methods like helicopters drones and the tanks that were inside so the strikes continue at this hour as the rocket fire still seems to emanate from several places into israeli territory give us a sense of the scale the number of communities in the south that have evacuated since the 7th of october while rocket fire continues for day 24 of the war many communities there are not staying in their homes right now that's right all over israel you're talking around 125 000 people who have been evacuated both north and south but a lot of those numbers actually around 100 000 are from these southern communities that the military has now declared a militarized zone there's really only press here no one is really still here because of the constant alerts because of the threats that do pose the southern community you're talking about mortars you're talking about artillery fire things not just relating to rockets so while the military is also advancing moving troops farther south moving them toward the front line the people here have left at the military and the defense ministry's request so while all these areas are still evacuated they the people are now in state-funded guest houses or hotels you can hear a little bit of that artillery fire outgoing the israeli military still striking targets inside of daza bonita as the sun sits behind you correspond in khamdesal hood stay safe live from southern israel thanks khamdes and now for more we welcome mechmut ogutsu former turkish diplomat joining us from london mechmut thank you very much for your time recep Tayyip Erdogan has made several speeches since this war started the last one was very critical of israel he's called benjamin netanyahu a terrorist he says israel is not a state and is an occupier he's also calling khamas a liberation group what is your take on this rhetoric from the turkish president your thoughts actually to be honest i wasn't expecting such a rhetoric to come from president Erdogan as well because he made a great deal of effort to improve relations with israel as you remember the relations have been restored together ambassadors exchange there was a you know pipeline project being discussed and at such a critical stage of course how must attack a pure dan israeli a retaliation and he was pollutioning himself as a possible fair intermediator between the two parties but if you have such a harsh rhetoric no matter what the original reason for this is it makes it impossible for now erdogan to be a intermediary between hamas israel and other other countries also reconstruction effort of the worst securing peace and so it's not a matter of rights and wrongs but as a statement if you want to play a constructive role i think now this is over because it is going to take israel to the as a war criminal to declare it to the world and then one day suddenly unexpectedly turkish army might be mobilized so these are very dangerous wars and things that if you cannot translate into these you should never speak i'm sure that the turkish foreign minister and minister of economy were not happy about these statements because they were trying to make efforts to restore confidence between the two sides and also turkish economy is not in great shape right now as we know minister of economy mahmad shoucheki was touring around the world to attract more finance and investment and so it remains to be seen but if the conflict is going to spread which we hope will not burst to egypt and perhaps to iraq syria and finally iran which is the most dangerous one i think in terms of conflict being intensified turkey will not benefit from this either so i think there is a need for a country like turkey which is the largest regional power to reckon with all the way from china to uh germany russia to saudi arabia right expecting as a former diplomat president to play a more moderating role no matter how emotionally he is of course attached to the palestinian cause i think real politic requires that turkey could have played a more constructive role between israel and palestinians right i must only palestinians as we know you have a fatty and also israel is living there so a golden opportunity has been missed in this regard to push forward israeli turkish relations and to play a constructive role in this conflict written region let's see how it's going to evolve perhaps you know other players in turkish like the foreign minister right well as you well know the president was supposed to be visiting israel that trip obviously is cancelled right now help us understand there were reports that turkey asked hamas leaders to leave the country following the terror attacks on the 7th of october those reports were vehemently denied what did actually happen on that front what can you share well to the best of my knowledge i think when the hamas leaders in turkey at that time showed such a great sense of victory after the hamas attacks and the turkish foreign ministry asked them gently to leave the country because they knew that this was going to complicate the situation and also yes i mean they don't come to turks don't consider how much is a terrorist organization but what happened you know 1400 people being massacred there and such an organization if you call them freedom fighters then there will be repercussions of this for turkey as well with pkt wife exactly turkey is fighting them these terrorist organizations but then your allies will start calling them as freedom fighters you will be in difficult position as well perhaps i think i don't think that president has thought at great length about this but i i carefully look at these notes it wasn't a you know written speech normally on such critical issues president is provided talking points then he reached official lines but this time i think he spoke as freely about 55 minutes so hamas leaders i mean turkey never hosted hamas military video as far as i know and hamas political leaders were you know shouting between katar and turkey and this was one way of also constraining them perhaps to play the contractive role in this regard promoting them in such a way that they will you know the pose a serious threat to israel's security so we appreciate your insight thank you so much for speaking to us here mehmet or go to former turkish diplomat live from london thank you very much for your time all right thanks and now to southern israel many residents have returned to the scene of the terror attacks at their homes for the first time in more than three weeks our correspondent mary mcowdorf is at kibbutz near us and filed this report well we see the signs of devastation here in this community we also see the signs of life that once were the communities the families that once lived here and i want to show you this wall over here it's something probably many people who are watching this have had in their similar homes i know my family also had one when we were younger tracking the ages of the children throughout the years and at various heights just want to look at this youngest one the smallest child you've all this was taken august 2016 the most recent entry for you've all was july 10th 2023 just a few months ago this is one of the houses that have been held hostage the people here who once lived here on this line of houses most of the people here have been kept as hostage or they think at least they're held hostage still here we don't have many answers there's still families without any answers who think maybe their relatives were took hostage but could have been murdered but are still reported missing and still waiting for answers still waiting for closure to find out exactly what happened this is a situation for most of the people here in nero's where there's not one family who hasn't been affected by what happened on october 7th heartbreaking report there from our correspondent mary mccullough and still with the hostage situation 239 hostages being held by hamas right now abducted during that terror rampage in southern israel hadas calderon is waiting for word on her two children and their father and two other relatives she spoke to i-24 news from nero's after returning to the kibbutz for the first time since the 7th of october last message i got from them 8 30 in the morning he told me they jumped from the window and hiding the bush behind the house just imagine your child your small child being kidnapped from his bed with pajama no shoes cruelly way taken from his bed and now he's disappeared they disappeared they've been very we've been very peacefully nice happy family he loved all these plants and flowers always very static way everything was so set now it's gone nothing they burn our souls they really burn our soul what can i say it's a hell we have nightmare three weeks of nightmare to bring them home bring my children home and their father that's all i want i don't care how i'm not an army and politic woman i want them home the whole world have to understand it's not just our private story it can be it can happen everywhere today it's here tomorrow it's in your house and your child you must understand it's like worse than a cry that it's like monsters and a new man very cool crime israeli mother hadas calderon speaking to i24 news no words now we go to jerusalem our senior correspondent oan ultiman joins us and oan so hard to hear the heartbreak from an israeli mom you are at a moving display they're empty beds symbolizing the hostages being held by chamas tell us more that's right benita here in saffron square by the jewsland municipality building in the center of the city you can just take a look with our viewers the empty beds the empty beds signifying the 239 maybe more hostages being held by by others in gaza and you see among the beds there are also cribs maybe we can take a quick look the cribs of course denoting the children the babies there are at least 30 children being held in gaza as hostages we just heard the report from mary we just heard that mother speaking as well about the horrible hardship that these families are going through of course we also had just over the last few hours that video released by chamas with the signs of life at least from three hostages of course this just the latest display in the latest part of the bring them home movement benita the movement by the families and by their supporters to try to raise awareness about the hostages both in israel and internationally i was out at the tent camp in televiv yesterday across from the zireli military headquarters meant to send a message from their perspective to the military leadership and to the political leadership and here in the center of israel's capital you just saw the beds and you just understood what they mean so difficult to actually comprehend what these families are all going through senior correspondent oh and ultimate life from teresal and thank you so much still with me in studio dan perry and dan you've covered this region for a long time this is a nation that has been through a lot of pain but when you hear the screams the urging from an israeli mom saying i just want to know that my family is okay give us an assessment of your take on the feeling on the ground 24 days into this war we're hearing the ports out of what is happening in the gaza strip we know what the idf is planning to do but the temperature on the ground the israeli psyche right now you know throughout israel's history it suffered terrorist attacks a plenty but simply never anything like this so there is such a tremendous contrast between startup nation and the country's per capita gdp's higher than germany's and britain's and a little bit of the hubris that i think israeli's were sensing that the the real dangers had passed and what we saw here i mean a monumental massacre equivalent per capita of 40 or more 9-11s and the level of barbarism with which it was carried out will mess with your mind it'll create a level of anger that that might affect the intelligence of your reaction as well or maybe a reaction doesn't need to be intelligent after something so viscerally insane it's such thoughts what to do such total confusion such a sense of betrayal by the leadership or that there is no one to depend on for security are obviously devastating for the national psyche of a country i would add it's a challenge because so many people are so tempted to conclude from this something that sounds like dehumanization of the enemy i think it's very important that is rarely should remember something that i often am addressing to foreign audiences which is that there remains an important distinction to be made between the palestinians and the criminal barbarians called hamas i'm not saying that have no political support in palestine but you're not going to get anywhere if you don't make that distinction and i would also address that to hamas is useful idiots on u.s campuses these progressives in united states who think that standing with palestine is standing with hamas they're wrong desperately wrong criminally wrong and some of those israelis i think that all palestinians are hamas we need to maintain some humanity even when inhumanity has been imposed on us it's interesting you raise the issue of students younger people who are more active on social media because one of the extra shocking aspects of this terror attack on the 7th of october was the fact that hamas filmed it and hamas wanted the world to see the savage attacks that took place hamas wanted the evidence to be shown globally and yet on campuses that you are describing not all campuses but the ones that you are alluding to the sentiment is not outrage about the children who were burnt in front of their parents it's not outrage about the people who were slaughtered while at a music festival why is that what is your take very briefly there's an element of antisemitism there's an element of anger at israel's policies against the palestinians and dissinterest in the details of who killed who and there is the rank stupidity of youth and the combination of all these things basically is leading to what we see in gen z in america and it really needs to be addressed because the level of nihilism that is suggested by what we see from what poll suggests is half of the youth in america will lead to very bad things on other fronts as well if left unchallenged and unfixed you are certainly raising some grave concerns and this conversation will definitely be continuing but for now international affairs analyst and perry former europe editor at the associated press thank you for being here in studio and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news coverage i'm benita levine in tel aviv thank you for watching israel is at war make an investment in israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with israel visit israel bonds dot com and invest now 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i-24 news 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 bringing israel's story to the world i-24 news channels now on hot in news edition i'm benita levine coming to you live from tel aviv we start with breaking news hamas has released a video in which three israeli women held hostage by the terror group in the gaza strip slam benjamin netanyahu calling on him to secure their release they also accuse the israeli prime minister of failing to prevent the terror groups onslaught on the 7th of october now i-24 news is choosing not to play the video at this point because this is part of the terror groups psychological warfare this is a screenshot of the three women hamas is currently holding 239 known hostages inside gaza and a short while ago the prime minister's office slam basting what it calls quote the cruel psychological propaganda by hamas in releasing a video showing three israeli hostages the office is naming the women as daniel aloni remon cursed and jelena troponov benjamin netanyahu says he is reaching out to embrace the three women saying quote our heart is with you and with all the other hostages we are doing everything we can to bring all the kidnapped and missing home meanwhile rockets have again been launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities in recent hours siren sounding in jerusalem evrite and shorish in recent hours reports of six interceptions in the area around the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south sirens in nativa sarah and beer sheba earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of nativot with a direct hit impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the strip carrying out strikes against some 605 targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel hagari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the gaza strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a khama station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of khamas operatives now for more insight we welcome to studio international affairs analyst dan perry the former europe editor at the associated press dan thank you very much for being here day 24 of the war still such a tough time a nation traumatized and now adding and compounding the trauma is a video released by khamas three israeli women again i-24 news is choosing not to show the contents of the video but i'd like your take you've covered wars in this part of the world for a long time the strategy being used by khamas right now your thoughts i find myself agreeing with the prime minister's office that this is like a logical warfare and you don't often agree perhaps occasion to celebrate uh i don't envy i-24 the decision because there's clearly a trade-off between wanting to broadcast news your news station and this is news and not wanting to be a tool of khamas and this is clearly psychological warfare and the cruel one at that people who want to see the video are going to be able to see it on al jazeera and on social media and if it were my decision i would have made the same one by the way i wouldn't even quote what they were made to say in the video if i criticize natan yahu in the studio it's okay i'm doing some of my own volition but if i do so in khamas captivity i would assume you know it was coerced and 239 hostages are being kept their families still waiting for word reports that katar is involved in some kind of deal reports of a potential exchange which has been denied by many your take on what it's going to take to get the freedom of these hostages right now day 24 of the war the issue for israel's if you leave any behind then it's as if you've left all of them behind from the point of view of strategy uh the broader strategy um now obviously every person that comes out every life is a world unto itself and so they're going to try to get anyone out who they can but if anyone remains behind then hamas will always be able to impose maximalist terms as they did when they got a thousand or more terrorists for gilad shalit and israel wants to avoid that it's pretty clear that the retail price for releasing all of them today is a release of all 6000 and however many people in israeli custody and it's an open question and legitimate debate whether israel wants to do that i've heard plenty of people saying release them and then uh then then you know do targeted killings against them once they're in gaza uh it it's so complex that it really defies armchair quarter backing and of course it also affects the question of how freely you can operate on the ground in gaza and it also raises the question about the nationalities of many of the hostages they are from 25 different nations and presumably the leaders of those nations also hoping to be involved on some level to secure the hostages as well we're going to unpack a little bit more of that but right now i want to go up north our correspondent robert swift is in northern israel and robert siren sounding in northern communities earlier in the western galilee including in shlomi and russia nicra also the idea of striking in lebanon earlier on what update can you share right now that's right there's been cross-border clashes here including in the village i'm standing in which i'm not going to name for security reasons and there has been mortars fired over the border into the village that we're now standing in and just in the last few minutes we've been hearing what appears to be is really artillery responding to additional mortar fire about 10 minutes ago we saw mortar rounds being fired into the area it appeared to us and fires on the ground as a result of that and then shortly after that the israeli military have fired two rounds of artillery onto the positions behind me now if you see to my back this is the hill here this is the israeli lebanese border and i'll draw your attention to the towers that are on top of the hill this is often what khizbullah are directing their fire at they've been using as rifles to shoot at these indications and today they appear to have been perhaps firing mortar rounds at them as we saw what appeared to be two mortar rounds landing close to these towers that's the situation here as it stands on the on the on the border correspondent robert swift live from northern israel we will be coming back to you of course in the coming hours thank you rob stay safe and still with me in studio dan perry and we were talking a little bit earlier about the international impact potentially leaders around the world wanting to make sure that people from their countries are secure and can be freed obviously this is highly complicated i want to take a deeper look at the us role right now vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of u.s soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen then i'd like your thoughts how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in us troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plan israel or gaza period so perhaps not that surprising the us role has been clear though since the start yeah the u.s supports israel uh very strongly um i wouldn't say without limit but they have a very clear understanding what happened october 7th and i think they also appreciate the israeli argument that this is more than a squabble between tribes over some small territory but israel being on a front line of the war against global jihad and that hamas is also other things linked to his fellow link to iran linked even to ices at least holistically i think u.s guts all that but as we just heard from vice president they have no particular desire to be involved with troops on the ground remember that the american public uh what was uh clearly overwhelmingly tired of what became known as forever wars in iraq and in fghanistan and gaza has potential to be even more forever than any either of those if if outsiders get involved that said uh among the scenarios being thrown around for a possible day after uh reality in gaza should hamas really be deposed i believe the foreign forces including u.s forces and maybe arab forces as well is is one of the more plausible dan stay with us we've got much more to discuss right now rocket siren sounding in some southern communities let's go straight to al khamda sahochi joins us from southern israel what update can you share this hour khamda well look beneath of the israeli military is continuing to strike targets inside of the gaza strip and the military has been firm about what their tactics are going to be with this new ground operation inside the gaza strip saying that it is progressing now on the other side of the border residents are reporting that they're unable to leave the northern part where a lot of these airstrikes have been taking place but the military is saying that upon further entry into the gaza strip troops encountering a number of hamas cells eliminating them eliminating anyone who tried to attack them using various methods like helicopters drones and the tanks that were inside so the strikes continue at this hour as the rocket fire still seems to emanate from several uh places into israeli territory give us a sense of the scale the number of communities in the south that have evacuated since the seventh of october while rocket fire continues for day 24 of the war many communities there are not staying in their homes right now that's right all over israel you're talking around 125 000 people who have been evacuated both north and south but a lot of those numbers actually around 100 000 are from these southern communities that the military has now declared a militarized zone there's really only press here no one is really still here because of the constant alerts because of the threats um that do pose the southern community you're talking about mortars you're talking about artillery fire things not just relating to rockets so while the military is also advancing moving troops farther south moving them toward the front line the people here have left at the military and the defense ministry's requests so while all these areas are still evacuated they the people are now in state funded guest houses or hotels you could hear a little bit of that artillery fire outgoing the israeli military still striking targets inside of daza bonita as the sun sets behind you correspondent khamdas al hoot stay safe live from southern israel thanks khamda and now for more we welcome mechmut agutsu former turkish diplomat joining us from london mechmut thank you very much for your time recep Tayyip Erdogan has made several speeches since this war started the last one was very critical of israel he's called benjamin netanyahu a terrorist he says israel is not a state and is an occupier he's also calling khamas a liberation group what is your take on this rhetoric from the turkish president your thoughts actually to be honest i wasn't expecting such a rhetoric to come from president Erdogan as well because he made a great deal of effort to improve relations with israel as you remember relations have been restored together ambassadors exchange there was a pipeline project being discussed and at such a critical stage of course hamas attack appeared than israeli retaliation and he was pollutioning himself as a possible fair intermediator between the two parties but if you have such a harsh rhetoric no matter what the original reason for this is it makes it impossible for now erdogan to be a intermediary between hamas israel and other countries also reconstruction effort of the worst securing peace and so it's not a matter of rights and wrongs but as a statesman if you want to play a constructive role i think now this is over because it is going to take israel to the as a war criminal a declaration to the world and then one day suddenly unexpectedly turkish army might be mobilized so these are very dangerous wars and things that if you cannot translate into these you should never speak i'm sure that the turkish foreign minister and minister of economy were not happy about these statements because they were trying to make efforts to restore confidence between the two sides and also turkish economy is not in great shape right now as we know minister of economy it might seem shaky was touring around the world to attract more finance and investment and so it remains to be seen but if the conflict is going to spread which we hope will not burst to egypt then perhaps to iraq syria and finally iran which is the most dangerous one i think in terms of conflict being intensified turkey will not benefit from this either so i think there is a need for a country like turkey which is the largest regional power to reckon with all the way from china to uh germany russia to saudi arabia right expecting as a former diplomat president to play a more moderating role no matter how emotionally he is of course attached to the palestinian cause i think real politic requires that turkey could have played a more constructive role between israel and palestinians right i must say only palestinians as we know you have a fatty and also israel is living there so uh a golden opportunity has been missed in this regard to push forward israeli turkish relations and to play a constructive role in this conflict written region let's see how it's going to evolve perhaps you know other players in turkish like the former minister right well as you well know the president was supposed to be visiting israel that trip obviously is canceled right now help us understand there were reports that turkey asked hamas leaders to leave the country following the terror attacks on the 7th of october those reports were vehemently denied what did actually happen on that front what can you share well to the best of my knowledge uh i think when the hamas leaders in turkey at that time showed such a great sense of uh victory uh after the hamas attacks and the turkish foreign ministry asked them uh gently to leave the country because they knew that this was going to complicate the situation and also yes i mean they don't come turks don't consider hamas as a terrorist organization but what happened you know 1400 people being massacred and such organization if you call them freedom fighters then there will be repercussions of this for turkey as well with pkt wife exactly turkey is fighting them these terrorist organizations but then your allies will start calling them as freedom fighters you will be in difficult position as well perhaps i think i don't think that the president has thought at great length about this but i i carefully look at these notes it wasn't a you know written speech normally on such critical issues president is provided talking points then he reached official lines but this time i think he spoke as freely about 55 minutes so hamas leaders i mean turkey never hosted hamas military video as far as i know and the hamas political leaders were you know shouting between katar and turkey and this was one way of also constraining them perhaps to play the contractual industry guard rather than promoting them in such a way that they will you know the post a serious threat to israel's security so we appreciate your insight thank you so much for speaking to asia mechmet or go to former turkish diplomat live from london thank you very much for your time all right thanks and now to southern israel many residents have returned to the scene of the terror attacks at their homes for the first time in more than three weeks our correspondent mary mcowdough is actually puts near us and filed this report well we see the signs of devastation here in this community we also see the signs of life that once were the communities the families that once lived here and i want to show you this wall over here it's something probably many people who are watching this have had in their similar homes i know my family also had one when we were younger tracking the ages of the children throughout the years and the various heights just want to look at this youngest one the smallest child uvall this was taken august 2016 the most recent entry for uvall was july 10th 2023 just a few months ago this is one of the houses that have been held hostage the people here who once lived here on this line of houses most of the people here have been kept as hostage or they think at least they're held hostage still here we don't have many answers they're still families without any answers who think maybe their relatives were took hostage but could have been murdered but are still reported missing and still waiting for answers still waiting for closure to find out exactly what happened this is a situation for most of the people here in nero's where there's not one family who hasn't been affected by what happened on october 7th heartbreaking report there from our correspondent mary mcowdough and still with the hostage situation 239 hostages being held by Hamas right now abducted during their terror rampage in southern israel hadas calderon is waiting for word on her two children and their father and two other relatives she spoke to i-24 news from nero's after returning to the kibbutz for the first time since the 7th of october last message i got from them 8 30 in the morning it told me they jumped from the window and hid in the bush behind the house just imagine your child your small child been kidnapped from his bed with pyjama no shoes cruelly way taken from his bed and now he's disappeared they disappeared they've been a very we've been very peacefully nice happy family he loved all these plants and flowers always very static way everything was so sad now it's gone nothing they burn our souls they really burn our soul what can i say it's a hell we have nightmare three weeks of nightmare to bring them home bring my children home and their father that's all i want i don't care how i'm not an army and political woman i want them home the whole world have to understand it's not just our private story it's can be it's can happen everywhere today it's here tomorrow it's in your house in your house and your child you must understand it's a like worse than a cry though it's like monsters and a new man very cool crime israeli mother hadas calderon speaking to i-24 news no words now we go to jerusalem our senior correspondent oan ultiman joins us and oan so hard to hear the heartbreak from an israeli mom you are at a moving display there empty beds symbolizing the hostages being held by hamas tell us more that's right benita here in saffron square by the jerusalem municipality building in the center of the city you can just take a look with all our viewers the empty beds the empty bed signifying the 239 maybe more hostages being held by hamas by others in gaza and you see among the beds there are also cribs maybe we can take a quick look the cribs of course denoting the children the babies there are at least 30 children being held in gaza as hostages we just heard the report from mary we just heard that mother speaking as well about the horrible hardship that these families are going through of course we also had just over the last few hours that video released by hamas with the signs of life at least from three hostages of course this just the latest display in the latest part of the bring them home movement benita the movement by the families and by their supporters to try to raise awareness about the hostages both in israel and internationally i was out at the tent camp in televiv yesterday across from the zireli military headquarters meant to send a message from their perspective to the military leadership and to the political leadership and here in the center of israel's capital you just saw the beds and you just understood what they mean so difficult to actually comprehend what these families are all going through senior correspondent oh and ultimate life from teresal and thank you so much still with me in studio dan perry and dan you've covered this region for a long time this is a nation that has been through a lot of pain but when you hear the screams the urging from an israeli mom saying i just want to know that my family is okay give us an assessment of your take on the feeling on the ground 24 days into this war we're hearing the ports out of what is happening in the gaza strip we know what the idf is planning to do but the temperature on the ground the israeli psyche right now you know throughout israel's history it suffered terrorist attacks a plenty but simply never anything like this so there is such a tremendous contrast between a startup nation and a country's per capita gdp's higher than germany's and britain's and a little bit of the hubris that i think israeli's were sensing that the the real dangers have passed and what we saw here i mean a monumental massacre equivalent per capita of 40 or more 9 11's and the level of barbarism with which it was carried out will mess with your mind it'll create a level of anger that that might affect the intelligence of your reaction as well or maybe a reaction doesn't need to be intelligent after something so viscerally insane it's such thoughts what to do such total confusion such a sense of betrayal by the leadership or that there is no one to depend on for security are obviously devastating for the national psyche of a country i would add it's a challenge because so many people are so tempted to conclude from this something that sounds like dehumanization of the enemy i think it's very important that is rarely should remember something that i often am addressing to foreign audiences which is that there remains an important distinction to be made between the palestinians and the criminal barbarians called hamas i'm not saying that have no political support in palestine but you're not going to get anywhere if you don't make that distinction and i would also address that to hamas is useful idiots on u.s campuses these progressives in the united states who think that standing with palestine is standing with hamas they're wrong desperately wrong uh criminally wrong and some of those israelis that think that all palestinians are hamas that all palestinians are hamas we need to maintain some humanity even when inhumanity has been imposed on us it's interesting you raise the issue of students younger people who are more active on social media because one of the extra shocking aspects of this terror attack on the 7th of october was the fact that hamas filmed it and hamas wanted the world to see the savage attacks that took place hamas wanted the evidence to be shown globally and yet on campuses that you are describing not all campuses but the ones that you are alluding to the sentiment is not outrage about the children who were burnt in front of their parents it's not outrage about the people who were slaughtered while at a music festival why is that what is your take very briefly there's an element of anti-semitism uh there's an element of anger at israel's policies against the palestinians and disinterest in the details of who killed who and there is the rank stupidity of youth and the combination of all these things basically is leading to what we see in gen z in america and it really needs to be addressed because the level of nihilism that is suggested by what we see from what poll suggests is half of the youth in america will lead to very bad things on other fronts as well if left unchallenged and unfixed you are certainly raising some grave concerns and this conversation will definitely be continuing but for now international affairs analyst and perry former europe editor at the associated press thank you for being here in studio and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news coverage i'm benita levine in tel aviv thank you for watching israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking more than a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity i24 news coming to you live from tel aviv on this day 24 of israel's war with hamas and hamas has released a propaganda video showing three of the 239 hostages who are being held in gaza the three women have been named and their families are expected to give a press conference later this evening well after several hours of quiet rocket fire resumed this afternoon from gaza with a barrage fired at jerusalem for the first time in several days no casualties were reported and in the last hour a barrage of rockets fired at central israel as well several mortars were fired from lebanon at israeli military posts along the northern border setting off sirens across the western galley again no casualties and the idf says it did strike a terror cell in south lebanon today that was preparing to launch mortars well let's find out what's happening in gaza now our correspondent hamda salhout is down at israel southern border hamda just give us a sense what is the latest this hour well look the israeli military continues to strike targets inside of the gaza strip all via land air and sea now you can see a little bit behind me of those lights those are renewed airstrikes and renewed attacks by the israeli military on those targets inside gaza they've been focusing primarily on the northern part where they have asked citizens to evacuate however sources inside of the gaza strip are telling me as the bombardment continues it is becoming increasingly difficult to evacuate to more southern areas now the military is saying this is the next step of their war moving ground forces further inside of gaza to assist with targets overnight even an earlier today they said they encountered several hamas cells that they eliminated the assistance of attack helicopters tanks and drones so the military continuously hoping to achieve their initiatives inside of gaza you could hear some of that outgoing artillery rocket fire renewing from the gaza strip the military has also been trying to focus on these rocket launching sites however there have still been large barrages of rockets fired at several places in israel not just in these southern communities where we are so as the military prepares itself for even the next phases of its war the airstrikes and the artillery continue laura and does the strategy then hamda this phase two of the war as the defense minister puts it does this seem to be that the idf is incrementally taking over parts of northern gaza using tanks and military vehicles well of palestinian media reported today that is really tanks were stationed in a position at a junction that was very strategic inside of the gaza strip on a road that connects the north to the south a road that stretches almost 45 kilometers down the strip so the military is inching closer and closer into those targets however this is not the full flage ground offensive that we have been seeing so while the military continues to strike these targets they are hoping to achieve more of those objectives a big one is actually to bring the hostages home the more than 230 turn 39 israelis and foreigners that are inside of the gaza strip you saw a video released today by hamas of three of those hostages continuously playing into the psychological warfare on both sides so the war is still a very active situation as this time as the Israeli military continues to pound targets inside of gaza hamda thank you very much hamda sakhut there is down at israel's border with gaza as the military offensive continues on this day 24 let me introduce my studio guests to you now uh lieutenant colonel doron avital is a former commander of the special forces in the idf welcome to you doron we're also joined by ben draw yemeny he's the senior journalist at the yediot ahonot daily welcome to you ben as well um let's talk a bit about this um propaganda video um the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called it a cruel psychological propaganda this is three women who are among the 239 hostages um basically making an an angry uh call on the government saying you let us down you didn't keep us safe we want to cease fire we want you to bring us home now um your initial thoughts on that doron i think the enemy knows our weak spots and he really targets those weak spots and he knows also the the big divide in his valley society prior to the war and he's in this video whoever has seen it you can really feel it it resonates there so we have to be steadfast careful it's a sign of life we can use it and and continue with the aim to in the end release as many hostages as we can while of course conducting this war and i should point out i-24 news has made the decision not to play the video because uh it is uh how much propaganda after all uh ben draw your your thoughts on that many media channels decided not to play this video and correctly so rightly so because uh this is part of these how much propaganda as we understand now now we are in a stage of a propaganda war i mean what they are trying to do is look we are human you can see the women and and and uh you can release them by a ceasefire the ceasefire the meaning of a ceasefire is and actually that they will escape from the israeli retaliation nobody wants it i mean we know we know exactly what the story is and the story is that israel cannot continue no country can continue this kind of threat constant trade which is coming with rockets to civilian population no we cannot continue with it it should be clear to the world and we are so sorry about the images coming from the gaza strip yes people are suffering but they are suffering because of the hamas hamas have has an option right now immediately to declare a ceasefire we uh don't war anymore take all the rockets surrender yes so i mean this is the only way i mean instead of destruction but they sacrifice the people of gaza they sacrifice not israel israel is doing just what the united states did in in muscle in other places i mean we have to do it in order to uphold this kind of hamas nobody can stop us from doing it but but we don't want this bloodshed well the criticism is and i've seen comparisons with raka and in syria and morsel in in in iraq where there was a campaign to destroy the islamic state the difference is that the civilians inside gaza now cannot leave they're prevented from leaving by egypt it's it's a it's a very good point first of all they are asked to leave and if they cannot leave it's because of the hamas not because of israel that's one just to remind you one more battle i think it was in 2004 in fallujah they just evacuated the us army just evacuated almost the whole city evacuated or that they escaped and so many people anyway were kid speaking about innocent civilians so so nobody but nobody can teach us a lesson how to defend ourselves from this kind of terror you did it when it was so many thousand kilometer from your house from your country and you're telling us not to do it when we are speaking about rockets on tel aviv but any minute as as we know it happened to us in this kind of broadcast any minute there might be an alarm and we will have to hide ourselves i mean we cannot live like that not anymore i don't think that one person in washington is willing to live like that not in new york not in washington not in chicago so i think we're seeing live pictures right now coming to us from over gaza uh these are flares right door on to allow the idf to see the targets that it wants to strike yeah exactly i mean these are flares in order to see the targets i think the army the strategy right now is very clear it's uh under this headline of the next phase we no longer thinking the old terms in the next phase is really those ground incursions in which we are slowly slowly as hamsa said inching in and closing on gaza and we do think on the army think that this goes hand in hand this pressure that is exerted on the hamas with the idea of releasing the hostages we don't see it as an ideal but as the two moves work together and this is how the army works there's also a great fog of war intentionally i mean the army doesn't disclose exactly what's up so we look we just can figure out the picture and i think it's part of the strategy and the tactic i think it's the right strategy the right tactic we are moving in closing in but with an eye to the hostages all the time i think we have a map we can bring up perhaps of gaza to talk a bit about what is what is going on because we're seeing these nightly limited incursions aren't we dawn rather than a major all out ground offensives a lot of people were expecting yeah it was a smart move everybody were expecting it everybody were thinking in terms this is the red line that would wake up his bala and so on but no we are slowly there we are we can see the map there if you want to comment on that exactly coming from the north coming also now there was a sighting of tanks in in the salahadine street on that main street through the center of god so it's like from the south i think the army has a plan clearly and i think the plan works in the meantime well of course it's going to take a long time isn't it a long time it's also trigger some of the Hamas to come out of their tunnels and then they meet our army we succeeded to eat many Hamas operatives coming from those tunnels we gather a lot of intelligence this intelligence is crucial to the next move so i think the army works right now well but of course it takes time it does it very measured and very slowly but measured it's not only it's not only the us just let's remember that it was also russia against chechnya the rebels now it took them something like five minutes of blockade in order to enter speaking about uh yeah about five six months and they destroyed the capita they completely can't respond to grozny they they destroyed and now now russia is trying to tell us what i don't think anyone is taking military lessons from russia are they yeah but they are now collaborating with the Hamas which is but the united states is not putting pressure on israel yeah not not for now but we hear what we hear some senators here and there are members of the house and we know not yet but but the images coming from gaza our terrible images we have to we have to know it we have to know that it's going to be even worse but not because of israel because of the Hamas a terror organization that must be uprooted but but when you hear reports for example that doctors inside gaza say they cannot evacuate a hospital because it's physically impossible whereas you've got israel providing evidence that that very hospital is being used as a a terrorist base it's a it's a it's a big dilemma for israel it's a big dilemma but i think even the chief of staff was very the chief of staff was very clear talking about being very precise and exact in the way you figure the target and as you enter in you get a more intelligence you can be even more exact and more targeted but this is part of the warfare that we are having and of course we have to understand there would be a window in terms of the alliance that support us and the us and europe and this window we have to utilize to the best of the that we can all right well details of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on october 7th are still being revealed almost a month later our correspondent mary mccauliffe has been visiting the kibbutz of near oz where more than a quarter of the community was either murdered or kidnapped here's her report well we see the signs of devastation here in this community we also see the signs of life that once were the communities the families that once lived here and i want to show you this wall over here it's something probably many people who are watching this have had in their similar homes i know my family also had one when we were younger tracking the ages of the children throughout the years and at various heights just want to look at this youngest one the smallest child you've all this was taken august 2016 the most recent entry for you've all was july 10th 2023 just a few months ago this is one of the houses that have been held hostage the people here who once lived here on this line of houses most of the people here have been kept as hostage or they think at least they're held hostage still here we don't have many answers there's still families without any answers who think maybe the relatives were took hostage but could have been murdered but are still reported missing and still waiting for answers still waiting for closure to find out exactly what happened this is a situation for most of the people here in near oz where there's not one family who hasn't been affected by what happened on october 7th mary mccauliffe they're visiting one of the worst hit kibbutz near oz more than a quarter of the residents were either murdered or taken hostage and yet another victim of the october 7 attacks has been identified today 23 year old german-israeli woman shani luke was kidnapped from the nova music festival shani was seen early on on a hamas propaganda video where she was being paraded half naked and broken her leg clearly broken on the back of a pickup truck while men spat on her body she has now been confirmed as deceased president hetzog says she was beheaded her family have been notified so just one atrocity beautiful girl shani luke was 23 years old when she was murdered by hamas terrorists so as you can see the full horror of what happened on october 7th is still being revealed more than three weeks later ben doi i mean a reminder of why israel is fighting this war um just one mark i was there and and it's in the oz yeah i mean many settles just next to the border and and it's not like what you see in in the videos because of the smell because of the atmosphere because of the blood stains which are still i mean you see it and and you understand and you understand that there is a problem a real problem and i mean i wrote it several times in the last ten years that hamas is actually speaking the leaders of the hamas they speak about extermination they are not speaking about end of closure or end of occupation no it's not it's not and what they speak about is about extermination and attempt to genocide according to some league like that exactly i mean but people did not want to hear i mean so many people i'm speaking about people who demonstrate now against israel what you are demonstrating in favor of of the islamo nazism that we are facing what they spoke about extermination by the way they did not even speak only about extermination of jews they spoke also about extermination of the west of christians i i i presented all the videos of the leaders speaking about it but so many people just ignore it i don't want anybody to suffer i don't want the people from the gaza strip to suffer they are suffering why because everywhere but everywhere where you have this kind of radical islam of jihad there is destruction and bloodshed it's not only it's not the struggle between israel it's it's a global phenomena look what's happening in the syahil countries in africa and so on and so on and so on wherever they are revealing we have destruction and bloodshed now what do you want us to give up what do you want us to surrender what do you want us to continue there's an effort on on some countries to kind of separate the the the circumstances surrounding israel and its ongoing conflict with the palestinians from the fight against islamo fascism that you've just spoken about it's a very good question i'll tell you why because i'm supporting peace any peace initiative that was in the last 20 years from clinton to whatever i think we need peace i think the palestinians have the right for their determination i never i was never against it i'm speaking on my behalf not speaking about on behalf of the government the point is and we have to understand it the radical islam will not let it happen do you want peace eliminate jahamas that's the rule you want peace you have to eliminate do you think the palestinian authority can deliver on maybe after maybe after right now to speak about peace it will be a kind of wow out of context first of all we have to eliminate the hamas if we have the hamas they will always they will always do whatever they can in order not to let it happen just one last sentence about this issue maybe we'll talk about it later i mean why did it happen now it happened now because of the mega deal between the us so the arabia and israel they wanted to fail it and that's why i hope they will not succeed but just let's let's let's well Saudi Arabia has indicated it would like to continue with normalization it's great news if it will really happen because that's what they wanted to prevent i think once this war ends and i hope it will end soon and that our prices will not be too high to civilians and so on i think the alliance that is behind israel the us europe nato even in the context of this so the initiative that bendor was mentioning would demand some kind of resolution and i think the agent of this resolution in terms of the palestinian is the palestinian authority however weak it is over elderly the current president i mean there is no other palestinian there's not exactly no other representative however it's not that respectable in its own population the problem of corruption but there's no other option so i think we should expect after a very hard war where we can expect this well i mean these are hard lessons that have been learned by by the west by the united states in their wars in iraq and afghanistan um is it i mean how can you go into a war when you don't have an idea of what it might look like afterwards there is no plan but the context our context a little bit different this is a long we have a long israeli arab conflict that was of course as was mentioned earlier a long national and self-determination lines and now moved with hamas to this religious war of islam or extreme islam against the westerners and jews and israelis that take over the land the holy land but i think if we can bring it back to the old context okay and try to get to move forward in the old terminology maybe there's some future to this to this region and i can just say in the last 10 minutes the german chancellor has confirmed the death of shani luke he says it shows the barbarity of hamas shani luke was a dual israeli german citizen and this is part of the reason that european america is standing so strongly with israel many of their citizens are hostages many of their citizens were murdered uh it just it just emphasized the fact that we are not speaking about a conflict between israel and hamas no it's not a story it's not about blockhead and it's not about the siege it's something something which is much larger speaking about blockhead how come they have so many rockets how come they have this kind of huge industry of death i think this is how come i mean if there is a blockhead i mean first of all they smuggled whatever they wanted they smuggled whatever they wanted i mean not only and and every day hundreds of of of trucks came from israel to the gaza street almost 20 000 people from gaza came to work in israel i mean what are you talking about and and and none were going into egypt or very few very good point very good no no one went to they came to work in israel i mean actually the whole the whole economy in the gaza street i mean the money that they made in israel was much more speaking about each month much more than what they received from from qatar and iran all together and what did they do with the money what did they do with them we know nothing but nothing for prosperity for welfare for education only but only the tunnels it i don't know how much it could cost a hundred of millions of dollars in the infrastructure of death so to to argue against israel about the what about the siege about the blockhead what are you talking about what people what are you talking about when you're talking about this kind of siege i'm just saying the agenda of hamas was clear and extreme islamic agenda and but i was sad because of course that we didn't notice that the magnitude of the infrastructure and the magnitude of the attack plans and we were hoping some of us were hoping that pragmatically they would go for economical measures working in israel and so on in the end it blew up in our face and now we have to reconsider of course we are in a war that was the famous concept that's been spoken about the the hebrew word for the the philosophy pertaining to hamas the netanyahu government tried to treat hamas as a rational actor one which would make economic considerations seek a better life for its people obviously even we know now that that they were playing us out they were trying to show to tell us that they are instigating only the operatives in the west bank while on the other hand they were planning this attack this terrible surprise attack a terrible setback but now we are back and we are fighting back bend or i mean in terms of the political situation the other policy of the netanyahu government was to develop the settlements in the west bank do you think that that is also kind of diverted attention away from gaza it's a very good question because i'll tell you um first of all uh to criticize israel is quite legitimate i mean we do it i mean in israel it's a democracy and i would say that 80 percent of the journalist in israel including me by the way we criticize the policies of the government concerning the west bank concerning the settlements i have to admit i'm totally against it i'm totally against it you're in favor of dismantling all of the west bank i'm in favor of any peace initiative that's what i am and i'm against and i have to say it i mean even now i'm against the policy of this government concerning the construction in the west bank no i guess i'm against it but it is nothing to do with the global jihad nothing to do you want to criticize israel about uh some policies fair enough we do it by the way we do not need you we do not need this kind of international bds because bds is not against that's a boycott dimension no it's not yeah bds boycott the sanctions and so on against israel it's not about it's not about settlements it's not against our compassion it's against the very existence of israel just listen to what the leaders of the bds are saying they are part of the the axis of evil iran chamas and the people who are against the very existence of israel but but if israel didn't have a presence in the west bank what's to stop the west bank palestinians arming to the same extent that they did in gaza and then you would have the same security challenge on a much bigger scale yeah the point is that you know most of israel is supported the disengagement from the gaza street yeah they supported it i mean we had many polls and and after arielle charon who was a pilot arielle charon who was a prime minister when he initiated it there was a big debate in the israel society the in the election immediately after his party he was not there anymore but his party won yeah i was there because the israeli public opinion supported this kind of disengagement and it was clear that if it's going to succeed in the gaza street it's going to be also in the west bank but no what did they do what lesson did they teach us the lesson was if you disengage we are going to have the rule of the of the radical islam which was very sad so people many times do not understand how comes it's a right wing party which i do not like i have to admit how comes that they eventually eventually form the government it happened one of the reasons one of the reasons is okay you cannot speak anymore about evacuating the west bank because we are going to get a new gaza we don't want it what is the right solution we have we will have to discuss it immediately after this crisis we cannot continue from one hand with settlements in the gaza in the west bank we cannot evacuate all sorts of west bank from the other end we will have to find a good solution a right solution that that the radical islam will always want to sabotage to fail i think shul was not of the idea of disengaging from the west bank it meant that in the west bank there would be some arrangement according to some line you remember the road famous road map that he presented to president bush and of course always a military presence on the jordan river so it was a different story and there was some 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this day 24 of israel's war with hamas and some good news released in the last few minutes the idf has managed to rescue a soldier female soldier private ori magi dish there she is with her family she was kidnapped by hamas terrorist on the 7th of october she has been freed by idf soldiers during an overnight raid into gaza we don't know the details of what exactly happened she is the first person to have been freed by the idf her name is ori magi dish she's in a good medical condition she's been with her family the idf and the intelligence services the shinbet say they will continue to make every effort to bring about the release of all the abductees all the hostages ori magi dish is free after an operation by the idf a reminder 238 hostages at least are still being held in gaza well sirens blaring off across northern israel today after rockets were fired in a number of towns in the western galley no casualties reported let's go to the north of israel now our correspondent robert swift is there robert was the latest so there's been two major security events taking place on the northern border in the last few hours the more recent of these was an anti-tank attack which took place around about two hours ago i'd say and this was fired at communities that are in sort of the center of the northern border area about five anti-tank missiles were fired across the border with no casualties reported it's understood that the israeli military responded to this attack with artillery fire and then further to the west right towards israel's coastline though a series of communities there came under target came under a fire from mortars with the israeli military responding there with artillery fire and mortar rounds of its own so rob we saw there was a house hit by a rocket last night we saw i think 10 rockets fired into israel from lebanon last night would you say that we've been seeing a significant escalation in the last few days it's it's kind of it's hard to say because essentially hezbollah wants to give the impression that it is escalating but at the same time it appears that it might be trying to avoid crossing a certain threshold which would embroil it in a full-on war with israel so although yeah there has been you know an escalation in the last few days there's been escalations for many days over the over the last two three weeks so it's hard to say exactly where that's going all right well thank you very much robert swiftare he's in the north of israel and let's take a quick listen to prime minister benjamin netanyahu who gave a statement a short while ago and in it he addressed the terrorist organization hezbollah take a listen i must say that we give full confidence both in the system and in the leadership under the chief of staff and we do this as the entire people and the entire leadership of the people there will also be further steps it is impossible to detail them here we are talking about them within the war cabinet at the same time we are working to actively deter the northern front and i repeat to hezbollah you will make the mistake of your life if you decide to fully intervene in the campaign you will receive a blow that you cannot even imagine at the same time we are continuing our efforts to free the hostages even during the maneuver and the maneuver even creates opportunities to release the hostages and we will not miss them this campaign will take time there will be bumps there will be difficulties there will be losses there will also be surprises but in the end i promise you one thing chamas will be beaten chamas will be defeated gaza will be different and a reminder of my guest is our lieutenant colonel doran avital is a former commander of these special forces in the idf ben droh yemeni is a senior journalist at yedi yod welcome to you both and joining us now on the liner shadi halul is a hezbollah expert and the director of strategic partnerships at the alma research center great to have you with us again shadi and we just got an update on what's going on in the north and i wanted to draw your attention to some comments by the lebanese prime minister naji mikati he says he's trying hard to keep his country out of the war and he appeared to be saying that hezbollah had been kind of limited in its attacks on israel so far do you agree with that well of course mikati is actually trying to keep his country safe because at the end he knows the destruction that this terrorist group that is no difference from high isis hamas will bring to lebanese people and his country the destruction on that country will be even greater than 2006 and then what they expect so mikati trying to actually try to save his country i understand but hezbollah is playing another game and hezbollah actually careless about the lebanese people and lebanon and he just cares about the ayatullah ali khamenei in iran and the islamic revolution orders if it's if their interests they will launch a attack according to their orders and not according to mikati and what he says and shadi i mean we saw a hit in kyria shaman to take a direct hit from a missile last night thankfully nobody was hurt and but we have been seeing an escalation haven't we in the north in recent days do you agree with the way the idf has been responding so far well let me tell you i am i was myself an officer in the idf i was paratrooper major and idf and i served in that actually south and lebanese security zone before we withdrew from there in 1996 1997 and believe me that when you are in the ground is not the same like you are in the sitting in your home or in the at tv speaking and trying to translate so i i i trust the idf knows exactly what we need to do and i hope that this time they learn that we have an enemy that even it's a greater monster than hamas in the south and that at the end this enemy should be eliminated how i trust the idf knows the answer and the timing of this incident and how it should be treated all right well shadi stay with us i want to bring in doha navital um hezbollah an even worse monster than hamas um if that is even possible um but are you worried about the escalation of capabilities there's no question this is a mighty enemy that we know well we fought with him in 2006 and i think right now our strategy in the north works well because we even have the upper hand and we showed that we react to every provocation and it seemed that right now they don't have the inclination to to escalate but this can change in a minute and of course we are very much wait for any we wait and see whether some threshold would be crossed and then we'll operate the full force that we have this is the tragedy it works and until now and i think this is going forward i must i must say that shadi khaldur is a good friend of mine first second yeah he's a good friend hi shadi if you are still with us uh anyway just to emphasize something i mean many some of the viewers do not know he's not even jewish he's not even jewish and and we have many soldiers and officers like him muslims arabs they are part of us and and we have a common enemy we have a common help from the hezbollah in the north from the south with hamas and i guess many of them not all of them maybe but many of them do understand now more than before that we really we are in the same boat jews and arabs in israel yes it's a jewish state but with full rights to whoever is not jewish and and we have to bear it in mind and this is exactly what the hamas and the hezbollah are against they are against this kind of cooperation they are against this kind of coexistence and we have to fight for our democratic values that they do not accept and and i hope we will succeed and and shadi khaldur is a good example of what israel should be there you are shadi i don't know if you heard that good friend of yours here in the studio with us bendria many actually i miss him so much since this war we couldn't be able to speak but i want to tell you that as a maronite christian and aramaic israeli citizen i have another community that the same people live in the northern side of the border and it is maronites in central mountains of libanon and actually so close to the libanese israeli border from the other side and they suffer from hezbollah and they are actually taking hostages by hezbollah and used as a human shield today and we know some reports about how hezbollah is using them actually actually they came to their homes and sitting in their homes and firing rockets and missiles and anti-tank missiles toward israeli forces in order to they knowing that the israeli army will respond to the source of fires and destroy christian homes in libanon and then the word will know in the news this propaganda that israeli also attacking christians and not aiming to attack only hezbollah and chiya terrorists of hezbollah so this is something that israeli should be aware of and also i call all my christian maronite people in libanon that count around one million people in libanon if you see hezbollah coming to your area don't let them in because you will be actually attacked by our forces in israel not because of you but because of hezbollah and we in if war will be escalated we will eliminate this hezbollah monster and i ask all of you not to collaborate and cooperate with this enemy and monster yeah we know that that's the strategy of terrorist groups isn't it to embed themselves uh among civilians we've seen it in gaza we're seeing it in lebanon as well just briefly shani do you think that the uh that hezbollah was expecting such a strong response from the united states well i think the united states didn't bring all these forces here for nothing in case and and biden president biden they say that they clearly clearly and warn them don't and he said this word three times don't don't don't so if hezbollah and with the iranian chiya proxies in this region include iranian themselves will dare to attack israel and combine this what we call unification of friends and attack israel at once i think the us army will protect israel and together with the idf will act together against this actually enemy in order to prevent israel from having a greater damage in our community this is why why they are here it's a kind of deterrence now and hopefully we won't have this full escalation war but this is hopefully but i wish that we will eliminate this force and without a war a full-scale war we will not be able to eliminate this enemy and people will not return to their homes here in the northern borders communities because they fear this monster will wake up one day and will they will find them like another september 7 in the north shadi thank you very very much indeed we appreciate it as always shadi khalal there at alma thank you so much thank you well let's remind you of the good news that we have had this hour the idf has managed to rescue a captured israeli soldier who was kidnapped by hamas terrorists on october 7 her name is ori magidish she's been rescued she's the first hostage to have been rescued by the idf soldiers have been going into gaza nightly for the past few nights she's been medically examined she's in good health good condition and she has met with her family so there she is the first hostage to be freed by israel ori magidish was rescued during a ground operation into gaza she is now safe sound back in israel with her family 237 hostages remain in gaza the idf and the shinbet say they will continue to make every effort to bring them all home but ori magidish good news she's back home tonight well the united nation security council is set to hold an emergency meeting tonight on gaza it's at the request of the united arab emirates abu dhabi is seeking a binding resolution demanding that israel accept a humanitarian pause to the fighting the ua e is an ally of israel it's also one of the only arab states to have condemned hamas and to have demanded an immediate return to the hostages we're joining us now from abu dhabi lawi al-sharif is a peace activist and an expert in arab-israeli relations good to have you with us lawi it's been a while good to see you again and the ua e as i as i pointed out is one of israel's strongest allies in the region um it's no secret though this war has put a strain on israel's um partnerships in the region talk us through the ua e starts so the you uh first of all hello laura um i hope for you and the people of israel are holding up and uh i hope that this war ends the right way with the end of what's really started this war so i just want to say that the ue stands the official stance of the ua e is um working towards a humanitarian ceasefire a ceasefire that would allow humanitarian aid into gaza um the um the official stance of the ua e laura is to help the palestinians as people and differentiate between palestinian as people and hamas now you have to know that there is a big campaign happening in the ua e called in arabic tarahum and agil gaza or sympathize with gaza were uh hundreds of of the citizens and residents contribute to send humanitarian aid to the people of gaza but don't forget laura that it's the only arab state that explicitly condemned hamas for its barbaric and heinous crimes on october 7th and this is why i always have to tell my israeli and and western friends to manage their expectations when it comes to the when it comes to the ua e so you have to know that uh it shows great support for the palestinian people it said the uh her excellency lima hashin from minister of foreign affairs she said that uh the ua e stands with the palestinian people stand with the palestinian cause and reject the collective punishment on the people of gaza at the same time the ua e condemns and and calls the crimes calls what hamas did on october 7th heinous and barbaric crimes and this is something that is unique when it comes to the absolutely well and of course um israel fully supports efforts to get humanitarian aid to the innocent civilians in gaza israel's uh concern is when it comes to aid falling into the hands of the of the hamas terrorists so certainly no one would criticize the ua e for for being at the forefront of of of raising uh aid efforts um but what do you think longer term lawy do you think that this will inevitably harm cooperation uh between the ua e and israel i don't think so i i think in the long run when this war ends inshallah everything will reconcile the arab and israeli relations will reconcile muslim and jewish relations will reconcile um you know you know laura people deep down uh decision makers and people who are wise enough in the gulf they know that this war is ugly this war is unnecessary this war could have been avoided this war sparked when um hamas militants uh broke into israel mass murdered 1400 uh innocent people and civilians and to be very honest this war uh wasn't really there is no purpose for this war and and if you if you noticed laura um a couple of weeks before this war a couple of days even for this war saudi arabia was talking about normalizing relations with israel and the crown prince was talking about bringing uh uh concessions to the palestinians so everyone was working towards uh a betterment uh for the palestinians but unfortunately hamas blew it up i personally believe that the two state solution is is dead its death certificate was signed on october seven that's my personal opinion but i believe in the long run when this war ends things will reconcile in the middle east because the future of this region laura the future of our region is stability thriving and prosperity and we cannot allow those who believe in in that should win our loving one not win and laura of course you've always been an advocate for cooperation between jews and muslims uh you speak arabic and hebrew of course you you know you you've read uh so much about these you really are a scholar on on jewish and uh islamic history and we've seen a real spike in anti-semitic incidents and attacks around the world and what do you think can be done about that particularly in the arab world very unfortunate but what needs to be done about it is education you need to teach people more about the commonalities between jews and muslims i always say this laura by the way i understand where these people come from because one day i was in their shoe i was raised this way to be anti- jewish anti-semitic or standing against the jews but you know when when you get to know the jews when you get to know judiism when you when you educate yourself you would really change so education is the key education is a very important thing to to play and now the at this difficult time at war people are on the edge they don't really want to accept hearing this or that so let's just hope that when this war ends inshallah ends the right way ends in a way that october 7th couldn't uh wouldn't be repeated ends in a way that would bring peace and calm to the region ends in a way that arabs and israelis build this region together and muslims and jews and christians and other minorities also build this region together inshallah i believe with education we can change people's hearts and minds and peace will prevail laura i'm very optimistic i know it's very it's very hard to say this in this tough time but i'm very optimistic and uh and in this tough time laura if we don't speak up the truth if we don't stand against the power of darkness if we don't stand with the power of light then we don't have the right to speak in the easy times we speak in the difficult times it's not about standing with israel it's about standing with humanity versus extremism fundamentalism and terrorism well i meant to that lawy wise words as always we appreciate it thank you so much lawy al-sharif there um we could not say you were you were very much on the same page yeah yeah because i know i have a lot of a lot of friends from uh bahrain from uh the amirates and yes we hear a lot of voices like that i mean and they sometimes you see the israeli flag something was that you cannot see not in egypt and not in jordan and yes there is a change in the airport i hope i hope hamas will not change it that's okay let's talk about the soldier then because this is big news isn't it ori maghadeesh um a young female soldier has been rescued by the idf after she was kidnapped by hamas terrorists and held in gaza uh dawn this is the first time hostages are great news and i think it's also an indication that the way we spelled out the strategy of the idea really proves itself in the meantime i mean inching in into gaza gathering intelligence because you have to understand that those hostages will be in different localities even under different organizations so whenever in a military force would find some such locality with some special forces that i'm sure accompany those uh those unit that are entering into gaza we have a chance either by negotiation or by fighting get the hostages out so this is one thing i think even bibin ethania indicated it in his press conference this is an indication that the two aims of the war can be simultaneously uh followed and this is good news i hope more to come right because there has been an argument hasn't there that uh that one excludes the other the the fighting has to hold um and allowing uh hamas to release the hostages they obviously have been calling for that but it looks like israel wants to do it on their terms i think this evening at seven o'clock they're supposed to convene in a way even to demonstrate against the ground invasion i guess i guess that what happened today with this kind of release of one hostage it's a kind of you see we were right i mean the government is going to tell them you see we were right the ground invasion uh maybe just maybe is the best way in order to free the hostages so our heart is with the families needless to say but in between ground invasion and ceasefire that maybe will enable a kind of negotiation uh i i think that the ceasefire the demand of the hamas for a ceasefire it's only in order to escape japanese but yeah yeah so we we do exert pressure on hamas on the way to negotiate a negotiation offering the hostages by force but it's important has to be in tandem and the two missions are right now working in tandem this is a good indication and that's all for more right because i mean when you see night after night the extent of the the bombing that's been done in northern gaza i mean a lot of people have been very fearful you know our hostages are in there exactly i think and this way intelligence is so crucial because if you know where are the tunnels and we know where to hit and i think the idea really the idea i want to i mentioned it a few times appointed the general whose mission is only this and one of the best generals we have the hostages the intelligence gathering the following up with them the special unit that might work with the major forces i think there's a whole plan underneath the the strategy of the idea and i hope it will pay off getting a young soldier out who who apparently wasn't injured at all um will be a completely different story to rescuing some of the elderly children babies yeah maybe she was held also by some family or by some civilians you don't know who who was holding her because we know that there were people were kidnapped by different organizations even by civilians so they are scattered so we have to really follow up the lead and this is a great story that's the the first bit of good news we've had in a while isn't it certainly will be good for morale as well which is very important for what is this it is it is important it is important and and just to emphasize that for us for us for Israel human lives are highly important i mean i mean this is it and it doesn't mean that uh that we don't care about human lives of others of the people of Gaza we do care we do care that's why we are against the Hamas and just as the guy from the Emirates said we have to really distinguish between the Hamas and the people of Gaza we have nothing against the people of Gaza we have a lot against the Hamas i hope the good sometimes good sign in the battlefield indicates the future let's hope this is the good sign and let's hope our strategy works well i think when we look at retrospect the way we didn't preempt a strike in the north was a good move we are preparing not to strike in the north you know exactly that we balance our forces we show the hezbollah our hand and then the way we move to the next phase shows itself we have to be just very careful in the way we use the fire because and and we're very careful about the window of operation that might be open in terms of our the alliance behind us but in the meantime we're working in a good way yeah because israel really has to keep many plates in the air at this time the diplomatic window as we've talked about the hostages and even talking about climate if the winter enters there's a lot of consideration military operation is very complicated in terms of it sounds absurd but in terms of the weather what kind of weather conditions favors israel for example sight i mean because we have to be in sync with the the air force the artillery the the so you don't want to foggy you don't want the fire that comes from the sea the fire that comes from the sea the intelligence gathering there's a whole thing that you the weather weather is one of us as we know the rain the rain will be upon us soon when of course it's not good for every military it's not good for the for the israeli general weather of course going into the winter is not good for the idea it's not good for the enemy either if they're intolerant but they are they live within their surroundings so they have the better understanding of where they are i think we better complete this operation before the winter ends as we all know napoleon really lost his mission in live in in moscow so weather weather plays a crucial role so we would like the rain to stay away for now all right well good news is our orimagiti