 in the Gaza Strip are rising too, with Palestinian sources holding that over 2,700 people have been killed. Hamas continues to launch rockets at Israeli cities in the south and the center, while the IDF continues its striking of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Exchangers afire also continued on the northern front between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. In recent hours, an anti-tank guided missile was fired from Lebanon, which has wounded two in Israel's north and seen the area of Matullah closed for military operation. The United States continues to stress Israel's right to defend itself, but it's also working hard at easing tensions in the region. Here's more from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Today, and at our request, the United States and Israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable humanitarian aid from donor nations and multilateral organizations to reach civilians in Gaza, and them alone, including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harm's way. It is critical that aid begin flowing into Gaza as soon as possible. We share Israel's concern that Hamas may seize or destroy aid entering Gaza, or otherwise preventing it from reaching the people who need it. If Hamas, in any way, blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians, including by seizing the aid itself, will be the first to condemn it, and we will work to prevent it from happening again. We welcome the government Israel's commitment to work on this plan. The President very much looks forward to discussing it further when he's here on Wednesday. Let's cross now live to our correspondent Ariel Oceran, who is standing by for us in the South. Ariel reports in the last couple of hours of rocket fire coming over the border from the Gaza Strip, but also the IDF spokesperson's unit saying that about 100,000 Gazans remain in Gaza City, even though they have been putting through numerous warnings to evacuate to the South. Right, but yes, so we'll start with the situation here. We're talking about sirens blaring about 45 minutes ago in some of the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. There was no indication of injuries or damage caused by those rockets launched here at that time. Now, as for the situation in Gaza, indeed, the situation there is deteriorating amid continuous Israeli strikes almost nonstop for days now. And amid calls by Israel for Gazans to make their way down south past the Gaza River, many have heated the call by Israel, but many others haven't, as you mentioned now. Some of this is due to not only pressure by Hamas for locals not to evacuate, but also some acts on the ground that they've taken to hinder that, such as confiscating cars or even putting up checkpoints. These are all things that we've seen evidence of. And so as time progresses, there are more and more Gazans making their way south. But yeah, there will be Gazans there who either who remain there either by choice or are forced to do so by the ruling Hamas. U.S. President Joe Biden is set to be taking off tonight being Tuesday from the United States and landing in Israel tomorrow being Wednesday. No doubt. We'll also probably want to tour some of the area's hardest hits in the South. What is that like? Driven there this morning from Tel Aviv, from our offices here in Jaffa through to the South, are the roads open? Are there still people out and about? Or have the majority of people in particular in Steroz and the southern communities been evacuated? Well, but as we've discussed, there's been a massive evacuation here in the town surrounding the Gaza Strip, also Steroz, the biggest town in the area that I'm standing in right now. But it is expected that when President Biden arrives, if he does choose to tour the area will be under heavy security, the area, the closer you get to the Gaza border, that's already a closed military zone. Some of the routes are closed also inside the city. Areas are limited access by the military. But when it's the leader of the free world and the strongest person in the world, I imagine he'll be able to make his way wherever he wants under the proper security by Israeli forces as well as the Secret Service. An update on what is happening in the South from our correspondent Ariel Ossar and thank you very much for that. With me here in studio is Rafael Urashelmi, a former IDF senior intelligence officer and security analyst and our correspondent guy, Azriel. Rafael, in the last couple of hours, reports of anti-tank missiles being shot from Lebanon over the border into Israel, too, are said to be wounded in the North. But also, Matuller appears now to be closed off for the military. Yes, this little game, so far it's a game that Gisbalah is playing with us, could have dire consequences, would one of these anti-tank missiles reach its target, literally, and the whole team in the tank would be killed or somebody, a family in the house, this would be, might be a game changer. The vibes inside the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, are getting a little less optimistic as to what is happening in the North. There is more and more an evaluation that there might be large-scale conflict developing there and there are even some people who are saying that maybe it should. Maybe now is the time to get it over with. Of course, not at the same time because simultaneously requires a bigger effort, even though we can do it, but maybe after the Hamas is dealt with, we should deal with this problem. Right now, from what we heard of the IDF spokesman this morning, the main point is that the IDF, after the initial shock, has regained control of all operations. The IDF has regained control in the South, meaning we now have the initiative. We were surprised. We had a shock. Now we are in control. We decide if and when we go into Gaza what kind of strategy we're going to use. Right now we are just mostly concentrating on eliminating high-level figures of the Hamas and continuing, of course, mostly the nightly bombings with the problem of trying yet and again to evacuate innocent civilians. In the center and the central command, we have a very big success in keeping the West Bank quiet and avoiding terrorist activity. Every night, even though there is a war going on, every night we arrest and eliminate dozens of terrorists. In the North, the IDF has deployed its forces at wish to. It has chosen the strategy, which I'm not sure is the best one, to a dosage of response to the provocations of the Kisbala. I would have preferred a little stronger signal to create some kind of deterrence. But we are in control. The army is in control. There is the military capacity. We are back to the big, strong Tzal. Now we have to see the political will because Tzal doesn't act in a vacuum like the Hamas does. We have to report. They have to report to the political level, to the cabinet, but let me tell you that there are strategies there. The way you present to the cabinet, the way you present to anybody a proposal will influence his response. So now really is the responsibility of the chief of staff of the IDF to present to the political level plans of action that the IDF would like to do and to show them what is the rate of success if we go launch this kind of operation. They have to convince the political vote because now the biggest danger is a lack of political will. The biggest danger is with all due respect and all our gratitude to the American help. Joe Biden might impose some limitations of what we want to do. He's already dictating, rightfully so, certain directions. Do not occupy Gaza. Do not make sure there is a new military corridor for the people. So it's fine and it's legitimate and we should do it. But let's not hope that it will not impact on some decisions and objectives of the Israelis. So right now, still let's stay on the positive note. We have regained control of our borders, we have regained control of our country. We are past the shock and we are even advancing very small steps towards freeing the hostages. Well, that's a point that I want to move to now. So gentlemen, stay with me. But yesterday being Monday, Hamas released disturbing video of one Israeli-French hostage, Mia Shem. She is 21 years old and was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival on Saturday. In the video, she begs to please bring her home to her family as soon as possible. The footage has been seen by the family and so it is okay that we be airing it. But please note that this type of footage is used as part of Hamas's psychological warfare. Hi, my name is Mia Shem, I am 21 years old and I live in Gaza. I came back from a day in the morning, a day in the evening in the morning, to help with the shooting. I was in jail. I broke my name a long time ago. They took me to Gaza. They took me to the airport for three hours. They took me, they took me, they took me to the airport. Everything was fine. I didn't see my father, and when he returned he went to several key moments with me, my parents, my siblings, my brothers. He asked if I should come with him to the key moments. Thank you. That's it. Now following the release of that psychological warfare video of the captive daughter Mia, her parents as well as others are gonna be giving a press conference in the coming moments. We'll be waiting to take you there live. their live, they'll be speaking at the Missing Families Forum headquarters in Tel Aviv. In the meantime, though, I would like to bring in our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman. Owen, what is the latest from this press? What are we expecting exactly the families to say? Again, we've been reporting that this is being used as propaganda of a psychological warfare. Even here at I-24 News questioning whether or not we should be showing this video to the families themselves. Yeah, first of all, I'll have to drop once the press conference starts. We may not have much time, but just so you understand the senior, there are literally hundreds. There are literally hundreds of journalists here. It's hard to find a space and a place to speak. You just see the numbers, the sheer numbers, excuse me, the sheer numbers of foreign journalists who have just converged on Israel to cover this war. It's just an unbelievable scene. How packed it is, how many people are here, how much attention this is receiving on the four corners of the earth. And yes, we're waiting to hear from the family in the wake of that video and what they want to see through the government and the military on this issue. Obviously, we're highly charged an emotional issue here in Israel, and we can all well understand it. And a real puzzle, I think, for policymakers to see how this fits in to the rest of the planning around the campaign and around the war as a whole. Right. And knowing you're saying there's hundreds of journalists, we're talking about both foreign and national. There's national journalists there from Israel as well as media and national. Of course, there are Israeli journalists here, but what's especially striking is simply the number of foreign journalists. In fact, you can tell just how many of them have come here just to cover this war. Obviously not surprising. You see the coverage around the world, you see the amount of attention that is focused here. But here you see it in very, very stark relief. I put a picture of the presser and of the setup of the presser on my Twitter. You can get a sense of it from there. It's just absolutely stunning what this war has brought upon this country, including especially attention to the international media. And shortly, as you mentioned, in just a few moments, we will hear from the families themselves, and we hope to actually interview some of the families one-on-one after the presser and bring that to our viewers later on in the day. Right. We can see the numerous microphones that are sitting there on the table as we wait for the family to come in. Or when I want to actually, while we're waiting for the press, and I'm sure you're going to have to put down. So now I want to come back to our guests in Studio Gaiaz, Riella, and Raphael Uruchalmi. Raphael, you wanted to make a comment on the hostage situation. Very short. First of all, we do not know when this video was shot, and it's to play with our nerves. Okay. I just want to remind you that during the Second World War, during the Shoah, there was a concentration camp called Terazin, Terazin Statt, which was a beautiful camp to show to the Red Cross and to the UN and to the press. This camp was built to hide the atrocities of the other camps, Auschwitz, Bergen, Belzen. This video is the Terazin Statt of the Hamas. And just to touch on your first point, New York Times examination this morning says that according to their experts, this video was in fact filmed at least six days ago. So it's hard to know the condition of Mia Shem today. We already see in the video that she's pretty badly wounded in her arm. And sedated. She's on drive. Right, gentlemen. Well, we are going to go to this press alive now as we see the family sitting at the table there. Again, this is happening at the hostage makeshift at the moment hostage area for the families to come and speak in Tel Aviv. You can see the countless microphones that are on the table of both national and international media as our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman alluded to. And while they're setting up, we'll make sure to dip in now to be able to hear in particular the family of Mia Shem of this video that was released a psychological warfare. We are waiting for them to set up for the time being. So we'll just keep the conversation here in studio. It does appear that we can see her parents sitting there obviously looking absolutely distraught. Their child has been taken into Gaza. And again, as Guy pointed out, six days this video may have been shot at the beginning of when they were captured. We don't necessarily know the condition of Mia for the time being. But from what we could see, she was wounded and did appear to be somewhat heavily drugged. Can see pictures of her currently being put on display there. It looks by her mother and Guy, I'd like to ask you if we can translate. Yesterday, we received the video. We can see her alive. The responsibility for her well-being is on Hamas. I wish to give the microphone to Karen, Mia's mother. Yesterday, in the news, the video of Mia, in that moment, I was moved. And I screamed because I saw that my Mia is alive. But after all the excitement, I saw the footage again. And I saw that Mia is wounded. She was shot. You can see that she's wounded in her arm. I can see that she's in pain. I can say that she's being dictated what to say. I see that her condition is stable. But I'm very worried for her well-being. I see some positive sign in it about her. We need to remain positive. I am assuming that they're being taken care of. All that I'm asking is to bring my baby home exactly at the same state with which I saw her on TV yesterday. She has other medical problems. And I asked the world leaders to bring all of our captives back home. We've been through a terror, a crazy terror attack that took place on Israeli soil. It's a cruel enemy. It's a crime against humanity. If the world doesn't come together, and we bring back the kidnapped. I left my baby on television. I saw she's alive. I heard before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg. So I can see she was shot in her shoulder. I see she had an operation. She looks very terrified. She looks like she's in big pain. I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say, but I can see that she's stable. I can see she needs medical care. I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday. All I knew is that she might be kidnapped, begging the world to bring my baby back home. She only went to a party, to a festival party to have some fun. And now she's in Gaza and she's not the only one. There are many children who went to this party. There are many babies and children and old people and holocaust survivors that were kidnapped, but their houses were burned. This is a crime against humanity, and we should all gather and stop this terror and bring everybody back home. My name is Eli, Mia's brother, Eli Shem, the eldest brother. So my name is Eli, Mia's brother. We're here to say one thing and one thing only. We want Mia and all the other hostages that are captured in Gaza Strip to bring them back home. That's all the reason we are here. Mia is an innocent child that just went to go to a party with her friends and end up kidnapped and being away from home. And that's what we're here. We want to bring her back. I'm Rih, 17 years old, brother of Mia. I'm Mia's brother. I'm 17 years old. I saw the film yesterday, Mia is asking for our help, but we see that she's alive. All we care about is that she comes back alive with all the other kidnaps. I trust our government. I trust the world leaders to do everything possible to bring all the kidnapped back home safely. Together with my friends, I joined the efforts to assist the family and to help the return of all the kidnapped, including Mia's family. You heard the statements from the brothers and from the mother. She seems to be in relatively good shape. Mia is responsible for the rest of the medical care and for her well-being and for her return. We also have experts with us, including Professor Hagia Levine and medical experts who can assess her medical situation. Mia is one of those in medical need. This is the first video given by Hamas. This means that people are alive, people are in need of medical care, and we put all responsibility on Hamas, both for the medical treatment and for the well-being of the others kidnapped. The film of Mia released by Hamas, the responsibility is on Hamas together with all the kidnaps. All of them must receive proper medical care. Hamas needs to immediately supply the information and data about the medical condition of all the kidnapped, according to our data, and we published a medical report. There are other wounded and sick in some of them in serious condition, and we demand to know their condition and ensure they are given proper care. We need to understand that the condition of the kidnap who need urgent medical care is deteriorating from one moment to another. The suffering that is inflicted on them is immense, could link to death. We in Israel treat every person, including Palestinians from Gaza, that we bring in to take humanitarian care in Israel. We expect, and together with the Red Cross, we expect the Red Cross to fulfill its destination and operate in all possible means to ensure information and medical care to all of those at need. I will not address the particular medical condition shown in the film that Mia is in need of medical care, English now. From the video, I am Professor Hagai Levine, the head of the medical team. From the video of Mia, we can learn that the responsibility is on the Hamas to make sure that all the hostages are returned safely home. The Hamas is obliged to supply the medical data on all the hostages and to allow all of them to get proper medical care. According to our data, there are other sick and injured hostages, including in high severity, and we demand to know their condition and to ensure that they get proper care. Their medical situation is deteriorating from moment to moment. The misery is enormous and there are immense danger for disability, permanent disability, and death. As a physician in Israel, we, the Israeli physicians, provide the best medical care to anyone, including Palestinians from Gaza, who get humanitarian treatment in Israel. We are in contact with the Red Cross and we expect the Red Cross to fulfill its duty and to act in all measures to ensure that information for the families is provided for all hostages and that proper medical care is given to all hostages, especially the severely injured and sick. Thank you. Thank you very much. We will be able to answer your questions now. Some questions now? Thank you very much. Thank you. Karen, Matt Govman from ABC News. Hi. Thank you. I guess you saw the video. Yes. Is there a particular message you want to send her captors, the people holding her, personal about Mia that you would want them to know? I want them to know that Mia has other problems and she needs a medical care and every moment is risking her life. I mean, if she won't be here, it might end very bad. And why do you think they chose her? I don't know. I know that, you know, since it happens, we opened a war room in my sister's house and maybe we did a lot of work on the net and we talked to people and we worked a lot. We talked to people here with Gali Ilsh and Kovperi and we did a lot of work. We put all these signs all over the country in Jerusalem, in every city. So maybe it helps. And maybe she was captured first or something because she sent a message at 7.17 in the morning, without shooting at us, come and help us. So maybe, you know, maybe she was taken first. Well, I want to add to the Mia's mother to your question. We don't know really what was the choice of the Hamas. But it's a fact that Mia was appearing in the first video that Hamas sent to the public media. And Mia represents at least more than 200 captures. And we can hear her mother and her family. She needs medical care and she needs to go or to be to come back and save home. We are not going to interfere in the choices of Hamas. We can only tell that we are doing our utmost from the civilian point of view and from the military and governmental point of view to bring the people back. I have to say that all these days that I didn't know nothing, only that she's missing. I knew that she's alive because my daughter, she's a fighter, she's a warrior. Really, she's alive and she really is. She's been through a lot in her life. And we all knew that. You can ask her brothers too. I knew it. The problem was that every time I opened the TV and I saw the numbers of the dead people and the missing people and the captured people, it was a bit hard to stay strong. But I really knew that she's fighting and that she will not give up. And I'm thinking that she's encouraged other captures there. I'm sure she is because that's who she is. She likes to cook to everyone and she likes to make everybody happy. And she has the biggest heart. She's my best friend. Her brothers are attached to her. She has a small sister, only 10 years old. She's like a mother to her. Every mother will say that her child is the best, but she's really, really a very special girl. Have you heard anything from the Prime Minister? I've been in contact with the French government. It's not so important right now because everything that I care about after seeing the footage, I couldn't sleep at night, is only how Mia comes back home. We need to stay united. Everyone that can helps. Our army is the strongest in the world. It will do everything and he's doing everything. I have friends in the army in high ranks. Nothing else matters right now. We're all together on the same boat. And we all want our children to come back home. We are coordinated with the government officials. And we pass the information between us. The goal of both headquarters is to bring the kids home. And to do this as quickly as possible. After a week that she is alive, can you tell me your emotions as a mother? I started to shout. I felt on the floor and to scream. So I wasn't constant. I didn't really knew what I'm seeing. I saw my baby. And then it became... We started to sing. To cry. She's alive and to be so happy. And then I started to be... I felt scared. I mean, this is... It's a holocaust. It still is. One second. I'm sorry. It's an important point that the Israeli government can make the concessions to enable your daughter and all the other hostages. I'm confident that Israel will do all they can to bring everyone home. I'm sure of that. Thank you very much. Yael Schachnour will read it. Thank you very much for translating that presser into English for many of our viewers, Rafael. The thing I think that appealed to me the most was the mother mentioning all these human qualities. Their daughter likes to cook. She's got a big heart. She's kind. But we're talking about the fact that they are not just in another country being held by another government. We're talking about Hamas, who has been branded by much of the world as a terrorist organization. How are these... I'm finding it difficult myself to draw the line between the human qualities versus the inhumaneness of Hamas. So, like the mother of me had just said, the only weapon the hostage has is his mind, to stay strong. Of course, it depends on your personality. Everyone has a different attitude. It's a minor situation, a nightmare, a horrible situation, but some of the hostages will have this presence of mind, this fighting spirit. That's the only thing that can save them. They will not give in. Also, all of them will, because we are human beings, have hope. They hope. And especially when you're in Israeli hostage. If there is one country in the world that you're taken prisoner as a soldier or hostage, as a civilian, what you can be sure of is that the country will do absolutely everything it can to come to your rescue. Every single person will do it for dead soldiers, for corpses. So, can you imagine? So, that's the hope that keeps people going. Gilat Shalit never lost hope. Five years, he said it when he came out, prisoner, soldier at the end of the Hamas. When he came out, he said he had trust. The country was doing its utmost to save him. Now, of course, we have no idea what is happening. One other thing that is important to notice is the number of hostages who have dual citizenship. This might be also kind of a very positive point in liberating them. We know that what I just said about Israel is being applied also to America because the Biden administration, I think even what's faster in responding to the crisis, the immediate to, it's easier a little for the Americans because they have more contacts. We cannot contact Qatar the same way or Assadi Arabia the same way the Biden administration can. But the fact that the American will help a lot and the power of America is there, the military presence in the Mediterranean of the United States is there, that's a lot of weight. Of course, countries like France are used. France has owned many hostages. It has been known to react differently to different situations including giving money. I don't know if Mr Macron is going to give a check this time to the Hamas, but there's also one way. Everything has to be tried in France right now, not this family, but another family with dual citizenship has put down a complaint to the International Anti-Terrorist Tribunal and also to the Hague Tribunal so there are now the crimes against mankind. Everything, people are desperate. This press conference is only one of the hundreds of things they're trying to do to alert people, to let people know and not to forget that this is the priority, this is the priority. Obviously, the timing of this is significant because of the fact that, as you mentioned, you as President Joe Biden coming to the region tomorrow, but also we need to see the microphones, the international presence, the fact that many of these hostages have dual nationality, but then they are those that don't. And there needs to be a heartfelt feeling as well for the hostages that are purely Israeli that don't have dual citizenship, knowing that their country is coming for them. This must be incredibly difficult for all the families, but for those that don't have dual citizenship as well. And we need to remember, Bhatia, we're talking about also about babies as young as nine months old. The world needs to understand this. I don't think that any person can comprehend the idea of a nine-month-old baby kidnapped in Gaza at the hands of these animals, of these brutal terrorists where we've seen crushing images of children as the age of six being brutally assaulted on the streets of Gaza by these animals. And these are just some of many we're talking about as much as 200 Israelis captive at the hands of Hamas and adding to the complexity of this situation. Yes, thousands of Hamas terrorists, these well-trained, blood-thirsty terrorists who came for Jewish blood on that Saturday morning entered Israel. But to add to that complexity, it was not just those well-trained Hamas operatives, but many Gaza residents, many civilians, and we saw them in so many of the footages that used the opportunity to cross into Israel, also both butchering Israelis, taking people captive. So we have many Israelis who are captive, not just at the hands of Hamas, but also at the hands of regular Palestinians who used the opportunity, who joined the party of some Jewish blood and carried many of the captives back to their homes. Obviously, there is no idea where could they be. Many of them, for sure, are assumed to be underground in those Hamas tunnels, entire towns that Hamas has built for so many years, from billions of dollars that it received in aid from the entire world, including European countries that have sponsored Hamas in Gaza for such a long time, not caring where that money goes to, and we've seen so many examples of the misuse of that money. And just yesterday, Unra, the UN agency in Gaza, announcing, declaring that their fuel, their equipment has been stolen by Hamas, no surprise, and you need to think about that when the world is expecting aid to come into Gaza now, that will not go to the people of Gaza. Hamas doesn't care about the people of Gaza. Hamas wishes more deaths, more casualties in Gaza. That is their weapon, those human shields for them. Any aid that comes into Gaza right now will go into the hands of the terrorists of Hamas. Which again, touches on the human aspects of this. I want to point out we're still looking at live images at the moment of the press conference with the Shem family following the Hamas's release psychological warfare video of their daughter Mia and Rafael. There was a viral video as well that went all across the media in the news outlets just a couple of days ago. Emily, she was eight years old from one of the Kiputzes in the South who was at a sleepover. Her father breaking down on television saying that he scrimped, yes, when he found out that his daughter had died instead of being in Gaza. And looking at the faces of these families, I mean, I can't even fathom the devastation and the pain that they must be going through. But there does seem to be a slight, but so slight sense of optimism. And perhaps that's putting on a brave face in case their daughter sees this, in case the rest of the world needs to see this. Of course, there are now the front line with the same way as our soldiers are fighting on the border with Gaza. The family of the hostages are fighting on the world stage. They are the front line of the Jewish people, not only the Israelis, the Jewish people, because let me remind you that in our hearts and in our minds, this brings back to memory many episodes in the history of the Jewish people, many such similar or atrocious episodes at the end of hateful people. And we have to be now the front, the interior front. We have to be the rear to support them with all our might. I admire the way they react. You cannot judge their reactions. You cannot even start to understand what they feel. I admire how they put such a brave face, how they have the courage to address the press, to be almost everywhere at the same time, to do anything they can to save their children. The Hamas is leading now in this psychological war. It knows we are very ethical, moral people. We have a heart. We have a conscience. They don't. And that's the problem. That's the danger. Would there be hostages anywhere else? I don't know. But with these people, there are no guarantees. Like Guy said, some of them are just for the cruelty of it. I don't want to think of scenarios, what they're doing with these hostages. We've seen what they were doing in the massacres. We are having a horrible time. And I think the response would be appropriate to that. I think the response would be violent. I think people in the Hamas can start saying their prayers because they're going to soon go back and meet their maker. And our revenge will not change anything for those who are dead. But it will maybe ensure a better future first for us and then even for the Palestinian people of Gaza. And that's it. The only thing we can do now is take an example on these brave parents and keep our cool, keep confident and fight on. Gentlemen, stay with us. While we were speaking, sirens were going off in the south of the country. I want to cross now to our correspondent, Ariel Oceran, who is standing by for us in Steroort in the south. The alert's going as far as the negative desert even near Bereshevan. What do you have the latest updates for us on the ground? Right, Batya. So about 10 minutes ago, sirens blaring in Bereshevan, the towns surrounding it, because due to a barrage of rockets launched there, according to emergency services, there have been no reports of injuries there. And so this is just another targeting of Israeli civilian populations as has been happening since Saturday morning. All the while here, we can hear what we can hear from here, from this side, close to the Gaza border, are constant Israeli jets flying overhead, drones as well as the periodic artillery shelling. Every once in a while, this is the reality here in Steroort. And we are seeing that skirmishers are breaking out on the northern border. It's been relatively quiet up there because evacuations are taking place in around 28 communities. But the area of the south has largely already been evacuated. Explain to the viewers a little bit about what the city, in particular, Steroort, one of the largest in the south is like at the moment. Right, so the city of Steroort was evacuated, or the last part of its evacuation was completed in the past two days. We're talking about a total of 15, 10 to 15% of locals have stayed here. That's about 4,000 to 5,000 people in the communities closer to the Gaza border. Those were evacuated earlier, given that many of them are uninhabitable following, uninhabitable following the events of last Saturday. And so going around here, you don't see any pedestrians on the street, hardly any civilian vehicles. Mainly we're talking about police, military vehicles patrolling the streets. Many of the routes closer to the Gaza border are closed off as closed military area. We were also driving around here trying to get a good vantage point. But nearly every point, every spot we got to, we were told by soldiers to move away because this is an active military zone. And so this is pretty much a ghost town where a few were like 100 feet from the big commerce center, the big shopping center here. It is completely closed. Nothing here is open. And that's mainly because no one's here. The city is inhabited mainly by emergency services as well as police and military forces. The visual situation of literally a state in war. Our correspondent Ariel Oceran there in the south no doubt will be checking in with you later on in the day for more updates. In the meantime, let's cross to the northern border where our correspondent Robert Swift is standing by. Robert, earlier Skirmish is breaking out across the borders. What can you possibly tell us? What is the latest? Have there been sirens in the north? We know that they have been in the south. As Ariel Oceran was reporting, but what can you tell us for the time being in the north? It appears that we have lost Robert. Hopefully we can check back in with him in a little bit. But still with me in studio, Gaia Azrael, our correspondent, and Rafael Urashelmi, gentlemen. I want to just go back to the hostage situation because this is really just beyond heartbreaking. It's difficult to explain. And I think Owen put it quite plainly, the amount of international media coverage that is there. And that's because, and Rafael alluded to this, Israel values life more than anything. And more so than that, even a life that was taken, we've been speaking on the channel for years now, speaking to the mother of a fallen soldier, Hadira Golden, to come and speak to us, to explain to the world why it is so detrimental that she be able to bury her son, that she be able to actually give him a grave to be able to have a sight to see him. Now we're talking about live hostages. We don't know the conditions in Gaza and we're dealing with an enemy that doesn't abide by international law. Yes, I think that is the bottom line. That is the problem with engaged, with managing this conflict, the fact that Israel cherishes human life. Israel, as this brave mother that we just saw, the mother of Mia said, Israelis assist Palestinians. We saw the doctor there saying, Israelis bring Palestinians from Gaza into Israeli hospitals. In fact, we also interviewed here on the channel a grandson of an elderly couple in one of the kibbutzes, a couple that was driving Palestinian patients on a regular basis every day from Gaza into Israeli hospitals carrying for these patients, for these people of Gaza and of so many Israelis that were looking for the chance to employ Palestinians in Gaza. I had a Gaza man working in my home just two weeks ago. Not even that, but we've actually done reports at hospitals like the Sylvan Adams Children's Hospital just outside of Tel Aviv where there are Israelis and Palestinian kids side by side. I want to continue this conversation in just a minute, but I believe we do have our correspondent Robert Swift back up again. Robert, I was asking for an update on the northern border in the last couple of hours. Yes, so there was that firefight that took place on the eastern end of Israel's northern border around Matula. It's understood that Israel has responded with artillery and tank fire against an anti-tank team that fired a missile against a civilian vehicle. It's understood that there was three casualties in that strike on the civilian vehicle, two lightly wounded, with one being in a serious condition. They've been evacuated to a hospital in Safed, and that is the situation on the far eastern end of the northern border. But it's worth remembering that all along this border in 28 different communities, people are being evacuated. We're actually filming from the garden of one of those families that are in the process of evacuating. They hope to leave here sometime today, and they're going to be living for, to be honest, they don't know how long they're going to be living in Jerusalem for, and that's one of the things that's worrying them. The family here, their back garden looks out onto the border, which is behind me, and they're concerned about when they'll be able to return. The mother of the family here, she was saying that her eldest son, she was pregnant with him last time the situation was as bad as this. That was back in 2006. He's now getting ready to go into the army. He said that he wished he could go into the army sooner, but his mum's telling him he's too young. But they're just one of the many families that are in this situation with communities all along this border evacuating. The evacuation order was officially went out yesterday with the army telling people to leave, but even before that, for days, the populations of these villages have been reducing as people, you know, took the choice upon themselves to leave and now it really does seem like apart from a last few stragglers, everybody will be departing. Correspondent Robert Swift giving us an update on the northern border back in the studio while we still have time before we go out for a break. Let's touch on what we were speaking about with Guy just a short moment ago dealing with an enemy that doesn't have the same lines of international law, the same humanity. And I think that it is fair to say that given the crimes, the atrocities that we've seen, but something perhaps even more striking is that the Jordanian king is warning that the Middle East is on the brink of falling into the abyss. Israel, for many, has been seen as a smaller country, a weaker country, nonexistent in Middle East politics, but this just goes to show it's in fact the opposite. Well, the Jordanian king is not a great friend of the Jewish people or of the people of Israel and right now it is a test case to see these countries we have peace agreements with their reaction, we can be quite disappointed by the reaction of Jordan quite a bit with the one of Egypt and if you're speaking crimes against Mankind, the fact that Marshall C.C. doesn't allow refugees from the south of Gaza to cross into Sinai and open a refugee camp similar to the ones that were open in Turkey for Syrian refugees that's a huge crime against Mankind to be, that should be judged. Abdullah says refugees are a red line for Jordan and Egypt. Gentlemen, thank you both very much for the analysis and breaking that down as we saw the live press. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on only on I-24 News This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. We have the right ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Fakita can be protected. That's why we're running and breaking news coverage of Dane Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Yesterday being Monday Hamas released disturbing video of one Israeli French hostage Mia Shem. She is 21 years old and was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival massacre on Saturday. In the video she begs her to please bring her family to please bring her home rather to her family as soon as possible. The footage has been seen by the family and so it's okay that we're airing it but please note that this type of footage is used as part of Hamas's psychological warfare. We're taking place today in Israel and I am in the area. I had a big problem I had to ask for a number to take place all alone. I got a friend who was coming to my mother's house for me and my siblings and she asked me to give them some help. Goodbye. Now a short while ago Mia's family held a press conference in Tel Yav leading to both the national and the international media for help. Yesterday, I saw my baby on television. I saw she's alive and I saw that she was, I had, I heard before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg, so I can see she was shot in her shoulder. I see she had an operation. She looks very terrified. She looks like she's in big pain. And I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say, but I can see that she's stable. I can see she needs medical care. And I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday. She may, might be kidnapped. She only went to a party, to a festival party to have some fun. And now she's in Gaza and she's not the only one. There are many children who went to this party. There are many babies and children and old people and holocaust survivors that were kidnapped, that their houses were burned. From the video of Mia. Come on. We can learn that the responsibility suggests a return. Correspondent Owen Ultiman is at the presser in that headquarters in Tel Aviv. Owen, what can you tell us? How was it being surrounded? You mentioned earlier when we had you on the phone, national and international media in the dozens. Yeah, Bacce, absolutely emotional. You just heard the comments from Mia Shen's mother and from others here. Without further ado, I'd like to bring Daniel Shek over to us. Our long time viewers and even those who've joined us over the past week will recognize Ambassador Shek, a former Israeli ambassador to France, frequent guest tonight, 24 news. But we have him here for another reason. He's head of the diplomatic team for the for the family's forum. Our time is limited. I'm going to ask you one question. It's the main one. Daniel, the possibility of a prisoner exchange. Gilad Shalit was freed in 2011. It changed from more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners who went on to kill and maim and leave Hamas, including participating in an event that cost 1,400 lives. Aren't there real risks and Israel is going to have to confront the real risks of a prisoner change as difficult as these stories are and as difficult to do for the families? Is Israel going to have to face this very difficult choice? And what and how do you explain to the public the justification potentially for for taking a step to that? Well, to be honest, you're 15 years late with this question. I'm no longer the diplomat who will have to deal with this dilemma, but you are right, Owen. This is a terrible dilemma and it will be in the minds of any person who will have to think of how to free these over 200 people. We don't have the final number yet from six months year old babies to 87 year old adults and elderlies. This is a terrible dilemma. But here in the families forum, we have only one agenda. We are the voice of the families. We don't have any other interests. We are interested only in the unconditional freeing of each and every one of the abducted people, regardless of their nationality, of their age and of their origin. Are they military or civilian? That is our demand. Do we think that this will happen immediately all at once? No, of course we are. We are aware that there might be stages in this effort. But the dilemmas, they are not ours. Daniel Zhek, thank you so much. I'm sure we'll be hearing much more from you, sadly, in the days and weeks to come. Batya, back to you. Thank you, Owen, for that update. I'd like to now cross to Hertz Leah in Central Israel, where I'm joined by Itai Raviv. Itai lost one of his relatives, while four others have been kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz by Hamas and taken into the Gaza Strip. Firstly, thank you so very much for joining us here on our breaking news editions of I-24 News. How are you and your family doing? I can't begin to imagine how hard this must be for all of you. Yeah, it's really hard what we're doing our best to speak in the name of our relatives who have been abducted and do everything in our power to help release them as soon as possible. Like everyone before me said, that's what we've been doing. We've been talking to the press. We've been trying to meet with whoever is possible. My mom, for example, is meeting today with the president of Cyprus and others meeting with ambassadors. I think the world needs to do everything in order to release them. I heard Mr. Blinken talking about humanitarian aid to the people, the civilians of Gaza. And I'm thinking, how can we do that before we're helping the civilians in Israel or in Gaza? You know, we talk about the Red Cross and how they need medical support and everything. But these laws refer usually to soldiers in captivity. Nobody even talks about civilians. Civilians in captivity, it's not even the rules of war. It's something beyond that. I think all civilians there should be released immediately regardless of their nationality or other nationality. So I have my cousin, Royi. He was murdered in Cyprus near Oslo on Saturday morning. He was found shot to death on the grounds of Cyprus. The rest of my family, my uncle and aunt Avram Brutey, Wunder, was 78 years old. They're all people, this is Royi, who was murdered. So my uncle and aunt, they're all 78 years old. Avram is an old person. He needs his medicine. He can barely walk. He walks with the cane. His vision is not that great. We don't know how he's surviving over a week now, almost 10 days, I think, together with their daughter. Royi is their son. He was murdered. Keren, their daughter, was there with them, with her son, who is almost nine years old. All four of them have been abducted by Hamas. We have not seen any video. Nothing. We just know that they're sheltered at home. The kibbutz was clean and empty. And there was no sign of struggle or blood. And we know that their gold card was gone. So the assumption is that they were taken by death into Gaza. And I have to say about Ohad Wadi. He has his ninth birthday in a few days. And we're really wanting to celebrate his birthday at home. We're trying to do everything in our power to do that. We're now also trying to gather football players and tennis players to be supports. They love to send new messages, new videos, maybe help get their support to release him. It's just every time I talk about it every time, I'm sure that you see it on the news. It's just unimaginable to see kids, babies inside of Hamas's hands. We saw what those terrorists are capable of. We saw what they did in all of the villages of the QCM all across the border. This should not be in Hamas's hands. If we're talking again, if we're talking about helping civilians, if the world wants to help civilians, they need to release civilians for Hamas's hands. That's what the war needs to do. And whoever hears this, do everything in your power. Speak to everyone. Speak to the press. Speak to your political leaders and do everything you can to release them, to bring them back home. Etai, have you spoken to anyone in the government? What is being done to bring your family home safe? We know that the media has been covering this extensively. But has anyone official reached out to you? So some people slowly, but happy eventually. But with no any extra information, they just talk to us. There's been a meeting with Netanyahu this week, with a few representatives from the headquarters of the families of those who have been abducted. But nothing extra has been done. We're not aware of any... They haven't told us anything that's being done in order to release them. I'm sure it's for... I hope it's for good reasons in order to keep everything as a secret and try to be as smart as possible about it. And I hope we can trust them as much as possible. And again, nothing has been done too much in communication with us, except for telling us, yes, I've been abducted. That's pretty much it. Etai, I wish more than anything that I could tell you that they're watching you right now and that there's a message that you can send to them. But unfortunately, I don't have that power and I don't know if they are seeing this. But if there was a message that you could send to your family right now, what would it be? I keep saying it, yes, that we love them. I love you. And we're doing everything in order to get you back home, everything. And they say, stay strong. I hope you're well. Etai, I revive two last one of his relatives while four others had been kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz by Hamas and taken into the Gaza Strip over the last couple of days. Thank you so much for joining us for sharing your story. May your relatives return home safely and we're sending you a huge hug. Thank you very much. Thank you, Marcela. And with me here in studio is Reserve IDF Colonel Grisha Yokubovich, the former head of the civilian department of Kogak for the IDF and an Israeli-Palestinians relations expert and our correspondent guy, Israel. This has been an incredibly difficult last couple of hours listening to some of the families coming out and speaking. Etai himself saying that his cousin, nine years old, is being held in the Gaza Strip. It's incomprehensible that this is nothing to do with military warfare. We are talking about civilians. If you refer to the Westerns and how we engage our wars, yes, you're right. But here we are talking about subhumans. They manage their wars in a different way. But this is not new. This is exactly what Hamas wanted to create. This is exactly what Hamas continue implementing their plan. And the plan was that to create a dilemma for Israel to think twice before entering boots on the ground in Gaza, they will... I will not be surprised. There will be more videos of other people that were kidnapped in Gaza. And this is exactly what we see, journalists, families, maybe later on demonstrations. This is exactly what they want to achieve. So Israel will be in a dilemma to think twice before entering the Gaza Strip. They know that if Israel will do it, they will probably eliminate it. So they will use any tool that they have. How has there not been mass condemnation from the rest of the world? Again, we're not talking about... You laugh, but it's a serious question. We're not talking about the military being taken in it. It still doesn't take away the fact that these are somebody's children, but they are part of a military. Now we are talking about actual children. First of all, we need to differentiate between much of the Western world. And we have seen a very strong stance from the US, Israel's strongest, biggest ally. We're also seeing messages of support and visits from the UK, from Germany, from France, and from other Western countries. And that is extremely important, the backing that Israel needs now. What is most interesting is the reaction of much of the Arab world, including Israel's neighbors, the ones that Israel signed peace accords with a long time ago. I'm speaking about Egypt and Jordan. The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is on his way here, but before he arrives in Israel, he met with King Abdullah and Jordan. And what came out of that conversation was this statement from King Abdullah saying, receiving refugees is a red line. There will be no refugees in Jordan and Egypt. Quite extraordinary statement from these Arab states around us that seem to care so much about the Palestinians in Gaza, obviously showing very little sympathy for the 1,400 Israelis murdered by these subhumans, as Grisha just noted. Sympathy and statements? Yes, for sure. Will they actually help those Gazans and take any refugees? Of course not. Gentlemen, stay with me. Israel's Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv has been faced with the daunting and sensitive task of identifying the bodies of, as Gai mentioned, over 1,400 people killed in the Hamas attack. Many of them have been burnt or mutilated beyond all recognition. Amir Ali's correspondent, Ariel O. Saran, was there yesterday being Monday and filed the following report. It's been nine days since the horrific slaughter in the community surrounding the Gaza Strip, and the dust is still settling. But at Israel's National Medical Forensic Center, examiners are working around the clock to identify as many of the 1,400 bodies. And at times, it's an impossible task. And the remains here are child. You cannot see what is there again, or another one. And this, when we separated it, we see that there are two people there, at least. We don't know how many people are there. So these people were sitting in the room. And they were not shot because we don't see any metal fragments there. But they were burned because they were not shot. This is like a crematorium. They were just burned in the security room. And this is what is actually left from them. I don't know if you will be able to take DNA from these samples because they are very childlike. You can see here two spines, another one. Two spines. And Dr. Nachman can show two ribs, two sets of ribs. And this is an adult with a child sitting together and hugging the child. And no, no, the first one. And Dr. Nachman thinks it might, this metal wire that you see here, might use to tie two bodies together. And they will burn like this. Since last Saturday, the center's examiners have checked over 950 body bags. Some have their remains of more than one body of victims from the border communities, the Desert Music Festival and security forces. So far, there are about 500 bodies that were identified. And there are still close to 300 bodies that remain unidentified. And new ones keep coming in. We're beginning samples from the deceased. We're sampling them for the right amount of material that we need to extract DNA for. Then we'll use that to create a genetic profile and compare it to the family members who wait for the answers. Many of the bodies have bullet wounds, some also in the hands as the victims were trying to protect themselves in their final moments. Burnt babies, headless bodies, some of the bodies are in such bad condition that they may never be identified. So this is a baby mattress. But just by addition by the size of the spot, it seems that he was bleeding or he or she were bleeding in the bed. I never saw anything like this. This is heart-wrenching because you can see innocent people that were just, no, butchered. And people that were shot where they were tied, people that were burned to death, people that were tied together. So this cruelty is something that you cannot imagine anything like that. With a ground-invasion looming and increasing international criticism over Israel's response, there is also a growing movement of people denying that Hamas terrorists committed such horrific acts of violence and torture. But hundreds of people from first responders to the medical examiners at this center have seen it all. You've seen this happen. I saw you pictures of dead bodies and also babies. You've seen it. And I don't know how many were decapitated and so on. We see people without heads. But things have happened. Just to deny it didn't happen. You saw the pictures. You see the bodies. It's here. You can tell yourself any story that you want and you can believe it. So if you don't want, if you refuse to believe that this happened, even though you see the pictures, you see the videos, you see the signs. It is all recorded. Welcome back. Thanks for being with us. So that report, obviously, just harrowing I myself had to take the earpiece out because I couldn't listen to it. But we're talking still about live people. Live people being held in Gaza, a lot of them civilians, not IDF. If a deal is to be struck, what is a deal that Israel would be able to live with? I want to add something small to what you've just said. It's the humanitarian card that Hamas pulled four days ago, okay? A crisis in Gaza. No electricity, no nothing. And I want to say that they are lying just on the clear than hour ago that the what the quantities of water in Gaza will be enough for another 24 hours. OK, it means they have some reserve of diesel to operate some generators. So first of all, let's put let's be clear about it. Number two, if there will be a deal, OK, and I'm saying again, if it will be unconditional deal, it means if the West, the Western countries and the Arab countries will demand from Israel to open the Rafa crossing. So the people of Gaza will get aid. There will be one condition to do it. Release all the people, all the civilians that were kidnapped, all the kids, all the babies, all the women. And the West, they hold the key to that. They are given money to honor that supplies aid and gives aid to 1.2 million refugees in Gaza. Just close it. And I think it will they refugees. Oh, come on, let's not enter to that definition with refugee and not. Let's put it aside, OK? There are 1.2 million people in Gaza that get money, aid, food, water, a medical treatment from onra. And onra get the funds from the Western world. Just stop the flow of cash. Close onra for the following till the end of the war and tell them this is the condition. We as the West have the tool to do it. So let's do it. Let's free and let's release those people by creating a coalition of human beings of the West, OK? You mentioned that they hold the key and I tend to agree with you. But we still face the situation. I don't think Israel gives a continental at this point about harming the international community in terms of what they think. Because again, we heard the speeches yesterday in particular from President Isaac Erdogan. These are our children, Israel's children that are being held captive. And Israel will do what it needs to do. But at the end of the day, we are still going to come under fire for creating a humanitarian catastrophe. In particular, shutting off onra. It's not we. When Hamas started this massacre last Saturday, they understood what will be the consequences to something like that. It's their responsibility to deal with their people. It's their responsibility to help their people. As we help our people, as we help our civilians, they start the war. It's their responsibility to, I don't know, to help the ones who are actually paying the price of their actions. Why to blame Israel always? Enough with that. And as Israeli officials keep pointing out, everything and anything that emanates outside or inside of the Gaza Strip is on the heads of Hamas Reserve IDF Colonel Grisha Yakovic. And I thank you very much for being with us on this special edition. Stay with us because we have much more to come on our rolling and breaking news coverage. Is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. Within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped and killed. Help us, we don't want to do it. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. And the way that it works is it generates this random body that kind of looks like a sponge and it evaluates its behavior. 1,800 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. And the package for when. And charges that you already know where they go. On international charges, Altis, your people in R.D. Access our website. Recargas.altis.com.b or select charges and type the number you want to place the charge. In addition, they receive the double balance in charges of eight dollars or more. Altis, the global network of the Dominicans. So our ruling and breaking news coverage of day 11 of Israel's war against Hamas. It's now official you as president Joe Biden will be making a wartime solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday, the latest demonstration of Washington's overwhelming support for Jerusalem following the October 7th Hamas is onslaught. This as Israel continues to count its dead. Now the toll stands at over 1400. Casualties in the Gaza Strip are rising too with Palestinian sources holding that over 2,700 people have been killed. Hamas continues to launch rockets at Israeli cities in the south and the center of the country. While the idea continues it's striking of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Exchanges of fire have also continued on the northern front between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. In recent hours an anti-tank guided missile was fired from Lebanon which is wounded too in Israel north that being the fifth anti-tank guided missile fired in the past 24 hours. The United States continues to stress that Israel has a right to self-defense but is also working hard at easing tensions in the region. Here's more from the U.S. Secretary of State and Snieblinken. Today and at our request the United States and Israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable humanitarian aid from donor nations and multilateral organizations to reach civilians in Gaza and them alone including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harm's way. It is critical that aid begin flowing into Gaza as soon as possible. We share Israel's concern that Hamas may seize or destroy aid entering Gaza or otherwise preventing it from reaching the people who need it. If Hamas in any way blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians including by seizing the aid itself will be the first to condemn it and we will work to prevent it from happening again. We welcome the government Israel's commitment to work on this plan. The President very much looks forward to discussing it further when he's here on Wednesday. Yesterday being Monday Hamas released a disturbing video of one Israeli French hostage Mia Shem. She is 21 years old and was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival Massacre on Saturday. In the video, she begs her to please bring her home rather to her family as soon as possible. The footage has been seen by the family and so it's okay that we're airing it but please note that this type of footage is used as part of Hamas's psychological warfare. I was in the area of Sederot in the morning and I was in a situation where I had a very difficult time. I was taken to the hospital for three hours. They took me to the hospital and took me to the hospital. Everything was fine. I was asked to come home for a few hours. My family, my parents, my brothers, I was asked to leave for a few hours. Now a short while ago, Mia's family held a press conference in Tel Aviv pleading to both the national and the international media for help. Yesterday, I saw my baby on television. I saw she's alive and I saw that she... I heard before rumors that she was in her shoulder or in the left so I can see she was shot in her shoulder. I see she had an operation. She looks very terrified. She looks like she's in big pain and I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say but I can see that she's stable. She needs medical care. I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday. She may might be kidnapped. She only went to a party, to a festival party, to have some fun. And now she's in Gaza and she's not the only one. There are many children who went to this party. There are many babies and children and old people and all the cost survivors that were kidnapped that their houses were burnt and we should all gather. Mia, come on. We can learn that the responsibility... Correspondent Owen Ultiman is at the presser in that headquarters in Tel Aviv. Owen, what can you tell us? How was it being surrounded? You mentioned earlier when we had you on the phone, national and international media and you mentioned that you were going to go to the press. Absolutely emotional. You just heard the comments from Mia Shem's mother and from others here. Without further ado, I'd like to bring Daniel Shek over to us. Our long-time viewers and even those who have joined us over the past week will recognize Ambassador Shek, a former Israeli ambassador to France, frequent guests and I-24 news, but we have him here for another reason. He's head of the diplomatic team with the possibility of a prisoner exchange. Gilad Shalit was freed in 2011 in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners who went on to kill and maim and leave Hamas, including participating in an event that cost 1,400 lives. Aren't there real risks and Israel is going to have to confront the real risks of a prisoner change as difficult as these stories are and as difficult as it is for the families? Is Israel going to have to face this very difficult choice? And how do you explain to the public the justification potentially Well, to be honest, you're 15 years late with this question. I'm no longer the diplomat who will have to deal with this dilemma, but you are right, Owen, this is a terrible dilemma and it will be in the minds of any person who will have to think of how to free these over 200 people, we don't have the final number yet, from 6-months-year-old babies to 87-year-old adults and elderlies this is a terrible dilemma but here in the families forum we have only one agenda we are the voice of the families we don't have any other interests, we are interested only in the unconditional freeing of each and every one of the abducted people regardless of their nationality of their age and of their origin, are they military or civilian, that is our demand do we think that this will happen immediately all at once no, of course we are aware that there might be stages in this effort but the dilemmas, they are not ours. Thank you so much, I'm sure we'll be hearing much more from you sadly in the days and weeks to come Batja back to you Thank you Owen for that update I'd like to now cross to Herzliya in Central Israel where I'm joined by Itai Reviv Itai lost one of his relatives while four others have been kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oiz by Hamas and taken into the Gaza Strip Firstly, thank you so very much for joining us here on our breaking news editions of I-24 News how are you and your family doing I can't begin to imagine how hard this must be for all of you It's really hard what we're doing, our best to speak in the name of our relatives who have been abducted and do everything in our power to help release them as soon as possible like everyone before me said, that's what we've been doing, we've been talking to the press, we've been trying to meet with whoever is possible my mom for example is meeting today with the president of Cyprus and others meeting with ambassadors and yeah, I think the world needs to do everything in order to release them I heard Mr. Blinken talking about humanitarian aid to the people, the civilians of Gaza and I'm thinking how can we do that before we're helping the civilians in Israel or inside Gaza you know, they talk about the Red Cross and how they need medical support and everything but these laws refer usually to soldiers in captivity nobody even talks about civilians civilians in captivity, it's not even the rules of war, it's something beyond that I think all civilians there should be released immediately, regardless of their nationality or other nationality so I have my cousin he was murdered in Cyprus near Ozum Saturday morning and he was found shot to death on the grounds of Cyprus the rest of my family my uncle and aunt Avram Brute born 78 years old they're all people in Cyprus who was murdered so my uncle and aunt they were all 78 years old Avram is an old person he needs his medicine, he can barely walk he walks with the cane his vision is not that great we don't know how he's surviving over a week now, almost 10 days I think together with their daughter what is their son who was murdered Karen, their daughter was there with them with her son who is almost 9 years old all four of them have been abducted by Hamas we have not seen any video nothing, we just know that their shelter at home in the Cyprus was clean and empty and there was no sign of struggle or blood and we know that their gold card was gone so the assumption is that they were taken by death into Gaza and I have to say about Ohad he has his 9th birthday in a few days and we really want him to celebrate his birthday at home we're trying to do everything in our power to do that we're now also trying to gather football players and tennis players to be supports we love to send new messages, new videos maybe help get their support to to release him every time I talk about him I'm sure that you see it on the news it's just unimaginable to see kids, babies inside of Hamas's hands, we saw what those terrorists are capable of we saw what they did in all of the villages of the Cyprus scene all across the border we should not be in Hamas's hands if we're talking again, if we're talking about helping civilians if the world wants to help civilians they need to release civilians for Hamas's hands and that's what the war needs to do and whoever hears this do everything in your power speak to everyone, speak to the press speak to your political leaders and do everything you can to release them, to bring them back home we've spoken to anyone in the government what is being done to bring your family home safe we know that the media has been covering this extensively but has anyone official reached out to you? So, some people slowly they happen eventually but with no any extra information they just talk to us there's been a meeting with Netanyahu this week with a few representatives from the headquarters of the families of those who have been abducted but nothing extra has been done we're not aware of any they haven't told us anything that's being done in order to release them I'm sure it's for I hope it's for good reasons in order to keep everything as a secret and try to be as smart as possible about it and I hope we can trust them as much as possible and again nothing has been done too much in communication with us except for telling us yes I've been abducted that's pretty much it Itai, I wish more than anything that I could tell you that they're watching you right now and that there's a message that you can send to them but unfortunately I don't have that power and I don't know if they are seeing this but if there was a message that you could send to your family right now what would it be I keep saying it it's that we love them I love you and we're doing everything in order to get you back home everything they say stay strong I hope you're well Itai Reviv who lost one of his relatives while four others had been kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz by Hamas and taken into the Gaza Strip over the last couple of days thank you so much for joining us for sharing your story may your relatives return home safely and we're sending you a huge hug thank you very much and with me here in studio is reserve IDF colonel Grisha Yokubovich the former head of the civilian department of Kogad for the IDF and an Israeli-Palestinians relations expert and our correspondent guy Azrael this has been an incredibly difficult last couple of hours some of the families coming out and speaking Itai himself saying that his cousin nine nine years old is being held in the Gaza Strip it's incomprehensible that this is nothing to do with military warfare we are talking about civilians if you refer to the westerns and how we engage our wars yes you're right but here we are talking about subhumans they manage their wars in a different way but this is not new this is exactly what Hamas wanted to create this is exactly what Hamas continued implementing the plan and the plan was that to create a dilemma for Israel to think twice before entering boots on the ground in the Gaza they will I would not be surprised there will be more videos of other people that were kidnapped in the Gaza and this is exactly what we see journalists, families maybe later on demonstrations this is exactly what they want to achieve so Israel will be in a dilemma to think twice before entering the Gaza Strip they know that if Israel will do it they will probably eliminate it so they will use any tool that they have how has there not been mass condemnation from the rest of the world again we're not talking about you laugh but it's a serious question we're not talking about the military being taken in it still doesn't take away the fact that they're not everybody's children but they're part of a military now we are talking about actual children first of all we need to differentiate between much of the western world and we have seen a very strong stance from the US Israel's strongest, biggest ally we're also seen messages of support and visits from the UK, from Germany from France and from other western countries and that is extremely important what Israel needs now what is most interesting is the reaction of much of the Arab world including Israel's neighbors the ones that Israel signed peace accords with a long time ago I'm speaking about Egypt and Jordan the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on his way here but before he arrives in Israel he met with King Abdullah and Jordan and what came out of that conversation was this statement from King Abdullah saying receiving refugees is a red line there will be no refugees in Jordan and Egypt quite extraordinary statement from these Arab states around us that seem to care so much about the Palestinians in Gaza obviously showing very little sympathy for the 1400 Israelis murdered by these subhumans as Grisha just noted sympathy and statements yes for sure will they actually help those Gazans and take any refugees of course not gentlemen stay with me Israel's Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv has been faced with the daunting and sensitive task of identifying the bodies of as by mentioned over 1400 people killed in the Hamas attack many of them who burnt or mutilated beyond all recognition Middle East correspondent Ariel O. Saran was there yesterday being Monday and filed the following report it's been nine days since the horrific slaughter in the community surrounding the Gaza Strip and the dust is still settling but at Israel's National Medical Forensic Center examiners are working around the clock to identify as many of the 1400 bodies have been killed and that is a very important task and the remains here are a child you cannot see what is there again go another one and this when we separated it we see that two people there at least we don't know how many people are there so these people were sitting in the room and they were not shot because we don't see any metal fragments there but they were banned because and this is what is actually left from them. I don't know if you will be able to take DNA from these samples because they are very childlike. You can see here two spines, another one. Two spines. And Dr. Nassim can show you two ribs, two sets of ribs. And this is an adult with a child sitting together and hugging the child. No, no, the first one. And Dr. Nachman thinks it might, this metal wire that you see here might use to tie two bodies together. And they will burn like this. Since last Saturday, the center's examiners have checked over 950 body bags. Some have their remains of more than one body of three. Some have their remains of more than one body of victims from the border communities, the Desert Music Festival and security forces. So far there are about 500 bodies that were identified and there are still close to 300 bodies that remain unidentified and new ones keep coming in. We are getting samples from the deceased. We are sampling them for the right amount of material that we need to extract DNA for. Then we'll use that to create a genetic profile and compare it to the family members who wait for the answers. Many of the bodies have bullet wounds, some also in the hands, as the victims were trying to protect themselves in their final moments. Burnt babies, headless bodies, some of the bodies are in such bad condition that they may never be identified. This is a baby mattress, just by addition to the size of the spot it seems that he or she was bleeding in the bed. I never saw anything like this. This is heart-wrenching because you can see innocent people that were just butchered. People that were shot where they were tied, people that were burned to death, people that were tied together. So this cruelty is something that... You cannot imagine anything like that. With a ground invasion looming and increasing international criticism over Israel's response, there is also a growing movement of people denying that Hamas terrorists committed such horrific acts of violence and torture. But hundreds of people from first responders to the medical examiners at this center have seen it all. You've seen this happen. I saw you pictures of dead bodies and also babies. You've seen it. And I don't know how many were decapitated and so on. We see people without heads. But things have happened. Just to deny it didn't happen, you saw the picture. You see the bodies. It's here. You can tell yourself any story that you want and you can believe it. So if you don't want... If you refuse to believe that this happened, even though you see the pictures, you see the videos, you see the signs, it is all recorded. Welcome back. Thanks for being with us. So that report, obviously just harrowing, I myself had to take the earpiece out because I couldn't listen to it. But we're talking still about live people. Live people being held in Gaza, a lot of them civilians. Not an IDF. If a deal is to be struck, what is a deal that Israel would be able to live with? I want to add something small to what you've just said. It's the humanitarian card that Hamas pulled four days ago. Okay? A crisis in Gaza. No electricity, no nothing. And I want to say that they are lying. Just on what declared an hour ago that the quantities of water in Gaza would be enough for another 24 hours. It means they have some reserve of diesel to operate some generators. So first of all, let's be clear about it. Number two, if there will be a deal. And I'm saying again, if it will be unconditional deal, it means if the Western countries and the Arab countries will demand from Israel to open the, I don't know, Rafa crossing. So the people of Gaza will get aid. There will be one condition to do it. Release all the people, all the civilians that were kidnapped, all the kids, all the babies, all the women. And the West, they hold the key to that. They are giving money to UNRWA that supplies aid and gives aid to 1.2 million refugees in Gaza. Just close it. And I think it will... But they're refugees. Oh, come on. Let's not enter to that definition who is refugee and not. Let's put it aside, okay? There are 1.2 million people in Gaza that get money, aid, food, water, medical treatment from UNRWA. And UNRWA get the funds from the Western world, okay? Just stop the flow of cash. Close UNRWA, okay, for the following till the end of the war and tell them this is the condition. We as the West have the tool to do it. So let's do it. Let's free and let's release those people by creating a coalition, okay, of human beings of the West, okay? You mentioned that they hold the key and I tend to agree with you. But we still face the situation. I don't think Israel gives a continental at this point about harming the international community in terms of what they think. Because again, we heard the speeches yesterday in particular from President Isaac Erdogan. These are our children, Israel's children that are being held captive and Israel will do what it needs to do. But at the end of the day, we are still going to come under fire for creating a humanitarian catastrophe. In particular, shutting off UNRWA. It's not we. When Hamas started this massacre last Saturday, they understood what will be the consequences to something like that. It's their responsibility to deal with their people. It's their responsibility to help their people. As we help our people, as we help our civilians, they start the war. It's their responsibility to, I don't know, to help the ones who are actually paying the price of their actions. Why to blame Israel always? Enough with that. And as Israeli officials keep pointing out, everything and anything that emanates outside or inside of the Gaza Strip is on the heads of Hamas Reserve IDF Colonel Grisha Yakovic. I want to thank you very much for being with us on this special edition. Stay with us because we have much more to come on our rolling and breaking news coverage. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Officially in a state of war, this is a very active scene, and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Tell us what we don't want to do. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant, and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. I-24 News' ongoing coverage of Israel's war against Hamas' murderers. I'm Ariel Levin Waldman. The war has now entered its 11th day, and U.S. President Joe Biden will be making a wartime solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday. It's the latest demonstration of Washington's support for Jerusalem following the October 7th Hamas invasion and widespread crimes against humanity in Israel's south. Israel continues to count its dead in the aftermath, that toll now standing at over 1,400, with around 200 civilians confirmed kidnapped by those terrorists, many of which are still in critical condition with no medical care. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets at Israeli cities in the south and the center, while the IDF continues striking Hamas' targets in the Gaza Strip. The IDF says in preparation for a ground invasion to finally break the genocidal terror group once and for all. More skirmishes along the northern front as well, as Iran's Hezbollah terror group launches rockets, mortars and anti-tank weapons at Israeli cities and military bases. Hamas' atrocities have unified the Israeli public behind a ground invasion of Gaza. Recent polling shows that a full 87% of Israelis support a full-scale war against Hamas in Gaza. Even Israel's typically anti-war left are 86% behind that ground operation. Israel's leadership has vowed to prosecute the war until Hamas is destroyed, despite heavy and mounting international pressure for a ceasefire and de-escalation. Nor has Israeli leadership fully ruled out the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, even as the U.S. urges Israel to develop an exit strategy for after Hamas is destroyed. Iran, though, once again threatening to directly involve themselves in the conflict, saying that should Israel enter Gaza on the ground, Iran cannot predict how they might escalate. The majority of America's political leaders have voiced their full support for Israel, with the exception of members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party known as the squad. These U.S. lawmakers have vowed to supply Israel with arms to ensure Hamas is annihilated. The surest way to stop violence against Israelis and oppression of Palestinians is to wipe terrorists like Hamas from the face of the earth. And we first go to our correspondent, Ariel Osiron, who is in the south of Israel at Starot, the border town where we saw so much of the violence. Give us some updates, because that city is still under constant bombardment, and you are close to the staging grounds for Israel's military. Right, Ariel. Well, I'll start with saying we're not going to disclose where these staging areas are, but there are a lot of them along the border, as Israel has amassed a very significant force here surrounding the Gaza Strip. Now, I'm here in Starot, the main town close to the Gaza Strip. Now, like most of the communities around the Gaza Strip, Starot 2 has been evacuated. Only about 10% of the population remains here. We're talking about 4,000 and 5,000 people. Now, as for the situation here in the ground, in the morning there were sporadic rocket launches towards the communities here surrounding the Gaza Strip, but over the past couple of hours, it has been fairly calm. As for the situation in the Gaza Strip, we can hear every once in a while artillery shelling significant activity of Israeli Air Force fighter jets as well as surveillance drones flying overhead constantly, and this comes as Israel is preparing for its ground invasion, as you mentioned, also amid calls for the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, mainly those in the north to head their way down south of the city of Gaza as Israel anticipates an impending ground operation. Now, as you mentioned, the Iranian threat, so Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeting not too long ago, saying that the world needs to respond to Israel's acts and saying that if the crimes committed by the Zionist regime continue, no one will be able to stop the Muslims and the resistance forces. We've been hearing messaging coming out from Iran, Lebanon that indicate that Hezbollah could be joining the phrase soon. Obviously, this is something that Hamas would like to see very much. That's obviously the breakout event that everyone is willing to see if it happens. Ariel, thank you very much for your reporting on the border. We'll come back to you over the course of the show as things change on the ground. But first, discuss that threat of Iran and some of the threats they made just this morning. In studio with us, Professor Uzzi Rabi, a senior researcher at the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Uzzi, thank you for being in here with us. Just this morning, we saw Iran's foreign minister say that an operation, a preemptive operation from the axis of resistance, in this case, most certainly meaning Hezbollah, could be imminent in the coming hours. Are they bluffing because they've been saying this for days now, or are they going to commit Hezbollah to the war effort? You know, under the circumstances, we cannot actually speculate on that because Israel, by any standard, has to be well-prepared to such an eventuality. So we are focusing on Gaza. There is kind of a strategic aim there. We know it. But at the same time, we have to just look carefully at what's going on in the north. But I would say that the situation is pretty different once actually you have here the United States in full volume highly involved in this conflict. It seems that it would be misleading to isolate Israel and Gaza as if it stands by itself. This conflict has, I would say, long ramifications. Regionally speaking, one would say even globally speaking. So I guess that we are in a grand game. And this grand game, a great game, has to do with actually the threats coming from the U.S. against Iran as not to get involved in this conflict. Otherwise, this is going to be a different opera, and we are in the midst of a regional war. Having said that, we are amidst of a war. The war is basically the home of miscalculations. And we know that it takes this one shot actually to make things out of control. So we have to be very, very careful, as I said before. But this is actually the differentiation. This is how actually the division of labor here, so to speak, Israel has to do with Hamas. Israel got the go-ahead from the United States about annihilation of Hamas when it comes to Hezbollah slash Iran. It seems that the United States is here to prevent such an eventuality. Why? I think that once looking at the great scope, one would say actually that, you know, United States is keenly aware that what we have in Gaza now is kind of a battle, the results of which are going to affect the future of the Middle East, maybe more than that. And, you know, there's no place now or room to just elaborate on the normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia. But the United States has vested interest in it, and it goes without saying that once actually we are annihilating Hamas, this would be kind of a message to be learned all over the place. But the same token, Iran has invested a great deal of time, money and effort into arming Hamas as one of their primary chess pieces in their campaign to destroy Israel and all the Jews inside it. They're running the risk right now of losing that piece on the board if they fail to activate their forces in the North. It puts them in a bit of a dilemma themselves. What sort of forces could they be committing from the North? What sort of game changers might they have brought in? They're in dilemma. I fully agree with you. This is kind of a thing which is basically sort of a blow on Iran because what Iran has built in Gaza is one of the arms of the octopus. We know it. But Iran would not sacrifice Hezbollah. This is my take for the sake of Palestinians. Iran is very cynical, very cruel. It uses, you know, Arab organs here and there as proxies. And this is actually the dilemma. Stakes are getting higher. Iran knows that. If Iran is going to just open up a sort of regional war, I think that Lebanon is doomed because Lebanon is going actually to see kind of a demolition haven't seen before. And we have to let Lebanese know that also of course the Lebanese government. And for Hezbollah, listen, sooner or later, Israel would have to do the replica. Israel would have to do the same scenario when it comes to Hezbollah because Hezbollah is much worse than Hamas. Not ideologically, I mean, but when it comes to its capacity, missiles, etc. So we are in the midst of an axis, Hamas, Islamic jihad, let's just remind them to and then Hezbollah. Hezbollah is next in line when it comes to Israel because Israel has learned a bitter lesson. You cannot actually calculate or foster your future when you have that kind of a neighbor. So I think that sooner or later we are going to see that. The question remains whether we are going to see that now if Iran is going actually to keep up to its sayings and we're going to have kind of a regional war. So this would be another opera. Thanks God, United States is here. I am thrilled with that because I think that bad guys are going to be retaliated in kind of a way that would leave them without, with the right lesson for years to come. And we're going to continue on the possible ramifications of this. But first we are going to go to the northern border where our correspondent, Robert Swift, is going to be giving us the latest from that front. When I understand there was some fire coming from the north from Lebanon not that long ago. Ariel, that's correct. There's fire coming from the border right as we speak. In the last couple of minutes we've been hearing single round small arms fire possibly a marksman firing from the Lebanese border which is just behind me. If I step aside you'll be able to see the border. We heard shots for about the last two to three minutes and then in the last 30 seconds we've heard some very loud bangs which is possibly Israeli artillery responding to whatever it was that we have been hearing. Now there has been attacks by Hezbollah using small arms fire against Israeli observation towers so it's possible that that's what was occurring there. That has just been happening in the last couple of minutes. Prior to that we were having a couple of hours of relative quiet with the last major incident being an anti-tank missile attack. Sorry, that's another explosion off to our right hand side. The last major attack being the anti-tank missile attack against a civilian vehicle which was on the eastern end of Israel's northern border that resulted in three Israeli casualties. One seriously wounded and two lightly wounded. They've been evacuated to a hospital in Safed and the Israeli military responded to that attack using artillery and tank fire. And I should say that this the exchange of fire that's taking place behind me that's not the only one we've heard today with at least the second incidents of small arms fire that we've heard. That one was just small arms fire being fired by both sides but this what we're hearing now appears to be a larger exchange with small arms fire taking place and what sounds like an artillery response from the Israeli side. Definitely there is a serious escalation going on there just this constant barrage the question that everyone is wondering is this just a series of probing attacks are they attempting to test Israel's defenses or is there a real feeling up there that they are going to be committing? That's a million dollar question because Hezbollah didn't enter the war right on day one when they had the element of surprise it's very much a million dollar question. These attacks these sort of skirmishes and probing attacks do seem to be at times escalating but it's not clear if that means that they are going to fully commit or if the objective itself is to keep the Israeli army fixed here. Now the higher intensity these attacks are the more resources that the Israeli military has to tie in here and that means that those are forces that cannot be used in the south with the operations in Gaza. Now it's worth bearing in mind whether Hezbollah intends to commit or not for the residents of the communities living all along here for the residents of the in fact I'm just seeing fire behind me we'll zoom in on that in just one second it's worth bearing in mind that for the residents of these communities they are very much in the stuck in the middle of this and that's why 28 different communities have been evacuated and if we just zoom in now that appears to be smoke or dust thrown up by an Israeli artillery strike and once again we can hear additional shots and yes and Ariel as I was saying the the communities in this area have been forced to flee many of them and we just a little bit earlier were speaking with one family who were basically packing up their bags getting ready to leave the area and to move to Jerusalem and we'll take a listen to what they had to say now Shalom Hello, I'm Shiri Sito I live in the amazing Shlomi Shlomi Amemet Firstly, we're living through a not easy period throughout the country after the terrible massacre on Saturday but first of all we rely on the creator of the universe and we rely on our powerful military and then yahu taking the right decisions crush them once and for all Hamas and Hezbollah because we live here under constant threat and we want to put an end to it to live in calm Right, there is no quiet we're going through a period that is very difficult for me personally, my middle son is on the autism spectrum before you saw a scene that was not easy to see a crisis, he doesn't want to be evacuated because he doesn't understand the situation it's not simple in principle, we don't want to evacuate because our home is our fortress but the situation forces us to we have children to safeguard and look after we really hope that the situation will pass quickly that we will come out on top, please God and we'll return to our boring and welcome routine and we're going to go now to Seth Dukanu, a resident of one of those northern communities, that's Har Haloutz which has been evacuated by order of the military, Seth, thank you very much for being on, can you describe what the past few days really, week and a half have been like and how the evacuation has gone down Well, I can tell you that me and my family, we were really worried I'm a part of the emergency response team, volunteer team in the two up, so we've been just trying to keep account of everybody that is in the Moshev leaving Moshev, people were leaving before people were leaving just now that they were ordered to and for us personally my sister and my wife are both pregnant right now, eight months pregnant and it was just yesterday or two days ago when there was real gunfire on the border just a couple kilometers away and we told each other okay, I'm in a part of this volunteer squad and I'm going to try to help the community but we're going to have to get out of here sooner or later and sure sure enough the order was we were told to evacuate just the next day and now we're here and it was a huge sigh of relief for me, my family my sister and our three kids it was, yeah, it's been it's been a ride for sure I guess what's the attitude of many people you know on one hand there's this sigh of relief as you mentioned that you're no longer on the border where everything is happening everything's taking fire on the other hand no one's been driven from their homes what's the general attitude well, yeah, so my father yesterday my father also came down with us just yesterday and he really didn't want to leave and we have dogs on the property and we don't know, you know, it's very hard we have to take our dogs with us but can we take our dogs, you know my cats, they're living outside we had to put bowls of food just enough we have to leave the windows open hopefully stray cats don't ruin my couch it's like, it's a very interesting situation and it's our home and we didn't want to leave and there was so much comfort there but, you know, praise God we do have a place here this beautiful American family helped us give my family, my sister's family and my parents a place to stay and we feel really comfortable it's not that far off you can still hear some activity from this area but it's a lot better than Atua and me and my family personally have been preparing bomb shelters in places like that for the community and the soldiers have taken it over completely and so a lot of what we were doing is just getting water getting internet to these bomb shelters to prepare and we just slowly started figuring out that our town, Atua, is turning into you know, a base of operations on the front line and so I had to get my pregnant wife and my son out of there and my sister and her family Seth, for your part and people you know, what are they saying are you confident that this is finally going to be the knockout blow that will let you and your family and your neighbors live in safety or are people saying that they think it's going to be a status quo that keeps on continuing well the one thing that's been concerning to me is that I'm seeing all the activity from Gaza even though we've hit them back so heavily and so immediately and so I know that what's left in the north is going to be a bigger enemy a bigger thing to conquer and since it's still going on in Gaza I'm really worried that this is going to be a long stretch for all of us and that was one of the reasons we moved out and just to get a breather if nothing else to breathe and then maybe even just go back home and be on the line again and leaving and you know, we don't know how long this is going to last but we are hoping that this is going to be God willing this is going to be the end of it we're going to take we're going to take peace in this area we're going to take out our enemies if we have to we're going to, I mean this is what this is my hope is that this won't ever happen again and I think it's, I think the government's responsibility to make sure it doesn't and that's a scary thing to say, I know that's a scary thing to say because I know that could be a very long time but yes, that is our hope that's what's been set on the ground here with my family is we are hoping that we're not going to have these organizations up in the north or in Gaza doing this ever again and I guess my last question for you is going to be do you have a personal message as somebody who is from the north who has been along this front line a personal message to your fellow Israelis at this time? I think, stay strong and trust in God trust in God because he's moving these are historic times, these are prophetic times and start reading the book of Ezekiel and Jeremiah and you'll see that there's a lot of, you know, this is our historic times, if it's prophecy or not this is historic times and we all have to come together as a country and as a people Thank you Seth and you stay strong as well out there Thank you so much Ariel I'm going to come back to you in the studio, Uzzi to talk about that threat of Iran because we've always been talking about Hezbollah as the major player of the room, much better arm than Hamas, 130,000 rockets missiles much more advanced and sophisticated aimed at Israel but there's also this passageway all the way from Iran to the north to arm all of its proxy groups is there a threat that they've been able to move as well weapons of mass destruction through Syria, gas attacks, chemical weapons and the like that we could see surprise us in this conflict Well I mean you have to be very very careful and prudent as to make sure that this is not the case I think that they are trying I know that there have been many attempts doing that remember it's not Iran and Lebanon amidst them you have two other states Syria and Iraq this is a huge corridor this is what they call actually also Arabs not only Israelis the Iranian threat or the Iranian axis or the Shiite axis now Israel is monitoring that day by day and we are witnessing actually kind of a daily action by which actually to target a convoy or whatever trying to deliver Hezbollah stuff which is very very dangerous I know that Hezbollah is highly equipped with capacities it's not only missiles some other things too Israel is far more stronger still than Hezbollah and I just repeat what I said before annihilating Hamas by itself is just a first step in the right direction the main battle which waiting for Israel behind the corner it would be Hezbollah we need the United States to have a backup when it comes to Iran so here you have kind of a premise of I would say regional war and this is why I am afraid of something that I just heard Ali Khamenei saying that Muslims wherever you are actually rise to the occasion this more and more gets the flavor of what I would call inter-civilizational conflict this is highly important because if it comes to that that would be something which is much greater than with thing let's hope that things are going actually to be handled carefully let's hope that the American presence is going to create kind of a sign of caution for Iran not to get into the battlefield I think and this is just my take and we are in the midst of what we said everything could happen I think Iran actually would get the message this time by the way if Hezbollah and Iran from the beginning would have had the in their back of mind the scenario of having the same thing Hamas did in Gaza they would actually capitalize on the occasion in the first day actually take the element of surprise they didn't do so it's not to say that they are not going to do that and you can just ask that once Israel is in Gaza how about kind of an Iranian plan they let them in and then we are going actually to attack them this is also a possibility so we are in sort of a so many possibilities that I think that we should not actually speculate on that we have to work we have to get a working assumption as if Hamas is there but Hezbollah is going to attack us and Iran could be too I think that lucky for Israel United States is here and in the next last minute we have together right now what would be the trigger for United States direct involvement well United States is not getting back to perform boots on the ground we understand that all these aircraft carriers etc actually just here to make sure that Iran is not turning this whole thing into a regional war an inter-civilization war as I said before but having said that I think that the United States has some practical I would say interest here I think that the United States would still like to actually give rebirth to the normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel and now I think Hamas would be the first step preventing Iran would be the second step Thank you very much Uzi and thank you for joining us we are going to be right back in just a few minutes to cover Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and the war around Israel in all aspects 1500 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 starts from scratch and the way that it works is it generates this random body that kind of looks like a sponge and it evaluates its behavior a particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year and not only in Bolivia but all over the world and we need rain for the embryos your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of I-24 news good evening ladies and gentlemen thanks for staying with us as we continue our coverage of Israel at war the Hamas terror organization has just released a propaganda video featuring one of the Israeli civilians kidnapped by the terror group it's a move that Israeli defense officials have termed a form of psychological warfare the victim Mia Shem appears alive but injured as her parents beg news outlets not to share the video something we will not do a video that many believe is being used to shatter Israeli morale yesterday I saw my baby on television I saw she's alive and I saw that she was I had heard before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg so I can see she was shot in her shoulder I see she had an operation she looks very terrified she looks like she's in big pain I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say I can see that she's stable I can see she needs medical care and I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday is that she may might be kidnapped she only went to a party to a festival party to have some fun and now she's in Gaza and she's not the only one there are many children who went to this party there are many babies and children and old people and all the cost survivors that were kidnapped that their houses were burned this is a crime and we should all gather and stop this the United Nations relief and works agency UNRWA $1 million annually to Palestinian causes said yesterday that Hamas in Gaza has stolen their supplies fuel and medical UNRWA originally said that people claiming to be Hamas health ministry officials had showed up with a truck and taken tens of thousands of leaders of gasoline and that UN people were forced to evacuate surely afterwards UNRWA deleted the post they made and denied that any looting took place but UN officials as well as Israelis have confirmed the theft of critical supplies by Hamas did in fact happen Israel has long maintained Hamas steals humanitarian aid to use for their war against Israel and said there's no clear oversight of those billions of dollars that UNRWA funnels into Palestinian areas saying that it typically ends up arming terrorists for more on this we are talking to Hillel Noor executive director of United Nations watch he's going to be talking to us a little bit about how Hamas has been running their propaganda how that seeps off into the UN's own refugee agencies look UNRWA deleted a tweet that could not be more clear they had reported that Hamas the ministry of health by the way this is an agency that is quoted every day by the New York Times by BBC and every other leading newspaper the Palestinian Ministry of Health it's run by Hamas they don't mention that and they quote their statistics as if their reliance is dishonest journalism to say the least so the UNRWA had revealed as you're showing in the tweet on the screen that the Palestinian Ministry of Health Hamas came and stole fuel and medical equipment we estimate 24,000 liters of fuel that's enough to power water desalination plants for four days provide water to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that was stolen by Hamas this fuel they're going to use for their terrorist purposes so this is very clear that anyone who supports Hamas and we're seeing people on campuses and in European capitals who support Hamas certain Muslims and others who are supporting Hamas that is shocking because it means you don't support the Palestinian people you're supporting a terrorist organization that steals fuel that's supposed to be for a humanitarian agency now UNRWA deleted the tweet I don't think we need to guess why two years ago when there was a previous war with Hamas there was the head of UNRWA's Gaza office a guy named Mattias Schmel he had said in a TV interview when asked he said that the Israeli strikes on Hamas were very precise he acknowledged that Israel was targeting the Hamas terrorists and not as many media and others alleged that Israel targets civilians he said no the Israel is targeting the terrorists and it's very precise and when he gave that interview he suddenly became persona non grata in Gaza Hamas organized protests orchestrated protests against him and basically pushed him out of Gaza and pushed him out of his position so the second tweet which denied the first tweet which they deleted it suggests that the person writing it may have been dangling over a Gaza city rooftop being held by his ankles by Hamas terrorists now you've detailed how Hamas uses propaganda efforts when speaking to the world in general but as of this morning we started seeing Hamas making propaganda efforts towards the Israeli people I want to analyze some of the purpose behind that video of the hostages they were showing well the latest Hamas video of a young Israeli woman Mia and you just showed her mom before begging the world to save her baby who just went to a music festival to have fun and was kidnapped when Hamas terrorists swooped over the music festival and just fired bullets at people mowed them down and killed hundreds and abducted many including Mia the video purports to show her getting medical treatment in a one minute video and that suggests that Hamas is trying to portray itself perhaps for Western audiences as if it's humanitarian to empower its apologists and we've seen some on campus who denied the atrocities 1400 people were murdered thousands were wounded people were tortured in front of their families horrific atrocities occurred that really called to mind the Nazis and that's something I rarely use a comparison but that is the comparison that comes to mind the evil and brutality and so Hamas was proud of that when they did the massacre on October 7th they had GoPro videos on their helmets to record what they were doing they recorded some of their atrocities live stream on Facebook but to empower their apologists they'll make these other videos which will allow people to claim that Hamas is humanitarian and of course it's psychological warfare to terrorize Israelis to keep circulating videos of the hostages that's something that Hamas will of course do throughout this conflict to try to terrorize Israelis and torture the entire Israeli people in a psychological way as they're torturing psychologically at least the hostages they have and bear in mind these are young women these are children babies great-grandmothers who are holocaust survivors Hamas has cruelly abducted hostages who are completely innocent civilians it's really shocking and you mentioned how they play on world sympathies during these times and we're already seeing now European powers vow increases in funding to Palestinian causes times 3 times 10 in some cases how much of this in your experience because you've seen how the money moves hands to some degree it's just going to end up back in the hands of terror groups aiming to perform genocidal acts against the Jewish people look the United States had an internal memo the State Department not long ago this administration when they decided to give funding to the PA to give to certain Palestinian agencies and the internal State Department communications acknowledge that there was a risk that the money would be diverted to terrorist purposes you know you give money to Unra and we're seeing it now that Hamas has taken 24,000 liters of fuel they're going to use for terrorist purposes and I need to say you know our organization you and watch has exposed Unra teachers and school principals as recently as last week who openly on Facebook celebrate terrorism they celebrated the massacre of October 7th they cheered this they said God is great and they glorified the mass murder of Jews these are Unra teachers they're UN teachers we are paying for that you know America gives about $300 million a year the EU is giving maybe $150 million a year Germany 200 million Canada gives money to it Australia all the major democracies are funding Unra when we know that they have hundreds of teachers in Gaza in the West Bank in Lebanon in Syria who are educating a new generation of Palestinians to anti-Semitic hatred and you just go on their Facebook posts you can see it on our website humanwatch.org and we urge all countries that give any money to Unra to demand that these teachers be fired immediately and to try to understand why Unra systematically hires anti-Semitic pro-terrorist teachers there seems to be something pernicious and poisonous within Unra itself Thank you for giving us a glimpse inside how Hamas can reach even beyond their weapons range to influence minds in such a pernicious way we're gonna move on now to other nations reaching well beyond their borders and that would be Russia in this case who has thrown their support at least diplomatically for now behind Hamas's murderers who acknowledge that this support comes because of Moscow's strategic ties with the Arab world and chief among them being Iran Hamas and his bullet genocide militias currently arrayed along Israel's borders Putin has condemned Israel's operation in Gaza calling it unacceptable and is set to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week as the two set out their vision for a new regional and world order Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Vladimir Putin for the first time since Hamas launched its war against Israel to tell Moscow that Israel will not stop until Hamas's military and governmental capabilities are broken the UN Security Council yesterday rejected a Russian ceasefire proposal that did not even name or blame Hamas at all for the massacre of over 1,400 Israelis on October 7th and this weekend Putin went so far as to compare Israeli military operations in Gaza to Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad in World War II military and non-military measures could be taking against the Gaza Strip in the same manner as during the siege of Leningrad in the Second World War we understand what that entails in my view that is unacceptable more than 2 million people live there not everyone supports Hamas by the way not everyone and everyone should suffer including the women and the children we have, I have said many times a great many of our compatriots former citizens of the Soviet Union and Russia living in Israel this is a real factor for us of course we cannot forget about it on the other side we have the Arab world we have very good relations with them for many years for decades first of all with Palestine and to break this down further we have with us in studio Amir Orin Defense and Government Commentator Russia more or less formally endorsing Hamas here what can they bring to bear in this conflict given how much they've tied up their military support in Ukraine so it's quite a revelation to find out that Vladimir Putin has some soft spot for human suffering not necessarily the right one and this is from the butcher of Ukraine now of course it's all real politic Israel while trying to remain almost neutral in the Ukraine war nevertheless is in the western camp and it is helping the United States and NATO and those alliance and the leader of the alliance are helping the Ukraine so from Putin's perspective Israel if not enemies and adversaries including in Syria and therefore one should not look for too much sympathy from him and when he compares the siege of Gaza not really a siege because the Rafa crossing is under Egyptian control when he compares it to Leningrad this is because Putin is from St. Petersburg at that time Leningrad this is his warped vision of what is happening here but what is even more important is that Putin is now visiting China and the Chinese and the Russians are arrayed against the United States Israel Europe and the Palestinian authority led by Fatah the arch rival of Hamas is supposedly in this camp with Egypt and Jordan who are now fearful of destabilizing their nations and regimes because of the turbulence in the Israeli Palestinian or Israeli Hamas conflict so it has become a global issue it is not just focused on the border between Gaza and the Negev the southern part of Israel it has to do with Muslim and Arab sensibilities and great power competition and on one hand it's no surprise with the case of Russia because they have always been the backer of the Arab world even when the Arab world was trying to conduct wars of genocide against Israel the game changer here appears to be China which is the world's second largest economy with a massively growing military are they ready to put more than just their thumb on the scale of words but also in material support well China usually takes a back seat it has not come out forcefully but neither has it supported Israel and again when China plans the taking over of Taiwan obviously there will be civilian casualties China is not in the business of condemning civilian victims of aggression and it's all a very calculated game of power politics certainly they're not against genocidal ideas either given what they've done to their weaker population I guess the question that's on everyone's mind though is what could they do to really contribute here what should Israel be on the lookout for given that Israel has been trying so hard to move closer to China in recent decades it won't help China has its vision for 2030 and beyond the United States led by Biden in India put forward a competition for the rodent belt scheme the corridor which Biden suggested that would be paved from India through the Persian or Arabian gulf including the Levant Israel towards Europe this is indirect competition with China's own vision so obviously they see it as zero-sum game they're not going to help anyone helped by the United States and the Palestinians at the same time are gleeful that their dream of internationalizing the conflict is coming through because whoever descends on Israel or Shamashshak for a summit is going to expand the issue at hand this is not only the massacre perpetrated by Hamas not only the Israeli response at least by air for now in Gaza not only what is happening in the Lebanese border but the entire conflict which is simmering and which the world understands must be calmed down and there's been a sort of cold calculation that everyone's making does Lebanon get involved does Hezbollah launch their attack if so, does the United States get involved if the United States gets involved with those carrier groups what will that do as far as China and Russia is concerned the United States is not going to get involved because next week we and especially they are marking the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Marine barracks at Khaldeh airport the root airport in October of 1983 241 Marines and sailors perished in one moment and this caused President Reagan to take back not the carriers at that time it was a battleship, New Jersey which shelled Sukarab, the Druze, Syrian proxies but it's the same the Americans are not going to get involved in fighting here in Tel Aviv not far from where we are sitting a special forces contingent helping with intelligence and advice the Israelis who may be trying to locate the missing, the prisoners for a hostage rescue operation but as they say nothing more it's a concerning situation a very tense one it's the possibility to bring in a lot more power than anybody expected I'm here, thank you very much for explaining we're going to look at the grim task ahead for Israel's institute for forensic medicine in Tel Aviv that is identifying the bodies of over 1,400 people killed burned and mutilated in the Hamas attack many of them destroyed beyond recognition our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaran was there today and filed this grim report it's been nine days since the horrific slaughter in the community surrounding the Gaza Strip and the dust is still settling but at Israel's National Medical Forensic Center examiners are working around the clock to identify as many of the 1,400 bodies and at times it's an impossible task and the remains here are child you cannot see what is there again and this when we separated it there are two people there at least we don't know how many people are there so these people were sitting in the room and they were not shot because we don't see any metal fragments there but they were burned because they were not shot this is like a crematorium they were burned in the security room and this is what is actually left from them I don't know if you will be able to take DNA from these samples because they are very child you can see here two spines and Dr. Nachman can you show two ribs two sets of ribs and this is an adult with a child sitting together and hug sorry and now he is hugging the child and no no the first one and Dr. Nachman thinks it might this fire if you see here might use to try two bodies together and they will burn like this since last Saturday the centers examiners have checked over 950 body bags some have the remains of more than one body of victims from the border communities, the desert music festival and security forces so far there are about 500 bodies that were identified and there are still close to 300 bodies that remain unidentified and new ones keep coming in we are getting samples from the deceased we are sampling them for the right amount of material that we need to extract DNA for then we will use that to create a genetic profile and compare it to the family members who wait for the answers many of the bodies have bullet wounds some also in the hands as the victims were trying to protect themselves in their final moments burnt babies, headless bodies some of the bodies are in such bad condition that they may never be identified so this is a baby mattress just by addition by the size of the spot it seems that he was bleeding he or she were bleeding in the bed I never saw anything like this this is heart wrenching because you can see innocent people that were just butchered and people that were shot where they were tied people that were burned to death people that were tied together so this cruelty is something that you cannot imagine anything like that with a ground invasion looming and increasing international criticism over Israel's response there is also a growing movement of people denying that Hamas terrorists committed such horrific acts of violence and torture but hundreds of people from first responders to the medical examiners at this center have seen it all you've seen this happen I saw you pictures of dead bodies and also babies you've seen it I don't know how many were decapitated and so on we see people without heads but things have happened just to deny it didn't happen you saw the pictures you see the bodies it's here you can tell yourself any story that you want and you can believe it so if you don't want if you refuse to believe that this happened even though you see the pictures you see the videos you see the signs it is all recorded and some of the images you just saw in that last report were certainly gruesome but nobody not here in Israel or anywhere else in the world has any right to look away over the coming weeks ahead as Israel is forced to confront Hamas's forces on the ground there will be a great deal of pressure on Israel politically and otherwise for ceasefires, for restraint and for de-escalation those are the images that you just saw that will be playing in every Israeli's mind as a warning of what happens if Israel dares to placate and negotiate with terrorists that seek nothing less than the total murder and destruction of all of Israel and all of its people earlier today Israel's president spoke about some of the footage released for propaganda purposes by Hamas of their hostage Mia Shem let's take a quick listen to that first what we saw last night is a very clear fact that an organization that kidnaps a 21 year old girl wounds her, kidnaps her, drags her and leads her to a basement somewhere in Gaza along with hundreds of other people innocent citizens who came to celebrate, pray continue their day's work or were at home is a murderous organization then to add insult to injury Hamas releases a video only to create anxiety heartache and exert psychological pressure but in so doing shows the true face of this brutal group and many of Israel's other channels may have been showing some of the video released it is worth noting that the parents of Mia Shem the hostage in question begged Israeli channels not to do so in any way that would help Hamas in their propaganda efforts ahead we are going for a short break now but when we come back we are going to be continuing our coverage of the war between Israel and the Hamas murderers in Gaza as well as their allies has bullet in the north so stay with us for breaking reports from the front and from all around the country 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 i24 news works is it generates this random body that kind of looks like a sponge and it evaluates its behavior there are phrases that you know from where they come from here and the package for when and loads that you already know where they go in my international loads Altiz your people in rd access our website loads.altiz.com.b select loads and type the number you want to place the load they also receive the double balance in loads of 8 dollars or more Altiz the global network of the dominicans we are going to begin on the north the southern border I should say where our correspondent Ariel Oceran is in as we speak that is a border community that has been under the heaviest of bombardments but now is almost entirely evacuated as the military plans for the task ahead Ariel let us know what's happening there because what I understand there was just another rocket launch not that long ago so we have since moved to Ashkelon which is a bit north and it is a larger city and it also houses the big hospital in the area but as for the latest updates about 20 minutes ago a barrage of rockets launched towards central Israel just south of Tel Aviv now there are indications of direct impacts but so far no word of any injuries this is according to a statement by Israel's emergency services Mada all the while Israel continuing to strike across the Gaza Strip hundreds of targets military targets according to the IDF have been struck over the past 24 hours this includes the assassination of the targeting of high ranking officials including the head of Hamas prisoner file and also add to that the head of their central intelligence and this has been presented by the IDF as a key target to try and take out high ranking officials commanders all the while preparation for large scale ground invasion with staging areas all across the southern border as well as calls for the residents of northern Gaza to make their way south of the city of Gaza so far about between six and 700 Gazans have listened to have heard these calls and have made their way south in inside the Gaza Strip but yet many many remain still in the area that the IDF has designated as an area that is to be cleared thank you Ariel we're going to be coming back to you over the course of the day for updates as it develops and before anything else though we are going to return to our studio where we now have Aviat Posner with us right now can you give us some insights on what we're seeing in the south after the massive brutality we saw on the border everyone was expecting a swift military response that has not manifested yet as far as the ground invasion necessary to actually take Hamas out of commission has gone thank you Ariel it has not been the case until now and it is good I would like to remind you our forces are reserve forces not the 360,000 who have been mobilized those on the south or front those on the northern front they are reservists which I must say and now we can say it in the last few years had very little possibility to train and now they are being trained exactly for the purpose of entering Gaza and what to do in Gaza in order to avoid as much as possible losses first of all of themselves and then innocent human life if there are there are still any innocent people but first of all to spare the lives of our soldiers and this is a fantastic opportunity Ariel but there's a challenge there too with each day that goes by international pressure is mounting we've seen much of the Arab world and much of the European world now joining in to say it's disproportionate action it needs to be de-escalated is Israel not losing its window to act by waiting so long? I want to ask you one thing Ariel what is a proportional action of cutting the heads of 12 babies in Gaza? That's proportional we respond the way we respond and we choose when to respond and how to respond and the question of proportionality doesn't go into that equation we want to get rid of the leadership of the Hamas of the military leadership we want to eradicate the whole political leadership we don't want Hamas to be able to govern in the Gaza Strip this is our aim yes proportion, not proportion this is our aim if Israel wants to live in this part of the world after what they did to us you cannot do less than that you cannot do but the timing is ours the timing is ours to choose we don't have to rush into something when it is convenient for them for the western media we will choose the time we will enter we will clean them and again I repeat this is a golden opportunity to prepare our people again a reserve army strong very strong, good material good soldiers but reserve because they eleven and a half months of the year they are civilians sometimes more some have not gone to reserve service for three, four years they are being trained they are being prepared so as to have the minimal cost certainly on our side and hopefully if they still are civilians we told them to get out I hope they heed our advice I just heard from your correspondents that 600, 700,000 went out still it lives 200, 300,000 they should go out preserve their lives and then when everything will be clear then and only then will the IDF choose this time and what about the long term the IDF goes in it sends to Hamas to whatever eternal suffering they believe awaits them what happens next who actually has to govern the strip when there is a power vacuum left behind we are not interested in that when we will be engaging in the ground operation towards the end of the ground operation we will start together with our allies the United States, Europe friendly Arab countries because they still are friendly even though they blame us now to give the Gaza Strip to an international rule maybe it can be the Arab League or it can be only those countries who have recognized Israel to send their people to the Gaza Strip it can be a UN also I mean we have no Ariel we were there for many years we don't want to rule those people we don't want to occupy we want to clean them this is what we want we want to live in peace without being afraid again that terrorists will come and kill us and there is still another challenge there Hamas took power 44% of the vote on the platform of genocide Israel next biggest power was still advocating for Intifada that means at the time at least 84% of the strip wanted to attack Israel wanted to commit genocide against the Jews even if you get rid of Hamas what is the next day going to look like if the people still want that I think that after our operation the number of people who want Intifada who want to fight Israel will drop from 84 to 24 they will not want to repeat that kind of experience they leave us no choice no choice what can we do we tried everything during this year really we tried everything since 2007 since Hamas took power in Gaza Strip from time to time we had smaller changes but we cultivated Hamas let's say the truth we let money go in we let workers come to Israel by the way those workers furnished very important intelligence to the Hamas we did all what we can all what we could because the conception was let's try and live together with them like we live together with the Palestinian in Judea and Samaria let's try now it has been proven you just can't you will have to get rid of them one way or another tomorrow in two weeks or two months from now this is the clear problem facing Israel absolutely and we're going to continue on that in a little bit first though we're going to cross over to the northern border where our correspondent Robert Swift is he's going to give us the latest from that front I see you've finally donned your protective gear after that last barrage just an hour ago it seems like the time just to update you on the situation here there's been a continuation of the skirmishes taking place along the border the most recent of them was the exchange of fire that we witnessed here just about an hour ago which was an exchange of small arms fire from the Hezbollah side the EF responding with artillery fire now about the same time there was also yet another attack with an anti-tank missile this taking place in the eastern sector of Israel's northern border around the Matullah community now this is the second anti-tank guided missile that's been fired today with one earlier in the day in the same area causing three casualties causing one person serious wounds and two others lightly wound now it's worth noting that of all the different forms of attacks which are taking place here along the border be they small arms fire be it drone incursions the anti-tank missile continues to be the most dangerous having caused a number of casualties both to civilians and to the Israeli military during these skirmishes and it's also worth bearing in mind earlier incident also at this western end of the northern border where we witnessed small arms exchange between the two sides now that incident and the one that we witnessed earlier it's possible that this is a continuation of the Hezbollah tactic which we saw occurring yesterday where they used assault rifles, sniper rifles to attempt to damage the observation towers that Israel has this is surveillance cameras and other technological means that Israel has to try and detect infiltrations along the border and Hezbollah has been attempting to undermine these possibly so that they can get infiltrators closer to the border it's worth noting that yesterday there was an attempt by Hezbollah to move a team of around four individuals close to the border to plant an explosive device they were taken out by IDF fire but as these attacks against the surveillance systems continue it's likely that they will continue with this tactic well thank you very much and we'll keep updated with reports from you in the north as that situation develops until then though we are going to come back to former Israeli ambassador Avi Puzaner in the studio we've been talking about Gaza for the past 10 minutes or so with you and we didn't really bring in the wider arena because Iran is the mastermind of all this they're active on every last one of Israel's border and taking out Hamas and Gaza removes one of their pieces from the board the overarching threat though is still there and Hezbollah is far better armed absolutely I mean this is multi-faced arena military arena that we have to give an answer to that's obvious you're absolutely right behind everything looms very large the shadow of Iran everything Hamas I am sure launched this attack in coordination with Iran and why now, why precisely now because Iran wanted to thwart the normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia this is very important for Iran very important they don't want a new alliance between us and moderate Arab countries facing them so you know Hamas prepared that operation for one year they were prepared two were prepared as we unfortunately know the timing Iran 100% there's no other reason they could have done it two months ago they could have done it in half a year now because we were near an agreement with Saudi Arabia very near before the end of this year we should have had an agreement with Saudi Arabia now of course it is postponed I guess go ahead go ahead because I have not I have not yet finished explaining Iran I guess so we'll have the opportunity because the follow up to that is they had the opportunity in those first 48 chaotic hours to activate there has pulled up proxy to open another front and to do massive damage to Israel that we hadn't seen in generations why didn't they I think one of the reason is a very immediate American stand immediate I mean present Biden who has been so much criticized by some minister in this government to understand nothing about international relations and don't have the slightest idea about America or its politician criticized Biden being a weak being old being Biden within hours stood up and said America stands with Israel and this he didn't say to frighten the Hezbollah he was like we can tell that was directed at the Ayatollah in Tehran that might be one of the reason why the Hezbollah until today is relatively relatively I say because you see the incident Iran I think rightly so understand that if Hezbollah goes into war with Israel and Israel of course will answer in a again in an unproportional manner we talked about it and we passed messages to Lebanon yesterday Mrs. Colonna the Foreign Minister went to Beirut with a message from Israel warning the Lebanese state that they are responsible for what Hezbollah does although they may not agree but they are responsible and the Israeli answer would be directed also at them and at Lebanon at the state infrastructures we did not make Ariel maybe you paid attention we did not make open threat nobody not the prime minister not the chief nobody said that but I can tell you this was the message from Mrs. Colonna she was here she went to Lebanon so this is one of the reasons all those America Israel deterrence also France really pressuring Lebanon you know President Macron is also due to come to Israel there is a lot of pressure on Lebanon on Hezbollah not to act and Iran who understand that now it's not a good time has not yet given the green light they may keep the green light nobody knows we have to be prepared but for the time being how long are we in war 10 days they are quiet relatively okay we're going to come back to you for some further analysis but first we are going to look at this report about the Soroka hospital in Beir Sheva one of the main medical centers to treat those hundreds thousands of people wounded in the current crisis our correspondent Elisha Perot took a tour in one of the biggest hospitals in Israel and talked to some of its top physicians to see just how they've been coping and it looks like we're having a quick issue a quick delay with our system so we're going to play that as soon as our system is responding again and we're going to return to Avi in the studio until then because we've been talking about the role of Iran the role of Hezbollah the idea that there's still all these threats around Israel ultimately how can Israel or the United States deal a final blow to get rid of the Iranian threat from our borders once and for all you know Iran is not Hamas when I tell you Arielle that we want to wipe out Hamas this is something we can do okay and we will come back to contrary Iran I would explain absolutely because it seems like we got our system working enough so we can play that video showing the heroic efforts of Israeli medical professionals try to save as many lives as possible from that vicious attack we saw last weekend Soroka hospital in Beersheva seems quiet now more than a week after the horrific slaughter Hamas perpetrated in southern Israel on Saturday October 7th the situation was completely different around 8 10 a.m. we were told of a mass casualties incident the meaning of that is that we had to call all the units in the hospital I texted all my staff and said this is war this message saved us because we had everyone we needed we managed to treat 670 people and what is more amazing is that in the first 18 hours we treated 600 patients here in the trauma room there are usually six beds but sometimes when there is pressure we can set 12 beds on Saturday we managed to treat 120 patients in severe condition physicians say that one of the biggest challenges they had was in treating wounded who were evacuated to the hospital only after many hours something that made treatment much more difficult patients arrived after long long hours and it dramatically affected their treatment affected patients in the afternoon and even later when the hour written on their arterial tourniquet was 6 a.m. despite the difficulties staff at the hospital are determined to continue their hard work even under severe physical and mental pressure my personal feelings are very clear we have no doubt and no hesitation we are in a state of war the hospital staff is very strong most of us live in the south the country needs us and that we are the medical iron dawn of the south it is not just a cliche for us we are fully in it as our 24 news leaves the team encounters singer Amir Benayoun singing a song for the patients and the crew about angels who are setting tables for the king perhaps a tribute to the angels in white who saved so many people in the last few days and again it is ultimately at the end of this Iran who has been behind most of these actions funding and arming Hamas and many other genocidal minded militias all around Israel's border and discussing how to confront the Iranian threat and hopefully deal with it once and for all still with us in the studio former ambassador Avi Pazna I continue I wanted to stress the difference between Hamas and Iran Hamas is an organization small maybe how many fighters do they have 30, 35,000 it's not the it's more than we need but it's not the country Iraq is 100 million people more than 100 million people country with the history, the legend with tradition cannot compare we can get rid of the Hamas we can and we will I mean of the leadership of the Hamas we cannot get to anybody who is a supporter of Hamas or who likes Hamas but we can get it will take time to be painful to each and every head of the Hamas be military or politically already started slowly, slowly, slowly so that we can say with a degree of certainty we can eliminate the Hamas as a ruler in the Gaza Strip we can we cannot say the same about Iran we cannot eliminate Iran we cannot eliminate the leadership of Iran it's true that foreign sources say that Israel is very strong inside Iran the Mossad has done things but those are not it's not the elimination of a regime even the United States cannot do that if it wants I'm not sure it wants so we will have to live with Iran and how do you live with Iran by deterring Iran and this is the importance, here comes the importance of the United States not towards Hamas, not even towards the Hezbollah we can take care of them although they have 150,000 rockets we can take care of them the United States is here and they have sent two aircraft carrier to our region in order to send a clear signal to Iran this is the signal to Iran that any direct involvement of Iran will find a direct involvement of the United States this strengthens Israel we don't want anybody to fight for us we never ask anybody to fight for us but to deter Iran yes we need the United States and before we go on there is a complicating factor in all of this as we discuss the war and deterrence and that is of course the hostages, civilians that Hamas kidnapped and is now holding under horrible circumstances one of the things they've done recently is released a propaganda video featuring one of those Israeli civilians kidnapped to move the Israeli defense officials are saying is psychological warfare what you're seeing now on screen that's Mia Shem appearing alive but injured parents begging news outlets not to share a video a decision that we have honored a video that many believe will be used in Iran, let's listen she's very terrified she looks like she's in big pain I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say but I can see that she's stable I can see she needs medical care I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday all I knew is that she may might be kidnapped begging the world to bring my baby back home she only went to a party to a festival party to have some fun and now she's in Gaza and she's not the only one there are many children who went to this party there are many babies and children and old people and all across survivors that were kidnapped that their houses were burned this is a crime against humanity and we should all gather and stop this terror and bring everybody back home on break back from that short break three minutes we are going to be discussing further Israel's war against Hamas and just how to protect the country in the days ahead 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 this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year and we need rain for the people and God we have to reserve we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Vakita can be protected thanks for staying with us through our rolling coverage of Israel at war the military now fighting on multiple fronts the day to day realities have been almost left by the wayside families in Israel have been shattered by genocidal violence they need healing for their minds as well as their bodies after witnessing these inhuman horrors the High Lifeline Volunteers Program has been providing that assistance to untold thousands of people and joining us now from Jerusalem is Alad Maimon the CEO of High Lifeline this is how they're helping and just what they need Alad thank you very much for joining us you are very good very good can you tell us just what sort of resources you are bringing to pair what is it that people need most right now so we have a few different projects and we saw the need the big needs from the actually we have been starting yesterday new project for the hotels when the people from the south they came to the hotels all over Israel and being there with the kids and the parents huge trauma some of them they just said it's not to cry at night they don't know how to do it so we saw this new project that we're doing for the kids and at the same time when the kids have been carnivaling and don't enjoy themselves with our volunteers we have special professional people talking with the parents about how to deal with the trauma what to do with the kids we brought them like social worker psychologists we bring them all around professional people they can expect them to do this situation what do you even say to a child who has just seen firsthand that no their parents their government cannot protect them from the monsters so the parents really they have no answer and this is why we brought these professionals to be with them if people can ask questions and get answers from the professionals it's very difficult very difficult time but our volunteers and staff they know how to deal with this situation like in the crisis and trauma because we're dealing during the year normally with the patients gives you cancer and it's also like it's a big trauma it's very different this is something new we never deal with but we saw this one we also don't really have the full answer for them we brought the professional to give them the answer to deal with them to talk with them and to try to help them to see how they can deal with these kids because we see stories the kids saw some terrible terrible stuff like you can't even imagine it's literally unimaginable what these kids saw and we hear it from the kids of the parents they huge new trauma and we try to do everything we can to give them a better support bring them more out some parents say yesterday it's the first time and thinking about what happened to us and about the trauma we've been through and we understand how we need to talk with the kids we need to talk actually with the kids we bring them, we're doing like at the end of the day after the kids have their own program and the parents have their own program we bring them all together like you see in the pictures now and they're singing together they're talking together the most important thing is to talk and not to keep it inside because the trauma when you're not talking about it it's very dangerous and so we're talking about it we open it and we saw it yesterday at the beginning of the day the kids came they're all in trauma also the parents they're in trauma, they already talk, they're always crying at the end of the day you see this when they all come together after a full day of program they're just singing talking and dancing together it's something like you can't imagine when you see it in your eyes Given the sheer scope of the horrors and the sheer size of the amount of people you need to help, what can the greater public both here in Israel and around the world do to help you in your organization? It's been huge we're getting help from high life and around the world in New York, New Jersey particularly and also from Canada really it's all our colleagues all over the years they've been also with crisis but now this time of the year when we told them about this project and about what we're doing they all came together and tried to come together to give us to help us with money and professionals we open the outline for crisis the high life line crisis line they've joined the year for families with sick child and with all the professional from around the world from badger, from actual orphan and from all over the 24 hours the outline for crisis and the answer and the help families, people they need the help and we're getting tremendous tremendous amount of help and support from all over the world all around the world Best of luck out there and I'm glad there are people like you helping at times like this thanks for joining us we have other organizations trying to help in the aftermath and the devastation one of those being the brothers and arms organization operating at special headquarters in one of those kibbutzim in the south where volunteers are collecting food and equipment but also going out there directly on rescue and deliver missions our correspondent Arisha Pira was there let's take a look here in this picturesque kibbutz not far from the Gaza border masses of volunteers have gathered to assist the hard-hit people of the south on sunday morning we created this control unit we didn't know exactly what to do we decided to set up this headquarter here a place close to the Gaza border this headquarter which was established right after the brutal Hamas assault on october 7 doesn't only help with supplies and food but also with evacuation missions I24 News joined a team of elderly people who came to support the people of the south we have three missions today the first one is to bring people from Netivot the second one is to bring a package to Berry and the third is to evacuate a woman and bring her to Jerusalem each unit here has four people and two cars in each car we have someone with a weapon and a driver our first stop was at Netivot about 10 kilometers from the Gaza Strip which has been bombarded by rockets the next destination is Kibbutz Berry this was one of the main targets of the Hamas slaughter the team is asked to deliver a package to one of the residents here the road is closed by the IDF and the team brings the package to one of the soldiers one of the volunteers here is Shauli Levy whose granddaughter was kidnapped and taken to Gaza decided to take action my heart hurts now but as you can see the activity here is distracting and that's the most important thing for me right now ever since the war erupted we are seeing more and more initiatives like this where residents are taking action it's just one more example of the uniqueness and strength of the Israeli society and before anything else we are going to now return to Israel's southern border the town of Sterot that is a southern border town where our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osiron is standing right now tell us a little bit more about the recent rocket fire we've just seen right Ariel so we have moved to the southern town of Ashkelon where about 15 minutes ago there was a barrage of rockets and according to Israel's emergency services Mada there were indeed direct hits but there were no injuries according to the local fire station there are three direct hits but again no injuries or casualties in this latest barrage of rockets and this is the situation that has been going on not just today the past few days but basically since last Saturday every few hours a different area here surrounding Gaza Strip is targeted by a barrage of rockets earlier it made it all the way to the center of Israel but again these are these sporadic barrages that are targeting pretty much a quarter if not a half of the population of Israel on a regular basis this coincides with plans preparations on the Israeli side for a massive ground invasion now tomorrow there's going to be an interesting four-way summit hosted by the king of Jordan in Amman in attendance are also going to be the president of Egypt US President Joe Biden and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to try and see how this current situation the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip can be solved without neither Jordan nor Egypt absorbing any of the Palestinian refugees who are trying so desperately to get out of the Gaza Strip now you're in Ashkelon now which is a much more densely populated area than has been especially given Sturrock's evacuation tell me about the morale of the citizens on the ground there who have in the past complained so heavily about a government reluctance to do anything to stop the rocket fire now that there is a large scale war looming over all of us how are they holding up well real a lot of the locals here have self evacuated choose have chosen not to stay here and to see how the situation evolves but you're you referred to criticism over the past few years towards how the government has been handling things I think the criticism towards the government has only amplified since last Saturday with a massive lack of faith in state institutions that many of them still are not functioning many of the emergency services are not properly functioning according to the locals down south here but they say rather than looking up for answers they're looking to the sides right and left to their fellow Israelis for hope for their getting together we just came from a site where there were massive barbecue for soldiers at a staging area people came donated food saying songs for Israel and so in terms of I should say the morale of the people I think it's fairly high but as anything that has to do with faith in state institutions government ministries and the top leadership of the government that is that a low that was even even lower than it was before and I guess that the next question to look at is we've been hearing so much over the past few days about an imminent ground operation in Gaza do we know anything any progress on whether or not that truly is imminent or if they're still waiting back for something well we haven't received an official timeline as to when this ground invasion is going to happen but all the while the military the mainly Air Force and artillery continue to strike targets across the Gaza Strip this is believed to be in preparation for the entrance entry of the ground forces to try and set the scene on the ground to be such that is optimal for the forces to enter to operate in a safe way and that's also one of the reasons that the IBF implored the residents of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to leave and head south because there's going to be they expect, anticipate heavy fighting there they don't want there to be any civilian casualties and also when there are civilians in the area and makes fighting more challenging because you have to take into consideration uninvolved people and so when you ask the local population to evacuate the area it clears up the battlefield and makes it optimal for Israel to carry out its operation I would imagine if it hasn't happened yet it's because the conditions aren't optimal when will that be it appears to be imminent that could be hours days but according to all Israeli key officials whether in the military or government this ground invasion is coming well, Ariel, thank you very much stay safe out there and we will be turning to you as a station as a whole so much over the days ahead in that week and a half since Hamas launched an unprovoked assault on Israeli civilian centers a disturbing trend has rocked American academia college campuses becoming hotbeds of terrorist support mass rallies held in support of the massacres themselves that was even before Israel launched a counter attack just what rot has taken root in America's centers of so called higher learning incr. I think what happened yesterday was quite a precedent because a major American institution which is the the WExner Fellowship has basically detached itself from Harvard having 35 years of a relationship with Harvard Kennedy School for many years there was a place that and had the right atmosphere. I mean, it was kind of a safe haven within the larger liberal university of having Republicans coming from out of Republican administrations and Democrats and you would see, remember, this is a school of government. So people are in the practice of government and that brings a lot of moderation, a lot of perspective. There were a lot of senior generals there, senior officials from all kinds of militaries in the school. This was a place where we feel comfortable, but I don't want to wish to repeat the statement that the Palestinian organizations made, but I'll just read one sentence. The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. And this is the most morally repugnant part of this. It's not a long statement, but this is something that's a, there's a misalignment of values that we as Israelis and the Wexner Foundation has sort of diverged from what the Kennedy School stands for now. And it wasn't so much as they, the Kennedy School and the President of Harvard did not go out of their way to support Hamas. But this time, this is another round of fighting. This is a singularity that has to be acknowledged and they failed to do that. In the corrective statement that they've issued a few days later, they said, well, we're worried about people being doxxed. I mean, the people who signed voluntarily, those terrible, terrible words, which made Israelis and Jews around campus feel very, very uncomfortable. They should not be exposed. That's what they were worried about. They said, well, we really don't like the, well, if you sign this, you need to stand behind it. So yeah, so there was a demand for moral clarity that just didn't happen. And we sent letters, I personally sent a letter to the President of Harvard, I sent a letter to the dean, basically telling them this is not going to fly. And if you want our partnership, if you want us to keep coming there, this has got to stop. You have to be clear about what is right and what is wrong. And it's not just Harvard we've seen this at. We've seen campuses around the country for almost a decade now where the students seem to be running roughshod over the entire administration with radical ideas that aren't right, wholly incompatible with modern civilization. And professors, administrators can't even take a stance. We're seeing this now professional pushback, people pulling money out. Are we finally going to see these administrators grow a backbone and fight back against their radicals? Well, the response of Les Wexner, Abigail Wexner, the people who funded this program for 35 years and others is really amazing because it was no longer just an email saying, well, this is something we don't like. This is saying we're not going to be partners with you. And I think it's the first time that it's happened at that capacity and it will snowball all the way to actually hurting the endowments and hurting those universities. They are acting out of fear, I guess, because they can't handle students or I don't want to do a whole rant about the wokeness, but it has to do with that. More students were able to get the dean and the president's doing all kinds of things that they want, and that's not leadership. That's to say, well, you guys are wrong. You're here at school. This is not just about knowledge, it's about values. And that moral clarity was not given. And there are consequences now. And we're seeing some of those consequences in real time. We've had all these names made public. We've had CEOs of major organizations, law firms and the like saying, we're not touching these people with a 10-foot pole. Is that also likely to snowball into a wider social movement? I hope so, I hope so. At this point, there's, I would say the majority of the American people and the most important parts of the American people are behind Israel. I think that they understand that this is not a fight against Palestinians, this is a fight against a vicious, vicious organization that is evil. We don't need to elaborate on that. I think that if they, if they're consistent with what they have shown, I think this might be able to change the way that universities behave. Because Jewish communities are involved more than their share of the population, in charitable causes, it's a thousand kind of versions of tikkun alam. And that's why they have such a big saying. If they keep going, I mean, this will make a difference, absolutely. We've spent a lot of time focusing on the student radicals here. But ultimately, we see reports out of Stanford, out of Columbia, professors who are just as radical are saying things that are even more deranged in many circumstances. How long will it ultimately take to change the culture and campuses to cut back on this, frankly, insanely? Well, I don't have a solution for the entire liberal problematic agenda of some American universities. But I can say about the Kennedy School, professors who I consider friends now have reached out to me and says, we don't like it. And people who've welcomed Israeli students, people who made sure that they're included in the conversation. Because sometimes you had very few Palestinians that were very vocal, very victim kind of conversation, brought into the classrooms. And they made sure that our voice was heard. They made sure that as part of the academic process, you actually take the situation and you analyze it through, like you're supposed to do in a place like Harvard Kennedy School. And that became a change. I was there in 2006, just when the Second Lebanon War started. We had our arguments. There were Lebanese students on both sides. They realized they were not supporting Hezbollah. But we realized there's issues, people on both sides were getting hurt. But after that, we started the Israel Caucus, which really brought Israeli culture and better perspectives. And that was the environment back then. Today, it's simply hostile. And it's going to be a very long road forward in trying to repair not just the culture, but the credibility of even institutions like Harvard. Thank you for giving us an insight on just what it looks like on the ground there and what sort of effect you guys are having. Thank you. We're now going to return to the northern border where our correspondent Robert Swift is waiting, where there have been exchanges of fire all day long. And threats from Iran to activate Hezbollah, that an attack from the north is imminent. What are you seeing up there? Is imminent the right word to use? I don't know if I would say that. The skirmishes that have been taking place for since essentially the start of this conflict, they have continued again at pace. Just over an hour ago, we saw a firefight taking place behind us. And that has, although quietened down a little bit, it has continued sporadically with additional sounds of Israeli artillery fire and what sounded to us like 50-caliber machine gun fire to the west of us. Now, this comes off the back of two separate anti-tank missile attacks coming from to the eastern end of Israel's northern border, one of which struck a civilian vehicle, causing three, wounding three individuals. So that is the background, the level of intensity that we're seeing here along the border. And as a result of that, many of the communities that we have driven through today, that we've stopped to speak with people, many of these communities are, while I wouldn't go as far as calling them ghost towns, they're certainly on the way to becoming that. Many of the residents chose to leave after receiving an evacuation order yesterday with 28 different communities being told that they should get up and leave. But even beyond those 28 communities and before yesterday, many residents of the northern communities chose to leave of their own accord rather than wait. So we basically see a sort of gradual diminishing of the population of the northern border. And we spent a little bit of time this afternoon speaking with one family who had waited up until now, but decided enough was enough, and they were going to make their way to Jerusalem. Let's have a listen to what they had to say. Shalom. Hello, I'm Shiri Sito. I live in the amazing Shlomi. Shlomi, I'm from the city. So first of all, we're living through a not easy period throughout the country after the terrible massacre on Saturday. But first of all, we rely on the creator of the universe, and we rely on our powerful military, on Nenyeahu taking the right decisions, crushed them once and for all, Hamas and Hezbollah, because we live here under constant threat, and we want to put an end to it, to live in calm. End sheket. Right, there is no quiet. We are going through a period that is very difficult. For me personally, my middle son is on the autism spectrum. Before you saw a scene that was not easy to see, a crisis, he doesn't want to be evacuated, because he doesn't understand the situation. It's not simple. In principle, we don't want to evacuate, because our home is our fortress, but the situation forces us to. We have children to safeguard and look after. We really hope that the situation will pass quickly, that we will come out on top, please God, and we'll return to our boring and welcome routine. And Robert, we're hearing that two soldiers were just injured in a anti-tank rocket fire incident. What do we know about this incident? That's correct. That's yet another anti-tank attack. This is proving that anti-tank weapons continue to be the most dangerous weapon here on the border. We understand that two soldiers are wounded. Sorry, I say again, we understand that two individuals are wounded in that incident. And if that is the case, then this would prove yet again the lethality of this weapon system. Now, in your tour of the North, have you seen any sort of defensive fortifications being built by Israel to counter some of this threatening earthworks, any sort of defilades that you've seen them taking cover by? What have you seen as far as deployment goes, not positions, obviously? Well, the Israeli military presence in the North is extensive and has continued to grow in the days that we've been here since about four days ago when the IDF announced that it was going to boost the number of reserve forces it has here. Now, there are checkpoints throughout the area, both at junctions and at the entrances to many of the communities here. But one of the things that's the most striking is the number of tanks that Israel has dotted all around here. You'll be just driving along the road. And at the side of the road, you'll notice a number of Israeli Merkava tanks parked waiting to be deployed if they need to be. Well, thank you very much, Rob, for that report, what we're seeing on the border there. Stay safe out there. And thank you for being out there and all your reporting over the course of this war so far. Now, for everyone else, we are just about out of time. I'm going to give you a quick review because this is the 11th day of that war. Things have been escalating in disturbing ways with Iran threatening to activate Hezbollah in the north, saying that any preemptive strike by Hezbollah and what they call the so-called axis of resistance is imminent. We now have US President Joe Biden confirming he will be making his wartime solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday. And the prime minister of France, Emmanuel Macron, will also be making a visit to the country as well as the West rallies in support of Israel after those barbaric attacks by Hamas's murderers in the south that killed 1,400 people, with 200 more still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza under deteriorating circumstances. It's a terrible situation all around, but this is a message to all the people of Israel and Jews around the world. We are all united. Stay strong out there. For 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. 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This is Breaking News Edition. I'm Benita Levine, coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Rocket siren sounding in southern communities near the Gaza Strip right now. Certain parts of southern communities, including Kisufim just moments ago. Loud explosions, meanwhile, heard in the north, near the border with Lebanon. Day 11 of the war. The death toll from the Hamas terror onslaught at a music festival and at several kibbutzim and basses on Saturday, the 7th of October, is now at more than 1,400. Israel has made it clear. It plans to eradicate Hamas. A terror group, the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says is worse than ISIS. President Joe Biden lands in Tel Aviv tomorrow for a blitz visit. The IDF, meanwhile, continuing to target Hamas terror sites with questions remaining as to when a ground invasion could start. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza, no one can stop resistance forces. On the diplomatic front, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening. The Chancellor is also expected to meet with Benny Gantz, a member of the recently formed war cabinet and fellow former IDF chief of staff, Gaddy Eisencott, a war cabinet observer. And just a short while ago, confirmation that French President Emmanuel Macron is also set to make a solidarity visit to Israel in the next few days. He says intense talks are progressing to free the kidnapped hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Meanwhile, Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterating Amman's red line, saying neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from the Gaza Strip. He was speaking in Berlin after meeting with the German Chancellor. This coming after Israel warned Gazans to evacuate towards the south of the Strip near the Rafa border crossing with Egypt ahead of the expected IDF ground offensive in the north of the enclave. So for the latest, let's go live to our Middle East correspondent, Arielle Osaran. He joins us from Storot in the south. And Arielle, we know Siren sounding in some border communities just a short while ago. What is the latest where you are? What update can you share? Right, Benita, here in Ashkelon is a little bit north from Storot. There was a rocket barrage that hit the town about half an hour ago. There were three direct impacts, but according to Israeli emergency services, there were no injuries in that barrage. Moments ago, there was also a red alert Siren in Kisufim. That's one of the border communities that was evacuated. Also there, there is no word of casualties and we shouldn't expect that because there are no residents left. And this has been the situation throughout the morning, sporadic rocket launching from Gaza towards these southern communities, as well as inside Gaza, Israeli strikes continue all across the strip, north, middle, south, artillery, air force. This has continued in anticipation for the looming ground invasion that all Israeli leaders have announced. Very briefly, what update can you share about the reports around aid for Gaza, which is apparently remaining stuck at the border, at the Rafa crossing ahead of this visit by President Joe Biden? What details are known right now? Right, Benita. So the convoys of trucks planning to bring goods into the Gaza Strip have been waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafa crossing for days now. This comes as both the Egyptian side and the Israeli side are not accepting the entry of goods through the border crossing. But interestingly enough, tomorrow there's gonna be a four-way summit hosted in Amman in Jordan by the King Abdullah II of Jordan. In attendance will be US President Joe Biden, Egyptian President Assisi, as well as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. You mentioned earlier the red line that King Abdullah had set for Jordan, no Palestinian refugees. The same red line has been set by Egypt, perhaps not as vocally. I think this is also a moment of test for Arab nations that say that the Palestinian cause is at the utmost importance to them to put their actions where their words are. And given that they are looking after the Palestinian cause, the fact that they're saying that they do not wanna take any refugees, I think that's something to look at. But obviously this summit tomorrow expected to touch on the issue of Jordan, Egypt, not willing to absorb refugees, but yes, trying to solve this rapidly emerging humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Appreciate the update. As always, Middle East correspondent Ariel Osara and live from Ashkelon in the South. Thank you so much. And now for more insight, we welcome to Studio Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Raffovich. Thank you so much as always for being here in Studio. A tense time, day 11. And now confirmation that the US President Joe Biden will touch down in Tel Aviv tomorrow. A message of solidarity, but that's not all. What do you make of the significance of this visit right now from the US President? First of all, I'm not here to be a political analyst, but I would say that in this time of war against Hamas Daesh terrorist group, it is very important that Mr. Biden, President of the USA, is coming to visit the country in these very tough days to express his support and friendship with the people of Israel. And for us, I'm sure that it is the best expression of friendship, support, by the most important men in the world. And let's talk now about what is unfolding on the ground because the ground invasion is very likely supposed to be happening in the coming days and the coming weeks. What is the latest update? What kind of risks are being calculated as we speak by this war cabinet that has been set up very recently? Talk to us about the significance of the timing around this potential ground invasion in the Gaza Strip. Yeah, first of all, there is something that I would like to put an emphasis on it. People would like to say, hurry up. You have to go, you have to get in. There is no hurry. I mean, there is a process of preparedness, a process of, I would say, instructions to be filled, a process of concentrating the right number of forces of people well-equipped, well-trained with the right military equipment, also with the right armored vehicles with them. And when we talk about such an operation, a big operation, it seems actually to be. So time is actually according to the preparation of the operation when we think that it is OK and also according to the political and top military orders. When all these considerations are, I would say, are meeting together the same purpose so the operation can be carried out. At the same time, we're hearing reports that Anthony Blinken spent around nine hours with this war cabinet yesterday. We also know, of course, we saw it ourselves. Sirens were sounding. He saw and experienced firsthand what it's like to have to run to a shelter as well. It's complicated. The president of the United States arrives tomorrow, and that could be a similar scenario. There could be a situation where the president of the United States is running to a shelter because of rocket fire coming through. Talk to us about the security concerns there. First of all, Benita, there is right now a large naval force. American naval force immediately very close to the Israeli shores, like the US aircraft carrier, Gerald Ford, with tens of combat vessels and troops. That means that the Americans are taking these decisions very seriously. And that also means that on a strict, pure security point of view, the Americans have their own assessment. And as you know, the relationships between the state of Israel and the United States of America on the military level are very strong. I've been always very strong. And maybe today's are stronger than ever. And concerning the specific security considerations in case that there will be an alert, I believe, we believe and we know that everything we'll be taking into account in order to protect all the people on the ground. Of course, the delegation and the visit will be super protected according to, I believe, many protocols of security and protection. You mentioned earlier why are people in a rush, so to speak, for this ground invasion to start? I could think of one very serious reason. And that is because of the hostages who are still being held there. We know that 199 families have been contacted in terms of an update about what is happening there. And it's very likely there are far more hostages being kept there. Talk to us about what it means for them, the time frames and the likelihood of some kind of extraction, some kind of deal. What does it mean for families waiting for word on the loved ones who are being held by Hamas right now, terrifying as it is? Without entering into details concerning this dramatic matter of 119 people abducted, kidnapped by Hamas, are now being in the Gaza soil with Hamas actually taking them as hostages, can only say that instead of Israel, he is doing many things that we cannot talk about in order to deal with this subject, which is a very sensitive subject. As you know, many double citizenship members are also amongst the kidnapped people. That means that the French government and the American government and other government are working together with the other government hand side by side to deal with this issue. And I wouldn't say that there is a direct connection between any time for the ground operation on the hostages security process. One thing is very, very important, maybe super important on it is the hostages issue. But let's say that the ground operation against Hamas, and let's forget that 11 days ago, Hamas carried out the worst massacre in the still-physical history, and the worst massacre since World War II against Jews. Brutality. And I was, by myself yesterday, Benito, at the place where the end rates and thousands of bodies have been placed. And I was there because we wanted to show to a parliamentary delegation from Europe the unbelievable, the unimaginable, where Israeli young babies, old women, old men have been totally massacred, brutally killed, sometimes raped, then killed, then burned with babies together with another baby. I'm saying so because this situation that happened, I would say, obliged, and is obliging us today, to react. In the same time, and in parallel to the reaction that it is, and was even a moral obligation for the state of Israel to deal with the 119 kidnapped, it's also a moral issue and a moral must. But we are dealing with these issues together in different ways. Still so difficult to even process the extent of the brutality, the extent of that killing rampage. And as you say, that bodies are still being identified. People are still under raid. And raids are around 300, I think, 327 where, while yesterday, are still not identified because the process of identification with DNA sometimes is difficult because there is no DNA to find. But yesterday I heard that sometimes you need the family members to identify the body. But when all the family has been killed, there is no one to come to identify. Unimaginable tragedy. Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Rathovich, stay with us. Thank you so much. We've got more to discuss right now, though. I want to go up north. Our correspondent, Robert Swift, is on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. So, Robert, loud explosions hurt up north just a short while ago. Also, four attempted infiltrations up north earlier in the day. Israel's military killing all four terrorists. Tell us what unfolded. What is the latest where you are? So, in the most recent incident of the most recent security incident here on the border, just say 20 minutes ago, there's reports of yet another anti-tank attack. This taking place in the eastern section of the northern border. It's understood that there are two or three people wounded as a result of this. This being an attack with two anti-tank missiles. This is the third time today that such an attack is taking place. So, it'll be the fourth launch of an anti-tank missile at individuals on the Israeli side of the border. And all of this is taking place around the Matula area, which has seen a spike in these sorts of attacks. It's not the first time that today, it's not the first instance of this occurring, but three attacks in one day with four different missiles is definitely an escalation. However, that is not the only location where attacks are taking place. There has been exchanges of fire along the border in various locations. One taking place here about two hours ago and a number of artillery fired by the Israeli military in response to these attacks. The impression given is that Hezbollah is attempting to stretch the Israeli military. They are focusing in one location and then switching to focusing in a different location a short time later. And in an effort to stretch the Israeli defenses as much as they can. And what does that mean for the communities who were evacuated? Have they all found another place to stay at guest houses as we reported yesterday? What is the current situation on the ground for local communities? Well, there was an evacuation order that went out yesterday for 28 communities. That being compulsory, ordering people to leave those villages. Now, that is just for the villages that are closest to the border. Those around 1.2 miles from the border. But there are many other villages which are essentially within range of one of the weapon systems that Hezbollah has. The anti-tank weapons that we've been hearing so much about today, they have a range of more than 1.2 miles. So there's still many people that are in a danger zone even if they're not immediately evacuated. Now, it's worth noting that many residents evacuated before the evacuation order came in yesterday. And even that some individuals have chosen not to. There's some of the villages that we were driving around here today. They were very clearly quiet with the population hugely reduced. But it didn't take long to spot one or two people around. Now, there are some families that have chosen not to leave. There are some that are in the process of leaving right now. For those that can't leave, often it's due to elderly relatives or other reasons that they think that they simply can't go. And despite all these infiltrations that we keep talking about, despite the anti-tank gunfire that we're talking about, still officially Hezbollah hasn't got fully involved. We are hearing Iran Supreme Leader saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza, targeting Hamas sites, quote, no one can stop resistance forces. What is the latest on the fully fledged Hezbollah threat up north? Well, the thing to remember is, first of all, that Hezbollah is a massive force. It has a rocket and missile arsenal eclipsing many Western militaries. It has firepower and a manpower for an excess of what Hamas has. However, that doesn't mean that just because we're seeing attacks escalate in recent days and hours that they necessarily are committed to entering the fight. It could well be the case that Hezbollah wants to give the impression of fighting without actually becoming involved, either because it wants to demonstrate its commitment to Hamas's cause or because it wishes to fix Israeli forces in this area. Any Israeli troops or armor which are stationed here being ready to respond to Hezbollah are troops that can't be used in the South. And that is possibly the reason that they are attempting to increase the tension here, trying to escalate their attacks, as the hour at which a Gaza ground operation may begin comes closer. Thank you so much, correspondent Robert Swift on the Northern border between Israel and Lebanon. Thank you, Rob. And now for more, we welcome Yael Eksteen, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Yael, thank you so much for speaking to us. It's such a difficult time. Israel is at war, this nation is still in shock after the surprise Hamas killing rampage 11 days ago now. So just to start, your response to the scale of this attack on the festival of Simchat Torah, supposed to be a time of celebration, this year a time of tragedy, targeting of civilians, your thoughts. Well, I think what we're seeing now in Israel that every single person is experiencing is holding the space between extreme gratitude and extreme grief. I think all of us are hugging our children and loved ones like we never have before and we're feeling grief and vulnerability like we've never felt before. What we're seeing for the first time, maybe ever, at least in the 20 years that I've been in the social welfare system, is that the responders have become the victims. And when you see people who are the leaders of holding up their communities, suddenly be the ones who are evacuating are burying loved ones, their homes were hit, they're kidnapped. You see a level of both grief that I think has never been experienced in my lifetime in Israel, but also a level of gratitude that you see who our friends are, both inside of Israel and outside. We've been talking in studio about the level of grief, the fact that some people are still waiting for word on their loved ones. It really is an unimaginable situation. I understand that 30 million shekels have been raised for effective communities, for military needs. Talk us through those needs right now, the initiatives, what items are being prioritized right now, as you say, for the people who feeling gratitude and want to give back and want to help people in need right now. Well, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has actually already distributed over $12 million of aid. We're now on the second round of identifying the next round of aid. We, thank God, have volunteers and workers and partners in every single city in Israel. And so from Sunday, we've been distributing food to the bomb shelters. We've been distributing over a thousand bulletproof vests. We've been whatever is needed on the ground and oftentimes this closed military situation and location, we've been able to mobilize our soup kitchens to distribute meals. So the first stage was really looking at those emergency basic needs for those who were affected. So we have the head of the Eshkol region, for example, who we've been working with for years, who was kidnapped. So already on Sunday, we sent her messages and it went through, but it went through to Hamas. And so we had to recreate this whole level of first responders together with our partners to make sure that for the past 10 days, people are getting food in their bomb shelter. There's a location where people are going, family loved ones are going to identify the bodies of their loved ones. And the fellowship has been there 24 seven since last Sunday, including Shabbat, including nights to provide simple basic cake and cookies and food and chairs and mattresses and water to these families in mourning. So basically wherever we've seen a need, we've been immediate to meet it. Now we're looking at the mid and long-term needs, which is no less heartbreaking. Yeah, Elle, it is so inspiring to hear the number of volunteers who are getting involved. People are trying to make a difference. Young, old people just wanting to help out in studio with me right now is Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Rafavici is hearing your message and he'd like to speak to you, Olivier. Yeah, good afternoon. I just would like to tell you that I knew your father and we were in contact 20, 25 years ago during the Second Intifada. And I'm pleased to see that you are continuing his mission. And please let me convey to you and to his memory my best wishes for your success for Israel and for what you are doing tremendous important things for Israel. Thank you to you and thank you to what your dad has done for you. Yeah, Elle, would you like to respond to Olivier? If I could stop the tears from flowing, I'll be happy to. It was after the Second Lebanon War that I remember my father took all of our staff and drove up North because it was the first time the Israeli citizens were in their shelters for days on end and they didn't have the food, they didn't have the medicine, they didn't have any of the diapers, the formula. And my father said, this is what the Kiran Liedi do, the fellowship is needed for it. And literally people were packing their trunks and driving up North and he created a system that now 20 years later, as soon as there's war, we don't need to be packing our trunks, we have our partners on the ground that we're able to mobilize within a matter of hours. So it just hearing that sentiment from the Second Intifada, from the Second Lebanon War and knowing how far we've come, Besrouto in his honor and his memory is just important to remember. Sofmaseb Makhsheba Triladze and result reflects the first thought. And my father was dedicated to helping the people of Israel with anything that was needed, with tens of millions of Christians standing behind us around the world. And so it's really this glimmer of hope in the darkness. And thank you so much. We stand behind you and the Israeli army and the first responders with anything that's needed. We only have a few seconds left, Yael. Just your sense of the resilience, the unity right now. You're talking about people from different communities banding together to try and make a difference. Your understanding of the sentiment on the ground going forward, very briefly, please. I think I'm gonna answer with a prayer. The unity that we are feeling now, the brotherhood that is just tangible wherever you look may continue for many, many, many years without any crisis to bring it together. Yael Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Thank you so much for speaking to us. And thank you so much for your initiatives and for carrying out the chesed, the charity work and the good work that you are doing. Thank you very much, Yael Eckstein. And right now, as we end this breaking news edition, I bring you a breaking news update and it's a report just in from the Red Cross in Lebanon confirmation for people have been killed in an IDF attack inside Southern Lebanon. That confirmation coming through just moments ago, the Red Cross in Lebanon saying four dead from an IDF strike in Southern Lebanon. The war continues. Colonel and the Reserves, Olivia Rapavich. Thank you very much for being here in studio. And that's where we end for now. Our rolling coverage continues shortly. I'm Benita Levine, Intel Aviv. Thank you for watching. Stay tuned. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the South and North. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. Necessitamos lluvia para los sembradíos. Vakita Reserve, we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, that the Vakita can be protected. Breaking News Edition, I'm Benita Levine, coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Rocket siren sounding in southern communities near the Gaza Strip right now. Certain parts of southern communities, including Kisufim just moments ago. Loud explosions, meanwhile, heard in the North, near the border with Lebanon. Day 11 of the war. The death toll from the Hamas terror onslaught at a music festival and at several kibbutzim and bases on Saturday, the 7th of October, is now at more than 1,400. Israel has made it clear. It plans to eradicate Hamas. A terror group, the US Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin says is worse than ISIS. President Joe Biden lands in Tel Aviv tomorrow for a blitz visit. The IDF, meanwhile, continuing to target Hamas terror sites with questions remaining as to when a ground invasion could start. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza, no one can stop resistance forces. On the diplomatic front, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening. The chancellor is also expected to meet with Benny Gantz, a member of the recently formed War Cabinet and fellow former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkott, a War Cabinet observer. And just a short while ago, confirmation that French President Emmanuel Macron is also set to make a solidarity visit to Israel in the next few days. He says intense talks are progressing to free the kidnapped hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Meanwhile, Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterating Amman's red line, saying neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from the Gaza Strip. He was speaking in Berlin after meeting with the German chancellor. This coming after Israel warned Gazans to evacuate towards the south of the Strip near the Raffa border crossing with Egypt ahead of the expected IDF ground offensive in the north of the enclave. So for the latest, let's go live to our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osaran. He joins us from Storot in the south. And Ariel, we know Siren sounding in some border communities just a short while ago. So what is the latest way you are? What update can you share? Right, Benita, here in Ashkelon is a little bit north from Storot. There was a rocket barrage that hit the town about half an hour ago. There were three direct impacts, but according to Israeli emergency services, there were no injuries in that barrage. Moments ago, there was also a red alert Siren in Kisufim, that's one of the border communities that was evacuated. Also there, there is no word of casualties, and we shouldn't expect that because there are no residents left. And this has been the situation throughout the morning, sporadic rocket launching from Gaza towards these southern communities as well as on inside Gaza, Israeli strikes continue all across the Strip, north, middle, south, artillery, air force. This has continued in anticipation for the looming ground invasion that all Israeli leaders have announced. Very briefly, what update can you share about the reports around aid for Gaza, which is apparently remaining stuck at the border at the Rafa crossing ahead of this visit by President Joe Biden? What details are known right now? Right, Benita, so the convoys of trucks planning to bring goods into the Gaza Strip have been waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafa crossing for days now. This comes as both the Egyptian side and the Israeli side are not accepting the entry of goods through the border crossing. But interestingly enough, tomorrow there's gonna be a four-way summit hosted in Amman in Jordan by the King Abdullah II of Jordan. In attendance will be U.S. President Joe Biden, Egyptian President Sisi, as well as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Dabas. You mentioned earlier the red line that King Abdullah had set for Jordan, no Palestinian refugees. The same red line has been set by Egypt, perhaps not as vocally. I think this is also a moment of test for Arab nations that say that the Palestinian cause is that the utmost importance to them to put their actions where their words are, and given that they are looking after the Palestinian cause, the fact that they're saying that they do not want to take any refugees, I think that's something to look at. But obviously this summit tomorrow expected to touch on the issue of Jordan, Egypt, not willing to absorb refugees, but yes, trying to solve this rapidly emerging humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Appreciate the update. As always, Middle East correspondent Ariel Osara and live from Ashkelon in the south. Thank you so much. And now for more insight, we welcome to Studio Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Raffovic. Thank you so much as always for being here in Studio. A tense time, day 11, and now confirmation that the US President, Joe Biden, will touch down in Tel Aviv tomorrow. A message of solidarity, but that's not all. What do you make of the significance of this visit right now from the US President? First of all, I'm not here to be a political analyst, but I would say that in this time of war against the Hamas-Daesh terrorist group, it is very important that Mr. Biden, President of the USA, is coming to Israel to visit the country in these very tough days to express his support and friendship with the people of Israel and for us, I'm sure that it is the best expression of friendship, support by the most important men in the world. And let's talk now about what is unfolding on the ground because the ground invasion is very likely supposed to be happening in the coming days, in the coming weeks. What is the latest update? What kind of risks are being calculated as we speak by this war cabinet that has been set up very recently? Talk to us about the significance of the timing around this potential ground invasion in the Gaza Strip. Yeah, first of all, there is something that I would like to put an emphasis on it. People would like to say, hurry up, you have to go, you have to get in. There is no hurry. I mean, there is a process of preparedness, a process of, I would say, instructions to be filled, a process of concentrating the right number of forces of people well-equipped, well-trained with the right military equipment, also with the right armored vehicles with them. And when we talk about such an operation, a big operation, it seems actually to be. So time is actually according to the preparation of the operation when we think that it is okay. And also according to the political on the top military orders. When all these considerations are, I would say, are meeting together the same purpose so the operation can be carried out. At the same time, we're hearing reports that Anthony Blinken spent around nine hours with this war cabinet yesterday. We also know, of course, we saw it ourselves, Sirens were sounding. He saw and experienced firsthand what it's like to have to run to a shelter as well. It's complicated. The President of the United States arrives tomorrow and that could be a similar scenario. There could be a situation where the President of the United States is running to a shelter because of rocket fire coming through. Talk to us about the security concerns there. First of all, Benita, there is right now a large naval force, American Naval Force, in Mid-Etern, very close to the Israeli shores, like the U.S. aircraft carrier, Gerald Ford, with tens of combat vessels and troops. That means that the Americans are taking this decision very seriously. And that also means that on a strict, pure security point of view, the Americans have their own assessment. And as you know, the relationships between the State of Israel and the United States of America on the military level are very strong. I've been always very strong, and maybe today's are stronger than ever. And concerning the specific security considerations in case that there will be an alert, I believe, we believe and we know that everything will be taken into account in order to protect all the people underground. Of course, the delegation and the visit will be super protected according to, I believe, many protocols of security and protection. You mentioned earlier why are people in a rush, so to speak, for this ground invasion to start. I could think of one very serious reason, and that is because of the hostages who are still being held there. We know that 199 families have been contacted in terms of an update about what is happening there, and it's very likely there are far more hostages being kept there. Talk to us about what it means for them, the time frames and the likelihood of some kind of extraction, some kind of deal. What does it mean for families waiting for word on their loved ones who are being held by Hamas right now, terrifying as it is? Whether they're turning into details concerning this dramatic matter of 199 people abducted, kidnapped by Hamas, are now being in the Gaza soil with Hamas actually taking them as hostages. I can only say that the State of Israel is doing many things that we cannot talk about in order to deal with this subject, which is a very sensitive subject. As you know, many double citizenship members are also amongst the kidnapped people. That means that the French government and the American government and other government are working together with the other government hand by hand, side by side, to deal with this issue. And I wouldn't say that there is a direct connection between any time for the ground operation on the hostages security process. One thing is very, very important, maybe super important, it is the hostages issue. But let's say that the ground operation against Hamas. And let's forget that 11 days ago, Hamas carried out the worst massacre in the State of Israel history. And the worst massacre since the World War II against Jews. Brutality. And I was by myself yesterday, Benito, at the place where the end rates and thousands of bodies have been placed. And I was there because we wanted to show to a parliamentary delegation from Europe the unbelievable, the unimaginable where Israeli young babies, women, old women, men, old men have been totally massacred, brutally killed, sometimes raped, then killed, then burned with babies together with another baby. I'm saying so because this situation that happened, I would say obliged and is obliging us today to react. In the same time, and in parallel to the reaction that it is and was even a moral obligation for the State of Israel to deal with the 119 kidnapped, it's also a moral issue and a moral must. But we are dealing with these issues together on different ways. Still so difficult to even process the extent of the brutality, the extent of that killing rampage. And as you say, that bodies are still being identified. People are still... End rates, end rates are around 300, I think, 227 where while yesterday are still not identified because the process of identification with DNA sometimes is difficult because there is no DNA to find. But you know, yesterday I heard that sometimes you need the family members to identify the body. But when all the family has been killed, there is no one to come to identify. Unimaginable tragedy. Colonel, the Reserves, Olivier Rathovich, stay with us. Thank you so much. We've got more to discuss right now though. I want to go up north. Our correspondent, Robert Swift, is on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. So, Robert, loud explosions heard up north just a short while ago. Also, four attempted infiltrations up north earlier in the day, Israel's military killing all four terrorists. Tell us what unfolded, what is the latest where you are? So, in the most recent incident of... The most recent security incident here on the border, just say 20 minutes ago, there's reports of yet another anti-tank attack that's taking place in the eastern section of the northern border. It's understood that there are two or three people wounded as a result of this. This being an attack with two anti-tank missiles. This is the third time today that such an attack has taken place. So, it'll be the fourth launch of an anti-tank missile at individuals on the Israeli side of the border. And all of this has taken place around the Matula area, which has seen a spike in these sorts of attacks. It's not the first time that... Today, it's not the first instance of this occurring. But three attacks in one day with four different missiles is definitely an escalation. However, that is not the only location where attacks are taking place. There has been exchanges of fire along the border in various locations, one taking place here about two hours ago, and a number of artillery fired by the Israeli military in response to these attacks. The impression given is that Hisbola is attempting to stretch the Israeli military. They are focusing in one location and then switching to focusing in a different location a short time later and in an effort to stretch the Israeli defenses as much as they can. And what does that mean for the communities who were evacuated? Have they all found another place to stay at guest houses as we reported yesterday? What is the current situation on the ground for local communities? Well, there was an evacuation order that went out yesterday for 28 communities, that being compulsory ordering people to leave those villages. Now, that is just for the villages that are closest to the border, those around 1.2 miles from the border. But there are many other villages which are essentially within range of one of the weapons systems that Hisbola has. The anti-tank weapons that we've been hearing so much about today, they have a range of more than 1.2 miles. So there's still many people that are in a danger zone even if they're not immediately evacuated. Now, it's worth noting that many residents evacuated before the evacuation order came in yesterday and even that some individuals have chosen not to. There's some of the villages that we were driving around here today. They were very clearly quiet with the population hugely reduced but it didn't take long to spot one or two people around. Now, there are some families that have chosen not to leave. There are some that are in the process of leaving right now. For those that can't leave, often it's due to elderly relatives or other reasons that they think that they simply can't go. And despite all these infiltrations that we keep talking about, despite the anti-tank gunfire that we're talking about, still officially Hisbola hasn't got fully involved. We are hearing Iran Supreme Leader saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza, targeting Hamas sites, quote, no one can stop resistance forces. What is the latest on the fully fledged Hisbola threat up north? Well, the thing to remember is, first of all, that Hisbola is a massive force. It has a rocket and missile arsenal eclipsing many Western militaries. It has a firepower and a manpower for an excess of what Hamas has. However, that doesn't mean that just because we're seeing attacks escalate in recent days and hours, that they necessarily are committed to entering the fight. It could well be the case that Hisbola wants to give the impression of fighting without actually becoming involved, either because it wants to demonstrate its commitment to Hamas' cause or because it wishes to fix Israeli forces in this area. Any Israeli troops or armor which are stationed here being ready to respond to Hisbola are troops that can't be used in the south. And that is possibly the reason that they are attempting to increase the tension here, trying to escalate their attacks as the hour at which a Gaza ground operation may begin comes closer. Thank you so much, correspondent Robert Swift on the Northern border between Israel and Lebanon. Thank you, Rob. And now for more, we welcome Yael Eksteen, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Yael, thank you so much for speaking to us. It's such a difficult time. Israel is at war. This nation is still in shock after the surprise Hamas killing Rampage 11 days ago now. So just to start, your response to the scale of this attack on the festival of Simhatsara supposed to be a time of celebration this year, a time of tragedy, targeting of civilians, your thoughts? Well, I think what we're seeing now in Israel that every single person is experiencing is holding the space between extreme gratitude and extreme grief. I think all of us are hugging our children and loved ones like we never have before and we're feeling grief and vulnerability like we've never felt before. What we're seeing for the first time, maybe ever at least in the 20 years that I've been in the social welfare system is that the responders have become the victims. And when you see people who are the leaders of holding up their communities, suddenly be the ones who are evacuating are burying loved ones, their homes were hit, they're kidnapped. You see a level of both grief that I think has never been experienced in my lifetime in Israel, but also a level of gratitude that you see who our friends are both inside of Israel and outside. We've been talking in studio about the level of grief, the fact that some people are still waiting for word on their loved ones. It really is an unimaginable situation. I understand that 30 million shickals has been raised for effective communities, for military needs. Talk us through those needs right now, the initiatives. What items are being prioritized right now as you say for the people who are feeling gratitude and want to give back and want to help people in need right now? Well, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has actually already distributed over $12 million of aid. We're now on the second round of identifying the next round of aid. We, thank God, have volunteers and workers and partners in every single city in Israel. And so from Sunday, we've been distributing food to the bomb shelters. We've been distributing over 1,000 bulletproof vests. We've been whatever is needed on the ground in oftentimes this closed military situation and location, we've been able to mobilize our soup kitchens to distribute meals. So the first stage was really looking at those emergency basic needs for those who were affected. So we have the head of the Eshkol region, for example, who we've been working with for years who was kidnapped. So already on Sunday, we sent her messages and it went through, but it went through to Hamas. And so we had to recreate this whole level of first responders together with our partners to make sure that for the past 10 days, people are getting food in their bomb shelter. There's a location where people are going, family loved ones are going to identify the bodies of their loved ones. And the fellowship has been there 24 seven since last Sunday, including Shabbat, including nights to provide simple basic cake and cookies and food and chairs and mattresses and water to these families in mourning. So basically wherever we've seen a need, we've been immediate to meet it. Now we're looking at the mid and long term needs, which is no less heartbreaking. Yeah, Elle, it is so inspiring to hear the number of volunteers who are getting involved. People are trying to make a difference. Young, old people just wanting to help out in studio with me right now is Colonel in the Reserves, Olivier Refovich. He is hearing your message and he'd like to speak to you, Olivier. Yeah, good afternoon. I just would like to tell you that I knew your father and we were in contact 20, 25 years ago during the Second Intifada. And I'm pleased to see that you are continuing his mission and please let me convey to you and to his memory my best wishes for your success, for Israel and for what you are doing, tremendous important things for Israel. Thank you to you and thank you to what your dad has done for you. Yeah, Elle, would you like to respond to Olivier? If I could stop the tears from flowing, I'll be happy to. It was after the Second Lebanon War that I remember my father took all of our staff and drove up north because it was the first time the Israeli citizens were in their shelters for days on end and they didn't have the food, they didn't have the medicine, they didn't have any of the diapers, the formula. And my father said, this is what the Karin Liadidu, the fellowship is needed for it. And literally people were packing their trunks and driving up north and he created a system that now 20 years later, as soon as there's war, we don't need to be packing our trunks. We have our partners on the ground that were able to mobilize within a matter of hours. So it just hearing that sentiment from the Second Intifada, from the Second Lebanon War and knowing how far we've come, beshuto in his honor and his memory is just important to remember. Sofmaseb Makhsheba Triladze and result reflects the first thought. And my father was dedicated to helping the people of Israel with anything that was needed with tens of millions of Christians standing behind us around the world. And so it's really this glimmer of hope in the darkness. And thank you so much. We stand behind you and the Israeli army and the first responders with anything that's needed. We only have a few seconds left, Yael. Just your sense of the resilience, the unity right now. You're talking about people from different communities banding together to try and make a difference. Your understanding of the sentiment on the ground going forward. Very briefly, please. I think I'm gonna answer with a prayer. The unity that we are feeling now, the brotherhood that is just tangible wherever you look may continue for many, many, many years without any crisis to bring it together. Yael Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Thank you so much for speaking to us. And thank you so much for your initiatives and for carrying out the chesed, the charity work and the good work that you are doing. Thank you very much, Yael Eckstein. And right now, as we end this breaking news edition, I bring you a breaking news update and it's a report just in from the Red Cross in Lebanon confirmation for people have been killed in an IDF attack inside Southern Lebanon. That confirmation coming through just moments ago, the Red Cross in Lebanon saying four dead from an IDF strike in Southern Lebanon. The war continues. Colonel, the Reserves, Olivia Refovich. Thank you very much for being here in studio. And that's where we end for now. Our rolling coverage continues shortly. I'm Benita Levine in Tel Aviv. Thank you for watching. Stay tuned. Officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. Within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us, we don't want to do it. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. We awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. We need rain for the embradiots. The Vakita Reserve, we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job. And then if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, then the Vakita can be protected. In News Edition, I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv, rocket siren sounding in southern communities near the Gaza Strip right now, including in Kisufim, Storot near Am and Ibim just moments ago. At the same time, earlier loud explosions heard in the north near the border with Lebanon. The Red Cross saying short while ago that four people had been killed earlier in an IDF strike in southern Lebanon. The four infiltrators had reportedly tried to place a landmine on the fence. Meanwhile, five anti-tank missiles have been fired towards Israel from Lebanon. It's day 11 of the war. The death toll from the Hamas terror onslaught at a music festival and at several kibbutzim and bases. On Saturday, the 7th of October is now at more than 1,400. Israel has made it clear. It plans to eradicate Hamas. A terror group, the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says is worse than ISIS. President Joe Biden lands in Tel Aviv tomorrow for a blitz visit. The IDF continuing to target Hamas terror sites with questions remaining as to when a ground invasion could start. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hamanei saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza, quote, no one can stop resistance forces. On the diplomatic front, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening. The Chancellor is also expected to meet Benny Gantz, a member of the recently formed war cabinet and fellow former IDF chief of staff, Gaddi Eisenkart, a war cabinet observer. And just a short while ago, confirmation that French President Emmanuel Macron is also set to make a solidarity visit to Israel in the next few days. He says intense talks are progressing to free the kidnapped hostages held by the Hamas terror group inside Gaza. Meanwhile, Jordanian King Abdullah II is reiterating Amman's red line, saying neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from the Gaza Strip. He was speaking in Berlin after meeting with the German Chancellor. This all coming after Israel warned Gazans to evacuate towards the south of the Strip near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt ahead of the expected IDF ground offensive in the north of the enclave. We're now joined by our correspondent, Khamdesar Hutsch. She joins us from the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. Several developments under the Red Cross saying four people have been killed in an IDF strike in southern Lebanon. The four were reportedly infiltrators that had tried to place a landmine on a fence. Tell us the latest. Janina, good afternoon. We're coming to you on the phone because every position we have in the north, the Israeli army is making us turn off our cameras out of fears that they will be shown and that their location will be revealed earlier today. The Israeli military killing four people on the other side of the border in Lebanese territory. The army says they were preparing to fire, preparing to place perhaps other explosive devices. They stated soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras, observed a group of people approaching the border to place an explosive device and they were then killed. The Israeli military is on high alert here at the border. They have closed the area completely within a two kilometer radius, evacuating a lot of these border communities and a lot of exchanges of fire happening today as this is proving to turn into a new front of the war. We're not just hearing from the Israelis. We're not just hearing from the Lebanese. We're also hearing from the Iranians who are saying that time is running out for a solution as the conflict is now expanding. They are now the IRGC themselves are saying that it's only a matter of time before this turns into a semi-regional war. We're hearing from all of the leadership inside the Islamic Republic, the foreign ministry as well as the Israelis and the Lebanese. The Lebanese parliament today saying that they don't want a war. They want the complete calm and collected situation to remain on the border, but that's simply not the case. So the situation here is constantly changing and constantly expanding as Israel now prepares itself for a new front on the North. Thank you so much. We will be coming back to our correspondent, Khanda Salhot. She's on the Northern border between Israel and Lebanon. More to come from Khamda, of course, in the coming hours. And now joining me in studio, we welcome Dr. Nessia Shemer, expert on Islamic law at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Dr. Shemer, thank you so much for being here in studio. Good afternoon. It's 11 days into the war. Israel is in mourning. Israel is grieving. Israel is in shock. Just to get started, I'd like your assessment on the state of things right now in the country. People are still waiting. Many people are still waiting to hear if their loved ones are alive or not, if they are in Gaza or not. The situation is tense. There are developments in the North. There are developments in the South. Your take on the situation, your thoughts right now, 11 days into this war. Okay, so of course the situation is very bad. I can say my personal story that my son was at that party and he was miraculously saved. The music festival? Yeah. So tell us about his story. What happened? They were there and Hamas came. They needed to escape from the cars. He escaped to a field. There was an injured woman. He tried to take care of her, but they came closer and he needed to run away. Then they waited for hours in another field. There was another injured guy. He made the face time with Mada and tried to take care of him. Emergency services, yes. And tried to take care of him, but then he had to run away again. And eventually someone came to pick up many youngsters and took them to Moshev-Patish. I can't imagine the trauma that he has gone through. How is he doing now 11 days later? Yeah, it's hard. It's very hard. I think he's better now. And I really, really understand this unbelievable situation of the families, of the captives, and I thank God day and night that he's safe and sound. Certainly, as you say, a miracle and what a relief that he is actually physically okay right now. Given your expertise, give us an understanding, a difficult question I know. Some more insight into the ideology of Hamas. It's a terror group that clearly has no regard for Jewish life, has no regard for Israeli life, has no regard for human life. Help us understand what is known about the thinking, if possible, of this terror group. Okay, so Hamas, from a religious ideological point of view, they see their divine mission in the world to punish the Jews. This is according to some verses in the Quran that they interpret in their own way, that Jews are making sins, and God sends every generation a nation that will punish them. The Babylonians, they destroyed the first temples. The Romans destroyed the second one. Hitler destroyed the Jews in the Holocaust. And now Hamas see themself as the servants of God that gave him this mission to punish the Jews because of the sins. Hamas wants the world to see this killing rampage. It videoed what unfolded at the music festival where your son was on Saturday, the 7th of October. It's filmed what happened in the kibbutzim at the bases that it targeted as well. It filmed images that we as a TV channel cannot and will not broadcast. And we saw images of joy. We saw celebrations. Where does that fit into this ideology? Celebrating the death of other people. Celebrating the carnage. Celebrating babies being brutalized. Where does that fit into this ideology? Okay, so I want to say that what I explain is Hamas ideology. Sometimes people make mistakes and think that I identify with it. But no, I say things as they see it, okay? Fully understood, for sure. Fully understood, okay. Hamas see the Israeli society as a society that has no values, has no spirituality, has no goals. Because Hamas is a religious movement, they see others like they see themselves. And because the image of themselves is a religious group, this is the ideal for the people to be religious, to believe in God, to do God's commandments. But Israel's society is very secular. And in the last year, what we saw, all the demonstrations and all the split in Jewish society, they just strengthened their theory about us. That we don't have the right to exist because we are not as we are meant to be. And we will get a little bit later to the fact not only what you are describing, but also the release of videos of one of the hostages and what that means, that message that is being sent. Quite frankly, you can eradicate the terror group. That's what Israel wants to do. You can't eradicate the ideology. We will be coming back to you, Dr. Nesia Shema. But right now, I want to go to our correspondent, Nicole Zedek. She joins us from Tel Aviv. We've been talking about the hostages, people being held captive in Gaza. Nicole, I understand Benny Gantz, the opposition leader, member of course of this newly formed war cabinet, meeting with families, waiting for word on their loved ones. What update can you share right now? Yes, Benita, we're expected to hear from Gantz, as well as the former IDF chief of staff, Guy D. Eisencott, who are both speaking to some of these family members. We know at least 199 people have been taken hostage, and their family members of those 199 people have been notified by the IDF, but speculations are swirling that it could be upwards of 250 people that are actually taken hostage and kidnapped. And so we are expected to hear from those members of the newly formed war cabinet as to how exactly they plan on getting these hostages back to Israel safely. And that is the main concern for all of these family members and loved ones, because we're at day 11 of this war, 11 days since these family members have been taken hostage, kidnapped from their homes, and are still being held in Gaza. So this is a priority number one for these families. And they say before the ground invasion, before the war continues, they want to make sure that their loved ones are back safely. And the state of Israel does say that this is one of their major priorities, and they are getting a lot of pressure as well from outside sources, from different foreign nationals and different heads of government, because as you were talking about one of the videos that Hamas released, Mia Shem, and this is the exact place that we heard from her mother, Karen, earlier this morning, talking about how she just wants her baby home, her child home, who was kidnapped from that Nova Music Festival. Now, it's still unsure exactly how these hostages are and their safety. Hamas spokesperson says that they are keeping all of these hostages safe, and especially the foreign citizens who are dual citizens who have been taken hostage. They say when the time allows them to, they will release them, they will give them back because that's not who they want to take. They want to take Israeli citizens. However, many of these foreign nationals and dual citizens were caught up in this disaster and they're being held as well. But as far as we know, Hamas says that they aren't showing their safety, but it's very unclear at this stage, Benita. I cannot imagine what these families are going through. We will be coming back to you, our correspondent Nicole Zedek, live from Tel Aviv. Thank you very much for that update. And right now, I'd like to bring in Professor Etan Gilboa, the head of the Center for International Communication at Bahrain University and Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. He joins us from Hord HaSharon. Thank you very much, Professor, for your time. So many developments on so many fronts at this hour, but I'd like to start with this massive arrival, this huge significance that President Joe Biden himself is going to be landing in Tel Aviv tomorrow. What do you understand as his real goal? Not only to show support to Israel, but he also has his own personal diplomatic aspirations to what is your understanding of what Joe Biden needs to achieve when he gets to Israel tomorrow. The strategic goal is to in detail Hezbollah and Iran from opening a second front on the Israeli Lebanese or Syrian borders. He has already moved American aircraft carriers, one to the shores of Lebanon and the other one is now is going to the Persian Gulf. He also placed on alert about 2,000 Marines and said and warned Iran and Hezbollah not to don't attack Israel. So the first goal, strategic goal is simply to increase his threats against Hezbollah and Iran. The second goal is to coordinate the next step in the war on Gaza in Gaza. The next step refers to lend operation and there are certain discussions about how to protect civilians and how to create the humanitarian corridor. And Biden will go to Jordan to meet with C.C. Abidji King Abdullah of Jordan and Muhammad Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. He will tell them what the United States thinks about the war and would like to hear from them what they think should be done, especially after Hamas and Islamic Jihad are completely eliminated. And it's certainly a very complicated internal security visit for President Joe Biden. Anthony Blinken was here yesterday when Siren sounded. He, the U.S. Secretary of State, had to get to shelter something that is all too familiar right now for people living in the country. But talk us through the implications, the security concerns when the president of the United States is in here during a war. Yes, you are absolutely correct. I imagine that Hamas and Islamic Jihad would make an effort to fire even more rockets and missiles into Israel during his visit. American presidents usually do not go to zones of war. Biden went to Kyiv in Ukraine back in February to demonstrate American continuing support for Ukraine and to obtain European continuing support for Ukraine. And he is not deterred to come to Israel. It's always a security issue but hopefully the United States and Israel will deal effectively with that threat. Professor Eitan Gilboa live from Hoda-Sharon. Thank you so much for speaking to us on this breaking news edition. Appreciate your insight as always. Stay with us and we'll be coming back to you later on in this broadcast right now. We cross to our correspondent Pierre Kloschendler. He's in Storot in the south. And Siren sounding earlier just a short while ago in several border communities. What is the latest there in Storot, Pierre? Well, there hadn't been a rocket alert since yesterday and then suddenly at around four o'clock. There was a rocket in the center of Storot and this supermarket was open from 8 a.m. till 4 p.m. when the alarm sounded, the red alert. There are soldiers that are just walking around here from the home front command and I've spoken to them earlier because they are here, for instance, two residents that I've met a few times we're being told that about 5,000 residents have decided to stay but most of them are on social welfare drip usually but this time I don't know I went to the home front command I told them about this man he has nowhere to live he's homeless he lives in a shelter, a public shelter right now because not all the buildings in Storot still have a shelter and they told me that the municipality knows about him but it seems this man gets only some food stuff from customers that come and buy for him some stuff, drinks a bit of vegetables cigarettes and this other man also lives here I've seen him many times they walk around here they're looking for social contacts they don't have children they're not married and there are many of these residents that have stayed if they're not working in essential professions that are here with no real help from the government Correspondent Pierre Kloschengler live from Storot we will be coming back to you for more updates but right now we're going live to a press conference Sachi Hanekbi, head of the National Security Council of Israel is speaking on the issues in Tel Aviv President Biden is a real friend of Israel who shows once again that the United States is the best ally of Israel the president is coming to hug us with a loving hug he hugged to every family who lost this world 10 days ago he hugged to every fighter who is on the Gaza border he hugged to every Israeli to every Jew wherever he is and we from the prime minister every citizen will hug back the president thanking him we're thanking the American president and the American nation because President Biden as soon as the war began instructed the American army to provide the IDF with anything the IDF needs immediately that directive is very emotional for us and it's also essential for us to make sure that we achieve all of our goals in this war some of the means already reached us and are being used by us and some of it will make its way shortly the president directed to move forward to our region a large fleet and a large aerial force and put it in front of Lebanon and in front of Iran the best aircraft carrier in the world the Ford is already here and the second another very powerful aircraft carrier the Eisenhower is on its way to the Persian Gulf what does that mean the president apart from his public remarks and apart from the cause that he directed to Iran which were not public is telling all of those who think that if they want to join the war against the Israeli people there will be American involvement Israel will not be alone it strengthens strengthens us and it prevents those sides to take unneeded risks but if they think that they want to act against us an American force is here and is ready tomorrow for the first time ever for the first time in Israel's wars the head of the largest superpower in the world will come here to be with us in these difficult days and for that the people of Israel thank him this is much more than just appreciating our pain it's also a very strong political word which comes along with the determination that we're showing as a nation as a government to achieve the goals of this war until we achieve victory this is an enemy which the president himself said is worse than ISIS Secretary of State Blinken was here yesterday not far from the place where I am right now he was here till 3 a.m and participated in our in our meeting of the war cabinet he sat with us the prime minister and the ministers showed the secretary of state the plan that you're all you're all aware of we called the residents of northern Gaza the northern Gaza Strip to leave the areas of war and head south only in the southern Gaza Strip we will be able to have safe zones and this is the only place where they can be given humanitarian assistance under one condition that one condition which was very well told to Secretary Blinken as long as this is assistance to the people that we call them to head south but if this assistance does not make it to the residents but goes to the murderers the butchers it will not go through you heard about Hamas's cruelty which is preventing its own citizens to head south they want them to serve the citizens as human shield they don't want the citizens to be protected so they're sacrificing their own population we believe that it's it will not be a long time until all of this population is gone from the area which we directed the northern Gaza Strip we agreed with the U.S. to act together to make up a plan that will prevent a humanitarian crisis among those heading south as long as this assistance goes to those who need it the civilians and not the terrorists we see that Hamas also goes to UN Relief Agency and steals their their assistance and the Americans agree with us the Americans also agree with us that releasing the hostages which is a sacred issue for us this has to be a central component in every humanitarian effort questions first question we saw a first video of a hostage from captivity what can we say about the situation of the hostages and are we willing to have negotiations to release them another question that I was hoping to direct the Prime Minister but he's not taking questions so I will ask this everybody else is taking responsibility even you, the Chief of Staff will the Prime Minister assume responsibility and confess that he was wrong first question was about those hostages as you all know there was a very strong effort by Israel to have a clear image the clearest possible about hostages we're still in the cloud in the fog we still don't know everything the Prime Minister met with members of families of those kidnapped and everybody was crying together because we're all as strong as a nation but we do not hide their sensitivity the families are desperate, they don't know they don't either know where their family members are or they know that their family members are held by these animal beasts these people are monsters they're far worse than animals the Prime Ministers instructed all of the state systems the military ones, the civilian ones to direct the world the message that releasing our hostages is the most important thing I'll give it up as for your second question as the Prime Ministers said he said it in parliament and he said it in the past from the first moment we understood there were failures we will first investigate the tactical failures that will help us now on the battlefield but later on all of the questions will surface and all of them will be investigated all of us will have to answer questions but now the main issue and the main priority of the country's leadership which is as wide as ever is to continue to win this campaign which will not be easy it will not be easy but we will defeat we will win we will win and we will achieve all of our goals the head of the foreign wing of Hamas Ismail Aniyah said that the goal is to empty the Israeli prisons from Palestinian prisoners can you tell us if there is a negotiation through a third part can you accept or deny any negotiations through a third party the second question the cabinet said that the goals of this war is not only to defeat Hamas militarily but also politically what does that mean does that mean that Israel goes into Gaza and destroys all of its political abilities their abilities outside the area as well the goal, the main goal from which everything comes is to destroy the military the military, the organizational and the political capabilities of jihad and the Islamic jihad we want to end this war when they do not exist anymore as a military movement as a political movement that threatens the lives of our civilians at the Gaza border which we hope will go back to this heaven which was their home this is what we're now doing with every person was part of this attack on Israel we will kill him it doesn't happen where he hides in a tunnel or anywhere we will reach him and we will kill him all those people will not be able to conduct any way of life in the Gaza Strip as they did in the past 15 years and will not be able to threaten us I gave my answers regarding the hostages we're focused on that it will be something on our minds all the time I think it would be best to speak less of that another question another question everybody takes responsibility apart from the prime minister and your answer is that the prime minister perhaps instructed to look over things but he does not speak about the men who had all the systems here for the past 15 years which is him does the prime minister not understand how big this time is is he still dealing with politics when will he hear the prime minister take responsibility for this terrible incident this issue is very serious and the world coming time when everybody will deal with that the former prime minister the current prime minister everybody the heads of the intelligence director at ministers of defense everybody who thought that Hamas is deterred and will be deterred from going into this madness the issue of responsibility will be tested but you see incredible way in which Israelis come together our aim is unity fighting and victory regarding the north and the threats from Iran if Israel decides that it cannot live with the threat of Hamas and the southern border does that also mean the threat of Hezbollah on the northern border it's a good question through the years we lived with the threat in the north under the assumption that the other side is deterred in the south we saw that this is not true and that is why there is now fighting difficult fighting in the southern border regarding the north we are prepared we're prepared for a situation and that is why we have so many fighters and very strong defense up in the north we are ready for everything but at this moment we want to prevent another front but if we achieve victory in that front as well in the past two days Israel is saying that Lebanon the state of Lebanon is responsible but we see that Israel is only attacking Hezbollah targets and not Lebanese rockets and the second question the Americans are here and they said they will join the war if there is an attack on Israel is the fact that an American president is here when rockets are fired to Israel is that a war on Israel last question I will clarify the things we do not say that Lebanon is responsible because there is no such thing as Lebanon Lebanon that we have known in the past is no longer there Hezbollah is the one controlling Lebanon it's holding Lebanon the state of Lebanon is hostage to the interest of Hezbollah which is a Shi'ite movement and an Iranian movement if the war comes from the north Lebanon will not look anymore as it is today the minister of defense spoke about this before this period and said that Lebanon will go back to the age of stone if we see provocation from Lebanon which challenges our national security there is sort of a cooperation that Nasrallah is trying to prove to the Palestinians doing it under the threshold under the threshold of very strong hostility but it may be its way of perhaps confusing us that is why we are there very strong and ready for everything in the north President Biden comes here he's not very scared of rockets or sirens President Biden did not warn Hamas of an attack Hezbollah and he warned Iran and the warning is sent to these two powers yesterday the Secretary of State Blinken was together with minister and myself and others was with us to the shelter he did not look very scared either he's felt that before you are watching a live press conference the head of the national security council of Israel taking questions right now at defense headquarters in Tel Aviv we will be speaking to professor and to our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev for their takeaways but first I want to go back to Dr. Nesha expert on Islamic law because we were talking a little bit earlier about the hostages about the agonizing wait for families wanting to know how they are doing we heard Sachi Hanegbi saying this is a priority and you spoke a little bit earlier about this disturbing ideology coming out of Hamas Hamas has been compared to ISIS in fact Lloyd Austin says Hamas is worse than ISIS talk to us about what you understand should be happening next what is Hamas likely to do we know one photograph has been released what next through the eyes of Hamas if it's possible to try to ascertain Hamas will release another video probably the next days because he knows that human life is a very sensitive in Israeli society and since Gilad Shalit they were publishing many many videos about this subject and second they have a very big damage to their Islamic image in the world because what they did it was against all rules of Sharia because there are very clear verses of the Quran very clear traditions of Prophet Muhammad which say that what they did is against Islam so now they try to say that Salah Khallarouli said that there wasn't there wasn't them but regular Gazans and yesterday Abu Ubaidah said that they know very well to treat the hostages according to their Islamic values they do all this because they know that if the world says that Hamas is ISIS there will be a very bad they will have a very bad image and also the Islamic world doesn't like ISIS at all as we said a little bit earlier one could try to eradicate the terror group as Israel is hoping to do but you can't eradicate the ideology Dr. Nessia Sherma, thank you so much for speaking to us we appreciate your insights right now and as we are speaking to you Red Alert Sirens sounding up north at Kiryat Shmoner and we are going to be getting updates from the north but right now first we'd like to go to our correspondent Pierre Kloschengler he is in Storot in the south and Pierre news just in I understand a Hamas commander has been eliminated by the IDF in a strike what update can you share right now right Gaza sources are telling us that Ayman Nofal the head of the central command of the Izadina Al-Qasam armed branch of Hamas has been eliminated today in an air strike and that's probably the most important neutralization since the onset of the war because he was one of the five top commanders of the Gaza Strip on behalf of Hamas there have been other relations of lower rank commanders and also of the minister of finance of Hamas one of the members of the political bureau of Hamas were also eliminated but in terms of military in terms of armed terrorists this is the most significant elimination targeted killing as of now live from Storot in the south that's our correspondent Pierre Kloschengler we will be coming back to Pierre for more updates and now I want to go to our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev monitoring a range of developments as we speak of course we've just heard now rocket sirens up north we've just heard now a Hamas commander taken out by the IDF as well and we just heard from Sachi Hanigbi outlining some kind of plan in terms of solidarity between the US and Israel ahead of President Joe Biden's arrival in Tel Aviv your main takeaways right now let's begin with the press conference and yes President Biden is here the national security advisor Sachi Hanigbi and others from the prime minister down have stressed immense American support no doubt about it from what I'm hearing and again there's no one will confirm this but the United States has told Israel you do not start the second front but if a second front is inflicted upon you then we will come in it was only two weeks ago in a world that was far far far far far away from us that we remembered the Yom Kippur war this was exactly it Israel was told you do not start the war but if the war is inflicted on you we will back you this seems to be the case now and yes the fact that President Joe Biden comes here at a time of war that's a very strong message there also we heard two different questions in the press conference regarding the fact that everybody in the highest echelons including in the past half an hour the head of the Israeli military directorate saying yes we failed now major intelligence failure yes we failed yes I failed the head of the Israeli military intelligence directorate saying that about half hour ago the chief of staff the head of the Shabbat Israeli internal security agency everybody the national security agent the head of the national security agency himself everybody apart from the prime minister the prime minister still not doing that and the answers coming from Sakhiya Negbi in my views are less than acceptable but these were the answers that he was given even though he was asked twice about it regarding the events happening on the ground we're also hearing that he's saying that two of its operatives were killed that means that we can expect retaliation from Sakhiya Negbi put it there's constant crossfire but in its opening fire in Israel in its retaliation both are keeping it under a certain threshold meaning not to drag the area into a second front this is according this is true right now it's 4.45pm this is true for 4.45pm that will happen at 4.46pm but for this moment at least it's under the threshold regarding the south yes a senior Hamas official probably this is the most senior official killed in this war many others are to come rest assured that Ismail Aniya and I'm sorry Iikh Yasinuar and Muhammad Def and all those senior Hamas officials around they have no lack of water they have no lack of electricity or fuel they have everything they need to be there quite some time whoever pops up is killed Senior Defense Correspondent Jonathan Regev stay with us I want to bring in Professor Etan Gilboa he has also been listening to that address that press conference from Sakhiya Negbi and I'd like to ask you directly you heard the message out of Sakhiya Negbi's questions that he was taking are you filled with confidence that Israel has got this yes the US is there to show its support are you confident that Israel can handle developments on all fronts at the same time given what we just heard from Sakhiya Negbi Yes I think Israel can has subbed mentors to deal with the multi arena warfare but I think that the perception front is open it would hinder some of the effort in Gaza will have to redirect Air Force combat and units to the north and therefore the goal both of Israel and the United States at this time is to prevent intervention by Hezbollah and Iran and I agree with Jonathan Regev that right now what Hezbollah is doing is to harass the Israel military on the one hand they don't want to do nothing in sympathy with Hamas and Islamic jihad on the other hand they not yet interested in a full scale war with Israel they are somewhat afraid of challenging both Israel and the United States So what then do you make of the discussion I was just having with Jonathan about the criticism that Benjamin Netanyahu isn't in the firing line so to speak at this juncture yes it's 11 days in but several top brass on the intelligence side are saying we messed up so I'm going to bring Jonathan in we've lost the professor for now we will put on that exact front why is it important right now there is a focus on a plan of action does it matter right now that the leadership gets to the bottom of who is to blame is that a cry from the public or does the focus need to be on eradicating Hamas and then completing the investigation and making sure that someone puts their hand up and says I'm to blame it's a cry from the public because Israel time needs to believe its leadership and there are many factors I'm not going to say that the entire Israeli population but many sectors within the entire Israeli population do not believe its leadership we've seen it over the past year with endless protests and protests saying that Benjamin Netanyahu is doing nothing for the for the interest of the country but not but only for his own it was a terrible thing to it was a terrible notion in times of peace it's a much it's a terrible situation at a time of war Israel is at a time of war and whether you are a supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu or an opponent of Benjamin Netanyahu you want to believe that he is doing the best for the country for Israel to win this and not do something for his own benefit, for example there was a story appearing the other day about the meeting of his which was also mentioned by Cachi Anegbi the head of the national security agency about people who suddenly popped up at his meeting with members of family of those kidnapped people that had nothing to do with families of kidnapped people but people who only were there so that an image of support for Benjamin Netanyahu could come clear I was not there I don't know what is true and what is not true I'm saying that these are things that are appearing in various sectors of the Israeli society there's a notion that they cannot they cannot trust the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu and then even at a time of war he would do what is good for him and not what is good for the country many people in Israel believe that and for someone like Netanyahu to say I have been wrong I'm taking responsibility but we will deal with this after the war just like Chief of Staff Ertia Levy did just like the head of the intelligence and the IDF military intelligence director Aaron Khaliva did about a half hour ago just like the head of the Shabbat the Israeli security agency Ronan Barr did a few days ago all of them are saying yes we were wrong maybe we will even pay price but first let's win Benjamin Netanyahu so far did not do it a lot of people would argue though that right now the country is far more united than it has been in a very long time because the focus right now is on the existential threat that is coming from Hamas potentially from Hezbollah right now can we only unite when there's an existential threat the answer now is yes I think something we certainly will have to wait and see as this potential long stretch the next phase in the war could potentially be unfolding very soon senior Hamas official Ayman Nofal has been eliminated by the IDF how does this change the plan on the ground it doesn't change the plan on the ground because the plan on the ground says loud and clear you're a Hamas official you're a Hamas member you will be killed loud and clear so I don't think that any Hamas official had any doubt so far but if someone had a doubt by now they know they pop up they're killed the fact that we're not seeing Hamas commanders killed by the masses so far is simply because they're hiding they know that once they appear they will be killed they also know that they have a very strong card against Israel which is the those 200 or maybe even 250 people kidnapped in Gaza they're very good very good at playing the psychological game of releasing videos and images of people kidnapped in Gaza we will see more of those coming up because Hamas is well aware of how this plays in Israeli society Hamas remembers very well how Israel under the same prime minister 12 years ago released 1027 prisoners for one soldier if now there are 250 people in Gaza if the equation is one for 1000 does that mean the equation is 250 for 250,000 on paper yes where does it put Israel and of course then we're speaking of a soldier now we're speaking of elderly of babies big big big questions big questions in a place of course where every single life matters and that is clearly something that Hamas understands about Israel right now let's go north our correspondent Hamza Sahut is on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon and rocket siren sounding just a short while ago Hamda in Kerryat Shmono where are you what update can you share at this juncture Benita good evening we're here along the Israeli Lebanon border the rocket siren sounding the rocket sirens in Kerryat Shmono a little bit far from where we are but the iron dome apparently intercepting those there were also reports that there were iron dome interceptions in several other locations but that there were no sirens there for now the Israeli military is continuing the tit for tat of exchanges of fire with his bottle on the other side of the border the group saying that two members have been killed so far the Israeli military earlier today saying that they saw a group of people approaching the border to place an explosive and then they were able to eliminate those people on the other side of the fence now the Israeli military presence here is quite large they are really trying to secure this area a lot of places have since been evacuated they have been closed a few other places we were the Israeli military made us leave because they didn't want their positions broadcasted in the background so the a new front could be emerging from this war we know that a lot of talk has been about the ground invasion inside the Gaza Strip we know the Iranians and Hezbollah alike are saying that there will be a semi-regional war if that were to happen reports that the ground invasion was delayed because of those warnings from those from those sides the Israeli military still on high alert as activity continues here in the north and the latest updates on those communities being evacuated in recent days being moved to guest houses what is the latest on that front the Israeli military ordering the evacuation of around 28 communities we're talking 10,000 people putting them in state-funded guest houses to really try and get them out of line of fire should the conflict escalate they are afraid because the types of weapons that Hezbollah has are quite sophisticated they could inflict a lot of damage in Israeli territory could cause a lot of civilian casualties and military ones alike should they reach here so the Israeli military really trying to take extra precautions should the fighting continue and escalate to a different level thank you so much our correspondent Khamdesahut live on the northern border Israel and Lebanon we will be coming back to Khamdesahut of course in the coming hours senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev just a few seconds to go until we end this part of the broadcast we will be back at the top of the hour your take right now on the developments simmering up north and in the south at the same time again it seems as if still the focus on the south Hezbollah and Israel in on the northern border still exchanging fire still under a certain threshold that is at least for now and I think that the threats by the United States are are are impressing Khamas and are impressing Hezbollah and Iran how long we don't know senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev thank you so much this is breaking news edition we're out for just two minutes back again at the top of the hour stay tuned I'm Benita Levine live in Tel Aviv and this is breaking news edition back in a bit of a particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year we are here in the west part of the city near the combats and the bombing of the international coalition we are here a few hundred meters only of the mosque nourished we went from house to house to stay covered by Daesh snipers before arriving on a roof at the level of the front line for the young Iraqi soldiers they were able to do the cleaning of their arsenal and their power of fire in front of our cameras the theater of war that I took the measure of what I wanted to live when the information fell according to which a French TV team had been killed by an explosive a mine in the same place where we found each other a few days earlier 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines 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 news edition continues I'm Benita Levine live in Tel Aviv rocket sirens sounding in southern communities near the Gaza Strip right now also loud explosions occurred earlier in the north near the border with Lebanon the Red Cross saying four people were killed in an IDF strike in southern Lebanon earlier the four infiltrators had tried to place a landmine on a fence five anti-tank missiles have been fired towards Israel from Lebanon it's day 11 of the war the death toll from the Hamas terror onslaught at a music festival on Saturday the 7th of October is at more than 1400 Israel has made it clear it plans to eradicate Hamas a terror group the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says is worse than ISIS President Joe Biden lands in Tel Aviv tomorrow for a blitz visit and in news just in Chancellor Olaf Scholz has just touched down in Tel Aviv he is due to meet with the Prime Minister in the coming hours meanwhile the IDF continuing to target Hamas terror sites with questions remaining as to when a ground invasion could start Ayman Naufal a senior Hamas officer has been eliminated in one of those strikes just a short while ago meanwhile Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza quote no one can stop resistance forces on the diplomatic front there are several meetings taking place we know now that the Chancellor is also likely to meet later with Benny Gantz a member of the recently formed war cabinet and fellow former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisencott a war observer and just a short while ago confirmation that French President Emmanuel Macron is also set to make a solidarity visit to Israel in the next few days he says intense talks are progressing to free the kidnapped hostages held by Gaza Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterating earlier Amman's red line saying that neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from the Gaza Strip he was speaking in Berlin earlier after meeting with the German Chancellor now this coming after Israel warned Gazans to evacuate towards the south of the Strip near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt ahead of an expected IDF ground offensive in the north of the enclave and so for more we welcome to studio our senior defence correspondent Jonathan Regev who has been monitoring all the latest developments as well as monitoring the latest rhetoric from Sachi Hanegbi at his press conference earlier about the latest plans and we welcome captain in the reserves Guy Poran co-leader and Air Force pilots protest leader and former Air Force pilot gentlemen thank you both for being here in studio so to start moments ago siren sounding in the south specifically in Storot you were there just yesterday you broadcast from a flattened police station in that city siren sounding right now bring us up to speed yes and you say bring us up to speed so even before that we spoke of the sirens in the north so we're now getting the information that two rockets were launched from Lebanon towards Israeli territory one was intercepted the other fell in an open area no injuries or casual no injuries or damage there this is regarding the north the south sirens in Storot a complete ghost town we could have seen it yesterday here in the broadcast no one really there the city for the first time completely evacuated yes there are I would say 100 maybe 200 people still left in the city the city of 100,000 people very very few I'd say 100 to 100 people were seeing them wandering in the streets the city is empty everything is of course closed the police station which was a place where foreign visitors foreign dignitaries would always come because they had immense shelves with debris and leftovers of the thousands of rockets fired to the city for 20 years now more than 20 years that police station is gone because of the firefight that was there with the terrorists because of the concern the terrorists and explosives were inside the decision was taken to demolish that police station the police station is now gone and it's a very sad scene in Storot yes all of the border communities are practically empty completely empty a ghost town completely instilled Hamas targets they're all looking for the very few people who are still there Guy I want to bring you in on exactly this just since our broadcast started sirens in the south sirens in the north this all happening ahead of President Joe Biden's arrival in Tel Aviv tomorrow as an Air Force pilot in the past what is the significance of the US President arriving the war is underway sirens are sounding and he's coming to give a message what do you take away from that message well I think it's very very significant I don't think it's ever been done before where such an international crisis happens and the president himself is coming immediately and the message is very very clear I think to everyone to the Israeli public first and foremost but also to the Iranians and the Hamas and the Egyptians and everybody is going to stand by Israel in the military operation that is bound to take place in Gaza now and that the US will not allow this to spill into a total Lebanese Hezbollah operation the fact that the president is here and he's looking and saying to the Hezbollah and to Iran don't do it is very very significant Hamas senior official Ayman Nourphal was taken out in an IDF strike not so long ago as a pilot give us an understanding of a precision strike like that what it entails and how something like that happens without harming the people who are kidnapped and being held hostage right now and civilians who are trying to flee it's intricate it's complicated break it down for us it's very complicated and it shows even though the Hamas was prepared now you know for a few days for Israeli retaliation certainly its commanders still Israel has the ability to know in real time where some of these commanders are such as the one that was just taken out and is capable to launch a precise attack that would kill this person this is not at all should be taken for granted because at this point in time you would expect that they would be either out of the Gaza Strip altogether or hiding below ground and this is very encouraging to know that the capabilities are still there it's a very sophisticated situation to know in real time where he is and then to launch a missile and as far as hurting other people in there in this particular attack I believe that they just had been hurt the Gazans would immediately say that so that means that fortunately there is no such thing but of course we don't know you know tomorrow they may use them as a shield and it's definitely not something that we should think is simple to do with what going forward in this war Guy and Jonathan stay with us that was a picture on our screens of Ayman Naufal he was eliminated just a short while ago with the IDF strike for more details he's there on your screen we now cross to our correspondent Pierre Kloschendler in Storot in the south what update can you share about this IDF strike eliminating Ayman Naufal Hamas senior commander right just before that I want to mention that there was another rocket alert and we heard what seems to be like two impacts we don't know exactly what happened and it happened already an hour ago when there was an impact on the asphalt of a road in Storot first time in more than 12 hours that there had been a rocket alert now regarding Ayman Naufal he's like a general for Hamas is Adin Al-Qasam Brigade he is one of the five top commanders of the Gaza Strip on behalf of Hamas he has been eliminated in the El Burej refugee camp which is in the central sector of the Gaza Strip and also another man has been eliminated it's Hazem Ismail Aniyah one of the sons of Ismail Aniyah the leader of the political bureau of Hamas who is commute between Qatar and Lebanon his son was eliminated in the Shati refugee camp just north of the Gaza Strip certainly sounds like that was a precision strike on behalf of the IDF of course more details around that particular strike will be emerging that only happened just a short while ago but I want to go back to what you mentioned earlier Pierre about the siren sounding in several southern communities just seconds ago before we came to you given the fact that Jonathan was just describing in studio how many people have been eliminated from these areas and are staying further up north what is the intention for Rocketfire to keep pummeling these Gaza communities these border communities close to the Gaza border well first of all it's true that most residents have left but in the Kibbutzim on the border which were slaughtered there are still people that are doing essential work that survived the onslaught of Hamas or feeding the chicken and other security related positions that some of the Kibbutz members are tasked with now in Zerot there's a different it's a different case there are like maybe 5,000 residents who have nowhere to go and they're on social welfare drip when they ask for social welfare to help them but many of them are ashamed of that and you see here a Jewish religious organization from the United States is helping 160 families with essential needs such as food toilet paper and so on and these people stay here because they have nowhere to go and they're ashamed of asking for help and they're homeless even because their house has been burnt by impacts of rockets now regarding the localities the Kibbutzim on the Gaza border because they've been flooded with security personnel be it soldiers or police obviously Hamas is trying to hit potential staging grounds in order to slow down maybe the potential in the future within the coming days or weeks Correspondent Pierre Kloschendler live from Storot thank you so much for that update from Southern Israel stay safe Pierre and now let's go north our correspondent Hamdas Alhut joins us again from the northern border between Israel and Lebanon and Hamdas so many questions in recent weeks and months even about whether or not today 11 between Hamas and Israel what is the latest sentiment in terms of the threats out of Hezbollah and specifically out of the Iranian supreme leader well look there are a lot of threats coming from a lot of different directions specifically when it comes to this ground invasion inside of the Gaza Strip the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson yesterday warning Israel that there are no guarantees that anyone could really enter this conflict in any regional war because of what's going on inside of the Gaza Strip Hezbollah echoing that sentiment saying that their fighters are ready their arsenal of weapons is ready back in 2016 it was estimated that they had around 150,000 short range rockets that number has since increased back in June they did a weapons showcase to really show the media all of the types of new capabilities and technologies that they have that they could fight a war against Israel they're threatening Israel with this entire arsenal we don't know what their more destructive weapons are like they're longer ballistic missiles longer range missiles here in the north for now still quite a little bit of exchange of fire between the Israeli military and Hezbollah on the other side rocket sirens ringing in Kiryat Shmone a little bit far from where we're standing the Israeli military confirming that there were two rockets one successfully intercepted they're falling in an open field as per the protocol used for the interception and deflection mechanism so the Israeli military is clearing the area securing the area a lot of reinforcements have been sent in in the last 10-11 days out of fears that a war might break out in the north as well thank you so much for that update our correspondent Khamda Salhout on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon stay safe Khamda and the Israeli military is in close in the coming hours now scores of Israeli families are mourning after their loved ones were killed by Hamas in that terror attack which started on Saturday the 7th of October many are still waiting for answers as they hear more and more about the harrowing accounts of what happened on that day more in this I-24 news report the funeral the funeral of Diqla and Tomer Aravah was held in a limited presence of family and close friends Diqla's funeral was scheduled for Monday morning but just before the family received the news it was dreading the body of Diqla's son Tomer was also identified on Monday at noon they were buried side by side here we say our final goodbye and can't digest that we won't see each other again we apologize for not being able to do something for you to be with us on Saturday morning the Aravah Ali Keem families were in their home in Kibbutz Nakhal Oz when it was attacked by more than 100 terrorists the Hamas guys are here inside the house the family's home was one of the first to be reached by the terrorists they shot the father of the family Noam in the leg and took the family captive the terrorists took 17-year-old Tomer with them and used him to lure other families out of the protected areas when they came out they were murdered a method of operating that could have been taken from the Nazi playbook then they knocked on the door of the security room and said open in Hebrew they took someone Israeli with them someone from the Kibbutz, a boy they took him to knock on doors to say he needed help and to encourage people to come out the horrifying video was taken from Diqla's cell phone and distributed via her facebook live a video that many saw on Saturday morning Tom burned into minds as one of the most difficult visuals of the entire horrific event you can see how the terrorists sit the family members in the living room of the house force them to identify themselves and demand answers about other family members who were not in the Kibbutz at the time at the end of the video their traces disappear and they were declared missing until Monday the family received the news that they found Diqla's lifeless body on Monday they identified Tomer's corpse I saw countless times that awful live video and even there you exuded calmness and confidence you wrapped everyone around you like a lioness you didn't let anyone get close and hurt the children and Tomer, our beloved the noble of the soul the 17 year old the supreme mental powers he gave us strength just by seeing him in his greatness functioning in an admirable way this was chapter 2 for Diqla and Noam Tomer is Diqla's son from a previous marriage and Noam is the father of 14 year old Daphna and 8 year old Ella also from a previous marriage Noam is still missing photos of them were published on the day of the abduction from what appears to be Hamas captivity in Gaza we all continue to pray for Noam, Osher, beloved of your heart and his daughters Daphna and Ella so beloved by you looking forward to their safe return from captivity soon healthy and whole the world stops but so continues so empty and so full of your being we demand their return that the Israeli government will do everything it can and not give up on them we are full of hope we are getting back to you quickly and completely a family that woke up on the Sabbath in their peaceful home in a kibbutz a Sabbath in which entire families were divided and wiped out disturbing images indeed in that report exacerbating some of the pain for so many people very difficult to see that unfolding Iran's supreme leader is warning if Israel continues its retaliatory bombardment in Gaza quote the Muslims will become impatient adding no one can stop them when they get impatient let's listen in his own words If these crimes continue the Muslims will be coming patient the resistance forces will be coming patient and no one will be able to stop them Israel and the West should know this don't expect others to not let such and such groups to do such and such things no one can stop them when they getting patient this is a reality that exists so for more on all these latest developments still in studio captain in the reserves Guy Poran co-leader in the air force pilots protest former air force pilot and our senior defence correspondent Jonathan Regev I just want to get a wrap up of Safi Hanegbi's press conference which happened just a short while ago we were live on air when it happened you were unpacking some of the details particularly the questions around the hostages in Gaza 199 families have been contacted about the developments on that front not a lot of detail obviously about the plans in place nonetheless there could be far more hostages in Gaza what update can you share out of the national security front actually not much yes the issue was brought up in the press conference we said that Israel is putting this on top priority this is something that is being discussed with the united states we know that this is something that Israel was putting in top priority Hamas knows that as well that is why we saw a first video surfacing last night we can expect many more videos to surface because Hamas knows very well about the sensitivity of the Israeli society to its hostages so he did not add much one thing though he did say and that is probably something that we should all adhere to is the fact that especially on the issue of the hostages I think less is more is better it is good that things happen quietly because it is not as if now it will say that there is more information say that they know more than that they are actually saying would it be a wise idea to sit in the studio or to stand up in a press conference and brag about it the answer is obviously no I want to bring you in on exactly what Jonathan is talking about because it is sickening and it is twisted to think that Hamas wanted the world to see so many of these images it is clearly part of the psychological strategy also there were people who were targeted in the killing rampage on that day that took out their phones and tried to film some of what was happening as well you can understand why we also hear these heart breaking accounts that people send voice notes back to their families saying goodbye what do you make of the impact of these images these voice notes piecing together exactly what unfolded and the images are there itched in our minds and our hearts forever well this is certainly something that the recent usage of all this you know social media and phones is created a situation that everything is being recorded and seen in real time but what I'm really what's important I think is that you start seeing in the media around the world many images and stories coming out of Gaza they try to create a symmetry or trying to show all the destruction and the atrocities that the Israeli forces are doing over there and people should know around the world that the big difference is that while the Israeli forces are not killing innocent people on purpose they are if there are any innocent people who are there it's because it's not avoidable in order to do what it is doing on the other hand Hamas was doing exactly that on purpose they were trying to target they did target small children they did all these slaughters on purpose so anybody around there were every any decent person around the world should recognize the difference between civilians suffering in the Gaza that unfortunately happens now because it's unavoidable when while the IDF is trying to target only those responsible while what we've seen in Israel last week was people doing barbaric killing of babies and children on purpose this is something that any honest person and any honest media channel around the world should differentiate between the two things and not create a symmetry certainly traumatic to see all these images and of course the thought that they might be going viral as well also even more painful I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit the IDF saying in a press conference earlier in the day the next stage of fighting might not be a ground offensive this all coming while we are hearing so much speculation about the next plan of action if not a ground offensive you're a pilot what does that exactly mean well I can't tell you what exactly but I can tell you that the IDF is not going to do exactly what the other guys are expecting of it so there are various things which I think we will see unfolding there is no doubt that the campaign over there is not over but if anybody thinks that there will be day after tomorrow lines of Israeli troops moving into traps that are prepared for them by the Hamas they're wrong so there is a variety of possibilities of scenarios we also know that most of the warriors of Hamas are not anymore in buildings over ground but a lot of them are underground some of the methods some of the things that are being prepared I believe are certain types of bombs and certain types of techniques that would be able to tackle exactly that we only have a few words we only have a few seconds Jonathan Regev what do you see unfolding in the coming days very briefly please I don't see much happening at least until Joe Biden leaves tomorrow afternoon after that literally it's anyone's guess anything can happen any predictions I'm sorry but they're worth nothing and whatever they are we'll be bringing you all the latest developments as they happen here on our breaking news coverage on i24 news senior defence correspondent Jonathan Regev captain in the reserves Guy Poran co-leader in the air force and pilots protest and former air force pilot thank you both for being here for breaking news edition I'm Benita Levine in Tel Aviv thank you for watching stay tuned visit israelbonds.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 and what's going on only on i24 news en cuesta new 24 pero que si Carlos quisiera vamos a ver desde donde nos están viendo todo lo que deben hacer es preparar el teléfono apuntar el lector de QR y allí se abre un breve cuestionario muy fácil de completar otra opción es ingresar en el link que aparece en la pantalla esperamos vuestras respuestas news edition continues I'm Vanessa Levine, live in Tel Aviv rocket siren sounding in southern communities near the Gaza Strip right now also loud explosions heard earlier in the north near the border with Lebanon the Red Cross saying 4 people were killed in an idea strike in southern Lebanon earlier before infiltrators had tried to place a land mine on a fence Anti-tank missiles have been fired towards Israel from Lebanon. It's day 11 of the war. The death toll from the Hamas terror onslaught at a music festival and at several kibbutzim and bases. On Saturday, the 7th of October, is at more than 1,400. Israel has made it clear it plans to eradicate Hamas. A terror group, the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, says is worse than ISIS. President Joe Biden lands in Tel Aviv tomorrow for a blitz visit. And in news just in Chancellor Olaf Scholz has just touched down in Tel Aviv. He is due to meet with the Prime Minister in the coming hours. Meanwhile, the idea of continuing to target Hamas terror sites with questions remaining as to when a ground invasion could start. I'm in Norfal. A senior Hamas officer has been eliminated in one of those strikes just a short while ago. Meanwhile, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hamanei is saying if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza, quote, no one can stop resistance forces. On the diplomatic front, there are several meetings taking place. We know now that the Chancellor is also likely to meet later with Benny Gantz, a member of the recently formed war cabinet and fellow former IDF chief of staff, Cardi Eisenkott, a war cabinet observer. And just a short while ago, confirmation that French President Emmanuel Macron is also set to make a solidarity visit to Israel in the next few days. He says intense talks are progressing to free the kidnapped hostages held by Gaza. Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterating earlier Amman's red line saying that neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from the Gaza Strip. He was speaking in Berlin earlier after meeting with the German Chancellor. Now this coming after Israel warned Gazans to evacuate towards the south of the Strip near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt ahead of an expected IDF ground offensive in the north of the enclave. And so for more, we welcome to studio our senior defence correspondent Jonathan Reghev, who has been monitoring all the latest developments as well as monitoring the latest rhetoric from Safi Hanegbi at his press conference earlier about the latest plans. Welcome, Captain, in the reserves Guy Poran, co-leader and Air Force pilot's protest leader and former Air Force pilot. Gentlemen, thank you both for being here in studio. So to start, moments ago, siren sounding in the south, specifically in Storot. You were there just yesterday. You broadcast from a flattened police station in that city. Siren sounding right now. Bring us up to speed. And you say, bring us up to speed. So even before that, we spoke of the sirens in the north. So we're now getting the information that two rockets were launched from Lebanon towards Israeli territory. One was intercepted. The other fell in an open area. No injuries or casualties. No injuries or damage there. This is regarding the north, the south. Sirens in Storot. Storot, a complete ghost town. We could have seen it yesterday here in the broadcast. No one really there. The city for the first time completely evacuated. Yes, there are, I would say, a hundred, maybe 200 people still left in the city. This is a city of, what, 25,000 people? Very, very few. I'd say a hundred to 200 people were seeing them wandering in the streets. The city is empty. Everything is, of course, closed at the police station, which was a place where foreign visitors, foreign dignitaries would always come because they had immense shelves with debris and leftovers of the thousands of rockets fired to the city for 20 years, now more than 20 years. That police station is gone because of the firefight that was there with the terrorists. Because of the concern that terrorists and explosives were inside, the decision was taken to demolish that police station. The police station is now gone. And it's a very sad scene in Sderot. Yes, all of the border communities are practically empty. Sderot completely empty, a ghost town completely instilled. Hamas targets Sderot, looking for the very few people who are still there. Guy, I want to bring you in on exactly this. Just since our broadcast started, Sirens in the south, Sirens in the north, this all happening ahead of President Joe Biden's arrival in Tel Aviv tomorrow as an Air Force pilot in the past. What is the significance of the US President arriving the war is underway, Sirens are sounding, and he's coming to give a message. What do you take away from that message? Well, I think it's very, very significant. I don't think it's ever been done before where such an international crisis happens and the President himself is coming immediately. And the message is very, very clear, I think, to everyone, to the Israeli public, first and foremost, but also to the Iranians and the Hamas and the Egyptians and everybody that the US is going to stand by Israel in the military operation that is bound to take place in Gaza now and that the US will not allow this to spill into a total Lebanese Hezbollah operation. The fact that the President is here and he's looking and saying to the Hezbollah and to Iran, don't do it is very, very significant. Hamas senior official Ayman Norfal was taken out in an IDF strike not so long ago as a pilot. Give us an understanding of a precision strike like that, what it entails, and how something like that happens without harming the people who are kidnapped and being held hostage right now and civilians who are trying to flee. It's intricate, it's complicated, break it down for us. It's very complicated and it shows, you know, to the surprise of many people that even though Hamas was prepared now, you know, for a few days for Israeli retaliation and certainly its commanders, still, Israel has the ability to know in real time where some of these commanders are, such as the one that was just taken out and is capable to launch a precise attack that would kill this person. This is not at all should be taken for granted because at this point in time you'd expect that they would be either out of the Gaza Strip altogether or hiding below ground. And this is very encouraging to know that the capabilities are still there. It's a very sophisticated situation to know in real time where he is and then to launch a missile. And as far as hurting other people in there, in this particular attack, I believe that if many civilians or hostages had been hurt, the Gazans would immediately say that. So that means that fortunately there is no such thing. But of course we don't know, you know, tomorrow they may use them as a shield and it's definitely not something that we should think is simple to do with going forward in this war. Guy and Jonathan, stay with us. That was a picture on our screens of Aiman Naufal. He was eliminated just a short while ago in an IDF strike for more details. He's there on your screen. We now cross to our correspondent, Pierre Kloschendler in Storot in the South. What update can you share about this IDF strike eliminating Aiman Naufal, Hamas Senior Commander? Right, just before that I want to mention that there was another rocket alert and we heard what seems to be like two impacts. We don't know exactly what happened and it happened already an hour ago when there was an impact on the asphalt of a road in Storot. First time in more than 12 hours that there had been a rocket alert. Now regarding Aiman Naufal, he's like a general for Hamas, he's one of the five top commanders of the Gaza Strip on behalf of Hamas. He has been eliminated in the El Burej refugee camp which is in the central sector of the Gaza Strip. And also another man has been eliminated. It's Hazem Ismail Aniyah, one of the sons of Ismail Aniyah, the leader of the political bureau of Hamas who commuted between Qatar and Lebanon. His son was eliminated in the Shati refugee camp just north of the Gaza Strip. Certainly sounds like that was a precision strike on behalf of the IDF. Of course more details around that particular strike will be emerging. It only happened just a short while ago. But I want to go back to what you mentioned earlier, Pierre, about the siren sounding in several southern communities just seconds ago before we came to you. Given the fact that Jonathan was just describing in studio how many people have been evacuated from these areas and are staying further up north, what is the intention for Rocket Fire to keep pummeling these Gaza communities, these border communities close to the Gaza border? Well first of all, it's true that most residents have left, but in the Kibbutzim on the border which were slotted, there are still people that are doing essential work like feeding the cows that survived the onslaught of Hamas or feeding the chicken and other security-related positions that some of the Kibbutz members are tasked with. Now it's a different case. There are maybe 5,000 residents who have nowhere to go and they're on social welfare drip when they ask for social welfare to help them. But many of them are ashamed of that and you see here a Jewish religious organization from the United States is helping 160 families with essential needs such as food, toilet paper and so on. And these people stay here because they have nowhere to go and they're ashamed of asking for help. Some of them are homeless even because their house has been burnt by impacts of rockets. Now regarding the localities, the Kibbutzim on the Gaza border because they've been flooded with security personnel be it soldiers or police, obviously Hamas is trying to hit potential staging grounds in order to slow down maybe the potential ground invasion that is supposed to occur within the coming days or weeks. Correspondent Pierre Kloschendler, live from Storot. Thank you so much for that update from Southern Israel. Stay safe, Pierre. And now let's go north. Our correspondent Hamdas al-Hut joins us again from the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. And Hamdas, so many questions in recent weeks and months even about whether or not Hezbollah would get involved if there was to be a war. It is unfolding. It's day 11 between Hamas and Israel. What is the latest sentiment in terms of the threats out of Hezbollah and specifically out of the Iranian Supreme Leader? Well, look, there are a lot of threats coming from a lot of different directions, specifically when it comes to this ground invasion inside of the Gaza Strip. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson yesterday warning Israel that there are no guarantees that anyone could really enter this conflict at any time and it could become a semi-regional war because of what's going on inside of the Gaza Strip. Hezbollah echoing that sentiment saying that their fighters are ready, their arsenal of weapons is ready back in 2016. It was estimated that they had around 150,000 short-range rockets. That number has since increased back in June. They did a weapons showcase to really show the media all of the types of new capabilities and technologies that they have, that they could fight a war against Israel. They're threatening Israel with this entire arsenal. We don't know what their more destructive weapons are like. They're longer ballistic missiles, longer-range missiles here in the north for now, still quite a little bit of exchange of fire between the Israeli military and Hezbollah on the other side. Rocket sirens ringing in Kiryat Shmone a little bit far from where we're standing, the Israeli military confirming that there were two rockets, one successfully intercepted and the second falling in an open field as per the protocol used for the interception and deflection mechanism. So the Israeli military is clearing the area, securing the area. A lot of reinforcements have been sent in in the last 10, 11 days out of fears that a war might break out in the north as well. Thank you so much for that update. Our correspondent Khamdor Salhut on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. Stay safe, Khamdor. We will be coming back to Khamdor, of course, in the coming hours. Now scores of Israeli families are mourning after their loved ones were killed by Hamas in that terror attack which started on Saturday, the 7th of October. Many are still waiting for answers as they hear more and more about the harrowing accounts of what happened on that day. More in this I-24 News report. The funeral of Dikla and Tomer Aravak was held in a limited presence of family and close friends. Dikla's funeral was scheduled for Monday morning, but just before the family received the news, it was dreading. The body of Dikla's son, Tomer, was also identified. On Monday at noon, they were buried side by side. Here we say our final goodbye and can't digest that we won't see each other again. We apologize for not being able to do something for you to be with us. On Saturday morning, the Arab-Aliqim families were in their home in Kibbutz, Nakhal Oz, when it was attacked by more than 100 terrorists. The Hamas guys are here inside the house. I'm currently shot in the foot. The family's home was one of the first to be reached by the terrorists. They shot the father of the family, Noam, in the leg and took the family captive. The terrorists took 17-year-old Tomer with them and used him to lure other families out of the protected areas. When they came out, they were murdered, a method of operating that could have been taken from the Nazi playbook. Then they knocked on the door of the security room and said open in Hebrew. They took someone Israeli with them, someone from the Kibbutz, a boy. They took him to knock on doors to say he needed help and to encourage people to come out. The horrifying video was taken from Dikla's cell phone and distributed via her Facebook Live, a video that many saw on Saturday morning. It's become burned into minds as one of the most difficult visuals of the entire horrific event. You can see how the terrorists sit the family members in the living room of the house, force them to identify themselves and demand answers about other family members who were not in the Kibbutz at the time. At the end of the video, their traces disappear and they were declared missing until Monday. The family received the news that they found Dikla's lifeless body. On Monday, they identified Tomer's corpse. I saw countless times that awful live video and even there you exuded calmness and confidence. You wrapped everyone around you like a lioness. You didn't let anyone get close and hurt the children. Antoma, our beloved, the noble of the soul. The 17-year-old with supreme mental powers. He gave us strength just by seeing him in his greatness, functioning in an admirable way. This was Chapter 2 for Dikla and Noam. Tomer is Dikla's son from a previous marriage and Noam is the father of 14-year-old Daphna and 8-year-old Ella, also from a previous marriage. Noam is still missing and the girls as well. Photos of them were published on the day of the abduction from what appears to be Hamas captivity in Gaza. We all continue to pray for Noam Osher, beloved of your heart and his daughters, Daphna and Ella, so beloved by you. Looking forward to their safe return from captivity soon. Healthy and whole. The world stops, but so continues. So empty and so full of your being. We demand their return, that the Israeli government will do everything it can and not give up on them. We are full of hope. We are getting back to you quickly and completely. A family that woke up on the Sabbath in their peaceful home in a Kibbutz. A Sabbath in which entire families were divided and wiped out. Disturbing images indeed in that report exacerbating some of the pain for so many people. Very difficult to see that unfolding. Iran's Supreme Leader is warning if Israel continues its retaliatory bombardment in Gaza quote, the Muslims will become impatient, adding no one can stop them when they get impatient. Let's listen in his own words. If these crimes continue, the Muslims will become impatient. The resistance forces will become impatient and no one will be able to stop them. Israel and the West should know this. Don't expect others to not let such and such groups to do such and such things. No one can stop them when they're getting impatient. This is a reality that exists. So for more on all these latest developments still in studio, captain in the reserves, Guy Poran, co-leader in the Air Force Pilots protest and former Air Force pilot and our senior defense correspondent, Jonathan Regev. So I just want to get a wrap up of Safi Hanekbi's press conference, which happened just a short while ago. We were live on air when it happened. You are unpacking some of the details, particularly the questions around the hostages. In Gaza, 199 families have been contacted about the developments on that front. Not a lot of detail, obviously about the plans in place. Nonetheless, there could be far more hostages in Gaza. What update can you share out of the National Security Front? Actually, not much. Yes, the issue was brought up in the press conference. Safi Hanekbi said that Israel is putting this on top priority. This is something that is being discussed with the United States. We know that this is something that Israel was putting in top priority. Hamas knows that as well. That is why we saw a first video surfacing last night. We can expect many more videos to surface because Hamas knows very well about the sensitivity of the Israeli society to its hostages. He did not add much. One thing, though, he did say, and that is probably something that we should all adhere to is the fact that, especially on the issue of the hostages, I think less is more. Less talk is better. It's good that things happen quietly because it's not as if now it will say that there is more information. Say that they know more than that they're actually saying. Would it be a wise idea to sit in the studio or to stand up in a press conference and brag about it? The answer is obviously no. And Guy, I want to bring you in on exactly what Jonathan is talking about because it's sickening and it's twisted to think that Hamas wanted the world to see so many of these images. It is clearly part of the psychological strategy. Also, there were people who were targeted in the killing rampage on that day that took out their phones and tried to film some of what was happening as well. You can understand why we also hear these heartbreaking accounts that people send voice notes back to their families saying goodbye. What do you make of the impact of these images, these voice notes, piecing together exactly what unfolded and the images are there, etched in our minds and our hearts forever? Well, this is certainly something that the recent usage of all this social media and phones has created a situation that everything is being recorded and seen in real time. But what's important, I think, is that you start seeing in the media around the world many images and stories coming out of Gaza that try to create a symmetry or trying to show all the destruction and the atrocities that the Israeli forces are doing over there. People should know around the world that the big difference is that while the Israeli forces are not killing innocent people on purpose, they are... If there are any innocent, that's there. It's because it's not avoidable in order to do what it is doing. On the other hand, Hamas was doing exactly that on purpose. They were trying to target. They did target small children. They did all these slaughters on purpose. So anybody around the world, any decent person around the world should recognize the difference between civilian suffering in the Gaza that unfortunately happens now because it's unavoidable when while the IDF is trying to target only those responsible, while what we've seen in Israel last week was people doing barbaric killing of babies and children on purpose. This is something that any honest person and any honest media channel around the world should differentiate between the two things and not create a symmetry. Certainly traumatic to see all these images and of course the thought that they might be going viral as well also even more painful. I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit. The IDF saying in a press conference earlier in the day, the next stage of fighting might not be a ground offensive. There's all coming while we are hearing so much speculation about the next plan of action. If not a ground offensive, you're a pilot. What does that exactly mean? Well, I can't tell you what exactly it means but I can tell you that the IDF is not going to do exactly what the other guys are expecting of it. So there are various things which I think we will see unfolding. There is no doubt that the campaign over there is not over but if anybody thinks that there will be day after tomorrow lines of Israeli troops moving into traps that are prepared for them by the Hamas, they're wrong. So there is a variety of possibilities of scenarios. We also know that most of the warriors of Hamas are not anymore in buildings overground but a lot of them are underground. Some of the methods, some of the things that are being prepared I believe are certain types of bombs and certain types of techniques that would be able to tackle exactly that. Parting words, we only have a few seconds. Jonathan Regev, given what Safiha Negbi was outlining what you see unfolding in the coming days. Very briefly, please. I don't see much happening at least until Joe Biden leaves tomorrow afternoon. After that, literally it's anyone's guess. Anything can happen. Any predictions, I'm sorry, but they're worth nothing. And whatever they are, those events that do unfold will be bringing you all the latest developments as they happen here on Outbreaking News Coverage on I-24 News. Senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev, captain in the reserves, Guy Poran, co-leader in the Air Force and pilots protest and former Air Force pilot. Thank you both for being here for Breaking News Edition. I'm Benita Levine in Tel Aviv. Thank you for watching. Stay tuned. Israel is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us. We don't want to do it. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. We awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. I'm here where they come to claim for the rain. At this moment global warming is affecting Bolivia and not only Bolivia, but all over the world. And we need rain for God's sake. The Vakita Reserve, we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Vakita can be protected. News continues coverage of the war on Israel. It's the 11th day and President Biden is due to visit the region tomorrow. Today here shortly from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who's also here in Israel visiting right now. Today saw some increased fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on the Lebanese border. I-24 News, Handa Selkut is live near the border, Handa. Jacob, good evening. Several exchanges of fire happening between Hezbollah and the Israeli military. Two rockets also launched that confirmed by the Israeli military happening in the eastern part of the northern border. The Iron Dome intercepting one of them and the second falling in a field as per the procedures for interception methods. Now on the other side of the fence, four members of Hezbollah killed. The group said they were killed when the Israeli military targeted them. The Israeli military said they were surveilling them from a distance. They saw that they were approaching the border, planting an explosive device where they then were attacked. So this now brings the total members of Hezbollah killed to nine since the war broke out since it began, and since the tensions began on the northern border. Now it is quiet for now, but the Israeli military is securing the area. There is a heavy military presence, a lot of reinforcements being sent in here in preparation for anything that might happen. Hezbollah's weaponry, I'll remind you, is much more sophisticated than the rockets that are coming out of the Gaza Strip. Back in 2016, it was estimated that they had around 150,000 short-range missiles, but that number has since increased. So the Israeli military is hoping for all quiet at the northern border, but is also warning Hezbollah that they will attack with all of their might if anything else were to happen and escalate. Jacob. Thank you, Hamdassal Hut in the northern border. We'll get back to you later. Here in the studio now with me are Lieutenant Colin Doron Avital, former commander of Special Forces of IDF. Thank you for coming, and Jonathan Regev, I-24 News Defense Correspondent. We'll talk in length in a few moments. First, let's go to the press conference of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Nazi crimes against the Jewish people on the soil of Germany and Europe. I must tell you, my friend, that the savagery that we witnessed perpetrated by the Hamas murderers coming out of Gaza were the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust. The decapitation of people, the shooting of little children with bound hands, the murder of children in front of their parents, the murder of parents in front of their children, the hiding of babies in the attic and the murderers who came to the attic to murder the babies, the rape and murder of women, the abduction of families, the tearing of grandmothers and Holocaust survivors into captivity. The death pits that remind us of Babi Ar, where jeeps surround a depression in the ground where they crowd young people in and they shoot them with machine guns. This is the savagery that we only remember from the Nazi crimes in the Holocaust. Hamas are the new Nazis. Hamas is ISIS in some instances worse than ISIS. And just as the world united to defeat the Nazis, just as the world united to defeat ISIS, the world has to stand united behind Israel to defeat Hamas. This is part of an axis of evil. Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas. Their goal, open goal, is to eradicate the state of Israel. The open goal of Hamas is to kill as many Jews as they could and the only difference is they would have killed every last one of us, murdered every last one of us if they could. They just don't have the capacity, but they murdered an extraordinary 1,300 civilians, which in American terms is like many, many, many 9-11s. So obviously we must take action to defeat Hamas and to ensure that this doesn't happen again, but this is not only our battle, it is our common battle, the battle of civilization against barbarism. And if it's not stopped here, this savagery will reach you very soon and reach the entire world. We have a vested interest, an abiding interest to make sure that doesn't happen and it can only be achieved with the solidarity of the civilized world. I hope and I believe that many, many around the world see ISIS for what it is or see Hamas for what it is, which is a reincarnation of ISIS. And we appreciate the fact that you came here to stand with us in this battle for the future of civilization. Thank you, Chancellor. Minister President, first of all, thank you very much for our good, intense and very serious conversation. This is a visit with friends of difficult times. This is a visit with friends that friends will be difficult times. And just as I said last week in the German Bundestag Parliament, there is only one place for Germany. This is the place on the side of Israel. Minister President, first of all, thank you very much for the good conversation and for the very intense and serious conversation. This visit is a visit with friends of difficult times. And just as I said last week in the Bundestag Parliament, in the difficult times there is only one place for Germany. That while it's being translated to Hebrew, there are rockets being fired to the center of Israel. The German government supports the stance across the party. It is very important for me that we today in Israel in this difficult situation to say this clearly, the German history that arises from the Holocaust, the responsibility that arises from it, makes it important to understand what the security of the state of Israel is. Again, while this is being translated to Hebrew, I want to note that there are fired, rockets are being fired to the center of Israel right now as German Chancellor is speaking next to Israeli Prime Minister. There are alerts, there are sirens in the center of Israel right now as they speak in this press conference. Ladies and gentlemen, the barbaric cruel attack of the terrorists of Hamas, we condemn it clearly. The brutal terror against civilians, the massacres on civilians, the murder of babies, the kidnapping of women, men and children, of cruel peace against Holocaust survivors. It makes our blood freeze. It is clear Israel has the right, according to international law, to do something against this terror. Every state has the responsibility to protect. We feel that the terrible suffering of all Israelis, the parents, siblings and children, of those who were killed in this barbaric massacre, we share the concern of those who are family members against the terror of all Israelis, of the parents, of the siblings, of the children, against the terror of the barbaric massacre, people who were killed in the barbaric massacre, we share the concern of all those, the concern of family members, the children, the terrorists, the terrorists, we read it today and we will read it later. Among those who were kidnapped is very German. Those and all the other hostages, we pay attention and read. We must have effort to achieve very good. and we are trying to keep them in good condition with all the power. Dear Prime Minister, my government is trying with all its power that this conflict will not escalate. Dear Prime Minister, my government is trying with all its power that this conflict will not escalate. We are trying with all its power to stop the conflict. I warn again any actor or two to join this conflict from the outside, any third party. It will be a terrible mistake. We have seen this message, we have said this message via double channels. We are trying with all its power that this conflict will not escalate from the outside. It will be a terrible mistake. In recent days, we have seen this message via double channels. Dear Prime Minister, Germany and Israel have united us to be the true democratic states of law. We are a unity of states and we emphasize right and law in these situations. That's why the humanitarians suffering in Gaza were not indifferent to it. I just spoke to the Prime Minister about ways to get humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza. Not like Hamas that is using the civilians in Gaza as human shields. We also express our sorrow for them. We want to protect civilians, we want to prevent civilian casualties. Israel and Germany have united us to be the true democratic states of law. And that is the cause of our conflict. Our conflict is based on rights and rights. That's why we also want to express our sorrow for the humanitarian situation in Gaza. We are not indifferent to the humanitarian situation in Gaza. We have already spoken to the Prime Minister about ways to get humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza. With Prime Minister Netanyahu, I spoke about possibilities to improve the access of humanitarian aid to Gaza. And also because of that, I will after travel to Egypt to tomorrow meet President Assisi there to speak about the situation and the humanitarian situation. We want to continue our humanitarian engagement and to minor humanitarian suffering. Allow me to say two things at the end about the situation in Germany. Anti-Semitism does not have any place in Germany. The glorifying of violence is against humanity. It is forbidden and it will be punished. Jewish life in Germany is a present. Thank you Chancellor. I appreciate all your statements including your last reference to protecting the Jewish community. The question of the safety of civilians is something that is raised by Hamas' actions. Hamas is committing a double war crime. Not only is it targeting and murdering civilians with unprecedented savagery, it's hiding behind civilians, their own civilians. We are calling on the civilians to leave Gaza, go south to safe zones and Hamas is preventing them often at gunpoint from doing so. Hamas wants to keep them there as a human shield and prevent the people from leaving and getting out of harm's way. It's important that the entire world understands this. The responsibility for the civilians who are there, both the abducted people and both the people who are kept there at force, the citizens of our country and the citizens of dozens of countries and the Palestinian civilians themselves, that responsibility sits squarely on the shoulders of the Hamas war criminals. They're committing a double war crime, attacking civilians, hiding behind civilians as human shields. The entire world should condemn it and should support Israel in its just war. Thank you very much and thank you Chancellor. Thank you. A very strong support by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Israel at the same time. He calls for the prevention of escalation and also expresses some concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. But very, very strong support. As he said, the Chancellor is going to visit Egypt next and tomorrow President Biden is due to visit the region. And during this press conference we've heard the sirens in the center of Tel Aviv of rockets because of rockets being fired from Gaza. And who knows what's going to be tomorrow. Anyway, back here in the studio to you, Jonathan Rege by 24 News Defense Correspondent. Let's recap on what's going on. First of all, rockets to Tel Aviv area very short time ago. Yes, to Southern Tel Aviv area, the city of Rishon Lezion. I think we could actually hear the interceptions. Rishon Lezion, about 10 minutes to the south from the place where we are. And we heard the interceptions. This is happening as Olaf Scholz was speaking as the press conference took place. Hamas is the barrage is to the center, not big. It's not 30 rockets. It's two or three rockets. That's all us needed to create such a siren. This happening about 10 minutes ago. Earlier in the day, a senior, quite a senior Hamas official, Ayman Ofal. He's the head of the central division in Hamas. He's killed quite a senior official. He's in charge of the central division. That's the division in Gaza that is right in front of Bari, right in front of Reim. Reim, the place where the party took place where hundreds of Israelis were massacred. Bari, the community which took the worst hit more than 100 Israelis killed. The men responsible for that area was finally found and killed by Israeli forces. In the north, there were two rockets which were fired earlier on. One was intercepted. The other fell in open areas. Hizballamin, while reporting that four of its terrorists, four of its militants were killed. I think at least until tomorrow afternoon until Biden leaves the area, at least as far as Israel is concerned, we will see this under the threshold activity on the Lebanese border. And in Gaza, Israel will probably not push too much until Biden leaves. After that, we simply do not know. Yeah, we'll see what happens. And Doron Avital is with us now, former commander of special forces of the IDF. Are we nearing a bigger conflict escalation in the north? I think right now our strategy is to wait and see, hold our fire. We exchange one for one. But if Hizballah would cross some threshold that is well defined within the echelon of our army, then we'll have to hit them very hard. But it seems that right now there's no real interest on both sides to go to a second front. We have to make a decision about Gaza in the next few years. But as we know, this is not exact science. Things can happen, miscalculation can happen in a second. In a heartbeat, in a second, a provocation, an attack that crossed some threshold. And we are in an open front. I do trust the commander of the Northern Brigade, the other commander who was a soldier of mine, Gordon, very good general. We are holding our fires there. We are well prepared. The intelligence is there. We are waiting. All right. Jonathan, back to the south, a lot of talk about ground invasion. That's not happening yet. Probably not tomorrow. It's not going to happen while President Biden is here, that's for sure. The Americans are here expressing major support for Israel. But they're also concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The American blood is not boiling at the moment as far as Israeli blood. We hear Israeli politicians, we hear the Israeli public saying, go all in on Gaza following that terrible Saturday morning. The Americans are expressing a lot of support, but they do not want to see terrible images coming out of Gaza, which Israelis can live with now simply because of what happened here or we can have to go. The Americans are not willing to see that. And I don't think Israel is in a position, is currently in a position where it can tell the U.S. No. If the United States will strongly demand something, I think Israel currently is in the position where it will have to agree even if it doesn't like it. How a bigger problem is the humanitarian situation in Gaza for Israeli operations? I think it's a big issue. I think the Americans outlined the circumference of any operation. I think they outlined that they don't see the takeover of Gaza, but they do think that we have the right and we have the obligation, in fact, to dismantle the military capabilities of Hamas. But if there were some ideas to create some unrolling humanitarian crisis and by there to create force on Hamas, both our allies, U.S.-European Union say, no, this is not a way to go. But a ground incursion that would be limited to the dismantling of the military infrastructure, I think we have the support of Biden in the U.S. and our allies right now. Yeah. Let's talk now about the Iranian angle, maybe the most important one, as Tehran is behind it all. Senior correspondent Owen Alterman looks at a dilemma facing Iran. In Doha on Saturday, he was all smiles. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullah-Iyan greeting Hamas leader Ismail Hania in the capital of Qatar. And in Beirut on Friday too, he had been all smiles. Amir Abdullah-Iyan happy with his work and playing coy with what comes next. Of course, the resistance has kept on the table all possible scenarios on the other fronts. The zero hour for any action against the crimes is also at the hands of the resistance. The resistance, of course, is Hezbollah, with Iran even at this hour separating itself formally from the group. Even as Hezbollah is widely recognized as Iran's proxy, as Iran and its network face an Israel at top readiness, and the United States set to be parked offshore with two aircraft carrier strike groups. Iran and Hezbollah, since day one of this war, are finding themselves in a dilemma. Here is the dilemma. If Iran is going to send Hezbollah to the war, Iran is going to jeopardize not only the risk or downfall of Hamas in Gaza St., which seems to be almost imminent, but also a massive strike to Hezbollah. And indeed that dilemma. Axios reported Iran passed Israel a message through the United Nations. Warning of Iran's direct entry into the war. Should the Israeli campaign in Gaza intensify? The decisions in Tehran are fateful ones. By design or by accident, the clock for Iran is ticking to high noon. And Israel hopes that for Iran's proxies from Gaza to Lebanon, to Syria and beyond, that the clock is ticking to mid. Wait us now. He's an expert on Hezbollah among others. Thank you very much for joining us. Who will decide if Hezbollah joins the attack on Israel? That would be Tehran, right? There is no doubt about it. Tehran has an integrated command center on the political level, strategic level, and obviously even on the operational level in Tehran. And another branch of it is in the southern suburb of Beirut. The Secretary General of Hezbollah has repeatedly said over the years that all their weapons, or most of their weapons, all of their money, operational training comes from the Pasdaran Quds Force, therefore Tehran. So, yes, at the end of the day, certainly, Hezbollah has an input. Nasrallah has an input into the operation, especially the internal situation in Lebanon that would change or not the opinion of Tehran. But at the end of the day, the final strategic goal, the green light, will come from the Pasdaran. So when the US, for example, speaks about escalation and warns everybody not to get into this, they should actually speak directly to Iran. Let me put it that way. There is the US in general and what it should do. But then there is what's behind the administration's specific positioning. And administrations change, their plans change. This one, the Biden administration, like the Obama administration, is committed to an agreement which we all know is the Iran deal and the baby deal that comes with it. So on the surface, we send two strike forces, we commit with Israel, but we don't know if the Biden administration wants to withdraw from that deal or stop that deal because if that is the case, if the sign to understand if this administration is going to engage with the Israelis in the region is how far are we still dealing with the Iran deal? So that's the question. Is this a game changer, as you've mentioned? We're talking about a country with nuclear aspirations here. And what are the lessons? The team in the administration that deals with the Iran deal and negotiations is completely committed or at least convinced and they try to convince the White House in general that Iran is reasonable at the end of the day. Release more money like the 6 billion released a few weeks ago or in principle or in summer. So the more we can release from the money of the Iranian state, the more some hope in Washington that Iran is going to play a little bit but it's not going to engage fully. Thank you at this stage, thank you. Israel is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us, we don't know what to do. We just don't know anything. Entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. Hashem shall guard your going out and your coming in. In Israel Bonds, it is the most powerful and direct way. Visit israelbonds.com and invest now. www.madeforme.co.il Made for me, official dresser of I-24 News. Welcome back, let's go to the south I-24 News. Pierre Clauchandler is in the southern part of Israel next to the Gaza front. Pierre, we are live with you. Right, there were two rocket alerts at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time after something like a 20-hour lull here in Zderot. There were three impacts, one on the asphalt of the road and two in abandoned building because the city has mostly been evacuated. But there are still some few thousands that are remaining in the city. Most of them are on social welfare drip but some of them are even homeless. We've met somebody who's homeless and who said his house burnt and he has nowhere to go so he sleeps in public shelters. We've seen staging grounds enlarging in the security, nearby the security border with the Gaza Strip. We've seen quite a lot of forces but we don't sense that a ground operation would be imminent at this point. That's about it here in Zderot. And so far Pierre Zderot is basically empty of civilians. Yes and no, there's about 3 to 5,000 residents that are still here. Usually people who are lonely, elderly people, they don't want to leave their homes or they don't have anywhere to go. The municipality tries to help them but people are resilient and resistant to any help offered by the municipality. Sometimes it's very complicated in the welfare system. Some people are indebted, they don't want to be noticed. So there are organizations. I met a man who leads some sort of American Jewish organization here in Israel and they're taking care of 160 families that are still in Zderot. So the situation is very complex. There are many security forces. We've met special police forces combing the area of a sports center in Zderot because there are still fears that some of the terrorists of Hamas that participated to the slaughter 11 days ago are still roaming the area, hiding somewhere. And these police forces are just scouring, combing the area, trying to find these guys. Alright, Pierre, thank you very much for that. As we speak, there are signage now going off in the city of Rishon. Let's see on one of the most densely populated cities in Israel. That's just south of Tel Aviv. And that's another barrage of rockets from Gaza at this moment. With us now is Mayan Sherman. Thank you very much for joining us. Your son, Ron, 19, was kidnapped by Hamas at one of the border crossings. What do you know about what happened? You know, they did this all the night. They started on last Saturday, 6.30 in the morning when we woke up to textings from Ron. They said that they were sleeping. They were between shipments and they just went to the shelter because they heard heavy bombing on the base. The base is located on the border with the Gaza Strip. What was his job? What was he doing there? Ron was in charge of communication and cooperation with the Gaza traders. He helped bringing the goods inside Israel and back to the Gaza Strip. He was in charge of keeping the Gaza population company. This was his job. He was actually facilitating the normal life of the Gaza people there by enabling merchandise and food and stuff like that going in and out of the Strip. So that was his crime, just helping the life in Gaza. Quite amazing. Now, I understand, as we've seen, we have a proof that he's there, but I understand he has a medical condition. Yeah, Ron is asthmatic and we're so worried because he needs his inhaler and he was cut without his inhaler. So above all, this is our first concern. We know that he was kidnapped with two others, Israeli soldiers like him. All of them you can see in this Hamas video. Actually, he texted me until the moment he was kidnapped. His last words to me, well, I love you all. It's over. And then actually we were sure he was dead. But after five hours, we received this video that the Hamas posted that you can clearly see him alive taken to the Gaza Strip with his shorts and t-shirts and flip-flops. He looked alive and this gave us hope that maybe he will be fine after. If he got into the Gaza Strip, we hope he is still alive. But we don't know anything since then. I have to say, to admit that just a few minutes ago, I received this interview is a bit difficult for me because we receive all kinds of news. We don't know if it's fake or if it's real, but we received some bad, possibly bad news. We don't know yet how to... The worst thing is not knowing, obviously. I'm sure you've seen the video of Mia Shem last night that Hamas released. What did you think when you saw her? I was, you know, it was like oxygen for me yesterday, even when we saw it. It was like, you know, all this event is like, you know, all the time we feel, you know, suddenly you feel very high and afterwards you feel terrible. But when we saw this video, we were a bit relieved because, you know, she looks fine. She's... Yes, she was treated. They took her to a hospital. You can see her after the surgery. So, you know, we hope they treat all the hostages like this. But we don't know. Yeah, hopefully whatever she said was true because we have no way of knowing. Maybe she was coerced to say things, but let's hope. Let's hope. And our hopes and prayers are with you, Maya. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Bye. Doron, back to you here in the studio. These kind of things are... We don't remember this from Israel's history. We had lots of wars, but nothing like that. You know, and also never a hostage crisis in this magnitude. We all remember Antebe. I was a young high school kid, but my unit, which I commanded later, Sayot Matkal, actually succeeded to rescue those hostages. But this is a hostage crisis in magnitude, unimaginable in the context of a war zone allocated in the Gaza metro underground. And if there's a ground incursion, how do we work out those two dilemmas? I think Hamas dismantling them and rescuing our hostages Israel appointed one of its best generals, Nitzan Alon. He himself was announced the commander of the unit as the guy who coordinates all this from a military standpoint, this operation. But this is the greatest dilemma the war cabinet and the Israeli generals would have when a decision is made about ground incursion. And we are talking about at least 200 people. Yeah, 200 people. And we're talking babies, elderly, women, soldiers. Unbelievable. We're sick, yeah. And last night, as we mentioned, Hamas released the first video of an Israeli-French hostage, actually, from Yashem, 21 years old. Take a look. Hi, I'm Yashem. I'm 21 years old. When I was in Gaza, I came back from walking in the morning and sitting in the morning, helping with the documents. I was on duty. I broke my name on the ground. They took me. They took me to the police station. Three hours. They took me. They took me. They took me to the police. Then they asked me to come home for a few hours. My family. My parents. My relatives. They took me to the police station. Yeah, that's Mia. Mia's mother reacted today after watching the video. Yesterday, I saw my baby on television. I saw she's alive. And I saw that she was put before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg. So I can see she was shot in her shoulder. I see she had an operation. She looks very terrified. She looks like she's in big pain. I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say, but I can see that she's stable. I can see she needs medical care. And I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday is that she may, might be kidnapped. She only went to a party, to a festival party to have some fun. And now she's in Gaza. The children went to this party. There are many babies and children and all ghost survivors that were kidnapped, that their houses were burned. Nothing we've ever seen here in Israel before. With us now is Rami Igra, former head of the Mossad MIA unit. Thank you very much for talking to us, Rami. What's your analysis after watching this video? This is not a new tactic by Hamas. Hamas in the past is true about to get out Shalit affair and other affairs as we went along. Hamas is trying to reach the Israeli public with the Israeli sentiment in order to create some kind of pressure on the government to negotiate with them on the release of prisoners. Hamas is now being eradicated bit by bit. They would like to stop this. They would like to stop all the attrition against them and they would like to sit down and negotiate. They've already announced what they mean by negotiation. They want all their prisoners, all the terrorists in prison in Israel in exchange for all the hostages. Hamas has not understood that the paradigm has changed. Now we are not only here to, first of all, release our hostages. We're also here to eradicate the Hamas and they have not understood this. They will in the next couple of days and it all depends on the land maneuver that is supposed to be starting soon. But still, if Israel and according to Israeli leaders in the past couple of days, this thing is on top of their mind. If they want to get the release, as you said, paradigms changed, maybe something else is needed here, something bigger than the usual swaps we've seen before. What do you say to that? I've got a problem hearing you. But, see, the Hamas was created by prisoner exchange. Hamas was first created by Mashal and Abu Yasid and they were leased when Netanyahu decided to release them from prison and death at the Mashal affair. This is the beginning. Then Hamas got most of his strength in the Shalit exchange. All the top acts today, they're all prisoners exchanged for Gila Shalit. Now, Hamas has turned out to be evil and it has turned out to be a devil that we cannot tame in any way. Our fantasies to give them a better life for a different kind of Hamas have been blown away last Saturday. So here we are with no other options but to eradicate the Hamas. And this is the main option and also we have a main option. The main target is releasing our hostages. It's going to be by force and when it's going to be by force, it's not going to be by any kind of other negotiation. This is what Hamas would like. They would like negotiation. They would like it to stop right now the attrition. They would like it to sit down. They will give us, we will give them and we will be back to square one. And as we all know, we cannot go back to square one. It's not a question whether we can or we can't. This is existential for our livelihood in Israel. Rami Agra, formerly from the Mossad MIA unit. Thank you very much. Thank you. Let's hope for the best. We are joined now by Dr. Maria Maziad to talk about the Egyptian angle, Marwa. Gaza is also Egypt's problem as well. Not only Israel's. How does Egypt... What do you mean by that question? Well, you know, you may have now refugees coming into Egypt. Let's be very clear. Egypt is adamant about no exodus of millions of Palestinians into Sinai. No such nonsense that has been circulating in the media. In fact, Blinken was in the region starting with Israel showing the support and then going to every other Arab country like Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Egypt. And then he had to go back to Israel in order to pass the message that there is no such thing as the idea of shoving all the Palestinians down southwards supposedly towards the crossing so that they go to Sinai. This is a red line for both Jordan and Egypt. And the only thing that Egypt is allowing is aid into Gaza so that actually Israel can climb down the tree it's on now that now the stories for the past five days has been about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as opposed to the attacks and the atrocities and the killing of the Israelis in their Kubitsim and all these places. So in fact, Israel now is being scrutinized for this lack of humanitarian aid entering. Blinken is here to make sure this is taking place so that there's no accusations of actual war crimes of Israel. And both Egypt and Israel are Egypt and the United States are actually somehow trying to help Israel in this situation. So you're telling me Egypt there's no responsibility whatsoever to Gaza? What kind of responsibility? The aid that is like long glories that are standing on the crossing on Egypt's side that is secure is trying to get this in so that the people in Gaza are not deprived from water and electricity and medicine and such so that Israel in the end becomes accused of war crimes. That's what Egypt is doing. But in return on the Gaza side this road is bombed multiple times so that actually these lorries and trucks cannot pass safely into Gaza. But there is no way, no conception that Palestinians, a million would leave the northern part into the southern part. Then that southern part would kind of cross the border into Sinai. What kind of displacement is this and what kind of political end game would that ever have? Egypt no way is allowing that. So if we're talking about the Egypt strategic kind of national security position this is what's Egypt offering. Aid into Gaza so that the crisis is not so flagrant that Israel cannot even achieve its other military goals. Not opening the border even if that might save many lives. No, don't bomb people into this southern part so that they get the aid and they are having the food and they are not starving to death. That's the kind of aid that the entire world is speaking. I think Israel is not listening at all. It's understandable. It's focused so much on the military operation it's in. It is a very incognizant of how there are media images circulating how these lorries that you're showing are just waiting to enter and they cannot enter. And then the images of the civilian Palestinians under all these attacks. So it's losing even the framing of this issue after having been attacked just 11 days ago. So actually Israel has to be very cognizant of what's simmering here. A public opinion internationally that wants aid in so that the civilians in Gaza are not forcefully displaced. They are not losing their country again. I mean this idea of exodus into Sinai unacceptable by any measure. So Israel will have to come down. Blinken is here for that reason and extended his stay went back to Israel for that reason. Biden is coming. All of these things are to calm Israel down. A, about the actual military work it wants to do because that's not even guaranteed. It might be quagmire for Israel if it enters from into Gaza. There might be an opening of another front in Lebanon with Hezbollah. So this is one affair. But just for the affair of the civilians and the images and all of that, it had better let these trucks under scrutiny it necessitates under the whatever measures it needs. But they have to enter and there's no suggestion whatsoever of pushing millions of Palestinians onto Sinai. That is not like any of the regional partners. All right. Dr. Mara Mazad, thank you very much. Thank you. We're on back to you in the studio to the Egyptian side, really. Is this the policy? We are not going to open borders and Israel, we're just helping Israel. That's the point. I think Assisi made his point very strongly in a fashion that was described here. They don't want to see Israel use this conflict in order to displace Palestinian from Gaza into Sinai. And we have to admit that there are few some right wing Israelis that dream of such an option. Gaza is here to stay. So in terms of the humanitarian aspect, I think Egypt is there and I think Israel right now works with Egypt. I think if there was some ideas that will prevent it, we can't do it. Our allies tell us we cannot and we will not do it. So what we are trying to do is isolate the Gaza city, let the population go down, go south to the Gaza street, to the Gaza canyon, of what we call. Of course, Hezbollah is saying Hamas is trying to prevent them from going south. And then to create a condition that will be optimal for some ground incursion, which would achieve our target, which is the dismantling of the military infrastructure and rescuing our hostages. But Egypt will have to be part of some future solutions? No question about that. I'm sure about that. I think if we look far into the future, the consequences of this bloody conflict that I hope won't escalate might be in the end some kind of trying to create some arrangement. I think the Americans are not here, the Europeans are not here. I mean, they're also saying, well, we are with you now in the conflict, but after it ends, we'll have to work out some resolution to the Middle East. So it goes both ways. But I'm afraid it would go for a bloody conflict. It didn't end to the start of a bloody conflict in the Gaza trip and might be also in the north. Yeah, you had some thoughts about the north, about the independence or the leeway of Hezbollah. I think it's easy for us to say, well, there's somebody who's pressing the button in Iran and immediately Hezbollah acts. I think the initiative also come bottom up. I think Nasser Ala is a strong leader. Of course, he has the consideration of Lebanon, the consideration of the support yet from Iran. But it's not like, I don't think it goes just by a command. If Hezbollah would feel that it was threatened in a measure that it has to act, it would act. A ground incursion in sites in Gaza, casualties of civilians in Gaza might force their hand. So I think the situation is more complicated than the geometry of the Middle East is more complicated than just somebody pushing the button and giving orders. Let me jump back to Egypt. Egypt was a mediator, was a broker between Hamas and Israel for a long time. For many years. For many years. Did they lose their stance there? I don't think so, in this respect. I think there's always underneath this intelligence communication, our intelligence, their intelligence, it was in the times of Mubarak, in the time of Morsi, the Islamic Brotherhood in command. It was a little bit of a problem with Assisi. It was renewed. In the end, we have to understand that Hamas, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, is no ally of the Egyptian president and no ally of the Jordanian president, is no ally of the PA, the Palestinian Authority. So Hamas is really an element that many people, many sides, would like to see him eradicating. And tomorrow in the meeting in Jordan and between... Exactly, this is part of the discussion that will be conducted. With President Biden. Exactly. What do you expect out of this? I expect, he says, well, we have to eradicate the military infrastructure of Hamas and afterwards we're going to sweep with all of you and try to create a better Middle East. I think Biden still thinks the Saudi initiative, that in some sense was intercepted or sidelined by the... I think he can sell that to the moderate Arab world. First war, then peace? I think yes. I think we always have peace after war. The idea that you can have peace, not after war. The problem is we always war after peace. That's part of the problem. Part of the problem. Exactly, also this. Yeah, but at least we still... We should say that we still have some very strong peace agreements here in the Middle East. They hold for many years. Yeah. Also the Egyptian peace was brokered after a terrible bloody war. Right. So we like... Also we have a peace with Jordan. Exactly. And obviously we have the Abraham Accords. Of course. And hopefully also Saudi Arabia later. We always have to be a bit domestic, but it will go for some conflict. We have to... Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll take a short break now and when we come back, more of special coverage of what's happening here on iPhone 4 News. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured. And the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived, and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. The Vakita Reserve, we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, that the Vakita can be protected. Welcome back to our special coverage here on I-24 News. Now to the north. I-24 News correspondent Handa Selkut is near the border with Lebanon where he's been attacking all day long and IDF has responded what's going on at this point, Handa. I'll tell you what's going on before you start another barrage of rockets from the south to Israel right now, mainly in the southern part at this stage. Yes, Handa, to you. Right, Jacob. Good evening. The Israeli military says it is currently striking Hezbollah targets inside of Lebanese territory, but earlier today there were sources indicating that Hezbollah is gearing up for a full-scale war with Israel according to confirmation from U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. But the final decision will be made both in Beirut and Tehran with the assistance of the Islamic Republic here. I want to remind you that if Hezbollah were to enter this war, it would be a completely different game. Their weaponry is sophisticated. Their weaponry is large in size, in scale, and in quantity. The Israeli military is doing everything it can to kind of quell tensions saying that they don't want a conflict on the northern border. But if Hezbollah attacks first, they're saying that they will be met with a deadly force. Earlier today there were just a couple of rockets in other parts of the north, the Israeli military, intercepting one of them, the second landing in an open field. A lot of closures here, a lot of military reinforcements as Israel prepares itself for potentially a new front in this conflict with Hezbollah. All right, Handa. Thank you very much for that. Rockets are, like, creeping up to the north and now arriving to the city of Ashdod, which is somewhat south of Tel Aviv, but not yet in the center of Israel. Also the city of regional Litzion, which is farther north, south of Israel, south of Tel Aviv, that is. So another barrage of rockets, similar to the one we've experienced about an hour ago. And this is going on. Now reaching even further closer to Tel Aviv to the city of Ramadan, which is, like, really part of Tel Aviv metropolitan area. That's the situation right now in Israel. Sirens going all over the place. Mike Wagenheim, I-24 News correspondent in the United States. Thank you very much for joining us, Mike. Obviously, a big day tomorrow when President Biden will come visit the area here, starting with Israel. What do we know? What's the plan? Who's coming with him and for how long? It seems like some of the folks that we're going to come with them are already on the ground there. Tony Blinken, Barbara Leif, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. So a lot of the folks have been doing the shuttle diplomacy over the last few days and will remain in the region. Certainly Biden will bring some of his White House advisors along for the trip as well. It will be maybe about five hours on the ground in Israel, meeting with high-level officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, and then it's on to Amman for a four-way summit together with Jordanian King Abdullah, the Egyptian President, Abdo Fatah Khalsisi, and Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas. You know, I think the broader goals here at Jacob, number one, to show solidarity, rock-solid support for Israel. There are few, even those who have been critical of Joe Biden's policy and posture toward Israel, who have been critical of this particular crisis and his performance within it. So this will be another measurement of Biden's solidarity with Israel. Number two, I think this is a way for Biden to kind of put the brakes on what's been happening over the last 72 hours or so to essentially, without calling for a ceasefire, say, hey, I'm on the ground here. No, nothing's going to happen, at least from the Israeli side while Biden's on the ground. It's an opportunity now for Tony Blinken, for Benjamin Netanyahu's side to make sure they're coordinated on a humanitarian plan, coordinated with the Pentagon going forward as well. On operational plans, we see the Sencombe commander on the ground there today in Israel as well. It's an opportunity for everybody to get on the same page before there's major movement going forward, and an opportunity for Biden as well to show in Amman that he cares about and respects the Arab concern vis-a-vis this war here to make sure that their concerns are heard as well and that they can contribute to a potential solution. Biden that is really relied on Sisi as an interlocutor during the flare-up last time between Israel and Hamas and Sisi played a major role in cooling tensions then. Biden may look to him once again here to play the role of middleman in between Israel and Hamas in what's been already a highly costly war. Right. Mike, stand by please. Rockets are being fired at Tel Aviv now. There are sirens in Tel Aviv. We've heard a couple of explosions right here. I don't know if you've heard that, Mike. So I'll get back to you in a second here in the studio. With me are Dania Elon, former Israeli ambassador to Washington. And I want to ask you about the visit, the visit obviously tomorrow. High expectations here in Israel. What's the American strategy? What's the Israeli strategy vis-à-vis this visit? Well, it seems like today we are pretty much on the same page. And Biden said it himself, not through envoys, it wasn't the Secretary of State, it was himself. He said that Hamas has to be demolished. He also said that Israel should not occupy Gaza. But this is not mutually conclusive. Exclusive. You know, you can do this and that at the same time. And I believe, you know, his trip here, you know, side of solidarity, deterrence, of course, is also to think about the day after. It's too soon. But we already need to have a new regional architecture. And for the immediate future, we need specific assistance and cooperation from Jordan and from Egypt, especially Egypt. And Biden is coming here, you know, Jacob, for four hours. From here he's living to Amman, where he's going to meet with King Abdullah. And also Sisi is coming from Cairo, probably a few other leaders as well. And here I believe what Biden is trying to do is actually enlist Sisi and Egypt for the operation in Gaza on the humanitarian aspect of this, namely, to open up the Rafa and receive these hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, because he's going to tell Sisi what is the choice. Either they are dead in Gaza, or you give them a chance in life in Sinai. I know it's not your idea. And so far, as we've heard here last hour, the position of the Egyptians are very firm, not to open any borders. But we'll see about that. It will be like that, because remember, I mean, he has his own politics. He has to show that in no way or shape he is going to even help, not directly, a second dakba. For sure he's not going to do that. He also doesn't want hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on Egyptian territory, although it's not close to any of the urban areas. You know, it's far out in Sinai. It's just a desert. Let's face it. Yes, and he can take it, but he has to show that he was forced to do it. This is how I take it. And this is the idea. And what is going to be told, listen, there's no other way. They're not going to the sea. So either you open the gates, or there will be a stampede where they will just take over. And that's not going to be in a pretty site. And it's not going to be orderly. And Egypt will take some of the blame. So I think there is now a political game where Sisi will have to agree, but under protest. Under protest. That's interesting, interesting. Brigadier General Israel Raleigh Shafir is with us formerly from the Israeli Air Force. How do you see this? Well, this game is not just for the Egyptians. We will also have to agree under protest that some measure of prisoner exchange, the abducted, our abducted soldiers and citizens, and we will have to agree that this would more or less end hostilities at this time because the humanitarian event. And I'm not sure that the Egyptians will agree under protest to open their gates because that means people are spreading out, hundreds of people out in the desert. And it's going to be on their hand. There had been years ago a floated idea of enlarging Gaza up to El-Arish. But that would take offense and building in order to do that. That may be an international idea that is... We're even talking about islands, remember? Artificial islands. Yes, yes, even... But let's get back to reality. Do you see what a deal of maybe releasing hostages for a ceasefire? Just think that if the offer on the table and the pressure from the Arab world about Hamas would be a ceasefire that they give back all their prisoners for several thousand prisoners in our prisons. Can the Israeli government say no to such a deal? It's going to be hard to swallow. It's going to be counter to the public sentiment of revenge. But he's not coming in for... President Biden's not coming in. The more supportive he is of Israel, the more he's able to demand. So I'm afraid it's going to be a bittersweet pill to swallow. Especially as time moves on. Mike, back to you. Is this an American foreign policy nightmare to come here and micromanage the Middle East? No, I think it's the reverse. I think Biden realized about midway through his White House tenure that in fact the Biden administration had been negligent in the Middle East in terms of its withdrawal, in terms of its diminished footprint, in terms of the consequences that that brought and only with the oil crisis and a re-engagement with Saudi Arabia did the Biden admin and the State Department realize that leaving the Middle East to its own devices was not really an American interest in the end. I think this is just the opposite. It shows that Biden has learned. It shows that he wants to be a face in the region, that he wants to have influence in the region once again on the ground. And so I think this is a complete reversal. By the way, just to build on something that Danny said a few minutes ago about the day after, the day after Hamas, nobody really knows what will happen. There have been for a long time now private discussions within the State Department about the day after, but the day after Mahmoud Abbas and what would happen whether there would be a controlled or a violent succession in Palestinian and controlled territories in Judea and Samaria. This is really the first time anybody has envisioned the day after Hamas. It's really been a degradation and a deterrence policy for Israel and not a destructive policy per se. The fact, Jacob, that nobody, nobody is talking about the Palestinian Authority taking over Gaza once again. I mean, that would be the obvious answer, right? That's who controlled it beforehand. The fact that nobody is talking about that, including the State Department shows what an utter failure the Palestinian Authority has been as a governing institution here, that they're not even on the laundry list of potential solutions post Hamas in Gaza. So a lot to think about here for the State Department, not just near term but long term. Thank you, Mike. Danny, the Israeli public opinion sentiment is very clear. They want to annihilate the Hamas, destroy the Hamas, and leaders have been saying this day and night. On the other hand, they want the hostages back. They want to fight for the hostages. They do anything and everything to get the people back. Maybe you can't have it all. It will be difficult to square this circle for sure. But just to continue what Wagenheim said is, and again from the American perspective, it's a daunting task but it's doable. You know why? They know they have done it before. They have done it in Japan after World War II and also in Germany after World War II. Now, you cannot draw lessons from history exactly. The culture of Germany is different than the culture of Hamas. In Germany, they used to have before the Nazis a democracy, so they knew what it is. It's not the case here. But the Americans are prepared to go all the way with nation-building. That means after Hamas is gone and after Hamas is gone militarily, it's the same thing that happened in Germany. They call it the denazification of Germany. That means to root out the ideas of the Nazis and then build back. The same thing has to happen here. That is, after the military victory on Hamas is to do the dechamacizatia of Gaza. And again, it's not overnight but it will take time and you'll have to have a new structure there. How long will it take? It may take 50 years, I don't know. But there's something that has to be done. I think what we have proved to the world that Israel cannot cannot just afford living side by side with a beastly organization which is held bent on its destruction just to wait to be surprised. So Gaza will have to be demilitarized totally. And how the American public opinion will be right now, Jacob rightly so there with us. At some point it may turn against us. I don't know. But we certainly have to continue to keep abreast with the Americans to do things with them. First of all, we are not in a position to say no to Biden now. So if Biden says to BB, listen, you have to bring humanitarian help. Of course you have to bring humanitarian help to Gaza and not think about all kinds of you know vengeance and things like that. We have to do everything we need to do to finish the job. And if it takes us longer, so be it. And buy the time and legitimization, legitimacy. Right. Mike, back to you for a minute. Biden administration says this as much war than a local war. It's much bigger in their eyes. What are they looking at? This says the, obviously the potential Jacob to blow up the entire region here and there are so many different elements at play. There are things that are being said publicly in the Arab world that aren't being said privately in terms of who wants Hamas to stay and who wants Hamas to stay. And so there are so many different factors at play here that the State Department and the Biden administration at large has to work through here and none of them are simple and none of them are easy and many of them are intertwined with divergent interested play here. The number one thing I think for Biden looking to do here is make sure that there is some humanitarian aid and an answer to the hostage situation that can at least be started here before he leaves the region, at least have a plan in place. That is number one because I think what Biden is afraid of, if there's something he's afraid of in this situation, is that Israel will lose the support it has right now. Look at what's happening in the halls of Congress, 99 senators all of them, by the way all Democrats, there was one Republican that didn't sign, all Democrats in the Senate signed a resolution in support of Israel and condemning Hamas for attacks. That includes those on the hard left, like the Bernie Sanders of the world. Look at what's happening in the House of Representatives, some 63, excuse me, some 150 House members including about half of those Democrats signing on to a letter calling for a permanent freeze of the $6 billion in Iranian oil money that was freed up recently into a Qatari bank account. We are seeing for the first time in a long time broad bipartisan support for Israel within the halls of the U.S. Congress, Biden doesn't want to see that go away with an even deeper humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. So that I think for Biden is goal number one, make sure that the humanitarian needs are taken care of in Gaza before the green light is given here for an all out front from the Israeli military inside of Gaza to destroy Hamas. I think if that can hold, if it can be done in order, I think the bipartisan support that is so crucial here is going to remain intact and I think that is a paramount I think for the administration right now. And Biden tries to tie the Ukrainian aid and the Israeli aid together will he be successful in that? I don't think he has much say in it. There's actually an election going on in the House right about now. I think the roll call has already started with Jim Jordan as the House Speaker. Jordan has been ambivalent about whether he would tie together Ukraine aid and Israeli aid, though behind the scenes he did get a key support, late from the Armed Services Committee Chairman and some other influential chair people within the House of Representatives on the Republican side that want Ukraine and Israel aid tied together so that may very well have been a concession that they got in exchange for their late support for the House Speaker. He's still going to be several votes shy at least on the first bow but this is what they're building toward. I don't think Biden is going to have much influence at all. It's a done deal in the Senate essentially that Ukraine and Israel aid will be forwarded whether separately or together in the House. It's a bit more murky but Biden because Democrats are in the minority just doesn't have much sway over it one way or another. Okay Mike, thank you very much Dania Elon to this bipartisan. I think that for Biden it's a golden opportunity to bring back bipartisanship first and foremost on Israel which is obvious but also to extend it a little bit further on other issues of energy and budget. There are a lot of things that Democrats and Republicans are diametrically opposed to but certainly when it comes to an election year if he can bring down the acrimony and the polarization they see again that builds him as a great leader and right now I think his popularity is rising and I think now Trump proved himself to be just unfit and this is why Biden is so much invested in the whole scenario here and this is why also he's coming tomorrow. Right. What if he comes here and puts and sirens and shelters can he afford that? Well then I think for that I think we'll have Brigadier General Relic Shafir telling you then you will see the Eisenhower and the whole things all the Tomahawks going over and literating Gaza. Not so quickly. On that point one of the ways we our airport is that for every missile shot at the airport rather than shoot one missile or two we can shoot more missiles to make sure that we get a hundred percent kill and that allows the airport to stay open even though you hear those sirens that didn't happen in previous times. So technically he could be in an area a sheltered area a sheltered defense by the Iron Dome. So I don't think he's going to be in harm's way. I'm sure they've been working on this very hard as we speak. By the way you've mentioned the airport is still open has been open all the time and flights are especially Israeli airline is flying all the time but also some foreign airlines as well, right? I just mentioned how this is done and how the airlines are insured that they'll not come in harm's way. Right. If we can call from here to El Al and its owner Mr. Kenny Rosenberg who I respect is a religious Jew who doesn't want to operate El Al on Shabbat this is times of pikuach nefesh that means saving lives is preceding Shabbat so I hope I pray that El Al will start also flying on Shabbat during this operation. Yeah, there were some protests here in Israel regarding this. Speaking of protests Relic we spoke about this before you were part of the pilots, the fighter pilots who protested what's been happening here the judicial reform nine months of protests and so on and boom a war starts. Tell me about it. What had happened is something that was expected in dire times when we're in dire straits priorities change and our first priority is to the state of Israel not to the government or to a certain leader so while we were protesting against turning Israel into an undemocratic state of course in the mass low triangle living comes before everything else so I think not just the air force pilots who 100% of them went back and got proficient during this past week and are taking part in the flying but also brothers in arms who have switched the operation into save Israel operation and actually for that first week and unfortunately for the last days as well have actually taken the place of the governmental activities who were in an aftershock or some kind of a trauma in the first few days the government and its authorities so in that sense immediately the people just turned and actually didn't change because we're still for the state of Israel and the reason we were out in the streets was for the state of Israel we're talking about the day after talk to me about the day after what's going to happen here in Israel I think Mr. Netanyahu to find as much as he can a dignified way to step down otherwise I would say that hell will break loose because there will be so many other people from the right and religious people who have understood what we were saying all along that not only is he promoting policies of his own interests but look at what happened last week where he did not get the full cabinet because of internal family problems while all the Likud members wanted him to get it on so I won't go into those details because everybody you say you will have to go we just have a minute Danny do you agree basically with this analysis? Roderick is right it's better for him if he wants to save anything of his respect in history he should go by himself otherwise he will be thrown out in a most undignified way and even Likud members even Likud members understand that he is now a liability you see it also in the polls you know Likud went down to 19 members talking about the most talented political operative in the history of this country but Jacob I look again it's hard to draw lessons I mean it's important to draw lessons from history but you know Golda Meir which was much more popular than Bibi at the start of the Yom Kippur and Dayan was a star both of them had to go by pressure from the street and pressure from their own party he doesn't step down but everything will change so you know we'll see if that's correct thank you very much we'll take a break now and we'll be right back here on I-24 News stay with us 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 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 When I-24 News comes to me in the studio but in the streets of Morocco I visited Morocco almost a year ago to open a channel in Arribat and I was surprised by the number of people who know me personally and follow me on the channel when I was in the capital of Arribat and the White House and the city of Fas and many of the people came to me and talked to me about I-24 News there was someone who told me that he is always following on the channel and some of them tried to contact our work in the channel and what I'm presenting to them these moments were very effective for me especially and I was impressed and loved by people to work in I-24 News and after I came back from this special trip I suggested to the channel that a special program is related to the issues of Morocco and actually since a month we started the program that explains the issues related to the North of Africa the great love that I had for Morocco made me to reach more and more on these topics Well I'm going to have to look at the sky there was just a flurry of rockets in the direction of Ashdod which is about 25 km away from where we are up north but earlier on about half an hour ago there was a rocket attack on the third one in three and a half hours buildings have been damaged a family was in its shelter not everybody has evacuated and they were unscathed there has been a hit on a car a hit on a wall earlier there was another hit on an abandoned residential building and on the asphalt of the road rockets are falling on the road with direct impact the luck is that most of the city most of the residents of this city of 30,000 inhabitants now what's left is a few thousands of people who are on a drip of the social welfare authorities now here we are on a checkpoint of the Israeli border police because the road where we are located is the road that goes along the northern border and as a result it's forbidden to civilians it's only that is used by security cars be it army or police right now that's the situation and we hear the planes roaring and we believe that this spate of rocket attacks comes as a response to the elimination of one of the top officers of the Hamas organization military officer Iman Nofal in the Elburej refugee camp he was the commander of the central sector of the Gaza Strip he's been eliminated and we hear also that in the Shati refugee camp north of Gaza city the extended family of the leader the political leader of Hamas who lives between Qatar and Beirut in Lebanon his extended family has been hit by 17 people in a house we speak of nephews of a brother maybe we don't have really confirmation of who were these people all right, Beir, thank you very much stay set there in Sderot, thank you the United States has thrown its full support behind Israel's war against Hamas but what does it mean and what will be the cost yeah, we have Siren going off here in Tel Aviv as well yeah, so we'll leave that aside, we'll stay live before this report, we had an elaborate report about Israeli-American relationships when Ultraman, a 24-year senior correspondent is here Biden is coming tomorrow to Israel, short stop a few hours yeah, we'll see as we speak I have to say another barrage of rockets including Tel Aviv and this is something that we've seen for the past couple of hours going on and off all the time maybe a reaction to this killing of the Hamas senior official and Gaza earlier today and this is really a major barrage of rockets including Tel Aviv right now as we speak but Jacob, you know it's maybe coincidental that we started talking about Joe Biden's visit at the time when the Sirens went off here in New York studios here in Jaffa and the Jaffa Port in Tel Aviv but of course it's coincidental but it's meaningful because why is it that we can sit here in this studio and feel that we're relatively safe it's because of the Iron Dome one of the symbols of American-Israeli partnership and the dynamics of Israel's campaigns and it's changed the dynamics of this war too because imagine what our lives would be like what our war planning would be like what our civilian front would be like for that matter what the humanitarian situation in Gaza would be like we just heard the booms above our studio another boom, three so far we'll see if there are more but those booms and the sound of those booms is not the sound of Israelis being hurt the sound of those booms are Israelis lives and property being saved that they know there's no 100% guarantee far from it we've seen people getting killed by rockets absolutely we have seen people getting killed we've certainly seen property destroyed but Jacob without Iron Dome we wouldn't have the I don't know what the exact number is 90% we'd have a 0% and so that US Israeli partnership to develop that defensive system which saves lives it may seem strange to those watching the pictures from abroad but actually there's less force in its campaign and less quickly at least in previous campaigns and this war it may be different because the goals are different the Iron Dome has saved lives on both sides of the border and it is a symbol of US Israeli partnership under both parties in the United States and of course across the political spectrum here in Israel so in a sense sadly fitting that we started talking about Joe Biden's visit at the same time that we started to hear the booms of the Iron Dome interceptions here in Germany. On the other hand maybe we got addicted this notion that we are safe and they can have as many rockets as they want but we are safe and maybe that was a mistake there are two points to be made there let's think that there would be no Iron Dome we wouldn't be where we are now because that would mean that every time rockets are fired people are into shelters but a lot more hits to infrastructure and a lot more people killed and that would have forced the IDF to go into Gaza years back years ago so maybe that would have solved the problem before they became so complicated so that's what I'm asking was this a blessing or not? that is one side of the coin the other side of the coin is look at what Hezbollah has it has at least 100,000 rockets of different types some of these rockets are equipped with precision systems that allow them to target maybe strategic targeting and that would create havoc had we not been able to control which areas are safer we talked about the airport just a while ago so think about this every time they fire a rocket the airport is closed refineries are under in danger and other places I won't go into this because obviously this is secured information so perhaps yes we got addicted but there was no other way to deal with these simple rockets that are actually terror weapons perhaps the laser type defense system will be able to track more targets and even lower the number of casualties that was tested actually a couple days ago and the results were quite amazing we don't know we saw the video that looked good yes Jacob if I may as our colleagues start to trickle back of course we stayed in the studio as part of our journalistic responsibility those of us who feel we can to continue broadcasting and not to let Hamas stop us but our colleagues who are not in studio of course took shelter as the protocol of Israel's home front command but I want to go back to Biden's visit to your original question before we started there is something very different from a Biden's message to Israel that we've heard from American presidents particularly from the Democratic party in the past what is that in the past what we've heard from US presidents but not only from US presidents but including from US presidents is that Israel should act with quote restraint meaning Israel shouldn't use all of the military force it can because of the fear of civilian casualties it sort of rolls up the military and civilian into one Biden's message pay attention and listen to what he says including I expect tomorrow is different on the military front he doesn't say use restraint he says exactly the opposite go after Hamas I don't know if he's used the word destroy Hamas or end Hamas control over the Gaza Strip but that's the spirit of what he says don't hold back militarily but in parallel with using the military in parallel with that handle the civilian issue and having these new for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ideas of safe zones and humanitarian quarters and all of the concepts we've been talking about over the last few days so it's not a message of restraint it's a message of lack of restraint militarily essentially letting Israel make the decisions of having American backing but in parallel taking care to make sure civilians are not in harm's way as best as can be done it's a different kind of message and it's one that I think might be something that Israelis whether it be policymakers or the public could be more receptive to because it's not telling us to hold back on either our goals or on our strategies or tactics but at the same time having a message for civilians in Gaza and for an international public opinion so it's a nuance I suspect we'll continue to hear it from the president tomorrow maybe to a different effect than we've heard from American presidents in the past Alright Owen, let me bring in Michael Makovsky president and CEO of Jewish Institute for National Security of America, thank you very much for joining us to these things are Israel's interests and American interests are necessarily exactly identical? I think mostly they are the question if you don't mind I would refine that all more and say is Israel's interest in the Biden administration's interest identical and I don't think so honestly I think it's an American interest for I must be taking care of I think it's America's interest for Israel though not to get too bogged down it's an America's interest for Hezbollah to be defamed and Iran to be severely punished and it's an America's interest ultimately for Israel Iran to be denied nuclear weapons whether I don't think that's the Biden administration's interest right now I think they're very wary of any war involving Iran and I think they perceive a conflict involving Iran could get out of control could involve US forces and I think the administration is very wary about that So what's the what's the game plan what's the exit strategy of the United States what's the exit strategy of Israel and I say that not to be a smart alec I'm just saying like I think I'm not sure what the Israeli strategy is here yet you know I don't know and based on what I read they're not sure what they would do even if they expel Hamas from Gaza I think for the Israelis for the US I think President Biden has been driven so far since since October 7th but I don't think he wants to see a war with Iran he wants to see Israel get its revenge and bring justice to Hamas but I think he wants to make sure that his bullet doesn't get in and he doesn't want a conflict with Iran and I think that's all I think they're thinking of right now and I think also I may add I think the administration's interest and I think it is the US interest the same and I think it's Israel they want to get back as soon as they can realistically to try to get some sort of normalization done with the Saudis that doesn't mean it has to be done the next few weeks obviously but I do think that is in the interest of the US it's an interest of Israel and it's the interest of the Biden administration that at some point in a couple of months that that gets resolved and a war can complicate that even more But before you go back to the Saudis there's the question of Gaza what do you do with the people first of all does Israel have the credit line to go after Hamas and destroy it completely like its leaders said they must do how do you see this good question I think so far the administration is to put into use Biden's words in rock solid of course that is not shared by everyone on the left certainly and even some further on the right but you can see this in some of the left wing media here in the United States I mean the Washington Post uses terms like militants they don't say terrorists there's already a focus of how many casualties there are on both sides and things like that so I think it's going to be tougher for Biden from his left flank this war Israel does go in with the background and you have even a lot more Palestinian casualties which is inevitable not just the leaders but the you know innocent civilians it's going to be tougher for him on that you know to keep this up so right now they could do it but if it drags on for a while it's inevitable that there's Israel is going to get a lot more criticism I think here and I think there does need to be some idea communicated from Israel about what the plan is about the day after and at least based on you know I'm not sure the Israelis have fully thought that through yet yeah you know before the day after there's today and it's tough here it's tough Michael Makovsky thank you very much for that there is reports that one of the rockets hit route number one here in Israel which is the major route between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem we have to see what's happening with that let's go to Nicole Serek our correspondent in the area of Tel Aviv Nicole we've heard the sirens just a few minutes ago what do you know what do you see there yes we continue to hear many of those loud explosions or interceptions from the iron dome missile defense system intercepting those rockets fired from the Gaza Strip that are targeting central Israel not only Tel Aviv we've also seen other hits in nearby cities or nearby rock red alarms going off in nearby cities such as Pedaktifah Rahmat Gan so we are exactly hearing those interceptions to put into perspective exactly where we are right now nearby the IDF headquarters this is kind of the scene where we've been speaking with some of the families of those who have been taken hostage and kidnapped it's day 11 and they are still unsure of how their loved ones are doing as they are being held in the Gaza Strip you can see some protesters demonstrators behind us right here and it's also important to note that as you see this wave of Israeli flags these people urging the government to do everything they can to get their loved ones back as quickly as possible this is also the scene where just two weeks ago we saw those anti-government protesters and many of those people that are taking place in these protests right now are part of that anti-government protest so Kaplan Street is no stranger to these type of demonstrations but now there's more to these demonstrations now there's a personal connection because they want to make sure that their loved ones come back as quickly as possible and that's exactly what you see as we look at this wall over here the faces of we know at least 199 people kidnapped you can see some of their ages up here some of them as young as 6 months old some of them grandparents grandmothers so all of these they want to show the faces and really push the government to do everything they can some of the representatives from those who the families of those who were taken hostage and kidnapped actually met with some of the members of Israel's war cabinet Benny Gantz and Gotti Eisenkott their message right now continues to be that Israel is doing everything they can to get all of these really citizens and the foreign citizens as well that are being held captive in Gaza they want to make sure they can do everything they can to get them back but as far as exactly how that's going to happen that's unknown and we're still continuing to try and find that information but from the families we are speaking to after they spoke to Gantz they say it is comforting knowing that Israel is continuing to at least say they are doing everything they can to get all of these people back and back safely. Alright Nicole thank you very much this is the scene in Tel Aviv right now we are joined now by Kerry Lee Tal member of the Shko original council that's the part of Israel that was badly hit by Hamas thank you very much for joining us can you let me start with this what's happening are you still back there in the south what's happening with the rockets all day long or did you move to another part all of our communities have been evacuated as no school is 32 communities that share a border with Gaza and Egypt all our communities have been evacuated so the IDF can continue their job okay and so we're all in evacuation living from suitcases can you describe the scope of the human toll there the devastation there in your area families have been torn apart we have so many deaths you look left right and center funerals commencing the rough shots in the security teams digging graves by hand services are battling to come into our region the army has blockaded it's a disaster we have so many children missing so many dead it's a human crime what's happening with the families right now the survivors we have managed to evacuate all our survivors and we've put them in various hotels whether it be in a lot or the Dead Sea or Gush Etzion we've separated we try to keep our communities together cohesion is a very important part of living on the Gaza Strip keeping our families together people are in mourning people are devastated our communities have been hit incredibly hard we have some communities where more than 50% of our residents are gone do they get any psychological help of course as part of the school regional council and the non-profit organization we have resilience centers set up in every single detail we are doing individual therapies group therapies we're hoping to start class soon so the children there's no short-term solution so we need to put back education we need to give these families some form of routine some form of stability in this chaos you know maybe it's too early to ask I don't know but will you be able to go back and rise up again and build your life again over there our infrastructure is burnt and destroyed our families are torn apart but our spirit will never be defeated it's going to take some communities more than four months to get back they don't have homes people young people burnt alive buildings destroyed we have to re-establish these communities and we have to give them some kind of security otherwise we will not have these communities anymore people are afraid to return they were devastated they were left alone fighting locked in bomb shelters been burnt alive been shot at and no one there to help them Kerry Lita I thank you very much and I wish you all the best thank you thank you very much amazing stories this kind of thing people in Israel did not digest yet far from it and people are seeing some of what has been happening there on television and on social media the stories the brave stories it's just the tip of the iceberg I haven't shared this yet but I want people to understand what these places were like before all of this happened I've been to Kfarazah for example one of the Kibbutzim that was so badly hit many times mostly for our channel to report from there when there are flare ups on the border but I also want there a different time as you know every February the Anemone Kalaniot in Hebrew these red flowers bursting out into blossom it's the beginning of the spring especially in that part of the country right near the Israel Gaza border and one year I think about a year and a half ago I went with my family to go and see them at the height of the bloom and I went to Kfarazah on the way because in the central square if you will of the Kibbutzim I've been there many times again with our channel just games for kids and everyone was walking around it's a wonderful place and known for having really close knit tough resilient communities it was close to the Gaza border and everyone understood the dangers and the risks but it was so pleasant it was so nice and it was all an illusion it turns out and that's what is so hard for people to understand how places within our own country within our own borders internationally recognized borders can turn from places where people live and people thrive into places where people are massacred in a pogrom you're right that the country hasn't yet begun to fully be able to take it all in we're just starting that's the spirit that we've been hearing all over the place though it's very hard people from around the world are stepping up and showing their support for Israel these days I-24 News, Nicole Setic reports on that A nation of 9 million is reeling in pain but amid all the heartache major signs of humanity we've been so destroyed over the past few days like literally, emotionally and rather than sitting at home watching the news and hearing horrible things that are happening it's like at least here you feel active you feel like you're actually helping you're donating your time you're like working together and it's just it's such a heartwarming feeling and it's so nice to feel something so positive that all the organizations around the world have been set up to support Israel as major corporations pledge millions of dollars in humanitarian relief I know you joined me in absolutely having a broken heart for victims in Israel I'm angry I'm sad we've cried and together our entire organization is praying for Israel while countless corporations are sending money for the fight many individuals are joining the fight themselves hopping on a prepaid flight to a country in a state of war the Israeli national anthem blaring through the skies a symbol of unity for a country that was seemingly divided two weeks ago all the infrastructure of the protest has been transformed once we had this horror event into helping in different settings and to under my wing to try to direct and try to build all this array that takes care of the absentees of the kidnapped and the basic people the people who are dead the anti-government movement now using their platform to garner support for families who have evacuated from Israel's southern and northern borders and the soldiers who have jumped into action in those very same places Allah SWT each act of kindness from abroad and at home serving as a reminder to the state of Israel that light will always now shine darkness now stay tuned for more special coverage here on night 24 news with Calaf Bendevede after this short break have a good night from Tel Aviv officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking more than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity Hashem shall guard your going out we are coming in this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year we have the right reserve we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Vakita can be protected addition on night 24 news I'm Calaf Bendevede and I'm just going to go right to breaking news we have sirens here in Tel Aviv with us in studio retired Brigadier general defense forces commander and we have Jonathan our defense correspondent Jonathan what's going on just in the past 30 40 minutes various rocket alert sirens in central Israel and the last one we're hearing a report of a person being killed on the road on road number one a person a fatality is that confirmed no not confirmed as a fatality someone injured as far as as far as we know injured yes so let's be clear injured injured if I said something else then my mistake injured a person injured on road number one from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem it seems as if Hamas is trying again the sirens ignite the sirens ignite the rockets ignite sirens in a lot of communities but it doesn't it doesn't take a lot of rockets you don't need to fire 30 rockets to ignite sirens in 30 different villages in such we're just hearing booms now we are just hearing loud booms yes this is far as I understand coming from sirens that are again heard in areas a bit to the south of Tel Aviv to the south where we of the place we're feeling a little vibration in the studio yes so to the south and again to the south and to the east of where we are why to the east it seems as if perhaps a speculation Hamas may be looking again and again to target areas close to Ben-Gurion airport just to a little bit to the southeast of Tel Aviv that is why cities such as for example which are very close to the place where we are and they're experiencing a lot of sirens road number one when that person has been injured injured I say again is on the way to the airport between Tel Aviv and the airport these are places that are seeing more and more sirens it seems as if they're targeting just a little bit to the east of Tel Aviv but let's remember the air distance is very short when we have in the studio one of visuals experts in air defense systems and former director of the Arrow David Slings I will not jump to conclusion that they are looking for Ben-Gurion of course Ben-Gurion it's a critical strategic asset from the enemy perspective and for us as well I think that's the Hamas walking by kind of fire plan since the last 11 days the big polygon is the metropolis Tel Aviv if they will attack or bomb Tel Aviv very short on give a time really doesn't matter for themselves they don't have really the capabilities today to define exactly neighborhoods or the border between these cities so the big polygon is the metropolis whatever they will reach one of these targets or area which will be a huge success for themselves well let me just ask you to think ahead in road number one of course the main Jerusalem Tel Aviv highway in the road to the airport reports perhaps the other men wounded either may perhaps in a car Iron Dome shouldn't it pick up a missile going to road number one it's not open considered an open area is it first of all it's an open area because it's in between they're on cars traveling on the high it is because we will define all the highways and all the roads it means that we will cover all but this is the main highway this was probably the main highway main highways like road number six road number one for sure and other highways they are part of the protecting plan to protect absolutely absolutely but again there is no romantic solution there is no 100% solution for that reason we are emphasized again only a combination between the Iron Dome that you mentioned and the way that the civilians will behave and protect themselves and evacuate themselves from the cars outside of the car don't continue to drive get out of your car like flat on the ground absolutely this is the only way to minimize the damage alright well hopefully the drivers are doing that speak to Jonathan stay with us it is of course day 11 more against Hamas now the IDF continues to pound targets in the Gaza Strip those airstrikes taking out today one of the terror groups senior commanders Aiman Nofell this as residents heed the warnings to stream to the southern half of the Strip rockets also still flowing from Gaza into Israel as we just heard a possible injury just in the last few minutes on road number one the sporadic fire also continuing across the Lebanon border all the infiltrators were killed by an IDF drone strike on that frontier while three Israelis were moderately wounded by an anti-tank missile that was launched from Lebanon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the German Chancellor Olaf Schultz to Israel today by saying Hamas are the new Nazis US President Joe Biden is ready for his visit here tomorrow now the IDF continues to organize and train its forces ahead of the next stage of the conflict the ground invasion of Gaza his IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzl Alevi speaking to the troops down south everyone is going to do everything including risking their lives because this really is a war for the house this is a war for the home for the citizens, for our sovereignty for our deterrence and for our existence in future and so we do everything we need to reach a situation where there will be a victory in every meeting if Hezbollah makes this mistake and attacks destruction destruction, destruction well let's go up to our correspondent Hamda Sahut on the Israel Lebanon border and today again Hamda that border, that frontier continues to remain another front in this conflict several exchanges of fire happening between the Israeli side and Hezbollah Hezbollah said today that five members of its armed group were killed after the Israeli military targeted them the military said they found four individuals they were surveilling them from a distance looking at them approaching the fence potentially to place an explosive device where they were then killed now sources in the United States and in the Middle East are saying that Hezbollah is making preparations for a full-scare war with Israel the Israeli military is saying if they choose to surprise Israel with an attack or escalate any of their military capabilities the response will be devastating and will be deadly the military continues to secure this area a lot of reinforcements sent in here the exchanges of fire are quiet for now but earlier in the day we also saw two rockets coming in the Israeli military intercepting one and the second falling in a field as per interception protocol so the military on high alert as the front here continues to expand all right Hamda Sahut there and the Israeli Lebanon border thank you with that you were of David Sling the arrow if Hezbollah gets in this war is Israel ready and prepared for the missile launch slot which will be of a much different type of level grade than even what we're experiencing now from Hamas it's a great question first of all I think that's the fact that we are talking about Lebanon Hezbollah and the north part of Israel the main meaning that we are dealing today with a multi-front conflict right clearly it's a war between Israel the Hamas and the Jihad in Gaza it's kind of escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in the north but on the ground we are fighting in two different fronts this is the meaning of your question and the situation that we just heard about and from the air force and air defense forces perspective we are talking about a national perspective a national perspective it means that simultaneously 24-7 today and the day before yesterday we are protecting the north and the south today it mentioned before that we are asking ourselves if the Hamas will surprise us I'm not sure that the world surprised it's the right or the correct world to explain the situation now because the IDF has a very strong deployment on the north part of Israel as well as the south and we are ready to respond the Israel main interest is to keep the main air force with the Hamas and the secondary air force with the Hamas but look what's happening in the last few days it's much more than escalation dozens of cases anti-tank missiles ballistic missiles terrorist troops in Israel so it's much more than a daily operation or escalation I think that once we will find the IDF maneuvering in Gaza we will find more and more challenging the IDF troops in the north so it's a very sensitive situation and days in the incoming days in the north so I think that's the IDF and back to your question the air defense forces are ready I want to jump out now we said just minutes ago Sirens in Tel Aviv reportedly there was a rocket landing from Hamas let's go to Nicole Sedeck she is in central Tel Aviv near the area where IDF headquarters is located and Nicole Tel Aviv on the fire again this evening yes Kalev in fact we had to run in front of me and just take cover behind that wall you have about a minute and a 30 to get to a safe place here in Tel Aviv yet sometimes it's difficult as these buildings are far away yet we did see everyone rush towards a parking lot down below as well and we saw right above our heads one of those iron dome missile defense systems intercepting the rocket from Gaza and it's interesting because as you see the iron dome shoot into action above us you see that red flare lighting up the sky 15 seconds after that until you hear the boom the explosion and it shakes the ground below us here so even as we were taking shelter you can still feel the rumblings even though the interception is happening so far above our heads and this is the reality here in central Israel it seems day after day right about dinner time in central Israel is when we are seeing many of these rockets targeting the center and so many families are preparing for that they know to be in their safe place around this time that's the sense that I'm getting when I'm speaking to people on the streets here in central Israel although it's pretty quiet for the most part people are still going about their day to day life and know that at any minute we can receive another red alert more sirens blingering through the air and they have to run to a safe place as I said about a minute and 30 seconds to take shelter and if not get on the ground cover the back of your head and try and get near a more protected place like a brick wall or a staircase if possible and just a word behind you across the street as I mentioned you're near the IDF headquarters the curia and clearly there's a sort of demonstration demonstration of sorts there exactly in fact this is the same place that just two weeks ago we saw those anti-government demonstrations and now we're seeing demonstrations urging the government to do everything they can to get the 199 at least 199 confirmed hostages out of the Gaza Strip and back to their families that's what we've been seeing here many people stationed out here really since this Saturday about a week after the onset of this war they've been out here they're urging the government to do everything they can and in fact representatives for the families of those that have been taken hostage or kidnapped a few of them met with some of the members of Israel's war cabinet earlier today they were caught they met with them and after speaking to the families about what took place inside this meeting they said that they are feeling reassured as the state of Israel continues to say that they are doing everything they can to make sure that these hostages are returned to their family and out of the Gaza Strip out of the hands of these hostages but it's becoming increasingly more difficult because not only are we seeing more and more troops mobilized to the south we know that any day now we're seeing more and more hostages that are currently holding could be released in coming days and that is very very difficult for the family members the loved ones to see because although they can see face to face that their loved one is momentarily safe it's also gut-wrenching to see everything that they're going through and that's what we're seeing and that's what we're seeing and that's what we're seeing gut-wrenching to see everything that they're going through absolutely gut-wrenching and they called SEDEC there and the streets of Tel Aviv thank you with that Jonathan quickly just any update on this most recent round of rocket fire in the Tel Aviv the greater Tel Aviv the greater Tel Aviv area nothing much as so far we are we heard this preliminary report of one person injured on road number one and not anymore coming out of that we'll wait for more information as it comes in alright now as we mentioned U.S. President Joe Biden is set to arrive in Israel tomorrow for a solidarity visit after which he will head to Jordan for a four-way summit hosted by King Abdullah and including the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt's President Abul Fattah al-Sisi Israel's National Security Adviser Sakhiya Negwi spoke today about the staunch support that President Biden is providing Israel that the president apart from his public remarks and apart from the calls that he directed to Iran to Hezbollah which were not public is telling all of those who think that if they want to join the war against the Israeli people there will be American involvement Israel will not be alone well let's go to our senior U.S. correspondent Mike Wagenheim New York and Mike President Biden set to come not just here but also to Jordan having those meetings with regional Arab leaders and what is he hoping, what would the White House be hoping to accomplish on this trip Well there are many many things to accomplish here but I think we can fit them on to two broader patterns. Number one is to show solidarity with Israel this is the overarching theme I believe of Biden's trip to make sure that Israel knows that the broader world knows that the Biden administration, the State Department of America as a whole has Israel's back and I think it's really playing out not so prominently in the White House which is critically important but I think even more dramatically so right now the incredible amount of bipartisan support within the halls of Congress and sometimes that's not always the case especially on the further left end of the spectrum when it comes to Israeli support so I think that's number two is to start coming up with solutions specifically in the humanitarian realm in Gaza I think Biden is overwhelmingly concerned with that aspect not only just from a human rights and humanitarian standpoint but also from a political standpoint the worst it gets for Gaza civilians there the less support that America and Israel will have not just with only within the halls of Congress but in the broader Arab world even the ones like the UAE and Bahrain that stepped out immediately in support of Israel and the longer that operation goes the more damage it does the more damaging it will be to the broader Israeli American effort there to take out Hamas once and for all so those are the two big broad goals that Biden has coming in A show that there's an overwhelming support for Israel coming from Washington and B start coming up with solutions on the humanitarian front. Thank you for that we're getting more alerts here northern Israel perhaps this is more rock fire from across the Lebanese border also and we show let's see own that's a town just southeast of Tel Aviv we'll update you on the information we have about that speak a lot of talk about present certainly for Israel major gesture for President Biden to come here there's some talk about whether this hug that he's giving to Israel could is in some ways a bear hug meaning also trying to restrain Israel somewhat in this operation in Gaza you wrote an article that was earlier this year saying this operation that saying earlier this year saying these operations really don't change anything fundamentally Israel really has to change the question is the United States can the US stand Israel stand up to US pressure if it's going to start restraining Israel's hands in the Gaza Strip first of all I think it's more than solidarity support by United States of America and the fact that a few days after the event on Saturday the President Biden decided to send the first troops to Israel and then the second I think you should mention naval forces not puts on the ground but it puts on the military on the sea it's a huge meaning and I think it's a very clear message not only to the Hamas and to the Hezbollah first of all it's a direct message to Iran but not only on the big perspective picture we are talking about the international arena because it's fully involved by Russia, by China by Iran and other candidates in this case so the fact that United States stand shoulder to shoulder to Israel and support Israel by the way the state of Israel can deal with simultaneously Hamas and Hezbollah that's not the issue the issue is the international message the wild message to our arena to the far east enemies mainly Iran but not only as the President Biden said don't this is the main meaning of the United States support I think it's very important because it's not only Israel business, Israel problem because Iran proxies threat not only Israel that's right Europe US interest in the region and not only so this is from my perspective the main meaning that United States stands shoulder to shoulder to Israel Jonathan you prepared a report looking a little more closely at the threat posed by Hezbollah in this war and of course it's sponsor Iran let's take a look at this report from our Jonathan Radgev more than 150,000 rockets at least 5000 of them covering the entire Israeli state hundreds if not more of those rockets are precision guided meaning they will head right to their target carrying amounts of explosives far bigger than anything coming from Gaza this is what awaits the Israeli home front if a full on war with Hezbollah erupts those on the battle field itself will have a major challenge of their own Hezbollah's elite units known as Radwan force are made up of thousands of well equipped fighters who also have plenty of battle experience gained on the Syrian front their plan which was just executed by Hamas in the south is to invade border communities and army bases kill and kidnap as many civilians and soldiers and create the same major panic seen on the Gaza border on that terrible Saturday morning giant arsenal come from those behind it are not doing a major effort hiding it before coming here I had the chance to meet with the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah estimates say Iran transfers up to 700 million dollars annually to Hezbollah mostly in highly sophisticated weapons systems these are exactly the weapons which Israel targets time and time again when they're in Syria before they head to Lebanon many of those systems are hit but many others still go through other funding methods are drug trafficking, money laundering and donations the money keeps coming in and until there will be a massive global move against it that money will continue to flow and Hezbollah will continue to act as the Iranian arm right on Hezbollah's northern border and in fact the Iranian leader the Ayatollah Khamenei weighed in again today on the Israel Hamas conflict here some of what he had to say if these crimes continue the Muslims will become impatient the resistance forces will become impatient and no one will be able to stop them they should know this don't expect others to not let such groups do such and such things no one can stop them when they get impatient this is a reality that exists it sounds like Hezbollah and Iran or Iran has put his finger on the trigger the question is whether they're going to pull that Jonathan we're calling it Hezbollah maybe you should just call it what it is we'll call it Iran it's the Iranian it's the Lebanese branch of Iran let's call it this way and this is far more than an Israeli problem I totally agree with what was said here and in order to eradicate this problem it's not something that Israel as mighty as it may be this is not something that Israel can take away on its own the fact that Iran is threatening a western interest all over the Middle East is not just an Israeli issue the drug trafficking the money laundering and so on this is far more than just an Israeli issue and if the western world does not come together then this is a problem that will not go away in fact you wrote an article about building a regional the importance of building a regional conflict against Iran the question is making lemonade out of lemons is this conflict could it move in that potential direction we know President Biden is coming he's meeting for example with with King Abdullah Jordan and CC the focus will be on the Gaza conflict but perhaps also push the United States to be more active in building that that alliance and the war today it's a war between coalitions and the way that United States with the President Biden try to bring the area mostly the sooner neighbors Jordan Egypt you mentioned Saudi Arabia as well to build strong coalition United coalition against Iran I think it's important but in our case it's not instead our war to destroy and kill the Hamas in Gaza don't confuse ourself it's very important to the day after today we need to deal with the Hamas hopefully because it's not our main interest not with the Iran but if we need to also simultaneously with the Hamas and Hezbollah and the day after bring that strong coalition fighting directly against Iran ambitious programs the nuclear but not only right that's what you said there was sirens in the north of Israel assumption maybe with this baller but there is a report that Hamas has said that it has launched towards Haifa is this realistically Hamas have effect of rockets that can reach as far as Haifa first with Haifa it's only 40 kilometers from the border so try to compare the Hamas though let's take the map from the north and copy that for our situation in Gaza Tel Aviv in Gaza it's 70-75 kilometers so the reference for the 40 kilometers yes Hamas have the capabilities in Lebanon but again everyone in south and mainly in south part of Lebanon cannot do nothing without Hezbollah permission so the fact that the Hamas took the response for that act it doesn't matter that's Hezbollah it's not part of that action don't forget it right everything it's under the Hezbollah control in south part of Lebanon alright we are going out for a break it'll only be a few minutes just to reiterate we had the sirens go off in Tel Aviv about 27 minutes ago a little longer than that and there was a landing on road number one the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv landed some just right outside on the edge of the Tel Aviv city limits early indications not confirmed there was an injury at least one injury from that from that rocket landfall we'll update you as we get more information throughout this evening stay with us we'll be back just in a few minutes with more of a continuing coverage of the Israel Gaza war here on I-24 news 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas 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broadcast Jonathan a quick update on this latest missile strike on the ground between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv there was an injury not from a landfall a driver left his car as he heard the sirens as the drivers have to do as he was leaving the car he fell to a ditch which is quite high and got injured in his head an injury yes not from landfall but from the driver running away from his car all right we are going to go now to the idea of spokesperson we are Daniel Hagar do we have that I will bring you that the idea of spokesperson are we going to we are at what Daniel Hagar the idea of spokesperson so we'll have to go to that yeah about the latest situation in Gaza in a joint operation of the IDF and the Israeli security agency one of the head Hamas was eliminated he was part of the military council of Hamas as the head former head of the intelligence of Hamas he was part of the crew that planned the kidnap of Gila Tshelit he was in charge of the Nukh Baat Terrace who carried out the massacre party in Reyim in various communities in the Gaza border communities anyone involved in those operations will die we call all of the Palestinian population to head south get out of Gaza for your own safety move to the south for your own safety we will continue to strike any terrorist and any terror infrastructure in the north a short time ago there was a siren in the upper Galilee communities most probably we intercepted a UAV we will report definitely once checking is over there were plenty of shooting incidents in the morning we killed a terror squad that tried to infiltrate to Israel throughout the day there was anti-tank fire targets the chief of staff was up north he spoke to commanders and soldiers and held an assessment with the head of the northern command the chief of staff inspected the preparations and readiness of the forces in the north Hezbollah is trying to deter our attention but we are looking at Gaza this is where our hostages are of Lebanon but is now becoming the defender of Hamas ISIS and the terrorists in Gaza the head of the American General Michael Corrila who came here this morning met the chief of staff held a joint assessment throughout the day and he will be here tomorrow when President Biden arrives so far we reported to the families of 192 soldiers who have died and 199 families of kidnapped we hug all the families in regard to the assessment of the home front command several areas have changed their instructions and the websites and make sure you know about your area this is how we conduct routine in times of war if you keep up the instructions of the home front command lives will be saved and this is how we can continue to conduct this war the question a short time ago there's a reporting Gaza about an Israeli strike on a hospital where people killed General Agar is saying before I came here I checked about this incident we don't know all the details it's very difficult for us to know this happened a very short time ago and already they're saying hundreds and hundreds of people we first want to know all of the details and then we will let the people know and understand I don't know if this came from Air Force we just heard Rear Admiral Daniel Hagar the idea of spokesman there speaking he also mentioned this report about a hospital in the Gaza Strip Daniel Hagar being hit we'll follow up also on that story as well now we have been bringing you of course stories of Israelis with loved ones either killed or reportedly taken hostage of course in that terrible attack on October 7th now 21-year-old Maya Regev and her 18-year-old brother Itai went down to that Nova Music Festival just hours after returning to Israel from a trip abroad the last that their parents Ilan and Mirit heard from them was a frantic phone call from Maya which her parents have released let's take a listen to what is disturbing well joining us now are Ilan and Mirit Regev the parents of Itai Maya and thank you for joining us hearing that phone call it's just heartbreaking first of all tell us but just tell us a little about Itai and Maya Itai and my little love and to have a good time all the time they want all the time they go to the party they love to dance they have to go to restaurant they have all the time they want to do a good life they're good friends and they want they love people and they love it to to help others and they go to the party to piece of love I understand Ilan let me ask you when you heard that call did you have any sense in your mind what could possibly be happening here because it was so unimaginable to so many of us even hearing it it sounded like something impossible to happen it sounds like hell and before in the TV I see the Hamas inside the road inside the Fakim I saw it and I can't believe what I see in my eyes and after this I hear this phone call and it's kill me it's like hell it's like hell the first time the first things that I do it's getting my car and drive straight ahead to the south to get into the party and bring my daughter and my son back that's the first things that I thought I don't care about nothing just to bring him fast home right and tell us about now it sounds like there was possible injury there but there is some evidence possibly sign of life what do you know about Itaia and Maya and there whereabouts I know about Itaia when I was in the hospital in Bersheva my wife Murit sent me a video and I see it just now again that he was in Kidner but this all this time I didn't know nothing about Maya all the time from the minute that I talk with Maya with the phone I thought all the time that I'm going to bury two child and it is like hell it's kill me it's kill me and when I hear when I see Itaia he's been kidnapped it was released me a little bit it's absurd I said it's release me because I hope he's alive and I think that Hamas need him and take care of him and don't do nothing to him well let me ask you the army released a figure that they know of 199 families that they've contacted you're one of them have they talked to you or the Israeli authorities yes the Israeli authorities come to me in Monday and tell me that Maya and the army the army came and tell me that I've been kidnapped and from here I just want that somebody the government bring us bring us signs of life from our children and all the people and all the children was in Gaza well let me ask you we're an international channel so what is your message what is your message to the world to the international community in the wake of having to deal with this tragedy I want from all the world first of all we want that do everything to bring us signs of life from our children and all the children being kidnapped second I want to tell all the world because it's happened in 9-11 it's happened here we have the best army we have the best intelligent hand and it's happened here so I want to tell the world open your eyes yesterday in Belgium to Swedish guys right in Belgium in Belgium from ISIS and it's going to happen all over the world if you don't stop this it's happened in Belgium in France it's happened in Germany it's happened all over the world so please for you and for all of the countries please do something with this you don't want to see what's happened here happening in Germany in France please stop it all right Myrit and Ilan the best and most important we wish you the safe return of Itai and my safe friend sound back at home thank you for joining us and sharing with us thank you very much heartbreaking to hear that story the question is the hostages on the military side how much of a calculation that has to be first of all it's a very complicated every case the story completely by itself but here we are talking about almost or even more than 200 different cases we don't have not Israel and even the Hamas have the experience holding this such of a people on the other side it's make it much more complicated than before we cannot compare it to the Gilad Shalit case in Gaza the cases that we know in Lebanon it's a totally different story because the huge number of the kidney and the hostages that they are in Gaza and the fact that we are in war and on the same time dealing with this almost 200 and even more people, soldiers, civilians teenagers older in Gaza make it much more complicated and we need to deal with that and manage that in two parallel pillars we cannot mix because if we will mix between them we will stop our war and we will focus only on this issue it's very hard to say it's very complicated to act but the only way to deal with two parallel pillars and hopefully have some advantages once we will start the ground operation maneuvers with more intelligence and more clues how to reach part most or more or hopefully all the 200 or more soldiers people in Gaza this is the only way I cannot see the chance that the Hamas because this is not the way that the Hamas is acting will release not kids not others because this is not the way that ISIS and the Hamas is acting I will be more than happy to find myself in a huge fault but this is not the way that the Hamas is acting just to follow up on the comment that was made we did here we were Admiral Daniel Higari the idea of spokesman there are reports out of Gaza hospital in the Gaza Strip being hit we don't know who is responsible by that could be Israel also could be a Hamas fire falling Gaza we don't know but there are reports of casualties that could be in the hundreds we'll just have to see when we get more confirmed information about that that's the Al-Aqi hospital in Gaza if I may don't forget that the Hamas using civilian facilities and properties as a military needs we know for sure for example let's take the Shifa hospital in Gaza in a normal hospitals the basements they are for parking lots in Shifa they are for the Hamas tunnels and bunkers in Gaza but they are using schools they are using UNRF facilities as a backyard for storage weapons or for launching points this is the way that the Hamas is working I'll not be surprised that if this report is true it's by the Hamas itself and not by the IDF we'll have to see we'll have confirmation now some figures from the entertainment world have been speaking up and defending Israel in public and on social media using their celebrity and their reach or their followings on such platforms as Instagram to counter disinformation on the conflict with Hamas now one of these is Omer Chazan a rising young Israeli actor was starred in several popular TV shows here he's now based in New York City and he joins us from there Omer thank you for joining us you're in New York but you originally hear from Ash Toad I know a city that is the firing line of the rockets from the Gaza Strip but what are you hearing if you still have family there friends hearing from there and your thoughts about it yes so first of all thank you for having me right now all my family and all my friends right now in Ash Toad we suffered from that so many years so many years actually I lost a friend a good friend of mine from Ash Toad a couple of days ago in the first day of the war and I pray for them I pray for my family I pray for my friends I pray for the hostages I pray for the soldiers for everyone and I hope it's going to end very soon right now you have I see that I saw on Instagram you have hundreds of thousands of followers there you're using that platform to advocate for Israel and put information what kind of reactions though are you getting to certainly support but of course social media is also going to get some pretty heavy blowback especially when it comes to Israel or Jewish issues yeah 100% I'm really suffering from bad comments and bad people they're trying to speak bad about me but I support my country I don't care for that because my country is the most important thing to me my people the army the soldiers all my friends are the most important thing for me so I'm just trying to support trying to talk with all the people that I know here the states and every country in the world to support our country to see what happened in our country it's really important to support and to show everyone all the world what happened in Israel right now right now I saw you on one of the pictures you were at that there was a pro-Israel rally I think it was in Times Square but at the same time you had counter rallies you had people cheering not just the Palestinian cause there have been even causes support for Hamas in these rallies what's it like there in New York which is actually the city with the largest Jewish population in the world even bigger than the ones here to see that kind of rally there in New York yes it's making me sad that there's some people that support terror that's not making sense for me you need to be a human being you need to be human it's tough to support the terror it doesn't matter where or when you need to stop supporting terror and here when you're doing the rally in New York you see everyone is shouting on us and everyone trying to to hit us and trying to to to throw rocks on us and stuff and it doesn't make sense because we're just trying to pray our country to support our country we're just trying to live in peace we didn't do nothing I'm just trying to to explain people here especially here this is the main city of the world and as you said it's the most Jewish population here in the States we're just trying to spread love trying to support and as you see right now you're showing the protest from the other side they just support terror and it's making me so sad because right now there's people there's people that have to do this in Gaza and there's people that right now fighting all their lives to survive what happened right now in Israel to make me so sad from the York City thank you for joining us on I24 News I just want to say with reports coming out about this possible strike on us but this is going to up the if there is and we don't even know and even if it wouldn't even be Israel you know that Israel was going to bear the blame for it it's going to up the pressure international pressure on Israel there is a clock running to some degree even though the government would like to and the military would like to feel it has more latitude now so the question is this the air war what point does the air war achieve the objectives it needs for Israel to move to the next stage which would be a ground operation a few of clocks that walking on the same time international arena it's one of the whether it's another one the public opinion it's another one so there are a few clocks above ourselves above the idea and the government that they are moving on and they are part of all this campaign I think that the international arena opinion it's very important but it's not the only issue I really must say that that's Israel declared a war against the Hamas nobody nobody and this is my expectation nobody will take Israel an inch from this direction we need the international arena support but it's not a mandatory to continue our action in Gaza that's for sure and the huge challenge it's to keep the international arena with us with the solidarity with the support but at the same time to give us the full flexibility to do we even didn't start but we will start hopefully in the next days to complete our objectives in Gaza this is the only way this war will take time will take time it's not the question of days of weeks I'm not asking you to put it specific in terms of time I'm just talking about the objections of the air campaign specifically the air campaign it's not enough to achieve the goal the goal that's the government asked the IDF to achieve that goal to destroy the Hamas capabilities in Gaza you must bring your troops to Gaza this is the only way the air strikes are part of this campaign it's not the only they are important to achieve what specific goal to in order to destroy the Hamas bunkers headquarters facilities etc they are preparing the area to the ground forces to get into Gaza and they will escort the forces to Gaza so the air force job or missions will not end once the ground maneuvering will start absolutely not it's very important to prepare the area to prepare the conditions that's then the ground troops will start the next phase this is the only way to achieve the goal or objectives in this war in Gaza Jonathan just want to ask you any updates that you've been seeing as we move coming to the end of this hour actually at the beginning of the hour reported of alerts in the northern border now the IDF is saying that following the initial report regarding sirens in the north no target was identified infiltrating into Israeli airspace we also heard Daniel Agari the IDF you have infiltration now the army is saying no target was identified infiltrating Israeli airspace this is a statement coming right this time so what could that be what set off those alarms a lot of sensors very sensitive environment sensors that this is part of this situation and unfortunately in war time crisis time it's create a huge mess on the ground we need to minimize this false alarm but it's part of the business unfortunately all right just want to again just update some of the things over the past hour we did have that about an hour ago a strike on the highway road number one the main line it was just outside you're seeing some footage there that is road number one near the intersection with road number four to Haifa just at the entrance to the city there was an injury there but it was apparently not from the actual strike but for someone reacting to the strike moderately wounded he's been taken to hospital we also of course we had those reports in the north of Israel and according to the IDF in most recent reports the no target was identified infiltrating into Israeli airspace and I do have to mention reports unconfirmed coming out of the Gaza Strip of a strike an airstrike on a hospital there Al-Aqi hospital reports coming out of the Gaza Strip of injuries we don't have any confirmed information on that and we will bring you that as we have I'd like to thank Tvika Haimovich for coming into studio with us Jonathan Regev stay with us please stay with us we'll have more, we'll be back at the top of that we're just in about three minutes with more of our continuing coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas stay with us it's no surprise the transition to parent hoard can be transformative for anyone with a new baby but what kind of mark is it leaving on the brains of new parents there are dramatic physiological, hormonal and neuronal changes in the body and the brain that accompanies parenthood much like the changes that happen in the brain when picking up any new skill like learning a new language or mastering a new musical instrument the brain also changes when becoming a parent it's what scientists call and Prof. Adi Mazrachi is doing some of 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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 north to south get the inside scoop on what's going on only on I-24 news this council must take before any calls for aid before any calls for aid come or restraint is to designate Hamas as the murderous terror organization that it is no matter what the Zionist regime does it cannot compensate and recover from the shameful failure it had welcome to or back to this special edition on I-24 news I'm Khaled Ben-Divide and yes it is day 11 of Israel's war against Hamas the IDF continuing to pound targets in the Gaza Strip those airstrikes taking out one of the terror groups senior commanders Aiman Nofel as residents heed the warning to stream to the southern half of the Strip reports of a hospital being hit in the Gaza Strip we'll be updating those as we get them in rockets also still flying from Gaza to Israel and we do have reports of a rocket strike related injury on highway number one out of Tel Aviv just a little over an hour ago the sporadic fire also continues across the Lebanon border for his bullet infiltrators killed by an IDF drone on that frontier while three Israelis were moderately wounded by an anti-tank missile launched from Lebanon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcoming German Chancellor Olaf Schulz to Israel today by saying quote Hamas are the new Nazis while US President Joe Biden ready for his visit here tomorrow also be visiting Jordan now of course we've been bringing you the personal stories of those thousands of Israelis who were killed well the hundreds taken hostage into Gaza by Hamas now one of them 80 year old Chaim Perry was a peace activist who worked for co-existence but on October 7th he was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from his home in Kibbutz near Oz and an attack that also left that a visiting step child a British citizen Danny Darlington and also Danny's girlfriend the German citizen Caroline Ball while joining us is Leo Perry it was his half brother who was murdered along with his girlfriend and of course his father was kidnapped first tell us about your father my father as you mentioned was a 80 year old farmer basically most of his life a peace activist an artist loving family man grandfather of 13 beautiful grandchildren and as you said he was always thrive for living in co-existence with our neighbors including volunteering for a road to recovery a wonderful organization that drives sick people from Gaza to medical care in Israel and he was abducted from his house early in the morning what do you know about that morning both thoughts on the fates of it's your half brother I believe and his his pardon yeah well early in the morning when the bombing began we all thought I was here in Tel Aviv in my house and we all followed the the WhatsApp messages to see that they're okay and slowly we realized that something different now is going on this time he and his wife were hiding in the in the Mamad in the safe room inside the house and the tourists tried to break through once and he managed to back them off but then he knew they will come back so he hid his wife inside the safe room and the second time they came he simply went out and she heard them tell him don't do any trouble we're not going to hurt you and they took him away and then she stayed there for more than four hours hidden inside safe room with the door open she could hear the other people coming in and thrashing the house breaking the window and eventually she was evacuated by the army many hours later right and have you had any son of life for your father and is he elderly I mean you know his condition does he need special treatment medicine yeah he had he suffered a heart attack severe heart attack around eight years ago and he's doing fine since but he really he really depends on his medication which he used to take daily and then we try to send a list of all the medications all the elderly people from our people's needs we send it through the Red Cross so far we don't know if it's reached this nation or not but we do believe that it's a matter of life and death because most of those people who were captive including my father of course are sick and all people who need medical care and daily care right now I want to know what your message is both to the Israeli government your father and Israeli citizen but your half brother that's more I think on your mother's side through the mother's side he is a British citizen and resident he was actually just visiting here and his partner Carolyn a German citizen we had the German Chancellor here today or he's here tonight even so what is your message both for the Israeli government but also we're an international channel speaking to the world the international community my brother he lived in the last years he lived in Berlin and he came to Israel almost every year the tourist he loved to come here he had friends in the kibbutz he loved to visit our family and he was there purely by chance he was supposed to come to my house on Friday and he said that he found some way some way to come on Saturday so he wants to say just one more day unfortunately that was the worst day to stay in and I've been talking to foreign networks and told them that the way I see the Israeli government when they approached us the families of the abductees they weren't clear enough about the message and I will try to shout it out because for me the foremost important thing now is to take care of the hostage situation before entering any ground attack in Gaza which will definitely take its toll in ways we cannot imagine there will be time for that I'm sure but now the most important thing is to put all of our efforts to release the hostages they're not just hostages they're babies and women and elderly it is unhumane not to put it in the first priority in any government and it's not yet the message that we've been getting all right we certainly hope for a safe return of your father safe and sound to home and of course we join in your morning for your half-brother his companion may their memory be a blessing Leo Perry thank you for joining us on I-24 news Thank you very much as I just mentioned the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz happens to be visiting in Israel he's even meeting with relatives of German citizens kidnapped and killed in the attack earlier he did meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu here's a bit of what they both had to say at that meeting I must tell you my friend that the savagery that we witnessed perpetrated by the Hamas murderers coming out of Gaza were the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust the decapitation of people the shooting of little children with bound hands the murder of children in front of their parents the murder of parents in front of their children the hiding of babies in the attic and the murderers who came to the attic to murder the babies this situation the German government supports the stance across the party it is very important for me that we today in Israel in this difficult situation to say this clearly the German history that arises from the Holocaust the reality that arises from it makes it important to stand for the security of the state of Israel we're still with us in studio our defense correspondent Jonathan Regev joining us is Dr. Emmanuel Navoncio of ELNET International Relations Expert and there are a couple of fronts on this conflict Emmanuel of course the military one there is the international public and then there is the diplomatic one very active Olaf Scholz we have President Biden coming tomorrow I think it's pronounced Rishi Sunak the British Prime Minister also expected this week but the question is even with European citizens as we just heard killed in significant numbers or being held hostage in the attack how long how much of a leeway does Israel have and the support from the United States which is strong but even from some of these European countries have been reluctant to support Israel in its military operations in Gaza look we this of course the October 7 terrorist attack is so barbaric so cruel so horrible that all European leaders have been shocked and their support for Israel is authentic and unprecedented and you know we at ELNET have been working very hard to make sure that we get the support that this with the Israel-Europe Europe relations we just had today a delegation of French parliamentarians who sold the horrors and the massacres in the south who met families of abducted family members and so far the leadership in Europe mostly is really very supportive of Israel mostly the most important countries the question is what's going to happen and the images of victims appear on the TV screen throughout Europe right of Red Gazans exactly and again I think that the message here has to be very clear which is that the people today in Europe in public opinion like opinion makers who already accusing Israel of war crimes and making a parallel between the Palestinian and the Jewish victims as if they had been killed in the same circumstances we have to ask them where were you when your governments made about 70,000 civilian victims in Iraq fighting ISIS and the message has to be very clear Israel as a democracy is fighting and is going to fight according to the laws of war and according to international law and civilian victims are going to be unavoidable the same way that they were unavoidable in Afghanistan in Iraq and other places the message I think we have to convey we're trying our best to limit civilian casualties but there's no other way to eliminate the threat of Hamas and we can no longer continue to leave with such a neighbor President Biden do tomorrow coming to Israel in a really extraordinary gesture of solidarity really just the president go in the war zone the war European leaders of course but other than that very certainly very rare but he is also choosing to meet with Arab leaders King Abdullah of Jordan Abdul Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt Mahmoud Abbas in in Amman that's going to have a much different message coming from there the question is how much of what he hears there will impact in Amman will impact on his decisions going forward in terms of getting support for Israel to accomplish the mission that you just described I think first of all that President Biden will be remembered as one of the most courageous presidents in the history of the United States I think that the stance that he took against Russia in Ukraine and against Iran and its backers in the present war in Israel shows that he understands what is at stake it's the freedom and it's assuming the leadership of the United States and the role of the United States as the leader of the free world so this should be recognized and I think that the fact that he's coming after sending two warships to the region is obviously a message to Hezbollah and to Iran don't mess with this war because the US will get involved and will support Israel and it's a message also to Iran because it's obvious to everyone that the US will get involved in this barbaric attack by Hamas against our civilians and the threats are coming from Iran and therefore the counter-strat threats have to come also from the United States and therefore the visit to more of President Biden during war is very significant and sends a very, very useful message to our enemies We're going to jump down to the south of Israel up here, Klosch Handler kind of stare out there, basically kind of a ghost town as you reported last night but of course around that area plenty of security forces gearing up Pierre and of course those airstrikes continuing in the Gaza Strip Right, as Derot was again hard hit this afternoon probably because of the targeted killing of Aiman Nofal the central commander of the Kassam terrorist military wing of Hamas there were 12 direct impacts on buildings and cars plus additional impacts on roads two people were lightly wounded there's only maybe 2500 people still residing in the city and the mayor is urging them to leave and urging the government to allow a budget such that the residents of Derot can return only after the 14th of November and not next week as it has been budgeted up until now right now it's quiet if you ignore the drones and if you ignore the shooting from time to time that you hear artillery shells directed at the Gaza Strip right now it's quiet although there were rockets directed toward Ashkelon earlier a few minutes ago all right there Pierre Kloschenler there in Derot thank you for that well we just spoke a few minutes ago with the son of one of the hundreds of hostages in being Israeli and other nationalities being held in Gaza in fact the Israeli military so far notified in 199 families that they have loved the ones who have been taken in by Hamas and that may not be the final figure earlier today in Tel Aviv representatives of the families gathered to again tell their story to the international media especially the story of the hostage Maesh Khem who appeared in this video that was released yesterday by Hamas so a senior correspondent on Ultiman was there and he filed a complaint it has come to this 10 days after her daughter was taken hostage to Gaza the morning after Hamas put out a video of her Mia Shem's mother sounded her voice in Tel Aviv Tuesday before a world of microphones and cameras I saw my baby on television I saw she's alive I heard before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg the video of Karen Shem's daughter Mia shows those signs of life beyond that Israelis have seen it as Hamas propaganda meant to wage psychological warfare we need to know now about the medical status of all the hostages and we need to ensure that they get proper medical treatment in the meantime families of those taken hostage have organized a forum to advocate for their loved ones the hostages cause has gained traction in Israel and beyond both for humanitarian reasons and because so many of the hostages have foreign citizenship including Mia both Israeli and French but it is Israel that may yet face the toughest question of all the question of a prisoner exchange this is a terrible dilemma and it will be in the minds of any person who will have to think of how to free these over 200 people we don't have the final number yet from 6 months year old babies to 87 year old adults for now though the message is more general get the hostages home and we do have which you are find that story of this hospital the Al-Akhli hospital that was hit in the Gaza Strip the Hamas controlled Palestinian health ministry is saying that hundreds were killed there and of course have no confirmed information out of Gaza we do have though Egypt already condemning the strike on the Gaza hospital and they are going to be competing narratives here or attention the story we just saw Israel trying to get out the story these are these hostages men, women, children, infants almost being held in the Gaza Strip and of course Hamas and the supporters putting out the story of which we have to say the civilian casualties which will be in this operation Emmanuel as I said before when you fight a murderous terrorist organization that hides itself behind civilians that builds its military infrastructures in civilian areas civilian casualties are unavoidable but of course we all realize and understand that the difference of course one of the differences between us and our enemies is that they try to make as many civilian casualties as they can we try to avoid them but they are unavoidable and here I think we have as I said before I think President Biden said also in his speech last week that what makes us strength is also not only our resolve but the fact that we don't behave like our enemies and fighting because a hand in our back is not a sign of weakness but of strength but again we do not have to apologize when we try our best to limit casualties for those casualties Hamas should apologize for them and as I said before NATO forces made many hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places it's unavoidable if you want to defeat an enemy that is never going to stop by itself and never going to stop and try to kill us Alright then Jonathan of course though there will be increasing pressure perhaps on Israel and also increasing pressure even internally to start this ground operation both for the reasons I just described but also for the situation of the hostages we saw the first video of this Mayashem released yesterday I would expect we are going to see more in the psychological warfare in the gaza and the question is to what degree can the IDF get its troops ready up to par we've heard some reports of equipment shortages and still training get ready for the next stage of this of this conflict which is that ground invasion Ankler yet I can tell you practically for sure no source told me no one told me just common sense up until 3 p.m. tomorrow I don't see any ground invasion happening because President Biden is after that it's anyone's guess I can tell you that in a briefing this morning with international IDF spokesman Richard Hurt he said we are preparing for the next stage and that next stage doesn't necessarily have to be a ground invasion what does that mean I don't know we simply don't know we don't have the answers it may it may happen tomorrow evening it may happen the day after we do not know but Israel of course is in a major problem on one hand we heard the Prime Minister Defense Minister everyone saying we will crash Hamas you cannot crash Hamas from the air you need to do it with a ground invasion you send your grounds in your forces in of course you're putting them in danger what about the hostages you're putting them in danger as well major dilemmas here that's without even mentioning the north I really incredibly big dilemmas right well let's mention the north again Emmanuel because there there is a we have again fire across the Lebanon border with Hezbollah there were three Israelis moderately injured four Hezbollah operatives killed we played earlier a clip from the supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamani threatening Israel to that it's it's ready to act if Israel moves on to the next or intensifies this conflict we know those US forces are there in the right off the coast the sixth fleet the world's largest aircraft carrier another one and root but the question is is that going to be enough to deter Hezbollah or even Iran itself taking a more active role in this conflict I think Iran realizes that after what it did and of course we don't have a spoken gun and like evidence that we can produce that it was directly involved in Hamas's attack but it's obvious to everyone I think that it wasn't the training of Hamas and the funding of Hamas but you mean in the actual right and the funding the technology the training came from Iran and Iran is not going to get away with that of course right now we don't have a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran we have confrontation by proxy but Iran is simply not going to get away with what it did and I personally believe that Hamina is bluffing and if it's not Iran is going to pay a very heavy price for what it did and if it really makes the terrible mistake of triggering another front against Israel and the north via Hezbollah I think that again as you mentioned the fact that we have the aircraft carriers on our coast here it's one thing to have those carriers it's another thing to actually use them but I don't think that but the US is the the US is the strongest power in the world including military power and it has no problem taking on Iran and it's not only to send a message it's also in case of need to use this formidable military power against the US's enemies and Israel's enemies in the region all right well that certainly that power is there in that just right off the coast there Dr. Amani on the phone thank you for joining us Jonathan Reghev I'm going to ask you to stay with us and please stay with us we will be back in about a little over three minutes time with more of our continuing coverage day as we come to the coming to the close of Israel's war against Hamas stay with us Israel is at war make an investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israelbonds.com and invest now and I made for me official dresser of I-24 News good evening ladies and gentlemen 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 tell us who wants to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly who are in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year and not only in Bolivia but all over the world and we need rain for the embryos Fakita reserve we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Fakita can be protected back to this special edition on I-24 News Israel at war at war with Hamas now we mentioned early in the program Sholz is here in Israel earlier he did hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening in Tel Aviv he met with several families here who are German citizens and either have missing family members in the wake of the Hamas attack or have even indication that they've been taken hostage in Tegazzo or were killed in the attack is there a meeting like between all of Sholz and some of these families well Kalev that meeting itself has been close to press but we've been able to speak to some of the families that were in there they were quite moved when they came out there they've been speaking for I would say about 45 minutes they were interrupted by two rocket sirens here in Tel Aviv however that is the current situation here also when Sholz earlier met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he also both with the entire team had to run to shelter here because of rocket sirens same thing happened here we're talking about the families of four or five hostages that were taken into Gaza that have German citizenship and people here really came together also in front of the German embassy here with signs with posters calling upon Olaf Sholz the German Chancellor to use this position in possible negotiations and a possible hostage exchange because they're saying that they as German citizens might even have a bigger chance to make it out of the Gaza Strip alive if Olaf Sholz weighs in uses Germany's negotiation power possibly even enter negotiations with Hamas they haven't been talking as far as we know about any political plan what the goal of this meeting here was to really show that the Israeli families here that have German citizenship really really rely on Germany here they have been even saying that this is Germany's responsibility arising from the Holocaust to now care and really make a statement here and show that this ironclad commitment that Germany and German politicians on and on keep emphasizing Germany's self understanding is connected to really ensuring Israel's safety to now actually show that they can have an impact making an effort in releasing these people now Caliph there is no number on how many German citizens have been adopted to the Gaza Strip but what we've been hearing here is that we're talking at least about 14 or 15 hostages now there are families who lost only one or two members of their families into the Gaza Strip as of now but we've also been speaking to one man who had six of his family members abducted into the Gaza Strip he was here also holding up the pictures showing them to the Chancellor to Olaf Scholz when he was with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he said that he's making efforts that efforts are being made he's tomorrow continuing his travels to Egypt to meet there with the Egyptian president Assisi to really try and possibly enter some sort of conversation about the possible hostage exchange what he also emphasized was during this press conference with Netanyahu that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is of great concern for Germany now he when he met with the families of the hostages could really say that he seemed to have taken a lot of time to really hear the individual stories what is now going on behind me is a press conference those families have entered the conversation with Olaf Scholz are now holding a press briefing there's also a lot of German journalists who came here today they're telling their story and really you have to say that many of them are making large efforts to especially reach the German press reach the German media to raise awareness also within the German public because they really rely on Olaf Scholz coming here making really also statement with his visit it's only a couple of days ago the German Foreign Minister was here we had the chance to talk to one family the family of Shani Luke was only in the beginning of the 20s was abducted during the music festival that she attended in the south let's take a listen to what they told us all unconfirmed information that we have is that she seriously had injured and over the body also and she's maybe taken care in a hospital in Gaza we need to approve this we need to search for her urgently and we need to find her and take care of her I believe that the same way the world is asking for a humanitarian some kind of humanitarian access to the Palestinians Scholz can ask in return to have an immediate humanitarian access of the Red Cross to the hostages especially and first and foremost the ones injured and wounded it is the Red Cross main goal that is what they do they go to visit hostages all over the world and supply medical care we expect them to do so urgently since Shani my niece is a German citizen I would ask and plea from Chancellor Scholz to do everything in his power and his influence to make sure that Shani and the other hostages get medical help and you know Pierre I just should know we earlier spoke with a young man whose half brother Danny Darlington was killed and with him his girlfriend a German citizen Carolyn Boll who was just visiting in Israel I mean she just happened to be visiting here with her partner happened to be in that keyboards killed on October 7th there Pierre Steckobach here in Tel Aviv thank you for that now anyone who has seen the pictures of the hostages or the people taken into Gaza that Shani look if you've seen that pretty horrific picture for example or even that Hamas video the kidnaped Jim has to be concerned about the medical condition and treatment of the hostages in Gaza we heard a young man talking about his father's elderly father needing medicine badly Professor Hagai Levine is an expert in public health now we spoke with him frequently during the COVID crisis but he has a new role in this crisis as head of the medical team for the hostages and missing families for him Hagai thank you for joining us sorry it's under these circumstances again but tell us about what your your particular role your particular team is involved with must tell you Khaled it's unimaginable tragedies and think about the hostages innocent civilians taken from home or from party including 9 months old baby 85 years old woman with dementia and Parkinson 12 years old child with autism so we had the medical team the family's phone try to give out in ensuring that all the hostages return home safely and to keep their health what we did we met with the families we met with the representative of the red cross and I'm the liaison person for the red cross and in contact with them constantly we collected the information from the families about the previous medical illnesses of them and if they had any information about the injuries and we compile the scientific medical report which we submitted to the red cross and all around the world for the world you know we can see behind me each one with a tragedy according to basic morality according you know what is here is crime against humanity regardless of anything else we need to ensure that all of them get medical treatment and we need to ensure that the families get information about their beloved it's really such a tragedy and so difficult for the families and who could imagine what is going on with the hostages special drugs that do not are not available in Gaza let me ask you about that because I was just we spoke into a couple of cases I spoke to family members who their loved ones are believed to be held hostage and they talked about already providing medicine prescriptions to the red cross the specific ones in the hopes that they would get to the hostages is there a sort of procedure for that the red cross is saying that's not something that you know they have experience in that specific question you know like but we are ready we are ready we collected the data on the drugs and yes we can bring the red cross the drugs of course the current situation is very difficult so the first thing to do you know and now Hamas published this movie with with Mia and I met with Mia family today here in Tel Aviv so what is Hamas must do and we call all health professionals around the world the World Health Organization of the Red Cross and everyone that got a leverage on the Hamas specifically the leaders of the countries and specifically Turkey Saudi Arabia and Qatar to put a pressure on the Hamas to allow the very least there to know what is the medical status be examined by independent doctor and to get information for the families that's very basic I must tell you have many Muslim friends and actually the hostages are Muslim and Christian and people for many nationalities not only Israelis Muslim friends said this is Haram according to the Sharia is something that is not done in the Islamic religion law because torturing hostages and if you deny them from proper medical treatment you torture them this is something that is not done so I call our viewers please if you know someone who knows someone please deliver this message regardless of anything else release the hostages now and for the very least tell us the Hamas tell us what is going on with them and make sure that they get proper medical treatment Alright Professor HaGai Levine thank you for joining us on i24 news and good luck thank you just to say they think it's your sister or brother or grandmother or grandfather or son or daughter that's real people that are in misery suffering in life certain conditions now please help us get them back thank you Alright HaGai thank you for joining us again on i24 news Jonathan I want to go where there are some reports coming out in the Hebrew media again what we know is there was an explosion of some kind or at least it's being reported out of Gaza at the Al-Akhli hospital the Hamas controlled health ministry is saying there are hundreds of casualties what are the reports we're hearing from at least from the out of the Israeli media this evening Hamas health ministry let's remember the Gaza health ministry that's Hamas and they're very good at spreading propaganda so we have to be careful with everything they're saying the only fact that we know is that there was an explosion in the hospital in Gaza and people have been killed at the beginning they said 500, 300, 200 I do not know as it seems and again nothing is verified everything I'm saying now is unofficial but out of reports and rumors Israel is probably saying we did not act in that area therefore this is not an Israeli act there are also reports that al-Jazeera said that Israel told people to leave the hospital minutes before Israel fired for that Israel is saying loud and clear this did not happen we never told anyone to leave this hospital as far as we're hearing Israel did not act in that area there are also video surfacing which I cannot verify at the minute of a failed rocket launch by Hamas which fell on the hospital I've seen arguments on social media about whether this is a new video or old video absolutely we don't have any confirmation will that change the narrative on any side the answer is absolutely not if you support the Palestinian narrative you will claim that this happened because of Israel regardless of the question if this happened because of Israel or because of a failed launch by Hamas if you support the Israeli narrative then you will say Hamas bombed their own hospitals and as we probably know the basement for that hospital we just heard the guest here a few minutes ago saying that a normal hospital the basement should serve as a parking lot in Gaza they serve as bunkers for rockets people believe their narrative in any action will probably not move them from their narrative what we do know is that there was an explosion in the hospital in Gaza and people were killed Israel probably not behind it all right I'll just point out that we've had previous instances of for example of civilians being killed a very famous well-known one I should say members of one family being killed on a beach front in Gaza from the Palestinians claimed it was artillery firing there was a months long investigation of it the army then saying that wasn't the case and that could have been misguided Hamas rocket so this is going to be an argument that's going to go back and forth there even though of course as we said here fighting in these particular circumstances there are going to be civilian casualties because Hamas uses the civilian population of the Gaza Strip basically as a shield and often will fire rockets from air sensitive areas like schools or hospitals and in their weakest places in hospitals, in schools in welfare places this is exactly where they're hiding their missiles understanding very well that if Israel comes in and attacks those places because these are where missiles and rockets are stored then there will be hundreds and hundreds of civilian casualties this probably is not the case this time as it seems Israel is not behind this attack but we have to wait for more verified information all right okay well this is one of the thing but this is going to put again this is going to come up whether right or wrong certainly in the discussions that are going to be happening with President Biden who's still here tomorrow and Benjamin Netanyahu and it's going to have to be added in the equation and that the IDF makes as it looks at what its potential timetable is going to be to carry out its operation yes we've been speaking here in the studio that the international community at least the leaders of the international community are still supporting Israel but that clock is already ticking and we know that if in the first few days Israel was still getting sympathy because of the terrible atrocities and terrible images that came from the Israeli side as soon as bombing begins in Gaza and eventually the numbers of dead people on the other side will rise and civilians will be killed on the other side then criticism will come upon Israel regardless of the question who's behind this the criticism will most probably lay on one side even if Hamas is the one that fired the rocket I don't want to go back to our Pierre Klush Handler down in Stairo because Pierre you've more than any of us here at the station I think you've spent the most time down there in the south you've been looking around at the military buildup that's been going on in that area there's going to be increasing pressure some of the snooze we're hearing out of the Gaza Strip this evening on Israel on its air operation I mean what is your impression of how ready or not is the IDF to move to the next phase of their operation of their offensive against Hamas it's difficult to know I don't think that we've seen the scale of deployment of ground forces on staging grounds around Gaza to such an extent that the ground operation is imminent Benjamin Netanyahu spoke earlier about a few days maybe a week we know that many soldiers are still training we know that soldiers still do not have all the equipment needed to enter the Gaza Strip such as protective vests we've seen a deployment mostly of armored vehicles in certain localities and fields near the Gaza Strip we haven't seen infantry forces for instance those who will go and accompany the armored vehicle so I don't think that it's imminent in terms of hours I think it could be imminent in terms of days now what's happened in the El Ahli hospital two hours ago has already some sort of influence here there hasn't been any rocket alert on Zderot and earlier on they were we do not hear explosions emanating from the Gaza Strip that would suggest that the Israeli Air Force is bombing targets in Gaza Strip right now we only rely on the Palestinian Ministry of Health which is basically a Hamas ministry and they mentioned 500 dead in that hospital that would be a massacre but the army is checking and right now two hours have passed the army is still checking they're checking thoroughly which was not a near strike remember a couple of hours ago Israel was in the midst of a large-scale rocket alert in retaliation to the killing of one of the top five Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip Aiman Nofal who was the commander of the Isadin Al-Qasam terrorist brigades in the central sector of the Gaza Strip that provoked a lot of retaliation including in Zderot where there are there were 12 impacts according to the municipality, 12 direct impacts on residential buildings two residents because there's still 2500 residents in the city two residents were lightly wounded and the mayor has urged the residents to leave and has urged the government to budgetize the evacuation of all the residents of Zderot not just for one week as it is right now but until the 14th of November so right now there is a lull it seems for how long we don't know but it seems that what happened at the Al-Ahli hospital if it was a bombing or a rocket that was misfired by the people nearby the hospital or on hospital ground we don't know yet the army, the Israeli army is still checking at this moment and the lull right now is continuing All right, bear close hand there in Zderot, thank you for that we're going to look at another aspect of this conflict the rabbinical leadership of Israel's ultra-orthodox religious sector Haridim firmly opposed the community's young people doing military service making its relations with the IDF and its soldiers sometimes a frequently tense one but as Uri Shapira and Emily Francis report Kikar Hashabat which is one of the leading Haridi media outlets has launched an initiative to get its readers to assist the IDF soldiers and residents of the south let's take a look at that this room close to the entrance to Jerusalem a new headquarters has been built as opposed to other initiatives of civilian volunteers this one is fully operated by ultra-orthodox Jews also known as Haridim once the war started suddenly came, I felt I can't do anything I wanted to feel like I'm a part of it I can't stay at home so we decided to go down and bring another point of view went with my camera crew I wanted to follow the civil help of what's happening people would start donating blood people wanted to open operations of helping other people and we saw that a lot of the systems here are just falling apart everyone was in shock nothing really worked and we were starting to think how can we help one of the leaders in this unit is journalist Yeshai Cohen a well-known figure in the Haridi world he recruited his team Hashabbat one of the leading media outlets in the ultra-orthodox community we recognize from the field that something happened to the Haridi sector something that never happened before mothers and Yeshiva students of the ultra-orthodox world want to volunteer and help the soldiers and I'm not talking about 25,000 ultra-orthodox who asked to join the army for example, I saw ultra-orthodox students bringing food to the control center they talked with some of the soldiers including people from the anti-judicial reform protest they argued with them but they also worked together at that moment I said to myself this dispute between us will continue we won't agree with each other the day after the war but this argument will look different according to an official in Kikar Hashabbat control unit one of the wings here is dedicated to ultra-orthodox people who want to join the fighting forces everybody knows that this scenario that ultra-orthodox men may have to protect the country is possible because they could be the ones left in Haridi cities or even in mixed cities so we need to train them we have three degrees of training for non-armed men for armed men who never used a weapon and for those who want to start learning to carry a weapon and to protect their home their community and their cities other missions consist of donations of food and supplies deliveries and helping people on the ground we have now over 4,000 volunteers that are active under it we could see a pie chart of all the types of requests that we're getting and we're dealing with we have logistical requests we have visiting sick people donating blood it's all divided over here and I'll just go down over here you could see a map all over Israel we are the volunteers located in what cities and where the requests are according to professor Nahumi Yaffe of Tel Aviv University who is researching the ultra-orthodox community this may be a turning point in the complicated relations between secular and ultra-orthodox Jews a vast majority of ultra-orthodox doesn't serve in the IDF the past is in the past there is new horizons for the Charedi community as part of the Israeli Civic Society and in Israel there is going to be some substantial changes and we will see a different attitude of Charedi who want to be part of whatever it means to be citizens so yes to be part of the labor market yes for having a better schooling system and eventually yes for being part of the army this is not the only volunteer project in the Charedi society and we could definitely see a transition in what once was considered a closed, remote community of Israel we are coming to the end of this particular broadcast of my broadcast there is a couple of updates from the official telling Reuters that Mahmoud Abbas will now not take part in that summit with President Biden in Amman in Jordan tomorrow following this report of this hospital explosion in this hospital in the Gaza Strip we don't have confirmation on that but this is definitely an announcement the Israel's national security headquarters has told all the highest travel warning possible for Israelis in Turkey basically it's called it's all Israeli staying in Turkey must leave as soon as possible and also a travel warning to Morocco also telling Israelis to go there to take increased precautions that ends this particular broadcast stay with us though Ali Alkenberg will be following me with continued coverage of Israel's war against Hamas as day 11 draws to a close 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 help us we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour clean renewable energy per year we have to reserve we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job and then if we have the right ingredients and we do the job the vaquita can be protected to the special broadcast here on night 24 news we continue our rolling coverage day 11 of Israel's war against Hamas Israel continues to ready it's a ground operation that goes a strip while airstrikes against terror infrastructure persist Hamas controlled health ministry claiming this evening a strike it's a hospital the IDF saying preliminary investigations suggest it is a failed Hamas rocket launch hundreds reportedly killed in the west bank rage protests are currently underway meanwhile the diplomatic train continues German Chancellor today who dubbed Hamas as the new Nazis the national security council this hour warning all Israelis to leave Turkey immediately the highest level of alert there as Israelis and Jews become targets worldwide in a few hours US President Joe Biden will be arriving here on a whirlwind a whirlwind tour sending message to both American enemies Iran and potential regional allies Saudi Arabia of what American friendship looks like Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is announcing this evening he will not participate in tomorrow's regional summit of Arab leaders with Biden and as the war is nearing its next phase maybe it's important to remind us all what is it all about it's not a war over territory or politics it's a war over the human soul a war against those who are trying to plant seeds of hate on all sides a war against those who want to diminish faith in humanity we will begin a broadcast by heading up north checking the polls there Correspondent Hamas El-Houth with the I-24 news team there Hamda there's poking there's provocation question being is Hezbollah pushing for more Well Ali good evening sources are saying that Hezbollah is preparing militarily moving arms and really going to get involved in this conflict it's not a matter of when earlier today it was reported that the White House has been discussing the possibility of using military force if Hezbollah joins the war now the Israeli military said they are not interested in a second war happening on the northern border but they said if Hezbollah does decide to escalate the situation that has already been ongoing they will meet them with both deadly and brute force now this area here has been completely evacuated the Israeli military yesterday urging people to evacuate rather issuing an order for the evacuations of 28 different communities we're talking about 10,000 people who are now staying in state funded guest houses so the tit for tat exchanges continue on the border today Hezbollah saying that 5 members from the armed group were killed in that exchange of fire the Israeli military retaliating striking Hezbollah posts inside and now this evening it seems to be all quiet on the northern front yes quiet doesn't mean calm whatsoever these days all fronts on the highest alert possible Hamda Salhout 24 years correspondent thank you very much for this Hamda and joining us now in studio defense and government commentator Mr. Amir Oran, Mr. Oran thank you so very much for joining us on this broadcast well we do want to begin on the northern front the plastic sources here in the Middle East and in the U.S. are confirming that they're noticing Hezbollah's preparation of its military infrastructure let it be rocket launchers etc but the final nod will or will not arrive from Tehran the pattern that we have gotten used to in Hezbollah's campaigns against Israel was surprised on October the 7th of all dates in the year 2000 they launched an attack on a patrol in Jebel Rus or Mount Dov in Israeli lingo and killed and abducted the bodies of three soldiers then in July of 2006 out of the blue again they killed and abducted the bodies of two soldiers escalation leading to a full war is not in their nature because they know that Israel is already ready for them the element of surprise is inherent in their war tactic or war strategy right also it is not in their nature to do anything altruistically for someone else such as Hamas Hamas is Sunni right yes they are beholden to the Iranians and the Iranians don't want them to start anything now for fear that Netanyahu will step up the ladder the lowest step being Hamas the medium step Hezbollah and then leapfrog to attacking the Iranian infrastructure rather than do that for the Iranians the best option is to have Israeli reservists 150,000 of them being on call for weeks on end the Israeli economy grinding to a halt universities yet to be opened and all of that war of attrition they don't want a war of movement this is rational now if our rationale is wrong we will see an escalation or miscalculation on of that but as of now the Hezbollah Iranians all of these guys want to see is Israel get bogged down in Gaza with three divisions or so so that it's wearing itself down to an extent not only that but not having enough forces for an attack up north they want to see Israel being in the Gaza Strip with its might and the rest infantry before they ratchet up their campaign into war if at all and yet when it comes to the war of wards and wards do mean something still nowadays the supreme leader the Iranian supreme leader is warning that he might get impatient this is how he's phrasing let's take a listen if these crimes continue the Muslims will become impatient the resistance forces will become impatient and no one will be able to stop them they should know this don't expect others to not let such groups do such and such things no one can stop them when they get impatient this is a reality that exists and Amir we do hear many pundits or commentators suggesting that Israel should be proactive on the northern front not to wait to be attacked but to pursue a pre-emptive attack and we and we keep on saying the north is a different ball game those commentators have all one thing in common they have no authority no responsibility and if Israel gets in trouble they will have a new commentary to offer but they will not pay the price and neither will those soldiers who will lose their lives or perhaps the entire country if you run a taxi by ballistic missiles and all of that so it's very easy to pontificate from one's armchair the wrong advice to offer humbleness perhaps is a good advice to everyone at this point not only that a war of choice is always strong only if you feel that you must do it that you have no other choice this is the only option then you go to war but if you have several options to choose one from war is the wrong one don't well the war that was forced and there was no choice in this respect is unfolding down south so let's head there now I-24 news correspondent Pierre Colchandler standing by there Pierre it was an eventful day yet another one targeted the assassination of Hamas leaders continue still slow pace to an extent but it's clear that this is Israel's agenda dead men walking so to speak when it comes to Hamas leader and meanwhile this development in a Gaza hospital Hamas controlled health ministry reporting strike there, the IDF suggesting that it's preliminary investigation finding that it was Hamas' own failed rocket that hit the hospital what can you tell us well I think that first of all the Israeli army is checking the information emanating from as you mentioned the Hamas controlled ministry of health in Gaza the ministry of health speaks of 500 dead that also need to be checked if that is the case obviously it's a massacre whether it is from a misfire rocket on an ammunition depot that could be next to or underneath the El Ali hospital or if it is an Israeli air strike right now the army two hours or even more after the incident is still checking thoroughly because it's credibility is at stake obviously and it doesn't want to react and speak about pointing fingers at this moment without having the evidence as you know the government of Egypt has already pointed the finger saying that this is an Israeli air strike without really verifying what's going on so it takes time right now there's been a new flurry of rockets in the direction of the center of the country here there is a lull in the rocket strikes on Zderot for instance they were quite a lot between 4 and 7 in the evening 12 direct impact on residential buildings two people lightly wounded most of the population 85% something like 28,000 people have been evacuated but there remain about 2,500 people that are still in the city of Zderot the mayor Alon Davidi is urging the remaining citizens to leave the place and at the same time urges the Israeli government to budgetize this evacuation until the 14th of November and not for only a week as it's been budgetized until now again that's what I consider this moment tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of Israelis from south and north are displaced in their own country refugees to an extent that we will continue to address the coming days and the coming weeks the coming months thank you very much for this still with us here in studio this is in parallel to what happens in Gaza the term displaced the term displaced is relevant to both sides of the divide perhaps a brief comment on this developing issue with the hospital yes it's really unclear why it takes so much time for the IDF to find out and then announce whether or not there was any force activity in that area if there was another inquiry should focus on whether anything went wrong and also the setting question on whether it matters even because it's not beyond Hamas to announce that Israel has done it even if it was a failed launch but we have seen in previous wars and campaigns that sometimes civilians try to hide below hospitals and the like in the false belief that they are safe there and unfortunately even without of course any intention anyone's side it happens but if it did happen the way it is now being reported this may change the entire course of the campaign and as we speak reports of rioting outside of the Israeli embassy in Amman and Jordan where US President Joe Biden is expected and in the west bank exactly unnecessary we're seeing now live pictures from Ramallah of these riots currently unfolding the unneeded match to ignite an even greater fire alright we knew it was coming we knew it's part of the vile game plan Hamas releasing the first clip showing an Israeli hostage being held by the terror group and the Gaza Strip as it said some 200 150 captives are held by them not even counting dozens others that might be held by Palestinian Islamic jihad or Gaza's civilians the short video showing 21 year old Mia Shem kidnapped by Hamas there is the music festival where over 260 he's seeking youngsters or massacred on October 7th the video obviously manipulated and orchestrated to benefit Hamas's interest according to the New York Times by the way according to their metadata analysis it was filmed about a week ago even Mia's mother who hold a French citizenship alongside this Israeli one is begging help me bring back my baby yesterday I saw my baby on television I saw she's alive and I saw that she was I had I heard before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg so I can see she was shot in her shoulder I see she had an operation she looks very terrified she looks like she's in big pain I can see that she's saying what they tell her to say but I can see that she's stable I can see she needs medical care I didn't know she's dead or alive until yesterday all I knew is that she may might be kidnapped she only went to a party to have some fun and now she's in Gaza and she's not the only one there are many children who went to this party there are many babies and children and old people and the Holocaust survivors that were kidnapped that their houses were burned and we should all gather it's still of course Maya was filmed last week because she says I came here Saturday morning not last Saturday so obviously it was during her first week of captivity that's an important note here but again every single clue that we will not get is orchestrated according to a well-planned game planner here by Hamas and we want now to take a listen to yet another dramatic recording from the Nova Music Festival the same one where Mia Hashem was at to the minutes in which the young couple, Edan Zaharyah and Afiqimchi together with their friend, Livnat, tried to call for help from the police or emergency services with non-stop gunfire in the background, Livnat was injured but survived Edan and Afiq still is a dismissive We want to turn now live to Ilan Zaharyah, the uncle of missing Edan Ilan, I'm sure that no matter how many times you've heard this recording it is chilling every time I knew how are you holding up Thank you for your sympathy it's very very difficult very difficult and I'm here you know on behalf of my brother I'm speaking from his throat he is unable to talk so I'm taking the front in this case it's devastated because of the situation and we are hearing this recording every day several times every day and it's it's very very difficult Edan went to party with our friends on 6th of October and in the 7th of October in the morning of the 7th of October they were on their way home back from the party they didn't really wanted to stay they exhausted the party and 25 minutes after they left the party around 25 minutes they encountered the Hamas terrorist these savages and they chatted the car the front went to the car Edan was wounded and so did Orfec and their friend if not in the back seat she managed to somehow not get hit or anything because she was in the back and she took the phone she tried to call for help she called the emergency services trying to get anyone who could help her she tried to work with the paramedic on the line to somehow point the ambulance directed to them using GPS through the phone and she couldn't try but she couldn't she moved to a different phone trying to use a different phone and all of a sudden they saw that terrorists are getting closer and closer and she went down quiet she started whispering her name is Libby by the way and both Orfec and Libby started whispering asking for help police or someone who can come and help and the police paramedic tried to guide her be quiet crawl under the car find a bush get some cover somehow and this is what Libby did and Eden is still lying there in the car wounded perhaps bleeding but still wounded Orfec also together with Libby went out and they hid in the bush for a while for around 2 hours they lost sight of the car and 2 hours afterwards this is an amazing part 2 hours afterwards they moved to another bush and then another 2 hours they were hiding there in the bushes and then suffering from pain Orfec decided to somehow call for help because he heard the emergency people trying to help them and he went out of the bush and he got shot again by the same terrorists somehow lurking in the area and this same fire gunfire also hit Libby which was there also in the bush but she kept quiet she lost fingers because of that she was hit in the shoulder but she kept quiet she was sitting there it's amazing hearing all those stories it's striking how a decision in a split second was literally making the difference between life to death here they chose to leave early they were already underway out so there was no right or wrong here everything was so chaotic that every decision was made to a different hellish situation and you know Ilana we were speaking with another aching family member yesterday whose sister is still defined missing similarly to your Eden and I keep on wondering in this hell of a choice between horrible and more horrible certainty or uncertainty at this point in time what is preferable? who you're asking you're asking me I don't want to hear the knock on the door Eden is an extremely smart full of life woman that is taken after celebrating with our friends, celebrating life celebrating freedom, celebrating and it's amazing to see what level these people can go down to kidnapping women, children beheadings I don't know where all of this is coming from all of this grew up these people I know I'm a father for three boys two boys and a girl myself I'm teaching my children to excel in school to become better at everything that they do, to be contributors to the community, to the world to be Nobel Prizes what who grows his child to become such a terrible horrific killer where is this coming from? honestly I don't know there is a line in the sand here there is societies there are nations, democratic free nations and there is this ISIS Hamas we cannot live together it will not stay like that we will make sure that it will not stay like that we will come out of this misery of these ashes and we will strike back just like we did in the past we will do it again and we will rise up we are not going to give up this is the only country we have we are not going anywhere and what I'm asking from the Red Cross is to go to the kidnapped people they're alive, they're dead and bring us the status the situation this is by law international law they have to give it they have to do it Ilan what can I tell you as we've said at the beginning of the broadcast it is a war against those who are trying to diminish faith in humanity and the only response to that will be life and all throughout our conversation we're seeing pictures of your niece of Eden smiling loving surrounded by dogs she loves dogs and hopefully she will be back with you sooner rather than later with this big smile on her face we're sending a big hug from here to you, to your brother to the rest of the aching family and yes life life will beat hatred and death thank you very much for speaking with us Ilan alright and as war is everywhere and everywhere is war at this point in time everything is being weaponized first and foremost our extra limp we will, our phones James Spiro journalist and editor at SeaTac is joining us James thank you very much for joining us I would first like to talk about the hundreds thousands of phones that belong to those who were slaughtered or kidnapped by Hamas and Hamas is now using those phones surprise, maliciously obviously what are the dangers here what can they do with them with those phones Hamas has come into possession of hundreds if not thousands of mobile phones traditionally mobile phones had password protections in recent years password protection facial recognitions or fingerprints now that's all well and good if your phone gets stolen or lost or displaced but when the victim is kidnapped by these terrorists and I will call them terrorists I know that plenty of media don't call Hamas terrorists but I'm going to be calling them there's no other way yeah quite right when they take these victims and their mobile phones they can so easily access them and the repercussions of this are extraordinary so on a personal level they can quite simply log into one of their victims bank accounts online banking they have two factor authentication they can transfer money to themselves or anyone else overseas they can play around with their utilities on a broader level they can access WhatsApp groups, social media groups or emails or Slack messages from if they work in tech these can be high tech companies that they can access sensitive information they can access IDF groups, reservist groups they can access army information they can really get their eyes and their ears on knowledge that really shouldn't be anywhere near them the third thing they can do which I think is the most nefarious is they can call and taunt the families of these victims now we know that Hamas when they went in and committed their atrocious crimes we know that they filmed them and uploaded them onto social media platforms for their families to see we are hearing reports that these family members are still receiving calls they don't even know if their loved ones are alive or dead but they're still receiving calls and I want to be as clear as I can on this Hamas is committing physical torture on its victims and technological torture on the families of its victims these are digital war crimes 100% technological torture this is the right way to put it and meanwhile cyber attacks and all other online malware maneuvers are as on as it gets how can we secure ourselves what's up those smart security cameras a tome even it is all exposed yeah so on one front we shouldn't be doing anything different from what we're doing what we should already have been doing so that is using very strong passwords to factor authentication when you can don't click on any nefarious links or any foreign links that you don't maybe don't recognize those are all quite traditional ways to protect yourselves against cyber attacks sadly the situation here is because the sensitivity of the information that the victims are involved in whether that's company messages like I said or emails or family group chats the admins of these groups are in the absolutely terrible position where the safest thing they can do is remove the phone numbers to be dead or kidnapped or missing people from their family what's up groups or their company slacks or any way that they can access information the safest thing they can do is remove them and I can think of no harder thing for a parent to do while their child is missing or dead and to remove them from a family group chat in the nature of security it's just the level of cruelty to this really knows no bounds and I think I share the sentiment with the rest of the country and the world by absolutely sharing discuss what these people are capable of James Spiro everything is being utilized in this vile vile attack on Israel and Israelis Israeli civilians and the world by the way because it's 40 nationals more than 200 people have been kidnapped and it's from 40 different countries around the world this is a global global outrage absolutely light versus darkness good versus evil the line could not be any clear thank you very much James Spiro editor journalist at C-Tech thank you very much for this we want to cross now to IDF spokesperson we know that initial investigation of the IDF suggests that this attack the strike rather that hit the hospital in Gaza Hamas controlled health ministry reporting hundreds might have been killed there the IDF investigation is suggesting it was Hamas' own failed rocket launch that triggered this attack this hit rather this explosion what can you tell us good evening first of all Hamas is not at all any reliable source of information we talk about the terrorist group lying all the time trying to influence the public opinion all the time so we have to be more than careful when Hamas people speak about what's going on that number one number two the Israeli army the IDF and the Israeli Air Force are not targeting anyway the Gaza hospital it's not a target in any sense in any way number three we are not taking very seriously very accurately the possibility of what we call failed launching of missile the last conflict one third of the missiles launched by the terrorist group fall within the Gaza Strip killing people killing also children every time actually they were accusing the Israeli army to be responsible for the killing so this time I would say in the middle of this war situation where Hamas is actually trying to make people make the community the world community make them forget the massacre that they committed 10 days ago I would say and I would convey a clear message to all the information on the Israeli group in the world let's be very careful before you give any information Hamas is not available for now and I also want to say that they are actually playing with their own Palestinian lines during all these days of conflict so more than that when we say many times that we ask people to evacuate from the north part of to the south we actually try to block on the block many people in order to make them remain a human a human shield so all together we are trying now to provide a material and when we have everything we will release it to the world press Colonel Olivier Raffervert thank you very much for joining us Amir Oran is still with us here in a studio Colonel Raffervert mentioned the pleas of the IDF for the residents of the northern part of the ship to move south something that Egypt immediately voiced an uproar against and today it is getting clear not Egypt not Jordan are willing to accept even one Palestinian from the Gaza Strip Yes we have known it for 13 years even when Egypt had military rule over Gaza it wouldn't annex it it wouldn't give the Palestinians control it yes but not yet it doesn't want them in northern Sinai nor does Jordan which has a majority of Palestinians in the east bank now regarding the either accident or incident the Israeli military is almost totally reliable it does not lie it may not always know the facts but the information it gives out is as accurate as they can verify but be it as it may this particular action will help shorten the war security source is telling our very own Middle East correspondent that the explosion indeed at the hospital was caused by a field rocket launched by Hamas and not as a result of any Israeli airstrike of sorts but all of this is happening short hours before the American president is arriving here already clouded the visit because the Palestinian president Abbas cancelled his participation at the conference at the summit and Biden will be hard pressed to let Israel launch the ground campaign even if it takes place after he leaves Israel so there will be pressure to get some sort of compromise some sort of a deal which will satisfy Israel Israelis will not get the emotional satisfaction of taking revenge upon the perpetrators a deal with Hamas a deal to include Qatar or Turkey taking the Hamas leadership and perhaps some of the fighters over to exile the way Yasser Arafat had to leave Beirut in 1982 and you're talking on such a framework of a deal that that will next the need of a ground operation yes but it doesn't mean that Israel will cancel its military plans all together when it is all over Israel will probably take a slice of the Gaza Strip up north a slice in the south an unison rougher and perhaps broaden the so-called security perimeter which is next to the failed obstacle the wall so we were hearing some voices suggesting that the warm American embrace might turn out to be a bear hug to an extent holding Israeli back from pursuing an extensive action on the ground certainly it's unprecedented to see a U.S. Secretary of State participate in a war cabinet session and approve or disapprove military plans but this is the whole Israel got itself into so speaking of let's take a listen to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken who had to rush to shelter today yet another visit here in Israel and as Mirorin was saying participating in a nine hour long war cabinet session here in Israel let's take a listen first the president will reaffirm the United States solidarity with Israel and our ironclad commitment to its security President Biden will again make clear as he's done unequivocally since Hamas's slaughter of more than 1,800 people including at least 30 Americans that Israel has the right and indeed the duty to defend its people from Hamas and other terrorists and to prevent future attacks president will hear from Israel what it needs to defend its people as we continue to work with Congress to meet those needs second President Biden will underscore our crystal clear message to any actor state or non-state of this crisis to attack Israel don't and before we say hello to our 24 news senior U.S. correspondent Mike Wagenheim joining us from New York as we speak an official IDF spokesperson confirmation that according to analysis of the IDF it was a PIJ a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that hit the hospital in Gaza that according to Hamas is resulting in hundreds of killed we are of course keeping an eye on this developing story Mike Wagenheim no boots on the ground but feet on the ground very much so before we talk tomorrow let's try to recap today what can we say on Blinken's effort here in the region well whatever progress he might have made might have gone up in smoke with the bombing of the hospital there in Gaza it's triggered tensions it's triggered anger obviously on the streets of Amman we're seeing protests in Ramallah as well I really don't see and this is nothing official coming from the State Department with Mahmoud Abbas already backing out of the summit tomorrow in Amman I don't see how this thing goes forward the second part of his trip meeting with King Abdullah and President Sisi in Amman I think that part is going to be taken off the docket which leaves a lot now to question you know what is the purpose of coming at this point so much was tied to trying to strike a balance in terms of showing support and solidarity with Israel and also laying Arab concerns and incorporating them into a solution here to the problem now he will come to Israel and where do you go from there other than you know five hours on the ground and back to Washington again so this becomes very problematic at this point in time Tony Blinken has been shuttling all over the region he was in Jordan earlier today we just learned many of his staff that have accompanied him are still in Amman right now monitoring the situation as we see Jordanians are storming the Israeli embassy there he's now back in Israel meeting once again but obviously the developments of the last couple of hours really throw a whole lot of wrenches into the works here in terms of President Biden's upcoming visit so this perhaps bring us to a more basic question Mike what is the goal of this visit a goal that is now perhaps changing I think this was always two-fold in broader terms obviously there are many you know subsections to this trip but in terms of broader terms number one show solidarity with Israel show that Washington and the Biden admin in particular has rails back that the support is bipartisan and number two and I'm not sure that this is a distant number two try to get the ball rolling on a humanitarian solution which is what Tony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to before the announcement of Biden's visit not just something in theory but really hammer out details of what a humanitarian solution might look like here not just you know in two three weeks but right now I think that's the key for Biden don't don't leave until there's something down on paper and I think you know if you're looking for a see Biden is apparently going to meet with the war cabinet to understand exactly what Israel's military objectives are and how they're going to go about it here and I think that's a component that you know might get lost a little bit here Biden almost seems like he timed out this trip to put the brakes on an Israeli military operation to better understand what might be happening especially with a building US presence in the region here so I think that will be a critical to really understand how how things move forward from you know from the time he takes off for Washington to the coming days and weeks and Mike briefly before we let you go talk to us just a bit about what's going on on Capitol Hill and also when we're talking about the American public is the administration stands for representing the the street or the city of Israel. Yeah. I think for the most part and I think what's going on on Capitol Hill right now is is promising in the short term there really appears to be incredible bipartisan support right now for Israel 99 out of 100 senators including all 51 on the Democratic side signed a resolution in support of Israel today and condemning Hamas there's bipartisan support in terms of condemning Iran and possibly as a recently transferred to Qatar every resolution every bill you look at really seem to have pretty broad bipartisan support that's always the case though it seems at the beginning of a military operation as time drags along and more casualties are racked up that that support especially on the left tends to dwindle I think that's what Biden is most concerned about which is why the high emphasis on the humanitarian situation. Thank you very much for this Mike obviously keeping close tabs on the Biden visit here tomorrow I mean or in if the American objectives might be changing now due to the events on the ground can we identify the Israeli objectives of this visit the Israeli objectives are subject to American approval and the American objective is to contain, restrain and maintain their policy in the Middle East but one's heart goes to Joe Biden, poor Joe Biden who will tomorrow have to meet with Itamar Bangvir and Batsala Smotrich members of the war cabinet of the extended extended war cabinet perhaps he will meet only the top five six how many are they Amir or in defense and government analysts thank you very much for joining us on this broadcast the German Chancellor today is part of this diplomatic train that doesn't stop but in Europe the return of Islamist terrorism to all European nations this is the alarm sounded today by French President Emmanuel Macron but is anyone listening Joe Brown with more. Terror in the Middle East spilling over into terror into Europe and a chilling sense of avu from recent history in Brussels on Monday night two Swedish nationals were killed and one other was injured after a gunman opened fire in the Belgian capital ahead of the European soccer championship qualifying match between Belgium and Sweden the perpetrator a 45 year old Tunisian immigrant who was previously flagged by authorities as being radicalized was killed by police the following morning he said in a video posted online that he had killed people quote in the name of God the Belgian government announced where his allegiances may have been the man claimed to be inspired by the Islamic state in the same statement the Swedish nationality of the victims was mentioned as the possible motive for the attack this comes a few days after a teacher was stabbed to death in the northern French city of Arras by a former pupil who allegedly shouted Allah hu Akbar the Arabic phrase for God is great and the French government announced the attack French president has called for immediate action to stop the spread of Islamic extremism whilst members of his cabinet have drawn parallels between what is happening in Europe and the Middle East the atmosphere of jihadism or of a decision to act has been evident since last Saturday I myself spoke of it several times before the Arras attack a certain rejoicing is taking place in the medical Islam and we think like other western intelligence services that these messengers the sprays of terrorism this very clear wall to be able to commit anti-Semitic acts under the pretext of anti-Zionism make it easier for jihadis to act Islamic extremism in Europe has settled down since the ISIS inspired spike in the mid 2010s but now with the situation between Israel and Hamas the world is holding its breath hoping that the past will be more important for the future We want to turn now to senior researcher at the International Institute for counter-terrorism Dr. Michael Barak out of the research of global jihad and Palestinian terrorism rather thank you very much Dr. Barak for joining us so unfortunately Europe is way too familiar with Islamist terror but the question being that this is the same terror that Israel is now facing Al-Qaeda and ISIS for more than 10 years have calling for lone wolf attacks in the west this is not something new Al-Qaeda, ISIS are disseminating propaganda material in different languages German, Spanish, English, French etc. trying to recruit Muslims who have been radicalized who lived in the west to try to target European and also Jewish and Christian targets so this is not something new but when we have a conflict which is portrayed in the Middle East conflicts in the Middle East that are being portrayed as a religious conflict like Hamas is doing in ISIS this is accelerate more radicalization and the motivation of radicalized Muslims who live in the west to engage radical terrorist attacks the events that we saw in Brussels I'm not sure that this event is a link to Israel and Gaza conflict but we see definitely an attempt by ISIS especially by Al-Qaeda to accelerate the motivation to target the worst western and the Jewish targets in the west You know Dr. Bargobit, come on saying that even when Hamas's military and governing capabilities are eliminated here in the Gaza Strip the idea the Hamas ideology is not going anywhere can it find a place in Europe? Hamas has managed to establish strong goals also in Europe and the United States let's remember that the one that is helping also to Hamas to strengthen these strong goals is Iran and Hezbollah the international community was concerned about ISIS in the last few years but in the meantime Iran was established and cultivated these strong goals in South Africa and Europe and this is something that the international committee should engage and deal with because these centers that Iran has been established has been used by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran in order to disseminate radical ideologies in ICT institutions where I work we published a very important document about not familiar organization international organization which is called El-Tajammu which is an umbrella for Hezbollah, Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jihad communist organization and even academic people who are teaching in the west like in Australia and United States all of them are part of these axes it doesn't matter now if you are fighter or not but these axes which managed to finish this organization El-Tajammu that is active also in the academy the international committee should do something very urgent about it and to that point exactly Dr. Baraka briefly if you can before we let you go there is indeed an anomaly as you put it when it comes to modern European politics the right versus the left the right more pro-Israel the left more anti-Israel obviously more complex than that the European street even more so but in the EU till this day struggles to get a united message on Hamas's vicious attack so how does it all play in the European political landscape so again Hamas Hamas is not only a danger to Israel but also a danger to the west we see that this conflict is also been in the west of course there is again it's very complicated thing now to explain but we see a alliance between Hamas to the red which is radical lefts who justify Hamas brutal effects and something this is something that Europe and United States should wake up about this alliance and do something about it Yeah, Jews, Israelis are always first they're never the last right Dr. Michael Baraka head of research at Global Jihad in Palestine terrorism at the ICT thank you very much for joining us Exploring me And the Soroka Hospital in Barashiva is one of the main medical centers of the October 7th massacre obviously entering crisis mode but what the doctors there saw those past days never thought they would ever see orishapira with more Soroka hospital in Barashiva seems quiet now more than a week after the horrific slaughter Hamas perpetrated in southern Israel on Saturday October 7th the situation was completely different around 8.10am we were told of a mass casualties incident the meaning of that is that we had to call all the units in the hospital I texted all my staff and said this is war this message saved us because we had everyone we needed we managed to treat 670 people and what is more amazing is that in the first 18 hours we treated 600 patients here in the trauma room there are usually 6 beds and sometimes when we set 12 beds on Saturday we managed to treat 120 patients in severe condition physicians say that one of the biggest challenges they had