 has been completed with the singing of the National Anthem, present here, where the Minister of National Security, Tamar Ben-Gvir, the police commissioner, Yakov Shaptay, the mayor of Zderot, Alon Davidi, and many other police officers, all in all during the battle on Zderot, to cleanse this city of 30,000 inhabitants from tens and tens of terrorists, which lasted about three days. Eight police officers were killed in action, ten were wounded, and all in all, in the whole defense of the country, 47 police officers have died killed in action. And that was also a way to contribute to those acts of bravery of those police officers who just improvised the defense of the city. Now, it's also a message to the residents of the state of Israel to exude a sense of law and order and private and public security to the citizens of this harm-heat city. Yes, Pierre, it's been a tough day today in Zderot, not that other days were easy, but there were sirens there just a few minutes ago. How was that day? Yes, there's been a few barrages of rockets on the city just an hour ago, exactly when the inauguration ceremony started, there was an alert. But the real rocket barrage that inflicted casualties was at around noon. A young woman is between life and death. One person was severely injured. Another one was moderately injured. And that happens in a city which has been really harm-heat, not just during this war, but also in previous rounds of confrontation between Hamas and Israel. Now, in this onslaught of Hamas terrorists and Palestinian Islamic terrorist, citizens died. And the mayor of the city of Zderot has urged the state of Israel today to allocate something like 30 million dollars in order to allow the evacuation of the whole city, a city of 30,000 inhabitants. But now, right now, there's probably 60 or 50 percent of the residents who remain. The others have left on their own, without any assistance. But there are many people here who do not have the wherewithal to leave their place. They are handicapped, elderly, that were evacuated. But there are many families who are still here in this nightmare. So the mayor of Zderot, Alon Davidi, is urging the government to do something to allow the complete evacuation of the city, at least for the next 10 days of fighting. Right. Pierre, thank you very much. In the town of Sterot, in southern Israel, just a few kilometers from Gaza. Thank you very much. I've been for years, I'm an Ultraman here in the studio. Lots of events today. From Syria in the north to the south. Let's recap. Right. We'll start with the military fronts themselves. Of course, the heart of the action, if you will, in the middle of a war. I think we're settling into a kind of grim routine, Yaakov. Again, with rocket sirens in the south, we just heard Pierre in Sterot. Also, of course, in the north as well, in the town of Matula, just at the very, very tip of the Galilee Peninsula, if you will, just a few moments ago and then a few hours ago as well, sirens going off in the Galilee Panhandle area. The Israeli military, we presume it was the Israeli military, has tacked the airports in Damascus and Aleppo across the border in Syria, rendering them unusable. We have seen, of course, over the past 10 years or so, attacks on those airports oftentimes attributed to Israel as part of an Israeli effort to stop weapons, especially advanced weaponry from getting to Hezbollah. So, of course, there is that activity in Syria as well. On the diplomatic front, of course, the headline of the day was the visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel, gave another emotional and evocative speech standing there at the podiums with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I thought notably, said he wasn't coming here only as Secretary of State, but as a Jew. I think it's rare to hear a U.S. politician or an official be that upfront about their Jewish identity. It's usually talked about in a more roundabout way, including by Blinken, but not today, and not here in Israel today. He also met with the families of those American citizens being held hostage in Gaza as well. Also, he knew more information confirmed by the military of how much the military knew the night before the attack, and that they were actually the chief of the general staff. The head of the military was woken up in the middle of the night for consultations. They decided to hold another consultation at 8 in the morning, of course, by then. That was too late. And then it was too late. Way too late. All right. You've mentioned Secretary Blinken here on a visit meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel's President Herzog, and I think we'll see him live visiting Israeli citizens momentarily. Let's take a listen first. Hamas has shown itself to be an enemy of civilization. The massacring of young people in an outdoor music festival. The butchering of entire families. The murder of parents in front of their children and the murder of children in front of their parents. The burning of people alive. The beheadings, the kidnappings of a young boy, not only kidnapped, molested, hurt, attacked, and the sickening display of celebrating these horrors, the celebration and glorification of evil. The message that I bring to Israel is this. You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as America exists, you will never, ever have to. We will always be there by your side. Yes, Secretary Blinken, Owen, as we speak, the new Israeli government is going to be sworn in, the Knesset, sort of a unity government, but most of the opposition is out. Out, but supporting it from the outside. Jacob and many of them actually voting for the government, even if they themselves won't be participating in it. Yeah, the government announced last night started to get to work right away. By the way, Anthony Blinken met with what is now, is in theory at least supposed to be the main decision making forum, right, of five people, including three who have voting power and two observers, the three who have voting power, Netanyahu, the Defense Ministry of Galan and Benny Gantz, again, the head of the National Unity Party himself, a former head of the military and the two observers got the eyes and caught from Gantz's party, also himself, former head of the military, Ron Dürmer from the Likud and Netanyahu Confident. So they are getting to work. That forum has already met several times. Blinken met with them this afternoon. And it is an emergency government. This isn't the kind of government that we could imagine, certainly what's what's happened in the last nine months in Israel. But it shows the depth of the emergency and the consensus among the public about wanting this government to be formed to get off the ground. Right. And also, we should mention that the bombardment of Gaza is continuing. Absolutely no. And I remiss to say it, not only the bombardment continuing, but obviously, by all accounts, and this comes as no surprise, a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes. We've all seen the pictures of destroyed buildings and neighborhoods. And I think most ominously for people living in Gaza, they can decision in Israel to block food and water and electricity and fuel. Electricity and fuel may seem like things that aren't necessary to survive until you consider that a hospital needs electricity and fuel. And there are reports that the main hospital in Gaza City has said that they will run out of fuel to run their generator in a few days. Of course, they're already overcrowded. And I think time will tell what the fate is of this decision by the Israeli government to declare that it's going to block food and water for going to 2 million people. As you can tell from my voice, I don't think it's going to last. And I think it will be seen as a grave mistake. All right. Owen, thank you very much. We'll get back to you later. And also, we have quite a few reporters on the field, which will come to listen to them later. I want to bring here in the studio, Captain Guy Poran, formerly a pilot with Israeli Air Force. Thank you very much for coming to the question of Gaza. Still bombardments from the air. Yeah, and I think we're going to see that continuing for a while. But, you know, I'm not here as a military expert. I can tell you that I just came here right from the center of support in the expo in Tel Aviv where many of the protest movements like brothers in arms and like my own group, the pilots are all focused and busy just in support activities. We put all the manifest the manifestations aside for now. Even though you can imagine what we think about the role of the government and the Prime Minister in the what brought us here, but everything is put aside. We're all focused on on helping the people who are current. By the way, we're expecting Secretary Blinken to visit this place and will be there live when he does. But I would ask you about this thing about Israeli society. I mean, you were one of the leaders of the pilots of protest. So much was, you know, talked about this and how the military was affected by this. And this whole movement now actually shifted everything geared towards helping the efforts. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that during the protest, when many of our reserve pilots put their training on hold because of their struggle against, you know, the government, it was always clear to us that if and when there is an emergency that would really require, they're not going to stay at home. And in the first hour from the beginning of these events, we had all the pilots that were called back in their squadrons. And all of those that even put their reserve on hold have all shown up. In fact, there was 150% more than the squadrons actually could use. And that is not surprising because, you know, as long as the pilots are patriotic, when they thought the struggle should be in the street against the government, they were there. But the moment that it was clear that there's a serious outside threat, they were back in their squadrons. There was not a doubt in anybody's mind. And in all of our groups, in WhatsApp, et cetera, there was no nobody who said we should stay out or we should manifest now, et cetera, not a single pilot. Yeah, that's that's very interesting. And we'll talk about that. In length, I think everywhere in Israel and in the next few weeks or months, retired colonel Grisha Yacobovich is here as well. Thank you very much for coming. Six days of war, five days of heavy bombardments in Gaza, all the time rockets to Israel. What's next? Well, first of all, I want to deal. I want to talk about the humanitarian crisis. Okay, because this is my expertise. This is what I did during Protective Edge. Israel supplied only 45% of the electricity consumption to Gaza by 10 lines. Israel supplied only 10% of the water consumption in Gaza. Okay, and it was paid by the PA. Now let's calculate for a minute how much money Hamas got. So they tax all the goods coming from Egypt, making $700 million a year, $33 million every month that they got from Qatar. And if you calculate the amount of money that they tax from the workers who worked in Israel since May 2021, you'll see that it's something like half a billion dollars a year. Okay, it means a lot of money. So this this war that they started, and it was well planned as we understand now, they planned it at least two years. I'm sure that they also planned. How will they help their people under the Israeli attacks? Because we are preparing ourselves to continue the war. It's only the beginning. Okay, I clarified that. And if they did not play a planet, it is their responsibility. They were supposed to use the money that they made instead of building rockets or tunnels to prepare themselves to electricity to water to sewage and other issues. What we will see now is bombings on the northern part of the Gaza Strip. But Lahia neighborhood. It's not a neighborhood. It's a town. It's way bigger than what we left there. 80,000 people. And from what I understand, Egypt called the Arab World and international community to bring all the aid to Al-Harish airport. And so the understanding is how is it going to work? We the IDF will probably ask the people to go to the center of the Gaza Strip. It means the refugee camps Borej, Nusrat, Zwayda, Maghazi, those are the places. This is actually where they will be staying. And Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip like a belt. Okay, even with the border with Egypt to do one thing. Okay, to make sure that Hamas and ISIS, the Salafis that fought inside Israel and page that kidnapped almost 200 people will not be able to take them underground through the border to Africa, to Libya, to Sudan, other places. Okay, this is the only focus that the IDF is focused now. After that, after it will all be prepared and ready, we will see the next moves of the IDF. Right. And as you said, most of them are underground. There's underground Gaza. It's not most of them. They are underground. Okay, I know Gaza well. I know Gaza by a three dimension Gaza. I've been up there on the ground and underground and I've been the last mayor. And yes, there is an underground city, underground Gaza Strip. Okay, it's not the archaeological one that I visited in the past. This is a new town and underground. How does the Israeli military get into there? I think that's what a lot of us are wondering. I don't think that's where the assets are. How does Israel strike them? First of all, Israel is doing what Israel is supposed to do. And as I said, to make sure that they will not be able to take even one soul that was kidnapped to Gaza and to I don't know somehow to give them to the hands of the Salafis inside. We understand the meaning of that. The moment we will do that, I believe that we will see the new approach to the underground city. It's very interesting. We'll get back to this. But now I'm going to go to 24 years P. Shteklbach, who's in Kfar Raveem. That's up north. Pia gave us the latest from there. Well, Jacob, he where we are at, it has been a quiet, quiet day. Although residents here live with a quite a level of anxiety and tension when we drove up here. There was quite some movement of army vehicles on the roads. We also saw a tank. People here are telling us, by the way, they're staying mostly in their homes. The streets are really deserted. The shops are closed. They're telling us that they have seen soldiers patrolling the area here, checking for possible infiltrations yesterday. There was an atmosphere of really shock and distress when in major regions and vast areas in the north and in a lot of siren was sent off triggered by an aerial infiltration that later turned out to have been false. We've had the chance to speak to some of the residents here. They say that they really make sure to stay close to their homes as we are as of now here where we are in Kfar Raveem, where less than 10 miles away from the Lebanese border. Now yesterday, the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon is fired anti-tank missiles. Israel retaliated. Then also yesterday from Syria, mortar shells were fired. Israel as well retaliated. Now we're hearing that the airports in Damascus and in Aleppo were targeted. They're both out of order. It is claimed on Israel, Syrian news agencies are saying that this is a way to divert attention from what is going on between Israel and Gaza. But it is the fact that Israel is said to have targeted many, many Iranian targets in Syria to really avert Iranian weapon deliveries to Hezbollah and to Palestinian militias. Whether that is connected to the alarms that have been going off in the recent hour, we have had in total two alerts in four different communities. Closer to the Syrian border, we do not know that yet. We probably will not know that. But as of now, where we are here, there have has not been an alert, an alarm since yesterday. The communities that are closer to the Syrian border, four of them, have had alarms. This is also coming a day after the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdulahiyan, was set to visit Syria tomorrow, whether that is still going to happen. We do not know. What we know is that both the airports in Damascus and Aleppo are out of order as of now. And this is really a very, very calm, quiet that you see here behind me, as I said, very, very close to the Lebanon border. And for residency, it is clear that any, even minor security incident, could really draw the northern front into the war. All right. Yeah. Thank you very much. I see that the town of Matullah is now under sirens. And it's been on and off like this all day. Sometimes this is a mistake by very sensitive operations there and very sensitive Israeli systems. But anyway, bears explain to viewers who haven't been able to be in the beautiful town Matullah, there are Israelis living literally, literally, as you know, Jacob, yards, meters from the border. Right. It's really remarkable. It's really striking, but it's a town that's in somebody surrounded three sides by Lebanon. Again, with Israelis living, you can check it on Google Maps, literally meters away. All right. And they've seen what's happened in the south, which is like the same story. And they're very afraid for their. Yeah. The local council, if I'm not mistaken, advised the residents to leave. And one would imagine that many complied. Right. So let's go back to Gaza, Grisha. We are talking about an underground city, as as you said before. Underground Gaza Strip. Right. And do they have electricity and energy underground there independently? Well, if we look at the energy resources in the Gaza Strip for the last at least 15 years, so from Israel by 10 lines, 45 percent of the consumption, the power plant in Gaza, that recently the Ford turbine started to work after Qatar added another three million dollars to operate the Ford one. By the way, they could fix the the big underground warehouse that was supposed to hold something like one million one million liters of of diesel to operate it. But they prefer to use the money to other things, as I mentioned earlier. There is one line coming from Egypt. And the rest are generators that residents of Gaza bought. I'm talking about thousands of generators and also solar panels that were installed by private companies and by the international community. So it's we are not there yet. OK, it's not a disaster yet. Still thousands of generators with gallons of diesel underground and they are capable still to operate their systems and they have the solar panels. And well, it's not the crisis. Well, we it was we knew it in advance that Hamas will use immediately the humanitarian card, OK, and to do what to try and to block Israel's ability to continue the war or the attacks. And we will see that that level. OK, as day goes by, they will increase the pressure. And as day goes by, we will see the Arab World International Community talking about the humanitarian crisis. What we need to do is to show with proofs exactly the numbers that I'm using, OK, again, this is my expertise. I know the numbers. I know the amount of liters inside Gaza and their capabilities. And of course, the planning, they planned it. So if they planned it so well, they also planned the humanitarian aid. Well, speaking of numbers. Yeah, and speaking of numbers, thirteen hundred Israelis killed so far. Thirteen hundred killed so far. And the vast majority civilians, of course. Yeah, an unbelievable number. And everybody in Israel is still in shock, frankly. I went for news. Handa Selkot is in Bengurian Airport. Handa, take us to there. Jacob, good evening. There are a lot of travelers looking to get out of Israel, looking to escape the war. But a lot of major airlines have canceled their flights. However, Israel has called up three hundred thousand reservists. So Israeli airlines like the National One are adding flights to bring reservists back home. The US State Department said it was in talks with American airlines like United, Delta and American to encourage them to add more flights to get reservists back to Israel. However, these types of airlines are not interested in flying to Tel Aviv during times of war. And I will note that the National Airline for Israel is one of the most secure airlines. All of their pilots are former Israeli Air Force members. The plane is equipped with missile defense and flares of that nature. So if it is flying in and out of a war zone, it's able to take on some capabilities and safety measures. A lot of people are looking to flee because of their children. Spoken to a lot of people here who say it's really for the safety of their children. They're afraid for what the kids will experience, if not directly before their eyes, really watching it on TV. So they're looking to get out as quickly as possible, although there really aren't a lot of flights to choose from. Okay, Handa Selkut, thank you very much. I am in Bangor Yon Airport. There are hundreds and hundreds of wounded in the hospitals. We'll go to Barzilai Hospital, where Batya Leventhali is reporting from. We are with you, Batya. Right, there was a siren in Ashkelon about 30 minutes ago. So the majority of us were running inside to take shelter, the hospital itself, being a fortified area, not necessarily where we're standing, but just through the doors behind me. And when we came out of the 10-minute care that we got from the Homefront Command, we heard the helicopter landing just a few miles away from here, driven up by ambulances, where the wounded, there were a couple of people that were brought from the ambulances on that hit in Ashkelon here to the hospital. Obviously, we saw the staff trying as much as they could to give them as much privacy as they could, given that the media is all lined here outside. And so that's what we were busy trying to deal with, obviously, making sure that the news is reported, but also making sure that the patients have enough privacy, because again, we are talking about people that are wounded, people that are sometimes seriously or at least in severe condition. And so for the time being, it has been relatively quiet, but again, I use that term very loosely. There's been rockets that have gone over Ashkelon inside Ashkelon. It's about a 20 to 30-minute drive from here, about 27 kilometers away. And again, Ashkelon is on the coastal enclave. As we can see right through the cracks here that we're standing in the parking lot, we can see the ocean. It's almost unbelievable the paradox of having such a beautiful sunset, but also where we are right now and seeing the wounded arriving at the hospital that is currently seeing hundreds of patients, both civilians, as well as those from the IDF. All right, but thank you very much for this report from the city of Ashkelon, which was suffering quite a lot in the past. You know, I stood where she stood, I think, two days ago and made the exact same comment about the contrast and watching the dusk and the sliver of blue of the Mediterranean as you drive in and everything that's going on. Right, right, the Ashkelon stone and other towns. It's a beautiful area of the world, but unfortunately the realities here are... I've been saying the same thing inside Gaza, beautiful beach, beautiful sea. Why don't they try the other path in Gaza? Did you ask yourself that? Well, I know the people of Gaza, some of them personally for the last 30 years. And I even tried to research that, to understand what is going on inside their heads. And history tells us that the only thing that Gazans ever knew is that somebody controls them, okay? Let's go back to the Ottoman Empire. And then we have the British Mandate. And then we have the Egyptians, okay? And then Israel, okay? And then the PA, because they look at the PA also as conquerors in a way. And after that, Hamas, okay? I have friends in Gaza that told me more than once that they live in Gaza under Hamas occupation. So this is the only thing that Gazans know. Now, let's not forget, Gaza surrounded with fence, okay? From the north, from the east, from the south also, natural border, 2.1 million people. And this is the only thing that they know. They live under fear, they live in incitement, they live through operations. So it's all hate there. Hamas could change the reality there. Hamas could bring prosperity. But Hamas preferred to be the evil part in this reality and to bring disaster on their hands. And we have to remember that Hamas, and only Hamas brought it on them. You know, I mean, we've reported, and I think it came from the military, 2,500 terrorists were those who infiltrated on Saturday. Population of 2 million, so it's maybe one, I think one of every 800 people, subtract from that women, subtract from that young children, the elderly, one out of every few hundred men of fighting age in Gaza. If all of them from Gaza, because what I hear already for the last two, three days that some of them spoke passion and some of them with ISIS flags, Salafis. So we need to clarify exactly what is the number of terrorists at Hamas. Maybe some importation of people. And also many have not infiltrated, many stayed over. Maybe. By the way, this is what is happening now in Syria. What I know, the last four days that Iran gave orders to order force the proxies from Deir Azor to move to the Golan Heights. And those proxies are Pakistanis, Afghans, et cetera. It's not actually Iranians, it's the proxies. Yeah, we're watching live pictures from Gaza right now. Guy, I wanna ask you, not everything can be done from the air, right? Not everything can be done from the air. Of course, of course not. Everybody we've had experiences from before and it's pure logic. When these people are, a lot of them are underground and obviously you cannot kill them all and they're commanders by air bombardment. However, ground, everybody's talking about the event that eventually there must be a ground invasion is not simple either. Because they're ready for it and they are to find all the places where they're hiding. And even if you think a scenario of success where you managed to kill not all of them but the majority, et cetera, what do you do the next day? Are you going to stay there for how long to make sure that the other people that have seen you as a conqueror, as an occupation are not gonna become new Hamas warriors. So it's not, there are no simple solutions here. Simple, there are no obvious solutions here. Okay, I wanna listen to the military chief of staff in a moment because what he said today, he said that not only Israel will dismantle Hamas but those who will stay there will not be able to hurt Israel anymore. That was the statement by the military chief here. And if we can listen to this now, let's hear Herzi Alevi in a moment, okay. So we are watching the Gaza Strip right now and we are seeing bombardments as we speak. Sirens and Ashkelon and some of the Gaza border communities to the north of the Strip so far. And this means that even though they're hiding and even though they are bombardments, they're still able to launch rockets and the rockets are not launched from the underground tunnels. So there's activity overground that they're still going even though there's so heavy bombardment. Yeah, and there's the question of the hostages which is a dire question which we haven't seen before in any conflict before. But it's the first time I think, correct me if I'm wrong, that we're hearing from so many people even though it's the largest number of hostages ever. It's the first time that we're hearing that Israel cannot take this into consideration when deciding on what it should do. Every time it was like almost a holy thing to guard a single soldier, let alone 200. Now the tone is, look, we will do what we have to do and if there are hostages that will pay for it, then we're sorry, that's what I'm hearing. You know, one of, I think maybe Jacob, I don't know if people agree, it's a bit of a far-reaching statement but I'll stand behind it. It may well be that when historians look back, the single worst decision in 75 years of Israel's history was the Gilad Shalit deal. The Gilad Shalit deal freed more than 1,000 prisoners in Palestinian prisons, many of whom went on to be doing and not only doing but leading exactly what we're seeing. How many people lost their lives because of that deal? And it was neither, I wanna see a PhD dissertation on that, I wanna number, I wanna number. How many people lost their lives because of that deal? And it was quite possibly the single worst decision in 75 years of Israel's history. And it was said while it's done. It's not something that was not known. All right, interesting point. Let's take a listen. Israeli Chief of Staff was speaking today. The IDF is fighting merciless terrorists who've committed acts that are unimaginable wherever there are people, wherever there is humanity. Yahya Sinwa, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, decided on this abominable attack. Therefore, he and the entire system under him are dead men. We will attack them and we will dismantle them. We will dismantle their system. The IDF under my command understands the magnitude of the hour and the magnitude of the task that rests on our shoulders. The IDF is responsible for the security of the country and its citizens. And on Saturday morning in the Gaza Strip, we did not live up to this. We will learn and question, but now is the time for war. And it can't be clearer than that. By the way, it's clearer than what the government says. I mean, the Chief of Staff saying dismantling Hamas. And this is even far reaching than the Israeli government at this point. Now internally in Israel, after months of turmoil, communities are coming together. One example is the Kharedi, the ultra-orthodox community. And we have with us now Shai Gracher, who initiated a series of activities since the war broke. Hi, Shai, good evening. Tell us about what you and your friends are doing. Hi, good evening. I'm actually right now in Kfarah Makabiyah. We just brought for 200 kids presents, gifts. We didn't bring food. They said they have enough food. But we brought them special gifts and special food and special toys. And they are very, very happy. Everybody's hugging us, thanking us. And it's so special. Before this, I was in Bellinson Hospital visiting soldiers that got injured, families that were fighting without guns. Just fighting to try to save their beloved life. And we came to them. We gave them iPads and AirPods. And we just gave them love to show them we are together no matter what. And we're going to family that are really, really struggling with nothing. They don't have anything. Everything got burned. So we're trying to work on it. Also, the soldiers, we're getting to army bases that you cannot get in. But we're getting from them every single item that they need. We don't want to just come and throw them and show them, oh, here we have a bag. Take it. We want to know their sizes. What do they need? They need helmets. They need socks, shoes, undershirts, underwear. And we're getting so many requests. And so many people are happy. And it's just amazing. But it's all because of those people that are out there in America all over from LA to New York to Chicago, also in Europe, from England and Paris, people that are sitting in their houses and they just want to open their hearts and open their pockets to help and give. But we're trying to give what the people need. And this is amazing. And it doesn't end. It doesn't end. And we're so grateful that we are able to do it in such a way that we're giving the people what they need. Yeah, shy. I see the enthusiasm. And this is why the Israeli government is quite slow to react, frankly. And so people like yourself and your friends are getting in. And that's great. Do you have any words for Americans or others who would like to join you, to contribute, whatever? Yes. I just want to tell you that, first of all, the love that you're giving us, I'm getting so many emails, so many messages. As I'm speaking to you right now, we're getting an email that people are in targets, are filling up 56 boxes that are coming to Israel in the next 24 hours. And when I'm telling the people here, what's going on in America and showing them the videos of literally, I'm just seeing hundreds of Nintendo Switch, the kids are so happy. There's kids that are not here that stayed in their house, but they're down, down, down. They can't get out. They're scared. And when they're getting this presence and there's the clothing, I'm talking about thousands of thousands of diapers that we got from the U.S. people that are sending it. It gives us so much strength to continue. And we want to thank you. I want to thank you on behalf of myself, my team, all the people that are getting it, all the soldiers, all the families. It gives them so much love. And that's what we're trying to do. Great, Shai, I'd like to thank you very much. I'm gonna cut to the head of the Israeli opposition live now, Mr. Yahir Lapid. Let's thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, Shai. Thank you. My son is dead, he told me. How can I live with my son? We're a family that's coming. We are heartbroken, he says. He spoke to a woman whose child was killed. We are a nation, an unbreakable nation. More than 100% of soldiers came to mobilize. No other place is like this. I met a woman whose child was killed by a group of people more than 80 people. Mr. Lapid met one of the commanders who killed 80 terrorists. We'll destroy Gaza, he says, for all this mental day. Hamas. We'll employ force like never before. Yeah, now he's talking, Mr. Lapid, about the failure of the government and the intelligence, and that will be investigated later, he says. I wanna ask you, guys, one of the leaders of the protest that we've mentioned, maybe a process of healing started inside Israeli society here. Is there a chance for that, do you think? Maybe a process of healing started inside Israeli society here. Is there a chance for that, do you think? Well, I think that it's too early to say, after a few days, the fact that everybody, or almost everybody, is now just hugging those people that are suffering and trying to do our best. Like I told you, the people of the protest are doing nothing but that right now. It's too early to say whether this is a real beginning of a healing, of a general healing. That will be seen later, and it will depend a lot on how the government and the coalition will treat what had happened after the war. I believe that if everybody looks at the true people that were, how the processes that led to this situation, if there will be a real open inquiries and people who were responsible will pay for it, that might be a beginning of a new era because there will be more trust. Let me be more blunt, if this government stays and this prime minister stays, I don't think you guys are going to stay calm. Of course not. What we've seen after the Yom Kippur war, Moti Ashkenazi, will look like peanuts compared to what is going to happen here after the fighting ends, because the surprise and the failures and the irresponsible behavior of the government in the Yom Kippur, before the Yom Kippur is nothing compared to what had happened here. At that time it was armies from all over, I don't have to make the comparison, everybody knows it, but I'm still hopeful today we heard the minister, Kish, an ex-Air Force pilot. He was the first, as far as I know, minister who already announced today to the microphones, we are responsible. Now, it's one thing to say that. Who is we? He also said, but the army is also responsible. Yes, but he didn't take us. Now, I'm saying very, very clearly, there will be enormous demand for inquiry and for the government to give answers, and for those who cannot give the right answers to pay the bill for it, but this is not the time to do it. Right now, it's about winning and about supporting the people who suffer. And this is what my group, the ex-pilots, the brothers-in-arms, and as far as I know, all the protest movements are focusing on right now. Only on that. And I just wanna say, I was there on Monday at the expo, I was there with the camera the entire day, we filmed the report that I'm desperately hoping to get on air, it's so hard with all the breaking news. It's just remarkable. I mean, the protest movement just took its WhatsApp groups, its Facebook page, its networks, and on a dime, switched it from mobilizing to protest to mobilizing for this. And so many fascinating substories, did you know, because not many people know, there were 150 air attrains there at the expo, helping to pack boxes. Also taking their NGO that had been advocating for their own issues and switching it on a dime to do this. I was there two hours ago. It's even more than when you were there a day or two ago. It's amazing. And all of our groups are doing nothing but that right now. But we will wait for after the war to make the account. Oh, and let me take you to politics. Mr. Yaralopit is still speaking, but he's not entering the government. That's right. And we'll probably not in the near future because I see that he's blaming the government for the failure and all of that. What's the impact of that? It depends, I think. I think it depends. It's a fine line, but it's really not a fine line. There's no option for any parties in the Israeli Knesset other than the joint Arab list, let's say, okay? To do anything other than support the government, right? You can be inside the government. You can do it from outside the government, but there's simply no other option in the immediate term other than to do that. Of course, there's a difference, though, on the day after, right? Because on the day after, the people will be responsible for better or for worse with the results of the war will be the people who are part of the government. And Yaralopit, by not being part of it, while he won't attack the government during, could be able to then attack them on the day after. It had been reported that Lapid, of course, went to the microphone, was one of the first to propose an emergency government. So obviously- But on terms, but on condition. Exactly, and of course, the condition was the removal of the two far-right parties, that's Osmojic's religious Zionism, it's our Ben Ver's Jewish power, remove them from the government. As we saw that was not done, Netanyahu went with a different alternative of Benny Gonson's National Unity Party and all the rest of what we've talked about. But they've saved the place for Lapid inside that kitchen cabinet, the work cabinet. So it certainly possibly could enter in. I think the understanding is it seems unlikely at this stage that Ben Gvir or certainly Smotrich would be ousted from the government. And in that sense, Lapid will stay in the outside reports that some within his own party, though, disagree with this decision. At any rate, some are expected to vote for the government inside the Knesset, with the time when the Knesset votes to seat it, even if they themselves will not be joining it. Yeah, and by the way, the agreement with guns is just for the time of the war. Right. Now as soon as the war ends, I don't know who decides when. You guys had the same question, actually. Yeah. When does the war end? Exactly, when will you start talking? It will end when Gons thinks that it's the right time to announce that he's out of the government. Now, he did take some risk because now, of course, he's not responsible or he can claim not to be responsible for all the failures that were up until now. But depending on how this war is going to be managed, if it's a success, if it's done with relatively, you know, achieve its goals with relatively low number of casualties, then he will say, you know, I'm part of this victory. If it will be a disaster, God forbid, he's taken some of the responsibility. Right. So this is a risk that he's taken, but let's not kid ourselves. Gons and definitely Eisenkott, I know him personally, they will not, by doing this move, have not forgotten where they stand as far as Netanyahu and as far as this government, as far as the judiciary for everything. They will come back to it when the time comes. Right. But we should also mention that politically, in terms of power, even if Gons decides to retire from the government, Netanyahu still has a majority of 64 members. Which is exactly the reason why he didn't want to take the far right parties out of the government because he didn't want to be beholden to many Gons in the day after. Right. Unless some of the 64 will decide that because of what had happened before, they will leave him. And that's not an unlikely situation. Never a dull moment here. Bhatia Leventhal in Barsala Hospital in Ashkelon, we are with you. Bhatia. Right, so not much change from around 45 minutes ago when the sirens were going off here in Ashkelon. What we have seen though throughout the day is NGOs that are bringing quite a fortune of food throughout the day. Different companies that want to sort of join the bandwagon have been pledging to support by giving food and these NGOs then bring them here. It's not just for the hospital staff as well as the soldiers that are here, but it's also for the wounded. It's for the press. And this has been happening every couple of hours. There's a new delivery. That's why you're hearing the noise in the background because the latest delivery just came through now. And these people are coming with really hot spirits. It's almost tragic in a way to see because there is so much devastation but so much devastation. A lot of the people that have been injured from the South, even further South than Ashkelon are being brought here to Parazilei Medical Center. And for the time being, a lot of the sentiments is anger, it hurts, it's frustration, it's devastation. These people, the NGOs that are coming are coming with high energy are saying, look, we're still here, we're alive, we're helping, we're unified. So there's really a sort of a light in a time of such darkness and devastation. We did get told a little bit earlier though that some of the nurses are gonna be coming out on a little bit of a break. So I'm hoping that when they do, we'll be able to talk to them. Obviously not on camera because a lot of them don't want to be on TV right now. But behind the scenes, try and find out exactly what's going on in terms of the fact that they are treating both civilians as well as IDF soldiers that have been injured and wounded, how many of them exactly, what the casualties necessarily have been like. So hopefully we'll have more of an update on that for you a little later. Batia, thank you very much. The personal stories of civilians living near the Gaza border are mind blowing. With us now is Yedid Yahrush. Thank you very much for joining us and talking with us, Yedid Yahrush. You just went to a party, a great party, great event. It was great, until hell broke. Tell us about it. Actually didn't go to a party. My name is Yedid Yahrush and I'm originally from Gushkate from the Gaza Strip. Okay, so it was my... I just want to clarify, it was my mistake. I was referring to another story. So tell us your story. I was born raised in the community of Atsumona in Gushkate from a evacuee from Gaza. And since my grown up years, I've been building the community of Slamid, which is a new community on the border with Egypt and Gaza. On the 7th of October on Shabbat, we woke up to a barrage of rockets. It's not something we're not used to, but it came kind of in a surprise for us. And me and my two, my wife and my four kids ran through the bomb shelters. And as we're standing in the bomb shelters, we started counting the rockets exploding on the ground. When it's intercepted in air, in mid-air, we know unfortunately from all the years of experience. And after about 10 or 15 rockets that we counted that fell, we started hearing crazy explosions. And about 15 minutes later, one of my friends from the security team of the community, the first respond team, received a text message from one of the members of pre-gun. It's a community five minutes away from us. And he says, we have terrorists in the community. I'm in the bomb shelter with my four kids, and there are seven terrorists outside my house. Can you come help? And my friends didn't think twice, got into the car and ran into the pre-gun community. When they got to the entrance to the community, we saw a guy standing with a pistol, not moving, shaking, six-year-old. He says, the terrorists are this way. Thank God that they got to the first house, which didn't have people, and then moved to the second house, which had the people. They were already trying to open the shelter when we started firing and fighting with fires with them. And for two hours, we fought five guys against 12 terrorists. Two hours of battle, after an hour, we received help from a few others that joined us. And unfortunately, we lost two of our best friends and brothers, two others that were on their way were killed as well, and we had four injuries. But by doing so, we saved the community of pre-gun, and we saved the entire Shalom region. We're talking about hundreds of people because we chased away the terrorists. We threw dozens of hand grenades, maybe from a 30-feet-away battle. They had RPGs. They had opening kits for the shelters. They had first aid kits. They had all the weapons to massacre. And by doing so, we saved an entire region. And we paid the heavy price. Our little community lost four guys. We have 15 orphans and four wives. Thank God that we received a lot of support from the Jewish National Fund, our partners from the U.S. We're really helping us a lot. We're now being evacuated. We're here as a community. Here, we also have a few incidents of shootings, but we are managing the situation. Yedidia, do you think you'll be able... I know it's maybe too early to think about it, but will you be able to go back and somehow get back to some life near the border again? I want to share with you something. I don't know if you know. I mean, you do know. But our nation is over 3,000-year-old. Our nation has faced many battles. Our nation faced holocausts, programs. Egypt. We came out of Egypt. We went through so many things that nobody ever gave us a chance. We're the Jewish people. We're not going to give up. We're not going to lose. We cannot afford losing. Of course, we're going to go back. This is our victory. This is their will. They didn't die for no reason. They went and got killed, so we continue to build. And we will go back. And we will rebuild Shlomit. And we will rebuild Baeri. And we will rebuild Kfar Azar. And we will continue, just like I continued in Gaza until the government said no more. And I went and found another mission. But as long as we have the chance to go back, we will go back. Our community is strong. Yes, we are licking our wounds. But we are lying, so we just got punched in the huevos but are not willing to give up. No, that's not us. We're Hamis-La'el and we are united. This is the war of unity. You see what's going on. I receive phone calls. My phone is collapsing from phone calls from people in Australia, in Belgium, in Kiryat Shmona, in Methulah, in Dimona, in New York. What can we do to help? They're sending us tons of stuff. They're wrapping their hands around us. The people of Kfar Azar who lost and left 1948 after fighting heroic battles are now, their grandchildren are welcoming us and are showing us that we are returning to our home and we're going to rebuild it. And we're going to do whatever we can to make sure that the world knows that Hamis-La'el is here and Hamis-La'el is high and Hamis-La'el is stronger than ever. Don't mess with us. Okay, Didier, that's a good point to say. Thank you very much and stay strong. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What a speech. What a spirit. It's quite amazing. And this is something you hear throughout Israel these days. Absolutely. Another emotional testimony and a testament to the spirit of the country these days. On a bit of a different note, a important political update. We heard Yair Lapid, the opposition leader speaking a few moments ago. As part of that press conference, he said that his party will not join the emergency government. It seemed to say two reasons. Number one, what we talked about before, the decision not to remove those two far-right parties from the government, but even more so he focused on what he described as a cumbersome system of decision-making because there's essentially the full cabinet and then there's the statutory security cabinet. There's this third body that's been set up and as he put it at the end of the day, there are three people who vote and tour from the Likud. So Benny Gantz, and also Garry Eisen caught his observer in this cabinet, won't have any real power. He did say, of course, they'll support the government from the outside, but certainly attack the government for the catastrophe on Saturday and strongly imply that there should be resignations. I don't know if you saw a video that was published today about the warning that Lapid himself gave on the 29th of September with exactly the kind of things that he was warning the government from what might happen from Gaza and everything. It's unbelievable. You have to look at this video. You cannot believe it. And this is not something about the Egyptian intelligence minister. It's Yahya Lapid. Right. Yeah, we should take a look at that actually. I saw it. Back to the South, Pierre Closchandler in the road. What's happening there? Well, I'm going to turn my back because just a few moments ago while you were talking with that Israeli, there were some flares of rocket fire and interception, but it was probably above Kibbutz near Amr, which is basically a kilometer away from here. So the alarm didn't sound here. But obviously at night, it's easier in the sense that you can see the tracing of the rockets and of the interceptions. So you know, more or less, if you're close to it or not, even without an alarm sounding. Yeah, right now, the situation is calm. The minister of national security, Tamar Ben-Gvi, after the inauguration of the police station, has left Zderot. Alon Davidi, the mayor of Zderot, has urged earlier the government to evacuate the remaining citizens who live in Zderot. There's about 40% of them who have not evacuated because they don't have the wherewithal to evacuate. So Alon Davidi, the mayor, is requesting from the government an allocation of something like $30 million to allow the evacuation of the entire city. There was the inauguration of the new police station just three days after the former one has been destroyed. But Alon Davidi, the mayor, pledged that eventually the old police station in the center of the city will be rebuilt as a symbol of the steadfastness of the city that has been harmed so many times, especially during this war. All right, Pierre, thank you very much. And Zderot, southern Israel. We are talking also about the day after, Grisha. And it's hard to guess right now. But sooner or later, we'll be there. And Israel will have to deal with what's left there in Gaza without staying there for too long. I'm guessing. What do you think? I think that the ground is being prepared already today. And I will explain why. That the PA will take responsibility in Gaza. This is how I understand on what's going on. Hamas words are trying to achieve the same achievements they achieved in May 2021. What do I mean by that? Rockets from Gaza, rockets from the north, the West Bank, and Arab Israelis. What we hear is a brave statement of Arab Israeli leaders. And I see a different trend of Arab Israelis trying to help the efforts with the IDF. And this is something that I've never seen. And Hamas is calling to the Middle East or to the entire countries around us. Tomorrow, it's a critical day, October 13, all over the world and here. And they were also crying to the people of Jordan to come and to the borders of Jordan. And the King already statement that the rules of engagements are changing Jordan. And whoever approaches to the fence, we be dealt by Jordan. So we see three elements that Hamas is trying to achieve and he's going to fail. Arab Israelis, Jordan and the West Bank because Mahmoud Abbas also was forced probably to condemn in a way the slaughter or the Hamas, the butchers, and he did it. Otherwise, he will lose money, by the way. So he has his own interest. Yeah, he said something today about both sides having. I think that's the best that can be reasoned. He said, guys, he said two things, okay? He flew to Jordan, he sat with the King and he said two things. One is that both sides should avoid, et cetera. And he also said that he calls for the release of the citizens, okay? Yes, it's not our understanding of condemning, but this is his language. Of course, I will expect him to condemn. Otherwise, Hamas butchering civilians will also glue to him. Right, but he has a majority of Palestinians in Jordan, of course. Okay, so let's go from here. Let's go back to your question. I believe that, and you asked me what will Israel do with the tunnels, the airport will continue bombing the Gaza Strip and then artillery and then the tanks and then you have to enter to Gaza boots on the ground, okay? And it's not a question even, okay? If the IDF will do it or not. The question is how, from where, okay? How deep, okay? Those are actually the questions. And from the statement of the Chief of Staff, I understand that he got the goals of the war from the new cabinet. It means zero Hamas at the end of this war. I will commend to his statement because this is not the time for such statements that yes, in war, we'll be killed or whatever. You know, then you motivate him actually, the day after the step outside to El-Jajil and say, you see, guys, I'm alive. So we need to speak the language, we need to speak Arabic, okay? And not Ashkenazi, so I know I'm Russian, okay? But we need to think in Arabic, okay? And then I believe, with all I've said that Israel with the United States are actually preparing the day after with the PA, Jordan, Egypt, taking responsibility on Gaza somehow. In a way, it's not so clear for now, but it will clarify as day goes by. All right, I should say that we are waiting to hear from Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Knesset momentarily when the new government is being sworn in. New five ministers, actually. We're live at the Knesset right now. And this is all something that took like five and a half days to form. It's very speedy in Israeli politics in a way, but was also seen as very slow in many Israeli minds as well. But we do have a government, apparently. Can you imagine how what you'll be feeling as you watch these scenes in the Knesset as your second home, Jacob? Yeah, right. And imagine that these two are gonna be stepping up to the podium to introduce the government on exactly the procedure, but with Benny Gantz being sworn in as a senior minister at the end of the day. And a government led by Benjamin Netanyahu would have seemed, obviously, imaginary. I'd just use that cliche, but just for all of us to be seeing that. Yeah, it felt like it took much longer than the Israeli public wanted. There was pressure from across the political spectrum for this to happen. And it seemed to get bogged down. But at the end of the day, it's happening in the big picture happening relatively quickly. I think when all is said and done and written by historians about this war, I don't think that will be the focus. What may be the focus is the structure that they've set up. And that's why Yerlepid was focused on it. They created a new institution where in three major decisions are going to be made. At the same time, there are statutes in Israel about how decisions are made during wartime. And I suspect those statutes can't be gotten around. And decisions that are in theory by three people need to still be filtered through other places where others may put their fingers. Let's put it on the table. They made this structure in order to neutralize the extremists and still keep them inside. And the question of whether it will work. I think that's Yerlepid's question. And I suspect that historians, again, not knowing how this is going to end, I suspect historians will end up being more focused on that than on the timing. But listen, we haven't seen how it's gonna work yet. So let's have an open mind. And don't forget the mistrust between these two people. The last time that they were both sitting like that was under the corona. And since then, you know what they said about each other. So the fact that they are formally together doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a harmonic working relationship. I hope you're wrong about that in the middle of this. I hope you are wrong about that. But still the message to the troops, to people like yourself. It had to happen. It had to happen. And it will be up to both of them to show that five and a half days of negotiations is behind them. And they're actually working together towards the same goals. It's not evident with these two. Yeah, it's not gonna be simple. Given the history of these two gentlemen and we'll see about that. It's a very complicated Israeli government. We have to say that. Yeah. It's very complicated. And so far, it has to earn trust big time. Exactly. But that's the reason. Under the most difficult circumstances. Yeah. All right, we're watching the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Mirochana. Let's take a listen. I'll try to give our viewers a sense of what he's saying. I want to invite Israeli Prime Minister to the podium. I want to invite Israeli Prime Minister to the podium. He just dropped off. His meeting at the Foreign and Defense Committee. He's making his way here. And we'll wait a short minute until he arrives. So we are waiting for Prime Minister Netanyahu to give, I guess, a short statement before the new ministers are sworn in. Five new ministers, as I was mentioned here. Benny Gantz will be joining the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister in the smaller historical decision making. As voting members. Right. And the other two members of Gantz's party, Eisenhower, the former Chief of Staff, and... Ron Dermert from the Likud, a close confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu, American-born... Former ambassador to Washington. Former ambassador to Washington. And on one hand, someone who's very well respected. On the other hand, someone who has been in the past very controversial. Now Ron Dermert will be working very, very closely with the Democratic administration. But I think given what's been seen by that Democratic administration over the past few days, one would hope that... Maybe another healing process. Even he has been brought around. Yeah. Yeah, this thing has changed a lot. And will change a lot here. That's for sure. So we just saw Benny Gantz sitting in the benches of the opposition still, but he will take his seat in the government table, which is in the middle after he's sworn in. And this will be a unity government that... Well, it's not exactly unity government. Let's be correct about this, because most of the opposition is out still. But we haven't seen something like this under war for a long time in Israel, though this unity between Gantz and Netanyahu, we did see this... And during the pandemic. Yeah. So also in the middle of the frame next to Gantz is Ghid Nassar, one of the more experienced politicians in this Knesset, formerly from the Likud. He's now shaking hands with Likud members, but he retired from the Likud after controversy with Netanyahu. So as we are still waiting for the statement, let's move on. And we'll talk to again one of the people with amazing, you know, personal stories. There are now way over 100 Israeli hostages inside Gaza. Their family members are devastated and worried. And with us now is Sarai Cohen. Thank you very much for joining us, Sarai. Hello. I understand that your sister and niece are missing. What do you know so far? Yes, my sister and niece are missing since Saturday noon. The last message we received from them was at 12 o'clock noon time in 18 minutes. The message they sent was that they are hearing shooting out of the apartment, the guest apartment they were staying at and that they're okay and that they love us. And since then we got no sign of life from them at all. I understand that they are American citizens. Is that correct? Correct. They're both American citizens. They live in Evanstone, Chicago. And we are very worried about them. All we want is to get a sign of life from them. You need to understand that the Hamas is like ISIS. They're very cruel and they didn't even send a sign of life. And that's the only thing we need now. Did you hear anything from either American authorities or Israeli authorities? We're in touch with both authorities, the Israelis authorities and the American authorities. However, none of them had any news to give us. Some people saw videos and pictures and that was sort of a guarantee, a life guarantee that people are alive there. But you are in total darkness. We're in total darkness. We went through all the videos. We found, we didn't find them in any one of them. We did not receive a message from anyone from the Hamas. And they're still searching to see what the status is about them. Well, according to how they found the apartment, all broken and broken into, and the prisoner belongings were in the apartment. So the assumption of the army is that they were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip, but we have no official statement yet. We really need your help to get a sign of life from them. Were they just visiting here? Yeah, they came over for a family occasion. We were celebrating my mom's 85th birthday and at the same opportunity, we were also celebrating my sister's birthday. And they just planned to stay the holidays with us, the Jewish holidays here in Israel. And they were about to return to Chicago on October 16th. Natalie just graduated high school and she decided to take a gap here and stay with us a little bit on her vacation. But this is not how we thought their vacation would end. Yeah. Soraya Cohen, I wish you all the best. I wish you have good news somehow. Thank you. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. So many stories like that, Owen from relatives of people who have no idea what's going on. It's devastating, really. Of all ages, of all genders, of all medical conditions and from a hard geopolitical perspective of all nationalities. I wonder if Hamas really understood the impact of taking random people from these Kibbutzim on that morning beyond the scenes of taking them and the taking of women and children. The fact that there are now dozens, literally dozens of governments and countries and publics in those countries that have their nationals in captivity in Gaza and all of these governments as an obligation to their citizens have to be involved. I got to believe that for the leaders of Hamas this is a major headache and one wonders if they thought through it all the way. I could always get rid of this headache by releasing those foreigns. Let's see what they do. It might be the first thing that they do but yet to be seen. Yeah. Speaking of which, they were talks about Qatar mediating Egyptians used to. I think they're not so much in the picture now. What do you think? Let's not forget that the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. We always say this. And again, exactly like they supported Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War. Now they spat at the face of the Egyptians and the Qataris because they used them as part of their plans. They were negotiating with Israel about the dollars and about the solar and about the power plant and about the payments and the compensation and how many people go in and out and actually what Hamas did is actually they used them to cover their plan made with them and by Iran and I'm sure that in the future Egypt and Qatar will make them pay the price. Yeah. Qatar is one of the sponsors of the whole thing, right? Qatar is a country that decided to donate to Gaza $30 million a month, okay? $10 million for the diesel to operate the power plant $10 million salaries for the officials that Mahmoud Abbas refused to accept them as his officials and $10 million to the families if we remember the riots on the fence for a year and two months so they promised $100 per leg that one of these radio snipers will hit so this obligation is something that they had to give and this is maybe one of the lessons learned never to do something like that again because this is actually what strengthened Hamas inside Gaza and made them heroes in the West Bank so Qatar was there to help but actually it's like a boomerang, okay? on us eventually that we had to suffer this last Saturday from their aid to the people of Gaza and Hamas. We want to talk about Donald Trump in a moment so please prepare this. I want to ask you about the Egyptian angle. The Egyptian angle is a problematic angle. Let's not forget that the Egyptians in a way needed Hamas because they are fighting ISIS for the last, let's say, 15 years from the Suez Canal to the border with the State of Israel and Israel is back in Egypt from Kerem Shalom to Elat we've built a fence actually we are back in the Egyptians and the Egyptian soldiers on the border are with their backs to the State of Israel with their weapons inside Sinai because they are dealing with ISIS the only hole in the wall was actually the 13.9 km of border what we used to call Philadelphia in the past and we know that there are connections between Salafis from Sinai, ISIS from Sinai and with Gaza actually international aid for the people of Gaza and hospitals aid that was given and the same doctors, the same hospitals actually treated the ones that shot Egyptian officers or soldiers inside Sinai when they used the inaugural tunnels so Egypt needed Hamas in a way to make sure that they would not have their enemies and they were excellent mediators for us but Egypt always implemented whatever they did for the interest of the Egyptians it was always like that now Egypt is going to play a huge role by collecting or being the responsible on all the humanitarian aid this is why we already see airplanes from Jordan landing in El-Arish with aid to the people of Gaza Jacob, if I may, before we get to Donald Trump just also some breaking news over the last hour on the question of the massive failure on Saturday we had known already earlier in the day that the Chief of the General Staff was woken up in the middle of the night for consultations we now have learned that the Prime Minister's military secretary was alerted by the Shin Bet Security Service at 6 o'clock in the morning of unusual activity on the fence but apparently was not able to get to the Prime Minister in time, the Prime Minister's office has come out and said that Netanyahu was only notified what's the fighting start he was busy vacating the Vertib there's a message by the Prime Minister's office right now the Prime Minister was updated only at 6.29 when the war broke when the attack started can I say something about it it has nothing to do with the Prime Minister and Avi Gil, his secretary the Shin Bet are talking they have direct connections and coordination with the Brigade in Gaza with the commanders in Gaza so it's one thing to say that yes the Prime Minister was not alerted but on the ground politics I understand politics but operationally saying the Shin Bet probably have they can actually with a button operate as soon as possible we know this from previous wars I'm not protecting them I'm just talking about we know this from previous wars political level and the military level always will have conflicts like that those responsible who warned who who knew and we're going to have a lot of this later but later meanwhile former President Donald Trump stunned many Israelis with a blatant attack on Israeli Prime Minister and Israel's intelligence let's take a listen I'll never forget that BB Netanyahu let us down that was a very terrible thing I will say that so when I see sometimes the intelligence you talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week they've got to straighten it out because they're fighting potentially a very big force they're fighting potentially Iran two nights ago I read all of Biden's security people can you imagine national defense people and they said gee I hope Hezbollah back from the north because that's the most vulnerable spot I said wait a minute Hezbollah is very smart the press isn't like when they say they're curious when Hezbollah was not well received in Israel four words I never thought I would get in a push notification on my phone you ready for this? you ready for this? Shlomo Karai against Trump Colin four words I did not imagine I was going to see those four words Shlomo Karai is the communications minister a member of the KUD party often pugilistic populist known for coming out and really giving it to the left sees the world and it's seen as seeing the world in a more polarized terms they're also called Biden names exactly right and has spoken out against Biden but came out against Trump the push notification by all accounts accurate I think this does speak to something deeper I have a provocative question a provocative theory especially to Americans and I had it first after Biden's first hold your thought let's take a listen Biden sorry Blinken is speaking at the airport today tomorrow every day in my meetings with the prime minister and Herzog with the ministers we discussed in detail what Israel needs to defend itself its people and how the United States can help to meet those needs we're delivering on those needs as we speak and we will work closely and swiftly with congress to meet them as they evolve this afternoon I met with families of American citizens that Hamas is killed we're taking hostage the enormity of their anguish their loss is immeasurable for the families of the missing there's an unrelenting agony of not knowing the fate of their loved ones something that I don't think most of us can truly understand, truly contemplate if you're not in their shoes no one should have to endure what they're going through the United States is one of more than 30 countries where family members, friends entire communities are being forced to go through this wrenching experience because of Hamas's disdain for human life and basic human dignity we're doing everything we can to secure the release of the hostages working closely with our Israeli partners I brought with me to Israel our deputy special representative for hostage affairs, Steve Gillan who is a member of the Hamas family and will stay on the ground here to support the efforts to free their loved ones I also had a chance to see up close the genuinely inspiring solidarity of the Israeli people in the wake of Hamas's attacks when I visited one of the many sites where citizens have swiftly organized efforts to collect, to sort, to distribute donations to those in need including many families who have been displaced from the south and some of the volunteers several of them dual U.S. Israeli citizens one young couple told me how they narrowly escaped with their own lives when Hamas cherished the attack the Supernova Music Festival they told me about their friends who were not fortunate who were killed at that festival others taken hostage we're still missing in our time here in Israel we've met people who've been touched in one way or another by Hamas's bloody hand a loved one a friend a classmate, a neighbor, a colleague killed, maimed missing we encountered a nation knit together by grief but also a nation united and resolved the United States shares that resolve we stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Israel from here I'll go on to Jordan where I'll meet with His Majesty King Abdullah and with Palestinian Authority President Abbas and then over the coming days we'll visit with leaders in Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Qatar across each of these engagements we'll continue pressing countries to help prevent the conflict from spreading and to use their leverage with Hamas to immediately and unconditionally release the hostages we'll also discuss how we can continue to make real our affirmative vision for a region that's more peaceful more prosperous, more secure more integrated and in fact that is the choice and the choice in some ways has been made even more stark by the actions of Hamas on Saturday One Path Forward is a region that comes together comes together integrated normalized relations among its countries people working in common purpose to common benefit more peaceful more stable then there's the path that Hamas has shown in a stark clear light terror destruction, nihilism the choice could not be more clear we know the choice that we're making our partners are making we have work to do to carry it through in all that I did today I was supported by an exceptional team here in Israel, it's been doing crucial work in incredibly difficult conditions led by a remarkable Sharjah Darfar Stephanie Howlett Stephanie is doing an extraordinary job we also look forward to welcoming our future ambassador Jack Lew to Israel as many here know Hamas launched this attack on Simqa Torah this is the day that Jews celebrate finishing the reading of the Torah this Saturday, Jews around the world will chant the first words of the book of Genesis they'll read that in the beginning there was darkness and then there was light that the first person was alone until a partner joined them I'm standing here today alongside our Israeli friends to help find the glimmers of light even in this moment of deep darkness and to make clear that as long as there's the United States Israel will never be alone Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stressing the issue of the messages and now Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcing that five ministers are joining his government from the Bani Gantz party Netanyahu says he's coming now from visiting his soldiers on the road that is leading to the I see a long long queue line of cars not on the road on the spark in between cars that were parked there by the reservists many of them were not even called in they voluntarily on their own arrived there 130 percent of drafting of reservists who arrived according to the officers there I entered the base to the command room tiny crowded with maps and screens illustrating the Gaza Strip I met there one of the commanders there's fire in their eyes and his eyes cool-headed but the fire of fight alongside it he and his officers were sitting there and they told me what they've been through they came to the base armed themselves and went out immediately one of them some of them in their own private cars they arrived in the communities along the border their comrades got killed but they kept on fighting other comrades killed but they kept on fighting they stormed they fought against the enemy simply stories of heroism that are astonishing amazing an officer sitting there a chap named Yuval commander and in reserve but he lives in Australia and he was on his way to Australia waiting for his flight in Singapore he heard about the fighting he just came back and now he's fighting there were people there from the Golan High from all over the country just around this tiny table and hired here the commander with again this fire in his eyes cool-headed but with the spirit of fight I hear him he tells me Prime Minister we can do it we are ready I will not elaborate further I ask one of the guys there one of them from the Golan High what do you say Prime Minister we must fight he tells me and eliminate them what do you think I ask all of them another top commander sitting there her name is Fani female commander she tells me I am Fani I am the mother of four children and I am saying so for the sake of my children living here in this country we must fight back I don't remember this spirit of fight this is a termination and I have been through battles even during the Yom Kippur there was but I don't remember this this kind of fire boiling desire to fight from the top commander to the last year older through the supporting forces to the drivers I don't remember anything like that this is the unique spirit we have this spirit unites us to an iron fist and this is the fist that will shatter Hamas into tiny bits the unity of the people it's doubling our strength with the unity emergency government we're performing today and it too is the triple effect of great strength of power outside and inside domestically in words because we're all of it all of us in it together standing united with genuine brotherhood and camaraderie when we're saying all of Israel our siblings brothers and sisters this is the strongest demonstration we've seen we embrace we hug with all of our being with all of our hearts the families lost their dearests families of the murdered and of course the families of those who are being held hostage kidnapped the pain is so deep that sometimes it seems too much to bear the grief the sorrow is just so heavy and we feel it's in every home here in Israel all the families we are sending a warm embracing loving hug from the depth of our hearts I am being updated constantly by that I've nominated head distribution we need to locate them first we have yet to do so we need to finish identifying all of them we are receiving foreign aid to identify bodies to understand who was murdered who was kidnapped we will not let go the to get them all back bring them all home and say that we are united with this immense determination against this vile murderous enemy and like Yuval our our amazing fighters are just recruiting themselves so many of them arriving from a broad packed airplanes because they understand they understand that this is the moment of truth this is really a war over our homeland and it must end with one thing and one thing only absolute victory crashing shattering the Hamas Hamas which is Isis this is a message it's not propaganda it's not PR it's not communication Hamas is Daesh Hamas is Isis and the world was shocked by Isis and Al Qaeda in the aftermath of 9-11 the international community created an international coalition to dismantle this enemy no one said well you know what let's sit down with Isis representatives or Al Qaeda representatives let's give them some presence or room in our countries and this is why I said no no such representation they will not be meeting with them no and if there are countries that are facilitating any presence of them they should throw them away from all countries and whoever will not be doing it should be sanctioned this is a message of strength strength that is projected from here from the leadership of the country and of the people and it will teach all those who wish to harm us that we are not divided we are not we are all in the same page we are all united we are all guided by one we are all united we are all united we are all guided by one mission to crush evil to crush cruelty to this mental zealousness to crush Hamas to crush Isis to crush Hamas the entire world was witnessing those horrendous atrocities that wild murderers committed those same lochami but in quote jihad fighters and Hamas horrors that they've committed in our towns, in our homes and the world now understand the need to to kill this monstrous barbaric movement since the very beginning of this war I am in constant communication with the US President Joe Biden and other leaders of the UK of Germany, of France and many many others I've met this morning with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken by the way made a heartfelt speech I'm sure that you've heard the speeches plural of the American President Biden and you can see the death of his identification with our struggle with our battle which is their own as well tomorrow I'll meet with your Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin we have managed to rally support aid for the State of Israel in words and in action and this support will accompany us throughout this war we're talking about military aid from the Unition we've agreed with President Biden over meanwhile I also asked if we will need the less heavy arms in this long long list if this is what we need for example weapons for those emergency units on the ground so the communities themselves in the West Bank elsewhere that there will be protection defense across the country across the state of Israel everywhere members of parliament people of Israel our nation one of the most people on the planet during the thousands of years of existence we've confronted many tests many challenges we've known pain we've known agony we've known sorrow perhaps more than any other nation but we have never surrendered never given up our power and our resilience are parallel to the nation of Israel in this test in this challenge we will stand as well even though it is even too hard to bear Saturday morning we'll be engraved in the history books this dark day for all people and for us is the most agonizing horrific day since the Holocaust first and foremost because of the atrocities the atrocities that remind us all the same atrocities way back when and yes also because of the pain the pain that this I haven't met anyone in the entire community among all people I have not met not a single person that does not know someone who has a family member of someone who was murdered or was kidnapped or was missing and I want to tell you I see it in my close circles my nephew one of my advisor was kidnapped into the other strip Yakov Yakov may he rest in peace it was a beloved driver of us powers at the prime minister's office was an accompanied my family his kids and mine grew up together played together his child Jonathan he was named after my brother and among the among those who were murdered there is no comfort here or the son of Yakov Neiman may his memory be a blessing Dr. Aitah Neiman he was a father a father of seven father of seven was murdered as well I remember I remember Yakov Yakov was he used to present him to me he tried in such love so this horrific horrific pain pain and I'm telling you personally the worst pain of parents who are burying their children I'm not even saying that anymore I'm not saying that anymore there are levels of grief of pain in this hell children who in front of their faces their parents were murdered and parents their kids were murdered in front of their eyes and youngsters were all brought into a small room and the beheadings and the rates and the killings the horrors my brothers my sisters the choice we are facing clear cut good or evil life or death light or darkness in our 75 years of independence we have turned this beautiful country of ours to a beacon of progress one hand we built our countries eliminated our enemies and this is what we will do this time as well power of life will triumph death and this will be eliminated it's important for the sake of humanity members of parliament I said a minute ago that there are horrors that remain of the holocaust days but we are not the war so ghetto we are deep rooted homeland the land of israel but the lessons of the war so ghetto 80 years ago are engraved in our national consciousness facing the enemy to kill two two underground Jewish organizations one of the left, one of the right did not were not wise enough to join forces each and every one of them decided to to work separately it might very well be that the ending was written in advance but this is not the way we should have reached it today we are facing the same enemy and I've always said and I kept on saying time and time again whenever there was a terror attack whenever there was a murder act we have a Hamas or any other organization I said the same murder of a family in a car or a boss being bombarded this private, this specific case the specific is teaching us their rule if they only could they would eliminate it they will murder each and every one of us so the intentions are same intentions like the Nazis but today facing the enemy when the ancient the ancient saying remember what Amalek did to you today we are reuniting our forces we are reuniting our forces to make sure Israel will last forever we have a strong state we have a strong government we have a strong nation we have strong people we have strong army we have this consciousness of mission and on the front lines and the home front we have deep belief faith in the past we will fight in those murder animals we will beat them we will eliminate them and when time comes we will rebuild or shattered we will rebuild the border communities along the Gaza border and we will bring it back to being a prosperous piece of land we ask every single one of you to send a message of strength to IDF soldiers to policemen and police women to those who are serving in the different security forces and rescue and rescue missions the doctors, the volunteers and I want to commend you the marvelous people of Israel you you make us all feel your deep, profound love to our fighters, your soldiers heroic acts and merciful acts my dear friends we are facing rough days ahead of us but we will not back down we will not let go this sword of David I am certain that in the war swords of iron we will emerge stronger than ever before as it said in the Bible iron and iron together and men alongside his friend together with the help of God we will promise the absolute victory thank you very much Prime Minister will now present the incoming ministers of the new cabinet according to Clause 42 to the establishment of the government I would like to form you that the ministerial committee decided on meaningful military acts out of the legal force that was given to it at 6 a.m. just to the award it was forced on the set of Israel triggered by the attack of the vile attack of Hamas against Israel out of this legal force the government decided as such befitting Clause 15 we decided to to expand the government and add member of parliament Gidon Sar member of parliament Rady Eisencourt member of parliament the government also decided to add Minister Uriel Bousa as an additional minister the government also decided to change the portfolio portfolio division and Uriel Bousa will become the minister of health Moshe Arbel will become the minister of interior the government is asking the parliament's approval to these decisions I would like to thank the prime minister members of parliament Gidon Sar now here you speak the new ministers I can't call them