 This, as Israel continues to count, it's dead. Nartal stands at over 1,400. The 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 IDF continues its striking of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Strangers of fire have also continued on the northern front between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. The United States continues to stress Israel's right to defend itself, but is also working hard at easing tensions in the region. Here's more from the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken. On Wednesday, President Biden moves to Israel. He's coming here at a critical moment for Israel, for the region and for the world. And he's coming here to do the following. 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 has slaughtered more than 1,400 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. Well, let's cross now live to our correspondent Ariel Oceran, who is standing by for us in the South. Ariel, it's been a lull and quiet for 11 hours, but those sirens sounding again in the South. This time near Beresheva, if I'm not mistaken, what can you tell us on the latest with the rockets coming over the border from Hamas into Israel? Right, Batia. So about 15 minutes ago, sirens were sounding in Tselim. That's a little bit south from where we're standing now. And as you mentioned, that's a resumption of fire from Gaza after nearly 12 hours of quiet. And but yet all the while Israel continues its striking targets in Gaza, according to the IDF of the past 24 hours. They targeted at least 200 military targets across the Gaza Strip. And this comes as the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate with over 600,000 internally displaced making their way from the northern part of the Gaza Strip down south, according in accordance with Israeli instructions warning the residents of northern Gaza to make their way down south. But again, for the past few days, there's been a dispute between Egypt and other Western parties as to the opening of the Rafah crossing and the situation there. A lot of people are amassing on the border crossing. It's the main entrance for goods that have been blocked from the Egyptian side. Also the also Israel struck the crossing a few times in the past few days. And all the while as more and more residents of the Gaza Strip are making their way down south. So is the humanitarian situation they're getting dire. And therefore the US is also ramping up its mediation and trying to to encourage trying to bring Egypt to open the crossing and for Israel to allow the entrance of goods to the Gaza Strip, as well as the exit of four nationals from the Gaza Strip. A correspondent, Ariel Oussaran there at the south in Steroids, a city in the south that's come under heavy fire in the last couple of days here in Israel. Thank you very much for that update. Well, with me here in studio is retired Colonel Dr. Jacques Nairia, the former deputy head of assessment for the Israeli military intelligence and a former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and a journalist who we cross too often, usually in Ukraine, but is now with us here in Tel Aviv, Mr. Thomas Much. Good morning to both of you. Colonel, I'd like to start with you. Israel says that it is wiping out a fortune of the Hamas heads or at least the military heads in the Gaza Strip with one of them coming from the Shura Council, if I'm not mistaken, that led the prisoner swamp in 2011 between Gelad Shalit and over a thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Well, you know, the names have been forwarded by most of the prisoners that Israel has taken in the south. And name after name, Israel is chasing them, chasing those responsible of what happened on the 7th of October. And there will be there will be no mercy. We will just try to eliminate all those who participated, who planned and who just just waved and and clapped their hands when the the Hamas fighters came back to to Gaza, throwing them to the flowers and streets. But I think that at this moment, our attention should be focused on the north, on the northern part and certainly on declarations given yesterday or the later yesterday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, saying that Hezbollah might preempt and initiate some attacks on Israel in order to prevent Israel from from entering the land, the land expedition. I would say the or the land intrusion to fight the Hamas. So this is something that we have to really consider as serious as a serious threat, because Hezbollah is I mean, Hamas is no match to Hezbollah, certainly not. And the the salvos of of missile that could reach Israel from the north are enormous. And I think that here is the basically what what is expected from the United States just to take care of that threat, certainly of the ballistic missiles that could come from deep inside Lebanon or from the Syrian Iraqi border or from Tehran itself. And of course, we will not forget Yemen. And on that note, I do want to tell our viewers that there is reports coming out now that the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Israel and the United States have reached a deal to allow humanitarian aid through the right for crossing into Egypt. Now, Thomas, you've covered the war in Ukraine, which is ongoing in Afghanistan in Nagorno-Karabakh. Now you're in Israel for the time being. There's been a big question that we've been discussing from an analytic point of view over the last couple of days here in Israel. If the day after the war in the Gaza Strip is going to look similar to what happened with the United States in Afghanistan. In other words, there is a retaliation. There is a price to pay on the heads of terrorists. But what happens the day after? Is the Israeli military going to hang around for 20 years like the U.S. military did in order to try and fill up some power vacuum? You've been in the region for a while. What is your thoughts on the matter? Well, I do have to say to start with, I think there is a worry that I mean, I think a lot of people underestimate the difficulties that might come about with taking a city like Gaza. If the people, if the Hamas terrorists inside really try and defend it with all their might, taking a city of two million people in an intense urban combat environment is extraordinarily difficult. I do remember also that, you know, the Russians thought that they would overrun Ukraine in three or four days. Now, I'm sure Israeli military planners are significantly better than that. But also, as you said, the United States thought that after Afghanistan, it would have an easy time bringing the country into democracy. Same with the war in Iraq. No, I think there is a very genuine problem that you may not be able to find someone who is able to manage the Gaza Strip, especially if you have millions of civilians who are traumatized, many, you know, thousands who have been killed by this. There may be an intense power vacuum. There may be a huge power struggle. And if other actors like those like Hezbollah or Syria get involved, the situation could just be very chaotic and unstable. With that being said, and no doubt, traumatic visuals coming out on both sides that is the ethos of war, but Israel cannot go forward having a terrorist organization like Hamas on its southern borders. And so when we go in, as we've been mentioning, we are rooting out the very heads of terror. But how is this different to what happened in the West Bank, where the IDF also went into certain areas to try and root out the heads of terror there? Well, first of all, I think that the intensity of the bombardment on Gaza is unprecedented. I mean, you know, this is in the preparation of the of the incursion of ground of ground units. This is this is not by chance or by coincidence that Israel is saying that it will take a long time. We are not going to rush into Gaza. We're not going to rush into Gaza. We asked for the evacuation of a million Palestinians southwards. And I mean, remember that from our side, we have half a million of people who have just deserted their homes also. So but we will advance there steadily, easily, and we won't rush into into ambushes and into minefields and into the traps that Hamas is preparing for us. We know that the main battle will be held by Hamas from the tunnels that they have dug under the city of Gaza. We are talking of tunnels that can that reach according to estimates about between two hundred and three hundred and fifty kilometers and pictures from some places of those those areas. You can see it's a real city, huge city that has been built there where command and control posts have been put and where all the commands of the the missile force are there. So this is we will be after that. Now, remember, you asked the first question of what will be in the day after it is quite clear that Israel is not going to conquer and Gaza. We are not going back to to take control of the life of 2.2 million Palestinians. The the American administration has signified very clearly eliminating Hamas. Yes, controlling Gaza. No, so there and they have the hinted that they see in their mind a possible solution with the Palestinian Authority. And this is why the president Biden is going to to meet with president with the president of us. Otherwise, what what what sorts of common subject do they have? He might ask him how does he feel about getting back control of Gaza, where where his people were ousted and killed and and and I would say the tortured as it was in 2007. This is, in my view, the the the issue. Remember, we are that we are very much enjoying the the solidarity expressed by the United States, but it might become suffocating because we have seen blink and participating in the in the cabinet sessions in the the smaller cabinet session and hearing and then, you know, reporting. And then we are seeing the Americans that they might have. Look, we are helping you, we are assisting you, but we have also a price. We just have to remember that the United States is a superpower with interests different than those of Israel. Nothing is for free. Gentlemen, stay with us because I do want to continue this topic, but I do want to go now to our correspondent, Robert Swift, who's standing by for us live near the northern border with Lebanon. Rob, there are reports coming out now on the IDF saying that it killed four terrorists trying to infiltrate into Israel from the Lebanon border. What's the latest walking you update us with? So that piece of information from the IDF that it killed four attackers in a strike somewhere along the border fence. Those four individuals were attempted to place to place an explosive device. Now, that piece of information kind of is the last piece of jigsaw, which helps explain a series of events which we've seen here on the northern border in the last sort of since about the end of yesterday afternoon. So just to run through that, essentially, what took place is in the late hours of the afternoon, there was small arms fire from Hezbollah forces against observation towers. At the time, it was understood that this made it possible that an infiltration attempt would would occur as the IDF's eyes were blinded. Now, a little bit later in the around about eight o'clock here, local time, there was artillery strikes seen along the border in the area around Hanita. And again, during the middle of the night, there was additional artillery strikes, both of these being from IDF forces. So it seems what happened here is Hezbollah attempted to to mask the eyes of the IDF and then getting close to place an explosive device. But despite the attempt to undermine Israeli surveillance, clearly it wasn't sufficient, the IDF saw the unit attempted to place the explosives and eliminated the squad that was attempting to do that. What's interesting here is that this is once again actions taking place around the Hanita area with there seeming to be two main spheres of gravity happening on the northern border. One is Hanita, which is towards the western edge of Israel's northern border. And the other being the communities around Muttullah, which is in the far eastern end of the of Israel's northern border. These seem to be the two main places where actions are taking place. In the last, say, 18 hours, it seemed to be at this end. But at other points in the skirmishes in the last week, the focus has been more on the eastern end and it could go back and forth between these two points as Hezbollah and the Allied Palestinian groups is operating with an attempt to find weaknesses in the northern border. And Rob, it's been 11 hours of quiet, but the sirens are going off near the Gaza Strip envelope areas and a little bit further in towards Israel. What's happening at the moment near the north? Has there been any sirens in the last couple of hours there apart from this attempted infiltration attempt? There hasn't been. But rocket attacks have been. I can't say they haven't happened here in the north. They have, but it's been less common in instances in the during the 10 days during since the beginning of the fighting, where there has been rocket attacks here. It's actually often been long range launches from Gaza, as opposed to launches from the Lebanese side. Most of the attacks coming across the border have been anti-tank guided missiles rather than long and medium range rockets. That's not to say that Hezbollah doesn't have a rocket arsenal. Actually, it's arsenal of rockets and guided missiles surpasses Hamas's by a considerable amount. They just haven't yet used that that weapon at the minute, sticking to skirmishes using these anti-tank guided missiles. Correspondent Robert Swift reporting from us near the northern border in Israel with Lebanon. Thank you very much for that update and still with me here in studios with Dr. Tide Kernel, Dr. Jacques Nerilla and journalist Thomas Much. Dr. Important to ask the question, what is Hezbollah's plan here? We've seen what has broken out with Hamas and we keep hearing the same thing over and over again being that Hamas is the little brother of Hezbollah. But then again, we were surprised. Were we surprised because this was an infiltration into Israel or because of their rocket arsenal? If you mean by Hamas, I think that this is a total intelligence failure, totally, totally. And it has to be investigated and people will have to pay with their heads. This is definitely something that has to be really, really studied. And I think that will be studied in the generations to come. How come two thousand five hundred fighters from Hamas were just on the border and were not discovered? And now we see that the soldier, the girls that were deployed on the border with their cameras, with their screens just alerted the higher command and the higher command just ignored that. This is incredible, things that are really incredible. But I mean, I think that these are the things that are to be studied after the war and there are people who already have taken responsibility. Unlike our prime minister, others have said that we are responsible. Anyway, the main thing is with Hezbollah is known already ahead of time. What what Hamas has has done in the Gaza Strip is the exact copy of what Hezbollah was planning on the Lebanese border. This this plan was already devised in 2011. We know that that it was attacking the obstacle, opening, opening the obstacle for for elite forces, the Radoan forces inside and taking taking control of most of the localities on the border lines. Unfortunately for Hamas and luckily for us, he did not it did not initiate the the attack together with with Hamas. Otherwise, I think that this country would be here speaking about what is the situation in the north because they would be present there and they might even have been closer to to reach Haifa and and other the big towns in the in the north. So the plan was to go over and now let us not forget the speeches of the latest. I mean, we've been alerting all the time as an academic. OK, that in his speeches, Hamas, Hassan Nasallah said very openly, the time to eradicate to eliminate Israel has come and the idea was devised and teleguided by by by Iran, trying to forming, in fact, a sort of a sort of belt around Israel to suffocate Israel. We see that from Lebanon, from Syria, from in the West Bank, Gaza. Do not forget the Syrian the Syrian Iraqi border and from Yemen. The plan was that and this is what the Iranians are now threatening. This is the time to eliminate Israel. This the time has come and we are in. I mean, we don't like to say it, but we are in an existential threat, which is not, I mean, which we can overcome. But definitely, this is a plan that was devised long ago. And unfortunately, the intelligence has failed. And we luckily we have our citizens, our heroes, who just sucked the onslaught in Gaza. And now, I mean, the Hezbollah cannot. I mean, the surprise is over. And and as you see day after day, the attempts from Hezbollah to cross the border with with terrorists and so on. And they meet only the army there. And Thomas, I want to shift angle slightly because for the first couple of days that the war broke out, media coverage from usually hostile media outlets was relatively sympathetic towards Israel, an unprovoked attack, an attack that had nothing to do with territory that we saw innocent women, children, elderly being kidnapped, not just soldiers or men. We now seeing that ever since the retaliation on the Gaza Strip, that has sort of switched the images coming out of the Gaza Strip, with a lot of the media returning to their usual bias towards Israel. The question is if Hezbollah is going to launch a simultaneous attack as well. Where will the media sympathies be? You've covered war in various places, you know, as well as many do that compassion fatigue at some point sets in. The longer that this goes on, do you see that happening? Or do you see perhaps the world being somewhat sympathetic on both Israel's defenses in the south and the north? So there could be a parallel with here with what happened in Ukraine. In Ukraine, the world's attention was absolutely fixed on what was going on for about the first month or so. But then once the threat to Kiev receded, all of a sudden media attention, it did dry up, but it sort of started to fade away. I also think there could be a slight parallel here with what happened after 9-11. There wasn't a huge outpouring of sympathy after 9-11 for the United States, for this horrible, unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians. However, in retrospect, 9-11 became remembered more for the bungled US response to it. It's not impossible if the images coming out of Gaza become bloody enough and it goes on for long enough. And the civilian casualty toll rises high enough that that international sympathy for Israel will wane. Correct. But no one in that point said that they see both sides with regards to 9-11, at least at the time. Yes, at the time. But then once the United States went into Afghanistan and then later into Iraq, that media attention did switch. The timelines were different, but I don't think the general point is. Now, as Israel grapples with the aftermath of what we've been discussing, the deadliest attack on the country since the foundation of this state. People around the world are showing support from funds and supplies to joining the fight themselves, thousands are coming together to help Israel with the war against Hamas and it calls that it breaks down some of those initiatives. A nation of nine million is reeling in pain, but amid all the heartache, garb major signs of humanity. We've been so destroyed over the past few days, like, literally, emotionally. And, you know, 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, we're donating, we're donating our time, we're donating our donations, you're like working together. And it's just it's just like it's such a heartwarming feeling. And it's so nice to feel something so positive. Hundreds of funds 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 the 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 protests has been transformed. Once we had this power event into helping in different settings. I took into under my wing to try to direct and try to build all this array that takes care of the absentees of the kidnapped on the basic people, on 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. 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. Still with our guests here in studio. Doctor, I want to stay with the public and the human angle of the story for the time being. We know when we've seen the visuals of Iranians, citizens in Iran coming out in support of Israel, though the regime has vowed to eradicate Israel off the face of the earth, what is the situation at the moment with regards to the Lebanese, whose people are not overly friendly towards the Israelis, including their regime as well? Well, Lebanese living in the south understand very and have already understood that something is very big is going to happen. We've seen we've been watching and monitoring evacuations of thousands of residents from South Lebanon and the coast through towns of of the tire and siden towards the north. So they are preparing for that. We know for sure that the Christians camp in Lebanon is divided over the issue. Those who are allied of Hezbollah, the the honest mission on and company are expressing their solidarity with Hezbollah, whereas the others are against the whole idea of of entering the war because they feel that it might cost Lebanon, I mean, to be brought back to the Stone Age. This is what practically the Israelis are saying. And I believe that. And I think that another on another front, I would say that we might see the beginning of the ground offensive after the visit of the president Joe Biden. Thomas, I want to get your reaction just in the last minute that we have left of the broadcast. So when we're talking about public opinion here, I also think it's worth mentioning that if you're outside Israel and you're looking and you don't really understand what it's like to live with not just obviously the memory of the Holocaust, but you also don't understand what it's like to have had hostile neighbors for since the founding of your country, you know, to have fought many, many different wars with your neighbors and one against all odds. And so I think when people are looking to criticize what is going on, all the Israeli response here, there is some level of understanding that they lack not being in that sort of existential threat day by day. I'll take you by your hand. We'll go together to the front. Thomas Smach, retired colonel, Dr. Jacques Neria, thank you both very much for being here for more analysis. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Over 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured. And the war with Hamas continues. 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We're bringing news coverage of day 11 of Israel's war against Hamas. It's now official. Newest President Joe Biden will be making a war time solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday, the latest demonstration of Washington's overwhelming support for Jerusalem following the October 7th Hamas onslaught. This, as Israel continues to count, it's dead. Now, the toll stands at over 1400. The 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 of continues its striking of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Exchanges of fire have also continued on the northern front between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. The United States continues to stress Israel's right to defend itself, but is also working hard at easing tensions in the region. Here's more from the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. On Wednesday, President Biden was at Israel. He's coming here at a critical moment for Israel, for the region and for the world. And he's coming here to do the following. 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 is slaughter of more than 1,400 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. Well, let's cross now live to our correspondent Ariel Oceran, who is standing by for us in the south. Ariel, it's been a lull and quiet for 11 hours, but those sirens sounding again in the south this time near Beresheva, if I'm not mistaken. What can you tell us on the latest with the rockets coming over the border from Hamas into Israel? Right, but yes, so about 15 minutes ago, sirens were sounding in Ceylim. That's a little bit south from where we're standing now. And as you mentioned, that's a resumption of fire from Gaza after nearly 12 hours of quiet and but yet all the while, Israel continues. It's striking targets in Gaza, according to the IDF of the past 24 hours. They targeted at least 200 military targets across the Gaza Strip. And this comes as the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate with over 600,000 internally displaced making their way from the northern part of the Gaza Strip down south, according in accordance with Israeli instructions, warning the residents of northern Gaza to make their way down south. But again, for the past few days, there's been a dispute between Egypt and and other Western parties as to the opening of the Rafa crossing and the situation there. A lot of people are amassing on the border crossing. It's the main entrance for goods that have been blocked from the Egyptian side. Also the also Israel struck the crossing a few times in the past few days. And all the while, as more and more residents of the Gaza Strip are making their way down south, so is the humanitarian situation they're getting dire. And therefore the US is also ramping up its mediation and trying to to encourage trying to bring Egypt to open the crossing and for Israel to allow the entrance of goods to the Gaza Strip, as well as the exit of four nationals from the Gaza Strip. Correspondent Ariel Ossiran there at the south in Steroz, a city in the south that's come under heavy fire in the last couple of days here in Israel. Thank you very much for that update. Well, with me here in studio is retired colonel Dr. Jacques Nairia, the former deputy head of assessment for the Israeli military intelligence and a former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Kurabin and a journalist who we cross too often, usually in Ukraine, but is now with us here in Tel Aviv, Mr. Thomas Match. Good morning to both of you. Colonel, I'd like to start with you. Israel says that it is wiping out a fortune of the Hamas heads or at least the military heads in the Gaza Strip with one of them coming from the Shura Council, if I'm not mistaken, that led to the prisoner swamp in 2011 between Gilad Shalit and over a thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Well, you know, the names have been forwarded by most of the prisoners that Israel has taken in the south. And name after name, Israel is chasing them, chasing those responsible of what happened on the 7th of October. And there will be there will be no mercy. We would just try to eliminate all those who participated, who planned and who just just waved and and clapped their hands when the the Hamas fighters came back to to Gaza, throwing them to them flowers and sweets. But I think that at this moment, our attention should be focused on the north, on the north part and certainly on declarations given yesterday or the later yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, saying that Hezbollah might preempt and and initiate some attacks on Israel in order to prevent Israel from from entering the land, the land expedition, I would say the or the land intrusion to fight Hamas. So this is something that we have to really consider as serious as as a serious threat, because Hezbollah is Hamas is no match to Hezbollah. And certainly not. And the the salvos of of missile that could reach Israel from the north are enormous. And I think that here is the basically what what is expected from the United States just to take care of that threat, certainly of the ballistic missiles that could come from deep inside Lebanon or from the Syrian Iraqi border or from Tehran itself. And of course, we will not forget Yemen. And on that note, I do want to tell our viewers that there is reports coming out now that the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Israel and the United States have reached a deal to allow humanitarian aid through the rifle crossing into Egypt. Now, Thomas, you've covered the war in Ukraine, which is ongoing in Afghanistan in Nagorno-Karabakh. Now you're in Israel for the time being. There's been a big question that we've been discussing from an analytic point of view over the last couple of days here in Israel. If the day after the war in the Gaza Strip is going to look similar to what happened with the United States in Afghanistan. In other words, there is a retaliation. There is a price to pay on the heads of terrorists. But what happens the day after? Is the Israeli military going to hang around for 20 years like the US military did in order to try and fill up some power vacuum? You've been in the region for a while. What is your thoughts on the matter? Well, I do have to say to start with, I think there is a worry that I mean, I think a lot of people underestimate the difficulties that might come about with taking a city like Gaza. If the people, if the Hamas terrorists inside really try and defend it with all their might, taking a city of two million people in an intense urban combat environment is extraordinarily difficult. I do remember also that, you know, the Russians thought that they would overrun Ukraine in three or four days. Now, I'm sure Israeli military planners are significantly better than that. But also, as you said, the United States thought that after Afghanistan, it would have an easy time bringing the country into democracy. Same with the war in Iraq. No, I think there is a very genuine problem that you may not be able to find someone who is able to manage the Gaza Strip, especially if you have millions of civilians who are traumatized, many thousands who have been killed by this. There may be an intense power vacuum, there may be a huge power struggle. And if other actors like those like Hezbollah or Syria get involved, the situation could just be very chaotic and unstable. With that being said, and no doubt, traumatic visuals coming out on both sides that is the ethos of war. But Israel cannot go forward having a terrorist organization like Hamas on its southern borders. And so when we go in, as we've been mentioning, we are rooting out the very heads of terror. But how is this different to what happened in the West Bank, where the IDF also went into certain areas to try and root out the heads of terror there? Well, first of all, I think that the intensity of the bombardment on Gaza is unprecedented. I mean, you know, this is in preparation of the of the incursion of ground of ground units. This is this is not by chance or by coincidence that Israel is saying that it will take a long time. We are not going to rush into Gaza. We're not going to rush into Gaza. We asked him for the evacuation of a million Palestinians southwards. And I mean, remember that from our side, we have half a million of people who have just deserted their homes also. So but we will advance there steadily, easily. And we won't rush into into ambushes and into minefields and into the traps that Hamas is preparing for us. We know that the main battle will be held by Hamas from the tunnels that they have dug under the city of Gaza. We are talking of tunnels that can that reach according to estimates about between 200 and 350 kilometers and pictures from some places of those those areas. You can see it's a real city, huge city that has been built there, where command and control posts have been put and where all the the commands of the the missile force are there. So this is we will be after that. Now, remember, you asked the first question of what will be in the day after. It is quite clear that Israel is not going to conquer and Gaza. We are not going back to to take control of the life of 2.2 million Palestinians. The the American administration has signified very clearly eliminating Hamas. Yes. Controlling Gaza. No. So there and they have the hinted that they see in their mind a possible solution with the Palestinian Authority. And this is why the President Biden is going to to meet with President with the President Abbas. Otherwise, what what what sorts of common subject do they have? He might ask him how do how does he feel about getting back control of Gaza? Where where his people were ousted and killed and and and I would say the tortured as it was in 2007. This is, in my view, the the the issue. Remember, we are that we are very much enjoying the the solidarity expressed by the United States, but it might become suffocating because we have seen Blinken participating in the in the cabinet sessions in the the smaller cabinet session and hearing and then, you know, reporting. And then we are seeing the Americans that they might have. Look, we are helping you, we are assisting you, but we have also a price. We just have to remember that the United States is a superpower with interest different than those of Israel. Nothing is for free. Gentlemen, stay with us because I do want to continue this topic, but I do want to go now to our correspondent, Robert Swift, who's standing by for us live near the northern border with Lebanon. Rob, there are reports coming out now on the IDF saying that it killed four terrorists trying to infiltrate into Israel from the Lebanon border. What's the latest walking you update us with? So that piece of information from the IDF that it killed four attackers in a strike somewhere along the border fence. Those four individuals were attempted to place to place an explosive device. Now, that piece of information kind of is the last piece of jigsaw, which helps explain a series of events, which we've seen here on the northern border in the last sort of since about the end of yesterday afternoon. So just to run through that, essentially, what took place is in the late hours of the afternoon, there was small arms fire from Hezbollah forces against observation towers. At the time, it was understood that this made it possible that an infiltration attempt would would occur as the IDF's eyes were blinded. Now, a little bit later in the around about eight o'clock here, local time, there was artillery strikes seen along the border in the area around Hanita. And again, during the middle of the night, there was additional artillery strikes, both of these being from IDF forces. So it seems what happened here is Hezbollah attempted to mask the eyes of the IDF and then getting close to place an explosive device. But despite the attempt to undermine Israeli surveillance, clearly it wasn't sufficient. The IDF saw the unit attempted to place explosives and eliminated the squad that was attempting to do that. What's interesting here is that this is once again actions taking place around the Hanita area, with there seeming to be two main spheres of gravity happening on the northern border. One is Hanita, which is towards the western edge of Israel's northern border, and the other being the communities around Muttullah, which is on the far eastern end of the of Israel's northern border. These seem to be the two main places where actions are taking place. In the last, say, 18 hours, it seemed to be at this end. But other points in the skirmishes in the last week, the focus has been more on the eastern end and it could go back and forward between these two points as Hezbollah and the Allied Palestinian groups is operating with an attempt to find weaknesses in the northern border. And Rob, it's been 11 hours of quiet, but the sirens are going off near the Gaza Strip envelope areas and a little bit further in towards Israel. What's happening at the moment near the north? Has there been any sirens in the last couple of hours there, apart from this attempted infiltration attempt? There hasn't been, but rocket attacks have been. I can't say they haven't happened here in the north. They have, but it's been less common in instances in the during the 10 days since the beginning of the fighting where there has been rocket attacks here. It's actually often been long range launches from Gaza as opposed to launches from the Lebanese side. Most of the attacks coming across the border have been anti-tank guided missiles rather than long and medium range rockets. That's not to say that Hezbollah doesn't have a rocket arsenal. Actually, it's arsenal of rockets and guided missiles surpasses, by a considerable amount. They just haven't yet used that weapon at the minute, sticking to skirmishes using these anti-tank guided missiles. Correspondent Robert Swift reporting from us near the northern border in Israel with Lebanon. Thank you very much for that update. And still with me here in studios, retired colonel Dr. Jacques Neriya and journalist Thomas March. Dr. Important to ask the question, what is Hezbollah's plan here? We've seen what has broken out with Hamas. And we keep hearing the same thing over and over again, being that Hamas is the little brother of Hezbollah. But then again, we were surprised. Were we surprised because this was an infiltration into Israel or because of their rocket arsenal? If you mean by Hamas, I think that this is a total intelligence failure. Totally, totally. And it has to be investigated and people have to pay with their heads. This is definitely something that has to be really, really studied. And I think it will be studied in the generations to come. How come two thousand five hundred fighters from Hamas were just on the border and were not discovered? And now we see that the soldiers, the girls that were deployed on the border with their cameras, with their screens just alerted the higher command and the higher command just ignored that. This is incredible. Things that are really incredible. But I mean, I think that these are the things that are to be studied after the war. And there are people who already have taken responsibility. Unlike our prime minister, others have said that we are responsible. Anyway, the main thing is with Hezbollah is known already ahead of time. What Hamas has done in the Gaza Strip is the exact copy of what Hezbollah was planning on the Lebanese border. This this plan was already devised in 2011. We know that that it was attacking the obstacle, opening opening the obstacle for for elite forces, the Radoan forces inside and taking it taking control of most of the localities on the border lines. Unfortunately for Hamas and luckily for us, he did not it did not initiate the attack together with with Hamas. Otherwise, I think that this country would be here speaking about what is the situation in the north, because they would be present there. And they might even have been closer to to reach Haifa and other big towns in the in the north. So the plan was to go over and now let us not forget the speeches. The latest I mean, we've been alerting all the time as an academic. OK, that in his speeches, Hamas Hassan Nasrallah said very openly, the time to eradicate to eliminate Israel has come. And the idea was devised and teleguided by by by Iran, trying to forming, in fact, a sort of a sort of belt around Israel to suffocate Israel. We see that from Lebanon, from Syria, from in the West Bank, Gaza. Do not forget the Syrian the Syrian Iraqi border and from Yemen. The plan was that and this is what the Iranians are now threatening. This is the time to eliminate Israel. This the time has come and we are in. I mean, we don't like to say it, but we are in an existential threat, which is not I mean, which we can overcome. But definitely this is a plan that was devised long ago. And unfortunately, the intelligence has failed. And we luckily, we have our citizens, our heroes, who just subbed the onslaught in Gaza. And now, I mean, the Hezbollah cannot, I mean, the surprise is over. And as you see day after day, the attempts from Hezbollah to cross the border with terrorists and so on, and they meet only the army there. And Thomas, I want to shift angles slightly because for the first couple of days that the war broke out, media coverage from usually hostile media outlets was relatively sympathetic towards Israel, an unprovoked attack, an attack that had nothing to do with territory that we saw innocent women, children, elderly being kidnapped, not just soldiers or men. We now seeing that ever since the retaliation on the Gaza Strip, that has sort of switched the images coming out of the Gaza Strip. A lot of the media returning to their usual bias towards Israel. The question is if Hezbollah is going to launch a simultaneous attack as well. Where will the media sympathies be? You've covered war in in various places and you know, as well as many do, that compassion fatigue at some point sets in. The longer that this goes on, do you see that happening? Or do you see perhaps the world being somewhat sympathetic on both Israel's defences in the South and the North? So there could be a parallel with here with what happened in Ukraine. In Ukraine, the world's attention was absolutely fixed on what was going on for about the first month or so. But then once the threat to Kiev receded, all of a sudden media attention, it did dry up, but it sort of started to fade away. I also think there could be a slight parallel here with what happened after 9-11. There wasn't a huge outpouring of sympathy after 9-11 for the United States for this horrible, unprovoked terrorist attack against civilians. However, in retrospect, 9-11 became remembered more for the bungled US response to it. It's not impossible if the images coming out of Gaza become bloody enough and it goes on for long enough. And the civilian casualty toll rises high enough that that international sympathy for Israel will wane. Correct. But no one in that point said that they see both sides with regards to 9-11, at least at the time. Yes, at the time. But then once the United States went into Afghanistan and then later into Iraq, that media attention did switch. The timelines were different, but I don't think the general point is. Now, as Israel grapples with the aftermath of what we've been discussing, the deadliest attack on the country since the foundation of this state. People around the world are showing support from funds and supplies to joining the fight themselves. Thousands are coming together to help Israel with the war against Hamas. And it holds that it breaks down some of those initiatives. A nation of nine million is reeling in pain. But amid all the heartache, garb major signs of humanity. We've been so destroyed over the past few days, like literally emotionally and, you know, 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, you're donating a time, you're donating after donations, you're like working together. And it's just it's just like it's such a heartwarming feeling. And it's so nice to feel something so positive. Hundreds of funds around the world have been set up to support Israel. As major corporations pledge millions of dollars in humanitarian relief. I know you join me in absolutely having a broken heart for the 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. I took into under my wing to try to direct and try to build all this array that takes care of the absentees of the kidnapped on the basic people, on 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. Each act of kindness from abroad and at home, serving as a reminder to the state of Israel that light will always outshine darkness. Still with our guests here in studio, Dr. I want to stay with the public and the human angle of the story for the time we're living. We know when we've seen the visuals of Iranians, citizens in Iran coming out in support of Israel, although the regime has vowed to eradicate Israel off the face of the earth. What is the situation at the moment with regards to the Lebanese, whose people are not overly friendly towards the Israelis, including their regime as well? Well, Lebanese living in the south understand very and have already understood that something is very big is going to happen. We've seen we've been watching and monitoring evacuations of thousands of residents from South Lebanon and the coast through tons of of the tire and siden towards the north. So they are preparing for that. We know for sure that the Christians cap in Lebanon is divided over the issue. Those who are allied of Hezbollah, the honest Michel Aoun and company are expressing their solidarity with Hezbollah, whereas the others are against the whole idea of of entering the war, because they feel that it might cost Lebanon, I mean, to be brought back to the Stone Age. This is what practically the Israelis are saying. And I believe that. And I think that another on another front, I would say that we might see the beginning of the ground offensive after the visit of the president, Joe Biden. Thomas, I want to get your reaction just in the last minute that we have left of the broadcast. So when we're talking about public opinion here, I also think it's worth mentioning that if you're outside Israel and you're looking and you don't really understand what it's like to live with not just obviously the memory of the Holocaust, but you also don't understand what it's like to have had hostile neighbors for since the founding of your country. You know, to have fought many, many different wars with your neighbors and one against all odds. And so I think when people are looking to criticise what is going on, all the Israeli response here, there is some level of understanding that they lack not being in that sort of existential threat day by day. I'll take you by your hand. We'll go together to the front. Thomas Smach, retired colonel, Dr. Jacques Neria, thank you both very much for being here for more analysis. Stay with us. We'll be right back. 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 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. It 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 behaviour. Burning and breaking news coverage of day 11 of Israel's war against Hamas. It's now official. US 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 onslaught. This is Israel continues to count its dead. Now the toll stands at over 1400. The 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, while the IDF continues its striking of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Exchanges of fire also continued on the northern front between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. The United States continues to stress Israel's right to self-defense, but is also working hard at easing tensions in the region. Here's more from the 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. With me here in studios, Dr. Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States and a former deputy Israeli minister and parliament member and reserve colonel Grisha Yakubovich, the former head of the civilian department of Kogat for the IDF and an Israeli Palestinian relations expert. Before we do that, we are crossing now to the IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hageri, who was giving an update. We're at the start of the 11th day of war in Gaza. Tonight, IDF and Shin Bet forces took down a Hamas official responsible for the prisoner's portfolio. Since the start of the war, we've struck thousands of targets and we continue these strikes in an ongoing way. I wish to stress there is no ceasefire. There is no ceasefire. We continue the fighting. We continue to promote our readiness for the next stages of the war. Beyond that, no extraordinary events or shootouts over the night. In the north, the IDF thwarted an infiltration attempt of a terrorist squad that was approaching the fence next to the community of Hanita. We thwarted them from air, took down four terrorists, and this is how we will continue to operate. Anyone who attempts to make it to the fence and enter the state of Israel will be killed. Anyone who attempts to do so will be killed on the fence. In response to yesterday's events, we struck military targets of the Hezbollah terror group. We had no casualties overnight. We remain focused on Gaza. We are on high alertness in the north. Should Hezbollah make this serious mistake, we will respond with very strong force. The state of Lebanon needs to ask itself whether it risks Lebanon for the terrorists of ISIS in Gaza. They need to ask this question. The chief of staff and the commander of IDF in the north are assessing the situation and we're doing it with responsibility while examining both the situation in the north and in the south. The US sent commander General Kareela has touched down in Israel and he's now with IDF chief of staff, Herzi Alevi, looking at all the arenas and also at other threats in the region. Statements of states, US forces that are making their way here, both the aircraft carriers and the American forces that are in the Gulf, all are coordinated. Israel is ready on its own, both in the north and in the south. But there is great value to the coordination with the Americans. I wish to address the video of the kidnapped Mia Shem. Our hearts are with the family of Mia Shem and with all the families. The family was informed that she is abducted in Gaza. I wish to be clear, this is psychological terrorism of Hamas. This is Hamas psychological terrorism against the people of Israel. We understand that there will be other videos of such. We will handle that psychological terror. In this video, Hamas attempts to portray itself as a humane organization while it is a murderous terror organization. It is responsible for the murdering of women, children, elderly. And all of these who asked themselves about this footage and how Mia seems humanely in hospital. How did a 21 years old girl who made it to a party in Raeem to dance, made it to be kidnapped by a murderous terror group in Gaza? Hamas attempts desperately to restore its image. But the world does not forget, does not forget who started, doesn't forget who took babies, children, women, men, slaughtered them. And some of them took into Gaza. The leadership of Hamas is disconnected and operates with terror towards the people of Gaza, as it does so for the people of Israel. It stills their fuel, it stills their food, and we will continue to make all the efforts in order not to allow Hamas to do so in the city of Gaza and its surrounding in order to allow the residents of Gaza and its neighborhood, neighboring area to move out, to expose Hamas facilities, take out the human shield. It is trying not to lose control and will continue to dismantle its control. The IDF will continue to operate in all the intelligence and operational means in order to bring back the kidnapped back home. This is our first priority. The IDF is in charge of, with the gal here, she is in charge of this task. There is a hotline at star 6754. In addition to the hotline, we also have a support center for the families of the kidnapped and operatives are attempting to reach all the families. So far, announcements have been given to families of 299 IDF fallen. We feel the pain of the families. We continue with the efforts to locate the kidnapped. The data is changing. Every information, every piece of information we find on the ground, we update the families with. I'm aware of the difficulty of the uncertainty, but we must be patient and careful. In order to present precisely the picture that we have in real time. We make a tremendous effort so that everyone in the fighting zone will have the right equipment. An Air Force plane has landed in Israel yesterday with ceramic vests bought by the IDF. Some of the equipment that was brought turned out to be improper. I spoke to a mother of three reservists yesterday. I've learned from that conversation as we learn from every conversation. And through these conversations, we need to find the existing gaps and overcome them. Nothing will be perfect, but we're working quickly during the fighting. As for now, as for the home front command, there is no change in the instructions. Many asks us about the Hamas capabilities. Hamas still holds abilities of rocket launchers. And we need to understand that the defense is not complete. The behavior of the public enables us to prevent casualties, does not give Hamas achievements. It enables us to continue to fight this war. We will continue to update you on anything. And as I introduced before, Ria Admiral Daniel Hagarri gave that update. In here, a studio with me is reserve colonel Grisha Yakubovich and Dr. Michael Oren-Colonel. I'd like to ask you to give a little bit of feedback with regards to the IDF spokesperson's unit giving updates now every single day, making sure that the public is aware of what's going on. But is there substance to their updates barring what the public already knows? Well, the IDF does it twice a day. And it's very important if we go back to the first Gulf War, Shai Nachman, I think, if I'm not wrong, it did the same thing twice a day. Actually saying or talking about the real facts and not about the fake news. It creates confidence to the people of Israel, to the confidence to the soldiers. And even the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are also waiting to Daniel Harari that he was said because they believe him and they do not believe Hamas or the PA or others. So this is something I learned during my career. What I understand that Hamas are under a huge pressure. OK, we can see it immediately. The moment I saw the video yesterday from this young woman that was kidnapped with the French, yes, God save her by the way. It means Hamas are in real, real, real pressure. And I think and I hope that this is done that they will start doing things. I want to shift the topic now from the military to the political because big news in the region, US President Joe Biden making his way here this evening, being Tuesday evening, he'll be here in the region in Israel on Wednesday. First and foremost, what is on his agenda? There's a fortune of moving part here between the military and the political, but also the humanitarian and the hostages. It's it's quite an event, almost unprecedented. President Kennedy in 1973 went to Berlin at the height of the Berlin crisis. And President Biden went to Kiev last February on the near year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He will in that visit, he had to fly to Poland and take a 10 hour train ride to Kiev under great, great secrecy. I would imagine during this period he will not land at our major airport. He will land at an undisclosed airport. He'll be taken by helicopter to meetings in Jerusalem and will have a press conference there. And I'm pretty sure that Hamas will arrange a warm welcome for him on that time. So all this really should be prepared for that, really. We're willing to, I think, endure that for the presidential visit. It is a paramount significance, first of all, to give immense credit to President Biden for undertaking this. It is not easy. It is a risk. It will be criticized by no small amount of Americans. Why should the President of the United States risk his life in a war zone? It's never it's not not to be taken for granted. And you'd be surprised to criticism come from Republicans, come from Democrats, different segments of the population, but as an insignificant and, yes, as you said, there are many, many issues on the docket. There is the role of American forces that have been moved into the Middle East, two major aircraft carriers and naval groups, perhaps the largest naval force in history now has been moved into our area as a check, as deterrence against Hezbollah and Iran. The question of humanitarian aid, the Secretary of Defense has addressed again and again, because still the Americans are giving us a green light to go in and uproot Hamas with the caveat, the proviso that that the images of Palestinian civilians suffering will not change public opinion to such a degree that the administration can no longer give us that type of support. Simple as that. Well, I want to challenge you on that because are they actually giving us a full blown green light? According to Washington, we know that there is a significant amount of freedom that Jerusalem has with regards to its military operations in the Gaza Strip. But where exactly are its red lines? Because the big question of the moment is, yes, Biden undoubtedly coming in to show his solidarity and support, our biggest supporter in the world at the moment, but there's also a part of it that is he coming to make sure that Israel abides and confines by the rules of law and the rules of war? It's not just that. There's a certain wisdom in this country that the president's coming to give us what they call in Hebrew a hub, a hug. OK, what's the hug mean? This will actually prevent us from from suing the ground in Kyrgyzstan to Gaza while he's here or even after he's here. So while he's here, it'll be a very big check on our ability to mount that incursion. So I'm not at this stage, not at this stage. I'm not really to sign on to that to that interpretation of events. I don't think he's coming here to prevent us from invading Gaza. I think he's going there again to show solidarity. But he's going to ask us to think different ways, certainly about the morning after. And this is something I strongly, strongly advocate that we should be engaged in an intimate discussion with our American allies, with our Arab allies now about the day after we do not want to reoccupy Gaza. That is a bad idea. And and there I very much agree with the president. He said it the other day on 60 minutes, a bad idea. We don't want to be back in that situation. But but we have to plan for it now. And it's not too early. Maybe some type of interior force, maybe an international force that will install a peaceful governance in Gaza, begin the process of reconstructing the strip. And there's been a lot of reconstruction to do. I think they're talking about money now for that. So I think it's all for the good. That's for the good. It's important for us to cooperate to the best degree we can with this president, because he's gone out in a limb for us. I want to continue talking about the day after. But Colonel, I want to bring you into the discussion here by speaking about something that the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, pointed out in his comments, announcing that Biden was coming to the region. And he said, and I quote, If Hamas in any way blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians, including by seizing the aid itself, we will be the first to condemn it. And we will work hardly to prevent it from happening again. As Michael Oren points out, unprecedented the amount of US military and forces that are in the region. But we don't have US troops on the ground. So how does America plan on working with the IDF who is on the ground in possibly preventing or putting some kind of pressure from an action point of view on Hamas as opposed to just condemning it if this aid does not go through? First of all, we already seen Hamas stealing aid that came from the UN to the Gaza residents. They stole diesel that was supposed to reach to UN hospitals. They stole food from a shatty refugee camp warehouses. It's in places I used to visit in the past. And during the campaign 2014, I was responsible on all the aid to the people inside Gaza in the shelters. And they stole some of the food that I brought to Gaza. So we had to find ways, creative ways, how to push it into Gaza. So Hamas would not be able to steal the aid that we were sending together. Israel is a moral country. We are a moral army. And I'm sure that even without international pressure, we will send somehow aid or we will deal with humanitarian issues because we care about the people as people, as human beings. OK, I just want to open a question. Did Hamas, when they attacked Beiri or Far'aza, they brought with them some first aid or food to the people that they were that they were about to conquer in Beiri? No, they came to the slaughter. They even did not think about providing them aid. There are other ways, other ways to send aid to the people in Gaza, not necessarily on the ground. Stay with us, gentlemen, because I do want to go now to the Northern Bordau correspondent, Robert Swift, is standing by for us, Robert. I believe some commotion on the northern border and anti-tank missile shot into Israel. And that's correct. We're just now getting reports of an anti-tank weapon being fired into Israel. We're hearing reports that it may have hit a civilian car. But those reports are still being looked into. This would be one of many anti-tank missiles that have been fired in the Matula area. This is in the far eastern end of Israel's northern border. There's been continuous fights there, continuous shots from anti-tank teams on from the Lebanese side of the border. And that is just one of many incidents. The Israeli military, we understand, is responding, most likely with artillery fire. And also, I have to say, at the far at the western end of the border, we're also seeing activity here just about 10 minutes ago. If I step to the side and you'll see where the border is behind me, just about 10 minutes ago, we heard an exchange of fire, both AK-47 fire and M-16, which tells us that it was likely fire from Hezbollah and IDF infantry returned fire. Now, we know that in this area yesterday, Hezbollah used small arms fire to to hit observation towers. So what we just heard a few minutes ago is possibly an attempt by them to do that once again. Now, following the small arms attacks by Hezbollah yesterday on these observation towers, the Hezbollah moved in units, moved in units to place explosive devices. But that may be what they're attempting to do once again here. I believe the fifth anti-tank missile shot into Israel from Lebanon territory in the past 24 hours. Correspondent Robert Swift giving us an update there on the Northern border. Thank you very much for that. Still with me here in studio is Dr. Michael Oren, as well as reserve colonel Grisha Jakubovich. Michael, just before we went to Robb and just before I asked you about the military situation, I wanted to go back to the day after, but also about asking you a different question. You mentioned that a lot of Americans are upset about the facts, possibly that Biden is putting his life at risk. We know that when he went to go and visit a solidarity visit to Ukraine, Russia knew about his visit and they knew not to target certain areas of which he was at. So now we've had US senators, politicians, high level officials, even from the EU and Israel that have been taking cover in bomb shelters because Hamas doesn't really care about their safety and all the fact that they are in the country. So how is Biden's team going to be making sure that he's safe in a war zone? And the other thing being, has America possibly learned from its own, I'd say likely, but failures from Afghanistan in terms of the day after it got its retaliation that it can possibly be able to give Israel some kind of guidance as to how to implement what they've learned into the Gaza Strip. Well, I think that, again, great secrecy will surround his visit and security. He'll always be within very close walking distance to a shelter, as was Secretary of State Blinken. That's for certain. I think Hamas would be making a great mistake and only Hamas is capable of making such a great mistake of shelling an area in which the president said, you're going to have that visual of the president of the United States in a bomb shelter. That would be that wouldn't exactly be down to Hamas's benefit. I would imagine it'd be for Israel. The criticism of Biden is coming from many sectors in the century from his own party, his progressive wing of his own party is not particularly pro-Israel, to say the least. They haven't been happy. There's a there's probably one issue in Washington which receives bipartisan support today, and that is isolationism, the reluctance to be involved in a foreign military entanglement, particularly in the Middle East. And here, Biden's completely violated that consensus. So he's going up against a lot of opposition. Here it's interesting. Here's the bit of a symmetry among these really populations. There's a lot, a lot of sympathy for Palestinian civilians. We there's a sense. I think among his really public opinion, I think Grisha would agree with me that the civilian population of Gaza is not innocent. They voted for Hamas, they supported Hamas. Many hundreds, maybe thousands of them. They participated in raids also. They participated in raids. And it was to say, they participated, they broke through the fence. Some of the hostages are being held by by Palestinian individuals and not by organizations. They're going to sell these hostages. So there's not a tremendous, so in in in agreeing to the president's request for humanitarian aid and assistance for getting humanitarian assistance in those Palestinian positions, our government, our decision makers are going to go against the the major thrust of Israeli public opinion. I've encountered an Israeli news already. I've been saying, listen, we have to do this in order to keep on the same page with with the Americans and be on a panel discussion on the Israeli news. Everyone's going to jump in you for saying that because not a lot of sympathy here. So both of these decision makers in our government and in the United States government are going against significant portions of their own public opinion. And Grisha, five anti-tank missiles in the last 24 hours being shot from Lebanon into Israel, no doubt by the orders of Hezbollah. But the US was also sending strong warnings against Hezbollah and Iran for possibly joining in. Could we be expecting, apart from the the nervousness and anxiety around the unknown of Hezbollah joining into a multi-front war with Hamas, could we be expecting the US at any point from a military point of view? You mentioned unprecedented arms in the region, but even boots on the ground in order to defend against their arch enemy as well. Iran, first of all, you should change instead of Hezbollah. Say Iran, OK, because the orders are coming from the ones who planned it all. And Hezbollah are just sitting there and waiting that Iran will push the button. Actually, the sixth fleet here and the 2000 marine soldiers that will land here, they are not here to help us with Gaza, Hamas or Hezbollah. I think we can do we can defend ourselves and we can attack two arenas and we can defend ourselves for two reasons. The question here will Iran join because their original plan is a fire belt around Israel. It means Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. There's already a division that moved from the Azure in the area of Iraq and Syria, they moved to the Golan Heights and they are also waiting to get a green light from Iran. So the boots on the ground or airplanes in the air will actually be there. If Iran will participate this round of not escalation, but this war around Israel, let's let's see. I think that the trigger or the next exam, the first one was last Friday, October 13 when everybody called Hamas called to to find the oxide code, means the flood of the Aqsa and they failed. And the second exam that if Hezbollah joins the efforts to save Hamas or not would be if the moment Israel enters boots on the ground in Gaza. So we should wait and see that. I just want to point out to the audience. We were talking earlier in the broadcast about Mia Shem. She is the French Israeli hostage, the video that was released. And I see that the the president of France, Emmanuel Macron has come out and condemned what he has called a shameful Hamas video. And Michael Oren on the last bit of the broadcast that we have here. It's going to be the elephant in the room, but is it water under the bridge between Biden and Netanyahu? The two haven't normally gotten on during peacetime. War time brings out a different situation. But are we going to get water under the bridge? I think it's irrelevant. I think it's not personal. I've known Joe Biden for many years. I've been with him now for many years. It's not. And it's this is about Biden's commitment to the people in the state of Israel, which is very deep. He's passionate about this place. And he's it's also, I think if you sort of pan out, you see that America is sending an unequivocal message to Russia, to China after more than a decade of American withdrawal, particularly the agonizing withdrawal from Afghanistan. America's back. It's projecting power for the first time in a very, very long time in a way that I wouldn't have thought was possible. You know, two weeks ago, given the political constraints within the United States, this is an historic moment, not just for us, but for America and the world. So it's a Michael Oren reserve colonel Grisha Kuba, which more news coming out of the region with Biden's visit here. No doubt we'll have you back in studio to break that down. In the meantime, stay with us. We have more on our rolling and breaking news coverage coming up in a bit. 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. Within a hundred 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.