 Thanks for joining us. This is I-24 News Live from Tel Aviv. Hamas terrorists beheaded babies during a massacre in the village of Kfar Azar, words that I personally thought I would never have to say in a newscast, but that is the situation. Four days after the worst atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, we can go to Kfar Azar, where the Israeli and the foreign press were allowed to enter earlier today. Let's go to Pierre. He's in Kfar Azar for us now. Pierre. Yes, there is probably a few rockets have been launched right now over Kfar Azar and that shows you the difficulty of extracting the 200 bodies or so that are still stuck in the kibbutz of 765 inhabitants prior to the war. These bodies have been rotting since Saturday. Told me Shlomo Gottlieb, the head of the Zaka rescue operation here, they're working jointly with the army in order to retrieve the bodies, but it's very complicated because it's still a very volatile situation. The place is full of troops and yet there are still clashes here. There are clashes from time to time in the vicinity of Kfar Azar, which makes the situation very difficult for the extraction of the bodies of the victim. Now if they tell me that if you take out a body and put it in a plastic bag immediately after his death, it takes just a couple of minutes, but when a body has been rotting for three and a half days or so, then the extraction and the and placing the body inside a bag is a very difficult task. It takes 10 minutes or so because the body is full of fluids and those fluids seem to have lost the connection there with Pierre. But our reporter Nicole Zedek was in Kfar Azar earlier today, along with members of the press. The IDF got in there and they managed to expel or kill all of the terrorists who were still in Kfar Azar. A small village that is close to the border where many families were gathered for the Jewish holiday of Sibcha Torah. Lots of families, grandmothers, babies, children, mom and dad, everybody together, having their breakfast when Hamas terrorists ran house to house and committed atrocities really unseen for many, many decades if at all. Well, our Nicole Zedek was there. Take a listen to her report. Here in Kfar Azar they continue to remove some of the Israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre Saturday morning. You can see as four days later, they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very, very southern Israeli community and remove the Israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes, gun down, stabbed, different grenades thrown off as well. As we're walking through this community, we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas, certain houses because there could still be mines and they could go off at any moment. So all of the Israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well. But as you walk through this community, which we've been doing, just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers, many of them called from reserve duty, leaving their own families behind as well. You can see some of these houses that people were in. Meanwhile, the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area. Truly the scene of a massacre as many of these people were just inside their homes, families. One of the commanders here said at least 40 babies were killed. Some of them, their heads got off. He said he's never seen acts of brutality like this. And as I said, many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre. None of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this. Even as I'm walking around right now, shell casings continue to line the grounds here, the community, signs of daily life also. Children's bikes parked right here. Meanwhile, bodies lie right next to them. It's truly the scene of a massacre. The commander said this is not a battleground. This was Hamas terrorists coming into the community and killing all of the citizens that they could see. And so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as these soldiers continue to go through and there's still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well. In fact, gunfights and fighting between terrorists and the Israeli soldiers here just recently ended and that's why they're continuing to go house to house and rescue and get all of the civilians that they can. Reporting for I-24 News, I'm Nicole Zedek. Yeah, our visibly shaken, but very professional reporter, Nicole Zedek, uncovering the scenes of the massacre at Kfar Azar. Israel still digesting the incomprehensible details of that massacre. Guy Azar is with me in the studio. Guy, it was very interesting to me earlier today to see on Sky News, a British news channel, a Palestinian Hamas official saying that no, we didn't target civilians. I don't know how to address this statement, but I think the dead bodies we've seen in this video by Nicole tell the whole story. The horrific, the gruesome slaughter Jews of Israelis on that Saturday morning, the most gruesome, the most extreme killing of Jews since the Holocaust and the hands of these murderous Hamas terrorists on Saturday morning, eliminating entire communities, families, women, children, elderly, slaughtered in their homes, shot, burned alive. We've seen charred bodies of families wrapped together, hugging as they burned alive. These Hamas statements are meaningless at this stage. Over a thousand Israelis and that number is on the rise. All right, guys, stay with us. Well, I mean, the news is coming thick and fast. The atrocities are coming thick and fast. Israelis are having to deal with a lot. Right now, a hostage situation. Dozens of people are being held by those very terrorists in Gaza and another horrifying aspect to this, of course, is what happened to the young people who had traveled down to Gaza to attend a rave party, the supernova party, a celebration of peace and dancing. And one of the people who was at that party is with me now, Leo Yanai. Leo, thank you for being with us. I understand your sister is still missing since the party? Yes. My sister was at the party. She's a young jury designer and she went there fulfilling her dream and to sell her jewelry. On Saturday, the attack started and she started to run away with her friends. My parents managed to call her during the time until last call, until last past eight when she told us that they're being shot at and that their battery is being lost. She's lost and they're on the run. After that, while we try to understand what happens with family and friends, we discovered that she ran away with a group of people. They had to split a few times during that time because terrorists shot them while running. After a while, she split it for the last time that we know it's about 9 a.m. on Sunday morning. And that's the last time that we know where she was. We got it from a person that was running away with her and he told us the whole story from his part of view. Later on, we continued searching the web and trying to understand what happened. We found a few videos that shows that my sister was kidnapped, my baby sister was kidnapped and then we was showing her with a few terrorists and that's it. That's where we're standing. I'm so, I'm so, so sorry. It's, it's really hard to hear. I can't imagine what you're going through. I can't imagine what your family are going through. Okay, tell us a bit about your sister about Moran. She's your younger sister, your baby sister. Yeah, she's my baby sister. Yeah. She's a loving person. She's a great person. Peaceful, life-kinding, lots of friends. Always like to help the people, helping animals. She was working as a volunteer, rescuing animals from all kinds of situations. She was very connected to people, very connected to nature. Peace was very important to her, which makes the whole thing even harder. Yeah. I mean, it's horrendous. They're holding so many people. So many people don't know what has happened to their relatives. Are you speaking to other people in the same situation? Is that giving you some comfort, some support? I am on the group of some other people, but I'm mostly focusing on trying to find my sister. Me and friends and family, we are looking for every clue we can find. We're still looking for that, even though it's hard for us. And some of us are devastated. My parents are devastated. They don't know what to do. And it's already been three days since then, and lots of folks running in our heads. But still, most of us still looking for clues and still searching the internet and looking forward to get more information because we don't know where it is. We don't know where she is now. I mean, the whole country is with you. I mean, the whole country is feeling so much, so much, so sorry for what you're going through. It's really, really hard. How do you keep going? How do you get through the hours? We have a movie that shows that she is still alive. That's what keeps us walking right now. Even though it's very hard for us, we still want to fight. We want to ask people to help us. We asking the world to help us. We demand the world to come and help us finding her, finding all the innocence and bringing the bank home from this, I don't know, weird situation. All the women, kids, elder people, all the people that have been being attacked while they're being in a peaceful music festival and all the others. We want them all to come back, especially I'm focusing on my sister, of course. That's what we want. We want to spread the word. We want people to know about it. We want people to help us. The leaders on the world and everyone to come and do something about it, to try to help us to somehow bring her back and to join our effort bringing her back. Her name is Moran Yanai. She was 40 years old. Well, Leo, we pray for your sister. We hope that you get some good news eventually. Thank you for talking to us. We hope that you get some good news eventually. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you very much. Thank you, Leo. Thank you. All right, we can go back to the north of Israel, Naari, a town very close to the border with Lebanon. Our area lost around is there. Our area, there's been a bit more action at the northern border, I understand. Indeed, Laura, the northern border is warming up as it did yesterday towards the evening hours. We're talking about following the barrage of 15 rockets launched about two hours ago from southern Lebanon towards Israel that was responded by with artillery fire. Following that, the IDF says that an anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanese territory towards a military vehicle in the area of Avim in response to that. IDF helicopter struck an observation post belonging to Hezbollah. Now, the statement mentioned that there were no IDF injuries in this incident, but in the past half hour, we saw IDF ambulance come and bring here injured soldier. We're not sure his status. We're not sure from what incident. We're looking into the issue with hospital officials and the moment we get an answer, we will let you know. But indeed, the additional incidents and the level of escalation is slightly rising as it has yesterday, as it has been throughout the past few days with any, the smallest of sparks could send this whole situation up into escalation. And that's why chief of staff, Herzi Alevi, held the situation assessment today in the northern command. And obviously, the military is looking, watching very closely responding to all incidents that are taking place. But following the incidents carefully, trying to prevent, avoid any further escalation that could bring also the northern front into the free. Yeah, this is the absolute nightmare scenario that people have been talking about for some time now that the Iranian backed conflict would open up on three fronts from the south in Gaza and from the north from Lebanon, from Hezbollah, and of course to the east as well. Is there some reassurance, would you say, that the Americans are sending a very strong signal to Beirut? As you pointed out, the US envoy Amos Hoxstein was in Lebanon not so long ago. The two countries coming to a maritime border agreement were now looking at a potential war between the two countries, which are still technically a war, but we could see a rapid conflagration. That's what a lot of people are worried about, isn't it? Indeed, Laura, look, since the beginning of this war already on Saturday, the US has sent a very, very strong and consistent message in support of Israel. Even before Prime Minister Netanyahu took to the cameras and gave a statement to the public, it was President Joe Biden who said not only that the US stands beside Israel, but also warned from any additional parties of taking advantage of the situation and opening a new front against Israel. Now that wasn't, he didn't stop there. That same statement, that same message, was portrayed not only by President Biden, but in the joint statement along with the leaders of Germany, France, Italy, and others from the west that was issued yesterday. In addition to that, add to that the US Navy sending their largest aircraft carrier in their arsenal in addition to other warships, sending them already to the eastern Mediterranean, perhaps even docking in Israel. That is an extremely forceful message on behalf of Washington, one that is aimed at deterring Hezbollah, Iran, and other proxies from perhaps, and also the Assad regime, of course, from perhaps joining into this conflict. Thank you very much. Ari Lossa ran there up in Nahari, close to the border with Lebanon. Guy Azrael is with us in the studio, our senior editor. Guy, so we've got some skirmishes in the north. Meanwhile, the IF focused on destroying Hamas in Gaza. They've killed the economy minister and another top official, but this is just the beginning really, isn't it? Excellent pressure on Hamas. The end goal is to eliminate Hamas as a terror organization completely. So this is certainly just the beginning. If the heads of Hamas think that this minister and a few members of the political wing of Hamas will be all that Israel would want, I think they have miscalculated Israel severely with this attack, the consequences. They brought their own destruction upon themselves. Hamas with this attack will no longer exist by the end of this campaign Israel. In the past, previous conflicts have been more about containing Hamas, weakening Hamas, taking away their capabilities. This is about destroying Hamas once and for all. The strategy of Israel for so many years was not to get engaged in a wide-scale confrontation that would entail many Israeli casualties, an escalation that would have some diplomatic damage on other fronts as well. But that turned out to be a disastrous strategy because the end result was that this terror group that was on the borders of Israel continued to thrive and we saw the results on Saturday. Guy, thanks a lot. Let's go to the U.S. then because our Senior U.S. correspondent, Mike Wagenheim joins us now from New York. Mike, thanks for being with us. We've been talking about the dozens of people being held by Hamas inside Gaza, among them 10 American citizens. I understand their families are telling President Biden this is on you. You need to bring them home. Biden has taken action. We learned a few hours ago from an official at the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, that special forces specializing in hostage-freeing operations have arrived from a Washington area to Israel. They'll be working with the Israelis, but the Israelis, according to the Pentagon, will be taking the lead on this operation. Now, what can these American specialists do? Well, it's all about intelligence sharing, reconnaissance. They'll be providing intelligence. Anything they can, essentially, throwing the kitchen sink at this. Senkan, the U.S. Central Command, will be involved. The Special Operations Command as well. But the unit to look for here is the Joint Special Operations Command. It's an incredibly elite unit that houses the Navy SEALs, amongst others. These are the people that found Bin Laden. These are the people that go on covert missions throughout the world, most of which we never hear about, including in the Middle East, even in places where the U.S. is not at war or even involved in diplomatic relations in some countries. So these are the best of the best that the U.S. has sent to Israel here. Again, no American boots and the Pentagon stresses over and over again. No American boots on the ground for these operations when they are carried out. Israel will take the lead, but the intelligence and the speciality of these forces will be, their services will be provided here to Israel as Israel takes the lead in trying to rescue these hostages on behalf of the Americans. And I would presume several other allies as well. Yeah. Hamas has said it will respond if the Americans try to get involved, trying to threaten the United States. They have threatened the United States. They threaten other countries as well, should they get involved. I don't think the Americans, though, are going to sit back and watch here without a hand involved here, regardless of what threats are thrown their way. Mike, we saw John Kirby from the NSA, NSA, sorry, a high-ranking U.S. official weeping openly on TV when he was talking about what happened in Israel. We've seen two very experienced news anchors from CNN crying on air. Have you ever seen this level of sympathy for Israel from the United States? No, not at this level. You've got to understand John Kirby. He doesn't come from a PR or journalism background, per se, like some spokespeople do. He's a military man. He's a Navy man, and he's had a detailed career dealing with the military. Used to be the Pentagon spokesperson as well, but he comes from that background. He has seen some bad things in his lifetime. So it's not as if he hasn't been exposed to some atrocities in the past, but this broke him on air. We saw Nick Robertson from CNN as well, foreign correspondent has been in the field in some terrible situations, who've seen some pretty awful things broke down on air as well. We're only beginning to see the level of atrocities of crimes against humanity that were committed. It's only beginning to be exposed what happened in Israel, and some who have already gotten a view of that ahead of the Israelis understand here the impact and the true tragedy that's really taking place. I think it's shaken everybody, even the most hardened of correspondents, hardened of military people to their core. Yeah. And usually at this point in a conflict with Hamas, the White House is putting a lot of pressure on Israel to hold back. This time, that seems to be absent. There was a tweet, I think, from the State Department that was quickly deleted. Is that right? That's right. Anthony Blinken, or at least his account, tweeted out about a meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister in the stressing of an endeavor to attain a ceasefire. Well, that was quickly deleted. There's been no other mention from the Biden administration about pursuing any kind of ceasefire here. It's not an explicit green light, but an implicit one that the Biden administration understands that Israel needs to take care of business here. Of course, there are always limits, but that edge, that red line has been pushed way to the side here as the Biden admin really understands the true nature of what Hamas did and Israel's necessity in dismantling Hamas here permanently. Yeah. Americans like everyone else around the world will be digesting the news that Hamas terrorists murdered and beheaded babies in a village in Israel, burned families alive and other atrocities not seen since the Holocaust. Truly, Mike. Thank you, Mike Wagenheim there over in New York. Our senior editor, Guy Azrael, is here with me in the studio. We have a solid response from the United States there. Let's talk about things going on a bit closer to home. You've got two Palestinian factions. You've got Hamas and Gaza. You've got the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas to the east of Israel and in the territories of the Palestinian territories. And there is a fear that they could also be an uprising there, if you like. Are the Israeli forces equipped to deal with Gaza in the south, with Hezbollah in the north and with Palestinians in the territories as well? Let's start perhaps with a response that we're getting a statement today from the Palestinian Authority saying, listen to this, we do not condemn either side. And if we need to condemn anyone, then that would be the only democracy in the Middle East. That is the response of the Palestinian Authority of the PLO to this onslaught, to this slaughter of Jews of Israelis. That was before what we saw happening far as of now. That was today at noon, regardless. It's very clear. It's very clear. It's very clear. It's very clear what has happened in the past several days. Look, for many years now, thanks to the security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas remains in power. That was an interest of Israel. If it wasn't for Israel, then Abbas would have been dethroned by Hamas. Sorry, guys. We're going to take a short break. Stay with us. Israel is at war. Since the early hours of the morning, Israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists, kidnapping of Israelis, and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip, the biggest and bloodiest attack in years. Tune in for our extensive and rolling coverage of the Hamas' deadly attack on Israel. With reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information, stay tuned with I-24 News. So I started working at I-24 News at the end of 2016, anchoring the rundown, and certainly one of the most memorable days would have had to have been May 11, 2021, when it was decided that we would move the show down to Ashkelon because the conflict with Hamas and Gaza had started, and there had been rockets fired at Ashkelon that morning. Someone had actually been killed there. So the station had actually rented out the lobby of a hotel on the beachfront in Ashkelon. We went down there and was decided between myself and the field producer, Geni Brunfermacher, that if the air raid sirens went out during the program, we would continue broadcasting live. But there was a problem. The manager of the hotel said that for insurance purposes, we had to move down to the bomb shelter, which was in the basement of the hotel. Unfortunately though, we could not broadcast, get reception to broadcast live from down in the basement. So Geni and I decided we would actually just sort of continue the broadcast from the top of the stairs leading down to that basement. So sure enough, that's what happened. About an hour to a program, the air raid sirens to rang out. We're live in Ashkelon, air raid sirens are coming. I'm going to ask the guest to start moving please to the air raid shelter. I also will be moving. I very calmly told people on air that we were moving down to the bomb shelter. If Geni then had a second camera, follow me and catch me at the top of the stairs going down to the shelter. And we continue to broadcast throughout that air raid siren in Ashkelon. We are now at the entrance here to the air raid shelter in the Regina Hotel. It actually the stairway leads down. The irony though is that was the only air raid siren in Ashkelon that night. And after I threw it back to the studio in Tel Aviv and Benita who was anchoring there, they had about another 30 air raid sirens in Tel Aviv that evening. So they had it much worse than we had it. But I was surely a night to remember for myself and for I24 news. One show a whole lot of perspectives. He is part of the problem. You want to talk about deep platforming? People are losing their lives. Not just what happened, but why does it matter? I'd like to finish my points. You're the one stretching to join us every night. 8pm Eastern on global on the global conversation starts here made for me a unique concept in Israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of I24 news. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back. You're watching I24 news coming to you live from Tel Aviv. This country is at war. It is dealing with the worst onslaught since its creation in 1948. And in the latest incomprehensible news, Hamas terrorists beheaded babies during a bloody rampage in the southern Israeli village of Kfar Assa. Our entire families were burned alive in their homes. And this is just the latest gruesome discovery four days after the worst atrocity committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Just to update you that the death toll is now over 1000. And there are at least 150 hostages, including many children, but also mothers and elderly people. They're being held right now in Gaza by Hamas terrorists among them 10 American citizens and other foreign hostages as well. Earlier in the day Hamas said it would murder the captives on camera reminiscent of the tactics by the so-called Islamic state group a few years ago. It said it would do that if the airstrikes on the territory would not stop. But the airstrikes are not stopping. The IAF is pounding Gaza with the worst airstrikes ever. It even hit close to the Rafar crossing, which is the border into Egypt earlier today, to deter Egyptian trucks. Egypt, of course, the country, which is at peace with Israel. Egyptian trucks carrying aid were forced to turn back. Israel has cut off the water and electricity supplies to the entire territory. And Hamas finally has been firing rockets across Israel throughout the day. Millions of people have been forced to seek shelter from those attacks. At least two people killed in rocket attacks today. So a lot to take in, a situation that's moving very, very quickly. With me in the studio, an expert, somebody who knows the history of Israel and the many wars and challenges has faced over the year. Major General Aitindangot, thank you for joining us. Let's start with what's going on in the north, shall we? Because that is the big fear that Hezbollah is getting prepared to join. I think it's the main operator, which will have a great impact about the Israeli policy. First of all, if we are coming to reality, that we assess already in the past that it will be open. Now the war will move with Hamas or with the state of Hamas to the state of Lebanon with Hezbollah there. It means that Israel will have to share forces and to find a way to fight against both areas. First of all, will be the question whether Israel will continue to invest the main forces in Gaza in order to achieve its main goal, which is very clear, and will not change. The goal is to destroy the capacities of... Destroy, not contain, destroy Hamas completely. That is the goal. But I'm making it sensitive. It's not to destroy Hamas completely, it's to destroy Hamas capacities to create terror activities, to move down their way of active in terror almost 100%. Doesn't mean the fact that they will not continue to be the leadership. This is not the factor. But to make it, we declared already that it will turn among the timetable a long time, and we have to be patient because of the north. But situation in the north means that Hezbollah and Israel are moving together towards each other. But there is a distance that gives both sides opportunity of exit point in these circumstances. Meanwhile, even the clash is coming and raising up and increasing. There is still calculating on the way each side reacting. The last example, Hezbollah launched rockets. Israel destroyed two posts. Hezbollah shoot later on anti-tank missile. Israel reacted with another post. Now it's quiet. We will have to see if Hezbollah, that means that Hezbollah and Iran are making a calculating whether it's their timing to come to be the main partner in a war with Israel, the main enemy. It means for Iran losing Hezbollah as the main proxies in all the Middle East. Iran based its policy that they have the strongness of Hezbollah. Because after coming with a clash with Israel escalation, Hezbollah will lose it. Secondly, Lebanon will not be a country. It will be a destroyment of many infrastructure in this poor country that already is going down and down. And the third, the Iranian strategic in the Middle East after the signs they got from the United States are making the Iranian to think deeply whether it's the time. And meanwhile, Israel should not stop in their offensive attacks or strike in Gaza against Hamas. And you see already you identify some reaction on the pressure that Hamas comes there. Why? Yesterday, they said they will kill hostages if Israel continues the strike. Secondly, in two days, Hamas will feel the closure that they have with electricity, water, another kind of thing life become not will allow the population to live. The population is a partner. So it will be very close also to achieve. And we are waiting to see also the maneuvering. Okay, thank you. Joining me now, we're going to talk to Thank you for being with us. And David Abramov and your son. I'm sorry. Thank you for being with us. I understand your son was at the rave party in the south of Israel on Saturday. Tell us what's happened? What do you know about what's happened? I was here. And our son went with his friends to enjoy music in a music festival in the nature. And Mikhal is an American citizen. She wasn't here at all. She lives in the United States. She was at Colorado on 7 30 in the morning. Um, I got the text message for my son because he called before in 6 30. And we were sleeping and he was texting me father. Something bad is happening. I'm in a bomb shelter. I'm okay. But please don't call me because we cannot hear anything. He didn't want to worry me. He wanted me to to know he's safe, but they could not make a sound because they already knew they, uh, it's a life or death matter. We're close by. Yeah. And you haven't had you haven't heard anything since and his phone can't be traced or anything like that. No, no, the only thing a true information that came to our knowledge is a picture of him from someone that was with him in the bomb shelter after more than 24 hours. So then we could see and look for people that was with him in the same bomb shelter and try to find a knowledge about his whereabouts about his well being. Is he alive? Is he dead? Is he the worst thing we could you could imagine about your son's life? So we had everything and we still don't know. And we still don't know after more than three days. Three days now. You've been living in absolute agony. I can imagine. Yes. And last night, yes, after three days, knowing that people there suffered an experience, the more horrific experience no one could ever imagine that human beings are possible to do to other people. And it happened to our son. I'm so sorry. There's there's no words that I can that I can say to comfort you. It's it's absolutely every everybody's worst nightmare. Tell us about your son. What how old is he? What does he like? He is the most charming, gentle giant. He is a very, very, very tall, baby faced, beautiful, music loving, art loving, unique boy. He is adored by so many people. This house now, we are in his father's house, as you can see the smile now is full of people that love him, full of people that are waiting for him to come back. He is he has four siblings from his father's side. He's the leader of his pack. It's back. Yes. Yeah, he's the leader of the gang. He's got the yes, yes, all young brothers and sisters that adore him, that are crying every night because they could cannot understand how this thing is happening in this world. How is it possible that people want to hurt their lovable brother? Yes, the only thing they were doing these kids there was going to dance in a party in a music rave. That's what they were doing. And in the middle of that situation where it's the happiest place on earth, they were attacked by surprise, by monsters, by people who came to hurt them while they were just the least, they were not expecting it and we are horrified. He's your eldest child. He's my only child. David and I are not married. We were married when we had Laor and we were divorced. We stayed in very good in contact. We are Laor's family David and Ronnie are living here in Israel and have Laor. He moved back to be with them for a while and then him and I, we would meet a lot. It's really important for me to say we talked to a woman, a young girl, yes, last night. It was the first confirmed information that we have had for the last three days. She said she saw him there. She said she saw him being put on a pickup truck and led somewhere with about 15 other people. They were the only people still standing in that bomb shelter. After they tried to slaughter everyone inside, he was one of the survivors. They came out to celebrate life and they met the most horrific people that come to celebrate death. You can see in the videos, they come to kill and then they celebrate it. We are shocked. Michal was coming. I work her up. She's living in Colorado. Colorado. Michal is an American citizen and she was traveling to Israel for more than 24 hours with an uncertain journey to come here just to try and save my son. Without knowing, we spoke with no one. We built our own investigation office here in this house and in hundreds of other friends' houses, trying to get any piece of information. I was sitting in airplanes and in airports crying my eyes out, crying my heart out, looking for any piece of information while just trying to understand where my boy is. And we heard the most horrific stories when we were shocked that these young people has experienced this traumatic life-changing event. He went to dance with his best friend, Tamar Semen. They are both in the same situations where both families are still in the unknown field of our son's and daughter's life. It's the worst thing a human being can go through. It really is. Do not know what's happened to your child. All I can say is many, many people around the world are with you. They're praying for you. They're praying for your boy. And we hope that you have some comfort for your children who are with you. And that's why you have to keep going, I guess. I guess that's why you have to keep going for your other children. Thank you. I just want to say one last thing, please. I am asking President Biden. I am asking the people of the world. I am an American citizen. I am a mother of a child that is missing. And I need people to come and save him from this terrifying, horrifying thing that he's going through. It's hell. And we need help finding my boy. And no one should suffer the same thing like us. Bring our boy back home. Bring your boy back home. That is what everybody in this country is praying for, people around the world as well. Mikhail and David, we wish you, you will have some good news and take comfort from your children who are with you. Bless you. Thank you for sharing our voice and feelings. Of course. We share your pain. We're with you. We're with you. Thank you. It's really hard to hear. It's really hard to hear. Everyone's suffering. What is worse than that? Okay. Ariel, you're back with us from the north. We just heard that. That's why we're fighting. That's what we're fighting for, for people who have suffered like that. But tell us what's happening in the north now, Ariel. Right, Laura. While the entire country is following the developments down south and the atrocities that are just piling up the stories and testimonies, the situation up north has heated up in the afternoon. But recently it has calmed down earlier today. We're talking about a barrage of rockets, 15 rockets that were fired to border communities here in the Western Galilee. That was responded by IDF artillery fire. After that, about an hour later, there was an anti-tank missile launched at Israeli forces. There were no reports of injuries, and in response to that, the IDF attack helicopter struck the vicinity of the origin of fire in southern Lebanon. Now, earlier I had mentioned that we had seen a military ambulance come here. But after checking with hospital authorities, it was empty. There were no injuries by IDF soldiers. And so not only by the statement, but there are no new IDF soldiers injured here today. Obviously, since yesterday, following yesterday's fierce firefight on the border against between IDF forces and Palestinian Islamic jihad terrorists who infiltrated the border. In that incident, there were three IDF soldiers who were killed, one of them a high-ranking officer. And there are still four soldiers who are hospitalized here receiving treatment from that incident. One is still in critical condition. He is unconscious and he is in the ICU in an unstable condition. Another in moderate condition and two more bitely wounded. All four are currently still being treated here in the hospital and Aria behind me. Okay. Aria, thank you. Aria, a lot around there. I'm in the studio with Major General Eitan Dangot. That was hard for you as well, wasn't it, to listen to the parents of that boy? It's breaking your heart and it gives you something that you cannot understand, that this is really something that happened. And when you hear about one soldier's work, another one, it brings you a lot of sadness. We are talking God's service. It's more than 1,000 people and most of them are babies, young youth who came to a festival, parents destroyed parents, burning their home with them, families together. It's something, tell me, can you remember something about like this in the last generation that happened? It's something that the world of revenge is even light for such a situation. Yeah. Like you say, it goes back to the, you were saying about your parents. But we don't have any choice. On one hand, you have to move your tear. Yeah. On the other hand, you keep your rifle. We have to keep going, don't we? We have no choice. No. Okay. Well, it feels like another lifetime, but for nine months, all anybody was talking about here were the massive protests against the government. It all changed very quickly on Saturday. This is a different country. It's a different world. Well, our Owen Alterman has this report on the push to get goods to the reservists, 350,000 reservists have been called up to the Israeli army. And of course, all of the civilians in need who are down at the southern border and on who's needing it is his report. The protest signs now pack the boxes. And there are a lot of them. Baby food and toys for families from Israel south. Blankets and equipment for reserve soldiers on their way to duty. And at this spot, a television convention center, all put together by organizations that just a week ago were focused on something else entirely. We are social activists. We are activists by nature. We are trying to take care of our country. And that's what we've been doing for the last 10 months. So for us, switching from doing every type of work that we did in the last 10 months to supporting the IDF, it's actually the same thing. We're trying to support the idea. Even before right now, we simply do it with boxes, but the task, the overall mission never changed. This space more than any shows Israel's shift in an instant from protest to war, months of wrenching debate and protest with the security situation in the background. Now war with protest at this point. Only a memory. We are protesting because we want to protect our country. And what we're doing here is to help our country. It's the same action. When you protest for the safety of our country and this horrible thing is happening, and we are all here to help, it's the same thing because this is our country. We are here and we will help everyone that needs us. We are the most Zionist and the most patriotic. We have always said that we serve our country all our lives. Every year we go out to protect the borders. In recent times, we have been protecting the country from inside against people. We felt we're against Israeli democracy and it is most obvious that in one second, we will direct all our resources for the benefit of the country. The operation here is one of dozens, if not hundreds, up and down Israel from many parts of society, showing a country mobilizing in every way. Owen Alterman, I-24 News in Tel Aviv. Yeah, it's like the blitz spirit, doesn't it? People coming together to deal with the unthinkable evil that they are dealing with right now. And there are, of course, practical considerations as well as Israel reels from this horrific onslaught. Many people who were living in those towns and villages around the Gaza border, the survivors, some of them have nowhere to go. They're homeless, their homes were burned, their homes were destroyed, and understandably, of course, they don't want to go anywhere near the area again. Well, Brown Hotels is putting up some of the people with nowhere to go. They're spokesperson. Shahaf Sigal is with me now. Hi. Shahaf, tell us what are you doing to help people? First of all, first and foremost, I would like to give our condolences to the families of the ones who lost their lives in these horrible attacks and to wish health, speedy recovery to all the wounded. This meets us in such strange ways. Just for example, we are very much involved in giving, you know, as a lifestyle hotels brand. We are doing more than just hosting, we're creating content. And one of them was supposed to be this coming Thursday. We should have had, you know, this is the bath full of ice that you sink into. So you were planning to do something, but of course, the world is... Yes, no, no, no, it's not about that. It's the instructor that was supposed to host the whole thing was killed, one of the kids that was in the party. And I've known it for three days, and just today they posted it. So it meets us in such strange places. I'm not talking about, you know, the artwork is that went to do Reserve Forces and with Tsavshmoni. Sorry, I don't know how to say it. And like the special recruits. Yes, the... It's being called by law that you must come... Yeah, in times of war or special operations, like global war, they get warrants. So you've got staff now actively serving one of your staff members was murdered. It's not a staff member, but it was an instructor who was supposed to come to us and do something fun, fun with celebrities. And it's just heartbreaking. So instead of sitting here and talking about how we evolved from urban hotels to resorts and how we are opening to new hotels, that was supposed to be opened just now in Tel Aviv. I'm here to talk about what we're doing for community, like we always do, because we feel very much obliged to the... So what are you doing in practical terms? You're letting people stay? You've got families? Yes, we are in touch with several buddies. One of them is the organization of... Again, I don't know the name of it in English, but it's an organization who takes groups of people from several settlements around the Gaza Strip and just hosts them. They were supposed to come to two nights, but today I was told they're staying till Sunday. So we have right now about 60 families, and it's growing day to day. And in other... This is in one hotel and in other hotels, people are coming, you know, single families, because not everybody is taken care of by formal organizations, by Ministry of Defense. And some of them are from Tel Aviv. People who lost their house in the South in direct hits in Florentine and places like that. So we have 23 families that lost their homes in Tel Aviv. It's inconceivable, really. And we're doing everything we can. It's not just hosting them, of course. I mean, we're giving them the full thing. We are in touch with Eyal Shani, the chef. So he's giving them free meals from his kosher restaurants. One of them is located in our hotels. So you're giving...you're spoiling them. You're giving them some pampering. And shut up. We'll get out and leave it there. Thank you very much. Just before we go, on this screen, you can see a phone number for information, psychological support. Please call it if you need it. Thank you. Since the early hours of the morning, Israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists, kidnapping of Israelis, and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip. The biggest and bloodiest attack in years. Tune in for our extensive and rolling coverage of the Hamas deadly attack on Israel. With reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information, stay tuned with I-24 News. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. We have to write ingredients and we have to do the job. 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With us, you will find all the big stories you missed on television. So join I-24 News on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube and discover the Middle East with us. Welcome to this special broadcast on I-24 News. I'm Khaled Bindavid. On day four of Israel's war against Hamas and the other Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip, the full scope of the atrocities perpetrated against Israelis in the Gaza border area has become apparent. Now the death toll has risen out to over 1,000 with other 100 people being held hostage in Gaza. As Israel launched massive rounds of airstrikes on Gaza targets, Hamas returned fire with rockets in the south in the Tel Aviv area and as far north as the lower Galilee. Rocket fire from Lebanon also joined the barrage in the town of Shlomi in the northwest Galilee. The IDF responded with artillery and airstrikes in southern Lebanon. U.S. President Joe Biden, who had implicitly warned his ball in Iran not to get involved in the conflict, is set to speak in the coming minutes. We will carry that live. But first, we want to show you a report from Nicole Sedeck, who earlier today was given access by the IDF with some other journalists to see firsthand the carnage that was wrecked on Kibbutz Berry, where Hamas terrorists butchered some 200 people. That's nearly a third of that community. Many of the victims, excuse me, Kfar Azza, many of the victims, young children, even infants, we warn you that some of the footage here is disturbing. Here in Kfar Azza, they continue to remove some of the Israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre Saturday morning. You can see as four days later, they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very, very southern Israeli community and remove the Israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes, gun down, stabbed, different grenades thrown off as well. As we're walking through this community, we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas, certain houses, because there could still be mines and they could go off at any moment. So all of the Israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well. But as you walk through this community, which we've been doing, just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers, many of them called from reserve duty, leaving their own families behind as well. You can see some of these houses that people were in. Meanwhile, the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area. Truly the scene of a massacre, as many of these people were just inside their homes, families, one of the commanders here said at least 40 babies were killed. Some of them, their heads got off. He said he's never seen acts of brutality like this. And as I said, many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre, none of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this, even as I'm walking around right now. Shell casings continue to line the grounds here, the community, signs of daily life also. Children's bikes parked right here. Meanwhile, bodies lie right next to them. It's truly the scene of a massacre. The commander said this is not a battleground. This was Hamas terrorists coming into the community and killing all of the citizens that they could see. And so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as these soldiers continue to go through. And there's still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well. In fact, gunfights and fighting between terrorists and the Israeli soldiers here just recently