 El-Ad Thursday night at the edge of Independence Day here in Israel, Jonathan Regal, Defense Correspondent is here in studio. Jonathan, this is coming in just now into our newsroom. What's the latest? Yes, we can see the images. This is happening roughly 10, 20 minutes ago following a 60-hour manhunt since Thursday evening when the attack took place. We can see the images. The two terrorists tried to hide in a forest near the city of Rochein, Rochein, some four or five miles to the north of El-Ad. So the assumption all along the way, the assumption of the security forces was that these terrorists are still hiding within Israeli territory. This proved to be right. There were things, literally, the seconds in which they were captured. And this happened just minutes ago, 10, 15 minutes ago. And Jonathan, this manhunt has been going on since Thursday. And of course, it's been the whole area under alert, and not just that area, but these are the two terrorists that the police and police forces, of course, were looking for both inside Israel and also in the West Bank to recap of the horrible events of Independence Day. What happened there in El-Ad? In the city of El-Ad, these two terrorists arrived with a Jewish man who drove them into the city. These are two people that actually, they were illegally in Israel, but they were working in El-Ad. This is not something, unfortunately, these are things that happen. People who are illegally in Israel work in Israeli construction sites, and men who knew them took them into the city, and then they killed them. They killed the men who brought them in, and they carried out this attack using axes. They killed another two people, so three victims altogether. Another four people were injured. And then they fled the scene. Police forces were there quickly, but they were still able to flee. And since then, since Thursday evening, two and a half days, some 60 hours or so, they have been hiding probably in that forest where they are, which is not very far, some four or five miles out to the north of El-Ad. They've been hiding there, and now they've been caught by security forces. Yes. So those of you joining us, breaking the news at this time here in Israel, a wave of terror attacks in Israel in the past month and a half. There's been at least five attacks, Jonathan, if I'm correct. It depends on what you call an attack. There have been a chance of them. Beresheva and Chadera and Tel Aviv, of course, and El-Ad, and Dei-Rach. And there was the security guard killed in the city of Ariel. If we count all of these together, we're speaking of 18 victims in the space of a month and a half in Israel and in the West Bank. Interestingly enough, interestingly or not, one place which is considerably more quiet is Gaza. Gaza is quiet, but all of this is directed by Ikea Sinoir, who's doing all of the incitement work from Gaza, inciting for violence in Israel, inciting for violence in the West Bank, making sure the West Bank and Israel, they bleed, and Gaza does not. Yeah. And Israel is threatening a wider campaign against Hamas and Gaza, as you mentioned, with a possible chase after Sinoir. But at the time, this is debated, both in government and, of course, Israeli military. In the very, very fragile coalition. Yeah, in the very fragile coalition that will resume its plenum tomorrow with the summer session. The two terrorists who committed the horrific terror attack in El-Ad Thursday night who killed three men there using axes at the edge of Independence Day celebrations here in Israel were captured this morning. And we can see the footage again of where they were captured in a forest not far away from where the terror attack was committed. Jonathan, this is just an open space, a forest that is inside the West Bank territory or on the edges of road number six within the green line. On the edges of road number six, if we speak of El-Ad, El-Ad sits on road number six, road number six, for those who do not know, practically crossing Israel almost all the way from north to south. Some parts of it in the area near El-Ad, near Oshayn, this road is very, very close to what is known as the green line, the green line separating Israel and the West Bank. And that road is very close. It is, unfortunately, there is a security barrier, but unfortunately that security barrier, as we know, has many holes allowing for people, even allowing for cars to cross from the West Bank to Israel. These people may have crossed in that way. They knew the area. They knew the scene where they were acting simply because they worked in the city of El-Ad before. They even knew some people there as far as we understand. And as you mentioned, El-Ad is very close to the West Bank. So is the forest where they were caught. We can assume that they were hoping to cross back into the West Bank, as it seemed that they didn't do it. And Jonathan, I think one of the things that are very painful, of course, for communities around that area, and generally in Israel, is that so many Palestinian workers come into Israel daily. We're talking about thousands that come in from the West Bank around 20,000. 20,000 with permits. Many, many more without permits. And then there's around 15,000 that come in from Gaza. And it's a way also helping, of course, the Palestinian community. There is trust between these two communities. These terrorists that committed the attack, how long have they been working in El-Ad for? They've been working for quite some time, for weeks. They knew the scene. They knew some people. They met some people before. They knew where there's a park. It's not just by chance that they arrived there. Possibly they also knew that within the ultra orthodox community, there are perhaps less people carrying guns, carrying ammunition and so, than as opposed to other sectors. And yes, I've been working in El-Ad for quite some time. We now want to turn Jonathan to El-Ad, where Ariel Liffin Waldman is following the manhunt. And of course, the reactions there in El-Ad to the news coming in today, Ariel. Yeah, the police are saying that the information is still going to be coming out as the details are still scarce. But the breaking news is that those two terrorists have been captured just a mile north of the El-Ad city. They were in the forest outside of Kibbutz, which is, again, just a mile north of here. They had been in the area. They'd gone to ground for about 60 hours while the police were hoping that they made a mistake and showed their presence. Now, the news hasn't just gotten around yet. It only came out a few minutes ago. But we are going to keep you updated with the reactions of people on the ground as the information comes in. It was a very sensitive issue close to the heart of this community. And all throughout the morning, people were staggered and furious that the police had not managed to catch these terrorists after days and days and days of searching. Now that's finally changed. People are going to rest a little easier, given the reactions getting earlier, knowing that these two people have been caught. Now, the question is, is it going to inspire more attackers or not? That's going to be the next question on everyone's mind. And, Arielle, we're seeing footage from this morning of the capture itself. Those moments in the forest, as you mentioned, north of Notre Dame and the forest, where we can see IDF soldiers putting their hands on the terrorists that were hiding there between the bushes, how common is it nowadays that we get direct footage from the IDF of operation like this that is, of course, so sensitive and was awaited for for a few days? Look, it comes down to which portion of the operation. We have seen the perp walk of terrorists that have been captured before. And we've seen that fairly recently with the other two gunmen that were captured just a couple of weeks ago. During the operations itself, we do not see those images certainly not live, because there is a desire to protect the security of the forces operating to make sure that there is no knowledge of what's going on in the field that the terrorists could use to their advantage that might show the positions of soldiers. In the past, though, it was not that common that we even saw footage of the capture. It would be simply relying on a word from the military about the nature of the terrorist. And usually they would just use a term like neutralized, which could mean injured, it could mean dead, it could mean captured. We didn't really have any idea of what was going on. Now to the fact that there are cameras everywhere, it seems that the IDF is moving towards more transparency in these matters. When you have that many eyes focused on a search like this, it's going to be impossible to censor every aspect of the chase. So it's not that surprising that we're starting to see footage like this come out. Okay, Ariel. Thank you for that. And of course, we'll be back with you after you gather some of the responses and reactions in Elad, the bleeding city of Elad after the terror attack on Thursday that killed three. Thank you very much. We now want to go to Rafael Urshami. He's a former senior intelligence officer in the IDF and security analyst. He joins us from Rishal Nathiyan. Rafael, there's a lot of criticism over the IDF in recent weeks that they have been able to capture the terrorists post the terror attacks, but they don't have enough information or enough intelligence to prevent these terror attacks beforehand. Why is that? What does the IDF need to do differently in order to be able to stop these attackers before and not after? Well, in this particular case, it is obvious why the IDF could not stop these attackers beforehand because they answer the perfect profile of the lone wolf, meaning a surprise decision, spontaneous decision also almost last minute to do go and perpetrate terrorist attack. Even their own families claim not to have been in the know of their intentions. Then no preparation as they knew the area. They didn't even come and visited beforehand to check where they would act because they knew more or less where they were going and they knew the streets. So there was no a planification beforehand that could have made it possible to detect them. They probably also because it was so spontaneous, didn't exchange emails or WhatsApp bit among themselves. We see that it was so unplanned that the contrary to the estimates of the security forces, the terrorists have not prepared or planned a hiding place. They had nowhere to go. We saw that they are knowing the area. They might have known where to hide or they would have gone maybe to an Arabic village nearby. No, they went just in the forest to hide behind the bush. So to follow on that, what is what is the way that Israel can deescalate what's happening on the ground in recent weeks? Because it seems like for now we're in this routine where one incident and just propels the other. And there is copycat attacks, etc. Well, unfortunately, it's a little too late now to deescalate the estimate is that this wave is not over yet that there will be more attempts or maybe successful attempts of terrorist attacks. This being said, we have no choice but to do the real job and to grab the problem by the roots, which are two. First, the cyber problem, meaning all the social networks, we have to have better control of what is circulating on the social networks, because it's a flood of calls to hatred and violence and martyrdom inundating the networks and seen by young Palestinian people who are influenced by it. No doubt that this control unit, a special unit has been added to the police for controlling this flow of hatred. And the other route, the other problem that has to be taken care of is to go all the way up to the leadership. You have to strike hard at the leadership, mostly of the Hamas and the Islamic jihad, who are in the state of war. And so long as we arrested these two boys, you saw these two young boys almost starved. I wouldn't say we're in the state of war just yet, but definitely this is where it could escalate. Also, a harsh activity against Hamas could also be the beginning of the war. Sinouar declared as thing that Mr. Sinouar declared war when he said he asked to young Palestinian people to take guns, and if they don't have guns to take axes and don't kill Jewish people, if this is not the declaration of war, this is not an act of resistance. It's a war. It's a jihad. Jihadi is a holy war, but it's still a war. And legally speaking, we are in war. That's why the army is also operating. We are in war conditions, even though it's not the army we're facing, but terrorists. Nevertheless, whatever the definition might be, because as you say, you can play on words and we are not really in a conflict, a traditional conflict, classical war. It doesn't change the fact that we should hit the leaders of the Hamas. Time has come. It has been refused a few times by the political level, but it has been asked many a time by the security services to hit the heads and to Mr. Sinouar first. Even there, the opinions, of course, inside the security and defense forces vary. The chief of general staff of the IDF is not for it right now. He thinks the timing is not good. He didn't say not to eliminate Mr. Sinouar. We should eliminate him, but not at this particular time, because he said it would lead to an escalation, maybe to a war. Others in the Shin Bet, things we should be eliminated. Not only him, we have two or three people such as Mr. Mohammed Daphne, which is a very symbolical, iconic figure of the Hamas. You know, the problem, and this is what the chief of the IDF also says, is that you kill one of them and another one shows up. There are leaders, but these leaders also have, and they have a very strong position, of course, within Hamas and Islamic jihad. But if they are taken, it would only cause also more anger, and there would be other leaders that would take their place. This is also something that Israel, of course, needs to take in consideration, and that's why they're not doing it so quickly. Rafa Ali, you were telling me, thank you very much. I do want to turn to Jonathan Regev back, because we have some more news from the ground, and this is a good time to mention that the cabinet meeting that was scheduled for today, a day before the parliament resumes its session tomorrow, was now pushed back by at least half an hour, maybe more, due to recent events in the capture of these two terrorists who committed the terror attack in Elad on Thursday night. Jonathan, back to you. What's the latest? Yes, a few reactions. First, the police chief, the police commissioner, Jacob Shabtai, was on the side saying that thanks to the work of police, the IDF and the Israeli security agency, the chase of following these terrorists is over, the intensive work, which began right after the attack and the 60 hours that followed enabled eventually to catch these two terrorists. The minister of internal security, Omar Barlev, saying he congratulates the security establishment for catching the two terrorists, which committed the attack in Elad in the past two and a half days. All of the security branches work together, IDF, police, Israel security agency to make sure these terrorists are caught, which eventually happened. This is even closer to Elad and what we thought this forest being about a mile or so, even less, away from the city of Elad. And as we heard the analysts saying these people carried out the attack and fled and found refuge in the first place that they thought possible, they were there for two and a half days. I'll say waiting to be caught because they were there, no food, no water, no nothing. And this morning, some police units operating in the area spotted some suspicious movements and they came in. We saw not much resistance from the two terrorists. An act of hatred for sure, also an act of despair. We're seeing live images there from the forest where the terrorists were caught and we can see some curious young boys there, also orthodox, looking at the scene. Of course, a lot of forces there, both police and Shin Bet and of course also a lot of IDF units at the site at the moment. Caldeline reserves Alon of Yatar, Palestinian Affairs expert and former COGAT advisor joins us now from Shuslam. Thank you very much for being with us. I do want to try and take the news a step further and get your input on the discussion, the ongoing discussion that is carried out here in Israel over the media and in government, over the need to assassinate a senior like Sinwar, for example. And we've heard from Rafael Hirushami saying it should be done now. What do you think? Well, generally, Israel, I think that those, I would say, statements or I would say personal opinions about the question should be not on the media, but just on the headquarters of the IDF and the Shabbat and the government and not out of camera. I think that to this topic, to this question, if Sinwar should be assassinated or not, it's a question, it's a wide one. It's not a tactic step. Israel should prefer or choose the policy, the wide policy, if this, I would say, steps, if those steps should be right now or later, it's a part of the question. Israel have to choose the opportunity, the circumstances and the time. The wide question, if killing Sinwar or other leader in the leadership of Hamas will be solved, the problem of the terror, of course not. But it's part of one of the tools and I think that it could be, I would say, calm down the situation for why, but we have to be ready for a war, if we want. Could it also cause further escalation in case a senior like that is assassinated? I mean, assassinate will lead to escalation, to a wide escalation. I don't know, nobody knows if it will be continued by military operation in Gaza Strip or not and how long, but for sure, the situation will be escalated. I think that it should be remind a professional discussion. It means that there are a few, I would say, factors that need to assassinate and there are not. Part of the discussion should be include also not just the question of Sinwar or the leadership of Hamas, but what will be the results for the long run? Of course, and I'm sure that will be discussed in cabinet today that is convening shortly to discuss the developments. Alon of Yatari, thank you very much. Call no reserves. Sadly, we need to part here. Jonathan Regev, thank you very much. Thank you for joining our special broadcast, delivering the news of two terrorists who committed the attack in Elad on Thursday that were captured this morning in a forest just a mile or so away from Elad. Thank you very much for tuning in.