 from Tel Aviv and welcome to I-24 News's ongoing coverage of Israel at war. I'm Ariel Levin-Waldman. We're going to open on the Northern Front air strikes reported at the airports in Damascus and Aleppo the second time during the war the airports have been struck. Syrian media indicates the runways have been destroyed and the airport is out of commission. The IDF has begun evacuation plans for 14 more villages along the northern border. After creating a three mile deep evacuation zone last week, this comms us as Bullah increases the range and frequency of shelling in Israeli territory. The IDF did just hit a terror cell in Lebanon that was planning to carry a missile strike on a border town. This after three Israeli soldiers were injured by an earlier anti-tank missile launched at Kibbutz Bar Am. The IDF hit Hezbollah targets in response to that as well. According to Hezbollah's numbers, the terror group has lost 18 operatives since the war began, though Israel has estimated considerably higher figures. Though it rockets fire just about an hour ago from Gaza into central Israel as well, the West Bank is heating up as yet another possible front. With the IDF and Shin Bet saying a military aircraft struck an underground terror route at a mosque in the northern West Bank city of Genine where members of a mosque and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were sheltering and planning a massive imminent attack. The security forces say was modeled after the October 7th massacre. Shin Bet and military say these operatives were using the mosque as a base to planning carried attacks including the recent detonation of an explosive near Israeli troops along the West Bank security barrier. No soldiers were hurt in that blast. And the U.S. has activated more military assets in the Middle East as the war threatens to become a regional conflict. In addition to the two carrier strike groups, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of a terminal high altitude area defense ballistic missile interception battery as well as Patriot air defense systems in the area to protect U.S. forces. Austin also said additional forces have been set on standby if needed for rapid deployment. Now we are going to open with the northern front. We have our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osiron standing by on the north border right now. Ariel, give us the latest updates in the war. Right Ariel. So the latest is that about an hour and a half ago to two hours the IDF struck a tear cell in southern Lebanon that was planning to launch an anti-tank guided missile, at least one at the border community of Avim along the border. That's a little bit to the east where I'm standing now, according to the military statement, IDF forces managed to strike the cell before they launched the anti-tank missile. And this would be, I mean in recent days we've seen multiple anti-tank missile strikes on border communities, on Israeli military outposts across the border with Lebanon, the vast majority of them carried out by Hezbollah. Obviously also Israeli forces responding to each attack and trying to thwart attacks like the one I just mentioned. Now regarding the airports in Aleppo and Damascus, now Syrian opposition media saying that this is the third time in 10 days that the Aleppo airport has been taken out of service due to Israeli strikes, the second time in the same period of time that the Damascus airport was taken out of commission. Now these strikes included bombing the runways. These are not believed to be strikes trying to target any arms shipments or weapons depots as is usually the case. Now in addition to that damage, according to Syrian state media, one civilian worker at the Damascus airport was killed. And so given that the target was airport, was the runway, it is believed that the target was trying to thwart any potential weapons shipments and to avert any potential shipments like that to other means given that the Syrian airports in Aleppo and in Damascus are seen as key hubs aimed at sending weapons from Iran to its proxies in Syria and in Lebanon. It's definitely a tense situation there. We'll be coming back to you over the course of the day with updates from that front. Ariel, thank you very much. We're going to break this down more in studio though with Colonel Jack Neriat, former deputy head of assessment with Israeli military intelligence, as well as our senior correspondent, Owen Ultraman. I want to open with you, Jack. We saw a report in Axios as of this morning that Hamas was developing crude improvised chemical weapons. We know that in Syria, Hezbollah has access to chemical weapons and they have been willing to show very nasty surprises so far in this operation. What are the chances of this escalating along that sort of non-conventional access? Well, I cannot confirm that Hamas has access to the deadly gas that he used against against targets, Israeli targets. But if this happens, this certainly is a dramatic change in the situation and it will demand from Israel is such a response that Hamas would not even dare think about it. As long as Hezbollah is concerned, we know that the Serb Institute in northern Syria has been active in producing warheads, chemical warheads. And at the time of Barack Obama's administration, Obama had threatened Syria after the use of chemical weapons against the Syrian population that he would act against Syria. And the Syrian promised just to destroy the whole line of production. In fact, they did not and the Messiah, I mean, the Serb Institute was bombed twice and thrice by Israel and still it is active. So we might be, we might have also a surprise coming from Hezbollah, from deep inside the Syrian territory that chemical weapons on chemical warheads on long-range missiles that could hit Israel. So this is the situation today. As far as the airports of Aleppo and Damascus are concerned, the quantity of bombs that was dropped on these two airports is equivalent to 100 targets in Gaza yesterday. And I want to point out to our viewers, you're actually looking at some live visuals from the north where there were just some strikes over the border right now hitting, aiming at various Hezbollah or other terrorist positions that have been increasing their pace of fire towards Israeli territory. I want to return to you, Jack, as well, because again, you're from the intelligence background and from what I'm understanding now, there was a report on Channel 12 here in Israel saying that the IDF, the Mossad and other Shin Bet are working on creating a new force to hunt down the Hamas-Nukba force commandos that carried out the massacres in Israel, not just the leadership now actually going after their trigger pullers themselves. What goes into an operation of this magnitude? Well, you know, a lot of intelligence, a lot of technology, and I believe that, well, most of the terrorists that were captured by Israel will certainly give you information about their friends, about the families, and this promise of hitting or killing all those who participated in the massacre on the 7th of October was already said at the beginning of the war, and the very sentence was that every one of them will be killed and his house will be destroyed. And we've seen that during the campaign, and this is not the end of it. So, but basically the center that the focus of the organization is Shabak and not so much the intelligence. The intelligence just provides technical and technology, the intelligence. But the main job is the job of the Shabak. But beyond that, obviously, it reminds all of us of Munich, of both the movie and also the reality of what was done. Obviously, this is on a much, much huge grander scale. I hope it won't take the time that it took to- But that's where I'm about to go, in terms of the number of people involved. But if that's the case, and if we take the authorities at their word on this, when we take it to its logical extension, this goes far beyond the war, both in time frame and in geography. So it's worth watching this space. Absolutely, and I want to continue with you as well because it's not just here. It's not just within these borders. There's also the international involvement going on. This is threatening to escalate into a regional conflict. There have been increasing strikes on American assets in Iraq by, again, Iranian-backed proxies and the like. How far is this go? How far are we seeing this extend? Well, listen, it may well escalate into a regional conflict. My sense is it won't escalate into a regional conflict this way. I don't think that Iran, for example, has the tools to deter the United States in that way by striking at American military assets. The interests are such that I don't think that that will be the factor, if there is any factor or would be the factor, were there to be a factor, that would lead the United States to change its posture and to change its position. If the United States were to change its posture and its position, as you certainly are hoping that they won't, then I think that the rationale and the basis would come from someplace else. That said, obviously, the Americans don't enjoy being shot at, I'm sure. And this, from what all I understand, has happened in the past, so it's not unprecedented, although it stands to reason that this is obviously connected to the overall situation in the region. And we're going to come back to this discussion in a moment once we get a quick update on the southern border as well, where our correspondent, P.S. Dekalbach, is standing by in southern Israel. Pia, give us a quick update on what's going on out there now. Well, Ariel, this morning here on the Israeli side has been a pretty calm morning, but we just heard that a siren was triggered only a minute ago in a southern community here in Kisufim. What you're seeing behind me here is northern Gaza. This is Bed Hanun. And the Israeli military said it struck dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza throughout the night, including tunnels, warehouses, command centers, and weapons, and also mosques, it said, were used as Hamas depots. Now, the Israeli army is preparing to immediately step up its strikes in the Gaza Strip to increase pressure on Hamas. And yesterday, after two weeks since the beginning of the war, the first humanitarian aid delivery entered Gaza that you're seeing images of right now through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. We're talking about 20 trucks carrying food and water in medicine. Israel, as far as of now, has ruled out to allow fuel to enter. As the concern is that Hamas will use it for its infrastructure. Now, the continuation of the humanitarian aid will be dependent on whether this aid will reach the civilian population or be taken by Hamas. This is what Israel has said. How this is going to be monitored is still unclear, but now also organizations on the ground are saying that 20 trucks for a civilian population of two million is like a drop in the ocean hospitals to say that fuel is needed to run hospitals, ambulances, and desalination plants as well. The UN has repeatedly called for a ceasefire. But meanwhile, Israel calls upon residents in Gaza to leave northern Gaza that you're seeing right now and move to the southern part of the Strip as it continues to prepare its ground offensive. And over the weekend, the Israeli army announced that 210 hostages are believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas and are now in Gaza. And after the first two were freed, the first two hostages in a deal on Friday, that is, by the way, believed to be connected to the entry of aid. It sparked some hope among the families of other hostages. But it is very unclear how the situation here will unfold when that ground offensive will start. And also, we're seeing that preparations are being made already for several days now. We haven't heard anything in terms of when that ground offensive will indeed start. However, Israeli forces have confirmed all and over again that this ground offensive will come. You have Galant a couple of days ago saying that the soldiers stationed here at the Gaza border behind me will see Gaza from the inside very soon. And this front is very, very volatile, as it is believed that the ground offensive into Gaza might trigger a regional war. Mario. What sort of international efforts have we seen, Piotr? Try to bring back those hostages that have been taken by Hamas. Well, a couple of these hostages actually quite a lot have a second citizenship. We're talking about many European states, as well as the US. So families are really counting on these foreign governments to intervene in possible negotiations, as they are saying that they might have another way with Hamas. They might possibly even enter negotiations with them or with the third party. They have leverage that Israel does not have. We have seen, for example, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visiting Israel last week, meeting some of those families, some of those families who have loved ones in the Gaza Strip right now, promising that pressure is being applied onto Gaza possibly, also onto Hamas itself. They did not want to disclose what is actually being negotiated behind the curtains, but he promised those families that any efforts that are possibly can be made are being made as of now. The families of those hostages are trying to rally support also with several events being held in Tel Aviv, for example, rallies, candlelighting events just to really also generate the attention of the public, not only here in Israel, but also abroad, as I said, many of these hostages have another citizenship too, and many of them don't have a political solution here, but they especially call upon those foreign governments to not look away, to take responsibility for the citizens. Many are also split in terms of if the ground offensive could possibly even harm those hostages or bring some movement into the process and apply more pressure on Hamas. So there's really not one stance in terms of what can be done, and there is not a lot of information in terms of what is going on in the background, in terms of negotiations, but we are hearing that also the U.S. is heavily involved in the process of possibly freeing some more of those hostages. Now two might be beginning, two might also just be a step of Hamas trying to show that they technically would be willing to free hostages, but that doesn't mean that we necessarily will see other hostages being freed. It is a very, very unpredictable and volatile situation here, and there is not a lot of information out there in terms of what is indeed being done to free them in the back, as those are obviously very, very sensitive, very, very secret negotiations and processes there. Absolutely, it's a volatile situation with many lives that hang in the balance. We'll come back to you over the course of the day as the situation in the South develops. We're going to return now to our panel in the studio. I'm going to start with you, Owen, because we just heard about the status of some of the hostages and some of the negotiations being mentioned. We're hearing reports in Israel, some of which have been denied, that Europe and the United States has more or less delayed Israel's ground operation as many of these governments believe that they can still attempt to negotiate to get the hostages back. What do we know about this so far and what can we make of it? Not a lot. I mean, it stands to reason. It sounds like something that would be true. And obviously, the Israeli government, especially the narrow war cabinet, those five guys, five men in the room, the three who vote two or observers, are going to have to make a tough decision about how to weigh these two factors, right? On the one hand, the demands from abroad reportedly, or the requests from abroad, at least reportedly, to delay and allow time to play out for a hostage deal to be negotiated. And on the other hand, the imperative to achieve the objectives of the war, to end Hamas control over the Gaza Strip. There seems to be no sense of hurry in Israel in terms of starting the quote unquote next stage of the campaign. And it seems to be a sense that at least day to day, there's no real cost to Israel or risk in holding back. But one wonders whether over time that clock starts to run low and the risk starts to mount. And I do feel confident that at some point, Israel and the narrow war cabinet will in fact push back against those foreign governments if Israel feels it must. And we'll want to do it with some credibility because obviously keeping international support is an important part of the equation here. I'm going to turn back to you, Jack, because we've been mentioned- But we should also interrupt rocket sirens in the Gaza envelope area and in Ashkelon. Okay, so that's breaking right now as we speak, more rockets being fired, just showing how volatile the fronts on both fronts actually is at the moment. Jack, I want to turn back to you because there is another aspect of this and another possible front ready to open. We've been discussing a lot of these stuff in the north, a lot of stuff in the south. But we saw an airstrike earlier in the day against a terror sale in the West Bank as well. That was planning an attack that is listed at least by our security sources modeled after the massacres on the 7th and in a mixed population area given the West Bank. Ultimately, how concerned we have to be that there's going to be another front building and what sort of operational capacity is Israel going to have there given that the populations are so close to each other in such a close proximity? Well, you're right. Israel is very much concerned with what's happening in the West Bank and actually is chasing most Hamas operatives and leaders. And we have since the beginning of the operation, we have about 700 to 800 people that were arrested and the Palestinians. I mean, the Palestinians who tried to attack the Israeli forces, we have about 70 Palestinians killed. So this is definitely a subject of worry in Israel. We are watching the situation very closely. I mean, the upsurge is right now under control. But I think that major developments in the Gaza Strip or in Lebanon could indeed incite the population, the Palestinian street, to just not only demonstrate and initiate protests, but also to try to attack outposts of Israel in the West Bank, or cities or localities. And this is very much panicking the Israelis who are in the West Bank and they are just trying to organize themselves, just in case that they have some terrorists attacking them. This is definitely a subject of worry. Until now, it's under control. And Owen, one of the challenges that we see decreasing Israel's operational freedom right now, is also the massive pressure from the rest of the Arab world. We've seen Egypt and Jordan pushing and saying that, well, Israel is doing the responses unconscionable, it can't do this. Is Israel risking the relations as built painstakingly over 40 years right now? And does Israel have any choice in the matter? No and yes. No Israel is not risking those relationships. There's no sense in Israel that there's any actual threat to the peace treaty with Egypt, to the peace treaty with Jordan, or for that matter, to the Abraham Accords. But yes, in a sense, Arielle, especially with Egypt, over the course of the last few years, Israeli-Egyptian relations not too long ago were three intelligence officers sitting in a room. That was the Egyptian-Israeli relationship, right? Security cooperation that involved a very, very small number of people. That was very important to the stability of the Middle East that's highly valued in Israel. But nonetheless, it was very, very narrow. In a very cautious way, President Sisi, over the last number of years, has carefully tried to expand the possibilities for the relationship, to increase avenues for people-to-people cooperation, to increase tourism, to increase aviation, to the Sinai Peninsula, but not only. Also to Egypt proper, if you will. And I think that those gains are at risk. And I think that this episode sets that process back significantly, particularly with Egypt. As for the Abraham Accords, I think the sense in Israel is that the damage there is much more limited. That the investment by the UAE, by Bahrain, by Morocco as well in those agreements and in the people-to-people processes that were much more broad from the very, very beginning in those agreements and in those relationships that given how firmly those have been based over the course of the last three years, that the progress there is less at risk. But of course, it obviously bears our monitoring. And even there, one would expect that there will be some damage. If I can add on what Owen said, most Arab regimes would like to see behind the doors Hamas disappear. Remember, Hamas is the Muslim brethren. This is definitely the enemy of the Egyptian regime. This is the enemy of the Jordanian kingdom. This is the enemy of most of the Arab states and the Gulf states. So behind the doors and in the corridors, they're very happy and hope and wish that Israel finishes the job. That's going to be a very hopeful thing going forward. Before that, we are going to bring in a look at the Israeli public as a whole. The massive grief everyone suffered in the attack and the unity Israel is showing to try to bring back the hostages that have been stolen by Hamas, sometimes taking some uncommon forms in the form of art, in this case, and urban art, and trying to bring back an artist abducted at that rave on October 7th. Let's take a quick look. Huge graffiti with the words Free Pink on a highway close to Tel Aviv. This is not just an artistic expression, but a direct message to Hamas by the graffiti artist community, which is trying to save one of its members. It's so big. It's huge. And so many cars are passing by there. It's coming into your eyes, to your soul, to your heart. And you take it with you to the rest of the day. And you think about it. And you talk about it with others. So it's like when you want to raise awareness to something good or something that's important, it's a great, great place to do it. This artwork was created by several members of the graffiti community who wanted to raise awareness of the abduction of their friend Barhaiman at the Nova Rave during the Hamas onslaught on October 7th. She's now supposed to start her fourth year of studying art. She's really creative. And she's really sweet, such a nice young woman, really. This is not the first tribute of the graffiti artist community in Israel ever since the Hamas massacre. There have been different gestures, such as this wall painting of Joe Biden, or one dedicated to Rachel from Ofakim, one of the heroes of the current crisis. The entire graffiti scene in Israel enlisted for this mission. And we are going to create more and more graffiti, which will raise awareness and call for the release of all abducted Israelis. The situation here is very difficult. Even speaking in front of the camera is very unusual for me. We call on all the graffiti artists in the world to join forces in one message, to bring back all the abducted people. Members of the graffiti scene say they are aware of the power of their artwork on social media. One example is the famous British artist Banksy, whose graffiti art is worth millions of dollars. Over the years, Banksy has shown his support for the Palestinians. I like Banksy, and I like his work. But I feel right now it's a different situation. And if I could meet Banksy, I would try to talk to him and kind of just explain that this situation that we have right now, as I said before, it's different than the actual conflict. I feel like it's a separate thing. Now it's like terror against the rest of the world. Friends of Inbao also made t-shirts and other items bearing her nickname. They all hope for her fast return. Until then, they'll continue to spread the word. We're going to go back to an intelligence assessment with you, Jack, because as you had just brought up, there is now a meeting in Beirut between the Hamas leadership and Hezbollah. Does a second front now seem inevitably imminent? Well, the second front might be open when and if Israel begins the land offensive. This is definitely a principle that was set by Hezbollah saying that if Israel crosses the red line, this is the red line, they will intervene in mass. This is not the kind of limited skirmishes that we have right now between us and Hezbollah, which has no precedent since 2006. But let us remember that the only one that we haven't seen and haven't heard is Hassan Nasrallah. He's in the bunker. He is just surrounded by Iranian advisors. And only yesterday, the commander of the Quds Division, Qa'ani, landed in Beirut and joined Hassan Nasrallah. In order to advise the ways that Hezbollah would respond to a possible Israeli incursion into Gaza. This is the preparations are almost finished because the Iraqi militias, pro-Iranian militias, have been deployed in South Lebanon. And militias have been advanced also on the Golan Heights, facing Israel, till Dara, the area of the Druze in Syria. So the whole thing is ready for beginning the real clashes with Israel, if Israel, and when Israel begins the landing incursion. It seems that Israel has very little options here. Well, basically for Gaza, in my view, two main options. One is the one that we've been discussing, the land offensive, which will cost lots of lives from the Israeli side and certainly from the Palestinian side also. But there is another option. And we have to remember that this option was during the First Lebanese War in 1982, where we just entered in June. And in August, our effort just went out. And we're going to see if that is a possibility here. We are, however, out of time, at least for now. 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The Vakita reserve, we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, that the Vakita can be protected. Welcome to I-24 News' ongoing coverage of Israel at war. I'm Ariel Levin-Longman. We're going to open on the Northern Front air strikes reported at the airports in Damascus and Aleppo. The second time during the war, the airports have been struck. Syrian media indicates the runways have been destroyed and the airport is out of commission. The IDF has begun evacuation plans for 14 more villages along the northern border. After creating a three mile deep evacuation zone last week, this comms as Hezbollah increases the range and frequency of shelling in Israeli territory. The IDF did just hit a terror cell in Lebanon that was planning to carry a missile strike on a border town. This after three Israeli soldiers were injured by an earlier anti-tank missile launched at Kibbutz Bar Am. The IDF hit Hezbollah targets in response to that as well. According to Hezbollah's numbers, the terror group has lost 18 operatives since the war began, though Israel has estimated considerably higher figures. There were rockets fired just about an hour ago from Gaza into central Israel as well. The West Bank is heating up as yet another possible front. With the IDF and Shin Bet saying a military aircraft struck an underground terror route at a mosque in the northern West Bank city of Jinnin where members of a mosque and the Palestinian Islamic jihad were sheltering and planning a massive imminent attack. The security forces say was modeled after the October 7th massacre. Shin Bet and military say these operatives were using the mosque as a base to planning carrying attacks, including the recent detonation of an explosive near Israeli troops along the West Bank security barrier. No soldiers were hurt in that blast. And the US has activated more military assets in the Middle East as the war threatens to become a regional conflict. In addition to the two carrier strike groups, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of a terminal high altitude area defense ballistic missile interception battery as well as Patriot air defense systems in the area to protect US forces, Austin also said. Additional forces have been set on standby if needed for rapid deployments. Now, we are going to open with the Northern Front. We have our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Oceran, standing by on the North border right now. Ariel, give us the latest updates in the war. Right, Ariel. So the latest is that about an hour and a half ago to two hours, the IDF struck a tear cell in Southern Lebanon that was planning to launch an anti-tank guided missile, at least one at the border community of Avim along the border. That's a little bit to the east, where I'm standing now. According to the military statement, IDF forces managed to strike the cell before they launched the anti-tank missile. And this would be, I mean, in recent days, we've seen multiple anti-tank missile strikes on border communities, on Israeli military outposts across the border with Lebanon, the vast majority of them carried out by Hezbollah. Obviously, also Israeli forces responding to each attack and trying to thwart attacks like the one I just mentioned. Now, regarding the airports in Aleppo and Damascus, now, Syrian opposition media saying that this is the third time in 10 days that the Aleppo airport has been taken out of service due to Israeli strikes. The second time in the same period of time that the Damascus airport was taken out of commission. Now, these strikes included bombing the runways. These are not believed to be strikes trying to target any arms, shipments, or weapons depots, as is usually the case. In addition to that damage, according to Syrian state media, one civilian worker at the Damascus airport was killed. And so given that the target was the runway, it is believed that the target was trying to thwart any potential weapons, shipments, and to avert any potential shipment like that to other means, given that the Syrian airports in Aleppo and in Damascus are seen as key hubs aimed at sending weapons from Iran to its proxies in Syria and in Lebanon. It's definitely a tense situation there. We'll be coming back to you over the course of the day with updates from that front. Ariel, thank you very much. We're going to break this down more in studio, though, with Colonel Jack Nariot, former deputy head of assessment with Israeli military intelligence, as well as our senior correspondent, Owen Alterman. I want to open with you, Jack. We saw a report in Axios as of this morning that Hamas was developing crude, improvised chemical weapons. We know that in Syria, Hezbollah has access to chemical weapons. And they have been willing to show very nasty surprises so far in this operation. What is the chances of this escalating along that sort of non-conventional axis? Well, I cannot confirm that Hamas has access to the deadly gas that he used against Israel's targets. But if this happens, this certainly is a dramatic change in the situation. And it will demand from Israel such a response that Hamas would not even dare think about it. As long as Hezbollah is concerned, we know that the Serbs Institute in northern Syria has been active in producing warheads, chemical warheads. And at the time of Barack Obama's administration, Obama had threatened Syria after the use of chemical weapons against the Syrian population that he would act against Syria. And the Syrian promised just to destroy the whole line of production. In fact, they did not. And the Serbs Institute was bombed twice and thrice by Israel, and still it is active. So we might have, also, a surprise coming from Hezbollah, from deep inside the Syrian territory that chemical warheads on long-range missiles that could hit Israel. So this is the situation today. As far as the airports of Aleppo and Damascus are concerned, the quantity of bombs that was dropped on these two airports is equivalent to 100 targets in Gaza yesterday. And I want to point out to our viewers, you're actually looking at some live visuals from the north, where there were just some strikes over the border right now, hitting, aiming at various Hezbollah or other terrorist positions that have been increasing their pace of fire towards Israeli territory. I want to return to you, Jack, as well. Because, again, you're from the intelligence background. And from what I'm understanding now, there was a report on Channel 12 here in Israel saying that the IDF, the Mossad, and other Shin Bet are working on creating a new force to hunt down the Hamas-Nukba force, commandos that carried out the massacres in Israel, not just the leadership now, actually going after their trigger pullers themselves. What goes into an operation of this magnitude? Well, a lot of intelligence, a lot of technology. And I believe that, well, most of the terrorists that were captured by Israel will certainly give you information about their friends, about the families. And this promise of hitting or killing all those who participated in the massacre on the 7th of October was already said at the beginning of the war. And the very sentence was that every one of them will be killed, and his house will be destroyed. And we've seen that during the campaign. And this is not the end of it. So basically, the center, the focus of the organization is Shabak, and not so much the intelligence. The intelligence just provides technical and technology the intelligence. But the main job is the job of the Shabak. But beyond that, obviously, it reminds all of us of Munich, of both the movie and also the reality of what was done. Obviously, this is on a much, much, huge, grander scale. The same number of people are killed. I hope it won't take the time that it took to do. That's where I'm about to go in terms of the number of people involved. But if that's the case, and if we take the authorities at their word on this, and we take it to its logical extension, this goes far beyond the war, both in time frame and in geography. So it's worth watching this space. Absolutely. Oh, and I want to continue with you as well, because it's not just here. It's not just within these borders. There's also the international involvement going on. This is threatening to escalate into a regional conflict. There have been increasing strikes on American assets in Iraq by, again, Iranian-backed proxies and the like. How far does this go? How far are we seeing this at this end? Well, listen, it may well escalate into a regional conflict. My sense is it won't escalate into a regional conflict this way. I don't think that Iran, for example, has the tools to deter the United States in that way by striking at American military assets. The interests are such that I don't think that that will be the factor if there is any factor or would be the factor were there to be a factor that would lead the United States to change its posture and to change its position. If the United States were to change its posture and its position, Israel certainly are hoping that they won't, then I think that the rationale and the basis would come from someplace else. That said, obviously, the Americans don't enjoy being shot at, I'm sure. And this, from what all I understand, has happened in the past. So it's not unprecedented, although it stands to reason that this is obviously connected to the overall situation of the region. And we're going to come back to this discussion in a moment once we get a quick update on the southern border as well, where our correspondent, P.S. Dekalbach, is standing by in southern Israel. Pia, give us a quick update on what's going on out there now. Well, Ariel, this morning here on the Israeli side has been a pretty calm morning. But we just heard that Assad was triggered only a minute ago in a southern community here in Kisufim. What you're seeing behind me here is northern Gaza. This is Bed Hanun, and the Israeli military said struck dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza throughout the night, including tunnels, warehouses, command centers, and weapons. And also mosques, it said, were used as Hamas depots. Now, the Israeli army is preparing to immediately step up its strikes in the Gaza Strip to increase pressure on Hamas. And yesterday, after two weeks since the beginning of the war, the first humanitarian aid delivery entered Gaza that you're seeing images of right now through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. We're talking about 20 trucks carrying food and water in medicine. Israel, as far as of now, has ruled out to allow fuel to enter. As the concern is that Hamas will use it for its infrastructure. Now, the continuation of the humanitarian aid will be dependent on whether this aid will reach the civilian population or be taken by Hamas. This is what Israel has said. How this is going to be monitored is still unclear. But now, also, organizations on the ground are saying that 20 trucks for a civilian population of 2 million is like a drop in the ocean in hospitals to say that fuel is needed to run hospitals, ambulances, and desalination plans as well. The UN has repeatedly called for ceasefire. But meanwhile, Israel calls upon residents in Gaza to leave northern Gaza that you're seeing right now a move to the southern part of the Strip as it continues to prepare its ground offensive. And over the weekend, the Israeli army announced that 210 hostages are believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas and are now in Gaza. And after the first two were freed, the first two hostages in a deal on Friday, that is, by the way, believed to be connected to the entry of aid. It sparked some hope among the families of other hostages. But it is very unclear how the situation here will unfold when that ground offensive will start. And also, we're seeing that preparations are being made already for several days now. We haven't heard anything in terms of when that ground offensive will indeed start. However, Israeli forces have confirmed all and over again that this ground offensive will come. Joav Galant a couple of days ago saying that the soldiers stationed here at the Gaza border behind will see Gaza from the inside very soon. And this front is very, very volatile, as it is believed that the ground offensive into Gaza might trigger a regional war. Mario. What sort of international efforts have we seen, Piot, try to bring back those hostages that have been taken by Hamas? Well, a couple of these hostages actually quite a lot have a second citizenship. We're talking about many European states, as well as the US. So families are really counting on these foreign governments to intervene in possible negotiations, as they are saying that they might have another way with Hamas. They might possibly even enter negotiations with them or with the third party. They have leverage that Israel does not have. We have seen, for example, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visiting Israel last week, meeting some of those families, some of those families who have loved ones in the Gaza Strip right now, promising that pressure is being applied onto Gaza possibly, also onto Hamas itself. They did not want to disclose what is actually being negotiated behind the curtains, but he promised those families that any efforts that are possibly can be made are being made as of now. The families of those hostages are trying to rally support also with several events being held in Tel Aviv, for example, rallies, candlelighting events, just to really also generate the attention of the public, not only here in Israel, but also abroad, as I said, many of these hostages have another citizenship, too. And many of them don't have a political solution here, but they especially call upon those foreign governments to not look away, to take responsibility for the citizens. Many are also split in terms of if the ground defensive could possibly even harm those hostages, or bring some movement into the process and apply more pressure on Hamas. So there's really not one stance in terms of what can be done. And there is not a lot of information in terms of what is going on in the background in terms of negotiations. But we are hearing that also the US is heavily involved in the process of possibly freeing some more of those hostages. Now, two might be beginning. Two might also just be a step of Hamas trying to show that they technically would be willing to free hostages. But that doesn't mean that we necessarily will see other hostages being freed. It is a very, very unpredictable and volatile situation here. And there is not a lot of information out there in terms of what is indeed being done to free them in the back, as those are obviously very, very sensitive, very, very secret negotiations and processes there. Absolutely, that's a volatile situation with many lives that hang in the balance. We'll come back to you over the course of the day as the situation in the South develops. We're going to return now to our panel in the studio. I'm going to start with you, Owen, because we just heard about the status of some of the hostages and some of the negotiations being mentioned. We're hearing reports in Israel, some of which have been denied, that Europe and the United States has more or less delayed Israel's ground operation as many of these governments believe that they can still attempt to negotiate to get the hostages back. What do we know about this so far? And what can we make of it? Not a lot. I mean, it stands to reason. It sounds like something that would be true. And obviously, the Israeli government, especially the narrow war cabinet, those five guys, five men in the room, the three who vote two or observers, are going to have to make a tough decision about how to weigh these two factors. On the one hand, the demands from abroad reportedly, or the requests from the broad, at least reportedly, to delay and allow time to play out for a hostage deal to be negotiated. And on the other hand, the imperative to achieve the objectives of the war, to end Hamas's control over the Gaza Strip, there seems to be no sense of hurry in Israel in terms of starting the quote unquote next stage of the campaign. And it seems to be a sense that at least day to day, there's no real cost to Israel or risk in holding back. But one wonders whether over time that clock starts to run low and the risk starts to mount. And I do feel confident that at some point, Israel and the narrow war cabinet will in fact push back against those foreign governments if Israel feels it must. And we'll want to do it with some credibility because obviously keeping international support is an important part of the equation here. I'm going to turn back to you, Jack, because we've been mentioned. But we should also interrupt rocket sirens in the Gaza envelope area and in Ashkelon. Okay, so that's breaking right now as we speak. More rockets being fired, just showing how volatile the front on both fronts actually is at the moment. Jack, I want to turn back to you because there is another aspect of this and another possible front ready to open. We've been discussing a lot of these stuff in the north, a lot of stuff in the south. But we saw an airstrike earlier in the day against a terror cell in the West Bank as well that was planning an attack that is listed at least by our security sources, modeled after the massacres on the seventh. And in a mixed population area given the West Bank, ultimately, how concerned do we have to be that there's going to be another front building? And what sort of operational capacity is Israel going to have there given that the populations are so close to each other in such close proximity? You're right. Israel is very much concerned with what's happening in the West Bank and actually is chasing most Hamas operatives and leaders and we have since the beginning of the operation, we have about 700 to 800 people that were arrested and the Palestinians, I mean, the Palestinian who tried to attack the Israeli forces. We have about 70 Palestinian skilled. So this is definitely a subject of worry in Israel. We don't, we are watching the situation very closely. I mean, the upsurge is right now under control, but I think that major developments in the Gaza Strip or in Lebanon could indeed incite the population, the Palestinian street to just not only demonstrate and initiate protest, but also to try to attack outposts of Israel in the West Bank or cities or localities or, and this is very much panicking the Israelis who are in the West Bank and they are just trying to organize themselves just in case that they have some terrorists attacking them. This is definitely a subject of worry until now it's under control. And one of the challenges that we see decreasing Israel's operational freedom right now is also a massive pressure from the rest of the Arab world. We've seen Egypt and Jordan pushing and saying that what Israel is doing, the response is unconscionable, it can't do this. Is Israel risking the relations as built painstakingly over 40 years right now? And does Israel have any choice in the matter? No, and yes. No Israel is not risking those relationships. There's no sense in Israel that there's any actual threat to the peace treaty with Egypt or the peace treaty with Jordan for that matter to the Abraham Accords. But yes, in a sense, Arielle, especially with Egypt over the course of the last few years, Israeli-Egyptian relations not too long ago were three intelligence officers sitting in a room. That was the Egyptian-Israeli relationship, right? Security cooperation that involved a very, very small number of people. That was very important to the stability of the Middle East that's highly valued in Israel, but nonetheless was very, very narrow. In a very cautious way, President Sisi over the last number of years has carefully tried to expand the possibilities for the relationship, to increase avenues for people to people, cooperation, to increase tourism, to increase aviation, to the Sinai Peninsula, but not only, also to Egypt proper, if you will. And I think that those gains are at risk. And I think that this episode sets that process back significantly, particularly with Egypt. As for the Abraham Accords, I think the sense in Israel is that the damage there is much more limited. That the investment by the UAE, by Bahrain, by Morocco as well, in those agreements and in the people-to-people processes that were much more broad from the very, very beginning in those agreements and in those relationships that given how firmly those have been based over the course of the last three years, that the progress there is less at risk, but of course it obviously bears our monitoring, and even there, one would expect that there will be some damage. If I can add on what Owen said, most Arab regimes would like to see, behind the doors, Hamas disappear. Remember, Hamas is the Muslim brethren. This is definitely the enemy of the Egyptian regime. This is the enemy of the Jordanian kingdom. This is the enemy of most of the Arab states and the Gulf states. So behind the doors and in the corridors, they are very happy and hope and wish that Israel finishes the job. And that's going to be a very hopeful thing going forward. Before that, we are going to bring in a look at the Israeli public as a whole. The massive grief everyone suffered in the attack and the unity Israel is showing that you try to bring back the hostages that have been stolen by Hamas, sometimes taking some uncommon forms in the form of art in this case and urban art and trying to bring back an artist abducted at that rave on October 7th. Let's take a quick look. Huge graffiti with the words free pink on a highway close to Tel Aviv. This is not just an artistic expression, but a direct message to Hamas by the graffiti artist community, which is trying to save one of its members. It's so big. It's huge. And so many cars are passing by there. It's coming into your eyes, to your soul, to your heart, and you take it with you to the rest of the day and you think about it and you talk about it with others. So it's like when you want to raise awareness to something good or something that's important, it's a great place to do it. This artwork was created by several members of the graffiti community who wanted to raise awareness of the abduction of their friend in Bar Haiman at the Nova rave during the Hamas onslaught on October 7th. She's now supposed to start her fourth year of studying art. She's really creative and she's really sweet. Such a nice young woman, really. This is not the first tribute of the graffiti artist community in Israel ever since the Hamas massacre. There have been different gestures, such as this wall painting of Joe Biden, or one dedicated to Rachel from Ophakim, one of the heroes of the current crisis. The entire graffiti scene in Israel enlisted for this mission and we are going to create more and more graffiti which will raise awareness and call for the release of all abducted Israelis. The situation here is very difficult. Even speaking in front of the camera is very unusual for me. We call on all the graffiti artists in the world to join forces in one message, to bring back all the abducted people. Members of the graffiti scene say they are aware of the power of their artwork on social media. One example is the famous British artist, Banksy, whose graffiti art is worth millions of dollars. Over the years, Banksy has shown his support for the Palestinians. I like Banksy and I like his work, but I feel right now it's a different situation and if I could meet Banksy, I would try to talk to him and kind of just explain that this situation that we have right now, as I said before, it's different than the actual conflict. I feel like it's a separate thing now. It's like terror against the rest of the world. Friends of Inbao also made t-shirts and other items bearing her nickname. They all hope for her fast return. Until then, they'll continue to spread the word. We're gonna go back to an intelligence assessment with you, Jack, because as you had just brought up, there is now a meeting in Beirut between the Hamas leadership and Hezbollah. Does a second front now seem inevitably imminent? Well, the second front might be open when and if Israel begins the land offensive. This is definitely a principle that was set by Hezbollah saying that if Israel crosses the red line, this is the red line, they will intervene in mass. This is not the kind of limited skirmishes that we have right now between us and Hezbollah, which has no precedent since 19, since 2006. But let us remember that the only one that we haven't seen and haven't heard is Hassan Nasrallah. He's in the bunker. He's just surrounded by Iranian advisors. And lately, only yesterday, the commander of the Quds division, Qa'ani, landed in Beirut and joined the Hassan Nasrallah in order to advise the ways that Hezbollah would respond to a possible Israeli incursion into Gaza. This is, the preparations are almost finished because the Iraqi militias, pro-Iranian militias have been deployed in South Lebanon and militias have been advanced also on the Golan Heights facing Israel, Tildar, the area of the Druze in Syria. So the whole thing is ready for beginning the real clashes with Israel, if Israel, and when Israel begins the land incursion. It seems that Israel has very little options here. Well, you know, basically for Gaza, that in my view, two main options. One is the one that we've been discussing, the land offensive, which will cost lots of lives from the Israeli side and certainly from the Palestinian side also. But there is another option. And we have to remember that this option was during the First Lebanese War in 1982, where we just entered in June and in August, Arafat just went out. And we're gonna see if that is a possibility here. We are, however, out of time, at least for now, but we will see you again at the top of the next hour with breaking news updates from Israel at war from all fronts and analysis of the situation in every possible aspect. Until then, stay strong and stay safe out there. 1300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the South and North. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. As far as we're talking. Within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. Morning from Tel Aviv and welcome to I-24 News ongoing coverage of Israel at war. I'm Ariel Levin-Waldman. We're gonna open on the northern front with air strikes at the airports in Damascus and Aleppo. Syrian media indicating the runways have been destroyed and the airport out of commission. The IDF has begun evacuation plans for 14 more villages along the northern border after creating a three mile deep evacuation zone last week. Rockets were fired just about an hour and a half ago from Gaza towards central Israel as well as further barrages towards Israel south in the time since then. The West Bank is also heating up the IDF and the shouldn't-bet internal security forces say a military aircraft struck an underground terror route at a mosque in the northern West Bank city of Genine where members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic jihad were sheltering and planning a massive imminent attack, planned for today in fact, modeled after the October 7th massacre. This is coming as security forces launch massive arrest raids across the West Bank to confiscate weapons and ammunition from terror operatives. You can see in those pictures where in view some of what's been confiscated, automatic weapons, parts to manufacture automatic weapons, all planned for terror attacks. Of these arrests, 727 so far, including 480 Hamas members, that includes the mayor of Al-Bira, as well. So, Hamas had their network very far reaching. The U.S. as well has activated more military assets in the Middle East as the war threatens to become a regional conflict. In addition to those two carrier strike group mentioned before, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of air defense systems and additional forces on standby for rapid deployment. We are going to open with our eye in the South where our correspondent, P.S. Dekalbach, is standing by in southern Israel. Pia, good to have you connected to us. Walk us through what's happening down on the southern front right now. Well, Ariel, here the morning in Starrot has been a quiet one, although about an hour ago, there was a barrage of rockets fired toward the city of Ashkelon, which now we are hearing has a population of about 40,000 people without a private shelter in their homes. All these 40,000 people are planned to get evacuated within the next days, as this area has gotten under constant rocket fire here in the last two weeks, and it's just become unbearable for people to live in many of those areas here. Also, the city of Starrot, the city of 30,000 residents, has been majorly evacuated. There are about 3,000 people here left. What you see behind me here is Bed Hanun in the northern Gaza Stripia. We're very close to the Gaza border. As you can see, the Israeli military set it struck dozens of Hamas targets throughout the night, including tunnels, warehouses, command centers, and weapons. And also, mosques, it said, were used as Hamas depots. Now, the Israeli military is preparing to immediately step up its strikes in the Gaza Strip. You're seeing images there right now of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to really increase pressure on the Hamas. Yesterday, which is two weeks after the beginning of the war, the first humanitarian aid delivery entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt when we were talking about 20 trucks carrying food, water, and medicine. Israel ruled out to allow fuel to enter, as the concern is that Hamas will confiscate it to use it for its own infrastructure. Now, the continuation of the humanitarian aid is said to be dependent on whether this aid will reach the civilian population or be taken by Hamas. How that will be monitored is yet unclear. But organizations on the ground are saying that 20 trucks for a civilian population of more than 2 million is like a drop in the ocean and hospitals, too. Say that fuel is needed as well to run those hospitals, ambulances, and also the dis-alienation plans for water. Now, the UN has repeatedly called for a ceasefire and reports from the ground. Here in Israel suggests that the humanitarian in Gaza and Israel both suggest that the humanitarian crisis is intensifying day by day, especially when we look at the population there in Gaza. But meanwhile, here Israel still calls upon those residents. And here you might have heard the boom. This is an Israeli strike here in Gaza. We're very close to the border. I am seeing that there is no rocket alert in Ashkelon. This is already the second alert for this morning. Israel still calls upon the residents of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to move further down south. As Israel continues, and here you can hear another boom here coming from the Israeli side fired toward Gaza. Really, Israel is preparing its ground offensive as you can hear from the air with strikes and also here on the ground with more training, more reinforcements. And looking into Gaza, this is also the place where now the IDF has confirmed 212 hostages are being held. This number has been increased many times as there are still cases that are being checked and identified. We're now saying 212 hostages being believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas being located in Gaza here behind me right now. That's going to be a major operational challenge for Israel moving forward. Pia, thank you very much. We're going to be coming back to you over the course of the day as the situation develops, but before that, we are going to return to the studio where we still have Dr. Jack Nariot, former deputy to have assessment with Israeli military intelligence, as well as senior correspondent Owen Ultraman. Just also to focus on what we just heard from Pia, rocket siren sounding, not only in Ashkelon, but also in some of the Gaza border communities. Yes, which means that the bombardment is continuing, as we've seen so often over at the course of the past two weeks. I want to open with you, Jack, because we've been talking a little bit about this terror cell that we saw struck in Jeanne earlier. The possibility of Hamas opening yet another front from the West Bank. This has been coupled with a major arrest operation across the entirety of the West Bank that they've only just now started releasing images of, showing weapons, ammunition, and all kinds of infrastructure being struck to try to prevent exactly that. How extensive is Hamas and Islamic jihad's influence in the West Bank? Let's put it this way. If you don't intervene in the West Bank, if Shabak and the IDF do not intervene in the West Bank, Hamas will take over. It's a matter of time. And if three elections are conducted in the West Bank, Hamas will win. This is definitely, from this point of view, the Palestinian Authority should thank Israel, because we are saving the Palestinian Authority. We are taking care of a danger that is threatening us, but it's also threatening their regime. So I see that I don't see a conflict of interest between us and the Palestinian Authority. On the contrary, I think that now, after what happened in Gaza, there's a political thinking that we have done wrong by trying to encourage Hamas at the expenses of the Palestinian Authority, weakening the Palestinian Authority. Now we realize that the only body that can replace the Hamas in Gaza is the Palestinian Authority. We don't want any international presence. We don't want an Arab force. We want something that we can control. And the only thing that we can control is the Palestinian Authority. Will we still be able to control them if they are the dominant power in Gaza again at some point? Because it's still a bunch of sympathizers for Hamas. They're base of their power, their operational control. Even if you take out their leaders, all their bureaucracy is still going to have enough survivors. Well, you know, don't forget that Hamas just, when it took over the Gaza Strip, just got rid of all the FATA operatives in the area. They're still there. They can be replaced immediately. And I think that there would be a chance to have them back there and to renegotiate an agreement with the Palestinian Authority concerning the demilitarization of Gaza about, we don't want to have anything to do with Gaza. We don't want to supply water, no electricity, no energy. Let them take care of that by themselves. And I think that this would be the best solution for Israel. Absolutely. And we're going to discuss this more at length after we take a look at the northern front, where Middle East correspondent Ariel Osseron is standing by right now. Ariel, give us a little bit about the new developments on that front as we speak. Right, Ariel. So about a couple hours ago, the IDF managed to thwart a terror cell that planned to launch rocket anti-tank missile, actually, at the border community of Avivim. That's a little bit east to where I'm standing now. Obviously, they managed to, the IDF managed to take them out before they carried out the attack. And Avivim and or the Kibbutze loan where I'm standing right now are just a few of the communities that are being evacuated now along the border between Israel and Lebanon. In fact, earlier this morning, Israeli authorities announcing that they have expanded the evacuation to 14 additional communities. That basically makes the evacuation strip five kilometers deep into Israeli territory from the border. Now, if that number is significant this morning, it's because also the Lebanese official news agency is saying that Israel has expanded the range of its attacks inside Lebanese territory that now reach up to five kilometers. And so we're seeing that the range of fire along the border between Israel and Lebanon is expanding on both sides. And in anticipation for that to only exacerbate, Israel is also expanding its evacuation of border communities. And Ariel, I know it's not exactly the front you're on right now, but you were just listening to the briefing by the IDF spokesman, Higari. Regarding the developments of Geneva in a topic you have followed very closely for this channel, what insight can you give us on what was just said there? Right, Ariel, but pretty much all of Israel's one big front right now. But regarding Israel's operation last night in the West Bank, so according to the IDF, the IDF planes, not quite sure the IDF is not willing to confirm whether this was a fighter jet carried out in attack overnight, eliminating a terror cell of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters that were hiding inside a mosque inside the refugee camp of Jenin. Now, this is a mosque that Israel has identified to being used in the past by Hamas, by Palestinian Islamic Jihad to hide weapons as a command center. And the understanding in the Israeli defense establishment is that they were hiding in an underground tunnel underneath the mosque. And they were planning to carry out a large-scale attack similar to the attacks that we saw carried out by Hamas on October 7. And so the IDF decided, in an unusual fashion, to take out the underground tunnel from the air, according to Palestinian officials. At least two people were killed in Jenin. Obviously, the expectation that these were connected to the strike on the mosque that was used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to plan terror attacks against Israel. Well, it's definitely a major development on that front as well. Our state's safe out there. We'll be coming back to you over the course of the day as the situation develops on the ground. We're going to return to the studio now where we are joined by Jack Naria again and our senior correspondent, Owen Alderman. Actually, the perfect two people for this discussion. You have a extensive background in international affairs, and you know Lebanon like the back of your hand. So I do want to start with you, Jack, because the Lebanese front is what everybody has been anticipating since the very start. And we're hearing some developments about how and when Hezbollah will get themselves involved. Because some reports from Lebanon and their media now suggesting it might not necessarily be immediately, it'll be based on, well, not a full commitment, depending on what Israel does in Gaza. Definitely. So I mean, the latest on this issue is that Hamas has informed Hezbollah that they can cope with the Israeli land offensive. They have the means to do that. And they don't need immediate help. Well, this or immediate assistance. I doubt it very much. But this is what the media from Lebanon just gives us to read and to understand. The thing is that if you look at Lebanon right now, you see that all south Lebanon from Marjah, Yuhun, Nabati, a vintage bale, Tyre, and Sidon, all. More sirens in the Gaza envelope area, by the way. Huge evacuations of population towards the north. As much as that, the Lebanese papers are saying that there are no rooms left for rent. So this is what's happening in Lebanon. Now, remember, Lebanon is a country that has no president since October 22. Lebanon has a caretaker government which has no real power because of the Lebanese constitution and has nothing, no power at all to stop Hezbollah from doing what it wants in the area. I mean, we saw the Foreign Affairs Iranian one just meeting all the Palestinian factions and Hezbollah and devising in Lebanon how to attack Israel, how to use the land of Lebanon as a forward position in order to initiate attacks in Lebanon. And the only voices that you hear in Lebanon against the intervention and against the catastrophe that might hit Lebanon by a massive Israeli attack are a small part of the Christian community. Because the huge majority of the Christian community is with Hezbollah. The huge and the Druze community is with Hezbollah. The Sunni community has no voice at all because since Sa'at Hariri has been eliminated from the political scene in Lebanon, there's nobody that has taken the leadership. So they are divided. And the division is the fact that can today, I would say, describe the state of Lebanon, a pain state in all ways and all measures of international and international arena. This division has allowed Iran, it seems, to move with impunity through Lebanon, building their militias, arming them and building networks. Is there any way to use this division against Hezbollah or Iran? Well, as I said, right now, the Lebanese army is staying aloof. This is, I mean, the Lebanese army is divided into sectarian brigades. You have the Maronites, you have the Sunni, you have the Shiites, and you cannot move one or deploy one or another unless they are, let's say, the Shiites can be deployed in Shiite areas. You cannot bring a Christian brigade there. You cannot bring a Sunni brigade there. This is the way Lebanon functions. And since it is like this, it is paralyzed. Now, as you said, Hezbollah is doing whatever it wants. It has its own hospitals, its own schools, its own social media, its own banks, its own supermarkets. And it has 100,000 people that are under the flag of Hezbollah ready to fight and right to kill themselves. I'm gonna actually change the focus a little bit here because we're gonna move away from Lebanon. We know that since the beginning, Hamas and all the other terror organizations have claimed they wanna turn this into a global intifada in many ways. We've seen calls for days of rage, attacks on Israelis and Jews around the world. And now, and it hasn't been fully confirmed yet, reports of a rabbi in Detroit stabbed to death. Synagogue president. Synagogue president. What do you know about the situation? Is there any motive that's been ascertained yet? Yeah, we'll start with the situation in Detroit and then talk about the overall issue. In Detroit, no motive yet from the police. But on a Saturday morning, the president of the downtown synagogue in central Detroit, was stabbed to death. Obviously given the circumstances, everyone is concerned about what the motive might be, but there's no actual word about what the motive is. This was someone who in addition to being the president of her synagogue was also involved in a number of Jewish organizations in the Detroit community and also in interfaith work between the large Muslim population in metropolitan Detroit and the Jewish community. I'm from Detroit myself. So obviously this hits hard for me as well and I know many people who knew her well. But obviously we're still waiting to understand exactly what happened and what the motive was. So obviously no one should be jumping to conclusions. As for the wider issue, Arielle, obviously there's concern about anti-Semitism around the world. There already was even before the war. So one can easily understand how much more so there is now. That said, the kinds of calls we heard in the first few days of the war from Hamas about what it wanted to see around the Middle East, in the West Bank, in Arab communities here in Israel, and of course worldwide, hasn't come to pass in the scale or in the scope of what they said they wanted. Of course that said, this is, as we know, as we keep saying, going to be a long war with a wide range of possible scenarios which we've analyzed in depth over the course of the morning here in Israel and obviously will continue to do as we have over the past number of days. And therefore we, there is a wide range of scenarios of how the war could go and correspondingly there's a wide range of scenarios for how the safety and security of Jews abroad or for that matter, Jews living here in Israel could go in terms of living with Muslim Arab neighbors. Obviously it's good news from Israel's perspective and the perspective of Jews around the world and the Jewish world that worst case scenarios haven't come to pass, but obviously everyone is concerned. And we're actually gonna interrupt here because we're hearing reports in the north of an anti-tank missile being fired at the Haar Dov community. Aria Osirana, our Middle East correspondent is on the ground. What do we know? Right, Aria. So just in the last few minutes, the IDF issuing a statement saying that a terror cell launched an anti-tank guided missile towards the area of Haar Dov. That is in the most eastern part of the Israel-Lebanon border. It's about 80 miles or 70 miles in that direction compared to where I'm standing now. According, this attack was launched at an IDF tank. According to the statement, the tank responded with shelling towards the area of the origin of fire. There were no injuries in the attack or damages reported, but indeed this shows just another attack. Yesterday there were about five or six such attacks and we're seeing that as the days progress, they're becoming more and more prevalent and tensions here are indeed on the rise. Absolutely, and we're gonna come back to you as we get some more details on what's going on out there, Aria. Thank you very much, Jack. I'm gonna turn back to you now because again, Lebanon is your beat. We are seeing the effects of Hezbollah's massive arsenal of guided missiles, anti-tank weapons and the like being used in the north. In many ways, it's a form of deterrence against Israel being able to bring its armored columns to bear in the conflict, but they do not really have much of an answer against Israel's air supremacy or ability to operate in Lebanon. Well, we might be surprised because Hezbollah has been, is equipped with anti-aerial missiles that could be fired. I mean, we know that and during the last few months, the Israeli Air Force tried to avoid the Lebanese airspace. So I think that we must remember that there is a danger. There are lots of surprises that Hezbollah has, including, I mean, the weapons, underwater weapons, submarines, small submarines that we know about. So there is quite an array of equipment that might be of a surprise. On the other hand, we are also, I mean, Hezbollah is waging a war that is after the 2006 Second Lebanese War. We have learned the lessons and our tanks are protected, much more protected than they were in the past and this is why you don't hear that firing at a tank, you have automatically a kill. But I mean, but they are using, as Hamas used the tactics that the Ukrainians are using against the Russian tanks that withdraw the dropping bombs and grenades from above. So I think basically, I mean, we have to know that Hezbollah has a complete array of equipment that we have to face. And they have dug into South Lebanon, labyrinths and tunnels and command posts that just to take over and to those positions, it would take us a long time. This is why I don't think that there will be a land invasion into Lebanon, but I think that rather we will suffice with bombing and bombarding the position of Hezbollah and up to the North, the famous saying that we will turn Lebanon into back to the Stone Age. I don't want to boast too much, but the hit that Lebanon is going to be the victim of because it will be the victim of Hezbollah's behavior, it's going to cost a lot to the Lebanese infrastructure and bring it back several years behind. Can I actually follow up on that with your permission? Just to take this a few steps ahead. If in fact, what you're saying is right and a land operation, a ground operation into South Lebanon from Israel's perspective is not a realistic or smart strategy. Is there a strategy that could achieve an objective, should this be the objective, of reducing the ending Hezbollah's military and governance capabilities the way that the government has outlined doing in Gaza? Or is that simply, under all scenarios, not a realistic objective for Israel? Oh, and if we didn't have the southern front, I would say that what's happening in Lebanon today on the border would have dragged us into a full war against Hezbollah. It's not exactly my question. My question is, can Israel subduate Hezbollah or not? We can if we use our firepower. We can do that. If you use the same firepower, I mean, we had a Palestinian talking on one of this in the Arabic studio saying to the Hezbollah, please watch what's happening to Gaza. You will have the same in Beirut and you'll see rubble upon rubble upon rubble. This is what's waiting. Yesterday on the two airport Israel dropped the equivalent of 100 targets in Gaza on two airports. This tons and tons of bombs. We have the capacity to do that and we will do it. We'll do it if we don't have the choice. We are put in a position where we don't have the choice. If Hezbollah will intervene, our Minister of Defense had the idea of preempting and our Prime Minister listened to the Americans and listened to all our other voices and said, no, no need for that. And this is, in my view, it's a wrong decision. We should have taken out all the heavy missiles of Hezbollah like we did in the 2006 campaign. And the 10 first minutes of the war, there were no long-range missiles in Lebanon. And this is what we should have done a week ago. I mean, the question is, is that opportunity still open? I mean, the other question we have to ask is, Israel has always said we can fight a war on multiple fronts at once, but the IDF was designed to repel an invasion by peer-level threats on multiple fronts at once, not necessarily to be able to project force against a counterinsurgency sort of situation. Well, you know, I always say, remember what was in 1948? We fought against five Arab armies and we were barely coming out of the bush. We had very rudimentary weapons and still we won the war against the Lebanese army, against the Syrian army, against the Arab legion led by Glap Pasha from Jordan and against Egypt. We surrounded even the Egyptian army in Fallujah. This was what we did. And first, they had invaded Israel. They went up to Yad Mordechai and Ad Halon, Kibbutz. So we can do that. We are built for that. But right now, the decision is that on the North, containment, waiting to see that we take care of what's happening in the South. And if what's happening in the South would satisfy us, then I think that Hezbollah would be in turn. We cannot end this war with Hezbollah intact as it is today. But at the moment, as it stands with the current strategy, that would be the outcome. I mean, for that not to happen, Israel's strategy would have to dramatically change. And maybe that means it will at some point. This is what I'm saying. But you're right that the public is going to demand this sooner rather than later. I agree with that. There are two options. There are two options. The first option is the land offensive. But the other option is, as I said, the Beirut scenario. Beirut scenario in 1982, we just came in. In June, we were surrounded Beirut and put a siege around West Beirut. And until mid of August, we just bombed and bombed and bombed until our fight said that that's enough. And he went out on a ship together with all his army. Maybe this is the scenario that has to be repeated in the Gaza Strip. Well, I suppose we will see over the coming days and weeks how the Northern Front develops and what plan might be necessary to deploy there. Thank you both for the analysis and the breakdown of the studio for everybody else. We're going to see you again at the top of the next hour. Until then, stay strong, stay safe. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the South and North. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. We've come out here where they see us to complain about the rain. In fact, at this moment, global warming is affecting Bolivia and not only Bolivia, but all over the world. And we need rain for the embryos. The Vakita reserve, we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, that the Vakita can be protected. From Tel Aviv and welcome to I-24 News' ongoing coverage of Israel at war. I'm Ariel Levin-Waltman. We're going to open on the northern front with airstrikes at the airports in Damascus and Aleppo. Syrian media indicating the runways have been destroyed and the airport out of commission. The IDF has begun evacuation plans for 14 more villages along the northern border after creating a three mile deep evacuation zone last week. Rockets were fired just about an hour and a half ago from Gaza towards central Israel as well as further barrages towards Israel south in the time since then. The West Bank is also heating up the IDF and the Shin Bet Internal Security Forces say a military aircraft struck an underground terror route at a mosque in the northern West Bank city of Janine where members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic jihad were sheltering and planning a massive imminent attack, planned for today in fact, modeled after the October 7th massacre. This is coming as security forces launch massive arrest raids across the West Bank to confiscate weapons and ammunition from terror operatives. You can see in those pictures where in view some of what's been confiscated, automatic weapons, parts to manufacture automatic weapons all planned for terror attacks of these arrests, 727 so far including 480 Hamas members that includes the mayor of Al Birah as well so Hamas had their network very far reaching. The US as well has activated more military assets in the Middle East as the war threatens to become a regional conflict. In addition to those two carrier strike group mentioned before, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of air defense systems and additional forces on standby for rapid deployment. We are going to open with our eye in the south where our correspondent, P.S. Deckelbach, is standing by in southern Israel. Pia, good to have you connected to us. Walk us through what's happening down on the southern front right now. Ariel, here the morning in Starrot has been a quiet one although about an hour ago there was a barrage of rockets fired toward the city of Ashkelon which now we are hearing has a population of about 40,000 people without a private shelter in the homes. All these 40,000 people are planned to get evacuated within the next days as this area has gotten under constant rocket fire here in the last two weeks and it's just become unbearable for people to live in many of those areas here also the city of Starrot, the city of 30,000 residents has been majorly evacuated. There are about 3,000 people here left. What you see behind me here is Bed Hanun in the northern Gaza Stripia. We're very close to the Gaza border. As you can see, the Israeli military set it struck dozens of Hamas targets throughout the night including tunnels or warehouses, command centers and weapons and also mosques it said were used as Hamas depots. Now the Israeli military is preparing to immediately step up its strikes in the Gaza Strip. You're seeing images there right now of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to really increase pressure on Hamas yesterday which is two weeks after the beginning of the war the first humanitarian aid delivery entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt and we're talking about 20 trucks carrying food, water and medicine. Israel ruled out to allow fuel to enter as the concern is that Hamas will confiscate it to use it for its own infrastructure. Now the continuation of the humanitarian aid is said to be dependent on whether this aid will reach the civilian population or be taken by Hamas. How that will be monitored is yet unclear but organizations on the ground are saying that 20 trucks for civilian population of more than 2 million is like a drop in the ocean in hospitals too. Say that fuel is needed as well to run those hospitals, ambulances and also the dis-alienation plans for water. Now the UN has repeatedly called for a ceasefire and reports from the ground. Here in Israel suggests that the humanitarian in Gaza and Israel both suggest that the humanitarian crisis is intensifying a day by day when especially when we look at the population there in Gaza but meanwhile here Israel still calls upon those residents and here you might have heard the boom. This is an Israeli strike here in Gaza. We're very close to the border. I am seeing that there is no rocket alert in Ashkelon. This is already the second alert for this morning. Israel still calls upon the residents of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to move further down south as Israel continues and here you can hear another boom here coming from the Israeli side fired toward Gaza. Really Israel is preparing its ground offensive as you can hear from the air with strikes and also here on the ground with more training, more reinforcements and looking into Gaza. This is also the place where now the IDF has confirmed 212 hostages are being held. This number is being increased, has been increased many times as there are still cases that are being checked and identified. We're now saying a 212 hostages being believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas being located in Gaza here behind me right now. That's going to be a major operational challenge for Israel moving forward. Pia, thank you very much. We're going to be coming back to you over the course of the day as the situation develops but before that we are going to return to the studio where we still have Dr. Jack Nariot, former deputy to have assessment with Israeli military intelligence as well as senior correspondent Owen Ultriman. Just also to focus on what we just heard from Pia Rockett, siren sounding, not only Nachik Alon, but also in some of the Gaza border communities as well. Yes, which means that the bombardment is continuing as we've seen so often over the course of the past two weeks. I want to open with you, Jack, because we've been talking a little bit about this terror sale that we saw struck in Janine earlier, the possibility of Hamas opening yet another front from the West Bank. This has been coupled with a major arrest operation across the entirety of the West Bank that they've only just now started releasing images of, showing weapons, ammunition, and all kinds of infrastructure being struck to try to prevent exactly that. How extensive is Hamas and Islamic jihad's influence in the West Bank? Let's put it this way. If you don't intervene in the West Bank, if Shabak and the IDF do not intervene in the West Bank, Hamas will take over. It's a matter of time. And if three elections are conducted in the West Bank, Hamas will win. This is definitely, from this point of view, the Palestinian Authority should thank Israel, because we are saving the Palestinian Authority. We are taking care of a danger that is threatening us, but it's also threatening their regime. So I see that I don't see a conflict of interest between us and the Palestinian Authority. On the contrary, I think that now, after what happened in Gaza, there's a political thinking that we have done wrong by trying to encourage Hamas at the expanses of the Palestinian Authority, weakening the Palestinian Authority. Now we realize that the only body that can replace the Hamas in Gaza is the Palestinian Authority. We don't want any international presence. We don't want an Arab force. We want something that we can control. And the only thing that we can control is the Palestinian Authority. Will we still be able to control them if they are the dominant power in Gaza again at some point? Because it's still a bunch of sympathizers for Hamas. They're based of their power, their operational control. Even if you take out their leaders, all their bureaucracy is still going to have enough survivors. Well, don't forget that Hamas just, when it took over the Gaza Strip, just got rid of all the Fatah operatives in the area. They're still there. They can be replaced immediately. And I think that there would be a chance to have them back there and to renegotiate an agreement with the Palestinian Authority concerning the demilitarization of Gaza. We don't want to have anything to do with Gaza. We don't want to supply water, no electricity, no energy. Let them take care of that by themselves. And I think that this would be the best solution for Israel. Absolutely. And we're going to discuss this more at length after we take a look at the northern front, where Middle East correspondent Ariel Osiron is standing by right now. Ariel, give us a little bit about the new developments on that front as we speak. Right, Ariel. So about a couple hours ago, the IDF managed to thwart a terror cell that planned to launch rocket anti-tank missile, actually, at the border community of Avivim. That's a little bit east to where I'm standing now. Obviously, they managed to, the IDF managed to take them out before they carried out the attack. And Avivim and or the Kibbutze alone, where I'm standing right now, are just a few of the communities that are being evacuated now along the border between Israel and Lebanon. In fact, earlier this morning, Israeli authorities announcing that they have expanded the evacuation to 14 additional communities. That basically makes the evacuation strip five kilometers deep into Israeli territory from the border. Now, if that number is significant this morning, it's because also the Lebanese official news agency is saying that Israel has expanded the range of its attacks inside Lebanese territory that now reach up to five kilometers. And so we're seeing that the range of fire along the border between Israel and Lebanon is expanding on both sides and in anticipation for that to only exacerbate. Israel is also expanding its evacuation of border communities. And Ariel, I know it's not exactly the front you're on right now, but you were just listening to the briefing by the IDF spokesman, Higari. Regarding the developments of Geneva in a topic you have followed very closely for this channel, what insight can you give us on what was just said there? Right, Ariel, but pretty much all of Israel's one big front right now. But regarding Israel's operation last night in the West Bank, so according to the IDF, the IDF planes, not quite sure. The IDF is not willing to confirm whether this was a fighter jet carried out in attack overnight, eliminating a terror cell of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters that were hiding inside a mosque inside the refugee camp of Janine. Now, this is a mosque that Israel has identified to being used in the past by Hamas, bypassed in Islamic Jihad to hide weapons as a command center. And the understanding in the Israeli defense establishment is that they were hiding in an underground tunnel underneath the mosque. And they were planning to carry out a large-scale attack similar to the attacks that we saw carried out by Hamas on October 7th. And so the IDF decided, in an unusual fashion, to take out the underground tunnel from the air, according to Palestinian officials. At least two people were killed in Janine. Obviously, the expectation that these were connected to the strike on the mosque that was used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to plan terror attacks against Israel. Well, it's definitely a major development on that front, as well. Our state's safe out there. We'll be coming back to you over the course of the day as the situation develops on the ground. We're going to return to the studio now, where we are joined by Jack Naria again and our senior correspondent, Owen Alderman. Actually, the perfect two people for this discussion. You have a extensive background in international affairs, and you know Lebanon like the back of your hand. So I do want to start with you, Jack, because the Lebanese front is what everybody has been anticipating since the very start. And we're hearing some developments about how and when Hezbollah will get themselves involved. Because some reports from Lebanon and their media now suggesting it might not necessarily be immediately, it'll be based on, well, not a full commitment, depending on what Israel does in Gaza. Definitely so. I mean, the latest on this issue is that Hamas has informed Hezbollah that they can cope with the Israeli land offensive. They have the means to do that. And they don't need immediate help. Well, this or immediate assistance. I doubt it very much. But this is what the media from Lebanon just gives us to read and to understand. The thing is that if you look at Lebanon right now, you see that all south of Lebanon, from Marjah, Yuhun, Nabati, Bintish Bay, Tyre, and Sidon, all- More sirens in the Gaza envelope area, by the way. Huge evacuations of population towards the north. As much as that, the Lebanese papers are saying that there are no rooms left for rent. So this is what's happening in Lebanon. Now, remember, Lebanon is a country that has no presence since October 22. Lebanon has a caretaker government which has no real power because of the Lebanese constitution and has nothing, no power at all to stop Hezbollah from doing what it wants in the area. I mean, we saw the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iranian one, just meeting all the Palestinian factions at Hezbollah and devising in Lebanon how to attack Israel, how to use the land of Lebanon as a forward position in order to initiate attacks in Lebanon. And the only voices that you hear in Lebanon against the intervention and against the catastrophe that might hit Lebanon by a massive Israeli attack are a small part of the Christian community because the huge majority of the Christian community is with Hezbollah. The huge and the Druze community is with Hezbollah. The Sunni community has no voice at all because since Sa'at Hariri has been eliminated from the political scene in Lebanon, there's nobody that has taken the leadership. So they are divided. And the division is the fact that can today, I would say, describe the state of Lebanon, a pain state in all ways, in all measures of international arena. This division has allowed Iran, it seems, to move with impunity through Lebanon, building their militias, arming them, and building networks. Is there any way to use this division against Hezbollah or Iran? Well, as I said, right now, the Lebanese army is staying aloof. This is, I mean, the Lebanese army is divided into sectarian brigades. You have the Maronites. You have the Sunni. You have the Shiites. And you cannot move one or deploy one or another, unless they are, let's say, the Shiites can be deployed in Shiite areas. You cannot bring a Christian brigade there. You cannot bring a Sunni brigade there. This is the way Lebanon functions. And since it is like this, it is paralyzed. Now, as you said, Hezbollah is doing whatever it wants. It has its own hospitals, its own schools, its own social media, its own banks, its own supermarkets. And it has 100,000 people that are under the flag of Hezbollah ready to fight and right to kill themselves. I'm going to actually change the focus a little bit here, because we're going to move away from Lebanon. We know that since the beginning, Hamas and all the other terror organizations have claimed they want to turn this into a global intifada in many ways. We've seen calls for days of rage, attacks on the Israelis, and Jews around the world. And now, and it has been fully confirmed by the reports of a rabbi in Detroit stabbed to death. Synagogue president. Synagogue president. What to know about the situation? Is there any motive that's been asked or changed yet? Yeah, we'll start with the situation in Detroit and then talk about the overall issue. In Detroit, no motive, no word of motive yet from the police. But on a Saturday morning, the president of the downtown synagogue in central Detroit stabbed to death. Obviously, given the circumstances, everyone is concerned about what the motive might be. But there's no actual word about what the motive is. This was someone who, in addition to being the president of our synagogue, was also involved in a number of Jewish organizations in the Detroit community. And also in interfaith work between the large Muslim population in metropolitan Detroit and the Jewish community. I'm from Detroit myself. So obviously, this hits hard for me as well, and no many people who knew her well. But obviously, we're still waiting to understand exactly what happened and what the motive was. Obviously, no one should be jumping to conclusions. As for the wider issue, Ariel, obviously there's concern about anti-Semitism around the world. There already was, even before the war. So one can easily understand how much more so there is now. That said, the kinds of calls we heard in the first few days of the war from Hamas about what it wanted to see around the Middle East, in the West Bank, in Arab communities here in Israel, and of course, worldwide, hasn't come to pass in the scale or in the scope of what they said they wanted. Of course, that said, this is, as we know, as we keep saying, going to be a long war with a wide range of possible scenarios, which we've analyzed in depth over the course of the morning here in Israel, and obviously will continue to do, as we have over the past number of days. And therefore, there is a wide range of scenarios of how the war could go. And correspondingly, there's a wide range of scenarios for how the safety and security of Jews abroad, or for that matter, Jews living here in Israel could go in terms of living with Muslim and Arab neighbors. Obviously, it's good news from Israel's perspective and the perspective of Jews around the world and the Jewish world. That worst case scenarios haven't come to pass, but obviously everyone is concerned. And we're actually going to interrupt here because we're hearing reports in the north of an anti-tank missile being fired at the Haar Dov community. Ariel Osir and our Middle East correspondent is on the ground. What do we know? Right, Ariel. So just in the last few minutes, the IDF issuing a statement saying that a terror cell launched an anti-tank guided missile towards the area of Haar Dov. That is in the most eastern part of the Israel-Lebanon border. It's about 80 miles or 70 miles in that direction compared to where I'm standing now. According, this attack was launched at an IDF tank. According to the statement, the tank responded with shelling towards the area of the origin of fire. There were no injuries in the attack or damages reported, but indeed this shows just another attack. Yesterday there were about five or six such attacks and we're seeing that as the days progress, they're becoming more and more prevalent and tensions here are indeed on the rise. Absolutely. I'm going to come back to you as we get some more details on what's going on out there, Ariel. Thank you very much, Jack. I'm going to turn back to you now because again, Lebanon is your beat. We are seeing the effects of Hezbollah's massive arsenal of guided missiles, anti-tank weapons and the like being used in the North. In many ways, it's a form of deterrence against Israel being able to bring its armored columns to bear in the conflict, but they do not really have much of an answer against Israel's air supremacy or ability to operate in Lebanon. Well, we might be surprised because Hezbollah has been, is equipped with anti-aerial missiles that could be fired. I mean, we know that and during the last few months, the Israeli Air Force tried to avoid the Lebanese airspace. So I think that we must remember that there is a danger. There are lots of surprises that Hezbollah has, including, I mean, the weapons, underwater weapons, submarines, small submarines that we know about. So there is quite an array of equipment that might be of a surprise. On the other hand, we are also, I mean, Hezbollah is waging a war that is after the 2006 Second Lebanese War. We have learned the lessons and our tanks are protected, much more protected than they were in the past. And this is why you don't hear that firing at a tank, you have automatically a kill. But I mean, but they are using, as Hamas used, the tactics that the Ukrainians are using against the Russian tanks that withdraw the dropping bombs and grenades from above. So I think basically, I mean, we have to know that Hezbollah has a complete array of equipment that we have to face. And they have dug into South Lebanon, labyrinths and tunnels and command posts that just to take over those positions, it would take us a long time. This is why I don't think that there will be a land invasion into Lebanon, but I think that rather we will suffice with bombing and bombarding the position of Hezbollah and up to the North, the famous saying that we will turn Lebanon into back to the Stone Age. I don't want to boast too much, but the hit that Lebanon is going to be the victim of, because it will be the victim of Hezbollah's behavior, it's going to cost a lot to the Lebanese infrastructure and bring it back several years behind. Can I actually follow up on that with your permission? Just to take us a few steps ahead. If in fact, what you're saying is right and a land operation, a ground operation into South Lebanon from Israel's perspective is not a realistic or smart strategy. Is there a strategy that could achieve an objective? Should this be the objective of reducing the ending Hezbollah's military and governance capabilities the way that the government has outlined doing in Gaza? Or is that simply under all scenarios not a realistic objective for Israel? Oh, and if we didn't have the southern front, I would say that what's happening in Lebanon today on the border would have dragged us into a full war against Hezbollah. It's not exactly my question. My question is, can Israel subdue Hezbollah or not? We can if we use our firepower. We can do that. If you use the same firepower, I mean, we had a Palestinian talking on one of this in the Arabic studio saying to the Hezbollah, please watch what's happening to Gaza. You will have the same in Beirut and you'll see rubble upon rubble upon rubble. This is what's waiting. Yesterday on the two airport, Israel dropped the equivalent of 100 targets in Gaza on two airports, just tons and tons of bombs. We have the capacity to do that and we will do it. We'll do it if we don't have the choice. We are put in a position where we don't have the choice. If Hezbollah will intervene, our Minister of Defense had the idea of preempting and our Prime Minister listened to the Americans and listened to all our other voices and said, no, no need for that. And this is, in my view, it's a wrong decision. We should have taken out all the heavy missiles of Hezbollah like we did in the 2006 campaign. In the 10 first minutes of the war, there were no long range missiles in Lebanon. And this is what we should have done a week ago. I mean, the question is, is that opportunity still open? I mean, the other question we have to ask is Israel has always said we can fight a war on multiple fronts at once, but the IDF was designed to repel an invasion by peer-level threats on multiple fronts at once, not necessarily to be able to project force against a counter-insurgency sort of situation. Well, you know, I always say, remember what was in 1948. We fought against five Arab armies and we were barely coming out of the bush. We had very rudimentary weapons and still we won the war against the Lebanese army, against the Syrian army, against the Arab legion led by Glap Pasha from Jordan and against Egypt. We had surrounded even the Egyptian army in Fallujah. This was what we did. And first, they had invaded Israel. They went up to Yad Mordechai and Ad-Halom, Kimmuz. So we can do that. We are built for that. But right now, the decision is that on the North containment, waiting to see what,