 United States has once again struck against Houthi rebels in Yemen. I'm Albert Lewigin reporting from the I-24 News headquarters in Tel Aviv. Welcome to our viewers around the world. We continue our live rolling coverage of the war, day 99, 14 weeks to the day. Lots of late breaking developments. First, breaking news. The Pentagon says that the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles. A radar site was hit. Houthi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters. That's important here. International waters, some 28 times. Moving now here in Israel, the IDF responded this evening last night to two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel earlier yesterday. No casualties were reported. And in Gaza, fighting continues. The IDF continues to push further south. Now while Israeli forces say they've knocked out hundreds of rocket missile launch sites, there were rocket attacks last night along the border. Cities like Ashdod had sirens. Now the Israeli prime minister's office says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas. This deal, brokered by the Qataris, seems to sidestep the international Red Cross. A job that Red Cross has been trying to do since 1849, and billions of dollars of aid and donations to the Red Cross. To do just that, it's been sidestep. Now moving on to the West Bank, three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34-year-old Jewish man. Israeli security forces raced to the scene. They shot and killed the three assailants. Israel has made its case in the International Court of Justice fighting back South Africa's charge that Israel conducted genocidal acts. Now, Germany says it'll come to Israel's defense, Germany, saying, quote, Hamas terrorists brutally attacked, tortured, killed, kidnapped Israeli innocents. Hamas's goal is to wipe out Israel. Israel has been defending itself. We have lots to get to this afternoon this morning. First now, let's go to Jonathan Regev, I-24, a new senior defense correspondent. He's at the Israel-Gaza border. Jonathan, there was a deal overnight that we got worried of a deal to give medicines to the hostages. Tell us more about this deal and how will it be done? Yes, three months into this crisis, more than three months. Finally, there seems to be some horizon for these people, these hostages. Many of them, elderly, many of them, ill, many of them injured during that terror attack to finally get some medicine. The deal brokered by Qatar should facilitate the entry of medicine for those hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. In return, Israel will also provide medicine to Gazans. The big question is how exactly Israel can be sure that the medicine, those medicines, vital medicines given to Hamas, will actually be delivered to the hostages, needing them. Of course, we've not seen a lot of images of hostages. We don't know exactly where they are. And unfortunately, we have to rely on the words of Hamas. Have we seen the Red Cross so far deliver any medicine to the hostages? The answer is no. It is probably up to the Red Cross to deliver these medicines to Hamas. What will happen with those vital medicines once they're delivered to Hamas is not exactly clear. How can Israel be sure that they're given to the right people? Not exactly clear. This is the one point standing now in this reported deal. Jonathan, in fact, there was no mention of the Red Cross. I remember that the Red Cross since 1849, their job as part of the Geneva Conventions, which by the way, the US and Palestine both subscribed to, was to be the intermediary in situations like this. And they haven't been mentioned at all. I mean, one of the things, correct me if I'm wrong, Jonathan, is that one of the family members went to the Red Cross and asked them for help. The Red Cross says, well, what about the people in Gaza? That was their response. You know, so here, for the people in Gaza, is humanitarian assistance coming in? The answer is yes. Part of this deal is to provide medicine to Gazans as well. The answer is yes. Before the war, have there been tons and tons and tons of assistance coming from Israel through the Karim Shalom crossing? Has this been happening? The answer is yes. All this has been happening. So this is the question for the Red Cross. Now it's time for the Red Cross also to provide to Israeli hostages. There are 136 Israeli hostages in Gaza. We know that many of them are alive. Not everybody, unfortunately, but many of them are alive and they need medicine. This is the time to provide that medicine. Someone should do it. The Red Cross, I would love to say that we count on it. I personally don't because we've seen how they have acted towards the Israeli hostages for the past three months. I would say that the only thing they really did for the hostages was they worked as a shuttle company for the hostages who were brought out, nothing apart from that. For the hostages, now it's time for them to do that. I hope they do. I hope someone does, at least, and provide that medicine to the hostages because many of them desperately, desperately need them. John, let's move on to the actual war in Gaza right now. Last night, there were some rocket attacks coming to the south of Israel from Gaza. The IDF has said that there's been hundreds of rocket launch sites that have been destroyed. But that doesn't mean that everything is done in terms of rocket launches from Gaza. We heard the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Agari, speaking this week, and he said that take, for example, Jabalia. Jabalia right here, behind us, right over there, could be clearly seen today. This is an area that has been taken over by the IDF, but there's still sporadic action by Hamas, meaning there's perhaps no order or an orderly warfare by Hamas, but have all the terrorists been killed? The answer is no. Have all the tunnels been taken care of? The answer is no. There's still terrorists. There's still rocket launchers. There's still tunnels. They're operating perhaps without an ordered command chain, but they're still there and they're still able to fire rockets, such as the ones fired last night to Ashdod. They were fired from this area right here behind me, taking care of all of this All across the Gaza Strip is something that will take months, maybe years. It's a very long campaign. Obviously, we're not in the place that we were three months ago. There's no ability to fire tens or hundreds of rockets per day, but the sporadic, the ability to fire sporadic rockets here and there is still there. Obviously, it's true also for the Southern West Bank, but also for this area, Jabalia, Sajaya and so on, taking care of all of that will take months and months and months. Jonathan Rega joining us live now from the southern part of Israel on the border with Gaza. Thanks again for joining us. I want to continue on with Colonel Dr. Jockneria, the former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence. He's also the former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yusuf Corbine. Thanks again for coming in. Let me, before we talk Houthis, we're going to talk about Houthis and what happened overnight. Let's go back a little bit to what Jonathan was talking about with the hostages and this deal that's been brokered. So the idea now is that the Prime Minister worked out a deal with the Qataris to provide medicine for these hostages. Is that, will we be seeing a lot of these kind of sort of side step deals? This is the maximum at the time that we can reach with the Hamas because of the contradictory positions of the Hamas and Israel. Hamas says you have to stop completely the war and then we will negotiate the hostages deal. And Israel says, no, we have to discuss the hostages deal now on the fire. And this is, I see that it's not bridgeable, not at all. So, I mean, in the meantime, so we have to find some avenues in order to keep the hostages alive, first of all. I mean, we know that they are in very dark conditions that some of them are in cages and some of them are in the dark, but it's been for a long time. And we know that because of the people who have been released. Exactly, sir. That's why I want to make everyone sure that everyone here they have told us that they have told the public. I mean, what they endured during their captivity. And this is a very difficult situation. So we have, I mean, the government cannot stop. I mean, the government Israel cannot stop the war now because it would mean that the total total victory of Hamas. And this is and Hamas is just waiting. He sees what's happening inside Israel, the discussions, the debate about the continuation of the war. Yes, no, the different parties, the fighting one another day says, OK, let's sit, sit tight and wait and see what's happening. Run the clock out. Exactly. Let's see what's happening. And why should we rush? I mean, we have a very good card in our hands. This is the hostages. This is our survival. This is, I mean, we are not going to abide to the Israeli conditions that they want us to, I mean, to exile from Gaza. No, we are going to stay there. And as long as the war lasts, it would mean that Israel is just deepening its feet in the swamp. And this would be the, if we don't accomplish in the coming months, a sizable, say, victory. Or, I mean, the steps, the vis-a-vis Hamas, then this would definitely reflect on the domestic scene here, the more and more you have protests that we cannot continue like this. We have to stop. We have to, the first priority has to be the release of the hostages. And you know that this is an ongoing circle that the government cannot get out of it. Let's move on to Houthis for a second. Overnight, the US struck another radar site in Yemen, southern Yemen. I want to, first, I want to show you a little bit of what US President Joe Biden said. US President Biden sent a warning to Iran and his proxies, especially to Houthis. He did this last night. Let's take a listen. I've already delivered the message to Iran. They know we're not going to do anything. No, Iran does not want to war us. We will make sure that we respond to Houthis and they continue this outrageous behavior. Let's follow it up now. We're going to hear from Stefan Zujaric, who's the United Nations spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kutiatis. Take a listen. The Secretary-General reiterates that attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea are not acceptable and they endanger the safety and security of global supply chains and have a negative impact on the economic and humanitarian situation around the world. The Security Council demands in that resolution 2722 that Houthis immediately cease all such attacks on commercial shipping. We are just extremely worried about the risks and the greater risks of escalation of this and with the impact on the wider region. The risks that on Yemen itself, which as we've said before, Mr. Grunberg and his team had worked hard to get parties together. And the people who pay us, it is in every case, are the civilians who don't often have enough of a voice in what is going on. Join back in studio with Jack Naria. Jack, the president of the United States said that he gave a warning, the audio was a little muffled there, but that he basically gave around the warning. Is this the way to give around the warning? Well, you should begin by something, by a declaration. So I mean, and then he said also that the Houthis are a terror organization, which means that sanctions can be applied to it on the Houthis and on the part of Yemen where they rule. And I think by proxy, it can hit also Iran. But I mean, what's happening right now is that it's a widening of the conflict that the United States wanted to evade from. I mean, they've been pushing Israel and pressing Israel not to widen the conflict with Hezbollah and not to reach a regional conflict. And now with the second attack on the Houthis, it's quite obvious that there is an enlargement of a widening of the conflict. But Jacques, so a lot of the people who are watching, especially we're on the air right now on the American West Coast, right? And so Los Angeles, San Francisco, they've taken to the streets, denouncing the American strike, saying that, oh, how dare the Americans get involved in this? How dare Americans bomb Yemen and the Houthis because you're bombing Israel? They don't understand that. Whatever, I don't understand. American interests are being jeopardized. You know, the fact that there are two straits right now that are almost in total control of Iran, the Straits of Hamas and the Straits of Babelmandib. And these are the two key points that have great influence on the global economy and thus an impact on American economy. I mean, more than 40% of total commerce goes through Babelmandib. 1,000 ships go there every day. And the Houthis have not limited their attacks only on ships going to Israel. No, they have been hitting 28 ships. But there's something more striking here, which I find is that the American left feels that because they're commercial in nature that all America cares about is the American economy. And therefore, that's why they're striking. It's such a filter. Well, you know, they can think whatever they want. The problem is that if America is policing the world, I mean, we have to understand that America is a superpower. And the war here is not limited to the Houthis. It's behind the Houthis, Iran. And behind Iran is Putin. Putin is waiting behind the scenes and manipulating both Iran and the Houthis. And he's on the war with Ukraine. I mean, this is the big game. And if we don't understand that, then we don't understand politics at all. But it's naive. It's naive to think that it's just about economics. Yeah, it is naive because here it's more than if you don't have an influence, if you're not present and your will is not fulfilled, then you are in the weak position and you are the one that is not administering where the strikes are, getting the strikes home and hitting ships. How would they feel if a ballistic missile would hit the USS Skarni? And you have 1,500 men just drowning in the sea. How would they feel? No, they would applaud and say, OK, that's wonderful. No, I mean, the Houthis are behaving like terrorists. This is terrorism. And against terrorism, you have to fight back. Now, also, this is something that people should know, this is an international war. This isn't in Yemeni territorial waters. It's not any territorial waters of anybody. This is all occurring in international waters. And in a lot of ways, America, like you mentioned, aside from being the police of the world, everyone has to abide by international law. I mean, that's one of the reasons why the United Nations, I think, we would hope, is getting a little bit more involved in this because they see the danger. The United Nations has not decided to be on which side of the barricade. This is the problem. When you hear the declaration of the UN concerning that they are worried, so what? What are the actions that they are taking? You have convened a security council? OK, what are the sanctions that you are applying on Yemen, on the Houthis, on Iran, who is just manipulating all things? This is what we expect from the UN, to be a very active, in an active role, and not just express its sorrow and worryness about what's happening in the world. Sympathy is not enough. Because Yemen has a seat at the United Nations, but they're not in control of their own country. Talk to a little bit about, for people who are unfamiliar, Yemen is struck in a civil war right now. Yemen is struck in a civil war, the Houthis. I mean, the head by Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, this is a Shiite faction of, I mean, almost 35% of the population has taken over Yemen a few years ago. In the mid, I think it's around the 2015, something of the sort. And the Saudis came to the rescue. And in order to restore order, they organized a coalition. And unfortunately, the Saudis with the coalition did not succeed in defeating the Houthis. And the Houthis are still in hold of half of Yemen. And the second half is what is called the official Yemen, the one that is conducting its affair. The one is represented at the UN. Houthis are not represented, totally not. And then the other day, yesterday, there were hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Sana'a that they were protesting Israel, protesting US. That is something to be concerning. We have to understand that the Houthis have a flag which says death to Israel, death to America, death to the Jews, and the curse on the Jews. And this is an alarm. On the flag. On the flag. This is their flag. We have to understand that these people, that these protests are the Shiites that are being manipulated by the Houthis. I mean, they are themselves Shiites. And the only thing that they have is just hatred against Jews and hatred against Israel. Even after the strikes, they were emboldened. They said, bring it on, America. You want to fight with us? Well, we have to be able to understand this is the kind of mentality. I mean, the one that receives a slap, say, oh, that doesn't hurt me. Give me another slap. OK, so we'll give you another slap so you'll feel the slap. Does it help to get Saudi Arabia back involved? Well, the problem is here, the impact of the retaliation. What sort of retaliation the Houthis are going to do? Are they going to attack the oil installation in Saudi Arabia? This is what worries Biden. He says, I mean, he's worried about the prices of oil. And they can hit also the Emirates. They did it in the past. They did that. They both hit with ballistic missiles, the Emirates, and then hit also all the oil installations for a whole day. All the production was stopped. It would have presumed that you want Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, to get back together, get that alliance and say, well, we'll take care of this problem. We should expect that the Saudis would just sign with the Americans, say, OK, we are part of the coalition. But they are afraid. Why? They don't want to be associated with America because it would mean that they are associated with Israel. And this is, according to the Arab opinion, not acceptable. So they have chosen to be neutral. And helping, of course, the Americans behind the scenes in the corridors and do whatever they don't want to be in the front. Amazing. This chess game that we have to play all the time. Jacques Nairia, thank you, as always, for your insight. Thanks for coming in. I want to bring you an important story here. I want you to meet the resilient heroes, the IDF soldiers who were seriously wounded in Gaza. They've refused demobilization. They refused to come back from the front line. They want to go back to the front line. Take a listen. You have no idea who this man is standing in front of you. He's the bravest commander in the IDF. He saved my life. He fought like a lion with us. He had 50 men behind him in a really crazy situation. And this man sends only good energy. But he's a bit crazy to go back into battle after losing his eye, isn't he? What can I say to him? He's completely nuts. You paid a high price, didn't you? A wounded mother goes back to her children afterwards, doesn't she? All my children were here waiting for me. In civilian life, Yossi is the father of a one-and-a-half-year-old child, lives in Ziron Yaakov, and is in his fourth year of automotive engineering studies. On October 7th, like many others, Yossi was abroad. As soon as he knew what was happening, he immediately went back to Israel. A month ago, a bullet fragment penetrated his cornea, and he lost use of his eye. I felt very bad at home. I really feel better here. Even under enemy fire when they're firing missiles at us. But I prefer to be here with my soldiers. They need me, and I need them. The trouble with doing a story about real heroes is that they usually don't see it that way. How are you? You remember him from the first time. I felt like his face was familiar. But the truth is, he recognized me first. He said to me, we know each other. The only answer I could come up with was that we'd been seeing too much of each other lately. Yes, that's what you told me. Have you ever had a soldier wounded twice? No, never. And do you remember the first thing you asked me? No. You asked me when you could go back to combat. Major Uri is a reservist in a special parachute commando unit, and has found himself in this department twice in the course of six days, both times after explosive devices were detonated as they went through Gaza. And the two attacks, 18 of his soldiers, were wounded. Some were hospitalized with him, including Elon, who he met today for the first time. Until recently, they were kept in an induced coma. Hi, my brother. You're looking better. You're a real miracle. Yes, that's what they say. How do you feel? Better. I can't believe my eyes. Yes, I've been told it's a miracle. They've managed to put me back together again. I can even move my hand a little. When you wake up and hear that Uri has gone back into combat, is it something you understand or? For him, it's the obvious thing to do. And I knew that's what he would do. I have an image stuck in my head. I'm on the ground, completely stunned. When I look up, I see our friend with a bloody face. He was bleeding from his nose, eyes, and mouth. And still, he managed to shout, it's all right. It's going to be OK. Call me ever said it. Any officer who had been wounded instead of me would have reacted in the same way. There's nothing extraordinary about this situation. And all the strength and courage is shown by the families who support us, the medical teams who take care of us, and our comrades who are in there fighting bravely. During the two attacks against the terrorists, Uri lost three of his officers, Jolev Zaltzman, Alex Spitz, and Shai Trumin. Losing so many comrades reinforces your sense of responsibility and our obligation to see through what we've started. You also look at the world differently and it puts life's values in their rightful place. It's something else. That's enough. You've risked your life enough already. I'm no hero. I think you are. And I understand that you are hyper-motivated, full of courage, but that's enough. You've given enough. Your whole future is ahead of you. You've got to let it go now. I don't think I can do it. It's too difficult for me. We meet Sharaf, commander of the Nahal Commando Unit, in a hotel in central Israel, where his parents, residents of Mefal-Sim, on the edge of the Gaza Strip, are being temporarily rehoused. The famous Sabbath morning of October 7th, he was at home and immediately went out with three other officer friends from the Kibbutz to position themselves on the fence and protect his house. He was wounded in the hand by a grenade thrown at him. As soon as he was healed, he joined his men in Gaza, leading them in an operation against terrorists. He was wounded when a large explosive was detonated as they passed. Don't you ever wonder why fate has already struck twice? Don't you ever say to yourself, why us? Of course, it was very devastating when it happened. What are the odds of something like that happening? I tried to get on with life in a more or less normal way, but when I was alone with myself, I told myself that after two injuries, Sharaf had given enough of himself. I don't think I can stay cooped up at home knowing that my team, my men, are still fighting in Gaza since the war isn't over. When you give your child this kind of education for so many years and the moment of truth arrives, how can you tell him right now not to go? You've played with your fate once, then again. These people have all the right qualities, everything that makes these people so proud to be Israeli. But as we expect them to listen to what we have to say, they expect the same from us. The only thing that will tell us if everything we're doing was worth it is if we stay united as a people, as a nation, and we'll come out of this hardship even stronger, more united, and we'll defeat our enemies. There's no doubt about it. We have no other choice. Not all superheroes wear capes. Those of you on social media who think, like, oh, we're warriors. You're not warriors. Those are warriors. I'm Albert Lewitson, reporting from Tel Aviv. Stay up to date on the I-24 News app. I-24 News continues after the break. This is day 99 of the war. This is Saturday, the January 13th, 14 weeks to the day. Days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1,200 dead. More than 5,000 wounded. Over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14th, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7th. Follow us on the border with Gaza for firsthand accounts of eye witnesses, survivors, and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14th, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. United States has once again struck against Houthi rebels in Yemen. I'm Albert Lewitson, reporting from the I-24 News headquarters in Tel Aviv. Welcome to our viewers around the world. We continue our live rolling coverage of the war, day 99, 14 weeks to the day. Lots of late-breaking developments that have been going on for the past few weeks. We're going to continue our live coverage of the war, day 99, 14 weeks to the day. Lots of late-breaking developments. First, breaking news. The Pentagon says that the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles. A radar site was hit. Houthi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters. That's important here. International waters, some 28 times. Moving now here in Israel, the IDF responded this evening last night to two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel earlier yesterday. No casualties were reported. And in Gaza, fighting continues. The IDF continues to push further south. Now, while Israeli forces say they've knocked out hundreds of rocket missile launch sites, there were rocket attacks last night along the border. Cities like Ashdod had sirens. Now, the Israeli Prime Minister's office says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas. This deal, brokered by the Qataris, seems to sidestep the international Red Cross. A job that Red Cross has been trying to do since 1849 and billions of dollars of aid and donations to the Red Cross to do just that. It's been sidestep. Now, moving on to the West Bank. Three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34-year-old Jewish man. Israeli security forces raced to the scene. They shot and killed the three assailants. Israel has made its case in the International Court of Justice fighting back South Africa's charge to Israel-conducted genocidal acts. Now, Germany says it will come to Israel's defense. Germany saying, quote, Hamas terrorists brutally attacked, tortured, killed, kidnapped Israeli innocents. Hamas's goal is to wipe out Israel. Israel has been defending itself. We have lots to get to this afternoon this morning. First, now let's go to Jonathan Regev, I-24, new senior defense correspondent. He's at the Israel-Gaza border. Jonathan, there was a deal overnight that we got word of a deal with the terrorists and to the hostages. Tell us more about this deal and how will it be done? Yes, three months into this crisis, more than three months. Finally, there seems to be some horizon for these people, these hostages, many of them elderly, many of them ill, many of them injured during that terror attack to finally get some medicine. The deal brokered by Qatar should facilitate the entry of medicine for those hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. In return, Israel will also provide medicine to Gazans. The big question is how exactly Israel can be sure that the medicine, those medicines, vital medicines given to Hamas will actually be delivered to the hostages needing them. Of course, we've not seen a lot of images of hostages. We don't know exactly where they are and unfortunately we have to rely on the words of Hamas. Have we seen the Red Cross so far deliver any medicine to the hostages? The answer is no. It is probably up to the Red Cross to deliver these medicines to Hamas. What will happen with those vital medicines once they're delivered to Hamas is not exactly clear. How can Israel be sure that they're given to the right people? Not exactly clear. This is the one-point standing now in this reported deal. Jonathan, in fact, there was no mention of the Red Cross. I remember that the Red Cross since 1849, their job as part of the Geneva Conventions, which, by the way, the U.S. and Palestine, both subscribed to, was to be the intermediary in situations like this. And they haven't been mentioned at all. I mean, one of the things, correct me if I'm wrong, Jonathan, is that one of the family members went to the Red Cross and asked them for help. The Red Cross says, well, what about the people in Gaza? That was their response. So here, for the people in Gaza is humanitarian assistance coming in? The answer is yes. Part of this deal is to provide medicine to Gazans as well. The answer is yes. Before the war, have there been tons and tons and tons of assistance coming from Israel through the Karam Shalom crossing? Has this been happening? The answer is yes. All this has been happening. So this is the question for the Red Cross. Now it's time for the Red Cross also to provide to Israeli hostages. There are 136 Israeli hostages in Gaza. We know that many of them are alive, not everybody unfortunately, but many of them are alive and they need medicine. This is the time to provide that medicine. Someone should do it. The Red Cross, I would love to say that we count on it. I personally don't because we've seen how they have acted towards the Israeli hostages for the past three months. I would say that the only thing they really did for the hostages was they worked as a shuttle company for the hostages who were brought out, nothing apart from that. For the hostages, now it's time for them to do that. I hope they do, I hope someone does at least and provide that medicine to the hostages because many of them desperately, desperately need them. Jon, let's move on to the actual war in Gaza right now. Last night, there were some rocket attacks coming to the south of Israel from Gaza. The IDF has said that there's been hundreds of rocket launch sites that have been destroyed, but that doesn't mean that everything is done in terms of rocket launches from Gaza. We heard the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Agar, speaking this week and he said that, take for example, Jibalia. Jibalia right here, behind us, right over there, could be clearly seen today. This is an area that has been taken over by the IDF, but there's still sporadic action by Hamas. Meaning there's perhaps no orderly warfare by Hamas, but have all the terrorists been killed? The answer is no. Have all the tunnels been taken care of? The answer is no. There are still terrorists. There are still rocket launchers. There are still tunnels. They're operating perhaps without an ordered command chain, but they're still there and they're still able to fire rockets such as the ones fired last night. They were fired from this area right here behind me. Taking care of all of this, all across the Gaza Strip is something that will take months, maybe years. It's a very long campaign. Obviously, we're not in the place that we were three months ago. There's no ability to fire tens or hundreds of rockets per day, but the sporadic, the ability to fire sporadic rockets here and there is still there. Obviously, it's true also for the Southern West Bank, but also for this area, Jabalia, Sadzahiyah, and so on. Taking care of all of that will take months and months and months. Jonathan Rega have joined us live now from the southern part of Israel on the border with Gaza. Thanks again for joining us. I want to continue on with Colonel Dr. Jacques Nairia, the former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence. He's also the former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yusuf Kourabin. Thanks again for coming in. Let me, before we talk Houthis, we're going to talk about Houthis and what happened overnight. Let's go back a little bit to what Jonathan was talking about with the hostages and this deal that's been brokered. So, the idea now is that the prime minister worked out a deal with the Qataris to provide medicine for these hostages. Will we be seeing a lot of these kind of sort of side step deals? This is the maximum at the time that we can reach with the Hamas because of the contradictory positions of the Hamas and Israel. Hamas says you have to stop completely the war and then we will negotiate the hostages deal. And Israel says no, we have to discuss the hostages deal now under fire. And this is, I see, it's not bridgeable, not at all. So, I mean, in the meantime, so we have to find some avenues in order to keep the hostages alive, first of all. I mean, we know that they are in very dark conditions. Some of them are in cages and some of them are in the dark. It's been a long time. We know that because of the people who have been released. Exactly. That's right. One about everyone's short. Yeah, they have told us, they have told the public. I mean, what they endured during their captivity. And this is a very difficult situation. So, we have, I mean, the government cannot stop. I mean, the government, Israel cannot stop the war now because it would mean that the total victory of Hamas and Hamas is just waiting. He sees what's happening inside Israel. The discussions, the debate about the continuation of the war. Yes, no, the different parties, the fighting one another. He says, okay, let's sit tight and wait and see what's happening. Yeah, let's run the clock out. Exactly. Let's see what's happening. And why should we rush? I mean, we have a very good card in our hands. This is the hostages. This is our survival. This is, I mean, we are not going to abide to the Israeli conditions that they want us to, I mean, to exile from Gaza. No, we are going to stay there. And as long as the war lasts, it would mean that Israel is just deepening its feet in the swamp. And this would be the, if we don't accomplish in the coming months a sizable victory or, I mean, the steps, the vis-a-vis Hamas. Then this would definitely reflect on the domestic scene here. The more and more you'll have protests that we cannot continue like this. We have to stop. We have to, the first priority has to be the release of the hostages. And, you know, this is an ongoing circle that the government cannot get out of it. Let's move on to Houthis for a second. Overnight, the U.S. struck another radar site in Yemen, southern Yemen. I want to, first, I want to show you a little bit of what U.S. President Joe Biden said. U.S. President Biden sent a warning to Iran and his proxies, especially to Houthis, he did this last night. Let's take a listen. Let's follow it up now. We're going to hear from Stefan Zujaric, who's the United Nations spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Koutaida. Let's take a listen. The Secretary-General reiterates that attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea are not acceptable and they endanger the safety and security of global supply chains and have a negative impact on the economic and humanitarian situation around the world. The Security Council demands in that Resolution 2722 that Houthis immediately cease all such attacks on commercial shipping. We are just extremely worried about the risks and the greater risks of escalation of this with the impact on the wider region. The risks that on Yemen itself, which as we've said before, Mr. Grunberg and his team had worked hard to get parties together. And the people who pay us, it is in every case, are the civilians who don't often have enough of a voice in what is going on. I'm joined back in studio with Jack Naria. Jack, the president of the United States said that he gave a warning that audio was a little muffled there, but that he basically gave around the warning. Is this the way to give around the warning? Well, you should begin by something, by a declaration. And then he said also that the Houthis are a terror organization, which means that sanctions can be applied on the Houthis and on the part of Yemen where they rule. And I think by proxy, it can hit also Iran. But I mean, what's happening right now is that it's a widening of the conflict that the United States wanted to evade from. I mean, they've been pushing Israel and pressing Israel not to widen the conflict with Hezbollah and not to reach a regional conflict. And now with the second attack on the Houthis, it's quite obvious that there is an enlargement of a widening of the conflict. But Jack, so a lot of the people who are watching, especially, we're on the air right now on the American West Coast, right? And so Los Angeles, San Francisco, they've taken to the streets denouncing the American strikes and saying that, oh, how dare the Americans get involved in this? How dare Americans bomb Yemen and the Houthis because you're bombing Syria? They don't understand that. Whatever, I don't understand. American interests are being jeopardized. You know, the fact that the strait, there are two straits right now that are almost in total control of Iran, the Straits of Homs and the Straits of Bevelmandib. And these are the two key points that have great influence on the global economy and thus an impact on the American economy. I mean, more than 40% of total commerce goes through Bevelmandib. 1,000 ships go there every day and the Houthis have not limited their attacks only on ships going to Israel. No, they have been hitting 28 ships. But there's something more striking here, I find, is that the American left feels that because they're commercial in nature that all America cares about is the American economy and therefore that's why they're striking. It's such a filter. Well, you know, they can think whatever they want. The problem is that if America is policing the world. I mean, we have to understand that America is a superpower and the war here is not limited to the Houthis. It's behind the Houthis, Iran. And behind Iran is Putin. Putin is waiting behind the scenes and manipulating both Iran and the Houthis and he's on the war with Ukraine. I mean, this is the big game. And if we don't understand that, then we don't understand politics at all. But it's naive. It's naive to think that it's just about economics. Yeah, it is naive because here it's more than... I mean, if you don't have an influence, if you're not present and your will is not fulfilled, then you are in the weak position and you are the one that is not administering the strikes, getting the strikes at home and, you know, hitting ships. How would they feel if a ballistic missile would hit for the USS Skarni? And you have 1,500 Navy men just drowning in the sea. How would they feel? No, they would applaud and say, okay, that's wonderful. No, I mean, the Houthis are behaving like terrorists. This is terrorism. And against terrorism, you have to fight back. Now, also, this is something that people should know, that this is an international war. This isn't in Yemeni territorial waters. This isn't in any territorial waters of anybody. This is all occurring in international waters. And in a lot of ways, America, like you mentioned, aside from being the police of the world, everyone has to abide by international law. I mean, that's one of the reasons why the United Nations, I think, we would have hoped, is getting a little bit more involved in this because they see the danger. The United Nations has not decided to be on which side of the barricade. This is the problem. When you hear the declaration of the UN concerning, they are worried. So what? What are the actions that you are taking? You have convened a security council? Okay. What are the sanctions that you are applying on Yemen, on the Houthis, on Iran, who is just manipulating all things? This is what we expect from the UN, to be a very active, in an active role and not just to express its sorrow and worriedness about what's happening in the world. The sympathy is not enough. Because Yemen has a seat at the United Nations, but they're not in control of their own country. Talk to a little bit about, for people who are unfamiliar, Yemen is struck in a civil war right now. Yemen is struck in a civil war, the Houthis. I mean, the head by Abdul Malik al-Houthi. This is a Shiite faction of, I mean, almost 35% of the population has taken over Yemen a few years ago. In the mid, I think it's around the 2015, something of the sort. And the Saudis came to the rescue, and in order to restore order, they organized a coalition. And unfortunately, the Saudis with the coalition did not succeed in defeating the Houthis. The Houthis are still an hold of half of Yemen. And the second half is what is called the official Yemen, the one that is conducting that affair. The one is represented at the UN. Houthis are not represented at the UN, totally not. And then the other day, yesterday, there were hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Sana'a that they were protesting, Israel protesting US. These are, I mean, that is something to be concerning. We have to understand that the Houthis have a flag which says death to Israel, death to America, death to the Jews, and the curse on the Jews. And, you know, this is... On the flag. On the flag. On the flag. This is their flag. We have to understand that these people, that these protests are the Shiites that are being manipulated by the Houthis. I mean, they are themselves Shiites. And the only thing that they have is just hatred against Jews and hatred against Israel. Even after the strikes, they were emboldened. They said, bring it on, America. You want to fight with us? I mean, you know, we have to be... I mean, to understand this is the kind of mentality. I mean, the one that receives a slap, say, oh, that didn't hurt me. Give me another slap. Okay, so we'll give you another slap so you'll feel the slap. Does it help to get Saudi Arabia back involved? Well, you know, the problem is here. The impact of the retaliation. What sort of retaliation the Houthis are going to do? Are they going to attack the oil installation in Saudi Arabia? This is what worries Biden, he says. He's worried about the prices of oil. And they can hit also the Emirates. They did it in the past. They both hit with ballistic missiles, the Emirates, and then hit also all the oil installations for a whole day, all the production was stopped. But it would mean that it would presume that you want Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, to get back together, get that alliance and say, you know, we'll take care of this problem. We should expect that the Saudis would just sign with the Americans and say, OK, we are part of the coalition. But they're afraid. Why? They don't want to be associated with America because it would mean that they're associated with Israel. And this is, according to the Arab opinion, not acceptable. So they have chosen to be neutral. And helping, of course, the Americans behind the scenes in the corridors and do whatever they don't want to be in the front. Amazing. This chess game that we have to play all the time. Jacques Neria, thank you as always for your insight. Thanks for coming in. I want to bring you an important story here. I want you to meet the resilient heroes, the IDF soldiers who were seriously wounded in Gaza. They've refused demobilization. They refused to come back from the frontline. They want to go back to the frontline. Take a listen. You have no idea who this man is standing in front of you. He's the bravest commander in the IDF. He saved my life. He fought like a lion with us. He had 50 men behind him in a really crazy situation. And this man sends only good energy. But he's a bit crazy to go back into battle after losing his eye, isn't he? What can I say to him? He's completely nuts. You paid a high price, didn't you? A wounded mother goes back to her children afterwards, doesn't she? All my children were here waiting for me. In civilian life, Yossi is the father of a one-and-a-half-year-old child. He lives in Ziron Yakov and is in his fourth year of automotive engineering studies. On October 7th, like many others, Yossi was abroad. As soon as he knew what was happening, he immediately went back to Israel. A month ago, a bullet fragment penetrated his cornea, and he lost use of his eye. I felt very bad at home. I really feel better here, even under enemy fire when they're firing missiles at us. But I prefer to be here with my soldiers. They need me and I need them. The trouble with doing a story about real heroes is that they usually don't see it that way. How are you? You remember him from the first time? I felt like his face was familiar, but the truth is, he recognized me first. He said to me, we know each other. The only answer I could come up with was that we'd been seeing too much of each other lately. Yes, that's what you told me. Have you ever had a soldier wounded twice? No, never. And do you remember the first thing you asked me? No. You asked me when you could go back to combat. Major Uri is a reservist in a special parachute commando unit, and has found himself in this department twice in the course of six days. Both times, after explosive devices were detonated as they went through Gaza. In the two attacks, 18 of his soldiers were wounded. They were hospitalized with him, including Elon, who he met today for the first time. Until recently, they were kept in an induced coma. Hi, my brother. You're looking better. You're a real miracle. Yes, that's what they say. How do you feel? Better. I can't believe my eyes. Yes, I've been told it's a miracle they've managed to put me back together again. I can even move my hand a little. When you wake up and hear that Uri has gone back into combat, is it something you understand or...? For him, it's the obvious thing to do, and I knew that's what he would do. I have an image stuck in my head. I'm on the ground, completely stunned. When I look up, I see our friend with a bloody face. He was bleeding from his nose, eyes, and mouth. And still, he managed to shout, It's all right. It's going to be okay. Call him and pay. Any officer who had been wounded instead of me would have reacted in the same way. There's nothing extraordinary about this situation. And all the strength and courage is shown by the families who support us, the medical teams who take care of us, and our comrades who are in there, fighting bravely. During the two attacks against the terrorists, Uri lost three of his officers, Jolev Zaltzman, Alex Spitz, and Shai Tormin. Losing so many comrades reinforces your sense of responsibility and our obligation to see through what we've started. You also look at the world differently, and it puts life's values in their rightful place. It's something else. That's enough. You've risked your life enough already. I'm no hero. I think you are, and I understand that you are hyper-motivated, and you have courage, but that's enough. You've given enough. Your whole future is ahead of you. You've got to let it go now. I don't think I can do it. It's too difficult for me. We meet Sharaf, commander of the Nahal Commando Unit, in a hotel in central Israel, where his parents, residents of Methalsim, on the edge of the Gaza Strip, are being temporarily re-housed. The famous Sabbath morning of October 7th, he was at home and immediately went out with three other officer friends from the Kibbutz to position themselves on the fence and protect his house. He was wounded in the hand by a grenade thrown at him. As soon as he was healed, he joined his men in Gaza, leading them in an operation against terrorists. He was wounded when a large explosive was detonated as they passed. Don't you ever wonder why fate has already struck twice? Don't you ever say to yourself, why us? Of course, it was very devastating when it happened. What are the odds of something like that happening? I tried to get on with life in a more or less normal way, but when I was alone with myself, I told myself that after two injuries, Sharaf had given enough of himself. I don't think I can stay cooped up at home knowing that my team, my men, are still fighting in Gaza since the war isn't over. When you give your child this kind of education, for so many years, and the moment of truth arrives, how can you tell him right now not to go? You've played with your fate once, then again. These people have all the right qualities, everything that makes these people so proud to be Israeli. But as we expect them to listen to what we have to say, they expect the same from us. The only thing that will tell us if everything we're doing was worth it is that we stay united as a people, as a nation, and we'll come out of this hardship even stronger, more united, and we'll defeat our enemies. There is no doubt about it. We have no other choice. Not all superheroes wear capes. Those of you on social media who think, like, oh, we're warriors. You're not warriors. Those are warriors. I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from Tel Aviv. Stay up to date on the I-24 News app. I-24 News continues after the break. This is day 99 of the war. It's Saturday to generate the 13th, 14 weeks to the day. Draw story to the world. If the plastic particles break up, it does not stop at the micron size. It can actually go even smaller. So once the size goes below one micron, people call it nanoplastics, because now its size is in the nano range. These tusks belong to elephants. They are most beautiful on the elephants, and we should leave them on the elephant. Every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed. United States has once again struck against Huchi rebels in Yemen. I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from the I-24 News headquarters in Tel Aviv. Welcome to our viewers around the world. We are continuing our live rolling coverage of the war. Day 99, 14 weeks to the day. There's been lots of late breaking developments. Let's start with this. First, breaking news. The Pentagon says the United States has struck a Huti military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles. A radar site was hit. Huchi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters. That's important here. International waters. Some 28 times. Moving now here in Israel, the IDF struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, responding to two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel earlier Friday. No casualties have been reported. Moving now to Gaza, the fighting continues. The IDF continues to push further south. While Israeli forces say they have knocked out hundreds of rocket missile launch sites, there were rocket attacks last night along the border. Cities like Ashdod had sirens. The Israeli Prime Minister's office says that a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas. This deal, brokered by the Qataris, seems to sidestep the International Red Cross. Now remember, the International Red Cross's job has been since 1849 to do just that, and billions of dollars have been sent to the International Red Cross to do just that. Now moving on to the West Bank, three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34-year-old Jewish man. Israeli security forces raced to the scene. They shot and killed the three assailants. Moving now, the Israel has made its case in the International Court of Justice fighting back South Africa's charge of Israel-conducted genocidal acts. Now, Germany says it will come to Israel's defense. Germany, saying, quote, Hamas' terrorist, brutally attacked, tortured, killed, kidnapped Israeli innocents. Hamas' goal is to wipe out Israel. Israel has been defending itself. We have lots to get to right now. Let's first now go to Jonathan Regif. I-24 news senior correspondent. He's joining us now from the southern part of Israel on the border with Gaza. Jonathan, it seems like right now seems to be quiet but all quiet on the southern front, but that doesn't mean that it will remain quiet. No, no, it's probably not the case, actually. We have been hearing some artillery and we know that a bit to the south from the place where we are and what is known as the refugee camps of the Central Gaza Strip, there is activity going on. And we also know that also in the areas that haven't taken over by the army, such as Jebalia, which is right behind me, there's still ability of the Hamas' terrorist to fire rockets such as those fired to Ashdod last night. We heard the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Agari, saying over the past week that yes, Hamas perhaps has been defeated in those areas, but it doesn't mean that there are no terrorists at all, no tunnels at all, perhaps with no central chain of command, but those still, let's call it small enclaves, especially underground still exist, still able to operate and to take care of all of them, it's going to take months and months and months. Well, now move on to the northern front. If we can, Jonathan, in the north, there were some artillery, there were some rocket fire from Hezbollah that ended up into northern Israel yesterday. It was responded by IDF forces. Tell us more. Yes, this is pretty much the case over the past few weeks, especially anti-tank fire coming from Lebanon also along with UAVs and Israel responding. We know that there is an American attempt to try and find some kind of solution. Israel is not willing whatsoever to remain in a situation where Hezbollah forces, especially the RAD-1 forces are on the border fence. Israel wants to go back to the Resolution 1701 drafted by the United Nations Security Council back in 2006, which calls for all Hezbollah forces to be located to the north of the Litany River. At least for now, this is not happening and we're seeing constant crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah. Jonathan, if it wasn't just enough for the north and the south, there's now the east, where it has to do with the border with the West Bank, where there was an infiltration overnight. Tell us more about that and what the IDF is doing to secure the areas in the West Bank as well. Yes, we're speaking of the settlement of Adora in the southern part of the West Bank. Three terrorists trying to infiltrate into the community. The settlement they actually did. And we know that they had plenty of ammunition, guns, bullets, axes. You name it. They were able to injure one person before all three of them were shot and killed by IDF forces operating in the area. IDF forces are on very high alert on all fronts, Gaza, of course, Lebanon, of course, but also in the West Bank, constant activity night after night after night all across the West Bank. This area of the southern West Bank has been relatively quiet when compared with Nablus, Tulkarem and Jenin, which are further to the north, but as we see all across the West Bank, terrorism is raging. Jonathan Raga, thanks so much for giving us enough to date on what's going on in the south, the north and the east. And there's still one more front to deal with, and that's the Houthi rebels firing rockets not only into southern Israel but also to ships on the Red Sea and the Sea of Oman. I'm joined now by Professor Chuck Freilich, the former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor. He's also a senior fellow for the INSS. Thanks so much for joining us. Chuck, you know, overnight the U.S. struck the Houthis. It harkens back to the Clinton era. There was a time when President Clinton was upset that not enough was being done. What I want to do first, if I can, is to play a little as a sound bite from U.S. President Joe Biden, who responded to a reporter's question about the Houthis. Go ahead, let's play it. Oh, we don't have it, all right. So basically what President Biden said is that he was making a message to Iran. And I wonder whether or not... Oh, now we have it, all right, so let's play it. I'm sorry, go ahead. I've already delivered the message to man. Can they know who that Houthis is? No. Iran does not want to war with us. We will make sure that we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behavior. Chuck, in case the audio was really muffled, so I'm going to read what he said. He said, I've already delivered the message to Iran. They know not to do anything. Iran does not want to war with us. We will make sure that we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behavior. Is the message received by Iran or has this sort of not even bothered? Well, I think the message is received and they have played very carefully since the war began not to go to a level, to escalate to a level that would require a major American response. But what we've seen in the last couple of weeks and this week explicitly with the Houthis saying, well, they actually don't care, bring it on. They want the U.S. to attack them. And to a certain extent, I think Iran does. They don't want a full fledged war with the U.S. but to get the U.S. involved in some sort of ongoing conflict would be a major success for them. The U.S. has said for years now that it does not want another Middle Eastern war. They've tried to stay out of this on the one hand to provide Israel with really remarkable support but to make it clear that the United States isn't going to get involved and actually the prospects are increasing. Chuck, if you remember the book, The 48 Laws of Power, there was always that one, there's a story it comes from Asia about the cat's paw. So the Houthis, the cat's paw for Iran? Well, I'm not sure what the illusion is. The idea being is that they're an agent and they're just pushing it. They're just trying to see. Well, the Houthis aren't a complete agent of Iran. They, for example, are more independent of Hezbollah is by far. But in this case, their interests meet Iran's interests and they do have a close relationship. They're certainly fully armed by Iran and they get some both operational and strategic direction from Iran. So Iran is certainly supportive of this and I think they're supportive of the escalation, the ongoing escalation with Hezbollah in the north. Again, they want it to be at a certain level because that serves their purposes. It keeps Israel in a situation of strife and long term maybe it weakens our military position and certainly weakens us diplomatically. So far, things are actually going pretty well for so-called resistance from. Now, Chuck, if you go online right now, especially to many of our viewers who are watching from the west coast of America right now, there are a lot of them are taken to the streets of New York LA, Washington say that how dare the Americans do this to Yemen? What do you say to those people? Look, there's a position to everything that's happening, of course excuse me, most of it is to what Israel is doing and we face a problem here because there's the potential is already an escalation with the Houthis and there's something of one with Hezbollah in the north and of course there's pressure in Israel and understandable pressure to expand the war to the northern front. We're already at war we're mobilized and this is an opportunity to take care of Hezbollah as well and they are a much bigger threat than even Hamas has become and at the same time I think there's a limit to what the traffic can bear and if the situation arises where the war the various places really escalate Israel's going to be a blame for this and the anti-Israel atmosphere in much of the US today certainly the liberal wing of the United States is it will reach levels that we haven't seen in the past and dangerous levels and there are already people in congress questioning arms supply to Israel this isn't good for us and so as someone who has been the national security advisor deputy national security advisor thank you I'm sure that you've had to put papers where you would try to figure out how does Israel respond or not respond to this is this a case where Israel steps out of the Yemen situation completely and say that this is not us we're not getting involved well I don't think we can do that because our shipping is threatened a lot the ports has basically been shut down and that means that a very significant part of our overall commerce and especially our commerce with the far east with China Japan Korea etc has been disrupted and so if you want to order major products from the east today it months delay in delivery so we can't allow that and it's a precedent for shipping in the Mediterranean as well and at the same time we don't want this to be an Israeli issue and the problem is the Houthis say that they are doing it just because of the war in Hamas and this is part of their support for Hamas and they'll stop the disruptions of shipping if and when the war ends the U.S. is trying to push it deflected from the Middle East war from our war and saying that this is an international problem and we're talking this isn't an economic situation here in the sense that this is international waters these are not Yemeni waters these are not Omani waters these are not Djibouti waters these are international waters isn't really what the U.S. and U.K. I should say as well basically just trying to lay the law down and say this is the law well yes of course they're trying to do that but the problem is that the Houthis repeatedly say that they're linking it to the war in Gaza so whether we like it or not if you read into the international press the linkage is there and it feeds into this the general international and especially from our point of view especially important opposition in the U.S. and that's why I don't know that there's a great deal that we can do about it because the Houthis are creating the link but we should try to minimize our own role in it and at the same time the Navy and the Air Force may have to operate there to ensure our own freedom of shipping maybe to protect Israeli vessel Chuck let's talk to them at the southern front with Gaza right now there's a report overnight that there was a deal between the Prime Minister's office but between the Israelis and the Qatar with the Qataris to try to get medicine into the into the hostages is this does it legitimize the the idea that the hostages are used as bargaining chips no I don't think it does that I think it's a humanitarian move I hope very much that this really was agreed and it wasn't another let's say precipitous link on the part of the Prime Minister's office that's happened in the past and let's hope very much that this happens and even more so let's hope that the hostages are released 136 hostages remain day 99 of the war since 14 weeks ago today this all happened Chuck Freilich thanks so much for joining us former Israeli deputy national security advisor thanks again for joining us this morning thank you in a court hearing that was seen by millions around the world Israel made its case to the International Court of Justice at the Hague responding back against South Africa's accusation that Israel was conducting genocidal acts in Gaza in case you missed it here are a couple of clips from yesterday's discussion South Africa purports to come to this court in the lofty position of a guardian of the interest of humanity but in delegitimizing Israel's 75-year existence in its opening presentation yesterday that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and in its sweeping counterfactual description of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility it is respectfully submitted that the application and request should be dismissed for what they are a libel designed to deny Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented terrorist onslaught it continues to face and to free the 136 hostages Hamas still holds I thank you for your kind attention this case concerns a large-scale armed conflict with tragic consequences for civilians on both sides yes there is a heart-reaching armed conflict but the attempt to classify it as genocide and trigger provisional measures is not just unfounded in law it has far-reaching and negative implications that extend well beyond the case before you ultimately entertaining the applicant's request will not strengthen the commitment to prevent and punish genocide but weaken it it will turn an instrument adopted by the international community to prevent horrors of the kind that shocked the conscience of humanity during the holocaust into a weapon in the hands of terrorist groups who have no regard for humanity I'm joined in studio by Daniel Pomeranz, the CEO of Reality Check he's also a legal expert political analyst thanks again for coming in this morning so for those of those who didn't see the three-hour-long testimony what was the crux of Israel's case well Israel did an excellent and very solid job of responding to South Africa's allegations South Africa's case is actually from a legal point of view very weak if you take away the ideology and the rhetoric just legally it's an embarrassment to the practice of law and Israel did an excellent job of demonstrating that that South Africa had effectively acted as if the October 7th attacks had never happened as if some of the measures that Israel had taken to protect civilians were in fact a violation of law when in fact that they are a manner of implementing the law South Africa tried to make the case that Israel was intentionally trying to wipe out the Palestinian people that's what a genocide is is attempting to wipe out an entire people and Israel demonstrated very thoroughly all the extraordinary measures it has taken to protect civilians which runs absolutely counter to the idea of trying to wipe out civilians now after the testimony of Israel did yesterday the South African representative did a counter-rebuttal but outside court let's play listen let's take a listen to that the state of Israel today has failed to disprove South Africa's compelling case that was presented before the court yesterday we stand by the facts the law and all the evidence we have submitted yesterday and we believe and stand very confident that those facts the law still are in violation of the genocide convention So Jim in a world where we're all about sound bites all about TikTok videos it seems that why South Africa used emotions Israel used facts but don't let facts get in the way of a good story Well there's actually a danger that's much more severe than the battle for PR or for TikTok views and that is that while South Africa's case is very weak legally they're not in this to win that's not their goal and that's not what they need to achieve South Africa's goal is to get a temporary emergency order for a ceasefire now in a vacuum that sounds like it would make sense until we figure this out in court everybody just stop but in reality it hands Hamas a victory first of all because the International Court of Justice does not have jurisdiction over Hamas so they would be able to prevent Israel from firing meanwhile Hamas would continue firing it would be a ceasefire in which Israel ceases and Hamas fires the hostages would remain in captivity on a daily basis there was no mention of the hostages as part of the relief and the 84 page lawsuit there was no mention of the hostages being released there's no mention of the massacre itself it was effectively completely divorced from reality but it doesn't need to be all South Africa needs to show and the evidentiary threshold is very low is that there's some case that needs to be explored and Israel has to show that there's absolutely no chance of any case now if South Africa can show that there's even something to explore they're going to attempt to get that emergency order and that emergency order puts Hamas in a position where for year this litigation will take years during that time Hamas will regroup, rearm get refunded and meanwhile if Hamas launches more attacks and Israel responds to those attacks while such an order is in place Israel have violated an order of the International Court of Justice What do you make of what Israel did yesterday in court when I listened to a lot of it about the fact that if there is anybody who should be put up on genocidal charges it should be Hamas but they're not represented South Africa is acting as their agent but they're not represented What Israel is doing is making the case that it has to which is number one that there is absolutely no case against Israel and it's absurd to make the case that there is and number two that even an emergency temporary order would cause severe harm on the one hand from a public relations point of view it's saying look Hamas committed a genocide a genocide doesn't mean you've killed all the people it means that you've attempted to or had intent to well exactly that you've attempted to an attempt means you intended to do it and you carried out actions and furtherance of that attempt it doesn't mean that you succeeded in killing everybody by that definition the holocaust wouldn't be a genocide because not everybody died but Hamas intended to and attempted to carry out a genocide and therefore that does qualify as a genocide that's important not just for PR reasons because it shows that an emergency order would put Israel in danger of being once again a victim of Hamas's genocide which they've clearly said they intend to do again and again and again and the only thing literally the only thing in the world preventing that is Israel's military defense and what do you make of with Germany coming to the aid I mean that I never thought I would to see the day that Germany came to Israel's aid about genocide yeah Germany's come to the aid Canada has also stepped forward the United States has said that the accusations are baseless we're seeing a significant support from a number of quarters and and actually I'm not I'm gratified I'm not surprised Germany has for a number of years become increasingly supportive and yet I still find myself concerned that the support is is by way of saying that the claims of genocide are absurd and inappropriate which is correct but will those countries also be equally supportive of not allowing any kind of emergency temporary measure because that is in my mind even more dangerous to have Israel branded with a PR loss would be bad enough but to have the IDF's hands tied to effectively make Israel army less would mean a true military victory from for Hamas and any true but disaster for for the security of the state of Israel so should Israel not is there a way that Israel sort of feels like Israel was put in a corner like they had to appear in front of the court because if they didn't they'd be branded badly it would probably be I don't default necessarily is how it works in the ICJ as opposed to any other court I mean how it Israel really had no choice well Israel also is a signatory to the to the genocide convention so as opposed to the international criminal court where Israel never signed the hate convention in in this particular setting Israel is a party to the to this court is one of the other arguments Israel brought though is that South Africa has no case against Israel so this case on technical grounds in addition to moral grounds and logical grounds and legal grounds but also on this technical ground should be dismissed as well it it's critical for Israel to show up because if not the consequences in this case are more than just the consequence of public relations it's a consequence that could actually impact Israel's ability to function and we should be clear I think there's been sort of in Israel an attitude of the famous Ben-Gurion quote David Ben-Gurion used to say that what do we care about what some international body says we're going to defend ourselves the way we need to and in a vacuum that that's correct but if Israel were to have an order issued against it and if Israel to violate that already the international criminal court of justice would file a recommendation that the security council implement crippling sanctions against Israel I'm not talking Ben and Jerry's kind of sanctions I'm talking about the kind that really can destroy countries like the state that North Korea is in is the result of those kinds of sanctions that's what the ICJ would request at the security council and we would be hoping for an American veto but again if we're not talking about a claim of genocide but just a claim that Israel should follow an order for a ceasefire Americans may say you know what we're not a bad idea so they'll abstain I am not saying that would happen but I'm saying it is a possibility and we certainly don't want to risk our safety on the chance that America would veto a temporary order like that great Danny Pomerance legal expert political and I'll see you over reality check thanks again for coming in my pleasure thanks for having me hotel not enough you know sorry it was it's a refuge for people that were evacuated from Israel's northern border about 14 weeks ago today they're facing an uncertain future of war take a listen nestled between the mountains and surrounded by water the nof Guinness our hotel is a picturesque retreat for those who want the kibbutz hotel experience by the shores of the sea of Galilee since Israel's war with Hamas broke out the hotel has taken in refugees evacuated from kibbutz and other northern communities who are unable to stay in their homes due to the security risk posed by pro-Iranian East terror group Hezbollah we arrived in Guinness our and they received us here in an outstanding way and they are keeping us busy too it gives us a little bit of air to breathe although many hotels have welcomed evacuees with open arms some of them are struggling as they're unable to accommodate tourists hotel managers are facing mounting pressure as the war continues and they're forced to navigate through the crisis we are currently operating the hotel under the northern command meaning that the hotel is obligated to the state the hotel is full of evacuees there is not a single room available all for the benefit of the evacuees even if I want to host tourists who are still willing to come here and take a risk showing some kind of solidarity I can't I have no rooms for them it means the question mark is so big the unknown is so big that no one really knows what will happen the day after hotel nof Guinness are is not the only one facing this dilemma while offering a refuge to those in need it has to navigate the stormy waters of war and uncertainty there's still hundreds and thousands of Americans and Europeans come to Israel and they should I'm Albert Luitton reporting from Tel Aviv say today on the I-24 news app I-24 news continues after the break it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14 only on I-24 news once again struck against Hootie rebels in Yemen I'm Albert Luitton reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world we are continuing our live rolling coverage of the war day 99 14 weeks to the day there's been lots of late breaking developments let's start with this first breaking news the Pentagon says the United States has struck a Hootie military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles a radar site was hit Hootie rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters that's important here international waters some 28 times moving now here in Israel the IDF struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon responding to two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel earlier Friday no casualties have been reported moving now to Gaza the fighting continues the IDF continues to push further south while Israeli forces say they have knocked out hundreds of rocket missile launch sites there were rocket attacks last night along the border cities like Ashtod had sirens the Israeli prime minister's office says that a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas this deal brokered by the Qataris seems to sidestep the international Red Cross now remember the international Red Cross's job has been since 1849 to do just that and billions of dollars have been sent to the Red Cross to do just that now moving on to the West Bank three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces race to the scene they shot and killed the three assailants moving now the Israel has made its case in the international court of justice fighting back South Africa's charge at Israel conducted genocidal acts now Germany says it will come to Israel's defense Hamas's terrorist brutally attacked tortured killed kidnapped Israeli innocence Hamas's goal is to wipe out Israel Israel has been defending itself we have lots to get to right now let's first now go to Jonathan reggae I 24 new senior correspondent he's joining us now from the southern part of Israel and border with Gaza Jonathan it seems like right now seems to be quiet but all quiet on the southern front but that doesn't mean that will remain quiet no no it's probably not the we have been hearing some artillery and we know that a bit to the south from the place where we are and and what is known as the refugee camps of the central Gaza Strip there is activity going on and we also know that also in the areas that haven't taken over by the army such as a jebalia which is right behind me there's still ability of the Hamas terrorists to fire rockets such as those fired to Ashdod last night we heard the IDF spokesperson Daniel Agari saying over the past week that yes Hamas perhaps has been defeated in those areas but it doesn't mean that there are no terrorists at all no tunnels at all perhaps with no central chain of command but those are still let's call it small enclaves especially underground still exist still able to operate and to take care of all of them it's going to take months and months and months well now move on to northern front if we can Jonathan in the north there were some artillery rocket fire from Hezbollah that ended up into northern Israel yesterday it was responded by IDF forces tell us more yes this is pretty much the case over the past few weeks especially anti-tank fire coming from Lebanon also along with UAVs and Israel responding we know that there is an American time to try and find some kind of solution Israel is not willing whatsoever to remain in a situation where Hezbollah forces especially the Radwan forces are on the border fence Israel wants to go back to Resolution 1701 drafted by the United Nations Security Council back in 2006 which calls for all Hezbollah forces to be located to the north of the Littani River at least for now this is not happening and we're seeing constant crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah and Jonathan if it wasn't just enough for the north and the south there's now the east where it has to do with the border with the west bank where there was an infiltration overnight tell us more about that and what the IDF is doing to secure the areas in the west bank as well yes we're speaking of the settlement of Adora and the southern part of the west bank three terrorists trying to infiltrate into the community the settlement they actually did and we know that they had plenty of ammunition guns bullets axes they were able to injure one person before all three of them were shot and killed by IDF forces operating in the area IDF forces are on very high alert on all fronts Gaza of course Lebanon of course but also in west bank constant activity night after night all across the west bank this area of the southern west bank has been relatively quiet when compared with Nablus, Tulkarem and Janine which are further to the north but as we see all across the west bank terrorism is raging Jonathan Raga thanks so much for giving us enough to date on what's going on in the south the north and the east there's still one more front to deal with and that's the Huchi rebels firing rockets on Israel but also to ships on the Red Sea and the Sea of Oman I'm joined now by Professor Chuck Freilich the former Israeli deputy national security advisor he's also a senior fellow for the INSS thanks so much for joining us Chuck you know overnight the U.S. struck the Houthis it harkens back to the Clinton era there was a time when President Clinton was upset that not enough was being done what I want to do first if I can is to play a little as a sound bite from Joe Biden who responded to reporters question about the Houthis go ahead let's play it oh we don't have it alright so basically what President Biden said is that he was making a message to Iran and I wonder whether or not now we have it alright so let's play it I'm sorry go ahead I've already delivered the message to man they know no Iran does not want to warn us we will make sure that we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behavior check out in case the audio was really muffled so I'm going to read what he said he said I've already delivered the message to Iran they know not to do anything Iran does not want to war with us we will make sure that we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behavior is the message received by Iran or is this sort of not even bothered well I think the message is received and they have played very carefully since the war began not to go to a level to escalate to a level that would require a major American response but what we've seen in the last couple of weeks and this week explicitly with the Houthis saying well they actually don't care bring it on they want the US to attack them and to a certain extent I think Iran does they don't want a full fledged war with the US but to get the US involved in some sort of ongoing conflict would be a major success for them the US has said for years now that it does not want another Middle Eastern war they've tried to stay out of this on the one hand to provide Israel with really remarkable support but to make it clear that the United States isn't going to get involved and actually the prospects are increasing Chuck there's a if you remember the book the 48 laws of power there was always that one there's a story that comes from Asia about the cat's paw so the Houthis the cat's paw for Iran well I'm not sure what the illusion is but it's the idea being is that they're an agent and they're just pushing it they're just trying to see well the Houthis aren't a complete agent of Iran they for example are more independent of his Bala is by far but in this case their interests meet Iran's interests and they do have a close relationship they're certainly fully armed by Iran and they get some both operational and strategic direction from Iran so Iran is certainly supportive of this and I think they're supportive of the escalation that's the ongoing escalation with his Bala in the north again they want it to be at a certain level because that serves their purposes it keeps Israel in a situation of strife and long-term maybe it weakens our military position it certainly weakens us diplomatically so far things are actually going pretty well for this so-called resistance from. Now Chuck if you go online right now especially to many of our viewers who are watching from the west coast of America right now there a lot of them are taken to the streets of New York LA Washington say that how dare the Americans do this to Yemen what do you say well. Look there's opposition to everything that's happening of course excuse me most of it is to what Israel is doing and there's a we we face a problem here because there's the potential is already an escalation with the Houthis and there's something of one with the with the Bala in the north and of course there's pressure in Israel and understandable to expand the war to the northern front we're already at war we're mobilized and this is an opportunity to take care of his bullets as well as well and they are a much bigger threat than even Hamas has become and at the same time I think there's a limit to what the traffic can bear and if if a situation arises where the war real the various places really escalate Israel is going to be a blame for this and the anti Israel atmosphere in much of the US today certainly the liberal wing of the United States is it will reach levels that we haven't seen in the past and dangerous levels and they're already people in Congress questioning arms applied to Israel this isn't good for us and so as someone who has been the national security advisor deputy deputy national security advisor thank you I'm sure that you've you've had to put papers where you would try to figure out how does how does Israel respond or not respond to this is this a case where Israel steps out of the Yemen situation completely and say that this is not us we're not we're not getting involved well I don't think we can do that because our shipping is threatened a lot to the port has basically been shut down and that means that a very significant part of our overall commerce and especially our commerce with the far east with China Japan Korea etc has been disrupted and so if you want to order major products from the east today in months delay and delivery so we can't allow that and it's a precedent for shipping in the Mediterranean as well and at the same time we don't want this to be an Israeli issue and the problem is that who do you say that they are just because of the war in Hamas and this is part of their support for Hamas and they'll stop the disruptions of shipping if and when the war ends the US is trying to push it deflected from the the Middle East war from our war and saying that this is an international problem and because this isn't a this isn't we're talking this isn't an economic situation here in the sense of that this is international waters these are these are not Yemeni waters these are not Omani waters these are not Djibouti waters these are international waters isn't really what the US and UK I should say as well basically just trying to lay the law down and say this is the law well yes of course they're trying to do that but the problem is that the Houthis repeatedly say that they're linking it to the war in Gaza so whether we like it or not if you read into the international press there and it feeds into the general international and especially or at least from our point of view especially important opposition in the US and that's why I don't know that there's a great deal that we can do about it because the Houthis are creating the link but we should try to minimize our own role in it and at the same time the navy and the air force may have to operate there to ensure our own freedom of shipping to protect Israeli vessel Chuck let's talk to them about the southern front with Gaza right now there's a report overnight that there was a deal between the prime minister's office but between the Israelis and the Qatar with the Qataris to try to get medicine into the into the hostages is this does it legitimize the the idea that the hostages are used as bargaining chips no I don't think it does that I think I think it's a humanitarian move I hope very much that this really was agreed and it wasn't another let's say precipitous link on the part of the prime minister's office that's happened in the past and let's hope very much that this happens and even more so let's hope that the hostages are released 136 hostages remain day 99 of the war since 14 weeks ago today this all happened Chuck Freilich thanks so much for joining us former Israeli deputy national security advisor thanks again for joining us this morning thank you in a court hearing that was seen by millions around the world Israel made its case to the International Court of Justice at the Hague responding back against South Africa's accusation that Israel was conducting genocidal acts in Gaza in case you missed it here are a couple of clips from yesterday's testimony South Africa purports to come to this court in the lofty position of a guardian of the interest of humanity but in delegitimizing Israel's 75-year existence in its opening presentation yesterday that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and in its sweeping counterfactual description of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility it is respectfully submitted that the application and request should be dismissed for what they are a libel designed to deny Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented terrorist onslaught it continues to face and to free the 136 hostages Hamas still holds I thank you for your kind attention this case concerns a large-scale armed conflict with tragic consequences for civilians on both sides yes there is a heart-reaching armed conflict but the attempt to classify it as genocide and trigger provisional measures is not just unfounded in law it has far-reaching and negative implications that extend well beyond the case before you ultimately, entertaining the applicant's request will not strengthen the commitment to prevent and punish genocide but weaken it it will turn an instrument adopted by the international community to prevent horrors of the kind that shocked the conscience of humanity during the holocaust into a weapon in the hands of terrorist groups who have no regard for humanity I'm joined in the studio by Daniel Pomeranz he's also a legal expert political analyst thanks again for coming in this morning my pleasure for those of you who didn't see the three-hour-long testimony, what was the crux of Israel's case? well Israel did an excellent and very solid job of responding to South Africa's allegations South Africa's case is actually from a legal point of view very weak if you take away the ideology and the rhetoric just legally it's an embarrassment to the practice of law and Israel did an excellent job of demonstrating that South Africa had effectively acted as if the October 7th attacks had never happened as if some of the measures that Israel had taken to protect civilians were in fact a violation of law, when in fact that there are a manner of implementing the law they South Africa tried to make the case that Israel was intentionally trying to wipe out the Palestinian people that's what a genocide is and Israel demonstrated very thoroughly all the extraordinary measures it has taken to protect civilians which one's absolutely counter to the idea of trying to wipe out civilians after the testimony that Israel did yesterday the South African representative did a counter-rebuttal about outside court let's take a listen to that the State of Israel today has failed to disprove South Africa's compelling case that was presented before the court yesterday we stand by the facts, the law and all the evidence we have submitted yesterday and we believe and stand very confident that those facts, the law still are in violation of the genocide convention So in a world where we're all about sound bites all about TikTok videos it seems that why South Africa used emotions Israel used facts but don't let facts get in the way of a good story well there's actually a danger that's much more severe than the battle for PR or for TikTok views and that is that while South Africa's case is very weak legally they're not in this to win that's not their goal and that's not what they need to achieve South Africa's goal is to just get a temporary emergency order for a ceasefire now in a vacuum that sounds like it would make sense until we figure this out in court and everybody just stop but in reality it hands Hamas a victory first of all because the international court of justice does not have jurisdiction over Hamas so they would be able to prevent Israel from firing meanwhile Hamas would continue firing it would be a ceasefire in which Israel ceases and Hamas fires the hostages would remain in captivity being tortured and as far as we know raped on a daily basis there was no mention of the hostages as part of the relief there was no mention of the massacre itself it was it was effectively it completely divorced from reality but it doesn't need to be all South Africa needs to show and the evidentiary threshold is very low is that there's some case that needs to be explored and Israel has to show that there's absolutely no chance of any case now if South Africa can show that there's even something to explore they're going to attempt to get that emergency order and that emergency order puts Hamas in a position where this litigation will take years during that time Hamas will regroup, rearm we get refunded and meanwhile if Hamas launches more attacks and Israel responds to those attacks while such an order is in place Israel have violated an order of the international court of justice what do you make of what Israel did yesterday in court when I listened to a lot of it they talked about the fact that if there's anybody who should be put up on genocidal charges it should be Hamas South Africa is acting as their agent but they're not represented what Israel is doing is making the case that it has to which is number one that there is absolutely no case against Israel and it's absurd to make the case that there is and number two that even an emergency temporary order would cause severe harm so Israel's point on the one hand from a public relations point of view is saying look Hamas committed a genocide a genocide doesn't mean you've killed all the people it means that you've attempted to or had intent to well exactly that you've attempted to an attempt means you intended to do it and you carried out actions in furtherance of that attempt it doesn't mean that you succeeded in killing everybody by that definition the Holocaust wouldn't be a genocide because not everybody died but Hamas intended to and attempted to carry out a genocide and therefore that does qualify as a genocide that's important not just for PR reasons because it shows that an emergency order would put Israel in danger of being once again a victim of Hamas's genocide which they've clearly said they intend to do again and again and again and the only thing literally the only thing in the world preventing that is Israel's military defense and what do you make of Germany coming to the aid I never thought I would live to see the day that Germany came to Israel's aid about genocide yeah Germany's come to the aid Canada has also stepped forward the United States said that the accusations are baseless we're seeing a significant support from a number of quarters and and actually I'm not I'm gratified I'm not surprised Germany has for a number of years become increasingly supportive and yet I still find myself concerned that the support is by way of saying that the claims of genocide are absurd and inappropriate which is correct but will those countries also be equally supportive of not allowing any kind of emergency temporary measure because that is in my mind even more dangerous to have Israel branded with a PR loss would be bad enough but to have the IDF's hands tied to effectively make Israel army less would mean a true military victory from for Hamas and in a true disaster for for the security of the state of Israel so should Israel not is there a way that Israel sort of feels like Israel was in a corner like they had to appear in front of the court because if they didn't they'd be branded badly would probably be I don't default necessarily is how it works in the ICJ as opposed to any other court I mean how it's really had no choice well Israel also is a signatory to the to the genocide convention so as opposed to the international criminal court where Israel never signed the hate convention in this particular setting Israel is a party to to the to this court is one of the other things that Israel thought though is that South Africa has no case against Israel so this case on technical grounds in addition to moral grounds and logical grounds and legal grounds but also on this technical ground should be dismissed as well it's critical for Israel to show up because if not the consequences in this case are more than just the consequence of of public relations it's a consequence that could actually impact Israel's ability to function with the attitude of the famous Ben-Gurion quote David Ben-Gurion used to say that what do we care about what some international body says we're going to defend ourselves the way we need to and in a vacuum that that that's correct but if Israel were to have an order issued against it and if Israel were to violate that already the international criminal court of justice would file a recommendation that the security council implement crippling sanctions against Israel I'm not talking Ben and Jerry's kind of kind that really can destroy countries like the state that North Korea is in is the result of those kinds of sanctions that's what the ICJ would request at the security council and we would be hoping for an American veto but again if we're not talking about a claim of genocide but just a claim that Israel should follow an order for a ceasefire Americans may say you know what I mean not a bad idea so they'll abstain I am not saying that would happen but I'm saying it is a possibility a safety on the chance that America would veto a temporary order like that Great, Danny Pomerance, legal expert, political and I'll see you over reality check Thanks again for coming in this morning My pleasure, thanks for having me Hotel Nof Ginosar it's a refuge for people that were evacuated from Israel's northern border about 14 weeks ago today they're facing an uncertain future amidst the backdrop of war take a listen those who want the Kibbutz hotel experience by the shores of the sea of Galilee since Israel's war with Hamas broke out the hotel has taken in refugees evacuated from Kibbutz Yiftakh and other northern communities who are unable to stay in their homes due to the security risk posed by pro-Iranian Lebanese terror group Hezbollah We arrived in Ginosar and they received us here in an outstanding way It's busy too it gives us a little bit of air to breathe Although many hotels have welcomed evacuees with open arms some of them are struggling as they're unable to accommodate tourists hotel managers are facing mounting pressure as the war continues and they are forced to navigate through the crisis We are currently operating the hotel under the northern command meaning that the hotel is obligated the hotel is full of evacuees there is not a single room available all for the benefit of the evacuees even if I want to host tourists who are still willing to come here and take a risk showing some kind of solidarity I can't, I have no rooms for them it means the question mark is so big the unknown is so big that no one really knows what will happen the day after Hotel Nov Ginosar is not the only one facing this dilemma while offering a refuge to those in need it has to navigate the stormy waters of war and uncertainty But still hundreds and thousands of Americans and Europeans come to Israel and they should I'm Albert Lewerton reporting from Tel Aviv Stay up to date on the I-24 news app I-24 news continues after the break It's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced Join I-24 news 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Houthis by airmail and F-18 I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv Welcome to our viewers around the world We are continuing our live rolling coverage of the war, day 99 14 weeks to the day There's lots of late breaking developments Let's start first with breaking news The Pentagon says the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk missiles A radar site was hit Houthi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters That's important here, international waters some 28 times Back here in Israel, the IDF struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon responding to two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel early Friday No casualties reported In Gaza, fighting continues The IDF continues to push further south while the Israeli forces say they've knocked out hundreds of rocket missile launch sites There were rocket attacks last night overnight along the border The Israeli Prime Minister's office says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages that are being held at gunpoint by Hamas This deal, brokered by the Qataris seems to sidestep the international Red Cross Your donations to the Red Cross to the tune of billions was meant to do just that and help hostages with medical care but the Red Cross has not been able to do this In the West Bank three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34-year-old Jewish man Israeli security forces raced the scene They shot and killed the three assailants Israel has made its case in the International Court of Justice fighting back South Africa's charge that Israel conducted genocidal acts Now, Germany says it will come to Israel's help Germany saying, quote, Hamas terrorists brutally attacked, tortured, killed kidnapped Israeli citizens Hamas's goal is to wipe out Israel Israel has been defending itself We have lots to get to this day First, let's now get live coverage From the front lines, we go to Jonathan Regev I-24 news senior defense correspondent He's at the Israeli Gaza border right now Jonathan, it seems as though the IDF carried out raids overnight Yes, and we can still hear it We hear the sound of artillery Inside the Gaza Strip We can hear it rather loud in the last few hours And also where we are in a bit to the south we're hearing reports of Israeli strikes in Derel Balach, which is to the south of us, constant activity all along the Gaza border But it seems as though there's also a medicine deal, a deal to get the medicines to the hostages, talk to us about what that deal is and how it's going to be carried out So the deal basically says that Israel will deliver a medicine to Hamas from Qatar or from the Red Cross to Hamas and to be delivered to the hostages In return, Israel will also deliver medicine to the entire Gaza population Israel, of course, is happy with such a deal and no problem to deliver humanitarian aid including medicine to Gazans The only question is how can it be certain that the medicine provided to the hostages will actually be given to the hostages And we heard comments coming from family members saying that at least until there's visual evidence that the medicine provided to the hostages has actually been given to the hostages Israel should not go along with the second stage of that plan which is giving medicine to Gazans How will exactly Israel get that evidence is something that has not been disclosed yet There's huge criticism in Israel on the role of everybody basically regarding the hostages be it the Red Cross which you mentioned and other factors No one has provided any guarantees of the situation of the hostages their situation how exactly they're doing where exactly that medicine can be delivered Of course, a concern of Hamas is that Israel might use this information to try to carry out an operation to rescue the hostages But still, bodies like the Red Cross have done nothing for the hostages in Gaza As of now the only role of the Red Cross when it came to the hostages was to provide a transportation for the hostages that were released Apart from that, nothing has been done for them so far Because it doesn't seem like there's a place for them In other words, trying to carry this out this deal would be that you would put the medicine probably in a central location and who's to say that they're not going to be hijacked the way that aid has been hijacked the drone video of aid being hijacked by Hamas That is correct and even if that aid is provided safely to Hamas do we know for certain that it will reach the hostages that they will be given the medicine the answer is no I don't know exactly how it can be done but as far as family members are saying that at least until there's some kind of visual evidence we can actually see the hostages being given the medicine there's specific medicine that they need to be given the second stage should not be carried out let's remember among the hostages they're elderly, they're people that are sick and need constant medicine which they have not been receiving for three months they're people that are injured that were injured during the hijacking and no one really knows about their condition so family members are saying that at least until we were able to see that the hostages received their medicine the second stage which is providing medicine for Gazans should not take place Let me talk to you about now the West Bank another front that Israel is dealing with the West Bank overnight there were three assailants who broke through a fence in Adora and they were shot and killed talk a little bit about why this is now again another flare point I think it has been a flare point all the time we're speaking mostly about Gaza and the second concern is the northern border that is understandable but the West Bank is boiling and we're seeing night after night after night activities all along the West Bank it started with Janine Nablus in the last few weeks we're speaking about Noura Shams in the area of Tulkarem in the western West Bank but terror activities are ongoing all the time and all across West Bank Adora we're speaking of the area of the southern West Bank which has been relatively quiet when compared with other arenas within the West Bank we're seeing it's boiling as well and infiltration activities unfortunately there's a concern that they can take place at any time at any place across the West Bank and IDF forces have to be ready to confront that and thwart that as they did last night killing the three terrorists and you'll see on the screen right now our viewers can see that what that was in the video that we showed just a moment ago what took so long why is it only now about 12 hours afterwards that the residents of the area had been given they were given shelter and place orders and now it's been removed what took so long what took so long is actually to make sure that there are no more terrorists it was known early into the incident that three terrorists were killed that was certain what was not certain is if there are any more terrorists there are plenty of places to hide there maybe deserted houses maybe along the bushes the forces in the area and the IDF forces wanted to make sure that there are no more terrorists hiding three were killed they knew that early on but it took them just as you mentioned some 12 hours until the all clear was given and knowing that there are no more terrorists knowing that it was only three terrorists infiltrated and were killed and there were no more other terrorists around Jonathan Regev gives us the speed from the border now with Gaza thanks so much for joining us as I mentioned at the very top of the broadcast the Huchi Rebels got a delivery service from the United States government they got Tomahawk missiles launched at them joining me now from is Colonel Mary Eisen Director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism from Reckon University when we first played what President Biden had to say about those strikes so it seems as though Mary that it seems like the Americans basically did a just a follow up on this email message so why was there a need for yet another strike when we're talking about the Houtis, Albert we're talking about the same kind of military build up that Iran has used with Hezbollah it's years of supplying them with diverse weapons heavy duty weapons intercontinental ballistic missiles different types of drones UAVs that can go literally a thousand kilometers Houtis are very proud of that they used a lot of these weaponry both in the war inside Yemen there's a civil war inside Yemen against Saudi Arabia so the United States kind of gets the open check as they are a world power to be able to attack all of these different capabilities that the Houtis have inside Yemen in its own way and this sounds kind of cynical Israel does not have the same kind of leeway to be able to do something similar against what Hezbollah has in Lebanon but the United States against the Houtis against those capabilities that the Houtis have been using Yemenite Houtis against the international shipping routes they're going out against all of the different capabilities that have been attacking in these international shipping routes so they could do it again and there will still be an enormous amount of targets again an accumulation of weapons that happens over a long time period and the Houtis are so eager to use these weapons the United States is stopping it or trying to eliminate as much of those ground capabilities as possible Houtis seem emboldened almost by the attack that occurred from the United States but even twice after being hit by the US and the UK for the first time they seem really emboldened by it So it's funny when we say emboldened because we've all seen they've been showing the different videos of the amount of Yemenites who have come out into the street and who are supporting the Houtis Yemen Albert is one of the worst places on earth right now it has been for so many years most of the world does not care about Yemen horrific there's been both the deprivation the war that's going on there the starvation the international community has been trying to help this very very poor country where 60% of the population is under the age of 20 where they really have no future where what did the Houtis give them and it's such an alternate reality for me to try and describe to people the Houtis show that we're somebody the Houtis show that we mean something the Houtis are showing that younger generation that you can do acts against the world I'm not here to tell the younger generation inside Yemen boy are they wrong but in that sense it makes them feel that they're being seen right now so there's enormous support for the Houtis who are taking action taking action against those that this younger generation is growing up on a horrific type of education systems that are really showing the world in such a harsh way and so when we see them coming out to the streets they feel emboldened I want to give a different type of similarity that again breathe in deep it's not an easy one but Hamas is enjoying enormous popular youth support throughout the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip maybe less but all over the Arabic speaking world and so that goes hand in hand Houtis attack you get support Hamas attack you get support you kill Jews you get support you go against the Americans you get support it's an alternative way of looking at the world I don't think they understand that youth not the implications and not the lies that they've been growing up with talk about alternate facts and alternate reality you see demonstrations there was one in Times Square in New York there were some in Washington against the American attack by basically praising the Houtis there were pro Yemen pro Houti chance I explain it explain it to the viewers try to explain it to the viewers try to explain it to me why that's happening I'll believe you me we're all trying to explain it to ourselves right now so I can give you an understanding it's not going to make anybody feel happier the world today has a large portion especially of young liberal people who are growing up in democracies and take for granted democratic rights and they say everybody deserves that kind of freedom but they're talking in terms that you can get in Times Square and in Trafalgar Square and in London and in Paris and in New York you don't have these kind of freedoms anywhere in the Middle East and using that terminology of freedom is an additional level which is talking about the world being divided between the oppressors and the oppressed and sadly Albert you and I in Israel for these young people are part of the oppressors sadly for Americans worldwide and they live in the United States a lot of these people the oppressors of the United States it's a very odd way for me of looking at the world it's a different one and we all need to be more nuanced both in the way that we look at ourselves but certainly in the way that we look at the world the Yemenites are absolutely oppressed by the Houtis the Palestinians are oppressed Hamas is a genocidal terror organization but the challenge is that a lot of the people inside the West Bank and the Gaza Strip support Hamas how do you explain that I take it all back to education I want us all to look at that education of both ourselves I always ask about myself but certainly about young people who can believe these ideas Mary we're talking about what's happening in Yemen just so our viewers understand this is international waters this is not the territorial waters that belong to Yemen these are shipping channels and there's some who believe that what America and what the UK are doing is basically waging a war on behalf of Israel for economic benefit what do you say to that 1515 15% of the world's shipping goes through the strait that the Houti Yemenites right now are attacking 15% of the world's shipping they are indiscriminately attacking what it goes through and then they put the tag on it that it's either Jewish or that it's Israeli both very anti-Semitic type of ideas and saying that what they attacked is Jewish or Israeli and that's what they're doing is supporting the Gaza Strip I really in that sense when we're looking at this enormous shipping route that's being closed off for the world when you're sitting inside your houses in Europe and in the United States you're the costs of things that you buy at the supermarket stores are gonna go up because the Yemenite Houtis are attacking one of the main shipping routes of the world they're doing so and saying it's because of Gaza or because of Israel they're attacking anything that goes through they've attacked it in the past the Houtis themselves do not have any weapons all of the weaponry that they have is supplied to them by Iran and yes I am going to connect it with that dotted line also back to the Iranian Islamic regime back to that Islamic regime that supports the Houtis and wants to destabilize the area that gives those weapons to the Houtis to Shia proxies who are trying to destabilize all af all over and just to be clear the only ones who are supporting the Houtis in that sense worldwide except for really what I'm gonna call in a very derogatory way useful idiots who just don't know what they're talking about are Iran the Shiites Hezbollah Hamas I really don't think you want to be standing up for those who are standing up with the Islamic regime of Iran with the Hezbollah Shiites or with the Hamas genocidal terror organization Mary let's talk about that dotted line discussed I mean this is it seems like what is happening here is not a hot war but a similar war so I was reading somebody talking today about the fact that now this is becoming an international war it wasn't just when the Houtis started to attack the international shipping routes that this became then an international war Iran is behind everything going on but this isn't you know the octopus with the arms and that they're controlling everything the Islamic regime of Iran wants to destabilize Hezbollah is both Lebanese Shiites and it's also an Iranian backed trained armed proxy Hamas is completely Palestinian Muslim brotherhood local and also trained supplied and backed by the Iranians so when we're looking at this arena around who is the only country as opposed to the non-country is the non-state actors who at this stage along the way is enjoying almost immunity is Iran Iran uses the Houtis to destabilize and make everybody mad at Israel Iran uses Hezbollah Hamas supplies them with weapons in the international community blame Israel and in this case Iran needs to have a big shining light on what they're doing on what they're supplying on how they are from behind destabilizing all over the Middle East and that this is in the background of what is already an international war not just the United States not just Great Britain but anybody who gets supply of capabilities from Iran Iran supplies Russia with capabilities Suicide Drones Iran supplies China with oil everybody has interest here and that also very much impacts what the different countries are doing in their response Carl Mary Eisen the director of international institute of counter terrorism at Reichman University thanks again for joining us always this chess game that we have to play around the world thanks again 99 days ago today 136 babies children women elderly frail were taken hostage by Hamas at gunpoint on Friday hundreds filled the streets of New York across the street from the United Nations to demand their release and they were joined by one of the hostages who was released 13 year old Hilo Rotem Shoshani as well as family members of other freed hostages take a look life is a hostage in Gaza is not life it's hell I came all the way here to ask the whole world help us bring back all all the hostages we can't leave them there their families are waiting for them bring them home please it's very hard for us to imagine what does it mean not to have freedom Bakirdan described it very simply when we ask her she say just think that you are being watched every single moment of your life every movement every act every minute you are being suspected and subjected to the will of terrorists and you have no way to resist you have nowhere to hide this is life in captivity just to let everyone know there's 240 hostages that were taken by Hamas 136 remain one of those that remains is Liri Albag and joining us now live is Tamir Rahman the cousin of Liri Albag thanks so much for joining us this morning Tamir thank you for having me tell us a little about Liri what should we know about Liri well Liri is happy, used to be happy 18 year old kid she likes to travel we actually had a third of all her favorite things just yesterday in her in her village Matan basically I was happy to see the international attention those four scouts got recently yes Tamir let me let our viewers know get them up to speed there was a mention of four of the hostages and a picture of them that was put across international media and then some people took those pictures of what they looked like before they were held captive and what they look like now and the shock just to see that side by side must have completely shocked you as it did everyone around the world unfortunately it didn't shock to me because basically I dealt with since very raw form of every possible information you can get from the terrorist I saw all the lives on October 7th I saw pictures later I saw a lot of the capitations they published so unfortunately no I'm not surprised by those views terribly sad we still need to negotiate and deal with such animals we can't value basic human liberties and rights you know Tamir there was a discussion overnight that there's a deal being made by the Israelis to give medicines to the hostages sidestepping the international Red Cross because as you and I both know despite the fact that we give millions or we have been giving millions and billions to the Red Cross Red Cross seems to have washed their hands of your cousin of anybody else what is your reaction to the idea that the Israeli Qataris were able to work this deal to at least get some medicine to them I mean it's about time eventually my day to day business is biomedicine so I deal a lot with human body and basically when you prevent crucial injury crucial medicine to people with deficits or with some chronicle issues you can create like irreversible damages you can create a lot of deficiencies we have the case of the elderly former hostage that got lower than 30 cell use body temperature and extremely low heart rate so basically medicines are not cool vitamins to consume for better health they actually preserving your health and you know it's I don't know if it's more more ridiculous when we actually need to speak about medicines as a privilege when from one side the world at it's all basically tells us you need to provide the medicine you need to provide all the humanitarian aid but basically nobody except the Israelis are claiming the same fundamental rights to the hostages who were being kidnapped from their homes from their beds killed like near their dead relatives and families and friends and nobody sorry for my French nobody gives the shit about their rights to be healthy I'm not talking about freedom being healthy and being held in rational condition for almost 100 days now the fact we need to deal about it's it's ridiculous to me I'm going to add one thing to this if I can yesterday in the ICJ hearing the International Court of Justice if you read through the 84 page lawsuit that South Africa did against Israel there's not one mention of a relief of the hostages being released that it's not that they're asking for ceasefire against Israel but not asking for the hostages to be released your thoughts well I can't take this lawsuit seriously and unfortunately I mean as Lenin used to call them western reporters who supported the socialism and communism back then he called them useful idiots and basically South Africa current regime is insulting the founding father and Nelson Mandela who actually fought for civilian liberties everywhere and equal rights and basically how country established on the ruins of actual apartheid actual discrimination can support a genocidal terrorist organization because I'm not sure what's happened there okay I mean I have few suggestions to how it came to this situation but basically what South Africa doing in this lawsuit is insulting its own dynasty. Thank you so much for joining us 100 days don't forget 99 days of this war. I'm Albert Lutze reporting from Tel Aviv thanks so much for joining us the news continues after the break. United States sends a message to the Houthis by airmail and F-18 delivered Tomahawk missiles I'm Albert Lutze reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world we are continuing our live rolling coverage of the war day 99 14 weeks to the day there's lots of late breaking developments let's start first with breaking news the Pentagon says the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk missiles a radar site was hit Houthi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters that's important here international waters some 28 time back here in Israel the IDF struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon responding to two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel early Friday no casualties reported in Gaza fighting continues the IDF continues to push further south while Israeli forces say they've knocked out hundreds of rocket missile launch sites there were rocket attacks last night overnight along the border cities like Assad had sirens the Israeli prime minister's office says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages that are being held at gunpoint by Hamas this deal brokered by the Qataris seems to sidestep the international Red Cross your donations to the Red Cross to the tune of billions was meant to do just that help hostages with medical care but the Red Cross has not been able to do this in the West Bank three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces raced the scene they shot and killed the three assailants Israel has made its case in the international court of justice fighting back South Africa's charge that Israel conducted genocidal acts now in the U.S. and the U.S. will come to Israel's help Germany saying quote Hamas terrorists brutally attacked tortured killed kidnapped Israeli citizens Hamas's goal is to wipe out Israel Israel has been defending itself we have lots to get to this day 99 first let's now get live coverage on from the front lines we go to Jonathan reggae by 24 news senior defense correspondent he's at the Israeli Gaza border right now we hear the sound of artillery inside the Gaza Strip we can hear it rather loud in the last few hours and also it happens where we are in a bit to the south we're hearing reports of Israeli strikes in Deir el-Balach which is to the south of us constant activity all along the Gaza border but it seems that there's also a medicine deal a deal to get the medicines to the hostages talk to us about what that deal is going to be carried out so the deal basically says that Israel will deliver medicine to Hamas from Qatar or from the Red Cross to Hamas and to be delivered to the hostages in return Israel will also deliver medicine to the entire Gaza population Israel of course is happy with such a deal and no problem to deliver humanitarian aid including medicine to Gazans the only question is how can it be certain that the medicine provided to the hostages will actually be given to the hostages and we heard comments coming from family members saying that at least until there's visual evidence that the medicine provided to the hostages has actually been given to the hostages Israel should not go along with the second stage of that plan which is giving medicine to Gazans how will exactly Israel get that evidence is something that has not been disclosed yet there's huge criticism in Israel on the role of everybody basically regarding the hostages be it the Red Cross which you mentioned and other factors no one has provided any guarantees of the situation of the hostages their situation how exactly they're doing where exactly that medicine can be delivered of course the concern of Hamas is that Israel might use this information to try to carry out an operation to rescue the hostages but still bodies like the Red Cross have done nothing for the hostages in Gaza as of now the only role of the Red Cross when it came to the hostages was to provide a transportation for the hostages that were released apart from that nothing has been done for them so far because it doesn't seem like there's a place for them to in other words trying to carry this out this deal would be that you would put the medicine probably in a central location and who's to say that they're not going to be hijacked the way that aid has been hijacked you and I have seen video drone video of aid being hijacked by Hamas that is correct and even if that aid is provided safely to Hamas do we know for certain that it will reach the hostages that they will be given the medicine the answer is no I don't know exactly how it can be done but as far as family members are saying that at least until there's some kind of visual evidence meaning we can actually see the hostages being given the medicine there's specific medicine that they need to be given the second stage should not be carried out let's remember among the hostages they're elderly they're people that are sick and need constant medicine which they have not been receiving for three months they're people that are injured that were injured during the hijacking and no one really knows about their condition so family members are saying that at least until we were able to see that the hostages received their medicine the second stage which is providing medicine for Gazans should not take place John let me talk to you about now the West Bank another front that Israel is dealing with the West Bank overnight there were three assailants who broke through a fence in Adora and they were shot and killed talk a little bit about why this is now again another flare point I think it has been a flare point all the time we're speaking mostly about Gaza and the second concern is the northern border that is understandable but the West Bank is boiling and we're seeing night after night after night activities all along the West Bank it started with Janina Nablos in the last few weeks we're speaking about Nora Shams area of Tulkarim in the western West Bank but terror activities are ongoing all the time and all across West Bank Adora we're speaking of the area of the southern West Bank which has been relatively quiet when compared with other arenas within the West Bank we're seeing it's boiling as well and infiltration activities unfortunately there's a concern that they can take place at any time at any place across the West Bank the idea forces have to be ready to confront that and thwart that as they did last night killing the three terrorists and you'll see on the screen right now our viewers can see that what that was is an infiltration of the fence that was video that we showed just a moment ago what took so long why is it only now about 12 hours afterwards that the residents of the area had been given they were given shelter in place orders and now it's been removed what took so long is actually to make sure that there are no more terrorists it was very it was known early into the early into the incident that three terrorists were killed that was certain and what was not certain is if there are any more terrorists or plenty of places to hide there and maybe deserted houses maybe along the bushes it's the force in the area and the idea forces wanted to make sure that there are no more terrorists hiding three were killed they knew early on but it took them just as you mentioned some 12 hours until the old clear was given and knowing that there are no more terrorists knowing that it was only three terrorists infiltrated and were killed and there were no more other other terrorists around Jonathan Raghav gives us the speed from the border now with Gaza thanks so much for joining us as I mentioned at the very top of the broadcast the Huchi rebels got a delivery service from the United States government they got launched at them joining me now from is is colonel Mary Eisen director of the international institute for counter terrorism from reckoning university thanks so much for for joining us Mary before anything let me first play what president Biden had to say about those strikes I've already delivered the message to man they know no no we will make sure that we respond to Huchi as they continue this outrageous behavior so it seems as though Mary that seems like the Americans basically did a just to follow up on this email message so why was there a need for yet another strike when we're talking about the Houthis Albert we're talking about the same kind of military build up that Iran has used with his ball up it's years of supplying them with diverse weapons heavy duty weapons intercontinental ballistic missiles on different types of drones UAVs that can go literally a thousand kilometers Houthis are very proud of that they used a lot of these weaponry both in the war inside Yemen there's a civil war inside Yemen and against Saudi Arabia so the United States kind of gets the open check as they are a world power to be able to attack all of these different capabilities that Houthis have inside Yemen in its own way and the sounds kind of cynical Israel does not have the same kind of leeway to be able to do something similar against what Hezbollah has in Lebanon but the United States against the Houthis against those capabilities that the Houthis have been using Yemenite Houthis against the international shipping routes they're going out against all of the different capabilities that have been attacking in these international shipping routes so they could do it again and there will still be an enormous amount of targets again an accumulation of weapons that happens over a long time period and the Houthis are so eager to use these weapons the United States is stopping it or trying to eliminate as much of the ground capabilities as possible Houthis seem emboldened almost by the attack that occurred from the United States but even twice after being hit by the US and the UK for the first time they seem really emboldened by it so it's funny when we say emboldened because we've all seen they've been showing the different videos of the amount of Yemenites who have come out into the street and who are supporting the Houthis Yemen Albert is one of the worst places on earth right now it has been for so many years most of the world does not care about Yemen horrific there's been both the deprivation the war that's going on there the starvation the international community has been trying to help this very very poor country where 60% of the population is under the age of 20 where they really have no future where what do the Houthis give them and it's such an alternate reality for me to try and describe to people the Houthis show that we're somebody the Houthis show that we mean something the Houthis are showing that younger generation that you can do acts against the world I'm not here to tell the younger generation inside Yemen boy are they wrong but in that sense it makes them feel that they're being seen right now enormous support for the Houthis who are taking action taking action against those that this younger generation is growing up on a horrific type of education systems that are really showing the world in such a harsh way and so when we see them coming out to the streets they feel emboldened I want to give a different type of similarity that again breathe in deep it's not an easy one but Hamas is enjoying enormous popular youth support throughout the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip maybe less but all over the Arabic speaking world and so that goes hand in hand Houthis attack you get support Hamas attack you get support you kill Jews you get support you go against the Americans you get support it's an alternative way of looking at the world I don't think they understand that youth not the implications and not the lies that they've been growing up with alternate facts and alternate reality you see demonstrations there was one in Times Square in New York there were some in Washington that were against the American attack on the Houthis by basically praising the Houthis there were pro Yemen pro Houthi chance I explain it to the viewers try to explain it to the viewers try to explain it to me why that's happening I'll believe you me we're all trying to explain it to ourselves right now so I can give you an understanding it's not going to make anybody feel happier the world today has a large portion especially of young liberal people who are growing up in democracies and take for granted democratic rights and they say everybody deserves that kind of freedom but they're talking in terms that you can get in Times Square and in Trafalgar Square and in London and in Paris and in New York you don't have these kind of freedoms anywhere in the Middle East because in that terminology of freedom is an additional level which is talking about the world being divide between the oppressors and the oppressed and sadly Albert you and I in Israel for these young people are part of the oppressors sadly for Americans worldwide and they live in the United States a lot of these people the oppressors of the United States it's a very odd way for me of looking at the world it's a different one and we all need to be more nuanced both in the way that we look at ourselves but certainly in the way that we look at the world the Yemenites are absolutely oppressed by the Khoutis the Palestinians are oppressed by Hamas as a genocidal terror organization but the challenge is that a lot of the people inside the West Bank and the Gaza Strip support Hamas how do you explain that I take it all back to education I want us all to look at that education of both ourselves I always ask about myself but certainly about young people who can believe these ideas Mary we're talking about what's happening in Yemen just so our viewers understand this is international waters this is not territorial waters that belong to Yemen these are shipping channels and there's some who believe that what America and what the UK are doing is basically waging a war on behalf of Israel for economic benefit what do you say to that 1515 15% of the world's shipping goes through the straight that the Khoutis Yemenites right now are attacking 15% of the world's shipping they are indiscriminately attacking any ship that goes through and then they put the tag on it that it's either Jewish or that it's Israeli both very anti-Semitic type of ideas and saying that what they attacked is Jewish or Israeli and that's what they're doing is supporting the Gaza Strip I really in that sense when we're looking at this shipping route that's being closed off for the world when you're sitting inside your houses in Europe and in the United States you're the costs of things that you buy at the supermarket and the stores are going to go up because the Yemenite Khoutis are attacking one of the main shipping routes of the world they're doing so and saying it's because of Gaza or because of Israel they're attacking anything that goes through they've attacked it in the past the Khoutis themselves do not have any weapons all of the weaponry that they have is supplied to them by Iran and yes I am going to connect it with that dotted line also back to the Iranian Islamic regime back to that Islamic regime that supports the Khoutis and wants to destabilize the area that gives those weapons to the Khoutis to Shia proxies who are trying to destabilize all af all over and just to be clear the only ones who are supporting the Khoutis in that sense worldwide except for really what I'm going to call in a very derogatory way useful idiots who just don't know what they're talking about are Iran the Shiites Hezbollah Hamas I really don't think you want to be standing up for those who are standing up with the Islamic regime of Iran with the Hezbollah Shiites or with the Hamas genocidal terror organization Mary let's talk about that dotted line discussed I mean this is it seems like what is happening here is this not a hot war but a similar war so I was reading somebody talking today about the fact that oh no this is becoming an international war it wasn't just when the Khoutis started to attack the international shipping routes that this became then an international war Iran is behind everything going on but this isn't you know the octopus with the arms and that they're controlling everything the Islamic regime of Iran wants to destabilize Hezbollah is both Lebanese Shiites and it's also an Iranian backed trained armed proxy Hamas is completely Palestinian Muslim brotherhood local and also trained supplied and backed by the Iranians so when we're looking at this arena around who is the only country as opposed to the non-country is the non-state actors who at this stage along the way is enjoying almost immunity is Iran Iran uses the Khoutis to destabilize and make everybody mad at Israel Iran uses Hezbollah uses Hamas supplies them with weapons in the international community blame Israel and in this case Iran needs to have a big shining light on what they're doing on what they're supplying on how they are from behind destabilizing all over the Middle East and that this is in the background of what is already an international war not just the United States not just Great Britain but anybody who gets supply of capabilities from Iran Iran supplies Russia with capabilities Suicide Drones Iran supplies China with oil everybody has interest here and that also very much impacts what the different countries are doing in their response. Carl Mary Eisen the director of the International Institute of Counterterrorism at Reichman University thanks again for joining us always this chess game that we have to play around the world thanks again. 99 days ago today 136 babies children women elderly frail were taken hostage by Hamas at gunpoint on Friday hundreds filled the streets of New York across from the across the street from the United Nations to demand their release and they were joined by one of the hostages who was one of the hostages take a look. Life is a hostage in Gaza is not life it's hell I came all the way here to ask the whole world help us bring back all of the hostages we can't leave them there their families are waiting for them bring them bring them home please it's very hard for us to imagine what does it mean not to have freedom Bakir Den described it very simply when we asked her she say just think that you are being watched every single moment of your life every movement every act you are being suspected and subjected to the will of terrorists and you have no way to resist you have nowhere to hide this is life in captivity just to let everyone know there's 240 hostages that were taken by Hamas 136 remain is Liri Albag and joining us now live is Tamir Rahman cousin of Liri Albag thanks so much for joining us this morning Tamir thank you for having me tell us a little about Liri what should we know about Liri well Liri is used to be happy 18 year old kid she likes to travel we actually had a fair of her favorite things just yesterday in her village basically I was happy to see the international attention those four scouts got recently let me let our viewers know get them up to speed attention of four of the hostages and a picture of them that was put across international media and then some people took those pictures of what they looked like before they were held captive and what they look like now and the shock you must have just to see that side by side must have completely shocked you as it did around everyone around the world unfortunately didn't shock to me because I dealt with Osintz very raw form of every possible information you can get from the terrorists I saw all the lives on October 7th I saw pictures I saw a lot of the capitations they published so unfortunately no I'm not surprised by those views terribly sad we still needs to negotiate and deal with such animals who can value basic human liberties and rights you know Tamir there was a discussion overnight that there's a deal being made by the Israelis to give medicines to the hostages sidestepping the international Red Cross because as you and I both know despite the fact that we give millions or we have been giving millions and billions to the Red Cross they have washed their hands of your cousin of anybody else how do you what is your reaction to the idea that the Israeli and Qataris were able to work this deal to at least get some medicine to them I mean it's about time eventually my day-to-day business is biomedicine so I deal a lot with human body and basically when you prevent a crucial injury a crucial medicine to people with deficits or with some you know chronicle issues you can create like unreparable damages you can create a lot of deficiencies we have the case of the elderly former hostage that got lower than 30 cell body temperature and extremely low heart rate so basically medicines are not cool vitamins to to consume for better health they actually preserving your health and I don't know if it's more sad or more ridiculous when we actually need to speak about medicines as a privilege when from one side the world at its all basically tells us you need to provide a medicine you need to provide all the humanitarian aid but basically nobody except Israelis are claiming the same fundamental rights to the hostages who were being kidnapped from their homes from their beds killed like near their dead relatives families and friends and nobody sorry for my French nobody gives a shit about their rights to be healthy okay I'm not talking about freedom I'm not talking about anything being healthy and being held in rational condition for almost 100 days now the fact we need to deal about it it's it's ridiculous to me I'm gonna add one thing to this that we can yesterday in the ICJ hearing the International Court of Justice if you read through the 84 page lawsuit that South Africa did against Israel there's not one mention of a relief of the hostages being released that it's not that they're asking for ceasefire against Israel but not asking for the hostages to be released your thoughts well I can't take this lawsuit seriously and unfortunately I mean as Lenin who supported the socialism and communism back then he called them useful idiots and basically South Africa current regime is insulting the founding father Nelson Mandela who actually fought for civilian liberties everywhere and equal rights and basically how country established on the ruins of actual apartheid actual discrimination can't support a genocidal terrorist organization because I'm not sure what's happened there okay I mean I have few suggestions to how it came to this situation but basically what South Africa doing in this lawsuit is insulting its own dynasty Thank you so much for joining us 100 days don't forget 99 days of this war and reporting from Tel Aviv thanks so much for joining us the news continues after the break it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye weaknesses and fighters 100 days of war January 14, 9pm local only on I-24 news with the Latin community in Israel News 24 only on I-24 news early morning October 7 Hamas is nook before still in their lairs turn on the cameras that will record their attack and the massacre to follow along with tea and trail mix the terrorist on the left lays out this bag that looks like drugs to me captagon speed drugs see this is the symbol of the Muslim brotherhood Allah Wahid, one God Islamist texts now the terrorists face the Israeli obstacle four layers of fences barbed wire, the old fence earth mounds and the $3 billion smart fence after the second blast they make their way through the old fence and proceed to the smart fence the terrorists have now invaded Israel a stopwatch counting from the first explosion until the moment terrorist squad number one crosses into Israel shows seven and a half minutes in that time they meet no Israeli resistance it's very well timed based on extensive exercises there is a surprise factor here and their numbers their numbers is what tip the scales in the crucial first minutes on a different route in the Gaza envelope nuch basquad number three is a civilian car the radio is on an ecstatic song is calling bomb burn leave no Zionist alive it seems you're even more upset when you see the terrorists because I see the vacuum I say this with humility we could have had hundreds waiting for them at the border most often they knew exactly where to go and when on site they knew which places here the terrorists come into view of Kibbutzoufa they also encounter fire from the adjacent military base which stalls them having crossed the orchard they are within reach of the army stronghold what we're hearing is only AK-47 fire you can tell that there's no idea fire at this time the outer fence of the base is breached 15 minutes that's how long it took this squad from the moment they crossed the fence till they charged the Sufa military base the fight at the main gate of the base lasted several hours thanks to the resistance of Israel's Nakhal forces this terrorist seems in charge of the attack on the base he gives the orders although no one calls him by rank you see a commander sending his men forward you won't see that in the idea the supposed commander catches up the terrorists enter the barracks there's almost no one there most soldiers in the base are fighting in the mess hall many of them are wounded some seriously here a terrorist films himself in the mirror fussing around documentation and the apparent orders from commanders inside Gaza for propaganda footage keep stirring quarrels this is the Hamas military radio simple walkie-talkies with few miles range they've used them for years according to reports especially in the foreign media 8200 IDF signal intelligence unit stopped listening to those radios which are probably the ones Hamas used in their exercise despite their injuries and lack of ammunition those IDF soldiers still alive managed to hold back the terrorists after hours of Hamas controlling the base Shayetet Navy commandos arrive and clear the base from terrorists meanwhile in nearby Kibbutz Sufa terrorist squad number 4 manages to enter they struggle to open the gate but they eventually succeed in the attempt to hold the terrorists Kibbutz security team member Oz Khubara is killed there it is Kibbutz here it is here it is ok, we're all dead no matter what these two will kill two civilians Bernard Cohen and Ofer Erez then finally they are eliminated now shocking images of 4 terrified Israeli hostages published on the front page of a British publication this week. Pictures taken on the day they were abducted by Hamas terrorists more than three months ago now. Their families are calling for global action as more harrowing accounts from released hostages continue to emerge. More in this report. Four new photos of kidnapped Israeli women made the front page of a major foreign publication on Monday. Later that same day, a video of the four women was made public as well, showing them in a terrible state. Some of them bleeding and one of them crying uncontrollably. In more footage released from that black Sabbath, October 7th, the day they were kidnapped by Hamas, they can be seen in the back of a van in shock while an angry chanting mob surrounds the van. Earlier this week, one of the hostages who was released from Hamas captivity spoke of encountering some of the women still being held by the terrorist organization. On Tuesday, Aviva Siegel, who returned from captivity, spoke in the Israeli parliament, disclosing more unsettling details about the condition of the young women. One of the girls returned from the bathroom and I could tell that she was distraught. I got up and gave her a hug. I apologized for my language, but this mother ever touched her. Another time, a young woman that they thought was an IDF officer arrived and they tortured her in front of me. I'm her witness. 95 days after that brutal Hamas assault, 15 women are still being held by Hamas. Israelis are demanding the international community intervene, amid growing concerns over the mental and physical well-being of the captives. Rape can never be accepted. It cannot be justified by the context or by certain vacuums to which we've heard international community officials referred to. Some acts are purely evil and should always be denounced. Hamas, the group that committed such acts, has taken hostage 90 women. 15 are still held there in Gaza by Hamas. As of now, UN Women has failed to issue any message condemning this footage or the testimony. Pramila Padden, the special representative of the United Nations in matters of sexual violence in areas of conflicts, will visit Israel at the end of January at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be her first visit since the events of October 7th. She has been granted full investigative powers in hopes that the stories of the victims will finally be heard and recognized around the world. Meanwhile, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is visiting Israel to show his support. He stirred Kibbutz Kfar Azar and the city of Storot meeting with the families of hostages, promising he would act to pressure the Red Cross to visit those still held captive. He was also given a full update on the atrocities that unfolded on the 7th of October and insisted that the Biden administration should support decision-makers in Israel. More in this report, adapted from Channel 12 News. Let's take a look. Over 90 days have passed since the terrible Black Saturday, ever since dozens of world leaders have arrived to show support and solidarity with Israel. But only a few of them have reached this point. Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stood here, overlooking the Gaza Strip. This is the safe room. Her brother and sister, Nathan and Amali, were hiding inside this cupboard for 14 hours. Not far from here was the house of the Idan family. The parents, Roy and Smodar, were murdered. The older brother and sister hid in a closet and Zlitalavi Gael was kidnapped to Gaza and later released. Pence, who received a full update about what happened that morning, has one clear message to the world regarding the abductees. I think the time has come for the United States of America to send a very clear message, not just to Hamas, but to Iran. The United States and our allies will hold Iran accountable until the hostages are released. Pence served as Vice President of Donald Trump, a conservative Republican, a great friend of Israel. He came here not only to express his support, but also to offer help. It's not a secret that there are some disagreements between the Israeli government and the Biden administration. Do you think it would have been different if it would have been a Republican administration? I'm pleased that our administration has continued to provide resources to Israel. But I think any message other than that we will support the decisions that are made by the elected leadership and by the military here in Israel to secure this nation, to end the terrorist threat of Hamas from Gaza. That needs to be the message from the United States. I'm so afraid that we'll come back and everything will go back. What's happened before 6 October. The tour in Sterot started at the destroyed police station, where the battle that took place became one of the city's symbols of heroism, penciled a candle in the memory of the victims. Dark time, lots of not great stuff that we saw, but it is what it is. That's what we're doing. Great. Good job, man. Accompanied by the speaker of the Israeli parliament, he met with the abductees' families. They asked him for help to put pressure on the Red Cross. After seeing what you have seen here, does it meet the criteria of genocide? Hamas came through that fence line to kill Jews. And I know of no other definition of genocide than to target a people because of who they are. Next week, we are being drugged by South Africa to the International Court of Justice, blaming us for committing genocide over Palestinian. I think Israel and the United States should denounce any action to use the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, to equate the unprovoked genocidal attack over Moss on the Jewish people with Israel's actions in self-defense. If Israel was in the business of genocide on October 8th, there was not a single person in the Gaza Strip. So what we do now is to eradicate Hamas, eradicate Hamas's military and governmental capabilities. This is what the IDF is doing. Pence also called on the international community to stop using a double standard regarding Israel. Many hostages still inside Gaza were abducted from that Nova music festival near Rhine on the 7th of October exactly three months ago. The hostages and the missing family forum members arranging an event at the site of that massacre. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osirain was there speaking to relatives of the hostages. Let's take a listen to his report. I try to imagine the feeling that I'll have when I'll be here. I thought it would be different. I thought it would be easier because I feel like I know everything here. I saw so many videos and so many pictures and had so many stories that it almost felt like I know everything. But the second I just stepped into this area felt different. For Michail Levi, visiting this beautiful woods outside Kibbutzraim near the Gaza border is an emotional roller coaster. It's the site of the deadly Nova music festival. And on October 7th, his brother Ol and sister in La Einav arrived just minutes before it was stormed by dozens of Hamas terrorists. Part of his need to know everything as he describes it led him to find a video that depicts Ol and Einav's last moments together. They stood close to the wall inside a bomb shelter. I didn't see what happened inside when those monsters threw their grenades and sprayed bullets into the shelter. But I can imagine. I can understand from the stories. He was in front of him. He saw it. He saw his wife being murdered in front of him. And then taken to Gaza. Michail has not heard a word regarding his brother's condition since that day exactly three months ago. All he knows is that Ol was taken alive and uninjured. The reason Ol and Einav arrived in the morning of the party and not the night before when it began was because they wanted to spend the night with their two-year-old son, Almog, who they left at his grandparents before heading out to Reim at dawn. Now Almog is essentially an orphan not knowing if and when his father will return. He misses them. He calls them all the time. He wants to go home. He starts crying when someone mentioned the words dad or mom. It's as simple as that. He can understand that they are not here. I'm not sure how much of this he can understand, but he understands that they are not here with him. Michail is just one sibling of a kidnapped hostage who came to this now hallowed ground for an event arranged by the hostage family forum. This was the dance floor at the Nova Music Festival where 364 partygoers were murdered, raped, and mutilated by Hamas terrorists and Gaza locals on that dreadful October 7th. The area here is thicker. It's genuinely harder to breathe walking through here. Now these are their faces. Most of them are gone for good, but for some there's still hope to return home, but time is running out. Besides a mock bar, bullet shells on the ground and the playlist from that day blaring in the background, the event also included a speech by 18-year-old Itai Regev, who was taken hostage with his sister Maya from the festival. Both were freed after more than 50 days in the tunnels of Gaza. Some of his friends who were taken from the party remain in captivity. I was in captivity for 45 days, and every day there is like forever. The conditions there are very, very hard to survive. The hostages cannot stay there for one more second. They all have to return home now. Asaf Pozniak lost two of his relatives at the Nova Festival. His sister-in-law's two sisters, Hodaya and Ta'ir, were initially believed missing following October 7th. Their burnt bodies were found six days later in the nearby woods. Since then, Asaf has been very active in the family's forum. From the first week I've been working like crazy to try and bring Hodaya and Ta'ir. They were at my wedding in June, and I remember thinking how amazing it would be to attend their weddings. Unfortunately, that dream has died. With negotiations over a second phase of hostage release faltering, both Asaf and Mikhail remain optimistic that the hostages will return and soon. I'm hopeful I wake up every morning with that hope, even when there are more difficult days in which we hear the terrible news of another hostage killed in captivity. Close to 20 hostages murdered by Hamas and the brave soldiers who risked their lives to bring back the hostages. We expect from the government to present an Israeli initiative to bring back all of the hostages and not to play by Hamas' dune. It's not hope. I know he will be back. It's just a matter of time. That's it. I know he will be back, and like I said, on stage I will do everything to bring him back, even if it means to turn the world upside down. Thank you very much. Thank you. As we are talking about right now, Israelis are highlighting the plight of the hostages who have been in captivity in Gaza since that Hamas rampage and abduction on the 7th of October. However, there is a lesser known Ethiopian Israeli hostage who has been in the hands of Hamas since 2014, Avera Mingustu. For several years now, an Ethiopian artist has dedicated her life to painting Mingustu and is visiting Hostage Square regularly to make sure his name is never forgotten. More from our Emily Francis. I was born in Ethiopia and was brought here during Operation Moses. I arrived when I was two years old. Artist Michal Warka has had a passion for painting her entire life. I think that I started to paint from when I was nine years old. It was something that occupied my mind and brought me quiet. One of only 170,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, Michal turned her paintbrush into a purpose bigger than herself. I started to paint Avera in 2017. During the years, I thought about him a lot. Now I'm thinking about him and his family even more. After October 7th, Avera occupies my mind all the time. In 2014, after his brother died, a grieving Avera Mingustu crossed into northern Gaza on his own and was later taken hostage by Hamas terrorists. I am the captive Avera Mingustu. How much longer will I have to be here in captivity, me and my friends? Last year, Hamas released this video of a mumbling Mingusto, who is one of two Israeli hostages held by Hamas since 2014, along with the remains of two IDF soldiers who were killed. My family and I decided to be patient, to allow the Israeli government to give the time to work to bring my brother home. I think that Avera is interesting, also in a visual way. Many years have passed since he was kidnapped, so we can see a difference between the pictures of him, his face changes. Also, his mother and father interest me. We can see their changes. We can see their mental state just by looking at their faces because it's like getting inside their pain. Since October 7th, Michal has gone several times a week to hostage square to raise awareness that Avera has been in Hamas captivity since 2014, and even though there are a few posters of Avera in hostage square, Michal is saddened that the government of Israel has not done enough to bring him home. I think there's something racist here. I see the way they treat Avera. It's not something that I'm not familiar with. I know how the authorities treat Ethiopian Jews, but I don't want to concentrate on this. I think his life is the most important thing. Now this is the most important thing. Later we'll discuss racism. Michal, who traveled to Ethiopia and South Africa to gain inspiration, fine-tuned her use of color and realism and spends as long as a month on her bigger paintings, and she shares her work on her Instagram page. But until the hostages come home, Michal will continue to give a voice to Avera and hopes to have an exhibition of her work. I didn't know if they knew about it, and I know that they know that many people care about him. It's important that they'll know that people care about him and say his name. Emily Francis, I-24 News. It's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1,200 dead, more than 5,000 wounded, over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, survivors, and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. News 24 News. If the plastic particles break up, it does not stop at the micron size. It can actually go even smaller. So once the size goes below one micron, people call it nanoplastics because now its size is in the nanorange. These tusks belong to elephants. They shoot their most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephants. Every tusk you see today represents an animal that's been killed. A storm of winds came to cover the region in the different cities in which we were living, with a long delay in which the option of the liberation of Palestine had not worked. As invaders in strange territory, the terrorist members have never been taken, murdered, burned, and kidnapped dozens of families who have been liberated and in part are still inside the tunelies of never. We have been able to recompose ourselves, prepare ourselves, and ensure the path to the liberation of Gaza. Three months have passed and not everything is still defined. Three months have passed and all the development, with the deaths, the fall of the kidnapped and the leaders of never, who are about to be subjected, have not left anyone without replicating. It is time to insist on the concern that is left alone in the hands of the leaders of the kidnappers and then later finish with never. The Israeli kidnappers who are still in Gaza are priority for the society. That is why they are with us, Ricardo Gristner, uncle of Omer Wienkant, of 22 years kidnapped by never. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. Thank you very much. Omer, on October 7, he was found at the new party that was attacked by the terrorists. He even got to communicate with his parents that day at 7 o'clock in the morning telling them that he was very scared. Three months ago, no one knows anything about Omer who suffers from colitis. You have requested the International Committee of the Red Cross through its representative here in Israel, Alexandra Milligón, to provide the medicines and that the Omer is in captivity. What has been the attitude, Ricardo, please, that has taken the Red Cross Alexandra, which is the head here in Israel, with you? Nicol, we also saw the head of Alexandra Mariana who is the head of the whole Red Cross in the world. We saw together with the family, with the father Shai and the mother in Ivan. Where? In the Red Cross in Tel Aviv. We tried to provide the medicines for Omer because she needs the medicines because she has a problem. She is now in the hostels in Gaza and she does not receive the food she needs to receive. She does not receive the food and the situation is wrong because when she is under pressure, she has blood and does not want to receive anything. She does not give any help to the hostels and nothing more than Omer, also other people who have heart problems who need to receive every day the medicines and do not give her any help. The only thing they do they give help to the Palestinians and we give the food, we give the medicine and the medicines and they do not do the commandment. The commandment of the Red Cross they are obligated to help every person who is in the place they are placed. And if you are going to see now the commandment of the Red Cross they have to receive and give help to all people not to discriminate. Regardless of Israel and Palestine. We asked Mariana why they do not give help to the Israelis they are there and we do not see anything. No visit no food no remedies she said look we do not know what to do we do not know what to do So what do they do here? If they do not have the possibility to help out give to another company another group to help because they receive but they do not do anything. The only thing they did they drove the people who left but they are not going to visit the women. Inside the gas tunnels where the detainees are they do not go there are 22 women who know that there are problems because the people who left they said no one from the Red Cross or from UNRA no one went to visit and we do not know how it is now and it is already 23 days 23 days that the men are there and we do not know anything about what happens we are afraid. We want to see, there we are seeing that she is with a girl Galit. Galit was called? Kim. Kim. What happened to them? Look, in the morning 5 o'clock in the morning they went to this festival because they were going to dance they were going to meet you in family the day before we were together in the food of Simhatora and at 12 o'clock in the night when we left they said, look, it may be that I am going to this festival and they went there at 5 o'clock in the morning and as 10 o'clock in the morning they called the father and they took the car and they went out and there were missiles so they went in to the shelter and there was a very small shelter for 15 people and there were like 30 people 30 people in this very small shelter and the terrorists arrived there and they were throwing grenades to the people inside so there were like 2 or 3 people died Omer said, I am going to go out and he went out and the people who were leaving before Omer they all killed him we don't know why because someone said no shoot, no shoot and they didn't kill him but Kim was killed and after we found that Omer was in Gaza we saw what happened with Kim when they were kids kids of their whole life on Wednesday, 4 days after that incident we saw the news that Kim died and after that we understand that it is a difficult situation we have 3 or 4 minutes left I would like to know what would be the order for the Israeli authorities to comply with what they have to do to free the kidnapped what they can do look, there are a lot of people who can do pressure pressure on Qatar pressure on the places that give money to Hamas and there are because Qatar, Egypt helps and other places in the world because Russia also helps so they have to do the pressure give money if they need to realize the terrorists who are now in pressure because the only thing that can help the Israeli government and the state of Israel if they are going to send 135 people because if they are going to do a strong army but the people are going to stay there we can't be a democracy we can't we can't live when 135 babies women old people are going to die and every day I receive on the telegram every day I receive on the telegram movies of other people who don't live I want to tell you this is your camera look at it and tell the Israeli authorities what they have to do they have to do something inactive we are going to give you a message we are going to put all the terrorists who are now in pressure we are going to take them out put them on the border next to Gaza give them my people who have fled fled from the houses fled from the cars fled from the new festival here there are 5000 terrorists now I send it give me my people I would like to give you a direct message to the Red Cross to the International Committee to the International Federation of the Red Cross both are Red Cross Mariana, you are the head of the Red Cross so you help you visit you give food you help to send people the Jews all the Red Cross comes out because you can't discriminate you can't give help nothing else for the Palestinians the command of the Red Cross is we have to help if you go now to the website of the Red Cross that is what is written either you help the Palestinians and the Jews or they come out now and they don't give any help because we have to make pressure every day people die and I don't want Homer to die you have to return to the family now really with your expression your feeling and we hope that Homer comes back together with the rest of the kidnappers Carlos, thank you Homer is coming back now thank you thank you one of the deepest themes of the kidnappers is how to react to the situation that requires some definition in emotional intelligence Dr. Daniel Guilardi is a specialist in emotional intelligence psychologist a topic that takes us to ask what should be the figure of Dr. Guilardi October 7th was a great school of learning but not only for Israel but for the world because everything that marks our contemporary must be a reason to reflect they are not the strongest or intelligent only they survive a tragedy they survive the most flexible and adaptable changes like the mind of a kidnapper finds his internal refuge so uncertain as after 50 days of kidnapping when they are released children and adults evolve that trauma Dr. Daniel Guilardi, expert in emotional intelligence visited i24news explains his theory of father-in-law first we have to understand that our father-in-law they lived in a cave and there they were eating that peace, tranquility, singing that had to do with the sympathetic system that regulates stability lowers blood pressure and when he went out to hunt he had or runs or attacks if the bear is to eat it and I can, I attack and if not, I run when he finished with that he went back to the cave and there again tranquility the problem is that when someone is in the imagination all the time out of the cave and all the time is in danger then the sympathetic system is in activation and then is constantly in attention and is what happens that then they have the post-traumatic that they can have the capacity of then in their imagination return to their cave and then be grateful of what they had of the family and try to have a positive quote with the future as Victor Frankel spoke in the Nazi concentration camp now we have the concentration camp or the caves or the tunnels of the Hamas when these people come back then give the kidnapping and return to the cave the family the family receives them the society receives them then the recovery process begins but it takes time obviously that process Israel since 1948 has experimented in the development of its society of wars, conflicts how it is explained emotionally years later the house called Israel was not safe there was a disappointment a deep break of the confidence of the institutions that promised of some all the institutions that promised to protect us and protect our cave and suddenly these people entered our cave in the place where we were supposed to be protected the security rooms were ready to receive the coups of Iraq in that war and now they could open them from outside and then enter and kill people until people learned and put something so they wouldn't open it from outside there is a deep break of the confidence to rehabilitate the confidence of all the institutions you have to change radically I was in the war of Yom Kippur 50 years ago and I saw things that we obviously don't want to see and still after 50 years from time to time there are nightmares that make me remember or my parents who were in the holocaust and my father in the infirmary and my mother too who left at 12 years in a boat that they obviously took from their house and there are still many studies of the first generation of the second generation or the third generation of the holocaust of which has been the psychological repercussion of these people so here we also have to prepare ourselves to the tsunami of people who are going to come soldiers who are going to come displaced from their houses and are living as refugees in different hostels let's say and not being in their daily routine there are many steps that Israeli society should learn in terms of mental health if I could teach just one thing is how to help people change and not to be sequestered by their internal negative dialogue where they are judging many times themselves or judging others so first you have to think about the things you can be grateful to do for example what we talk about mindfulness mediation not to see the news two hours before not to see them constantly because they don't tell you anything new not to be with your cell phone all the time stuck so you have to do things so that in some way generate a positive internal dialogue parents who bury their children children who have been sequestered by their parents they are destroyed social tissues that should be reconstructed with emotional intelligence we human beings first we think and then we feel so in this world there is a phrase that says we don't see the world as it is we see the world as we are seeing trash and then you are going to describe trash but if you see the good things then the brain obviously will also take you to say let's say to feel good emotional intelligence I with myself and the second how we strengthen our interpersonal relationships our children, our partner our parents, our friends, our community that emotional intelligence and within the emotional intelligence then you have to see with the capacity and start over again and the Jews that is one of their expertise they have always been reborn from ashes what did you want to read? I wanted to read something that says don't give up accept the shadows bury the fears release the charges don't give up that is life, continue the journey waste time move the debris and discover the sky even if the fear dies even if the sun sets and the wind is quiet there is still fire in the soul there is still life in dreams because life is ours and yours is the desire because wine exists and love is green because there is no wound and time does not occur to open the doors remove the locks, leave the walls that have been protected to live life and accept the challenge and sing a song lower the guard and extend your hands celebrate life and recover the skies don't give up, please don't give up more central when there are terrorist actions as occurred on October 7th to the victims that have been unable to be identified after the act one of the ways to do it is through the center of forensic medicine of the police where different doctors work Milka Schesler who is a pseudontologist welcome and works as a volunteer thanks for being here Milka thanks for being with us direct question are you a pseudontologist working in the identification system of the victims that have suffered the attack on October 7th how did you get that position and what do you do in general in that function as a volunteer in the identification unit of forensic medicine of the police what is done in general is identify victims that there is no other way to identify them and the scientific identification is needed that is done through or the digital fingerprints or ADN or the denture which is in general like a kind of black box to go to the plane because there is a lot of information and in many cases it is the only way we have to identify the victims and in this case on October 7th what happened? on October 7th early in the morning we already understood that we were going to have a lot of work here it was as you all know a disaster the number of victims that were getting more and more and more and more and the degree of the state of the bodies because this was a massacre a brutality what is what we care about? what I do what we do when we need identification for the denture is the identification is done comparing records that are of the victim before the death and we have to collect as much information as possible to be able to reach a reconciliation of the data and a positive identification when we are facing the victim we have to have as much information as possible visual and radiographic because we do not know what we are going to receive to be able to compare of course we have to see to have data before the death that are obtained from the dentist who treated him who does not always know who he was radiological institutes well whatever sorry more than that technical part also that human part what happened in general without talking about October 7 what we do is cases of accidents fires, natural disasters but for you as a doctor as a dentist suddenly an event that is not an accident car accident something that goes further and that makes us remember what happened many years ago how did you feel suddenly seeing the denture of those you did not know obviously and you are trying to identify for an event in which maybe today you have been able to do any of us well that was what made it different on October 7 of all the things that we have seen I am more than 12 years old and people who are before me in the unit who never saw anything similar not only because of the quantity the victims were of all ages and children the state well first of all it is known that they all entered a young party the bodies that arrived from the party and also from the private houses where the terrorists entered they were in a state difficult of decomposition not only decomposition the first days are still not in decomposition but it was a massacre they became brutal in human terms milka who unlike us as journalists and people you if you saw them you if you have the information not only as visual information you were there tell the people what does all that mean as a doctor and as as Israeli well just as I said at the beginning for being not a natural disaster that became against innocent people civilians, children women, men who were in their houses or in the party they were atrocities massacres inhumans the bodies arrived in a state from incinerated to decapitated difficult to detail but everything that one heard on the networks final word if you had to summarize the first moment you saw the first bodies that arrived what did you feel it was horrible because as I said not only the quantity but the state of the bodies and knowing that this was an army that entered to attack innocent people in their houses to young people dancing in a party for peace and the atrocities that they committed really difficult to name well we want to thank you the fact that you came to our studio to tell us this detail something so simple and so painful of what happened on the October 7th in Adelante thank you very much for having been with us and also for that wonderful work of a difficult and atrocious and if you allow me the last what I want to emphasize is that the fact of having been an army against innocent and civilians has to make us understand us living here and the world that it is about of atrocities and brutalities that were committed in the name of evil in the name of evil there was nothing here similar in any part of the world and we have to understand who is more who is never for the Palestinians who are their own victims and who is never for us thank you very much we are still waiting for all the kidnapped Israel who are liberated that everyone returns to their homes as soon as possible that no one stays in Gaza until the next week thanks for being with us Carlos more than 5,000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14 9 p.m. local only on I-24 news United States sends a message to the Houthis by air mail delivered by F-18 fighter jet and Tomahawk missiles I'm Albert Lewitton reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world we are continuing our live rolling coverage of the war day 99 14 weeks to the day there's lots of late-breaking developments on this Saturday, January 13, 2024 first of all the Pentagon says the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles a radar site was hit and the US have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters that's important in international waters some 28 times back here in Israel the IDF Special Forces has struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon they say they were about to carry out attacks on Israel two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel happened later yesterday in Gaza Israeli forces say they have knocked out missile launch sites that were preparing to launch missiles tunnel shafts were also destroyed I-24 News is live at the Gaza border we'll have a live report in just a moment we're also monitoring another story Israel says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint Bahamas this deal brokered by the Qataris seems to sidestep the international Red Cross the billions of dollars and euros of donations to the Red Cross was supposed to do just that and that seems to have gone nowhere in the West Bank three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces raced the scene they shot and killed the three heavily armed assailants new details right now is that they are teenagers with no prior record South Africa versus Israel is now in the hands of the 15 judges of the International Court of Justice Israel made the case yesterday that it was not at all conducting genocide now Germany who committed genocide during World War II says Israel is not at all committing genocide it will now ask the court to be a third party on Israel's behalf we have lots to get you right now on day 99 of the war first let's go live team coverage on the front lines let's go to Jonathan Regev I-24 Senior Defense Correspondent he's on the border with Israel and Gaza Jonathan Hanyunas apparently seems to be the focus today yes and Hanyunas does remember this is an area a part which has not been completely conquered we're speaking above the ground not been completely taken over by the Israeli army that is why still a lot of operations there this as opposed to the area right behind us Jebalah B. Hanyun the northern part of the Gaza Strip where basically the overground has been completely taken over by the Israeli army of course it's a different story under the ground and we know that there's a very big underground Gaza that has not been yet taken over not here not further down in Hanyunas that's why at least above the ground yes we're seeing more activity in Hanyunas further south than we see here behind us but then let's talk about the one of the things that they've been able to find also is is material from Palestinian Islamic jihad this is something I don't think our viewers understand that Hamas isn't just the only focus no Hamas is clearly not the only focus Hamas yes it is the biggest organization in their organization in the Gaza Strip and also the organization at least on paper controlling the Gaza Strip but they're not the only ones the Palestinian Islamic jihad they're the second biggest organization in Gaza also with quite a lot of abilities in the past we saw some kind of distinction between the two the Islamic jihad was the one closest to Iran for example Hamas was perhaps more concerned with the daily lives of the Palestinian residents in Gaza more than the Islamic jihad now both are engaged in terrorism and both are fighting together against the state of Israel all right we have one more to talk about Hezbollah and Lebanon last night there was some rocket fire back and forth this morning there was IDF action in north of Israel and the southern part of Lebanon talk to us about what happened there yes basically since the beginning of the war there's a back and forth between Hezbollah and Israeli forces most of the time most of the fire is concentrated almost entirely on the border fence though we have seen some activity further away first the killing of Salah al-aruri of course the Hamas leader that was carried out in Beirut far away from the border and we also saw some Hezbollah strikes on the Air Force command and on the northern command both of them a bit further away from the border itself but most of the fire both coming from both sides is concentrated on the border line and what we saw last night corresponds to that great Jonathan Regev joining us live from the border with Israel and Gaza thanks so much again for joining us with the update I'm joined now in studio by Brigadier General Israel Relik Shafir he's a former commander for the Tel Aviv Air Force base he's a former combat pilot with the Israeli Air Force thanks again for coming in general I have to ask you a question about let's start first with the most immediate thing which is the Houthis in Yemen what before we do that what I want to do is there was a strike overnight but I want to show you what President Biden had to say about this let's play that clip there are many who believe that the Americans did the right thing in doing something against the Houthis and there's others who say America should not have gotten involved at all what's your take on any of that well those who say that the United States should not have gotten involved are saying that we should do nothing or they should do nothing about the the effects of the Houthis attack on boats going back and forth in international waters and breaking international law and that is something that America has always tipped over with should they stay isolationists or should they be activists I think at this time it is clear that the United States is taking an active role and is going through whatever mediations diplomatic channels it can before it fires and I think they've depleted what they could do with the Houthis and it was clear they were building a coalition and just like in 1991 making sure that they have all the support and they've depleted other efforts and then striking but just to make sure that everyone understands the US isn't fighting Israel's war here not at all these Israel with all due respect to us Israelis is just a part of an ongoing conflict between Russia and China and their proxies one of which is Iran and the western world so it's a kind of a clash of civilization as Samuel Huntington at the time wrote a book about and this clash has some points like in Taiwan this is one place Korea is another place and the Middle East was always a volatile area of conflict so this is part and parcel of a much larger picture but it's also what it speaks to also is that Israel is not getting involved whatsoever Israel is basically saying this is not our the Houthis are a threat to us yes that's correct they're firing on commercial ships in the international waters this is not us exactly and I think it was this is Shamir at the time 1991 who had the wisdom to refrain from I would say aggression that was not really meant for Israel but was meant to spur an impulse and we were not impulsive at this time which shows some wisdom that we have undertaken despite the fact that the Houthis pulled Israel card out whenever they strike a ship that's in international water in a way Iran is doing the same it's trying to take over the Pan-Arabic area and is using Israel as a kind of a scapegoat for them to align Arab countries they're trying to align Arab countries around it so that they gain their around 1400 years of conflict between Islamic sects of Sunnis and Shias so we're a major part here but we're not the reason why they're being active so the UK and the US put well the US did F-18 fighter jets they dropped Tomahawk missiles on this site on this radar site is that enough of a crushing blow to the Houthis to say okay you know what you're right maybe we should stop or is it more they've come out a little bit more emboldened by this strike and I just wonder whether or not they have the capability to say okay we don't need that radar so we're still going to keep going it's a game of facades they're putting on their brave mask as you could probably see the way their spokesperson came on the air blistering all kinds of threats half million people on the streets of Syria that's fine that is expected that's the way the Middle East acts in these manners and we'll she'll see in the forthcoming days whether it was enough it wasn't enough there are more F-18s just waiting around to come to the Houthis and put them in the right place let's talk about the present the three fronts that Israel faces right now but let's talk specifically about Gaza right now Hanyu is being the focus right now in Gaza it seems there's no more and more the idea for finding more tunnels or finding more ammunition more missiles are about to be launched does it speak to the fact that maybe scaling back or the idea of going to this new phase scaling back may not have been a good idea that it's a little premature you know we're all the military people who are students of Klausowitz on war and war is the extension of diplomacy of statesmanship so it's really a question of where do we want to get to and that actually when you put it in that way and then you scale back and see well how am I going to get there in the best mode and part of the game is keeping the support of Europe and the United States in that as President Biden put it around New Year that'll be the end of the massive scale attack and we've seen this Israeli public is not really that much aware of what took place in Gaza but Gaza is pretty much in ruins at this time so from now on it'll be a slower and more meticulous hunt for the underground city and for the terrorists and you can read that every day there are more and more terrorists getting killed though we're on a rate of about 40 to 1 of terrorists being killed versus our fatalities that is an acceptable rate you can't have a war without casualties but in this manner we can keep on going for several more months before actually we finish the job and eradicate Hamas military capabilities well he talked about General Clausewitz who by the way our viewers should know came up with the term the fog of war attributed to him let's take a little bit of history let's take a look about the idea the study of war where almost 100 days tomorrow will be 100 days since the war began what do you think the IDF has learned in terms of combat or the world has learned in terms of combat that nobody has been able to learn in the past 100 days one thing that we've learned that when you allow terrorists to be embedded well in the urban sphere it is going to be very difficult and conflictual to hunt down those terrorists and stay on I would say an acceptable number of unenvolved casualties that means that if the terrorists go into areas where people where civilians are then those civilians are in harm's way this goes along with laws of war international laws of war this is totally different but that is the scene it has been exemplified before for instance in Iraq in the city of Mosul the terrorists were integrated into the city and within a couple of weeks there were about 10,000 civilian casualties until the Brits and the Americans were able to take out the terrorists so this is a lesson learned again but doing it with the cover of the air force very slowly advancing and close air support between helicopters fighter bombers were needed choosing the right weapons so they are large enough to take out the terrorists but not too large is to inflict collateral damage but here's a situation where you have against international law you have an army that's not dressed up in uniforms you have a situation where public media, social media this is something they didn't have imagined that the idea that the sway of public opinion against military I'm sure if you're going to look back and people were to study this war in the future in military academies what's the one thing that they're going to come away with shock and awe the shock and awe that Israel inflicted on Gaza in the first several weeks of the air campaign that wasn't done just for Hamas it was done also to impress upon Hezbollah up in the north that if they open up a war and that was quite imminent then this is what is expected to happen to Lebanon and therefore Hezbollah has chosen the I would say Kermishes that took place and Israel is now moving into a more active more I would say progressive idea of pushing Hezbollah up to the north short of creating a large scale war and being very careful not to hit too many not to have too many casualties on the Lebanese side but take out their military capability we shall see if this allows the pressure of the US and France to push Hezbollah to the north without a full scale war on the ground but more importantly what it will also show is that Israel has done something that no other country maybe except for the United States as you mentioned and Mosul has done before is to have this kind of situation placed upon it I don't think any other country in the world has been able to pull off any of this if we think about Syria the war in Syria where there was a kind of an opposition within the civilians it ended up with half a million people dead 3 million people Syrians escaped Syria and are now in Turkey all over the world and the country was broken into I would say sects either religious sects or communal sects that is one way of doing this and the world has learned that when terrorists decide to embed themselves within civilians there is really no other way than to take them out and suffer the consequences Great Brigadier General Israel Relek Shafir, former Commander of the Tel Aviv Air Force thanks again for coming in with your insight thanks again for having the time thank you In a court hearing seen by millions around the world Israel made its case to the International Court of Justice at the Hague responding back against South Africa's accusation that Israel was conducting genocidal acts in Gaza which you missed it here a couple of the clips South Africa purports to come to this court in the lofty position of a guardian of the interest of humanity but in delegitimizing Israel's 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and in its sweeping counterfactual description of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility it is respectfully submitted that the application and request should be dismissed for what they are a libel designed to deny Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented terrorist onslaught it continues to face and to free the 136 hostages Hamas still holds I thank you for your kind attention this case concerns a large-scale armed conflict with tragic consequences for civilians on both sides yes, there is a heart-reaching armed conflict but the attempt to classify it as genocide and trigger provisional measures is not just unfounded in law it has far-reaching and negative implications that extend well beyond the case before you ultimately entertaining the applicant's request will not strengthen the commitment to prevent and punish genocide but weaken it it will turn an instrument adopted by the international community to prevent horrors of the kind that shocked the conscience of humanity during the holocaust into a weapon in the hands of terrorist groups who have no regard for humanity or for the law 99 days ago today 240 babies, children, women elderly, frail were taken hostage by Hamas at gunpoint Friday, hundreds filled the streets of New York across the street from the United Nations to demand the release of the 136 that remain they were joined by one of the hostages who was released 13-year-old Hila Rotem Shoshani family members of the other freed hostages take a listen life is a hostage in Gaza is not life it's hell I came all the way here to ask the whole world help us bring back all of the hostages we can't leave them there their families are waiting for them bring them home please it's very hard for us to imagine what does it mean not to have freedom Bakirdan described it very simply when we asked her she said just think that you are being watched every single moment of your life every movement every act every minute you are being suspected and subjected to the will of terrorists and you have no way to resist you have nowhere to hide it this is life in captivity listen to what he just said there a second ago about being held captive like that for almost 99 days 100 days now HaGai Levine the head of the medical team of the hostages and missing families forum joins us right now thanks so much for joining us HaGai having spoken to some of those who survived when they were released is that what you've been getting a lot in terms of what their conditions were when they were being held hostage all the hostages are in life threatening conditions they suffer from lack of fresh water fresh air of torture physical, mental, sexual torture they don't get the necessary medical treatment for the injuries for the chronic illnesses and we are very concerned about them we published the reports this week elaborating on the risk and giving specific examples of 38 hostages we got direct testimonials from those who were released the heroes that survived like Hila and they are very worried about them and I must say you know you're all just like the Red Cross is going to deliver medication it did not happen yet it should have been done in the first week it's not enough they need proper medical care I don't know if the Red Cross will actually visit them or just the medication will be transferred the best place for them in order to survive is to be released to be treated properly in Israel and I must say it's not you know a personal issue it's a global issue and we are all hostages we are all hostages by the Hamas and you know we are preparing for the 100th day it's so terrible 100 days of hell we are very worried that some of them did not survive or will not survive even with you know with some medications that maybe they will get next week the idea that this new deal that's been set up apparently you made an illusion to it this deal to provide medication to the hostages is an answer which you've been requesting at the very least we demanded from the first day this is a basic right of anyone that was captive they are not even prisoners of war they are innocent and you know people abducted but it's a basic right to be visited by the Red sign of life it's very important because they are isolated and I also you know meet with the families the families are worried because they do not get sign of life so that's one thing and medications which is very important of course we hope and we will bless any improvement in that direction if they will indeed get medication but you know it was published in the media they did not get the medications yet and it's not enough they need their treatment for their injuries we don't know what is their current situation you know maybe someone is pregnant and she needs to undergo abortion so you know a medication will not help her of course she is pregnant because she was raped theoretically we I don't know that for sure so I'm saying don't let this news that did not happen yet to hide the basic issue that the life of all of them is at risk and all of them must be released immediately and this is a danger to global security if they are not released now we will have this 24 hours rally tonight from 8 o'clock Israel time in Tel Aviv for 24 hours this is an historical event and we call all of you to support the families to support the hostages and to help bring them home back now because they are in life threatening condition I'm going to ask you a question about those who have been released already the hundred or so that have been released that we saw a moment ago from one of them who came to not only honor but try to ask for the others to be released do we know what kind of medical condition or what psychological condition that they remain in weeks after they have been released yeah I have some you know some bad news regarding that it's variable I must say it's different depending on the conditions that they were had and on their personal characteristics and previous illnesses but in general many of them are severely injured physically and mentally we know for complications such as new stroke and new heart problems and deep vein thrombosis and some of them had you know severe injuries that were treated poorly and now they need multiple surgeries and long term antibiotic treatment and I didn't even elaborate on their mental you know difficulties they don't sleep well some of them are actually in psychiatric conditions like like dissociative conditions that they don't they think they are still in Gaza for some minutes and then go back it's very very difficult to recover for them but they at least started the recovery process we are very afraid about the others that are still there worried about their health, their sanity and their lives because they don't even started this important recovery process Hagai Levine thank you so much for joining us the head of the medical team for the missing and hostages form 99 days 136 remain I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from Tel Aviv the news continues after the break it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join i24 news our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14 9 p.m. local only on i24 news exclusive interviews reports from the war zone the reaction of Spanish-speaking countries news 24 the only Spanish media that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel news 24 only on i24 news sends a message to the Houthis by airmail delivered by an F-18 fighter jet and tomahawk missiles I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world we're interviewing our live rolling coverage of the war day 99 14 weeks to the day there's lots of late-breaking developments on this Saturday January 13, 2024 first of all the Pentagon says the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of tomahawk cruise missiles a radar site was hit Houthi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters that's important here international waters some 28 times back here in Israel the IDF Special Forces has struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon they say they were about to carry out attacks on Israel two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel happened later yesterday in Gaza Israeli forces say they have knocked out missile launch sites that were preparing to launch missiles tunnel shafts were also destroyed I-24 news is live at the Gaza border we'll have a live report in just a moment we're also monitoring another story Israel says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint Bahamas this deal brokered by the Qataris seems to sidestep the international Red Cross the billions of dollars and euros of donations to the Red Cross was supposed to do just that and that seems to have gone nowhere in the West Bank three armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces to the scene they shot and killed three heavily armed assailants new details right now is that they are teenagers with no prior record South Africa versus Israel is now in the hands of the 15 judges of the International Court of Justice Israel made the case yesterday that it was not at all conducting genocide now Germany who committed genocide during World War II says Israel is not at all committing genocide it will now ask the court to be a third party on Israel's behalf we have lots to get you right now on day 99 of the war first let's go live team coverage on the front lines let's go to Jonathan Regev I-24 Senior Defense Correspondent he's on the border with Israel and Gaza Jonathan Kanyunas apparently seems to be the focus today yes in Kanyunas let's remember this is an area a part which has not been completely conquered we're speaking above the ground not been completely taken over by the Israeli army that is why still a lot of operations there this as opposed to the area right behind us Jebalah Beth-Khanun the northern part of the Gaza Strip where basically the over ground has been completely taken over by the Israeli army of course it's a different story under the ground and we know that there's a very big underground Gaza that has not been yet taken over not here not further down in Kanyunas that's why at least above the ground yes we're seeing more activity in Kanyunas further south than we see here behind us but let's talk about one of the things that they've been able to find also is material from Palestinian Islamic jihad this is something I don't think our viewers understand that Hamas isn't just the only focus no Hamas is clearly not the only focus Hamas yes it is the biggest organization in the terror organization in the Gaza Strip and also the organization at least on paper controlling the Gaza Strip Islamic jihad they're the second biggest organization in Gaza also with quite a lot of abilities in the past we saw some kind of distinction between the two the Islamic jihad was the one closest to Iran for example Hamas was perhaps more concerned with the daily lives of the Palestinian residents in Gaza and more than the Islamic jihad now both are engaged in terrorism and both are fighting together against the State of Israel all right we have one more to talk about Hezbollah and Lebanon last night there was some rocket fire back and forth this morning there was IDF action in the north of Israel and the southern part of Lebanon talk to us about what happened there yes basically since the beginning of the war there was a back and forth between Hezbollah and Israeli forces most of the time most of the fire is concentrated almost entirely on the border fence though we have seen some activity further away first the killing of Salah al-Ruri of course the Hamas leader that was carried out in Beirut far away from the border and we also saw some Hezbollah strikes on the Air Force command and on the northern command both of them a bit further away from the border itself but most of the fire both coming from both sides is concentrated on the borderline and what we saw last night corresponds to that great Jonathan Regev joining us live from the border with Israel and Gaza thanks so much again for joining us with the update I'm joined now in studio by Brigadier General Israel Relik Shafir he's the former commander for the Tel Aviv Air Force base he's a former combat pilot with the Israeli Air Force thanks again for coming in general I have to ask you a question about let's start first with the most immediate thing which is the Houthis in Yemen what I want to do is I want to there was a strike overnight but I wanted to show you what President Biden had to say about this let's play that clip there are many who believe that the Americans did the right thing in doing something against the Houthis and there's others who say America should not have gotten involved at all what's your take on any of that well those who say that the United States should not have gotten involved are saying that we should do nothing or they should do nothing about the the effects of the Houthis attack on boats going back and forth in international waters and breaking international law and that that is something that America has always tipped over should they stay isolationists or should they be activists I think at this time it is clear that the United States is taking an active role and is going through whatever mediations and diplomatic channels it can before it fires and I think they've depleted what they could do with the Houthis and it was clear they were building a coalition and just like in 1991 making sure that they have all the support and they've depleted other efforts and then striking but just to make sure that everyone understands the US isn't fighting Israel's war here not at all these Israel with all due respect to us Israelis is just a part of an ongoing conflict between Russia and China and their proxies one of which is Iran and the western world so it's a kind of a clash of civilization as Samuel Huntington at the time wrote a book about and this clash has some points like in Taiwan there's one place Korea is another place and the Middle East is a hostile area of conflict so this is part and parcel of a much larger picture but it's also what it speaks to also Israel is not getting involved whatsoever Israel is basically saying this is not our the Houthis are a threat to us yes that's correct they're firing on commercial ships in the international waters this is not us exactly and I think it was Prime Minister Shamir from I would say aggression that was not really meant for Israel but was meant to spur an impulse and we were not impulsive at this time which shows some wisdom that we have undertaken despite the fact that the Houthis pulled the Israel card out whenever they strike a ship that's in an international water and Iran is doing the same it's trying to take over the Pan-Arabic area and is using Israel as a kind of scapegoat for them to align Arab countries they're trying to align Arab countries around it so that they gain their around 1400 years of conflict between Islamic sects of Sunnis and Shias so we're a major part here but we're not the reason why they're being active so the UK and the US well the US did F-18 fighter-judge they dropped Tomahawk missiles on this radar site is that enough of a crushing blow to the Houthis to say okay you know what, you're right maybe we should stop or is it more they've come out a little bit more emboldened by this strike and I just wonder if they have the capability of saying okay we don't need that radar so we're still going to keep going you know it's a game of facades they're putting on their brave mask as you could probably see in the way their spokesperson came on the air blistering all kinds of threats half million people on the streets of Sanaa yesterday? Yeah, that's fine that is expected that's the way the Middle East acts in these manners and we'll she'll see in the forthcoming days whether it was enough, if it wasn't enough there are more F-18s just waiting around to come to the Houthis and put them in the right place let's talk about the present the three fronts that Israel faces right now but let's talk specifically about Gaza right now, Hanyu is being the focus right now in Gaza it seems as though more and more the idea for finding more tunnels are finding more ammunition more missiles are about to be launched does it speak to the fact that maybe scaling back or the idea of going to this new phase scaling back may not have been a good idea that it's a little premature you know we're all the military people are people who are students of Klausowitz on war and war is the extension of diplomacy of statesmanship so it's really a question of where do we want to get to and that actually when you put it in that way and then you scale back and see well how am I going to get there in the best mode and part of the game is keeping the support of Europe and the United States in that and as President Biden put it around New Year that'll be the end of the massive scale attack and we've seen this Israeli public is not really that much aware of what took place in Gaza but Gaza is pretty much in ruins at this time so from now on it'll be a slower but meticulous hunt for the underground city and for the terrorists and you can read that every day there are more and more terrorists getting killed though we are on a rate of about 40 to 1 of terrorists being killed versus our fatalities that is an acceptable rate you can't have a war without casualties without mistakes but in this manner we can keep on going for several more months before actually we finish the job and eradicate Hamas military capabilities well he talked about General Clausewitz who by the way our viewers should know came up with the term the fog of war attributed to him let's take a little bit of history let's take a look about the idea of the study of war where almost 100 days tomorrow will be 100 days since the war began what do you think the IDF has learned in terms of combat that or the world has learned in terms of combat that nobody has been able to learn in the past 100 days I think that we've learned that when you allow terrorists to be embedded well in the urban sphere it is going to be very difficult and conflictual to hunt down those terrorists and stay on I would say an acceptable a number of uninvolved casualties that means that if the terrorists go into areas where people where civilians are then those civilians are in harm's way this goes along with laws of war international laws of war but that is the scene it has been exemplified before for instance in Iraq in the city of Mosul where terrorists were integrated into the city a couple of weeks there were about 10,000 civilian casualties until the Brits and the Americans were able to take out the terrorists so this is a lesson learned again but doing it with the cover of the air force very slowly advancing and close air support between UAVs attack helicopters fighter bombers were needed choosing the right weapons large enough to take out the terrorists but not too large is to inflict collateral damage but here's a situation where you have against international law you have an army that's not dressed up in uniforms you have a situation where public media, social media they didn't, the Klausowitz would never have imagined that the idea that the sway of public opinion against military if you're going to look back and people were to study this war in the future in military academies what's the one thing that they're going to come away with shock and awe the shock and awe that Israel inflicted on Gaza in the first several weeks of the air campaign wasn't done just for Hamas it was done also to impress upon Hezbollah up in the north that if they open up a war and that was quite imminent then this is what is expected to happen to Lebanon and therefore Hezbollah has chosen the I would say skirmishes that took place and Israel is now moving into a more active more I would say progressive idea of pushing Hezbollah up to the north short of creating a large-scale war and being very careful not to hit too many not to have too many casualties on the Lebanese side but take out their military capability we shall see if this allows the pressure of the US and France to push Hezbollah to the north without a full-scale war on the ground. But more importantly what it also show is that Israel has done something that no other country maybe except for the United States and Mosul has done before is to have this kind of situation placed upon it I don't think any other country in the world has been able to pull off any of this If we think about Syria the war in Syria where there was a kind of an opposition within the civilians it ended up with half a million people dead 3 million people Syrians who escaped Syria and are now in Turkey all over the world and the country was broken into I would say sects either religious sects or communal sects that is one way of doing this and the world has learned that when terrorists decide to embed themselves within civilians there's really no other way than to take them out of the consequences Great Brigadier General Israel Relek Shafir, Former Commander of the Tel Aviv Air Force Space, thanks again for coming in with your insight, thanks again for having the time Thank you In a court hearing seen by millions around the world Israel made its case to the International Court of Justice at the Hague, responding back against South Africa's accusation that Israel was conducting genocidal acts in Gaza In case you missed it, here are a couple of the clips South Africa purports to come to the International Court in the lofty position of a guardian of the interest of humanity but in delegitimizing Israel's 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and in its sweeping counter factual description of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility it is respectfully submitted that the application and request should be dismissed for what they are a libel designed to deny Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented terrorist onslaught it continues to face and to free the 136 hostages Hamas still holds I thank you for your kind attention this case concerns a large-scale armed conflict with tragic consequences for civilians on both sides yes, there is a heart-reaching armed conflict but the attempt to classify it as genocide and trigger provisional measures is not just unfounded in law it has far-reaching and negative implications that extend well beyond the case before you ultimately, entertaining the applicant's request will not strengthen the commitment to prevent and punish genocide but weaken it it will turn an instrument adopted by the international community to prevent horrors of the kind that shocked the conscience of humanity during the Holocaust into a weapon in the hands of terrorist groups of no regard for humanity or for the law 99 days ago today 240 babies, children, women elderly, frail were taken hostage by Hamas at gunpoint Friday, hundreds filled the streets of New York across the street from the United Nations to demand the release of the 136 that remain they were joined by one of the hostages who was released 13-year-old Hila Rotem Shoshani as well as family members of the other freed hostages take a listen the hostage in Gaza is not life it's hell I came all the way here to ask the whole world help us bring back all of the hostages we can't leave them there their families are waiting for them bring them home please it's very hard for us to imagine what does it mean not to have freedom Bakir then described it very simply when we asked her she said just think that you are being watched every single moment of your life every movement every act every minute you are being suspected to the will of terrorists and you have no way to resist you have nowhere to hide it this is life in captivity listen to what he just said there a second ago about being held captive like that for almost 99 days 100 days now Professor Hagai Levine the head of the medical team of the hostages and missing families forum thanks so much for joining us Hagai what having spoken to some of those who survived when they were released is that what you've been getting a lot in terms of what their conditions were when they were being held hostage all the hostages are in life threatening conditions they suffer from lack of fresh water fresh air lack of food of torture they don't get the necessary medical treatment for the injuries for the chronic illnesses and we are very concerned about them we published the reports this week elaborating on the risk and giving specific examples of 38 hostages we got direct testimonials from those who were released the heroes that survived like Hila and they are very worried about them they were all just like the Red Cross is going to deliver medication it did not happen yet it should have been done in the first week it's not enough they need proper medical care I don't know if the Red Cross will actually visit them or just the medication will be transfer the best place for them in order to survive is to be released to be treated properly in Israel I must say it's not a personal issue it's a global issue and we are all hostages we are all hostages by the Hamas and we are preparing for the 100th day it's so terrible 100 days of hell we are very worried that some of them did not survive or will not survive even with some medications maybe they will get this week the idea that apparently by you made an illusion to it this deal to provide medication to the hostages does an answer which you've been requesting at the very least we demanded from the first day this is a basic right of anyone that was captive they are not even prisoners of war they are innocent people abducted but it's a basic right to be visited by the Red Cross to get a sign of life it's very important because they are isolated the families are worried because they did not get sign of life so that's one thing and medications which is very important of course we hope and we will bless any improvement in that direction if they indeed get medication but it was published in the media they did not get the medications yet and it's not enough they need their glasses they need treatment for their injuries we don't know what is their current situation maybe someone is pregnant and she needs to undergo abortion so medication will not help her of course she is pregnant because she was raped theoretically I don't know that for sure so I'm saying don't let this news that did not happen yet to hide the basic issue that the life of all of them is at risk and all of them must be released immediately and this is a danger to global security if they are not released now we will have this 24 hours rally tonight from 8 o'clock Israel time in Tel Aviv for 24 hours this is an historical event and we call all of you to support the families to support the hostages and to help bring them home back now because they are in life threatening condition Hagai I'm gonna ask you a question about those who have been released already the 100 or so that have been released we saw a moment ago from one of them who came to not only honor but try to ask for the others to be released do we know what kind of mental condition or what psychological condition that they remain in weeks after they have been released I have some bad news regarding that it's variable I must say it's different depending on the conditions that they were hurt and on their personal characteristics and previous illnesses but in general many of them are severely injured physically and mentally we know of complications such as new stroke and new heart problems and deep vein thrombosis and some of them had severe injuries that were treated poorly and now they need multiple surgeries and long term antibiotic treatment and I didn't even elaborate on their mental difficulties they don't sleep well some of them are actually in psychiatric conditions like dissociative conditions that they don't they think they are still in Gaza for some minutes and then go back it's very very difficult to recover for them but they at least started the recovery process we are very afraid about the others that are still there worried about their health, their sanity and their life because they don't even started this important recovery process once again i24 news channels now on hot it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join i24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first hand accounts of eye witnesses survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14, 9pm local only on i24 news if the plastic particles breaks up it does not stop at the micron size it can actually go even smaller so once the size goes below one micron people call it nano plastics because now it's in it's size is in the nano range to elephants they shoot their most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephants every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed i24 news headquarters welcome to our viewers around the world at the top of the hour here are the headlines making news right now there's lots of late breaking developments on this Saturday January 13, 2024 day 99 of the war the pentagon says the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of tomahawk missiles the US says it's delivering a message a radar site was hit Houthi rebels have attempted to attack and harass ships traveling in international waters that's important here international waters some 28 times new right now the Houthis say the American airstrikes did no damage to their capabilities you should know that there are pro Houthi rallies scheduled for New York and Washington for today here in Israel the IDF special forces have struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon they say they were about to carry out attacks on Israel two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel were fired earlier on Friday moving on the Gaza Israeli forces say they have knocked out missile launch sites that were preparing to launch missiles tunnel shafts were also destroyed there are late breaking developments here i24 is live at the Gaza border and we'll have a live report in just a moment we're also monitoring another story Israel says a deal has been reached to get vital medicines to the hostages at the point by Hamas this deal brokered by the Qataris no word on whether the Red Cross will be the ones delivering the medicine the Red Cross who has been useless in getting details on the 136 that have been held hostage for 99 days something unheard of in all of history in the West Bank three heavily armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces raced to the sea with the Israeli intelligence the new details right now they are teenagers with no prior record but they were heavily armed South Africa versus Israel is now in the hands of the 15 judges of the International Court of Justice Israel made the case yesterday that it was not at all conducting genocide now Germany who committed genocide during World War II says Israel is not at all committing genocide it says it will ask the court to be a third party on Israel's behalf so right now first there's been some movement in the Gaza War let's go live team coverage of the front lines Jonathan Regev is joining us from the border Jonathan I understand that just a few minutes ago the IDF released there has been some movement right behind you yes we're hearing artillery all the time right behind us the area behind us being the northern Gaza Strip behind us is Jebalia a bit further to the south the Sajaia the neighborhoods of the northern Gaza Strip to the eastern part of the city of Gaza and a bit further south movement especially in the area of Chanyunes and also in Derel Balak near by a refugee camp one of the hospitals in the area as reporting that army forces may be coming into the area when we're speaking of hospitals let's remember the Shifa hospital other hospitals in the area said to be sites where hostages were kept we saw tunnels being dug behind it hostages were brought to this area so possibly in this area of Derel Balak further to the south also perhaps intelligence that could point to some Israeli hostages or other Hamas activity in that area now Jonathan there was mention of the fact of some airstrikes that hit what they call operational headquarters in Gaza city what exactly in central Gaza I should say when they mean operational headquarters what do they mean by that because it seems like there should be a headquarters is on top it should be the lead spot yeah first the headquarters mostly under the ground there's always perhaps command centers usually under the ground you can also find rocket launchers let's remember it was only last night when rockets were fired the city of Ashdod which is south central Israel pretty much halfway between the Gaza Strip and Tel Aviv so command centers could have launchers could have areas where they produce ammunition and so on many things that could happen there usually under the ground Jonathan Regev from the border with Gaza thanks so much for joining us day 99 of the war 136 babies women children elderly can stay able to remain hostage I'm Albert Lewerton reporting from Tel Aviv I-24 news continues most communities from the Gaza envelope left their homes around three months ago now and at the moment the community of Ein Habsor is facing a new challenge as some people return home and others refuse correspondence Orisha Piera and Karmit Malkor have more in this I-24 news report a small group gathered last week to discuss the future plans for the village these include a new basketball court and a communal garden nothing exceptional perhaps except the village in question is Ein Habsor adjacent to the Gaza Strip we're gonna be here now today we hear the bombing behind us it's probably the most safe place in Israel right now there's hundreds of thousands of soldiers a few mile away and it's gonna be safe because if this place is not gonna be safe in a few months or a year from now no place in Israel is gonna be safe this is the task of the country of our generation it's our shift to make it better safer and stronger than what it was most of Ein Habsor's residents were evacuated to a lot in other locations after the murderous Hamas assault of October 7 village resident professor Iftah Geffner supports this quick return and the recovery of this community that's not everyone agrees with him each person could do whatever he wants but as a community I think that the government position should be to wait for a second we will find an answer to all of your needs now we have the opportunity to solve the issue and you'll come back once the place is safe for many in this community Ein Habsor is stuck between a rock and a hard place on one hand it is close to the Gaza border and there are constant threats in the area but as opposed to other places like near Oz and Kibbutz Bayeri Ein Habsor managed to block the Hamas infiltration on October 7 mostly thanks to the security squad and some say luck and as some communities moved to permanent residency in cities like Tel Aviv others like Ein Habsor are still staying in hotels we came here because we didn't have a choice we moved to Elad it is three hours away from here my husband was called up to the IDF if he was a few hours away he could have driven to Elad just to see us the distance in the time without him is very difficult for me and for the kids we came back not to return here but in order to see my husband and to move to our next home which won't be in Elad but a place where we can meet my husband this is where I'm heading towards Itzan Akmani is one of the residents who oppose an immediate return to the area she's worried about the effect on her children they don't feel safe here every little noise makes them jump they ask me to lock the doors and to cover the windows just like on October 7th when there was an infiltration threat to the village when we drive in the car my young child is hiding because he's afraid that a terrorist will see him and abduct him it's sad moving in between different houses Itzan is trying to maintain a routine for her family the kids haven't been in school for a long time now when we come here to visit we practice math in Hebrew so they won't forget but other families are reaching different solutions such as this alternative school which was opened by volunteers a few days ago after more than two months as my family started falling apart I decided that no matter what I'm coming back home to Ein Habsor in the first few weeks I helped my husband and my father his high workers left and the situation was very bad after a month I understood that I need to take care of my kids it's been three months already and my kids didn't process what happened here on October 7th they are lacking a social and educational framework the gaps are enormous these kids aren't in school since June Professor Geffner's son Alon are you not afraid from the war from bombing I'm a little bit afraid but I'm trying to be positive Ein Habsor was established in 1982 by a group of Jewish settlers who were evacuated from the Yarmid district in the Sinai Peninsula as part of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt the Klakey was a young child when Yarmid was evacuated now she faces another separation from her home however, she says that the situation is completely different to that of 42 years ago the feeling is very different when we were evacuated from Sinai at least from what I remember and from what I was told the feeling was that the country was taking care of us and that it would help us rebuild our community today no one tells you what will happen tomorrow it's even difficult to join other communities caught between the basic need for security and safety and the traumatic memories of October 7 and on the other hand the need for stability and a strong yearning for home the people of Ein Habsor like many other Israelis are still waiting to decide on their next step as the war in Gaza continues and the solution is yet not on the horizon so much space yeah come on have a seat the living room? guest room? living room now you're in the hallway between the room and is this the hall? okay where are we now? that's the bedroom this is kind of a playroom this is the playroom 3 square feet and here we're already in the living room yeah that's the living room so how are you guys? generally speaking, fine and not generally speaking? not generally? we can't stay home the decision to evacuate us was alright but we have no clue what's going to happen when? if? when we get to go home we're in the laundry area it happens to be pretty vacant because of the time, usually it's crowded with long waits if you really want to get it done you might wait for five hours get out believe me five hours to get some laundry done I would have to sit and watch my clothes tumbling in the washing machine so we are here to do laundry yeah thanks for helping out of course, I'll iron fold it later too five star captivity we have everything and we have nothing we're together supporting each other, helping each other out raising each other up but we aren't at work, we aren't at home not at our businesses we don't know what's happening in our homes we are we are displaced people I've made a nice pantry here instead of clothes there's all kinds of food milk and stuff what's the hardest part about living like this? that it isn't a normal life a sane life there's no waking up leaving for work, dropping off at school coming home, making lunch so what is there? what's the day like? you wake up wake up, go down to breakfast it's all stiff how don't you go crazy you do go crazy there is not so much to do there's no realistic solutions all our alternatives would be out of our pocket our spare time how much can you take? you can't say one day, two, three days three months we've been here with no return home in sight tell me, how are you inside? not easy, there are moments of crisis what's a moment like that? I have two grown boys that were on the verge of starting a business we kept saying we'll open after the Jewish holidays we didn't say which holidays they kept paying the bills but with no income it didn't work for three months financially you can cut down on a lot of things a lot I give up on myself I don't buy for myself I make sure my kids aren't in need we aren't making it work I personally know people who have taken on loans now, during the war now, during the war borrowed money and some people aren't able to take a loan they can't make it it gets bad we're in Jerusalem, it's cold here we need winter clothes, especially the kids we look for donations adults, babies, kids some people can't afford winter clothes some people can't afford to buy coats we got a donation of new coats for adults they can't afford it a donation came in, so you know people come searching, see what we can take people come searching, see what we can take you left home with no clothes? nothing? yes, just clothes for maybe a few days you see, anything you can people, the unity of the public it's strengthening we see how much people are giving this is all new, even myself I'm wearing new socks look, three to four months ago you had such polarization in the people now look, they're giving it to you without asking it's important to remember, once this is all over to keep that spirit to keep it, not to go back to fighting let it be so red alert, sorry where? our area in the north that's live, that's in Shlomi right now why don't you turn the sound off anxiety I have to know what's going on I have a brother serving on the Lebanon border and another brother in Gaza on the one side, you don't want to hear about these things on the other hand, you have to know we aren't detached we're living through a war how long can you do this for? what drives us is when we will be sure that we are returning to a safe home we'll live by the mountain we can see them, we can wave at Nasrallah we will not go back to this kind of thing is there anyone saying we won't go back to Shlomi, back home? many, many if not all what do they say? that until something huge changes some will never return they have no trust they're done giving up their home they've given it up what do you miss most? privacy I work in education I never thought that the kids, the students would see me in pajamas see me getting mad at my kids arguing with my husband, complaining apart from the grueling images that emerged following October 7 one has also shocked many Jews to their core was the sheer outpouring of support and justification for Hamas's massacre nowhere was that support louder and more obvious than on American college campuses now a delegation of students from some of the top schools in the US have come here to Israel to bear witness first hand to the evil wrought on Black Saturday hopefully with a strong message to take back to their fellow peers he has more delegation of professors and alumni from the University of Pennsylvania came to Israel to offer support for the families of the hostages music is a language that transcends space and time and on this day there was not a dry eye in hostage square this is the piano of Alon Ohel a 22 year old jazz and classical music pianist who remains a hostage in Gaza music is part of his life he plays all the time he moves through music he walks through music I am sure that he is over there now sitting doing this with his hands and playing in his head music I know this Alon narrowly escaped the Nova Music Festival and hid in a bomb shelter with 30 people before Hamas terrorists kidnapped Alon and three others and killed 19 others it's really important for me for people to know that he is a person, that he is a life that he is wonderful and he is my son and I want him to come back home but the thing is that this won't happen if the world doesn't come and help us Israel and the fact is is that we need everybody to be with us a few weeks later people were knocking on our door saying we cannot stay in America or in the UK or in Australia while our brothers and sisters are here suffering we cannot be silent and therefore we must come and show up the reactivation of trauma in my own personal experience was because I was in Hamas terror attack in 1994 on October the 9th of 1994 really and it took me 24 years to come back to Israel after that attack Michael Kahana is one of dozens of people on the University of Pennsylvania trip the psychology professor who happens to be a distant cousin of the Ohel family teaches psychology of human memory a subject that hits very close to home I was here for an academic visit and I went out to dinner and I met Hamas 29 years ago when Hamas terrorists shot automatic weapons and through hand grenades in the restaurant where I was and it wasn't until the massacre of October 7th that specific memories of his own trauma came to light 24 years after the trauma I came back to Israel and I couldn't remember what happened I went with my kids back to the restaurant and I couldn't remember details of what happened and on October the 9th, 8th, 9th, 10th at night I started to remember and I heard the screams things I hadn't heard in my head in almost 25 years so that was the shock to me also shocking to the Jewish world and beyond is the vitriolic anti-semitism and violence against Jews at Ivy League universities f*** the Jews those words were said not here on Amsterdam, not on Broadway those words were said in Jerome Green Hall Columbia's law school building here I am experiencing hate hate is what people on our college campus feel towards us simply because we are Jewish my Jewish sisters and brothers and I are on the receiving end of death threats from our peers undergraduates who have filed reports about these incidents have been left with no emotional support no feedback and no consequences for the perpetrators of these hateful actions and what's even more inhumane is the throngs of people tearing down posters of the Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza all over New York and the world people are ripping down posters of your suck does it make you angry? of course because he is a citizen he didn't do anything he went to an ANOVA festival he's an innocent bystander he didn't fight anybody he wasn't in war, we weren't in war they came in and they took him think about it, in the United States somebody comes in and just takes anyone who wants to and you're fine with it I don't understand that how can you be fine with a person that is in your country you're supposed to feel safe and somebody comes and rips you out of your country and takes you hostage this is not supposed to happen and everybody who is everywhere in the world and they're thinking that everything is fine well, terrorism is going to come to you they're going to do it to you and they're going to rip your sons and daughters you know posters and say well that's not my problem that is not okay because my son is important and the University of Pennsylvania's president Liz McGill and Harvard's president Claudine Gay did nothing to stop the anti-Semitic violence and calls for Jewish genocide and they didn't even back down during December's congressional hearing I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews does that constitute bullying or harassment if it is directed and severe or pervasive it is harassment so the answer is yes it is a context dependent decision it's a context dependent decision that's your testimony today calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context amounts to bullying, harassment intimidation that is actionable conduct and we do take action but yes that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct correct again it depends on the context it does not depend on the context the answer is yes and this is why you should resign these are unacceptable answers across the board McGill and Gay have since resigned but the scars still run deep I think these are tensions and problems that are thousands of years old and it's a sad valley in that history and I hope that we can improve things but I think it's a constant fight that will go on forever I hope it doesn't but that's what history tells us one way to begin to make a change is to bring people to Israel to experience the relics of the horrors of October 7th firsthand they need to see this they need to meet the families this is not an issue of politics which position you have on political issues this is about evil this is about Hamas ISIS, Al Qaeda it's about cults of death that just want to kill and destroy even still Edith Ohel has unwavering faith that music can heal the binds of hate and on January 14th a piano in alone's honor will be placed in central Berlin and New York City for generations to come play and bring on the spirit to bring alone home I use music because music language and everybody understand that and music is beautiful because my son is beautiful and using music to fight is a good way because everybody can understand that they can understand that my son loves life loves music do you think he knows that people are coming and connecting him? I think so because I believe in energy and I believe that I am doing something for him that he will feel it because he is part of me that helps me cope Emily Francis, I-24 News This week on News 24 Israel under attack News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and information of the events of the war Spades of Iron Interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and interviews and identifying what's left of people to provide some measure of closure for desperate families. I just never thought or imagined that I would ever face the situation. It's really not a simple decision, and it's not a decision to be taken lightly at all. It has enormous significance. There's no doubt about it. Dr. Hagar Mizrachi did not learn this in medical school to make one of the most shocking decisions of her career, to pronounce death without first seeing a body. The event is foreign to the world in general and to the world of medicine in particular, because we have very strict rules on how to determine death. There is a pulse and an ECG should be done. We still look for all the signs and all the doubts to resolve them in order to give the family an answer that is clear and unambiguous. Niroz, a member of the Judi Weinstein-Chagai in the October 17th, together with Gadi Chagai, the parents of the two of them, married at the age of five. Until the harsh news about Judy were received, she had been thought kidnapped. The last time she made contact was during the morning walk with her husband, Niroz. Last week, the family was informed of Gadi's death. Now, it's Judy. One of the open cases that Dr. Mizrachi and the committee of which she is a member for many weeks. One of the very complex cases, we received a description of the circumstances of the incident. But we also heard the phone call she made to the Maghen Davide Dome hotline. We read WhatsApp messages with friends and family, and watched relevant videos. We understood that there was a very, very serious injury here. We sat more than once to try to understand what happened. That Black Sabbath raised many dramatic issues, one of which is whether it is possible to have a conversation with the Maghen Davide and the committee of which she is a member of the Judi Weinstein-Chagai. One of which is whether it is possible to declare the death of a hostage while in captivity. Some were murdered and taken to the Gaza Strip. Some were taken there wounded and did not survive the injury. Others were murdered in Gaza. The Ministry of Health has established a committee to assess the situation of the hostages headed by Dr. Agar Mizrachi, a committee of experts trying to decide what happened to kidnapped citizens, collecting every scrap of information, watching hours of video. We are on this committee by virtue of our position as doctors. We want evidence whose essence is a medical basis. It's not just watching videos. It's literally sitting and analyzing and looking for breathing movements. You look for movements of the eyelids, movements of the body, a reaction to pain, simply analyzing the movies frame by frame. We also deal mainly with analyzing gunshot wounds, where they hit, where organs were hit, and everything together with the fact that there is no medical treatment leads us to our conclusions. This is how they came to determine that Aviva Tzili, Ofra Kedar, and Ninbar Haiman were murdered. Unlike legal matters, where reasonable doubt is enough. Here, the three doctors on the committee, Dr. Mizrachi, Dr. Kugel, and Dr. Marine, CEO of Sharetset Hospital, need to be completely convinced before they tell the families. We sit, and if we don't come to a conclusion, then we say we haven't yet decided. Additional material will arrive. Hamas will release something, some additional information will be received. We will incorporate the new bits and watch one more time from beginning to end, and then we'll make a decision. Each decision is made unanimously. How much certainty do you need to determine? Is 99% enough? We wait and check the points until we are all convinced. For me, it is 100%. 100%. As far as I'm concerned, Not knowing is the worst thing. I can't stay up in the air. I need to know. Danny Engel was informed that his brother, Ronan, was kidnapped with his family from their home in Irooz, but his gut feeling said he was probably killed. After all, Ronan was armed, fighting the terrorists who entered the apartment, and no one has seen him since. It was very alarming. Me too, in this whole situation, I hung on to some kind of optimism and forced myself not to eulogize him or to talk about him in the past tense, so not to create, you know, the situation that there is no Ronan. Four days after his wife and daughters returned from captivity, the news was received. Ronan was murdered and the body was snatched. The death was determined according to a video and other findings that were in the house. Karina said that there was a large pool of blood where Ronan was standing. Other people who returned said that they saw his body being dragged outside out of the house. I have this kind of closure. They told me, and beyond any doubt, Ronan is gone. It's the better option than not knowing and continuing to hope. The message the Ilus family received about the death of Guy, the 26-year-old musician who was at the party in Reim was a little different. In his case, there was no video. Only the knowledge that he was injured and kidnapped. But about a month ago, they were informed that Maya Reghev, who returned from captivity, gave detailed testimony about their son. I asked them, tell me, are you really serious? I said, yes, I'm serious. I asked them, tell me, are you really serious? You want me to state as an axiom that my son died in light of the fact that she was a prisoner who was in the room with Guy, that she saw him through the curtain and she was full of drugs and I have no idea what and in light of all the psychological warfare they are doing. Listen, I'm not ready to accept it, but I would love to meet with Maya Reghev. They really tried to give him CPR and he died from his wounds and at first, I refused to believe it and after they took him, I said that I had to see that it was really him. I have this duty to go and talk to his family. In the end, I'm the only person who knows what really happened, so I moved the curtain and saw that he really wasn't with us, that he was gone. After the parents heard Maya, the subtleties, the details, how she described how they put him in a white bag for the dead, they were convinced. They sat Shiva and said goodbye to their boy. Saying goodbye is hard to bear. It's not goodbye when you can say I'm saying goodbye because I saw that he died. We didn't see. We didn't see that Guy is indeed no longer with us. We separated from him based on testimony, based on information. The returning hostages brought with them a lot of new information to the committee about the fate and condition of those who were left behind, but they say they are not satisfied with this evidence as a sole parameter. For example, we knew that someone had been shot and we saw the type of injury and we understood that in this condition he was taken to the Gaza Strip and in this condition, we know that in order to treat the gunshot we need very intensive, very advanced treatment, if at all, and over time and on and on. It's a culmination of things, especially if one of the abductees later states that he has passed away. As long as this body does not arrive in Israel, it's not doubt, really, it's not a question of doubt. He won't be knocking on the door tomorrow and entering the house, but for me the story hasn't ended. The bodies of the hostages who did return to Israel were thoroughly examined by Dr. Mizrachi's committee to confirm the circumstances of their death. The CT scan shows us whether there are bullets, whether there are clots. So far, bodies have arrived and apparently Hamas said they were killed because of an IDF attack. This is not true. These are not the conclusions. It is difficult in some cases to determine the exact cause of death, but it does not appear that people were injured and the injuries match injuries from shelling. The committee deals not only with the dead, but also with those who return alive from captivity. As a doctor, Hagar Mizrachi also tries to understand something about the medical treatment they received. To her surprise, she discovered that they were not given only prescription drugs, but also dangerous ones. They were not given treatment, not exactly known in Israel, which, among other things, causes some kind of sedation. There was also ketamine in some of the cases. Ketamine is a drug that is given under anesthesia for surgery, and today it is a drug that is used, of course, illegally. And indeed, there was testimony of people who came who received ketamine unnecessarily as a form of sedation. I'm not sure you want to emerge from captivity as a drug addict. There was a prior claim that the terrorists had been given drugs before. I don't have any proof of this, but I can tell you honestly, I can't understand from what I've seen how they did it without it. I say they are not animals because it is unimaginable. For many years, the fear of a multi-front war has been hovering over Israel's society. The high numbers of casualties, the damage to the economy and an entire array of prices many here in Israel were convinced that we as a society are not ready to pay. October 7th charged that notion and revealed a stronger civil society and a much stronger military. I sit down with Dr. May Relan, head of the Homeland Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies here in Israel to hear more about Israel's national resilience. Brigadier General retired May Relan. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. So usually we're speaking about the war, vis-à-vis the enemy, achievements, losses, etc. Let's speak about the Israeli home front, about resilience. You've been following that for many years, but mainly during this campaign, what do you find out? Well, if I may, first of all I want to say a few words about what resilience really is. I mean, many people use it as supposed to be some kind of a buzzword, but basically it's a well-defined kind of a concept or framework for understanding social situations or changing social situations in any given system. It can be personal, a tribe, community, society, or even a nation as a whole. So we're talking about resilience within a context, always within a context of a major disruption or catastrophe, if you wish, man-made, like war or major terrorist activities, or also natural, like tsunamis, earthquakes, earthquakes, the thing of that sort. So we have a disruption, unfortunately it happens to every system, quite frequently, also to us, unfortunately. And the big question is okay, so what happens to the system following a major disruption? Usually the concept says that following a major disruption there is a very, very clear kind of a downscale of the functionality of the system. And then one of two things happened. Some systems just collapse from that and vanish, disappear. But quite a few of the systems actually bounce back or recover in a certain trajectory. And what we do is we measure the level of resilience of the system by its bouncing back to the point of departure of the disaster, or we're talking also about bouncing forward to a higher position, meaning growth because it usually happens if the system is resilient sufficiently, it doesn't just come back or bounce back to the prior position of functionality. But to a better situation. Yeah. To a better situation, qualitatively, but also qualitatively. So before we touch the current campaign, since you've touched what resilience is, so let's give me examples for the two possibilities, the two situations. I'll give you, I'll talk about positive scenarios. And let me say the following. The Jewish people is proven, or has been proven for years for generations to be a very, very resilient society. This is mostly, unfortunately because of the major disruptions that we had throughout our history before the state was established and also after the state was established. Let's touch the current campaign and later on I'll ask you what should be done in order to improve the exit point. Please do. But currently where do we stand? Well, currently we stand in a very, very interesting situation when we measure the resilience. And we see that despite of the horrific events of what happened to us in October 7th, and despite of the huge failures of the military both in terms of the intelligence failure and also the operational, you know, major failure, the public here in Israel give a major credit to the IDF for its own bouncing, quick bouncing back, which means that the military is considered by the civilian public to be very resilient. In other words, they really recovered after three, four days and started the actual ground maneuver. When was it like three weeks later, which is considered by the Israelis to be a successful maneuver. Okay, we'll talk later on to what extent this is really the case, but this is the overall perception of the Israelis, which also, you know, reflects on their own level of resilience because trust in the systems is a major component of resilience. This is the one, and the other one, which is very important, is the solidarity. So solidarity and trust are the most important leading components of resilience, and we see that in terms of the trust in the military, mind you, is very high. We're talking about around 90% of the people give the IDF a very high level of 90%. If you hear the right number, 90% consistently in 11 polls that we have made since the beginning of the war, despite of the failures on October. But Mayor, at the same time the Israeli public feels less attached or believeless in the government, in the decision makers. And that's part of the resilience as well. Well, this is a very major issue here. Despite, I mean we make the same polls also with regard to the other agencies. One of them is of course the government as such. The government gets about 23 to 25 or 6% of approval or confidence from the public throughout these weeks. So we see a huge gap between the trust in the military and the distrust in the government. And that's why? Well, let me just give you one other example and then I'll explain why because this is a very interesting question and it gives room to different interpretations. But I'll give you mine in a minute. At the same time we also gauge the level of support of the public at large as far as the objectives of the war as declared by the government. You know, the dismantling of Hamas, etc. etc. Here we see an average of 78% approval. So the same government that gets only 28 at the best times, 28%, its major decision regarding the war is being approved by the public at large. So why is this the fact and how does it show our present resilience? Our interpretation is that since we are in the war and the people in Israel are very, very mobilized think also about the media in Israel. How mobilized and mobilizing it is in terms of support the military effort because of what are to us, the huge trauma the collective trauma of October 7th. So the people say we have to be reassured. And the only one that we can really trust is the military that is doing the job for us. This is the spirit presently. As far as the government concerns, its failure is clear. No denial of that. No forgiveness. It's very steady. But there is a very interesting differentiation between the military and the objectives of the war and the military doing the job in getting those results. But the government is really in a very, very bad situation. Can I offer another explanation? Please do. The army is us. It's our children. Unlike the government whereas it might be them. I agree with you completely. It's not only us but we through the army by the army are making a difference for us despite of what happened in October 7th. So all that and like getting back to resilience, all that shows to my understanding a very high level of resilience. There are other indications as well but we don't get into that we don't have enough time to discuss all the details. But let me just give you another idea to consider. This might be a temporary a phenomenon and we in our analysis think we're not sure about that that this level, very high level of support and this very high level of solidarity will not necessarily hold for a longer period of time or much longer. It depends to a large extent on the public's sense or interpretation or understanding of what's happening really in the field. To an extent the military is capable to sustain the thrust again the Hamas which is a problem. What do we do with the hostages of course is another major question and again what do we, I mean how are we doing in general terms in terms of running this major war. So what Israel needs to do in order to enlarge its possibilities to get out of this campaign stronger taking the current situation? Well let me put it this way first of all I'm now expressing my own opinion we have to stand up to our obligation to the Israeli public which means that we have to frame a situation in which at the end of the war be it in the next weeks or in the next months and time should not be a major issue in this respect. We have to be in a position that we know and interpret the final situation of the war as a victory for us. How we frame this picture is another question and the government can do different things in order to construct such a perception. This is very important. If we do not manage and again time is a lesser to my understanding is a lesser significance here but if we can frame a picture or a perception within most of the public that we have done what we have promised or the government has promised through the military to the people following what happened to us in October 7 this I think will be accepted as a major victory for Israel. If we do not we have a problem not only in terms of our resilience but also in terms of our position domestically, externally in the region and in the world. National security in its larger largest extent. But furthermore you said to be seen victorious I think the hostages that you've mentioned is a major aspect and to see those who are evacuated evacuees, refugees, whatever we call them back to their homes. Absolutely and also we would probably also need sort of pictures of victory in the other side. We need to see at least part of the Hamas leadership getting out of the homes with white flags. Or dead. Correct. What is better for us it's a matter of personal judgment. One more thing you've mentioned earlier that looking at the achievements on the ground the Israel Republic feels that the army is doing its job its job is that actually case or that's the case that is being portrayed to us? Let me say two things. When we talk about resilience which is a matter of perception it does not matter so much but for the our own curiosity and understanding of the situation we have to remember we do not know much about what's going on in the Gaza Strip right now. We see the pictures most of them we do not see by the way we don't see the destruction we have to switch to see an end to realize what's really happening but basically what we do is we have to follow the daily interviews of the IDF spokesperson and that's what we know I mean we don't know too much and the media I must add is not really helping in terms of giving us the right picture whatever it is. What are the chances that time will come out you know everybody supports the war and it causes etc and it will come more and more bitter. Two things I want to say about that number one we have to remember that this is really a unique case never before we had such an opening of this catastrophe exactly so we are very very as I said before we are still under a traumatic a collective traumatic experience and it really impacts our perceptions in many ways so that's why it will take longer our solidarity will hold longer but an unfortunate thing that as the time lingers and especially if the achievements on the ground and underground are not really seen very very clearly and also if the toxic discourse country will rise to the extent of October 6 and there are very very harsh signs that this is happening it will be sooner than later so I think that we still have time in this respect and mind you this is really very very important because time is of essence in terms of enabling the IDF to do the job so we don't want I mean when you look at it in a state perception in the war we need to give the military the time and the support but mostly the time to do what they need to do and that's why we have to keep up with this perception we can we have the materials or components to make this happen but we have to be very very careful about that so if to sum it all up the Israeli public is resilient and it gives the strength to the army but in order to for it to be kept the army needs to win we have to be victorious if we do the resilience will remain and Israel will come out stronger if it doesn't God forbids this is a good very correct and I appreciate your summary because it really summarizes better than I said what I needed to say Dr. Omer Ellan thank you so much for your time and for being here with me if the plastic particles breaks up it does not stop at micron size it can actually go even smaller so once the size goes below one micron people call it nano plastics because now it's in its size is in the nano range these tusks belong to elephants they shoot they are most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephant every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed the United States bombs the Houthis the second time in two days their message to the Houthis saying hi we're from the White House we're following up on our previous message I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world at the top of the hour here are the headlines making news right now there's lots of late breaking developments on this Saturday January the 13th 2024 day 99 of the war the Pentagon says the United States has a military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles a radar site was hit Houthi rebels have attacked and have been menacing ships traveling in international waters that's important here international waters some 28 times new right now the Houthis say the American airstrikes did no damage to their capabilities you should know that there are pro-Houthi rallies scheduled for New York and for Washington for today here in Israel the IDF special forces struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon they say they were about to carry out attacks on Israel two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel were fired earlier on Friday now in Gaza Israeli forces found a Hamas cell armed with RPGs and AK-47 rifles inside a Hamas command center an Israeli airstrike bombed the site killing the Hamas fighters another Hamas command center had weapons, computers, phones that too was destroyed I-24 news is live at the Gaza border we'll have a live report in just a moment we are also monitoring another story Qatar has brokered a deal for Israel to deliver vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas Israeli media reports the Red Cross will deliver the medicine the same Red Cross that's been useless in getting details on the 136 who are being held hostage for 99 days that's something unheard of in all of history in the West Bank three heavily armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adora near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces raced to the scene they shot and killed the assailants they are described as teenagers with no prior record but heavily armed Israel made the case Friday in the international court of justice that it is not at all conducting genocidal acts the 15 judges now have the case and now today Germany who actually committed genocide during World War two says it will ask the court to be a third party to say Israel is not conducting genocide we have lots lots to get to right now first let's get live coverage from the front lines Jonathan Regev I-24 news correspondent is at the border with Israel and Gaza Jonathan Sirens went off about an hour ago yes in the community of Nativa Sara not very far from where we are it was after a 12 hour quiet period roughly 2 am Sirens also sounding the same community Nativa Sara and just about an hour ago it has to be said this is a location that's right on the Gaza border and right on the northern border of the Gaza border meaning these rockets were probably probably fired from the northern part of the Gaza Strip same as those fired to the city of Ashdod last night meaning even if the IDF has control of the area still there are underground bunkers still there are launchers rockets underground and they're being fired and we heard the IDF spokesperson Daniel Agari earlier this week saying that even if the army has a control and Hamas has been basically crushed in the area there's still operatives there's still terrorists there's still tunnels and they're still operating maybe without an ordered central command but they're still active they still have means and taking over the entire area basically clearing it over is something that will take months and months to come and therefore we saw the sirens that you mentioned about an hour ago and unfortunately it was probably not the last time we'll hear sirens across the Gaza border but Jonathan that also mentions the fact that this whole idea of the next phase of the war the fact that Israeli troops have been pulled back in terms of intensity what they have to do is not been pulled back not to pull back entirely true but not to move in with that massive force that we saw in the beginning at least not here in the northern part because the area has been taken over what has to happen now is mission after mission operation after operation trying to locate those enclaves of terrorists still left and deal with them the area has been taken over what has to be done is go and find wherever terrorists still are one by one spot by spot it's a difficult task because there's still quite a lot of spots and it will take time but it doesn't mean it doesn't need that massive force that we saw at the beginning and meant to clear the area all together but small forces operating spot after spot after spot Jonathan with the viewers at home are seeing now on the right hand side of the screen are live pictures coming in from Gaza but one thing that I should tell you the Hamas run ministry of health just moments ago put out the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 23,843 since fighting started 99 days ago but Jonathan explain to the viewers at home that that number especially for the social media warriors who decide to use that number that's not a true number first of all and it's not exactly made up fully of civilians yes exactly but put the number of terrorists being killed let's call it this way just in the northern part of the Gaza Strip meaning not even the entire Strip but in the northern part of the Gaza Strip saying some 8,000 terrorists those are terrorists involved in fighting only in the northern part of the Gaza Strip we're speaking of 8,000 further down further south in the Strip there are more so many of those killed are actually terrorists are there civilians in this number unfortunately the answer is yes we know that Hamas is very well entrenched within civilian population all across the fighting we saw Hamas commands Hamas headquarters Hamas anything you want being located in schools in mosques in hospitals you name it and when the fighting takes place from within civilian areas then civilians are being killed unfortunately this is the case that number that you mentioned many many of the people within that number are terrorists are there civilians within that number unfortunately the answer is yes Jonathan Regev giving us live details as to what's going on right there on the front he's joining us from the southern end of Israel thanks again for joining us I'm now joining the studio by Colonel Amit Asad the former member of the Israeli Security Agency and also with Danny Ayolone former Israeli Ambassador to the US and former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister thank you very much for joining us first I want to start I mean I want to start with let's talk with the Houthis first because that's a little bit more pressing that's right away that's happening the strike that the US put was basically a second strike first they had the strike yesterday they had another one today it seems as though what the Americans are saying is that we're not just going to steal your lunch money we're going to attack you and make sure you don't do this again I think that what we saw today that's the second mission the second attack was more specific for radars or units that spots ships in the integral place so it's more tactical so the United States it's not signing just for the Houthis we are here they're doing very specific and accurate attacks to lead them to have less and less ability I mean what I'm going to do is I'm going to let's hear from Mr. Fanjajarak he's the United Nations spokesman talking about the Houthis right now the Secretary General reiterates that attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea are not acceptable and they endanger the safety and security of global supply chains and have a negative impact on the economic and humanitarian situation around the world the Security Council demands in that Resolution 2722 that Houthis immediately sees all such attacks on commercial shipping we are just extremely worried about the risks and the greater risks of escalation of this with the impact on the wider region the risks that on Yemen itself which as we've said before Mr. Grunberg and his team had worked hard to get parties parties together and the people who pay us in every case are the civilians who don't often have enough of a voice in what is going on is there a fear that this is escalating I mean or is it more of a targeted just for the United States and UK to deal with it's for sure as escalating but escalating for for the all the United States coalition it's better for the world to understand that it's affect the economy of the world and then US is very good dealing with it of course the Houthis will say we are attacking ships that goes to Israel and we are intending to help the Palestinian in Gaza but they are affecting all the economy and the world and this is very important Danny there's a lot of people especially online on social media that are basically saying oh the US is getting involved only because there's economic interests at play Israel side I mean you run through the whole gamut of things but this is a larger situation absolutely it's a danger to the global economy I think this was well put by the Secretary General Spokesman over there also it's worth noting that in the Security Council resolution condemning and demanding the Houthis to stop we didn't see that China and Russia opposing it I mean they abstained because of their political position but they allowed it to pass because China and Russia are also being affected by that but we have Albert to really shed light on the elephant in the room and the elephant is Iran with all the respect to the Houthis they are just I would say not puppets but cats paw I would say almost like mosquito bites you have to dry the swamp in order to end up with the mosquitoes plague and to do that you have to target Iran but what the Houthis have told everyone around the world is that the road to Jerusalem is through the Red Sea yes it's quite interesting we've never had the Houthis before you know so much concerned about Palestinians about Hamas about Jerusalem all of a sudden they are why because they are proxy of Iran and this is an Iran's scheme of surround Israel with enemies and what they call the multi-front attack and this is part of the multi-front attack of the Iranians they are with Hamas, with Hezbollah with the Shia militias in Iraq and in Syria and the Houthis in the Red Sea and this is something that has to be stopped and what we see here is that it's not only affecting Israel but the entire international trade but I mean do you think that this is the message has been received by the Houthis I mean they came back they seem more emboldened I think that again what we know that the Houthis is doing what Iran will tell them Iran is surrounding herself with the militia the Shia militia surrounding it why and it's doctrine esoterically for years now Iran builds the belt surrounding her because Iran doesn't want a war on her borders so if Iran doesn't want a war on the borders they are using the Houthis, the Hezbollah the Hamas to attack Israel from back from forward and you don't think that here's the situation I don't think a lot of people understood new especially those of social media in America don't know that the Houthis have been fighting Saudi Arabia now for the past 10-15 years now and but the Israelis aren't exactly no one's really going to call the Saudi Arabs and say hey you need we need your help you need to take care of this problem yeah there is a problem a diplomatically problem with the Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia is about to have a really good relationship with Israel and Saudi Arabia for sure have to be on the side not to be inside because the American coalition it's wide enough and so the Houthis war against Saudi Arabia is continuing but still we have to be very sensitive about this issue while we're talking Saudi Arabia Danny there's a report that was put out today that Brett McGurk one of the leading members of the Biden administration has put forth this plan where Israel and Saudi Arabia would normalize as part of a rebuilding plan for Gaza well I think it's a lofty idea it's a good idea because if there's something that can really bring Iran and its interest down is normalization between Israel and the Arab world the Sunni Arab world mainly Saudi Arabia there is more than just a plausible suspicion that the 7th of October attack was very much part of the Iranian scheme to derail normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia so anything that can bring bad normalization would be good for Israel good for the United States good for the Sunni countries and bad for Iran but let me go back to this because I mean this is a really important part 96% of the Arab world according to every poll you'll see is opposed to normalization with any normalization whatsoever with Israel especially Ibn Salman Ibn Salman is a very special leader now in the Arab world in the Sunni Arab world and I think that he thinks very good and he thinks better than all Arab world now and we have to stick with this stop of making the all Mediterranean areas better for the Arabs better for Arabs meaning we have to push Saudi Arabia inside Gaza can that happen though I mean really realistically even Danny would say that that if the United States will be very accurate for that and will be forced Saudi Arabia to put the legs and hands inside this fire Saudi Arabia can do miracles because the idea being is that Saudi Arabia can help and the Emirates can also help create a new Dubai if you will if only absolutely and they will be much more credible and I think much more trustworthy than Qatar they do it all for their own self-interest Qatar is in bed with everyone including the Taliban including Al Qaeda including the Iranians and we've seen that their supporting role with Hamas was just backfiring at Israel so Qatar has no credibility in here Saudi Arabia certainly has the gravitas to do it and I hope they will do what they need to do and what you said Albert quite correctly the sentiment in the Arab world of course is against that because right now they see Israelis killing Arabs I mean they don't look into the details that these are terrorists these terrorists are by the way the Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood is just as enemies of the Sunni governments of today whether it's in Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Morocco or Jordan as they are of Israel so there is here really a real convergence of interest and it's just a matter of education and once you will see any traction of normalization you will see that the public sentiment will follow suit. Talk about public sentiment 24 hours ago the whole world was focused on the Hague focused on the International Court of Justice in a court hearing that was seen it was seen by millions of people around the world they made the case for an international court of justice just so that our viewers know in case of course everyone knows they were fighting back against South Africa an accusation that Israel was conducting genocidal acts in Gaza so in case you missed it we've called together clips of Israel's defense in front of the court take a listen South Africa purports to come to this court in the lofty position of a guardian of the interest of humanity but in delegitimizing Israel's 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and in its sweeping counterfactual description of the Israeli Palestinian conflict it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility it is respectfully submitted that the application and request should be dismissed for what they are a libel designed to deny Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented terrorist onslaught it continues to face and to free the 136 hostages Hamas still holds I thank you for your kind attention this case concerns a large-scale armed conflict with tragic consequences for civilians on both sides yes there is a heart-reaching armed conflict but the attempt to classify it as genocide and trigger provisional measures is not just unfounded in law it has far-reaching and negative implications that extend well beyond the case before you ultimately entertaining the applicant's request will not strengthen the commitment to prevent and punish genocide but weaken it it will turn an instrument adopted by the international community to prevent horrors of the kind that shocked the conscience of humanity during the holocaust into a weapon in the hands of terrorist groups who have no regard for humanity or for the law Danny let's talk about the courtroom because there's two wars being fought in the courtroom one is the legal fight that war but then there's the public fight I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say Israel did a fantastic job on the legal part but they did a terrible job on the public opinion part the video wasn't shown the 47-minute long video that Hamas publicly put on YouTube and all the other ones, none of that was able to be shown and so the emotion was lost and therefore the public opinion was lost Well, Albert, you have a point maybe there was a missed opportunity by not showing this horrors of Hamas although I do think that the Israeli team was quite cogent, was quite persuasive of course you cannot expect very much from this international court of justice which is everything but justice it's all political but I would say here if the court does not dismiss it outright then we know it's all politics but we still have remedy and the remedy is in the Security Council and we have our best friend and ally in the United States the court has no enforcement capabilities it can only refer it to the Security Council where I have no doubt the United States will veto it I think also one point should be raised is about South Africa South Africa has put itself squarely in the middle of the axis of evil of Iran, North Korea Russia and of course Hamas and all the Islamists I don't know why they're doing it I think actually they're tarnishing their own image and I think they will also politically from that because in the United States there are already some thinkings about putting a labeling South Africa as a country which sympathizes and aids terror in legal terminology it's aiding and abetting aiding and abetting yes and that could be and then they could be punishable by sanctions or any other thing again it will not be by the international community because we have the Arab automatic majority against us but suffice the United States puts South Africa on alert and on a sanction list for them maybe to understand the consequences of the severe aggression that they are committing against Israel and also against the United States I mean I'm going to talk to you about whether or not this court case changes the philosophy within the Curia in terms of what the IDF does moving forward I mean the idea in the legal terminology is you need to show intent you need to show that there were direct orders from high up that you must go after civilians which they point out yesterday that did not happen but does that mean that the way in which war is then waged is now going to be looked at to determine whether or not they'll be in front of a court I think that from the beginning of the war we are giving a lot of evidence of IDF working with the community with the civilians not to harm them to have a communication with the civilians to tell them where to go to be safe so we are giving all these evidence from the beginning of the war and I think IDF will not change anything with the activity, the activity now is a very good phase of dealing with Janiunis with the basic Hamas terrorist organization with the head of Hamas nothing will change I think tactically I mean and Danny you know 99 days ago today 240 babies, children women, elderly, frail they were taken hostage by Hamas everybody knows at some point Friday hundreds filled the streets of New York across the street from the United Nations Danny knows that area very well to demand the release of the 136 that remained they were joined by one of the members of the United Nations Shoshani as well as family members of other freed hostages I want you to take a look Life is a hostage in Gaza is not life it's hell I came all the way here to ask the whole world help us bring back all of the hostages we can't leave them there families are waiting for them bring them home please it's very hard for us to imagine what does it mean not to have freedom Bakir then described it very simply when we asked her she say just think that you are being watched every single moment of your life every movement every act every minute you are being suspected and subjected to the wheel of terrorists and you have no way to resist you have nowhere to hide this is life in captivity Danny you've been in front of the United Nations they may see this but here we are day 99 nothing like this has ever been like that in the world but the UN has basically felt silent when it comes to the hostages well when it comes to Jewish hostages unfortunately and we see it also with the gender type crimes and all that all of a sudden the victim has to prove that it did not happen it's just the other way around it's gut wrenching to see it's the speeches but the UN is heartless certainly when it comes to Israel when it comes to Jewish causes I don't think there could be any measures or any constructive moves coming out of there it would only be through real coercive measures on the ground and maybe political real political pressure on Qatar I mean this also brings up a point that whether or not the military operation to free the hostages is now at 100 days everyone's been moved to the south we don't hear of hostages being rescued or released or brought back that could be a problem yes what we assume because I don't know really the intelligence inside we assume that Missin Wah and his headquarter are putting all the hostages in the same place down Hanyuna so we have to be very very sensitive with the actions there and the military is doing IDF is doing a very good job there very good so from time to time we will see getting inside and inside again and again we have a lot of tunnels there a lot of bunkers we see it every day that we are blowing up a thousand of places that you can see ammunition and trying to get to them so at the end Sinwa will get the rope around his neck and he will put the white flag up and something will happen I mean Asa, Denny, Ayon thank you so much for joining us both Day 99 of the war 136 still remain hostage and the news continues after the break it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts 100 days of war January 14, 9 p.m. local only on I-24 news if the plastic particles breaks up it does not stop at the micron size it can actually go even smaller so once the size goes below one micron people call it nano plastics because now its size is in the nano range these tusks belong to elephants they shoot their most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephants every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed I-24 news is the second time in two days their message to the Houthis saying hi, we're from the White House we're following up on our previous message I'm Albert Lewitton reporting from the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world at the top of the hour here are the headlines making news right now January 13, 2024 day 99 of the war the Pentagon says the United States has struck a Houthi military site in Yemen with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles a radar site was hit Houthi rebels have attacked and have been menacing ships traveling in international waters that's important here international waters some 28 times new right now the Houthis say the American airstrikes did no damage to their capabilities you should know that there are pro-Houthi rallies scheduled for New York and for Washington for today here in Israel the IDF special forces struck Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon they say they were about to carry out attacks on Israel two anti-tank missiles that were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel were fired earlier on Friday now in Gaza Israeli forces found the Hamas cell armed with RPGs and AK-47 rifles inside the Hamas command center an Israeli airstrike bombed the site killing the Hamas fighters another Hamas command center had weapons, computers, phones and intelligence devices that too was destroyed I-24 news is live at the Gaza border we'll have a live report in just a moment we are also monitoring another story Qatar has brokered a deal for Israel to deliver vital medicines to the hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas Israeli media reports the Red Cross will deliver the medicine the same Red Cross that's been useless and getting details on the 136 who are being held hostage for 99 days that's something unheard of in all of history in the West Bank three heavily armed Palestinian men broke into the settlement of Adara near Hebron and shot and wounded a 34 year old Jewish man Israeli security forces raced to the scene they shot and killed the assailants they are described as teenagers with no prior record but heavily armed Israel made the case Friday in the court of justice that it is not at all conducting genocidal acts the 15 judges now have the case and now today Germany who actually committed genocide during World War 2 says it will ask the court to be a third party to say Israel is not conducting genocide we have lots lots to get to right now first let's get live coverage from the front lines Jonathan Regev I-24 news correspondent is at the border with Israel and Gaza Jonathan Sirens went off about an hour ago Yes in the community of Nativa Sara not very far from where we are it was after a 12 hour quiet period roughly 2 am Sirens also sounding the same community in Nativa Sara and just about an hour ago it has to be said this is a location that's right on the Gaza border and right on the northern border of the Gaza border meaning these rockets were probably probably fired from the northern part of the Gaza Strip same as those fired to the city of Ashdod last night meaning even if the IDF has control of the area still there are underground bunkers still there are launchers, rockets underground and they are being fired and we heard the IDF spokesperson Daniel Agari earlier this week saying that even if the army has control and Hamas has been basically crushed in the area there are still operatives terrorists there are still tunnels and they are still operating maybe without an ordered central command but they are still active they still have means and taking over the entire area basically clearing it over is something that will take months and months to come and therefore we saw the sirens that you mentioned about an hour ago and unfortunately it was probably not the last time we will hear sirens across the Gaza border but Jonathan that also mentions the fact that the whole idea of the next phase of the war the fact that Israeli troops have been pulled back in terms of intensity means that what they have to do is not been pulled back not to pull back entirely true but not to move in with that massive force that we saw in the beginning at least not here in the northern part because the area has been taken over what has to happen now is mission after mission operation trying to locate those enclaves of terrorists still left and deal with them the area has been taken over what has to be done is go and find wherever terrorists still are one by one spot by spot it's a difficult task because there is still quite a lot of spots and it will take time but it doesn't mean it doesn't need that massive force that we saw at the beginning and meant to clear the area altogether small forces operating spot after spot after spot Jonathan the viewers at home are seeing now on the right hand side of the screen are live pictures coming in from Gaza but one thing that I should tell you the Hamas run ministry of health just moments ago put out the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 23,843 since fighting started 99 days ago but Jonathan explain to the viewers at home that that number especially for the social media warriors who decide to use that number and it's not exactly made up fully of civilians yes exactly the IDF has put the number of terrorists being killed let's call it this way just in the northern part of the Gaza Strip meaning not even the entire Strip but in the northern part of the Gaza Strip some 8,000 terrorists those are terrorists involved in fighting only in the northern part of the Gaza Strip we're speaking of 8,000 further down further south in the Strip there are more so many of those killed are actually terrorists are there civilians in this number unfortunately the answer is yes we know that Hamas is very well entrenched within civilian population all across the fighting we saw Hamas commands Hamas headquarters Hamas anything you want being located in schools in mosques in hospitals you name it from within civilian areas then civilians are being killed unfortunately this is the case that number that you mentioned many many of the people within that number are terrorists are there civilians within that number unfortunately the answer is yes Jonathan Regev giving us live details as to what's going on right there on the front he's joining us from the southern end of Israel thanks again for joining us I'm now joining the studio by Colonel Amit Asa the former member of the Israeli security agency I alone former Israeli ambassador to the US and former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister thank you very much for both for joining us I'm gonna start I'm gonna start with let's talk with the Houthis first because that's a little bit more pressing that's right away that's happening the strike that the US put was basically a second strike first they had the strike yesterday they had another one today it seems as though what the Americans are saying is we're not just gonna steal your lunch money we're gonna attack you and make sure you don't do this again yeah I think that what we saw today that the second mission the second attack was more specific for radars or units that spots ships in the integral it's more tactical so the United States is not signing just for the Houthis we are here they are doing very specific and accurate attacks to delay them to have less and less ability let's hear from the Stefan he's the United Nations spokesman talking about the Houthis right now the Secretary General reiterates that attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea are not acceptable and they endanger the safety and security of global supply chains and have a negative impact on the economic and humanitarian situation around the world the Supreme Council demands in that resolution 2722 that Houthis immediately sees all such attacks on commercial shipping we are just extremely worried about the risks and the greater risks of escalation of this with the impact on the wider region the risks that on Yemen itself which as we've said before in Hamburg and his team had worked hard to get parties parties together and the people who pay us it is in every case are the civilians who don't often have enough of a voice in what is going on is there a fear that this is escalating I mean or is it more of a targeted just for the United States and the UK to deal with it's for sure escalating but escalating for the United States coalition it's better for the world to understand that it's affect the economy of the world and then US is very good dealing with it of course the Houthis will say we are attacking ships that goes to Israel and we are intending to help the Palestinian in Gaza but they are affecting all the economy in the world and this is very important Danny there's a lot of people online on social media that are basically saying the US is getting involved only because there's economic interests at play that they're trying to take Israel's side you run through the whole gamut of things but this is a larger situation absolutely it's a danger to the global economy I think this was well put by the secretary general spokesman over there also it's worth noting that in the Security Council resolution condemning and demanding the Houthis to stop we didn't see the China and Russia opposing it they abstained because of their political position but they allowed it to pass because China and Russia are also being affected by that but we have Albert to really shed light on the elephant in the room and the elephant is Iran with all the respect to the Houthis they are just I would say not for the cat's paw yeah I would say almost like mosquito bites you have to dry the swamp in order to end up with the mosquito's plague and to do that you have to target Iran but what the Houthis have told everyone around the world is that the road to Jerusalem is through the Red Sea yes it's quite interesting we have never had the Houthis before so much concerned about Palestinians about Hamas, about Jerusalem all of a sudden they are, why because they are proxy of Iran of surround Israel with enemies and what they call the multi-front attack and this is part of the multi-front attack of the Iranians they are with Hamas with Hezbollah with the Shia militias in Iraq and in Syria and the Houthis in the Red Sea and this is something that has to be stopped and what we see here is that it's not only affecting Israel but the entire international trade I mean do you think that this is the message that has been received by the Houthis they came back, they seem more emboldened I think that again what we know that the Houthis is doing what Iran will tell them Iran is surrounding herself with the militia the Shia militia surrounding it why and it's a doctrine esoterically for years now Iran builds the belt surrounding it because Iran doesn't want a war on her borders so if Iran doesn't want a war on the borders they are using the Houthis, the Hezbollah, the Hamas to attack Israel from back, from forward and you don't think that, here's the situation I don't think a lot of people knew especially those of social media in America I think Saudi Arabia now for the past 10, 15 years now but the Israelis aren't exactly no one's really going to call the Saudi Arabias and say hey we need your help you need to take care of this problem there is a problem, a diplomatically problem with Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia is about to have a really good relationship with Israel and Saudi Arabia for sure have to be on the side not to be inside because a coalition it's wide enough so the Houthis war against Saudi Arabia is continuing but still we have to be very sensitive about this issue while we're talking Saudi Arabia Danny there's a report that was put out today that Brett McGurk one of the leading members of the Biden administration has put forth this plan where Israel and Saudi Arabia would normalize as part of a rebuilding plan for Gaza well I think it's a lofty idea, it's a good idea because if there's something that can really bring Iran and its interest down is normalization between Israel and the Arab world, the Sunni Arab world mainly Saudi Arabia there is more than just a plausible suspicion that the 7th of October attack was very much part of the Iranian scheme to derail normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia so anything that can bring bad normalization would be good for Israel, good for the United States good for the Sunni countries and bad for Iran but let me go back to this because this is a really important part 96% of the Arab world according to every poll you'll see is opposed to normalization with any normalization whatsoever with Israel especially Ibn Salman Ibn Salman is a very special leader now in the Arab world in the Sunni Arab world and I think that he thinks very good and he thinks better than all Arab world now and we have to stick with this of making the all Mediterranean areas better for the Arabs better for Arabs meaning we have to push the Saudi Arabia inside Gaza can that happen though? even Danny was saying that if the United States will be very accurate for that and will be forced Saudi Arabia to put the legs and hands inside this fire Saudi Arabia can do miracles because the idea being Saudi Arabia can help and the Emirates can also help create a new Dubai if you will absolutely and they will be much more credible and I think much more trustworthy than Qatar because Qatar they do it all for their own self-interest Qatar is in bed with everyone including the Taliban including Al Qaeda including the Iranians and we've seen that their supporting role with Hamas was just backfiring at Israel so Qatar has no credibility in here Saudi Arabia certainly has the gravitas to do it and I hope they will do what they need to do and what you said Albert quite correctly the sentiment in the Arab world of course is against that because right now they see Israelis killing Arabs I mean they don't look into the details that these are terrorists these terrorists are by the way the Hamas Islamic or the Muslim Brotherhood is just as enemies of the Sunni governments of today whether it's in Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Morocco or Jordan as they are of Israel so there is here really a real convergence of interest and it's just a matter of education and once you will see any traction of normalization you will see that the public sentiment will follow suit talk about public sentiment 24 hours ago the whole world was focused on the Hague focused on the international court of justice you know in a court hearing it was seen by millions of people around the world they made the case for an international court of justice just so that our viewers know in case of course everyone knows they were fighting back against South Africa's accusation that Israel was conducting genocidal acts in Gaza so in case you missed it we have called together clips of Israel's defense in front of the court take a listen South Africa purports to come to this court in the lofty position of a guardian of the interest of humanity but in delegitimizing Israel's 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and in its sweeping counter factual description of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility it is respectfully submitted that the application and request should be dismissed for what they are a libel designed to deny Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented terrorist onslaught it continues to face and to free the 136 hostages Hamas still holds I thank you for your kind attention this case concerns a large-scale armed conflict with tragic consequences for civilians on both sides yes, there is a heart-reaching armed conflict but the attempt to classify it as genocide and trigger provisional measures is not just unfounded in law it has far-reaching and negative implications that extend well beyond the case before you ultimately, entertaining the applicant's request will not strengthen the commitment and punish genocide but weaken it it will turn an instrument adopted by the international community to prevent horrors of the kind that shocked the conscience of humanity during the holocaust into a weapon in the hands of terrorist groups who have no regard for humanity or for the law let's talk about the courtroom because there's two wars being fought there's the legal fight but then there's the public fight I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say Israel did a fantastic job on the legal part but they did a terrible job on the public opinion part the 47-minute long video that Hamas publicly put on YouTube and all the other ones none of that was able to be shown and so the emotion was lost and therefore the public opinion was lost Well, Albert, you have a point maybe there was a missed opportunity for the members of Hamas although I do think that the Israeli team was quite cogent was quite persuasive of course you cannot expect very much from this international court of justice which is everything but justice it's all political but I would say here if the court does not dismiss it outright then we know it's all politics but we still have remedy and the remedy is in the security council and we have our best friend and ally the United States the court has no enforcement capabilities it can only refer it to the security council where I have no doubt the United States will veto it I think also one point should be raised is about South Africa South Africa has put itself squarely in the middle of the axis of evil of Iran, North Korea Russia and of course Hamas and all the Islamists I don't know why they're doing it they're tarnishing their own image and I think they will also politically suffer from that because in the United States there are already some thinking about labeling South Africa as a country which sympathizes and aids terror in legal terminology it's aiding and abetting aiding and abetting yes and that could be and then punishable by sanctions or any other thing again it will not be by the international community because we have the Arab automatic majority against us but suffice that the United States puts South Africa on alert and on a sanction list for them maybe to some to understand the consequences of the severe aggression that they are committing against Israel and also against the United States I mean I'm going to talk to you about this court case changes the philosophy in terms of what the IDF does for the future moving forward I mean the idea in illegal terminology is you need to show intent you need to show that there were direct orders from high up that you must go after civilians which they point out yesterday that did not happen but does that mean that the way in which war is then waged is now going to be looked at to determine whether or not they'll be in front of a court I think that from the beginning of the war we are giving a lot of evidence of IDF working with the community with the civilians not to harm them to have a communication with the civilians to tell them where to go to be safe so we are giving all these evidence from the beginning of the war and I think IDF will not change anything with the activity the activity now is a very good phase of dealing with the basic of Hamas terrorist organization with the head of Hamas nothing will change I think tactically I mean and Danny you know 99 days ago today 240 babies children, women, elderly frail they were taken hostage by Hamas everybody knows at some point Friday hundreds filled the streets of New York across the street from the United Nations very well to demand the release of the 136 that remain they were joined by one of the hostages who was released 13 year old Hila Rotem Shoshani as well as family members of other freed hostages I want you to take a look life is a hostage in Gaza is not life it's hell I came all the way here to ask the whole world help us bring back all of the hostages we can't leave them there their families are waiting for them bring them home please it's very hard for us to imagine what does it mean not to have freedom Bakir then described it very simply when we asked her she say just think that you are being watched every single moment of your life every movement every act every minute you are being suspected and subjected to the wheel of terrorists and you have no way to resist you have nowhere to hide this is life in captivity Danny you've been in front of the United Nations they may see this but here we are day 99 nothing like this has ever been like that in the world but the UN has basically felt silent when it comes to the hostages well when it comes to Jewish hostages unfortunately and we see it also with the gender type crimes and all that all of a sudden the victim has to prove that it did not happen it's just the other way around it's gut-wrenching to see the speeches but the UN is heartless certainly when it comes to Israel when it comes to Jewish causes I don't think there could be any measures or any constructive moves coming out of there it would only be through real coercive measures and maybe political, real political pressure on Qatar which has some leverage over Hamas this also brings up a point whether or not the military operation to free the hostages is now at 100 days everyone's been moved to the south we don't hear of hostages being rescued or released or brought back that could be a problem yes what we assume because I don't know really the intelligence inside we assume that Massin Wah and his headquarter are putting all the hostages surrounding them in the same place down Hanyunas so we have to be very very sensitive with the actions there and the military is doing IDF is doing very good job there very good so from time to time we will see getting inside and inside again and again we have a lot of tunnels a lot of bunkers we see it every day that we are blowing up a thousand of of places that you can see ammunition and trying to get to them yeah so at the end at the end Sinwa will get the rope around his neck and they will he will put the white flag up and something will happen thank you so much for joining us both day 99 of the war 136 still remain hostage I'm Albert Lewitson reporting from Tel Aviv the news continues after the break it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14 9 p.m. local only on I-24 news taking images of four terrified Israeli hostages were published on the front page of a British publication this week pictures taken on the day they were abducted by Hamas terrorists more than three months ago now their families are calling for global action as more harrowing accounts from released hostages continue to emerge more in this report four new photos of kidnapped Israeli women made the front page of a major foreign publication on Monday later that same day a video of the four women was made public as well showing them in a terrible state some of them bleeding and one of them crying uncontrollably in more footage released from that black Sabbath October 7 today they were kidnapped by Hamas they can be seen in the back of a van in shock while an angry chanting Gaza mob surrounds the van earlier this week one of the hostages who was released from Hamas captivity spoke of encountering some of the women still being held by the terrorist organization six women and suddenly we realized that there are women who were killed a lot of women were killed they were killed very, very hard and they were killed on Tuesday Aviva Siegel who returned from captivity spoke in the Israeli parliament disclosing more unsettling details about the condition of the young women one of the girls returned from the bathroom and I could tell that she was distraught I got up and gave her a hug I apologize for my language but this mother effort touched her another time a young woman that they thought was an IDF officer arrived and they tortured her in front of me I'm her witness 95 days after that brutal Hamas assault 15 women are still being held by Hamas Israelis are demanding the international community intervene amid growing concerns over the mental and physical well being of the captives rape can never be accepted it cannot be justified by the context or by certain vacuums to which we've heard international community officials refer to some acts are purely evil and should always be denounced Hamas the group that committed such acts has taken hostage 90 women 15 are still held there in Gaza by Hamas as of now UN women has failed to issue any message condemning this footage or the testimony Pramila Padden, the special representative of the United Nations in matters of sexual violence in areas of conflicts will visit Israel at the end of January at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs it will be her first visit since the events of October 7th she has been granted full investigative powers in hopes that the stories of the victims will finally be heard and recognized around the world for most Israelis life has not been the same since that brutal Hamas assault on southern communities in the country on the 7th of October many finding ways to volunteer across the country as they slowly work through their trauma a new organization called is offering psychological support our pierce tekelbach visited one of their retreats let's take a look slowing down for a second and processing the trauma something that many of those who rushed to volunteer after the 7th of October never did but here in a special retreat at the Dead Sea some of them are now doing exactly that we equip them with professional psychologists I think it includes the best ones in the country and we turn to organizations like Zaka to help identify the bodies volunteers who saw difficult things we want to give them coping mechanisms and a place to process their experiences he offers two day workshops at a Dead Sea resort where participants can open up share their experiences with psychologists and finally enjoy some quiet in nature for Kravitz a retired naval captain founding the initiative was about preventing past trauma in society and doing something himself in order to help when everything started I felt like a lion in a cage it's the first time that Israel is at war and I'm not in uniform I did some reserve duty helped here and there where I was needed but I felt like doing something in the trauma field all the difficult scenes we see in the news and in videos raged in me he teamed up with psychologist and today she's receiving a group from the kibbutz movement the participants help the communities in Israel south in the aftermath of the massacres it's very difficult to take a break on a day to day basis they're scared to share their fear because if they give their emotions space they might fall apart we are meeting in a safe space and we have time the time frame of two days enables them to let go of the layers knowing that they can leave some of those layers on in order to return to their lives the next day but with the feeling of relief Osnath Chavivgal who works with the kibbutz movement coordinated funerals for murdered kibbutz members from the Gaza border area more than 380 in total in less than three months she says she can't sleep at night the conversations with families and the images are consuming her and her colleagues from the first second on we knew about the large amounts of missing persons and murdered and therefore I got up alone so I got a team from six in the morning when you received the name of the first murdered to 12 or one at night you just work if my family would not have put water on my desk or food I found that I would have forgotten that as well we all, all of our team we were nine amazing women we all worked around the clock for many of the participants the seminar was the first opportunity to open up about how their lives have turned upside down when you spoke anger was coming out of you but then you stopped yourself again I want to ask you to allow yourself to get help you yourself help so much all this time the support they receive during the two day workshop is meant to empower them for the days to come and speaking about the experiences of the past three months might help society as a whole we are missing space and opportunities for respectful conversations where it is allowed to have different opinions creating brotherhood despite different opinions is the result of psychological processes that we can train and this gives me hope Mashiwa Roach wants to receive up to 2,000 people annually in their seminars giving back to those who sacrifice much of their lives to help others in those difficult times now more than three months in Hamas captivity Israelis are praying for the safe return of all 136 hostages inside Gaza mass prayers have been held at the western wall in Jerusalem our Emily Francis was there the gates of heaven opened when the chief rabbis of Israel did a prayer at the holiest place in the world the rabbis led a special Yom Kippur Katan which means small service referring to the custom of fasting and reciting slighot prayers on the eve of the new month known as Roche Chodesh explain why it's so important to have this energy to be at the Kotel and to really ask God for help on Roche Chodesh as I understood from one of the rabbis that they visited yesterday a thing like that, a prayer like that happened only 50 years ago that only shows us how important this prayer is to bring everybody here everybody means everybody doesn't matter if you're religious or not tens of thousands of people came to the western wall plaza to take part in the opportunity to pray for the safe return of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists and the IDF soldiers fighting the war in Gaza one thing I've noticed over the course of the month or so interview families is how much faith you have where does that come from it's an inspiration to not just me but the whole world I think when you don't have anything to do because we can't go to Gaza and bring shlomi back so what we have is God is praying, is faith and hope Sunday January 14th will mark the 100th day that over 130 hostages have remained in captivity I have one target it's to bring my home my daughter and all the other 135 people back here to Israel to make sure they're okay, they're safe and this is one big mission I don't have time now to be either depressed or to lie in bed, we have to make actions we are a part of something very very big I think we have a lesson to learn and unfortunately there is one of the hostages there and it needs to come back but despite this prolonged nightmare the sister of hostage Shlomi Svi and the mother of Romy Gonan know it in their bones that they're remaining strong she's so positive she has such an inner strength she knows how to make fun of herself which shows a lot of a person and she has a lot of friends she knows how to communicate with people and I'm trusting I'm counting on that that she knows we are doing everything to make sure she will come back I'm sure of that what kind of big brother is he he's a good conversation man he talks with everyone and with kids he's a kid he's a grown up a big brother he is a big brother and have unwavering faith the Jerusalem air you feel here all the together the faith we can hear now they are praying and all of the people that are coming here to support us Mirav Leshem Gonan refuses to let doubt and fear enter her soul and has a special message to everyone around the world on how to help turn the tides of faith what is your message to them because so many are watching and wondering how to remain strong and not really being able to do anything so far away they are able to do a lot of things first to hold the positivity that's first second to hold the faith and believe but really believe that they will come back home this is two things which it's a must you're waking up in the morning that's what you have to do then it's not about Israel and Palestinian it's about good and bad it's about good and evil sorry it's about light and darkness and we are part of a light at the western wall in Jerusalem Emily Francis, I-24 News for the first time in its history Israel will tomorrow find itself in the dock in the international court of justice in the Hague charged with genocide the claim was brought by South Africa as Israel responds to the Hamas killing rampage inside the country on the 7th of October in which more than 1200 people were killed, mostly civilians Israel is sending top legal minds including a Holocaust survivor to the Hague to counter the genocide allegations claims that have been dismissed by Israel as absurd but a ruling against it could affect the war against Hamas inside Gaza Correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman takes a deeper look on Thursday South Africa will try to make the case that Israel is committing genocide before the international court of justice's 15 permanent judge panel legal experts have described the case as specious and political and critics say the ICJ is just as much a court of international interest as it is a court of law bear in mind that the judges are in a general assembly with approval of the Security Council which means they reflect these build up of the general assembly and there's a lot of states that are not democratic hostile to Israel and some of them have judges on the court on the 15 judge panel there are some names that stand out more than others the president of the court American judge Joan Donahue has a stellar reputation for avoiding politics and political events that might create the appearance of bias the rest of the court not so much some court allies are also geopolitical allies Russian Judge Kirill Giverjian wrote an opinion in favor of Iran saying the US could not confiscate Tehran's assets to pay to the victims of Iranian sponsored terrorism and was one of only two judges to rule in favor of Russia against demanding a halt to Moscow's aggression in Ukraine and has also been said to have a bias against the west for instance being the only judge of 15 to rule in favor of Beijing's ally Myanmar in the case of genocide proceedings filed on behalf of the Rohingya minority it's not the court of law that we would have chosen it's not composed of 15 impartial judges some of them are impartial some are clearly not we'll have a judge for instance from the Lebanon from Somalia these people are not going to be objective this judge Nawaf Salam appears to be the most biased of the lot judging by past statements against Israel he also famously argued in 2022 that his court could reverse the burden of proof to force the defendant to prove they did not commit crimes a logical fallacy in its own right these sort of biases have led key allies to say the charge of genocide is meritless it's particularly gallant given that those who are attacking Israel Hamas Hezbollah the Houthis as well as their support of Iran continue to openly call for the annihilation of Israel and the mass murder of Jews the stakes are high the court could issue an immediate ceasefire order a total strategic victory for Hamas and if Israel ignored that order it could invite international sanctions apart from the grueling images that emerged following October 7 one is also shocked many Jews to their core was the sheer outpouring of support and justification for Hamas's massacre nowhere was that support louder and more obvious than on American college campuses now a delegation of students from some of the top schools in the US have come here to Israel to bear witness first hand to the evil wrought on Black Saturday hopefully with a strong message for Hamas Hezbollah I am alone or as mother and I really appreciate you coming to the square and seeing everything that's going on delegation of professors and alumni from the University of Pennsylvania came to Israel to offer support for the families of the hostages music is a language that transcends space and time and on this day there was not a dry eye that could be heard anywhere this is the piano of Alon Ohel a 22 year old jazz and classical music pianist who remains a hostage in Gaza music is part of his life he plays all the time he moves through music even when he walks he walks through music I am sure that he's over there now sitting whatever he's doing he's doing this with his hands and playing in his head music the Nova Music Festival and hid in a bomb shelter with 30 people before Hamas terrorists kidnapped Alon and three others and killed 19 others it's really important for me for people to know that he is a person he is a life that he is wonderful and he's he's my son and I want him to come back home but the thing is this won't happen if the world doesn't come and help us Israel and the fact is that we need everybody to be with us a few weeks later people were knocking on our doors saying we cannot stay in America or in the UK or in Australia while our brothers and sisters are here suffering we cannot be silent and therefore we must come and show up to me the reactivation of trauma in my own personal experience was because I was in Hamas terror attack in 1994 on October the 9th of 1994 really? and it took me 24 years to come back to Israel after that attack Michael Kahana is one of dozens of people on the University of Pennsylvania trip the psychology professor who happens to be a distant cousin of the Ohel family teaches psychology of human memory a subject that hits very close to home I was here for an academic visit and I went out to dinner and I met Hamas 29 years ago when Hamas terrorists shot automatic weapons and threw hand grenades in the restaurant where I was and it wasn't until the massacre of October 7th that specific memories of his own trauma came to light 24 years after the trauma I came back to Israel and I couldn't remember what happened I went with my kids back to the restaurant and I couldn't remember details of what happened and on October 9th, 8th, 9th, 10th at night I started to remember and I heard the screams things I hadn't heard in my head in almost 25 years so that was the shock to me also shocking to the Jewish world and beyond is the vitriolic anti-semitism and violence against Jews at Ivy League universities those words were said not here on Amsterdam not on Broadway those words were said in Jerome Green Hall Columbia's law school building here I am experiencing hate hate is what people on our college campus feel toward us as we walk by simply because we are Jewish my Jewish sisters and brothers and I are on the receiving end of death threats from our peers undergraduates who have filed reports about these incidents have been left with no emotional support no feedback and no consequences for the perpetrators of these hateful actions and what's even more inhumane is the throngs of people tearing down posters of the Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza all over New York and the world these are the throngs of your suck does it make you angry? of course because he is a citizen he didn't do anything he went to an ANOVA festival he's an innocent bystander he didn't fight anybody he wasn't in war they came in and they took him think about it in the United States somebody comes in and just takes anyone who wants to and you are fine with it I don't understand that that is in your country you are supposed to feel safe and somebody comes and rips you out of your country and takes you hostage this is not supposed to happen and everybody who is everywhere in the world and they are thinking that everything is fine well terrorism is going to come to you they are going to do it and they are going to rip your sons and daughters and say well that's not my problem and that's not okay that is not okay my son is important and the University of Pennsylvania's President Liz McGill and Harvard's President Claudine Gay did nothing to stop the anti-semitic violence and calls for Jewish genocide and they didn't even back down during December's congressional hearing I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews does that constitute bullying or harassment if it is directed and severe or pervasive it is harassment so the answer is yes it is a context dependent decision congresswoman it's a context dependent decision that's your testimony today calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation that is actionable conduct and we do take action so the answer is yes that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct correct again it depends on the context it does not depend on the context the answer is yes and this is why you should resign these are unacceptable answers across the board McGill and Gay have since resigned but the scars still run deep I think these are tensions and problems that are thousands of years old and this is a sad valley in that history and I hope that we can improve things but I think it's a constant fight that will go on forever I hope it doesn't but that's what history tells us one way to begin to make a change is to bring people to Israel to experience the relics of the horrors of October 7th first hand they need to see this, they need to meet the families this is not an issue of politics October 7th is not about who you vote for or which position you have on political issues this is about evil this is about Hamas, ISIS, Al Qaeda it's about cults of death that just want to kill and destroy even still Edith Ohel has unwavering faith that music can heal the binds of hate and on January 14th a piano in alone's honor will be placed in Central Berlin and New York City inviting musicians to come play and bring on the spirit of their home I use music because music is an international language and everybody understand that and music is beautiful because my study is beautiful and using music to fight is a good way because everybody can understand that they can understand that my son loves life, loves music do you think he knows that he is connecting I think so, I think so because I believe in energy and I believe that I am doing something for him that he will feel it because he is part of me and that helps me cope now Hotel Nof Genosar is providing refuge for residents evacuated from Israel's northern border it's facing an uncertain future as the war continues more in this report nestled between the mountains the Nof Genosar hotel is a picturesque retreat for those who want the Kibbutz hotel experience by the shores of the sea of Galilee since Israel's war with Hamas broke out the hotel has taken in refugees evacuated from Kibbutz Yiftah and other northern communities who are unable to stay in their homes due to the security risk posed by pro-Iranian Lebanese terror group Hezbollah we arrived in Genosar and they received us here in an outstanding way and they are keeping us busy too it gives us a little bit of air to breathe although many hotels have welcomed evacuees with open arms some of them are struggling as they're unable to accommodate tourists hotel managers are facing mounting pressure as the war continues and they are forced to navigate through the crisis we are currently operating the hotel under the northern command meaning that the hotel is obligated to the state the hotel is full of evacuees there is not a single room available all for the benefit of the evacuees even if I want to host tourists who are still willing to come here and take a risk showing some kind of solidarity I can't I have no rooms for them hotel Nof Genosar is not the only one facing this dilemma while offering a refuge to those in need it has to navigate the stormy waters of war and uncertainty it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join i24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye weaknesses 2 days of war January 14, 9pm local only on i24 news i24 news channel broadcasting from Israel with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries completely done down in their best of the border that separates Israel the state of emergency and war in Israel bringing Israel's story to the world i24 news channels now on hot senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman explains the administration's envoy is on his way to the region let's take a look America's point man on Lebanon trying to do on land what he did at sea with Amos Hoxton reportedly set to fly back into Beirut this week to try to broker a deal that would bring quiet to the land border between Lebanon and Israel the way he did last year with the border between zones at sea the most important piece of this agreement is that it is entirely in the interest of each country to not violate it and to move forward the background now of course is the war and the element of it on the Israel-Lebanon border where the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has been firing for months at communities on the Israeli side and the Israeli military has responded by firing at Hezbollah targets the Biden administration wants the situation contained below the threshold of a wider war as does the French government Israel has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters Israeli attacks have intensified and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a warning we have approved operational plans for the continuation of the fighting if Hezbollah expands the war it would absorb blows that it has not dreamed of and Iran as well Hoxdeen's apparent plan to incentivize Hezbollah to move its troops away from the Israeli border in exchange for apparent Israeli concessions on marking that border in at least some of the 13 points of dispute the Biden administration does not want a full-scale war Israel's plan A is not to have a full-scale war and the Lebanese public does not want a full-scale war which all point to the sides getting to a deal that forestalls a full-scale war at least for now until October 7th there were high hopes for big changes in the Middle East talk of US mediated peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia which in turn would spread to other Arab countries created much anticipation but then after thousands of Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israeli communities and IDF bases slaughtering, burning and kidnapping everything in their path the delicate house of cards collapsed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms its categorical rejection of the continuation of aggression, occupation and the forced displacement of Gaza's population the Kingdom holds the occupation authorities responsible for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people and their properties we are certain that the only way to guarantee security and stability in the region is to end the occupation siege and settlements but sidelining Israel's Saudi normalization for the unforeseeable future was only one of the effects of that dark October 7th on the region it also saw the solidification of the Iranian axis of proxies from Iraq to Lebanon all the way to Yemen Tehran's branches all began to attack Israel We are in a multi-Arena war We are being attacked from seven different sectors Gaza, Lebanon, Syria Judea and Samaria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran we have already responded and taken action and I say here in the most explicit way anyone who acts against us is a potential target there is no immunity for anyone in an attempt to get a better understanding of how the region as a whole was affected by the October 7th attacks I had 24 news reached out to journalists in the region to give their perspective one of them is a journalist from Yemen we blurred his face and distorted his voice for his safety speaking with an Israeli-based news outlet This is the situation in the past this operation affected the increase of speed between in the region and it affected the state in the red area in the Swiss area perhaps the most surprising front to many has been the continuous drone and missile attacks by the Houthis in Yemen towards Israeli territory and then at international commercial ships navigating through the Red Sea the Yemeni armed forces affirm their continued support for the Palestinian people as part of the religious, moral and humanitarian duty for the information of operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea against Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine until the food and medicine needed by the Gaza Strip are brought in but according to the journalist in Yemen the Houthis are simply the ones pulling the trigger in service of their patrons in Iran and they are taking the best of Iran in the region therefore, we are aware of Iran's security security Iran is returning to the port it is returning to the ports and you can see what is happening and what is still happening in our country Yemen is returning to the port with Israel the Iranian axis the October 7th attacks also seem to have affected the streets in many of the region's capitals in support of the Palestinians I see a lot of change among the awareness of ordinary people who never really paid attention to political issues of the Palestinian situation I've seen especially in Arab countries Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia many of the countries are really much more involved now I think we've seen also progressives and young people around the world taking up the Palestinian cause in a much more powerful way than we've ever seen before like the journalist in Yemen Qutb 2 believes that the war in Gaza has put a strain on Israel's existing peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt both peace treaties have held on so far but on a very thin ice I think that there is strong opposition to their countries continuing the peace agreements but more importantly I think people want civilian lives to be saved Besides threats, there are some silver linings that have emerged from the horrific attacks on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza not only the American-led Maritime Coalition aimed at ensuring the safe navigation in the Red Sea but that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan all intercepted drones and missiles over their territories under way to Israel an indication that Jerusalem does have shared strategic interests in the balance of power in the Middle East I think Arab countries are trying to be peacemakers as much as they can they're trying to provide material support to people who are in terrible need I don't think we've seen a major shift especially in countries that have had normalization relations with Israel Their leaders are still insisting on keeping some form of relationship even though public opinion has changed and so with the war in Gaza in full steam and further escalation with Hisbalan the horizon the October 7th attacks seem to have changed not only Israel but the region as a whole now Israel finds itself at a critical juncture a regional war or increased regional cooperation whether or not it's up to Israel to decide what the outcome will be that still remains to be seen there was no official statement to mark the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza neither should we expect one regarding the completion of one stage and the move to the next one but even without a statement that move is probably coming some of the reserve soldiers will return to their families and to their jobs this week this will allow a significant relief to the economy and allow them to gather strength ahead of the coming activities the next year as the fighting will continue and we will need them the reservists are the backbone of the IDF more than 300,000 of them were recruited during the current war giving a major boost to the army as in size and strength no one will say it openly but if reservists are being released the meaning is less massive incursions such as the ones seen until now more surgical operations that demand more precision but probably less firepower we will need to show plenty of resilience and determination we will try to release the reservists and bring them back during the coming year for specific periods to carry the burden of what is expected here a more focused activity on terror enclaves carried out by units operating from Israeli territory and not from Gaza more airstrikes and artillery and fewer large units inside Gaza who many times are sitting ducks for Hamas terrorists this is probably where we're heading as 2024 dawns hello my name is Mia Shem I'm 21 years old from Shoham at the moment I'm in Gaza they have operated on my hand here at the hospital they've taken care of me they're giving me medicine the only thing I'm asking is that you bring me home as soon as possible to my family Mia Shem became the hostage every Israeli knew she was in the thoughts of every Israeli soldier before going into war she was held in Hamas captivity for weeks injured in a small room with no daylight sitting on a mattress while a guard was across from her watching her 24 seven I can see his face in my mind turned into my memory sitting in front of him she decided she will come back she will survive this and for the first time she's speaking candidly on the isolation and the brutality I was not allowed to cry why? because if you will cry we'll send you to the tunnels I was in a tiny room 8 feet by 8 feet two people were in it me and a terrorist 24 seven examining me I was afraid he would rape me there's a fear of him taking his weapon and putting a bullet in my head with no warning the room was closed they would throw food once a day some days there was no food the kids would open the door look inside, talk about me laugh about me they looked at me as if I was afraid anything could happen at any moment he could touch me did he ever do something like that? no, only because his wife was outside the door if we were there alone something was bound to happen in this small room there were rules Mia wasn't allowed to talk or move even cry once I was choked up with tears he looked at me and said in Arabic enough stop crying or I'll send you to the tunnel I'm telling myself, say strong don't fall apart here you'll be back home soon that's what I was telling myself all the time Mia understood that in order to survive she needed to pretend to play the cruel game of the terrorist that was sitting across from her once he lost it he started crying and took his Kalashnikov I was sure he was about to put a bullet in my head I got close to him and sat down and asked what's wrong what's wrong, why are you crying he told me that two of his friends died in an Israeli attack secretly I was elated but I was like that playing the game you know I didn't see daylight for 54 days I also didn't move so I was barely walking my legs were shaking were you able to sleep there maybe for an hour you can't really sleep when a Hamas terrorist is sitting and staring at you I can hear the strikes heavy strikes massive strikes the windows shattered on me there were a few days when I lost my hearing I wasn't scared from the strikes for a moment, it cheered me up and then one day I was really silent and I told myself something is happening the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into effect when the exchange of prisoners and hostages started Mia was moved to another location there after almost 50 days alone she met other hostages we were all in the same boat and then what they tell people daily he was getting released it was a Russian roulette it was the most difficult thing that some are released and some others are not she was released in the final exchange at the moment she said goodbye to the hostages and Gaza does not leave her on her way home Hamas shot this video people very good very kind to me all the kindness and everything you know your seconds away from going back home and Hamas tears is shoving a camera in your face he told me say the people of Gaza are nice say good things what can I say your crap Karen, Mia's mom did everything she could for this moment they are together again but her best friend Elia that was with her at the party and was kidnapped right next to her was killed the IDF extracted his body from Gaza mentally she is still in Gaza and no one knows how long it will take but physically she is here exactly like she dreamed all those nights and captivity this was my dream I can't believe I am here at home two months into the IDF's ground operation in Gaza questions are rising as to the end strategy of the current high intensity phase and a move on to the next phase on one hand there are still constant firefights with Hamas terrorists especially in the area of Chanyones we found here plenty of enemy infrastructure there was a terrorist here with a Kalachnikov that tried to shoot at our soldiers we killed him and caught another terrorist and took him for interrogation along with that Hamas officials are also being killed one of them is Abdel Fattah Mali the closest associate of Ichiya Ayash who was known as the engineer and responsible for various terror attacks in the 1990s on the other hand the feeling that in the current phase the IDF is not able to reach the hostages or the Hamas senior leadership and some other way is now needed when will Israel head for that other way the prime minister may have set the goal for that the Philadelphia corridor or to put it more correctly the southern end of Gaza must be in our hands no other solution can ensure the demilitarization we seek the Philadelphia corridor separates Gaza from Egypt and the assumption is that huge amounts of weapons were and maybe still are smuggled to Gaza in tunnels running under it on paper Egypt seems to refuse any such move and Israel needs Egyptian backing for another crucial move a hostage deal families and protesters believe the government is not doing enough in that field I'm afraid that the government of Israel is otherwise it's political ambitions and the hostages is not on the top priorities a possible hostage deal the control of the Philadelphia corridor the effectiveness of the IDF's current tactics many critical issues for the future of this war but none of them with a concrete solution at hand compacting trash with a smile this is a dirty job someone's got to do it I'm sure we're doing this in service to the country absolutely well great weather great people and a great cause has never been more gratifying preparing pallets of snacks I think we do about 50 pallets a day and the snacks go right to the front to the troops in Gaza and our incredibly important job really a matter of national security is compacting these boxes it's an assembly line of hundreds of volunteers from dozens of countries around the world it's one thing to give money it's another thing to go to rallies and support but it's something entirely different just to be here and lend physical support doing whatever we can and whatever they can involves packing boxes and doing the heavy lifting all with the goal of providing supplies for soldiers fighting the war in Gaza and fighting the war of public opinion against the Jewish people my feeling is world opinion never saved one Israeli life so a lot of us just don't care we feel that Israel has to do what Israel has to do to protect its own people and if the world doesn't like it well too bad the world doesn't like it when Jews fight back the non-profit organization SARL Service for Israel started for decades but since October 7th the volunteer program has been overflowing with people of all ages wanting to pitch in no matter what the cost since I started coming to the bases I just feel so relaxed I feel like my blood pressure is down my temperature is down I feel like I'm just walking on a cloud and there's never a sense of anything negative it's all positive and I haven't heard a complaint from 80 Jews in a week which is unbelievable this one is for the Red Cross and this one is for the UN and they deserve it even 82 year old New Yorker Rochelle Marshall suited up for her 18th SARL mission they thought I was too old to come here this year and let me tell you they made a mistake thinking that I'm so honored to be able to help these people that when somebody thanks me I feel silly because these are the people who are making it possible for me to come here I'm going home I'm going to be away from this and they're going to stay here with young soldiers in Gaza for months fighting for their lives and for the existence of Israel a little bit of love and support helps especially now when we're getting bombarded with all kinds of messages outside and our kids are being attacked I thought for lone soldier parents it would be really important to come together we are packaging this week it sounds silly but different treat bags so that every day the soldiers would get something extra to eat versus their tuna fish or whatever the average food is the most peculiar sorrow mission so fulfilling and comforting is that mothers of lone soldiers fighting the war in Gaza are also volunteering and getting moral and emotional support in the process have a son in the army today right now in Gaza he's 20 years old he came in about a year ago to join the army what we're packing here happens to be Shabbat bags for soldiers in your country and you hear the news, you listen to the news and you're far away from your son your mind cannot understand what's happening and it's really really hard really tough, you really feel lonely nobody can feel what you go through so now we are a bunch of strong women and we are all mothers and we are all together we come and see her and yeah it's amazing I've never lived before I have two former lone soldiers one came back to America and I have a daughter drafting sorry next week and she feels really confident about her decision so coming back and having a physical way just doesn't seem like a lot there's snacks but it's so important to physically be here in Israel to show support to show my kids that I'm proud of them I have three lone soldiers one has severe PTSD from his service it doesn't matter if they're my three soldiers or they're somebody else they're all my children and I got to hug them and send them in I mean we can be the last people they see it just kills me it kills me I love them all my son is in the Mishmar Ghul the border police he's been dreaming of joining Sahel since he was 14 if they would have taken him then he would have come he is absolutely built for this he knows he's built for this he's living his best life just living his dream living his destiny he's actually been here for 18 years that's when he did his main service and he's been doing Miloim ever since and he was called up on day one and he's been he has had days off in between but he's basically still at it he's in the north he's new he had just drafted a month before the war broke out I am just really really really proud you know you want your child to do what's in their soul and in their heart he is so passionate about Israel he is wanting to be here which brings me confidence and my husband confidence and I really as a mother believe it's all going to be okay and I send that from across the ocean every day hello everyone hello what a great people we are on this particular day the moms and volunteers also got a morale boost by the president of the world's Zionist organization we need to remember we need to remember that what happened on October 7th was not a war against Israel but a war against the Jewish nation we are one nation, one people this is our home we have to stay united and fight against anti-Semitism you look it's just it's horrific you know anybody with any moral integrity or anything should stand up and come here and help and also on this Sarel mission Jewish people have American Christian police officer Nick Jones to thank for taking a stand against the hypocrisy and anti-Semitic vitriol that is sweeping the globe well I have friends that are Jewish of course and I'm part of the IDF every morning I get a briefing with them and I hear and I see the videos of everything that's going on here and if it were happening in America we would do just like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan we would stand up, we would go take care of business and it would be over with here it doesn't exist there's a farmer I live by it says good people remain silent bad things happen to him so as Americans we need to I don't care what your religious background is everybody needs to stand behind Israel because no one around her is sticking up for her at the hot seary military base in the Negev Emily Francis, I-24 News come to this special broadcast here on I-24 News we continue our rolling coverage it's day 99 of the war here in Israel for the second time the United States striking Houthi targets in Yemen the region all together on edge as pro-Houthi demonstrations are planned in the United States here in Israel IDF striking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and in the aftermath of the foiled infiltration to the West Bank community of Adora area new details on the potentially fatal attack that was prevented and in the Gaza Strip fierce fighting in the center of the Strip the main focus on the pending potential delivery of vital medicines to the Israeli hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas Israeli media reports the Red Cross will be the one to deliver the medicine the same Red Cross that has been useless in getting details on the 136 hostages being held for nearly 100 days now in the Gaza Strip and to that point exactly we're moving now live to I-24 News correspondent Pierre Colchandler it's what is known for nearly 100 days now as the hostage square in Tel Aviv Pierre let's do begin with the semi-good news before you give us the brief on what is expected coming 24 hours these reports that medicines are to be provided to the Israeli hostages as part of more medicine to the Gaza Strip what are the reassurance mechanisms what are the families saying we don't have any reassurance mechanism what we know is the laconic message from the prime minister's office that said that vital medicine will be delivered in the coming days the international committee of the Red Cross and then the Red Cross will pass it on to Hamas that will distribute it to the hostages 136 hostages but some 25 of them are already dead and in exchange of that Israel will agree to provide additional medication to the population in the Gaza Strip what you see here is that long long file of people waiting to enter into a model of the tunnel you can see the tunnel with Itamar Ben-Remo here the concrete structure that will that is supposed to show how the hostages are living they're living condition in a damn dark tunnel and people are just waiting in line patiently in order to make that journey, short journey inside that tunnel and there are hundreds of them waiting and the marking of the 100 day in captivity for those hostages has not even started but the square at the Tel Aviv Museum is full of people and you see here people are coming out of the tunnel and are writing words of comfort for those who are still in the tunnel bring them home now it says let them home now bring them back in all languages that's the of this 100 day bring them home now that's what they say I was able to see Pierre one of the signatures on this this model tunnel there was of one of the hostages who were released they too are coming there to show their supports to their brothers and sisters who are still there 136 of them being held in the Gaza Strip for nearly 100 days now and we are expected to see a day full of events tomorrow as we are going to mark 100 days and much more from Pierre of course later on in the day, thank you very much Pierre Kleschenler for this joining us now here in studio Mr. Gunan Benitrak former Schindelbert official thank you very much Mr. Benitrak for joining us, I do want to begin I wouldn't even say glass have full because of course we are welcoming on the mere notion that the hostages many of them ill with chronic diseases obviously in horrific conditions due to their injuries and the conditions there in captivity not even mentioning potential sexual assault that the female hostages are going through in 100 days meaning God forbid a second trimester we don't have reassurance mechanisms this entire notion that humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is buying Israel time or helping in releasing hostages is collapsing more and more with everyday passing some things off here I must say that and it's very hard to say that I don't believe the reports about giving or somehow sending medication to the hostages because you asked about reassurance mechanism there is no such a thing and it sounds more like a spin unless like something that can really happen I don't believe that Hamas would bring them any medication definitely this these news can maybe ease somehow the protest against the government regarding the hostages situation I don't I really I don't believe that it will happen and I don't see how the red course that until now almost 100 days couldn't bring any medication to the hostages suddenly now they have the mechanism to send any information on their well-being something you asked me about the humanitarian aid and I deeply support humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza because this is what we have to do in this situation but we need a mechanism to make sure that this the supplies get to the people not to Hamas right now we see videos how Hamas militants take over the supplies and the people don't get anything from or they don't get much from the supply so here is a situation where Israel is letting supplies into Gaza we have 136 hostages in Gaza for almost 100 days and we are accused of a humanitarian problem because this doesn't get to the people and by the way the Washington Post reporting that all those donations that are being collected throughout the world to the Gaza Strip are all moving or a major chunk of it moving straight to Hamas accounts let's do head back to the ground now I-24 news correspondent P.S. Akalbach with the I-24 news team down south at another day of intense fighting mostly in the central right elite day 99 of this war and the fighting is indeed focused on the central and the southern part of the Gaza Strip and where we stand right now next to the Israeli Kibbutz of Biri one that has been severely affected by the 7th of October massacres we are looking into the central part of Gaza and just the second ago before we went on there there was a major strike you can possibly see the smoke rising from there this is an area where smoke is rising in different locations here we are looking into Azahra area this is the camp this is right the areas that are connected to Albalah city in the central part of the Gaza Strip that has been the focus of fighting in recent days we do hear the outgoing Israeli artillery from time to time as well and the sound of drones in the air now the latest army statement elite said that since the beginning of the ground offensive in the end of October the idea of destroyed 700 rocket launchers throughout the Gaza Strip and we know there is one of the main goals of this operation of this war to destroy Hamas infrastructure to return the hostages but when it comes to Hamas infrastructure these rocket launching sites Hamas is still able to fire those rockets just in the early afternoon hours there was one red rocket alert in the community of Nativa Sara which is located at the very northern tip of the Gaza Strip that is also the community that had another siren last night at about 2am as of now it has been quiet since then but this is Hamas showing that it still has the capability to launch those rockets yesterday night rockets on the Israeli city of Astot which is located basically in the middle of between the Gaza Strip the northern part and the Tel Aviv a major city in the south or central part of Israel now the ground offensive is continuing and we do know that it is continuing from the air from the ground and also from the sea and we already talked about it in the broadcast earlier this message of Medical Aid entering the Gaza Strip for the hostages for the first time is of course a major message a major announcement here that its success remains to be seen it has not been announced specifically when that is about to begin and how exactly this is going to be performed but this is something that needs to be followed up of course within the next days is this is something that is possibly giving a lot of hope to those hostages families more than 130 people still being held captive and tomorrow we are approaching the 100th day of their captivity and yet we do need to mention that while this issue of providing medicine to the hostages is on the table we don't have much news if any at all on an overall hostage release deal because anything until then will simply be not enough Pia Stakalbach I-24 correspondent down south on the Israel-Gaza border thank you very much for this video from Pia later on in the day back here with Mr. Gonen Ben-Itschak let's do address what happened yesterday in the West Bank because naturally we have been focusing on the campaign in the Gaza Strip the spiking tensions the facto war a tiny war if you will on the northern front but what we've seen yesterday the West Bank bad news I wouldn't even say perhaps world infiltration is not the right term because the infiltration was successful what was foiled is a large-scale mass terror attack yes and we see that the West Bank is boiling for the last three or more months Israel every night the IDF is entering the cities the villages in order to try we know that the Israeli secret service the Shin Bet is warning that the West Bank is about to explode one reason there are many reasons the first reason is because Hamas is trying hard to bring the West Bank and the Hamas members and other terror groups to join the war and this was obvious since day one of the war another reason is because nobody is talking right now in the West Bank they don't get permissions to walk in Israel basically the permitted to walk in the West Bank in the settlements but the settlements or the leadership of settlement the same settlement they infiltrated yesterday and with the full intention of committing a massacre and this is right and the settlers say we don't want Palestinians we see the pictures of what happened yesterday and we understand why they are surprised if the same people that try to infiltrate or infiltrate the settlement some of them maybe walked in the settlement so I fully understand the fear and why they don't want the Palestinians to walk but it brings big problem because when people sit more than three months at home they don't have how to bring food to their families this is causing a big problem that happened in the second that was the notion when it comes to the Gaza Strip more working permits more money coming in more leeway more carrots and then came the stick the big big stick I can't resist the reality but I would say that there is a difference between Gaza Strip and the West Bank but again I fully understand why there is fear to let them go into Israel and walk I think that we can build mechanism how they walk in a way that is secured but right now we have a problem it seems like the front of West Bank that Israel tried hard to finish or to not let it boil really boiling and it is about to explode from south from north from the West Bank and now apparently the Houthis are having those drills of taking over Israeli settlements you know you think you reached some level level reality proves to be greater than fantasy time and time again thank you very much for joining us for this and as we are about to mark 100 days since October 7th this weekend tomorrow our attention, our minds, our hearts all with the hostages and we will be bringing you some of the testimonies of the past months and her first interview since being released Mia Shem talks about her time in Hamas captivity the cruelty she endured at the hands of her captors here is more in this adaptation of the news 12 hello my name is Mia Shem I'm 21 years old from Shoham at the moment I'm in Gaza they have operated on my hand here at the hospital they've taken care of me they're giving me medicine everything is okay the only thing I'm asking is that you bring me home as soon as possible to my family more terrorists came towards me they told me get up now video my thoughts are starting to take over why are they shooting a video of me what's going on I compared myself to Gilad Shalit I thought I'll stay here for years terrifying Mia Shem became the hostage every Israeli knew she was in the thoughts of every Israeli soldier before going into war she had been in captivity for weeks injured in a small room with no daylight sitting on a mattress while a guard was across from her watching her 24-7 I can see his face in my mind his eyes are burned into my memory sitting in front of him she decided she will come back she will survive this and for the first time she's speaking candidly on the isolation and the brutality I was not allowed to cry because if you will cry we'll send you to the tunnels on October 7th Mia and her best friend Elia Toledano arrived at the Nova Music Festival I had a bad feeling when I arrived I had a feeling something will go wrong so I didn't enjoy myself when the rocket fire started they were ready making their way home after 20-25 minutes of driving we saw terrorists on the side of the road waiting for us was two trucks filled with terrorists Elia was screaming Mia they're shooting then they started shooting towards us through the windows a terrorist truck passed us one of them looked at me it was from close range where did he hit you here I screamed I don't have a hand I was sure I lost it what do you tell yourself I pray I don't want to die I don't want to die I don't want to die Elia was a bit before me a terrorist came he asked him to get up tied his hands Elia turned to me and said please Mia please come with me please Mia please I was terrified I thought they were going to shoot him that was the last time I've seen him while Mia was lying on the floor in the puddle of her own blood Elia was kidnapped to Gaza then the fire from the burning car started making its way towards her through the flames a Hamas terrorist made his way to her it was an instant call whether to go with him to the unknown or stay and die in the fire I went to him he started touching me or the upper part of my body while I was holding my injured hand I was covered in blood I started screaming like a maniac and nowhere our car came with four terrorists inside one of them pulled my hair and dragged me inside he forced my head down and we were on our way to Gaza when we arrived in Gaza they pulled me out of the car by my hair they threw me in a back room of some hospital they stretched my hand and tied it to a piece of plastic and that's how I was for three days after three days they told me put the hijab on cover yourself dressing me up as a Muslim so no one would recognize me from there straight to the operation room no painkillers no nothing I saw the sergeant but I didn't see his face he looked at me and said you will never go back home after the operation Hamas filmed the video they took her to a home of a family they put her in a windowless room where she would stay for the weeks to come I was in a tiny room eight feet by eight feet two people were in it me and a terrorist looking at me 24-7 examining me I was afraid he would rape me there's a fear of him taking his weapon and putting a bullet in my head with no warning the room was closed they would throw food once a day some days there was no food the kids would open the door look inside, talk about me laugh about me they looked at me as if I was an animal I was afraid anything could happen at any moment he could touch me did he ever do something like that? no only because his wife was outside the door if we were there alone nothing was bound to happen in this small room there were rules Mia wasn't allowed to talk or move or even cry once I was choked up with tears he looked at me and said in Arabic enough, stop crying or I'll send you to the tunnel I'm telling myself say strong, don't fall apart here you'll be back home soon that's what I was telling myself all the time Mia understood that in order to survive she needed to pretend to play the cruel game of the terrorists that were sitting across from her once he lost it he started crying and took his Kalashnikov I was sure he was about to put a bullet in my head I got close to him and sat down and asked what's wrong what's wrong, why are you crying he told me that two of his friends died in an Israeli attack secretly I was elated but I was like that playing the game, you know as if you are consoling him yes, as if I was sorry for him after a while she was moved between apartments some of those moves were done by ambulances and the terrorists family moved with her the same terrorist that was assigned to her I didn't see daylight for 54 days I also didn't move so I was barely walking my legs were shaking were you able to sleep there maybe for an hour you can't really sleep when a Hamas terrorist is sitting and staring at you I can hear the strikes heavy strikes massive strikes the windows shattered on me there were a few days when I lost my hearing I wasn't scared from the strikes for a moment, it cheered me up and then one day it was completely silent and I told myself something is happening the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into effect when the exchange of prisoners and hostages started Mia was moved to another location there after almost 50 days alone she met other hostages we were all in the same boat and then what people daily who was getting released it was a Russian roulette I have chills it was the most difficult thing that some are released and some others are not she was released in the final exchange at the moment she said goodbye to the hostages in Gaza does not leave her they got up, hug me and tell me goodbye they told me, Mia please don't say anything so they won't forget us and I apologize for getting out I'm sorry you'll get released I promise you'll get released on her way home Hamas shot this video people very good very kind to me all good food good kindness you know your seconds away from going back home and Hamas is shoving a camera in your face he told me say the people of Gaza are nice say good things what can I say your crap if I was the one putting the camera there and I asked you to say how you really feel I don't want to curse but I would say there's not one innocent Gaza civilian there's none they don't exist Karen, Mia's mom did everything she could for this moment they are together again but her best friend Elia that was with her at the party and was kidnapped right next to her was killed the IDF extracted his body from Gaza mentally she's still in Gaza and no one knows how long it will take until she'll return but physically she's here exactly like she dreamed all those nights in captivity this was my dream I can't believe I'm here at home this is it from us for now but we'll be back here at the top of the hour with all the latest updates from the ground until then you can always stay updated online or on social media thank you very much for watching I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14th marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7th follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14th 9 p.m. local only on I-24 News I-24 News if the plastic particles breaks up it does not stop at the micron size it can actually go even smaller so once it decides goes below one micron people call it nano plastics because now it's in it's sizes in the nano range two elephants they shoot their most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephant every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed welcome to the special broadcast here on I-24 News we continue our rolling coverage it's day 99 of the war here in Israel for the second time the United States pro-Houthi targets in Yemen the region all together on edge as pro-Houthi demonstrations are planned in the United States here in Israel IDF striking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and in the aftermath of the foiled infiltration to the West Bank community of Adora high alert across the area new details on the potentially fatal attack that was prevented and in the Gaza Strip fierce fighting in the center of the Gaza Strip the main focus on the pending potential delivery of vital medicines to the Israeli hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas Israeli media reports the Red Cross will be the one to deliver the medicine the same Red Cross it has been useless in getting details on the 136 hostages being held for nearly 100 days now in the Gaza Strip and to that point exactly we're moving now live to our 24 news correspondent Pierre Kloeschendler it's what is known for nearly 100 days now as the hostage square in Tel Aviv Pierre let's do begin with the semi-good news before you give us the brief on what is expected in the coming 24 hours these reports of medicines to be provided to the Israeli hostages as part of more medicine to the Gaza Strip what are the reassurance mechanisms what are the families saying we don't have any reassurance mechanism what we know is the laconic message from the prime minister's office that said that vital medicine will be delivered in the coming days to the international committee of the Red Cross and then the Red Cross will pass it on to Hamas that will distribute it to hostages 136 hostages but some 25 of them are already dead and in exchange of that Israel will agree to provide additional medication to the population in the Gaza Strip what you see here is that long long file of people waiting to enter into a model of the tunnel you can see the tunnel with here the concrete structure that will that is supposed to show how the hostages are living their living condition in a damn dark tunnel and people are just waiting in line patiently in order to make that journey short journey inside that tunnel and there are hundreds of them waiting and the marking of the 100 day in captivity for those hostages has not even started but the square, hostage square at the Tel Aviv Museum is full of people and you see here people are coming out of the tunnel and are writing words of comfort for those who are still in the tunnel bring them home now it says let them home now bring them back in all languages that's the motto of this 100 day bring them home now that's what they say Pierre one of the signatures on this model tunnel there was of one of the hostages who were released they too are coming there to show their supports to their brothers and sisters who are still there 136 of them being held in the Gaza Strip for nearly 100 days now and we are expected to see a day full of events tomorrow as we are going to mark 100 days and much more from Pierre of course later on in the day thank you very much Pierre Klischendler for this joining us now here in studio Mr. Bernitzchak official thank you very much Mr. Bernitzchak for joining us I do want to begin with this I wouldn't even say glass half full because of course we are welcoming on the mere notion that the hostages are of them ill with chronic diseases obviously in horrific conditions due to their injuries and the conditions their in captivity not even mentioning potential sexual assault that the female hostages are going through and again 100 days meaning god forbid a second trimester we don't have reassurance on the mechanisms this entire notion that humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is buying Israel time or helping in releasing hostages is collapsing more and more with everyday passing some things off here I must say that and it's very hard to say that but I don't believe the reports about giving or somehow sending medication to the hostages because you asked about the reassurance mechanism there is no such a thing and it sounds more like a spin unless like something that can really happen I don't believe that Hamas would bring them any medication but definitely this these news can maybe ease somehow the protest against the government regarding the hostages situation I really don't believe that it will happen and I don't see how the red course that until now almost 100 days couldn't bring any medication to the hostages suddenly now they have the mechanism let alone any information on their well-being, something and you know you asked me about the humanitarian aid and I deeply support humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza because this is what we have to do in this situation but we need a mechanism to make sure that this the supplies get to the people, not to Hamas right now we see we see the videos how Hamas militias take over the supplies and the people don't get anything from they don't get much from the supplies so here is a situation where Israel is letting supplies into Gaza we have 136 hostages in Gaza for almost 100 days and we are accused of a humanitarian problem because this doesn't get to the people and by the way the Washington Post reporting that all those donations that are being collected throughout the world to the Gaza Strip are all moving or a major chunk of it moving straight to Hamas accounts let's do head back to the ground now, I-24 News correspondent P.S. Tachalbach with the I-24 News team down south at another day of intense fighting mostly in the central port of the Strip from what we understand right, Elid, day 99 of this war and the fighting is indeed focused on the central and the southern part of the Gaza Strip and where we stand right now next to the Israeli Kibbutz of Biri one that has been severely affected by the 7th of October massacres we are looking into the central part of Gaza and just a second ago before we went on there there was a major strike you can possibly see the smoke rising from there this is an area where smoke is rising different locations here we are looking into Azahra area the Nusairat camp this is right the areas that are in the Gaza Strip that has been the focus of fighting in recent days we do hear the outgoing Israeli artillery from time to time as well and the sound of drones in the air now the latest army statement Elid said that since the beginning of the ground offensive in the end of October the idea of destroyed 700 rocket launchers throughout the Gaza Strip and we know it is one of the main goals of this operation of this war to destroy Hamas infrastructure but when it comes to Hamas infrastructure these rocket launching sites Hamas is still able to fire those rockets just in the early afternoon hours there was one rocket alert in the community of Nativa Sara which is located at the very northern tip of the Gaza Strip that is also the community that had another siren last night at about 2am as of now it has been quiet since then but this is Hamas showing that it still has the capability to launch those rockets yesterday night rockets on the Israeli city of Astot which is located basically in the middle of between the Gaza Strip the northern part and the Tel Aviv a major city in the south or central part of Israel now the ground offensive is continuing and we do know that it is continuing from the air from the ground and also from the sea and we already talked about in the broadcast earlier this message of medical aid entering the Gaza Strip for the hostages for the first time is of course a major message a major announcement here that its success remains to be seen it is not has not been announced in specifically when that is about to begin and how exactly this is going to be performed but this is something that needs to be followed up of course within the next days is this is something that is possibly giving a lot of hope to those hostage families more than 130 people still being held captive here as tomorrow we're approaching the 100th day of their captivity while this issue of providing medicine to the hostages is on the table we don't have much news if any at all on an overall hostage release deal because anything until then will simply be not enough Pia Sakalbach, I-24 news correspondent down south on the Israel-Gaza border thank you very much for this much more from Pia later on in the day back here instead of with the Mr. Gonen Ben-Itschak let's do address what happened yesterday in the West Bank because naturally we have been focusing on the campaign in the Gaza Strip the spiking tensions the facto war tiny war if you will on the northern front but what we've seen yesterday in the West Bank bad news I wouldn't even say perhaps foil infiltration is not the right term but if the explosion was successful what was foiled is a large-scale mass terror attack yes and we see that the West Bank is boiling for the last three months Israel every night the IDF is entering the cities the villages in order to try and stop terror attacks but now we know that the Israeli secret service the Shin Bet is warning that the West Bank is about to explode one reason there are many reasons the first reason is because Hamas is trying hard to bring the West Bank and the Hamas members and other terror groups to join the war and this was obvious since day one of the war another reason is because nobody is working right now in the West Bank they don't get permissions to work in Israel basically the permitted in the West Bank in the settlements but the settlements or the leadership of settlements the same settlement they infiltrated yesterday with the full intention of committing a massacre and this is right and the settlers say we don't want Palestinians we see the pictures of what happened yesterday and we understand why because basically I won't be surprised if the same people that try to infiltrate or infiltrated the settlement they walked in the settlement so I fully understand the fear and why they don't want the Palestinians to walk but it brings big problem because when people sit more than three months at home they don't have how to bring food to their families this is causing a big problem remember it happened in the second that was the notion when it comes to the Gaza Strip more working permits more money coming in more leeway, more carrots more and more carrots and then came the stick, the big big stick I can't resist reality but I would say that there is a difference between Gaza Strip and the West Bank but again I fully understand why there is fear to let them go into Israel and walk I think that we can build mechanism how they work in a way that is secured but you know right now we have a problem it seems like the front of West Bank that Israel tried hard to finish or to not let it boil now it's really boiling and it's about to explode from south, from north from the West Bank and now apparently the Houthis are having those drills of taking over Israeli settlements you know you think you reached some level then reality proves to be greater than a fantasy time and time again thank you very much for joining us for this and as we are about to mark 100 days since October 7th tomorrow, our attention, our minds our hearts all with the hostages and we will be bringing you some of the testimonies of the past months and her first interview since being released Mia Shem talks about her time in Hamas captivity the cruelty she endured the hands of her captors here is more in this adaptation from Israel's News 12 Hello my name is Mia Shem I'm 21 years old from Shoham at the moment I'm in Gaza they have operated on my hand here at the hospital they've taken care of me they're giving me medicine everything is okay the only thing I'm asking is that you bring me home as soon as possible to my family four terrorists came towards me they told me get up now video they're starting to take over why are they shooting a video of me what's going on I compared myself to Gilad Shalit I thought I'll stay here for years terrifying Mia Shem became the hostage every Israeli knew she was in the thoughts of every Israeli soldier before going into war she was held in Hamas captivity for weeks injured in a small room with no daylight sitting on a mattress God was across from her watching her 24-7 I can see his face in my mind his eyes are burned into my memory sitting in front of him she decided she will come back she will survive this and for the first time she's speaking candidly on the isolation and the brutality I was not allowed to cry because if he will cry we'll send you to the tunnels on October 7th Mia and her best friend Elia Toledano arrived at the Nova Music Festival I had a bad feeling when I arrived I had a feeling something will go wrong so I didn't enjoy myself when the rocket fire started they left immediately making their way home after 20-25 minutes of driving we saw terrorists on the side of the road waiting for us was two trucks filled with terrorists Elia was screaming Mia they're shooting then they started shooting towards us through the windows a terrorist truck passed us one of them looked at me and shot me in the hand it was from close range where did he hit you? here I screamed I don't have a hand I don't have a hand I was sure I lost it what do you tell yourself I pray I don't want to die I don't want to die I don't want to die Elia was a bit before me a terrorist came he asked him to get up tied his hands Elia turned to me and said please Mia please come with me please Mia please I was terrified I thought they were going to shoot him that was the last time I've seen him while Mia was lying on the floor in the puddle of her own blood Elia was kidnapped to Gaza then the fire from the burning car started making its way towards her through the flames a Hamas terrorist it was an instant call whether to go with him to the unknown or stay and die in the fire I went to him he started touching me or the upper part of my body while I was holding my injured hand I was covered in blood I started screaming like a maniac from nowhere our car came with four terrorists inside one of them pulled my hair and dragged me inside he forced my head down and we were on our way to Gaza when we arrived in Gaza they pulled me out of the car by my hair they threw me in a back room of some hospital they stretched my hand and tied it to a piece of plastic and that's how I was for three days after three days they told me put the hijab on, get dressed cover yourself dressing me up as a Muslim recognize me from there straight to the operation room no painkillers, no nothing I saw the sergeant but I didn't see his face he looked at me and said you will never go back home after the operation Hamas filmed the video they took her to a home of a family they put her in a windowless room where she would stay for the weeks to come I was in a tiny room 8 feet by 8 feet two people were in it me and a terrorist looking at me, 24-7 examining me I was afraid he would rape me there's a fear of him taking his weapon and putting a bullet in my head with no warning the room was closed they would throw food once a day some days there was no food the kids would open the door they would hide, talk about me laugh about me they looked at me as if I was an animal I was afraid anything could happen at any moment he could touch me did he ever do something like that? no only because his wife was outside the door if we were there alone something was bound to happen in this small room, there were rules Mia wasn't allowed to talk or move or even cry once I was choked up with tears he looked at me and said in Arabic enough, stop crying or I'll send you to the tunnel I'm telling myself, say strong don't fall apart here you'll be back home soon that's what I was telling myself all the time Mia understood that in order to survive she needed to pretend to play the cruel game of the terrorists that were sitting across from her once he lost it he started crying and took his Kalashnikov I was sure he was about to put a bullet in my head I got close to him and sat down and asked, what's wrong what's wrong, why are you crying he told me that two of his friends died in an Israeli attack secretly I was elated but I was like that playing the game, you know as if you are consoling him yes as if I was sorry for him after a while she was moved between apartments some of those moves were done by ambulances and the terrorists family moved with her the same terrorist that was assigned to her I didn't see daylight for 54 days I also didn't move so I was barely walking my legs were shaking were you able to sleep there maybe for an hour you can't really sleep when a Hamas terrorist is sitting and staring at you I can hear the strikes heavy strikes massive strikes the windows shattered on me there were a few days when I lost my hearing I wasn't scared from the strikes for a moment it cheered me up and then one day it was completely silent and I told myself something is happening the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into effect when the exchange of prisoners and hostages started Mia was moved to another location there after almost 50 days alone she met other hostages we were all in the same boat and then what daily he was getting released it was a Russian roulette I have chills it was the most difficult thing that some are released and some others are not she was released in the final exchange at the moment she said goodbye to the hostages and Gaza does not leave her they got up hug me and tell me goodbye they told me Mia please do everything you will get us and I apologize for getting out I'm sorry you'll get released I promise you'll get released on her way home Hamas shot this video people very good very kind to me all the kindness and everything you know your seconds away from going back home and Hamas tears is shoving a camera in your face he told me say the people of Gaza are nice say good things what can I say your crap if I was the one putting the camera there and I asked you to say how you really feel I don't want to curse but I would say there's not one innocent Gaza civilian there's none they don't exist Mia's mom did everything she could for this moment they are together again but her best friend Elia that was with her at the party and was kidnapped right next to her was killed the IDF extracted his body from Gaza mentally she's still in Gaza and no one knows how long it will take until she'll return but physically she's here exactly like she dreamed all those nights in captivity this was my dream I can't believe I'm here at home this is it from us for now but we will be back here at the top of the hour with all the latest updates from the ground until then you can always stay updated online or on social media thank you very much for watching to this special broadcast here on I-24 News day 99 of the war in Israel and for the second time the United States striking Houthi targets in Yemen the region altogether on edge pro Houthi rallies planned in the United States as the U.S. as the Iranian Bacteria group inspired by Hamas and Hezbollah rehearsing taking over Israeli communities and kidnapping Israeli citizens here in Israel IDF striking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and in the aftermath of the successful infiltration yet foiled terror attack to the West Bank community of Adora high alert across the area new details on the potentially fatal attack that was prevented and then the Gaza Strip fierce fighting in the center of the strip the IDF reportedly reading to an operation at the very southern tip of the Gaza Strip the Philadelphia Axis the main focus however on the pending delivery of vital medicines to Israeli hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas the Red Cross is supposed to deliver the medicine while no reassurance mechanisms are intact the same Red Cross that has been useless in getting any details on the well-being of the 136 hostage being held for nearly 100 days now and we do want to show you now what is currently happening at the hostage square in Tel Aviv as we are nearing the 100 day mark what we know is that the prime minister's office has announced that in the coming days vital medication will be provided to the hostages via the international committee of the Red Cross to the Hamas and Hamas will distribute it to the hostages although we don't know if that's for sure and the families of hostages are very circumspect about the fact or the hope that they will indeed receive vital medication and here that's the way out of that tunnel and you can see that the love of inscriptions on the concrete wall of that mock tunnel with one single message in every language possible but mostly in Hebrew and English bring them home now and you see that little girl she's writing something maybe a drawing yes a little drawing and underneath Am Israel High the people of Israel lives and she's drawing again David the star of David and the people are just writing what comes out from their art this is Pierre Kloschenler i24 news at Hostage Square Tel Aviv and now we want to cross now live from the Israeli Gaza border what do we know on this potential delivery of vital medicine to the Israeli hostages and also an increase of the medicine to be provided to the Gaza ship altogether as said at the beginning of the broadcast no reassurance mechanisms whatsoever this is a much expected and much waited for a deal especially the families of those hostages currently being held in Gaza have demanded that from the beginning we do know that there are a number of hostages who suffer from severe illnesses and who need their medication now that deal was brokered by Qatar but we do not really have any reassurance or any details in terms of when it is said to begin the only thing we know is that it's said to begin within the next days it is supposed to be made possible by the Red Cross and also the delivery of more medicine to the population in Gaza is something that humanitarian organizations international organizations have demanded for a long time alongside an increase of food and water deliveries and fuel deliveries now Israel for reasons that we all know has been against that for until now the increase of fuel for example because it says that Hamas is taking it away from the civilian population but the delivery of medicine is something that both for the hostages and for the suffering of the civilian population Gaza is going to be crucial Ali. Thank you very much for this much more from Pia later on in the evening this is it from us we will be back later on with our special rolling coverage day 99 of the war. Most communities from the Gaza envelope left their homes around three months ago now and at the moment the community of Ein Habsour is facing a new challenge as some people return home and others refuse. Correspondents Orisha Piera and Karmit Malko have more in this i24 news report. A small group gathered last week to discuss the future plans for the village. These include a new basketball court and a communal garden nothing exceptional perhaps except the village in question is Ein Habsour adjacent to the Gaza Strip. We're going to be here now today we hear the bombing behind us it's probably the most safe place in Israel right now there's hundreds of thousands of soldiers a few miles away and it's going to be safe because if this place is not going to be safe in a few months or a year from now no place in Israel is going to be safe this is the test of the country of our generation it's our shift to make it better, safer for everybody. Most of Ein Habsour's residents were evacuated to Elat and other locations after the murderous Hamas assault of October 7 Village resident Professor Iftah Geffner supports this quick return and the recovery of this community but not everyone agrees with him Each person can do whatever he wants but as a community I think that the mission should be to wait for a second we will find an answer to all of your needs now we have the opportunity to solve the issue and you'll come back once the place is safe For many in this community Ein Habsour is stuck between a rock and a hard place on one hand it is close to the Gaza border and there are constant threats in the area in places like near Oz and Kibbutz Bayeri Ein Habsour managed to block the Hamas infiltration on October 7 mostly thanks to the security squad and some say luck and as some communities moved to permanent residency in cities like Tel Aviv others like Ein Habsour are still staying in hotels We came here because we didn't have a choice we moved to Elat it is three hours away from here and Ein Habsour called up to the IDF if he was a few hours away he could have driven to Elat just to see us the distance and the time without him is very difficult for me and for the kids we came back not to return here but in order to see my husband and to move to our next home which won't be in Elat but a place where we can meet my husband this is where I'm heading towards Itzan Akhmani is one of the residents who opposed an immediate return to the area she's worried about the effect on her children they don't feel safe here every little noise makes them jump they asked me to lock the doors and to cover the windows just like on October 7 when there was an infiltration threat to the village when we drive in the car my young child is hiding because he's afraid that a terrorist will see him and abduct him it's sad moving in between different houses there are many families the kids haven't been in school for a long time now so when we come here to visit we practice math in Hebrew so they won't forget but other families are reaching different solutions such as this alternative school which was opened by volunteers a few days ago after more than two months as my family started falling apart I decided that no matter what I'm coming back home to Ein Habsor in the first few weeks I helped my husband who was a farmer his Thai workers left and the situation was very bad after a month I understood that I need to take care of my kids it's been three months already and my kids didn't process what happened here on October 7 they are lacking a social and educational framework the gaps are enormous these kids aren't in school they haven't been in school since June Professor Geffner's son Alon says he's happy to return you're not afraid from the war, from bombing I'm a little bit afraid but I'm trying to be positive Ein Habsor was established in 1982 by a group of Jewish settlers who were evacuated from the Yammid district in the Sinai Peninsula a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt the Klake was a young child when Yammid was evacuated now she faces another separation from her home however, she says that the situation is completely different to that of 42 years ago the feeling is very different when we were evacuated from Sinai, at least from what I remember and from what I was told the feeling was that the country was taking care of us and that it would help us rebuild our community today no one tells you what will happen tomorrow it's even difficult to join other communities caught between the basic need for security and safety and the traumatic memories of October 7 and on the other hand the need for stability and a strong yearning for home the people of Ein Habsor like many other Israelis are still waiting to decide on their next step as the war in Gaza continues and the solution is yet not on the horizon so much space yeah come on have a seat where? the living room? guest room? living room now you're in the hallway between the room and is this the hall? okay where are we now? that's the bedroom this is kind of a playroom this is the playroom, three square feet and here we're already in the living room yeah that's the living room so how are you guys generally speaking, fine and not generally speaking? not generally? we can't stay home the decision to evacuate us was all right but we have no clue what's going to happen when? if? when we get to go home we're in the laundry area it happens to be pretty vacant because of the time usually it's crowded with long waits if you really want to get it done you might wait for five hours get out believe me five hours to get some laundry done I never thought I would have to sit and watch my clothes tumbling in the washing machine so we are here to do laundry yeah thanks for helping out of course, I'll iron and fold it later too five-star captivity we have everything and we have nothing we're together supporting each other helping each other out raising each other up but we aren't at work we aren't at home not at our businesses we don't know what's happening in our homes we are we are displaced people I've made a nice pantry here instead of clothes there's all kinds of food milk and stuff what's the hardest part about living like this that it isn't a normal life a sane life there's no waking up, leaving for work dropping off at school, coming home making lunch so what is there, what's the day like you wake up wake up, go down to breakfast it's all stiff how don't you go crazy you do go crazy there is not so much to do there's no realistic solutions all our alternatives out of our pocket, our spare time how much can you take you can't say one day, two, three days a month, three months we've been here with no return home in sight tell me, how are you inside not easy there are moments of crisis what's a moment like that I have two grown boys that were on the verge of starting a business they were saying, we'll open after the Jewish holidays we didn't say which holidays they kept paying the bills but with no income how do you make it work for three months financially you can cut down on a lot of things a lot I give up on myself I don't buy for myself I make sure my kids aren't in need we aren't making it work I personally know people who have taken on loans now, during the war borrowed money and some people aren't able to take a loan they can't make it how bad does it get in the day to day it gets bad we're in Jerusalem it's cold here, we need winter clothes especially the kids we look for donations adults, babies, kids some people can't afford winter clothes some people can't afford to buy coats we got a donation of new coats for adults they can't afford it a donation came in so you know people come searching see what we can take you left home with no clothes, nothing? yes, just clothes for maybe a few days, you see anything you can people, the unity of the public, it's strengthening we see how much people are giving this is all new even myself, I'm wearing new socks look, three to four months ago there was so much polarization in the people now look, they're giving it to you without asking, just take it it's important to remember, once this is all over to keep that spirit not to go back to fighting let it be so red alert, sorry where? our area in the north that's live, that's in Shlomi right now why don't you turn the sound off? anxiety I have a brother serving on the Lebanon border and another brother in Gaza on the one side you don't want to hear about these things on the other hand, you have to know we aren't detached, we're living through a war how long can you do this for? what drives us is when we will be sure that we are returning to a safe home we'll live by the mountain we can see them, we can wave at Nasrallah we will not go back to this kind of thing is there anyone saying we won't go back to Shlomi back home? many many if not all what do they say? something huge changes some will never return they have no trust they're done giving up their home? they've given it up what do you miss most? privacy, I work in education I never thought that the kids the students would see me in pajamas see me getting mad at my kids arguing with my husband complaining apart from the grueling images that emerged following October 7 what has also shocked many Jews to their core was the sheer outpouring of support and justification for Hamas's massacre nowhere was that support louder and more obvious than on American college campuses now a delegation of students from some of the top schools in the US have come here to Israel to bear witness first hand to the evil wrought on Black Saturday hopefully with a strong message to take back to their fellow peers here's more delegation of professors and alumni from the University of Pennsylvania came to Israel to offer support for the families of the hostages music is a language that transcends space and time and on this day, there was not a dry eye in hostage square this is the piano of Alon Ohel a 22 year old jazz and classical music pianist who remains a hostage in Gaza music is part of his life he plays all the time he moves through music he walks through music I am sure that he's over there now sitting, whatever he's doing he's doing this with his hands and playing in his head music I know this Alon narrowly escaped the Nova Music Festival and hid in a bomb shelter with 30 people before Hamas terrorists kidnapped Alon and three others and killed 19 others it's really important for me for people to know that he is a person that he is a life that he's wonderful he's my son and I want him to come back home but the thing is that this won't happen the world doesn't come and help us, Israel and the fact is is that we need everybody to be with us a few weeks later people were knocking on our doors saying we cannot stay in America or in the UK or in Australia while our brothers and sisters are here suffering we cannot be silent and therefore we must come and show up to me the reactivation of trauma in my own personal experience was because I was in Hamas terror attack in 1994 on October 9th of 1994 really? and it took me 24 years to come back to Israel after that attack Michael Kahana is one of dozens of people on the University of Pennsylvania trip the psychology professor who happens to be a distant cousin of the Ohel family of human memory a subject that hits very close to home I was here for an academic visit and I went out to dinner and I met Hamas 29 years ago when Hamas terrorists shot automatic weapons and threw hand grenades in the restaurant where I was and it wasn't until the massacre of October 7th that specific memories of his own trauma came to light 4 years after the trauma I came back to Israel and I couldn't remember what happened I went with my kids back to the restaurant and I couldn't remember details of what happened and on October 9th, 8th, 9th, 10th at night I started to remember and I heard the screams things I hadn't heard in my head in almost 25 years so that was the shock to me also shocking to the Jewish world and beyond is the vitriolic anti-semitism and violence against Jews at Ivy League universities f**k the Jews those words were said not here on Amsterdam not on Broadway those words were said in Jerome Green Hall Columbia's law school building here I am experiencing hate hate is what people on our college campus fields as we walk by simply because we are Jewish my Jewish sisters and brothers and I are on the receiving end of death threats from our peers undergraduates who have filed reports about these incidents have been left with no emotional support no feedback and no consequences for the perpetrators of these hateful actions and what's even more inhumane is the throngs of people tearing down posters of the Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza all over New York and the world people are ripping down posters of your son does it make you angry? of course because he is a citizen he didn't do anything he went to an Innova festival he's an innocent bystander he didn't fight anybody he wasn't in war we weren't in war they came in and they took him think about it in the United States somebody comes in and just takes anyone who wants to I don't understand that how can you be fine with a person that is in your country you're supposed to feel safe and somebody comes and rips you out of your country and takes you hostage this is not supposed to happen and everybody who is everywhere in the world and they're thinking that everything is fine well terrorism is going to come to you they're going to do it to you and they're going to rip your sons and daughters posters and say well that's not my problem and you're and that's not okay that is not okay because my son is important and the University of Pennsylvania's president Liz McGill and Harvard's president Claudine Gay did nothing to stop the anti-semitic violence and calls for Jewish genocide and they didn't even back down during December's congressional hearing I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews does that constitute bullying or harassment if it is directed and severe or pervasive it is harassment so the answer is yes it is a context dependent decision congresswoman it's a context dependent decision that's your testimony today calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context amounts to bullying harassment intimidation that is actionable conduct and we do take action so the answer is yes that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct correct again it depends on the context it does not depend on the context the answer is yes and this is why you should resign these are unacceptable answers across the board McGill and Gay have since resigned but the scars still run deep I think these are tensions and problems that are thousands of years old and this is a sad valley in that history and I hope that we can improve things but I think it's a constant fight that will go on forever I hope it doesn't but that's what history tells us one way to begin to make a change is to bring people to Israel to experience the relics of the horrors of October 7th first hand they need to see this they need to meet the families this is not an issue of politics you vote for or which position you have on political issues this is about evil this is about Hamas, ISIS, Al Qaeda it's about cults of death that just want to kill and destroy even still Edith O'Hell has unwavering faith that music can heal the binds of hate and on January 14th a piano in alone's honor will be placed in central Berlin inviting musicians to come play and bring on the spirit to bring alone home I use music because music language and everybody understand that and music is beautiful because my study is beautiful and using music to fight is a good way because everybody can understand that they can understand that my son loves life loves music he knows that he's connecting he knows that his piano is here that people are coming and connecting to him I think so, I think so because I believe in energy and I believe that I'm doing something for him that he will feel it because he's part of me that helps me cope Emily Francis, I-24 News what I saw today was unbelievable the devastation on the homes the destruction the scenes still that you could imagine of what happened it was like something out of a movie and still also the smell the overpowering it was an important day for me and to show the viewers of I-24 News but it was but it was a difficult challenging day this was the home of Yaniv Ohana to see basically a modern day pogrom and to feel the vulnerability you know we live in Israel we're so dependent on the army and the government and the authorities to provide security to see how all of that can be overturned in the course of one day I think it really makes us understand how fragile our lives are and how much we're going to have to fight for our existence our very existence in this corner of the world welcome to this special broadcast on I-24 News I'm Khaled Bendevi this month marks the 38 years since I started as a journalist in Israel and nothing was like the last two months this has been the most challenging, most emotional most heartbreaking and in some ways the most complex story that I've had to cover during that time and never I felt the kind of responsibility that I had to present this story to the world in the right context with the right facts and to really speak about this situation I'm Nicole Mischel and this is a special broadcast of I-24 News in Spanish dedicated to the war Spades of Iron On October 7 in the morning an hour of wind came to cover the region in the different cities in which we lived welcoming us with a long delay in which the option of the liberation of Palestine had not worked and never have been taken, murdered, burned and kidnapped dozens of families who have been liberated and are still inside the tunnels of never The army of Israel has been able to get ready and secure the path to the liberation of Gaza three months have passed and not everything is still defined Three months have passed and all the development with the deaths, fallings that have not been left to anyone without replicating it is time to insist on the concern that is left alone in the hands of the leaders of Israel it is time to drive Israel to the liberation of the kidnapped and then later to end with never The Israeli kidnapped who are still in Gaza are priority for society That is why today we meet with Ricardo Gristner, uncle of kidnapped by never Thank you for being with us Thank you Carlos Thank you Egon Omer, on October 7th was at the new party that was attacked by the Hamas terrorists He even came to communicate with his parents that day at 7.50 in the morning telling them that he was very afraid Three months ago no one knows anything about Omer who suffers from colitis You have requested the international community of La Cruz Roja through its representative here in Israel, Alexandra Miligón to provide her the medicines and that the humanitarian organization is in charge of making it to where Omer is in captivity What has been the attitude Ricardo, please, that has taken La Cruz Roja, Alexandra who is the head here in Israel How are you? Nicolo, we also saw the head of Alexandra Mariana who is the head of La Cruz Roja in the world We lived together with the family, with the father Shai and the mother in Iban Where? In La Cruz Roja office in Tel Aviv No, in Tel Aviv We tried to give the medicine to Omer because he needs the medicine because he has a problem He is now in the hostels in Gaza and he doesn't receive he doesn't receive the means and the situation is wrong because when it is with pressure he has blood that comes out but Mariana and Alexandra they don't want to receive anything they don't give any help to the prisoners and nothing more Omer also other people who have problems with sugar who have heart problems who need to receive every day, every day the medicines and they don't give any help the only thing they do they help the Palestinians and we we give the food we give the medicine and the remedies for the Palestinians and they don't do the mandate the mandate of La Cruz Roja they are obligated they are obligated to help every person who is in the place that they are placed the mandate of La Cruz Roja exactly they have to receive and give help to every person not to discriminate independently Israel is Palestine each one and when we told Mariana why don't they give help to Israel we don't see anything no visit no food no remedies he said look so what they do here if you don't have the possibility to help get out give to another company to another group to help because they receive millions of dollars but they don't do anything the only thing they did they drove the people who got out but they won't visit the women inside the gas tunnels they don't go they don't go there are 22 women who know that there are problems because the people who get out they said and no visit no one from La Cruz Roja or from Unra no one went to visit and we don't know how it is now and it's been 23 days 23 days that the man is there and we don't know what's going on we want to see there we are seeing that she is with a girl Galit who? what happened to them? in the morning they went to this festival because they were going to dance they were going to reunite you in family the day before we were together in the food of Simjatora and at 12 o'clock they said look, it can be that I'm going to this festival and they went there at 5 o'clock in the morning and at 10 o'clock in the morning they called the father and the mother Niva that they are listening Rockets they got in the car and they got out and there were missiles so they got in the shelter and they got in a very small shelter for 15 people 300 people in this very small shelter and the terrorists arrived there and they were throwing grenades to the people inside so it was like 2-3 people died Omer said I'm going to get out and the people who were leaving before Omer were all killed we don't know why no shoot and they didn't kill Omer but Kim was killed and after we found that Omer was in Gaza we didn't know what happened with Kim Kim is a friend of when they were kids on Wednesday, 4 days after this incident if we see the news that Kim died and then we understand that it's a difficult situation we have 3-4 minutes left I would like to know what would be the request for the Israeli authorities to fulfill what they have to do to free the kidnapped they have to do what they can do look, there are a lot of people who can do pressure pressure on Qatar pressure on places that give money to Hamas because Qatar Egypt helps and other places in the world because Russia also helps they have to do the pressure give money if they need to realize the terrorists who are in the pressure because the only thing that can help the government of Israel and the State of Israel if they are going to send 135 people if they are going to be a strong army but the people are going to stay there we can't be a democracy we can't live when 135 babies women old are going to die and every day I receive on Telegram every day I receive on Telegram movies other people that never live this is your camera look at it and tell the authorities of Israel what they have to do they have to do something inactive don't wait for Hamas they have to send now a message we are going to put all the terrorists who are now in the pressure we are going to take them out put them on the border next to Gaza give me my people who attacked the cars attacked the new festival here there are 5,000 terrorists now I send give me my people let me people go and you know that I would also like as Carlos says a direct message to the Red Cross to the international committee to the international federation of the Red Cross both are Red Cross Mariana, you are the head of the Red Cross so what do you help visit give food help to send people all the Red Cross go out because you can't discriminate you can't give help nothing else for the Palestinians the command of the Red Cross we have to help if you go now the Red Cross is what is written or what do you help Palestinians and Jews or go out now and they don't give any help because we have to make pressure and now every day people die and I don't want the man to die you have to return to the family now really as you see now your expression your feeling and we hope that Omar returns together with all the rest of the kidnappers Carlos, thank you thank you thank you Ricardo for having been here one of the deepest of the kidnappers how to react in a situation that requires certain definition Dr. Daniel Guilardi is a specialist in emotional intelligence a psychologist, a topic that takes us to ask ourselves what should be the figure and its resilience at the time of being kidnapped let's see then the report of Dr. Guilardi October 7th was for Israel a great school of learning but not only for Israel but for the world because everything that marks our contemporary age intelligence or intelligence only those who survive survive the most flexible and adaptable to changes how the mind of a kidnapper finds its internal refuge to overcome that uncertain moment as after 50 days of being kidnapped being released, children and adults evolve that trauma Dr. Daniel Guilardi expert in emotional intelligence visited i24 news about his theory of father's picapiedras first we have to understand that our father's picapiedras they lived in a cave and there they were quiet eating, sex peace, tranquility singing that had to do with the sympathetic system that regulates stability low blood pressure and when he went out to hunt or run or run or attack if the bear is to eat and I can I attack him and if not I run so when he finished with that he went back to the cave and there again tranquility the problem is that when someone is in the imagination all the time out of the cave is in danger then the sympathetic system is in activation and then is constantly in attention what happens that then they have post traumatic stress that they can have the capacity then in their imagination return to their cave and then be grateful of what they had of the family and try to have a positive in the future as Victor Frankl talked about in the Nazi concentration camp now we have the concentration camp or the caves or the tunnels of Hamas when these people return then give the kidnapping and return to the cave the family receives them the society receives them they love them then the recovery process begins it takes time obviously that process Israel since 1948 has experimented in the development of its society of wars conflicts how it is explained emotionally that 75 years later the house called Israel was not safe there was a disappointment a deep break of the confidence of the institutions that they promised to protect us and protect our cave and suddenly these people entered our cave in a place where supposedly we were going to be protected even the Mamats the security rooms were ready to receive the bullets of Iraq in that war and now they could let's say open them from outside and then sometimes kill people I obviously put something so they wouldn't open it from outside so here is a deep break of the confidence now rehabilitating the confidence of all institutions then obviously the institutions have to change radically I was in the war in Yom Kippur 50 years ago and I saw things that obviously we don't want to see and still after 50 years even when there are nightmares that make me remember this or my parents who were in the holocaust and my father in Bugemalt and my mother who left at 12 years alone in a boat that they obviously took from their case and still there are many studies of this of the first generation of the second generation of the third generation of the holocaust which has been the psychological repercussion of these people so here we also have to prepare ourselves for the tsunami of need of people who will come soldiers who will come to the war and those who are now who have been displaced from their homes and are living as refugees in different hostels and not being in their daily routine there are many steps that the Israeli society will have to learn about their mental health if I could teach just one thing is how to help people to change and not to be sequestered by their internal negative dialogue where they are judging many times themselves or judging others so first you have to think about the things you can be grateful for to do, for example what we talked about and not constantly seeing them because they don't say anything new not being with the cell phone all the time stuck so you have to do things so that in some way help yourself to generate a positive internal dialogue parents who bury their children children who are sequestered by their parents are destroyed social tissues that should be reconstructed with emotional intelligence we human beings first we think then we feel in the Talmud there is a phrase that says we don't see the world as it is we see the world as we are so if you are seeing trash and then you are going to describe trash but if you see the good things then the brain obviously will also take you to say let's say to feel good so emotional intelligence we strengthen our interpersonal relations our children our partner, our parents our friends, our community emotional intelligence and inside emotional intelligence you have to see with the ability to reboot and start over and the Jew is one of his expertise he has always been reborn from the ashes what did you want to read? I wanted to read something that says don't give up there are no wounds to open the doors remove the locks leave the walls that have protected them to live life and accept the challenge recover the laughter and sing a song lower the guard and extend your hands celebrate life and recover the sky don't give up please more central when there are terrorist actions as occurred on October 7th without being identified after the act one of the ways to do it is through the forensic medicine center of the police where different doctors work among them Milka Schesler who is a pseudontologist welcome and works as volunteer thanks for being here, Milka in Eistednias thanks for being with us direct question you are a pseudontologist you work in the identification system of the victims who have suffered the attack on October 7th how did you get to that position and what do you do in general in that function? I have been volunteering for more than 12 years in the forensic ontology identification of the police what is done in general is identify victims that there is no other way to identify them and the scientific identification is needed that is done through digital fingerprints or DNA or the denture which is generally a kind of black box for the plane because there is a lot of information and in many cases is the only way we have to identify the victims and in this case on October 7th, what happened? on October 7th in the early morning we already understood that we were going to have a lot of work it was like everyone knows a disaster the number of victims that were getting more and more and more and more and more and more and the degree of state of the bodies because this was a massacre a brutality of humans what do you do? what we do when we need identification for the denture is the identification is done comparing records of the victim before the death and we have to collect as much information as possible to be able to reach a reconciliation of the data and a positive identification when we are in front of the victim we have to have as much information visual and radiographic because we do not know what we are going to receive to be able to compare of course we have to then see to have data from before the death that the dentist who treated it who does not always know who it was radiological institutes radiological well, whatever sorry more than that technical part also that human part what happened on the 7th in general when without talking about the 7th of October what we do is cases of accidents, fires natural disasters but for you as a doctor, as a dentist suddenly an event that is not a car accident an accident in a home something that goes further and that makes us remember what happened many years ago how did you feel suddenly seeing the denture of those you did not know obviously and you are trying to identify for a fact in which maybe today it could have been any of us well that was what made it different on the 7th of October of all the things we have seen I am more than 12 years old and people who are before me who never saw anything similar, right? not only for the quantity the victims were of all ages, as we all know there were children the state well, first of all, it is known that they all entered a party of young people the bodies that arrived from the party and also from the private houses where the terrorists entered they were in a state difficult to of decomposition not only decomposition the first days are not yet in decomposition but it was a massacre they became brutal in human times Milka, unlike us as journalists and people you if you saw them you if you have the information not only as visual information you were there as Israeli well, as I said at the beginning for being not a natural disaster for having been brutal acts that were committed against innocent people, civilians children, women, men who were in their homes or in the party they were atrocities they were inhuman massacres the bodies arrived in the state from incinerated to decapitated difficult to detail but everything that one heard on the networks to the final word if you had to summarize the first moment you saw the first bodies that arrived what did you feel? it was horrible because as I said not only the quantity but the state of the bodies was an army that attacked innocent people in their homes, young people dancing in a party for peace and the atrocities that were committed it is really difficult to name them well, we want to thank you for having come to our studio to tell us this detail something so simple and so painful of what happened on October 7th in Adelante thank you for being with us and also for that wonderful work of a difficult and atrocious and if you allow me the last thing I want to emphasize is that the fact of having been an army against innocent and civilians has to make us understand us living here and the world that it is about atrocities and brutalities that were committed in the name of evil in the name of evil there was nothing like anywhere in the world and we have to understand who is never who is never for the Palestinians who are their own victims also and who is never for us thank you very much we are still waiting for all the kidnapped of Israel to be released return to their homes as soon as possible that there is no one left in Gaza until the next week thanks for being with us Carlos if the plastic particles breaks up it does not stop at the micron size it can actually go even smaller so once the size goes below one micron people call it nano-plastics because now its size is in nano-range Carlos Marcaba these tusks belong to elephants they are most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephants every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed there is disturbing new footage from the 7th of October the atrocities that unfolded on that Saturday in southern Israel were shot on film by Hamas terrorists themselves body cam footage taken by the elite Nukba forces now these images may be difficult to watch more in this report from channel 12 news early morning October 7th Hamas's Nukba force still in their lairs turn on the cameras that will record their attack and the massacre to follow along with the tea and trail mix the terrorist on the left lays out this bag that looks like drugs to me captagon speed drugs this is the symbol of the Muslim brotherhood Allah Wahid, one god Islamist text now the terrorists face the Israeli obstacle four layers of fences barbed wire, the old fence earth mounds and the 3 billion dollar smart fence after the second blast they make their way through the old fence and proceed to the smart fence the terrorists have now invaded Israel a stopwatch counting from the first explosion until the moment terrorist squad number one crosses into Israel shows 7 and a half minutes in that time they meet no Israeli resistance it's very well timed based on extensive exercises there's a surprise factor here and their numbers their numbers is what tip the scales in the crucial first minutes on a different route in the Gaza envelope Nukba squad number three ambushes civilian cars the radio is on an ecstatic song is calling bomb burn leave no Zionist alive it seems you're even more upset when you see the terrorists because I see the vacuum I say this with humility we could have had hundreds waiting for them at the border most often they knew exactly where to go and when on site they knew which places here the terrorists come into view of Kibbutz Sufa they're under fire from the adjacent military base which stalls them having crossed the orchard they are within reach of the army stronghold the outer fence of the base is breached 15 minutes that's how long it took this squad from the moment they crossed the fence till they charged the Sufa military base the fight at the main gate of the base lasted several hours thanks to the resistance of Israel's Nakhal forces this terrorist seems in charge of the attack on the base he gives the orders although no one calls him by rank you see a commander sending his men forward you won't see that in the IDF the supposed commander catches up the terrorists enter the barracks there's almost no one there most soldiers in the base are fighting in the mess hall many of them are wounded some seriously here a terrorist films himself in the mirror fussing around documentation and the apparent orders from commanders inside Gaza for propaganda footage keep stirring quarrels this is the Hamas's military radio simple walkie-talkies with few miles range they've used them for years according to reports especially in the foreign media 8200 IDF signal intelligence unit stopped listening to those radios which are probably the ones Hamas used in their exercise despite their injuries they're still fighting they're still fighting they're still fighting they're still exercising despite their injuries and lack of ammunition those IDF soldiers still alive manage to hold back the terrorists after hours of Hamas controlling the base Shayetet Navy commandos arrive and clear the base from terrorists meanwhile in nearby Kibbutzoufa terrorist squad number 4 manages to enter they struggle to open the gate but they eventually succeed in the attempt to hold the terrorists Kibbutz security team member Oz Khubara is killed on their killing spree these two will kill two civilians Bernard Cohen and Ophir Arez then finally they are eliminated now shocking images of 4 terrified Israeli hostages were published on the front page of a British publication this week pictures taken on the day they were abducted by Hamas terrorists more than 3 months ago now their families are calling for the death of Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas Hamas and one of them crying uncontrollably in more footage released from that black Sabbath October 7th the day they were kidnapped by Hamas they can be seen in the back of a van in shock while an angry chanting Gazan mob surrounds the van earlier this week one of the hostages who was released from Hamas captivity spoke of encountering some of the women still being held by the terrorist organization on Tuesday Aviva Siegel who returned from captivity spoke in the Israeli parliament disclosing more unsettling details about the condition of the young women one of the girls returned from the bathroom and I could tell that she was distraught I got up and gave her a hug I apologize for my language but this mother effort touched her another time a young woman that they thought was an IDF officer arrived and they tortured her in front of me I'm her witness 95 days after that brutal Hamas assault 15 women are still being held by Hamas Israelis are demanding the international community intervene amid growing concerns over the mental and physical well-being of the captives rape can never be accepted it cannot be justified by the context over certain vacuums to which we've heard international community officials refer to some acts are purely evil and should always be denounced Hamas the group that committed such acts has taken hostage 90 women 15 are still there in Gaza by Hamas as of now you and women has failed to issue any message condemning this footage or the testimony Pramila Patten the special representative of the United Nations in matters of sexual violence in areas of conflicts will visit Israel at the end of January at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs it will be her first visit since the events of October 7th she has been granted full investigative powers in hopes that the stories of the victims will finally be heard and recognized around the world meanwhile former US Vice President Mike Pence is visiting Israel to show his support he stirred Kibbutz Kfar Azar and the city of Storot meeting with the families of hostages promising he would act to pressure the Red Cross to visit those still held captive he was also given a full update on the atrocities that unfolded on the 7th of October and insisted that the Biden administration should support decision-makers in Israel more in this report adapted from Channel 12 news let's take a look sir over 90 days have passed since the terrible Black Saturday ever since dozens of world leaders have arrived to show support and solidarity with Israel but only a few of them have reached this point former US Vice President Mike Pence stood here overlooking the Gaza Strip this is a safe room her brother and sister Mithra and Amali were hiding inside this cupboard 14 hours not far from here was the house of the Don family the parents Roy and Smodar were murdered the older brother and sister hid in a closet and little Avi Gael was kidnapped to Gaza and later released Pence who received a full update about what happens that morning has one clear message to the world regarding the abductees I think the time has come for the United States of America to send a very clear message not just to Hamas but to Iran the United States and our allies will hold Iran accountable until the hostages are released and served as vice president of Donald Trump a conservative Republican a great friend of Israel he came here not only to express his support but also to offer help it's not a secret that there there are some disagreements between the Israeli government and the Biden administration do you think it would have been different if it would have been a Republican administration I'm pleased that our administration has continued to provide resources to Israel but I think any message other than that we will support the decisions that are made by the elected leadership and by the military here in Israel to secure this nation to end the terrorist threat of Hamas from Gaza that needs to be the message from the United States so afraid that we'll come back and everything go back what's happening before the tour in sterot started at the destroyed police station where the battle that took place became one of the city's symbols of heroism pencil the candle in the memory of the victims dark time that's a great stuff but it's what it is so we don't thank you accompanied by the speaker of the Israeli Parliament he met with the abductees families they asked him for help to put pressure on the Red Cross after saying what you have seen here does it meet the criteria of genocide Hamas came through that fence line to kill Jews because of who they are next week we are being drugged by South Africa to the International Court of Justice blaming us for committing genocide and over Palestinian I think Israel and the United States should denounce any action to use the International Court of Justice the United Nations to equate the unprovoked genocidal attack of loss on the Jewish people with Israel's actions in self-defense if Israel was in the business of genocide on October 8th there was not a single person in the Gaza Strip so what we do now is to eradicate Hamas eradicate Hamas's military and governmental capabilities this is what the IF IDF is doing Pence also called on the international community to stop using a double standard regarding Israel many hostages still inside Gaza were abducted from that Nova music festival near re-in on the 7th of October exactly three months ago the hostages and the missing family forum members arranging an event at the site of that massacre our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran was there speaking to relatives of the hostages let's take a listen to his report try to imagine the feeling that I'll have when I'll be here I thought it will be different but I thought it will be easier because I I feel like I know everything here I saw so many videos and so many pictures and had so many stories that it almost felt like I know everything but the second I just stepped into this area for different for me hi levy visiting this beautiful woods outside kibbutz re'im near the Gaza border is an emotional rollercoaster it's the site of the deadly Nova music festival and on October 7th his brother all and sister in law enough arrived just minutes before it was stormed by dozens of Hamas terrorists part of his need to know everything as he describes it let him to find a video that depicts all and enough's last moments together they stood close to the wall inside a bomb shelter I didn't see what happened inside when those monsters through the grenades and spade bullets into the shelter but I can imagine I can understand from the stories he was she was in front of him they saw it he saw his wife being murdered in front of him and then taken to Gaza and then taken to Gaza Michael has not heard a word regarding his brother's condition since that day exactly three months ago all he knows is that all was taken alive and uninjured the reason or an enough arrived in the morning of the party and not the night before when it began was because they wanted to spend the night with their two-year-old son almoog who they left at his grandparents before heading out to re'im at dawn now almoog is essentially an orphan not knowing if and when his father will return he misses them he calls them all the time he wants to go home he starts crying when someone mentioned the word the words dead or mom it's as simple as that he can understand that they are not here I'm not sure how much of this he can understand but he understand that understand that they are not here with him. Michael is just one sibling of a kidnapped hostage who came to this now hollowed ground for an event arranged by the hostage family forum. This was the dance floor at the Nova Music Festival where 364 party goers were murdered, raped and mutilated by Hamas terrorists and Gaza locals on that dreadful October 7th. The air here is thicker it's genuinely harder to breathe walking through here now these are their faces most of them are gone for good but for some there's still hope to return home but time is running out. Besides a mock bar bullet shells on the ground and the playlist from that day blaring in the background the event also included a speech by 18 year-old Itaeregiv who was taken hostage with his sister Maya from the festival both were freed after more than 50 days in the tunnels of Gaza some of his friends who were taken from the party remain in captivity. I was in captivity for 45 days and every day there is like forever. The conditions there are very very hard to survive very hard. The hostages cannot stay there for one more second. They all have to return home now. A Saf Pozniak lost two of his relatives at the Nova Festival. His sister-in-law's two sisters Hoda and Ta'ir were initially believed missing following October 7th. Their burnt bodies were found six days later in the nearby woods. Since then a Saf has been very active in the family's forum. From the first week I've been working like crazy to try and bring Hoda and Ta'ir. They were at my wedding in June and I remember thinking how amazing it would be to attend their weddings. Unfortunately that dream has died. With negotiations over a second phase of hostage release faltering both a Saf and Michael remain optimistic that the hostages will return and soon. I'm hopeful I wake up every morning with that hope even when there are more difficult days in which we hear the terrible news of another hostage killed in captivity. Close to 20 hostages murdered by Hamas and the brave soldiers who risked their lives to bring back the hostages. We expect from the government to present an Israeli initiative to bring back all of the hostages and not to play by Hamas' dune. It's not hope. I know he will be back. It's just a matter of time. That's it. I know he'll be back and like I said on stage I will do everything to bring him back even if it means to turn the world upside down. Thank you. As we are talking about right now Israelis are highlighting the plight of the hostages who have been in captivity in Gaza since that Hamas rampage and abduction on the 7th of October. However there is a lesser known Ethiopian Israeli hostage who has been in the hands of Hamas since 2014 Avira Mengistu. For several years now an Ethiopian artist has dedicated her life to painting Mengistu and is visiting hostage square regularly to make sure his name is never forgotten more from our Emily Francis. I was born in Ethiopia and was brought here during Operation Moses. I arrived when I was two years old. Artist Michal Warka has had a passion for painting her entire life. I think that I started to paint from when I was nine years old. It was something that occupied my mind and brought me quiet. One of only 170,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, Michal turned her paintbrush into a purpose bigger than herself. I started to paint Avira in 2017. During the years I thought about him a lot. Now I'm thinking about him and his family even more. After October 7th Avira occupies my mind all the time. In 2014 after his brother died a grieving Avira Mengistu crossed into Northern Gaza on his own and was later taken hostage by Hamas terrorists. I am the captive Avira Mengistu. How much longer will I have to be here in captivity? Me and my friends. Last year Hamas released this video of a mumbling Mengistu who is one of two Israeli hostages held by Hamas since 2014 along with the remains of two IDF soldiers who were killed. My family and I had decided to be patient to allow the Israeli government to give the time to work to bring my brother home. I think that Avira is interesting also in a visual way. Many years have passed since he was kidnapped so we can see a difference between the pictures of him. His face changes. Also his mother and father interest me. We can see their changes. We can see their mental state just by looking at their faces because it's like getting inside their pain. Since October 7th Michal has gone several times a week to hostage square to raise awareness that Avira has been in Hamas captivity since 2014. And even though there are a few posters of Avira in hostage square, Michal is saddened that the government of Israel has not done enough to bring him home. I think there's something racist here. I see the way they treat Avira. It's not something that I'm not familiar with. I know how the authorities treat Ethiopian Jews but I don't want to concentrate on this. I think his life is the most important thing. Now this is the most important thing. Later we'll discuss racism. Michal, who traveled to Ethiopia and South Africa to gain inspiration, fine-tuned her use of color and realism and spends as long as a month on her bigger paintings and she shares her work on her Instagram page. But until the hostages come home, Michal will continue to give a voice to Avira and hopes to have an exhibition of her work. I didn't know if they knew about it and I know that they know that many people care about him. It's important that they'll know that people care about him and say his name. Emily Francis, I-24 News. It's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1200 dead, more than 5000 wounded, over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, survivors and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. I want to take you inside the nightmarish forensics labs where they're still trying to piece together remains and identifying what's left of people to provide some measure of closure for desperate families. I just never thought or imagined that I would ever face the situation. It's really not a simple decision and it's not a decision to be taken lightly at all. It has enormous significance. Dr. Hagar Mizrachi did not learn this in medical school to make one of the most shocking decisions of her career, to pronounce death without first seeing a body. The event is foreign to the world in general and to the world of medicine in particular because we have very strict rules on how to determine death. There is a pulse and an ECG should be done. We still look for all the signs and all the doubts to resolve them in order to give the family an answer that is clear and unambiguous. Until the harsh news about Judy were received, she had been thought kidnap. The last time she made contact was during the morning walk with her husband, Nir Nir Oz. Last week the family was informed of Gadi's death. Now it's Judy. One of the open cases that Dr. Mizrachi and the committee of which she is a member for many weeks. One of the very complex cases, we received a description of the circumstances of the incident but we also heard the phone call she made to the Maghen David a dome hotline. We read WhatsApp messages with friends and family and watched relevant videos. We understood that there was a very, very serious injury here. We sat more than once to try to understand what happened. That black Sabbath raised many dramatic issues, one of which is whether it is possible to declare the death of a hostage while in captivity. Some were murdered and taken to the Gaza Strip. Some were taken there wounded and did not survive the injury. Others were murdered in Gaza. The Ministry of Health has established a committee to assess the situation of the hostages headed by Dr. Hagar Mizrachi. A committee of experts trying to decide what happened to kidnapped citizens, collecting every scrap of information, watching hours of video. We are on this committee by virtue of our position as doctors. We want evidence whose essence is a medical basis. It's not just watching videos. It's literally sitting and analyzing and looking for breathing movements. You look for movements of the eyelids, movements of the body, a reaction to pain, simply analyzing the movies frame by frame. We also deal mainly with analyzing gunshot wounds where they hit, where organs were hit, and everything together with the fact that there is no medical treatment leads us to our conclusions. This is how they came to determine that Aviva Tzili, Ofra Kedar and Inbar Haiman were murdered. Unlike legal matters where reasonable doubt is enough, here the three doctors on the committee, Dr. Mizrachi, Dr. Kugel and Dr. Marin, CEO of Sharetset Hospital, need to be completely convinced before they tell the family. We sit and if we don't come to a conclusion, then we say we haven't yet decided. Additional material will arrive. Hamas will release something, some additional information will be received. We will incorporate the new bits and watch one more time from beginning to end, and then we'll make a decision. Each decision is made unanimously. How much certainty do you need to determine? Is 99 percent enough? We wait and check the points until we are all convinced. For me, it is 100 percent. As far as I'm concerned, not knowing is the worst thing. I can't stay up in the air, I need to know. Danny Engel was informed that his brother Ronin was kidnapped with his family from their home in Niroz, but his gut feeling said he was probably killed. After all, Ronin was armed, fighting the terrorists who entered the apartment, and no one has seen him since. It was very alarming. Me too, in this whole situation, I hung on to some kind of optimism and forced myself not to eulogize him or to talk about him in the past tense, so not to create, you know, the situation that there is no Ronin. Four days after his wife and daughters returned from captivity, the news was received. Ronin was murdered and the body was snatched. The death was determined according to a video and other findings that were in the house. Karina said that there was a large pool of blood where Ronin was standing. Other people who returned said that they saw his body being dragged outside, out of the house. I have this kind of closure, they told me, and beyond any doubt, Ronin is gone. It's the better option than not knowing and continuing to hope. The message the Eeluz family received about the death of Guy, the 26-year-old musician who was at the party in Reim, was a little different. In his case, there was no video, only the knowledge that he was injured and kidnapped. But about a month ago, they were informed that Maia Regev, who returned from captivity, gave detailed testimony about their son. I asked them, tell me, are you really serious? You want me to state as an axiom that my son died in light of the fact that she was a prisoner who was in the room with Guy, that she saw him through the curtain, and she was full of drugs, and I have no idea what, and in light of all the psychological warfare they are doing. Listen, I'm not ready to accept it, but I would love to meet with Maia Regev. They rarely tried to give him CPR, and he died from his wounds. And at first, I refused to believe it, and after they took him, I said that I had to see that it was really him. I have this duty to go and talk to his family. In the end, I'm the only person who knows what really happened. So I moved the curtain and saw that he really wasn't with us, that he was gone. After the parents heard Maia, the subtleties, the details, how she described how they put him in a white bag for the dead, they were convinced. They sat Shiva and said goodbye to their boy. Saying goodbye is hard to bear. It's not goodbye when you can say I'm saying goodbye because I saw that he died. We didn't see. We didn't see that Guy is indeed no longer with us. We separated from him based on testimony, based on information. The returning hostages brought with them a lot of new information to the committee about the fate and condition of those who were left behind. But they say they are not satisfied with this evidence as a sole parameter. For example, we knew that someone had been shot, and we saw the type of injury, and we understood that in this condition, he was taken to the Gaza Strip. And in this condition, we know that in order to treat the gunshot, we need very intensive, very advanced treatment, if at all, and overtime and on and on. It's a culmination of things, especially if one of the abductees later states that he has passed away. As long as this body does not arrive in Israel, it's not doubt, really, it's not a question of doubt. He won't be knocking on the door tomorrow and entering the house. But for me, the story hasn't ended. The bodies of the hostages who did return to Israel were thoroughly examined by Dr. Mizrachi's committee to confirm the circumstances of their death. The CT scan shows us whether there are bullets, whether there are clots. So far, bodies have arrived, and apparently Hamas said they were killed because of an IDF attack. This is not true. These are not the conclusions. It is difficult in some cases to determine the exact cause of death. But it does not appear that people were injured, and the injuries match injuries from shelling. The committee deals not only with the dead, but also with those who return alive from captivity. As a doctor, Agam Mizrachi also tries to understand something about the medical treatment they received. To her surprise, she discovered that they were not given only prescription drugs, but also dangerous ones. Apparently they were given treatment not exactly known in Israel, which among other things causes some kind of sedation. There was also ketamine in some of the cases. Ketamine is a drug that is given under anesthesia for surgery, and today it is a drug that is used, of course illegally, and indeed there was testimony of people who came, received ketamine unnecessarily as a form of sedation. I'm not sure you want to emerge from captivity as a drug addict. There was a prior claim that the terrorists had been given drugs before. I don't have any proof of this, but I can tell you honestly, I can't understand from what I've seen how they did it without it. I say they are not animals because it is unimaginable. For many years, the fear of multi-front war has been hovering over Israel's society. The high numbers of casualties, the damage to the economy, and an entire array of prices, many here in Israel were convinced we as a society are not ready to pay. October 7th charged that notion and revealed a stronger civil society and a much stronger military. I sit down with Dr. Meir Elran, head of the Homeland Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies here in Israel to hear more about Israel's national resilience. Brigadier General retired, Meir Elran, Dr. Aina says. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. So usually we're speaking about the war, vis-a-vis the enemy, achievements, losses, etc. Let's speak about the Israeli home front, about resilience. You've been following that for many years, but mainly during this campaign. What do you find out? Well, if I may, first of all, I want to say a few words about what resilience really is. I mean, many people use it as supposed to be some kind of a buzzword, but basically it's a well-defined kind of a concept or framework for understanding social situations or changing social situations in any given system. It can be personal, a tribe, community, society, or even a nation as a whole. So we're talking about resilience within a context, always within a context of a major disruption or catastrophe, if you wish, man-made, like war or major terrorist activities, or also natural, like tsunamis, earthquakes, the thing of that sort. So we have a disruption. Unfortunately, it happens to every system quite frequently, also to us, unfortunately. And the big question is, okay, so what happens to the system following a major disruption? Usually the concept says that following a major disruption, there is a very, very clear kind of a downscale of the functionality of the system. And then one of two things happen. Some systems just collapse from that and vanish, disappear. But quite a few of the systems actually bounce back or recover in a certain trajectory. And what we do is we measure the level of resilience of the system by its bouncing back to the point of departure of the disaster. Or we're talking also about bouncing forward to a higher position, meaning growth, because it usually happens. If the system is resilient sufficiently, it doesn't just come back or bounce back to the prior position of functionality, but to a better situation. Yeah, to a better situation, qualitatively, but also qualitatively. So before we touch on the current campaign, since you've touched on what resilience is, so let's give me examples for the two possibilities, the two situations. I'll give you, I'll talk about positive scenarios. And let me say the following, the Jewish people is proven or has been proven for years for generations to be a very, very resilient society. This is mostly unfortunately because of the major disruptions that we had throughout our history before the state was established and also after the state was established. Let's touch the current campaign and later on I'll ask you what should be done in order to improve the exit point. Please do. But currently, where do we stand? Well, currently we stand in a very, very interesting situation when we measure the resilience. And we see that despite of the horrific events of what happened to us in October 7, and despite of the huge failures of the military, you know, both in terms of the intelligence failure and also the operational, you know, major failure, the public here in Israel give a major credit to the IDF for its own bouncing quick bouncing back, which means that the military is considered by the civilian public to be very resilient. In other words, they really recovered after three, four days and started the actual ground maneuver. What was it like three weeks later, which is considered by the Israelis to be a successful maneuver. Okay, we'll talk later on to what extent this is really the case. But this is the overall perception of the Israelis, which also, you know, reflects on their own level of resilience because trust in the systems is a major component of resilience. This is the one and the other one, which is very important is the solidarity. So solidarity and trust are the most important leading components of resilience. And we see that in terms of the trust in the military, mind you, is very high. We're talking about around 90 percent of the people give the IDF a very, very high level of 90 percent. If you hear the right number, 90 percent consistently in the 11 polls that we have made since the beginning of the war, despite of the failures on October. But may or at the same time, the Israeli public feels less attached or believeless in the government, in the decision makers. And that's part of the resilience as well. Well, this is a very, very major issue here. Despite, I mean, we make the same polls also with regard to the other agencies. One of them is, of course, the government as such, the government gets about 23 to 25 or 6 percent of approval or confidence from the public throughout these weeks. So we see a huge gap between the trust in the in the in the military and the distrust in the government. And that's why, well, let me, let me just give you one other example, then I'll explain why, because this is a very interesting question. And it gives room to different interpretations. But I'll give you mine in a minute. At the same time also, gauge the level of support of the public at large as far as the objectives of the war as declared by the government, you know, the dismantling of Hamas, et cetera, et cetera. Here we see an average of 78 percent approval. So the same government that gets only 28, you know, the best times, 28 percent, its major decision regarding the war is being approved by the by the by the public at large. So why is this the fact? And how does it show our present resilience? Our interpretation is that since we are in the war and the people in Israel are very, very mobilized, think also about the media in Israel, how mobilized and mobilizing it is in terms of support the military effort because of what happened to us, the huge trauma, the collective trauma of October 7th. So the people say we have to be reassured and the only one that we can really trust in the military that is doing the job for us. This is the spirit presently. As far as the government is concerned, its failure is clear, no denial of that, no forgiveness. It's very steady. But there is a very interesting differentiation between the military and the objectives of the war and the military doing the job in getting those results. But the government is really in a very, very bad situation. Can I offer another explanation? Please do. The army is us. It's our children. It's our enemies. You're absolutely right. Unlike the government, whereas it might be them. I agree with you completely. I agree with you. It's not only us, but we through the army, by the army, are making a difference for us despite of what happened in October 7th. So all that and like getting back to resilience, all that shows to my understanding a very high level of resilience. There are other indications as well, but we don't get into that. We don't have enough time to discuss all the details. But let me just give you another idea to consider. This might be a temporary phenomenon. And we in our analysis think, we're not sure about that, that this level, very high level of support and this very high level of solidarity will not necessarily hold for a longer period of time or much longer. It depends to a large extent on the public's sense or interpretation or understanding of what's happening really in the field. To an extent the military is capable to sustain the thrust against the Hamas, which is a problem. What do we do with the hostages, of course, is another major question. And again, what are we doing in general terms in terms of running this major war? So what Israel needs to do in order to enlarge its possibilities to get out of this campaign stronger, taking the current situation? Well, let me put it this way. First of all, I'm now expressing my own opinion. We have to stand up to our obligation to the Israeli public, which means that we have to frame a situation in which at the end of the war, be it in the next weeks or in the next months, and time should not be a major issue in this respect. We have to be in a position that we know and interpret the final situation of the war as a victory for us. How we frame this picture is another question, and the government can do different things in order to construct such a perception. And this is very important. If we do not manage, and again, time is a flessur, to my understanding, is a flessur significance here, but if we can frame a picture or a perception within most of the public that we have done what we have promised or the government has promised through the military to the people following what happened to us in October 7th, this, I think, will be accepted as a major victory for Israel. If we do not, if we do not, we have a problem, not only in terms of our resilience, but also in terms of our position domestically, externally in the region and in the world. National security in its larger, largest extent. But furthermore, you said to be seen victorious, I think the hostages that you've mentioned is a major aspect, and to see those who are evacuated, evacuees, refugees, whatever we call them, back to their homes. Absolutely, and also we would probably also need sort of pictures of victory in the other side. We need to see at least part of the Hamas leadership getting out of the homes with white flags. Or dead. Or dead, yeah. Correct. What is better for us? It's a matter of personal judgment. One more thing, Mel, you've mentioned earlier that looking at the achievements on the ground, the Israel Republic feels that the army is doing its job vis-à-vis Hamas. Is that actually a case, or that's the case that is being portrayed to us? Let me say two things. When we talk about resilience, which is a matter of perception, it does not matter so much. But for our own curiosity and understanding of the situation, we have to remember, we do not know much about what's going on in the Gaza Strip right now. We see the pictures. Most of them we do not see, by the way. We don't see the destruction. We have to switch to see an end of the fox to realize what's really happening. But basically what we do is we have to follow the daily interviews of the IDF spokesperson, and that's what we know. I mean, we don't know too much. And the media, I must add, is not really helping in terms of giving us the right picture, whatever it is. What are the chances that this time will come out? Everybody supports the war and its causes, etc., and it will come more and more bitter? Two things I want to say about that. Number one, we have to remember that this is really a unique case. Never before we had such an opening of this catastrophe. Exactly. So we are very, very, as I said before, we are still under a traumatic, a collective traumatic experience, and it really impacts our perceptions in many ways. So that's why it will take longer. Our solidarity will hold longer. But an unfortunate thing is that as the time lingers, and especially if the achievements on the ground and on the ground are not really seen very, very clearly, and also if the toxic discourse in this country will rise to the extent of October 6th, and there are very, very harsh signs that this is happening, it will be sooner than later. So I think that we still have time in this respect, and mind you, this is really very, very important because time is of essence in terms of enabling the IDF to do the job. So we don't want, I mean, when you look at it in a state perception, in the war we need to give the military the time and the support, but mostly the time to do what they need to do. And that's why we have to keep up with this perception. We can, we have the materials or components to make this happen, but we have to be very, very careful about that. So if to sum it all up, the East Republic is resilient and it gives the strength to the army. But in order for it to be kept, the army needs to win. We have to be victorious. If we do, the resilience will remain, and Israel will come out stronger. If it doesn't, God forbids. This is a good, a very correct, and I appreciate your summary because it really summarizes better than I said what I needed to say. Dr. Omer Elalan, thank you so much for your time. And thank you for being here with me. If the plastic particles break up, it does not stop at the micron size. It can actually go even smaller. So once the size goes below one micron, people call it nanoplastics because now it's in, its size is in the nano range. These tusks belong to elephants. They shoot their most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephant. Every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed. Welcome to this special broadcast here in I-24 News. We continue our rolling coverage. It's day 99 of the war here in Israel. For the second time, the United States striking Houthi targets in Yemen, the region altogether on edge, pro-Houthi rallies planned in the United States as the Iranian-backed terror group inspired by Hamas and Hezbollah, rehearsing taking over Israeli communities and kidnapping Israeli citizens. Back here in Israel, direct hit in the northern community of Stula, IDF striking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. In the aftermath of the successful terrorist infiltration, yet foiled attack in the West Bank community of Adora, high alert across the area, new details on the potentially fatal attack that was prevented. And in the Gaza Strip, Israel, notifying Egypt that is readying an operation to take over the Philadelphia Axis that will seal Hamas' smuggling route to and from Sinai. If you're fighting in the center of the Strip, the main focus, however, the pending delivery of vital medicine to the Israeli hostages being held at gunpoint by Hamas, the Red Cross is supposed to deliver the medicine, while no reassurance mechanisms are intact and a deal for their release is still out of reach. The Israeli war cabinet convening tonight later on this hour, the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak. We will be bringing you his address live. And tonight, a 24-hour long rally begins in Tel Aviv's hostage square on the eve of the 100-day mark since October 7th. And we want to begin this broadcast by heading down south through the Israel-Gaza border. I-24 News correspondent Pia Stechelbach with the I-24 News team there on the ground. Pia Israel telling Egypt, reportedly, we're coming to the Philadelphia Axis. That is based on a report by the Washington The Wall Street Journal. Israel reportedly, and this is based on Egyptian officials telling Egypt that it is going to conduct an operation to really take control over the land border between Gaza and Egypt. And this is very much aligning with Israel's goals in this war, which is to prevent Hamas from strengthening its infrastructure again, and obviously also from smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip. And this is what we have seen in previous years. And this is why Hamas could actually become so strong, because as it is, this is the assessment also in the Israeli military. There was tunnel infrastructure and also other infrastructure that made it possible for material that was later used to build rockets to exactly travel through that land border, get smuggled between Israel and between Gaza and Egypt. Now, we don't have any official response from the Israeli military on that specific report yet, but we do know that the Israeli military operation Gaza is currently focusing on the south and also on the center of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military published a statement this afternoon saying that since the beginning of its ground invasion in the end of October, it destroyed about 700 rocket launch sites. However, Hamas still seems to be able to fire rockets into Israel. We have seen that also today, a couple of hours ago, the last red alert in the communities of Erez, Yad Mordechai, Netif, and Asara actually located at the northern tip, or the northern tip connecting Israel and the Gaza Strip. No reports of casualties there so far. But Hamas is still showing that it still has the capability to launch those rockets. Yesterday rockets were launched towards the city of Ashtod. And you mentioned, Eli, now the main focus is, of course, those medical, those medicine deliveries that were set to reach the Israeli hostages in Gaza as soon. That was a deal that was brokered with the help of Qatar. But we don't know a lot of details in terms of how this deal will be facilitated yet. It is supposedly going to be provided. This medicine is going to be provided via the red cross. But in terms of when this is going to begin, we only know that it's going to supposedly take action within the next days. We don't really know a lot in terms of how the red cross is going to locate these hostages. What role is Hamas going to play in the facilitation of this medicine? And we also know that part of the deal is the increase of medicine that is going to be delivered to the Gaza civilian population, which is something that is also desperately needed by those civilians who, in majority, were displaced since the war started and are living in a dire humanitarian condition. So these medicine deliveries are very much expected both by, of course, civilians in Gaza, but obviously by the families of those hostages who have been pressing for that to happen for a long time. Indeed. And later on, we will be taking, we'll be heading, rather, live to the hostage square where the families of the hostages are gathering this hour. I-24 News correspondent P.S. Ekobach, thank you very much for this. And we're joined now here in studio by Mr. Amir Orr in Defense and Government Commentator and Mr. Ben Ali Amini, Senior Journalist at the Edo Tachono Daily. Thank you, gentlemen, very much for joining us. Mr. Orr, we've just heard from P.A. that the main fighting or rather little questions about what is currently happening at the center of the strip and in the more southern bastion of Hamas, most notably Hanyunas, but the main questions have to do with the north of the strip and the very south. In the south, the Philadelphia axis, this border with Egypt, how, whether, how many forces can and should take over there without inflaming the ground vis-a-vis Egypt? And when it comes to the northern part of the strip, how, when, whether, should Gaza residents be able to head back without any security concerns as in terrorists that will head back there with them? So, let's go back to the last part of the month of October. The first three weeks after the October 7 penetration and massacre were spent by Israel on defending its territory and getting rid of the perpetrators and on aerial bombardment, preparing the ground. And because of the Hezbollah involvement, Israel could not have devoted all of its divisions to Gaza. And therefore, it had to start with only part of the strip. Now, one may question, here we are, 99 days later, now we are told that the southern part is the most important one. Why didn't the IDF start at the south? If Sinwar and his friends are supposed to be hiding in the Hanyunas area, why did the IDF start in the northern part? Now, one possible answer to that is that the range from the northern part of Gaza to many Israeli cities, towns, villages, especially those in the vicinity, but even in central Israel, even when we are sitting now is much closer and that it made sense to start from the north. But it took so much time. And then going to the south and concurrently to the center, the so-called central camps, the refugee neighborhoods, not really camps. And, as you say, the Philadelphia route. Now, before Israel vacated the strip in 2005, there was no question about it. The IDF could have done whatever it wanted to. This was not part of the peace agreement with Egypt. Israel had to keep a certain amount of troops and material there, but it could have patrolled, it built outposts there and so on. Perhaps what the messages to Egypt are being conveyed has to do with some pressure that Israel is putting on Egypt to try and stop smuggling on each side. There would be no necessity for Israel to have its forces there and for how long and will they fight terror cells and so on. Should Egypt fight, try to block smuggling? What's coming in and out? Mostly in because the Egyptian border guards there are corrupt. The Sinai functionaries being posted out of Cairo, they are out of sight, out of mind, and they make their living by being in cahoots with the smugglers. This is a fact of life. The story of every border. The question is, can Israel not be present there and call it a day, call this operation, call an end to this operation without addressing the Philadelphia corridor? Yes, it could. But then down the road, the question is who's ruling, who's governing Gaza because otherwise, if not Hamas, some other organization could try to build its arsenal against Israel. But this has to do with another, or perhaps Sinai and his colleagues would try to get out of Gaza through one of these tunnels. This is another reason why Israel may consider being there for the time being. But looking into the next to immediate range, this is not right now what the planners are looking at. Yes. And again, the question remains whether Israel can keep its relations, I wouldn't say good relations, but solid relations with Egypt intact while operating at the very border. We do want to head now to remarks being made this hour by IDFG for staff, Herzl Levy. We approved plans today to the North Southern Command to continue fighting and enhance the military pressure on Hamas, a pressure that will bring about the collapse of the Hamas and bringing back the hostages. Only this pressure managed to bring up to now some of the hostages, in fact, many of them. Tomorrow we mark 100 days to the beginning of the fighting, 100 days where the hostages are still held in Gaza by the terrorists of Hamas, the cruel terrorists. We act with all the means mostly covered in order to bring them back. And this way we shall continue until we bring all of them back. This mission has not been completed yet. I know that every minute has a critical impact and we are not complacent. Time is running to bring back the hostages and we do not forget, even for one moment, and we don't neglect this very sublime mission. In order to bring about real results, we have to continue to act in the enemy's territory, not to give in to blackmail attempts that will not bring about any results. We have to continue to pressure. And this is exactly what we're doing. The leadership of Hamas has hopes for the cessation of the fighting and they're convinced that it's coming. On behalf of such just objectives and goals, we are determined and consistent. These goals will take a long time. We said it from day one. In order to dismantle the Hamas, we need and we must have patience. In Gaza today, there are four battalions that are fine taken. The forces advance according to the plan and adapt the methods of operandi to the missions to the area and to the enemy. We completed the dismantling of the military infrastructure of the Hamas in the northern part of the Strip. And now we go to missions in order to deepen the achievements and to preserve it. There are still terrorists over there. There are some infrastructure and we shall continue to hit, to pursue and to eliminate. We make the major effort in the center and the southern part of Gaza. There we expose, even today, in fact, plans for production weapons underground, including missiles that are designated for the home front of Israel, a real industry of weapons. And this is very important in order to prevent the future armament of the Hamas. And you have to understand that without the underground operation, we would not have been able to do it. The forces eliminate these infrastructure in a methodical way. And at the same time, the forces are continuing to kill terrorists by air, by sea, and by very brave battles face to face, also on the ground in a very complex area. As part of the advancements of the war, we discharged some of the reservists and their mobilization is really commendable. You, the dear reservists, you are a role model to the Israeli society. We will need you, of course, in 2024 as well. And we're going to do it while preparing ourselves with enough time and also the right rewards to you and no less important to your families, who throughout this whole period kept and looked after your homes. We are waging a war in a few arenas simultaneously. We act everywhere. There will be no immune areas to those who want to kill us, neither in Gaza, nor in Judea and Samaria and also in the other arenas all over the Middle East. Hezbollah decided to serve as a defender of Hamas as a proxy of Iran. And we take a very high price for them, for that, from them. Those who continue to forge things in the north and in Gaza, we are going to respond. That's what we did in the past, and that's what we'll do in the future. The security in the north is now being stabilized. We are the touching, the terrorists are drawn in the north and those forces of Hezbollah that have been working for years. We are free acting in the air on Lebanon and we attacked any threat we identify. The area of south Lebanon is a battle zone, and it's going to say like that as long as Hezbollah is acting from that. Hezbollah might turn the entire state of Lebanon to a war zone, and that will fetch a very high price. We are ready to fight today as well, and we are improving our forces all the time. We are committed to change the security situation in such a way that will enable the return of the inhabitants with full safety to their homes in the north and in the south. In Judea and Samaria, we are acting around the clock in the settlements and in the Axis. During the war, we executed an unprecedented number of attacks and we stopped terrorists on their way to attack. Together with the inhabitants, we are investigating every event and we strengthen our defense. Last night as well in the settlement of Adoura, there was an attempt to attack, but together with the inhabitants and the army, alertness and certain activities brought about a result where the three terrorists were killed without them reaching the citizens and without any citizen being harmed. And we will wish speedy recovery to one of the combatants who was injured. Real investigation is the lifeline of an army. We investigate all the time. This is what the IDF does. This is our way to learn and to improve. IDF is in charge of the security of the state and it's committed to improve and adapt itself to fighting in the area. An operational investigation, of course, is not instead of an external investigation. We understand that the war is going to go on for quite a long time and therefore we started planning the structure of the interrogations. We must learn, even within the war itself, when the fighting always will be under first order of priority, we're not going to jeopardize it because we are the ones who do it as well. We did not determine yet when exactly we're going to start interrogating, but we did determine that we're going to interrogate and investigate as early as possible all the events that brought about the waging of the war and the events of October 7th. We must try to understand what happened in order to better defend the inhabitants of the environs of Gaza and in order to ensure that this day will never repeat itself so that we will know how to bring them back to their homes with full safety. The IDF obviously subject to the government and respects it. We should and we must be asked questions and to be criticized. We listen and we learn from everybody, but the decision about the investigation is an operational need, is an internal decision and not that of a policy. The IDF wants and needs to be better and I'm convinced that everybody understands and identify with this wish. In these days, it's important to remember we are fighting a definite just war and murderous enemies started it and butchered in an inhuman way innocent people. We do not forget and we will never forget and we shall continue to remind those who are trying to deny it as well. We are fighting on our right to live here in safety. The IDF fights in a professional way according to its values and according to the international law. The IDF with all its combatants and commanders is focused on the objectives of the war and we shall continue until we achieve them. Channel 11. Somebody talked about evacuating all the inhabitants in the northern part of. Yes that was IDF. Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi speaking on the eve of the 100 day mark to October 7th that will be marked tomorrow and back here in studio with the Mr. Amir and Mr. Bhandari. Especially the last part of Halevi's speech really echoes what we've heard yesterday at the Hague. So let's do wrap up what we've seen there. Both the what and the how. The what was more about and correct me if I'm wrong about dismantling the the mere infrastructure or lack thereof of the South African case against Israel and the how was not flamboyant. We haven't seen those no passionate speeches that will be engraved in history but rather a very legal language. Yeah yeah yeah first of all if we are speaking about Hague what happened yesterday it was a great presentation on behalf of Israel. I am saying a great presentation because I followed them so many comments responses from people abroad of course and even from South Africa and people said we were convinced I'm speaking about South Africans we were convinced that we are going to defeat Israel we are not sure anymore after the Israeli presentation because it was very as you said very professional it was not political very professional they just put the facts on the table and they said what are you doing yes of course Professor Malcolm show was very I mean we spoke in a very legal language yeah no no it was not legal technicalities but but it was so necessary people who are not experts in law they did not understand why he's saying all of this details about the letters that were delivered from the South African foreign ministry to the Israeli foreign ministry and the Israeli as they argued Israel foreign ministry did not even respond which was a lie and he exposed the lie of them it was highly important so it was a high-profile public presentation but it was not addressed to the public yeah no but no it was I think I think the big success is that they did both they actually address the public opinion those who are interested and they addressed also the judges on the legal language which was highly important so they did the two things maybe they did not say one thing or another I think that they could present what the Hamas actually declared once and again we are going to exterminate the Jewish state we are going to exterminate Jews and okay I mean it's what I think but what they did was professional now speaking about Herzi Alevi is the chief of staff he said something very interesting right now I mean there is a big debate should we continue with the military pressure in order to release the hostages or that we should begin with the ceasefire yes and we do want to tune back into IDF chief of staff Herzi Alevi and we'll unpack it in a second we're going to investigate how we got to places where we did find it with again in order to give the best defense to the inhabitants of the south and the and virons of Agazeta together with them we shall encourage them to come back and after we learn it we will be able to do so why not a plan from the intelligence was presented to the prime minister how does the IDF prepare itself IDF is acting in Judea and Samaria as I said with a large scope of forces in a very high qualitative action thanks to the cooperation with the ISA we are looking all the time about the situation and we do it together between the organizations and with the government and I have to say that until now due to many thwarting actions and intelligence alertness we manage to reduce the level of terror in Judea and Samaria and we do identify recently signs for change and vis-à-vis that we add the capabilities we sharpen our alertness and we do whatever we can in order to give the utmost safety to the inhabitants in Judea and Samaria and also in the axis and in the seam line where terror can cross to other places in the state of Israel thank you very much thank you have a good week back here in studio with Amir Oran and Bandar you mean Mr Yamini yes just to complete what I began to say there is a big debate in Israel taking place I mean many families and not only the families of the hostages they claim look we we already tried the military pressure we are already almost 100 days it didn't work this is not the way and we don't know how long they are going to survive under the circumstances in the tunnels and so on without air without medicines there are some other people say no no we have to continue with the military pressure and now Ertia Levy the chief of staff is saying in this debate I'm saying that we have to continue I'm not sure that in the big demonstration that is going to begin in half an hour of the hostages and yeah so I'm not sure I'm not sure that they are going to like what he said just now maybe they are even going to respond come on we tried it it's not working so we have to do something with the hostages before you continue with the military pressure so it's a very interesting debate I'm not saying now who is right and who is wrong it's not the point other point that what about what he said yeah actually he responded he responded to many ministers that criticized him because of the internal inquiry yes so and he said it's my business I'm not going to let you interfere I'm not going to let you so actually it was a kind of political in that in the debate he took a stand and he's declared exactly what his view point is about the two highly important subjects yeah well you know Mount Miron was in the headlines last weekend because of the the Hezbollah attack there but Mount Miron is also the tragic event that brought us the famous slash infamous statement of one of the ministers I'm responsible but not to blame and in this respect perhaps it is relevant as well when it comes to the state of mind of several office holders here in Israel Mr. Amir Oran Mr. Amini mentioned that this notion that is being challenged that the more you exert military pressure the higher the the prospects of releasing hostages another notion that to an extent is being challenged the issue of a Mediterranean aid that at first was said to be the main way for Israel to buy time to the carrots in this package of sticks and carrots vis-a-vis Hamas this bargaining chip seems to have lost any meaning why why did Hamas abduct so many people in the first place the initial rationale was to gain the release of those Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails but early on it turned out that because Hamas managed to spirit the kidnapped at that time 240 Israelis and others into the tunnels and as an insurance policy for Yahya Sinwar and his colleagues that Israel would have to trade a ceasefire in addition to the prison release for the partial release of hostages and because Hamas had so many of them they didn't mind releasing some you're releasing yes on only a hundred or so out some less than half of them now the Israeli government and the IDF decided really gambled in late November on resuming fighting in order to gain the release of the others this gambled failed the added pressure for the last 45 days has failed to gain the release of a single hostage and several died during this time three of them in an incident a tragic incident at the hands of the IDF so Herzi Alevi has a very hard case convincing the Israeli public that having only secured one third the northern most third of Gaza in three months he can use the next few weeks in order to put enough pressure on Hamas to deal with Israel again a ceasefire for the release of all the entire contingent of hostages now in addition to that just to add to his incoherent defense of the after-action review the internal inquiries on the one hand he says and this echoes what happened in the high court last week regarding Itamar Benghviar and the police the justices said that minister Benghviar has no business telling the police how to act operationally and the minister in charge of police but not in charge of the operation yeah Alevi takes it as an example without mentioning it of course and says this is my operational decision ministers have nothing to do with it and he also explains why it's an operational decision he's saying we need to understand what happened in order to better yes but having said said that he says we haven't decided on when to start it if it's so urgent what are you waiting for so because this is a politically motivated decision to wait because of the criticism he heard in cabinet so he tries to to have it both ways not a very remarkable remark on on his part well the reactions I assume will be quick to follow let's do circle back to what we've seen at the Hague as we are awaiting a decision in the coming weeks but the threshold of this injunction of any sort is very low so the bottom line Mr Yamini did it work this impressive presentation it's a very good question but I'm not sure that I have a very good response yeah I must tell you why because we begin with something like it depends how do we count them speaking about the 15 judges there are two more from each side but speaking about the 15 judges there are something like between five to seven that are against this I mean we know it's a judge from Lebanon the judge from Morocco the judge from China from Somalia so there are no surprises there yeah no surprises now it's between five to seven so and the whole story is about the other eight eight or maybe nine this is a big question now did did the lawyers convince them you know what maybe maybe because it was really really a very factual and very accurate they did not hide anything they did not hide anything and they did not go to the political arena they were so professional so professional that that and I really listen and what I wanted to follow is the responses from people who were not convinced and it's very interesting it's very interesting because they did a great job now what will be decided upon they have few days maybe tomorrow there will be a decision about the the provisional measures not speaking about the final decision and you also need to know that the UN Secretary is essentially enforcing it and we know how maybe maybe because because Germany yeah which is a surprise I mean this is perhaps the big headline yeah yeah this is a big headline we listened now we want to join the process essentially asking maybe there will be a delay because now they are going to apply and they are going to say their own viewpoint and it's going to be something like a hundred pages of of of application look we have what to say when we combine both the great presentation on behalf of Israel and Germany you know what maybe maybe contrary to what we thought two or three days before maybe there is a chance that the decision will be quite good but positive but but there's another question remains whether it will have enough of an impact on on public opinion and here that's a different ballgame so the South African application must eventually be rejected because the key term is intent and they cannot prove because Israel indeed did not intend to commit genocide so when the decision is handed down in a year or a couple of years it will be against the South African application more than for Israel however regarding the temporary injunction it is almost impossible to assume that the ICJ will not call for a cessation of hostilities for humanitarian reasons now the key question here is how this call is going to be phrased if if it is going to be directed at Israel unconditionally it will be a tough fight for Israel in the Security Council and eventually the United States will veto it but if not Israel will be able to say yes we are willing to stop the fighting immediately provided and then there are conditions that Hamas released the hostages that it is dismantled there will be a lot of room for maneuver depending on the phrasing and you've mentioned the United States and it's quite an audacious segue I'm doing here but I'll give it a go the US after much talk is finally walking the walk when it comes to the Houthis but I do want to talk about those who opted out here and I'm talking not just not joining this coalition on the ground attacking the Houthis but not even signing the declaration supporting this American-British-led mission Italy Spain France opting out are they scared of Iran is that why don't you start with the domestic American scene you have many people in congress saying that President Biden has outstepped his constitutional boundaries it's nonsense but he has a fight on his hand including with members of his own party Donald Trump of course saying it's not a coincidence that under my watch it didn't happen and why is he doing that and all of that now there is a silent member of this coalition called Israel without Israeli acquiescence and knowledge and participation the four British typhoon fighters and the Voyager airlifter couldn't have gone from Cyprus to Yemen it must have crossed Israeli airspace yes but Israel would not even acknowledge when presented with a question regarding it because the coalition is ashamed to be associated with Israel and it is really pitiful that after all of these years and after Israel being associated with sandcom being integrated into the region we find ourselves in the same spot when Israel must be hidden in some closet because the coalition is unwilling to have Israel's name as part of it all right so on that note we want to circle back to what is happening right now at the hostage square in Tel Aviv by 24 news correspondent Pierre Kloschendler with the 24 news team there Pierre tonight we begin a 24-hour long rally right there where you're currently at yes a marathon of pain and of claims and lamentation a lot of people are here gathered in 20 minutes from now this marathon is going to start but they've started already a long time ago and you have people carrying portraits of the hostages oha di alomi 49 you see his picture a smiling picture and yet we don't know the whereabouts of these hostages we don't know how they are we don't know their medical situation we don't know the plight they endure and all the people are going to start to gather in the main thoroughfare in Tel Aviv facing the defense ministry because they're fed up of hearing the same thing our heart is with the hostages just like the chief of staff of the Israeli army said that we're working hard to find a way to release the hostages but here the people are on the verge of a nervous breakdown really because it's a hundred day of mourning a hundred days since the war started with the october 7th massacre but also a hundred days since the 136 hostages not all of them alive are still held in captivity in Hamas's and palestinian islamic jades jail and there is a sense of being fed up and at the same time the message you know bring them back home hold on we're coming to you hold on we're going to find you we're going to release you you're going to be free these are the words that you hear and these are the words that we're going to probably hear during the 24th hour marathon that's going to take place in a quarter of an hour from now ellie yes and you know pierre we've seen earlier this week um those uh gut turning scenes at the border with family members shouting with loud speakers Israeli prime minister benjamin is now speaking now let's tune in citizens of israel good week to you we're marking today a hundred days to the war a hundred days to the atrocious day where our citizens were butchered and abducted we continue with the war to the end to the full victory until we achieve all the objectives liquidating the Hamas bringing back their hostages and the promise that Gaza will never become yet again a threat to israel we're going to bring back safety to the south and to the north no one is going to stop us neither the Hague not the axis of evil and nobody else this hypocritical attack in the hake on the Jewish state that rose from the ashes of the holocaust against those who wanted to create another holocaust this attack is a low moral low in the history of the nations our forces found copies of mine come of Hitler within a house in Gaza they saw a tablet of a little girl as a picture of Hitler as a screen photo not in vain uh chancellor holz after he saw that he said the Hamas are the new Nazis yesterday i spoke to chancellor schultz and i informed him about the fact that germany is ready to send a delegation to the hake and i thanked him for it in order to refute this heinous accusation but look at this the new supporters of natus dare to blame us in genocide who do they support assassins rapists people who behead people burn babies what audacity what shame what chutzpah the state of israel and our security forces are fighting a just and moral war against the monsters of Hamas the new nazis this despicable voyage in the world is not going to stop us it's not going to reduce our determination to fight to the end because something has changed in the history of our people antisemitism is the same but the status of the jewish people has changed completely because today we have a state we have an army we have defending forces and we have heroes soldiers who defend our people what happened on october 7th is not going to happen again this is our mission this is our commitment for that inter alia we are going to bring a project to the government tomorrow that an insured the continuation of the war more money for security much more more rewards and allowances to the reservists their families everybody who's in it another help to bring back the evacuees to come back to their homes citizens of israel we're on the way to a victory and we're not going to stop until we obtain this victory i know that some people doubt it i don't and i hear your calls citizens of israel and i know that you are not there we are going together to the end i believe in our people i believe in our combatants and our commanders and i know that after the massacre of october 7 we're not going to compromise on less than a full victory i'm saying it on your behalf to all the leaders of the world i talked to we're not going to compromise and we're not going to stop we continue to the victory because we don't have another choice i heard that the commentators in the studios say it's not possible that's not necessary so i want to say a new say of course it's possible of course it's necessary and we're going to do it in the last few weeks we proved to the hamas and to the that any terrorist has is it's going it's a dead person we're going to continue to kill terrorism we do it in two ways in a military action that already did away with a lot of the hamas and additional activities to against those who are still there underground and overgun and these activities take time a few days ago i met the secretary of state blinkin i thanked him for the american assistance and i said to him we waged this war after these monsters butchered us we do not stop we do not stop until we eliminate the hamas and bring back the hostages and i also said it's not just our war it's your war as well this is the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness this is against the axis of evil led by iran and the khuthis and the khizballa and hamas and i added that i don't forget for one moment that in addition to the war in gaza in addition to bringing back their hostages and the inhabitants to their homes both in the north and the south we have an existential mission to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons that's my mission that's our mission and i said to the secretary blinkin this must be your supreme mission as well citizens of israel we are in a national test case test our we are fighting not just to restore our security now but we're fighting in order to secure our security for the generations to come and this war unfortunately fetches a very heavy toll and price last week we lost a commander in the nachal who volunteered to fight in gaza he survived the attack in jerusalem 16 years ago an attack where eight of his friends were killed he left his wife and his baby daughter ori the little daughter didn't even know her father his volunteerism his courage his zionism avivshan roi elisa roi's father said about him that god almighty might he takes the best ones to them but he doesn't they give themselves the sacrifice of roi and our combatants who fell in battle is the painful testimony to the high price that all of us as a state and as a nation pay in order to live in our country and bring back the hostages i embrace my brothers and sisters the family of bereaved our dear ones the heroes they paid the highest price of all they felt to defend the country i embrace the families of the hostages that my wife and i keep meeting all the time these are personal meetings heart wrenching we embrace them we listen to them we look at the pictures of their loved ones the pictures of our loved ones and i made a very definite promise to them and i repeated tonight i do not give up on any one of them we are committed to bring back all of them home i embrace the wounded who show incredible courage vis-a-vis the injuries and i say to all of you all our soldiers each and every one of their combatants the soldiers and the commanders they are real heroes heroes who sacrifice themselves in order to restore security to the country and bring back the inhabitants to their homes and that's what's going to be as it says in this week's portion and they sat on their land as i gave to my servant jacob and they sat on them with safety they built houses and planted orchards we're going to fight together and with the health of god together we shall prevail questions channel 12 mr prime minister first question what about the inhabitants of gaza are they going to get back to their homes before the israeli ones are you going to condition their return in returning their hostages and what about the declarations of the people in deli code and coalition who cause international damage why don't you call them to order there's an international law and that law says something simple you take out a population to get them out of harm's way and you don't bring them back as long as the risk is there and the risk is there there's a real fighting in the north of the strip and i said it to the secretary blink and we're not going to bring back inhabitants to a place of risk as to the declarations why did you just mention the liqud and the coalition very interesting you know these declarations are very harsh and of course such an event like in the 9 11 did you hear what the american said you have to read it in order to compare there's no comparison but that's along the and across the political issue not significant and the reason is that what determines is the policy of the government as it determined in the government and in the cabinet and this policy reflects our intentions we act according to the international law the idf is making efforts to avoid harming any a population or uninvolved people or innocence that's our policy anything else is really an attempt just to accuse israel and with baseless accusations good meaning is there a policy or decision of yours regarding the philadelphia axis are you planning to control it or to dominate it and then second question the team that the chief of staff appointed is this something that you knew about and is it according to your wish the philadelphia axis is one possibility of what i call a southern bloc of course we're not going to finish the war without shutting this area because the hamas well we will dem the militarized gaza and then more weapons are going to go through the philadelphia and all sorts of lethal weapons of course we have to shut this area and there are a few possibilities how to do it we're looking into it but we still haven't made a decision except for the one it has to be closed second regarding the appointed team i respect the chief of staff and i think that they were decision or they need to do an operational inquiry within the idea of course it has to happen but as for next