news edition I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Rockets are again being launched from the Gaza Strip to Israeli cities. Siren sounding in Jerusalem F-Rite and Shores just a short while ago reports of six interceptions over the capital during that barrage and a little earlier siren sounding in the south in Atif Haasara and in Beersheba as well. Earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of Niti Vot with a direct impact on this home. Take a look at the damage to this building after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip on day 24 of the war. Right now as we are speaking sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country that coming in right now sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country right now including in Shlomi and Rosh Hanekra. Meanwhile the IDF has expanded its ground operation in the Gaza Strip carrying out strikes against some 600 Hamas targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts. Spokesman Daniel Higari saying the IDF is attacking from the air. Israeli tanks reportedly entering the edge of Gaza city on Monday morning and cutting a key road from the north to the south of the enclave. The IDF says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the Gaza Strip and tried to attack troops. In one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a Hamas station killing more than 20 operatives. In another incident the IDF says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of Hamas operatives. A soldier was killed and two others seriously injured when a tank overturned in northern Israel on Sunday. Confirmation that 31 year old sergeant first class non-Fleishman a reserve soldier from Jerusalem died in that incident. Meanwhile US Vice President Kamala Harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of US soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground. How close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in US troops? We have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into Israel or Gaza period. Now let's find out what is happening on the ground. We go live to our correspondent Pier Stechelbach. She's in northern Israel and just as we came to air pier we heard that sirens were sounding in some parts of the north. Also the IDF is striking in Lebanon right now. What update can you share? Right beneath the tensions do remain very high and this is the first time for today that sirens are sounding in northern Israel. We are speaking about a region that is at the very western part of the Israel-Lebanon border, the communities of Roshanikra, Shlomi, Batzeret, these communities that have been widely evacuated when we especially speak about communities like Hanita and Shlomi. That comes after yesterday evening several barrages of rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into Israel into different localities in Israel. We are speaking about Kiryat Shmoni in the east and also in the western region. Also yesterday receiving a red a lot rocket sirens for that barrage onto the western part of the Israel-Lebanese border. Yesterday Hamas's military wing in southern Lebanon claiming responsibility for how itself said sick firing 16 rockets into southern Israel and we've been really seeing an uptick in those rockets being fired from southern Lebanon. Also last night rockets fired from Syria into the Golan Heights region communities there. So we have been really seeing an uptick and that comes in it. The Israeli military striking back as per protocol towards the origin of those strikes both coming from southern Lebanon and also from Syria. There earlier we've been a little bit closer to the border. We could really see those the smoke arising from those strikes and also smoke arising from Israeli territory coming from those shelling that shelling coming from southern Lebanon into Israel there Benita. Thank you so much live from northern Israel our correspondent P.S. Dekalbach. Thank you very much for that update. Stay safe because as we are talking right now sirens sounding right now in the Gaza envelope that is in the south of the country and as we heard from P.S. Dekalbach also in the north at the same time. So for more here in studio former Shin Bet agent Konan Ben Yitzhak and our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaran and Ariel I'm going to start with you because as we came to air we saw that rocket sirens were sounding both in the south and in the north at the same time and just a short while ago Jerusalem as well six interceptions. Indeed Benita they've been Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza and also in Lebanon have been firing rockets pretty much non-stop since this began on October 7th. Most of these rocket launches are indeed on southern Israeli communities but every once in a while they also make it to central Israel. Jerusalem is a little more rare we haven't seen this in a few days but six interceptions there as you were speaking also additional sirens heard in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip and this is an attempt by Hamas to show that even though we're more than three weeks into this campaign that they still have firepower that even as Israeli ground forces are advancing deeper and deeper further into the Gaza Strip already making it south of the of Gaza city and are positioning themselves there this is an attempt to show that they still are part of this fight and they can still hurt the Israeli communities while the fighting continues. Konan Ben Yitzhak your take on exactly this right now it's day 24 there are 239 hostages still being held by Hamas inside Gaza and right now as we're speaking just moments ago rocket sirens still being launched towards the north and the south your assessment. I think that Israel knew from the beginning that Israel cannot stop the rockets permanently so this ability is still there and from time to time they show us that they can launch missiles it's not any surprise for the Israeli intelligence or IDF we see that the IDF doesn't go deep into Gaza right now I think that the way this operation is managed is very smart they go slowly I think the military got ready into going into Gaza going into Gaza is not a simple thing it's a very complex area you have civilians you have many many militias we see that the outcome of the operation is many militias that got injured and died during the operation and I think that and I hope that the Israeli government understands that the first goal and the most important goal for now is to bring back the hostages later on we have enough time to fight Hamas and to hit Hamas hard for what happened but right now we have an obligation for the hostages to bring them back and I want to bring you in Ariel on this expanded ground operation that is happening inside the strip just seconds ago we had live images on our screen out of Gaza we do know that the IDF is continuing with its strikes and update as to how things are progressing on the ground in terms of the IDF making dense in its aim to eliminate Hamas right so as as the ground operation starts to take form because I I agree with my friend here it's not it started slowly gradually and quietly but it is advancing and this is this main stage is preparation for further wide-scale operations so a lot of this are engineering operations you see a lot of the denies tractors trying to shape the terrain in its own in a way that serves the forces best but also Israeli Air Force pummeling down on Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip at least four senior commanders were eliminated in the last few hours in coordination between Israeli military forces and she embed this includes the head of the Navy for Hamas's naval commando forces in the central part of the Gaza Strip also key anti-tank unit commanders these are this is the level of commanders that sent Hamas operatives into Israel on October 7th but they stood back they remained in their command posts and these are the ones who are being targeted now obviously with the more lower level lower level operatives and terrorists but indeed as the forces continued to advance and try to take out different outposts and different infrastructure we're seeing a gradual and positive advancement of the Israeli forces I think as far as militarily the way they would like to see this I would note that we're not seeing a lot of footage coming out of the Gaza Strip I think that's mainly due to the fact that a lot of Gazans in the northern part of the strip evacuated down south they listened to the warnings and calls by the Israeli military also issues of electricity and connectivity this is something that also helps the forces advance without this shed of footage depicting what they're doing every step something which we're going to discuss in depth in a short while but first let's go to our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev he joins us from southern Israel in siren sounding just a short while ago in Nativa in Beersheba as well and other communities what is the latest where you are yeah so as you mentioned the siren sounding in various communities in southern Israel some of them right on the Gaza border itself like in Nativa Sara for example roughly seven eight miles to the south of where we are and also in places further upon further afield like Beersheba for example I wouldn't be surprised to see rockets later on fired even to places further afield maybe even to central Israel because the ability is still there Hamas doesn't need to send too many rockets to ignite to ignite sirens when you send a rocket to central israel a very densely populated area you ignite sirens in various communities you don't need to send more than two or three and and the whole central israel gets a sirens and and I wouldn't be surprised to see Hamas doing that today and for days to come and just to give us an understanding of the number of communities where you are that have been evacuated not a lot of people still staying close to the border your sense of the number of people impacted by the sirens in the southern parts of the country right now if we're speaking of the the communities that are right on the border fence roughly 30 communities or so are practically empty very few people still there and mostly soldiers the army is present in many of those communities is the road the biggest city right on the Gaza border it's a town of roughly 25 000 people I'd say about 90 percent of the people are gone in Ashkelon where we are the biggest city which is closest to the Gaza border here it's a major city more than 150 000 people therefore many are still here and we do see movement we do see shops much more than we see in Sderot for example but still obviously this is this is far from being a normal day here senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev in southern Israel thank you for that update more to come from our team on the ground in the coming hours and in Jerusalem earlier in the day a police officer is now in a stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister Itamar Ben Gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on Monday telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what I've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still in studio for machine bed agent Gonen Ben Yitzhak and our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaran and Gonen I want to pick up on this incident that happened in Jerusalem a stabbing of a police officer in a stable condition what do you make though of the message from Itamar Ben Gavir right now start maybe with the the disability of Hamas right now to attack in the West Bank and I think that when we look at it's Hamas Gaza thought that it will be able to bring Hezbollah bring maybe other groups in Syria and in the West Bank to attack Israel while they are suffering or suffering the attacks in Gaza and I'm very happy to see that until now of course we saw during the last three or more weeks that they are trying from time to time to attack but basically they couldn't do anything today unfortunately we we had this incident they start attacking in Jerusalem regarding what the the minister Ben Gavir said you know I would expect Itamar Ben Gavir first of all to say that police Magav they are responsible to the defense of people in in Jerusalem I'm not sure that for the long run right now everybody wants to get a weapon we feel insecure because the government doesn't give us this security but in the long run we see what's going on in the United States I don't know if this is something that is going to be a very positive process in Israel the fact that so many people are carrying weapons Gonen obviously the focus right now in the country is the war and Israel working to eliminate Hamas so that what happened on the 7th of October never ever happens again however one cannot ignore the huge intelligence failures of the 7th of October the New York Times a staggering article outlining information that is actually difficult to understand how intelligence experts Shin Bet knew that activity was happening across the border in the early hours before this attack that they didn't see it fit to report to authorities that they never sought fit to wait the prime minister and tell him what was happening and the understanding according to this article is that the defense establishment was not interested they thought that Hamas was not interested in a conflict knowing now what we know about what happened your reaction well first of all we need to be very careful about the information that is spread although it gets to the New York Times because right now we see that in Israel we have a big issue with the fact who is responsible for what happened on October 7th but I would say first of all it's obvious that the intelligence failure is huge but alongside we know that the policy of the state of Israel for the last 10 or 15 years was something that I'll say the intelligence and the policy went together the fact that Israel allowed Qatar to put so many billions of dollars into Gaza we thought that as much as we will pay Hamas money they will keep it quiet I think this is not only it is a huge intelligence failure but it's also a policy and decision makers mistake and we don't have right now all you know all the information to understand what exactly happened but I think one thing I tell myself okay as a citizen that looks at everything I tell myself everybody including me including everybody we need to rethink about what we thought before the October 7th massacre and we need to change the situation I am looking at what's going on on our northern border and I'm afraid that on the north we are going on the same mistake that we did in Gaza meaning we let Hezbollah decide when they will attack and when they'll open the war something that we need to think when we look at what happened in the south knowing that it was big big mistake if you look at that article and you look at the information that is released right now it is very clear that there is a problem with arrogance within the security establishment would you agree with that assessment no doubt no doubt I I'm sure I think that the fact that everybody thought that technology would give an answer to everything you know I came from a less maybe a sexy field which is the human the human intelligence and for the last 10 years I'm saying again again including in this studio I'm saying don't forget human don't forget the fact that in the end only human source can give you the thought or the real motivation and when you rely only on technology we saw what what happened we're going to discuss that in a little bit more detail but right now I want to bring in our Middle East correspondent Ariel O Serran because we all know that there are 239 hostages still being held by the Hamas terror group a new video has just been released we are not going to be showing that video on this channel at the moment but what details are contained in that right Benita so as we've been speaking here in studio Hamas releasing a video of three female hostages and apparently berating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not agreeing for a ceasefire saying that that ceasefire would have seen the hostages released this is I mean they also mentioned the press conference I'm going to stop you right now because this is a screenshot of what is contained in the video again we won't be showing this actual video but this is the screenshot released just moments ago from Hamas continue Ariel so the woman in the center who is speaking she is mentioning the press conference that Prime Minister Netanyahu held with the families of the hostages and saying accusing Netanyahu of the failure on October 7th but also ever since this is clear psychological warfare on the part of Hamas this is also the reason why we're not showing the video right now the families of these hostages first need to be notified and this is the most cynical use of these innocent victims who were taken on October 7th who continue to be victims throughout and their families as well here they're being used to try and create additional pressure so more discord among Israelis between the leadership and the civilian population we don't need to be surprised that Hamas knows no laws in terms of their use of of human emotion and psychological warfare this obviously the latest example Gonen Ben Yitzchak your take on the strategy now difficult to be honest to even look at the screenshot of this video that Hamas has just released what do you make of the moves out of this terror group right now first of all I want to thank I-24 for being careful not showing right now the video before the families see and know about it the war criminals of ISIS Hamas in Gaza it's not a surprise that they're going to use from now on until this problem will be solved in a brutal way the fact that they hold hostages there I hope that the Israeli government will be smart enough to know how to handle this terrible situation because a humanitarian aspect is terrible we have babies there we have women we have men that are hostages this is a war crime the world must understand that the way they've been taken from Israel is a war crime but of course we need to be strong enough I think the the Israeli society need to be strong and understand that as Ariel said they're going now to try and play with our minds they're going to show things they're going to use the hostages in order to try and push and somehow change the way that the operation is handled this is a very terrible situation and I hope it will be solved soon devastating and again we watch to see how things unfold Bonin Ben Yitzchak and Ariel Osaran thank you both so much for this update now one of the community's hardest hit on the 7th of October was Kibbutz near us Ranana Goma Yaakov's two sons were alone at home 16 year old or and 12 year old Yagil they were both abducted by Hamas and are being held in Gaza Ranana has asked for the help of animator Yoni Goodman to raise awareness about the hostages we've just been talking about the ones who are being held by the terror group and let's take a look at what has happened in this animation on saturday morning october 7th at 6 30 in the morning the red alert went off and a barrage of missiles fell on our house in Kibbutz near us my sons 12 and 16 were alone in my house sleeping they got into the safe room they called me scared to death they said they hear someone breaking into our home over the phone i heard voices speaking in arabic even though my son was trying hard to hold it closed the door to the safe room was pushed open last i heard was my youngest saying don't take me i'm too young 70 people were kidnapped from their home in iraaz i think of them alone in a pit or a dark tunnel with no sense of time i hope that they are together keeping each other strong and that they are with other children who were also kidnapped until i see them again waiting to hug them again soon so much heartache around the country right now what realistically can israel do to help these families 239 hostages what can they do i guess that two asses the israel has one is the fact that we have prisoners in the israeli prison the prisoners is a very sensitive issue among the palestinian society and i'm not sure that until now israel used it wisely we need to use it we need to use it because we just so now how brutal is hamas in using the fact that they are holding our people the second thing is the fact that israel is now going deeper and deeper into gaza they understand and i think what the the spoken of idf daniel agar he said uh yecha sinuar is not going to get out alive from this a massacre they understand it and you know that they are going to use the hostages but also israel can use it i think that maybe israel should rethink how much humanitarian aid is coming into gaza of course there is the international law i think israel should should behave according to the international law but not even one inch farther than the international law so i hope that this pressure will make them eventually do some exchange of fair hostages 239 hostages still being held by the hamas terror group in gaza right now ginen ben yitzchak aril osaran thank you very much for being part of this breaking news edition and that is where we wrap up for now for this edition of our breaking news coverage i'm benny sylevine intel abe of our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is i-24 news over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside school on what's going on only on i-24 news israel's story must reach the whole world the i-24 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 bringing israel's story to the world i-24 news channels now on hot in news edition i'm benny sylevine coming to you live from tel aviv rockets are again being launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities siren sounding in jerusalem f right and shores just a short while ago reports of six interceptions over the capital during that barrage and a little earlier siren sounding in the south in nativ haasara and in bir shiba as well earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of nativot with a direct impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets were launched from the gaza strip on day 24 of the war right now as we are speaking sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country that coming in right now sirens are sounding in northern parts of the country right now including in shlomi and rosh hanikra meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the gaza strip carrying out strikes against sun 600 hamas targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel higari saying the idf is attacking from the air israeli tanks reportedly entering the edge of gaza city on monday morning and cutting a key road from the north to the south of the enclave the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the gaza strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives a soldier was killed and two others seriously injured when a tank overturned in northern israel on sunday confirmation that 31 year old sergeant first class yinon fleishman a reserve soldier from jerusalem died in that incident meanwhile us vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of u.s soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in u.s troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into israel or gaza period now let's find out what is happening on the ground we go live to our correspondent pierce tackle but she's in northern israel and just as we came to air pier we heard that sirens were sounding in some parts of the north also the idf is striking in lebanon right now what update can you share right beneath of the tensions do remain very high and this is the first time for today that sirens are sounding in northern israel we're speaking about a region that is at the very western part of the israel lebanon border the communities of rosa nikrat shlomi baserit these communities there that have been widely evacuated when we especially speak about communities like hanita and shlomi that comes after yesterday evening several barrages of rockets were fired from southern lebanon into israel into different localities in israel as we are speaking about kirech mon in the east and also in the western region rea also yesterday receiving a red a lot rocket sirens for that barrage on to the western part of the israel lebanese border yesterday hamas's military wing in southern lebanon claiming responsibility for how itself said sick firing 16 rockets into southern israel and we've been really seeing an uptick in those rockets being fired from southern lebanon also last night rockets fired from syria into the golan hides region communities there so we have been really seeing an uptick in that comes in it the israeli military striking back as per protocol towards the origin of those strikes both coming from southern lebanon and also from syria there earlier we've been a little bit closer to the border we could really see those the smoke arising from those strikes and also smoke arising from israeli territory coming from those shelling that shelling coming from southern lebanon into israel there benita thank you so much live from northern israel our correspondent pierce dekelbach thank you very much for that update stay safe because as we are talking right now sirens sounding right now in the gaza envelope that is in the south of the country and as we heard from pierce dekelbach also in the north at the same time so for more here in studio former shinbet agent ginen benitzhak and our middle east correspondent ariel osiran and ariel i'm going to start with you because as we came to air we saw that rocket sirens were sounding both in the south and in the north at the same time and just a short while ago jerusalem as well six interceptions and they've been hamas and other palestinian infections in gaza and also in lebanon have been firing rockets pretty much non-stop since this began on october 7th most of these rocket launches are indeed on southern israeli communities but every once in a while they also make it to central israel jerusalem is a little more rare we haven't seen this in a few days but six interceptions there as you were speaking also additional sirens heard in the community surrounding the gaza strip and this is an attempt by hamas to show that even though we're more than three weeks into this campaign that they still have firepower that even as israeli ground forces are are advancing deeper and deeper further into the gaza strip already making it south of the of gaza city and are positioning themselves there this is an attempt to show that they still are are are part of this fight and they can still heard the israeli communities while the fighting continues gonnen ben-yitzhak your take on exactly this right now it's day 24 there are 239 hostages still being held by hamas inside gaza and right now as we're speaking just moments ago rocket sirens still being launched towards the north and the south your assessment i think that israeli new from the beginning that israeli cannot stop the rockets permanently so this ability is still there and from time to time they show us that they can launch missiles it's not any surprise for the israeli intelligence or idf we say that the idf doesn't go deep into gaza right now i think that the way this operation is managed is is very smart they go slowly i think the military got ready into going into gaza going into gaza is not a simple thing it's a very complex area you have civilians you have many many militias we see that the outcome of the operation is many militias that got injured and died during the operation and i think that and i hope that the israeli government understands that the first goal and the most important goal for now is to bring back the hostages later on we have enough time to fight hamas and to hit hamas hard for what happened but right now we have an obligation for the hostages to bring them back and i want to bring you in ariel on this expanded ground operation that is happening inside the strip just seconds ago we had live images on our screen out of gaza we do know that the idf is continuing with its strikes and update as to how things are progressing on the ground in terms of the idf making dense in its aim to eliminate hamas right so as as the ground operation starts to take form because i i i agree with my friend here it's not it started slowly gradually and quietly but it is advancing and this is this main stage is preparation for further wide-scale operations so a lot of this are engineering operations you see a lot of the denies tractors trying to shape the terrain in its own in a way that serves the forces best but also israeli air force pummeling down on hamas targets throughout the gaza strip at least four senior commanders were eliminated in the last few hours in coordination between israeli military forces and she embed this includes the head of the navy for of hamas's naval commando forces in the central part of the gaza strip also key anti-tank unit commanders these are um this is the level of commanders that sent uh hamas operatives into israel on october 7th but they stood back they remained in their command posts and these are the ones who are being targeted now obviously with the more lower level lower level uh operatives and terrorists but indeed as the forces continued to advance and try to take out different outposts and different infrastructure we're seeing a gradual and positive advancement of the israeli forces i think as far as militarily the way they would like to see this i would note that we're not seeing a lot of footage coming out of the gaza strip i think that's mainly due to the fact that a lot of guzzins in the northern part of the strip evacuated down south they listened to the warnings and calls by the israeli military also issues of electricity and connectivity this is something that also helps the forces advance without this shed of of footage depicting what they're doing every step something which we're going to discuss in depth in a short while but first let's go to our senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae if he joins us from southern israel and siren sounding just a short while ago nativa asa ra in bea sheba as well and other communities what is the latest where you are yes so as you mentioned the siren sounding in various communities in southern israel some of them right on the gaza border itself like in nativa asa ra for example roughly seven eight miles to the south of where we are and also in places further upon a further afield like a beresheva for example i wouldn't be surprised to see rockets later on fired even to two places further afield maybe even to central israel because the ability is still there hamas doesn't need to send too many rockets to ignite sirens when you send a rocket to central israel a very densely populated area you ignite sirens in various communities you don't need to send more than two or three and the whole central israel gets a sirens and i wouldn't be surprised to see hamas doing that today and for days to come and just to give us an understanding of the number of communities where you are that have been evacuated not a lot of people still staying close to the border your sense of the number of people impacted by the sirens in the southern parts of the country right now if we're speaking of the the communities that are right on the border fence roughly 30 communities or so are practically empty very few people still there and mostly soldiers the army is present in many of those uh communities it's thereot the biggest city right on the gaza border it's a town of roughly 25 000 people i'd say about 90 of the people are gone in ashkelon where we are the biggest city which is closest to the gaza border here it's a major city more than 150 000 people therefore many are still here and we do see movement we do see shops much more than we see in sderot for example but still obviously this is this is far from being a normal day here senior defense correspondent jonathan regev in southern israel thank you for that update more to come from our team on the ground in the coming hours and in jerusalem earlier in the day a police officer is now in a stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister itamar ben gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on mandate telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what i've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still in the studio for machine bit agent ginen ben yitzhak and our middle east correspondent ariel osaran and ginen i want to pick up on this incident that happened in jerusalem a stabbing of a police officer in a stable condition what do you make though of the message from itamar ben gavir right now start start maybe with the the disability of ramas right now to attack in the west bank and i think that when we look at it's a ramas gaza thought that it will be able to bring he's bala bring maybe other groups in syria and in the west bank to attack israel while they are suffering or suffering the attacks in gaza and i'm very happy to see that until now of course we saw during the last three or more weeks that they are trying from time to time to attack but basically they couldn't do anything today unfortunately we we had this incident this terror attack in in jerusalem regarding what the minister ben gavir said you know i i would expect itamar ben gavir first of all to say that police my gav they are responsible to the defense of people in in jerusalem i i'm not sure that for the long run right now everybody wants to get a weapon we feel insecure because the government doesn't give us this security but in the long run we see what's going on in the united states i don't know if this is something that is going to be a very positive process in israel the fact that so many people are carrying weapons gone in obviously the focus right now in the country is the war and israel working to eliminate ramas so that what happened on the seventh of october never ever happens again however one cannot ignore the huge intelligence failures of the seventh of october the new york times a staggering article outlining information that is actually difficult to understand how intelligence experts shin bet knew that activity was happening across the border in the early hours before this attack that they didn't see it fit to report to authorities that they never sought fit to wake the prime minister and tell him what was happening and the understanding according to this article is that the defense establishment was not interested they thought that ramas was not interested in a conflict knowing now what we know about what happened your reaction well first of all we need to be very careful about the information that is spreaded although it gets to the new york times because right now we see that in israel we have a big issue with the fact who who is responsible for what happened on october 7th but i would say first of all it's obvious that the intelligence failure is huge but alongside we know that the policy of the state of israel for the last 10 or 15 years was something that i'll say the intelligence and the policy went together the fact that israel allowed katar to put so many billions of dollars into a gaza we thought that as much as we will pay hamas money they will keep quiet i think this is not only it is a huge intelligence failure but it's also a policy and decision makers mistake and we don't have right now all you know all the information to understand what exactly happened but i think one thing i tell myself okay as a citizen that looks at everything i tell myself everybody including me including everybody we need to rethink about what we thought before the october 7th massacre and we need to change the situation i am looking at what's going on on our northern border and i'm afraid that on the north we are going on the same mistake that we did in gaza meaning we let chisbala decide when they will attack and when they'll open the war something that we need to think when we look at what happened in the south and knowing that it was big big mistake if you look at that article and you look at the information that is released right now it is very clear that there is a problem with arrogance within the security establishment would you agree with that assessment no doubt no doubt i i'm sure i think that the fact that everybody thought that uh technology would give an answer to everything you know i came from a less maybe a sexy field which is the human the human intelligence and for the last 10 years i'm saying again again including in this studio i'm saying don't forget human don't forget the fact that in the end only human source can give you the thought or the real motivation and and when you rely only on on technology we saw what happened we're going to discuss that in a little bit more detail but right now i want to bring in our middle east correspondent ariel o saran because we all know that there are 239 hostages still being held by the hamas terror group a new video has just been released we are not going to be showing that video on this channel at the moment but what details are contained in that right benita so as we've been speaking here in studio hamas releasing a video of three female hostages and apparently berating prime minister benjamin attenyao for not agreeing for a ceasefire saying that that ceasefire would have seen the hostages released this is i mean they also mentioned the press conference i'm going to stop you right now because this is a screenshot of what is contained in the video again we won't be showing this actual video but this is the screenshot released just moments ago from hamas continue ariel so the woman in the center who is speaking she is mentioning the press conference that prime minister attenyao held with the families of the hostages and saying accusing attenyao of the failure on october 7th but also ever since this is clear psychological warfare on the part of hamas this is also the reason why we're not showing the video right now the families of these hostages first need to be notified and this is the most cynical use of of these innocent victims who were taken on october 7th who continue to be victims throughout and their families as well here they're being used to try and create additional pressure so more discord among israelis between the leadership and the civilian population we don't need to be surprised that hamas knows no lows in terms of their use of of of human emotion and psychological warfare this obviously the latest example go ahead ben yitzhak your take on the strategy now difficult to be honest to even look at the screenshot of this video that hamas has just released what do you make of the moves out of this terror group right now so i want to thank i-24 for being careful not showing right now the video before the families see and know about it the war criminals of isis hamas in gaza it's not a surprise that they're going to use from now on until this problem will be solved in a brutal way the fact that they hold hostages there i hope that the israeli government will be smart enough to know how to handle this terrible situation because a humanitarian aspect is terrible we have babies there we have women we have men that are hostages this is a war crime the world must understand that the way they've been taken from israel is a war crime but of course we need to be strong enough i think the the israeli society need to be strong and understand that as arielle said they're going now to try and play with our minds they're going to show things they're going to use the hostages in order to try and and push and and somehow change the way that the operation is handled this is a very terrible situation and i hope it will be solved soon devastating and again we watch to see how things unfold gonen ben yitzchak and arielle osiran thank you both so much for this update now one of the community's hardest hit on the 7th of october was kibbutz near us renanna goma yakov's two sons were alone at home 16 year old or and 12 year old yakil they were both abducted by hamas and are being held in gaza renanna has asked for the help of animator yoni goodman to raise awareness about the hostages we've just been talking about the ones who are being held by the terror group and let's take a look at what has happened in this animation saturday morning october 7th at 6 30 in the morning the red alert went off and a barrage of missiles fell on our house in kibbutz near us my sons 12 and 16 were alone in my house sleeping they got into the safe room they called me scared to death they said they hear someone breaking into our home over the phone i heard voices speaking in arabic even though my son was trying hard to hold it closed door to the safe room was pushed open last i heard was my youngest saying don't take me i'm too young 70 people were kidnapped from their home in iraq i think of them alone in a pit or a dark tunnel with no sense of time i hope that they are together keeping each other strong and that they are with other children who were also kidnapped until i see them again waiting to hug them again soon so much heartache around the country right now ginen ben yitzchak what realistically can israel do to help these families 239 hostages what can they do i guess that two asses the israel has one is the fact that we have prisoners in the israeli prison the prisoners is a very sensitive issue among the palestinian society and i'm not sure that until now israel used it wisely we need to use it we need to use it because we just saw now how brutal is hamas in using the fact that they're holding our people the second thing is the fact that israel is now going deeper and deeper into gaza they understand and i think what the the spoken of idf daniel agar he said yesi noir is not going to get out alive from this massacre they understand it and you know that they are going to use the hostages but also israel can use it i think that maybe israel should rethink how much humanitarian aid is coming into gaza of course there is the international law i think israel should should behave according to the international law but not even one inch farther than the international law so i hope that this pressure will make them eventually do some exchange of fair hostages 239 hostages still being held by the hamas terror group in gaza right now ginen ben yitzhak aril osaran thank you very much for being part of this breaking news edition and that is where we wrap up for now for this edition of our breaking news coverage i'm benisa levine in tel aviv our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is i24 news israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity is addition on benisa levine coming to you live from tel aviv and we start with breaking news hamas has released a video in which three israeli women held hostage by the terror group in the gaza strip slam benjamin netanyahu calling on him to secure their release they also accuse the israeli prime minister of failing to prevent the terror groups onslaught on the 7th of october now i24 news is choosing not to play the video at this point because this is part of the terror group psychological warfare this is a screenshot of the three women hamas is currently holding 239 known hostages inside gaza meanwhile rockets have again been launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities in recent hours siren sounding in jerusalem if rat shawrish just a short while ago reports of six interceptions in the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south netiva asara and bear sheba as well earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of neti vot with a direct impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the gaza strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the gaza strip carrying out strikes against some 605 targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel hagari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives meanwhile u.s vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of american soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in u.s troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into israel or gaza period now for the latest on the ground let's go straight to our correspondent khamda salhut she joins us from southern israel and we know khamda that sirens were sounding in several regions including communities of nativa asarar and bishiba earlier and also as far as jerusalem effratt and shorish what is happening where you are in the south well look benita the israeli military continues to strike targets inside of the gaza strip both via land air and sea but the situation now is escalating you can hear that artillery fire behind me in the distance the military is saying that it is now entering its second phase of this war and the military spokesperson also saying yesterday that this is an expansion of the operation that they have against hamas overnight eliminating several hamas targets as tanks made several uh more advances inside of the gaza strip but now the mission is clear by the israeli military to eliminate hamas eliminate as many targets as they can and free those hostages now on the other side of the border sources with inside the gaza strip are telling me that it's becoming increasingly difficult for residents to evacuate the north where a lot of this bombardment is going on these are continuous strikes here behind me in the distance here at a fresh israeli airstrike on the north part of the gaza strip the neighborhoods we're talking about here are betlaya jabalia and so on so the this is the exact area that the military has been asking civilians inside of gaza to evacuate but the reality on the ground according to sources is that there's simply no place to go you can continuously hear that bombardment here as the military is fresh trying to really apply this pressure on hamas you could see here these fighter jets in the distance as they're making their circles continuing to watch the area they have been buzzing overhead really all afternoon as the situation here continues to escalate benita thank you so much we will be coming back to our correspondent khamdes al-hut in southern israel stay safe khamdes and now for more we welcome to studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and our middle east correspondent ariel osara and gentlemen thank you both so much for being here in studio ariel i want to pick up on the latest news development and that is this hamas video released just a short while ago of three israeli hostages again i-24 news is choosing not to air the contents of the video we do have a screenshot of it three israeli women bring us up to speed on what unfolded in the last hour right so a few minutes before the video hamas on its social media platforms announced that they were going to release it that's already even before they released the video they continued with their psychological warfare and then once published this is a perfect example of hamas psychological warfare trying to use innocent civilians who were kidnapped from their homes talking about 239 30 of them are over 30 of them are our children our minors our babies and in this video we see the woman in the middle basically berating uh prime minister benjamin tanyahu accusing him of the failures of october 7th of uh not not doing enough to release them not bringing on a ceasefire um you can see and feel the emotion in uh in her in her words and in her delivery but again this is aimed to do nothing but so fear and discord among israeli's mainly among the families of these poor victims um who on the one hand this um they're receiving a first proof of of life of their condition so i think that is the only silver lining that we can see for those three families other than that this is complete and utter uh cynical use of uh human hardship and this is something that is not new on the part of hamas obviously after the atrocities of october 7th we shouldn't be surprised from anything that they do but they've been promising to continue to do this through videos using the hostages which on the one hand is their strongest card against the israeli population to try and and pressure it to bring a ceasefire to bring a prisoner swap deal um on the other side this is also i think israel's strongest card to the world to show that in terms of morality there there is nothing that justifies israel's actions more than uh releasing the hostages for instance if the hostages were released there would probably be an immediate ceasefire and then they could talk about it so i mean that's just one example and unfortunately hamas continues with its cynical psychological warfare against israeli public richard kemp your thoughts looking at that video of those three israeli women the strategy being used right now by hamas the nation is traumatized the nation is waiting for word the 239 hostages the family is waiting for some kind of confirmation about what is happening and this video is released your take i myself i've been involved in hostage release operations in afghanistan and in iraq of british citizens kidnapped by al qaeda and other groups and this this tactic is classic to to try and force concessions in this case from the israeli government those concessions including of course the release of of hamas prisoners but also i think this shows the in some ways the desperation of hamas who believe i think that the game is up for them now with the massive attacks israel's been inflicting on them and they will be using these hostages i think and the and the psychological operations that go with it to try and get israel to cease attacking them and so it's a terrible situation but israel's challenge is is massive as well both in terms of effectively dealing with mass but also making any attempt to rescue hostages the situations i was involved in involved maybe one and two hostages individually in separate cases but the idea of being trying to rescue 220 of them is a task that is almost unimaginable and trying to get into the heads so to speak of hamas being compared to isis some saying worse than isis you have lost experience in dealing with terror organizations what would you advise the war cabinet right now how do they handle the situation well i think the the only thing that the war cabinet can do is what the prime minister spelt out a couple of days ago which is to to continue to operate to destroy hamas and at the same time to to try everything to release the hostages and and you know we don't know what goes on behind the scenes i think if anyone can get at least some of those hostages out it is the idea of who have phenomenal experience of this but i'm not overly confident that even they can succeed in these circumstances my my thinking and this is a horrible thing to say is that israel cannot contemplate a ceasefire now because what that means it doesn't mean that these hostages will be released it means that the hamas will be stringing israel alarming it doesn't mean hamas is going to cease firing it doesn't mean hamas is going to do anything other than to hope that the idf get out of gaza and leave them to rebuild their operation so i think those who are calling for a ceasefire now are saying israel shouldn't be defending itself even against the attacks that took place three weeks ago something we're going to discuss in more detail in a short while ritchard camp ariel osaren stay with us but right now news just in rocket siren sounding once again in the northern communities of israel we go straight to our correspondent robert swift he is in northern israel right now siren sounding in several communities in the galilee including shlomi and roshan ikrah earlier what is the latest right now there what can you tell us rob so the the latest incident has just taken place that's in the community of al kosh which is a little bit further to the east than where the fire earlier today was just over an hour ago there was mortar fire into communities around shlomi which is on the far western end of israel's northern border the lebanese militias fired mortars across the border with and the israeli military returned fire using artillery and mortars of its own no reports as yet on casualties but we're seeing a you know stepped up activity around the border in general we're just showing you some footage right now of two apache gunship helicopters they're patrolling over our heads and they've been going backwards and forwards in some sort of patrol pattern around the communities where we are which is a little bit further south than the the mortar incident that i just referred to so rob from your vantage point we are hearing also about idea of activity in lebanon what kind of update can you share from where you are what is the latest unfolding on that front what can you share well the israeli military have been doing their best to degrade the capabilities of khizbullah without uh without getting heavily involved with it they don't want to get they don't want to cross a certain threshold so the main priority for them so far has been to attack the anti-tank teams that khizbullah has been using to inflict casualties so far the anti-tank weapons have proven to be the most dangerous weapon and so they are the priority for the israeli military to destroy thank you so much our correspondent robert swift in northern israel we will be coming back to rob for regular updates in the coming hours stay safe rob and in jerusalem a police officer is in stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station earlier in the day the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister itamar ben gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on monday telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what i've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still with me in studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and you have written an article saying khamas is the only army who wants its civilians killed i want some context in terms of what we are talking about right now we spoke earlier on about the hostages 239 this video released of three women the context of the one-year planning for this brutal assault on the 7th of october and the fact that there's a stabbing in jerusalem and other incidents happening all at once you'll take your insight into khamas and the risks it's prepared to take right now in terms of its own civilians shouldn't we shouldn't forget that behind khamas behind some of the violence in the west bank behind his bala are lebanon is iran i think this is iran the whole plan is iran's plan whether it's going according to plan or not is another issue but it's iran's plan and i would be not at all surprised if iran orders his bala to intensify attacks from the north at some point maybe once they feel that israel is very heavily committed inside gaza on the ground but in terms of your your specific question their whole strategy is not based on destroying israel they know they can't destroy israel they can't beat the idea if they had they were very successful three weeks ago unfortunately but they know that it's not a long-term proposition so their strategy is based on carrying out attacks which will draw israel into gaza either from the air on the ground in order to kill palestinian civilians they that is what they want to do they're only army in history that has wanted their enemies to kill their civilian population the reason so that they can use the the global vilification isolation delegitimization that follows and that we've seen we're watching it unfold now accusing israel of war crimes accusing israel of acting illegally uh to to undermine israel undermine the state of israel that is their policy and that's why they use their civilians for this purpose why does the world though broadly speaking not see that and understand that there has been evidence since the 7th of october recordings of gaza saying they want to get out as instructed by the idf they can't because hamas had ordered them not to do so there is evidence satellite footage imagery showing trucks from hamas stopping civilians palestinian civilians from getting out why does broadly speaking the world not see and understand that verified evidence and assessments like the one you are just making well that technique of stopping civilians leaving when israel warns them that attacks gonna take place is certainly not new it's happened in every conflict in gaza since hamas took control of it they they want their civilians to die why the world doesn't see it the world doesn't want to see it the and i say the world obviously a lot of people do understand this but the organizations like the united nations the international criminal court many governments around the world they they don't want this to be true they they want israel to be the guilty party and you know you have to you have to step back before the events three weeks ago to recognize that so much of the world so much of organizations like the un e u other countries feel israel is illegitimate israel are illegal occupiers they've stolen arab land so that's the start point you you're at and no matter what you do or no matter what you've you have done to you it's you israel which is a fault that is the way the world sees it not hamas hamas of freedom fighters and even the organizations like the bbc refuse to call hamas terrorists and many other media organizations do the same thing because they think they're fighting a legitimate struggle for freedom and resistance it's quite staggering because anyone who had seen the footage from the 7th of october and make no mistake hamas wanted the world to see the footage they filmed it with go-pros and videos butchering of children on video heinous atrocities that have been captured on film and yet there are some still questioning what exactly happened how is this possible in 2023 again the terror group wanted the world to understand what they were doing and this is this is straight out of the isis playbook isis did the same thing they filmed themselves burning people alive and and chopping people's heads off it's part of their way of of inciting terror and i think i think i go back to the fact that you know and we i've i've seen people i've got people on my own social media feed saying that this didn't happen it was the israelis that killed the israelis three weeks ago it wasn't hamas and we've seen hamas leaders even hamas leaders being interviewed saying the same thing but but i go back to what what i said before which is that doesn't matter what you do it doesn't matter what's done to you you're wrong you're in israel you're in the wrong and it's it's it's the result of decades and decades of anti-israel propaganda the greatest slur campaign in the history of the world which was started interestingly enough in the kremlin in the soviet union in order to undermine israel as an ally of the united states and that's what it's all about and it's shaking that narrative many of us try to do so but shaking that narrative is so hard after so many decades of it really gaining credibility and strength in the media too much of the world's media in universities in organizations like the like the un and yet post the 7th of october so many observers saying this is clearly a war between good and evil the concept of the human shield a tool used as you say not a new concept used within gaza in terms of using baby's women children to protect terrorists we know that the terror command center is built underneath a hospital how does israel deal with that evil well it's it's it's something that israel whatever israel does it will be blamed for war crimes but the the laws of war say that if there's a even if a protected object like a school a hospital a mosque or any other protected object or a civilian apartment building if that's used as a military objective then israel or any other competent is entitled to attack that objective even if there are civilians in it there is a there is a formula laid down by the laws of war which tell you how in what circumstances you can do it etc but ultimately you're allowed to do it and even if civilians are going to die in the process it's not a war crime necessarily and and the idea if i think you know over the years the idea of have developed some very effective techniques for clearing civilians out when it comes to a hospital full of patients i think i think you know i think i'm right in saying that the likelihood of israel carrying a massive airstrikes on that hospital even though it might be entitled to do so but under the law is very low and i think israel is probably going to have to either find a way of getting those civilians out or do it deal with the the the the structure from the ground in a more clinical sort of way now war is not clinical but i i think i think israel will do whatever it can to avoid striking hospital but ultimately this is where it's being controlled from colonel richard kim thank you very much stay with us we've got more to discuss but right now as we continue to hear stories of survival from the october 7th massacre some stories have been spanning decades since the holocaust in this adaptation from israel channel 12 news we hear a holocaust survivor recount his experience from nearly 80 years ago and how now his family has their own story of surviving against the odds every holocaust day they say never again there will never be a second holocaust like there had been but the fact that my family would have to sit in a secure room two and a half year old neto with his parents shivering for 20 hours never occurred to me my name is naftali in two months i will be 91 years old from 1942 to 1945 i was in concentration camps where this photo was taken i'm here on the third bunk this photo was taken four days after the liberation i thought i was free but i was very sad as if i was left alone in the world we came to the conclusion that jews have a certain place in this world it's here in the land of israel we thought that here we would build a strong and secure state for all the jews of the world on saturday morning i heard there were alarms in the south so i immediately called my daughter ronnie and i asked her what was happening with my granddaughter and faraza and she said that at the moment she had no contact and she hoped everything was fine we didn't hear anything we didn't know we were terribly anxious and they started showing how a tractor dismantled the fence there and they walked in as if on a straw and just here's the big thing i believed in the government i believed in the army but no one came and mika my granddaughter with her husband sefi and my two and a half year old great grandson neta were inside the safe room they were shaking and afraid they were left without electricity without a telephone without food sefi tied the handle of the safe room with a telephone wire so they wouldn't get in they both stood with knives in their hand maybe that would save them they heard shouting and gunshots the house of their neighbors the good friends burned down she didn't know if they would come or not only at two in the morning i think that the idf finally arrived at their house and released them and all three are in good condition healthy so at the moment a weight was lifted from my heart we all relaxed neta's grandparents grandmother tommy and her partner javik were murdered in kfar aza brutally murdered as far as we know they say they are nazis it's hard for me to compare them to nazis they use the method of the nazis they came to murder israeli jews they have intentions of destroying the entire jewish people it's similar it's scary but it's not the same it's it's not a holocaust it's a mini holocaust the number on my forearm shows that i was in the holocaust and passed through auschwitz i know that some kibbutz survivors from the gaza strip tattooed the date on their forearms they have a right to do that because that's how they feel so if it makes them feel better might shouldn't they do it in the holocaust a bit of luck was not enough to survive i must have survived because i had a lot of luck and what happened on october 7th is another huge bit of luck that my granddaughter and her husband and my sweet great grandson were saved from the inferno that happened to all the discouraged people i can say that time has an effect it's impossible to remain in internal trauma and it's human nature to recover and move on man is looking to the future heart wrenching stories of survival colonel richard camp we have a few seconds left i'm going to put you on the spot and put you in the war cabinet and say what advice would you be giving to leaders right now day 24 of the war the first thing i'd say is that i don't think the war cabinet needs my advice i think they've got some very talented people there and in the idf who know what they're doing but what i would say is that it's essential that that israel maintains their offensive until her mass has been destroyed or thrown out of guards or one way or the other that's got to happen there's no alternative to that in my view obviously that is not the easiest haven't done not militarily but from the point of view of international relations which obviously could have a bearing on what israel does and the second thing i'd say is that israel has to deal with his balar in lebanon whether it's concurrently or immediately afterwards somehow it has to deal with lebanon colonel richard camp a pleasure here in your insights thank you very much for being here in our studios and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news i'm benita levine intel aviv our coverage continues soon stay tuned thank you for watching israel is at war make an investment in 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the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south netiva asara and bir shiba as well earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of netiva with a direct impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the gaza strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the gaza strip carrying out strikes against some 600 hamas targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel hagari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives meanwhile u.s vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of american soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in u.s troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into israel or gaza period now for the latest on the ground let's go straight to our correspondent khamda salhot she joins us from southern israel and we know khamda that sirens were sounding in several regions including communities of nativa asrar and piershi but earlier and also as far as jerusalem efrat and shorish what is happening where you are in the south well look benita the israeli military continues to strike targets inside of the gaza strip both via land air and sea but the situation now is escalating you can hear that artillery fire behind me in the distance the military is saying that it is now entering its second phase of this war and the military spokesperson also saying yesterday that this is an expansion of the operation that they have against hamas overnight eliminating several hamas targets as tanks made several uh more advances inside of the gaza strip but now the mission is clear by the israeli military to eliminate hamas eliminate as many targets as they can and free those hostages now on the other side of the border sources with inside the gaza strip are telling me that it's becoming increasingly difficult for residents to evacuate the north where a lot of this bombardment is going on these are continuous strikes here behind me in the distance here in a fresh israeli airstrike on the north part of the gaza strip the neighborhoods we're talking about here are bethlehia jabalia uh and so on so the this is the exact area that the military has been asking civilians inside of gaza to evacuate but the reality on the ground according to sources is that there's simply no place to go you can continuously hear that bombardment here as the military is trying to really apply this pressure on hamas you could see here these fighter jets in the distance as they're making their circles continuing to watch the area they have been buzzing overhead really all afternoon as the situation here continues to escalate benita thank you so much we will be coming back to our correspondent khamdes al-hut in southern israel stay safe khamdes and now for more we welcome to studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and our middle east correspondent ariel osara and gentlemen thank you both so much for being here in studio ariel i want to pick up on the latest news development and that is this hamas video released just a short while ago of three israeli hostages again i24 news is choosing not to air the contents of the video we do have a screenshot of it three israeli women bring us up to speed on what unfolded in the last hour right so a few minutes before the video hamas on its social media platforms announced that they were going to release it that's already even before they released the video they continued with their psychological warfare and then once published this is a perfect example of hamas psychological warfare trying to use innocent civilians who were kidnapped from their homes talking about 239 30 of them are over 30 of them are our children our minors our babies and in this video we see the woman in the middle basically berating uh prime minister benjamin tanyahu accusing him of the failures of october 7th of uh not not doing enough to release them not bringing on a ceasefire um you can see and feel the emotion in uh in her in her words and in her delivery but again this is aimed to do nothing but so fear and discord among israelis mainly among the families of these poor victims um who on the one hand this um they're receiving a first proof of of of life of their condition so i think on that is the only silver lining that we can see for those three families other than that this is complete and utter uh cynical use of uh human hardship and this is something that is not new on the part of hamas obviously after the atrocities of october 7th we shouldn't be surprised from anything that they do but they've been promising to continue to do this through videos using the hostages which on the one hand is their strongest card against the israeli population to try and and pressure it to bring a ceasefire to bring a prisoner swap deal um on the other side this is also i think israel's strongest card to the world to show that in terms of morality there there is nothing that justifies israel's actions more than uh releasing the hostages for instance if the hostages were released there would probably be an immediate ceasefire and then they could talk about it so i mean that's just one example and and unfortunately hamas continues with its cynical psychological warfare against israeli public richard kemp your thoughts looking at that video of those three israeli women the strategy being used right now by hamas the nation is traumatized the nation is waiting for word the 239 hostages the family is waiting for some kind of confirmation about what is happening and this video is released your take myself i've been involved in hostage release operations in afghanistan and in iraq of british citizens kidnapped by al qaeda and other groups and this this tactic is classic to to to try and force concessions in this case from the israeli government those concessions including of course the release of of hamas prisoners but also i think this shows the in some ways the desperation of hamas who believe i think that the game is up for them now with the massive attacks israel's been inflicting on them and they will be using these hostages i think and the and the psychological operations that go with it to try and get israel to cease attacking them and so it's it's a terrible situation but israel's challenge is is massive as well both in terms of effectively dealing with mass but also making any attempt to rescue hostages the the situations i was involved and involved maybe one and two hostages individually in separate cases but the idea of being trying to rescue 220 of them is is a a task that is almost unimaginable and trying to get into the heads so to speak of hamas being compared to isis some saying worse than isis you have lost experience in dealing with terror organizations what would you advise the war cabinet right now how do they handle the situation well i think the the only thing that the war cabinet can do is what the prime minister spelt out a couple of days ago which is to to to continue to operate to destroy hamas and at the same time to to try everything to release the hostages and and you know we don't know what goes on behind the scenes i think if anyone can get at least some of those hostages out it is the idea of who have phenomenal experience of this but i'm not overly confident that even they can succeed in these circumstances my my thinking and this is a horrible thing to say is that israel cannot contemplate a ceasefire now because what that means it doesn't mean that these hostages will be released it means that the hamas will be stringing israel alone it doesn't mean hamas is going to cease firing it doesn't mean hamas is going to do anything other than to hope that the idf get out of gaza and leave them to rebuild their operation so i think those who are calling for a ceasefire now are saying israel shouldn't be defending itself even against the attacks that took place three weeks ago something we're going to discuss in more detail in a short while richard kimp ariel osir and stay with us but right now news just in rocket siren sounding once again in the northern communities of israel we go straight to our correspondent robert swift he is in northern israel right now siren sounding in several communities in the galilee including shlomi and roshan iqra earlier what is the latest right now there what can you tell us rob so the the latest incident has just taken place that's in the community of al kosh which is a little bit further to the east than where the fire earlier today was uh just over an hour ago there was mortar fire into communities around shlomi which is on the far western end of israel's northern border the uh lebanese militias fired mortars across the border with and the israeli military returned fire using artillery and mortars of its own no reports as yet on casualties but we're seeing a you know stepped up activity around the border in general we're just showing you some footage right now of two apache gunship helicopters that are patrolling over our heads and they've been going backwards and forwards in some sort of patrol pattern around the communities where we are which is a little bit further south than the the mortar incident that i just referred to so rob from your vantage point we are hearing also about idf activity in lebanon what kind of update can you share from where you are what is the latest unfolding on that front what can you share well the israeli military have been doing their best to degrade the capabilities of khizbullah without without getting heavily involved with it they don't want to get they don't want to cross a certain threshold so the main priority for them so far has been to attack the anti-tank teams that khizbullah has been using to inflict casualties so far the anti-tank weapons have proven to be the most dangerous weapon and so they are the priority for the israeli military to destroy thank you so much our correspondent robert swift in northern israel we will be coming back to rob for regular updates in the coming hours stay safe rob and in jerusalem a police officer is in stable condition after being stabbed near the light rail station earlier in the day the attacker was shot dead at the scene national security minister itamar ben gavir was quick to respond from the scene in the capital on monday telling citizens to arm themselves this incident stresses what i've already said a while ago go arm yourself we at the ministry of national security are also working on these projects we are holding training classes we have already opened around 650 classes for training still with me in studio colonel richard kim former commander of the british forces in afghanistan and you have written an article saying hamas is the only army who wants its civilians killed i want some context in terms of what we are talking about right now we spoke earlier on about the hostages 239 this video released of three women the context of the one-year planning for this brutal assault on the 7th of october and the fact that there's a stabbing in jerusalem and other incidents happening all at once you'll take your insight into hamas and the risks it's prepared to take right now in terms of its own civilians i shouldn't we shouldn't forget that behind hamas behind some of the violence in the west bank behind his balar elebanon is iran i think this is iran the whole plan is iran's plan whether it's going according to plan or not is another issue but it's iran's plan and and i would be not at all surprised if iran orders his balar to intensify attacks from the north at some point maybe once they feel that israel is very heavily committed inside gaza on the ground but in terms of your specific question hamas the whole strategy is not based on destroying israel they know they can't destroy israel they can't beat the idea if they were very successful three weeks ago unfortunately but they know that it's not a long-term proposition so their strategy is based on carrying out attacks which will draw israel into gaza either from the air on the ground in order to kill palestinian civilians that is what they want to do they're the only army in history that has wanted their enemies to kill their civilian population the reason so that they can use the the global vilification isolation delegitimization that follows and that we've seen we're watching it unfold now accusing israel of war crimes accusing israel of acting illegally uh to to undermine israel undermine the state of israel that is their policy and that's why they use their civilians for this purpose why does the world though broadly speaking not see that and understand that there has been evidence since the 7th of october recordings of gaza saying they want to get out as instructed by the idf they can't because hamas had ordered them not to do so there is evidence satellite footage imagery showing trucks from hamas stopping civilians palestinian civilians from getting out why does broadly speaking the world not see and understand that verified evidence and assessments like the one you are just making well that technique of stopping civilians leaving when israel warns them that attacks going to take place is certainly not new it's happened in every conflict in gaza since hamas took control of it they they want their civilians to die why the world doesn't see it the world doesn't want to see it the and i say the world obviously a lot of people do understand this but the organizations like the united nations the international criminal court many governments around the world they they don't want this to be true they they want israel to be the guilty party and you know you have to you have to step back before the events three weeks ago to recognize that so much of the world so much organizations like the un e u other countries feel israel is illegitimate israel are illegal occupiers they've stolen arab land so that's the start point you you're at and no matter what you do or no matter what you've you have done to you israel which is a fault that is the way the world sees it not her mass her mass of freedom fighters and even the organizations like the bbc refused to call her mass terrorist and many other media organizations do the same thing because they think they're fighting a legitimate struggle for freedom and resistance it's quite staggering because anyone who had seen the footage from the 7th of october and make no mistake her mass wanted the world to see the footage they filmed with gopros and videos butchering of children on video heinous atrocities that have been captured on film and yet there are some still questioning what exactly happened how is this possible in 2023 again the terror group wanted the world to understand what they were doing and this is this is straight out of the isis playbook isis did the same thing they filmed themselves burning people alive and and chopping people's heads off it's part of their way of of inciting terror and i think i think i go back to the fact that you know and we i've i've seen people i've got people on my own social media feed saying that this didn't happen it was the israelis that killed the israelis three weeks ago wasn't her mass and we've seen her mass leaders even her mass leaders being interviewed saying the same thing but but i go back to what what i said before which is that doesn't matter what you do it doesn't matter what's done to you you're wrong you're in israel you're in the wrong and it's it's it's the result of decades and decades of anti-israel propaganda the greatest slur campaign in the history of the world which was started in interestingly enough in the kremlin in the soviet union in order to undermine israel as an ally of the united states and that's what it's all about and it's shaking that narrative many of us try to do so but shaking that narrative is so hard after so many decades of it really gaining credibility and strength in the media too much of the world's media in universities in organizations like the like the un and yet post the 7th of october so many observers saying this is clearly a war between good and evil the concept of the human shield a tool used as you say not a new concept used within gaza in terms of using baby's women children to protect terrorists we know that a terror command center is built underneath a hospital how does israel deal with that evil well it's it's it's something that is whatever israel does it will be blamed for war crimes but the laws of war say that if there's a even if a protected object like a school a hospital a mosque or any other protected object or a civilian apartment building if that's used as a military objective then israel or any other competent is entitled to attack that objective even if there are civilians in it there is a formula laid down by the laws of war which tell you how in what circumstances you can do it etc but ultimately you're allowed to do it and even if civilians are going to die in the process it's not a war crime necessarily and and the idf i think you know over the years the idf have developed some very effective techniques for clearing civilians out when it comes to a hospital full of patients i think i think you know i think i'm right in saying that the likelihood of israel carrying a massive airstrikes on that hospital even though it might be entitled to do so but under the law is is very low and i think israel is probably going to have to either find a way of getting those civilians out or do it deal with the the the structure from the ground in a more clinical sort of way now war is not clinical but i i think i think israel will do whatever it can to avoid striking hospital but ultimately this is where it's being controlled from colonel richard kim thank you very much stay with us we've got more to discuss but right now as we continue to hear stories of survival from the october 7th massacre some stories have been spanning decades since the holocaust in this adaptation from israel's channel 12 news we hear a holocaust survivor recount his experience from nearly 80 years ago and how now his family has their own story of surviving against the odds every holocaust day they say never again there will never be a second holocaust like there had been but the fact that my family would have to sit in a secure room two and a half year old neto with his parents shivering for 20 hours never occurred to me fool my name is naftali in two months i will be 91 years old from 1942 to 1945 i was in concentration camps where this photo was taken i'm here on the third bunk this photo was taken four days after the liberation i thought i was free but i was very sad as if i was left alone in the world we came to the conclusion that jews have a certain place in this world it's here in the land of israel we thought that here we would build a strong and secure state for all the jews of the world on saturday morning i heard there were alarms in the south so i immediately called my daughter runi and i asked her what was happening with my granddaughter in kvara and she said that at the moment she had no contact and she hoped everything was fine we didn't hear anything we didn't know we were terribly anxious and they started showing how a tractor dismantled the fence there and they walked in as if on a strong and just here's the big thing i believed in the government i believed in the army but no one came and mika my granddaughter with her husband sefi and my two and a half year old great-grandson neto were inside the safe room they were shaking and afraid they were left without electricity without a telephone without food sefi tied the handle of the safe room with a telephone wire so they wouldn't get in they both stood with knives in their hand maybe that would save them they heard shouting and gun shots the house of their neighbors the good friends burned down she didn't know if they would come or not only at two in the morning i think that the idf finally arrived at their house and released them and all three are in good condition healthy so at the moment a weight was lifted from my heart we all relaxed neto's grandparents grandmother tamie and her partner javik were murdered in kvara asa brutally murdered as far as we know they say they are nazis it's hard for me to compare them to nazis they used the method of the nazis they came to murder israeli jews they have intentions of destroying the entire jewish people it's similar it's scary but it's not the same it's not a holocaust it's a mini holocaust the number on my forearm shows that i was in the holocaust and passed through ashwats i know that some kibbutz survivors from the gaza strip tattooed the date on their forearms they have a right to do that because that's how they feel so if it makes them feel better why shouldn't they do it in the holocaust a bit of luck was not enough to survive i must have survived because i had a lot of luck and what happened on october seventh is another huge bit of luck that my granddaughter and her husband and my sweet great grandson were saved from the inferno that happened to all the discouraged people i can say that time has an effect it's impossible to remain in internal trauma and its human nature to recover and move on man is looking to the future heart wrenching stories of survival colonel richard camp we have a few seconds left i'm going to put you on the spot and put you in the war cabinet and say what advice would you be giving to leaders right now day 24 of the war the first thing i'd say is that i don't think the war cabinet needs my advice i think they've got some very talented people there and in the idf who know what they're doing but what i would say is that it's essential that the israel maintains their offensive until her mass has been destroyed or thrown out of guards or one way or the other that's gotta happen there's no alternative to that in my view obviously that is not the easiest head and done not militarily but from the point of view of international relations which obviously could have a bearing on what israel does and the second thing i'd say is that israel has to deal with his balar in lebanon whether it's concurrently or immediately afterwards somehow it has to deal with lebanon colonel richard camp a pleasure hearing your insights thank you very much for being here in our studios and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news i'm benita levine intel avev our coverage continues soon stay tuned thank you for watching over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news there have been countless memorable moments broadcasting with i24 news in the past six years but for me the one that stands out the most was the first time that i had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding intel avev and at that moment we were live on air in studio i will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear the sirens are sounding intel avev the control room is going to the shelter with me in studio at the time were michael herzog a former brigadier general today the israeli ambassador to the united states and arson ostrowski an international human rights lawyer and their responses were completely different michael herzog was calm and composed and on the other hand arson ostrowski was trying to phone his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were okay the camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above there was an overhead shot of the three of us in studio you could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio and obviously we lost contact with our team on the ground our reporters in ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time when rockets are coming towards a residential area they don't distinguish between race religion political views cultural views they just intend to harm civilians and that moment being in studio hearing those interceptions overhead was the most real coverage i've ever been involved in breaking news edition i'm bonita levine coming to you live from tel aviv we start with breaking news hamas has released a video in which three israeli women held hostage by the terror group in the gaza strip slam benjamin netanyahu calling on him to secure their release they also accuse the israeli prime minister of failing to prevent the terror groups onslaught on the 7th of october now i24 news is choosing not to play the video at this point because this is part of the terror groups psychological warfare this is a screenshot of the three women hamas is currently holding 239 known hostages inside gaza and a short while ago the prime minister's office lamb basting what it calls quote the cruel psychological propaganda by hamas in releasing a video showing three israeli hostages the office is naming the women as danielle aloni remon cursed and yelena trope nub benjamin netanyahu says he is reaching out to embrace the three women saying quote our heart is with you and with all the other hostages we are doing everything we can to bring all the kidnapped and missing home meanwhile rockets have again been launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities in recent hours siren sounding in jerusalem evrite and shorish in recent hours reports of six interceptions in the area around the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south sirens in nativa sarah and beer earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of nativa with a direct hit impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the strip carrying out strikes against some 600 hamas targets including weapons storage sites and high doubts spokesman danielle higari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the gaza strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a hamas station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of hamas operatives now for more insight we welcome to studio international affairs analyst dan perry the former europe editor at the associated press dan thank you very much for being here day 24 of the war still such a tough time a nation traumatized and now adding and compounding the trauma is a video released by hamas three israeli women again i-24 news is choosing not to show the contents of the video but i'd like your take you've covered wars in this part of the world for a long time the strategy being used by hamas right now your thoughts i find myself agreeing with the prime minister's office that this is like a logical warfare and you don't often agree perhaps occasion to celebrate uh i don't envy i-24 the decision because there's clearly a trade-off between wanting to broadcast news your news station and this is news and not wanting to be a tool of hamas and this is clearly psychological warfare and the cruel one attack people who want to see the video are going to be able to see it on al jazeera and on social media and if it were my decision i would have made the same one by the way i wouldn't even quote what they were made to say in the video if i criticize netanyahu in the studio it's okay i'm doing so of my own volition but if i do so in hamas captivity i would assume you know it was coerced and 239 hostages are being kept their families still waiting for word reports that katar is involved in some kind of deal reports of a potential exchange which has been denied by many your take on what it's going to take to get the freedom of these hostages right now day 24 of the war the issue for israel's if you leave any behind then it's as if you've left all of them behind from the point of view of strategy the broader strategy now obviously every person that comes out every life is a world unto itself and so they're going to try to get anyone out who they can but if anyone remains behind then hamas will always be able to impose a maximalist terms as they did when they got a thousand or more terrorists for gilac elite and israel wants to avoid that it's pretty clear that the retail price for releasing all of them today is a release of all six thousand and however many people in israeli custody and it's an open question and legitimate debate whether israel wants to do that i've heard plenty of people saying release them and then then then you know do targeted killings against them once they're in gaza it's so complex that it really defies armchair quarterbacking and of course it also affects the question of how freely you can operate on the ground in gaza and it also raises a question about the nationalities of many of the hostages they are from 25 different nations and presumably the leaders of those nations also hoping to be involved on some level to secure the hostages as well we're going to unpack a little bit more of that but right now i want to go up north our correspondent robert swift is in northern israel and robert siren sounding in northern communities earlier in the western galley including in shlomi and russia necra also the idea of striking in lebanon earlier on what update can you share right now that's right there's been cross border clashes here including in the village that i'm standing in which i'm not going to name for security reasons and there has been mortars fired over the border into the village that we're now standing in and just in the last few minutes we've been hearing what appears to be is really artillery responding to additional mortar fire about 10 minutes ago we saw mortar rounds being fired into the area it appeared to us and fires on the ground as a result of that and then shortly after that the israeli military have fired two rounds of artillery onto positions behind me now if you see to my back this is the hill here this is the israeli lebanese border and i'll draw your attention to the towers that are on top of the hill this is often what his bullet are directing their fire at they've been using as rifles to shoot at these inocations and today they appear to have been perhaps firing mortar rounds at them as we saw what appeared to be two mortar rounds landing close to these towers that's the situation here as it stands on the on the on the border correspondent robert swift live from northern israel we will be coming back to you of course in the coming hours thank you rob stay safe and still with me in studio dan perry and we were talking a little bit earlier about the international impact potentially leaders around the world wanting to make sure that people from their countries are secure and can be freed obviously this is highly complicated i want to take a deeper look at the us role right now vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of us soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen then i'd like your thoughts how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in us troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plan israel or gaza period so perhaps not that surprising the us role has been clear though since the start yeah the us supports israel uh very strongly um i wouldn't say without limit but they have uh a very clear understanding what happened october 7th and i think they also appreciate the israeli argument uh that this is more than a squabble between tribes over some small territory but israel being on a front line of the war against global jihad and that hamas is also other things linked to his fellow link to iran linked even to isis at least holistically i think us gets all that but as we just heard from vice president they have no particular desire to be involved with troops on the ground remember that the american uh public uh what was uh clearly overwhelmingly tired of what became known as forever wars in iraq and in feganistan and gaza has potential to be uh even more forever than any either of those if if if outsiders get involved that said uh among the scenarios being thrown around for a possible day after uh re outing gaza should hamas really be deposed i believe the foreign forces including u.s forces and maybe arab forces as well is is one of the more plausible dan stay with us we've got much more to discuss right now rocket siren sounding in some southern communities let's go straight to al khamde soho she joins us from southern israel what update can you share this hour khamde well look benita the israeli military is continuing to strike targets inside of the gaza strip and the military has been firm about what their tactics are going to be with this new ground operation inside the gaza strip saying that it is progressing now on the other side of the border residents are reporting that they're unable to leave the northern part where a lot of these air strikes have been taking place but the military is saying that upon further entry into the gaza strip troops encountering a number of hamas cells eliminating them eliminating anyone who tried to attack them using various methods like helicopters drones and the tanks that were inside so the strikes continue at this hour as the rocket fire still seems to emanate from several places into israeli territory give us a sense of the scale the number of communities in the south that have evacuated since the 7th of october while rocket fire continues for day 24 of the war many communities there are not staying in their homes right now that's right all over israel you're talking around 125 000 people who have been evacuated both north and south but a lot of those numbers actually around 100 000 are from these southern communities that the military has now declared a militarized zone there's really only press here no one is really still here because of the constant alerts because of the threats that do pose the southern community you're talking about mortars you're talking about artillery fire things not just relating to rockets so while the military is also advancing moving troops farther south moving them toward the front line the people here have left at the military and the defense ministry's request so while all these areas are still evacuated they the people are now in state-funded guest houses or hotels you can hear a little bit of that artillery fire outgoing the israeli military still striking targets inside of daza bonita as the sun sits behind you correspond in khamdesal hood stay safe live from southern israel thanks khamdes and now for more we welcome mechmut ogutsu former turkish diplomat joining us from london mechmut thank you very much for your time recep Tayyip Erdogan has made several speeches since this war started the last one was very critical of israel he's called benjamin netanyahu a terrorist he says israel is not a state and is an occupier he's also calling khamas a liberation group what is your take on this rhetoric from the turkish president your thoughts actually to be honest i wasn't expecting such a rhetoric to come from president Erdogan as well because he made a great deal of effort to improve relations with israel as you remember the relations have been restored together ambassadors exchange there was a you know pipeline project being discussed and at such a critical stage of course how must attack a pure dan israeli a retaliation and he was pollutioning himself as a possible fair intermediator between the two parties but if you have such a harsh rhetoric no matter what the original reason for this is it makes it impossible for now erdogan to be a intermediary between hamas israel and other other countries also reconstruction effort of the worst securing peace and so it's not a matter of rights and wrongs but as a statement if you want to play a constructive role i think now this is over because it is going to take israel to the as a war criminal to declare it to the world and then one day suddenly unexpectedly turkish army might be mobilized so these are very dangerous wars and things that if you cannot translate into these you should never speak i'm sure that the turkish foreign minister and minister of economy were not happy about these statements because they were trying to make efforts to restore confidence between the two sides and also turkish economy is not in great shape right now as we know minister of economy mahmad shoucheki was touring around the world to attract more finance and investment and so it remains to be seen but if the conflict is going to spread which we hope will not burst to egypt and perhaps to iraq syria and finally iran which is the most dangerous one i think in terms of conflict being intensified turkey will not benefit from this either so i think there is a need for a country like turkey which is the largest regional power to reckon with all the way from china to uh germany russia to saudi arabia right expecting as a former diplomat president to play a more moderating role no matter how emotionally he is of course attached to the palestinian cause i think real politic requires that turkey could have played a more constructive role between israel and palestinians right i must only palestinians as we know you have a fatty and also israel is living there so a golden opportunity has been missed in this regard to push forward israeli turkish relations and to play a constructive role in this conflict written region let's see how it's going to evolve perhaps you know other players in turkish like the foreign minister right well as you well know the president was supposed to be visiting israel that trip obviously is cancelled right now help us understand there were reports that turkey asked hamas leaders to leave the country following the terror attacks on the 7th of october those reports were vehemently denied what did actually happen on that front what can you share well to the best of my knowledge i think when the hamas leaders in turkey at that time showed such a great sense of victory after the hamas attacks and the turkish foreign ministry asked them gently to leave the country because they knew that this was going to complicate the situation and also yes i mean they don't come to turks don't consider how much is a terrorist organization but what happened you know 1400 people being massacred there and such an organization if you call them freedom fighters then there will be repercussions of this for turkey as well with pkt wife exactly turkey is fighting them these terrorist organizations but then your allies will start calling them as freedom fighters you will be in difficult position as well perhaps i think i don't think that president has thought at great length about this but i i carefully look at these notes it wasn't a you know written speech normally on such critical issues president is provided talking points then he reached official lines but this time i think he spoke as freely about 55 minutes so hamas leaders i mean turkey never hosted hamas military video as far as i know and hamas political leaders were you know shouting between katar and turkey and this was one way of also constraining them perhaps to play the contractive role in this regard promoting them in such a way that they will you know the pose a serious threat to israel's security so we appreciate your insight thank you so much for speaking to us here mehmet or go to former turkish diplomat live from london thank you very much for your time all right thanks and now to southern israel many residents have returned to the scene of the terror attacks at their homes for the first time in more than three weeks our correspondent mary mcowdorf is at kibbutz near us and filed this report well we see the signs of devastation here in this community we also see the signs of life that once were the communities the families that once lived here and i want to show you this wall over here it's something probably many people who are watching this have had in their similar homes i know my family also had one when we were younger tracking the ages of the children throughout the years and at various heights just want to look at this youngest one the smallest child you've all this was taken august 2016 the most recent entry for you've all was july 10th 2023 just a few months ago this is one of the houses that have been held hostage the people here who once lived here on this line of houses most of the people here have been kept as hostage or they think at least they're held hostage still here we don't have many answers there's still families without any answers who think maybe their relatives were took hostage but could have been murdered but are still reported missing and still waiting for answers still waiting for closure to find out exactly what happened this is a situation for most of the people here in nero's where there's not one family who hasn't been affected by what happened on october 7th heartbreaking report there from our correspondent mary mccullough and still with the hostage situation 239 hostages being held by hamas right now abducted during that terror rampage in southern israel hadas calderon is waiting for word on her two children and their father and two other relatives she spoke to i-24 news from nero's after returning to the kibbutz for the first time since the 7th of october last message i got from them 8 30 in the morning he told me they jumped from the window and hiding the bush behind the house just imagine your child your small child being kidnapped from his bed with pajama no shoes cruelly way taken from his bed and now he's disappeared they disappeared they've been very we've been very peacefully nice happy family he loved all these plants and flowers always very static way everything was so set now it's gone nothing they burn our souls they really burn our soul what can i say it's a hell we have nightmare three weeks of nightmare to bring them home bring my children home and their father that's all i want i don't care how i'm not an army and politic woman i want them home the whole world have to understand it's not just our private story it can be it can happen everywhere today it's here tomorrow it's in your house and your child you must understand it's like worse than a cry that it's like monsters and a new man very cool crime israeli mother hadas calderon speaking to i24 news no words now we go to jerusalem our senior correspondent oan ultiman joins us and oan so hard to hear the heartbreak from an israeli mom you are at a moving display they're empty beds symbolizing the hostages being held by chamas tell us more that's right benita here in saffron square by the jewsland municipality building in the center of the city you can just take a look with our viewers the empty beds the empty beds signifying the 239 maybe more hostages being held by by others in gaza and you see among the beds there are also cribs maybe we can take a quick look the cribs of course denoting the children the babies there are at least 30 children being held in gaza as hostages we just heard the report from mary we just heard that mother speaking as well about the horrible hardship that these families are going through of course we also had just over the last few hours that video released by chamas with the signs of life at least from three hostages of course this just the latest display in the latest part of the bring them home movement benita the movement by the families and by their supporters to try to raise awareness about the hostages both in israel and internationally i was out at the tent camp in televiv yesterday across from the zireli military headquarters meant to send a message from their perspective to the military leadership and to the political leadership and here in the center of israel's capital you just saw the beds and you just understood what they mean so difficult to actually comprehend what these families are all going through senior correspondent oh and ultimate life from teresal and thank you so much still with me in studio dan perry and dan you've covered this region for a long time this is a nation that has been through a lot of pain but when you hear the screams the urging from an israeli mom saying i just want to know that my family is okay give us an assessment of your take on the feeling on the ground 24 days into this war we're hearing the ports out of what is happening in the gaza strip we know what the idf is planning to do but the temperature on the ground the israeli psyche right now you know throughout israel's history it suffered terrorist attacks a plenty but simply never anything like this so there is such a tremendous contrast between startup nation and the country's per capita gdp's higher than germany's and britain's and a little bit of the hubris that i think israeli's were sensing that the the real dangers had passed and what we saw here i mean a monumental massacre equivalent per capita of 40 or more 9-11s and the level of barbarism with which it was carried out will mess with your mind it'll create a level of anger that that might affect the intelligence of your reaction as well or maybe a reaction doesn't need to be intelligent after something so viscerally insane it's such thoughts what to do such total confusion such a sense of betrayal by the leadership or that there is no one to depend on for security are obviously devastating for the national psyche of a country i would add it's a challenge because so many people are so tempted to conclude from this something that sounds like dehumanization of the enemy i think it's very important that is rarely should remember something that i often am addressing to foreign audiences which is that there remains an important distinction to be made between the palestinians and the criminal barbarians called hamas i'm not saying that have no political support in palestine but you're not going to get anywhere if you don't make that distinction and i would also address that to hamas is useful idiots on u.s campuses these progressives in united states who think that standing with palestine is standing with hamas they're wrong desperately wrong criminally wrong and some of those israelis i think that all palestinians are hamas we need to maintain some humanity even when inhumanity has been imposed on us it's interesting you raise the issue of students younger people who are more active on social media because one of the extra shocking aspects of this terror attack on the 7th of october was the fact that hamas filmed it and hamas wanted the world to see the savage attacks that took place hamas wanted the evidence to be shown globally and yet on campuses that you are describing not all campuses but the ones that you are alluding to the sentiment is not outrage about the children who were burnt in front of their parents it's not outrage about the people who were slaughtered while at a music festival why is that what is your take very briefly there's an element of antisemitism there's an element of anger at israel's policies against the palestinians and dissinterest in the details of who killed who and there is the rank stupidity of youth and the combination of all these things basically is leading to what we see in gen z in america and it really needs to be addressed because the level of nihilism that is suggested by what we see from what poll suggests is half of the youth in america will lead to very bad things on other fronts as well if left unchallenged and unfixed you are certainly raising some grave concerns and this conversation will definitely be continuing but for now international affairs analyst and perry former europe editor at the associated press thank you for being here in studio and that is a wrap for this edition of breaking news coverage i'm benita levine in tel aviv thank you for watching israel is at war make an investment in israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with israel visit israel bonds dot com and invest now 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i-24 news i-24 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 bringing israel's story to the world i-24 news channels now on hot in news edition i'm benita levine coming to you live from tel aviv we start with breaking news hamas has released a video in which three israeli women held hostage by the terror group in the gaza strip slam benjamin netanyahu calling on him to secure their release they also accuse the israeli prime minister of failing to prevent the terror groups onslaught on the 7th of october now i-24 news is choosing not to play the video at this point because this is part of the terror groups psychological warfare this is a screenshot of the three women hamas is currently holding 239 known hostages inside gaza and a short while ago the prime minister's office slam basting what it calls quote the cruel psychological propaganda by hamas in releasing a video showing three israeli hostages the office is naming the women as daniel aloni remon cursed and jelena troponov benjamin netanyahu says he is reaching out to embrace the three women saying quote our heart is with you and with all the other hostages we are doing everything we can to bring all the kidnapped and missing home meanwhile rockets have again been launched from the gaza strip to israeli cities in recent hours siren sounding in jerusalem evrite and shorish in recent hours reports of six interceptions in the area around the capital during that barrage and a little earlier in the south sirens in nativa sarah and beer sheba earlier in the day a massive barrage of rockets was sent to the southern city of nativot with a direct hit impact on this home take a look at the damage to this building after rockets launched from the strip on day 24 of the war no one was injured meanwhile the idf has expanded its ground operation in the strip carrying out strikes against some 605 targets including weapons storage sites and hideouts spokesman daniel hagari saying the idf is attacking from the air the idf says ground forces killed terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings in the gaza strip and tried to attack troops in one incident ground troops directed the air force to carry out a drone strike on a khama station killing more than 20 operatives in another incident the idf says a fighter jet struck an anti-tank guided missile launch position and a number of khamas operatives now for more insight we welcome to studio international affairs analyst dan perry the former europe editor at the associated press dan thank you very much for being here day 24 of the war still such a tough time a nation traumatized and now adding and compounding the trauma is a video released by khamas three israeli women again i-24 news is choosing not to show the contents of the video but i'd like your take you've covered wars in this part of the world for a long time the strategy being used by khamas right now your thoughts i find myself agreeing with the prime minister's office that this is like a logical warfare and you don't often agree perhaps occasion to celebrate uh i don't envy i-24 the decision because there's clearly a trade-off between wanting to broadcast news your news station and this is news and not wanting to be a tool of khamas and this is clearly psychological warfare and the cruel one at that people who want to see the video are going to be able to see it on al jazeera and on social media and if it were my decision i would have made the same one by the way i wouldn't even quote what they were made to say in the video if i criticize natan yahu in the studio it's okay i'm doing some of my own volition but if i do so in khamas captivity i would assume you know it was coerced and 239 hostages are being kept their families still waiting for word reports that katar is involved in some kind of deal reports of a potential exchange which has been denied by many your take on what it's going to take to get the freedom of these hostages right now day 24 of the war the issue for israel's if you leave any behind then it's as if you've left all of them behind from the point of view of strategy uh the broader strategy um now obviously every person that comes out every life is a world unto itself and so they're going to try to get anyone out who they can but if anyone remains behind then hamas will always be able to impose maximalist terms as they did when they got a thousand or more terrorists for gilad shalit and israel wants to avoid that it's pretty clear that the retail price for releasing all of them today is a release of all 6000 and however many people in israeli custody and it's an open question and legitimate debate whether israel wants to do that i've heard plenty of people saying release them and then uh then then you know do targeted killings against them once they're in gaza uh it it's so complex that it really defies armchair quarter backing and of course it also affects the question of how freely you can operate on the ground in gaza and it also raises the question about the nationalities of many of the hostages they are from 25 different nations and presumably the leaders of those nations also hoping to be involved on some level to secure the hostages as well we're going to unpack a little bit more of that but right now i want to go up north our correspondent robert swift is in northern israel and robert siren sounding in northern communities earlier in the western galilee including in shlomi and russia nicra also the idea of striking in lebanon earlier on what update can you share right now that's right there's been cross-border clashes here including in the village i'm standing in which i'm not going to name for security reasons and there has been mortars fired over the border into the village that we're now standing in and just in the last few minutes we've been hearing what appears to be is really artillery responding to additional mortar fire about 10 minutes ago we saw mortar rounds being fired into the area it appeared to us and fires on the ground as a result of that and then shortly after that the israeli military have fired two rounds of artillery onto the positions behind me now if you see to my back this is the hill here this is the israeli lebanese border and i'll draw your attention to the towers that are on top of the hill this is often what khizbullah are directing their fire at they've been using as rifles to shoot at these indications and today they appear to have been perhaps firing mortar rounds at them as we saw what appeared to be two mortar rounds landing close to these towers that's the situation here as it stands on the on the on the border correspondent robert swift live from northern israel we will be coming back to you of course in the coming hours thank you rob stay safe and still with me in studio dan perry and we were talking a little bit earlier about the international impact potentially leaders around the world wanting to make sure that people from their countries are secure and can be freed obviously this is highly complicated i want to take a deeper look at the us role right now vice president kamala harris was asked on 60 minutes about the possibility of u.s soldiers joining in the fighting on the ground let's take a listen then i'd like your thoughts how close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could draw in us troops we have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plan israel or gaza period so perhaps not that surprising the us role has been clear though since the start yeah the u.s supports israel uh very strongly um i wouldn't say without limit but they have a very clear understanding what happened october 7th and i think they also apprec