inians because from my experience with the Americans you don't treat them bluntly and openly I remember the conversation between Clinton and Rabin about after the massacre in Hebron and the question was how do we continue and the American proposed something and Rabin would say no and then the president the American president would say and then again what is your suggestion and this kind of questions is exactly the kind of negotiations and talk that we have with the American administration we cannot just ignore the American administration we cannot ignore the fact that we got 14 billion dollars from the American administration we cannot forget the fact that we are out of shells and we need 14,000 shells now in order to replenish our tanks and remember where we stand of course we are we shouldn't bow completely and we should look after our interests but yes we have to take care to look around us and understand that there is only one ally and this ally counts very much Yes and we didn't discuss this the incident of last night I was going to ask you this right now we are seeing a lot of loss in terms of IDF soldiers in operations, in separate incidents tell us about the incident from last night this is perhaps the greatest loss of the IDF since the start of the ground operation losing Col. Itzhak Ben-Basat is the head of the Gulani Brigades Commanders Team and that is the most senior IDF officer to be killed in the ground operation he is the fourth IDF Col. to be killed since the start of this war three others were killed on the first day I think the IDF will have to learn a lot from what transpired there yesterday around 4.30pm local time Gulani troops together with armed forces have located live fire in the Kasbah there they were met with explosives where four of the troops were lost contact the forces outside did not know their whereabouts their well-being more forces were sent in including those senior officers and of course also the commander of the Gulani Brigades 13th Battalion Tomer Greenberg who also lost his life in that battle in addition to rescue forces of the Air Force the 669 unit two of its fighters also lost their lives overall nine Israeli fatalities soldiers and officers killed in that incident I think the IDF will look very closely into how things transpired where there it was perhaps preferable to use the Air Force in that incident before the troops even entered the many of the compounds are loaded with explosives and this is the trap that unfortunately the Gulani forces have fallen into and once part of the force was already injured inside you had to pull in more and more forces to get them out of there also there was fear that they will be abducted by the terrorists and that's where things got very complicated resulting in even more loss this kind of incident just tells you that there was a mistake in the behavior of the Israeli forces we shouldn't have had 10 officers and soldiers killed because we know that we are fighting an urban war we have to be very vigilant we have to be very careful and not to rush because a force was surrounded and ambushed you don't send people immediately of course there's a lot of courage in what those officers did but basically this was a mistake that had been taken and treated otherwise certainly in light of all the experience that we have had since the beginning of this war now that is a great toll for the IDF we are seeing a lot of loss last night since the ground operation began and from the the dead you can understand that most of them are officers meaning that this is the kind of how you lead your soldiers you go first and then all the others come after you thank you very much that's all for this edition of I-24 News we have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel I'm Sivan Raveev, thank you for watching I-24 News I'm Sivan Raveev and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 68 of Israel's war with Hamas the IDF continues its battle on the ground in southern Gaza with a new report suggesting it has started pumping seawater into Hamas's underground terror tunnel system in Gaza a move aimed at destroying the subterrain network of passages and driving its operatives above ground sirens were heard this morning while southern communities as rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip the IDF announced the names of 10 more soldiers and officers killed fighting in the Gaza Strip yesterday bringing the death toll on the ground offensive against Hamas to 115 Colonel Itzhak Ben Basat Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Grimberg Major Rui Mildassi Major Moshe Avram Baron Sergeant Achia Descal Captain Liel Chayo Major Ben Shelley Sergeant First Class Sergeant Oria Yaakov Sergeant Eran Aloni The IDF also reported another three soldiers were seriously wounded The IDF recovered the bodies of two hostages 28-year-old civilian Edan Zakharya who was captured by Hamas on October 7 when attending the Nova Musical Festival and 36-year-old IDF warrant officer Ziv Dado who was killed during the onslaught and was declared until now a fallen soldier held by a terror group The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution yesterday demanding a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas 153 members were in favor 10 against including the United States and 23 abstained Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gila Derdan held up a sign with the phone number of Hamas offices in Gaza saying that if the UN wanted a real ceasefire they should call Hamas Joining us now on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Klushendler There are some serious weather conditions currently in Israel and in Gaza We see you out there with the umbrella in the rain It's rainy and cold Tell us how this can impact the troops and also the humanitarian situation in Gaza Well, first of all, I think it might slow down the operation to a certain extent although you just heard maybe the outgoing of an artillery shell pounding the area which is behind me which is basically the two sectors of the south-eastern outskirts of Gaza City where 10 soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon after a three-hour battle and the Salahadin axis which part of it is used as a humanitarian axis and the other part which is behind me four kilometers away from where we are and which is leading to the city which could be the make or break of Hamas in the coming weeks maybe In any case, the weather doesn't help because of the sanitary conditions the asphalt has been destroyed by Israeli tanks so soldiers are fighting in the mud in the ruins of Sajahiyah for instance, in Hanoon as the terrain is different it's less urban, more farming land so you imagine tanks rolling in the mud that could also cause a problem or bulldozer denies in deep mud that could also cause a problem but I think that the most urgent problem is for the non-involved Palestinian population 80% or maybe over 80% according to UN sources of the Gaza total population of 2.2 million inhabitants have moved to the south of the Gaza Strip to half of the territory of the Gaza Strip instead of 360 square kilometers now the population is crammed into 180 square kilometers that means that the conditions are very difficult the people are either being hosted at their family in the southern Gaza Strip or in tents you imagine the tents because of the wind and the rain could easily be destroyed and collapse on the families the sanitary conditions are terrible there is scarcity of water resources there's no electricity so no way to heat the people and as a result that also adds to the dire predicament of the population the movement of the troops of the IDF because of the attempt, the effort not to harm the non-involved population Pierre Kloschendler thank you very much on Israel's southern border joining us now in studio is Yaakov Lapin military and strategic affairs analyst at the Jewish news syndicate and military and strategic affairs analyst at the Miriam Institute Yaakov thank you for joining us here we're seeing Pierre out there in the rain we see pretty dire conditions in Gaza what can you tell us about the situation well in terms of the humanitarian situation you know there is an enormous effort underway the IDF and Kogat the coordinator of government activities in the territories has multiple control rooms in which they're keeping a live real-time updates on the situation and that means that food levels, water levels medicine all of that stuff is being tracked in real-time and there is enormous cooperation despite you know the various sort of diplomatic disputes between the IDF, the international aid agencies, Egypt the United States, there's a whole host of forces that are at play here keeping aid coming in in massive quantities into the Gaza Strip into these humanitarian zones so I wouldn't say that those civilians have nothing of course their situation is difficult and it was made very difficult by Hamas's decision to go to war with the global effort which the IDF is playing a central part in in making those conditions as tolerable as possible we're seeing that the IDF has taken a serious toll last night's incident has resulted in several soldiers dying nine to be exact what do we know about this right in Shadjia and what happened there was that some last minute alerts caused the Italian commander and his company commanders and several soldiers to enter a very very dangerous situation in which they tragically lost much of the advantage that the IDF has when it's fighting in these areas they didn't have the air support they didn't have the artillery, the firepower they had to go in and fight barrel against barrel against Hamas terrorists in asymmetrical warfare and this is exactly the kind of situation that the IDF has been fighting for years for soldiers and they fell in the defense of Israel as heroes it is a very dark and sad day for the state of Israel but these are the kinds of situations that unfortunately will also occur during this war the IDF will not always be able to bring to bear its tactical and operational advantages that prevent many of these things from happening on a wider scale because the IDF is going further in Syria exactly and that's why we have to steal ourselves the IDF will always try to give its field commanders and soldiers the advantage, in other words try as much as possible to avoid this kind of barrel on barrel type of a firefight and to give them the advantage of air power of fire power from artillery of tanks using armor but sometimes because of the scope of this war there are going to be situations that are against barrel against barrel and that's when that advantage is gone and these are the most dangerous moments for the soldiers on the ground and they're going to unfortunately repeat but I'm sure the IDF will try to minimize those situations as much as possible now these areas are certainly dense and populated we'll be back to you in a moment joining us now on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent Zach Anders Zach it's been rather quiet in the north for now it could be due to Israel's deterrence well we're not seeing any red alerts this morning it has been relatively quiet but that's not to say that there hasn't been activity inside Lebanon and southern Lebanon media is reporting now the aftermath of some heavier strikes from yesterday by the IDF showing extensive damage in some communities in southern Lebanon where apparently Hezbollah was operating and firing earlier there were four strikes yesterday we have not noticed any today that's not to say there hasn't been just none that have been available to report on just yet the weather up here is cloudy and rainy and a bit blustery so this not necessarily plays into either's advantage or disadvantage these are modern armies with modern equipment still Hezbollah with ground forces and the movement that they use sometimes in personal vehicles it would perhaps play into a scenario or situation where they might wait for better conditions because they are more reliant on visibility for their ATGMs these personnel launched pieces of equipment their weapons sometimes need that line of sight to be able to fire on Israeli positions whereas the Israelis have some of the the advantage of the high range equipment some infrared technology with their surveillance balloons and the drones so they aren't necessarily dependent on the conditions as Hezbollah would be but we have seen these strikes in Syria in the last 24 hours as well with apparently the Syrian army involving itself with rocket launches three last night around 7 o'clock 8 o'clock two of them fell in Syria one of them the IDF says fell in Syria it's still unclear if that means it fell in Israeli territory or if this was intercepted a lot still left to be seen there from yesterday's activity in Syria now Israel wants to push Hezbollah north of the Litani River tell us more about that that's the great challenge here the IDF and the Defense Minister Galant telling the community leaders here the mayors of some of these towns that tell Hezbollah pushed back beyond this river which is about 30 miles worth of land between the river and the southern border of Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah operating in this space and abiding by this UN SC 1701 a security council vote that's over 10 years old to be able to make that the reality here will take weeks months maybe even longer especially with the potential that does that turn into a full-scale engagement well if it does then Hezbollah has over 80,000 fighters at its disposal and Iranian supplied equipment this would be a tremendous campaign and would take a lot of time the better route for all involved is the international route applying pressure to Hezbollah to Iran to Lebanon to get them to abide by this agreement that would be of course a tremendous challenge as well to go the diplomatic route either way this goal of pushing Hezbollah back beyond the river would be one that's a very, very long timeline Zach Anders thank you very much on Israel's northern border and back in studio with me is Jacob Lapin Jacob we're hearing a reporter up in the north discuss this how likely is Hezbollah to accept these kind of requests, demands to move beyond the Likani River? Very unlikely and I think that the main reason for that is that southern Lebanon is the heartland of Hezbollah and these 200 you know or so Shiite villages that's not only the base of Hezbollah the political base it's also the source of many of its terrorist soldiers if we can call them that manpower and it's also created the sort of shadow states in southern Lebanon where it provides them with social services and subsidizes their fuel and food and medical services so there's a whole shadow Hezbollah state in southern Lebanon and so they're not going to give up on it and Israel is not going to give up on its demand for a buffer zone on the border because we are in a new reality and Israel cannot tolerate the presence of death squads Hezbollah red one death squads on the border as we've had you know on the southern border until now so that means that there's a collision course the scope of that collision the timing those are all still shrouded in mystery we could be looking at you know some sort of intermediate escalation we could be looking at eventual full-scale war it's just not clear at this time but the collision course based on these two things that I've just described looks to be pretty unavoidable but the diplomatic space that is currently playing out I think that serves interest because it's interested in prioritizing on the completion of its war in Gaza at least the high intensity phase of it once the lion's share of that mission is accomplished a lot more military resources will be freed up to go north and to turn the military's attention fully to the north so that actually serves Israel's interest to give diplomacy a chance on the off chance you know it could surprise us but I wouldn't hold that you know wouldn't hold my breath now shifting to the back to the south we know that two hostages were found dead in a tunnel yesterday it was announced their names what do we know about these operations in tunnels trying to rescue hostages dead or alive so you know when targeted intelligence when very specific intelligence comes in like this and the idea of we'll launch an operation and these are very complicated things getting soldiers and special operators into bunkers into you know underground infrastructure they have to be secured in a perimeter and the soldiers they were making up that perimeter they're the ones who were killed in that operation so it's a very complicated operation to conduct but it's all based on intelligence once the intelligence comes in then the planters can start the tactical planters can start figuring out how to insert the forces how to secure them to go in and then to go out and I think we'll be seeing plenty of those going forward but again all of it is based on on intelligence there's no way that these things will be happening just sort of blindly on the off chance that they may find something because obviously you know they're risking a lot of lives here in these operations so it's intelligence it's tactical capability and it's building a perimeter all very dangerous but all very much based on solid intelligence and we saw that the bodies of these two individuals were retrieved they were and we do know that in that operation we had two of the soldiers Galmey Reisenkot and Eyalmey Berkowitz who died in that operation do we know about any other types of initiatives to return the hostages publicly we just know that the idea is committed to doing that in any way that it can I see three main ways that it can do this one is the established route of negotiations with Hamas via Qatar via the Hamas leadership and then back to Mohamed Def in the tunnels who authorized these deals that may happen again it may not the second way I could see it happening is through much more localized negotiations in other words once the Hamas leadership starts crumbling we could get into a situation where Israel is conducting local talks with hostage holders offering them possibly safe passage in exchange for releasing hostages and the more the Hamas leadership crumbles I think the more that becomes likely and the third is rescue operations attempted rescue operations if intelligence comes in and it seems feasible then they will be attempted if not if it will be deemed too dangerous they won't be but those are the three main ways that I could see Israel continuing to attempt to rescue its remaining hostages Yaakov Lapin thank you very much very important input four-year-old Abigail Idan saw both her parents murdered on October 7th two months before she was kidnapped by Hamas in Toghaza she was released in November and went home to her two older siblings who hid in a closet for 14 hours during the massacre now Abigail's remaining family grapples with their joy of having her home and yet their great grief as these three little kids will now grow up orphaned without any of their parents more in this report adapted from Channel 12 a lawyer came yesterday and she said to give it to Abigail she penetrated her heart that's all for Abigail Mikhael and Amalia my son has much more Carmel Abigail's grandfather no longer finds a place where all the gifts he's received from people he doesn't know the embrace of love and perhaps an attempt to compensate for collective feelings of guilt how a mischievous girl only four years old found herself a prisoner of Hamas for 51 days immediately after her parents were murdered how is the family after Abigail returned very short joy I thought it would be celebrations and parties and something like that I think after an hour we realized it was not that at all in the end there are three children without parents how was Abigail when she came back mostly shocked from all the faces from all this happening around her really shocked it was also late you know and to arrive at the end of the day is to go through a journey your removal from the place of the kidnapping and the crossings and the border and all the time you see the terrorists again and she just arrived already broken and didn't speak at all for the first hour she wants to drink grape juice and eat pretzels mostly requests from someone who suddenly realizes that maybe she's no longer in captivity and he can't even ask Abigail didn't approach me didn't look in my direction didn't speak fine another day will come and the kiss and the hug will come how did Michael and Amelia Abigail's siblings react they knew Abigail was in Gaza and suddenly she came back to them I think they're feeling joy there was joy but it's still not the same they have a deep sadness so it was really one very happy moment that they came together and now the confrontation what will happen from here time will do its thing a month before Abigail's release we accompanied the families of Smodar and Roy to a family meeting trying to embrace Michael and Amelia to give a feeling of family why don't you call me Smodar's family are coming here and our family with Roy's children we have a meeting with everyone first time since it happened yes no one there was able to forget what happened to these children on the black Sabbath the unimaginable fact that 9 year old Michael 6 year old Amelia and 4 year old Abigail saw their parents murder before their eyes when the alarm started Smodar was with Michael and Amelia in the safe room Roy, who works as a winet photographer still had time to go out to the balcony with Abigail in his arms to photograph the terrorists approaching the kibbutz on paragliders infiltrating right in front of the house you've been with Roy and Smodar's children for the last month yes how is it it's not easy what they saw it's not easy for them it's certainly not easy for us the horrors they saw I don't know if any of us would have emerged the same from such a situation never mind children aged 6 and 9 it's very very tough that Saturday after their parents were murdered Abigail ran outside Michael and Amelia ran back into their house they hid in the yellow closet in the safe room with the body of their mother Smodar lying right next to them with 14 hours they hid heard gunshots and waited in the inferno while the family tried to reassure them from afar I picked up the phone to Roy Roy didn't answer so that's the agreement between us if he doesn't answer he's taking pictures so I called Smodar to ask what happened Michael the 9 year old grandson answered I told him I want mom he said mom's dead and dad's dead outside I asked where's your sister Amelia he told me with me where's Abigail he said she's not at home in short a Holocaust I was completely shocked I was trying to think of how to help how did the children sound in those moments listen they were just brave Michael answered the phones at first and 6 year old Amalia she was my contact person she spoke I'm in the safe room everything is fine we're in the closet don't open the door for anyone it won't open they answered yes and no and good at this time Michael and Amelia did not know how Abigail was doing Avichai the neighbor across the street was the last to see her before she was kidnapped with Hagar his wife she was white as a sheet but covered in blood drenched in blood and I knew I knew it wasn't her blood I tossed her over to my wife and went back until 12 o'clock one I was still optimistic sure that the army would come and take them out and we saw it was not happening and it's not happening and time was passing and moving on we were already past midnight and still every hour I spoke with them and I heard that they're already starting they're already dropping and it's already going to be hard there inside this closet and you know they're alone and no agency can help you not the police and not the emergency services not the IDF only our connections the civilians ran the war at 7 in the evening after I involved a friend we managed to reach the team located in Kfar Azar the military took Michael and Amelia under fire outside the kibbutz and a meat came to pick them up how was this meeting it was very difficult very hard I let a friend drive I sat in the back with them even though they had such a long journey they didn't fall asleep they were close to me the whole way and just told me what happened and what happened and what will happen and how it will happen and this was a journey they probably ran to Madar's sister her husband Zuli and their three children who lived right next to them in Kfar Azar they will probably stay with us with the family with my wife this is a very natural environment for them they grew up with these children of course the whole family is involved from all sides there's everyone's cooperation here because in the end there is a common goal that these children will have the best possible future there's deep sadness for Micheal very deep sadness he knows everything that happened he was always alone a child who grew up in all these circumstances a nine year old boy has already gone through more wars than people in the whole world goes through Amalia is more open but there's also sadness in her eyes how is Avigam in her everyday life when you look at her she is happy she's so little maybe maybe she'll get through it somehow Avigail had her fourth birthday in captivity yes I don't know if she knew that will you mention it we did something small modest cake and here and there like that at the simplest level there is maybe next year do they understand that Roy and Smodar will not return yes after what they saw there's no way it's not ambiguous what do they mostly talk about toys one moment and then about mom and dad and then they come back and fight about nonsense with the cousins in the end they are children they have happy parts and they have sad parts and they have difficult parts I call it a roller coaster there is a discourse around everything of what happened, how it happened we give them some of the space that we need to vent and we need crying and we need this but in the end we always face forwards we'll give them everything they need that's for sure but we won't be able to give them the security let them go abroad live in a place that will be good for them I want them to grow up to understand that this is not their country it's not safe to live in the state of Israel that's all for this edition of I-24 news providing you with the latest from Israel we'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates be sure to follow us on our website I-24 news.tv and across our social media platforms I'm Sivana Raveve thank you for watching is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well I-24 news. I'm Sivana Raveve and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 68 of Israel's war with Hamas the IDF continues its battle on the ground in southern Gaza with a new report suggesting it has started pumping seawater into Hamas' underground terror tunnel system in Gaza a move aimed at destroying the subterrain network of passages and driving its operatives above ground sirens were heard this morning in Israel's southern communities as rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip the names of ten more soldiers and officers killed fighting in the Gaza Strip yesterday bringing the death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas to 115 Colonel Ikschak Ben-Vassat Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Greenberg Major Roy Mildassi Major Moshe Avram Baron Sergeant Achia Descal Captain Liel Chayo Major Ben Shelly Sergeant First Class Staff Sergeant Orya Yakov and Sergeant Iran Aloni the three soldiers were seriously wounded the IDF recovered the bodies of two hostages, 28-year-old civilian Edin Zakharya who was captured by Hamas on October 7th when attending the Nova Musical Festival and 36-year-old IDF warrant officer Ziv Dado who was killed during the onslaught and was declared until now a fallen soldier held by a terror group the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution yesterday demanding a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas 153 members were in favor 10 against including the United States and 23 abstained Israel's ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan held up a sign with a phone number of Hamas officers in Gaza saying that if the UN wanted a real ceasefire they should call Hamas Joining us now on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloshendler Pierre, there are some serious weather conditions currently in Israel and in Gaza with the umbrella in the rain it's rainy and cold tell us how this can impact the troops and also the humanitarian situation in Gaza well first of all I think it might slow down the operation to a certain extent although you just heard maybe the outgoing of an artillery shell pounding the area which is behind me which is basically the two sectors of Shejayan the southeastern outskirts of Gaza city where the soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon after a three hour battle and the Salahadin axis which part of it is used as a humanitarian axis and the other part which is behind me four kilometers away from where we are and which is leading to the city which could be the make or break of Hamas in the coming weeks maybe in any case the weather doesn't help because of the sanitary conditions the asphalt has been destroyed by Israeli tanks so soldiers are fighting in the mud in the ruins of Sajahiyah for instance in Hanoon as the terrain is different it's less urban more farming land so you imagine tanks rolling on mud that could also cause a problem but I think that the most urgent problem is for the non-involved Palestinian population 80% or maybe over 80% according to UN sources of the Gaza total population of 2.2 million inhabitants have moved to the south of the Gaza Strip to half of the territory of the Gaza Strip to half of the territory of the Gaza Strip instead of 360 square kilometers now the population is crammed into 180 square kilometers that means that the conditions are very difficult the people are either being hosted at their family in the southern Gaza Strip or in tents you imagine the tents and then the rain could easily be destroyed and collapse on the families the sanitary conditions are terrible there is scarcity of water resources there's no electricity so no way to heat the people and as a result that also adds to the dire predicament of the population and to the movement of the troops of the IDF we attempt the effort not to harm the non-involved population Pierre Kloschendler thank you very much on Israel's southern border joining us now in studio is Jakob Lapin military and strategic affairs analyst at the Jewish News Syndicate and military and strategic affairs analyst at the Miriam Institute we're seeing Pierre out there in the rain we see pretty dire conditions in Gaza what can you tell us about the situation in terms of the humanitarian situation there is an enormous effort underway the IDF and Kogat the coordinator of government activities in the territories has multiple control rooms in which they're keeping a live real-time updates on the situation and that means that food levels water levels medicine all of that stuff is being tracked in real-time and there is enormous cooperation despite the various diplomatic disputes between the IDF the international aid agencies Egypt the United States there's a whole host of forces that are at play here keeping aid coming in in massive quantities into the Gaza Strip into these humanitarian zones so I wouldn't say that those civilians have nothing of course their situation is difficult and it was made very difficult by Hamas decision to go to war but there is a global effort which the IDF is playing a central part in the negotiations as tolerable as possible we're seeing that the IDF has taken a serious toll last night's incident has resulted in several soldiers dying nine to be exact what do we know about this right in Shajia and what happened there was that some last-minute alerts caused the battalion commander and his company commanders to enter a very very dangerous situation in which they tragically lost much of the advantage that the IDF has when it's fighting in these areas they didn't have the air support they didn't have the artillery the firepower they had to go in and fight barrel against barrel against Hamas terrorists in asymmetrical warfare and this is exactly the kind of situation that is the most dangerous for soldiers and they fell in the defense of Israel as heroes it is a very dark and sad day for the state of Israel but these are the kinds of situations that unfortunately will also occur during this war the IDF will not always be able to bring to bear its tactical and operational advantages that prevent many of these things from happening on a wider scale because the IDF is going further into southern Gaza in Hanimah, in Jabalia in Shajia exactly and that's why we have to steal ourselves the IDF will always try to give its field commanders and soldiers the advantage in other words try as much as possible to avoid this kind of barrel on barrel type of a firefight and to give them the advantage of air power of firepower from artillery of tanks using armor but sometimes because of the scope of this war there are going to be situations where soldiers and Hamas terrorists are facing off barrel against barrel and that's when that advantage is gone these are the most dangerous moments for the soldiers on the ground and they're going to unfortunately repeat but I'm sure the IDF will try to minimize those situations as much as possible now these areas are certainly dense and populated we'll be back to you in a moment joining us now on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent Zach Anders Zach it's been rather quiet in the north for now could it be due to Israel's deterrence well we're not seeing any red alerts this morning it has been relatively quiet but that's not to say that there hasn't been activity inside Lebanon southern Lebanon media is reporting now the aftermath of some heavier strikes from yesterday by the IDF showing extensive damage in some communities in southern Lebanon where apparently Hezbollah was operating and firing earlier there were four strikes yesterday we have not noticed any today that's not to say there hasn't been just none that have been available to report on just yet the weather up here is cloudy and rainy and a bit blustery so this not necessarily plays into either's advantage or disadvantage these are modern armies with modern equipment still Hezbollah with ground forces and the movement that they use sometimes in personal vehicles it would perhaps play into a scenario or a situation where they might wait for better conditions because they are more reliant on visibility for their ATGM these personnel launched pieces of equipment their weapons sometimes need that line of sight to be able to fire on Israeli positions whereas the Israelis have some of the advantage of the high range equipment some infrared technology with their surveillance balloons and the drones so they aren't necessarily dependent on the conditions as Hezbollah would be but we have seen these strikes in Syria in the last 24 hours as well with apparently the Syrian army involving itself with rocket launches three last night around seven o'clock eight o'clock two of them fell in Syria one of them the IDF says fell in open area it's still unclear if that means it fell in Israeli territory or if this is accepted a lot still left to be seen there from yesterday's activity in Syria now Israel wants to push Hezbollah north of the Litany river tell us more about that that's the great challenge here the IDF and the Defense Minister Galant telling the community leaders here the mayors of some of these towns that until Hezbollah is pushed back beyond this river which is about 30 miles worth of land between the river and the southern border of Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah operating in this space and abiding by this UN SC 1701 a security council vote that's over 10 years old to be able to make that the reality here will take weeks, months maybe even longer especially with the potential that does that turn into an offensive operation does this turn into a full scale engagement well if it does then Hezbollah has over 1,000 fighters at its disposal and Iranian supplied equipment this would be a tremendous campaign and would take a lot of time the better route for all involved is the international route applying pressure to Hezbollah to Iran to Lebanon to get them to abide by this agreement that would be of course a tremendous challenge as well to go the diplomatic route either way this goal of pushing Hezbollah back beyond the river would be one that's a very, very long timeline Zach Anders thank you very much on Israel's northern border and back in studio with me is Yakov Lapin Yakov we're hearing a reporter up in the north discuss this how likely is Hezbollah to accept these kind of requests demands to move beyond the Likani River very unlikely and I think that the main reason for that is that southern Lebanon is the heartland of Hezbollah and these 200 or so Shiite villages that's not only the base of Hezbollah the political base it's also the source of many of its terrorist soldiers if we can call them that manpower and it's also created the shadow states in southern Lebanon where it provides them with social services so there's a whole shadow Hezbollah state in southern Lebanon and so they're not going to give up on it and Israel is not going to give up on its demand for a buffer zone on the border because we are in a new reality and Israel cannot tolerate the presence of death squads Hezbollah red one death squads on the border as we've had on the southern border until now so that means that there's a collision course the scope of that collision the timing those are all still shrouded in mystery we could be looking at some sort of intermediate escalation we could be looking at eventual full-scale war it's just not clear at this time but the collision course based on these two things that I've just described looks to be pretty unavoidable but the diplomatic space that is currently playing out I think that serves Israel's interest because it's interested in prioritizing on the completion of its war in Gaza at least the high-intensity phase of it once the lion's share of that mission is accomplished a lot more military resources will be freed up to go north and to turn the military's attention fully to the north so that actually serves Israel's interest to give diplomacy a chance on the off chance you know it could surprise us but I wouldn't hold that you know wouldn't hold my breath now shifting to the back to the south we know that two hostages were found dead in a tunnel yesterday it was announced their names what do we know about these operations in tunnels trying to rescue hostages dead or alive so you know when targeted intelligence when very specific intelligence comes in like this and the idea of we'll launch an operation and these are very complicated things getting soldiers and special operators into bunkers into you know underground infrastructure they have to be secured in a perimeter and the soldiers that were making up that perimeter they're the ones who were killed in that operation so it's a very complicated operation to to conduct but it's all based on intelligence once the intelligence comes in then the planners can start the tactical planners can start figuring out how to insert the forces how to secure them to go in and then to go out and I think we'll be seeing plenty of those going forward but again all of it is based on intelligence there's no way these things will be happening just sort of blindly on the off chance that they may find something because obviously you know they're risking a lot of lives here in these operations so it's intelligence it's tactical capability and it's building a perimeter all very dangerous but all very much based on solid intelligence and we saw that the bodies of these two individuals were retrieved they were and we do know that in that operation we had two of the soldiers Galmey Reisenkot and Eyalmey Berkowitz who died in that operation do we know about any other types of initiatives to return the hostages? Publicly we just know that the IDF is committed to doing that in any way that it can I see three main ways that it can do this one is the established route of negotiations with Hamas via Qatar via the Hamas leadership and then back to Yehissibwar and Muhammed Def and the Tunnels who authorized these deals and that may happen again it may not the second way I could see it happening is through much more localized negotiations in other words once the Hamas leadership starts crumbling we could get into a situation where Israel is conducting local talks with hostage holders offering them possibly safe passage in exchange for releasing hostages and the more the Hamas leadership crumbles I think the more that becomes likely and the third is rescue operations if intelligence comes in and it seems feasible then they will be attempted if not if it will be deemed too dangerous they won't be but those are the three main ways that I could see Israel continuing to attempt to rescue its remaining hostages. Thank you very much. Four-year-old Abigail Idan saw both her parents murdered on October 7th moments before she was kidnapped by Hamas into Gaza. She was released in November and went home to her siblings who hid in a closet for 14 hours during the massacre. Now Abigail's remaining family grapples with their joy of having her home and yet their great grief as these three little kids will now grow up orphaned without any of their parents more in this report adapted from Channel 12. A lawyer came yesterday he said it's my granddaughters she said to give it to Avigal she penetrated her heart that's all for Avigal Michael and Amalia Masan has much more. Carmel, Avigal's grandfather no longer finds a place for all the gifts he's received from people he doesn't know the embrace of love and perhaps an attempt to compensate for collective feelings of guilt how a mischievous girl only four years old found herself a prisoner of Hamas for 51 days immediately after her parents were murdered. How is the family after Avigal returned? Very short joy I thought it would be celebrations and parties and something like that I think after an hour we realized it was not that at all in the end there are three children without parents How was Avigal when she came back? Mostly shocked from all the faces from all this happening around her really shocked it was also late you know and to arrive at the end of the day is to go through a journey your removal from the place of the kidnapping and the crossings and the border and all the time you see the terrorists again and she just arrived already broken and didn't speak at all for the first hour she wants to drink grape juice and eat pretzels mostly requests from someone who suddenly realizes that maybe she's no longer in captivity and can ask Avigal didn't approach me her direction didn't speak fine another day will come and the kiss and the hug will come How did Michael and Amelia Avigal's siblings react? They knew Avigal was in Gaza and suddenly she came back to them I think they're feeling joy there was joy but it's still not the same they have a deep sadness So it was really one very happy moment that they came together and now the confrontation what will happen from here time will do its thing A month before Avigal's release we accompanied the families of Smodar and Roy to a family meeting trying to embrace Michael and Amelia to give a feeling of family why don't you call me Smodar's family are coming here and our family with Roy's children we have a meeting with everyone first time since it happened yes no one there was able to forget what happened to these children on the black Sabbath the unimaginable fact that 9 year old Michael 6 year old Amalia and 4 year old Avigal saw their parents murder before their eyes when the alarm started Smodar was with Michael and Amalia in the safe room Roy who works as a winet photographer still had time to go out to the balcony with Avigal in his arms to photograph the terrorists approaching the Kibbutz on paragliders infiltrating right in front of the house you've been with Roy and Smodar's children for the last month yes how is it not easy it's not easy what they saw it's certainly not easy for us the horrors they saw I don't know if any of us would have emerged the same from such a situation 6 and 9 it's very very tough that Saturday after their parents were murdered Avigal ran outside Michael and Amalia ran back into their house they hid in the yellow closet in the safe room with the body of their mother Smodar lying right next to them 14 hours they hid heard gunshots and waited in the inferno while the family tried to reassure them from afar I picked up the phone to Roy Roy didn't answer so that's the agreement between us if he doesn't answer he's taking pictures so I called Smodar to ask what happened Michael the 9 year old grandson answered I told him I want mom he said mom's dead and dad's dead outside I asked where's your sister Amalia he told me with me he said she's not at home in short a Holocaust I was completely shocked I was trying to think of how to help how did the children sound in those moments listen they were just brave Michael answered the phones at first then he stopped and 6 year old Amalia she was my contact person she spoke I'm in the safe room everything is fine we're in the closet don't open the door for anyone it won't open I answered yes and no and good at this time Michael and Amalia did not know how Avigel was doing Avigai the neighbor across the street was the last to see her before she was kidnapped with Hagar his wife she was white as a sheet but covered in blood drenched in blood and I knew I knew it wasn't her blood I tossed her over to my wife and went back until 12 o'clock one optimistic sure that the army would come and take them out and we saw it was not happening and it's not happening and time was passing and moving on we were already past midnight and still every hour I spoke with them and I heard that they're already starting the mood is already dropping and it's already going to be hard there inside this closet and you know they're alone and no agency can help you not the police and not the emergency services IDF only our connections the civilians ran the war at 7 in the evening after I involved a friend we managed to reach the team located in Kfar Azar the military took Michael and Amalia under fire outside the Kibbutz and a meat came to pick them up how was this meeting it was very difficult very hard I let a friend and a wife I sat in the back with them even though they had such a long journey they didn't fall asleep they were close to me the whole way and just told me what happened and what happened and what will happen and how it will happen and this was a journey a difficult journey since they've been with Leeron Smedar's sister her husband Zuli and their three children who lived right next to them this is a very natural environment for them they grew up with these children of course the whole family is involved from all sides there is everyone's cooperation here because in the end there is a common goal that these children will have the best possible future there's deep sadness for Michael very deep sadness he knows everything that happened he was always alone a child who grew up in all these circumstances a nine year old boy has already gone through more wars than people in the whole world go through Amalia is more open but there's also sadness in her eyes how is Avigale in her everyday life when you look at her she is happy she's so little maybe she'll get through it somehow Avigale had her fourth birthday in captivity yes, I don't know if she knew that will you mention it we did something small modest, cake and here and there like that at the simplest level there is maybe next year do they understand that Roy and Smedar will not return yes, after what they saw there's no way it's not ambiguous what do they mostly talk about toys one moment and then about mum and dad and then they come back and fight about nonsense with the cousins in the end they are children they have happy parts and they have sad parts and they have difficult parts I call it a roller coaster there is a discourse around everything of what happened, how it happened and why it happened I mean we give them some of the space we need to vent and we need crying and we need this but in the end we always face forwards we'll give them everything they need but we won't be able to give them the security let them go abroad live in a place that will be good for them I want them to grow up to understand that this is not their country it's not safe to live in the state of Israel that's all for this edition of I-24 News we have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel we'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates be sure to follow us on our website I-24 News Bell TV and across our social media platforms I'm Sivana Rave thank you for watching Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she is our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well the I-24 News I'm Sivana Rave and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 68 of Israel's war with Hamas the IDF continues its battle on the ground reports suggesting it has started pumping seawater into Hamas's underground terror tunnel system in Gaza a move aimed at destroying the subterrain network of passages and driving its operatives above ground sirens were heard this morning in Israel's southern communities as rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip the IDF announced the names of 10 more soldiers and officers killed fighting in the Gaza Strip yesterday bringing the death toll in the ground defensive against Hamas to 115 Colonel Itzhak bin Basat Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Greenbill Major Roy Meldasi Major Moshe Avram Baron Sergeant Akhiyad Askal Captain Liel Chayo Major Ben Shelley Sergeant First Class Rom Hecht Staff Sergeant Orya Yaakov and Sergeant Iran Aloni the IDF also reported another three soldiers were seriously wounded the IDF recovered the bodies of two hostages 28-year-old civilian Eddin Zakharia who was captured by Hamas on October 7 when attending the Nova Music Festival and 36-year-old IDF Warrant Officer Ziv Dado who was killed during the onslaught and was declared until now a fallen soldier held by a terror group The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution yesterday demanding a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas 153 members were in favor 10 against including the United States and 23 abstained Israel's ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan held up a sign with the phone number of Hamas officers in Gaza saying that if UN member nations wanted a real ceasefire they should call Hamas Joining us now on Israel's northern border is our I-24 News correspondent Zak Anders Zak we're seeing Hezbollah activity on and off fire and then several long hours of quiet How does this impact the soldiers and the civilians who are still there? With the weather being as it is that does not deter any of the activity they have a superior advantage with their drones and observation balloons to be able to cut through the clouds thick fog but for Hezbollah operating in the south they don't have the same advanced equipment they have the numbers they have the Iranian supplied weapons but they can't necessarily operate without that line of sight so with reduced visibility and reduced distance perhaps that plays into why we have not seen any strikes this afternoon of course the weather doesn't determine if they're going to be launching heavy rockets or mortars that wouldn't play a factor but for some of the personnel on the ground as they encroach on northern Israeli territory and then launch those ATGMs the anti-tank guided missiles those personnel do need to see what they're firing at so perhaps the reduction in activity we've seen this morning could play into that it's hard to say we have seen several Hezbollah strikes in the last 24 hours four strikes on Israeli positions the Israelis say no injuries no one was hurt but there was damage to several structures buildings in communities that have been evacuated here this evacuation order is probably going to stand in place for several more weeks at least that's the word that's being passed down by the Israeli Defense Minister as he meets with the mayors and leaders of the communities here and urges patients for those residents that have had to have been evacuated now we heard of three rockets that were launched from Syria into Israel last night what do we know about this and that's a major development with three of those coming from apparently the Syrian army because the IDF says that is who they retaliated against Syrian army positions led by Assad somewhere inside Syria it's unclear whether this was southern Syria near Israeli territory if it was somewhere else you'll remember in the last two hours we saw explosions in Damascus and Syrian officials saying that they shot down intercepted missiles that were intending Syrian targets it's also a little bit conflicting with some of the information that comes out of southern Syria as to who entirely is responsible or what actors are at play we've seen Hezbollah itself not just in southern Lebanon but in southern Syria as well the IDF eliminated a senior Hezbollah official a commander a field commander in the last few days in southern Syria operating a smaller cell there so it is a serious development because this is one of the outline events where the IDF says directly that they're targeting the Syrian army and Syrian army positions Zach Anders in the north thank you very much joining us in studio now is Lieutenant Colonel Serves Doron Avital former commander of special forces in the IDF also joining us is our I-24 new senior editor Gai Israel thank you both for coming in now Doron we see that nine soldiers were announced dead in this specific incident last night two of the names were just released earlier in addition to the seven that were released earlier what do we know about this incidence first of all it's a reminder to the Israeli society of the price of waging a war the price is heavy those are ten soldiers two of them from an air force unit that is a rescue operation unit 669 and the rest are Golanee brigade a regiment commander regiment 14 a colonel who was once a regiment commander in Golanee this is a heavy toll there were some kind of booby traps and then a rescue operation trying to rescue the soldiers the commitment of the IDF commanders to their own troops when they're in fire really proved itself in the field but the price is high ten killed and commanders to three commanders of companies this is a heavy toll for Golanee the same brigade that had this heavy fighting in 2014 in color of defense exactly in the same place so reminder of the toll that we have to pay in war in Sadia that's the area in Gaza yes a very heavy toll an IDF colonel the most senior Israeli officer to be losing his life in those battles on the ground battles in Sadia it's Hakeb Basad is the head of the Golanee brigade commander's team he's the fourth colonel to have died since October 7th the three others have died on the initial Hamas onslaught in the first battles he died together the commander of the Golanee 13 battalion Tomer Greenberg these are heavy losses for the IDF I think Doron knows better than all of us including our viewers how this event like this will be investigated how things maybe could have been done better certainly in the future a situation in which the forces were met with explosives were trapped inside some sort of a compound and then the forces that came to the rescue both the Air Force unit and the senior commanders that surrounded the compound were all eventually hit by additional explosives as they made their way to the rescue of the initial force the forces outside have lost contact with the first four fighters who entered the compound that they may have been abducted or their bodies and therefore reinforcement was sent very brave men needless to say that going to the line of fire meeting these terrorists face to face in an unknown terrain in a compound that we know there was a tunnel shaft there as well too many unknowns in this sort of environment and these troops are the head of the spear those who fight to clean up the northern part of the Gaza Strip from the Hamas forces as the IDF tries to eliminate Hamas military capability we saw very well unfortunately what Hamas did on October 7th what Hamas has been doing for so many years launching rockets and attacks on Israelis for so many years it is goal to stop that threat to eliminate Hamas and unfortunately it comes with a very heavy price nonetheless the IDF will have to investigate how to prevent this sort of incidents this sort of casualties we can also see a different incident right now on our screens and this is face to face a brave soldier that enters a home he encounters two terrorists that are in the house a grenade is being thrown at him he's being injured by the grenade nonetheless continues to fight and eliminates the following terrorists there inside that home this is the sort of face to face battles that we see what we're seeing on screen right now is footage that was released showing an IDF soldier actually confronting terrorists actually going in being wounded as Guy said and continuing to kill on additional terrorists the footage was from his body camera and that's how we received it and it was released can you talk to us about that sort of activity going door to door trying to eliminate terrorists there's no substitute for boots on the ground in this kind of a war if people think that you can do it by using only air power it won't work then you see soldiers fighting door to door in the same techniques that even 10, 20, 30, 40 years in the Lebanon war soldiers in this capacity are using it's necessary it's essential the price is high but you have to continue for sure we have to be very careful in terms of the booby traps and the way they succeeded to secure themselves those Hamas terrorists I think the lesson will be learn the battlefield is always chaotic dynamic you all the time learn new lessons in terms of as you confront the enemy and I think we learn we are getting better this is out there what can we do this is life in the battlefield now we are seeing booby traps as we've said and we know that there are many tunnels now there's this report saying that those tunnels will be flooded with seawater we know about that first of all we are using a vast array of technology in terms of the tunnels can be drones can be robotics can be dogs can vision equipment and of course this idea of pumping water seawater into the tunnel which is you have to monitor it see how it works try it and see what's the scope that you can use it whether you can use it in order to chase them out the Hamas terrorists and wait for them when they come out so this is part of the technology that was practiced and the army was actually trained in doing and using those techniques in the last 10 years and this even Herzi Alevi said that he thinks it might work so we have to see how the effect of this technique the idea of trying to be creative obviously the threat of the tunnels is is serious is one that is one of the goals of this operation to eliminate that sort of threat as we saw also in the incident with with Colani the idea of flooding the the tunnels has been floating for quite a while and as we heard from President Biden yesterday basically confirming that report in a way because he says he does as far as he understands there are no hostages in the tunnels that are being flooded and this is also a long process it's I think it's a gradual process the idea is to cause those Hamas operatives to come out of the tunnels and where it'll be much easier for the Israeli troops to confront them obviously they're hiding there waiting for the right moment we're still looking for those very senior Hamas officials, Yresin and Muhammad Def etc it is believed that they are hiding in a tunnel somewhere and the idea is trying to flush them out going back to what Biden said that he hopes that there are no hostages in those tunnels we know that hostages were hidden and are hidden in underground tunnels how can we assure so we have all those other technologies like drones that run into the tunnels robotics vision equipment this is like sophisticated technology that once by the way was used only with special forces and now it's employed by infantry on the ground and this technology also the engineering corps is using this technology is you use it in order to secure that you don't have hostages there and only then you would use you explode the pier you explode the tunnel or you use those new technique with the seawater and we know that two hostages were found that in one of those tunnels this shows you this has to do with intelligence that we gather this is one of the thing this was one of our greatest hopes when we enter this campaign that as Hamas is being defeated and there's a wedge between the civilians and the Hamas terrorists we can get a more and more intelligence about the way about of the senior commanders and our hostages and I think once you can use this intelligence in order to employ special forces to rescue hostages in this case to rescue the bodies of our hostages you use it we didn't succeed in one occasion but we might succeed in the in the future this is this is a part of the what we are hoping we can achieve for example in Hanyunis if we'll find the location of hostages and we have the right intel maybe a rescue operation on the ground please stay with us we'll be back to discuss some more of this but joining us now on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent Pia, can you give us the latest update on the ground down south I think that the operation is probably slowing down due to the terrible weather it's going rain over the Gaza Strip and on the border so as a result of that we hear less artillery fire at this point the visibility is very bad so although these artillery guns are guided but we don't hear many many echoes of the fighting inside the Gaza Strip what we know is that there are three main focal points in this ground offensive right now and these are the same for the past 10 days also it's the Jebalyage refugee camp which is on the north outskirts of Gaza city the Shejaya border which is in the southeast outskirts of Gaza city but what we hear from the incident yesterday the tragic incident for the IDF in which 10 soldiers were killed in the old city of Shejaya it seems that there are also terrorists in other neighbourhoods of Gaza city such as because we know from the first briefing of the IDF on the soldiers that were involved in the clash yesterday in the deadly clash many terrorists came in support of those that were in Shejaya from the Tufa neighbourhood in another sector the center south sector of the Gaza Strip around Hanunas also heavy fighting we've seen earlier from that sector the artillery on the Salahadin axis which is main axis to lead to the Hanunas city where the IDF believes that the political and military leadership of Hamas is originated and might have 6 shelter there because the population might be the most loyal to these leaders and the fighting from the air is also on the central refugee camps of Direl Balach Nusserat El Borej and also in the southern most city of the Gaza Strip in Rafah where there is also bombing and at the same time a humanitarian pose in the fighting in the Alshabura refugee camp of Rafah which is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pierre Klischender thank you very much down on Israel's southern border and back in studio with us are the Rona Vittal and Gaisryen we're seeing such serious heavy rain we heard as we saw it that surely impacts the fighting on the ground weather is always one constituent of warfare and this can complicate things also for us through that in the north it might work to our advantage in the far distances with Hezbollah but here in this condensed area of Gaza it complicates the working of the army so we have to be much more careful it also adds up to the Unitarian problems or the possible catastrophe that might be created in the south which is also something we have to take note of and try to work it out so the winter coming new element of the warfare and we'll have to take it into account depending on what kind of winter is expecting to come now we know that we're seeing IDF activity and Klisch is also in Genine in the west bank what do we know about that well the Genine the last year or so there was a sort of a mini war in the northern Samaria and this was a tough operation with many units entering and we saw the the footage we have to keep the west bank contained because we don't want the front of the west bank erupting this would be the worst thing for us right now and I think we pull a lot of force in preventing arrest, in finding terrorists in trying to contain them northern Samaria is a problem with problems in Chavron the west bank is all the time bubbling we have to try to keep it as calm as possible yes we're hearing reports from the Palestinians out of Genine this morning in one of the eastern neighborhoods of the city IDF troops there are encircling that neighborhood closing off the entrances we know there are clashes between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops there and it comes of course after on Tuesday four Palestinian terrorists were killed by a drone strike after during an Israeli activity their arrest trade the militants have hurled explosives on these Israeli troops eventually were eliminated by a drone another concern for Israel on that front thank you very much Doron Avikal and Gazrael we're now off Tkibbutz Bayri one of the communities devastated on October 7th this Tkibbutz is home to the country's largest printing works which was largely spared by the terrorists and was able to get back to work rather quickly a report by Debra Ben Ayun with photography by Dean Byron Boyn Igal Shitrit has lived and worked in Bayri for several decades but on October 7th everything changed those are the members of the Tkibbutz that used to work in the print and were murdered part of the modern 90 people that were murdered on the 7th of October of Saturday we have here people that I know for more than 40 years part of them are from my class in the Tkibbutz part of them I worked with for over 25 years at the bottom we have the picture of Yossi Sharabi which is he is abducted with his brother Ely Sharabi and the last person to be added to this wall is Saar Baruch may he rest in peace we heard about it on Saturday Igal Shitrit's former classmates include Gil Buyum who was murdered with his son and Oron Birah who was killed with his wife and two children including his daughter Tair also an employee of the company in all almost 90 people from Kibbutz Bayri were killed including children but barely a week after the October 7th massacres the printing works resumed its activities I want to tell you something about he comes to work every day from Yama Melach to Bayri he just the last person that was added to the wall is Saar Baruch he is his grandson his wife was murdered on the Saturday the 7th his other grandson was murdered on the Saturday of the 7th of October and it comes every day to work this is a story of of strength of belief of everything that means Kibbutz Bayri or Tfuz Bayri look at this person, it's amazing Natasha Cohen also works at the printing works she and her family have lived on Kibbutz Bayri for 32 years on October 7th when the numerous rocket alerts began to sound around 6.30 am her husband was out walking the dog we heard a motorcycle and I looked at my husband I said to him, oh dear it must be from the party they probably ran in a way to look for shelter, tell them to come in so he went right up to the fence and I had a look and as it came by I was busy trying to calm my dog down so I didn't see them because the fence is about this time and then he said to me it's terrorists it's a motorcycle with machine guns and I looked at him and I thought I said you couldn't fathom terrorists it sounds crazy rockets we used to not terrorists Natasha and her family were very lucky because she lives only a few meters from the attacked neighbourhood and the terrorists saw her husband Natasha's family had to stay in the safe room from 7 am until 11 pm that horrible feeling of sitting in your safety room when friends are shouting for help and screaming to help and you got this useless feeling you can't do anything about it just reading the messages and trying to call for help and we were waiting for the army to come in time goes by when you realise the army is not coming in and your friends are shouting for help and there's nothing you can do you realise there's a big problem because if the army is not here something's definitely gone wrong several employees of the printing works accounting department were murdered on October 7th Natasha who was in charge of the kibbutz finances resumed her work at the printing works a few weeks ago first remotely and then a few days ago on site having decided to move back I didn't think I'd ever come back to Berry thinking to myself I would come back to a place where I wouldn't feel safe again but within a very short time after that you start getting angry and you think they've taken everything, they've ripped everything under your feet taking your security, your friends family members taking my home away from me as well because we were basically fugitives in our own country and I think it was the anger of the humiliation of me not having my own home and them trying to take that from me as well is what it made me decide to come back the print house started to work on the second week I think second week after the October 7th because of two things two main things, one it's vital for us for us all it's a show of normalcy in a time that there's no normalcy we don't even have the language to describe what happened to us after the 7th of October what you see here it's not less than amazing beyond the strength and resilience as I said before it's a beacon most of the employees that are working on day to day they're not from the kibbutz now they're from all over the area and they come on daily basis because it's it's part of their lives it's part of our second home the berri printing works founded in 1950 is the largest in Israel it employs 350 people it is here that a huge number of official documents including credit cards checkbooks and drivers licenses are printed for the whole country miraculously the printing works was hardly touched by the terrorists however bullet holes can be seen here and there especially on windows but also on this TV set further along the kibbutz's pathways are destroyed houses as far as the eye can see among them eagles on October 7th he was not there with emotion he shows us what's left of what he calls his fortress this is our home most of us plan to come back when it's available other people won't be able to come back emotionally this home suffered on the 7th of October suffered a lot and I believe from this suffering will have growth a hope imprinted in every kibbutz resident that's all for this edition thank you for watching Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she we are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well only on I-24 News the rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip the IDF announced the names of 10 more soldiers and officers killed fighting in the Gaza Strip yesterday bringing the death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas to 115 Colonel Itzhak bin Basat Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Greenbill Major Roy Meldassie Major Moshe Avram Baron Sergeant Achia Descal Captain Liel Chayo Major Ben Shelley Sergeant First Class Rom Hecht Sergeant Kov and Sergeant Iran Aloni the IDF also reported another three soldiers were seriously wounded the IDF recovered the bodies of two hostages 28-year-old civilian Eddin Zaharia who was captured by Hamas on October 7 when attending the Nova Music Festival and 36-year-old IDF warren officer Ziv Dado who was killed during the onslaught and was declared until now a fallen soldier held by a terror group the UN General Assembly was unbinding resolution yesterday demanding a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas 153 members were in favor 10 against including the United States and 23 abstained Israel's ambassador to the UN Gila Derdan held up a sign with the phone number of Hamas officers in Gaza saying that if UN member nations wanted a real ceasefire they should call Hamas Joining us now on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent Zak Anders who is on and off fire and several long hours of quiet how does this impact the soldiers and the civilians who are still there well with the weather being as it is that does not deter any of the activity for the IDF they have a superior advantage with their drones and observation balloons to be able to cut through the clouds, the fog but for Hezbollah operating in the south they don't have the same advanced equipment they have the numbers they have in supply weapons but they can't necessarily operate without that line of sight so with reduced visibility and reduced distance perhaps that plays into why we have not seen any strikes this afternoon of course the weather doesn't determine if you're going to be launching heavy rockets or mortars that wouldn't play a factor but for some of the personnel on the ground as they encroach on northern Israeli territory and then launch those ATGMs the anti-tank guided missiles personnel do need to see what they're firing at so perhaps the reduction in activity we've seen this morning could play into that it's hard to say we have seen several Hezbollah strikes in the last 24 hours at least four strikes on Israeli positions the Israelis say no injuries no one was hurt but there was damage to several structures, buildings and communities that have been evacuated here this evacuation order is probably going to stand in place for several more weeks at least that's the word that's being passed down by the Israeli defense minister as he meets with the mayors and leaders of the communities here and urges patients for those residents that have had to have been evacuated now we heard of three rockets that were launched from Syria into Israel last night what do we know about this and that's a major development with three of those coming from apparently the Syrian army because the IDF says that is who they retaliated against Syrian army positions led by Assad somewhere inside Syria it's unclear whether this was southern Syria near Israeli territory if it was somewhere else you'll remember in the last 72 hours we saw explosions in Damascus and Syrian officials saying that they shot down intercepted missiles that were intending Syrian targets it's also a little bit conflicting with some of the information of southern Syria as to who entirely is responsible or what actors are at play we've seen Hezbollah itself not just in southern Lebanon but in southern Syria as well the IDF eliminated a senior Hezbollah official a commander a field commander in the last few days in southern Syria operating a smaller cell there so it is a serious development because this is one of the online events where the IDF says directly that they're targeting the Syrian army and Syrian army positions Zach Anders in the north thank you very much joining us in studio now is Lieutenant Colonel and reserve Doron Avital former commander of special forces in the IDF also joining us is our I-24 news senior editor Gaisriel thank you both for coming in now Doron we see that nine soldiers were announced dead in this specific incident last night two of the names were just released earlier in addition to the seven that were released earlier what do we know about this incident first of all it's a reminder to this valley society of the price of waging a war the price is heavy the total is heavy those are ten soldiers as two of them from an Air Force unit that is a rescue operation unit 669 and the rest are Golani brigade a regiment commander 13 a colonel who was once a regiment commander in the Golani this is a heavy toll there was some kind of a booby traps and then a rescue operation trying to rescue the soldiers the commitment of the IDF commanders to their own troops when they are in fire really proved itself in the field but the price is high then killed and commanders to three commanders of companies this is a heavy toll for Golani brigade that had this heavy fighting in 2014 in colour of defence of the operation exactly in the same place so reminder of the toll that we have to pay in war in Sajeyi that's the area in Ghazan, Guy yes a very heavy toll an IDF colonel the most senior Israeli officer to be losing his life in those battles on the ground battles in Sajeyi it's Huck Ben Bassat is the head of the commander's team he's the fourth colonel to have died since October 7 the three others have died on the initial Hamas onslaught in the first battles he died together with the commander of the Golani's 13 battalion Tomer Greenberg these are heavy losses for the IDF I think Daron knows better than all of us including our viewers in this event like this will be investigated how things maybe could have been done better certainly in the future a situation in which the forces were met with explosives were trapped inside some sort of a compound and then the forces that came to the rescue both the Air Force unit and the senior commanders that surrounded the compound were all eventually hit by additional explosives as they made their way to the rescue of the initial force the forces outside have lost contact with the first four fighters who entered the compound there was fear that they may have been abducted or their bodies and therefore reinforcement was sent very brave men needless to say that going to the line of fire these terrorists face to face in an unknown terrain in a compound that we know there was a tunnel shaft there as well too many unknowns in this sort of environment and these troops are the head of the spear those who fight to clean up the northern part of the Gaza Strip from the Hamas forces as the IDF tries to eliminate Hamas's military capability we saw very well unfortunately what Hamas did on October 7th what Hamas has been doing for so many years launching rockets and attacks on Israelis for so many years as well as made it his goal its goal to stop that threat to eliminate Hamas and unfortunately it comes with a very heavy price and nonetheless the IDF will have to investigate how to prevent this sort of incidents this sort of casualties we also see a different incident right now on our screens and this is face to face a brave soldier that enters a home he encounters two terrorists there in the house and a grenade is being thrown at him he's being injured by the grenade nonetheless continues to fight and eliminates the following terrorists there inside that home this is the sort of face to face the battles that we see what we're seeing on screen right now is footage that was released showing an IDF soldier actually confronting terrorists actually going in being wounded as Guy said and continuing to kill on additional terrorists the footage was from his body camera and that's how we received it and it was released can you talk to us about that sort of activity going door to door trying to eliminate terrorists there's no substitute for boots on the ground in this kind of a warfare people think that you can do it by using only air power it won't work and you see soldiers fighting door to door in the same techniques that even 10, 20, 30, 40 years in the Lebanon war soldiers in this capacity are using it's necessary it's essential the price is high but you have to continue for sure we have to be very careful in terms of the booby traps and the way they succeeded to secure themselves Hamas terrorists I think the lesson will be learned the battlefield is always chaotic dynamic you all of the time learn new lessons in terms of as you confront the enemy and I think we learn we are getting better but the prices are there what can we do this is life in the battlefield now we are seeing booby traps as we've said and we know that there are many tunnels now there's this report saying that those tunnels will be flooded with seawater what do we know about that we're seeing a vast array of technology in terms of the tunnels it can be drones, it can be robotics it can be dogs, it can be vision equipment and of course this idea of pumping seawater into the tunnels which is you have to monitor it, see how it works try it and see what's the scope that you can use it whether you can use it in order to chase them out Hamas terrorists and wait for them when they come out the technology that was practiced and the army was actually trained in using those techniques in the last 10 years and this thing even Herzi Alevi said that he thinks it might work so we have to see how the effect of this technique the idea of trying to be creative obviously the threat of the tunnels is serious is one that is one of the goals of this operation to eliminate that sort of threat as we saw also in the incident with Colani the idea of flooding the the tunnels has been floating for quite a while and as we heard from President Biden yesterday basically confirming that report in a way because he says he does as far as he understands there are no hostages in the tunnels that are being flooded and this is also a long process I think it's a gradual process the idea is to cause those Hamas operatives to come out of the tunnels where it will be much easier for the Israeli troops to confront them obviously they're hiding there waiting for the right moment we're still looking for those very senior Hamas officials Mohamed Def etc it is believed that they are hiding in a tunnel somewhere and the idea is trying to flush them out going back to what Biden said that he hopes that there are no hostages in those tunnels we know that hostages were hidden and are hidden in underground tunnels how can we assure? So we have all those other technologies like drones that run into the tunnels robotics, vision equipment this is like it's very sophisticated technology that once by the way was used only with special forces and now it's employed by infantry on the ground and this technology so the engineering corps is using this technology you use it in order to secure that you don't have hostages there and only then you would use you explode the pier, you explode the tunnel or you use this new technique with the sea water And we know that two hostages were found in one of those tunnels This shows you, this has to do with the intelligence that we gather this was one of our greatest hopes when we enter this campaign that as Hamas is being defeated there is a wedge between the civilians and the Hamas terrorists we can gather more and more intelligence about the way about the center commanders and our hostages and I think once you can use this intelligence in order to employ special forces to rescue hostages in this case to rescue the bodies of our hostages you use it we didn't succeed in one occasion but we might succeed in the future this is part of what we are hoping we can achieve during Hanunez if we'll find the location of hostages and we have the right intel maybe a rescue operation on the ground Please stay with us we'll be back to discuss some more of this but joining us now on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Kluchender Pierre, can you give us the latest update on the ground down south I think that the operation is probably slowing down due to the terrible weather it's going rain over the Gaza Strip and on the border so as a result of that we hear less artillery fire at this point the visibility is very bad so although these artillery systems are guided we don't hear many many echoes of the fighting inside the Gaza Strip what we know is that there are three main focal points in this ground offensive right now and these are the same for the past 10 days also it's the Jebalyage refugee camp which is on the north outskirts of Gaza city the Shejaya border which is in the southeast outskirts of Gaza city but what we hear from the incident yesterday the tragic incident for the IDF in which 10 soldiers were killed in the old city of Shejaya it seems that there are also terrorists in other neighborhoods of Gaza city such as Aldaraj Tufa because we know from the first briefing of the IDF on the soldiers that were involved in the clash yesterday in the deadly clash many terrorists came in support of those that were in Shejaya from the Tufa neighborhood in another sector the center south sector of the Gaza Strip around Hanyunas also heavy fighting we've seen earlier from that sector the pounding of the artillery on the Salahadin axis which is main axis to lead to the Hanyunas city where the IDF believes that the political and military leadership of Hamas is originated and might have 6 shelters there because the population might be the most loyal to these leaders now the fighting from the air is also on the central refugee camps of Direl Balak, Mouserat El-Borej and also in the southern most city of the Gaza Strip in Rafah where there is also bombing and at the same time a humanitarian pose in the fighting in the Al-Shabura refugee camp of Rafah which is for 4 hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pierre Klushenler thank you very much down on Israel's southern border and back in studio with us are Dolon Avital and Gaysri and we're seeing such serious heavy rain and we saw it that surely impacts the fighting on the ground where there is always one constituent of warfare and this can complicate things also for us because of vision and sight through that in the north it might work to our advantage in the far distances with Hezbollah but here in this condensed area of Gaza it complicates the working of the army so we have to be much more careful about the humanitarian problems or the possible catastrophe that might be created in the south which is also something we have to take note of and try to work it out so the winter coming is a new element of the warfare and we'll have to take it into account depending on what kind of winter is expecting to come now we know that we're seeing IDF activity and clashes also in Genine in the West Bank how do we know about that? Well, the Genine in the last year there was a sort of a mini war in the northern Samaria and this was a tough operation with many units entering and we saw the footage we have to keep the West Bank contained because we don't want the front of the West Bank erupting this would be the worst thing for us right now and I think we pulled a lot of force in preventing arrests, in finding terrorists to contain them northern Samaria is a problem with problems in Chavon the West Bank is all the time bubbling we have to try to keep it as calm as possible Yes, we're hearing reports from the Palestinians out of Genine this morning in one of the eastern neighborhoods of the city IDF troops there are encircling that neighborhood closing off the entrances we know there are clashes between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops there and it comes, of course, after on Tuesday four Palestinian terrorists were killed by a drone strike during an Israeli activity their arrest, trade those militants have hurled explosives on the Israeli troops eventually were eliminated by a drone Another concern for Israel on that front Thank you very much, Doron Avikal and Ghazrael We're now off to Kibbutz-Baeri one of the communities devastated on October 7th this Kibbutz is home to the country's largest printing works, which was largely spared by the terrorists and was able to get back to work rather quickly a report by Debra Ben Ayun with photography by Dean Barenboim Igal Shitrit has lived and worked in Bari for several decades but on October 7th everything changed those are the members of the Kibbutz that used to work in the print and were murdered part of the modern 90 people that were murdered on the 7th of October of Saturday we have here people that I know for more than 40 years part of them are from my class in the Kibbutz part of them I worked with for over 25 years at the bottom we have the picture of Yossi Sharabi which he is abducted with his brother Eli Sharabi and the last person to be added to this wall is Saar Baruch may he rest in peace we heard about it on Saturday Igal Shitrit's former classmates include Gil Buyum who was murdered with his son and Oron Birra who was killed with his wife and two children including his daughter Tahir also an employee of the company in all almost 90 people who were killed including children but barely a week after the October 7th massacres the printing works resumed its activities I want to tell you something about Itzhak Bachar he is 80 years old he comes to work every day from Yama Melach to Be'eri he just the last person that was added to the wall is Saar Baruch he is his grandson he was murdered on the Saturday the 7th his other grandson was murdered on the Saturday of the 7th of October and Itzhak comes every day to work this is a story of of strength of belief of everything that means Kibbutz Be'eri Otfuz Be'eri look at this person it's amazing she also works at the printing works she and her family have lived on Kibbutz Be'eri for 32 years on October 7th when the numerous rocket alerts began to sound around 6.30 am her husband was out walking the dog within minutes we heard a motorcycle and I looked at my husband I said to him oh dear it must be from the party they probably ran in a way to look for shelter tell them to come in and as it came by I was busy trying to calm my dog down so I didn't see them because of the fences you know about this and then he said to me it's terrorists I saw two terrorists on a motorcycle with machine guns and I looked at him and I said you know you couldn't fathom terrorists it sounds crazy you know who rockets we used to terrorists Natasha and her family were very lucky because she lives only a few meters from the attack neighborhood and the terrorists saw her husband Natasha's family had to stay in the safe room from 7 am until 11 pm that horrible feeling of sitting in your safety room when friends are shouting for help and screaming to help and you got this useless feeling you can't do anything about it just reading the messages and trying to call for help and we were waiting for the army to come in time goes by when you realize the army is not coming in and your friends are shouting for help and there's nothing you can do you realize there's a big problem because if the army is not here something's definitely gone wrong several employees of the printing works accounting department were murdered on October 7th Natasha who was in charge of the kibbutz finances took a look at the printing works a few weeks ago first remotely and then a few days ago on site having decided to move back I didn't think I'd ever come back to Berry thinking to myself how could I ever come back to a place where I wouldn't feel safe again but within a very short time after that you start getting angry and you think they've taken everything they've ripped everything under your feet you know taken your security your friends family members taking my home away from me as well because we were basically fugitives in our own country and I think it was the anger of you know the humiliation of me not having my own home and them trying to take that from me as well is what made me decide to come back the print house started to work on the second week I think second week after the October 7th because of two things two main things one it's vital for us for us all it's a show of normalcy in a time that there's no normalcy we don't even have the language to describe what happened to us after the 7th of October what you see here it's not less than amazing beyond the strength and resilience as I said before it's a beacon most of the employees are working on day to day they're not from the kibbutz now they're from all over the area and they come on daily basis because it's a it's part of their lives it's their second home the Berri printing works founded in 1950 is the largest in Israel it employs 350 people it is here that a huge number of official documents including credit cards checkbooks and drivers licenses are printed for the whole country miraculously the printing works was hardly touched by the terrorists however bullet holes can be seen here and there especially on windows but also on this TV set a little further along the kibbutz's pathways are destroyed houses as far as the eye can see among them eagles on October 7th he was not there with emotion he shows us what's left of what he calls his fortress this home most of us plan to come back when it's to be available other people won't be able to come back emotionally this home