el 24, únicamente en I-24 News. Y el Consejo de la Seguridad de la Unión de la Unidad está listo para votar en horas en una búsqueda palestiniana para la participación de los fuertes. Esas son las historias de los topos. Esta hora, bienvenido. Bueno, un mensaje para el White House ha dicho el I-24 News esta semana que reporta que el U.S. ha dado a Israel la luz verde para una operación en Rafa son falsas. Un newspaper catario ha proponido que el U.S. podría acceder a una ofensiva en el último tomás Stronghold y Gaza si Israel accedió para limitar su respuesta a Irán siguiendo el drone satártico y el ataque de misiles. Un reporte separado demuestra que Israel no podría acceder a Irán antes de pasar, que termina en la tienda. Más en este reporte. Seguridad o evadir una crisis. El catario basado en el árabe Al-Jadid reporta que el U.S. ha notado un plan de Israel para atacar el último tomás Stronghold en Rafa y en torno a una responsabilidad de Israel a la ataque de los iranianos en el final de la semana. Antes de esta semana, la idea ha llamado a dos pregados de reserva que pueden ser enviados a la frontera de Rafa. Hemos completado la destrucción de los batallones de Hamas, incluyendo en Rafa que no hay poder en el mundo que nos puede atender. Desde el ataque de los iranianos presidenciales antes de la mañana sández, Israel ha sido arreglado su propia respuesta. Estamos closely accediendo a la situación. Hemos quedado a nivel más alto de la red. Irán va a enfrentar las consecuencias para sus actividades. Y a los modelos de los iranianos... Creo que nos agradecen a nuestros amigos de la Nación por su apoyo en el defensa del estado de Israel, tanto en apoyarnos en palabras y también con su apoyo activo. También tienen todos los sugestiones y consejos. Me aprecio eso. Pero quiero hacer una cosa clara. Hemos hecho nuestras decisiones a nosotros mismos. Pero la comunidad internacional está arreglando a Israel no para escalar la situación. Es claro que los israelíos están haciendo una decisión para actuar. Espero que lo hagan de manera que hace poco para escalar la situación. Según las sources de egyptia que están citadas por el Newspaper de Qatari, Israel ya ha empezado a arreglar a la ciudad de Garza del Sur, ubicado en el grado con el Egipto. Aunque esta noticia no es confirmada, y que contradicte las demandas que Israel mantiene de la acción a Raffach, hasta que las guardias para los civilianos que pudieran ser arregladas en la pelea, Presidente Biden ha hecho este punto en la noche, pero ha confiado Raffach con la ciudad de Israel de Haifa. Y he hecho claro a los israelíos que no mueven a Haifa. ¿Pero que Israel decide poner a plan de soledad para retaliar contra Irán? La decisión ahora está en las manos del gobierno de Israel. Bien, conmigo en el estudio. Este es el señor Lieutenant Colonel Don Abital. Es el comandante formal de las fuerzas especiales en la IDF. Buenas noches a todos. Y amiguitos también. Y ya que da ya, él es el formal de Israel de la Iglesia de los Ángeles. ¡Suscríbete! Y ya que también. Don Abital, de repente, hablamos de Raffach, obviamente, el país se ha dominado en las secretas de la red para los últimos días. ¿Qué crees que está pasando aquí? No creo que haya tenido un problema en esos términos. Raffach en el caso de no atacar a Irán. Tenemos que calibrar la respuesta al país en Irán y calibrar el campaign contra Raffach ¿Cómo, en qué forma? Trabajando la consideración, primero, de los ciudadanos gásicos que están en Rafa, segundo, de la U.S. consenso, o de algún rato con los americanos, y, por supuesto, el borde de la Egipcia, la ruta de la Philadelphia. Había algunos fracos que se hicieron por la Egipcia, pero no sé si el ministro de la Formulación o una de ellos diciendo, no empatizan la piscina. Así que, tomando toda esta consideración, tenemos que pensar en qué tipo de campaña y cuándo esta campaña puede ser ejecutiva. Y, Yaqui Dayan, there is a kind of a similarity here, isn't there? There's been pressure on Israel not to go into Rafa, and of course there's now pressure on Israel not to respond too heavily to Iran. And the foreign minister, Israel Kaz, has just thanked President Biden because the U.S. has imposed further sanctions on Iran, Europe doing the same, and they're hoping that will be enough, aren't they? So everything is connected at the end of the day. Listen, the most important and urgent task for the Israelis is releasing the hostages. Now, most of the army is outside Gaza. I mean, we left Chanyunas. We tripled the humanitarian aid. So you have to create new leverages in order to create some kind of an opportunity to release the hostages. And a new leverage would be entering Gaza, no doubt. That's a new leverage. There are a few other leverages. I mean, like the Americans pressuring Qatar creating some kind of an alternative to the Hamas, but mainly creating a new military leverage. Now, on the Iranian issue, no doubt that we have to take into consideration three things. The first one is the Americans. We have to coordinate it in some way with the Americans. The second one is the coalition. I mean, creating the coalition is a huge achievement. Now we have to make sure that we don't lose this coalition. And the third one, we have to make sure that any response will take into consideration that we are not expanding this war and not creating a new war with the Iranians. Now, the fact that the Americans now are moving on new sanctions is a huge move because it's not only a military strike against the Iranians. It's also a diplomatic economic strike against the Iranians. And now, leading into new sanctions is a huge deal because, if you remember correctly, the words in October ended the sanctions on Iran with the Security Council. So, those new sanctions are a very big and new thing in the international community. The sanctions are on leaders and entities tied to the IRGC, just to be clear, the Defense Ministry and the Missile and Drone Programme as well. All right, we'll talk a bit more about that in a moment, but let's turn our attention back to Rafa because Egypt is one of the countries most concerned about the prospect of an IDF operation there and it's been strengthening its border with Gaza in recent months. Talk more about that. We're joined by Heisam Hassanain. He's an adjunct fellow at the FDD, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Thanks for being with us, Heisam. And this same Qatari newspaper has claimed that Egypt is once again right now strengthening its border in anticipation of an IDF offensive in Rafa. Is it true? Thanks for having me, Laura. Yes, according to news reports in recent months, Cairo asked Washington to consider helping supply additional tranches of funding and no military equipment such as radar systems to secure the border with Gaza. Egypt worries that Arafat invasion could push hundreds of thousands of people to its border and while they have been fortifying their side of the border to ensure no loopholes for anybody to infiltrate, but there is an understanding they would have to take some refugees at some point. So the current independent strategy is to minimize the number of Gaza civilians taken by all possible means. So this way, they could ensure the return in the future and also ensure that no militant Hamas members infiltrating the Egyptian borders among the civilians. Okay, well, meanwhile, the hostage talks have stored once again, both Qatar and Egypt failing to get a deal. Does Egypt still have any leverage over Hamas? Obviamente, el tales inocente de la hosta de los parómetros que han llamado a Egypt es una organización que es un asimismo musulano que sólo importa su convocatoria en la expansión de la población de la Gaza. Y esto significa que para el Egipto, si Hamas continúa a ser un jugador en la política palestiniana, los gobiernos pro-Islamas, como Cataran y Iran, continuan a competir con las elecciones sobre el avión dentro del trato. Y si una cosa quiere ganar de la crisis del 7 de octubre es ser el principal jugador en el arena palestiniano de Israel, principalmente antes del spring de aéreo. Así que, en order para restaurar este estadio regional prestigioso, esto no va a suceder. Como siempre, Hamas continúa a tener un salario sobre las cosas dentro de la gaza. Hola, Sam, hemos hablado de la coalición que ayudó a defender Israel en la noche sábado. Jordan, los aliados europeos, por supuesto. Y también Saudi Arabia y el UAE también jugaron de la gaza también. Otro de los aliados gulfos de Israel, Bahrain, ha habido de hablar con el Egipto. El rey de Bahrain está en Cairo. Ellos quieren encontrar una solución pacífica para lo que está pasando y en la gaza también. ¿Puedes decirles un poco sobre lo que se ha dicho? Sí, muchas cosas se han contado con. Una, el aeropuerto de Arabia, que será hostil de Disney y Bahrain. Seguramente, ambos, Egypta y Bahrain, quieren coordinar la más cruzosa issue regional de hoy, que es la gaza. Dos a Egypta y su madre, los gulfos gulfos, como mucho como el de Hamas. Pero ellos quieren que el mundo quede el próximo día. Esto es para evitar hostilizar este lugar. Palestinianos en el territorio egipto. Y, por lo más importante, evitar la incertidumbre causada por Irán y su proclamación regional. D.C. y Irán y Israel, el desmantelamiento de Hamas, un objetivo deseado de una mano. Pero porque lo dará más leverage en la arena palestiniana. Y abrir la puerta para replicar a Irán, Turkey y Qatar, los gobiernos islámicos. Pero también se preocupan sobre una escalación iraniana, que va a endangerar su trade y economía. Y, por lo más importante, la localización de los públicos locales. La acción resistente en la región de Irán es definida por los palestinianos, mientras los árabes no lo hacen mucho. Entonces, el campo de madrid y el golf y el Cairo gustaría a Israel que haya una fórmula secreta para balancear entre el desmantelamiento de Hamas, en el medio termino, cuidar a los civiles palestinianos y, en el medio termino, encontrar un camino con la propaganda de los iranianos en la región. Sí, estamos todos buscando para encontrar esa solución secreta, ¿no? Muchas gracias. De hecho, hola a todos. ¡Gracias por hablar con ustedes! Hola a todos. ¡Gracias por estar aquí con el FDD! Gracias por estar aquí con ustedes. Bueno, Catar, por lo menos, se ha tratado de quitar su rol como mediator en la conversación para el rechazamiento de hostia y la cifra en Gaza. El primer ministro, Mohamed Althani, dijo que Catar su rol fue utilizada contra él. El Congreso de Estados Unidos, Steny Hoyer, dijo antes esta semana que el U.S. debería reevaluar su rol con Doha, al menos que le ponga más presión a Hamas, para que le diga un acuerdo. Aquí es Althani, hablando de él. Afortunadamente, hemos visto que ha sido un abuso de esta mediatión y un abuso de esta mediatión en favor de intereses negros políticos. Esto significa que el estado de Catar ha llamado para las evaluaciones comprensibles de este rol. Estamos ahora en el momento para evaluar la mediatión y también evaluar cómo las partidas se engañan en esta mediatión. Estamos convirtidos a esto desde este punto de vista humanitario, pero también hay límites a este rol y límites a la habilidad a la que podemos contribuir a estas negociaciones en una manera constructiva, el estado de Catar va a hacer la decisión correcta en el momento correcto. Gracias. Y nos vamos a hablar de Catar. Estamos ayudados a Anshalavora, un agente internacional de la Fuerza Colomist en el Magasín de la Policía Forum. Muchas gracias, por ayudarnos. Y dame un comentario. ¿Qué dice este movimiento sobre las preocupaciones que Doha tiene sobre su relación con Washington? Creo que ha sido difícil de explicar por qué las partidas han still not been released, particularly since American Pressure has increased and this pressure is coming from senators, it's coming from congressmen and women who've been to Catar or those who even haven't been to Catar and it's bipartisan, it's both from Republican and Democratic leaders of the US. And they're essentially saying Catar ought to do much. Catar is saying, we are doing as much as we can, but in the end, in the end it's about whether Israel gives into Hamas's demands of a permanent ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. And as long as that does not take place, they don't seem very hopeful that hostages would come back home. But it does go on to say that Catar actually is under pressure and is not liking it very much. And I think this could either be a bluff, this threat, or they could be serious. But if they are serious, then Israeli government needs to sort of sit back and think, oh, is there actually anybody else who has more leverage over Hamas than Qataris? And if not, then do they need to sort of tone down the pressure a little bit and ask their allies to tone it down a bit? Well, critics say that Catar hasn't done enough to pressure Hamas to agree to a deal. Is that a fair criticism? Could Doha have done more? Well, Doha says it's doing as much as it can and it says that it has been mediating in all sorts of such conflicts. If you remember the US and the Taliban as well at the US's behest and that it is doing it for humanitarian reasons. Could it have done more? Now, this is a really big question. I mean, I've lived in Lebanon and I say that I inform the viewers of that fact because I understand that these groups by these groups, I mean groups such as Hisbola, Hamas and I've covered Afghanistan extensively such as Taliban do have a mind of their own. By having said that, Hamas does not have many friends, many supporters, so to say. It does not have many supporters left. So if the Qataris were to say, look guys, send back the hostages or even we will not support you. I wonder what Hamas's leadership would say.  I mean, that's just Turkey or Iran left, right? So I mean, this has been the big question that could it use that tool? Could it use its immense leverage or actually it can't because these characters, these actors, by that I mean Hamas's leadership, its leaders are very stubborn people. And this is part of a broader strategy, isn't it, Anshal, that Qatar has had over the years. It wants to maintain good ties with both the West but also its enemies and it does have a special status with regards to the United States. It's a non-nato major ally. Do you think that that strategy might not work with the ongoing escalation in the region? I mean, it depends on who you mean by the West and who you mean by Western's enemies. I'll just assume you mean, yeah, let's focus on Hamas. Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah. Yeah, I mean, all very different scenarios, all very different relationships. But if you look at Afghanistan and Taliban and if you look at the current mediation that Qataris are doing between Israelis and Hamas, the broad strategy is that Qatar wants to play mediator. Qatar is a small state. It's a very wealthy state, but it's a small state. And it has its own concerns from its bigger neighbors, bigger Arab neighbors who surround Qatar and its riches. So the Qataris want to mediate, to also have, they want to be able to say, we're not just holding huge reserves of gas, but we are influential. We have a say, we are important. Here's what we can do, here's how we can resolve things. So they want a bit of a stature. Now, will that strategy, will they abandon that? I don't think so. That's why I'm saying, I'm still not very sure whether this is just a bluff or whether it's a real threat. Maybe in this case, we'll have to see how it goes. I don't think they will walk out. But in other scenarios, I don't think Qatar is in any way going to abandon its position as a mediator, which it has worked on for years now to build itself, to present itself as one. And Shavora, great to talk to you. Thank you very much, Indeed. Thank you, Laura. Well, with me in the studio, Yaqui Dayan and Arnavital. And Yaqui, do you think Qatar is worried that it has kind of burned its bridges with the United States? It hasn't managed to get a result despite its much-wanted role as a mediator. Do you think it's worried about what the US will do? Yeah, not yet. I think that the US is still not pressuring enough the Qataris because they still have a lot of leverages on the Qataris that they're not willing to use, such as their army base over there or even the leadership of the Hamas and the financial activity of the Hamas that is still taking place in Qatar. And the Americans are not willing to push the Qataris to get rid of either the leadership or the financial resource. So I don't buy this Qatari statement.  Because they see that the negotiations are failing and instead of... They are the sponsors, obviously, of the Hamas. So instead of blaming the Hamas, they are blaming the Israelis there. And I think that they are playing such a negative role. But having said that, A, we need the Qataris right now because they have still leverage on the Hamas and we don't have many volunteers for that. But we have to remember that, as was mentioned right now, I mean, the Qataris, they are a small state and they are looking to increase their influence and by serving as a negotiator, as a mediator, sorry, they increase their influence, the regional influence. So they want to continue that, but when they see that the negotiations are failing, instead of blaming the Hamas and putting more pressure on the Hamas, they turn to the easiest resort which is blaming the Israelis, obviously. So it's better to quit before you get fired. Exacto. Don Avital, I mean, Hamas has turned down numerous offers of a ceasefire and hostage release deal, always a temporary ceasefire. Has Hamas just simply been stringing Israel along for the last few weeks? No, I'm not sure. I mean, there were a few points along the way that maybe the military pressure together with some kind of a bigger mandate to our negotiation team could have resulted with some outcome which would be more beneficial. I don't know, soul searching will do afterwards. But right now we have to be very constructive and to see how do we succeed to facilitate at least the humanitarian phase. Of course there's one thing we cannot accept. We cannot accept the cessation of all fire. We cannot accept the end of the war. But giving this limit of the equation, I say we can do, perhaps we can do more en terms of allocation of Gazel citizens to the north, in terms of the exchange rate. I don't think this was never the real issue in terms of the negotiation. Do you think there have been reports that the Israeli strike that killed Hanie, Ismael Hanie's three sons, affected the talks? I mean, the Hamas, yeah, it's interesting. Hamas announced that it has no effect. But I still think that a decision like this made by a colonel, if and did, this was the case. And doesn't go up the chain of command. In such a crucial moment in the negotiation wasn't a smart move. Mistakes are made in war. I'm not sure what was the war picture that this colonel had when he made the decision. Decision was made part of what perhaps mistake made in the war. I'm not sure whether it had an effect. But for sure such a decision in this very stressful moment was had to be done or executed by somebody higher in the chain of command. I think that I believe that at the end of the day, this is Sinwar's decision, not Hanie, not anyone else. This is Sinwar's decision. And Sinwar wants to see one thing. And this is a session of fire, a session of war, a complete, complete secession. And he feels rather comfortable now because the army is out, the humanitarian aid was tripled. So he doesn't have any pressure right now to move with any hostage deal. And as long as he doesn't see the ultimate result, he can negotiate as much as he wants. So I don't think that this is something like the Hanie Sans being eliminated or something like that, which makes the major effect. The major effect is because he feels now relieved. He doesn't feel under pressure nor by the Qataris. So he can continue and drag it on and on. All right. It's true that some leverage is required. But we have to understand, Hamas now is working on his survival, not on fighting against us in any respect. The Sid Guerrilla Warfare, but in... And the best way to survive is to get outside pressure. And in terms of his survival, we have to think what's the end game for this game. And in this context, maybe some exchange can be executed. All right. Thank you very much. All right. A story of two soldiers. Now, Avi and Aviat, they've undergone a unique experience. One year after Aviat donated one of his kidneys to Avi. They have both ended up serving in Gaza, making their bonds stronger than ever. More Ellen and Hannah Rifkin have this story. A life worth living and finding yourself worthy of it, this is Avi Capone's mission. This mentality comes from his experience as a lifelong kidney patient with a unique story. Making it even more unique is that chance dictated that he would end up fighting in Gaza alongside his donor. I donated a kidney to him. Adina, Avi's wife and my wife Aviva have been friends for many years and we know each other through them. How they ended up here, of course, started with a first date and a fateful journey. Pretty early on when I met Adina, I told her that I have a kidney disease that one day would get to the point that I would need a transplant. From there it started rolling.  I owe her now. Eventually, he was informed that this was the progress of the disease. I said that I would gladly donate mine. It was a no-brainer. Aviad got tested and he was a match. I'm happy to hear that everything seems to be going well and that it's going to be better. I also feel great. I think that the biggest mistake I had was... The biggest breakdown that I had was on the first Saturday after the transplant while I was still in hospital and I realized there's no possibility of returning the favor. In everyday life you receive favors that you can pay back. All that's left to do is to be worthy of it. To be worthy in the way that you live and behave. To be worthy of this unbelievable thing. And then, fast forward more than a year to October 7th. In the first week of the war, I was in Reim. From October 8th, Avi was in the same area with his unit. We didn't meet up, but I was told that someone from that unit was looking for me, so we texted each other. I realized it was him. We went on patrol together. Inside Gaza, we weren't together. We were there at different times and different places. But seeing each other when they could, both volunteered for reserve duty. When I went to war, I saw it as a war of virtue and the only person I asked an opinion from was Aviat's wife, Aviva. And thankfully, she said, go, do what you have to do. And if you lose this kidney as well, I will donate you my own. Avi explains that being a combat fighter and a kidney patient isn't simple, but it is something he's learned to manage. Like many other things in life, when you're determined, things work out. I have been a combat fighter for many years and I was a kidney patient for many years as a soldier while fighting in wars. Since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, my kidney function has been 50% as well as during the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014. I know how to handle the disease with the medications, the pills during combat.  He and Aviat want others who are going through similar conditions to know that limitations are not as limiting as one may think. Kidney patients and kidney donors can do just as much as anyone else. There are some consequences. It's something that's important to say. It's a very important process which definitely saves lives. And that's why I think it's worth the price. But it needs to be said that the decision to donate a kidney should be taken seriously. Since the war began, their bond has only become stronger. More Ellen and Hannah Rifkin for I-24 News. Friends for life, good luck to them. Well, we're going to take a short break. When we come back, the UN Security Council is set to vote on a Palestinian bid for full UN membership. That would essentially mean recognizing a Palestinian state will have the very latest from New York right after the statue. Israel is in a state of war. Israel has completely gone down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Esta semana, en News 24, Israel bajo ataque. News 24 en español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra, espadas de hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas, reportes desde la zona de guerra. La reacción de los países hispanoparlantes. News 24, el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I-24 News. Welcome back. The UN Security Council is set to vote within hours on a Palestinian bid for full UN membership. That would essentially mean recognizing a Palestinian state. Let's go to New York, our senior US correspondent, Mike Wagenheim is standing by. Mike, will the US use its veto tonight or are we going to see another abstention? The US hasn't come right out and said it, but it's given every possible otherwise indication or signal that they will veto this resolution here this evening. The vote finally scheduled to take place at five o'clock eastern time midnight in Israel to allow everybody who was flown in for the Security Council meeting today to get a chance to speak before the vote. I think the bigger question and the deputy Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations said so and a tweet I tend to agree with at least that perspective. He said all the focus right now is on one country. Every vote matters and I think it's going to be more indicative not just whether the US vetoes or not, which they will, but where does everybody else stand at the moment? There are four countries or so kind of just waving in the wind right now in terms of the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, typical US allies who look like they may abstain and it will give us a much broader perspective on really how much support is there for the Palestinian full membership here at the United Nations. Is it only the United States standing in the way or are there other verifiable concerns among other countries and that will give us an indication of how tough the Palestinians road to full membership here at the UN will be in the coming years as well based on the situation on the ground in the region. Mike, if the US is alone tonight in that vote or today where you are what will be the implications for President Biden as he heads for re-election? I don't think whether the US vetoes this resolution tonight or not will have any impact on domestic political considerations there for Joe Biden. It's more of a signal to the region here on where exactly the United States stands where it is in terms of the peace process in terms of a roadmap to the two state solution. The Biden admin put out word a couple of months ago that they wanted to start building a substantive roadmap that involves milestones, markers, parameters to a Palestinian state to a two state solution. We've really seen very little of that mainly because of the other activity that's been going on in the region right now. So it doesn't just end with a US veto here tonight from the United States I think in the coming months as the war starts to shape out and God willing will end in the coming months I think that will be more of a barometer of where the Biden administration stands and it's opening measures after the war is over toward a two state solution. What would be the real world implications of that vote passing if there was a state of Palestine at the UN? That's a huge hypothetical and probably a waste of our breath to talk about at this point because it's simply not going to happen and by the way if the United States allows this to pass there are also financial considerations for the United Nations and by the way those were brought up in discussions here in the past week at the UN with the Security Council Committee on Membership discussing any membership for the Palestinians here at the UN would cut off US funding for the UN the UN is in financial peril to begin with you cut off US dollars they might as well close the doors here so that's a consideration as well it's simply not going to happen and by the way the United Kingdom Ambassador Barbara Woodward spoke about a half hour 45 minutes ago here again didn't come around and say it but signaled that now is not the time for Palestinian full membership here at the UN I would imagine the UK if it doesn't vote against as a permanent member and veto power they will at least abstain here so I don't think the US by any measure is going to be alone tonight in rejecting in some form or fashion Palestinian membership here at the UN Mike thank you very much Mike Wagenheim there over in New York and a reminder that I'm joined in the studio this hour by Lieutenant Colonel Doran Abital the former commander of the Special Forces in the IDF and Yaki Dayan the former Israeli Council in Los Angeles thank you for staying with us so Israel says it would be a reward for terrorism if the UN Security Council was to vote in favor of that policy absolutely any decision about a Palestinian state right now is a reward for the slaughter that took place on October 7th no doubt I think that the US try to avoid this veto using this veto tonight very much they even spoke to Mahmoud Abbasin try to convince him and not to have this move and they try to have enough countries not to support this resolution but I think at the end of the day the United States will have to veto this resolution and it demonstrate it shows to anyone that is doubting that that without the American umbrella diplomatic umbrella and the military umbrella that we are receiving from the Americans the life of the Israelis would have been so much more difficult so thank God we have this ally the United States do you agree with Mike that it won't have any impact on US domestic politics there's been a lot of talk about all these voters in Michigan yeah it won't it won't at the end of the day I don't think something like that would affect that you know eventually it's the decision between Donald Trump and and Joe Biden and this is the decision there are so many other aspects which are so much more important for the average American from the economy to the immigration to abortion I think those decision will eventually determine that I don't I don't see the voters in Michigan not coming out to vote for Biden and by that giving the victory to Trump Don, have you had this diplomatic pressure on Israel how is it affecting the war in Gaza I think from the perspective of Israel might not the Americans and their inner politics I mean the question is not to the Palestinians say the question of the positioning of the Palestinian authority in terms of in the context of the day after in Gaza and our refusal to see the Palestinian authority in whatever capacity participating in the day after of Gaza our allies don't like it and the coalition around us don't like it and I don't think we can we can hold for this position for too long they don't like Israel's position towards the PA exactly I mean the end even when we think about the son of October because Prime Minister Netanyahu has said no way on my hand exactly and we've been saying here in those studios that we were funneling resources financial resources from Qatar to Hamas and we're trying to undermine the Palestinian authority so if indeed we made this terrible mistake we have to rethink the whole position it's true the Palestinian authority is very weak old weak doesn't have any command in northern Samaria we have constant special forces war in the west bank no question about that but in the end there's no other address to the Palestinian case with which we can plan the day after in the context also of the coalition the moderate Sunite countries Egypt Jordan whatever so we have to think seriously our attitude towards the Palestinian authority of course it's not the time to discuss Palestinian state it's too far in the horizon but the Palestinian authority is the only possible but Israel's allies say it is the right time to discuss it I'll tell you what I think that the Americans are really thinking about a revitalized Palestinian authority and they hope that Mahmoud Abbas would disappear from the scenery as soon as possible and I agree with Doron you know you can call it it's semantic you can call it whatever you want a revitalized Palestinian authority a different authority but at the end of the day you have to create some kind of an alternative to the Hamas that will control that and you know you have an opportunity now because the northern part of Gaza which is rather empty from Palestinians can serve as a pilot for any revitalize something but as long as you don't this is a significant leverage on the Hamas so you have to create some kind of an alternative and eventually the Israelis will have to play accordingly because they want the moderate Arab countries they want to get rid of Qatar Saudi Arabia has conditioned normalization on concrete steps towards creating Palestine so that would be a bit more difficult Laura because Saudi Arabia wants some kind of a recognition in a Palestinian state not an authority in a Palestinian state I think that there is currently a consensus in Israel that regardless if you are in the right side of the map or left side of the map but no one would agree to to recognize a Palestinian state now but a revitalize Palestinian authority which would be completely different with different people and different authorities heading to Gaza that can be some kind of an alternative to the Hamas ok, alright, thank you both well, Algeria has granted 15 million dollars to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRA that's according to Algerian state media Algeria is a staunch supporter of the Palestinians there was recently outcry after a branch of the US fast food chain KFC opened in Algeria it was forced to close down just a few days later well to talk more about that we're joined by Alissa Pavea she's associate director at the North Africa program at the Atlantic Council great to see you Alissa thank you very much for being with us clearly then also fond of Kentucky fried chicken in Algeria but on a more serious note I mean Algeria has always has often been behind the push for ceasefire resolutions in the UN what are their motivations here in trying to push ahead with recognition for the Palestinian cause well first of all it's great to be back Laura thank you for having me yeah so Algeria has always been a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and has pushed for ceasefire resolutions at the UN Security Council on multiple occasions there's multiple reasons behind this and one of them is that Algeria does kind of try to promote itself as being the leader of the non-aligned and kind of global south movement it's always like to champion itself and it's foreign policy agenda as being the leader of all occupied or nations that are under occupation right and so it kind of always shows a Palestinian cause as being the cornerstone of its of its of its foreign policy agenda so there's definitely that kind of willingness of always wanting to be the leader of the underdog let's say because Algeria itself sees itself as an under God as an underdog having itself been a you know a power under a colony under a French occupation so that's one of my reasons and then also there's just a affinity between the people of the Algerian people and the Palestinians that underscore all the decisions that come from Chaboon Does regional politics come into this as well at least perhaps Algeria playing on arch enemy Morocco's relations with Israel in order to boost the support of its adversaries Iran for example the Polisario Front in Western Sahara Of course Yeah Morocco always plays a significant role in all of Algeria's foreign policy decisions Morocco and Algeria have been at odds with one another since both of them gained independence from France in the 60's and 70's and that has underscored both countries foreign policy agendas so ever since we've seen you know the normalization of ties between Morocco and Israel in 2020 Algeria has definitely leveraged that for its own foreign policy agenda and also has been very unspoken against the normalization of ties with Israel and so once again you know the two countries Morocco and Algeria are hostile to one another and so whenever Algeria can kind of use use you know something to use a foreign policy decision to undermine Morocco's stance in the geopolitical realm of the region and it does so There's a lot of discussion right now of course of the future Palestinian leadership and what that will look like is Algeria positioning itself as a player in all of that It certainly wants to be a player I mean it has played a significant role in reconciliation talks before October 7 between different factions within the Palestinian within the Palestinian territory so it had it did host talks between let's say Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the past there is something to be said though about Algeria's fraught relationship with Hamas because just like many Arab nations in the region there is this underlying tension between the national governments national governments in this case as in Taboon and generally speaking the Muslim Brotherhood and so Hamas again being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood is seen in Algeria as a threat to the government but at the same time they do want to maintain kind of that strong relationship with the Palestinians so it really remains to be seen as to what happens to Gaza next but Algeria definitely wants to have wants to play a strong role in kind of shaping and molding what happens afterwards in Gaza Alisa, Pavia great to talk to you thank you very much thank you Ayakida so many countries around the world really use the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians for their own domestic agendas so let's remind ourselves I mean Algeria was kept outside the Abraham Accords and not only that but the Americans in order to bring to bring on board the Moroccans they recognized the West Sahara which was a big blow for the Algerians so and no doubt that they are considered as an extremely negative force in the region not only by the Israelis but by the Americans as well so they cannot and will not play any role not a significant and not a minor role in building the Palestinian Authority the only thing that they can do is supporting UNRWA which is you know by itself maybe it gives them some kind of internal boost but not more than that and UNRWA is also an organization that by the time we had to get rid of that and use this war from October 7th to use that in order to get rid of UNRWA and create a new organization in the region meanwhile Israel's ties with Morocco steaming ahead Israel's just opened a drone factory no, Morocco was always in terms of the whole history of Israel with Arab countries it was always with Morocco it's the first time that Rabin or Moshe Dayan used to take disguise and go to visit the Moroccan leaders I think it brings for the most serious point that we have to address and the fact that we are part of a coalition this is a coalition game the Biden doctrine and we have to play a constructive role in this coalition and I think the next step after Abraham approach would be naturally and it doesn't if it would be Biden or Trump the next phase would be something along the lines of the Biden initiative it would be called the Trump initiative next time not necessarily we don't know no, if Biden might surprise no, no, no no, I think Biden would be elected if Trump no, no, no but I think if Trump is elected this would be called it would have a different name but we are part of a coalition we have to play constructively in war and in peace with our coalition I'm surprised that in the very beginning Abraham records no Trump no, Trump Trump records Doran Abital y Yakutayad thank you very much deets to you both now years after they were defeated in Iraq and Syria tens of thousands of ISIS fighters remain in prison camps which are guarded by the US backed Kurdish led Syrian democratic forces well Amnesty International is out with the report today claiming that torture and disease are widespread at these camps some 56,000 people are trapped there including around 30,000 children joining us now Omar al Muhtad is a Syrian journalist and filmmaker great to have you with us Omar thank you for joining us and many of those being held in these camps Al Haal and others hold foreign citizenship European citizenship in some cases how long can these camps continue to operate with no effort to repatriate them well thanks for having me back on Laura in fact the whole idea of squeezing thousands of people into a detention center without due process without charge without accusation it's by itself is a violation of international law and a human rights law but the problem here is that most of these countries that you just mentioned the European Union and even the United States they seem very comfortable with this idea of just holding these people in these facilities forever instead of taking their citizen back and held them accountable for what's being done and let's remember we're talking here about thousands of women and children not just ISIS fighters and that's the definition of a collective punishment of punishing not just the guy who joined the ISIS body and committed atrocities which no one is going to argue with that but also taking their families and held them accountable for what that person did the whole idea of just keeping this in a place without finding a solution to the whole matter is inhuman and as I mentioned before these countries seems to be very keen and happy they just put them in this camp and forget about them and by the way regarding the human rights reports which just came out last night talking about human rights abuses in these prison cap these human rights abuses it's been done since day one they set up this camp and most of it comes as a revenge act by these prison guards who thinks that many of these ISIS fighters played a huge role of killing their colleagues friends or family members and the report also says that some of ISIS victims are being held in these camps as well members of the Yazidi community por ejemplo Yes, this is the problem that you can distinguish between who is the good here so that's why this prison camp has to come to an end or held these people who done atrocities accountable for what they did and for the innocent people just to go on and continue their lives again we're talking about children who is now up in these prison camps and that can't just keep going and of course the US does support the Kurdish leds SDF, do you think that the US has some responsibility here? of course the United States has a huge responsibility for what's going on because they are funding these prison facilities they are the primary funder of these prison facilities and they know what's going on there so the idea that we don't know what's going on we can distinguish this game that they are playing we can distinguish between the bad and the good it's all ridiculous in my opinion these people must be sent for the fighters those who are confirmed to be previousized fighters they must be sent to a military court they have to be held accountable for what they have done and for the rest of those people where they belong to your countries you can't just throw your soldiers and your citizens in these camps in syrians to fill the syrian to deal with the problem that these countries created to begin with Omar thank you very much indeed great to talk to you, Omar al-Mukdad there thank you what is fears of a regional war whilst in the temperature at anti-israel protest in the west has been soaring this week a lot of terrorists burned American flags on the streets of new york they also flew his boll of flags and some chanted Iran you make us proud after the islamic republic fired hundreds of missiles missiles that of course were shot down with the help of the united states and arab countries as well well my next guest has warned that radical islam is gaining a foothold in the west Yasemin Muhammad is a women's rights activist empowers radical islam Yasemin welcome, thank you very much for being here thank you so much for having me Laura last time we spoke we were talking about the show of support on streets of western cities for terrorists for Hamas right after the october 7 attacks and also for Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and now the islamic republic of Iran it has only got worse how has the west managed to kind of lose control of this yeah, well they never actually took control of it they've just been allowing these groups to be empowered year after year after year until they were so empowered they felt comfortable you know screaming tukbeer in the streets of Toronto in celebration of Iran dropping missiles on Israel and like you said you know this is in the west they've got both islamists and marxists working together in unison agreeing on certain hateful things like obviously anti semitism and also just being anti west you know right i mean people burning american flags in new york city of course where the world trade center yeah it's crazy that these people are anti western values yet they're supporting groups like hamas and hothis and iran they these people would say that they are that they are going to support lgbt or support women's empowerment or you know support equality and freedom and all of these different things that they purport as progressives that they support yet they go ahead and support groups that are the exact opposite of that you know like queers for palestine strippers for gaza like they don't realize that you are the antithesis of what hamas and hasbala and all and iran you know in iran you can be you can be imprisoned and you can even be killed in some cases over a cloth on your head you know or over drinking alcohol or over having a boyfriend or a girlfriend you know how are they championing such barbaric ideologies right and a bit closer to where we are now you know last time we spoke you said it's very important for people not to conflate gazans with hamas you of course yourself were born in gaza my father was your father I'm sorry I was born in gaza but you experienced islamist hardship yourself absolutely the images that came out last night of Yaudenbib as one of the hostages he was surrounded by a mob of gaza they weren't in hamas uniforms they were beating him, mocking him it was very distressing to see I mean how does that square with with what you said well the truth is Laura no country no even city you know has is a monolith there's always going to be people there's no question but obviously the majority of people in gaza agree with the ideology of hamas but there are people like my dad who I was mentioning to you before who really have always been pro peace have always been pro both groups of people Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and harmony but he had to leave obviously I mean do you think the people are just giving up and trying to get out in some ways yes and even in the diaspora even in Canada he had his youtube channels and he had his facebook channels and all that stuff but he was still being attacked he was still being called a traitor he was still being accused of being a Mossad agent etc etc so it is very dangerous to speak up when you don't support hamas because they are a terrorist group and the others are terrorists and terrorist supporters so it is very scary to speak up against them so it's really hard for us to know exactly how many of them are against the ideology and even if they're not against the ideology it's hard for us to know how many people in gaza actually just hate hamas you know like maybe they they just they recognize how the leaders of hamas are all you know living are killed and just real quick are you hopeful for the future when this war finally ends well laura to be honest after october 7 I said well you know I'm actually glad my father isn't here to see the destruction of his homeland because I knew this was the end of raza like there is no way that this independent state that he had dreamed of was ever going to come to fruition like that's it it wouldn't even be fair to even people of israel if that was an option but I do see that there could possibly be hope if we were to support the young secular people in gaza who really do want to have a free state instead of the west supporting groups like hamas absolutely yes mi mojave thank you so much thanks for watching stay tuned this is our 24 news esta semana en news 24 israel bajo ataque news 24 en español la analisis y la informacion de los acontecimientos de la guerra espadas de hierro entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra la reaccion de los paises hispanoparlantes news 24 el unico medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en israel news 24 únicamente en i24 news welcome to this special broadcast on i24 news today 195 of israel's war against hamas and despite pulling out many of its ground troops the idea is fighting on in central gaza with raids and airstrikes over the last few days the idea of saying they've destroyed over 100 terrorist infrastructures including 17 tunnel shafts and eliminating more than 40 terrorists in face to face battles and airstrikes among them a top hamas intelligence officer but as they pass over holiday approaches to big questions over israel's defense establishment if and when the idea will move into raffa gaza southern most city and the last stronghold of hamas and if and when israel will strike back in iran for its unprecedented air attack last weekend now a new report suggests those two issues have become closely connected especially when it comes to coordinating strategy with israel's indispensable ally the u.s. shayakir takes a closer look give and take or avoiding a crisis the qatari based al arabil al jadeed is reporting that the u.s. has signed off an israel's plan to attack the last hamas stronghold in raffa in return for a mutated israeli response to the iranian attack over the weekend earlier this week the idea have called up to reserve brigades who could be sent to the raffa front we will complete the destruction of hamas' battalions including in raffa there is no power in the world that could stop us since the unprecedented massive iranian attack early sunday morning israel has been threatening its own response we are closely assessing the situation we remain at our highest level of readiness iran will face the consequences for its actions i thank our nation's friends for their support in the defense of the state of israel both in supporting us in words and also with an active support they also have all kinds of suggestions and advice i appreciate that but i wish to make one thing clear we will make our decisions ourselves but the international community is urging israel not to escalate the situation it's clear the israelis are making a decision to act we hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible according to the egyptian sources quoted by the qatari newspaper israel has already begun airstrikes on the southern gaza city located on the border with egypt although this report is unconfirmed and it contradicts the usd demands that israel hold off on attacking raffach until they are safeguards for civilians who could get caught up in the fighting president biden made this point wednesday night but confused raffach with the israelis city of hypha and i made it clear to israelis don't move on hypha will israel decide to put aside plans to retaliate against iran the decision now is in the hands of the israeli government and joining us now is danie danone a member of kinesa for the ruling liqud party in the former israeli ambassador to the un kinesa member danone thank you for joining us first of all let me ask you in light of that report is it raffach or iran or is it both where is the priority law because those two may complicate things for each other the operation on either one i think we have to deal with all the threats that we have and all the challenges that we have raffa is a must it's a must because hamas is still there about 25 percent of the hamas battalion are still functioning in raffa so we will have to operate in raffa i believe that we will allow the population to move out before we come in like we didn't know them gaza so that it will take some time to to maneuver regarding iran i think today there is an understanding in the international community that israel will respond i will not tell you where and how but we will retaliate we have to retaliate we have to reconstruct the deterrence of israel and after what we have seen last saturday night i think it's obvious that we will show the ivanians not only our defense capabilities but also our offensive capabilities well daniel i know you've been speaking with foreign officials and diplomats trying to build up support but is there really international backing for israel to make a strike either at iran on its own soil or elsewhere because we hear the us we hear israel's closest allies in europe que van a surgir restraint en israel well first i met today ambassador from the african nations and i briefed them about the situation and you know some of them told me you already won why you need to counter back and i explained them that in our region we cannot just accept the aggression it will bring more attacks against israel so now the challenge is to attack i one in a way that it will hurt them but it will not escalate the situation into full wall it's not easy, it's complicated but i think we are capable of doing it and i think ivan caused the line once they targeted israel for my van they didn't use the proxies like last time they made a combination between sending hundreds of rockets for my van and dozens of proxies of rockets from the proxies right now israel's war cabinet is supposed to meet tonight of course aran is going to be on the agenda so are the two other topics rafach which we've discussed and there are members of your government who feel the government the idea is not acting strong enough in Gaza they see pictures of Gazans enjoying the beach and then on the other side many members of the public feel the government is not doing enough to try and reach a hostage deal or that would bring home some of those hostages in Gaza so your response to both of those i think the direct connection and linkage between those two assumptions and i agree we have to be more aggressive we have to walk faster and i think we made a mistake a few months ago when we actually listened to our friends from washington telling us to slow down take the time and not to operate the same way we operated at the beginning of the war that's what a mistake we could have finished the job by now and now is the time to go back to the same way we operated at the beginning allowing the population to move out and entering with a lot of force to eradicate Hamas alright Danny, then our member Likud member of Knesset thank you for joining us on i24 news thank you very much Colin and joining us in studio Dr. Michael Lauren the former Israeli ambassador to the US and former deputy Israeli minister also Knesset member and reserves IDF Brigadier General Israel Relik Shafir the former commander of the Tel Aviv Air Force base and a former combat pilot ace top gun of the Israeli Air Force gentlemen you can certainly react to the response of Danny Dunon a member of the government but also Michael i do want to ask you this whole notion of the US basically saying to Israel how far can you in a sense go easy on Iran how plausible does that sound to you borderline Israel would have to convince the the Biden administration that it really has a plan for moving the 1.2 Palestinians gathered along the Gaza Egypt border out of the way of combat that's the big concern of the administration there's more Palestinians being killed billions of civilians being killed they're coming into the threshold of this election year and the pictures coming out of Gaza such as they came out before from central northern Gaza would be very injurious to the democratic party going into this election and so they'd have to be very much convinced that Israel had moved this population away could do it effectively swiftly with the minimum amount of Palestinian civilian casualties barring that I maybe think the report is not true alright and from a security standpoint Relik Israel has a choice you heard Knesset member Danone saying the two are closely connected Israel has to do raw fucking Iran but is the security, is the IDF ready to pose a potentially multi front war while it still has unfinished business in Gaza unless of course not forget the hostages you know it's a let me quote Nassim Talibu said if you don't have a stake in the game that is you're not going to pay for your suggestions or ideas if they fail so it's a little bit like Monday morning quarterbacking if we are too aggressive in Rafa without moving part of the population you don't have to move the whole 1.2 million because we more or less know where the tunnels are and where the terrorists are so you don't have to move everybody but certainly several tens of thousands will have to be moved probably westward towards the beach area and then you could you could do a slow and delicate hunt for the Hamas terrorists and the tunnels that would be a limited and slow event without having the whole air force and artillery in front of the soldiers it would take I would say it would be more precarious for the soldiers or for taking part but that is a possibility for the military to do that about Iran for ten years we've been hitting Iran in Syria and Lebanon and they were they kept muted let me also remind after Qassem Soleimani was eliminated by the US the Iranians shot a few missiles at an American base the soldiers were well trenched nobody was hurt and Trump closed this without an answer so there are all kinds of precedents but there are all kinds of answers that Israel could do for instance take hostages against the 133 hostages that we have from where I'm sorry let's not go into details let's not go into details we're talking about Iranians we can actually expand the type of retaliation so to speak that it will be under the threshold of a counter attack this is the basic idea since we're not really discussing operational capabilities I'm just throwing this as a possibility that we don't think when we're talking about Overt I will just this is a response to possibilities the Iranians supposedly calling back an intelligence ship a ship they use for intelligence for attack or maybe for some other kind of operation well it's not the only ship sailing around okay Iran is a target rich environment lots of oil refineries along the Persian Gulf right and it's a nuclear program and of course today a top IRGC official saying that Iran may have to think there are peaceful plans for its nuclear program that's a threat why won't they do that because it's much better for Iran to have the ability to make a nuclear weapon to actually have the nuclear weapon because they get all the advantages without holding it they lose those advantages once they get it I'm sure not many people here in Israel thought that nuclear program was for peaceful purposes all together like France as well including the latest effort by the Palestinian Authority to get recognition as a full nation state member at the United Nations now a security council vote on that initiative is expected soon quite soon well for more let's go to what's in the US correspondent Mike Wagenheim who is in UN headquarters in New York and Mike first of all let's talk about this vote when it's going to be and what the likely results was the PA again to become get statehood recognition even the timing of the vote itself became contentious Kalev as there was a tug of war as to when to actually have it whether it will be tomorrow when the news might be buried a little bit more or today when many foreign ministers are here for a regularly scheduled meeting of the security council to deal with the Israeli Palestinian file in the end we're about T minus 4 hours to a vote here on the Palestinians a full membership application at the UN the United States has given every indication outside of coming right out and saying it that they will veto the membership application for the Palestinians which has been pending since 2011 I think the broader question here is how many no votes or how many abstentions are there going to be among the 15 member council countries like the United Kingdom which signaled earlier today that now may not be the right time for the Palestinians to be granted membership here at the UN as a full member y other U.S. allies on the security council will they abstain as well I think that's the broader question at this point because it will be more indicative of how difficult the avenue will be in the future for Palestinian membership here at the UN and whether the U.S. is completely isolated on this particular issue or not Right I want to move from New York to Washington D.C. Mike, because another big vote coming one that certainly is of great importance to Israel to these aid bills to Israel also to other countries such as Ukraine which should become such a political hot hot potato in Washington that people are saying these votes could lead to the removal of yet another Republican House Speaker in this case Mike Johnson Mike Johnson apparently today finally learned how to play ball in the U.S. House so he's getting a revolt from his right flank for putting together the Ukraine funding bill specifically his right wing which has expressed some anti-Ukraine sentiment doesn't want it to come up for a vote and they're threatening to file a motion to vacate which would put Johnson's speakership up for a vote in the House that's how Kevin McCarthy lost Johnson has figured out here that he's going to try to put a rule into the Ukraine funding bill that will raise the threshold of the number of congressmembers it will take to file a motion to vacate right now it's just one any congressmember at any time can threaten his speakership while he's putting those two things together now really learning how things go in the U.S. House of Representatives if you want to keep your job for the long term so the Ukraine funding bill likely will come up first Israel further on down the line but it looks like the House is trying to put together everything this weekend some Democrats are wavering back and forth but it looks like a combination of middle of the road and conservative Democrats together with middle of the road Republicans will be able to push this thing forward a larger question I think down the road will the Senate be able to take all these individual bills and put them together in some sort of coherent fashion remember the Senate passed an all encompassing foreign aid bill back in February that's just been sitting there now they're going to have to reconcile these two things together but it looks like Johnson is going to rely on Democratic help and it looks like he will get enough of it to be able to pass these Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan funding bills together with sort of a grab bag of Republican national security priorities well I concern in Israel is not over the fate of Speaker Johnson but I think it may well be that getting Democratic support on these bills could cost him politically dealing with his own party alright Mike Wagenheim there in New York we just have some breaking news there are some siren alerts going on in northern Israel a reminder of course this is coming a day after that drone strike by his baller on a community center in the community of Arabella, Ramshe right near the border which wounded 18 Israelis, 14 soldiers and 4 civilians I think 4 of them seriously so now we are seeing alerts in the communities of Mayan Baruch, Beit Hillel, Hagor Shreem so the northern front busy again today with both some his baller strikes Israel of course retaliating yeah how did no one ask how did his baller know that these soldiers were we're billeting in a community center since he does not want to get operational details but we do have a former I'd like to ask a quick question clearly there was an intelligence I don't know how you would say the defense of failure intelligence perhaps well there are copters small ones with cameras you can't see them on a radar you can't shoot them they don't emit enough energy to shoot them you can if you get their channel you can maybe jam them but there are some who use anti jamming systems and they can be flown 5 kilometers from the operator on a hill 300 meters from the border and see what's going on I think it's 2 kilometers at most so it's not a problem knowing that a certain area is not hidden from view from that area and actually the drone came in concurrence with an anti tank missile that was shot which takes a few seconds to reach the target so we're talking about a complex situación along the border by the way we're looking at footage that I think just confirm perhaps could well confirm what you're talking about yeah so this is unfortunate and this is part of the tetatet that we're seeing in Lebanon where the Israeli Air Force is striking Hezbollah strong points in Baalbek which is close to the Beirut Damascus road and it's the backbone of Hezbollah and so it's escalating very slowly hasn't reached the threshold of a full scale confrontation Business as usual we're back to playing by Iran's rules well I just also want to say though Michael because the US we talk about the Israel acting the Prime Minister said the other day respects the US but has to act on its own interest we just heard about 2 votes there in which the US is acting on behalf of Israel there at the UN denying the PA the Palestinian statehood status and of course this aid bill which is pretty vital for Israel now and which is President Biden the Democrats with Mike Johnson's and some Republicans pushing through so that does demonstrate some of the leverage the US is holding over Israel they honestly care about us but we should certainly take into consideration America's position in making any strategic decisions but when I said that we're going back to business as usual that means we're playing by Iran's rules again which means their proxies shoot at us we shoot back at their proxies and Iran gets away scot free and this is the way we've been playing for the last 15 years America plays by those rules as well and they're ineffective and it enables many of the cards to Iran Iran can escalate and now what happened in this attack in which 18 soldiers were killed wounded wounded it shows that they can actually pinpoint where our soldiers are at any point and that's an intolerable situation for any country Right and certainly this is a difficult situation in the north and that's why so yeah briefly Relic Yeah so we're talking about a confrontation and there are prices to pay in a war and we shouldn't expect to score without any scores back but that's the face of war and you have to grit your teeth and choose your battles who are you going to fight how are you going to fight them and win and create a collaboration make as many friends as possible in order to create a situation where you have more latitude is this what we're doing now not sure Alright well of course these are the choices the government is facing maybe this evening at the meeting of the war cabinet the UN over Palestinian statehood status Israel's waging another battle at the United Nations this time over a specific agency the UN Relief Works Agency or UNRWA now employees for the main aid organization for Palestinians in Gaza have been accused of covering for and even colluding in Hamas terrorist activities including on October 7th well UNRWA is now shooting back in a sense at Israel claiming its workers are being targeted and harassed by the IDF and this dispute of course is complicating humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza senior correspondent Bianca Zinini has more in this report four people including two children were reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike Wednesday which hit a school in Gaza according to the strips Hamas run health ministry dozens more were injured as hundreds of Palestinians were said to reside in the school run by the UN's refugee agency there's been no immediate comment from Israel on the other side of the world at the UN headquarters in New York UNRWA blamed Israel once again for preventing the organization from doing its work children are bearing the brunt of this war across Gaza a man made famine is tightening its grip in the north infant and young children have begun to die after intense US pressure Israel has dramatically increased the amount of food and medicine allowed to enter Gaza saying hundreds of trucks are entering each day the international community is welcoming the step but urging Israel to up the humanitarian aid across the border food and clean water wait but UNRWA is denied permission to deliver this aid and save lives while more aid is flowing into Gaza Israel has long accused UNRWA of letting Hamas use its schools and spaces for terrorist activities while promoting hate and anti-Semitism UNRWA's goal is not aid or real education in practice UNRWA is creating a sea of Palestinian refugees millions of them in January Israel accused dozens of UNRWA workers of being involved in Hamas's October 7th massacre against Israel which killed and injured thousands and started the current war in Gaza many countries chose to halt their support to the agency meanwhile this Thursday Algeria announced it has donated 15 million dollars in an exceptional fund to UNRWA para abusar a algunos de sus trabajadores que fueron detenidos por la IDF Israel dice que respecta los derechos de los detenidos el U.S. dice que está preocupado y quiere respetar y señoras el problema con Israel es que UNRWA ha sido inaceptable y aún así tiene que satisfacer el presidente Biden criticando Israel que ha aumentado la humanitarianidad no es suficiente bueno, hay un vacuio o un void en Gaza en quién va a tener cuidado de los trabajadores civiles empezando con la comida el tráfico la policía simple quién va a hacer así que podemos elegir como israelí a hacer esto probablemente no es una buena idea nadie está en línea para hacer esto puede ser Hamas UNRWA o la autoridad palestiniana hacer tu decisión estos son los tres son todos malos así que la decisión es que es la más rara infortunadamente esto es lo que tenemos que elegir no vamos a elegir así que la situación está en nuestras manos a esta hora vamos a ver lo que dicen quieren revitir revampar vamos a ver cómo la autoridad palestiniana se revitiría y revampan es un desafío diplomático y eso es el desafío Dr. Michael Oren Relik Shafir nos vamos por un brif pero vamos a tener más de su broadcast 195 de la guerra israelí vamos a ver la historia de Israel must reach the whole world the I-24 news channel broadcasting from Israel with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries the state of emergency and war in Israel bringing Israel's story to the world I-24 news channels now on hot just checking the sex another boy welcome back to this special broadcast on I-24 news Israel at war day 195 now we just as I said before there's updates there have been sirens in the north in the eastern part of the galley just in the last few minutes will bring you any up to dates news that we have now one feature of Israel's war against Hezbollah has been its success at eliminating over 270 of its fighters including top field command this is mostly through airstrikes but there are other ways for Israel to take out threats sometimes without taking credit for it now no one has taken responsibility for last week's mysterious shooting death of a Lebanese money changer who was seen as a key conduit for funds between Iran and Hezbollah but now Lebanese officials are pointing the finger at Israel's most sad intelligence agency Ms. Siegel has the story Pistols equipped with silencers gloves sitting in a bucket of water and chemicals, allegedly intended to remove fingerprints and other evidence these were the objects found in a villa on the edge of the quiet town Bates-Marie, in Lebanon earlier this month where the body of Hezbollah linked Lebanese currency exchanger Mohammed Sarour was discovered riddled with bullet holes and was killed by thousands of dollars in cash and now Lebanon's interior minister is alleging that the mysterious abduction and killing of Sarour was likely the work of Israeli spy agency the Mossad the Lebanese security agencies have suspicion or accusations that Mossad is behind this operation why do they have this accusation when we are always told that crimes in Lebanon are mostly or all ordinary criminal crimes and do not have a security background why have we shifted this accusation to a security issue related to the Mossad according to the Lebanese security agencies this person, his actions and the way this crime was carried out led to this accusation Mohammed Sarour's activity in money exchanges are known and it is known that he transfers money from specific parties to others Sarour was sanctioned by the US in 2019 for giving quote financial material, technological support or other services to Hamas and for his affiliation with Hezbollah he was accused of transferring tens of millions of dollars annually from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Hamas's military wing three Lebanese judicial officials familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press that a man posing as a customer had contacted Sarour from abroad and asked him to deliver a cash transfer to a woman in the mountain resort of Batesmerie he was contacted by the same person with another request a day after his first visit after this, his family lost contact with him the perpetrator of the operation is not an ordinary person seeking revenge or someone aiming for money as money was left on the ground as far as we know the one who carried out the operation is someone who planned, organized, prepared himself created the most suitable environment because today the most suitable place to attract someone like the deceased is an area like Batesmerie and Monteverdi which are secure areas this means that if the victim wanted to exchange an amount of money he knew he would be in a security protected zone the Israeli Prime Minister's office which oversees the Mossad did not immediately respond to a request for comment and still with us in Surio Ambassador Dr. Michael Oren and reserves bringing a general relic Shafir you were saying earlier about Michael about Israel and the fact that we are not striking directly in Iran but in a way it's various proxies of those to operate and we don't know what happened in this particular case but even after what happened this weekend the shadow war it goes back the war we could say goes back to the shadows to some degree it goes back to the shows and going back to playing by the old rules and those old rules have not a level on the northern level on the border and on the strategic level all right, again we don't know what happened in that case but we can make assumptions perhaps now Israel's war against Hamas and other terror groups over the past half year have been costly in many ways including the literal cost of the conflict for example just this past weekend's defense of Iran's air attack on Israel is said to of course the Israeli military in the area cost $1 billion then there's the cost of helping the evacuated populations along the Gaza and Lebanon borders and rebuilding their communities for their return and the overall damage to the Israeli economy with numbers coming out just this week showing a big hit to the country's GDP figures and one of the ways that Israel tries to soften these blows is the sale of Israel bonds Israel bonds is the US underwriter by the Jewish state now support for Israel through the purchase of these securities often spikes when Israel is facing a war or other challenges and that's been the case certainly since October 7th joining us with more on that is Danny Neve the president and CEO of Israel bonds speaking to us from New York first of all Danny congratulations because Israel bonds just this week announcing a new record talk a little less about that well thank you so much yes I will get to that in a second but you refer to the cost of that night of defense you know the air defense and I would like great success in defending from the Iranian attack is a result of decades of preparation and planning in its military its technology its human resources and Israel bonds during the years has played a significant role in achieving Israel's economies achieve in our and Israel economy capabilities and every Israel bonds investor can take a try by knowing that you played an important role in these great achievements and as you have mentioned since October 7th we manage the most successful and powerful campaign in the history of Israel bonds and we raise for the state of Israel about 3 billion dollars almost 3 times our annual regular goals prior to October 7th and I think its a great reflection of the youth support that the state of Israel has been receiving all over the world and mainly of course here in the United States of America Alright, so you talked about how Israel bonds over the years has helped Israel's security in a general way building these air defenses etc now let's focus in on the post October 7th period and how those funds can be applied specifically to some of the issues I just raised in the introduction to our talk Yes, you know Israel needs gets to billions of dollars of requirements to finance so many important missions from the defense to the rehabilitation of the Kibbutzim, the emergency organizations and the most I would say the best direct and most powerful way to provide Israel with the funds it needs is by making an investment in Israel bonds and this is what we have been doing we have been managing that campaign we have great investors from all over whether there are individuals congregations or federations Jewish supporters of the state of Israel and at the same time we have financial institutions different local governments and states all over the United States that find it as a great way to support the United States best ally in the Middle East the state of Israel at the same time to get nice and steady return you know, most of our products you can get out of that more than 5% in return a steady nice return as part of your big income investment and many people find it as a great way to support Israel Right, let's get into some of the specifics of that for those who might want to invest, I should clarify the state of Israel also does private bond offerings by the way also was bringing billions of dollars through those offerings but let's talk about some of the current investment opportunities that are out there we have different kind of bonds, yes with different maturities from 2 years to 15 years so if you already invested in Israel bonds it's very simple you can go to israelbonds.com and you make a purchase today of any kind of our products and by the way every investment has an impact even if it's a small investment or if you have not invested so far in Israel bonds you can go to israelbonds.com you can open an account and make a purchase it's a very easy process and by that you provide the state of Israel today the funds, the money instead of Israel need and you get a very nice return as I mentioned most of our products give you more than 5% use alright well I would certainly say Israel bonds an investment that offers more than just financial that too but certainly offers more than just financial returns as an investment in the future of the Jewish state and the Jewish people as well Danny Neve, CEO of Israel bonds thank you for joining us on I24 news thank you well let's stay focused on the US for a bit which of course has been hit since October 7 with protests and demonstrations by anti-israel activists that includes companies that do business with or in Israel or just some companies that activities think do business with Israel sometimes it's not even the case this does include Google with together with Amazon and others for the Israeli government that did spur pro-Palestinian protest to sage sit-ins at the companies New York and California offices over this past week demanding that Google end its contracts and contacts with Israel well Google was not having it in a response it fired 28 of those activists saying in a statement quote a small number of employee presenters entered and disrupted a few of our locations and other employees' work and preventing them from accessing our facilities a clear violation of our policies and completely unacceptable behavior here is one of those activists who got the axe from Google we demand that Google drop project Nimbus the $1.2 billion contract between them and Israel we demand that Google protect their Arab, Muslim and Palestinian worker voices from harassment retaliation suppression we demand that Google recognize project Nimbus as a workplace safety and health concern I'm not sure about the future job prospects for that young lady now protests and threats have also been seen perhaps even into a greater degree in Europe including the Eurovision Song Contest which is set for early May in Malmo, Sweden those protests particularly targeting the participation of the Israeli president Golan who has forced to tone down references to the October 7 attack in her song entry in order not to be disqualified well in response to concerns of violent demonstrations and terror threats Swedish authorities have boosted their security in Malmo here is a local official speaking on that situation our position is that everyone is welcome anyone who wants to contribute to what Eurovision stands for there is concern among visitors based on the security situation in the world today but we work together with different actors around security issues and we have a good and long history of managing big events so we are confident and fully confident that various security partners who work with different parts make good and relevant assessments that we adhere to I think it's important that everyone feels that they can come to Eurovision we will be there with a large police force we will get help from all over Sweden the Swedish police are solid for this event we work together and we also have cooperation with our Nordic police colleagues now someone with first hand of being targeted by these agitators is the I-24 news social media producer Indian Naftali with her husband Hananya he was taken at a pro-Israel event in a church in the northern Dutch town Netherlands town of Haravane now that event was disrupted by anti-Israel protest but here is how the crowd there reacted well with us is our digital I-24 news digital media producer Indian Naftali it looked like people were being clashing with gods there or something but you tell us what happened what was this event first of all India right so my husband and I were invited by Christians for Israel Netherlands to speak about Israel in our experience of what's been going on here in the country now because my husband has quite a huge following on social media he was picked up by the anti-Israel community in the Netherlands and they decided well we're going to cancel this guy so they went to every single one of our venues and canceled them they forced the venues to cancel and you know what what they did to harm us and actually helped us we were able to book bigger venues after they went and told everyone you can't have these people at the venue they support Israel so that's how we ended up in Friesland in the Netherlands you know Friesland is a small area in the Netherlands it's the country side not so small the province of Northern Holland so the village was quite small but you know what was amazing was 800 people showed up a small village in the Netherlands meanwhile outside there were around 10 anti-Israel pro-Palestine protesters chanting from the river to the sea and some of them infiltrated the events and began to raise their flags and chants things and curses towards us but the most beautiful thing was in response to the screaming they were singing and that's what I loved about the Dutch people it was a group of Christians instead of screaming with hate they responded with love and I think you know these people didn't come because they hate Palestinians they came because they love Israel and they understand what Israel is facing how did you feel then when you talk to those people because the Netherlands a country with a large Muslim population which also has certainly a large political sector of progress many of them have turned on Israel happening on the streets of cities like Amsterdam, like Rotterdam and even as you say in some of the smaller towns there I received so much love from these people because they were hurts they were hurts that this is how their guests in the Netherlands were being received these people who love Israel they said we're so sorry this is how you were received in the Netherlands and again these people they love the Jewish people and they don't the Jewish people often times don't know how much the Christian community stands with them I had one Jewish woman come to me and she said I'm Jewish just like you India and I had no idea this many Christians stood with us so I think there was a lot of solidarity and also the Jewish community was touched to see that even Christians are singing a Jewish folk song to combat the hate instead of hate they responded with love I'm just curious about our guest Michael you were recently in the U.S. about concern that you may face this kind of agitation or even violent threats in some cases it's not a concern it happens tell us about that what kind of security did you have so I go to a university recently in northern Florida in the past I had a couple of policemen guarding me I had dozens of policemen guarding me I had an armored car following me around everywhere I went and there were protesters and they tried to break in but the cops stopped them very big cops yeah absolutely we did have the security like you said so in the video you can see them getting dragged out in the background and it's so sad that we do have to have them and they don't need security because you know you saw how we responded instead of swinging we sang it's fabulous and that's why it's sad that we need security at another university I was not allowed in the same room with the students they had to have it streamed in because they were too afraid that there would be a riot inside the university let me ask you Andy because you put out on social media or on Instagram it goes on Facebook or tiktok accounts too the battleground of social media how has it been running what are the reactions that you've been getting I guess from both sides in this issue you know club one of the journalists asked my husband and I they said why are you coming to the Netherlands it's so easy for you to come and talk to people who already love Israel but we responded to her and we said listen we on social media every single day are talking to people who hate us and don't agree with us we're not afraid to answer these hard questions so you're right Kalev there's a warground on social media but I think the best way to respond is to continue speaking not being the silent majority because I think right now what we're seeing in the Netherlands is there's a lot of people who support Israel but they're afraid you see these threatening people and they're afraid to speak up and now I think because we're standing together because we're seeing moments like these on social media people are being less afraid to speak up you know the chant from the river to the sea is so abusive that a lot of people understand that the next thing that will happen is Chicago will be free or Milwaukee or the Netherlands will be free well I do have to say just in the past few weeks we have seen and there's been controversy in America the death to Israel chants in some cases have become death to America chants in American cities and that has become so sometimes the chants using a verbiage that is so abusive works for you because that means they're negating our right to exist not just what piece of land can we trade or what kind of piece can we have so this is something that can work for us if we're able to use this in showing the people there that it's just a matter of time until they are called from one place to the next in a Muslim or Palestinian or for that matter a non local entity that should be wiped out so to speak alright I want to thank all our guests for coming Dr. Michael Lauren Relic Shafir in India and Naftali wish you all also a happy Passover Pesach in the coming holiday que nos está acompañando en este programa nos vamos a acabar con algo en una nota positiva una historia muy rara es conectada con Gaza con dos amigos Avi y Aviad que han tenido una experiencia un año después Aviad ha donado su kidney a Avi y los dos han terminado observando en Gaza a ver una vida adecuada y encontrándose a ti esta es la misión de Avi Capone esta mentalidad viene de su experiencia como un paciente de la vida con una historia unica lo más unico es que la oportunidad ha dictado que hubiera terminado la guerra en Gaza junto con su donor he donado su kidney Avi y mi hija han sido amigos por muchos años y nos conocimos a todos por ellos como se terminó aquí empezó con el primer estado y una jornada fatoria muy antes cuando metí a Adina dije que tengo un diseño de kidney que un día podría llegar al punto que necesitaría un transplante de ahí empezó a morir ella salvó mi vida y ahora voy a morir eventualmente fue informado que este fue el progreso del diseño dije que me gustaría donar mi vida fue un no-brainer Avi se testificó y fue un combate fue un no-brainer me alegro de escuchar que parece que todo era un no-brainer y que se ha pasado para el lado mejor también me siento a la frontera yo no creo que sea más grande que yo fue el primer no-brainer que he tenido después de el transplante cuando estaba en el hospital y yo creé que no hay posibilidad de regresar en la vida de cada día para que puedas regresar todo lo que hay que hacer es ser valioso ser valioso de la manera en que vivas y comportas ser valioso de esta cosa increíble y luego más de un año más rápido hasta el 7 de octubre en la primera semana de la guerra yo estaba en Reim desde octubre 8 Avi estaba en el mismo área con su unidad no nos encontramos de esa unidad así que textamos a cada uno yo creé que era él fuimos en patrulla juntos dentro de Gaza, no fuimos juntos fuimos en diferentes momentos y en diferentes lugares pero viendo a cada uno cuando pudieron ambos fueron voluntarios para la reserva cuando fui a la guerra yo lo vi como una virtud de la guerra y la única persona que tenía una opinión fue aviad's wife, Aviva y afortunadamente, ella dijo vámonos, haz lo que tienes que hacer y si perdiste esta cadena también te haré mi propia Avi explica que ser un combate y un paciente no es simple pero es algo que él aprende a manejar como muchas otras cosas en la vida cuando estás determinado las cosas funcionan soy un combate y un paciente para muchos años y soy un paciente y un paciente para muchos años como soldado durante la guerra desde la defensa operación en 2002 la función de mi kidney ha sido 50% también durante la segunda guerra de Lebanon en 2006 operación protetiva en 2014 sé cómo manejar el diseño con las medicaciones los pillos durante la combate aviad y el aviado quieren otros que van por condiciones similares para saber que las limitaciones no son tan limitadas como uno puede pensar pacientes y donadores pueden hacer solo mucho como nadie más hay algunas consecuencias es algo que es importante decir es un proceso muy importante que definitivamente salga la vida y es por eso que creo que es importante pero tiene que ser que la decisión de donar un kidney ha sido tomada en serio desde que la guerra comenzó su bondad ha only become stronger Morellon y Hanna Rifkin por I-24 News ¿Qué the hell is with your tongue? What a great story and continued good health and long life to both of those remarkable gentlemen Just an update on a story we reported on earlier as we said vote will be coming either later today or tomorrow is the latest bid by the policy and authority to sustain full statehood status at the United Nations the US now officially announcing it will veto that motion it was expected but now it's official thus guaranteeing its defeat in the security council that ends this program for the evening of course you continue to follow us


Putin seizes wealth of Russian businessmen and gives selected businesses to pro-Kremlin businessmen. Confiscated enterprises near Russia are being distributed to pro-Kremlin businessmen as Vladimir Putin cultivates a new elite from supporters of the war with Ukraine, citing the UK Ministry of Defence. Since the onset of the invasion into Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has taken about 180 companies worth around $11.5 billion under state control. Priority is reportedly given to companies owned by foreigners, including Russians living abroad. This move is likely aimed at reducing external influences on the Russian economy as stated in the report. British intelligence indicates that the Russian state is reallocating assets to pro-Kremlin businessmen who support the war against Ukraine. This deprivatisation likely aligns with President Putin's call to create a new nationalist elite forged by the war against Ukraine in his February 2024 address to Russians. Increased defence spending has almost certainly increased financial pressures on the Russian state alongside economic sanctions and flows of capital out of Russia since the start of the invasion. The UK Ministry of Defence writes, according to analysis from the Yale School of Management around 1,000 companies have exited business operations in Russia although hundreds still operate or have suspended activities. Among the companies still operating or doing business in Russia are Mondelez International, PepsiCo, Orchan, Nestle, Unilever and Wreckit. Others, including in Tessa, San Paolo, face bureaucratic hurdles in attempts to leave. Moscow demands discounts of no less than 50% when selling foreign assets and consistently ramps up. Exit demands, often agreeing to nominal commissions of just one ruble. The Financial Times reports that the largest European companies have incurred at least 100 billion euros in direct losses from their operations in Russia following President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Over 2,500 houses were flooded in Russia's Orenburg region. 4,208 people were evacuated from the emergency zone, according to the press service of the regional government. As of April 6, 2,556 residential buildings and 6,886 household plots have been flooded due to active snowmelt and rising river levels caused by spillways in the region. At the same time, 4,208 people were evacuated, including 1,019 children, while 427 people, including 132 children, are being put in temporary accommodation centers. The statement said.In addition, 306 farm animals were moved from flood zones to safe areas. The flood is at its peak. The situation is difficult in several territories, especially in Orsk due to a damn break. But people are safe, everyone who evacuated is warm and provided with food. Experts continue to deal with technical issues, the press service quoted the governor of the Orenburg region Dennis Passler. People say 10,000 residents may be in the flooding zone and up to 4,000 houses could be inundated. Work in the area of the damn rupture in Orsk continues, the Russian emergency's ministry said in a statement, adding that around 440 people and 217 pieces of equipment were involved in the effort, Russian state media said residents of two of the three districts of Orsk were being evacuated. Citizens of the Lenin-Sky and Sovetsky districts of Orsk are being evacuated to temporary accommodation centers. The regional prosecutor's office said in a message Orsk has a population of about 230,000. The evacuees are being moved to nearby schools, the region, which includes Orsk, other Ural's provinces and parts of neighboring Kazakhstan has been hit by widespread flooding in recent days.