So the first priority is to get a proper list, because the Hamas have been lying through their teeth since the beginning. We need at least a proper list of who is alive and who is at the hands of the Hamas, and would there be a new opportunity for an exchange or liberation to act upon it very quickly, and not to wait till the last minute, and then the Hamas say, ah, yeah, but these ones, they're not exactly here. We've got to go and fetch them somewhere else, and these ones are alive. They're not alive. This is a very big problem. And we've seen that, you know, they mentioned that one of the women, the hostages, was, had died or was killed, and then she showed up alive in the exchange. Exactly. That's the problem. And then with the Bebas family, they at first said that the Islamic Jihad had them, and it wasn't them that they don't know where they are. Then they claimed that they were killed. So they're not... But some will die, because elderly men, for instance, that are left now, there are guys who are like over 80 years of age, and some of them need medication, even daily medication. They can't survive forever in these conditions and without proper medication. So every minute that passes is an emergency. Unfortunately, right now, the only solution to this problem is military, is applying pressure on the high leaders of the Hamas. This pressure will be only felt when the ground troops of the IDF will reach Hanyunis, until the ground troops walk in the streets of Hanyunis. Mr. O'Sinwa will not feel threatened. He doesn't care how many battalions of the Hamas are going to be exterminated in the Sajjia or in Betchanun. That doesn't bother him. What bothers him is his own skin, and the skin of his friends, and the Banke Council, let's not forget, in Switzerland. So that's what bothers them. That's their only worry.  The question is, will they be able to negotiate? Do will they have alive and well hostages that can be freed? We have no idea, because these guys are so cruel, sadistic, that they might over torture somebody or beat somebody up too much, or starve people. And then we get corpses. But remember that we exchange also corpses. We want to free even our dead citizens. For us, it's also part of a deal. And we also have a score to settle with the two alive, first of all, Israeli citizens have been detained for years there, and two corpses of soldiers of a former war. Thank you very much, Rafael Ruchalmi and Gai Israel. That's all for this latest edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage, providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news. I'm Sivan Raveem. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. I'm Sivan Raveem, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 59 of Israel's war with Hamas. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with the Qatari Prime Minister, Mohammad Al-Thani, and thanked him for his involvement in the hostage release deal, and in obtaining humanitarian aid to Gaza. The two discussed the resumption of the fighting in the Gaza Strip and Al-Thani's commitment to peace in the region. The U.S. also confirmed commercial ships were targeted on Sunday in a drone and missile attack claimed by Yemen's Houthis. In a significant escalation, a U.S. warship, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, U.S. S. Carney, fired in self-defense, shooting down three drones during the assault. According to CENTCOM, these attacks are a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security, as it pointed its finger towards Iran. Overnight, the IDF deepened its reach and fired into southern Gaza, east of Rafah. The IDF announced the deaths of another three troops, killed fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip yesterday. Sergeant Major in Reserves, Naria Shail. Sergeant First Class in Reserves, Ben Zosman, and Sergeant Benjamin Yoshua Nidham. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet on Wednesday with the families of hostages, as they are currently 137 hostages still held in captivity in Gaza. Joining us now on Israel's northern border is our I-24 News correspondent, Zach Anders. Zach, what are the latest updates in the north? So far this morning it has been quiet. This is still a very tense situation, however, considering the number of strikes yesterday. As many as five, potentially as many as seven strikes, five of those attributed to Hezbollah's self-claiming responsibility for these strikes, seven recorded throughout the day. As many as 12 injured, many of these are soldiers, but several also civilians aging in range from 20 to 65 years old with both men and women injured by shrapnel from strikes that occurred throughout the day. These, again, clashes that are taking place right along the border here. Many of them targeting Israeli positions at bases and outposts throughout the north overlooking into southern Lebanon. Now, there are many towns in the north which were evacuated. Are we expected to see more such evacuations? Are people going to be allowed to come home soon? Well, we've seen in the last week the frustration of the individuals that live here as they attempt to try and push the Netanyahu government to gain more clarity as to when exactly can they return and how long this evacuation call is going to remain in place. Thousands have been displaced here as they came under those initial evacuation orders when the hostilities began after October 7th and they have not been provided any sort of clear timeline, but if you are to extrapolate from Nasrallah's statements and intentions, then it does appear that this will last for however long the operation in Gaza lasts because the intention of Hezbollah does appear to be to distract and pull resources away as much as possible from the south and keep them here on the north as limited engagements without Hezbollah involving themselves in a broader, more intense regional conflict. Thank you very much, Zach, on Israel's northern border. With us in studio now is Refael Yerushalmi, former senior intelligence officer at the IDF and Gai Israel, our I-24 news senior editor. Thank you both for joining. Refael, we're seeing some terrorist attacks around the world. We saw one in Paris. We're seeing the Philippines four dead. Some of these perpetrators, terrorists, are identifying themselves as ISIS. Is ISIS joining the war? Is this an elaboration of terrorist intentions around the world? Is it linked at all to what's going on here in the Middle East? I would say it's not only ISIS. It's all the people who do not condemn, rejoice or legitimize the terrorist attacks of the 7th of October are joining the terrorist fight. Some of them unarmed, just demonstrating in the streets, others with hatred being shouted out, very dangerous words being shouted around, propaganda, anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist propaganda and others with actual terrorist attacks. And what is happening and will happen for sure in the coming months is a shift of the terror towards the western world. What is happening here is we're destroying the last ever bastion of the Muslim Brotherhood. This is the last, Gaza is the last, you might call it a state or territory under the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood. After that, there is no more foothold for them in the Middle East because most Arabic countries, including the Saudis, do not want them around here. So they're going to have to shift their activity towards other theaters of operation, mostly western capitals, also of course the United States being the arch enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood. And we will see more and more terrorist attacks on the soil of sovereign countries like France, like England. And this is part of a whole shift of the attention of the terrorist groups when we say like we're going to dismantle the Hamas. So we're not going to destroy it. We're not going to kill them to the last man. Where will they be? They will be deployed in southern Lebanon. Some of them will redeploy in the West Bank. Others might stay in Sinai. But many will just go abroad. And they will, apart from Qatar or Turkey, they will go towards other destinations like Canada or Australia. And it is for sure that we are chasing a lot of terrorists away from here. And they're going to be in the western capitals. That is what is happening. And the big culprit here is whoever allows these demonstrations, these manifestations of anti-Semitism in universities or in the street, because this hate propaganda is emboldening the terrorist factions. They get this support from a certain part of the population there, the local population, and also even finance. People donate money. And they do legitimize terrorist attacks. So that is the danger that the Western world is facing now. And that is what I say. Many a time, people think it's a provocation, but I really mean it. Right now, the French Army, the American Army, the British Army should be fighting with us in Gaza, because the Hamas is only the tip of the iceberg. It's only the beginning. Then it's Hezbollah. Then it's Al-Shabaab. Then it's Boko Haram Al-Qaeda. You name it. They should be fighting with us, not asking us to restrain, not restrain. It's their war. We are actually the spearhead of the war against terrorism. And we should have our allies fight, not just stand by and watch. Yeah. Now we're hearing also other countries, such as Denmark, they decided to protect the Israeli embassy and synagogues, as these kind of threats of terrorism go up. And it looks like there are, these threats do exist and we should might be expecting more attacks. Yes. And I would say that at first it might seem that Jewish places are targeted or Israeli interests are targeted. But in the end, it's everybody, right? We've had in France teachers, priests, non-Jews being murdered. This is not just a problem for the Jewish people. It's a problem for all democracies. And a lot of the victims, as I said, are not Jewish or not even pro-Israelis. They're just not Muslim. Please stay with us. We'll be back to discuss some more. But with us now is our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Klosschendler in southern Israel. Pierre, we heard sirens just now and earlier down in the south. And we know the fighting deepened overnight in the Gaza Strip. What can you tell us about what's going on? Yes, that's the third salvo of a rocket fire or mortar fire emanating from the central sector of the Gaza Strip, where the ground operation is expanding, the area of Hanyunas. And they tried to hit communities like Nireem and Enash Losha. Now, for these communities that are so close to the border with the Gaza Strip, you don't need to launch rockets. You simply launch mortar fire. And it's deadly in the sense that there is no possibility to intercept mortar fire, a 60-millimeter mortar fire with an iron dome anti-missile missile. So that's very deadly. But there's no casualties, no damage, as far as we know, from these communities that have been mostly evacuated from the civilian population after the October 7 massacres. The ground operation is expanding and deepening. Deepening in the northern sector, the ground operation started there on October 27. It's deepening inside the refugee camp of Jebalia in the neighborhood of Zaitoun in Gaza City. And east-south-east of Gaza City, Shejaia is completely uncircled and will probably be the next target of the ground offensive. In the center, the ground offensive is progressive alongside three axes, one from east to west to the eastern part, outskirts of Hanyunas, one from north to south on the Salahadin axis on the eastern side of Gaza City, which was used as a humanitarian corridor before the lull in the fighting last week. And the third axis is the Aruna Rashid road along the coast, the Mediterranean coast from north to south. That creates a scissors effect. And the population of the eastern outskirts of Hanyunas has been urged to relocate themself west of Hanyunas using the interactive map that the IDF has provided on the Internet, but also with flyers that have been dropped by the Israeli Air Force with the QR code, which allows you to understand exactly in which of the hundred blocks, polingone blocks your family is located with arrows showing you the locations which are safe at the moment. And we've seen some footage from Gaza showing some people leaving their houses on the eastern outskirts of Hanyunas and moving west to safer places. Thank you very much, Pierre, on Israel's southern border. And still with us is Refael Yerushalmi and also Gai Israel. So we're hearing here some updates from the Gaza Strip from down south and we know that the IDF is deepening its reach into southern Gaza and we just heard about this interactive map. What is this about? Well, on the leaflets that people receive from the air, but sometimes even on text messages on their phone, people wherever they live in the Gaza Strip, they have their own address, their own street. And when they go into this program, when they scan this QR code, they will have a map and that map shows where they live and from where they live, what is the shortest way to a safe place or safe that will be spared by the combat by the IDF. So if you live in one specific street, then they tell you that five minutes away from where you live, you can go with your wife and children to a school or a stadium or a mosque that will not be hit during the fighting. This is very good. Some people had the cynical humor to say that but people don't have electricity, maybe their phones are not charged or there is no internet. So I will just remind you that each time hostages, Israeli hostages were liberated, all you could see is hundreds of Palestinians hanging their phones and filming the hostages and the lighting the squares. So the phones are working and there is electricity and there is internet. So no worry about that. John Kirby from the American establishment in Washington praised the IDF saying not many armies in the world have ever done so much to avoid collateral damage. Unfortunately, we know that some people will not evacuate.  The first thing you're going to do is just rush there but some might not and won't. That is the problem, maybe have a death wish, I don't know, but it's their problem, it's their responsibility in the end. It will make the fighting much more difficult. We know, for instance, that in Sejaia, where the fighting is going to be very, very hard, it's now the 36th division of IDF is going to tackle this huge problem of Sejaia because it's a stronghold of the elite forces of the Hamas. We know that civilians have stayed there, they're still around. Some of them might have been forced to stay there by the Hamas, others decided to stay there and this is going to make the fighting even more difficult. As for the comment about the cell phones, well, we are approaching the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Maybe it's a reminder of the miracle of the cruise of oil.  Yeah, and a lot of other kinds of aid. Now in the past, we know that the IDF did lose many troops in Sejaia in previous operations. Has anything changed in this region to make this more feasible this time, with not as many losses? Yes or no? No, because in Sejaia, they are really prepared. Actually, the Hamas, they thought that the main offensive of the IDF would come from the north. We came actually from the east into Gaza City and now we're going back up north to clean up the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They had massed their elite troops, their best fighters in Sejaia and they were bracing themselves for a very strong attack. So they are very well prepared with booby traps, with snipers, with a lot of bad surprises for our soldiers. The other part of the side of the coin is that we have now today, as compared to our last operations, a lot more new technology. We have, for instance, short-range rockets. When I say short-range, it can be like 50 meters or 100 meters, rockets called Gil and Matador, that can destroy pinpoints, a target, and destroy just that target, which will help us to avoid collateral damage, because we're going to be able to actually shoot at one room in a building and kill the guys there. And if there is a family, the next flat, they won't be hit. So this is new technologies that we have, also technologies to find out explosives and booby traps, not just dogs. We have today robots and sensors that can find and take care of explosives. So there is a progress in that sense, but the danger is very high. It's going to be one of the harshest fights of this war. We know the harshest one is Hanyunis, but I would say Sejaia is a warm-up to Hanyunis in the difficulty of the fighting that's going to take place there. Now, Guy, I want to speak about the West Bank. We're hearing that there's some IDF activity in Kalkylia. Can you tell us about that? So much activity of the IDF overnight, not just in Kalkylia. We're talking about at least seven different spots where the IDF operated overnight, including Kalkylia, Genine, Jilazun, and as we speak, in broad daylight, IDF troops are operating in the town of Calandia near Jerusalem. Overnight, IDF troops arresting 29 terrorist suspects in the West Bank, including five of them were affiliated with Hamas. Over in Kalkylia, two terrorists were eliminated after attempting to fire at IDF troops several times. The IDF troops have also collected a lot of ammunition in various spots, including villages of Siluwa, Jifuna, Jilazun, as we mentioned, including drones, lasers, hunting rifles, just so much activity. And I think this is really important because what Hamas has at least attempted to do was to really flare up the West Bank in parallel to that onslaught of the massacre on the Gaza border. And that, to a large degree, has failed. And that is thanks to the very extensive operation of the IDF, the Shin Bet border police and other Israeli forces across the West Bank on a daily basis, on a nightly basis. Rather, most of the activity is overnight. We're seeing a daytime activity on our screens now. That was a very successful operation of the IDF in curbing that front so that these very troops can focus on the Gaza war right now. Thank you, Guy and Rafael. And just now, the families of the people taken hostage, are making statements in a press conference. Let's take a listen. And they're about to start, and we should be hearing them any moment now. But we're looking at more fighting, the pause ended. And now, as the fighting continues in Gaza, the families of the hostages are very concerned for the well-being and safety of their family members. Yes, so we're talking about over 130 Israelis that are still being held captive at the hands of Hamas. We've seen in the previous deal that was reached with Hamas, the release of many women and children. Of course, we're still awaiting the release of the children of the Bebas family, queer in Ariel, 10 months old and four years old babies still being held by Hamas. Still no concrete information about their well-being. But in addition to them, also so many men and women over the age of 19 that have not been released as part of this deal, the families do not want them to be forgotten. And we mentioned just earlier the expected visit of the chief of the ICRC in Gaza and Egypt player today. This is after Israel has been appealing for so long, calling for the Red Cross to visit the hostages that have remained in Gaza. Still no information about their well-being, only shreds of information that we're getting from the hostages that have returned about what they've seen in captivity. Many of them have met other hostages that were still there. In many cases, even family members that were separated, women that were released with their husbands still in Gaza, obviously many of them in need of very urgent medical care. The families are pleading the world to get the ICRC, to at least visit them. And of course, to bring about to their release something that seems far from now. This is part of the efforts of the IDF as it expands its operation throughout Gaza, employing more pressure on Hamas so that we will see better deals for releasing of more hostages. Israel said it will negotiate, but under fire this operation, this war against Hamas will continue until we see willingness of Hamas to release more Israeli prisoners. It will take, yeah, Hamas on its side said it will not negotiate under fire. Obviously, Israel will not be sitting and waiting for Hamas. Hamas' ultimate goal is to stop the operation in Gaza, something that Israel obviously will not be willing to do. The goal of Israel in this war is to eliminate Hamas' military capabilities across the Gaza Strip. And this is what it is doing right now. If Hamas wants to save some of its senior fighters, it is definitely welcome to do so. That is the tactic of the IDF as long as it releases the Israeli hostages. Of course, not just civilians, also Israeli soldiers. And obviously, there's still a long way to go. And we're seeing the pictures of these hostages. Most of them are men, but still a lot of women still held in Gaza as we speak right now buried in underground tunnels. And I think we're just about to start hearing them speak as part of their ongoing plea to the world. Let's take a listen. Okay, they're still waiting to start. I think Rafael can also address what we've been hearing from the families. There's great concern here because we have 137 hostages still in there. That is a huge number, including the two children, including some of the women and a lot of men. And when I say men, these are fathers. These are grandfathers. These are sons of parents waiting for them here at home in Israel. What is very worrisome is the conditions of the detention because it can be held hostage and be fed properly or treated properly. Being an asset, life insurance of the Hamas leaders, you would expect those hostages to be treated reasonably well. And they are not. They are being tortured. They are being beaten up. We have now all the testimonies from those who are liberated, who speak of horrible, horrible things, even torture inflicted on little children. So they are held by atrocious people, ferocious people. And every minute that passes by is a danger to their lives. They might not survive. By now, we do not know a few things. You said 137. We do not know how many of these are alive. We don't know how many of these are actually in the hands of the Hamas and that the Hamas can deliver. Would we reach some kind of a deal? We have no idea. So the first priority is to get a proper list because the Hamas have been lying through their teeth since the beginning. We need at least a proper list of who is alive and who is at the hands of the Hamas. And would there be a new opportunity for an exchange or liberation to act upon it very quickly and not to wait till the last minute? And then the Hamas said, ah, yeah, but these ones, they're not exactly here. We've got to go and fetch them somewhere else. And these ones are alive. They're not alive. This is a very big problem. And we've seen that, you know, they mentioned that one of the women, the hostages, was, had died or was killed. And then she showed up alive in the exchange. Exactly. That's the problem. And then with the Bebas family, they at first said that the Islamic Jihad had them and it wasn't them, that they don't know where they are. Then they claimed that they were killed. So they're not. But some will die because elderly men, for instance, that are left now, and there are guys who are like over 80 years of age, and some of them need medication, even daily medication. They can't survive forever in these conditions and without proper medication. So every minute that passes is an emergency. Unfortunately, right now, the only solution to this problem is military, is applying pressure on the high leaders of the Hamas. This pressure will be only felt when the ground troops of the IDF will reach Hanyunis. Until the ground troops walk in the streets of Hanyunis, Mr. O'Shinoa will not feel threatened. He doesn't care how many battalions of the Hamas are going to be exterminated in the Sajjia or in Betchanun. That doesn't bother him. What bothers him is his own skin and the skin of his friends. And the Banke Council does not forget in Switzerland. So that's what bothers them. That's their only worry.  The question is, will they be able to negotiate? Will they have alive and well hostages that can be freed? We have no idea because these guys are so cruel, sadistic that they might over torture somebody or beat somebody up too much or starve people. And then we get corpses. But remember that we exchange also corpses. We want to free even our dead citizens. For us, it's also part of the deal. And we also have a score to settle with the two alive, first of all, Israeli citizens that have been detained for years there, and two corpses of soldiers of the former war. Okay. Thank you very much. That's all for this latest edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news. I'm Siobhan Raviv. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. Entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra. La reacción de los países hispano parlantes. I-24 News, I'm Siobhan Raviv, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is day 59 of Israel's war with Hamas. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with the Qatari Prime Minister Mohamed El-Thani and thanked him for his involvement in the hostage release deal and in obtaining humanitarian aid to Gaza. The two discussed the resumption of the fighting in the Gaza Strip and El-Thani's commitment to peace in the region. The U.S. also confirmed commercial ships were targeted on Sunday in a drone and missile attack claimed by Yemen's Houthis. In a significant escalation, a U.S. warship that Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney fired in self-defense shooting down three drones during the assault. According to CENTCOM, these attacks are a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security as it pointed its finger towards Iran. Overnight, the IDF deepened its reach and fired into southern Gaza east of Rafah. The IDF announced the deaths of another three troops killed fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Sergeant Major in Reserves Neriah Shire, Sergeant First Class in Reserves Ben Zussman and Sergeant Benjamin Yamin Yoshua Nidham. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet on Wednesday with the families of the hostages as there are currently 137 hostages still held in captivity in Gaza. Moments ago, the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, gave a statement about the military efforts to reduce civilian harm during the fighting. Let's take a listen. We have entered a new phase in our war against Hamas. Hamas broke the humanitarian pause when it violated the Hostage Release Agreement by refusing to release women, children and babies as agreed. Hamas also fired rockets at Israeli homes. It should be clear to everyone by now, Hamas chooses war. Hamas chose war when it broke the Hostage Release Agreement on December 1st. Hamas chose war when it massacred our people on October 7th. It has been eight weeks since October 7th and Hamas is still holding 137 of our people hostage babies, the elderly, women and men. Hamas does not value human life, Israeli or Palestinian. Hamas is willing to sacrifice its own people to advance its genocidal agenda. As we expand our operation in Gaza, we remain committed to our goals, secure the release of our hostages and dismantle Hamas. We will operate as we have done until now, according to international law. We will operate as we have done until now against Hamas' centers of gravity. We pursued them in northern Gaza. We're now pursuing Hamas in southern Gaza too. We will operate in maximum force against Hamas' terrorists and infrastructures while minimizing harm to the civilians that Hamas places around them as shields. Our forces used the seven-day pause before the Hamas violation to increase readiness, review intelligence and refine operational procedures. We are implementing lessons learned for the new phase of this war, improving the efficiency and the precision of our operations on the ground. We are pursuing Hamas wherever Hamas is hiding, in the north and in the south. Every rocket launcher, weapons, depot, command and control center, senior commander, underground infrastructure and any hideout where our hostages may be held. Our war is against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza. Hamas deliberately embeds himself within civilian population centers so that the Gazans will bear the consequences of Hamas atrocities. Every civilian death is a tragedy. A tragedy that the IDF does not want and is taking extensive measures to avoid. While Hamas terrorists hide behind civilians, Israel does its best to distinguish between civilians and terrorists. We are giving precise instructions to Gazan residents near Hamas centers of gravity, urging them to temporarily move away from the danger that Hamas puts them in. We're dropping leaflets with QR codes that opens a map guiding Gazans to safer areas. The map is divided into neighborhood numbers indicating where civilians in a specific area should go to avoid being in the crossfire. We call on international organizations in Gaza to assist us with this effort. It can help save lives. We also call on international organizations to ensure that the Red Cross gains access to our hostages in Hamas captivity. 137 hostages are being held in inhumane and brutal conditions. And not one international organization has seen them. The more we hear about the cruel conditions in Hamas captivity, the more urgent our mission, our global mission to rescue our hostages becomes. That was the idea spokesperson Danielle Hagari. With us now is our i-24 news correspondent, Pierre Kloschendler, down in southern Israel. Pierre, we heard sirens earlier in the south. What is the latest on the ground? There's been a lot in the rocket strike for about an hour. Last hour there were communities very close to the Gaza border like Enash Losha, who were there was an attempt to launch a demortifier, but we don't know of any casualties, no damage. And the forces are progressing on the ground along three axes. One on the coastal road, the Arun Arashid axis from north to south near the Mediterranean Sea. The other one is east of Gaza City, Salahadin axis, which was used as a humanitarian corridor before the lull in the fighting last week. And the third axis goes from east to west toward Hanunez and passes through the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, such as Shajair. And there's heavy fighting in Shajair, as well as in Zaitun in Gaza City, as well as in the Jabalia refugee camp, which is north of Gaza City and Sheikh Ladoan, which is northwest of Gaza City. There's intense fighting in the north and intense fighting in the center. There's been air strikes on the refugee camps in the central sector of Gaza, such as Direl Balach, Nusserat, El Borej, and the population of the eastern outskirts of Hanunez. Thanks to the interactive map that Daniel Agar spoke about and flyers that were dropped on the population centers with a QR code to connect to the interactive map, all these populations are urged to move from east of Hanunez to west of Hanunez in order to avoid the loss of lives because the east of Hanunez is turning very quickly into a battleground. Thank you very much, Pierre, on Israel's southern border. And now joining us on Israel's northern border are I-24 news correspondents, Zach Anders. Zach, what are the latest updates in the north? The IDF now says that a short time ago they detected multiple fires from southern Lebanon in towards Israeli positions. They have responded with outgoing artillery tarting these points of origin from where Hezbollah was firing on their positions. No reports of injuries. In fact, the IDF says that these launches fell in open areas. They also say that they intercepted a hostile aircraft. This is still a developing situation. It's unclear if this is a manned aircraft or a drone. If it's anything like in the past several weeks, these are often the Iranian supplied drones, these unmanned aerial vehicles that attempt to penetrate Israeli airspace. So we're still waiting for confirmation there and for these earlier strikes throughout the morning to see if there were any injuries in these events. Now, in addition to the fire between Israel and Lebanon over the weekend, there was an exchange of fire from Syria. What does this mean? And that fire from Syria again is important as this is involving multiple regional players. The launch itself is still undetermined if this is a drone or a rocket, but the IDF says that per their policy it was not intercepted. It did not appear to hit or land inside Israeli territory. That's awaiting independent confirmation. The IDF has not clarified where exactly this projectile ended up, but it's potentially that it fell inside Syria. We did see reports that the IDF was striking positions and targets inside Syria as well in response. This, of course, you extrapolate this into the big picture here and you've got multiple regional players involved in the different factions in southern Lebanon, of course, and then factions inside Syria. This comes in the same 24 hours that U.S. forces targeted a position in Iraq and apparently killed five men in their strike. What they say was preparing to strike on U.S. positions and that they were preemptively eliminating the threat also overnight. Yemen and the Houthis claiming responsibility for attacking U.S. and U.K. ships and blanketly claiming that they were Israeli vessels when there's no confirmation that there were any Israeli ties to these vessels. I see. Thank you very much, Zach, on Israel's northern border. There are 137 hostages still held in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Just moments ago, families of these hostages gave statements in a press conference ahead of their meeting with the security cabinet and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let's take a listen. All those standing here are loving citizens of Israel. We are not anyone's burden. We raised our kids to love this land, to contribute, and they were neglected on October 7th, and our lives changed forever. We now rely on others. All the cabinet needs to do is to face us, look us in the eye, and tell us what they are planning to do. And with us now in studios, Rafael Hiroshalmi, former senior intelligence officer at the IDF, and also with us is Gaius Riehl, our I-24 News Senior Editor. Thank you both for joining. We're hearing families of hostages speak out at a press conference highly concerned for the safety and well-being of their loved ones who are still held in Gaza in Hamas captivity. How is Israel to assist, and what will be expected to be said to these families when they meet with the cabinet, with Prime Minister Netanyahu? What can reassure these families? First of all, it is not so important what is going to be said to them. It should be important to speak to them. It doesn't matter what you're going to say. You just have to hug them. These people do not feel hugged. They do not feel assisted. They feel abandoned. They feel like they're fighting this thing on their own. They have the support of the whole Israeli population. Thousands gather every night to visit the square where the families are in Tel Aviv, where they are sitting. But the government seems to be completely dysfunctional. So on the one hand, a lot has been achieved because the chief of the Mossad went to Qatar. We have managed to liberate hostages. The army put such pressure on the Hamas that we still liberated more than 80 hostages. Something has been achieved. So that is the real asymmetry on the one hand. Something is really being concretely done for the hostages on the ground. But on the other hand, the families, the people who are evacuated from the south and also for the north do not feel that the government is taking care of them. And this is a very bad thing. I mean, you just have to send one person to speak to them, even if it's just to hear what they have to say and try to give some kind of reassuring answer, even if you don't want to tell them exactly because it's top secret or you don't know yet how you're going to do it. You have to do it. You have a lot of dysfunctional disfunctionalments right now in this government, which are very worrisome. One of the main ones for me is all the reservists who have small businesses who are now indebted. They are fighting in Gaza against terrorists. And while they are fighting, falling into huge debts, their little businesses are going bankrupt. They're getting no help from the government. So something here has to give. Something I think these people are right. The government cannot come with a magical solution and say, look, we're going to free your families tomorrow morning because we found a way to do so. But at least be there. When you hear that the prime minister will meet these people on Wednesday, I mean, what's he so busy about? When he comes to the cabinet meetings in the Kyriac, it's 50 meters from where these people are sitting.  That would be enough. Why isn't it done? I don't know. And the families are actually now requesting to advance this meeting and to make it earlier than Wednesday. They do not have any more time to waste. I do have to differ a little bit because Israel has done has gone to great lengths to release the prisoner, the Israeli hostages that were released in this deal. It has managed to do so under conditions that Israel was able to accept an exchange ratio of one Israeli hostage for three Palestinian terrorists convicted of acts of terror. At the same time, when it comes to other prisoners, the demands of Hamas are very different. Some that Israel will not be able to accept. It is one thing to release prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages. It is a completely different thing when Hamas would ask to stop this war completely and prevent Israel from eliminating Hamas in exchange for the Israeli hostages. The goals of this war, war to eliminate Hamas. And when we speak, also when we speak about the residents of the south, the only thing that we assure them and will allow them to return to their homes is if Hamas is eliminated. Obviously, this is a demand that the Israeli government, no Israeli government will be able to accept. And it is a price that is being paid with the fact that it is prolonging the return of more hostages. This is why this operation is ongoing to apply more pressure of Hamas, so that it would come with better deals for better conditions, rather for the next deal for the release of other Israeli hostages. As for meeting the families, obviously, that is a given that that should be happening on a regular basis. And this is not the first such meeting. Obviously, now the line for the release of hostages has changed because we did bring back almost all of the children with the exception of the two Bebas children. And now there's acceptance that there's wait for the release of other Israelis, including men and women over the age of 19, still a lot of elderly men that are being held in Gaza. And that is before we even start speaking about the Israeli soldiers, both male and females. The head of the Mossad MIA unit, Rami Igra, has said that these protesters the way that he sees it do increase the price that Hamas is demanding of Israel as Israel is a democracy in which there is free media, in which the families obviously have their right of expressing themselves and demanding, and rightfully so, demanding the return of their people, of their sons, of their loved ones. At the same time, we are fighting against a terror group like Hamas, a cynical, murderous, cruel terror group that would use any means to cause more suffering to the people of Israel. And to those families, the Israeli government, the Mossad have been involved in extensive negotiations with Hamas, through the Qataris and the US to bring about for a deal of additional hostages. Obviously, that is something that will take time. And now the effort is to apply more pressure, so we will see a better deal in the near future. So, Rafael, do you agree that this is the strategy to apply military force? And that's how more hostages will be ready? Of course. I wanted to stress also the fact that some of the families of the hostages do say, and that's very difficult to say, that they consider some of the demands of the Hamas unacceptable. Even though their own family members are detained by the Hamas, they said Israel cannot accept these conditions. There's like a kind of an argument going on between the families of hostages about that. Those who are so desperate, they would accept anything. Or those who say, no, even though it's my son or it's my brother, we cannot have these thousands of terrorists go roaming around free again, killing people, because we're going to save one person and I'm going to have, so it's very brave of them to say so. I think they're also grateful for what has been accomplished so far by the IDF and the Israeli government. I just stress again that there is a lack of human consideration of warmth. Somebody should be just there to speak to them, to be warm to them. There are people coming, yet again, individual initiatives. From the government, they feel they do not get enough presence, just presence. They don't even have to say anything to divulge the secret operations that might be prepared. They just have to come. That's what they're asking for anyway. And I think if they're asking for, then they should obtain satisfaction. They're asking for direct communication. To be hugged. Yes, to be hugged. By their government. Given the attention that they surely... But I do think they are also asking for answers. It's beyond the hug. Obviously, they want their loved ones back. It's more than just being hugged. They want to know what is being done to bring them back. Obviously, that is a very fair question. It is just not always up to Israel's hands to bring them back as quickly as Israel and the families want to. Now, Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has wrapped up his first ever visit to Israel, invited here by the hostage's families in a statement closing his visit. Khan called the massacres of October 7th some of the most serious international crimes that shock the conscience of humanity. Khan also said Israel's response to the attacks is subject to clear legal parameters that govern armed conflict. All of this raises the question of how Israel should respond to involvement by the ICC, given decades of bitter experience with international organizations. Senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman tells us the fuller story. The test for the court looks unavoidable, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is eventually heading here to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where the massacres of October 7th and the war that followed look set to cross the threshold, and someday come into the courtroom. If the International Criminal Court does not act against Hamas, no one will. Who will act against them? The Palestinian Authority who endorses them? The Hamas regime in Gaza? There's no one else besides Mr. Khan. Mr. Khan is Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor for the Court, seen here meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shteya in Ramallah on Saturday, on a trip that also took Khan to Baeri and Khwar Azza on the Gaza border, and the Central Event, a meeting at their invitation with hostages families. Israel has long been suspicious of international organizations, with decades of bitter experience of perceived bias. Broadly for that reason, Israel is not a state party to the emerging ICC. One cannot deliberately target civilians or civilian objects.  Willful killing, hostage taking are great breaches of the Geneva Convention. Impeding relief supplies as provided by the Geneva Conventions may constitute a crime within the court's jurisdiction. The message coming from Karim Khan is a careful one. He is under scrutiny from both sides. Given the magnitude, he cannot look away from October 7th, or the propel Palestinian side says look away from the war. But the young court's reputation will be at stake, and over time, a suspicious Israel will need to decide whether or not to take the risk of trusting the ICC and cooperating with it. And still with us here is Gai Israel and Rafael Yerushalmi. First, an update about the hostages families and the government. We know now that the war cabinet will meet those hostages families tonight as to the demand of the hostages families. But a very interesting story that comes out of researchers in the state study from the Columbia and New York University finds that some traders in Wall Street knew about that Hamas attack before October 7th. This is quite incredible. They made short trade on U.S. and Israeli stock exchange in anticipation of them going down. They had some prior knowledge about this attack, something that the Israeli public did not know. Obviously, the Israeli security establishment was not prepared for. Those traders received what is believed to be information from Hamas using that short trade on the Israeli stocks. Quite an incredible story shows you how much planning and knowledge was there in certain circles about that onslaught in advance. Taita Hamas, so we're hearing some people may have been in the know about this massacre ahead of its taking place. Thank you very much, Rafael Yerushalmi and Gai Israel. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates. I'm Sivana Rave. Thank you for watching. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Contestants de la guerra, espadas de hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra. La reacción de los países hispano parlantes. 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. Stories to the world. The I-24 News, I'm Sivana Rave, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 59 of Israel's war with Hamas. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with the Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Thani and thanked him for his involvement in the hostage release deal and in obtaining humanitarian aid to Gaza. The two discussed the resumption of the fighting in the Gaza Strip and Al-Thani's commitment to peace in the region. The U.S. also confirmed commercial ships were targeted on Sunday in a drone and missile attack claimed by Yemen's Houthis. In a significant escalation, a U.S. warship, the Arleigh Burke class destroyer, USS Carney, fired in self-defense, shooting down three drones during the assault. According to SENTCOM, these attacks are a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security as it pointed its finger towards Iran. Overnight, the IDF deepened its reach and fired into southern Gaza east of Rafah. The IDF announced the deaths of another three troops killed fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Sergeant Major in Reserves Niri Ashayr, Sergeant First Class in Reserves Ben Zussman and Sergeant Benjamin Yamin Yoshua Nidham. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to meet on Wednesday with the families of the hostages as there are currently 137 hostages still held in captivity in Gaza. Moments ago, the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari gave a statement about the military efforts to reduce civilian harm during the fighting. Let's take a listen. We have entered a new phase in our war against Hamas. Hamas broke the humanitarian pause when it violated the Hostage Release Agreement by refusing to release women, children and babies as agreed. Hamas also fired rockets at Israeli homes. It should be clear to everyone by now Hamas chooses war. Hamas chose war when it broke the Hostage Release Agreement on December 1st. Hamas chose war when it massacred our people on October 7th. It has been eight weeks since October 7th and Hamas is still holding 137 of our people hostage babies, the elderly, women and men. Hamas does not value human life, Israeli or Palestinian. Hamas is willing to sacrifice its own people to advance its genocidal agenda. As we expand our operation in Gaza, we remain committed to our goals, secure the release of our hostages and dismantle Hamas. We will operate as we have done until now, according to international law. We will operate as we have done until now against Hamas centers of gravity. We pursued them in northern Gaza. We're now pursuing Hamas in southern Gaza too. We will operate in maximum force against Hamas terrorists and infrastructures while minimizing harm to the civilian that Hamas places around them as shields. Our forces used the seven day pause before the Hamas violation to increase readiness, review intelligence and refine operational procedures. We are implementing lessons learned for the new phase of this war, improving the efficiency and the precision of our operations on the ground. We are pursuing Hamas wherever Hamas is hiding in the north and in the south. Every rocket launcher, weapons, command and control center, senior commander, underground infrastructure and any hideout where our hostages may be held. Our war is against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza. Hamas deliberately embeds himself within civilian population centers so that the Gazans will bear the consequences of Hamas atrocities. Every civilian death is a tragedy, a tragedy that the IDF does not want and is taking extensive measures to avoid. While Hamas terrorists hide behind civilians Israel does its best to distinguish between civilians and terrorists. We are giving precise instructions to Gazan residents near Hamas centers of gravity, urging them to temporarily move away from the danger that Hamas puts them in. We're dropping leaflets with QR codes that opens a map guiding Gazans to safer areas. The map is divided into neighborhood numbers indicating where civilians in a specific area should go to avoid being in the crossfire. We call on international organizations in Gaza to assist us with this effort. It can help save lives. We also call on international organizations to ensure that the Red Cross gains access to our hostages in Hamas captivity. 137 hostages are being held in inhumane and brutal conditions. And not one international organization has seen them. The more we hear about the cruel conditions in Hamas captivity, the more urgent our mission, our global mission to rescue our hostages becomes. That was the IDF spokesperson Danielle Hagari. With us now is our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Kloschendler, down in southern Israel. Pierre, we heard sirens earlier in the south. What is the latest on the ground? There's been a lot in the rocket strike for about an hour. Last hour there were communities very close to the Gaza border like Enash Losha who were there was an attempt to launch a demortifier, but we don't know of any casualties, no damage. And the forces are progressing on the ground along three axes. One on the coastal road, the Arun Arashid axis from north to south near the Mediterranean Sea. The other one is east of Gaza City, Salahadin axis, which was used as a humanitarian corridor before the lull in the fighting last week. And the third axis goes from east to west toward Hanunez and passes through the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, such as Shajaiah. And there's heavy fighting in Shajaiah as well as in Zaitun in Gaza City, as well as in the Jebaliah refugee camp, which is north of Gaza City and Sheikh Ladoan, which is northwest of Gaza City. There's intense fighting in the north and intense fighting in the center. There's been air strikes on the refugee camps in the central sector of Gaza, such as Direl Balach, Nusehrat, El Borej, and the population of the eastern outskirts of Hanunez. Thanks to the interactive map that Daniel Agarri spoke about and flyers that were dropped on the population centers with a QR code to connect to the interactive map, all these populations are urged to move from east of Hanunez to west of Hanunez in order to avoid the loss of lives because the east of Hanunez is turning very quickly into a battleground. Thank you very much, Pierre, on Israel's southern border. And now joining us on Israel's northern border are I-24 news correspondents, Zak Anders. Zak, what are the latest updates in the north? The IDF now says that a short time ago they detected multiple fires from southern Lebanon in towards Israeli positions. They've responded with outgoing artillery, tarting these points of origin from where Hezbollah was firing on their positions. No reports of injuries. In fact, the IDF says that these launches fell in open areas. They also say that they intercepted a hostile aircraft. This is still a developing situation. It's unclear if this is a manned aircraft or a drone. If it's anything like in the past several weeks, these are often the Iranian supplied drones, these unmanned aerial vehicles that attempt to penetrate Israeli airspace. So we're still waiting for confirmation there and for these earlier strikes throughout the morning to see if there were any injuries in these events. Now, in addition to the fire between Israel and Lebanon over the weekend, there was an exchange of fire from Syria. What does this mean? And that fire from Syria again is important as this is involving multiple regional players. The launch itself is still undetermined if this is a drone or a rocket, but the IDF says that per their policy it was not intercepted. It did not appear to hit or land inside Israeli territory. That's awaiting independent confirmation. The IDF has not clarified where exactly this projectile ended up, but it's potentially that it fell inside Syria. We did see reports that the IDF was striking positions and targets inside Syria as well in response. This, of course, you extrapolate this into the big picture here and you've got multiple regional players involved in the different factions in southern Lebanon, of course, and then factions inside Syria. This comes in the same 24 hours that U.S. forces targeted a position in Iraq and apparently killed five men in their strike. What they say was preparing to strike on U.S. positions and that they were preemptively eliminating the threat. Also overnight, Yemen and the Houthis claiming responsibility for attacking U.S. and U.K. ships and blanketly claiming that they were Israeli vessels when there's no confirmation that there were any Israeli ties to these vessels. I see. Thank you very much, Zach, on Israel's northern border. There are 137 hostages still held in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Just moments ago, families of these hostages gave statements in a press conference ahead of their meeting with the security cabinet and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let's take a listen. All those standing here are loving citizens of Israel. We are not anyone's burden. We raised our kids to love this land, to contribute, and they were neglected on October 7th. And our lives changed forever. We now rely on others. All the cabinet needs to do is to face us, look us in the eye, and tell us what they are planning to do. And with us now in studios, Rafael Hiroshalmi, former senior intelligence officer at the IDF, and also with us is Gaius Driel, our I-24 News senior editor. Thank you both for joining. We're hearing families of hostages speak out at a press conference highly concerned for the safety and well-being of their loved ones who are still held in Gaza in Hamas captivity. How is Israel to assist and what will be expected to be said to these families when they meet with the cabinet, with Prime Minister Netanyahu? What can reassure these families? First of all, it is not so important what is going to be said to them. It should be important to speak to them. It doesn't matter what you're going to say. You just have to hug them. These people do not feel hugged. They do not feel assisted. They feel abandoned. They feel like they're fighting this thing on their own. They have the support of the whole Israeli population. Thousands gather every night to visit the square where the families are in Tel Aviv, where they are sitting. But the government seems to be completely dysfunctional. So on the one hand, a lot has been achieved because the chief of the Mossad went to Qatar. We have managed to liberate hostages. The army put such pressure on the Hamas that we still liberated more than 80 hostages. Something has been achieved. So that is the real asymmetry on the one hand. Something is really being concretely done for the hostages on the ground. But on the other hand, the families, the people who were evacuated from the south and also for the north, do not feel that the government is taking care of them. And this is a very bad thing. I mean, you just have to send one person to speak to them, even if it's just to hear what they have to say and try to give some kind of reassuring answer, even if you don't want to tell them exactly, because it's top secret or you don't know yet how you're going to do it. You have to do it. You have a lot of these functionments right now in this government which are very worrisome. One of the main ones for me is all the reservists who have small businesses who are now indebted. They are fighting in Gaza against terrorists. And while they are fighting, they are falling into huge debts. Their little businesses are going bankrupt. They're getting no help from the government. So something here has to give. Something I think these people are right. The government cannot come with a magical solution and say, look, we're going to free your families tomorrow morning because we found a way to do so. But at least be there. When you hear that the prime minister will meet these people on Wednesday, I mean, what's he so busy about when he comes to the cabinet meetings in the Kyriac? It's 50 meters from where these people are sitting.  That would be enough. Why isn't it done? And the families are actually now requesting to advance this meeting and to make it earlier than Wednesday. They do not have any more time to waste. I do have to differ a little bit because Israel has done has gone to great lengths to release the prisoner. The Israeli hostages that were released in this deal. It has managed to do so under conditions that Israel was able to accept an exchange ratio of one Israeli hostage for three Palestinian terrorists convicted of acts of terror. At the same time, when it comes to other prisoners, the demands of Hamas are very different. Some that Israel will not be able to accept. It is one thing to release prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages. It is a completely different thing when Hamas would ask to stop this war completely and prevent Israel from eliminating Hamas in exchange for the Israeli hostages. The goals of this war, war to eliminate Hamas. And when we speak also when we speak about the residents of the south, the only thing that we are sure of them and will allow them to return to their homes is if Hamas is eliminated. Obviously, this is a demand that the Israeli government know Israeli government will be able to accept. And it is a price that is being paid with the fact that it is prolonging the return of more hostages. This is why this operation is ongoing to apply more pressure of Hamas so that it would come with better deals for better conditions rather for the next deal for the release of other Israeli hostages. As for meeting the families, obviously, that is given that that should be happening on a regular basis. And it's this is not the first such meeting. Obviously, now the the line for the release of hostages has changed because we did bring back almost all of the children with the exception of the two Bebas children. And now there's acceptance that there's wait for the release of other Israelis, including men and women over the age of 19, still a lot of elderly men that are being held in Gaza. And that is before we even start speaking about the Israeli soldiers, both male and females. The head of the Mossad MIA unit, Rami Igra, has said that these protesters way the way that he sees it do increase the price that Hamas is demanding of Israel as Israel is a democracy in which there is free media in which the families obviously have their right of expressing themselves and demanding and rightfully so demanding the return of their people of their sons of their loved ones. At the same time, we are fighting against a terror group like Hamas, a cynical murderous cruel terror group that would use any means to cause more suffering to the people of Israel. And to those families, the Israeli government, the Mossad have been involved in extensive negotiations with Hamas through the Qataris and the US to bring about for a deal of additional hostages. Obviously, that is something that will take time. And now the effort is to apply more pressure. So we will see a better deal in the near future. So, Rafael, do you agree that this is the strategy to apply military force? And that's how more hostages will be rid of the intervention? Of course. I wanted to stress also the fact that some of the families of the hostages do say, and that's very difficult to say, that they consider some of the demands of the Hamas unacceptable. Even though their own family members are detained by the Hamas, they said Israel cannot accept these conditions. So there's like a kind of an argument going on between the families of hostages about that. Those who are so desperate, they would accept anything. Or those who say, no, even though it's my son or it's my brother, we cannot have these thousands of terrorists go roaming around free again, killing people because we're going to save one person and I'm going to have. So it's very brave of them to say so. I think they're also grateful for what has been accomplished so far by the IDF and the Israeli government. I just stress again that there is a lack of human consideration of warms. Somebody should be just there to speak to them, to be warm to them. There are people coming with these yet again individual initiatives. From the government, they feel they do not get enough presence, just presence. They don't even have to say anything to divulge the secret operations that might be prepared. They just have to come. That's what they're asking for anyway. And I think if they're asking for, then they should obtain satisfaction. They're asking for direct communication. To be hugged. Yes, to be hugged. By their government. Given the attention that they surely. But I do think they are also asking for answers. It's beyond the hug. Obviously, they want their loved ones back. It's more than just being hugged. They want to know what is being done to bring them back. Obviously, that is a very, obviously very thorough question. It is just not always up to Israel's hands to bring them back as quickly as Israel and the families want to. Now, Kareem Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has wrapped up his first ever visit to Israel, invited here by the hostage's families. In a statement closing his visit, Khan called the massacres of October 7th some of the most serious international crimes that shock the conscience of humanity. Khan also said Israel's response to the attacks is subject to clear legal parameters that govern armed conflict. All of this raises the question of how Israel should respond to involvement by the ICC, given decades of bitter experience with international organizations. Senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman tells us the fuller story. The test for the court looks unavoidable and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is eventually heading here to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where the massacres of October 7th and the war that followed look set to cross the threshold and someday come into the courtroom. If the International Criminal Court does not act against Hamas, no one will. Who will act against them? The Palestinian Authority or endorses them? The Hamas regime in Gaza? There's no one else besides Mr. Khan. Mr. Khan is Kareem Khan, Chief Prosecutor for the Court. Seen here meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shteya in Ramallah on Saturday, on a trip that also took Khan to Baeri and Kfar Azar on the Gaza border. And the central event, a meeting at their invitation with hostages families. Israel has long been suspicious of international organizations with decades of bitter experience of perceived bias. Broadly for that reason, Israel is not a state party to the emerging ICC. One cannot deliberately target civilian civilians or civilian objects.  Willful killing, hostage taking our great breaches of the Geneva Convention. Impeding relief supplies as provided by the Geneva Conventions may constitute a crime within the court's jurisdiction. The message coming from Kareem Khan is a careful one. He is under scrutiny from both sides. Given the magnitude, he cannot look away from October 7th or the propel Palestinian side says look away from the war. But the young court's reputation will be at stake. And over time, a suspicious Israel will need to decide whether or not to take the risk of trusting the ICC and cooperating with it. And still with us here is Gai Israel and Rafael Hiroshalmi. First an update about the hostages families and the government. We know now that the war cabinet will meet those hostage families tonight as to the demand of the hostages families. But a very interesting story that comes out of researchers in the state study from the Columbia and New York University finds that some traders in Wall Street knew about that Hamas attack before October 7th. This is quite incredible. They made a short trade on U.S. and Israeli stock exchange in anticipation of them going down. They had some prior knowledge about this attack, something that the Israeli public did not know. Obviously the Israeli security establishment was not prepared for. Those traders received what is believed to be information from Hamas using that short trade on the Israeli stocks. Quite an incredible story shows you how much planning and knowledge was there in certain circles about that onslaught in advance. Taita Hamas, so we're hearing some people may have been in the know about this massacre ahead of its taking place. Thank you very much, Rafael Hiroshalmi and Gai Israel. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates. I'm Sivan Raveev. Thank you for watching. There have been countless memorable moments broadcasting with I-24 News in the past six years but for me the one that stands out the most was the first time that I had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding in Tel Aviv and at that moment we were live on air in studio. I will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear the sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv. The control room is going to the shelter. With me in studio at the time were Michael Herzog, a former Brigadier General. Today the Israeli ambassador to the United States and Arson Ostrowski an international human rights lawyer and their responses were completely different. Michael Herzog was calm and composed and on the other hand Arson Ostrowski was trying to phone his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were okay. The camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above. There was an overhead shot of the three of us in the studio. You could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio and obviously we lost contact with our team on the ground, our reporters in Ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time. When rockets are coming towards a residential area they don't distinguish


Hi, I am Dr. Shankar from Smriti ENT Centre, Bangalore. In this surgical video, I am demonstrating single-handed endoscopic tympanoplasty and a subdental perforation with extra resolution of hand of Malleus with details of Midlian anatomy. Here you can see the freshening of the margins using a combination of curved tip and round knife and the circular knife. This is a tympanometal incision followed by a tympanometal flap. Elevation up to that annulus, the incision being given from 3 o'clock up to 5 o'clock. Now in this step, you can see entering into the midlian with elevation of the tympanometal flap, dissection of the card of tympanine nerve, identification, preservation and dissection. Now the annulus is being elevated. The handle of Malleus being skeletonized right from the notch of rivenus along the neck lateral process till the tip of the handle of Malleus. Elevation of tympanometal flap is completed. Up to the incision. This is prominent tympanose formus suture line. This is a tympanomastoid suture line. The notch of rivenus, the anterior bony annulus where the flap is already elevated with the station tube opening. You can see there. This is the bony annulus which launches the fibrosanus of the tympanic membrane. The edematous mucosa over the incidustipitial joint is being cleared. A bit of details of midlian anatomy. Round window membrane launched within the round window niche. Cromontary that is ponticulus. A ridge of bone going from the cromontary till the pyramid. It is very clearly seen in this case. The sinus tympani area. That is the sinus tympani area. Boundary inferiorly by subiculum and superiorly by the ponticulus. That is hypotiphanic cells. High type to show. And this is ocicular moment. Intact ocicles and mobile. Station tube opening. Now this is the hypotiphanic cells. Sometimes we can find high ocular valve and sometimes it may be dehiscent also. This is the Jacobson nerve which is a branch of glasopharyngeal nerve which supplies the mucosa of the midlian. Jacobson nerve is very clearly seen. This is a complete panoramic view of the endoscopic anatomy of the midlian. Now preparation for the grafting. Middle ear is filled with gel foam. Already harvested temporalis fascia being placed exteriorization of the handle of the lunges with double breasting. As you can see the graft of the fascia duct is covering nicely all the photons of the bony canal and covering the blood pressure. This is the double breasting of the temporalis fascia graft. Now the flap is being repositioned. This is the final picture where the graft is nicely sealed in the perforation. Gel foam being placed in the external auditory canal to keep the tympanomenon flap in position. This is the end of the search. Thank you for watching the video.