ake care of them properly. There are a lot of malfunctions, but we deal with that. There's no other option. It's clear to me that I will need to exchange some of the cows and rebuild the herds. Some cows died after not being milked for three days and one dairy farmer, Kibbutz Kisafim, was shut down after the female dairy farmer was murdered. Now in the midst of the war, the government has decided to prolong the dairy import, which will damage the dairy farm's income even more. To save the area's milk industry, Shmiel is pleading for government help. Now, except for the government, everyone is supporting us. The only ones who have not shown their support are the government. It's very frustrating. I want to say to them, remember us after this war ends. Help us recover this lifelong dream after the war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. Within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us, we don't want to do... 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So it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care and it's very important for people to be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct. This breaking news edition, I'm Betsy Eleventh coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today 21 of war here in Israel. The world consistently demands more proof and evidence from Israel to not only justify its self-defense but keep the Jewish state in line during its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In a recent briefing to international media outlet IDF Spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari says the Hamas terror group's main base of operations is under if you can believe this, Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip. To back that up let's take a look at this clip. It shows several underground complexes under the hospital which are used by the terror group leaders to direct attacks against Israel. There's also an entrance to the tunnels within one of the wards. Hamas's internal security also has a command center inside Shifa Hospital where it stores weapons. Here is more on this tactic from the IDF Spokesperson. Hamas is cynically using hospitals and as a shield for its underground terror complex. I want to explain. There is an underground metro tunnels in Gaza City, not just in Gaza City. Usually it's based next to next to unique sites or sensitive sites not just the hospital but other sites as mass etc etc. Unra places, hospital schools, etc etc. This is a philosophy of Hamas and Shifa is one of them. It is here in Shifa Hospital where Hamas operates some of its command and control cells. This is where the direct rocket attacks command Hamas forces, Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa Hospital and other hospitals in Gaza with network of terror tunnels. Hamas also has an entrance to those terror tunnels from inside the hospital wards meaning from different places of the hospital you can go into an underground tunnel that will provide you shelter. We'll show it now in a map. This is an illustration of Shifa Hospital and the underground facilities. I want to repeat. This is only an illustration. We will not share here the true material. We will not share here the true material that we have in our hands. This is only an illustration. Right now terrorists move freely in Shifa Hospital and other hospitals in Gaza. We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7th. Hamas uses Shifa Hospital as a shield for Hamas terror infrastructure. Hamas wages war from hospitals. By operating from these hospitals Hamas not only in dangers the lives of Israelis civilians but also exploit innocent Gaza civilians as human shield. Rocket sirens are blaring across the Gaza border towns at the moment. Meanwhile action is heating up on the Israeli-Israeli border. Tehran recently launched more anti-tank guided missiles on open fire with light arms at an Israeli military position near the border. Some of the latest developments do not even involve Jerusalem which is only adding to the growing concerns that the Israel Hamas conflict may spread in the Middle East. On Friday two U.S. fighter jets struck weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria in retaliation for attacks on American forces by Iranian-backed militia. They have been attacked at least 19 times in Iraq and in Syria by Iranian-backed forces in the past week. Let's cross now live to our correspondent Mary McAuliffe who is standing by for us in northern Israel. Mary reports coming out now by the R&DF saying that rockets that were fired from Lebanon toward Israel actually hit Syria. That's right Batia, so this is likely to be an area in the Golan Heights that was likely what we believe that some of these terror aspects were trying to hit communities but then going across the border into Syria. The IDF saying in a statement this is why no sirens were launched in the area. Nobody was forced to take shelter because they determined that one either wasn't going to launch an Israeli community, not even a community inside Israel's boundaries coming into the Syrian area. But of course this continues to be the strategy that we've seen from between Israel and Hezbollah. They continue to trade fires across this border that you can see just behind me throughout the day. We've seen a number of different fires. Israel attempted launches into Israeli communities as well as also at Israeli military infrastructure that's on the border and I'm going to step out of the way. Igor Bazlenko behind the camera can show you just a little bit. It's gone down a bit so I'm not sure you can even see the smoke. It's also a bit foggy today but just about an hour ago there were major plumes of smoke rising from that hillside over there. Just beyond that hillside of course is Lebanon. So we're standing very near the Israel Lebanon border and this is an area that has seen numerous fires over the past two weeks that will continue to trade these attacks. But Hezbollah says right now that their sources inside Hezbollah are saying that they're not trying to go to a full out war but what we're seeing here is a bit of a tit-for-tat operations Israel and Hezbollah continuing against each other. Amir, it seems like we have lost a little bit of connection there with you. Thank you so much for that update and we'll be crossing live to you for more updates a little bit later. Terror factions in the Gaza Strip also launched rockets at cities in both the south and center of Israel. In the southern coastal city of Ashkelon there was one reported rocket impact on a road which damage also caused to the balcony of an apartment in a high-rise building. In the center three people were wounded this afternoon including one moderately after a rocket hit an apartment in Tel Aviv. Footage from the scene showed extensive damage to the top floor of the building. Our correspondent Piers Stakobach was there earlier and filed this report. The rocket that was fired from Gaza into central Israel, the rocket that hit the building here right behind me at about 210 local time, a barrage of rockets was fired into central Israel here. Hitting that building in a residential neighborhood in East Tel Aviv injuring four people too lightly too moderately, the two moderately injured were transported to hospital and this is really a dramatic example for the fact that the Iron Dome rocket interception system does not have a 100% success rate. How important it is to adhere to the instructions of the home front command and enter a safe space once the sirens here go off as you can see. The cleaning is still in process so you can still see the firefighters here as the rocket impact sent the upper floor of this building on fire here. Luckily it did not spark onto other buildings that are here behind me. There is a very dense neighborhood here as well and four people were injured none of them seriously which is a consequence of people actually listening to the instructions of the home front command to a very dramatic example that also in the center of Israel, also in the center of Tel Aviv rockets can impact and how important it is for residents to stay safe to seek safe areas once the sirens here go off. That was not the only barrage that was fired to Tel Aviv today, only a few minutes after that barrage was fired, another one was fired to Tel Aviv here, that one building impacted after a building had already been impacted in the first week of the war in another neighborhood of Tel Aviv and this is really another stark reminder for the fact that it is dangerous in these situations and that safe spaces need to be seeked for when sirens go off here again, a residential building impacted here, spark fire was incited by the rocket impact here, four people are injured. This is Piyas Deklebach reporting for I-24 News from Tel Aviv. And with me here in studio is Reserve Captain Guy Poran, co-leader of the Air Force Pilots and our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Altman, good evening to you both gentlemen. Guy, there is a lot of concern for the fact that rockets are not only being targeted towards the center of the country, but actually impacting buildings and infrastructure and the reason that I say that is because over the last couple of days a lot of the international media has been putting out reports that their correspondence based in Israel, particularly in Tel Aviv seem to be getting back to somewhat we can attest that that's not quite true. No, no, it isn't and a lot of people are surprised by the fact that in spite of all the bombardment and all the pressure on Hamas, they managed to launch practically every day additional rockets. However the number of rockets and out of those, the number that actually hit and are not intercepted are relatively low. So the issue, I don't think that this is something that's going to impact the main concerns right now both as far as entry into Gaza and what's going on over there and the hostages as well as in the north. I mean people in the center like myself every day running to the shelter has normalized unfortunately especially when you don't see people actually getting killed here in the center. But I'm afraid we're going to have to leave with that for a while. And Owen, I want to speak to you a little bit about you. You started by mentioning the pressure that's being put and there is being pressure put at the moment on the fact that the U.S. has imposed new sanctions on eight individuals that have links to Hamas. How practical is it at this point to be putting sanctions on Hamas on Iran on increasing these kinds of things? Do they actually work in times of war? Can we use examples from Ukraine and Russia? This is cat and mouse game as sanctions always are, right? It's hard to imagine that putting sanctions on eight individuals is going to be a game-changer and taking on Hamas. I think Hamas is more threatened by other activities that are going on right now than these sanctions. But obviously having a robust sanctions regime is an important I think an important part of foreign policy and public policy. Certainly the Iran sanctions have made an impact. They've been unevenly enforced, particularly on issues of oil. These of course are separate issues from the immediate issues of the war but I hope and expect that the whole Iran sanctions regime I'm sure will be revisited in the months to come in Washington as Iran's involvement, whether direct or indirect, and everything that's going on here and all the threats that hover over us and hover over the entire region and hover over American troops become clear. As going back to the thing you and Guy were talking about, the sense of normalcy here, just to give viewers a sense, it is true that there is a very, very cautious return to normalcy in some senses. The education system in fits and starts starting to come back but still almost COVID era style debates about what to open and how a concern about rockets but frankly even more concern about potential terror attacks on educational institutions and big pushes for armed guards and weapons and organization of neighborhood patrol groups. It's an element of the war, Bacchia that has not gotten a lot of attention either in foreign media or Israeli media but when 400,000 Israelis are taking out weapons licenses that has long-term consequences for the feel of Israeli life and Israeli security. So there's that element and just in terms of the more granular level of normal life the mall this morning was packed almost as if it were a normal Friday but restaurants were largely closed at least an area where I live. So again there is a certain cautious return to normalcy at least for essential services like getting food for Shabbat for example but in terms of entertainment and culture and restaurants and all the rest there there's really no return to normalcy so the idea that everything is fine because Tel Aviv has a beach and there's nice weather and Israelis thankfully aren't being killed left and right at least in the center of the country unlike what happened on the Gaza border where 1,400 people were massacred it doesn't really tell the full story of course obviously to stipulate that it's better to be a civilian in Tel Aviv right now than it is civilian in Gaza but that doesn't mean that everything here is fully normal and that everything is calm. Absolutely and speaking of a place that evidently is not fully normal in the south of the country the IDF says that it hit around 250 Hamas Terran targets overnight in the same time frame the Israeli army sent tanks and troops into Gaza for a second limited incursion it marks the second night in a row that forces briefly entered the strip ahead of an expected full ground offensive. Let's go now live to our correspondent Pierre Closh and Lowe standing by for us in southern Israel. Pierre Sirens went off just a short while ago in the south how frequent have they been throughout the afternoon and the evening where you are? Well it started around two o'clock over Ashkelon and Ashdod to major city in the southern part of the country and then it moved like a bad wind to the northern edge of the Gaza Strip to Netiva Asara which is a community village really lying on the border fence between Gaza and Israel and was the site of a major massacre and then it moved to near its track a couple of minutes ago which is in the southern sector facing the Gaza Strip but there was a major rocket attack in Ashkelon about two hours ago three impacts one on the residential building according to the Israel police one on the construction site and one on a villa but no casualty only damage to the building and the construction site so that's the routine basically and you can maybe hear while I'm talking the pounding by the Israeli artillery of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip it's been incessant since we've been here about 3-4 hours ago an unrelented pounding of the Gaza Strip you know for hours and hours I would say Correspondent Pierre Clushen like giving us an update there in the south of Israel, thank you very much for that still with me here in studio reserve Captain Guy Poran and Owen Ultiman there was a recent poll that was cited today in the newspaper Mariv that said that almost half of Israelis that was about 49% if I'm not mistaken oppose an immediate ground incursion into the Gaza Strip we know that there's a fortune of different angles here and reasonings as to why there's been a delay but is this strategically smart to be holding off for the time being to get all the ducks in a row so to speak before going in it's a very tough question and I think it obviously in the war cabinet there are it's a very clear division between those people who think everybody thinks that trying to release the hostages is a major goal unlike the beginning when everybody was talking about just destroying Hamas and the hostages it has become a major role even the Prime Minister has announced that maybe before yesterday however there's still a division whether Israel's leverage in terms of even releasing the hostages we're better off now doing some kind of negotiation still and maybe trading them against petrol and other prisoners versus those people who are sure that only when Hamas with a ground invasion which is going to put more leverage on Hamas and more pressure only then we're going to be able to negotiate to better negotiate and I don't think that there is a very clear answer evidently even within the cabinet there is a division there we know about it now it's reported this division personally I think that exhausting all the options of trying to do the deals that apparently the Qataris are announcing that it's very imminent trying to do that before entering makes more sense because the difference between entering tomorrow morning and in a week after a possible release of some hostages I don't see how it makes a big military difference Owen we know the double standards and I dare say the hypocrisy of a lot of the international media when it comes to Israel and what's occurring now against Hamas in the Gaza Strip but something that was quite alarming was the fact that every time Hamas run health ministry including officials on the Palestinian side put out numbers it almost seems to be universally adopted and adopted by the United Nations with them even putting out a statement today to say they're not sure how much fuel petrol as you mentioned is actually there in reserves but they're going to go with the numbers that Hamas tells them I forget the United Nations in terms of international media I think the good news here is that Israel is actually winning the rightful war against the numbers from the Gaza health ministry more and more international news media outlets are casting doubt in those numbers as the numbers should have doubt cast upon them we heard President Biden himself come out and say he doesn't believe the numbers so I think it's becoming more and more universally understood that the numbers just don't have any meaning that the numbers are thrown out there that the numbers don't have much basis that the numbers can't be trusted and that I suspect the numbers to this very day Bacha include 500 people killed by an Israeli airstrike on a hospital there was no Israeli and there were no 500 people killed so obviously the numbers can't be trusted and I think international news media outlets again through fits and starts and having their teeth pulled to do so in some cases are more and more having to essentially label the numbers as not verified at the very least or having little credibility the end of the day I think media outlets have to report the number in some way because those are the only numbers of casualty figures coming out of Gaza by the way Jonathan Conricus one of the IDF spokespersons and before he was called up on reserves of course a frequent guest here in I-24 News said in one interview that the IDF is trying to use intelligence to get real death toll counts from Gaza and that would obviously be a great service to truth but look obviously the United Nations and United Nations humanitarian agencies there maybe the best argument in favor of them is they're trying to help innocent civilians the best way for them to function in Gaza is to work with Hamas done to their head and to follow Hamas's lead and they may feel that doing so under duress is the best way to actually serve innocent people in Gaza be that all as it may we don't have to trust what they say and guy speaking okay the numbers perhaps may not have meaning but surely visuals and audio should and Israel as we mentioned at the top of the broadcast has been called on to release a fortune of proof and evidence now a clip that went viral yesterday showed a senior Hamas official someone from the political bureau storming out of a BBC interview because the hosts press them about Israeli civilians being killed of which he said that was clearly not the intention and we also now see reports coming out that Hamas is rejecting the idea of assertion of command centers being hit under the hospital calling them baseless but there's proof I know I know and I agree with all and that actually when the situation is so clearly a lie it is it it acts against them because they lose credibility even on something that they might say in truth very important point right so it's actually they are shooting it was a huge fake you're absolutely right if you're going to fake the numbers don't fake them this badly and so with such an ability to prove you lie and the fact that they did it out of stupidity and out of hastfulness you know they wanted to immediately create an international vague against Israel was shooting themselves in the foot and from that point I agree it's a victory to Israel at the same time there are those channels overseas that their agenda is to reflect the Israeli side of hurting people over there and they would obviously emphasize those images but I think it's a major and the hospital story is a milestone in that sense because it was such an obvious lie that everybody afterwards after that event should say but why should we believe you now absolutely and I want to take off that point if I have a minute it's not only that it was a huge tactical mistake it was a very consequential tactical mistake because the death toll figures from Gaza is essentially the death star of Hamas propaganda like in the movie if you hit that you destroy all of it because people abroad are playing the basketball game right which side has more dead and whoever is more dead that's the side that I'm going to support but once you say that that number of more dead is a fake number it's much harder to keep score if you will in that gory basketball game and it really does a great service to the truth and to Israel's effort that plus what they have done here in the beginning of this situation where it's so clearly proved you know that we see these images and all the correspondence that could actually go and see those you know the bodies and the children while this guy on the BBC is claiming that they had clear instructions not to kill civilians I know this is so ridiculous so from that point of view I think we're winning Guy Perrain Owen Altman thank you both very much for breaking down a complex issue here in studio and moving on now UDDEM is the biggest volunteer organization in Israel more than 60,000 people are involved they're focused on helping out displace residents organizations and even military units take a look This small school in the central city of Petach Tikva has become the temporary headquarters of Yedidim the Hebrew word for friends and the biggest volunteer organization in Israel the organization is known mostly for helping cars stuck on the road but now does much more we are acting on three main levels the first level concerns the people's spirit we are organizing barbecues and military bases we are taking care of the families the second level is helping the public we fix security rooms we deliver food and supplies the third level is the front we understand what they lack and we supply them with everything they need I-24 News joined a team on their daily mission our first stop is in a makeshift military base near the southern city of Ufaqim a group of reserve soldiers are asking for ratchet straps look I don't try to find out why things are missing here but as someone who serves for two years in this unit I know that whenever I need something I can turn to Yedidim organization the second stop is in Bersheva where the team joins another group of volunteers on their way to fix the window of a security room one member of the Bersheva team tells us about his experience on October 7th starting from 5 p.m. Saturday we started to help the forces to collect the bodies from the party at Reim I was there until Monday morning in the organization's warehouse we see a variety of objects donated to soldiers and civilians from simple shirts to drones worth thousands of dollars this is perhaps another example of the rare spirit of giving helping and caring in the Israeli society today and joining me here in studio is Eva Levy a volunteer for Yadidim and a physiotherapist in France welcome firstly and secondly tell us a little bit about the organization and what it is exactly that you're doing to assist the soldiers hello so the organization was starting like at the beginning of the war today there is like one of the physiotherapists and the Facebook message saying that hey this is a real mess that's happening right now so maybe we can help in the military bases as a physiotherapist so who want to reach out and go help and so maybe 30 physiotherapists like had to respond and I respond from my house in Paris so I book flight and I came here to help that's pretty amazing you've been able to fly from your home in Paris to come and assist here in Israel and there's been a lot of emphasis placed on the mental the psychological factors of this war but still the physical is a very big variable in particular because the mind and the body are so closely connected definitely in the military bases all the soldiers get used to the pain and so they didn't like really connect to their bodies so when we arrive at first they're all saying that it's kind of cool everything is okay again deeply they are already in a lot of pain their backs are like a mess because they're handling a lot of weight and so we are trying to make them understand that you have to take care of your body if you want to be a better soldier and that's all part of our job are there others in the organization that also flew out from abroad to assist here or most of them local we all come from Israel I'm the only one who comes from Europe we are reaching out in a spot like Tel Aviv or something like this and we're going together in the military bases that's really just an unbelievable initiative I salute you for the job that you do it's not easy work and the fact that you came here from abroad in order to assist in the war effort is just amazing thank you so very much for joining us here on the broadcast and continue the fabulous work that you do and that brings us to the end of this broadcast but for anything you must make sure to check out our website at i24news.tv of course you can also tune in at the top of the hour for more updates from the north and the southern border as well as more in-depth analysis right here in studio stay with us at the top of the hour we'll be right back is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped because we don't know what to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity and in Israel Bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israelbonds.com and invest now custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of i24news good evening ladies and gentlemen this breaking news edition I'm about the 11th or coming July from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me this evening it's day 21 of war here in Israel consistently demands more proof and evidence from Israel to not only justify itself defense but keep the Jewish state in line during its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in a recent briefing to international media outlets idea of spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari says the Hamas terror groups main base of operations is under if you can believe this she for hospital the largest in the Gaza Strip to back that up take a look at this clip it shows several underground complexes under the hospital which are used by the terror group leaders to direct attacks against Israel there's also an entrance to the tunnels within one of the wards Hamas's internal security also has a command center inside she for hospital where it stores weapons here is more on this tactic from the idea of spokesperson Hamas is cynically using hospitals and as a shield for its underground terror complex I want to explain there is an underground metro tunnels in Gaza city not just in Gaza city usually it's based next to next to unique sites or sensitive sites not just the hospital but other sites as most etc etc. Unra places hospital schools etc etc. this is a philosophy of Hamas and Shifa is one of them it is here in Shifa hospital where Hamas operates some of its command and control cells this is where the direct rocket attacks command Hamas forces Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa hospital and other hospitals in Gaza with network of terror tunnels Hamas also has an entrance to those terror tunnels from inside the hospital wards meaning from different places of the hospital you can go into an underground tunnel that will provide you shelter we'll show it now in a map this is an illustration of Shifa hospital and the underground facilities I want to repeat this is only an illustration we will not share here the true material we will not share here the true material that we have in our hands this is only an illustration right now terrorists move freely in Shifa hospital and other hospitals in Gaza we have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7 Hamas uses Shifa hospital as a shield for Hamas terror infrastructure Hamas wages war from hospitals by operating from these hospitals Hamas not only in dangers the lives of Israelis civilians but also exploit innocent Gaza civilians as human shield rocket sirens are blaring across the Gaza border towns at the moment with meanwhile action is heating up on Israel's northern border Kazbalatogra recently launched more anti-tank guided missiles on open fire with light arms at an Israeli military position near the border some of the latest developments do not even involve Jerusalem which is only adding to the growing concerns that the Israel Hamas conflict may spread in the Middle East on Friday two US fighter jets struck weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria in retaliation for attacks on American forces by Iranian backed militia US and coalition troops have been attacked 18 times in Iraq and in Syria by Iranian backed forces in the past week let's cross now live to our correspondent Mary McAuliffe who is standing by for us in northern Israel Mary reports coming out now by the IDF saying that rockets that were fired from Lebanon toward Israel actually hit Syria that's right Batia so this is likely to be an area in the Golan Heights that was likely what we believe that some of these terror aspects were trying to hit inside northern Israeli across the border into Syria the IDF saying in a statement this is why no sirens were launched in the area nobody was forced to take shelter because they determined that one either wasn't going to launch an Israeli community not even a community inside Israel's boundaries coming into the Syrian area but of course it continues to be the strategy that we've seen from between Israel and Hezbollah they continue to trade fires across this border that you can see just behind me throughout the day we've seen Israeli communities as well as also at Israeli military infrastructure that's on the border and I'm going to step out of the way Igor Bazlenko behind the camera can show you just a little bit it's gone down a bit so I'm not sure you can even see the smoke it's also a bit foggy today but just about an hour ago there were major plumes of smoke rising from that hillside over there just beyond that hillside of course is Lebanon so we're standing very near the Israel Lebanon border and this is an area that has seen numerous fires over the past a lot of these attacks but Hezbollah says right now that their sources inside Hezbollah are saying that they're not trying to go to a full out war but what we're seeing here is a bit of a tit-for-tat operations Israel Hezbollah continuing against each other Mary it seems like we have lost a little bit of connection there with you thank you so much for that update and we'll be crossing live to you for more updates a little bit later terror factions in the Gaza Strip also launched a major barrage of attacks with the south and center of Israel in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon there was one reported rocket impact on a road which damage also caused to the balcony of an apartment in a high-rise building in the center three people were wounded this afternoon including one moderately after a rocket hit an apartment in Tel Aviv footage from the scene showed extensive damage to the top floor of the building a correspondent pierce was there early and files this behind me this is the rocket that was fired from Gaza into central Israel at the rocket that hit the building here right behind me at about two ten local time barrage of rockets was fired into central Israel here hitting that building in a residential neighborhood in Eastern Tel Aviv injuring four people too likely to moderately the two moderately injured were transported to hospital and this is really dramatic example for the fact that the iron dome rocket interception system does not have a hundred holes in it is to adhere to the instructions of the home front command and enter a safe space once the sirens here well as you can see the cleaning is still in process so you can still see the firefighters here as the rocket impact set the upper floor of this building on fire here it luckily did not spark onto other buildings that are here behind it is a very dense neighborhood here as well and four people were injured none of them seriously which is a consequence of people actually being able to get out of the construction of the home front command to a very dramatic example but also in the center of Israel also in the center of Tel Aviv rockets can impact and how important it is for residents to stay safe to seek safe areas once the sirens here will go off that was not the only barrage that was fired toward Tel Aviv today only a few minutes after that barrage was fired another one was fired to a Tel Aviv fear that one building impacted after it building here in Tel Aviv and this is really another stark reminder for the fact that it is dangerous in these situations and that safe spaces need to be seeked for when sirens will go off here again the residential building impacted here spark fire was incited by the rocket impact here four people are injured this is Piaz Tegrebach reporting for I-24 News from Tel Aviv and with me here in studio is reserve captain Gaya Poran co-leader pilot's protest and a former Air Force pilot himself and our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Altman good evening to you both gentlemen guy there is a lot of concern for the fact that rockets are not only being targeted towards the center of the country but actually impacting buildings and infrastructure and the reason that I say that is because over the last couple of days a lot of the international media has been putting out reports that their correspondence based in Israel in particular in Tel Aviv seem to be normal although we can attest that that's not quite true no no it isn't and you know a lot of people are surprised by the fact that in spite of all the bombardment and all the pressure on Hamas they managed to launch practically every day additional rockets however you know the number of rockets and out of those the number that actually heat and are not intercepted are relatively low so the I don't think that this is something that's going to impact the main concerns right now both as far as entry into Gaza and what's going on over there and the hostages as well as in the north I mean people in the center like myself every day running to the shelter has normalized unfortunately especially when you don't see people actually getting killed here in the center I'm afraid we're going to have to leave with that for a while and Owen I want to speak to you a little bit about you you started by mentioning the pressure that's being put and there is being pressure put at the moment on the fact that the U.S. has imposed new sanctions on eight individuals that have links to Hamas how practical is it at this point to be putting sanctions on Hamas on Iran on increasing these kinds of things do they actually work in times of war can we look at in mouse game as sanctions always are right it's hard to imagine that putting sanctions at eight individuals is going to be a game changer and taking on Hamas I think Hamas is more threatened by other activities that are going on right now than these sanctions but obviously having a robust sanctions regime is an important I think an important part of foreign policy and public policy certainly the Iran sanctions have made an impact they've been unevenly enforced particularly on issues of oil these of course are separate issues from the immediate hope and I expect that the whole Iran sanctions regime I'm sure will be revisited in the months to come in Washington as Iran's involvement whether director indirect and everything that's going on here and all the threats that hover over us and hover over the entire region and hover over American troops become clear as going back to the thing you and Guy were talking about the sense of normalcy here just to give viewers a sense it is true that there is a very very cautious return to normalcy in some senses the education system in fits and starts starting to come back but still almost COVID era style debates about what to open and how a concern about rockets but frankly even more concern about potential terror attacks on educational institutions and big pushes for armed guards and weapons and organization of neighborhood patrol groups it's an element of the war that has not gotten a lot of attention either in foreign media or Israeli media but when 400,000 Israelis are taking out weapons licenses that has long-term consequences for the feel of Israeli life and Israeli security so there's that element and just in terms of the more granular level of normal life the mall this morning was packed almost as if it were a normal Friday but restaurants were largely closed at least an area where I live so again there's a certain cautious return to normalcy at least for essential services like getting food for Shabbat for example but in terms of entertainment and culture and restaurants and all the rest there's really no return to normalcy so the idea that everything is fine because Tel Aviv has a beach and there's nice weather and Israelis thankfully aren't being killed left and right at least in the center of the country unlike what happened on the Gaza border where 1,400 people were massacred it doesn't really tell the full story of course obviously to stipulate that it's better to be a civilian in Tel Aviv than it is to be a civilian in Gaza but that doesn't mean that everything here is fully normal and that everything is calm absolutely and speaking of a place that evidently is not fully normal in the south of the country the idea says that it hit around 250 Hamas terror targets overnight in the same time frame the Israeli army sent tanks and troops into Gaza for a second limited incursion it marks the second night in a row that forces briefly entered the strip ahead of an expected full ground offensive let's go now live to our correspondent Pierre Closh and Lowe standing by for us in southern Israel Pierre Sirens went off just a short while ago in the south how frequent have they been throughout the afternoon and the evening where you are well it started around two o'clock over Ashkelon and Ashdod two major cities in the southern part of the country and then it moved like a bad wind to the northern edge of the Gaza Strip to Netiva Asara which is a community village really lying on the border fence between Gaza and Israel and was the site of the major massacre and then it moved to near its track a couple of minutes ago which is in the southern sector facing the Gaza Strip but there was a major rocket attack in Ashkelon about two hours ago three impacts one on the residential building according to the Israel police one on the construction site and one on a villa but no casualty only damage to the building and the construction site so that's the routine basically and you can maybe hear while I'm talking the pounding by the Israeli artillery of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip it's been incessant since we've been here about 3-4 hours ago an unrelentied pounding of the Gaza Strip for hours and hours I would say Correspondent Pierre Clashen like giving us an update there in the south of Israel thank you very much for that still with me here in studio reserve captain Guy Poran there was a recent poll today by the daily newspaper Mariv that said that almost half of Israelis that was about 49% if I'm not mistaken oppose an immediate ground incursion into the Gaza Strip we know that there's a fortune of different angles here and reasonings as to why there's been a delay but is this strategically smart to be holding off for the time being to get all the ducks in a row so to speak before going in it's a very tough question and I think it obviously even within the war cabinet there are it's a very clear division between those people who think everybody thinks that trying to release the hostages is a major goal unlike the beginning when everybody was talking about just destroying Hamas and the hostages it has become a major role even the prime ministers announced that maybe before yesterday however there's still a division whether Israel's leverage in terms of even releasing the hostages we're better off now doing some kind of negotiations still and maybe trading them against petrol and other prisoners versus those people who are sure that only when Hamas with a ground invasion which is going to put more leverage on Hamas and more pressure only then we're going to be able to negotiate to better negotiate and I don't think that there is a very clear answer evidently even within the cabinet there is a division that we know about it now it's reported that this division personally I think that exhausting all the options of trying to do the deals that apparently the Qataris are announcing that it's very imminent trying to do that before entering makes more sense because the difference between entering tomorrow morning and in a week after a possible release of some hostages I don't see how it makes a big military difference Owen we know the double standards and I dare say the hypocrisy of a lot of the international media when it comes to Israel and what's occurring now against Hamas in the Gaza Strip but something that was quite alarming was the fact that every time Hamas run health ministry including officials on the Palestinian side put out numbers it almost seems to be universally adopted and adopted by the United Nations with them even putting out a statement today to say they're not sure how much fuel or petrol as you mentioned is actually there in reserves but they're going to go with the numbers that Hamas tells them forget the United Nations in terms of international media I think the good news here is that Israel is actually winning the rightful war against the numbers from the Gaza health ministry more and more international news media outlets are casting doubt on those numbers as the numbers should have doubt cast upon them we heard President Biden himself come out and say he doesn't believe the numbers so I think it's becoming more and more universally understood that the numbers just don't have any meaning that the numbers are thrown out there that the numbers don't have much basis that the numbers can't be trusted and that I suspect the numbers to this very day bacha include 500 people killed by an Israeli airstrike on a hospital and there were no 500 people killed so obviously the numbers can't be trusted and I think international news media outlets again through fits and starts and having their teeth pulled to do so in some cases are more and more having to essentially label the numbers as not verified at the very least or having little credibility at the end of the day I think media outlets have to report the number in some way because those are the only numbers of casualty figures coming out of Gaza by the way Jonathan Conricus one of the IDF spokespersons and before he was called up on reserve of course a frequent guest here in I-24 News said in one interview that the IDF is trying to use intelligence to get real death toll counts from Gaza and that would obviously be a great service to truth but look obviously the United Nations and United Nations humanitarian agencies there maybe the best argument in favor of them is they're trying to help innocent civilians the best way for them to function in Gaza is to work with Hamas essentially with a gun to their head and to follow Hamas's lead and they may feel that doing so under duress is the best way to actually serve innocent people in Gaza be that all as it may we don't have to trust what they say and guy speaking okay the numbers perhaps may not have meaning but surely visuals and audio should and Israel as we mentioned at the top of the broadcast has been called on to release a fortune of proof and evidence now a clip that went viral yesterday showed a senior Hamas official someone from the political bureau storming out of a BBC interview because the hosts pressed them about Israeli civilians being killed of which he said that was clearly not the intention and we also now see reports coming out that Hamas is rejecting the IDF assertion of command centers being hit under the hospital calling them baseless but there's proof I know I know and I agree with all and that actually when the situation is so clearly a lie it is it acts against them because they lose credibility even on something that they might say in truth very important point right so it's actually they are shooting it was a huge mistake you're absolutely right if you're going to fake the numbers don't fake them this badly this badly and so with such an ability to prove you lie and the fact that they did it out of stupidity and out of hastfulness you know they wanted to immediately create an international vague against Israel was shooting themselves in the foot and from that point I agree it's a it's a victory to Israel at the same time there are those channels overseas that their agenda is to is to reflect the you know the Israeli side of hurting people over there and they would obviously emphasize those images but I think I think it's a major and the hospital story is a is a milestone in that sense because it was such an obvious slide that that everybody afterwards after that event should say but why should we believe you now absolutely and I want to take off that point if I have a minute it's not only that it was a huge tactic mistake was a very consequential tactical mistake because the death toll figures from Gaza is essentially the death star of Hamas propaganda like in the movie if you hit that you destroy all of it because people abroad are playing the basketball game right which side has more dead and whoever is more dead that's the side that I'm going to support but once you say that that number of more dead is a fake number it's much harder to keep score if you will in that gory basketball game and it really does a great service to the truth and to Israel's effort that plus what they have done here in the beginning of this situation where it's so clearly proved you know that we see these images and all the correspondence that could actually go and see those you know the bodies and the children while this guy on the BBC is claiming that they had clear instructions not to kill civilians I know this is so ridiculous so from that point of view I think we're winning Guy Perrain, Owen Altman thank you both very much for breaking down a complex issue here in studio and moving on now UDDEM is the biggest volunteer organization in Israel more than 60,000 people are involved they're focused on helping out displaced residents organizations and even military units take a look this small school in the central city of Petach Tikva has become the temporary headquarters of Yedidim the Hebrew word for friends and to the biggest volunteer organization in Israel the organization is known mostly for helping cars stuck on the road but now does much more we are acting on three main levels the first level concerns the people's spirit we are organizing barbecues and military bases we are taking care of the families we even do their laundry the second level is helping the public we fix security rooms we deliver food and supplies the third level is the front we understand what they lack and we supply them with everything they need I24 News joined a team on their daily mission our first stop is in a makeshift military base near the southern city of Ufaqim a group of reserve soldiers are asking for ratchet straps look, I don't try to find out why things are missing here but as someone who serves for two years I know that whenever I need something I can turn to Yedidim organization the second stop is in Bersheva where the team joins another group of volunteers on their way to fix the window of a security room one member of the Bersheva team tells us about his experience on October 7th starting from 5pm Saturday we started to help the forces to collect the bodies from the party at Reim I was there until Monday morning in the organization's warehouse we see a variety of objects donated to soldiers and civilians from simple shirts to drones worth thousands of dollars this is perhaps another example of the rare spirit of giving helping and caring in the Israeli society today and joining me here in studio is Eva Levy a volunteer for Yadidim and a physiotherapist in France welcome firstly and secondly tell us a little bit about the organization and what it is exactly that you're doing to assist the soldiers hello, so the organization was starting at the beginning of the war there is one of the physiotherapists saying that this is a real mess that's happening right now so maybe we can help in the military bases as a physiotherapist so who want to reach out and go help and so maybe 30 physiotherapists like had to respond and I respond from my house in Paris and so I book flight and I came here to help that's pretty amazing and as you mentioned you literally got on a flight from your home in Paris to come and assist here in Israel there's been a lot of emphasis placed on the mental the psychological factors of this war but still the physical is a very big variable in particular because the mind and the body are so closely connected definitely, in the military bases all the soldiers get used to the pain and so they didn't like really connect to their bodies so when we arrive at first they're all saying that it's kind of cool everything is okay and when we are getting deeply they are already in a lot of pain like their backs are like mess because they're handling a lot of weight and so we are trying to make them understand that you have to take care of your body if you want to be like a better soldier and that's all part of our job are there others in the organization that also flew out from abroad to assist here or most of them local we are often from Israel I'm the only one who comes from Europe and we are reaching out in a spot like Tel Aviv or something like this and we are going together in the military bases that's really just an unbelievable initiative I salute you for the job that you do it's not easy work and the fact that you came here from abroad in order to assist in the war effort is just amazing Eva Levy thank you so very much for joining us here on the broadcast continue the fabulous work that you do thank you and that brings us to the end of this broadcast but for anything you must make sure to check out our website at news.tv of course you can also tune in at the top of the hour for more updates from the north and the southern border as well as more in-depth analysis right here in studio stay with us at the top of the hour we'll be right back 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news there's no time those people almost truly held in captive in a terrible condition we need to bring them back it's our responsibility to bring them back safe the American Red Wolf is the most endangered wolf in the entire world and the American Red Wolf is the only wolf that is only native to the United States and in that regards they should be a national treasure so it is a privilege to be able to provide their medical care and it's very important for people to be aware of the species and want to understand them so that they can be protected in the wild and not go extinct to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of i24 news ladies and gentlemen I'm Nicole Zettick reporting in Tel Aviv since the outbreak of this war in Israel our journalists here at i24 news have been providing around the clock coverage giving a voice to all of those impacted by the October 7th massacre getting perspective on the whole left throughout Israeli society and the impact on the entire Middle East here's some of the best stories from our coverage since the war began unbelievable the casualties that we saw and then we thought that everything we saw everything but then it came to yesterday when we went into Kibbutz B'Airi and we saw the the rally what was done to the families to the children that was 33 years in this position and I was everything I saw everything I thought I saw everything but something like that I never saw you'll see Landau he's a commander of Zaka coming from the south Zaka now being the organization largely made up of volunteers so many heinous attacks in the past helping to preserve the dignity of bodies after these attacks so you'll see thanks for being with us right now look please if you can share with our viewers a lot of this is difficult a lot of this is fresh just being digested right now if you can share with our viewers around the world who care deeply what you've seen in these southern communities perhaps even if you can tell us some of the worst things that you've seen hi good afternoon the way how much we can tell that good afternoon in our from our side but as I said I'm 33 years in the force I saw everything all over the world if it's if it's 9-11 attack if it's a natural a natural disaster if it's if it's a terror attack I saw everything all over and we thought that we saw the limit when we got on the scene on Saturday and I'm a father of 10 children it was we had a it was Saturday and I had all my family with me but I left my house with no questions and came over here to the south to help to see what we can be to help and when I saw the disaster and in the beginning when we picked up people who were only shot or burned to death and people that were shot more than once and that to make sure that they're all they're for sure dead okay you know we saw that but when I came in two days ago to Kibbutz the Aries it's called and our first stop that we're talking about I have 50 people on my team that going house to house and house to house and searching for bodies and to see what we can be helpful and when we get into the house and we see a pregnant lady pregnant lady in the on the floor and we turn her around we turn around and the stomach is open wide open there's a baby connected an unborn baby connected to the cord with a dad with a knife and the mother shot in the head and you you're over there and you look and you think you use imagination to think what was first there's been a lot of controversy in the world denying these reports exaggerating the levels of the tragedy please speak to that yes when we go to the next house and we see in the living room to see two parents father and mother hand tied in the back and the other side against them the children two small children hand tied in the back and in each of them they were torched to see and the middle is a table with this terrorists sitting and eating while they were torching the kids they use imagination who saw what and you see missing parts on their bodies that's only for torch and by the end a gunshot wound how much how much could that be there were a great number of children taken out of these communities dead you'll see there's been a lot of controversy around reports of children babies as you're describing there's a lot of people out there trying to deny this saying we're exaggerating these reports of young children and babies killed in these communities you've seen this I saw yes I saw babies I saw children I saw a mother holding her baby holding her baby and only one one one bullet went through both of them together how much work is left to be done I saw 20 children together with their hand tied in the back and they were burned they're shot and burned and piled 20 children shot and burned in a pile you'll see and two piles right how much work is left to be done you'll see how many bodies have we begun to tally the toll for real or is it too overwhelming even at this point to know the extent my team in the four days we picked up I saw bodies that I never saw in my life 670 bodies you'll see you're still are you still calming these communities can you tell us already have at least all the dead been found I don't know we're still searching we know that they we know that was from yesterday that we found between the bodies of the terrorists we found a civilian that we taught from the beginning it was because they dressed the civilian and we don't know if that was before they were killed or after they were killed they dressed them up like a terrorist with a belt that we should think that it's a terrorist so disguising some of the dead Israelis as Hamas terrorists you'll see can you tell us can you tell us some of the communities you mentioned where the children were slaughtered which towns where were some of these worst atrocities and far and far as we reported earlier this week yes to a lot of controversy around the world our reports of the children and babies being slaughtered in places like Farazah and Berry Yossi Landau I can only thank you for having the strength to come on our show here to impart this information to the world and above and beyond all for participating and helping down there in the south please put a prayer for us and for our people for our soldiers that we should stay normal after this because there's no human being that could stay normal we all have families we want to go home to our children and raise them and raise them as a normal parent and after seeing this things it's going to be very hard Yossi Landau again from Zaka thank you for joining us keep up the good work here 9 days before this picture was taken Kai was in a safe place still in the womb in this picture he is lying without any protection on the window sill of the protected room the house on the right in this video is that of Uriel, Amy and little Kai when Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Nirim on October the 7th Amy's mother was with the family as well my mother grabbed Kai at the baby he started crying she just put a finger in his mouth so that he would be as quiet as possible Uriel and I together just held a handle of the door in a locked position as much as we could they just fought with us to try to open it and when they couldn't get in at all that's the stage they just decided to drag things behind the door and set it on fire the terrorists, unable to open the door of the protected room, set the whole house into light in an attempt to smoke out the occupants the protected room began to boil we just started seeing the orange of the flames and feeling the heat and all I remember is Uriel simply saying they are burning the house smoke thick and black it managed to get into the protected room we had some water we tried to dampen our clothes water on our faces on the baby's face so that he wouldn't hail as little smoke as possible 6 hours after the fire broke out the room is black whenever there is silence and no shooting they lay Kai on the window sill it was one of the hardest decisions we had to make and on the other hand if you leave him inside the room he will probably inhale a lethal amount of smoke and that can be horrible and on the other hand if I put him on the window sill the terrorists are still walking around we're still hearing explosions there is still a cold red and missiles falling the worst thoughts came up we look into each other's eyes they say, I love you when you hold him in your hands and he foams at the mouth and he cries and the whole room is black and everyone is in this situation for hours making difficult decisions and at that moment it looks like the right thing to do is to put him on the window sill to at least let him breathe from time to time Amy nurses Kai from time to time she reaches out and takes a picture until the rescue comes get out, help us out mom will help you out get out, get out, get out wait, my mother first that's the moment we cried all the emotions we tried to keep inside so we could function at that moment I was crying like I haven't cried since I was 6 let them just take the baby and save him first that they rescue us that they move us to a safe place that this nightmare will end now now the entire Kibbutz nearing community is staying in a hotel in Elat what's in this room right now is all the possessions we have because it's all burned over there is baby equipment it's all donations or gifts from friends all I wear are clothes that are donated the crib is a donation actually this room is our home Amy still has a bad cough Oriole has an eye injury and Kai he is perfectly fine the meaning of his name is knowing how to fall and get up his name means warrior it means victory it has a lot of meanings meanwhile he's greatly honoring his name a tour of this abandoned Kibbutz is like entering a war zone the epicenter of Apogrom just after the perpetrators disappeared that house belongs to Tamir from the Kibbutz emergency team I don't know what happened to it the ruins and paths are flanks by burnt houses look, they burned down a children's room here objects left behind by the looters are scattered around they tried to steal everything there was and in the parking lot there remains from dozens of cars that were set alight 400 people lived here a full and vibrant community everything is abandoned now each house with its own story those who were kidnapped those who were murdered and those who barely survived with all this blood here how did they survive he survived but he was injured he has a bandage on his hand but managed to hold the door and because of that his family survived her sister's family they were murdered all five of them this morning at the entrance to the Kibbutz we met Ron Bart who hasn't left since the Hamas rampage he is the one who's trying to gather people's belongings and also oversees the volunteers with the vans who came to evacuate the survivors we've got an opportunity to hand some of the equipment over to the residents we have lists of additional residents who are waiting for us to take the things out their homes we will take any van like this to the family the volunteers will pack, collect, register each box and that is what they are doing right now call me if I can organize some friends with vans to come and take out small equipment of the Kibbutz members what does it do to the soul to see such a thing I walked with shivers for several days it's something stronger than me every laptop you see take it there is not much left inside the homes the thieves who came in the second wave dismantled televisions from the walls took laptops and turned over the cabinets in search of jewellery and luxury items during those hours we accompanied Omri into the homes of his friends he talked about everything but did not say a word about the family tragedy are the parents okay? the parents were kidnapped yours? yes, the parents were kidnapped my father used to be a journalist and there are articles about him playing the piano my kidnapped parents are 83 and 85 years old this whole row of houses my parents were kidnapped this is Ofer and his two daughters kidnapped this is Yuval here can't remember his last name the two daughters and both parents kidnapped is it your parents? yes, this is my mother's cinematography she was upside down they couldn't move her and she was upside down everything is burned ashes ashes ashes my parents are among the founders of this kibbutz kitchen, living room, small room attic attic this is the piano there are a lot of videos of my father playing did you manage to understand exactly what happens? they were in the secure room but they had no chance to really hold the handle it's not a handle that locks and they were probably taken out they did a search they're in Gaza according to the phones that's all the information we have the abductees are what's important the houses will be fine if the parents don't come back then what's the house worth without those inside? right? 100 members of kibbutz near Oz were murdered or kidnapped to Gaza and every fourth resident was injured at the end of the day Om replaced the new organ in the corner of the piano and placed a chair in front of it in the hope that Oded, his father would come back to play here then he collected his things the entire life of a family went into one pink bag just before we left what had once been a living and active kibbutz Ron Bartz, he who refuses to move from here wanted to say one more thing sad to see it now but we will rebuild it and better the Israeli residents living next to the Gaza border have been forced to evacuate their homes in a hurry many were forced to leave their pets behind we're talking about cases where people themselves had to run with their babies under hands stories of them, you know jumping out of windows with their babies and they the stories that I hear are of people trying to call their dogs right or cats is even harder to come with them but the dogs are so afraid that they hide or they run away and they just had to run they were running for their lives so a lot of the dogs which are right there are another and cats there are another family member that was just left behind so that's why it was really important for us to just go and get you know, extract them as fast as possible Dr. Shira Yasve from the Dogs and Heroes organization realized the problem early on and is trying to rectify it Dogs and Heroes is a spontaneous grouping of a few volunteers friends from before the war started some of us are graphic designers, I'm a veterinary doctor there's people from all across the spectrum of professions and basically when the war broke we understood that animals would have to be animals' needs would have to be addressed in some way and that there's going to be a crisis also on the animal front so already like the same night of the 7th and October we started our gathering volunteers for the past two weeks thousands of Israelis from all over the country have come together to reunite families with their pets a war room in Beit Kama in the south of Israel was established and from there the teams leave for their assignments these volunteers are headed to another operation to extract dogs from the dangerous areas the areas that are still closed military zones under the control of the IDF don't try to run to a shelter just lie on the ground and put your hands on your head don't kneel same goes if we are driving quickly halt the cars get as far away as we can from the car and lie flat on the ground in Kerim Shalom or any other village when we look after animals if the dog runs off let us know so we can come with you don't get too far away from us we can be with the forces of the village they will direct us where to go I'm sure you all know us well but just please stay with us for those who are carrying weapons we are here to safeguard you please leave your gun in the holster except when we are under fire it doesn't faze these volunteers when the war broke out I was basically just at home and I didn't really do anything to help and I felt a little bad with myself that I can do something better than just sitting at home watching the news it can be a bit scary sometimes but it's for the dogs for the volunteers the satisfaction of reuniting pets with owners is worth the risk this dog owner came all the way from Elat where he and his family have been staying since the war broke out after his dog was found in one of the villages he tells the volunteers that his second dog is still inside not a minute goes by and another group of volunteers come back with the missing dog the unions are unbelievable they're unbelievable I think it's also a sliver of hope that if the dog came back then maybe the kidnap people would come back as well it shows the possibility of getting back someone that you thought you lost track of more rages between Israel and Hamas the worldwide sporting arena is becoming a battleground of its own famous athletes are taking a stance in the brutal massacre of Israeli civilians and the following attacks by Israel in the Gaza Strip Tunisian tennis star Anjabor took to Instagram posting a story stating what Palestinians have been going through during the last 75 years is indescribable and ending her post with the hashtag freepalestine this sparked a strong response by the Israel Tennis Association including a quote murderous terrorist organization she's not the only athlete in the line of fire Real Madrid legend Karim Benzema sparking flames with his post on X all our prayers for the inhabitants of Gaza who are once again victims of these unjust bombings which spare no women or children former Israeli goalkeeper Doudou Await responding to Benzema in five languages Hebrew, Arabic, French, Spanish and English calling Benzema a quote big son of a bee and while a war of words has broken out between athletes off the field some organizations are speaking out the NBA as a whole posting their solidarity for the people of Israel boxing champion Floyd Mayweather is even going beyond empty words on social media sending his private plane to Israel full of food, protective vests and critical supplies for Israeli soldiers to a source close to Mayweather a clear sign of solidarity with the Jewish people and as the war between Hamas and Israel escalates it will be telling to see which athletes use their platform for peace and which just add fuel to the social media fire 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news story to the world declared by Hamas that started on October 7 against Israel leaving more than 1400 murdered 2500 injured and serious 212 RNs and a country that in the middle of the chaos is composing its lines both in social media and in military eliminating the operational capacity and the Hamas terrorists in Gaza I would like to start reading the beginning of a long article published by Pilar Raola in the National Portal of Catalonia and says I start this article with a despair that paralyzes me although I have always felt comfortable in the territory of the word and I have never avoided a dialectic scream in the defense of my convictions these terrible days have left me without breath I have the impression that the madness wins the ground for the reason and that there are no lights that put so much darkness and that many of the people I know have had us opened in a moral void and in an intellectual poverty that they treat us as a very sick society has lost the sense of the limits of humanity and in the confusion the pure evil has made its way banalized by some justified by others even in some cases plagued very hard, isn't it, Nicole? very hard words today, speaking because we have as guests one of the most distinguished journalists from Israel, recognized in Europe in Latin America and also in the Arab countries I am talking about Enrique Simerman who has joined today in News 24 to analyze everything that is happening from the beginning of the war Thank you Enrique for being with us a pleasure, Nicole, a pleasure Carlos let's start with the following I tell you what we are going to talk about in this special edition Israel, Hamas, the National Palestinian Authority then we want to see how all this situation affects the region the United States, Europe the Arab countries we want to talk about the digital war the fake news and also the incident with President Petro who didn't want to let it happen and finally we have read an article that you have written about how to recommend and rethink a recalculation of this region That's why Enrique I would like you to start giving us a broad view of what has been before and after October 7 how have you played the role something very important the National Palestinian Authority Enrique The National Palestinian Authority is lost they lost the GPS they don't know where they have to throw for several reasons and the main thing is that for them Hamas is a rival a very strong rival that's why there are no elections in the Palestinian Authority for 17 years because they know that Hamas would probably win and as they are afraid of it they keep the Palestinian Authority without democracy but at the same time they keep fighting for the public opinion so they can't face Hamas I can tell you that last week days after the most atrocious and sadistic matanza I have seen since I am here and I have been covering this region for many years I was in Iraq I saw the Islamic State I have to say that what we saw here is really unprecedented and also planned for four years for Iran together with Hamas I called the Mujata the Palestinian Authority and I told them if you don't disarm Hamas it's irrelevant and they told me but if nothing happened if what happened is that there were some incidents and I told them about the violations and the kidnappings and the kidnappings and they asked me to send them movies and I sent them and the next day the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinian people the OLP represents the Palestinian people he said it in a conversation in Venezuela and he wrote it in a tweet and immediately deleted it and he left only the OLP representing the Palestinian people they have a problem and we have a problem like Israel in the measure in which we believed that we could have some kind of dialogue I would say indirect with Hamas allowing some money 20,000 workers a day who come in and eat hundreds of thousands of people all type of entry and exit of humanitarian aid today we understand that we can't understand that Hamas can never be on the other side of the border that Hamas is a neo-fascist That's why I want to ask you the attacks he has done with his defense Israel has died and Hamas' human shields are always there in Gaza and they claim the Palestinian national authority that those deaths are innocent those children do you believe in the eye by eye tooth by tooth? It's not a question of eye by eye it's a question of that if you decide that you can't have a neighbor like that because he does things that the civilized world doesn't know but it starts coming out now and I was in the Kibbutz and see it with your own eyes see the stories one by one house by house in fact I got a proof that they were drugged the Hamas terrorists they were drugged that was part of the preparation made in Iran but you see exactly the degree of sadism that doesn't have precedents in my opinion Second World War Well, I was in the south and Nicole was in the city of Esderot which is five kilometers from the border and she prepared this report with her vision in this hit city in the middle of the catastrophe of the police station in the city of Esderot taken for two days by the Hamas terrorists I saw a police station in Israel that was unbelievable before October 7 the smell of cloaca that emanates terrorism is felt between the water pools that were mixed with the groves of cement that dating from demolition the Israeli army arrived on October 8th an一些o force taken by the terrorists that were hit in the police station killing the few government authorities the only way to eliminate them is to demolish the station. I observe and I don't understand. The Israeli police, vulnerable by the enemy neighbor, a terrorist, who they believed were small. In Esderot, they lost more than 200 civilians Israelis. A week of rest. Shabbat. The streets are a ghost desert. The rain of bullets are marked in their daily lives. A car dealership reflects without blood the horror, where the painful is not the loss of material, but that those bullets eliminated innocent lives. Family cars with blood stains. Blood. Blood. The child's seat in the car.  We don't know. But suddenly, life sends us a message. A white truck, like peace, loaded with Israeli flags, appeared. At the top, someone placed in the light posts the flag with David's star, as a sign of identity. We recovered the city and I met the person in charge of placing them in Esderot. We see how this flag of Israel is being placed by an Arab-Israeli that is up there. Peace be upon you. All the way up there. Esderot will not do the same again, like all Israel, like all Jews of the 21st century, because now it has to be resilient. Sam Harris, an American philosopher, wrote, The truth is that we all live in Israel. The only thing is that some of us don't understand it. There is a small enemy. We continue in this special mission of New Years 24, in Spanish dedicated to Israel under attack, with a luxury guest, who is the journalist Enrique Zimmermann. Enrique, last week we had the visit of President of the United States, Biden, came the Prime Minister of Zunach, in Britain, the Chancellor Schultz of Germany. What is the importance of these visits in the region?  The importance is huge, because they, the leaders starting with Biden, understand that this is not a conflict between Israel and Hamas. This is something much wider. These are coalitions that are actually facing in the place that is the meeting point between the West and the free world and the Islamist jihadists. So there is a meeting point in which we, Israel, are in the first line. And I think that they begin to understand that they also have something to do with all this. And that is why Israel is receiving the international support that it is receiving, even from European countries, like Great Britain, like France, like Germany, like Italy. They have always had a more palestinian tendency. Much more, much more. But they understand here that Hamas is not Palestine. They understand here that Hamas is a much more serious phenomenon that has been fed by Iran in the last years. It was not like that in the first years of Hamas. But today Hamas is a totally Iranian organization. Absolutely financial. Now Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is in a difficult situation because they were very close, very close to normalization with Israel. And Iran knew it. And that is why they decided at this time as an attack. We have to understand that Hamas destroyed after Oslo when there was a real hope of peace in this region. When everything was positive, they began the attempted suicides and killed the peace process. Now they are doing the same two and a half decades later. They are doing exactly the same. They are 30 years later. They are trying to kill the possibility that Saudi Arabia and Israel reach a peace agreement and that the Abram agreements are expanded. I have a question. The achievement with Oslo agreements was almost total. They managed to paralyze it, which is a status quo where neither of the two parties was anywhere. But what happened in October was a change. I mean, it will not be the same again as it was before. Iran is going to get, somehow, to prevent a change where they suddenly find themselves in an isolated situation in front of the world that opposes their attitude. My hope is that Iran will not achieve it in the meantime. But Iran has achieved, through Hamas, are its arms to postpone the process. This process is postponed but I think it is not dead. On the contrary. I receive indications of the Gulf. I can even mention someone very prominent in the Gulf who calls me every two or three days and who told me a phrase.   Five this year. Five this year and you know very well. But there is something, it is a fairly broad topic. There is something important, Enrique, that one of the phenomena that we have seen is that manipulation and disinformation that exists on social platforms and that is a fundamental basis of the information currently. We are going to listen now and I want you to help me analyze it. Fredy Bernal. Fredy Bernal is the governor of the state of Tashina in Venezuela. We know the alliance that has Venezuela with Iran. Perhaps the strongest alliance of Iran in Latin America. And then, Carlos, we are going to show you some graphics that we are going to comment on the chaos and the opinions that have had respect for this whole situation. Let's see it. Bombarded. While we are here calm, taking a case in San Cristóbal, that town is being bombarded. And we must say to the free world that it is pronounced to the United Nations, to the OECA, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, to the International Penal Court, to us if they don't vote, to us if they don't take the courts. And what happens with the State of Israel? What happens with the State of Israel? The State of Israel, if it can kill and exterminate a people, it is indescribable in the middle of the 21st century. What do you think, Enrique, the opinions of this governor of the State of Tachira, of Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela? A caricature, as simple as that. But a premeditated caricature. I mean, it is an attempt to deceive the public opinion, presenting something that is just a small part of reality. It is true. There is civil suffering in Gaza. It is a fact. But who opened all this war? Who opened the doors of hell? Who started all this? We are talking about a group that forgets that it is homophobic, that rejects women, that does not allow women to have freedom and that also does not accept the existence of Israel. And in addition to everything, it sends 1500 drugged men to kill Jews with the only objective of killing and kidnapping Jews. Obviously, it cannot be defended in the free world, in the democratic world. I would have to worry about Israel, that alliance that Iran has with Venezuela, a oil country. Obviously. But not only with Venezuela, with all of Latin America. I have known for years that there is a presence of radical Islamic groups, among them a country that is Iran, which is the father of all of them, who are in these countries increasingly outraged, increasingly aghast. And that is a mistake to extract cancer cells from your own country. Yes, I want to add a brief comment about the attitude that President Petro has in Colombia. You manage international relations. We are seeing it. To threaten to cut relations with Israel. What is this due to? It is due to its own interests. It is due to a lot of propaganda. It is due to economic issues, I imagine. It is due to very deep stereotypes.  And here we are seeing people that have not only interests, but also all kinds of prejudices that have been accumulated. Let this lady come here. We will take her to the south, to the border of Gaza. I will teach her the Kibbutz I was in yesterday, in the Kibbutz near Oz. I will teach Carmela the house of Carmela, an 80-year-old woman who was visiting her granddaughter on Friday night. And suddenly she sees how she enters her house.  This happened in dozens of places. This is genocide and also premeditated. The other is a self-defense reaction. Speaking of genocide, I would like to comment on something that people have no idea. How did Gaza stay sandwiched between Egypt and Israel? And the story is that President Sadat met with Beggin, the Prime Minister of Israel, to agree on the disengagement of the forces at that time. Sadat said, look, I receive all the money, but I don't want Gaza. And do you know how many people lived in Gaza in 1978? Do you have an idea? Hundreds of thousands. Three hundred and eighty thousand of you. And how many live? More than two million. And I will tell you that the average of children is one of the highest in the world. There are seven children per family. So when everyone uses the word genocide, genocide is when your population disappears. Not when it increases, right? There is a very serious problem with the concepts. Israel is seen as a center of colonialism. As they were, I remember the leaders of Hamas telling me, I interviewed everyone. I interviewed the founder of Hamas 14 times, GK Ahmed Yasin, in his house. And they always talked about Israelis as the new crusaders. They will be here for a while and at the end they will finish them. We will not throw them away and defeat them here. And they think that Israel is like Algeria. It is like Afghanistan for the United States. They do not understand that reality is totally different. Here and we see what is happening in the Israeli society. If you ask me to summarize in a phrase that occurred here on October 7, this is an attempt of Iran that smelled weak inside the Israeli society, smelled blood because of the internal political debate around the judicial reform, the judicial revolution. They interpreted it as a weakness and decided to attack for two things. One, to finish Israel. Because they believed that this would make us all run to the Ben-Gurion airport and we would be afraid and we would not go from here. It is the word to terrorize and the second, to finish with the negotiating process that is taking us to the possible peace with Arab countries throughout this region and they failed. They failed and I am convinced that the issue of Saudi Arabia will be postponed but it is not dead for many months. What do you know about Israeli society? Is it resilient to all this situation? I think they have achieved the opposite effect. Today the Israelis who were very divided in the last ten months are more united than ever. I want to say something because you mentioned Algeria. I have read the books of Franz Fanon who was the ideologist of the Argentine Revolution and he achieved through this same type of action to throw the French out but the French had to go back to France. The Jews did not. We do not have to go anywhere and I do not think the Mediterranean can do anything. I would like to finish our meeting with a proposal you have written an article called It is required an international coalition and Arab in Gaza. We have six minutes so that you can explain what you are talking about. Because even if we do not want we have to think about the future. I spoke another day with the son of the leader of Hamas in Cisjordania Heke Hasan Yusef who has just been arrested again for Israel and his son is called Mosa Yusef and then he discovered that he was the green prince who had been a spy of Israel from Juhn and when I was going to his house he interviewed him he was already a spy of Israel and he told me he never hates the Israelis more than what he loves his own children what he said to Goldameru and that is what he says the son of the leader of Hamas in Cisjordania what I wrote here is something that is difficult to talk about at this time when everything is happening but I think it is vital that we do it Israel is the great expert in tactics but we fail sometimes in strategy we have to think in the day after we have to think where we are going where we are going to take everything let's say if it is legitimate and I think that today in the free world it is understood that Israel has the right to defend and to end with a terrorist group like never before careful with the civil population let's separate the two things but to end with Hamas the question is what happens the day after we are going to in 2005 I don't want my children to be occupying Gaza they are 2.5 million they are 2.5 million they are 2.5 million of Gaza and Egypt doesn't want them Jordan doesn't want them you can't send them to Lebanon they are not there and they are going to stay there do you remember that Beggin proposed to Sadat and Sadat rejected him that is no problem it is like a problem that no one wants to touch until now what did the president of Egypt close the border he doesn't want there is no the fear that deeply and it is a great enemy of Hamas also because they are Muslim brothers I would like you to take advantage of the cameras of this program in Spanish and that they are going to see it in any other language and if you had to talk to the National Palestinian Authority the Prime Minister the president who may be a successor to one of the Abah Hussein who may also be a successor what would you say with the experience you have that in a first term we will have to bring an international coalition on the one hand but also Arab we have to bring the Saudis who have the moral power and the economic power we have to bring the Egyptians who have political power and we have to bring the Emiratis who have a vision of the future and who tell me I'm going to tell you something that I never said that they are willing to do it and they are willing to coordinate it Abu Dhabi the Emiratis and two Kingdoms the Marroquí and the Jordan these countries have to come here and they have to prepare the land I don't think that Israel has to stay for a long time there we were in Lebanon for 18 years I don't want to repeat Lebanon 2 we have to never win clean the land deliver it to this coalition that will include the United States and the only real possibility of the future is that this coalition gathers the Palestinian Authority and brings it there who will be the Palestinian Authority is to see but without I listened very well to all the nations that you mentioned what it leaves out to those who finance now even if it is Qatar and in a way is to prevent the access of Iran that is that way a circle would close in which maybe we can think in a better future Iran has to be out of everything Iran is a terrorist state that is destabilizing the entire free world Israel is part of it and how will it be to separate Iran? there has to be an international coalition with all the countries that have to worry about the future Iran is not a threat for Israel Iran is a threat for the free world and for the Arab world Sunni that is threatened by them and when you say all the countries Europe Middle East Latin America also apart from the United States without a doubt I think that Latin America would have the obligation to be part of the reconstruction of Gaza and be part of the future of this region well really I thank you very much for your analysis I think in this way from our little corner we contribute so that people understand better what is happening and we share your vision that the future also has to think about it because today everyone is frustrated with what is happening at this moment with the pain of the victims of Israel with the missing that we have to mention and that from here we ask international organizations that speak of humanitarianism in the world that take care of that also thank you very much and we hope later maybe again to count on you to explain to the world this person Thank you Enrique for really a topic about which we are going to continue talking for sure those who want can follow us on Facebook on Twitter on the channel 34 hot they can answer our survey and we will continue talking about Israel under attack thank you for being with us officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we want to do we don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity to this breaking news edition I'm about to 11th coming July from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me this evening it is day 21 of war here in Israel rocket sirens have been in central cities as Israel is currently pounding Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip this evening and perhaps the biggest air strikes seen since the war began this is a recent report from Egypt claims that Israel has agreed to a 24-hour ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages there are thus far 229 confirmed hostages being held in the Gaza Strip CNN and UltraZera reporting that significant progress on this matter is being made in officials although again there is no official confirmation especially from the Israeli side who are not engaging directly in negotiations and with me here in studio to touch on this a little bit more is retired Brigadier General Zvika Chimovich a former Israeli air defense forces commander and our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman good evening to you both Israeli reports Owen are coming out now that indicate that hospitals are being prepared to receive some of those captives but the report that came out on the times of Israel's sister side the Hebrew version of it says that this was a general instruction and should not allude to the fact that there is an imminent release of hostages that makes sense that makes sense that have the hospitals be able to prepare obviously if many of these people be released all at once they may need their own set of treatment the hospital may need to get ready so I wouldn't read too much into that obviously there's conflicting reports exactly where the talks stand on the hostages again I think the central demand that Hamas seems to be making that surrounds a lot of these talks is Hamas is saying that it needs a ceasefire in order to just logistically be able to implement a hostage deal that it doesn't know where all of the people are some of them are held by other groups maybe private citizens in Gaza by the way but you can even imagine a private citizen extorting Hamas in that situation right in order to for Hamas to get the hostage and Hamas is saying gather everybody and find everybody and be able to implement it if we're in a world okay where Hamas genuinely wants to release the hostages and is acting in good faith if obviously a gigantic if but if we're in that world I think on its face that request actually makes a certain amount of sense right because the conditions Gaza really probably aren't there to be able to collect and deliver quote unquote the hostages of course the big question is are we in that world that we suspect that we aren't that Hamas would use a ceasefire for its own needs that it's bargaining it for it maybe it would release the hostages but it doesn't really need the ceasefire and to to release the hostages and it would simply use it as a chance to regroup so as usual in these situations there's a lot of fog there isn't a lot of certainty we know that Qatar is involved we know the Israeli government has come out and complimented Qatar for its involvement to Hamas but be that all as it may Qatar is obviously involved there seem to be talks of some kind exactly where they lead we'll have to see and of course the ultimate question how do you balance the imperative of getting the hostages out with the imperative of winning the war And Zika another topic obviously very high on the list of the major developments this evening apart from the Israeli side is the Palestinian side and there are reports coming out of Gaza that the IDF is striking by land air and sea possibly a turning point because at least the reports coming out across various different media channels is the fact that this is perhaps the biggest pounding of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip to date I don't know I don't have any specific information if this is really the biggest strike since the last three weeks when we started this this war the air force and the army they are striking every day and many times per day south west and the central part of Gaza I think that sooner or later we will see the ground maneuvers starting in Gaza and it might be a clue that we are very close to that decision point by the cabinet but I I don't really think that this is really the biggest it depends on when you count the the big or the small strike the number of the jets the number of the bombs I'm not sure I know for sure that in the last 21 days the air force the army the artillery they are striking 24-7 around the clock Oh and you spoke a little bit about the fact that Israeli officials were praising the Qatari officials given their complex relationship with Hamas and we know that there have been also some reports quote on quote that say that they will be re-looking at their ties with Hamas once this is done but something that's also quite interesting is that there's many Israelis that despite this still believe that are not enough is being done in terms of the strikes on the Gaza Strip and also in terms of getting the hostages home would the strikes tonight and would the reports coming out be them as they may if we had to take them at face value true would this be all of the governments at the moment Well the two parts of your question first the issue of Qatar and Hamas and then the issue of the Israeli public's sense of satisfaction with how the war is going As for Qatar and Hamas look at the end of the day Hamas is being hosted by Qatar in part because that's the way Israel in the United States I think had wanted it and what's the rationale that if Hamas is in Qatar Qatar can use its leverage to contain Hamas and the reason why the United States still has good relations with Qatar of course there's the big Air Force base there but also that this was seen as potentially something that would be helpful to Israel in the United States in their interest but then comes October 7th then comes and of course Qatar just wasn't able to deliver the goods they didn't restrain Hamas Hamas went out and murdered a thousand 400 people so then what's the value of Qatar hosting Hamas both for Israel in the United States and Israel and for that matter what's the value for Qatar if there simply can be essentially embarrassed in this way and that's I suspect the way behind closed doors that they feel and completely ashamed that they simply weren't able to do the most basic thing that they promised to do either spoken or unspoken which is to restrain Hamas so it's not surprising to see reports that there are talks of getting Hamas out of Qatar as for the Israeli public and satisfaction on the war people are very focused on this issue of the ground campaign of course we have an Air Force retired Brigadier General sitting next to me so he can speak to this my own sense as a non-military expert but speaking to the military experts in this studio and outside and as said to viewers in the past my own layman's sense is that the ground campaign is actually less important than people think it is and the air campaign is much more important because if the real objective is to destroy the tunnel network my understanding is that's done but through the air and so maybe that explains the intensified airstrikes tonight by the way the New York Times quoting an organization that tracks these things over the past 10 years says that this is the most intensive air campaign that their organization ever tracked maybe the most intensive one of the 21st century and that's before the intensified strikes tonight so if people think that nothing in Israel that not enough is being done because there's no ground campaign it seems to me to be not the right impression of the reality now the idea of Spokesperson Ria Admiral Daniel Hageri is said to be giving a presser this evening and around 8.15 local time and as soon as he starts to speak we will be bringing that to you live but the world continues to demand more proof and evidence from Israel and the IDF to not only justify its self-defense but to keep the Jewish state in check during its war against Hamas in the most recent briefing to international media that the idea of Spokesman Ria Admiral Daniel Hageri gave a video showing that the Hamas terror group's main base of operations is under if you can believe it Shifa Hospital the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip here's more from the IDF Spokesperson Hamas is cynically using hospitals and as a shield for its underground terror complex I want to explain there is an underground metro tunnels in Gaza City not just in Gaza City usually it's based next to next to unique sites or sensitive sites not just the hospital but other sites as masks etc etc UNRWA places hospital schools etc etc this is a philosophy of Hamas and Shifa is one of them this is an illustration of Shifa Hospital and the underground facilities I want to repeat this is only an illustration we will not share here the true material we will not share here the true material that we have in our hands this is only an illustration right now terrorists move freely in Shifa Hospital and other hospitals in Gaza we have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7 Hamas uses Shifa Hospital as a shield for Hamas terror infrastructure Hamas wages war from hospitals by operating from these hospitals Hamas not only in dangers the lives of Israelis civilians but also exploit innocent Gaza civilians as human shield because something that I picked up listening to that recent statement by the idea of spokesperson Daniel Hageri was the fact that he kept bringing up that this is simply a 3D illustration and not the real material and the way that we've been seeing words being spun at the moment and the need for proof and evidence immediately makes me think that this statement is already going to be spun internationally and by some that support the Palestinians and Hamas by saying well if this isn't the real images then it's fabricated and not true First of all we know about Shifa many years ago we saw it during pillow defense protective edge and some more campaigns in the last decade and so on so Shifa is not in new terror facilities basement terror facilities unfortunately it's it's emphasized the asymmetrical war between Israel and Hamas and the Jihad they are using civilian facilities like hospitals they are using UNRWA facilities they are using schools they are using masks as a headquarter as a bunkers as a weapon system sites etc we can see it very very clear we don't see only or don't need only a Shifa example to show the world look what the Hamas is doing today for some I would say intelligence needs and requirements I believe that they didn't share the real materials but we know for sure and I believe that once we will start the ground the maneuvers the rest of the world we'll see the network that the Hamas build in the last 10 or 15 years in Gaza and not only in Gaza city in Gaza area mostly in the north part of Gaza city but not only gentlemen stay with me I do want to go now to the south where our correspondent Pierre Clashendler is standing by for an update Pierre there's been sirens blaring in the last couple of hours between the southern communities and in central cities of Israel what's the latest on the ground there well there's been only a rocket fire in a locality in the southern sector of the security fence but you can hear the outgoing shells of the Israeli artillery that are pounding the Gaza Strip for about I would say five hours five hours at least until we've been here you can hear them very clearly and at the same time we hear the muffled noise of Israeli jet pounding as well the northern sector of the Gaza Strip and the central sector of the Gaza Strip there's been an intensification of the artillery and of the air force fire on the Gaza Strip something unprecedented say Palestinian reports but we can also say that as well because we never heard such an intensity of shelling and and bombing since the start of the war Hamas on Israel on October 7 now we've seen the rocket fire targeting the center of the country in which one foreign worker was moderately wounded by shrapnel in an agricultural farm on the outskirts of Rishon Lezion in the center of the country there were six rocket fires six launches that we clearly saw from here and the angle of the launching we could clearly see that it wasn't targeting us because if it would have targeted us it would have been almost horizontal and that was far far targeting tens of kilometers away was quite obvious now you can hear always you know five six seven ten shells a minute and that's the reality right now here on the southern front correspondent Pierre Clush and Lezion as you mentioned we can clearly hear that artillery shell in the background so I can only imagine how loud it is where you're standing appreciate very much that updates at this hour still with me here in studio retired Brigadier General Zvika and our Owen I know you're not the IDF but I also know that you have a stick clip and one of the big things about what we were talking about earlier about this hospital being hit is the fact that the international community keeps bringing up the fact that Israel should be accused of war crimes targeting hospitals it's not abiding by international law what can you show us or tell us that perhaps gives some kind of indicative proof that that's not necessarily the case well I don't know if I'm going to quite deliver deliver that Bacchia there's going to be a host of claims that perhaps in October 7th are clearly war crimes possibly crimes against humanity and there are real scholars who say that it's genocide as well so that seems to be a pretty closed case as for what Israel is doing in this trip there are obviously going to be a lot of claims that are already starting to be hashed out in the media and ultimately might be hashed out in legal forums specifically about the hospital I found this to be interesting from the perspective of international humanitarian law based on my background that I have in it because this presents it takes you back to law school and puts you in the mind of a law professor trying to think of a hypothetical for a final exam and you almost couldn't think of a hypothetical better than Hamas essentially putting its pentagon the ultimate military objective into the biggest hospital in a densely populated place of 2 million people the ultimate civilian object and having to balance between the two to explain what I mean let's actually dig a little bit and take a look at what the law is I'll try to put it into plain English first I'll put on screen there's actually a rule about hospitals right this is from the customary international humanitarian law database of the international community of the Red Cross which is an authority on these things you can see it on your screen basically what it says in plain English is hospitals are not supposed to be a target unless the other side makes them a potential target right by using the hospital as a military facility and again that is what the IDF laid out in that press conference a few hours ago the question is what Bacchia is what Hamas is doing so once the hospital is used for military purposes it could and I want to emphasize very very clearly the word could because it's subject to something else could become a target but then the question is Bacchia okay it might be a target but you have to worry about something else you have to worry about it not just being a target but having to balance the military value against the loss of civilian life so we'll put on the screen the rule on what's called proportionality this is one of the central rules in international world you've got to balance in plain English how important the military objective is how much of a loss of life and injury to civilian there is and this is the ultimate test because both are very very high and I want to continue with that in just a second but we are seeing a briefing now by the IDF spokesperson Admiral Daniel Haagari let's dip in rough translation not the exact words we exposed the use of the hospital in order used by Hamas a cynical use by Hamas we showed the world and what this is what we need to do we will continue to attack in Gaza and its environs in Gaza sitting around below Wadi Gaza there are safer conditions there was fire from Lebanese territory toward the Israeli community there are no injuries to our forces we are continuing to look for and to take on groups of terrorists from the beginning of the war the IDF has attacked many terrorist groups in Lebanon whoever tries to fire at us will pay for that with his life we are continuing security assessment we are continuing security assessment we are following we are following we found an error to threaten the Red Sea we asked Egypt and the United States to tighten the defense in the Red Sea we are taking on the defense and all of the arenas to take on the essential security interests of the State of Israel on the home front I call you to follow the instructions of the home front command they save lives continue to do that the enemy is firing rockets continue to go into safe spaces it saves lives in recent times we got a lot of approaches from citizens who are not getting updates from the home front command app we are trying to upgrade the app and telling the public the app is only one tool in addition to the actual sirens themselves use all of the tools up to now we have told families of 310 fallen soldiers and I believe it was 225 we will check families of 229 families of hostages we are committed to the task of the national task to bring home all of the hostages we are at the end of the third week of the war 100s of thousands of soldiers and security forces are on all of the borders of the State of Israel to see the land to protect, to defend the country questions I have this all the time and I can't repeat we have excellent defences the State of Israel in many different levels we can take on different threats it's shooting down in the south it's not in a hermetic defense so therefore the importance to listen to the instructions of the home front command in a sense it saves lives we will continue to shoot down as best as we can in a full sense it's not hermetic asking about the hospital she has a hospital in the activity under it reports about Israel a question about the reports of Israel accepting a ceasefire as for the she's of a hospital we have brought and will continue to bring information we will publish more more videos of investigation along with the security service and more and more information about the use of civilian facilities humanitarian facilities in this case she's of a hospital but not only she's of a hospital the cynical use of these by Hamas that uses its own population human shields to protect terror activity we're raising a red flag on this we cannot allow the terror activity against Israel in the hospital together with the world to deal with this red flag this is something the State of Israel cannot allow ask for your question about the issue of the rumors that are going up now about a deal I'll say this I'm in this case don't listen to rumors this is this is psychological terror a cynical use by Hamas to the citizens of the State of Israel we hold and will bring reliable information reliable intelligence information all the relevant information first of all to the families and then we'll update the public until then do not give into manipulations of psychological terror of Hamas last question talking about the rockets that fell including in Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv said that they're only going to allow education facilities open near safe rooms we are conducting a routine in the shadow of war and we need to do it with great responsibility and of course with coordination with the heads of local authorities Tel Aviv as with other places like Bersheva, Ashgilon this is a big city and even with the other authorities we will continue to use situational assessments we will try to do it we need to make sure there are safe spaces we are in good conditions that this is being done there is a there is deliberation there's a lot of authority along with the home front command and other authorities we'll try Shabbat Shalom that was Rea Admiral Daniel Hagari the idea of spokesperson giving a presser this evening I want to thank very much our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman for paraphrasing that presser and Zvika I'd like to ask you the main takeaway of this being that he mentioned that the IDF is going to be ramping up the scope of ground operations can you explain quite clearly what he means by that we spoke earlier about the waiting time for the ground operations and the air strike and all the other fronts that are part of this very complicated war I think that the government and the cabinet declare a very clear objective to the IDF the first priority of the objective is to defeat the Hamas military capabilities in Gaza Strip how much of it can be done via the air and I'll touch it in a while and the air campaign it's a massive I cannot compare it not to the protective edge not to the second Lebanon war not to any other wars in our history that's for sure but we spoke about the underground Gaza and if we want to achieve and defeat and destroy it all the Hamas military capabilities there is no other choice than take the decision it's a very tough decision and the our ground forces to Gaza the air campaign will not finish at that point they will continue to supply kind of aerial umbrella to the ground forces very close escorting very close support and we believe that once we will start the ground maneuvers the terrorists from the tunnel they will go out they will find the air they will find the ground forces the navy as well and this is the only way to complete the mission and to achieve the very complicated goal by the cabinet, by the government to defeat the Hamas there is no other way Can I ask a question? When do you think the air campaign without a ground invasion will have run its course is there a timetable for how long you can keep up a campaign like this before the diminishing marginal returns really in that graph so to speak has leveled off and you can't really make any progress there is no a timer there is no a point as we can say okay it's done and not we can see that in the last few days more than two and fifty hundred targets strike by the air force every day one day it was four hundred two hundred and fifty etc. Intelligence is working and supplying more and more targets and the air force is not like the Hamas striking only military and terror targets terror apartments, terror depots terror headquarters etc and tunnel as well the fact that and Agari mentioned that during his speech we are collecting a lot of information for the terrorists that we caught in October 7 we have more than two hundred and even more Hamas terrorists in our ends and this is a huge and important information and we need to translate it very fast to operations in Gaza this is the only way to close the circle and maximize the sources in our ends thank you both so very much for being here just to wrap up before we end this broadcast and you can tune in again at the top of the hour for more updates rocket sirens have been blaring throughout Israel's southern and central cities as Israel is currently pounding Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip this evening we'll have right more at the top of the hour when we come back in the meantime for anything you missed make sure to check out our website at i24news.tv very hard to see these kids innocent kids who are now in some tunnel in in Gaza who knows what's happened to them kids who saw their parents being shot and then were kidnapped into Gaza to this breaking news edition I'm about 11th all coming July from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me this evening it is day 21 of war here in Israel rocket sirens have been blaring throughout Israel's southern and central cities as Israel is currently pounding Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip this evening and perhaps the biggest airstrikes seen since the war began this is a recent report from Egypt claims that Israel has agreed to a 24 hour ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages they are thus far 229 confirmed hostages being held in the Gaza Strip CNN and UltraZera reporting that significant progress on this matter is being made with Qatari and other American officials although again there is no official confirmation especially from the Israeli side who are not engaging directly in negotiations and with me here in studio to touch on this a little bit more is retired Brigadier General Zvika Chaimovich a former Israeli air defense forces commander and our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman good evening to you both Israeli reports Owen are coming out now that indicate that hospitals are being prepared to receive some of those captives but the report that came out on the times of Israel's sister site the Hebrew version of it says that this was a general instruction and should not allude to the fact that there is an imminent release of hostages yeah and that makes sense so that the hospitals be able to prepare obviously if many of these people be released all at once they may need their own set of treatment the hospital may need to get ready for that obviously there is conflicting reports about exactly where the talks stand on the hostages again I think the central demand that Hamas seems to be making that surrounds a lot of these talks is Hamas is saying that it needs a ceasefire in order to just logistically be able to implement a hostage deal that it doesn't know where all of the people are some of them are held by other groups maybe private citizens in Gaza by the way you can even imagine a private citizen extorting Hamas in that situation in order to for Hamas to again get the hostage saying while we're under this kind of bombardment we simply can't gather everybody and find everybody and be able to implement it if we're in a world okay where Hamas genuinely wants to release the hostages and is acting in good faith if obviously a gigantic if but if we're in that world I think on its face that request actually makes a certain amount of sense right because the conditions Gaza really probably aren't there to be able to collect and deliver the hostages of course the big question is are we in that world we have every reason to suspect that we aren't that Hamas would use a ceasefire for its own needs that it's bargaining it for it maybe it would release the hostages but it doesn't really need the ceasefire into to release the hostages and it would simply use it as a chance to regroup so as usual in these situations there's a lot of fog there isn't a lot of certainty we know that Qatar is involved we know the Israeli government has come out and complimented Qatar for its involvement she was really hard for those officials to do it for the national security advisor to do it given Qatar's connections to Hamas but be that all as it may Qatar is obviously involved there seem to be talks of some kind exactly where they lead we'll have to see and of course the ultimate question how do you balance the imperative of getting the hostages out with the imperative of winning the war and speaker another topic obviously very high on the list of the major developments this evening apart from the Israeli side is the Palestinian side and there are reports of Gaza that the IDF is striking by land air and sea is this possibly a turning point because at least the reports coming out across various different media channels is the fact that this is perhaps the biggest pounding of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip to date I don't know I don't have any specific information if this is really the biggest strike since the last three weeks when we started this this war the air force and the army they are striking every day many times per day south west and the central part of Gaza I think that sooner or later we will see the ground maneuvers starting in Gaza and it might be a clue that we are very close to that decision point by the cabinet but I don't really think that this is really the biggest it depends on how you count the big or the small strike the number of the jets the number of the bombs I'm not sure I know for sure that in the last 21 days the air force, the army, the artillery they are striking 24 or 7 around the clock You spoke a little bit about the fact that Israeli officials were praising the Qatari officials in their complex relationship with Hamas and we know that there have been also some reports that say that Qatari officials and other countries that are close to Hamas will be re-looking at their ties with Hamas once this is done but something that's also quite interesting is that there's many Israelis that despite this still believe that not enough is being done in terms of the strikes on the Gaza Strip and also in terms of getting the hostages home would the strikes tonight be them as they may if we had to take them at face value true? Would this be appeasing some of the Israeli public that's quite vocally critical of the government at the moment? Well the two parts of your question first the issue of Qatari and Hamas and then the issue of the Israeli public's sense of satisfaction with how the war is going As for Qatari and Hamas look at the end of the day Bacchia Hamas is being hosted by Qatari that they think had wanted it and what's the rationale that if Hamas is in Qatari Qatari can use its leverage to contain Hamas to restrain Hamas I think that was kind of either the spoken promise or the unspoken promise and the reason why the United States still has good relations with Qatari of course there's the big Air Force base there but also that this was seen as potentially something that would be helpful to Israel and the United States in their interest but then comes October 7th the goods they didn't restrain Hamas Hamas went out and murdered 1,400 people okay so then what's the value of Qatari hosting Hamas both for Israel and the United States if Hamas is going to do this anyway they might as well just go to Tehran right so what's the value for the United States in Tehran for that matter what's the value for Qatari if there simply can be essentially embarrassed in this way and that's I suspect the way behind closed doors that they feel and completely ashamed that they simply weren't able to do the most basic thing that they promised to do either spoken or unspoken which is to restrain Hamas so it's not surprising to see reports that there are talks of getting Hamas out of Qatari as for the Israeli public and satisfaction on the war people are very focused on this issue of the ground campaign of course we have an Air Force retired Brigadier General sitting next to me so he can speak to this my own sense as a non-military expert but speaking to the military experts in this studio and outside and as said to viewers in the past my own layman sense is that the ground campaign is actually less important than people think it is and the air campaign is much more important because if the real objective is to destroy the tunnel network my understanding of course defer to to Tzvika my understanding is that's done but through the air and so maybe that explains the intensified airstrikes tonight by the way the New York Times quoting an organization that tracks these things over the past 10 years says that this is the most intensive air campaign that our organization ever tracked maybe the most intensive one of the 21st century and that's before the intensified strikes tonight so if people think that nothing in Israel that not enough is being done because there's no ground campaign it seems to me to be not the right impression of the reality. Now the idea of spokesperson Rea Admiral Daniel HaGarry is said to be giving a presser this evening and around 8 15 local time and as soon as he starts to speak we will be bringing that to you live but the world continues to demand more proof and evidence from Israel and the IDF to not only justify its self-defense but to keep the Jewish state in check during its war against Hamas. In the most recent briefing to international media that the idea of spokesman Rea Admiral Daniel HaGarry gave he played a video showing that the Hamas terror groups main base of operations is under if you can believe it Schiefer hospital the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip here's more from the IDF spokesperson Rea Admiral Daniel HaGarry Hamas is cynically using hospitals and as a shield for its underground terror complex I want to explain there is an underground metro tunnels in Gaza city not just in Gaza city usually it's based next to next to unique sites or sensitive sites not just the hospital but other sites as mosques etc etc Wunra places hospital schools etc etc this is a philosophy of Hamas and Schiefer is one of them this is an illustration of Schiefer hospital and the underground facilities I want to repeat this is only an illustration we will not share here the true material that we have in our hands this is only an illustration right now terrorists move freely in Schiefer hospital and other hospitals in Gaza we have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7th Hamas uses Schiefer hospital as a shield for Hamas terror infrastructure Hamas wages war from hospitals by operating from these hospitals Hamas not only in dangers the lives of Israelis civilians but also exploit innocent Gazan civilians as human shield it's because something that I picked up listening to to that rec