viewers around the world, I'm Albert Lewatin at the I-24 News headquarters in Tel Aviv. Here's an update on the war. It is day 38. The world seems focused on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the IDF released video showing troops dropping off 300 liters of fuel. But the IDF says the fuel was rejected by the CEO of the hospital. There's no word on what happened to the fuel, but it's suspected to be now in the hands of Hamas. The IDF and American intelligence say Hamas has built a command complex under the hospital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press says Israel isn't looking to occupy Gaza at all, but wants to maintain an envelope of security around Gaza so that Israel isn't attacked again. Two troops have been killed, two IDF troops have been killed. The Israel Defense Forces says two more soldiers fighting in the northern Gaza Strip that now brings the death toll on the ground operation to 44. The military names the slain troops as major is Ahad Natan, 28 years old from Kerryat Malachi, and Staff Sergeant Ita Shoham, 21 years old from Rosh A'een. Both were members of the commando brigade. Meanwhile, a soldier of the Oketz K9 unit was seriously wounded during fighting in Gaza yesterday. In a different area in the Middle East, the United States has had another airstrike against Iranian facilities in eastern Syria. There are reports that six Iranian proxy fighters are dead. Now those facilities have been used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups affiliated with them. And they're linked to dozens of attacks against American troops in neighboring Iraq that have been 46 attacks against American troops. At least 14 civilians were wounded, including one seriously when Hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile from Lebanon at civilians. This missile hit the northern town of Dovev on the border. Some of the civilians hit were electric company employees fixing lines. The idea says it struck Hezbollah's cell behind the attack. In another attack, seven soldiers were wounded by a mortar near the northern community of Minara. Some 15 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, including Akra on the coast and Kerryat Shmona in the upper Galilee. There were no reports of any injuries or damage. There is a report this morning that the security cabinet has approved regulations that would allow the government to close foreign broadcasters who's reporting harm's national security. That decision comes as communications minister Shlomo Kahave pushes for the Qatari Al Jazeera network and the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network in Israel to be closed. Some 180,000 packed the streets of Paris yesterday supporting Israel and calling for an end to the surge of anti-Semitism. It was a peaceful demonstration. There were no burning flags. There were no calling for the death of anyone. Attending the rally yesterday where Interior Minister Elizabeth Bourne, two former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande and the far-right French politician Marie Le Pen, notably not there, the head of the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon. We're now continuing our live team coverage of the war. We start first in the south. We go to Pia Sakhoubak, I-24 news correspondent. She's joining us live now from the southern section of Israel. What is the latest this morning as Israel wakes up? Good morning, Albert. Well, all eyes are on Schiffer Hospital and the conditions and the humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding there according to local reports. Now the World Health Organization said that the situation there is such that the hospital is running out of fuel and out of water and that the situation is dire and hilarious. Now we do know that the idea of course is considering the Schiffer Hospital as one of the main Hamas commander centers, that commander center that is expected to be located right underneath the hospital, which makes it of course one of the main targets in that military operation there in Gaza. But obviously the Israeli military has no interest in harming those more than a thousand civilians sheltering then also still being treated there. So you mentioned already yesterday that phone conversation being published by the Israeli military and also video footage of forces dropping off about 300 liters of fuel next to the hospital. Now the hospital director saying that such a phone conversation has not taken place, the phone conversation saying that Hamas was preventing the hospital from taking that fuel. The hospital director Mohammed Abou Salman saying that this 300 liters of fuel would only run the generators for a quarter hour there. Nevertheless the idea of is trying to provide a safe corridor still what is expected again to open up today to enable the safe passage of residents from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the south. Again this has been happening for several days in Arona and also safe passage for those who are able to make their way out of this hospital as Israeli forces are really circling or surrounding or surrounding this hospital there. Now in the meantime we of course do see that corridor that is expected to open again to open really this morning usually it opens up at 10 am this morning and then for several hours remains open as of course the especially the northern part of the Gaza Strip is the scene of heavy fighting that has also been going on throughout the night the idea of just issued a statement saying that especially Israeli forces have been operating the Shati refugee camp which is now located next to the sea of course localizing their weapons depots and also a command of structures there and also they have been raiding according to that statement the home of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member they're finding ammunition also in their children's room there. So the fighting really is focused on still the northern part of the Gaza Strip we do know that Israeli forces are also located in the heart of Gaza City engaging there in fierce battles you can also hear it from here the Israeli artillery now you could hear it again firing towards Gaza there the idea of also this morning announced that two more soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip raising the number up to 44 in these battles especially surrounding around those hospitals where Israeli forces expect to find underneath in the Hamas tunnel systems command structures I expect it to become more fears and continue throughout the day Piaz Takhabak continuing our live team coverage throughout the day here at i24 news thanks very much for joining us we'll check back with you later on today thanks again I'm now joined by major general Giara Island he's the former head of the Israeli national security council former head of the planning division of the Israeli defense forces thank you so much for joining us so it's day 38 of the war what is your assessment about where we are right now and how much has yet to get done well we are unfortunately in quite a severe situation if we look at what is happening in the Gaza Strip then yes we managed to to occupy the control most of the area of the northern part of Gaza where the city of Gaza is located the the chief hospitals and some other locations but even though we do not have a full control the main problem is the tunnels below the ground we can find the hundreds of exits to the tunnels but the tunnels themselves are still can be used by the Palestinians to move forces from one place to another they still have ammunition there weapons and other things so even this part of Gaza is still not under full Israeli control and at the very same time we did not even begin the operation in the southern part of Gaza we have to understand that all in all there are five brigade five Hamas and brigades in Gaza we are fighting against two in the north but the three others have not been touched yet and as long as this is the situation Hamas does not feel that they are under real pressure they don't have to change anything they don't have to break it certainly they do not have to surrender right so so if I may general is the idea then the idea then is to cut Gaza in half right you have the north very intense fighting the south not so intense fighting or should we then assess it as sort of that it has to be in the same level of intensity on both the north and the south uh what I'm saying is that the the goal of Hamas is simply to sustain they and their goal is not to kill more Israeli soldiers and not to cause even more damage to the Israeli real the only thing that they want is to continue to survive and to keep the 240 hostages in their hands and they believe that at some point Israel will have to stop the operation due to international pressure due to possible humanitarian crisis in Gaza or maybe to other consideration so at this point we cannot say that we are close to win that war in the south and in the very same time there is an escalation along our northern border and here again we face a lot of dilemmas whether or not to begin a large scale operation in the north it is not only going to be very difficult to fight on two fronts simultaneously but also the Americans and others don't want us to begin a war in Lebanon because of the regional consequences so Israel today is still not in a very pleasant situation and it is it is true that we are all impressed by the bravery and the professional level of our soldiers in the northern part of Gaza but the general picture is far from being general what let's talk about the northern front for just a second here's the situation where they've been some missile fires an anti-tank missile that that hits civilians at some point at some point they they may Hasballah may say you know what let's just go all in and forget what the American warning was forget what everyone else in the world was saying and just do it what's your assessment of that yes but the problem is that it is true that the the imminent threat to Israel is the location of the commander of Hezbollah so close to the Israeli border they do use the very precise anti-tank weapons that have an effective range of five kilometers some of them of eight kilometers they enjoy the topographic benefits and it is very hard to fight them there but if we begin a war against Hezbollah the only way the only way that we can lead Hezbollah to agree to some cessation of violence will be done by attacking of the city of Beirut I mean this is the only place that is sensitive to Nasrallah so in order to win the war in the north we will have to destroy Beirut it is not the just let's say empty announcements of our defense minister and others that say this is going to be the result of the war and as I said unfortunately neither the Americans nor the French nor anyone else wants to see the restation in Lebanon and especially in Beirut so we are in a very complex situation it is not only a simple equation of what are the right military actions that we should be taken but also the international complexity and for the time being as I said I believe that we are in a very severe situation I'm not desperate but it is important to give let's say a net assessment and a precise one and not to try to be let's say to be in the too positive feeling due to some tactical successes in the northern part of Gaza. General let's talk a little bit about the south one more time about Gaza now you can't turn on social media without a hundred thousand people commenting that oh they're attacking a hospital oh they're attacking civilians oh they're that they're how dare the Israelis do this at what point or does it at what point do the Israelis basically say does the IDF basically say we don't care what social media says we don't care what the international community says we got to do what we got to do. Generally speaking that's what we are doing I mean the forces that fight in the northern part of Gaza do it in a very aggressive way we have to understand that the Gaza became to be the most fortified area in the history of the wars there is nothing similar to that 500 kilometers of underground tunnels the most advanced Iranian technology about 25,000 combatants of Hamas who are committed to die and most of them die until the last person and of course a leadership that as far as their concern they can sacrifice all two million people of Gaza because as far as their concern there is a bigger picture and this is a destruction of the state of Israel so under these circumstances when we are speaking about the most populated area in the world it is impossible to fight effectively without the the results of thousands or maybe today about 14 or 15 thousands people who have been killed and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is going probably to increase and there's very little that Israel can do in order to change the situation and certainly to change the pictures so if you speak specifically about the Shifa hospital yes maybe there are some other considerations that I do not know about them but sooner or later we will have to take this area this is more or less the last post that Hamas holds in Gaza in the northern part of Gaza and it has been used as the as a post of command and control of the northern part of Gaza so sooner or later we will have to take it but we prefer to evacuate as many people as possible for this area and especially the the injured people or the patients of this hospital of course Hamas does not cooperate it is a very complicated situation general island I'm going to have you hold for just one second I want to now go to Mary McCullough she's I-24 news correspondent northern Israel I'll come back to you in one moment general the Mary thanks so much for joining us uh it's Monday morning in the north we we were just talking with general island about the northern part and how that possibly will flare up talk to us of what's happening right there now that's right Abba good morning so last night it was a fairly relatively quiet night we don't have any reports of Israeli strikes inside southern Lebanon after what was it quite a calamitous day yesterday the IDF for its part spokesperson saying yesterday that they had made an operational plan to change the security situation in the north saying for residents they had reached a point where it was no longer tolerable for them and they want to make sure that this is a safe place for them to return to when the day comes that's suggesting further IDF action inside southern Lebanon we have yet to see exactly what that action will be the only sounds we can hear here are the constant sounds of Israeli drones surveillance drones flying overhead and the occasional Israeli warplanes firing over southern Lebanon but no reports of actual strikes inside Lebanon we could just hear the activity inside the airspace great Mary McCullough let me ask you another question in terms of that the missile strike that occurred towards civilians are the areas on the border are they on heightened alert are they are keeping people further back away from the border so that those kind of attacks don't happen again absolutely on high alert here most of the communities within four kilometers they have all been evacuated most of the residents have fled for a long time now at least three weeks when they've been ordered to leave this area so most residents are no longer here just a small contingency remaining and of course a very heavy military presence throughout this border area great Mary McCullough joining us live from the border with Lebanon thanks so much for joining us let me go back now to General Island thanks again for joining us again and staying with us I just want to bring up a subject the Washington Post had an amazing article if you haven't read if our viewers haven't read it take a look take a look at it it it was an extensive detail as to the plot and the planning behind the October 7th massacres so General I wanted to ask you a question about it the amount of detail that they described that the planning the intricacies involved 1500 at least 1500 fighters knew about this and planned there's possibly there were some freelance journalists knew about this plan and the idea was to make a land bridge between Gaza and the West Bank that that is such a plan that I just can't understand how the the Israeli intelligence missed this I how they did the intelligence wasn't able to get any wind of this whatsoever what's your comment that's the problem I would say with a bit of a smile regarding the human nature of the human behavior whenever something that something that is going to happen and we don't believe that it might happen or we don't want to believe we find all the explanations the excuses are in order to explain ourselves that this is not true and when you adopt such a conception then the facts themselves are let's say become to be a secondary and so this is one problem the second problem is even more severe and again we will have to discuss it probably after the war the question is not whether or not you know about something and the question is even not whether you get some early warning about something the problem is that if you believe that the probability that something so terrible will happen is very low let's say 10 percent then you tend to be here according to the 90 percent that suggests that nothing will happen while the real rational way is to say well even if the probability is very low let's let's be well prepared or better prepared and we did not take the unnecessary or the elementary measures on that terrible Saturday in order to be prepared and of course if we could at that time can recruit or arrange let's say one percent or even less of the total capacity of the idea then the old picture could have been exactly the opposite we could kill 1000 Hamas fighters on the fence and no real damage to any Israeli and it could be done quite easily and this is a very very painful thought why we were so obsessed with the belief that it could not happen therefore we did not pay attention to something that is happening but generally it sounds as though what that may have been the case but what it sounds as though that the human intelligence the ability for us to have the ears within Gaza somehow failed that we weren't that no matter what we weren't able to get we didn't we the Israelis the whoever western powers that didn't have the right intelligence within Gaza to feedback information not just the Israelis yeah I totally agree it is a total failure of all the Israeli intelligence sources whether it is singing visiting or union and of course we suffered from problem manipulation caused by Hamas I mean they knew that we were listening to some of the communication so they sent false messages knowing that we get this kind of messages while the real information was kept very very secretly and until the last moment most of the charities who participated in that attack did not know that it was going to happen they thought that it was some kind of exercise or some other reason why they were called I'm talking not even just I'm not talking not about not about Mossad or Shabbat or any of that I'm talking about MI6 CIA CRS we're talking all the western powers didn't know about this yes but whenever we speak about human intelligence in this specific region then naturally the Israel I should have the best possible sources we never count on some others information and again it is a total failure of the Israeli intelligence that there could be no excuse for that it is well understood the head of the Shabbat the head of the military intelligence already said it explicitly it was our fault we are accountable but unfortunately does not help us today we have to be able to recover all the terrible damage that was caused on that day under said major general gear island former head of the Israeli national security council thank you so much for joining us again this morning thank you again I 24 news correspondent Uri Shapiro paid a visit to Yad Mordechai it's a kibbutz right on the Gaza Strip where on that horrible Saturdays October 7th Israeli forces managed to block Hamas terrorists let's take a look kibbutz Yad Mordechai bordering the Gaza Strip this beautiful place is mostly famous for its honey factory and its museum but on October 7 it became famous for another reason it was one of the communities attacked by Hamas terrorists they were planning to come in here the fully equipped RPGs and all the rest we have a small border police unit here which happened to be away because that morning the number of rockets that were falling was enormous together with the security team from the kibbutz who also wake for many reasons but one of them because a number of rockets that were falling and they got calls from their friends from the Moshev and from other kibbutz saying there's a terrorist attack so everybody was awake as the six came close the military the police the border police came down and there was a gunfight you can see all this was damaged by hand grenades there's a pole over there with our with the RPG hit this whole area there was a gunfight that went on for 20 something minutes the 12 terrorists were killed the story of Yad Mordechai goes back to 1943 a group of Jewish activists moved from another kibbutz in the north in 1948 doing Israel's independence war the kibbutz was attacked by Egyptian forces which invaded the new state the members of the kibbutz together with a small unit from the parmah took these trenches which were here these are the original trenches and the idea was that they had to stop the Egyptian army for several days until the new army the new IDF that was just being established was able to come down south with its forces prepare itself north of here in a junction called Ad Halom up until now which is just north of Ashkelon and then be ready and prepared for the Egyptian army to come to block them from entering into Israel the name Yad Mordechai honors Mordechai Nilevich the leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising the museum is also dedicated to this prominent event which shaped the history of the Jewish people on october 23 a rocket fell inside the museum damaging the exhibition room which models the bunker which was used by Nilevich and the Warsaw ghetto Jewish resistance group in 1943 the missile rocket penetrated the ceiling and came in right into here landed in here and that's why you see this hole here damaged um and we covered the entrance because of rain but beforehand light came in the home museum was flooded with water it hit the water system and nobody knew from the kibbutz members that the museum was hit because they were in a wartime and you know nobody was paying attention until several days went by and the water just flowed out of the museum so the museum was significantly damaged it was actually under the water um and that's why we're in dark right now no electricity no water ironically IDF troops who came to secure the kibbutz a few weeks ago were stationed inside the trenches used in the independence war creating a direct line between 1943 1948 and 2023 as the mass rains over 10 000 rockets down on israel's cities all across the country a violation of international law mind you it falls to the jewish state's legendary missile defense system to protect life and limb the iron dome it's known but now david sling is making a reputation and it's attracting some international buyers i24 news reporter aria lovin wallman has more israel's array of missile interceptors is world famous and each gaza conflict cements their reputation as a shield between civilians and enemy rockets that means other nations want it too as of today finland is buying the david sling medium range interceptor system finalizing the agreement with our partners in finland is an historic event and we are confident that they will also be able to benefit from the system combat proven capabilities the 340 million dollar contract between the finnish ministry of defense and israel for rafael advanced defense systems david sling was signed sunday the system has seen operational use by israel in the current gaza war shooting down hamas's longer range rockets david sling is a state of the art air defense solution that continues to prove itself on the battlefield we are proud to see protecting the israeli homefront the citizens and of course the idf and the maneuvering troops on the battlefield the fins want the system to counter the threat of russian ballistic missiles and for the spread out geography of finland the iron dome israel's better known but shorter range interceptor just cannot cover enough ground the deal will not deplete israel's operational stockpile deliveries will not begin until late 2020s hopefully posing 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around the world i'm albert louis and at the i-24 news headquarters in televieve here's an update on the war it is day 38 the world seems focused on al-shifa hospital in gaza the idf released video showing troops dropping off 300 liters of fuel but the idf says the fuel was rejected by the ceo of the hospital there's no word on what happened to the fuel but it's suspected to be now in the hands of hamas the idf and american intelligence say hamas has built a command complex under the hospital prime minister benjamin it's in yahoo in an interview on nbc's meet the press says israel isn't looking to occupy gaza at all but wants to maintain an envelope of security around gaza so that israel is an attack again two troops have been killed two idf troops have been killed the israel defense forces says two more soldiers fighting in the northern gaza strip that now brings the death toll on the ground operation to 44 the military names the slain troops says major is a hard not on 28 years old from karyat malachi is that sergeant ita shohan 21 years old from russia in both were members of the commander brigade meanwhile a soldier of the okets canine unit was seriously wounded during fighting in gaza yesterday in a different area in the middle east united states has had another airstrike against iranian facilities in eastern syria there are reports that six iranian proxy fighters are dead now those facilities have been used by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps and groups affiliated with them and they're used to and they're linked to dozens of attacks against american troops in neighboring iraq that have been 46 attacks against american troops at least 14 civilians were wounded including one seriously when hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile from lebanon at civilians this missile hit the northern town of dovev on the border some of the civilians hit were electric company employees fixing lines the idea says its truck has been a sell behind the attack in another attack seven soldiers were wounded by a mortar near the northern community of minara some 15 rockets were fired from lebanon into northern israel including akar on the coast and karyat shmona in the upper galilee there were no reports of any injuries or damage there is a report this morning that the security cabinet has approved regulations that would allow the government to close foreign broadcasters who's reporting harms national security that decision comes as communications minister shlomo kahe pushes for the katari al-jazeera network and the lebanese al-mayadine network in israel to be closed some 180 000 packed the streets of paris yesterday supporting israel and calling for an end to the surge of anti-semitism it was a peaceful demonstration there were no burning flags there were no calling for the death of anyone attending the rally yesterday where interior minister elizabeth born two former presidents nicolás sacrosi and françois alon and the far right french politician marie le pen notably not there the head of the far left jean-luke melanchon we're now continuing our live team coverage of the war we start first in the south we go to pia sacro baga 24 news correspondance she's joining us live now from the southern section of israel what is the latest this morning as zero wakes up good morning alberg well all eyes are on shifa hospital and the conditions then the humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding there according to local reports now the world's health organization said that the situation there is such that the hospital is running out of fuel and out of water and that the situation is dire and hilarious now we do know that the idea of course is considering the shifa hospital as one of the main hamas commander centers that commander center that is expected to be located right underneath the hospital which makes it of course one of the main targets in that military operation there in gaza but obviously the israeli military has no interest in humming those more than a thousand civilians sheltering then also still being treated there so you mentioned already yesterday that phone conversation being published by the israeli military and also video footage of forces dropping off about 300 liters of fuel next to the hospital now the hospital director saying that such a phone conversation has not taken place the phone conversation saying that hamas was preventing the hospital from taking that fuel the hospital director Muhammad abu salman saying that this 300 liters of fuel would only run the generators for a quarter hour there nevertheless the idea of is trying to provide a safe corridor still what is expected again to open up today to enable the safe passage of residents from the northern part of the gaza strip to the south again this has been happening for several days in arona and also safe passage for those who are able to make their way out of this hospital as israeli forces are really circling our surrounding our surrounding this hospital there now in the meantime we of course do see that corridor that is expected to open again to open really this morning usually it opens up at 10 am this morning and then for several hours remains open as of course the especially the northern part of the gaza strip is the scene of heavy fighting that has also been going on throughout the night the idea of just issued a statement saying that especially israeli forces have been operating the shati refugee camp which is now located next to the sea of course localizing their weapons depots and also a commando structures there and also they have been raiding according to that statement the home of a senior palestinian islamic jihad member they're finding ammunition also in a children's room there so the fighting really is focused on still the northern part of the gaza strip we do know that israeli forces are also located in the heart of gaza city engaging there in fierce battles you can also hear it from here the israeli artillery now you could hear it again firing towards gaza there the idea of also this morning announced that two more soldiers were killed in the gaza strip raising the number up to 44 in these battles especially surrounding around those hospitals where israeli forces expect to find underneath in the hamas tunnel systems command structures are expected to become more fierce and to continue throughout the day pierce talk about continuing our live team coverage throughout the day here at i-24 news thanks very much for joining us we'll check back with you later on today thanks again i'm now joined by major general giara island he's the former head of the israeli national security council former head of the planning division of the israeli defense forces thank you so much for joining us so it's day 38 of the war what is your assessment about where we are right now and how much has yet to get done well we are unfortunately in a quite a severe situation if we look at what is happening in the gaza strip and then yes we managed to to occupy the control most of the area of the northern part of gaza where the city of gaza is located the the chief hospitals in some other locations but even though we do not have a full control the main problem is the tunnels below the ground we can find the hundreds of exits to the tunnels but the tunnels themselves are still can be used by the Palestinians to move forces from one place to another they still have ammunition there weapons and other things so even this part of gaza is still not under full israeli control and at the very same time we did not even begin the operation in the southern part of gaza we have to understand that all in all there are five brigade five Hamas and brigades in gaza we are fighting against two in the north but the three others have not been touched yet and as long as this is the situation Hamas does not feel that they are under real pressure they don't have to change anything they don't have to break it certainly they do not have to surrender right so if i may general is the idea then the idea then is to cut gaza in half right you have the north very intense fighting the south not so intense fighting or should we then assess it as sort of that it has to be in the same level of intensity on both the north and the south what i'm saying is that the the goal of Hamas is simply to sustain they and the goal is not to kill more israeli soldiers enough to cause even more damage to the israeli live the only thing that they want is to continue to survive and to keep the 240 hostages in their hands and they believe that at some point israel will have to stop the operation due to international pressure due to possible humanitarian crisis in gaza or maybe to other consideration so at this point we cannot say that we are close to win that war in the south and in the very same time there is an escalation along our north and border and here again we face a lot of dilemmas whether or not to begin a large-scale operation in the north it is not only going to be very difficult to fight on two fronts simultaneously but also the americans and others don't want us to begin a war in lebanon because of the regional consequences so israel today is still not in a very pleasant situation and it is true that we are all impressed by the bravery and the professional level of our soldiers in the northern part of gaza but the general picture is far from being pleasant general what let's talk about the northern front for just a second here's the situation where they've been some missile fires an anti-tank missile that that hits civilians at some point at some point they they may Hasbulla may say you know what let's just go all in and forget what the american warning was forget what everyone else in the world was saying and just do it what's your assessment of that yes but the problem is that it is true that the imminent threat to israel is the location of the commander of his vala so close to the israeli border they do use the very precise anti-tank weapons that have an effective range of five kilometers some of them of eight kilometers they enjoy the topographic benefits and it is very hard to find them there but if we begin a war against his vala the only way the only way that we can lead his vala to agree to some cessation of violence will be done by attacking of the city of the world i mean this is the only place that is sensitive to nasaala so in order to win the war in the north we will have to destroy beirut it is not the just let's say empty announcements of our defense minister and others that say this is going to be the result of the war and as i said unfortunately neither the americans nor the french nor anyone else wants to see the restation in lebanon and especially in beirut so we are in a very complex situation it is not only a simple equation of what are the right military actions that we should be taken but also the international complexity and for the time being as i said i believe that we are in a very severe situation i'm not desperate but it is important to give a let's say net assessment and a precise one and not to try to be uh let's say uh to be in the too positive feeling due to uh some tactical successes in the northern part of berza general let's talk a little bit about the south one more time about gaza now you can't turn on social media without a hundred thousand people commenting that oh they're attacking a hospital oh they're attacking civilians oh they're that they're how dare the israelis do this at what point or does it at what point do the israelis basically say does the idf basically say we don't care what social media says we don't care what the international community says we got to do what we got to do generally speaking that's what we are doing i mean the forces that fight in the northern part of gaza do it in a very aggressive way we have to understand that the gaza became to be the most qualified area in the history of the wars there is nothing similar to that five hundred kilometers of underground tunnels the most advanced iranian technology about 25 000 uh common tense of kamas who are committed to die and most of them die until the last person and of course a leadership that as far as they are concerned they can sacrifice all two million people of gaza because as far as they are concerned there is a bigger picture and this is a destruction of the state of israel so under these circumstances when we are speaking about the most populated area in the world it is impossible to fight effectively without the the results of thousands or maybe today about 14 or 15 thousands people who have been killed and the humanitarian crisis in gaza is going probably to increase and then it's very little that israel can do in order to change the situation and certainly to change the pictures so if you speak specifically about the shifa hospital yes maybe there are some other consideration that i do not know about them but sooner or later we will have to take this area this is more or less the last post that kamas holds in gaza in the northern part of gaza and it has been used as the as a post of command and control of the northern part of gaza so sooner or later we will have to take it but we prefer to evacuate as many people as possible for this area and especially the uh the injured people or the patients of this hospital of course kamas does not cooperate it is a very complicated situation general island i'm going to have you hold for just one second i want to now go to mary mccollis she's i-24 news correspondent northern israel i'll come back to you in one moment general mary thanks so much for joining us uh it's monday morning in the north we we were just talking with general island about the northern part and how that possibly will flare up talk to us of what's happening right there now that's right abba good morning so last night it was a fair relatively quiet night we don't have any reports of israeli strikes inside southern lebanon after what was it quite a calamitous day yesterday the idea for its part spokesperson saying yesterday that they had made an operational plan to change the security situation in the north saying for residents they had reached a point where it was no longer tolerable for them and they want to make sure that this is a safe place for them to return to when the day comes that's suggesting further idf action inside southern lebanon we have yet to see exactly what that action will be the only sounds we can hear here are the constant sounds of israeli drones surveillance drones flying overhead and the occasional israeli war planes firing over side southern lebanon but no reports of actual strikes inside lebanon we could just hear the activity inside the airspace great mary mccall if let me ask you another question in terms of that the missile strike that occurred towards civilians uh are they are these areas on the border are they on high heightened alert are they are they uh keeping people further back away from the border so that those kind of attacks attacks don't happen again absolutely on high alert here most of the communities within four kilometers they have all been evacuated most of the residents have fled for a long time now at least three weeks when they've been ordered to leave this area so most residents are no longer here just a small contingency remaining and of course a very heavy military presence throughout this border area great mary mccall if joining us live from the border with lebanon thanks so much for joining so let me go back now to general island thanks again for joining us again and staying with us i just want to break up a subject the washington post had an amazing article if you haven't read it and if our viewers haven't read it take a look take a look at it it was an extensive detail as to the plot and the planning behind the october 7th massacres so general i wanted to ask you a question about it the amount of detail that they described that the planning the intricacies involved 1500 at least 1500 fighters knew about this and planned there's possibly there were some freelance journalists knew about this plan and the idea was to to make a land bridge between gaza and the west bank that that is such a plan that i just can't understand how the the israeli intelligence missed this i how they didn't the intelligence wasn't able to to get any wind of this whatsoever what's your comment that's the problem i would say uh with a bit of a smile regarding the human nature of the human behavior uh whenever something that something that is going to happen and we don't believe that it might happen or we don't want to believe we find all the explanations the excuses are in order to explain ourselves that this is not true and when you adopt such a conception then the facts themselves are let's say become to be a secondary and so this is one problem the second problem is even more severe and again we will have to discuss it probably after the war and the question is not whether or not you know about something and the question is even not whether you get some early warning about something the problem is that if you believe that the probability that something so terrible will happen is very low let's say 10 percent then you tend to be in according to the 90 percent that suggested nothing will happen while the real rational way is to say well even if the probability is very low let's let's be well prepared or better prepared and we did not take the necessary or the elementary measures on that terrible Saturday in order to be prepared and of course if we at that time can recruit or arrange let's say one percent or even less of the total capacity of the IDF then the old picture could have been exactly the opposite we could kill 1000 Hamas fighters on the fence and no real damage to any Israeli and it could be done quite easily and this is a very very painful thought why we were so obsessed with the belief that it could not happen therefore we did not pay attention to something that is happening but generally it sounds as though what that may have been the case but what it sounds as though that the human intelligence the ability for us to have the ears within Gaza somehow failed that we weren't that no matter what we weren't able to get we didn't we the Israelis the whomever Western powers didn't have the right intelligence within Gaza to feedback information not just the Israelis yeah I totally agree it is a total failure of all the Israeli intelligence sources whether it is singing visiting or union and of course we suffered from problem manipulation caused by Hamas I mean they knew that we were listening to some of the communication so they sent false messages knowing that we get this kind of messages while the real information was kept very very secretly and until the last moment most of the terrorists who participated in that attack did not know that it was going to happen they thought that it was some kind of exercise or some other reason why they were called yeah I'm talking not even just I'm not talking not about not about Mossad or Shabbat or any I'm talking about MI6 CIA CRS we're talking all the Western powers didn't know about this yes but whenever we speak about human intelligence in this specific region then naturally the Israel should have the best possible sources we never count on some others information and again it is a total failure of the Israeli intelligence and there could be no excuse for that it is well understood the head of the Shabbat the head of the military intelligence already said it explicitly it was our fault we are accountable but unfortunately does not help us today we have to be able to recover all the terrible damage that was caused on that day understood Major General Giara Ayala former head of the Israeli National Security Council thank you so much for joining us again this morning thank you again I'm 24 news correspondent Uri Shapiro paid a visit to Yad Mordechai it's a kibbutz right on the Gaza Strip where on that horrible Saturdays October 7th Israeli forces managed to block Hamas terrorists let's take a look kibbutz Yad Mordechai bordering the Gaza Strip this beautiful place is mostly famous for its honey factory and its museum but on October 7 it became famous for another reason it was one of the communities attacked by Hamas terrorists they were planning to come in here the fully equipped rpgs and all the rest we have a small border police unit here which happened to be away because that morning the number of rockets that were falling was enormous together with the security team from the kibbutz who also wake for many reasons but one of them because a number of rockets that were falling and they got calls from their friends from the mushaab and tiva sarah and from other kibbutz team saying there's a terrorist attack so everybody was awake as these six came close the military the police the border police came down and there was a gunfight you can see all this was damaged by hand grenades there's a pole over there with our with the rpg hit this whole area there was a gunfight that went on for 20 something minutes the 12 terrorists were killed the story of Yad Mordechai goes back to 1943 a group of Jewish activists moved from another kibbutz in the north in 1948 during Israel's independence war the kibbutz was attacked by egyptian forces which invaded the new state the members of the kibbutz together with a small unit from the palmach took these trenches which were here these are the original trenches and the idea was that they had to stop the egyptian army for several days until the new army the new idea that was just being established was able to come down south with its forces prepare itself north of here in a junction called ad halom up until now which is just north of ashkolon and then be ready and prepared for the egyptian army to come to block them from entering into israel the name yad mordechai honors mordechai nilevich the leader of the worsa ghetto uprising the museum is also dedicated to this prominent event which shaped the history of the jewish people on october 23 a rocket fell inside the museum damaging the exhibition room which models the bunker which was used by nilevich and the worsa ghetto jewish resistance group in 1943 the missile rocket penetrated the ceiling and came in right into here landed in here and that's why you see this whole year damaged um and we covered the entrance because of rain but beforehand light came in the home museum was flooded with water it hit the water system and nobody knew from the kibbutz members that the museum was hit because they were we were in a war time and you know nobody was paying attention until several days went by and the water just flowed out of the museum so the museum was significantly damaged was actually under the water um and that's why we're in dark right now no electricity no water ironically idf troops who came to secure the kibbutz a few weeks ago were stationed inside the trenches used in the independence war creating a direct line between 1943 1948 and 2023 now samas rains over 10 000 rockets down on israel's cities all across the country a violation of international law mind you it falls to the jewish state's legendary missile defense system to protect life and limb the iron dome it's known but now david sling is making a reputation and it's attracting some international buyers i24 news reporter ariel lovin wallman has more israel's array of missile interceptors is world famous and each gaza conflict cements their reputation as a shield between civilians and enemy rockets that means other nations want it too as of today finland is buying the david sling medium-range interceptor system finalizing the agreement with our partners in finland is an historic event and we are confident that they will also be able to benefit from the system combat proven capabilities the 340 million dollar contract between the finnish ministry of defense and israel for a rafael advanced defense systems david sling was signed sunday the system has seen operational use by israel in the current gaza war shooting down hamas's longer range rockets david sling is a state-of-the-art air defense solution that continues to prove itself on the battlefield we are proud to see protecting the israeli homefront the citizens and of course the idf and the maneuvering troops on the battlefield the fins want the system to counter the threat of russian ballistic missiles and for the spread out geography of finland the iron dome israel's better known but shorter range interceptor just cannot cover enough ground the deal will not deplete israel's operational stockpile deliveries will not begin until late 2020s hopefully posing no risk to israel's air defense during the current gaza war as anyone will tell you it's always when something like this happens when war happens that you get innovation and technology comes from there you can stay with i-24 news throughout the day for the latest on the war here on tv streaming and i-24 news dot tv i'm albert louis in reporting from televieve there's more news after the break there are phrases that you know from where they come recargas punto altis punto com punto b o seleccionar recargas y digita el número al que deseas colocarle la recarga además ellos reciben el doble de balance en recargas de 8 dólares o más altis la red global de los dominicanos is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well come to our viewers around the world i'm albert louis and at the i-24 news headquarters in televieve here's an update on the war against him as day 38 the world seems focused on al shifa hospital in gaza the idf release video showing troops dropping off 300 liters of fuel but the idf says the fuel was rejected by the ceo of the hospital there's no word on what happened to the fuel but it's suspected to be now in the hands of hamas the idf and american intelligence say hamas has built a command complex under that hospital prime minister benjamin netanyahu in an interview with nbcs meet the press says israel isn't looking to occupy gaza at all but wants to maintain an envelope of security around gaza said israel isn't attacked again to idf troops have been killed the israel defense forces say two more soldiers have been killed fighting in the northern gaza strip now that brings a death toll in the ground operation against him as to 44 the military names the slain troops as major is a hanatan 28 from karyat malachi and staff sergeant itai shohan 21 years old from rosh hain both were members of the command of brigade meanwhile a soldier of the okets canine unit was seriously wounded during the fighting yesterday in a different area in the middle east the united states has struck iranian facilities in eastern syria there are reports that six iranian proxy fighters are dead those facilities have been used by islamic and revolutionary guard corps from iran and from groups affiliated with them and they're used and are linked to dozens of attacks against american troops in neighboring iraq there have been 46 attacks against american troops by these groups at least 14 civilians were wounded including one seriously when hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile from lebanon at civilians this missile hit the northern town of dovev on the border now some of the civilians were electric company employees fixing lines the idea says it struck the hezbollah cell that was behind this attack and then yet another attack seven soldiers were wounded by a mortar near a northern community town of minara now let's go they've been at just a few moments ago there were some sirens that blared in northern part of israel especially around the around the northern border communities in haria let's go first now to mary mccall she's the i-24 news correspondent in northern israel mary give us an update as to what's happening where you are that's right albert so we've been hearing the sounds of artillery for the past hour in this area also lebanese reports coming from inside southern lebanon talking about ongoing israeli shelling of a certain area near nukura this is an area very near the border really right on the border near the rosh hanikra area but sirens ringing out also in goren which is close to our location this is a location about two and a half miles from the border so it's unclear at this point if those sirens were caused by rockets or by mortars in the area we know over the past few weeks mortars have been routinely setting off these sirens in many of these border communities which are supposed to be evacuated up until now but as you mentioned there was quite a chaotic day on the border yesterday with at least 20 injured in different anti-tank missile attacks seven israeli soldiers were injured in one attack near minara and then another at least 14 civilians were injured in an attack in mount dovev one of those remains in serious condition at the hospital as of this morning so mary the position we're up in the north if most of the people have been pulled back they're hitting what exactly what's being hit up there so what we see most commonly is them hitting these hezbollah hitting these observation posts belonging to the israeli military these are these towers that are lying really all along the border area in certain different increments they've routinely hit these observation posts they've also published a number of different footage numerous times showing them hitting these observation posts claiming that they're taking out idf surveillance and equipment and other technological assets belonging to the israeli military used to survey inside southern lebanon we don't have any actual ports of damage from the idf from any of these strikes up until this point but we know these anti-tank missiles they have a range of up to five kilometers but maximum efficacy of up to three and a half kilometers this is why the order was issued two weeks ago to evacuate everybody who lives within four kilometers of this border area and all of those who were hit yesterday were within this range very near the border and unfortunately of course were hit by those anti-tank missiles the idf has been responding very harshly to these strikes overnight there were a number of different strikes inside southern lebanon but throughout the late night we haven't heard much activity just from this artillery shelling of israel now we're not exactly sure what they're trying to hit we don't yet have confirmation from the israeli military that's just what we can hear in our area great mary final question and in terms of the area up in the north now you say that they've been evacuated you've driven around that area is it purely desolate or are there are military operations occurring around where you just drive through the area especially in that four kilometer zone it is extremely difficult to travel there are roadblocks that are set by the army if you manage even get by a roadblock where there isn't one in place if you're anywhere standing in this area most likely the israeli military itself will come and tell you to move so absolutely things are on high alert here it's a much more high alert area than it is down in the south and travel around these areas are very heavily restricted exactly because of these continuing anti-tank missile attacks these are harder to shoot down and harder to really adapt to rather than rockets that are coming from the north which the iron dome can intercept these anti-tank missiles can also move very fast so if you are in this area you don't have a lot of time to seek shelter if you hear it coming towards you this is why the military is trying extremely hard to keep all residents away from this area there's an estimate 70 000 residents who've been evacuated from this area and tried to move to safer parts of the country and the military and the israeli government itself continues to warn citizens to follow the restrictions to listen to these measures that are put in place because there is a very good reason why they're put in place and yesterday was it a perfect demonstration of why exactly people should remain away from these areas and take shelter great mary mccullough live at the top of the at the top of the country the northern border with lebanon thanks so much for joining us right now this morning thanks again mary i'm joining now in studio by amir oran he's a defense and government commentator first thank you very much for joining us thank you one question let's talk about the shefa hospital it's it's the focus of you can't turn on social media without the left saying around the world oh it's the hospital it's being it's being attacked it's being attacked there are there's a quarter that's being established by the idf for civilians to lead talk to us about why that is necessary is it because of the social media pressure or is it just that's what we do the corridor or the entire humanitarian project by the idf is intended both in order to make the operations easier more convenient to to take on i'll explain it in a minute and in order for world the media and public opinion to see that israel does not want the population to be heard now the logic of the hamas entrenchment in gaza is to disperse and get away from view in a dense urban setting preferably underground when israel tries to break this logic apart it wants to depopulate the area for for the time being for the duration and avoid going down into the tunnels in order to do that it must have the high ground or at least above ground including around shefa now shefa itself is it a large facility i mean it's it's a lot well if you see the ihilov hospital in tel Aviv or similar facilities it's the largest such facility in gaza it was the most sophisticated relatively speaking but under the hospital there used to be there they are probably no longer there they used to be a command bunker not held by jacquard or mohammed ef the very top leaders very good they are hiding somewhere and right and whoever was there on october the seventh is no longer there has been away for for a month now nevertheless if israel wants to dismantle hamas and get a hold of its communications nodes and documents it behooves it to go down and find but it is not worth its while and this is why for the last week or so tanks have been stopped a kilometer away from shefa then a few hundred yards there is no gain for israel in being photographed with tanks rolling into shefa right so the so it's really what you're saying is that it's a not necessarily military asset to take over shefa no longer when when the war started it was a military asset but now the costs outweigh the benefits so let's talk about a little bit about this humanitarian quarter this is now the idea is to just cut kaza in half you have the people coming from the north to the south do we is there any indication that is possible that hamas fighters are mingling in co-mingling among the people who are coming to the south yes there is such a possibility but nevertheless the old world war two notion of carpet bombing is no longer valid and if you had been a guest a fly on the wall in one of the Israeli command centers you would have seen the map of gaza where if you have 75 percent or more of the population still there it's colored red and it's a no flight zone and no hit zone only when there are a minority of less than 25 percent of residents still there is the IDF allowed to to hit targets great i'm here stand by one second i want to now continue our live team coverage pia sakha back i-24 news correspondent is in southern israel right now pia behind you it seems quiet for now but you still hear some booms from what i'm told indeed albert well throughout the past hour we have been hearing both heavy machine gunfire from the gaza strip but also israeli are thoroughly going out here firing towards the gaza strip indicating that that heavy fighting on the ground is continuing especially in the northern part of the gaza strip from here we're looking into the neighborhoods of betlahia and bet hanun again in the northern part of the strip but we do know that also fighting is centering around the shifa hospital in the gaza city very much the core of the gaza strip that the largest hospital that is located in the gaza strip that it has really become the focus of israeli forces as the idea of expects a hamas command center to be located underneath that hospital now the idea of knows is very well aware of the fact that there are still hundreds of patients and also hundreds of evacuees that are sheltering in that hospital many of them believing that hospitals are structures that are safe from israeli attacks there but as the hamas command centers of course are one of the main targets in israel's war in gaza these spaces have become very much unsafe and also israel is continuously calling upon those people those who are able to to leave the hospital as you could hear is here another boom of the israeli artillery outgoing to what's gaza here israel is continuously calling upon people who are able to evacuate to do so to leave the hospital and also use that humanitarian corridor that has been facilitated for a few days in arona we expected to open today again making sure that people can pass relatively safely from the northern part of the gaza strip to the south there but we know that an unknown number of people decides to still remain in the northern part of the gaza strip for several different reasons people are old are sick are injured and cannot just simply make their way to the southern part of the strip in the same situation is also it comes is true for the hospital we're speaking about an unknown number of injured we're also speaking about this is what reports from gaza suggest an unknown number of dead bodies which is still located inside of the hospital now the israeli military said that yesterday they tried to facilitate the hospital with 300 liters of fuel also publishing a phone conversation suggesting that hamas prevented that facilitation coming from israel with that fuel now the hospital director of asifa said that it was indeed no such negotiations took place and that also 300 liters would suffice suffice for about a quarter hour of generator there so you do see that especially when we speak about those hospitals according to the world health organization more than half of them are not functioning anymore the humanitarian situation is becoming more and more a dire as the battles engage especially in the surrounding areas of those hospitals again israel is clarifying again and again that it expects hamas commander centers to be located specifically in its tunnel systems underneath hospitals and other civil institutions such as schools and also apartment blocks there great piaz sakhaba in the south but the border with gaza thanks so much we'll check in with you throughout the morning thanks again let me come back to amir oran and studio just let me ask you two questions about the two other areas two other theaters that we're looking at the first in the north with hezbollah in lebanon nasrallah on friday fiery speech we haven't really didn't hear that much different than before but they have these missile attacks that are small fire across the border it seems as though they're not they're not heeding the warning to stay out of this what nasrallah is conducting in the north is a war of attrition you don't see movement across borders as you have seen on both sides since october the seventh in the south now for some reason french president macron and others who call for a ceasefire in gaza are silent about the north why why wouldn't they call on the lebanese government to tell nasrallah to cease and desist this war of attrition obviously they think that they are powerless to do so but in principle they should have now nasrallah doesn't want full-scale war he knows that israel is prepared for it and will give him a devastating blow perhaps even personally by the way this is not um um the same for uh yakhya sinwar in gaza because for the time being even if israel knew precisely where he was and could hit him it is awaiting his response regarding the hostage release right deal so he has no leverage there's no leverage from nasrallah right so he has been inspired right and for nasrallah uh he's he's uh uh conducting a sort of brinkmanship but he may fall over the brink now let me go one more step now towards syria the united states striking the these targets these weapons depot uh is it sort of like a a slap on the hands of the iranians by the americans or is there something else in play here well no american has been killed by these attacks there was one contractor uh who died of cardiac arrest a few weeks ago but all of these attacks were not really uh that dangerous people had uh uh traumatic brain injuries and the like but no one was severely wounded nevertheless because they were um too many 46 times and the united states wanted to show uh that it is serious uh and that under its deterrent posture there is a brute force it struck the abu kamal and i maya dean um but i make sure that it's not just someone taking away your lunch money for just uh yes but but this is how you gradually uh blow by blow uh have the conversation with your enemy and by the way the five american soldiers special operators who died when their helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean uh saturday uh were the first casualties in the american involvement in the israel hamas war they did not participate in the war but they were stationed in cyprus in order to take part in a possible evacuation from either israel or lebanon or a hostage release operation we'll talk about the hostage release operation just a moment and thanks so much i mean hold on one second because what i want to do now i want to go to our next guest uh it's actually a really important story mohammed awash he's a political analyst and strategic director for the for the uh the the uh for a really important give out a remat institute thanks so much for joining us mohammed thank you give out to have eva sorry i forget my pronunciation i have to first of all i know that you lost a cousin in the nova attack and from all of us here we offer our condolences um thank you very much your cousin was a was a paramedic at the scene tell us a little bit about why you want how do you want to honor him well actually i want to honor him for the last day one minute that he stayed there he refused to be evacuated and he thought that he could still give some help for the first wounded people that he started treating at the station he was placed at the supernova party and when the first rockets started to fall he started attending to the window to attending to the wounded and but soon bullets started coming closer and there was an order to evacuate the head of the team asked to evacuate he refused he said that he speaks arabic and because of that he thinks he's going to manage and he thought that his arab identity would help him maybe negotiate some sense with that attackers that didn't really go too well and he died holding his bandages in his hands bandages that he would have used to maybe stop the bleeding of one of the wounded people in the party this shows you the kind of brutality we're talking about here this is i mean here's someone who was trying to help people and they didn't care well unfortunately this is this is the war i mean for us we're not you know we're not looking at the big picture we're looking at the specific picture of our than the instead of describing the the scene we want to describe his actions he died as a humane person he died in the middle of brutality he died as someone that was selfless in the middle of maybe a selfish selfish and maybe indifferent he his indifference was that he was indifferent to the identity of the people that he was treating he was treating the casualties the first casualties with a lot of compassion with a lot of care with the with the responsibility of a human being that wanted to stay human being to the last minute and his arab identity didn't really help him despite the fact that he thought it could have helped him in this kind of attack well again our condolences to you and your family Muhammad i want to talk to you a little bit about the give out haveiva institute here it is a coexistence organization it helps both sides try to get to common ground uh do you think that you have an extraordinary challenge now after october the seventh i mean how do you build trust again after all of this well first of all trust is being built as we speak right now because there's a lot of effort still working to try to keep calm among jewish and arab citizens in israel and thank god we're successful i'm in talks almost every day with 20 30 mayors and heads of schools and principles of schools and business people to contribute to keeping calm and prevent escalation i'm also in talk with the many people that might be able to influence the jewish population uh first of all to make sure that the police does not cross the line and the police unfortunately in the cases has crossed the line of making arrests that are not supposed to be arrests people that might have expressed anger or frustration on social media and suddenly they find themselves arrested something that is even closer to witch hunting and closer to macartism in some cases but still we're able to get sentences beautiful sentences that come from other leaders in the in the in the society such as the president who is calling to make sure to look at the arab citizens as legitimate citizens that also have maybe different perspectives on how they analyze the political scene and they have right to express themselves and i think that if we are able to maintain the proper balance between uh that the democratic nature of the state even during the time of war i think that will allow us to go through this kind of difficult situation at give out javiva we're also very busy now with making sure we prepare the right the right ground for the teachers that we have a major project uh we have in Israel there are 2 500 cross sector teachers 2 000 art teachers teaching in jewish schools and 500 jewish teachers teaching in arab schools we're working with those teachers to make sure that none of them feels the pressure and need to leave the same thing in the medical industry third of the medical industry in israel our Arab citizens 24 percent of the doctors they need support the same thing maybe some of the staff of of those hospitals the bus drivers 50 percent of the bus drivers are Arab citizens 50 percent of the truck drivers or even more and this is the fabric of jewish relations that is holding pretty well for more than five and a half weeks already and i think that it's important to try to maintain that and not allow this to break apart i know some people are trying to break it apart unfortunately one of them is the minister of internal security who seems he has been successful in making a career out of bringing jewish our relations to this kind of a friction and the confrontations and he's tried already a number of times and one of my biggest fears actually is that indiscriminate discreet indiscriminate distribution of weapons in the hands of israeli jews today which is a policy of the minister of minister bang via and who's going to be in the other end of that weapon it's going to be me and my children this is not weapon that is going to be targeted against hamas and it's not weapon that's going to be targeted against as bala that closest to these weapons on the other end will be our citizens and i'm scared for myself i'm scared for my children this is an atmosphere that is not healthy for jewish our relations let's let's hope that doesn't happen i have a question i wanted to ask you two questions first of all that it was i was struck by a poll over the weekend that said that 70 percent of israeli arab support israel in this in the fight against hamas i wondered what your opinion was on that and then i also wanted to talk to you about how what your perception is of all those demonstrations around the world there were there were people kicking down doors of train stations in new york there are violent protests in london over the weekend how does that help the discussion well the 70 percent the poll that shows that 70 percent of our citizens support israeli i think is a little bit maybe a little bit twisted the much of it is probably pleasing responses people that are trying to please the the agency that is conducting the vote we've seen this in in tens times people tend to please the the polling agency but it's not really too far i mean in the past the support for being in israel and and seeing ourselves as part of the city of israel was close up to 68 65 percent and so it's a little bit there's a little bit of the of the of increase here that i'm not sure if i can attribute it to the war okay so let's talk about the let's talk about the the larger picture around the world the demonstrations the violent demonstrations well you know first of all i do not support violence to start with i think that any demonstration you know demonstrations are something legitimate that people should be allowed to conduct as long as they're respectful as long as they do not dehumanize the other side i think the dehumanization and that violent nature does not contribute to to attract support for a cause you know yes that israelis have paid a very dear price the palestinians are paying a very dear price and i think that the the price is being paid mostly because of the failure of the political leadership in delivering an agreement so i think that if anyone wants to demonstrate they should demonstrate the support of peace between israel and the palestinians and not support a war from this side or support war from the other side what we need right now on the israeli palestinian front is more people to say it's time to bring about peace it's time to bring about a solution peace and solution that respects both israel's needs and respects the palestinian needs and i think that anyone that sees only one side of the formula he is part of the problem and he's part not part of the solution great if you want to be part of the solution you need to contribute to that and contribution to that is maybe it's time to demonstrate for peace and not just deciding one party or another mohammed awashay who is a political analyst and strategic director for the gavad hafiva institute thanks so much for joining us this morning thank you let me wrap up the minute that we have left i mean the hostages are the priority no matter what right just one word the basic tragedy of the middle east is that militant minorities have power over moderate majorities who wish to get compromised yes the hostages are the problem and once there is a deal even if in phases we can start to see the end of this campaign let's hope that happens very soon despite everyone's sake i mean i mean thanks so much for joining us you can stay tuned to everything that's happening on the news here on i-24 news both on tv and online also streaming on i-24 news dot tv it's day 38 the news continues after the break you're watching i-24 news i'm abert louis and reporting live from telethieve thanks so much for joining us israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well news 24 israel bajo ataque news 24 en español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra espadas de hierro entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra la reacción de los países hispano parlantes news 24 el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en israel news 24 únicamente en i-24 news come to our viewers around the world i'm albert louis and at the i-24 news headquarters in telethieve here's an update on the war against tamas day 38 the world seems focused on al shifa hospital in gaza the idf released video showing troops dropping off 300 liters of fuel but the idf says the fuel was rejected by the ceo of the hospital there's no word on what happened to the fuel but it's suspected to be now in the hands of hamas the idf and american intelligence said hamas has built a command complex under that hospital prime minister benjamin it's on yahu in an interview with nbc's meet the press says israel isn't looking to occupy gaza at all but wants to maintain an envelope of security around gaza said israel isn't attacked again two idf troops have been killed the israel defense forces say two more soldiers have been killed fighting in the northern gaza strip now that brings a death toll in the ground operation against hamas to 44 the military names the slain troops as major is a hanatan 28 from kiri at malachi and staff sergeant itai shohan 21 years old from rosh haineen both were members of the commander brigade meanwhile a soldier of the okets kenan unit was seriously wounded during the fighting yesterday in a different area in the middle east the united states has struck iranian facilities in eastern syria there are reports that six iranian proxy fighters are dead those facilities have been used by islamic and revolutionary guard corps from iran and from groups affiliated with them and they're used and are linked to dozens of attacks against american troops in neighboring iraq there have been 46 attacks against american troops by these groups at least 14 civilians were wounded including one seriously when hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile from lebanon at civilians this missile hit the northern town of dovev on the border now some of the civilians were electric company employees fixing lines the idea says it struck the hezbollah itself that was behind this attack and yet another attack seven soldiers were wounded by a mortar near a northern community town of minara now let's go they've been at just a few moments ago there were some sirens that blared in the northern part of israel especially around the around the northern border good communities haria let's go first now to mary mccall if she's out 24 news correspondent in northern israel mary give us an update as to what's happening where you are that's right albert so we've been hearing the sounds of artillery for the past hour in this area also lebanese reports coming from inside southern lebanon talking about ongoing israeli shelling of a certain area near nakura this is an area very near the border really right on the border near the rosh hanika area but sirens ringing out also in goren which is close to our location this is a location about two and a half miles from the border so it's unclear at this point if those sirens were caused by rockets or by mortars in the area we know over the past few weeks mortars have been routinely setting off these sirens in many of these border communities which are supposed to be evacuated up until now but as you mentioned there was quite a chaotic day on the border yesterday with at least 20 injured in different anti-tank missile attacks seven israeli soldiers were injured in one attack near minara and then another at least 14 civilians were injured in an attack in mount dovev one of those remains in serious condition at the hospital as of this morning so mary the position we're up in the north if most of the people have been pulled back they're hitting what exactly what's being hit up there so what we see most commonly is them hitting these hezbollah hitting these observation posts belonging to israeli military these are these towers that are lying really all along the border area in certain different increments they've routinely hit these observation posts they've also published a number of different footage numerous times showing them hitting these observation posts claiming that they're taking out idf surveillance and equipment and other technological assets belonging to the israeli military used to survey inside southern lebanon we don't have any actual reports of damage from the idf from any of these strikes up until this point but we know these anti-tank missiles they have a range of up to five kilometers but maximum efficacy of up to three to half kilometers this is why the order was issued two weeks ago to evacuate everybody who lives within four kilometers of this border area and all of those who were hit yesterday were within this range very near the border and unfortunately of course were hit by those anti-tank missiles the idf has been responding very harshly to these strikes overnight there were a number of different strikes inside southern lebanon but throughout the late night we haven't heard much activity just from this artillery shelling of israel now we're not exactly sure what they're trying to hit we don't yet have confirmation from the israeli military that's just what we can hear in our area great mary final question and in terms of the area up in the north now you say that they've been evacuated um you've driven around that area is it purely desolate or there are military operations occurring around where you just drive through the area especially that four kilometer zone it is extremely difficult to travel their roadblocks that are set by the army if you manage even get by a roadblock where there isn't one in place if you're anywhere standing in this area most likely the israeli military itself will come and tell you to move so absolutely things are on high alert here it's a much more high alert area than it is down in the south and travel around these areas are very heavily restricted exactly because of these continuing anti-tank missile attacks these are harder to shoot down and harder to really adapt to rather than rockets that are coming from the north which the iron dome can intercept these anti-tank missiles can also move very fast so if you are in this area you don't have a lot of time to seek shelter if you hear it coming towards you this is why the military is trying extremely hard to keep all residents away from this area there's an estimate 70 000 residents who've been evacuated from this area and tried to move to safer parts of the country and the military and the israeli government itself continues to warn citizens to follow the restrictions to listen to these measures that are put in place because there is a very good reason why they're put in place and yesterday was in a perfect demonstration of why exactly people should remain away from these areas and take shelter great mary mccullough live at the top of the at the top of the country the northern border with lebanon thanks so much for joining us right right now this morning thanks again mary i'm joining now in studio by amir oran he's a defense and government commentator first thank you very much for joining us thank you all one question let's talk about the shefa hospital it's it's the focus of you can't turn on social media without the left saying around the world oh it's the hospital it's being it's being attacked it's being attacked there are there's a quarter that's being established by the idf for civilians to lead talk to us about why that is necessary is it because of the social media pressure or is it just that's what we do the corridor or the entire humanitarian project by the idf is intended both in order to make the operations easier more convenient to to take on i'll explain it in a minute and in order for world the media and public opinion to see that israel does not want the population to be heard now the logic of the hamas entrenchment in gaza is to disperse and get away from view in a dense urban setting preferably underground when israel tries to break this logic apart it wants to depopulate the area for for the time being for the duration and avoid going down into the tunnels in order to do that it must have the high ground or at least above ground including around shifa now shifa itself um is it a large facility i mean it's a large facility well if you see the ihilov hospital in televiv or similar facilities it's the largest such facility in gaza it was the most sophisticated relatively speaking but under the hospital there used to be that they are probably no longer there they used to be a command bunker not held by yacka sinuar or mohammedef the very top leaders very good they are in hyping somewhere and right and whoever was there on october the seventh uh is uh no longer there has been away for for a month now nevertheless if israel wants to dismantle hamas and get a hold of its communications nodes and documents it behooves it to go down and find the but it is not worth its while and this is why for the last week or so tanks have been stopped a kilometer away from shifa then a few hundred yards uh there is no gain for israel in uh being photographed with tanks rolling into shifa right so the so it's really what you're saying is that it's a not necessarily military asset to to take over shifa no longer when when the war started it was a military asset but now the costs outweigh the benefits so let's talk about a little bit about this humanitarian quarter this is now the idea is to cut kaza in half you have the people coming from the north to the south do we is there any indication that it's possible that hamas fighters are mingling in co-mingling among the people who are coming to the south yes there is such a possibility but nevertheless the old world war two notion of carpet bombing is no longer valid and if you had been a guest a fly on the wall in one of the israeli command centers you would have seen the map of gaza where if you have 75 percent or more of the population still there it's colored red and it's a no flight zone and no hit zone only when there are a minority of less than 25 percent of residents still there is the idf allowed to to hit targets great i'm here stand by one second i want to now continue our live team coverage piers akhabak the i-24 news correspondent is in southern israel right now pia behind you it seems quiet for now but you still hear some booms from what i'm told indeed albert well throughout the past hour we have been hearing both heavy machine gunfire from the gaza strip but also israeli are thoroughly going out here firing towards the gaza strip indicating that that heavy fighting on the ground is continuing especially in the northern part of the gaza strip from here we are looking into the neighborhoods of betlahia and bet hanun again in the northern part of the strip but we do know that also fighting is centering around the shifa hospital in the gaza city very much the core of the gaza strip there the largest hospital that is located in the gaza strip that has really become the focus of israeli forces as the idea of expects a hamas command center to be located underneath that hospital now the idea of knows is very well aware of the fact that there are still hundreds of patients and also hundreds of evacuees that are sheltering in that hospital many of them believing that hospitals are structures that are safe from israeli attacks there but as the hamas command centers of course are one of the main targets in israel's war in gaza these spaces have become very much unsafe and also israel is continuously calling upon those people those who are able to to leave the hospital as you could hear is here another boom of the israeli artillery outgoing towards gaza here israel is continuously calling upon people who are able to evacuate to do so to leave the hospital and also use that humanitarian corridor that has been facilitated for a few days in arorno we expect it to open today again making sure that people can pass relatively safely from the northern part of the gaza strip to the south there but we know that an unknown number of people decides to still remain in the northern part of the gaza strip for several different reasons people are old are sick are injured and cannot just simply make their way to the southern part of the strip in the same situation is also it comes is true for the hospital we're speaking about an unknown number of injured we're also speaking about this is what reports from gaza suggest an unknown number of dead bodies which is still located inside of the hospital now the israeli military said that yesterday they tried to facilitate the hospital with 300 liters of fuel also publishing a phone conversation suggesting that hamas prevented that facilitation coming from israel with that fuel now the hospital director of asifa said that it was indeed no such negotiations took place and that also 300 liters would suffice suffice for about a quarter hour of generator there so you do see that especially when we speak about those hospitals according to the world health organization more than half of them are not functioning anymore the humanitarian situation is becoming more and more a dire as the battles engage especially in the surrounding areas of those hospitals again israel is clarifying again and again that it expects hamas commander centers to be located specifically in its tunnel systems underneath hospitals and other civil institutions such as schools and also apartment blocks there great piaz sakhaba in the south but the border with gaza thanks so much we'll check in with you throughout the morning thanks again let me come back to amir oran and studio just let me ask you two questions about two other areas two other theaters that we're looking at the first in the north with hezbollah and lebanon nasrallah on friday fiery speech we never really didn't hear that much different than before but they have these missile attacks that are small fire across the border it seems as though they're not they're not heeding the warning to stay out of this what nasrallah is conducting in the north is a war of attrition you don't see movement across borders as you have seen on both sides since october the 7th in the south now for some reason french president macron and others who call for a ceasefire in gaza are silent about the north why why wouldn't they call on the lebanese government to tell nasrallah to cease and desist this war of attrition obviously they think that they are powerless to do so but in principle they should have now nasrallah doesn't want full-scale war he knows that israel is prepared for it and will give him a devastating blow perhaps even personally by the way this is not the same for yahya sinwar in gaza because for the time being even if israel knew precisely where he was and could hit him it is awaiting his response regarding the hostage release right deal so he has no leverage there's no leverage for nasrallah right so he has been right and for nasrallah he's conducting a sort of brinkmanship but he may fall over the brink now let me go one more step now towards syria the united states striking these targets these weapons depot is it sort of like a slap on the hand to the iranians by the americans or is there something else in play here well no american has been killed by these attacks there was one contractor who died of cardiac arrest a few weeks ago but all of these attacks were not really that dangerous people had traumatic brain injuries and the like but no one was severely wounded nevertheless because they were too many 46 times and the united states wanted to show that it is serious and that under its deterrent posture there is a brute force it struck the abou kamal and i maya deen but how do you make sure that it's not just someone taking away your lunch money for just yes but but this is how you gradually blow by blow have a conversation with your enemy and by the way the five american soldiers special operators who died when their helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean saturday were the first casualties in the american involvement in the israel hamas war they did not participate in the war but they were stationed in cyprus in order to take part in a possible evacuation from either israel or lebanon or a hostage release operation we'll talk about the hostage release operation just a moment and thanks so much i mean hold on one second because what i want to do now i want to go to our next guest it's actually a really important story mohammed awash he's a political analyst and strategic director for the for a really important give out the remat institute thanks so much for joining us mohammed thank you give out javiva sorry forget my pronunciation mohammed i have to first of all i know that you lost a cousin in the nova attack and far from all of us here we offer our condolences thank you very much your cousin was a was a paramedic at the scene tell us a little bit about why you want how do you want to honor him well actually i want to honor him for the last one minute that he stayed there he refused to be evacuated and he thought that he could still give some help for the first wounded people that he started treating at the station he was placed at the supernova party and when the first rockets started to fall he started attending to the attending to the wounded and but soon bullets started coming closer and there was an order to evacuate the head of the team asked to evacuate he refused he said that he speaks Arabic and because of that he thinks he's going to manage and he thought that his arab identity would help him maybe negotiate some sense with the attackers that didn't really go too well and he died holding his bandages in his hands bandages that he would have used to maybe stop the bleeding of one of the wounded people in the party but Muhammad this shows you the kind of brutality we're talking about here this is i mean here's someone who is trying to help people and they didn't care well unfortunately this is this is the war i mean for us we're not you know we're not looking at the big picture we're looking at the specific picture of our than the instead of describing the scene we want to describe his actions he died as a humane person he died in the middle of brutality he died as someone that was selfless in the middle of maybe a selfish selfish and maybe indifferent he his indifference was that he was indifferent to the identity of the people that he was treating he was treating the casualties the first casualties with a lot of compassion with a lot of care with the with the responsibility of a human being that wanted to stay human being to the last minute and his arab identity didn't really help him and despite the fact that he thought it could have helped him this kind of attack well again our condolences to you and your family Muhammad i want to talk to you a little bit about the give out haveiva institute here it is a coexistence organization it helps both sides try to get to common ground uh do you think that you have an extraordinary challenge now after october the seventh i mean how do you build trust again after all of this well first of all trust is being built as we speak right now because there's a lot of efforts still working to try to keep calm among jewish and arab citizens in israel and thank god we're successful and i'm in talks almost every day with 20 30 mayors and heads of schools and principles of schools and business people to contribute to keeping calm and prevent escalation i'm also in talk with the many people that might be able to influence the jewish population uh first of all to make sure that the police does not cross the line and the police unfortunately in the cases has crossed the line of making arrests that are not supposed to be arrests people that might have expressed anger or frustration on social media and suddenly they find themselves arrested something that is even closer to witch hunting and closer to macartism in some cases but still i we're able to get sentences beautiful sentences that come from other leaders in the in the in the society such as the president who is calling to make sure to look at the arab citizens as legitimate citizens that also have maybe different perspective on how they analyze the political scene and they have right to express themselves and i think that if we are able to maintain the proper balance between the democratic nature of the state even during the time of war i think that will allow us to go through this kind of difficult situation i'd give out have ever we're also very busy now with making sure we prepare the right the right ground for the teachers that we have a major project we have in israel there are 2,500 cross sector teachers 2,000 our teachers teaching in jewish schools and 500 jewish teachers teaching in our schools we're working with those teachers to make sure that none of them feels the pressure of a need to leave the same thing in the medical industry third of the medical industry in israel our citizens 24 percent of the doctors they need support the same thing maybe some of the staff of of those hospitals the bus drivers 50 percent of the bus drivers are our citizens 50 percent of the truck drivers or even more and this is the fabric of jewish our relations that is holding pretty well for more than five and a half weeks already and i think that it's important to try to maintain that and not allow this to break apart i know some people are trying to break it apart unfortunately one of them is the minister of internal security who seems he has been successful in making a career out of bringing jewish our relations to this kind of friction and confrontations and he's tried already a number of times and one of my biggest fears actually is the indiscriminate discrepancy and discriminate distribution of weapons in the hands of israeli jews today which is a policy of the minister of minister bang vier and who's going to be in the other end of that weapon it's going to be me and my children this is not weapon that is going to be targeted against hamas and it's not weapon that's going to be targeted against asbala that closest to these weapons on the other end will be out of citizens and i'm scared for myself i'm scared for my children this is an atmosphere that is not healthy for jewish our relations let's let's hope that doesn't happen i have a question i wanted to ask you two questions first of all that it was i was struck by a poll over the weekend that said that 70 percent of israeli arab support uh israel in this in the fight against hamas i wondered what your opinion was on that and then i also wanted to talk to you about how what your perception is of all those demonstrations around the world there were there were people kicking down doors of train stations in new york there violent protests in london over the weekend how does that help the discussion well the 70 percent the poll that shows that 70 percent of our citizens support israeli i think is a little bit maybe a little bit twisted the much of it is probably a pleasing responses people that are trying to please that the agency that is conducting the vote we've seen this in tens times people tend to please that the polling agency but it's not really too far i mean in the past the support for being in israel and and seeing ourselves as part of the city of israel was closer to 68 65 percent and so it's a little bit there's a little bit of the of increase here but i'm not sure if i can attribute it to the war okay so let's talk about that let's talk about the the larger picture around the world the demonstrations the violent demonstrations well you know first of all i do not support violence to start with i think that any demonstration you know demonstrations are something legitimate that people should be allowed to conduct as long as they're respectful as long as they do not dehumanize the other side i think that the humanization and the violent nature does not contribute to to attract support for a cause you know yes that israelis have paid a very dear price the palestinians are paying a very dear price and i think that the the price is being paid mostly because of the failure of the political leadership in delivering an agreement so i think that if anyone wants to demonstrate they should demonstrate and support the peace between israel and the palestinians and not support a war from this side or support war from the other side what we need right now the israeli palestinian front is more people to say it's time to bring about peace it's time to bring about a solution peace and solution that respects both israel's needs and respects the palestinian needs and i think that anyone that sees only one side of the formula he is part of the problem and he's part not part of the solution great if you want to be part of the solution you need to contribute to that and contribution to that is maybe it's time to demonstrate for peace and not just deciding one party or another mohammed arshad who is a political analyst and strategic director for the gavat hafiva institute thanks so much for joining us this morning thank you have a good day thank you let me wrap up the with the minute that we have left them here the hostages are the priority no matter what right just one word uh the basic tragedy of the middle east is that militant minorities have power over moderate majorities who wish to get compromise yes the hostages are the problem and uh once there is a deal even if in phases we can start to see the end of this campaign uh let's hope that happens very soon despite everyone's taking that mirror thanks so much for joining us uh you can stay tuned to everything that's happening on the news here on i-24 news both on tv and online also streaming on i-24 news dot tv it's day 38 the news continues after the break you're watching i-24 news i'm albert louis and reporting live from telethon thanks so much for joining us israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well come to our viewers around the world i'm albert louis and at the i-24 news headquarters in televieve here's an update on the war day 38 first the world seems focused on al-sheifa hospital in gaza the idf release video showing troops dropping off 300 liters of fuel but the idf says the fuel rose rejected by the ceo of the hospital and there's no word on what happened to that fuel but it's expected to be now in the hands of hamas the idf the american intelligence say that hamas has built a comp the command complex under the hospital also the idf has set up a pathway for civilians to safely leave the hospital next prime minister and benjamin itanyahu in an interview with nbc's meet the press says israel isn't looking to occupy gaza at all but wants to maintain an envelope of security around gaza so that israel isn't attacked again also the israel defense forces say two more soldiers have been killed fighting in the northern gaza strip that brings a death toll on the ground in this operation against hamas to 44 the military names the slain troops's major is a hot not on his 28 years old from keryat malachi and staff sergeant ita shoham who was 21 years old from rosh hain both were members of the commando brigade meanwhile a soldier of the oketsu k9 unit was seriously wounded during fighting in gaza yesterday plus a different area of the middle east the united states has struck iranian facilities in eastern syria there are reports six iranian proxy fighters are dead now those facilities used by islamic revolutionary guard corps from iran and groups affiliated with it are used by and linked to dozens of attacks on american troops in neighboring iraq that have been 46 attacks against american troops and then there's this at least 14 civilians were wounded including one seriously when hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile from lebanon at civilians this missile hit the northern town of dovev on the border some of the civilians were electric company employees who are fixing lines the idf says it returned fire it struck the hezbollah cell behind the attack and another attack seven soldiers were wounded by a mortar near the northern community of menara we have live team coverage of all of this here on day 38 of the war against the mass let's first go to pia sakha back she's i-24 news correspondent southern israel pia there were some irons that went off for just moments ago but i know all the focus is on the shefa hospital right elbow the focus is on the shefa hospital and a few minutes ago we had the first alert for today after about 12 hours of calm here in two communities and rat in shuva a bit further down south from us also very close to the gaza border and although the shefa hospital is in the focus of attention and are fighting the shefa hospital the biggest hospital that is located in gaza city we also do know that fighting continues in the northern part of the gaza strip and i'm going to step out of the frame for you to see that really large cloud of smoke arising here in the very northern part of the gaza strip you're looking into the neighborhood of betlahia behind that bet hanun right now this is the very northern tip of the gaza strip where basically fighting began when the ground offensive began here and since then never really stopped and this is the area where israeli forces are calling upon civilians that are still located there to make their way south to travel to the southern part of the strip because this area specifically has gotten under heavy fighting basically since the beginning of this one specifically since the beginning of the ground offensive there so this humanitarian corridor has been existing for a number of days now and is also expected to open up today again in addition to that the israeli military is specifically calling upon people who are still sheltering in the shefa hospital in gaza city to leave if they're able to of course we're speaking about an unknown number of patients are also being treated there we are hearing from reports on the ground that the hospital is running out of water and all fuel the who the world health organization describes the situation there as dire on the brink of a catastrophe there now we do know that the israeli military says that it tried to supply the hospital with fuel with 300 liters of fuel the hospital director said that negotiations have not been taking place israel is saying that hamas prevents the hospital from accepting that fuel but the hospital director also said that much more than 300 liters are needed to really run the generators there especially new morn babies and incubators are endangered there as the fighting really revolves around those hospitals israel says that hamas's control compounds are located specifically underneath civilian infrastructure such as school residential buildings and hospitals and the biggest one or one of the biggest command centers of hamas is expected to be underground underneath the shefa hospital and this is where we can expect the focus of fighting to to continue it great piaz about joining us live from the border with gaza thanks so much for joining us i want to continue our live team coverage of the war against hamas day 38 i'm joined in studio right now with colonel dr jachdan area he's a former deputy head of assessment of the israeli military intelligence he's also the former foreign policy advisor to prime minister yitzhak rabbi and i'm also joined in studio by our own jonathan regga the i-24 news correspondent the senior defense correspondent here at i-24 news thanks very much for joining us let me start jonathan with the south where pia was where they're now building this this quarter to get more people to come down to the south but there's also a quarter to leave the hospital as well talk to us a little bit about that yes we heard calls from a from from the israeli generals to the manager actually the the heads of the shefa hospital telling them if you leave the hospital to the east on the eastern exit of the hospital you will not be hurt there's no army there you can leave there and head south so so there is an opportunity to do it will they do it or not despite the heavy pressure by hamas for people to to to stay in because hamas basically wants to i don't i don't think there's another word than to sacrifice these people weaponize them weaponize them their weapons exactly weapons and and i mean if if if they're killed that is actually good for them because it will bring criticism on on israel so that they want to use that despite that we are seeing that for the past week people are heading more and more to the south once they these are not rumors anymore that the israeli tanks are there they can see it with their eyes and people realize that the israeli army is in that israel basically has conquered the northern part of the gazel strip and they now have to head south if they want to stay safe so it is happening from the shefa hospital as as well and and that's that's a direction i think it's quite clear that israel wants to head beneath the shefa hospital find whatever's down there the headquarters intelligence possibly hostages we don't know all that seems to be happening before that israel wants to make sure that the hospital is clear of patients of doctors of civilians as much as possible is it still a military asset we spoke earlier with someone a different military analyst before who basically said they may not be so much of a military asset as it is right now go ahead i don't know if it's an asset it's clearly not a secret anymore everybody's aware of what is happening even even with the communications difficulties in the gazel strip i think everyone who's under the shefa hospital is aware that the israelis are coming and we don't know simply we don't know because it's it's under the ground will israel find intelligence there we don't know will israel find a hamas leaders there we don't know are there tunnels leading from beneath the shefa hospital to other places in gaza i can assume the answer is yes but i don't know that and therefore what will be found i we don't know but the conquering the the the underground the underground of the shefa hospital is something that that has to be done it will prevent hamas from from functioning at least on on this part and will probably end the conquest of the northern part of the gazel strip let's remember that's only half of the gazel strip there's khanunas there's rafa there's dir balak there's everything to the south of gaza city before i get to jack about talking about the north i want to talk one more thing about the south the there's 1.1 million people probably around gaza city almost all of them have left there's about a hundred thousand holdovers holdovers why uh for some of them perhaps are fearing that that hamas people will not let them leave that hamas people will find them along the way and and shoot them and and and maybe i don't know people that that have difficulties they might not be able to go south and israel has given them the opportunity time and time again can everybody leave will israel find gaza a gaza city completely empty the the answer is no people some people choose to remain out of more more than one point something million people the vast majority have left but yes there are people there and and this leads relating to other things that were said over the weekend this will lead to the fact that civilians will be hurt it is happening head hamas no taking them as human shields use them as human shields allow them to leave and perhaps no place it's it's terror headquarters in in civilian areas in the first place that would have happened but it did and and civilians will eventually be killed there's nothing happy for israel about palestinian civilians being killed nothing nothing happy about that johnson say one second i want to now move up to the north but the first side before i go to our studio guess i want to go to the north right now remember mary mccullough who's our i-24 news correspondent isn't in north right now there have been signs that have been going off mary tell us what's happening where you are that's right so about an hour ago we had signs ran out in gore and this is an area about two and a half miles from the border the idf now confirms that those were also fired by these rockets or mortars that landed in open areas but the idf said that it was responding to the source of where these attacks came from saying they're conducting a number of different strikes from inside lebanon we know there are a number of different artillery shellings and areas that have been targeted by the israeli military throughout the morning most of these israeli strikes have been targeted in the western sector of this northern border so ending really at ita el shab and all the way to the side of the sea in uh nukura so opposite roshan nikra so the idf continues shelling in the area we continue to hear drones flying overhead as well as also israeli war planes who are clearly right now active in the airspace here over the lebanon border the israeli military clearly on high alert here but clearly also responding to continuing threats the idf also said that overnight it struck a terror cell which attempted an infiltration from across the border into the israeli area of bira needs which lies really right on the border great mary mccullough thanks so much we'll come back to you a little bit later on in the day to talk to get us an update as to what's happening there let me go back now back in studio with colonel dr jachneria he's the former deputy head of assessment for military intelligence he's also a former farm policy advisor for prime minister you're my expert for the north talk to me about that we're assess where we are with the north it seems like they're just sending over like little volleys just to test not really to push advance the nastral had a big speech on friday not really much different from what he's spoken to in the past is it more of a poking or are we talking like they're just waiting for the right moment well we should not underestimate the speeches of nasa if you read between the lines you understand very much that he's committed he's committed to a certain extent right now why because i mean he is he said that he has three advantages his contribution is right now the expresses itself in the first contribution is the fact that the idf is deployed in the north instead of units to be directed to gaza they are just paralyzed now facing facing the forces in the north second there has been an evacuation of more than 60 000 the citizens from the from the border this has never this never happened in the history of modern israel even lebanon and even 82 in in 81 81 facing the bombings of the plo at the time only carriage morning was evacuated part of it now we are talking about the whole border the from the sea to harnov i mean this is a this is an unprecedented third he has turned the the the the border between us and his malin to a very warlike zone the fact is that he has created in fact a security zone for himself with the depth of four kilometers inside israeli territory well he feels that he is allowed to to act and he is has been accustomed us to a war of attrition this is i mean this is what we got from mojiz bala and and he is the one who is leading the game and he is the one who's the who's initiating everything from day one the 8th of october we've seen an escalation in the use of weapons i mean we didn't see we didn't see in the past weapons up like the buccane missile with 100 kilos of forehead being directed on israeli outposts we haven't seen in the past ground to air the missiles used by hezbollah we haven't seen attack drones suicidal that has been used by hezbollah and certainly all the squads of anti-tank missiles by by the hundreds who are just firing at israeli border in other circumstances i would have said to you we are in war we are at war meaning that we don't have the choice but to go and hit hezbollah then we have to remember also the fact that ours the citizens on the border unlike the citizens in the in the gaza strip around the gaza strip cultivate their land to the last square meter on the border and the other side you see the the the radwan units the the terrorist units on the other side so this is a situation that we cannot accept we cannot end this war with hezbollah on our border now this is this is what's happening the equation is the following the the the longer this war continues and the the the possibility of of crushing the of crushing hamas is getting more and more realistic uh hezbollah will intervene much more you think that they're just waiting for opportunity i mean having an opportunity they're just waiting for a certain time for them to the timing is in their hands not in our hands and you know the we are the we are very good in declarations and warlike declarations and i would like to suggest that to use the old formula if you want to shoot shoot don't talk and this is what's happening we are just talking too much and said of acting let's talk about a little bit about the the threats that president biden did that some of the others did don't get involved yeah well it sounds like no one cares no look the the american administration is not interested in widening the the the war into a regional war this is clear by all by the behavior of the americans i mean when if you send only two f 15s to attack a certain position inside syria and not this is compared to an attack on all american bases from kudistan till jordan well you know this this means that the american don't don't mean business right now it sounds like they're just they're taking away lunch money they're not they don't care you know this is we are here don't i mean the the famous don't is don't right now don't attack us and we won't attack you this is what's happening but i mean and we are and the american administration is is pressing very hard on israel not to initiate anything not to enlarge the the confrontation with his brother at any price so that that that begs the question in terms of weaponizing the public opinion weaponizing uh the the idea that that the israel can't do a uh a preemptive strike to try to against his brother to do something about it because they're afraid the international community will be up in arms and you and it'll be problematic you know we had the situation in the 1973 kippu war when the american administration don't shoot the don't don't don't fire the first bullet and uh because we wanted the americans to to assist us this is the same position right now they tell us don't shoot the first bullet because if you shoot it then you won't have our backing and this is this is very very heavy on our decision makers they have to take this into consideration but at a certain point you have to look at your own interest if tomorrow today khizballah continues his attrition the the this war of attrition and his everyday 18 20 israelis being killed or injured this is a situation that no government can accept what happens next in terms of do we just wait it sounds like a does israel just wait or we are as our our leaders have said our cheer the army chiefs you know the the planes are on the tarmac with bombs are already ready so and we have clearly signified to khizballah that at least half of our air force has not been employed in the Gaza Strip and that they are directed to beirut and beirut can turn very easily into a disaster so this is what this is what's happening the question is a question of timing and the question of how how much damage can khizballah do inside israel now we see that he's firing rockets at military positions yes kirachmon is a military position kirachbiallik is a military position he's sending drones into israel airspace reconnaissance to take pictures about certain certain targets and he's sending attack drones also on the on positions the the workers that the employees of the electric company yesterday were supposedly people of the intelligence this is according to to his fellow so i mean the more we get into this mood he is encouraged by the fact that he reads weakness by the very fact that we don't we don't intervene and the other hand he says that this is this is fine with me if i add every day a layer another layer you will see that tomorrow he will fire 40 kilometers inside this room let's see what is real does and this is what this is his calculation and he is at a certain point he is misreading israel because israel of the 6th of october is not israel of today and as i said i mean the the the threats that we are threatening khizballah can very very quickly be materialized and it's a question of timing and of how much damage can khizballah do inside israel jack let me just turn back to jonathan for one second about the south yeah when in america it is a kid we had something called habit rail these are like these little tubes you put them hamster in and he goes all the way around like that so this is what it feels like what you're dealing with with hamster they're like little little tubes and you're just trying to find out where else will he pop up at some point between the 1500 that they killed that the idf were able to capture kill on the border with with with gaza they were able to look through phones i'm sure able to look through anything there's got to be a better indication as to what this network of the subway tunnels look like no we can assume so and that is why israel has been a relatively successful in detecting at least in the northern part detecting much of the underground underground infrastructure which is there but still is it a hundred percent no we're still seeing casualties we're still seeing people soldiers killed on the israeli side especially especially from from a booby trapped tunnels so these are things that are happening yes israel has a much better intelligence picture now than it did a month ago and we also heard yesterday of 20 terrorists found and brought to a found in gaza and brought into interrogation within israel it's not the terrorists who came in and did that massacre on october 7th who were focused on that it's terrorists in gaza who are who that's exactly where they're fighting they're fighting within the tunnels so yes there is intelligence a better intelligence regarding that infrastructure of tunnels does israel know about every location about every tunnel the answers know we're speaking of hundreds and hundreds of kilometers in the northern part that has already been taken over in the southern part where we can assume israel will go next and it feels as if many many of the hostages are actually held in the south we think that to me we're we don't know that but but but but here's here's an idea one third roughly one third of the hostages came from kibbutz near oz kibbutz near oz is right in front of hanyunas and the southern part of the gaza strip does that mean they're held there not necessarily but it makes sense so so we can assume that many of the many of of the hostages are actually in the southern part of of the the gaza strip so a lot of considerations there and hundreds and hundreds of kilometers which let's remember israel meant much of it israel can't cannot bomb from the air because you don't know there might be hostages there jonathan ragab and jack neary i thank you very much both of you for being a student of their analysis will continue of of course throughout the whole day to talk about what's happening here in day 38 of the war against him as now in the early days following the october 7 massacre in israel the volunteer organization zaka was on the front lines they were evacuating identifying bodies of the murder now here's the in order history of the muslim volunteer that was part of that organization take a look we'll be right back state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well come to our viewers around the world i'm albert louis and at the i-24 news headquarters in tel aviv here's an update on the war day 38 first the world seems focused on al shifa hospital in gaza the idf release video showing troops dropping off 300 liters of fuel but the idf says the fuel rose rejected by the ceo of the hospital and there's no word on what happened to that fuel but it's expected to be now in the hands of hamas the idf the american intelligence say that hamas has built a comp the command complex under the hospital also the idf has set up a pathway for civilians to safely leave the hospital next prime minister and bedroom in it and yahoo in an interview with nbc's meet the press says israel isn't looking to occupy gaza at all but wants to maintain an envelope of security around gaza so that israel isn't attacked again also the israel defense forces say two more soldiers have been killed fighting in the northern gaza strip that brings a death toll on the ground in this operation against hamas to 44 the military names the slain troops says major is a hot not on he's 28 years old from kiryat malachi and staff sergeant ita shoham who is 21 years old from rosh hain both were members of the commando brigade meanwhile a soldier of the okets k9 unit was seriously wounded during fighting in gaza yesterday plus a different area of the middle east united states has struck iranian facilities in eastern syria there are reports six iranian proxy fighters are dead no