Health we've only killed civilians we haven't hit and killed a single Hamas terrorist it's obviously not feasible not rational and people once again I think it's incumbent on every person to take any information coming out of Gaza with a grain of salt quite and I've noticed several international news outlets now saying Hamas controlled health authorities so there has been a slight change in the line listen Mark I know it's far too soon to talk about politics at all but I just want to ask you there's been an incident of red paint thrown at the liquid ruling party headquarters in Tel Aviv pictures of the hostages put up clearly there's a lot of public anger hurt and anger a number of Israelis don't have faith in the current prime minister is he the right person to be the commander in chief right now look there's a time for politics and there's a time for unity and we're at a time for unity now the terrorists who entered Israel on Saturday morning two weeks ago now they didn't care how we voted they went into Kibbutzim which are associated with the left and they went into Sterot which is seen as a liquid stronghold they didn't ask people are you a dove or a hawk if you're religious or secular they murdered everyone they found they butchered everyone they found and I think we have to as a people unite as we have united to fight this clearly Mark but the man who was this happened on his watch is he the right person to be leading the fight back or should he apologize and apologize unlike his defense minister and other officials should he apologize should he step aside and allow a unity government to take over well we've already gotten more of a unity government since the coalition expanded when we got the new senior war cabinet as you know which contains people who are until very recently in the opposition and so I think what we're doing is we're uniting as a country we'll win this war we didn't want this war we didn't start this war but we'll win it we'll do so on our terms and when it's over I'm sure there'll be enough time for politics sure I want to ask you about Rafa crossing if you would it's supposed to open in the next day or two to allow limited humanitarian aid into Gaza is there any way Israel can stop that getting into the hands of Hamas that's one of the major problems and it's not just Israel that points to that problem it's the United States has done so too that he said if Hamas steals the aid then there'll be a whole problem with the delivery of aid and it's not a theoretical question it's a very practical question because we know a few days ago a number of tankers entered Gaza with fuel for the generators specifically it was supposed to go to the hospitals whether so they could generate electricity so the hospitals continued to function and we know for a fact that Hamas stole fuel from the UN facility that was storing it and so if we're just going to be giving supplies to Gaza and it's going to be taken by Hamas for its military terrorist machine that's unacceptable and there have to be safeguards in place it's also not just Israel's problem the whole international community people are donating for the people of Gaza for the civilian population of Gaza Israel has no problem with that whatsoever on the contrary we're happy to be part of a process the suffering of innocent civilians but no one should countenance, no one should be in a situation where we say aid that's being given goes to Hamas that's terrible, that shouldn't happen and if it does the whole aid issue is in question Alright, Mark Regev senior advisor to Prime Minister Netanyahu, thank you very much indeed My pleasure And in the last few minutes the Defence Minister Yoav Galant has said that once Hamas is vanquished, Israel will be seeking a new security regime in Gaza, this is air strikes continue in Gaza no sign as yet of a ground offensive though Israeli leaders have said that is imminent and all eyes very much on the north of Israel as well which is dealing with potential terrorist infiltrations to separate incidents which the IDF has responded to with both drones and gunfire we'll keep you updated here on I-24 news stay tuned 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north the inside scoop on what's going on only on I-24 news this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking more than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity I-24 news coming to you live this hour from Tel Aviv it is day 14 of Israel's war with Hamas in the last hour rockets have been fired in the direction of Jerusalem around the Judean mountains south of the city of Maudine in the north Israel remains on high alert amid fears the Iranian backed terrorist group Hezbollah is preparing to join the fight the IDF says troops came under fire near the northern town of Margaleot Hamda needs border meanwhile the town of Kiryat Shmona also on the north has a population of some 20,000 people it is in the process of being evacuated right now our correspondent Hamda Salhout is at the border with Lebanon she joins us now Hamda a lot of developments this morning kind of give us a sense of what's been going on developments in the last 24 hours actually when it comes to the exchanges of fire along the border between Israel and Lebanon today the Israeli military saying from UAV they were able to find Hezbollah's cell and take it out there also now fears of more infiltrations after that one infiltration in the city just outside of Kiryat Shmona that sits along the border with Lebanon the Israeli military is flying helicopters in the area surveilling the perimeter trying to find the people who came through the fence gunfights heard in the distance the Israeli military and home front all people to shelter indoors remain indoors yesterday we saw some 20 rockets launched from southern Lebanon the Israeli military intercepting a lot of those rockets some falling into open areas but one of them actually making a direct hit in that city of Kiryat Shmona which has now been evacuated there was a direct hit there three people were injured a building sustaining some damage there these really military trying to minimize any sort of civilian casualties really trying to just get everybody out move them into state funded guest houses as they continue to operate along the northern border with heavy reinforcements and heavy army presence Laura so Handa as you point out these were Hezbollah terrorists who were identified and eliminated earlier but there are multiple groups aren't they operating across the border in Lebanon just give us an idea though there are two separate concerns the concerns about the fighters and the infiltrators and also about the missiles that's correct Hezbollah has an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons they are extremely sophisticated and advanced these are not the same type of weaponry we see coming out of the Gaza strip that are manufactured with things you can find to build your house with these are sophisticated materials built for war they are extremely lethal the Israeli military perhaps has some intelligence on those capabilities but we don't really know exactly how much is in their arsenal what their longer range more ballistic missiles are like in June they did a military showcase for the media which they were also showing new technologies hand held guns that could take down drones that could take down other aircraft so the Israeli military is extremely concerned about this as is the United States but there are also other groups operating out of southern Lebanon the Palestinian factions who are there in the Ain al-Hilwa camp and other surrounding refugee camps they've been eager to join the fight for two weeks now but Hezbollah they're asking of them to take the lead because they're not only in charge so to speak of what comes in and out of their territory but also these factions know about Hezbollah's weapons capabilities and that the destruction and the damage that could be done in Israeli territory would be much larger scale it would be more deadly and it would be much much greater Laura. Alright Hamda thank you very much Hamda Sa'kut there is that Israel's border with Lebanon well here in Israel for guards and residents were arrested earlier after they were caught hiding in an apartment in the southern city of Bersheva police have still not revealed whether they were already in Israel when the war began and were trapped or if they came over on October 7th when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostages and there have been more arrests in the west bank as well an 18 year old man from Ramallah was in Israel illegally and he was accused of planning to ramp soldiers with a stolen car more than 500 Palestinians have been arrested since October 7th well let me introduce my guest Guy Azrael is our senior editor we're also joined by Dr. David Shmoni the commander for Israel's security thank you to both so we are dealing with multiple threats obviously we've got the war going on in the south against Hamas we've got potential infiltrators in the north we've got the potential for terrorism from the west bank kind of give us an idea of where we are on this day 14 well as you said for the time being all the attention all the action is in the south our southern command is dealing with it lots of attacks by rockets all over Israel you've been aware of that and for the time being things are simmering in the west bank and in the north no major clashes yet but there's a real danger that things will erupt both in the north and in the west bank so we're trying to the state of Israel is trying to control things to limit this action which front concerns you the most at this point I think the more dangerous and immediate threat is from the north the destruction capabilities of Hezbollah is enormous you mentioned before and you've corresponded mentioned two kinds of danger one is the ground forces the Radwan forces very well trained troops very well equipped and with the mission of taking over areas in the north of Israel settlements, army bases et cetera so what actually happened to us on October 7th in the south there's a big force that's trying to do the same in the north second the Israel was very much caught off guard on October 7th that's not the situation now we also heard the idea of spokesman earlier Daniel Hageri pointing out that Israel has some of the best missile in the world, surely these are factors to take into account definitely I think Israel now is much better prepared to absorb something happening in the north I would say that I think we wouldn't want the war to expand now to the north we have all our attention on the south but things can go wrong in the north and okay okay sorry finish up I said the first danger we're talking about from the north is the ground forces the missiles and the third is the precise missiles okay well let's hold that thought thank you Dr. Shimani I want to bring in Major Libby spokesperson for the idea thank you very much indeed for being with us first of all can I ask you about the threat from the north there is a fear about well trained well armed hezbollah fighters coming across the border in the north while the idea forces are deployed and occupied in the south can you just give us an idea of the level of the threat at this point of course well I should say that the idea at this stage right now is monitoring all of our borders of course we are looking at the situation very very closely monitoring that and we're sending a very very clear message and we're sending it obviously to the terror organizations to hezbollah to other terror organizations that are operating but also sending a message to Lebanon to ask if it is worth it for them to get involved in this and to suffer the consequences of that kind of involvement and of course we're sending a message that they absolutely should not do it and they should think twice about doing that and of course we are monitoring the situation closely and we'll be prepared to deal with whatever situation unfolds can I ask you about the operation in Gaza then should Israelis be reassured about how the campaign to eliminate Hamas is on this day 14 absolutely we are making significant progress as we continue to strike Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip we are attacking naval commandos other people from their forces we are operating of course around the clock to make sure that Hamas won't have the terror capacity or the administrative capacity to ever do what we saw on October 7th do you have an idea of how many senior commanders have been taken out at this point I don't have a specific number for you I can say that we have struck more than 800 Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip and of course we will keep doing that until we are confident that they no longer have the capacity to continue reigning terror against us and of course the defense minister and the prime minister both said yesterday that a ground invasion was imminent nobody outside the armed forces knows what happened but are there any risks associated with delaying a ground offensive for too long well of course the decision to initiate a ground offensive is something that the government would have to make at this stage we are in preparation we are finalizing operational plans and training and awaiting the decision of the government and I trust that they are considering all of the relevant factors and we await to hear their their decision another delivery of US military aid heading into Israel today I think this is the 45th aid delivery so far how is that helping Israel's war effort well we have very very close communication with our allies of course the United States as a central ally the lines of communication are open that communication is taking place at all times and of course I think it sends a very very strong message to the rest of the region around our focus on the goal and I think it sends a strong message that no country on earth wants what happened what happened here on October 7th is to happen anywhere else and we don't want to set that as some sort of norm that any country would accept Major Libby we appreciate it thank you very much indeed thank you well our senior editor Guy Asriel is with me in the studio and Guy on Israel's military strategy the defense minister Joab Galant has outlined a strategy to put it earlier for Gaunter yes before we get to that some more developments in the northern front we are hearing of anti-tank missiles fired towards Israeli troops in Mandov we know the IDF is responding with artillery fired towards the source of that fire obviously those anti-tank missiles very dangerous so that would be Hezbollah not Palestinian groups very dangerous for IDF troops because these are both very accurate and very deadly this unlike rockets which are more long range which you have a siren you can protect yourself from there's no such case when it comes to these cornet style missiles on that front so sitting targets when you see these IDF troops there on the border with these anti-tank missiles that is something the IDF will have to address because this cannot carry on for too long the US has reportedly behind the scenes asked Israel not to preemptively strike Hezbollah obviously the US is worried about a greater escalation that could draw the entire Middle East into a wider escalation we're talking about Hezbollah and Lebanon and perhaps others like Iranian proxies in Syria and we saw what we reported here on I-24 news yesterday firing by the Houthis out of Yemen both drones and ballistic missiles but as for Defense Minister Yav Ghan well today at the start of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting he brought together the stages that how he sees just to point out we are looking at live images coming from the border with Lebanon right now changes so far that continue there he presented his plan for the rest of the campaign eliminating of course Hamas's military capabilities and also political control over the Gaza Strip and removing all Israeli control over Gaza and eventually creating a new security regime will be very interesting to see once we get to that stage and that's going to take a very long time how would that look like what sort of defenses would Israel be able to offer its citizens on the border obviously a situation in which an armed terror group like Hamas sits on the border will not be accepted by Israeli civilians anymore Dr. Shimani perhaps you could weigh in on that we are in the middle of the war right now and the campaign is to destroy Hamas but inevitably thoughts will turn to what Gaza is going to look like after this because there are two million Palestinian Gazans living in Gaza what is it going to work living so closely to Israelis I think we are missing another point which is the Israeli hostages which is an urgent mission of the state of the military of the political level to take care of that before anything else I believe there is no intention to control Gaza long term to start to establish our education system in Gaza any territory that will be occupied by the IDF will be occupied for military reasons only or should be occupied for military reasons only to take control of areas to search and destroy Hamas elements that are still scattered around there but I don't think that Israel is going to establish a permanent presence in Gaza again and hopefully Prime Minister Ali Cohen say something about Gaza will be a lot smaller after this war there is talk now that we are going to split Gaza into two or three sections especially the northern part of Gaza with the city of Gaza which is now evacuated by most civilians in order to enable a military operation as part of an international coalition or would that be Israel doing it on its own I think for the time being it is only Israel is on its own in the south and most of the intervention or optional intervention of American forces is aimed at the north not in Gaza You think that the focus is very much on the north Yes to deter Well let's talk about deterrence and the efforts of Iran to kind of drag the United States into this of course US Navy shot down three intercepts of three missiles Iranian backed Husky Rebels in Yemen reportedly were aimed at Israel I mean yet another potential front opening up For the time being the Iranians avoided direct contact they use proxies, they use Hezbollah, they use Hamas they use their elements they have in Syria and now from Yemen but they did not yet do anything directly they have ballistic capabilities and cruise missiles very attention to what we're looking at right now sorry to interrupt you Dr. Shimoni we're looking at live pictures coming to us now from the West Bank I'm not sure where exactly in the West Bank that is it's in Ramallah it looks as though people are being taken away in an ambulance Palestinian ambulance fires burning angry protests this is another front to keep an eye on isn't it Dr. Shimoni 500 arrests so far presumably the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is in a pretty precarious situation right now as well Yeah Again the situation now proposes an option for him to do something big to unite the Palestinians again to take over maybe to take control of Gaza I hope he'll be strong enough to do it I think now after the war is over or even within the war we will should try to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority really given the level of the level of his unpopularity in the West Bank and he is what is the 86 years old I think yeah he's an old man he's not popular he's very much tainted by corruption is this really the person who's going to move forward with the not to mention the criticism in Israel about Abbas you know we often like I think in the media and in the public to separate between Hamas this Middle Tentera group and the rest of the Palestinian people well first of all Hamas is the most popular movement on the Palestinian street both in Gaza and in the West Bank. In the West Bank it's the most popular well there are no elections in the West Bank for how many years now but Pauling suggests that Hamas is more popular than the PA in the West Bank. Well the main reason why Abbas is still in power is because Israel is the one that enables him to remain in power obviously the security coordination is vital in Abbas is a safety that's part of the very complicated relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Fatah and it should be also noted that that same Palestinian Authority is paying millions to families of Hamas terrorists. Okay but if we're looking at sorry guys we're looking at like this right now if Abbas was gone there would be a power vacuum which would be filled by whom? Obviously Hamas would be the first to jump on board and that is you know the other ticking bomb for Israel you know for so many months now we've been sitting in studios here speaking about the threat of the West Bank while Gaza is at bay and Hamas is deterred well all these threats have proven to be been turned on their head haven't they we did see we saw raids didn't we sometimes almost weekly in Nablus in Jenin in these kind of hotbeds of terror where the IDF forces went in and they confiscated weapons thankfully they have these groups in the West Bank have not been able to build up the same kinds of weapons capabilities that Hamas managed to do over 17 years and we've seen an IDF an extensive group of people in the Jenin refugee camp so of course we're speaking about very different type of ammunition they don't have the rockets threats but nonetheless well trained yes having some sort of weapons because we've seen these terror attacks across the West Bank for such a long time that is still a risk and I can remind our viewers that what transpired on the communities on the southern West Bank has infiltrated communities with weapons with guns with grenades these are sort of weapons that Islamic jihad and Hamas do possess in the West Bank so that is certainly a threat that still exists but not in such large capacity obviously very different as the IDF is involved there on a daily basis both arresting and sometimes taking down terror operatives in the West Bank all right okay well meanwhile the United Nations says we have seen so many trucks loaded with water with fuel with medicines with food exactly the same thing that I needed on the West Bank I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you I'm seeing that I need it on this side of the wall so these trucks are not just trucks they are a life line They are the difference between life and death for so many people in Gaza we've got the prospect of a humanitarian aid going into Gaza in the next couple of days I mean that that is always that was always going inevitable, wasn't it? It has to go to the civilians in Gaza. Israel cannot maintain a situation where no aid at all is going in. I think Israel shouldn't. I think Israel should adhere to modern humanistic approaches.  We're in a military operation against the Hamas military abilities. And I think it is wrong to demand a way of revenge against the Palestinian population, the civilian population in Gaza. We should enable them to have food, medicine, water out of the area that we wanted to evacuate. In the north, people should be encouraged to go south because in the south they can get relief, can get supplies, can get medicine. But I don't think we have to damage, cause inflict more damage on the population there. Okay, thank you Dr. Shrini. Well, it has been said that Israel is the only country on earth where more people fly in during a war than fly out.  Can I just say first of all, welcome home. Thank you so much. Thank you. So happy to be here. Great to have you. Well, can I ask you, did anything over the past two weeks give you perhaps pause for thought about your life changing decision? Not at all. In fact, when we heard the war broke out, we wanted to come that day. There's no way we were going to delay this at all. We needed to be here. We want to be here as fast as possible. Well, I have to tell you, I've personally been moved to tears by so many tragic stories over the past two weeks, but your story is moving me to tears for a very different reason because you've come here in Israel's hour of need. You're standing by the country.  We did not bring all of our children. Two of our children are too youngest are currently serving in the IDF. So they were already here as lone soldiers. Right, as well as soldiers. And they're in both an active combat units. Wow. So that's good for them to have you here as well. Why do you want to live in Israel? Why do you want to live in this country? I can tell you it's never boring. But tell us what brings you here? Well, this is it's a lifelong dream. I remember the first time I was here in 1977 and I as a on a youth trip. And from that moment on, this this is the place where I wanted to be. Unfortunately, took me that long to get here. But it's a lifelong dream that we're just so happy to realize that we believe that this is the place where all Jews to be from the Torah. And it is where we truly truly in our hearts and in our interest with our whole bodies, we feel at home. I can't imagine during this war, running away from it for from us. It's to me it would be similar to like one of your close relatives, your brother, your sister, your parents had a problem and you ran away to it rather than running running to it to help. And what are people in your old home saying? Were they were they shocked? Surprised? Did they try and change your mind? I don't think anyone was shocked knowing us. But yeah, no, right, exactly. But there are people who say you are delaying your trip, right? And we said, what are you talking about? Yeah, we can't we can't be there fast enough. Wow, incredible. And Medepli, how's your Hebrew? It's not. It's a work in progress, for sure. Right. So you'll be heading to the we'll definitely take advantage of the Opaan given to us. I could tell you it's it's it's hard work. It's not easy, but it's definitely worth it. And so you're going to bring the whole family over. This is it. Now this is home for you. Absolutely. This is it, right? Hopefully our other kids that aren't here will join us in the near future, we hope. And I'm wondering, I mean, was there a bit of a push behind this as well?   Well, I definitely think Jews are safer here than any place else in the world, regardless of the situation that's going on now. Personally, I don't think we felt personal antisemitism personally, although we do see a lot of it around. And but I would walk the streets here at night time and in where we come from an L.A., which is L.A. in California is kind of falling apart from top to bottom. Definitely would definitely feel safer here during war time, during peace time. Well, well, Kenny Annaliza guy helped me out here, Baruch Habaita. Baruch Himmabaim. Baruch Habaita. I'm still working on my way. Welcome, welcome to Israel. We're glad to have you with us and love the courage to your two children serving in the IDF as well. A happy story to Eddon. Kenny, Ben, you can at least read one brand new residence here in the state of Israel. Thank you. Shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom. All right, we're going to end on a positive note this hour. I think we all need it. All right, stay with us.  For 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. We've come here to claim for the rain. At this moment global warming is affecting Bolivia. And not only Bolivia, but all over the world. And we need rain for the embryos. The Fakita Reserve, we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, the Fakita can be protected. Watching I-24 News coming to you live this hour from Tel Aviv. It is day 14 of Israel's war with Hamas. In the last hour, rockets have been fired in the direction of Jerusalem around the Judean mountains south of the city of Modin. In the north Israel remains on high alert amid fears the Iranian backed terrorist group Hezbollah is preparing to join the fight. The IDF says troops came under fire near the northern town of Margaliot on the Lebanese border earlier. Meanwhile, the town of Kiryat Shmona, also on the north, has a population of some 20,000 people. It is in the process of being evacuated right now. Our correspondent Hamda Salhout is at the border with Lebanon. She joins us now. Hamda, a lot of developments this morning. Kind of give us a sense of what's been going on. The last 24 hours actually when it comes to the exchanges of fire along the border between Israel and Lebanon today. Within the last hour, the Israeli military saying from UAV they were able to find Hezbollah cell and take it out. There also now fears of more infiltrations after that one infiltration in the city just outside of Kiryat Shmona that sits along the border with Lebanon. With Lebanon, the Israeli military is flying helicopters in the area surveilling the perimeter trying to find the people who came through the fence. Gunfights heard in the distance. The Israeli military and home front command advising all people to shelter in doors, remain indoors. Yesterday we saw some 20 rockets launched from southern Lebanon. The Israeli military intercepting a lot of those rockets, some falling into open areas. But one of them actually making a direct hit in that city of Kiryat Shmona, which has now been evacuated. There was a direct hit there. Three people were injured. A building sustaining some damage there. These really military trying to minimize any sort of civilian casualties, damage to buildings as well. So they are really trying to just get everybody out, move them into state funded guest houses as they continue to operate along the northern border with heavy reinforcements and heavy army presence. So, Handa, as you point out, these were Hezbollah terrorists who were identified and eliminated earlier. But there are multiple groups, aren't they, operating across the border in Lebanon? Just give us an idea though of Hezbollah's capabilities because there are two separate concerns. Are there the concerns about the fighters and the infiltrators and also about the missiles? That's correct. Hezbollah has an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons. They are extremely sophisticated and advanced. These are not the same type of weaponry we see coming out of the Gaza Strip that are manufactured with things you can find to build your house with. These are sophisticated materials built for war. They are extremely lethal. The Israeli military perhaps has some intelligence on those capabilities, but we don't really know exactly how much is in their arsenal, what their longer-range, more ballistic missiles are like. In June, they did a military showcase for the media, which they were also showing new technologies, hand-held guns that could take down drones that could take down other aircraft. So the Israeli military is extremely concerned about this, as is the United States. But there are also other groups operating out of southern Lebanon, specifically Palestinian factions, who are there in the Ain al-Hilwa camp and other surrounding refugee camps. They've been eager to join the fight for two weeks now. But Hezbollah, they're asking of them to take the lead because they're not only in charge, so to speak, of what comes in and out of their territory, but also these factions know about Hezbollah's weapons capabilities and that the destruction and the damage that could be done in Israeli territory would be much on a larger scale. It would be more deadly, and it would be much, much greater, Laura. All right, Hamza, thank you very much. Hamza Sakhut there. Is that Israel's border with Lebanon? Well, here in Israel, four guards and residents were arrested earlier after they were caught hiding in an apartment in the southern city of Belsheva. Police have still not revealed whether they were already in Israel when the war began and were trapped or if they came over on October 7th when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostages. And there have been more arrests in the West Bank as well. An 18-year-old man from Ramallah was in Israel illegally, and he was accused of planning to ramp soldiers with a stolen car. More than 500 Palestinians have been arrested since October 7th. Well, let me introduce my guest, Guy Adriel. He's our senior editor. We're also joined by Dr. David Shimoni, the commander for Israel's security. Thank you to you both. So, we are dealing with multiple threats. Obviously, we've got the war going on in the south against Hamas. We've got potential infiltrators in the north. We've got the potential for terrorism from the West Bank. Kind of give us an idea of where we are on this day 14. Well, as you said, for the time being, all the tension or the action is in the south. Our southern command is dealing with it. Lots of attacks by rockets all over Israel. You've been aware of that. And for the time being, things are simmering in the West Bank and in the north. No major clashes yet, but there's a real danger that things will erupt, both in the north and in the West Bank. So, we're trying to – the State of Israel is trying to control things and to limit this action. Which front concerns you the most at this point? I think the more dangerous and immediate threat is from the north. The destruction capabilities of Hezbollah is enormous. You mentioned before and you've corresponded. You mentioned two kinds of danger. I'll add a third. One is the ground forces, the Red One forces. Very well trained troops, very well equipped. And with the mission of taking over areas in the north of Israel, settlements, army bases, et cetera. So, what actually happened to us on October 7th in the south, there's a big force that's trying to do the same in the north. Second – But you should point out Israel was very much caught off guard on October 7th. That's not the situation now. We also heard the IDF spokesman earlier, Daniel Hageri, pointing out that Israel has some of the best missile defense capabilities in the world. Surely these are factors to take into account? Definitely. I think Israel now is much better prepared to absorb something happening in the north. I would say that I think we wouldn't want the war to expand now to the north. We have all our attention on the south. But things can go wrong in the north. Okay. Okay. Yeah, sorry. Finish up. I said the first danger we're talking about from the north is the ground forces. The second is the missiles. And the third is the precise missiles. Okay. Well, let's hold that thought. Thank you, Dr. Shimani. I want to bring in Major Libby, spokesperson for the IDF. Thank you very much indeed for being with us. First of all, can I ask you about the threat from the north? There is a fear about well-trained, well-armed Hezbollah fighters coming across the border in the north, while the IDF forces are deployed and occupied in the south. Can you just give us an idea of the level of the threat at this point? Of course. Well, I should say that the IDF at this stage right now is monitoring all of our borders. Of course, we are looking at the situation very, very closely monitoring that. And we're sending a very, very clear message. And we're sending it obviously to the terror organizations, to Hezbollah, to other terror organizations that are operating. But also sending a message to Lebanon, which is to ask if it is worth it for them to get involved in this and to suffer the consequences of that kind of involvement. And of course, we're sending a message that they absolutely should not do it and they should think twice about doing that. And of course, we are monitoring the situation closely and we'll be prepared to deal with whatever situation unfolds. Can I ask you about the operation in Gaza then? Should Israelis be reassured about how the campaign to eliminate Hamas is on this day 14? Absolutely. We are making significant progress as we continue to strike Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip.  We are operating, of course, around the clock to make sure that Hamas won't have the terror capacity or the administrative capacity to ever do what we saw on October 7th. Do you have an idea of how many senior commanders have been taken out at this point? I don't have a specific number for you. I can say that we have struck more than 800 Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip. And of course, we will keep doing that until we are confident that they no longer have the capacity to continue reigning terror against us. And of course, the Defense Minister and the Prime Minister both said yesterday that a ground invasion was imminent. Nobody outside the armed forces knows when that's going to happen. But are there any risks associated with delaying a ground offensive for too long? Well, of course, the decision to initiate a ground offensive is something that the government would have to make. At this stage, we are in preparation. We are finalizing operational plans and training and awaiting the decision of the government. And I trust that they are considering all of the relevant factors and we await to hear their decision. Another delivery of US military aid heading into Israel today. I think this is the 45th aid delivery so far. How is that helping Israel's war effort? Well, we have a very, very close communication with our allies. Of course, the United States as a central ally. The lines of communication are open. That communication is taking place at all times. And of course, I think it sends a very, very strong message to the rest of the region around our focus on the goal. And I think it sends a strong message that no country on Earth wants what happened here on October 7th to happen anywhere else. And we don't want to set that as some sort of norm that any country would accept. Major Libby, we appreciate it. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Well, our senior editor, Guy Azriel, is with me in the studio. And Guy, on Israel's military strategy, the Defense Minister, Joav Galant, has outlined a three-point plan, as you put it earlier, for God's sake. Yes, before we get to that, some more developments in the northern front. We are hearing of anti-tank missiles fired toward Israeli troops in Mount Dove. We know the IDF is responding with artillery fire towards the source of that fire. Probably those anti-tank missiles, very dangerous. So that would be his ball or not, Palestinian groups? You would assume so. Very dangerous Friday of troops, because these are both very accurate and very deadly. There's unlike rockets, which are more long range, which you have a siren you can protect yourself from. There's no such case when it comes to these cornet-style missiles on that front. So sitting targets, when you see these IDF troops there on the border with these anti-tank missiles, that is something the IDF will have to address, because this cannot carry on for too long. And a reminder the US has reportedly behind the scenes asked Israel not to preemptively strike Hezbollah? Obviously the US is worried about a greater escalation that could draw the entire Middle East into a wider escalation. We're talking about Hezbollah and Lebanon and perhaps others like Iranian proxies in Syria. And we saw what we reported here on I-24 News yesterday that firing by the Houthis out of Yemen, both drones and ballistic missiles. But as for Defence Minister Yav Galant, well, today at the start of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee meeting, he brought together the stages that how he sees. Just to point out, sorry Guy, just to point out, we are looking at live images coming from the border with Lebanon right now. Yeah, this is the exchange so far that continue there. He presented his plan for the rest of the campaign, eliminating of course Hamas's military capabilities and also political control over the Gaza Strip and removing all Israeli control over Gaza and eventually creating a new security regime. It will be very interesting to see once we get to that stage and that's going to take a very long time, how would that look like? What sort of defences would Israel be able to offer its citizens on the border, obviously a situation in which an armed terror group like Hamas sits on the border will not be accepted by Israeli civilians anymore? Dr. Shimani, perhaps you could weigh in on that. We are in the middle of the war right now and the campaign is to destroy Hamas, but inevitably thoughts will turn to what Gaza is going to look like after this because there are 2 million Palestinian Gazans living in Gaza. How is it going to work living so closely to Israelis? I think we're missing another point, which is the Israeli hostages, which is an urgent mission of the state, of the military, of the political level to take care of that before anything else. I believe there's no intention to control Gaza long-term to start to establish our education system and welfare system in Gaza. Any territory that will be occupied by the IDF will be occupied for military reasons only or should be occupied for military reasons only to take control of areas to search and destroy Hamas elements that are still scattered around there. But I don't think that Israel is going to establish a permanent presence in Gaza again. I heard the Foreign Minister Ali Cohen say something about Gaza will be a lot smaller after this war. There's talk now that we're going to split Gaza into two or three sections, especially the northern part of Gaza, with the city of Gaza, which is now evacuated by most civilians in order to enable military operation. As part of an international coalition, or would that be Israel doing it on its own? I think for the time being, it's only Israel. Israel is on its own in the south. I think most of the intervention or optional intervention of American forces is aimed at the north, not at Gaza. You think that the focus is very much on the north and should we mention that? Yes, to deter, to deter any... Well, let's talk about deterrence and the efforts of Iran to kind of drag the United States into this. Of course, U.S. Navy shot down three, intercepted three missiles fired by the Iranian-backed Husky rebels in Yemen reportedly were aimed at Israel.  For the time being, the Iranians avoided direct contact, okay? They used proxies, they used Hezbollah, they used Hamas, they used their elements they have in Syria and now from Yemen, but they did not yet do anything directly. They have ballistic capabilities and cruise missiles. And look, if I could just draw your attention to what we're looking at right now. Sorry to interrupt you, Dr. Shimani. Sure. We're looking at live pictures coming to us now from the West Bank. I'm not sure where exactly in the West Bank that is. It's in Ramallah. It looks as though people are being taken away in an ambulance, a Palestinian ambulance, fires burning, angry protests. This is another front to keep an eye on, isn't it? Dr. Shimani, 500 arrests so far. Presumably the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, is in a pretty precarious situation right now as well. Yeah, again, the situation now proposes an option for him to do something big, to unite the Palestinians again, to take over, maybe to take control of Gaza. I hope he'll be strong enough to do it. I think now after the war is over or even within the war, we will, should, try to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. Really given the level of his unpopularity in the West Bank, and he is, what, is he 86 years old, I think? Yeah. He's an old man. He's not popular. He's very much tainted by corruption. Is this really the person who's going to move forward with the Palestinian leadership? Not to mention the criticism in Israel about Abbas. You know, we often like, I think, in the media and in the public to separate between Hamas, this militant terror group and the rest of the Palestinian people. Well, first of all, Hamas is the most popular movement on the Palestinian street, both in Gaza and in the West Bank. And the West Bank is the most popular? Well, there are no elections in the West Bank for how many years now? But polling suggests that Hamas is more popular than the PA in the West Bank. Well, the main reason why Abbas is still in power is because Israel is the one that enables him to remain in power. Obviously, the security coordination is vital in Abbas's safety. That's part of the very complicated relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Fatah. And it should be also noted that the same Palestinian Authority is paying millions to families of Hamas terrorists. Okay, but if we're looking at, sorry guys, if we're looking at scenes like this right now, if Abbas was gone, there would be a power vacuum which would be filled by whom? Well, obviously, Hamas would be the first to jump on board and that is, you know, the other ticking bomb for Israel. You know, for so many months now, we've been sitting in studios here speaking about the threat of the West Bank while Gaza is at bay and Hamas is deterred. Well, all these concepts have proven to be completely failed. We saw raids, didn't we? Sometimes almost weekly in Nablus, in Jenin, in these kind of hotbeds of terror where the IDF forces went in and they confiscated weapons. Thankfully, these groups in the West Bank have not been able to build up the same kinds of weapons capabilities that Hamas managed to do over the seven years. And we've seen an IDF, an extensive IDF operation, for example, in the Jenin refugee camp. So, of course, we're speaking about a very different type of ammunition. They don't have the rockets threat, but nonetheless, well-trained, yes, having some sort of weapons because we've seen these terror attacks across the West Bank for such a long time. That is still a risk. And I can remind our viewers that what transpired on the communities on the southern border was terrorists who infiltrated communities with weapons, with guns, with grenades. These are sort of weapons that Islamic jihad and Hamas do possess in the West Bank. So that is certainly a threat that still exists. But not in such large capacity. Obviously, very different as the IDF is involved there on a daily basis, both arresting and sometimes taking down terror operatives in the West Bank. All right. Okay. Well, meanwhile, the United Nations says that the Egyptian-controlled Rafa crossing with Egypt will be opened within a day or two to allow limited humanitarian aid into Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have moved south away from the fighting. The UN Secretary General is there, and he had this to say. We have seen so many trucks loaded with water. With fuel. With medicines. With food. Exactly the same thing that I needed on this side of the wall. So these trucks are not just trucks. They are a lifeline. They are the difference between life and death for so many people in Gaza. Dr. Shimane, we've got the prospect of humanitarian aid going into Gaza in the next couple of days. I mean, that is always going to be inevitable, wasn't it? Aid has to go to the civilians in Gaza. Israel cannot maintain a situation where no aid at all is going in. I think Israel shouldn't. I think Israel should adhere to modern humanistic approaches.  We're in a military operation against the Hamas military abilities. And I think it is wrong to demand a way of revenge against the Palestinian population, the civilian population in Gaza. We should enable them to have food, medicine, water out of the area that we want to evacuate in the north. People should be encouraged to go south because in the south they can get relief, can get supplies, can get medicine. But I don't think we have to cause and inflict more damage on the population there. Okay, thank you, Dr. Shrini. Well, it has been said that Israel is the only country on earth where more people fly in during the war than fly out. Well, two of those people are with me now. Kenny Bendick and Aliza Rimon, husband and wife who made Aliyah yesterday from the United States. And just say first of all, welcome home. Thank you so much. Thank you. So happy to be here. Great to have you. Well, can I ask you, did anything over the past two weeks give you perhaps a pause for thoughts about your life-changing decision? Not at all. In fact, when we heard the war broke out, we wanted to come that day. There's no way we were going to delay this at all. We needed to be here. We wanted to be here as fast as possible. Wow, I have to tell you, I've personally been moved to tears by so many tragic stories over the past two weeks, but your story is moving me to tears for a very different reason.   We did not bring all of our children. Two of our children, our two youngest, are currently serving in the IDF. So... Oh, they were already here as lone soldiers. Right, as lone soldiers. And they're in both active combat units. Wow. So that's good for them to have you here as well. Yeah. So tell me that. Why do you... Why do you want to live in Israel? Why do you want to live in this country? I can tell you it's never boring. But tell us, what brings you here? Well, this is a lifelong dream. I remember the first time I was here in 1977 and I was on a youth trip. And from that moment on, this is the place where I wanted to be. And fortunately, it took me that long to get here. But it's a lifelong dream that we're just so happy to realize that we believe that this is the place where all Jews should be from the Torah. And it is where we truly, truly in our hearts and just with our whole bodies, we feel at home. I can't imagine during this war running away from it from us. To me, it would be similar to one of your close relatives, your brother, your sister, your parents had a problem and you ran away to it rather than running to it to hell. What are people in your old home saying? Were they shocked, surprised? Did they try and change your mind? I don't think anyone was shocked knowing us. Yeah, no, you're right, exactly. But there are people who say, you are delaying your trip, right? And we said, what are you talking about? We can't be there fast enough. Wow, incredible. Medically, how's your Hebrew? Good thought. It's a work in progress for sure. So you'll be heading to the... We'll definitely take advantage of the opan. You'll be heading to the opan. I can tell you, it's hard work. It's not easy, but it's definitely worth it. And so you're going to bring the whole family over. This is it. Now this is home for you. Absolutely. Yeah, this is it, right? There are other kids that aren't here will join us in the near future, we hope. And I'm wondering, I mean, was there a bit of a push behind this as well?   Well, I definitely think Jews are safer here than any place else in the world, regardless of the situation that's going on now. Personally, I don't think we felt personal anti-Semitism personally, although we do see a lot of it around. And, but I would walk the streets here at nighttime and where we come from in LA, which is LA and California is kind of falling apart from top to bottom. Definitely would definitely feel safer here during wartime, during peacetime. Wow. Well, can you analyze that guy to help me out here? Well, how I am? Sorry, I'm still working on my room. Welcome, welcome to Israel. We're glad to have you with us. And I'd love the courage to your two children serving in the IDF as well. Thank you. A happy story to Eddon. Katie Bendy, can I leave the room on? Brand-new residence here in the state of Israel. Thank you. Shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom. All right. We're going to end on a positive note this hour. I think we all need it, don't we? All right. Stay with us. More like coverage. I'm here at I-24D. Is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene, and we need to get in the car as we're talking.  Help us. We don't know what to do. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant, and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. We have come here to claim for the rain. In fact, at this moment, global warming is affecting Bolivia, and not only Bolivia, but all over the world. And we need rain for the embryos. The Vakita Reserve, we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job. And then if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, the Vakita can be protected. We've been watching I-24 news. We're coming to you live from Tel Aviv. It is day 14 of Israel's war with Hamas. Rockets fired this lunchtime in the direction of Jerusalem, close to the city of Maudin, near the Judean mountains. And up in the north, Israel is on high alert amid fears Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon, is preparing to join the fight. The IDF says troops came under fire on the Lebanese border and the town of Kiryat Shmona, which has a population of some 20,000 people, has been evacuated. Well, let's go to the north now. Our correspondent, Robert Swift, is there and several incidents this morning involving infiltrators. Can you tell us what is the situation right now? Yeah, so there has been a series of security events here on the northern border, not at the pace that they occurred yesterday, but definitely happening at pace. Now, the most recent security incident to occur here was around about 30 minutes ago where a series of mortar rounds were fired from the Lebanese side of the border towards Israeli positions in the north of Israel. Now, the IDF has said that it has responded with artillery fire and that this event took place around the Mount Dov area. Now, this is just one of the several security events that have taken place. There was also an infiltration of a shooting with gunfire that occurred around Mar Galeod that resulted in the wounding of a security guard in that area, and that is one of several security events that are taking place, which is causing the evacuation order of the town of Kiryat Shmona. And now, you mentioned that the population there is around 20,000, but it's worth noting that for days now, even over a week, the population in these northern communities has been steadily reducing as people decide that it's just simply not worth remaining here and choosing by themselves to leave to move in with friends and family elsewhere in the country. But the fact that the government now is taking the decision to make this an official order shows that the tensions here, that these continuous security events continue to escalate. So, Rob, just to be clear, are people being evacuated primarily because of the fear of infiltrators by Hezbollah or Hamas terrorists from the north, or is this more about the risk of missile fire? It's a combination of all these things together, to be honest. All of them can be a threat to life. Basically, since the beginning of the war two weeks ago, the anti-tank weapons have been the most dangerous weapon here. They've resulted in the most casualties to civilians and to Israeli military forces. And so, on the northern border itself, Hamas is the most dangerous weapon. But the rockets, the mortars, even the small arms fire itself and, like you say, infiltration, these are threats that can't be discounted either. And there is reportedly pressure on the Israelis from the Americans not to strike Hezbollah preemptively. Yeah, so there has been some reports, some rumors that essentially the Americans were saying that Israel shouldn't strike Hezbollah first, but that if Hezbollah were to throw the first punch, the U.S. would be there to support Israel. Essentially, the U.S. is wanting to avoid this conflict turning into a regional war, escalating beyond merely a conflict between Hamas and Israel. Now, Hezbollah obviously have one foot in this fight. Since the early days of the war, they've been continuously firing across this border. The question that no one is really certain about to what extent Hezbollah actually want to be in the fight, are they merely demonstrating their support for the cause, are they merely tying up Israeli forces here in the north, or do they want to go in full force? And that is unclear, but the Americans have seemed to imply that they think Israel should avoid escalating it, certainly here on this northern front. Alright, Rob, thanks very much. Robert Swift, they're up at the border with Lebanon. Well, let me introduce our guest, Guy Azriel, our senior dear general, Relic Shafir. Thanks for joining us, Reg. So let's talk about the threat from the north. When the Americans say that they would get involved if Hezbollah were to escalate, does that mean we could see U.S. airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon? Is that how you understand it? No, I doubt that this would happen because the Americans don't want to get their hands into the fire here. But they will probably thwart Iran from taking any active participation within Lebanon. And we know that there are quite a few Iranians along the Golan Heights, not just the Lebanon. On the Syrian side? On the Syrian side, yes. The Syrian side is not controlled by Assad's army, but there are some groups out there including Iranian militia. And so while Israel will try to take its hands off Lebanon by keeping this conflict below a threshold of a war, America is helping Israel by thwarting off Iran. So I think this is more or less the position that we're taking. We do not want to have two fronts, even though it's not holding forces up in the north, because Gaza does not take that many forces within this particular conflict. So the focus there very much on the north and efforts to draw in other actors. Oh, I'm just being told that the sirens are blaring in the north now. So more from either Hamas or other Palestinian groups or Hezbollah. But at what point you know, at what point would be a step too far for Israel if we're seeing now anti-tank mortars being fired from across the border? I mean, at what point would Israel say that is enough? We now have to respond properly. I think if there are attacks on civilians or if there'll be casualties that amount to more than one or two per day or wounded. I'm sorry to speak in those terms, but this is something that could be contained. So one person was wounded today. We know it's security guards. Yeah. And there may be more in the coming days. We should be vigilant. But it looks like they're not trying to have a mass scale attack, but with the military. What would an all-out war with Hezbollah look like? Does Israel have the capacity to destroy Hezbollah's capabilities once and for all? Because it's tried in 2006 and it pulled back. Some people say just a day before it was mission complete.  Well, the story is that Hezbollah could troll Lebanon. Rather than chase every single rocket launcher in the Lebanon, probably Israel would strike the infrastructure, electricity, finaries, communications. Israel's missile defense could be overwhelmed, potentially. Well, if they tried to overwhelm, we will take some hits, that's for sure. But we have the iron dome that can protect strategic areas and the Air Force could take out the infrastructure in Lebanon in such a manner that even though they could keep firing just like the Gazans, they will lose control of Lebanon as we know it now. Now, Gaza doesn't have water or energy unless they get it from Israel. And that is something that we are controlling. In Lebanon, it's different. They could cut off their electricity and other supplies to such a manner that Hezbollah will be held responsible and accountable by the Lebanese themselves. This is why they're probably trying to put off a large, full-scale war in any case. Israel is trying to put off or Hezbollah? Both Hezbollah and Israel. I can remind our viewers when we speak about the occasional or random casualties on border Israeli casualties. At least one civilian has lost his life and at least five IDF soldiers. I can remind our viewers that back in 2006 the second Lebanon war started with the mere abduction of two IDF soldiers, reservists and the killing of three others. So we're seeing a much tougher reality now, much greater escalation on the border. Daily events, incidents initiated both by Hamas under the guidance of Hezbollah and by Hezbollah themselves. And yet Israel, at least for now, only responds locally towards the sources of fire, although today we also saw the targeting with a drone of a terror squad that was preparing to enter Israel already taken down by the IDF. So maybe that is some sort of advancement in this sense, because until now those IDF troops on the border were sitting ducks to the anti-tank missiles that Hezbollah was firing whenever it wanted and we've seen that today as well. Okay, so pictures coming to us now from Yemen's capital, Sana'a there we can see a large protest out on the streets similar to what we saw earlier this week when there were protests in solidarity with Palestinians around the world, anti-Israel protests that we can see. And this coming after three missiles were fired by Yemen's Iranian backed Hussi militia rockets or missiles I should say that were reportedly destined to reach Israel. They were intercepted by the U.S. Navy and we'll talk a bit more about U.S. deployment in the region in a moment. But let's turn, so these live scenes coming to us now from Yemen should turn out with a lot of Palestinian flags being flown. This is in the Hussi control part of Yemen. Well, let's go back to the campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza. General, tell me how do you think that the campaign to destroy Hamas is going so far on this day 14? I think we are getting ready for the next phase and so far this particular phase had to deal with moving the Palestinian population further south so that we can reach the center of command of Hezbollah which is in Gaza city and create a kind of a corridor. This is a live shot of Gaza coming just now. Yeah, please continue. It's the Ashkelon in the distance. Create some kind of a corridor so that we can go down to the lower city that Gaza has an upper city and a lower city in tunnels. And so the Air Force is paving way for the ground forces to reach the tunnels in their strategic areas that we want to talk about tactics now, but we're not going to be taking over the whole of Gaza. But we need to clear that we're going to take the Hamas brains so to speak in their command posts. And I just want to say the picture we're looking at there, it's gone, but it's very dense urban environment. This is not what Gaza looks like all over though, whereas the civilians have moved in the south it doesn't look as density populated as this, does it? This is a particular... Also really emphasizes how close it is to these civilian populations, the Israeli population. You can see Ashkelon in the distance the power plants of the Israeli power company right there in the distance a few Israeli communities in between. It really emphasizes the risk, the threat to these communities on the border. And going back to that deadly Saturday, well the police just now releasing new numbers about the number of Israeli casualties and Israeli fatalities that have been identified. Well that number now is 758 civilians that have been identified. That is just 75% of the presumed civilian fatalities. And we are getting reports that there are still bodies on the ground, still bodies that have not yet to be collected and to add to the complexity and to the really horrifying morbid situation that it is possible that many of the bodies or at least some of them will never be identified, never be located, both because many were abducted even after they died or died in the Gaza Strip and because of the state, because of the fact that these terrorists desecrated the bodies, burned the bodies after they slaughtered Israelis, after they tortured them, making it very very difficult for the Israeli forensic institute to even recognize with DNA the Israelis who were murdered there. Absolutely, it's a very very difficult work that is going on in the south of Israel and the full extent of the horrors unleashed by Hamas terrorists in the south of Israel are, as Guy points out, still being revealed nearly two weeks after that attack, more than 200 hostages are being held and at least 1400 people were murdered. Entire families massacred, children tortured and burned alive in some cases. The worst atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust and Kibbutz Behrie once looked like a paradise close to the border with Gaza was one of the worst hit communities. Our correspondent Piers Stechelbach was there this morning. Almost two weeks after the 7th of October, the terrible day that will probably forever be engraved in the minds of the residents in Behrie, you can still see the testimony of the terrible massacre in onslaught that has happened here in the small community less than three miles away from the Gaza border. This is a home of somebody, possibly family, that has been completely destroyed. People were probably hiding in here such as we are told by forces here on the ground and by many many testimonies that we've been hearing until now how people here hidden their homes when they realized that in the morning of this Saturday, they're not only dealing with rockets which they were used to, but also with the infiltration of Hamas residents. This house here has been completely damaged with bullet holes here on the on the door and now as we're entering also on the wall we're entering somebody's kitchen we're entering somebody's living room and you can still see the chaos that the battles here have left behind. You can see images of alive of a family that has been living here in the kibbutz that people are saying has been a very close knit kibbutz, a very communal area here and as you can still see kitchen towels kitchen drawers a table books on the kitchen counter as well as pictures on the fridge telling the story of a family that was living in this house and has come under attack on that Saturday morning. We've also been talking to one of the residents who went out to fight on that Saturday and keeps coming back after he's been burying many of his friends here from the kibbutz. Let's take a listen to what he had to tell us and also let's take a listen to his thoughts about hope. Well each one of us went through something else and whether it's in his own bomb shelter fearing for his life some of them went as far as 39 hours, no water no air, no electricity no food and some of them were outside fighting and I was lucky to be one of them and we all carry a blame that we didn't stay with our families because some of them didn't survive and maybe we could have saved them by being with them. It's too much. So I do like a salami small slices. A daily slice an hourly slice. Like coming here was a big slice for me because to open myself like so many hours and still go back to my other chores it'll be a heavy day today it's not gonna be easy but again I need to say at the end we're gonna overcome it and we're gonna be okay and this is only one of many houses here in Kibbutz Berri that still show the signs of fighting here out of more than a thousand residents more than a hundred were killed on that Saturday an unknown number of residents have been kidnapped into the Gaza Strip now although the blood has been cleaned up the people are still being buried now the scatters, the broken glass here that you can see on the window and the signs of life that has been completely shattered here will probably remain here forever this is Piaz Stekelbach reporting for I-24 News from Kibbutz Berri just a tiny snapshot there of the horror that was unleashed by Hamas terrorists in the south of Israel on October 7 well there are signs that Hamas's backers in Iran are trying to draw the United States into a regional conflict via its proxies the US Navy shot down three missiles fired by the Iranian backed Hussein militia last night was reportedly headed for Israel in Iraq, meanwhile, Shia militia proxies have reportedly tried to attack US troops joining us now, Entifad Kambar is the former spokesperson for the Iraqi President, thanks for being with us what exactly is happening in Iraq right now what's happening in Iraq is all out war in my opinion there have been two attacks on US bases and by the way these are Iraqi bases and the Iraqi army with some small US presence been attacked twice in one day and as I said the second one is Camp Victory near Baghdad airport risking the Iraqi civilians at the airport and this morning I learned from sources in Iraq all headquarters for Iraqi Shia militia proxies of Iran has been evacuated which means they are preparing for all war I think American citizens in Iraq are under imminent danger I think the United States should evacuate the US embassy in Baghdad and the only safe place for the Americans are Kurdistan the Kurds are the only viable ally to the United States and do you believe then given what you've just told me that Iran is now trying to draw the United States and ignite a wider conflict it's very clear we know how Iran games are they want to test the will and the resolve of the United States they are attacking the United States if the United States do not respond swiftly and retaliate that will give them a sign that Hezbollah can attack Israel and I think the whole world today to protect Israel if Israel is attacked this is an attack on the world when the Jews were executed and killed by Hitler nobody cared and then Hitler invaded whole Europe and caused the death of 55 million people this is Hitler again Hamas is worse than Hitler I have seen first hand and witness first hand the crimes by ISIS which comes from the same ideology and the same basis of Hamas what they have done how they have beheaded people alive people put on bombs and blowed up as a punishment so this is something not only an attack on Israel this is an attack on humanity if we want to have someone a vicious dictator thirsty for blood to rule the world then we should sit in our houses and let Iran do what they are doing now mayhem in the Middle East well the United States has sent significant military aid to Israel the US President is asking Congress to send even more I mean you've been on this show many times in the past and you've warned about the risk of the US neglecting Iraq and neglecting the Middle East and drawing down its troops there do you think we need to see a bigger presence of forces in the region I think President Biden made very strong speeches very strong stance but action more important than words I have to remind you and remind the world that the 6 billion dollars that are talking about unfreezing in Korea for Iran is not the issue what is the issue is 10 billion dollars repeat 10 billion dollars was released by the US by the Biden's administration to be paid by Iraq to Iran last summer so we are witnessing a policy of the United States in which the United States are paying a criminal regime hoping this regime is not going to kill the rest of the people so what happens we have the United States send the wrong message the wrong policy and we can see the devastating results hoping that the Middle East would be quieter but at the end the Middle East turned to a total mayhem and 1400 Israelis are killed and I think innocent people and we are going to see more unfortunately but unfortunately sometimes in this world it takes Jewish lives to correct people's brains thank you very much we appreciate it he is the former spokesperson of the Deputy President of Iraq well with me in the studio Brigadier General Relig Shafir and our guy Azriel we just heard about Iran's wider efforts there but a bit closer to home in the West Bank we could just focus on that for a second we saw some violent scenes earlier around Ramallah people protesting setting fire to things and the Palestinian security forces trying to get a lid on it how concerned are you about the situation in the West Bank I think that's Ramallah all right yes yes this is quite concerning because we don't want to open another front and remember that we have the front in the West Bank another front could be Arab Israelis and using the wrong words wrong vocabulary disrespect to the Arabs will incite wrong words from the Israeli comment yes or from politicians we've seen this in the last in this particular administration using insightful messages disrespecting Arabs and that steers just a reminder I think am I right to say around 20% of Israel yes that steers not just Israelis but also West Bank Arabs and we should refrain from that and I think Netanyahu is trying to do that by having the present coalition or the I would say the thin we've seen very little from the more extremist elements in the Israeli I think they were asked to quiet down and move aside but they are inciting Arabs both in the West Bank and inside Israel and this is something that can cause this particular event that we are at to be expanded without control and so we should be very careful on how we treat this and go on I do want to address this because I do think that after what we've seen on that Saturday and really understanding if anyone didn't understand until now the Nazi like ideology of Hamas and its supporters the idea that violence is being caused by little things that Israelis or Jews in Israel are doing well the reality is that those Jews that were murdered there were the most peace loving, peace activist people that I know very well people who were voluntarily driving Jews to Israeli hospitals in their free time who believed in peace the ideology of Hamas has nothing to do with something that Ben Veer has said or not yes it can contribute to the timing of escalation but doesn't change the fact that those people were murdered because of Jews regardless of what the Israeli government is I think it's more a question of not pouring fuel on the fire at this point there is a significant peaceful Arab community in Israel who are fighting in our army right now and are very much with us on this Israel is at war make an investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israelbonds.com and invest now officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the people who were killed they were killed they were killed in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity we're watching i24 news we're coming to you live from Tel Aviv it is day 14 of Israel's war with Hamas rockets fired this lunchtime in the direction of Jerusalem close to the city of Maudin near the Judean mountains and up in the north there is Hezbollah the Iranian backed terrorist group based in Lebanon is preparing to join the fight the IDF says troops came under fire near the northern town of Magaliot on the Lebanese border and the town of Kiryat Shmona which has a population of some 20,000 people has been evacuated let's go to the north our correspondent Robert Swift several incidents this morning involving infiltrators there has been a series of security events on the northern border not at the pace they occurred yesterday but definitely happening at pace the most recent security incident was around 13 minutes ago where a series of mortar rounds were fired from the Lebanese side towards Israeli positions in the north of Israel the IDF has said it has responded with artillery fire and this event took place around the mountain around the Mount Dov area now this is just one of the several security events that have taken place there was also an infiltration and a shooting with gunfire that occurred around Magaliot that resulted in the wounding of a security guard in that area and that is one of several security events that have taken place which is causing the evacuation order of the town of Kiryat Shmona and now you mentioned it is around 20,000 but it's worth noting that for days now even over a week the population in these northern communities has been steadily reducing as people decide that it's just simply not worth remaining here and choosing by themselves to leave to moving with friends and family elsewhere in the country but the fact that the government now is taking the decision to make this an official order shows that the tensions here that these continuous security events escalate Rob, just to be clear are people being evacuated primarily because of the fear of infiltrators by Hezbollah or Hamas terrorists from the north or is this more about the risk of missile fire? It's a combination of all these things together to be honest all of them can be a threat to life basically since the beginning of the war two weeks ago the anti-tank weapons the most dangerous weapon here they've resulted in the most casualties to civilians and to Israeli military forces and so on the northern border itself that's likely seen as the most dangerous weapon but the rockets, the mortars even small arms fire itself and like you say infiltration these are threats that can't be discounted either and there is reportedly pressure on the Israelis from the Americans not to strike Hezbollah preemptively so there has been some reports, some rumours that essentially the Americans were saying that Israel shouldn't strike Hezbollah first but that if Hezbollah were to throw the first punch the US would be there to support Israel essentially the US is wanting to avoid this conflict turning into a regional war escalating beyond merely a conflict between Hamas and Israel now Hezbollah obviously have one foot in this fight since the early days of the war they've been continuously firing across this border the question that no one is really certain about is to what extent does Hezbollah actually want to be in the fight are they merely demonstrating their support for the cause are they merely tying up Israeli forces here in the north or do they want to go in full force and that is unclear but the Americans have seemed to imply that they think Israel should avoid escalating it Alright Rob, thanks very much Robert Swift there up at the border with Lebanon, well let me introduce our guest Guy Azriel our senior registrar is here with us, we're also joined now by Brigadier General, Relic Shafir thanks for joining us so let's talk about the threat from the north when the Americans say that they would get involved if Hezbollah were to escalate does that mean we could see US airstrikes on Hezbollah positions is that how you understand it No, I doubt that this would happen because the Americans don't want to get their hands into the fire here but they will probably thwart Iran from taking any active participation within Lebanon and we know that there are quite a few Iranians along the Golan Heights not just the Lebanon on the Syrian side the Syrian side is not controlled by Assad's army but there are some groups out there including Iranian militia and so while Israel will try to take its hands off Lebanon by keeping this conflict below a threshold for war America is helping Israel by thwarting off Iran so I think this is more or less the position that we're taking Israel does not want to have two fronts even though it's not holding forces up in the north because Gaza does not take that many forces within this particular conflict So the focus very much on the north and efforts to draw in other actors oh I'm just being told that sirens are blaring in the north now so more rocket fire could be from either Hamas or other Palestinian groups or Hezbollah but at what point you know at what point would be a step too far for Israel if we're seeing now anti-tank mortars being fired from across the border I mean at what point would Israel say that is enough to respond properly? I think if there are attacks on civilians or if there'll be casualties that amount to more than one or two per day or wounded I'm sorry to speak in those terms but this is something that could be contained So one person was wounded today we know a security guard and more in the coming days we should be vigilant but it looks like they're not trying to have a mass scale attack but with the military What would an all-out war with Hezbollah look like does Israel have the capacity to destroy Hezbollah's capabilities once and for all because it's tried in 2006 and it pulled back some people say just a day before it was mission complete does it have the capacity to destroy Hezbollah? Well the story is that Hezbollah control Lebanon and rather than chase every single rocket launcher in Lebanon probably Israel would strike the infrastructure electricity, finaries communications Israel's missile defense could be overwhelmed potentially Well if they tried to overwhelm we will take some hits that's for sure but we have the iron dome that can protect strategic areas and the air force could take out the infrastructure in Lebanon in such a manner that even though they could keep firing just like the Gazes they will lose control of Lebanon as we know it now now Gaza doesn't have or energy unless they get it from Israel and that is something that we are controlling in Lebanon it's different but we could cut off their electricity and other supplies to such a manner that Hezbollah will be held responsible and accountable by the Lebanese themselves this is why they're probably trying to put off a large full-scale war in any case put off or Hezbollah? Both Hezbollah and Israel I can remind our viewers when we speak about the occasional or random casualties on the Israel-Lebanon border Israeli casualties at least one civilian has lost his life and at least five IDF soldiers I can remind our viewers that back in 2006 the second Lebanon war started with the mere abduction of two IDF soldiers, reservists and the killing of three others we're seeing a much tougher reality now much greater escalation on the border daily events, incidents initiated both by Hamas under the guidance of Hezbollah and by Hezbollah themselves and yet Israel at least for now only responds locally towards the sources of fire although today we also saw the targeting with a drone of a terror squad that was preparing to enter Israel already taken down by the IDF so maybe that is some sort of advancement in this sense because until now those IDF troops on the border were sitting ducks to the anti-tank missiles that Hezbollah was firing whenever it wanted and we've seen that today as well So pictures coming to us now from Yemen's capital Sana'a there we can see a large protest on the streets similar to what we saw earlier this week when there were protests in solidarity with Palestinians around the world anti-Israel protests there we can see and this coming after three missiles were fired by Yemen's Iranian backed Houssi militia rockets or missiles I should say that were reportedly destined to reach Israel they were intercepted by the U.S. Navy and we'll talk a bit more about U.S. deployment in the region in a moment but let's turn so these live scenes coming to us now from Yemen then we can see a large turnout with a lot of Palestinian flags being flown this is in the Houssi control part of Yemen well let's go back to the campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza General tell me how do you think that the campaign to destroy Hamas is going so far on this day 14 I think we are getting ready for the next phase and so far this particular phase had to deal with moving the Palestinian population further south so that we can reach the center of command of Hezbollah which is in Gaza city and create a kind of a corridor this is a live shot of Gaza coming just now yeah please continue an Ascalon in the distance create some kind of a corridor so that we can go down to the lower city that Gaza has an upper city and a lower city in tunnels and so the air force is paving way for the ground forces to reach the tunnels in their strategic areas that we want to talk about tactics now but we're not going to be taking over the whole of Gaza but we need to clear that we're going to take the Hamas brains so to speak in their command posts and I just want to say the picture we're looking at there it's very dense urban environment this is not what Gaza looks like all over those where the civilians have moved in the south it doesn't look as densely populated as this does it this is a particular also really emphasizes how close it is to these civilian population the Israeli population you can see Ascalon in the distance the power plants of the the Israeli power company right there in the distance few Israeli communities in between it really emphasizes the risk the threat to these the Israeli population the Israeli population the Israeli population back to that deadly Saturday well the police just now releasing new numbers about the number of Israeli casualties and Israeli fatalities that have been identified well that number now is 758 civilians that have been identified that is just 75% that have not yet to be collected and to add to the complexity and to the really horrifying morbid situation it is possible that many of the bodies or at least some of them will never be identified never be located both because many were abducted even after they died or died in the Gaza Strip and because of the state because of the fact that these terrorists desecrated the bodies burned the bodies after they slaughtered Israelis after they tortured them making it very very difficult for the Israeli forensic institute to even recognize with DNA the Israelis who were murdered there absolutely it's a very very difficult work that is going on in the south of Israel and the full extent of the horrors unleashed by Hamas terrorists in the south of Israel are as Guy points out still being revealed nearly two weeks after that attack 300 hostages are being held and at least 1400 people were murdered entire families massacred children tortured and burned alive in some cases the worst atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust and Kibbutz Berry once looked like a paradise close to the border with Gaza was one of the worst hit communities our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach was there this morning almost two weeks after the 7th of October the terrible day that will probably forever be engraved in the minds of the residents in Berry you can still see the testimony of the terrible massacre in onslaught that has happened here in the small community less than three miles away from the Gaza border this is a home of somebody possibly family that has been completely destroyed people were probably hiding in here such as we are told by forces here on the ground and by many many testimonies that we've been hearing until now how people here hidden their homes when they realized that in the morning of this Saturday they're not only dealing with rockets which they were used to but also with the infiltration of Hamas militants this house here has been completely damaged with bullet holes here on the on the on the door and now as we're entering also on the wall we're entering somebody's kitchen we're entering somebody's living room and you can still see the chaos that the battles here have left behind you can see images of a live of a family that has been living here in the kibbutz that people are saying has been a very close knit kibbutz a very communal area here and as you can still see kitchen towels kitchen drawers a table as well as pictures on the fridge telling the story of a family that was that was living in this house and has come under attack on that terrible Saturday morning we've also been talking to one of the residents who went out to fight on that Saturday and keeps coming back after he's been burying many of his friends here from the kibbutz let's take a listen to what he had to tell us and also let's take a listen to his thoughts about hope well each one of us went through something else and whether it's his own bomb shelter fearing for his life some of them went as far as 39 hours no water, no air no electricity, no food and some of them were outside fighting and I was lucky to be one of them and we all carry a blame that we didn't stay with our families because someone who didn't survive and maybe he could have saved them by being with them it's too much so I do like a salami small slices a daily slice or an hourly slice coming here was a big slice for me because to open myself like so many hours and still go back to my other chores it'll be a heavy day today it's not going to be easy but again, I need to say at the end we're going to overcome it and we're going to be okay and this is only one of many houses in kibbutz berri that still show the signs of fighting here out of more than a thousand residents more than a hundred were killed on that Saturday an unknown number of residents have been kidnapped into the Gaza Strip now although the blood has been cleaned up the people are still being buried now the scatters the broken glass here that you can see on the window and the signs of life that has been completely shattered here will probably remain here forever this is Piash Dekalbach reporting for I-24 news from Kibbutz Berri just a tiny snapshot there of the horror that was unleashed by Hamas terrorists in the south of Israel on October 7 there are signs that Hamas backers in Iran are trying to draw the United States into a regional conflict via its proxies the U.S. Navy shot down three missiles fired by the Iranian Bakht Hussein militia last night they were reportedly headed for Israel in Iraq meanwhile Shia militia proxies have reportedly tried to attack U.S. troops joining us now Entifad Kambar is the former spokesperson for the Iraqi president thanks for being with us Entifad what exactly is happening in Iraq right now what exactly is happening in Iraq is all out war in my opinion there have been two attacks on U.S. bases and by the way these are not U.S. bases these are Iraqi bases with the Iraqi army with some small U.S. presence been attacked twice in one day and as I said the second one is Camp Victory near Baghdad airport risking the Iraqi civilians at the airport and this morning I learned from sources in Iraq all headquarters for Iraqi Shia militia proxies of Iran has been evacuated which means they are preparing for all war I think American citizens in Iraq are under imminent danger I think the United States should evacuate the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the only safe place for the Americans are Kurdistan the Kurds are the only viable ally to the United States do you believe then given what you've just told me that Iran is now trying to draw the United States and ignite a wider conflict it's very clear we know how Iran games are they want to test the will and the resolve of the United States they are attacking the United States if the United States do not respond swiftly and retaliate that would give them a sign that Hezbollah can attack Israel and I think the whole world today to protect Israel if Israel is attacked this is an attack on the whole world when the Jews were executed and killed by Hitler nobody cared and then Hitler invaded whole Europe and caused the death of 55 million people this is Hitler again Amos is worse than Hitler he was seen firsthand and witnessed firsthand the crimes by ISIS which comes from the same ideology and the same bases of Hamas what they have done how they have beheaded people buried people alive people put on bombs and blowed up as a punishment so this is something not only an attack on Israel humanity if we want to have someone a vicious dictator thirsty for blood to rule the world then we should sit in our houses and let Iran do what they are doing now mayhem in the Middle East well the United States has sent significant military aid to Israel the US president is asking Congress to send even more I mean you've been on this show many times in the past you've warned about the risk of the US neglecting Iraq and neglecting the Middle East and drawing down its troops there do you think we need to see a bigger presence of US forces in the region I think President Biden made very strong speeches very strong stance but action more important than words I have to remind you and remind the world that the 6 billion dollars unfreezing in Korea for Iran is not the issue what is the issue is 10 billion dollars repeat 10 billion dollars was released by the US administration by the Biden's administration to be paid by Iraq to Iran last summer so we are witnessing a policy of the United States in which the United States are paying a criminal regime hoping this regime is not going to kill the rest of the people so what happens we have the United States send the wrong message the wrong policy and we can see the devastating results hoping that the Middle East would be quieter but at the end the Middle East turned to a total mayhem and 1400 Israelis are killed and I think innocent people and we're going to see more unfortunately but unfortunately sometimes in this world it takes Jewish lives to correct people's brains thank you very much we appreciate it he's the former spokesperson for the Deputy President of Iraq well with me in the studio Brigadier General Relic Shafir and our guy Azriel we just heard about Iran's wider efforts there but a bit closer to home in the West Bank we could just focus on that for a second for some violent scenes earlier around Ramallah people protesting, setting fire to things and the Palestinian security forces trying to get a lid on it how concerned are you about the situation in the West Bank I think that's Ramallah we're looking at now right yes yes this is quite concerning because we don't want to open another front and remember that we have the front in the West Bank another front could be and using the wrong words wrong vocabulary disrespect to the Arabs may incite wrong words from the Israeli yes yes or from politicians we've seen this in the last in this particular administration using insightful messages disrespecting Arabs and that steers am I right to say around 20% of Israel is Arab that steers not just Israelis but also West Bank Arabs and we should refrain from that and I think Netanyahu is trying to do that by having the coalition or the I would say the thin we've seen very little from the more extremist elements in the I think they were asked to quiet down and move aside but they are inciting Arabs both in the West Bank and inside Israel and this is something that can cause this particular event that we are at to be expanded without control and so we should be very careful and how we treat this I do want to address this because I do think that after what we've seen on that Saturday and really understanding if anyone didn't understand until now the Nazi like ideology of Hamas and its supporters the idea that violence is being caused by little things that Israelis or Jews in Israel are doing and the reality is that those Jews that were murdered there were the most peace loving activists people that I know very well people who were voluntarily driving Palestinians to Israeli hospitals in their free time who believed in peace the ideology of Hamas has nothing to do with something that Ben Veer has said or not yes it can contribute to the timing of escalation but doesn't change the fact that those people were murdered because of Jews I think it's more a question of not pouring fuel on the fire at this point there is a significant peaceful Arab community in Israel who are Arabs are fighting in our army right now and are very much with us stay with us this is our 20 point news this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year we've come out here where they see us to claim for the rain in these moments global warming is affecting Bolivia and not only Bolivia but all around the world and we need rain for God's sake in the last 10 years there is a conflict zone 1 km from the south of Mosul for me the most intense mission but also certainly the most exciting and the one that brought me to Mosul in June 2017 to cover the fierce battle between the Iraqi army with whom we were embarked and the terrorists of the Islamic State who had made of this city their caliphate in Iraq a few years earlier after having crossed a Mosul in ruin we finally found in the middle of Casbah in the west part of the city near the combats and the bombings of the international coalition we are here a few hundred meters away from Mosque and nourish it we went from house to house to stay covered by Daesh snipers before arriving on a roof at the level of the front line where the Iraqi young soldiers were able to spread their arsenal and their firepower in front of our cameras after leaving this theater of war that I took the measure of what I wanted to live when the information fell according to which a French TV team had been killed by an explosive machine a mine in the same place where we found each other a few days earlier and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news you're watching i24 news coming to you live from Tel Aviv on this day 14 of Israel's war with Hamas airstrikes continue to pound Gaza Hamas rockets continue to fire at Israel Israel says the Rafa crossing is due to open in the next couple of days to allow in humanitarian aid more than 200 hostages are being held in Gaza at least 1400 Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 Israel says the bodies of 750 people have now been identified hundreds of Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel and took part in the attacks were killed the IDF has now collected weapons used by Hamas to massacre civilians in the south our Pierre-Claude Schendler has this report we're in a storage hole of the IDF somewhere in southern Israel and Major G the head of the institute and research for ammunition and weapons of the Israeli army has told us that this arsenal is only one percent what was found on the bodies and on the pickup trucks of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who perpetrated their slaughter in October 7 they found over 1000 hand grenades one over 1000 improvised explosive devices and RPGs rockets about 500 other explosives 1000 Kalachnikov AK-47 guns about 100 mortars the largest concentration of weapons was found in the Kibbutzim which suffered the heaviest slaughters Kfar Azar, Bari here you can see AIDs fragmentation and claymore found on pickups mines, gaspipes thermobaric warhead for RPG-29 used in Israeli homes to burn people anti-tank EIDs with magnetic mechanism used in villages RPG rockets including some Hamas made hand grenades 60 millimeter mortar and shells made in Iran produced in May 2018 anti-personal fragmentation RPG-7 rockets made in North Korea fuses timers and when I asked Major J whether the terrorists in their medical kit carried the terrorist drug captagon produced in Syria and exported all through the Arab world and beyond he just simply answered I can't relate to this question this is Pierre Kloschendler with more news in southern Israel and the full extent of the horror unleashed by Hamas terrorists in the south of Israel is still being revealed entire families massacred children tortured and in some cases burned alive Kibbutz Bari close to the border with Gaza was one of the worst hit communities our Pierre Stechelbach was there almost two weeks after the 7th of October when he was left in the minds of the residents in Bari you can still see the testimony of the terrible massacre in onslaught that has happened here in the small community less than 3 miles away from the Gaza border this is a home of somebody possibly family that has been completely destroyed people were probably hiding in here such as we are told by forces here on the ground and by many many testimonies that we've been hearing until now how people here have noticed that in the morning of this Saturday they're not only dealing with rockets which they were used to but also with the infiltration of Hamas militants this house here has been completely damaged with bullet holes here on the on the door and now as we're entering also on the wall we're entering somebody's kitchen we're entering somebody's living room and you can still see the chaos that the battles here have left behind you can see images of alive of a family that has been living here in the kibbutz the people are saying has been a very close knit kibbutz a very communal area here and as you can still see kitchen towels kitchen drawers a table books on the kitchen counter on the fridge telling the story of a family that was that was living in this house and has come under attack on that terrible Saturday morning we've also been talking to one of the residents who went out to fight on that Saturday and keeps coming back after he's been burying many of his friends here from the kibbutz let's take a listen to what he had to tell us and also let's take a listen to his thoughts about hope well each one of us was something else his own bomb shelter fearing for his life some of them went as far as 39 hours no water, no air no electricity, no food and some of them were outside fighting and I was lucky to be one of them and we all carry a blame that we didn't stay with our families because some of them didn't survive and maybe he could have saved them by being with them it's too much so I do like a salami small slices a daily slice, an hourly slice like coming here was a big slice for me because to open myself like so many hours and still go back to mother chores it'll be a heavy day today it'll be easy but again I need to say at the end we're going to overcome it and we're going to be okay and this is only one of many houses that still show the signs of fighting here out of more than a thousand residents more than a hundred were killed on that Saturday an unknown number of residents have been kidnapped into the Gaza Strip now although the blood has been cleaned up the people are still being buried now the scatter is the broken glass here that you can see on the window and the signs of life that has been completely shattered here will probably remain here forever this is Piaz Dekalbach reporting for I-24 News from Kibbutz Bayeri well joining me in the studio Amir Aura is a defense and government commentator thanks for being with us so let's talk about the fight back then day 14 air strikes continue how much is still firing rockets and still no ground offensive so as we have seen Israel has the strongest case possible for its counter-attack retaliation hunting down the Hamas leaders it's not a matter of legitimacy this is obviously Israel's stock in trade now the question is operational when is the most opportune time what are the most effective methods to go about it obviously Hamas is on edge Hamas has expected Israel to counter-attack immediately it has made preparations for that and its leaders are apparently at unease because they don't know what Israel has up its sleeve now the stage we are in right now preparing the battlefield and it has several dimensions diplomatically Israel has to await some minor attempts at grand compromise regarding the hostages which obviously the United States is doing behind the scenes President Biden says that he is using every avenue possible leaving no stone unturned and obviously there are some under the table approaches to Hamas via Qatar, Turkey, who knows maybe even Iran there is the intelligence preparation of the battlefield because the more data Israel has on the location of the hostages a very important consideration and the location of the Hamas leaders and the booby traps and whatever they have in store is also very important and preparation by fire mostly by the air force the air force is now preparing corridors for the ground forces to get at their objectives thanks Amir, stay with us because I want to go to the north Israelis of course on high alert Amid fears Hezbollah is preparing to join the fight we are trying to get hold of our correspondent Robert Swift a series of developments in the north a word on that Amir Oran because you are watching that closely So both Hezbollah and the northern branch of Hamas operating out of Lebanon are trying to go to Israel into opening a second front what we have right now is not really a front there are skirmishes along the border anti-tank missiles by the way anti-tank missiles are being launched against the Israeli military assets as well as civilian buildings and facilities and therefore many of the villages and towns have been evacuated let's get the latest on that Rob Swift is with us now at Israel's northern border Rob, tell us what's going on so in the last hour the Israeli military has confirmed that there was a launch of around 20 to 30 rockets and destroyed Hezbollah mortar team it's also been announced that there was small arms fire and anti-tank missiles from Hezbollah over the last few days we've seen Hezbollah attacking surveillance towers and Israeli infrastructure along the border using sniper rifles and it's understood that this is a continuation of that also in there was a report of rocket attacks in the Dovev community although the IDF has said this is a false alarm so several causes for concern then Rob not only rocket attacks now we've got anti-tank missiles we've got potential infiltrations I mean you've been at the border a few times in the last few days would you say it is heating up significantly it does seem that way now that I've come back up after being away for a day the military presence here does seem to have jumped up in that time we're standing I'll not say exactly where we're standing but the area where we are it's clear that the number of Israeli troops here has increased I would say about 95% of the people standing around us are Israeli soldiers you can see the signs of the evacuation order that's been announced today there's not a lot of civilians here anymore Thanks a lot Rob Swift there up at the northern border and remember the US President Joe Biden very clear in his message to Hezbollah he said if you're thinking of getting involved one word for you don't well let's talk about efforts by Iran the backers of Hamas and Hezbollah to draw the United States into a wider conflict Iran also controls the Houthi rebels in Yemen last night that group attempted to fire rockets at Israel but they were intercepted by the US Navy joining us now Waleed Fares foreign policy expert and the author of Iran West Republic thank you very much indeed for being with us Waleed let's start with Lebanon then a significant rise in incidents coming from across the border from Hezbollah and other groups should Israel strike before they do Wow this is a question to the party contending this fight but basically what's happening and that's a reality is that Hezbollah is escalating that's what we observe and they are escalating later because of orders or instructions or a strategy applied by Iran from Tehran now Lebanon's topography is very difficult Hezbollah is infiltrated across the south of Lebanon but what we are hearing now recently just as recently as this morning is that the local population is unhappy most of the local population is unhappy because Hezbollah is installing rocket launchers, artillery and other units in their villages and that they don't want to be like in Gaza shields for Hezbollah so is there a significant number of Lebanese citizens moving away from the conflict zone would you say? Yeah we see it on the videos I mean thousands and thousands of Lebanese hundreds of cars going up to the north meaning to Beirut and around Beirut even Hezbollah and the southern suburb of Beirut is trying to control some apartments trying to open some houses to place these populations but it is not yet what we saw before in previous wars where an entire population has moved they are very nervous especially communities that are not very friendly to Hezbollah that will be the Sunnis across the border in southern Lebanon the Christians and the Jews they are not very happy that Hezbollah may trigger a larger war. Well of course Hezbollah does control the southern border it doesn't it doesn't control the whole of Lebanon though is there any group or any force inside Lebanon that can restrain Hezbollah at this point? Well among the civilians we've seen over the past two decades those who support or supported the Cedars Revolution in 2005 and 2019 against the Syrian occupation army and then of course against Hezbollah they are there they are a popular majority but they are not armed the only military force in Lebanon that can and should by law this armed Hezbollah according to UN resolution 1559 is the Lebanese army unfortunately the Lebanese army also is influenced by Hezbollah not as a body but some areas in the Lebanese army are very close to Hezbollah but not all of it so one can imagine multiple scenarios if a war would widen in Lebanon. Alright well let's talk about events in the Gulf last night Walid are we going to see more of these attempts by Iran to draw in the United States and how should Washington respond? Iran command for the region usually they passed around the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and specifically the coup force they are in charge of what I call the Middle East and battlefield Gaza is just one piece southern Lebanon or Lebanon is another piece southern Syria is a third piece but a very strategic location for the fourth piece is in Yemen and these are the Houthis Houthis have been funded and trained and also obviously operational because of the help from Iran now the question is very strategic because Iran is using the Houthis located in a very important economic lifeline for the world to put pressure to tell the world if you don't do what I want in Gaza or in southern Lebanon I can cross that lifeline and that would cause a huge economic crisis worldwide. What about the position of the moderate Gulf Arab states I mean they too are threatened by Iran via the Houthis in Yemen they also need to show support for the Palestinians they need to show the Arab publics that they stand with the Palestinians how do you see them working their way through this they've done it in the past when there were clashes between Israel and Hamas or other factions in the region they would issue certainly press releases condemning Israel but at the same time not really fueling or supporting Hamas directly other than humanitarian aid but a more important question for these countries the Gulf countries is that what is the aim of Iran Saudi Arabia just signed a normalization treaty that's not an alliance treaty a normalization treaty with Iran this earlier this year hoping that they won't be touched by the by the Iranian forces but what caused that was initially a failure of our administration here to show support to Saudi Arabia UAE Bahrain and others which pushed them cornered them to normalize with Iran but we don't know maybe the Iranians are going to drag even those Arab countries into a confrontation that they don't want Dr. Walid Farris author of Iran imperialist republic thank you very much we appreciate it thank you for having me well here in Israel it's not just the countries Jewish soldiers who are fighting Hamas there are Druze Arab and Bedouins also signing up to destroy the terrorist group this report now on Israel's Bedouin fighters was there a moment in the midst of all the chaos when you said to yourself how is this possible that's not the kind of thing that crosses your mind during a battle you're focused on countering the attack and preventing them at all costs from succeeding in doing what they came to do did you fear for your life I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't so yes of course the fear is there Lieutenant Colonel M is a commanding officer of the Bedouin trackers unit in the Israeli army for the area surrounding the Gaza Strip he has been in service for 24 years never in my worst nightmares did I think that I'd give the order to fire a missile from an Apache helicopter at my headquarters details of what transpired on the morning of the attack have been scarce now we can see from within the idea of base that has turned into a bloody battlefield the bedrooms and offices are riddled with bullets shattered glass in every corner and a gymnasium which was bombed to take down the terrorists who were barricaded inside on that morning I was called up with info of two simultaneous at this time at headquarters only a few men are on site some in the operation room with some staff officers the only combat soldiers on site are the Bedouin trackers I went outside and on the left about 200 or 300 meters away there was a long line of terrorists on motorcycles sound up Allah Akbar I understood right away that they were Hamas operatives and that they were blocking the road the battle to prevent the terrorists from entering the base was long and no doubt it prevented a much greater catastrophe every nook and cranny on the base's entrance every signpost or rock turned into a fighting position then they tried to enter the base on their motorcycles but we stopped them with a barrage of bullets it lasted about an hour and a half we were 6 against 30 after a long exchange of fire the terrorists changed their tactics and split into several groups they placed one group ambushing on this road and the other split up some attacked the entrance others blocked the road to prevent cars from passing at 6.30 am there were rocket alerts and at that moment I received a phone call from the officer at headquarters who told me there is a serious incident in the area go I then headed for the rhyme base to rejoin the division and then I was ambushed by the terrorists in front of the base there were no motorcycles to block the way there were about 13 of them and they started coming towards me they were merely 40 meters away from us and at that point I had no choice but to make contact and attack then return to the base that's what I was trained for that's what I was brought up with as Major Akram rejoins the operations room and prepares to return to combat on the north side Lieutenant Colonel M also goes to the command room to get the latest information on the situation on the ground he leaves tracker Ashraf in position at the entrance with a single mission keep terrorists out my commander told me Ashraf you stay here no terrorist gets through we went into battle again and stopped them from advancing all the way to the entrance we killed 13 at the entrance alone as Ashraf directs the fighting at this entrance dozens of young people who have escaped from the rave party find refuge in the base he tells them where to go for cover there were over 30 families young people full of blood many with face injuries from shreds of glass from windows of the cars they were in when the terrorists shot at them many were shot in the leg, arm or shoulder I got them into the room and told them to close the door and not let anyone in until I got back that I'd say my name three times to let them know it was me the terrorists started to move towards the parking lot I didn't understand what they were doing at the time but I started to hear shooting from the other side of the base so I understood that they had managed to get into the base after all was the fence wide open? yes they opened a breach on the fence they wanted to get in with the motorcycles after more than an hour of fruitless efforts outside the base they realized they weren't going to make it and decided to break through the fence from then on things escalated even further dozens of terrorists invaded the north side of the base searching room by room for the command center as they advance they shoot at anything that moves this went on for four hours an eternity in times of emergency at 10.30 am the IDF's special commander unit of Shaldag arrives on the base and starts taking control of the area Muslim Bedouin fighters give all they had to save lives and even if some are worried about tensions concerning their rights they are focused on their main task defense in times of war and they still have many complicated missions to fulfill I don't care about the gender religion or race of those who are with me we are all citizens of this country the state of Israel and we must be united together now is the time for the people to come together support and give everything to our country and that is Israel isn't it? Jews, Jews, Arabs fighting together yes that is Israel institutions fail sometimes miserably inexplicably individual soldiers fight heroically junior officers and sometimes even field great officers lieutenant colonels and colonels gave their lives valiantly the generals and the cabinet ministers have failed and will probably have to resign when this is over or at least the greatest part of it is over because the public will not stand for people and not being accountable and do you remember a time when Israel has been so united? up until two weeks ago I thought that the Yom Kippur war was at that time but right now because this is the biggest catastrophe ever for Israel this is also the greatest opportunity for people to get around some common denominator not everything particularly united but right now there's a just cause we must get the job done and then we will have repercussions and it's remarkable to see the country I mean just to think just a few weeks ago there was huge divisions in this country people fighting over judicial reform now you see all sectors of Israeli society pulling together to fight this terrible enemy this is again on a very narrow beam because there is a connection between what happened over the last preceding nine months with the judicial coup and the divisions that this has caused and the deterioration in the military readiness and willingness of reserve volunteers to show up and what the general staff should have told Netanyahu and his ministers and they did but they only whispered they did not shout they did not resign and therefore they have become complicit in the failure are you encouraged that there is a unity government in place now well there is no unity government a few ministers or a few politicians joined Netanyahu this is not a positive development the positive development is that the cabinet the war cabinet is headed by one Joe Biden this is the reality that Biden dictates the constraints in which the cabinet operates and therefore all war plans must be approved by the Americans not to say the president Austin Blinken the sent com commander before they are executed all right Amir Arun thank you very much great to talk to you we'll do stay with us our live coverage we'll continue here on I-24 news on this day 14 of Israel's war against Hamas stay tuned please from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on I-24 news you're watching I-24 news coming to you live from Tel Aviv on this day 14 of Israel's war with Hamas airstrikes continue to pound Gaza Hamas rockets continue to fire at Israel the UN says the raffa crossing is due to open in the next couple of days to allow in the humanitarian system the U.S. military the U.N. to allow in humanitarian aid more than 200 hostages are being held in Gaza at least 1400 Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 Israel says the bodies of 750 people have now been identified hundreds of Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel and took part in the attacks were killed the IDF has now collected all of the weapons used by Hamas to massacre civilians in the south Pierre-Claude Schendler has this report we're in a storage hole of the IDF somewhere in southern Israel and Major G the head of the institute and research for ammunition and weapons of the Israeli army has told us that this arsenal is only nearly 1% what was found on the bodies and on the pickup trucks of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who perpetrated their slaughter in October 7 they found over 1000 hand grenades over 1000 improvised explosive devices and RPGs rockets about 500 other explosives 2000 Kalachnikov 27 guns about 100 mortars the largest concentration of weapons was found in the Kibbutzim which suffered the heaviest slaughters here you can see IEDs fragmentation and claymore found on pickups mines, gaspipes thermobaric warhead for RPG-29 Israeli homes to burn people anti-tank IEDs with magnetic mechanism used in villages RPG rockets including some Hamas made hand grenades 16mm mortars and shells made in Iran produced in May 2018 antipersonal fragmentation RPG-7 rockets made in North Korea fuses timers and when I asked Mayor Ji whether the terrorists in their medical kit carried the terrorist drug produced in Syria and exported all through the Arab world and beyond he just simply answered I can't relate to this question this is Pierre Kloschendler I-24 news in southern Israel and the full extent of the horror unleashed by Hamas terrorists in the south of Israel is still being revealed entire families massacred children tortured and in some cases burned alive Kibbutz Bayeri close to the border with Gaza was one of the worst hit communities our Pierre Stechelbach was there almost two weeks after the 7th of October the terrible day that will probably forever be engraved in the minds of the residents in Bayeri you can still see the testimony of the terrible massacre in onslaught that has happened here in the small community less than three miles away from the Gaza border this is a home of somebody possibly family that has been completely destroyed people were probably hiding in here such as we are told by forces here on the ground and by many many testimonies that we've been hearing until now how people here hidden their homes when they realized that in the morning of this Saturday they were not only dealing with rockets which they were used to but also with the infiltration of Hamas militants this house here has been completely damaged with bullet holes here on the door and now as we are entering also on the wall we are entering somebody's kitchen we are entering somebody's living room and you can still see the chaos the battles here have left behind you can see images of a live of a family that has been living here in the kibbutz that people are saying has been a very close knit kibbutz a very communal area here and as you can still see kitchen towels kitchen drawers a table books on the kitchen counter as well as pictures on the fridge that was that was living in this house and has come under attack on that terrible Saturday morning we've also been talking to one of the residents who went out to fight on that Saturday and keeps coming back after he's been burying many of his friends here from the kibbutz let's take a listen to what he had to tell us and also let's take a listen to his thoughts about hope well each one of us went through something else whether it's his own bomb shelter fearing for his life some of them went as far as 39 hours no water, no air no electricity, no food and some of them were outside fighting and I was lucky to be one of them and we all carry a blame that we didn't stay with our families because some of them didn't survive and they maybe could have saved them by being with them it's too much so I do like a salami small slices a daily slice or an hourly slice like coming here was a big slice for me because to open myself like so many hours and still go back to mother chores it'll be a heavy day today it's not gonna be easy but again I need to save the end we're gonna overcome it and we're gonna be okay and this is only one of many houses in Kibbutz Berri that still show the signs of fighting here out of more than a thousand residents more than a hundred were killed on that Saturday an unknown number of residents have been kidnapped into the Gaza Strip now although the blood has been cleaned up the people are still being buried now the scatters the broken glass here that you can see on the window and the signs of life that has been completely shattered here will probably remain here forever this is Piaz Stekelbach reporting for I-24 news from Kibbutz Berri well joining me in the studio Amir Oran is a defence and government commentator thanks for being with us so let's talk about the fight back then day 14 air strikes continue how much is still firing rockets and still no ground offensive what's the delay as you have seen Israel has the strongest case possible for its counter attack retaliation hunting down the Hamas leaders it's not a matter of legitimacy this is obviously Israel's stock in trade now the question is operational when is the most opportune time and what are the most effective methods to go about it obviously Hamas is on edge Hamas has expected Israel to counter attack immediately it has made preparations for that and its leaders are apparently at unease because they don't know what Israel has up its sleeve now the stage we are in right now is called preparing the battlefield it has several dimensions diplomatically Israel has to await some minor attempts at a grand compromise regarding the hostages which obviously the United States is doing behind the scenes President Biden says that he is using every avenue possible leaving no stone unturned and obviously there are some under the table approaches to Hamas via Qatar Turkey who knows maybe even Iran there is the intelligence preparation of the battlefield because the more data Israel has on the location of the hostages a very important consideration and the location of the Hamas leaders and the booby traps and whatever they have in store this is also very important especially the fire mostly by the air force the air force is now preparing corridors for the ground forces to get at their objectives thanks Amir stay with this because I want to go to the north israelis of course on high alert amid fears