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Today is day 32 of Israel's war with Hamas marking exactly one month to the October 7 atrocities that Hamas perpetrated against Israelis when it brutally entered their homes and attacked them resulting in 1,400 murdered civilians including many women and children. Additionally, 241 hostages were taken from within Israel and into Gaza. Israeli forces pushed further into the Gaza Strip overnight and were operating nearby the Shefa Hospital which is reportedly located above Hamas's command center as the IDF continued to target Hamas's underground tunnel network and military capabilities. Following a 12 hour pause, Hamas rocket fire into southern Israel resumed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war with Hamas is finished, illustrating to the catastrophic results of what was able to happen when it didn't. Let's have a listen. President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza. Who should govern Gaza when this is over? Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas and certainly I think Israel will for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine. A 69 year old Jewish man by the name of Paul Kessler died overnight in Los Angeles following an assault he endured when a pro-Palestinian demonstrated struck his head with a megaphone, causing him to collapse and suffer from severe bleeding. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died of his wounds. Over on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Klosendler. Pierre, what can you tell us about the strikes that have been going on overnight? Well, we know that fighting is going on. There was just an outgoing from the Israeli artillery where we are standing, not far away from the Gaza border. Now the siege of Gaza city is tightening and there's airstrikes on certain targets in Gaza city and the ground forces are already operating inside Gaza city. Palestinians are reporting that the Israeli ground forces are a few hundred meters away from Shifa hospital. Now Shifa hospital has been described by the IDF as the most important control and operational command center inside the Gaza strip. Gaza city itself is probably according to the IDF the most important stronghold of Hamas military capabilities inside the Gaza strip. And therefore there's been a lot of pressure on Shifa hospital. At this moment what we hear is that according to Palestinian reports yesterday evening, the solar panels of Shifa hospital were annihilated by an Israeli airstrike. We don't exactly know what the purpose of that would be and these again are Palestinian reports. But we know that the combination of all the armed branches of the IDF are working so tightly that for instance an F-35I according to the Israeli chief of staff bombed Hamas targets 200 meters away from the Israeli ground forces. The Israeli ground forces were sheltering inside their armored vehicle. A bomb was unleashed on a Hamas target by an F-35I and thus immediately after the Israeli ground forces could assault that target. Many terrorists were killed in that specific target and this is the tightening not only of the Gaza city siege but at the same time the tightening of the cooperation between all the armed forces of the IDF. Thank you Pierre Koschenler on Israel Southern border. Joining us in his retired colonel, Mary Eisen, director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University. Hi, Mary. Hello, Ms. Ibrahim. Now rocket fire resumed this morning towards Southern Israel but we see that the number of barrages towards Israel generally dropped. Does this mean do you think that Hamas is facing a limited ability to fire rockets now? Well, some of it just has to do with numbers. We've always said that Hamas has probably 15 to 20,000 rockets and as far as we can count until now, I'd say that they fire probably even 10,000. We do realize that there are hundreds if not thousands that have been fired towards Israel and have fallen in the Gaza Strip. So Siobhan, that means they still have capability but we have dissected the Gaza Strip physically in military senses into two areas, to the North and to the South. And they have pretty much lost their capacity to really fire from the Northern Gaza Strip because we are right there and can see immediately and immediately target when we are so close even in the urban area. They're continuing to fire out of the Southern Gaza Strip which means that yes, they still have the capacity much more limited. I breathe in deep because I don't want anybody to think that because of this, we should be safer now. Hamas want to show that they can continue in their terms to fire the rockets, to give battle. They right now want to present themselves as if they are the ones who are battling and winning. So they have an interest to continue to fire. So we really need to be careful at this stage. Now we're seeing live images from Gaza as you speak. If they're firing rockets from the Southern area then that means they are indefinitely firing from civilian, from within the civilian population. Is that right? Over the last few days, the IDF has been exposing because we are now in the Gaza Strip, these are things that we've spoken about both here on I-24 news, but over the last decade that Hamas build the different firing capabilities out of mosques, out of schools, out of kindergartens. And over the last few days, it's a war. It doesn't look the way you expect. The kindergarten doesn't look like a kindergarten anymore. It's the area within the mosque that we've been showing the different launching locations from the kindergarten, from the school, from the mosque. So that's things that we're getting to and it will continue to be, as I say, they've built this over a decade. It's still there with a lot of capabilities. Now Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will have to be responsible for the security in Gaza in the future. Is this a realistic goal, do you think? In its own way, Sivan, and I say very harshly for me as an Israeli, is there any other realistic goal? We right now are not conquering all of the Gaza Strip. We are trying to get to the Hamas terrorists and our hostages in a variety of ways. There are 2.3 million people there. Hamas has ruled over the Gaza Strip from 2007 and look at what they have done. There is nobody else in the world who wants to step in right now. And until there is a viable, local, Palestinian-grown type of leadership that does not call and actively act to annihilate Israel, to attack Israel, then it's going to be Israel's responsibility. I really don't see us having another choice. I don't know what that means. I need to be very clear. I don't know if that means that we're ruling all over the territory. It's very hard to say at this stage that this is the first time Netanyahu has said something at the sword and we need to take it into account. As Israelis, it may be the only of the bad choices, the only bad choice we can take. Mary Eisen, thank you for your input. Please stay with us. We will be back to you. Joining us on Israel's Northern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Zach Anders. Zach Hamas Lebanon took responsibility for a barrage of rockets which hit Northern Israel last night with rockets reaching as far as the city of Haifa for the first time since the Lebanon War. What can you tell us about Hamas' involvement in the North? Well, that strike reaching about 20 plus miles from the Northern border is significant, like you said, first time since the 2006 War. The rocket has reached this deep. The IDF late last night says that they did strike targets inside Lebanon that were related to the launch of these rockets. We have also been hearing outgoing artillery fire from our position. That was quite heavy last night as well. And they said that that was a combination of strikes with air strikes and artillery. They did not confirm if they had continued ground operations as well. Now, this is coming on the heels of over a dozen fatalities that Hezbollah itself is reporting in the month of November in these continued skirmishes, you could call it, on the Northern border, these bordering on full-scale engagements with Hezbollah and Hamas inside the Northern territories. But again, the IDF is telling us at this hour, they did strike. They did strike those locations last night related to the launch. Now, what's the situation on the ground? What are the instructions? We know that yesterday's citizens were instructed to take shelter and to keep indoors. What's the situation today? Well, and that is part of the last few days of hostilities here. And one of the concerns is that Hezbollah is attempting to, they say, enact some retribution for civilians that were killed in Lebanon. They say they plan to create the same level, inflict the same level that if a civilian dies in the North, in Lebanon, that they will do the same to Israeli citizens here on the other side of the border, the Northern border here. The call right now is to evacuate, the continued call to evacuate has been in place, but the Ministry of Tourism is offering more long-term permanent solutions for people that need to be relocated in the South. They haven't given a timeline for how long that could be. In some communities, they're asking people to lock their doors and to secure their property. Overall, just a very tense situation here. Zach Anders, thank you very much on our Northern border. And joining us once again is retired colonel Mary Eisen. Mary, we've been hearing from Zach on our Northern border and from other reports about Hamas in Lebanon and their kind of activity. And how are they taking a more active role in the fighting on the Northern border? So let's put things into perspective. Lebanon as a country has almost 10 million people. Lebanon has had a relatively significant Palestinian refugee population from 1948 in Palestinian refugee camps. Hamas that has grown from the Gaza Strip but exists throughout the Palestinian arena, both in Judea and Samaria and the West Bank and of course in Lebanon. Hamas has been firing from day one. They've been trying to engage and use their Palestinian base from day one. The Palestinian Hamas leaders, Ismail Hania, Salah al-Rouri, these are ones who are directly involved in both the planning and execution of the October 7th attack and in giving out this fake lying information about that attack, they're based in Lebanon. So Hamas is already there. It is Hezbollah who allows them to act. Hezbollah is a terror organization. Hezbollah is also Lebanese. So Hezbollah is the one that in the south of Lebanon, especially you have to get their approval. You have to be sure that you kind of okay it with them when you fire the rockets, when you do their different actions. But let's be clear. The rockets yesterday, the claim was by Hamas. They cannot fire those rockets without Hezbollah, full approval. But over the last 30 days in this war that Hamas started, Hezbollah is an active participant. They haven't done it to the level of war that they could do. And that's part of the challenges we face right now. But when they allow such a barrage of rockets, what they're doing is they're letting out a bit more. They keep going a bit further from the immediate border. They're attacking into Israel daily. They have killed Israeli citizens, not daily, thank God. They've been firing against civilian targets, military targets in the state of Israel from October 7th, Hezbollah and those Palestinian factions. So as we look at, as we go forward, again, this is part of the pressure that they're trying to make to impact Israel in the south. If we were talking before about Hamas and we're talking about Hamas's headquarters under the Shefa Hospital, this is Hamas trying to take it to a different arena to lessen the pressure on them in the Gaza Strip. And it's not going to work, but it's very disturbing. We're all aware of that. None of us want that additional front, Siva. Okay, so exactly. According to the reports, as you say, Israeli forces are operating close to the Shefa Hospital where it was revealed that there is a significant Hamas underground infrastructure. But how can Israel eliminate this terrorist threat when located in a civilian facility? Here we are, Sivan. And here we are this month into this impossible, incomprehensible war. One that's not like anything we've ever seen and we keep wanting to compare it to anything and I can't compare it. We're in 2023 and the terror organization builds their headquarters under a hospital. There is no easy answer for that, I will say. Israel would never attack and destroy the hospital, but there are a lot of varieties of different ways of infiltrating, of trying to do something else. How do you save the civilian lives that Hamas are so putting into the front lines? How do you do so? These are the challenges we face. I don't have an answer for our viewers or for myself right now. I do think that these are the things that we're looking at. We can't allow Hamas to continue to do so and we will never target the civilians in the hospital. And within that, let's think outside the box and see how we do something different. Different, by the way, is not sci-fi. Different is within the rules of engagement, the rules of war, the war that Hamas, that homicidal, genocidal terrorist organization started against Israel and is continuing to do against Israel over the last 30 days. Mary Eisen, thank you very much. Now joining us in New York is political international security analyst Martin Himmel. Martin, what do we know about this latest fatal attack on a Jewish man in Los Angeles? Well, it appears to be there was a demonstration in a North Los Angeles suburb. And an altercation broke out between this man who's very pro-Israeli and protesting on behalf of Israel and a pro-Palestinian demonstrator. It became a violent fight. And in the process, he was either struck in the head or he's pushed and his head struck against the pavement. He basically had a brain hemorrhage, was taken to the hospital and died in the hospital. It's the first example that I know of in this recent wave where a Jewish demonstrator has been killed for his beliefs and his protests. That is an unfortunate incident and there is a rise in antisemitism in the US and around the world. What are your personal impressions of that? How have you experienced this in New York? Well, you go to certain Starbucks because Starbucks, for example, has a union and they're pro-Palestinian and here and there you see free Palestine imprints on the doorways of Starbucks, for example. That's just a small example, but there's heightened security with synagogues. There are demonstrations, big demonstrations in Washington, pro-Palestinian. There was a big demonstration in New York, pro-Israeli. There is a great sense of insecurity among the Jewish population here. And there is serious organized protests against Israel. And this is having an effect also on the Biden administration. President Biden got very bad results on his polls in key states that he must win in order to defeat his rival Donald Trump in Michigan, in Pennsylvania. And Michigan has got a very strong pro-Palestinian entity there he needs every vote he can get. And so this will put pressure on him to modify the American stand as well in the war that's going on. I don't think he'll drop his backing for Israel but he might lean harder on the issue of helping humanitarian efforts in Gaza in order to placate those voters in Michigan in places like that. So yes, we've seen Biden's stance towards Israel was very supportive thus far. And the polls, like you say, are showing that Donald Trump is leading in some key states. Do you think that this will change Biden's stance completely or is this just a little bit? I think it might modify his stance. It's not going to change it completely. I think the basic tenets of the American foreign policy is to support Israel in this fight against Hamas. I think that he might want to put constraints on Israel, less airstrikes, more humanitarian corridors. And I think the time that Israel has to actually attain its goals may be a lot shorter than the government thinks because without absolute 100% American support, it's going to be a problem. And that support could erode over time. Now speaking of American politics, we see Kamala Harris very involved in the diplomatic efforts surrounding this war, something we haven't seen too much of before. What do you think brings on this change? I think it's just another tool that the President Biden is using, he's got Anthony Blinken in the region. I think Kamala Harris has given an opportunity here to take action in the foreign policy venue. She's done it before, it's not the first time. And I think he's using every tool in his arsenal, every human tool in his arsenal to try to keep the war localized in the Middle East and keep his allies on his side and on the side of the policy that's going on here. It's a very serious problem for the United States. It definitely sees an Iranian threat here. It definitely sees a need to eradicate Hamas, but it's also hitting Biden in the polls, and he needs to solve this problem as soon as possible. He does not have that much time, so therefore, that can affect Israel's time in dealing with this crisis as well. International security analyst Martin Himmel, thank you very much for your input. Thank you. Diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been on the mend after years of tension, are now back in the deep freeze. Turkish President Recep Erdogan is now back to attacking Israel, calling its Gaza operation one of the bloodiest and most savage attacks in history, and defending Hamas as a liberation rather than terrorist group. Against that backdrop, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made a surprise visit today yesterday to Ankara, senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman, takes a closer look in this report. They'll give a warm handshake and pose for the cameras. But relations between the United States and Turkey are as tangled as ever. With US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sweeping through Ankara Monday, meeting with his Turkish counterpart, and capping his trip through the Middle East. And of course, we discussed the crisis in Gaza, including the efforts to significantly expand humanitarian assistance to people in need, efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading to other parts of the region. In Turkey, that's a hard sell. Outside the Turkish foreign ministry, dozens came to protest Blinken's visit. And a day earlier, many more converged on the interlick airbase in Turkey's south, where US troops are stationed. Both the police and soldiers would want to go to Gaza and fight, and they will go when the time comes. Turkish military to Gaza. Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was notably not in Ankara for Blinken's visit, perceived by many as an intentional snub. It is our responsibility for our Palestinian brothers to be saved from Israeli cruelty and for the massacres happening in Gaza in front of the world's eyes to be stopped. Turkey continues to host a number of Hamas leaders and has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel. But Erdogan has said he will not break ties with Israel fully. He has a Muslim world to try to win over, but also an American ally to keep on side. One month after the Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival down south, a cameraman was for the first time able to film the scorched cars belonging to the victims and survivors of this tragedy. This vehicular graveyard has become a telling memorial of sorts to the horrors that took place on the Gaza border one month ago. More in this report. This huge open-air site bears the scars of Hamas massacres. Here, hundreds of scorched, bullet-riddled and ransacked cars belonging to the victims and survivors of the Nova Festival. On the ground, investigators are screening the whole area. Their objective? To identify the owners of the vehicles. The first job is any cars that we found human remains in. We want to make sure that no human remains are pretty much being sent to the trash. So they go through and they sift through everything to try to find all the remains left. And the second thing is, if we have anybody who we don't know what happened to them, we don't know if they were murdered or if they were kidnapped. An effort that has already paid off. Laura recounts out taking refuge with her husband and five friends in the caravan saved their lives. We were in the trailer from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The terrorists tried to open the trailer. They shot at the trailer. They tried to burn it. They wanted to kidnap us, I think. I came because I'm trying to find answers to why all my friends are dead and I am alive. How did this plastic thing save our lives? It just doesn't make any sense. Safe in sound, but still in shock, Laura hopes one day to find the strength to go to musical events again. I've been wondering for a month if I'll ever be able to go dancing at a festival. I know that my friends who are no longer here would like us to continue. For the moment, I haven't got on with my life. I don't sleep, I don't eat. Sadly, it's still a long way from dancing, but I think it's our duty to a certain extent. Noam Alon, who has also come in search of answers, is hoping for the release of his girlfriend. We know that she tried to escape from the terrorists, but at one point she was caught because she couldn't keep running. Later, Hamas released a video showing four terrorists around her. We see her wounded. We hope she's alive. This is the last piece of evidence of her being alive. I came here today to ask our government to do everything in its power to bring back the hostages, even if we have to release Palestinian prisoners, supply them with fuel, or sign a ceasefire. A short distance from the site, investigations are continuing in Reim, where the Nova Festival took place. 270 people were slaughtered by Hamas on October 7th. That's all for this latest edition of I-24 News. Be sure to follow us on our website, i-24news.tv and across all our social media platforms on Twitter, also known as X, and on Instagram. I'm Sivana Ravi. Thank you for watching. We'll keep you posted. Past, since October 7th, the day Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas. A month since the Black Sabbath, when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,400 Israelis, wounded thousands of others, and took 240 people captive. A month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization. A month later, I-24 News returns to the place where it all began. Join us on November 7th, only on I-24 News. News 24, only on I-24 News. Welcome to I-24 News. I'm Sivana Ravi and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is day 32 of Israel's war with Hamas, marking exactly one month to the October 7th atrocities that Hamas perpetrated against Israelis when it brutally entered their homes and attacked them, resulting in 1,400 murdered civilians, including many women and children. Additionally, 241 hostages were taken from within Israel and into Gaza. Israeli forces pushed further into the Gaza Strip overnight and were operating nearby the Shifa Hospital, which is reportedly located above Hamas' command center, as the IDF continued to target Hamas' underground tunnel network and military capabilities. Following a 12-hour pause, Hamas' rocket fire into southern Israel resumed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war with Hamas is finished, illustrating to the catastrophic results of what was able to happen when it didn't. Let's have a listen. President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza. Who should govern Gaza when this is over? Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas, it certainly is not, I think Israel will for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine. A 69-year-old Jewish man by the name of Paul Kessler died overnight in Los Angeles following an assault he endured when a pro-Palestinian demonstrators struck his head with a megaphone, causing him to collapse and suffer from severe bleeding. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died of his wounds. Over on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Kloschendler. Pierre, what can you tell us about the strikes that have been going on overnight? Well, we know that fighting is going on. There was just an outgoing from the Israeli artillery where we are standing, not far away from the Gaza border. Now, the siege of Gaza City is tightening and there's airstrikes on certain targets in Gaza City and the ground forces are already operating inside Gaza City. Palestinians are reporting that the Israeli ground forces are a few hundred meters away from Shifa Hospital. Now, Shifa Hospital has been described by the IDF as the most important control and operational command center inside the Gaza Strip. Gaza City itself is probably, according to the IDF, the most important stronghold of Hamas military capabilities inside the Gaza Strip. And therefore, there's been a lot of pressure on Shifa Hospital. At this moment, what we hear is that, according to Palestinian reports yesterday evening, the solar panels of Shifa Hospital were annihilated by an Israeli airstrike. We don't exactly know what the purpose of that would be and these, again, are Palestinian reports, but we know that the combination of all the armed branches of the IDF are working so tightly that, for instance, an F-35I, according to the Israeli chief of staff, bombed a Hamas target 200 meters away from the Israeli ground forces. The Israeli ground forces were sheltering inside their armored vehicle. A bomb was unleashed on a Hamas target by an F-35I, and thus, immediately after the Israeli ground forces could assault that target, many terrorists were killed in that specific target. And this is the tightening not only of the Gaza City siege, but at the same time, the tightening of the cooperation between all the armed forces of the IDF. Thank you, Pierre Koschenler on Israel's southern border. Joining us in his retired colonel, Mary Eisen, director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University. Hi, Mary. Hello, Mr. Ghani. Now, rocket fire resumed this morning towards southern Israel, but we see that the number of barrages towards Israel generally dropped. Does this mean do you think that Hamas is facing a limited ability to fire rockets now? Well, some of it just has to do with numbers. We've always said that Hamas has probably 15,000 to 20,000 rockets. And as far as we can count until now, I'd say that they fire probably even 10,000. We do realize that there are hundreds, if not thousands, that have been fired towards Israel and have fallen in the Gaza Strip. So, Sivan, that means they still have capability, but we have dissected the Gaza Strip physically in military senses into two areas, to the north and to the south. And they have pretty much lost their capacity to really fire from the northern Gaza Strip because we are right there and can see immediately and immediately target when we are so close, even in the urban area. They're continuing to fire out of the southern Gaza Strip, which means that, yes, they still have the capacity much more limited. I breathe in deep because I don't want anybody to think that because of this, we should be safer now. Hamas want to show that they can continue, in their terms, to fire the rockets, to give battle. They right now want to present themselves as if they are the ones who are battling and winning. So they have an interest to continue to fire. So we really need to be careful at this stage. Now we're seeing live images from Gaza, as you speak. If they're firing rockets from the southern area, then that means they are indefinitely firing from civilian, from within the civilian population. Over the last few days, the IDF has been exposing, because we are now in the Gaza Strip, these are things that we've spoken about, both here on I-24 News, but over the last decade, that Hamas build the different firing capabilities out of mosques, out of schools, out of kindergartens. And over the last few days, it's a war. It doesn't look the way you expect. The kindergarten doesn't look like a kindergarten anymore. It's the area within the mosque that we've been showing the different launching locations from the kindergarten, from the school, from the mosque. So that's things that we're getting to. And it will continue to be, as I say, they've built this over a decade. It's still there with a lot of capabilities. Now Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will have to be responsible for the security in Gaza in the future. Is this a realistic goal, do you think? In its own way, Sivan. And I say very harshly for me as an Israeli, is there any other realistic goal? We right now are not conquering all of the Gaza Strip. We are trying to get to the Hamas terrorists and our hostages in a variety of ways. There are 2.3 million people there. Hamas has ruled over the Gaza Strip from 2007 and look at what they have done. There is nobody else in the world who wants to step in right now. And until there is a viable, local, Palestinian-grown type of leadership that does not call and actively act to annihilate Israel, to attack Israel, then it's going to be Israel's responsibility. I really don't see us having another choice. I don't know what that means. I need to be very clear. I don't know if that means that we're ruling all over the territory. It's very hard to say at this stage, but this is the first time Netanyahu has said something at the start and we need to take it into account. As Israelis, it may be the only of the bad choices, the only bad choice we can take. Mary Eisen, thank you for your input. Please stay with us. We will be back to you. Joining us on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Zach Anders. Zach Hamas Lebanon took responsibility for a barrage of rockets, which hit northern Israel last night, with rockets reaching as far as the city of Haifa for the first time since the Lebanon War. What can you tell us about Hamas' involvement in the north? Well, that strike reaching about 20 plus miles from the northern border is significant, like you said, first time since the 2006 war. The rocket has reached this deep. The IDF late last night says that they did strike targets inside Lebanon that were related to the launch of these rockets. We have also been hearing outgoing artillery fire from our position. That was quite heavy last night as well. And they said that that was a combination of strikes with air strikes and artillery. They did not confirm if they had continued ground operations as well. Now, this is coming on the heels of over a dozen fatalities that Hezbollah itself is reporting in the month of November. In these continued skirmishes, you could call it on the northern border, these bordering on full-scale engagements with Hezbollah and Hamas inside the northern territories. But again, the IDF is telling us at this hour, they did strike. They did strike those locations last night related to the launch. And what's the situation on the ground? What are the instructions? We know that yesterday's citizens were instructed to take shelter and to keep indoors. What's the situation today? Well, and that is part of the last few days of hostilities here. And one of the concerns is that Hezbollah is attempting to, they say, enact some retribution for civilians that were killed in Lebanon. They say they plan to create the same level, inflict the same level that a civilian dies in the north in Lebanon, that they will do the same to Israeli citizens here on the other side of the border, the northern border here. The call right now is to evacuate. The continued call to evacuate has been in place, but the Ministry of Tourism is offering more long-term permanent solutions for people that need to be relocated in the south. They haven't given a timeline for how long that could be. In some communities, they're asking people to lock their doors and to secure their property. Overall, just a very tense situation here. Zach Anders, thank you very much on our northern border. And joining us once again is retired Colonel Mary Eisen. Mary, we've been hearing from Zach on our northern border and from other reports about Hamas in Lebanon and their kind of activity. And how are they taking a more active role in the fighting on the northern border? So let's put things into perspective. Lebanon as a country has almost 10 million people. Lebanon has had a relatively significant Palestinian refugee population from 1948 in Palestinian refugee camps. Hamas that has grown from the Gaza Strip but exists throughout the Palestinian arena, both in Judea and Samaria and the West Bank and of course in Lebanon. Hamas has been firing from day one. They've been trying to engage and use their Palestinian base from day one. The Palestinian Hamas leaders, Ismail Hania, Salah al-Aroori, these are ones who are directly involved in both the planning and execution of the October 7th attack and in giving out this fake lying information about that attack. They're based in Lebanon. So Hamas is already there. It is Qizbala who allows them to act. Qizbala is a terror organization. Qizbala is also Lebanese. So Qizbala is the one that in the south of Lebanon, especially, you have to get their approval. You have to be sure that you kind of okay it with them when you fire the rockets, when you do their different actions. But let's be clear. The rockets yesterday, the claim was by Hamas. They cannot fire those rockets without Qizbala. Full approval. But over the last 30 days in this war that Hamas started, Qizbala is an active participant. They haven't done it to the level of war that they could do. And that's part of the challenges we face right now. But when they allow such a barrage of rockets, what they're doing is they're letting out a bit more. They keep going a bit further from the immediate border. They're attacking into Israel daily. They have killed Israeli citizens, not daily, thank God. They've been firing against civilian targets, military targets in the state of Israel from October 7th, Qizbala and those Palestinian factions. So as we look at, as we go forward, again, this is part of the pressure that they're trying to make to impact Israel in the South. If we were talking before about Hamas, and we're talking about Hamas' headquarters under the Shefa Hospital, this is Hamas trying to take it to a different arena to lessen the pressure on them in the Gaza Strip. And it's not going to work, but it's very disturbing. We're all aware of that. None of us want that additional front, Sivan. Okay, so exactly. According to the reports, as you say, Israeli forces are operating close to the Shefa Hospital, where it was revealed that there is a significant Hamas underground infrastructure. But how can Israel eliminate this terrorist threat when located in a civilian facility? Here we are, Sivan, and here we are this month into this impossible, incomprehensible war, one that's not like anything we've ever seen, and we keep wanting to compare it to anything, and I can't compare it. We're in 2023, and the terror organization builds their headquarters under a hospital. There is no easy answer for that, I will say. Israel would never attack and destroy the hospital. But there are a lot of varieties of different ways of infiltrating, of trying to do something else. How do you save the civilian lives that Hamas are so putting into the front lines? How do you do so? These are the challenges we face. I don't have an answer for our viewers or for myself right now. I do think that these are the things that we're looking at. We can't allow Hamas to continue to do so, and we will never target the civilians in the hospital. And within that, let's think outside the box and see how we do something different. Different, by the way, is not sci-fi. Different is within the rules of engagement, the rules of war, the war that Hamas, that homicidal, genocidal terrorist organization started against Israel, and is continuing to do against Israel over the last 30 days. Mary Eisen, thank you very much. Now joining us in New York is political and international security analyst Martin Himmel. Martin, what do we know about this latest fatal attack on a Jewish man in Los Angeles? Well, it appears to be there was a demonstration in a North Los Angeles suburb. And an altercation broke out between this man who was very pro-Israeli and protesting on behalf of Israel and a pro-Palestinian demonstrator. It became a violent fight. And in the process, he was either struck in the head or he's pushed, and his head struck against the pavement. He basically had a brain hemorrhage, was taken to the hospital and died in the hospital. It's the first example that I know of in this recent wave where a Jewish demonstrator has been killed for his beliefs and his protests. That is an unfortunate incident, and there is a rise in antisemitism in the US and around the world. What are your personal impressions of that? How have you experienced this in New York? Well, you go to certain Starbucks, because Starbucks, for example, has a union and they're pro-Palestinian. And here and there, you see free Palestine imprints on the doorways of Starbucks, for example. That's just a small example, but there's heightened security with synagogues. There are demonstrations, big demonstrations, in Washington, pro-Palestinian. There was a big demonstration in New York, pro-Israeli. There is a great sense of insecurity among the Jewish population here. And there is serious organized protests against Israel. And this is having an effect also on the Biden administration. President Biden got very bad results on his polls in key states that he must win in order to defeat his rival Donald Trump in Michigan, in Pennsylvania. And Michigan has got a very strong pro-Palestinian entity there he needs every vote he can get. And so this will put pressure on him to modify the American stand as well in the war that's going on. I don't think he'll drop his backing for Israel, but he might lean harder on the issue of helping humanitarian efforts in Gaza in order to placate those voters in Michigan in places like that. So yes, we've seen Biden stand towards Israel was very supportive thus far. And the polls, like you say, are showing that Donald Trump is leading in some key states. Do you think that this will change Biden's stance completely? Or is this just a little bit? I think it might modify his stance. It's not going to change it completely. I think the basic tenets of American foreign policy is to support Israel in this fight against Hamas. I think that he might want to put constraints on Israel, less airstrikes, more humanitarian corridors. And I think the time that Israel has to actually attain its goals may be a lot shorter than the government thinks because without absolute 100% American support, it's going to be a problem. And that support could erode over time. Now speaking of American politics, we see Kamala Harris very involved in the diplomatic efforts surrounding this war, something we haven't seen too much of before. What do you think brings on this change? I think it's just another tool that the President Biden is using. He's got Anthony Blinken in the region. I think Kamala Harris has given an opportunity here to take action in the foreign policy venue. She's done it before, it's not the first time. And I think he's using every tool in his arsenal, every human tool in his arsenal, to try to keep the war localized in the Middle East. And keep his allies on his side and on the side of the policy that's going on here. It's a very serious problem for the United States. It definitely sees an Iranian threat here. It definitely sees a need to eradicate Hamas. But it's also hitting Biden in the polls. And he needs to solve this problem as soon as possible. He does not have that much time. So therefore that can affect Israel's time in dealing with this crisis as well. International security analyst Martin Himel, thank you very much for your input. Thank you. Diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been on the mend after years of tension, are now back in the deep freeze. Turkish President Recep Erdogan is now back to attacking Israel, calling its Gaza operation one of the bloodiest and most savage attacks in history and defending Hamas as a liberation, rather than terrorist group. Against that backdrop, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made a surprise visit today, yesterday, to Ankara. Senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman takes a closer look in this report. They'll give a warm handshake and pose for the cameras, but relations between the United States and Turkey are as tangled as ever. With U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sweeping through Ankara Monday, meeting with his Turkish counterpart, and capping his trip through the Middle East. And of course we discussed the crisis in Gaza including the efforts to significantly expand humanitarian assistance to people in need, efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading to other parts of the region. In Turkey, that's a hard sell. Outside the Turkish foreign ministry, dozens came to protest Blinken's visit. And a day earlier, many more converged on the interlake air base in Turkey South, where U.S. troops are stationed. Both the police and soldiers would want to go to Gaza and fight and they will go when the time comes. Turkish military to Gaza. Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was notably not in Ankara for Blinken's visit, perceived by many as an intentional snub. It is our responsibility for our Palestinian brothers to be saved from Israeli cruelty and for the massacres happening in Gaza in front of the world's eyes to be stopped. Turkey continues to host a number of Hamas leaders and has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel. But Erdogan has said he will not break ties with Israel fully. He has a Muslim world to try to win over, but also an American ally to keep on side. One month after the Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival down south, a cameraman was for the first time able to film the scorched cars belonging to the victims and survivors of this tragedy. This vehicular graveyard has become a telling memorial of sorts to the horrors that took place on the Gaza border one month ago. More in this report. This huge open-air site bears the scars of Hamas massacres. Here, hundreds of scorched, bullet-riddled and ransacked cars belonging to the victims and survivors of the Nova Festival. On the ground, investigators are screening the whole area. Their objective? To identify the owners of the vehicles. The first job is any cars that we found human remains in. We want to make sure that no human remains are pretty much being sent to the trash. So they go through and they sift through everything to try to find all the remains left. And the second thing is if we have anybody who we don't know what happened to them, we don't know if they were murdered or if they were kidnapped. An effort that has already paid off. Laura recounts how taking refuge with her husband and five friends in the caravan saved their lives. We were in the trailer from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The terrorists tried to open the trailer. They shot at the trailer. They tried to burn it. They wanted to kidnap us, I think. I came because I'm trying to find answers to why all my friends are dead and I am alive. How did this plastic thing save our lives? It just doesn't make any sense. Safe in sound, but still in shock, Laura hopes one day to find the strength to go to musical events again. I've been wondering for a month if I'll ever be able to go dancing at a festival. I know that my friends who are no longer here would like us to continue. For the moment, I haven't got on with my life. I don't sleep. I don't eat. But I can only hope. Sadly, it's still a long way from dancing, but I think it's our duty to a certain extent. Noam Alon, who has also come in search of answers, is hoping for the release of his girlfriend. We know that she tried to escape from the terrorists, but at one point she was caught because she couldn't keep running. Later, Hamas released a video showing four terrorists around her. We see her wounded. We hope she's alive. This is the last piece of evidence of her being alive. I came here today to ask our government to do everything in its power to bring back the hostages, even if we have to release Palestinian prisoners, supply them with fuel, or sign a ceasefire. A short distance from the site, investigations are continuing in Reim, where the Nova Festival took place. 270 people were slaughtered by Hamas on October 7. That's all for this latest edition of I-24 News. Be sure to follow us on our website i-24news.tv and across all our social media platforms on Twitter, also known as X, and on Instagram. I'm Sivana Raveve. Thank you for watching. We'll keep you posted. A month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization, a month later, I-24 News returns to the place where it all began. Join us on November 7, only on I-24 News. Come to I-24 News. I'm Sivana Raveve, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 32 of Israel's war with Hamas, marking exactly one month to the October 7 atrocities that Hamas perpetrated against Israelis when it brutally entered their homes and attacked them, resulting in 1,400 murdered civilians, including many women and children. Additionally, 241 hostages were taken from within Israel and into Gaza. Israeli forces pushed further into the Gaza Strip overnight and were operating nearby the Shifa Hospital, which is reportedly located above Hamas' command center as the IDF continued to target Hamas' underground tunnel network and military capabilities. Following a 12-hour pause, Hamas' rocket fire into southern Israel resumed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war with Hamas is over with, illustrating to the catastrophic results of what was able to happen when it didn't. Let's have a listen. President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza. Who should govern Gaza when this is over? Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas, it certainly is not. I think Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas' terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine. A 69-year-old Jewish man by the name of Paul Kessler died overnight in Los Angeles following an assault he endured when a pro-Palestinian demonstrator struck his head with a megaphone, causing him to collapse and suffer from severe bleeding. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was later, where he later died of his wounds. Joining us on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent Zach Anders. Zach, what are the latest developments in the North? Well, overnight was a significant moment in this war as one of the rockets launched from Lebanon reached further into Israel since the 2006 war. And that came with a resulted IDF retaliatory strike. They say that overnight they struck the launch site that was combined with airstrikes and some of the artillery that we heard, which was very heavy in the 7, 8 o'clock hour last night. This morning that artillery resumed again at 7 a.m. Just a few shots and we're told that that is to continue to pressure these factions, Hezbollah, Hamas on the Lebanese border to make sure that one, the IDF's presence is known and to also keep them at bay to prevent them from being able to push further into some of these communities that have been evacuated, have been forced to be on constant alert at the confrontation line. As of right now this morning it has been relatively quiet but again we did hear that artillery earlier signaling to us that this is an ongoing situation. We're seeing Hamas in Lebanon involved. They took responsibility for a barrage of rockets which hit northern Israel last night with rockets reaching as far as the city of Haifa for the first time in a long time since the 2006 Lebanon war. What can you tell us about this? And that's significant too. One, the distinction would be that they were rockets and not drones which would speak to who was responsible. The different factions that are claiming responsibility are claiming that it wasn't 30 rockets that it was 16. The IDF says it was actually 30 rockets that were intercepted.  Along the coastal communities was where most of the red alerts came last night. Several of those rockets we could see from our vantage point here as well. It did appear that all the interceptions were successful. The IDF says they were successful no damage on the ground. Thank you very much on our northern border. Thank you. Joining us in studio are I-24 news correspondent Robert Swift and Yakov Lapin, Military and Strategic Affairs Analyst at the Jewish News Syndicate and Miriam Institute. Thank you both for joining. Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to be responsible for the security in Gaza in the future. Yakov, is this a realistic goal? I think we have to define the word responsible here. There are different ways of defining that. But I think if we look at the West Bank as a model, after Operation Defensive Shield which was launched by Israel in 2002 in response to this murderous wave of suicide bombings that had plagued Israeli cities, after three years of intensive counter-terror operations, the IDF reached the position where it didn't have to be in Palestinian cities in the West Bank the entire time. It was able to launch targeted raids and essentially destroy the capabilities of Hamas and other terror organizations before they built up into monstrous scopes. And I think that that eventually will become the reality in the Gaza Strip with some adjustments, targeted raids, and full freedom of movement for the IDF that doesn't mean full military control or checkpoints throughout Gaza City, but it means the IDF will have the ability to respond to intelligence and to never again allow Hamas to rebuild these kinds of capabilities. Will they still be taking over the northern part of Gaza, do you think? If we're talking about post-war Gaza, I don't think that the IDF will need to keep huge amounts of forces. I may be able to operate in a cross-border manner or have some bases in the periphery. Just like in the West Bank, there are bases that are outside of the Palestinian cities. They're not inside, but that is sufficient to give the IDF enough freedom of operational movement to prevent mass rocket production, to prevent the formation of death squads, as we've seen in Gaza. So I really think we should be looking to the West Bank as a kind of model for what we may expect in Gaza after this war. Now, speaking of the West Bank, I'd like to ask you, Rob, it was reported that Israel assured the U.S. that new M16s supplied to Israel will not reach the West Bank, settlers. This because the Biden administration is worried of the possibility of an escalation in the violence in that area. Now, how likely is the possibility of such an escalation? It's definitely a threat that can't be ruled out. It's also, it's not just a consideration that the U.S. wants to hedge its backs against. It's also a consideration for Israel itself. Now, Israel has put a lot of effort into ensuring that the northern front doesn't become a full-blown confrontation. It equally doesn't want that to happen in the West Bank. So from an Israeli perspective, it's important to keep things damped down in the West Bank and the U.S. appears to feel the same. Now, with regards to the weapons specifically, this is an unusual attachment for the U.S. to apply this to the weapons that it's sending. And I think it's because the U.S. is concerned about the optics. Itamar Ben-Ghver, a minister in the Israeli government, was seen, I think, last week handing out weapons during a political rally. And the Israel, sorry, the U.S. government is generally not considered to be a big fan of his. This is seen as inflammatory. And I think what the U.S. doesn't want to see happen is weapons that it supplies to Israel being used in security teams in the West Bank, then being used in confrontations with Palestinians. There's been an increase in the attacks and the agitation between settlers in the West Bank and between Palestinians. And the U.S. doesn't want to see weapons it's supplied being used to kill Palestinian civilians there. Thank you for that. We'll be back to you in a moment. But over on our Israel-Southern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Klosschendler. Pierre, what is the current situation on the ground down south? Well, you know, it's the fog of war. So details are slowly but gradually emanating from the IDF Spokesperson Unit. What we know, the latest news we heard from the IDF is that overnight there was a takeover of a Hamas stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip in which anti-tank launching path positions were detected and tens of terrorists were killed in the takeover. There was also a trove of intelligence documents that were found out there that will help. The Israeli armed forces to enlarge their data about potential targets inside the Gaza Strip and there are plenty, obviously.  They called the Air Force, the Air Force, bombed the targets and the terrorists were killed. That shows you, again, the combination, the cooperation, the tightening of the cooperation between the Israeli ground forces and the other branches of the army be it the intelligence, the Air Force, the Navy, the tanks, et cetera, et cetera. And that gives you a sense of how methodically the Israeli army is progressing now. The siege of Gaza City has tightened, but not only that, there are, as I said, ground fighting inside Gaza City, ground fighting a few hundred meters away from the Shifa Hospital, according to Palestinian reports, Shifa Hospital being designated by the IDF as maybe the most important operational and command center of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a very important target with a maze of tunnels and tunnel shafts nearby the hospital in a building very close to the hospital and at the entrance of the hospital. And the task of the Israeli army seems to be to close in on Shifa Hospital in order maybe to neutralize that's command and operational headquarter. Thank you, Pierre, down south on the border of Gaza. Thailand is reportedly in the process of negotiating the release of its citizens who were taken hostage on October 7th in Israel by Hamas terrorists with Iranian mediators. Nationals that who were kidnapped on October 7th in Israel by Hamas terrorists, this comes as the Thai army received pictures of those who were taken hostage and appeared in good condition. There are 23 Thai citizens among the 241 confirmed hostages held in Gaza. The Thai nationals were working in Israel mostly in agricultural communities near the Gaza Strip and as caretakers as well. With us is Professor Mark Kogan, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kansai Gaida University in Japan. Thank you for joining. The Prime Minister of Thailand. The Prime Minister of Thailand is confirming that the Thai army had received pictures of the captives and that they appear to be in good condition. What do you know about this? Well, apparently that the Prime Minister has confirmed that. And it was a delegation that was largely made up of people from Thailand's deep south which is a Malay Muslim community including a representative from Thailand's House Speaker which is also from the south. And the news comes because they met with Hamas officials and Hamas had confirmed to the delegation that the hostages were safe. But at the time they were considering the optimal time to release them according to a statement because of the ongoing campaign in Gaza. What was the position of Thailand from the beginning of all this when the Hamas brutal attack took place? What was their stance? Well, the Thai government has to be rather pragmatic. It's not black and white. On the one hand, Thailand is incredibly vulnerable simply because of so many different agricultural workers. There are more than 20,000 agricultural workers at one particular time working on farms in Israel. So it wanted immediately those particular people released and for the Israeli government and anyone else involved to ensure their safety. But as long as this crisis is protracted and those hostages stay captive, it becomes a little bit more volatile for the Thai government because you have a Malay Muslim population that is decidedly pro-Palestinian and has a lot of empathy for the Palestinian struggle simply because some of that has some symbolism with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict there. So at the moment, what do we know about the level of cooperation between Thailand and Iran? Well, the level of cooperation is serious because there was a delegation and there were a number of people from the Deep South that met with a representative from the Iranian president and the Iranian president or as advisers had agreed to broker conversations with Hamas which did take place. And from there, there were conversations about an ongoing mediation process through Hamas via Tehran. Whether or not that will be successful or how soon the hostages will be released is yet to be seen. Now, don't you think that this pragmatic kind of approach on Thailand's behalf could damage their relations with Israel? Well, no, they want to manage both relationships. Thailand is also a very divided society. You have the Muslim population in the South and there is an ongoing insurgency. You do not want to take a position too far that upsets that particular population and inflames tensions. But at the same time, Thailand's relationship with Israel is very important because of military exchanges, arms shipments, weapons purchases, technology exchanges, telecommunications, as well as the demand for agricultural work in Israel. Okay. Thank you very much, Mark Hogan, Professor Mark Hogan. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. And back in studio with us are our I-24 news correspondent, Robert Swift and Yakov Lapin, Military and Strategic Affairs Analyst. Thank you for staying with us. According to reports, Israeli forces are operating nearby the Shifa hospital where it was revealed that there's significant Hamas underground tunnels, a command center, a whole infrastructure. How can Israel deal with such a threat, Yakov, from within a civilian facility? It's a huge operational and tactical challenge. The first thing that the IDF has been doing is putting a red flag, not only on Shifa hospital, but at least on two other hospitals, the Quds hospital and the Qatari hospital, all of these places are being used in the same way by Hamas, with Hamas operatives, both inside hospital departments and underneath tunnel shafts leading to bunkers using it as an operational command center. And what that means is that from those places, field commanders are receiving information about the battlefield, giving out instructions to Hamas terrorists saying fire on this unit, fire rockets at Tel Aviv at a certain hour. This is where all of this is happening. So I don't know how the IDF is going to approach this, but clearly it's putting together a tactical plan to take on these sites. It has been trying to evacuate them for weeks. And it's sending the message to the international community that these raids are coming. There's no way that they can be stopped. Otherwise, the war aim will not be fulfilled, which is dismantling Hamas's military capabilities. So while I don't know how it's going to happen, I have no doubt that it will indeed happen and probably quite soon. And that's not to say it's just hospitals. It's playgrounds and it's other civilian facilities. Absolutely. Now we're seeing Jordan parachute medical aid into Gaza just yesterday. And the United Arab Emirates have said they put up a field hospital in Gaza. So how do you view this regional involvement and what's Israel's stance on it? Look, I think Jordan is attempting to relieve internal pressure. It wants to avoid domestic instability. This is a country where the majority of the population is of Palestinian origin living under a Hashemite kingdom. And in order to avoid domestic instability, which is Jordan's top concern, it felt it had to take some action, something decisive, clear, visible to help Gaza civilians. Israel facilitated that because, first of all, it's in Israel's interest to have a stable eastern pragmatic country neighbor. Longest border is shared with Jordan. And there's daily security cooperation with the Jordanian security forces. Jordan is, in many ways, the strategic depth of Israel against the Shiite access to the east in Iraq and Iran. And the fact that they were able to cooperate on this food drop, I think, is a positive development because they found a practical way to answer everybody's needs at the same time. So it looks like a good example, actually, of a way to walk this very delicate tightrope for Jordan, despite the very negative and unfair statements it has been producing in recent weeks. Right. Now, Rob, The New York Times is reporting that the State Department approved a $320 million sale of guided bomb equipment to Israel. What do we know about this package? What is the effectiveness of guide bombs in the war? So these weapons are known as spice weapons, which is a smart, precise, impact, cost-effective.  So it's essentially a guided system. You stick on the front of the weapon system. It's actually an Israeli-designed weapon. And what the US wants to do here is to transfer these weapons from the US branch of Rafael here in Israel to its parent company back to Israel so that it can then use these systems. It's not the first time this has happened. There was a previous transfer a couple of years ago of a $402 million transfer of similar systems. So this has happened before. And it's understood that Israel actually requested these systems prior to October the 7th. So although obviously the urgency comes from the current situation, it's not 100% tied in with this. Now, I think part of the reason that the US wants to highlight the fact that it's looking to push these is because they're precision weapons. There's a lot of heat on Israel directly and therefore on to the United States because of the huge number of civilian casualties that are occurring inside Gaza. And the feeling is that precision weapons will be able to cancel out some of this to make these civilians casualties, to reduce them essentially. However, it's worth bearing in mind, a guided bomb is only as good as the intelligence which guides it. Now, obviously we saw drawbacks in the Israeli intelligence on the 7th of October. There's a limit to how effective that was. And as the war continues, as Israel strikes targets, as it works its way through its target list, and as civilians increasingly move around the battlefield, the fog of war essentially thickens. And it becomes harder and harder to have precise intelligence. These weapons will hopefully reduce civilian casualties, but some will remain inevitable. Thank you, Rob. For over two weeks now, hundreds of members of Iranian-backed Iraqi militia groups have gathered at the border with Jordan to protest Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. They demand to pass through Jordan to reach Israel and Gaza in a move that also has Jordan concerned. Middle East correspondent Ariel Osiron has more. For more than two weeks now, thousands of Iraqis have been amassing along the border with Jordan. In addition to showing support for Hamas's October 7th massacre, they demand free passage to reach the Gaza Strip, following a call by Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr to hold sit-in protests along Israel's borders until it stops bombing Gaza. And Jordan, which has been one of the most vocal countries opposing Israel's strikes on Gaza, is worried that pro-Iranian militias in Iraq will try to take advantage of the situation. We will not allow you to desecrate Jordan, and we warn the people of the popular mobilization forces on the Iraqi border. If you come close, Jordan will be your graveyard. Iraq's support of the Hamas-Iran axis comes as Tehran's proxies amplify their strikes against U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq. On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Baghdad and met with Iraq's Prime Minister to try and prevent the conflict from spreading further across the region. The following day, however, Prime Minister al-Sudani visited Tehran, reaffirming with whom Baghdad's real allegiance lies. Those who want the conflict to be contained and not to spread to the entire region should pressure the Zionist regime to stop its military aggression and systematic slaughter. Now, Rob, back in studio with us here, I'd like to ask you, in recent days there were eight more attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and in Syria by Iranian-backed militias. How worried is the U.S. about this? I think the U.S. has demonstrated its concern, both in its words and in its actions, there have been strikes by U.S. forces I think about 10 days back where they hit IRGC targets in order to demonstrate the fact that they essentially are not willing to tolerate these attacks on them. These are essentially attempts by Iranian proxies to increase the pressure on the United States and therefore by doing so to increase the pressure on Israel. Most likely in order to try and bring the operations in Gaza to essentially try and force a ceasefire there, it's understood that there is diplomatic pressure from the United States on to Israel to a certain extent and it seems likely that that's an attempt to increase that pressure. Jacob, what's your take on this? First of all, very interesting comment there by the Jordanian minister warning the PMF in Iraq, the Iranian-backed Zionist militias, don't come close to the Jordanian border. That is very revealing because the Iranian access is interested in destabilizing and toppling pragmatic Arab Sunni governments just as much as it's interested in destroying the state of Israel ultimately. And that report there, I think is very important because it reveals the real blocks that this region is divided into. The Iranians have been using their militias. They've been deploying them to Syria in greater numbers. They've been deploying them to Lebanon as backup for Hezbollah. And they are testing American deterrent postures. You know, when the United States sets up its hardware in the region and says don't, as President Biden very clearly said, that is almost an invitation for the Iranian access to say, okay, we will. And what are you going to do about it? Because frankly, the Iranian access is not going to be so easily deterred. Israel learned that in a very painful way on October 7th. And now the Americans in a much smaller scale are learning the same thing. It's not enough to say things. It's not enough to deploy forces. The only thing that could have an effect is action. And my fear right now is that the American response has been too meek in order to transmit the necessary messages to the Iranian access. Okay. Rob Swift and Yaakov Lapin, thank you very much. That's all for this latest edition of I-24 News. Be sure to follow us on our website, i-24news.tv, and across our social media platforms on Twitter, also known as X, and on Instagram. I'm Sivan Raviv. Thank you for watching. It's passed since October 7th. The day Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas. A month since the Black Sabbath, when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,400 Israelis, wounded thousands of others, and took 240 people captive. A month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization. A month later, I-24 News returns to the place where it all began. Join us on November 7th, only on I-24 News. Or if this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. Within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. 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. On I-24 News, I'm Sivan Raviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is day 32 of Israel's war with Hamas, marking exactly one month to the October 7th atrocities, the Hamas perpetrated against Israelis when it brutally entered their homes and attacked them, resulting in 1,400 murdered civilians, including many women and children. Additionally, 241 hostages were taken from within Israel and into Gaza. Israeli forces pushed further into the Gaza Strip overnight and were operating nearby the Shefa Hospital, which is reportedly located above Hamas' command center as the IDF continued to target Hamas' underground tunnel network and military capabilities. Following a 12-hour pause, Hamas' rocket fire into southern Israel resumed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war with Hamas is over with, illustrating to the catastrophic results of what was able to happen when it didn't. Let's have a listen. President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza. Who should govern Gaza when this is over? Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas, it certainly is not... I think Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas' terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine. A 69-year-old Jewish man by the name of Paul Kessler died overnight in Los Angeles following an assault he endured when a pro-Palestinian demonstrator struck his head with a megaphone, causing him to collapse and suffer from severe bleeding. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was later, where he later died of his wounds. Joining us on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent, Zach Anders. Zach, what are the latest developments in the North? Well, overnight was a significant moment in this war as one of the rockets launched from Lebanon reached further into Israel since the 2006 war. And that came with a resulted IDF retaliatory strike. They say that overnight, they struck the launch site that was combined with airstrikes and some of the artillery that we heard, which was very heavy in the 7, 8 o'clock hour, last night this morning, that artillery resumed again at 7 a.m., just a few shots. And we're told that that is to continue to pressure these factions, Hezbollah, Hamas, on the Lebanese border to make sure that one, the IDF's presence is known and to also keep them at bay, to prevent them from being able to push further into some of these communities that have been evacuated, have been forced to be on a constant alert at the confrontation line. As of right now this morning, it has been relatively quiet, but again we did hear that artillery earlier signaling to us that this is an ongoing situation. We're seeing Hamas in Lebanon involved. They took responsibility for a barrage of rockets which hit northern Israel last night with rockets reaching as far as the city of Haifa for the first time in a long time since the 2006 Lebanon war. What can you tell us about this? And that's significant too. One, the distinction would be that they were rockets and not drones, which would speak to who was responsible. The different factions that are claiming responsibility are claiming that it wasn't 30 rockets, that it was 16. The IDF says it was actually 30 rockets that were intercepted. And then again, one of those interceptions taking place 23 miles past the northern border over Haifa. Along the coastal communities was where most of the red alerts came last night. Several of those rockets we could see from our vantage point here as well. It did appear that all the interceptions were successful. The IDF says they were successful, no damage on the ground. Thank you very much on our northern border. Thank you. Joining us in studio are I-24 news correspondent Robert Swift and Yakov Lapin, Military and Strategic Affairs Analyst at the Jewish New Syndicate and Miriam Institute. Thank you both for joining. Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to be responsible for the security in Gaza in the future. Yakov, is this a realistic goal? I think we have to define the word responsible here. There are different ways of defining that. But I think if we look at the West Bank as a model, after Operation Defensive Shield which was launched by Israel in 2002 in response to this murderous wave of suicide bombings that had plagued Israeli cities after three years of intensive counter-terror operations, the IDF reached the position where it didn't have to be in Palestinian cities in the West Bank the entire time. It was able to launch targeted raids and essentially destroy the capabilities of Hamas and other terror organizations before they built up into the monstrous scopes. And I think that that eventually will become the reality in the Gaza Strip with some adjustments, targeted raids, and full freedom of movement for the IDF that doesn't mean full military control or checkpoints throughout the Gaza City, but it means the IDF will have the ability to respond to intelligence and to never again allow Hamas to rebuild these kinds of capabilities. Will they still be taking over the northern part of Gaza, do you think? If we're talking about post-war Gaza, I don't think that the IDF will need to keep huge amounts of forces. It may be able to operate in a cross-border manner or have some bases in the periphery. Just like in the West Bank, there are bases that are outside of the Palestinian cities. They're not inside, but that is sufficient to give the IDF enough freedom of operational movement to prevent mass rocket production, to prevent the formation of death squads, as we've seen in Gaza. So I really think we should be looking to the West Bank as a kind of model for what we may expect in Gaza after this war. Now, speaking of the West Bank, I'd like to ask you, Rob, it was reported that Israel assured the U.S. that new M16s supplied to Israel will not reach the West Bank, settlers. This because the Biden administration is worried of the possibility of an escalation in the violence in that area. Now, how likely is the possibility of such an escalation? It's definitely a threat that can't be ruled out. It's also, it's not just it's not just a consideration that the U.S. wants to hedge its backs against. It's also a consideration for Israel itself. Now, Israel has put a lot of effort into ensuring that the northern front doesn't become a full-blown confrontation. It equally doesn't want that to happen in the West Bank. So from an Israeli perspective, it's important to keep things damped down in the West Bank and the U.S. appears to feel the same. Now, with regards to the weapons specifically, this is an unusual attachment for the U.S. to apply this to the weapons that it's sending. And I think it's because the U.S. is concerned about the optics. Itamar Ben-Vehra, I'm a minister in the Israeli government was seen, I think, last week handing out weapons during a political rally. And the U.S. government is generally not considered to be a big fan of his. This is seen as inflammatory. And I think what the U.S. doesn't want to see happen is weapons that it supplies to Israel being used in security teams in the West Bank, then being used in confrontations with Palestinians. There's been an increase in the attacks and the agitation between settlers in the West Bank and between Palestinians and the U.S. doesn't want to see weapons it's supplied being used to kill Palestinians and civilians there. Thank you for that. We'll be back to you in a moment. But over on our Israel-Southern border is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloschendler. Pierre, what is the current situation on the ground down south? Well, you know, it's the fog of war. So details are slowly but gradually emanating from the IDF spokesperson unit. What we know, the latest news we heard from the IDF is that overnight there was a takeover of a Hamas stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip in which anti-tank launching path positions were detected and tens of terrorists were killed in the takeover. There was also a trove of intelligence documents that were found out there that will help the Israeli armed forces to enlarge their data about potential targets inside the Gaza Strip and there are plenty, obviously.  They called the Air Force the Air Force bombed the targets and the terrorists were killed. That shows you, again, the combination, the cooperation, the tightening of the cooperation between the Israeli ground forces and the other branches of the army, be it the intelligence, the Air Force, the Navy, the tanks, etc., etc. And that gives you a sense of how methodically the Israeli army is progressing now. The siege of Gaza City has tightened, but not only that, there are, as I said, ground fighting inside Gaza City, ground fighting a few hundred meters away from the Shifa hospital, according to Palestinian reports, Shifa hospital being designated by the IDF as maybe the most important operational and command center of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a very important target with a maze of tunnels and tunnel shafts nearby the hospital in a building very close to the hospital and at the entrance of the hospital. And the task of the Israeli army seems to be to close in on Shifa hospital in order maybe to neutralize that's command and operational headquarter. Thank you, Pierre down south on the border of Gaza. Thailand is reportedly in the process of negotiating the release of its citizens who were taken hostage on October 7th in Israel by Hamas terrorists with Iranian mediators. Nationals that who were kidnapped on October 7th in Israel by Hamas terrorists, this comes as the Thai army received pictures of those who were taken hostage and appeared in good condition. There are 23 Thai citizens among the 241 confirmed hostages held in Gaza. The Thai nationals were working in Israel mostly in agricultural communities near the Gaza Strip and as caretakers as well. With us is Professor Mark Kogan associate professor of peace and conflict studies at Kansai Gaida University in Japan. Thank you for joining. The Prime Minister of Thailand. The Prime Minister of Thailand is confirming that the Thai army had received pictures of the captives and that they appear to be in good condition. What do you know about this? Well, apparently that the Prime Minister has confirmed that and it was a delegation that was largely made up of people from Thailand's deep South, which is a Malay Muslim community, including a representative from Thailand's House Speaker, which is also from the South. And the news comes because they met with Hamas officials and Hamas had confirmed to the delegation that the hostages were safe. But at the time, they were considering optimal time to release them according to a statement because of the ongoing campaign in Gaza. What was the position of Thailand from the beginning of all this when the Hamas brutal attack took place? What was their stance? Well, the Thai government has to be rather pragmatic. It's not black and white. On the one hand, Thailand is incredibly vulnerable simply because of so many different agricultural workers. There are more than 20,000 agricultural workers at one particular time working on farms in Israel. So it wanted immediately those particular people released and for the Israeli government and anyone else involved to ensure their safety. But as long as this crisis is protracted and those hostages stay captive, it becomes a little bit more volatile for the Thai government because you have a Malay Muslim population that is decidedly pro-Palestinian and has a lot of empathy for the Palestinian struggle simply because some of that has some symbolism with the Israeli-Palestine conflict there. So at the moment, what do we know about the level of cooperation between Thailand and Iran? Well, the level of cooperation is serious because there was a delegation and there were a number of people from the Deep South that met with a representative from the Iranian president and the Iranian president or as advisors had agreed to broker conversations with Hamas, which did take place and from there, there were conversations about an ongoing mediation process through Hamas via Tehran. Whether or not that will be successful or how soon the hostages will be released is yet to be seen. Now, don't you think that this pragmatic kind of approach on Thailand's behalf could damage their relations with Israel? Well, no, they want to they want to manage both relationships. This is Thailand is also a very divided society. You have the Muslim population in the South and there was an ongoing insurgency. You do not want to take a position too far that upsets that particular population in the flames tensions. But at the same time, Thailand's important, Thailand's relationship with Israel is very important because of military exchanges, arms shipments, weapons purchases, technology exchanges, telecommunications as well as the demand for agricultural work in Israel. OK, thank you very much. Mark Hogan, Professor Mark Hogan, thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. And back in studio with us are our I-24 news correspondent Robert Swift and Yakov Lapin, Military and Strategic Affairs Analyst. Thank you for staying with us. According to reports, Israeli forces are operating nearby the Shefa Hospital where it was revealed that there's significant Hamas underground tunnels, a command center, a whole infrastructure. How can Israel deal with such a threat, Yakov, from within a civilian facility? It's a huge operational and tactical challenge. The first thing that the IDF has been doing is putting a red flag not only on Shefa Hospital but at least on two other hospitals, the Quds Hospital and the Qatari Hospital, all of these places are being used in the same way by Hamas with Hamas operatives both inside hospital departments and underneath tunnel shafts leading to bunkers using it as an operational command center. And what that means is that from those places field commanders are receiving information about the battlefield, giving out instructions to Hamas terrorists saying fire on this unit, fire rockets at Tel Aviv at a certain hour. This is where all of this is happening. So I don't know how the IDF is going to approach this but clearly it's putting together a tactical plan to take on these sites. It has been trying to evacuate them for weeks and it's sending the message to the international community that these raids are coming. There's no way that they can be stopped otherwise the war aim will not be fulfilled which is dismantling Hamas's military capabilities. So while I don't know how it's going to happen I have no doubt that it will indeed happen and probably quite soon. And that's not it's not to say it's just hospitals, it's playgrounds and it's other civilian facilities. Absolutely. Now we're seeing Jordan parachute medical aid into Gaza just yesterday. And the United Arab Emirates have said they put up a field hospital in Gaza. So how do you view this regional involvement and what's Israel's stance on it? I think Jordan is attempting to relieve internal pressure. It wants to avoid domestic instability. This is a country where the majority of the population is of Palestinian origin living under a Hashemite kingdom. And in order to avoid domestic instability which is Jordan's top concern it felt it had to take some action something decisive, clear, visible to help Gaza and civilians. Israel facilitated that because first of all it's in Israel's interest to have a stable eastern pragmatic country neighbor longest border is shared with Jordan and there's daily security cooperation with the Jordanian security forces. Jordan is in many ways the strategic depth of Israel against the Shiite access to the east in Iraq and Iran. And you know the fact that they were able to cooperate on this on this food drop I think is a positive development because they found a practical way to answer everybody's needs at the same time. So it looks like a good example actually of a way to walk this very delicate tightrope for Jordan despite the very negative and unfair statements it has been producing in recent weeks. Right. Now Rob The New York Times is reporting that the State Department approved a 320 million dollar sale of guided bomb equipment to Israel. What do we know about this package? What is the effectiveness of guide bombs in the war? So these weapons are known as spice weapons which is a smart, precise impact cost effective. And the reason they're called that is essentially these are a system which is designed to turn a dumb bomb an unguided bomb into a guided system. So it's essentially a guiding system you stick on the front of the weapon system. It's actually an Israeli designed weapon and what is the US wants to do here is to transfer these weapons from the US branch of Raphael here in Israel to its parent company back to Israel so that it can it can then use these systems. It's not the first time this has happened. There was a previous transfer a couple of years ago of a 402 million dollar transfer of similar systems. So this has happened before and it's understood that Israel actually requested these systems prior to October the 7th. So although obviously the urgency comes from the current situation it's not 100% tied in with this. Now I think part of the reason that the US wants to highlight the fact that it's looking to push these is because they're precision weapons. There's a lot of heat on Israel directly and therefore on to the United States because of the huge numbers of civilian casualties that are occurring inside Gaza and the feeling is that precision weapons will be able to cancel out some of this to make these these civilians casualties to reduce them essentially. However it's worth bearing in mind a guided bomb is only as good as the intelligence which guides it. Now it was obviously we saw drawbacks in the Israeli intelligence on the 7th of October there's a limit to how effective that was and as the war continues as Israel strikes targets as it works its way through its target list and as civilians increasingly move around the battlefield it the fog of war essentially thickens and it becomes harder and harder to have precise intelligence. These weapons will hopefully reduce civilian casualties but some will remain inevitable. Thank you Rob. For over two weeks now hundreds of members of Iranian-backed Iraqi militia groups have gathered at the border with Jordan to protest Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. They demand to pass through Jordan to reach Israel and Gaza in a move that also has Jordan concerned. Middle East correspondent Ariel Osiron has more. As pro-Palestinian rallies continue to spread across the West and the Middle East there's one country where anti-Israel protests have gone one step further than anyone. Our main demand is to allow us to go to Palestine to help the Palestinians. Let them open the borders and I will head there to fight or to provide moral or material aid we are ready for anything. For more than two weeks now thousands of Iraqis have been amassing along the border with Jordan. In addition to showing support for Hamas's October 7th massacre they demand free passage to reach the Gaza Strip following a call by Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Mugtada Sadr to hold sit-in protests along Israel's borders until it stops bombing Gaza. And Jordan which has been one of the most vocal countries opposing Israel's strikes on Gaza is worried that pro-Iranian militias in Iraq will try to take advantage of the situation. We will not allow you to desecrate Jordan and we warn the people of the popular mobilization forces on the Iraqi border. If you come close Jordan will be your graveyard. Iraq's support of the Hamas-Iran Axis comes as Tehran's proxies amplify their strikes against U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq. On Sunday U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Baghdad and met with Iraq's Prime Minister to try and prevent the conflict from spreading further across the region. The following day however Prime Minister Al-Sudani visited Tehran. We are affirming with whom Baghdad's real allegiance lies. Those who want the conflict to be contained and not to spread to the entire region should pressure the Zionist regime to stop its military aggression and systematic slaughter. Now Rob back in studio with us here I'd like to ask you in recent days there were eight more attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and in Syria by Iranian-backed militias. How worried is the U.S. about this? I think the U.S. has demonstrated this concern both in its words and in its actions. There have been strikes by U.S. forces I think it was about 10 days back where they hit IRGC targets in order to demonstrate the fact that they essentially are not willing to tolerate these attacks on them. These are essentially attempts by Iranian proxies to increase the pressure on the United States and therefore by doing so to increase the pressure on Israel. Most likely in order to try and bring the operations in Gaza to essentially try and force a ceasefire there it's understood that there is diplomatic pressure from the United States on to Israel to a certain extent and it seems likely that that's an attempt to increase that pressure. Jacob what's your take on this? First of all very interesting comment there by the Jordanian minister warning the PMF in Iraq the Iranian-backed sheikh militias don't come close to the Jordanian border. That is very revealing because the Iranian access is interested in destabilizing and toppling pragmatic Arab Sunni governments just as much as it's interested in destroying the state of Israel ultimately. And that report there I think is very important because it reveals the real blocks that this region has divided into. The Iranians have been using their militias they've been deploying them to Syria in greater numbers they've been deploying them to Lebanon as backup for Hezbollah and they are testing American deterrent postures when the United States sets up its hardware in the region and says don't as President Biden very clearly said that is almost an invitation for the Iranian acts to say okay we will and what are you going to do about it? Because frankly the Iranian access is not going to be so easily deterred Israel learned that very in a very painful way on October 7th and now the Americans in a much smaller scale are learning the same thing it's not enough to say things it's not enough to deploy forces the only thing that could have an effect is action and my fear right now is that the American response has been too meek in order to transmit the necessary messages to the Iranian access. Okay Rob Swift and Yakov Lapin thank you very much that's all for this latest edition of I-24 News be sure to follow us on our website i24news.tv and across our social media platforms on Twitter also known as X and on Instagram I'm Sivaner Vive thank you for watching is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped 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 what's what's going on this week in news 24 Israel under attack news 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war iron swords exclusive interviews reports from the war zone the reaction of the Spanish-speaking countries news 24 the only medium in Spanish that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel news 24 only in I-24 news I'm Sivan Raviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 32 of Israel's war with Hamas marking exactly one month to the October 7th atrocities that Hamas perpetrated against Israelis when it brutally entered their homes and attacked them resulting in 1400 murdered including many children and women additionally 241 hostages were taken from within Israel and into Gaza Israeli forces pushed further into the Gaza Strip attacking dozens of positions where Hamas had been launching mortars into Israel the IDF soldiers also took control over a Hamas military stronghold in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli fighter jet attacked a squad of about 10 Hamas terrorists overnight the IDF was reportedly operating nearby the Shifa Hospital located above Hamas's command center and the IDF continued to target Hamas's underground tunnel network and military capabilities after a 12-hour pause the firing of Hamas rockets into southern Israel resumed a short while ago an attempt at terror attack was foiled at the Calandia Crossing a female suspect covered in a Hamas flag and armed with a knife advanced towards security forces in attempt to attack them she was neutralized with no further casualties Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war with Hamas is finished illustrating to the catastrophic results of what was able to happen when it didn't let's have a listen President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza who should govern Gaza when this is over those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas and certainly I think Israel will for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it security responsibility what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine A 69-year-old Jewish man by the name of Paul Kessler died overnight in Los Angeles following an assault he endured when a pro-Palestinian demonstrator struck his head with a megaphone causing him to collapse and suffer from severe bleeding he was transported to a nearby hospital where he was later announced dead of his wounds Over on Israel's southern border is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Klochenler Pierre, what are the latest developments on the ground and down south? Well, as you mentioned in the headlines Hamas stronghold was taken over by the Israeli ground forces after they coordinated an aerial attack on that stronghold A few hundred meters away from the ground forces the ground forces took the stronghold over found a throw of weapons munitions anti-tank launching pads as well as intelligence that will feed the Israeli intelligence in terms of data that will be used in order to identify further targets inside the Gaza Strip In another instance near the Al-Quds hospital in a building there was a group of Hamas terrorists waiting to ambush the Israeli troops in the Sajahiyah neighborhood which is on the southern outskirts of Gaza city very close to Kibbutz Nachal Oz for instance which was the site of a massacre in October 7 Now that again the Israeli ground forces identified the target called in the Israeli Air Force The building was bombed and there were secondary explosions which means that the building was housing ammunition an ammunition depot because of the secondary explosions and that's more or less what's going on inside the Gaza Strip We've seen videos shown by the IDF spokesman unit of Israeli ground forces working within the rubbles of urban area and urban combat is of course very difficult Palestinians are reporting over 10,000 fatalities although we know that the Palestinian Ministry of Health is run by Hamas we cannot verify those numbers and we know also that those numbers are inflated as a result of rockets misfire and falling into Gaza territory Thank you Pierre on Israel's southern border Joining us in studio is retired colonel Dr. Jacques Neria former deputy head of assessment in the Israeli military intelligence thank you for coming in Good morning We see that rocket fire resumed this morning towards southern Israel but we also see that the number of barrages towards Israel has diminished it's generally dropped since the beginning Does this mean that Hamas is losing its ability slowly to fire rockets now? Well you know that after months of firing missiles towards Israel the I believe that the depots have been depleted or at least most of them have been depleted and it's time for replenish in order to replenish you need the ceasefire and the ceasefire is not coming yet What is important today is that we can see already the architecture of the day after the Israeli Prime Minister has expressed himself that Israel will maintain a security presence in the Gaza Strip this is something that is acceptable and the Americans are saying that the candidate to take over in the Gaza Strip should be the Palestinian Authority so more or less this is and the whole Strip would be that's a said defined as a B zone like the B zone in the West Bank where the civilian affairs are being run by the Palestinian Authority and security is either completely demilitarized and on the other hand security presence from the Israeli security agencies this is more or less the idea that is being shaped right now and this is what Lincoln is trying to convince all the partners that he's meeting in the Middle East and in Turkey and other places so this is what's running right now on the ground the continued attacks of the Israeli army the idea are aimed at two main areas in the Gaza Strip the Gaza Strip is divided in six areas according to Hamas and most of the terrorists are concentrated two northern parts of it half of the effectives of Hamas it's 14 battalions out of 2028 are in the central and the northern part of the Gaza Strip and this is where the main effort is being conducted right now and when we finish that two regions the idea will turn southward and go to Hanyunis and Rafa so we watched Netanyahu speak in an ABC interview and you've mentioned before he expressed the view that Israel will need to assume responsibility for the security in Gaza now is this a feasible objective yes it is if we look at what's happening in the in the West Bank this is the kind of this is the kind of response that Israel is expecting to be able to enter the Gaza Strip whenever there is a need and to just attack I would say targets or whatever terrorist cell that might be there this is the kind of scenario that Israel is looking right now at very very closely and I don't believe that there will be a presence a military presence I mean like fortifications or camps whatever this is not the kind of thing that Israel would like to have there but the ability to go in and out this would be easier to the Palestinian Authority to accept this solution so we should be expecting the Palestinian Authority to be taking over well there's no other choice the Americans don't want it the Egyptians don't want it the Jordanians don't want it nobody wants it ever I mean I remember when we negotiated the peace agreement with Egypt Menachembe you know prime minister at the time proposed to Sadat to take over the Gaza Strip bearing in mind that they had still at the time a governor of Gaza an Egyptian general and the response of Anwar Sadat was at the time this poisonous gift you keep it for yourself Okay thank you please keep with us we will be back to you joining us on Israel's northern border is our I-24 news correspondent Zach Anders Zach what are the latest developments in the north well the earliest we heard artillery fire was about 740 this morning that was outgoing towards the northern border with Lebanon as the IDF says they continue to engage with targets now some of the military sources that we've spoken to say that this is continued use of the artillery is a continued deterrence to attempt to one remind the enemy that you are still there that you still have a zero in on the locations that they may want to move to and also to keep them prevent them from being able to bring equipment and move vehicles closer to the border with Israel here now some of the questions that we have at this hour as the IDF continues to provide resources including in the air how continuous this could be for the next several days or weeks and how a large of a force is needed to be here to be a deterrent when you have that simultaneous operation in Gaza in the south how many troops and how much equipment needs to stay here in the north with that continued threat and it's continuous this continuous fire from Hezbollah and some of the Hamas factions from the north does appear to be an attempt to distract or to pull resources away from the operation in the south and to keep that continuous engagement skirmishes but not a full-scale engagement here on the north now how substantial is Hamas's involvement in Lebanon by the northern border it's hard to say exactly how large the operation could be especially when Hamas is operating underneath an umbrella of Hezbollah here in the north Hezbollah is obviously the big brother the one that will be directing the majority of any large operations here and some unconfirmed reports that even some of the the rocket fire the launches need to be approved by Hezbollah before they are fired from the north here as well so really it's all operating underneath that umbrella right now Hezbollah the potential of upwards of a hundred thousand fighters here in the north the IDF has not made clear what the large-scale mobilization looks like they have not unlike in the south been releasing pictures or video of some of the staging and mobilization and some of the cameras that are positioned on both sides also have not been revealing large numbers or in some sort of anticipatory force and that might be deliberate obviously the operational security side of things both sides want to keep those secrets to themselves Zach Anders on the northern border thank you very much joining us again in studio is retired colonel Dr. Jacques Nairia Jacques we see today an attempted terror attack on IDF forces in the Kalandia crossing this might have been a lone attack should we be expecting more lone attacks should we be expecting more violence an escalation of violence coming from the West Bank well we've been in a silent war since the beginning of last year in the West Bank and there's nothing new since the beginning of this war the more than 2000 Palestinian terrorists have been arrested by Israel and more than 80 Palestinians were killed in clashes with the Israeli the security forces so we are in fact in a declared war but it's a silent one this is the third front that we have we have the Lebanese front we have the Gaza front and we have the West Bank front which is very active I'm not talking about the Houthis and I'm not talking about the Iraqis we are here the very neighbors the very neighbors are the in the West Bank and this is going on and imagine that we wouldn't be playing there or doing what we are doing right now the Hamas would have taken over the place long ago and the Palestinian Authority must be thankful that we are working there and we are just tracking all all Hamas terrorists and putting them in jail right now or trying to arrest them in one way or another another so the expecting what's happening is that with the lone attacks lone wolves as you call it is this is the these people are illuminated people inspired but what happened by what happened on the 7th of October if this happened in the on the 7th of October this can be on the 6th on the 7th on the every day in the in the week every day in the months this is this is something that is possible the Jews are not invincible they are they can be killed and this is what's happening even that I mean a boy of 16 years old I mean is the one who's carrying an attack against a police woman and is killing her so I mean that we we must not be surprised that the inspiration is there the incitation the incitement all around the the media you can see it all over and you know the the words that are being used is just strangled just killed just behead Jews and so this is this is the kind of vocabulary that these people are receiving all the time from all those media media centers and I'm not surprised at all I mean the only surprise is that we don't have an uprising the the population most of the population is not moving and this is what's what's surprising Hamas I mean which is in despair I mean how come I mean after all the those attacks that Israel had was 10,000 let's say let's accept the numbers 10,000 people killed in in Gaza how come the whole Palestinian are not are not rising against the Israeli occupation in the in the West Bank and this is something that cannot be explained right now only by the fact that Israel is active there but because of also the fact that most Palestinians are not convinced that Hamas is representing them so you mentioned many friends here the South the North the West Bank Can Israel feasibly handle so many friends at the same time? Well were it not the American intervention I think that we would have had war long ago with Hezbollah this is I mean the Americans are very keen in that say they don't want a regional war they don't want to expand the war to to other participants and because of their own interest this is understandable how long can we can we cope with that I have to explain something the Gaza strip is a very tiny strip of land you cannot put in this in this strip more forces than we have done already so all the forces all the units that are in the northern part are meant for the northern front are not meant for Gaza Hezbollah is not preventing us from bringing those troops and putting them in Gaza we don't have the place to put them in Gaza so we have enough forces on the other hand I would I always remind people in 1948 we fought against five armies and we won in 1956 we fought against an army and we won in 1967 we had three fronts not one two we had the Sinai we had the Syrian and we had the West Bank was Jordan at the time so I think that this does not frighten us and we know how to cope with it our army is used and trained for that okay Dr. Jacques Neria thank you very much thank you children in Israel are now sharing their stories about the horrors they experienced after Hamas terrorists entered their kibbutz Kfar Azar in southern Israel Tamir Haril has more on how they feared for their lives as they hid from terrorists on the morning of October 7th and more on one organization called My Wave which is making a big difference through allowing children to ride a wave of hope through the power of surfing warm weather a blue sky and four chillful young people going down to the sea to surf a pastoral picture that is so different from the hell that Rotem and Ophir went through just one month ago at Kibbutz Kfar Azar in six and a half when all the terrorists started then we took all the family we went to Mammad and then after that they went to Abu-A'ba in the Qitat Koninu where there is a group of terrorists and then Yashary Tavgen took off took off the clothes took off his clothes and tried to save and I my mother and I stayed at home in Mammad and then all the time we were on the phone trying to understand what was happening and then we started hearing the noise and then we realized that it was terrorists just the whole house and then we started hearing in the house Arabic and Arabic and then we contacted my father and we told him the terrorists at home come on, come on come on, come on what's up in Shalab Mezuyam we heard the noise in Arabic at the moment of the assault it was a moment when we were starting to attack really not even to breathe really for a few minutes after that we were attacking the assault in the assault of course we were one of them hit his foot and it was a sound really you said it was a sound really maybe it was 40 times in a minute really really a sound as Rotem Ofir and their families were huddled inside the safe rooms outside on the green paths of Kfar Aza an infernal was already raging if you put a knife on the side of the of the and then we went to the safe room under my mother and three of us three of us and then the guards entered the room while they were standing they looked at us they were like on everything they see and so they looked at us and we in the safe room it was a moment that they threw the house and then the knife turned to be a wall and then we started to fight even though there were still dozens of armed terrorists roaming around outside indiscriminately murdering anyone they encountered Rotem his mother and sister decided to leave the house they hid in the storeroom for nine hours until the IDF forces rescued them and so we we contact my father to his friends and one of them is not allowed and then in a 10 that already opened us to the house of guards so I saw my mother like angry on the wall and then I thought that she was really and then it explained to me that they found him opened and that he in the house of guards was good friends of the security contacted her and sent me messages that the police just came to us to help that the father broke the door I said of course to my brother and it was not possible to get out we passed it to other guards that came to the house and they brought him to the house and my father the big brother and a few guards came to our salon suddenly there are guards in the house in the house that is a very life on the house that opened in the house opened in the house from the side the hours passed the darkest came and Ophir and his family were still shuttered in the safe room for 20 long hours until the rescue team arrived I went to the station I saw the truck I took the truck and I took my truck with me as I said we are living in Ness Ness from the house one month later Rotem Ophir and the other children of Kfar Aza who survived the massacre were evacuated to Kibbutz Shfaim started their day at the sea the Hegal Shali my wave association was established with the aim of helping boys and girls at risk through surfing as mobilized for a new mission a very critical moment really now in this situation to create some kind of some kind of to restore the faith in the world to bring out the ocean to the open the open to enter and really to restore the most beautiful things the biggest is kind of to make a difference because when we are in the sea they do not think about everything and they are leaving and everything is dry and suddenly really cold and kind of you see physically for a moment you are laughing from all the pain that you have to go home that we succeeded to save Benes just laughing from all of this and cheering for friends for everyone there is his swimming spot so I think it is my swimming spot a few days after we arrived to Shfaim here we are a few young people here in Shfaim and I can talk to you that he is cheering I just said to him I know that I am going to you but I can come to you and say yes we are going to arrive the next day and it is very cold really it is so they are going to come and there is shaking what they are listening is only the sounds that's it you were and the right the right person can simply to allow to allow to allow to allow to allow to places that you have to we here with them as you will be here on the side really every day on the road during the chaos during the work from the 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s 20s and this is just the beginning it is clear to everyone that there is still a long road ahead for these young people who left the innocents memories and sweet childhood experiences in the Gaza border village I am like the the biggest of all of all my heart does not know if it is real or real because it does not know the spirit of the home but yes I see someone using the gas for meals and we still eat food maybe we were able to say that we are fine I think no one no one is fine and when I realized that we were in a That's all for this latest edition of I-24 News. You may follow us on our website at i-24news.tv. I'm Sivan Raviv. Thank you for watching. 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. But then a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. 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'm Sivan Raviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is day 32 of Israel's war with Hamas, marking exactly one month to the October 7th atrocities that Hamas perpetrated against Israelis when it brutally entered their homes and attacked them, resulting in 1,400 murdered including many children and women. Additionally, 241 hostages were taken from within Israel and into Gaza. Israeli forces pushed further into the Gaza Strip overnight, attacking dozens of positions where Hamas had been launching mortars into Israel. The IDF soldiers also took control over a Hamas military stronghold in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli fighter jet attacked the squad of about 10 Hamas terrorists. Overnight, the IDF was reportedly operating nearby the Shifa hospital located above Hamas' command center and the IDF continued to target Hamas' underground tunnel network and military capabilities. After a 12-hour pause, the firing of Hamas' rockets into southern Israel resumed. A short while ago, an attempted terror attack was foiled at the Calandia Crossing, a female suspect covered in a Hamas flag and armed with a knife advanced towards security forces in attempt to attack them. She was neutralized with no further casualties. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC interview that Israel will likely have to maintain security control over the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war with Hamas is finished, illustrating to the catastrophic results of what was able to happen when it didn't. Let's have a listen. President Biden has said that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza. Who should govern Gaza when this is over? Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas and certainly I think Israel will for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine. A 69-year-old Jewish man by the name of Paul Kessler died overnight in Los Angeles following an assault he endured when a pro-Palestinian demonstrator struck his head with a megaphone, causing him to collapse and suffer from severe bleeding. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was later announced dead of his wounds. Southern border is our I-24 News correspondent, Pierre Klochenler. Pierre, what are the latest developments on the ground down south? Well, as you mentioned in the headlines, a Hamas stronghold was taken over by the Israeli ground forces after they coordinated an aerial attack on that stronghold. A few hundred meters away from the ground forces, the ground forces took the stronghold over, found a throw of weapons, munitions, anti-tank launching pads, as well as intelligence that will feed the Israeli intelligence in terms of data that will be used in order to identify further targets inside the Gaza Strip. In another instance, near the Al-Quds hospital in a building, there was a group of Hamas terrorists waiting to ambush the Israeli troops in the Sajahiyah neighborhood which is on the southern outskirts of Gaza City, very close to Kibbutz-Nachal Oz, for instance, which was the site of a massacre in October 7. Now that, again, the Israeli ground forces identified the target, called in the Israeli air force. The building was bombed and there were secondary explosions, which means that the building was housing an ammunition depot because of the secondary explosions. And that's more or less what's going on inside the Gaza Strip. We've seen videos shown by the IDF Spokesman unit of Israeli ground forces working within the rubbles of urban area and urban combat is, of course, very difficult. Palestinians are reporting over 10,000 fatalities. Although we know that the Palestinian Ministry of Health is run by Hamas, we cannot verify those numbers. And we know also that those numbers are inflated as a result of rockets misfire and falling into Gaza territory. Thank you, Pierre, on Israel's southern border. Joining us in studio is retired colonel Dr. Jacques Neria, former deputy head of assessment in the Israeli military intelligence. Thank you for coming in. Good morning. We see that rocket fired resumed this morning towards southern Israel, but we also see that the number of barrages towards Israel has diminished. It's generally dropped since the beginning. Does this mean that Hamas is losing its ability slowly to fire rockets now? Well, you know, after months of firing missiles towards Israel, the I believe that the depots have been depleted or at least most of them have been depleted, and it's time for replenish. So in order to replenish, you need the ceasefire, and the ceasefire is not coming yet. What is important today is that we can see already the architecture of the day after. The Israeli Prime Minister has expressed himself that Israel will maintain a security presence in the Gaza Strip. This is something that is acceptable. And the Americans are saying that the candidate to take over in the Gaza Strip should be the Palestinian Authority. So more or less, this is, and the whole strip would be, let's say, set, defined as a B zone, like the B zone in the West Bank, where the civilian affairs are being run by the Palestinian Authority, and security is either completely demilitarized, and on the other hand, security presence from the Israeli security agencies. This is more or less the idea that is being shaped right now. And this is what Lincoln is trying to convince all the partners that he's meeting in the Middle East and in Turkey and other places. So this is what's running right now. On the ground, the continued attacks of the Israeli Israeli army, the IDF, are aimed at two main areas in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip is divided in six areas, according to Hamas. And most of the terrorists are concentrated in the two northern parts of it. Half of the effectives of Hamas, it's 14 battalions out of 2028, in the central and the northern part of the Gaza Strip. And this is where the main effort is being conducted right now. And when we finish that two regions, the IDF will turn southward and go to Hanyunis and Rava. So we watched Netanyahu speak in an ABC interview, and you've mentioned before, he expressed the view that Israel will need to assume responsibility for the security in Gaza. Now, is this a feasible objective? Yes, if we look at what's happening in the West Bank, this is the kind of response that Israel is expecting, to be able to enter the Gaza Strip whenever there is a need and to just attack, I would say, targets or whatever terrorist cell that might be there. This is the kind of scenario that Israel is looking right now at very, very closely. And I don't believe that there will be a presence, a military presence, I mean, like fortifications or camps, whatever. This is not the kind of thing that Israel would like to have there. But the ability to go in and out, this would be easier to the Palestinian authority to accept the solution. So we should be expecting the Palestinian authority to be taking over? Well, there's no other choice. The Americans don't want it. The Egyptians don't want it. The Jordanians don't want it. Nobody wants it ever. I mean, I remember when we negotiated the peace agreement with Egypt, Menachem Beggin, our prime minister at the time, proposed to Sadat to take over the Gaza Strip, bearing in mind that they had still, at the time, a governor of Gaza, an Egyptian general. And the response of Anwar Sadat was, at the time, this poisonous gift, you keep it for yourself. Okay, thank you. Please keep with us. We will be back to you. Joining us on Israel's northern border is our I-24 News correspondent, Zach Anders. Zach, what are the latest developments in the north? Well, the earliest we heard artillery fire was about 740 this morning. That was outgoing towards the northern border with Lebanon, as the IDF says they continue to engage with targets now. Some of the military sources that we've spoken to say that this is continued use of the artillery is a continued deterrence to attempt to, one, remind the enemy that you are still there, that you still have a zero in on the locations that they may want to move to, and also to keep them, prevent them from being able to bring equipment and move vehicles closer to the border with Israel here. Now, some of the questions that we have at this hour, as the IDF continues to provide resources, including in the air, how continuous this could be for the next several days or weeks, and how a large of a force is needed to be here to be a deterrent when you have that simultaneous operation in Gaza, in the south, how many troops and how much equipment needs to stay here in the north with that continued threat. And it's continuous, this continuous fire from Hezbollah and some of the Hamas factions from the north does appear to be an attempt to distract or to pull resources away from the operation in the south, and to keep that continuous engagement skirmishes, but not a full-scale engagement here on the north. Now, how substantial is Hamas' involvement in Lebanon by the northern border? It's hard to say exactly how large the operation could be, especially when Hamas is operating underneath an umbrella of Hezbollah here in the north. Hezbollah is obviously the big brother, the one that will be directing the majority of any large operations here and some unconfirmed reports that even some of the rocket fire, the launches need to be approved by Hezbollah before they are fired from the north here as well. So really it's all operating underneath that umbrella, right? Now Hezbollah, the potential of upwards of 100,000 fighters here in the north, the IDF has not made clear what the large-scale mobilization looks like. They have not, unlike in the south, been releasing pictures or video of some of the staging and mobilization and some of the cameras that are positioned on both sides also have not been revealing large numbers or in some sort of anticipatory force and that might be deliberate. Obviously the operational security side of things, both sides want to keep those secrets to themselves. Zach Anders on the northern border, thank you very much. Joining us again in studio is retired colonel Dr. Jacques Neria. Jacques, we see today an attempted terror attack on IDF forces in the Kalandya crossing. This might have been a lone attack. Should we be expecting more lone attacks? Should we be expecting more violence and escalation of violence coming from the West Bank? Well, we've been in a silent war since the beginning of last year in the West Bank and there's nothing new. Since the beginning of this war, more than 2,000 Palestinian terrorists have been arrested by Israel and more than 80 Palestinians were killed in clashes with the Israeli security forces. So we are, in fact, in a declared war, but it's a silent one. This is the third front that we have. We have the Lebanese front, we have the Gaza front, and we have the West Bank front, which is very active. I'm not talking about the Houthis and I'm not talking about the Iraqis. We are here, the very neighbors. The very neighbors are in the West Bank and this is going on. And imagine that we wouldn't be playing there or doing what we are doing right now. The Hamas would have taken over the place long ago, and the Palestinian Authority must be thankful that we are working there and we are just tracking all Hamas terrorists and putting them in jail right now or trying to arrest them in one way or another. So expecting what's happening is that with the loan attacks, loan rules, as you call it, is these people are illuminated people, inspired by what happened on the 7th of October. If this happened on the 7th of October, this can be on the 6th, on the 7th, on the 7th. Every day in the week, every day in the months, this is something that is possible. The Jews are not invincible. They can be killed, and this is what's happening. Even a boy of 16 years old is the one who's carrying an attack against a policewoman and is killing her. So we must not be surprised that the inspiration is there.  And the words that are being used is just strangled, just killed, just behead Jews, and so on. This is the kind of vocabulary that these people are receiving all the time from all those media centers. And I'm not surprised at all. The only surprise is that we don't have an uprising. The population, most of the population is not moving. And this is what's surprising Hamas, I mean, which is in despair. I mean, how come, after all those