breaking news edition I'm Benisa Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Israel's war cabinet is set to meet in the coming hours to discuss a possible deal brokered by Egypt that could see the release of more hostages from Hamas captivity. Security leaders are also expected to discuss the high intensity phase of the fighting inside Gaza with the Israeli death toll in the retaliatory ground operation now at 172 it's more than 12 weeks since the Hamas terror onslaught in which more than 1200 people were murdered in southern Israel most of them civilians 129 people remain in captivity inside Gaza senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev has this update two months into the IDF's ground operation in Gaza questions are rising as to the end strategy of the current high intensity phase and a move on to the next phase on one hand there's still constant firefights with Hamas terrorists especially in the area of Chanyones we found here plenty of enemy infrastructure there was a terrorist here with a Kalachnikov that tried to shoot at our soldiers we killed him and caught another terrorist and took him for interrogation along with that Hamas officials are also being killed one of them is Abdel Fattah Mali the closest associate of Ichiya Yash who was known as the engineer and responsible for various terror attacks in the 1990s on the other hand there's a feeling that in the current phase the IDF is not able to reach the hostages or the Hamas senior leadership and some other way is now needed when will Israel head for that other way the prime minister may have set the goal for that the Philadelphia corridor or to put it more correctly the southern end of Gaza must be in our hands no other solution can ensure the demilitarization we seek the Philadelphia corridor separates Gaza from Egypt and the assumption is that huge amounts of weapons were and maybe still are smuggled to Gaza in tunnels running under it on paper Egypt seems to refuse any such move and Israel needs Egyptian backing for another crucial move a hostage deal families and protesters believe the government is not doing enough in that field i'm afraid that the government of Israel has prioritized otherwise it's it's political ambitions and the hostages is not on the top priorities a possible hostage deal the control of the Philadelphia corridor the effectiveness of the IDF's current tactics many critical issues for the future of this war but none of them with a concrete solution at hand and still with the story day 86 of the war correspondent Nikol Zedek is in southern Israel and filed this update it's another day of war here in southern Israel near the Gaza border as the IDF continues to strike hard in the Gaza strip and Hamas continues to fire back we already saw some red alert rocket siren sounding in some of these southern Israeli border communities although it does come after a 24-hour lull and this is what we seem to be seeing as the weeks go on Hamas the rocket launching capabilities do seem to be weakening but they are still capable and a new report coming out of the Israeli army radio talking about some unnamed IDF officials says they're not sure if Hamas's rocket launching capabilities will ever completely be eliminated the IDF is currently working to to really reduce their capabilities not only destroying different Hamas terrorist launch sites different terrorist infrastructure and also seizing and raiding uh so many different weapons and rocket launchers as well but while they might be reducing the Hamas's capabilities to fire long-range weapons specifically targeting some central Israeli towns and hot spots like Tel Aviv these border communities that are right along the the Gaza border in southern Israel where you have 10 to 15 seconds to run into their shelter according to this new report the IDF isn't sure if they'll ever completely eliminate the threat and so many of these residents as they're wondering when they might be able to come back to these southern border communities this new report might shine a little bit of light onto what the future of living here might look like now all of this comes as the IDF continues to operate deep in the Gaza Strip really moving some of their focus from the northern part of the Gaza Strip towards central and southern the IDF earlier today publishing a statement that the elite paratroopers brigade that happened operating for the past two months in the northern part of the Gaza Strip now moving towards Canunis in the southern section of the Gaza Strip which is a terrorist hot spot even after several weeks of fighting we continue to see very very heavy clashes a new IDF statement coming out this afternoon talking about this close combat face-to-face encounters that these soldiers are getting with these terrorists many of them firing from civilian buildings this is something we continue to see with Hamas terrorists specifically now according to this new statement in Canunis using civilian infrastructure to fire at IDF soldiers and that's war continues the IDF continuing to fight their hardest but Hamas says they're continuing to use human shields civilian infrastructure it proves difficult and we have seen a heavy loss more than 170 soldiers killed so far in this ongoing fighting as we come close to the fourth month of this ongoing war in the Gaza Strip reporting from southern Israel for i24 news i'm Nicole Zedek so for more reaction and insight we welcome to studio colonel in the reserves Olivier Refovich the IDF spokesperson for international media and our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Altonman gentlemen thank you so much for both being here in studio right now new year kicks in in a few hours time still a while to go in this part of the world right now as we speak fireworks already in the air in Australia right now but not many celebrations Olivier in this part of the world with many waiting to see will the start of this new year mean an end for this war it's day 86 right now Benita thank you to have me here on your in studio the war is still moving and going on very harshly very toughly against Hamas still fierce fights in different parts of the Gaza Strip in the center in the north and we're actually meeting sometimes I would say pockets of opposition both from Hamas terrorist we are eliminating them we are killing them when we meet them face to face almost but we have also casualties as you know we lost two reserve soldiers yesterday and we have also wounded some of them badly wounded and we pay a price in this war but there is no alternative for Israel we have to continue to fight to destroy military capability the from us also the governmental I would say capability the from us all over the the the Gaza Strip in the same time we are still continuing to bring on to and to help to to bring a humanitarian assistance to the people mostly in the southern part of the Gaza Strip Muassi area between Hanunez Muassi and Rafa big concentration of people there from Gaza they left the north to the southern part but fights are still going on we are revealing new tunnels underground facilities have been destroyed we are finding weapons explosives we are also aware of the possibility that our stages are in the area so we must I would say move in a very I would say vigilant and and a clever way to do what we have to do against terrorists but to prevent that the hostages will be hurt by the combats the search in Hanunez particularly involves not only the concern around the 129 hostages somewhere in the Gaza Strip but specifically about terror leaders that are believed to be hiding potentially in those tunnels that you spoke of what can you share about these searches that conducted every single day right now in those tunnels what does it mean and what kind of technology is being used to make sure that civilians and hostages aren't hurt first of all we have to be aware that the tunnels are only used by hama separatifs not by the garden people they could have find the way to protect themselves using such underground facilities but Hamas actually is preventing them to get there so it's only for Hamas and only for Hamas operatives to be there and to use them we have to remember that some of these tunnels are 50, 60 meters beneath the ground very well unsophisticated organized and built for preserving for I would say serving as a security for Hamas leaders so intelligence is collected we got a lot of intelligence when we arrest terrorists when they surrender to our troops we get new information new documents even when we get to schools or mosques or even some facilities so-called civil facilities we are finding a lot of intelligence material all this stuff actually used by our agencies like the Shabbat and 504 intelligence unit in the army to collect information to analyze it and then to to go forward but it's still a challenge for the army to arrest the top the heads of Hamas we talk about Iqiz in war Mohammed def on other ones but we will find them and we will arrest them or we will eliminate them but they will not leave this Gaza Strip alive something we will discuss in more detail in a short while gentlemen stay with us because as you alluded to there are several fronts in this war and on Israel's northern border tensions continue to simmer with Israel and Hezbollah seemingly locked into fighting that nonetheless is below the point of a full-scale war the Biden administration wants to keep it that way which is why as our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman explains the administration's envoy is on his way to the region let's take a look America's point man on Lebanon trying to do on land what he did at sea with Amos Hockstein reportedly set the flight back into Beirut this week to try to broker a deal that would bring quiet to the land border between Lebanon and Israel the way he did last year with the border between zones at sea the most important piece of this agreement is that it is the entirely in the interest of each country to not violate it and to move forward the background now of course is the war and the element of it on the Israel-Lebanon border where the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has been firing for months at communities on the Israeli side and the Israeli military has responded by firing at Hezbollah targets the Biden administration wants the situation contained below the threshold of a wider war as does the French government Israel has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters Israeli attacks have intensified and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a warning we have approved operational plans for the continuation of the fighting if Hezbollah expands the war it would absorb blows that it has not dreamed of and Iran as well Hockstein's apparent plan to incentivize Hezbollah to move its troops away from the Israeli border in exchange for apparent Israeli concessions on marking that border in at least some of the 13 points of dispute the Biden administration does not want a full-scale war Israel's plan A is not to have a full-scale war and the Lebanese public does not want a full-scale war which all point to the sides getting to a deal that forestalls a full-scale war at least for now and that report by our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman he's here in studio for more insights and Owen Amos Hockstein certainly has his work cut out for him right now talk us through the players he needs to get involved to make sure that there is a diplomatic resolution up north and so that there isn't an unfolding escalation that everyone across the region appears to be so concerned about right now well listen at the personal level Benita there seems to be no one better place than Amos Hockstein to make it happen right again against the odds although of course there is logic that did surround it but still against the odds brokered that deal on the border between the seizons between Israel and Lebanon which has enabled at least the exploration for gas in the two countries and in their two economic zones and again dense the odds at least it was it was seen from the outset and was able to do it and therefore built up significant contacts on the Lebanese side it means formal titles are all about energy right and the gas deal was about energy I just think by virtue of his personal connections in Lebanon and his affinity to the Israeli side he is someone who is potentially uniquely placed to be a go between between the two countries and that's what he's done since October 7th and that's what he continues to do including reportedly by being headed to Beirut over the next few days he certainly has his work cut out for him on the other hand and again I know there are many people who disagree with me on this I think there is a logic for these parties to get to yes there is a real zone of possible agreement right the Biden administration certainly doesn't want a war that is clear to all of us I think on the Israeli side there are a lot of restraints for a potential war this is a country that would go into a full scale war in the north absolutely exhausted socially I think there are questions about whether there would be legitimacy for this government to initiate a war whether it would be the kind of consensus in the country that of course was present on October 7th when Israel was brutally attacked but were there to be a more ambiguous set of circumstances in the Lebanese border how would the public here feel about that and then on the Hezbollah side obviously you've heard from Hassan Isra'la in the past but how much damage the 2006 war caused we know from polling in Lebanon that the Lebanese public as a whole and it stands to reason not a small portion and possibly a majority of Hezbollah's own constituency don't want to see a full scale war of course there may be outside actors like Iran who have different designs and different ideas but there are plenty of players who do matter who want to see this get to yes of course that Benita just punts the question down the road kicks that can down the road for another day Olivia your thoughts on exactly that because much of the focus obviously has been on the Gaza Strip and eliminating the threat out of Hamas but every day we hear more and more concern about Hezbollah's potential full scale role it's very important to remind the issue that Hezbollah has entered this war assisting Hamas against the interest of Lebanon on the interest of the Lebanese so what now they are doing what the Iranians are asking them to do against the Lebanese interest from the state of Israel side we are fighting back we don't want escalation we don't want war against Lebanon but in the case that even that Hezbollah sorry will continue and will escalate this situation Lebanon will pay the price so now there is a possibility that the French and the American parties will play a very important role diplomatically speaking to prevent such a conflagration between state of Israel the army of Israel and Hezbollah depends of many many elements Iran Lebanese a stunning point Hezbollah willingness to do so and there is maybe also the issue of mistake because Hezbollah made mistakes in the past but in any case for us it would be totally impossible to continue to have such a situation where and if the diplomatic and political assistant will not be successful so there will be another option and let's say that this option will be decided by the political isolation there's another front I want to discuss gentlemen stay with us because shipping giant Merck has announced it will suspend its vessels passage through the Red Sea for the next 48 hours following two attacks on one of its merchant ships while transiting the Bab Amman Deb Strait now the shipping company recently reversed a similar decision following the formation of the US-led naval coalition in the area a coalition that is now being put to the test as our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osirian explains in this report a moment of truth for the US-led naval coalition in the Red Sea American naval forces sank three hoothy small boats as they attacked a commercial vessel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday hours after the same vessel was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile in a separate attack the US central command said gunmen on board the boats opened fire at the Danish owned Maersk Hangzhou and attempted to board it the gunmen then opened fire at US Navy helicopters responding to the distress call the helicopters returned fire sinking three boats and killing its crews a fourth boat fled the area this would be the 24th attack by the hoothies on international shipping since October and the first ship to be attacked since the naval coalition was formed the hoothies have emphasized many times in their statements that the actions taken in response to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are only targeted at Israeli ships or ships related to Israel or ships heading to Israeli ports therefore the United States and Israel should bear direct responsibility if any obstructions or delays happen to ships entering the port of Udeida in an interview with the Associated Press the commander of US naval forces in the Middle East Vice Admiral Brad Cooper said before Saturday's incident that quote we are clear eyed at the hoothy reckless attacks will likely continue the statement comes as Denmark becomes the latest country to sign on the more than 20 nation coalition highlighting the global importance of the threat by the Iranian back toothies Iran movila its Iran leads the axis of evil and aggression against us on various fronts this aggression is directed not only against Israel but against the entire free world the attacks on the mayor's kangaroo come as the shipping company announced it would resume sending its ships through the red sea due to the maritime coalition in the area a statement since reversed following the latest attack but continued attacks will test the coalition whether it's going to be more than a floating iron dome simply protecting ships or whether it will actually take proactive steps against the hoothy attacks still in the studio colonel in the reserves Olivier refovich the idea of spokesperson for international media and our senior correspondent oh and ultimate Olivier I want to come to you about this Iranian axis of evil that we hear so often about and right now Israel is being targeted by the hooties but so are a whole range of vessels heading towards Israeli shores is the IDF prepared for this eventuality another front in this potential development right now when we are talking the naval coalition led by the American but not only the American with French with Brits with the Spaniard the Italian I think also the Danes are actually moving in against hooty a threat in the red sea it becomes a real threat for freedom of commerce in this area but we see now the expression of the Iranian global threat not only against Israel interest but also against the world interest so this country between Hamas and the idea is in Gaza has actually reflected the huge impacts of Iranian willingness to get involved without being directly part of this conflict they are using the Hamas Palestinian they are using the Hezbollah now they're using the Yemenites but we know that the Yemenites are using Iranian weaponry like this ballistic missiles on drones all of them come from Iran so also at the end of the day the the the the major nations will have to decide if they want to continue to leave Iran as a threat supporting I would say rock states and rock groups again the interest of the area or go directly to the source of the problem which is Iran something that certainly Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu have repeated way before the 7th of October the threat remains Iran we're going to discuss that in more detail but I want to pivot to another part of the globe right now and specifically bring you in Owen because Benjamin Netanyahu had a message earlier about South Africa's response to the war let's take a listen in his own words and then I'd like your reaction I would like to say a word about the deceitful lie that South Africa made up saying Israel is committing a genocide no South Africa we are not the ones who came to commit a genocide but Hamas has who would have killed us all given the chance the IDF is acting in the most moral way and it does everything to avoid harming civilians but Hamas is doing everything so that we hurt Gazans by using them as human shields I want to ask where was South Africa and all the rest who are blaming us where were you when millions were murdered and displaced in Syria and Yemen and other arenas you weren't there everything you are doing now is lying we will continue in the war to protect ourselves which is the most justified a clear message there from the prime minister Owen your thoughts yeah uh listen obviously uh when your country is being accused of genocide it's going to generate a strong reaction from the prime minister and Benjamin Netanyahu is absolutely in his place to push back very very hard against this look obviously you know they're legal and diplomatic dimensions first of all in the legal dimension this is before the international court of justice not the international criminal court why does it matter well a few reasons first of all the ICJ international court of justice does not prosecute individuals right this was brought under the genocide convention a genocide treaty it's South Africa versus Israel in a sense right accusing the Israeli state of not doing enough to prevent genocide and of committing genocide through its organs and one of the interesting sort of twists here is that if you read the language of the genocide convention it's not a country a state that commits genocide it's persons it's individual people who do and it's the state that either enables them under the genocide convention or doesn't stop them so again it's not targeted at Israel per se it's targeted at Israelis or I suppose at a state that in the South Africans contention either aides and abets or or doesn't prevent but it's not actual prosecutions that's left to a different body the ICJ also just to just to zoom back for a moment ICJ prosecution or ICJ cases rather take a very very long time so this is something that even by the standards of international courts themselves a very low bar for timeliness ICJ cases are notorious for going on for years and years and years so don't expect this to happen in any kind of timeline that affects the war or its conduct or the fallout of course there's also the diplomatic angle South Africa's been one of the most unfriendly one of the most hostile governments toward Israel over the course of the war certainly among those countries with which Israel has diplomatic relations maybe on a par with Turkey let's say in terms of the rhetoric and here are the actions of course Benita it's the Jewish community in South Africa that's most caught in the crosshairs the heart really goes out to them maybe the strongest Jewish community in the entire diaspora what's 60,000 strong or so who are caught in this impossible situation of living in a country whose government is this unfriendly and is still having a very very strong affinity to Israel so obviously in a very very difficult position not only with the war in the background but with South Africa's own election coming out potentially very contentious one in April senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Altman thank you so much for that insight and now as 2023 draws to a close a large demonstration was held in Tel Aviv overnight with calls that the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza for 86 days now be released as soon as possible with the arrival of the new year let's take a listen my big wishes is to bring back all the hostages including the soldiers and the next thing is ending the war and the third thing is just go back to routine and normal life first of all obviously we want all and the rest of the hostages back as for me personally other than that I just want to get my life back I think we have to go to direct to ceasefire and bring them back and stop this war Olivia Rapovich the mood of the nation 10 seconds we want the hostages back home and when it will be the mood will be better Olivia Rapovich Owen Altman thank you both so much for being here in studio and that is where we wrap up for this edition of our breaking news coverage I'm Benita Levine back in a bit stay tuned more on i24 news breaking news edition thank you for watching date of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well news edition I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv Israel's war cabinet is set to meet in the coming hours to discuss a possible deal brokered by Egypt that could see the release of more hostages from Hamas captivity security leaders are also expected to discuss the high intensity phase of the fighting inside Gaza with the Israeli death toll in the retaliatory ground operation now at 172 it's more than 12 weeks since the terror onslaught in which more than 1200 people were murdered in southern Israel most of them civilians 129 people remain in captivity inside Gaza so for the latest on the ground we start in the south we go first to our correspondent Zach Anders and he joins us live from southern Israel so Zach intense fighting continues inside Gaza it's coming at a massive cost 172 Israeli soldiers killed in the ground operation so far what is the latest what update have you got this hour Benita the calendar year comes to a close three months of war here thousands dead and the fight continues inside I'll take a step out so you can see Gaza city today continues to smolder with the strikes that continue in these areas where the IDF says it has more operational control in northern Gaza now the Gaza strip has been essentially split in two with two arenas the northern Gaza strip and Gaza city and the second largest city inside the Gaza strip con unis in the southern Gaza strip both arenas are seen heavy fighting and this smoke that you're seeing on your screen now is Gaza city where we continue to see strikes inside this populated area now the IDF says many of the civilians have fled south and at the IDF's urging have done so through these humanitarian corridors that have opened up for several weeks at a time allowing people to stream to the south and this operation in the south that is picked up in scale considerably since the start of December has allowed for the IDF to begin an assault on a con unis where they say that Hamas has continued a stronghold that they've been able to control parts of con unis continued with that subterranean that the tunnel network where they continue to encounter fierce fighting but that's not to say that what you see behind me is not still as fierce fighting as we're seeing in the south here in Gaza city this is where the IDF has been now since early November and they continue to fight we can continue to see the airstrikes and the outgoing artillery targeting these positions where again Hamas is using these tunnels to their advantage throughout the city and continue to engage with the IDF meanwhile Zach humanitarian aid still coming into the strip talk us through the efforts to ensure that it gets to the civilians needing that aid and not to the terror organization for terror purposes well as the UN continues to call for more and more aid humanitarian aid to make its way into the Gaza strip the early days we saw a lot of those resources allocated through what appeared to be a structured people bringing those trucks in deeper to the strip but now as some of the UN officials that are on the ground have posted images even today it appears that as soon as these trucks have been entering in through the Rafa crossing that they're swarmed with people trying to get at these resources the UN says 40 percent of the civilian population this southern Gaza strip is at risk of acute hunger that they've had trouble accessing basic necessities food and water so these trucks as they have been making their way in at obviously not at great of a scale as is necessary for roughly two million people but it does appear that as soon as they have been coming in through the Rafa crossing they've been a bit basically picked clean by crowds of people who are attempting to get at this vital aid correspondent Zach Anders live from southern Israel thank you for that update and now for more reaction and insight we welcome to studio retired Colonel Amit as a former member of the Israeli security agency Amit thank you so much for being here in studio as we all well know it's a few hours out until the start of 2024 not much celebration or reason for celebration in this part of the world nonetheless many are asking will the new year bring an end to this war we know securities top brass the echelon there saying it's many months out your assessment of the current situation yeah of course we will see some error is getting in and the change will be very big change in the aspect of Israelis state of mind in this region so what we experience will not be forgotten and with our experience I think 2024 will look like a start of a new beginning of an era that Israel will face some other values and some other operational activity with our neighbors that will not be the same as the past what exactly do you mean by that I think that now most of the people in Israel know and walk up from a dream from a good dream because we are good people and we are looking for peace that somehow our neighbors wants to live without with us with a peace and this dream we walk up as a nightmare because we we understood that what is in front of us is a nation that wants killing that wants violent that maybe also educate the children from the very first beginning for hatred of Israel and they think that this land is for the Palestinian from the sea to the river so means that delegitimate fully delegitimate of Israel here in the region and this nightmare that we walk up from it make us change our thinking our reality and now we have to act some other way not with gloves not with with the soft maybe approach we thought that we will give them prosperity we will give them opportunities we will give them any opportunity that we could give in the in the past but still they didn't use it and this hope was smashed I think and we realized that we have to deal with it with another approach there are hundreds and thousands of Israelis who had to evacuate their homes since the 7th of October many of them of course waiting for the word the green light so to speak knowing that they could go back to their homes I understand that some residents in certain parts of the country have had a notification that it's not going to happen until at least the end of February what do you make of that message I think the the timing we can't be sure about the timing because it can be tomorrow Hamas will be smashed okay Hamas will be smashed and the what IDF need to do in Gaza Strip is to build something new without our responsibility was the responsibility of the nation of the world of the world community to make something else with Gaza Strip but first we have to be sure that no missile and no weapon and no nobody will want to use a weapon against Israel and this is IDF what is going to do now and after it will happen and after it will conquer this aim of war then everybody will go back to their homes and build again the beautiful homes and the beautiful country that we had across the border of Gaza Strip but we will have to hold on with security and secure measures inside Gaza Strip that in the future will not grow the any kind of Hamas terror organization or other name of organization that wants to launch some missile or shoot some some fighting action against Israel and also in the north side you know it's the same Hezbollah is the same they want to kill us they want to Israel getting out of the place this is their agenda the Islamic the radical Islam agenda they have to leave this agenda and to convince them to leave this agenda we need to do it by force this is what we have to do talking of exactly that amidst stay with us because on Israel's northern border tensions continue to simmer with Israel and Hezbollah seemingly locked into fighting that nonetheless is below the point of a full scale war at the stage the Biden administration wants to keep it that way which is why as our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman explains the administration's envoy is on his way to the region let's take a look America's point man on Lebanon trying to do on land what he did at sea with Amos Hoxton reportedly set the flight back into Beirut this week to try to broker a deal that would bring quiet to the land border between Lebanon and Israel the way he did last year with the border between zones at sea the most important piece of this agreement is that it is the entirely in the interest of each country to not violate it and to move forward the background now of course is the war and the element of it on the Israel-Lebanon border where the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has been firing for months at communities on the Israeli side and the Israeli military has responded by firing at Hezbollah targets the Biden administration wants the situation contained below the threshold of a wider war as does the French government Israel has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters Israeli attacks have intensified and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a warning we have approved operational plans for the continuation of the fighting if Hezbollah expands the war it would absorb blows that it has not dreamed of and Iran as well Iran Hoxton's apparent plan to incentivize Hezbollah to move its troops away from the Israeli border in exchange for apparent Israeli concessions on marking that border in at least some of the 13 points of dispute the Biden administration does not want a full-scale war Israel's plan A is not to have a full-scale war and the Lebanese public does not want a full-scale war which all point to the sides getting to a deal that forestalls a full-scale war at least for now so let's find out exactly what is happening on the ground we now go live to our correspondent guy Israel he joins us from northern Israel so guy Amos Hoxton is heading to Beirut in the coming days but what is the latest on the ground up north what can you tell us this hour I submit the efforts to find a political solution to this problem the fire has just renewed just a few minutes ago the terrorist of Hezbollah fired two anti-tank missiles towards an IDF post on the ridge of Ramim that is basically just behind us to the left of your screens there that is the area very close to the border were those terrorists fired that anti-tank missile no word yet about any casualties or damage in in that instance but it really does go to show how close those terrorists are to the border to those Israeli communities of course well we are no no residents are at home all of them were evacuated most of what you see here is IDF forces guarding the area stationed right on the border engaged in those many battles with Hezbollah we saw IDF striking Hezbollah targets in the village of Ramya earlier this morning this is an area where the IDF says Hezbollah has been using the civilian population for both terror infrastructure launching rockets towards Israel and this is one of the many skirmishes that we're seeing on the border in the recent months and we heard today from the deputy of Hezbollah saying that no Israelis will return to their homes unless Israel ends its war in Gaza of course Israel will not return its civilians back to their homes until Hezbollah is deterred until it is moved away from the border and Netanyahu said that just this morning at the government meeting we will achieve that goal whether by political or military means so far it seems like the political solution is very far from happening Benita. So Benita seem far from happening correspondent Guy Azrael live from northern Israel thank you very much for that update more to come from Guy in the coming hours meanwhile shipping giant MERSC has announced it will suspend its vessels passage through the Red Sea for the next 48 hours following two attacks on one of its merchant ships while transiting the Bab Al-Mandab Strait. Now the shipping company recently reversed a similar decision following the formation of the US-led naval coalition in the area a coalition that is now being put to the test as our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran explains in this report. A moment of truth for the US-led naval coalition in the Red Sea American naval forces sank three Houthi small boats as they attacked a commercial vessel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday hours after the same vessel was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile in a separate attack the US central command said gunmen on board the boats opened fire at the Danish owned MERSC Hangzhou and attempted to board it the gunmen then opened fire at US Navy helicopters responding to the distress call the helicopters returned fire sinking three boats and killing its crews a fourth boat fled the area this would be the 24th attack by the Houthis on international shipping since October and the first ship to be attacked since the naval coalition was formed the Houthis have emphasized many times in their statements that the actions taken in response to the Palestinian Israeli conflict are only targeted at Israeli ships or ships related to Israel or ships heading to Israeli ports therefore the United States and Israel should bear direct responsibility if any obstructions or delays happen to ships entering the port of Udaida in an interview with the Associated Press the commander of US naval forces in the Middle East Vice Admiral Brad Cooper said before Saturday's incident that quote we are clear eyed that the Houthi reckless attacks will likely continue the statement comes as Denmark becomes the latest country to sign on the more than 20 nation coalition highlighting the global importance of the threat by the Iranian back to these Iran move illyat sir Arisha Iran leads the axis of evil and aggression against us on various fronts this aggression is directed not only against Israel but against the entire free world the attacks on the mayor's kengshu come as the shipping company announced it would resume sending its ships through the Red Sea due to the maritime coalition in the area a statement since reversed following the latest attack but continued attacks will test the coalition whether it's going to be more than a floating iron dome simply protecting ships or whether it will actually take proactive steps against the Houthi attacks still in studio retired colonel Amit Assad former member of the Israeli security agency and I met your thoughts on the fact that Israel goes into the new year 2024 with these threats on several fronts a range of arenas not only the Iranian proxies the Houthis in the ocean but also up north Hezbollah not to mention the fighting in the Gaza Strip and of course the top priority 129 hostages still somewhere inside Gaza your thoughts first I want to go back for our north and border what we saw that escalation in front of Hezbollah and maybe some kind of agreement that we want to see in the political diplomatic way but still we know Hezbollah and we know the problem and what we are seeking is not quiet if Hezbollah will move if but it's logically not going to happen because we know Nasrallah and we know his forces on the border but still if diplomatic way we will get the Hezbollah back to the north behind the Nilekani River or something like that that we are speaking about it's not solving the problem because the problem is still what we saw with Hamas is the idea of destroying Israel and they can do it in other ways in two years and three years from now so Hezbollah has to understand that they have to leave this idea and to leave this idea it's by force and we will have to deal with Hezbollah this is one another thing that we see about the hostages is something that we know now that happens in these days these few days because we hear that Sinwall is changing maybe his approach because he was very determined that he will not negotiate and anything before Israel we stop war and get out from the region and still we see now that Egypt is getting with the same deal that was on the table few weeks ago meaning Sinwall feels the knife on his neck he is now in the area of Hanyunas Hanyunas is very tight the action there with the IDF and we are pressing everything and it's comes to an end okay like in the northern side of Gaza when we finished and we are getting to the third stage what we are saying where we are all control of the area and now we are just dealing with few groups under the ground getting out from tunnels Hanyunas is going to be like that in few days and he feels the knife on his neck so we say now stop stop maybe I will get into some kind of negotiation and the Egyptians are going to lead this so maybe we will see some steps forward any kind of negotiation of some deal of what we wanted to have but Sinwall was stopped and was very forced but he knows now that in Israel there is no discussion now there is no deal except the basic deal that we put on the table few weeks ago certainly something that is top of mind for Israelis is waiting for the word on the hostages and that deal that you are talking about needs to happen as soon as possible your thoughts so on what we talked about a little bit earlier the Houthis and the Iranian proxies that keep on showing their muscle their firepower it's almost daily now and it's impacting global entities it's not just the Middle East I think I think we can see United States and the Iranian both of them doesn't want in every one of them have other aim and reason but neither two of them wants to get into regional a conflict neither both of them even United States are doing some steps in a Houthis issue and Iran what's doing is just showing themselves but Iran is using her fingers as the all militia the Shia militia in all the area are working under Iran command Houthis a militia in Iraq that attacks the Americans militia in Syria that comes from Iraq and attack Israel from the Syrian border a Hezbollah of course and also Hamas that we see a lot but Iran will not put like a formally involving this kind of a threat but because aesthetically they doesn't want to get into a regional war they know that they will lose in that timing a lot and yet they keep on targeting vessels almost daily there is one maybe it's look like a joke but now we are not joking about it that we say that Iran will fight until the last blood of the Hamas members not Iranian members not Iranian soldiers they will fight until the last drop of blood of Hamas and Hezbollah and then and then they will not do anything but still Iran is the most aesthetically problem for Israel in this region and we will have to deal with it but I'm optimistic if they will understand that there is no solution in the idea of destroying Israel maybe maybe Iran will lose this kind of thinking to the future but it's days to know because Israel they have to show the world show the Islamic radical that nobody can challenge this kind of nation here in the region and certainly that what happened on the 7th of October can never ever happen again amid us so thank you so much as always and as we've been discussing as 2023 draws to a close in the coming hours a large demonstration was held in Tel Aviv overnight with calls that the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza for 86 days now be released as soon as possible with the arrival of the new year let's take a listen my big wishes is to bring back all the hostages including the soldiers and the next thing is ending the war and the third thing is just go back to routine and normal life first of all obviously we want all and the rest of the hostages back as for me personally other than that I just want to get my life back I think we have to go to direct to ceasefire and bring them back and stop this war and talking of the new year new zealander's were amongst the first in the world to celebrate the arrival of 2024 with a fireworks display in Auckland just a short while ago revelers watching on through the drizzle as the brightly coloured fireworks shot into the night sky and we leave you with those images because that's a wrap for this edition of our breaking news coverage I'm Benita Levine our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is i24 news breaking news edition a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well entrevistas exclusives reports desde la zona de guerra la reacción de los países hispano parlantes what's exciting is what is about to happen is a tsunami of solar pan into the supply chain i'm benita levine coming to you live from tel aviv israel's war cabinet is set to meet in the coming hours to discuss a possible deal brokered by egypt that could see the release of more hostages from hamas captivity security leaders are also expected to discuss the high intensity phase of the fighting inside gaza with the israeli death toll in the retaliatory ground operation now at 172 it's more than 12 weeks since the hamas terror onslaught in which more than 1200 people were murdered in southern israel most of them civilians 129 people remain in captivity inside gaza so for the latest on the ground we start in the south we go first to our correspondent zack andes and he joins us live from southern israel so zack intense fighting continues inside gaza it's coming at a massive cost 172 israeli soldiers killed in the ground operation so far what is the latest what update have you got this hour benita the calendar year comes to a close three months of war here thousands dead and the fight continues inside i'll take a step out so you can see gaza city today continues to smolder with the strikes that continue in these areas where the idf says it has more operational control in northern gaza now the gaza strip has been essentially split into with two arenas the northern gaza strip and gaza city and the second largest city inside the gaza strip con unis in the southern gaza strip both arenas are seen heavy fighting and this smoke that you're seeing on your screen now is gaza city where we continue to see strikes inside this populated area now the idf says many of the civilians have fled south and at the idf's urging have done so through these humanitarian corridors that have opened up for several weeks at a time allowing people to stream to the south and this operation in the south that has picked up in scale considerably since the start of december has allowed for the idf to begin an assault on con unis where they say that hamas has continued a stronghold that they've been able to control parts of con unis continued with that subterranean the tunnel network where they continue to encounter fierce fighting but that's not to say that what you see behind me is not still as fierce fighting as we're seeing in the south here in gaza city this is where the idf has been now since early november and they continue to fight we can continue to see the airstrikes and the outgoing artillery targeting these positions where again hamas is using these tunnels to their advantage throughout the city and continue to engage with the idf meanwhile zack humanitarian aids still coming into the strip talk us through the efforts to ensure that it gets to the civilians needing that aid and not to the terror organization for terror purposes well as the un continues to call for more and more aid humanitarian aid to make its way into the gaza strip the early days we saw a lot of those resources allocated through what appeared to be a structured people bringing those trucks in deeper to the strip but now as some of the un officials that are on the ground have posted the images even today it appears that as soon as these trucks have been entering in through the rafa crossing that they're swarmed with people trying to get at these resources the un says 40 of the civilian population in the southern gaza strip is at risk of acute hunger that they've had trouble accessing basic necessities food and water so these trucks as they have been making their way in at obviously not at great of a scale as is necessary for roughly two million people but it does appear that as soon as they have been coming in through the rafa crossing they've been a bit basically picked clean by crowds of people who are attempting to get at this vital aid correspondent zack and is live from southern israel thank you for that update and now for more reaction and insight we welcome to studio retired colonel amit as a former member of the israeli security agency amit thank you so much for being here in studio as we all well know it's a few hours out until the start of 2024 not much celebration or reason for celebration in this part of the world nonetheless many are asking will the new year bring an end to this war we know securities top brass the echelon there saying it's many months out your assessment of the current situation yeah of course we will see some error is getting in and the change will be very big change in the aspect of israeli's state of mind in this region so what we experience will not be forgotten and with our experience i think 2024 will look like a start of a new beginning of an era that israel will face some other values and some other operational activity with our neighbors that will not be the same as the past what exactly do you mean by that i think that now most of the people in israel know and walk up from a dream from a good dream because we are good people and we are looking for peace that somehow our neighbors wants to live without with us with a peace and this dream we walk up as a nightmare because we understood that what is in front of us is a nation that wants killing that wants violent that maybe also educate the children from the very first beginning for hatred of israel and they think that this land is for the palestinian from the sea to the river so means that legitimate fully legitimate of israel here in the region and this nightmare that we walk up from it make us change our thinking our reality and now we have to act some other way not with gloves not with with the soft maybe approach we thought that we will give them prosperity we will give them opportunities we we will give them any opportunity that we could give in the in the past but still they didn't use it and this hope was smashed i think and we realize that we have to deal with it with another approach there are hundreds and thousands of israelis who had to evacuate their homes since the 7th of october many of them of course waiting for the word the green light so to speak knowing that they could go back to their homes i understand that some residents in certain parts of the country have had a notification that it's not going to happen until at least the end of february what do you make of that message i think the the timing we can't be sure about the timing because it can be tomorrow it can be tomorrow hamas will be smashed okay hamas will be smashed and the uh what idf need to do in gaza strip is to build something new without our responsibility was the responsibility of the nation of the world of the world community to make something else with gaza strip but first we have to be sure that no missile and no weapon and no nobody will want to use a weapon against israel and this is idf what is going to do now and after it will happen and after it will conquer this aim of war then everybody will go back to their homes and build again the beautiful homes and the beautiful country that we had across the border of gaza strip but we will have to hold on with security and secure measures inside gaza strip that in the in the future will not grow any kind of hamas organization or other name of organization that wants to to launch some missile or shoot some some fighting action against israel and also in the north side you know it's the same khizballah is the same they want to kill us they want to israel getting out of the place this is their agenda the islamic the radical islam agenda they have to leave this agenda and to convince them to leave this agenda we need to do it by force this is what we have to do talking of exactly that i might stay with us because on israel's northern border tensions continue to simmer with israel and khizballah seemingly locked into fighting that nonetheless is below the point of a full scale war at this stage the biden administration wants to keep it that way which is why as our senior diplomatic correspondent oan ultiman explains the administration's envoy is on his way to the region let's take a look america's point man on lebanon trying to do on land what he did at sea with amos hawkstein reportedly set to fly back into beirut this week to try to broker a deal that would bring quiet to the land border between lebanon and israel the way he did last year with the border between zones at sea the most important piece of this agreement is that it is the entirely in the interest of each country to not violate it and to move forward the background now of course is the war and the element of it on the israel lebanon border where the lebanese terror group khizballah has been firing for months at communities on the israeli side and the israeli military has responded by firing at his bullet targets the biden administration wants the situation contained below the threshold of a wider war as does the french government israel has killed more than 130 hisballah fighters israeli attacks have intensified and israeli prime minister benjamin itin yahoo has a warning we have approved operational plans for the continuation of the fighting if hisballah expands the war it would absorb blows that it has not dreamed of and iran as well iran hawkstein's apparent plan to incentivize his bullet to move its troops away from the israeli border in exchange for apparent israeli concessions on marking that border in at least some of the 13 points of dispute the biden administration does not want a full-scale war israel's plan a is not to have a full-scale war and the lebanese public does not want a full-scale war which all point to the sides getting to a deal that forestalls a full-scale war at least for now so let's find out exactly what is happening on the ground we now go live to our correspondent guy asrael he joins us from northern israel so guy amos hoxstein is heading to beirut in the coming days but what is the latest on the ground up north what can you tell us this hour i submit the efforts to find a political solution to this problem the fire has just renewed just a few minutes ago the terrorist of hisballah fired two anti-tank missiles towards an idf post on the ridge of ramim that is basically just behind us to the left of your screens there that is the area very close to the border where those terrorists fired that anti-tank missile no word yet about any casualties or damage in in that instance but it really does go to show how close those terrorists are to the border to those israeli communities of course well we are no no residents are at home all of them were evacuated most of what you see here is idf forces guarding the area stationed right on the border engaged in those many battles with hisballah we saw idf striking his blood targets in the village of ramya earlier this morning this is an area where the idf says hisballah has been using the civilian population for both terror infrastructure launching rockets towards israel and this is one of the many skirmishes that we're seeing on the border in the recent months and we heard today from the deputy of hisballah saying that no israelis will return to their homes unless israel ends its war in gaza of course israel will not return its civilians back to their homes until hisballah is deterred until it is moved away from the border netanyahu said that just this morning at the government meeting we will achieve that goal whether by political or military means so far it seems like the political solution is very far from happening benita so it does seem far from happening corresponding guy israel live from northern israel thank you very much for the update more to come from guy in the coming hours meanwhile shipping giant musk has announced it will suspend its vessels passage through the red sea for the next 48 hours following two attacks on one of its merchant ships while transiting the bab amandab straight now the shipping company recently reversed a similar decision following the formation of the us-led naval coalition in the area a coalition that is now being put to the test as our middle east correspondent ariel osiran explains in this report a moment of truth for the us-led naval coalition in the red sea american naval forces sank three hoothy small boats as they attacked a commercial vessel off the coast of yemen on sunday hours after the same vessel was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile in a separate attack the u.s. central command said gunmen on board the boats opened fire at the danish owned mares kang ju and attempted to board it the gunmen then opened fire at u.s. navy helicopters responding to the distress call the helicopters returned fire sinking three boats and killing its crews a fourth boat fled the area this would be the 24th attack by the hoothies on international shipping since october and the first ship to be attacked since the naval coalition was formed the hoothies have emphasized many times in their statements that the actions taken in response to the palestinian-israeli conflict are only targeted at israeli ships or ships related to israel or ships heading to israeli ports therefore the united states and israel should bear direct responsibility if any obstructions or delays happen to ships entering the port of udeida in an interview with the associated press the commander of us naval forces in the middle east vice admiral brad cooper said before saturday's incident that quote we are clear eye that the hoothy reckless attacks will likely continue the statement comes as denmark becomes the latest country to sign on the more than 20 nation coalition highlighting the global importance of the threat by the iranian back toothies iran movila its ira resha iran leads the axis of evil and aggression against us on various fronts this aggression is directed not only against israel but against the entire free world the attacks on the mares kenju come as the shipping company announced it would resume sending its ships through the red sea due to the maritime coalition in the area a statement since reversed following the latest attack but continued attacks will test the coalition whether it's going to be more than a floating iron dome simply protecting ships or whether it will actually take proactive steps against the hoothy attacks still in studio retired colonel amit asa former member of the israeli security agency and i met your thoughts on the fact that israel goes into the new year 2024 with these threats on several fronts a range of arenas not only the iranian proxies the hooties in the ocean but also up north hezbollah not to mention the fighting in the gaza strip and of course the top priority 129 hostages still somewhere inside gaza your thoughts first i want to go back for our north and a border what we saw that escalation in front of hezbollah and maybe some kind of agreement that we want to see in the political diplomatic way but still we know hezbollah and we know the problem and what we are seeking is not quiet if hezbollah will move if but it's logically not going to happen because we know nasrallah and we know his forces on the border but still if diplomatic way we will get the hezbollah back to the north behind the nilikani river or something like that that we are speaking about it's not solving the problem because the problem is still what we saw with hamas is the idea of of destroying israel and they can do it in other ways in two years and three years from now so hezbollah has to understand that they have to leave this idea and to leave this idea it's by force and we will have to deal with hezbollah this is one another thing that we see about the hostages is something that we know now that happens in these days these few days because we hear that sinwa is changing maybe his approach because he was very determined that he will not negotiate and and anything before israel we stop war and get out from the region and still we see now that egypt is getting with the same deal that was on the table few weeks ago meaning sinwa feels the knife on his neck he is now in the area of hanionis hanionis is very tight action there with the idf and we are pressing everything and it comes to an end okay like in the north side of gaza when we finished and we are getting to the third stage what we are saying we are all control of the area and now we are just dealing with few groups under the the ground getting out from tunnels hanionis is going to be like that in few days and he feels the knife on his neck so we say now stop stop maybe i will get into some kind of negotiation and the egyptian are going to lead this so maybe we will see some steps forward any kind of negotiation of some deal of what we wanted to have but sinwa was stopped and was very forced but he knows now that in israel there is no discussion now there is no deal except the basic deal that we put on the table few weeks ago certainly something that is top of mind for israelis is waiting for the word on the hostages and that deal that you are talking about needs to happen as soon as possible your thoughts so on what we talked about a little bit earlier the hooties and the iranian proxies that keep on showing their muscle their firepower it's almost daily now and it's impacting global entities it's not just the middle east i think i think we can see united states and the iranian both of them doesn't want in every one of them have other other aim and reason but neither two of them wants to get into regional a conflict neither both of them even united states are doing some steps in a hooties issue and iran what's doing is just showing themselves but iran is using her her fingers as the old militia the shia militia in all the area are working under iran command hooties a militia in iraq that attacks the americans militia in syria that comes from iraq and attack israel from the syrian border his vala of course and also hamas that we see a lot but iran will not put like a formally involving this kind of a of a of a threat but because aesthetically they doesn't want to get into a regional war they know that they will lose in that timing a lot and yet they keep on targeting vessels almost daily the reason one maybe it's look like a joke but now we are not joking about it that we say that iran will fight until the last blood of the hamas members not iranian members not iranian soldiers they will fight until the last drop of blood of hamas and khizballah and then and then they will not do anything but still iran is the most a aesthetically problem for israel in this region and we will have to deal with it but i'm optimistic if they will understand that there is no solution in the idea of destroying israel maybe maybe iran will lose this kind of thinking to the future but it's days to know because israeli have to show the world show the islamic radical world that nobody can challenge this kind of a nation here in the region and certainly that would happen on the 7th of october can never ever happen again amid us so thank you so much as always and as we've been discussing as 2023 draws to a close in the coming hours a large demonstration was held in tel aviv overnight with calls that the hostages being held by hamas in gaza for 86 days now be released as soon as possible with the arrival of the new year let's take a listen my big wishes is to bring back all the hostages including the soldiers and the next thing is ending the war and the third thing is just go back to routine and normal life first of all obviously we want all and the rest of the hostages back as for me personally other than that i just want to get my life back i think we have to go to direct to ceasefire and bring them back and stop this war and talking of the new year new zealander's were amongst the first in the world to celebrate the arrival of 2024 with a fireworks display in Auckland just a short while ago revelers watching on through the drizzle as the brightly coloured fireworks shot into the night sky and we leave you with those images because that's a wrap for this edition of our breaking news coverage i'm bonita levine our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is i24 news breaking news edition


I wanted to grow kids here from late sports cards and I'm ripping 2022 a Bowman inception baseball hobby a box half case break number 18 pick your team gonna go over the teams and then we'll get ripping here we've got Brian C. Orioles Cameron T. Angels Chang as guardians Daniel Y. Rangers Dustin S. Mariners Edward P with the Royals Eric R. D backs white socks for Han a Giants and Marlins Giancarlo F. Pirates Jeremy H. Brewers Joshua B with the Reds and Tigers Justin H. Yankees Kevin E. Rockies Leonie G. Nationals Lee Wei H with the Padres Matt F. Braves Matthew M. Red Sox Matthew S. Phillies Michael R. Dodgers and twins Michael M. Astros Michael P. Blue Jays Peter M. with the Metz Cardinals and A. Thanks again Peter for closing us out Ryan B with the Cubs and Scott T. with the Rays. All right best of luck everyone thanks again for the bill just two teams left on the next break Cubs and Royals Sproles 29 Cubs 39 all right good luck here good luck good luck Credo Hassel Caffe and Arias first numbered we've got 31 of 50 of Henry Mendez for the Brew Crew Brewers with the first hit and first auto going to the Marlins 88 of 250 Jordan McCants Jordan McCants Marlins and going back to the Brew Crew 80 of 99 a Sal Frelik it's a nice box here Brewers Sal Frelik and y'all limited space left on group breaks today especially for Bowman Baseball Bowman Inception teams are coming in pretty fast here James Wood Vaquero a Watson and Cruz 40 out of 50 a Cesar Prito for the Orioles and then only other spots only group breaks with spots is going to be mosaic basketball pick your team we've got Guardians 32 is 75 John Kenzie Noel John Kenzie Noel let's get the royals and we've got five out of 75 for the Mets a Simon Juan Mets Otto there sign that tiny Simon Juan all right box three oh nice Duke and UNC tonight Hermes basketball that'll be a good game there's a fun one to watch Taj Bradley Wilford Verras her names and Felix Valero we have Harry Ford 9 out of 50 for the Mariners very Ford we've got 27 of 200 a Colton Couser Otto there you go Orioles Colton Couser and then we've got nice one here for the A's one of last teams taken 36 of 99 Ryan Cusick there you go Ace yeah this is just prospects Matthew so no no rookies and that's just the prospects all right box four let's see how we looking looks like 19 is sold out awesome so just oh so is 20 and let's see we got 21 Cubs Rockies Royals A's and 21 next to our sold out Mercedes Vergola Max Muncie and Roberto Campos you've got 26 of 75 Colton Couser this little numbered one to go with that Otto for you Baltimore Cardinals 76 of 200 Jonathan Mate Meja Meja and going to the range we got 48 of 58 Kyle Menzardo Kyle Menzardo great all right Eddie's Leonard Meza Jimenez and Velasquez nope nope Justin personals will continue after group race tonight with Sam 36 to 75 Jackson Merrill Padres next time I have personals is going to be tomorrow morning tomorrow morning tomorrow morning Sunday daytime personals now we've got for the twins 156 of 200 a Danny and Deandre Deandre twins and we've got orange 21 of 25 one Vincho for the Cardinals what was numbered Otto so far today nice orange go St. Louis box six here yeah yeah sometimes Saturdays well the past couple weeks it's been group race but sometimes Saturdays are personals switching it up here in there yeah Pete yeah conception is always a sick product you've got Harry Davis a Ramos this was out of order nice one here though Yankees one of 99 Roderick Arias nice hit for the Yankees this box is all out of order on the cards now we've got a trace we base and red for the Tigers Christian Santana there you go Detroit first red of the day there you go Joshua very nice hit man get this in a mag for you Christian Santana and we've got to 99 Michael Hernandez Orioles and to 50 Joshua Bayes for the Cardinals Cardinals doing well so far you've got Christian Hernandez we just pulled an auto of his at the last break Matthew it's probably one of the bigger Cub prospects right now all right box seven again the next two are sold out just a few teams left in the last two bummin inception of the day Arcello Meyer Paulino Zach Veen and Victor Acosta orange for the twins eight of 25 Danny DeAndreid also going nice with the auto the twins and another hit here for the age 187 out of 200 Max Munsey there we go like I said I think we only pulled one auto out of the first break so definitely had some chances to pull some more the second one they marinate a little bit there and we've got for the Cubs 58 of 75 Johendrick Penango another prospect here Matthew for the Cubby's 58 of 75 last box here and then we will do a recap we do have some F1 Justin we've got a group race of it coming up shortly it is sold out it is sold out it's the hobby and light mixers all right here we go Triantos a Alex Hernandez Alexis Hernandez sorry Jason Dominguez and Betty Montgomery we've got 59 of 99 Ryan Bliss for the d-backs we have Padres 115 of 200 Yendri Rojas slam Diego and going out with a nice one here we've got silver ink 58 of 100 Anthony Gutierrez for the Rangers it's a cool cool photo on that too Anthony Gutierrez man Justin yeah that that's rough that's rough for sure you probably got excited when you saw that red bowl and then I don't know why they put them in there like maybe like if they were like really big and like yeah it's weird yeah all right we're gonna do a quick recap here Anthony Gutierrez Rangers Rojas Padres Penango Cubs Max Muncie Ayes Joshua Bands Cardinals Roderick Arias for the Yankees Juan Benchio Cardinals Denny DeAndre Twins Kyle Menzardo Reyes Makiaw Cardinal Ryan Cusick Ayes Colton Couser Orioles Simon Juan Metz John Kenzinewell Guardians South Relic Brewers and Jordan McCants Marlins then we had the beautiful four of five red Christian Santana for the Tigers all ready that'll do for number 18 we got 19 come up in just a few minutes thanks everyone


I want to get back to making videos on borderline personality disorder, but before I do that, you and I need to have a quick little talk. What is up everybody? This is Chris from The Reward, so where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. One of my primary goals is to raise awareness as well as decrease the stigma, all right?  And yeah, so I'm at a beautiful park here in Las Vegas. I thought I'd switch up the scenery a little bit because it's going to be hot really soon here in Las Vegas, but it's gorgeous here at the park. There's like ducks or geese, something like that. Anyway, here's a footage of all of that going on. Yeah, so anyways, like I said, I'm going to get back to making videos about borderline personality disorder, but I wanted to explain why I started making those videos in the first place. So as many of you know who have been around for a while, you know I was working in a dual diagnosis mental health treatment center. Basically we dealt with addiction as well as mental illness, all right? So people who had co-occurring disorders had addiction as well as a mental illness. And I actually had never heard of borderline personality disorder before, but working in the treatment center, I started to learn about this diagnosis. You know, other employees would be like, hey, this person has borderline personality disorder, or like when they were going to have me do a one-on-one with them and things like that. And there was a couple of things that I noticed. The first one was that there was a lot of therapists who did not want to work with clients who had borderline personality disorder, who had symptoms of BPD. A lot of therapists did not want to work with these men and women. And I'm like, well, that's weird. We're in a mental health treatment center. Like, shouldn't you want to work with everybody? But you know, the other thing I realized was, for some reason, I always had great relationships with the clients who were diagnosed with symptoms of BPD. And a lot of them would confide in me when therapists realized that I had a way of talking with the clients struggling with this disorder, like they would say, hey, Chris, can you talk with this client? Da-da-da-da-da. And I'm like, okay, cool. And I always had just amazing relationships with that. But it always kind of bugged me just hearing about how people, you know, certain professionals didn't want to work with this population. And anyways, you hear those geese, like, squawking in the background? I'm legit waiting for these geese to chill out. It's like walking. It's just walking over there. Yeah, you guys want to see which geese are messing with me? What? Can you guys see that? Anyways. So I wanted to educate myself about borderline personality disorder. The more I educated myself about what this disorder is and this dysregulation of emotions and all the other symptoms, such as, you know, this intense fear of abandonment, you know, impulsivity, that's why a lot of them ended up coming to treatment, I started to relate to a lot of the symptoms. So I wanted to educate myself more about it. I want to see what, you know, what helped people with borderline personality disorder so I can help out the clients who I was working with and all that. And I started making videos about it when I realized there was such a stigma around borderline personality disorder. I started hearing from the clients that, you know, friends and family members think that they manipulate them or they're embarrassed or ashamed of their diagnoses and all these other things. And I was like, I want to make videos about this and kind of spread awareness. You know, I started making videos about them and, you know, one of the reasons I'm going to get back to making these videos is that you can see right here, you can see right here on the screen, like these videos were very well received, like if you just look at the, the like to dislike ratio, people were liking them and it wasn't even really about that, but it was more about the comments. It was the comments I was receiving. It was people saying, you know, thank you and they were thanking me for making videos on this disorder and they were sharing their experience and people felt less alone and I'm like, okay, all right. So, you know, I ended up making a video discussing my BPD story and in that video I discussed, you know, at the very beginning, I discussed how I've never been formally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I ended up talking to a psychologist and asked her the best way to kind of go about it, you know, because here's the thing. Diagnoses aside, you know, and a lot of people with borderline personality disorder who I've met in my experience, they prefer talking about the symptoms rather than the actual diagnoses and that's, that's why I want to get back to making these videos because I can relate to those struggles. I can relate to the emotional turmoil, the stigma that, you know, people not wanting to be around you, you know, just that, all of it, right. And the video I made on my BPD story also very, very well received as you could see from, you know, the comment section on that video. So, what I wanted to talk about in this video is it's difficult and I put up a poll right before making this video about how many of you with BPD have experienced the stigma and all of that and, you know, I know there's a lot of people who don't want me to talk about this and here's the thing, like when it comes to borderline personality disorder and I'm, I'm somebody who looks at the data, I look at the data with, with people who are liking these videos and people who are thanking me for these videos, my duty is to those people. It's the same reason why, you know, I'm still here on YouTube. It's for the people who are getting help and that's the thing with borderline personality disorder. When all this stuff happened, you know, with the, the drama surrounding me, I, I saw there, there was a handful of subscribers I had who have a borderline diagnosis and when this stuff happened, I noticed that black and white thinking and I empathize with it because black and white thinking is still something I struggle with to this day. It's something that I work on with my therapist.  There's no gray area, right? Person does a bad thing. They are a bad person, right? Person does a good thing. They are a good person and it flip flops and changes. So like watching some of my like really loyal subscribers switch, right? I empathize with that, but I know that there's a bigger mission at stake here, which is that we need to increase awareness. We need to provide tips and tools and there's so many different things. Um, going on with borderline personality disorder. I'm actually reading a new book called the Buddha and the borderline.  Don't leave me. You know, when I read that book, I really, really could relate because that's what my relationships were like. And, you know, I, I want to share my experience. I want to share what the research says. I want to talk about the stigma. I want to talk about things that we can do and work on together. Most of all, you know, even though I'm not a licensed professional, I want to talk about things like, since I have experience dealing with a lot of these difficulties, I want to talk about various things that have helped me throughout my journey. So some people aren't going to be happy about it. That's cool. More than happy to have discussions in the comments. It'll give me more, you know, things that we can talk about and discuss. But the fact of the matter is like, I'll tell you this, I really decided to make this video when I got to the part in the book where the young woman discovered her diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and everybody in her life are saying, no, you don't have that. You don't have that. People with BPD, they're crazy, right? And she started looking at online forums about borderline personality disorder and how many loved ones of people with BPD were saying that, you know, the person with this diagnosis like ruined their life and their manipulative and this and this and this. And I'm like, oh, my God, like having BPD can feel really isolated and alone. And I have my own experience with, you know, some of the stigma and things like that. But yeah, we need more people talking about this, not less. Same thing with mental health. We need more people talking about it, not less. So yeah, there's going to be disagreements, different thoughts, different opinions and all of that. But that's OK, because we just we need more people talking about it. And my my mission and my goal and my promise to all of you is that I'll do my best to do it in the most respectful way possible. I feel that, you know, I've tried to do that to my best ability. But through this process, I've learned a lot as well. So I'm going to try to be doing better at it. But if there's anything that you disagree with or you think something I said or did was insensitive when discussing the subject, feel free to let me know. Like we might have a disagreement about it, but let's just have a conversation. You know what I mean? Because we need to increase awareness and decrease the stigma, especially with so many people with BPD afraid to even seek mental health help in fear of being turned down because of their diagnosis. We need to talk about it. We need to do something about it. All right. But anyways, thank you for dealing with my balding hair flip flopping around. Thank you for dealing with the lovely animals squawking in the background and all of that. But yeah, I have some video topic ideas. And if you have things down below in the comments sections that you want me to talk about, let me know. If you want me to talk about certain aspects of the stigma, if you think there are things that we can help educate more people about. If you're looking for coping skills and strategies, let me know. If you're looking for book recommendations, if you're looking for evidence based, you know, tips and tools to manage your symptoms, like let me know down in the comments below. And, you know, the thing is at the end of the day, most people, most human beings struggle at some point with one or more symptom of borderline personality disorder. So all of these videos should be able to help a lot of people. All right. But let me know down in the comments below what kind of videos you'd like to see and all of that. 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Hey everybody I'm Lance Coyke and in this video we're going to talk about why quad stretches are probably not worth your time and what I'd recommend you do instead. Would you believe we never talked about quad stretches once in my anatomy master's program? I bet a personal trainer and strength coach for about a decade now and every time I see someone stretching their quads I get a little deflated. When quad stretches are done incorrectly they are at best a waste of your time but possibly even doing more harm than good. Now don't get me wrong stretching isn't all bad and we'll talk about times when it can actually be beneficial later on in the video but my general rule is that if you're stretching your quads to solve a mobility problem there's probably a better solution to your problem. Most people stretch their quads simply because they think they're supposed to. If this is the only reason you're doing quad stretches you can probably just stop. You might be doing quad stretches because you have some tightness or pain in your knee, hip, or low back. Common sense suggests that tight things need to be stretched but tight is a vague descriptor and actually not all that helpful when it comes to solving mobility problems. Muscles can be tight for multiple reasons. For example, consider the lower cross syndrome first described by a Czechoslovakian physician named Vladimir Yanda in 1979. This position describes a forward tilt of the pelvis, short low back, and hip flexor muscles with long abdominals and hamstrings. If someone with this posture has tightness in their hip flexor it appears those hip flexors are short and need to be stretched. But then how do we explain how somebody with the same anterior pelvic tilt feels tight in their long hamstrings? To understand why both long and short muscles can feel tight we need more information. Position or body posture is an important piece of the puzzle but it's not the only piece. The most important factor in whether or not a muscle feels tight is its activation. Short hip flexors activate to stabilize the spine and advance the body forward. Long hamstrings activate to prevent the body from falling forward.   Poor posture puts certain muscles in a disadvantageous position. When the joints aren't balanced the brain increases muscle activity to stabilize the body. A sedentary lifestyle stiffens the body sometimes just setting a timer to remind yourself to get up and move around can do wonders to promote mobility. Sitting can tighten the quads but it's usually because of poor posture or long periods of inactivity like we just mentioned. It's worth noting that standing can do the same. Heavy lifting or repetitive motions are by definition activity. Movement is medicine as we might say but you still need variety in your movement. Different muscles, joints, directions, and weights. Poor soreness is an immune response to exercise. The slight tissue damage and swelling activates pain pathways and causes a sort of hesitancy and stiffness in the muscle. Our muscles help us breathe 14,400 times per day. If the body is out of alignment then there are about 15,000 muscle contractions promoting postural imbalances and further tightening the muscles. Of all of these, poor lifting technique is both the most common and most preventable reason for quad tightness. There are three explanations as to why someone might have poor lifting technique. The first is inexperience. New lifters need to learn how to lift with proper form. The second is poor programming. Sometimes a program demands too much from the lifter pushing her or him to a point where solid technique is not possible. This is known as volitional failure. My 10 years of experience as a strength coach suggest it's okay to push this hard one out of every four to six weeks or so. All other sessions should push to just before technique failure. The third cause of poor lifting technique is poor movement ability. If the body does not have the flexibility to perform the movement then the body will compensate in ways that place undue stress on the joints. An example would be a lifter with limited hip mobility attempting to squat past parallel. It's just not possible. If you're doing quad stretches to fix your knee pain first, make sure your doctor is okay with your experimentation. There could be something more serious going on. And remember, this video is only meant to help you improve your movement and is not intended to treat your medical issues. I wrote a long section in the article accompanying this video about different types of knee pain. If you're interested, I'll link that up here. I might make a video in the future about knee pain, patellar tracking, and knee alignment because I think it's an important topic. So be sure to subscribe and comment below if you're interested in seeing something like that. All right. Enough theory. Let's see if these quad stretches are indeed a waste of your time. I've put together four tests that will not only help you decide whether or not you should do quad stretches but also give you some better alternative drills to maximize your posture, mobility, and overall body health. Our first test is simply a questionnaire. Skip the quad stretches if you're trying to reduce your anterior pelvic tilt. You don't normally feel better after stretching. You've developed new problems since starting stretching such as sciatica, quad pulls, or a tingling sensation in your leg. You're stretching to prepare for a strength workout and these stretches are not addressing a specific mobility limitation. And you may see some benefit from quad stretches if you're sore from a tough workout. You haven't been moving around much. You've been doing a lot of repetitive movements such as housework or yard work. Our second test will look at how efficiently you breathe.  Overbreathing with accessory muscles of inspiration like the traps or the perispinals leads to decreased mobility throughout the entire body. To perform this test, stand with one hand on the belly and one hand on the chest. Take a slightly exaggerated breath in and examine when each hand moves. To pass the test, both hands must expand at the same time and rate. If they don't, this is a sign that your diaphragm and pelvic floor are not working together. This promotes over-breathing or mild hyperventilation which stiffens muscles, restricts mobility, and impairs good posture. To fix a poor breathing pattern, we're going to use an exercise from the butaiko clinic called the control pause. Sit comfortably in a chair with relaxed shoulders and feet flat on the floor.  Time yourself until you feel the urge to breathe again. This next breath in should be quiet. If you're gasping, you waited too long to stop the timer. Our goal on this exercise is to build up to a 40-second pause after exhaling. This teaches your body to tolerate carbon dioxide and is the first step to prevent over-breathing. During each test, practice moving the belly and chest simultaneously. Repeat the test at least 5 times per day, also adding and daily walking your light cardio with only nasal breathing. If you have to breathe through your mouth, the cardio is not easy enough. Our third test is the body weight squat to examine your lower body mobility. It's best to perform a few reps, filming yourself first from the side and then from the front. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and toes turned out 5 degrees. Squat down as low as you can and return to standing. From the side, we're looking to see you squat all the way down until your thighs touch your calves.  On the front, we're looking to see if your knees splay apart or your feet turn out. These subtle movements also tell us your squat mobility is limited. If you're unable to do a full squat without compensation, then you need to learn how to control your hips.  The first step to controlling your pelvis is learning how to do a posterior pelvic tilt. Lie on your back with your hips and knees bent to 90 degrees and your feet on a bench or chair. Exhale and reach both knees up about 1 inch towards the ceiling. Check to make sure your low back is in the ground but your tailbone is risen off the ground. Also check to make sure your abdominal muscles are off. You should feel your hamstrings holding yourself up in this position. If you feel your quads or calves, attempt to relax them, re-tuck your hips and shift the tension to the hamstrings. Hold this position for 8 slow nasal breaths, rest about 30 seconds and repeat 4 more times. Once finished, re-test your squat aiming to avoid the technique faults we outlined a minute ago.  Our fourth and final test is the supine march which examines similar patterns to the squat but shows us if there is asymmetry between sides.  Keeping one leg straight with a back of the knee pressed into the bolster, bend the other knee up toward your head as far as possible. Once stabilized, grab the leg and pull it toward your chest to see how much further it can go. This works best if you film yourself from the side. Note there are two parts to this test. Active bending of the leg on its own and passive bending by pulling it up with the hands. Look for differences between sides in both active and passive bending. If one side doesn't bend as far as the other, or if you have pain during the test, then you have asymmetrical hip mobility. To fix this, we're going to modify a hip mobility test known as the Thomas test to turn it into an exercise. Lie on your back with a 6 inch bolster underneath your knees. A foam roller works well here. Bring one knee up to 90 degrees at the hip and knee. Tuck the hips like our posterior pelvic tilt from earlier, pushing the low back into the ground. Next, push the down knee into the bolster. Hold this position for 5 nasal breaths. When inhaling, straighten the up knee and when exhaling, allow that knee to bend back to the starting position. Repeat this for 3 sets on each side. Ok, let's do a quick recap of all 4 of our tests. Our first test was a series of questions. You probably don't want to stretch if you're stretching to reduce your anterior pelvic tilt, you don't feel better after stretching, you've developed new problems since starting stretching, or you're stretching to prepare for a strength workout. On the other hand, if you're stretching because you're sore, you haven't moved much, or you've been doing a lot of repetitive movements, then stretching is not a bad use of your time. Our second test was diaphragmatic breathing. If your chest and belly don't expand at the same time and rate when breathing in, then you should practice the control, pause, exercise, and nasal breathing during walking and light cardio. Our third test was the squat. If you cannot squat all the way down without your heels rising, your back arching, your knees spaying out, or your feet rotating out, then you should practice the supine 90-90 posterior pelvic tilt for 5 sets of 8 breaths. Our fourth and final test was the supine march. If you notice side-to-side discrepancies in mobility, you should do the active Thomas test quad inhibition exercise for 3 sets of 5 breaths on each leg. Alright, so hopefully you feel more confident about whether or not quad stretches are right for you. It's a surprisingly complicated topic, but now that you understand some of the nitty-gritty details, you can make better decisions for yourself and maybe, hopefully, even some of your friends as well. If you're curious, yes, I do coach some quad stretches occasionally. If you want to see the right way to do that, check out this old video up here where we go over using your glutes, abs, and hamstrings to make your stretches more effective and less harmful. Thanks for sticking with me through this whole video. If you learned something, hit the like button and subscribe to see when I release more videos. If you want to dive deeper into quad stretches, you should definitely check out my full article on the topic and maybe also check out the case study that I did with my buddy Jess. He was looking for some stretching as well and we ended up giving him some mobility drills instead that made his Olympic lifting look a lot smoother.