unity. We're still processing it. It's going to be a while. There's no going back from this. How can we go back to live in that beautiful place when we know what happened there and all the people that we knew that we saw on the pavements every day going from the kindergarten and back. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. At Keto reserve we have to write ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the key that can be protected. Special broadcast on i24 news. I'm Khaled bin David. It's a day five of Israel's war against Hamas and the IDF continues to pound the terror groups military installations in Gaza and tightened its siege of the strip cutting off its electricity supply. Clashes continued around the Gaza border area with Israeli forces killing at least 17 terrorists who infiltrated into southern Israel. The exchange of fire also continued over the Israel-Lebanon border with the IDF targeting a Hezbollah post in response to rocket and mortar launches from both Lebanese and Syrian territory. Just this evening several aerial vehicles possibly drones were launched from Lebanon at Israel with the IDF responding with gunfire across the border. Well with the Israeli death toll now rising over 1200 and growing calls to act on behalf of the over 100 hostages in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally approved the forming of an emergency unity government that will bring the national unity party into the coalition. That factions leader Betty Gantz will join Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Galant in a special war cabinet that will include as observers Gantz's party made the former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkott and the Likud's regional affairs minister Ron Derma. Gidon Tsar will join the regular cabinet as a minister and we expect Prime Minister Netanyahu possibly Benny Gantz to be speaking in the coming hour will bring you that live. Now today our defense correspondent Jonathan Regev joined the first group of reporters who were given access by the IDF to enter Kibbutz-Berry on the Gaza border where over 100 residents were brutally butchered. Here is his report. We've all heard the terrible terrible accounts of what happened here on the Gaza border communities on Saturday morning but nothing prepares you for the minute you can see with your eyes what has happened. This is Kibbutz-Berry one of the communities that took the hardest hit and there you can see for yourselves sheer devastation sheer destruction homes completely burnt destroyed and the smell cannot be passed on on television but that's here as well homes completely destroyed in those homes that you now see destroyed there were whole families inside they were there and you can just imagine what they went through the horror they went through on that terrible Saturday morning as hundreds and hundreds of terrorists were running here shooting looting massacring and and you can see for yourselves you can see how it looks sheer devastation here in Kibbutz-Berry as mentioned this is one of the communities that took one of the hardest hits more than 100 people were massacred here in this community a flourishing community at any other time we have to say despite its location right on the Gaza border-Berry was a community that flourished in in regular times but now you see the scenes are completely completely different sheer devastation very difficult to see very difficult to witness first hand a difficult scene and we've been speaking to the soldiers who've been amassing here in in Berry and neighboring communities they witnessed this they saw this when they're saying we're ready we're ready to go in we're ready to go in and make sure this thing never ever happens again and the IDF spokesperson is making a statement now let's go to that our tens of thousands of combatants that are combing the region and there are still some terrorists there at least that's our assessment we did have events over the past 24 hours there was one significant event at the Zikim beach with five terrorists three of them were killed and two additional terrorists we will follow up on that soon and give you a report about these two terrorists anyhow this event is under complete control of the IDF the IDF forces killed the terrorist and I will give you indication whether we have finished off this event it's still an ongoing evolving event that's it regarding the Gaza border region another point I'd like to address regarding the Gaza border and the communities there we realized over the past 24 hours that all the towns and villages and cities that are adjacent to the border we must provide some response for them the southern command under major general in reserves yosi bachar who is in the southern command has concentrated 24 senior IDF officers major generals in reserves and other senior officials from the Israeli security establishment and appointed each of them this is all orchestrated by mickey edelstein uh major general mickey edelstein under yosi bachar and every kibbutz every community every town will receive an individual responsible for them and their needs and in addition we will pass that on to every place it's important to have one name one address and this will be published later on the IDF website so that you know who the people in charge are that's regarding the about Gaza border communities I'd like to once again talk about Gaza and what had happened today in Gaza we continued with the assaults we continued with the assaults throughout the day the air force has been attacking in regions these regions that are being attacked are terror regions and the rationale behind these assaults is to target anything that serves the infrastructure for the Hamas organization because we would like to break apart and dismantle its infrastructure there is already a major achievement with respect to Hamas's control on the ground because on the ground Hamas is finding it very difficult to function as a sovereign entity the population in great numbers of hundreds of thousands some of them are already in shelters and there's quite significant damage in the area of the city of Gaza in many neighborhoods in areas a lot of neighborhoods have been hit these neighborhoods include terrorist compounds and we had indications either regarding senior Hamas operatives that are there or these are places where they gathered in order to launch an assault or there are various infrastructures there that serve the Hamas right now the operational capability of Hamas is an organization has been significantly impacted over this past 24 hours now I'd like to move on to the northern command and we in the northern command we are at a very high level of preparedness and alertness there are a lot of forces on the ground a lot of forces in all of the communities there are various air forces fighter jets UAVs whatever is needed in order to safeguard this region is given to the northern command in order to provide a response to whatever might evolve now there was one event yesterday at 10 30 p.m. in the southern Golan Heights in which a Palestinian unit made some launches and then it was targeted by the IDF in the region from where they launched these attacks that's the northern command that's the war arena in the main area the main focus of the fighting is in Gaza but I want you to know that the IDF is highly prepared in all the regions in the south in the north in the center command as well let me emphasize there's a high presence of forces and the various roads and junctions I'd like to ask everybody to listen and adhere to the instructions of the home front command commander we've also increased the number of weapons along with Israeli police wherever it was necessary in the communities we will continue to do so you can approach the IDF or contact the Israeli police it'll take some time in the places where it hasn't happened yet but it will all be completed in order to provide the security needed for the population as for the issue of equipment we keep getting calls we're not feeling like everything is fine no but we can tell you that the IDF does have equipment and that's the truth perhaps this is not happening in this speediest process of reaching the forces we still need to improve we're catching up there are a lot of transfers to the field right now please continue to update us on the website it helps us close the gaps and we are discussing other issues of equipment if there are any updates on this matter I will update you either here or on the IDF website as for the fatalities IDF fatalities there are 189 families whose loved ones were killed in action and of course we embrace the families we embrace the families of all Israeli citizens who have been killed and murdered in the security events that have been unfolding since Saturday and I would like to inform you that there are families of 60 individuals who have been abducted we've updated the families and the IDF is addressing this so the state of Israel Major General Lior Carmely and Major General Nitzan Alon are in charge of that matter and we will keep informing you tomorrow look we of course have to do this with the greatest consciousness and sensitivity we are is treading this fine line between speed and credibility because I need to explain this we must know if there are other people who are missing and we thought we were abducted we need to first identify them before we inform the families and of course we treat this as highly sensitive and wherever there's great urgency in a great distress we've opened a hotline I've informed you about this today and I'm going to write about it in the website and if necessary the media you can find it on our website anybody who has any kind of information or it has witnessed some kind of an abduction scenario please inform us and we will make sure that it will be accessible to you through the tv channels in the Israeli media this is the current situation with respect to the war the chief of general staff was in the southern command today it met the commander of the command it met the various commanders he saw the spirit of combat he saw that they were prepared we are making sure that we're preparing for the next stages of the war that everything is ready that we have plans that we're going from one command to another and seeing that the state of Israel is ready wherever it is being threatened right now we're focusing on the south of Israel in the Gaza border area to cleanse the area to make sure that there aren't any territories there and to prepare the next steps required for war whatever the government and we of course are in full coordination with the government the prime minister the minister of defense the cabinet there is now a cabinet meeting going on the chief of general staff is there will receive their assessment and we will do everything that's necessary and the IDF will achieve all its assignments and I'd like to ask all of you please listen to the instructions of the home front command verbatim even if there are problems we'll take care of it please make sure that you adhere to them our defense systems are the best in the world but what really saves lives is what you do how you behave and your responsibility your resilience which serves as a role model and helps us fight better I will continue to update you continually twice a day and if more is necessary then we'll do it more often and wherever an explanation is required we will make sure that we're on air live good evening all right we just heard the IDF spokesman we were Admiral Daniel Hagar giving probably the most complete briefing that he's given since this war broke out with me in the studio is ambassador Danny I own the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and former Israeli deputy farm minister and our senior political correspondent botch 11th fall and Danny a fairly complete briefing from the spokesperson perhaps a little overdue he addressed a lot of the issues that have been raised over the past few days with the with with the army I do have to note just in the last 15 minutes apparently a sort of false alarm was given by Israeli home front command and foretelling Israel all Israelis to enter a safe room apparently that was mistaken information about aerial infiltration from the north that those launches from Lebanon actually penetrated Israeli airspace so the army trying to find its footing as we saw there but perhaps still working on getting that getting everything right absolutely you know it's like a fun cloud it's close with the father of war that's exactly the fog of war still ensues but I would say that in light of the calamity the huge surprise the total failure the collapse of the front line the collapse of the concept and the intelligence and of course for that the readiness and no formations to receive all those attacks in light of all of this when we started with a minus you know 100 I think the situation is fairly normal today well I I let's let's let's let's put that in relative terms yes I mean by by normal I mean that I don't think any other military force including the mightiest of the most important superpowers I don't think that would have regained the the control and regain the world with all as the IDF does in that respect we see of course there are still you know pockets of some infiltrators terrorists in the south but this is kind of waning they are every new attack any new infiltration whether it's from the sea you know from the Gaza border the seaboarder Zikim and others is being intercepted in that respect I think they're doing a very good job when it comes to the other side you know the pounding in Gaza is also a major one there are no stops that are pulled in that respect it's a totally different protocol because this is a war protocol and in a war is like in a war and here this is not just a matter of self-defense but this is a matter of strategic strategic objective which is to dismantle Hamas I believe that we will see at some point a ground invasion a ground operation but you cannot do it too you know too soon or too early because you need to pound it in such a way that will really get the Hamas leader and all the Hamas forces fatigued I would say confused in many in many ways and the right time to do it is I'm sure that the commanders in the ground will know exactly what to do of course there is the issue of the population in Gaza and the population of Gaza got a fair warning not only by you know in in public media but also on a one-to-one basis you know there are Arab speakers IDF soldiers and officers who were calling Gaza heads of families telling them exactly that they need to leave and if you ask me what would be the goal here would be to actually clear Gaza as much as possible the concentrated areas to clear them so that the the area will be ready for even more attacks and bombing where can they go can they go to the beaches maybe but I think to the south by the most logical thing for them is to go to the south with or without Egyptian cooperation now this is not something unique you know we in Israel we have evacuated all our civilians in the border towns we have evacuated them because we care for them the same things has to be done you know in a symmetrical way with the population of Gaza I accept that the rulers of Gaza the Hamas don't see their population as something that should be spared they see them as human shields of course and and we well it's not for you know from day one Hamas has committed a double war crime because not only they launched attacks only on civilian populations in in Israel but also they use their own population as human shields these are two crimes two war crimes if you add the crimes against humanity that they have perpetrated in in our southern border towns you know this is an outlaw organization that should be eradicated with them it's a surrender without condition just like with the Nazis in 1945 surrender without condition new rules of the games now the Egyptians should play a role here because there is a huge expenses in the Sinai border where they can house the the Palestinians the Gazan people who can go there tense you know city tense can be built international community I think you're going maybe a step too I'm telling you I'll tell you why because we've seen it only very lately you know just four years or five years ago when the two million Syrian refugees were fleeing the butchery of Assad in Syria they went over to Turkey to tense this is not something which is unique in the annals of war and history now they will come back but only when Hamas is out of there and then hopefully there will be someone that can take control of Gaza whether it's the Palestinian Authority or someone else but we have to rebuild Gaza all right from square one you are moving ahead but you want to comment on that but I do want to say also Danny's talking about the military getting its footing and setting things right we also have to talk especially this evening about the government getting its footing absolutely just before getting to the government because that's evidently a huge I say this word likely but when at the moment for for the state of Israel I want to just comment on on what Danny was I think leading to in terms of both the casualties and the comparisons everyone keeps talking about how this is a likened to the Holocaust to the 1973 Yom Kippur war let's put the numbers out there because perhaps people don't fully understand the casualties that we are seeing on the Israeli side including the wounded and the dead are roughly half of the Israeli casualties that we saw in the 1973 Yom Kippur war why is this significant well that war lasted two weeks and five days we are only five days into this war of which the majority of these casualties took place in day one being 24 hours and the majority being civilians and not the army and so I think this has been a very complex issue for there's no denying what happened here we were surprised on a political front on a defense front and so as Danny pointed out perhaps because of that surprise it's taken them a while for the defense establishment to get the act together but we are seeing now Daniel Haagiri the spokesperson coming out saying we'll update twice a day if need be we'll do more there's been appointments of officials that are going to be dealing with the kidnappings and the families now we're seeing the appointment of a war cabinet a government that for the last couple of days yes it may have taken them a while but we finally have it and they have their footing of the fact that we have a senior IDF general and a former Israeli defense minister as well as a former Israeli chief of staff now coming together with Benjamin Netanyahu essentially three people that have dealt with war that are equipped to handle what is going forward now sitting in this in this war cabinet and this is a relatively reassuring path for the people of Israel considering the fact that there has been such a diminishing of confidence in the IDF in the political on shalom and establishment this is a good sign going forward in what has been an overall disaster both politically and security wise right now i want to go back to that report by jonathan reggaev at kibbutz berry because that is really the essence of this story the atrocities that were done yesterday i-24 news really breaking the story about what happened in far isa the slaughter there the slaughter and the mutilation of the residents including young children Israeli soldiers saying including even babies now here's what major general itai verove had to say about what happened there at kibbutz berry people come to kill kill the people hang grenade fire with fire with knife with anything and then go to the other apartment is another family after family after family after family we found until now something like 110 people women children babies but we still found a couple of hours ago we found here two or three bodies under the rubble the rubble i i afraid that we will found out of the out of the people's people that kicked up and killing the way just in an hour report that prime minister that's how it's expected to speak perhaps in the next half hour at the beginning of the next meeting of the cabinet that being held uh danny the pictures coming out of far asa of berry the testimony of the soldiers that we've been reporting uh has certainly it's sort of for for the i don't know how long will last but has changed the dynamic and dialogue even internationally on the uh conflicts between israel and hamas oh absolutely and hamas now is equal ices in the hand in the eyes of biden which is the most important and most of the world leaders either biden really had shown great leadership not only the united states is totally behind us but also he brought on board the major countries of nato germany france and the uk they are all together in their commitment first of all to let israel not only win we will win one way or another but a decisive win that may change the paradigms here in the middle east because everyone is watching first and for most are the arab countries you know the moderate arab countries whether it's the abram according to the countries so the arabia jordan egypt morocco all those countries they fear hamas and the ideological jihadist islamist movement more than anything else and they are their mortal enemies more than israel so uh although they're you know right now sitting in the wings you would not see them uh condemning hamas because of arab solidarity and their own population and there are different considerations there but they are waiting for a total eradication of hamas like they are waiting for a total eradication of ices and al qaeda and any one of those jihadists that first and for most pose a threat a mortal threat to their own regime so this is number one this is why the united states has had to show this leadership first of all to keep its allies if the united states were hesitating you know vis-a-vis its most dependable ally then all the other allies could scatter away there's china waiting russia and what all right well we'll look a little more at the role of the united states in this conflict stay with us on i-25 as we're going out for a brief break we'll be back in a couple of minutes and still waiting on hearing an address by prime minister benjamin netanyahu we'll be right back rail is at war since the early hours of the morning israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the gaza strip the biggest and bloodiest attack in years tune in for our extensive and rolling coverage of the hamas deadly attack on israel with reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information stay tuned with i-24 news made for me a unique concept in israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of i-24 news good evening ladies and gentlemen of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity welcome back to our special coverage on i-24 news of day five of the israel hamas conflict we still have us ambassador daniel alone in our botch 11th all the city of ashkelon the port city has been pounded during the day over the past five days by hamas rockets among those targets also is the barzali hospital which is taking in perhaps the biggest load of victims of the hamas terror attack let's go to on a call at said deck there at barzali hospital and another tough day at barzali on two levels the call both treating all those wounded there and also having to finding itself under rocket fire from gaza exactly collab the fact that these medics and these doctors continue to treat the hundreds of patients here will constantly being under rocket attacks and red alert sirens it really really is is something to marvel at i was speaking to one of the doctors earlier who has constantly been in the operation room since saturday i asked him how do you continue to operate in these conditions and he said honestly i don't even know how many red alerts have gone off i i completely ignore them and i just pay attention to my work because that's what matters right now so once you're in the operation room they say they don't hear those sirens and that is because the hospital is a protected area as well and so when these red alerts are going off although right now we are in the parking lot the entrance of the barzali medical center if there is a red alert siren we have about 30 seconds to get to our safe place that's when we head to the entrance right here and go inside behind those glass doors as well just in case there is any shrapnel from the area you want to be in a safe place and there was a direct hit on the hospital today as well hitting the child development center here now luckily no one was injured but there were two people who were inside luckily they got into a safe place away from all of the damage but this was a child development center that was hit and it's not the first place that was hit since the beginning of this war here at barzali medical center we know also the pediatric ward was it was hit from pieces of shrapnel so while all these doctors and medics continue to treat these patients many of them in severe critical condition they're also constantly being being under attack by these rockets so it is quite a hectic scene out here I want to say also earlier today Kalev there were soldiers being transported here from gunshot wounds after coming into fighting with terrorists who do remain in the area some residents were urged from the ashkelon municipality in southern ashkelon to stay in their houses stay in their bomb shelters not only for the rockets going off overhead but also for their safety for the active terrorists that could still be in the area so a lot of action constantly happening here for the past five days and it just seems to be continuing briefly I just want to ask you Nicole there was a today as protest of sorts by Israelis at a different hospital shiba medical center in central israel which because that they're treating apparently some of these Hamas terrorists being treated in Israeli hospitals I don't know the situation in barzali have you seen anything like that there at barzali we have not seen anything like that here Kalev we have not had been able to confirm if there are any being treated here as well but that news is absolutely shocking to so many of the citizens so many of the residents because these hospitals they're overwhelmed with Israeli patients and so the fact that some Hamas terrorists could be receiving treatment as well it is absolutely causing an uproar on the civilian front many people saying this should not be allowed to happen when I hear that news it definitely makes me think of just the humanity that these Israeli medics continue to show as everyone is coming in here they're treating all of the lives the same their one job is to save the lives and so when I was speaking to the doctors they say that is what they will continue to do as more and more people come in here soldiers Israelis from what we're hearing in some of those other medical centers even terrorists a life is a life for these Israeli doctors and they're continuing to fight to save all of them now that is their their Hippocratic oath Nicole said that could barzali hospital in Ashkelon thank you for that and I wish you point out it's nothing new Danny that to terrorists even terrorist leaders have come to Israel has treated them and treated some of its even neighboring Arab countries that it doesn't have relations with Israel is off for treatment and there is some security value to having these terrorists taken alive just in terms of interrogation and information that could be derived from them oh absolutely the information that is being let's say harvested from this terrorist from the terrorist in our custody is invaluable and this is very important now but it's also a matter of humanity and this is also shows the real face of Israel the human face of Israel you know the doctors you know you mentioned Kalev the Hippocratic oath that they are sworn by they're doing this triage you know they would treat whoever needs it the most and that's that's the amazing thing about Israel the Jewish spirit the Israeli spirit all right now yesterday i-24 news actually was that reported Nicole said that I spoke to broke the news of the full extent of the atrocities that were committed by Hamas terrorists at the Kibbutz Kfar Azar Israeli officials since saying confirming the mass murder and in some cases mutilation there are some 40 young children and infants that was according to soldiers testimony today the acting senior u.s. diplomat in israel the charge day affair Stephanie Hallett went down herself to Kfar Azar this is her reaction take a look Stephanie Hallett here the charge of the u.s. embassy appear with our senior defense official and defense attache captain Frank Schlerz we come down here along the Gaza and periphery to bear witness to the atrocities that were committed here on Saturday and it's um it's really unbelievable as a as mother um and just as a human being to see and to know what happened here um is is really important to say that we've been here we've seen it and it is evil um and we stand with Israel all of us we stand by you that's uh hardly unusual for a diplomat to making a statement like that and maybe also makes some understanding to the position that the United States at least so far has been taking in support of Israel in this particular struggle and highly unusual also for that kind of video which has gone viral to be appearing on international media and then to have not all but some reporters correspondence journalists from those international media saying that this is not verified information because there's no proof so let's ask the question because it needs to be asked what would the anti-israel activists and the and the anti-seemites like for Israel to do with these in their view alleged 40 children babies infants whatever they were they were called the soldiers were under duress not having sleep obviously shocked whether they referred to them as babies or children's the distinction at this point is is evidently blurred but would they like us to show these visuals on air apart from the difficult visuals of the rapes the difficult visuals of what we're already seeing of charred bodies of homes being completely destroyed and it is a big question and and I think there is also a simple answer to that with regards to what Danny was saying about the humanity and and of the Jewish nation unfortunately I've had to witness this personally there is no such thing as having such an open casket funeral in Judaism and there's a reason for that it's not about us it's about the deceased and giving them a dignified burial and respecting them it's also why we don't show or parade around dead bodies if you look at all the visuals you'll even see them probably on your screen now it's visuals of body bags and those body bags are covered and when those people are buried at some point they are not shown to the media they are not open caskets so the very least these people are claiming is to show the body bags of little infants do they realize how bizarre that sounds how ironic that sounds to have to show that the point is we stand by what the IDF is telling us that has been on the front lines and if they turn around and say this is what we have seen which they have which they have those should not be disputed on our channel in international media and absolutely not on social media right I also want to make out the point people who have been following social media have seen plenty of graphic footage that unfortunately we as a television network are not going to show because of its unbelievably graphic nature and even on saturday already there were footage some pictures some of which have been taken away by the way incredibly graphic footage especially from these t-kubutsi that some of it's been taken down because it is so graphic and you certainly see the bodies of those women and children there yeah Kalev it's interesting what Batya raised here is an issue which I mean throws me back to world war one the release of the Auschwitz and Treblinka World War two World War two when General Eisenhower troops when they were liberated and he saw the horror first and foremost he wanted to document it because he said nobody would believe it if I said what I saw here without showing the documentation nobody would believe it so this is the same dilemma Batya as we are facing now nobody would believe it if we didn't keep if we didn't keep this documentation and this documentation was shown to John Kirby you know who shed tears right on camera and to President Biden and I think this is part of the emotional I would say presence and the emotional strength of Biden coming out in his right John Kirby there's a national security consultant to the white in the White House and it certainly it certainly has I'd stay with us with course we've had these terrible scenes but there have been some points of light that we want to also show you over these past couple of days now Israel has had to evacuate thousands of families from the Gaza border area and across the country hotel and hostile owners have stepped up to voluntarily provide them board free of charge now one of these is the Levinsky market hotel in Tel Aviv which is now hosting dozens of residents who are evacuated from the south Erica Jackson gives us a look at that the Levinsky market hotel opened a few months ago as a boutique hotel but it is now home to dozens of southern Israel residents I guess like phones and people crying on the phones without saying nothing just crying and they run away they tell me I need a room I need the place to sleep and the the heart you know is breaking ever since the massive terror attack on Saturday morning several families have now found a place to live in the heart of Tel Aviv three missiles exploded near my house one of my neighbors died my kids got panicked I have 12 kids is one of the Gaza border residents who fought Saturday against the Gazan terrorists he tells us that he will not return home until there is a real solution while we're cutting in because John Kirby that White House official we just spoke about is giving a briefing now now if I could switch to Ukraine just quickly today the secretary defense announced at the Ukraine defense contact group meeting over in Europe that the United States is announcing a new aid package which includes air defense munitions ammunition for us provided artillery and high mars counter uas equipment unmanned aero system sorry to help Ukraine protect their people against russian and iranian drone strikes we're also announcing additional anti-armor capabilities and more than 16 million rounds of small arms and ammunition as the Ukrainians continue to wage a very tough counter offensive and as winter now fast approaches we believe that is absolutely imperative you heard me say before time is not our friend okay we did get there a little late for but he didn't make comments relating to Israel Bacha John Kirby speaking just right before that about the situation here absolutely and as Danny was pointing out just before we we cut to that was the fact that John Kirby actually teared up on an NBC interview with regards to the atrocities happening in Israel at that point there were 11 Americans confirmed dead that number then rose to 14 that number is now on 22 and John Kirby right now said and I'll quote we all need to steal ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers being the US death toll in Hamas's attack on Israel will continue to keep rising and increasing and so it not just the point being made that foreign nationals have also been abducted and killed as well as Israelis and obviously as we keep referring to with with Iran's with Iran's involvement in this Iran keeps referring to Israel as the little Satan America the big Satan undoubtedly a win for Iran in terms of killing both Israelis and American citizens as well and of course we should note the US taking involvement in this conflict Danny unprecedented certainly sending the sixth flee to the shores of Lebanon and Syria to discourage most likely Iran getting involved also sending presumably intelligence officials experts in dealing with hostage situations the White House making clear they will not take part in any actual the operation in Taghaza but apparently they're giving some kind of support possibly on the intelligence side to Israeli forces absolutely and also psychological for any of the victims who may survive you know the American ones they need English speaking American speaking people with it but the show of force that we see from the sixth fleet in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean basically outside the shores of Lebanon is a clear sign and warning to Iran and Hezbollah not to act up not to join in because then it's going to be not only original war it could be going even beyond that and if the Iranians or the Hezbollah doesn't understand these messages the message was first given on Saturday evening just few hours after this attack Biden came out this is also unprecedented the president himself going out in front of the camera to warn those axis of evil members and if they didn't understand that warning then he corroborates this with deeds with an armada of the sixth fleet and here I think it's also important to say that he would not have done it without credible intelligence that something might happen let's go back to John Kirby because he is now returned to the subject of Israel Hamas doesn't speak for the majority of the Palestinian people or their aspirations for peace and security I think that's an important place to start this conversation in unlike the United States unlike Israel as the president said yesterday who have respect for the rule of law and the law of armed conflict and respect for human life Hamas has none none at all so again we'll we'll let the Israeli speak for the military operations are focused squarely right now and these still early hours and they are early hours is to make sure that the Ukraine of the Israelis have what they need I want to clarify the numbers here I think Korean you just said that 17 Americans remain missing is that the latest number I think yesterday you had said 20 I just want to make sure we're operating off of the same there there is 17 that are missing and and 22 that are dead and is there anything you can share with us about anything you know about the condition of the hostages and also has there been any kind of communication with Hamas either directly or with our allies or partners about securing their releases there any kind of receptiveness that they've shown even to talking about this issue so let me take the second one first obviously we're in discussions not only with the Israelis about what hostage recovery could look like but with other allies and partners in the region and there are some countries like Qatar that have open lines of communication with with Hamas so of course we're casting the net wide as you would expect we would we want to get these all hostages back with their families particularly the American hostages no question about that now where they are and in what condition no sadly we don't know and that makes efforts very very difficult again in these early hours but we don't know we don't know where they are we don't know if they're all in one group or broken up into several groups we don't know if they're being moved and with what frequency and to what locations all of those questions uh we're working hard to answer and you're casting a wide net but has any communication actually been made with Hamas I'm just going to leave it lead the answer uh the way I gave it to you I think just like in any other case when we're talking about getting Americans home overseas that have been held hostage or wrongfully detained the less you say out there publicly the better thank you and two on this region and one on another in this hemisphere that I know some outlets in this room have questions about first on the humanitarian corridor is it accurate that the Egyptians have rejected calls to allow for one I think you'd have to talk to the Egyptian authorities continue or we we believe that safe passage is important and we want to see safe passes a safe passage corridor opened up we also believe it's important that humanitarian assistance have a way to continue to get to the Palestinian people and as Jake mentioned yesterday we're in active discussions with the Israelis and with the Egyptians about that there's of course this ongoing intelligence assessment and now political debate over Iran what it knew what it may have done to support Hamas in all of this even if there's no direct evidence linking Iran to this specific attack right now does the US believe Iran needs to pay some kind of price or be some kind of retribution for having supported Hamas all along I mean the question almost and I'm not picking on you Ed but it implies that that we're just now waking up to the fact that they've been supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and other terrorist networks that Hamas is one of the most highly sanctioned terrorist networks on the planet largely because of what we've been doing here in the United States to target them and Iran my goodness just since the beginning of this administration we have sanctioned some 400 plus entities with more than 40 set different sets of sanction regimes 30 of those just this past year alone we've increased our military presence in the in the Gulf region because of their attacks on maritime shipping we have added additional sanctions because of their support to Russia and the fact that they're still providing drones and technology to Mr. Putin so he can kill innocent Ukrainians and now we've added our military capability we've added to it from a naval perspective in the eastern Med so nobody has turned a blind eye to Iranian destabilizing behavior now I think what you're trying to get at is this particular set of attacks what Jake said yesterday still holds we obviously recognize that there's broad complicity here by the Iranians I mean because of the long-standing support to Hamas Hamas wouldn't have been able to function at all had it not been for propping up by the Iranian regime but we haven't seen any specific evidence that tells us they were witting involved in the planning or involved in the resourcing and in the training that went into this very complex set of attacks over the weekend there's one other I mentioned an issue here in this hemisphere that there are outlets in this room I know curious about there've been several days now of protests in Guatemala that have essentially locked down parts of the country amid the ongoing uh protracted difficult presidential transition just curious if you can give us a sense of how the U.S. is monitoring that and whether it has any message for protesters who continue to hold up some parts of society that have blocked all right we just heard the White House Security official John Kirby is discussing with reporters in the White House the situation in Israel some interesting points he made there Juan he says the U.S. is in discussions with both Israel Egypt on both a so-called safe passage presumably for Palestinians I guess to leave Gaza and go into southern to northern Sinai didn't specify that but that's the implication the other is a so-called humanitarian corridor in which aid would be going in to Gaza of course Israel would be concerned that matter that aid would be going straight into the hands of Hamas so that is a complication there and saying the Israel is saying the United States does not have direct proof that Iran helped to plan this attack but was involved in just in general in the preparing Hamas for it Danny some tricky issues there for the United States right now also the Iran issue because some are linking this with the recent unfreezing of funds for Iran U.S. senior U.S. correspondent Mike Wagenheim just sending out a message several Democratic senators are talking about holding up that process now because of what has happened here in Israel yes and of course even if the claim is that this unfreeze of the the funds the six billion dollars goes specifically only to humanitarian issues money is fungible so the six billion released six billions you know that they can give to Hamas or Hezbollah so I think that the Americans now are holding back and are looking at it giving it a fresh view but it was important Kalev that Kirby said that even though there are no specific indications that Iran was involved in this attack of the 7th of October they said that Hamas wouldn't be in existence without the support of they prepared the ground at the very least they prepared the ground there have been some speculations meetings between Hamas and Iranian official security officials right prior to this attack that indicate that there might have been some kind of a scent there in Bacchia you could weigh in but also we some news it is not and remind you it's not just the United States is not the only country that has its citizens either killed or missing in this attack well that's what takes this to another level is that it's not just Israelis we are looking at foreign citizens that have been abducted as well as killed and what was interesting or a takeaway that I took from that was there was a report in the White House that kept probing Kirby have you spoken to Hamas directly the United States of America has too many western countries doesn't negotiate with terrorists however he did confirm that they don't actually know what is going on inside the Gaza Strip whether they are together or not and now there's an announcement by the French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne who says that several children from France have been kidnapped from the Hamas terror group she basically alluded to the fact that she's been in touch with the families but does not know any more information other than the fact that amongst those believed to be kidnapped from France is a 12-year-old boy who was living in Kibbutz near Oz which I'll remind our viewers is right near the border and that 11 citizens for the time being are confirmed dead and 20 French citizens are unaccounted for which they believe are being held hostage so again one of the countries that the United States was in touch with as Danny pointed out in terms of France Germany Italy the United Kingdom putting through a united support because the majority of them all have citizens that have been taken hostage. Right I just want to point on your screen you're seeing live pictures from the south of Israel there are red alerts in the city of Ashkelon again you just saw some flashes in your on the screen there those would be uh interceptions by the iron dome defense system of rockets fired uh apparently red alert in Ash in in Ashkelon of course it's uh as we've heard from on the cold setting early at Basel Eye Hospital uh throughout the day Ashkelon has been a target uh Basel Eye Hospital uh has been hit I just want to reiterate uh we are expecting now perhaps in the next hour Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a an address to the nation uh perhaps with the new member of his government and more cabinet Benny Gantz perhaps at a side that we don't know yet uh there is going to be a meeting of the larger cabinet this evening and apparently Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to use uh is going to make his statement to the media at the beginning of that cabinet meeting I want to thank uh Ambassador Danny A. 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changes in Parkinson's disease the hope after all is better diagnosis and offering a new window to the workings of the human brain since the early hours of the morning Israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of Israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip the biggest and bloodiest attack in years tune in for our extensive and rolling coverage of the Hamas deadly attack on Israel with reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information stay tuned with i24 news come to or back to this special broadcast on i24 news i'm Khalib and David it's day five of Israel's war against Hamas the IDF is continuing to pound the terror groups military installations in Gaza and it's tightened its siege of the strip whose election city supply ran out today clashes continued around the Gaza border area throughout today Israeli forces killing only 17 terrorists who infiltrated into southern Israel exchange of fire also continuing over the Lebanon Israel Lebanon border the IDF targeting his ball of post in response to rocket and mortar launches from Lebanon and from Syrian territory now the Israeli death toll is now rising over 1200 there are growing calls to act on behalf of the over 100 hostages in Gaza and perhaps for the in response Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally approved the forming of an emergency unity government that will bring the national unity party into the coalition that factions leader Benny Gantz will join Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Galant in a special war cabinet which will include as observers only Gantz's party mate the other former IDF chief of staff Gadi Aizenkot and the regional affairs minister Ron Derma get on SAR from the national unity party will join the cabinet the regular cabinet as a minister we do expect prime minister Netanyahu we was scheduled to speak in the last hour we possibly we will speak during this hour we'll bring you that address live as it happens we do want to go now of course yesterday i24 news and our reporter is Nicole Setic, Ma'el Ben-Oliel were the first to report IDF account counts by IDF soldiers of seeing in the Kibbutz far as the mutilated bodies of men women and children and babies we want to go to a one of those comments made on camera by one of those IDF soldiers we always came to this place at 6 p.m. Saturday afternoon we walk door after door we kill a lot of the tourists we are stronger than them they are aggressive they are very bad they cut off children cut off women but we are stronger than them and in any meeting against them we win and we all of us have the same hand we came from all the kind of Israel religious non-religious from the left side in the right side of the political but we all of us left our families and we took the green clothes we took the weapon and we're going cause we have one enemy that's all against all of us we hear about the thing that they do before that we came but we didn't imagine that it will be so difficult we know that they are animals but we found that they have no any heart they came to the houses they found women and children in the beds and they killed them with guns with knife with molotov waters etc but they say again in any meeting that we made the terrorists we kill them and we will win because we are all of us together against them we feel that they send family here like my family we left our brother and our children they hear our children and our brother so we fight exactly like we fight for my family and with us in studio we have reserves IDF Major General Eitan Dungault from a military secretary three defense ministers from a coordinator of government activity in the Palestinian territories and our senior correspondent Awan Ottoman and Eitan earlier this evening we had probably the most complete briefing yet from the IDF spokesperson announcing all kinds of steps to deal with the civilian population that has been relocated with concerns by the families that have missing ones he addressed other issues that have come up to dealing with equipment with soldiers there is a sense that the IDF is starting now to find its footing after those first initial days of confusion as well as the government which is also now taking steps efforts to sort of beef up the military expertise at the very highest levels of the Israeli government yes i agree to basically you look it's look like the basic stabilization that shows that there is control now i'm talking about from the IDF and from the top of the state to work in a different way that will bring much more i think major support from the country major trust towards the decision makers but the soldiers and the commanders of the IDF are not waiting i would like i would like just to mention that there is a chief on the field around Gaza from the fact that many terrorists has been already killed by the soldiers and it looks like we are continue to close this kind of thousands of terrorists that are in this way continue with strikes and going on with this procedure with a high tens in area of Lebanon okay well let's go down to southern israeli car defense correspondent jonathan reggae was in the border town of steel road jonathan first of all reports of launches from just sirens down in the south just in the past past few minutes can you just update us yes i was supposed to talk to you a few minutes ago but we were in the shelter therefore it didn't happen we just came out of the shelter there was a very heavy barrage right above our heads and it is happening here all the time southern israel is now where most of the rockets are headed yes hamas is still sending rockets every now and then further to place a further way ashdo divin tel aviv the yesterday rockets were fired to Jerusalem but it's mostly the communities here is the road where we are ashkelon and so there's always a concern that the heavy barrages are intended to help perhaps a terrorist who might still want to try and infiltrate into israel using perhaps the gaps that still exist in the border fence the army says that it has control all over the border area but still a terrorist pop up about 30 minutes ago just about a mile to my left in kibbutz near arm three terrorists were killed so the army says it's in control of the area of the communities that is true but still a terrorist pop up still perhaps trying to cross the border so quite a complicated issue there i want to just ask you jonathan earlier today you were given access along with other journalists to kibbutz berry over 100 israelis killed their atrocities also committed there just tell us a little of that it was a terrible thing kind of a terrible terrible thing just to understand the numbers 110 israelis 110 bodies of israelis were found in kibbutz berry atrocity at its worst we're speaking of women we're speaking of children we're speaking of elderly houses there are completely torn apart you could still smell smell death i'll call it this way there are also 103 bodies of terrorists so we're speaking of 200 bodies all together the army saying that it is hoping that it has reached all of the bodies of the israelis so far and and they've been taken away terrible terrible things houses completely torn apart burned down and and and this is one of the communities which was thriving flourishing before saturday morning kibbutz berry a very prosperous and successful community and and now walking down the the streets there is is complete shock yes we're hearing the we're hearing about what has happened since saturday morning it's a completely different thing seeing it with your own eyes terrible terrible sights there in kibbutz berry and now kalev we have to run again to shelter i i see right above our heads and the iron domes we're running to the shelter kalev for the second time in about what second time in about 10 minutes i think you can see it right above our heads yes we're running to shelter kalev oh jonathan get to safety jonathan we're hearing the booms yes we are yeah we're here to say here the booms wow so now we're in the shelter reporting reporting from the shelter this is right above our heads you can see it you can hear it now we're in the shelter and we're making sure we broadcast from a place that is very close to the protected shelter we're not here by ourselves everyone who's here is running to shelter this is i think the second time in about 10 minutes and that we've had to do this this is a reality here this is the reality here in the city of zerot constant constant barrages we just spoke about berry the terrible sight there it's also a terrible sight here the roads here we have to catch a breath the roads here around is the road these are roads that i've driven on hundreds and hundreds of times now they're full of burnt cars debris clothes babies clothes outside the cars terrible terrible things here in southern israel kalev all right jonathan please you and the rest of the crew there please take care first first of all comes the lives of you and our crew members down there though we certainly appreciate your courageous reporting jonathan regev instead of thank you so much for that difficult to see our own reporters oh and go through that i will just take a mention about as he was talking we're seeing the bodies pulled out of kibbutz barriers we saw yesig for us are the bloody trails in the house and yet there are you know those who are still doubting these tales of atrocities we see and i have to say go on social media you'll see much worse than we can even broadcast it's the modus operandi of holocaust denial i mean that's what's going on it is the modus operandi of holocaust denial i mean we in the media kalev have the obligation to report accurately and i-24 has done so and it's true that when a soldier comes on in uniform and speaks before the camera for that matter off the camera and tells us something yes we trust our military we trust our military unless we have a reason to doubt them and this is what they said and we told the public that it was the military that told us so in any event but the modus operandi of those who are doing this is the modus operandi of holocaust deniers that's that's the bottom line right but i do say that enough people have seen this material to at least for the time being there being something of a sea change in public opinion and support from Israel from many quarters which we haven't seen before and that's right i think you're right that that's the overwhelming story you know and as i said earlier on today in our broadcast i never understood how important was to have buildings lit up and and what that means for you psychologically well in countries that normally in cities that normally don't and that too and also of course the arch of titus in Rome right lit up with all that that means of course the arch of titus built kalev to honor quote unquote the roman emperor titus who in the year 70 ce you know comes in and conquers Jerusalem destroys the second temple leads jews into slavery and the arch is there to celebrate this from the roman perspective of course it was a victory and built 10 years later after his death and then to see that very arch lit up in the colors of the israeli flag i mean that just makes all kinds of statements and who would have imagined israel israel would become the cause celeb of the west right for the time being for the time being let's be cautious there now of course as i mentioned there has been action there's been action across the israeli lebanon border uh throughout the day let's go to a correspondent robert swift in the town of nahari and tell us a little about what's been happening we've been focused on the south plenty happening in the north today robert fill us in there absolutely was celeb there was a lot taking place here earlier in the day uh around about early evening time when there was reports of 15 to 20 drones crossing into israeli airspace and there was uh the uh on the home front command app that many israelis have there was an order given to uh get into the the shelters and to remain there until uh told otherwise however it now appears that this was uh an error um this information has been slightly backtracked on the exact cause of that is uh under investigation um but all of this comes in the backdrop of the uh the heightened tensions that are taking place here on the northern border with the the launching of an anti-tank missile earlier in the day by his bullet towards idf forces and very much uh for real and the response from the idf with the aircraft and artillery that's setting the stage um for this for the events surrounding the uh the home front command app um and explaining some of the anxiety that many people here on the northern border are feeling as to whether or not his bullet will join in the fight that kamas started earlier in the week right and some of those communities already been evacuated not naharia major city but some of those right up but smaller communities right up on the border that's right there has been a recommendation uh for people to move to other locales if they they have relatives or friends that they can they can stay with and also um more significantly probably there has been the hospitals in the northern region have been evacuating as of today moving some of their patients towards hospitals in the center um and this very much both for the safety of those patients if something works to kick off here but also freeing up capacity within those hospitals because if a second front a northern front was to be opened up here those hospitals would very much uh become part of israel's fight and so essentially the the hospitals preparing themselves and for the possibility of what may come here in the northern and the northern parts of the country all right robert swift there and naharia right near the lebanon border thank you for that etan his bullet testing israel perhaps also making a sort of demonstration of support uh for hamas just to say we're in it but at what point does it become intolerable for israel what's the sort of red line that could be crossed there and make this a wider conflagration we have not the privilege to analyze the situation with her his bala as whether they are making kind of supporting hamas in such a way or the really meaning we're ready head unfortunately a tragic lesson in the south but we know that the his bala without uh being too much towards they have a strong power and they allowed and the readiness in the north area of israel came to high stage and that's bring a lot of tense and it's better to react to a tense even with some mistakes to make it all the time serious reaction then later on to be sorry of what not happened but if you check all the events with his bala since it's happened from the lantern or shooting a motor shells on dove mountain and later going with anti-tank missile and other kind of vocation even today you see that his bala that's not a way to open a wall even the uav if it was reality etc it is clear that his bala is still on one end making a narrow corridor towards a clash with israel two sides are walking each towards others but there is enough distance yet tell we shall see we shall say a war on the other end i think his bala is calculating its steps on both on two issues first under iranian green line after the speech of united state of biden yesterday iran has a price of loss from international activities and if they waste waste his bala as the main proxy by starting a war there will be much more weak on the way they are acting in the middle east secondly his bala knows that in the moment it opened the fire libanon is this as a state it's the end of the story so if you ask me i think it's still we are walking each toward other towards escalation but be be aware that all in each event till now you have exit point to go outside to contain situation and to wait and by the way his bala published very fast immediate reaction about the uavs they say no uav went from libanon it's only the israeli press who are delivery right so it means they are very careful because of the of the high readiness in israel not to create kind of thing that will bring escalation immediately by israeli taking and they have to react to his bala till now is on readiness but still not going to a war okay not at this point when the deterrent factor may be the presence of the six us six fleet uh off the shores of lebanon seru we've mentioned that the u.s also giving veiled warnings to iran and his bala i'm sending an aircraft carrier in protecting the aircraft carrier u.s uh correspondent uh my grant i'm sending the white house stating uh that a second aircraft carrier is available but the question is how much political will is there for the u.s to get maybe directly involved in this conflict uh a conflict that could grow to also in include iran and we heard how john curby had to dance so delicately around the subject of iran and a possible confrontation with it yeah listen i i think it's there for apocalyptic scenarios i mean i think that's what these aircraft carriers are there for and i think that's what joe biden was talking about last night these are for worst case scenarios colored these are for last resort scenarios i think that's all it's for and again coming out and clarifying i think it was quite clear from what joe biden said himself but clarified afterwards by national security visor jake selvin that the united states isn't going to get involved in in a conflict in israel and hamas right that that's not the objective i think that's clear to all that's israel's responsibility by the way israel's national security doctor and as we all know has never relied on others actually doing israel's fighting israel's national security doctor and has relied on israel doing israel's fighting and so that's a core part of this country's identity right it's part of the bingo card in every nits and yows speech israel will defend itself by itself and i can um wait hold on we have a anthony blinkin speaking for years including with the memorandum of understanding that was negotiated by president obama to make sure that israel has what it needs to defend itself at the same time we anticipate there'll be further needs further requests we've already been working closely with congress on this and we look forward to continuing to do that to make sure that israel has what it needs second we will be reiterating reaffirming the very strong message that president biden has delivered to any country or any party that might try to take advantage of this situation and that messages don't president has deployed as you know the world's largest aircraft carrier group to the region to make very clear our intent to deter anyone contemplating any further aggression against israel finally we're of course very focused on our own people our own citizens we lost 22 americans that number could still go up and it probably will at the same time we have a number of americans who remain unaccounted uh we are working very closely with the government of israel to determine their whereabouts and if they have been taken hostage by amas to work to secure their release so all of these things are on the agenda over the next uh the next day or so with israel but the main point is this we stand with israel we'll continue to do so thank you mr secretary uh yesterday jake solovan said the u.s officials were talking to the israelis about getting civilian safe passage uh through uh through gaza into egypt uh today john curby said they're still talking to officials about this uh what is the hold up what's the obstacle to getting civilian safe passage out of gaza john we are we are talking about that and we're talking to uh israel about that we're talking to egypt about that uh it's an ongoing uh conversation i can't get into the details um some of this is needless to say and understandably complicated but we want to make sure to the best of our ability and i know israel wants to make sure to the best of its ability that civilians uh are not harmed but uh israel has to take steps to defend itself uh it has to make sure that uh any ongoing threat is dealt with and i believe it has to make sure that um going forward uh what happened doesn't happen again is the issue more on the israeli side of the youtube i'm not going to get into the details but it's an ongoing conversation uh following up on that um in conversations between the u.s and israel as the u.s advocated any degree of restraint in terms of possible ground operations in gaza either for the sake of the civilians there or for the sake of hospitals well again i'm not getting into any of the operational details of what uh israel may uh or may not do i think you heard the president speak to this yesterday and is very very strong and forceful comments and of course what separates israel the united states and other democracies when it comes to incredibly difficult situations like this is our respect for international law and as appropriate uh the laws of war uh we do everything we can to make sure that in these situations we avoid civilian casualties that is in direct contrast uh with hamas which uses people as human shields uh it um actually seeks uh to be put palestinian civilians in situations uh where they could be harmed uh this is very much part of their uh part of the game plan so uh we uh we know that israel will take uh all of the uh precautions that that it can just as we would and again that's what separates us uh from hamas and terrorist groups that engage in the most heinous kind of uh kind of activities thank you we'll have a chance to talk later thank you all right well we've just heard the u.s secretary of state anthony blinkin there are reports that have not been officially confirmed yet that he will be coming to israel perhaps as early as uh tomorrow but we have not get confirmed on that some gentlemen some very quite interesting points there uh from secretary blinkin so far the u.s standing firmly behind israel in actions but again a slight note there uh a reminder something that president biden said yesterday democracies follow the rules of law and the in in the in and the rules of war and that's what distinguishes so perhaps also a slight caution there about how far maybe as you could go yeah but on the other hand kelev and i i certainly deferred eight time gone at least sat in the room and the the chief of staff you know the general staff in the israeli military the israeli military does follow international laws there are lawyers in the military i mean there are people there are television commentators and all kinds of television channels who say what they want in the studio right that's not the professionals that's not the military obviously there are different interpretations of international law but the the agreement that there is a framework of international law the professionals agree to it even if the public doesn't always understand it and the commentators and television studios also tend to to to make light of it um but look on you can look at that statement two ways one way is your way kelev the other way is almost as a piece of israeli public diplomacy right right going quickly to say that's what separates us from hamas right which is always a talking point of israeli spokespeople in any event so obviously there are going to be complicated decisions operationally to be made and you're right we have to wait and see what the administration will do but the biden speech i think is already being seen here as a landmark uh as a landmark in us's revelations and in presidential speeches uh so butz israel in a very very good starting position if you will uh eight and a half days because now we've heard a couple of references and you even made it to a possibility of palestinians being moved uh through the uh brefiah crossing presumably from civilians from gaza into saini but that does pose a challenge that hamas uh figures even some of its leaders could try to flee and escape from from gaza that through that route and then just come back and fight another day maybe but if you look on the general situation near raffa crossing uh first of all israel prevent twice and convoy with the support to enter to gaza now it could be like a the egyptian tried to create a corridor without beating co-coordinate with israel and israel shows a very strong reaction we are now at the beginning in gaza and i know for my experience there is enough thing for almost four five days of course without electricity it's very difficult or without other things the issue i think the pressure on egypt will be very high and if i may say i think that the american will be involved on to see what to do with this issue egypt is looking at hamas as a threat to their national security sisi already has experience at 2013 about what happened and for him keeping gaza on its place keeping especially hamas on its place without entering to egypt it means preventing a threat to his entity but on the other end we must say that if you are looking on opportunity to move from egypt to a gaza it can be a key by hamas to make a pressure to stop the israeli reaction towards them because if you ask me iss or estimate that in the coming 48 hours the gaza pictures will try to bring to the world pittiness about what's going about israeli strike about humanitarian and you start to hear here and there from the european community and from the united nation the secretary thinks about that you you cannot accept it heads of babies were cut and you are coming to tell us now about our reaction towards the gaza strip we will not have every easy life in about 24 40 hours but i think that the american umbrella and statement are prepared already to support israel in these circumstances yes we are working with lawyers we are working with officers we are full right the international law at all all right it's how we want to go back to our correspondent the cult said it was at barzila hospital in ashkelon and the syrians continue to ring out at least parts of ashkelon and the call i don't know if in your area but certainly still that remains a prime target of the rocket fire from the gaza strip yes clever and it is a very stressful time out here because you never know is my phone not giving me the right red alert and do i have to run into the shelter because you do hear these explosions and these intersections happening overhead or is it happening just in a slightly different area so although we haven't heard a red alert here for the past 45 minutes maybe we do continue to hear some of those those those intersections overhead very loud explosions with some people still running inside to the corridor behind me to just get a little bit more shelter from some of these many falling shrapnel or anything in the area so it's just a stress time stressful time as the southern areas continue to be bombarded with rockets and and i think that's what's happening in all of these communities because as you look overhead you are concerned am i hearing the the right sirens happening overhead do i still have to stay in my bomb shelter and so that's the reality that's happening for all of these these people in in the south and as we're also seeing in the north as well so so we are continuing but operation here at the hospital it's still full steam ahead they continue to treat patients all the hundreds of patients that are still here at the hospital it's also a community effort so many people coming together i've been fed warm meals for the first time in four days the volunteer efforts out here is truly truly remarkable because people want to help everyone that is this is coming out here to the hospital so people keep bringing meals people keep bringing food water anything that these medics these soldiers these volunteers might need it's all happening here so it is a community effort for everyone to come together as all of them also are risking their lives to come here because at a moment's notice they might have to run to a bomb shelter as well and take cover all right well as you speak there's been another red alert in steel road that's what we're showing you live pictures of the sky Nicole take care err on the start of caution when it comes to those alarms safety first now the over 100 Israelis kidnapped by Hamas into Gaza range in age from infants to the elderly and we've seen pictures of some of these elderly elderly women being dragged in to the Gaza Strip among them is Adina Moshe who was last seen being spirited away from Kibbutz near Oz by terrorists on the back of a motorcycle after they had attacked the Kibbutz and murdered her husband Moshe well joining us now is her grandson Gyal Raka and he joins us from the town of Haifa Gyal tell us a little about you tell us about your grandparents they are very wonderful people they they lived in in heroes for over 50 years my grandfather lost his brother on the Yom Kippur war my grandma was the caretaker for every all the kids in the Kibbutz and always was happy to help to anyone who was we need any help until Saturday when Hamas invaded the Kibbutz where they were locked in the Mamad my grandma got a call from a neighbor grandson she was calling her because she saw on Facebook the dead body of her grandma that was shot by the the terrorist took her and killed her after that they came to her their house where they tried to open the mamad my grandfather held it as best they can and they couldn't get inside so the tarai from the window where they shot him and killed him and then kidnapped her and and then set the place on fire while looting everything they had burning everything to the ground even everything ruined taking more and more and more people from heroes killing so many and we learned only after that from the video that that she's in Gaza we hope she's okay but we don't know no one tells us anything and now the first thing we want is for her to get her medicine she's a sick woman she has a heart monitor and she needs her medicine daily because she wouldn't want to survive if she won't get it we try to talk to everyone can but until now no one actually talked to us back just some like DNA testing and something like that but nothing more than that right yeah just hearing you talk it's almost it's unimaginable i'm i'm it's just as unimaginable what you're going through and terrible how old is your is your grandmother your grandmother she's 17 terrible unbelievable have you thought he's been in touch with you the Israeli authorities we know they've been slow to act but a gail harsh has been appointed as a coordinator has anyone been in contact with you yet uh from the from the authorities with me no personally but with i think with my articles and and odds but i think nothing really like substantial like we don't really still know anything it's just collected some data like id and stuff like that but nothing more than that we still know nothing we have no clue what happened to her where exactly is she in Gaza right we know nothing we just in the dark gal this you know we're an international channel so i want to give you the forum to speak outside of israel to people are watching abroad and people maybe from governments and what your message to them today is in dealing with the situation with your grandmother being held hostage help us we want to know where she is we want to take care of her we want her to have the medicine and want to get her back that's the first priority you want to get her have to get her back she's she's not sick she's sick and we miss her we really want her back she she has almost no value for them please give them back all right gail rocker we join the morning of your family for your late grandfather uh david mosher may his memory be a blessing and our thank you deepest hopes for the safe return of your grandmother adina thank you for joining us i know this wasn't easy thank you thank you very much gentlemen i don't have to tell you how hard it is even just to have this kind of conversation even though it is absolutely necessary that this message be given out to the world i think it first of all i might tell you that from each story you are sitting and thinking okay can it happen but it happened and we don't have not to forget those people that we lost and not to forget this event hamas has no rights to live each member that call is in hamas as i have no right to live secondly about those people i think that instead of trying to say to israel on a balanced statement concerning human return i expect from the high tower called itself united nation to send these people they on on that we were belated by the secretary of the united nation and instead teaching us about human return that he will do something once in life at this organization to bring such a people back home to israel all right uh hold on i'll come back to you owin um you know it's thanks to stories like this that perhaps that in contrast to israel's previous battles against hamas this time the jewish state is receiving white's bed report support we know from governments of the west not just uh from populations also from the worlds of entertainment and sports communities that have not always been vocal in their support for israel entertainers like barba strice and the rock band youtube many other show biz figures have spoken out condemning the atrocities perpetuated against israelis by hamas sports figures and organizations the nba majorly's baseball individual teams and athletes have also weighed in for statements for israel now uh emily austin is an influencer with over 1.4 million followers on instagram she's also a sports commentator who also frequently speaks out on her platform against anti-semitism and support of israel she's been doing it so now thank you thank you for joining us emily well first of all i want to ask you we see things you do a lot for example with the sports world and we've seen the kind of reactions for example from the nba major league big baseball that we've never seen before supports for israel you know i'd like to say that i'm proud but at this point it's necessary i'm sitting here trying to hold back tears from the guests you just had whose grandmothers kidnapped and i'm just thinking how can people think that it's even still an option to argue that there's two sides to this story so yes i'm happy everyone's speaking out but i don't want people to think that it's even a choice at this point either you're on the right side of history or you're on the wrong side of history but yes i'm super relieved that at least sports teams are acknowledging many celebrities are acknowledging that israel is in fact on the right side of history right and what kind of reactions when you post i saw you as the statement that you've been in support of israel the other day what kind of reaction has that been getting because we know certainly uh social media has been a battleground of uh both support for israel and also of uh invective and just outright lies against israel first and foremost i do really want to thank all of the jewish community who does have my back on social media unfortunately that doesn't come without the thousands of not only death threats this time but rape threats which is new to me at least um coming for my family members sending me um telling me that they know where i live sending me nazi photos gas chamber photos hitler references i have to say that that's been taking me back a little bit but in no way does that silence me whatsoever in fact i use it as motivation to keep going but it's very hard to sit here and lie to you that it doesn't bother me but of course i'm i'm not stopping at any cost right let me ask you how confident are you are not that this support we've been seeing for israel in areas that we haven't seen before there in the for example in the united states and uh in some of the uh communities you deal with sports and entertainment is a is a passing phase or really represents a sort of change in heart among uh people and their attitudes toward israel and the jewish community i think it was a long overdue change of heart i truly do believe that i think that people who usually were a little bit more closed-minded or people that had doubts that hamas was a terrorist group or people that weren't willing to have these conversations are now not really faced with a choice but to have them you know people like myself in the sports world sports owners are now forcing people to address these uncomfortable conversations and that's what it's about it's about having these really uncomfortable awkward you know very graphic conversations with people to show them this is the reality i have never been censored on instagram in my life i've had multiple stories taken down by sharing photos of what's happening in israel on my story and i don't care being graphic nobody cares anymore because this is the reality of what we deal with and we can't sugarcoat it because we care about what our followers think right well that is the dilemma uh those uh who attack israel doubt the veracity of some of the horror stories we're telling and then that material is actually put out there in social media it's taken down but emily austin thank you for joining us on i24 news oh and i want to go back to you because i know you wanted to react to the conversations that we had especially the earlier one yeah going back to the the it goes back to both of the conversations we had collab with with emily austin and before that of course with the person's grandmother was kidnapped look it it feels like the holocaust i mean it's not the holocaust we hate to make those comparisons and even i know you personally i said it feels like i said it feels like and criticize the those who made it i said it feels like we reached the point where yes we have to bring up it feels like it feels like the holocaust it's not the holocaust it feels like the holocaust it feels like the the liturgical poems we read on the the tisha ab ab day in the summer the the morning day on the jewish calendar which is filled with these liturgical poems keynotes as they're called in hebrew of the tragedies that befall on the jewish people through the ages and there will be keynote written about this and recited not just next year but for years to come because it just it's of a piece with with the the narrative and the story of our people of course now it's different now it's different that we have a state and a military support with understanding of your skepticism about its endurance but support from around the world by the way uh the taipei 101 tower lit up in taiwan tonight and the colors of the israeli flag just adding another one and especially resonant because kalev in in in the western media these days the ukraine israel and taiwan are being lumped together it's kind of outposts of western values in the alliance that are deserving of investment in defense and support and so to see that trio start to blossom the support volodymyr lensky is given to israel i want to say that reports it's also very recently unconfirmed reports uh that the ukraine president volodymyr slensky weighing whether to make a trip to israel he you know what i asked myself the same thing he said to nato defense ministers this morning in at their meeting how important it was when western leaders came to visit ukraine in the early days of the war and he's imploring them to come and do it and i said to myself i wonder if he'll make the trip himself all right well would you imagine we'll see if we do i want to just turn to us something of a more positive story because after the things we've just heard perhaps some of that is needed in this moment of national recovery and survival in israel it has become more noteworthy by the day how israeli society at large is emerging to help pick up the burden to help those in need and provide whatever is needed by the troops on the front line armor ellen filed went around surveyed those efforts she filed this report a glimmer of light in what are otherwise some of the worst days in israel's history a nation united with a year-long political rift put aside even if only temporary while hundreds of thousands of israelis have been called up for military reserve service others are collecting donations intended for resident of villages surrounding the gaza strip or for idf soldiers like these headquarters run by the kaplan force which just two weeks ago was leading the protests against the current government they are all volunteers some are sorting out donations from toiletry and baby strollers to clothes and army gear others are unpacking boxes sirens disturb them while they work there is also no shortage of volunteers to distribute the donations all across israel trying to deliver some items and equipment to the soldiers i'm unable to serve the military i'm an expert but unfortunately i can't these boxes are now making their way to an army base full of reservists no one knows what's inside the boxes only that the soldiers that asked for them need them finally the boxes reached their destination as have many others with equipment none of these drivers know the soldiers personally for this volunteer the space is the second delivery of the day yeah el nico immigrated to israel 20 years ago now they've made their way from rana the city north of televiv with their friends from their school days in the scouts they collect donations privately and buy specifically what is asked of them we are a small group from rana we are all friends we decided we want to help as much as possible when we hear or know of a soldier in need we contact him and ask them what do they need specifically we might donate in a smaller range but we give them exactly what they need today those are female soldiers and they needed products for female hygiene these young adults have come here every day since saturday three times a day coming with sweets and treats for the soldiers the two ladies are only 20 years old they couldn't enlist to the army but they told i24 news they had to do something to contribute one of their friends was killed in the massacre at the rave party two others are still missing it's our escapism for all of the trouble and the worries for our friends to sit at home and go crazy is much harder these packages have reached their destination while not everyone can be on the front lines those staying behind are still fighting to support and cheer the ones sacrificing their lives for their country it's hot warming to see that to see those pictures to say that see an Israeli society that was deeply divided we have to say about some political issues just until last week to see that happening we also have to note there have been some complaints from especially IDF reservists being called up granted to call up 300 000 reservists in the space of basically two days must put an enormous strain on the military establishment structure but some of those reservists saying unfortunately they have not gotten food in the past 48 or 72 hours they have not yet been outfitted with all the equipment that they may require yes first of all concerning your first the first staff of your sentence i think israel shows what is a unity what is the basic of israel if you you would like to know there is many units that came 150 percent of those who were called and this is something amazing this is something you cannot imagine the people are here better than their leaders in the way they are reacting and supporting and making things secondly concerning problems when you are called 300 000 people on one day and are coming and you are having north and south there are problems that taking few days to arrange them this is normal problems but still there is a lack of some equipment they're tired from some units we spoke about it the former generals with the IDF the IDF decided to open a center call right i do want to explain you are part of a group of former generals i know that communicate with each other and perhaps communicate and has a lot of context with the IDF and we are a part of we are IDF as well yes of course and we are trying to come to some places in the south many of us went there and took responsibility in each place or kibbutz to managing what's going there to help them in the way in the context to speed our process secondly about what you ask about the equipment and things the army opened a center call directly from the field to the headquarters to report what is missing i'm sure it will be closed in the coming days and as you see not as was i hope so that the end will brought us to a limit problems and find the lessons but kalev for my experience when you call so many people and send them to areas they are not planned to be there there are the big problems of food there are the big problems of clothes but as you see it's going what is really important is the equipment to keep your life and this is something we should not send any soldier without the equipment that we decided that he has to wear and to defend first of all himself and to join for the mission right and oh and i uh first of all i just want to say that we were expecting perhaps benjamin that's and yeah we're told now he may speak i in the next hour in the next hour we don't know i think that the cabinet meeting is taking time it could be it could be discussions about this uh a unit i mean in normal terms you know forming essentially a new government would be a dominant story but here you can't even find the time to make the speech to the nation but is my best understanding kalev will be netanyahu also defense ministry of gallant and of course benny gantz the leader of the national unity party former chief of staff of the israeli military it then served under him i as i understand it will all be taken to the podium they are going to be the three who will be making actually be making the important decisions under this new arrangement two others observers in that small war cabinet if you will but those are the three essentially voting members right uh i don't want to say in terms about unity one uh one of the apparent uh guidelines in the setting of this unity government is that no new legislation will be introduced the kinesin comes back into session of course uh six o'clock in the evening right for its beginning of its winter session we had been expecting to be talking about the judicial reforms about ironically now or tragically looking back ironically about demand by the ultra orthodox parties to extend the draft exemption uh but that issue will come back and we'll come back after the war and we'll come back in a very different way i'm saying it's very important to say when we talk about unity uh this government that in this new new government new national emergency unity government or legislation other than that immediately directly uh directly relating to the war has been put aside uh so uh the country a country that was divided against itself last week now coming back into a show of unity both on i would guess you want to say on the on the the macro level of the general population and also now maybe it should have taken sooner the micro level of other political class yeah that's right and uh benny gantz coming into the government uh possible the possibility being left open of opposition leader yeir lapid also joining he seems to have wanted that the the two far right parties the religious zionism party betzel smotrich jewish power party of itamar ben veer would be essentially removed from the government for him to join netanyahu and gants for that matter made the decision not to do that but instead could have essentially to take decision making power real power decision making on the war out of smotritches and ben veer's hands why because they add this extra structure of this war cabinet where the real decisions are set at least in theory and they have no they have no military experience at all not even having served it also true also true but going back to your point you know we heard it a little bit in that piece we ran before but i was there two days ago you know color of the protest movement against the judicial overhaul on a dime took its whatsapp groups its social media its networks and just on a dime switch them for mobilizing people to protest to mobilizing people to volunteer and to pack boxes and to get materials out to people in need and again it shows the both the power of the protest movement and also the power again of the society to mobilize to unify to reorient and redirect its energies and you're absolutely right if the kinesis session had been happening any over any other time we'll be talking about another day of a raucous protest that we all remember even if feels like a distant memory but that's of course not where this country is this country is facing something very different and doing its best to come together in facing it all right i want to thank oh and all two men and eight ton down goat uh for joining us uh stay with i-24 news it's going to continue with coverage as i said we are still now expecting still this evening type benjamin etinial make an address and we will bring that live what it happens and continue to follow i-24 news as we continue to cover israel's fight for its life for the life of israelis and all its citizens israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity we're still processing it it's going to be a while very light it's there's no going back from this how can we go back to live in that beautiful place when we know what happened there and all the people that we knew that we saw on the pavements every day going from the kindergarten and back this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year vaquita reserve we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the vaquita can be protected come to the special broadcast here at night 24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day five of the war in israel to say uh it's little by little the stories of the horrors begin to come to life would simply be be wrong it's not little more than horror and and there's definitely no light here the remains of another southern community that turned from paradise into absolute hell being revealed today we bring you first documentation from inside the shutters of kibbutz meanwhile it's not just the body count it continues under fire the identification process of hundreds of bodies piling up still underway with hopeless helpless family members amassing outside waiting to to hear the worst in hospitals while survivors are fighting for their lives vile terrorists are receiving treatment to the health ministry instructing to transfer them to a separate medical center today and as we speak dozens over a hundred israelis elderly women children being held hostage captive by hamas in the Gaza Strip no one knows but the mind can only imagine what they're going through meanwhile the fighting continues not just on the southern front a false alarm sending israelis all across the country into shelter raising raising suspicion of a cyber attack and at last five days later an emergency unity government has been formed finally we bring you all the updates from the ground and the analysis here in the studio but first we want to head down south and equal tetic 24 news correspondent at the bars idly hospital nicole what is the current situation down south it continues to be an ever-changing and developing situation ellie i mean every 30 minutes 40 minutes there seems to be red alerts just in our area alone in ashulon let alone all these other communities throughout the the south continue to also receive those red alerts telling them that rockets are continuing to be fired from the gaza strip residents rushing to their bomb shelters here at the barzolai medical center a place where they are treating hundreds of patients many of them in serious critical condition they are continuing to operate on those patients as rockets fly overhead one of those rockets even hitting the barzolai medical center earlier today in one of those barrages of rockets it hit the child development center now luckily there was only two people inside and they were not injured they were in a guarded place so no one was injured by that but still that shows how close these rockets are actually hitting the hospital here in ashulon as more and more patients continue to be transported here as well soldiers in critical condition after a gunfight earlier today between israeli soldiers and hamas terrorists five of them transported here in the operating room after having been hit with bullet wounds one of them in the neck i was told by the doctor so still very very active here the the medical team the patients the volunteers continue to work under so much pressure it's not only more patients are coming in but those rockets continue to fly overhead so it's an ever-changing and an ever-developing situation really down here i-24 news correspondent nicole said with the rest of the i-24 news team there stay safe and we'll get back to you later on thank you very much for this and now entire families wiped out brutally viciously murdered the rescue forces who have seen things say the sights there that the smell of death is not something the mind or the heart is able to bear parents and children hug together shot burned alive slaughtered a holocaust scene within a state jonathan regive is reporting from the ruins of kibbutz berry we've all heard the terrible terrible accounts of what happened here on the gaza border communities on saturday morning but nothing prepares you for the minute you can see with your eyes what has happened this is kibbutz berry one of the communities that took the hardest hit and there you can see for yourselves sheer devastation sheer destruction homes completely burnt destroyed and the smell cannot be passed on on television but that that's here as well homes completely destroyed in those homes that you now see destroyed there were whole families inside they were there and you can just imagine what they went through the horror they went through on that terrible saturday morning as hundreds and hundreds of terrorists were running here shooting looting massacring and and you can see for yourselves you can see how it looks sheer devastation here in kibbutz berry as mentioned this is one of the communities that took one of the hardest hits more than 100 people were massacred here in this community a flourishing community at any other time we have to say despite its location right on the gaza border berry was a community that flourished in in uh regular times but now you see the scenes are completely completely different sheer devastation very difficult to see very difficult to witness first hand a difficult scene and we've been speaking to the soldiers who've been amassing here in berry and and neighboring communities they witnessed this they saw this when they're saying we're ready we're ready to go in we're ready to go in and make sure this thing never ever happens again and we want to turn now to one more israeli out of one out of so many still looking for the their most dearest beloved missing or other brother law of uh sharon arel fear to have been kidnapped from the music festival turned massacre oh hard thank you so very much for joining us um i will start by asking the only conceivable question how are you so so we are still waiting for some information so so let's do try and get a better understanding when was the the last time you you got any information about sharon from sharon okay it started saturday early morning we woke up at 6 30 with the bomb alarms um then after a few hours my brother called me saying that he received a message from his wife sharon uh which say they shouldn't get us i'm hiding um i went to his place i picked him up and started to drive to towards the south of israel um it's like an hour and a half driving and then we started uh moving around between the settlements all around the border with gaza to look for her and it was crazy it was chaotic we drove and all around it was fire you're just looking for any clue under fire just going from one place to another we we seem to have some technical difficulties we we will try to restore the connection we have uh oh had we're back with you so again you're describing a completely chaotic scene that's two of you're just going on your own under fire from side to side looking for any clue but we are five days after um this massacre there um have you heard anything from from authorities anything official we didn't have any information from no uh formal nothing not any any info uh after five days of trying to locate any detail uh watching every movie uh underground like in telegram or any media uh looking for any photo of her of sharonah we we didn't find anything when stood that she's uh with uh uh people who've been kidnapped in in to gaza and and and and in in this respect oh you're hearing what the rest of us um um what what officials are saying that the issue of of the kidnapped those who are being held hostage will be dealt with once it is all over um look i'm not talking politics and i don't say anything about it i don't care about this war i don't care about anything i just want to bring back the civilians okay there are children there are women sharonah has two children of her own with my brother a boy who is nine and a half and a daughter who is six and a half i i don't care about this i just want to bring them home that's it this is why i'm talking here this is why i'm pushing it yeah war it's between countries it's between armies it's not between people who go to a music festival to have fun and dance and and and that's it this is not this is not war no and you know how during our conversation we're seeing pictures of of sharonah on the screen and and if um one would have asked you to to paint a picture of of a peace seeking human being it would be more or less uh this character that um sharonah embodies we are sending a big hug to you to your brother um to sharonah's children from here and hopefully she will be back with you sooner rather than later thank you so very much ohad we will uh touch base with you later on thank you and uh this war has uh we we all feel it is fought on so many fronts and uh we're all in it to win it right so emotional resilience is key and we want now to acquire more tools to handle what we've been what we will be going through in the coming days in the coming weeks so we turn now to nimrod eisenberg professional development manager at the dream doctor's project or um in common language a medical clown right nimrod thank you very much for joining us um your expertise is is to brighten up the toughest hours and this is what what you've been doing uh since saturday tell us more as much as we are uh grief stricken and in deepest sorrow unimaginable uh as everyone else is uh we in the dream doctor's organization as we have done always are part of the emotional support and the healing of trauma or coping with what is happening right now our medical clowns the dream doctors are all around israel as we're speaking every day uh working both in the hospitals with children and adults were hurt and hospitalized uh and in the different shelters where children and families from the affected uh region are staying these days yeah our clowns are there to uh uh bring energy and uh help people cope with the moment we uh obviously uh undergo the same emotional strain as everyone else yeah but we have one one uh art form that we can use and it is to play our clowns play with the children and families um playing through what we call the uh effective methods of emotional support uh therapeutic approach where physical movement uh any kind of movement uh jumping moving running dancing and all that helps release tension and uh exhaust bring out energy that is stuck within and of course use this play in an imaginative way um help children develop and restore trust within the imagination space around them since reality is so harsh we play through imagination and you know any more the what what you're what you're telling us and obviously those images of the past few days uh the stories uh we all are getting flashbacks to Roberto Benini and life is beautiful right and um and in this respect I would like to ask you for some guidelines because kids are sensing everything right they're sensing us adults and our stress and our reaction and then they cannot be fooled and yet they obviously should not be exposed to to everything so how do we balance it so of course uh what we want is to uh be honest and direct in the connection with children in these days uh and we do that through uh a playful way of reacting to what they are interested in uh they don't need the information and they don't need the details of of any kind what they need is an adult that is responsive and is able to take the energy from them actually we get a lot of positive energy from the children children in many ways live in the here and now they react to what is in front of them what we would do is to react in an emotional expressive emotional way so allow the children to express emotions in the game in the game we can play with a game of an imaginary ball where we pass the ball from one another and each time it expresses a different emotion when the children when the children play uh anger joy fear um and different emotions uh playing it out helps us helps them cope with these unspeakable unspoken emotions that run in so anymore before we uh let you go um you know i i'm sure that those past days you've met so many heroes young kids absolute heroes um share with us one moment that keeps you going uh that will perhaps help all of us all our viewers to to keep on going uh i went into a room in the hospital where a family of three children who literally came from the kibbutz that was attacked these children went through the worst and survived in in uh in that sense but the brother was hospitalized and the relationship between three young children brothers and sisters was projected on us when the youngest one wanted to control the game and she told us what to do and we as clowns were able to react to her to indulge in what she wants us to do to give her the controlling place she gave us things to do and yeah and we would run around and do these silly things bringing bringing them things from the room and and creating the game all together and the clear feeling for us was that this simple game um but imaginative game completely in that moment reinforces for this uh eight-year-old girl uh her feeling of control her sense of trust in other people and her uh trust in herself and her ability to still be in control of something in her life i have to say this is uh the hardest time for all of us we as uh the dream doctor's clowns are able at least to uh bring a little bit of light and energy and more than all human contact in a positive way to these families and that means the world for us this conversation now means the world for us um dream doctors literally emerald eisenberg thank you so very much for the work that you're doing and and for this conversation thank you all right um we're reconnecting to what is currently unfolding on the ground we're being joined here in uh studio but uh former air force pilot captain guy poran in international affairs analyst mr dan perry thank you gentlemen very much for joining us all right um captain poran i do want us to begin up north uh because what we've seen in uh in the past few hours uh was perhaps uh let me just clarify this false alert in the north that um uh that brought many to say here's the right moment to hit his ball before they hit us to to go into action and my question to you captain poran perhaps this is the preview to a potential miscalculation that that people were were talking about that that the wrong step in the wrong moment because of misreading the situation could trigger a much greater chaos than the one that we're already experiencing yeah absolutely uh i don't consider myself you know a strategic military expert but i think you're you're right i mean uh jumping into any kind of uh scenario that this is the right thing to do right now and attack or not is something that i find uh totally uh stupid to be frank this is some things that you know the the the situation and the considerations are so complicated so complex that we must leave those kind of decisions to the leaders and fortunately now hopefully with this new cabinet which is much more uh in my opinion normal than the the previous ridiculous combination everybody's opinion uh at least we we have the trust that these people will take into considerations the risks the opportunities everything is taking into account with the global with with a bigger picture with the united states being involved with all kind of situations i don't think that anybody and i watch some of those experts in the television panels everybody's saying you know this is the moment to do this this is the moment to do that i think this is completely uh irrelevant and should not be the things that should be discussed in the public because nobody even those ex generals or whoever has the the complete picture complete considerations and we and and a lot of it to be frank is dependent on developments that are not known yet right so we have to trust that the group of leaders that are under their watch they were maybe unfortunate to get this kind of uh watch but there is no other solution for us but to trust that they will take the responsible steps and do the right thing with that said even though uncharted territory no doubt about in the sense of the scope the scale the intensity of what is happening and yet it is not the first rodeo and we're talking about international leeway right and the question is mr perry whether israel is wasting time so to speak or or stalling before any further action in the gala strip we're going down south now before the window so to speak of international leeway will will i don't notice that they're stalling i mean there is a lot of destruction in gaza and there is hundreds of people that in gaza if we are to believe what's being reported um what they haven't done is what some people thought would be done the first day which is a ground invasion and that is a rare um manifestation of responsibility on a part of the you know government that existed up to today uh because yeah it's very complicated to invade gaza on the ground um and i i agree with guy i mean there are some things that the leadership knows that people in the studios don't uh even if they're rare well connected and have sources and so forth uh up until today there was very good reason to distrust the leadership so the idea that we should put ourselves in their hands and not second guess them was a little unrealistic for most israelis because it was an abnormal leadership from this point onward the notion of trusting and the wisdom and the information of the people at the top becomes more plausible and i think that attaches to your question as well what is the window the world gives israel when israel is being run by one guy with terrorism convictions and another one wants to segregate maternity wards the windows small when israels run by responsible ex heads of the military uh it might have um more latitude yeah and and again my unity or cohesion at this point in time it's really not a matter of politics but of pressing national security we will continue um to unpack that in a split second but we do want to head down south at 24 new senior defense correspondent jonathan reggae is there uh jonathan while we will continue to analyze the potential moves uh in the strip and elsewhere um simple question that we've been asking every every day now um has israel south been liberated conquered back is there still fear of fresh infiltration well generally speaking the answer is yes uh we were today in kibbutz berry which was i'll call it liberated just about uh what 15 hours ago reconquered and and and got back in israeli hands the communities here uh they are um said to be safe and and and without any terrorists but i'll move and i think you can see behind me army forces and police forces and they're not here by chance or they're not blocking the roads by chance it's because they're doing it because there's a constant threat still of terrorists hiding in in the trees hiding somewhere and then just popping up and about a mile to our left a mile to our left about two hours ago three terrorists were killed if three terrorists who were probably uh hiding there in in the forest for for three days and waited for the right moment to attack and they tried to attack and the soldiers that were there is put them and killed them there were a couple and similar incidents today so is the area liberated so called the answer is yes does that mean there are no more terrorists in on the ground absolutely not yeah i termed it though we got used to in recent days an active scene the entire south of israel still very much an active scene donathan briefly before we will let you go and take a quick break still all throughout the day heavy barrages of rockets even reaching um the northern part of israel from the god of strip yes still plenty of barrages mostly to this area to the area of sderot the city of ashkelon but but yes even further north the southern outskirts of tel aviv had their sirens today yeah Hamas still shooting and Hamas understanding that now as far as they're concerned is the time to shoot because because whatever whatever they have they can shoot now maybe later on it will be much more difficult with israeli forces on the ground it may happen it may not happen no one really knows yet and also the question of uh how come hamas still has the ability to uh launch uh so many barrages of rockets but we will thank you uh at this point in time i-24 news senior defense christ van jonathan reggae for this stay safe but we're taking a quick break and we'll ask all these questions and many others still up in the air uh two minutes and we're back since the early hours of the morning israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the gaza strip the biggest and bloodiest attack in years tune in for our extensive and rolling coverage of the hamas deadly attack on israel with reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information stay tuned with i-24 news officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity welcome back to our rolling coverage here on i-24 news we want to head up north uh robert swift uh in a re-i-24 news correspondent standing by there after an eventful day on israel's northern front robert swift i hope we are able to speak to you at the moment um what is the robert what is the situation up north uh now yes so as you say it's been quite an eventful day and and quite a tense one as well um although mostly this was due to a false alarm that was issued by the israeli home front command application uh essentially there was a false information went out suggesting that there was an infiltration of as many as 15 to 20 uh unidentified objects suspected to be drones that were passing into the country from uh israel these were suspected to be his bullet drones however as it turned out this was an error in the the command system the the application itself now we ourselves on the ground did hear sirens as well at the same time at first these were uh false notifications that went out in the north of the country but then later they spread to other parts of the country as well now the the israeli military has said that it believes that this was due to human error as opposed to a cyber attack or some other um mistake mistake like this um now however what complicated to picture further was at the same time there was a rocket attack which khamas did claim responsibility for which took place in the north of the country this added to the to the confusion because initially it was suspected this could be a rocket launch from the lebanese border by a khamas group there however it did turn out to have been just simply a long range rocket launch from the gaza strip itself and you know all this was it was a mistake but this has real impact on the ground with millions of israelis uh essentially locking themselves in their safe rooms once again after the news from earlier in the week you can understand the anxiety is very high in the country yeah uh high alert um it's uh very literal uh during uh these days millions of israelis rushing to shelter this afternoon for reason uh still unclear i-24 news uh correspondent uh robert swift uh up uh up in the north uh again a front that seems to be waking up um to an extent thank you very much uh for this robert becker here in studio with us captain guy poran mr dan perry and joining us at 24 news senior diplomatic correspondent owin ultraman thank you gentlemen uh for joining us um and and captain poran uh you know we're we're moving from one front to the other and now we will make a leap in time back to the first day of the war um that that's a day that will be talked about for decades um and and also the criticism of the late response of the military um once uh the the surprise attack was already underway but but but you are presenting a different picture when it comes um to the involvement of the air force yes now mainly the the the helicopters that were operationally were expected to be able to stop this infiltration but the uh the the situation that happened there is that those attack helicopters on alert that were ready in their basis and flew over in relatively short time were informed or were alerted relatively late and by the time they got to the front 25 to 30 minutes of flight the infiltration was so massive of those uh terrorists and they dispersed all over the place that it was not any more a situation where an attack helicopter can shoot at the border when they cross and stop them it became a situation that these helicopters had to chase hundreds of different small groups of terrorists now they did that and there are images and and videos of many many such attacks but it could not be effective as it was supposed to be but what went wrong with the plan in other words well but they should have been closer or what as far as the helicopter well if the if the it's a multi multi-layered failure the fact that there was absolutely no intelligence that told us in advance is the first fault but once they arrived and crossed the the border the fact that the all these cameras they managed very effectively to destroy them and then enter those bases that mean that that the lines of communication normally the people that were supposed to coordinate the attack of those helicopters were paralyzed disappeared so by the time the helicopters got to that to the place they had nobody to talk to to direct them to where they should be attacked so some of those helicopter pilots were literally speaking on their cell phone with soldiers and people from the kibbutz in directing them go to the left of this hill go to the right and this is something that none of those pilots have ever prepared themselves for this kind of situation for no not enough alert time and then no directions no clear instructions and the fact that they were so that you know that they successfully crossed with so many of them that were diverse so the this combined situation created a situation that those helicopters were not nearly as effective as they should have been even if we absolve the helicopter pilots and air force of any culpability in the failure there was a failure so you're basically saying it was the intelligence and the cameras that caused this delay there was a multi-level system-wide failure that had to do before during after yeah and had to do also with so much of the army being deployed in the west bank for a variety of reasons uh the ignoring of the apparent intelligence were there the guarding of the basis the fact that they could so easily enter the basis after having crossed the border it's a multi multi multi layers failure which is going to be examined and people are going to pay for those people responsible but again and we talk about the pilots you know i am part of the organization of the