ally since the 2nd and early 2000s over 200 Palestinians killed a lot in clashes like we saw last night with the IDF not only they also had extremist Israeli settlers take matters into their own hands completely unacceptable so that combined with the overall weak state of the Palestinian Authority autonomous rule in parts of the West Bank politically financially also in terms of security in its own areas combined with the fact that Hamas and Gaza would love nothing less than the PA becoming unstable and collapsing all of it makes for a very very fraught region very very fraught situation and like you said the last thing Israel can afford right now is yet another front talking about Hamas and Gaza again let's take a look at some new images that are coming through of some of the humanitarian aid that has been brought into the area you can take a look on your screen right now this is a truck of humanitarian aid and you can see that is keeps moving and these are people Gazans watching that aid go by talk to us about the concerns about where this aid is going and the worry that it lands up in Hamas hands and not for the civilian population so desperately needing it right now it's a major concern it's also concerned by the way for Gaza civilians the actual population inside Gaza we've seen videos now in recent days and also the past few weeks of near total breakdown especially in the southern Gaza Strip where 80 90% of the population is now located inside Gaza massive scenes of desperation mobs trying to secure any kind of humanitarian aid and food good they can from UN warehouses and we've also seen videos of those convoys being hijacked by Hamas and also local Gazans regular people apparently throwing rocks at the Hamas gunmen who were stopped and then tried to loot those humanitarian convoys actually all told we have seen near total breakdown in social order in internal security inside the Gaza Strip the Hamas regime that like we said has been ruling the Strip for now 16 years it's all mostly below ground it's all mostly below ground there is no law in order to speak of above ground and really the UN and other international bodies are trying to do their utmost to provide some kind of humanitarian assistance to those people in dire need in the southern Gaza Strip the nominal government and the rulers of the Gaza Strip have shall we say different priorities apparently more for their own fighters that are now engaging with the IDF different priorities indeed Neri Zilber always appreciate your insights on all these developing security situations at the same time thank you as always for being here in studio now on October the 7th Israel's border police units fought in more than 35 different locations eliminating around 500 Hamas terrorists more in this next report this body cam footage of a border policeman was taken at the Yad Mordecai intersection a half an hour after a series of missile alert sirens blasted across Israel on October 7th two months ago recently the border police conducted a preliminary investigation of all battles fought by their units the investigation revealed 37 fierce battles took place in different locations officers confronting Hamas terrorists and in particular the terror groups Nakba unit this map drawn as a part of the investigation follows the fighting trail showing combat zones spreading across all surrounding communities including Sterot, Ofakim and Netivot in these locations the border police fighters eliminated more than 500 Hamas terrorists most of them from the Nakba unit who infiltrated the southern communities kroi the border police captured dozens of terrorists and handed them over to the Shin bet to the IDF's 504 unit and to the police interrogation unit interrogations that yielded quality intelligence aiding IDF maneuvers the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the investigation revealed that the border police fighters rescued thousands of local residents and revelers from the Nova Music Festival. This video is from the body camera of a border police raider, a tactical brigade which rescued the Galani brigade soldiers trapped inside this APC in Kibbutz near Aam. And that's a wrap for now. I'm Vinita Levine. Thank you for watching. Stay tuned. The one that stands out the most was the first time that I had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding in Tel Aviv. And at that moment, we were live on air in studio. I will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear, the sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv. The control room is going to the shelter. With me in studio at the time were Michael Herzog, a former Brigadier General. Today, the Israeli ambassador to the United States. And Arsene Ostrowski, an international human rights lawyer. And their responses were completely different. Michael Herzog was calm and composed. And on the other hand, Arsene Ostrowski was trying to get his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were OK. The camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above. There was an overhead shot of the three of us in the studio. You could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio. And obviously we lost contact with our team on the ground, our reporters in Ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time. When rockets are coming towards a residential area, they don't distinguish between race, religion, political views, cultural views. They just intend to harm civilians. And that moment, being in studio, hearing those interceptions overhead was the most real coverage I have ever been involved in. Breaking News Edition, I'm Benisa Levine. Several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. At the same time, Red Alert sirens sounding earlier in some southern communities warning of rocket fire from the Strip towards Israel. The IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours in Gaza. Large clumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly. Now the municipality of Bat-Yam has announced earlier that 53-year-old resident Eitan Levi was murdered in captivity. It says the taxi driver was driving a client from the centre of the country to Kibbutz Bairi at the time of the terror assault nearly nine weeks ago now. It was believed he was still being held captive but the army has now confirmed he was killed and Hamas still has his body. Meanwhile, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. They will be brought to Israel for questioning. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war starts today. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90 including master sergeant in the reserve's Gull Eisencott, the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisencott. The 25-year-old died while fighting in northern Gaza. He was laid to rest in Herzlier on Friday morning. The morners included President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has more from war cabinet member Benny Gantz and from Gadi Eisencott himself at the moving service. Let's take a listen. Gull, my beloved son, I promise you that we will continue to be a loving, united and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain and we will be worthy of it. I salute you, my beloved son, we love you forever, father, mother and all the family. Gadi. Gadi, we approved military plans and we knew their meaning. We know that the Elbs and the maps can become Elbs in the hearts of good and dear families. And you, my brother, my friend, my partner, you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations. You understood the meaning very well. So for more insight, we now welcome journalist Neri Zilber, a junked fellow at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy to studio. Neri, thank you so much for your time.  The pain is so raw, it is so real and it impacts people across this nation right now. So it should be said that funeral for Gadi Eisencott's son, Gal, was carried live on all the TV channels here in Israel and for a long time and all the eulogies not only of the father, Gadi and Benny Gantz, his political running mate, were carried live but also Gal's brother-in-law, his sister, his friends and so that was beamed out to the entire country who was watching it live on this Friday afternoon. It encapsulates the loss and the price, the heavy price a lot of families are paying right now for the offensive in the Gaza Strip. Like you said, 90 IDF soldiers killed since the start really of the ground operation inside the Gaza Strip and it was just a reminder, number one, that this isn't cost-free, that like Benny Gantz said, all those arrows on a map that they send out to go fight are real people with real lives and real families back home, but number two, and to that point families are back home, the soldiers are there in Gaza in this operation trying to protect the house, as Gadi Eisencott said and so we have to keep that in mind as we all follow this war, the real people on both sides. As Benny Gantz says, we know the arrows on the maps can become arrows in the hearts of good families and so many families impacted by what is unfolding right now over and above which the pain of the nation with 137 hostages still being held captive nearly nine weeks, captive at the hands of a terrorist organization and now of course we know more and more details about the conditions in captivity. Given your experience in this field, your understanding of what it's going to take for the fighting to continue and for Israel to do its very best to make sure that the hostages can come home safely and be reunited with their families here in Israel. So it's a very tough dilemma balancing those two objectives and they are the two objectives of this war, eliminating and destroying Hamas really as a military and governing force in the Gaza Strip and also retrieving the hostages who were seized on October 7th. We do know that two weeks ago there was a hostage deal that lasted about seven days that required a halt in the fighting, a temporary pause, a truce, and so that worked. That worked over 100 hostages, not only Israelis, also foreign nationals were able to come back home and get out of captivity. Now a similar bargain will likely have to be struck if more hostages are to be released. It's going to be very difficult. Number one, the ground offensive, like we said, in the northern, now southern Gaza Strip, proceeding very heavily and so that would require the IDF to stop. The IDF does not want to stop once again. And also Hamas. It takes two to tango. Hamas has to also make a decision that it's willing to release more hostages. From its point of view, though, it might not be a bad thing to halt fighting for another week, a week and a half, two weeks, because that also extends the clock or limits the clock, rather, that Israel has to prosecute the war. As we know, it's not all happening at a vacuum. There is a lot of international pressure on Israel to cease fire. Something we're going to talk about in a short while, but right now, let's go to our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman. He joins us from southern Israel. And Ariel, the IDF may be making strong gains in its ground operation, but that hasn't stopped rocket fire from the Strip being sent towards some southern parts in recent hours. No injuries, but what is the latest this hour where you are? What can you share? Well, you have to understand just how widespread Hamas's rocket capabilities are.  That's not the case. You see rocket deployments and rocket factories all across the Gaza Strip, often in the least likely of places. We've seen videos of them set up near refugee tents in humanitarian areas and firing from them. We've seen video evidence of them set up underneath mosques, and now the IDF actually just found a major rocket warehouse factory manufacturing plant and launch sites at the Al-Azhar University in Rimal. They said that underneath the university, in addition to tunnels to connect them to the larger tunnel network of Hamas, they found all sorts of rockets, rocket parts, guidance systems, detonation devices, explosives manufacturing, warehouses and the like. So while there is a lot of ground activity, a lot of ground that has been secured already, you don't actually realize how widespread the operation is and how disparate the upwards of 20,000 rockets Hamas had in their arsenal was until you really see those pictures coming out of Gaza because it's not just a few storage facilities, it's distributed across almost every inch of the Gaza Strip, and it's not just their rockets either. We saw testimonies from soldiers and local media saying that when they were going through Javalea as well as other parts of Gaza, every single room, every single house, every single apartment they came across had a weapon in it, whether or not it was an IED, whether or not it was an RPG, whether or not it was a Kalashnikov rifle or something, they were finding them in beds, in kitchens, under the children's playpen. Every place you can imagine has a weapon hidden and just because a large number of them had been fired and another large number had been destroyed doesn't mean Hamas is anywhere near the end of their military capabilities yet. Quite an unusual sight for a university, an institution of learning. We wait and see what else will unfold. We know Ariel, the idea of targeting 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. Earlier we saw those plumes behind you. What is the latest, specifically when it comes to movements in and around Khan Yunus? What can you share this hour? Look, the IDF has been fairly consistent about its statements. They're not going to give you their exact locations, but they're saying that they are moving deeper and deeper into the center of that city. What that actually means is anybody's gas, but it's a long and hard path ahead because each step they take in the Khan Yunus, which is a Hamas stronghold, by the way, that does have four brigades of Hamas fighters inside, plus all the people that managed to flee to that area and regroup during the ceasefire or when they were just scuttling down the road during the humanitarian pauses in the earlier stages of the war. So a very stiff amount of opposition ahead for the IDF that they are overcoming, but not quite as easily as you might think. That's because there is a lot to do on the ground. It is slow going. As I mentioned before, those reports from Jabali are just as true as Khan Yunus, where you do have that urban warfare nightmare scenario where every single window is a sniper position. It's an ambush site. It's an RPG launching location. So every day they're moving closer to the center or they're moving through the center. It doesn't mean they've secured the area yet. There's going to be a lot of fierce gun battles ahead. Thank you so much. Live from southern Israel. That's our correspondent, Arielle Levin-Waldman. Thank you for your coverage today, Arielle. And still with me in studio, Neri Zilber, and we're hearing weapons being uncovered at a university, perhaps not surprising when we know the other sites where so many rockets and other forms of ammunition have been stored across the Gaza Strip. Your thoughts? It's not surprising at all. The entire Gaza Strip is a militarized fortress, a militarized bunker. Hamas has been ruling the coastal enclave to Israel southwest for 16 years. And it's used those 16 years to essentially turn schools, universities, hospitals as we know, and even civilian homes into weapons caches, rocket launching sites, command centers, and the like. This isn't a secret. It shouldn't be a controversial point. It's just a matter of the reality inside the Gaza Strip. And so if an army like the IDF goes in with the stated intention of dismantling the Hamas military apparatus and eliminating the threat of Hamas from the Gaza Strip to Israel, especially to southern Israel, this is what it will require. And so we're seeing now as Ariel mentioned, very deliberate house to house, street to street, neighborhood to neighborhood fighting and searches for precisely those weapons. What do you make of the images that we saw in recent days of the Hamas operatives who surrendered to the IDF? We know the images. We've seen them now. And those people are going to be brought to Israel and interrogated. What kind of information could Israel possibly glean out of them? There are a lot of suspects who are putting their hands up and saying we surrender right now. So I'll caveat what I say by saying the information in the videos obviously came from the Israeli side from the IDF. We don't necessarily know who these individuals are. They all look like fairly young military soldiers, but we don't know if they necessarily surrendered or if they were brought in from a different place, we'll leave it at that. But if they were actually dozens of Hamas militants and fighters or other fighters from other factions, right, it's not just Hamas and the Gaza Strip, then it would be a sign that perhaps Israel has found a way to crack the underground tunnels. Again, talking about Hamas infrastructure of the Gaza Strip, 500 kilometers, 500 kilometers, bigger than the London Strip, underneath the Gaza Strip used again as fortified military positions and so perhaps if dozens of fighters like we say in the video were taken without really a fight and surrendered, perhaps that means the tunnels at least in northern Gaza Strip have been cracked and then they're brought back to a camp near the frontier between Israel and Gaza and interrogated for all kinds of information whether tactical or strategic. You made mention earlier of the pressure that the U.S. may or may not be putting on Israel right now. The most recent comments we heard an official saying, if the war was stopped today, Hamas would still pose a threat to Israel. So that deadline, so to speak, has been pushed out. It doesn't exist as a hard deadline right now. What does that mean for the IDF operation currently underway? So we should be very clear. There hasn't been an American request to stop the war and to cease fire, especially not from President Biden, perhaps some of his aides think otherwise. So there is still road for the IDF to run, as it were. But we're talking maybe a few weeks, perhaps a month or two. It's not going to be a month-long or years-long campaign like perhaps some Israeli generals and some senior ministers would like it to be. So there is still time. What the U.S. is asking is more of an emphasis on Israel to limit civilian casualties especially in southern Gaza and to facilitate more increased humanitarian aid again to southern Gaza. So that remains to be seen whether Israel is able to acquiesce to those American demands while still fighting a very tough urban war. And so look, there's still time left. There's still a few weeks left. But Israel has to take into account that there is a diplomatic clock on this operation. Neri, stay with us. We've got more to discuss on other fronts. But right now the greatest developments in the north of the country, our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman was there earlier and filed this report a short while ago. Tensions continue on Israel's northern borders with the steady drumbeat day-to-day of security incidents overnight from Thursday to Friday night infiltration in the hard-dove region, an Israel's northern border where Lebanon and Syria and Israel meet where IDF soldiers in an outpost reportedly spotted a band of terrorists entering that area who reportedly had rockets, grenades and Kalashnikov rifles. Once they were spotted, the Israeli Air Force coming in with a drone man from afar neutralizing those terrorists. But it just shows how attempts like these day in and day out present a potential threat to Israeli lives and livelihoods across the border. And in fact, earlier on on Thursday a 60-year-old Israeli civilian was killed by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon. He was a farmer and in many cases the communities along the Israel-Lebanon border on the Israeli side have been evacuated but in some cases farmers feel they need to stay or at least come back in order to tend to their crops and their fields and to save their businesses. And sadly one of those civilians losing his life. In the meantime, in a separate incident two IDF soldiers lightly injured on Thursday and also overnight Thursday to Friday night along Israel's other northern border the border between the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan rockets fired into Israeli territory and the Israeli military responding it confirmed this morning responding overnight with attacks on targets inside Syria reportedly in Damascus. In the meantime the Israeli government continues to warn Hezbollah about potentially deciding to escalate on this northern front and as always as eyes continue to be focused on action and activity in the Gaza Strip and on the Israel-Gaza border certainly tensions here continue to simmer and keep of course in mind that tens of thousands of Israelis are not in their homes on the northern border and are scattered throughout the country in hotels and hostels without a clear horizon about when they'll be able to return and under what conditions. Owen Alterman I-24 News. And still in studio Neri Zilber and talk to us about Benjamin Netanyahu's warning to Hezbollah we saw him walk north yesterday and issuing quite a stern warning to stay out of the fray so to speak what do you make of that given the tensions that have been simmering throughout this war it's nearly nine weeks now. That's right. Prime Minister Netanyahu said if Hezbollah chose to escalate then Beirut would look like Hanyunas in the Gaza Strip and we've seen this from day one very strong statements by Netanyahu and other senior Israeli political and military leaders to the extent that Hezbollah should not escalate further than what it already has done since day one of the Gaza war on Israel's northern border with Lebanon and so it's a threat meant to deter Hezbollah from taking further action firing rockets deeper into Israel and extending what it's already been doing now like you said for nine weeks and combined with that you also have a whole hearted preparations shall we say by the Israeli Air Force in particular to strike back hard not only in southern Lebanon like the IDF has been doing but further field into Beirut and even northern and eastern Lebanon if Hezbollah chooses to escalate and so it's a very direct warning to Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah that he needs to be very very careful in terms of everything going on in the Israel Lebanon frontier. It's quite fascinating when one looks at the size of Israel the different fronts that it is facing in terms of threats at different times and sometimes at the same time talking of which let's take a look at the West Bank because seven Palestinians were killed in the village of Tubas near Nablus that was during a gun battle with IDF troops talk to us about the concerns around tensions there boiling over spilling over can Israel handle that kind of pressure right now. So it's a major concern all eyes rightfully so on the Gaza Strip and also Lebanon but the West Bank now for over two months has been anything but quiet anything but stable in normal times what was happening what's been happening now in the West Bank would be the biggest news not only in Israel but also internationally we've seen a wholehearted IDF operation going after Hamas and other militants in the West Bank very very hard like nothing we have we've seen really since the second in Tefada in the early 2000s over 200 Palestinians killed a lot in clashes like we saw last night with the IDF they also had extremist Israeli settlers take matters into their own hands completely unacceptable so that combined with the overall weak state of the Palestinian Authority autonomous rule in parts of the West Bank politically financially also in terms of security in its own areas combined with the fact that Hamas and Gaza would love nothing less than the PA becoming unstable and collapsing all of it makes for a very very fraught region very fraught situation and like you said the last thing Israel can afford right now is yet another front talking about Hamas and Gaza again let's take a look at some new images that are coming through of some of the humanitarian aid that has been brought into the area you can take a look on your screen right now this is a truck of humanitarian aid and you can see that keeps moving and these are people, Gazans watching that aid go by tell us about the concerns about where this aid is going and the worry that it lands up in Hamas hands and not for the civilian population so desperately needing it right now it's a major concern it's also concerned by the way for Gaza civilians the actual population inside Gaza we've seen videos now in recent days and also over the past few weeks of near total breakdown especially in the southern Gaza Strip where 80-90% of the population is now located inside Gaza massive scenes of desperation mobs trying to secure any kind of humanitarian aid and food good they can from UN warehouses and we've also seen videos of those convoys being hijacked by Hamas and also local Gazans, regular people apparently throwing rocks at the Hamas gunmen who were stopped and then tried to loot those humanitarian convoys so really all told we have seen near total breakdown in social order, in internal security inside the Gaza Strip the Hamas regime that like we said has been ruling the Strip for now 16 years it's all mostly below ground it's all mostly below ground there is no law and order to speak of above ground and really the UN and other international bodies are trying to do their utmost to provide some kind of humanitarian assistance to those people in dire need in the southern Gaza Strip the nominal government and the rulers of the Gaza Strip have different priorities apparently more for their own fighters that are now engaging with the IDF different priorities indeed but always appreciate your insights on all these developing security situations at the same time thank you as always for being here in studio now on October the 7th Israel's border police units fought in more than 35 different locations eliminating around 500 Hamas terrorists more in this next report this body cam footage of a border policeman was taken at the Yad Mordecai intersection a half an hour after a series of alert sirens blasted across Israel on October 7th two months ago recently the border police conducted a preliminary investigation of all battles fought by their units the investigation revealed 37 fierce battles took place in different locations officers confronting Hamas terrorists and in particular the terror groups in Mekba unit this map drawn as a part of the investigation follows the fighting trail showing combat zones spreading across all surrounding communities including Steyrot, Ofakim, and Nettivot we understand that they are still following his direction but we are still in the best possible they are fighting we are the other four In these locations, the border police fighters eliminated more than 500 Hamas terrorists, most of them from the Nakba unit who infiltrated the southern communities. The border police captured dozens of terrorists and handed them over to the Shin Bet, to the IDF's 504 unit, and to the police interrogation unit, interrogations that yielded quality intelligence, aiding IDF maneuvers inside the Gaza Strip. Additionally the investigation revealed that the border police fighters rescued thousands of local residents and revelers from the Nova Music Festival. This video is from the body camera of a border police raider, a tactical brigade which rescued the Galani brigade soldiers trapped inside this APC in Kibbutz near Om. And that's a wrap for now, I'm Vanessa Levine, thank you for watching, stay tuned. Some of these soldiers, the policemen and plain civilians who took up arms to defend their communities on October 7th, knowing that they were simply the last line of defense for their families, their friends and their communities. This story tells the story of Yossi Tahaar, an accomplished fighter in the IDF as well as Israel's internal security service who lost his life fighting to defend his community. Here is his story. I miss him, so much my heart is dead. Why couldn't he be more careful? How? How could they not save him?  It's true, it's so painful, it's impossible, I can't believe that Yossi was taken from me. In fact, I went there with the feeling that this wouldn't happen to me. For what purpose? Why is he part of it? Yossi, the good Lord protects him. But no one defended him. Until October 7th, Mazal and Elie Tahaar knew nothing about them, not what they looked like or what their real names were. These are the friends of her son, Yossi, killed on October 7th, who remained in the shadow. I never knew them.  Now when they come here they give me a little bit of strength, but I miss Yossi a lot. We spoke on Thursday morning, maybe now is the time to show what he wrote to me. It was Thursday. You read it, I can't. Dad, I want to tell you how much I love you and really appreciate that you're here by my side. You give me strength when I need it. Always thinking, always thoughtful, warm, friendly, with logic and always sincere. It is important for me that you know how dear you are to me. I love you, Yossi. Those are three of the most valiant elite fighters in the secret and very special unit of the internal intelligence service, the Shin Bet. They are here to meet Yossi's parents and tell them about the side of Yossi they knew less about. He had a strong personality. Those who knew him got attached to him in seconds, at all levels, from the simple soldier arriving at the unit the day before to the IDF chief of staff. He knew how to connect with people. Just like that, he gave so much of himself. He would meet someone and two days later is invited over for a barbecue dinner. We don't wear our ranks. We don't treat people based on their position. People follow us because of the leadership, because of the personality of whoever leads the unit. And Yossi was all of the above, big time. He knew how to speak to people and touch their hearts. But we cannot show Yossi's photo and his face will probably never be known to the public. Our slogan is protect and not be seen. In 99% of cases, we were the ones to surprise the enemy. We are the initiators, those who direct the situation. On October 7th, we were surprised by the intensity of the attack, the way it was done, the numbers. And that was what put us in great difficulty in the first hours of the attack. In many ways, Yossi is like Immanuel Moreno, the heroic fighter of the famous Special Forces Commando, Sayyarat Maktal, but in the ranks of Shin Bet, tales of his bravery and everything he did on October 7th will remain secret, except for what the sensors allow us to reveal. It was half past six in the morning of the 7th of October. I received the first phone call from Yossi. He told me, you're not going to believe it. There's something weird going on here. He was talking to me from his shelter and told me that he will call me back when he's on the road to decide what we're going to do. As we drove south, we realized that one of our fighters was hit, and Yossi, with another small team of fighters, responded driving towards the terrace under heavy fire. He was in an area he didn't know, and we could not yet understand the scale and complexity of the attack and the number of terrorists. He was able to reach our struggling fighter after a few minutes, and Yossi actually saved his life. Outside, violent fighting was taking place on all sides, and Yossi realized that the evacuation is well managed. It's under control. He analyzed the situation perfectly, and said to himself that he is the force closest to the Kibbutz Mefalsim, and decided to support the fighters in the area. Yossi is an experienced fighter, with a lot of hours of combat under his belt. He comes from Sheta Shaloshesre, the Marine Commanders. Yossi was in a different level than the rest of us. He often faced terrorists, participated in many operations against them, and had a lot of experience. Pretty early in the fighting, he was able to get hold of one of the terrorist tactical radios. At first, he listened to what they were saying, trying to figure out where the terrorists are.  They saw another group of about ten terrorists up the road. He ran to an open area, and the terrorists were hiding behind a concrete shelter at the entrance of the Kibbutz. At this point, he had been hit, and that's where he died. I heard on the radio that Yossi was wounded, and the next call I got was not from Yossi. It was from our medic. He came by here. He told me, man, I can't keep fighting to save Yossi. It's done. And I know both of them very well. I know about the commitment we have towards each other here. However, when he told me that he did everything he could but could not save him, and that was the end, I realized that we're dealing with a totally different situation here. Did he suffer? No. He didn't suffer? No. He didn't suffer. First few days after Yossi died, I didn't want to deal with it. I tried to keep busy, don't think about it. I tried to erase it. Sometimes I'd wake up at night saying to myself, it can't be. It can't be true. But after about four days, I stopped on the side of the road and said, I can't put it away anymore. Just like that. I wanted a moment to process, and I got on WhatsApp and listened to some of the messages he had sent me. And the last one was a song. This song suddenly hit me. It cut off half my heart, and I just stopped. This repression disappeared all of a sudden. Emotions came pouring out.  Yossi was the son of every parent here in Israel. He defended them all by himself, all of them. He protected the state of Israel. He even told us once, if not me, then who would do the job? He's not here. It's just the body. Physical matter here, materiality. I respect the cemetery and the burial, which is important in Judaism, in our heritage. But for me, this is just a stone. Like you said, it's not him. It's a stone. I think that if there is, as they say, a world beyond this one, I am sure that he's up there giving it all he's got. I have no doubt. Grief hit Eli three times during his life. His brother, Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Tahar, a senior officer at the paratroopers brigade, was killed in July of 1981 fighting in Lebanon. It was a huge crisis in my life, a very, very difficult crisis. I've carried it around for a long time, 20 years later when Roy was killed. Then they asked me, they told me, you must be used to it. But I said that that was not the case. Now I understand what my parents felt. Roy, Eli's son, fighter in the Nahal brigade, was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 2001. When Roy died, a part of me died. It didn't hurt. It was just that a part of me was dead. Roy was sure he had already paid the ultimate price and that Yossi, despite serving as a fighter who in the Navy commando and later in the Shin Bet, would not be harmed. That's what almost everyone thought, those who knew Yossi. At one point I said, that's it. I have the impression that that's it. He's safe there with this protective layer around him. I thought he was safe. Yossi had something immortal about him. In the eulogy his commander said that when Yossi would stare death in the eyes, death would back down. Many Israelis owe their life to Yossi and they don't even know it. Beyond the fact that October 7th, his actions stopped terrorists from entering in the kibbutz of Mefal Seem. He is responsible for hundreds of foiled attacks over the years, in service, and only a handful of which we were allowed to mention. The departure of most of Israel's foreign workers in the wake of the October 7th terror attack, Israeli farmers are struggling to harvest their crop due to a severe lack of manpower. Now, several private initiatives are bringing in volunteers from across the country to help fill in that gap. Roy Shapiro went to check out one of those in the coastal community of Rishbone and he found that they were joined there by a very special volunteer from a country all the way around the world in East Asia that in some ways identifies itself with Israel. More than 8,000 kilometers separates Israel and Taiwan, but today it seems that the two countries are closer than ever. Officials from Taiwan have decided to join the current Israeli war effort and volunteered to work in the fields of the coastal village of Rishbone. Since the whole world looked at October 7th's Hamas terrorizing harrow, Taiwan was one of the first countries to express our solidarity with Israel and express our condolence to the perished people. And political support is very strong and over the past 30 years, the social foundation between the two societies and people are also very deep rooted. So we feel it's important to come more support with the civilian sectors including the agricultural sectors. This is a part of a project led by Hashomer Hadas for the new guard, an Israeli organization which helps farmers across the country. Its co-founder says that walking in the field is a prime goal in Israel today, as there is a lack of tens of thousands of workers. The power of this nation, the power of the people, the power of the society inside Israel, this is the strongest power that we have. And to tell you the truth, I spoke with the Minister of Education and I told him please let the students come to the field for a few months to the field, stop the learning and come to the field and work because people all over Israel need to eat. Among the volunteers we found Yanir and Maayan, two students and a couple who decided to take time off university and contribute to local industry. It's a tough job, but it is very rewarding. Exactly. It is nice to see the container getting full of fruit. I think that working in the field really binds us as a couple. Yes. The Taiwanese representative in Israel says that despite the different cultures, Israel and Taiwan have a lot in common. Like Israel, Taiwan has been under constant threat from our neighbor, country, China. We understand the commitment to defend the homeland and we understand the commitment to exercise the right of our defense. Despite the hot weather, volunteers are not worried by the hard work and continue their contribution, one of many since October 7th. Let's go to Kibbutz na Halos. This is one of the places which were most severely damaged on October 7th. Our correspondent Yuri Shapiro takes us there. October 7th caught the entire country by surprise. In Kibbutz na Halos, one of the places closest to the Gaza border, the surprise was even bigger. We woke up around 6 a.m. My partner told me that there is a red alert. I wasn't very excited about it. I said, okay, we've experienced these situations, we'll walk it out so we enter the safe room. The first message I got was from a friend who texted me that his wife was injured. Eventually, she died from her wounds. The door was closed, but I suppose that it wouldn't matter to them. I guess that they realized that we are old people, there is not much to do with us. So they went to other places. Yechiel Chelnov is one of the founders of na Halos. He is close to his 90s, but still very active. When we established the Kibbutz, we concentrated on agriculture. And indeed, we had very good agriculture. We have one of the best dairy industries, at least it was until the war, but it is still working. It's the first time I'm living the Kibbutz. We had security issues when you evacuated young families with the kids or whoever wanted to go, but never like this. Na Halos was the first Na Hal settlement. A collective community of veterans of the IDF's Na Hal Brigade who combined military service and building communities across the country. In the early days, the Kibbutz was considered one of the most famous in Israel, as leaders and officials visited it. One of the most famous incidents occurred in 1956 when a member of the Kibbutz, Roy Rotenberg, was brutally killed by Egyptian forces. The eulogy of Moshe Dayan, then chief of staff, became one of the most iconic speeches in the history of Israel. Early yesterday morning, Roy was murdered. The quiet of the spring morning dazzled him, and he did not see those waiting in ambush for him at the edge of the furrow. Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the land and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our state. It is not among the Arabs in Gaza, but in our own midst that we must seek Roy's blood.  In 2014, another traumatic event happened when four-year-old Daniel Tragman died from a missile sent from Gaza. The Kibbutz was about to celebrate 70 years since its founding with a special ceremony. Ironically, the main show was a play which shows two women's spotters who were cut off from their cameras. We were supposed to have a big celebration marking 70 years of the Kibbutz. On Friday we had rehearsals for the show. The plot where the spotters are disconnected, it seems like a crazy story for me, but this is what happened eventually. Around 35 people were murdered in Nakhaloz on October 7th. Today, residents of the Kibbutz are staying in another Kibbutz in the north, Mishmar Hayamec, and are waiting to decide on their next step as Nakhaloz remains a closed military zone. Israeli hostages released from captivity in Gaza have been recounting harrowing experiences of abuse and psychological terror. As we've been saying, there are still 138 hostages, young and old, being held in dire conditions. More in this next report. Is everything okay? My mother was kept in a one-and-a-half room apartment. She was in one small closed room, and the couple lived in the other room, in a small window in the room, which they closed. And she couldn't see if it was there or not. As soon as she realized she was alone, she simply told us, listen, I decided, I read, I studied all the stories from the Holocaust, I will keep a diary. I read that Gilad Shalit used to do some sports, and that's what kept her going. She realized very quickly that they prayed five times a day, and she would simply count prayers. She would record it in a journal, and the prayers and sound of the muazzin, all these things gave her a complex of understanding what day it was, what night, what hour, and she revolved around that. When I come to them, they see the distress. You see the distress. Yola, Yael, all the time by their mother's side, she never leaves Adi. Until two days ago, she whispered, she didn't speak at all, not out loud. Now they're a little more, but you know, he's right away from the moment they were kidnapped, what happened. He saw everything, he doesn't speak at all, not asking, not about the father, not about the grandfather. As far as we know, all six of them were in one place. Tal was not with them, no. We saw some of the children who came with our orthopedic injuries. There is a girl who needed surgery. Injuries to the legs, injuries to the hands, scars that were on children, a burn on a child's leg, which he said was a burn from a motorcycle. We saw very low hygiene conditions, at levels I don't remember encountering on children, stories you hear from other areas, lice, rashes, skin infections. Some of them lost weight in a very, very significant way. What does that mean? Ten kilos in children, a lot. They arrived and after the first meeting with the family, what is the first thing they want to give children who meet them? We let them eat and at some point we found ourselves taking food from the children's rooms so that they wouldn't eat too much when they arrived. That's why I pulled yogurts and rolls out of the children's hands so that it wouldn't be too much. We will have to continue to support them and give them everything they need, both now and in the future. But they are amazing. We've received an inspiring group of children. We know that she did not know, for example, what happened to her father. She was very pleasantly surprised to see her father in that famous video that she actually ran quickly, at the speed of light, into her mother's embrace and suddenly she saw her father and she was sure that her father had been kidnapped. She did not know that her father was saved and got out of it. The first thing she asked after looking around her and suddenly didn't see Lior, her brother, she asked about her brother and the parents had to tell her. This is actually the first thing they told her after she returned about her brother, that her brother was murdered. From what I know, and this is almost the first thing I heard from her when I saw her, this whole time she was without shoes. For almost two months, this girl was without shoes. She says that she was humiliated very much, that she had a very difficult experience, that she was treated badly and this is now engraved in her heart. I think she does, she remembers the experience from there. Was she there alone? She's very scared for the abductees who remained behind. They're still in danger. She was literally brainwashed there, really, and she doesn't live in our world right now, she's still there. It's impossible to cope there, it's impossible. We have to get the abductees out of there.  How did she keep her sanity? What did she do all day? She says that most of the time she just looked at the wall. That's what she had to do and only occupied herself with thoughts of my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine. She kept trying to convince herself. Are there things that we don't see but you can say that something has changed? Her enthusiasm for every little thing, from the most basic thing she had before, I don't know, maybe a towel for the shower or some chocolate or something to drink, you suddenly see the light in her eyes that she accepts such things. Or used to, she was always, we'd waste our dinner, throw away food as usual. Today we're forbidden to throw away food, there's no such thing, save everything, put it in the fridge, find a place. We were privileged to take care of 29 returnees, now the 30th Returnee. Almost all of them without exception. The first thing they wanted to do when they met their families was to talk. We heard a lot from them about the psychological games that they played with them, as part of the psychological abuse they went through. So it's also related to information that they share and don't share. As part of the psychology of the captive, of creating dependence on the captives, but by my feeling from what I hear from the people is that it has been refined at very high levels. What do you mean elaborate psychological chair? My feeling is that it was sophisticated, not random or unplanned, orchestrated, not some kind of relationship that develops by chance between a certain captor and a certain abductee. But to create the psychological infrastructure to play on their minds in a way that would achieve their goal. Was there also evidence of abuse? Yes. But I won't go into details. As I said, I can say it's about the whole range of things that a person can dream of. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gone down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines. But the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. Completely gone down in their beds. The state of emergency and war in Israel. Bringing Israel's story to the world. 24 News Channels. Now on Hot. Hintel Aviv was painted orange this weekend. The heart of this entire nation is shattered into pieces because we're all waiting for those beautiful, innocent redheads that got into everyone's souls to come back home. The Bebas family. The gut-turning video of Mother Shiri and her young boys four-year-old Ariel. Now 11-month-old Kfir. He was nine-month-old when he was kidnapped. Now he's 11-month-old. Being taken into the Gaza Strip from their home more than eight weeks ago became one of the most tragic symbols of this war. And their father, Yerdan, is in captivity to Hamas playing a vicious, vicious game, releasing a video of him a few days ago as part of the psychological warfare. The IDF cannot verify claims under well-being and the heart has simply torn. Take a look. Wow, this is crazy. That's a crazy week. Ups and downs. Many ups and downs. It's an emotional roller coaster. This last week is a real win for motions because every day we know not to hop too much so as not to be disappointed. But every day people return. Right now they are still not here with us. Unfortunately, even today, even in the sixth exchange, the Bebas family was not included. These were shaky days for the whole country and certainly for the Bebas family. A week of hope and disappointments while the whole country holds its breath and waits for the list. When will the names of Kfir, Ariel and Shiri appear?  You know she has children. Everything was said about this moment which became the symbol of this war, evil versus purity, terror versus horror. Ariel is only four years old. Kfir is nine months old. I don't know how they spent the night there. It's hard to believe that more than 50 days have passed since then. The two red-haired brothers and their parents were kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz and Kfir received the dubious and terrible title of the youngest abductee. Last Friday when the kidnapped children started to come back, they were so hoping to see them, but it was not to be. I kept myself strong all the time to be strong, but this morning I cried because I couldn't hear. One more time, they're not on the list. It killed me this morning. I just can't take it anymore. That's it. I can't take it anymore. So the family decided it was time to further increase the pressure in Israel and especially in the world. Hamas claims that they are in the hands of another faction, but that does not change the message. They should return home. Are these your enemies? We will repeat this in both Hebrew and English. Are these the people threatening you? Like this, with the pictures of the babies? In terms of posters, things, do you need something for us to complete? Yes, I need their pictures now. I only have the sign. They're getting ready for the statement they're going to give at four o'clock to the hostages square. And we need posters of the family members. Let's make another bet, which before the declaration, we will distribute to the people there to hold it during their declaration. In the logistics warehouse, in a horrifying order, according to the alphabet, the pictures are placed, coming to the bebust pictures, a stack with high demand. Not a day goes by that we don't get questions. What about the redhead? We're in the abductees square. After midnight, the yellow changes to reddish-orange. All members of the extended family are already waiting in the family room. It's been everyone's effort for weeks. I know that our family, especially these two little ones, entered everyone's hearts deeply. And all of us together with the entire people of Israel, we're already expecting them to be here. We asked you here. We're holding orange balloons. We will blow them all into the sky, hoping that they will reach, I don't know, wherever possible. Let's offer prayers. Let it reach Gaza for those who need it. The main thing is that they return. We want them home now. Now, now. You want a clap? All right. A lot of international media has arrived at the square. And the family enters the information battle. Terrified to death? Anyone willing to listen? Anyone willing to interview? Why the orange balloons? Is it because of their orange hair? I feel like some kind of soldier in some kind of war that I don't understand. They tell me, go to the expedition. I go. They tell me, get an interview. I do the interview. These little redheads, these two young redheads, really entered the hearts of everyone in Israel. And also the whole world. Their photos appeared all over the world on newspaper covers. No one remained indifferent to these sweet faces. Isn't there some fear that precisely all these interviews and the exposure and the fact that everyone knows them increases their price? Because they are the strongest card? Did it cross our minds? Of course it did. Eventually, we have to make some kind of decision who do it for us and what our intuition says. And go for it.  Bring them back? Yes, today. We had a conversation in the family about this. Whether we were wrong or not wrong all along. But the picture of Shiri and the kids was much bigger than us. And it spread like wildfire. Even if we weren't interviewed even once, it just did its job. So I absolve myself of responsibility for this thing. What's going on? What? My thoughts are running about the night. About Los Angeles? The next morning they continued to the press. Yossi hesitates. He's supposed to leave tonight in a delegation to meet with politicians and celebrities in LA. In my opinion, your trip to Schwarzenegger is important. You will be able to use it to convey it in a meaningful way to the world. Let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here. The confusion becomes even more acute when a brutal push announced by Hamas arrives. Something's happening here. Let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here. At the moment, there is a push on the Bebas family, on the two children, on Ariel and Kfir, and on their mother. Hamas announced that they were murdered. We're connecting them to the team now. The family does not know what's going on here. The family doesn't know what's going on here. Okay. The family does not know how to accept these news. It may be that these news have nothing to do with reality. Maybe this event... It is part of the psychological warfare. It was announced that she died and she returned on her own two legs in good health. I think everyone is holding on to it now. We take this message with limited liability at this stage because we don't know. Hamas is playing a psychological game with us. Hamas didn't know where they were until a minute before this message. He did not know. He lifted every rug as soon as they run out. Before they run out of time, they suddenly find them. In my opinion, this is a poor excuse for continuing negotiations. It's not just the shaky manipulation from Hamas that you have to deal with. There's also the palpitations before the list is published. Actually, this is the last one before the end of the ceasefire. In the last few days, I kept hoping. I'm trying to convince myself it's just to abuse us a little more. But they will release them. They will release. But it's scary because, hey, we've reached the day before the last day of the ceasefire, the last day of release, as far as I know now. And they're not here yet. There's a problem here. The last day has arrived. If you are not freed, there is one more day left. We don't have time to wait. We don't have time to wait. We are very worried. We are really afraid of the thing. Trying to pass the time until the situation clears up does no other way. But despite the expectation, a sense of despair comes. Kfir, Ariel and Shiri are not listed. A chilling sign of life comes in the evening precisely from their father, Jordan, a video that does not bode well for the fate of his family. This is an act of psychological terror. Hamas' claims about the Bebas family are still unverified. I repeat, they are still unverified. On Friday morning the fighting resumed and with it the concern of the Bebas family and all the families of the abductees that their return is getting further away. And again, they oscillate between hope and despair, between ignorance and immense longing, the laughter of Kfir, the nonsense of Ariel, the smile of Shiri, the hug of Jordan. We want them back here healthy and whole in body and soul, and the orange light we have in our hearts will continue to shine and shine until they are home. To hell and back after over 50 days in Hamas' captivity, the Israeli hostages, the freed are speaking. Some not all sharing some not all of the horrors they experience in our Erica Jackson is bringing their stories. Nearly two months after Hamas' brutal attack in Israel on October 7th, freed Israeli hostages are now telling their first-hand accounts of what it was like being kidnapped and taken into the Gaza Strip. Among those sharing stories of being taken captive and held under life-threatening conditions are 85-year-old Yulchavid Lipschitz and 84-year-old Dietza Hyman. I was born in the new age I was born in the old age of the mother. The food was not a slave to the beginning but as time passed the food went away it was basically a slave. Those who have been freed also detailing the mental anguish of what it was like to be held against their will including 44-year-old Yulchavid Lipschitz who was kidnapped with her 5-year-old daughter, Amelia. Those who have been freed echoing the same message that time is running out that time is running out more details are likely to emerge about October 7th as more of those who were kidnapped are expected to share their stories as well. Now to the organization of angels the ZAKA organization is one of the most highly revered institutions in Israel and rightfully so. We're talking about volunteers who have been involved in the ZAKA organization so we're talking about volunteers who help with the extremely difficult and painful process of collecting the remains of terror victims so they can be identified and laid to rest properly and our Orishapira is reporting from Kibbutz Niro is one of the community's hardest hit on October 7th on their work there. Nearly two months after Hamas onslaught in southern Israel volunteers of the ZAKA organization are still working hard to collect body parts from the Gaza border area here in Kibbutz Niro's 38 people were murdered Yisrael Khasid a volunteer and the spokesman of ZAKA Tel Aviv recalls the horrific moments when his crew first arrived to Niroz We found blood on the bed so we had to cut off the sheet this house looks exactly as it was when we arrived here one of the bodies was laying on the bed it had melted from the heat we had another body here and another one of a 15 year old which was lying on the grass half burnt In one of the houses the team found human tissue and remains of hair Khasid tells us about the tough moments he and his crew faced in episode 7 one incident broke me and forced me to take some days off I couldn't communicate with my family or anyone actually it was a baby the same age and size of my daughter some of his body parts were removed when I saw him I was devastated I said that's it I can't take it anymore I'm 25 years old someone else should do this job Yisrael, this is your mission if you feel that you can't do it take some time off but then after several days I saw that there were still hundreds of bodies which remained unidentified and it's very urgent because the bodies are decomposing and if we'll wait any more it will be very hard if not impossible to identify the bodies so I stood up and I said that I'm willing to sacrifice my soul and body in order that will identify to burial in Israel as possible as we walk inside one of the houses we're greeted by evidence of the mental challenges that the crew faces I had a conversation with a psychologist yesterday he begged me to tell him what I've seen here I asked him if he can handle it he said yes we spoke for 15 minutes I tried to hide some of the details from what I've seen here which really touched my heart I couldn't sleep after it as I told him the story he stops me and said I need to take a break and drink something I can't take it anymore when I heard it I understood that the psychologist is also a human being we performed like machines hours and hours days and days without sleeping with our souls Israel says that there are still 8 missing people from October 7 some of the bodies or body parts were transferred to the Abu Khabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv identifying them may be a difficult and complex procedure which may use different methods such as DNA tests and scans we had one body that was classified as a terrorist body the CT scan engineer told us that it was not a terrorist body but an Israeli resident but all the documents had shown that he is a Hamas terrorist he showed our volunteer David a scan that showed that he had coronary artery bypass surgery he said that this surgery was done in such a professional way he doesn't believe that the body belonged to a terrorist they checked the list of missing people and they found someone on the list who had the exact same surgery our ambulance went to tell his Shomer hospital and got his medical records they cross checked the information and came to the conclusion that the body belonged to him they couldn't identify the body in any other way because the body was totally burnt out Zaka Tel Aviv is a branch of the famous volunteer organization which has existed for nearly 30 years in numbers around 400 volunteers its main goals are identification, extraction and rescue of bodies and body parts many of the volunteers here are ultra orthodox who see their mission as a religious decree bringing complete bodies to burial is a custom in Judaism we'll continue to work and we won't give up until the last murdered person will be buried we still have several missing people many corpses still need more evidence that we need to collect we'll continue to come here we'll search inside the horrors time after time going back to these places where the horrors occurred is the hardest thing but we'll continue to do it we'll go back here and everywhere we need to go anytime, any moment every small piece of information which can help us identify the bodies of those who are considered missing and who are not fully identified Zaka Tel Aviv also operates a special center in Tel Aviv with special facilities for cases of mass casualties this place is called the reading center it is available for times of emergency to receive and to treat hundreds of bodies we have family rooms rooms to purify the bodies and to clean them we have dozens of morgue freezers we have a big space which can allow us to accept bodies from hospitals from all over Israel Zaka volunteers say that despite the difficulties and challenges they are proud to be a part of this organization which brings a final justice to the deceased perhaps another example of Israeli solidarity in the last few weeks business climate in the Middle East looks murky these days as you know but still in the spirit of the Abraham Accords business people meet in Dubai our Bastien Borey reports from there Jordan has withdrawn from a major water and energy partnership that included the UAE and Israel Saudi Arabia has spent negotiations on its entry to the Abraham Accords Bahrain has announced that it is breaking off economic relations with the Israelis but despite the war in Gaza Middle Eastern entrepreneurs want to keep looking at each other regardless of origin or religion I think it's a temporary moment of history what is extremely sad of course our biggest wish like everybody in Israel is we want to get free our hostages no question about it we want to stop the situation to be really honest at the beginning we had ourself the idea I'll be postponing it what are we doing finally we decided seeing the relationship between Israel and the UAE and how friendly everything is going on and staying on at the moment we decided we should event now more than ever because I think it's more important now than ever to build bridges to build communication in 2022 trade between Israel and the UAE jumped 109% to 2.5 billion dollars as compared to 1.2 billion in the previous year making the Emirates the 16th largest trade partners of the Israelis but the situation remains fragile for investors who prefer not to give into the siren calls of political haggling I was just talking yesterday to someone very prominent here in the UAE and he was telling me that he he says I know this I know what's going on in the Arab media and I don't listen to it and I don't follow it and I won't listen to it because I know it's propaganda politics it's built on money situations trying to influence the the people and it's a said reality that we have to deal with I'm not saying that Israel's perfect either no one's very well trying but always just to say the truth and that's very very important what happened is an earthquake it has to be said we're not just talking about a war between two states involving only soldiers bad things did happen barbarity everyone was shocked but Dubai and the region as a whole is a platform for business and that's what counts today we're not talking too much about politics we hope that things will calm down for everyone's benefit we're keeping our heads down and things will pass it's a very turbulent time but I'm confident things will settle down we're in a whirlwind today which unfortunately is considerably slowing down our business but we're quite optimistic for the next few months we hope that the situation will calm down in the interest of universal values while the impact of the war in Gaza is already being felt on world energy prices it is not yet possible to assess the consequences for bilateral trade between Israel and Arab countries Israelis and Emirates are still hoping to break the $10 billion trade barrier in the years to come Yemen's Houthis are escalating attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea raising concern for the safety of key trade routes the naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces with the help of Allah Almighty carried out this morning a targeting operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait the targeted ships were the Unity Explorer and ship number 9 the first ship was targeted with a naval missile and the second ship was targeted with a naval drone the running back militia said attacks like those on Sunday would continue until Israel ends its strikes on Gaza but the IDF denied the ships had any connection to Israel and accused the Houthis of endangering the freedom of navigation in the region one of the ships was damaged in a very serious way and it seems that it could be in danger of sinking and other one was lightly damaged this is an event stemming from negative sabotage of the Houthis we need to see how the world will answer this issue we saw four attacks against three separate commercial vessels operating in international waters in the southern red sea three vessels that are connected to 14 different nations which goes to show you the extent to which this is truly a source of global concern and a threat to international peace and stability the Bahamas flagged Unity Explorer bulk carrier was attacked in the morning and then again in the afternoon by anti-ship missiles then the Panamanian flag number 9 reported damage but no casualties caused by a missile from Yemen a third ship the Sophie 2 which also sails under Panama's flag said it was struck as well but suffered no significant harm the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carney responded to the distress calls from these ships and provided assistance in doing so it detected three UAVs at three different times heading in its direction and it took action against all three of those UAVs we have every reason to believe that these attacks while they were launched by the Houthis in Yemen were fully enabled by Iran this is also one of those allegations aimed at projections which are made in line with efforts to deviate public opinion of nations and to cover up crimes by the Zionist regime and the US government the US says it will consider all appropriate responses with full coordination with its international partners but in the absence of significant action such attacks off the coast of Yemen will only increase in frequency and severity back to you Ben I'm so the US is sending an envoy to the Gulf will that be enough again I believe it's necessary but nowhere near sufficient particularly at a time when some of the GCC countries are going to be receiving their Putin it's certainly behooves Washington who wants to keep these countries in its orbit and actually has the capability to help patrol both the Red Sea and Babel Mandeb with a broader international maritime coalition that it is committed to freedom of navigation there and also committed to pushing back on the Iranian threat so here is where action and not just words is going to be key from Washington. Thank you for joining us here on this episode of the war continues as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas terror group in Gaza several rockets fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel this afternoon causing minor damage inside the city at the same time hostile aircraft alert sirens sounded in northern Israel in addition to multiple launches towards the Gaza border as well as this very moment the IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours at the moment 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly meanwhile these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF they will be brought to Israel for questioning the U.S. is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today let's take you live now to southern Israel where our very own Pierre Kloshander is standing by in the city of Sterot, Pierre more rocket alerts at this very hour right more rocket alerts on the southern communities of facing the Gaza Strip there's been two rocket alerts just in the city of Sterot where we are located and it seems that it goes on relentlessly with also rocket alerts as you mentioned in Tel Aviv in the central areas of Israel and some also crushing on the sea nearby Tel Aviv but this is something that will go on for a while the IDF has already said a couple of days ago that Hamas has launched something like 11,000 rockets on Israeli territory since the onset of the war which by Hamas on Israel on October 7 and Pierre as we speak the IDF of course continues to operate in all parts of the Gaza Strip what can we expect in terms of the time frame to take over those Hamas strongholds in the north of the Strip and also in the south you know just 10 minutes ago there were two extremely loud explosions in Bed Hanun and this is something we see almost on a daily basis this is the northern sector of the Gaza Strip and it's under Israeli operational control and yet there's still from time to time there's a lot of structures with terrorist squads or sometimes it's one single terrorist armed with an RPG rocket launcher coming out of a tunnel shaft that hasn't been identified and trying to launch the rocket onto an Israeli tank or onto a group of soldiers patrolling but here what we just saw earlier was the destruction of infrastructure by probably by the engineering corps because we didn't hear the roar of the planes we saw really large explosions one after the other in the same sector and it could be a tunnel for instance because we know that the lines of defense of Hamas especially the tunnel network is very dense in this area as it is very dense in Hanun as now regarding the time frame nobody will tell you exactly how long it will take but there is something which is in a sense showing you the direction of the ground offensive which started in two stages one on October 27 and the second one in the southern sector of the Gaza Strip on December 1st after the end of the Lull in the fighting and this is the fact that now you have one chunk of territory the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli operational control Gaza City is going to soon fall probably because the two remaining quarters that where there is ferocious fighting the Jebalia refugee camp north of Gaza City and the Sejaia town which is on the south-east outskirts of Gaza City for a fifth day there are ferocious battles and they will fall that's obvious at some point and then you have an area which is the central refugee camps south of El Nucera, Direl Balach El Burej south of it is Hanyunes which is completely encircled so the central sector is already cut and then you have the southern sector with Rafah on the Egyptian Gaza border so Israel controls more or less the center the north cuts the center the central refugee camps and cuts the southern sector so that shows you that the IDF is slowly but surely establishing control on the Gaza Strip and Hanyunes in of itself is probably the most important stronghold that needs to fall and is probably also the make or break of Hamas control over Gaza Yes and as we speak more rocket alerts here being heard right now in Kibbutz Kisoufim and yes much work still to be done for the IDF in Gaza thank you for that update more from Pierre throughout the evening here on I-24 news and now for more I want to welcome in studio Dr. David Shimoni a former intelligence official and member of commanders for Israel's security thank you for coming on the show so the White House says there is no concrete deadline to end the combat against Hamas that is surely good news for Israel but is that enough it's very good news for Israel and it's quite enough because if we have the backing of the United States we're in relatively a good position we know that many other major western governments support Israel I believe even people that you will consider maybe important to allow us more time like Egypt Saudi Arabia I think all of them will applaud should we be able to eliminate the Hamas military ability so but yes the support we're getting from the United States is good it's worthwhile time we need the time to expand operations to Pierre gave a very accurate description of what's happening in the field I think for Israel the question of time is also valuable because our leadership needs time to make decisions about the future and they're kind of reluctant to do that so for the time being we are all united we are defining military objectives but we are trying to dodge to avoid the real tough questions of what's going to happen later and then we will have our differences with the United States so United States is giving us leeway giving us an opportunity to continue with our military operations but eventually we'll be negotiating with the United States or debating with the United States what is the big picture what's going to happen after the hostilities end and before we even get to what happens after the war let's review some images of what is happening right now in Gaza several images footage on social media has captured several instances where armed individuals believed to be related to Hamas were seen looting humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Rafa and in a rare display of anger residents of Gaza are daring to appear on local media and openly condemn the terror group let's take a listen . . . . . . So Dr. Shimoni, very rare public statements there of these Gaza residents against Hamas. What do you make of that? Is Hamas losing the support of the people in Gaza? Is it losing control of the Gaza Strip? I believe so. I believe if I try to interpret what we see here and what we're listening to, if people lost their fear to speak like that against Hamas, that means that Hamas is losing its ability to frighten, to terrorize its own people. I think even two weeks ago it would be unthinkable for people in Gaza to speak like that so openly against Hamas. So yes, I believe they sense that Hamas is losing its grip, losing its power, and they're using this opportunity to express their anger, their fury against Hamas. We see also the civilian population in Gaza, most of them are really, I believe, innocent victims of the Hamas regime and now of our retaliation. I didn't want to ask you about that because right after this massacre, this onslaught of Hamas, the survey was held by a Palestinian university in the West Bank and it found incredible support for this massacre, mainly in the West Bank but also in Gaza. The people of Gaza, when they supported this massacre, did not envision what is about to happen? I think Hamas didn't envision what's going to happen. I think there was, we were deeply surprised on October 7th but I believe Hamas was also surprised after October 7th. I can understand Gaza citizens rejoicing when they saw the, or when they heard about... It's hard to understand. Okay, but they had a, what they would call the pictures of victory against the big Israeli Zionist war machine but I think nobody on Hamas' side imagined that this would be the Israeli reaction. By the way, I think Israel is also surprised because if we remember the days before the attack on October 7th, the notion was that the IDF is becoming weaker. Well, of course. They will not fly their aircraft and the special units will not show up when they're called and I think we're seeing the young generation, I'm not there anymore but the younger generation, in the protest, they said to the government, you are facing the wrong generation and I think the same surprise is also now happening to Hamas. They didn't envisage the mobilization from free will of all of our reservists and all of the country to support this, the war effort and the families of the victims. So Hamas has many, many disappointments. They also have, of course, disappointments with Chisbalah. They were counting on aid from Chisbalah, another front opening in the north. They were hoping that the West Bank will ignite and will draw a lot of our forces to deal with the West Bank. They were even relying that the Arab, Israeli Arabs will revolt and they have a lot of disappointment. Perhaps the extent of the success so-called of Hamas and slaughtering so many Israeli civilians was also the reason for the demise of Hamas and hopefully for the end of this terror group in Gaza. Stay with me because we want to check out the situation in the Israel's northern border, our Middle East correspondent Ariel Al-Saran is there. Ariel, incoming rocket alerts, incoming hostile aircrafts. It's all happening. What is the latest? Right, guys. So about an hour and a half ago also rocket alert sirens, but also hostile infiltration from the air alerts on the, in the northern border in the central, central sector, the north of the Upper Galilee, the area of Qiyach-Mona, but also Kfar Blum, now the IDF issuing a statement a few minutes ago saying that the IDF forces intercepted what they called a suspicious aerial target across from Lebanon into Israel. There were no injuries as a result of that infiltration, but also as a result of the interception. And also multiple rockets were identified and IDF in the statement saying that they responded to the sources of the fire and indeed over the past few minutes we can hear the constant rumble of IDF artillery in the background firing towards Lebanon on the Lebanese side. They're reporting of Israeli shelling all across the central sector of the border and the area of Ramesh, but also in El Qiyam and Edesa to the east. And really also as we've been speaking, Hezbollah claiming responsibility for its third attack on IDF forces today saying that about 45 minutes ago they attacked IDF border posts with two bull can rockets. Those are heavy payload rockets that we have seen significant attacks on similar border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border in these recent weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. And indeed we see that Hezbollah is picking up the pace as it usually does towards the later hours of the day in their continuous attacks on IDF border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border. And Ariel meanwhile also reports out of Syria of a drone strike. Who's the target and who's behind the attack? Well, who's behind the attack? It's a little soon to say if we will ever know because even if it is Israel and the fingers are pointed to Israel automatically, there obviously is no official confirmation and they probably won't be even if it is. But what we're talking about Syrian media reporting of a targeted car strike from the air in Kunetra that's fairly close to the Israel-Syria border as a result of this attack, four people who are connected to Hezbollah's Golan file, that is the file that they use to recruit and also manage the terror activity, I should say, against Israel originating from Syria. So according to a sham radio in Syria, which is close to the Assad regime, we should say four people connected to Hezbollah's activity in southern Syria have been eliminated in this drone strike attributed to Israel. But again, Israel is probably not going to confirm even if it is behind it. So much going on in the north and in the south. Ariel Osiron reporting from the northern border. Thank you for that. More updates from Ariel throughout the evening. Thank you very much for joining me, Dr. David Shimoni. We heard from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday saying, if Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will single-handedly turn Beirut, south Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Hanyunas. How concerning is this threat in Lebanon? We saw what happened in Gaza after that Hamas attack. Is Lebanon really aware of what could be the ramifications of the ongoing Hezbollah attacks? I'm sure Lebanon is fully aware of the consequences of them supporting or allowing Hezbollah to launch a major attack against Israel. I believe that the Prime Minister's announcement was more directed to the Israeli audience than to the Lebanese, because the Lebanese and the Hezbollah know exactly what our IDF can do, our Air Force can do. And I think we're seeing in the north a shift in the way Israel is operating, because until now, since the beginning of the war, Israel was retaliating. The Hezbollah would fire something, we would retaliate. I think in the past few days, you see something changing there and you see initiative attacks by Israel trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north, trying to enforce the old 1701 UN resolution, and trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north. So I believe the war in the north is now intensifying because of Israeli initiatives, and not only because of Hezbollah. We also are aware of political efforts, international efforts to try to enforce 1701 again and try to get the Hezbollah away from the border. Since the beginning of the war, we've been debating and trying to guess when will Nasrallah give the order to launch his major attack in Israel. We know that Hezbollah is very powerful. They have a lot, a lot of rocket fire. They can cause a lot of damage in Israel. And since the beginning of the war, we've been saying if the air force attacks Gaza, Hezbollah will interfere. It didn't. If the ground forces will invade Gaza, if we take over the city of Gaza, if we take over the Shefa Hospital, all kinds of symbols. And for the time being, Hezbollah is not launching its full capability. We have to bear in mind Hezbollah was installed in Lebanon by Iran not to defend the Hamas, not to defend Iran. To support Iran in case Israel decides to attack it, to deter Israel from attacking Iran. So for the time being, I think the situation in the north is very tense. I think it's also very pitiful for the many, many Israelis who've been evacuated over two months now evacuated from the home. So there's a very, very heavy cost to this situation in the north, but it's still not the full-scale war. And I hope it will not develop to a full-scale. Yes. The Defense Minister of Gala said the government will not urge the residents to return before Hezbollah is driven back to north of the Litani River. But how likely is that to really happen without a military intervention? I think our politicians are now starting to drip messages that will enable some announcement that says, now it is safe to go back home even without a major Israeli operation. More rocket alerts now in the south in Nahalos. Please continue. We've heard, apart from what you said about the Defense Minister, we heard, I think, himself saying that when you go back to your homes in the north, you'll find the IDF there. It will be defending your towns and your settlements. So they're trying to create the atmosphere that will enable an order that the civilians can go back even without us destroying the Hezbollah abilities in the north. Dr. Davitrimoni, thank you very much for your insight. Sure. Now, two months into the war, the haunting tales of Hamas' captivity continue to emerge, unveiling the unimaginable struggles faced by Henn, Goldstein Almog, and her three children, Agam, Gal, and Tal. Here's more in the next report. Henn and the children are back, the grandchildren. Wow, it was hard. Everything mixed with everything. The sadness and the joy. They returned from a black place. They returned to no home. They returned to no father. They returned to no sister. But they returned alive. Ten days after Henn, Goldstein Almog and her three children, Agam, 17, Tal, 11, and Gal, 9, were released from Hamas' captivity. They're trying to cope with life after the nightmare in Gaza. First of all, they are very afraid of every movement, of every peep that happens around them. From every peep they heard, they went straight with the Kalashnikov. He even laughed that one of them once went with the Kalashnikov upside down. I've been sleeping next to them for the past few nights. The whole family sleeps together now. This is the first time they've asked to sleep with you, probably since they were little, right? Yes. There was a friend here with two small dogs, and they played with them here. They ran around, and right down here they took down the cushions of the sofas, and they built a tunnel for them, for the dogs. A few minutes earlier, Gal's teacher was here, and she asked him, were you in the tunnel? So he told her, yes. He told her, it's like an Arab house, and he did that with it. And you could stand? Did you have to crawl? No, no, I didn't crawl. I stood. They're talking about the army's bombs, which scared the children terribly. The children less, but it finished them. It finished them completely. The bombings? Yeah, it destroys our soul. How were they treated? Kept as bargaining chips. In the end they came back, and they are healthy, and everything is fine. On the morning of the abduction from Kfar Azar, Chen, her husband, Nadav, and their four children entered the safe room. Chen said that the terrorists felt at home in the kibbutz. Everything was completely quiet. Slowly they chose a car, drove, crossed the border, opened the trunk, loaded the bodies they saw. The terrorists continued to drive. Agam said to the boys, look forward, just not back. Seven minutes, and you're inside Gaza. When the army arrived in the evening, they discovered that Nadav, the father, and Yam, the eldest daughter, had been murdered. One of the things that preoccupied us during the 51 days that they were gone is whether they even knew that there is no longer a father and eldest daughter. They knew Nadav was badly injured, and as for Yam, Chen saw that she was not alive. The way they finally found out in Gaza that Nadav and Yam were murdered is unimaginable. From time to time they let them listen to a transistor for a limited period, so they heard Giora say that Yam and Nadav were no longer alive. Every morning I come here to the pictures in the room which were given to us to Sitchiva, and I shed my tears in front of Nadav and Yam. They heard in Gaza their grandfather. In Gaza, yes. On the last day in captivity, when they were finally on their way back from Gaza to Israel, they went through some very difficult hours. Agam said she was more afraid with the Red Cross than in captivity, because the Red Cross is like, you know, there are no weapons, there's nothing, they travel in a car because of the crowd around them, and no one was watching over them. When Chen came to the hospital, she said, how long did it take you? They also had a phase where they thought they were being sacrificed for the war. Chen, Agam, Tal and Gao returned home and discovered that they had no home, and Kibbutz-Kfar-Aza was almost completely destroyed. The injustices and the pain will be with us as long as there is a soul in us, and it will not be forgotten. If we know how to direct our lives between embracing and helping, and between finding the moment for ourselves to process our grief, yes, then we will have, I think, reasonable good lives. But first, this. The return of all the abductees. Until the last one. Just some of the many testimonies of the horrors of Hamas on October 7th. With that, we wrap up this bulletin of the I-24 Newsdesk. More rolling coverage continues throughout the evening. Thank you for watching. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. In News 24, Israel under attack. News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war, sword of iron. Exclusive interviews and reports from the war zone. The reaction of Spanish-speaking countries. News 24, the only media in Spanish that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel. News 24, only on I-24 News. Bringing us here on I-24 News, our rolling coverage of day 63 of the war continues. As Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas terror group in Gaza. Several rockets were fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel. This afternoon, causing minor damage inside this city. At the same time, hostile aircraft alert sirens sounded in northern Israel in addition to multiple launches towards the Gaza border communities as well as this very moment. The idea of saying earlier, it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. Meanwhile, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. They will be brought to Israel for questioning. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. Let's take you live now to southern Israel, where our very own Pierre Kloschender is standing by in the city of Zderot. Pierre, more rocket alerts at this very hour. Right, more rocket alerts on the southern communities of facing the Gaza Strip. There's been two rocket alerts just in the city of Zderot where we are located and it seems that it goes on relentlessly There's also rocket alerts as you mentioned in Tel Aviv in the central areas of Israel and some also crushing on the sea nearby Tel Aviv. But this is something that will go on for a while. The IDF has already said a couple of days ago that Hamas has launched something like 11,000 rockets on Israeli territory since the onset of the war which by Hamas on Israel on October 7. And Pierre, as we speak, the IDF of course continues to operate in all parts of the Gaza Strip. What can we expect in terms of the time frame to take over those Hamas strongholds in the north of the Strip and also in the south? You know, just ten minutes ago there were two extremely loud explosions in Beth Hanun. And this is something we see almost on a daily basis. This is the northern sector of the Gaza Strip and it's under Israeli operational control. And yet there's still from time to time clashes with terrorist squads or sometimes it's one single terrorist armed with an RPG rocket launcher coming out of a tunnel shaft that hasn't been identified and trying to launch the rocket onto an Israeli tank or onto a group of soldiers patrolling. But here what we just saw earlier was the destruction of infrastructure probably by the engineering corps because we didn't see any planes in the air, we didn't hear the roar of the planes. We saw really large explosions one after the other in the same sector and it could be a tunnel for instance because we know that the lines of defense of Hamas especially the tunnel network is very dense in this area as it is very dense in Hanun. Now regarding the time frame nobody will tell you exactly how long it will take but there is something which is in a sense showing you the direction of the ground offensive which started in two stages. One on October 27 and the second one in the southern sector of the Gaza Strip on December 1 after the end of the lull in the fighting. And this is the fact that now you have one chunk of territory, the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli operational control. Gaza City is going to soon fall probably because the two remaining quarters that where there is ferocious fighting the Jebaliyah refugee camp north of Gaza City and the Sejaïa town which is on the southeast outskirts of Gaza City for a fifth day there are ferocious battles and they will fall. That's obvious at some point. And then you have an area which is the central refugee camps of El Nusera, Direl Balach, El Borej. South of it is Hanunes which is completely encircled so the central sector is already cut and then you have the southern sector with Rafah on the Egyptian Gaza border. So Israel controls more or less the center, the north cuts the center, the central refugee camps and cuts the southern sector. So that shows you that the IDF is slowly but surely establishing control on the Gaza Strip and Hanunes in of itself is probably the most important stronghold that needs to fall and is probably also the make or break of Hamas control of the Gaza. Yes, and as we speak, more rocket alerts here being heard right now in Kibbutz Kisufim and yes, so much work still to be done for the IDF in Gaza. Pierre Klauschandler, thank you for that update more from Pierre throughout the evening here on I-24 News. And now for more, I want to welcome in studio Dr. David Shimoni, a former intelligence official and member of Commanders for Israel's security. Thank you for coming on the show. So the White House says there is no concrete deadline to end the combat against Hamas. That is surely good news for Israel, but is that enough? It's very good news for Israel and it's quite enough because if we have the backing of the United States, we're in a relatively good position. We know that many other major western governments support Israel. I believe even people that you will consider maybe reluctant to allow us more time like Egypt, like Saudi Arabia, I think all of them will applaud should we be able to eliminate the Hamas military ability. But yes, the support we're getting from the United States is good. It's worthwhile time. We need the time. We need the time to expand the operations to appear, gave a very accurate description of what's happening in the field. I think for Israel, the question of time is also valuable because our leadership needs time to make decisions about the future and they're kind of reluctant to do that. So for the time being, we are all united. We are defining military objectives, we are trying to dodge or to avoid the real tough questions of what's going to happen later and then we will have our differences with the United States. So United States is giving us leeway, giving us an opportunity to continue with our military operations, but eventually we'll be negotiating with the United States or debating with the United States. What is the big picture, what's going to happen after the hostilities end? And before we even get to what happens after the war, let's show you some images of what is happening right now in Gaza. Several images, footage on social media has captured several instances where armed individuals believed to be related to Hamas were seen looting humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Rafa and in a rare display of anger, residents of Gaza are daring to appear on local media and openly condemn the terror group. Let's take a listen. So Dr. Shimoni, very rare public statements there, is a Gaza residence. So Dr. Shimoni, very rare public statements there of these Gaza residents against Hamas, what do you make of that? Is Hamas losing the support of the people in Gaza? Is it losing control of the Gaza Strip? I believe so, I believe. If I try to interpret what we see here and what we're listening to, if people lost their fear to speak like that against Hamas, that means that Hamas is losing its ability to frighten, to terrorize its own people. I think even two weeks ago it would be unthinkable for people in Gaza to speak like that so openly against Hamas, so yes, I believe. They sense that Hamas is losing its grip, losing its power, and they're using this opportunity to express their anger, their fury against Hamas. We see also the civilian population in Gaza, most of them are really, I believe, innocent victims of the Hamas regime and now of our retaliation. I didn't want to ask you about that because right after this massacre, this onslaught of Hamas, the survey was held by a Palestinian university in the West Bank, and it found incredible support for this massacre, mainly in the West Bank, but also in Gaza. People of Gaza, when they supported this massacre, did not envision what is about to happen? I think Hamas didn't envision what's going to happen. I think we were deeply surprised on October 7th, but I believe Hamas was also surprised after October 7th. I can understand Gaza citizens rejoicing when they hear it about... It's hard to understand. Okay, but they had what they would call the pictures of victory against the big Israeli Zionist war machine, but I think nobody on Hamas' side imagined that this would be the Israeli reaction. By the way, I think Israel is also surprised because if we remember the days before the attack on October 7th, the notion was that the IDF is becoming weaker. Well, of course. And the pilots will not fly their aircraft and the special units will not show up when they're called. And I think we're saying at the young generation, I'm not there anymore, but the younger generation, in the protests they said to the government, you are facing the wrong generation. And I think the same surprise is also now happening to Hamas. They didn't envisage the mobilization from free will of all of our reservists and all of the country to support the war effort and the families of the victims. So Hamas has many, many disappointments. They also have, of course, disappointment with Hezbollah. They were counting on aid from Hezbollah, another front opening in the north. They were hoping that the West Bank will ignite and will draw a lot of our forces to deal with the West Bank. They were even relying that the Arab, Israeli Arabs will revolt and they have a lot of disappointment. Perhaps the extent of the success so-called of Hamas and slaughtering so many Israeli civilians was also the reason for the demise of Hamas and hopefully for the end of this terror group in Gaza. Stay with me because we want to check out the situation in the Israel's northern border, our Middle East correspondent Ariel Al-Sarani is there. Ariel incoming rocket alerts, incoming hostile aircrafts. It's all happening. What is the latest? Right, guys. So about an hour and a half ago, also rocket alert sirens, but also hostile infiltration from the air alerts in the northern border in the central, central sector, the north of the Upper Galilee, the area of Kyat Shmona, but also Kfar Blum. Now, the IDF issued a statement a few months ago saying that the IDF forces intercepted what they called a suspicious aerial target across from Lebanon into Israel. There were no injuries as a result of that infiltration, but also as a result of the interception. And also multiple rockets were identified and IDF in the statement saying that they responded to the sources of the fire and indeed over the past few minutes we can hear the constant rumble of IDF artillery in the background firing towards Lebanon on the Lebanese side. They're reporting of Israeli shelling all across the central sector of the border and the area of Ramesh, but also in El Chiam and Adesa to the east and really also as we've been speaking Hezbollah claiming responsibility for its third attack on IDF forces today saying that about 45 minutes ago they attacked IDF border post with two Bulkhan rockets. Those are heavy payload rockets that we have seen significant attacks on similar border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border in these recent weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and indeed we see that Hezbollah's picking up the pace as it usually does towards the later hours of the day in their continuous attacks on IDF border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border. And Ariel meanwhile also reports out of Syria of a drone strike who's the target and who's behind the attack? Well who's behind the attack it's a little soon to say if we will ever know because even if it is Israel and the fingers are pointed to Israel automatically there obviously will be no official confirmation and they probably won't be even if it is but what we're talking about Syrian media reporting of a targeted car strike from the air in Kounetra that's fairly close to the Israel-Syria border as a result of this attack four people who are connected to Hezbollah's Golan file that is the file that they use to recruit and also manage the terror activity I should say against Israel originating from Syria so according to a sham radio in Syria which is close to the Assad regime we should say four people connected to Hezbollah's activity in southern Syria have been eliminated in this drone strike attributed to Israel but again Israel's probably not going to get rid of this behind it so much going on in the north and in the south Ariel Osaran reporting from the northern border thank you for that more updates from Ariel throughout the evening still with me Dr. David Shimani we heard from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday saying if Hezbollah chooses to start an all out war then it will single handedly turn Beirut south Lebanon not far from here into Gaza and Hanyunas how concerning is this threat in Lebanon we saw what happened in Gaza after that Hamas attack is Lebanon really aware of what could be the ramifications of the ongoing Hezbollah attacks I'm sure Lebanon is fully aware of consequences of them supporting or allowing Hezbollah to launch a major attack against Israel I believe that the prime minister's announcement was more directed to the Israeli audience than to the Lebanese because the Lebanese and the Hezbollah know exactly what our idea can do our air force can do and I think we're seeing in the north a shift in the way Israel is operating because until now since the beginning of the war Israel was retaliating the Hezbollah would fire something we would retaliate I think in the past few days you see something changing there and you see initiative attacks by Israel trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north trying to enforce the old 1701 UN resolution and trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north so I believe the war in the north is now intensifying because of Israeli initiatives and not only because of Hezbollah we also are aware of political efforts international efforts to try to enforce 1701 again and try to get the Hezbollah away from the border since the beginning of the war we've been debating and trying to guess when will Nasrallah give the order to launch his major attack in Israel we know that Hezbollah is very powerful they have a lot of rocket fire they can cause a lot of damage in Israel and since the beginning of the war we've been saying if the air force attacks Gaza Hezbollah will interfere it didn't if the ground forces will invade Gaza if we take over the city of Gaza if we take over the Shefa hospital all kinds of symbols and for the time being Hezbollah is not launching its full capability we have to bear in mind Hezbollah was installed in Lebanon by Iran not to defend the Hamas but to defend Iran to support Iran in case Israel decides to attack it to deter Israel from attacking Iran so for the time being I think the situation in the north is very tense I think it's also very pitiful for the many many Israelis who've been evacuated over two months now evacuated from the home so there's a very very heavy cost to this situation in the north the full scale war and I hope it will not develop to a full scale war Yes the defense minister said the government will not urge the residents to return before Hezbollah is driven back to north of the Litani river but how likely is that to really happen without a military intervention? I think our politicians are now starting to drip messages that will enable some announcement that says now it is safe to go back home even without a major Israeli operation More rocket alerts now in the south in Nahalos, please continue Apart from what you said about the defense minister we heard I think himself saying that when you go back to your homes in the north you'll find the IDF there will be defending your towns and your settlements so they're trying to create the atmosphere in order that the civilians can go back even without us destroying the Hezbollah abilities in the north Dr. David Shumoni, thank you very much for your insight Now two months into the war the haunting tales of Hamas captivity continue to emerge unveiling the unimaginable struggles faced by Chen, Goldstein Almog and her three children Agam, Gal and Tal Here's more in the next report Wow Wow, it was hard everything mixed with everything the sadness and the joy they returned from a black place they returned to know home they returned to know father they returned to know sister but they returned alive 10 days after Chen, Goldstein Almog and her three children Agam, Seventeen, Tal, Eleven and Gal, Nine were released from Hamas captivity they're trying to cope with life after the nightmare in Gaza first of all they are very afraid of every movement of every peep that happens around them from every peep they heard, they went straight with the Koleshnikov he even laughed that one of them once went with the Koleshnikov upside down I've been sleeping next to them for the past few nights the whole family sleeps together now this is the first time they've asked to sleep with you probably since they were little, right? yes there was a friend here with two small dogs and they played with them here they ran around and right down here they took down the cushions of the sofas and they built a tunnel for them for the dogs a few minutes earlier Gal's teacher was here were you in the tunnel? so he told her yes it's like an Arab house and he did that with it and you could stand? did you have to crawl? no, no, I didn't crawl I stood they're talking about the army's bombs which scared the children terribly the children less but it finished them it finished them completely the bombings? yeah, it destroys our soul they were treated kept as bargaining chips in the end they came back and they are healthy and everything is fine on the morning of the abduction from Kfar Azar Chen, her husband, Nadav and their four children entered the safe room Chen said that the terrorists felt at home in the kibbutz everything was completely quiet slowly they chose a car drove, crossed the border the terrorists continued to drive Agam said to the boys look forward, just not back seven minutes and you're inside Gaza when the army arrived in the evening they discovered that Nadav, the father and Yam, the eldest daughter had been murdered one of the things that preoccupied us during the 51 days that they were gone is whether they even knew that there is no longer a father and eldest daughter was badly injured and as for Yam Chen saw that she was not alive the way they finally found out in Gaza that Nadav and Yam were murdered is unimaginable from time to time they let them listen to a transistor for a limited period so they heard Giora say that Yam and Nadav were no longer alive every morning I come here to the pictures in the room to ask Sechiva and I shed my tears in front of Nadav and Yam they heard in Gaza their grandfather in Gaza, yes on the last day in captivity when they were finally on their way back from Gaza to Israel they went through some very difficult hours Agam said she was more afraid with the Red Cross than in captivity because the Red Cross is like you know there are no weapons there's nothing they travel in a car because of the crowd around them and no one was watching over them when Chen came to the hospital she said, how long did it take you they also had a phase where they thought they were being sacrificed for the war Chen, Agam, Tal and Gal returned home and discovered that they had no home and Kibbutz Kfar Azad was almost completely destroyed the injustices and the pain will be with us as long as there is a soul in us and it will not be forgotten if we know how to direct our lives between embracing and helping and between finding the moment for ourselves to process our grief, yes then we will have I think reasonable good lives but first this all the abductees until the last one until the last one just some of the many testimonies of the horrors of Hamas on October 7th with that we wrap up this bulletin of the I-24 News Desk more rolling coverage continues throughout the evening thank you for watching there are phrases that you know from where they come from look here and the package for when and recharges that you already know where they go on International Recharges Altiz your people in rd access our website rechargas.altiz.com.b select recharges and type the number that you want to place the recharges they also receive the double balance in recharges of 8 dollars or more Altiz, the global network of the dominicans is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well thank you for joining us here on I-24 News our rolling coverage of day 63 of the war continues as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas terror group in Gaza rocket fire on Israeli communities continue in recent hours several projectiles were fired towards Tel Aviv and Central Israel this afternoon causing minor damage inside the city as well as multiple attacks on southern communities the idea of saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours as we speak 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly yesterday scores of Hamas operatives have surrendered to the IDF and will be brought to Israel for questioning the US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today meanwhile more heavy fighting is taking place on Israel's northern border I-24 news correspondent Ariel Osirani is there Ariel we spoke less than an hour ago and there are already more developments indeed Guy a couple hours of substantial cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the Israel Lebanon border last time we spoke there were Hezbollah 8 attacks so it's been 5 more so far 8 attacks carried out by Hezbollah on IDF border posts along the border Israel saying that it is responding with artillery we can hear the booms of artillery and fighter jets above our heads for a while now over these past few hours and in Lebanon indeed reports just coming out of the past few minutes of Israeli artillery strikes in the area of Belida and Robothalofin that's in the central sector of the Israel Lebanon border coinciding with the Hezbollah statement that they targeted the border community of Matat and so these are just developments over the past hour or so and so you can see a clear indication to the fast pace the rapid escalation which we've seen on a daily basis here on the Israel Lebanon border between Israel and Hezbollah the IDF for the past for weeks now but indeed today the campaign is intensifying over the past couple of hours Yes and to that point exactly a real Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday warning Lebanon that Beirut could become Gaza or Hanyunis should Hezbollah choose to start an all out war with Israel are there any forces in Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from doing so and is it even deterred in any shape or form Well for deterrence you have to go into the minds of the leaders and that's kind of hard to do but in terms of the acts on the ground we are indeed seeing while indeed Israel is at war with Hezbollah on the border that's where it's limited to so far these past couple months cross border fire every once in a while the rocket barrages make it a little deeper into also Israeli responses make it all the way up to the cities of Tyre and Sidon but the question remains whether what Hezbollah is doing is simply for as it claims to be a show of solidarity for with Hamas in Gaza or they are setting the stage preparing for the next stage because indeed this is also something that Israeli leaders have been indicating that eventually after Gaza Lebanon will be next and this is something that also the northern border residents are saying that indeed at some point the threat needs to be taken care of Yes we certainly already saw what sort of damage Hamas has brought on Gaza with its onslaught and we can just expect or fear what sort of damage will be caused to Lebanon as we initiate something similar on the northern border thank you for that update as we speak the UN Security Council is meeting right now to discuss the violence here in Israel and Gaza more updates coming up throughout the evening here on I-24 news Today's newspaper has arrived here more hostages have been released it's all from the party at Reim he wasn't at the Reim party at all he ties in Gaza yes he might get lucky right right let's hope he gets lucky tough questions if I know everything gets mixed up what can I do it's been 8 weeks since she was brought here on the black Sabbath she sits in fake tranquility of one of her children in Kohav Yair grieving over the destruction of the kibbutz and the death of her loved ones grandma Aviva has only one hope left to celebrate a birthday next month with her grandson Itai who is a prisoner of Hamas you have to tell me what you will ask me how old I am I think I'm 97 years old I don't believe it I was born in 1927 do the math I think that it's true yes soon I have no complaints about my age I have no complaints not about health not even about the mind it's hard for the mind to contain everything what happened to Aviva that Saturday how did she manage to get out on her own from the Baeri massacre I remember Arabs came they said it was actually their house I told them welcome come visit come visit I thought we could talk to them but they were by my balcony I know that sure but what happened then I no longer remember well that's history the truth is that mom remembers it but Gracie the nanny was there at our house Gracie the devoted caregiver she even managed to send a picture of herself in Aviva cuddled under the blanket in the safe room until her last post help people are entering the house at around 12 she wrote for the first time that the terrorists have entered this is her last message and at some point Gracie disappeared and was murdered the full picture was completely by the family members eyewitnesses who survived to tell their story they say that mother's house the balcony was the war room and all your lawn mother was actually their ops room full of weapons and that's where their activity was concentrated and where was mom at the time on the swing that's what they say that mom was on the swing on the porch a plate full of fruit was placed in front of her which Gracie the nanny must have prepared for her to the war room that opened on Aviva's balcony the terrorists brought more people from the kibbutz some were kidnapped later some injured like a kibbutz member who arrived there seriously injured with their two remaining children this woman is mother's neighbor and she herself her husband was murdered and her baby was murdered and brought her there she says that thanks to mom she survived because mom kept talking to her and that's how she didn't lose consciousness she also says that her son vomited and got a smoke and she told him it's okay everything is fine she also said that the mother kept talking and they kept telling her to shut up but she talked I hear I'm listening nothing ringing? this is what we were told about you people who were with you what? you're a hero and you don't even remember? probably the bad things I don't remember memory is deceptive the fog of the senses the bar of consciousness only with what the soul can bear I only remember one thing about myself I can't believe it was like that I decided I was going that I was leaving the kibbutz Aviva decided to go walking slowly alone from her house toward the parking lot with the walker without the glasses and without a hearing aid she remembers complete silence a bubble of silence from around the fighting at its peak there were still many terrorists in the kibbutz there were many battles it was half past five five in the afternoon fortunately for me there was a ride and I got on this ride and he was on his way to Tel Aviv and on the way I called my daughter she didn't agree to go until she knew where Orit was she asked what happened to Gracie and she said how can it be that I went without her ten days later they got bitter news Orit, Aviva's daughter and son in law Rafi were murdered their son, Itai the grandson who came to visit Aviva was taken hostage to Gaza it's okay it's just I can't hide it this is our family truth grandma knows it that both parents were murdered each in his own home and that Itai was kidnapped we actually talked about it they talk about it every day there are three of us left out of a family of six Mirav Itai's sister the only one from the family who doesn't live in the south received the first sign of life in recent days through one of the hostages who was released save me now he wants to tell me that he is alive and that he asks us to do what is necessary to get him out and today we know that he was simply taken when he knows that mom he saw her murdered in front of his eyes he doesn't know what happened to my father because the connection went out 15 minutes earlier he's just sensitive and gentle and we take great care of him it's very hard to think about him there and now that we know for a fact that the fighting continues it is unbearable because he's 38 years old and without children he is suddenly without rights a person who is in what could be the prime of his life currently becoming the bottom of the list now if he has no children but I have children who need their uncle they haven't talked about the men yet it's like it's not something that is it perhaps a victim of the war? tell you about Itai a handsome, smart and kind-hearted guy the thing that was most important to him was coming to visit you yes always for him the most important was being at grandma's last friday Aviva decided for the first time to leave the protected house with her measured steps she walked to the hostages square and Tel Aviv when did you put the picture of Itai? we placed it now we organized it as a child I remember we were always in the shadow of events but here it comes in this way at such an old age in a much more brutal way even I must be optimistic we have no other choice this is our place you know I tell the kids that what happened will never happen again so that they have faith that it's possible to live here that's right because when you go through something like that it's really hard to believe israeli survivors of the october 7 terror onslaught activists and the ambassador to the united nations have held a special session at the UN condemning the world's silence on the brutal sexual assaults and rapes committed by Hamas terrorists something we've just been discussing here in studio now they share testimonies and evidence while calling out the hypocrisy around the world when it comes to the rape of Jewish women here's more from the UN session but a warning that these images are graphic and disturbing on october 7 Hamas committed crimes against humanity they raped, murdered and violated Israeli women usually the united nations is a place where Israelis have to defend their actions but this time they had center stage calling out the brutal violence against women on october 7 Hamas had committed rapes morgue workers say the bodies show trauma consistent with rape they bent someone down and I realized he was raping her and then he shot her in the head her pants are pulled down and she is half naked and women's organizations chose to be silent against Hamas violence and calling out the deafening silence denial and vocal vitriol against Jewish people that ensued the world has to decide who to believe do we believe the Hamas spokesperson who said that rape is forbidden therefore it couldn't have possibly happened on october 7 or do we believe the women whose bodies tell us how they spent the last minutes of their lives who are we going to believe we found a woman's body dumped outside without pants without underpants burn barely any hair left on her they even displayed horrific eyewitness testimonies I thought at the beginning that we were scared that we wouldn't be able to believe that a lot of young women also young women in the community and we believe that a lot there was a time when we believed that women and women people who came to us to help us are still alive only in the years I'm just going to cut the other side and go to the next she's not angry he's angry he's angry he's angry he's angry at the body who's talking about it and if it goes like this they'll see that he's angry and then that he's angry and then he's angry and then he's angry and we don't come around the world especially when it's taking so many decades and centuries for women to find a voice and speak out against rape and violence people use the language of the gender-based violence because of the victims they are sending a clear hypocrisy. It is a betrayal of all women because when our agency can be traded away, none of us are safe. Israeli authorities also called out the propaganda of Hamas and the fact that Hamas uses rape as a weapon of war while the world watches. Israel suffered the most brutal massacre since the Holocaust. The atrocities committed by Hamas were more barbaric than ISIS. Some say more cruel and barbaric than the Nazis. Babies were murdered and beheaded. Families were bound together and burnt alive. Children were executed in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. Israeli hostages released from captivity in Gaza have been recounting harrowing experiences of abuse and psychological terror. As we've been saying, there are 138 hostages, young and old, being held in dire conditions. More in this next report. Is everything okay? My mother was kept in a one-and-a-half room apartment. She was in one small closed room, and the couple lived in the other. It was a small window in the room, which they closed, and she couldn't see if it was day or night. As soon as she realized she was alone, she simply told us, listen, I decided, I read, I studied all the stories from the Holocaust. I will keep a diary. I read that Gilad Shalit used to do some sports, and that's what kept her going. She realized very quickly that they prayed five times a day, and she would simply count prayers. She would record it in a journal, and the prayers and sound of the muazzin, all these things gave her a complex of understanding what day it was, what night, what hour, and she revolved around that. When I come to them, they see the distress. You see the distress. Yola, Yael, all the time by their mother's side, she never leaves Adi. Until two days ago, she whispered. She didn't speak at all, not out loud. Naveh a little more, but, you know, he's right away from the moment they were kidnapped. What happened? He saw everything. He doesn't speak at all. Not asking. Not about the father, not about the grandfather. As far as we know, all six of them were in one place. Tell us not with them. No. We saw some of the children who came with arthopedic injuries. There is a girl who needed surgery. Injuries to the legs, injuries to the hands, scars that were on children, a burn on a child's leg, which he said was a burn from a motorcycle. We saw very low hygiene conditions, at levels I don't remember encountering on children. Stories you hear from other areas, lice, rashes, skin infections. Some of them lost weight in a very, very significant way. What does that mean? 10 kilos in children a lot. They arrived and after the first meeting with the family, what is the first thing they want to give children who meet them? We let them eat and at some point we found ourselves taking food from the children's rooms so that they wouldn't eat too much when they arrived. That's why I pulled yogurts and rolls out of the children's hands so that it wouldn't be too much. We will have to continue to support them and give them everything they need, both now and in the future, but they are amazing. We've received an inspiring group of children. We know that she did not know, for example, what happened to her father. She was very pleasantly surprised to see her father in that famous video that she actually ran quickly at the speed of light into her mother's embrace and suddenly she saw her father and she was sure that her father had been kidnapped. She did not know that her father was saved and got out of it. The first thing she asked after looking around her and suddenly didn't see Lior, her brother, she asked about her brother and the parents had to tell her this is actually the first thing they told her after she returned about her brother, that her brother was murdered. From what I know, and this is almost the first thing I heard from her when I saw her, this whole time she was without shoes for almost two months, this girl was without shoes. She says that she was humiliated very much, that she had a very difficult experience, that she was treated badly and this is now engraved in her heart. Everything she does, she remembers the experie