been targeted with drones from Syria missile attempts in recent weeks from Yemen as well so to start how are you doing how are you feeling today it's pretty hard time for us we're missing home we're missing the life we had before so hard to stay for a long time as a refugees we really want to go back it's very very hard for us in new situation for us we want the children to go back to school we want to see our neighbors we want to see our neighbors again we want to host we want to have our garden our Kibbutz our life that we used to have before pretty hard and the fact that we don't know when it will finish make it even harder one can only imagine the hearts of the whole country are with you right now and everybody who is evacuated out of their homes waiting for word as to when they can go back take us back if you will to the 7th of October tomorrow is 5 weeks it's unbelievable your recollection starting with those rockets in the early hours what stands out most for you when you think back to what unfolded on that day well first when we heard the bombs so first we went to the shelter as usual but it was much harder and much stronger bombs and more than what we used to and once we heard some weapons light weapons close to us so understood that I need to take my weapons and to go and fight my home the children saw me taking my gun and run out and and I saw all the Kibbutz all our life all the toys of the children all the places where you see people from the Kibbutz and all our values all our culture and you understand that you must defend that and you must win against this horrible terror attack that wanted to come and to take our life and and then we started a fight and we saw that there are many many of them but we knew how to make them surprise every time from a different angle how to shoot them every time from a different spot the fact that we knew our house and we knew where we can be hidden from them and and always I will remember the brave and how smart was my partner that told me every time where to go and how to do it and even we were only two of us against maybe 40 people that we have seen in that day and later on we saw the other but yet so much brave of all the Kitatko menut that I saw in that day from my friends make me feel that we can do it we will make the Kibbutz safe and one day we will come back to there and we will make the community even greater how it used to be No doubt about that we are incredibly brave people like yourself risking your life to protect your family, your Kibbutz your community as well Emery everyone in the country is obviously hoping for news on the 239 hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza for five weeks tomorrow what do you make of the efforts to secure their release what are your thoughts for me I feel that the world doesn't help enough the world supposed to say to these horrible terrorists bring them back now now their place is with us in their home with their families, with the community for us it's the people that we used to see all the time when there was in the schools around in the school regional council very good friends we are doing all the occasions all together and suddenly people that live with you becoming into names and these people supposed to come back now and for me the world doesn't do enough all the world there is no reason for these children for all women for innocent people they don't need to be in prison of Hamas definitely not and they want them back now all of that there is no doubt that the heart of the nation is hoping for that news is waiting for that announcements that somehow these people can be allowed to come home can be reunited with their families it's something that everybody is hoping for and as you say the world will put pressure for this to actually happen you made mention of your family they saw you get up on the 7th of October with your gun and leave to go and defend the rest of your community how are they doing very briefly how is your immediate family doing right now we are in a lot instead of our home and our toys and our backyard and our neighbors and everything we used to have instead we are now in a room at the refugees and doesn't really know what will happen with us in the future unbelievable unbelievable Imri Bunim our hearts are with you our hearts are with your family and our hearts are with the 239 hostages still being held and we wait for good news you are a survivor and a hero thank you so much for speaking to us thank you for sharing your story thank you for sharing our story and with that we wrap up this edition of Outbreaking News Coverage I'm Benita Devine in Tel Aviv thank you for watching 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news news 24 piív I'm Benita Devine coming to you live from Tel Aviv read a lute siren sounding in the southern Israeli community of near-rim moments ago warning of incoming warriors from the Gaza Strip yet again earlier on Friday on Friday, siren sounding in near oars, alumim and far azar. Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force is conducting strikes inside the Gaza Strip as it works to eliminate the Hamas terror threat on day 35 of the war, confirmation that several terrorists have been eliminated. Take a look at this footage just released by the IDF. This is one of the Hamas military posts. The IDF also raiding the office of the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. IDF troops also causing significant damage to the terror groups' underground tunnels. The country is also being targeted from other parts of the Middle East, including a drone attack out of Syria targeting a school in the southern resort city of Elat. Israel responding with strikes in Syria overnight, targeting the organization that launched the drone without giving details. Tomorrow marks five weeks since the Hamas terror rampage in southern Israel, in which more than 1,400 people were shot, tortured and butchered. The terror group is still holding 239 people hostage in Gaza, including babies, children, women and the elderly. Benjamin Netanyahu reiterating there will be no ceasefire unless the hostages are released. So for the latest on the ground, let's go live to our correspondent, Ariel Levin Waldman. He's in southern Israel, near the Israel-Gaza border. So red alert siren sounding in the rim just a short while ago, warning of rocket fire from Gaza to the south, from the north of Gaza Strip to the south via this humanitarian corridor. Or the humanitarian pauses raise a lot of questions. On the one hand, obviously it is significant and important to make sure that humanitarian needs are taken care of right now. Doesn't give time though for Hamas to regroup if the IDF agrees to stop fighting when it has some very serious goals to achieve right now. One thing that we should absolutely avoid is to have pre-announced ceasefires in the Gaza Strip because Hamas knows that from one to five PM, for example, it has a daily chance and opportunity, a window really, to rearm itself. This is the last thing we want. On the other hand, we don't operate in a vacuum. We have to remember that. We have pressure on the part of the United States. We have pressure on the part of France and other players and actors in the region to allow the movement of civilians. Don't mistake in Hamas that it is not aware of that and could send some of its operatives together with these convoys we're seeing on the screen right now. Don't mistake in Hamas for not trying to smuggle its own operatives to the Rafah Hospital in the Egyptian side of the city of Rafah where Gaza's civilians are supposed to be hospitalized and Hamas has already attempted to sneak in some of its operatives in those lists of Gazans who need medication. So I do think at the end of the day, this is the part of chance we need to take. Allow these humanitarian corridors maybe take into account that some Hamas terrorists are inside these people, but at the end of the day, we cannot ignore international pressure. We have to do it in a more, in a less anticipated fashion not to have predetermined announcement in a regular time every day, because this way the world can at least see that we are doing the best of our efforts to avoid civil and casualties. And we saw in recent days evidence of terrorists hiding inside ambulances, certainly a very stark images for people to be processing or stay with us as we are speaking right now more sirens are sounding right now in southern communities in Kisufim as we speak quite staggering to think that while this is all unfolding, there is still money for rockets to come out of the Gaza Strip while we talk about humanitarian aid getting in and the needs for the communities inside. Still there is some kind of ability to send rockets to Israeli civilian towns and cities or stay with us. We've got more to discuss right now though, we're going up North. Correspondent Mary McAuliffe is in Northern Israel and there are reports Mary that an anti-tank missile was launched just a short while ago from Southern Lebanon towards an IDF post in the Manara area. What can you confirm? What is known? That's right, Benita. So the IDF saying that it was responding and striking the source of where they believe these launches were coming from. Hezbov for its part announced that it had launched these strikes saying that they were trying to target these IDF forces who have been stationed on the border. We have seen them routinely try and hit some of these areas and IDF personnel along the border in the past few weeks but especially also in the past couple of days. We saw a similar incident a couple of days ago. We don't have reports of injuries out. Hezbov for its part though published a video that allegedly shows this strike on Israeli troops. There has not been any comment from the IDF at this point but we do know that the IDF is striking harshly in response with ongoing artillery shelling reported inside areas of Southern Lebanon including in the Labuna area across the border. In the meantime though, Hezbov is also announcing a number of deaths from members of its fighters. Seven new added to the total. So that's 70 Hezbov fighters who have been killed since the beginning of the outbreak of fighting since October 8th. There are no details giving about when or where these deaths take place. The statement coming from Hezbov simply saying that they died on the road to Jerusalem which is what they have been saying since the beginning of October 8th as they continue to try and link their actions here on their border and their targeting of Israeli civilians and Israeli military here to the ongoing operation in Gaza but some sources close to Hezbov are saying they do believe those fighters were killed overnight in Israel's air strikes in Syria. The IDF for its part continues to maintain that it will address all threats of terror coming from any front in any of its borders and we have clearly been seen that happening not just in Gaza here in Lebanon responding as well as in Syria just like it did last night. So how then if it is true that 70 Hezbollah members have been killed in the time that this fighting has been unfolding in recent weeks, how does it all play into the concerns around the terror group getting fully involved potentially in this war? Well the message that we've heard out of Hezbollah so far there was a widely anticipated speech by Hassan Nasrallah the founder of the terror group last week in which he said that it was expected if he was gonna launch a further operation or say further escalation in the region. Instead what he said is Hezbollah seems content with what they have been doing which is launching these very limited attacks it's not to say of course there have been attacks and we have seen at least two Israeli civilians have died but for the most part it is a pretty low intensity conflict here on the border. We see attacks coming from inside Southern Lebanon using anti-tank missiles, explosive drones, also rockets being fired at some of these Northern Israeli communities and then the IDF launching these precision strikes in response into these areas in Southern Lebanon attacking both the infrastructure but also the personnel belonging to Hezbollah. There have been at least 90 people who have been killed in Southern Lebanon. The vast majority of those have belonged to Hezbollah but we've also seen deaths among Hamas for inside Southern Lebanon. So these are some of the casualties that we've seen coming out but for now it seems Hezbollah seems content to keep it this way, to not escalate to further. They say they are happy with what they've achieved so far by the current situation because the IDF has had to reposition a number of its troops who would otherwise be in the South fighting in this operation. They've had to repurpose and reposition iron dome batteries to move them closer to this border as we do continue to see these attacks. So that's how Hezbollah says it is helping the Palestinian cause but for now we've seen definitely an unwillingness to get further involved. We know a larger operation with Israel is incredibly unpopular among the Lebanese people. Some polls have put that at over 70%. So Hezbollah must also walk this fine line being hosted operating inside Lebanon where the majority of the population and the majority of the country is against a further war with Israel and of course it's already decimated country suffering from financial collapse. The question is whether or not Hezbollah would be able to survive a war with Israel and whether or not Lebanon itself would also suffer tremendously from getting further involved in this conflict. Certainly many factors to be considered. Correspondent Mary Makalif, live from Northern Israel. Thank you very much for that update. Still with us in studio or Yisas Khara and we're going to unpack a little bit more about what is happening on the front in the north but first, once again, I want to take a look at these live images right now. You are looking at thousands of people who are agreeing to move from the northern part of the Gaza Strip towards the southern part of the Gaza Strip. That advice coming from Israel, a warning for people to flee from where the fighting is unfolding in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Certainly very dramatic images seeing the number of people who are heeding that call right now, your thoughts. Absolutely. I think it only shows once again how the IDF cares for the welfare of the people of Gaza much more than Hamas does and I'll tell you something else. Hamas doesn't want to see these images on the screen right now. Hamas wants to see dead Gaza civilians. I'm saying it with, unfortunately, the IDF does not want to see civilian casualties but once Hamas sees that actually this enables the IDF the freedom of operation that it seeks, Hamas understands very well. These images are actually serving the IDF and not Hamas himself. And so what we are seeing, for example, are Hamas terrorist attacks against their own civilians. We have seen Hamas snipers targeting at a dozen women and children preventing them from going into these convoys. We see Hamas IEDs blasted in the heart of civilian convoys in stating roadblocks in Gaza in order to prevent cars from going through. So this cruelty by Hamas is not echoed enough. Not in the UN, not in international forums. I haven't heard one condemnation on the part of the UN Secretary General on Hamas targeting its own civilian population, killing Gazans and preventing them from evacuating because it serves its military goal. And we saw images also in recent days when the IDF got to residential buildings inside the Gaza strip and there were weapons storage sites inside apartments quite staggering to see one was next to a children's bedroom. Very difficult to comprehend exactly what is unfolding as you say. We are watching these live images on our screen right now. While we do that or I want your take on what is happening up north. You heard my colleague Mary talking about the developments there. She called it a low intensity escalation across the Lebanon-Israel border only in this part of the world. Do we compare the different levels of intensity? Hezbollah nonetheless is saying that seven of its fighters have been killed recently in Israeli strikes in Syria. We don't have confirmation that it's just a report but nonetheless Hezbollah is claiming 70 of its members have been killed in fighting so far. How does that impact what is happening out of Lebanon and Syria as we speak? I think Hezbollah is underestimating the number of operatives killed. I think it is not as a disservice to the goal of Hezbollah to present a more let's say rosy picture than what's really going on. Let's remember Hezbollah has lost, I think over 100 operatives of its own because it's playing right under the threshold of full scale war. It does not, maybe it is not interested in a full scale war with Israel at the moment. This is at least the estimate I believe but we can't delude ourselves to think that much like Hamas was so-called restrained and before the October 7th, we can't delude ourselves that Hezbollah is deterred right now. And so I think we need to be ready to every scenario but you did mention the Nasrallah speeches coming up tomorrow and Hezbollah is playing under a threshold of four. The end of the day, the Arab world does not appreciate Nasrallah. We can see only through humor Nasrallah with IDF uniform saying that everything is going to be safe. Comparing Nasrallah to Abu Al-Beda from Hamas saying this is the resistant and this is the contractor. So we don't, we see the Arab world actually mocking the attempts of Nasrallah to play tough but to be honest, not living up to its own threats. He has climbed as we say in Hebrew, climbed a very tall tree. Now he's trying to find a way down. I think it only depends on Iran and Hezbollah to determine whether we see an escalation in northern front. Many questions remain unanswered. Lots to watch. Lots to unpack. Aurya Sashara, thank you so much for your insights as always. Thank you for being here in the studio. And now for more, we speak to a survivor of the Hamas terror rampage on the 7th of October. Imri Bonim from Kibbutz, a man who fought against terrorists that day to defend his community. And he joins us from Elat. Imri, thank you so much for speaking to us. It's nearly five weeks since that Hamas terror assault, those atrocities unfolding at Kibbutz. And you are now in Elat with thousands of other residents of the South who have been evacuated there. And Elat, as we've been discussing in studio, has been targeted with drones from Syria, missile attempts in recent weeks from Yemen as well. So to start, how are you doing? How are you feeling today? It's really hard dying for us. We are missing home. We are missing the life we had before. And it's so hard to stay for a long time in there. And as a refugees, we really want to go back. It's very, very hard for us in new situations for us. And we want the children to go back to school. We want to see our neighbors again. We want to host. We want to have our garden, our Kibbutz, our life that we used to have before. Really hard. And the fact that we don't know when it will finish make it even harder. One can only imagine the hearts of the whole country are with you right now and everybody who is evacuated out of their homes waiting for word as to when they can actually go back. Take us back, if you will, to the 7th of October. Tomorrow is five weeks. It's unbelievable. Your recollection starting with those rockets in the early hours, what stands out most for you when you think back to what unfolded on that day? Well, first, when we heard the bombs, so first we went to the shelter as usual. But it was much harder and much stronger bombs and more than what we used to. And once we heard some weapons, light weapons, close to us. So I understood that I need to take my weapon and to go and fight my home. The children saw me taking my gun and run out. And I saw all the Kibbutz, all our life, all the toys of the children, all the places where you see people from the Kibbutz and all our values, all our culture. And you understand that you must defend that and you must win against this horrible terror attack that wanted to come and to take our lives. And then we started a fight. And we saw that there are many, many of them. But we knew how to make them surprise every time from a different angle, how to shoot them every time from a different spot. The fact that we knew our house and we knew where we can be hidden from them. And always I will remember the brave and how smart was my partner that told me every time where to go and how to do it. And even we were only two of us against, maybe four people that we have seen in that day. And later on we saw the other. But yeah, so much brave of all the Kitatkonenud that I saw in that day from my friends make me feel that we can do it. We will make the Kibbutz safe. And one day we will come back to there and we will make the community even greater how it used to be. No doubt about that. So many incredibly brave people like yourself risking your life to protect your family, your Kibbutz, your community as well. Emery, everyone in the country is obviously hoping for news on the 239 hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza for five weeks tomorrow. What do you make of the efforts to secure their release? What are your thoughts? For me, I feel that the world doesn't help enough. The world supposed to stay to these horrible theories, bring them back now. Now, there are places with us in their home, with their families, with the community. For us, it's the people that we used to see all the time when there was in the schools around, in the school, regional council, very good friends. We're doing all the occasions all together. And suddenly people that live with you becoming into a names. And these people supposed to come back now. And for me, the world doesn't do enough. All the world, there is no reason for these children for all women, for innocent people. They don't need to be in prison of Hamas, definitely not. And I want them back now, all of them. There is no doubt that the heart of the nation is hoping for that news, is waiting for that announcement that somehow these people can be allowed to come home, can be reunited with their families. It's something that everybody is hoping for. And as you say, hoping that the world will put pressure for this to actually happen. You made mention of your family. They saw you get up on the 7th of October with your gun and leave to go and defend the rest of your community. How are they doing very briefly? How is your immediate family doing right now? We are in a lot. Instead of our home and our toys and our backyard and our neighbors and all our boots. And everything we used to have, instead we are now in a room at the refugees and doesn't really know what will happen with us in the future. So unbelievable, unbelievable. Emery Bonim, our hearts are with you. Our hearts are with your family. And our hearts are with the 239 hostages still being held. And we wait for good news.  Thank you so much for speaking to us. Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for sharing our story. And with that, we wrap up this edition of Outbreaking News Coverage. I'm Benita Devine in Tel Aviv. Thank you for watching. Made For Me, a unique concept in Israel. Custom made men's fashion to your measurements. Made For Me, designer of all your events. Schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il. Made For Me, official dresser of I-24 News. 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La reacción de los países hispano parlantes. News 24, el único medio en Español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I24 News. I'm Benisa Levine, coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Red alert sirens sounding in central Israel, just a short while ago. Warning of incoming rocket fire yet again in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Gevatayem, Rishon, Lizzion and many other centers. Two women have been injured by shrapnel and have been rushed to Igelov hospital. Sirens also sounding earlier again in southern communities, including near Oz, Alumim and Kfar Azar. Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force is conducting strikes inside the Gaza Strip as it works to eliminate the Hamas terror threat on day 35 of the war. Confirmation that several terrorists have been eliminated. Take a look at this footage released by the IDF. It's one of the Hamas military posts. The IDF also raiding the office of the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. IDF troops also causing significant damage to the terror groups' underground tunnels. Now the country is also being targeted from other parts of the Middle East, including a drone attack out of Syria, targeting a school in the southern resort city of Elat. Israel responding with strikes in Syria overnight, targeting the organization that launched the drone without giving details. Now tomorrow marks five weeks since the Hamas terror rampage in southern Israel in which more than 1,400 people were shot, tortured and butchered. The terror group is still holding 239 people hostage in Gaza, including babies, children, women and the elderly. Benjamin Netanyahu reiterating there will be no ceasefire unless the hostages are released. So for the latest, let's go up north. We go to our correspondent Mary Makalov. She joins us from northern Israel near the border with Lebanon and reports that an anti-tank missile was launched from southern Lebanon towards an IDF post in the Minara area earlier on Friday. Also reports that Hezbollah says seven of its members were killed in a strike in Syria. What is confirmed? What is known? That's right, Benita. So we just know that seven fighters, Hezbollah today, releasing the number saying that's how many were killed. They did not say when and where they were killed, simply saying that they died on the road to Jerusalem. That's the euphemism they've been using since October 8th when Hezbollah first joined this battle, saying that they are doing it in support of Hamas and the Palestinian people. And throughout this time, we've seen them continue to launch strikes across the northern border from inside southern Lebanon into these communities, many into communities, but also targeting Israel military infrastructure. That's been the focus of most of these Hezbollah strikes over the past few days. There have been rockets, of course, earlier in the week, but what we do continue to routinely see is these anti-tank missiles being fired from inside southern Lebanon towards both IDF posts in areas where IDF personnel are housed at the moment. We've seen Hezbollah publishing videos of such strikes. The IDF has not commented on those, but we're also hearing from sources within Hezbollah that it is believed those seven fighters were not killed inside southern Lebanon and not killed in a flare-up of tensions that's happened over the past few days, but rather those were killed in that drone strike, that airstrike that you mentioned that was in response to this drone that was fired inside a lot. The IDF saying this morning that it launched these retaliatory strikes inside Syria, targeting an unspecified group that it said was behind this drone strike, but now we're hearing that it's very possible that it's coming from outside Hezbollah from within their group inside Syria. Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah speaks tomorrow, another major address from the Chief of the terror organization. What are the concerns right now? There was a lot of concern when he spoke last week. Bonita, everybody, this entire region was clearly on high alert. We felt that here in the north when we were here to watch his speech. This speech, I don't think there are that many high expectations and high alerts. Certainly the Israelis will also be watching this speech and keeping a careful eye on what he's going to say, but I think first many of his supporters or many of the Palestinians who thought the Hezbollah was going to draw in this war for real and get more involved in this conflict. I think we're left disappointed by Nasrallah's speech last week. He essentially said that for now they're very happy with what the group is doing now by having the IDF has to re-divert a number of its resources away from the south, away from that operation to here, this area. They say that for now, that's the end of their escalation, but we'll see what happens. Correspondent Mary Makala from Northern Israel, thank you very much for your coverage on this day. Thanks, Mary. Stay safe. And now, for more, we welcome to studio Gornen Ben Yitzchak, former Shin Bet agent. Thank you so much for being here on this day. So many developments and different parts at the same time here in Tel Aviv, rocket sirens sounding just a short while ago, incoming rocket fire. We could hear the interceptions overhead and at the same time, as we heard from Mary, concerns about what's happening in the north out of Hezbollah, Syria as well, and of course the latest in the Gaza Strip. Your take on what is unfolding at the same time right now? We see that as much as the IDF is pushing Hamas in Gaza and getting deeper into Gaza, Hezbollah is trying to help Hamas. And yet, I think that Nasrallah is still trying not to get into a full war with Israel. In the end, it's a decision that is taken not by here in Nasrallah, it's taken by Iran. But if what Mary said is right and the attack, the drone attack was by Hezbollah, it shows that Hezbollah is pushing the line and is like taking a risk. And this also raises the risk of a war in the northern border. Some people thought that after Nasrallah's last address last week, it seems like he's not trying to go into war with Israel, but he's still obliged into helping Hamas and this is what we see. It's very interesting to see that Israel failed to take down the drone that came from Syria. In the beginning, we thought that it's another attack from Yemen, but this time it came from Syria through Jordan. And the fact that they managed to go through Jordan without the Jordan army to take the drone down and Israel that couldn't take the drone down, I need to remind. The drone fell in a school and children were in the school. They were in the shelter, but they were in the school. So this, you know, something like this, if God forbids the kids would be outside and some of them will get hurt or even killed, maybe this is something that can change all the pictures. So luckily it didn't happen, but we see that Hezbollah is pushing the line and it brings us closer to a very high tension in the north. And as we're speaking about tensions in the north, sirens are sounding at Arab al-Aramshir up north as well, and as we were discussing just a short while ago in central parts of Israel and earlier in the day in the south. So talk to us about the capabilities that Israel has in terms of course the iron dome missile defence system for the most part intercepts the rockets that come through. Having said that, two women are taken to hospital just a short while ago after shrapnel fell on them. You smoke about what happened in Elat as well. People need to be vigilant regardless of where they are in the country right now. Very much, you know, for almost three days we didn't have here in the area of Tel Aviv, alerts, but I was on my way here to the studio when the alerts came on. I, you know, I was driving and for one short second I thought, okay, what am I going to do to stop? And I said, yes, okay, this is what we need to do. We need to stop. We need to take a shelter. I went underneath a bridge and I think that all of us we should remember that we have the interception rate is very high, but it's not one hundred percent. We need to take a shelter and we do not need to help them by not taking a shelter when there is an alarm. I don't know, of course, what happened in Tel Aviv and, you know, maybe they were hit when they took the shelter but we still see that Hamas is able launching missiles although Israel is deep, as I said, is deep in Gaza but they still have the ability, first of all, to launch missiles from the southern part of the Gaza Strip and also from Gaza. Israel is not everywhere in Gaza so the risk is still there and I guess that they are still keeping their power to the minute that they'll feel that they are with the backs to the wall. Several terrorists have been eliminated inside the Gaza Strip by Israel in recent days and yet are you surprised that there is still the ability to send rockets out of the Strip? Israel is making more and more progress according to the reports in terms of its moves to try to eliminate Hamas and yet every single day rockets are sent towards civilian areas in Israel. Right, but we need to remember that we're talking about three to four thousand militias that were killed during the operation. They have maybe a bit less than 40,000 militias. Many of them are underneath Gaza. Gaza has another city underneath the main city so most of them are hiding there. We need to say that IDF didn't meet all the power of Hamas yet so they have their ability, they're waiting, they know that Israel is trying to take them out of the tunnels but it's a very complicated issue to bring them out of their tunnels and bunkers and keeping their power. They still have lots of missiles. They have the ability to launch them. They decide how and when to do it because they know that they're still not in enough danger in order to use it. They'll use it when they'll feel that Israel is now going down into the ground. It's so interesting that there are calls for more humanitarian aid to be coming into the strip yet there definitely is enough money for weapons. Clearly that is where the financing has been focused. Stay with us. We've got more to unpack right now though. Let's go to our correspondent Ariel Levin-Waldman. He is in southern Israel near the Israel-Gaza border and he filed this update a short while ago. You can take a quick look behind me. You can see something burning over there. There are plumes of smoke from when the targets were first hit. Then that black plume there is a sort of secondary, something that caught on fire. Likely burning fuel could have been a Hamas vehicle, could have been any sort of storage facility that includes fuel. Probably not burning big enough to be a major storage facility but definitely at least the vehicle size, multiple vehicles in that last strike. We saw four initial plumes likely from four smaller sub munitions that were dropped but if it does that's the 155s all around us speaking running their rounds out into Gaza right now. Now we do know they have been hitting some major terror infrastructure over the course of the past few days. The IDF mentioned that 130 tunnel shafts have been hit in recent days in the operation. That's not quite the same as hitting the tunnels themselves. The shafts are the access points to the tunnels. The easiest thing to hit for those are actually mostly being taken out by ground forces. Just about every single brigade and all the combat engineers have what they're calling a tunnel clearing kit. Roughly 30 pounds of high explosive. They stick in the hole and blow the entrance to Kingdom come. Nothing comes out of that again, not without some heavy equipment anyway. One of the big plans right now is to seal off all those entrances and make sure anybody inside is forced to flee from whatever's left or stays down there and dies and it's not Israel's problem anymore. So that's the ground operation against the infrastructure. When it comes down to the commanders themselves there has been some big news announced. That would be the elimination of several medium to high ranking commanders of the Nookba Force. Remember that the Nookba Force was a team of elite Hamas commandos that on October 7th were the leaders of the force that ransacked southern communities committing crimes against humanity, horrific massacres, heinous torture all around Israel's border communities, the massacre of well over a thousand civilians and about 300 soldiers on top of that. So what Israel vowed to do was to eliminate every last member of them and they just took out a company level commander as well as a brigade commander that were both involved in planning the attack and the massacre at Kabut Zikim as well as the Zikim base. That's part of Israel's both strategic goal, that's the elimination of the Nookba Force and to gain competency and faith in the IDF's ability to deter the enemy once again as well as a tactical level goal because these are the people giving orders to the commandos on the ground the people giving orders to where to place ambushes. To start killing those commandos they start losing their ability to coordinate their movements in the ship which means that Israel can pick up the pace which is a critical policy moving forward as pressure mounts on Israel to reach some sort of a quarter ceasefire while Israel can't do that anytime soon which means they need to start getting as much done as possible in as short a time as possible eliminating those commandos. Good way to start. Correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman with that update from southern Israel just a short while ago still in studio. Your take on the developments that we just heard Ariel describing inside the Gaza Strip. Much progress has been made but as you alluded to earlier there's still a long way to go in this war. There's a long way to go but we need to remember the leader of the military wing Mohammed Def all of them are hiding underneath the ground we didn't see them and their soldiers didn't see them outside. We did see from the other hand we saw the head of the Shin Bet and we saw Chief of Staff of Israel inside deep in Gaza all the soldiers saw that our leadership is inside and this is I think a big difference between us and Hamas they are hiding and sending other people to die but our generals and our commanders are inside with the soldiers I must say as a civilian I don't even recall during the Second Intifada I saw the head of the Shin Bet and Ramallah or any other place Ronan Barr inside with Herzl Alevi, Chief of Staff very important thing for the soldiers for everybody to see and this also means and I think this is what they try to tell Hamas that we will keep chasing them until we bring them Iche Sinouar the first one because I think that before we finish with Iche Sinouar and Mohammed Def we cannot call victory I don't like the word victory but they are talking in the media about victory if we are talking about victory bringing to justice Iche Sinouar and Mohammed Def is a must The other important victory and I agree with you the word is very vague it's very difficult to define this juncture is bringing back 239 hostages talk to us about what it means right now we are seeing all these developments the fighting according to the IDF is going well but the concern is what this all means for the 239 people somewhere across the Gaza Strip potentially in tunnels, potentially dispersed it's not clear, no updates we have two ways that should lead us to the same place one is the diplomatic way Qatar and maybe Egypt and the United States for sure in other countries that should help Israel to bring Hamas to some kind of an arrangement to release hostages the other way is the military way because if they understand that we are going after them if they understand that this is the only thing they can give us in order to push us away a little bit probably they will be willing to bring or release some of the hostages the hostages and I think I said it before in your studio this is the most important thing because these people, civilians and soldiers but let me talk for a minute about the civilians about the babies, about the children, about the elderly that were neglected by Israel the reason why they are in Gaza is because we as a country we failed to keep them safe and this is number one goal to bring them back and I think that what Israel is doing now is trying to push hard Hamas and make them or even force them to release the hostages we saw in the beginning that they released a few now for quite a few days nothing happened I hope it will happen big concern as time goes by people that are sick, people that need to get medicine big, big concern You have made mention of the way Iran is actually pulling the strings at different centers we as you are discussing are watching to see what will happen with the hostages but there are also developments on many different fronts and we are seeing now the idea of saying that the Alat attack was spearheaded by the IRGC so we are talking about the drone that came out of Syria it appears now that it seems that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was involved explain, does this surprise you what does this mean, what is the significance of that development the war that we are facing now is a war against Iran they are using proxies all over the Middle East they are using proxies in Yemen they are using proxies like Hamas and Hamas became a proxy of Iran financed by Iran and gets all kind of help from Iran Hezbollah of course all kind of different groups with different names in Syria all of them are proxies of Iran Iran is trying to do few things first of all to take off some pressure because of the nuclear issue secondly they try to prevent any agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia because they understand that an agreement between the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia is something that they really don't want to have and I guess that also the timing why they needed Hamas to attack Israel in this timing has some connection with the fact that Israel and Saudi Arabia became closer and closer with the help of the United States so Iran is the problem Iran is running the show all over the Middle East and every time we see something happening whether missiles from Gaza, drone from Syria, missiles from Yemen Iran in the end is sending those people orchestrating all these different developments at the same time Gonen Ben Yitzhak thank you as always for your insights and thank you for being here in studio so support for the hostages that we've been talking about is emanating from many parts of the world posters have been put up in several centres on buildings and landmarks pictures of those being held by the Hamas terror group and in some parts of the United States vandals have been tearing them down more in this report after walls throughout the world began to be covered with posters of the kidnapped Israelis to raise awareness of their plight they began to disappear almost immediately as supporters of Hamas and the Palestinians began tearing them down and in some cases even vandalizing them first why are you taking down pictures of missing children? so why are you taking that down for? because it doesn't need to be there why are you ripping that off? look what you're doing don't colonize somewhere else the videos of the poster vandals have gone viral another front opened this one dealing with information in the public sphere the preservation of the important campaigns started by the artists Deda and Nitzan Minz how long will it last in your opinion? I think no more than a few hours people keep tearing it down but we will continue to put it back on Simcha Itzik and Shira did not know each other before but like many people around the world they organize themselves through a WhatsApp group to continue hanging the posters around the city terrible, it's terrible yesterday in Columbus Square on 59th my 8 year old daughter and I went to Hank's sign and this morning when I got up to see it it was gone but I saw new pictures and people come on their own initiative and hang posters while they're putting up the posters some passersby congratulate them on their important work it hurts, it hurts on the one hand to see that there are people who have no awareness of what really happened there or what really happens there every day and they just ignore it whether it's because it's a trend or they have no idea what happened there how can you tear down a poster of innocent civilians who have been kidnapped and disappearing are asking great care is being taken to document them and clearly record their faces in this case these sisters became famous and appeared on the cover of the New York Post exposing the faces has become an online campaign as more and more names are revealed along with their place of work or school some were fired, some were suspended and some who were caught and reacted violently were also arrested Joav Davis founded the popular web page Jews of New York and every day he gets documentation of the people who tear down the signs never in the city have we encountered the phenomenon of posters being torn down not even for a missing dog the reason it's important for us to name and shame, actually find the name and embarrass them, shame them on the networks is because these people are dangerous people and now for more we welcome to studio Lihu Talmour co-founder of an initiative called 710 stories he's a law student from Reichmann University Lihu thank you very much for being here thank you so much for having me Lihu tell us about this initiative talking about the atrocities that happened on the 7th of October well at first we tried to understand where all the testimonies like there happened so many so many people were there at the Shabbat it was awful and we saw that no one is actually gathering all the testimonies together so we start making phone calls and thanks to the communication in Reichmann we start to invite people in and start talking and start hearing all the first account testimonies and start getting it all around and starting this huge archive of those testimonies it's incredible to think it's nearly five weeks on and every day more and more details are emerging about what happened it's endless give us an idea of the response that you've been getting all the stories we can see online it's actually amazing people from all over the world showing sympathies to the people who've been there this party in the Nova Rave which was a huge massacre and we have a lot of people from there coming and tell their testimony we can see people from around the world showing their sympathies to the people to the Israeli people well when you hear someone from your age talking about the horosities that he has been through you cannot stay silent something happening and the people at that music festival would all be your age who were students and young people wanting to celebrate to dance and we all know what in fact did unfold trauma and speaking about trauma is such a crucial part of the healing are you finding that people are needing to speak about what happened it's amazing that you say that it's actually like a video therapy we can see that people coming and tell their story after like an hour an hour and a half they say like a huge relief they feel like it's like a speeded out first time the whole story that we stay and listen just listen put the headphones and the mics and listen we don't ask too many questions the first question that we ask is just how are you tell us about your story and the word just come out and the reactions are amazing even for the survivors themselves it's an incredible initiative we wish you all the very best so important to have these stories told and as you say also if there's some form of healing for the people who are talking about their ordeal then that certainly is going a long way to making a difference down the line of course and I want to use this platform to call everybody to check our Instagram page seven ten stories and look and share those stories the world needs to know the world needs to hear our story the Israeli story Lee Huhtal Mora thank you so much for being here thank you so much for having me as always appreciate your insight thank you so much and that is a wrap for this edition of our breaking news coverage I'm Anita Levine in Tel Aviv thank you for watching stay tuned there have been countless memorable moments broadcasting with I-24 news in the past six years but for me 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 Austin Ostrovsky an international human rights lawyer and their responses were completely different Michael Herzog was calm and composed and on the other hand Austin Ostrovsky was trying to phone his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were okay the camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above there was an overhead shot of the three of us in 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 this is breaking news edition I'm Benisa Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv red alert siren sounding in central Israel just a short while ago warning of incoming rocket fire yet again in Tel Aviv Hotelia Gevatayem and many other centres two women have been injured by shrapnel and have been rushed to Iqalov hospital sirens also sounding earlier again in southern communities including near Oz, Alumim and Kfar Azar meanwhile the Israeli Air Force is conducting strikes inside the Gaza Strip as it works to eliminate the Hamas terror threat on day 35 of the war confirmation that several terrorists have been eliminated take a look at this footage released by the IDF it's one of the Hamas military posts the IDF also raiding the office of the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar IDF troops also causing significant damage to the terror groups underground tunnels now the country is also being targeted from other parts of the Middle East including a drone attack out of Syria targeting a school in the southern resort city of Elat Israel responding with strikes in Syria overnight targeting the organisation that launched the drone without giving details now tomorrow marks five weeks since the Hamas terror rampage in southern Israel in which more than 1400 people were shot, tortured and butchered the terror group is still holding 239 people hostage in Gaza including babies children, women and the elderly Benjamin Netanyahu reiterating there will be no ceasefire unless the hostages are released so for the latest let's go up north we go to our correspondent Mary McAuliffe she joins us from northern Israel near the border with Lebanon and reports that an anti-tank missile was launched from southern Lebanon towards the most in the Menara area earlier on Friday also reports that Hezbollah says seven of its members were killed in a strike in Syria what is confirmed what is known that's right Benita so we just know that seven fighters Hezbollah today releasing the number saying that's how many were killed they did not say when and where they were killed simply saying that they died on the road to Jerusalem that's the euphemism they've been using since October 8th when Hezbollah first joined and the Palestinian people and throughout this time we've seen them continue to launch strikes across the northern border from inside southern Lebanon into these communities many into communities but also targeting Israel military infrastructure that's been the focus of most of these Hezbollah strikes over the past few days there have been rockets of course earlier in the week but what we do continue to routinely see is these anti-tank missiles being fired from inside southern Lebanon towards both IDF posts in areas where IDF personnel are housed at the moment and Hezbollah publishing videos of such strikes the IDF has not commented on those but we're also hearing from sources within Hezbollah that is believe those seven fighters were not killed inside southern Lebanon and not killed in a flare up of tensions that's happened over the past few days but rather those were killed in that drone strike that airstrike that you mentioned that was in response to this drone that was fired inside a lot the IDF saying this morning that it launched these retaliatory strikes inside Syria targeting an unspecified group that it said was behind this drone strike but now we're hearing that it's very possible that it's coming from outside Hezbollah from within their group inside Syria Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah speaks tomorrow another major address from the chief of the terror organization what are the concerns right now there was a lot of concern when he spoke last week Bonita everybody this entire region was clearly on high alert we felt that here in the north when we were here to watch his speech this speech I don't think there are that many high expectations that he's going to have but I think for many of his supporters or many of the Palestinians who thought the Hezbollah was going to draw in this war for real and get more involved in this conflict I think we're left disappointed by Nasrallah's speech last week he essentially said that for now they're very happy with what the group is doing now by having the IDF has to re-divert a number of its resources away from the south away from that operation to here this area they say that for now that's the end of their escalation but we'll see what happens correspondent Mary Makala from northern Israel thank you very much for your coverage on this day thanks Mary stay safe and now for more we welcome to studio Gornen Ben Yitzchak former Shin Bet agent thank you so much for being here on this day so many developments in different parts at the same time here in Tel Aviv rocket sirens sounding just a short while ago incoming rocket fire we could hear the explosions overhead and at the same time as we heard from Mary concerns about what's happening in the north out of Hezbollah Syria as well and of course the latest in the Gaza Strip your take on what is unfolding at the same time right now we see that as much as the IDF is pushing Hamas in Gaza and getting deeper into Gaza Hezbollah is trying to help Hamas and yet I think that Nasrallah is still trying not to get into a full war with Israel in the end it's a decision that is taken not by Nasrallah it's taken by Iran but if what Mary said this is right and the attack the drone attack was by Hezbollah it shows that Hezbollah is pushing the line is like taking a risk and this also raises the risk of war in the northern border some people thought that after Nasrallah's last address last week it seems like he's not trying to go into war with Israel but he's still obliged into helping Hamas and this is what we see it's very interesting to see that Israel failed to take down the drone that came from Syria in the beginning we thought it's another attack from Yemen but this time it came from Syria through Jordan and the fact that they managed to go through Jordan without the Jordan army to take the drone down and Israel that couldn't take the drone down I need to remind the drone fell in a school and children were in the school they were in the shelter but they were in the school so this something like this God forbid the kids would be outside and some of them will get hurt or even killed maybe this is something that can change all the pictures so luckily it didn't happen but we see that Hezbollah is pushing the line and it brings us closer to a very high tension in the north and speaking about tensions in the north sirens are sounding at Arab Al Aramshe up north as well and as we were discussing just a short while ago in central parts of Israel and earlier in the day in the south so talk to us about the capabilities that Israel has in terms of course the iron dome missile defense system for the most part intercepts the rockets that come through having said that two women are taken to hospital just a short while ago after Israel fell on them you smoke about what happened in Elat as well people need to be vigilant regardless of where they are in the country right now very much you know for almost three days we didn't have here in the area of Tel Aviv alerts but I was on my way here to the studio when the alerts came on I was driving and for one short second I thought what am I going to do to stop I said yes ok this is what we need to do we need to stop we need to take a shelter I went underneath a bridge and I think that all of us we should remember that we have the interception rate is very high but it's not 100% we need to take a shelter and we do not need to help them by not taking a shelter when there is an alarm I don't know of course what happened in Tel Aviv and maybe they were hit when they took the shelter but we still see that Hamas is able launching missiles although Israel is deep as I said is deep in Gaza but they still have the ability first of all to launch missiles from the southern part of the Gaza Strip and also from Gaza ok Israel is not everywhere in Gaza so the risk is still there and I guess that they are still keeping their power to the minute that they will feel that they are with their backs to the wall. Several terrorists have been eliminated inside the Gaza Strip by Israel in recent days and yet are you surprised that there is still the ability to send rockets out of the Strip Israel is making more and more progress according to the reports in terms of its moves to try to eliminate Hamas and yet every single day rockets are sent towards civilian areas in Israel. Right but we need to remember that we are talking about 3 to 4,000 militias that were killed during the operation they have maybe a bit less than 40,000 militias many of them are underneath Gaza Gaza has another city underneath the main city so most of them are hiding there we need to say the IDF didn't meet all the power of Hamas yet so they have their ability, they are waiting they know that Israel is trying to take them out of the tunnels but you know it's a very complicated issue to bring them out of their tunnels and bunkers and they are keeping their power they still have lots of missiles they have the ability to launch them they decide how and when to do it because they know that they are still not having enough danger in order to use it they will use it when they will feel that Israel is now going down into the ground it's so interesting that there are calls for more humanitarian aid becoming into the strip yet they definitely is enough money for weapons clearly that is where the financing has been focused stay with us we've got more to unpack right now though let's go to our correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman and he filed this update a short while ago we've got some smaller sub munitions that were dropped on that area and you're hearing the loud booms of some outgoing artillery I'm not sure if the mic is picking that up but if it does that's the 155 is all around us speaking and sending their rounds out into Gaza right now now we do know they have been hitting some major terror infrastructure over the course of the past few days the IDF mentioned that 130 tunnel shafts have been hit in recent days in the operation so the access points to the tunnels the easiest thing to hit those are actually mostly being taken out by ground forces just about every single brigade and all the combat engineers have what they're calling a tunnel clearing kit roughly 30 pounds of high explosive they stick in the hole and blow the entrance to kingdom come nothing comes out of that again not without some heavy equipment anyway one of the big plans right now is to seal off all those entrances and make sure anybody inside is forced to leave the fort and that's not Israel's problem anymore so that's the ground operation against the infrastructure when it comes down to the commanders themselves there has been some big news announced now it would be the elimination of several medium to high ranking commanders of the Nukba force remember that the Nukba force was a team of elite Hamas commandos that on October 7th were the leaders of the force that ransacked southern communities committing crimes against humanity massacres, Hamas torture all around Israel's border communities the massacre of well over a thousand civilians and about 300 soldiers on top of that so what Israel is about to do was to eliminate every last member of them and they just took out a company level commander as well as a brigade commander that were both involved in planning the attack and the massacre at Kabud Zikim as well as the Zikim base that's part of Israel's both strategic goal that's the elimination of the Nukba force and to gain competency and faith in the IDF's ability to deter the enemy once again as well as a tactical level goal because these are the people giving orders to the commandos on the ground the people giving orders to where to place ambushes you start killing those commandos they start losing their ability to coordinate their movements in the ship which means that Israel can pick up the pace which is a critical policy moving forward as pressure mounts on Israel to reach some sort of a quarter ceasefire well Israel can't do that anytime soon it's done as possible in as short a time as possible eliminating those commandos good way to start correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman with that update from southern Israel just a short while ago still in studio your take on the developments that we just heard Ariel describing inside the Gaza Strip much progress has been made but as you alluded to earlier in this war there's a long way to go but we need to remember the leader of Hamas Ichesi Noir the leader of the military wing Mohammad Def all of them are hiding underneath the ground we didn't see them and their soldiers didn't see them outside we did see from the other hand we saw the head of the Shin Bet and we saw chief of staff of Israel inside deep in Gaza that our leadership is inside and this is I think a big difference between us and Hamas they are hiding and sending other people to die but our generals and our commanders are inside with the soldiers I must say as a civilian I don't even recall that during the Second Intifada I saw the head of the Shin Bet in Ramallah or any other place Ronan Bar inside with Herzl Alevi chief of staff we need to think for the soldiers for everybody to see and this also means and I think this is what they try to tell Hamas that we will keep chasing them until we bring them Ichesi Noir the first one because I think that before we finish with Ichesi Noir and Mohammad Def we cannot call victory I don't like the word victory but they are talking in the media about victory if we are talking about victory bringing to justice Ichesi Noir and Mohammad Def is a must the other important victory and I agree with you that word is very vague it's very difficult to define at this juncture is bringing back 239 hostages talk to us about what it means right now we are seeing all these developments the fighting according to the IDF is going well but the concern is what this all means the 239 people somewhere across the Gaza Strip potentially in tunnels potentially dispersed it's not clear no updates we have two ways that should lead us to the same place one is the diplomatic way Qatar and maybe Egypt and the United States for sure in other countries that should help Israel to bring Hamas to some kind of an arrangement hostages the other way is the military way because if they understand that we are going after them and if they understand that this is the only thing they can give us in order to push us away a little bit probably they will be willing to bring or release some of the hostages the hostages and I think I said it before in your studio this is the most important thing because these people civilians and soldiers but let me talk for a minute about the civilians about the babies, about the children about the elderly that were neglected by Israel the reason why they are in Gaza is because we as a country we failed to keep them safe and this is number one goal to bring them back and I think that what Israel is doing now is trying to push hard Hamas to make them or even force them to release the hostages we saw in the beginning that they released a few now for quite a few days nothing happened I hope it will happen big concern as time goes by people that are sick people that need to get medicine big big concern you have made mention of the way Iran is actually pulling the strings at different centers we as you are discussing are watching to see what will happen with the hostages but there are also developments on many different fronts and we're seeing now the idea of saying that the A-light attack was spearheaded by the IRGC so we're talking about that drone that came out of Syria it appears now that it seems that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was involved does this surprise you what does this mean what is the significance of that development the war that we are facing now is a war against Iran they are using proxies all over the Middle East they are using proxies in Yemen they are using proxies like Hamas and Hamas became a proxy of Iran financed by Iran and gets all kind of help from Iran Hezbollah of course all kind of different groups with different names in Syria all of them are proxies of Iran Iran is trying to do few things first of all to take off some pressure because of the nuclear issue secondly they try to prevent any agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia because they understand that an agreement between the United States Israel and Saudi Arabia is something that they really don't want to have and I guess that also the timing why they needed Hamas to attack Israel in this timing has some connection with the fact that Israel and Saudi Arabia became closer and closer with the help of the United States so Iran is the problem Iran is running say running the show all over the Middle East and every time we see something happening whether missiles from Gaza, drone from Syria missiles from Yemen Iran is in the end is sending those people orchestrating all these different developments at the same time thank you as always for your insights and thank you for being here in studio so support for the hostages that we've been talking about is emanating from many parts of the world posters have been put up in several centers on buildings and landmarks pictures of those being held by the Hamas terror group and in some parts of the United States vandals have been tearing them down more in this report after walls throughout the world began to be covered with posters of the kidnapped Israelis to raise awareness of their plight they began to disappear almost immediately as supporters of Hamas and the Palestinians began tearing them down and in some cases even vandalizing them first why are you taking down pictures of missing children so why are you taking that down for cause it doesn't need to be there why are you ripping that off look what you're doing don't colonize somewhere else the videos of the poster vandals have gone viral another front opened this one dealing with information in the public sphere the artists Deda and Nitzan Minz I think no more than a few hours people keep tearing it down but we will continue to put it back on Simcha Itzik and Shira did not know each other before but like many people around the world they organized themselves through a WhatsApp group to continue hanging the posters around the city terrible it's terrible yesterday in Columbus Square on 59 my 8 year old daughter and I went to Hank's sign and this morning when I got up to see it it was gone but I saw new pictures and people come on their own initiative and hang posters while they're putting up the posters some passersby congratulate them on their important work it hurts it hurts on the one hand to see that there are people who have no awareness of what really happened there or what really happens there every day and they just ignore it whether it's because it's a trend or they have no idea what happened there how can you tear down a poster the posters disappearing are asking great care is being taken to document them and clearly record their faces why are you ripping these down tell me what you know about these hostages tell me what you know about these hostages that they're kidnapped by a terrorist organization how do you know that for sure these are innocent civilians in Israel f**k you f**k you what f**k these are our family members in this case these sisters became famous and appeared on the cover of the New York Post using the faces has become an online campaign as more and more names are revealed along with their place of work or school some were fired, some were suspended and some who were caught and reacted violently were also arrested why are you taking those down what's your name Joav Davis founded the popular web page Jews of New York and every day he gets documentation of the people who tear down the signs never in the city have we encountered the phenomenon of posters being torn down not even for a missing dog the reason it's important for us to name and shame actually find the name and embarrass them shame them on the networks is because these people are dangerous people and now for more we welcome to studio Lihoo Talmore co-founder of an initiative called 710 stories he's a law student from Reichman University Lihoo thank you very much for being here thank you so much for having me tell us about this initiative what about the atrocities that happened on the 7th of October well at first we tried to understand where all the testimonies like there happened so many people were there at Shabbat it was awful and we saw that no one is actually gathering all the testimonies together so we start making phone calls and thanks to the communication in Reichman we start to talking and start hearing all the first account testimonies and starting this huge archive of those testimonies it's incredible to think it's nearly 5 weeks on and every day more and more details are emerging about what happened it's endless give us an idea of the response that you've been getting all the stories we can see online it's actually amazing people from all over the world showing sympathies to the people who've been there in those party in the Nova Rave which was a huge massacre and we have a lot of people from there coming and tell their testimony we can see people from around the world showing the sympathies to the people to the Israeli people well when you hear someone from your age talking about the atrocities that he has been through you cannot stay silent something happening and the people at that music festival will be your age people who were students and young people wanting to celebrate to dance and we all know what in fact unfolds trauma and speaking about trauma is such a crucial part of the healing are you finding that people are needing to speak about what happened it's amazing that you say that it's actually like a video therapy we can see that people coming and tell their story after like an hour, an hour and a half they say like they feel like they speed it out first time the whole story that we stay and listen, just listen put the headphones and the mics and listen we don't ask too many questions the first question that we ask is just how are you tell us about your story and the word just came out and the reactions are amazing even for the survivors themselves it's an incredible initiative we wish you all the very best so important to have these stories told if there's some form of healing for the people who are talking about their ordeal then that certainly is going a long way to making a difference down the line of course and I want to use this platform to call everybody to check our Instagram page 7, 10 stories and look and share those stories the word needs to know, the word needs to hear our story, the Israeli story Nihu Talmora, thank you so much for being here Nihu Talmora, thank you so much for being here Nihu Talmora, thank you so much and that is a wrap for this edition breaking news coverage I'm Denise Levine in Tel Aviv thank you for watching, stay tuned to lead in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking more than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us, we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity BC is now BO before October this past month since bloody Saturday since the world as we knew it ceased to exist the most difficult question here in Israel was is how are you the answer you usually get like everyone, yes like everyone with this thick dock of sorrow butchered and yet together in grief and pain and hope and strength together we have lost so many we have lost so much and so a month on for all of us who died and survived and born anew on October 7th it became clear than ever before this is no social contract that keeps us together that bounds us but a shared destiny covenant and it is up to us to make it not just a covenant of the past but one of the future for the sake of all those who are no longer here but forever will be with us the question is not what will be but who we will be because we have rediscovered if you will our true secret weapon our resilience and the Israeli light amidst all this darkness is and will continue to be shining oh so bright and yet what do you say when there are no words how do you bid farewell to someone you never even knew so many lives ended on October 7th every person a full world of course there were so many of them so many funerals and so many eulogies to be written and yet so little people left to actually write them so writers all over the country volunteered to use their own weapon and honor them with the words to accompany all of them in their final journeys and we're now joined here in studio by screenwriter Tal Miller Gili Dolev also here with us and we'll be speaking to you shortly Gili and by zoom we're also joined by Nili Balsini who lost her husband Yoram in the heroic battles of Kibbutz Beri thank you all of you for joining us on this broadcast and first before and after all else Nili we are so so sorry for your loss irony has no mercy and you were actually writing an obituary to a friend when you got the message on your beloved husband yes that was I was in the Kibbutz we arrived the geologists but in a different way we don't talk about the death but about the living and who was the person how he lived and what he did with his life so I was interviewing one of the families and I was holding my phone at the time because because I knew I was you know I was expecting the call to hear what happened to him and when we were talking about the families no so I got the phone and I went to hear that my husband was there too but then somebody somebody of the group of the writers volunteered to do the inquiries and write the geology so yeah so one of them is Tal Miller who is here with us in Studio Neely it's Neely knows firsthand but it's so hard to recap the life of a person you know not to speak about someone you didn't so where do you start how do you write an obituary for a stranger well it's a very good question I have to say it's weird to say I was privileged but I feel privileged taking part of this amazing and very painful project I used to be a speech writer before I worked as a screenwriter it never I never felt it was so emotional like it is now I feel like I fell in love with people who I never met throughout their beloved ones and the stories they told about them it's like building a puzzle of someone's life you get you get like 40 different questions you need to ask the closest people to the audience and then you try to build this story you ask yourself how would this person wish to be remembered and what are the things that you would be most proud of and you try to build it together with these beloved ones it's a very challenging mission I'm not sure I'm using the right term here but both of you to an extent professional obituary writer is at this point what would you say is the driving force when trying to write an obituary is it the sorrow is it the attempt to comfort those who are present at the funeral is it the pursuit of creating meaning to the life that are now gone well it's a very good question but I agree that the most important thing is talking about life not only about death we always say that each individual is a universe and there were so many universes that we lost in this terrible tragedy we try to look at their life as like they wish to observe their own life if it was possible I believe that a good eulogy is something that can only be written about someone specific and we try to find the right anecdotes that tell their own story in a way that no one no one else can we can write about anyone else so that's the challenge and Nili so many members of the kibbutz we keep on trying to explain to our foreign audiences what a kibbutz means such a powerful strong community and all of a sudden you had to bid farewell to dozens overwhelming can't even describe that there were days with the 17 funerals some of them parents and two kids and one day was a grandmother and their son and a granddaughter so this is overwhelming and they were because we cannot bury the people in our place because we are all refugees by now so we had to put them in temporary places and they were in succession in one hour after another and this was this was incredibly difficult for everyone because it was so intense and families and friends and all over the country and some it cannot be described in words I think because because also in some of the scenes they were still using bombs around and the noises all around yeah you had to bury your friends while the war is still ongoing yeah that's not easy yes please nearly keep on going I don't know you can't describe this I think in words it's only if you take pictures of that if you videotape then you can see you can see the amount of flowers and the amount of people crying and also there are times in that not all the families take it in the same way although it's in succession but each funeral is different so to that point exactly and tell to that point you were forced to find words and I know it's a tough one and yet I think that what I would like to ask you the most what makes a person who is what makes his life his own and what makes his death his it's a very challenging question especially when we're referring that tragedy so many people die in the same day can tell you that I ask myself what would be meaningful for the same individual for each individual that we are writing about for example one of the person I wrote about was religious as a child and the last one the last thing he did before he died was putting a Torah book on his pillow just before he died and that was something that I felt was meaningful because it relate to his own history and biography I try to look at specific issues that makes this person unique for example someone else was color blind and that really shaped his entire personality he could combine different shades but no one would think they are matched and that was a huge part of his the way he looked at himself and the world and that was a part of the eulogy so we try to go for the specific issues and anecdotes that tells someone managed to portray the his life story and his character and you've mentioned the word history and in this respect I don't think it's for us it's not for us to attach meaning to other people's lives it's for us to describe them and to show who they were and the story is enough I think you don't have to it doesn't have to be something you know a lesson for the future generations it's just one person no heroes and no ordinary people died there ordinary people so I think it's enough that we show the future of who they were and respect that to honor them that way and before we thank you both we cannot ignore the historical gravitas I would say of this moment these obituaries will be remembered for eternity not just as personal stories but as stories of this nation to what extent did you feel like a historian Tal well I really agree I don't look at myself as a historian I look at myself as a storyteller and I try to tell the story in a way I examine it in the way the beloved ones of each individual look at it and I think I really agree the tragedy here is there are so many different stories and our goal was to portray it to tell it as accurate as we can and hopefully we did you did very well you did very well I can tell you that because I know the people and I know you did very well thank you so much and really it's really the least we can do as writers as people in this country right now to help in this terrible tragedy that it's really still impossible to describe and yet you were hesitant to using this word to describe how you feel at the beginning to be part of the final phase of their journey Neely, before we we thank you would you like perhaps to share a month on what what keeps you going I'm not sure I know but I think it's it's being a part of a community that's very strong and very empowering and this is where I belong and I have I take part in whatever is necessary now so this is what I do sticking together this is what keeps all of us going Neely Basinay we're sending a big hug from here thank you so very much for speaking to us we appreciate it tell me thank you very much for coming thank you for having me yes and we will take a deep breath now because the next video you're about to see will probably continue to resonate for a while if not forever beforehand mother is it okay now to cry yes girl yes thin hands yes now it is time to cry yes angel of plucked lashes and hair yes now it is already allowed already allowed you are you were obedient and wise and in the dark you did not cry and even so no ear would hear you grew your teeth in silence and a star from above will testify how you tore the sea again apart look at how in a tiny vibration the first glee sparkles in your eye this is a part of a poem written by arguably the greatest Israeli poet Nathan Altelman after World War II based on one of so many such stories of a little girl who was hiding with her mother for so many years Jewish children were not allowed to cry this country was founded so they could so they can be children on October 7th once again Jewish children were not allowed to cry on a peaceful Saturday morning at their home in the south mama and papa bear watched their little baby bear sounded outside baby bear perth his ears good morning baby cop the cop looked for advice don't worry mama bear said it covered his eyes the baby yelled in fear don't worry little one mama bear is here they're getting near I'll make my love mama bear is here we're joined now here in studio by Gili Dolev creator and co-director of the mama bear movie we've just watched Gili thank you so very much for coming it's not the first time I'm watching it and yet every time it hits again I think that many of us felt like Roberto Bernini and life is beautiful trying to mask the horror with some childish tenderness and here it's the exact opposite it's this pure moment of a mother talking her baby in bed how did it all come to be so I think first of all just hearing the previous two guests talking it's just so powerful and I think if there's a glimmer of hope in all this it's like how people come together and the great sense of community and this all mama bear happened because of a lot of great people, great artists like TV execs felt the need to do something and to give voice to those who don't have a voice at the moment and especially the kids held in Gaza and the rest of the hostages a good friend and a colleague of mine who was still is accompanying one of the families who have kids held in Gaza she felt with a very sort of strong instincts that animation will be able to deliver a message in a way that will be different and in a way that will be heard maybe above the general noise and so she mentioned the idea to me and I think we brainstormed it for 15 minutes which is shorter than anything I think I've ever done before and then we involved Shirley Oran who's a senior TV exec in this business and we thought about it a little bit more and then I just pretty much approached a lot of my friends are also artists and animators, they usually work on you know preschool shows my background is directing and creating preschool shows I've recently directed Cocoa Millen this could not be more different to something like that and Peel Animation is a great Israeli studio of of her insurance because it came bored and you know contributed all the time and efforts and people who work in the studio along with animators from all over the world yeah all recruited we've seen this across the board in all sectors of Israeli society from all really all fields and all endeavors Gili why bears and not humans that's a really it's a great question we started off when I first thought about it I thought about a mother and a son with wolves coming into the house you know just all idea of a fairy tale gone very wrong like you know the green brothers and you know with the wolves and then when I was talking to Leora as a storyboard artist about the idea he said like maybe they should all be animals and I thought that was a great idea and I felt like bears and the idea of a mama bear protecting her cub resonating a way that we all understand so to an extent to make the story even more human you had to make it non-human you phrased it in a much better way than I've ever sort of articulated it it's exactly that I think when something animation as a medium is great for you know for doing doing something with a little disguise that you don't expect and then kind of like going you know for like the soft spot and I think it catches you off-guard and I think that's what happens you don't expect it to start which here our house is sort of like very gentle voice and you think you are kind of in for like this kind of fairy tale and very quickly it goes like the visual language here is like a classic children book and then it hits so and that was exactly the purpose and Ashera Simon-Hoyes was the art director and the designer who designed this like we talked very early on about the idea of creating a picture book and because those picture book visuals that you know every parent kind of reads to their kids before they go to bed and now those kids are in Gaza and they don't have that and it's something that just like again we all understand and it resonates and it cross-cultural as well so people in Israel, people abroad they should all understand it on a basic human level. Yeah so we do want to take a quick look into your next project taken. Gilly tell us about this not less shocking. So the idea here is trying to give a very specific voice to the hostages in Gaza by taking their individual videos and from again every day sort of activity, those are real home videos of the hostages and having a moment where they are literally gone so we and the aim is to create one for every hostage held in Gaza with Ilanid Chervigotsky and who's helping make contact with all the families because we get the consent of everyone in Syria around Avi Balili's doing the music and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is already on board to help distribute it. We do hope that they will use it in all their platforms of course. What feedbacks are you getting so far? So on Mamaba it certainly hit a nerve I think it touched a lot of people in Israel and more importantly in a way because it's important to touch people here but we're all in the same camp. I think there's such a wave of anti-Semitism at the moment around the world that all we can do is trying to get people to understand the scale of the horrors that happened here and we're dealing with people exactly like them. It could be the brother, the child, the sister, mother, father, grandparents exactly. So that's the only thing we can do we just hope that their voice is heard and brought back home as soon as possible. Gero Duleva I do hope that very soon you will go back to your ordinary job of making kids happy. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming here. We appreciate it. Thank you. Now brothers in arms it's not just a term, not mere lip service. If this month taught us anything is that the Israeli people are a force of nature. Our correspondent Wisha Pilar joined this civil organization that became the de facto government of the people for the people by the people. Here in this picturesque not far from the Gaza border masses of volunteers have gathered to assist the hard-hit people of the south. On Sunday morning we created this control unit we didn't know exactly what to do we decided to set up this headquarter here, a place close to the Gaza border. This headquarter which was established right after the brutal Hamas assault on October 7 doesn't only help with supplies and food but also with evacuation missions. I-24 News joined the team of elderly people who came to support the people of the south. We have three missions today. The first one is to bring people from Netivot. The second one is to bring a package to Beri and the third is to evacuate a woman and bring her to Jerusalem. Each unit here has four people and two cars in each car we have someone with a weapon and a driver. Our first stop was at Netivot about 10 kilometers from the Gaza Strip which has been bombarded by rockets. The next destination is Kibbutz Berry. This was one of the main targets of the Hamas slaughter. The team is asked to deliver a package to one of the residents here. The road is closed by the IDF and the team brings the package to one of the soldiers. One of the volunteers here is Shauli Levi whose granddaughter was kidnapped and taken to Gaza. We take action and join the civil effort. My heart hurts now but as you can see the activity here is distracting and that's the most important thing for me right now. Ever since the war erupted we are seeing more and more initiatives like this where residents are taking action. It's just one more example of the uniqueness and strength of the Israeli society. It's a short break now but when we get back we continue this special edition a month since October 7th since everything changed from devastation to resurrection. A few minutes and we'll be back stay with us. 1,500 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Welcome back to this special edition. As said, no, it's not BC anymore, it's BO before October. Nine-month-old fear B-Bus is now 10-month-old. Yes, a month in captivity, a month being held hostage by terrorists over 241 people living in this continuous nightmare. They do not know what's going on in the world and what's going on in the nightmare. They do not know when or who is coming to get them back home. Our children, our grandparents, our sisters, our brothers, no matter how many times I'm saying that this past month, the mind, the soul cannot grasp that. They do not know that this nation's heart will not be beating properly until they are all back home and we want to welcome now here in our studio the director, Mr. Ari Fulman. Thank you so very much for joining us. Before we begin, we want to take a look at one of dozens of such videos you have directed, sir, interviewing families of the hostages. Bring them home now. Let's take a look. After we saw we saw it on TV when he was sitting there in the middle of the night. Yes, there was a sound. I was surprised. We realized that when we were talking about the shooting, the consequences we need to understand, we understand that if we take them in our lives, they will think that they will see that they see them. At least we have had an experience of their presence. We miss them. We miss them so much. We all miss them. We miss them so much. It's just a nice feeling. But first of all, this specific clip was directed by Jossmyne Keany. We shared each one of us directed 15 of them. It was was organized really fast by producers Madal Zamir. Two, three days after the massacre, October the 7th, so around the 9th, we were already organized in a studio with researchers, crew, everything in order to bring the cry of the families. Taking consideration, obviously, that they were totally neglected by the government, especially in the first week, no one contacted them. They didn't know what was going on. Long days for many of them to even know if their loved ones are hostage or missing. Yeah, many of them didn't know. Unfortunately, while we were shooting, we were getting identifications of some of the missing people and their beloved ones, they realized that they were identified as dead. So that was also during the process of the first few days. A lot of confusion, chaos, all chaos, especially coming from the rave party, rain. But most of all, I felt that they were absolutely deserted, neglected, lonely, aside from friends and families. But in general, they had no clue what was going on. This was very tough and strong. So it sounds, and correct me if I'm mistaken, Mr. Fulman, that perhaps the trigger objective was to film those videos so the world can see. But to an extent, the more pressing objective was to make those families feel heard. Yes, to echo the cry of the families worldwide and also here, to the government here. And to put it first in the agenda of what is going on, so they will not be neglected. And they will be part, or even if they're not part of what is going on, they should be released first. This was the idea after five days. But no clue what was going to happen. Obviously, everybody understood that there's going to be a ground invasion. And with the families, it was for them crucial to make a statement that first we bring back the kids, everybody.  It didn't work out so far, as they even don't have names coming from the UN. And I think today we're like one month. And I think, from my point of view, I think the tone should be different, should be changed. Here domestically, not necessarily. For me, I think it's especially domestically, because I think the tone was really trying. It was a begging tone. It was, please bring me my son back home, or my mother. And I think it should be demanding now. Yeah, not now, but yesterday. Well, how do you try to communicate or to convey to foreign audience the scope, the scale, the depth of horror, of cruelty, essentially the shattering of humanity, of trust in humanity? That's for certain. Well, I think it's the job of the government. And I think if we hand here a strong ministry of public information, or who could echo what happened, because there is so much documentation today, endless. They didn't use it. And I think it's one of the reasons that this unbalanced response, especially in Europe and in Ivy League universities in America, occurred. And it was not surprising, because the truth was not really echoed outside. Well, to that point, since you brought it up, Mr. Fulman, you're obviously one of the most successful Israeli directors of the world. And profoundly intertwined with global Western film industry, liberal artists, I can use many more adjectives here. But bottom line, are you disappointed by the community of humanists worldwide? You mean the left wing liberals? Yes, I do. Yes, in a way, but I think it was very much expected. And I'm fully aware of so many problems that occurred in the first week still now, the non-functioning government ministers, and especially just echoing, revealing to the world what happened here on October 7th. That's a biblical event, in our perspective. It's a biblical event, 1,300 people slaughtered within seven, eight hours. I don't think it was echoed, and the way it was done. And we still expect people in Europe, when they're exposed to all the material coming from Gaza, we're not, by the way, to be balanced. But maybe they can't be balanced until they are not informed about everything that happened. In this respect, you've mentioned the documentation. In real time, by the massacre itself, by so many people, how will a collective memory of such, rightfully, putting it in the gravitas of a biblical event, how can a collective memory be created with so many different angles of documentation? I think it will take time, and it will take time. As it will take a long, long time to heal, the process is going to be so long, we don't get it. We still don't get in what kind of event we are in. When we just try to absorb everything that happened, but it's too fast, there will be, culture-wise, there will be endless numbers of documentations. But for doing that, you need the process of time. How to assess it, and how to rewrite the memory again. I did it in my films, and it was very interesting, because when you're used to, like, covering or making a movie about a war that happened 20 years ago, it's one thing, because the story is built out of memory in different juxtapositions. And when you come to the event like now, and so fresh, there are no filters at all. And you never dealt with easy topics, far from it, from the Lebanon War to the Holocaust. You're well versed with dealing with trauma or healing trauma throughout, that's for certain, through cinema. This national trauma hits different. It's in a scale that we do not understand. Look, I was supposed to shoot a fiction movie about the Yom Kippur War in March. So that's four months from today. I can't see it happening. It's like with no comparison. Anything that is written in that script. How can you compare it to a mother calling a TV station, asking the broadcaster like you to send the army to rescue her son? That's not comparable. So how do you foresee art healing this nation? I will rephrase my question. And I will dare to ask, will we be OK? It will be OK. I think I always felt in the last 20 years that for something to move here, we need a catastrophe. But there's no way me or anyone else could have imagined how far this will go. No way, no way on earth. No one expected it. But I think there will be new order here. I hope it will bring new order. It's too early to see that. But one thing is for sure, we cannot sustain the life that we lived here for the past 20, 30 years. This is going to change somehow for whatever direction, to whatever direction, it's going to change dramatically. Yes, the world has changed completely, no longer exists. And a new one will be built. Mr. Harry Folman, thank you so very much for coming here. We appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. Now where the signs of the battle became a battlefield, a battleground of their own, there are so many heartbreaking and stomach-turning visual images from this past month, as we've just been discussing. But there's one that actually changed the course of the war itself, kidnapped. You've all seen it, those posters that are hung and torn and then hung again all over the world, making sure that there's so many, too many Israeli hostages will stay in global consciousness literally in their faces. And we want to head now to New York to speak with the woman behind its artist, Nitsan Mitz. Thank you so very much, Nitsan, for joining us. Well, how did it all start? So basically it started by me, E, Dede, and Tal Huber. It's not only me, it's thousands of volunteers, but in the beginning, Dede and I were here in New York and on the 7th of October, we received the traumatizing news and as two street artists and artists, we decided that we should do something immediately. So we contacted Tal Huber, which is a designer from Israel and together we created the format of the poster, the kidnapped posters, which you can see on top, you can see the word kidnapped and the picture of the real person below. And this is how we started. We started guerrilla. And Dede and I went with 2,000 copies and posted them all over Manhattan. And this is how it started, basically, one month ago. And Nitsan, I do want us to talk about the design of those posters. It is quote unquote basic, right? And references off, obviously, the familiar missing signs in the U.S., a name, a picture, as you've said, and this chilling title kidnapped. And yet, these are not memorials or eulogies. They're very much demanding. The those who see it to be present and to understand it, we're talking about something that is still happening now. Yes, this was the purpose because all the Israelis that live abroad, just like me, I'm a visitor. I don't even live here. Feeling so isolated and so far away from home is a devastating feeling for us. We feel so lost and so unconnected. And we wanna scream on behalf of our country and behalf of our people. So, yes, this is like our, this is how we managed to scream in the streets through this campaign. And because the only goal of this campaign is to really attract people to see our suffering and our hostages that are still held in Gaza and to bring awareness. And by this awareness, we really hope to bring public pressure on politicians, on decision makers to help make the negotiations quicker as soon as possible. This scream, you'd find it, truly comes out of those posters and was well heard all over the world, became a global phenomenon in a matter of split seconds, really. And yet, your posters seeking to tell a story became this story. We've all seen those images from Western capitals all across Europe and the US, propensity and activist film tearing them down. And then, again, they were filmed doing so. What do you think about this, again, those posters becoming an actual war front? You know, I never expected that. I never expected our hostages to still remain in Gaza more than two days. Not in my worst dreams, I would imagine that this campaign would last one month and that it would become a target for radical Islamists. And, you know, it's not what I planned, but I think it's also very important. The main goal of this campaign is to bring awareness. But by accident, this campaign also raised, it kind of raised the issue of antisemitism because with this campaign, we discovered that we're surrounded by people that really, really hates us. Hates us that much that they are willing to rip our posters down. And by saying ripping our posters down, I mean us, physically us. So now we know, we finally know the truth about what's going on in the world, how hated we are, and we need to be prepared for that all over the world.  I think that I can fairly say we all felt it in our bodies as if our souls are being torn apart. Artist Natsan means I do hope that the next time we speak and that their next artistic project will be celebrating their homecoming. Amen. And wait. Yes, all of us. Thank you so very much for speaking to us. Thank you. And still very much on topic of walls of hope, graffiti artist art too, making sure that the hostages will not be erased. Huge graffiti with the words free pink on a highway close to Tel Aviv. This is not just an artistic expression, but a direct message to Hamas by the graffiti artist community, which is trying to save one of its members. It's so big, it's huge. And so many cars are passing by there. It's coming into your eyes, to your soul, to your heart and you take it with you to the rest of the day and you think about it and you talk about it with others. So it's like when you want to raise awareness to something good or something that's important, it's a great place to do it. This artwork was created by several members of the graffiti community who wanted to raise awareness of the abduction of their friend in Barheiman, the Nova Rave, doing the Hamas onslaught on October 7th. She's now supposed to start her fourth year of studying art. She's really creative and she's really sweet, such a nice young woman, really. This is not the first tribute of the graffiti artist community in Israel. Ever since the Hamas massacre, there have been different gestures, such as this wall painting of Joe Biden, or one dedicated to Rachel from Ophakim, one of the heroes of the current crisis. The entire graffiti scene in Israel enlisted for this mission, and we are going to create more and more graffiti which will raise awareness and call for the release of all abducted Israelis. The situation here is very difficult. Even speaking in front of the camera is very unusual for me. We call on all the graffiti artists in the world to join forces in one message, to bring back all the abducted people. Members of the graffiti scene say they are aware of the power of their artwork on social media. One example is the famous British artist Banksy, whose graffiti art is worth millions of dollars. Over the years, Banksy has shown his support for the Palestinians. I like Banksy and I like his work, but I feel right now it's a different situation and if I could meet Banksy, I would try to talk to him and kind of just explain that this situation that we have right now, as I said before, it's different than the actual conflict. I feel like it's a separate thing. Now it's like terror against the rest of the world. Friends of Inbao also made t-shirts and other items bearing her nickname. They all hope for her fast return. Until then, they'll continue to spread the word. World renowned singer Akinom Nini was one of hundreds of Israeli artists who without even sparing a single thought to it left everything and headed out to the field, touring the country from North to South, appearing before survivors. And no matter how many times I'm using this term, I will not get used to it. And soldiers, of course, at the front lines and now she is here with us. But first, let's take a listen. Come on, never cash action. Most of you probably know her. As Noah is here with us, coming to our studios, a street from the ground up from the place where many Israelis, refugees in their own country are currently at. And Noah, you know, music is healing. We all know that. But I must admit that in the early days of the war, at least in those first days, it felt that every chord, every sound is tainted with blood, with our blood. So what do you sing when your throat is choking? That's a good question. I think there are many people who still can't listen to music. I live in Shafim, which is a kibbutz in the middle of Israel. And our kibbutz is hosting hundreds of people, families from Kva'azah. So I spend a lot of time with them. It's right across the street from my own house. And I accompany families. I go sometimes to Shivas, just sit with people and talk with them and hug them. And some of them say, I would love to hear you sing. I can't hear any music. Music triggers too much emotion. On the other hand, for other people, music is, as you said, it's healing. And I feel privileged to be able to do that. It's just such an honor, really. Gildor and I have been going every night to a different place, north and south, sometimes in hotels and elats, like some of it was on screen before, which are hosting refugees, survivors. Yeah, that's a hard word to say. It's a really hard word to say for Jews. And sometimes kibbutzim, that the kibbutz movement throughout Israel has been amazing. People have opened their hearts and their homes. And we've also done fundraisers. We did a fundraiser to raise money for Qfar Azza, of which people from all over the world were viewing this online thing that we did on Facebook. And so yeah, it's the least we can do. So music, not just healing, but connecting. Yes. And Al Green was asking, how do you mend a broken heart, right? But how do you mend a million broken hearts? Very slowly, step by step. I think that Israel, I don't even think that we understand the road ahead of us. It's going to be a long, long road of healing for everybody. But I have to also be an optimist, because I am. She won Pellis was my hero.  And I prefer to live as one. I think I'm not the first one to say on this show, or any show, that it's incredible to see the solidarity that has come from this nation. I swear it makes me so proud to be Israeli. I'm always proud to be Israeli. But in this sense to see, and not only that, but you also see the connection between the Ha-Raidim and the secular population, between the Arab-Israeli population, then the Druze and the Jews and everyone, even the refugees that I've seen, the Earthrians who are volunteering and all over, they want to be part. It's incredible to see. That's one. And also, I think that this incredible crisis must lead us all to it. A crisis needs to be an opportunity for growth and for a new light for Israel. And I definitely see that coming. Yeah, from the ashes, flowers, bloom, bloom again. And I need to see, I've always been a person connected to peace. I believe in peace. This hasn't made me believe less in peace. I believe strongly in peace. And I think that, I hope, I pray that this will bring that awareness to all of us that peace is the only way. I do want to talk about what you've been doing day in, day out, and in the past month. So many artists did the same. And it feels, to an extent, part of this nation's DNA because those scenes of singers performing in front of three soldiers or 350 years ago in the Yom Kippur War, a painful one, and yet part of the Israeli-ness. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful part of being Israeli, this solidarity that we feel for each other, this coming together and looking out for each other. I mean, I'm sure that we're not the only nation that behaves in this way when there's tragedy. But I think that since this country, since its inception, has experienced so much tragedy and so much hardship, we've had many, many opportunities to do that. The classic singers, like Shoshana Damarian, Esther O'Farriman, and Yaffa Yarkoni were known for being the war singers. They were there with their beautiful voices, singing for the soldiers. I myself served in the IDF in Lakhatsveit in an army band. So I did a lot of that in my military service. And now I find myself, again, like you said, with all of Israel's artists, giving of ourselves to bring people together. Of war, this is a very active scene, and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us, we don't want to do it. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant, and we are ready, and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. We're joining us on our rolling coverage of day 35 of Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. A short while ago, sirens ringing on Israel's northern border with two UAVs intercepted. Prior to that, a barrage of rockets fired out of Gaza into central Israel, sending millions of Israelis to shelter. Two women were wounded from shrapnel and had been rushed to hospital. Not quiet on the southern front as well, with multiple rocket launches towards southern border communities near the Gaza border. Meanwhile, the IDF continues its ground operation in Gaza, reportedly surrounding a hospital where Hamas terrorists are barricaded. A lot of people are feeling ill. In these visuals, you just saw right there, depicting shots fired by terrorists at civilians who attempted to flee the area. Also, take a look at this footage released by the IDF. This is one of the Hamas military posts. IDF troops also causing significant damage to the terror group's underground tunnels. The country is being targeted from other parts of the Middle East as well, including a drone attack out of Syria, targeting a school in the southern city of Elat. Israel responding with strikes in Syria overnight, targeting the organization that launched the drone without giving further details. Let's take you live now to Israel's northern border. I-24 News correspondent Zach Andrews is standing by for us. Zach, so much going on over the past hour. What is the latest? What are you seeing and hearing from the IDF? Well, Guy, within the last hour, we are seeing multiple red alerts for communities all across the northern border in the western and eastern halves of that northern front. And we're also seeing reports from both the IDF and Lebanese media that there are intensive shelling efforts on the Lebanon side that this is in response to some of the earlier fire and exchanges that have been, of course, happening over the last several days, but have picked up quite considerably today. Lebanese media reporting that there are ATG anti-tank missiles being fired from the Lebanon side at Israeli forces and that Israel is responding with artillery and airstrikes on the Lebanon side. Now, we have, again, multiple red alerts for those communities near Kiryat Shemona. They are asked to stay indoors and stay in shelters currently as it appears that there might even be exchanges of return artillery fire towards Israel. We're working to confirm that for you at this hour. We also have those two drones that were intercepted and that is a major milestone. If you are able to ascertain the drones being involved with Hezbollah, Hezbollah having quite an arsenal of drones at their disposal, Iranian-supplied drones there. And, Zach, speaking about drones, IDF also targeting targets in Syria overnight, those responsible for the drone attack on Elat, what do we know? We're seeing still that Syria's involvement is this, it continues to be a complexity, another level of complexity added to this already tense situation on the North. Syrian media, curiously enough, is reporting that there are strikes taking place, continued strikes taking place inside Syria. They're attributing even Russian forces involvement there and US forces involvement in Syria. We don't know if that's in response to yesterday's drone launch as well, but that's, as you know, a great distance for those drones to travel from Syria to be able to target Elat. Zach Anders in the Northern border, more coming from you later in this evening. Thank you for that update. And now for more, I'm joined in studio by IDF colonel in the reserves, Alon Eviatar, Palestinian affairs expert and former Cogut advisor. Alon, thank you for your time. Let's start with the operation in Gaza. The ground operation continues. We know that IDF troops are advancing with reports of surrounding a hospital. Talk to us about the tactical targets of the IDF at these very hours. Well, I think we are inside the Gaza city, if you want. In the center of Gaza city, which means a wide net of underground, which means the Gaza metro, few kilometers or dozens of kilometers underground of tunnels, full of seniors and activities of the terrorists, of the Hamas movement. The top five, I don't know where are they, but supposed to be around the city underground. I would say also sites of military positions of rockets for long run and short run all over or around the metro underground. And the special place or the center of the military activity, the terrorist activity of the Hamas is Shifa Hospital. Shifa Hospital, it means up and down. It means that all those terrorists going around, we have a military indication or if you want a intelligence indication for that, that all the Hamas seniors and the terrorists as well control the hospital and down underground. It means that as long as the IDF forces will increase the military pressure with a lot of forces from unit fighting units and special units and so on, and will focus the area of the hospital, it means and with a lot of increasing of military operation on the Hamas headquarter, the Hamas military control, command control and so on, it means that the military pressure on the headquarter of Hamas and especially the seniors of Hamas will be, I would say efficient, will have positive active or positive influence by the military, I would say the IDF interest or policy or targets. And I think that so far we didn't see the, we'd say the thousands of those Hamas terrorists going around or out of Gaza city. The main focus or the main area that you can find them, that located is the center of Gaza. It means that during, I would say, and I can assume that during the next days, even more one week, maybe two weeks, we should see another, I would say, movement or another, I would say Palestinian residents leave their home, leave their flats and going south to the south of the area of Han Yunis district of Gaza Strip and as long as the military units of the IDF will fight over in a crowded area without, let's say, a lot of Palestinians residents over there, it will be easy for them to catch those Hamas activities or terrorists to fight them, to kill them, to assassinate them and also to destroy the Hamas targets. I think that during the next, I would say, two or three weeks, we should be supposed for, I would say, complicated period of time, complicated time, the friction between the IDF forces and the Hamas will be increasing, will be increased, but I would say it's a wide challenge, a wide and new challenge if you want. Yes, and the complicated part of the equation here, of course, is the civilians who are still there, the Palestinians in Gaza who have not evicted and we are hearing some concerns out of Washington about whether Israel is doing enough to maintain their safety. Let's maybe take a listen to what Anthony Blinken just had to say. This marks the last day of what's now been a nine day trip of intensive diplomacy throughout the Middle East and now here in the end of the Pacific. And along the way and at each stop, in different ways, we've sought to advance a number of critical objectives, minimizing harm to Palestinian civilians and maximizing the humanitarian assistance that reaches them, working to prevent the spread of the conflict, focusing on getting hostages home, as well as getting American citizens and other foreign nationals out of Gaza, and working to set sustainable, durable conditions for genuinely lasting peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians alike. At the same time, much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure that the humanitarian assistance reaches them. Far too many Palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks and we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them. Yes, Anthony Blinken says far too many Palestinians have been killed. What do you make of the efforts by the IDF to save the lives of those civilians who are uninvolved? To what degree is the IDF doing enough in order to allow them to escape right there from the battles? It's a very good question because, you know, it depends on the legitimacy, if you want. Regarding Blinken's statement, I think that in the meantime, so far, I mean, we are in the weekend, there are approximately between, I can assume, 200 to 300,000 each civilians over there in Gaza City. And the IDF forces or the IDF command will have to push, if you want, to put pressure on the civilians in order to increase the number of the residents that move from the center of Gaza to the south of Gaza, of Gaza Strip, I mean, to the area of Hanunez. It means that the IDF forces, I would say, coordinate with the international organizations like UNR, like the Red Cross and so on, will have to let those e-sings to be involved, to be involved, to be part of the military program, if you want.  To let those residents that civilians, took their things and went to the south of the Gaza Strip. To use those e-sings, to use those humanitarian needs, but the IDF forces, which should be, I would say, more flexible in order to continue fighting in the city, but to push or to, let's say, put more pressure on those residents to leave their flats more and more, in order to, let's say, to be more easy for fight. Obviously a very complicated task. Let's go now to the south of Israel now. Our Pierre Klotschendler is standing by for us, Pierre, in the city of Zderot. We saw some rocket alerts nearby to where you are, just over an hour ago. What is the latest? We don't know of any report of casualties or damage. It happened about 20 kilometers away from where we are in the localities that are facing the central sector of the Gaza Strip, Hanyunas and the camps of Direl Balach. This is a part of the Gaza city, which is being stricken with the Israeli army, which is being struck with the Israeli army, but there's no ground offensive there. So rocket attacks from this area are very possible. There was another one at nine o'clock in the morning in the southern, facing the southern sector of the Gaza Strip and another one during the night, but Zderot has been spared so far. We hear the outgoing shells of the artillery position just nearby where we are. We hear the roar of the airplanes. So far, so good as far as the communities in the southern Israel. And Pierre, you can hear those shelling very loud in our ears here as well. Very different from what is happening in Zderot, in these municipalities that are practically empty of civilians. That is not the case in central Israel, particularly in Tel Aviv. Both of us were in Tel Aviv earlier today. We saw some heavy traffic there and people are being injured from either rocket fire or from shrapnel described for us that difference between the south of Israel and the center when it comes to the vigilance amid these rocket fire. Well, first of all, I wanna address the resilience of the citizens of Zderot because since the beginning of this week, there's been a trickle of people that have returned to Zderot. If the city was empty a week and a half ago and most residents were either in a lot in hotels or in the Dead Sea, many are, not many, but quite a few are starting to come back. They can't just stand being in an hotel room, a whole family in a tiny hotel room. It's difficult. And they've been used to rocket fire for the past 23 years. So if there is no chance of infiltration, then they decide to return. And supermarkets are also, more supermarkets are also opening. So there was some kind of a sense of life returning to Zderot a little bit, not like in Tel Aviv, definitely. In Tel Aviv, when there is a rocket alarm, many people don't have shelters by the way in Tel Aviv because it's never been, the only way you can have a shelter in Tel Aviv is if you live in a building that has been built after 1998, the law to build private shelters was legislated after the first Gulf War in 1991, but it took eight, seven years for those buildings in Tel Aviv to start having private shelters. So most of the people don't have that there. You can see them running either lying on the side of the road or going into a staircase. Everybody's looking at his cell phone to see where the rockets are striking or being intercepted. You can see also that they're sending text messages to their families to ask if they're all right because if you have kids, they live either near you or in your apartments. All these little questions that you ask yourself for a minute and a half before the rockets fall until they have not been intercepted. Yes, that sense of alertness certainly is saving lives as people follow the guidelines Pierre Kloschen learns the road. Thank you for that report. And as we speak on the ongoing battles in Gaza, many Israeli families are extremely concerned for the wellbeing of their loved ones. Some 239 Israelis are still held in the hands of Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza, including children as young as a 10 months old baby and elderly people in their 90s. I want to welcome now one of those family members, Sharon Lifshitz, the daughter of 83 years old or dead Lifshitz who was kidnapped into Gaza on October 7th and also the daughter of Yohved who was one of the only Israeli hostages to be released by Hamas so far. Sharon, thank you so much for taking your time to be with us today. Thank you for having me. So, Sharon, we cannot begin to imagine what you and your family have been going through. It has been 35 days now since your father's kidnapping. How does the family cope with all that is going on? It's really hard to cope with it. We're moving from one day to the next. We are all very active people so we try to keep busy and do what we think is best. We are helping my mom reintegrate and join the family again and get her basic. But above all that, we are still part of a community of Kibbutz near Oz when we have 74 hostages still in Gaza. These are our mothers and our fathers and our child and our neighbors. And this is incredibly, incredibly disturbing. And so this is our foremost job at the moment is to bring our community, people home. So an entire community that is gone and we hope that they will return. But, Sharon, most of the families have basically zero information about the state of their loved ones. You did receive some information from your mother about your father. Does that change at all your feeling, knowing that at least he wasn't injured? How does that change your conception? My father was injured. My mom last saw him after the terrorist, six terrorists enter his house and he was injured in the arm from a bullet that went through the door of the safety room. He was then bitten. So, yes, we are very, very concerned about my dad. It's hard to know his condition. And 34 days after the 7th of October, we still do not know if he's dead