Welcome to I-24 News' ongoing coverage of Israel at war against Hamas. I'm Emily Francis. Israeli police foil an attempted terror attack at the Megiddo Junction with policing the suspect attempted to attack officers with a hammer. The suspect was wounded and detained. Iran, its allies, are making this year's Quds Day an occasion to express support for Palestinians. This year comes as Iran vows deadly retaliation for an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed top leaders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, including the general Iranian opposition, what they say was a person responsible for planning October 7th. Thousands of people that you can see in this video here gathered in Tehran today for the funerals of those seven Revolutionary Guards who were killed in a strike in Syria that Iran has blamed on Israel. The Guards include two generals and they were killed on Monday with the airstrike leveling the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus. Israel has not commented on the strike. We're going to start now by going live to the north where I-24 News correspondent Balir Sladine is. What could you tell us about the latest in the north right now? Yes, we can start Emily with the speech that Nasrallah gave the chief of Hezbollah. He is saying that the response from Iran is inevitably coming. So we have two things here. First is that the response is going to be an Iranian response. So all the options that the Israeli side talked about, one of them was that Iran could use its proxies to attack Israel. Now we can understand from this statement by Nasrallah that the attack will be coming from Iran. Now, the question is, is Iran going to attack Israel straight or is it going to attack Israeli targets outside of Israel? That's a different question, of course, but Nasrallah is saying that this attack is Iranian and is inevitably coming. And also you have Galan, the Israeli defense minister is apparently responding to Nasrallah. He is saying today that what we have, we all are prepared, but preparation doesn't equal like, if we are prepared, that doesn't mean that we are scared of any escalation. So we are just prepared for any attack coming from Israel's enemies, as he's saying. So we are also having defense systems that can be, of course, sabotaging any attack against Israel that's Galan talking today. So we here in the North have heard the sirens many times today. The last one was at around four o'clock, so like four hours ago. And it was in Kiryat Shmoni, where three rockets were fired from southern Lebanon to Kiryat Shmoni, but all were fallen in open terrain. They were targeting the military site in Rameem Hills right there, but apparently there was no casualties as a result of that or either damage. We've heard also the sirens in Biraam and other places since the morning in all of these attempts there hasn't been any casualties, except one where an anti-tank missile was targeting Israeli soldiers in Mithulah. And one Israeli soldier was lightly wounded as a result of that. So we could have expected some sort of an escalation with Hezbollah because of the attack that is attributed to Israel in Damascus a couple of days ago. Now we can say that until now at least the situation is pretty normal. We're seeing the same stuff. There is no expansion of the circle of fire. There is no tens of rockets firing at Israeli communities in the North. And we are, as, of course, Ganandz is saying, prepared for also any escalation that could come from either Iran or Hezbollah or even the proxies in Iraq or even Yemen. That's what we're having until now, of course. And we should mention just that right now with the iftar in Lebanon and, of course, maybe currently we wouldn't see any more, you know, progress right now, but later on in the evening there could be, of course, more attacks against Israeli communities in the North. Balir, what can you tell us about the foiled terror attack in Megiddo a little bit earlier today? Yes. So a suspect apparently tried to hurt the Israeli police officers with an axe right there in Megiddo. And he failed to do so. He was detained and took the Israeli officers to custody with him. But there was no casualties as a result of that. Apparently, he's an Arab-Israeli. So he is from a village near Omerfahem in that area as well. And that's what we have about him, according to the latest. But we can also remember that about one year ago there was an explosive device that was that exploded in Megiddo. And later on it was revealed that it was actually a Hezbollah planned attack in that area, in that same area in the North as well. So apparently maybe this one wasn't, of course, related to Hezbollah. But if that attack was planned by an Arab-Israeli, it would be the fourth attack by an Arab-Israeli since the beginning of the war. We remind you that only this week two attackers came from Rahat. One also before came from other, from Sakhneen, if I'm not mistaken. And also there was a planned even attack to kill the minister, Ben Gvir, that was sabotaged this week by the Israeli Shembet and the Israeli military. So we're seeing some sort of a concern here by the Israeli authorities that even the Arab-Israelis wants to get involved in these fighting. Of course, this is absolutely not, you know, on a large scale until now. Of course not. But this is, of course, concerning for the Israeli authorities. All right. I thank you very much, Belir. We'll check in with you again a little later. We're now joined in studio by Lieutenant Colonel in the Reserves, Daron Avital, former commander special forces of the IDF. Good evening. Thank you for joining us this morning. So we heard about this, FOIL, the attack on Megiddo, also overnight, a terrorist crossed over from Jordan into Israel, open fire, damaged an IDF jeep. We're seeing a lot of things happening, even very different circumstances. What is this cause for concern of things escalating? For sure. It still falls under the category of individual that are trying to create some terror attack. The guy in Megiddo, it seems to be a deranged guy that's not clear what's his story. The suicide note attached to his clothes. The Jordanian guy might be a so-genant soldier that's trying to break from his troops and should, because we had those things in the past. There was a famous in the 90s event when Jordanian soldiers killed a few girls in King Hussain came to apologize for that. So those are more individual breaking from the ranks and doing those. But of course it's a source of concern. So is this cause to say that Israeli authorities have done a good job in staving off more violence now that Ramadan also has come to a close? Yes, we're hearing of these individual things, but I think every year there's a fear of it being worse even before October 7th happened. Let's hope. I think the Ramadan, there were a lot of worries about the Ramadan, but it seems to be concluding. This is the last Friday of the Ramadan, and then it ends next week on the 10th. In the meantime, we don't see the no-inflimation of the West Bank, but still the same kind of conduct. We have those special forces in the Northern Somalia all the time conducting those raids and trying to foil those terror attacks. So in the meantime, containable. But of course the attention goes somewhere else. The attention now is with Iran and the Israeli public in the last few days was a little bit alert. There were a lot of concerns about a possible heightening, some kind of retaliation of the Iranian regime, which is causing a lot of fear, which we're going to expand upon. But yes, this is a real fear. We talked about it in the beginning. You see on the screen hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of people in Iran. Is this cause for a real existential fear? We already went through it the beginning in October, but we've lived with this fear in Israel. We have to be careful to use the word existential fear, but fear. I mean, of course, Iran is an enemy, in many respects, behind in some capacities, behind those events, for sure, behind Hezbollah that acts as a prox in Lebanon. And whether Iran would retaliate concerning the Damascus strike with shooting from its own land towards Israel, sending missiles, this seems unlikely by the expert. I would never rule it out. We have a very robust aerial defense mechanism, a multi-layer robust from the Iron Dom to the David Sling to the arrow that can intercept those ballistic missiles. So I'm not sure this would be the way Iran would choose in order to react in Italian, but I think what we should really feel is Israeli and Jewish targets abroad. And we saw heightened alert with all our embassies, taking the ambassadors and the teams out. And really, we are really worried from this kind of attacks that Iran can retaliate without even taking responsibility. I mean, it might be the case this case. So heightened alert. Right. And with that said, are people embassies different places? Are they warned? Are they giving, in general, is it standard operating procedure to give even more concerned warnings in specific places where Israelis are? For sure. I mean, this is really where the Mossad and the Shabbat have a role to play. I mean, we succeeded to fall some attempts by Iranians to attack Israelis in Turkey before the 7th of October. So we are really sitting on those things in sync with the intelligence agencies of European countries. We all the time were at the Batura, but it can be everywhere. We all remember in the 90s the retaliation of the Iranian against the Jewish institution in Buenos Aires. This was after the targeting killing of Mossawi, the previous head of Hezbollah. So it's part of the ritual of the Middle East, but this is in a new context after the 7th of October. Everything is different, and every kind of retaliation like this can create a new, open a new front. It's a different story. Man, all right. We'll be back in a moment. Now we're going to continue on the story coming from the IDF confirming that two senior officers will be removed over the deadly strike of several members of the world's central kitchen's aid convoy in Gaza. Central top commanders will also be censured after a military probe. Meanwhile, after what the White House called a candid and frank phone call between President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel has opened several land crossings into Gaza to bring in flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including the Erez crossing, which is open for the first time since the October 7th massacre, as well as the port of Ashdod, which has temporarily been set up to receive aid shipments. The rift between the U.S. and Israel has only deepened in recent weeks as the White House has repeatedly rejected Israel's plans for a ground invasion into Rafa to dismantle those last four standing battalions, which number up to 8,000 Hamas terrorists. Here's more from the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. We received Israel's report on the terrible killing of the world's central kitchen team in Gaza a few days ago. We're reviewing it very carefully. We'll be discussed against conclusions with Israeli officials and with humanitarian organizations in the days to come. It's very important that Israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. It's also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. Even more important is making sure that steps are taking going forward to ensure that something like this can never happen again. Prime Minister Netanyahu indicated to President Biden that Israel would be making further changes to his procedures to make sure that those who are providing assistance to people who are so desperately needed in Gaza are protected. All right, we're back with Lieutenant Colonel Razerzer on Avitalah. With more on this, listen to the IDF Chief apologizing, calling this a grave mistake. Obviously it is a grave mistake. Those involved are being held accountable, even the higher echelons of the commanders. Yeah, I mean, I think the head of the sudden command, the general that commands the south was reprimanded. I mean, a terrible tragic incident or accident, those things do happen in the war zone because they have to make quick decisions. And still, we can't allow those things to happen. And it comes in the worst time possible when the rift between us and the U.S. and with our allies in general is deepening. So we have to work out the humanitarian aid in a more effective manner. And we have to think what would be the distribution mechanism in Gaza. We've been talking about this for weeks. It's like, it's a logistical, complicated situation. But for this tragedy to happen doesn't, you know, doesn't sit well for people already protesting. For sure. I mean, for a while, UNRWA was doing it. But we undermined UNRWA unjustly so because UNRWA was implicated with events in the center of October. We need substitute. And we need a substitute that would do it, that has the competency of working in war zone. And we need also to create an agency within the Army, officers that are responsible for this kind of very fine tuning. Because, you know, this fine tuning, for example, I'm a stack of 200 meters. They took the wrong turn and there was some officer there and he felt that this might be implicated, the target, and we have such a terrible accident. So there was on things like this that can happen, but this is why you need to have officer that this is their responsibility and they take into consideration this possibility.  So we have to wait. This option is better to skip the terrorist we'll find in the second day after. That's not the center. So how well opening the air is crossing and opening up the port of Ashdod, you know, could it lead to things going more smoothly and avoiding this kind of accident? Yes, in terms of letting the things in, but then the distribution is still an issue. And we don't have right now the agency that would do it and we have to think carefully. They were even suggesting, I heard, of like private American companies that security companies the way we had in Iraq that can do it. But still, we have to work it out in a global fashion and try to find a way to do it because it's necessary. But it also, I think the context of the talk between Biden and Netanyahu also concerns the day after because if you don't have the end game, so you don't know what to do with Rafa, you don't know how to, with kind of forces to establish, you have the idea of the port that would be established in Gaza. But you have to work all this out with all these things, with and I towards what would be the end game of Gaza and what would be the day after. And I don't think we, Biden finds in Netanyahu the willingness to talk seriously on the day after. How come, why do you think that the era's crossing or Ashdod was not an option before? In all these weeks, we've been talking about the logistical situation. I think this was a terrible mistake on our behalf on the onset of this campaign I used to keep saying in return, A, don't play with it. This is a circumstance in which whatever flood Gaza with whatever they need because as long as the return thing is settled, we can continue the fight. In the moment you have a catastrophe, you can't continue your fight and find who you really want to find, the leadership of Hamas, our hostages and those Hamas terrorists. So we made a few mistakes right now, push whatever you return, A, but we still have to find a solution for the distribution because without that, this will not work. And then the longer this goes on, the longer the rock operation is put off which will only extend the war. And then we have to bring the Israeli government to seriously talk about the day after because you never win a war, I keep saying it by killing all your enemy soldiers. That's not the point. There are four regiments, as you mentioned, 8,000 Hamas terrorists in Rafa. But it's not like we kill all Hamas terrorists, this is the end game of the idea to dismantle the military capacity, to have them surrender, exile, if there's an excellent solution as we had in 82. But then put in charge a new establishment, a new administration. The American things, whoever would be there would have to be in sync with the Palestinian Authority. And this is why we had the new government in the new government for the Palestinian Authority that was established. And I think the new Prime Minister is going to Washington to meet the American administration. But Israel and the Netanyahu still refuses. And this is where things all start. All right. And this is where we are. We'll be back in a second. Also more not good news for the public opinion toward Israel. The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution today calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, although Israel dismissed it as a distorted text. 28 countries voted in favor, 13 abstained, six opposed the resolution, including the U.S. and Germany. Mirav Elon Shachar, Israel's permanent representative to the U.N. and Geneva, accused the council of having abandoned the Israeli people. It's good what's happened that we have 28 votes in favor, but I'm not happy with some of the European countries that they voted against. And those who voted abstained. It was an opportunity for all to correct what they did since 7th October until now. This resolution is a stain on the Human Rights Council. There's no other way to look at it. It's a stain on the Human Rights Council. And the United Nations is a whole. I'm not going to attend the rest of the session today. As you know, there will be other deliberations and other resolutions against us. But I see no point. I can no longer sit in a room, which is so-called Human Rights Council, and that they cannot even bring themselves to condemn the atrocities and the massacre of October 7th. All right, Geron, your thoughts on this. Listen, the relationship with the U.N. has not been good. But again, they're addressing at least the sexual crimes, but it just seems like it's just one strike against Israel after another. It's a tragedy after being attacked in such an atrocity that were conducted by Hamas the 7th October to find ourselves now in such a position that we are being condemned. Maybe we made a few mistakes as we talked about the Unitarian aid. I mean, it's not enough just to rebuff the world and rebuff the U.N. It's more, we have to be much more practical and effective in the way we conduct the Gaza in order not to find ourselves in such kind of dissonance with countries that are basically our allies in the end, in the bottom line. So I think we have to be smarter than this, more effective, think of the day after, think of the Unitarian aid, how to deliver it as fast as possible, think of agency that would do it. And this would allow us to continue the war and the fight with Hamas and in the other fronts. We have so many challenges, why to waste our energy on those in the wrong path. And the path that we understood. All right, we'll be back in a second. Meanwhile, a Palestinian was killed in the West Bank as police guarded for the final Friday Ramadan prayers for the month-long fast Muslim holiday. Police said that undercover border police officers killed a Palestinian man who was hurling an explosive device at troops during a raid in the West Bank. Thousands of police were deployed in Jerusalem, like I said, for the final prayers at the Al-Lakhsam Mosque, which overall, the month of Ramadan was pretty much as peaceful as could be, but police did arrest eight people suspected of incitement and support for terrorism after the morning prayers at the mosque on top of the Temple Mount. And Daron, what do you have to say, listen, again, is it a success of Israel's police system that it? This is, when I talked about being wise and effective, this is a good example, the way we handled the Temple Mount, the way the police handled it, even in disrespect the way even Netanyahu was overruling Ben Gvir was trying to put all those restrictions on Arab Israelis coming. This was the wrong path to take. We could have taken it. There was a lot of weight in the government to take the wrong path, but in the end, sanity won. And I think the way we handled Jerusalem and Temple Mount and the Ramadan until now is wise and effective, and I hope it ends there. And you're right, because it's true. They said this from the beginning, let's not stir things up, and it actually is a good test of something was got out, implemented, and... Here we are. ...the Shabak, our security agency, have a lot of experience with those domains, and we should listen to them. Some of our politicians are trying to overrule the decision made by our security forces that have a long history of experience in those domains. And luckily, this time until now, and let's hope until the end of the Ramadan, it will continue like this. All right, thank you very much, as always, Rounavi's Hall. Meanwhile, an IDF investigation into the death of a front cat on October 7th shows that she was most likely killed in an airstrike by an Israeli Air Force combat helicopter on the car that she was being held captive in by Hamas terrorists in near-oes. Surveillance cameras captured the scene. They were used by the IDF in part of, in the investigation where they were able to detect cats as well as other hostages that were in the same car. Also, there was testimony from eyewitnesses. The family was informed today of these findings, which the commanding officer of the Air Force describes as a tragic and unfortunate event. Meanwhile, a top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in an online security snafu in an exclusive by The Guardian. Yossi Sariel has been unmasked as the head of the 8,200 unit known as Shmoni Mataim, as well as the architect of an AI strategy a book written under his pen name revealed his Google account. This, according to The Guardian, was a security lapse, an embarrassing security lapse linked to the book that he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to his private account. The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of the Human Machine Team, a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines. Meanwhile, Israel is preparing for the potential retaliation by Iran and its proxies by opening a bomb shelters and televieve in other municipalities around the country to submit Tehran's potential response to the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Footage shows equipped safe rooms and public shelters underground parking lots throughout Israel for those that don't have shelters at home. The Israeli military announced as well the suspension of leave for all combat units with an additional mobilization of men for air defense units to deal with the possible missile or drone attacks from Iran. As you can imagine, Israelis of all ages are feeling fearful. Of course, it's a very frightening situation and it is not clear what will happen next. And at any moment there could be shelling or bombing. It is very unpleasant. It affects our lives, our well-being. Yes, it's scary, but we continue to live, to go to work.  I'm afraid. I'm a teacher and I afraid for children. I afraid for my own children. I afraid. And we leave you with a live speech by Israel's ambassador to the UN. Take a listen. He was speaking on the floor right now. In each council meeting, a flawed picture is painted. You focus on Israel, making demands and issuing condemnations against Israel while ignoring the terrorists that planned and initiated this war. And what should be done to thwart their genocidal schemes? This is also the responsibility of this council, the lives of Israelis, not only the lives of Palestinians, the future of Israelis. The Palestinian representative here does not represent Hamas and has no influence over them. He speaks only in the name of the Palestinian Authority that pays terrorists and up until this day never condemned the massacre. And the Palestinian Authority, as you know, has no presence in Gaza. So, dear colleagues, what does the council have to say about the murderous Hamas terrorist? About the continuous rocket fire on Israel? About the exploitation of civilian sites for terror, like hospitals? About the looting of humanitarian aid? About Israeli women that are being raped right now in captivity and children being tortured? What steps are you taking against Hamas? Just because a representative of Hamas is not sitting in this room does that mean that you can ignore their atrocities and exploitation of Gazans as human shields? These discussions, sadly, are completely detached from the reality, from reality, even though the truth is so clear. When will the UN finally hold Hamas accountable? The time has come to stop defending terrorists. Thank you, Madam President. And that is all from the I-24 News Desk. I'm Emily Francis. We'll give you more headlines and developments from the UN at the top of the hour. I-24 News Channel, broadcasting from Israel with dozens of correspondents throughout the world, brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. They have been completely done down in their beds. De la frontière qui sépare l'Israel, the state of emergency and war in Israel. Bringing Israel's story to the world, I-24 News Channels, now on Hot. Good evening and welcome to I-24 News's ongoing coverage of Israel at war against Hamas. I'm Emily Francis. Israeli police foil an attempted terror attack at the Megiddo Junction with policing the suspect attempted to attack officers with a hammer. The suspect was wounded and detained. Iran, its allies, are making this year's CUDES Day an occasion to express support for Palestinians. This year comes as Iran vows deadly retaliation for an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed top leaders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, including the general Iranian opposition, what they say was a person responsible for planning October 7th. Thousands of people that you can see in this video here gathered in Tehran today for the funerals of those seven revolutionary guards who were killed in a strike in Syria that Iran has blamed on Israel. The guards include two generals, and they were killed on Monday with the airstrike leveling the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus. Israel has not commented on the strike. We're gonna start now by going live to the North where I-24 News correspondent Balir Sladina is. What could you tell us about the latest in the North right now? Yes, we can start Emily with the speech that Nasrallah gave the chief of Hezbollah. He is saying that the response from Iran is inevitably coming. So we have two things here. First is that the response is going to be an Iranian response. So all the options that the Israeli side talked about, one of them was that Iran could use its proxies to attack Israel. Now we can understand from the statement by Nasrallah that the attack will be coming from Iran. Now the question is, is Iran going to attack Israel straight, or is it going to attack Israeli targets outside of Israel? That's a different question, of course, but Nasrallah is saying that this attack is Iranian and is inevitably coming. And also you have Galan, the Israeli defense minister is apparently responding to Nasrallah. He is saying today that what we have, we all are prepared, preparation doesn't equal, if we are prepared, that doesn't mean that we are scared of any escalation. So we are just prepared for any attack coming from Israel's enemies, as he's saying. So we are also having defense systems that can be, of course, sabotaging any attack against Israel that's Galan talking today. So we here in the North have heard this science many times today. The last one was at around four o'clock, so like four hours ago. And it was in Kiryat Shmone, where three rockets were fired from South and Lebanon to Kiryat Shmone, but all were fallen in open terrain. They were targeting the military site in Rameem Hills right there. But apparently there was no casualties as a result of that or either damage. We've heard also the sirens in Bira'am and other places since the morning in all of these attempts that hasn't been any casual, except one where an anti-tank missile was targeting Israeli soldiers in Mitu'la. And one Israeli soldier was lightly wounded as a result of that. So if we could have expected some sort of an escalation with Hezbollah, because of the attack that is attributed to Israel in Damascus a couple of days ago, now we can say that until now, at least the situation is pretty normal. We're seeing the same stuff. There is no expansion of the circle of fire. There is no tens of rockets firing at Israeli communities in the North. But we are as, of course, Galan is saying prepared for also any escalation that could come from either Iran or Hezbollah or even the proxies in Iraq or even Yemen. That's what we're having until now, of course. And we should mention just that right now with the Iftar in Lebanon and of course maybe currently, we wouldn't see any more, you know, progress right now, but later on in the evening, there could be of course more attacks against Israeli communities in the North. Balir, what can you tell us about the foiled terror attack in Megiddo a little bit earlier today? Yeah, so a suspect apparently tried to hurt the Israeli police officers with an axe right there in Megiddo. And he failed to do so. He was detained and took the Israeli officers to custody of him, but there was no casualties as a result of that. Apparently he's an Arab-Israeli. So he is from a village near Um El Fahem in that area as well. And that's what we have about him according to the latest. But we can also remember that about one year ago, there was an explosive device that was that exploded in Megiddo and later on it was revealed that it was actually a Hezbollah planned attack in that area in that same area in the North as well. So apparently maybe this one wasn't of course related to Hezbollah, but if that attack was planned by an Arab-Israeli, it would be the fourth attack by an Arab-Israeli since the beginning of the war. We remind you that only this week two attackers came from Rahat, one also before came from other, from Sakhneen, if I'm not mistaken. And also there was a planned even attack to kill the minister, Ben Gvir, that was sabotaged this week by the Israeli Shimbett and the Israeli military. So we're seeing some sort of a concern here by the Israeli authorities that even the Arab-Israelis wants to get involved in these fighting. So of course this is absolutely not in a large scale until now, of course not, but this is of course concerning for the Israeli authorities. All right, I thank you very much, Belir. We'll check in with you again a little later. We're now joined in studio by Lieutenant Colonel in the Reserves, Daron Avital, former commander of Special Forces of the IDF. So good evening. Thank you for joining us this morning. So we heard about this foiled attack in Megiddo, also overnight a terrorist crossed over from Jordan into Israel, open fire, damage an IDF Jeep. We're seeing a lot of things happening, even very different circumstances, but is this cause for concern of things escalating? No, for sure. It still falls under the category of individual that are trying to create some terror attack. The guy in Megiddo, it seems to be a deranged guy that's not clear what's his story. Yeah, the suicide note attached to his clothes. The Jordanian guy might be a so-genant soldier that trying to break from his troops and shoot because we had those things in the past. There was a famous in the 90s event when Jordanian soldiers killed a few girls in King Hussein came to apologize for that. So those are more individual breaking from the ranks and doing those. But of course it's a source of concern. So is this cause to say that Israeli authorities have done a good job in staving off more violence now that Ramadan also has come to a close? Yes, we're hearing of these individual things, but I think every year there's a fear of it being worse even before October 7th happened. Let's hope, I think the Ramadan, there were a lot of worries about the Ramadan, but it seems to be concluding. This is the last Friday of the Ramadan and then it ends next week on the 10th. In the meantime, we don't see the no-inflimation of the West Bank, but still the same kind of conduct. We have those special forces in the Northern Somalia all the time conducting those raids and trying to foil those terror attacks. So in the meantime, containable. But of course the attention goes somewhere else. The attention now is we've run and the Israeli public in the last few days was a little bit alert. Yes. There were a lot of concerns about a possible heightening some kind of retaliation of the Iranian regime. Which is causing a lot of fear, which we're gonna expand upon. But yes, this is a real fear. We talked about it in the beginning. You see on the screen, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of people in Iran. Is this cause for a real existential fear? We already went through it the beginning in October, but we've lived with this fear in Israel. I would be careful to use the word existential fear, but fear. I mean, of course Iran is an enemy, in many respects, behind in some capacities, behind those events, for sure, behind Hezbollah that acts as a prox in Lebanon. And where did Iran would retaliate concerning the Damascus strike with shooting from its own land towards Israel, sending missiles? This seems unlikely by the expert. I would never rule it out. We have a very robust aerial defense mechanism, a multi-layer robust from the Iron Dome to the David Sling to the arrow that can intercept those ballistic missiles. So I'm not sure this would be the way Iran would choose in order to react retaliate, but I think what we should really feel is Israeli and Jewish targets abroad. And we saw heightened alert with all our embassies taking the ambassadors and the teams out and really we are really worried from this kind of attacks that Iran can retaliate without even taking responsibility. I mean, it might be the case this case. So heightened alert. And with that said, are people embassies different places? Are they giving, in general, is it standard operating procedure to give even more concerned warnings in specific places where Israelis are? For sure. I mean, this is where the Mossad and the Shabbat have a role to play. And I mean, we succeeded to fall some attempts by Iranians to attack Israelis in Turkey before the 7th of October. So we are really sitting on those things in sync with the intelligent agencies of European countries. We all the time were at the Batura, but it can be everywhere. We all remember in the 90s, the retaliation of the Iranian against the Jewish institution in Buenos Aires. This was after the targeting killing of Mosawi, the previous head of Hezbollah. So it's part of the ritual of the Middle East, but this is in a new context. After the 7th of October, everything is different and every kind of retaliation like this can create a new, open a new front. It's a different story. All right, we'll be back in a moment now. We're gonna continue on the story coming from the IDF confirming that two senior officers will be removed over the deadly strike of several members of the World Central Kitchen's aid convoy in Gaza. Several top commanders will also be censured after a military probe. Meanwhile, after what the White House called a candid and frank phone call between President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel has opened several land crossings into Gaza to bring in flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including the era's crossing, which is open for the first time since the October 7th massacre, as well as the port of Ashdod, which has temporarily been set up to receive aid shipments. The rift between the U.S. and Israel has only deepened in recent weeks as the White House has repeatedly rejected Israel's plans for a ground invasion into Rafa to dismantle those last four standing battalions, which number up to 8,000 Hamas terrorists. Here's more from the U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken. We received Israel's report on the terrible killing of the World Central Kitchen team in Gaza a few days ago. We're reviewing it very carefully. We'll be discussing its conclusions with Israeli officials and with humanitarian organizations in the days to come. It's very important that Israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. It's also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. Even more important is making sure that steps are taking going forward to ensure that something like this can never happen again. Prime Minister Netanyahu indicated to President Biden that Israel would be making further changes to his procedures to make sure that those who are providing assistance to people who are so desperately needed in Gaza are protected. All right, we're back with Lieutenant Colonel Razer Zaron Avital with more on this. Listen, the IDF chief apologizing, calling this a grave mistake. Obviously, it is a grave mistake and those involved are being held accountable, even the higher echelons of the commanders. Yeah, yeah, I mean, even I think the head of the sudden command, the general that commands the south was reprimanded. I mean, a terrible tragic accident, incident or accident, those things do happen in war zone because they have to make quick decision. And still, we can't allow those things to happen and it comes in the worst time possible when the rift between us and the US and with our allies in general is deepening. So we have to work out the humanitarian aid in a more effective manner. And we have to think what would be the distribution mechanism in Gaza. We've been talking about this for weeks. It's like see, it's a logistical, complicated situation, but for this tragedy to happen doesn't sit well for people already protesting. I mean, for a while, UNRWA was doing it, but we undermined UNRWA unjustly so because UNRWA was implicated with events in the center of October, but we need substitute. And we need a substitute that would do it, that has the competency of working in war zone. And we need also to create the agency within the army, officers that are responsible for this kind of very fine tuning. Because you know, this fine tuning, for example, a mistake of 200 meters, they took the wrong turn and there was some officer there and he felt that this might be implicated the target and we have such a terrible accident. So there was on things like this, like, can happen, but this is why you need to have officer that this is their responsibility and they take into consideration this possibility.  It's better to skip the terrorist we'll find in the second day after. That's not the center. So how will opening the air as crossing and opening up the port of Ashdod, you know, could it lead to things going more smoothly and avoiding this kind of accident? I think yes, in terms of letting the things in, but then the distribution is still an issue. It's still an issue, right. And we don't have right now the agency that would do it and we have to think carefully. They were even suggesting, I heard, of like private American companies, that security companies the way we had in Iraq that can do it. But still, we have to work it out in a global fashion and try to find a way to do it because it's necessary. But it also, I think the context of the talk between Biden and Netanyahu also concerns the day after because if you don't have the end game, so you don't know what to do with Rafa, you don't know how to, with kind of forces to establish with the idea of the port that would be established in Gaza, but you have to work all this out with all these things, with and I towards what would be the end game of Gaza and what would be the day after and I don't think Biden finds in Netanyahu the willingness to talk seriously on the day after. How come, why do you think that the era's crossing or Ash Jode was not an option before? In all these weeks, we've been talking about the logistical situation. I think this was a terrible mistake on our behalf on the onset of this campaign. I used to keep saying in return, hey, don't play with it. This is a circumstance in which whatever flood the Gaza with whatever they need because as long as the return thing is settled, we can continue the fight. In the moment you have a catastrophe, you can't continue your fight and find what you really want to find. The leadership of Hamas, our hostages, and those Hamas terrorists. So we made a few mistakes right now, push whatever you return aid, but we still have to find a solution for the distribution because without that, this will not work. And then the longer this goes on, the longer the Rafa operation is put off, which will only extend the war. And then we have to bring the Israeli government to seriously talk about the day after because you never win a war. I keep saying it by killing all your enemy soldiers. That's not the point.  This is the end game of the idea to dismantle the military capacity, to have them surrender, exile if there's an excellent solution as we had in 1982, but then put in charge a new establishment, a new administration. The American things whoever would be there would have to be in sync with the Palestinian Authority. And this way we had the new government for the Palestinian Authority that was established. And I think the new Prime Minister is going to Washington to meet the American administration, but Israel and the Netanyahu still refuses and this is where things are starting. All right, this is where we are. We'll be back in a second. Also more not good news for the public opinion toward Israel. The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution today, calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, although Israel dismissed it as a distorted text. 28 countries voted in favor, 13 abstained, six opposed the resolution, including the U.S. and Germany. Mirav Elon Shahar, Israel's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, accused the council of having abandoned the Israeli people. It's good what's happened that we got, we have 28 votes in favor, but I'm not happy with some of the European countries that they voted against and those who voted abstain. It was an opportunity for all to correct what they did since 7th October until now. This resolution is a stain on the Human Rights Council. There's no other way to look at it. It's a stain on the Human Rights Council and the United Nations as a whole. I'm not going to attend the rest of the session today. As you know, there will be other deliberations and other resolutions against us, but I see no point. I can no longer sit in a room which is so-called Human Rights Council and that they cannot even bring themselves to condemn the atrocities and the massacre of October 7th. All right, Geron, your thoughts on this. Listen, the relationship with the UN has not been good, but again, they're addressing at least the sexual crimes, but it just seems like it's just one strike against Israel after another when it comes to it. It's a tragedy after being attacked in such an atrocity that were conducted by Hamas the 7th of October to find ourselves now in such a position that we are being condemned. Maybe we made a few mistakes as we talked about the UNITAN aid. I mean, it's not enough just to rebuff the world and rebuff the UN. We have to be much more practical and effective in the way we conduct the Gaza in order not to find ourselves in such kind of dissonance with countries that are basically our allies in the end, in the bottom line. So I think we have to be smarter than this, more effective, think of the day after, think of the UNITAN aid, how to deliver it as fast as possible, think of agency that would do it, and this would allow us to continue the war and the fight with Hamas and in the other fronts. We have so many challenges, why to waste our energy on those in the wrong path? In the path that we'll, right, understood. All right, we'll be back in a second. Meanwhile, a Palestinian was killed in the West Bank as police guarded for the final Friday Ramadan prayers for the month-long fast Muslim holiday. Police said that undercover border police officers killed a Palestinian man who was hurling an explosive device at troops during a raid in the West Bank. Thousands of police were deployed in Jerusalem, like I said, for the final prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which overall, the month of Ramadan was pretty much as peaceful as could be, but police did arrest eight people suspected of incitement and support for terrorism after the morning prayers at the mosque on top of the Temple Mount. And Daron, what do you have to say? Listen, again, is it a success of Israel's police system when I talked about being wise and effective? This is a good example, the way we handled the Temple Mount, the way the police handled it. Even in this respect, the way Netanyahu was overruling Ben Gvir was trying to put all those restrictions on Arab Israelis coming. This was the wrong path to take. We could have taken it. There was a lot of weight in the government to take the wrong path, but in the end, sanity won. And I think the way we handled Jerusalem and Temple Mount and the Ramadan until now is wise and effective, and I hope it ends here. And you're right, because it's true. They said this from the beginning. Let's not stir things up. And it actually is a good test of something was got out, implemented, and here we are. I think the police, the Shabak, our security agency have a lot of experience with those domains. And we should listen to them. Some of our politicians are trying to overrule the decision made by our security forces that have a long history of experience in those domains. And luckily, this time, until now, and let's hope until the end of the Ramadan, it will continue like this. All right, thank you very much, as always, Ronavi's Hall. Meanwhile, an IDF investigation into the death of a front cat on October 7th shows that she was most likely killed in an airstrike by an Israeli Air Force combat helicopter on the car that she was being held captive in by Hamas terrorists in near Oze. Surveillance cameras captured the scene. They were used by the IDF in part of, in the investigation, where they were able to detect cats as well as other hostages that were in the same car. Also, there was testimony from eyewitnesses. The family was informed today of these findings, which the commanding officer of the Air Force describes as a tragic and unfortunate event. Meanwhile, a top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in an online security snafu in an exclusive by The Guardian. Yossi Sariel has been unmasked as the head of the 8,200 unit known as Shimony Mataim, as well as the architect of an AI strategy book written under his pen name, revealed his Google account. This, according to The Guardian, was a security lapse, an embarrassing security lapse, linked to the book that he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to his private account. The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of the Human Machine Team, a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines. Meanwhile, Israel is preparing for the potential retaliation by Iran and its proxies by opening bomb shelters in Tel Aviv and other municipalities around the country to submit Tehran's potential response to the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Footage shows equipped safe rooms and public shelters underground parking lots throughout Israel for those that don't have shelters at home. The Israeli military announced as well the suspension of leave for all combat units with an additional mobilization of men for air defense units to deal with the possible missile or drone attacks from Iran. As you can imagine, Israelis of all ages are feeling fearful. Of course, it's a very frightening situation and it is not clear what will happen next. And at any moment there could be shelling or bombing. It is very unpleasant. It affects our lives, our well-being. Yes, it's scary, but we continue to live, to go to work, and this is our everyday life. I'm afraid. I'm a teacher. And I'm afraid for children. I'm afraid for my own children. I'm afraid. And we leave you with a live speech by Israel's ambassador to the UN. Take a listen. He was speaking on the floor right now. In each council meeting, a flawed picture is painted. You focus on Israel, making demands and issuing condemnations against Israel while ignoring the terrorists that planned and initiated this war. And what should be done to thwart their genocidal schemes? This is also the responsibility of this council, the lives of Israelis, not only the lives of Palestinians, the future of Israelis. The Palestinian representative here does not represent Hamas and has no influence over them. He speaks only in the name of the Palestinian Authority that pays terrorists, and up until this day, never condemned the massacre. And the Palestinian Authority, as you know, has no presence in Gaza. So, dear colleagues, what does the council have to say about the murderous Hamas terrorist, about the continuous rocket fire on Israel, about the exploitation of civilian sites for terror like hospitals, about the looting of humanitarian aid, about Israeli women that are being raped right now in captivity and children being tortured? What steps are you taking against Hamas? Just because a representative of Hamas is not sitting in this room, does that mean that you can ignore their atrocities and exploitation of Gazans as human shields? These discussions, sadly, are completely detached from the reality, from reality, even though the truth is so clear. When will the UN finally hold Hamas accountable? The time has come to stop defending terrorists. Thank you, Madam President. And that is all from the I-24 News Desk. I'm Emily Francis. We'll give you more headlines and developments from the UN at the top of the hour. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. And welcome to I-24 News's ongoing coverage of Israel at war against Hamas. I'm Emily Francis. Israeli police foil an attempted terror attack at the Megiddo Junction earlier today. Police saying the suspect attempted to attack officers with a hammer. He was wounded and detained. Iran and its allies are marking this year's Kuds Day as an occasion to express support for Palestinians. This year comes as Iran vows deadly retaliation for an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed top leaders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, including the general Iranian opposition, what they say was the person responsible for planning October 7th. Also earlier this evening, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke promising a retaliation against Israel. Take a listen. The issue of the Iranian consulate is a turning point in the events that occurred from October 7th till today. Be certain, be sure that the Iranian response to the targeting of the consulate in Damascus is definitely coming against Israel. We haven't yet got out the main weapon. We haven't yet used the main forces. For your knowledge, we haven't yet reserved the forces. The members work on the front, then go on leave. They serve their time, then return home, and a replacement goes to serve, then returns home, and so on. And with that, we achieved our accomplishments in the north of Israel, which you can ask the Israelis about. Now we're gonna go live to northern Israel where we are joined by I-24 News correspondent, Balir Slaeddin. Tell us more about what Hassan Nasrallah had to say this evening. Yeah, so in addition to what he said about the incident in the consulate in Damascus, and he was saying that there will be an Iranian response, which is very important to Israel, thought that there could be a response from Iranian proxies like Hezbollah and the militias in Iraq and also Yemen. But apparently at this time, there will be a response from Iran itself. Of course, there could be a response to Israel proper, but also to some other Israeli targets in other areas. We've seen that before when other assassinations were attributed to Israel. Also before in Syria, where Iran struck what he said, a Mossad facility in Erbil in northern Iraq. So maybe this time, there will be no attack against the Iraqi targets, so like Israeli targets in Iraq, but there could be, of course, anything, but from the Israeli point of view and according to what the Defense Minister, Galant, is saying that Israel is fully prepared with many layers of defense, and he's saying also that being prepared doesn't mean being scared as well that's coming after yesterday. Many Israelis thought that war is coming from Iran and this could be a huge deal. And even they rushed to the supermarket and other stuff until the Adif spokesperson went and said that there should be, or at least for now, we don't have any other changes for the instructions to the civilians at this point. So from what we understand, according to reports recently, that there will be a limited Iranian respond, but today sources from the Israeli security officials are saying that also if there was a respond from Iran, there will be an Israeli respond to that. So we're here in a very tense situation where any miscalculation could lead to a wider escalation in this area and even a wider escalation between Israel and Iran, something that, of course, both sides doesn't want, at least officially, according to what they are saying. And Australia is also saying that Lebanon is ready for war. He said that if they want, if the Israeli side wants war, then welcome as he's saying it and that everyone should be prepared for that, for such a scenario, according to what Nasrallah has said today. He was talking, we remind you, in the Al-Quds day, so the Jerusalem day, the Iranian day, where he also said that Iran is standing with the Palestinian people. And since the Iranian Islamic revolution, the Al-Khomeini stance with the Palestinian people was the only or the major reason for many Iranian wars, as he's saying it. So that's what he heard today from Nasrallah. Of course, we need to wait and see what will be really in the field according to what he said and ran in response to what the Israeli attack or the attributed Israeli attack in Damascus. All right, Balir Sledin. Thank you very much for that live report. We're now joined live in studio by Brigadier General in the reserves, Hanan Geffen, former commander of the 8,200 intelligence unit of the IDF, known as a Shmo name of time. Good evening, thank you for being here. Good to see you. So what do you have to say about what Nasrallah said earlier and that Iran is no doubt gonna retaliate in some degree, a limited, limited, what is, please give some perspective on what that could mean. Here in Nasrallah, every three months or so, and I would say many aspects is boring because he's repeating himself with the same notions and as it was mentioned in past experience, he was also saying that Iran was retaliating and then ended up with a bomb in Bombay somewhere in an Israeli consulate trying to plant a bomb or the attack of a house in Yubil in Iraq. That was the big retaliation. He's saying more that Iran is trying, I would say, to drag on with the threats of retaliation. So the Israeli will be worried for a longer time. They're not going to retaliate immediately. That's what you may hear from the voices, but he's the same. He said it the same in previous talk as well. If we're speaking about what he's saying, I think I believe he's boring his audience as well because he's repeating the same arguments. Speaking about Israel is the House of Spiders, the co-web, and it's trying to show that Israel is weak, Israel is divided, Israel is losing the war. As a matter of fact, it's disregarding all the information that's coming from Gaza, from what's happening really in Gaza. What is the situation of two million people? The desperate cries of the Hamas to ceasefire however they can attach. So he's kind of playing the same game. He's a kind of concept. He believes Israel is weakening, Israel is... He was very pleased to quote that 100,000 Israelis left Israel. I don't know where he got this information, but he's paid it very... Because he's set this kind of information, he's coincided with what he believes Israel is going... It's happening in Israel. And again, the notion was in all the argument is Israel is going to be defeated. Israel is going to see its end. So it's very boring. It's for the last 20 years. So as an intelligence officer, someone says the same thing over and over again. It's almost like hot air.  The last 20 years, we have to be very careful. We have a bad experience with forecasting and be very careful. And the military is very careful. And we have here Defense Minister Galant speaking today. That's saying we're prepared. In the air force base. It was a message to the Iranian and Hezbollah. Be careful, we know what you're doing, but we are careful. But with that said, given that, is that enough of a deterrent for to stop something from happening? I believe that the Iranian are deterred. The Iranians have already stopped their proxies from attacking the U.S., are not attacking Israel. And the level of far rhetorics coming from Iran is lower than it was in the beginning of the war, of this war. So I don't believe that this is the case. The situation, the question right now is whether the Hezbollah and the Iranian understand the next front, the northern front, is the next case. The situation, Gaza, will be the third phase. We said that it will be a low level, low intensity war, will drag on for months until get rid of Hamas. Probably we will ask a question about it as well. But in the north, they should know and he knows it because he said we are not afraid of Israel. And he disregarded what really happened in the last five years, five months. Israel is every time, every week, enlarge the number of targets, the whereabouts of the target, the kind of target of Hezbollah, all Syria, all over Syria, which is the backyard of Hezbollah, Israel attacked and destroyed a research center, assembly centers, warehouses. He knows it and he didn't mention it. He only said we are prepared for war. So he kind of tried to save it from his audience, trying to plant their hope that Israel is losing Israel. Without getting into more details. More complex details, yes. All right, we'll be back with you in a moment. Don't go anywhere. The IDF has now confirmed that two senior officers will be removed over the deadly strike of members of the world's central kitchen aid convoy in Gaza, killing seven. Several top commanders will also be censured. Meanwhile, after a call between the US, between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has opened several land crossings into Gaza to deliver that humanitarian aid, including the Ares crossing, which has been closed since October 7th, as well as the port of Ashdod, which has temporarily been set up to receive aid shipments. The rift between the US and Israel has only deepened in recent weeks as the White House repeatedly rejects Israel's plans for ground invasion into Rafa to dismantle the last four battalions, numbering some 8,000 Hamas terrorists. Here's more from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Received Israel's report on the terrible killing of the world's central kitchen team in Gaza a few days ago. We're reviewing it very carefully. We'll be discussing its conclusions with Israeli officials and with humanitarian organizations in the days to come. It's very important that Israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. It's also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. Even more important is making sure that steps are taking going forward to ensure that something like this can never happen again. Prime Minister Netanyahu indicated to President Biden that Israel would be making further changes to his procedures to make sure that those who are providing assistance to people who are so desperately needed in Gaza are protected. All right, so you heard from the Secretary of State, so listen, I think also the US said they're not gonna investigate into this, but obviously there has been an independent investigation Israel has admitted that this was an error and now there are consequences. Explain a bit about the consequences of those people that are being censured and fired. Well, it's a very delicate situation because these operations, these are fighters, people that are working only months fighting there. But it was a very clear and very, I would say a very clear steps to show that the situation has to be controlled, much more controlled. Because we are right now, we already, I mentioned, I believe this term, we're in the twilight zone in Gaza. The twilight zone, there are more and more organizations, most of them Palestinian in nature, they're taking over Hamas' roles in the northern and western part on the south and the central part of Gaza, which you mentioned, the areas crossing, all the supply which go through areas crossing will be delivered by Palestinians other than the Hamas, not the Hamas. So this is an ongoing operation. And this, I would say, investigation will, together with the international, hopefully with the international organization, create a new order of how to coordinate, how to make sure that the supplies will be delivered safely. And this is, it will be a long process. Right, but this is a long time already. We've been talking about this for a month and it's still not resolved. And it's taking place, it's, you know, gradually there are places in Gaza that are still controlled by Hamas in the Balach and in the Rafah, of course, and they are less because in northern Gaza and central Gaza, there are capabilities for others to enter and they're entering, Palestinian entering. You know, we see it for internal communication between in the Arab social networks, saying here we're Palestinian, but not the Hamas. They were the PLO affiliated kind of supported and many more, more of them coming. So this is a process which, of course, Secretary Blinken is aware of this process. He knows in cooperation with the American. Hopefully that this event is behind us and the investigation will create new tools, new coordination tools that will actually let the food be delivered to the people that need it. Start the new rules, new people, new organizations will control the area. Right, all right, we'll be right back. Meanwhile, the UN, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution today, calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. Although Israel dismissed it as a distorted text, 28 countries voted in favor, 13 abstained, six opposed the resolution, including the US and Germany. Here's reaction from both sides. It's good what's happened that we have 28 votes in favor, but I'm not happy with some of the European countries that they voted against. And those who voted abstained. It was an opportunity for all to correct what they did since 7th October until now. According to the resolution before you today, Israel has no right to protect its people, while Hamas has every right to murder and torture innocent Israelis. Israel should have stood idly by on October 7th as Hamas unleashed its barbaric acts. On October 8th, it should have allowed Hamas to do so again. According to this resolution, states should not sell arms to Israel in its endeavor to defend its population, but they can continue to arm Hamas. Police said that undercover border police officers killed a Palestinian man who was hurling an explosive device at troops during a raid in the West Bank. Excuse me, thousands of police were deployed during today's final Friday prayers of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan, known today as Kud's Day. Meanwhile, Jerusalem police arrested eight people suspected of incitement and support for terrorism after mourning prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Atop Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in an online security lapse in an exclusive by the Guardian. Yossi Sariel has been unmasked as the head of the Shonima time unit and architect of the AI strategy after a book written in his pen name revealed as Google account. According to the Guardian and the embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book that he published on Amazon which left a digital trail to his private Gmail. The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of the human machine team, a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines. All right, we're back with Hanan here to talk about this. This sounds like a movie. It really sounds like, it sounds like a movie. So did you know this person? Of course. Did you know that he was writing a book? Yes. So- He wrote the book actually before it was denominated. He was abroad in studies in the US and then he was part of a team and then he prepared his roadies book much before. But it's nothing surprising because we in the intelligence are working on aids, tools to support the work because one of the problem of the intelligence, the huge masses of information. Just for example, if we have a store chain or they are collecting information or they're buyers and they are offering you a coupon because they know that you are buying this. So this kind of information of gathering information, mixing fusion of information. This is the intelligence doing multiplied, of course, by numbers. So all the intelligence agencies all over the world, it's not the Israeli one. The Israelis have some advantage because the high tech, we have the very advanced high tech startups and high techs that support many of them and some of them were known and they were purchased and buy then combined. So is this just an oversight on his part? I guess when you're used to being a real intelligence that knows how to read between things like something like an Amazon and a Gmail account is not something you think about. Should he have thought about that? No, at the time he didn't think about it. He was preoccupied with the book. He wasn't the commander of the unit at the time and he wrote it as a, you know, it was a year of studying and that was the case. Is this a dangerous situation? No, because, you know, in the past, the heads of the Mossad in the Shabbat was secret while in office. And then once they finished, the name was published. And the IDF 800, 200 stayed the same. You know, we are exposed. Once we finished, our name is, you know, I finished my job. I was sent to China as a military attaché. Military attaché and everybody knows. One day after I finished my work as a commander, all of the military attachés in China, including the North Korean, the Iranian, knows exactly the name, so what? Right, exactly. So very interesting, but the book did well, right? I don't know. The book did well, at least, to be worth that. All right, thank you very much, Anand. Thank you. An IDF investigation into the death of a fraught cat on October 7th shows that she was most likely killed in an airstrike by Israeli Air Force combat helicopter in the car that she was being held captive in by Hamas terrorists in near O's. Surveillance cameras that were captured were used by the IDF and they were able to detect that cats and other hostages were in fact in the vehicle. There was also testimony from eyewitnesses. The family was informed today of the findings which the commanding officer of the Air Force describes as a tragic and unfortunate event. All right, any final thoughts, Anand? Before we go. Well, the only thought is that we are, after the event of this support, is that we are in a long war now in Gaza. We have to get used to it. It will be months. And this is the, and I glad that we hear the support of the US for this kind. We have to have a patient. We hear Nasrallah very clearly. They want to destroy Israel. So this is, we have to prepare for this long war against Hamas in the Gaza, in the West Bank. Anand Geffen, thank you very much and have a nice weekend. Meanwhile, as we know there's been anti-semitic incidents all over the world, mainly in the diaspora with many Jewish celebrities actually tackling anti-semitism head on. I went to Jerusalem and caught up with Michael Rappaport and singer Matus Yahu at a special event of appreciation. An evening of hope in Jerusalem kicked off by Israeli superstar Noah Kirel who came in third in last year's Eurovision competition. This salute and appreciation ceremony organized by the Ministry of the Diaspora was broadcast live in English around the world. To say thank you to all those Jews while fighting for their people all across the world. If it's to put the posters of the hostages in the streets of Paris, London, Toronto, or New York. If it's to stand proud with the Magendavid in the streets. If it's to on campus to fight against anti-semitism. When I look back at it now almost six months later it was a primal reaction. It was like a fight or flight reaction. Among the panelists, actor Michael Rappaport who has become one of the most vocal celebrity influencers fighting for Israel and against anti-semitism. There's a lot of people that are speaking up. You know, obviously we wish there would be more.  My being, my, what I represent, who I am is under attack. I just want to say it's just a real pleasure to be here. Thank you guys for honoring us, for encouraging us. You know, it feels nice. Sometimes we feel very alone out there but we also feel this deep sense of being connected to each other, to Israel. Singing superstar Matis Yahu was also part of the ceremony's panel discussion. Matis Yahu, who has a new single and is working on 40 unreleased songs as well as performing in Israel for the second time since October 7th, spoke to me backstage before the ceremony. In some ways made me feel like a stronger connection to Israel and a more powerful connection to my Jewish identity. It kind of brought me back to this focal point of being this feeling of when there's this opposition or being pushed against the wall. I think that people like Rapa Port and Matis Yahu represents the best values of Israel, to be a proud Jew and like Mordechai in the Megillah.  Rapa Port and Matis Yahu both live in New York where anti-Semitism and violence against Jews are rising to levels never seen in modern history. That's just not what New York City represents and true New Yorkers are. I would imagine that the majority of those people running around doing that stuff are not New Yorkers because that's not the New York spirit and now it's the time for the city to make a statement protecting the Jews because they've made statements protecting other people and New York City is a city for everybody.  I don't know, not so much. I don't really walk around much to tell you the truth. Yeah, that's probably a better way to direct it. I don't know. I don't go out. We are under constant threat from the machine that's very powerful. Polish influencer Stefan Thompson, who is not Jewish, has also been one of the biggest advocates for Israel. Because this is a fight for our very survival. It is the survival of Western civilization. We need Israel and Israel needs the West. It is the simplest act and that is what we hear. Also, a performance by Israeli singer Michal Greenglick. She is carrying on the legacy of her brother Shal, a soldier who died in Gaza on December 26th. My brother was an amazing singer. He participated in the next star to the Eurovision. He decided to leave the show and to join his friends in the army. He fell on December 26th in a heroic battle where he defended all his soldiers. Since Sholi died, that's what I do. I go on stages. I sing. I try to give as much as hope and strength as I can through the words and the singing and the music. And even though the hostages have not yet returned and the war with Gaza is not over, Jewish pride and unity around the diaspora will only continue to flourish. I want everybody to continue to stay sane and everything I lead with is for the hostages, for the hostage families, for the IDF, for their families, for the survivors. Because the fact that we're still dealing with this 178 days later, those people that I just mentioned haven't had a chance to heal or mourn because we're still in it. I think the Jewish people will always, like, somehow be like bickering and arguing with each other but then when obviously there's a tragic situation we also like shine and we come together. And that is all from the I-24 News Desk for now. We'll be back with more at the top of the hour. Welcome to I-24 News's ongoing coverage of Israel at war against Hamas. I'm Emily Francis. Israeli police foil an attempted terror attack at the Megiddo Junction earlier today. Police saying the suspect attempted to attack officers with a hammer. He was wounded and detained. Iran and its allies are marking this year's Quds Day as an occasion to express support for Palestinians. This year comes as Iran vows deadly retaliation for an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed top leaders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard including the general Iranian opposition, what they say was the person responsible for planning October 7th. Also earlier this evening, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke promising a retaliation against Israel. Take a listen. The issue of the Iranian consulate is a turning point in the events that occurred from October 7th till today. Be certain, be sure, that the Iranian response to the targeting of the consulate in Damascus is definitely coming against Israel. We haven't yet got out the main weapon. We haven't yet used the main forces. For your knowledge, we haven't yet reserved the forces. The members work on the front then go on leave. They serve their time then return home and a replacement goes to serve then returns home and so on. And with that, we achieved our accomplishments in the north of Israel, which you can ask the Israelis about. Now we're going to go live to northern Israel where we are joined by I-24 News correspondent Balir Sladeen. Tell us more about what Nasserallah had to say this evening. Yes, so in addition to what he said about the incident in the consulate in Damascus he was saying that there will be an Iranian response which is very important. Israel thought that there could be a response from Iranian Broxies like Hezbollah and the militias in Iraq and also Yemen. But apparently at this time there will be a response from Iran itself. Of course, there could be a response to Israel proper but also to some other Israeli targets in other areas. We've seen that before when other Israelis attributed to Israel also before in Syria where Iran struck what he said a Mossad facility in Erbil in northern Iraq. So maybe this time there will be no attack against the Iraqi targets or like Israeli targets in Iraq but there could be of course anything but from the Israeli point of view and according to what the Defense Minister Gallant is saying that Israel is fully prepared with many layers of defense and he's saying also that being prepared doesn't mean being scared as well that's coming after yesterday. Many Israelis thought that war is coming from Iran and this could be a huge deal and even they rushed to the supermarket and other stuff until the adef spokesperson went and said that there should be or at least for now we don't have any other changes for the instructions to the civilians at this point. So from what we understand according to the reports recently that there will be a limited Iranian respond but today sources from Israeli security officials are saying that also if there was a respond from Iran there will be an Israeli respond to that. So we're here in a very tense situation where any miscalculation could lead to a wider escalation in this area and even a wider escalation between Israel and Iran something that of course both sides doesn't want at least officially according to what they are saying. Nasrallah is also saying that Lebanon is ready for war. He said that if they want if the Israeli side wants war then welcome as he's saying it and that everyone should be prepared for that, for such a scenario according to what Nasrallah has said today. He was talking, we remind you, in the Quds day, so the Jerusalem day, the Iranian day where he also said that Iran is standing with the Palestinian people and since the Iranian Islamic Revolution the al-Khomeini stance with the Palestinian people was the only or the major reason for many Iranian wars as he's saying it. So that's what he heard today from Nasrallah of course we need to wait and see what will be really in the field according to what he said and ran in response to what the Israeli attack or the attributed Israeli attack in Damascus. Alright, Balir Sledin, thank you very much for that live report. We're now joined live in studio by Brigadier General in the Reserves, Hanan Geffen, former commander of the 8200 intelligence unit of the IDF known as Shmone Mataim. Good evening, thank you for being here. Good to see you. So what do you have to say about what Nasrallah said earlier that Iran is no doubt going to retaliate in some degree, a limited, please give some perspective on what that could mean. Here at Nasrallah every three months or so and I would say in many aspects it's boring because he's repeating himself in the same notions and as it was mentioned in past experience he was also saying that Iran was retaliating and then ended up a bomb in Bombay somewhere in the Israeli consulate trying to plant a bomb or the attack of a house in your building in Iraq. That was the big retaliation. He's saying more that Iran is trying I would say to drag on with the threats of retaliation so the Israeli will be worried for a longer time. They're not going to retaliate immediately. That's what you may hear from the voices but he's the same. He said it the same in previous talk as well. If we're speaking about what he's saying I think I believe he's boring his audience as well because he's repeating the same arguments speaking about Israel is the House of Spiders, the co-web and it's trying to show that Israel is weak Israel is divided Israel is losing the war as a matter of fact it's disregarding all the information that's coming from Gaza from what's happening really in Gaza what is the situation of two million people the desperate cries of the Hamas to ceasefire whoever they can attach so he's kind of playing the same game he's a kind of concept he believes Israel is weakening he was very pleased to quote that 100,000 Israelis left Israel I don't know where he got this information but he's played it very because he's set this kind of information he's coinciding with what he believes Israel is going happening in Israel and again the notion was in all the argument Israel is going to be defeated Israel is going to see its end so it's very boring it's for the last 20 years as an intelligence officer someone says the same thing over and over again it's almost like hot air it's like crying wolf you're saying the last 20 years we have to be very careful we have a bad experience forecasting and be very careful and the military is very careful and we have here Defense Minister Galant speaking today I'm saying we're prepared in the Air Force Base to go to the Iranian and Hezbollah be careful we know we are we know what you're doing but we are careful with that said given that is that enough of a deterrent to stop something from happening I believe that the Iranians are deterred the Iranians have already stopped their proxies from attacking the US are not attacking Israel and the level of rhetoric coming from Iran is lower than the beginning of the war of this war so I don't believe that this is the case the situation the question right now is whether the Hezbollah and the Iranian understand the next front the northern front is the next case the situation Gaza will be the third phase we said that it will be a low level low intensity war 5 months until get rid of Hamas probably we will ask a question about it as well but in the north they should know and he knows it because he said we are not afraid of Israel and he disregarded what really happened in the last 5 years 5 months Israel is every time, every week enlarge the the number of targets the whereabouts of the target the kind of target of Hezbollah all over Syria which is the backyard of Hezbollah Israel attacked and they destroyed a research center assembly centers warehouses he knows it and he didn't mention it he only said we are prepared for war so he kind of tried to save it from his audience to plan their hope that Israel is losing more details we will be back with you in a moment don't go anywhere the IDF has now confirmed that two senior officers will be removed over the deadly strike of members of the world's central kitchen aid convoy in Gaza killing seven several top commanders will also be censured meanwhile after a call between the US between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel has opened several land crossings into Gaza to deliver that humanitarian aid including the Eris crossing which has been closed since October 7th as well as the port of Ashdod which has temporarily been set up to receive aid shipments the rift between the US and Israel has only deepened in recent weeks as the White House repeatedly rejects Israel's plans for a ground invasion into Rafa to dismantle the last four battalions numbering some 8,000 Hamas terrorists here's more from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken we received Israel's report on the terrible killing of the world's central kitchen team in Gaza a few days ago we're reviewing it very carefully we'll be discussing its conclusions with Israeli officials and with humanitarian organizations in the days to come it's very important that Israel is taking full responsibility for this incident it's also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable even more important is making sure that steps are taking going forward to ensure that something like this can never happen again Prime Minister Netanyahu indicated to President Biden that Israel would be making further changes to his procedures to make sure that those who are providing assistance to people who so desperately need it in Gaza are protected so you heard from the Secretary of State so listen I think also the US said they're not going to investigate into this but obviously there has been an independent investigation Israel has admitted that this was an error and now there are consequences explain a bit about the consequence of those people that are being censured and fired it's a very delicate situation because these operations are fighters people that are working only months fighting was a very very clear and very I would say very clear steps to show that the situation has to be controlled much more controlled because we are right now we already I mentioned I believe this term we are in the twilight zone in Gaza twilight zone there are more and more organizations most of them Palestinian in nature they're taking over Hamas roles in the northern and western part of the south and the central part of Gaza which you mentioned the areas crossing all the supply which goes through areas crossing will be delivered by Palestinians other than the Hamas not the Hamas so this is an ongoing operation and this I would say will together with the international hopefully with the international organization create a new order of how to coordinate how to make sure that the supplies will be delivered safely and this is it will be a long process but this is a long time already we've been talking about this for a month and it's still not resolved you know gradually there are places in Gaza that are still controlled by Hamas in the Balach and in the Rafah of course and there are less because in northern Gaza and central Gaza their capability is for others to enter and they are entering we see it for internal communication between in the Arab social networks here were Palestinians but not the Hamas they were the PLO affiliated kind of supported and many more of them coming so this is a process which of course Secretary Blinken is aware of this process he knows in cooperation with the American hopefully this event is behind us and the investigation we create new tools new coordination tools that will actually let the food be delivered to the people that need it and start the new new people new organizations will control the area right all right we'll be right back meanwhile the UN the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution today calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip although Israel dismissed it as a distorted text 28 countries voted in favor 13 abstained 6 opposed the resolution including the US and Germany here's reaction from both sides it's good what's happened that we we have 28 votes in favor but I'm not happy with some of the European countries that they voted against and those who voted abstained it was an opportunity for all to correct what they did since 7th October until now according to the resolution before you today Israel has no right to protect its people while Hamas has every right to murder and torture innocent Israelis Israel should have stood widely by on October 7th as Hamas unleashed its barbaric acts on October 8th it should have allowed Hamas to do so again according to this resolution states should not sell arms to Israel in its endeavor to defend its population but they can continue to arm Hamas police said that undercover border police officers killed a Palestinian man who was hurling an explosive device at troops during a raid in the West Bank Jerusalem police were deployed during today's final Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan known today as Kud's day meanwhile Jerusalem police arrested eight people suspected of incitement and support for terrorism after mourning prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount atop Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in an online security lapse in an exclusive by the Guardian Yossi Sariel has been unmasked as the head of the Shornima time unit and architect of the AI strategy after a book written in his pen name revealed his Google account according to the Guardian in the embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book that he published on Amazon which left a digital trail to his private Gmail the Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of the human machine team a book in which artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines all right we're back with Hanan here to talk about this this sounds like a movie it really sounds like it's it sounds like a movie so did you know this person of course did you know that he was writing a book yes so he wrote the book actually before it was denominated he was abroad and studies in the new US and then was part of a team and then he prepared his wrote this book much before but it's nothing surprising because you know we in the intelligence are working on aids you know tools to support the work because one of the problem of the intelligence the huge masses of information you know just for example if we have a store chain or they are collecting information of their buyers and they are offering you a coupon because they know that you are buying this right so this kind of information of gathering information mixing fusion of information right this is the intelligence doing multiplied of course by numbers so this all of all the intelligence agencies all over the world it's not the Israeli one the Israelis have some advantage because the high tech you know we have the very advanced high tech startups and high techs that support when known and they were purchased and buy them oversight on his part I guess when you're when you're used to being a real intelligence that knows how to read between things like something like an Amazon and a Gmail account is not something you think about should he have thought about that at the time he didn't think about it he was preoccupied with the book he was he wasn't the commander of the unit at the time and he wrote it as a you know it was a year of studying and that was the is this a dangerous situation no because you know in the past the heads of the Mossad in the Shabbat was secret while in office and then once they finished the name was published and the idea of 8 to 200 stayed the same you know we are exposed once we finished our name is you know I finished my work as a commander all of the military attaches in China including the North Korean the Iranian knows exactly the name so what right exactly so very interesting but the book did well right I don't know at least to be worth that all right thank you very much thank you an IDF investigation into the death of a cats on October 7th shows that she was most likely killed in an airstrike by Israeli Air Force combat helicopter in the car that she was being held captive in by Hamas terrorists in near O's surveillance cameras that were captured were used by the IDF and they were able to detect that cats and other hostages were in fact in the vehicle there was also testimony from eyewitnesses the family was informed today of the findings which the commanding officer of the Air Force describes as a tragic and unfortunate event all right any any any final thoughts and on before we go well the only sort is that we are after the event of the support is that we are in a a long war now in Gaza we have to get used to it it will be once and this is the and I glad that we hear the support of the U.S. for this kind we have to have a patient we hear Nasrallah very clearly they want to destroy Israel so this is we have to prepare for this long war against Hamas in the Gaza in the West Bank and on Geffen thank you very much and have a nice weekend and meanwhile as we know there's been anti-semitic incidents all over the world in the Diaspora with many Jewish celebrities actually tackling anti-semitism head on I went to Jerusalem and caught up with Michael Rappaport and singer Matus Yahu at a special event of appreciation an evening of hope in Jerusalem kicked off by Israeli superstar Noah Kirel who came in third in last year's Eurovision competition this salute and appreciation ceremony organized by the ministry of the Diaspora was broadcast live in English around the world to say thank you to all those Jews while fighting for their people all across the world if it's to put the posters of the hostages in the streets of Paris, London, Toronto or New York if it's to stand proud with them again David in the streets if it's to on campus to fight against anti-semitism when I look back at it now it was a primal reaction it was like a fight or flight reaction among the panelists actor Michael Rappaport who has become one of the most vocal celebrity influencers fighting for Israel and against anti-semitism there's a lot of people that are speaking up you know obviously we wish there would be more you know I might be the loudest I might be the most vulgar my being what I represent who I am is under attack I just want to say it's just a real pleasure to be here thank you guys for honouring us for encouraging us it feels nice sometimes we feel very alone out there but we also feel this deep sense of being connected to each other to Israel singing superstar Matis Yahu was also part of the ceremony's panel discussion Matis Yahu who has a new single and is working on 40 unreleased songs as well as performing in Israel for the second time since October 7th spoke to me backstage before the ceremony in some ways made me feel like a stronger connection to Israel a more powerful connection to my Jewish identity it kind of like brought me like kind of back to this like focal point of like being kind of this feeling of when there's like this opposition or like being like pushed against the wall I think that people like Rafa Port and Matis Yahu represents the best values of Israel to be a proud Jew and like Mordechai in the Megillah Mordechai won't bend on his knees in the face of evil in the face of anti-semitism and this is the test for every Jew today in the world Matis Yahu both live in New York where anti-semitism and violence against Jews are rising to levels never seen in modern history that's just not what New York City represents and true New Yorkers are I would imagine that the majority of those people running around doing this are not New Yorkers because that's not the New York spirit and now it's a time for the city to make a statement protecting the Jews because they've made statements protecting other people and New York City is a city for everybody are you feeling threatened in any way being a Jew walking around with a high in New York? I don't know not so much I don't really walk around much to tell you the truth I don't go out Polish Influencers Stefan Thompson who is not Jewish has also been one of the biggest advocates for Israel because this is a fight for our very survival and civilization we need Israel and Israel needs the West also a performance by Israeli singer Michal Greenglick she is carrying on the legacy of her brother Shal a soldier who died in Gaza on December 26th my brother was an amazing singer he participated in the next star to the Eurovision he decided to leave the show and to join his friends in the army he fell on December 26th in an heroic battle where he defended all his soldiers since Sholi died that's what I do, I go on stages I sing, I try to give as much as hope and strength as I can through the words and the singing and the music and even though the hostages have not yet returned and the war with Gaza is not over Jewish pride and unity around the diaspora will only continue to flourish I want everybody to continue to stay sane and everything I lead with is for the hostages, for the hostage families for the IDF, for their families for the survivors because the fact that we're still dealing with this 178 days later those people that I just mentioned haven't had a chance to heal or mourn because we're still in it I think the Jewish people will always be like bickering and arguing with each other and then when obviously there's a tragic situation we also like shine and we come together and we and that is all from the I-24 news desk for now we'll be back with more at the top of the hour welcome to I-24 news is ongoing coverage of Israel at war I'm Emily Francis this just in CNN has said that Hamas is said to have rejected Israel's latest hostage deal as mediators are heading over the weekend to allegedly continue those talks we'll have more as that information becomes available meanwhile Israeli police earlier today foiled an attempted terror attack at the Megiddo Junction with police saying the suspect tried to attack officers with a hammer he was wounded and detained Iran and its allies are marking this year's coup day as an occasion all day long to rally and support Palestinians with thousands are showing up in Tehran with seven senior revolutionary guard members and Iran vowing deadly retaliation for an alleged airstrike that killed these leaders a few days ago also they are saying the Iranian opposition saying this person one of the people that died was responsible for planning October 7th also earlier this evening Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised a retaliation against Israel the issue of the Iranian consulate is a turning point in the events that occurred from October 7th till today be certain, be sure that the Iranian response to the targeting of the consulate in Damascus is definitely coming against Israel we haven't yet got out the main weapon we haven't yet used the main forces for your knowledge we haven't yet reserved the forces the members work on the front then go on leave they serve their time then return home and a replacement goes to serve then returns home and so on and with that we achieved our accomplishments in the north of Israel which you can ask the Israelis about we're now going to go live to northern Israel where we are joined by I-24 news correspondent Balir Sladin with more on what Nasrallah had to say this evening good evening yes good evening so the speech that Nasrallah gave on Quds day Jerusalem day of course we have been waiting to hear from him his response to the latest event in Damascus Syria where the seven Iranian senior members of the Iranian members have been killed of course he's saying that there will be an Iranian response be sure about this but this is important because he's saying an Iranian response will be there and not a response from Iranian proxies that they are described in Israel so not any attack from Hezbollah or the Iraqi militias or even the Yemenis the Houthis we will see an Iranian response that we have also heard from Iranian journalists talking today into Iran the same rhetoric also about this inevitable response from Iran the question is will there be a response from Iran toward Israel ballistic missiles, cruise missiles or even drones that's something to be seen of course and whether will be there any response from Iran towards Israel or Israeli targets in other areas like the ones we had a couple of months ago in Erbil where the Iranian said that they struck a Mossad infrastructure or building inside Erbil northern Iraq so this is of course something that is very concerning we've heard from Iran the defense minister saying that Israel is prepared but it's not scared of this but the question is if there was an Iranian response will there be an Israeli response for that and any miscalculation will of course lead us to a wider conflict between these two adversaries in terms of what's happening in the field the latest siren was heard at around four o'clock today in the afternoon it was in Kiryat Munal where three rockets were fired in a terrain and about an hour ago Hezbollah said that they have targeted some Israeli Umeritelech site in what they called the Kafar Shuba Hells the equipied Kafar Shuba Hells which is the upper galeel we haven't heard any sirens in that area and no reports also from the Israeli side about any casualties as a result of that but it's very interesting that the Amal movement which is a Shiite movement that is a non-Israeli movement and the Israeli side said that two of its members were killed that's after one hour of Israel saying that this stroke a building in South Lebanon. Thank you very much. I-24's Baleer Sladin that is all for now from the I-24 news desk. I'm Emily Francis. Thank you so much for watching. For the Bats on social networks more from Israel's channel 13 expose the network of those bots and thank you very much for joining us Bar. What have you discovered? Hi Jacob, thank you for having me. I discovered that there is a major group of activists from Egypt. They're actually located right now in Turkey. They're from the Muslim Brotherhood Organization and they try to infiltrate the Israeli social media platforms by creating users that seems to be authentic Israeli users. They try to depict themselves as activists for Netanyahu and against the Netanyahu activists for the recruitment of paradigm Jews and what they try to do is to create chaos in the Israeli social media by creating this rift enlarging this rift between Jewish sectors in the Israeli society. And they had a plan. They had a plan to create more than 40,000 users on Twitter that will create this kind of chaos in the Israeli social media and we actually see that they did get an achievement when Itama Ben-Greer, the minister actually introduced a user from this group on the cabinet meeting just two days ago. It was actually a user that was created specifically by this organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. So he brought the fake news of sorts to the cabinet. Well, this is the kind of stuff we saw from Russia and China also in the US. So this is the same idea create chaos in a society. Yeah, trying to interfere with the Israeli society creating chaos on social media, especially on Twitter, which we know it's a major platform, very influential. A lot of politicians are inside Twitter. Actually, I believe that Itama Ben-Greer saw this tweet that was created on Twitter and he saw it on Twitter. The user was called Magen Ben Avram. He introduced himself as an Israeli activist who is against Netanyahu. Of course, it was all fake and was part of this plan by the Muslim Brotherhood Organization. But actually, it's quite frightening when you think about it because here in Israel, we have now all the protests and we have these clashes between different sects inside the Israeli society. It's a very divided society. So when we're talking about this organization, a Muslim extremist organization trying to create chaos, they actually quite understand all the narratives inside the Israeli society and they try to enlarge this chaos that actually exists inside the Israeli society. Definitely exists. It's not a tough job to do. Barsh Amor, thank you very much. Thank you so much, Jacob. Thank you. Meanwhile, we have more testimonies about the sexual abuse of hostages in Gaza and it's surfacing more and more. Former hostages and family members in the Knesset today. Here's the report by Natasha Kirchak. All of the protests that are going on are different. It doesn't matter how you try to fix it or change it. That's 21-year-old Maya Regiv. She and her younger brother were abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7th from the Nova Music Festival. But were miraculously released last November during a temporary ceasefire deal. I returned around 50 days. And I'm proud of myself. I don't want to go over more than 170 days. Today, Maya is speaking out at an emergency session held in the Israeli Parliament to discuss the dire situation of the female Israeli hostages still being held captive in the Gaza Strip by terror operatives. Not one government minister is present and only three coalition members are attending the session today. That's because the Israeli Parliament is on a six-week recess that's slated to run until May 19. As you might imagine, the family of the hostages are infuriated, especially those present. Where are you? Why do we have to fight? I'm listening to what you're saying and it's just a discusion that comes back to itself from the 1970s. Why don't you go to jail? That's Yarden Gonen who's been fighting for almost six months now for the release of her 23-year-old sister Romy, who was also taken hostage by Hamas at the Nova Music Festival.  What's the matter? The child is 23. She's gone to jail. She's gone to jail. That's her life. 134 hostages still remain captive in Gaza. 19 of them are women. A United Nations report in March presented clear and convincing evidence that hostages have been raped and says that those currently held captive are still facing sexual abuse. Just last week, one of the released female hostages confirmed the horrifying report. 40-year-old Amit Susana told The New York Times that she was sexually assaulted and attacked by her Hamas guard during her captivity in Gaza. Her testimony is shaken Israel. But clearly, not enough. Why does Amit Susana need to read the Gouf of the Gzareem in order for someone to do something? For someone to hear from me that a woman is going and telling the whole world about the rape that happened? In order for someone to get out and get rid of our people? Despite the frantic cries of the families of the hostages, nothing seems to be changing. Negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal remain deadlocked. Israel's negotiating team headed home from truce talks in Cairo today after putting together an updated proposal for Hamas to address. But the families of the hostages say that time is running out. We don't have enough time. Our tragedy is over. If Noah's mother doesn't take care of her, it's going to be a disaster for all Israel's governments. This is the aunt of 25-year-old Noah Argamani.  Their family has been pleading for Noah's release so that Leora will have one last chance to see her daughter. So what comes next amid the pleas of these desperate families? Israeli Knesset member Panina Taman-Osheta, who's chairing of this session, says it was scheduled to try and pressure the government to secure a hostage release deal and be more flexible in negotiations. The question is, how long it will take? But no matter what, these families say they will not stop fighting. We don't have enough time to ask anyone who can help us. I will do this. I will ask for your help. Kibbutz Bay-Ori in southern Israel was one of the hardest to hit on October 7th. I don't know if four years correspondent Uri Shapira met with some of the founders of this community who came back 40 years later. Let's take a watch. This short road from Kibbutz Bay-Ori next to the Gaza Strip to the point that we are heading for is full of memories. The building which was once here was the remains of an old sheikh house that no longer exists. Kibbutz Bay-Ori is one of them. One of them is for example, Rakhap Gashkash in Bar Mitzvah where he was given a handkerchief and a handkerchief that was right? Yes, it was. The so-called Gashkash was a gathering of members of the Kibbutz consisting of sketches and songs. Most of the content was nonsense and inside joke. The leading forces behind this initiative were Ahal Basaray, Dondi Shvarts and Itzan Ra'anan. All of whom were born in the 1960s and grew up in Bay-Ori in the 1970s and 1980s. The Gashkash started when they were in their 20s. Young people who refused to grow up and to leave the Kibbutz. The beginning as always wasn't easy. At the end of the day there was something like a lot of Kibbutz. A lot of people. Ahal said to me every time Dondi, take a look and take a look at this hero. I didn't meet any Gashkash I looked at the camera and I didn't see any Gashkash on this hero. Ahal He said that there was a Oceanos of Zimaon for the hero. And in the end it was a good show and we were starting to get the news. It wasn't easy. After the swapping of the entire Kibbutz the Gashkash appeared in the national press in a short article at the Hadashot newspaper in 1986 under the unflattering title MISSION TO IRRITATE. That's it. To the Wodishen in Tel Aviv. It's a secret I don't even know what a secret it is. There are two kings of these races. We came here, me, Dondi and so on. And they say that we want to build a fortress in a castle and so on. We didn't understand anything about the Kibbutz and so we said to them that we can build a fortress and you can teach us what it is. And then they understood that they have a connection with the Gioti. Yes. They saved us. Here we are. No, he's here. He's doing his homework. Dondi is the only one from the trio who stayed in Bury. Ahal moved to the UK and now lives in the Philippines. The family, however, continued to live in Bury. Here is Yonat's house. A small house that is being built for the family and the family and their children. Noam and Alma came to the castle. Noam and Alma returned to the land but the castle is still empty. So when we talk about the castle and the villages and all these things and Maria we need to understand the context of all this because everything is empty but what I think is right is that yes, it's empty and yes, it's empty and yes, it's empty but you also don't have to think that on the other side it could be a joke. But I was here. I took it. You know, every child's appearance I love them. If I love you it's just that you see that you are here and you share your life with my father, right? That's right. Yes, that's what he said.  Yes, that's right. It was a great moment. A great moment. All anyone who I am and all the memories and many, many friends who were born took them a part of me the memories what they know about them what I know about them the new people they know they don't know the story that was It happened, we went today but no, it could be that I was in the family reunion with Hannah and Khalil and when you were born it was just a joke. They told me to give up I'm going to be a friend and give up I'm going to be a friend I'm going to be a friend I'm going to be a friend I'm going to be a friend I'm going to be a friend I'm going to be a friend in Bearey He came here to do some things after 20 years We came from Povech having some children young people you know, a house Majers 500 m high house next to the pandemic Yep But it won't be very difficult for me today to face the challenges of the past, and for people to find it funny. It's not a dream, it's a dream. Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the chair of the UN commission that is supposed to promote gender equality and empower women around the world. No less. But stand by in Dubai, this is somewhat challenging. Let's put it this way, right? Well, I'm surprising, for sure. At least it wasn't a big challenge for Saudi Arabia, Jacob, as the Saudi ambassador to the UN Abdulaziz Al-Wasil was elected as chair of this commission on the status of women by acclamation as there were no rival candidates, basically, and no dissents. At least at this CSW's annual meeting in New York yesterday when the Filipino envoy to the UN, who was the outgoing chair, asked the members if they had any objections. There was silence in the chamber, basically. Besides, normally a country holds the chair for two years, but the Philippines was put under pressure from other members of the Asia group to split its tenure and pass the post on to another country after one year. Initially, Bangladesh was expected to take over, but late in the process, Saudi Arabia sort of stepped in and lobbied for the chair. Now, we are seeing human rights organizations opposing this. I mean, if the reactions of human rights organizations such as Amnesty International or anything to go by, yes, this could be seen as an attempt to burnish the kingdom's image. Speaking of Amnesty, the organization quickly pointed to the irony of the CSW being led by a country in which the gap between men's and women's rights, even on paper, is so wide. Also saying that whoever is in the chair is in a key position to influence the planning, the decisions, the taking stock, etc. And that Saudi Arabia's own record on women's rights is, quote, abysmal and a far cry from the men of the commission. And for its part, Human Rights Roach is saying that the country that jails women simply because they advocate for their rights has no business being the face of the UN's top form, let's say, for women's rights and gender equality. The group even tried to lobby other countries among the current CSW members, including states like the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, etc. But everyone reportedly kept quiet, sorry. Well, there has been some progress in Saudi Arabia regarding women's rights. Who knows, maybe this will make things better there. I'm just speculating. In stories like this, there are always three ways of looking at things. The first one is to consider the countries like these need to be integrated so as not to be isolated and not leave them to continue with, in this case, a patriarchal system. The second one is, on the contrary, to isolate them and force them to change. And the third one is to let them use their lobbying skills and say that, you know, it's okay, the situation regarding women in countries like Saudi Arabia is not so bad. And it's safe to say that the United Nations does a bit of all three, if you will, to the liking of Riyadh. Alright, Bestian Bari, in Dubai. Thank you very much. Now, this, scientists at the Weitzman Institute of Science in Israel were lucky enough to spot the early stages of a supernova explosion. This is very rare and it was by chance. I, 24 News, Dixie Arvind, has the story. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a large star exploded 20 million years ago to be exact. The explosion dispersed remnants through space. Over a year ago, the light emitted from the explosion reached Earth. Israeli scientists at the Weitzman Institute were the first to observe the earliest stages of the explosion. So that night, on the Friday night, after we realized that this is a super interesting and very rare opportunity, he pulled the trigger, we told NASA, this is the time, stop whatever it is you're doing. Hubble stopped whatever it was doing and turned as quickly as it can to observe our target. And he did it. It was the fastest ever observations of this type that Hubble did. The star that exploded was located in a neighboring galaxy called Messier 101, and scientists predict that the explosion probably left behind a massive black hole. To understand this, we have to study the star itself as it was before the explosion. And these measurements that we got so quickly after the explosion allowed us to recover this information before it was totally lost. So one of the interesting results from this paper, for example, is that we suspect that after the explosion, a black hole was left behind. Such occurrences are quite rare, and the explosion creates sort of fingerprint of the supernova and the elements it leaves behind. Scientists can now study the early stages of an ultraviolet light from such an explosion, which can help find supernovas elsewhere in space. This was the first opportunity we had to observe this explosion process, this light escaping for the first time from the area on the star, and that gave us new information about several things. One, we can estimate the properties, both of the star and of the material around it, as they were before the explosion. In the chaos of cosmic creation, scientists witness a spectacle which will move through space for eons. And this is it for us. Stay tuned for more news with Kalev Bendevede here on I-24 News. Have a good night from Tel Aviv. I was kidnapped with her brother Itai from the Nova Party in Raim on October 7, and freed as part of the November hostage deal, spoke before the Committee of the Status of Women and Gender Equality in the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, this morning. She spoke of the terrible ordeal the hostages go through, especially the female hostages. Every woman there, it's really hard to say this, and there have been plenty of testimonies recently. Every woman there is subject to sexual harassment in one or another form. They abandoned me once, and I'm sitting there, and I say to myself, OK, in a few days, they'll come and rescue me. It's not logical that so many people are prisoners. What is this? Something like this has never happened. And never in my life did I think it would take so much time.  I returned after 50 days, and I'm dealing with things. I don't want to describe what they're going through for 179 days. And joining us now is Avishag Avinoam, who's the initiator and project manager of the movement named Hamas Rape Mitu. Avishag Avinoam, thank you very much for being with us. Thank you for having me. And we're hearing these. We heard this testimony from Maya Regev this morning. It's not the first testimony we heard. Maybe not even the first testimony we heard this week. We're hearing quite difficult testimonies. Can this, does this eventually move decision makers to understand that six months on, some kind of a deal to bring the people back now has to happen. Because if it doesn't happen soon, maybe there'll be no one to bring back alive. Well, I think the deal should have been made in the first weeks, even before we got into Gaza. That's something that we should have done way long, like long ago. But that's a different story. Now we are in a completely different situation. And the family is the friend of the hostages, especially after the multiple reports coming out from the New York Times to Guardian. Now at the Knesset there is this committee about the association, the report of the Association of Red Crises in Israel and the UN report. And so forth, really four official reports that came out showing the state that the hostages might be in. And this is not a good state. And we have to do everything possible in order to pressure the government really to make an effort to release the remaining hostages. Hopefully they will be back safe and alive. I understand there are some difficulties, moral difficulties regarding of releasing prisoners, terrorists. We all acknowledge that that's what it takes in order to take them out. But since the government did not stand in permission to protect the citizens of southern Israel during October 7th. And also there are many also reports coming out showing about the immense lack of organization that happened within military units and within the security system in Israel. So, you know, they just cannot come to the hostages' families and friends and the ones who are active to their release. They cannot just say, we cannot do that now because they are demanding a high price to pay. We are aware of that. We know that. But we have no choice. We have to first bring them back and then solve the issue one and for all if it's possible. Avisha, could you tell us more about this project? Hamas raped me too. What does that mean? What exactly are you promoting? Okay, so our project rose after the October 7th with a group of volunteers. What we've done and we're still doing today but the intensity of the work was obviously in the first few months of the war. We were monitoring the social activity of human rights, children's rights and women's rights organizations on all of their social media platforms and their website checking their statements, their posts they are sharing. We just want to see how they react to the events that took place to the attack and obviously to the sexual assaults. We're focusing now on women's rights organizations but also children's rights that were absolutely silent like Save the Children, Plan International, UNICEF. They were all silent about what happened to Israeli children. We emailed them with the mandate their condemnation, with the mandate them to come up with a statement to release the hostages or the children at least or from women organizations to condemn the rapes and sexual assaults and to demand their release and we encountered with silent. Really, the only a few organizations that really replied to us were really the replies were a laughing stock. Really, you look at the email that they are sending me and they're justifying the attack. Oxfam International addressed us to their Q&A section on their website. They say the condemnation appears there and it appears under the question why we don't talk about Israel. It's really absurd, it's really absurd and this is what we are dealing with. We are dealing with very left, extreme left organizations that refuse to make a political distinguish between what happened to innocent people to the political map of the region. They just refuse to make this difference and they're not supposed to do politics. That's the thing. So we are very surprised by that and so after email then, after emailing them and demanding their condemnation and to see that we don't have really a partner to talk with, we started a campaign of shame online and we are active on our social media, mainly on Instagram. We are shaming every few weeks we taking one organization and we are shaming them. We had that with the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre which they said nothing about what happened and in February they decided to host an event on their facilities cooperating with two extreme, very extreme pro-Palestinian organizations in Toronto that demanding the release of the terrorists from the prisoners before the release of the hostages. So we shamed them online and there was a big scandal around this event that we shamed them and they ended up eventually apologizing and canceling the collaboration with these two organizations. And turning back to that fateful October 7th massacre the children of Kibbutz-Berry suffered an unbelievable trauma that will take a lifetime to heal and only days ago some of those children who survived the massacre returned home for the very first time. More in this next report. Hi Niri, how are you? Are you excited or a bit tense or both? I'm excited to go outside. Me too. Do you remember that conversation we had six months ago? We met at the Dead Sea Hotel and I asked you what you missed most. What is the most important thing about you? My dream. My dream was to go to my house and to my friends. I'm proud of who I love. I've heard so much about your house and all the stories you've told me but I wanted to ask you aren't you afraid of seeing things that are too difficult for you? No, really. I want to live here. Now let's go to Hawaii. Well, let's go. It's been five months since we last saw each other and I'd love to know how you've been since. It can't be. Do you still feel comfortable there or have you had enough? How does it feel to see what's going on here in the kibbutz? What kind of emotions do you feel? I'd like to ask you what has changed since the last time we saw each other? It's a little bit painful. It's not painful at all. It's not painful at all. Apart from that, I think it's painful. The last time we saw each other, you told me that every Friday night you would have trouble falling asleep. Is it because you don't want to wake up on Saturday morning and experience what happened all over again? I'd like to remind you that if you remember that you wanted to wake up, that's not good. But if you remember that you were able to wake up and if you remember that you don't want to wake up, you have to wake up. I don't feel it. That's how it is. Thank you. That's how it is too. I'm already starting to get up to wake up Okay, that's it. I'm already up. Do you see the windows? How come? Here we have all the lights of the house. Those are the windows that I use. So all the time you were locked up in the shelter, this was the only light you had? It was a speaker.  That's it. A friend who comes to the store if he wants to come here. He's still not sure? Do you still think a lot about what happened? I try to calm down. How do you do it? I don't know. Does it bother you that I talk about it with you? It always comes and goes but there's a feeling that they're really quiet and I always try to go through a story or something like that but I don't know if it works and I don't know if it's going to work. Is everyone okay? Niri, how are you? How are you? I didn't hear it. It was a canyon. It was a canyon Where are we going? What was your grandmother's name? My grandmother's name is Malah and it's in every house because it's the third time we've been here. Is it hard for you to be here? I love it. Can you tell me a bit about your grandmother, Pessie? I don't know what to say. For example, what did she like to do? She liked me. I'm told you look a lot like her. What resembles her most? By a knife.  This is the house of Amos. What's Amos's corner? There are some trees here. I'll open the window a little. A little bit. A little bit. How do the trees feel to be here now? This place is important for us to think about and feel that the house is yours. It's everything that's after you're in the kitchen. Mary, let's bring them here. No, I'm not going to go inside. I'm going to go inside just for a while. This was your kindergarten? Yes. Here it was. Here we were doing activities. All the children were here. Yes, we're from Hungary. Thank you very much. Thank you. What do you miss most? The house. The house. The whole house. The most important thing is to bring back all the trees. That it's like between the trees. Yes. You can't live without all the trees. Do you think they'll all come back? Yes. Do you think about them a lot? No. I remember when we first met you told me we're not moving back home. I don't go back home. As long as we don't go back home. Before I go back home to get my food, what do I do? Are the hostages the most important thing? Most importantly, we want them to come back as long as we want to. What are we eating? I don't know. I want to eat. Thank you. Tell me, does eating what you like here make you feel a bit at home? Home. Do you know why I don't eat at home? Because it's hot. I don't get hot for a long time. Who wants to come back to Barry? I do. Is it clear for you or are you hesitating? The hostages are in a dilemma. We're the hostages. It's a dilemma. What is a dilemma? It's a dilemma. We're the hostages. We're the hostages. An evening of hope in Jerusalem kicked off by Israeli superstar Noah Kirel who came in third in last year's Eurovision competition. The salute and appreciation ceremony organized by the Ministry of the Diaspora was broadcast live in English around the world. To say thank you to all those Jews while fighting for their people all across the world. If it's to put the posters of the hostages in the streets of Paris, London, Toronto or New York. If it's to stand proud with the Magendavid in the streets, if it's on campus to fight against anti-Semitism. When I look back at it now almost six months later it was a primal reaction. It was like a fight or flight reaction. Among the panelists actor Michael Rappaport who has become one of the most vocal celebrity influencers fighting for Israel and against anti-Semitism. There's a lot of people that are speaking up. Obviously we wish there would be more. I might be the loudest I might be the most vulgar. My being, what I represent who I am I just want to say it's just a real pleasure to be here. Thank you guys for honoring us for encouraging us. It feels nice sometimes we feel very alone out there but we also feel this deep sense of being connected to each other, to Israel. Singing superstar Matias Yahu was also part of the ceremony's panel discussion. Matias Yahu who has a new single and is working on 40 unreleased songs as well as performing in Israel for the second time since October 7th spoke to me backstage before the ceremony. In some ways made me feel like a stronger connection to Israel and a more powerful connection to my Jewish identity and it kind of brought me back to this focal point of being this feeling of this opposition or being pushed against the wall. I think that people like Rapaport and Matias Yahu represents the best values of our Israel to be a proud Jew and like Mordechai in the Megillah Mordechai won't bend on his knees in the face of evil in the face of anti-Semitism and this is the test for every Jew today in the world. People like Rapaport and Matias Yahu live in New York where a