wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip. According to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas, the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza's city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans have relocated to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and amid an imminent ground incursion. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave into Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern borders. Hezbollah tests Israel's result. Let's cross our live to our correspondent Hamda Selkut who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamda, Hezbollah is testing Israel. How is Israel currently responding? Well, look, Batia, a joint statement from both the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli military says that the National Emergency Management Authority is announcing the implementation of a plan to evacuate residents of northern Israel who live in the area up to two kilometers. This plan approves by the Defense Minister, Yohav Galant, it applies to 28 different communities. An indication that the fighting along the northern border will continue. It's going to be an interesting situation for the Israeli military to have to tackle both a battle on the northern front and the southern front as well. Hezbollah's weaponry, their arsenal is far more sophisticated than the weapons coming out of the Gaza Strip back in June in a military showcase that they did. They were able to show media a lot of their handheld weapons that they claim can take down airplanes and other types of attack helicopters. We're talking about an arsenal of at least 150,000 short-range rockets. We haven't yet seen what their larger, more ballistic and destructive missiles can do. But Hezbollah is warning Israel and they're saying that it's only a matter of time before they get involved in the conflict and the Israeli military is taking all precautions against an all-out war. The United States, as I've reported earlier, is urging Israel not to take any preemptive action inside of Lebanese territory against Hezbollah for fears of a semi-regional conflict breaking out. A lot of countries within the region are now on alert, specifically Iran, who is watching the situation and has been commenting on it since last week, saying that there are no guarantees, especially if Israel enters a ground invasion inside of Gaza. Alhamdulillah, as we're speaking to you, sirens are going off in the southern communities of Israel as Hamas continues to launch airstrikes over the border. What is it like at the moment in the north? Has it been relatively quiet? You have been up in the north and in the south over the past week. Can you explain a little bit in terms of the difference? Right. So, along the northern border, we did see some rocket fire yesterday, the Al Qassan Brigades, that's Hamas' military wing claiming responsibility for that saying they launched 20 rockets. But the Israeli military saying it was more around nine. The Iron Dome intercepting most of them. Palestinian factions operating in southern Lebanon saying that they're ready to fight. They're ready to continue launching rockets against Israel. But only if Hezbollah takes the lead inside the Gaza Strip, rocket fire continuing to pound southern Israel and reaching places as far north as Tel Aviv, Herzliya and even Haifa, Hamas does have longer range missiles in their arsenal like the Ayyash 250 that we saw just a couple of days ago that alerted sirens all across northern Israel. The Iron Dome, though able to intercept that missile. Israel's air defense systems are threefold. There are three different mechanisms that they are able to use specifically when it comes to longer range missiles. So the Israeli military on high alert for rocket fire coming from all fronts. Correspondent Hamas' Salchut giving us an update on the northern border in Israel. Thank you very much for that. Let's go now live to Ness Zeona in Central Israel where I'm joined by Professor Kobe Michael, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Good morning to you, Professor. As just discussing the capabilities between Hamas and Hezbollah remarkably different, I think what has been such a shell shock this time round is the fact that there were infiltrations of Hamas terrorists into the state of Israel. In comparison to their arsenal, we've always known that Iran does find Hamas and we know what their arsenal is capable of. That wasn't necessarily the shell shock. But if Hezbollah is to join this war, what can we expect from a surprise sort of aspect from our northern front? Good morning. It is going to be much more complicated. But I think that the idea that the state of Israel is capable to fight both fronts simultaneously. By the way, we did it in the past and even more than once in a very successful manner with much bigger state armies. But I think that Israel has to do all the possible efforts in order to keep the northern front for the time being out of this scene, out of the war, in order to accomplish successfully the mission in the Gaza Strip. But I have no doubt that we will have to finalize or we have to deal with the northern problem with Hezbollah someday. And I think that it will be sooner than later. And Professor, stay with us. I do want to cross our live to our correspondent, Pia Stickelbach, who is standing by for us in the south of the country. Pia, reports coming out now that the rough crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopening being 9 AM local time, namely for foreign nationals and humanitarian aid. But it appears that not all parties are on the same page in particular Israel. What can you tell us? That is true. But you're also coinciding with the reports that the rough crossing is opening now at 9 AM. And this morning there are reports that the US, Egypt and Israel have agreed upon a ceasefire starting also now at 9 AM. These reports are also unconfirmed by Israel, also Hamas. There are reports that Hamas is saying that it is unaware of such a ceasefire. Now the rough crossing, if it is to open for nationals have been camping there for days, waiting for the border to Egypt to open. It does only apply for foreign nationals, which accounts really for the very minority of the more than two million strong population in Gaza. It is also intended to allow humanitarian aid to enter, to arrive to Gaza via that crossing. This comes against the backdrop of intensified Israeli strikes throughout the night. We're hearing reports from Gaza that this night has been the most intense since the beginning of the war. The humanitarian crisis for the civilian population there is intensifying. The UN warning that the hospitals there might run out of fuel to use for the generators within the next 24 hours. We have here on the Israeli side in Storot, we're at right now. We have had quite a quiet night here. The last Red Alert that we have had here in Storot is about 11 hours ago. But just before 9 AM, Red Alerts going off in Beri and in Akhalos further down south here, we have had Red Alert there. But this humanitarian ceasefire that is reportedly entering at 9 AM would also only apply for the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As you know, Israel has been calling upon the civilian population in Gaza to go south because it is preparing the ground defensive. We have heard that more than 600,000 people have already made their way down to the south of Gaza. Of course, Israel having cut water, fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the war. Now they have reinstalled the water supplies in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Also in an attempt to really foster that movement of civilians to the southern part of the Strip, which is of course not possible, not feasible for every civilian in Gaza right now. Therefore, now the Rafah crossing opening for humanitarian aid reportedly and also for foreign nationals to leave, which again does not account for the vast majority of the civilian population in Gaza. But yeah. And Pierre, with regards to the Israeli side, you're in the city that has around 30,000 residents. Many of them are clearing out to state funded hotel rooms or elsewhere in Israel, but there is a percentage that is standing their ground. Well, but yeah, right, it is estimated that about 10% of the population speaking about round about 3000 people have until now remained in the city and people have been clearing out this area really throughout the week already as it has been recommended by authorities. Now people are offered state paid hotels in other areas of the country, but there are still people. It is estimated that they're mostly disabled and elderly people that decided to stay here in their city. This is a city that is at the part where you're at right now. The Gaza Strip is behind us. We're about three kilometers away from the Gaza Strip that has come under heavy fire in the first days of the war. Also yesterday, barrages of rockets fired. He is too still, although it has already been deserted. Now the municipality of Starrot is trying to map out the areas where still civilians are located and try to cater to them and try to make sure that they're attended to and try to find out what they're in need, what they're needing. But of course, the city of Starrot, a major city that has also been expanding in recent years. You see major construction projects here. It has become a ghost town. It has been becoming a ghost town throughout the week. Of course, now the evacuation has almost been finished. 3000 people deciding to remain here as of now. Again, the night has been quiet, but here in Starrot, that really can change any second. Our correspondent Pierre Steckelbach there in the south, giving us that updates with regards to the rougher crossing, but also the rockets coming over the border. Now that Egyptian controlled border crossing into Gaza, better known as the rougher crossing, is said to be reopened now as we're speaking on air, allowing foreign nationals to leave the Strip and humanitarian aid to enter. Here's the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaking on the matter. In place, Egypt is put in place. A lot of material support for people in Gaza. And Rafa will be open. We're putting in place with the United Nations, with Egypt, with Israel, with others, the mechanism by which to get the assistance in. And still with us from Nesiyon and Central Israel is Professor Kobe Michael. Kobe, we need to discuss this because it's important from understanding a geographical point of view. Israel has asked residents in the Gaza Strip to move from north to south in order to get away from some of the infrastructure that it plans on pounding and also with regards to their ground incursion going in from the north. Why then from the Israeli perspective would they potentially, as these reports allude, say that they would also be allowing for that humanitarian ceasefire in the south if Israel is not allegedly striking the south? Because the main center of gravity of Hamas is in Gaza area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. And I think that in order to deal it effectively, Israel has to concentrate all of its military efforts and to prepare the combat zone there for the ground force operation. And in the very same time to enable people to reach to a safe zone. And the safe zone for the time being is in the south of the Gaza Strip because the south of the Gaza Strip is a less important place for Hamas and it is not a very crucial center of gravity. If we want to collapse Hamas as organization we have to deal first of all with the main center of gravity where most of the assets, the military assets and the governmental assets are concentrated. And this is the reason that we are concentrating on the Gaza area, the city, the villages and the refugee camps around the city of Gaza. Professor, stay with us. I want to bring our guests in the studio into the conversation with us here is Daniel Sheik, the former Israeli ambassador to France and a political commentator as well as our correspondent Nicole Zedek. Thank you both for being here with me this morning. Daniel, the conversation that has come out with regards to rougher crossing, opening as our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach also mentioned, it is not only the humanitarian aid that's being allowed in, but what's being allowed out is the foreign nationals that are a minority. What about the Palestinians? The argument of the innocence in Gaza, surely if they do want to escape for the time being, why have no Arab countries, including Egypt, extended their hand and said, right, we'll send in planes, we'll send in this, we'll help you evacuate because we understand that stuff is about to go down.  And I can't answer for President Sisi's regime, but clearly they are not at all keen on having hundreds of thousands of Palestinians move into their territory and God knows when and if they will want to go back. So I think they are clearly reluctant to do so. We'll have to see how things evolve over the weeks, maybe the situation in Gaza will be such that there will be so much pressure from other Arab countries on Egypt that they will have to fold and agree to opening that crossing, but I am not in a position to predict that for the moment. It doesn't look like they're going to do it. From Egypt's point of view, that does make sense, but what about countries in the Gulf when we saw what was unfolding in Afghanistan? And mind you, they are in different situations and different circumstances, but albeit a similar situation where there was a retaliation, they needed to be an evacuation of foreign nationals, civilians, and then a sense of trying to reclaim some kind of political vacuum in the area. Why has there not been any outpouring of not necessarily support, but actual assistance in terms of we will send a plane, we will come and evacuate the people that wanna leave? But yeah, this sounds great, but we're talking about two million people. That's a hell of a lot of planes. It's not evacuating a few families of people who worked with the American army and have a certain standing. This is what's happening more or less at the Rafa crossing now. Talking about foreign nationals, clearly neither Israel nor Egypt wants to have a situation on their hands when friendly countries, nationals of friendly countries are in harm's way during the fighting. But this has absolutely no bearing on the fate of the actual Palestinians who live there and there are over two million of those. So for the moment, the only thing that Israel is doing is urging people to move away from the north into the south. Clearly that is where ground operation is planned at least as a first phase. And with more or less success, there are hundreds of thousands of people who have heeded that call, but they will be in a dire situation in southern Gaza too. They might be out of harm's way directly, but it's still a very difficult situation for them. There's no argument about that. The situation to evacuate citizens is also happening in Israel and Nicole. We've seen it in the south and we're seeing it in the north now where the IDF is said to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese front in the event of an escalation with Hezbollah. The majority of the people conglomerating to the center, but there's also a fortune of foreign nationals, including at this channel, that have been given the go ahead by their home countries to leave if need be. Exactly, that's what you are saying from the foreign front. Many also states urging their citizens to get out, especially in advance of what we are going to see these escalations not only in the south, but as you said, all signs seem to be pointing to an escalation in the north as well. And so that's why the IDF right now is urging everyone within two kilometers, 28 different communities to evacuate from the northern Lebanon border. One of those communities I wanna just point out appears to be Haifa as there's live images on the screen of people attempting to be evacuated from that area as well. And Haifa, a major, major city. We were talking about a very large population, if that's the case. So we are about to see so many different people moving towards central Israel. We've already seen this happening. We've already seen so many different state funded hotels, so many people offering their homes. I've also seen as many foreign nationals might be leaving if they do have a home there. They're posting all over Facebook saying, if anyone does need to take my home for the time being, it is all yours. The keys are under the mat, please. Anyone who needs to come, stay in my house. So as some people are leaving due to their safety reasons and other people are evacuating from those southern and northern borders. We're seeing a lot of support here in the central taking in anyone that they can. And Professor, from a logistical point of view in terms of the IDF, what does it mean to be evacuating the citizens, particularly in the north or south because of the ongoing rocket situation? But with regards to this new report coming out of 28 different communities in the north being evacuated towards the center, how does this aid the IDF with their plans? First of all, there are plans that enable that the IDF and not only the IDF, this is all the state institutions as well to evacuate the people from the villages and the towns along the border, the 22 communities that you are talking about. And there are preparations that were done and this is going to be an operation but that's all complicated operation with all the difficulties for the people themselves. But I think that the IDF needs to assure that all of this area along the border, like all the communities that we used to have along the Israel envelope, okay, should be evacuated, the place should be without people because the IDF should concentrate on the attack and not on the defense of the people on the communities that will be there. It is a great risk and we have to minimize the risk and we have to be able to operate freely without thinking about the idea of defending the communities along the border. So I think that if we are evacuating the communities, it means that we are in a further step towards a higher probability of another front which means the Northern Front vis-a-vis Hezbollah. Perhur Saqobi-Michel, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former deputy director general of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Thank you very much for both your time and analysis here this morning. Thank you, good morning. Now, survivors have been brave enough to share their horrific stories with the media. Recovering still in hospital, 13-year-old Khadar Bachar shared her tragic ordeal as her family was trapped in a safe room during the terror rampage of Kibbutz-Beri. Take a look. We heard a missile alert siren, so we ran to the safe room.  You need to lock all of the doors. We thought it would take one or two hours tops. We kept waiting and nothing happened. Around 8 a.m., we heard terrorists knocking on the door. They tried to get in. They couldn't get inside the house through the doors, so they climbed on a stand outside the house and came in through the bathroom window. Then they started to knock on the safe room door. They yelled in Arabic, open the door. My father yelled at them, go. And then suddenly, we heard them shooting at the door. My brother was wounded. His arm was crushed. They sensed where my dad was standing and fired at him. Meanwhile, my mother and I treated my brother and tried to stop his bleeding. My dad collapsed. They continued to try opening the door, but they couldn't because the door of the safe room is automatically locked when someone shoots at it. Then they set a closet next to the safe room on fire. The smoke from the fire entered our safe room through the bullet holes in the door. We couldn't breathe. We thought we were going to faint. Then I heard they were trying to open the window. They managed to open the window. They shot the window and opened it. They threw three hand grenades into the safe room. Two of the grenades exploded. My mom and I were wounded. They continued to fire. My mom got shot. I took off my shirt and tried to stop the bleeding. We also treated my brother, but we couldn't stop my mother's bleeding because we didn't know where she'd been shot. We kept moving around in the safe room. I called several people, like the emergency unit and the people of Kibbutz-Baeri. The IDF and emergency first responders told us there is nothing we can do.  The only thing you can do is play dead. We kept hearing the terrorists firing and shouting. They continued to set our house on fire. At 3 p.m., my mother started to choke. Everyone else was fainting, and I tried to wake them up over and over again. At a certain point, my mother stopped breathing. We felt that she became cold, and that was it. We felt that we were getting burned. I told my brother to put his legs up because he was losing blood. He started to gurgle. We told him, don't shout, Carmel. Don't shout. If they know we're alive, they'll either kill us or kidnap us. I tried to give them CPR, but my father told me, forget him. Now let's focus on saving ourselves. I yelled to my dad, don't die. Don't leave us alone. At around 6 p.m., a few people from the Kibbutz texted me and said that we're going to hear a very loud boom. It's an Israeli tank that will bomb our neighbor's home and get inside our home to rescue us through the wall. Then I heard this loud explosion. We heard people inside the house. We heard someone talking in Hebrew, but with an Arabic accent. My father told them to come through the window that the window was open. I told him they could be terrorists. They may be fooling us. He said it doesn't matter. They came with flashlights, they said what a massacre. I told them please come and lift me up. I can't move. They told me that they couldn't get through the window because they had too much equipment. I managed to bring myself up and get to the window. They took me out and opened the door. We went outside and saw that the entire neighborhood was on fire. They separated me and my dad and took us to Netivot, where there is a special unit. I just like to clarify the images that you were seeing on your screen live from Haifa are many U.S. citizens with U.S. passports that are being evacuated out of the country via the port there. There may be many nationals, Israelis that are coming there from the northern communities, but for the time being that is U.S. nationals. Still with me in studio, Nikol Zedek and I'll tell you Nikol, the testimony is coming out of survivors. It's just impossible. You were in the south. Wrap it up for us. It's just heartbreaking. And seeing a 13-year-old be able to tell her story coherently, proudly, it truly does show the strength of these survivors and the people of Israel. I want to really emphasize that because as I was in these southern communities all last week speaking to soldiers as well who were the first people to come and rescue people like her, their strength right now is just immense. They're coming here comforting the journalists, comforting people like me who are witnessing one of the most horrific scenes of a massacre that I could never even imagine seeing in real life. And they were also there. They were experiencing it. She was experiencing it. And yet these soldiers are comforting all of the civilians. They continue to offer not only our comfort for our safety but for our well-being as well. And that's what they continue to be concerned about. So the fact that they're here protecting not only the civilians but the countless journalists that have flown in to continue to cover the story on the ground in these very, very dangerous situations witnessing some of the most horrific acts. You can hear it from a 13-year-old survivor herself. It's heartbreaking as we continue to learn more about these witness testimonies and everything that happened. Corresponding Nicole Siddick will commentate on the form of the Israeli ambassador to France, Daniel Sheik. 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Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught while more than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip. According to Saudi media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans have relocated to the southern part of the strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and amid an imminent ground incursion. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave into Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border with Hamas's Israel's result. Let's cross now live to our correspondent Hamda Selkut who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamda Hezbollah is testing Israel. How is Israel currently responding? Well look Batia a joint statement from both the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli military says that the National Emergency Management Authority is announcing the implementation of a plan to evacuate residents of northern Israel who live in the northern border. As you can see here, this plan approved by the Defense Minister Yoav Galant. It applies to 28 different communities and indication that the fighting along the northern border will continue. It's going to be an interesting situation for the Israeli military to have to tackle both a battle on the northern front and the southern front as well. Hezbollah's weaponry, their hand-held weapons that they did, they were able to show media a lot of their hand-held weapons that they claim can take down airplanes and other types of attack helicopters. We're talking about an arsenal of at least 150,000 short-range rockets. We haven't yet seen what their larger, more ballistic and destructive missiles can do, but Hezbollah is warning Israel and they're saying that it's only a matter of time before they start taking all precautions against an all-out war. The United States, as I've reported earlier, is urging Israel not to take any preemptive action inside of Lebanese territory against Hezbollah for fears of a semi-regional conflict breaking out. A lot of countries within the region are now on alert, specifically Iran, who is watching the situation and has been commenting on it since last week saying that Israel enters a ground invasion inside of Gaza. Khamda, as we're speaking to your sirens are going off in the southern communities of Israel as Hamas continues to launch airstrikes over the border. What is it like at the moment in the north? Has it been relatively quiet? You have been up in the north and in the south over the past week. Can you explain a little bit in terms of the difference? Right, so along the northern border of Gaza, Hamas's military wing claiming responsibility for that saying they launched 20 rockets with the Israeli military saying it was more around 9. The Iron Dome intercepting most of them. Palestinian factions operating in southern Lebanon saying that they're ready to fight. They're ready to continue launching rockets against Israel, but only if Hezbollah takes the lead inside the Gaza Strip rocket fire continuing to pound southern Israel and reaching Tel Aviv, Herzliya and even Haifa Hamas does have longer range missiles in their arsenal like the Ayash 250 that we saw just a couple of days ago that alerted sirens all across northern Israel. The Iron Dome though able to intercept that missile. Israel's air defense systems are three fold. There are three different mechanisms that they are able to use specifically when it comes to longer range missiles. So the Israeli military on high alert for that. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khut giving us an update on the northern border in Israel. Thank you very much for that. Let's go now live to Ness Ziona in Central Israel where I'm joined by Professor Kobe Michael a research fella at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Good morning to you Professor as just discussing the capabilities between Hamas and the Shal Shalk this time round is the fact that there were infiltrations of Hamas terrorists into the state of Israel in comparison to their arsenal. We've always known that Iran does find Hamas and we know what their arsenal is capable of that wasn't necessarily the Shal Shalk but if Hezbollah is to join this war what can we expect from a surprise sort of aspect from our northern front. Good morning. It is going to be much more complicated but I think that the idea that the state of Israel is capable to fight both fronts simultaneously. By the way, we did it in the past and even more than once and in a very successful manner with much bigger state armies but I think that Israel has to do all the possible efforts in order to keep the northern front for the time being out of this scene, out of the war in order to accomplish successfully the mission in the Gaza Strip but I have no doubt that we will have to finalize or we have to to deal with the northern problem with Hezbollah someday and I think that it will be sooner than later. And Professor Stay with us. I do want to cross our live to our correspondent Pia Steckelbach who is standing by for us in the south of the country. Pia reports coming out now that the crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopening being 9 a.m. local time namely for foreign nationals and humanitarian aid but it appears that not all parties are on the same page in particularly Israel. What can you tell us? That is true but you are also coinciding with the reports that the Raffa crossing is opening now at 9 a.m. and this morning there are reports that the U.S., Egypt and Israel have agreed upon a ceasefire starting also now at 9 a.m. These reports are now unconfirmed by Israel also Hamas their reports that Hamas is saying that it is unaware of such a ceasefire now the Raffa crossing if it is to open foreign nationals have been camping there for days waiting for the border to Egypt to open it does only apply for foreign nationals which accounts really for the very minority of the more than 2 million strong population in Gaza it is also intended to allow humanitarian aid to enter to arrive to Gaza via that crossing this comes against the backdrop of intensified Israeli strikes throughout the night we're hearing reports from Gaza that this night has been the most intense since the beginning of the war the humanitarian crisis for the civilian population there is intensifying the UN warning that the hospitals there might run out of fuel to use for the generators within the next 24 hours but yeah we have here on the Israeli side in Storot we're at right now we have had a quiet night here the last red alert that we have had here in Storot is about 11 hours ago but just before 9 a.m. red alerts going off in Beiri and the Nachalos further down south here we have had red alert there but this humanitarian a ceasefire that is reportedly entering at 9 a.m. would also only apply for the southern part of the Gaza Strip as you know Israel has been calling upon the civilian population in Gaza to go south because it is preparing the ground defensive we have heard that more than 600,000 people have already made their way down to the south of Gaza of course Israel having cut water fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the war now they have reinstalled the water supplies in the southern part of the Gaza Strip also in an attempt to really foster that movement of civilians to the southern part of the Strip which is of course not possible not feasible for every civilian in Gaza but there are a lot of people who have already made their way to the southern part of the Gaza Strip and the Rafah crossing opening for humanitarian aid reportedly and also for foreign nationals to leave which again does not account for the vast majority of the civilian population in Gaza and Pierre with regards to the Israeli side you're in the city that has around 30,000 residents many of them are clearing out to state funded hotel rooms and the population speaking about around about 3,000 people have until now remained in the city and people have been clearing out this area really throughout the week already as it has been recommended by authorities now people are offered state paid hotels in other areas of the country but there are still people it is estimated that they are mostly disabled and elderly people that decided to stay here in their city this is a city that is at the part where we're at right now the Gaza Strip is behind us we're heavy fire in the first days of the war also yesterday barrages of rockets fired here is to Starrot although it has already been deserted and now this municipality of Starrot is trying to map out the areas where still civilians are located and try to cater to them try to make sure that they're attended to and try to find out what they're needing but of course the city of Starrot a major city that has also been expanding in recent years you see major construction projects here it has been becoming a ghost on throughout the week of course now the evacuation has almost been finished 3000 people deciding to remain here as of now again the night has been quiet but here in Starrot that really can change any second our correspondent Pierre Stekelbach there in the south giving us that updates with regards to the rougher crossing but also the rockets coming over the border now that Egyptian controlled border crossing into Gaza better known as the rougher crossing is said to be reopened now as we're speaking on air allowing foreign nationals to leave the strip and humanitarian aid to enter here's the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaking on the matter in place Egypt is put in place a lot of material support for people in in Gaza and Rafa will be will be open we're putting in place with the United Nations with Egypt with Israel with others the mechanism by which to get the assistance in and still with us from Israel is Professor Kobe Michael Kobe we need to discuss this because it's important from understanding a geographical point of view Israel has asked residents in the Gaza strip to move from north to south in order to get away from some of the infrastructure that it plans on pounding and also with regards to their ground incursion going in from the north why then from the Israeli perspective potentially as these reports elude say that they would also be allowing for that humanitarian ceasefire in the south if Israel is not allegedly striking the south because the main center of gravity of Hamas is in the Gaza area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and I think that in order to deal it effectively as well as to concentrate all of its military efforts and to prepare the combat zone there for the ground force operation and in the very same time to enable people to reach to a safe zone and the safe zone for the time being is in the south of the Gaza Strip because the south of the Gaza Strip is a less important place for Hamas and it is not a very crucial center of gravity if we want to collapse Hamas as organization we have to deal first of all with the main center of gravity where most of its assets the military assets and the governmental assets are concentrated and this is the reason that we are concentrating on the Gaza area the city the villages and the refugee camps around the city of Gaza Professor stay with us I want to bring the studio into the conversation with us here is Daniel Sheik the former Israeli ambassador to France and a political commentator as well as our correspondent Nicole Zedek thank you both for being here with me this morning Daniel the conversation that has come out with regards to rougher crossing opening as our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach also mentioned it is not only the humanitarian aid that's being allowed in but what's being allowed out is the foreign nationals that are a minority what about the Palestinians the innocent in Gaza surely if they do want to escape for the time being why have no Arab countries including Egypt extended their hand and said right we'll send in planes we'll send in this we'll help you evacuate because we understand that stuff is about to go down the only relevant country to answer that question is obviously Egypt because I mean these refugees won't go to Morocco and they won't go to the UAE they will stay in Sinai and they will be on Egypt's hands and you know I can't answer for President Sisi's regime but clearly they are not at all keen on having hundreds of thousands of Palestinians move into their territory and God knows when and if they will want to go back so I think they are clearly reluctant to do so we'll have to see how things evolve over the weeks maybe the situation in Gaza will be such that there will be so much pressure from other Arab countries on Egypt that they will have to fold and agree to opening that crossing but I am not in a position to predict that the moment doesn't look like they are going to do it. From Egypt's point of view that does make sense but what about countries in the Gulf when we saw what was unfolding in Afghanistan and mind you they are in different situations in different circumstances but albeit a similar situation where there was a retaliation they needed to be an evacuation of foreign national civilians and then a sense of trying to reclaim why has there not been any outpouring of not necessarily support but actual assistance in terms of we will send a plane we will come and evacuate the people that want to leave but yeah this sounds great but we are talking about 2 million people that's a hell of a lot of planes it's not evacuating a few families of people who worked with the American army and have a certain standing this is what's happening more or less at the Rafa crossing now talking about foreign nationals clearly neither Israel nor Egypt wants to have a situation on their hands when friendly countries, nationals of friendly countries are in harm's way during the fighting but this has absolutely no bearing on the fate of the actual Palestinians who live there and there are over 2 million of those so for the moment the only thing that Israel is doing is urging people to move away from the north into the south clearly that is where ground operation is planned at least as a first phase and with more or less success there are hundreds of thousands of people who have heeded that call but they will be in a dire situation in southern Gaza too they might be out of harm's way directly but it's still a very difficult situation for them there's no argument about that the situation to evacuate citizens is also happening in Israel and Nicole we've seen it in the south and we're seeing it in the north now where the IDF is said to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese front in the event of an escalation with Hezbollah the majority of the people conglomerating to the center but there's also a fortune of foreign nationals including at this channel have been given the go ahead by their home countries to leave if need be exactly that's what you are saying from the from the foreign front many also states urging their citizens to get out especially in advance of what we are going to see these escalations not only in the south but as you said all signs seem to be pointing to an escalation in the north as well and so that's why the IDF right now is urging everyone within two kilometers 28 different communities to evacuate from the northern Lebanon border one of those communities I want to just point out appears to be Haifa as there's live images on the screen of people attempting to be evacuated from that area as well and Haifa a major major city we were talking about a very large population if that's the case so we are about to see so many different people moving towards central Israel we've already seen this happening we've already seen so many different state funded hotels people offering their homes I've also seen as many foreign nationals might be leaving if they do have a home there they're posting all over Facebook saying if anyone does need to take my home for the time being it is all yours the keys are under the mat please anyone who needs to come stay in my house so as some people are leaving due to their safety reasons and other people are evacuating from those southern and northern borders we're seeing a lot a lot of support here in the central Israel taking in anyone that they can and professor from a logistical point of view in terms of the IDF what does it mean to be evacuating the citizens particularly in the north the south because of the ongoing rocket situation but with regards to this new report coming out of 28 different communities in the north being evacuated towards the center how does this aid the IDF with their plans first of all there are there are plans that enable that the IDF and not only the IDF this is all the all the state institutions as well to evacuate the people from the villages and the towns along the border the 22 communities that you are talking about and there are preparations that were done and this is going to be an operation but that's all complicated operation with all the difficulties for the people themselves but but I think that the IDF needs to assure that all of this area along the border like all the communities that we used to have along the Israel envelope should be evacuated the place should be without people because the IDF should concentrate on the attack and not on the defense of the people on the communities that will be there it is a great risk and we have to minimize the risk and we have to be able to operate freely without thinking about the idea of defending the communities along the border so I think that if we are evacuating the communities it means that we are in a further step towards a higher probability of another front which means the northern front per her a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs thank you very much for both your time and analysis here this morning thank you, good morning now survivors have been brave enough to share their horrific stories with the media recovering still in hospital 13 year old Khadar Bachar shared her tragic real as her family was trapped in a safe room during the terror rampage of Kibbutz Berry take a look we heard a missile alert siren so we ran to the safe room suddenly we got a message from another Kibbutz saying there's a terrorist infiltration you need to lock all of the doors we thought it would take one or two hours tops we kept waiting and nothing happened around 8am we heard terrorists knocking on the door they tried to get in they couldn't get inside the house through the doors so they climbed on a stand outside the house and came in through the bathroom window then they started to knock on the safe room door they yelled in Arabic open the door my father yelled at them go and then suddenly we heard them shooting at the door my brother was wounded, his arm was crushed they sensed where my dad was standing they fired at him meanwhile my mother and I treated my brother and tried to stop his bleeding my dad collapsed they continued to try opening the door but they couldn't because the door of the safe room is automatically locked when someone shoots at it then they set a closet next to the safe room on fire the smoke from the fire entered our safe room through the bullet holes in the door we couldn't breathe we thought we were going to faint then we heard they were trying to open the window they managed to open the window they shot the window and opened it they threw three hand grenades into the safe room two of the grenades exploded my mom and I were wounded they continued to fire my mom got shot I took off my shirt and tried to stop the bleeding we also treated my brother but we couldn't stop my mother's bleeding we couldn't know where she'd been shot we kept moving around in the safe room I called several people like the emergency unit and the people of Kibbutz-Bahri the IDF and emergency first responders told us there is nothing we can do we can't get inside your Kibbutz the only thing you can do is play dead we kept hearing the terrorists firing and shouting they continued to set our house on fire at 3pm my mother started to choke everyone else was fainting and I tried to wake them up over and over again at a certain point my mother stopped breathing we felt that she became cold and that was it we felt that we were getting burned I told my brother to put his legs up because he was losing blood he started to gurgle don't shout, Carmel if they know we're alive they'll either kill us or kidnap us I tried to give them CPR but my father told me, forget him now let's focus on saving ourselves I yelled to my dad, don't die don't leave us alone at around 6pm a few people from the Kibbutz texted me and said that we're going to hear a very loud boom it's an Israeli tank we're going to take our cars home and get inside our home to rescue us through the wall then I heard this loud explosion we heard people inside the house we heard someone talking in Hebrew but with an Arabic accent my father told them to come through the window that the window was open I told them they could be terrorists they may be fooling us he said it doesn't matter they came with flashlights and we saw that they were IDF soldiers they just come and lift me up I can't move they told me that they couldn't get through the window because they had too much equipment I managed to bring myself up and get to the window they took me out and opened the door we went outside and saw that the entire neighborhood was on fire they separated me and my dad and took us to Netivot where there is a special unit very soon we can I'd just like to clarify the images that you were seeing on your screen live from Haifa are many U.S. citizens with U.S. passports that are being evacuated out of the country via the port there may be many nationals Israelis that are coming there from the northern communities but for the time being that is U.S. nationals still with me in studio Nicole Zedek and I'll tell you the testimonies coming out of survivors just impossible you were in the south wrap it up for us it's just heartbreaking and seeing a 13 year old be able to tell her story coherently, proudly it truly does show the strength of these survivors and the people of Israel I want to really emphasize that because as I was in the southern communities all last week speaking to soldiers as well who were the first people to come to rescue people like her their strength right now is just immense they're coming here comforting the journalists comforting people like me who are witnessing one of the most horrific scenes of a massacre that I could never even imagine seeing in real life and they were also there they were experiencing it, she was experiencing it and yet these soldiers are comforting all of the civilians they continue to offer our comfort for our safety but for our well-being as well and that's what they continue to be concerned about so the fact that they're here protecting not only the civilians but the countless journalists that have flown in to continue to cover the story on the ground in these very very dangerous situations witnessing some of the most horrific acts you can hear it from a 13 year old survivor herself it's heartbreaking as we continue to learn more about these witness testimonies and everything that happened Correspondent Nicole said they can political commentate on the former Israeli ambassador to France Daniel Sheik, thank you for joining us stay with us, more to come Israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking more than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped because we don't know what to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up, this is the unity works as it generates this random body that kind of looks like a sponge and it evaluates its behavior bringing in breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas the Israeli death toll continues to climb Israel's have been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught more than 3600 are still wounded Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2600 people this is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip According to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties the city began last week over 600,000 located to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and a murder and imminent ground incursion we are seeing live images on the screen now and Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming from across the country's northern border as Hezbollah tests Israel's resolve let's cross now live to our correspondent Pierre Stekelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel Pierre, rougher crossing between Gaza and Egypt set to reopen but Israel doesn't seem to be on board with a potential even temporary humanitarian ceasefire that is true but we've been receiving reports that a ceasefire has been agreed upon between the US, Egypt and Israel now we're hearing from the Prime Minister's office that that is not the case Hamas also saying that it is unaware of an agreed upon ceasefire that of course coinciding with the expected opening of the rougher crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt at 9 am local time that also does not seem to have been the case now US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying that the crossing yesterday saying that the crossing will be opening in the following hours he didn't specify when their crossing would be opening they have been reports that the crossing would be open from 9 am this morning for five hours foreign nationals have been opening up in front of that crossing already within the last days because that crossing is supposed to be open for the entry of humanitarian aid on the one side and the exit of foreign nationals on the other side now that only accounts for really a minority of Gaza civilians only those who only also hold a foreign passport that comes against the backdrop of the humanitarian crisis really increasing and worsening for the civilian population there Israel is saying that more than 600,000 have made their way from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part following Israel's call to evacuate that area as a possible ground invasion is looming here the UN saying that the hospitals in Gaza who really need fuel to run their generators will run out of their fuel within the next 24 hours Israel has cut the fuel and electricity and water supplies to Gaza they have reinstated the water supplies for the southern part of the Gaza Strip really fostering or calling upon more people to make their way south here we've just before we spoke we saw really a roll of four or five tanks making its way to the Gaza border that is right behind us as a possible ground invasion is expected you're right Bacha Palestinian sources saying that this night has been the most intense night since the beginning of the war when it comes to Israeli strikes on Gaza we have been hearing continuously booms and noises from the Israeli strikes here where we're at right now about three kilometers away from the border we have not really heard a lot of noise within the last hour but that really doesn't mean that a ceasefire is in place now Bacha and Pierre we are looking at live images on the screen right now of Rafa crossing in Gaza and as you mentioned it seems like a minority of foreign nationals because it doesn't seem overly busy I'll remind the viewers we're talking about two million people that are currently in the Gaza Strip and so when we're looking at these live images very few seem to be coming but what more do we know about the potential humanitarian aid that is coming into the Strip not the foreign residents going out of the Strip here right in terms of foreign aid we do know that we first and foremost talking about water food and medicine we're not talking about fuel because Israel's concern is that Hamas will use that fuel to run their generators to operate their tunnels underground Israel's goal here is to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure and also the goal to cut those electricity and fuel and water supplies was to really torpedo the efforts of Hamas to run their system of course this is first and foremost targeting the civilian population there more than two million people who have nowhere to go again foreign nationals we don't know the exact numbers of how many people in Gaza actually hold a foreign passport that again they're the absolute minority for the vast majority of the population this humanitarian way to cross to Egypt is not an option but yeah Correspondents here in the south of Israel giving us that latest update before that and bringing the conversation here in studio with me is Rafael you're a show me a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst and our correspondent guy Israel guy being very saying that relief for Gaza any aid has to be brought to the cabinet to first review but there's also other reactions coming out about this potential humanitarian or temporary humanitarian ceasefire yes of course any sort of relief to Gaza while Hamas is still in control of that area is not seen with kind eyes not in the Israeli government and certainly not in the Israeli public I think the world needs to understand what sort of trauma the Israeli public in general has been through on that daily Saturday that attack in which 1400 Israelis including women children elderly were slaughtered some of them beaten burned their bodies desecrated and also up to 200 Israelis that are currently in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip Israelis are not willing to give any reliefs to Hamas until that murderous terror group is being eliminated so yes the prime minister's office was very quick to deny the reports about that humanitarian ceasefire Ben Gvir is requesting that any relief will be first approved in the cabinet we're also hearing from energy minister Israel Katz who yesterday of course announced the decision to allow water supply into southern Gaza Strip under the demand of President Joe Biden well today he writes that I supported the agreement with Biden about supplying water I object to the opening of the siege and to bring aid into Gaza our commitment is to the families of the Israelis murdered and the hostages now in Gaza and not to the killers of Hamas obviously is all wants to apply maximum pressure on these Hamas terrorists and any such aid we know very well will go first to the hands of Hamas to these murderers who slaughtered so many Israelis on Saturday well Egypt's president Fatah el Sisi is saying that Israel's current campaign in Gaza goes beyond the right to self-defense saying this also as nationals are starting to gather at the rougher crossing but Palestinian nationals of the Gaza Strip not being allowed to enter into Egypt well first of all coming from Mr. El Sisi this kind of accusation makes me smile when you're talking human lives Mr. El Sisi is a dictator he got Egypt rid of the Muslim brothers the Muslim brotherhood which was also a tyrannical regime that didn't last long but he himself is no great democrat so coming from him it's really just just let us smile and ignore and let's accuse him and the Egyptian government on crime against mankind because during the past few days the Israelis have insisted on the fact that Egypt should open the rougher crossing and not only to let some foreign double nationality Palestinians go out which by the way even though we saw quite a few people at the rougher crossing are many there are tens of thousands of Palestinians who do have citizenship whether it's European or American the fact that you don't see a lot of people there is very simple the Hamas is not letting them get there the Hamas is blocking their way to the rougher crossing the Hamas has exploded main highway used by the people to evacuate the north of Gaza towards the south killing 70 people the Hamas killed 70 Palestinians to block a highway to prevent them from reaching the rougher crossing this being said of the Hamas who have no doubt they have a record of crimes against mankind but the Egyptians are very guilty for the simple reason that would they open it's not like people are going to go into Cairo right in the coffee shops and around the Nile they are going in the Sinai desert it's a desert and there you can open a ginormous refugee camp the same way it was done by the Syrian refugees with all the international help being able to arrive freely and I say it again Egypt is guilty but the international community is even more guilty because it doesn't put enough pressure on Egypt it should parachute without asking Mr. Sisi's permission already parachute tents beds food and make it a feta complete to receive these people now on the Israeli part I don't understand two things ceasefire, a humanitarian ceasefire it doesn't exist we do not need to ceasefire we know for sure that we will not hit areas where there are Palestinian innocent civilian people refugees or not refugees south, north it doesn't matter we will not hit them but we have to be able to hit the terrorists even though there is a humanitarian operation going on when I was in with the IDF we were in Rwanda and there were the civil war between the Hutu and Tutsis in Rwanda we had a new humanitarian operation going on we were always our weapons and we were ready to fight because at the same time there were terrorists there in Rwanda and even people who were trying to take advantage of the humanitarian aid you will see it in the Sinai and you will see it in Gaza gangsters as you said it might come to the table of the Hamas this humanitarian aid but it will also be attacked by people who want to steal it so all this means we do not need to have a ceasefire we can continue firing but we will spare the innocent people just a small comment when we hear these statements from Sisi and other Arab leaders about caring so much about the Palestinians in Gaza well Europe has managed to take in millions of refugees out of Syria why isn't Egypt and other Arab countries taking any of the Gazans that they say they care so much about it's a good question I want to move now to our correspondent Hamza Salchut is standing by for us in the north of Israel we've been discussing here in studio the evacuation of Israeli citizens from the south to the center but also the evacuation of civilians in the Gaza Strip through the rough crossing in Egypt but now we're hearing that the IDF is planning to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese border as well that's right Bati about an hour ago the Israeli military along with the defense ministry issuing a statement saying that they are evacuating the two kilometers that's 1.2 miles all of those communities along the Lebanese border and indication that the fighting with the Israeli soldiers is going to be a success we've heard about a publishing videos of the anti-tank fire yesterday and the group saying that it was a success I'll remind you one Israeli soldier killed several others wounded in that exchange of fire since the beginning of the tensions along the northern border seven people have been killed one civilian six Israeli soldiers a number of other injuries the international community is calling on all parties to stop especially since one of their headquarters in the Nakura was targeted yesterday by a rocket yesterday Palestinian factions in the south of the country launching several rockets at Israel the Iron Dome intercepting those missiles the Iranians also a key player here as to what will happen on the northern front saying that there are no guarantees as to who will enter this conflict as Israel now braces itself for a regional war should there be continued activity on the northern border Khamda we are looking at live images of the Israel Lebanon border appears pretty tranquil compared to what's happening in the south sirens just before 9 a.m. before this humanitarian ceasefire went into effect we're still blaring what is the situation on the north and explain a little bit to our viewers the difference between both Hamas and Hezbollah's arsenal even though both backed by Iran well look right now along the Lebanese border it is quiet though overnight the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah posts and targets inside Lebanese territory the difference between Hezbollah's arsenal and Hamas is extravagant the Hezbollah group has around a minimum of 150,000 short-range rockets and these are numbers from 2016 so the exact number of these types of missiles is unknown it could have doubled it could have tripled they're also saying that they have longer range more destructive missiles these types of sophisticated weapons that probably come from it on could really inflict damage in Israeli territory so the Israeli military is on high alert the United States does not want a conflict along the Lebanese border it doesn't want Israel in a multi-front war both in the north and the south asking the Israelis to cause any preemptive strikes inside Lebanese territory to try to perhaps eliminate Hezbollah commanders and other figures from the group but the tensions here along the northern border continue the exchanges of fire continue on Friday a military chief in Hezbollah was saying that they are ready to enter the conflict I'll remind you Palestinian factions operating in the south of the country say they're ready as well but only if Hezbollah takes the lead giving us an update on the northern border thank you for that for more than a week the eyes of the world have been on southern Israel as well as the Gaza strip but even the Gaza arena might ultimately prove a side show should the war expand to Lebanon Syria or even Iran itself our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman looks at the Dalemah facing Iran to cut Hamas loose or risk losing everything in Doha on Saturday he was all smiles Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amar Abdul Ayyan greeting Hamas leader Ismail Hania in the capital of Qatar and in Beirut on Friday too he had been all smiles Amar Abdul Ayyan happy with his work and playing coy with what comes next of course the resistance has kept on the table all possible scenarios on the other fronts the zero hour for any action against the crimes is also at the hands of the resistance of course is Hezbollah with Iran even at this hour separating itself formally from the group even as Hezbollah is widely recognized as Iran's proxy as Iran and its network face in Israel at top readiness and the United States set to be parked offshore with two aircraft carrier strike groups Iran and Hezbollah since day one of this war are finding themselves in a dilemma here is the dilemma if Iran is going to send Hezbollah Iran is going to jeopardize not only the risk or downfall of Hamas in Gaza street which seems to be like almost imminent imminent but also a massive strike to Hezbollah and indeed that dilemma Axios reported Iran passed Israel a message through the United Nations warning of Iran's direct entry into the war should the Israeli campaign in Gaza intensify the decisions in Tehran are fateful ones by design or by accident the clock for Iran is ticking to high noon and Israel hopes that for Iran's proxies from Gaza to Lebanon to Syria and beyond that the clock is ticking to midnight Still with me here in studios Rafael Urashalmi a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst as well as our correspondent guy Azrael Herzog showed CNN yesterday Rafael pictures of a Hamas booklet obstructing the terrorist that infiltrated into Israel how to kidnap and torture Israeli civilians before then taking them into the Gaza strip and yet we still have media like CNN like the BBC that are refusing to call Hamas a terror organization and worse perhaps they are senior correspondents at least one that no longer works for BBC saying slitting the throats of children does not justify as terrorism so what does I think it's easy to say that for a long time now CNN the BBC and some other media are absolute accomplice to terrorism they are instrumental to what is happening and it encourages terrorists to act and even document their atrocities because they send journalists to film the tortures and the raping they are proud of it and that press that is anti-Semitic because there is no other cause for this attitude it has nothing to do with supporting the Palestinian cause believe me you can support the Palestinian cause while condemning terrorism it doesn't go together nothing justifies killing a child nothing justifies raping a woman but first of all let's start by the beginning these journalists are not doing their job as journalists they do not inform they misinform there is a disproportion in the way they cover the Israelis as towards the Palestinians it's not objective they are fed any propaganda material and they will relay it given by the Hamas anything the Hamas will send video clip they will relay it when the Israelis want to do some kind of explanation then they will say no but that's the official version we are not interested they will find all kinds of excuses this is a war that we lost a long time ago we are not going to win it tomorrow morning millions and millions of petro dollars dollars from MBS very rich Arabic countries financing it I just want to say one thing about it it is annoying it is horrible but really really after all these years all these millions and millions of dollars what this propaganda has achieved for the Palestinian cause what has BBC and CNN achieved to advance the well-being of Palestinian people or even the freedom of Palestinian people they have done nothing all they've managed to do is brainwash some people who are already willing to be brainwashed into hating Jews into hating Israel and feeling good about their good feelings towards the Palestinian people but really on the ground nothing has changed all that money could have been used to make schools and hospitals in Gaza all that money could have been spent on going for peace and all the advertising on CNN is financing an anti-Semitic channel that apart from that is not professional it's just not professional they are not giving the info here we are on the channel of course associated with Israel and we have a sympathy for Israel but we give the info as it is that's the difference well perhaps that's a question that I want to challenge you on if we're pointing the finger at other channels is to then turn that finger back to us are we perhaps too close to the story being as Rafael pointed out in Israel a comment that came through on one of our Twitter videos that ended up going viral of our correspondent Nicole Zedek who was in Kibbutz Berri who was in Kfaraz showing the atrocities as it was claimed the only proof that we had at that time before the images came out was the word of the IDF which means that we are de facto biased first of all and this is not an easy position to be in also as a former CNN I will mention here not all CNN correspondents are the same we've seen very good reporting from Nick Robertson and from Anderson Cooper people who did bring the story about the atrocities committed by Hamas and that has to be mentioned here obviously we like other media outlets are relied on information that we are getting from Hamas from the IDF from many other sources obviously we are there to validate that information where Nicole Zedek was in Kfaraz she did not just receive a text message with the IDF instructing her on what to say she saw bodies and she was there and she saw the burned houses she was there and she saw dozens of corpse in bags so yes obviously the IDF is providing information both to us and to other foreign media but that is based on things that we see with our eyes it just doesn't come out of nowhere that is the most basic things as for our channel obviously we try to present Israel's side to this conflict this is part of the reason why this channel was created but I24 news has always been there to also criticize both actions of the IDF wrongdoings of Israeli settlers in the West Bank we've been here in studio so many times criticizing some retaliatory attacks of extreme Israeli settlers against Palestinians we are there to report on any wrongdoing to any civilian and that I think is the difference do you think that there could be still focusing on the subject a piece of some of these viewers we're dealing with two very different viewers there's a viewership that perhaps and I'm not talking about the people that genuinely watch I'm talking about those that are anti-Semitic, anti-Israel have some kind of bias leaning toward the pro-Palestinian stance is there a sense of perhaps because of the amount of I think the correct term is Pollywood the Palestinians using dolls to indicate children I mean there was a video going around just yesterday being Sunday of a doll that was being looked after in a Gaza health ministry who was proclaimed dead do you perhaps think that we are fighting a battle that perhaps doesn't even need to be fought because some of the viewers yes want to be informed they want to see a different role they want to perhaps challenge themselves to understanding that this is far more complex far more intricate there's a lot of moving parts there's a lot of nuance with the Middle East that's why it's a problem that hasn't been solved for so many years but then there's a viewership that is just here is our stance need I say on air perhaps just vile anti-Semites that don't want to see it any other way yes of course we shouldn't waste our time in trying to fight this propaganda and fight even CNN and BBC they are very rich and powerful channels but then it's a waste of time because as you rightfully say we will not change an anti-Semite in a jewelry overnight we cannot impact on that our real aim our goal is to inform those who wish to be informed they do not have they haven't chosen a side yet they are not anti-Semites or they are not jewel-lovers they are just normal people who want to know who want to understand they are far from here it's not their main concern in life either really but sometimes they see these pictures they are short or moved or curious this is a target this is the important target and we have to come we shouldn't go into like arguing with other journalists even though they annoy us but really aim at this huge majority of the viewers who just want to know what's going on what's the score and what's the score is so simple is to remind them of some basic facts historically and genetically true just speak the truth and there are like 10 facts I have no time not to spell it but I actually have an internet site for free where you have those basic facts and this is aimed at people who want to know for instance on this site you have just a few pages with 10 points in 10 points you give the 10 important points you have to go back to the basic things of where all this is all come from what is a Jew, what is a Palestinian what is Jerusalem what is a territory what do you call a terrorist all these things people don't know information but they don't have the means to understand information because they have not been told the basic things Rafael Nerochelmi a former senior IDF intelligence officer and security analyst and our correspondent guy Israel thank you both very much for breaking down the latest stay with us because we have much more on our rolling and breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas we'll be right back Israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we don't want to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this particular project a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt we'll be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year we came out here to claim for the rain at this moment global warming is affecting Bolivia and not only Bolivia but the whole world and we need rain for the embryos for the embryos rolling and breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas the Israeli death toll continues to climb over 1400 Israelis have been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught more than 100 are still wounded Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people this is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip according to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties since fighting began last week over 600,000 Gazans relocated to the southern part of the strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and a imminent ground incursion we're seeing live images on the screen now and Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming from across the country's northern border as Hezbollah tests Israel's resolve let's cross now live to our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel Pierre, rougher crossing between Gaza and Egypt set to reopen but Israel doesn't seem to be on board with a potential even temporary humanitarian ceasefire that is true but we've been receiving reports that a ceasefire has been agreed upon between the US, Egypt and Israel now we're hearing from the Prime Minister's office that that is not the case Hamas also saying that it is unaware of an agreed upon ceasefire that of course coinciding with the expected opening of the rougher crossing between Gaza Strip and Egypt at 9am local time that also does not seem to have been the case now US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that the crossing yesterday saying that the crossing will be opening in the following hours he didn't specify when the crossing would be opening they have been reports that the crossing would be open from 9am this morning for five hours foreign nationals have been lining up in front of that crossing already within the last days because that crossing is supposed to be open for the entry of humanitarian aid on the one side and the exit of foreign nationals on the other side now that only accounts for really a minority of Gaza civilians only those who also hold a foreign passport that comes against the backdrop of the humanitarian crisis really increasing and worsening for the civilian population there Israel is saying that more than 600,000 people have made their way from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part following Israel's call to evacuate that area as a possible ground invasion is looming here the UN saying that the hospitals in Gaza who really need fuel to run their generators will run out of their fuel within the next 24 hours as Israel has cut the fuel and electricity and water supplies to Gaza they have reinstated the water supplies for the southern part of the Gaza Strip really fostering or calling upon more people to make their way south here we've just before we spoke we saw really a roll of four or five tanks making its way to the Gaza border that is right in the middle of the Gaza Strip there is a lot of noise and a lot of noise within the last hour but that really doesn't mean that a ceasefire is in place now but yeah we are looking at live images on the screen right now of Raffa crossing in Gaza and as you mentioned it's a lot of noise from the Israeli strikes here where we're at right now about three kilometers away from the border we have not really heard a lot of noise a lot of things within the Raffa crossing in Gaza and as you mentioned it seems like a minority of foreign nationals because it doesn't seem overly busy I'll remind the viewers we're talking about two million people that are currently in the Gaza Strip and so when we're looking at these live images very few seem to be coming but what more do we know about the potential humanitarian aid that is coming into the Strip not the foreign residents going out of the Strip here right in terms we're first and foremost talking about water food and medicine we're not talking about fuel because Israel's concern is that Hamas will use that fuel to run their generators to operate their tunnels underground Israel's goal here is to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure and also the goal to cut those electricity and fuel and water supplies was to really torpedo the efforts of Hamas to run their system of course this is first and foremost targeting the civilian population there more than ever to go again foreign nationals we don't know the exact numbers of how many people in Gaza actually hold a foreign passport that again they're the absolute minority for the vast majority of the population this humanitarian way to to cross to Egypt is not an option but yeah if it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. Our judges are the analysts and our correspondent guy Israel Guy being very saying that relief for Gaza any aid has to be brought to the cabinet to first review but there's also other reactions coming out about this potential humanitarian or temporary humanitarian ceasefire. Yes of course. Any sort of relief to Gaza while Hamas is still in control public, I think the world needs to understand what sort of trauma the Israeli public in general has been through on that daily Saturday that attack in which 1400 Israelis, including women, children, elderly were slaughtered, some of them beaten, burned, their bodies desecrated, and also up to 200 Israelis that are currently in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip. Israelis are not willing to give any reliefs to Hamas until that murderous terror group is being eliminated. So yes, the Prime Minister's office was very quick to deny the reports about that humanitarian ceasefire. Ben Gvir is requesting that any relief will be first approved in the cabinet. We're also hearing from Energy Minister Israel Katz, who yesterday, of course, announced the decision to allow water supply into southern Gaza Strip under the demand of President Joe Biden. Well, today he writes that I supported the agreement with Biden about supplying water. I object to the opening of the siege and to entering aid into Gaza. Our commitment is to the families of the Israelis murdered and the hostages now in Gaza and not to the killers of Hamas, obviously, Israel wants to apply maximum pressure on these Hamas terrorists and any such aid. We know very well, we'll go first to the hands of Hamas, to these murderers who slaughtered so many Israelis on Saturday. RFL, Egypt's President Fatah El Sisi is saying that Israel's current campaign in Gaza goes beyond the right to self-defense, saying this also as nationals are starting to gather at the rough crossing, but Palestinian nationals of the Gaza Strip not being allowed to enter into Egypt. Well, first of all, coming from Mr. El Sisi, this kind of accusation makes me smile. When you're talking human rights and the respect of human lives, Mr. El Sisi is a dictator. He got Egypt rid of the Muslim brothers, the Muslim Brotherhood, which was also a tyrannical regime that didn't last long, but he himself is no great Democrat. So coming from him, it's really just let us smile and ignore and let's accuse him and the Egyptian government of crime against mankind, because during the past few days, the Israelis have insisted on the fact that Egypt should open the rough crossing and not only to let some foreign double nationality Palestinians go out, which, by the way, even though we saw quite a few people at the rough crossing are many. There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who do have citizenship, whether it's European or American, the fact that you don't see a lot of people there is very simple. The Hamas is not letting them get there. The Hamas is blocking their way to the rough crossing. The Hamas has exploded main highway used by the people to evacuate to the north of Gaza towards the south, killing 70 people. The Hamas killed 70 Palestinians to block a highway and prevent them from reaching the rough crossing. This being said, of the Hamas, we have no doubt they have a record of crimes against mankind. But the Egyptians are very guilty for the simple reason that would they open. I mean, it's not like people are going to go into Cairo right in the coffee shops and around the Nile. They are going in the Sinai desert. It's a desert. And there you can open a ginormous refugee camp the way the same way it was done in Turkey for Syrian refugees with all the international help being able to arrive freely. And I say it again, Egypt is guilty, but the international community is even more guilty because it doesn't put enough pressure on Egypt. It should parachute without asking Mr. Sisi's permission, already parachute tents, beds, food and make it a feta complete to receive these people. Now on the Israeli part, you have to understand two things, ceasefire, a humanitarian ceasefire. It doesn't exist. We do not need to ceasefire. We know for sure that we will not hit areas where there are Palestinian innocent civilian people, refugees or not refugees, South, North, it doesn't matter. We will not hit them. But we have to be able to hit the terrorists, even though there is a humanitarian operation going on. When I was in with the IDF, we were in Rwanda and there were the civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We had a new humanitarian operation going on. We were always our weapons and we were ready to fight because at the same time there were terrorists there in Rwanda and even people who are trying to take advantage of the humanitarian aid. You will see it in the Sinai and you will see it in Gaza gangsters who will try to take this humanitarian aid. As you said, it might come to the table of the Hamas, this humanitarian aid, but it will also be attacked by people who want to steal it. So all this means we do not need to have a ceasefire. We can continue firing, but we will spare the innocent people. Just a small comment when we hear these statements from Sisi and other Arab leaders about caring so much about the Palestinians in Gaza. Well, Europe has managed to take in millions of refugees out of Syria. Why isn't Egypt and other Arab countries taking any of the Gazans that they say they care so much about? Good question. I want to move now to our correspondent Hamza Selkut standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamza, we've been discussing here in studio the evacuation of Israeli citizens from the south to the center, but also the evacuation of foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip through the refer crossing in Egypt. But now we're hearing that the IDF is planning to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese border as well. That's right, Batia. About an hour ago, the Israeli military along with the Defense Ministry issuing a statement saying that they are evacuating the two kilometers. That's 1.2 miles. All of those communities along the Lebanese border, an indication that the fighting with Hezbollah will persist. Also in the last hour, Hezbollah publishing videos of the anti-tank fire yesterday and the group saying that it was a success.  Since the beginning of the tensions along the northern border, seven people have been killed. One civilian, six Israeli soldiers. A number of other injuries. The international community is calling on all parties to stop, especially Unifil, the peacekeeping organization along the blue line that is the Lebanese Israeli border calling on all parties to stop, especially since one of their headquarters in the Nakoura was targeted yesterday by a rocket yesterday, Palestinian factions in the south of the country launching several rockets at Israel. The Iron Dome intercepting those missiles. The Iranians also a key player here as to what will happen on the northern front saying that there are no guarantees as to who will enter this conflict as Israel now braces itself for a semi-regional war. Should there be continued activity on the northern border? Chanda, we are looking at live images of the Israel-Lebanon border appears pretty tranquil compared to what's happening in the south sirens just before 9 a.m. before this humanitarian ceasefire went into effect. We're still blaring. What is the situation on the north? And explain a little bit to our viewers the difference between both Hamas and Hezbollah's arsenal, even though they are both backed by Iran. Well, look, right now along the Lebanese border, it is quiet. Though overnight, the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah posts and targets inside Lebanese territory. The difference between Hezbollah's arsenal and Hamas is extravagant. The Hezbollah group has around a minimum of 150,000 short range rockets. And these are numbers from 2016. So the exact number of these types of missiles is unknown. It could have doubled. It could have tripled. They're also saying that they have longer range, more destructive missiles. These types of sophisticated weapons that probably come from Iran could really inflict damage in Israeli territory. So the Israeli military is on high alert. The United States does not want a conflict along the Lebanese border. It doesn't want Israel in a multi-front war both in the north and the south, asking the Israelis not to cause any preemptive strikes inside Lebanese territory to try to perhaps eliminate Hezbollah commanders and other figures from the group. But the tensions here along the northern border continue. The exchanges of fire continue on Friday. A military chief in Hezbollah was saying that they are ready to enter the conflict. I'll remind you, Palestinian factions operating in the south of the country say they're ready as well, but only if Hezbollah takes the lead. Correspondent Hamza Selkut giving us an update on the northern border. Thank you for that. For more than a week, the eyes of the world have been on southern Israel as well as the Gaza Strip. But even the Gaza arena might ultimately prove a sideshow. Should the war expand to Lebanon, Syria or even Iran itself? A senior correspondent Owen Ultiman looks at the dilemma facing Iran to cut Hamas loose or risk losing everything. In Doha on Saturday, he was all smiles. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amr Abdullaian greeting Hamas leader Ismail Hania in the capital of Qatar. And in Beirut on Friday too, he had been all smiles. Amr Abdullaian happy with his work and playing coy with what comes next. Of course, the resistance has kept on the table all possible scenarios on the other fronts. The zero hour for any action against the crimes is also at the hands of the resistance. The resistance of course is Hezbollah, with Iran even at this hour separating itself formally from the group. Even as Hezbollah is widely recognized as Iran's proxy. As Iran and its network face in Israel at top readiness. And the United States set to be parked offshore with two aircraft carrier strike groups. Iran and Hezbollah, since day one of this war are finding themselves in a dilemma. Here is the dilemma. If Iran is going to send Hezbollah to the war, Iran is going to jeopardize not only the risk or downfall of Hamas in Gaza Street, which seems to be almost imminent, but also a massive strike to Hezbollah. And indeed that dilemma. Axios reported Iran passed Israel a message through the United Nations. Warning of Iran's direct entry into the war. Should the Israeli campaign in Gaza intensify? The decisions in Tehran are fateful ones. By design or by accident, the clock for Iran is ticking to high noon. And Israel hopes that for Iran's proxies from Gaza to Lebanon to Syria and beyond, that the clock is ticking to midnight. So with me here in studios, Rafael, you are showing me a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst as well as our correspondent guy Azrael. Herzog showed CNN yesterday, Rafael, pictures of a Hamas booklet instructing the terrorists that infiltrated into Israel, how to kidnap and torture Israeli civilians before then taking them into the Gaza Strip. And yet we still have media like CNN, like the BBC, that are refusing to call Hamas a terror organization. And worse, perhaps, they are senior correspondents, at least one that no longer works for BBC saying, slitting the throats of children does not justify as terrorism. So what does? I think it's easy to say that for a long time now, CNN, the BBC, and some other media are absolute accomplice to terrorism. They are instrumental to what is happening and it encourages terrorists to act and even document their atrocities because they send journalists to film the torturers and the raping. They are proud of it. And that press that is anti-Semitic because there is no other cause for this attitude. It has nothing to do with supporting the Palestinian cause. Believe me, you can support the Palestinian cause while condemning terrorism. It doesn't go together.  But first of all, let's start by the beginning. These journalists are not doing their job as journalists. They do not inform. They misinform. There is a disproportion in the way they cover the Israelis as towards the Palestinians. It's not objective. They are fed any propaganda material and they will relay it given by the Hamas. Anything the Hamas will send a video clip, they will relay it. When the Israelis want to do some kind of explanation, then they will say, ah, but that's the official version. We're not interested. They will find all kinds of excuses. This is a war that we lost a long time ago. We're not going to win it tomorrow morning. Millions and millions of petro dollars, you know, dollars from MBS and, you know, very rich Arabic countries financing it. I just want to say one thing about it. It is annoying. It is horrible. It encourages violence and anti-Semitism and hatred. But really, really after all these years and all these millions and millions of dollars, what this propaganda has achieved for the Palestinian cause? What has BBC and CNN achieved to advance the well-being of Palestinian people or even the freedom of Palestinian people? They have done nothing. All they've managed to do is brainwash some people who are already willing to be brainwashed into hating Jews, into hating Israel and feeling good about their good feelings towards the Palestinian people. But really on the ground, nothing has changed. All that money could have been used to make schools and hospitals in Gaza. All that money could have been spent going for peace. And all the advertising and CNN is financing an anti-Semitic channel that, apart from that, is not professional. It's just not professional. They're not giving the info. Here we are on the channel that's, of course, associated with Israel and we have a sympathy for Israel. But we give the info as it is. That's the difference. Well, perhaps that's a question that I want to challenge you on. If we're pointing the finger at other channels, is to then turn that finger back to us? Are we perhaps too close to the story being, as Raphael pointed out, in Israel, a comment that came through on one of our Twitter videos that ended up going viral of our correspondent, Nicole Zedek, who was in Kibbutz Baeri, who was in Kfaraz, showing the atrocities as it was, claimed the only proof that we had at that time before the images came out was the word of the IDF, which means that we are de facto biased. First of all, this is not an easy position to be in, also as a former CNN. I will mention here, not all CNN correspondents are the same. We've seen very good reporting from Nick Robertson and from Anderson Cooper, people who did bring the story about the atrocities committed by Hamas and that has to be mentioned here. Obviously, we, like other media outlets, are relied on information that we are getting from Hamas, from the IDF, from many other sources. Obviously, we are there to validate that information where Nicole Zedek was in Kfaraz. She did not just receive a text message with the IDF instructing her on what to say. She was there and she saw bodies. She was there and she saw the burned houses. She was there and she saw dozens of corpse in bags. So, yes, obviously the IDF is providing information, both to us and to other foreign media, but that is based on things that we see with our eyes. It just doesn't come out of nowhere. That is the most basic things. As for our channel, obviously, we try to present Israel's side to this conflict. This is part of the reason why this channel was created. But I24 News has always been there to also criticize both actions of the IDF, wrongdoings of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. We've been here in studio so many times criticizing some retaliatory attacks of extreme Israeli settlers against Palestinians. We are there to report on any wrongdoing to any civilian and that, I think, is the difference. Do you think that there could be still focusing on the subject, a piece of some of these viewers? We're dealing with two very different viewers. There's a viewership that perhaps, and I'm not talking about the people that genuinely watch. I'm talking about those that are anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, have some kind of bias leaning toward the pro-Palestinian stance. Is there a sense of perhaps because of the amount of, I think the correct term is Pellewood, the Palestinians using the word Pellewood, the Palestinians using dolls to indicate children. I mean, there was a video going around just yesterday being Sunday of a doll that was being looked after in a Gaza health ministry who was proclaimed dead. Do you perhaps think that we are fighting a battle that perhaps doesn't even need to be fought? Because some of the viewers, yes, want to be informed. They want to see a different angle. They want to perhaps challenge themselves to understanding that this is far more complex, far more intricate. There's a lot of moving parts. There's a lot of nuance with the Middle East. That's why it's a problem that hasn't been solved for so many years. But then there's a viewership that is just, here is our stance, need I say on it, perhaps just vile NTC minds that don't want to see it any other way. Yes, of course, we shouldn't waste our time in trying to fight this propaganda and fight even CNN and BBC. They are very rich and powerful channels. But then it's a waste of time because as you rightfully say, we will not change an NTC might in a Jew lover overnight. We cannot impact on that. Our real aim, our goal is to inform those who wish to be informed. They do not have, they haven't chosen a side yet. They're not NTC might, so they're not Jew lovers. They're just normal people who want to know, who want to understand. They are far from here. It's not their main concern in life either, really. But sometimes they see these pictures. They're short or moved or curious. And this is the target. This is the important target. And we have to come and we shouldn't go into, like arguing with other journalists or even though they're noyous, but really aim at this huge majority of the viewers who just want to know what's going on. What's the score? And what's the score? It's so simple is to remind them of some basic facts that are historically and genetically true. Just speak the truth and they're like 10 facts. I have no time now to spell it, but I actually have an internet site for free where you have those basic facts. And this is aimed at people who want to know, for instance, on these sites, you have just a few pages with 10 points. Jerusalem, in 10 points, you give the 10 important points. You have to go back to the basic things of where all this is all come from. What is a Jew? What is a Palestinian? What is Jerusalem? What is a territory? What do you call a terrorist? All these things people don't know. And then you give them all this information, but they don't have the means to understand information because they're not being told the basic things. Rafael Aguirre-Shalmi, a former senior IDF intelligence office and security analyst, and our correspondent, Guy Azrael. Thank you both very much for breaking down the latest. 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The Israeli death toll continues to climb. Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught, while more than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This, as the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip. According to Palestinian media, affiliated with Hamas, the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza City in the north constituted the heaviest sortie since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans relocated to the southern part of the strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and an imminent ground incursion. Those are live images of your screen at the moment of Rafa crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border as his bullet tests Israel's resolve. Let's cross our live to our correspondent, Hamde Selkut, who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamde evacuations taking place inside Israel itself in the south, locating families from the southern communities more to the center in Gaza as well with regards to foreign nationals, but also in the northern communities in Israel. What's the latest? Well, Bateh, the Israeli military is continuing that evacuation of 28 communities that are within two kilometers of the Lebanese border and indication that a fight with Hezbollah is imminent, but also at the port in Haifa, several dozen US citizens and their families gathering for an evacuation at a ship, the queue this morning following a security alert issued on Sunday by the US embassy in Jerusalem saying that it's for citizens seeking to leave the country due to flight cancellations in connection with the continued fighting between Israel and Hamas. Now, there have been multiple emergency evacuations, several chartered planes that different countries have been bringing in, but this is the first word of a ship looking to evacuate its citizens back onto US territory here in the north. It has been quite calm overnight. There were strikes in Lebanese territory, the Israeli military targeting Hezbollah sites, but for now it really has been a tense calm, but the situation could change as the Israeli military is preparing itself for continued confrontations with Hezbollah. Hamta, you've been moving between the south and the north of the country over the last week. What is the difference in terms of the sirens that we've been hearing with regards to rockets coming over the borders and the difference in Arsenal by Hamas and Hezbollah and knowing that both are backed by Iran? Well, look, Bante, there have been sirens sounding in all parts of the country from rockets coming in different directions. Earlier in the north, like a few days ago, Hamas launching a long-range missile called the Ayesh 250 that was able to reach Haifa. Now, this is an extremely sophisticated weapon for the regular type of short-range rockets that they have. Yesterday, Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon firing a barrage of rockets into northern Israel, the Iron Dome, able to intercept a lot of those. The weapons capabilities of Hezbollah are far more severe and sophisticated than what they have inside of the Gaza Strip because they are manufactured, how weapons should be manufactured, not underground, not using water pipes or materials used to build buildings from, but they're manufactured in weapons facilities and they could cause a lot of damage if they do come on to Israeli territory. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khut giving us an update there from the north of the country. And with me here in the studio at the moment is Gonen Ben Yitzhak. I wanna thank you so much. A former Shin Bet agent for being here with me. It's a big question at the moment that many are wondering. The Hamas leadership is sitting in Qatar and giving orders to at least the military leadership in the Gaza Strip that is now being targeted by the Israeli attacks. Why has the Mossad intelligence within the Shin Bet over the past years not gone after the head of the so-called snake so to speak in Qatar? I think that this is a long-term mistake by Israel. Israel didn't know how to govern the situation or how to manage the situation because first of all Hamas is a terror organization but also a government in Gaza. So the decision of Netanyahu's government to keep Hamas alive because Hamas, as long as Hamas is governing the Gaza Strip, you don't bring anybody else, not the PA or anybody else. If you don't bring the PA, you don't need to move on with the peace process or anything like this. So for many years Hamas was functional for the Netanyahu's government. I think that also Netanyahu remembers what happened when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal. And I guess that he was afraid to get into some international problem the way he had with Jordan when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal. To mention that after the assassination or when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal, he needed to release Sheikh Yassin. And Sheikh Yassin was one of the architects of the Second Intifada. So Israel was mistaken all the time the way it handled the problem of Hamas in Gaza Strip. Stay with us. I want to continue that angle of the conversation but I do want to cross now live to our correspondent Pia Steckelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel. Information coming through that Rafa crossing is a buzzing but we see at least from the live image is not as many, I'll remind our viewers two million people currently reside around in the Gaza Strip. And it doesn't appear that many are at the Rafa crossing for the time being who is there and what is currently happening. Well Bachi the potential opening of the Rafa crossing we always have to say potential because as of now the crossing did not seem to open yet. Would only apply for foreign nationals. That means that those residents out of the more than two million civilians there that hold a second foreign passport would be eligible to cross over that crossing into Egypt. On the other hand we've been seeing images of trucks lining up on the Egyptian side of the border waiting to get entry to Gaza carrying all kinds of humanitarian help supplies such as food, water, medicine. Israel has said that it would not allow the delivery of fuel into the Gaza Strip as it expects Hamas to use it in order to facilitate their underground tunnels and their weapon facilities. But what we've been seeing is of course that Gaza big parts of Gaza are on their feet more than 600,000 people have followed the Israeli call to move from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part of the Gaza Strip. But here we're talking about many people who are also not able to move. We're talking about families, elderly people, children. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the worsening and has been warning that for the next hours the generators that are used by hospitals will run out of fuel. We've been hearing from Palestinian reports that this night has seen the strongest striking of Israeli forces in Gaza. This morning has been relatively quiet. We have heard from the background here we're about three kilometers away from the northern part of the Gaza Strip. We have heard Israel striking in Gaza. However, especially in the last two hours it has really decreased now. As also there were reports earlier this morning about a possible humanitarian ceasefire to really enable that convoy of humanitarian goods to enter Gaza and to enable foreign nationals to get out. Those reports haven't been confirmed. Also the reports about the possible opening of the Rafah crossing have not been confirmed. It might also be possible that the sites that are involved, Israel, the US and Egypt are now trying to negotiate some sort of agreement leverage with Hamas regarding the hostages. We're talking about 126 confirmed hostages confirmed by the IDF in Gaza that of course are waiting to be freed. And also efforts are being made behind the curtains here, but yeah. I wanna inform our viewers that rocket sirens are going off across central Israel but not Tel Aviv for the time being. We are crossing now to the IDF spokesperson who is busy giving a presser. Let's step in. Stop terror targets in Gaza as we struck operational headquarters, terror infrastructures and terrorists. Hamas is preventing residents of the Gaza Strip from evacuating themselves south of the Gaza City. It sees this as a loss of control. Hundreds of thousands have already went south. I call again to the residents of the city of Gaza and its surrounding.   Hamas has proven its cruelty towards the people of Israel and now it does so to the residents of the city of Gaza for your personal safety because we are striking in the city of Gaza.  There are corridors that enable you to go there safely. Go south of the Gaza River. We continue our effort on the Gaza border communities to clear the space of terrorists. The citizens must show responsibility, must not reach the area and allow the security forces to continue with their important task. Over the past week, we have reinforced the units in all the communities, part of the war effort and part of the need of the public to be protected. But in these days, it is our duty to be responsible while carrying weapons and maintain the security guidance. There are events of errors with the use of forces. Those who need to operate guns are the security forces. They need to maintain the security guidelines. They save lives. I want to touch on the northern front. Hezbollah has fulfilled, executed yesterday, a number of attacks in order to divert our operational efforts from the south that under Iranian guidance and while risking the state of Lebanon and its citizens, the IDF is prepared. In the north, we've reinforced our forces and we are reacting offensively against the, any attack against us decisively. This morning, the Defense Minister has approved the operation to evict residents from the south up to two kilometers from the border. It is operated by the IDF and the local authorities. Residents have been evacuated, sponsored by the government. This was done in order to reduce the risks for human lives and allow the IDF more operational freedom. We continue to look at the residents of the north. We wanted to reduce risks and that's why we decided on this program. We will continue to reassess the situation. If anything else is done, we will do so. We will take no risk for the residents of the south. Our task is to fight the Hamas terrorist terror group, murderous terror group, and we are focused on Gaza. That's where the kidnapped Israeli civilians are. This is where we're focused on. It is important for me to tell you the reality as it is. The State of Israel has a strong army that is ready on two fronts, can operate on more fronts. It knows how to operate on its own. We maintain other capabilities so that if Hezbollah, and I repeat, if Hezbollah is wrong to examine us, the response will be deadly. The U.S., we operate with full cooperation and that is expressed by actions, and these are well-perceived in the Middle East. I wish to speak about the home front. Our ability to run a war, our ability to run a war, our ability to run a war, our ability to run a war is based on the resilience of the home front and the ability to defend it. Over the next weeks, we'll have to operate next to the war. And that is necessary for us as a state and as a people. We are able to do so. It will be enabled only through listening to the orders of the home front command. I wish to commend the Israeli citizens who are following the guidelines and thereby saving lives. And still, I wish to stress there is no complete defense. You need to remember this. When you listen to the home front command guidelines, when you enter shelters, you are saving lives. We saw this yesterday in Ashkelon how you reduce the number of casualties when people seek shelter, continue to operate in this way. The guidelines of the home front command are updated on a daily basis according to the assessments. You can find them on our website. And at the 104 hotline, we wish to continue the regular life. As for the equipment, at the end of each briefing, I receive a lot of messages about laxing. That was the latest press conference from Rea Admiral Daniel Hagarri, the IDF spokesperson. We now go to Jerusalem, where I'm joined by a member of the Knesset for the United Toro Judaism Party, Mr. Moshe Roth. Good morning to you. You're also a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Health Committees. I'd like to point out as well. We've just heard the IDF giving an update with regards to the situation on both the northern and the southern France, evidently very invested in the fact that this is now a full-on wartime scenario. The security cabinet also said to meet this evening at 8 p.m. local time. How will the government now be moving over to handling the war?  We do hope for the best. I hope this to be a good day, a good morning. I think it's a very trying times for us. To your question, actually all the preparations for this operation has taken into account the possibility of having an autumn front that will be active. We do hope that the Hezbollah will restrain themselves because they are going for a situation where they will totally be annihilated. There's no other possibility for us. In the north, many villages have been evacuated already. We are prepared, fully prepared. The army is prepared. The home front is prepared. But we do hope we don't have to get to that. But if we do, God forbid, have another front, we will be able to handle it. Are you satisfied with the forming of what has come out as the emergency unity government? I'd like to remind the viewers that a lot of the criticism over the past couple of months, even prior to the war with Hamas, was on the coalition, but more specifically, the more far-right members of the coalition in terms of those parties. United Toro-Judism as well as the Shast Party has long been part of the government. What stance does your party take with regards to the formation of a unity party, a national unity emergency government, and also with regards to how you plan on moving forward with the war effort? To your first question, let me tell you something a very important thing to all listeners. The most important thing that we have, the best ammunition we have is our unity. We are, at the moment, unified. That's the most important thing. There's nothing more important than that. So to be unified means to be unified in the government, to be unified out in the street, and to be unified in the Knesset. I'm sitting together with other Knesset members who are on the far left, and we work together totally, brother, sister, together. There's no difference whatsoever. You would never know the difference. You would walk into the Knesset today. You would never know who is part of the coalition, who is part of the position, who is on the right, who is on the left, and the same is in the streets. There are tens of thousands of volunteers from the religious community or working together with the non-religious community. Together on the front and on all parts, men, women, and children are together today with one goal in mind. And that is to bring peace back to our country. So there's nothing else on the agenda. That is to your first question. Going forward, the same.  And if I may just ask you one final question. Yuli Edelstein, a member of the Knesset for the Nikud Party, has said that as part of the protocols, there will be a thorough investigation as to who exactly was at fault for what is being deemed a major, but major screw up with regards to both the intelligence and the government failures. I understand that there will be a time for reckoning, but where do you stand and what exactly do you have to respond to the fact that at some point, blame will be placed in likely four and many of your coalition partners? There is nothing that should be kept back from the public or from any kind of inquiries about who is to blame. That is very important. What's more important is that nothing should be focused now when everything that has to do with blame should wait till the end of this operation until we bring back the peace to the land. And only then should we sit down and find not only who is to blame, but what social part was to blame and which part of government or judicial has to be changed. But all of that should wait after the operation. Member of Knesset for the United Tour Judas and Party, Mr. Moshe Roth. I want to thank you so very much for taking the time to join me here on the I-24 News Desk this morning. And still with me here in studio is Gonen Ben Yitzhak, former Shin Bet agent. Now Gonen, another part of your job that has famously come to light, obviously being the Green Prince, Mossab Hassan Yosef's handler, the son of Hamas. Before getting to the question, I would like to play you a clip that if I'm not mistaken, I think went viral about six years ago. Let's take a look. Thank you, Mr. President. I take the floor on behalf of the UN Watch. My name is Mossab Hassan Yosef. I grew up in Ramallah as a member of Hamas. I address the words to the Palestinian Authority, which claims to be the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. I ask, where does your legitimacy come from? The Palestinian people did not elect you and they did not appoint you to represent them. You are self appointed. Your accountability is not to your own people. This is evidenced by your own total violation for their human rights. In fact, the Palestinian individual and their human development is the least of your concerns. You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You torture your political rivals. The suffering of the Palestinian people is the outcome of your selfish political interests. You are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people. If Israel did not exist, you would have no one to blame. Take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions. You fan the flames of conflict to maintain your abusive power. Finally, you use this platform to mislead the international community, to mislead the Palestinian society, to believe that Israel is responsible for the problems you create. Thank you. Now, interesting that that clip was addressed to the Palestinian Authority, but we are talking about the son of one of the senior members in the Hamas organization. How is it that after listening to a clip like that, we still have a biased media presence toward Israel and we still have, yes, there is a legitimate pro-Palestinian solidarity and cause, but surely their plot gets overshadowed when they can't distinguish between the Palestinian people and Hamas. Somehow, people don't understand the difference between the fact that for the last 50 years, there is an occupation, okay? We occupy millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the fact that in Gaza, Hamas is a terrorist Gaza in the West Bank, but I'm talking now about Gaza because Gaza is our biggest concern. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They are more into murder and killing people to really save their own people. I think that after the attack last Saturday, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are not part of the human race. I think that like the Nazis, Israel should aim to destroy them to assassinate all the members of Hamas, but we need to remember that on the other hand, we have Palestinians that are not part of Hamas, they're not part of the killing, and we need to find a solution to this problem. And the fact that Israel, for the last many years, didn't try to find a solution, and it's hard, and I must say, also the PA is not perfect. The PA is not perfect. Abu Mazen is not a perfect match for Israel or for Netanyahu, but we have a problem that we need to solve. And all the time, like I'll say, like in a Polish family, we try to suppress the problems, to hide them, and say, as long as we don't see the problem, there is no problem. No, there is a problem, and the people that want to attack Israel, many of them are anti-Semitics, and they hate Israel, they hate Jews, they use the problem, the Palestinian problem in order to attack Israel. But, again, I think the biggest problem is not the fact that some people criticize Israel in the world. Our biggest problem is to find a solution to our region, because in the end, many Palestinians and all Israelis want to live in peace. They want future to their children. They don't want to wake up into a nightmare like the one we woke up last week. And two words that are very important here are leadership and people that need to take responsibility. And we see right now no responsibility and no leadership, unfortunately. So what is the solution then for the Gaza Strip? We're talking about, okay, we go in, we eradicate Hamas, and it's now the day after. Is imposing then the rule of the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip good enough? Is that an actual viable solution? I think that one part is to attack Hamas, but the other part is to bring the PA back into Gaza. So many people say, do you think that the PA will be ready or will agree to step back into Gaza and rule Gaza using the force of IDF? I say, yes, if we give them a future, if we go not only for them or ask them to take over Gaza, but also we find a solution to what's going on also in the West Bank, we can walk together with the PA to take over Gaza. This is what we need to do. Solutions that hopefully will have some final answers in the next coming days and weeks. Thank you so much for being with us here on the program. We'll see you again at the top of the hour for more updates on day 10 of the war. Israel is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. We just don't know anything. Entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. I work at I-24 News since 2013, since a channel was established and I'm the defense correspondent in English since 2018. As the defense correspondent and also in my previous roles, I was hundreds of times in the road and the Gaza border communities when Red Alert siren sounded meaning that rockets are incoming and we all have to run to the shelters. Most of the times the rockets were intercepted, there were no casualties, no damages and that was my report. But there was one time in the city of Zderot which made me realize we are all wrong. My colleagues and I ran to the shelter again but with us ran a group of children and their mothers. The children were crying. Their mothers were supposed to help them but they were also crying. That is when I realized that what is the work for me is life for them. That's where I understood that there is damage even if no building was damaged and no one was physically hurt. There is railies just like us in Tel Aviv and they deserve to feel the same safety and security that we feel here. Since that morning in Zderot my whole reporting has changed. No longer, no casualties, no damage rockets intercepted and that's it. The damage is ongoing. The damage is mental for those people for those kids who have now grown into this reality. I think they deserve much more than that from the state of Israel and I keep saying this in every report I file about rockets being fired to Zderot even if officially there are no damages and no one was injured. And breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. The Israeli death toll continues to climb. Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught while more than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This as the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip. According to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas, the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza City in the north constituted the heaviest sortie since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans relocated to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and an imminent ground incursion. Those are live images of your screen at the moment of rougher crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border as his bullet tests Israel's resolve. Let's cross our lives to our correspondent Hamde Selkut who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamde evacuations taking place inside Israel itself in the south, locating families from the southern communities more to the center in Gaza as well with regards to foreign nationals but also in the northern communities in Israel. What's the latest? Well, Bate the Israeli military is continuing that evacuation of 28 communities that are within two kilometers of the Lebanese border and indication that a fight with Hezbollah is imminent but also at the port in Haifa several dozen US citizens and their families gathering for an evacuation for at a ship, the queue this morning following a security alert issued on Sunday by the US embassy in Jerusalem saying that it's for citizens seeking to leave the country due to flight cancellations in connection with the continued fighting between Israel and Hamas. Now there have been multiple emergency evacuations several chartered planes that different countries have been bringing in but this is the first word of a ship looking to evacuate its citizens back onto US territory here in the north it has been quite calm overnight there were strikes in Lebanese territory the Israeli military targeting Hezbollah sites but for now it really has been a tense calm but the situation could change as the Israeli military is preparing itself for continued confrontations with Hezbollah. Hamda you've been moving between the south and the north of the country over the last week what is the difference in terms of the sirens that we've been hearing with regards to rockets coming over the borders and the difference in Arsenal by Hamas and Hezbollah knowing that both are backed by Iran. Well look Badi there have been sirens sounding in all parts of the country from rockets coming in different directions earlier in the north like a few days ago Hamas launching a long-range missile called the Aayesh 250 that was able to reach Haifa now this is an extremely sophisticated weapon for the regular type of short-range rockets that they have yesterday Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon firing a barrage of rockets into northern Israel the Iron Dome able to intercept a lot of those the weapons capabilities of Hezbollah are far more severe and sophisticated than what they have inside of the Gaza Strip because they are manufactured how weapons should be manufactured not underground not using water pipes or materials used to build buildings from but they're manufactured in weapons facilities and they could cause a lot of damage if they do come on to Israeli territory. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khut giving us an update there from the north of the country and with me here in the studio at the moment is Gonen Ben Yitzhak I want to thank you so much a former Shin Bet agent for being here with me it's a big question at the moment that many are wondering the Hamas leadership is sitting in Qatar and giving orders to the at least the military leadership in the Gaza Strip that is now being targeted by the Israeli attacks why has the Mossad intelligence within the Shin Bet over the past years not gone after the head of the so-called snakes so to speak in Qatar I think that this is a long-term mistake by Israel Israel didn't know how to how to govern the situation or how to manage the situation because first of all Hamas is a terror organization but also a government in Gaza so the decision of Netanyahu's government to keep Hamas alive because Hamas as long as Hamas is governing the Gaza Strip you don't bri