ere you need to go. We are here with them as each individual, and the committee here is really giving every single day in a meeting, in the chaos, in the struggle of work, from the financial crisis, from financial crisis. You are returning safely, and you are taking this forward. And this is just the beginning, it is clear to everyone that there is still a long road ahead for these young people who left the innocents, memories and sweet childhood experiences in the Gaza border village. We still eat, we don't eat. Maybe we did, but we can say that we are fine. We are fine, I think no one is. No one is fine. And when I realized that we did, there was a second day. Janan Ben Ali came to save us and then I stood there and said, fuck, I am a soldier.  Wow, I am a soldier. I was shocked that I was a soldier. Now is in a state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. I am Sivan Rafeeb and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 47 of Israel's war with Hamas, the war that started when at least 1200 innocent Israeli civilians including women, men, children and the elderly fell victim to a brutal massacre in southern Israel on October 7th. There are currently 236 hostages held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza including about 40 children. The Israeli government has taken a crucial step towards bringing home those hostages held in Gaza. The government convened last night and approved the outline of the first stage to release at least 50 hostages, predominantly women and children, over the next four days. The hostage release deal with Hamas comes with conditions. In exchange for the release, first and foremost, Hamas will receive a four-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Israel will also release approximately 150 Palestinian prisoners, primarily women and minors. The agreement also includes the entry of food, medical aid and fuel into the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has agreed to a six-hour daily suspension of flights over Gaza, allowing Hamas to locate hostages held by their operatives and separate factions. The first hostages are expected to be released on Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that despite the temporary pause to return the hostages, Israel is still at war and will continue until all war objectives are achieved, eliminating Hamas, returning all hostages and ensuring Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Let's take a listen. Outside there is a lot of nonsense talk, as if after we ceasefire for the release of the hostages, we will stop the war. So I would like to clarify, we are at war and we will continue to fight, continue to fight until we reach all our goals. Tonight, we face a difficult decision, but it is the right decision, all the security factors fully support it. They clarified in their full professional assessment the security of our forces will be guaranteed during the days of ceasefire and that the intelligence effort will be maintained. Just moments ago, we heard sirens go off near Israel's southern border in those communities living there and we go to our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Klosschendler down south. Pierre, what's the situation on the ground? Well, the latest developments are this explosion that you can see behind me with the plumes of white smoke, gray smoke coming out of a certain area of the Hanun and it seems that it's the neutralizing of the tunnel because there were two explosions, one after the other, in the same area without the intervention of the Air Force and that could be the destruction of a terrorist structure. Now, just moments before that, there was a rocket alert where we are. There was no interception, neither explosions, so we don't exactly know what happened but definitely no interception and no explosion. Now, the army is going on and pounding the northern sector of the Gaza Strip because although it has full control over certain areas and the whole northern Gaza Strip has been cut off and encircled by the Israeli army from the southern sector, the pounding goes on. The encirclement of the Jebaliah refugee camp which hosted up until the war, 180,000 inhabitants is encircled. There are targettings over Sherzahed which is on the northern western outskirts of the Jebaliah camp and southeast of Jebaliah in Zleitun, which is a neighborhood of Gaza City. The operation is going on for a fourth consecutive day. A ferocious battle has occurred there in the first two days and now the situation is not clear. There are raids, ground raids in the southern sector according to Palestinian reports in the Almurazi camp in the central sector of the Gaza Strip, not the location of the ground offensive. It was a raid, a nightly raid according to Palestinian reports and there are bombings of targets all over the southern Gaza Strip. Now the army is still pressing on Hamas and PiG targets until the ceasefires come to fruition and then trying to consolidate both defensive and aggressive positions of the IDF. Thank you, Pierre. We will continue to get updated with you down south. And joining us in studio now is our I-24 News Middle East correspondent Ariel Ozaran and Dr. David Shimoni, commander of Commanders for Israel Security. Thank you both for coming in. We are in face of a hostage release deal supposedly to begin tomorrow. I'd like to ask you, Dr. Shimoni, what has the IDF actually accomplished thus far and does this deal and this pause and ceasefire, does it jeopardize that? Well, the pause was not a part of the military plan. The military plan was to go ahead full force with the limited speed because, as you know, the IDF is not going very aggressively. It's going very cautiously because of civilians stood around, because of hostages stood around. But the pause was not part of the military plan. The question is, can the military gain some advantage from this pause? And the answer is yes. First of all, yesterday, the military and the intelligence community told the government, told the cabinet that they can deal with any consequence of this pause. We say, you know, the Hamas will take the opportunity to reinforce itself, to reorganize itself, but it's true also about the IDF. The IDF, if there's no fire, much easier to bring supplies to the troops to exchange troops to bring food ammunition unharmed. We know that there will be a limit on reconnaissance flights, especially drones over the Gaza Strip, which is something that will disrupt some of the intelligence picture, but it doesn't seize fighters, jet fighters, from flying high above Israeli territory and taking a look at what's going on there or above the sea and taking a look. So we're not losing all of the intelligence grip of what's going on. As far as intelligence goes, the release of 50 hostages will enable us to learn more about the condition of those who are remaining in prison or in the tunnels where they are. There's a lot of uncertainty. As you know, the Red Cross has not visited our hostages. And those released will be able, hopefully, many of them are kids and maybe they're not very well informed, but they will enable us to learn more about people that we don't know if they're alive, if they're dead, if they were executed while in captivity. So generally, I say the military can... It wasn't our plan to have a pause in the fighting, but we can find the benefits of this pause, and the military assured the political... the government, the cabinet, that once they get the order to resume fighting, they can do it with full force. So this might benefit the IDF as well. In a way, yes. Okay, let's take a look at our northern border, Israel's northern border. Joining us now is I-24 News correspondent Robert Swift. Robert, it appears that a four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas might also apply to the Lebanon border. Should we expect more Hezbollah strikes before the ceasefire? Yeah, I think it's probably a safe assumption that that will be the case. And now just to update you, 10 minutes ago, there was yet another rocket siren sounding on the northern border, this one occurring in the far western end of Israel's northern border in the community of Rosha Nikra. This community has come under attack on a number of occasions from mortar fire, no confirmation yet of the weapon system used, but that's the situation there. Let's move on to the actual implications of the ceasefire here. Now, yesterday we saw a lot of activity, both Hezbollah and Israeli military. The fact that a ceasefire is coming into play in the near future could well mean that there's likely to be an uptake in attacks as both sides essentially look to get strikes in before the ceasefire. We've seen that discussed with regards to Gaza and what's true there could equally be true here. Now, in the last few hours there's been Lebanese media and social media reports referring to Israeli airstrikes both taking place in the western end of southern Lebanon and also one closer to us in the east also taking place in southern Lebanon. This could be an indication of that sort of strikes going in before the ceasefire that I was just referring to, or this could just be continuing efforts by the Israeli military to hit Hezbollah and Hamas targets in southern Lebanon. We saw that yesterday and we've seen that many other days during the war up here in the northern border. Robert Schwift on Israel's northern border, thank you very much. And in studio with us is our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaran. We're hearing Robert up in the north of Israel talking about the risks from Hezbollah and we know there's a meeting between top Hamas officials and Nasrallah and Beirut. And we're just hours before the Iranian foreign minister is expected to visit Lebanon as well. What does all of this mean? Well, before that I'll just give a quick update regarding the prisoner, the hostage deal. Saudi El-Khadath TV reporting that Israel has received the names of the first 10 hostages were expected to be released tomorrow morning. That means that things are moving forward, things are indeed coming into fruition. I will note that in the different reports leading up to the deal or the announcement of the deal overnight, Qataris have said that raised the option that some of these hostages aren't necessarily alive, meaning that we know that there are already hostages that they have claimed Hamas and Tastay and some of Jihad have been killed. This deal could include those as well. So this is something that we need to prepare and prepare ourselves for. As for the northern border, look, we've seen close meetings between Hamas and Hezbollah since the start of the war, obviously leading up to the war. This shows that they're in close coordination, especially given the fact that Hamas would like to see a more intense support by Hezbollah regarding what's going on down south as far as Hezbollah is concerned, albeit this is short of a full-scale war. Indeed, Hezbollah is suffering a lot of losses on the border following Israeli strikes. The presence of Hussana M. Abdullah Yan, the Iranian foreign minister, this would be, I think, his third or even fourth visit to Beirut since the start of the war, and that shows that Iran is keeping close tabs on what's going on, not only regarding Hezbollah, but the fact that there's a top Hamas delegation present, we see on screen now the photo between Nasrallah on the right sitting across from him is Khalil al-Khiyyah, he's the deputy head of Hamas and Gaza, Osama Hamdan sitting next to him, two key Hamas officials. Obviously, they're not in Gaza because that is not the place to be for Hamas leadership right now, but this just shows how the axis continues to work in close tandem, obviously under the supervision of Iran. And do you believe that Hezbollah will adhere to this ceasefire? Will they cease as well, seeing as they're not actually officially part of the hostage release deal? Indeed, they're not. One can guess from today until the end of history, but if we're looking at what is being said at least on the ground, Lebanese media newspaper Nidal Watan reporting this morning that Hezbollah will adhere to the ceasefire agreement as long as Israel does so too. We need to take this with a grain of salt because all reports in Lebanese media could be intended to kind of mislead the readers, but I think the fact that even this report is out in the open here, we're seeing it on the screen right now, I think raises the possibility that indeed Hezbollah will adhere to the ceasefire. I think as far as they're concerned, they would like to see a cessation of cross-border fire as well along the border, given their significant casualties. But of course, with this rapidly evolving war and multiple fronts, there's no guarantee that they will indeed adhere to the ceasefire. Now David, we discussed before how the IDF will benefit or suffer from this kind of pause in the fighting, and is there a chance that while they were in a certain momentum, stopping might harm them, might have soldiers kidnapped? There's always that danger, and I believe precautions are being considered and taken. Yes, there is a danger that the situation will be exploited, that Hamas fighters will infiltrate again to our ranks and try to kidnap soldiers. I think the army is in full alert. I don't think the soldiers will be gaining a lot of sleep. During these nights, they'll be in full alert and waiting for any such event. I don't think, I mean, I wouldn't put it behind the Hamas intention because we don't really trust what they say even when they agree to a ceasefire. But I don't think there's a real actual threat there. Now Hamas will use the four days to rearm most probably. They will probably try to extend the ceasefire, ask for another day in return for more hostages and then another day. How will this impact the IDF? Well, first of all, the more days pass and we have the full reserve army mobilized, it's difficult to maintain such tension, such alert preparedness. The country's economy is suffering. People are not going to work. So the longer it takes, the more of the burden on the military, on the families of the soldiers, on the Israeli economy. But I believe if we're talking about a few more days, and again, I think there was a clause in the deal that says that we can extend the deal up to 10 days. And then, again, our politicians assured us that they will resume fighting. And yes, we are aware of the fact that Hamas can play tricks on us and say we have five more kids hiding someplace. We need two days to go out and find them and bring them over. And it will have to be a very tough Israeli decision whether Israel agrees to extend this ceasefire beyond these 10 days. Well, first of all, we're talking about four days. I spoke earlier about the ability of the military to absorb the consequences of this ceasefire. Yes, the Hamas will try to regroup and equip itself and improve its hiding positions and move from place to place. We will do the same. We will also exploit these days to improve our positions to get better observation points. We can maneuver. We can't open fire, but we can maneuver. We can move troops. We can bring supplies. We can build things that were damaged. We can replace tanks. We can do many things during this ceasefire, and we will exploit it. Let's listen to Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant who said to the Cabinet in Tel Aviv that without the continuation of military pressure there won't be any chance to bring back the next groups of hostages. Let's take a listen. Without the continuation of military pressure, there won't be any chance to bring back the next groups of hostages that we want to bring back. The release of abductees, in my eyes, is first of all a value issue, a moral issue, an issue of commitment between the state, the government, and the citizen. Now David Netanyahu said Israel will continue the war after the hostage exchange. What could be the next steps of the operations? We have a lot of areas in the southern part of the Gaza Strip that have been bombarded and attacked mostly by the air, but not by ground forces. And eventually, if the intention is to destroy Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, then the military will move to the south with troops, with tanks, with the engineering corps that expose the tunnels and try to blow them up and neutralize the charges. So I believe that after the ceasefire, if the fighting will resume, you will see the IDF moving south. How do you see this forecline? Well, I mean, we don't really have to guess too much because according to Israeli leaders, Defense Minister Jov Galant, and also leaflets that the IDF itself has dropped over neighborhoods in the eastern part of Chanyunis, which is the main city in South Gaza. The next step is to go into southern Gaza. It will be a lot more challenging. It will be a lot more precise, at least according to the IDF. Why is it going to be more challenging? Because the population of South Gaza doubled itself since the start of the war, given that all the residents of the north moved down south. And also there's the criticism of Israel that they're calling on the residents of northern Gaza to go down south, so what do they expect? Obviously, the answer of the IDF to that is that there is a designated humanitarian area, and the western part of Chanyunis on the coast. That's where also all the humanitarian aid and supplies are going. That's where new field hospitals are being opened, so in Rafa, but also mainly in Al-Muassi. So if indeed the operation continues in full steam, full force, here we're seeing those leaflets right now on the screen. If it does continue, which is expected to continue, the IDF will expand its operations south of Wadi Gaza. The question is whether they will wait to do so until completing the operation in the north, not quite sure, perhaps actually the opposite will happen to try and show that the IDF is indeed operating in full steam once the ceasefire is completed. But obviously the option of extending the ceasefire and including new hostages, the limit is 99 hostages in addition to the 50. Once Israel reaches that, it will have to release all Palestinian female and minors who are detained inside Israel. So I mean, we can see that the operation in the south is almost uninhabitable. However, this does, when will this happen? It depends on the complete duration of the ceasefire. We have yet to see. Thank you very much, both of you, for your input. Ariel Oceran and David Shimoni, thank you. Kibbutz Beria is one of the southern Kibbutzim that was attacked by Hamas on October 7th. The images of its residents' bodies lying in the streets, the burnt and damaged houses speak for themselves. And among these images are the toys of children who were murdered or kidnapped in Togasa. These toys are now being shown in Tel Aviv in an exhibition organized by the movement Free Our Kids, along with Toys R Us. More in the following report by Esther Eden. On October 7th, Hamas terrorists kidnapped 29 residents of Kibbutz Beria, among them 11 children. These torn and burnt toys collected from the Kibbutz tell the stories in place of their owners. These toys are eyewitnesses to what children went through there, after fires, abuse, massacre, and that is what is left after these horrible atrocities. Those toys that were found say two things. Either the kid was rescued and didn't take it with him, or the child is not with us anymore, and the toy will never go back to its owner. Lilah, one of the Kibbutz Beria residents, recalls what happened there on the Shabbat of October 7th. I was in a shelter in Beria for 27 hours, without water, food, without any possibility to go out under ceaseless fire from rockets, RPGs, and small arms. Lilah survived the Hamas massacre, but her loved ones were taken hostage. For more than a month, she's had no information about them. We don't know anything about them. Nobody tells us anything. The Red Cross is not even trying to reach them. Seems like it's not interesting at all to the United Nations and other organizations that should take care of them. One of the people Lilah is waiting for, nine-year-old Emily Hand, was first reported killed and is now believed to be held hostage in Gaza. I think one of the friends who was rescued from the Kibbutz saw somebody's body and thought that it's her, and told them about that. But later on there were testimonies about her walking with Raya and Hila, taken by terrorists in direction of Gaza Strip. The lives of Israelis today are full of uncertainty, as they don't even know whether their loved ones are alive or not. The only thing left to do is to speak up and make the world understand what happened on October 7th. It doesn't matter if you're a fan of Israel or not. It is only about being human and supporting humanity. We address each mother, each woman around the world, and ask how they can continue their routine. When they know about ten-month-old baby taken hostage and being in Hamas captivity alone, we here, we cannot continue our routine. The world needs to understand that it is not possible to keep silent. The world needs to understand that it cannot continue its routine when there are children taken hostage. Now these are our kids, but next time it can be any kid around the world. It can be my kid. It can be your kid. It can be any kid abroad. The organization, Free Our Kids, is an race to reach ambassadors and international organizations. All the time, every single day, we are sending letters to the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations, so they will hear our cry. And after this event, we will also send the pictures. While Israeli officials are making an effort to bring the hostages back, they also remind the world about Israel's right to defend itself. Unfortunately, people don't realize what really happened. They try to forget it, and we can't forget, and we can't forgive. And we have all of the legitimate that we need to vanish Hamas. This terror organization needs to be out of this world, not only for Israel, also for the rest of the Free World. Residents of Kibbutz Beri were not the only ones who came to the exhibition. They were joined by neighbors from other southern Kibbutzim who survived the massacre. On that Saturday, I had bicycle training, and there was a heavy rocket barrage. We decided to cancel the class and go back home. On the way there, we ran into 15 terrorists lying on the road who opened fire at us. It felt like a car crash. The windows shattered. A tire exploded, and my ears were ringing. We turned around with the back of the car towards them. They ceased fire. My friend's father got out and shouted, Hey, soldiers, don't shoot at us. At first, we were sure that they were our soldiers. Itai and his team managed to escape and get first aid. In the meantime, his parents were in a shelter at home, knowing their son was wounded and not capable of helping him. The only thing they could do was hope for the best. We personally faced miracles on that Shabbat as Itai was not killed and was not kidnapped. But after we got these miracles, for us as residents of the area, it's important to bring hostages back. That is the first mission. The residents of southern communities live with the hope that they will soon see their kidnapped friends, relatives, and children. But in the meantime, all they have left of them are these mementos and memories. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates. Be sure to follow us on our website, I-24 News.tv, and across our social media platforms. I'm Sivan Raveave. Thank you for watching. Is in a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. I'm Sivan Raveave, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 47 of Israel's war with Hamas, the war that started when at least 1200 innocent Israeli civilians, including women, men, children, and the elderly, fell victim to a brutal massacre in southern Israel on October 7th. There are currently 236 hostages held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza, including about 40 children. The Israeli government has taken a crucial step towards bringing home those hostages held in Gaza. The government convened last night and approved the outline of the first stage to release at least 50 hostages, predominantly women and children, over the next four days. The hostage release deal with Hamas comes with conditions. In exchange for the release, first and foremost, Hamas will receive a four-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Israel will also release approximately 150 Palestinian prisoners, primarily women and minors. The agreement also includes the entry of food, medical aid, and fuel into the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has agreed to a six-hour daily suspension of flights over Gaza, allowing Hamas to locate hostages held by their operatives and separate factions. The first hostages are expected to be released on Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that despite the temporary pause to return the hostages, Israel is still at war and will continue until all war objectives are achieved, eliminating Hamas, returning all hostages, and ensuring Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Let's take a listen. Outside there is a lot of nonsense talk. As if after we ceasefire, for the release of the hostages, we will stop the war. So I would like to clarify, we are at war, and we will continue to fight, continue to fight until we reach all our goals. Tonight, we face a difficult decision, but it is the right decision. All the security factors fully support it. They clarified in their full professional assessment the security of our forces will be guaranteed during the days of ceasefire and that the intelligence effort will be maintained. Just moments ago, we heard sirens go off in Israel's southern, near Israel's southern border in those communities living there, and we go to our I-24 news correspondent, Pierre Klochendler, down south. Pierre, what's the situation on the ground? Well, the latest developments are this explosion that you can see behind me with the plumes of white smoke, gray smoke coming out of a certain area of Beth-Hannon, and it seems that it's the neutralizing of a tunnel because there were two explosions, one after the other, in the same area without the intervention of the air force. That could be the destruction of a terrorist structure. Now, just moments before that, there was a rocket alert where we are. There was no interception, neither explosions, so we don't exactly know what happened, but definitely no interception and no explosion. Now, the Army is going on and pounding the northern sector of the Gaza Strip because although it has full control over certain areas and the whole northern Gaza Strip has been cut off and encircled by the Israeli Army from the southern sector, the pounding goes on. The encirclement of the Jebaliah refugee camp, which hosted up until the war, 180,000 inhabitants, is encircled. There are targettings over Sherzad, which is on the northern western outskirts of the Jebaliah camp, and southeast of Jebaliah in Zretun, which is a neighborhood of Gaza City. The operation is going on for a fourth consecutive day. A ferocious battle has occurred there in the first two days and now the situation is not clear. There are raids, ground raids in the southern sector according to Palestinian reports in the Almorazi camp in the central sector of the Gaza Strip, not the location of the ground offensive. It was a raid, a nightly raid according to Palestinian reports and there are bombings of targets all over the southern Gaza Strip. Now, the Army is still pressing on Hamas and PIG targets until the ceasefires come to fruition and then trying to consolidate both defensive and aggressive positions of the IDF. Thank you, Pierre. We will continue to get updated with you down south. And joining us in studio now is our I-24 News Middle East correspondent Ariel Ozaran and Dr. David Shimoni, commander of Commanders for Israel Security. Thank you both for coming in. We are in face of a hostage release deal supposedly to begin tomorrow. I'd like to ask you, Dr. Shimoni, what has the IDF actually accomplished thus far and does this deal and this pause and ceasefire, does it jeopardize that? Well, the pause was not a part of the military plan. The military plan was to go ahead, full force with the limited speed because as you know, the IDF is not going very aggressively. It's going very cautiously because of civilians stood around, because of hostages stood around. But the pause was not part of the military plan. The question is, can the military gain some advantage from this pause? And the answer is yes. First of all, yesterday, the military and the intelligence community told the government, told the cabinet that they can deal with any consequence of this pause. We say, you know, the Hamas will take the opportunity to reinforce itself, to reorganize itself, but it's true also about the IDF. The IDF, if there's no fire, much easier to bring supplies to the troops, to exchange troops, to bring food, ammunition unharmed. We know that there will be a limit on reconnaissance flights, especially drones over the Gaza Strip, which is something that will disrupt some of the intelligence picture. But it doesn't seize fighters, jet fighters from flying high above Israeli territory and taking a look at what's going on there or above the sea and taking a look. So we're not losing all of the intelligence grip of what's going on. As far as intelligence goes, the release of 50 hostages will enable us to learn more about the condition of those who are remaining in prison or in the tunnels where they are. There's a lot of uncertainty. As you know, the Red Cross has not visited our hostages and those released will be able, hopefully, many of them are kids and maybe they're not very well informed, but they will enable us to learn more about people that we don't know if they're alive, if they're dead, if they were executed while in captivity. So generally, I say the military can... It wasn't our plan to have a pause in the fighting, but we can find the benefits of this pause, and the military assured the government, the cabinet, that once they get the order to resume fighting, I think they can do it with full force. So this might benefit the IDF as well? In a way, yes. Okay, let's take a look at our northern border, Israel's northern border. Joining us now is I-24 News correspondent Robert Swift. Robert, it appears that a four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas might also apply to the Lebanon border. Should we expect more Hezbollah strikes before the ceasefire? Yeah, I think it's probably a safe assumption that that will be the case. Now, just to update you, 10 minutes ago, there was yet another rocket siren sounding on the northern border, this one occurring in the far western end of Israel's northern border in the community of Rocha Nikra. This community has come under attack on a number of occasions from mortar fire, no confirmation yet of the weapon system used, but that's the situation there. With regards to the actual implications of the ceasefire here, now, yesterday, we saw a lot of activity, both Hezbollah and Israeli military. The fact that a ceasefire is coming into play in the near future could well mean that there's likely to be an uptick in attacks as both sides essentially look to get strikes before the ceasefire. We've seen that discussed with regards to Gaza and what's true there could equally be true here. Now, in the last few hours, there's been Lebanese media and social media reports referring to Israeli airstrikes, taking place in the western end of southern Lebanon and also one closer to us in the east, also taking place in southern Lebanon. This could be an indication of that sort of strikes going in before the ceasefire that I was just referring to, or this could just be continuing efforts by the Israeli military to hit Hezbollah and Hamas targets in southern Lebanon. We saw that yesterday and we've seen that in many other days during the war up here in the northern border. Robert Schwift on Israel's northern border, thank you very much. And in studio with us is our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Oceran. We're hearing Robert up in the north of Israel talking about the risks from Hezbollah and we know there's a meeting between top Hamas officials and Nasrallah and Beirut. And we're just hours before the Iranian foreign minister is expected to visit Lebanon as well. What does all of this mean? Well, before that I'll just give a quick update regarding the prisoner, the hostage deal. Saudi El-Khadath TV reporting that Israel has received the names of the first 10 hostages who are expected to be released tomorrow morning. That means that things are moving forward, things are indeed coming into fruition. I will note that in the different reports leading up to the deal or the announcement of the deal overnight, Qataris have said that raise the option that some of these hostages aren't necessarily alive, meaning that we know that there are already hostages that they have claimed Hamas and Tastay and some of Jihad have been killed. This deal could include those as well. So this is something that we need to prepare and prepare ourselves for. As for the northern border, look, close meetings between Hamas and Hezbollah since the start of the war, obviously leading up to the war. This shows that they're in close coordination, especially given the fact that Hamas would like to see a more intense support by Hezbollah regarding what's going on down south as far as Hezbollah is concerned. This is short of a full-scale war. Indeed, Hezbollah is suffering a lot of losses on the border following Israeli strikes. The presence of Josef Amir Abdelayyan, the Iranian Foreign Minister, this would be, I think, his third or even fourth visit to Beirut since the start of the war, and that shows that Iran is keeping close tabs on what's going on, not only regarding Hezbollah, but the fact that there's a top Hamas delegation present we see on screen now, the photo between Nasrallah on the right sitting across from him is Khalil al-Khiyyah, he's the deputy head of Hamas and Gaza, Osama Hamdan sitting next to him, two key Hamas officials. Obviously they're not in Gaza because that is not the place to be for Hamas leadership right now, but this just shows how the axis continues to work in close tandem, obviously under the supervision of Iran. And do you believe that Hezbollah will adhere to this ceasefire? Will they cease as well, seeing as they're not actually officially part of the hostage release deal? Indeed, they're not. One can guess from today until the end of history, but if we're looking at what is being said, at least on the ground, Lebanese media newspaper Nidal Watan reporting this morning that Hezbollah will adhere to the ceasefire agreement as long as Israel does so, too. We need to take this with a grain of salt because all reports in Lebanese media could be intended to kind of mislead the readers. But I think the fact that even this report is out in the open here, we're seeing it on the screen right now, I think raises the possibility that indeed Hezbollah will adhere to the ceasefire. I think as far as they're concerned, they would like to see a cessation of cross-border fire as well along the border, given their significant casualties. But of course, you know, with this rapidly evolving war and multiple fronts, there's no guarantee that they will indeed adhere to the ceasefire. Now, David, we discussed before how the IDF will benefit or suffer from this kind of pause in the fighting. And is there a chance that while they were in a certain momentum, stopping might harm them, might have soldiers kidnapped? There's always that danger, and I believe precautions are being considered and taken. Yes, there is a danger that the situation will be exploited, that Hamas fighters will infiltrate again to our ranks and try to kidnap soldiers. I think the army is in full alert. I don't think the soldiers will be gaining a lot of sleep. During these nights, they'll be in full alert and waiting for any such event. I wouldn't put it behind the Hamas intention because we don't really trust what they say even when they agree to a ceasefire, but I don't think there's a real actual threat there. Now, Hamas will use the four days to rearm most probably. They will probably try to extend the ceasefire, ask for another day in return for more hostages, and then another day, how will this impact the IDF? Well, first of all, the more days pass and we have the full reserve army mobilized, it's difficult to maintain such tension, such alert preparedness. The country's economy is suffering, people are not going to work. So, you know, the longer it takes, the more of the burden on the military, on the families of the soldiers, on the Israeli economy. But I believe if we're talking about a few more days, and again, I think there was a clause in the deal that says that we can extend the deal up to 10 days. So, and then, again, our politicians assured us that they will resume fighting. And yes, we are aware of the fact that Hamas can play tricks on us and say, we have five more kids hiding someplace, we need two days to go out and find them and bring them over, and we'll have to be a very tough Israeli decision where Israel agrees to extend this ceasefire beyond these 10 days. Well, first of all, we're talking about four days. I spoke earlier about the ability of the military to absorb the consequences of this ceasefire. Yes, the Hamas will try to regroup and equip itself and improve its hiding positions and move from place to place, but we will do the same. We will also exploit these days to improve our positions, to get better observation points. We can maneuver. We can't open fire, but we can maneuver. We can move troops. We can bring supplies. We can build things that were damaged. We can replace tanks. We can do many things during this ceasefire, and we will exploit it. Let's listen to Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant, who said to the Cabinet in Tel Aviv that without the continuation of military pressure, there won't be any chance to bring back the next groups of hostages. Let's take a listen. Without the continuation of military pressure, there won't be any chance to bring back the next groups of hostages that we want to bring back. The release of abductees in my eyes is first of all a value issue, a moral issue, an issue of commitment between the state, the government, and the citizen. Now David Netanyahu said Israel will continue the war after the hostage exchange. What could be the next steps of the operations? We have a lot of areas in the south, southern part of the Gaza Strip that have been bombarded and attacked mostly by the air, but not by ground forces. And eventually, if the intention is to destroy Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, then the military will move to the south with troops, with tanks, with the engineering corps that expose the tunnels and try to blow them up and neutralize the charges. So I believe that after the ceasefire, if the fighting will resume, you will see the IDF moving south. How do you see this forecline? Well, I mean, we don't really have to guess too much because according to Israeli leaders, Defense Minister Yav Galant, and also leaflets that the IDF itself has dropped over neighborhoods in the eastern part of Chanyunas, which is the main city in South Gaza. The next step is to go into southern Gaza. It will be a lot more challenging. It will be a lot more precise, at least according to the IDF. Why is it going to be more challenging? Because the population of South Gaza doubled itself since the start of the war, given that all the residents of the north moved down south. And also there's the criticism of Israel that they're calling on the residents of northern Gaza to go down south. So what do they expect? Obviously the answer of the IDF to that is that there is a designated humanitarian area in Muassi and the western part of Chanyunas on the coast. That's where also all the humanitarian aid and supplies are going. That's where new field hospitals are being opened also in Rafah, but also mainly in Al-Muassi. So if indeed the operation continues in full steam, full force, here we're seeing those leaflets right now on the screen. If it does continue, which is expected to continue, the IDF will expand its operations south of Wadi Gaza. The question is whether they will wait to do so until completing the operation in the north. Not quite sure, perhaps. Actually the opposite will happen to try and show that the IDF is indeed operating in full steam once the ceasefire is completed. But obviously the option of extending the ceasefire and including new hostages, the limit is 99 hostages in addition to the 50 once Israel reaches that, it will have to release all Palestinian female and minors who are detained inside Israel. So I mean we can see that the operation in the south is almost uninvitable. However, this does, when will this happen? It depends on the complete duration of the ceasefire. We have yet to see. Thank you very much, both of you, for your input, Ariel Oceran and David Shimon. Thank you. Kibbutz-Beri is one of the southern Kibbutzim that was attacked by Hamas on October 7th. The images of its residents' bodies lying in the streets, the burnt and damaged houses speak for themselves. And among these images are the toys of children who were murdered or kidnapped in Togasa. These toys are now being shown in Tel Aviv in an exhibition organized by the movement Free Our Kids, along with Toys R Us. More in the following report by Esther Eden. On October 7th, Hamas terrorists kidnapped 29 residents of Kibbutz-Beri. Among them, 11 children. These torn and burnt toys collected from the Kibbutz tell the stories in place of their owners. These toys are eyewitnesses to what children went through there. After fires, abuse, massacre, and that is what is left after these horrible atrocities. Those toys that were found say two things. Either the kid was rescued and didn't take it with him, or the child is not with us anymore and the toy will never go back to its owner. Lilah, one of the Kibbutz-Beri residents, recalls what happened there on the Shabbat of October 7th. I was in a shelter in Beri for 27 hours, without water, food, without any possibility to go out under ceaseless fire from rockets, RPGs and small arms. Lilah survived the Hamas massacre, but her loved ones were taken hostage. For more than a month, she's had no information about them. We don't know anything about them. Nobody tells us anything. The Red Cross is not even trying to reach them. Seems like it's not interesting at all to the United Nations and other organizations that should take care of them. One of the people Lilah is waiting for, nine-year-old Emily Hand, was first reported killed and is now believed to be held hostage in Gaza. I think one of the friends who was rescued from the Kibbutz saw somebody's body and thought that it's her and told them about that. But later on there were testimonies about her walking with Raya and Hila, taken by terrorists in direction of Gaza Strip. The lives of Israelis today are full of uncertainty, as they don't even know whether their loved ones are alive or not. The only thing left to do is to speak up and make the world understand what happened on October 7th. It doesn't matter if you're a fan of Israel or not. It is only about being human and supporting humanity. We address each mother, each woman around the world and ask how they can continue their routine. When they know about ten-month-old baby taken hostage and being in Hamas captivity alone, we here, we cannot continue our routine. The world needs to understand that it is not possible to keep silent. The world needs to understand that it cannot continue its routine when there are children taken hostage. Now these are our kids, but next time it can be any kid around the world. It can be my kid. It can be your kid. It can be any kid abroad. The organization Free Our Kids is an race to reach ambassadors and international organizations. All the time, every single day, we are sending letters to the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations, so they will hear our cry. And after this event, we will also send the pictures. While Israeli officials are making an effort to bring the hostages back, they also remind the world about Israel's right to defend itself. Unfortunately, people don't realize what really happened. They try to forget it, and we can't forget and we can't forgive. And we have all of the legitimate that we need to vanish Hamas. This terror organization needs to be out of this world, not only for Israel, also for the rest of the free world. Residents of Kibbutz Berri were not the only ones who came to the exhibition. They were joined by neighbors from other southern Kibbutzim who survived the massacre. On that Saturday, I had bicycle training, and there was a heavy rocket barrage. We decided to cancel the class and go back home. On the way there, we ran into 15 terrorists lying on the road who opened fire at us. It felt like a car crash. The windows shattered. A tire exploded, and my ears were ringing. We turned around with the back of the car towards them. They ceased fire. My friend's father got out and shouted, Hey, soldiers, don't shoot at us. At first, we were sure that they were our soldiers. Itai and his team managed to escape and get first aid. In the meantime, his parents were in a shelter at home, knowing their son was wounded and not capable of helping him. The only thing they could do was hope for the best. We personally faced miracles on that Shabbat as Itai was not killed and was not kidnapped. But after we got these miracles, for us as residents of the area, it's important to bring hostages back. That is the first mission. The residents of Southern communities live with the hope that they will soon see their kidnapped friends, relatives, and children. But in the meantime, all they have left of them are these mementos and memories. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest. From Israel, we'll be back at the top of the hour.