its own issues maybe all we need at the end of the day is the support of america and europe and we shouldn't even look elsewhere no it's essential the support of america is essential but ellie we should not burn bridges why should we burn bridges as you today this is a situation maybe 10 years from now the situation will be different let's not forget china is an important country we have big trade with china they build our metro here i mean we have things but we have to take into account when push comes to shove yeah we have only america even europe which is very sympathetic towards israel this day even europe we cannot count on europe you see america yes look at biden look at austin look at blinken absolutely and we will talk about it a bit later on in the broadcast mr postman there is also a gap between the leadership and the people even in europe because what we're seeing in recent days european capital streets is something to be addressed but we want to welcome now um noam mark from kibbutz reim joining us now speaking to us from the southern city of elate and alongside the norm um joining us as well um miss uh your name please elise pleasure to have you thank you both so very much for for joining us um with the lack of a of a better question how are you it's a hard question yes right holding on taking a moment at a time yeah we really cannot ask for anything more than that um um it's been a week a week a week since again we've opened this broadcast by saying the world is we've known it changed uh completely forever can you try in and and and share with us what you've been through this past week the past week first of all we're trying to hold on as a community to stay together all of us all the kibbutz are together now we stick in one one each other so you all work together to the southern city of of elate and you're just standing by each other yes a lot of hugging a lot of kissing i never knew that that i'm so huggy that's tough kibbutz nicks as we put it our our our hugging so well yes elise yes it's hard it's hard to think it's good to be together it's hard to think even ahead one day ahead and we don't know what will be tomorrow we don't know what's going to be in one week it's it's hard even to think one month ahead where will we be where will we go to where will the hard kids go to how do we get them back into some kind of routine and school where are their friends and it's very hard so we're trying to keep it together we're trying to keep the atmosphere positive and and and we talk and we talk and we talk a lot we talk a lot and we have and we cry and we so and make sure we eat and we drink right and we're together trying to be stronger you know i'm looking at the two of you and listening to what you're saying this is perhaps an opportunity to you know most of our of our audiences is is abroad to talk about how unique the kibbutz nicks are because this sense of community that you have perhaps no longer exist elsewhere in the world and the resilience you've been you've been underlining in recent days perhaps talked with us a bit about about the the strength the beauty of the kibbutz and and and its people the community is very strong but it's a civilian community it's a friends community it builds on happiness joy uh celebrate all our happiness and sometimes sadness together and it's not a military organization yeah and now we are in a different situation i think and i see and i feel that the community is very strong but even a strong community can be break if you don't take care of it so of course being together now and holding us together like yesterday we did what we call kabbalat shabbat and it means the entry of shabbat welcome to shabbat here and we did it together we've been there together for one another and you will stay together and yet perhaps it is time because part of being on the israeli side is saying the tough things as well at least nom are you do you feel that you're receiving enough support from the government from the state institutions how can we help from here how can our viewers help and we have the the support of the government right now right now it's an easy support it's our beautiful area beautiful kibbutz is a war zone and the the state took us as one group and put us in a big hotel and it's okay but this is not the answer for next days the next days it will be first of all to make to make to make sure or to express to everybody that the the area is safe you can't go back and how how a very big and strong woman that she is and i mean big not in size but in nature and she's really a center for me that in the next day in the next future she won't be staying in the bomb shelter in the mamad with a knife in her hand and her child waiting for somebody to enter this bomb shelter it will never happen again which means we must make a game the atmosphere a safe atmosphere that the world must know it wasn't a freedom attack it wasn't a soldiers attack it was ices and they behave like ices they butcher the rate they killed in the hands they didn't kill with bullets they killed with their hands they had the opportunity to do it with bullets they had the opportunity to behave like soldiers or against soldiers but we are a civilian community and they didn't behave like soldiers so this is not some musting they all the time they like to express themselves as i don't know how you call it an ideological movement freeing land or whatever this is not wasn't the case if there if there's any silver lining in the situation norm is that again as we've been discussing here in studio right before we turn to you all masks are off no excuses it is a clear cut what what the objectives are at least before we let you go um what what should the world know the world should know that we are strong the world should know that we will stay in our houses we'll go back to them and we'll build it again it it was a green garden it will become a game green garden with a joy and a smile and and uh and with life and with life with life with life this is the only answer to those vile murderous acts to live and to prosper and those flowers will bloom again at least norm we salute you and we hug you and we send you all the possible love and strength from here and we will keep tabs with you as you've said the first response to this is one phase but long term is another and we will stay in touch it is only a beginning of a long process but for the time being thank you for speaking to us and big big hugs from here thanks thanks a lot ambassador president i'm speechless yeah so many stories we've heard this so strong also after all what they went through went through look how strong they are and they want to rebuild they're already thinking about planting new seeds it's incredible incredible people we have incredible you know what let's let's let's perhaps do uh end this broadcast in uh i wouldn't say in a plifting tone because it's truly impossible but but what we've seen after a very challenging year to Israeli society what we've seen in recent days is an inherent part of this of this historic week that is engraved in all of our hearts alongside the pain the strength absolutely i mean you know somebody who was here during the last 10 months and does not know israel and does not know well jews could have thought that this is a society which is on the verge on the verge of civil war i mean you know this the feelings were so deep left and right and i mean you could have thought the country is going to to to fell apart yeah but no but this is the strength of the jewish people and has been during all his history resilience and unity when there is a danger and you have seen but in a in half an hour all this disappeared and i saw yesterday on tv on the Israeli tv yair golan you know aluf yair he general of the army yair golan one of the most heroic stories yes being embraced by orthodox jews you know he was very much on the left and they and they told and they said to him we love you we love you we would love you that's israel that's israel it's a pity heli it's a pity that it takes us a tragedy for these good feelings to come out for this feeling of brotherhood of being together of fighting together but this is israel always has been i mean you can see during our 75 Easter years we went from combat to combat from war to war and always at the moment when it was needed unity searched from within us from within us and this is very important and what i hope that when we this war will be over and hopefully when israel will have won the day that this feeling of unity continues we will not let us forget the horror and we will not let us forget the bright light that is shining we will not ambassador avipas now thank you very much for joining us on this broadcast this is it for now but um we will be back of course with more news bulletins throughout the day as we continue our rolling coverage all day long israel day eight of the war stay strong stay resilient thanks for watching over 1300 casualties and over 3000 injuries and the toll keeps climbing we bring you the testimonies from the front line from those who managed to survive in the most graphic brutal images so the whole world can see what hamas did follow us as israel battles a terror threat emanating from the south and the north join i-24 news for the real story of what's going on option is to enter the link that appears on the screen we wait for your response 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 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 welcome you're watching i-24 news we're coming to you live from televiv it's day eight of israel's war with gaza with hamas and it's exactly a week since thousands of israelis were murdered injured or kidnapped in a hamas onslaught in the south of the country as israel continues to identify and bury its dead the israeli air force is pounding gaza with airstrikes two senior hamas commanders are confirmed killed the commander who led last week's attack and the head of the group's aerial force the idf says hundreds of thousands of palestinian civilians are heeding warnings to move south despite the efforts of hamas to prevent them from doing so the egyptian media outlet mademasi reports that egypt is closing the rafa crossing with concrete barriers in the west bank security forces have arrested dozens of hamas supporters and israelis have been taking shelter this morning after a barrage of rockets were fired towards central israel no casualties were reported meanwhile in the north on the border with lebanon the idf has published footage of a drone strike on a terrorist cell which attempted to infiltrate israel it was destroyed three terrorists were killed in the strike close to the northern town of margalyot speaking from beirut today the iranian foreign minister says its proxies in the region including hezbollah are ready to respond to any action by israel and between 150 and 200 hostages most of them israelis but many other nationalities as well are being held in gaza the u.s president joe biden says washington is working frantically to release them the u.s is sending significant military aid to israel as well let's go to the northern border for the very latest our correspondent rob swift is there robson breaking news right now that's correct laura just about 10 minutes ago alarms went out on israeli security applications saying that an aircraft was identified crossing into israeli space in the community of gornot hagalil that is just that several dozen miles to the east of us and if this is confirmed as a penetration of israel's skies it would be the third instance of this occurring in the last 24 hours just in the last two minutes we've heard israeli jones as we've heard israeli jets in the skies overhead this is likely in response to this incident and there were two other incidents earlier in the last 24 hours with israel conducting retaliatory strikes in response to an incursion of three drones in the skies over hypha and another incident where where israel conducted a strike due to a penetration of its border in the eastern section of its north northern frontier due to a squad of three to four palestinian gunmen crossing the border into israel's territory so just to be clear rob the latest attempt at an infiltration has been thought is that right that is what we're hearing that's correct this is just just happening in the last few minutes yeah okay last few minutes what is the advice to the population in the area in instances like this warnings go out on israeli's applications that they have on their phones telling them to get into the bomb shelter that many of the residents in this northern part of the country have and to remain there until they're given the all-clear by the israeli authorities okay and uh tell us about the um the military presence in the north right now there is there's a massive military presence here uh two days ago the idf announced it was sending many of the reserve forces that had called up to this area to bolster the uh the the existing idf presence here in the time we've been here we've seen multiple checkpoints both police and army checkpoints and we've seen several locations which appear to us to be staging areas for israeli armor with multiple tanks parked at these positions ready to respond to where they are need to be sent if this situation here was to escalate this is due to the understood threat that hezbollah represents they are a massive organization both in infantry fighting capability they have a significant number of fighters that they can deploy but also in terms of the rocket arsenal they have um they're understood to have built up an arsenal of rockets and also missiles um which are in excess of many western armies capabilities in that area all right thank you rob rob swift there at the northern border danie ayalon is the former israeli ambassador to the united states he's uh with us now um so the uh focus um in the last hour or so is on the situation in the north um we've had we've got the iranian foreign minister in bay route right now um he said that hezbollah's entry into the war will be a huge earthquake for israel this is exactly what the united states um has warned against isn't it it has warned hezbollah not to get involved can we expect some kind of support from the americans at this stage oh absolutely laura and you're right you know if we look now at the original picture and we remember that just a week or so ago before the war started there was a summit if you will in bay route between the iranians between hezbollah and khamas together so we know it's all orchestrated but the mastermind is iran this is obvious whether they just pulled the trigger on the 7th of october or not it's it's beside the point they are the ones who are masterminding they are the ones that are supplying training and everything now from the iranians position of course they would like to have multiple israel facing multiple fronts if they had their way it wasn't just hamas in gaza in the south and not just hezbollah in the north in lebanon but also the palestinians the and they have hamas in the west bank also inciting israeli arabs in in in israel itself to turn against their neighbors in in the jews and in the northern border with the syria when they have the militia the iranian militias in syria and in iraq this is their plan now the thing is here that israel has its capabilities and also it has its allies first and foremost the united states which understand it they missed the let's say the hezbollah missed the opportunity the window of opportunity was slim head i mean god forbid had they were starting an onslaught the same time where hamas did october 7th we would have been in a much much much worse situation it would have taken us much more than it did in order to regroup but now they lost the opportunity so for hezbollah now you know when we are ready for them if they now attack well when you've got the the world's largest aircraft carrier sent by the united states in the eastern Mediterranean right now more military aid is on the way and can that be deployed oh absolutely absolutely and there is another point which should be understood you know after the abraham accord was achieved israel from the american perspective was the coordination with the military was moved from yukon the european command of the americans to sent com which is a central command based in the gulf so today there is a almost a seamless operation if needed between the idf and the and the american forces which is a a huge difference so of course the american group the um strike group in the Mediterranean which is basically now very close uh to the shores of of lebanon we and again god forbid we do not need american boots on the ground we are capable of defending ourselves but what they do in terms of the capabilities that they have with the sixth fleet with the uh the carrier that they have the gerald ford it's um it's an electronical warfare it's ballistic missiles defense you know there is this eegis which is something and it is also now it could be integrated and coordinated with israeli systems so this is really adding a great great defensive shield for israel which is a great deterrence now if hizballah now were to start and i don't think they will because they understand that they lost their opportunity because if they started now when we talk about these attempted infiltrations is this has bola or is this hamas well it's both because hamas couldn't be able to do it there is hamas lebanon of course the palestinians in lebanon but they they wouldn't be able to do it without the coordination and permit from hizballah and hizballah is doing it just as a matter of showing solidarity maybe of provoking to show to uh to have the record in the history that they didn't sit idle so it's more like um how should i say it sometimes symbol like a fig leaf so something that you know uh a symbol you're right but i don't think it will go beyond that because if they do we are ready let's talk about hamas then in a significant um uh victory for the idea they've killed uh not only the head of the hamas arian force they've also killed the hamas commando who actually led uh the uh brutal raid on southern israel a week ago yes and now see once israeli regroups you know they will work very methodically and it's very important to um to sound it especially to international audience that you have uh lora is that what israel does today is not out of revenge it's out of cell defense and the fact that we go and we will continue to go one by one after all the perpetrators and the leader of this isis like hamas is not just as a matter of course they deserve it because of what they did but mostly it's because of preventing and preempting their next attack so this is a cell defense and they all should be really put out okay danie uh we're going to go now to the uh southern border there uh with the border with gaza our jonathan regov is there jonathan two senior commanders taking out uh with israeli airstrikes yes true and in israel said it loud and clear and now all of the hamas leadership political wing military wing whatever wing the their targets and they will be eventually found and uh killed whoever you can kill from the air is is very nice but eventually if you want to catch all of them you will have to enter militarily and it will be and enter through the ground and it will be a difficult affair because uh the hamas leaders are very brave when it comes to putting the citizens of gaza in danger they're telling them don't move despite the fact that the idf has told them to move and and and they're putting the the gaza the gaza population in danger and they're very brave at doing that they're far less brave by appearing themselves they're they're stuck deep underground and you can rest assured where they are there is electricity there is water there is fuel there is anything they need to to be there for quite some time but israeli sending a message we're after you will get you and and it has begun and there was a limited ground operation into gaza last night wasn't there jonathan yes very limited we have to say a ground incursion a few tens of meters or hundreds of meters into gaza mainly to gather information that could help perhaps with the look for hostages and also to make sure that there are no no terror squads waiting inside the gaza territory to infiltrate into israel through the various holes that still exist in the the fence there was some some kind of an incursion yes is it the ground incursion far from it and uh what about signs that uh tens of thousands of palestinian civilians hundreds of thousands i should say the idf says are moving south in gaza heeding that warning from the idf yes many are moving south understanding that that a very strong response from the idf whether from the air or from the ground will eventually come khamas is trying to stop that to first psychologically telling khamas telling its own citizens that all this information is psychological warfare from israel and also actually putting roadblocks to try and prevent gaza for moving as i said they're very brave when it comes to their civilians life much less brave when it comes to their own lives all right jonathan thank you jonathan reggae is there um at the border with gaza well another video of one of the terrorists the hamas terrorists who was captured alive in southern israel on saturday has been released by the israeli security forces you can see for yourself now Admitting on camera what atrocities were committed a week ago. One of the many, many Israelis who have been affected by those atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists last week joins us now. Abby on, thank you for being with us. It's incredibly hard what you're going through. Can you tell us a bit about your situation? Tell us what happened. Yes, thank you for having me. Last Saturday it's unbelievable that it's a week ago already. We woke at 6.30 to sirens for the most part across the country. We have family all over Israel and when we came back from the bomb shelter we began checking in with the rest of our family. We started getting messages from our family in the south. They live on kibbutz near Oz, which is very, very close to the Gaza border. When the sirens go off, they stay in their shelter because of the proximity. And they began telling us that Hamas had infiltrated not only the border, but that they were in their kibbutz that they could hear them in the house turning everything upside down. They could hear gunfire and that they were afraid for their lives that that felt like a Holocaust for them. We lost contact with them around 11 or 12 in the morning. We believe maybe the army asked them to turn their phones off so that they wouldn't be points of identification. And we didn't hear anything from them. We haven't heard anything from the five of them. There are five. Carmela is 80. She's there with three of her grandchildren, 12 year old Noia who has special needs, 16 year old Sahar, 12 year old Eris, sorry, 13 year old Noia who has special needs and 16 year old Sahar. They are there with their father, Ofer who is 53. And on Sunday we got Hamas uploaded a video with Eris who is 12 in their hands in the hands of terrorists. My goodness. I'm so sorry. What are the authorities advising you? What advice are you getting? We're working very closely both with the government of the United States because Carmela is American and with the French government. As all five of them are French. And we are very, very grateful both to the US and to the French government for the help that they're giving us. We are doing everything we can to work with governmental authorities and with any third parties. Our main press right now is to get citizens, both of France, the United States and all other countries to pressure their governments, to pressure Hamas to get humanitarian aid in. It is against the Geneva Convention. It is a war crime to hold hostage elderly people and children, especially children with special needs. There are people there that are wounded and need their medicine. These are very, very dire, dire needs. And without releasing the hostages, it only becomes worse for the citizens of Gaza who also need humanitarian aid. How do you feel, Abby, when you hear these humanitarian groups decrying the situation for the civilians of Gaza, but you're not hearing any calls for the hostages to be released? I feel as a Jew who was born in America and lives in Israel, like we have said, never again, our whole lives and it is happening that we are experiencing a Holocaust in a program and a terror wrapped in one. And I believe as a terrorist organization, Hamas not only grains terror on the citizens of my country and my family, but they are holding their own citizens hostage and it is terror for all of us. Abby, you're incredibly strong. What is getting you through this? How do you keep going? I have an amazing husband and family and beyond that, the Jewish community globally and within Israel unfortunately knows how to come together in these moments and the amount of funds raised and gear flown in and food brought in support for our soldiers who are defending us is the thing that is giving me hope and I believe our only choice right now is hope. We have tried to erase this before and we are here. We will continue to be here. We are people who believe in peace, who believe that this is not the Israeli Palestinian issue, that this is an issue of terror. I lived in the United States on 9-11 and we stood then against ISIS and we stand now against Hamas. All right. Thank you very much, Abby, on and everyone in the country is praying for you and hoping for a good outcome to this nightmarish scenario that nobody should have to go through. Abby, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Danny, that's just, there are no words for heartbreaking. That is a 12-year-old child, a grandmother, somebody with special needs, completely mercilessly taken by Hamas terrorists. Well, it's beyond words.  So we know, you know, we know we have been beaten, but we always came back and this is the same situation now. We'll come back and we are coming back. And of course, it's not just Israelis. There are many foreign nationals being held among the hostages, which does mean that other governments are involved in, I think this is one of the worst hostage situations in history, in affecting multiple countries. I mean, will there be a tense at some kind of negotiation? Well, you're right. I think it's unprecedented in the scope, you know, so many people. But it's not just the scope in the terms of the number of hostages, but also who they are. It's the first time we see babies, 85-year-old ladies. It's just incredible. And yes, everybody, you know, governments are involved, whether this will be helpful or not, you know, with the Hamas, you never know. But it's very important to keep the pressure. And if now, anyone, and you mentioned it, that, you know, how do we feel when people are calling us, you know, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza? I mean, we don't want any harm for the people of Gaza, not at all. But when Hamas is in charge there, and before they talk about any humanitarian situation, the demand should be released to hostages before anything else. And of course, Hamas is trying to win the communications, the media war by not only making sure as many of its own civilians are killed as possible, but also kind of trying to play a psychological game with Israel that they have the hostages there as well. Yes. But I think they have overplayed their cards. You know, we remember Gilat Shalit. By the way, for Gilat Shalit, Israel paid dearly with 1,400 mass, you know, with murderers. By the way, the top guy that was released for Gilat Shalit, Yihai Sinwar, is the leader of Hamas now. Who is also the one organizing what we have seen? So I think we will change, we will change the rules of the games now, whereby we'll do everything to release the hostages, but not at the cost of our lives. Destroying Hamas, that's the number one goal. I think so. Well, the death toll in Gaza now stands at, according to Hamas, 2,215. And those figures are released. I stress by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, it is a figure that does not distinguish between terrorist and civilian deaths. It's important to bear that in mind. It is in the interest, of course, of Hamas to have a high civilian death toll, because Hamas wants to sway the international community into pressuring Israel into stopping its campaign to destroy Hamas. Well, one example of Hamas propaganda, they released, but then quickly deleted this video. It clearly shows a plastic doll being pulled from the rubble and passed off as a dead child. So they posted that video, and then they quickly deleted it when they realized what they had done, and that nobody would be fooled by that. And outrageously, enough real pictures of murdered and massacred babies on the Israeli side have been released. There is pressure from the United Nations, not from the United States. We saw that very strong statement of support from Lloyd Austin, the U.S. Defense Secretary here in Israel yesterday saying Hamas was, in fact, worse than ISIS. The UN, however, is a very different organization, and it is already trying to put the pressure on Israel to stop this campaign. Yeah, but at this point, Laura, they're irrelevant. As long as we have the United States on our side, the UN is irrelevant. And we know this is the most hypocritical and the most cynical body since its inception on the ruins of the old League of Nations before World War II. They have done nothing to prevent hunger, to prevent wars, and refugees all over the world. And we should not heed to anything they say, just focus on our friends and allies, first and foremost, the United States, but also the Western countries, which also are on our side, namely United Kingdom and France, which are also members of the Security Council. And they are the ones together supporting the United States can prevent any unwanted step against Israel. And just a reminder before we go of the top latest developments, the IDF says that two senior Hamas commanders have been killed in targeted strikes. That includes the commander who led the brutal onslaught on the southern communities of Israel a week ago today. The IDF also says that the latest drone infiltration alert in the north was a false alarm important to point out. The IDF has already destroyed another attempt at infiltration, three terrorists killed, as Danny points out, Hamas is and Hezbollah trying to show in a limited way solidarity with what's going on in Gaza. You've got the Iranian foreign minister of course in Beirut right now as well saying that his proxies are ready to join the fight. The United States yesterday, the Defense Secretary here in a strong message said to those forces, one word, don't. We'll keep you updated here on I-24 News with all the very latest do stay with us. 1300 casualties and over 3000 injuries and the toll keeps climbing. The testimony is from the front line from those who managed to survive in the most graphic brutal images so the whole world can see what Hamas did. Follow us as Israel battles a terror threat emanating from the south and the north. Join I-24 News for the real story of what's going on. Because we go subsea and we utilize the hydrostatic pressure, the weight or the water above your head, we're able to save energy. Made for me, a unique concept in Israel, custom made men's fashion to your measurements. Made for me, designer of all your events, schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il. Made for me, official dresser of I-24 News. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome you're watching I-24 News. We're coming to you live from Tel Aviv. It's day eight of Israel's war with Gaza with Hamas and it's exactly a week since thousands of Israelis were murdered, injured or kidnapped in a Hamas onslaught in the south of the country. As Israel continues to identify and bury its dead, the Israeli Air Force is pounding Gaza with airstrikes. Two senior Hamas commanders are confirmed killed. The commander who led last week's attack and the head of the group's aerial force. The IDF says hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are heeding warnings to move south despite the efforts of Hamas to prevent them from doing so. The Egyptian media outlet Madin Masil reports that Egypt is closing the Rafa crossing with concrete barriers. In the West Bank, security forces have arrested dozens of Hamas supporters and Israelis have been taking shelter this morning after a barrage of rockets were fired towards central Israel. No casualties were reported. Meanwhile, in the north on the border with Lebanon, the IDF has published footage of a drone strike on a terrorist cell which attempted to infiltrate Israel. It was destroyed three terrorists were killed in the strike close to the northern town of Margaliot. Speaking from Beirut today, the Iranian foreign minister says its proxies in the region, including Hezbollah, are ready to respond to any action by Israel. And between 150 and 200 hostages, most of them Israelis, but many other nationalities as well, are being held in Gaza. The U.S. President Joe Biden says Washington is working frantically to release them. The U.S. is sending significant military aid to Israel as well. Let's go to the northern border for the very latest correspondent. Rob Swift is there. Rob, some breaking news right now. That's correct, Laura. Just about 10 minutes ago, alarms went out on Israeli security applications saying that an aircraft was identified crossing into Israeli space in the community of Gornot Hagalil. That is just several dozen miles to the east of us. If this is confirmed as a penetration of Israel's skies, it would be the third instance of this occurring in the last 24 hours. Just in the last two minutes, we've heard Israeli jets in the skies overhead. This is likely in response to this incident. And there were two other incidents earlier in the last 24 hours with Israel conducting retaliatory strikes in response to an incursion of three drones in the skies over Haifa and another incident where Israel conducted a strike due to a penetration of its border in the eastern section of its northern frontier, due to a squad of three to four Palestinian government crossing the border into Israel's territory. So just to be clear, Rob, the latest attempt at an infiltration has been sorted. Is that right? That is what we're hearing. That's correct. This is just happening in the last few minutes. Yeah. Okay. Last few minutes. What is the advice to the population in the area? In instances like this, warnings go out on Israeli applications that they have on their phones, telling them to get into the bomb shelter that many of the residents in this northern part of the country have and to remain there until they're given the all-clear by the Israeli authorities. Okay. And tell us about the military presence in the north right now. There's a massive military presence here. Two days ago, the IDF announced it was sending many of the reserve forces that had called up to this area to bolster the existing IDF presence here. In the time we've been here, we've seen multiple checkpoints, both police and army checkpoints, and we've seen several locations which appear to us to be staging areas for Israeli armor with multiple tanks parked at these positions ready to respond to where they need to be sent if this situation here was to escalate. This is due to the understood threat that Hezbollah represents. They are a massive organization, both in infantry fighting capability. They have a significant number of fighters that they can deploy, but also in terms of the rocket arsenal they have. They're understood to have built up an arsenal of rockets and also missiles which are in excess of many Western armies' capabilities in that area. All right. Thank you, Rob. Rob Swift there at the northern border. Danny Ayalan is the former Israeli ambassador to the United States. He's with us now. So the focus in the last hour or so is on the situation in the north. We've got the Iranian foreign minister in Beirut right now. He said that Hezbollah's entry into the war will be a huge earthquake for Israel. This is exactly what the United States has warned against, isn't it? It has warned Hezbollah not to get involved. Can we expect some kind of support from the Americans at this stage? Oh, absolutely, Laura. And you're right. If we look now at the original picture, and we remembered it just a week or so ago before the war started, there was a summit, if you will, in Beirut between the Iranians, between Hezbollah and Hamas together. So we know it's all orchestrated, but the mastermind is Iran. This is obvious. Whether they just pulled the trigger on the 7th of October or not, it's beside the point. They are the ones who are masterminding. They are the ones that are supplying, training and everything now. From the Iranians' position, of course, they would like to have multiple, Israel facing multiple fronts. If they had their way, it wasn't just Hamas in Gaza in the south and not just Hezbollah in the north in Lebanon, but also the Palestinians, and they have Hamas in the West Bank, also inciting Israeli Arabs in Israel itself to turn against their neighbors in the Jews, and in the northern border with Syria when they have the militia, the Iranian militias in Syria and in Iraq. This is their plan. Now, the thing is here that Israel has its capabilities and also it has its allies, first and foremost, the United States, which understand it. They missed the, let's say, the Hezbollah, missed the opportunity. The window of opportunity was slim. Head, I mean, God forbid, they were starting an onslaught the same time where Hamas did. October 7th, we would have been in a much, much, much worse situation. It would have taken us much more than it did in order to regroup. But now they lost the opportunity. So for Hezbollah now, when we are ready for them, if they now attack... Well, when you've got the world's largest aircraft carrier sent by the United States in the Eastern Mediterranean right now, more military aid is on the way. Can that be deployed? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And there is another point which should be understood. After the Abraham Accord was achieved, Israel, from the American perspective, was the coordination with the military, was moved from Yukon, the European command of the Americans, to SENTCOM, which is a central command based in the Gulf. So today, there is almost a seamless operation, if needed, between the IDF and the American forces, which is a huge difference. So of course, the American group, the strike group in the Mediterranean, which is basically now very close to the shores of Lebanon, we... And again, God forbid, we do not need American boots on the ground. We are capable of defending ourselves. But what they do in terms of the capabilities that they have with the Sixth Fleet, with the carrier that they have, the Gerald Ford, it's it's an electronic warfare. It's ballistic missiles defense. There is this Aegis, which is something. And it is also now... It could be integrated and coordinated with Israeli systems. So this is really adding a great, great defensive shield for Israel, which is a great deterrence. Now, if Hezbollah now were to start, and I don't think they will, because they understand that they lost their opportunity, because if they started now... When we talk about these attempted infiltrations, is this Hezbollah or is this Hamas? Well, it's both, because Hamas couldn't be able to do it. There is Hamas Lebanon, of course, the Palestinians in Lebanon, but they wouldn't be able to do it without the coordination and permit from Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is doing it just as a matter of showing solidarity, maybe of provoking to show, to have the record in the history that they didn't sit idle. So it's more like, how should I say it? It's sometimes like a fig leaf. So something that, you know, is simple. You're right. But I don't think it will go beyond that, because if they do, we are ready. Let's talk about Hamas then in a significant victory for the IDF. They've killed not only the head of the Hamas area, but they've also killed the Hamas commander who actually led the brutal raid on southern Israel a week ago. Yes. And now, see, once Israel regroups, you know, they will work very methodically. And it's very important to sound it, especially to international audience that you have, Laura, is that what Israel does today is not out of revenge. It's out of self-defense. And the fact that we go and we will continue to go one by one after all the perpetrators and the leader of this ISIS-like Hamas is not just, as a matter of course, they deserve it because of what they did, but mostly it's because of preventing and preempting their next attack. So this is a self-defense. And they all should be really put out. Okay, Danny, we're going to go now to the southern border there with the border with Gaza. Our Jonathan Regev is there. Jonathan, two senior commanders taking out with Israeli airstrikes. Yes, true. And Israel said it loud and clear. And now all of the Hamas leadership, political wing, military wing, whatever wing, their targets, and they will be eventually found and killed, whoever you can kill from the air is very nice. But eventually, if you want to catch all of them, you will have to enter militarily and it will be enter through the ground. And it will be a difficult affair because the Hamas leaders are very brave when it comes to putting the citizens of Gaza in danger. They're telling them don't move, despite the fact that the IDF has told them to move. And they're putting the Gazans, the Gazan population in danger. They're very brave at doing that. They're far less brave by appearing themselves. They're stuck deep underground. And you can rest assured where they are. There is electricity. There is water. There is fuel. There is anything they need to be there for quite some time. But Israel is sending a message. We're after you. We'll get you. And it has begun. And there was a limited ground operation into Gaza last night, wasn't there, Jonathan? Yes, very limited. We have to say a ground incursion, a few tens of meters or hundreds of meters into Gaza, mainly to gather information that could help perhaps with the look for hostages and also to make sure that there are no terror squads waiting inside the Gazan territory to infiltrate into Israel through the various holes that still exist in the fence. There was some kind of incursion. Yes, is it the ground incursion far from it? And what about signs that tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, hundreds of thousands, I should say, the IDF says, are moving south in Gaza, heeding that warning from the IDF? Yes, many are moving south, understanding that a very strong response from the IDF, whether from the air or from the ground, will eventually come. Hamas is trying to stop that to first psychologically telling Hamas, telling its own citizens that all this information is psychological warfare from Israel and also actually putting roadblocks to try and prevent Gazans from moving. As I said, they're very brave when it comes to their civilians' life, much less brave when it comes to their own lives. All right, Jonathan, thank you. Jonathan Regev there at the border with Gaza. Well, another video of one of the terrorists, the Hamas terrorists, who was captured alive in southern Israel on Saturday, has been released by the Israeli security forces. You can see for yourself now. Admitting on camera what atrocities were committed a week ago, well, one of the many, many Israelis who have been affected by those atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists last week joins us now. Abi On, thank you for being with us. It's incredibly hard what you're going through. Can you tell us a bit about your situation? Tell us what happened. Yes, thank you for having me. Last Saturday, it's unbelievable that it's a week ago already. We woke at 6.30 to sirens for the most part across the country. We have family all over Israel. And when we came back from the bomb shelter, we began checking in with the rest of our family. We started getting messages from our family in the south. They live on Kibbutz near Oz, which is very, very close to the Gaza border. When the sirens go off, they stay in their shelter because of the proximity. And they began telling us that Hamas had infiltrated not only the border, but that they were in their Kibbutz, that they could hear them in the house turning everything upside down. They could hear gunfire and that they were afraid for their lives that felt like a Holocaust for them. We lost contact with them around 11 or 12 in the morning. We believe maybe the army asked them to turn their phones off so that they wouldn't be points of identification. And we didn't hear anything from them. We haven't heard anything from the five of them. There are five. Carmela is 80. She's there with three of her grandchildren, 12-year-old Noia, who has special needs, 16-year-old Sahar, 12-year-old Eris, sorry, 13-year-old Noia, who has special needs, and 16-year-old Sahar. They are there with their father, Ofir, who is 53. And on Sunday, we got Hamas uploaded a video with Eris, who is 12, in their hands, in the hands of terrorists. My goodness. I'm so sorry. What are the authorities advising you? What advice are you getting? We're working very closely, both with the government of the United States because Carmela is American and with the French government as all five of them are French. And we are very, very grateful both to the U.S. and to the French government for the help that they're giving us. We are doing everything we can to work with governmental authorities and with any third parties. Our main press right now is to get citizens, both of France, the United States and all other countries, to pressure their governments, to pressure Hamas, to get humanitarian aid in. It is against the Geneva Convention. It is a war crime to hold hostage elderly people and children, especially children with special needs. There are people there that are wounded and need their medicine. These are very, very dire needs. And without releasing the hostages, it only becomes worse for the citizens of Gaza who also need humanitarian aid. How do you feel, Abby, when you hear these humanitarian groups decrying the situation for the civilians of Gaza, but you're not hearing any calls for the hostages to be released? I feel as a Jew who was born in America and lives in Israel, like we have said, never again our whole lives and it is happening. That we are experiencing a Holocaust and a pogrom and a terror wrapped in one. And I believe as a terrorist organization, Hamas not only grains terror on the citizens of my country and my family, but they are holding their own citizens hostage and it is terror for all of us. Abby, you're incredibly strong. What is getting you through this? How do you keep going? I have an amazing husband and family and beyond that, the Jewish community globally and within Israel unfortunately knows how to come together in these moments. And the amount of funds raised and gear flown in and food brought in support for our soldiers who are defending us is the thing that is giving me hope. And I believe our only choice right now is hope. We have tried to erase this before and we are here. We will continue to be here. We are people who believe in peace, who believe that this is not the Israeli Palestinian issue, that this is an issue of terror. I lived in the United States on 9-11 and we stood then against ISIS and we stand now against Hamas. All right. Thank you very much. Abby, on and everyone in the country is praying for you and hoping for a good outcome to this nightmarish scenarios that nobody should have to go through. Abby, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Danny, there are no words for heartbreaking that is a 12-year-old child, a grandmother, somebody with special needs, completely mercilessly taken by Hamas terrorists. Well, it's beyond words.  And I think this is really the Jewish spirit whereby, you know, and again, we have been seared, unfortunately, by 2,000 years and more of trials and tribulations, you know, culminated with the Holocaust just less than 80 years ago. So we know, you know, we know, we have been beaten but we always came back. And this is the same situation now. We'll come back and we are coming back. And of course, it's not just Israelis. There are many foreign nationals being held among the hostages, which does mean that other governments are involved in, I think this is one of the worst hostage situations in history, in affecting multiple countries. I mean, will there be a tense at some kind of negotiation? Well, you're right. I think it's unprecedented in the scope, you know, so many people. But it's not just the scope in the terms of the number of hostages, but also who they are. It's the first time we see babies, 85-year-old ladies. It's just incredible. And yes, everybody, you know, governments are involved. Whether this will be helpful or not, you know, with the Hamas, you never know. But it is very important to keep the pressure. And if now, anyone, and you mentioned it, that, you know, how do we feel when people are calling us, you know, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza? I mean, we don't want any harm for the people of Gaza, not at all. But when Hamas is in charge there, and before they talk about any humanitarian situation, the demand should be released to hostages before anything else. And of course, Hamas is trying to win the communications, the media war by not only making sure as many of its own civilians are killed as possible, but also kind of trying to play a psychological game with Israel that they have the hostages there as well. Yes. But I think they have overplayed their cards. You know, we remember Gilat Shalit. By the way, for Gilat Shalit, Israel paid dearly with 1,400 mass, you know, with murders. By the way, the top guy that was released for Gilat Shalit, Yahe Sinwar, is the leader of Hamas now. Who is also the one organizing what we have seen? So I think we will change. We will change the rules of the games now, whereby we'll do everything to release the hostages, but not at the cost of our lives. Destroy Hamas. That's the number one goal. I think so. I think so, yeah. Well, the death toll in Gaza now stands at, according to Hamas, 2,215. And those figures are released. I stress by the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry, it is a figure that does not distinguish between terrorist and civilian deaths. It's important to bear that in mind. It is in the interest, of course, of Hamas to have a high civilian death toll, because Hamas wants to sway the international community into pressuring Israel, into stopping its campaign to destroy Hamas. Well, one example of Hamas propaganda they released, but then quickly deleted this video. It clearly shows a plastic doll being pulled from the rubble and passed off as a dead child. So they posted that video and then they quickly deleted it when they realized what they had done and that nobody would be fooled by that. And outrageously enough, real pictures of murdered and massacred babies on the Israeli side have been released. There is pressure from the United Nations, not from the United States. We saw that very strong statement of support from Lloyd Austin, the U.S. Defense Secretary here in Israel yesterday, saying Hamas was in fact worse than ISIS. The UN, however, is a very different organization and it is already trying to put the pressure on Israel to stop this campaign. Yeah, but at this point, Laura, they're irrelevant. As long as we have the United States on our side, the UN is irrelevant. And we know this is the most hypocritical and the most cynical body since its inception on the ruins of the old League of Nations before World War II. They have done nothing to prevent hunger, to prevent wars and refugees all over the world. And we should not heed to anything they say, just focus on our friends and allies, first and foremost, the United States, but also the Western countries, which also are on our side, namely United Kingdom and France, which are also members of the Security Council. And they are the ones together supporting the United States can prevent any unwanted step against Israel. And just a reminder before we go of the top latest developments, the IDF says that two senior Hamas commanders have been killed in targeted strikes. That includes the commander who led the brutal onslaught on the southern communities of Israel a week ago today. The IDF also says that the latest drone infiltration alert in the north was a false alarm, important to point out. The IDF has already destroyed another attempted infiltration, three terrorists killed. As Danny points out, Hamas is and Hezbollah are trying to show in a limited way solidarity with what's going on in Gaza. You've got the Iranian Foreign Minister, of course, in Beirut right now as well, saying that his proxies are ready to join the fight. The United States yesterday, the Defence Secretary here in a strong message, said to those forces, one word, don't. We'll keep you updated here on I-24 News with all the very latest. Do you stay with us? Follow us as Israel battles a terror threat emanating from the south and the north. Join I-24 News for the real story of what's going on. So you're watching I-24 News and we're coming to you live from Tel Aviv. It is day eight of Israel's war with Hamas and it's exactly a week since thousands of Israelis were murdered, injured or kidnapped in a terrorist onslaught in the south of the country. As Israel continues to identify and bury its dead, the IAF is pounding Gaza with air strikes and the IAF has now confirmed that two senior Hamas commanders have been killed, the head of the group's aerial force and the commander who plotted last week's massacre. The IAF says that hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians are heeding warnings to move south despite the efforts of Hamas to prevent them from leaving. The Egyptian media outlet Madin Massar is reporting that Egypt is closing the Rafah crossing with concrete barriers. At the same time senior Egyptian officials say that Egypt, Israel and the United States have agreed to allow foreigners who live in Gaza to pass through that same crossing. While in the West Bank security forces have arrested 280 Palestinians including some 120 Hamas supporters and Israelis have been taking shelter today after a barrage of rockets were fired at central Israel no casualties were reported. Up in the north on the border with Lebanon the IDF has published footage of a drone strike on a terrorist cell which attempted to infiltrate Israel. Three terrorists were killed in the strike close to the northern town of Magaliot speaking from Beirut. The Iranian Foreign Minister says its proxies in the region including Hezbollah are ready to respond to any action by Israel. The United States largest aircraft carrier is in the region. The United States has warned Hezbollah not to get involved between 150 and 200 hostages. Most of them Israelis but many other nationalities as well are being held in Gaza. Well that is where we are this hour with the latest updates. We can go now to the border with Gaza our correspondent Jonathan Regev is there. Jonathan the two senior Hamas commanders now killed that's been confirmed by the IDF. Yes and that is part of the IDF policy now everyone related to Hamas must die loud and clear. There's no political wing there's no military wing there's no any other wing. They're all on the wanted list and they all should die from top to bottom and anyone who's found will be killed. The reason why we're not seeing this masses of leaders killed is simply because these the Hamas leaders are very brave when it comes to putting the Gaza residents in danger they do not allow them to be evicted to evict themselves further south for example they put them in danger they shoot from civilian locations for that the very brave for themselves they're not as brave that is why they're hiding deep deep down in tunnels under Gaza they you can rest rest assured they have fuel they have water they have electricity they have everything needed but if they pop once they pop out they will die as happened to these two senior officials. And stay with me Jonathan but I just want to point out there have been rockets sirens in Bershava in the south also in Ashkelon in the south and also in Laquia I believe as well so sirens going off across the south meanwhile Jonathan inside Gaza the IDF says hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians are listening to those warnings from the IDF and they are heading south towards the Rafa crossing. Yes they are heading south because the area of the northern Gaza Strip will will become probably a war site very soon and they will be safe to leave the IDF has instructed those residents to go through two safe passages from 10 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon and many people are listening to those calls others are are are still staying in Gaza may be listening to the calls by Hamas not to head out as mentioned Hamas is very brave when it comes to sacrifice lives of others absolutely a deal has been reached Jonathan to allow foreigners to leave Gaza a deal negotiated by the United States Israel and Egypt Qatar reportedly also involved do you have any information on that and not not much apart from that headline we're talking we're speaking of Gazans with foreign nationalities there are a few hundreds maybe a few thousands of those with European nationalities they will probably be allowed to cross into Egypt through the Rafa crossing Egypt does not want any other Gazan crossing in and they're not interested in these people as well apart from those with foreign nationalities the Gazans will stay there hostage to Hamas as well all right Jonathan thank you Jonathan Regev there well with me in the studio Dr. David Shimoni is from Commanders for Israel security thank you very much for being with us at a very busy time so a significant strike against Hamas two senior commanders can feel confirmed dead how does this affect the terrorist groups operations it's a complicated question because it affects the morale of the Hamas troops it affects the chain of command and control but we saw that on Saturday's attack there were small units operating independently and these small units I believe are capable of still striking and still firing rockets even in the absence of these senior commanders but people look for leadership at times of pressure you can say the same thing about the citizens of Israel and if the leadership is hit injured killed then this will affect the morale of the of the fighting Hamas troops and they are under significant pressure give us an idea of the scale of the IAF air strikes or Gaza well as far as we know the major strikes for five days now six days in a row I don't know if our audience has ever been under attack by aircraft it's terrible it's frightening its buildings are exploding the roads are blocked many many people are killed and injured it has a very very big psychological effect and of course also damaging infrastructure and the ability of the Hamas to control what's going on I'd like to stress that we're waging a war against the military capabilities of Hamas not against the civilians of Gaza who are suffering who are being victims of the of the same regime of Hamas that overtook them in 2006 we're trying to to restrict our operations to military targets the idea and the what we hear from the chief of staff and from the prime minister and from the minister of defense is that we are trying to dismantle the Hamas militarily to disintegrate their their forces and unfortunately there's a huge civilian population in the city of Gaza in the Gaza Strip who are victims as well as just like we are yeah well that's there that's part of their strategy Hamas isn't it that's well known they try and get as many civilians killed as possible let's talk about the risk inside Israel and in the Palestinian territories 280 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank in the last few days what is the risk of of an outburst of violence terrorist attacks that kind of thing in Israel and in the territories the risk is enormous first of all we have to remember that on saturday morning when the Hamas attack began most of the Israeli regular fighting forces were in the West Bank were not in the Gaza Strip near the Gaza Strip and they were absent and the reason that so many troops were in the West Bank is that the West Bank is very very explosive and naturally if they decide also if Israeli settlers decide to ignite the West Bank then we will need many many troops and forces and efforts and and attention of our commanders to the West Bank and as we know there are extremists in the West Bank who are trying to to ignite the situation there I hope it will not explode I think if we're reporting that over 200 people were arrested nearly 300 okay nearly 300 were arrested that should be an attempt to calm down the situation there and to to avoid escalation by by the Palestinian population I hope same measures are taken also against extremist Israeli settlers in that area a lot of comparisons are being made with what happened last saturday and the holocaust or pogroms it's important though isn't it to remind people that Israel has a very strong army israel is a country it also has the unwavering support of the world's strongest military might I think the the evidence we get from what happened on saturday the testimonies of settlers of israeli kibbutzniks people from the road are really reminding us of what we heard from the holocaust people helpless people screaming for help and nobody is there nobody is there especially the state of israel because in the holocaust we didn't have a state we didn't have an army we didn't have a government and nobody could protect the jews and it's another subject about the intervention of the world in the holocaust but in this case the state of israel was not there for these people for many many hours and there's cause for many many people to be very very angry furious well actually we've got protests going on outside the defense ministry right now as some of the people who have family members missing or being held hostage in Gaza they want Benjamin Netanyahu to step down right now okay that's I think I think the main challenge for everybody now is to distinguish between our emotions and our head because even our leaders claiming revenge and we're going to destroy etc it's talking from from an emotional basis and I think when we are at war as an army as a state we have to think rationally so yes I think many people will demand the prime minister to be accountable to to what happened and of course I believe he is accountable he's in charge of the whole country and of the layout of the troops and the the way the the villages and the kibbutz team were prepared and the where the army was was dispatched before this so of course there's a lot of criticism that will be dealt with after hammers has been I believe it should be dealt after he is and also that that's the strong statements from the the Israeli government which is reassuring to a certain extent for the Israeli population is also playing into the media game in the western media an example the bbc the british state broadcaster refusing to call harm us terrorists so it's it's important all of the messaging that's coming out as well isn't it very much very much again we're we're talking about politics about grand politics and nobody can if convince the bbc that what happened on saturday is terrorism then there's something wrong not with the communications but with the way the bbc comprehend what's happening some news just in a family of hostages say they've transferred medical information and medicine to the red cross because some of the people being held do have medical requirements I think that's that's very important again we're talking about a I think citizens who are organizing this effort it's civilians who are establishing headquarters with the information with medical information with diplomatic effort with legal advisers it's not only the government it's mainly civilians who are trying to take take care of this crisis okay okay David Shimani thank you very much stay with us dr. Shimani there well as the Israeli airstrikes continue in Gaza Israel has warned guards and civilians to move south to avoid being caught up in a significant military escalation the IDF says we will attack these areas meaning northern Gaza with great force as the united nations however is warning that such an evacuation will lead to a humanitarian crisis listen since last night the secretary general and his team have been working the phones he's been in constant contact with Israeli authorities urging them to revert a humanitarian catastrophe team leaders of the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and the department of safety and security in Gaza were informed by the Israeli liaison officers that the Israeli military in the entire population of God Gaza north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within 24 hours that was that was as of midnight local time last night this amounts to approximately 1.1 million people the same order applies to apply to all u.n. staff and those sheltered in u.n. facilities including schools health centers and clinics we continue we consider it is impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences and we strongly appeal for any such order to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into calamitous situation uh david shaman we had the u.n. there putting pressure on israel to stop its campaign in Gaza i can understand their pressure again we're talking about millions of or two million uh civilians innocent civilians they uh they elected hamas many years ago in democratic elections let's you know think about democracy um and and uh they're suffering and they're under bombardment and we know now that electricity has been disconnected uh water supplies are limited and uh yes that's that's all of us here in Israel are um facing the same challenges taking care about our children and our grandchildren and being scared of the bombs the same thing in Gaza and i think uh uh if if the Israeli government encourages the civilians to leave Gaza and go south they should provide uh facilities in the south with water with electricity with should make sure that it's available there Egypt or the international or anybody but uh because there's a lot of vocal support in the Arab world for the uh gardens right now we saw protest in Baghdad san are all around the world has that has that transformed into material support of any kind as far as i know no not not yet not yet okay stay with us david just some news just in um a 19 year old um Arab citizen of Israel uh Majed ibrahim he was 19 years old he has died from his injuries he was critically wounded when a rocket fired by Gaza uh landed in the town of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem earlier in the week just a reminder that uh Jews Arabs Christians um uh and uh all the different people who live in Israel are affected by the rocket fire which the rockets do not discriminate all right well let's uh head to the north of israel now because of course uh there is a concern that hezbollah uh is preparing to join the conflict despite a firm warning from the united states yesterday not to uh robert swift is up at the northern border with lebanon rob what have we got laura just over an hour ago there was a security event where there was concern that uh aircraft had penetrated israeli skies around the community community of gornott hagalil this however has been called off and it's understood that it was a false alarm um this is one of several false alarms that have occurred in recent days with the the biggest occurring two days ago when there was concern that as many as 15 to 20 uh drones may have penetrated israeli skies now these incidents were confirmed afterwards to be false alarms but they are not they're not the only incidents involving scares around drones in the last 24 hours there have been two confirmed cases where drones did penetrate israeli skies one was an incident around one o'clock last night where three drones did cross over the lebanese border and move into israeli airspace they were shot down by israeli air defenses over the israeli city of haifa and in another incident yesterday evening uh on the east of israeli's northern border there was another incident there where a drone crossed over into israeli skies so the idea is very much on alert for these instances these instances some false alarms occurring but being understandable with the security situation as heightened as it is currently right and the hezbollah leadership says it's ready to get involved in the conflict when the time is right for now it says it will respond to any actions by israel yes it has indeed it's been making similar statements similar tone all week long it also referred to uh indirectly to the us warships that were moving into areas saying that it would be undeterred by them essentially hezbollah has been continuing these skirmishes throughout the week uh people's question really is do they intend to do anything more skirmishes along the border the heavy presence of israeli military here they can handle that but the thing that people want to know is does hezbollah have bigger greater intentions than this does it really intend to enter the conflict or is it merely essentially trying to keep up appearances by continuing these skirmishes for the moment uh you know they haven't crossed that threshold uh but we wait to see if they do so remind us um what we're dealing with here rob in terms of the size of hezbollah in terms of the number of fighters the number of rockets that kind of thing sure so hezbollah are essentially an order of magnitude more dangerous to israel than chamas and we've all seen in the last week how much damage chamas can do uh hezbollah you know they have some reports say they have up to a hundred thousand fighters they have a rocket and a missile arsenal which is in which is larger than many western armies it's a weapon system that they understand can be extremely damaging to israel and so they've stocked up on it the last time they had a significant conflict with israel was in 2006 where you know the israeli communities throughout the whole of the north of israel really felt how damaging that uh that arsenal could be and bear in mind they have been re-equipping since that moment and technology particularly around the area of drones has massively increased since that time so they are very much not an enemy who should be underestimated all right robert thank you robert swift there at the northern border uh dr david shimoni is still with me from uh commanders for israel security just if you would react to what you just heard there i think again going back to uh saturday and the chamas the concept in israel was that the chamas is deterred and they will not initiate any oscillities and uh if if we maintain the same concept about the hezbollah i think we should be much more cautious about that uh we can inflict a lot of damage to hezbollah but they can they can paralyze israel they can paralyze israel for a week or two weeks by the huge amount of of missiles of rockets i think the major threat to israel now from the hezbollah is is double one is the precision guided missiles that they have which means they can hit israeli infrastructure uh air bases which hamas does not have hamas does not have them hamas uses what we call statistical weapons in other words if fire a lot and some of them hit hezbollah hezbollah is being equipped with a precision guided missiles they can hit uh with great precision the second danger is what we saw on saturday from uh from hamas hezbollah has a big a ground force called raduan red one force uh thousands of fighters very well equipped and trained whose mission is very similar to what we've seen on saturday to infiltrate israel by uh by land by sea by air and to take over bases and uh and settlements so there's a big threat over there the united states has warned them not to get involved we've got this the world's largest aircraft carrier just off the shores of israel more help is on the way um at what point would the americans get involved do you think i think uh the the president biden made it clear that israeli is protected by by america and the united states will not allow israeli to fall uh i think they their presence in the middle east is very good for us but in a way i also believe it's a way for the american government to control israel and to see that the decisions that are made by our leaders are rational are the right amount of force used so but i believe that the presence of a huge american carrier with tens of fighters and bombers is is a big big game changer if things escalate in the north um it's a week since the most terrible atrocities perpetrated against the jewish people since the holocaust lots of people are still reeling from that they're in shock they're trying to get their heads around what happened um you were talking about how comparisons with the holocaust have inevitably been made and how today the situation is different israel does have a state and it does have an army so when the state of israel was established there was a slogan never again it will not happen to us again and it did and it did in spite of our government and state and rules and and military uh and i think uh when the war is over the citizens of israel will demand answers how come it happened again because what we saw on saturday is really pictures that we saw or our parents saw and grandparents saw in the holocaust babies slaughtered uh women raped uh terrible cruelty and uh it happened to us with all our might and all our high tech and with all our industries it happened to us and it shouldn't have and we should ask ourselves what brought it to us and there will definitely be a lot of questions asked um once this war uh is won israel has no choice but to win it does it israel will win israel is a very strong country the people are very strong uh i i think uh i i believe you've been reporting about uh hundreds thousands of israelis coming in from overseas israelis who are studying uh overseas who are making a lot of money they left everything and they're coming here to join and to fight i believe they're coming here to fight not for the government but for their friends for the people of their platoons and companies for their parents and and they would fight nobody in the in the middle east will be able to overcome israeli power do you think hamas and indeed iran has underestimated the resolve of the israelis and indeed the reaction of the almost the entire international community i believe they did because first of all they they uh the hamas had a success that i don't think they envisage such an enormous in in their eyes success so many casualties so much damage and uh i'm not sure that that in the past uh decades they've been hit the way they're being hit now which means maybe they estimated that would have a few days of bombing and it would be over but as far as our leaders are broadcasting the attempt is now or the idea now is to destroy them and i don't think they expected that okay dr davis shimoni thank you very much indeed great to talk to you well before we go just a reminder of the latest details this hour the idea has confirmed that two senior hamas military leaders have been killed in targeted strikes on gaza and that includes the hamas commander who planned the raid on uh southern israel a week ago um so there have been uh as well um uh comments from hezbollah saying that they will get involved when the time is right um as yet no signs uh that they're uh willing to do that we will keep you updated uh on all the very latest news stay with us this is i24 news coming to you live on television goodbye 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 a hundred 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 it is natural from the beginning from the fish to the production of food from the plants because we go subsea and we utilize the hydrostatic pressure the weight or the water above your head we are able to save energy one news and we're coming to you live from telepathy it is day eight of israel's war with hamas and it's exactly a week since thousands of israelis were murdered injured or kidnapped in a terrorist onslaught in the south of the country as israel continues to identify and bury its dead the iaf is pounding garver with airstrikes and the idf has now confirmed that two senior hamas commanders have been killed the head of the group's aerial force and the commander who plotted last week's massacre the idf says that hundreds of thousands of guards and civilians are heeding warnings to move south despite the efforts of hamas to prevent them from leaving the egyptian media outlet mavin maso is reporting that egypt is closing the rafa crossing with concrete barriers at the same time senior egyptian officials say that egypt israel and the united states have agreed to allow foreigners who live in gaza to pass through that same crossing while in the west bank security forces have arrested 280 palestinians including some 120 hamas supporters and israelis have been taking shelter today after a barrage of rockets were fired at central israel no casualties were reported up in the north on the border with lebanon the idf has published footage of a drone strike on a terrorist cell which attempted infiltrate israel three terrorists were killed in the strike close to the northern town of magalia speaking from beirut the iranian foreign minister says its proxies in the region including hezbollah are ready to respond to any action by israel the united states largest aircraft carrier is in the region the united states has warned hezbollah not to get involved between 150 and 200 hostages most of them israelis but many other nationalities as well are being held in gaza well that is where we are this hour with the latest updates we can go now to the border with gaza our correspondent jonathan regov is there jonathan the two senior hamas commanders now killed that's been confirmed by the idf yes and that is part of the idf policy now everyone related to hamas must die loud and clear there's no political wing there's no military wing there's no any other wing they're all on the wanted list and they all should die from top to bottom and anyone who's found will be killed the reason why we're not seeing this masses of leaders killed is simply because these the the hamas leaders are very brave when it comes to putting the gaza residents in danger they do not allow them to be evicted to to evict themselves further south for example they put them in danger they shoot from civilian locations for that the very brave for themselves they're not as brave that is why they're hiding deep deep down in tunnels under gaza they you can rest rest assured they have fuel they have water they have electricity they have everything needed but if they pop once they pop out they will die as happened to these two senior officials and stay with me jonathan but i just want to point out there have been rockets sirens in belceva in the south also in ashkelon in the south and also in lakia i believe as well so sirens going off across the south meanwhile jonathan inside gaza the idf says hundreds of thousands of gaza the civilians are listening to those warnings from the idf and they are heading south towards the raffa crossing yes they are heading south because the area of the northern gaza strip will will become probably a war site very soon and they will be safe to leave the idf has instructed those residents to go through two safe passages from 10 in the morning till four in the afternoon and many people are listening to those calls others are are are still staying in gaza may be listening to the calls by hamas not to head out as mentioned hamas is very brave when it comes to sacrifice lives of others absolutely a deal has been reached jonathan to allow foreigners to leave gaza a deal negotiated by the united states um israel and egypt katar reportedly also involved do you have any information on that and not not much apart from that headline we're talking we're speaking of gazans with foreign nationalities there are a few hundreds maybe a few thousands of those with european nationalities they will probably be allowed to cross into egypt through the raffa crossing egypt does not want any other gaza crossing in they're not interested in these people as well apart from those with foreign nationalities the gazans will stay there hostage to hamas as well all right jonathan thank you jonathan reggae there well with me in the studio dr david shimoni is from commanders for israel security thank you very much for being with us at a very busy time um so a significant strike against hamas two senior commanders can feel confirmed dead how does this affect the terrorist groups operations it's a complicated question because uh it affects the morale of the hamas troops uh it affects the chain of command and control but we saw that on saturday's attack there were small units operating independently and these small units i believe are capable of still striking and still firing rockets uh even in the absence of these senior commanders but uh people look for leadership at times of pressure you can say the same thing about the citizens of israel and if the leadership is uh hit uh injured uh killed then this will affect the morale of the of the fighting hamas troops and they are under significant pressure give us an idea of the scale of the iaf uh air strikes or gaza well as far as we know uh the major strikes for five days now six days in a row um i don't know if our audience has ever been under attack by aircraft uh it's terrible it's frightening its buildings are exploding the roads are blocked many many people are killed and injured it has a very very big psychological effect and of course also uh damaging infrastructure and the ability of the hamas to control what's going on uh i'd like to stress that we're waging a war against the military capabilities of hamas not against the civilians of gaza who are suffering who are uh being victims of the uh of the same regime of hamas that overtook them uh in 2006 we're trying to uh to restrict our operations to military targets uh the idea and the uh what we hear from the chief of staff and from the prime minister and from the minister of defense is that we are trying to dismantle the hamas militarily uh to disintegrate their their forces and uh unfortunately there's a huge uh civilian population in the city of gaza in the gaza strip who are victims as as well as just like we are yeah well that's their that's part of their strategy hamas isn't it that's well known they try and get as many civilians killed as possible let's talk about um uh the risk inside israel and in the palestinian territories um 280 palestinians have been arrested in the west bank in the last few days um what is the risk um of of uh an outburst of violence uh terrorist attacks that kind of thing in israel and in the territories the risk is enormous uh first of all we have to remember that on saturday morning when the hamas attack began most of the israeli regular fighting forces were in the west bank were not in the gaza near the gaza strip and they were absent and um the reason that so many troops were in the west bank is that the west bank is very very explosive and naturally if if they decide also if israeli settlers decide to ignite the west bank then we will need many many troops and and forces and efforts and um and uh attention of our commanders to the west bank and as we know there are extremists in the west bank who are trying to to ignite the situation there i hope it will not explode i think if we're reporting that uh over 200 people were arrested nearly 300 okay nearly 300 were arrested that should be an attempt to calm down the situation there and to to avoid escalation uh by uh by the palestinian population i hope same measures are taken also against uh extremists really uh settlers in that area a lot of comparisons are being made um with what happened last saturday and the holocaust or pogroms um it's important though isn't it to remind people that israel has a very strong army israel is a country it also has the unwavering support of the world's strongest military might i think the uh the uh evidence we get from what happened on saturday the testimonies of settlers of israeli uh kibbutzniks uh people from the road uh are really reminding us of what we heard from the holocaust people helpless people screaming for help and nobody is there nobody is there especially the state of israel because in the holocaust we didn't have a state we didn't have an army we didn't have a government and nobody could protect the jews and uh it's another subject about the intervention of the world in the holocaust but in this case uh the state of israel was not there or for these people for many many hours and there's a cause for many many people to be very very angry furious well actually we've got protests going on outside the defense ministry right now as some of the people who have family members missing or being held hostage in gaza they want benjamin snr who just stepped down right now okay that's i think i think the main uh challenge for everybody now is to distinguish between our emotions and our head because even our leaders uh claiming revenge and we're going to destroy etc it's talking from from an emotional basis and i think uh when we are at war as an army as a state we have to think rationally so yes i think many people will demand the prime minister to be accountable to to what happened and of course i believe he is accountable he is in charge of the whole country and of the layout of the of the troops and the the way the the villages and the kibbutz team were prepared and the uh where the army was uh was dispatched before this so of course there's a lot of criticism of that will be dealt with after hamas has been i believe it should be dealt after he is and also that um that's the the strong statements from the the israeli government which is reassuring to a certain extent for the israeli population is also playing into the media game in the western media an example the bbc the british state broadcaster refusing to call hamas terrorist uh so it's uh it's important all of the messaging that's coming out as well isn't it very much very much again we're we're uh talking about politics about grand politics and uh nobody can uh if convince the bbc that what happened on saturday is terrorism then there's something wrong not with the communications but with the the way the bbc comprehend what's happening uh some news just in uh family of hostages say they've transferred medical information and medicine to the red cross because uh some of the people people being held do have uh medical requirements i think that's that's very important again we're talking about a uh i think citizens uh who are organizing this effort uh it's the civilians who are uh establishing headquarters uh with the information with medical information with diplomatic effort with legal advisors it's not only the government it's mainly uh civilians who are trying to uh take take care of this crisis okay well okay david shimani thank you very much stay with this dr shimani there well um as the israeli airstrikes continue in gaza israel has warned gazon civilians to move south uh to avoid being caught up in a significant uh military escalation the idf says we will attack these areas meaning north and gaza with great force uh the united nations however is warning that such an evacuation will lead to a humanitarian crisis listen since last night the secretary general and his team have been working the phones uh he's been in constant contact with israeli authorities urging them to avert a humanitarian catastrophe team leaders of the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and the department of safety and security in gaza were informed by the israeli liaison officers that the israeli military in the entire population of god gaza north of wadi gaza should relocate to southern gaza within 24 hours that was that was as of midnight local time last night uh this amounts to approximately 1.1 million people uh the same order applies to apply to all un staff and those sheltered in un facilities including schools health centers and clinics um we continue we consider it is impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences and we strongly appeal for any such order to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into calamitous situation uh david shaman we heard the un there putting pressure on israel to stop its campaign in gaza i can understand their pressure again we're talking about millions of or two million civilians innocent civilians they uh they elected hamas many years ago in democratic elections let's you know think about democracy um and and uh they're suffering and they're under bombardment and we know now that electricity has been disconnected uh water supplies are limited and uh yes that's that's uh all of us here in israel are um facing same challenges taking care of our children and our grandchildren and being scared of the bombs same thing in gaza and i think uh if if the israeli government encourages the civilians to leave gaza and go south they should provide uh facilities in the south with water with electricity with should make sure that it's available there to make sure egypt or the international egypt or or anybody but uh because there's a lot of vocal support in the arab world for the uh gardens right now we saw protest in bagdad san are all around the world has that has that transformed into material support of any kind as far as i know no not yet not yet okay stay with us david um just some news just in um a 19-year-old um arab citizen of israel uh majed ibrahim he was 19 years old he has died from his injuries he was critically wounded when a rocket fired by gaza uh landed in the town of abogosh near jerusalem earlier in the week just a reminder that uh jews arabs christians um uh and uh all the different people who live in israel are affected uh by the rocket fire which the rockets do not discriminate all right well let's uh head to the north of israel now because of course uh there is a concern that hezbollah uh is preparing to join the conflict despite a firm warning from the united states yesterday not to uh robert swift is up at the northern border with lebanon rob what have we got laura just over an hour ago there was a security event where there was concern that our aircraft had penetrated israeli skies around the community community of gornott hagalil this however has been called off and it's understood that it was a false alarm and this is one of several false alarms that have occurred in recent days with the the biggest occurring uh two days ago when there was concern that as many as 15 to 20 uh drones may have penetrated israeli skies now these incidents were confirmed afterwards to be false alarms but uh they are not they're not the only incidents involving scares around drones in the last 24 hours there have been two confirmed cases where drones did penetrate israel's skies uh one was an incident uh around one o'clock last night where three drones did uh cross over the lebanese border and move into israeli air sprays uh they were shot down by israeli air defenses over the israeli city of haifa and in another incident yesterday evening uh on the east of israel's northern border there was another incident there where a drone crossed over into israel's skies so the idea is very much on alert for these incidents these instances some false alarms occurring but being understandable with the security situation as heightened as it is currently right and the hezbollah leadership says it's ready to get involved in the conflict when the time is right for now it says it will respond to any actions by israel yes it has indeed it's been making similar statements similar tone all week long uh it also referred to uh indirectly to the uh us warships that were moving into areas saying that it would be undeterred by them uh essentially hezbollah has been continuing these skirmishes throughout the week uh people's question really is do they intend to do anything more uh skirmishes along the border the heavy presence of israeli military here they can handle that but the thing that people want to know is does hezbollah have bigger greater intentions than this does it really intend to enter the conflict or is it merely essentially trying to keep up appearances by continuing these skirmishes for the moment uh you know they haven't crossed that threshold uh but we wait to see if they do so remind us um what we're dealing with here rob in terms of the size of hezbollah in terms of the number of fighters the number of rockets that kind of thing sure so hezbollah are essentially an order of magnitude more dangerous to israel than chamas and we've all seen in the last week how much damage chamas can do uh hezbollah you know they have some reports say they have up to a hundred thousand fighters they have a rocket and a missile arsenal which is in which is larger than many western armies it's a weapon system that they understand can be extremely damaging to israel and so they've stocked up on it the last time they had a significant conflict with israel was in 2006 where you know the israeli communities throughout the whole of the north of israel really felt how damaging that uh that arsenal could be and bear in mind they have been re-equipping since that moment and technology particularly around the area of drones has massively increased since that time so they are very much not an enemy who should be underestimated all right robert thank you robert swift there at the northern border uh dr david shimoni is still with me from uh commanders for israel security just if you would react to what you just heard there i think again going back to uh saturday and the chamas the concept in israel was that the chamas is deterred and they will not initiate any oscillities and uh if if we maintain the same concept about the khizballah i think we should be much more cautious about that uh we can inflict a lot of damage to khizballah but they can uh they can paralyze israel they can paralyze israel for a week or two weeks by the huge amount of uh of missiles of rockets i think the major threat to israel now from the khizballah is is uh double uh one is the precision guided missiles that they have which means they can hit israeli infrastructure uh air bases which hamas does not have hamas do not have them hamas uses what we call statistical weapons in other words if fire a lot and some of them hit khizballah is being equipped with uh a precision guided missiles they can hit uh with great precision the second danger is what we saw on saturday from from hamas khizballah has a big ground force called raduan raduan force uh thousands of fighters very well equipped and trained whose mission is very similar to what we've seen on saturday to infiltrate israel by uh by land by sea by air and to take over bases and uh and settlements so there's a big threat over there the united states has warned them not to get involved we've got this the world's largest aircraft carrier just off the shores of israel more help is on the way um at what point would the americans get involved do you think i think uh the president biden made it clear that israel is protected by by america and the united states will not allow israel to fall uh i think they their presence in the middle east is very good for us but in a way i also believe it's a way for the american government to control israel and to see that the decisions that are made by our leaders are rational are the right amount of force used so but i believe the presence of a huge american carrier with tens of fighters and bombers is a big big game changer if things escalate in the north it's a week since the most terrible atrocities perpetrated against the jewish people since the holocaust lots of people are still reeling from that they're in shock they're trying to get their heads around what happened um um you were talking about how comparisons with the holocaust have inevitably been made and how today the situation is different israel does have a state and it does have an army so when the state of israel was established there was a slogan never again it will not happen to us again and it did and it did in spite of our government and state and rules and and military and i think when the war is over the citizens of israel will demand answers how come it happened again because what we saw on saturday is really pictures that we saw while our parents saw and grandparents saw in the holocaust babies slaughtered women raped uh terrible cruelty and uh it happened to us with all our might and all our high tech and with all our industries it happened to us and it shouldn't have and we should ask ourselves what brought it to us and there will definitely be a lot of questions asked um once this war is won israel has no choice but to win it does it israel will win israel is a very strong country the people are very strong uh i think uh i i believe you've been reporting about uh hundreds thousands of israelis coming in from overseas israelis who are studying uh overseas who are making a lot of money they left everything and they're coming here to join and to fight i believe they're coming here to fight not for the government but for their friends for the people of their platoons and companies for their parents and uh and they would fight nobody in the in the middle east will be able to overcome israeli power do you think hamas and indeed iran has uh underestimated the resolve of the israelis and indeed the reaction of the almost the entire international community i believe they did because first of all they they uh the hamas had a success that i don't think they envisaged such an enormous in in their eye success so many casualties so much damage and uh i'm not sure that that in the past uh decades they've been hit the way they're being hit now and which means maybe they estimated that would have a few days of bombing and it would be over but as far as our leaders are broadcasting uh the attempt is now or the idea now is to destroy them and i don't think they expected that okay dr davis shimon thank you very much indeed great to talk to you well before we go just a reminder of the latest details this hour the idea has confirmed that two senior hamas military leaders have been killed in targeted strikes on gaza and that includes the hamas commander who planned the raid on southern israel a week ago so there have been as well um uh comments from hezbollah saying that they will get involved when the time is right um as yet no signs uh that they're uh willing to do that we will keep you updated uh on all the very latest news stay with us this is i-24 news coming to you live from television goodbye over 1300 casualties and over 3000 injuries and the toll keeps climbing we bring you the testimonies from the front line from those who managed to survive in the most graphic brutal images so the whole world can see what hamas did follow us as israel battles a terror threat emanating from the south and the north join i-24 news for the real story of what's going on more thanks for joining us you're watching i-24 news we're coming to you live from televieve on this day eight of israel's war with hamas it is exactly one week since thousands of israelis were murdered injured or kidnapped in a terrorist onslaught in the south of the country as israel continues to identify and bury its dead the israeli air force is pounding gaza with airstrikes two senior hamas commanders have been confirmed killed by the idf the commander who heads the group's aerial force and also the commander who plotted last week's massacre they are both dead the idf said hundreds of thousands of palestinian civilians are heeding warnings to move south despite the efforts of hamas to stop them from leaving and in the last few minutes the u.s secretary of state antony blinkin has urged for the protection of civilians on both sides amid a green light for an israeli ground incursion while israel egypt uh and the united states have agreed to allow foreigners residing in gaza to pass through the raffa border crossing into egypt in the west bank security forces have arrested 280 palestinians including dozens of hamas supporters and israelis have been taking shelter this morning after a barrage of rockets fired at central and southern israel no casualties reported up in the north on the board with lebanon the idf has published footage of a drone strike on a terrorist cell which attempted to infiltrate israel the terrorists were all killed all three of them and speaking from beirut the iranian foreign minister says its proxies in the region including hezbollah are ready to respond to any action by israel and still between 150 and 200 hostages most of them israelis but many other nationalities as well are being held in gaza the families of the hostages say they have now handed over medical information and medicine to the red cross in the hopes that it reaches their loved ones all right thank you for being with us that's just a round up of all the very latest developments as we continue our coverage of this day eight israel's what with hamas we're joining me in the studio at lieutenant colonel don avid talif on the commander of these special forces of the idf thanks for being with us don let's talk about these uh two hamas commandos who have been taken out by the idf and will that have a significant impact on the group's capabilities going forward i think this is too much to say about terms of capability but it's a it's a signaling that we have intelligence and we can close the loop of intelligence and air for strikes which we were afraid we are losing it after this terrible setback that we had and it means that we are starting to close on them and then the question is what's the next major move that we are going to make and what would it include and when would it take place giving of course the circum the general circumstances the pressure that might amount from outside we heard blinkin about the casualties of civilians and the fact that we have to move that we have to gather our plans our intelligence and be prepared to a move because such a move would require everything that we have so we have to be very calculated and the idea of in the last few days is really preparing and gathering his intelligence and to a move which would have more significance in terms of hitting the infrastructure of hamas there was a limited ground operation into Gaza last night uh what did that yield yeah there's a more limited incursion in terms of collecting uh our missing uh or dead in the the fields the i'm sure there are many things that we don't know in terms of undercover operation and so on it's not for us to tell or to know what's up but preparing and it seems that the move must take place and the question is when and what significance and what kind of scope let's talk about the situation in the west bank and indeed inside as well 250 I think that's right yeah 280 280 Palestinians including around 120 hamas supporters have been arrested we yeah we should not forget that uh in the last year basically we had a mini war with hamas operatives and jia islamic jihad operative the west bank in the northern samaria in uh specific and we really have to make sure that hamas doesn't place hand in the west bank so I think those preliminary moves intercepting the people uh arresting them is it's a significant move that we have to make everybody that is associated with hamas and is capable of uh escalating something in the west bank has to be arrested because we really don't want the west bank to to work up in any context giving also the circumstances of gaza and we want of course the to keep the so-called alliance with the palestinian authority steady because they have to help us is that still intact is there still I think it is of course the the the images from the gaza doesn't don't help us but we shouldn't forget that hamas is an enemy of the pa that this should be clear I mean uh and by arresting those hamas operatives in the west bank we do help the palestinian authority and then we look at the north so I to the north it seems that before sorry if you don't mind before we get to the north I want to I want to keep the focus on gaza because um of course uh there is usually when we have the the normal skirmishes with hamas and gaza there is very very quickly international pressure put upon israel to pull back uh which has in the past prevented it from fully destroying hamas we've just heard uh from antony blink and the us sector state urging protection of civilians on both sides what do you read into that is that the americans starting to put a bit of pressure on israel I think america must listen to the the the criteria from different sources including the un about the civilian casualties in the gaza strip and they want to outline for us a frame of time in which we can work and operate the time is not endless and uh so this is the dilemma the idea has to work out here the idea has to be prepared we have a wall cabinet that would have to decide and make the decision and and outline the the idea of when and in what scope to operate so the the limit the the time limit is always there right giving the giving the casualties but israel won't be listening to that I think right right now no for sure but it it does it's it is an element of decision making about when to act and because we can't wait forever because those pounding have their significant they have their impact unfortunately in terms of casualties of civilians all right thanks Dorian stay with us um we want to head to israel's northern border now our uh reporter robert swift uh is there um there have been a few incidents this morning haven't there Rob uh yeah that's right it's been quite a busy uh I'd say 20 hour period with a number of security events the last couple of hours have been quiet uh with the only major event being a possible drone sighting in the the center of israel's northern border which was called off as a false alarm but that's one of only one of several incidents that occurred uh there was this morning there was an infiltration by three to four palestinian gunmen who attempted to cross the northern border in the eastern end of the the border they were struck by an israeli drone which removed that threat and during the night there was also drones crossed over on the western end of israel's northern border they were shot down by israeli air defense systems and with some shrapnel landing on the ground uh close to the israeli city of haifa these are just some of the events taking place in that 24 hour in that 20 hour period and these themselves are a continuation of the skirmishes that we've been seeing here all week long and rob this is a uh taking on an international dimension now as well of course you've got the iranian foreign minister in beirut today the hezbollah leadership says that it will participate when the time is right it says it will respond to israeli actions rather than take a proactive stance that's important isn't it yeah that's correct essentially i think people were looking at hezbollah immediately as the attacks took place on saturday concerned that they would join the fight then the fact that they didn't seems to imply that they're looking for some sort of trigger point for them to weigh these skirmishes that we're seeing at the minute rather than them being a sign that the hezbollah are about to enter it seems that that is maybe them essentially trying to keep up the pressure keep up the the the demonstration that they are involved in this in this fight but as you say there there are international implications here both with regards to iran and with the us having moved warships into the arena here all right rob thank you for now rob the swift there up at the northern border let's go to israel's southern border our jonathan reggae is close to the border with gaza where most of the action is right now jonathan tell us what's the latest so we're here in constant barrages and in constant artillery and air force action in gaza itself having said that hamas is still able to launch rockets mainly to the community zero around the gaza border but not only that we have seen hamas launched towards central israel earlier today bear sheva as well and therefore they're still holding their abilities of course the rockets are stored underground and it is it is a very quick move to surface fire and and go back underground that's where the rockets are that's where the hamas leadership is they're very quick when it comes to put other the lives of others in danger they themselves they're deep underground with water with electricity all the rest all of the humanitarian issues that we're hearing that they deal with the gaza population not with their leaders they have everything they need and israel says hundreds of thousands of palestinians are listening to their warnings and they are moving south towards the south of gaza to avoid being caught up in a very serious military situation in the north that's true the humanitarian corridor announced by the idf was was basically it was announced from the morning from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. an hour from now what will happen an hour from now we don't exactly know i do think that that later on in the day and especially as as night time arrives we'll see much heavier action much stronger action by israel especially in that area of the northern gaza strip jonathan thank you jonathan reggae down there at the border with gaza um lieutenant colonel don avitalis still with us in the studio um let's start with uh what's happening in the north should we um uh shall we uh hezbollah saying it will intervene when the time is right it says uh i think it's important to say it will says it will respond not uh i think the emphasis of responding is important because it seemed that neither iran and oh hezbollah are interested right now in opening a northern front this is the way it seems it can change i think lebanon is in a weak position in the deterrence of the of the americans the aircraft geofraud forth coming to our area so those clear messages are sort of a dialogue in fire which was which is part of the part of the battlefield but i it seemed that this is not in the east interest and this says something about the kama strategy because if kama strategy in the beginning was that this would be the beginning of an unfolding uh some bigger escalation and an opening of fronts in the west bank and in the northern border in the meantime it didn't succeed so we hope it's only been a week though we should remember shouldn't we it's only been a it's only been a week since yeah exactly i mean in the long run in the long run so is there isn't taking any some provocation some event some temple mount event some event in west bank something can happen but right now this is the common wisdom but the common wisdom failed us with kama it can fail well also and there is the reassurance of course of the americans sending their largest aircraft carrier the americans have directly uh warned his well and not to get involved and the uh u.s. secretary of state actually has been meeting with the saudi foreign minister uh today as he continues his whirlwind tour of the region um uh he says blinkin says that israel is uh pursuing its legitimate right to defend its people um and he also says uh that none of us want to see suffering by civilians on uh either side whether it's in israel or gaza so that's antony blinkin there in saudi arabia all right well um a week um after the most horrendous atrocities perpetrated against the jewish people since the holocaust uh israel is still identifying uh burying its dead trying to find the missing trying to uh find out who is being held in gaza um um an ongoing never-ending nightmare for millions of people um joining us now millett benheim is a survivor uh from the nova music festival which was attacked by hamas terrorists uh last saturday thanks for being with us millett what's your story thank you um it's been exactly one week uh i was at the party we uh got the music to stop at 6 30 we're really confused we started seeing rockets in the sky um and we just started running laying on the ground trying to understand what we can do um after a few minutes we realized we have to to run away we didn't have any shelters it's a open field kind of party uh we're very beautiful happy loving people um we got into the car started driving but we went one way and we had a terrorist shooting at us we went the other way and we had terrorists waiting for us as well um we got out of the car we realized we have to start just running for our lives we ran to the fields um yeah i know it's hard but we didn't have any place to hide every every every place we ran to we had people shooting at us um we saw a lot of people falling down we we don't know some of them probably um dead some of them are kidnapped um raped everything that you hear about we found this um hitting spot in the bushes and we yeah uh just we're looking sorry to interrupt you we're looking at a video it's gone we were looking at a video where they they shot bullets at a line of uh those portable toilets just to make sure there were no survivors just one of the many many signs of of cruelty uh that they that they carried out how how did you get away millette um i was hiding in the bushes with uh three other girls uh we covered ourselves with leaves and we tried to talk to the police they didn't answer for a long time and once they did they told us that we are on our own because there is so many people who's been murdered and kidnapped right now um um and then we just had this um angel uh rami and another one leon to uh to all oldish people that just decided to volunteer and find us uh going by car on their own yeah because they got connected to us yeah we had to yeah lots of israeli heroes they they heard what was going on they they jumped in their cars and they drove straight towards the danger didn't they with no regard for their own lives a lot of them are dead now leon as well he got murdered uh there is parents that came to save their kids and died on the way of doing that we're all devastated yeah we're all in it together it's it's it's horrible to to hear no no one should have to go through that millette how are you how are you coping a week on it must be very difficult day today um every day is difficult because we keep hearing even now while i'm talking to you i can see my phone they just told me that another friend um died we just keep hearing more and more about stories like that um it's it's impossible it's it is it's it is there are no words to describe it i'm so sorry for you millette but i'm also glad that you're you're still here to tell the story to to to give you a testimony of what happened on that terrible day and i hope you i hope you find comfort with your family and your and your friends your surviving friends thank you millette thank you millette then i'm there one of the survivors of the nova music festival uh dole i mean it's you know the story is a heartbreaking and they unfold every hour you get a different story and the initiative that people took outside of them and you hear you hear that and i'm sorry i want to remain professional but i am so furious about the semantic debates going on in some western media outlets like the BBC about using the word terrorist to describe what we've just heard it's no it's a murderous brutality and it's a the scope is unimaginable and this requires us of course to get our forces together and really dismantle hamas this can't continue the question what does it mean what the magnitude i can assure you that every hamas leader either in israel or outside of israel would find himself the same way it was in the munich after they would find himself would face death i mean there's no question about that and they would be hunted to the last of them but this would require times time and effort and maybe also we won't know the full extent of what happened will we for a long time it's a long time i mean no there will be first of all we have to go through it of course and succeed in the mission ahead of us of course we'll have to investigate also what happened in our side in the military of course infrastructure for sure from intelligence to the tactical forces on the ground to yeah it's yeah and it's well still identifying the dead varying the dead but the fight back is underway israel has vowed to destroy hamas and we shouldn't think of course i'm shouldn't forget the hostage dilemma which we still is on our plate young children among the hostages babies even yeah exactly babies snatched from their mothers and being taken so a very competent general that was once my soldier nitzan alone he was appointed to be there the general that rather that would run it i wrote to him i really if there's a general that i trust in the israeli army that can do the job is nitzan and let's hope they find a way how to in the end bring the hostages back and you know obviously we're very focused on the situation here but the hamas leadership in doha yesterday called for a global day of rage against not just israelis but jews around the world and it's it's shocking to see that in paris they've had to close the louvre museum for which i lived in paris for a long time i've i've never seen that even during the gilet genre protest they've had to close the louvre museum because they're worried about the risk there are unconfirmed reports coming out of germany that pro hamas supporters have been putting the signs indicating where jews live that's okay so it's not confirmed but it's a sign of the terrifying situation in russia as well anti-semitic editorials in russian state media it it's this is proof for those who still need it that this is why jews need their own country exactly they need their own army yeah and we have to and we shouldn't forget that we have to win victory in the battlefield when we are strong when we win our victories we are respected and then we can also aid jewish communities around the world so israel has to get back to its own self and win a decisive victory in the context in which we are facing right now how long i mean i know this is the million dollar question how long do you think this military conflict could drag on floor i think it will take a long time i think we're talking more than weeks and i think in terms of hunting those hamas leaders that are spread around the world it might take years i mean we this is an open account that will have to be settled so but in terms of the gaza strip itself this is a long haul and it might take months your i think it's a long campaign yeah it's a long campaign several months okay so i can just bring you up to date with the latest on what we know so far on this day eight of israel's war with hamas it is exactly a week since thousands of israelis were murdered uh idjid kidnapped in that terrorist onslaught in the south of the country um the iaf is pounding gaza with airstrikes two senior hamas commanders have been confirmed killed including the commando who planned the assault on the south of israel hundreds of thousands of palestinian civilians seen listening to the idf and moving south despite the efforts of hamas to stop them leaving and america is 100 behind israel the strongest army in the world they have sent numerous high-ranking government and military officials to israel in recent days along with the world's biggest aircraft carriers um in your career have you ever seen such a show of support for the american from the americans i think as an army man i always felt that the u.s with us and i think also native european union i think this is the context of our alliance but such a shows support that is bolstered by a real presence of power that's perhaps in the yom kippu war this is the land the latest historical time in which we saw it so of course you stand by us and when this is the basic alliance the western alliance which would have to combat this this this this terrible event that we are witnessing it's a psychological support as well isn't it of course of course of course but i think it's also for us to understand there were times in israel that people were undermining the the the u.s aid or the u.s alliance or the western european alliance whatever grievance says we have in the end this is our alliance u.s europe nato this is we are part of the west and this we are fighting a war which is basically also a war that is a war of the west in many in many senses and do you think the americans have got a wake-up call when it comes to iran i mean they're freezing the six billion dollars that they were paying in in exchange for the whole i think they do i mean i think i must admit that i think the way we handle the iranian issue trying to be to take the forefront we should have done it with the u.s more we are working intend them with them this is what the grievance is that i have with the policy of my government but we need the u.s together iran is iran or the whole access of iran is a global issue and in power we are part of this global issue and i think the u.s of course is spearheading this effort and we have to do it with them help them intelligence wise more sad wise whatever we do and the context in which we have to be very much worried right now is of course his balai is the biggest proxy of iran in this area and of course there's iranian militia in syria and which of course we are we are all the time monitoring and attacking when it's needed yeah yeah and of course we're talking about hezbollah saying that it is preparing to respond to any action yeah i think hezbollah they see what's happening in gaza also the atrocities in the end of course unfortunately but they didn't serve the image of hamas in the costing in the context context of the palestinian cause because hamas in the face of hamas now it's a different hamas than some people were considering before so i think hezbollah thinks twice to initiate to initiate an attack on us i'm not sure would be in their best interest sure not in the interest of lebanon and the context of the political infrastructure well as there's a country on the brink of complete economics that's already exactly so this would really create a whole new a whole new crisis for lebanon and i think everybody understand it and of course the deterrence of america stepping in into the conflict in this context with such force and such a statehood and staying is a is a clear signal to iran this country and indeed this part of the world will never be the same again will it after this event now and the truth where nobody knows what would be the far-reaching consequences of this event because the the wheels of history move after this event they would move in the direction that we have to foreseen and be very much alert too because even if hezbollah doesn't act now the escalation can be later it can be in half a year a year those historical events and historical times in which we are witnessing yeah we just have to take it day by day for now don't we and put our faith in the idea all right thank you very much doll on that retire we're going to take a break stay with us this is our 2020 over 1300 casualties and over 3000 injuries and the toll keeps climbing we bring you the testimonies from the front line from those who managed to survive in the most graphic brutal images so the whole world can see what hamas did follow us as israel battles a terror threat emanating from the south and the north join i-24 news for the real story of what's going on gaza we will hit the hamas we will destroy but we have our value and our culture you because we go subsea and we utilize the hydrostatic pressure the weight or the water above your head we're able to save energy joining us you're watching i-24 news we're coming to you live from televiv on this day eight of israel's war with hamas it is exactly one week since thousands of israelis were murdered injured or kidnapped in a terrorist onslaught in the south of the country as israel continues to identify and bury instead the israeli air force is pounding gaza with airstrikes two senior hamas commanders have been confirmed killed by the idf the commander who heads the group's aerial force and also the commando who plotted last week's massacre they are both dead the idf says hundreds of thousands of palestinian civilians are heeding warnings to move south despite the efforts of hamas to stop them from leaving and in the last few minutes the us secretary of state antony blinkin has urged for the protection of civilians on both sides amid a green light for an israeli ground incursion while israel egypt and the united states have agreed to allow foreigners residing in gaza to pass through the raffa border crossing into egypt in the west bank security forces have arrested 280 palestinians including dozens of hamas supporters and israelis have been taking shelter this morning after a barrage of rockets fired at central and southern israel no casualties reported up in the north on the board with lebanon the idf has published footage of a drone strike on a terrorist cell which attempted to infiltrate israel the terrorists were all killed all three of them and speaking from beirut the iranian foreign minister says its proxies in the region including hezbollah are ready to respond to any action by israel and still between 150 and 200 hostages most of them israelis but many other nationalities as well are being held in gaza the families of the hostages say they have now handed over medical information and medicine to the red cross in the hopes that it reaches their loved ones all right thank you for being with us that's just a round up of all the very latest developmen