So welcome everybody, my name is Noah Henderson and I'm the annual gas manager here at the energy data center. And today let's take a closer look at natural gas. So this presentation will be divided into three sections similar to the other presentations, starting a look at the gas trends, how natural gas fits into the energy mix onto some key concepts, and then finishing looking at the natural gas questionnaire and the correct reporting standards. So starting with the trends. In the last 40 years, natural gas has demand and production has very much expanded. And it has, it has almost tripled in the last 40 years. And over that period, natural gas was the second largest contributor to global energy growth only after coal production expanded earliest and most quickly in North America and former Soviet Union. And as you can see on the slide, this trend has continued with USA and Russia, being the two largest producers in the world, making up just over 40% of global production. For demand, it comprises just under 25% of total energy supply and natural gas has many technical characteristics that make it a very useful and a very flexible fuel that can be used in many different sectors. Looking at trade, giving the changing regional supply and demand dynamics, an increased focus has been placed on moving gas internationally to match excess supply with demand. However, to do this, it requires a substantial investment in infrastructure, whether that be pipelines to move gaseous gas across land, or LNG infrastructure liquefied natural gas to move it across large bodies of water. LNG trade has slowly been increasing its share of total gas trade, and it is now at around 40%. A couple of the main importers of gas are Japan for LNG and Germany for gas through pipelines. We must also note that both liquefied natural gas and natural gas in its gaseous state are the exact same commodity, and they should not be confused with the various individual oil or coal products. However, we do report LNG separately due to the specialized kind of infrastructure that is required to be traded with LNG. On to emissions, natural gas benefits from being the fossil fuel with the lowest emissions per energy unit burned when compared with coal and oil. It emits around 40 to 50% less CO2 than coal and around 30% less than oil per energy unit burned. And for this reason, there are some people that consider natural gas a key bridging fuel as we transition to cleaner energy systems. Here is another look at how gas comprises total energy supply, and it can vary greatly on a country by country basis. On the diagram on the left here, you can see that large countries who have little production such as India and China, it comprises a small amount of their total energy supply around 6% or 7%. Well, large producing countries such as USA and Russia comprises a much larger share with the USA being 32% and Russia natural gas forming 54% of total energy supply. On the graphs on the right, you can see some of the different uses, the different sectors where natural gas is used, and you can also see that it is used all across the world and every corner of the globe. Next on to the key concepts. In some ways, natural gas is similar to oil, which we'll be looking at later today, since it is the same organic source material and it forms in comparable geological conditions, but it tends to form in higher pressure and temperature ranges. Natural gas can be defined as a combustible mixture of hydrocarbon gases that contains a very high concentration of methane, usually over 90%, but there isn't any sort of strict, strict definition or strict level at which the methane needs to be in concentration of. As was mentioned, other combustible fuels like coolant oil are classified according to their compositions and gross calorific values. However, natural gas is treated just as a single product. And various natural gas mixtures can have gross calorific values that typically span between 37 to 42 megajoules per cubic meter. It is also possible for gases from other fuels to be mixed into the natural gas mix, such as blast furnace gas coming from the processing of coal. Finally, since the quantities of gas can be measured in volumes, we must define the pressure and temperature conditions to measure that. For international data collection at the IA, we use the standard conditions, which corresponds to 15 degrees Celsius and one atmosphere. Here's a look at the overall natural gas balance. It follows the same standards as most other energy balances you have seen. We start with the supply with the production inputs from other sources and trade. We are able to derive the inland consumption calculated. Then we have the statistical difference bridging supply and demand where we can see it is consumed in many different sectors. And the statistical difference is the difference between the consumption calculated from the supply and the consumption observed from the demand and efforts should be made to have statistical difference as low as possible so the relationship is clear between supply and demand. Having a closer look at production, natural gas can be extracted from three different methods or three different locations from oil fields from gas fields or coal mines. And the raw gas that comes out of a well includes a number of other hydrocarbons and contaminants along with the methane. And these need to be removed through a series of chemical and thermal processes to make the gas suitable for distribution and use. Some of the gas can be flared or vented when it can't be processed or transported to a treatment plan. And the gas can also be re-injected to enhance the production of the field. At this step, the concentration of methane in the raw gas is not very high, could be around 70%, and after the gas is treated and processed, the concentration of methane can rise as high as 99%. The purification process consists of separating methane from other hydrocarbons such as crude oil or natural gas liquids, NGLs, and the removal of impurities such as condensates, water vapor, CO2, and sulfur. Before purification, we refer to it as wet gas because it is liquid rich that has a high concentration of NGLs and condensate, and as a result has a relatively high energy content per volume. And after purification, we have dry marketable production gas, which is the definition we use at the IA for all of the gas we track in our energy balance. Dry marketable production gas can further be separated into associated gas for gas produced at an oil field, non-associated gas for gas produced at gas fields, and colliery gas for gas produced at coal mines. Here's a look at the supply chain. Our data collection methodology covers all of these stages of the supply chain, starting with the production here. We also collect data on infrastructure that connects production with consumption. This includes transmission and distribution grids, storage facilities, and LNG terminals, and then finally we have natural gas being consumed in many different sectors. Of course, trade is critical to connect the imports and exports through pipeline or through LNG. And here we can see the different arrows that show the relationships between all these different elements of the supply chain. Next, we're going to take a closer look at a few of these elements individually. So starting with trade, as I've mentioned previously, it can be traded through pipelines in gaseous gas form, or it can be traded in its liquid LNG form across long oceans. With pipelines, they are very cost-effective way to move gas across land or even for short relatively shallow distances underwater. And there are many interstate and local pipelines that exist to move gas over these short distances. You can see on the image on the left, the blue lines. However, the larger major pipelines that cross international borders tend to be much less common. These are the larger brown lines on the image. In the past year, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been a changing dynamic in natural gas trade in which countries have realized the dangers from an energy security perspective of relying too heavily on one single trade partner, particularly specifically, all of Europe previously relied very heavily on Russia for natural gas, and this has contributed to the growth of LNG trade and the growing complexity of gas trade internationally. So looking at natural gas, pipelines are useful when land routes are available, but when natural gas needs to be moved across large bodies of water, it creates a much more difficult technical and economic challenge. The solution is to cool gas down to the temperature at which it becomes a liquid, which is negative 162 degrees Celsius. This liquefied natural gas increases the amount of natural gas energy that can be stored in a given volume by 600 times. As a result, LNG can be more cost effectively transported in special ships over long ocean routes. However, this process for safely cooling, loading, shipping, and offloading the gas requires a lot of capital to accomplish. The three main components of this LNG process are liquefaction plants to cool the gas gas down and turn it into a liquid, LNG carriers, which are specialized ships necessary to safely transport and re-gasification terminals to turn LNG back into its gaseous state. The diagram on the right displays the key trend of growing LNG trade. And in the next slide, we also see another interesting graph that shows growing LNG trade, and this trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Stocks are also a critical aspect of the natural gas balance. The gas of the fuel is a source of potential energy and it can be stored to be used in a different time or a different place. Specifically for natural gas, storage is used to shift a constant level of available production to match seasonal demand fluctuations. As you can see on the slide, the demand fluctuation displays OECD Europe, which is countries in the northern hemisphere, typically show a clear demand peak in the winter months when natural gas is used more heavily for heating, and then demand trough in the summer months when it is not as necessary. To store gas, there are some above ground options, but storing significant amounts of gas tends to rely on underground storage as the most economical solution. And the most of this storage happens in depleted gas reservoirs, which require less upfront cushion gas, which cushion gas creates the baseline volume and pressure to make regular storage injection and withdrawal feasible. Overall, stocks provide the required seasonal flexibility resulting from a relatively flat supply, and a combination of price signals and regulations drive the operation of these facilities and the stock builds or the stock draws. On to demand. Here are the many different sectors which natural gas is used. Let's take a bit of a closer look at a few of these. So looking at transformation, this includes the demand to convert gas into a different energy form. This could be electricity, gasworks, gas, etc. The energy sector includes the consumption to support the operations within energy, for example, natural gas burned for oil and gas extraction or in a refinery. The main difference is that the gas is burned, but it isn't transformed into a different commodity. And then non energies refers to natural gas not used for its energy content, but use as a feedstock produce a non energy hydrocarbon based raw material. So this could be fertilizers or plastics for example. These are examples of different transformations that occur with natural gas. In yellow we have it being transformed into electricity and heat. In the red we have some transformations involving coal's gaseous byproducts. For example, it being transformed into blast furnace gas at a blast furnace. And in green we have natural gas being transformed into oil products at a gas to liquids plan. We'll be now looking at the final section of our presentation with natural gas questionnaire. So here's the structure of our questionnaire within our data collection framework and the energy data center we ask national administrations to fill a questionnaire about natural gas on a yearly basis. And the questionnaire is designed to capture information to all the different steps of the supply chain that we've just been looking at for the past several minutes. The structure of the questionnaire is composed of six table and their relative related sub tables as you can see on the slide. So we have received and collected all of the questionnaires, we have to go through a validation process to ensure that the data is comparable across time and between countries. And this involves making sure that the proper methodological standards were followed when filling in the questionnaire. And this involves looking at within the gas questionnaire for consistency, and also comparing it with the other questionnaires where there are specific flows that are related. For example, in table one inland consumption needs to be exactly equal to inland demand reported in table two, and looking between questionnaires biogas is for blending that is reported in the renewables questionnaire needs to be related to receipts from other sources renewables in the natural gas questionnaire. Now here is a look at what the questionnaires look at and here's table one supply. Where's your reminder we ask only for dry marketable production of gas and production excludes any gas that is vented or flared, but we do ask for that data separately as a memo. For trade, we must note that we only count gas that crosses the physical boundary of the reporting country, and we do not include any transit or re exports with trade data. Here's a look at data in million cubic meters in terajoules, and we ask for the average gross calorific value reporting average net calorific values is optional, because if it is not reported, they can be estimated as being 90% of average gross calorific values. Here's a look at table two a with consumption. Here we have the transformation and energy sectors, and we only asked for data in terajoules, because we can use the gross calorific value reported from in table one to convert terajoules into million cubic meters. We also have a flow for losses to report any losses during transport and distribution. Let's look at the other side of the consumption where we have total final consumption, and we split reporting into energy use and non energy use, as I mentioned the difference previously. I also want to take a closer look at transformation sector as this can be a confusing aspect to report. There are different types of plants. There are electricity plants, heat plants in combined heat and power plants, and these are further separated into two different activities. There are main activity producers, which are entities or companies whose sole or main purpose is to produce and sell electricity to heat. And there are auto producers, which are entities that produce electricity or heat as a byproduct of another primary product or activity. There could be a steel plant, which their primary activity is producing steel, but as a byproduct of that production, they also produce electricity and heat. So to properly report this, and main activity producers, all natural gas is reported in the transformation sector and table two a, but for auto producers. Heat should only be reported in table two a if that heat is sold onwards, and it is not used for its primary activity. This can be a bit confusing and complicated so please ask questions or please send it as an email if you'd like further clarification. So here is a look at table three for imports. It is important to note that we have to report the ultimate origin or destination of the trade partner so for imports, we have to report where the gas is produced the ultimate origin. And for exports, we should be reporting where the gas is ultimately consumed for the destination. And as reminder, transit trade is not included. There are a few limitations to our gas reporting. Firstly, we treat gas as a single product when in fact they're often gases with high or low calorific values used in the market. The exports table table four looks essentially identical to this imports table. Now the last slide finishing off here. There are a few limitations to our gas reporting. Firstly, we treat gas as a single product when in fact they're often gases with high or low calorific values used in the gas system. So we ask countries to report the average calorific values for their gas. Second, for gas there is a changing dynamic of trade and going complexity and spot purchases, which has made it increasingly difficult to not report transit trade in the trade data. And the final problem we sometimes encounter are issues around measuring gas volumes, because at the IEA we use the standard conditions, which is 15 degrees Celsius in one atmosphere. But sometimes gas can be reported in other pressures and temperatures, which requires us to convert it to make the data comparable. Thank you very much. Here are some various resources that you guys might find helpful and I'm happy to take any questions.


l operative mode and ready to attack. I continue and reiterate to the public, the Israeli public, you must adhere to our front comments. Orders are air defense assistants are watching well, but it cannot clear at all, not cover at all. The fact that you are going through the shelter every single time there is an alert, stays in place and minimizes the damage and allows us to continue to fight in full swing. The home front command instructions are updating every 24 hours. The educational ministry will gradually announce on a gradual return to school. I urge you all to get updated by the home front command site ahead of us some challenging week. We will meet a lot of resilience on behalf of everyone. The IDF will act with all its might by air, by land, by speed and will complete, include all the war plans that the IDF commanders and warriors have trained our training and will execute. We are ready, we are expect, we are working to facilitate all the shields and the honors that are needed. First and foremost, the team or the fighters fighting on the ground. Please, we want you to keep on obeying us on any gaps or lack of equipment on the ground because we are working tirelessly to make sure there are no gaps. So far a message to 200 families of soldiers who fell and carried out have been notified. We are embracing them in their reciprocal hour. We are working and thinking day and night on the families of the abducted. Those who are being held hostage, no one can grasp the death of the agony that you are going through. The State of Israel is doing everything it can to bring those people home. It has brought the best people in this country to work on it, working tirelessly around the clock on that and applying all the best facilities, the best tools we have to collect every different information to complete this puzzle, to have a clear picture and reflect it to the families. So far we have updated 126 families of people being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. Some of our enemies are wrong to think that this is the right time for them to attack. The idea is ready and set to act. The North is the south of the center, everywhere in Italy.  We share a destiny, the partnership is of a shared destiny, and it will be a reflective action. We are witnessing the greatness of the Israeli spirit, all factors of society, and it is strengthening our commanders and our fighters to keep on going with the Israeli spirit. That was Rear Admiral Daniel Hagar, the IDF spokesperson. Of course, I think for most of one point that he said is at right at the very beginning as that the IDF is observing and has proof on camera, which will bring to you perhaps later this evening that Hamas terrorists are trying to keep civilians from northern Gaza, those living in Gaza city in areas of the north of the Gaza Strip, from moving to the southern part as has been recommended by the IDF and to get them out of the firing zone there. The Hamas continue to trying to use them as human shields. Now, of course, in the past week, we've been bringing you heartbreaking stories about many people missing or now confirmed killed at that Nova music festival that was held on Friday night Saturday that was brutally attacked by the Hamas terrorists. At least 260 people killed there, dozens more kidnapped. But there are survivors, and one of them joins us now. He is 19-year-old Noam Kohn from the town of Ruchon Lezion. And he was the videographer, the film official, I guess, filmmaker of the recorder of the Nova music festival. But first I have to say our viewers can't see. By the way, we are going to show footage that Noam showed while he talks. Some of this is extremely graphic, so there is a warning here. But we're not even showing you the worst part. But now you came in here on crutches, our viewers can't see you. Both legs are bandaged. Tell us what happened to you at the festival. Yes, unfortunately I got hit on my both legs. And what's happened pretty much is that I went as a videographer with two of my friends. And we gathered in like 3 a.m., 4 a.m. And after two hours, we planned to shoot in the sunset, in the sunrise. In the sunrise? Saturday morning. And after the two hours that we were there, in 6 a.m., 6.30, they started shooting rockets over our heads. But I didn't was so stressed because I knew that you have the David Doom. The Allium Dome system. Yeah. So we set it up. So you thought at that point it was just rockets? Yeah, it's normal. We used to because in Israel every two months, every few months, we have rockets. This is a sad comment itself, but go on. Yeah, it's not good, but this is the reality that we live in. So what happened is that they stopped the music in the festival and they told everyone to go home. So me and my friend were getting the car, started driving. There is only one road that leads towards home, towards the party. After 5, 10 minutes, I don't remember, we started to hear shootings. Okay. And we continued driving. And then my friend pointed on some people, some tourists on the bushes and said they're shooting at us. And as he says that my car gets hit several of times with bullets on an automatic weapon. Right. And one of my friends got hit in the leg. Right. And started bleeding in the car. So I turned 180 and started to put the pedal to the metal and go.  I want to know, at that moment, what were you thinking? Were you thinking somehow these terrorists got through the fence or did you even have time to think about that? I didn't have time to think about it. I just knew that I'm getting shot at and I just act by instincts. Okay. So I started driving towards the party because I knew that we have force there. And the police there. So I thought maybe they, because they with weapons, they can help us and maybe they can call for backup from the army. And after two minutes of driving and still getting hit in the window shutters, it's like in a horror movie. We got saved. And then we got inside a shelter. We saw police officers outside a shelter and a lot of people getting in the shelter because it's the south and it's very dangerous there. And a lot of rockets launched there, unfortunately. They have near bus stations. They have shelters. Right. It's three meters by two meter room that you have one entry and their entry is the exit. And it's without door and you just can get in from rockets. Right. But I didn't know that it was a death trap. That's what I'm asking you. Like you had a decision to make. Do I keep driving or do I go in the shelter? But you didn't realize the scope of the attack, I guess. Yeah. I didn't realize that there is thousands of terrorists in this area. I thought that maybe few of them got in and the army will take care of it soon. Like I thought that this is our last chance because I hear shots from the other way too. So I didn't. So I stopped in the shelter. And after five minutes inside the shelter, we started to hit. We got hit by an RPG on the shelter. Right. Everything is like everything outside explode everyone that was there. Not everyone got inside the shelter because you didn't have a lot of room and people climbing on each other. It was terrifying. And my luck is that I got in one of the first. So I was like away from the entry. All the people that were on the entry got killed because the terrorists, after they shot the RPG, they shooted on us with the weapons on the people that were outside. And then the people that were inside of the entry. I have to ask you. I see we're showing footage of you from inside the shelter. Were you filming? You had the wherewithal to film while you were inside the shelter? Yeah. Being fired? Because I told you before that I'm a videographer so it's in my blood. It's the instincts. I feel something weird. I just pull out my phone and start filming. Okay. So this is what I did. Of course, in the middle of the hard fire I didn't film. I just was protecting myself. But before it happened that terrorists throw grenades inside and start shooting people inside. So I didn't film. But before this I filmed and after this I filmed. But were you injured during that attack when they threw that grenade in? Is that when you got injured? Yeah. My luck. I told you before that it was that I've been in the back in the shelter. So they throw, I'll try to explain you the thing that people are trying to get away and get shot. You can't do nothing. So they saw that we don't get out. So they throw grenades. They throw like three grenades inside, one after another. And then they got inside to make sure everyone is dead.  I knew this because I saw and I heard girls screaming that they kidnapped us. And it was very, I don't know how I got alive from this. What were you thinking? I know this is painful, no one. And I'm sorry. No, I'm here to tell. I'm here to let the whole world know. What were you thinking at that moment? I was thinking, OK, that's it. That's it. It's going to end like this. I just hope it's going to be fast and I'm not going to get pain a lot. And I hope that they won't going to kidnap me. So how long were you in the shelter until you realize the incident or at least that you were relatively safe? After 40, 50 minutes. 50 minutes. No, 15, 50. 50 minutes. Yeah. 40, 50 minutes inside the shelter. Actually, I saved because I crawled under the body. There was a lot of dead bodies. Like, it's not near me, it's on me. You crawled under the dead bodies. I needed to, because when they got inside, it shoot everyone. So all the bodies was taking all the shots. So this is how I got saved. There was 30 people inside there. I think that only seven got alive from this. No, this is just incredible. And I see, again, we looked at the footage where you're bleeding. You have blood on your face. You're looking. How are you even, it's amazing.  Yes, you know, a lot of times, a lot of things happen here in Israel, whether it's terror attacks or other things. And people just don't believe. They just think, we made it up. So I had to film everything. Of course, while getting shot at, I didn't film. But after and before, I document this to do what I'm doing now, to let the world know what we've been through there. Right. Now, you were taking, did you want to say something? Yeah, no. How does it make you feel when you see this growing movement in the world that is just denying all the different atrocities that happened, whether it was in the party in the Nova or in the different communities in the border? You were there, you witnessed it. So how does it make you feel when you hear that people are saying it didn't happen? It's not as you guys are saying. I wish those people who say those kind of things were in this festival and see that they don't care if it's kid, elder, woman, little girl. There was a lot of people, parents that brought their kids to this festival because it's like a world wild. There was a lot of Arabs, a lot of Muslims, a lot of Africans, a lot of Germans, Brazilians, all over the world. They didn't care. They just want blood. They don't care about it. And it's not going to happen. But if they're going to end to it here and they're going to succeed, which is not going to happen, they're a terrorist organization against a country with army and it's not going to happen. I think that they, I don't know. And I'm not against Palestinians. I don't really like them because they hate me.  You know what I'm saying? And if you were, I have Arabic friends, by the way, Muslims. Right. No, I have to ask, you obviously were treated in hospital, I guess, afterwards. Your legs from the damage from the shooting and I could see your legs are heavily bandaged. Yeah. But how are you now? I mean, are you getting the other treatment that you need? You've gone through an event that would have broken many people of any age. How are you doing? Well, it's not the best things to go through. But I'm strong and I'm going to pass through this and I'm looking forward. And this is not what's going to break me. I got a life from it and I'm thanking God, of course. And yeah, I just, I'm looking in the future. I'm not letting it depress me. I'm not letting it, of course, that in the first, in the last two weeks, I didn't slept well and it was really hard. But what they want is to make us feel this depression and feel weak and get into traumatizing. And I won't let them do it. Right. I just want to say no. We've been showing some of the footage as you saw of yourself. But we can't, we didn't show the most graphic footage of some of the dead bodies because we haven't had time or we have to edit it or we have restrictions. But I do want to say something. You can just go with your further imagine and you will. I would just want to say that you performed a, you not just survived, but you're a hero because you performed a heroic act of recording that and that footage is going to be important and is going to last and is going to tell the world what happened there. And it will get out there. I hope, yeah. All right. Well, what can I say? No, it's an incredible account. And this is one story. One story. You need to remember that people have been through whole family got erased from this world all generations just because of pure evil, you know? So my story, it's nothing. And I can assure you that I know that there is people that wasn't in this scenario. And now they're taking it more hard than what I take it. All right. No, we wish you, we join your grieving for your friends that you lost. We wish to say for recovery of the close friends that may still be alive even in Gaza. And we wish the best for you and for coming in here and having the courage to tell us the story. No, I'm calling. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Thanks. I don't really know what to say after that except we'll be back at the top of the hour with more news on I-24 News. Stay with us. It's no surprise the transition to parent hoard can be transformative for anyone with a new baby. But what kind of mark is it leaving on the brains of new parents? There are dramatic physiological, hormonal and neuronal changes in the body and the brain that accompanies parenthood. Much like the changes that happen in the brain when picking up any new skill, like learning a new language or mastering a new musical instrument, the brain also changes when becoming a parent. It's what scientists call experience-induced brain plasticity. And Professor Adi Mizrahi is doing some of his own digging into this at the Hebrew University's Edmund and Lily Safry Centre for Brain Sciences. The region of the brain called the amygdala it becomes more sensitive in the mothers when they hear baby sounds. In short, all these senses get a boost to help a mother interact with her baby. Smell and sound to very strong stimuli are the areas Professor Mizrahi is focused on in his lab. But does fatherhood have the same impact on the brain and bodies of men? Devils of testosterone, which is the male hormone which is correlated with male-like behaviours like aggressiveness and things of that sort. It goes down when the male becomes parents. As Professor Mizrahi says, each and every one of us has a parent or two parents. Most of us will become parents one day and as any new parent knows, having a baby provides opportunities for enrichment, learning and stress experiences known to transform the adult brain. 1,300 casualties and over 3,000 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. The U.S. has so far backed Israel's offensive although U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, we're hearing, yes, I'm sorry, rocket sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv now. We will continue to broadcast through this alert. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken who was in Saudi Arabia early today and now in the United Arab Emirates is meeting with top officials there and is calling for the protection for all civilians. The Saudis have reportedly frozen any further talks with the U.S. regarding normalization with Israel while the conflict rages. Two senior Hamas commanders are now confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. One, the commander who plotted last week's massacre along with the head of the massacre and also the head of Hamas' aerial forces. Now the IDF says hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are heeding warnings to move to the southern area of the Gaza despite the efforts of Hamas to stop them, leaving a senior Egyptian official and a senior Egyptian official says Egypt, Israel and the U.S. have agreed to allow foreigners residing in Gaza to pass through the Rakhach border crossing into Egypt. The West Bank security forces have arrested 280 Palestinians including dozens of Hamas supporters. Many Israelis have been taking to their shelters throughout the day after a barrage of rockets hit central and southern Israel and I have to tell you we just heard loud booms here in the studio, overhead presumably now either from rocket interceptions or landings. No casualties have been reported so far today. In the north on the border with Lebanon, the IDF has started attempted terrorist infiltrations and has been exchanging fire with Hamas and his bullet terrorists throughout the day. You're looking at live pictures from Tel Aviv. As again, a rocket that we're getting reports of, a rocket firing, we're seeing flashes there in the Tel Aviv area. Okay, let's go, let's go, first we're going to jump to our, we're seeing live pictures there in Tel Aviv of people taking cover. I repeat, we have now rockets, incoming rockets reports in central Israel in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, including here in the studio, we just heard booms either from a rocket's landing or from their interceptions from the Iron Dome defensive system. We'll bring you updates from the Tel Aviv area and when we get them. In the meantime though, let's go to our Piestachobach in the north of Israel. Pio, here we're under fire in Tel Aviv. You've had that situation throughout the day. Tell us about what's been going on in the north. Well, first of all, please stay safe there in Tel Aviv. What you are here, here in the north, there hasn't been alert so far this day, although there has been a major security incident in the late afternoon where 30 mortar shells were fired toward an IDF post in the Haldov area in the eastern part of the Israeli-Lebanese border. The IDF immediately struck with air artillery and also tanks. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for that launch of the mortar missiles. Now the Haldov area is a disputed area. It has been the scene of fighting before. Six days ago Hezbollah and the IDF exchanged a fire there and it is also the area where earlier this summer Hezbollah had placed two tents, almost triggering an escalation back then. Now what the IDF is saying in a statement is that they have apprehended an infiltration attempt by a squad from southern Lebanon in a suspected attempt to launch an anti-tank missile towards that IDF post. Now Hezbollah is saying that they have been trying to strike IDF monitoring and surveillance posts. Again Israel is striking back there. This comes amid the Israeli defense minister, Joav Galad, has been visiting the base of the northern command in the city of Safed Swat in Hebrew. There he was briefed on the continuing operations here of the Israeli army in the north and he emphasized there the efforts that are being made by the Israeli security forces to really safeguard the north here as the fear of infiltration attempts further infiltration attempts is quite real here. Only in the early morning hours today there was an infiltration attempt in another Israeli city in Mar Galiot which is also in the eastern part of the border with Lebanon. A squad of three reportedly Palestinians was apprehended there apparently operating under the command of Hezbollah. So as of now the scene is still very very tense here in the north. In fact we're standing here in the city of Shlomi city of a few thousand residents that has been almost deserted. Most of its residents have left already. Actually when we came here we were surprised to find the city open as it had been closed off by the Israeli army for many days throughout the week here. So as of now the situation is calm but it is as it has been throughout the entire week a tense calm as skirmishes between Hezbollah and the Israeli army have increased also infiltration attempts of high ground and air have increased throughout this week as well Kalev. Alright Piestak Obach in northern Israel in Shlomi thank you for that. We have in the studio with us Benjroy Yemini a senior journalist for Yiddier Achonot daily. Stay safe. And thank you Piestak. Reserves IDF Major General Eitan Dangot. I have to tell you if you're hearing some ringing noise Benjroy has left his alert on as he should as any good Israeli should be listening to the warnings of the IDF. We are not going into the shelter now because we continue to broadcast you live even though we are hearing booms above our head but if you're in the Tel Aviv area and you're watching this on TV you shouldn't be. You should be in your shelter waiting for the Auclia from the home front command. There has been now just a minute. I just hope that my wife do not hear you because I'm going to be in a big problem. I understand the below. I just want to say there has been now there was an alert a minute ago in the Ashkelon area it looks like the alert in the Tel Aviv area has gone. If we have any updates of what happened here in Tel Aviv we will bring you that. Rishon Letzion also the quite close actually the city which is just sort of to the south southeast of here. Well gentlemen we'll try to concentrate if you could pull that off Benjroy because we're talking silence that's true and we should be because we should be listening to the alerts we are under fire right now gentlemen. Benjroy I want to go to you because as I mentioned before Anthony Blinken is now doing a diplomatic rounds in the region. He was in Saudi Arabia he's now in the UAE heading to Egypt talking about a humanitarian corridor protecting civilians President Joe Biden today tweeting against support for Israel but saying that there should be humanitarian efforts the rule of law war has to be followed you wrote an article now in the Hebrew press which is available in English on the Weynet website which says that Israel is fighting now for the free world. I want you to talk about that because I wonder if there is in a sense that the narrative may be starting to shift that there was that feeling in the first couple of days of the war that the narrative is falling back into a familiar pattern where it's just really a localized conflict between Israel and Hamas. It's always like that. At the beginning people identify with Israel and a bit later on when Israel is beginning to retaliate then not anymore you see the people from Gaza Strip are suffering because Israel is a kind of regional superpower let's put it on the table we are fighting evil the axis of evil and yes everything should be done according to the international law no doubt about it but we have to understand the reality and the reality is that Hamas is part of Daesh the reality is what so many channels do not broadcast is actually that the leaders of the Hamas repeatedly say we are actually not speaking about Israel we are speaking about conquering Europe, conquering America, conquering the whole world they say it in their own voice and they are saying we have to exterminate all the Jews in their own TV Al-Aqsa channel now why don't you broadcast it in order just to understand what we are fighting when you do not know it then you blame Israel command poor people we are fighting an evil I don't like to use this word Islam or Nazism but what can I do when they say when they are coming by the way in the demonstrations that were carried out 2, 3, 4 years ago they came with the swastika with the swastika plug of the Nazis we have to bear it in mind what we are fighting against I mean it has nothing to do with criticism against Israel which is legitimate I do it myself as a journalist I don't like the policies of my own government Israel is a democracy but we are speaking about something else we are speaking about so many people, too many people in the West that actually support the Hamas when the Hamas is saying we have to kill all the Jews I just on that note just mention we saw in London today this afternoon a massive pro they say pro-Palestinian Hamas them a rally in the heart of London Hamas is the enemy of the Palestinians Jihad is the enemy of Palestinians just think about the option that Palestinians say no we don't want terror no we want to live in peace two states for two peoples you know what if right now we have something like 55% of the Israeli public who support this kind of solution we will have something like 80% they support the Hamas no, they keep on with the hatred this is not the way we have to also remember what is the essence of the Hamas first, Hamas is part of the Muslim brothers Muslim brothers are the enemy in most of the Arab countries not in Qatar maybe but in most of the Muslim countries they are the enemy they are outlawed even that's one, second the founder of the Muslim brothers or the Muslim brotherhood Hassan Al-Bana he spoke about his own movement as industry of death and the Hamas people again we have to just to listen if you ignore it you don't know the Hamas people say again and again we are the industry of death and they say we want death and you just as you want life this is the essence so just we have to remember and I am speaking to all those progressives I mean do you know what you are talking about you are talking about you are supporting people who are actually preaching again and again in favor of extermination of Jews some of them even speaking about extermination of Christians if to quote to the last one of them I am quoting what they broadcast in the Hamas channel listen to them listen to them they say it not I say it and then they come to us when I am interviewed when they are coming to us they are speaking about what well what you do is disproportionate command what are you talking about Israel is doing more than any other country to prevent any harm to innocent civilians I just want to note speaking of Hampton of the civilians there is a report of a rocket landing in the town of Petah Tikfa which is just a little northeast of Tel Aviv we will bring you more information as we have it let's go down to our Mary McAuliffe who is down in Stilrout Mary we just had a red alert here in the area apparently some landings of course Stilrout is born the brunt of these attacks over the past weeks what's been the situation down there absolutely the rocket sirens also fired in Tel Aviv also here in this area we saw a number of rockets streaming overhead so as we saw them we assumed there were rockets heading towards Tel Aviv these were high in the sky and moving fast in that direction we do know that in the Ashkelon and Ashdod area there were a number of rockets also fired there and we could hear some smaller explosions at the same time we of course continue to also hear the sounds of the airstrikes that are being done inside the Gaza Strip as well as some of those heavy machinery fire that's being done here so heavy machine guns and howitzers and borders that are defined from this really side of the border into Gaza Strip we continue to hear much of that sounds of war here in the area as we do feel this readiness preparedness being up by the Israeli forces as they get ready to now again officially confirming that they will be launching a ground land air and sea invasion in to Gaza so this is what is being prepared for in the area and you can certainly feel the tension you can certainly feel the level of activity here a number of different forces both from the Israeli army as well as border police in this area in Strip which again as you mentioned was one of the hardest hit areas in one of the first places that these Hamas terrorists managed to break in so here we are absolutely feeling the heightened tension so we should mention those still wrote as you see the streets empty behind you it to most has been largely emptied out the most of the residents evacuated to other areas of the country that's right Colette so after the mayor initially called on residents to stay in not calling for evacuations and he didn't think it needed to happen two nights ago finally making the decision and calling on the government to implement an evacuation order saying that the residents were simply so traumatized by the weeks events and that they continued also be under this rock and fire they said it was in the best interest of all of the people and throughout for their safety for their mental well-being to evacuate the area to go further north to other parts of the country which have been welcoming them hotels have been open for them the government's also subsidizing guest houses for them to stay and if they have to leave their homes but of course there are still some residents here who are refusing to leave saying this is their home and they will not be moved and they will not be scared away from living in their house by Hamas people who want to attack them so they do estimate some inside streets that told me us today that they believe there's some 30% of the residents are still living here again let's remind our viewers this is a town of some 30,000 people less than a couple miles from the Gaza border and it certainly has felt the brunt being so close to Gaza border in these last few days. Alright Mary McAuliffe and Stero thank you for that I want to go back to a point that Benjra made about Hamas being the really the enemy of the Palestinians as well and also trying to exploit the situation because we do see a situation today with the Ismahani the leader of Hamas saying that telling Gazans not to move not to relocate to the south of the Gaza Strip as recommended by the IDF so they could avoid that heavy bombardment reports that they're even being prevented we even now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been sending pictures of roadblocks that have been put on the main road in Gaza to prevent that and Hamas wanting to have those pictures of civilians being killed in Israeli strikes again forcing the civilian population in the north to be those human shields to create that kind of impact that Benjra was talking about in the western world Hamas first of all I think Hamas is under pressure on the continuating of the IDF plans Israel succeed to move outside of a territory almost most of the terrorists and close the fence and meanwhile the air force is striking offensively and the all the time the targets of Hamas and Jihad Islamic what you see now that Israel warned the population to not work in a war in something that happened in the past so we signals to the population a war to move to the south in order to save their life and I think Hamas understand very well the situation now that is going to be from the point of the war but they are still in this behavior I think even they maybe succeed to prevent now pictures of traffic that is going from south to south in Gaza they show to the world how they keep their civilians as not hostages as a part of their plans they are not giving any kind of importance or priority to human life unfortunately the tragedy that we face already showed it to us and it's also to show to the world while we are speaking about continuating of deal and legitimation to Israel to continue with its plans and while we are also dealing with some of a request for international community to do things we have to continue Israel will continue its offensive plan and we are going to the next stage that our plan I'm not going to say how I'm not going to make any asses about when I'm just telling you we are on the way we have to be very tough to achieve our goal we cannot allow ourselves that one day more the Hamas these murderers these butchers will be our neighbor and we have to continue to achieve our goal to destroy Hamas and Jihad Islamic structure and to destroy their capacitive of terror organization and to move it outside of the of the border. Alright gentlemen I'm sure you agree with me I've at least been trying to effectively counter this narrative of Hamas or its supporters the testimony about the many young Israelis who are either killed or still missing after that Hamas cross-border attack now one of them is a young woman named Rony Eshel she's an IDF soldier who was serving in the Nahal Ozami observation post she and six other female soldiers serving that unit have not been heard of since that base was overrun by Tahir Kowalski she is the aunt of Rony Eshel Tahir tell us about Rony first of all Hi thank you so much for letting us have a voice and tell our story Rony my niece Rony is 19 years old girl she loves Harry Styles and she loves Taylor Swift that's what she does like other teens in her age she's really really love kids and babies she always babysits at her hometown Tsuritschak she's actually the first granddaughter in our family and maybe the first baby I ever held 19 years ago I can even recall this moment when my mom picked her up as a baby looking up smiling and then she spit all the milk she just had on her face which is hilarious to remember but nothing is hilarious at this time at this moment we don't know where is Rony and we're here to save her when did you in the family first hear that Rony was missing possibly taken captive okay so the last time we heard from Rony is when she texted her mom at 9.27 exactly from a different from not from her own phone from the base she said I love you mom don't worry about me I'm safe with free hearts and Sharon her mom said please take care of yourself and this is the last time that we ever heard from her I think that night I texted her at 1 a.m. and I brought her Rony baby girl don't worry I'll find you we will find you we will get you home as soon as we can tell you what's your message you know we also have an international audience so what is your message that you want to say now speaking out to Israel but also to the world to the world I want to say we are a community we're an international community we're all against terrorism don't support it they're against the Palestinian people they're against us they're against everyone don't support them support us help us find Rony help us get her back home have you ever had to pray so hard that you felt your eyes are bleeding have you ever felt that the skies will tear if you'll keep praying so hard pray with us and help us get her back and help us be safe in our own country and never forget that there are children as young as 9 months old and as old as 80 something that are being captured, formatted by Hamas handing Gaza right now don't forget that this is the situation and you know it's important to say that the genocide that took place starting Saturday was a holiday here it was the last holiday that's supposed to start the Jewish year nothing like that happened since the Holocaust since 1945 we can't let things like this happen to humans, to people inside their own country it's not an army against an army but it's important also to say that Rony is a child our child our baby girl and we want her back home we haven't slept, we haven't ate we're just looking for her this is so important for us to say and just one thing that is important to keep in mind that we are strong and light will win in the war against darkness but we want to win with our family so many families now will never be together again but I will not sled, I will not imagine even that this will happen to my family, not again Alright, Tahir Kowalski we wish to say for turn of Rony Eshel and we thank you for joining us Thank you so much for letting us tell her story and show her around the world Of course, thank you for joining us Benjro, we've had those stories we're putting them out there, I don't know to what degree they're getting out but how much is that an effective counter to the other attitudes that you talked about in your piece and you talked about here tonight Yeah People do not understand many times and I speak with many foreign journalists I'm interviewed in foreign channels and it's quite sad it's quite sad that they have no idea what they're talking about is a command but they live in the biggest prison in the world I guess you hear this kind of excuse again and again, no it's not it's not the story, the story is that they were offered again and again by the international community by the quartet, by the EU they were offered no more siege but you have to stop the terror, that's all we have only one condition, no more terror they always, by always they rejected all the offers that were given from the international community and of course also from Israel why? Because of the industry of death they prefer death, not life not prosperity, not education not welfare, unfortunately and yes before Israelis became hostages the whole people of the Gaza Strip are actually hostages of what of the radical Islam of Hamas which is a proxy of Iran and just one more thing to remember you know what? it has nothing to do with Israel how come that it has nothing to do with Israel? I'll tell you how, because wherever you have this kind of radical Islam you have destruction and death look what is happening in Yemen, look at what is happening in Syria look at what happened for so long time in Iran I mean it has nothing to do with Israel it has to do with the facts that we are speaking about radical Islam alright Ben Droy Yemini, thank you for joining us this evening on I-24 News Eitan Dango, please stay with us we'll continue our coverage and now sirens air raid sirens going off in the Ashkelon area in parts of southern Israel just a half hour ago here in the studio in Tel Aviv we heard sirens we'll continue to follow the situation as it develops here stay with us on I-24 News 10 minute www.madeforme.co.il madeforme official dresser of I-24 News good evening ladies and gentlemen 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 a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped tell us we don't know what 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 I started working in I-24 News in 2013 that same year as part of the documentary series reportage INSIGHT I traveled to Argentina to interview Fiscal Alberto Nisman who had determined to commemorate an understanding between Argentina and Iran signed by the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who was related to the attack on the AMIA in 1994 which left a salary of 85 dead and more than 100 injured the material we work on on January 18, 2015 an impactant event occurred Fiscal Alberto Nisman was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment with a bullet in his head and what everyone was asking was a suicide or a murder the Supreme Argentine Court dictated that it was a murder the only solution is to bring them here behind this so interesting story a terrorist movement international conspiracies search for the truth one day we will know the truth in the last 7 years for the magazine News 24 in Spanish that is broadcast on i24news I made more than 40 reports related to the issue AMIA Nisman Iran a topic that has all the conditions for an international channel of news like i24news continue to investigate until one day the truth is clarified the news is broadcast on Middle East Correspondent Ariel Osteran Ariel we just had over the past half hour rocket siren alerts all throughout South and Central Israel to update us on what information we have about that So first of all we will start from the most important no reports of injuries in any of these sites of hits we are talking about direct hits in the southern town of Ashkelon at least 2 direct hits there according to the municipality as well as a direct hit in Batiam that is just a southern suburb of Tel Aviv just a few miles that way and also in Jerjulia Arab town in the central of Israel there is also identified a direct impact there no reports of injuries in either of those sites All right we are going to be joined now by Reserves IDF Brigadier General He is the former director general of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs former head of the research division for the IDF military intelligence He joins us now from Roche high in Yossi we just had rocket fire all throughout Central or the Tel Aviv area and also southern Israel even as Israel continues to pound with these airstrikes build up of southern forces just give us a sense of we are talking about now a war an invasion the IDF said an invasion on forefronts, ground, sea on air give us a sense of what this would be the timetable for that what would be the if not the exact time what would be the conditions that would be the green light for Israel to start making that move Well I think it's about preparedness it's the moment there is going to be full preparedness for the move forward I think it's going to be taken and implemented it's not a matter of whether we are going to do it it's more a question of whether we are already fully prepared and because the decision in my mind has been taken it's it's a decisive move in this very important move in this war because everybody is trying to convince us not to do it and we know too that even if we are successful in spite of the price that goes along with it and really taking over Gaza still problems are going to emerge after that in Gaza and in other areas there is a group of countries that don't want us to do that because for them they thought they would start a war against us I mean Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas thought that they are going to start a war against us and they are going to be victorious using the weakness of the west using the weakness of Israel and they will be able to change the equation as they say and impose on Israel all kinds of conditions what happens is just the opposite and they are very afraid that this ground incursion is going to make Hamas lose its control of Gaza which is a major asset of Hamas and a major asset of the entire axis led by Iran so they are very worried and they are trying to deter us but everything we see in the north is done for their purpose let me ask you that because I know you focus very much on the Iran file or the Iran front over the past years we saw the Iranian Foreign Minister today in Lebanon meeting with Hezbollah we've seen these incursions rocket attacks from Hezbollah but how far is Hezbollah or it's patron Iran so if Israel if it when Israel moves ahead with this ground operation well it's hard to say for the time being as I said they are trying to deter us through escalating the situation to some level but not the full escalation but many more levels of escalations that they can choose but if we decide to move in then it's a new ballgame for them too on the one hand they are very worried that they are going to lose this asset not that they are they believe also that escalation may make it more difficult for us to concentrate and move forward in Gaza and the other or at the same hand they have to listen to what the Iranians are telling them to do and if the Iranians are going to insist that they are going to escalate they have to take this into account seriously on the other hand there is the taunt of Biden the weapons that he brought for that purpose well let me ask you that government how much of a deterrent is that we don't see it deterring his baller at this stage what would it be is how much of a deterrent and what would really force the US his hand to actually use some of that those destroyers that aircraft carrier that it's from the 6th fleet that it's brought off the Lebanese coast I believe that if Israel would ask them to do that they will but I'm not sure I'm quite convinced that Israel is not going to do that because Israel is prepared to handle his baller by its own force and that's why as I said the Lebanese are worried about this entire escalation option because they are worried that they are going to pay the heavy price so it's I'm not sure what's going to be done I think Nasrallah himself has not yet made the decision and the foreign minister of Iran alluded to that when he said that he expects Nasrallah to behave in a certain way which means that he's himself not sure yet what Nasrallah is going to do that's in this equation of contradicting pressures over his baller the American involvement has certain ways in my mind but we have to remember that it's not only these elements that don't want us to have this grounding that's also Jordan is very worried it might affect its stability Egypt is extremely worried it might send a lot of dozens to the border Qatar is worried Turkey is worried and the Palestinian Authority is worried everybody is worried and would like us to refrain from doing that but we just it's like a Greek tragedy we don't have any other option we tried for 70 years to avoid it at this point Hamas put us in a place where we just cannot avoid doing that All right Reserves our idea of Brigadier General Yossif Kupovas, thank you for joining us on I-24 news There is a report of a I see of a direct hit in the Israeli Arab city of Geljulia this evening we should note that many of the victims that we've seen dozens of Israeli Arabs or Palestinian Israelis however however they identify with have been victims fatalities of Hamas attacks over the past week I want to give you a chance to pick up on some of the comments that we just discussed with General Kupovas First of all about the north I think you can identify stabilization of a policy by Rizbala in Iran that means we will raise the tense but we know to close the circle among the events that are happening and we have an exit point yet it doesn't mean what will be tomorrow and the point that will be decided to interfere the achieve one thing is that they make Israel to be prepared with so many people instead being in the south as well There is just by drawing Israeli troops to the north and Israeli military they've achieved they've achieved a goal without actually having to launch an attack This is the first step they made the plan by it's like a cheat that we were ready to fight it this concept in the north and we got it on the south from Hamas Secondly, the second issue is the fact that by these occasions of terror the small terror you can call it in the north border recognize themselves as they are helping Hamas in what's happening the third is above all is the step by the United States that created a threat and a deterrence towards Iran it's something much more above the conflict here and it means a lot to Iran concerning the future in the Middle East especially the contact United States Iran and the modern Arab countries and Saudi Arabia and with all these things I think they are still hesitating the meeting in Lebanon between the foreign ministry of Iran and his Balaz leader Nasrallah has also two points one, to show that this is something to balance the visit of the Americans leaders the chief Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Saudi Arabia and the United Arabs and the chief of staff and everybody and I think that the coming days they will be decided also concerning the situation on the south about the achievements that will reach by Israel in Gaza and it will also be maybe the game changer on this type of decisions meanwhile you see that Iran and his Balaz are not changing their concept they will beat in my opinion in the coming one, two days I will say the second half of this week will be the dramatic decision that has to be taken in the north On Iran Supreme leader not surprising today calling on the Muslim world to expand its attacks on Israel no surprise there but I do want to ask you Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Saudi Arabia today in the United Arab Emirates speaking with leaders there Ariel and maybe most importantly tomorrow going to Egypt


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