e elements within the Gaza Strip in order to prevent humanitarian problems. And I repeat, I want to be very clear. The Israeli army is not in a war against the Palestinian people, against Palestinian people in Gaza. We are in a war against Hamas. We will defeat Hamas and at the same time, we'll do whatever should be done in order to help, to assist and to prevent civilian innocent people to be involved in the combats. By the way, to make it clear, Hamas did everything, still doing everything to involve his own population within the combats and to make them hurt and then explain to the world that they are hurt because of Israel. But of course, all of that, all of that, it is Hamas strategy actually to promote their own interests and it's a fake, it's a lie and it's terrible. Always thank you very much, Olivier Raffer which Colonel Olivier Raffer is joining us again from the IDF. Thanks again for joining us. Thank you very much. There is a second path, a second theater of battle right now and it's at the north. And that's where Pia Stachelbacker, our 24 news correspondent, she's joining us for the northern part of Israel. Pia, thank you for joining us through the, it sounds as though as of right now, it has been all quiet on the northern front. Right Elba, well the past 24 hours have been relatively quiet here but what you do always see is that motor shells and anti-tank missiles are launched from southern Lebanon towards Israeli communities in the north. Yesterday, the communities of Metula and Margaliot in the upper eastern part of the Galilee were targeted as well as Arab al-Aramsh which is more towards the western side there. Also the kibbutz of Yiftah was targeted or was meant to be targeted by a squad that was apprehended before by Israeli military there. Yiftah is a community, is a kibbutz where about a week ago an Israeli civilian was killed exactly by an anti-tank missile. So these cross-border skirmishes do continue also here in the morning hours. We could hear Israeli artillery firing towards southern Lebanon there and this is basically what we've been seeing all throughout the past weeks that these cross-border confrontations continue and intensify. You're right that today and also yesterday was a relatively quiet day but the situation here is very tense and the frontier is very volatile. That also speaks to the dozens of communities that have been evacuated in a proximity of about five kilometers to the Lebanese border, thousands of people who do not know when to come back to their homes. And yesterday that issue was addressed by Israeli politicians Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with municipal leaders here in the north. Also Benigans, the leader of the National Unity Party and the member of the current war cabinet towards cities like Kiryat Shmona and Metula. And he said that the situation here will not go back to how it was at October 6th, of course referring to the reality before the current war with Gaza broke out because the threat that is Bala Post and is still posing has been also very much real before the current war and it will persist also after. And also yesterday Joav Galant, the current defense minister addressed this issue in a speech saying that the goal is to restore security here and that really speaks to the concerns of many people who evacuated the region here and to a fearful to come back knowing that Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies are still sitting on the border. Great, P.S. Takhabah who's joining us live from the northern front with Lebanon. Thanks again for joining us for this update. We'll be back in touch with you throughout the day. Now the subject of Russia and how Russian involvement in this war, it's a pretty large cloud that hovers over against this war here. So I'm joined now by Arkady Millman. He's the senior researcher and the head of the Russia program at the Institute for National Security Studies. He's also the former Israeli ambassador to Russia and Azerbaijan. He's joining us again this morning. Thanks so much for joining us. Now you did a paper for the INSS and in the paper you wrote that Moscow has a firm support for Hamas especially after October the 7th. That's a turning point between the relations between Israel and Russia. Can you explain why that is? Why it's such a turning point? Oh it's a Russian position. There was a conception in Israel that Russia is a friendly country but actually after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia really it's not a friendly country to Israel and to other Western countries. They are on the anti-American and anti-Western position and their perception is that Israel is a part of Western world. So it's very easy to think that also Israel is a part of Western world. So they have to take a different approach to relations with Israel. And that's the main problem. Now the military strategic alliance between Russia and Iran also the part of this war in Ukraine of course helps Russia in their understanding that Israel is not on their side. And because of the Iranian proxies as like Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations. So for Russia it was very easy not to condemn the massacre of 7th of September and not to condemn Hamas and take on the Israeli position. So Arkady do we know what kind of level of participation there was by the Russians? Was it more of the let you let the Iranians do the work coordinating funding it whatever we'll just take a look and we'll just see it from above or was it more active operation cooperation? Yes no first of all there's of course an active cooperation between Russia and Hamas. First of all Russia had given the license to produce AK-47 and Kalashnikov weapon. Now they had their position different kind of anti-tank missiles and other RPG for example. There's also a weapon. Now Hamas the server especially of the arm parts of Hamas they use the servers in Russia. Now they also use the crypto stock exchange and the special exchange in Russia to transfer dozens of millions to their digital wallets and also Jihad-Islamic does the same. So there's a lot of different kind of activities and of course diplomatic activities and different kind of meetings and visits to Moscow etc etc. Now the Prime Minister had tried to have better ties with Moscow and it seems as though Moscow basically said thanks but we're not interested. Do you think that there's been a shift even more so after October 7th? I don't think that today the relations with Russia is some turning point. I don't think that we can maintain the same level of relations with the country that is really anti-Israeli country and not friendly country. So it's impossible to maintain the same kind of level of relations between Israel and Russia. It's impossible. Arkady we saw some really really disturbing video if you remember October 8th and 9th of anti-Semitic rhetoric and some riots that occurred Dagestan for instance. Can it go any further any more anti-Semitic any more anti-Jewish any more anti-Israel in Russia or is there or is there some point where it just it just doesn't get any lower? Oh it's a look it's a it's a very problematic issue because Putin himself started this anti-Israel and I will say anti-Semitic campaign in the beginning of September and also before this when he blamed the the Ukrainian president Zelensky because of his Jewish roots and in the beginning of September he started a real anti-Semitic campaign and one of expression of this campaign was of course the pogrom in our attempt to pogrom in Makhachkala and this is a very dangerous development in Russia and they continue this policy. Arkady one question I have to ask you now it's about Ukraine. I mean if Russia has basically said all right we'll have Hamas on our side they've now we're against the US we've now set up a cold war if you will. Does that mean that Israel then turns and says to Ukraine you know what we will not only give you more armaments not only help you with more iron dome type of missiles but we'll help you even more so is that a possibility? There's a possibility but I don't think that this possibility is realistic today when we have a war real war with Hamas but what is realistic is to take the position pro-Ukrainian position because of the very simple one it's that today we have an axis of evil it's Russia, North Korea, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and of course in Yemen we have also different kind of proxy of Iran etc etc and the other axis is the axis of the Western countries with Ukraine, with Israel, with the United States and European country so today there's some kind of war between two these camps and between two these axes so we are on the Western part and we have to take this position and of course we have to support Ukraine because Ukraine and Israel our fight is for democracy and the fight of Russia and Hamas is against the democracies so that is for in my opinion it's very very simple issue and we have to understand it from a strategic level we have to be on the right side. Arkady Milman senior researcher and the head of the Russian program at the Institute for National Security Studies former Israeli ambassador to Russian Azerbaijan thanks again for joining us this morning so now let's turn to America in America at least 300,000 people packed the National Mall in Washington showing support for Israel but also showing support for Jews in America anti-Jewish incidents have surged since the October 7th attack on Israel earlier in the day the top American political leaders bipartisan screened Hamas propaganda videos showing the brutal butchering burning and murders of at least 1200 Israelis many of these hardened politicians removed to tears and visibly sobbed during the screening at the National Mall people came by car by bus by train and plane from all over America to show support also there the president of Israel Isaac Herzog whilst our loved ones are held captive in Gaza and our soldiers are fighting for our beloved Israel Jews all over the world are assaulted for being Jewish the hatred the lies the brutality the disgraceful outburst of ancient anti-semitism are an embarrassment to all civilized people and nations how we are living is hard to describe to you we hostage families have lived the last 39 days in slow motion torment these children these children of God range in age from nine months to 87 years they are Christians Muslims Jews Buddhists and Hindu why are they being left underground in the dirt join me again here in studio as Martin Hemel political and international security analyst Martin 300,000 people going to the National Mall in Washington it's a pretty large crowd but that's not really enough is it no it's not enough but it's a very good start because there have been massive rallies in London Paris New York etc to have a big Jewish rally is a very important statement to show that Jews around the world are not going to tolerate this new brand of anti-semitism basically but what is really needed are sustained small continuous demonstrations throughout western capitals the western world to counteract a growing a massive growing pro-palestinian pro-hamas surge of social media and and protests it go ahead no I was going to say there's a Harris poll that came out yesterday that showed that one third of all Americans under the age of 34 support Hamas I mean it's that these numbers would make a lot of Americans blanched they would say this is insane it is insane to some degrees but you know racism and anti-semitism is an insane thing the way to counteract it is to drive the message that this is not about Palestinians civilians this is about destroying Israel destroying Jews and destroying the Jewish state and to drive home this is an anti a surge of anti-semitism and that has to be bombarded all the time in key small protests social media and mainstream media interviews let's talk about the european support Germany that's ironic to I can't even describe the word ironic if Germany is coming to the support of Israel on this well Germany has a very dissinistered past and knows what the severe cost of of virulent anti-semitism can be could lead to holocaust the fact that Germany is coming out now I think is a way for the Germans to always look back at their responsibility to help choose now and to account for the holocaust and that's why this support is so crucial at this time especially in Europe where there's a real big surge of anti-semitism right England France Portugal I remember the Portugal Prime Minister coming out saying in support Portuguese president coming out in support I should say Germany at some point is there is there a risk that that goodwill will disappear as this continues on well I think we passed the point where maybe that goodwill could disappear because I think at this point the amount of civilian casualties actually dropped somewhat because the attacks are becoming more surgical on the ground so I think the leadership support will continue the question is what's happening on their ground their ground of public opinion there are very large Muslim communities in Europe they're pressing very hard for anti-israel action and so the battle on the ground is a battle of social media protests and that's why small continuous protests by Jews anywhere in Europe are very very important and that talks a lot about the social media battle on the streets that that turns into political battles in their respective countries I mean if I'm a there's an election coming up in the United States there's discussion of the fact that that Joe Biden in the US administration is going to back off just a touch because they're afraid of what it would encounter in terms of election that's coming on next year we're going to have this all over the world where it basically have to do nothing but push harder because of what may turn in a lot of these countries we may see that in France or in Britain where there are very powerful anti-israel movements going on there but Joe Biden is taking a calculated risk also because on the other side on the republican side there's very very strong support for Israel and the republicans could use that as a weapon see the democrats are going anti-israel we're for Israel and that could sway somewhat Jewish support depending if Donald Trump's gonna actually be the leader of the republicans but Joe Biden's got a real problem with that because he is intrinsically pro-israel on this and I think he's going to try to minimize the damage as much as possible but he is facing a progressive eruption within his party that's quite anti-israel let's talk about the imati nations okay a hospital school world health wealth world health organization run hospital as has a terrorist all underneath it UNRWA schools that are basically have teachers that are supporting Hamas with 30 seconds that we have left it's the UN relevant in this situation the UN is relevant because it represents 195 countries around the world well Israel will win a certain initial battle here when it shows the incubators going to the Palestinians but still it faces the daunting tasks of UNRWA saying that there are there are millions of a million Palestinians displaced and they have to be fed and that's going to be an ongoing concern Martin Hemel thank you so much for joining us you know the news is moving very fast and stay up to date here on i24 news here on tv streaming and on the i24 news app i'm albert lewitton reporting live from televieve the news continues after the break is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well come to our viewers around the world i'm albert lewitton reporting live from the i24 news headquarters in televieve day 40 of the war against Hamas news coming in fast and furious and here's what you need to know number one overnight the idf has entered the al shifa hospital center in gaza city there has been some active fire a number of Hamas terrorists have been killed at the entrance of the hospital the idf told i24 news that it is a specialized operation with medical teams and arabic speaking personnel going room to room to minimize injuries to civilians incubators baby food and medical supplies have been brought in the american intelligence services say that their independent information is that Hamas has a command node under the hospital the second thing you need to know abc news in the united states citing an israeli source says that there has been a breakthrough in the deal for the release of hostages it may happen in 48 to 72 hours another report from the con network israel and Hamas are negotiating a child for child deal it's being mediated by cutter in the united states now the idea here the israeli children kidnapped to gaza will be released in exchange for palestinian children and youngsters imprisoned in israel one of the sources emphasize that the talks are still ongoing that there's no final conclusion number three thing you need to know fuel shipments are coming into the gaza strip for humanitarian operations it is the first time that israel has allowed fuel into the territory since october the seventh kogat the israeli defense body responsible for palestinian affairs says that united nations trucks will fill up about 6200 gallons of fuel at the rafa crossing on the egyptian border that will happen later today the united states had pushed hard for this and the number four thing you need to know two idf soldiers were killed tuesday in fighting in the northern gaza strip now this brings the death toll to the ground offensive against hamas to 48 they are captain omer yosef david 27 years old from karmiel a deputy company commander in the negate brigades 92 17 battalion and captain yadidia asher lev 26 years old from tal minashe a deputy company commander in the gavati brigade shack head battalion we have live team coverage of the ins of the war against hamas day 40 let me first now go to rafael urshami he's a former senior intelligence officer for the idf thanks so much for joining us this incident at the al-shifa hospital they've now gone in and what the idf told me told us earlier is that they're going room to room why are they going room to room instead of an assault first of all because it's a precaution to avoid collateral damage the second of all they have very specific intelligence that is leading the operation so it's dictated by the info they have i have to remind you that the hospital was built by an israeli architectural firm i mean we have all the plans so we know exactly what it looks like and there's been a simulation virtual reality simulation designed by unit 9900 with intel from unit 8200 so that soldiers can visualize even before going in what the place looks like inside more or less we have some intel as to where the tourists themselves the armed threatening tourists are situated in the hospital in the compound and there are other places where it's only really civilians medical staff and sick people but you still have to check room by room floor by floor the main objective now is to evacuate as peacefully as possible the whole of the hospital if we can manage to do so including babies i mean have you ever seen an army going forward into an attack with incubators and maternal baby bottles so that's what we are doing now it's absolutely surreal but we're doing it and the objective is very clear to evacuate all these innocent people so that the idea can work serenely on the compound and especially on what's under the compound so for this you have to take a lot of care it's everything has been taken into account including facial identity cameras and the metal detectors so to make sure that amongst the people that will evacuate now there are no tourists trying to escape as well but also maybe that no hostages are being smuggled out of the hospital because we believe that we might find some hostages there some of them being held for medical reasons because some of the hostages when they were kidnapped were very mistreated and needed medical and if the Hamas wants to bargain you know with the these hostages they need them in a good condition some of some of them might have been hospitalized there all these put together it's an operation i think let's pray it will succeed if it will succeed i think it will stay in history books even more than the antebe operation it will be something never done before in the surgical way it's being done let's do hope that we can avoid a lot of collateral damage that's the main purpose otherwise we would be able to act freely and eliminate all these terrorists but we have to be very very careful and patient until the hospital is evacuated it should be evacuated we have evacuated alcoots hospital for instance from where our pg's were shot at some people in the entrance of this hospital was booby trapped meaning if the entrance is booby trapped so it's the exit you can't go out meaning the people there were hostages of the Hamas now we're taking a look just what i want our viewers at home to show can we roll on video one more time please control room there's a there's some video that's coming in now from inside shifa hospital and what you see here uh this is an actual firefight that's going on let me let's play a little bit you'll see uh that this is what the idf is encountered but you have to understand that the idf is in direct contact with the administration of the hospital officers are speaking with the medical staff to ensure that the safety of people it's you can see it's frightening for so trying to assure them that's why also the troops are coming with arabic speaking soldiers that can communicate in arabic with the people and also their own medical staff to assist the already present the medical staff of the palestinian hospital all these two to two limits you see they are very frightened but they understand that if they show that they are not a threat to the soldiers then they will be spared and they will be protected rafael it's i'm going to have you stay back for one second let me now turn to our pier close under who is at the border with gaza right now from the israeli side uh you pier you've been seeing with some of the video that's been coming in it seems as though what the idf it confirms what the idf told us earlier that they're doing this for no pun intended a surgical strike within the hospital right uh there's a lot of commotion in that video that you add and you can clearly hear uh shots but probably from outside because the room in which the the people the palestinians are trying to protect themselves from the gunshots is inside but you can see an opening in the wall and it seems the gunshots are from outside because from palestinian reports even uh trying to affirm that there is no terror infrastructure in chifa hospital that they said that inside the hospital no gunshot was fired what we know also from testimonies on palestinian reports is that the special unit forces are combing uh one of the buildings on the western side of the complex which is about 22 acres in superficy in surface they're combing room after room floor after floor in order to find any trace of weapons of terror infrastructure but also of the hostages up until now there's no indication that the the hostages are present in the complex but they found caches of weapon and terror sets as they call it in the idf now a security official who required anonymity said that this operation is only at the beginning that they're going to enlarge it probably to other buildings in the complex but right now what they're doing is also calling the young people to come up they're hand raised in order to interrogate them because they suspect that some of them might be terror terrorists that have decided to dress in civilian clothes they're also interrogating the medical personnel a few hundred of them um they're interrogating also the displaced palestinians also one thousand one thousand five hundred of them and uh they're taking care also of the patients they brought in incubators they brought in medical supplies baby food there's 37 newborns premature newborns that need to be evacuated and there's been a an ongoing negotiation with the medical management of the of the shifa hospital for four days already the incubators were already brought uh facing shifa hospital out of shifa hospital yesterday yet the management decided not to accept it now egypt is uh undertaking an effort to evacuate those newborn baby those newborns in the hope that they will be treated uh you know in the proper way in the meantime there's been a lot of confusion we don't exactly know what's happening because we hear for instance from palestinians that the internet and the cellular uh networks have been cut off around the compound but uh you've seen a video so probably it was localized and it's over so we don't exactly know per se what's going on what we know is that there's no indication of hostage presences presence but they found weapon caches at the moment pierna this is in al shifa hospital which is in the middle of agaza city but it doesn't mean that all of the idf troops are targeting towards that hospital there's still the rest of gaza city to fight block by block street by street and it's been pouring rain was pouring rain overnight i'm sure that doesn't help in terms of the fight it doesn't help in terms of the fight it doesn't help also in terms of the dire humanitarian condition of the civilian population because i've been to gaza in the the year 2000 and once rain pours down on on gaza uh you you have lakes forming in the streets you have uh lakes of rainwater mixed with sewage so the difficult there's a difficult dire humanitarian predicament even more dire than for the soldiers the soldiers are fully equipped for the rain here one line is regarding hospitals yeah regarding hospitals another hospital has been fully evacuated the al kuzh hospital after ron tc al kuzh hospital has been evacuated and probably shifa at the end of the operation will be fully evacuated one final question for you pier there's been about 6200 gallons of fuel 34 around 34 000 liters of fuel that's been brought in through uh through the rafa crossing we heard uh just now our i24 news desk has been told that they it has actually happened what help does that bring well this diesel fuel is uh dedicated for the yunra operation the yunra is the un agency for the relief of palestinian refugees that was uh created in 1949 and we we now have four generations of palestinian refugees palestinians who have a status of refugees this diesel fuel is for about 48 hours for the yunra operation because they were running out of fuel and under u.s administration pressure israel for the first time as you mentioned earlier has agreed to facilitate the refueling of the yunra uh operations with 24 000 liters that will be fine for 48 hours and probably at the end of those 48 hours israel will have to agree for another refueling for another 48 hours and it's going to go on like this in a very monitored way thank you so much for your update we'll keep in contact with you throughout the morning thanks again now let's go on to another front in this war there's been an interception over the red sea yesterday and it's believed to have been a surface-to-surface missile launched from yemen by iran-backed huhti rebels the southern city of elat was apparently the intended target the israeli defense forces say the long-range arrow air defense system had been used to shoot down the missile i-24 news reporter robert swift is here joining me tell me a little about what why what is so important about this particular part essentially what's happening here is the huhtis are trying to lend their support to humas now yemen and israel are quite some distance apart but the huhtis do have weapon systems clearly which can make these ranges now israel is making its best efforts to defend against them using the arrow interception system which is the the sort of the upper atmosphere air defense system that it has alongside the other two systems at the same time the u.s. military has been deploying assets into the red sea in an effort to essentially assist israel in these interception efforts it's worth noting that some analysts have pointed to the fact that one of these interceptions of a huhti ballistic missile by the arrow three system was possibly the first instance of space warfare with because the the ballistic missile comes in from that high up that the arrow three has to be capable of hitting the the missile at that distance but it's not only just israel at target and then the huhtis have said that they will target some of the ships crossing in the red sea indeed they have and the huhtis have demonstrated the ability to do this in the past they have targeted shipping that's moved around past past yemen in the past ships that were essentially linked to israel but not necessarily flagged as israeli ships have been targeted in the past often using coastal to ship missiles and there has been casualties in those instances in the past interestingly enough the huhtis are considered terrorist organization by israel and by the us so the the us did label the huhtis as a terrorist organization for about a month in january of 2021 when the biden administration came into power they removed that label there is some discussion taking place in the united states now to reinstate that label there are some countries that do label it as such Saudi arabia which has received a lot of attacks because of its involvement in the war it labels them as such the ua e does and also malaysia does israel doesn't but then it doesn't tend to label organizations in that way well robert what is the who what do the huhtis get out of all of this so there are 1100 miles away from israel they're not within the theater aside from being brothers in arms with the jihadists that harm us what what do they stand again essentially they're part of iran's proxy network you can call it the huhtis are a shia movement they're essentially a tribal they're based on a tribal structure but they're they're part of they're one of the major factions in the Yemeni civil war they are strongly allied to iran that's what where they've received many of these weapons from iran supports commas and therefore the huhtis are tied in in the same way that khizbollah is tied in they might be more distant to the conflict and say khizbollah they might represent a smaller threat than an organization is formidable as khizbollah but they're nonetheless part of this network of alliances also Saudi Arabia happens to be their enemy so Saudi Arabia normalizing relationship with israel doesn't exactly bowed you know that's one of the reasons why i imagine well a lot of people have pointed to the fact that it was normalization between israel and Saudi Arabia that may have been one of Hamas and de-extension iran's primary objectives the disruption of that diplomatic cooperation that was one of the reasons the hooties in Saudi Arabia are sworn enemies so if it's bad for Saudi Arabia it's good for the hooties Robert stand by one second let me go back to rafael you just shamley that what we let's talk about the hooties and let's talk about these air defense systems and at some point it sounds as though you're getting four you're getting four fronts in this war between Hamas in the south Hezbollah in the north quiet right now but west bank is third and now hooties fourth every angle well i'd say that considering Hamas and Judea and Samaria that's mostly an Israeli problem considering khizbollah and the emn problem that should involve the united states and the international community there's absolutely no reason why especially if the biden administration wants to avoid destabilizing the region or an extension of the conflict why israel should be the sole responsible to keep quiet these fronts these fronts are dangerous for everybody you're talking here about the red sea and the persian gulf being threatened by iranian proxies that's solely the job of also the american fleet they're present in the red sea they're doing it they're giving anti air defense but it should be a bit more proactive maybe but also and that's why the point is important if you transpose this problem to the north of israel to the lebanon then it's the same exact problem and there's no reason why israel should confront the hezbollah on its own you're talking here at destabilization of the region a threat to the mediterranean a threat to a country i mean the hamas is is is in gaza hamas does what they want in gaza there's nobody to tell them otherwise they're the only rulers but in yemen the witties are not alone there's a country called yemen in the lebanon khizbollah is not alone there's a country called lebanon so these these countries are serving countries that need assistance they are held hostage by these factions but really these are countries that could be much more peaceful and that would contribute to the security of the region if the problem was dealt with by the international community and the united states of america they have to come in i imagine europeans would also have to come in i mean the concern everyone has had is that you're going to spark a war between the us iran slash russia china yes okay but president macron of france for instance did of think of this idea of reorganizing a coalition similar to the coalition that fought daish so when you were fighting daish you're also fighting in iraq or in syria when you were fighting daish in syria you were also against the russian presence there uh or the chinese interest there you had to take that chance you're fighting this this organization so this can be done again if one thing is for sure if the international community the west will not intervene whatever they don't do that's what the russian and the chinese can do so that's that's a big problem when donald trump took forces out of for instance syria he didn't want so many boots on the ground so the more the more boots on the ground you got from the russians right to fill the vacuum was the russians who got who filled the vacuum and then um let's talk a little bit about al-shifa i'm going to go back to one second about al-shifa they go in they do room to room they make sure that it's secure i asked earlier alivia refowitz the alivia refowitz the idf uh spokesperson when do you know it's secure like when when will they know and he said it will take time to know that it's secure the question is then what so what what what gain do you have of of evidence and you have possible you know where the hostages have all left what gain do you get after this the if the hospital is really evacuated and free of innocent civilians then the idea of can operate serenely on first of all making sure there are no terrorists left above ground clean the complex and once this is done and secured do the real main work because the objective we all know is not the complex it's what's under it and under it is the headquarters of at least the northern branch of the military hamas but maybe of the whole military strength of the hamas they like the real hq is there and of course try tracking that that will disrupt the chain of command the chain of communication make it much more difficult for different brigades in the gaza strip to coordinate their actions and they will also be a kind of chaos because the the the hq will be impacted so i think it's a very very important target and that's why the itf is taking this huge risk because it's a huge risk not only for our soldiers and for the collateral damage and the Palestinians it's a huge risk for the whole operation there because would we have some terrible incidents involving babies and that's it people are gonna tell us stop fighting stop stop the whole thing so we're taking this huge risk because the target is so important and crucial for us to strike this blow if you strike this blow we can honestly say that we're in control of the military situation at least of the north if not the whole gaza street and that's probably one of the reasons why the itf is bringing some western journalists or you know worldwide international journalists along with them as they operate here to show them that nothing's been pilfer nothing's been tainted by you know as as has been reported by some of the pro hamas propaganda media if you will that's oh it's been touched it's been built by the idea for all these rooms downstairs are all there for the cameras for built by the idea the idea is to bring in the journalists in so they could see for themselves that's right and it throws the professionalism of the idea because while you are fighting imagine you're fighting somebody like you you know let's take let's take a western movie Hollywood movie you're in a saloon and you're fighting somebody it's a gun gun fight right and while you are shooting at the guy you're explaining to the third guy that's watching what you're doing and why you're doing it i mean this is nuts but that's what we're doing and we're doing it and the idea for it's doing it has it's in a unique position no other i mean i'm sure they'll look back in years from now they'll look back and they'll show what unique position the IDF has been in through history if you go through a war two Korea and Vietnam any of the other African wars hospitals being used as a military installation and someone having to deal with not attacking the entire hospital and dealing with the civilians i don't think any other any other army in the world has had to deal with this first of all any general in the world sees that the Israeli generals are faced with your worst ever nightmare i mean it's so complicated it's so intricate and i know you have political considerations and mediatic considerations but mainly you have operational considerations that are super intricate and complicated that nobody can sleep at night if you have to do that kind of a job and as you rightfully pointed if you look back at history and the history of war or warfare the record is very poor to those countries who today would like to give us some lessons i don't remember this record seeing that in vietnam i don't remember the american forces doing much for afghan civilians when the taliban took over tens of thousands were abundant to their horrible fate i will not speak of other colonial wars like the french war on the interbalance of algeria the record is very very dire on most armies including western armies of how moral they were in dealing with the with the problem and the problem was not as intricate as it is here in gaza in the gaza street but we have to admit that apart from our high moral standards there is an operational use for this because we do want to dissociate the population from the terrorist factions and we are succeeding in doing so right now because we hear more and more voices among the gaza population condemning the hamas not the israeli soldiers today if you have a wife and kids and you are crossing the gaza street you will be so happy to see israeli soldiers you will go to them where is that you will not go to the hamas where do you see that you don't see that in any media you don't see that on social media you don't see it i mean the social media is being flooded tech talks being flooded by bad bad bad things well i'd say that today some people like the associated press do not want to call the terrorist the terrorist i think today the word terrorist might be not used well maybe i think the word journalist is also not always used properly many journalists are not journalists today they just do not inform they just disinform and it's very regrettable you're talking not a little channels that nobody watches you're talking bbcc and so we have come to a point where people choose camps they do not give the proper information i would at least ask for balanced information you know what i agree that the people might say the israeli is the official version is propaganda okay but show our propaganda when you show the other guy's propaganda you know what raffaello you show me thank you always for your analysis and thank you robert swift also here the news is moving very fast so stay up to date here on i-24 news here on tv and streaming on the i-24 news app would just give you an update as to what's happening the idf has entered the al-shifa hospital in a surgical strike within the hospital clearing the hospital of terrorists there have been some firefights and some casualties will have updates throughout the day i'm albert louis and reporting live from tele v israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where you see as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well for louis and reporting live from the i-24 news headquarters in tele v day 40 of the war against hamas news coming in fast and furious and here's what you need to know number one overnight the idf has entered the al-shifa hospital center in gaza city there has been some active fire a number of hamas terrorists have been killed at the entrance of the hospital the idf told i-24 news that it is a specialized operation with medical teams and arabic speaking personnel going room to room to minimize injuries to civilians incubators baby food and medical supplies have been brought in the american intelligence services say that their independent information is that hamas has a command node under the hospital the second thing you need to know abc news in the united states citing an israeli source says that there has been a breakthrough in the deal for the release of hostages it may happen in 48 to 72 hours another report from the con network israel and hamas are negotiating a child for child deal it's being mediated by cutter in the united states now the idea here the israeli children kidnapped to gaza will be released in exchange for palestinian children and youngsters imprisoned in israel one of the sources emphasize that the talks are still ongoing that there's no final conclusion number three thing you need to know fuel shipments are coming into the gaza strip for humanitarian operations it is the first time that israel has allowed fuel into the territory since october the 7th kogat the israeli defense body responsible for palestinian affairs says that united nations trucks will fill up about 6200 gallons of fuel at the rafa crossing on the egyptian border that will happen later today the united states had pushed hard for this and the number four thing you need to know two idf soldiers were killed tuesday in fighting in the northern gaza strip now this brings death toll to the ground offensive against hamas to 48 they are captain omer yosef david 27 years old from karmiel a deputy company commander in the nega brigade's 92 17 battalion and captain yadidia ashur lev 26 years old from tal minasha a deputy company commander in the gavati brigade's shack head battalion we have live team coverage of the ins of the war against hamas day 40 let me first now go to rafael urshami he's a former senior intelligence officer for the idf thanks so much for joining us this incident at the al shifa hospital they've now gone in and what the idf told me told us earlier is that they're going room to room why are they going room to room instead of an assault first of all because it's a precaution to avoid collateral damage the second of all they have very specific intelligence that is leading the operation so it's dictated by the info they have i have to remind you that the hospital was built by an israeli architectural firm i mean we have all the plans so we know exactly what it looks like and there's been a simulation virtual reality simulation designed by unit 9900 with intel from unit 8200 so that soldiers can visualize even before going in what the place looks like inside more or less we have some intel as to where the tourists themselves the armed threatening tourists are situated in the hospital in the compound and there are other places where it's only really civilians medical staff and sick people but you still have to check room by room floor by floor the main objective now is to evacuate as peacefully as possible the whole of the hospital if we can manage to do so including babies i mean have you ever seen an army going forward into an attack with incubators and maternal baby bottles so that's what we are doing now it's absolutely surreal but we're doing it and the objective is very clear to evacuate all these innocent people so that the idea can work serenely on the compound and especially on what's under the compound so for this you have to take a lot of care it's everything has been taken into account including facial identity cameras and metal detectors so to make sure that amongst the people that will evacuate now there are no tourists trying to escape as well but also maybe that no hostages are being smuggled out of the hospital because we believe that we might find some hostages there some of them being held for medical reasons because some of the hostages when they were kidnapped were very mistreated and needed medical and if the Hamas wants to bargain you know with the these hostages they need them in good conditions some of some of them might have been hospitalized there all these put together it's an operation i think let's pray it will succeed if it will succeed i think it will stay in history books even more than the antebe operation it will be something never done before in the surgical way it's being done let's do hope that we can avoid a lot of collateral damage that's the main purpose otherwise we would be able to act freely and eliminate all these terrorists but we have to be very very careful and patient until the hospital is evacuated it should be evacuated we have evacuated alcoots hospital for instance from where our pg's were shot at some people in the entrance of this hospital was booby trapped meaning if the entrance is booby trapped so it's the exit you can't go out meaning the people there were hostages of the Hamas now we're taking a look just what i want our viewers at home to show can we roll a video one more time please control room there's a there's some video that's coming in now from inside shifa hospital and what you see here this is an actual firefight that's going on let me let's play a little bit of you'll see that this is what the idf is encountered but you have to understand that the idf is in direct contact with the administration of the hospital officers are speaking with the medical staff to ensure that the safety of people it's you can see it's frightening for them so trying to assure them that's why also the troops are coming with arabic speaking soldiers that can communicate in arabic with the people and also their own medical staff to assist the already present the medical staff of the palestinian hospital all these two two limits you see they are very frightened but they understand that if they show that they are not a threat to the soldiers then they will be spared and they will be protected rafael it's i'm going to have you stand by for one second let me now turn to our pier close under who is at the border with gaza right now from the israeli side uh you pier you've been seeing with some of the video that's been coming in it seems as though what the idf it confirms what the idf told us earlier that they're doing this for no pun intended a surgical strike within the hospital right uh there's a lot of commotion in that video that you had and you can clearly hear shots but probably from outside because the room in in which the the people the palestinians are trying to protect themselves from the gunshots is inside but you can see an opening in the wall and it seems the gunshots are from outside because from palestinian reports even trying to affirm that there is no terror infrastructure in chifa hospital they said that inside the hospital no gunshot was fired what we know also from text ceremonies on palestinian reports is that the special unit forces are calming one of the buildings on the western side of the complex which is about 22 acres in superficy in surface they're combing room after room floor after in order to find any trace of weapons of terror infrastructure but also of the hostages up until now there's no indication that the hostages are present in the complex but they found caches of weapon and terror sets as they call it in the idf now a security official who required anonymity said that this operation is only at the beginning that they're going to enlarge it probably to other buildings in the complex but right now what they're doing is also calling the young people to come up their hand raised in order to interrogate them because they suspect that some of them might be terror terrorists that have decided to dress in civilian clothes they're also interrogating the medical personnel a few hundred of them they're interrogating also the displaced palestinians also one thousand one thousand five hundred of them and they're taking care also of the patients they're brought in incubators they're brought in medical supplies baby food there's 37 newborns premature newborns that need to be evacuated and there's been a an ongoing negotiation with the medical management of the of the shifa hospital for four days already the incubators were already brought facing shifa hospital out of shifa hospital yesterday yet the management decided not to accept it now egypt is undertaking an effort to evacuate those newborn baby those newborns in the hope that they will be treated you know in the proper way in the meantime there's been a lot of confusion we don't exactly know what's happening because we hear for instance from palestinians that the internet and the cellular networks have been cut off around the compound but you've seen a video so probably it was localized and it's over so we don't exactly know per se what's going on what we know is that there's no indication of hostage presence presence but they found weapon caches at the moment pierna this is in al shifa hospital which is in the middle of agaza city but it doesn't mean that all of the idf troops are targeting towards that hospital there's still the rest of gaza city to fight uh block by block street by street and it's been pouring rain was pouring rain overnight i'm sure that doesn't help in terms of the fight it doesn't help in terms of the fight it doesn't help also in terms of the dire humanitarian condition of the civilian population because i've been to gaza in the in the u.s. 2000 and once rain pours down on on gaza you you have lakes forming in the streets you have lakes of rainwater mixed with sewage so the difficult there's a difficult dire humanitarian predicament even more dire than for the soldiers the soldiers are fully equipped for the rain one line regarding hospitals yeah regarding hospitals another hospital has been fully evacuated the al kutze hospital after ron tc al kutze hospital has been evacuated and probably shifa at the end of the operation will be fully evacuated one final question for you pier there's been about 6200 gallons of fuel 34 around 34 000 liters of fuel that's been brought in through through the rafa crossing we heard just now our i24 news desk has been told that they it has actually happened what help does that bring well this diesel fuel is dedicated for the yunra operation the yunra is the un agency for the relief of palestine refugees that was created in 1949 and we now have four generations of palestine refugees palestines we have a status of refugees this diesel fuel is for about 48 hours for the yunra operation because they were running out of fuel and under us administration pressure israel for the first time as you mentioned earlier has agreed to facilitate the refueling of the yunra operations with 24 000 liters that will be fine for 48 hours and probably at the end of those 48 hours israel will have to agree for another refueling for another 48 hours and it's going to go on like this in a very monitored way thank you so much for your update we'll keep in contact with you throughout the morning thanks again now let's go on to another front in this war there's been an interception over the red sea yesterday and it's believed to have been a surface-to-surface missile launched from yemen by iran-backed huhti rebels the southern city of elat was apparently the intended target the israeli defense forces say the long-range arrow air defense system had been used to shoot down the missile i24 news reporter robert swift is here join me tell me a little about what why what is so important about this particular part essentially what's happening here is the huhtis are trying to lend their support to humas now yemen and israel are quite some distance apart but the huhtis do have weapon systems clearly which can make these ranges now israel is making its best efforts to defend against them using the arrow interception system which is the the sort of the upper atmosphere air defense system that it has alongside the other two systems at the same time the us military has been deploying assets into the red sea in an effort to essentially assist israel in these interception efforts it's worth noting that some analysts have pointed to the fact that one of these interceptions of a huhti ballistic missile by the arrow three system was possibly the first instance of space warfare with because the the ballistic missile comes in from that high up that the arrow three has to be capable of hitting the the missile at that distance but it's not only just israel targeted that the huhtis have said that they will target some of the ships crossing in the red sea indeed they have and the huhtis have demonstrated the the ability to do this in the past they have targeted shipping that's moved around past past yemen in the past ships that were essentially linked to israel but not necessarily flagged as israeli ships have been targeted in the past often using coastal to ship missiles and there has been casualties in those instances in the past interestingly enough the hooties aren't considered terrorist organization yeah by israel and by the us so the the us did label the hooties as a terrorist organization for about a month in january of 2021 when the biden administration came into power they removed that label there is some discussion taking place in the united states now to reinstate that label there are some countries that do label it as such saudi arabia which has received a lot of attacks because of its involvement in the war it labels them as such the ua does and also malaysia does israel doesn't but then it doesn't tend to label organizations in that way well robert what is the who what do the hooties get out of all of this there are 1100 miles away from israel they're not within the theater aside from being brothers in arms with the jihadists that are mass what what do they stand to gain essentially they're part of iran's proxy network you can call it the hooties are a shia movement they're essentially a tribal they're based on a tribal structure but they're they're part of they're one of the major factions in the yemeni civil war they are strongly allied to iran that's what where they've received many of these weapons from iran supports commas and therefore the hooties are tied in in the same way that khizbullah is tied in they might be more distant to the conflict and say khizbullah they might represent a smaller threat than an organization is formidable as khizbullah but they are nonetheless part of this network of alliances also saudi arabia happens to be their enemy so saudi arabia normalizing relationship with israel doesn't exactly boat you know that's one of the reasons why i imagine well a lot of people have pointed to the fact that it was normalization between israel and saudi arabia that may have been one of khimas and di extension iran's primary objectives the disruption of that diplomatic uh cooperation that was one of the reasons the hooties in saudi arabia are sworn enemies so if it's bad for saudi arabia it's good for the hooties okay robert stand by one second let me go back to rafael yudhishthami that what we let's talk about the hooties and let's talk about these air defense systems and at some point it sounds as though you're getting four you're getting four fronts in this war between hamas in the south hezbollah in the north quiet right now but west bank is third and now hooties fourth every angle well i'd say that considering hamas and judya and samaria that's mostly an israeli problem considering khizbullah and the yemen problem that should involve the united states and international community there's absolutely no reason why especially if the biden administration wants to avoid destabilizing the region or an extension of the conflict why israel should be the sole responsible to keep quiet these fronts these fronts are dangerous for everybody you're talking here about the red sea and the persian gulf being threatened by iranian proxies that's solely the job of also the american fleet they're present in the red sea they're doing it they're giving anti-air defense but it should be a bit more proactive maybe but also and that's why the point is important if you transpose this problem to the north of israel to the lebanon then it's the same exact problem and there's no reason why israel should confront the khizbullah on its own you're talking here at destabilization of the region a threat to the mediterranean a threat to a country i mean the hamas is is is in gaza hamas does what they want in gaza there's nobody to tell them otherwise they're the only rulers but in yemen the witties are not alone there's a country called yemen in the lebanon khizbullah is not alone there's a country called lebanon so these these countries are sovereign countries that need assistance they are held hostage by these factions but really these are countries that could be much more peaceful and that would contribute to the security of the the region if the problem was dealt with by the international community and the united states of america they have to come in i imagine the europeans would also have to come in i mean the concern everyone has had is that you're going to spark a war between the us iran slash russia slash china yes okay but president macron of france for instance did of think of this idea of reorganizing a coalition similar to the coalition that fought dash so when you were fighting dash you're also fighting in iraq or in syria when you were fighting dash in syria you were also against the russian presence there or the chinese interest there you had to take that chance you're fighting this this organization so this can be done again if in one thing is for sure if the international community the west will not intervene whatever they don't do that's what the russian and the chinese can do so that's that's a big problem when donald trump took forces out of for instance syria he didn't want so many boots on the ground so the more the more boots on the ground you got from the russians right to fill the vacuum was the russians who got who filled the vacuum and then let's talk a little bit about al shifa i'm going to go back to one second about al shifa they go in they do room to room they make sure that it's secure i asked earlier alivia refowitz the alivia refowitz the idf uh spokesperson when do you know it's secure like when when will they know and he said it will take time to know that it's secure the question is then what so what what what gain do you have of of evidence and you have possible you know where the hostages have all left what gain do you get after this the if the hospital is really evacuated and free of innocent civilians then the idf can operate serenely uh on first of all making sure there are no terrorists left above ground uh clean the complex and once this is done and secured uh do the real main work because the objective we all know is not the complex it's what's under it and under it is the headquarters of at least the northern branch of the military hamas but maybe of the whole military strength of the hamas they like like the real hq is there and of course try tracking that that will disrupt the chain of command the chain of communication make it much more difficult for different brigades in the gaza strip to coordinate their actions and they will also be a kind of chaos because the the the hq will be impacted so i think it's a very very important target and that's why the itf is taking this huge risk because it's a huge risk not only for our soldiers and for the collateral damage and the palestinians it's a huge risk for the whole operation there because would we have some terrible incidents we're involving babies and that's it people are gonna tell us stop fighting stop stop the whole thing so we're taking this huge risk because the target is so important and crucial for us to strike this blow if you strike this blow we can honestly say that we're in control of the military situation at least of the north if not the whole gaza street and that's probably one of the reasons why the itf is bringing some western journalists or you know worldwide international journalists along with them as they operate here to show them that nothing's been pilfer nothing's been tainted by you know as as has been reported by some of the pro hemats propaganda media if you will that's oh it's been touched it's been built by the itf all these rooms downstairs are all there for the cameras for built by the the idea is to bring in the journalists in so they could see for themselves that's right and it shows the professionalism of the itf because while you are fighting imagine you're fighting somebody like you know let's take let's take a western movie Hollywood movie you're in a saloon and you're fighting somebody it's a gun gun fight right and while you are shooting at the guy you're explaining to the third guy that's watching what you're doing and why you're doing it i mean this is nuts but that's what we're doing and we're doing it and the itf is doing it has it's in a unique position no other i mean i'm sure they'll look back in in years from now they'll look back and they'll show what what uh unique position the itf has been in through history if you go through a war two korea vietnam uh any of the other of the african wars hospitals being used as a military installation and someone having to deal with not attacking the entire hospital and deal with the civilians i don't think any other any other army in the world has had to deal with this first of all any general in the world sees that the israeli generals are faced with your worst ever nightmare i mean it's so complicated it's so intricate and i know you have political considerations and mediatic considerations but mainly you have operational considerations that are super intricate and complicated that nobody can sleep at night if you have to do that kind of a job and as you rightfully pointed if you look back at history in the history of war or warfare the record is very poor to those countries who today would like to give us some lessons i don't remember that this record seeing that in vietnam i don't remember the american forces doing much for afghan civilians when the taliban took over tens of thousands were abundant to their horrible fate i will not speak of other colonial wars like the french war in the independence of algeria the record is very very dire on most armies including western armies of how moral they were in dealing with the with the problem and the problem was not as intricate as it is here in gaza in the gaza strip but we have to admit that apart from our high moral standards there is an operational use for this because we do want to dissociate the population from the terrorist factions and we're succeeding in doing so right now because we hear more and more voices among the gaza population condemning the hamas not the israeli soldiers today if you have a wife and kids and you are crossing the gaza strip you will be so happy to see israeli soldiers you will go to them where is that you not go to the hamas where do you see that you don't see that in any media you don't see that on social media you don't see it i mean the social media is being flooded tech talks being flooded by bad bad bad things well i'd say that today some people like the associated press or do not want to call the terrorist a terrorist i think today the war terrorist might be not used well maybe i think the word journalist is also not always used properly many journalists are not journalists today they just do not inform they just disinform and it's very regrettable you're talking not a little channels that nobody watches you're talking bbcc and then so we have come to a point where people choose camps they do not give the proper information i would at least ask for balanced information you know what i agree that the people might say the israelis is the official version is propaganda okay let's show our propaganda when you show the other guys propaganda you know what rafael you show me thank you as always for your analysis and thank you robert swift


Iran helped Hamas plan attack on Israel. Senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah have said that Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas' surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the attack at a meeting in Beirut. The Wall Street Journal reported this. Officers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been working with Hamas since August to develop an air, ground and sea invasion plan. The details of the operation were finalized during several meetings in Beirut attended by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers and representatives of four Iranian-backed militant groups including Hamas which holds power in Gaza and Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group and political party. US officials say they have seen no evidence of Tehran's involvement. In an interview with CNN, that Secretary of State Antony Blinken said we have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack but there is certainly a long relationship. We don't have information at this time to corroborate this account, said a US official of the meetings. However, a European official and an advisor to the Syrian government provided the same information about Iran's involvement in the preparation of the attack as the senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, praised the attacks, saying in a post on X that, the Yusrpa Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the resistance forces throughout the region. A direct role for Iran would bring Tehran's long-running conflict with Israel out of obscurity, increasing the risk of a wider conflict in the Middle East. Senior Israeli security officials have vowed to strike at Iran's leadership if Tehran is found responsible for the murder of Israelis. A broader plan of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is to create a multi-front threat that could suffocate Israel from all sides. Hezbollah and the popular front for the liberation of Palestine in the North and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel has accused Iran of being behind the attacks, albeit indirectly.


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If you go online, you can see claims that coconut water may be beneficial for depression. And they even cite studies. There it is in black and white. Coconut water ameliorates depression. Did they just make that up? No. Click on it. And there it is in PubMed, just like they said. And for a limited time offer of just $39.95, the publisher will let you read it. But why waste your time? It says it right there in the title. Coconut water ameliorates depression. You might as well spend that $40. Bind some coconut water to boost your mood. And anyway, we're reading all the studies so you don't have to. That's my job. If you look at the study, it starts out saying plants are frequently tested these days for their antidepressant potential. Okay, sounds good. Therefore, coconut water, commonly used plant-based beverage, was selected to explore its antidepressant potential. With you so far. So rodents were selected for this study, and a forced swim test was conducted. What? The forced swim test is one of the most widely used tests to explore antidepressant activity. You fill up a transparent cylinder with water over the mouse's head, so it's forced to swim. And then you drop a mouse in and see how long the thing struggles to keep from drowning before you see it simply give up and just kind of float to the top. And lo and behold, you feed them some coconut water first, and they hold out a bit longer before giving up, demonstrating an antidepressant effect. Therefore, we should use coconut water to treat depressive disorders in people? What? I mean, it depresses me to even read such wasted research opportunities. Where did they even get this idea? It was invented by a group of French scientists in the 70s to model behavioral despair. Reminds me of the Harlow experiments with vertical chamber confinement that he called the pit of despair, which was basically just a metal contraption with sloped sides, lock a baby monkey in it for 45 days, and you can produce profound behavioral changes. They end up just kind of hugging themselves in a fetal position. And then afterwards, after 10 weeks alone in the chamber, they exhibit behaviors like contact clinging, where they just come together and hug each other for long periods of time. It's not yet clear why confinement in the vertical chamber is apparently so effective at producing abnormal behavior, but not to worry that it's got a lot more studies to do. Oh, spare you the research on puppies. Man, I can see why you'd want some model to test out new antidepressant drugs, but if you want to figure out if pomegranates have antidepressant effects, why not just feed people some pomegranates rather than chucking some mice off the deep end? There are literally thousands of published studies on food or food products using this forced swim test, allowing the egg industry to be like, see, eggs may be an excellent food for preventing and alleviating the conditions of major depression. Why? All because rats struggled longer, whereas in people, removing eggs from the diet improves mood, though they also removed meat, so it's not clear which did water. Maybe they were just eating more healthy plant foods like soy, which the soy industries happen to tell you decreases depressive-related behavior in postmenopausal rats who were swimming for their lives. In people, though, the best soy products may be able to do is just work as well as drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, and we all know how little that's actually saying. I mean, the forced swim test is just a reaction to the acute stressful stimulus of being placed in a container without an escape route, whereas human depression reflects a chronic subjective emotional state, an internal emotional state, and to date we haven't been able to ask animals how they're feeling. You can't even just look at human behavior and tell if someone has a depression diagnosis. So it's impossible to conclude that the swim test is some test for human depression. The ease at which thousands of scientists do that, however, is disquieting, that it makes assumptions that discourages critical thought. In fact, the whole thing has been compared to like some Monty Python skit where you see if the witch floats or not, but today it's in use to label a rodent as being depressed.


With Hadoop and the distributions really making a major play and really landing mainstream It's made the MPP vendors not look so emerging So now all of a sudden enterprises are like wow, okay, you know that Hadoop thing That's you know, that may be a little bit out there this MPP world. That's great. I'm okay there So if anything kind of the organizations that we work with that have made those decisions are really embracing You know the the proliferation of those MPP stores across their organization and kind of using Hadoop for where it does its best work Which is you know, really large-scale data processing of unstructured data So it sounds like you would agree with the premise that Hadoop is really a complementary technology to a lot of these other big data technologies in existing IT infrastructure absolutely and in fact a lot of our enterprise clients both in the online advertising space and the Technology space telecommunication space and we work with We see kind of that marriage of the of the two use the right approach and the right technology for the right job So the MPP vendors, you know have a total place With the business side of the house and then Hadoop as an ecosystem has a place to store the unstructured information And kind of feed the strategy behind the MPP


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says, choose the correct answer. The value of definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin x upon 4 plus 3 cos x dx is a2b3 upon 4 c0d minus 2. We have to choose the correct answer from a, b, c and d. First of all, let us understand that definite integral from 0 to a fx dx is equal to definite integral from 0 to a f a minus x dx. We will use this property of definite integral as our key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start with the solution. Now we have to find the value of definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin x upon 4 plus 3 cos x dx. Now let us assume that this integral is equal to i. Now, using that property given in key idea, we can write this integral as definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin pi upon 2 minus x upon 4 plus 3 cos pi upon 2. Pi upon 2 minus x dx. Now we know sin pi upon 2 minus x is equal to cos x and cos pi upon 2 minus x is equal to sin x. So we get i is equal to log of 4 plus 3 cos x upon 4 plus 3 sin x dx. Now let us name this expression as 1 and this expression as 2. Now adding 1 and 2, we get 2i is equal to definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin x upon 4 plus 3 cos x dx. Plus definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 cos x upon 4 plus 3 sin x dx. Now limits of both the integrals are same. So we can write 2i is equal to definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin x upon 4 plus 3 cos x plus log of 4 plus 3 cos x upon 4 plus 3 sin x dx. Now we know log m plus log n is equal to log m n. So we can write 2i is equal to definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin x upon 4 plus 3 cos x multiplied by 4 plus 3 cos x upon 4 plus 3 sin x dx. Now 4 plus 3 cos x will get cancelled by 4 plus 3 cos x and 4 plus 3 sin x will get cancelled by 4 plus 3 sin x. And we get 2i is equal to definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log 1 dx. Now we know log 1 is equal to 0. So we get 2i is equal to 0 or we can say i is equal to 0. Now we know i is equal to definite integral from 0 to pi upon 2 log of 4 plus 3 sin x upon 4 plus 3 cos x dx. So we get this integral is equal to 0. So the correct answer is c. So this is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


Thank you. It's an honor and a pleasure to be speaking here before you. I'll share about health inequities in Indian cities and also about some approaches that have worked. Here are six messages about inequalities. In India's urbanizing economy, affluence and deprivation are juxtaposed. While on the one hand, cities are glittering, opulence grows along with deprivation, poverty and inequality. There are two examples. 50% of Mumbai's population lives on 6% of land and this 50% contributes to the economy in many ways because without them, Mumbai wouldn't be the city that it is. In Delhi, the municipal corporation of Delhi, in an official communication informed that water supply for planned colonies is 225 liters per capita per day, whereas it is 50 liters per capita per day for listed slums. This is official information provided by them. So the government actually is acknowledging the inequity that they are perpetrating on purpose. And all this despite the fact that urban poor contribute measurably towards India's economic growth. Between 60 to 90% of urban poor are involved in the informal sector and the urban sector contributes 60% to 70% of the country's GDP. These are nutrition inequalities. There are a few other countries and I just left them there and removed so that some of you can see. But what this shows is that chronic under nutrition, which is a very important indicator of deprivation, multifaceted deprivation is about 53.8% among the lowest or the poorest quartile based on the wealth index. And in the next higher quartile, it is 43%. So if you count these children, there are about 12 million children under five in the lowest two quartiles of urban India who are chronically undenourished. Why are they important? They will form the bulk of the informal sector workforce in the next 15 years. This is another form of disparity in living space. We have had a lot of discussion around density. This is an indicator which Gora used in a slightly different way. Here we try to see if how these indicators vary. And we tried to assess more than five persons per sleeping room. This is an indicator available for many countries in the demographic health surveys and we found that in the lowest quartile in India, nearly 50% families had more than five persons per sleeping room. Now, why is this important? We did some more analysis and we found that chronic undenutrition among children less than five years in households with more than five persons per sleeping room is 1.4 times higher than households with less than four persons per sleeping room. And if we were to make it three, this would be two twice as high. We just didn't do the next level of math. Tuberculosis prevalence, which was referred to in the Hong Kong presentation just before me, living in houses with more than five persons is twice as high as those in four persons per sleeping room. So this tells us that if public health interventions which are multi-sectoral have to be focused, where will you target your efforts? Now, these are three slides from eight cities of India. Four of them are mega cities and four are medium-sized cities. And we see that there are disparities on the toilet front. This is the indicator for no toilets. And the city called Merritt is the worst off where nearly 50% households in the poorest quartile have no toilets. The green bar is for slump. In this particular study, we had pushed the India DHS to do an over-sampling of urban areas so that this level of analysis was possible. This is not possible for other countries unless there have been instances where the capital city has been over sampled or automatically gets over sampled in some countries because it is so large. Infant mortality rates also show a disparity across different parts of the city. I'm not going into the details, but what we see is that it is worse off in the small city, Merritt, and it is quite bad in Delhi also. Under nutrition, we again see a differential and here we find that even in Chennai, which is otherwise better off on several other facets, under nutrition is quite high among the lowest quartile. But the slums are far better, so that will bring me to another slide about the difference between what is designated as slum and what doesn't get designated. Why are we talking about all this? The urban vulnerable segment or the slum forms the fastest-growing segment of India's population and of the population of almost all developing countries. And I was just noting data which tells us that India has 100 million officially designated poor people. The official poverty line has now acknowledged that there are 100 million poor. As per the 1.25 US dollar, it will be 158 million urban poor. 90 to 95% of future urban growth is going to happen in countries like India, less developed countries. And likewise, about 97% of the growth of urban vulnerable populations or slum populations or non-affluent populations, whichever way we want to describe them, is also likely to happen in similar scenarios in other countries. This is the issue of slums being officially listed or not listed by the civic authorities. Our organization did this study in several cities. Here is data from five cities which tells us that approximately 30 to 35% of the slums were not listed. There was a big study conducted by the Ministry of Statistics of the Government of India down below, which showed that 49% of slums in India were not part of official lists. We see that the slums which are in official lists have better access to some of the important determinants of health. This is another type of inequality which I wanted to bring to attention, particularly because in this meeting I am realizing that we are discussing mostly about large cities. What is important to understand is that medium-sized and smaller cities suffer worse. They do not have adequate services infrastructure. And the number of these cities in the world is huge. So if we look at the total population in the mega cities of the world and we look at the total urban population in the medium and smaller sized cities, this would far outnumber. So that's why they are also important. Now I'll share five approaches which I've worked. The first approach is mapping. This is the map of Merritt which was having the tallest red bars. These are the listed slums in Merritt. And the red ones are the unlisted slums in Merritt. So if we did not do this entire exercise, we would have missed these. And this is the total picture. So we found that plotting, especially mapping the vulnerable populations on a city map is a very effective tool.  This is an example from one of the wards of Mumbai where again we did a very similar exercise. And here we have also shown the health facilities. So we can see which part of that city the health facilities are adequate and in which parts they are not adequate. This is neighborhood mapping. This is also very powerful. This is done by community groups themselves. It helps them, the community groups themselves ensure that no family is left out from lists which are used for housing, for food subsidy and other entitlements. Because typically what the civic authorities do when they will resettle a slum is that they will say that this slum had 200 families so here is the amount for 200 families irrespective of whether the slum actually had 280 families. And who will be the 80 who will be left out? The most voiceless. The second thing it does is it tracks access to health care. Immunization, antenatal care, HIV testing. It also helps identifying and providing linkage for the recent migrants. We had heard yesterday that recent migrants who have come to the city maybe one year ago they usually do not have a good understanding of what is available for them. This is another example of how communities draw maps and the different colors here are the different parts of the slum that have been taken charge of by the slum dwellers. The second approach which I wanted to share which actually came up from whatever I have heard and learned during this meeting is that coordinated urban planning and design is crucial and there are three points here. Sensitive social equity oriented child and gender friendly urban planning can help reduce disparities. Multidisciplinary well-being teams, urban well-being teams, like a team that is sitting in this room right now has an important role and this meeting is playing that role. Planning and design keeping the most powerless neighborhoods in mind will be helpful. If we reach the most powerless, during that course we will end up reaching slightly less powerless people automatically. This is a community organization. This is approach three which I wanted to share with you. Trained slum groups enhance access to healthcare as well as to other services. Institution building and negotiation capacity building at the community level helps them address determinants of health. How do they do that? They do that through formal petitions to authorities for various services. They do that through persistent negotiation. That's an important skill which people have to learn to be able to do it. Collective representation to the authorities. Actually 20 women, 50 women going to the civic authorities in person and using legal tools. India has two legal tools which are commonly used. One of them is called the right to information act and another is called the public hearing. These are also tools that we have taught them how to use. There are examples of how NGOs or private players have partnered with the public sector to increase or expand healthcare. This is one hospital in Assam. This is a health center in many states of the country. This is using whatever is available. So in urban areas, telephones are available, these tuk-tuk's are available, and so if we utilize whatever is available and develop systems, develop skills, we can increase access. This is my last slide. What can we do? Four messages. On the research front, and maybe some of you will get upset with me, 50% of the resources for action to reduce inequalities in cities. The focus on realities. Urban poor constitute the most rapidly growing segment of the population. So if research takes this into account, the research design automatically will help this. And action research, if it involves enablement of vulnerable populations that will directly help the population, it will also propel such research and future. On the policy front, what I have felt is that many countries have good policies. Usually the policy think tank is reasonably good. It takes good advice. There's a very important need to translate that into expeditious and undiluted results. There's a lot of dilution which happens from the policy until it reaches where it's supposed to reach. The third message is that if we have coordinated collaborative research and action, which is what I think this type of meeting will lead us towards, that will be very helpful. Everybody has emphasized that. I've learned a lot certainly from this meeting. And this is something which I wanted to leave everyone with. Make the invisible, visible, facilitate empowerment and skill building of those with weak voice and little power. Before I leave, I just wish to acknowledge the work of all colleagues, community stakeholders, stakeholders at national state, and from all of you from whom I've learned enormously during the course of these two days. Thank you very much.