n't die She didn't pass away She was murdered That siren murdered her Not a knife nor a gun A siren That's all it takes to take away the soul of a nine year old girl The children in the state of Israel are not living in a world where they can play safely enjoy everyday life to walk around smiling and freely and feel safe We are in the state of Israel but we are still not where we can feel completely safe My children, instead of playing hide and seek we are busy hiding from the sirens from the rockets and missiles from the terrorists who are out for our blood Well let's go down now to the south and our Mary, and Mary what's going on down there it seems like again a very tense night in the south on the Gaza border and of course within Gaza itself some fighting, heavy fighting That's right Kalev a heavy night as well as a heavy day we continue to see heavy clashes between Israel and Hamas inside the Gaza Strip as well as Hamas also trying to send rockets into Israeli territories most of the areas that they are aiming at or have been aimed at in the south here today have been evacuated but we do see very heavy Israeli airstrikes inside the Gaza Strip as well as ongoing gunfights between this battle that allegedly happened hours ago between Israel and Hamas members who had tried to come out of a tunnel inside the Gaza Strip near Eris Crossing and the Israeli forces responded with heavy gunfire Hamas said it responded back and that they are still engaged in active clashes and now we have a warning from Hamas telling Israel not to strike any of the hospitals in Gaza calling on the international community to take action against this potential it's important to note of course as we've been talking about over the past few weeks we've seen evidence presented by the Israeli military accusing Hamas of using hospitals as human shields and putting the lives and civilians at risk inside this hospital where many have been sheltering we've known from Israeli airstrikes today there have been numerous casualties numerous injuries reported from airstrikes many of them have been going to both the Jerusalem hospital the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza which has received evacuation orders as well as the Al-Shifa hospital which received these evidence from Israeli military earlier in the week saying that underground this hospital there is that massive Hamas complex so we're continuing to hear warnings calling from international community to take every aid to try and safeguard civilian lives Israeli military continues to issue warnings continues to drop pamphlets on areas in the northern Gaza Strip telling everybody to evacuate further south but we are also seeing and hearing airstrikes further south inside the Gaza Strip and in parts of central Gaza Strip last week a recording of a resident of Gaza saying that Hamas Hamas security terrorists have been trying to literally block the roads to the south of Gaza at one point even shooting on residents of northern Gaza trying to make their way south so Hamas obviously seeing a benefit in having some kind of civilian population there in the northern Gaza city to continue to act as human shields absolutely this is what we've heard coming out inside the Gaza Strip at this point we don't know how many civilians are actively trying to be out on foot and trying to go further south at this point the past few nights have seen really relentless Israeli airstrikes and I think really the message that's coming from the Israeli military is that if you haven't evacuated by now you absolutely need to or it could even be too late we also see Israeli airstrikes also hitting a road that went from the central area from northern Gaza Strip into southern Gaza Strip to prevent perhaps members of Hamas who are staying in the southern part from accessing areas of the north or bringing military infrastructure or equipment we continue to see and all eyes really are on this area to continue to unfold we are beginning to see reports coming out about what's been happening inside the Gaza Strip in recent days after that total communication blockout but it's still only coming really in trickles coming out it has not been fully restored alright Mary McCullough there in stereo thank you for that updates coming on the situation there in Dagestan that region of southern Russia Muslim region where there was an attack and attempted pogrom well inching of Jews and Israelis at the airport where a flight from Tel Aviv was landing this evening right security source telling Hebrew media Kalev that there is a small number of Israelis and Jews at the airport contrary to report we had earlier playing on the airport I believe at the airport for my best understanding they are under protection so they are being guarded and the attempt is being made according to these reports to have the plane take off from Moscow so stepping back it seems I say the very very cautiously because again the facts are still coming out it seems the people are safe but the incident is not over I want to go some of the reporting from Mary McCullough down in stereo Rafael it does seem as if the army is picking up it's what it's called second stage or face to operation but not at all the way we anticipated it not a a big quick push into the heart of certainly say northern Gaza or Gaza city but a very gradualist approach as deliberate step-by-step approach each day yes and in that they are following a rather good advice I think they got from the secretary of defense Lloyd Austin the American Secretary of Defense and from the commander of the Central Command of the United States forces who exchanged with their Israeli colleagues and tried to explain to them that maybe this huge massive ground offensive this invading of the Gaza street might not be the best way to go about it and the Israelis have accepted to give a try to what the Americans are advising to do meaning a more limited ground offensive it started with two nights with a rather small incursions into the Gaza Strip in and out very fast striking and opening the road for what is happening now meaning also an incursion which is of a much larger scale of course but still not what we had in mind it seems to be working this was a trial run maybe and we see that this strategy is working it will require a lot more patience if we can have any more from the Israelis and from the Army meaning it will take much even longer to reach our objectives in Gaza but it seems to be working because right now all the targets have been hit there was a long list 150 targets concerning the tunnels the underground infrastructure of the Hamas many targets along the sea from the naval forces of the Hamas so all this with reasonably few casualties on our side so it might be that we got a good advice and that we were clever enough to follow it the coming days and hours we'll see will show us if this is really the case because now after this almost two days in there the forces are getting tired there is now you have to replace them they are arriving we are first the infantrymen who are exhausted also the tank crews while this is happening you have to bombard even more and we have this problem with the fact that the human shield of this Palestinian used by the Hamas that are hampering our advance and we heard that just now by Mary for the Hamas saying don't attack the hospitals which we know are the commands they are purposely keeping people in those hospitals bringing them trying to keep them loaded so that Israel can't attack the command centers that are underneath them but if you follow the protocol number one of the Geneva convention concerning civilian casualties there is this protocol which states that it's all proportional meaning there are there is collateral damage but if this collateral damage is much inferior to the damage that could be caused by the target then you can hit the target. There is a development related to what you just said that I want to get to the White House has released a readout of President Biden's call with Prime Minister Netanyahu this evening just briefly some of the main points the president reiterated that Israel has every right and responsibility to defend its citizens from terrorism and underscore the need to do so in a manner consistent with international humanitarian law that prioritizes the protections of civilians. The president and prime minister discussed ongoing efforts to locate and secure the release of hostages to include American citizens who remain unaccounted for may be held by Hamas. The president underscored the need to immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza as we mentioned earlier today actually increase this flow of water into Gaza opening up the second three pipes that bring water into two of the three pipes that now normally bring water into Gaza have been open but again the US administration pressing is quite heavily it seems now on the issue of both aid and civilian casualties as well. Those two adverbs on the aid immediately and significantly those are pretty strong adverbs apparently the administration not all that happy with the pace of aid going into southern Gaza again it's a broken record but I'm going to remind viewers again because I've been saying it for weeks the Israeli policy to deny food, water essential medicines and even essential fuel for things like hospitals not a realistic policy to be sustainable putting aside fuel they are allowing those aid trucks to come in but I there is pressure to increase that right well at the end and I had said exactly and I had said at that point that this was not a realistic policy a readout like this simply strengthens that point and really one wonders if Israel would have been better out off getting ahead of this issue rather than being dragged with it it certainly doesn't seem to have helped in releasing the hostages for example. No but the families of the hostages have objected to the bringing in of humanitarian aid saying there should be there should be a quid pro quo where a Hamas at least give some signs of life for the hostages or allows the right because I know it's not realistic Israel is not Hamas in every way I'm talking about the demands of the hostages families and the government everyone has sympathy for the hostages families but one point also of course the readout also says Israel has to follow international humanitarian law of course Israel has to follow international humanitarian law Israel agrees that Israel has to follow international law so again that that doesn't add any information of course everyone agrees Israel has to follow the law and Israel says it is following the law that international laws of warfare do take into account civilian casualties as collateral damage in this kind of they also take this into account and blockade is legal by international law and protocol one of the Geneva convention forbids cutting water to civilian populations this is written in the Geneva convention that's why the Israelis are now providing what I will remind the viewers that 90% of the water is under Hamas control we only provide 10% again it's not only the issue of law but it is the issue of law and legal situation I suspect is more complicated it's also the issue of just reality and geopolitics in foreign policy alright so I want to move from President Biden to his main competitor currently certainly and most likely in November for the presidency next year the Republican Jewish coalition held its annual convention in Las Vegas this weekend now at the form of Vice President Mike Pence announced there his withdrawal from the race to be the presidential nominee in 2024 and also declared his strong support for Israel it was time for Pence's former boss Donald Trump to take the stage yesterday here's a bit of what the former president and as I said it's leading by far for the GOP nomination had to say on the subject of Israel we will fully support the Israelis in their mission to ensure that Hamas is decimated and these atrocities will be avenged many ways they'll be avenged I think even beyond what you're thinking about Joe Biden's weakness caused the attack on Israel pure weakness and incompetence everywhere he goes Biden's weakness provokes war and death because as history shows evil only respects one thing unyielding strength for four straight years I kept America safe I kept Israel safe and I kept the world safe it was a safer place a much safer place today the world is today the world is blowing up all around no matter where you look if I were president the attack on Israel would never ever have happened I think you believe that right if you believe that oh and president Trump at the president former president Trump of some of the supporters more than a year until election did you believe this more than a year more than a year until the election but making sure this time he had been criticized for his initial speech a couple of weeks ago on the events of October 7 critical of Benjamin Netanyahu kind of on a personal attack this time speaking to that Republican Jewish coalition and even though Republican Jews are not a big part of the Republican electorate comparatively there's some very heavy donors involved there and making very careful to be sure not to make unequivocal support for Israel no mention of Netanyahu right and of course Israel is an important issue to Republican voters beyond those in that room right it's important evangelicals important other Republican voters of course we see that in polls as well look Donald Trump's running an election campaign he's looking past the primaries probably with good reason to do running against Joe Biden and so look within within reason it makes sense to try to take to take aim at Joe Biden's foreign policy that's what election campaigns are about that said I don't think there are too many Israelis who will actually support the claims that Donald Trump made right it's it's a tough claim to prove right that but for Joe Biden being president the October 7th massacres the Sinchatora massacres would not have happened of all of the theories and explanations of what went wrong here in Israel that's simply not part of the discussion right there there's no sense that if Donald Trump were president then there would have been a different result or if Joe Biden had had a different kind of foreign policy there to get a different result it's much much more focused on what's happening here on dynamics within Israeli society within Israel's intelligence apparatus and military so the discussion here is someplace else and Donald Trump won't find much support for that claim from within those in Israel who are thinking about this okay but there are those in the United States who do make similar such claims it's inevitable that this issue everything in Israel becomes part of the partisan debate in the United States including October 7th and the fact that there are two leading presidential candidate who both are so supportive of Israel's obviously great news for the state of Israel for the Israeli public I want to come back now to Israel and of course the key issue of the hostages as we reported that families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza stepped up their pressure on the government this weekend to do something even including a possible prison exchange to obtain their release now one can only imagine their agony one of those is Moran six family members presumed kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz near Oz that is his sister Sharon Aloni Kunio Sharon's husband David and their twin three year old daughters Emma and Julie along with Aloni's older sister Danielle Aloni and her five year old daughter Amelia well joining us now is Moran Aloni joining us from Yavne Israel Moran I can't even imagine what you're going through tell us about just the morning of October 7th how it unfolded for you what you knew was happening for your family we woke up to missile here in Yavne we immediately contact my sister in the family what's up they said they are they're in the safe room they told that there were terrorists in the Kibbutz they don't know anything else after about an hour they said that they can hear the terrorists on their neighbor house after another 30 minutes we obviously communicating with them trying to understand what's going on trying to contact other people military police wherever we know after another half an hour they told us they can hear the terrorists in their house and then for an hour and a half about an hour and a half we didn't have any communication with them and then my sister send a what's up a voice message saying that they are burning the house and Smoke is getting under the Maman the safe room door and that they don't know if they're going to make it and that they love us and 20 minutes after she sent me a message after I also tried to get her location she sent me a message saying help we're dying and these were the the last two messages that I got from her on Saturday we gathered some information during the next two days on our own part from videos that we saw apart from from a survivor an article that we saw and then we talked with the two of us we understood that people saw them in some places during these events all six of your family members were they were seeing you go on okay six of them and David little brother and his girlfriend as well were kidnapped I think they're also kidnapped I'm not sure if they are missing or kidnapped but they're also not to be found and six days later on Friday we got an official message from the army saying that all of the six were confirmed as kidnapped since then we haven't heard any official news we are you know bits and pieces of rumors but nothing official and based on all of the fake news that are running everywhere I'm trying to be to attach myself to official news no nothing else I just I mean this would float for your family so many members if I can just ask how you are just dealing with it your family coping with dealing with this kind of terrible unimaginable situation you're living your life frozen you know you can't think about anything you're not sure what tomorrow will bring you don't know if you'll see them tomorrow or you'll see three officers in your doorstep tomorrow and I think this is I can I don't think that there is war to explain you know how it's like that such a big part of your family is just gone and you know it's not even we don't it's a constant grief because it never ends never ends for sure let me ask you we hear some of the messages family speaking up especially in the last couple of days speaking to the government and the Israeli public I want to ask you what your message is this evening on one level both for the Israeli government and the public here but as you know we are also an international channel with many viewers abroad what would be your message to the international community as well using us as a platform I think that most of the power in getting these hostages out tomorrow lays in the hand of the international community I think that the Israeli government I'm sure that the Israeli government and the Israeli army are doing the best they can both in trying to negotiate or thinking about how to negotiate the situation in bringing all the hostages back the real power lays at the international community I think that the pressure that they can put on Qatar which we all know that are kind of managing Hamas is the key to release these hostages I think that the international community needs to understand that this is not a normal war this is not an army versus army this is this is terrorists against civilians this is humanity against evil it's not another war as I see it and they need to to understand it quickly because if the international community doesn't do anything now it will reach them in a certain point in time I have no doubt about it right Tony, we first of all most important we wish a safe return a safe quick and healthy return of your sister your brother-in-law and your nieces safe back home and we wish the best for you and your family thank you for joining us telling us your story on I-24 News just looking gentlemen at the pictures of those young girls and thinking what they might be going through now never mind the parents it's almost it is beyond words and beyond imagining these pictures are in the minds of all the Israelis and I think the Jewish people it's haunting us it's a national trauma we're all traumatized by it but also in the heads of our soldiers and our commanders and this is the motivation that they are fighting which is a just fight which is a fight to avenge the memory of those who were so horribly massacred a fight to liberate these Jewish hostages who come into a long line of Jewish victims victims of pure hatred racism fanaticism we've known that for centuries we thought after the Holocaust now the ugly beast has come back but thank god we have a country we have an army and the ugly beast shall be killed destroyed and we shall prevail amen, amen at our hearts with the hostages and also with the situation in Dagestan the latest from there the grand movie of Dagestan calling for calm the head of the government there calling for calm understanding expressing empathy for what people are feeling about the war and about the situation in Gaza but at the same time saying that they're not to take the law into their own hands and there is some evidence of police detaining some of the riders in the airport so at least that story seems to be headed toward a relatively good conclusion but not all stories are there and the story of the hostages and the families and all that this country has suffered over the course of the past three weeks of course remains sadly unresolved earlier in the program and you may be too rough I remember talked about this war as in a sense of kind of world war not a world war in the sense of global powers fighting each other but that repercussions it's having are extending across the globe we see it in Europe with the anti rise and anti semitism there we see it in the United States with some of the consequences also for the Jewish communities there and we see it this evening in Russia in Dagestan violence, pogrom in part of Russia hocking back almost as ours times I would say something we didn't even see under the Soviet regime which of course had its own persecution of the Jews and clearly this is there's a reckoning that's going to have to be made here with maybe a slight difference is that the Jews are targeted right now but later on the agenda of the jihadist people is to target anybody non-muslim from the free world we just heard from our guest the father of those I'm sorry the brother and uncle of those hostages that the international community has to understand it is Israel and the Jews today but tomorrow it will be them as well gentlemen Ref. Jerusalem and an ultimate thank you for joining us on the special broadcast on the 24th and stay with us for our continuing coverage of Israel's war against Hamas Israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their heads awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity Hamas comes to the special broadcast here on I-24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 23 of the war in Israel the war and the fog of war that is not the ground operation rather but a ground operation the IDF expanding its activity in the Gaza Strip combined aerial and ground in and out so to speak the strategic goal remains the same but the tactic might be changing and as all fronts are profoundly intertwined more action in the south means more in the north Hezbollah stepping up its assaults today too President Joe Biden the American president that is speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening once again the I-24 humanitarian aid is entering the Strip but no ward on humanitarian assistance to the at least 239 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas terrorists no ward on their condition no ward on their whereabouts no ward on their release and as this war far exceeds its physical borders right in Russia as we speak Muslim mob has been breaking into the Dagestan capital airport for Jews and Israelis storming every corridor armed with burning hatred to kill chanting Allah Akbar determined to lynch lynch Jews without security control there nearly 85 years since Crystal Nacht Jews are being haunted again yet again never again attempted pogroms no other way to describe it meanwhile back here in Israel the body count is not over and it's not just the over 1400 slaughtered by Nazi Hamas terrorists on October 7th nor the over 100 so severely mutilated bodies that are still waiting to be identified a week after going into cardiac arrest during a rocket alert siren as she and her family rushed into shelter like millions of Israelis those past week Dishvili aged 9 has died and if there is any need to clarify there it is Tamar did not pass away she was too killed murdered by Hamas she didn't die she didn't pass away she was murdered that siren murdered her not a knife nor a gun a siren that's all it takes to take away the soul of a 9 year old girl the children in the state of Israel are not living in a world where they can play safely enjoy everyday life to walk around smiling and freely and feel safe we are in the state of Israel but we are still not where we can feel completely safe my children instead of playing hide and seek we're busy hiding from the sirens from the rockets and missiles from the terrorists who are out for our blood and joining us here in studio on this broadcast Captain Guy Poran former Air Force pilot and our very own at 24 News a senior correspondent Guy Israel thank you guys gentlemen very much for joining us today I do want to begin with you, Captain Poran because in the earlier days of the war there was this notion and perhaps this is a good thing that at this point in time notions are being assessed and reassessed again there was this notion that the two objectives of the war eliminating Hamas and releasing the hostages are contradicting or at least cannot be achieved through the same means but now it seems that this notion is being challenged to an extent and my question to you Captain Poran can they both be achieved through a ground operation this is a very very difficult question and apparently even in the war cabinet there is no one decisive opinion about this the issue is anybody with a little bit of logic can understand that when you have a ground operation soldiers and tanks moving in the safety of those hostages is something that is very very difficult to guarantee the issue is the big dilemma is whether the pressure on Hamas to release them in some sort of a deal is now is the time to do it before there is a ground operation and there is talks with Qatar and whatever or the other opinion which says and it's clearly the opinion of the minister of defense that said that to the families that actually the chances of having any kind of deal to release increases if the pressure of the ground operation is there and this is a dilemma that I don't know if anybody has a clear answer what comes first I wouldn't use even the phrase sticks and carrots because it's not really accurate this time around but diplomatic pressure first or military pressure first that's indeed a big dilemma and speaking to that point another dilemma what is Israel's northern border let's cross now to Israel Lebanon border I-24 news correspondent Pia Cekalbach standing by there Pia thank you very much for joining us it seems that as the IDF is expanding its operations down south in the strip Hezbollah is stepping up too multiple red siren alerts today in the north Israeli forces targeting terrorist squads busy day yet another one statement saying that a couple of rockets were launched from Syria into northern Israel there also the Israeli military is striking back towards the origin of those rockets earlier throughout the evening we had barrages of rockets fired towards northern Israel from southern Lebanon they're starting with rockets onto the area of Rojpina city that is about 30 kilometers away from the Lebanese border targeting Rojpina itself and several other communities in that area there one fell into open area one of those communities there just announced that tomorrow there won't be any schools or kindergartens open there is a precocious measure then another red alert in the area of Kiryat Shmona one of those cities that was only recently evacuated rocket six was were sent towards Kiryat Shmona one of them targeting a house setting a house on fire that was empty of its residents as they had evacuated before and then also only shortly another barrage of rockets fired here in the western area of the border towards the community of Nahriyah for example a barrage Hamas claiming responsibility saying that it sent 16 rockets towards this area the IDF saying that 10 rockets were fired there also the IDF has been striking back towards the origin and in addition to that several squads were targeted trying to fire mortar shells from southern Lebanon into Israel so you can really see that the northern front is continuously heating up here also as more and more communities are being evacuated and really the example of that house being lit on fire from one of those rockets and Kiryat Shmona shows you that this precocious measure is actually coming into effect here right and this is perhaps a good opportunity to remind our viewers that homefront command instructions orders are literally saving lives day in day out because as much as the Iron Dome anti-messile system that intercepts most of them is operating very well it is enough for one directed for one debris to cause a lot of damage and God forbid loss of life so adhering to these instructions is of paramount importance but Pia the war cabinet member Benny Gantz formerly the defense minister the IDF chief of staff was touring the north today saying that a victory will only be achieved when both residents of the south and the north can go back to their homes without any security reservations or threats he's not implying proactive Israeli action against Hezbollah and yet it is tough to imagine such a scenario without any clear action as such right Ellie when we were speaking about a much more volatile situation as Israel is somehow experienced with Hamas and Gaza but if we look at the northern front where he's speaking about Hezbollah but also several other Palestinian factions that are all connected to Iran and we have been hearing that statement of the Iranian president Ibrahim Raisi today posting on ex-family Twitter saying that again they're very closely watching the events in Gaza and that Israel has crossed the red line forcing everyone to act and this is what we've been hearing all over since the beginning of the war Hamas and Hezbollah together with the Iranian support trying to combine the fronts trying to combine their actions there we've been seeing the Iranian foreign minister meeting there Hassan Asrallah from Hezbollah meeting with PIJ and Hamas representatives and of course the Israeli forces are very much prepared for wider escalation as it has been announced by Iranian forces that also falling considering the evacuations that have been taking place in the recent weeks that he and the North communities up to five kilometers away from the border being evacuated that you will always also there have residents who do not want to leave their homes as you're right we do not know when they will be able to return we also do not know how much their sense of security will change after having experienced that major threat on the border you might have to face a reality that after the war that we do not know how it will play out on the border people might not even want to go back to their houses but that is very much in the unknown as of now Ali Yes, many many elements still unknown I-24 news, Pia Stakalbacha with the I-24 news team there underground thank you very much for this Pia back here in studio with the captain Puran and Gai Israel Captain Puran I do want to go back to you and with the same question more or less to Pia here gone saying that a victory can only be achieved if both northern residents and southern residents are able to leave peacefully it seems that a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah is off the table and yet how can you achieve any such thing without the military action? Well you know an announcement like that from the Ministry of Defense is natural in the sense that this is his wish I don't think that necessarily creating a situation that people can go back there necessarily means a pre-emptive strike which means a total war with Hezbollah this is something that I don't think that anybody in Israel and hopefully in Lebanon wishes there has been I remind you 16 years since the 2006 war of relative calm while the mutual threats to each other created a situation that people could leave relatively peacefully on this border so The world of a post October 7th is not the word until October 7th can northern residents live with the sticking bomb? That seemed to be the perception when it came to Gaza of course with the occasional rocket fire I will speak rockets in the south where the siren alerts heard as we speak down some. Yes ongoing throughout this war with the ongoing rocket fire throughout the past 20 years something that Israel has accepted has learned to accept thanks to the Iron Dome and thanks to the resilience of the residents in the south and that was the reality that Israel was willing to live with while that reality really exploded in everybody's faces unfortunately because it was revealed that when there is a terror group an Islamist radical jihadist terror group that seeks to eliminate the state of Israel with a Nazi ideology of seeking to actually attempt to seeking to slaughter Jews eventually if they have the will and the means eventually they will wait for the right moment and they will do so as a result of that the residents of the communities in the south those that I am in touch with those that I meet with every day say they will not go back to their homes until the reality changes completely especially for those who live right on the border Israel does want the residents of the road to come back within a month or two still it would take some persuading and we'll see how that operation continues but as for these communities we need to remember many of them are less than a mile away from the Gaza border they were used to the ongoing rocket fire but reality in which they fear terrorists will be infiltrating their homes again well they will not accept any of that and they will not be willing to go to their homes it's as simple as that it's got nothing to do with Israel's ambitions yes or no it's their fact of wanting to leave insecurity in their very homes something that the state of Israel cannot guarantee yeah yeah but I agree with some of these things that you said Guy but on the other hand the 20 years of the army thanks to Iron Dom and their resilience it was also five at least five if not more big operations that created the huge damage and set back the Hamas a few years back now I'm not saying that this is an ideal situation in the neighborhood that we leave there I'm not sure there is an ideal situation I personally don't think that a pre-emptive in other words a situation where Israel is going to eliminate any kind of risk from Lebanon is something that we should even discuss at this point in time definitely at this point in time and to that the situation in Lebanon and with Hezbollah is certainly different because Hezbollah is also responsible for the entire state if it does engage in a massive strike against Israel with massive ramifications or Lebanon as a whole and this is something that Israel stresses so much it's not so much the case for Hamas in Gaza that does not care less about its civilians there. And before we jump to our team down south as we speak a member of Hamas diplomatic wing and by the way more rather alert in the south Abu Mazouk in an interview this very hour saying they expected much more from our friends, our brothers in Hezbollah and in the west bank we're surprised by their stats and so essentially surprised that they're not trying to eliminate Israel as well on that note that we will be getting back to our conversation here in studio in a second but we do want to head to I-24 news correspondent Mary McAuliffe with the I-24 news team there underground Mary in the past couple of minutes that we're speaking our whole or putting you on hold there several barrages of rockets targeting Israel's south what can you tell us? That's right Ellie so it's been a particularly heavy day for rocket sirens here in this area perhaps maybe not as heavy as that we saw during the first week of the war but certainly very active that had more so than in recent days but it's important to note that these communities have mostly been evacuated probably at least 20 times throughout the day we have no reports of any injuries from Israeli paramedics who are working on the ground luckily but the situation inside the Gaza Strip is very active heavy war zone that we can hear from inside this Israeli community we're in Stroat very near the Israeli border there's right now there's an Israeli fighter jet above me I can hear in the air we can actually hear them too many throughout the day also helicopters just very very heavy Israeli aerial presence today of course we've seen heavy Israeli presence throughout the beginning of this war but here today we also saw a number of incidents especially near that Erez crossing where Israel said it eliminated a number of terrorists who had come out of a tunnel on inside the Gaza Strip but were potentially trying to attack forces or civilians over the Israeli border they said they eliminated them but what we know from Palestinian sources is those gunfights went on for hours Yeah it seems to be the new modus operandi if you will idea forces in and out round in and out those those raids that we've seen in recent days likely to persist and there were some direct confrontations today with terror squads right so that was so there was one incident Erez crossing that was officially confirmed by the IDF there were also reports about another infiltration's attempt in Zikim so very heavy area with the Palestinian media sources on again almost all communication was cut but it's been partly restored so what we've heard from Palestinian sources coming out today is they're reporting very heavy gun paddles really throughout the evening for at least four hours or now from where we were standing very near the Gaza border earlier we could see Israeli drones overhead Israeli planes striking on one particular ground also mortar fires being launched from inside the Gaza Strip so it is really artillery so now almost 30 days into the war and after IDF is already on the ground here we do continue to see that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups inside Gaza absolutely have the capability of continuing to fire and continuing to hold up this resistance and put up an assault against Israeli forces but also trying to target Israeli civilians I-24 News correspondent Mary McAuliffe down south with the I-24 news team thank you very much for this and as we speak it's another weather alert Siren down south we will get back to Mary McAuliffe later on in the broadcast back here with Captain Agai Poran and I-24 News senior editor Agai Israel yes Captain Poran you mentioned before the quite surprising announcement of this Hamas leader about his disappointment from the participation of Hezbollah actually it's even more but it's more astonishing what he said Abu Marzouk was that the Palestinian authorities as well as some Arab countries actually wish the Hamas to be eliminated by the Western parties it's not only that they're disappointed he claims that they wish the Hamas to be destructed I'm not sure that he's wrong I know but it's still amazing that he said that right right right and it is also important to note that that the Fatih party and the Palestinian authorities main political party had a very vivid memory of what Hamas leadership did to their own leaders throwing them rooftops when they took over etc so you know I hear many people wondering what would happen if Israel withdraws from the West Bank immediately tomorrow yeah perhaps that's a good sign for Israel with the fact that Hamas is under pressure we also heard from Hamas official saying that they did not expect American involvement to this extent as well something that certainly raises some fears there especially with the very high presence of American troops around here and it goes together with the other element of the Americans here putting pressure on Israel to next in addition to this ground operation to the heavy pressure on Hamas to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza there are 100 trucks entering this trip as well as the internet which was eliminated and according to the information president Biden insisted that the internet is the report on the Wall Street Journal that this is from American pressure and there would be no other reason why Israel would restore internet and telephone in Gaza after eliminating that on Friday one of the many issues that we have to follow in its close cooperation with the Americans as it continues its offensive this evening another telephone conversation between the American president and the Israeli premier so ongoing communication there that's for certain but I do want to go back to what we started talking about earlier this those in and out those ground operations that we're seeing are not war 2.0 but war 1.5 exactly and it's not necessarily in and out some of the forces actually remain there but you're right it's more like well testing the water in one sense in order to understand what kind of resistance they could expect what kind of tricks objectives on the ground are being met those those operations are not just for the sake of no it's not just to show there are certain objectives but very limited ones it's obviously not the big thing and I think that it's mainly to show to show the forces themselves what there is the local resistance is going to be like to see to test some of the techniques that they're planning to use etc interesting and you know I guys real there's something you know what I will not use any adjectives Hamas's double game here is fascinating since on the one hand it is distancing itself from the slaughter of civilians etc and on the other hand bragging for doing exactly that and Khaled Marshal one of the main leaders of Hamas is giving a very interesting interview today perhaps this is how I can phrase it diplomatically saying that the Chinese are super impressed by the Hamas massacre and that the Russians went as far as saying that this massacre the October 7 massacre will be studied in military academies look we have to say that this was a major failure it's it that is the obvious thing that this was a major failure for Israel enabling Hamas to execute this attack and for Hamas not in the long term for sure but on October 7 that was a major victory seeing so many Israelis so many women and children elderly slaughtered in their homes this is the victory of Hamas and if the Russians and if the Chinese see that as a glorious military operation well good for them and I think good for the world to see where is Russia and China positioned next to Hamas this axis of evil these countries that support militant groups, terrorist groups like Hamas, Hamas like ISIS I think everyone in the western world as well needs to ask himself where does he like to see himself next to these evil forces or next to an Israeli democracy that is attempting to defend its civilians many of its citizens the civilians on the border communities that I know very well peace loving peace activists among them people that I know that were driving Palestinian patients voluntarily every day to Israeli hospitals these are the ones that were slaughtered in their homes and were kidnapped into Gaza that is the reality I think that we have to differentiate between the obvious slaughter and atrocities that are a successful military part of actually penetrating the fans, the cameras this is something that I think everybody was honest they executed as you said a perfect military military operation which they used later to do atrocities but still the military side we have to admit it it's not going to help hiding it away certainly don't and that was among everything a major failure of the Israeli establishment defense establishment of the Israeli government both in terms of the operation in terms of the concept allowing Hamas to thrive for so many years getting so many funds from the world and at the same time the operational failure of not being there for the civilians once this attack even if it was a surprise one not reacting on time and speaking of Hamas capabilities or abilities according to reports it is stocked up fuel and food and water and whatever it needs to pursue its terrorist operations for at least roughly four months of fighting in the underground tunnels there so Hamas is ready the humanitarian situation has nothing to do with Hamas ability to pursue its fighting gentlemen we're taking a short break but when we get back we will talk more about what's happening globally because this war far exceeds the geographic borders of the Israel of the Middle East and also perhaps dive in further into the meaning of fog of war at this point in time not just theoretically speaking but rather a very practical military tool this ambiguity that is helping Israel to gain steam in the fight underground quick break and we're back with our special coverage Israel is at war making investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israelbonds.com and invest now 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues giving you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on I-24 news to this special broadcast here on I-24 news we continue our rolling coverage day 23 of the war here in Israel Muslim mob looking to kill Jews no this is not yet another description of October 7 but rather what is happening right now this evening in Russia here's just part of what's been unfolding in recent hours at this airport in Dagestan still with us here in studio captain Gaya Pohan and joining I-24 news as senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Aljerman Owen means we've seen there tonight five years since Kristallnacht attempted pogroms no other way to put it medieval I mean medieval but all too modern you're absolutely right thankfully it seems at this hour that we can call this an attempted pogrom and an actual pogrom that's the one thing we have to be thankful for not if it was up to them that's for certain no but you know once you have the grand Mufti coming out and calling for calm you have the head of the government in the Dagestan region coming out coming for calm and the security forces there seeming to take control of the situation obviously you can breathe a sigh of relief at least for those people on the plane but of course what seems to have been a centuries long tradition of Jewish life in Dagestan seems to be coming to a close and obviously another very difficult chapter in relations between Israel and Russia I mean this happened in Russian soil is Russia's responsibility and I know the Israeli government is working with the Russian government to try to take care of this they just announced the fact that the Russians said that they managed to control and get all these pogromists out but it took a while they certainly were caught short-handed to say the least and the question of why that happened and of course the backdrop and untangling Ellie we've already started to talk about this but untangling the web of Muslim anti-Semitism again not all Muslims are anti-Semites but the strain of anti-Semitism that comes from within the Muslim tradition and Russian anti-Semitism of course not all Russians are anti-Semites but there is a strain of anti-Semitism that comes from the Russian tradition and these two seem to have become entangled in some way again be the feeling in the Muslim world on one hand and also what we hear about is being said and messaged in Russian media which may also be reaching these people so there are a lot of questions about not just this incident but all that surrounds it by the way some unfinished business from the last two hours of our broadcast this was breaking massive thank you it's important to do it on air Natasha Shargatova producer Ellie you work with Natasha you know how incredible work she does but tonight just giving us all the information and Russian telegram so we could bring it to you the viewer as quickly as possible as soon as we were getting the information about what was happening in a very very unclear situation so a big thank you Natasha and of course the many many people here on our channel with all the viewers joining us in the past weeks the many many incredible parts of our team people on our team that you don't see because they're not on air but how much everybody contributes just a word to say to be fair I think that the issue of everybody's talking about this Muslim general anti-Jewish or whatever at the same time we hear voices of certain Muslims and certainly Israeli Arabs etc that are talking against it absolutely to not recognize that as well I was careful to say it wasn't all Muslims but you're right to emphasize it even unfortunately we know who is more vocal usually those with burning hatred and not those with burning love and speaking of Natasha Shargatova she wraps up some terrifying days in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia not just what we've seen tonight but also center center to fire death to Jews signs Jews cannot rent apartments violent rallies yes this is happening this weekend in Dagestan Joe Brown and Natasha Shargatova with what's happening there a pogrom attempt in the 21st century over a hundred men gathered outside a hotel in Russia's majority Muslim region of Dagestan demanding to know whether Israeli refugees were staying in the building anti-Semitic riots were spurred by a video making rounds on social media claiming to show an Israeli strolling outside the Flamingo Hotel in the southern city of Khasav Yurt the mob demanded all the guests look out the windows so they could make sure they weren't Jewish when the demand wasn't met the men started throwing rocks to chance of al-Ahu Akbar clamoring to be let into the hotel to check the sellers the police came and allowed a couple of writers to go into the hotel in search of Jews luckily they couldn't find anyone since then the hotel reportedly put up a sign saying that Israelis and Jews are forbidden from entering the premises an anti-Semitic rally also gathered outside a government building in another city in North Caucasus at first the citizens of Chokesk demanded officials guarantee no Israeli refugees will be let into the Republic but the demands grew how are we going to get out of here? how are we going to get out of here? how are we going to get out of here? how are we going to get out of here? under Jewish center under construction in a neighboring republic was set on fire and death to Jews was scrawled on the walls officials and religious leaders have been scrambling to quell the wave of anti-Semitism in the region forbidding pro-Palestinian rallies but so far it seems like there is no end to the hatred and we want to welcome now a president of the Conference of European Rabbis Rabbi Abinaz Gulchman, former chief rabbi of Moscow joining us this evening from Jerusalem where it's relatively safe compared to what we're seeing in Russia tonight believe it or not Rabbi Gulchman thank you very much for joining us tonight I would just begin without any question really just to ask you to describe what those images again nearly 85 years since Kristallnacht that we're seeing tonight in Dagestan are making you feel I would make more a parallel to what happened 120 years ago in Kishinev the 1903 pogroms in Kishinev but we're getting reports from different cities in Dagestan which is a Muslim republic in the southern part of Russia from Cherkess we saw what happened in the hotel over there they tried to make the hotel and the police let those rioters check the passports of every person who is living in that hotel the burning down of the Jewish center and also Khasav Yota and what happened in the airport in Makhachkala now there are parts of it which are surprising but I described the situation with the Jews in Russia since the beginning of the war of being hostages to the relationship with Israel and I've called at the end of 22 the Jews, whoever can leave Russia should leave Russia because of the deteriorating relationship with Israel and which have since the 7th have deteriorated even further now what has happened last week was the foreign minister of Russia met with Hamas President Putin met with the religious leaders of Russia he has called for the continuous brotherly relationship between the different religious communities in Russia, Muslims, Jews and Christians but he has not condemned the massacre of Hamas on 7th and in Israel he has not done that what he has done he has commented on the many civilians who are getting killed in Gaza today now what could have happened that this was a sign from above to those rioters that the government has changed its mind and it is okay now to start riots against Jews and here we see the result what is surprising is that everything in Russia is controlled if a person makes a peep against a war, against Putin is getting arrested right away and here you have crowds of people in five dozen cities making a riot and the police is not getting involved so it's not that the authorities are not doing enough to save good Jews you're suggesting Rabbi that they might be letting them to carry on with those acts I think that according to the pictures we are getting from Khasav Yota and also the pictures we have seen from Mahachkala the police not only did not prevent from those rioters from coming into the airport they were even helpful to them now at the later date, today it was already it's called the Silesian Committee, it's like the FBI of Russia and they opened a criminal case against the rioters in Mahachkala and understand that they got from the crime they got they got the directive to stop those riots in Dagestan the question of course arises what happened initially why did these riots happen who was interested and what sign did they get from above to do that and as we speak Rabbi Diya Federal airport authority in Russia is announcing that the Dagestan airport will remain closed until November 6th following these riots Rabbi with us here in studio R24 senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alderman closely covering what's been unfolding this evening in Russia and again it is alarming to think Owen that the authorities are I wouldn't say giving a kosher stamp to these events but not playing an active part in curbing them that's for certain Ali makes us I think more worried and more concerned and more alarmed I actually had a question for Rabbi Goldsmith if it's okay because there's almost an action item that was almost pregnant you said one of the comments you made Rabbi was that the Jews of Russia are essentially hostages to the relationship between Israel and Russia and one of the arguments that's been made over the course of time since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine is that Israel has to tiptoe around its relationship with Russia in order to protect those Jews at the same time especially given what we've seen over the last few weeks there's a real inclination here in Israel to break away from the relationship with Russia to attack towards the United States and force towards Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelensky has been so supportive of Israel over the past few weeks what do you think about that would it be dangerous for Israel to attack more in support of Zelensky because of the presence of Jews in Russia or can Israel feel that it can safely do it and in a sense it's justifiably and rightfully do it given what we've seen over the last few weeks especially from Moscow this is a very loaded question of it's a parallel question to today where the Israeli government has to decide what is more important to do right now is to destroy Hamas or save the hostages in Gaza so these are very difficult questions and of course every Israeli government has to consider the safety of the Jews in Russia on the other hand the Israeli government has first of all to take care of the safety of its own citizens of the 10 million citizens in Israel Rabbi Goltry before we bid farewell simply put Rabbi are Jews safe in Russia I think the Jews today are in a difficult position it's a semi-totalitarian society and country and system there is almost no influence from outside countries of what is happening in Russia besides Iran and North Korea who we know are the greatest friends and concern of the Jewish community and so I would say that speaking openly I'm concerned about the Jews in Russia On that note President of the conference of European rabbis Rabbi Penechos Goltrymit former chief rabbi of Moscow yes dark times for Jews all over the world but as we have done in the past and likely will do many times in the future we shall overcome Rabbi Goltrymit thank you very much for your time and from one to another to an extent once again a massive pro-Hamas rally in Istanbul attended by political leaders across the board but Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not allow anyone to outshine his own anti-Semitism let's take a listen just as Netanyahu is a terrorist the opposition says Hamas is a terrorist organization as well shame on you Israel we will declare you as a war criminal to the world right now we are making preparations for this hey Israel how did you come here how did you enter here you are an occupier you are an organization the Turkish people know this to get a better understanding of what is currently happening or going through Erdogan's head we are crossing now to perhaps the only man with answers Ambassador Alon Liel former head of the Israeli diplomatic commission to Turkey thank you Ambassador Liel for joining us well before we got the disconversation we were talking about Vladimir Putin and perhaps more accurately Israel's balancing act when it comes to its interest vis-a-vis Russia but before we get to Israel's interest with Ankara with Erdogan calling another a leader of another country a terrorist can you ever go back from this it did so first time immediately after it was elected in November 2002 21 years ago it called Israel a terrorist state he repeated it in March 2023 and then in April and when we met with Dr. Antissy so in a way we were used to this terminology but what is so surprising is that in the last two years Erdogan was the angel behind Erdogan with Israel he was the one pushing for it and he achieved it he achieved it we exchanged ambassadors and he met all our leaders in the last two years including Netanyahu and here he comes back to this terrorist definition it's really unbelievable what we see in front of our eyes and Erdogan really invested some efforts being very proactive in his crusade or attempts to mend fences after beefing with almost everyone in the west recently but Ambassador Liel at the earlier days of the war Erdogan his rhetoric I wouldn't say was different but he did offer his assistance and when it comes to the hostage release since this statement he went to the extreme so my question to you Ambassador earlier quote-unquote to get hands-on in solving the hostage issue might have triggered this escalation rhetoric no I don't think so what was the escalation was the reports he got from Hamas in Gaza about the massive Israeli attacks and you are correct about the first two days when he saw the Hamas attack he offered help he wanted to help with the refugees I know about the hostages I know about it personally but but he turned around within 3-4 days and what we saw in the last 3 days his speech in parliament and the organizing of the demonstration is the climax of it and in fact the declaration that he is giving up on the relations with Israel so if we are trying to think like Erdogan what is his plan here what is the preferable end goal from his position you know I deal with Erdogan I think almost 30 years now there are two Erdogans there are two Erdogans there is Erdogan who is Islamic Panathik and ideology of the Islamic brothers and there is an Erdogan that has to run a state of 85 million people and he is wearing these two hats and exchanging hats from time to time 2 years ago or maybe almost 2 and a half now when he saw that Israel is building its status in the Middle East with the Abraham records and strengthening its relations with Egypt and stabilizing its relations with other players like Jordan and Morocco and so on he understood that he has to change course and he has to improve dramatically its relations with two dominant countries which is Israel and Egypt and he went through it intensively he led the process now what happened a week ago is that he is Islamic Brotherhood had jumped on his head again and he forgot about the need to run a country in this area and with 85 minutes and again started acting like an Islamic fanatic and then there will be a period of time in the future that he will jump again and try to correct it but now the damage that he did with his relations is missing and I don't think we can keep the ambassador his ambassador here I don't think it's another country that has an ambassador here whose leader spoke toward Israel like he did Dr. Rajip and Mr. Dhawan they go to Wolfen sheep's clothing when he wants to but Jerusalem is the one that should remember those quick exchanges that he's making Ambassador Alon Liel, former head of the Israeli diplomatic mission to Turkey, thank you sir very much for your time for your insight we appreciate it thank you very much and from one enigmatic actor to another not sure about the enigmatic part but crucial actor in the region nonetheless since the October 7th massacre Qatar as emerges a key player at least 239 hostages at least held by Hamas in Gaza for years it has hosted Hamas leaders in Doha also hosting the United States largest military in the region so how did this small oil rich country like Qatar find itself in such a perfect key position playing both fields if you will Middle East correspondent Ariel Al-Saran explains our target is to release all of the civilian hostages that's what we're working on and that's what we want to achieve three weeks after Hamas's deadly rampage in Israel which included the capture of 230 hostages Qatar has quickly emerged as the main mediator between Israel and Hamas if there is a continuing bombing if there is a continuing escalation in the situation our task is getting more difficult the mediators need a period of calm a situation where we can speak easily to both parts and try to be more creative in bringing more initiatives that can get those civilians out since October 7th Qatar has been the address of various countries for help in releasing their citizens from Hamas captivity it has also been hosting the Hamas leadership prior to the war and since it began providing a safe haven from Israeli reprisals however recent reports indicate this might end soon we will release them and the Al-Qasim Brigades announced that as well but now they are distributed in different locations let them stop this aggression and you will find the mediators like Qatar and some Arab countries like Egypt and others they will find the way to have them released and we will send them to their families so how did a small oil rich country in the Persian Gulf become the one that decides what happens in Gaza in recent years as Arab countries have been embattled with internal conflicts Qatar fashioned itself as the main financial supporter of the Gaza Strip we are here to assure the Palestinian people that were with you with the reconstruction in Gaza and with fulfilling the commitments made by the state of Qatar in previous international conferences tens of millions of dollars entered Gaza each month with Israeli consent to fund humanitarian projects and to improve the economic situation in Gaza but much of that money found its way into the hands of Hamas that's no surprise given its closest regional allies are Iran and Turkey Qatar is playing here a double game on one hand its role in putting out fires in the region awarded with points from the Middle East to Washington who considers Doha as a major non-nado ally on the other hand it uses its influential Al Jazeera TV network to incite against Israel and Jews and to promote Hamas propaganda for the Qataris it's all about regional influence and it is currently positioned at the heart of hostage negotiation efforts whether that engagement is in good faith remains to be seen yes and when Alderman part of Israel's decision to go ahead with those raids that we're seeing this ground of person is because Jerusalem feels that all these reports not the terminology of feelings is irrelevant to this point in time when we're talking about war but the Qatari Hamas diplomatic route is simply not bearing any fruit and those drip drops of hostages not sustainable actually Qatar's problems here go much deeper than that look on the surface it looks wonderful they even get in the middle of all of this


On Easter Sunday in the year 1722, a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggevin, is 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile, leading a fleet of three ships on an expedition to establish a Western trade route to the Spice Islands. In the early afternoon, he is alerted by his crew that they have spotted a small island and that there is smoke rising from it in several places, suggesting that it is inhabited. When they reach the shore, they are surprised by the appearance of some of the natives. When Jacob and his crew discovered Easter Island in 1722, accounts were written down that not only did they stumble across normal Polynesian-looking people, but as well, people of giant proportions who were light-skinned, had red hair, and even blonde hair. Jacob records the following statement in the ship's log. We noticed certain remarkable tall stone figures. These stone figures caused us to be filled with wonder, for we could not understand how it was possible to erect them. Some of these statues were a good 30 feet in height and broad in proportion. It seemed to us that God must have created these statues. They are not man-made. 300 years later, Jacob's questions concerning the strange appearance of the natives, as well as the origins and purpose of the gigantic stone statues known as Moai, have yet to be answered. But what do the statues of Easter Island represent, and when did they come into existence? Is it really plausible that a seafaring civilization stumbled upon the island and settled here? Bearing in mind the type of ships they would have sailed in to reach the land, how long it would take, and ultimately, would Easter Island even have been possible to reach in antiquity? There are stubborn questions with no logical conclusion. We drive a theory that a primitive people created these masterpieces with no real evidence or proof they even attempted such feats of engineering brilliance, let alone accomplish this. There must be answers, though, and perhaps the answers lie in the various other stone quarries around the planet that were seemingly abandoned just as it was at Easter Island. This doesn't tell the story of who done this or why, but what it does tell us is that all around the world, all at the same time in history, gigantic stone monuments were stopped during the quarrying process. This signifies the Cataclysm. It tells us that there was an event that reset everything and that it affected the entire planet. Easter Island never escaped the deluge and the topple Moai we see even to this day are signs that a wall of water hit the island and knocked some over. The ground was softened to mud at a lot of the sites and this also led to sinking of the giant statues. What we are looking at on this island are ancient figures that represent a greater period in history. Of course we often refer to the golden period, well doesn't it make sense that this island was not always as remote as it is today? The waters that the flood brought about probably cut the island off from the world as opposed to ancient navigators setting out to find it. And why settle on an island? And why was there no record of the island having existed before Jacob the Dutch navigator accidentally found it? It does seem entirely possible that Easter Island was not always cut off from everything else. Just places after all the most remote part of our planet, almost five hours on a plane from Chile today, it would seem the inhabitants survived the flood on this far and distant land. It is just mind boggling. Just how the Moai were transported and positioned in the island can be found in the legends told by the native people. Legends that suggest a type of energy known as mana was used to literally levitate the giant sculptures into place. According to oral tradition and the legends, the king was given the gift of mana from the great creator god Maqe Maqe. Legend holds that the king commanded that these great stone statues walk. According to the Easter Island myth, this power came out of the eyes of the statues and was this mystical power. It's like it was creating some kind of force field of energy that surrounded the island and protected it. So you have to wonder if there's something real here and was it some kind of extraterrestrial technology of all the many mysteries of Easter Island? Perhaps the most puzzling involves not only the construction of the Moai, but the position on the island. 880 of the 887 Moai face inland, but on the west edge of the island, seven of the Moai are positioned on a platform known as Ahua Kiwi and face outwardly towards the sea. Moai's face in its belief because they're protecting the village that they oversee, Ahua Kiwi is the one exception. The Moais there look out to sea. Not only that, they're identical. The seven are perhaps looking out to something in the sea, signaling something of awesome importance. And this led the history channel to send two expert researchers to the first landmass found that perhaps the statues are signaling. 2,300 miles from Easter Island on the Marquesas Islands. And strangely, this island have a story of seven brothers that were exiled to Easter Island by their father, the king. Are the seven statues facing the direction of the Marquesas Islands and actual depiction of the seven brothers longing for their passage home? Does the story and these statues connected to lands? It is astonishing to think this could be the case. Of course, this area of the world is mysterious and completely anomalous, but isn't everything on this planet just as weird?  But the only mystery to us is just how the hell were we led on this path of forgiveness as a people for so long. It is strange because it does not fit a historical narrative. History all over our earth has been plundered and burned and even changed in the favor of the prevailing culture in many cases. It is lost to us in so many ways, but at sites like Easter Island, it has been preserved and it is up to us today to try to better understand not just local history of these places and how they came to be, but also link them in with the world history, how it arose and what happened to it. It does seem that we are destined to not start at the beginning of the history of these places, but at the end and work our way back bit by bit as we try to uncover the truth surrounding our civilization. What do you guys think of this anyway? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.


After thousands of years of collective exploration of a whole variety of phenomena that were apparently very different, people realised that they were actually all electric and magnetic phenomena and that indeed electricity and magnetism were very strongly connected as well. They realised that it was all based on charge, that charges made electric fields and electric fields applied forces to charges. They realised that moving charges made magnetic fields and magnetic fields applied forces to moving charges. And Faraday found also that changing magnetic fields would make an electric field. And then James Clark Maxwell got all the data that everyone else had collected and all the laws they'd discovered and tried to make one integrated theory for electromagneticism. So we should adjust our summary here. We know that electric fields are made by charges and changing B fields. Remember Faraday discovered this experimentally but we motivated by thinking about what would happen if we had a moving coil and a stable magnet or a moving magnet and a stable coil and we thought they should do the same thing. And so we discovered there was actually a problem with electromagneticism the way it was. And in exactly the same way Maxwell looked at the equations for electricity and magnetism and put them in as detailed a form as he possibly could and he noticed there was an actual problem with them. They were definitely wrong. And in facing that problem what he did was he added the fact that magnetic fields could also be made by changing electric fields. And this had the effect of restoring the symmetry to electromagneticism and it made the theory actually self-consistent. It had an extra effect and that was he looked at those equations and he saw well if I have a changing electric field I'm going to make a B field and if I have a changing B field I'm going to make an electric field. Hey wait a minute these can propagate and so we could have an electric field make a magnetic field and then a magnetic field make an electric field and he discovered there was actually a wave solution so the fields themselves would make one another in an unending wave that would just head off into the distance. And he carefully worked out the speed of that wave and he discovered that the speed of that wave was the speed of light. Now of course that wasn't a coincidence and Maxwell was smart enough to realize that. He'd figured out the speed of these electromagnetic waves based only on properties that people discovered in lab about electricity and magnetism. So the permutivity and Coulomb's constant together would be enough to give you the speed of the wave and he found out that it came out to be the speed of light which he had not thought about at all up to that point. And so suddenly he realized oh my goodness I know what light is. I mean in fact there's the story that that's how he proposed to his girlfriend Catherine. He took her out and showed her the night sky and the starlight coming down on them and said Catherine I'm the only person in the entire world who knows what that starlight really is. Will you marry me? Now of course that could have gone two ways but fortunately history shows that in this case it was successful and she married him. His revised theory of electromagnetism was also unbelievably successful. It explained the existence and nature of visible light, infrared radiation, x-rays and more showing how they were all the same thing. It drove the discovery of special relativity and the theory lasted all the way through to the discovery of quantum mechanics and even since then it's still a great description of electromagnetism for nearly all practical purposes. So unlike most other waves you might be aware of, electromagnetic waves travel in the vacuum. They don't need any medium to travel in. It's just an electric field making a magnetic field and vice versa. They can be of any frequency or wavelength they like. Remember that the speed is related to the frequency in the wavelength in a very simple way and so the speed of all electromagnetic waves is the speed of light but they can have any frequency and then once you know the frequency you get a wavelength or vice versa.


Paid $2.99 at Goodwill and sold for $285 plus shipping within hours of listing. Hey, fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. All right, you guys. In this video, we are going to talk about big money plush. Plush to be on the lookout for. Another word for plush is stuffed animals. And you may have sold one of these. You may have never seen one of these. We're going to find out, but I'm going to tell you where they got it, what they paid for it and what it sold for. I shared this in my Bolo Buddies Facebook group. It says, share your best plush Bolo. And then everybody in the Facebook group that wanted to share a big money plush, put it in the comments. So I've got all the information. So I'm going to give it all to you here.  This is my Facebook group. If you're not in it, definitely go and check it out. I'd love for you to come over and follow and share a Bolo. Let's get started here with the first one. And speaking of ones that I've never heard of, I'm going to have to say, I don't think I've ever seen this one. Garage sale paid 50 cents sold for 42 plus buyer paid shipping. It's a vintage 1987 brush aloves white plush stuffed bear pink belly rainbows. And this is what it looks like. So brush aloves paid $2.99 for Sky at Goodwill and sold for $285 plus shipping within hours of listing. Wow. Okay. Now I get it. I'm like, Sky, it's a Lisa Frank. If you don't know, Lisa Frank is a big money Bolo. I've got videos on Lisa Frank. Type in Bolo Buddies Lisa Frank and you can see some more Bolo's. This is what it looks like. It's a jumbo 22 inch Sky Rainbow Pegasus plush beanie from 1998. $285. That is awesome. And she got it at the Goodwill, you guys. And it sold within hours. So maybe just maybe she either priced it right or she sold it too low. What do you guys think? All right, here's another good one. Paid 99 cents at the Salvation Army and sold for $125 within a day of listing. So we're talking fast sales here. Douglas Britney Spaniel, Isabel Rare retired plush. So I have told you guys this before. If you can find plush that look like people's animals, put realistic in the title, people will buy them because they want something that looks like their animal. This is what it looks like. And it sold on Mercari. And I tell you guys all the time, put your plush on Mercari. If you're selling on a platform, cross post them. I use list perfectly. There's a demo video down below. You can get 30% off your first month of list perfectly with coupon referral code Bolo Buddies. I'm not going to go into all of how it works. Check out the demo video. And if you use my referral link to join Mercari, you're going to get $10 to shop and another $20 when you sell $100 worth of stuff. So that's $30 that you can reinvest in your business. That is my referral link. So I do get a credit to shop also. And I like that because you know what I do? I buy stuff to resell. Mercari is also great for looking for items to resell. A lot of times people on Mercari are just hobby sellers selling stuff out of their house. They don't always look up comps. And sometimes you can snag a good deal. So Bolo Buddies tip number one. I don't know if there'll be a tip number two or not. But let's move on to some more Bolo's. Lowless trunk treasures. My best plush Bolo to date for the this year is a Build-A-Bear Pokemon that I picked up at the Goodwill for $5 and sold with my promotion for $48. It is a Build-A-Bear Pokemon Jolteon. Oh, the names. This is what it looks like. And Lowless trunk treasures is a Bolo Buddies YouTube member, which means she has joined memberships at level two or higher. And she gets a pop up of her eBay store here. And I will link it down in the description. Check out her eBay store. She is a great Bolo finder. Very good stuff. And here is another one that she sold. My favorite plush Bolo was more of a bread and butter, but sold in less than 12 hours. And the message I received from the buyer, Bloopers at the end. Oh my goodness. Sold in less than 12 hours. And the message I received from the buyer brought me two tears. She was a replacement for a deeply loved plush that was lost while her granddaughter was traveling, lost on the plane or in the airport and had been missing for over six months. Pick her up at the Goodwill for $3. Total profit was $23. So she sold it for $24.99. It says Gans Day Dreamers Purple Pink Elephant Plush 14 inch stuffed animal. So that's another thing I like about selling plush is the messages that you get. And I've said this in other videos. It just seems like, you know, if you sell plush long enough, you're going to get some message from somebody saying exactly this. I needed this and you had it. Thank you. So it may not have been so it may not have been the biggest money bolo. However, $3 into $24.99 is pretty good in my opinion. But wow, you know, just those messages are the best. Bought in a thrift store for a dollar and sold it for 50. It is a vintage Walt Disney World Frontierland Pete Outlaw Mini Beanbag with tags. And this is what it looks like. Thrift store for $1.99 sold for 60. The big comfy couch. It is Molly's friend plush 1995. And it sold for $60 on Mercari. Let's see. Somebody put love all your fines have sold many different types of things but not plush. Seeing the different makers makes me ask if there's a specific group about plush or a YouTube video I'm unaware of would love to educate myself more. And somebody put follow the rebel reseller on YouTube. She sells 99% plush. Yes, the rebel reseller is fantastic for plush videos. I have a bunch of plush videos just type in Bolo buddies plush. It'll pull them up. I do category videos. I also do videos just like you're seeing the zombie bargain hunter, the cage and reseller flipping hippos are three that come to mind besides the rebel reseller that also talk a lot about plush. So check them out as well. Purchase a grab bag with six plushies at Goodwill for $2.99. Hold on to it for three months because I could not find any information on the cupcake sold in one day for $100. American Greetings Am Toy Vintage 1985 Cupcake Cuties. What? How cute is that? Paid a quarter at a church garage sale sold for full price of $34.99. So 25 cents into $34.99. And guess what it is? It's a tie. Princess the pink teddy bear medium size eight inch plush toy. How cute is that? It's a tie. It's, is that considered a beanie baby? I don't know if that one's a beanie baby because it's an eight inch, but yeah, some of the tie do pretty well. Check out my Bolo buddies tie video type Bolo buddies tie into the YouTube search bar and it'll pull it up. There are some that go for big money. Bought for 50 cents and sold for $99.90. Vintage thermal trunk up elephant. Thanks to Bolo buddies. I look for plush now. Yay me. Oh, it's so cute. Wow. 50 cents into $99.90. I don't know what branded is because they didn't put the title in the photo, but yeah, super cute. Purchased on Mercari. See, I think, did I say it in this video or another video that Mercari is a really good place to source? I don't know if it was this video or another one. I just did another plush video right before this. I'm never going to be so many bloopers at the end of this. Mercari is a great place to source. So anyway, purchased for $8 free shipping on Mercari and sold it for $39.99 on eBay. It is a PBS Kids World, I'm sorry, I can't read it, Word World Tiger Magnetic Pull Apart Plush Letters Educational Toy. Check that out. Never seen that one. Wow, it's really small. So I had to zoom in, which means I have to get closer to my screen. Oh, the eyes, the eyes. I even have glasses. This was a while ago, but it's still on one of my favorite sales. Got it at the Benz. It was $5 and sold it for $333. It's Disney Store Bolt 30 inch lane large plush white dog. And this is what it looks like. Yeah, big old plush dogs. They can do well. Bought a lot of Five Nights at Freddy's plush at a garage sale, paid $40 for all of them. Sold two lots for $50 and eight individual sales ranging from $30 to $115 each. Here's the highest one, $115 for a six inch plush. It is a Five Nights at Freddy's Bonnie Funko plush bunny rabbit. And then that one sold for $40. And then this is Golden Freddy Five Nights at Freddy's 2016 exclusive Walmart. That's one thing that the Rebel reseller will tell you on her channel.  Even if they come from like a pharmacy or like CVS or Walgreens or a big box store like Walmart, those can still go for big money if they are retired. So tip from the Rebel reseller. Here are a couple more of the Five Nights at Freddy's. This one sold for $39.99. It's a Target exclusive. It is Freddy's Phantom Foxy. This one is another, it's sold for $53. Chica? Chica and it's two of them. And it says 2016 original. Best offer of $380 plus shipping accepted sold in about four hours. I bought this at the Goodwill Benz for about a dollar. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes. I'm guessing what they're saying is they didn't know it was a Bolo or they got lucky. I don't know what that means. What does that mean? Chocolate or no. Choco Cat, Choco Cat. Black Hello Kitty, Sanrio Build-A-Bear plush with Keychain and Outfit. And this is what it looks like. $380. Wow. Purchased at a hole-in-the-wall thrift store in Georgia for $0.50. Sold within two weeks for $285 plus shipping. This is about the size of my hand and it was buried in a tote when I found it. With tag clean 2004 digit Cyber Chase TV show rare purple plush, Dodo Bird. Would you have picked it up or walked right past it? $285. Wow. I purchased this vintage kipper with tags at a church sale. It was a bag sale so I paid less than a dollar for it. It's sold on Mercari for $132. All right, let's see if we can zoom in here. It's really small guys. Kipper the Dog 1998 Prestige 15 inch stuffed animal plush rare vintage puppy. This is what it looks like. Mercari. Paid $2.99 sold for $80.  What I'm telling you is a lot of times plush is flooded on eBay so you may sell your item faster and you may sell it for more money on Mercari because there's less competition over there and people that are shopping on Mercari, they're not shopping on eBay. Some of them are like I am but a lot of people they're using their money that they make on Mercari like it goes into a little holding spot and you can either deposit that money into your checking or you can spend that money on Mercari. A lot of people choose to spend the money on the app. So you may have different buyers, definitely you have different buyers over on the other platforms. So Poshmark is also good for plush so check it out. There's a link down below for Poshmark also but you only get $10 from Poshmark. Come on Poshmark, $10 to shop if you use my referral link to join. I'm kidding. I just get Poshmark a hard time. What's wrong with me? All right. Paid $2.99 and sold for $80. Fantasy winged dragon, one-of-a-kind handmade plush toy and it sold for $80. Look at this guy. So one-of-a-kind handmade. Wow. That's that's a weird looking that's a weird looking dude. That's all I got to say but I will tell you that I think Mercari is very, very smart to give that incentive of additional money when you sell $100 worth of stuff because what's the first thing you're going to do? You now have an incentive to get your items listed quicker because you're going to get some money to shop when you sell your items, right? I mean it's super smart, super smart. I think eBay should have a like something like that but I think everybody's on eBay. Bolo Buddy's member Ohio Treasure Hunters. This is his eBay store. He does not have a YouTube channel. I bought this at a yard sale for $1. I listed it for $289.99 and took a best offer of $240 plus shipping. It is a Build-A-Bear Candy Corn Kitty Halloween Cat Orange Yellow and White. Rare find. That's what it looks like. This one comes from Bolo Buddy's member Peace of Scrap. This is her YouTube channel. She does a lot of clothing. Definitely check her out. She's super knowledgeable but this is a plush. She said, got it at the Goodwill for $3 and sold it for $29 on Mercari. It is Sinclair Oil Gas Plush Stuff Dinosaur Dino Bronosaurus Animal 21". There it is. Sold these two Hello Kitty Build-A-Bears within a day of each other. Those are the subtotals before taxes and shipping. Sought after plushies for sure. I got them at a community aid for $1.29 each and I had no idea at the time that they were that good. Alright, so it looks like they're both Build-A-Bear and one is a Hello Kitty Red Limited Edition $77 and the other is a Hello Kitty Valentine's Day Limited Edition and it sold for $114. So yes, there are Build-A-Bear that go for big money. Sold another plush from my big video game plush character buy. I had sent out an offer on Mercari for $40 on this plush and a few days after that offer expired I got a message from one of the people asking me if it was still available. I replied that it was. A few minutes later it sold for full asking price to a completely different buyer. I messaged the first buyer back and said actually I'm sorry but it just sold. It went for $45 plus shipping on Mercari. It is a Funko 2017 Cuphead and Mugman 9 inch plush stuffed toy and this is what it looks like. My mom. My mom. My most recent plush was this Webkin's Ardvark with code bought for $2.99 at the Goodwill and sold it for $32.98 plus shipping was only listed about a month. This is what it looks like. Webkin some of them can go for crazy money like over $100. I do have a video on Webkin's big money plush. Check that out if you want to know which ones to really look for. But this is a great flip, $3.32.98 so a lot of the Webkin's are bread and butter but some of them are big bucks. This one's mine. I picked this up at a garage sale for 50 cents and I took a best offer of $45.  This is what she looks like and 50 cents into 45. I will take that all day long and I think that Carter's is often underestimated and missed. Bought this ghost papa Emitris IV plush hot topic exclusive 10 inch global merch at Goodwill for $1.99 and sold him for $125. Whoa never seen anything like that ghost papa huh that's what it looks like. Is that like a TV show or something or a video game? Best of July plush sale had about a dollar each into these Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs official Thai beanie baby derby horses which included Secretariat. Isn't there a movie called Secretariat? I think there is. Sold within a day of listing listed for 55 took a best offer of 48.  Yeah you can sell plush on Poshmark. We talked about that. Here's a Poshmark plush sale. Finally found a Webkin's Timber in the Wild. Founded a local church thrift store for 75 cents sold within a week did take an offer of 110 so I believe this is one of the ones that I talk about in my Webkin's Bolo video. It is the Timberwolf and this is what it looks like. All right you guys we are going to stop there. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching. Be sure to like comment subscribe and share. If you have a plush Bolo that you would like to share to have it featured in a video like this head over to my Bolo buddies Facebook group and look for this post. I'm going to keep this going because quite frankly I love plush Bolo videos because they always knock off my socks. Seriously like where are my socks? Does anybody see my socks? Okay I'm kidding. Anyway where are your socks because I know one of these knocked your socks off. So number one tell me where your socks are. Number two tell me where your socks landed. I already said that. Oh my gosh.  All right thanks for watching. From the buyer brought teeth plush not just plush but this is about the size of my hand. Oh I need water. Be sure to like comment subscribe and share and thanks for watching.


What's up guys, so today I am not going to do a live stream because tomorrow I have to wake up early in order to do the adcoder contest, you know, I'm trying to do the adcoder contest. So this video is actually going to be about the ceiling function. So this is what I learned during one of the contests. Here's the thing. Okay, so let's say we have n and we read in from the user, right? And now then I wanted to get the ceiling of n over like x or something or yeah, so let's say I read in n and I read in x, right? I don't want to get the ceiling of n over x, okay? So normally you could do this just by calling the ceiling function, right? You just call the ceiling function and I'm actually going to convert this into a float because why not? So yeah, this would give you the ceiling of n over x, okay, right? Now, so like if I do like, let's see if I do, let's say I do like 6 divided by 4, right? 6 divided by 4 should give me about 1, oh no wait, what's 6 over 4? 6 over 4 is 6 over 4 is 6 over 4, oh it should give me 2, it should give me 2, yeah, it should give me 2, yeah, because if you go on Google and you type in 6 over 4, it's 1.5 and it rounds up to 2, okay, so there's another way to do ceiling without using the ceiling function and this is where you, which doesn't rely on floats at all. And it's actually more, I think it's better because floats kind of, if you have like some weird trailing points and decimal points, you have some problems, okay? What you could do is you actually could take the value you're trying to divide. So let's say I'm trying to do n over x, right, back to n over x. I could do is I could take n, I add by x minus 1 and I just divided by x. So here I'm going to print out, so I'm going to print out with ceiling function. So here with ceiling function, which is going to give me calling the ceiling function and this I'm going to do is without ceiling function, but it's this, right? And I'm not going to use ceiling function. So what I'm going to do is I just add by x minus 1 and over x and what I learned is that this is actually a better way to do it because you avoid using the floats. And we could actually test this out. So let's do 6 and then divide by 4 again, so they both should give me 2. So with ceiling function, I got 2, without ceiling function, I got 2, so they both gave me 2. And this works for everything actually. So you could do it with 11 over 7. Let's try 11 over 7, okay? So 11 divided by 7, what does that give us? That gives us 1.57, so this should give us 2. So it's 11 divided by 7, yeah, they both give us 2. And we could do like, I don't know, 12, test this out, 12 over 7. Actually let's go lower, 12 over 4. No, 12 over 6, 7, 12 over 5, 12 over 5, 12 over 5. Okay, so this should give us the ceiling of this and I just see what it gives us. So let's see 12 over 5, 3, yeah, so it rounds up, actually takes this and rounds up. Right, so this actually rounds up the higher bar. So yeah, you actually do get the same number. And yeah, this actually does work. So if you want to not use the ceiling function and just want to get the ceiling of something over another number, you could just add by that number minus 1 and then divide it by it. So then you don't have to deal with the whole floats and stuff. So yeah, this was just a quick video about ceilings. Rate, comment, subscribe, I'll check you guys later, peace.