ens there you're in a hospital environment where do people go how much time do they have to get to the shelters where you are so it very much depends on the building that you're in major hospital like this is a large building in itself and it offers a bit more protection than say small residential buildings in those sorts of buildings i live just close to here the building where i live we essentially there's one shelter which is in the basement everybody leaves their apartments runs downstairs and gathers together in the in the basement now here at the at the hospital basically everybody got up they moved their way in deeper into the building and started making their way to the shelter i have to say israelis are pretty accustomed to this sort of activity um and sometimes a little cavalier about it many people of course they made their way to the shelter but it's not as if everybody went deep into the into the basement itself because the alert was over pretty quickly and people got back to what they were doing as you can see that the alert was only a few minutes ago and the blood drive is very much back on back in full swing now we are looking at live images a split screen on our screens right now on the one side telavev siren sounding across several parts in just the last few moments the most recent parts rishon let's see on west beta gun and we also are seeing scenes out of gaza where we know that the idf is targeting hamas sites robert swift you are still with us there we know that millions of people had to race to shelters just a short while ago and then siren sounded overhead but it's a very difficult and different scenario when you are dealing with people patients people who are sick people who are elderly people who are already being treated give us an understanding of what it looks like inside the wards of a hospital when a siren goes off in israel when there is an alert that rockets could be heading towards the premises that's correct of course all the medical staff that you can see behind me in the medical scrubs they have a twofold responsibility first obviously their natural instinct to protect themselves and to get to the shelter but before that they very much need to be looking after the patients that may mean essentially picking up the patient and moving them deeper into the hospital into where it's more protected which obviously with some patients that can take more than one member of staff so logistically it's quite difficult and bear in mind all this has to be done within seconds within two minutes and so it is a great way of burden on the medical staff here who essentially are trying to get on with their job and deal with the ongoing crisis but then they also have this on a fairly regular basis throughout the day they're having to deal with this sort of alert correspondent Robert Swift at Iqilov hospital in Tel Aviv we will be coming back to you for regular updates stay safe Robert thank you very much for that update and still with me in studio israeli-palestinian relations expert colonel in the reserves Grisha Yakubovich former head of the civilian department of koget in the IDF and our correspondent Guy Azrael the sirens continue guy give us an idea of the extent of where these rockets are heading towards and again the fact that if there wasn't an iron dome missile defense system there would be far more carnage we know right now we're waiting for confirmation on if there have been any hits and if anybody may have been hurt nonetheless there is panic involved when people are racing to get to safety as these rockets are obviously loaded with dozens of kilos of ammunition of explosives and their impact can be very serious if it does hurt luckily the iron dome does save human lives many of those but even before this barrage and we're still waiting to hear information but for now no immediate word on injuries on any serious injuries from this barrage just a half an hour ago two fatalities on the north on the southern border from a rocket that hit there yes to we understand Thai workers to foreign workers hit by a rocket hitting near one of the communities there on the southern border obviously over there there is a lot less time sometimes just seconds from the moment a siren rings until it hits the ground very little time for people to find refuge to find shelter especially with these guys if they're working in the fields this is a community that has a lot of workers working in agriculture working the fields there it seems like they were outside when those rockets hit and unfortunately two of them are dead one is seriously wounded these are the actual results of these rockets and as we speak about Thai workers we're speaking about 17 different nationalities other than Israelis that were impacted by this recent attack people who were killed people who were kidnapped people whose bodies have been hijacked by Hamas and this is also another point in which this specific escalation is different from others because it involves so many other nationalities and we just heard from Jonathan Regev about the Americans who were kidnapped into Gaza many other nationals are among the victims many other nationals or victims of this Hamas ideology and the world needs to understand that this needs to be eliminated because it will not stop with Israel this is what we heard from Hamas and we heard from Iran as well Grisha specifically want to speak about those hostages that Guy alluded to we don't even know how many people have been taken from southern Israel across the border to Gaza we do know because we've seen the footage there are women there are children there are elderly people as well there are babies and they are being held in Gaza as we speak we're also looking at images on our screen right now of the IDF striking Hamas targets sites weapons depots inside Gaza how does Israel manage to conduct an assault on terror infrastructure and manage to make sure that the Israelis and people from overseas that we've been talking about who were also captured and taken across remain alive Benita I was trying to avoid from saying that okay but it looks like in a way you forced me to say it we saw animals okay I cannot call them Hamas in Jihad the ones who penetrated Israel I cannot call them terrorists even they are animals so what do you expect that animals would do to the people that they kidnapped into Gaza that they will give them water like we do that they will feed them like we do I believe that they will start unfortunately I hope I'm wrong okay but what I believe that what we will see is executions unfortunately what we will see is that they will bring those hostages to their headquarters because they know that we are about to bomb it and we are still about to see some horrible pictures and evidences outside of Gaza and from inside Gaza and of course they will blame us that we bombed it and we did it etc etc the story is well known so I hope that we will be able to hope that they will be all alive that we will be able to free them but unfortunately with those animals it can they are they are killers they are murderers and speaking about those war crimes I report this morning in the Washington Post presenting images I hope we can see them on our screens right now you can see live hostages live Israeli hostages this is in kibbutz berry you can see them filmed alive taken by these terrorists and then minutes later sitting in in blood being killed by these terrorists this is just one example images obviously we are blurring those images one example of these war crimes this was the reality in dozens if not more of homes of Israelis in those southern communities you can see those innocent Israelis taking out of their homes by these animals in this case there is proof on camera that they filmed killing them after being handcuffed and as we are speaking another barrage of rockets is heading towards central Israel Tel Aviv specifically this is breaking news once again another barrage of rockets heading towards central Israel towards Tel Aviv siren sounding once again the list is long Ramata Sharon Herzliya Khvarsh mariahu central Tel Aviv once again it's the second time this has happened during this broadcast sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv and millions of people in central Israel millions of civilians in central Israel are racing to shelters once again it looks Grisha like this barrage is just going to continue yes as I said it will continue Hamas getting this they they begin to understand that they were left they were sacrificed by Iran this is this is my understanding in a way operationally I hope I'm wrong why because we will be able to deal with Hamas and we will implement the mission and we will win the war in Gaza but there is an advantage if Hezbollah will start the war that we will be able also to eliminate the threat from the north so what I understand that Iran and Hezbollah are waiting okay because they were expected to join the war two days ago or even yesterday and as time goes by we see that it's not moving maybe because of the Sixth Fleet maybe because of the western coalition I don't know why so Hamas the moment Hamas would understand that they are sacrificed on the altar we will see more and more rockets being launched into Israel because they will have nothing to lose are you surprised Grisha given your vast experience in this field at the touch of Arsenal the extent of the weapons cash that Hamas has right now there is no doubt that Iran has been finding the weapons this has been something we have been covering for a very long time nonetheless this is only day four of what many are saying is going to be a long haul are you surprised at their capabilities coming out of just the Gaza Strip so far no I'm not surprised since 2012 operation pillar of defense we saw the change Hamas did so instead of being dependent on the weapons that they will get from Libya Sudan through Egypt and then on the underground through the tunnels in together we understood that they've built their own industry their own terror industry underground by the way this is the whole idea behind the policy of not allowing to do or use materials to be entered together because of the fact that we understand that they got the engineering the planning the abilities the knowledge from Iran and they've built their a military industry terror industry underground so they produce rockets underground since 2012 it's not something new ironically they did it with the electricity that we supplied them in to Gaza so you bring up the next point the strategy going forward for Israel as we're speaking in just the space of this broadcast twice siren sounding in central Tel Aviv and we've listed the many many cities that are also being targeted and thanks to the iron dome missile defense system these incoming projectiles are being deflected we will keep of course bringing you verified clarified confirmed information and when we have that clarity that is when we will confirm the extent of the damage and what is known for sure having said that this is just in the space of a short while and we know that people are racing scared looking at their phones checking in with their community members checking in with their loved ones elderly people children as well what about the psyche of the nation right now just a short while ago we saw that 40 children were butchered in far as we are seeing the images we discussed the pain and now people are racing to safety what is this doing for the psyche of the country right now i want to take you back the second world war six million of us were butchered and out of that we've built the country the state so i believe we are a strong nation i think that they will just understand how strong we are and we will be able to deal with everything it's going to be painful it's going to be we're going to lick our wounds it will take time it's a disaster for us but eventually we are i believe this is this is how i understand the situation the state of israel decided to lead a process a war with gaza to not to eliminate but to make sure that the hamas role in gaza and in the west bank will collapse i'm going to stop you right there we will continue this discussion but right now i want to check in with our correspondent robert swift he is at ikhela hospital in tel aviv any imaginable to think that sirens are also sounding inside a hospital obviously people needing to get to cover what kind of update can you share right now with us robert that's right but it was just a few minutes ago that i spoke to you to tell you about the the red alert that we had then and in the space that we've been off air there was a second red alert people again picked up what we're doing and started making their way in deeper into the building to get to the shelter there was some confusion halfway through the event people thought it was a false alarm but then we heard the explosions overhead which was most likely the interceptions from the iron dome shooting down the incoming rockets as they approached the city now as you can see behind me already people are back to work the blood donation continues and the staff here are very much uh eager to continue with the work despite the ongoing security situation which has taken place in the south but very much still impacting here in tel aviv also siren sounding in rishon it's a young hollon azure beta gun hurts lia also as well but where you are robert give us an idea of how much time people have patients have to get to shelter and how doctors and nurses and health workers there are able to help patients get to safety it must be a complicated situation unfolding there at a time like this very much is bear in mind that this is quite a crowded hospital you have two minutes if you are young and well-abled that's that's enough time to get to get into shelter but there are many people here who are older who might be informed due to injuries this is a hospital after all not to mention that there's people immediately behind me that are in the middle of donating blood all this has to be put on hold this the patient has to be picked up and moved and this obviously takes a lot of time now for the staff they they have a you know a natural preservation an instinct to look after themselves but they have to put that aside and take care first and foremost of the of the patients which they're taking care of and we've seen as the as the crowd move deeper into the building the staff very much sort of hurting people getting them to where they need to be in order to to let the danger pass and then straight away back to work it's often interesting to see the different ways people respond when there is a siren some people can remain calm often there are panic attacks we've spoken to many paramedics who've attended to the scene of people who either are in a state emotionally as they run to safety or are just worried about getting there without tripping helping elderly people helping children carrying babies or waking up relatives who may be asleep talk to us about the mood the calm the panic what is it like describe for us what it is like when there's so many people there in a confined space wanting to donate blood and now they all need to get to safety how are they helping each other what does it look like robert well this is the second day that i've been a blood donation driver and i have to say that the the mood is quite changeable often people are smiling and coming together i think there's a sense that they're happy to actually be doing something to respond to the events of the weekend and and to take comfort in that unity but quite quickly the mood can change and i think that shows the level of anxiety which is underneath and not just in really it doesn't just change in regards to events like we've had just just in the last few minutes the the rocket alarms sometimes just interaction between people it's extremely tense and people are doing their best they're trying to put on a brave face and to do what they can't to be involved in helping by donating the by donating blood but you can tell underneath there there is a lot of tension no doubt and i have to say continue i know so i was going to have to say and that's just what i've seen here in in the hospital today and yesterday at the blood donation where i was it's a slightly different picture on on the streets um today is the first day that i would say in televieve there seems to be a slight sense that things are returning back to normal not normal as most of our viewers would understand it but normal is in uh under threat of a rocket attack the three days before that i have to say that the streets of televieve were at times quite eerily quiet and and it was clear that people they may be accustomed to security incidents they may be accustomed to the rocket attacks which a lot of israelis have experienced before and have learned to deal with but there was an eeriness in the streets over the last few days and it was clear that that was a result of the shock of the level of violence that was unleashed over the weekend i have to say that that may be a little bit as people have moved past that phase but clearly that's just at surface level the shock of the events of this these last four days will take quite a long time to for people to get past certainly as sirens are sounding and people in televieve which you're describing is being particularly quiet in recent days just in the last couple of moments have been racing to shelters as those sirens have been sounding alerting citizens that incoming projectiles are heading from the Gaza Strip towards Israel and those rockets and projectiles have been intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system thank you so much for now our correspondent robert swift live from ikhilov hospital in televieve thank you very much and we will of course be going back to robert in our upcoming broadcast and our team of panelists are going to stay as well because our coverage will continue breaking news coverage here at i24 news where sirens have sounded in central israel twice within the last hour meaning that millions of people in central televieve in a range of cities including holon including herds lia including central televieve have had to race to shelters as sirens sounded warning civilians of incoming rockets coming from the Gaza Strip our coverage is going to continue we will stay here in studio bringing you the latest developments as they unfold we will stay committed to verifying the news and bringing you the updates as we can so make sure you stay tuned we're taking a moment's break but we're back stay with us this is breaking news edition i'm benisa levine coming to you live from televieve and it's in the central city of televieve where sirens have sounded twice in the last hour warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip towards central parts of israel millions of people racing to shelters sirens also sounding in the south and just moments ago sirens also sounding in kfar asa now a short while ago the israeli military allowing foreign journalists to cover the scenes of the large-scale massacres by Hamas in towns on the border with Gaza including at kibbutz kfar asa and as i said sirens sounding there just moments ago as well our correspondent nicole zedek was there a little earlier and she filed this difficult report here in kfar asa they continue to remove some of the israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre saturday morning you can see as four days later they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very very southern israeli community and remove the israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes gun down stabbed different grenades thrown off as well as we're walking through this community we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas certain houses because there could still be mines incident and they could go off at any moment so all of the israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well but as you walk through this community which we've been doing just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers many of them called from reserve duty leaving their own families behind as well you can see some of these houses that people were in meanwhile the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area truly the scene of a massacre as many of these people were just inside their homes families uh one of the commanders here said said at least 40 babies were killed some of them their their heads got off he said he's never seen acts of brutality like this and as i said many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre none of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this even as i'm walking around right now shell casings continue to line the grounds here the community uh signs of daily life also children's bikes parked right here meanwhile bodies lie right next to them it's truly the scene of a massacre um the commander said this is not a battleground this was Hamas terrorists coming into the community and and killing all of the citizens that that they could see and so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as as these these soldiers continue to go through and there's still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well in fact gunfights and fighting between terrorists and and the Israeli soldiers here just recently ended and that's why they're continuing to go house to house and and rescue and and get all of the civilians that they can reporting for i24 news i'm Nicole Zedek so for more we're now welcome to studio Danny Denon former ambassador to the UN and former minister and member of the liquid party and our correspondent guy Azrael stays in studio with us you're coming to us ambassador in extraordinary circumstances you will know in the last hour twice siren sounding in central Tel Aviv people racing to cover including here in the newsroom to get to shelter there isn't a lot of time to do that and those rockets reaching a range of cities but luckily intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system and yet my first question to you is about the horror out of cryo as a difficult to watch difficult to hear 40 children and toddlers butchered slaughtered by Hamas your response to what we saw in that report those are horrible pictures we know that we are dealing with ISIS with barbaric militants we haven't expected the attack and we haven't expected the brutality you know you can fight but to come to a community to drag kids from their homes tie them and burn them alive that's what they did those barbarics that's something which beyond imagination even ISIS didn't do it to children it was the deed to our women that they dragged into Gaza those kind of a barbaric behavior it forces us to understand that we have to fight back we have to win the war and by the way you mentioned the sirens i'm not worried about the sirens we can have hundreds of sirens we're going to have to put our people in shelters but we're going to go after Hamas we're going to hunt them down we're going to eradicate them because the pictures we saw what and by the way it wasn't only the militants of Hamas they were the one who were the first to come into our communities but after them ordinary people came from Gaza into the communities and committed atrocities you know since the day of the holocaust we haven't seen we haven't seen such horrible pictures since the day either was established 75 years ago we never saw such horrible pictures where Jews are being hunted where women and children are being shot by those animals so it forces us to be strong we are in pain and I can tell the people who are watching and praying for us you're going to see more horrible pictures unfortunately you know we slowly we're exposing the information today we took few reporters to see some of the communities it's beyond imagination but we will stand up we will stand up we will fight back I sit on the foreign affairs and defense committee we called massive amount of reserves we have the strength we are willing to do whatever is necessary to fight back and to eradicate evil we are fighting pure evil that's what we are doing and I expect the international community you know we have support today but I expect from them to support us all the way I'm going to stop you right now because we're going to a live press conference relatives of American people who are being held hostage in Gaza let's take a listen See and I needed to know where my son was so I turned my phone on I believe at 8 23 in the morning and when I turned it on there were two texts in a row from Hirsch at 8 11 the first one said I love you and immediately at 8 11 also it said I'm sorry and so I knew immediately 8 11 the first one said I love you and immediately at 8 11 also it said I'm sorry and so I knew immediately wherever he was it was a terrible situation I took it to mean I love you and I'm sorry because whatever is going to happen is going to cause you tremendous pain and worry since that time I of course tried calling him right back there was no answer I texted him a couple times are you okay I've not heard from him since the text I received at 8 11 on Saturday morning together eyewitnesses from a picture from inside of a bomb shelter that we saw we tried to put together who was in that bomb shelter with him we've spoken to eyewitnesses we know that he was injured in battle I mean they were all civilians at a music festival in they were fish in a barrel sitting in this bomb shelter terrorists came to the door they were throwing grenades in shooting machine guns and we know that Hirsch's arm from the elbow down was severed was blown off and that he tied a tourniquet around with his shirt and Hamas came in after the gunfire settled down and said anyone who can walk stand up and walk out we are told that he was completely calm I think he was probably in shock and he got up and he walked out with five other people young people from the music festival two young women three other young men they were put on a pickup truck and driven away by Hamas and then the police told us one thing they knew is that the last known signal cell signal from his phone was on the border with Gaza so not much to add Hirsch was at the festival with one of his best friends on air Shapiro my eyewitness accounts from the people that we talked to who are in this bomb shelter several people independent of each other said your son and his friend on air saved our lives anybody who's alive because as grenades were being thrown in they were tossing them back out they were trying to comfort people and so I just thought I would add that sure I'll just say that Rachel and I both grew up in Chicago we were living in California in 2000 when Hirsch was born we made aliyah to Israel as a family in the summer of 2008 when Hirsch who's our oldest child he was seven and a half almost eight when we moved to Israel in the summer of 2008 we've been living in Jerusalem ever since we have two daughters 2017 and I just want to take one minute to talk a little bit about Hirsch he is a smiley fun loving guy um and people of all you're watching a live press conference they're difficult to hear the details families of Americans missing in Gaza they were at that music festival on saturday and were taken hostage they are waiting for answers as we just heard they're difficult to hear the pain Danny Danon former ambassador to the UN and former minister and member of Likud stays here in studio as does our correspondent guy Israel ambassador what kind of US pressure can be brought to bear right now to help those families when it comes to answers to help them some kind of light some kind of positivity that there is a chance that with pressure out of washington there could be some kind of deal understanding some kind of hope that they will get to see their families again your thoughts I think first of all we see that the US is standing with Israel we are entering another period a challenging one where we're going to hurt Hamas really bad there will be civilian casualties on the other side unfortunately and then the international community will start to cry humanitarian crisis what we saw here that's a humanitarian crisis what happened in far asa in the communities in the south that's a humanitarian crisis we are now telling to the world we are not counting on you we will do what we have to do and I think the US will continue to stand with us and with to the family they say you know we hug them we can imagine the pain that they they have today the uncertainty and also you know when you see those pictures of the animals dragging civilians into Gaza you know no father or mother wants to see their son in the capabilities of those barbarics how does it impact the response from Israel in the Gaza Strip just moments ago we were showing live images out of Gaza we know that the IDF is targeting Hamas sites in Gaza it's saying as much and it's saying it's going to continue doing so these are images on our screen right now how does the fact that there are an unknown number of living hostages in Gaza impact the way Israel responds right now when it tries to obliterate the terrorist infrastructure we will have to to walk on both tracks we're going to fight very hard against Hamas and at the same time we're going to apply pressure to release the hostages we will not hold our forces we will not hold the the air force the navy we will use whatever we have to fight against Hamas and I believe that is the right approach because with those animals you cannot expect to negotiate you cannot expect that they will show any some kind of humanitarian aspect you know I saw pictures of children of two years old in captivity of Hamas I never heard about any military or any guerrilla or any terrorist organization that is capturing kids of two years old it never happened it's the first time he needs to be that I recall it that's why I think we have to walk parallel on both tracks Mr. Denon you're here as a former ambassador but also as a member of the liquid party you've been a minister in several governments before and Israel is not going to be the same after what has happened on Saturday and as a representative of this government I have to ask you because the people of Israel is demanding answers the the tragedy on Saturday day is on the hands of this government and it's on the hands of the government that ruled here for so many years and has nurtured Hamas for so many years has made Israelis live under the concept that you can continue to live next to Hamas continue to funnel money for Hamas for so many years keep Hamas at bay and hoping the things will be okay well they're not okay what's your response to this republic well I think there will be time for the blame game and for the inquiry about everything that happened why it happened who is responsible and we have to acknowledge you know we were called by surprise again uh having said that I think now we have to focus on the fighting now we are united I'm calling for a unity government I hope it will happen today with our position parties that's what we need today we need unity we need to fight together we need to win the war and I agree with you I don't think we should hurt Hamas it's not enough we have to eliminate Hamas I was deputy minister of defense nine years ago and I demanded that we will go all the way back then unfortunately didn't happen I think now we realize that we have to do it we have to pay the price we have to be patient strong anybody get Hamas it is a possible I know that in the debate whether we can do it or cannot do it I'm telling you yes we can do it and we have to do it Israel is already paid a very heavy price what what are they expected to pay but Benita it's something we're going to unpack a little bit later right now I want to get back into the field because our team of reporters is out and about we now joined by our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran at a hospital where are you exactly I know our team is moving what update can you share right now with us Ariel Naharia right Benita so I'm here at the Galilee Medical Center in Naharia but as you can see it looks more like a bomb shelter and the reason that is is because since Saturday since this whole war began from the moment Hamas infiltrated Israel and carried out its horrific surprise attack decision makers here in the hospital realized that there is a possibility that the northern front will also join the fray and so since Saturday until today they've been gradually bringing down here to an operational underground hospital they've been basically relocating a lot of the different departments with by the end of this process which is expected to end tomorrow roughly 80 percent of all hospital patients will be here in the underground hospital facility that operates as a regular hospital this is the first underground hospital in Israel it opened after the during the second Lebanon war since then it's been the only one used and now given the the threat of the northern border joining the fight following yesterday exchange of artillery rockets as well as fierce firefight between Israeli forces and Palestine Islamic jihad and Hamas fighters which led to the death of one Israeli officer and two additional soldiers as well as Palestine Islamic jihad and Hezbollah operatives on the other side given that understanding it was decided already at the beginning of all this to relocate the hospital the only thing that is expected to remain above ground is the protected surgical rooms as well as part of the ICU other than that everything the entire hospital in Naaria is relocating underground expecting that the fight will be brought to here as well thank you so much for that update our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osa ran from an underground hospital in Naaria thank you for that update we'll be coming back to you in our upcoming broadcasts and talking about the concerns up north let's bring in professor Corby Michael senior research fellow at the INSS and former deputy director general in the Israeli ministry of strategic affairs professor thank you so much for your time we are processing so many developments at once we have seen that 40 children and toddlers have been butchered in Kfar Azar at the hands of Hamas siren sounding in the last hour across central Tel Aviv millions of people in the center of the country racing to shelter including here in jaffa where we are broadcasting from right now and let's add in the concerns up north how do you see those concerns what could be unfolding across the israel lebanon border your thoughts first of all i would like to remind us all that we are at war i mean this is the first time since 1973 that the state of israel or the government official declared the state of war and the war is something which is very intensive with ups and downs with casualties with blood and with violence and this is what we are going to face in the coming days and weeks and we have to be not only patient we have to be resilient in this regard and to understand that at the end of the day we will be with the upper hand i assume and we have to remember that when it is raining not only us are wet Hamas is much more wet than us and with regard to the northern front i think that there is a higher probability that we will find ourselves in front of the northern front against them in the in the in the in the in the same future because because hezbollah dares to challenge israel and to push israel to the corner and i assume that israel might stop tolerating it and we have to remember that we are talking on one system where Hamas is Balla Iran all of them are components of one system and therefore there is a huge importance that israel will be very determined and very effective vis-a-vis Hamas because this is something that will project on Hezbollah if we will not be determined enough and effective enough in Gaza we might be we might find ourselves in another front vis-a-vis Hezbollah so professor elaborate for us what do you mean when you say determined enough in Gaza what exactly does that look like determine it means that we have to continue hitting Hamas and understanding that we have to decide Hamas militarily in the sense that there will be no Hamas military wing or organization anymore we have to eliminate and we have to demolish all of their military capacities and to prevent them from being able to recover themselves militarily okay they cannot be any more a military threat on israel and they cannot be spoilers of any normalization process or any regional architecture that israel seeks to build here together with each partner partners and we have to remember that if we will not assure that Hamas will be defeated militarily we will assure that Iran will be more effective more influential stronger here in the Palestinian arena and Hezbollah will be stronger and therefore we have to be we have to accomplish the mission in the Gaza Strip and to prevent Hezbollah Iran and the others from continuing challenging us in the other fronts Professor Kobe Michael always appreciate your insight thank you so much for speaking to us on this breaking news edition thank you and still with me in studio Danny Denon former ambassador to the UN and former minister and member of Likud and our correspondent guy Israel your thoughts ambassador on what it's going to take to get the moral of Israel back it's a long road ahead there is no doubt people are upset people are hurt people are in pain people are grieving and people are angry what are the next best steps for Israel and for the citizens of Israel there are still a dark day ahead of us we're entering an operation in Gaza it's going to be painful it's going to be long we have to be united and I see the love and support we receive from the Jewish communities Christian communities we know that we will prevail and we have the strength we have the strength to stand up with the pain to fight back and to win that exactly what will happen and I'm calling for the people of Gaza to move away from Hamas headquarters and militants because we are not coming against them we are coming against Hamas but if they will be at the area of the Hamas militants they will get hurt also and the political shenanigans stop and people focus just on the security of Israel do you think that across the board all politicians can get on to the same page on this sphere we have no other option we have no other option that's what the public expect from us and that's what will happen guy israel very briefly yes I do want to ask mr dunon we're already suffered a huge loss what should the Israeli citizens expect coming up if you're speaking about a wider escalation the all of the military is to defend the people of Israel what we have seen that the victims of innocent Israelis families the military will handle their threat will fight with the enemy and at the end of the day will win the enemy Danny Dunon former ambassador to the UN and former minister and member of liquid thank you very much for being here in studio at this very difficult time and our correspondent guy asrael thank you very much for your insight on this breaking news edition if you're just joining us now this has been a breaking news edition live from tel Aviv as we were speaking to you about Egypt officially closing the rougher border with Gaza meaning the Palestinian enclave is now officially sealed off as we showed you images of the IDF targeting Hamas sites in the Gaza 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babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this is breaking news edition i'm benita levine coming to you live from tel aviv and it's in the central city of tel aviv where sirens have sounded twice in the last hour warning of incoming rockets from the gaza strip towards central parts of israel millions of people racing to shelters sirens also sounding in the south and just moments ago sirens also sounding in kfar asa now a short while ago the israeli military allowing foreign journalists to cover the scenes of the large-scale massacres by in towns on the border with gaza including at he puts kfar asa and as i said sirens sounding there just moments ago as well our correspondent nicole zedek was there a little earlier and she filed this difficult report here in kfar asa they continue to remove some of the israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre saturday morning you can see as four days later they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very very southern israeli community and remove the israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes gun down stabbed different grenades thrown off as well as we're walking through this community we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas certain houses because there could still be mines incident and it they could go off at any moment so all of the israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well but as you walk through this community which we've been doing just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers many of them called from reserve duty leaving their own families behind as well you can see some of these houses that people were in meanwhile the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area truly the scene of a massacre as many of these people were just inside their homes families one of the commanders here said said at least 40 babies were killed some of them them their their heads got off he said he's never seen acts of brutality like this and as I said many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre none of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this even as i'm walking around right now shell casings continue to line the grounds here the community uh signs of daily life also children's bikes parked right here meanwhile bodies lie right next to them it's truly the scene of a massacre um the commander said this is not a battleground this was Hamas terrorists coming into the community and and killing all of the citizens that that they could see and so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as as these these soldiers continue to go through and they're still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well in fact gunfights and fighting between terrorists and and the Israeli soldiers here just recently ended and that's why they're continuing to go house to house and and rescue and and get all of the civilians that they can reporting for i24 news i'm Nicole Zedek so for more we're now welcome to studio Danny Denon former ambassador to the UN and former minister and member of the liquid party and our correspondent guy Azrael stays in studio with us you're coming to us ambassador in extraordinary circumstances you well know in the last hour twice siren sounding in central Tel Aviv people racing to cover including here in the newsroom to get to shelter there isn't a lot of time to do that and those rockets reaching a range of cities but luckily intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system and yet my first question to you is about the horror out of cry as a difficult to watch difficult to hear 40 children and toddlers butchered slaughtered by Hamas your response to what we saw in that report those are horrible pictures we know that we are dealing with ISIS with barbaric militants we haven't expected the attack and we haven't expected the brutality you know you can fight but to come to a community to drag kids from their homes tie them and burn them alive that's what they did those barbarics that's something which beyond imagination even ices didn't do it to children it was they did to our women that they dragged into Gaza those kind of a barbaric behavior it forces us to understand that we have to fight back we have to win the war and by the way you mentioned the sirens i'm not worried about the sirens we can have hundreds of sirens we're gonna have to put our people in shelters but we're gonna go after Hamas we're gonna hunt them down we're going to eradicate them because the pictures we saw what and by the way it wasn't only the militants of Hamas they were the one who were the first to come into our communities but after them ordinary people came from Gaza into the communities and committed atrocities you know since the day of the holocaust we haven't seen we haven't seen such horrible pictures since the day either was established 75 years ago we never saw such horrible pictures where Jews are being hunted where women and children are being shot by those animals so it forces us to be strong we are in pain and i can tell the people who are watching and praying for us you're gonna see more horrible pictures unfortunately you know we are slowly we're exposing the information today we took few reporters to see some of the communities it's beyond imagination but we will stand up we will stand up we will fight back i sit on the foreign affairs and defense committee we called massive amount of reserves we have the strength we are willing to do whatever is necessary to fight back and to eradicate evil we are fighting pure evil that's what we are doing and i expect the international community you know we have support today but i expect from them to support us all the way i'm going to stop you right now because we're going to a live press conference relatives of american people who are being held hostage in Gaza let's take a listen see and i needed to know where my son was so i turned my phone on i believe at 8 23 in the morning and when i turned it on there were two texts in a row from hirsh at 8 11 the first one said i love you and immediately at 8 11 also it said i'm sorry and so i knew immediately 8 11 the first one said i love you and immediately at 8 11 also it said i'm sorry and so i knew immediately wherever he was it was a terrible situation i took it to mean i love you and i'm sorry because whatever is going to happen is going to cause you tremendous pain and worry um since that time i of course tried calling him right back there was no answer i texted him a couple times are you okay i've not heard from him since the text i received at 8 11 on saturday morning together eyewitnesses from a picture from inside of a bomb shelter that we saw we tried to put together who was in that bomb shelter with him we've spoken to eyewitnesses we know that he was injured in battle i mean they were all civilians at a music festival in they were fish in a barrel sitting in this bomb shelter terrorists came to the door they were throwing grenades in shooting machine guns and we know that hirsh's arm from the elbow down was um severed was blown off and that he tied a tourniquet around with his shirt and Hamas came in after the gunfire settled down and said anyone who can walk stand up and walk out we are told that he was completely calm i think he was probably in shock and he got up and he walked out with five other people young people from the music festival two young women three other young men they were put on a pickup truck and driven away by Hamas and then the police told us one thing they knew is that the last known signal cell signal from his phone was on the border with Gaza so not much to add hirsh was at the festival with one of his best friends on air Shapira my eyewitness accounts from the people we talked to who are in this bomb shelter um several people independent of each other said your son and his friend on air saved our lives anybody who's alive because as grenades were being thrown in they were tossing them back out they were trying to comfort people and so um i just uh thought i would add that maybe you could family in the united states sure i'll just say that uh rachel and i both grew up in chicago we were living in california in 2000 when hirsh was born we made ali at israel as a family in the summer of 2008 when hirsh who's our oldest child he was uh seven and a half almost eight when we moved to israel in the summer of 2008 we've been living in jerusalem ever since uh we have two daughters 2017 and i just want to take one minute to talk a little bit about hirsh he is a smiley fun loving guy um and people of all ages you're watching a live press conference they're difficult to hear the details families of americans missing in gaza they were at that music festival on saturday and were taken hostage they are waiting for answers as we just heard their difficulty hear the pain danie danaan former ambassador to the un and former minister and member of liqud stays here in studio as does our correspondent guy israel ambassador what kind of us pressure can be brought to bear right now to help those families when it comes to answers to help them some kind of light some kind of positivity that there is a chance that with pressure out of washington there could be some kind of deal understanding some kind of hope that they will get to see their families again your thoughts i think first of all we see that the u.s is standing with israel we are entering another period a challenging one where we're going to hurt the hamas really bad there will be civilian casualties on the other side unfortunately and then the international community will start to cry humanitarian crisis what we saw here that a humanitarian crisis what happened in far asa in the communities in the south that's a humanitarian crisis we are now telling to the world we are not counting on you we will do what we have to do and i think the u.s will continue to stand with us and with to the family they say you know we we hug them we we can imagine the pain that they they have today the uncertainty and also you know when you see those pictures of the animals dragging civilians into gaza you know no father or mother wants to see their son in the captivities of those barbarics how does it impact the response from israel in the gaza strip just moments ago we were showing live images out of gaza we know that the idf is targeting hamas sites in gaza it's saying as much and it's saying it's going to continue doing so these are images on our screen right now how does the fact that there are an unknown number of living hostages in gaza impact the way israel responds right now when it tries to obliterate the terrorist infrastructure we will have to to work on both tracks we're going to fight very hard against hamas and at the same time we're going to apply pressure to release the hostages we will not hold our forces we will not hold the the air force the navy we will use whatever we have to fight against hamas and i believe that is the right approach because with those animals you cannot expect to negotiate you cannot expect that they will show any kind of humanitarian aspect you know i saw pictures of of children of two years old in captivity of hamas i never heard about any military or any guerrilla or any terrorist organization that is capturing kids of two years old it never happened it the first time he needs to be that they i i recall it that's why i think we have to work parallelly on both tracks mr denon a year here is a former ambassador but also as a member of the liquid party you've been a minister in several governments before and israel is not going to be the same after what has happened on saturday and as a representative of this government i i have to ask you because the people of israel is demanding answers the the tragedy on saturday is on the hands of this government and it's on the hands of the government that ruled here for so many years and have nurtured hamas for so many years has made israelis live under the concept that you can continue to live next to hamas continue to funnel money for hamas for so many years keep hamas at bay and hoping the things will be okay well they're not okay what's your response to this republic well i i think there will be time for the blame game and for the inquiry about everything that happened why it happened who is responsible and we have to acknowledge you know we were called by surprise again uh having said that i think now we have to focus on the fighting now we are united i'm calling for unity government i hope it will happen today with our position parties that's what we need today we need unity we need to fight together we need to win the war and and i agree with you i don't think we should hurt hamas it's not enough we have to eliminate hamas i was deputy minister of defense nine years ago and i demanded that we will go all the way back then unfortunately it didn't happen i think now we realize that we have to do it we have to pay the price we have to be patient strong and eradicate hamas it is impossible i know that there's a debate whether we can do it or cannot do it i'm telling you yes we can do it and we have to do it it's already paid a very heavy price what what are they expected to pay but i'll take on the most important topics breaking down the issue so you can decide for yourself zoom in each weekday here that i 24 new the battle feroz between the iraq forces with whom we were embarked and the terrorists of the islamic state organization who had made of this city their caliphate in ira a few years earlier after having crossed a mausoleum ruin where we finally found ourselves in the middle of kazba in the west part of the city near the combats and bombings of the international coalition we are here a few hundred meters away from the mosque and nourish it is the same we have passed from house to house to stay covered by daesh snipers before arriving on a roof at the level of the front line where the young iraq soldiers were able to do the cleaning of their arsenal and their firepower in front of our cameras it is only after having left this theater of war that i took the measure of what i just lived when the information fell according to which a french TV team had been killed by an explosive machine a mine in the same place where we found ourselves a few days earlier it of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this is breaking news edition i'm beneath a levine coming to you live from tel aviv and it's breaking news siren sounding yet again in tel aviv a short while ago the third time a barrage of rockets has been sent towards central israel in the past few hours you're looking at live images on your screen right now out of gaza in tel aviv millions racing to shelters red alert sirens also sounding in hollon hoots lia petartikva and bene brak earlier in the day in the south starot ibn niram and mufasim also hearing sirens as the war intensifies on day four now earlier in the day heartbreaking heart-ranging images the release of horrifying footage images of 40 children and toddlers slaughtered in the kibbutz of far asa on saturday the israeli military is allowing foreign journalists to cover the scenes of the large-scale massacres by hamas in towns on the border with gaza our correspondent nicole zedek was there and filed this difficult report here in far asa they continue to remove some of the israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre saturday morning you can see as four days later they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very very southern israeli community and remove the israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes gun down stabbed different grenades thrown off as well as we're walking through this community we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas certain houses because there could still be mines incident and they could go off at any moment so all of the israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well but as you walk through this community which we've been doing just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers many of them called from reserve duty uh leaving their own families behind as well you can see some of these houses that people were in meanwhile the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area truly the scene of a massacre as many of these people were just inside their homes families uh one of the commanders here said said at least 40 babies were killed some of them their their heads got off he said he's never seen acts of brutality like this and as i said many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre none of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this even as i'm walking around right now shell casings continue to line the grounds here the community uh signs of daily life also children's bikes parked right here meanwhile bodies lie right next to them it's truly the scene of a massacre um the commander said this is not a battleground this was a mass terrorist coming into the community and and killing all of the citizens that that they could see and so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as as these these soldiers continue to go through and they're still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well in fact gunfights and fighting between uh terrorists and and the Israeli soldiers here just recently ended and that's why