TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War. The IDF expands its ground operations in Gaza, for the first time entering Deir al-Balah, while pressure mounts on Hamas to agree to a hostage deal and end the war. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the north and south as Israel intercepts missiles from Yemen and thwarts terror plots in Syria. Plus, Iran admits severe damage to its nuclear program.
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Boots on the Ground | IDF Raids Terror Base; Hamas Loots Aid | Boots on the Ground | July 24, 2025
- The idf continues ground operations in the gaza strip
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- Operations in the gaza strif operations in the gaza strir
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- Operations in the gaza strir the first time, also in deir
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- El-balah. these soldiers are going out on focused offensive
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- Missions to destroy terror infrastructures, eliminate
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- Terrorists and deepen the achievements. and at the same
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- Time, a pressure campaign is being applied to hamas as qatar,
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- Egypt and the united states demand a swift answer to the
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- Latest proposal for a cease fire agreement. the assessment is
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- That an agreement on the deal's details can be reached within 24
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- Hours, while in israel, they say that the dispute over the depth
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- And scope of the withdrawal is solvable. in related news, three
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- Humanitarian aid distribution centers are operating in the
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- Southern parts of gaza, and the idf claims that the aid is also
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- Entering in the northern parts of gaza. but the united nations
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- Refuses to distribute it and is placing constraints on the
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- Routes. and hamas, they say, is trying to sabotage the mechanism
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- At any cost. welcome to boots on the ground. i'm your host, yair
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- Pinto, bringing you all the truth about what's happening in
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- Israel. and idf forces identified and eliminated three
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- Hamas terrorists in camouflaged clothing in sajaia in gaza, and
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- Foiled a cell that tried to plant explosives on the northern
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- Border. the idf is acting to prevent dangerous terror
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- Infrastructures. this week, the idf arrested arms dealings in
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- Southern syria and confiscated weapons following intelligence
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- Indications. so we have a lot to talk about today. so let's dive
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- Into the details. i'm yair pint, and this is your boots on the
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- Ground report about what's happening in israel. and a 656
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- Of the war against hamas, hezbollah, the houthis in yemen,
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- The shiite militias in iraq, and the terrorist organizations in
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- Judea and samaria. all of them are acting under the control of
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- Iran's revolutionary guards, which is the head of the
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- Crumbling axis of evil in the middle east. a moment before we
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- Begin, i'd like to invite you to join us in sharing the truth.
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- You can do that by subscribing to our youtube channel, tbn.tv
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- Israel, where we post daily boots on the ground updates from
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- Israel so that you'll be connected and know how to pray
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- For the peace of jerusalem. a moment before we move on to tbn,
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- Israel's senior middle east analyst matti shoshani, we'll go
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- To a short commercial break. so guys, stay with us.
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- >> the middle east is complicated. evil thrives here
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- And wears many different faces.
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- >> but in the middle of it all is israel, a tiny democracy
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- Fighting for its life against extremist regimes and terrorist
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- Armies that glorify death, not life.
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- >> and yet, somehow the world calls us the aggressor.
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- >> because evil has the narrative and twisted the truth.
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- >> and the west, while too often it believes the lies, because
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- Comprehending such evil is hard. and when people can't understand
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- It, they misplace the blame.
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- >> this battle isn't just about israel. this is a threat to the
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- Entire free world.
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- >> because when the truth dies, freedom dies with it.
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- >> so stand with israel, defend the truth and make sure it gets
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- Out to the entire world. go to ww. with israel and donate now.
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- Our future depends on it.
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- Welcome back. now we'll go to matti shoshani, who will take us
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- Through the latest developments in our neighborhood, the middle
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- East. martin, the american president, decided that the
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- United states will leave the united nations educational,
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- Scientific and cultural organization. and a white house
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- Official said that the decision is due to anti-american and
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- Anti-israeli policy. and president trump, who already led
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- The united states to withdraw from a series of international
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- Institutions and also left unesco in his first term because
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- Of its attitude towards israel. and on the other hand, iran's
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- Foreign minister admitted that severe damage caused by israeli
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- And american strikes stopped uranium enrichment in his
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- Country, but emphasizes the process will continue, declaring
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- That we cannot give up enrichment because it's a source
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- Of national pride. and trump responded by saying that the
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- Nuclear facilities were destroyed, and if necessary, we
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- Will do it again. marty, what do these headlines mean and what is
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- Really going on? are we about to enter into a new round of war
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- With the iranians? let me know.
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- >> can i? once again, the united states shakes the diplomatic
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- World that we live in. it declares that it's planning to
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- Leave unesco and the hostage deal between israel, hamas and
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- The united states seems to be nearing a resolution. all of
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- That is coming up in the next couple of minutes. first of all,
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- Unesco president trump has previously already withdrawn
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- From unesco, which is the un's heritage and education entity,
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- And he did this in the past for a very clear reason, because
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- That agency promoted an anti-american, anti-israeli and
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- Anti-semitic agenda. and they're doing so once more. in the past,
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- One of the examples in the case studies that president trump
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- Stated was the fact that they recognized hebron, the city
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- South of jerusalem, as a unesco heritage site only for the
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- Palestinian people, omitting one important fact the fact that it
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- Is the cave or the tomb of the patriarchs of the jewish nation.
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- It is a site holy to the jewish people and also has jewish
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- Residents within it. they simply forgot, quote unquote, to
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- Mention that part of it. unesco, has done the same. and i want to
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- Be clear here. so have multiple other un agencies. people look
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- At this and they criticize the us administration as weakening
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- International entities. but in reality, if you really track
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- What's been happening, you'll understand that very clearly,
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- Very decidedly and very accurately. president trump has
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- Been very spot on with his criticism of international
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- Entities, specifically as they relate to israel. this last war
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- In the gaza strip showed us what unwra the agency that was
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- Supposed to help alleviate the palestinian refugee problem.
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- What it truly does and what it did was fight alongside the
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- Hamas terrorists, support terrorism and hide terrorism
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- Infrastructure within its facilities. and that's not
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- Exclusive only to that organization. many of these
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- Organizations are marred in their touched by a bias against
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- The us western thought and democracy. and president trump
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- Has been very, very clear in calling out that hypocrisy.
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- Defunding them and pulling out the us from that. and he doesn't
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- Do it and leave a vacuum. the us has been very wise in creating
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- Alternative treaties to help rebuild, rather than just bring
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- Destruction and a bias opinion. there's another issue that has
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- To do with the un and its agencies, and you need to
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- Understand this. as we stand in a diplomatic country that enjoys
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- The liberties that we do, it's easy to forget that most of the
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- Countries of the world are non-democracies. most of the
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- Countries of the world don't want to promote an agenda that
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- Aligns with the us agenda or the israeli agenda, or if we're
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- Talking about the european agenda. and because of that, the
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- Un is often used to promote agendas of the russians, which
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- Are usually non-democratic. the chinese, which are both
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- Anti-american and anti-western in their agenda, and several
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- Other countries, many times muslim or arab countries promote
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- Or hijack un agencies to promote anti-western thought. so trump's
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- Criticism is spot on, and it is a refreshing change in the us
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- Foreign policy compared to what previous governments were
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- Attempting, which was more of a gentle push towards. let's try
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- To be a little more balanced. and really, when you're working
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- With an agency like that, you can't just be balanced. you have
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- To be honest about what they bring to the table. that's
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- Exactly what president trump has done. really big news for the
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- Israeli people is the fact that it looks like we're nearing a
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- Deal with hamas, and the deal looks like this. with the help
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- Of the us, we're about to sign a 60 day ceasefire in which the
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- Hamas terrorists will return ten living hostages and 18 deceased,
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- Or bodies of hostages to the israeli people. steve witkoff,
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- The let's call it the special emissary for many, many
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- Different issues in the middle east. he's the one that's
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- Bringing together this deal and the rumors. he's on his way to
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- The middle east to help seal the deal completely. this is big
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- News for israel. big news for the us and big news for the
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- People of gaza. israel has been waiting for this moment and
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- Pushing for this moment on a very, very, very tight deadline,
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- Knowing full well that as the longer we prolong this
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- Negotiation, the longer we draw out the discussion, the worse
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- The situation of the hostages will be. and that's exactly
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- Where we are right now. we're at a point where we must take
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- Action. there must be a deal that brings back a good number
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- Of hostages or most of the hostages, and ends this phase of
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- The combat. if you look at what's been going on in the gaza
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- Strip, the idf has been moving as fast as it possibly can to
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- Try and seal the deal on this ongoing negotiation with hamas.
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- And what we're seeing right now seems to be the best news we've
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- Heard in a long time about the us bringing forward a deal that
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- Helps israel and hamas close this phase of the war and return
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- As many hostages, both alive and dead, to the people of israel,
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- Where they truly belong. the main points to track on this
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- Negotiation are the fact that hamas wants israel to fully
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- Withdraw from the gaza strip, and israel, in turn, is refusing
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- To do that. israeli government wants to maintain control of at
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- Least some of the corridors within the gaza strip. for
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- Understandable reasons. hamas has shown that it can't be
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- Trusted both in ceasefire and during warfare, and we want to
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- Make sure they don't go back to smuggling weapons and hiding
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- Hostages, which is what they've done exactly in the last year
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- And a half of warfare. there's another big piece here, which is
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- The us government's involvement. president trump has said very
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- Clearly that the time is running out for hamas. and in fact,
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- Hamas has been presented with this deal multiple times before.
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- But there's a problem here. their government is split
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- Between the military leadership within the gaza strip and let's
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- Call their political leadership and resides mostly in qatar, but
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- In several other areas of the arab world. they want to
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- Continue fighting. they want to hold on to the hostages as much
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- As they can, and at the same time, they have no choice but to
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- Enter into an agreement because of us pressure, because of
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- Israeli pressure, because of the fact that their people need a
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- Break from this ongoing war.
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- >> so thank you very much for bringing clarity to these
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- Issues. here at tbn.tv israel, we continue to report on every
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- Development in this matter. so keep spreading the truth. share
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- The ground updates from israel and know how to pray for the
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- Peace of jerusalem. and now we'll move to an emotional
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- Report that we prepared for you. it brings the story of the
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- Massacre in syria over druze brothers and sisters who are
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- Fighting jihadists alongside israel. so stay tuned. what's
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- Been happening on our northern border with syria is nothing
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- Short of terrifying. over i'm your announcer druze civilians
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- Have been brutally murdered by syria's new radical regime that
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- Was led by abu mohammad al-julani, a former al-qaeda
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- Commander and one of the world's most wanted terrorists. in one
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- Chilling attack, armed jihadists stormed the home of a druze
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- Father and son, dragged them into the streets and executed
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- Them on the spot. in other towns, druze men were kidnaped,
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- Their mustaches, a sacred symbol of honor, were shaved in public,
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- Filmed and also shared as a message of humiliation and
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- Dominance. this new regime, made up of isis and al qaeda
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- Fighters, promised to protect minorities. instead, they've
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- Unleashed a wave of terror, and behind them, turkey supplying
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- Weapons, backing militias, and now flying f-16 fighter jets
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- Over syrian skies. turkish forces are entrenching
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- Themselves deeper by the day, trying to shape syria's future
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- In their image. israel sees this as a warning and the writing is
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- On the wall. this isn't just about protecting the druze. it's
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- About stopping radical jihadists from taking root right across
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- Our borders. that's why in the last few days and weeks, israel
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- Struck back, launching precision airstrikes, sending aid and
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- Opening safe passages to protect lives. the message is clear
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- Israel will not stand by. while extremist terror camps grow on
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- Our doorsteps.t's happening in syria affects all of us, and
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- It's happening right now. matty and i took a trip up north to
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- Hawkfish. it's a beautiful village near israel's border
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- With syria. it's home to a proud and deeply rooted druze
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- Community, many of whom serve in israel's security forces, the
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- Idf, and have stood side by side with us for decades. we are here
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- To meet with the druze brothers and sisters, to hear their
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- Voices, understand their fears, and talk about what's unfolding
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- Just across the border in syria, where their extended community
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- And family is under threat. but before we go, please subscribe
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- The rest of the world so that you can pray for the peace of
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- Jerusalem.
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- >> things are getting complicated in the middle east,
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- And i think we need to explain some of the moving pieces. so we
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- Have a shared border with syria, and there's a bunch of druze
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- Communities in southern syria. they've been attacked by
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- Al-julani. al-julani is an organization that took over in a
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- Military coup.
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- >> hdz.
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- >> hdz. exactly. they're formerly isis.
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- >> al qaeda.
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- >> al qaeda, anyway, not really a good guys. radical islamists,
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- Their leader, al-julani promises. and he says we're not
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- Going to be like the other islamists. we're not going to
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- Kill the minorities. we're not going to massacre them.
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- Literally, almost overnight, they go in and start massacring
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- Minorities. they started with alawites, and then they said,
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- No, it's political. it's not ethnically backed. then they
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- Pick on the druze.
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- >> october 7th style.
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- >> it's violent, it's brutal. it's ethnically and religiously
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- Motivated. period. israel looks at this and we say there's a
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- Huge problem here, one, we don't want al-julani on our border. we
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- Don't want radical sunnis on our border. two al-julani doesn't
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- Represent al-julani. al-julani represents other interests in
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- This region, not the iranians, surprisingly.
- 00:15:42.782 --> 00:15:46.285
- >> yes, definitely. he's like, do you want minority that isn't
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- Tied into. but he does represent turkish interests in this
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- Region. and the turks want to have a stake in syria. they want
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- To have bases in syria replacing the russians.
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- >> in the middle east. there's never a vacuum of power.
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- Somebody will fill it up very, very fast. and at the moment the
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- Idf is present on multiple strategic locations in syria and
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- Preventing jihadist militias from moving south of damascus
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- And carrying out attacks against the druze communities. and some
- 00:16:16.315 --> 00:16:21.153
- Clashes took place between the druze and the christians against
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- The jihadists. and israel already evacuated druze people.
- 00:16:23.856 --> 00:16:28.427
- I think it's 120 people were evacuated so far into israeli
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- Hospitals in the northern part of israel. and on top of that,
- 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:37.336
- Israel also sent humanitarian aid to these communities and
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- Also are in negotiations and in undercover talks with al-julani
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- To stop these attacks against the druze minorities and against
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- The christian minorities.
- 00:16:51.951 --> 00:16:53.652
- >> from our perspective, the druze are valuable members of
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- Israeli society, serve in the idf. you know, they're brothers
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- To the full extent of.
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- >> it, but they have ties to their family members that are on
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- The other side of the border. so you have druze in israel, and
- 00:17:05.831 --> 00:17:09.001
- Then the same family has members in syria, in lebanon.
- 00:17:09.001 --> 00:17:13.439
- >> we want to make sure that our allies, the druze in israel, are
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- Safeguarded. we want to make sure that their families outside
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- Of israel are safeguarded. i have to pause and say like, look
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- How beautiful the view is outside.
- 00:17:22.281 --> 00:17:24.216
- >> it is nice. it is nice.
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- >> wow. we've arrived in a peaceful and picturesque village
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- In israel's north. just a short drive from the lebanese and the
- 00:17:30.623 --> 00:17:34.126
- Syrian border. this community is predominantly druze and it's
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- History here goes back centuries long before the state of israel
- 00:17:38.864 --> 00:17:42.501
- Was ever established. nestled in the hills of the western
- 00:17:42.501 --> 00:17:46.005
- Galilee, pfizer is known for its strong traditions, hospitality
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- And deep sense of national service. the druze people in
- 00:17:50.342 --> 00:17:54.313
- Israel are a unique and proud minority, though their religion
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- Is secretive and distinct from islam. they built a strong bond
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- With the jewish people and the state of israel, and since
- 00:18:01.220 --> 00:18:04.723
- Israel's early years, druze citizens have volunteered and
- 00:18:04.723 --> 00:18:08.027
- Later been drafted into the idf, with many rising to high ranks
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- In the military and public service. today, i have the honor
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- Of meeting sheikh kassem badir, a deeply respected spiritual
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- Leader in israel's druze community. sheikh, thank you for
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- Having us. you are the president of the universal peace council,
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- But also a prominent leader in the druze community. how do
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- People in your community feel with everything that's been
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- Happening in recent months?
- 00:18:33.986 --> 00:18:35.254
- >> if we can see, for example, in the last weeks what happened
- 00:18:35.254 --> 00:18:38.090
- In syria, for example, if we look to the history, the druze
- 00:18:38.090 --> 00:18:42.895
- Support the assad regime and they support the king hussein,
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- We support the israeli government, we support the
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- Lebanese because we have a faith that we should be loyal citizens
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- To our land, first of all. and after that, we are loyal to our
- 00:18:55.474 --> 00:18:59.044
- Government, to our regime. what happened in syria immediately?
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- Suddenly, one day, the regime have been a changed there and we
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- Find a new regime, not the modern regime. it's we are
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- Talking about a fundamentalism regime, and we see what they did
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- In, in with the alawi, with the christian, with the sunna, with,
- 00:19:19.598 --> 00:19:23.335
- With the druze. the druze today feel that we have been falling
- 00:19:23.335 --> 00:19:28.240
- Between the church. one side there is israel, a democracies
- 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:33.979
- Regime. the second side is syria. fundamentalism regime
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- With the druze want a peace with syria. we want open borders, but
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- Without without war. we want peace between giulilani or the
- 00:19:45.357 --> 00:19:48.994
- Regime in syria with israel. and we can really open the borders
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- And we can practice our relations between our families
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- Here in the area. the majority of the druze community in
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- The world living in the middle east and the majority
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- In the middle east, live in syria. it's about 1 million
- 00:20:03.375 --> 00:20:06.445
- Druzes live in syria, 600,000 druzes live in
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- Lebanon, 140,000 jews live in israel, including the
- 00:20:09.281 --> 00:20:13.886
- Golan heights for druze villages. and we have it's
- 00:20:13.886 --> 00:20:17.823
- Close to 20,000 druzes live in jordan. this community wh
- 00:20:17.823 --> 00:20:20.492
- In jordan. this community wo in jordan. this community wo
- 00:20:20.492 --> 00:20:21.827
- Live in the middle east since the 1948, we became to face
- 00:20:21.827 --> 00:20:30.769
- Difficult conflicts. for example, my wife originally
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- Is from south of lebanon and we married in 1990 and she moved to
- 00:20:34.740 --> 00:20:39.044
- Live in israel and her parents remain in south lebanon. until
- 00:20:39.044 --> 00:20:45.217
- 2000. the border was opened and my wife, she can move and cross
- 00:20:45.217 --> 00:20:49.188
- The border every day if she want. in 2000, we have a new
- 00:20:49.188 --> 00:20:54.860
- Reality in the israel and the middle east that the israeli
- 00:20:54.860 --> 00:20:58.964
- Government decided to withdraw from south of lebanon without
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- Any peace agreement one way, and they closed the border. and
- 00:21:02.268 --> 00:21:06.372
- Unfortunately, hezbollah and iran are in control south of
- 00:21:06.372 --> 00:21:11.043
- Lebanon since 2000. until this moment, my wife cannot meet her
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- Parents. we need peace, relations with the neighbors to
- 00:21:16.582 --> 00:21:20.452
- Achieve the real peace, because we believe that druze as a
- 00:21:20.452 --> 00:21:24.089
- Minority, that only the peace can solve these issues in the
- 00:21:24.089 --> 00:21:28.260
- Middle east, not wars. you have the right to live here, and i
- 00:21:28.260 --> 00:21:32.364
- Have the right to live here and the land. all of us can live
- 00:21:32.364 --> 00:21:36.201
- Here together. the land belongs to god. it's not belong to the
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- Jewish or to the arab or to the jews. it's belong to god. and if
- 00:21:40.506 --> 00:21:44.176
- I raise my children to love you as a brother, as a human being,
- 00:21:44.176 --> 00:21:48.781
- We can succeed. we can live together.
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- >> how do you explain to someone who comes from the outside and
- 00:21:51.283 --> 00:21:54.586
- Says, sheikh, what do you believe in? who are your people?
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- How did you end up in this part of the world?
- 00:21:58.824 --> 00:22:00.693
- >> the first druzes came in the 11th century from egypt. now
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- There is very important principles, let's say in the
- 00:22:03.929 --> 00:22:07.032
- Druze religion that the druze religion is non-missionary faith
- 00:22:07.032 --> 00:22:10.436
- No one can convert to today to be druze. now it was a period of
- 00:22:10.436 --> 00:22:15.374
- 24 years in the 11th century in egypt. let's say the gates was
- 00:22:15.374 --> 00:22:20.879
- Opened and the million of people have been converted and believe
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- In this way immediately they convert to be druze. in the end
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- Of this period, 24 years, the prophets have been decided to
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- Preach no more. and they closed the gates, let's say, and no one
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- Can today convert to druze. no one can choose to be druze. to
- 00:22:37.329 --> 00:22:41.700
- Be druze. you should born for two druze parents. it's so
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- Important. non-missionary faith to druze parents, father and
- 00:22:45.437 --> 00:22:48.874
- Mother. in judaism, you belong to the. you belong to the
- 00:22:48.874 --> 00:22:52.211
- Mother. christian and muslim. you belong to the father. druze.
- 00:22:52.211 --> 00:22:56.348
- You belong to both of them. our holy scriptures is very closed
- 00:22:56.348 --> 00:23:00.786
- It, and it's only allowed to the religious people to hold, to
- 00:23:00.786 --> 00:23:04.423
- Study, to practice the principles of the religion, to
- 00:23:04.423 --> 00:23:07.393
- The holy scriptures, between between 4 to 5 million druzes
- 00:23:07.393 --> 00:23:12.431
- Live in the world today. we don't believe that the druze
- 00:23:12.431 --> 00:23:16.201
- Have or should have druze state. we believe where you born. this
- 00:23:16.201 --> 00:23:20.639
- Is your fate. god decided and sent you for a mission. in this
- 00:23:20.639 --> 00:23:25.244
- Place. you have to be loyal. you have to be loyal to your land.
- 00:23:25.244 --> 00:23:28.881
- You have to educate and to protect yourself and to protect
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- Yourmunity. and you are the descendants of jethro. jethro
- 00:23:31.683 --> 00:23:35.587
- Was father in law of the prophet moses, and therefore we are we
- 00:23:35.587 --> 00:23:39.992
- Muslim and jewish, very close in the religion. and i want to tell
- 00:23:39.992 --> 00:23:44.329
- You that we have very delicious food if you want to convert to
- 00:23:44.329 --> 00:23:47.065
- Druze only for the delicious food, we.
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- >> you understand.
- 00:23:49.668 --> 00:23:50.536
- >> what you don't still don't accept.
- 00:23:50.536 --> 00:23:51.770
- >> you still don't accept.
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- >> us. from representation in government to equal rights and
- 00:23:53.405 --> 00:23:57.142
- Military service, the druze community is fully part of
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- Israeli society and fiercely loyal to the country they call
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- Home. we're going to take a stroll through the village and
- 00:24:04.750 --> 00:24:07.953
- Head to a local druze restaurant for lunch. please like and
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- Subscribe and share the truth of what is going on here in israel
- 00:24:11.790 --> 00:24:16.995
- With the world.
- 00:24:16.995 --> 00:24:19.131
- >> living for once. sambusak i love sambusak.
- 00:24:19.131 --> 00:24:25.604
- >> maybe we can explain what sambusak is.
- 00:24:25.604 --> 00:24:28.106
- >> i'll explain. sambusak is a middle eastern calzone. that's
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- What it is. okay, good. that's what it is.
- 00:24:31.844 --> 00:24:35.280
- >> good explanation. bon appetit.
- 00:24:35.280 --> 00:24:36.782
- >> marty sambusak magazine. the cedar sambusak and ours is lamb.
- 00:24:36.782 --> 00:24:43.889
- >> lamb, cheese.
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- >> and i say this out loud. lamb, lamb, cheese and spices.
- 00:24:45.123 --> 00:24:47.125
- And you have here some.
- 00:24:47.125 --> 00:24:49.194
- >> lamb and some lemon juice.
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- >> oh very good. yeah. very good. we were hearing the
- 00:24:53.765 --> 00:24:56.969
- Explanation from them, telling us that for the druze
- 00:24:56.969 --> 00:25:01.540
- Community, this is like one of their staple, like, fast
- 00:25:01.540 --> 00:25:03.942
- Foods.
- 00:25:03.942 --> 00:25:05.177
- >> exactly. and they said that this food connects the
- 00:25:05.177 --> 00:25:08.347
- Druze people of lebanon, the jewish people of syria and the
- 00:25:08.347 --> 00:25:11.517
- Jewish people of israel. and i think it's important to explain
- 00:25:11.517 --> 00:25:16.054
- That these people lived under rocket fire from hezbollah, from
- 00:25:16.054 --> 00:25:20.993
- Palestinian terrorists, from syria, for more than a year and
- 00:25:20.993 --> 00:25:24.830
- A half throughout this war, basically until israel completed
- 00:25:24.830 --> 00:25:27.799
- The ground maneuver in lebanon and also in syria, and took
- 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:32.771
- Strategic locations there. and that's the only time that they
- 00:25:32.771 --> 00:25:36.208
- Have peace now and are not running to bomb shelters. more
- 00:25:36.208 --> 00:25:39.511
- Than 9000 rockets were fired towards the northern parts of
- 00:25:39.511 --> 00:25:42.948
- Israel, and 80,000 israelis were evacuated. i think that the
- 00:25:42.948 --> 00:25:48.654
- Druze communities decided to stay in their homes despite the
- 00:25:48.654 --> 00:25:51.790
- Attacks and the rockets.
- 00:25:51.790 --> 00:25:53.492
- >> this is amazing. so it's like so it's absolutely delicious.
- 00:25:53.492 --> 00:25:59.097
- The story of. hullfish and the brave, loyal.
- 00:25:59.097 --> 00:26:01.867
- >> druze community is a reminder of the. deep bonds that holds
- 00:26:01.867 --> 00:26:05.571
- This nation together in a region filled with uncertainty and
- 00:26:05.571 --> 00:26:09.508
- Rising threats. israel stands firm not only in defense for its
- 00:26:09.508 --> 00:26:14.313
- Borders, but in defense of its people, whether.
- 00:26:14.313 --> 00:26:16.982
- >> jewish, druze.
- 00:26:16.982 --> 00:26:18.550
- >> christian, muslim, every citizen matters. while chaos
- 00:26:18.550 --> 00:26:22.721
- Unfolds just across the border. israel chooses strength. it
- 00:26:22.721 --> 00:26:26.325
- Chooses compassion and unity, reaching out to help, standing
- 00:26:26.325 --> 00:26:30.429
- Up to extremism, and continuing to build a future where every
- 00:26:30.429 --> 00:26:34.967
- Community is valued and protected. so stand with us.
- 00:26:34.967 --> 00:26:38.704
- Share the truth. in a world where evil still rises, israel
- 00:26:38.704 --> 00:26:42.608
- Stands for life, for justice, and for all of its people.
- 00:26:42.608 --> 00:26:47.713
- >> thank you very much. we hope that this report made things
- 00:26:47.713 --> 00:26:50.816
- Clear for you and help you understand what's happening in
- 00:26:50.816 --> 00:26:54.019
- Israel and in the middle east, so that you'll know how to pray
- 00:26:54.019 --> 00:26:57.255
- For the situation. and now we'll go to a short commercial break,
- 00:26:57.255 --> 00:27:01.627
- And afterwards we'll be right back here. so stay tuned. it's a
- 00:27:01.627 --> 00:27:11.436
- War zone in the gaza strip. been under fire by hamas terrorists.
- 00:27:11.436 --> 00:27:15.374
- You don't have time to sit and drink your coffee and wake up in
- 00:27:15.374 --> 00:27:18.610
- The morning and get ready for the day and prepare. so
- 00:27:18.610 --> 00:27:22.447
- Sometimes i woke up at two in the morning after an hour and a
- 00:27:22.447 --> 00:27:25.751
- Half of sleep, and you need to wake up immediately and do your
- 00:27:25.751 --> 00:27:29.721
- Job and do it to perfection. or people die.
- 00:27:29.721 --> 00:27:33.025
- >> you literally have your life on the line. you don't know what
- 00:27:33.025 --> 00:27:36.795
- Corner you turn and somebody got a gun pointed at you.
- 00:27:36.795 --> 00:27:44.169
- >> so in order to wake up, i just took a vinegar pill and i
- 00:27:44.169 --> 00:27:47.339
- Really felt the energy levels go up faster. the clarity of mind
- 00:27:47.339 --> 00:27:51.810
- That doesn't usually happen immediately when you wake up in
- 00:27:51.810 --> 00:27:54.379
- The morning. and i don't remember taking much stuff with
- 00:27:54.379 --> 00:27:57.749
- Me into the gaza strip. had my sleeping bag, a flashlight, and
- 00:27:57.749 --> 00:28:01.620
- A vineyard bottle. so that's what i had with me.
- 00:28:01.620 --> 00:28:05.857
- >> you're a young person. you're very healthy, but you still
- 00:28:05.857 --> 00:28:08.927
- Think that vinea was helpful to get you to even a higher level
- 00:28:08.927 --> 00:28:12.798
- Of performance.
- 00:28:12.798 --> 00:28:14.032
- >> it's helping me to exceed my normal abilities. so let's say,
- 00:28:14.132 --> 00:28:18.303
- You know, i'm at 100%, and that puts me at 120. with raising
- 00:28:18.303 --> 00:28:22.908
- Three kids, you need to be sharp to make the right decisions.
- 00:28:22.908 --> 00:28:26.511
- >> raising three kids may be equal to combat.
- 00:28:26.511 --> 00:28:29.715
- >> a lot harder, a lot harder. listen, i'm still taking dinner
- 00:28:29.715 --> 00:28:32.984
- Every day because i want to be there with my kids when they
- 00:28:32.984 --> 00:28:36.354
- Grow old. i want to be able to dance at their wedding and carry
- 00:28:36.354 --> 00:28:39.558
- My kids and my grandkids for years to come. and this is the
- 00:28:39.558 --> 00:28:43.528
- Time to start. i mean, when you're young. welcome back.
- 00:28:43.528 --> 00:28:54.906
- Before we say goodbye, we'd like to invite you to keep spreading
- 00:28:54.906 --> 00:28:58.477
- The truth, to share, to follow us, and most importantly, to
- 00:28:58.477 --> 00:29:02.914
- Pray. to pray for israel, to pray for the situation. but
- 00:29:02.914 --> 00:29:06.785
- Today, i would like to ask you to pray for the children of
- 00:29:06.785 --> 00:29:11.156
- Israel. let me tell you a short story. when the missiles are
- 00:29:11.156 --> 00:29:15.060
- Coming to israel and the alarms are sounding, the children,
- 00:29:15.060 --> 00:29:18.997
- Including my three kids, are shocked and waked up in the
- 00:29:18.997 --> 00:29:23.468
- Middle of the night, rushing to the bomb shelter to seek
- 00:29:23.468 --> 00:29:27.606
- Shelter. this is not normal, but this has become their reality
- 00:29:27.606 --> 00:29:33.311
- For 650 days in this war. it is a very, very troubling
- 00:29:33.311 --> 00:29:38.784
- Situation. so i ask you, when you pray, pray for the innocence
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- Of the israeli children. pray for the idf soldiers, pray for
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- The hostages. let's unite in prayer for the peace of
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- Jerusalem. we serve an awesome god and he's going to win this
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- War.
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