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Israel Under Pressure As Turkish Army Eyes Role in Gaza | Boots on the Ground

December 11, 2025 | 31:30

TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas and regional war. Hamas continues blocking progress in the ceasefire talks as regional pressure rises. Israel rejects any Turkish role in Gaza while Hezbollah expands its rocket network in Lebanon and the IDF responds with targeted strikes. Syria moves closer to Hamas and Hezbollah, and Iran ramps up cyber and nuclear activity—pushing the region toward a broader escalation.

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Boots on the Ground | Israel Under Pressure As Turkish Army Eyes Role in Gaza | Boots on the Ground | December 11, 2025

Hamas terrorists
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Trapped in the tunnels
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Underneath rafah
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In the gaza strip,
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Are facing a severe shortage
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Of water and food.
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And on the ground, they say
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That whenever they see airplanes in the sky,
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They disappear and hide like rats.
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The terror organization is focused on survival,
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Yet also continues to recruit, seize civilian institutions
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And entrench control in places where the idf is not present.
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Israel makes it clear
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That hamas has not met the terms of the agreement
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And has still not returned the last abducted fallen hostage.
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And on the other hand, the american officials say
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That talks are moving on to phase b
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And are progressing despite the difficulties.
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And in a related story, it was exposed this week
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That hamas hid infant formula substitutes in warehouses
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Over the last two years
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To intensify the orchestrated hunger
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And blame israel for everything that happens in gaza.
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And at the same time, there is a question
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Whether thousands of soldiers from turkey
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Are on their way to the gaza strip
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As part of a stabilization force.
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Jerusalem opposes
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And washington is examining a combined model
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And hamas has no intention of talking about disarmament.
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In judea and samaria tensions are rising
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After the idf and the shin-bet uncovered in tulkarem a rocket,
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Ied and weapons infrastructure,
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Including a rocket with live warheads.
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In the north,
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The air force struck the radwan forces of hezbollah
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Deep inside lebanon this week,
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But the intelligence directorate emphasizes
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That the strikes are still limited
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Compared with hezbollah's pace of rebuilding.
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Meanwhile, the united states is applying pressure
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On beirut and the lebanese army
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To act against hezbollah
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And congress is holding a discussion
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On conditioning the aid.
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The debate in israel is over the question
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Of whether to deepen strikes inside lebanon
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And risk escalation,
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Or continue calibrated pressure.
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On the syrian front,
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There's footage of the new syrian army
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Associated with al-julani's men,
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Waving palestinian flags and chanting against israel,
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That exposes close ties with the hamas terrorist organization.
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And meanwhile, reports have emerged in lebanon
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Of a mysterious weapon shipment seized from china.
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The lines of influence of iran, hezbollah and hamas
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Are converging along a northeast axis.
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In the strategic picture, the deadlock
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Around the iranian nuclear issue and the ticking clock
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Compelled difficult decisions in the west.
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Alongside missiles and uavs,
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Israel has identified a new old front -
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Ongoing cyber warfare.
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The head of the national cyber directorate
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Defined it as a first cyber war without a single shot,
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But everyone is affected.
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So welcome to boots on the ground.
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I'm your host, yair pinto, bringing you the whole truth
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About what is happening in israel.
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And this is day 796 of the war
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Against hamas, hezbollah, the houthis in yemen,
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The shia militias in iraq
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And the terrorist organizations in judea and samaria.
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All of them are taking their orders
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From iranian revolutionary guards corps,
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Which is the head of the crumbling axis of evil
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In the middle east.
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And a moment before we begin, i will need your help
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To break the lies and the anti-semitic propaganda.
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Help us reach as many people as possible
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By going to our youtube channel, tbn israel,
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Hitting the subscribe button
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Of what's happening here, in israel.
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This way, you know the truth
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Of what's happening on the ground
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And you know how to pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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Remember, this is a spiritual war
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And we need to unite against the enemy.
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And now we'll go to a short commercial break,
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After which we'll return to you
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With tbn israel's senior middle east analyst,
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Mati shoshani.
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Mati shoshani.
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And now we'll go
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To tbn israel's senior middle east analyst mati shoshani,
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Who will give us all the details on the diplomatic complications
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In moving to phase b of israel's ceasefire
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With the hamas terrorist organization in the gaza strip.
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Thank you, yair.
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Indeed, we're still waiting
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For phase two to materialize
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In the gaza strip.
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And let me break down
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The dramatic changes and developments
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That have happened in recent weeks.
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This has not been a static process.
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It's been something quick moving, very, very substantial
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And yet still tense on the ground.
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So over the next couple of minutes,
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I'm going to break down everything
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That's happening in the gaza strip
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And how we're going to get from where we are today,
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Which is the end of phase a of the agreement
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To phase b of the agreement.
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We've walked through most of what was phase one.
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Phase one is the return of the hostages to israel.
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Almost all of them, except for one have been returned.
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And of course, israel in return withdraws to the yellow line
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And then ultimately outside of the gaza strip,
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That's in phase b,
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And releases countless hamas terrorists
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And palestinian authority terrorists
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Back to the palestinian authority,
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Judea and samaria, and also into the gaza strip.
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That too has already been done.
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And then phase b,
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Which is the big, big, big change, is yet to happen.
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That has been the point of pressure,
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The point of work, the point of attention
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For both the us and several other entities in this region,
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And of course, a cause for concern, for attention
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And for much military action on the israeli side.
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They're doing this, of course,
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Because they never had any plan of entering into phase b,
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They fear the day
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Where they would have to leave the gaza strip behind
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In order to seek asylum in other countries
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Or be disarmed from their weapons.
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So the big challenge for the american government,
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For the trump white house,
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Is really setting up someone else in gaza to govern life.
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Let me break down to you what that means
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In a very practical sense.
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It means there needs to be a technocrat government,
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Which is a term that's used often
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Because it sounds softer to people
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Than just saying real government,
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Which will be represented and filled
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By people that are part of the palestinian people,
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As in within judea and samaria and the gaza strip,
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Hopefully not affiliated with hamas
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And other terrorist organizations,
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But also members of other countries.
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They would take care of civil life.
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How do you collect taxes,
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How to distribute humanitarian aid,
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How do you rebuild the infrastructure
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Throughout the gaza strip?
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How do you rebuild the school system,
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How do you build the medical system?
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These are a lot of issues that require a lot of groundwork
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And a lot of people on the ground
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Working in the gaza strip.
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So who is supposed to be on the ground?
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Well, two main names
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That have been sort of spread through the air
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In recent weeks, months, are indonesia and azerbaijan.
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And both of them have still gone back and forth
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About whether or not they're able to or wanting to.
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It almost seems like they're negotiating
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For what the price is going to be for their involvement.
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But there's another element
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That's really wanting to be on the ground,
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Which is the turkish government.
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And week after week, they knock on the door of the us and israel
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And say: guys, we just want to remind you
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That we want to be part of the force on the ground.
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And they say it again and again.
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Israel, on its hand, has said repeatedly
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That they veto... we, i should say, we veto
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Any option, any thought of having turkish forces
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On the ground in israel.
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The turkish government is adversarial
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And hateful towards the state of israel
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And the government of israel,
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And that's on a good day.
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And on a bad day, they're anti-semitic holocaust deniers
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And make threats against the lives
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Of officials in the israeli government.
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So this is very much not a friendly relationship.
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And israel observes that,
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Sees their active support of terrorism,
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Both in recent years and in past years
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And says, not on our watch.
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That's it for today. now back to yair pinto.
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Thank you so much, mati shoshani,
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For this excellent report.
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And now we'll move to the report
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That i prepared for you straight from inside the gaza strip,
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So that you can see with your own eyes what's happening,
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Boots on the ground style.
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We just entered the gaza strip and we have with us a convoy.
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There are a few dozens
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Of hamas terrorists
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On the israeli controlled side
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Still hiding in underground tunnels.
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So today, i'm on the edge of shuja'iyya.
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This is the place where hamas
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Once launched rockets,
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Dug terror tunnels
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And hid behind families.
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The ceasefire changed the tempo of this war,
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But it didn't change hamas.
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It didn't change their playbook.
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As the world talks about reconstruction,
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Hamas is already trying to stretch and gain time,
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Rebuild control and turn stalling into a strategy.
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We're here with the idf units
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Who are taking this playbook apart methodically,
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Street by street, tunnel by tunnel,
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As you can see behind me.
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I'm yair pinto and this is my state.
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A program about current events, my belief in god
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And my journey in the holy land.
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Today we're in shuja'iyya,
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In the heart of the gaza strip, together with the idf
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That are making sure that the ceasefire doesn't collapse.
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Good morning.
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Got a call yesterday late at night,
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And the idf spokesperson's unit invited me into the gaza strip.
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Today i had to change all my plans and pack my bag
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And head towards the gaza border
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To check out the situation on the ground
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And most importantly, how the idf is dealing
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With 60 percent of hamas' terror tunnels
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Still operational in gaza.
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This brings back memories from the time i served here in gaza.
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I remember driving here and hearing all the explosions
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Right here, and i thought that i had a flat tire
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Because of all the pops from the artillery of the idf
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And the rockets and explosive devices of hamas,
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Not far from here.
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So we just arrived here to the gaza border,
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The entrance to the northern parts of the gaza strip,
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An area called beit hanoun.
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So it is still an active war zone
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And hamas is testing the idf at every step of the way.
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The yellow line is further inside gaza
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And we're going to go inside it.
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So stay tuned.
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Make sure to like, share
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And subscribe.
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So we just have a debriefing with the general of this area
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Before entering the gaza strip.
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He mentioned that there are between hundreds and thousands
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Of palestinian civilians inside the areas
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Under the idf's control.
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Maybe 100 or a few dozens of hamas terrorists
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Hiding in tunnels in the israeli side.
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And this is what the idf is dealing with.
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So we've just entered the gaza strip.
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On our way to the shuja'iyya neighborhood
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Not far from gaza city.
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So i'm standing here
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And behind me you can see what used to be
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The palestinian gaza neighborhood of shuja'iyya.
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The general showed us
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Just a few minutes ago before entering here,
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That underneath this city were dozens of terror tunnels
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That went from houses, neighborhoods and rooms
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Under these buildings
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And went all the way towards the israeli side.
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Sadly, the amount of tunnels that were located here
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Was so big that
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All of these houses had to be destroyed,
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Also to create a buffer zone that hamas terrorists
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Cannot launch rockets, cannot use these houses
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As sniper positions to threaten our troops,
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Our civilians.
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In the horizon there, it's already under hamas control
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And not under the idf's control.
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So here's the how idf forces rotated fresh brigades
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Into the northern sector
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And pushed back into this area
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To lock the gains of the past months.
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And under division 99 and the framework
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Before handing the sector to follow on forces,
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Hundreds of hamas fighters and commandos
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In the shuja'iyya area were eliminated.
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Weapons depots and observation posts
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Were also destroyed
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And underground routes were mapped and neutralized.
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Combat engineers are still surfacing
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And finding hidden shafts on the edges of the city.
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Any tunnel segment that crosses the new yellow line,
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The security seam line now controls,
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Is being sealed or also collapsed.
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Beit hanoun matters
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Because it sits on the launch corridors
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That hamas used for years into israel's farming belt.
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What you don't see on the map
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Is the lattice under the feet,
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Cut rooms, cable galleries,
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Blast doors. some routes here connected
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East and west across the gaza strip.
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Others fed fighters north toward the fence.
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And the idf is not walking away from all of that.
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They are destroying and demolishing
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All the terror tunnels in these locations.
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Now, about the ceasefire and the game that hamas is playing -
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On paper, we have quiet,
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But in practice, hamas is trying to buy time
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And reestablish control mechanisms,
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Stalling with the fallen.
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These resources on the ground
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Described a deliberate slow roll
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In returning the bodies of the murdered hostages.
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This is completed with staged discoveries of cameras,
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Often alongside international teams,
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And the goal is pressure and optics,
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Not compassion.
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That's why jerusalem is weighing responses -
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Expand the yellow line security area
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Or tighten aid flows into the gaza strip
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If the stalling continues.
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Backfiring authority, around eight hubs,
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Hamas operatives tried to insert themselves
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Into lists and into distributions.
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This is how they rebuilt the influence in the past.
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Control the bread. control the people.
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Let's talk about psychological warfare.
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Small teams attempt pop up attacks
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From tunnel mouths to create casualties and headlines,
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Then duck back underground into these tunnels,
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Not to defeat the enemy,
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But to drain the israeli will
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And to cause casualties amongst our troops.
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All this is classic hamas:
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Hold a stronghold, stretch the clock,
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Regain the street and present the world
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With a fake account of what's happening.
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The difference this time is israel's methodological denial
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Of underground freedom of movement.
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And the new security geometry in the gaza strip
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Is different, especially in the north.
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So i'm here with nadav shoshani,
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The idf international spokesperson.
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Where are we standing right now?
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Well we're right now, on the outskirts of gaza city,
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You can see the buildings of gaza city,
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Where there's hundreds of thousands of people
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And sadly, also thousands of hamas terrorists.
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And we are standing in the post that is the only defense line
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Between those terrorists and our civilians,
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And we are protecting this area.
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When you hear about the yellow line,
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We're standing right above it,
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Defending the lines, making sure
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Hamas doesn't violate.
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And just last week hamas terrorists
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Tried crossing in this area. we've shared the video.
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Hamas armed terrorists crossed this area,
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Planning to carry out a terror attack
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In a different area in southern gaza.
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They carried out a terror attack, killing two soldiers.
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We understand who we're dealing with,
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A terror organization that will try and violate
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If they get the chance, and we need to be very vigilant
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And prevent that from happening.
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So are there still terror tunnels
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On the israeli controlled side of the yellow line?
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In this area we have a pretty good understanding
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And pretty good hold of the ground,
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Understanding we've dealt with most of the tunnels.
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But it's an ongoing process.
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Hundreds of kilometers underground,
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One of the world's vastest tunnel network,
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And we have to be very careful, very vigilant
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And to keep checking all the time
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To make sure there's no tunnel
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Where terrorists can just cross us and reach our civilians.
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We heard reports of hamas
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Sending children close to the israeli positions.
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Is that true? -well, we've seen that in the past.
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We understand hamas is doing that, has done that.
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In the last ceasefire, there was a story
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Where hamas sent a four year old to our troops
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To, kind of reconnaissance
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And understand what they're doing and how they're doing it.
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A four year old. -a four year old.
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How can a four year old do reconnaissance,
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What can he tell them? -he tells them if the troops
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Are ready or not, where they're sitting, where they're standing.
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He admitted that his father was hamas
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And he was sent to spy on us.
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Our troops obviously gave him water and a snack
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And sent him back with the red cross,
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But we know who we're dealing with.
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This is a terror organization that takes advantage
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Of civilians, of their civilians.
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Right now, they're in a massive campaign
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To terrorize the people of gaza, to murder gazans
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That they think are not pro-hamas
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And we know who we're dealing with.
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So we are very careful, but we also have our values.
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We will never target children or civilians
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In any way or form.
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But also we need to be vigilant and careful,
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Understand who we're dealing with.
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Hopefully in the future there will be
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An international mechanism to deal with those threats,
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But our job is to remove immediate threats
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To our civilians and to our troops.
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Well, thank you. make sure you keep safe now.
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Now let's talk achievements and not slogans.
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The idf is destroying the command chain capabilities
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Of hamas in the gaza strip.
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Two hamas company level commanders
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Tied to dozens of attacks
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In this area, not far from here,
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Were taken off the battlefield. that matters.
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It fractures the local control and the logistics
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Of this terrorist organization.
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Tunnel warfare,
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Industrial scale combat engineers
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And yahalom teams continue
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To identify and to collapse long underground corridors.
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Some are buried 20 to 40 meters beneath the ground,
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Some stretching kilometers.
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These weren't escape holes.
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They were command rooms,
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Comms, nodes,
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Ammo lines and transit arteries
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For fighters beneath the civilian blocks.
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Every collapsed segment shortens hamas' reach
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Tomorrow.
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The army moved from mass maneuver
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To a layered presence - patrols,
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Sensors, quick strike units
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And the yellow line steam
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Is being controlled by our forces
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From strategic locations,
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Just like the one we've been to now with the idf.
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It's quieter above ground
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Because it's tighter below the ground.
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Let's talk about the humanitarian situation.
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Aid routes are open in the north, but they're secured.
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Hamas can posture near them, but it doesn't own these routes.
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Another new element
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Is the american verification from the sky.
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United states drones
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Are watching the ceasefire corridors and the tunnel zones
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And there is an american coordination hub inside israel.
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Why does that matter?
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Because washington wants independent eyes.
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If hamas breaks the terms or stages provocations,
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There's less space for diplomatic fog.
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That constrains hamas
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And it also keeps pressure on israel
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To keep operations displaced and targeted.
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And yes, turkey and qatar
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Continue to push for a political laundromat -
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Take hamas, rebrand it,
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And slide it into civilian frameworks under reconstruction.
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That's the hezbollah model for lebanon.
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Survive as a militia, gain a suit, keep a gun.
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Israel's job now is to make sure
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That that is impossible,
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That they cannot rebuild their underground control
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And that there's no gun left to hide.
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From the idf's outposts inside shuja'iyya,
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You can see on one side hamas terrorists
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Attempting to test the readiness of our forces,
00:20:58.308 --> 00:21:02.045
Sending four year old children to be spies for this group,
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To tell the terrorists of hamas the readiness of the idf.
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They are sending terrorists to carry out attacks
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Through tunnels and through other means.
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And when you look towards the israeli side,
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You see farmers that are working hard
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To rebuild the land
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After two years
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Of fires, of rockets and missiles,
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Planning for the future.
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This is what i love about israel.
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It's so easy and clear to see
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Who are the good sides and who are the bad guys.
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We are thinking about the future.
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We are thinking about developing the land,
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Rebuilding it after destruction,
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Not creating more tunnels or suffering for our people.
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After the ceasefire took effect, hamas did one thing -
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It was to crack down against its own people,
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Against the palestinian people.
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After the ceasefire,
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The people of israel celebrated
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Together with the hostages that were returned.
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The farmers are rebuilding the lands.
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Investments are pouring back into the country,
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To the phase of beginning to rebuild the economy.
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This is what israel is doing
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Compared to what hamas is doing on the other side.
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There is clear borders between good and evil.
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So we need to remember that all of this matters to you.
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Because if israel allows a new hamas to rebrand and reinvent,
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We repeat what's happening in lebanon.
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If that happens,
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Then we are at a whole new, different world once more.
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And that's why quiet headlines are deceptive.
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The decisive war is happening now
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In places like shuja'iyya,
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And just across the yellow line that the idf is located in.
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So if you like what we're doing here
00:22:56.093 --> 00:22:58.562
And you want to support the truth
00:22:58.562 --> 00:23:00.263
Of what's happening on the ground,
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Make sure to like, share, subscribe.
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Never miss another episode
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Of boots on the ground.
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I want to hear what you want us to report on.
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Is there any questions that you need us to answer for you.
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But above all, this is a spiritual war
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And we need your help in praying.
00:23:17.514 --> 00:23:19.983
So let's pray for the idf soldiers that we met.
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I spoke to a few of them.
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One of them plays basketball and injured his leg just like i did.
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Others have families, wives, children that they miss,
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But they know the job is important,
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So they are here to defend the country of israel.
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So let's pray for them.
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These soldiers that are guarding inside gaza,
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Defending us and building a future
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For us and for the palestinian people.
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Let's pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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I hope you liked our report.
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And now we'll go out to a short commercial break,
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After which we will return and pray together
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For the people of israel.
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For the people of israel.
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Thank you so much for coming back to us.
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Now, let's unite in prayer together.
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Let's pray for wisdom to our leaders,
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To your leaders, for the idf soldiers,
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For god's will to be done here, in this land, in this region.
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Let's pray for all the children
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That are affected by these massive terrorist attacks
00:24:28.936 --> 00:24:32.673
For more than two years now.
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Our father in heaven,
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Thank you that you are with us.
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Thank you that you have a plan for this land.
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Thank you that you do not sleep,
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You are on guard 24/7.
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And thank you for being faithful
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To your promises to the people of israel
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For thousands and thousands of years.
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And thank you for being faithful to your promises
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To each and every one of us around the world
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With whatever it is that we are struggling with.
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We know that we can trust you always.
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We pray for wisdom to our leaders.
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We pray for wisdom to everybody involved
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In this very, very tough situation in the middle east.
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We pray for all the innocent lives.
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We pray for our enemies to start having a change of heart
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And loving on israel.
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You can make that happen.
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You are all possible god.
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We pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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We pray that god will bless you
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In the name of jesus the messiah.
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Amen. keep praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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December 11, 2025 | 31:30

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