Speaker 3
Basically, we're looking at a couple of things here. On the southern front of Israel, which is in the Gaza vicinity, until this morning, at least, there were still infiltrations of Hamas militant attackers who managed to come through the fence. This was on a much lower scale than it obviously was on Saturday when they came by. As it turns out, by the hundreds, by the way, the idea is talking about 1,000 Hamas attackers who came to broke the fence and just went into Israel on Saturday morning. What I started saying is that until this morning, we were still seeing infiltrations on a much smaller scale. There were still combat arenas in the south of Israel with defense forces trying to get hold of Israeli communities and settlements in the south of Israel and trying to clean them of potential attackers there. At the same time trying to evacuate, not a lot of actually most of the Israeli settlements in communities were just by the Gaza fence. There are about 24 of them, I think, and I think that so far, 15 have been evacuated and they're still working on the rest. That is what is going on on the south of Israel. What we're on today, and that is basically under control at this time. In the north of Israel, it has been relatively quiet until this afternoon. It is still not a very bad situation there, but we have seen a bit of mortar fire fired from Lebanon. There was also a very minor infiltration. The idea, I'm just looking at my phone to be exact and what they said, they did put out a message about a couple of hours ago that they had killed a number of armed suspects that infiltrated into Israel from Lebanese territory. Hezbollah has denied connection with this, which is important because everyone is also now looking at Hezbollah to see if they will join the attacks on Israel to form a sort of multi-front marina.
Speaker 1
Can I ask a little Matt Miller here in New York and really appreciate you joining us, and I understand how difficult it must be to report on this right now. What do we know about Israel's plans to go into Gaza and how are civilians in Gaza going to get out? Because of course, they've got borders on all sides and the
Speaker 1
So it seems like they're stuck. How can they get out if Israel is going to sweep in militarily?
Speaker 3
Yeah, so this is a very good question because, you know, Matt, we've been hearing idea officials who have been briefing journalists about twice or more than that every day. And just this morning, one of the ideas spoke some people told us, some journalists, that they will be evacuating Gaza when asked if Israel will actually be evacuating Gaza because Israel does not control Gaza at this time. So he said, no, but we will recommend they evacuate on their own. And this is a very good question that has not been answered yet. And this is definitely something to keep pushing the IDF to give answers on because the answer to that is not clear, although the IDF is saying we will want people to evacuate. We do not know how. We do know that at this time, the Gaza Strip has been cut off from electricity, water supply, fuel supply, and other supplies as well because all passages have been shut down. One of the main passages, by the way, the arrest passage was one of the breach points through which the attackers came through on Saturday and IDF officials have been telling us on record, we're not in a hurry to rebuild this passage because this is what it was used for. Right.