# stop right now, thank you very much...# and friendship never ends — the spice girls get back together to celebrate victoria beckham's 50th birthday. hello, welcome to bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. we start in the middle east, where 15 children are among the dead, after an israeli air strike on the city of rafah in southern gaza. israel has been carrying out almost daily air raids on the city, where more than a million displaced palestinians are sheltering. prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says he wants to increase the pressure on hamas with a ground offensive into rafah, while the health ministry in gaza, which is run by hamas, says more than 30,000 people have died since the start of the war, back in october. as fergal keane now reports, while the world worried