And governmental capabilities and do Everything Possible to bring our hostages home. Meanwhile, the us president says israel has a right to defend itself against terrorists, but must protect innocent civilians. Speaking at a joint Press Conference with australian Prime Minister anthony albanese, joe biden said theres no going back to the status quo the israelis and palestinians had before the hamas attack. The president also cast doubt on some of hamas s claims. What they say to me as they have no notion that the palestinians are telling the truth about how many people were killed. Im sure innocents have been killed, and its the price of waging a war. I think we should be incredibly careful. I think now israel should be incredibly careful to be sure that theyre focusing on going after the focus that are propagating this war against israel, and its against their interest when that doesnt happen. But i have no confidence in the number that the palestinians are using. The comments by the
This is bbc news. The headlines the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gives a statement saying the country is preparing for a Ground Invasion, but doing Everything Possible to bring hostages home. He encourages Israeli Citizens to carry weapons. Some aid gets into gaza, but the un warns it will have to stop its operations in gaza tonight if it runs out of fuel. The us House Of Representatives elects little known republican mikejohnson as its next speaker, breaking the three week deadlock in the chamber. And in westminster, mps vote to suspend former conservative minister peter bone after investigation found hed bullied a staff member. Hurricane otis hits southern mexico, Slamming Ashore near acapulco as a category five storm before weakening. Welcome back. More now on our main story. Next more on the war between israel and hamas and the bombardment of gaza from israel. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza says more than 6,500 people have been killed since the start of the co