Hostages are released. Israeli forces went into rafah on monday night in defiance of international pressure, seizing the Border Crossing with egypt. The un secretary general, antonio guterres, has warned that a full scale assault on rafah would cause a humanitarian nightmare. Qatar has called for International Intervention to prevent the city from being invaded. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. We know that for weeks now the us has been warning israel against a full scale offensive of rafah. This really because of the high numbers of displaced people who are living in that city, crammed up next to the border with egypt. And the us had been talking to israel about more limited options for going in there to tackle the hamas presence. Now, this does look to be a really significant development, the idea that a us shipment has been halted to israel. Its the first time weve heard of such a thing in seven months of war. And it really does reflect, i think, the lev