Starting with the big developments out of a hospital in gaza where thousands were seeking help and refuge. An explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital right in the heart of gaza city is said to have killed hundreds according to Health Officials there. People sheltering in the hospital had fled 10 days of bombing by israel. The World Health Organization has condemned the blast, and called for the immediate protection of civilians. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu denied israel was responsible, and blamed what he called barbaric terrorists. Israel says its bombing campaign, is targeting members of hamas, responsible for killing around Moo Israelis Last week, and a group designated as a Terror Organisation by the uk government and other countries. Hamas has in turn blamed israel for the blast, and called it a war crime. Heres our International Editor jeremy bowen with the latest. Loud blast the missile hit the hospital not long after dark. Man shouts you can hear the impact. The explo
Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, october 12, 2023. 1 00 in the afternoon in gaza and israel and we start with a fox news alert. Right now Israeli Forces carrying out relentless strikes in gaza at the idf ramps up counter attacks against hamas. This is day six of the war, more than 1200 israelis are dead, 22 americans have been murdered. The terrorists are holding at least 150 people hostage and idf says theyll not let up if Siege Of Gaza till all of them are freed. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is on the ground in israel. You see him there meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and set to speak in about 20 minutes and of course well bring you that live. Theyve set up the podiums and were ready for the shot. First were returning to trey yingst near the ground on the Israeli Gaza Boarder and who knows when the encouragement officially begins. Trey. Reporter hey, guys, good morning. Rocket fire from the gaza strip continues this morning. Overnight there was a lull in t
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chief of staff, an officer with the rank of colonel in reserve, and the brigade fire support commander with the rank of major have been dismissed from their positions. here s idf spokesperson daniel hagari. the findings of the investigation should show that there were in fact a number of armed gunmen who boarded and left some of the vehicles that were identified during the course of the event. after some of the vehicles split from the others the forces that were tracking the vehicles let self thinking that these were hamas vehicles. that hamas gunmen had entered. this operational misidentification and misclassification was the result of internal failures. america s top diplomat antony blinken reacted to the idf s findings earlier as he boarded a plane back to washington from brussels. it s very important that israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. it s also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. even more importa