hello. welcome to bbc news now 3 hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says there were strong indications that hamas were holding hostages at the largest hospital in gaza, but they had been removed when his troops raide al shifa this week. speaking to cbs news, mr netanyahu said there was no gunfight at al shifa because hamas had already fled. israel insists there was a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. the israeli army says it s found the body of a second woman who was held hostage by hamas, as troops continue to search in and around gaza s biggest hospital. so let s get the very latest from my colleague mark lowen, who is in southern israel. hello, thanks very much indeed. we are a couple of kilometres away from gaza, where israeli troops are continuing their operation inside al shifa hospital, gaza s largest. they are going building to building, combing the site to t
resumption of the telecommunications network. unrwa. also in gaza, the israeli military raided the strip s largest hospital, al shifa, this week. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu told cbs news that there was no gunfight at the hospital because hamas leaders had, in his words, left shortly before the army arrived. israel says there s a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu also said that hostages could have been moved from the hospital. there s been violence too in the occupied west bank. the other part of the palestinian territories. the israeli army says its troops killed five gunmen during a raid in the city ofjenin. several palestinian news sources also say israeli soldiers entered the city s ibn sina hospital. and the israeli army says it s recovered the remains of a soldier held hostage by hamas, whose death the military had announced earlier in the week. the idf says noa marciano s body was recovered from a
although he disagreed with some of mr sunak s decisions, he believed he was a strong and capable leader. the move comes on the same day suella braverman was sacked as home secretary, following days of speculation about her future. mrs braverman had angered many in government after writing a newspaper article criticising the policing of pro palestinian marches in london. so what s behind the move to bring david cameron back into government? is it a good move for the conservative party or is it, as labour claims, a sign of desperation? here s our deputy political editor vicki young. thank you very much. thought you d seen the back of david cameron? this was him walking away after he lost the brexit referendum in 2016. he hums. right! since then, he has occasionally criticised his successors over cuts to foreign aid and the scrapping of parts of h52. of course, i have disagreed with some individual decisions, but politics is a team enterprise. i have decided to join this team
middle class suburb. minutes after a shoot out, a show of force by the police. but usually it s the gangs who call the shots. there are over 100 armed groups in the city instilling fear and silence. police are still searching the scene here. there s an ak lfl on the ground and some ammunition. there are also drops of blood. now, this is an armoured car. police say they were tracking it for about two weeks. they say it was being used by a kidnap gang. it s about eight in the morning here and morning and evening rush hours are peak time for the kidnappers. there was a battle with police officers and the bad guys. one of them died. and we got the vehicle and this is one of the weapons the bad guys had in their hands. do they have many armoured vehicles, the kidnappers? i don t know, there are plenty. i m sure there are plenty.