the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 15,500 people have now been killed there since the start of the conflict between israel and hamas, which is considered a terrorist organsation by the uk government. this is the scene live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis an area that has been under frequent assault. the scenes both inside and ouside the hospital are traumatic. these pictures were shot today. children are among those being driven to the hospital carried inside by family and friends. for many, the journey to hospital was too late. unicef s spokespersonjames elder is inside khan younis he described the scense to us. a senior adviser to the israeli prime mininister has insisted israel is doing all it can to minimise the deaths of civilians in gaza, after the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said israel had a moral responsiblity to minimise casualties not linked to hamas. our middle east correspondent paul adams has this report, and a warning it co
the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 15 and a half thousand people have now been killed there since the start of the conflict between israel and hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the uk government. this is the scene live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis. an area that has been under frequent assault. the scenes both inside and ouside the hospital are traumatic. these pictures were shot today. children are among those being driven to the hospital. carried inside by family and friends. for many, the journey to hospital was too late. a senior adviser to the israeli prime minister has insisted israel is doing all it can to minimise the number of civilian deaths in gaza after the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said israel had a moral responsiblity to minimise casualties not linked to hamas. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams has this report and a warning it contains images some viewers may find distressing in gaza s overcr
israel has intensified its military operations in the south of the gaza strip. the idf says it s hit more than 400 targets since a week long truce between israel and hamas collapsed on friday. this is live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis. a place that many people in the north have lied to. fled to. palestinian health officials say at least 200 and a0 people have been killed since the end of the truce. at least seven palestinians were killed in an israeli attack in the early hours of sunday near rafah. we re also keeping an eye on what s happening further north. this is the view from southern israel, looking at the gaza skyline. all this as israel has come under renewed pressure from top figures in the biden administration. the defence secretary, lloyd austin has said israel driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy and that would be a strategic defeat. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega has the latest. khan younis in southern gaza. p
we begin with breaking news and in the past half hour or so we received a statement from mossad, which is israel s intelligence body. it says there has been an impasse in negotiations for a further temporary ceasefire. we have heard some conflicting suggestions in the last 2a hours about what happens when that ceasefire came to an end at seven o clock yesterday morning and we were told i had been intensive talks up were told i had been intensive talks up until the last minutes but in the last hour or so the reuters news agency have reported a team from the israeli mossad in doha negotiating for a resumption of the ceasefire deal. negotiating to try to release some of the female hostages and perhaps a hostages as well but very shortly after that there was so statement from the israeli prime ministers office who said the situation was quite different and that there was in fact an impasse in negotiations and benjamin netanyahu had urged his team to leave doha and qatar and come
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