Hello. Israel says it is monitoring the flight of Palestinian People from Northern Gaza. The flight of Palestinian People the Un Relief Agency, unrwa, says hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in the past 12 hours alone. And nearly a million, thats almost half the territorys population, in the past week. Israel says those still in the north should leave as soon as possible, and its specified two roads it says are safe for people heading south. People were told on friday to relocate before an expected ground offensive. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has said his countrys bombardment of gaza is just the beginning. More rockets have been fired into israel, and israeli airstrikes are continuing across gaza. Military sources in israel say a senior hamas commander you is among those killed. Israeli forces are continuing their build up near the boundary with gaza. In the north, israeli troops killed several people they identified as terrorists, who were trying to c
Assessing the first week of the israel gaza conflict. Hello. Imjackie leonard, the host of the Global News Podcast. Today, weve teamed up with a new bbc podcast, the conflict, for a special programme, answering your questions about whats going on in israel and gaza. Werejoined by the host of the conflict, the bbc s chief International Correspondent lyse doucet, who is in ashdod in israel, north of gaza, and also by our International Editor jeremy bowen, whos injerusalem. So welcome, lyse. A relatively easy question to kick off with. Can you give us a sense of the size and location of gaza in relation to israel . Who lives there . Whos in charge . And who are its neighbours . Well, thats a sort of a wikipedia of the gaza strip. The gaza strip is a coastal strip of land on the mediterranean. Once on one side, its on the mediterranean. The other side, the southern side, its connecting to egypt. And then its other neighbour is israel. It is described as one of the most densely populated pl
Captives taking in saturdays attack. Plus, there is no excuse. There is no justification for these of trust. I show of support for israel, the us secretary of states house Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington has his countries by the to look into the program. There is no safe place in guys, and this hour is rouse. Bombardment has been constant and unsparing this day. More than 150 palestinians were killed by his am. Is riley as strikes in total more than 1500. 00 palestinians had been killed since saturday, including 1st responders and journalist. And that number is rising. In time neighborhoods have been destroyed at least 338000 palestinians of flipped their homes and had been forced to take shelter elsewhere. And at least 1300 is rileys, have been killed since a mass launched it surprise military offensive on southern israel on saturday. Among the dead of 245. 00 is riley soldiers and 47. 00 Police Offices and hundreds of civilians. These are the areas that have come under
No supplies are allowed in un reiterates coals for humanitarian corey to our Emergency Response plans kind of for a 150000. Clearly like after 2 days and were now in todays 6, weve almost exhausted all last supplies. Its extremely, extremely difficult on us secretary of state and to me, banks in a rise to talk soon. Joining Us Diplomatic efforts intensified to prevent the findings from escalate the is this going to am in gaza with the u. N. Is warning of a growing humanitarian disaster essential supplies of food, fuel and medicine, having cuts. The 3rd treat isnt doubtless, as israel from bob and continues into the night or in total of more than 1600. 00 palestinians have been killed since saturday. That includes 45 people who are killed on thursday when it strikes you to a residential building in the top of the refugee camp. In northern goza. In time neighborhoods have been destroyed, at least 338000 palestinians have fled the homes and have been forced to take shelter elsewhere. At l
Or im going to be a liar corruptly. That are families that are so and so forth. But here we are at this junction and as a sort of masses hungry 1000 soldiers on the southern border does a as a re page for the 150000 military reserves. This company is at the bank of war. Its defense minister has already pulled 400 vision after the persistent, indiscriminate bombing of guys a war crime as well. And hence, now we are just basically going to be an account down motion towards the war, which frankly tom, i dont think anyone knows what is the end game part of this. So they say that this to this month and how much. And they could probably not possible that they wouldnt be able to dismantle the mandatory and the but it took a, the restrictive structure of how much it goes up. But this stuff is not going to be able to crush the idea of how much as a resistance move once it gets occupation. Occupation will still be there. Oh, i see. Okay. The set of todays, the senior refugees and the millions wo