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
Their kingpin and leader, who is a dead man walking. We will get to them, every single one of them. This is the scene live in gaza city israel contines to urge anyone still there to leave as soon as possible. Hello, welcome to bbc news. The bbc has confirmed that Young Children were among those killed in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving Northern Gaza on friday, along a route designated by israel. Our team at bbc verify analysed two videos of the strike on the vehicles heading towards southern gaza. Both videos have been verified, these first images show a Lorry Carrying at least 30 civilians on the move, moments before it was hit. And these are still images taken from a subsequent video from the aftermath of the strike, too graphic to show in detail. The video shows men running to the lorry, trying to help those whove been hit. There are at least 12 visible dead bodies in the video. In the past hour, israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, has visit
Israel says it is monitoring the flight of Palestinian Asi as i was reading the headlines, another blast and a plume of smoke on the skyline. We have seen significant strikes overnight from the Israeli Military and that news they killed a senior hamas commander that they say orchestrated last saturdays attacks. That Significant Development coming from the Israeli Military. They continue to launch attacks may say are targeted on israeli militants. Amongst all of that we have been charting the death toll, the casualties, the scenes on the ground for those palestinians. The israeli order staying in place full 1. 1 Million People to leave both gaza city and other areas to the north and said that the south. Just another camera angle showing the skyline in gaza. Lets just recap on where we are. Israel says it is monitoring the flight of Palestinian People from Northern Gaza. The Un Relief Agency, unrwa, says Hundreds Of Thousands of people have been displaced in the past 12 hours alone, and
Hello, im ben thompson. Israels military says its forces are deployed across the country and are ready for the next stage of the war, which is expected to have significant ground operations. A spokesman said the coming phase could include, what he called, combined and co ordinated strikes from the air, sea and land. The goal, he said, was to completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas. Its a week since hamas, classed as a Terrorist Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, killed more than 1,300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. Israel has warned the 1. 1 million civilians in gazas north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. The Military Spokesperson said they should not return until israel said they could do so. The authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. On saturday, israels Prime Minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for the next stage. 0ur C
Hello there, and welcome along to the programme. And we start at the Rugby World Cup, where wales have been knocked out by argentina, in the first of the quarter finals. It all started so brightly for Warren Gatlands side in marseilles, but the pumas had the edge In A Stunning Second Half comeback. Lets get the latest now with our correspondent andy swiss whos there for us now. Andy so close for wales, but the game just swung away from them after half time. Thats right you may be able to hear the argentinian fans still celebrating inside the stadium. You expect the celebrations here are onlyjust beginning for them. But for though welsh fans what crushing disappointment as you say they began the matches so well and lead 10 0 at one point thanks to an early try from dan baker of argentina then came back for penalties and led after half time 12 10 but wales came back and retook the lead. A try from Tomos Williams as he raced through to score. I gave wales the lead with about 25 minutes to