Jonathan hunt is live watching this writing situation unfold. Jonathan, good evening. Jonathan good evening. There are stunning and devastating. Just emerging from the Island Of Maui tonight. With the popular tourist town appearing to have been largely destroyed. Take a look at these pictures. They are breathtaking. At least 66 people have died in the fires. Hundreds of homes and businesses have burned to the ground and it appears many as 10,000 or so yearround residents will now be homeless. As a result of what is certainly the worst Natural Disaster to hit the Hawaiian Islands in decades. Possibly the worst ever. The main focus right now is to stabilize and preserve lives. Are secondary, of course, is to try to save as much property as possible. Jonathan unlike the hurricanes that hawaii is what used to, this externally powerful fire fled up with most flared up little warning and it quickly burned through dry brush and trees and into the wooden homes and stores that make up a majorit
Contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, they had come thinking they would find aid to keep their families alive. Then shots ripped through the night. People start to move. Then ran to escape. In this section of the crowd, panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left from here under Israeli Tank Escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because theres no timestamp. At 4 16, the israelis say crowds began to surge around the trucks. In this sequence, bodies can be seen lying on the ground. Also others can be seen crawling away. Here someone looks as if they are dragging themselves using their upper body. What we do not see is exactly what caused these cas
In the city of rafah thats according to gazas Health Ministry. The bbc s Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams reports from jerusalem. How were so many people injured . Were they shot or crushed in a desperate stampede . At gazas shifa hospital, the un says theres evidence of both. This hospital is treating more than 200 people that were injured. We have seen people with gunshot wounds. We have seen amputees and we have seen children as young as 12. Jihad is haunted by what he saw when the convoy arrived on thursday morning. Were the soldiers firing deliberately . Hes asked. Yes with tanks, soldiers, aircraft. Why the shooting started is still not clear. Israel says troops felt threatened. How these pictures do not show. Tanks were present. Theres no evidence of aircraft being involved. The un finally reached gaza city yesterday, taking badly needed fuel and medicine to shifa hospital, demanding israel do more to open up the north. Today, the first air drops by american planes, 35,000 me