substantial slowdown in activity. on the other hand, we saw things like car building, engineering, putting on activity, so that helped balance things out. we on activity, so that helped balance thins out. ~ . , on activity, so that helped balance thins out. ~ ., , u, things out. we have been covering this a lot. are things expected to pick up? that is a really important question. it is important because the more active the economy is, the more wealth people are able to make by working harder and so forth. mast working harder and so forth. most forecasters working harder and so forth. most forecasters think working harder and so forth. most forecasters think we working harder and so forth. i’l if?3ii forecasters think we will not see any growth in the next few months or so. the bank of england recently said that there will be no growth until 2025, so, quite a long time before we see any growth in the economy, according to most commentators but, importantly, the bank of
cross border fire into in the west bank yesterday, cross borderfire into lebanon in the past few days and growing fears that yemen could be being pulled into this conflict as our international editorjeremy bowen reports. more palestinians left their homes moving along salah al din street, the road to southern gaza, after israel said they would not be attacked if they left the battle zone to the north. pauses in israeli combat operations were welcomed by the americans. all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, who s 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of the occupied territories, more palestinians
wheelchair. a second hostage is a teenage boy. both hostages sharply criticise israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu but it s not clear if they are reading from a script. the israeli army because the video psychological terrorism. at this point, what more do we know about the video and the hostages that were featured in this video? this video? this is a video released this video? this is a video released not this video? this is a video released not by this video? this is a video released not by hamas i this video? this is a video | released not by hamas but this video? this is a video - released not by hamas but by one of the other palestinian factions in gaza, palestinian islamichhad, a smaller group, thought to be holding a number of hostages itself. there were two in the video. a woman in her 70s who was abducted from a kibbutz near 0z on october the 7th, and a 13 year old boy. in the video, so to speak and both issue quite harsh criticism of benjamin netanyahu
and over again. so a cease fire is not the position of the united states. it s not something we support. and we want to continue to offer israel the support that it needs, to ensure that it destroys hamas, because hamas ultimately, again, is putting palestinian civilians in the crossfire. so hamas bears the ultimate responsibility for sparking this conflict in the first place. but is the us support for israel unconditional? because this is a really big question just now. the un chief has said the death toll in gaza demonstrates that something is clearly wrong with israel s military operation. and if the americans are saying the death toll could be more than 10,000, then perhaps there is something wrong with israel s military operation. look, we have been clear from the outset that it is incumbent upon israel, as a democracy, as a country that abides by the rule of law, to, of course, carry out this campaign in accordance with international humanitarian law. and have they? wel
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