good afternoon. israel says its troops in gaza are engaged in face to face combat with fighters from hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. israel says its troops have now completely encircled gaza city, here in the north of the territory. meanwhile, 92 british nationals are on a list which means they could escape the fighting and leave gaza today through the rafah crossing into egypt. jon donnison reports from jerusalem. israel says it s at the height of its battle with hamas. its ground offensive in northern gaza is pushing forward, with the military claiming gaza city is now completely encircled. translation: we discovered encircled. translation: - discovered today a recording call with a health official in gaza who spoke with our forces and described how hamas controls fuel supplies and a hospital. while supplies are running out, they are stealing from sick patients for terror aims. we will continue to expose to the world the act of hamas and h
continue across eastern parts of scotland in the north east of england and those temperatures only around 10 13. sophie. thanks, darren. newsnightjust getting newsnight just getting under way newsnightjust getting under way but now it s time for the news where you are. good night. wars have laws. as a proscribed terror group, hamas isn t following them. is israel? after a second attack on the jabalia refugee camp, mark s here to look at whether israel s aerial bombardment could breach international humanitarian law. also tonight, medecins sans frontieres are here. they ve been working in gaza for around 15 years and have 300 workers on the ground. plus, uk academics demand more freedom to express their opinions on social media when it comes to events unfolding in the middle east. we ll discuss the row between the science secretary and uk research and innovation, the body responsible for funding scientific research. and this. classic music plays. the orchestra whose musicians
raised rishi sunak s absence from part of thursday s d day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us because he was representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour s angela rayner on tax. they are going to put up your taxes by £2000. that s a lie! by £2000 per working household. crosstalk. your government have raised taxes i to the record level in 17 years. i yeah, we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. angela rayner had earlier talked about labour s plan to boost the economy with green i