Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a Mass Immunisation Programme is due to begin. Palestinian Health Workers carried out the vaccinations in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem heres our correspondent, jon donnison. The official Polio Vaccination Campaign doesnt start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the United Nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in Khan Younis in the south of gaza. What its going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, Area Specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are Area Specific, so were not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and months
Israeli vehicles moving into the city, with helicopters circling overhead. Israel has said it is targeting what it calls terrorists, and says it killed a hamas commander injenin. The un has called for israel to avoid spreading conflict in the middle east, and the uks Foreign Office has said it is deeply concerned about israels methods and reports of civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. Lucy williamson, reports from inside the west bank, and a warning that her report contains distressing images from the start. On a Road Outsidejenin this morning, israeli forces came Face To face with the man they believe led hamas here. Inside the white car, wissam khazem, shot dead by the army. And with him two other men, who tried to escape, killed in an Air Strike as they run. Israel says all were involved in Shooting And Bombing attacks. The eastern Areas Ofjenin and its Refugee Camp have both been sealed off for the past three days, and that are fresh reports of casua
There, thanks for joining me. Im Alex Marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. We are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medicaL Treatment u. S. Central command says that the operation was targeting i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the Groups Ability to plan for their attacks. Cnns chief international security correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh is joining me now. Live from london. So nick, what do we know about this operation . Yeah alex, quite extraordinary development here. Essentially, because of the number of u. S troops injured in this instance, seven 75 of whom apparently during the operation to it seems from a fall separately related to that one of whom requiring Followon Care outside of theatre. Now were getting a statement to Iraqi Military High Comma
Sometimes great challenge is right under your nose i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn you are in the cnn and newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York and we begin with breaking News From The Middle East where the Israeli Defense Forces say they have located, quote, a Number Of bodies during combat in the gaza strip, seen an international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson is joining us now, live from jerusalem with the latest on this, Nic Reminding everyone details now very scant. But what are you learning yeah, i have to say as well, this is unusual for the idf to put out this sort of statement to say that Theyve Located Bodies during a Combat Operation. They donT Normally sort of comment on things as actually happening and unfolding and thats what they so as precisely happening at the moment. Theyre saying that they are working to extract an identify the bodies in this ongoing operatiOn And that asking for people to refrain from speculation, which appears to perhaps indicates t
And charities are meeting with ministers to discuss the difficult winter ahead. Energy bills will rise again in october, when the Price Cap increases by 10 . Rachel reeves said she had to take difficult decisions in very challenging circumstances. The conservatives are calling for her to scrap the changes. Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports. Energy prices are increasing and so is the pressure on the government to help those who are struggling to pay their bills. We are bracing ourselves for a really difficult winter. We are already seeing Record Numbers of people coming to us with Energy Debt in the height of summer. That is only going to get worse when the energy Price Cap rises. From october, the Energy Regulator Ofgem is allowing prices to rise by 10 , and that represents bills of more than £1700 a year for a typical household. This morning, the government brought together big Energy Companies, the regulator, and Citizens Advice Bureau to discuss what more could be don