waits in a&e here have been as long as 30 hours. the hospital trust reporting a near 70% increase in patients coming in. in the foothills of the lake district, cumberland infirmary is the largest accident and emergency hospital in cumbria but it s not big enough. it s already at capacity. there are no more beds. health bosses are working day and night to try and discharge patients. currently i don t have beds free in hospital and we have patients waiting and that is a concern for us and for patients. we have ambulance weights and so we are doing work to look at how we can maximise the space. how s it going today? it s busy. no beds and not enough doctors, with the hospital increasingly reliant on locums, and operation already been postponed. 19 in the last week. plan come from a few miles away, a team working on a solution. they are working round the clock to try and stop patients going into hospital in the first place and they are trying to get them out. we try and refer any
operation against hamas in gaza s biggest hospital al shifa in gaza city where thousands of civilians are believed to be sheltering. in a statement the idf says is conducting a ground operation in gaza to defeat hamas and rescue hostages. israel is at war with hamas, not the civilians in gaza, it says. we re just getting details mark correspondence in gaza who was hearing that israeli soldiers are now inside shifa hospital and eyewitness told us reporter rushdi abualouf saying that is really fight a smoke from that caused people to suffocate. he said soldiers vandalised the specialised surgical department and contact with him was cut off. it comes after the white house and pentagon confirmed there is an intelligent supporting israel s claim that hamas and the palestinian islamichhad are operating from tunnels under hospitals including al shifa. they say they are storing weapons there. hamas denies the claims and his court for an international committee to come in and inspect
in new york confirmed the raid saying the israeli military was doing everything possible to prevent civilians at the hospital getting caught up in the operation. and eyewitnesses told the bbc he has tanks inside the hospital grounds and more than 100 soldiers entering the main emergency department. in a statement, the idf says it is conducting a ground operation in gaza to defeat hamas and rescue hostages. it said israel is at war with hamas not with the civilians in gaza. this is the first time the military is directly entering al shifa hospital after days of strikes and heavy fighting around the grounds in gaza city. the white house has reiterated its earlier position that it does not want to see any targeting of hospitals. the raid comes after the us confirmed it has intelligent supporting israel s claim that hamas in the palestinian islamicjihad are operating from tunnels below hospitals, including al shifa. they say they are also storing weapons there. thomas denies the
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