The military is ready to begin at any moment a Ground Offensive aimed at crushing hamas. Thousands of people in the gaza strip are continuing to flee south after an order by israel for more than a Million People to evacuate. These are the latest developments in the israel gaza war. 00v israeli these are the latest developments in the israel gaza war. Israeli troops continue to mass near gaza ahead of an expected Ground Offensive but it has given no indication of when it might mount an attack. These pictures show tanks arriving today. The israeli airstrikes on Gaza Continue it says it is targeting hamas positions. Hamas is designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments including the uk. Gazan Health Officials say the number of palestinians killed has risen to 2,670 with 9,600 others wounded. The israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has held the first meeting of his emergency cabinet. He described those who killed more than Fourteen Hundred israelis as monsters. Mr
Despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. It has been a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion into rafah, a densley populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our state Department Correspondent tom bateman has this report. This report has been three months in the making. It was ordered by the white house back in february with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from part of his democratic base, over the way that american weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. And what we have so far are the key findings that the state department here have released, and there is a key line in this report and it
Cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. The report culminates a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion in to rafah a densley populated area where one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our correspondent tom bateman has been at the Us State Department and hejoined me earlier with more. What do you take away from this report . Trying to come down on two sides of the same issue, it is a very interesting report and i think the fact that this criticism of the Israeli Government is very significant in its own right but that is in couched in a whole series of caviar to put the key line is she read out is this that the report finds that it is reasonable to assess the weapons and supplied by T
According to israels public broadcaster. Three Israeli Soldiers have been moderately wounded thats accordind to the broadcaster on x. They added attackers had been killed. With all of this in mind, talking this evening, i just want to begin by getting your reaction to what weve been seeing. Gosh, well, i mean the hostages massively complicate situation there because obviously in the israeli psyche, hostages are extremely important, every israeli life is really important, and they have been known in the past to, you know, in releasing israeli hostages to give up a lot in return. A few years ago when an israeli called gilad shalit was released by hamas, that was in return for 1000 Palestinian Prisoners. So, the fact that there are so many other hostages who are still being used as Human Shields essentially by hamas in gaza since they have taken them back there, that massively complicates the situation for israel as it looks to deliver a response a proportionate response or a disproportio