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so while this might be a political setback for vladimir putin, and we often hear the word game changer thrown around a lot in this war, i think it s far too early to say what long term impact this aid will have, other than on paper, it gives ukraine the means to continue fighting this war. whether it s enough to fully liberate its territory, i think that s an enormous if at this moment in time, but we shouldn t underplay the diplomatic breakthrough this has been for kyiv. that was james waterhouse in kyiv. the us house of representatives also overwhelmingly approved a military assistance package for israel. that s amidst the country s military offensive in gaza military offensive in gaza. gaza s health ministry says more than 3a,000 palestinians have been killed inside gaza so far, most of them women and children. overnight israel carried out more airstrikes in rafah, in the south of the territory. this is the aftermath.
diplomatically, the core support of the united states, namely, military kit, continues to grow. to that point, james, we did talk about that warning from the us israeli allies about this offensive, potential full out offensive in rafah. so there coming through. but what is the state of relationships between the white house and benjamin netanyahu in particular? well, i think they are pretty difficult at times. there has been some moments where i thinkjoe biden, the us president has expressed his frustration pretty clearly at some of the decision making that is going on here. and the americans, the secretary of state antony blinken and others have been an incredibly explicit about saying to the israelis, do not carry out this offensive in rafah. you simply cannot do it. when there are so many civilians
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so there is a huge amount of concern in diplomatic circles about how hard and when israel decides to operate in rafah. and that was our diplomatic correspondent james landale, in jerusalem. the red crescent society says one of its volunteer paramedics has been killed from settlers violence in the occupied west bank. the aid organisation said mohammed awad allan was providing medical assistance to those wounded by settlers gunfire in nablus. he served as a volunteer as part of an initiative to offer ambulance services to the area s residents. and don t forget you can get much more analysis from the middle east on the bbc news website. it includes today bbc verify analysing satellite images that appear to show that an iranian air defence site was damaged in friday s air attack by israel. you can read that online or on the bbc news app. here, the policing minister has said