Most women and children. They were victims of israeli air strikes, according to Hospital Officials and gazas civil defence. There were about 35 people in the house, says farouk abu ansa. Most were children. There were no fighters. The house collapsed on them, three or four storeys. Imad cannot reach his son. He is still under there, he says. And My Brother In Law was killed, with his two children, born after years of nf. And after five months of israeli bombardment, this is the new landscape of gaza. In israel, it has been five months of anguish for families of the hostages. They need to be released now. This weekend, they have been pleading again with their government to do a deal and get their loved ones home. Ofer is a very warm person. You can see, his smile, he is a family person. He has four children, lovely children. How hard is this time for the family . This wait must seem endless. It is like hell, you know. We are in some kind of loop since the 7th of october. We are living t
Meanwhile, the us carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid for gaza on saturday with more than 30 thousand meals parachuted by three military planes. Here s our correspondent wyre davies who is Injerusalem 7 with the latest on the chances of a ceasefire. There are increasingly positive signs around the hope for a cessation in hostilities, a temporary ceasefire, that could last perhaps as long as six weeks over the muslim holy month of ramadan. But i think it s really important not to get ahead of ourselves here because there are still key differences between israeli demands and the demands of hamas. It s understood the negotiators have arrived in cairo today. It s not clear if there is an israeli delegation but hamas officials are said to have arrived. The israelis will probably want to know how many of the hostages being held by hamas are still alive and which ones would be released by hamas under the terms of this deal. It s not clear, equally, how many palestinian prisoners
There may be an imminent agreement for a ceasefire however temporary between how hamas and is real. They expressed hope that a deal could be reached and optimism grew but there were significant obstacles and anybody covering the story of the past few months knew that hopes of a ceasefire are dashed by realities on the ground and one of visual s obstacles and demands was that hamas should give a detailed list of hostages who would be released under the terms of any future agreement. Of course, in exchange for palestinian prisoners in israeli jails. That list has not been provided by hamas. There are thought to be about 134 hostages held by hamas and other groups in gaza. About 30 of those may actually be there. If you wanted to know who was still alive, there. If you wanted to know who was stillalive, he there. If you wanted to know who was still alive, he was going to be released. That has not been forthcoming so we understand it is not official, but we understand from several well pla
pro iranian militias. the strikes were in response to a drone attack on a us military base, killing three american soldiers. a third successive week of protests against the far right in germany. more than 100,000 people demonstrate in berlin. now on bbc news newscast. so earlier this week we were chatting slogans with our fellow newscasters after an email that we received. and the question was, if we were a political party, what would our slogan be? that is fantastic, because in this year of one heck of a lot of slogans, we ve got to up our game, haven t we? we ve got to think of them. and we ve had some suggestions. we have, we ve had john on email who says our slogan would be oozing truth and stamina. and js on discord says, make britain ooze again, which i do like, apart from it s not farfrom make britain snooze again, is it? which is a perennial concern. well, we re going to start this episode of newscast now, and you can decide which is the more apt! hello. it s ja
from iowa. nikki haley and ron desantis head to head. this is the final push before the first votes which are in iowa. jake tapper and dana bash moderate tonight at 9:00. and i ll be back with anderson for a special hour of ac 360 starting now. we are now just about an hour away from the final republican primary debate before the iowa caucuses next monday. if you re just joining us, i m coming to you along with erin burnett from new york from the campus of drake university in des moines. ron desantis and nikki haley squaring off tonight. cnn s dana bash and jake tapper are moderating. adding to the interest, the unexpected, right, and raising the stakes, the former governor and now former candidate who did not qualify but is so crucial in this race as it moves forward, chris christie. that s right. governor christie stepping out of the race just a short time ago. we re starlgt off this hour with that headline that he made late today, suspending his campaign. here is s