The body of the hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Is reported to have been recovered from the sIte of frIdays IsraelI aIrstrIke IN BeIrut. AccordIng to Israel, more than 20 members of the IranIaN Backed group were kIlled alongsIde hIm. And hezbollah has also confIrmed that two other senIorfIgures have been kIlled In aIrstrIkes. Israels Defence MInIster praIsed the IsraelI attacks on houthI targets In yemen. TranslatIon we see | the Attack Today 2,000 kIlometres away In hodeIdah and Its surroundIngs, and the achIevements as they are reflected are very ImpressIve, and the meanIng Is very clear those who try to attack us or harm the cItIzens of Israel wIll pay a very heavy prIce. Our SecurIty Correspondent frank GardnerjoIns Me now. Just talk us through what we know about these attacks agaIn. So, the houthIs are a rebel group, backed by Iran. They took over most of the populated parts of yemeN Back In 2014 15 and InherIted an arsenal of long range mIssIles, and wIth IranIan help, they h
After they were urged to do so by israel, ahead of its Ground Offensive in retaliation for last weeks cross border attacks by hamas. Earlier the un warned that it was impossible to move more than a Million People across a densely populated warzone with no food, water, oraccommodation. The Israeli Army Says its already launched raids inside gaza. Israeli media say the troops have recovered the bodies of some of the hostages seized by Hamas In Israel a week ago. Health officials in gaza say the number of palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes has risen to more than 1900. This is the scene live in gaza where it hasjust gone midday, and as we said, an israeli deadline for palestinians to leave the northern half of gaza ahead of an expected Ground Offensive has passed. And we can show you these live pictures of Israeli Military forces near the gaza border as you see, there are several tanks in the area. The Palestinian Authoritys representative at the un compared the Current Situation to
said that it was expanding its ground operations there. a spokesman for the israeli government refused to confirm that this heralded the start of a much anticipated ground offensive against hamas. the armed wing of hamas has said it is involved in violent confrontations with israeli forces in northern and central gaza. there has also been rocket fire from the territory into southern israel. aid agencies say they ve lost contact with their workers after all phone and internet services were cut. meanwhile, the un chief has again called for a ceasefire, warning that history would judge us all . this is the scene live in gaza. announcing the expansion of operations, the israeli army spokesman repeated a call for residents of gaza city to move south. translation: over the last few hours, we have translation: over the last few hours, we have intensified - translation: over the last few hours, we have intensified our. hours, we have intensified our airstrikes in gaza. the iaf has
said that it was expanding its ground operations there. 0ur middle east correpondent tom bateman, who is in jerusalem, has more. well, there has been intensive aerial bombardment by the israelis over a prolonged period of time, the heaviest that we ve seen at night time during the course of this conflict. and we heard from daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, in a live televised address to israelis, that he said that they were widening their ground operations. he talked about this being what he called a very significant attack against underground networks of hamas, he said, and also terrorist infrastructure, as he described it. now, one of the first signs that something significant was taking place here was that all communications for ordinary palestinians in gaza went dark. there was a complete blackout. and remember, this is on top of more than two weeks of a complete cut of the electricity grid in gaza. now, i mean, i had tried for hours to reach people in gaza.