from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late also at the end of monday. e end of monday. if you are someone who is concerned about donald trump becoming the president united states, as a lot of people are, then this week has been a real rollercoaster. just go back to the beginning of the week, with polling from the new york times showing donald trump leading joe biden in five out of six cuban ground states. that sent a lot of people into a panic. but the democratic presidents chances. but by tuesday, things have changed. voters in ohio, kentucky, and virginia went out to the polls, and they delivered a resounding defeat to the republican party on many issues. those results prove that access to abortion is still a key issue for voters. more than a year after the supreme courts dobbs decision, which was, of course, bad news for donald trump, the man who is singularly responsible for overturning roe v. wade, so much so that he regularly
killed since october seven, in which 1,400 people were killed and 200 taken hostage. israel has been in the jabalia final camp for days prompting outcries. 0ur international editor has the latest. tonight, israel says it has surrounded gaza city. an army statement said that soldiers were attacking hamas positions. places where it launches rockets and killing terrorists. israel has increased the tempo of the ground war. the army said that they needed to be resilient in they needed to be resilient in the coming weeks and a ceasefire was not on the table. the troops have been visited by israel s prime minister binyamin netanyahu. translation: we call on the uninvolved get out, get out. move south. because we will not stop our effort to eliminate the terrorists. we will advance. we will advance and win. . . , advance. we will advance and win. . ., ., advance. we will advance and win. . , advance. we will advance and win. . win. hamas has released its own video. it said win. ham
strikingly densely populated refugee camp for days prompting international outcry. jeremy bowen has the latest. tank rumbles. tonight, israel says it has surrounded gaza city. an army statement said that soldiers were attacking hamas positions. explosion. gunfire. ..places where it launches rockets, and killing terrorists. israel has increased the tempo of its ground war in gaza. the army said its soldiers needed to be resilient is the coming weeks, and a ceasefire was not on the table. the troops have been visited by israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu. translation: icall- on the uninvolved, get out - get out, move south because we will not quit our efforts to eliminate the hamas terrorists. we will advance, we will advance and win. hamas has released its own video, it said, of an attack against an israeli tank in the zeitoun area east of gaza city. hamas said it would make gaza a cursed place for israel and send more of its troops home in body bags. israel hit bure
accusations of war crimes have been made against both sides. so what laws do apply here? our analysis editor ros atkins explains. it s clearly a humanitarian catastrophe and obviously, there can be. the parties must always not deliberately attacked civilians. they must ensure that civilian casualties are not excessive. you can t launch indiscriminate attacks which while targeting a military objective might be equally liable because of the nature of the weapon you use. also, killing civilians in the is a treaty under national law. which means when launching a military attack on a military objective, an attacking force must not launch an attack because this would cause excessive civilian casualties. what that basically means is that you have to weigh up the military importance of the target against how many civilians you think might be likely to be injured or killed and if that strike were to go ahead you then need to make a decision whether there is justification for the strik
it comes as seven un mandated human rights experts have said that they believe that the palestinians in gaza are at grave risk of genocide, and that time is running out to prevent this. the special rapporteurs alleged that israel was planning to decimate the gaza strip. joe inwood reports. israel says it has gaza city surrounded. its ground forces, supported by heavy armour, are pushing into the crowded, urban centre of the strip. but no one thinks this will be quick or easy. they are on hamas s territory. the group put out their own footage, showing an attack on an israeli tank. they said they would make gaza a curse of the place for israel. cursed place of israel. caught in the middle are ordinary palestinians. the un human office has said so many civilians have been killed and wounded in israeli air strikes, it has serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could be war crimes. israel blames hamas. designated terrorists by many governments, includin