during the pandemic. i wasn t trying to pull the wool over anyone s eyes, and i regret, and i am sorry, for not saying straight out, yes i am involved. i will be representing the uk at the eurovision song contest! pop star and actor olly alexander is announced as the united kingdom s entry for next year s eurovision song contest. hello. we begin in gaza, where in a sign of the growing hunger and desperation there, aid trucks entering the strip have been mobbed and looted by crowds of people. vehicles carrying vital aid in through the rafah border crossing from egypt were boarded and stripped of their supplies. the un says hungry people helping themselves to food is making it almost impossible to distribute aid. there are hopes more aid will start arriving each day, after israel opened the kerem shalom crossing into gaza for humanitarian aid trucks for the first time since the war started in october. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah cr
They havent gone in rafah yet. If theyre going to rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. Were going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Lets ta ke lets take you to the scene, looking out at gaza. You can see in the distance there, a heavy plume of smoke, a reminder that the conflict continues on. And heavy shelling has been reported in rafah in the south of the gaza strip this morning. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, told me more from jerusalem. We still havent heard from the israeli Prime Ministers office. We do have some comments in the past hour or so from the Israeli Foreign minister obliquely referring to this. Hes written on x. Theres no war more just than this. And said israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. Weve also had, in a characteri
And destroy hamas so that it no longer posed any threat, and said he would secure the release of the remaining hostages still being held in gaza. In the war that has followed the 7th Of October attacks, gazas Hamas Run Health Ministry sayys more than 33,000 people have been killed there. On sunday, Tens Of Thousands of protesters in israel called for the Israeli Government to strike a deal to bring the hostages home and for mr netanyahu to resign. Earlier, i spoke to our middle east correspondent injerusalem, hugo bachega, about idf troops withdrawing from khan younis. The israeli authorities are saying their mission in khan younis has been accomplished and that these troops are now being prepared for future operations in gaza. I think the israelis are under a lot of pressure, especially from the americans, to de escalate the conflict. I think the big question here is about what will happen in rafah. Because the israelis have been saying that it is essential to launch a major offensive
And destroy hamas so that it no longer posed any threat, and said he would secure the release of the remaining hostages still being held in gaza. In the war that has followed the 7th Of October attacks, gazas Hamas Run Health Ministry sayys more than 33,000 people have been killed there. On sunday, Tens Of Thousands of protesters in israel called for the Israeli Government to strike a deal to bring the hostages home and for mr netanyahu to resign. Earlier, i spoke to our middle east correspondent injerusalem, hugo bachega, about idf troops withdrawing from khan younis. The israeli authorities are saying their mission in khan younis has been accomplished and that these troops are now being prepared for future operations in gaza. I think the israelis are under a lot of pressure, especially from the americans, to de escalate the conflict. I think the big question here is about what will happen in rafah. Because the israelis have been saying that it is essential to launch a major offensive