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Have been dropping in populated neighbourhoods in the south and the west. The army has been responding with air strikes and the number of casualties have been mounting. There is only one functioning hospital and it is overwhelmed. Already, the city had been in a dire humanitarian situation because that siege had been going on for about a month now and many of the people in the city have already been displaced. They have been fleeing the fighting elsewhere. They need food aid, they need medical aid, and thatjust hasnt been able to get in. Again, as the fighting gets worse, that will get worse. Un officials have been warning for weeks now that it is going to be absolutely catastrophic if there is a full scale battle. The us has been warning of a large scale massacre and is also nowjust recently sanctioned two rfs commanders for their alleged role in the el fasher fighting. Millions of people across the country have been displaced and millions in need of humanitarian assistance. What is t
Hello, im catherine byaruhanga. We start this with the order by the Israeli Military for more residents in the city of rafah in the Southern Gaza strip to leave neighbourhoods in the east. Washington has warned israel not to mount a full offensive in the city, but there were further israeli strikes overnight. This is where people have been told to go, al mawasi, which has been described an expanded humanitarian area by the Israel Defence forces. It now says 300,000 gazans have moved towards there since the first Evacuation Orders on monday. Last night, a long awaited Us Government report criticised israels use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of International Humanitarian law in some instances. This report from our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Now a ghost town. Parts of rafah that were crammed full of people just days ago are emptying out. Palestinians fleeing in their thousands as israel signals i
Welcome to bbc news. Im lukwesa burak. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. Theres growing diplomatic pressure to find ways to get food and other essential aid into gaza and civilians out in the face of israeli bombardments in retaliation for the attacks by hamas. The group, which is designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments including the uk, launched the assault on saturday. These are the main developments on day six of the conflict. The United Nations says more than 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in gaza, stressing essential food, fuel and water must reach the enclave. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has established a National Emergency government with Opposition Leader benny gantz. It comes as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops. Hundreds of thousands are on the southern border with gaza. President biden says hes told mr netanyahu that israel must abide by the rules of war in its fight against hamas.