0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israels siege. The un calls it a betrayal of humanity. Kibbutz nir oz, right on israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. Sayed was laying there dead. You could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. The army opened the door later. Ron and his family survived in their safe room. Then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. In this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. The interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. Going around this place, you can understand why israelis believe very
Mr netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages, captured by hamas in october, were released. Translation the achievements of the war are great. We eliminated 19 out of 2a of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. We killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. We purged shifa and many other Terrorist Headquarters as well. We destroyed factories, manufacturing rockets, control rooms, weapons, ammunition, and we continue to systematically destroy what is underground. We are one step away from victory. Israel is not the one preventing a deal. Hamas prevents a deal. Its extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war and leave it intact, meaning to ensure its survival, its rehabilitation, its ability to endanger our citizens and our soldiers. Surrendering to hamas demands will allow it to try to repeat the Crimes Of October Seventh again and again, as it promised to do. Hamas hopes that the pressure from outside
Security defence, and went into towns across southern israel. Israel described it as the darkest day in its history. The largest loss of israeli lives in a single day. It says 1200 israelis were killed, and more than 250 when taken hostage, seized at gunpoint and taken across the boundary into gaza. Gaza lies on the boundary into gaza. Gaza lies on the horizon, and for many weeks after the october 7th attacks, from here we could see the plumes of dark smoke rising, as israel intensified its retaliatory strikes, carrying out aerial bombardment is night and day. It then launched its ground operations. Six months on, israel is coming under mounting pressure, even from its own allies, about the weight is fighting this war. With a growing tally of deaths in gaza. 33,000, says the Hamas Run Health Ministry. Un Officials Say the gaza strip is on the brink of famine. Many questions are being asked. Where does the word go from here . In the last few hours, the Israeli Military says it has withd
Mr netanyahu says that they will go back and they will do that Military Operation in rafah, where1. 4 million Palestinian Civilians are sheltering. Thats something the americans, as things stand, do not want them to do. Mr Netanyahu Isjust saying, you just heard him saying theyre one step away from victory. You know, there are lots of israelis who say that is absolutely untrue, that he hasnt, quite patently, he hasnt succeeded in the war aims that he stated getting the hostages back and eliminating hamas as a force in gaza because they are still able to fight. And his critics also say that hes prolonging the war artificially for his own political reasons, to escape a day of reckoning for mistakes that he may have made. Now, of course, on both sides, six months on is a very significant milestone. A lot of people didnt think that this war was going to last that long, but i think it might even last a lot longer now. I have been to one of the Israeli Border communities, which was kibbutz n
and on the first anniversary of the death of queen elizabeth, a previously unseen photo is released. gun sat lieutena nts gun sat lieutenants mark the first year of the king s reign. and coming up on bbc news. american teenager coco gauff is through to her first us open lutes good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the head of the metropolitan police says the force is exploring the possibility of whether staff at wandsworth prison helped daniel khalife escape the jail on wednesday morning. sir mark rowley said the escape was clearly pre planned and described it as extremely concerning . daniel khalife, who s a terrorism suspect, got out strapped to the underside of a delivery lorry. overnight, police searched richmond park, three miles from the prison in southeast london. matt graveling has the latest on the search which is into its third day with no confirmed sightings of the escaped prisoner. 2500 acre, it is london s largest royal park and this morning poli