This is bbc news. The headlines Benjamin Netanyahu warns the gaza action has onlyjust begun and israel will use enormous force against hamas. The israeli army tells hamas there is nowhere to hide. It says its recovered the bodies of 1,500 hamas fighters and secured the boundary with gaza. These are the latest pictures from gaza. Our correspondent there is staggered at the scale of the destruction. The heaviest, i think, ever air strikes that i have ever seen in my life and in my 25 years of working as a journalist. Access to food, water and electricity is being cut and the crossing to egypt closed. The un says the gaza siege is a violation of international law. More details emerge of the hamas attack on a Music Festival where 260 people died. Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks fired on a group of 20 civilians. This is gaza right now. Well have the latest news from both gaza and israel. More from both gaza and israel. Than 700 people in gaz been mor
Is a violation of International Law. More details emerge of the hamas attack on a Music Festival where 260 people died. Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks fired on a group of 20 civilians. And this is gaza right now. We know the israeli air strikes are continuing over night. The air force saying 200 targets were hit. We will bring you the latest news from both sides of the border. Hello, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Un agencies have warned that israel s siege of gaza is illegal under International Law and adding another layer of suffering to people there. The Un Human Rights chief also called on hamas to release the hostages they ve seized which include 50 soldiers. The israel gaza war is now in its fourth day. This drone video shows the scale of destuction wreaked across the gaza strip. Israel s army claims to have hit a further 200 hamas targets in overnight bombing. Israel has ordered a total
Balance time and time again. Ukraine was at least at the start almost clearly from most perspectives and invasion by russia, that ukraine was resisting. I think that clarity at that moment to make it simpler for governments to respond in that way, whereas the issue between the palestinians and the israelis is one which is so embedded in so many different phases that it is harder for governments to come up with such a black and white position. You cant gainsay the fact that the european union, the uk, the us, all of these countries to provide Financial Support to the palestinians. The us has been, although it blows hot and cold, it has been one of the main supporters financially of the un aid agencies which keep the palestinians going, as much as that achieved both in gaza and in the occupied west bank. With all of these things, and it is a very boring answer, but there is a great deal of nuance to this. We as journalists have to try to stay with that as much as possible, rather than ju
we re monitoring breaking news right now. the full israeli cabinet is meeting behind closed doors, going over a deal that could bring home dozens of hostages taken by hamas. the well-being of those hostages hanging on this decision. it comes after prime minister benjamin netanyahu met earlier today with key officials about the negotiations. the deal would end the torment of so many of these hostages and their families who have been demanding their safe return for more than a month now. let s get the latest from alex. how soon could a deal be announced? that could be quite soon. we believe the ball is in israel s court, they re going through their legal and political process to approve the deal. that on the hamas side of things, it s been approved. an expectation once all is said and done is that israel would announce they agreed to the deal but also announced by qatar, and they have been the key mediator on this because they have a direct conversation, direct line into
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