force and managed many operations in the south of the country. that news comes as intense fighting continues across gaza, with israeli strikes killing 249 palestinians and injuring a further 510 injured in the past 2a hours, according to the hamas run gaza health ministry. it comes as america s top diplomat, antony blinken, is back in the middle east, meeting officials in the united arab emirates, saudi arabia and israel, for further talks on the war in gaza. antony blinken is expected to call on israel to reduce the intensity of its fighting in gaza. yolande knell has the very latest. the scale of gaza s humanitarian crisis clearly visible along its southernmost border. hundreds of thousands are now crammed into tents. after fleeing their homes, most have been displaced several times over by the fighting with israel. angry and weary, this woman believes herfamily remains in danger. they killed us in schools, in our homes, they won t kill us inside our tent? there is no sa
Is the normal midterm blues, but on steroids. What were seeing here is partly because of that mood of the nation, partly because the brand, the tory brand, the conservative party brand was damaged in September 2022 and earlier through partygate as well, and that is still feeding through into the public psyche. So, yes, to some degree, theres a pattern and its feeding through to the by elections. But patterns can also be broken by unexpected events. All change in a land normally wary of the new. Tories will be hoping there will be limits to these new habits. Thats all from us. Im back on monday. Until then, have a good weekend. Goodbye. Breaking news from Around The World 2a hours a day, this is bbc news. Rabbi meir hecht knows bothjudith and Natalie Raanan personally. He spoke to me just after the news of their release. Judith prays every week in our congregation, for every sabbath, every holiday, and we miss her and shes been a part of our congregation in such an important way, and as
my guest is a palestinian doctor, izzeldin abuelaish, whose three daughters and niece were killed in an israeli tank strike on his home in the gaza strip in 2009. at the time, he said he felt no bitterness. and, soon after, he published his award winning autobiography called i shall not hate. now, he has lost 22 more family members in these current bombings. is he still preaching his message of forgiveness and peace? dr izzeldin abuelaish, welcome to hardtalk. now, nearly 15 years ago, you lost three of your eight children when an israeli shell fell on your home in gaza. please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any
[chuckling] we are going to ask our two speakers to talk briefly, then we will have almost a full hour for comments, questions, and maybe debate. Let me welcome our two speakers. An adjunct fellow of the. Ashington institute a fellow at an institute in jerusalem. Former member of israels parliament. A has she has just written policy paper for the Washington Institute. There are printed copies of it outside at the front desk in the lobby. You can pick one up in the lobby on your way out if we have not run after them. One possible way of getting around the current betweenic impasse palestinians and israelis. As the subtitle says, preserving a past. Our second speaker is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute. A good friend and colleague. Someone who played an Important Role as the key member of the Palestinian Authority negotiating team. Afterward a Senior Member of the American Task force for palestine and now to our great good fortune is here with us at the Washington Institute an
Today we are going to have the a round table. I want to emphasize the dialogue of it. Despite the fact that the table is square. [chuckling] we are going to ask our two speakers to talk briefly, then we will have almost a full hour for comments, questions, and maybe debate. Let me welcome our two speakers. An adjunct fellow of the. Ashington institute a fellow at an institute in jerusalem. Former member of israels parliament. A has she has just written policy paper for the Washington Institute. There are printed copies of it outside at the front desk in the lobby. You can pick one up in the lobby on your way out if we have not run after them. One possible way of getting around the current betweenic impasse palestinians and israelis. As the subtitle says, preserving a past. Our second speaker is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute. A good friend and colleague. Someone who played an Important Role as the key member of the Palestinian Authority negotiating team. Afterward a Senior