hello. welcome to bbc news now 3 hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says there were strong indications that hamas were holding hostages at the largest hospital in gaza, but they had been removed when his troops raide al shifa this week. speaking to cbs news, mr netanyahu said there was no gunfight at al shifa because hamas had already fled. israel insists there was a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. the israeli army says it s found the body of a second woman who was held hostage by hamas, as troops continue to search in and around gaza s biggest hospital. so let s get the very latest from my colleague mark lowen, who is in southern israel. hello, thanks very much indeed. we are a couple of kilometres away from gaza, where israeli troops are continuing their operation inside al shifa hospital, gaza s largest. they are going building to building, combing the site to t
israel insists there s a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu also said there were strong indications that hostages had been moved from the hospital. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital. and, in fact, they fled. as our forces approached, they fled. that s why we had no firefight. we entered that hospital with arabic speaking israeli doctors, with incubators. and we had no firefight. but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield. and on level minus two, we found a command and control centre, military communications, coded equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons. and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. earlier, israeli forces say they have recovered the body of a woman taken hostage by hamas last month in a building near al shifa hospital. she has been named as 65 year old yehudit wei
resumption of the telecommunications network. unrwa. also in gaza, the israeli military raided the strip s largest hospital, al shifa, this week. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu told cbs news that there was no gunfight at the hospital because hamas leaders had, in his words, left shortly before the army arrived. israel says there s a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu also said that hostages could have been moved from the hospital. there s been violence too in the occupied west bank. the other part of the palestinian territories. the israeli army says its troops killed five gunmen during a raid in the city ofjenin. several palestinian news sources also say israeli soldiers entered the city s ibn sina hospital. and the israeli army says it s recovered the remains of a soldier held hostage by hamas, whose death the military had announced earlier in the week. the idf says noa marciano s body was recovered from a
a line of breaking news before the sport coming from new york with the reuters news agency reporting that the un security council is due to vote later today on a draft resolution that calls for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable aid access. that is according to diplomats, some diplomats say they expect the 15 member council to adopt the resolution although some countries were likely to abstain. the resolution needs nine foes and could be vetoed, so a vote is expected later in the day on extended humanitarian pauses and corridors through the gaza strip, so we will keep an eye on that and bring you more as it comes in. now let s head to the bbc sport centre. isaac is therefore us. let s start at the cricket world cup where virat kohli has scored his 50th odi hundred, breaking the record of fellow indian legend sachin tendulkar. kohli s milestone occured in the first semi final against new zea
hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. rishi sunak, in the last few minutes, has announced he will bring in emergency legislation that will confirm that the wonder is, he said, a safe country after the supreme court ruled that the scheme to send asylum seekers there was unlawful. in a significant blow to the prime minister, fivejudges in a significant blow to the prime minister, five judges unanimously ruled against his flagship policy which aims to stop illegal migration. they said rwanda has a poor record on human rights and also, that if refugees went to a wonder there would be a real risk of them being sent back to the countries they had originally left. welcome in that news conference, in the last few minutes, rishi sunak warrant european courts not to block the flights and he also stressed that the court had confirmed sending migrants to a safe third country was lawful. ., , migra