To stay inside. Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif announced the start of the operation in a broadcast on hamas media, calling on palestinians everywhere to fight. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding an Emergency Meeting and the military says it is striking targets in gaza in response. There are palestinian reports of Israeli Soldiers being captured. In a statement in the past hour, israels defence minister yoav gallant has said. Also in the past few minutes, an Israeli Military spokesman has said thousands of Army Reservists are to be called up. Our reporter Rushdi Abu Alouf gave me the latest from gaza. This is extremely significant. In all of the years that hamas has been in control of gaza, they have never launched a Surprise Attack on different locations, Israeli Security Officials Saying an hour or so ago there were 21 separate incidents going on. Theres a lot of video circulating, not yet verified, by the bbc showing bodies of Israeli Soldiers, some of whom
to flee to for safety, earlier in the conflict. hospitals say they re overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says it s been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un children s charity, unicef, says there s simply nowhere safe for people to go. all this comes as the us state department says it s too early to say for sure whether israel is heeding us advice to protect civilians in gaza. but it did say israel was making more targeted requests for civilian evacuations in southern gaza. here is the latest from the ground from our middle east correspondent yolande knell. in the past few days israel has put out evacuation orders, particularly for the south of the gaza strip, affecting tens of thousands of palestinians, many of them people who have already been displaced by the fighting. it is t
both admired and hated. kissinger provided playing multilevel diplomatic chess. the house is set to vote this saturday, expelling republican congressman george santos. a growing number of republicans say they re going to support this effort. i personally have reservation. if they re confident this is constitutional, god bless their hearts. good morning, and welcome. new this morning, a pause between israel and hamas, it s going to last at least one more day. the question, though, this morning, how long will this pause last. an israeli official says the pause could be extended only if hamas releases ten living hostages each day. hamas said it had initially offered a different deal last night, seven women and children hostages and the bodies of three more who were dead. israel rejected that offer. israel says it has a new list of hostages expected to be released today. and new this morning, israel says there are 145 hostages who remain in gaza. that includes 11
glasgow and edinburgh, five for liverpool and then this is what we call anomaly map so it tells us whether it will be above or below average for the time of year. much of the continent below average in spain and portugal slightly warmer. cold weather is with us to stay and you can on newsnight, abigail s parentsjoin other bereaved families calling for a national inquiry into maternity care in england. speaking exclusively to newsnight, katie fowler and robert miller, whose baby abigail died at royal sussex maternity unit, talk about the trauma they went through, and claim that nobody is taking failures in maternity care seriously. also tonight. are we heading for a standoff between the home secretary and the immigration minister over migration policy? the former immigration minister joins us from westminster. and there s to be a two day extension of the ceasefire in gaza to allow more hostages and prisoners to be swapped, but is there anything to suggest the violence will not
return to, and there are other shocking fuse, so it s a mix between joy and sadness. very bittersweet. i have four relatives, my cousins, her husband and 3-year-old twins so we are anxiously awaiting. we have been through a nightmare, absolute nightmare of hell. l john: be getting an update from the idf at any moment now after israel and hamas have agreed to extend their temporary truce by another two days. while a fourth group of hostages is set to be freed in exchange for dozens of palestinian prisoners. hello, john roberts in washington. welcome back from thanksgiving, sandra. sandra: you as well, john. welcome back everybody. this is america reports . we are kicking off a brand-new hour here, we expect the update from the idf shortly. israel s government says it has notified the families of the latest batch of hostages that could be released shortly, but remains unclear whether any of the americans presumed to still be held captive by those terrorists are on that li