Good evening, were live injerusalem, as diplomatic efforts to try to ease the worsening humanitarian situation in gaza intensify. The german chancellor olaf scholz has been meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in tel aviv, and Tomorrowjoe Biden is expected in israel for talks. But its a tricky diplomatic mission. The us wants to show solidarity with israel, but also press for ways to ease the suffering in gaza, where the United Nations says supplies of food, fuel and water are dwindling, and access must be allowed for aid. All this as Israel Masses troops on the border, ahead of a possible ground invasion, and its aerial bombardment of the territory continues. It says its Targeting Members of hamas, a group designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, and responsible for last weeks attack on Southern Israel, which killed at least 1,400 people. Palestinian officials in gaza, say around 3,000 have been killed in israeli bombing, and around 12,00
And the other main stories on tonights programme. As the violence in the middle east triggers protests in the uk, a senior official warns of the language used at some pro palestinian rallies. Was It Carriejohnson in charge during covid . The inquiry into the pandemic hears the countrys top Civil Servant worried about her influence. 120. And following his accident on top gear, Freddie Flintoff reaches a multi Million Pound settlement with bbc studios. And the newsnight at 10 30, we will go deeper behind over millia decide whether to heed an israeli warning and move south while in london, will be asking how communities are feeling. Good evening. Were live injerusalem, where its just after midnight local time, with the end of the 24 hour period israel has set for People Living in Northern Gaza to evacuate the area fast approaching. More than a Million People have been warned to move south, after several days in which the Israeli Defense forces have been massing on the border, ahead of an
Is what that area of southern israel looked like today. Just look at all that smoke coming from burning buildings. If we zoom in you can see the heat spots that weve enhanced so you can see them. Now, all these cross border infiltrations by Palestinian Militants taken together with the thousands of rockets fired at israel represent a massive Intelligence Failure from israel. It should have seen this coming because they had regular military patrols going along that border. This is footage taken some years earlier. But they had cameras, sensors, informants inside the militant groups. And yet hamas was able to charge through that border, crossing it with things like this bulldozer, paragliders, by land, sea and air, and all the while, hamas has been sending more missiles into places like this, tel aviv, this office and residential block here, hitting buildings while the israeli airforce hits gaza. However this ends, it will go down as one of the worst failures of Israeli Intelligence in 5
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something hamas denies. for more on all this, i spoke with our diplomatic correspondent paul adams, who is injerusalem. thanks forjoining us. these reports coming out of gaza paint a grim picture of the humanitarian situation there. what more can you tell us about how hospitals in gaza are coping? well, with great difficulty. they are all pretty much surrounded in gaza city, because the israelis argue these are places where hamas fighters have based themselves, and consequently there have been intense battles going on around us hospitals. the israelis say they are not targeting hospitals per se, and they are trying to get the civilian populations that are clustered around them to try to leave, and also starting to think about evacuating the hospitals themselves, so that israel can concentrate on dealing with hamas. there is a small development on that front this evening. the israelis said tomorrow they are going to evacuate babies from the shifa hospital to a safer location.