The deaths are caused by a crush of lorries running people over. Our Special Correspondent working with bbc verify has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened and i should warn you, this contains distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation situation was unimaginably crazy. I if aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left here under an israeli tank escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because there is no timestamp. At 4 16, the israelis say, crowds began to surge around the tracks. In this sequence, bodies can be seen lying on the ground. So others can be seen cr
Meanwhile, the us carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid for gaza on saturday with more than 30 thousand meals parachuted by three military planes. Here s our correspondent wyre davies who is Injerusalem 7 with the latest on the chances of a ceasefire. There are increasingly positive signs around the hope for a cessation in hostilities, a temporary ceasefire, that could last perhaps as long as six weeks over the muslim holy month of ramadan. But i think it s really important not to get ahead of ourselves here because there are still key differences between israeli demands and the demands of hamas. It s understood the negotiators have arrived in cairo today. It s not clear if there is an israeli delegation but hamas officials are said to have arrived. The israelis will probably want to know how many of the hostages being held by hamas are still alive and which ones would be released by hamas under the terms of this deal. It s not clear, equally, how many palestinian prisoners
Our russia editor, Steve Rosenberg reports. This is the closest we were allowed to get to russias most famous prisoner. Wed been let inside the High Securityjail where Alexei Navalny is already incarcerated. But journalists werent allowed into the makeshift courtroom. We had to watch on a screen. For the kremlin critic, this is a trial behind bars. He was found guilty on extremism charges. Punishment more jail time. He was handed a 19 Year Prison Sentence. We may have been allowed in here to watch the verdict on a tv screen, but keep in mind that in this court case, the actual proceedings were closed to the press and to the public and held in a high security prison. Describing this trial as Behind Closed Doors feels like an understatement. Ahead of the verdict, in a message online, mr navalny wrote that a long Prison Sentence for him was designed to scare russians. He revealed hed soon be on trial again for terrorism. They chant. A charismatic Protest Leader and Anti Corruption crusade
Hour. Details of the incident are under review and they say dozens of gazans were crushed and trampled, the israeli troops say they open fire because they were under threat. Here are palestinians arriving at the hospital in the Northern Gaza strip, we are trying to piece together the timeline. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says more than 30,000 palestinians have now been killed since israel began its Military Offensive in october. It says the majority of those killed were women and children. That number equates to about 1. 3 of the 2. 3 million population of the territory. With the latest from jerusalem heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Chaos in Northern Gazas hospitals. 0verwhelmed by hundreds of casualties. Many men had just set out to bring home sacks of flour for their hungry families and were shot, witnesses say, by the israeli army. They started firing, says this man, whose friend tamer was killed. The flour trucks ran over all the bodies. 0vernight, huge crowds