Prime minister rishi sunak is due to speak to his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu today to urge restraint after irans unprecedented missile and drone attack on israel on saturday night. Lets go live tojerusalem for the very latest and our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. Two days after the skies of israel was killed by iranian cruise and Ballistic Missiles as well as suicide drones, israel is making it clear that it will hit back. The question still is, how and when will it retaliate . What seems clear now is it will, at least it hopes, take many forms. This morning, israels Foreign Minister has said he is leading a political war against iran. He has written to dozens of countries urging them to sanction irans irg sea to isolate iran. We have heard from the military officials as well. Yesterday the israeli Chief Of Staff visited the airbase which was struck by several iranian missiles. Israel says it suffered limited damage but he took that occasion to say that isr
get them work are worked out between the israeli government and hamas. qatar is acting as the intermediary. officials there are set to hold a news conference any moment. in the meantime, the swap of 50 women and children being held by hamas for a temporary ceasefire and 150 palestinian women and teenage prisoners is on hold. we were very disappointed this morning to learn that it has been postponed. they didn t reach an agreement yet, and we are all just waiting in anxiety to know what is happening because we want our people back. in gaza, missiles are still falling, and the dead are still being pulled from the rubble. in the southern city, another 100 bodies were buried in a mass grave. in the north, israel says it s uncovered more evidence of hamas using this tunnel underneath al-shifa as a base. it s also been confirmed they are questioning the al-shifa hospital director. we ll ask an israeli spokesperson who joins news a morning about that. joining us now from tel avi
march against anti semitism, to counter a steep rise in attacks on the jewish counter a steep rise in attacks on thejewish community counter a steep rise in attacks on the jewish community since counter a steep rise in attacks on thejewish community since october thejewish community since october the 7th. and king charles leads tributes to the armed forces on remembrance sunday in a service at the cenotaph in london. hello, i m rich preston. welcome to the programme, good to have you with us. we begin with some breaking news. several people have been charged in london following violence at protests on saturday. the vast majority of whom are from what the police have described as right wing groups. people also took part in a pro palestinian march, calling for a ceasefire in the biggest war between israel and thomas after the violence on the 7th of october. the home secretary has condemned sick and see semitic charts and placards at the pro palestinian march on armistice day, w
the armed forces on remembrance sunday in a service at the cenotaph in london. hello, i m rich preston. welcome to the programme, good to have you with us. hamas says 13 people were killed when a house was hit near khan younis in the south of gaza. the incident was witnessed by our correspondent rushdi abualouf. he was buying supplies for his children in the village of bani suhaila when four bombs fell around him in quick succession. he sent these pictures, and says a block of around 10 houses had been destroyed. rushdi also told us he saw four dead bodies and more than 100 injured people. the world health organization says it has lost contact with gaza s main hospital, the al shifa. israel s military says it s agreed agreed to evacuate babies in need of oxygen from that hospital and two others. officials at al shifa say two newborns died as a result of the hospital running out of power, with heavy fighting on the streets outside. this photo was sent to the bbc last night s
hello, welcome to bbc news, i m lyse doucet. we start with the latest from the israel gaza conflict. day 30 of this conflict. the us secretary of state, antony blinken is in the occupied west bank for talks with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas on the gaza conflict. there he is shaking the hands of the prime minister, i think. it s a senior palestinian official. the spokesman for the palestinian president has said mr abbas told mr blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire and an allowing of humanitarian aid to the gaza strip. according to us spokesperson matthew miller, the secretary reaffirmed the united states commitment to the delivery of life saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in gaza and made clear that palestinians must not be forcibly displaced. all crucial issues for the palestinians and the arab world. secretary blinken and president abbas discussed efforts to restore calm and stability in the west bank, including