I dont want to be a useless person. I was in High School and ifound my passion in photography. Because my father used to have, Like, a camera and i have a big album for me when i was young and i started taking pictures, capture everything. You say capture everything. What interests me is that for many years, while there was conflict in gaza there were various israeli incursions, hamas were operating in gaza, there was conflict, there was death, there was bloodshed your focus for a very long time was onjoyful subjects. Life. On beauty, on life and love. Because im someone Like, i hate wars, i hate the bombing, i hate the occupation, i hate everything. And because of the picture for gaza now, for the people outside, they think gaza is all about war and they think there is no life there. So i was the one who wanted to create and to make, to create and to make this picture clear for people. So i was taking pictures for life, forjoy, for the daily life of gazans. Wars and aggressions were a
Our middle East Correspondent Lucy williamson reports now on the growing pressures on israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, Israels Army says they were shot by hamas in a Tunnel Under Rafah as israeli forces battled above them. Almog seroussi, alexander lobanov, ori danino, eden yerushalmi, whose last words to her sister were, theyve caught me. And hersh goldberg polin, a 23 year old us israeli citizen, and carmel gat, a therapist who was described by other hostages as their guardian angel. Carmel s family said she and hersh were due to be released in a deal outlined in july. Her Cousin Today inconsolable. Its too late for us. Its too late for carmel. I will never hug her again. But 101 people can still hug theirfamilies. For them, make the deal. Save lives. As pressure on israels Prime Minister builds, today, he blamed hamas for the failure to free the h
On on this new hour, what happens to the remaining hostages in gaza . Hear from the father of one of them whose son has been held sap active since October 7th. Plus when it comes to Donald Trumps legal troubles, his game of delay is working. Lets do it. Lets do it. Today Hundreds Of Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of tel aviv. Demonstrators are threatening to shut down the country unless netanyahu finally agrees to a deal with hamas to release the hostages and israels largest Labor Union is calling for a general strike tomorrow. Many inside israel have reached a Boiling Point with netanyahu after the israeli military recovered the dead bodies of six hostages from gaza. They were identified as carmel g guy, alexander lobanoff, Master Sergeant Ori Denina And Hirsch goldberg polin, one of the american hostages found. The crowd erupted in chance of bringing them home. Its described spending nearly 11 months in an excruciating state of limbo where every day they hoped to not rec
Lets look at the wider situation. With me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. Thank you forjoining us on The Programme. The Breaking News in the last few minutes. We knew that the israelis had discovered some bodies in rafah. Now we know that one of them is an American Citizen. What more do we know about whats happening there at the moment . 50 whats happening there at the moment . ~ whats happening there at the moment . ~. ,. , moment . So we knew about recovering moment . So we knew about recovering the moment . So we knew about recovering the Bodies Moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of the | recovering the bodies of the hostages a few hours ago. And the announcement from the White House came just a few minutes ago that one of these bodies is american. The American Citizen is hersh Goldberg Polin, and his parents were really vocal about him. They had interviews in the us and in israel, and i gets you did an interview with
The operation was to secure just a tunnel by the israeli forces found and live hostage last week. 50 forces found and live hostage last week last week. So the israeli forces were last week. So the israeli forces were just last week. So the israeli forces were just trying l last week. So the israeli | forces were just trying to clear the tunnel and they found the so they did not go there upon intelligent information or something, theyjust found them while they are searching the tunnel. So they said the circumstances around the killing, the israeli. There is an exchange of accusations. The Israeli Army saying that How Massa killed them intentionally and the Israeli Minister Benjamin netanyahu just issued a statement a few minutes ago saying we will continue to feel the hostages and israel will not rest until we reach the killers, saying that the Military Operation in gaza would continue. But hamas issued also a statement and they said that they were killed in an israeli shelling, and the