troops, and it goes with the reiteration of israel, that this war will go on. it was interesting hearing the army spokesperson in the new year making the address, saying, we are relieving some reservists and some troops, but make no mistake of the war is going to keep going. the israeli army and the israeli government are under pressure from the us to scale down the military action which has resulted in, we have passed the 22,000 death threshold now according to the hamas run health ministry, and use more targeted tactics, and what you are seeing is an increase and intensification of bombardment until we see the effect will be those troops from the ground in gaza. i wanted to ask you, you talk about pressure on benjamin netanyahu from the us, but from his own quarters as
and i know in myself i ve got a good feeling that i can go all the way now. and that s all the sport for now. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 22,000 palestinians have now been killed since the start of israels military campaign. a statement said more than 200 people had been killed by israeli strikes in the past 2a hours. israeli forces have stepped up their bombardment of khan younis in southern gaza, where tens of thousands of displaced people have sought refuge. israel said its troops had killed dozens of militants in the north of the gaza strip in the past day. live now to our correspondent shaimaa khalil injerusalem. let s talk about the latest on the ground in gaza. what more can you say about the activity today? it is interesting. say about the activity today? it is interesting, the say about the activity today? it 3 interesting, the israeli bombardment intensifies and it shows no sign of letting up, at a time when the israeli army had announced the
well, so tell us what happened yesterday in the supreme court and what reaction we have heard today? this could not have come at a worse time for netanyahu s government, and this is the result of the unprecedented convening of the 15 supremejudges of the unprecedented convening of the 15 supreme judges of the highest court in the country and they overturned a government law that was put in place injuly called the reasonableness bill and what it did was take away the supreme court s ability to stop a government s action or decision if it were deemed extremely unreasonable, and what the supreme court yesterday did, they took their powers back essentially and told the government that they are going to keep them in check. before the october seven deadly attacks on 0ctober seven deadly attacks on israel by hamas, before the war in gaza, israel experienced unprecedented division and turmoil with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets and asking and
bombardment, it is not safe for the distribution of the little aid that comes in but also there is a great deal of disease spreading and worrying at who officials. if you take a look at central gaza, one town here is where people were told town here is where people were told to go by the israeli army to take shelter from the bombardment of the three refugee camps they were told to evacuate. the town itself has seen some shelling and some air strikes. the problem with that is that as the military campaign expands, especially with the ground offensive, the safe areas for people to go keep shrinking but also it becomes much more difficult for humanitarian aid notjust to be delivered but to be safely distributed. i delivered but to be safely distributed. delivered but to be safely distributed. . ., ., distributed. i have read that the israeli defence distributed. i have read that the israeli defence minister- distributed. i have read that the israeli defence minister has - distributed.
hezbollah. again, he made his career as kind of the diplomat for this militant group. outside groups and governments like the turkish government, but also helping to form factions within hamas and bring them closer together. so what we can see now from here or out is a very dramatic set of events that could be about to happen. protests possibly in the west bank. additional missiles fired from the gaza strip by hamas and critically, crucially, is going to be whether or not hezbollah decides to use this as a pretext or as force to enter the fight with israel in a full fledged way. now up until now over the past three months, we ve seen hezbollah harassing the israels, possibly at the direction of iran. but so far, we haven t seen them entering a full scale war. that may or may not be about to change because remember, what we