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Live from tehran, youre watching press tv news, im your host najafied, good to have you with this, now israel keeps up heavy bombardment of targets throughout gaza for the 16th consecutive day. Now one of the latest attacks at least 11 palestinians were killed and dozens more injured after missiles hit a cafe in panyunis. 15 were also killed in another attack on rafa city in southern gaza. The fresh rais came after regimes army said it would step up strikes at. What are called the next stages of the war, the Israeli Army Says is trying to create optimal conditions for a ground invasion. The regime has issued new evacuation warnings for residents of gaza. The attacks on gaza have killed nearly 4700 people and wonded 16,00 others. Over 70 of of the victims are children, women and the elderly. A convoy of 17 trucks carrying humanit. Has entered a gaza trip from egypts rafa crossing, the trucks are carrying food supplies, water, medicines, which groups say are critical for causes 2. 3 mill
Lets bring you up to date on the very latest developments. The israeli army has told residents of seven different areas across the gaza strip to take refuge in shelters as it prepares to launch new attacks on hamas targets. Meanwhile, israeli hostages who were held in a southern town have reportedly been rescued thats according to israels public broadcaster. Three Israeli Soldiers were moderately and lightly wounded. And on the diplomatic front, us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken has called for calm and stability in the west bank during a call with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. And israels allies have shown their support through displays like this. Heres berlins Brandenburg Gate lit up in white and blue to show support for israel. The conflict is also impacting air travel. The federal Aviation Administration is urging us airlines and pilots to use caution when flying in israeli airspace. The us air regulators warning follows an earlier alert issued by the Israeli Government an
Have a look at this new video coming in to the bbc. Explosions boom. Israel was clearly caught off guard by the attacks from hamas, and there will be much analysis in the weeks and months ahead about why no one saw it coming. Michael singh is former senior directorfor Middle East Affairs at the National Security council, and he joined me earlier. To what extent do you think the us might be concerned tonight that it likely had not heard word of the attacks that we had seen from its israeli partners, that there appeared to be a failure of intelligence . There will be tremendous concern, tremendous concern within israel first and foremost because this was a real failure of anticipation, a failure to detect what was the most significant attack on israel for decades, there will be concern within the United States as well not just at the apparent Israeli Intelligence failure but perhaps the United States intelligence agencys own failure to detect this was happening because you have a very cl