those numbers from the office of national statistics. live now to jay lindop, director of migration statistics, at the office for national statistics. thank you very much a being with us. what do the numbers show? figs thank you very much a being with us. what do the numbers show?- what do the numbers show? as you sa , the what do the numbers show? as you say. the latest what do the numbers show? as you say, the latest figures what do the numbers show? as you say, the latest figures for what do the numbers show? as you say, the latest figures forjune - what do the numbers show? as you say, the latest figures forjune 23, l say, the latest figures forjune 23, r 672,000, the highest levels we have seen recently. so those numbers have seen recently. so those numbers have gone up since last year, june 2022, but they are actually lower than the december 22 estimate. it s really important to understand the context of the numbers. before the pandemic, migration patterns were r
have coming from the ons, what we have here is the number of people arriving, net migration, the year ending june 2023, was 672,000 people, so the difference between those arriving and those leaving. a positive figure of 672,000. that was higher than a year earlier, injune 2022, when it was 600,000, so 10% higher, another 65,000 people arriving in 2023 compared to 2022. but the one thing they saying this is that the number was down on the estimate. if you took the december figure, it went up, but then down compared to december 2022. possibly an indication of a downward possible turn of the curve but still, as you were saying, very high figures, particularly if you consider that if you look back to the beginning, of the last election, this latest government, at the point they came in it was 226,000, so very roughly a third of the level it is now. and the promise in 2019 from the conservative government in their manifesto was that overall numbers will come down. we haven t seen
temporary halt of hostilities. hamas says some details have yet to be finalised. the fighting has continued these pictures show a series of explosions in gaza overnight. it s also likely to resume at some point, even if it is paused israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that his country will continue to fight against hamas, until absolute victory was achieved. aid agencies had already been voicing concerns about the situation in gaza. some trucks carrying humanitarian supplies have been able to cross into the territory this week. but pictures like these showing people struggling to secure bottles of water in gaza indicate how difficult conditions there are. we ll bring you the latest on all of these developments in this programme but we start with this report on the delay to the hostage and prisoner exchange deal from our middle east correspondent tom bateman. well, the sense we had all day was that according to the agreement, the ceasefire would start a