Israeli army has asked residents of seven different areas across the gaza strip to leave their homes and move to the city centres or take refuge in shelters in preparation for Launching Attacks against hamas targets. Witnesses told the bbc dozens of families have started leaving their homes and they were sheltering in unschools. Un were sheltering in unschools. Un schools. This all comes as israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on saturday that israel is, quote, at war, and is promising revenge. This comes after a surprise and unprecedented attack by Palestinian Militants on israeli territory early saturday morning. Israels government says hamas launched more than 2,000 rockets into the country, killing more than 250 people and wounding over 1,100 others. Officials in the gaza strip say over 230 people have been killed and over 1,700 were injured in retaliatory strikes. The Un Security Council plans to meet about the violence in the region tomorrow. The Early Morning assau
Is what that area of southern israel looked like today. Just look at all that smoke coming from burning buildings. If we zoom in you can see the heat spots that weve enhanced so you can see them. Now, all these cross border infiltrations by Palestinian Militants taken together with the thousands of rockets fired at israel represent a massive Intelligence Failure from israel. It should have seen this coming because they had regular military patrols going along that border. This is footage taken some years earlier. But they had cameras, sensors, informants inside the militant groups. And yet hamas was able to charge through that border, crossing it with things like this bulldozer, paragliders, by land, sea and air, and all the while, hamas has been sending more missiles into places like this, tel aviv, this office and residential block here, hitting buildings while the israeli airforce hits gaza. However this ends, it will go down as one of the worst failures of Israeli Intelligence in 5
Killed in fighting on saturday. Meanwhile, Majorairlines Have cancelled dozens of flights to tel aviv. They include american airlines, air france, lufthansa, emirates, and ryanair, among others. For the latest on the story and to assess what this escalation of tension means for the whole region ive been speaking to our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. After this extraordinary assault this morning by hamas, which as we have been hearing has taken the israelis by surprise, this is really an unprecedented moment, in of course an area where there has been decades of tension, attacks, all out war. This is a very, very different kind of war for all of the reasons we have just been hearing. The Staggering Number of israeli hostages, both Israeli Military officers and soldiers as well as civilians. The high Israeli Death toll. A far right israeli government. There will certainly be pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to do what he and other israeli leaders have avoided for decades, a
Samir puri is a lecturer in war studies at Kings College london. He says the commitment by the us to supply more weapons is significant. As the Army Tactical Missile System that the us has finally authorised the gifting to ukraine and it is about the range of the missiles they can fire. 190 miles, significantly further in the Storm Shadow Missile than the Storm Shadow Missile which is 150 miles range. The significance is this is something that ukraine and those supporting the arming of ukraine have really been asking for for months and months and months. Arguably creating the impression this is a war winning weapon whereas i think in reality, what this will do is give the Ukrainian Armed forces another tool to try and degrade the russian defensive positions but by no means guarantee actually breaking through and kicking the russian army out of all parts of ukraine. The missle strike on the Crimean Peninsula, this is an enormous achievement by the Ukrainian Armed forces because lets not
A couple of hours ago. Hes charged with 3a counts of fraud, relating to hush money allegedly paid to the former adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 president ial election. Hes now in the courthouse itself for the start ofJury Selection. Prosecutors accuse him, of arranging payments to Stormy Daniels in an effort to buy her silence. Donald trump has pleaded not guiltydescribing the case as a witchhunt. He spoke to the media just before heading into the courtroom. Hes been in the courts for around an hour and a half. Lets hear what he had to say. Something like this has never happened before. Theres never been anything like it. Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense, it should never have been brought. It doesnt deserve anything like this. There is no case, and theyve said it. People that dont necessarily follow or like donald trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never before. Nobodys ever se