deliveries is in the public consciousness is because an image went viral quite a long time ago now of an amazon drone delivering a parcel, which kind of suggested to us all that drone deliveries weren t so much over the horizon as they were literally around the corner. but when was the last time you had anything dropped off by quadcopter? never - deliveries still come in vans around my way! we re just not there yet for that kind of last mile delivery. there are trade offs between the weight of what can be transported, and battery life. but aside from that, what about the safety? the idea of having all of these spinning blades above our heads, and then they ve got to bring a pizza down to the pavement? now, apparently, last year there were almost 2,500 drone deliveries every day but that was worldwide. so if you think about it in the grand scale of things, that s.that s not much, is it? and i suspect that most of those would be specialist deliveries in really remote area
as a terrorist organisation by the several western governments. these are some of the latest images we ve received overnight. you can see massive explosions over northern gaza as seen from the israeli city of sderot. the united nations says there are now 1.5 million people displaced in gaza. more than 700,000 are reported to be sheltering in un facilities. it warns its sites in the south of the territory are now over capacity, and that s causing severe health and protection risks for that group of displaced people. we ll have more on the diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in a moment. but first, let s get a sense of the situation on the ground in gaza. we start with this report from jon donnison. and a warning there are distressing images from the start. four weeks in to this war, the death and the suffering is endless. and in gaza, no place is safe. the un says this school injabalia in the north was hit this morning, killing at least 15 people. thousands had been see