Gaza. Minutes ago another strike hitting the area. Secretary of state Antony Blinken arriving in jerusalem again and arriving at the president ial palace as the war in israel enters its ninth day. Lawrence thats right, brian. More explosions rocking gaza this morning as the Israeli Military prepares for a full invasion after the hamas attack last weekend. Ainsley palestinians gathered near the Rafah Crossing hoping to make it over into egypt before the idf launches a Ground Invasion of the strip. Israel announcing Evacuation Plans for its own residents urging 28 communities to leave the region near the lebanon border. Steve thats right. Because of the shooting back and forth there. Now lets get to trey yingst who is live on the ground in Southern Israel where it is 1 00 in the afternoon. All right, trey, what is the very latest . We heard yesterday that ourselves said that it sounds like that gate would be open but here we are 1 00 in the afternoon that gate to israel still closed. Tre
Welcome to The World Today in International News from the bbc. We started this hour with the breaking news from gaza, three sons of the hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an israeli air strike. Do to israel confirming the attack. The vehicle that they were driving in was hit in the camp west of gaza city and he says the deaths of gaza city and he says the deaths of so many members of his family will not affect the demands that hamas is making in the cease fire negotiation. Lets get the latest from Bbc World Service middle east editor was injerusalem. Sebastian, what is israel and Israeli Military in particular saying about what happened . In particular saying about what hauened . ,. ,. , happened . They issued a statement in the ast 40 happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes or happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes or so happened . They issued a statement in the past 40 minutes
but we are not showing the worst of it. you can see damage thereto an ambulance outside the al shifa hospital, one of the main hospitals in gaza. the hamas. the hamas run health ministry says it was air strike by israel. idf confirms that there was a strike on an ambulance. they say it was being used by hamas and they say a number of hamas operatives were killed. the leader of hezbollah, prescribed terror group by many countries, praised the attacks by hamas on the 7th of october. in response, israel said it is on high alert there at its northern border. the former ambassador for lebanon tracy chamoun gave me her reaction to nasrallah s speech. well, i think it was pretty much what every lebanese expected to hearfrom him. we didn t expect at all to hear a declaration of war. they ve been engaged in fighting since the beginning. but i think that there s a reluctance to escalate. and that s because really, lebanon cannot withstand any war at this stage. the country is devastate