Eventin yesterdays tragic and alarming event in north gaza, trying to get humanitarian assistance in there, and the loss of life is heartbreaking. People are so desperate that innocent people got caught, a terrible war, unable to feed their families, and you saw the response when we try to get aid in. And we need to do more and the United States will do more stock in the coming days we willjoin with our friends the coming days we willjoin with ourfriends in the coming days we willjoin with our Friends Injordan and others are providing air drops of additionalfood and of additional food and supplies. Of additional food and suwlies of additional food and su lies. , supplies. President biden there. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has been piecing together more details of what happened. And just a warning his report contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, theyd come thinking they would find aid to keep their families aliv
song all day. we begin in egypt where officials insist traffic is flowing normally through the suez canal despite recent attacks further south in the red sea. iranian backed rebels in yemen have repeatedly targeted commercial vessels, leading some of the world s biggest shipping firms to suspend routes in the area. with more context, here s our business reporter david waddell. let us have a look at the situation. there are where the attacks occurred. at the northern end is the suez canal. you can t make your way unless you first pass this checkpoint. two companies. maersk, the container company and hapag lloyd another big shipping container company have both announced that they would not be making that passage. you have to pass the cape of good hope in south africa. that adds nearly 11,000 nautical miles to thejourney. adds nearly 11,000 nautical miles to the journey. there is another separate issue for the ships trying to traverse through the atlantic ocean and the pacific o
Kitchen charity arrived at the hospital after their car was hit by an air strike. The Israeli Military says its investigating the incident. In a statement on X Formerly Twitter world Central Kitchen said it was aware of the reports. They described them as a tragedy , saying humanitarian aid workers and civilians should never be a target. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed one australian woman was among those killed Lalzawmi Zomi frankcom who you can see on the left here. Mr albanese said hes contacted israels ambassador to ask for accountability. The truth is that this is beyond, beyond any reasonable circumstance that someone going about providing aid and humanitarian assistance should lose their life. And there were four aid workers as well as palestinian driver in this vehicle. This is a Human Tragedy that should never have occurred. That is completely unacceptable. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic service. Various details are coming through, what more