foster who is in israel. here in the uk. the home office has earmarked at least £700 million to manage the arrival of migrants on small boats until 2030. the projections flew under the radar yet officials published them online last week, as home secretary james cleverly flew to rwanda to sign a new treaty to, quote, stop the boats . they predict the channel crossings could continue up to 203k. 0ur chief political correspondent henry zeffman has more from downing street. it s been the government s mantra for the last three prime ministers, although that does not actually take you back that far in time, given the turmoil in the conservative party, but rishi sunak very much made it his own, at the start of this year he set out five promises for the year ahead and one of them was, in his words, to stop the boats. now, he was dealt a very significant setbackjust a month or so ago when the supreme court ruled that his plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda was in its current for
on khan younis and rafah in the south have continued as have those in the jabaliya refugee camp in the north. israel insists it s making maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties, with un officials describing a degree of panic in medicalfacilities that hasn t been seen before. the un says palestinians who are being told to leave areas which were previously seen as safe, are being pushed into a narrow corner of gaza. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, reports. ominous warnings the israeli flares that hang in the night sky over gaza are followed by the thuds of explosions. rumbling explosion. and on the ground, israel s military says its offensive has now expanded to every part of the palestinian territory. it said its operations here will be of no less strength than those that have devastated the north. explosions, shouting. israel s already ordered more evacuations in the south of gaza, crowded
mohammad shtayyeh, welcome to hardtalk, and thank you forjoining us from ramallah. now, the terrible scenes in rafah are just the latest mass casualty event of this war. as we stand nearly eight months into this phase of the conflict, how do you envisage the current war in gaza coming to an end? well, first of all, i hope there will be an immediate ceasefire and an immediate end to these atrocities that israel is committing against our people. as you rightly said, what is happening in rafah is simply a repetition of what has been happening since october 7th, a very terrible situation, genocide, massive killing and also use of aid and food and water and electricity as a tool for killing good people. there are people who have been killed because of bombing, and there are people who have been dying because of hunger, been dying because of lack of medical treatment. so the situation, really, is very catastrophic. and there isn t anything called refuge. there isn t anything that s