Lets look at the wider situation. With me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. Thank you forjoining us on The Programme. The Breaking News in the last few minutes. We knew that the israelis had discovered some bodies in rafah. Now we know that one of them is an American Citizen. What more do we know about whats happening there at the moment . 50 whats happening there at the moment . ~ whats happening there at the moment . ~. ,. , moment . So we knew about recovering moment . So we knew about recovering the moment . So we knew about recovering the Bodies Moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of the | recovering the bodies of the hostages a few hours ago. And the announcement from the White House came just a few minutes ago that one of these bodies is american. The American Citizen is hersh Goldberg Polin, and his parents were really vocal about him. They had interviews in the us and in israel, and i gets you did an interview with
Elsewhere, three israelis have elsewhere, three israelis have died when their vehicle died when their vehicle was fired on near the city was fired on near the city of hebron in the of hebron in the occupied West Bank. Occupied West Bank. With me is Mohamed Taha with me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. From bbc arabic. Lets start with the news of lets start with the news of the bodies of the six hostages the bodies of the six hostages were found. What more do we were found. What more do we know about the operation to find and recover the bodies . Know about the operation to find and recover the bodies . The operation was to secure a the operation was to secure a tunnel where the forces found tunnel where the forces found and alive hostage last week. And alive hostage last week. The israeli forces were trying the israeli forces were trying to clear the tunnel and they to clear the tunnel and they found the bodies there so they found the bodies there so they didnt go there upon didnt go t
Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and
In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
Each ” away ” éééhasyyou russian roulette. Each day you can only guess who and what moscow will target next. Today, russian bombs killed people in an apartment block. They also killed a in a killed a 14 year old girl in a playground. The guided bombs moscow used to attack kharkiv, they are not ballistic rockets their main aim is to purpose, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, keogh says. There for they ask their partners to provide them with long range weapons and president zelensky has already responded to this attack by once again calling on his partners to allow them to use these weapons to hit targets deep inside russia. Ukraine currently cannot use weapons provided such as missiles to hit deep inside russia and the ukrainian partners say that if they allow them to do so it will only escalate the war. However, the ukrainian authorities say that these weapons will be used only to hit military targets such as airfields