hours, and its forces have cut the gaza strip in two, with gaza city now encircled. but strikes were not confined to the north of the gaza strip. this is deir al balah, in central gaza. many casualties arrived at hospitals on carts pulled by donkeys, after a communications blackout meant people could not call for ambulances. the israel defence forces are trying to destroy hamas, which it says killed more than 1,400 people in southern israel on october 7th, and is classified a terrorist organisation by western governments, including the us and the uk. our first report is from our international editorjeremy bowen. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living, as well as avenging instead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl, from jabalya camp, is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us, bricks fell on us. i asked, where is my dad and where is my mum?” she is asked, where wer
interference and political warfare. the former president and two of his sons are accused of fraudulently inflating the value of assets owned by the trump 0rganisation by billions of dollars. this is what he said going in. this comes at a time when the former president is by far the favourite to become the republican nominee for the presidential election. this is what he said going in. and it s a very sad situation - for our country, we shouldn t have this is for third world countries. and it s very unfair, it s very unfair. - but in the meantime, - the people of the country understand it, they see it, and they don t like it, - they don t like it, because it s political warfare, as you would call it, or political lawfare, another name i got a lot of names for it, but usually it takes placel in third world countries and banana republics. i nobody s ever seen that to this . extent, we ve never seen it here. but we will go along - and we will hopefully do very well in eve
since the fighting began. israel said its troops had reached the coastline to the south of gaza city saying that it had now effectively divided the territory in two. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, who s been meeting regional leaders, said a humanitarian pause in gaza would be welcome. but israel said it needs progress on the release of hostages before agreeing to any pause in its offensive. hundreds of thousands of people are going hungry in gaza as food and water supplies run out, the world food programme has warned. the agency has told the bbc exclusively that out of 130 bakeries operating in gaza before the war, ii have been destroyed by israeli air strikes. many of those remaining are unable to operate due to shortage of fuel and flour. bbc arabic s adnan al bursh has visited some bakeries in southern gaza. long queues, frustrated families. these scenes have become a norm outside gaza s bakeries. translation: i have an entire family of at least 20 people w
america s top diplomat antony blinken held talks in ankara with his turkish counterpart, as he continues to push for humanitarian pauses in the fighting. in other news, prince william has been dragon boat racing and meeting with singapore s leaders ahead of his annual earthshot prize ceremony. # memories, like the corners of my mind. # the funny girl on the way we were barbra streisand reflects on the challenges of being a woman at the top of her profession during her six decade long career. you are watching bbc news. i am sarah campbell. more now on the israel gaza war and the us is devoting several senior members of the biden adminstration to try to find a diplomatic way forward. vice president kamala harris will host a phone call with world leaders later on monday, the director of the cia is in israel to talk about intelligence co operation and the secretary of state, antony blinken, has arrived in turkey for talks with his counterpart in ankara. it s the fourth day of
israel s military says it is looking into whether it was operating in the area at the time. daniel clarkey said troops have allowed isolation corridor. translation: allowed isolation corridor. translation: ., ., translation: today the unit and circled the city translation: today the unit and circled the city of translation: today the unit and circled the city of gaza, translation: today the unit and circled the city of gaza, they - circled the city of gaza, they reached the beach at the southern part of the city of gaza and they ve encircled gaza and today we have gaza north and today we have gaza north and gaza south. they ve reached the shoreline, they are hoping the shoreline, they are hoping the shoreline, they are hoping the shoreline, we are still allowing for a corridor to enable the residents of the north of the gaza strip and people of the residents of the city of gaza to go south. it is a one way corridor going south and we will continue to strike forcefully,