charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
seen it in appalling increase of economic inequality particularly for women and girls around the world. and a really frightening increase of violence against women and girls which is a direct result of the pressures of the pandemic. it will not help us to come out of this moment if all we tackle is the vaccine. we need to be putting policies, funding into place to prevent violence against women and girls around the world which is a shadow pandemic which is stalking the globe right now. unfortunately the globe right now. unfortunately the uk government has made public statements, which we really welcome about violence against women and girls, behind the scenes, the funding is disappearing. frances longley is ceo of actionaid the international charity.