Hello and welcome. Im sarah campbell. Americas top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has arrived in israel in the past hour, as the us and other nations try to prevent a wider Conflict Erupting in the middle east. Theres also growing diplomatic pressure to get Essential Supplies into gaza which has been sealed off after hamas launched attacks into israel. Here are some of the latest developments. The United Nations says more than 338,000 people have now been forced to flee their homes in gaza and food, fuel and water are urgently needed. Ahead of a possible incursion into gaza, the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has established a National Emergency unity government with Opposition Leader, benny gantz. Israel has continued its mobilisation of troops. Hundreds of thousands are on the southern boundary with gaza. President biden says hes told mr netanyahu that israel must abide by the rules of war, in its fight against hamas. All this as israeli air strikes on gaza continue. The Pale
And khan younis areas. It says tents, food, water, and medication will be available. The Israeli Defence minister yoav gallant said Military Action against hamas in rafah is needed because of the groups refusal to negotiate the release of israeli hostages. A hamas official has described the move as a dangerous escalation. Jordan said what it called another massacre of palestinians was in the making. Egypt has urged israel to exercise maximum restraint. Jan egeland, secretary general of the norwegian refugee council, told us more about the situation in rafah. The fear is all over rafah now, because the idf has given us a map with eight sectors that are red and people are forced to leave them. Its a forced relocation, which is a violation of international law, because there is no safe place to go, there is no aid for them ready there. There is no shelter and there is no return guaranteed for the people. So we are appealing for them to not invade rafah. Its the largest cluster of Displace
Hello, im Matthew Amroliwala , welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We begin in the us and the Student Protests sweeping the country against the war in gaza. Overnight, these were the scenes on campuses on the west coast and east coast. Clashes between Rival Student Groups and clashes with police who were called to both the University Of California in los angeles, and Columbia University in new york. At ucla, there were skirmishes between pro israeli and pro Palestinian Protesters, with the Vice Chancellor Calling in police after what she described as horrific acts of violence. Scenes like this went on for hours with pepper spray being used. At Columbia University, where the protests started, police moved in, to disperse students from the encampment that had built up over weeks. Officers dressed in riot gear also cleared students from Hamilton Hall, which had been taken over yesterday. The demonstrators have demanded that th
Loses its conflict with russia. G7 Foreign Ministers are meeting now on the italian island of capri to discuss ukraines urgent appeal for more air defence support and how to use frozen russian assets to assist kyiv. Earlier, i spoke to our security correspondent gordon corera. Potentially, a significant series of arrests by German Authorities yesterday. Theyre certainly suggesting that today, with prosecutors arresting two men, one of those, it appears, had been spending some time carrying out reconnaissance of a Military Facilities. The second man is thought to have assisted him and then, in turn, they are thought to have been in contact with another person linked with russian intelligence services. Some details are emerging about what they may have been looking at. These are Military Facilities inside germany but the suggestion is this wasnt just spying, collecting intelligence that is something that happens normally but they were considering, particularly that one individual sabotag
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