News . Hello and welcome. Im Anna Coren in Hong Kong The Light is now on the Breaking News coming out of gaza the Israeli Military says it recovered the bodies of six hostages from an underground tunnel in the rougher area on saturday the idf has now identified all six saying their families have been notified. They are already dinio carmel gat hersh, goldberg, polin eden, yerushalmi, almog. So rusi and Alex Lobanov israels defensive minister. Defense minister says, and six were killed just before troops could reach them. According to the initial assessment at our disposal, they were brutally murdered by hamas terrorists a short while before we reach them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the hamas terror organization. Sheva books well, the White House put out a statement that reads in part, it is as tragic as it is reprehensible. Make no mistake hamas leaders will pay for these crimes, and we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of
Idf has now identified all six saying their families have been notified Israels Defense Minister says the six were killed just before troops could reach them according to the initial assessment at our disposal, they were brutally murdered by hamas terrorists a short while before we reach them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas Terror Organization Chauvin Book Togo Israeli Cabinet is scheduled to meet one hour from now. Meanwhile, the White House put out a statement that reads in part, it is as tragic as it is, reprehensible. Make no mistake. Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes and we will keep working around the clock but for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages the news had led to protests in israel and new calls for israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a Ceasefire And Hostage deal. The group missing Families Forum is calling for more public protests on sunday for mr. Netanyahu to address the nation. Bola hancocks
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
The guided bombs that moscow used to attack kharkiv, they are not as precise as ballistic rockets or cruise missiles. Their main purpose, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, kyiv says. Therefore they asked 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 storm shadows and other 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 from where russian bombers take off and attack ukrainian cities. On friday, ukraine s president zelensky fired the head of the ukrainian air force, mykola oleshchuk, days after an f 16
Or cruise missiles. Their main purpose, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, kyiv says. Therefore they asked 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 storm shadows and other 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 from where russian bombers take off and attack ukrainian cities. On friday, ukraine s president zelensky fired the head of the ukrainian air force, mykola oleshchuk days after an f 16fighterjet crashed, killing its pilot. The f 16 was recently sent by nato allies. It crashed while