Killed by israeli fire. The funerals for some of the hostages have been held. These pictures are from raanana, just north of Tel Aviv, where a service was held for almog sarusi. Our middle East Correspondent Lucy williamson reports now on the growing pressures on israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, Israels Army says they were shot by hamas in a Tunnel Under Rafah as israeli forces battled above them. Almog seroussi, alexander lobanov, ori danino, eden yerushalmi, whose last words to her sister were, theyve caught me. And hersh goldberg polin, a 23 year old us israeli citizen, and carmel gat, a therapist who was described by other hostages as their guardian angel. Carmel s family said she and hersh were due to be released in a deal outlined in july. Her Cousin Today inconsolable. Its too late for us. Its too late for carmel. I will never hug her again. B
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
Face to face with the man they believe led hamas here. Inside the white car, wissam khazem, shot dead by the army. And with him, two other men who tried to escape. Killed in an airstrike as they ran. Israel says all were involved in shooting and bombing attacks. The eastern areas ofjenin and its refugee camp have both been sealed off for the last three days and there are fresh reports of casualties including an 82 year old man who paramedics said was shot nine times. This morning, the army pulled out of the camp in tulkarem. The destruction there enough to remind residents of a war. Umm yazan said the army laid wires from this woman s home to blow up two houses opposite. Families she has known for decades. Translation: i have tenyearold triplets | and they trapped us in a room and then they started the explosions. Five explosions in total. Imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. It feels like we are in gaza. We met fadwa, stranded by the rubble that used to be he
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The army. With him, two other men who tried to escape. Killed in an air strike as they ran. Israel says all were involved in shooting and bombing attacks. The eastern areas ofjenin and its refugee camp have both been sealed off for the past three days and there are fresh reports of casualties including an 82 year old man who paramedics said was shot nine times. This morning the army pulled out of the camp. The destruction of their camp enough to remind residents of the war. This woman says the army lead wires from her home to blow up two of the houses opposite. Families she has known for decades. Translation: i have 10yearold triplets l and they trapped us in the room. Then they started the explosions. Five explosions. Imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. It feels like we are in gaza. We saw this lady s old house. Translation: they told us we have tunnels and we smuggle the armed groups here. He claimes we had tunnels. All he found was a sewer drain. Later she s