on resuming its military operation, will gaza soon be unliveable? philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. well, it is a pleasure to have you in the studio, but i am very mindful thatjust a few days ago you were in gaza looking at your unrwa relief operations on the ground. you ve come out, you ve had a chance to reflect on what you saw. what were your overriding impressions? it was the second time i went to gaza since the war started, and my impression was that the humanitarian situation has significantly deteriorated. as you said in the introduction, we have 1.7 million people who have been displaced. among them, one million are sheltering in united nations schools or warehouses and premises across the gaza strip. i visited one of these places in khan younis. it s a vocational training centre. we have 35,000 people there. it looked, in a certain extent, like a prison because people shut the door of the compound to prevent new people to come in this
on resuming its military operation, will gaza soon be unliveable? philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. well, it is a pleasure to have you in the studio, but i am very mindful thatjust a few days ago you were in gaza looking at your unrwa relief operations on the ground. you ve come out, you ve had a chance to reflect on what you saw. what were your overriding impressions? it was the second time i went to gaza since the war started, and my impression was that the humanitarian situation has significantly deteriorated. as you said in the introduction, we have 1.7 million people who have been displaced. among them, one million are sheltering in united nations schools or warehouses and premises across the gaza strip. i visited one of these places in khan younis. it s a vocational training centre. we have 35,000 people there. it looked, in a certain extent, like a prison because people shut the door of the compound to prevent new people to come in this
jails. israel says it still expects that to happen but not before friday and there will be a similar delay to the temporary halt in hostilities. hamas says there are still details to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. for now, the fighting continues there was a series of explosions in gaza through the night. israel defence forces say they targeted more than 300 parts of hamas s infrastructure. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will continue to fight hamas until absolute victory is achieved. aid agencies are extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza. some trucks carrying supplies have been able to cross into the territory this week. but pictures like these with people struggling to secure bottles of water in gaza highlight how difficult conditions there are. we begin our coverage with this report from our middle east correspondent yolande knell injerusalem a warning, it does include some distressi
to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. for now, the fighting continues there was a series of explosions in gaza through the night. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will continue to fight hamas until absolute victory is achieved. aid agencies are extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza. some trucks carrying supplies have been able to cross into the territory this week. but pictures like these with people struggling to secure bottles of water in gaza highlight how difficult conditions there are. also today, a doctorfrom gaza s largest hospital, al shifa hospital, have told the bbc that israel have arrested the hospital s director, detained while patients were being evacuated from the hospital. israel have not commented on the reported arrest. israel say that hamas were running a large command centre from beneath that hospital. the uk foreign secretary is in israel today. he said he wanted to see for hi
as well in the last six weeks of a degree in 2a hours or so as they wait for news on the first significant hostage release. this is something we were expecting to happen this morning but we heard late last night that the pause in the fighting and release of hostages from gaza and palestinian prisoners from gaza and palestinian prisoners from israeli jails has now been delayed we were told late yesterday evening and won t happen before friday. let s take a look at some of the details of that agreement that has been arranged. hamas would exchange 50 israeli hostages taken during the attack on the 7th of october for £150 any women and children held in israeli jails. israel says it still expects that to happen but not before friday and there will be a similar delay to the temporary halt in hostilities. hamas says there are still details to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. for now, the fighting continues there was a series of explosions in gaza thr