Gazas hamas controlled Health Ministry says 7,326 people have been killed in the strip after nearly three weeks of bombardment. More than 40 of them are children. And a senior un official is warning that many more will die from the catastrophic Aid Shortages caused by israels total siege. Israels military says it carried out a new raid in gaza overnight targeting hamas fighters, with ground units accompanied by helicopter gunships. These pictures, supplied by the idf, apparently show a Hamas Tunnel Being struck by a guided missile. Launch sites for anti tank missiles and command and control centres were also hit and the army says it killed a senior hamas commander. Its the second brief ground raid in as many days. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted a full offensive is coming. The main un agency in the gaza strip has again warned that its humanitarian work is becoming more difficult because of the lack of fuel in the territory. The head of unrwa said more aid urgently needs
but going by what we ve already heard from us officials one major goal mightjust be simply improving communication. live now to san francisco. we can speak to sumi somaskanda. the white house has been playing down what we can expect. it is an important meeting, nonetheless? that is absolutel important meeting, nonetheless? twat is absolutely right. this is being called a significant meeting but they are talking about talking, about re establishing a lot of communication, not only between president biden and president xi at the highest level, but military to military. there was this accusation from the us that china had flown a spy from the us that china had flown a spy balloon and then either shut down the spy billing. the chinese rejected those accusations. at that time the us military try to help china never depicted. it was a source of great consternation in the us. who do we call in the future, will somebody pick up? that is the basis of what they are discussing, by 30
hello, i m maryam moshiri. welcome to verified live. the head of gaza s biggest hospital says a mass grave is being dug for nearly 180 people, after it ran out of fuel. fighting between the israeli military and hamas continues around the al shifa hospital. that s prompted growing international concern, with president biden saying he wants less intrusive action . medical staff at al shifa say the lives of 36 premature babies are hanging in the balance. this is an image of some of those children made public by the hospital on sunday. it said they had been placed on a bed after the fuel ran out to power the generators to keep their incubators going. their current condition is not known, although a hospital spokesperson on monday said three of the original 39 babies had died. israel insists it is only targeting hamas, and that their command centre is in tunnels beneath the hospital. it has also released these images, which it says are of incubators which it is offering to supp