To the wrecked city of khan younis have spoken to the bbc of returning to widespread destruction. Israels military revealed on sunday, it was reducing its numbers of soldiers from Southern Gaza leaving just one brigade in the area. From Southern Gaza leaving just the Israeli Military has stressed though a significant force would remain in gaza. Lets go straight to our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet whos injerusalem. This is a new phase in the israel gaza war as it reaches its six month mark, orsimply gaza war as it reaches its six month mark, or simply visit a pause in the fighting . Israel announced yesterday it was pulling out all of its troops from Southern Gaza does lead to much speculation here about what this means for the future months of this process. Does it mean that there is, as many are speculating, and into the ground up prison operations, or is it as israel says a moment to let its troops rest and regroup in order to prepare for what president netanyahu sa
in the talks to say that a deal could be on the way. us officials have previously said an agreement is closer than ever before. it s believed negotiators have been discussing a multi day truce, aid deliveries and an exchange for palestinians held in israeli jails. but the talks, mediated by qatar, are complex, and israel is yet to comment. live now to my colleague mark lowen, who s injerusalem. thank you very much indeed. the families of the 240 or so hostages still held since hamas since the 7th of october are waiting anxiously for news to try to soothe their trauma. there are signs that weight that progress has been made, with the president of the international committee of the red cross and qatar, the country apparently leading negotiations on the release of the hostages. you will remember that the icrc was involved in bringing back four hostages in october. but there is growing anger 0ctober. but there is growing anger here from some family members of hostages on th
hello, i m christian fraser. the hamas run health authorities say at least 80 people have been killed in two israeli strikes on the jabaliya refugee camp in northern gaza. they say one hit a un run school that was being used as a shelter. a spokesman for the israeli military told bbc news it was looking into the incident but couldn t say if it had been caused by israeli action. hamas says the second strike was also on a school, saying it killed 32 members of one family, including 19 children. there has been graphic video posted online. bbc verify has gelocated it to the un run school, al fakhoura. the weather conditions in the video match today s forecast. and no previous versions of the video have been found online. this is some of that video but much of it is too graphic for us to broadcast. many people, including women and children, are seen with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor in different parts of the building. many of the casualties were in one room on