a busy day of news today. we start live here injerusalem. and as israel intensifies its military operations in the south of the gaza strip, hamas officials say more than 700 palestinians have been killed in the past 2a hours. that number comes from the hamas media office. hamas is considered a terrorist organisation by the uk and us governments. this is live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis. this is an area that has been under frequent assault. further south in the strip, near rafah, at least seven palestinians were killed in an israeli attack in the early hours of sunday. israel says hamas fighters are hiding in the south. we re also keeping an eye on what s happening further north. this is live at the israel gaza border. that skyline which since the fighting began, we have seen the renewed plumes of smoke which had been quiet for a week while the fighting stopped. all this as israel has come under renewed pressure from top figures in the biden administration. the d
intensifies its many operations on the south of the gaza strip. hamas officials have said hundreds of palestinians have been killed in the past 2a hours. it s considered a terror organisation by the uk and us governments among others. we ve seen fresh pictures from khan younis in the southern gaza strip and the scene at some hospitals, an area that has been under frequent assault. we ve also seen further southin assault. we ve also seen further south in the strip in the area near rafa at least seven palestinians killed by an israeli strike in the early hours of sunday morning. israel says hamas fighters are hiding in the south of the strip and thatis hiding in the south of the strip and that is why the military operation is now focused in that area. you can see both inside and outside the hospital, showing people traumatised by these ongoing strikes. these are from reuters news agency and formed earlier today. children among those driven to hospital and carried inside by fami
had been killed. she described the scale of suffering as devastating. the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, in his strongest comments yet on israel s need to protect civilians, said that driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy would replace israel s tactical victory with a strategic defeat. you see in this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat. so, i have repeatedly made clear to israel s leaders that protecting palestinian civilians in gaza is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative. for his part, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the war would continue for as long as hamas was active. translation: we will continue the war until we achieve - all its goals, and it s impossible to achieve those goals without the ground operation. the ground operation was necessary to bring the results until
welcome back, sports day is coming up in a moment. but first a look at some of the other stories making the headlines this hour. gordon brown has described his former minister, glenys kinnock, who s died aged 79, as one of the great women of her generation. baroness kinnock was married for 56 years to the former labour leader, neil kinnock. she spent fifteen years as a member of the european parliament, before eventuallyjoining gordon brown s government. the uk foreign secretary, lord cameron, will travel to washington dc next week to discuss the war in ukraine. he says he wants to reassure us leaders that the united kingdom will stay the course, and galvanise allies, too . uk train drivers continue their strike action as part of a long running dispute over pay. the avanti west coast, chiltern, great northern, thameslink, and wmt train companies were affected on sunday. the aslef union has also imposed an overtime ban over the strike period. the government of peru has announ
gordon brown has described his former minister, glenys kinnock, who s died aged 79, as one of the great women of her generation. baroness kinnock was married for 56 years to the former labour leader, neil kinnock. she spent fifteen years as a member of the european parliament, before eventuallyjoining gordon brown s government. the foreign secretary, lord cameron, will travel to washington dc next week to discuss the war in ukraine. he says he wants to reassure us leaders that the united kingdom will stay the course, and galvanise allies, too . train drivers continue their strike action as part of a long running dispute over pay. the avanti west coast, chiltern, great northern, thameslink, and wmt train companies were affected on sunday. the aslef union has also imposed an overtime ban over the strike period. the government of peru has announced it s increasing the number of tourists allowed at the fifteenth century inca citadel, machu picchu, its most famous historical site