hello, i m samantha simmonds, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. the director of gaza s biggest hospital says it has now run out of water leaving people there screaming from thirst . he accused israel of blowing up al shifa s main water line. israeli forces are continuing to search the gaza city hospital, which the military says has been a key command centre for hamas. the army took the bbc into a small part of the hospital, and was shown rifles, ammunition and body armour which israel says hamas had hidden there. the idf also said it had found laptops containing photos and videos of hostages held by hamas considered a terror organisation by the uk and many other western governments. israeli military restrictions meant that our correspondent lucy williamson wasn t allowed to speak to doctors or patients but her words aren t censored, and she described what she saw. we are in an israeli military vehicle insi
hello welcome to bbc news, i m mark lowen. we are coming to you live from southern israel. israel has promised to provide proof to back up its claim that hamas was using gaza s largest hospital as a command centre. hamas has repeatedly denied the allegations. president biden says the us has asked israel to be incredibly careful, as its military operation at al shifa hospital, which began yesterday, continues. the one thing that has been established is that hamas does have headquarters, weapons, material below this hospital and i suspect others. our correspondent lucy williamson has been with the idf at al shifa hospital where israel has promised to show proof of a hamas command centre at gaza s largest hospital. she spoke to us from jerusalem. israel is really coming under pressure to prove why it carried out the operation it is carrying out in gaza and driving into gaza last night it was clear the scale of the military operation there. parts of city looked as if it had been
is needed to mitigate the extremely precarious- - - precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, precarious. this is volker turk in geneva. laying precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, laying out precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, laying out his precarious. this is volker turk in geneva, laying out his latest - geneva, laying out his latest findings, saying the large number of civilian deaths cannot be dismissed as collateral damage. there are warnings by his office, and this is where we paused to say goodbye to our viewers around the world. volker turk, the un human rights chief, laying out his findings in geneva after a visit to this region. warning of the large liberal civilian deaths cannot be dismissed, in his words, as collateral damage. warning that the warnings by his office have long been ignored, in his words, by israel and its allies, calling for a collective punishment to end, and for the hostages to be released, and calling for the adherence to
was using gaza s largest hospital as a command centre. in southern gaza, israeli forces have started dropping leaflets in the khan younis area, warning people to evacuate their homes and head to shelters for their own safety. similar leaflets were also dropped over northern gaza weeks before the ground offensive, suggesting imminent military operations may be planned for the south. so let s get the very latest from my colleague mark lowen, who is in southern israel. thank you very much indeed. we were going to be live with you in that headline sequence, but we had to dash because there was a rocket that was just fired above our heads and intercepted by israel s iron dome anti missile system. there was a siren that went out, so we just had to take cover. in the distance, a very large plume of smoke there were an air strike very large plume of smoke there were an airstrike has very large plume of smoke there were an air strike has recently hit. a sign ofjust how constant the th