welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. first, we re going to look at the new political situation in israel. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the opposition leader benny gantz have agreed to form an emergency government to manage the country s response to saturday s attacks by hamas. the death toll from the attacks has reached 1,200. as israel continues its bombardment of gaza for a fifth day, there are concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian situation. gaza s health ministry says 1,100 people have been killed in air strikes. gaza s only power station has run out of fuel after israel announced it was cutting off energy supplies as well as food and water. 0utside gaza, the israeli military says hundreds of thousands of troops are gathering in preparation for would could be a ground invasion against hamas, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by many countries, including the us, uk and egypt. f
hello, i m anna foster. we begin with some breaking news about the rafah crossing, the exit of foreign citizens from gaza it appears has been stopped for now. none of them have come out of the crossing so far today. the egyptian authorities are suggesting that no foreign passport holders will be permitted to cross into egypt from gaza until injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafa. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped from gaza into egypt through the crossing in the last few days. i vejust been through the crossing in the last few days. i ve just been talking to our producer in cairo and he says that what is unclear at the moment is what is unclear at the moment is what bar is being put on this, whether it is all of the injured in hospitals in gaza or whether it is a question of the numbers actually rising again because there was nearly 80 injured palestinians who left through that crossing on the first day it was opened and that number has droppe