hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u.s. and all around the world, i m max foster joining you live from london, 9:00 a.m. in london, 11:00 a.m. in gaza, where the war is about to start the second month. with pushes under way to prevent wider conflict in the region, secretary of state antony blinken is in turkey right now meeting with his turkish counterpart. u.s. officials say he will underscore the importance of protecting civilian lives during that meeting on sunday, blinken made an announced visit to iraq to discuss the hamas conflict. in gaza, communications are down, and there was a complete interruption on sunday. the telecom network services aid agencies say they lost contact with its workers the third communications blackout. it comes as the head of 18 aid agencies including usaid agencies called for a human taken cease-fire in both israel and the palestinian territories. the search continues for survivors of a deadly blast in the refugee cam
to leave for their safety. images show craters and levelled buildings. the bbc can t verify most battlefield claims immediately but the idf say the target was ibrahim biari, a senior hamas battalion commander that the idf describes as pivotal to the planning of the october 7th attacks. jeremy bowen s report contains scenes you may find appalling. the israeli army says the strike killed a senior hamas commander. and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as human shields in a cruel and brutal manner and that the air strikes caused the collapse of underground hamas bunkers. israel ordered civilians to leave this area. many did. many others did not. the un said some people even returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an unknown number of people are buried under the rubble. they were pulling out children. he says, oh, god, my three children are gone. three kids. i hope i can find one of them alive. i didn t bid them farewe
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems, economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syri
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems, economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syri
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syria