anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
attacks on schools and hospitals. so we don t know the accusations that the israeli military is facing, but obviously, thousands of children have been killed since this war against hamas started, as the result of those attacks on the 7th of october, and we have seen that thousands more are in desperate need of aid. there is a huge humanitarian crisis going on in gaza. we saw days ago a school being used as a shelter by displaced palestinians in the same refugee camp in central gaza that was hit in an israeli air strike. the israeli military said it was targeting hamas members who were using it as a base to plan and carry out attacks. but critics of the israeli military say that even though the military claims that many of those facilities are being used by hamas as bases to carry out attacks, they say that this cannot be used as a justification for attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties. so again, we see today that this huge rescue operation has resulted
daniel hagari has said that israeli forcies rescued hostages from hamas whilst under fire. this morning at 11am israeli special forces conducted a complex rescue mission and successfully rescued four of our hostages from hamas captivity in gaza. noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andri kozlov. they are back home in israel. they are alive, they are well. they will undergo medical examination and will soon be reunited with their families in the hospital. noa, almog, andri and shlomi were rescued after 246 days in hamas captivity after they were brutally kidnapped from the nova music festival on the 7th of october. this was a high risk, complex mission, based on precise intelligence, conducted in daylight, in two separate buildings deep inside gaza. while underfire, underfire inside the buildings, under fire on the way out from gaza, our forces rescued our hostages. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training.
in good medical condition, we are told. this is the hospital where they are being brought to to be checked and to be met by their families who have been brought there to wait for them. this is the medical centre where they are going to be treated. security forces are making every effort to bring other hostages home, we are told by our middle east correspondent who is in jerusalem. as of the 3rd ofjune a total of 120 hostages remained unaccounted for after being kidnapped last october. according to israel 251 israelis and foreigners were taken during those attacks. as were taken during those attacks. as we know israel has been going to enormous lengths to try to find out the whereabouts of these hostages. we can show you some of the pictures that we have got of some of the hostages. this is noa argamani, 25 year old, being reunited with her father in that short video clip we have received. families are absolutely desperate for information for a long, long time as to what has h
mission and successfully rescued four of our hostages from hamas captivity in gaza. noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andri kozlov. they are back home in israel. they are alive, they are well. they will undergo a medical examination and will soon be reunited with their families in the hospital. they were rescued after 246 days in hamas captivity after they were brutally kidnapped from they were brutally kidnapped from the nova music festival on the 7th of october. this was a high risk, complex mission, based on precise intelligence, conducted in daylight, into separate buildings deep inside gaza. while underfire, underfire inside the buildings, underfire on the way out from gaza, our forces rescued our hostages. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. this is what we do in israel. we risk our lives to save the lives of our hostages. while we ar