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and governmental capabilities and do everything possible to bring our hostages home. meanwhile, the us president says israel has a right to defend itself against terrorists, but must protect innocent civilians. speaking at a joint press conference with australian prime minister anthony albanese, joe biden said there s no going back to the status quo the israelis and palestinians had before the hamas attack. the president also cast doubt on some of hamas s claims. what they say to me as they have no notion that the palestinians are telling the truth about how many people were killed. i m sure innocents have been killed, and it s the price of waging a war. i think we should be incredibly careful. i think now israel should be incredibly careful to be sure that they re focusing on going after the focus that are propagating this war against israel, and it s against their interest when that doesn t happen. but i have no confidence in the number that the palestinians are using ....
this is bbc news. the headlines the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, gives a statement saying the country is preparing for a ground invasion, but doing everything possible to bring hostages home. he encourages israeli citizens to carry weapons. some aid gets into gaza, but the un warns it will have to stop its operations in gaza tonight if it runs out of fuel. the us house of representatives elects little known republican mikejohnson as its next speaker, breaking the three week deadlock in the chamber. and in westminster, mps vote to suspend former conservative minister peter bone after investigation found he d bullied a staff member. hurricane otis hits southern mexico, slamming ashore near acapulco as a category five storm before weakening. welcome back. more now on our main story. next more on the war between israel and hamas and the bombardment of gaza from israel. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 6,500 people have been killed since ....
20 vehicles carrying medicine and food passed through on saturday the first since israel tightened its blockade of the territory. the rafah crossing is on the egyptian border and is the only route not bordering israel, which means it s currently the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. we ll have the latest on the aid trying to get into gaza in the next hour. in other developments in the conflict today, iran s foreign minister has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza, and has warned the situation in the middle east risks spiralling out of control. israel has been continuing to carry out aerial bombing of gaza. these pictures are from the past hour. it s nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which 1,400 people were killed. the palestinian health ministry says about 4,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. israel s military has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for t ....
with the leaders of the uk, canada, france, germany and italy. france s president, emmanuel macron, and the dutch prime minister, mark rutte, have also now announced they ll also visit on monday and tuesday. at the rafah border crossing , several trucks from a second convoy at the rafah border crossing, several trucks from a second convoy carrying humanitarian aid from egypt have crossed into the gaza strip. the convoy had earlier been detained at the rafah crossing for several hours so that they could be searched to ensure they were carrying only aid. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has warned iran against any escalation of the israel gaza war. he was speaking on cbs news, after iran s foreign minster warned israel and the us, the middle east may go out of control if israel military action continues, and blamed the us for providing military support to israel. with more on all of this, here s our correspondent wyre davies injerusalem. israeli air strikes ag ....
waiting to take humanitarian aid from egypt to the gaza strip. the 17 vehicles at rafah were being searched to ensure they were carrying only humanitarian aid. 20 vehicles, loaded with medicines and food, passed through on saturday the first since israel tightened its blockade of the territory more than two weeks ago. the rafah crossing is on the egyptian border and is the only route not bordering israel, which means it s currently the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. in other developments, iran s foreign minister has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza and warned the situation in the middle east risks spiralling out of control. israel has been continuing to carry out aerial bombing of gaza. it s nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which 1,400 people were killed. the health ministry in gaza says about ii,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. israel s military has warne ....