Barely any aid had been reaching the region after other crossings were closed. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. Good morning to you. So, lets talk about rafah to start with before we move onto humanitarian aid. What is happening in rafah . The humanitarian aid. What is happening in rafah . The idf are askin happening in rafah . The idf are asking more happening in rafah . The idf are asking more people happening in rafah . The idf are asking more people to happening in rafah . The idf are asking more people to leave asking more people to leave rafah, they asked last week that people in the eastern part of rafah to leave near khan younis. Now they are expanding this area to a larger area to ask people to leave rafah, the ground of enzyme rafah, there are many warnings from the united states, from the uk, from the National Agency that this widening area of fighting in rafah lots of humanitarian crisis, would cause lots of Human Casualties between civilians and the situation in ra
Im lauren taylor. Israel is marking memorial day, which honours its war dead as its offensive in gaza continues. Ceremonies are getting under way as we speak, right now, sirens are sounding across the country to honour Fallen Soldiers and victims of terror attack. Im not playing at santry because of Broadcasting Restrictions in the us. We are not playing at sound because of Broadcasting Restrictions in the us. This year, israelis are also commemorating the more than 1000 victims of the hamas attack on october seventh, which triggered the current war. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attending the main State Ceremony at mount herzl injerusalem, followed by another event in memory of victims of terror at 1pm local time. 0ther ministers are attending ceremonies taking place right now around the country, despite some bereaved families urging them to stay away. Politicians from across the spectrum have urged keeping the deep political divisions and heated discourse out of the memorial d
An israeli bombardment in the Eastern Parts Of Rafah has already displaced Tens Of Thousands of palestinians. Mr blinken has been talking to cbs news as we look at rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but potentially at an incredibly high cost to civilians. But one that is not durable, one that is not sustainable, and they will be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency because a lot of armed hamas will be left, no matter what they do in rafah. Or if they leave and get out of gaza, as we believe they need to do, then youre going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that is likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by hamas again. So, weve been working for many weeks on developing credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding. We havent seen that come from israel. Weve been working with arab countries and others on that plan. We need to see that, too. Pick we have the same objective as israel. We want to make sure that hamas cannot govern gaz