After an israeli air strike on the Southern City of rafah, where more than a million displaced palestinians are sheltering. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza says more than 3a,000 people have died since the start of the war in october. Emergency workers in khan younis say theyve uncovered nearly 200 bodies buried in the courtyard of a hospital. Al nasser had been at the centre of an Israeli Military operation until two weeks ago. The World Health Organization has previously said bodies were being buried within hospitals under israeli siege, but palestinians have accused Israeli Forces of killing some of the victims. Israel accuses hamas of using medical facilities in gaza as command centres. Heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, with more. Major general Aharon Haliva is the most senior israeli official we have had so far to step down from his role in connection with the failings that led to the october seven attacks by hamas that really shocked israel and shocked the
Him in the days following the attacks. However, his resignation has only come now. This likely reflects the greater visibility of his resignation and indeed replacement at this point in time. Originally when we go back to the 7th of october, the idf was going to launch a large Scale Ground operations into gaza and those required incredible Intelligence Collection needs, and therefore didnt make sense from a human Resources Perspective for haliva to remain in place. However, now that we are seeing the shift into more targeted operations in gaza, less of these large scale territorial operations we saw in the early days in november or december and that becomes more feasible now. It is now more possible to find out put in his replacement as we see this operational shift. Replacement as we see this operationalshift. I replacement as we see this operational shift. I suppose thats the question, isnt it . How does this leave the idf militarily . How much of a loss is this for them . Obviously