philippe lazzarini said they were leaving without safe passage or protection, heading to areas with little water or sanitation. more than a million palestinians had taken refuge in the city after it was designated a safe zone early on in the conflict. this development comes as israel s military says it s recovered the body of another hostage inside gaza. the remains have been identified as ron benjamin, who the military says was killed in the october 7th attack by hamas. and in a further development, the israeli war cabinet minister, benny gantz, is threatening to bring down prime minister benjamin netanyahu s government if he doesn t agree to his post war plan for gaza within three weeks. here s what he said. translation: the people of israel are watching you. i you must choose between zionism and cynicism, between unity and factions, between responsibility and lawlessness, between victory and disaster. if you put the national over the personal and chose to follow in the f
the situation on the frontline is tough regional governor of ukraine s northeastern kharkiv region said that nearly 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, since russia s ground attack there last week. let s hearfrom president zelensky about those troop shortages. translation: we need to staff the reserve. there are a serious number of brigades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so that guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. earlier, 0ur correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse told me how ukraine is now in a different chapter of the war with morale very low. you have ukrainian forces which are thought to make up around half a million personnel, either fighting on the front line or in operations around it. you now have a large proportion of those who are exhausted, who have been fighting for the best part of two years with little to no rest. and then you have men either avoiding or fearful of the draft being l
and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. mr zelensky also said the military was still short of manpower and russia could increase its attacks in ukraine s north east following its recent gains near the city of kharkiv. translation: we need to staff the reserve. - there are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse outlined how desperate this need is for air defences. well, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list, that s been the case for the last year or so, because of two things russia has continued to launch missile attacks on cities across ukraine, but it has become more dominant in the air, right across the front line. so that means that when you have exhausted, thinly stretched ukrainian troops trying to defend cities, you have russian fighterjets flying in and dropping missiles
new law was needed. translation: we need to staff the reserve- translation: we need to staff the reserve. there translation: we need to staff the reserve. there are translation: we need to staff the reserve. there are a serious number of grades that a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. after russian troops crossed the border into northeastern ukraine last week president putin has said there are no plans to capture the country s second city kharkiv at least for now. the russian leader said his forces were advancing in order to protect the russian border region. here is the latest on how the battlefield looks, from uk military intelligence: the red areas are russian occupied, with the arrows showing likely points of russian attack. the recent focus of attention is here in the northeast, near kharkiv, where fierce fighting has been taking place. the yellow represents new gains claimed
it s calling on the un s top court to reject south africa s appeal. meanwhile, south africa s lawyers accused israel of behaving with legal impunity something israel denies. israel is escalating its attacks on palestinians in gaza and in so doing he is wilfully breaching the binding orders of this court. israel similarly breaches the binding resolutions of the united nations security council. we had posts nations security council. we had posts that israel s army is the most had posts that israel s army is the most moral army in history and we the most moral army in history and we have heard denials that there and we have heard denials that there is and we have heard denials that there is famine in gaza. four months. there is famine in gaza. four months, people, particularly in the west. months, people, particularly in the west, have appeared unwilling to accept that the accusations are true. our correspondent, anna holligan, sent us this update from the hague.