Hello, im lucy hockings. Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Israels military says it carried out a new ground raid in gaza overnight to target hamas fighters. Infantry and armoured units were accompanied by Helicopter Gunships as they entered eastern gaza city. These pictures, supplied by the idf, apparently show a Hamas Tunnel Being struck by a guided missile. Launch sites for anti tank missiles and command and control centres were also hit. The army said it killed a senior hamas commander and all israeli troops exited the area with no injuries. This is the second brief ground raid in as many days. The israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted a full offensive is coming. The main un agency in the gaza strip is again warning its humanitarian work is becoming more difficult because of a lack of fuel in the territory. The head of unrwa says basic services are crumbling, with food and water running out and streets overflowing wi
With longer spells of rain and also blustery winds. A big area of low Pressure Setting to the west of ireland, smaller Low Pressure Systems around it, one that spreads northwards through the country on Saturday Night bringing some areas a lot of rain but the Rainfall Totals will be totting up for all areas but especially for the east of scotland which has already seen severe Flooding Problems so any more rain could be bad news and could be quite a lot, up to 100 millimetres of rain even into the start of november. Through tonight, the rain keeps on coming across eastern scotland, strong winds and elsewhere clear spells and scattered showers. The temperature ranging from 5 11 c. Into the first part of the week, little change, holding on to the rain across eastern scotland, sunshine and scattered showers, some of them heavy and thundery. Later in the afternoon we see the area of low pressure pushing on to the south bringing more consistent rain and strong winds. Saturday night and early
the israel defense forces, when the ceasefire took effect around half an hour ago now, put out a statement directed at palestinians in gaza. i want to read it. it says the water is not over yet, the humanitarian pauseis not over yet, the humanitarian pause is temporary, the northern gaza strip is a dangerous war zone and it is forbidden to move north. for your safety, you must remain in the trinitarian zone in the south. it is only possible to move to the north of the strip to the south via a read. movement to the south from the south of the north is not allowed and dangerous. that feeds into what you are saying that this humanitarian pause, many have been displaced from the north to the south you might have been hoping to go back to see what remained of their homes, to try and gather together some more possessions, a very clear message to them that over the next few days even though this temporary pause infighting has taken effect, people are being told that they can t re