0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israel s siege. the un calls it a betrayal of humanity. kibbutz nir oz, right on israel s border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. hamas broke in at dawn. they killed and took hostage a quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. sayed was laying there dead. you could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. the army opened the door later. ron and his family survived in their safe room. then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. in this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. the interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. going around this place, you can understand why israel
0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israel s siege. the un calls it a betrayal of humanity. kibbutz nir oz, right on israel s border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. hamas broke in at dawn. they killed and took hostage a quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. sayed was laying there dead. you could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. the army opened the door later. ron and his family survived in their safe room. then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. in this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. the interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. going around this place, you can understand why israel
mr netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages, captured by hamas in october, were released. translation: the achievements of the war are great. we eliminated 19 out of 2a of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. we killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. we purged shifa and many other terrorist headquarters as well. we destroyed factories, manufacturing rockets, control rooms, weapons, ammunition, and we continue to systematically destroy what is underground. we are one step away from victory. israel is not the one preventing a deal. hamas prevents a deal. its extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war and leave it intact, meaning to ensure its survival, its rehabilitation, its ability to endanger our citizens and our soldiers. surrendering to hamas demands will allow it to try to repeat the crimes of october seventh again and again, as it promised to do. hamas hopes that the pressure fr
october 7th six months ago that hamas fighters stormed into towns and that they then took more than 250 hostages and killed more than 1000 people. the attack sparked what s become the deadliest and most destructive israel gaza war, killing over thirty thousand palestinians according to the hamas run health ministry. the un says it gaza is now on the brink of famine. here in israel, the hostages are described as an open wound. there are there a re protests there are protests across tel aviv demanding that the government does more to bring hostages home. their anger was intensified by news that our body was recovered in another military operation. elad katzir was taken on october and seventh, along with his mother and father. his father was murdered that day, and his mother was released that was released in november as part of a temporary ceasefire deal. pressure is mounting on negotiators to try and achieve a more lasting ceasefire. indirect talks between israel and hamas h
but england have already taken the series. welcome to the programme. it doesn t always live up to its hype, but the manchester united liverpool battle at old trafford was exhilarating and it was end to end. the high tempo match finished 2 2 with both sides missing chances to take the victory. liverpool will be disappointed not to have taken the opportunity to go top of the league, instead, they had to come from behind to rescue a point. ben croucher was watching. in the premier league era, manchester united have the history. for liverpool, well, this modern version let their actions speak louder, in a game where it s important to let the neighbours know you re there. or in luis diaz s case, sneaking around the back unnoticed. the opener no more than liverpool deserved. the rain relented, the torrent of efforts on united s goal did not. but 1 0 it remained, enough to keep everyone on tenterhooks, because in this funny old game, absolutely anything can happen. ..from absolute