Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
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being held by hamas, a group deemed a terrorist group or organisation by many western governments. lucy manning reports. iris haim held out hope her son yotam would return, that he would be a hostage who came home. last month, yotam, a heavy metal drummer, was metres from safety. he d escaped his hamas captors with two other hostages. they d left signs saying sos and help, three hostages and waved a white flag. but israeli troops mistakenly thought it was a hamas trap and killed them. iris is clear who she blames. hamas is in charge of all of this terrible day, 7th of october, and all the murdered people and all the soldiers that are killed now, it s just the hamas fault. and in an act of forgiveness, days after yotam s death, iris released a message telling the israeli soldiers involved she didn t blame them. why was that important for you? what did you want to say to them? these soldiers, they also have families and mothers. and i was worried for them also. she sobs. this
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