killed had been shot. a video circulated by the afp news agency shows trucks moving quickly past burning debris near a distribution point. people in pre dawn darkness then shout and scream as gunfire is heard. the red crescent said the incident happened after thousands of people gathered for the arrival of food trucks at gaza city s kuwait roundabout. the israeli military says it has no record of the incident described. in the past 2a hours, both the uk and the us military have airdropped food supplies into gaza. our bbc middle east correspondent lucy williamson, was on the us plane. aid drops into gaza are expensive, inefficient and increasingly controversial. these ready prepared meals from the us army are being flown more than 1,000 miles from the us airbase in qatar. there s plenty of food just a short drive from gaza s borders, but this american aid is being flown right across the middle east. 80 crates of food on board two c i7 transport planes, dropped into a populat
of observers was unacceptable. israel has denied any involvement. also, there are reports from the us that the biden adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. a shell exploded near these un military observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. now, unifil, the peacekeeping mission in that area, says it s investigating the cause of the blast. but this is an area where israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah regularly exchange fire. we ve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. now, when it comes to those reports in the washington post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made from the us to israel, these a
and warned the targeting of observers was unacceptable. israel has denied any involvement. also, there are reports from the us that the biden adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. a shell exploded near these un military observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. now, unifil, the peacekeeping mission in that area, says it s investigating the cause of the blast. but this is an area where israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah regularly exchange fire. we ve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. now, when it comes to those reports in the washington post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made from
the un said it was investigating the origin of the blast, and warned the targeting of observers was unacceptable. it comes as reports say the biden adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. a shell exploded near these un military observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. now unifil, the peacekeeping mission in that area, says it s investigating the cause of the blast. but this is an area where israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah regularly exchange fire. we ve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. now, when it comes to those reports in the washington post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made
that the biden adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. a shell exploded near these un military observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. now, unifil, the peacekeeping mission in that area, says it s investigating the cause of the blast. but this is an area where israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah regularly exchange fire. we ve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. now, when it comes to those reports in the washington post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made from the us to israel, these are listed as 1,800 2,000lb bombs, 500 500lb bombs and 25 f 35 fighterjets. most of that already approved