says more than 800,000 people have now fled rafah in southern gaza. many have been forced to head northwards to areas which the un says have little clean drinking water or sanitation as the israeli offensive continues. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams sent this report. street battles injabalia. israeli forces have been fighting here for days. gunfire. hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. this is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. the israelis were here months ago and moved on. these, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. israel has been attacking from the air too. scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. gunfire. more street battles, this time in the south. the israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. but 800,000 palestinians have already fled the area, to the coast or to other devastated
than 800,000 people have now fled rafah, in southern gaza. many have been forced to head northwards to areas which the un says have little clean drinking water or sanitation as the israeli offensive continues. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, sent this report. street battles injabalia. israeli forces have been fighting here for days. gunfire. hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. this is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. the israelis were here months ago and moved on. these, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. israel has been attacking from the air too. scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. gunfire. more street battles, this time in the south. the israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. but 800,000 palestinians have already fled the area, to the coast or to other devastated cities
this is how the battlefield currently looks, according to 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 north east, near kharkiv, where fierce fighting has been taking place, the yellow represents new gains claimed by russia. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, sent this special report from the front line. near the village of lyptsi, the russians are closing in. the fire from a recent rocket attack near a ukrainian position. we are told to immediately head to a bunker. taking shelter, recently arrived ukrainian reinforcements. a week ago, they were fighting elsewhere on the front. andrei tells me the situation is dynamic and tense. from a drone feed, they are nervously watching and waiting for another attack. he says it s time to leave. they ve just spotted enemy forces advancing. this is where they are directing artillery fire. they are telling us to
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 binyamin, 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 translation: the people of israel are watching you. translation: the people of israel are watching you. you translation: the people of israel are watching you. you must - translation: the people of israel are watching you. you must choose i are watching you. you must choose between zionism and cynicism, between zionism a
meanwhile, the united nations says more than 800,000 people have now fled rafah, in southern gaza. many have been forced to head northwards, to areas which the united nations says have little clean drinking water or sanitation, as the israeli offensive continues. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams sent this report. street battles injabalia. israeli forces have been fighting here for days. gunfire hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. this is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. the israelis were here months ago and moved on. these, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. israel has been attacking from the air too. scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. gunfire more street battles this time, in the south. the israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. but 800,000 palestinians have already fled