top american leaders often have problems with israel, which depends heavily on american support. gunfire ..but doesn t necessarily do what the us wants. usually, though, american officials keep quiet about it. not so the us deputy secretary of state, kurt campbell. he said publicly the other day israel s leaders mostly talk about the idea of a sweeping victory on the battlefield, but the biden administration didn t believe such a thing was possible. neither do many other observers. so why is israel pursuing the idea, and why is benjamin netanyahu so willing to ignore what the us wants? i put these questions to shaina oppenheimer, a journalist with bbc monitoring injerusalem. first and foremost, he has some very far right coalition partners who have been very hawkish and very clear with him that they want to see the government do certain things, for example, for it to press ahead with a full scale invasion of rafah. and they would also like to see what they would describe as a
have declared a narrow strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no running water or proper sanitation. israel says that since monday, about 300 thousand palestinians have already fled rafah. the us is still urging israel not to mount a full scale assault on the city. and in the north, there are evacuations in the city of jabalia as the idf says that it has been carrying out air strikes. it says hamas fighters are regrouping there. from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent, another desperate exodus. palestinians fleeing in their thousands, as israel signals it is now set to push further into gaza s southernmost city, issuing new evacuation orders. what should we do? hanan asks. do we wait until we all die on top of each other? we ve decided it is better to leave. israel has said it s taking action against hamas in one of its last strongholds and trying to bring home hostages. but today hamas has said british israeli nadav popplew
israel says that since monday, about 300,000 palestinians have already fled rafah. the us is still urging israel not to mount a full scale assault on the city. and in the north there are evacuations in the city of jabalia as the idf says that it has been carrying out air strikes. it says hamas fighters are regrouping there. from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. another desperate exodus. palestinians fleeing in their thousands, as israel signals it is now set to push further into gaza s southernmost city, issuing new evacuation orders. what should we do? hanan asks. do we wait until we all die on top of each other? we ve decided it is better to leave. israel has said it s taking action against hamas in one of its last strongholds and trying to bring home hostages. meanwhile, with israel s capture of one main border crossing and another blocked off by fighting, no aid is getting into southern gaza. there are now severe shortages of food, de
israel says that since monday, about 300,000 palestinians have already fled rafah. the us is still urging israel not to mount a full scale assault on the city. and in the north there are evacuations in the city of jabalia as the idf says that it has been carrying out air strikes. it says hamas fighters are regrouping there. from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. another desperate exodus. palestinians fleeing in their thousands, as israel signals it is now set to push further into the gaza s southernmost city, issuing new evacuation orders. what should we do? hanan asks. do we wait until we all die on top of each other? we ve decided it is better to leave. israel has said it s taking action against hamas in one of its last strongholds and trying to bring home hostages. but today hamas said british israeli captured from his home last october had died of wounds from an israeli air strike. meanwhile, with israel s capture of one main border cro