charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
reveille. applause. cheering. and there we end the two minute silence to mark the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, armistice day, the agreement that brought an end to the fighting in the first world war. it is an event of course based in the history, time to remember and reflect but also a timely reminder of the current conflicts being thought right now around the world. this moment remembering those who have given their lives in service to our country since 1914. it is about the importance of keeping stories of service and sacrifice alive. you are watching bbc news. with me is our correspondent helena wilkinson. it really is such a poignant, emotional moment, isn t it? seen that been replicated right across the country. such a reminder of those who gave their lives in service for this country. yes, and you look at the pictures from the cenotaph in central london and london is very busy on a saturday and the stillness was so moving, wasn t it? ~ ,., ., ., wasn t
the answer may surprise you. it is not permissible to fight alongside hamas, even if it s to liberate palestine, as they say. that is still nationalist. it s not a religious war. and a man charged with dozens of crimes takes on a man who s widely accused of being far too old for the job. how s the us election going? voters know both of these men very well. and right now, despite all of the court cases that donald trump is facing, they appear to be leaning towards him. israeli troops have cut gaza in two and have penetrated to gaza city. it sounds from the kind of thing that benjamin netanyahu and his allies have been saying, as though they re planning to stay there for the long haul. but how long is the long haul? and at what point does israel declare its mission finished? above all, what kind of political structure does it leave behind to govern gaza? and in the meantime, israel needs help in negotiating the release of the 220 or so hostages hamas has seized, and in setting
who says its intensive care unit had been hit. he says, separately, because of fuel shortages, two patients on ventilators have died, one a baby. according to the world health organisation, there are currently 130 babies on incubators in gaza. 45 of them are believed to be at the al shifa hospital. the gaza health ministry say 39 of them are now at serious risk of death, give the lack of fuel and power. let s take a listen to that surgeon from al shifa now, he sent this audio update. those two patients who were in a ventilator, one in the icu, one in the neonatal icu unit. it is very, very dangerous, very critical situation. there is no water even in the main building, no electricity, no food even, and no fuel. the generator stopped to work in the main subspecialty building, shooting and bombardment everywhere. you hear it at every second here around the shifa hospital. and no one can get out from the shifa hospital. no one can come to the shifa hospital. the situation is ver