convoy on thursday as well as the killing of at least 11 people, including two healthcare workers, in an israeli raid in the city of rafah that s according to gaza s health ministry. the bbc s diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports from jerusalem. how were so many people injured? were they shot or crushed in a desperate stampede? at gaza s shifa hospital, the un says there s evidence of both. this hospital is treating more than 200 people that were injured. we have seen people with gunshot wounds. we have seen amputees and we have seen children as young as 12. jihad is haunted by what he saw when the convoy arrived on thursday morning. were the soldiers firing deliberately? he s asked. yes. with tanks, soldiers, aircraft . why the shooting started is still not clear. israel says troops felt threatened. how these pictures do not show. tanks were present. there s no evidence of aircraft being involved. the un finally reached gaza city yesterday, taking badly needed fu
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this statement: passengers have spoken about how close some onboard came to being in danger. the bbc s graham satchell reports. pictures taken by a passenger on board flight 1282 not long after take off. look closely and you can see a hole in the side of the plane. it looks like a window panel has been blown out. this is the pilot talking to air traffic control. more pictures, again taken by passengers, show the full extent of the damage in what was a terrifying experience for those on board. all ofa sudden, i heard, like, a big bang and i didn t know exactly what was going on but i look up and the oxygen masks were hanging from the ceiling and then, i look to my left and there s this huge chunk, part of the airplane, just, like, missing. there was a kid in that row who his shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding on to him to make sure he didn t go with it. this is the latest incident involving boeing s best selling model that was launched bac
and, israel s allies have shown their support through displays like this. here s berlin s brandenburg gate lit up in white and blue to show support for israel. let s show you live pictures from gaza now. and we ve seen renewed israeli s airstrikes overnight, as we head towards dawn in the region. israel has responded to hamas attack with devastating air strikes including in the last few hours. have a look at this new video coming in to the bbc. explosions. the latest developments come as prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his security cabinet has approved plans to destroy the military and governmental capabilities of hamas and islamichhad. netanyahu has said israel is, quote, at war after the hamas raid early saturday morning. israel s government says hamas launched more than 2,000 rockets into the country, killing more than 250 people and wounding over 1100 others. officials in the gaza strip say over 230 people have been killed and over 1700 were injured in retalia
the head of humanitarian affairs for the united nations says there is no longer any humanitarian operation worthy of that name in the south of gaza. from jerusalem, here s our international editor, jeremy bowen. a warning you may find some of the images upsetting. video emerged this afternoon of palestinian men taken for interrogation. bbc staff recognised the town in northern gaza and we have geolocated the video there, too. palestinian diplomats said these were savage images evoking humanity s darkest times. the israeli army said only that suspects were being interrogated. posts on social media said the men had been sheltering with their families at a un school and that others were killed during the israeli raid. in this photo, the men had been moved to another location which we have not been able to verify. one of the captives is a journalist. he was forced to leave his disabled daughter, according to the newspaper he works for in london. earlier, in israel s parliament,