At the Cricket World Cup in india. Good evening from jerusalem, on a night where the israeli goverment has ordered a complete seige of the gaza strip and started to amass tanks on its border. It follows the attack by hamas militants, which has so far claimed more than 800 israeli lives many of them, ordinary citizens. Israel has cut electricity, food, fuel and Water Supplies to gaza, it says it has hit 2,400 hamas targets. The Palestinian Health authority says so far, 560 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 wounded. Thousands of palestinians are now fleeing for their lives, but safety is hard to find. And hamas continues to fire rockets into israel. In tonights programme, we will be reporting from jerusalem, 0n the latest military responses. We will also be in re im, the city close to the gaza border where artillery and vehicles have started to amass ahead of a potential ground operation. We will also be in ashkelon. And well look at the situation for the more than 100 israelis k
And, israels allies have shown their support through displays like this. Heres berlins Brandenburg Gate lit up in white and blue to show support for israel. Lets show you live pictures from gaza now. And weve seen renewed israelis 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. Israels 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 retaliatory strikes. The Un
telecomms firms say phone and internet services are now returning after a 2k hour blackout. meanwhile israel is still facing backlash over its military operations in al shifa hospital. our correspondent nick beake has more on the situation on the ground. they wait be able to carry out their operations. they say that would have a devastating effect for the people of gaza. a few hours later the israeli war cabinet loud fuel to come into gaza. the israelis said they are very keen that hamas don t get their hands on this fuel. it will be monitored and apparently it will be going towards water supplies, trying towards water supplies, trying to make fresh water available to make fresh water available to people. and also trying to reboot the sewerage system which is apparently failed in recent days. the world health organization is really concerned it says about the spread of disease, they say it is a big problem. meanwhile the israeli operations continue at the al shifa hospital,
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still facing backlash over its military operations in al shifa hospital. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake has more on the situation on the ground. united nations agency for palestinian refugees began the day by saying that they had run out of fuel and they would not be able to keep on carrying out their operations, saying that would have a devastating effect for the people of gaza us. a few hours later the israeli war cabinet announced they would allow some fuel to come into gaza, the israelis have said they are very keen that hamas do not get their hands on this fuel, it will be monitored and apparently it will go towards water supplies trying to make fresh water available to people, and also trying to reboot the sewage system which apparently has failed in recent days of the world health organization is really concerned about the spread of disease saying that is a big problem. meanwhile the israeli operations continue at the hospital, the biggest hospital in gaza, you wi