Into gaza to attack marketing positions overnight. It released this Video Showing Tanks and armoured bulldozers crossing the perimeter fence. An Israeli Defense forces spokesman told the bbc soldiers carried out the tactical raid towards central gaza to in his words prepare the battlefield for future operations. The Israeli Military says the number of people confirmed to be held hostage in gaza has now risen to 224, and warns that number could rise. So far four hostages are known to have been released. By by hamas which is a prescribed Terrorist Organisation by the uk. Meanwhile, un aid workers say theyve begun to significantly scale down their operations in gaza as Fuel Reserves have almost run out. Israel says hamas is storing enough fuel to run hospitals and water pumps for many days, but is keeping it for its war fighting capabilities. The hill Fog Ministry In Gaza says the number of palestinians killed there has passed a 7000, almost 3000 of them are said to be children. The hama
Of kharkiv is he bluffing . And a Mystery Thousands of years in the making we speak to the author of new study about how the pyramids were built. The Israeli Army Says its recovered the bodies of three more hostages from gaza killed by hamas during the attack on the supernova Music Festival on october the 7th, before their corpses were taken into the territory. The idf say the bodies of shani louk, amit buskila and Yitzhak Gelernter were recovered in an operation overnight. Meanwhile Aid Deliveries have begun arriving at a Temporary Floating Pier built by the us off the gaza strip. Israel has come under growing pressure to allow in more relief supplies. The uk Prime Minister rishi sunak said this first delivery via the pier was the culmination of a herculeanjoint international effort. From jerusalem, lucy williamson. Yitzhak gelernter, shani louk and amit buskila, three israeli hostages killed at the nova Music Festival on the 7th of october, their bodies taken hostage and brought bac
To capture the city of kharkiv, in the north east of the country. But, in kharkiv region, police are going door to door in the town of vovchansk to evacuate the remaining residents, as Russian Shelling intensifies. These images are from vovchansk. Russia launched a Surprise Offensive there last week, with one analysis suggesting Russian Forces have advanced by about 10 kilometres, creating a new front in the war on ukraine. A sixteen and a half hour Air Raid Alert has now been lifted in kharkiv itself. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse is in kyiv with the latest. This war has now firmly moved from Trench Warfare in this North Eastern part of the front line. I dont think the words of Vladimir Putin, where he said at a Press Conference in china, that there were no plans, for now, to try and capture the city of kharkiv. I dont think that will bring a collective sigh of relief for the thousands of people still living in the city. I think there are two things at play. Firstly, i do
we ll ask the un s former director for operations in the occupied territories whether that fuel support will be enough to resume aid operations. the israeli military says a second hostage has been found dead near the al shifa hospital in gaza. we ll speak to a relative of one of the many hostages still being held by hamas six weeks after they were abducted on october the 7th. and rishi sunak rejects the criticism from former home secretary suella braverman that he is only tinkering with the plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda. we ll look closer at what the revisions to that plan might entail. good evening. last night on this programme, we broke the story that the un s biggest agency in gaza would no longer be able to bring in or distribute vital aid because fuel had run out, and today that came to pass. aid operations were shut down, but there was perhaps a glimmer of hope for the palestinians who go hungry. the israeli war cabinet approved the delivery of two trucks of f
compromised this hour. the two largest al shifa and al-quds, have said they are suspending operations. staff claim israeli bombardment plus lack of fuel and medicine, mean patients including babies could die. israel s military said it has offered to evacuate newborn babies and claims hamas has command centres close to the hospitals. we ll have more detail in a moment. first this report from lucy williamson. the new map of gaza can t be trusted. safe places becoming empty spaces overnight. this was bani suheila near khan younis this morning in the south of gaza. our correspondent there heard people screaming for help under the rubble. israel has told people to move south, to avoid the fighting in the north. but the search for shelter here is still a deadly gamble of daily life. samira fled south from the bombardment at al shifa hospital in gaza city. translation: we thought the hospital was a safe place, but it wasn t. - if we had stayed there another five minutes, we would