not changed its policy. mr guterres says: israel has called for the head of unrwa, philippe lazzarini, to resign. the israel military is pressing ahead with its operation against hamas in the south of the gaza strip. palestinians continue to stream out of khan younis, where the israeli army says it s involved in intense fighting. multiple israeli air strikes have been reported there. the hamas run health ministry says a hundred and sixty five palestinians have been killed in the past 2a hours, taking the total number killed since the start of the war to more than 26,400. let me take you live to the kerem shalom crossing between israel and gaza, where right wing israeli protesters, together with the families of some hostages, are holding a protest on the israeli side, to try to stop the passage of aid trucks into the gaza strip. they re demanding a halt to aid movements, until the release of more than 130 hostages still held by hamas in gaza since october 7th. limited amounts
appealed to governments to continue supporting unrwa. nine countries have paused their funding, including the us and the uk although scotland has not changed its policy. mr guterres says: israel has called for the head of unrwa, philippe lazzarini, to resign. i asked our middle east correspondent mark lowen how the cut in funding would affect the humanitarian situation in gaza. unwra is the largest agency in aid distribution now operating in gaza. it is an agency that has been in existence since 1919 providing aid, providing help, providing shelter, providing education to palestinian refugees. it has long had a difficult relationship with israel, which has, in a sense, seen the existence of its of that agency, helping palestinian refugees as putting in doubt the very permanence and existence of israel. the fact that they, that unwra works with palestinian refugees and israel says that that prevents the refugees from kind of taking roots and settling in the new in what bec
the american say the attack happened at abase known as tower 22, right on the syrian jordanian border. it is one of many american bases across the region. there have been dozens of drone and missile attacks in recent months, but no american personnel had been killed until now. joe biden, seen here attending church this afternoon, was quick to point the finger. we know it was carried out by radical iran backed militant groups operating in syria and iraq, he said. it s not necessarily a tipping point into uncontrolled competition between the united states and iran, but is a dangerous step because, as i say, the us will have to respond more strongly than it has done to previous attacks. carefully cultivated over years, iran has a wide network of allies and proxies operating in countries across the middle east. they are all opposed to israel and the united states it s sometimes called the axis of resistance. there are pro iranian militias in lebanon, the palestinian territor
he said that america s heart is heavy today as the country grieves the loss of these three us service personnel. he described them as the very best of our nation. and in that statement, the white house said that iran backed militant groups operating in iraq and syria were responsible for this attack. we understand that dozens were injured, some of them seriously and those seriously injured, some were evacuated from jordan. now, there was a similar incident last month when us backed groups strike a base in iraqi with a drone. three us service personnel injured, one of them critically in that attack. us then carried out air strikes these iran backed groups in retaliation for that attack. now, joe biden today in his statementvowed that these acts wouldn t go unpunished, that the us would respond in a time and in a manner, he said, of our choosing. i think this is a very concerning moment, a dangerous moment. as you said, these are the first american troops killed in the middle e
the details are still limited. what we do know is a 15 year old and a 16 year boy died in hospital this morning after they were stabbed. they were attacked by a group of people in an area called knowle west in bristol and it happened around 11:20pm last night. the police have started a murder investigation and they currently have a 44 year old man and a 15 year old boy in custody, as well as a vehicle they seized earlier on. they have shared to appeal to the public, specifically refers to a group of passengers who were in a bus on ilminster avenue around 11:20pm last night. they said they have not formally identified the victims in public, so asking people not to share information or images that could upset the families, but also prejudice any future proceedings, and earlier on an official from avon and earlier on an official from avon and somerset police gave a press conference and this is what he had to say. it conference and this is what he had to sa . , . conference and t