had been killed. she described the scale of suffering as devastating. the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, in his strongest comments yet on israel s need to protect civilians, said that driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy would replace israel s tactical victory with a strategic defeat. you see in this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat. so, i have repeatedly made clear to israel s leaders that protecting palestinian civilians in gaza is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative. for his part, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the war would continue for as long as hamas was active. translation: we will continue the war until we achieve - all its goals, and it s impossible to achieve those goals without the ground operation. the ground operation was necessary to bring the results until
let s stay with our main story and the ongoing hostilities, now, about that temporary truce between israel and hamas has ended. now that. bbc arabic correspondent adnan el bursh and cameraman mahmoud al ajrami are both from gaza and are currently based near khan younis. over the past week they ve been following one family forced to move from their home, who now live in a makeshift camp in the south. upbeat music plays an ordinary family in an ordinary house in gaza city. but the music stopped. explosion ..and was replaced by the sound of shelling. their home destroyed, this is their new reality. meet this mother of three and granny to a little child who is just a year old. translation: in the rain we struggled a lot. - the rain entered our tent and drenched our mattresses, which we had to take from the dump. in the morning i had to bathe my grandchild in freezing water. she showed me a video of what her home used to look like. every tent tells a story, each one of a family
hello i m, vishala sri pathma. both israel and hamas look intent on continuing the intense fighting, abandoning the negotiating table. israel has pulled its negotiators out of talks in qatar, because it says discussions there aimed at agreeing a new truce with hamas designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government had reached a dead end . the deputy head of hamas political wing has also said there will be no more hostage exchanges in gaza until there 5 a permanent ceasefire. israel s military has intensified its bombardment of gaza since a temporary ceasefire expired yesterday, with air strikes in north western gaza, and khan younis in the south where hundreds of thousands of people fled earlier in the war to escape fighting. according to the hamas run health ministry, 193 people have been killed and 650 injured since the resumption of fighting. a convoy of humanitarian aid has crossed into gaza for the first time since thursday. humanitarian groups are warning