but the main focus of the strikes were north west and and south west were north west and.and south west of of gaza, where the israel is expanding its ground operation. and now they say they are in control of the coastal road, isolating gaza completely. the air strikes, according to the director of shifa hospital, who i managed to spoke to this morning after the communication, will resume. he said about 200 people were killed in those strikes overnight and they were transported by people. they said people were carrying the dead bodies on the cart by donkeys and their own cars because the communication were cut and people couldn t like talk, communicate with the ambulance services. and they said the hospital is overwhelmed by the number of bodies and the number of injuries. he expects the number to go up again. and he said it s now over 10,000 people have been killed. the strikes were not only in gaza city, where the focus of the israeli operation, but also in the safe area whe
since the fighting began. israel said its troops had reached the coastline to the south of gaza city saying that it had now effectively divided the territory in two. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, who s been meeting regional leaders, said a humanitarian pause in gaza would be welcome. but israel said it needs progress on the release of hostages before agreeing to any pause in its offensive. hundreds of thousands of people are going hungry in gaza as food and water supplies run out, the world food programme has warned. the agency has told the bbc exclusively that out of 130 bakeries operating in gaza before the war, ii have been destroyed by israeli air strikes. many of those remaining are unable to operate due to shortage of fuel and flour. bbc arabic s adnan al bursh has visited some bakeries in southern gaza. long queues, frustrated families. these scenes have become a norm outside gaza s bakeries. translation: i have an entire family of at least 20 people w
america s top diplomat antony blinken held talks in ankara with his turkish counterpart, as he continues to push for humanitarian pauses in the fighting. in other news, prince william has been dragon boat racing and meeting with singapore s leaders ahead of his annual earthshot prize ceremony. # memories, like the corners of my mind. # the funny girl on the way we were barbra streisand reflects on the challenges of being a woman at the top of her profession during her six decade long career. you are watching bbc news. i am sarah campbell. more now on the israel gaza war and the us is devoting several senior members of the biden adminstration to try to find a diplomatic way forward. vice president kamala harris will host a phone call with world leaders later on monday, the director of the cia is in israel to talk about intelligence co operation and the secretary of state, antony blinken, has arrived in turkey for talks with his counterpart in ankara. it s the fourth day of
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