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singing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited. but it s bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters dafna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother, maayan. she tweeted tonight, it s incredibly difficult. i long for their return but i am relieved for the other families . gil dikman says all the families will share the joy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law, yarden, is also trapped in gaza. even if our hostages won t be released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released, pictures of children and mothers coming back, that s very, very strong and i think people are going to feel as if it s their own children. in gaza, one more day ....
gaza skyline, you see continuing plumes of black smoke on the horizon because the fighting inside gaza continued until the very last moment this morning stop seven to help local time and before that and the minutes afterwards we were still hearing the sound of explosions of mortar fire and small arms fire but things here now are a lot more peaceful and quiet and they have been for several weeks since this war began so let s talk more about the deal that s been broken and are greeted by qatar and what we expect to see in the next few hours today. the first group of israeli hostages, this is 13 from a group of 50 who were due to be released. there will be returned to israel and handed over, we believe, to the red cross at around four o clock local time here. that is two o clock gmt. israel has confirmed it has a list of names and has been contacting the families. it immediately got into contact with families. imagine the families yesterday who knew the fan stomach deal had been ....
march held yesterday. and the king leads tributes to the armed forces on remembrance sunday. the israeli military says it has agreed to evacuate babies in need of oxygen from gaza s main hospital, al shifa, to a safer place on sunday. officials there said two newborns died as a result of the hospital running out of power with heavy fighting. this photo was sent to the bbc last night showing more than 20 babies being kept in a surgical theatre instead of incubators, despite being reportedly in need of oxygen treatment. the world health organization says it s lost communication with its contacts there. in a separate incident, the united nations says there s been a significant number of deaths and injuries from shelling at one its facilities in gaza city. these are live pictures looking at gaza cityjust now where it is two o clock in the afternoon. let us get the latest from the world health organization. what is the latest you are hearing from your colleagues on the gro ....
cenotaph. army personnel and members of the publicjoined the rest of the uk in a two minute silence at 11am. good afternoon. now, the travel show. coming up on this week s show. the atmosphere is brilliant. you ve got the singing, lots of shouting. that s so good. that s so tasty. some people want train sets, i wanted a castle. scotland is a perennialfavourite when it comes to travel. from its rugged and dramatic highlands to its vibrant cities and festivals. considering its relatively small size, scotland really does punch above its weight when it comes to tourism. and this week we re looking back at some of our favourite travel show adventures there, kicking off with the time i headed to shetland to experience something that s firmly based in the islands viking past, although a big change is under way. sitting halfway between the scottish mainland and norway, the shetland islands have a unique combination of cultures. and today the sleepy town of lerwick is facing an ....
interviews and reaction. today we bring you the programme live from southern israel. you can hear the sound of artillery fire from israel into gaza. behind me the guys at skyline is showing the scars of more than three weeks of battle, the israel defence forces have said they have targeted more than 600 how mass targets inside gaza. let me show you these pictures. these are pictures coming in from the israeli defence forces. we have seen israeli tanks physically on the ground inside gaza and the israeli ministry has said that dozens of hamas fighters have barricaded themselves inside buildings and in the tunnel network have been killed. there are also reports that israeli forces have cut one of the two main roads running from north to south in gaza which connect gaza city 0ne one of them we saw a picture of an israeli tank blocking the road, raising fears that the strip may be cut in half, raising issues for civilians moving north to south. we have been told by our team ....