Un aid workers warn they will have to end their operations tonight, if they dont get more fuel. And the situation on israels northern border with lebanon remains tense. Hello, im lyse doucet. Welcome bbc news, live from jerusalem as we report on the top headlines israel gaza crisis. This is a 19 pin group. Today, the emphasis from United Nations agencies and from countries around the world for a humanitarian pause in the Fighting Israel Hamas seven desperately needed aid can be let into gaza. Israel has allowed food, water and medicine into the territory, but isnt allowing fuel supplies , over fears theyll end up in the hands of hamas. Hamas is designated as a Terror Organisation by many western countries including the united kingdom. The United Nations is repeating it was michaels not only humanitarian pause also for desperately needed fuel tanker. All the while, the images coming from the while, the images coming from the gaza strip where israel says it to target hamas infrastructure
to the hamas controlled ministry of health. we will hear tonight from the director general of the international committee of the red cross. israel says above ground it has cut off gaza city from the south. 0vernight it hit over a50 targets in one of the most intense bombardments so far. but what are they targeting? we will get an expert view on that tonight. and a year out from the 2024 us elections, why isjoe biden trailing donald trump in all the key battleground states? good evening. in nearly a month of fighting, over 1,400 israelis have been slaughtered and maybe 10,000 palestinians in gaza. the hamas run health ministry, which updated its figures today, said 4,000 of those were children. we can t independently vouch for those numbers, because we are not there, but the un said today that during hostilities in 2014, their verified figures were not entirely disimilar from those hamas had put out to the media. what we do know for certain, is that last night gaza sustained o
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appetite from the eu to renegotiate that. the eu position is that the uk government signed up to the northern island protocol and agreed this all as part of the brexit deal. how can they now say we can implement to? the eu will say we will give you flexibility or may find easements to make some of these bits of red tape and bureaucracy is zero to operate. but we are not renegotiating the whole agreement. those two sizes of red tape and bureaucracy is zero to operate. but red tape and bureaucracy is zero to o erate. ., ., operate. but we are not renegotiating operate. but we are not renegotiating the - operate. but we are not renegotiating the whole j operate. but we are not renegotiating the whole agreement. those two sides look very far apart. if leo is saying that and say we are not doing a complete negotiation what leaders do he and the eu have at their disposal to end says that that doesn t happen? for at their disposal to end says that that doesn t happen? at their disposal
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