tonight on whether to demand a humanitarian pause in fighting between israel and hamas, but with representatives trying to come to an agreement on the exact wording of the resolution, it s been postponed at the very last minute to tomorrow. we ll talk to a spokesperson from the israeli government. could that pause in voting have something to do with the us defense secretary s visit to israel today? also tonight, the british oil giant bp and a number of key shipping companies have halted all shipments through the red sea after a rise in attacks on cargo ships by houthi militants in yemen. and stick around, later in the show we will take a close look at this yea r s forgotten conflict, the sudanese civil war. we will hear from our analysis editor ros atkins and the un s top expert on the conflict. good evening. a vote within the un security council which was supposed to take place tonight has been postponed. the negotiation will continue into tomorrow over a draught resolution
Colleagues of mr sobol have posted comments on social media describing how he had taken part in delivering aid to ukrainian refugees following russias full scale invasion of ukraine. And mourners gathered in the Gazan City Of Rafah on tuesday for the funeral of the palestinian, saif abu taha, the driver who was killed in the strike. So, in the last few hours the Foreign Secretary has called on israel to provide a full transparent explanation of the incident. The Foreign Office has in the meantime summoned the Israeli Ambassadfor over the deaths lets hearfrom our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale who is outisde the Foreign Officee. Its not normally the ambassador for israel, the last time an ambassadorfor israel was summoned to be hauled over the coals at the Foreign Office was 12 years ago over illegal settlements in the occupied palestinian territories. And so that shows how rare it is. And it also shows, i think, a measure of the scale of the british governments concern about wh
Welcome to the programme, continuing coverage of the escalation of events announced by israel. A spokesperson for the idf the Israeli Defence force is confirming that there will be an increase in air strikes and attacks from the air and an increase and expansion of ground force operations tonight. Mobile phone services and internet in gaza have been cut off. Combined with little power to begin with. Showing you these Live Pictures, which are pretty dark, as i spoke, the power, electricity is low, so the buildings are not to let out. However, every few minutes or so, the sky is lit up by explosions, as you just saw that they are followed often by a cracking sound, that orange flash. We have been witnessing to me just pausing there for the sound, we been witnessing this over the last few hours now since just before the idf made that announcement confirming their operational changes, the increase in bombardment to the outcome of the expansion of Ground Forces. They say they are targeting
Justifying the events of october the 7th. It is a measure of the profound sense of shock and horror and disgust and anger that still reverberate up and down this country that when they heard him making those remarks, they hurt someone who they believed still did not understand exactly what had happened on October Seven, that somehow he was marshalling the history of the conflict to not just was marshalling the history of the conflict to notjust explain but to justify the behaviour of the hamas gunmen who attacked so many innocent civilians on that day. He clearly wants us to know that is not the case, that he doesntjustify any of this, but he remains convinced that it is pointless to try and consider any of this without taking a wider view, because simply things are inexplicable and cannot be addressed. I think that is the point he is making. Of course it has had real world impact and consequences, because Martin Griffiths, having his visa denied, and israel clear why they did that. Ho
Good afternoon and welcome to the Bbc News At One live from jerusalem. There are growing calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting between israel and hamas, so that more aid can be allowed into gaza. The un agency for Palestinian Refugees has warned its shelters in the gaza strip are overwhelmed with displaced people. It says the facilities are now holding 600,000 palestinians, which is four times their capacity. Israel has allowed limited food, water and medicine into the territory via the rafah crossing with egypt, but isnt allowing fuel supplies, over fears theyll end up in the hands of hamas. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Group by many western governments, including the uk. The United States said it would support a lull in the fighting, but not a full ceasefire, because it said that would only benefit hamas. The Hamas Health Ministry says more than 6,500 people have been killed so far in gaza in this conflict. Israel says the number of dead in the hamas attack more than two