Of litres of fuel in the hands of hamas. The bbc has not been able to verify this. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments. There are growing International Calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to Reach Gaza Which continues to come under intense bombardment. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory says more than 6,500 people have now been killed there 2,704 of them children. Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed in the hamas attacks on the 7th of october. Another focus of the past 2a hours has been israels furious reaction to comments made by the un Secretary General at the Security Council. Antonio guterres said the hamas attacks in southern israel had not happened in a vacuum. He also said there was no justification for the hamas attacks. Israel is now withholding visas from United Nations officials in response to the remarks. Mr guterres has spoken again in the past hour. Shocked by the misrep
others to join the debate and not mischaraterize the column. is that what you re doing? well, if we were dropping the column, there s one particular offensive element. that s a critical element. the element of that column that caused us to drop it was that we found it very offensive to many of our readers and that s well within our rights on an editorial page. that s well within our rights to decide what sort of debate, what level of civility, what level of treatment of women who are sexual assault victims we re going to allow on our page. can you understand why some people are saying it s intolerant to drop the column? absolutely. that s unfortunately the nature of the debate. a lot of the responses that were negative to our decision accused of of doing so for political correctness. that s not the case. we believe that the column trif