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by hamas last october. here s un spokesman, stephane dujarric. the secretary general is horrified by this news and asks mr lazzarini to investigate this matter swiftly and to ensure that any unrwa employees shown to have participated or embedded in what transpired on october 7th, or in any other criminal activity, be terminated immediately and referred for potential criminal prosecution. nine countries have paused their funding for unrwa, including the us and the uk, although scotland has not changed its policy and is urging others to continue with the funding. mr guterres says. israel has called for the head of unrwa, philippe lazzarini, to resign. the israel military is pressing ahead with its operation against hamas in the south of the gaza strip. palestinians continue to stream out of khan younis, where the israeli army says it s involved in intense fighting. multiple israeli air strikes have been reported there. the hamas run health ministry says a hundred and sixty five
as a reminder, he was suspended from the conservative party over claims that he misused funds. the times reported that he is accused of receiving funds from tory donors which was used for private medical expenses and to pay off who he called bad people who had locked him in a flat. alex mark menzies. now, to ukraine. we start this hour with ukraine, which has welcomed the 61 billion dollar package of military aid, finally approved by us lawmakers last night. russia says it shows that washington is wading deeper into a war that will end in humiliation. the foreign ministry spokeswoman, maria zakharova, said the aid which includes ammunition and air defences, was evidence that the us wants ukraine to fight to the last ukrainian . the bill will see a $61 billion dollar package for ukraine, package for ukraine, including ammunition and air defences. presidentjoe biden welcomed the deal, which he said would answer history s call . ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky desc
we begin with breaking news and in the past half hour or so we received a statement from mossad, which is israel s intelligence body. it says there has been an impasse in negotiations for a further temporary ceasefire. we have heard some conflicting suggestions in the last 2a hours about what happens when that ceasefire came to an end at seven o clock yesterday morning and we were told i had been intensive talks up were told i had been intensive talks up until the last minutes but in the last hour or so the reuters news agency have reported a team from the israeli mossad in doha negotiating for a resumption of the ceasefire deal. negotiating to try to release some of the female hostages and perhaps a hostages as well but very shortly after that there was so statement from the israeli prime ministers office who said the situation was quite different and that there was in fact an impasse in negotiations and benjamin netanyahu had urged his team to leave doha and qatar and come
Assistance package for israel. that s amidst the country s military offensive in gaza ever since hamas attacked israel on october the 7th. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by western governments and israel says around 1,200 people were killed in that attack and around 130 israelis and foreigners are still being held hostage. gaza s health ministry says more than 311,000 palestinians have been killed inside gaza so far, most of them women and children. these pictures have just come these pictures havejust come in. they show a plume of smoke in rafah. this is the aftermath of overnight strikes in rafah. 18 palestinians have reportedly been killed mostly children. the israeli war cabinet has been planning an offensive against hamas in rafah, where an estimated 1.5 million displaced palestinians are sheltering. but the us and other allies have warned israel against a full scale assault on the city. earlier i spoke to the bbc s