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So welcome, lyse. A relatively easy question to kick off with. Can you give us a sense of the size and location of gaza in relation to israel . Who lives there . Whos in charge . And who are its neighbours . Well, thats a sort of a wikipedia of the gaza strip. The gaza strip is a coastal strip of land on the mediterranean. Once on one side, its on the mediterranean. The other side, the southern side, its connecting to egypt. And then its other neighbour is israel. It is described as one of the most densely populated places on earth. Some 2. 3 million palestinians live there and they live with great frustration because they feel they dont really have control over their lives. Even though israel pulled out its troops in 2005, it controls the airspace. It controls the sea. It also controls all of the land crossings into gaza, except the one which goes to egypt, which is called the Rafah Crossing. Weve tried to use various measures to ....
Assessing the first week of the israel gaza conflict. Hello. Imjackie leonard, the host of the Global News Podcast. Today, weve teamed up with a new bbc podcast, the conflict, for a special programme, answering your questions about whats going on in israel and gaza. Werejoined by the host of the conflict, the bbc s chief International Correspondent lyse doucet, who is in ashdod in israel, north of gaza, and also by our International Editor jeremy bowen, whos injerusalem. So welcome, lyse. A relatively easy question to kick off with. Can you give us a sense of the size and location of gaza in relation to israel . Who lives there . Whos in charge . And who are its neighbours . Well, thats a sort of a wikipedia of the gaza strip. The gaza strip is a coastal strip of land on the mediterranean. Once on ....
saphier, lieutenant colonel, tulsi gabbard, katie pavlich, and jimmy faila. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. fox news alert, dramatic new video showing 24 hostages and red cross vans being driven to safety. after spending nearly 50 days in captivity, by the terrorists known as hamas. among them are 13 israeli women and children, but no americans were freed. fighting in gaza pausing for the first time since the war started way back on october 7. this is for a four-day truce. president biden is reacting for the first time. from the moment hamas kidnapped these people i along with my team have worked around the clock to secure the release. teddy bears waiting to greet those children at the hospital. a stark reminder of the trauma these children have been through at such a very young age. we expect more hostages to be released tomorrow and more the day after and the day after that. [inaudible] i think the chances are real. i don t trust hamas to ....
kayleigh: this is a fox news alert. after nearly 50 days of captivity, hamas has freed 24 hostages, and they say they will release more in the coming days. correspondent jeff paul is on the ground in israel with the latest. yeah, and we are learning tonight that, on top of the 13 hostages released today, the israeli government believes there could be another 13 released tomorrow. but the mood right now a bit bittersweet on the ground in israel, because people know there are still more than 200 people being held captive inside gaza. nonetheless, today was a very significant first step, and we could see more scenes like that if this cease-fire that went into effect at 7:00 a.m. this morning holds. here s what we know about people released today. 24 hostages released by hamas, 13 are israelis, 11 are foreign nationals. among the israelis freed, we know four of them were kids ages two to just nine years old. one of the kids, the 9-year-old, actually had a birthday insid ....