israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised a mighty vengeance . more than 33,000 gazans have been killed since then in israel s offensive, according to the hamas run health ministry, and aid agencies are warning of an imminent famine, if there is no ceasefire, and no increase in relief aid. on sunday, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets ofjerusalem, calling for the israeli government to strike a deal to bring home hostages and end the fighting. 0ur international editor jeremy bowen has been reflecting on six months of the war, and sent us this special report. 0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israel s siege. the un calls it a betrayal of humanity. kibbutz nir oz, right on israel s border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. hamas broke in at dawn. they killed and took hostage a quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. sayed wa
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0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israel s siege. the un calls it a betrayal of humanity. kibbutz nir oz, right on israel s border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. hamas broke in at dawn. they killed and took hostage a quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. sayed was laying there dead. you could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. the army opened the door later. ron and his family survived in their safe room. then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. in this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. the interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. going around this place, you can understand why israel
been killed since then in israel s offensive, according to the hamas run health ministry. and aid agencies are warning of an imminent famine if there is no ceasefire and no increase in relief aid. on sunday, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets ofjerusalem calling for the israeli government to strike a deal to bring home hostages and end the fighting. 0ur international editor jeremy bowen has been reflecting on six months of the war, and sent us this special report. 0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israel s siege. the un calls it a betrayal of humanity. kibbutz nir oz, right on israel s border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. hamas broke in at dawn. they killed and took hostage a quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. sayed was laying there dead, nearthere. you could see that he was trying to hold the door closed, and actually, th
mr netanyahu says that they will go back and they will do that military operation in rafah, where1.4 million palestinian civilians are sheltering. that s something the americans, as things stand, do not want them to do. mr netanyahu isjust saying, you just heard him saying they re one step away from victory. you know, there are lots of israelis who say that is absolutely untrue, that he hasn t, quite patently, he hasn t succeeded in the war aims that he stated getting the hostages back and eliminating hamas as a force in gaza because they are still able to fight. and his critics also say that he s prolonging the war artificially for his own political reasons, to escape a day of reckoning for mistakes that he may have made. now, of course, on both sides, six months on is a very significant milestone. a lot of people didn t think that this war was going to last that long, but i think it might even last a lot longer now. i have been to one of the israeli border communities, wh