Its newsday. Singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsda. ,. , its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in israel, where we begin our programme, as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, hundreds of thousands, on the southern border with gaza, the widespread expectation that a Ground Offensive across the frontier maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory, where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. This follows the unprecedented attack, five days ago, in israel, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel, and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1,200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestinians have been killed in retaliatory israeli air strikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, ru
We will have more on those stories in a moment or two. Lets go to the north of israel, to the borders with lebanon. Anna foster is our correspondence there. We have seen more shelling and more activity. What has been going on where you are . . ,. ,. Are . Im right on the border. We have spent are . Im right on the border. We have spent the are . Im right on the border. We have spent the day are . Im right on the border. We have spent the day trekking are . Im right on the border. We l have spent the day trekking along the border where there have been various incidents over the last few days. This morning, hezbollah fired an anti tank missile into israel, fighterjets from israel an anti tank missile into israel, fighter jets from israel then responded by striking at hezbollah bit of infrastructure inside lebanon. I am speaking from a shelter because as we were driving along the sirens went off here and we are sheltering with the local security team, because a lot of these border communi
Its seven in the morning in singapore, and two am in israel where we begin our programme as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, Hundreds Of Thousands, on the southern border with gaza. The widespread expectation, that a ground offensive, across the frontier, maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. It follows the unprecedented attack five days ago on the country, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestineans have been killed in retaliatory israeli airstrikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, rushdi abu alouf. But we begin with a report from our International Edi
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