for israel comes amid the country's ongoing offensive in gaza, which the hamas—run health ministry says has killed more than 311,000 palestinians — most of them women and children. these pictures show a plume of smoke rising over rafah in the south of the territory, as israel continues its airstrikes there. this is the aftermath of overnight strikes in rafah, which are reported to have killed 18 palestinians — 1a of them 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 it against a full—scale assault on the city. the bbc�*s diplomatic correspondent james landale is injerusalem and has more on the military aid and reaction to it. a lot of it will go to replace missiles for the iron dome self defence air defence system that they have here in israel. but equally a lot of it willjust go on buying arms that israel needs at the moment.