it s wednesday the 25th of october. a united nations agency which looks after palestinian refugees has warned it could stop its work in gaza tonight if it doesn t receive urgent deliveries of fuel. last night, eight trucks carrying food, water and medicine crossed the rafah border between egypt and gaza, but israel has banned fuel from entering the territory, saying hamas would use it for military purposes. hamas is designated as a terrorist organisation by many western governments, including the uk. there are now growing international calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to reach gaza s residents. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the slow trickle of aid. just eight lorries carrying water, food and medicine made their way into gaza last night. but what s not getting in is fuel. hospitals are struggling. here, medics use their phones to light the way as a patient arrives, as there s no fuel for generators and they re overwhelm
have been killed in israel s intensified bombardment of the territory, many of them in the south, where they had fled for safety. 20 more lorries carrying food, water and medical supplies have crossed the border with egypt, but aid agencies say without deliveries of fuel, their humanitarian work will stop. the airstrikes are in response to attacks by hamas, a designated terrorist organisation by the uk and other western governments which killed over 1,400 israelis. with the latest, here s our middle east correspondent lucy williamson. released by hamas after more than two weeks in captivity, yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were taken out of gaza into egypt. freed on health grounds, hamas said no longer hostages but survivors. both were kidnapped by hamas gunmen from their homes in nir oz, the scars of looting and destruction still mark the empty kibbutz. this was what they lived through. the vision of home they took to gaza, just three miles away. and this was what they
freed on health grounds, hamas said no longer hostages but survivors. both were kidnapped by hamas gunmen from their homes in nir oz, the scars of looting and destruction still mark the empty kibbutz. this was what they lived through. the vision of home they took to gaza, just three miles away. and this was what they lived through there. israeli air strikes, more than 300 a day, caught between their army and hamas. many palestinian civilians feel the same. gaza s hamas run government says israeli strikes killed more than 400 people in a single day. hope, draining from the chance of peace, still surfaces in the chance to save a life. ibrahim from blackpool is trying to leave gaza with his mother and three siblings. they have been living here for a year. buildings very close to us on our street, destroyed. we had to flee the house, flee our flat where we were living, and go to khan younis, and stay with family members. there were 43 of us staying in one flat. 0n the israeli s
being held. released by hamas after more than two weeks in captivity, yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were taken out of gaza into egypt. freed on health grounds, hamas said no longer hostages but survivors. both were kidnapped by hamas gunmen from their homes in nir oz, the scars of looting and destruction still mark the empty kibbutz. this was what they lived through. the vision of home they took to gaza, just three miles away. and this was what they lived through there. israeli air strikes, more than 300 a day, caught between their army and hamas. many palestinian civilians feel the same. gaza s hamas run government says israeli strikes killed more than 400 people in a single day. hope, draining from the chance of peace, still surfaces in the chance to save a life. ibrahim from blackpool is trying to leave gaza with his mother and three siblings. they have been living here for a year. buildings very close to us on our street, destroyed. we had to flee the house, flee o
the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. in other developments, iran s foreign minister has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza and warned the situation in the middle east risks spiralling out of control. israel has been continuing to carry out aerial bombing of gaza. these pictures are from the past hour. it s nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which 1,400 people were killed. the gaza health ministry says about 4,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. israel s military has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for their own safety, as it prepares to increase pressure on hamas, which is designated a terrorist origanisation by the uk, us and other western governments. the israeli defense forces say one of its aircraft also targeted a mosque in the palestinian city ofjenin, in the occupied west bank. israel says the mosque was used by a hamas cell as a base to plan and execu