The explosion at the hospital in gaza was carried out by palestinian militants, not israel. The blast is reported to have killed and wounded hundreds of people, many of them women and children. Israel has blamed the incident on a misfiring palestinian rocket, saying the physical evidence at the scene backs up the claim. Arab countries Havejoined Hamas in blaming israel for the explosion. The Gazan Health Ministry says a71 people were killed in the incident. Mr biden told the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the us would continue to work with israel and partners across the region to prevent more tragedy to innocent civilians. The incident has led to shock waves in the region and the cancellation of a planned summit between mr biden and arab leaders. These are the scenes in the lebanese capital, beirut, where crowds gathered outside the us embassy. Over the next hour, we will look at what we know and what we dont know about the explosion at the hospital, and speak to our
Conflict is real, very real, and extremely dangerous. More on that, the story that is dominating the news agenda, but we will pose for the next few moments to catch up with some of the business headlines of the day. We are going to talk about what the us treasury is doing in response to the situation in the middle east. The us has imposed sanctions on what it described as ten key hamas operatives and facilitators. They said it was to prevent hamas being able to raise funds to carry out atrocities. We can cross live to new york and our Business Correspondent michelle fleury. What more do we know about this . At michelle fleury. What more do we know about this . Know about this . At the heart of this, this is know about this . At the heart of this, this is an know about this . At the heart of this, this is an effort know about this . At the heart of this, this is an effort by know about this . At the heart of this, this is an effort by the know about this . At the heart of this, this is
Im begging the world to bring my baby back home. Hello. Welcome to verified live. Might make it through the Military Isjust been giving might make it through the military is just been giving some of the latest briefings and some very interesting lines coming out. Officials saying large numbers of strikes have been called off to avoid civilian casualties and theyve also said that the campaign to eliminate hamas could take months or years and the officials are also saying that every gaza target has been approved by the highest level. Interesting because we saw those strikes through the course of the day and overnight one of the major strikes overnight where the idf said they were targeting hamas and this is an area in the south and israel has been urging people to go from the north in these pictures from the area, some of the aftermath and the focus, the attention turns to the way that israel has been responding. Those lines repeated from the israeli officials in the campaign to eliminat
These suffering and tragedy stories are in every corner, every person you are meeting, whether it he is a doctor struggling to find a couple of hours to sleep, whether he is a businessman who has left big business behind in gaza city and has to live with his family, has to live in a shelter or school. You go there and you find a queue of people just waiting for hours to get five pieces of bread. There is not enough for the 50 people and the family they are evacuating with. You go there and you find someone is begging to buy water, but water is not available. Israel resumed bombing the water area today. There is no electricity to run and stop pumping the electricity to the houses. 90 of the houses in the south of gaza which is accommodating now over two thirds of the gaza strip overall population, they dont have water. They have to buy water. Un, you know, big tankers, they transferred the water from other parts of the city, the most Populated Areas here in the centre and people queue t