Still be using. The death toll since hamas launched its attacks on saturday has now reached 1200. 700 have been killed in israel, including 260 at a music festival. Reuters reports this figure includes 73 soldiers thats according to the Israeli Military. And more nearly 500 have been killed in gaza, after israel launched retaliatory air strikes. 33 of those are thought to be children. Lets take the scene live now in gaza. In the last few minutes and hours we have seen a number of strikes by Israeli Military, also as we have been hearing the Israeli Defence minister has announced he has called for a total blockade of the city. This is a densely populated area of land, home to 2. 2 Million People and what he is saying is that there will be no food, water or fuel allowed is that there will be no food, water orfuel allowed into is that there will be no food, water or fuel allowed into the gaza city. Now they completely rely on these things from the outside world. Militants from the Palesti
prisoners being held in israeli jails will be also be released, as part of the delayed deal. a four day pause in fighting in gaza will start on friday morning, at 7 local time, after almost seven weeks of fighting. the humanitarian aid will start to go into gaza, as soon as that pause in hostilities begins. those details him a little qatar s foreign ministry spokesman majed al ansari briefed reporters about the truce. we have just finished with all the communication with all parties in order to ascertain the lists of those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties. the lists have been handed to both sides. and finally, in a communication just now, the list has been handed to the israeli intelligence service, the mossad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. according to this, of course, and as the agreement took place, the 24th of november and it will last, of course, as agreed, as agreed, forfour days. and the first batc
here s elizabeth rizzini. time for a look at the weather. hello, thank you. just the right amount of retreating command centre for hamas? tonight, the idf has shown the footage you just saw, which they say is part of a tunnel underneath the hospital. mark s here. it plays an important role in israel s case for its gaza operation, so how close are they in succeeding to their wider objectives? scotland s health secretary says his sons racked up his 11 grand bill on his parliamentary ipad. why is scotland s conservative leader calling for his resignation? we ll ask him. also tonight. why are so many maternity units in england deemed unsafe by the regulator? we ll hear from one couple whose baby daughter was stillborn, after failures by their hopsital. i thought, these are my colleagues, they ll do a good job, i ll get safe care. so i didn t think there was anything wrong, until we were told she was dead. and after a week of rows in this country over migrant policy, we re in ame
and more than 30 others injured on saturday when two glide bombs struck the diy store in ukraine s second city, kharkiv. an air raid warning sounded moments before explosions tore through the building, starting an intense fire. the ukrainian leader again urged western allies to send more air defences to ukraine. ukraine s military says the two glide bombs that hit kharkiv were among a0 that russia dropped on ukrainian army positions and civil infrastructure saturday. the ukrainian military says russian forces are continuing their offensive in the kharkiv region, with six attacks repelled by the ukrainian military. the bbc sjeremy bowen is in kharkiv. i spoke to him a short while ago. very good to have you with us. this airstrike took place on a crowded superstore there in ukraine s second largest city. what more can you tell us? it was mid afternoon, the weekend, a pretty nice day so they were people buying things for their gardens or to do a bit of work about the house, so t
israel s prime minister is meeting the families of israeli hostages held, who are worried about the intensifying attacks on gaza. and right now we are striking from the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, where we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we don t know if any of our bombs have killed them. here in london, pro palestinian demonstrators turn out in force. we demonstrators turn out in force. will talk to our co| a we will talk to our correspondent in a moment. protests are also taking place in other capital cities, with calls for a ceasefire. fresh aid enters gaza, and the un tells the bbc they ve managed to reestablish some contact with their teams on the ground. communications have been down for such a long while. we have been talking to the un who have been using satellite phones to get some contact with their teens, but broadly the situation of communications blackout is still in place. that is the backdrop in gaza. our corresponde