In tone on what could come as the Washington Post reports that the white house is very, very, very worried that this war is going to get out of hand. National security adviser Jake Sullivan warning that this could spiral in to a regional conflict. Theyre now preparing for an Evacuation Plan if needed that would move hundreds of thousands of americans out of the region. Obviously that would be a herculean task. We remember how difficult it was to get 124,000 out of afghanistan in that very difficult exit back in august of 2021. Heres john kirby just moments ago. Watch. It would be imprudent and irresponsible if we didnt have people thinking about different scenarios. Were not at a point of execution of evacuations right now. Martha this is one of the women released from hamas custody yesterday. They still have her husband. We dont know when this first photo was taken. This is her before and this is her after she was held for 17 days. She spoke of being beaten with sticks, held in a spid
up diplomatic efforts in the region. secretary of state antony blinken is now in turkey for meetings with the country s foreign minister. the country s cia director william burns is also now in israel, urging greater effort to avoid civilian casualties. and in the last few hours, the white house has said vice president kamala harris will discuss the conflict in a phone call with unnamed foreign leaders on monday. this is live, looking across at the gaza strip. it s just after 7am. in a moment, i llspeak to my colleague, mohamed taha, for the latest developments. but first lets hear from our correspondent, yogita limaye. the bombing over gaza has intensified tonight. communication lines have also been cut off, which means tomorrow will likely begin for many gazans like today did digging through rubble, looking forfamilies and survivors. this was a crowded refugee camp. it s not one of the areas that israel had asked civilians to leave. hamas says it was an israeli air strike
but the main focus of the strikes were north west and and south west were north west and.and south west of of gaza, where the israel is expanding its ground operation. and now they say they are in control of the coastal road, isolating gaza completely. the air strikes, according to the director of shifa hospital, who i managed to spoke to this morning after the communication, will resume. he said about 200 people were killed in those strikes overnight and they were transported by people. they said people were carrying the dead bodies on the cart by donkeys and their own cars because the communication were cut and people couldn t like talk, communicate with the ambulance services. and they said the hospital is overwhelmed by the number of bodies and the number of injuries. he expects the number to go up again. and he said it s now over 10,000 people have been killed. the strikes were not only in gaza city, where the focus of the israeli operation, but also in the safe area whe
watching bbc news. we start with the latest from the israel gaza conflict. it s been one of the heaviest nights of bombardment in gaza since the start of the war with israeli air strikes hitting the north of the territory and reports of huge explosions. israel says it s now effectively divided gaza into two parts north and south. 11 un agencies and six humanitarian groups have called for an immediate ceasefire, urging israel to protect civilians and allow more food, water, medicine and fuel into gaza. they also called on hamas to release the hostages captured on october 7th. some aid continues to get through a royaljordanian air force cargo plane has dropped several containers of humanitarian relief supplies over the gaza strip. the update was shared in a tweet by thejordanian king. jordan s state news agency said the consignment was urgent medical aid for thejordanian field hospital in gaza. israeli media reports say the air drop was carried out in co ordination with