Scotlands first minister says his wifes parents are trapped in gaza after visiting family humza yousaf , who unequivocally humza yousaf, who unequivocally condemned the hamas attacks at the weekend, says hes not sure if his parents in law will make it through the night. Speaking after a cobra meeting today, the foreign secretary, James Cleverly said hamas hamass attack rather, is unprecedented i we reaffirmed our support to israel in its self defence against this terrorist attack perpetrated by hamas against unarmed civilians. In many unarmed civilians. In many instances , ive been speaking instances, ive been speaking with Foreign Ministers from around the region and beyond the Prime Minister has engaged with the israeli Prime Minister and will be engaging with our allies. This is an ongoing situation and of course we will be reviewing our support to israel and of course, british nationals in israel as the situation progresses. Situation progresses. James cleverly there, speaking earlier on. Well, as youve been hearing, the government is defending its plan to send Asylum Seekers to rwanda in the Supreme Court today. Sir james eadie, kc, representing the home office, told the court the home office, told the court the policy is safe and lawful despite the east african country being less attractive to migrants than the uk. Meanwhile a lawyer representing a number of Asylum Seekers said rwandas asylum system is woefully deficient. Marked by unfairness and serious safeguarding issues that comes after the court of appeal ruled the policy was unsafe as there was a risk that rwanda could send migrants back to their country of origin. Here to their country of origin. Here more than 400 criminals have been jailed for a total of over 3700 years after an operation by the metropolitan police. S the metropolitan police. S operation eternal investigated organised crime groups over a three and a half year period by targeting an encrypted messaging platform. More than three tonnes of class a and class b drugs and nearly 50 weapons were seized in the largest ever operation of its kind by the met with the force, calling it unprecedented. This is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. This is britains news channel. Britains news channel. Good evening, will. It began on saturday morning with thousands of rockets being fired into to israel. There were also ground attacks and even paraglider is being used to attack a music festival, Something Like 10,000 rockets have now been fired into israel from gaza. And i have to say, from gaza. And i have to say, maybe 900, maybe a thousand people now being killed in israel. Several hundred, of course , being killed with course, being killed with counter attacks that have taken place. Aerial counter attacks in gaza itself. The numbers of that, we dont know , maybe 4 or that, we dont know, maybe 4 or 500, perhaps its even more than that. Ten britons are thought to be amongst those who have been killed. Apart from being killed. Apart from being slightly shocked with it all, it was the 50th anniversary, of course, of the previous war, the yom kippur war that took place. I was stunned at the failure of intelligence. Yes, absolutely intelligence. Yes, absolutely stunned that the americans hadnt picked something up and that the israelis themselves who take intelligence very seriously, did not feel something was coming. The egyptian intelligence minister has claimed today that he gave them ten days notice that something very sinister and very bad was about to happen. But bad was about to happen. But israel denied this. I have to israel denied this. I have to say, my initial response , yes, say, my initial response, yes, on saturday and into sunday was one of real anger at the bbc. They kept referring to palestinian militants. That was the word they used militants as if somehow theyre just political protesters will. Of course, theyre nothing of the kind. They are obscene terror ist mass murderers. And one of ist mass murderers. And one of the factors that i think has led to this is the deal with iran struck by President Biden not so long ago, which freed up 6 billion for the iranians to use. And by the way, were not exempt from this because as eu members for many, many years, we were giving money to various palestinian organisations, often not asking how the money was actually going to be spent. I do believe that weak American Leadership has led directly to the war in ukraine and been at least not a contributory factor into what is going on in israel today. Where do we go from here . Today. Where do we go from here . Its not simple. As you know , its not simple. As you know, they have taken hostages as those hostages have gone into gaza. Those hostages have gone into gaza. Gaza is one of the most gaza. Gaza is one of the most heavily populated parts of the world. About 2. 4 Million People living in that small territory. Now, clearly , israel has to now, clearly, israel has to fight back. It has to do its fight back. It has to do its best to try to eliminate hamas. The problem is that in doing so, were likely to see not just the execution of hostages, but possibly very large civilian casualties, too. We are in a casualties, too. We are in a very, very bad place. But be in no doubt a sovereign, democratic nafion no doubt a sovereign, democratic nation. It may not be perfect by nation. It may not be perfect by any means, but the sovereign democratic nation of israel has been viciously attacked and we have to stand 100 behind them. Have to stand 100 behind them. Now, i talked about that festival that took place in the desert. The supernova festival , desert. The supernova festival, a festival of joy , people a festival of joy, people staying for a couple of days. Staying for a couple of days. And nadav morag is a survivor of that attack and joins me live now down the line from tel aviv. Well youve been through the most horrific experience. Yes, most horrific experience. Yes, i understand 250 People Killed and many wounded as well. How how many wounded as well. How how quickly did this all occur . Quickly did this all occur . Hello. Im very excited to be hello. Im very excited to be here. Thank you for having me. And it was all very quick. What and it was all very quick. What started as a normal rocket attacks that we got used to it about 40 minutes after the first rocket launch , we started rocket launch, we started heanng rocket launch, we started hearing a rifle shot and a. An hearing a rifle shot and a. An and terrorist coming to us from the south, from north. And it was all happening very fast. And was all happening very fast. And they even used they even used paragliders to attack this this concert. Ive seen the pictures of paragliders with people on them with guns. I mean, this was just with guns. I mean, this was just so this was from what i can see of it. And you were there. This was just indiscriminate murder. Was just indiscriminate murder. Yes. There was no it didnt yes. There was no it didnt have to do anything with war. It was just a i would like to share my story. I mean, we were just, you know, partying and celebrating life with Beautiful People and no army near us. And terrorists just guess they knew about it or heard about it. And they just came wasnt there to see how how they slaughtered everyone but the but it was just a they came to kill civilians. They didnt have any other to kill and take hostage. A lot of many, many israelis from the party are now in gaza being held hostage and yes , and. Hostage and yes, and. And how do you feel, nadav . I and how do you feel, nadav . I mean, do you do you feel that israel has to fight back as as hard as it can . I think my opinion right now is not what matters because i was there. Im affected with the my own personal experience. I think israel has to play smart. Sure. Yes if you ask my opinion, we i would love to see hamas. The leave the gaza and no trace of them. And i know that there are many good people in gaza , are many good people in gaza, but the hamas is just terrorising everything and they spread hatred. And it has to be spread hatred. And it has to be stopped. Stopped. Well, yes, it has to be stopped, but its been going on for a very, very long time. And i guess its not likely that its going to stop soon. Listen, you know, youve been through an horrendous experience. Youve seen some absolutely shocking things. And i want to just say things. And i want to just say thank you for joining things. And i want to just say thank you forjoining us live thank you for joining us live down the line from tel aviv. Down the line from tel aviv. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah no, no, thank you. Well , there you are. Theres well, there you are. Theres somebody he seemed really quite cool and collected, given the extraordinary experience that hes gone through. And we have hes gone through. And we have done our best, i think, here on gb news to stop, you know, some of the awful, gory details. Now, of the awful, gory details. Now, when you hear the news and you hear about gaza and you hear about all these different geographical locations , i wonder geographical locations, i wonder whether youre like over 90 of the population that you really dont know. And understand the geography and the history of this region. In a minute, im this region. In a minute, im going to have an expert with me from Chatham House. Were going to show you the map, show you how the land lies and explain what the difficulties are going on from radio. Well , im. Radio. Well, im. Im joined by professor yossi mekelberg. He is a fellow of Chatham House and a middle east expert. And i made the point, yossi, before the break, we hear about all these places on the news, but peoples knowledge not that great. So knowledge is not that great. So take us to the very start, take us back to the very start, the formation of israel. Good evening, all right. Good evening, nigel. What do you look here in the map between the jordan river . You know, the dead sea, the and the the sea of galilee and the Mediterranean Sea all the way to the to the gaza strip. This is what used to be mandatory palestine. That was the british palestine. That was the british mandate. Yes post 19, 1918, in 1947, the United Nations decided on partition resolution 181 to for a jewish state and an arab state between the sides. There was disagreement eventually , in was disagreement eventually, in may 1948, israel declared independence. A war ensued. Independence. A war ensued. Israel expanded. If, according to the partition plan, israel should have had, the jewish state should have have a 65 of the land and 3535 to the palestinians. This so yet then it changed. And what we see now is that following the war, the west bank on the right. Yes. And gaza constitute. Only 2,222 of gaza constitute. Only 2,222 of mandatory palestine. In 1967, mandatory palestine. In 1967, israel managed during the six day war occupy and the Sinai Peninsula all the way to Sharm El Sheikh the golan, the Golan Heights and the west bank in gaza. Golan heights is still occupied. The Sinai Peninsula occupied. The Sinai Peninsula was returned in the Peace Agreement of 1979 with egypt and what remained is peace with the palestinians. That hasnt palestinians. That hasnt arrived, even following the oslo agreement. And were a palestinian state should be formed. The west bank and gaza. What we see right now is actually because also not only the geographically divided there, also politically divided west bank is ruled and governed by the fatah movement. The more secular pa and the pa is ruling and gaza after the election in 2006 is actually governed by hamas. Hamas. Its governed by hamas. They are they are in they are in control. Control. Well, bear in mind, they won the election the last elections 17 years ago. They won the election , but the world refused election, but the world refused to recognise it. They basically, after a short civil war, the attacks , the attacks have all attacks, the attacks have all come from gaza right now as we speak in the last few years, and definitely the last few months, violence in the west bank is on the increase , whether its the increase, whether its palestinian militants, but also settler violence, which is getting worse and worse. What we constantly right now in the last nearly three days is what happens with gaza, because hamas militants embarked on an operation. See land, a sea, land and air and penetrated into into into into israel. Okay. I hope, folks, that is helpful. Gives you some idea of what were talking about now. We what were talking about now. We have had some very Firm Responses today that have come from the Prime Minister rishi sunak, and from the shadow foreign secretary, david lammy. Sunak, and from the shadow fore listen retary, david lammy. Sunak, and from the shadow fore listen to tary, david lammy. Sunak, and from the shadow fore listen to what avid lammy. Sunak, and from the shadow fore listen to what they lammy. Sunak, and from the shadow fore listen to what they had my. Sunak, and from the shadow fore listen to what they had to i. Just listen to what they had to say. Say. Hamas and the people that support hamas are fully responsible for appalling , responsible for appalling, appalling acts of terrorism. We should call it out for what it is citizens of israel are being murdered and innocent people have been kidnapped , including have been kidnapped, including children. Obviously, thats children. Obviously, thats shocking. And its horrifying. And they should be held accountable for that. And what ive said to the israeli Prime Minister is that we will provide all the support that they need to make sure that israel can defend itself against these kinds of attacks. Now we already have a very long standing relationship with israel. Were relationship with israel. Were one of the strongest allies. Weve provided in the past. The kinds of equipment that theyve used to defend themselves over the couple of days. And as the past couple of days. And as i said to the Prime Minister we will to provide , will continue to provide, whether thats diplomatic intelligence or security support as they need. As they need. Labour utterly condemns hamas , this appalling attack on israel. Labour stands firmly in israel. Labour stands firmly in support of israels right to defend itself , support of israels right to defend itself, rescue hostages and protect its citizens. There will not be a just and lasting peace until israel is secure. Palestine is a sovereign state and both israelis and palestinians enjoy secure parity, dignity and human rights. Well, david lammy being very strong there. In a moment, we will go up to liverpool and speak to Lloyd Russell moyle , speak to Lloyd Russell moyle, labour mp, about his response to all this. Kept the all of this. But ive kept the professor a moment. Israel professor for a moment. Israel spends a fortune every year on intelligence. They pride intelligence. They pride themselves on intelligence. So themselves on intelligence. So whether or not the egyptian intelligence minister is right with his claim, the israelis have denied it. With his claim, the israelis have denied it. Something has gone catastrophically wrong here, it . Here, hasnt it . Think this one thing for i think this one thing for sure, the Intelligence Community got it badly wrong. Its always weird , this kind of warning from weird, this kind of warning from egypt. It takes us back 50 years to 1973 because all the story of an agent or double agent, Ashraf Mannan at the time providing the information and thats the problem. When there is cognitive closure among the leadership, whether the military establishment or the political establishment or the political establishment , they look, they establishment, they look, they have their own people option and they attack wont happen because, for instance, hamas has no interest anymore in military struggle. We dont see the military capabilities and more more than that is the assumption was that if there will be troubles, bear in mind the last month was mainly jewish holidays. Yeah. So the fear was it offered the situation would flare up in the west bank so units will move to the west bank. And while the west bank was quiet, the disaster struck actually in gaza and it is a disaster now, israel clearly cant just stand there and do nothing. They are going to go to i would have thought theyre going to go into gaza physically try and root out hamas. But the problem is its very densely populated. Thered a lot of populated. Thered be a lot of civilian wont there . Populated. Thered be a lot of civiagain, wont there . Populated. Thered be a lot of civiagain, one wont there . Populated. Thered be a lot of civiagain, one ofont there . Populated. Thered be a lot of civiagain, one of the there . Populated. Thered be a lot of civiagain, one of the things we again, one of the things we saw on the map, gaza is a really small place 360km2. The home of 2 Million People, most of them refugees, including refugee camps. Any idea of entry being entering into gaza and fighting door to door would be horrific. It can be can be horrific for both sides. Yes. And this was exactly what the security forces, the idf tried to avoid. All these years. There was pressure before that go and eliminate hamas. But this is the nightmare scenario for everyone. The problem is hamas pushed israel to a corner that it has to react. It has to reassert itself, the deterrence, to reassert itself. But i think it should come with a caveat and a big warning here to israel, to hamas succeeded, so to speak, militarily , probably more than militarily, probably more than it did envisaged, because as there was no defence as a result of it, it pushed israel to probably to react more than it ever wanted. The need , even at ever wanted. The need, even at this terrible time, the