The city lit up by the generators that have been swinging into action since the power station stopped working hours ago. Those generators were thought to be the only source of electricity and this afternoon, the un chief, antonio guterres, has been addressing this crisis, saying crucial life saving supplies, including food and water, must be allowed into the strip. Hes calling for humanity , an aid corridor into gaza. He , an aid corridor into gaza. He also called for the release of all hostages and a de escalation of the violence. Of the violence. As i am concerned about the recent exchange of fire along the blue line and recent reported attacks from southern lebanon. I appeal to all parties and those who have an influence over those parties to avoid any further escalation and spill over. I further escalation and spill over. I call for the immediate over. I call for the Immediate Release of all israeli hostages held in gaza. Civilians must be held in gaza. Civilians must be protected at all times. Protected at all times. International humanitarian law must be respected and upheld as well. His majesty, the king says hes appalled by the acts of terrorism and the prince and princess of wales have condemned the horrors inflicted by Hamas Terrorists. Gb news royal correspondent Cameron Walker has more from Buckingham Palace. Well, these are incredibly strong words from a spokesperson for his majesty the king this afternoon , condemning what they afternoon, condemning what they describe as the barbaric acts of terrorism in israel. A terrorism in israel. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson says that this is a situation, his majesty is extremely concerned about , his majesty is extremely concerned about, adding that he has asked to be kept actively updated his thoughts and prayers are with all those suffering , are with all those suffering, particularly those who have lost loved ones , but also those loved ones, but also those actively involved as we speak. I think its pretty telling that the kings spokesperson has used quite such strong language. It is incredibly rare that a spokesperson or indeed the king himself would use language such as this, which perhaps is an indication, as to the strong emotions the king is feeling at this time. As soon as we get an official statement, if at all, from Buckingham Palace will bnng from Buckingham Palace will bring straight you. Bring that straight to you. Well, in other news today, a dorset councillor has lost a high court fight with the home secretary over the housing of Asylum Seekers on the bibby stockholm barge. Current sited in portland. Mayor carolyn parks wanted to challenge the lawfulness of the use of the barge in portland. Port saying the home office needed planning permission to site it and use it in that location. The vessel has been empty since legionella bacteria were detected on board back in august, but the home office now says the barge is safe for Asylum Seekers to return. The Shadow Health secretary has said a Labour Government would turn the nhs on its head if it got into power. Its head if it got into power. Speaking on the last day of the conference in liverpool, wes streeting argued that reform is more important than pouring money into a Health System that isnt working. He warned that the nhs faces bankruptcy unless its overhauled and he set out plans to shift its focus from hospitals to providing more care in the community. A Labour Government will take immediate action to cut waiting lists. We will provide an extra £1. 1 billion to help the nhs beat the backlog with extra clinics, the evenings and weekends providing 2 million more appointments each year. Faster treatment for patients, extra pay for staff. The first steps to cut the waiting list and beat the tory backlog. And beat the tory backlog. 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, welcome to dewbs co its me, bev turner. Normally on in the morning but keeping the seat warm for michelle this week while she on houday michelle this week while she on holiday so my panel this evening im delighted to actually im delighted to say actually columnist on columnist for the mail on sunday, hitchens with sunday, Peter Hitchens is with us co founder of novara us and co founder of novara media. Aaron bastani, i want to hear you as well. So let us hear from you as well. So let us know your thoughts, gbviews gbnews. Com on twitter gbviews gbnews. Com or on twitter at gb news. So theres only one story that we can start with as the israeli hamas war enters its fifth day, more bombs , more fifth day, more bombs, more destruction, more lives lost. Israel has said that it will escalate its response with a ground offensive. What do you ground offensive. What do you make , gentlemen, of the make, gentlemen, of the situation . Weve actually just been watching charlie peters, our gb News Reporter who is there in tel aviv with a lot of there in tel aviv with a lot of the press. And we now hearing that theres been invasion from hezbollah , from the lebanon side hezbollah, from the lebanon side. Peter, just go. Where are we. Peter, just go. Where are we now in this situation . Well, a lot of these things are actually quite normal in israel. The launching of rockets against israeli cities is not particularly uncommon. Most of particularly uncommon. Most of them are intercepted, but its something under which most israelis live a lot of the time. And the nearer they are to gaza, the more likely this is to happen, though hezbollah is also quite launching quite capable of launching rockets northern border rockets from the northern border as well. The danger from hezbollah is well known. They have in the past mounted very effective and extremely damaging offensives in the north. Its the best armed non state state probably in the world and extremely proficient, well equipped , army financed and equipped, army financed and armed by iran. And a constant danger on israels northern border. So these are this is this is life in that extremely small country. It doesnt begin small country. It doesnt begin to compare in political and diplomatic significance. And indeedin diplomatic significance. And indeed in other significance with the horrors which weve seen in the surprise attack from gaza into into southern israel thatis gaza into into southern israel that is unprecedented. That is something which has been a nightmare for israelis for a very long time. And it has huge political implications. The political implications. The largest one of which is this for, i think now more than 20 years. The absolutely totally fashionable and universal line of international diplomacy, politics and media wise, acas has been that what israel needs is a two state solution in that it abandons any further control over the west bank of the jordan and hands that over to an independent state and withdraws entirely from that. So what that would mean is that israel would have right next to jerusalem its historic capital, right next to huge, densely populated areas, a state from which an attack such as the one that has come out of gaza could emerge at any time. And i think you can see from that just how crazy the idea of a two state solution has been. All this time. Its as long as there is no willingness among there is no willingness among the leadership of the major movements in the arab to world accept the existence of israel as a permanent, then danger as a permanent, then the danger of following such a procedure is just colossal. I dont see why just colossal. I dont see why people dont admit that theyve made a terrible mistake. Thats people dont admit that theyve madeweveible mistake. Thats people dont admit that theyve madeweve learnt istake. Thats people dont admit that theyve madeweve learnt from 5. Thats people dont admit that theyve madeweve learnt from this. |ts what weve learnt from this. Apart from the incredible violence , cruelty and violence, cruelty and callousness which which the Hamas Terrorists use a word i dont hesitate to use in this case, which the Hamas Terrorists have employed, not against, not against the israeli army , but against the israeli army, but against the israeli army, but against children and women and civilians. Having against children and women and civilians. Having a party, thats whom they attacked and they attack them without mercy. And in ways which are too disgusting in many ways to relate. And if you look at the reports and the pictures of this, sometimes you just have to turn nobody can pretend. Turn away. Nobody can pretend. And Collateral Damage and this was Collateral Damage in military operation. And yet in a military operation. And yet there are people in western politics who make excuses for it. One in particular, a certain rivkah brown, who declared that today should be a day of celebration for supporters of democracy and human rights worldwide died as gazans break out of their open air prison and hamas fighters cross into their colonisers territory , she said colonisers territory, she said the struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless and we shouldnt apologise for it. I believe that aaron is an associate of rivkah brown. I may have been mistaken. Im not familiar with. Im not familiar with. We might want to Say Something about it. Well, im not the name. Not familiar with the name. Brown. I cant deny im happy brown. I cant deny that. So go on. Aaron, who is rivkah brown and why is it what they so i would say and of they say . So i would say and of course, might this is course, you might think this is being i would say being evasive, but i would say that fundamental story that the fundamental story is whats going on in israel palestine, whats israel palestine, not whats going here. Israel palestine, not whats goiiim here. Israel palestine, not whats goiiim happy. Israel palestine, not whats goiiim happy to talk about that. Im happy to talk about that. However, she since apologised for it was improper. For that tweet, it was improper. In regards your initial in regards to your initial question gaza strip question on about the gaza strip and a potential land invasion in whats obviously really whats obviously changed really since really over the last since 2008, really over the last decade is we have seen a massive inflation in the powers of people like the houthis in yemen, hezbollah , shia militias yemen, hezbollah, shia militias in iraq are much stronger than they used to be. Youve got a protest in baghdad, i think in two days called by Muqtada Al Sadr , a very powerful shia al sadr, a very powerful shia cleric. You have hamas and cleric. You have hamas and hezbollah on the same side here. They werent on the same side in the syrian civil war. So i think, look, the idf are very clever people. The Israeli Government are very smart people. Think a ground people. I think a Ground Invasion of gaza any time soon would be very dangerous for them, and not just because of what other people might do elsewhere, but if you look at some of the videos and some of the footage from gaza, it looks like and anybody like stalingrad. And anybody whos military whos familiar with military theory, snipers theory, that is a snipers paradise. Suspect israel paradise. So i suspect israel wont go in there at least for a few more weeks. And like i said, thats for two reasons real perils for their own military. And also they probably want to keep an eye on whats going on elsewhere. Yes. But a lot of what happens in that part of the world is largely dependent on the support which the actors in that of world, whether that part of the world, whether it the Israeli Government on it be the Israeli Government on one in the west one side or fatah in the west bank hamas in gaza. The bank or hamas in gaza. The support and the endorsement which they get in many cases from politicians , those from western politicians, those western activists , western western activists, western journalists. Thats why i raised this question of what what rivka brown said. There are people in the west who are prepared to endorse this sort of action. I think thats shocking. Obviously, i believe. What do obviously, i believe. What do you what do you in free speech . I dont think if shes apologised, shes apologised. But the truth is, she said it and you were a christian man, peter. Tell me what you want. If shes apologised. I understand shes apologised. I understand she apologised. But what is she apologised for exactly . Is apologised for exactly . Is she apologised for exactly . Is she apologised for she or she for thinking it or she or she apologised saying it apologised for saying it unwisely an occasion she unwisely on an occasion when she shouldnt such a fool shouldnt have made such a fool of herself in public. Which is it . Many, many kinds it . There are many, many kinds of theres the of apologies. Theres the apology something and apology for something and theres apology which theres the apology which begins. If what does begins. Im sorry if what does she mean . Did she . Did she mean. I wish i she mean . Did she . Did she mean. Iwish i did she mean . Did she . Did she mean. I wish i did she mean i wish i hadnt thought it. Ive changed my you know i now i my mind. Can you know i now i think that his who who this person is so shes journalist person is so shes a journalist that work with. That you work with. Work for navarro media . Shes an editor, yes. Shes an editor, yes. Okay. Did she say that on a navarro media . No she on twitter. So no, she said on twitter. So we dont have a social media policy with regards to you know, its a bit similar to if a gb news says something news person says something on their twitter so of their own twitter feed. So of course, people are very their own twitter feed. So of coursto people are very their own twitter feed. So of coursto say people are very their own twitter feed. So of coursto say navarro are very their own twitter feed. So of coursto say navarro ise very their own twitter feed. So of coursto say navarro is partly right to say navarro is partly responsible this. But of responsible for this. But of course, were not. You know, we people say things people are allowed to say things on own time. Shes since on their own time. Shes since apologised for it because its improper. Spoken to improper. And ive spoken to rivka she doesnt rivka about it. She she doesnt think know, and think that, you know, and i think that, you know, and i think think she saw the think i think she saw the bulldozer going for border bulldozer going for the border post between and israel. Post between gaza and israel. And i thought, i think and i thought, you know, i think and also jewish i should i and shes also jewish i should i should and was as happy should add and she was as happy to that. And think she to see that. And i think she would still say she was happy to see the bulldozing of the fence. And went completely and she went completely overboard and she said something which regrets. And overboard and she said something whi doesnt regrets. And overboard and she said something whi doesnt actuallyets. And overboard and she said something whi doesnt actually believe. She doesnt actually believe. Thats thing, the thats the main thing, the struggle is rarely struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless. Thats not bulldozers, is it . The for freedom is the struggle for freedom is rarely we rarely bloodless, and we shouldnt for its shouldnt apologise for it. Its how, understand it, her how, as i understand it, her remarks ended. Thing is, i dont and the thing is, i dont want to get bogged down in a want us to get bogged down in a one journalist. We that that the biggest story. Dont who biggest story. I dont know who she is , but i think what it does she is, but i think what it does pull into focus is who inflames tensions at a time like this and who calm. We can analyse the who calm. We can analyse the situation in. And its interesting, aaron, you say, you know, whats the most important story happening story is whats happening out there. Absolutely. The there. It is absolutely. The people, the people there are in mortal danger. They are grieving. Are bereaved , and grieving. They are bereaved, and they are in a hell zone at the moment. But the implications for people here are also really important. We have responsibilities and we do. And what but what did you make of some of the selling stations . We saw the israeli flag being taken down Sheffield Town hall down from Sheffield Town hall and replaced with a palestinian flag. Arrests made on flag. We had arrests made on kensington high street because there crowds of noisy there was such crowds of noisy arabs causing destruction in that area. And to say arabs, i think there are british people and who who support these things, who are not arabs or or arabs who are not arabs or or arabs who are who are british citizens. Its not. The point is, there are people who hold these opinions. I believe very much in free speech, short of incitement. People should be able to say what they like. And one of the reasons i believe in it is that we should know, too, that there are people among us who feel this way. And i agree. You have this. I agree extraordinarily. This is one thing think an awful lot thing which i think an awful lot of commentary my trade and of commentary in my trade and indeed politics indeed action in politics refuses accept about how refuses to accept about just how profound the intolerant hostility towards israel is in that part of the world. And among certain people. And among certain people. And therefore, the policies which we have up till now followed in the west towards this need to be revised. We are not dealing i ive ive been to gaza. Im not a defender of everything israel doesis a defender of everything israel does is absolutely its a country which has i dont know whether you met many awful things but i think this is a very interesting revelation to us of just how deep us this hatred of israel is. You know, its very much deep enough to do to massacre children and their parents, unarmed people. And its different to russia, ukraine. But