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GBN Breakfast July 3, 2024

Placed in temporary accommodation in england reaches its highest since records began , its highest since records began, we have an exclusive report on a family whove lived in a travelodge for 14 months. Im feeling very bad for all my family. Sometimes im feeling my family. Sometimes im feeling im like, im not a human on and craig snell will have your weather. Good morning, storm babet finally cleared the uk over the weekend. Will the weather settle weekend. Will the weather settle down over the coming days . Find out in a little bit. Down over the coming days . Find out in a little bit. Plus down over the coming days . Find out in a little bit. Plus paul coyte has all the latest in sport. I do a great picture of Bobby Charlton there in the early years. The tributes continue to flood in other sport news as well. Max verstappen wins the us grand prix whilst Lewis Hamilton finds himself disqualified and theres more fallout from two games against south africa in two different world cups that we lost. Lost. Thanks, coity. And remember, you can join in any of our discussions this morning by emailing gbviews gbnews. Com or you can tweet us at. Gb you can tweet us at. Gb news. Good morning and thank you for your company. We begin with the latest from israel as tensions there and across the middle east reach a dangerous high. Irans foreign minister has warned israel and the us that the middle east may go out of control if the war with hamas continues. Iran blames the us continues. Iran blames the us for providing military support to israel. To israel. Well, recently the bombing of gaza has intensified and the latest pictures from hospitals there show a build up of bodies, including children. Hamas says including children. Hamas says 266 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, including 117 children in israel , says it has killed dozens of terrorists. Overnight terrorists. Overnight Gazas Health Ministry claims that since the 7th of october, israeli strikes on gaza have resulted in the death of 4651 palestinians, of which 40 were children. On the United Nations says a second convoy of aid was allowed to enter gaza to take aid to millions of people inside gaza in need of food, water and medical aid. After more than two weeks of bombing. Bombing. Tensions are also high in the occupied west bank, where in a rare move, israel has bombed what they described as a hamas target. A Ground Invasion of gaza appears imminent as troops and tanks circle the enclave fighting on the border. The israeli Prime Minister has warned his troops that his people were in a battle for their lives and said the war against hamas is do or die. Lets go straight to tel aviv now where gb news is home. And security editor mark white is there. Good morning, mark. President biden has tweeted overnight and he says that there is going to be continuing aid for palestinians. Now. Now. Yes, its been a trickle so far, though. Just 30 trucks that have made it over here really in the last couple of days. And thats nothing in comparison to the hundreds of vehicles that would come across the rafah Border Crossing with egypt in any given day. But its a start at least. And the hope is that they can make progress on that and try to increase the number of lorries coming across with these vital aid supplies. But these vital aid supplies. But from israels point of view , from israels point of view, they have great concern that that the trucks coming over will effectively be commandeered by hamas. That is specially fuel trucks that , of course, are trucks that, of course, are needed to power the likes of the hospitals in northern gaza, in particular for that, those fuel trucks could be commandeered and hamas may end up using that fuel for themselves. They control all, of course, the gaza strip. All, of course, the gaza strip. So once aid is into the gaza strip, its pretty difficult to keep control of that. Now in terms of whats been happening overnight, i have to say that weve gone now 11 hours without any rocket attacks into israel, which is highly unusual. Yesterday i was standing here just about this time, rockets had come into southern israel. As is the norm. Um, there was a as is the norm. Um, there was a rocket barrage here into southern tel aviv as well. And throughout the day sustained rocket attacks which seem to be in some way a reaction to the intense ification of the israeli airstrikes in gaza to try to take out those hamas targets. So far as they say, no rockets have come over this morning. Mark, weve been talking about the possibility of a Ground Invasion for several days now with idf soldiers gathering on the border with gaza. But weve got this rhetoric now from Benjamin Netanyahu telling his troops that they are in the battle their and the battle for their lives and the war against hamas was do or die. Do we now feel as though this is imminent . Well, it could well be, but we wont be party to that. We wont be party to that. Israel will go in of a time of their choosing. There are several complicated facts , ears, several complicated facts, ears, of course there are the hostages, more than 200 still being held in and around gaza. Being held in and around gaza. So, yes, theyve got to try to give time to the negotiations to see if they can get those hostages freed. Theyve also, as hostages freed. Theyve also, as best they can, got to try to determine where they are and whether any ground war would actually cause more harm than good to those hostages , as good to those hostages, as theyve also got to try to degrade hamass potential for laying traps for the Israeli Forces when they go into gaza as well. And this comes against a backdrop , of course, despite the backdrop, of course, despite the words of support thats coming from joe biden, rishi sunak , from joe biden, rishi sunak, other western leaders of many of those western leaders of course, using their back channels to urge caution to israel in going into gaza to be sure that civilian casualties are minimised. Benjamin netanyahu minimised. Benjamin netanyahu must also be conscious of the fact that if and when this Ground Invasion begins, the war could open up on multiple fronts. I mean, weve had iran warning israel and the us that the middle east may go out of control if military action continues. Thats quite a warning, isnt it . Yeah, there are certainly very serious concerns about the potential for that to happen. Weve had multiple incidents in multiple areas just overnight. Multiple areas just overnight. We have seen Israeli Defence forces attacking hezbollah sites in southern lebanon, a cell of hezbollah, hezbollah terrorists who they say were planning an imminent attack on on a village on the israels northern border with lebanon. Benjamin. Benjamin with lebanon. Benjamin. Benjamin netanyahu himself was up in in northern israel yesterday speaking to those troops and issuing a very stark warning to hezbollah that if it tries to open up with any significant degree of third front in this war, then they would pay the price. There would be a very significant response from israel because remember, of course , because remember, of course, theres also hostility is that are building up in the west bank. Weve seen attacks on america , on bases, america, on bases, infrastructure here in syria and iraq. And there were missiles iraq. And there were missiles that were fired from yemen that the americans took out with one of their destroyers in the red sea, that it was believed may well have been heading up to israel as well. So, yes, very significant tensions here and a lot of concern on that multiple fronts in this war could open up and not just the war in gaza. And not just the war in gaza. Mark gb news is home and security editor live for us in tel aviv. This morning. Thank you. You. Well, here in the uk, there have been more large scale gatherings over the war. A rally to draw attention to israelis being held hostage by hamas was held by members of the Jewish Community in Trafalgar Square on saturday. A pro palestinian march in london led to tensions with the police. The uk government says police. The uk government says at least nine british nationals were killed in the hamas terrorist atrocity and a further seven are missing. Seven are missing. Well, the biggest escalation in decades between israel and the palestinia comes on the 25th anniversary of an agreement that brought both sides closer to peace than ever before. Peace than ever before. The wye river memorandum was an agreement negotiated between israel and the Palestinian Authority at a summit in wye river, maryland , us in 1998. River, maryland, us in 1998. Host led by the then us president , bill clinton. Well, joining us now to discuss this further is military historian and Defence Analyst chris newton. Very good to see you this morning, chris. But it is such a sad irony, isnt it, that 25 years on from whom this land for Peace Agreement that we are looking at a middle east thatis are looking at a middle east that is in crisis . Yeah. I mean i mean, yes, yeah. I mean i mean, yes, its a real kind of irony. And the situation is extremely tense. So youve heard in your with mark white, you know, the rhetoric coming out of iran and also the rhetoric coming out of hamas and all of the other militia groups as well. And militia groups as well. And certainly the atrocity on the 7th of october is one of the worst atrocities. One of the worst atrocities. One of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Israeli palestinian conflict. So, yes, its a real sad irony that that we have this this region in real tension and more escalation of the fighting can continue it. You talk about rhetoric from iran. Is that what it is or does iran. Is that what it is or does iran want to get drawn into the conflict . Because if it if it does, by gum, you know, israels got a bigger problem than they already have with. Yeah, so has the western world. Yeah. I mean i mean, this is something that were were trying to work out. I mean, there are some concerning developments and there are irans got its proxies deployed on the syrian border. Youve got hezbollah. In in on the lebanese hezbollah. In in on the lebanese border as well. I mean, actually, chris, overnight, israeli aircraft struck two hezbollah cells in lebanon that were planning , they lebanon that were planning, they believe, to launch anti tank missiles and rockets towards israel. That activity has only israel. That activity has only been increasing , hasnt it, in been increasing, hasnt it, in the last couple of weeks . Yeah. Yeah, theres been theres been constant near enough constant activity on on the lebanese border as well, which is often reported on. But is not often reported on. But but thats thats happening as well and yeah i mean its extremely concerning that we have these deployed agents especially on the syrian border. Especially on the syrian border. Is it rhetoric is it is it rhetoric in terms of deterring israel to, you know , to go in on israel to, you know, to go in on the ground and to destroy hamas , the ground and to destroy hamas, potentially . Do they mean, you know, do they mean sort of further escalate action, i. E. Having these militias actually intervene . You know, much more you know, you know , actually you know, you know, actually cross cross the border and actually mount substantial attacks. Hezbollah , its in the region hezbollah, its in the region and theres a range of esti m ates. B ut esti m ates. But its estimates. But its. Between 50,000 to but its. Between 50,000 to 100,000in terms of their their numbers or their estimated numbers. And theyve got a whole array of missiles as well. So array of missiles as well. So they are quite a substantial force. And in 2006, you know, hezbollah gave israel real difficulties in that 2006 second lebanon war. Chris, were talking about the possibility of an imminent Ground Invasion now by israel into gaza. What do you think into gaza. What do you think that could look like . Because what were talking about there is urban warfare. Its a very dense area, isnt it . How are they safely going to get those hostages out . Because that is what intention is, isnt it . Its going to be really difficult at the moment, theyre conducting as conducting whats known as shaping operations. Theyre shaping operations. So theyre trying to, you know, lay the groundwork for those ground operations through through their airstrikes. But its going to be airstrikes. But its going to be its a really urban warfare, as you say, is the most difficult form of military operation. You form of military operation. You know, youve got narrow alleys , know, youve got narrow alleys, youve got snipers , rocket youve got snipers, rocket propelled tunnels that are 300 miles long, arent they . So, miles long, arent they . So, yeah, yeah. Tunnel complexes. Its going to be extremely, you know , difficult. Youve got fire know, difficult. Youve got fire coming out, you know, coming at you in different directions. But you in different directions. But but but in terms of your question regarding civilian keeping, civilian casualties to a minimum, the key is intelligence. And thats another thing that theyre doing at the moment as well, is gathering intelligence where the key installations are, what what hamas you know what buildings hamas you know what buildings hamas are using. But its going hamas are using. But its going to be extremely difficult, especially when hamas remember , especially when hamas remember, they are using human shields and theyre deliberately fighting in these built up dense areas , these built up dense areas, areas in order to cause as many as many civilian casualties. And Collateral Damage as possible. Collateral damage as possible. Well, okay. Well, okay. Chris newton , very good to chris newton, very good to see you this morning. Thank you so much for your analysis. Thank you. Now the time is 6 15. This is breakfast on gb news with ellie. And heres reminder ellie. And heres a reminder of our stories as the israeli our top stories as the israeli bombing of the palestinian enclave intensifies , there are enclave intensifies, there are warnings that arab countries in the middle east may retaliate. Irans foreign minister has warned israel and the us that the middle east may spiral out of control if israel does not immediately stop its military action. Palestinians inside gaza are bracing themselves for that expected Ground Invasion. But aid is reaching those affected by the israeli bombing and the blockade of gaza. Blockade of gaza. The number of households placed in temporary accommodation in england has reached its highest level since records began. Weve got an exclusive report of a family whove lived in a travelodge for 14 months. Im feeling very bad for all my family. Sometimes im feeling im like, im not a human. And the Prime Minister says hes delivering a fairer and improved transport system. And improved transport system. And extending the £2 bus fare cap into 2024. Well be joined by the transport secretary, mark harper , later this hour. Now, a harper, later this hour. Now, a family whos been housed in various travel lodges for 14 months say they have no hope. The borkowski family was made homeless after their home burnt down. Now theyve been relocated several times between different hotels, but the families say theyve been given no indication of when they might finally be able to find a home. Well, our london reporter lisa hartle reports piotra his two sons and wife have been housed in various travel lodges for 14 months after their property burnt down. But after being told they would have to move to yet another hotel in another borough , he said hed camp outside Enfield Council until someone met with him. Im feeling bad for my family. Im feeling very bad for all my family. Family. Im feeling very bad for all my family. Sometimes im all my family. Sometimes im feeling im like, im not a human on. Im like a homeless person. Im like lower category , person. Im like lower category, like lower category person. And like lower category person. And my family also in april, i first filmed with the family in enfield. Enfield. Piotr is a wheelchair user and so needs adapted accommodation. Accommodation. I want to be like escape from escape from the hotel, from the hotel room. I feel like im arrested there and i trying to escape and save my family. Escape and save my family. Matt burns from a Housing Charity says the number of People Living in temporary accommodation is shocking. We have around 3400 families living in temporary accommodation of some sort in enfield families and about 5000 children. So registered as homeless, living in temporary accommodation often. And its anything but temporary. So 80 anything but temporary. So 80 of those family is have been in that accommodation for longer than two years. So its not temporary, but they might be asked to leave at any moment. So asked to leave at any moment. So its very unsettling to be in that kind of situation. And particularly in the Hotel Accommodation that people are finding themselves in now. But finding themselves in now. But we just simply dont have enough social rent, Affordable Homes for people to move into. For people to move into. In a statement, Enfield Council said, weve explored a number of avenues to find the rent because ski family suitable accommodation, but Larger Properties that are adaptable all are exceptionally difficult to find and there are other families in similar situations as this is a National Housing challenge problem, we continue to work with mr rumkowski and our Housing Providers and partners to help find suitable accommodation as soon as possible. The council arranged possible. The council arranged a more suitable hotel for piotr and his family until mid november. And his family until mid november. So for now, piotr mid november. So for now, piotr left Enfield Council with his tent, hoping a permanent place can be found soon. Lisa hartle gb news

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