Blinken said President Biden will focus on securing the release of hostages taken by hamas while underscoring the need to minimise civilian casualties in gaza. On wednesday, President Biden will visit israel. To that end, today and at our request, the United States and israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable humanitarian aid from donor nations and multilateral organisations to Reach Civilians In Gaza and them alone. Including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harms way. It is critical aid begin flowing into gaza as soon as possible. We share concern that hamas may seize and destroy aid entering gaza or may otherwise prevent from reaching who need it. If hamas in any way block humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians including by seizing the aid itself, will be the first to condemn and work to prevent it from happening again. We welcome the government of israels movement to this plan. The president looks forward to discussing it further
Blinken said President Biden will focus on securing the release of hostages taken by hamas while underscoring the need to minimise civilian casualities in gaza in the announcement that camejust after 3am injerusalem. On wednesday President Biden will visit israel. He is coming here at a critical moment for israel. Forthe here at a critical moment for israel. For the region and for the world. And he is coming here to do the following. First, the president will reaffirm the United States s solidarity with israel and our ironclad commitment to its security. President biden will again make clear as he has done unequivocally since hamass slaughter of more than moo people slaughter of more than m00 people including at least 30 americans at that israel has the right and, indeed, the duty to defend its people from hamas and other terrorists and to prevent future attacks. The president will hear from israel of what it means to defend its people as we continue to work with congress to meet thos
volcanic eruption rising. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. there s growing concern about the dire state of hospitals in gaza. the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all that description coming in the past few hours from the world health organization. this map shows all of gaza s hospitals marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital in gaza. here s some of what mar wan abu saada had to say about conditions there. at al shifa, out here we cannot see, everything is in total darkness, really. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 injured people. and we are suffering now with our babi
organization. this map shows all of gaza s hospitals marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital. here s some of what marwan abu saada had to say about conditions there. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 injured people. and we are suffering now with our babies, who we can t move from our neonatal icu. we are talking now about the 36 it was 39 three of them who lost their lives. two of them lost their lives due to a lack of oxygen, because of the bombardment two days ago to the main oxygen generator. they had a lack of oxygen, and today we lost another baby because of this atmosphere and environment. i m afraid that we will lose all of these
the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all according to the world health organization. this map shows all of the gaza hospitals. marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital. here s some of what marwan abu saada had to say about conditions there. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 injured people. and we are suffering now with our babies, who we can t move from our neonatal icu. we are talking now about the 36 it was 39, three of them who lost their lives. two of them lost their lives due to a lack of oxygen, because of the bombardment two days ago to the main oxygen generator. they had a lack of oxygen, and today we lost another baby becaus