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johnson's closest advisers, who deliver a scathing assessment of how the covid crisis was handled. >> overall, widespread failure pockets of excellent people and pockets of excellent teams doing excellent work within an overall dysfunctional system. rajini: hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. welcome to "the daily global," but we bring you the world. israel has confirmed it hit the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. it says it was targeting and killed one of the hamas leaders responsible for the october 7 attacks. the hamas-run gazan health ministries has at least 50 people were killed with hundreds injured. the palestinian red crescent told this program at least 25

civilians were killed. before the war, the camp, made up of high-rise buildings, was home to more than 100,000 people, many of whom have been there for generations since the formation of the state of israel and 1948. bbc located the exact occasion of the blast. you can see it here, and you can see how built up that area is. let's get more from our international editor jeremy bowen. it warning that his report contains imagery that you may find distressing. jeremy: the attack on jabalia looks to be one of the biggest single palestinian losses of life in this war. jabalia his in the far north of gaza, where israel has been pushing forward. israel ordered civilians to leave this area. many did. many others did not. the u.n. said some people even

returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an i know number of people are buried under the ash an unknown -- an unknown number of people buried under the rubble. they were pulling out children. he says, "oh, god, my three children, are gone three kids. i hope i can find one of them alive. i didn't bid them farewell." jabalia covers just over half a square mile. 116,000 refugees were registered here with the u.n. before the war. he says, "it's a massacre. 30 to 40 homes going to polices --homes blown to pieces, bodies everywhere, everyone looking for their loved ones." dozens of bodies were taken to the nearest hospital. israel says it targets hamas,

and if civilians are killed, it is because they are being used as human shields. hamas released these pictures of their men emerging from part of their extensive tunnel. it is hard to work out with any precision what is happening on the ground. both sides claimed to have killed their enemies. hamas will try to use hit and run guerrilla tactics against a much more powerful army. israel released these pictures. it seems clear that present forward, some reports say they're closer to gaza city without entering it yet. moving through relatively open villages is much less of a military challenge than advancing into a city. on their side of the gaza border, israel has plenty of force in reserve, and it's says a long fight ahead. we don't have much detail about what the israelis are doing inside gaza. they are working very hard to control the information

battlefield, which is a big part of modern war. there releasing some video and some generalized communiques about success, but they are minimizing access. jabalia will fuel the controversy about killing palestinian civilians. unintentional casualties, israel says, i na just war. america warned israel not to be blinded by rage. palestinians believe israel is inflicting another catastrophe. jeremy bowen, bbc news, southern israel. rajini: for more on the humanitarian situation in gaza, i spoke earlier to the director general of the palestinian red crescent society, which is working to get more aid into gaza. he spoke to me from ramallah and started by talking about the situation at jabalia. >> is incredibly hard, it's credibly horrifying.

-- it's incredibly horrifying. our colleagues were also at jabalia refugee camps trying to rescue some of the people who have fallen victim as a result of the bombing of the jabalia refugee camps. our clinic in jabalia was bombed a few days ago. our colleagues moved from that center into the clinic, and from there, they are operating the ambulance service. so, this afternoon, this evening, they managed to rescue kinds of injuries and they -- i covered from under the rubble 25 killed civilians. so it is horrifying, and they continue to work under them environment underwrote -- under

the bombardment under horrible conditions. that is part of our work not only in gaza and jabalia, but in gaza city in the south. this is our humanitarian mission , and the medical service emergency medical services, they are still operating under very, very harsh conditions, risking their lives. rajini: so your teams on the ground say they have seen civilian casualties in jabalia? >> yes, they transported or they cared for 25 killed people. there were 25 who as a result of the bombing were killed. they took them to the hospital and went with a number of injuries. our ambulances now are stationed because there is a very difficult lines of communication . they are stationed around the hospitals the indonesian hospital.

these hospitals are in the north around the jabalia area in order to be able to reach those people whenever there is a bombin when there are casualties, so they can reach them as fast as possible. rajini: and just tell us more about the situation in terms of getting aid across the rafah crossing. do you have trucks waiting? what is the situation there? >> i'm sure as you have been reporting, this is a very diffult, very slow process. we are moving on average up to now come t total number of trucks that have entered is something like 168 trucks. over the past 17, 18 days. it is on average 15 to 20 trucks a day. this is trickling in, this is a drop in the ocean. but it is very slow. the whole process of going from egypt to the israeli checkpoint

to be checked, verified, then back to the rafah crossing, and then coming into gaza, there are processes and instructions to the international aid agencies by the israeli army that they cannot move. after 5:00 we will stop. we have now at this moment something like 30 trucks that are unloaded on the ground in the crossing. we cannot move them over the light. after 5:00, 6:00 in the evening, we cannot move trucks. this is very slow, very cumbersome, very complicated process that is not really helping with the situation. in addition to that, we are not allowed to carry those humanitarian aid into the north of gaza, where you have hundreds of thousands of people and we

cannot reach them, especially the hospitals. our hospital in gaza city, we cannot transport those support material to the hpital medical supplies, even food and water. we cannot take it up to the north. rajini: the latest from the palestinian red crescent spokesperson speaking to me from ramallah. two bits of breaking news that have come in on our main story. the first one is that the general authority for crossings and borders in gaza says egyptian authorities have said that 81 gazans who were severely wounded will be allowed to enter egypt on wednesday to complete treatment. this is coming into us that 81 gazans who are severely wounded will be allowed to go to egypt along the rafah crossing, which so far people have not been allowed to leave gaza from. that is to get treatment, we

understand, that will be in hospitals there. the other development that has come into us the last few minutes is that jordan's king abdullah has had a phone call with u.s. president joe biden. in that phone call, king abdullah urged an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. that coming in from jordan's royal palace. we will have more on both of those developments when we get them. let's hear from the idf spokesperson daniel hagari, who gave a briefing in the last hour in which he confirmed that israeli fighter jets carried out the attack on the refugee camp in gaza. >> you are talking about us facing an enemy. this is the enemy, a murderous terrorist organization that is an enemy. they are using their own citizens as human shields. we neutralized and shot and tried in every possible way to let them -- let their people go

and to move to the south. we have to find the solution with the world as we have shown them for example with the hospital, because they have built their infrastructure underneath hospitals, which is completely in opposition to the international rules of law. rajini: our diplomatic correspondent paul adams joins us now from jerusalem. always good to talk to you, paul. bring us up-to-date on what more we know about what happened in jabalia. paul the israelis are saying they launched an airstrike which killed a hamas commander in the area and 50 of his men. they said that in the course of that strike, and i'm just quoting here, underground timber investment -- underground to ever infrastructure underneath that the buildings also collapsed after the strike. they published a map showing

various alleged hamas facilities in that jabalia area. the israeli argument boils down to this -- if they know if there is a hamas target in a particular area, and if they have given the citizens of that area time to leave, then they are perfectly entitled to bomb that target, even if they know that a large number of civilians are still there. there is a big debate in international law about whether that meets the requirements of proportionality and fair prosecution of war aims. but that is the israeli position. they must've known there were civilians there, but they thought that the target was sufficiently important to go ahead and hit jabalia with two very, very large bombs. rajini: ok, paul, another develop and i wanted to ask you about, that hamas has said that

it will release in the coming days some of the foreign hostages in its captivity. what more do you know about that? paul: just a very brief statement from the hamas spokesperson saying just that, that they were intending to release a number -- he didn't say how many -- of the foreign nationals. viewers will remember that a significant proportion of those being l hostage by hamas in the gaza strip are foreign ir dual nationals. at some point they are willing to do this. we know the negotiations aimed at some kind of prisoner release, hostage release, have been going on. but we do not know when or how or where hamas intends to carry this out. rajini: paul adams in jerusalem, thank you very much for the moment. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's take a look at some of the otr stories making the news here.

bully dogs will be formally banned in the u.k. by the new year. the ministers announced the dog will be added to the list of banned breeds under the dangerous dogs act. they have until january to apply for an exemption. if it is going, they will have to keep the dog muscled" -- muzzled in public for . an announcement was made following the death of an american ice hockey player whose net was cut by a skate blade in sheffield saturday. assisted dying on the isle of man could move a step closer as draft legislations debated in parliament the plan with the residents with a terminal illness and no more than six months to live the ght to end their life withheld. those are the stories we have been looking at here in the newsroom.

you are live with bbc news. the official covid inquiry in the u.k. has said former prime minister boris johnson believed elder people should have been allowed to catch the disease so younger people could get on and boost the economy. a diary entry from the then-she scientific advisor -- then-chief scientific advisor said johnson was obsessed with the idea. here's our political editor chris mason. chris: casually dressed, controversial, not exactly shy when it comes to slacking off other people an institutions. >> how is your eyesight? chris: you probably remember dominic cummings for driving 260 miles during lockdown and visiting county durham to test his eyesight. >> i swear by almighty god the evidence i shall give shall give shelby the truth --. chris: he comes across in public as mild-mannered. he was less than that in his private written observations

about people he worked alongside. >> you called industries useless -- you called ministers useless [bleep], more runs, [bleep], in emails and whatsapps two colleagues. >> my judgment of a lot of senior people was widespread. chris: listen to how dominic cummings described a senior female colleague. >> we cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the british state while dodging stilettos from that [bleep]. was that misogynistic approach the correct way to manage fellow professionals? >> thousand times worse than the language is the underlying issue at stake, that we had a cabinet office system completely melted. chris: boris johnson's judgment caused anger today. he was obsessed with older

people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going, where patrick balance, the government's then scientific advisor, showed that the prime minister was sociopathic, some ministering the brief said. the picture we are seeing is one of dysfunction, shambles of government at just a moment when government was more important to more people than it had been for decades and decades. the other man taking questions today was boris johnson's man in charge of communications. he reckons his former boss dithered and wasn't suited to leadership in a pandemic. >> what will probably be clear in covid, it was the wrong crisis for this prime minister's skill set, which is different, i think, from not being up to the job of prime minister. chris: what about why it took 10 days from agreeing to a first

lockdown to announcing it? >> i think it is longer than you would like, but i think it is important to emphasize the amount of things that had to be done in the amount of people that had to take witus to deliver a nationwide lockdown. chris: boris johnson has offered no comment on what has been said today. he and rishi sunak are expected to give evidence before christmas. chris mason, bbc news, the covid inquiry. rajini: let's get more reaction to this from a member of the covid-19 bereaved families for justice u.k. group. she lost her father to covid in may 2020 and that her grandmother and july 2020. thank you very much for joining us on the bbc, and of course very sorry for both of your losses to family members to covid. when you watched what was being said at the inquiry today, what were your thoughts?

>> i think -- i coun't bring myself to watch it live because i've got a job to do, i am a teacher. i've been trying to move on with my life. but days like this really bring it back. it has been just over three years since i lost my dad, 55, fit and healthy, one of the young people who was trying to get on with the economy whilst boris johnson seemed happy to crifice his mother, who lived in a homework covid-positive patient -- lived in a home where covid-positive patients were deported. it is so hard here because the bereaved were afraid this is the messages we would read when the covid inquiry finally started. even during the first wave of covid when our organization started, it's really upsetting that these messages didn't come to light sooner so that the second wave where we saw so many more people die and so many more.

join out -- so my more bereaved join our group could have been avoided. rajini: what do you think could be learned from what we have heard throughout the inquiry, not least what we heard today? >> if we have a form of government and people in government and empowered know that there is this 4g of narcissism at the very top, -- orgy of narcissism at the top, then before the pandemic starts people need to act on it and not enable those people who speak about us so disgustedly, people who are so misogynistic, people who have this view of one rule for them and one row for another, for a government to enable a prime minister who would happily break lockdown and attend parties in the garden to then host. if people like myself in the same garden 12 months later, i think the government and any system of government need to look inwards. we have been pushing for the covid inquiry to hold people to

account and make sure that the next time something like this happeneds, more lives are saved, there is not that 10-date delay in a lockdown where it is recommended. we are not prioritizing the young over the most vulnerable in our society, who there wasn't even a plan for. rajini: today we heard from two former advisers to boris johnson . as result in that report, they didn't -- as we saw in that report, they didn't mince their words about what they size dysfunction during that time pitt we are going to be hearing from mr. johnson himself through the course of that inquiry. what would you like him to say to families like yours? >> i would like the truth, the plain truth. if they can speak to each other in a whatsapp group in such a frank way, i don't want the act of the affable clown. having messed boris johnson, i asked him to speak plainly to meet.

at that meeting he said he tried to do everything he could to protect people like my dad. i didn't believe him then, and if he repeats that the inquiry, i won't believe him. he accused the elderly of being bed blockers. my dad got a bed because someone's relative got kicked out of the bed. he wouldn't have wanted that. anything boris johnson said beyond plain facts, that he wasn't the right person for the job but he clung onto power for so long as i think he was described as a trolley, especially as it matters to covid. anything else apart from admission of that guilt is not good enough. rajini: hannah brady, thank you very much for sharing your thought on today's covid inquiry. i'm sure we will speak to you in the coming weeks. saudi arabia is set to host's the 2034 after australia decided

against posting the tournament. >> saudi arabia would likely be seen as a controversial host, and that is because of the accusations from human rights campaigners of sportswashing, using sports to distract from reputational issues. saudi arabia has been hosting a lot of sporting events recently. since 2018 they have hosted major events in football, golf, formula one, boxing, and in december there will be hosting the club world cup. intensive the move -- in terms of the move to host the world cup, amnesty international has said human rights commitments must be agreed with potential hosts before final decisions. but what are those human rights concerns? one of the most famous concerns is over what happened in 2018 when saudi agents tilde jamal khashoggi,, u.s.-based -- killed jamal khashoggi, a u.s.-based 70

journalist -- saudi journalist. it had a lot of reputational damage and consequences on the world stage. just last year saudi arabia said it executed 81 men, men convicted of what they called multiple heinous crimes including terrorism. that does tally up with these figures from amnesty international that show that saudi arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world. it is difficult to get numbers from china is the one caveat that amnesty international does make. and therere other concerns as well. these relate to the rights of women, the criminalization of homosexuality, as well as restrictions around free speech. but saudi arabia rejects these criticisms. when asked about sportswashing previously, the crown prince said "if sportswashing is going to increase my gdp by 1%, we will continue doing

sportswashing." rajini: we have plenty more on all of the day's news on the bbc news website, and we are running a live page of the u.k.'s covid inquiry and the developments in the middle east. i am rajini vaidyanathan. i will be back after a short break, so narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

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