this is bbc news. israel warns the siege of gaza will not end until its hostages are released , as power and clean water start to run out. the number killed in gaza rises to more than 1,400 as israeli air strikes continue into a sixth day. the us secretary of state meets survivors of saturday's hamas attack; and says hamas is intentionally putting civilians in harm's way. hamas continues to use civilians as human shields to try to protect themselves or protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. the un says more than 330,000 people in gaza have been made homeless and warns of a humanitarian catastrophe.

hello, i'm lewis vaugthones, welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. day six of the israel—gaza war. i want to take you live straightaway to gaza city, and if you have been with us for the last few days, the darkness here tells a great deal of the story. there has been limited supplies of power. and over the last few days, buildings that were previously lit up are now in darkness. there is still some light. sarri painters, generators being used supplies are running out. throughout the day, these pictures taken from inside gaza show a developing potential humanitarian

catastrophe in the opinion of the united nations. all running low now. israel saying no more will be let in until hostages are released. moo people have been killed in gaza. 1300 killed in israel after those hamas attacks. also in the last couple of hours we heard again from that man, us secretary of state, antony thinking. he has been visiting israel. he assured israel of washington's unwavering support, also stressed precautions to avoid harming civilians. and in the last hour or so, an harming civilians. and in the last hour orso, an update, 27 harming civilians. and in the last hour or so, an update, 27 americans are now known to have been killed in the attack. anthony blinken will be

pushing diplomatic efforts to end the fighting. israel's emergency government has also been sworn in this evening as a defence chief has admitted a security failure. in the next hour, we will report from right across the region, soon we will be hearing the latest from inside gaza. but first, for the very latest from right across the region, here is jeremy bowen. more of gaza has been flattened by israeli bombing. israel insists its targets are all based on intelligence, to kill the men who massacred israelis and to continue the job of breaking hamas. but hundreds of civilians of all ages have also been killed. and israel has been accused of answering the war crimes of hamas with ones of its own. anthony blinken, us secretary of state, flew in.

he offered solidarity, more military aid and assurances for benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister that america has israel's back. we are here, we are not going anywhere. he compared hamas to the killers of islamic state and said, "the way israel fights them matters." the value that we place on human life and human dignity, that's what makes us who we are. and we count them among our greatest strength. that's why it's so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. at this police station in tel aviv, israelis report relatives who have been missing since hamas attacked. yonatan�*s mother disappeared from kibbutz be�*eiri on the gaza border. his family believe that if peace diplomacy worked, the americans last tried ten years ago, israelis and palestinians might

have been spared this agony. yonatan is here to give a dna sample, but he's hoping his mother is alive as a hostage. vivian silva, his mother, is one of israel's best known campaigners for peace with the palestinians. she was holding meetings only a few days before the hamas attacks. what do you think your mother would be saying about everything that is happening right now? that this is the outcome. this is the outcome of war, of not striving for peace. we've been, you know, israelis have, let's say, living under this. —— living on our soul. and this is what happens. you know, it's very overwhelming, but it's not completely surprising. we couldn't. .. it's not...

..sustainable to live in a state of war for so long. and now it bursts, it burst. vivian was making light of it at first last saturday, until she couldn't. "we may be witnessing a massacre. enough sense of humour, i'm just telling everybody, telling you i love you." and i write back, "i love you mum." she writes, "they're in the house now." i said i have no words, "i'm with you." she writes, "i feel you." and that was it, that's the last message. their kibbutz was one of the first

targets of hamas last saturday, as it's right on the border. they shot dead the people in this car, stormed in and set about killing israelis. by the time the army fought its way back into be�*iri, you can see the ferocity of the fight. it was too late to stop the massacre. the body bags of residents are still being brought out of the ruins. volunteers from an organisation that recoversjewish dead for a religious burial took us to the house where vivian silva lived, horrified by everything they've seen. it's not people. it cannot be people making something like that. it can't be! it doesn't go with people! there's not even a studio in hollywood that could make a horror movie as bad as what we have seen here. i can't understand, somebody take kids... they didn't just kill them, they mutilated, they burned, they...

..severed. it's impossible to describe. the army didn't allow us much time in the street where vivian silva lived and brought up herfamily. she moved here long before hamas emerged, for space and country air. we hope to find out more about what happened to her. but if there were clues, they were consumed by fire. vivian's house and her neighbour's were gutted. we don't know if she's alive or dead. her family, like so many others, waits for news, good or bad. herfamily, like many others, wait for news, good or bad. it's totally burned down. the remains of the house and destruction at the debates are evidence for most israelis that it is dangerously wrong for peace activists like vivian

to argue that a century of attempted military solutions to the conflict have failed. the survivors have left the kibbutz. now it is a staging area as the army waits for the order to enter gaza. as the soldiers prepare, israel's government fails at this time, its forces will destroy hamas. jeremy bowen, bbc news. some details we are keeping across injerusalem this evening. in jerusalem's old city, a shooting incident. this is from israel the police. someone with a submachine gun opened fire towards police officers at the entrance of that shy bmb officers at the entrance of that shy lamb police station. these details from the police saying the shooter then attempted to flee the scene. police then pursued and, "neutralised by gunfire." two police

officers were injured, one seriously, and the police are now conducting searches in the area to rule out any accomplices. we will be keeping across that. now heading back to gaza. the hospitals are being overwhelmed in gaza — more than 6,000 people have been injured in air strikes. but israel says its blockade on the gaza strip will continue until israeli hostages seized on saturday are freed. jon donnison has more. across gaza, whole neighbourhoods are being flattened. israel says these are precision strikes against hamas. for palestinians, it doesn't feel that way. and they are defiant. "i will never leave here", he says. "here i am, pulled from under the rubble." outside the main shifa hospital in gaza city, bodies are lined up.

the health system is overwhelmed, short on medicines and running out of fuel to provide power. hospitals are also one of the few relatively safe places. in the grounds outside, the displaced are setting up makeshift camps. "we are sleeping here with the bombing above us," 15—year—old mohammed says. "i hope the world will have mercy." some of those here have lived through half a dozen wars. "they slaughtered our children, destroyed our houses over our heads and here we are in the streets," says 65—year—old taisir. "dead bodies are stacked over each other, children and toddlers," he goes on. in khan younis, in the south of gaza, they are burying the dead where they can. these funerals will not be the last. many more will grieve before this war is over. jon donnison, bbc news.

earlier i spoke to basel al—sourani who lives in the tal al hawa region of gaza city. he was forced to flee his neighbourhood yesterday fearing more strikes. he told me what life was like in the gaza strip at the moment. life is very difficult in gaza at the moment. we have aeroplanes, f—165, drones flying above our heads every second. people are fleeing in the streets. gaza city is completely destroyed. the explosions are all over the place. very difficult situation. what about power? at the moment, there is no electricity in almost all parts of gaza. no water as well. and we have only a few hours of electricity per day. people have been denied,

have run out of water. so there's not enough water. so what is your plan to try to get the supplies you need in the days ahead? i'm not sure if there will be supplies. we've seen the decision taken by the israeli ministry of defence to stop any fuel, food or water coming inside the gaza strip. it is a collective punishment for gaza civilians. this way seems not only to be targeting the hamas or any other group, it's about targeting the palestinian civilian so far. the israeli authorities say they are at war and they will abide as best they can buy the lies and the rules of war and give ——as best they can buy the laws and the rules of war and give protections to civilians.

they say they are targeting hamas targets. unfortunately, most of the targeting we've seen is the targeting of residential neighbourhoods, of towers, entire families have been erased. we've seen that the minister describing palestinians in gaza as animals. so, i'm not sure whether they are abiding by any rules. what about the issue of hostages? do you think hamas should return the hostages? i'm not in a position to judge about the hostages. i'm in a position to talk about the people in gaza who are being massacred every single moment while the international community is defending israel's right to defence. so what would you like to see happen now?

i would like to see a truce and being all the war ——i would like to see a truce ending all the war that is happening because civilians are the ones who are paying the price, not hamas. it is the civilians who are paying the price in gaza. work is being done to try to establish a humanitarian corridor to get aid in and people out. if something like that is established, would you get out? we are afraid that a second knock— back will occur, as the one that happened in 1948. i think many of the palestinians in gaza would prefer to stay in gaza and die in gaza rather than flee from their land. so you would stay? i would stay. 0ur our thanks to our guest speaking to us a little earlier. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news

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created by the controversial ——fearing a demographic time bomb. you're live with bbc news. 21,000 people in gaza used to cross into israel to work to earn more. now, after the hamas attack, many are stranded, unable to return to theirfamilies in gaza, and not welcome in israel. thousands are now being helped, by palestinians, in the occupied west bank, as my colleague clive myrie reports from ramallah. it's hot... ..chaotic. .. ..and frustrating. this sports hall in the west bank city of ramallah is now a reception centre for hundreds of people from gaza left stranded by the war. a cigarette calms things down a little for mohammed. a chef by trade, he was working in tel aviv when hamas launched its attack last saturday, and he's been unable to return

to his family in gaza ever since. now he's being moved to a new temporary home in the west bank. my family now is under attack, is under attack, and i cannot make contact with them now. he's not alone. on this bus are migrant workers from gaza, allowed into israel, but kicked out after the hamas attack and now taken in by fellow palestinians in the west bank. mohammed has a wife and four children he doesn't know when he will see again. you can't think of your family, of yourfather, you cannot. it's a bad situation. supplies arrive — food, blankets, water for some of those stranded away from home. and helping out is this woman and her niece, nihal. she was visiting her aunt from her home in gaza

when the current war began, and now like so many others, she is stranded. pictures on her phone, memories of happier times, together with her family. 0urfear is that nihal can never be reunited with her children. they are young, and every day, my husband and they ask me, "you should return back to gaza. we want to hide under your arms. "you should be here with us." a happy family before the war in a home for which they used every penny of their savings to buy. this is the family home now. pressed shirts still hanging in the wardrobes. a satellite image from before the conflict shows the neighbourhood where they lived. this image was taken two days ago after israel's bombing. with gaza's electricity running out, phone calls are difficult,

and the last time nihal spoke with her children, they pleaded with her to come home. i haven't any words to say, just... "momma, you should turn back, i want you here with me." but... i shut my mouth and, "ok, i will try to reach you soon." earlier, i spoke with mustafa barghouti. he is a palestinian doctor and leader of the palenstinian national initiative which is a democratic movement that is not affilated with fatah or hamas. i spoke to him just a few minutes after we heard from anthony blinken, the united states typed up he is in israel expressing his support for

israel. he said this... he said he had been shown photographs by the israeli government. injust a quick warning, these words from anthony blinken our distressing. he said he saw photos of a baby, and invent riddled with bullets. soldiers beheaded. young people burned alive in their cars and in their rooms. i could go on, he said, but it simply depravity and the worst imaginable way. those where the commons of anthony blinken on images that he had been shown by israeli governments sources. and i asked for his reaction to that. i think mr blinken should also blame himself and his president, mr biden, for the fact that during the last three years, they kept saying that there is no space for a solution, no space for diplomatic intervention to create an effective peace process, and denied denied the possibility of at least initiating proper

negotiations so that this the root problem will be resolved. and that is the continuous israeli occupation of palestinian land, the continuous occupation that has transformed into a system of apartheid. now, the result is 1200 israelis killed. let me finish, please. the result is 1200 israelis killed. and now at the moment till now, about 11100 palestinians killed, including 400 children. all these israeli children and palestinian children that have been killed, all of that could have been avoided had the international community paid attention. another war on gaza. we're not saying that by saying that. are you saying that hamas are not responsible for what they did in those attacks on israel? everybody everybody is responsible. but it would be a grave mistake to hold one side only responsible for the fact that israel is occupying us for 56 years.

but these were civilians. these were civilians. and our people are civilians. the 400 children in palestine are not hamas, who hasjust been killed by israeli air strikes. the 500 american palestinians who are stuck now in gaza, bombarded with air strikes, are also human beings who are civilians. i want the united states and the world community to stop discriminating against palestinians. and it is not acceptable to conduct a campaign to dehumanize all palestinians. and what i am alerting you to is that with what we can see now in gaza is a much worse situation where the israeli army would invade gaza, force all palestinians in gaza to flee to egypt and create another act of ethnic cleansing of 2.2 million people — 70% of whom have already been ethnically cleansed by israel in 1948. i am not in the game of blaming. i am here in the game of asking,

is the right thing to conduct another war, or is the right thing to find a way of a peaceful resolution? isn't the right way now to ceasefire immediately have immediate exchange of prisoners so that all these israeli prisoners held in israel could come back safe instead of threatening their life with bombardment from israeli air strikes? isn't it now the duty of the world? i have tojump in there, because you start to talking about prisoners, hostages, i presume as well. are you in favor of hamas returning the israeli hostages? yes. and also of israel returning palestinian prisoners, some of whom have been in israeli jails for 44 years, some of whom are children. hundreds of children are in israeli jails. 1,260 palestinians are in israeli jails without even due process. they don't know why they are in jail. this is called administrative detention, where israel could put people injail, including children, without telling them or their lawyers why they are in jail.

this is unacceptable. i don't want to be any israeli to be injail. i don't want any palestinian to be injail. i want the road to be opened for a true resolution, for ending the root problem. the occupation and the oppression of one side against the other will not solve the problem. 40 years ago, there was no hamas, and even then the plo was accused of being a terror organization. thank you two are against speaking to mejust a thank you two are against speaking to me just a little thank you two are against speaking to mejust a little bit earlier. i want to leave you with these live pictures of gaza city and the blackness there as people are relying on generate areas as the only power station ran out of fuel general supplies are running low. do stay with us here. this is bbc news.

hello. the outlook for the next few days as we look towards the weekend will bring quite a lot of sunshine, but, with that, a decidedly chilly feel — some chilly days and some cold nights. some places will see their first frosts of the season. there will be a few showers around. some of those could be wintry over high ground in the north. during today, southern parts have seen cloud and some outbreaks of rain. that was how it looked in hastings. and some really heavy rain is on the way for friday in association with this area of low pressure, this frontal system, pushing up from the south. turning really wet overnight across parts of england and wales. there could be enough rain in places for some flooding. but some mild air will be pushing up with this weather system, so overnight lows across the southern half of the uk in double digits. further north a little bit chillier, but not as cold as it was last night

because it will be quite breezy, and there will be this little weather front bringing some cloud and some splashes of rain. so, for tomorrow, outbreaks of rain particularly across parts of england and wales, although there will be some sunny gaps. turning really quite windy across central and southern parts and also very windy up to the north. sunny spells and showers for scotland and for northern ireland. here, getting into some chilly air, 10—13 celsius. some mild or even warm conditions further south — it could get to 20 celsius in london, but that will not last into the weekend. now, we will see gales during friday night across northern parts of scotland, but it's the wind direction that brings the real change in the feel of things. these north—westerly winds bringing colder weather southwards across all parts of the country. now, that said, there will be quite a lot of sunshine around on saturday, but showers in areas exposed to that north—westerly wind and those showers turning wintry over high ground in scotland. temperatures of 7 celsius in stornoway, 14 celsius in london and in plymouth. on saturday night, there will still be a few showers. we could see snow down to say 200 or 300 meters above sea level

across parts of scotland. under largely clear skies with the winds easing, it's going to be a cold night. many places getting close to freezing, some places getting below freezing. a touch of frost for quite a few locations, i think, on sunday morning. but a mostly fine and sunny day, not as many showers. the winds will be lighter, but it will still feel rather chilly. temperatures for most between 8—13 celsius.

this is bbc news. the headlines: israel warns the siege of gaza will not end until its hostages are released as power and clean water start to run out. the number killed in gaza rises to more than 1,400, as israeli air strikes continue into a sixth day. the us secretary of state meets survivors of saturday's attacks and says hamas is intentionally putting civilians in harm's way. hamas continues to use civilians as human shields to try to protect themselves or protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. the un says more than 330,000 people in gaza have been made homeless and warns of a humanitarian catastrophe.