for the this is dw news line from berlin, a major escalation in israels war against a months. israel rance up air strikes on gaza, striking what each a has were underground targets overnight. the nation announces it's also expanding its ground operations. also coming up the u. n. warrens of a looming humanitarian catastrophe for the 2000000 people trapped in gaza. 8 organization say a communications blackout is hampering relief efforts, including ambulance, tips, and tricks. these president blaine's the west for what he calls israel's massacre

in garza. hundreds of thousands take to the streets of his stumble in support of palestinian, the warm welcome to viewers around the world. unlike located, there are growing signs that israel could be on the brink of launching a full scale round invasion of gaza overnight. israel carried out its biggest air strikes to date in its war against the most terrorist and troops also conducted more ground rates. the army says its troops are still in the field. meanwhile, communications in gaza had been knocked out entirely. israel's military says this footage shows over night operations in the gaza strip. they claim to fight or just hit a 150 tunnels and other underground infrastructure used by him. us killing several

of the terror organizations, commanders, some of whom they call key operatives in the october 7 massacre. meanwhile, his real defense forces have been massing tanks, infantry and artillery outside the gaza strip. after several brief missions into the territory, the idea says it's expanding ground operations, bozza and ask them to go in gaza via advancing in the stages of the war. last night, idea of forces entered the area of the northern gaza strip invited activity on the ground. the beautiful infantry village engineering and artillery units, taking pots in the stage, accompanied by mess it fired and biscuit, with expending the operation of all the waters, the theme put them in the summer. almost half of his release pulled by the newspaper. by ruth, would rather delay the ground offensive. many worry that sending in troops could endanger the more than $200.00 hostages,

still believe to be held by him us. but some supporters of the offensive say they feel is real, has no other choice. call them in the evenings and muscles reading about the operations somehow offers it bits of support and strength. i truly believe though that we all continue to live in for fun and fear in the face of the motorized. there's no sense of security because we've been deeply wounded on shoot your mouse real quick of a more go this is a war for the free. what? liberal values for home for october, then our babies are women and all good and fat and it's not an easy bar. the understand the pin on both sides, but people won't give up. be able to stay here despite everything. the pain on both sides is sure to keep increasing as long as the fight drags on,

and there are no indications of it ending soon. now, earlier i ask, responded rebecca ritters and stay will close to the border with gaza. whether it's rarely troops were still inside the gaza strip. well, that's what we're hearing from officials to michael that the ground offensive. all the targeted raids is the bank will buy these ready? military are still ongoing. the one that the, the troops that went in last night is still inside the gaza strip as far as where, where, according to the latest updates that we have. now, i also have been hearing that the, the day of trying to work out now. and i still caught trying to make a decision about whether or not they going to continue a fluid and, and try and make this a lodge of renovation. as we've also been expecting for the last few weeks. whether are they going to pull out and keep doing these smaller rates that are on the periphery, or just inside the periphery line, i should say that it's everyone sold and you can say goals,

you can save employees of smaller cuts, the bait 100 neighborhood in the north eastern part of casa, and we've been seeing, and hearing the me solves, and the total re fi, a pounding, that's 15, we can see the plans of smart. however, this of a rising above the sky line. it's not a very clear picture at the moment because over dust those kicked out 5, it was me solves and the dust that comes from the buildings that are destroyed. but you can get a bit of an image there as well. explain happening all throughout the day. we know that yesterday last night in particular was the heaviest bombardment since this ground seems to be some i'm sorry since the war began 3 weeks ago. again, that's a dw corresponded rebecca rivers from state welt in southern israel. let's turn now to focus on another central aspect of this complex the hostages. we understand that a meeting between is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu and families of the hostages has just ended, middle east analysts. shawnee was honest,

joins me now with more shawnee. what more can you tell us? this was on a plan meeting. this is all due to pressure coming down from the families. um they have not actually had not had proper meeting with them to now to be here, constant criticism, the families feel neglected. they feel betrayed, they feel they don't have enough connection. direct connection to the government to the idea of citizen is really military. and what we've been seeing is that after the a, a, the, the, the now, so i, the invasion, integrated a small scale but still operational. uh, you know, all patients on the ground, this great concern of the families. how does this affect the 229 is really is kept in gaza as hostages, and they've been mounting session all day saying we want we demand and meeting was prime minister. today. initially, they were promised the meeting with the defense minister for tomorrow, but eventually, anthony, i decided i will find tom and we'll meet with you immediately. there's 5 of them along with some of the leaders who are assisting their advisors,

their and the end. they're just very much concerned, this is, you know, the, the, the families have been jeopardized, but it is really a military offense. this meeting was originally scheduled to happen tomorrow. i want to make that very clear to the audience. i suppose it underscores the pressure that you're talking about correct on these really correct, correct. the defense, mr. wanting to meet them tomorrow. maybe also with the prime minister and then eventually is now decided to do it quite spontaneously. this is why we only also have c 5 families, they're out of the over 200 that we know of. but we also see is that there's a counter arguments to the families from the defense official saying we, we are scaling up our, our operation on the ground. it goes up because we want to put more pressure on how much exactly for that reason we want to have more leverage in the negotiations about the hostages. it's not because we forgotten you hosted the hostages and your loved ones. it's because we actually work in their benefit. is that really the case? we don't know this fall incomplete fall. we don't know where these headquarters are

kept. what's the conditions? ok, and of course we have no indications on whether the military's actions in the last 34 hours and harmed them in any way. we have half a minute, but i do want to turn to another issue here and that is a israel's northern border. we understand that there's been some back and forth in terms of exchanges, right? the hezbollah as well as the, is really defense forces, correct? that's the needs to protect going forward. last weeks, that was great. concerning his role is the escalation and also gonna lead to also escalation of the northern morton. so far today we've seen quite a calm day. nothing out of the ordinary in that scale that we've not seen in the last couple of weeks. i'm going to leave for israel so far, but this not guarantee for the future is we have is quite aware of the fact that his ball i can read things up at any moment. many thanks as always. uh that is the w's middle east analysts. shawnee rouge on us. the 8 organizations say the communications blackouts since friday is complicating their release efforts. the

world health organization says it's impossible for ambulances to evacuate. the injure, the images you're about to see were recorded on friday. they were the very last we've received and show the dismal condition. civilians are facing inside the territory. conditions that are likely more dismal today. gotcha, yeah. that's law ridges in garza, that medics are facing in almost challenges. dozens of times, the lenses have been damaged in the gaza strip. many uh, auto service. the positives in the que would need for more medical supplies and surgical x documents that you took the data. we no longer have any body bags and the ambulances, and the last you and we're facing difficulties in transporting. decomposing bodies shut off and there are tens, maybe hundreds of deadman the houses that have been targeted. let's eat them.

according to rescue services. hundreds of buildings had been completely destroyed, due to intense bombardment. fast because sometimes hampered into efforts to find to have victims in the thing we lack heavy machinery and rely on private companies. but even their equipment, despite daily maintenance is effected, these frequent breakdowns hinder our work. if i'm on the humanitarian situation for more than 2000000 people, this already died. since friday evening, phone and internet services have been cut off, leaving people even more disconnected from the outside world. took express in any way shape the 31 has called the west. the main culprit behind israel's quote massacre of palestinians in gaza and assemble hundreds of thousands

of people demonstrated in support of the palestinians. it's one of the largest rallies of its kind since the start of israel's war against the most militants. it was organized by early ones as lama conservative. a k party, a day ahead of the 100 year anniversary of turkey's founder. for more let's bring in dw, corresponding julia han in is stumble nearly as we've heard strong words coming from prison it or the one at the rally. what was his message? well i think what we saw if there's massive riley here in is symbol today was president ad on stoking his is allow me conservative political face. he reinforced his growing criticism of israel's bombardment. all the gaza strip. he called israel, i quote him an occupier and accused. these were in the army quoted in of committing a massacre in a gauze. at the same time,

he blamed western countries and west and media for legitimizing these attacks on gaza on palestinian civilians. so a loss of anti israel, anti western restoral rick the from the attackers leader that was to be expected ad one also repeated his stones about how muscle being a terrorist organization. as you know, it is designated as one by most of turkeys west and allies by the us, the u. israel, of course, germany. but for the tuckers president, you'll have to understand how much is a legitimate political force he has received from us officials in the past. he has provided, according to analysts, not only ideological support for the board, but also office space touch passports. and since this week, i think what we've seen is that this support for her mouse has become much more vocal by the turkish president. and this is likely to cause further attention with his western populace. you're getting to my next question,

as you will know over to one has been a supporter of the palestinian cause, but his soul for taking a more new to it. if not neutral stats, what's behind this change in town as well? i don't think that he has ever taken a neutral stance in this conflicts. ridge apply of ad one is a, one of the international you, one of the most vocal supporters firm and supporters of the palestinian cause. but you're right. what we so right after how mazda is atrocities against is really civilians on october 7th? well, my portion was there from the tech as a president, probably because up until that point, he was actually trying to repair long, strained relations with these were in the government. but that seems to be off the table now. this week he said he cancelled a trip to ease where l israel has already called back diplomats from talk he is wanting at citizens against troubling here. i mean security concerns. so what we're

seeing now is much more likely headed for an open diplomatic crisis from your vantage point, you will see what has been to it these role in this complex so far. well, i've already talked about the support for mass ad on being a vocal advocate of the palestinian pools. but if we talk about the immediate situation it tuckers diplomats, the turkish government has been quoting for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that would allow for aids to get in to garza to attack us. government has sent several military cargo planes with medical and food aid to be delivered via egypt into cause and, but we will know how difficult access is that end texture, official se they are a negotiated thing with homos for the release of civilian hostages. but so far, these attackers efforts have not to yield with any concrete result. as far as we know, even though a few people have been released as far as we know, this did not have to do specifically with tuckers mediation w's. usually

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