a dw made for mines the, this is the w news wind from berlin, a major escalation in israel's war. again, some on israel ran suffolk airstrikes on concept tracking what it says we're underground targets overnight. the nation announces it's also expanding kids ground operations. also coming up the you wouldn't warns of a looming humanitarian catastrophe. for the 2000000 people trapped in costa 8 organizations. a communications blackout is hampering relief efforts. including

ambulance, turkeys, president blames the west for what he calls israel's massacre in gaza. hundreds of thousands to take to the streets of his stumble in support of palestinians. the michael loca, welcome. there are growing signs of that israel could be on the brink of launching a full scale ground invasion of gaza overnight. israel carried out its biggest air strikes to date and 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 and gosh, i have been knocked out entirely. israel's military says this footage shows overnight operations in the gaza strip. they claimed the fighter jets 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 had been massing tanks, infantry and artillery outside the gaza strip, after several brief emissions into the territory. the idea says it's expanding ground operations. bozza also me to go in the viet 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 below infantry butler, engineering, and artillery units for taking box in this stage, accompanied by mess it fired and biscuits, expending the operation of subs on the water themes. i put them in the summer. almost half of his release pulled by the newspaper. my reef would rather delay the ground defensive. many worries at sending in troops could endanger the more than

$200.00 hostages. still believe to be held by him off. but some supporters of the offensive say they feel is real, has no other choice. call them in the evenings and must reading about the operations somehow it offers it bits of support and strength. i truly believe though, that we all continue to live in for 5 and fear in the face of the mattress. there's no sense of security because we've been deeply wounded shop call. shoot your mouse real quick. i'm will go. this is a war for the free. what liberal values for home for october and our babies are women and all good and bad, 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. earlier i asked corresponded rebecca readers and still hold close to the border with gaza. whether is really troops were still inside because of strep. 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 on going the one that's the, the troops that went in last night. i 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, they are trying to work out now they're still trying to make a decision about whether or not they're going to continue the fluid and, and try and make this a laundry run invasion as we've also been expecting for the last few weeks, whether they going to pull out and keep doing these smaller rates that have on the periphery or just inside the periphery line, i should say, that is over my shoulder. you can say goals,

you can save employees of smaller cuts, the bait, 100 and neighborhood in the north eastern part of casa, and we've been seeing and hearing the missiles and the hillary fire, pounding not to see things, we can see the plains of smoke. now over the of the rising above the sky line, it's not a very clear picture at the moment because over dust those kicked out 5 those me solves and that, that's, that comes from the buildings that have destroyed. 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 these ground seems to be some, i'm sorry since the war began 3 weeks. x 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 not

a plan meeting. this is all due to pressure coming down from the families. 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 that it is really military. and what we've been seeing is that after the a, a, the, the, the now, so i thought invasion, integrated a small scale but still operational. uh, you know, as 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 pressure all day saying we once we demand a meeting with prime minister today. initially, they were promised a meeting with the defense minister for tomorrow, but eventually, anthony, i decided i will find time, it will meet with you immediately. there's 5 of them along with some of the leaders who are assistant, they're advisors there and, and they're just very much concerned. this is, you know, the, the,

the families have been jeopardized, but it is really a military offense for this meeting was originally scheduled to happen tomorrow. i want to make that very clear to the audience, cuz i suppose that 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 $200.00 that we know of . but what 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've 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 file. 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

24 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 main tit for tat, going forward. last 3 weeks. that was great. concerning his role is the escalation and also gonna lead to also escalation of the north. so for 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 great relief for israel so far, but this not guarantee for the future. israel 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 or shawnee roads on us. i wish you'd mentioned the aid organization say that communications blackouts since friday is complicating their relief efforts. the world health organization says it's impossible for ambulances

to evacuate. the injured, the images you are bound to see were recorded on friday. they are the very last we received and showed the dismal conditions. 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 ambulances have been damaged in the gaza strip. many uh, auto service. does it not? you would need for more medical supplies and surgical equipment that you took the day now. we no longer have any body bags and the ambulances last year and were facing difficulties and transporting. decomposing bodies shut off, there tends, may be hundreds of deadman, the houses that have been targeted to deal with these terms. according to rescue services. hundreds of buildings had been completely destroyed,

due to intense bombardment, rescue as sometimes hampered the efforts to find the 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. 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. a turkish president originate you, bird along has called the west of the main culprit behind what he called israel's quote massacre of palestinians in. gotcha. and this stumble, 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 militant, it was organized by are the ones is lama conservative a k party, a day ahead of the 100 year anniversary of turkeys found. the w corresponded julia han is in is stumble. i asked her to tell us more about present inverted ones message at the around well, i think what we saw if there's massive riley here in is simple today, was president add on stoking his is law 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

n t western restoral like they have from the tuckers 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 turkey's western allies by the us, the e. u. israel, of course, germany. but for the talkers 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 audiological support for the board, but also office space touch passports um and since this week i think what we've seen is that this support for hamas has become much more vocal by the turkish president. and this is likely to cause further attention with his wisdom 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 muted 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, amid security concerns. so what we're seeing now is much more likely headed for an open diplomatic crisis. dw julia han is stumble. let's take

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