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welcome to world news america. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu and opposition leaders are putting aside a bitter political bribery to form an emergency governmen as a war with gaza continues. that means during this war no bills or government decisions will be made that don't concern the wa it comes five days after saturday's attack by hamas on multiple targets in israel near the border with gaza. at least 1200 people have died, including 22 americans and 11 u.n. staffers. anymore are missing and hamas is holding more than 100 hostages. israeli troops and armor remain on the border with gaza head of a possible ground invasion. the israeli defense forces are continuing their bombing raids over gaza hitting hundreds of targets. the health ministry says more than 1100 people have been killed. and now, under siege, gaza is

running out of fuel. the power station closed today. hospitals are now running on generatorsnd food is a growing concern until a humanitarian quarter can be open. the u.s. says it is in talks with israel, the u.n. in egypt to get a into gaza and get civilians out of this, possibly including a humanitarian quarter. u.n. is calling for rapid humanitarian access. both sides continue to up -- exchange strikes. a rocket hit a hospital today. no deaths have been reported from death. our bbc correspondent visited the town in southern israel they are counting the cost of hamas attack on israel. >> israel's pain is being written onto gaza streets. whole districts brought down in the aftershocks of this attack. today, the power ran out. gaza's only power station grumbling under israel's

seizure. water, food and medicine could be next. they've all become weapons of war. >> i lost my father, my brother, my uncle, two cousins, a few other family members and my pregnant wife. i'm the only survivor. >> with israel's forces amassing at the border, he has already lost eight members of his family. in the israeli town near gaza, one neighborhood is now known as the district of death. those who stay here live with the blood and bulletholes left behind after saturday's attack. they filmed from their roof. as hamas militants came in. taking hostages and killing one resident outside the bomb shelter. this is where he was killed.

the bullet holes in the house and car are a reminder of how close he came. >> everybody protects ourselves. i closed it on the house, all the lights, and i turn off the air condition so nobody would hurt us. all the time there were shooting around in bombing from the sides. quite exciting and the family safe room, he started praying with his children. >> adult want my children to see this. i thought he was dead. i started to say prayers from my head and we prayed like this.

something like this, that nobody would hear russ. >> of foreign secretary came to hear from residents with more anger of his israeli counterpart spilling out in response to media questions. >> we are leaving and we are fighting for our home. >> are you considering british military aid to israel and are you consideringumanitarian -- >> i won't speculate on what we will give. i'm here to find out the support we can give to israel. >> minutes later, he was bundled toward a bomb shelter as sirens warmed -- warned of an incoming rocket attack. with a number of data on both sides rising, more dramatic stories have escaped. these women, trapped, while

militants battled soldiersn saturday. along the gaza border, israel seems to be preparing for a major offensive. it's haunted by the words of survivors. where was the army, where was the police. israel stands on its sense of security. how much destruction will be needed to prove its ability to protect? lucy williamson, bbc, southern israel. >> u.s. president joe biden avon update on how his ministration of securing the safety of the american hostages, the number of which is still unknown. president biden: we are working on every aspect of the hostage crisis, that's including deploying experts to advise and assist with recovery experts. the press will shout to me and many of you are, what are you doing to get these folks home? if i told you, i would not be

able to get them home. there's a lot we are doing, a lot. i have not given up hope, i'm bringing these folks home. >> u.s. secretary oftate antony blinken headed to israel on wednesday. he will work with regional u.s. allies in the middle east to secure the release of those hostages held captive by hamas. >> we are heading to israel and i am going with a very simple and clear message on behalf of the president of the united states and the american people. that is that the united states has israel's back, the back of israeli people. we have their back today, tomorrow, every day. >> the bbc's barbara is at the state department for us covering the latest. great to see you, what more did antony blinken say about his trip and the support that the u.s. is providing? >> while his trip is very much about to show solidarity and

support, and in terms of military assistance the first shipment of equipment has arrived. that would be interceptor missiles to replenish israel's iron dome defense system and munitions. that comes from u.s. military systems of around $4 billion a year. they get that every year. this equipment was already in the pipeline and has been fast-track or comes from u.s. stockpiles. mr. blinken said israeli's would probably need more. they signaled they would have a forceful and lengthy campaign which would need firepower. this can blinken said the administration would have to get authorization from congress for more funding and it was prepared to do that. >> we mention 22 americans were killed and some being held hostage. did the secretary say anything about securing the release? >> he did not give details and it's really unclear about how things will proceed.

there are only a few hostages u.s. officials know about. they spent a small -- they sent a small number, less than a handful, what it could change. most u.s. embassies of joint special operations command and president biden talked about spending -- setting reinforcements and experts and so on. hostage rescue teams have not been deployed in the national security council spokesman said no decisions had been taken on policy or operations because they didn't have enough information. they will be consulting very close with israelis on this. most hostages are israelis in the american ones are probably israeli dual citizens. they will consult in terms of their own strategy on hostage recovery and howhat fits into plans for what's expected to be a massive ground invasion. >> we heard the u.s. is working with egypt and the u.n. on trying to establish humanitarian

corridor out of gaza, what more is to be said about that? >> state department official said it was an active discussion. safe passage corridor would be forgetting humanitarian aid into the gaza strip and getting civilians out. mr. blinken said it was complicated. he didn't explain why b that could be a case of hundreds of thousands of gazans going in egypt, which would create its own challenges. that is still being discussed, there is no resolution to that. u.s. officials say civilian should be protected, they say -- sorry, that israel should obey the laws of war and avoid civilian casualties, but they are clearly expecting a very forceful campaign and supporting it given the brutality and scale of the hamas attack. >> very could speak with you, thank you.

the other side of this war is in gaza. our correspondent is there where as we've been hearing, palestinian media said the only power plant serving the gaza strip has run out of fuel. >> we can watch israeli artillery hitting the coastal side of gaza. they are locating near the border with israel, and the western part of the city. the health official is saying that they are struggling to call with the situation, with the number of people and the said we are running out of medicine and running out of fuel to operate the generators that is providing power for the hospitals. >> the hospitals are completely

overwhelmed, and the compound of the hospital, which is gaza's largest hospital, has become a refugee camp. thousands of families are seeking refuge in the compound in the hospital to try to escape the bombing. >> the local authority is tried to manage what is available. we uerstand that it's giving enough cash, like 100 bucks for each user, and the fuel stations is giving a very small amount of gas. even they are not giving the people what they need, they only give a very small amount for the people, so they are trying to manage what is available, but very soon of gaza is not supplied by what is needed, it will be a catastrophic situation. >> for more perspective, i spoke with the palestinian-american historian and the professor of

modern arab studies at columbia university. professor, thank you for joining us on bbc news. as a historian you have said we are witnessing a new era in the conflict between the israelis and palestinians. i want to ask about the situation on the ground. we see the israeli military say hundreds of thousands of troops are gathering near gaza. they are ready to execute a mission we have been given. that could mean a ground incursion. what do you think we are going to see? >> what we are already seeing is the palestinian casualty toll is rising above the very high israeli casualty toll. israel has mentioned 1200 people killed in the gaza death toll just about rose to that level today. so we will seek top -- carpet bombing of gaza and there's a destruction of neighborhoods and attacks on all kinds of facilities and installations. most of which have nothing to do with hamas. will we see a ground attack?

>> the israeli government has said we want to root out hamas. we want to end hamas as it is. is that possible to do? >> politically, no. even militarily i question the extent to which israel will be able to degrade hamas capabilities. the important thing is, they will kill hundreds and hundreds and maybe thousands of innocent civilians in doing whatever it is they claim they are doing. they may not degrade hamas military capability, but as in is really former director military intelligence said this morning on national public radio, hamas has broader reach than just its military. it's political, religious and cultural -- cultural. they could not uproot that without killing a large portion of the 2.4 million people on the gaza strip. >> what would you say is how israel should respond? >> we are talking about a

56-year-old occupation. if it's not time to end it, i don't know when it would be. we are talking about a 17 year blockade of gaza long before rockets were fired. if it's not time to end the seven year blockade, i don't know when it will be. this is the situation that has lasted for 75 years. the people of gaza are the original indigenous population of southern israel, which now have communities, some of which were these battles. in some cases, horrible massacres over the past few days. that's a deeper level. if you don't dress that level of problem and the problem of no palestinian state or self-determination or occupation of 56 years, you are not addressing it. israel refuses to address any of those issues. >> senator bernie sanders a statement saying this is a major set back for peace and justice for palestinians. want to read you a quote from the statement.

he said for years people of goodwill throughout the world including brave israelis have struggled against the blockade of gaza, the daily west bank current is conditions faced by many palestinians. he says hamas terrorism will make it much more difficult to address that tragic reality and will embolden extremists on both sides continuing the cycle of violence. what your thought on that statement? >> that may or may not be true. i think it may be true. i think some of the terrible civilian casualties are going to be a terrible burden for advocates for palestine to bear. but i would retort to the senator, i believe him when he says that he and many people of goodwill have done their best to end occupation and to end the siege. their best was not enough. united states government is the sponsor of the occupation. united states government finances the weapons that are killing them.

it is our responsibility of americans, i know the senator has tried and many others have tried, to stop american support for human rights violations. to stop support for continued occupation, but we have not done enough. whatever has been done until now is insufficient. 56 years of occupation rolls on unhindered. 16 years of blockade rolls on unhindered. he's right, this may be a hindrance, but he and others have been insufficient to change the course of american policies fully behind these problems, which are the root of what we are facing. >> professor, thank you for sharing your insights with us today. >> you are very welcome. >> violence has expanded to lebanon. israel has reinforced its northe unofficial border area with thousands of extra units and militant targets. lebanese media says three people were hurt when schelling hit

several towns and villages. it comes after hezbollah says it fired missiles when the israeli military posted in the area in response to the killing of its fighters. israeli defense forces ruled out a air force infiltration that prompted an alert. israel and the u.s. have were in the militant group backed by iran against opening another battlefront following hamas attacks in the front. the escalation of violence between israel and hezbollah prompted confusion amid fake reports of american evacuations. the u.s. embassy in beirut posted, they have not evacuated and has opened and operated normally. report saying otherwise are false. israelis are reeling from saturday surprise attack from hamas militants, but they are coming together. a record 360,000 reservists have been called to help respond. it marks one of its largest mobilizations in recent history.

>> on either side of the road, about an hour from tel aviv, set parked cars for as far as the eye can see. up ahead is a military base in the billet -- and they belong to israelis young and old reporting for duty. the call went out and they came in the thousands. no one tried to duck the issue to avoid the call up. this happened in a number of cases impasse crisis, no, this is t biggest mobilization of reservists in israeli history. and it was a global call to arms. he is 28 and lives in austria, but a day after the hamas attack he got on a plane to return to israel, leaving behind a wife and o young children. >> there is nothing more important right now, not my job, not my studies, not everything,

not even my family. only my job and only what we are doing here. >> this is more important than your family? >> unfortunately, we are in a situation where i didn't imagine that i would ever say something like that, but it is something. >> that's a second fighter jet. >> i didn't think i would say something like that ever. there's something in the world more important to me than my family. but unfortunately, the reality has changed and here we are. >> he and his girlfriend on holiday in portugal told us they are scrambling to get back home. >> it was really hard mentally hearing all these stories and being away from our families and our friends. i want to help in any way.

>> for paul in tel aviv just off a plane from heathrow, there's exasperation. >> it's so frustrating. >> born in israel but a londoner for more than 20 years, he's holding for the local army recruiting office. >> i might get through. >> hello. >> but it's bad news. they tell him he may be too old to serve, age 51. what did your wife say? >> initially she said, no, you're not going, your old, you don't know what you're doing. you have it vote a while, you are not going. i said, if i don't go, who does. if i'm not in the front line, the new is? >> the invisible ties that bind holdfast. israel is hurting as another reservist says goodbye to his family, called up to defend the land that so many call home.

bbc news in jerusalem. >> for the 100 to 150 believed to have been taken hostage by hamas, it is an anxious wait for the families who haven't heard from relatives and saturday as bbc's diplomatic correspondent reports. >> twins organized a music festival that became a massacre. one is dead and the other is missing. this sister still can't fathom what has happened. family by family, the horrifying scale of saturday's atrocities is being revealed. this done gathering of friends. his widow trying to find him. >> we thought he was alive, we had hoped but i found her car covered in blood. all of the front windows were shattered by bulletholes.

everything was covered in blood, everything. >> the bodies of 260 people were found at the festival site. some survived by playing dead, others, we still don't know exactly how many were abducted. they love dancing and went to the festival with a broken leg. she couldn't run from the gun fit -- gunman and her family haven't heard from herince saturday. click saturday night, saturday morning, 8:42, something like that, she sent us a message to our family group in whatsapp, and she told us, i love you, and something will happen to me, know that i love you. >> several agonizing days old, esther is also waiting for news of her son, her 12-year-old grandson kidnapped. >> i don't know if he's had any food because he's being held

captive by some madman. i don't know if they fed him or given him enough close, he was cold yesterd. i don't know if they gave him a jacket. i'm worried about my son but he is big and can handle it. a small child cannot do that. >> her daughter-in-law online granddaughter somehow escape when five gunmen stormed into their home. >> my heart, i'm very hurt, worried. i want to hope, i want to be in hope. >> just a reminder, you can head to our live page on bbc news.com/news. there you'll get all the updates on the conflict from our teams on the ground in israel and around the world. you will find more imagesnd interviews from our correspondents who are reporting from inside israel, also from inside gaza. we have analysis from our experts. plus, to see what we are working

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