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completely encircled gaza city despite fierce resistance from hamas. the u.n. says a school used by civilians has been hit and as hundreds of foreign nationals across the border into egypt, we speak to a pales canadian insid. hello and welcome to world news america. the israeli military says its forces have encircled gaza city raef encountering fierce resistance from hamas fighters. a joint operation from ground, sea, and air forces saw israel yes troops break through the front lines in the north of gaza. more than 9,000 people have now been killed in israeli strikes since the deadly hamas attacks s
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on october 7. israeli's intense bomb bardment of gaza continued on thursday with the third air strike in as many days on the densely populated jabalia refugee camp. at least seven were killed in the strike which is claimed is fleer a u.n. school. our correspondent jeremy has the latest. >> more everyday that nowhere in gaza is safe. israel hit the refugee camp. today israel has been warning those in gasa to move south. thousands of displaced people were sheltering there. the u.n. human rights office has said that so many civilians have been killed and wounded in israeli air strikes that it has serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could be war crimes. a girl was pulled out alive. she asks the stretcher bearers,
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are you taking me to my grave? the men try to reassure her that e's not dead. across gaza, unknown numbers of dead are buried under the rubble. in the camp, he's asked who he's looking for. my four children. my four children, he says. oh, god, why did you leave me and die? israel says it wants to destroy hamas. civilians, it says, are killed because hamas uses them as human shields. israel has released pictures of some of its latest attacks. based on reports from inside gaza and israeli military statement, it seems clear that they are pushing forward into gaza city. the pictures released by the army are preview edited.
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[gunfire. >> don't want to giver away locations. hamas, as far as we can tell is using hit and run tactics against what is a much more powerful army. to support the ground warp in gaza, the israeli military says it's only using hatch its air power, the troops have been visited by israel's prime minister, again -- ben gin netanyahu. >> i call on the uninvolved get out, get out, move south. we will advance, we will advance and win. >> this is jabalia, in northern gaza. hit three days running. israel defenders its targeting vigorously but also knows that pictures like this every day make it harder for its allies to push back demands for a cease-fire. the boy is saying we didn't do
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anything wrong. we didn't do anything wrong. the u.n. says 22 people sheltering in four of its schools were killed today. it isn't clear what hit this one in jabalia. what is clear from the evidence and u.n. statements is that nowhere is safe in gaza. "bbc news," southern israel. >> let's speak now to our correspondent john don than who is in -- donovan in juice emjerusalem. they say they have gaza city encircled. what's the latest on the military campaign? >> well, their grounds operation is clearly advancing. yesterday next they were at the gates of gaza city. today benjamin netanyahu said they had passed into the outskirts of gaza city and today an israeli spokesperson said they had gaza city completely
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encircled so the ground operation is advancing. er in facing resistance. we've seen 19 israeli soldiers now killed and it has to be said that the area on the approach to gaza city is relatively open. there are small towns orvilleages which may be easier to move through. once you get to the densely build-up area of gaza city itself it's going to be increasingly difficult and complex, and, of course, one of israel's objectives is to remove hamas's military capabiliti and their ability to govern. the other is to free those hostages and carrying out that ground offensive while trying to get those hostages out alive is not going to be easy. >> we saw for people, again, mostly foreign nationals leaving gaga through the rafah crossing today. is there a sense that that number is september to increase?
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>> well the egyptian authorities have been saying they were going to try to get through about 500 people a day. foreign pass important holders and a small number of critically injured people. i don't think they've reached that number today. i think more than 100 people have managed to get out. we know some americans, passport holders were able to leave. a few british pass important holders but there are more than 7,000 foreign nationals in gaza so it is going to take a considerable amount of time to get them all out. of course, the key thing is, that is just a tiny fraction of 2 million or so people who live in gaza, the vast majority of whom have no chance of getting out. >> the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken is on his way from and says u.s. diplomacy can make a difference. how is his visit likely to be
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received? >> well, i think there will be some u.s. diplomacy in putting pressure on to try and get the northwestern citizens out. i think when he was here a few weeks ago, mr. blinken really offered israel unconditional support. they have been urging israel to try and limit the numbe of civilian casualties and america believes that israel is trying to do that. but by the time mr. blinken leaves this visit, we're going to be on the way to 1,000 people killed in gaza, according to palestinian health officials in gaza and the u.n. also pub blishing those figures. so not all of those are militants. a lot of civilians are getting caught up. i was speaking to a british government minister yesterday and i said when does israel's
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response to hamas's attack on october 7 become disproportionate? at 10,000 depths in gaza, 20,000, 100,000? he didn't want to give an answer but i do think as the number of people being killed continues to rise, countries like america, european countries are going to be under increasing pressure, i think, to try and put pressure on israel to limit the number of people being killed. >> john donovan jerusalem. thank you. hundreds more foreign nationals has been leaving gaza volunteera the rafah crossing. egypt says it will allow about 7.5 thousand foreign mass port holders to enter over the next few weeks. two british nationals were able
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to leave gaza yesterday. the u.k. foreign offers says it contues to work with egypt and israel to support the roughly 200 brittens trying to leave. the palestinian authority published what appeared to be a list of nearly 600 names sorted by country of people approved to leave via israel. at the top was the united states with 400 approved to leave. u.s. president joe biden said earlier that 74 americans had already been evacwaited from gaza. belgium was the nation with the next highest number approved to cross at 50. followed by greece. the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken is scheduled to arrive there on friday. he said the u.s. was going to take steps to mann miss harm to civilians in gaza. earlier i spoke with someone
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living on the ground in gaza. thank you for joining us on "bbc news." i'm sure it's not easy at the time. can you tell us, where are you and your family at the moment? >> my family and i have relocated since the start of the war. we are now in -- they were living with extended family. their neighborhood recently got bombed by four one-ton bombs and their house got partially damaged. they do not have enough food, water, electricity and fume. i've been separated from them because i've been trying to volunteer here with the media volunteer team trying to reach out in english to journalists like yourselves to talk about the suffering of the people, 3 million civilians, palestinians here in gaza. you can hear the ambulances
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right now. just a five minutes ago, an air strike struck of haws -- a house 500 yards adjustment to a hospital. until now bombings are continuing. until now in the strike four have been kill and would 10 injured and the house has been turned into rubble. >> what will conditions like there? you mentioned your family doesn't have enough food or water at the moment. >> correct. they said we're turning off the electricity, the water, the fuel taps and they even tried several times to switch off communication so several times we couldn't make any phone cal or have any internet so we are in a siege with closed borders. the amount of pressure this is being put on the ever-decreasing stock of food here. water. right now there is no pure, clean water. people are relying on wells in
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neighborhoods which they try to purify. with regards to fuel, there is almost no more fuel left here. we do not know how much left is for hospitals. we were in a very, very bad humanitarian situation. >> do you feel abandoned there? >> yes, we do. >> israel would say that it's acting out of self-definition after 14,000 israelis were killed on october 7. what do you say to that? >> i tell you that the 4.3 million civilians here were as shocked and surprised with what hamas did as they were. we were as shocked as they were. they have billion-dollar technology and infrastructure and spying mechanisms. they own the air space. they own our communications system. if they couldn't identify what
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hamas has done beforehand and prevent it, the civilians here have no idea about what happens and why would you take revenge on the swivellians that have no know how, that didn't know anything about it? this doesn't make any sense. this is againstational law, against human right law. why are we killing over 9,000 center civilians, mostly women and children with, thousands still under the rubble. with over 25,000 injured? this is more than what ukraine has gone through in more than a year, we suffered in less than a month. >> you mentioned that you're separated from your children at the moment. how have you been explaining all of this to them, that they've had to keep moving so many times? >> israel has killed over the last 27 days, 39 different journalists, some with their
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families. hence, since i started to volunteer with the media team trying to communicate in the english language with the outside world, i was advised that it's better for me to totally separate from them and to be in contact with my family indirectly. hi family is being well taken care of by our extended family. the children definitely miss me. i miss them, i miss my wife. however, all 2.3 million civilians here are like my wife, like my children. they are my family and i am trying to help everyone and if they don't understand this now given their young age, hopefully later on they'll remember what their father did. >> how do you explain to your children the bombing, the lack of food, the lack of water, the need to keep moving? what is happening to their country. that i have can't go to school,
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they can't play their sports. >> i have five kids, ranged -- the youngest is 4 years old and the eldest is 16. the youngest two kids, the last i've heard is whenever there are bombs around them, they latch hysterically and they start hugging everyone. my middle child, he's in like question mold. he's like, why are they killing civilians? why am i not allowed to go to school anymore? what's the benefit for israelis for doing this to us? he's asking questions. my eldest two daughters are more mature. they understand what's going on. sometimes they would cry without any reason. they would start crying but with time, with the extended family's support, both mentally, physically, etc., they are coping. they're trying to help.
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they're calming the other kids. it's honestly a nightmare for any child but it is what it is. we need to keep strong, stick to our faith and move forward and take it day by day. >> if you got the opportunity to leave, though, would you take it? >> in the official phase of the war, i would have but given the need, the effects, communicating with media outlets like yourself and trying to ease the situation here on the 2.3 million innocent civilians, i believe it's my humanitarian and religious obligation to remain here and try to help my people as much as i can, even if i get the opportunity to leave. however, my family is a different story. >> you would try to have your wife and children leave? >> if i am assured safe passage
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for them. if things are not as bad as they are right now at the border, then yes. >> we'll leave it there at the moment. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> across the border in israel, a man the missing. seven members of his family after they were taken by hamas. asaid hamas is killing several family members. he spoke to us earlier about what happened to his family on october 7 when hamas attacked kibbutz. >> i called my son. i said is he ok. he doesn't have a phone. but they are outside shooting. they are closing in the safe room the door so nobody can open
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from outside and he told me don't worry, father. then i asked him send me a link with google map where is the house exactly so i can manage the army there. he told me don't worry, the army is here. neck handle it. he really didn't realize what's happened. ok and around 10:30, the lines disconnected. this is the last time they hear from him. >> so you think that hamas has taken them capture and they are hostages in gaza now? >> yes, we know that my son was taken alive on the feet with clothes and he was carrying a cargo trunk. the other ones, the military told us that they are in gaza. one of the -- father was
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murdered in the first day so now we have seven people in gaza. we don't know -- sorry, there's a delay on the line. how do you think they're holding up, particularly your little grandchildren? >> i really don't know. we don't know the situation. either they're alive or dead. we know for almost sure they're underground, deep underground. we don't have any idea and it's very bad because they -- the children were with the short pajamas. it was very hot here this night. we don't know. really, i live from day-to-day without knowledge what's happened to them, where are they
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and what will be. >> have you been given any information as to how the hostage negotiations are going? >> all the time -- every day there's breaking news. it may be qatar, maybe egypt, may be united states. every time there's a new plane, how to get out but meantime, the winter is coming and i don't understand and women must get today out. there is red cross that didn't visit them, ok? there's diplomats that didn't visit them and i don't understand this. i mean, every day there's breaking news about any other plane. i don't know what's happened here. ok, i understand only this, that the children and wen must be out. >> do you have confidence in the israeli government and the prime minister to get the hostages out
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for you? >> in my country, i trust only the president and the army. i don't trust anybody. >> when you see the bombing campaign that israel is mounting in gaza and the death toll there, around 9,000 civilians have been killed, most of them women and children, the humanitarian crisis, do you think about that pain and suffering alongside your own pain and suffering? >> i don't know. no comments. i don't know. i trust my army. i'm not sure about the numbers.e nobody is sure about the numbers but i can't comment on this. i'm sorry, i don't have any idea what's happened there. nobody has any idea what's happened there. >> ok, we'll leave it there for
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the moment. thank you so much for talking to us. we do appreciate it and take care of yourself. >> thank you. >> concerns are growing about the conflict engulfing the wilder region in lebanon. hezbollah has said it has attacked over a dozen targets. >> another day of intense border attacks between hezbollah here in southern lebanon and the israeli army. hezbollah said it had attacked 19 israeli positions. not confirmed but this would mark the most intense wave of attacks by hezbollah targeting israeli positions since the beginning of this war between israel and hamas. they said they had used explosive drones to target positions. now, the israeli military said it had responded to a number of
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lawrence from lebanese territory and said it had struck hezbollah positions including military facilities, infrastructure and weapons facilities structures here in southern lebanon. this happens on the eve of a much anticipated speech by the hezbollah leader. s going to be the first time that he will be making public remarks since the beginning of this conflict and the fear here in southern lebanon is that an elation of the violence along the border could drag this country into in conflict. >> in other news, two of the former president donald treasure's sons testified in a swivel -- testified in a civil fraud case in new york. they said they weren't aware of any fraud. new york attorney generals leticia james has accused the
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