sebastian usher in jerusalem. _ moment. sebastian usher in jerusalem, thank _ moment.tian usher in jerusalem, thank you, - moment. sebastian usher in jerusalem, thank you, we i moment. sebastian usher in. jerusalem, thank you, we will moment. sebastian usher in - jerusalem, thank you, we will talk jerusalem, thank you, we will talk again as more detail emerges. sebastien talking about eid. millions around the world — are celebrating eid today — at the end of the islamic holy month of ramadan, but many muslims in gaza who are caught up in the war with israel, have foregone the customary food and celebrations — as our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. in the shadow of a war that has killed tens of thousands and left much of their land in ruins, gazans are marking eid, the last day of ramadan. streets that in the past would have been bustling are now empty and destroyed. families who would be celebrating are mourning lost lives. amany mansour came to remember her son, killed in this translation: when i think about last i eid, it was the best one of my life i

thank you very much, sebastian usher.an and spruce up, including for one of london's most famous landmarks, tower bridge. a team of specialist window cleaners, with a good head for heights, have been abseiling from the tower�*s high—level walkways. 0ur reporter vince rogers has more. dangling from ropes off the famous london landmark are a team of abseilers reaching the parts that others can't reach. what i'm doing now is i'm protecting the ropes as we go underneath, as humans don't do too well when they fall from heights. so what we've done is we've put platforms underneath. what the team will do is they will abseil over the platform as works positioning, clip into the steel beams underneath, and that way they can safely traverse and carry out the cleaning of the glazing. it's all right there. the walkways have glass floors for spectacular views of the bridge below, but now they've become a bit grimy and they've been clean for the first time. years of grime coming out of there, vince. look at that! beautiful. look at tha

sebastian usher reports from jerusalem.rieving for those who were killed on october the 7th at the nova festival in southern israel. six months on, the trauma for israel still runs deep. and for some, it's a personal grief that can never be assuaged. we were talking with our kids on the phone in the last minutes and seconds, and we tried to help them, but we couldn't. in front of our eyes and ears, we saw our son and daughter killed, and nobody could help us. and it's the worst thing that a father and mother can feel for their son and for their daughter. last night in tel aviv, tens of thousands of israelis came out to demand that government do more to save the lives of those who survived but were abducted and taken to gaza, all building more pressure on the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, who's already facing unprecedented criticism from israel's closest allies. the urgency of those protests is underscored by the front page of one of the main newspapers in israel today, haaretz, framed by the faces of the israe

sebastian usher, bbc arab affairs - much as possible. k you so much. let's go live to aaron david miller, former state department middle east analyst. always good to have your perspective. watching all of this unfold tonight, i wonder, how do you think prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be reacting to this, greeting all of this? i mean, assuming — greeting all of this? i mean, assuming the _ greeting all of this? i mean, assuming the drone, - greeting all of this? i mean, assuming the drone, cruise | greeting all of this? i mean, i assuming the drone, cruise and ballistic missile strikes don't cause significant damage and casualties — i am not sure when they are going to conclude — i think the israelis are going to respond. with or without casualties. i think the israeli logic is going to be "we are going to continue to hit iranian revolutionary senior personnel wherever we can find them and if we have to strike them and if we have to strike them again, we cannot create a situation where iran is going to strike us again with this sort

our middle east reporter sebastian usher has more from jerusalem. know as an israeli strike has killed three of the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh's sons. also, what we've heard from hamas and from mr haniyeh himself was that several of his grandchildren were killed in the strike as well. now, this is what israel has said that it will continue to do. it described the three men as hamas operatives, saying that they had carried out terrorist activity in the central gaza strip. and even though israel has pulled out most of its troops from gaza, there is no sense that israel is ending its operation there and is continuing to target anyone that they regard as somebody who is a fighter, an activist for hamas. so on that level, this is what israel said it will do. on the response from hamas and from ismail haniyeh himself, he is essentially said that this doesn't change anything, that he has already lost members of his family, so many other palestinians in gaza have as well. he's not going to let this shift or change the policy that hamas is follow

let's speak to bbc world service middle east editor sebastian usher in jerusalem.e strike in a beach camp near the beach and gaza, next to gaza city. and in it were three of his sons and several of his grandchildren. the pictures, the video that we've seen of the aftermath showed that the vehicle was all but destroyed. as you are just saying, haniyeh himself, as he was touring a medical facility in doha, he was speaking to gaza being taken there after being wounded and his immediate response was to say that he thanked god for bestowing honour on him of what he called the martyrdom of his three sons and several of his grandchildren. he went on to say that this is a delusional act by israel, these are his words. an effort to try to push hamas and its leadership to accept the conditions in the current cease—fire proposal. now we've been hearing about this proposal for the last two or three days, first of all, it was quite optimistic what we were hearing from the mediators, egyptian and qatari mediators. the four main conditions were not being met within this proposal,

we can now speak to the bbc world service middle east editor sebastian usher in jerusalem.l us more. olmos media gave the news first saying _ tell us more. olmos media gave the news first saying that _ tell us more. olmos media gave the news first saying that a _ tell us more. olmos media gave the news first saying that a vehicle - tell us more. olmos media gave the news first saying that a vehicle in . news first saying that a vehicle in which three sons and several of his grandchildren, it was hit as it was travelling in the tent in gaza. there are images of the aftermath showing it is essentially destroyed and bodies on the ground. ismail haniyeh himself lives in qatar and he was there and meeting wounded palestinians are being taken by the qatar reads for treatment there. he is in receiving the news and as he receives it, he thinks god for the honour that is been bestowed upon him for the martyrdom of his three sons and several of his grandchildren. in sons and several of his grandchildren. sons and several of his arandchildren. , ., , , grandchildren. in terms of respo

our middle east reporter sebastian usher has more from jerusalem.we now know as an israeli strike has killed three of the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh's sons. also, what we've heard from hamas and from mr haniyeh himself was that several of his grandchildren were killed in the strike as well. now, this is what israel has said that it will continue to do. it described the three men as hamas operatives, saying that they had carried out terrorist activity in the central gaza strip. and even though israel has pulled out most of its troops from gaza, there is no sense that israel is ending its operation there and is continuing to target anyone that they regard as somebody who is a fighter, an activist for hamas. so on that level, this is what israel said it will do. on the response from hamas and from ismail haniyeh himself, he is essentially said that this doesn't change anything, that he has already lost members of his family, so many other palestinians in gaza have as well. he's not going to let this shift or change the policy that hamas is

let's speak to our correspondent sebastian usher who's injerusalem2.d language we are heeding than at the beginning, whether the arrival of public support stand. in israel itself there is no support so much for the way the government is conducting the war but there still is very strong support for the fact this military operation is being undertaken in gaza and the sense that hamas needs to be eradicated and the hostages remaining have to be freed. it is whether the strategy the israeli government is going to get those hostages released all cause more issues. we have seen hostages who have died since they have been held and that is a very strong point within israel, we will see protest again this evening by hostage families and the opposition to the current government are saying that it is to be a change in strategy. looking beyond that at the allies of israel, us and uk and germany who gave extraordinary support in the early days, that has changed. that has been pushed further on by the killing of the seven aid workers from on behalf of the strongest

let's speak to our sebastian usher, our middle east analyst at the bbc world service. eld. absolutely. i mean, we have, according to i that are still held. absolutely. i l mean, we have, according to the health ministry figures in gaza, more than 33,000 palestinians killed in the hostages, there are still 130, there may be a number of those who are no longer alive, we are not completely sure of information there. but as you walk in, as a came in yesterday to the main airport, have their faces and their names in the main entry lobby as you walk in, so israel is still absolutely concentrated on that issue and there will be this evening, again, in major israeli cities there will be big, big protests. the hostage families have now pretty muchjoined their voices to those who have been demanding that the netanyahu government is replaced. dissatisfaction with the way that the war has been run, not so much that the war is happening or that it is, to some extent, taking the toll that it is, to some extent, taking the toll thatitis, is, to some extent, taking the toll that it is,