he's actionaid uk's humanitarian lead. taking place, and what are your colleagues able to do? what are your colleagues able to do? what are you hearing from them? tt your colleagues able to do? what are you hearing from them?— you hearing from them? it continues to be a hugely _ you hearing from them? it continues to be a hugely difficult _ you hearing from them? it continues to be a hugely difficult situation - to be a hugely difficult situation as we've seen. it continues to be hugely difficult and dangerous situation. 0ur colleagues in gaza had been hoping today to organise hot food meals for about 5000 people in shelters down in the south near khan younis. with the communications blackout today, have not been able to hear whether that went ahead as planned. we are also trying to get some warm coats... we continue to sound cuts i willjump in, we are having some technical problems with your line. irate having some technical problems with our line. ~ ,, ., ., your line. we will pass it to our technical team _ your line. w

the head of - humanitarian response at the charity actionaid.tjust during the next four days but also after the period at a deal expires. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. this is the skyline over gaza, we are used to seeing those black plumes of smoke rising into the air, the result of artillery fire and air strikes and that was still seen even in the last hour before the ceasefire was due to begin, standing in this spot looking at this view. we can still see and hear the sound of fighting, there was more to fire, artillery shells, and small arms firing. by 7:15am or so, there was quiet. the ceasefire has held reasonably well from what we can see here. that will be crucial in the next steps of this deal as this goes on in israel and gaza. you are life with bbc news, i am at a foster here in southern israel on an important day, a crucial day in the war between israel and hamas, which began here in the south of israel on the 7th of october when embers of hamas broke through the perimeter fence from gaza and committed brutal cr

mike noyes is the humanitarian lead for actionaid uk.ls to around 5,000 households in khan younis. i haven't been able to hear from my team today how that's gone because of the communications problems and the communications blackout. but that will be a really important, something for the families if we can get to do that today, if we were able to do that today. we're also working on getting some warm coats and blankets to affected displaced people because obviously the weather is starting to turn worse now in gaza and people are living in very flimsy shelters. but this is a drop in the ocean. this is a very small amount compared to the levels of need that we all know that these half a million or more people who have had to flee south as a result of the military incursions. we are deeply concerned about how this is going. ok, mike, we'll discuss what your possible plans are moving forward. but first off, can ijust come back to the fact that you mentioned khan yunis and you have colleagues working on the ground there, and i'm sure you're m

had a bond from actionaid, _ alongside medical supplies.aza. now, there are still thousands of palestinian civilians living in the northern part of gaza, where the israeli military operation and the fighting with hamas has been at its most intense. during the conflict the israeli authorities have advised civilians to move out but many of those who thought moving further south would be safe, in some cases they have heard that their homes have been destroyed and their neighbours killed. we can now go live to dr abdul qadir hammad, a transplant surgeon based at the royal liverpool hospital, who has just returned from gaza, having arrived there on the 6th of october, to train fellow doctors. thank you so much forjoining us here on the bbc. you are now back in liverpool but it has been a very traumatic few weeks for you, first of all, just tell as how you are doing and about how you were able to leave? goad how you were able to leave? good afternoon- — how you were able to leave? good afternoon- it _ how you were able to leave? good afternoon. i

and as we said at the start, actionaid works - said at the start, actionaid works with women and girlsople who found themselves swept up in the circumstances around. what about psychological help and assistance? is that in else you are able to provide at the moment? tt is able to provide at the moment? it is somethin: able to provide at the moment? it is something we _ able to provide at the moment? tit 3 something we always try able to provide at the moment? tit 1 something we always try to providing the circumstances was it is something we are trying to provide right now. frankly, first of all, we are having to provide it to our own staff and partners who are living through this, our own staff and partners, ordinary people in gaza, like others, some of them have lost family members, some of them have lost homes. and they are struggling to come on kid with the outside world, with power down, and with internet outages. —— communicate. we are doing what we can in terms of helping people. but again, it comes back to the best way of managing this is preventing it and that means an end to

thanks for that, | halima begum from actionaid.ends and family are walking from tel aviv tojerusalem to demand that the government secures their release, as criticism of prime minister netanyahu increases in the country. ehud olmert was israeli prime minister for three years — between 2006 and 2009. he said he wanted a two—state solution, offering to withdraw from most of the occupied west bank, in return for peace. his deal ended when he was forced from office in a corruption scandal. he's been a fierce critic of his successor, supporting the long—running protest movement that has been calling on mr netanyahu to resign. when the attacks of october 7th happened, those divisions ended, but cracks are now starting to reappear. speaking to our international correspondent, joe inwood, he began by saying who he thought was to blame for the security failings, ahead of the massacre of october 7th. first of all, the prime minister, of course, there was a military failure and an intelligence failure of the military intelligence, the secret

let's speak with mike noyes, head of humanitarian at actionaid uk. he's in london.king about what will change in gaza as a result of this, there will be periods of ceasefire where there will be no firing by the idf, and also, we're told more humanitarian aid going into gaza. but will that be enough to meet the huge need there right now? thank ou, huge need there right now? thank you. anna- — huge need there right now? thank you. am i _ huge need there right now? thank you, anna. ithink— huge need there right now? thank you, anna. i think there _ huge need there right now? thank you, anna. i think there is - huge need there right now? thank you, anna. i think there is to - huge need there right now? thank you, anna. i think there is to say i you, anna. i think there is to say that we welcome the news of the plans for the release of hostages and for this pause. i suppose in many respects, it is the best news we have had for the past 45 days in that finally, parties to this conflict are recognising that things have to stop, but that a change is needed. unfortunately fo

what has your advice been to actionaid staff following that warning by israel?them moved to the south following the initial orders. they're now being told to move again, same as the general population. frankly, the message we get back from our colleagues, whether they're in the south, whether in the north, is nobody any longer knows where is safe. you're told somewhere is safe and it comes under attack. and then you're told again to evacuate from it. people really are living in fear. they've been living in fearfor a long time. we see up in the north today, a school, two schools maybe that are protected under the rules of war as shelters have been attacked. the israeli defense forces for the moment is not accepting responsibility for that. but two schools have been hit by these massive bombardments. 0k, mike, obviously there has been this mass movement from al—shifa hospital. people have been making their way southwards. i don't know if your staff will be receiving them. you've talked about distributing warm food and there was some fuel brought in specifically fo

i spoke to hannah bond — deputy director of advocacy at international charity, actionaid uk, which worksssential in gaza at the moment. as you said, 569 trucks have gone in so far. there, prior to the 7th of october, were 500 a day. so we've kind of seen in a month what we previously were seeing per day. so it's absolutely essential that that gets in. people need food, they need fuel, they need water in order to survive, and, of course, medicalsupplies, because the bombardment has been so significant that all of those things are absolutely necessary and they need not only to get in, but to be able to get across the gaza strip. and hannah, what are your colleagues on the ground saying to you and how are they doing as well? yeah. so we have both colleagues and partner organisations in gaza. communication is really difficult. some days, you know, it is very much about their safety, of course. people's survival is absolutely essential at the moment. so those supplies that i already mentioned around water and fuel and food are in really, really desperate supply now. we're seeing dehydration.

joining me now is hannah bond, co—director for policy advocacy and programmes at actionaid. that no aide can be distributed now because of the lack of feel in gaza.— of feel in gaza. what are your colleagues — of feel in gaza. what are your colleagues on _ of feel in gaza. what are your colleagues on the _ of feel in gaza. what are your colleagues on the ground - of feel in gaza. what are your. colleagues on the ground saying about that now?— colleagues on the ground saying about that now? ., ~ , ., ., ., about that now? thank you for having me this morning, _ about that now? thank you for having me this morning, mark. _ about that now? thank you for having me this morning, mark. colleagues . about that now? thank you for having i me this morning, mark. colleagues in gaza and _ me this morning, mark. colleagues in gaza and the — me this morning, mark. colleagues in gaza and the west bank are telling us that_ gaza and the west bank are telling us that without fuel it will be impossible to distribute the essential aid that needs to get across— essential aid that needs to get a