and paul bowden agreed.riday's temporary cease fire in the middle east provided the first glimpse of hope in a conflict that's been running for seven weeks. for much of that time, the bbc�*s international editor jeremy bowen has been reporting from israel, having travelled there directly from another war zone, ukraine, just hours after the rocket attack from gaza. it feels as if this crisis is going up a gear. extreme pressure on civilians in gaza. tension here in jerusalem. no one knows where this is going, but it's certain this is a dangerous moment, the worst middle east crisis in a generation. we don't have much detail about what the israelis are doing inside gaza. they are working very hard to control the information battlefield, which is a big part of modern war. we went into gaza with the israeli army on condition we didn't reveal their positions. video shot after they took us through the gap in the fence into gaza, though not this script, had to be submitted to their military censors. jeremy bowen jo

and paul bowden agreed.s. video shot after they took us through the gap in the fence into gaza, though not this script, had to be submitted to their military censors. jeremy bowen joins us now. jeremy, thank you so much for coming on newswatch. you talk very clearly about there were terms on your being embedded with the israeli defense forces. can i ask, have they confiscated or blocked any of your filming while you while you were there? no, not at all. they had certain rules, not showing the faces of all but a few nominated officers, not showing positions, not showing screens inside their rather advanced military vehicles. and so we...when the cameraman, fred scott, was filming, he was aware of those rules and sort of worked around them. and then when we had put together the edit, the completed edit, the producer filmed it on her phone and sent it via whatsapp — without the commentary — to the idf who had a look at it and about five or ten minutes later and said, "we don't have a problem with that." so, yea