hello, i'm samantha simmons, a warm welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checkingare arriving of a temporary pause in the fighting in gaza, with a series of diplomatic initiatives under way. a vote is expected on a new security so council resolution shortly.

. ♪ i'm samantha simmons. we start with the latest on the israel-gaza war.ilitary is keeping up their offensive across the gaza strip. in the past day israel says they carried out strikes on at least 200 hamas targets in gaza. hamas is holding around 130 hostage in gaza and is a terror organization. their health ministry says at least 195 people were killed as a result of the strikes. the united nation human rights organization says they are deeply concerned about the continued bombing of gaza's middle area. and turkey's president has lashed out comparing israel's actions to atrocities committed by the nazis. in the red sea, a danish shipping company says there is a threat of attack by houthi rebels in yemen. you might find some elements of this story distressing. reporter: no funeral. no dignified burial. no tombstone. a bulldozer carries their bodies into a mass grave, their final resting place. israel forces are expanding their ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza and this is the scene at a neighboring hospital. overwhelmed, they are treati

i'm samantha simmons.ainian president zelenskyy said he is grateful to his air force for a missile attack that damaged a russian warship. the ship was hit during an attack on a port in russian occupied crimea. at least one person was killed. ukraine said the ship was destroyed. president zelenskyy wrote, the occupiers will not have a single peaceful place in ukraine. james waterhouse reports. >> to ukraine this was a high-value target. the russian landing ship, struck by a guided missile. the force of the blast suggests it was full. moscow claims the ship was damaged. kyiv says it was destroyed. crimea has been held by russia since 2014. this has become more common. the ship would almost certainly have been loaded with soldiers, hardware or both. this will hamper russia's ability to supply troops further north. >> a huge job has been done, a big assault carrier was destroyed and it became part of a fleet to which the missile cruiser belongs. >> kyiv has targeted russian vessels before, including the flagsh

i am samantha simmons. we start with the latest on the israel-gaza war.sraeli military is keeping up its offensive across the gaza strip would southern and central areas the main focus of attack. over the past day israel says it carried out strikes on at least 200 hamas targets in gaza. hamas, which is holding 130 people hostage in gaza, is deemed a terror organization by the u.k. and u.s. the hamas-run health ministry says at least 195 people were killed as a result of those strikes. united nations human rights office says it is deeply concerned about the continued bombing of gaza's middle area. in a further sign of the conflict's wider reverberations, turkiye's president has lashed out, comparing israel's actions to the nazis. an initiative is continuing sailing despite the threat of attacks from houthi rebels. a warning, you may find some elements distressing. reporter: no funeral, no dignified burial, no tombstone. a bulldozer carries their bodies into a mass grave. their final resting place. israeli forces are expanding their ground offensive into th

hello, i'm samantha simmons, a warm welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. hopes are arriving of a temporary pause in the fighting in gaza, with a series of diplomatic initiatives under way. a vote is expected on a new security so council resolution shortly. the text calls for extended humanitarian pauses and aid corridors. the leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, has arrived in cairo for talks on a freshly five. israel's president has said his country is ready for what he calls another humanitarian pause. nearly 20,000 people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. 1200 people were killed and 240 taken hostage when hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october. i mentioned the un security council. a text has been released on the war in gaza to been released on the war in gaza to be put to the security guards are in the next few hours. the draft is very long but their key section talks of extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe and unhindered h