, tahani mustafa, thank you for your time london, tahani mustafa, thank you foryourtime —— london, tahani on the premature babies who have been moved from the al—shifa hospital in northern gaza — which has been the scene of fighting — to the emirati hospital in rafah in the south of gaza. we should warn you, you may find the following images distressing. these are the pictures that have emerged today, showing the children being cared for. doctors say 31 have survived, but eight passed away. they say a lack of medical provision made caring for them in al—shifa very difficult. teams are now working to stabilise their condition. here's the director general of the palestinian health ministry in gaza. translation: we found that even the water with which _ their baby formula was made was polluted. it wasn't sanitised because sanitisation was not available, and that caused vomiting, diarrhoea and weight loss. instead of gaining weight, they lost weight, and that caused them severe harm. some of them had sepsis and severe inflammation. we began a quick resuscitation process for them as soon as th

joining me now is tahani mustafa, palestine analyst, international crisis group. us�*s secretary of state as the united states tries to be an honest broker in this crisis, even though they have made it very clear they are backing israel in this war, but they are also cognizant of the suffering of palestinians? do you expect much progress to be made to reconcile those two? i expect much progress to be made to reconcile those two?— reconcile those two? i think the us a ministration _ reconcile those two? i think the us a ministration at _ reconcile those two? i think the us a ministration at the _ reconcile those two? i think the us a ministration at the moment - reconcile those two? i think the us i a ministration at the moment appears to be concerned more with the international censure of israel and limiting the fallout for israel. we have seen that numerous countries have seen that numerous countries have pulled out ambassadors, cut economic and trade ties with israel. and also they are concerned about the electoral fallout for themselves. the us has changed its

i've been speaking to tahani mustafa who is a senior palestine analyst at the international crisis groupnnel israel has released. i mean, israel has a serious credibility issue in this war at the moment. you know, the images we're seeing, again, they haven't been verified. and your correspondent made that very clear. we haven't had any independent third party verify them. but even then, you know, we know that hamas has a significant tunnel system underneath gaza that stretches hundreds of kilometres. that's no secret to anyone. now, with israel claiming that they've been using shifa hospital as a command center, you know, that really does change the dynamics here, because if israel cannot produce any verifiable evidence that really does put into question the way that israel has justified its actions in order to violate international law here, hospitals are meant to be safe places. they are meant to be places that are meant to be safe from military activity. now, israel has justified this on the basis of hamas using this as a command centre. again, hamas has explicitly refuted this claim.