Yolande Nell
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
We've actually been hearing within the past hour from the UN, which believes that two of its staff have been killed and others have been injured after a UN compound was apparently hit. The Israeli military have been very quick coming out with a statement saying that they did not attack a UN building in Deir el-Balak in central Gaza.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
But the BBC has verified footage that does show injured foreign workers. Two of them are still wearing the blue UN flak jackets, arriving in a UN car and in a Palestinian ambulance at a hospital in Deir el-Balak. So we're still waiting for more information there. The UN has confirmed that it's investigating all of this, says that the cause at the moment is not clear.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Otherwise, in the past few hours, we have been hearing about continuing Israeli airstrikes elsewhere in Gaza from local people, suggesting that more than 20 people have been killed, with figures coming in all the time from the Hamas-run health ministry.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
We've got those images of people, those all-too-familiar scenes, people fleeing once again from the north and from the east of Khan Yunis, where those evacuation orders have been dropped recently. by the Israeli military.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
So all of this adding to the sense that Israel's offensive does go on in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Prime Minister said that this was just the beginning, that the aim is to keep up the pressure on Hamas to release hostages. There has been a failure of indirect talks to extend the Gaza ceasefire in the past months. week or so.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
And Israel said that now any talks on a ceasefire and hostage release would take place under fire.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
The prime minister is someone who always chooses his words very carefully. He came out with this video statement after the security cabinet met for four hours. He said they had reached a unanimous decision. And he said if Hamas doesn't return our hostages by noon on Saturday, the ceasefire will stop. He stopped short of specifying why.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
all our hostages, exactly echoing the language of President Trump when he had proposed this kind of threat.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
That could mean then potentially all 76 of the remaining hostages, or it could mean what he said, just the three who were originally scheduled to be released before Hamas said that it was freezing the releases of the hostages because of ceasefire violations by Israel, which of course Israel has denied.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
So we then had these different briefings, key ministers who came out across the Israeli media last night and on social media. And they said that the security cabinet meant the demand was for all hostages. But you've got some Israeli analysts saying crucially this morning that he has deliberately, the prime minister, not closed the door on the deal.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
So what we understand is that the Israeli military has begun to mobilize reserve units, has deployed reinforcements both inside Gaza and close to the border. to be prepared to go back on the offensive if the ceasefire with Hamas collapses. And they're saying that they could get back onto a fighting foot very quickly.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
The situation now is very different from that before the beginning of the war, because, of course, the Israeli military still does have troops deployed along the Philadelphia corridor, the strategic strip of land between Gaza and Egypt, and all around the perimeter inside the Gaza Strip.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
At the moment, they're supposed to be on defensive missions, but they're saying they can easily be put on the offensive instead.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
I would say that overall the ceasefire really is in its most delicate moment since it was first implemented three weeks ago. You can guarantee that Arab countries, that the mediators, Qatar and Egypt in particular, are behind the scenes putting a lot of pressure on Hamas to try to kind of get things back on track.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
Egypt, meanwhile, has confirmed that it has this kind of comprehensive vision for reconstruction of Gaza. There is also, we can see from the Arab states, a kind of more concerted effort now to put up a sort of united front.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
They're promising to have a summit later this month to formulate their own plans for Gaza that will not require the removal of the entire Gaza population, some two million people, in the way that President Trump has been outlining with his plan.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
Well, we had a senior Israeli official being quoted in the news this morning saying that this visit surpassed all of our expectations and dreams. Trump raised ingenious solutions to problems that have been with Israel ever since it was established.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
The conventional wisdom prior to Mr. Netanyahu going to Washington for this trip was that President Trump might well try to push this idea of paving the way for an independent Palestinian state because the U.S. has been working very much on trying to get a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
On the far right in Israel, you have the key political figure, Itamar Ben-Gavir, really welcoming this proposal to remove Palestinians from Gaza and rebuild it, saying that if the prime minister was going to act on that plan, then the chances were good that he would rejoin his coalition government.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
Certainly, the families of the hostages who remain in Gaza worry that this could undermine negotiations. The existing ceasefire, which is bringing some of their loved ones home, and these discussions now taking place on the next stage.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
And just to remind people that the second stage of the ceasefire is supposed to see a full end to the fighting in Gaza, and the remaining Israeli hostages, about 60 of them, not all of whom are alive, being returned.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
Yeah, so we had, you know, Palestinians in general sort of expressing bewilderment at all of this and saying, you know, not only does it upend decades of international policy, they question its legality under international law. They believe this is a fundamental sort of misunderstanding of their connection to the land and indeed, you know,
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
It's competing claims to the land that is at the heart of the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. And we've had Hamas also speaking very strongly against this, as you would expect. One figure, Sami Abu Zuhri, saying this was ridiculous and absurd, what's been put on the table. Ideas of this kind, he said, were capable of igniting the region.
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Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
And that is something that is reflected actually quite widely, this idea that this could cause broader instability in the region if President Trump presses ahead with it.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
First of all, just in a village outside Jenin, the latest we've been hearing is Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians there. It's just a few miles west of Jenin, a village called Berokein. And these two men are said by both the Israeli army and Hamas to have been responsible for a shooting attack there.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Earlier this month, which killed three Israelis close to a settlement not far away in the north of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian media saying Israeli forces surrounded this house. They fired missiles at it after telling those inside with loudspeakers to leave and that the house has been bulldozed. The bodies of those two men have been killed.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
has been taken away after there was a shootout there in janine itself residents say that in this third day of this big new israeli military operation there have been gunfire and explosions thousands of people now have fled from the urban refugee camp that really seems to be the main focus of the Israeli action there.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
The mayor of Jenin has said that people have been told to leave with loudspeakers, although we had the Israeli army previously saying there would be no forced evacuations from Jenin. And people have been telling the BBC that they're trapped inside the camp. They feel it's very unsafe and they're afraid.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
We believe this is only the third time that Israel has carried out direct strikes on Yemen in the past 14 months. This is the period, of course, where the Houthis in Yemen say they have been attacking Israel and international shipping as well out of solidarity with the Palestinians. We've just had a briefing from the Israeli military who have confirmed that actually
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Their warplanes were already in the air when a missile was fired overnight from Yemen towards the Tel Aviv area of Israel. It was intercepted, although there was a lot of damage caused to a school. They say they're looking into that. It seems to be shrapnel. But inside Yemen itself, you know, it's really been shaken.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
Sanaa, the capital, there are three ports that have been hit and the Israeli military suggesting that they have paralysed those in effect. And they've also been power plants that have been hit. So we've been hearing that there have been power blackouts, that there were fires that were started, and local media in Yemen saying at least nine people killed as a result of these Israeli strikes.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
In general, still positive on the ongoing negotiations to secure this Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. There are reports that the Israeli prime minister is to meet his top security brass later to discuss developments. The Israeli media are quoting different sources. about where hold-ups are in the talks that mediators are working on.
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Guilty verdicts and jail sentences in France's biggest rape trial
They're saying some of them over which hostages to release in the first stage, the issues of the Israeli future military presence in Gaza, how to ensure armed fighters don't return to the north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian media is saying that hold-ups are over which Palestinian prisoners should be released and what terms they should be released under in exchange for Israeli hostages.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
At the moment, negotiations on the more sensitive second stage of the ceasefire deal are supposed to be fully underway in Doha. That's supposed to see a permanent end to hostilities, the return of remaining hostages. Instead, mediators have been really sort of tied up with just trying to shore up this part of the ceasefire, the initial part of the deal.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
The Israeli negotiating team returned from Doha on Monday after just two days. You know, negotiators also envisaged there would be a third stage to the ceasefire, reconstruction of Gaza, but...
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
Now what you've got is so much uncertainty about the future that's just increased under President Trump with his post-war plan for Gaza that envisages emptying it of its two million residents, building a kind of seaside travel destination there, of course totally rejected by Arab countries and many others around the world.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
Through the day, we've had various positive signs that this latest crisis in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal can be overcome. We know that Egyptian and Qatari mediators have been working on the areas Hamas has complained about, the amount of fuel going into Gaza, numbers of shelters. Egyptian sources indicating more heavy lifting equipment to move rubble is to go in.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
Hamas did put out a statement saying it didn't want the deal to collapse. It reaffirmed its commitment to implementing the agreement as signed, including the exchange of prisoners. That's what it's calling Israel's hostages being exchanged for Palestinian detainees, according to the specified timeline, the statement says.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
So under that, we'd expect there to be these three hostages released on Saturday. And Israeli media was signaling earlier that the message that had gone from Israel is that it would accept three hostages being handed over and not stop the ceasefire. Despite, of course, President Trump having proposed that high stakes ultimatum, bring back all the hostages or the fighting starts.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
I mean, nothing officially from the Israeli government at this stage. I think it's still a bit wait and see. And, you know, it may be that we find ourselves at the same stage tomorrow waiting to see, you know, if Hamas does publish this list of three names as we're expecting. I mean, it's worth waiting. pointing out as well.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Certainly these talks are going to be very difficult. Things have been really stuck. Hamas wants to move to the next phase of the ceasefire that would see potentially a full end to the war, a full Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
But what Israel is pushing for is really just an extension of the truce that would see the release of more hostages because it's believed that Hamas still holds 24 hostages who are alive as well as the bodies of 35 others.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Certainly this adds to the pressure on Hamas, where Israel already a week ago cut off all humanitarian supplies and food and fuel as well from entering into Gaza. And that is beginning to have a real impact there. Now what it's done is to cut the limited power supply that was going in. This was just being used one line to run a desalination plant in the centre of the strip.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
But of course, that has been providing essential drinking water. Hamas has said this is part of Israel's what it calls starvation policy. It is likely to add to accusations of war crimes by Israel, something which it strongly denies.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
So this is Adam Bowler. He's the U.S. envoy responsible for hostages. And we had that surprise confirmation from the White House last week that the U.S. had been in these direct talks with Hamas, breaking a longtime sort of diplomatic taboo Adam Bowler has said that these talks were very helpful.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
He said there was a real chance of seeing some movement and seeing more hostages coming home in the next few weeks. And he also talks about the bigger picture. He said that Hamas had suggested a five to 10 year truce that would basically see it disarm and disengage from politics as well.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
He said there were ways in which the US and other countries could help to oversee this process and that it was not, in his words, a bad first offer.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
He was talking to a conservative radio talk show before departing on his trip. He's supposed to be visiting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, having already met Egyptian and Jordanian officials in Washington. And according to his account, President Trump's controversial plan for Gaza was given in the absence... of any other.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
He says if someone has a better plan, and we hope they do, if the Arab countries have a better plan, then that's great. And he said now's the time to present it. Now, you know, he also comes out with some quite provocative comments for someone who's the top US diplomat. He does say all these countries say how much they care about the Palestinians. But none of them want to take any Palestinians.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
None of them have a history of doing anything for Gaza in that matter. And of course, Jordan being asked now to take in more Gaza refugees by the US already hosts two million Palestinian registered refugees, many from Gaza. Egypt says that just...
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
In the course of this war, it's taken more than 100,000 Gazans, and it's coming up now, it's working on a plan, an alternative plan for Gaza that will see it reconstructed, but not displacing the population. And Arab leaders are due to meet in the coming weeks and then attend a conference in Cairo on all this.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
Overall, the Israeli prime minister says the military is now dissecting the strip, that the aim of this offensive is to put pressure on Hamas to give up the remaining hostages it's holding, with 24 believed to have been alive at the start of this latest military operation.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
So we've seen in recent days the Israeli military retaking the ruins of Rafah in the south, cutting it off from the rest of Gaza. Now, in the past few hours... It's moving into Shajahiyah, which is just to the east of Gaza City. It has also seen a lot of fighting in the past. Israel has not fully explained its long-term aim for these areas.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
It's now taking to expand what it's calling a security zone. And Gazans, of course, really fear that the aim is to depopulate big areas, including some of Gaza's last farmland, which was on the edge of the Strip.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
In Shazia, for example, the Israeli military says soldiers are letting civilians out via organised routes. It issued evacuation warnings in this area yesterday, on Thursday, and we've seen these scenes of hundreds of residents in footage. They're streaming out these all-too-familiar scenes of people fleeing, and those people are mostly heading westward to Gaza City. In the last few days...
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
Because we've had this series of evacuation orders, there have been hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing their homes overall. And that's made it really into one of the biggest mass exoduses of the war as the Israeli forces are taking more territory.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
Efforts by the regional mediators and the US look really stuck at the moment. We've had Hamas saying that it won't engage with Israel's latest proposal for a deal that would bring its hostages back.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
Hamas said it had accepted the plan that was put forward by Egypt and Qatar on Saturday that we understand was for a 50-day truce for five hostages being released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners for aid. being returned to Gaza because it's now been cut off for a whole month. That's having a huge devastating effect with lots of food shortages now.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
And you also are supposed to have, under the regional plan, we understand talks happening very quickly on moving to the next stage of the ceasefire, ending the war. when Israel put forward its counter-proposal, which it said was backed by the US, that involved a bigger number of living hostages being released at the outset of a new truce.
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South Korean court upholds impeachment of president
And Israel's made clear now it rejects the original ceasefire agreement that was brokered in January that would have seen this second phase to return hostages and bring a full end to the fighting.