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i can't confirm this incident is idf but we are seeing the images, like you've seen the images, on social media and we are looking into it. people continue leaving al—shifa hospital on foot as tanks mobilise around them. israel denies ordering the evacuation of the hospital. a huge march demanding the release of hostages taken by hamas arrives outside the home of israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. hello, this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa barak. the hamas—run health authorities say at least 80 people were killed in two israeli strikes on schools in the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. they say one of the schools, the un—run al—fakhoura — was being used as a shelter. a spokesman for the israeli military told bbc news it was looking into the incident but couldn't say
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if it had been caused by israeli action, although an idf social media post stated the military had conducted activities in the jabalia region, saying they encountered terrorists and struck a large number of terrorist infrastructure. hamas claims the second strike was also on a school, tal al—zaatar, adding that 32 members of one family were killed, including 19 children. also today, hundreds of people have left gaza city's al—shifa hospital on foot. doctors say israeli forces had issued by loudspeaker an order to evacuate. the israeli military denies this, saying it had agreed to expand and assist an evacuation, following a request by the hospital's director. yogita limaye has more now from jerusalem. and a warning — her report contains distressing images. people fleeing al—shifa
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hospital in gaza's north. the hospital's director says israel ordered civilians to leave. the israeli military says they acted on a request by the hospital and have facilitated this evacuation. a cameraman working for the bbc filmed these families today as they arrived past the israeli military checkpoint for people moving from the north to the south of the strip. this boy was injured in a bombing near his house and had been sheltering in al—shifa. "we were getting food and water at the hospital. "the israeli military would enter it whenever they wanted "and they were shooting as well. "today we were able to leave the hospital," he says. israel says military action at al—shifa targeted a hamas command centre there. hundreds are reported to have been
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able to leave today, but there are questions about how those with serious injuries or illnesses can evacuate. from further north in gaza, footage has emerged which shows the aftermath of an explosion at a un—run school shelter. the hamas—run health ministry says scores were killed here. the bbc can't independently confirm what caused this, but it has been able to verify that his video is from today in the jabalia refugee camp area. in central gaza, a so—called safer area, an air strike hit. the number of civilian deaths is increasing global pressure on israel to pause the fighting. from within the country, too, calls of anger and frustration are growing. a few days ago, these people started
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marching from tel aviv. today they arrived in jerusalem demanding the release of the hostages taken by hamas. what we're seeing on the streets ofjerusalem today is evidence of the growing pressure from people here on the government for some movement on the release of hostages, for the announcement of some kind of deal that would get the more than 200 people being held in gaza by hamas safely back to their homes. and i think talking to people here what's quite clear is that they believe the government isn't prioritising that. "bring them home now" is what they're shouting. this man's brother was kidnapped from a music festival being held in southern israel. his brother eli says it's now been six weeks since they were taken and time is running out. there is no victory if we will not bring them back home. if they stay there, we lose.
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and we don't only lose in that war, we also giving up on our morals and ourjewish identity. the families of the hostages are meeting members of israel's war cabinet today. they'll be looking for answers and hope. yogita limaye, bbc news, jerusalem. you heard some of the relatives of those taken by hamas on the 7th of october in yogita limaye�*s report. other relatives have been speaking since finishing the march tojerusalem. this is what they had to say. this is unacceptable. i call on every ngo, every government, the israeli government, the israeli army, to put aside any other interests and totally concentrate on the release of these people. and in the first instance, we would
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like to know where they are, what is their condition, are they being looked after? i want him home. i want to look after him. i want him to be able to see something beyond this as a future. he fought for peace all his life. he is a peacemaker and he fought for peace and he deserved to see us moving on to some horizon of capacity to live one next to the other. we're all a very tired after our long march. but... ..we just feel it's nothing according to what our beloved ones are going through. it's hard. every day that passes, their health is getting worse and worse. we have no idea, the red cross haven't seen them. no—one has seen them.
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the un people have not seen them, no—one knows where they are, how they are doing. it's a dark, dark moment of humanity. we want them home — healthy, home. nick beake is our correspondent injerusalem — and has more on the situation at the two schools. the video is really, really disturbing. the head of the united nations agency for palestinian refugees has said that he's been horrified by the footage that's emerged today. and certainly we got a glimpse of it there in yogita's package, in her report there. the full video, which we've seen, is extremely graphic, far too graphic to show. and in it, one man is taking a video and basically he moves from classroom to classroom throughout this united nations—run school and there is carnage. you see lots of bodies, blood. there's one young child
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who looks pretty startled, bewildered by what's been going on. as you were saying just a moment ago, we have verified this video in so much as it was taken today. the weather today in this part of northern gaza matches that in the video and the structure of the school matches previous photographs that are available. what we don't know and what we can't say with any certainty at the moment is what caused this devastating strike. as you were saying, the israeli defense forces say they are investigating what happened today. 0k. the al—shifa hospital, there has been so much focus around this particular building. do we have any clearer indications as to what prompted this mass movement of people that were patients, the staff and those seeking shelter? well, the story here is contested. you've got the medical director saying that there was an ultimatum given by the israelis for people to move out, for the
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hospital to be evacuated. the israeli military is saying that's not the case and that, in fact, they responded to a request by doctors to to help with the movement of people. now, whatever the truth is there, it's clear that a lot of people have been on the move, hundreds of people today. and that has prompted concern from some surgeons who know the hospital, the al—shifa hospital, and lots of people saying they're concerned about what will happen to those who've been moving on foot today. also, there is concern for the patients who remain in the hospital. the hamas—run health agency in gaza say that about 120 patients remain in the building and also an unspecified number of babies. and we've been hearing that intensive care ambulances would be needed to be brought in and used to transport those people away. and, of course, the plight of those babies, more than 30 newborn babies who had been in the intensive care unit at the hospital, the neonatal intensive care unit, their future was looking extremely
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bleak, according to doctors. and so this is information we don't have at the moment about how they've been faring over the past couple of days and, indeed, what will happen to them in the hours and days to come, lu kwesa. nick, we've still got pictures of this huge protest march that has been taking place in israel in support and calling for the release of those hostages. there has been some — and growing — criticism of the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. what exactly are people saying, particularly as we now seem to have analysis that israel is indicating that it is moving its military operations further south in gaza? yes. with the israeli military and also the israeli war cabinet, notably benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister has said that the way that the hostages are reunited with their families is to intensify the attack on hamas, that really by putting israel in the strongest possible position
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that will help with those kidnapped on the 7th of october being reunited, being brought back to their loved ones. it's clear from a lot of the families who've been talking over the past six weeks, the families who are there in yogita's report who've been marching from tel aviv, arriving injerusalem today, they say that that is the wrong strategy, that actually the priority should have been trying to, if not do a deal, but do more to locate and get the hostages back to their families, and that afterwards, the all—out assault on hamas could continue. and so they say that strategy is wrong. later on today, they'll have a chance to meet members of the war cabinet here in israel. but certainly there's been no indication that the powers that be, that the idf, the israeli defense forces, are approaching this in a different way, that there's been any sort of change in their strategy. the israeli military has told the bbc that it is looking into the explosions in the jabaliya refugee camp — but it could not
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confirm whether or not it had been caused by israeli military action. but — the israel defense forces twitter account has posted this message — saying that the al—shifa hospital in gaza now has fuel, incubators, baby food, medicine, food and water. we've not been able to independently confirm these claims. mike noyes is the humanitarian lead for actionaid uk. he told me his colleagues were hoping to distribute hot meals 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
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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 more than aware that israel has sent out yet another warning for people to evacuate khan younis, to move to safer areas. many analysts saying that this is an indication of them moving their operation southwards. what has your advice been to actionaid staff following that warning by israel?
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our staff are in a very difficult situation. our staff, of course, are palestinians working and living in the communities. some of 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 they're 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.
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ok, 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 for un—run organisations. are you likely to see any of that fuel to help yourselves? are you in a position to receive those that are coming from al—shifa? and what are you going to do moving forward? with the resources available, we will do what we can. i don't know whether the people from al—shifa are going. the volunteers we had in al—shifa left a few days before the israeli military entered the hospital because of fears for their own safety with the state of siege that the hospital was in at the time. the real problem is, of course, is that there are limited amounts of aid getting in,
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there are limited amounts of fuel coming in. but as we all know, it's less than a tenth every day of what was coming in before that. things are running out, people are hungry, people are scared, people are not drinking clean water. that is mike noyes of actionaid uk. now it's time for a look at today's sport with olly foster. hello from the bbc sport centre. we'll start with euro qualifiers, and it's been bad day for wales — qualification for next summers tournament in germany is now out of their hands after they drew against armenia and croatia beat latvia. armenia beat wales in cardiff injune, and the man who scored twice in that match — lucas zelarayan — gave them the lead after just five minutes. wales equalised shortly before half—time thanks to an own goal following a connor roberts throw—in but the draw does them no good. nor armenia, who definitely can't qualify. the welsh must beat group leaders turkey on tuesday and hope croatia slip up against armenia,
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croatia won 2—0 in latvia, with wolfsburg midfielder lovro majer scoring the first and creating the second for andrej kramaric inside 20 minutes. here's how it leaves group d. with one match left to play, croatia know that victory against armenia would guarantee automatic qualification. wales need to win at home to turkey and hope that croatia fail to win their match. if that happens, wales would qualify automaticaly by virtue of their better head to head record against croatia. they might get a second bite of the cherry through the nation's league play—offs but that will be a long shot. two games in group b on saturday. group leaders france are already
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through to next years tournament. they're at home to gibraltar. nope. the netherlands need victory over either ireland, or gibraltar on tuesday night to clinch qualification. france are currently leading 4—0 and the netherlands are 1—0 up against republic of ireland. switzerland and romania were in control on group i heading into saturday's games — both started their matches four points clear of israel in third. israel keeping themselves alive. israel keeping themselves alive. israel are drawing against romania and switzerland against kosovo. novak djokokvic and carlos alcaraz are currently on court in turin battling it out for a place in the final of the end of year atp tour finals. it is going with surf i think early on in that match.
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jannik sinner is waiting for the winner, delighting the home fans as he became the first italian to reach the final. he won in three sets against daniil medvedev. it was world number four sinner�*s third straight win against the russian having lost their previous six matches. i think it is a privilege to have this kind of pressure and already the week before this event, i felt really good on this court, it is quite fast, and obviously the cloud has given me so much energy. for me, it is a pleasure to play in front of the home fans and n initially it is an event so it is all going in a good way and obviously i am really happy. after chaotic practise sessions on friday, qualifying went ahead without incident for the las vegas grand prix. ferrari's charles leclerc is on pole. he was quickest in all three sessions of qualifying and he would have beenjoined on the front row by carlos sainz, had one of the loose drain
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covers not damaged his car in friday practice. that eventually led to a ten—place grid penalty so he starts in 12th and that means it's world champion max verstappen who'll be alongside leclerc on the front row. to be starting from pole tomorrow is great. however, a bit disappointed with my lap in 03. i didn't do a good enoughjob but it was enough with my lap in 03. i didn't do a good enough job but it was enough of pi good enough job but it was enough of pi is that is all we need and now full focus on tomorrow to try and put everything together in the race. normally that is where we lack most performers so i hope we can put it all together and winds here. and in golf, matt wallace has tied a european tour record by making nine consecutive birdies on the dp world tour. wallace made all of them on the back nine to go top of the leaderboard. he needed an eagle at the last
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to make only the second 59 in european tour history. but he found a bunker. he still chipped out from the sand to inches from the hole for another birdie. wallace, on 16 under par, will take a one shot lead into the final day ahead of tommy fleetwood and viktor hovland. cv can match that. lots more on the bbc sports website, that's all for now. manufacturer, spacex, has congratulated his team, following the launch of his �*starship�* rocket. this is despite a flight failure nearly eight minutes after a successful liftoff — and just as the vessel reached space. here's rebecca morelle. the world's biggest and most powerful rocket starship getting ready for its second test flight. three, two, one... at first, everything goes to plan — the spacex rocket is on its way.
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after a couple of minutes, a vital manoeuvre. this is where things went wrong on the first test. but not this time. the upper and lower parts of the rocket successfully separate. so far, so good. then this. and as you can see, the superheavy booster has just experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. but the upper part of the rocket continues, making it to space, until that explodes too. watching all this unfold, the rocket�*s owner, elon musk. elon was predicting a 60% chance of success. and i would say that they probably got 60% success. they managed to clear the tower. they didn't blow up the launch pad. i would say overall, they met some of the most important flight objectives. standing 120 metres tall, starship is even bigger than the rockets used for the apollo missions. this means it can launch much larger loads. they'll be able to take 150 tonnes. 150 tonnes means you can launch big
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parts of a space station, _ or perhaps infrastructure - that we want to put on the moon. and this is vital. starship is an integral part of nasa's artemis mission to return astronauts to the lunar surface. there are a lot of things that have to be completed before we can actually put americans walking on the moon again, and i would say starship is a big piece of that, so nasa needs this to be successful. so was this flight a success or failure? usually an exploding rocket is seen as far from ideal, but the spacex philosophy is to go quick, fail often and learn fast. so now they'll work out what went wrong, then try again. rebecca morelle, bbc news. here in the uk, two people have been flown to hospital, following a dog attack in north wales. police were called to a property near pwllheli on friday morning.
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two other people suffered minor injuries and 37 dogs were seized. the dog involved in the incident has been euthanised. north wales police say their inquiries are ongoing. our reporter david grundy, told us more. this happened yesterday in a remote part of the llyn peninsula, so the western tip of gwynedd, the most north—western county in wales, in a tiny place called rhydlios. police were called to an address there after reports of a dangerous dog. north wales police say a total of four people have been injured, two badly, following that dog attack. now this place is remote. the nearest big town is 15 miles away. it will take you half an hour to get there by car. the nearest major hospital is in bangor, which is an hour away by road. so two people were airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, another two had minor injuries. the dog involved was destroyed. we don't know yet what kind of breed it was but police say a total of 37 dogs and a number of cats were seized from the address. please have stayed at that address all day while the inquiries continue.
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north wales police say they are working on a joint investigation with the rspca. in terms of the community, we've spoken to local councillor gareth williams, who said, "as a community "there's a sense of shock and concern at the news", especially now that police have released a statement confirming there were 37 dogs at this property. he said his biggest concern is that there's a public footpath not far from the house and that families live nearby. he added, though, that his thoughts are with everyone concerned and hopefully that the injured party can make a quick recovery from those injuries. the police investigation, as i said, they're working with the rspca — that investigation is ongoing. david grundy there, stay with us, this is bbc news. hello there. today we've had air from the tropics, which is why temperatures have reached 16 degrees in some southern parts of england. but because of the long sea track the air is taken, it contains a lot of cloud. and we've seen today some further rain as well. a lot of the cloud of rain has been
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pushing in along that weather front there, which is wrapped around that particular area of low pressure. now, some of that cloud will be moving away from england and wales for a time overnight with some clearer skies. but we will see more showers pushing down from the northwest and it stays wet at times across northern ireland and scotland and breezy as it has been today. so a mild night, typically nine degrees, minimum temperatures and not as cold as it has been of late in northeast scotland. no frost on the way here. that same area of low pressure is going to be close by on sunday, bringing some more rain. a few more isobars on the chart to the south of the low, so for southern areas it may well be a windier day than today. gales possible around some western and southern coast and the winds will blow rain from time to time across england and wales and northern ireland. far north—eastern parts of england, particularly eastern scotland may be drier and seeing the best of any sunshine. there won't be a lot of that, mind you. temperatures typically 13 or 14 degrees. still, it may be a milder
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day than today in north eastern parts of scotland. that low pressure is around to start the week. it's going to drift southwards, bring these messy weather fronts with it as well. so on the whole, it looks like it's going to be pretty cloudy, i think, on monday. and we still have the chance for some showers, maybe longer spells of rain, no great amounts of rain once again. and temperatures typically are going to be around 12 degrees, but there will be a stronger, colder wind picking up in northern ireland and down these western coasts. and that, in actual fact, is not going to be this warmer south—westerly wind. it'll be a chillier northerly wind. and that will bring some slightly cooler air for tuesday around an area of high pressure. and that area of high pressure is then going to start to build towards the uk. some stronger atlantic winds come around the top of it and bringing in a milder air once again and bringing in a lot of cloud through the week ahead. but most of the rain is going to be in far north west of the uk,
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but this week the sunshine will be rather limited.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: blasts are reported in the jabaliya refugee camp. the hamas—run health authorities say two schools —
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which were being used as shelters — were hit, killing at least 80 people, including 32 from one family. israel says it's investigating. people continue leaving northern gaza on foot, as tanks mobilise around them. these people are reportedly leaving al—shifa hospital. israel denies ordering the evacuation of the hospital, saying it was asked to provide a �*secure route�* out for those who want to leave. a huge march calling for the israeli government to do more to secure the release of hostages taken by hamas arrives outside the home of the israeli prime minister. over five days, about 20,000 people walked from tel aviv to jerusalem. now on bbc news, future earth.

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