
Israel-Hamas war: 'People in Gaza abandoned'
UN agencies warn that civilians in Gaza are facing an ever more desperate situation.
The top UN official providing aid to Palestinian refugees in Gaza says people there "feel shunned, alienated and abandoned". Philippe Lazzarini says basic services in Gaza are crumbling, with streets starting to overflow with sewage. We hear from residents and from our reporter in the territory.
After Israel’s further raids inside Gaza, we ask our security correspondent why there hasn’t been a full-scale ground offensive yet.
We also hear how some of the Palestinians elsewhere in the region are viewing the events and explain the historic context.
We talk about the public opinion and media coverage of the conflict in Israel, after a new poll found that almost half of Israelis want to hold off on any invasion of Gaza.
Our medical editor tells us about six sets of conjoined twins who were invited to a gathering in the London hospital where they were treated, and some also separated, when they were babies.
Presenter: James Reynolds.
(Photo: Gaza man mourns his stillborn girl and pregnant wife killed in Israeli strike. Credit: Anas al-Shareef/Reuters)
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