Israeli strikes kill more than 70 in northern Gaza

 I just want to show you the live 

pictures again from the capital of 

Lebanon uh Beirut there you can see a 

huge plume of black spoke we were 

talking to our correspondent Jonathan 

headed 

he was talking about how Israel 

has bombed Targets in those Southern 

suburbs of the Lebanese Capital again so 

there you can see the smoke this of 

course comes meanwhile while Hamas 

officials in Gaza say more than 70 

people have been killed in an Israeli 

air strike in the north of the territory 

Israel saying that is an exaggeration 

Let's cross to our correspondent we 

Davis who is in Jerusalem so we what do 

we know about these latest strikes in 

Gaza as you said latest strikes is perhaps the key

 word this is an ongoing 

military offensive by Israel now that's 

been focused on Northern Gaza for well 

over a week Israel saying it's going 

after the remaining Hass and Islamic 

Jihad fighters in the area but of course 

more than 400,000 people are in effect 

trapped in parts of Northern Gaza and 

the latest incident was an Israeli srike 

against what is reported to be a 

residential Tower Block in B lah here 

right in the north of the Gaza Strip as 

you said according to local Hamas run uh 

health authority and local officials 

there more than 70 people are killed 

Israel has gone uh issued a statement 

doubting those figures saying they're 

exaggerated but conversely local 

officials saying they expect to find 

even more bodies in the rubble of the 

building the UN has described the h the 

humanitarian situation in that part of 

Northern Gaza is absolutely unbearable 

with not enough food Aid getting through 

and what is in effect an Israeli 

blockade 

now about around that part of 

Northern Gaza is there anywhere that the 

Palestinian people can go what does 

Israel say about where is safe 

there no well Israel says it it has 

encouraged even forced people to try 

civilians to try and leave the areas of 

fighting and go to what is well 

described as safe areas but as we saw in 

that letter from the Americans last week 

that that was leaked um there is no real 

safe area in Gaza indeed many of the 

fatalities we've seen in the recent 

weeks have been uh people who've moved 

from one part of Northern Gaza to a 

designated safe area and then that area 

has come under attack a Relentless 

attack by the Israelis and civilians 

have been killed there so it it's I 

think it's fanciful to think at the 

minute that there is such a thing as a 

safe area particularly in Northern Gaza 

and that is the un's point is that there 

is nowhere that's safe life is 

unbearable for people however many 

people were killed in this latest air 

strike we know that hundreds have been 

killed in this operation in the last 

week or so more than 42,000 people have 

of course have been killed in Gaza it's 

since the start of the war many of those 

people are civilians and the death toll 

continues to rise and is there any sign 

that um Israel is going to allow more 

humanitarian Aid in like the US has 

demanded that it 

should yeah yeah Israel is under massive 

pressure to allow more Aid in you know 

Israel again you know you listen to the 

Israeli representative at the UN Danny 

denan he says there is no Aid crisis he 

says there are millions of tons of Aid 

getting in well that doesn't relate to 

facts on the ground the UN says that a 

barely a fraction of what is needed is 

getting in 50 trucks for example have 

been getting in per day over the last 

few days well that that's way short of 

the 500 trucks a day that are needed 

some Aid is being dropped but from the 

air it looks impressive but it doesn't 

go anywhere near to alleviating the 

needs of the people in Northern Gaza and 

and meanwhile yesterday we had that 

drone getting near to the Israeli Prime 

Minister Benjamin netanyahu's house from 

Lebanon yeah that was a drone which 

appeared to be an attack on Mr 

netanyahu's private residence in cesaria 

which is in Northern Israel now he later 

said he directly accused Iran through 

its proxy Hezbollah of trying to kill 

him and his wife Sarah uh maybe that 

indicates you know a tougher stance 

against Hezbollah and Iran but Netanyahu 

certainly saw that as as an attack 

against him one thing that has emerged 

in the last few hours is that Donald 

Trump said he spoke to Benjamin 

Netanyahu in the hours after that 

incident and Netanyahu and he said this 

is according to Donald Trump Netanyahu 

had forged on and he was in the strong 

position he was now despite President 

Biden he said he wasn't listening to 

Biden's concerns about the war that is 

of course all according to to Donald 

Trump we're Davis live in Jerusalem 

Thank you 😊