00:00intense fighting is continuing in Gaza
00:02just hours after the passing of the
00:04first un Security Council resolution
00:07calling for an immediate ceasefire
00:10Witnesses say Israeli war planes have
00:12again bombed the southern city of Rafa
00:15with gun battles raging in other areas
00:18this is the moment the vote was passed
00:21after previous attempts to call for a
00:23ceasefire failed the US is now calling
00:27for an immediate surge in desperate
00:30needed Aid these are the latest pictures
00:34in the past hour of air being a of Aid
00:37being air dropped into Gaza the UN world
00:40food program says famin could set in by
00:44May in two areas of Gaza unless the flow
00:50increased Israel's prime minister has
00:52responded to the UN vote by cancelling
00:55some meetings between Israeli and
00:57American officials meanwhile Hamas
01:00appears to have rejected the latest trth
01:02proposal made via mediators in Qatar
01:07well let's go live to Jerusalem and our
01:09Middle East correspondent yoland n
01:12yoland what more do we know about the
01:14state of fighting in Gaza overnight just
01:17after this UN resolution was
01:20passed I mean it seems that the
01:22resolution passing has had very little
01:24impact on the ground what we've heard
01:26from Palestinian witnesses that even in
01:29Rafa on the Egypt border there have been
01:31Israeli air strikes in that area and
01:33that fighting remains intense um
01:35particularly around the two hospitals
01:37that we've been talking about for the
01:39past few days uh the shiffer hospital in
01:41Gaza City that's where Israeli forces
01:43launched a raid one week ago where they
01:46say they've rounded up 500 members of
01:48Hamas and Islamic Jihad um Palestinian
01:51residents nearby saying they've seen
01:52corpses on the street that there are
01:54still um Close Quarters battles going on
01:57there also in al-amal hospital around Al
02:00AML hospital um in the southern city of
02:02Khan Unice Israeli tanks are rolling
02:05back in there in the past couple of days
02:07and uh the Israeli military has said
02:09that Hamas is using civilian
02:10infrastructure in that area and Y land
02:14what's the feeling there in the region
02:16about what kind of a difference this
02:18resolution could bring to the fighting
02:23Gaza well of course while Israel reacted
02:25very angrily uh to this and it said that
02:28um this could be uh an encouragement for
02:32Hamas that it didn't have to give up the
02:33Israeli hostages that it's still holding
02:36um in exchange uh for a ceasefire and we
02:39had um strong rebukes from the Israeli
02:41Prime Minister when it comes uh to the
02:44American position the exstension when it
02:46came to voting on uh Security Council
02:492728 um the the claim was made that
02:52really this um marked a Divergence from
02:55Washington's previous policy um the US
02:58has denied that but on the the
03:00Palestinian side uh this was welcomed
03:02including by Hamas but as we can see
03:05it's not um despite the fact un Security
03:07Council resolutions are seen as having
03:09the force of international law um we
03:11also had a White House official um when
03:13he was talking about the Israeli
03:14reaction saying that he didn't think um
03:17really that this would have an impact on
03:19Israel's ability to tackle Hamas and
03:22that it didn't change things when it
03:23comes to uh the US commitment to Israel
03:26particularly when it comes to matters
03:27like military assistance so seeing the
03:30strong support for this resol resolution
03:33at the UN Security Council how isolated
03:36is Israel on the global stage would you
03:40say now this is something that will
03:42concern Israel greatly it does feel very
03:45much like it's isolated but at the same
03:47time if you um look at surveys of the
03:49Israeli public opinion um there is still
03:52wide support for the war in Gaza um and
03:55for this idea of of dismantling Hamas
03:58there it's seen as being such an
04:00existential threat we've had reminders
04:02that Hamas can still pose a threat in
04:05the past day it's had we've had Rockets
04:07fired um to Ash D Israeli city uh in in
04:11the south of the country for the first
04:12time in weeks there were rocket warning
04:14sirens that continued to go off through
04:16last night um in Israeli communities
04:19close to the Gaza Strip um but yes on an
04:22international stage Israel will be
04:24worried about this and we've had Israeli
04:25officials coming out in the past day so
04:27particularly talking about how they are
04:28trying to get surge of Aid using that un
04:31language trying to flood uh Gaza with
04:33Aid we were told in a briefing yesterday
04:36um as that is part of this resolution
04:37too and of course part of the big
04:39International demand that they're so
04:41worried about the threat of starvation
04:43and famine in Gaza your land thank you
04:46very much that's the BBC's your land now
04:48there in Jerusalem now as well as
04:51calling for a ceasefire the UN is also
04:53warning that northern areas of Gaza
04:56could face famine within weeks Israel
04:58says it's opening new routes to let Aid
05:01through and the Israeli Army Chief in
05:03charge of Aid coordination says there's
05:05no shortage of food I should warn you
05:08that this report from our Middle East
05:10correspondent Lucy Williamson contains
05:12some distressing images from the very
05:16start gaza's border fence divides more
05:20than just land on one side Food Supplies
05:24on the other sick malnourished children
05:28agencies say Israel is blocking Aid
05:31Israel says the only hold up is the
05:33agency's ability to deliver
05:37it a ceasefire could help get Aid in but
05:41Israel has said it won't work with the
05:43un's main relief agency Ana accusing it
05:47of links to Hamas Ona's Chief said the
05:53outrageous gate 96 a newly opened
05:56Crossing Point takes trucks straight to
06:00where the UN says people are weeks away
06:04famine on the night we were there the
06:07Army said 20 trucks were approved to
06:09cross but only seven showed up we took a
06:13lot of measures in order to enlarge the
06:15amount of humanitarian aid but the UN
06:18and other International Organization
06:20have some bottlenecks they have issues
06:23and challence regarding Logistics of
06:26amount of trucks amount of uh truck
06:31Manpower uh working hours and
06:34Etc on board one of those trucks the
06:37local head of the world food program
06:40with a different explanation on this
06:42particular Convoy we were given a limit
06:44of 15 vetted drivers by the IDF that
06:48were cleared to use this route but only
06:50seven were available to us some had
06:52already gone up to Gaza City the day
06:54before and they simply hadn't been able
06:55to return yet we literally need 50 60 70
06:5980 truck drivers cleared to use these
07:04day Israel is Keen to show the world
07:07it's allowing more Aid into Gaza but it
07:10says it's not responsible for the amount
07:13of Aid going in international law says
07:16different it says Israel has a duty not
07:19just to open the gates but to get food
07:22and medicine to the people under its
07:25control do you think children are
07:27starving in Gaza I know that they are
07:29not so when you see those pictures of
07:31children Starving in hospital what do
07:34think I say it and I will say it again
07:37as much as I know there is no starvation
07:41Gaza two things are crossing this border
07:45Aid and the army they bring food and War
07:50life and death Lucy Williamson BBC news
07:56border the UK's Royal air Force has air
08:00dropped more than 10 tons of food into
08:02Gaza for the first time including water
08:05rice and baby formula the a drop comes
08:08amid fears that 1.1 million gazers
08:11gazans face imminent famine in a
08:14catastrophic humanitarian crisis the
08:16defense secretary Grant shaps urged
08:18Israel to allow more Aid into the war
