Jerusalem

We speak to Yosi Shnaider. Six of his relatives – among them his cousin Shiri Bibes and her nine-month-old baby – are thought to have been captured and taken to Gaza.

We talk to Mkhaimar Abusada, a Professor of Politics at Al-Azhar University, who’s in Gaza.

Hamas is threatening to execute one captured Israeli for every civilian house bombed without pre-warning. This as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s retaliation against Hamas has only just begun and it will change the Middle East. 

Hagai El-Ad is executive director of the human rights organisation, B’Tselem.

The main news is the bloodshed on the Israel-Gaza border following America’s decision to move its diplomatic headquarters to Jerusalem. Uprooting the embassy from Tel Aviv is not a new idea. Successive US presidents have mooted it, but Donald Trump has made it happen.  

Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.

The anger and consequent bloodshed in Gaza was in response to events in Jerusalem.