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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamarasami.
Coming up a bit later on in the programme, Britain's Prime Minister, Sakir Starmer,
has suffered a major setback after his deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has resigned.
We're going to get the latest on that in about 15 minutes time.
First though, we're going to get the latest on the developments in Gaza,
where Israel says it has now captured 40% of Gaza City,
the largest urban center in the territory,
and it's announced its intention to strike multi-storey buildings there,
which it says Hamas has converted into military infrastructure.
It all comes as Israelis have been marking 700 days since the October 7th attacks.
which of course resulted in more than a thousand people being killed and around 250 being taken hostage.
It's thought that around 20 of those hostages are still alive in Gaza.
And in the past few hours, Hamas has released videos showing two of them.
Let's get the latest from our correspondent, our Middle East Bureau editor,
in fact, Joe Floto, who joins us now from Jerusalem.
Joe, what is the latest that you're hearing on the military operation in Gaza City?
So as you alluded to there,