At least 22 people have been killed in Israeli raid on school in Northern Gaza. Also on the programme, Israel says it may have been killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and the architect of the bloody October 7th attacks; and, Liam Payne, singer in the boy-band One Direction has died aged 31. (Photo: Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, near the ruins of houses destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip August 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo)
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Hello, and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks, and we have one major story this hour, because shortly before we came on air, we started getting the first reports out of Israel that the israeli military is looking into whether it has killed the leader of, of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, the leader who has been in Gaza and is widely seen as the architect of those October 7 attacks in Israel October 7 last year, which killed 1200 Israelis and sparked this war that is continuing to this day, 42,000, more than 42,000 Palestinians reported to be dead in Gaza, according to Hamas Run, the Hamas run health ministry.
It is potentially a very significant development.
Wirra Davis is our correspondent in Jerusalem.
Wirra, what are you hearing from israeli media and israeli sources?
Well, yeah, let's differentiate between the two, because there's some contradictory reports in the israeli media.