00:00 hearing today is an indication of just how serious the fighting still
00:04 remains, particularly in northern Gaza. The talk at the moment is about
00:08 the operation in southern Gaza, as if what is happening in the north is
00:12 pretty much all over. There have been the occasional remarks from the
00:17 Israeli defence ministry and from the army's command that Hamas is
00:22 crumbling in northern Gaza. But judging by what we have been hearing over
00:27 the last 24 hours in that ambush that you refer to, that is simply not the
00:31 case. Ten men killed, that is the highest number in one day since the
00:36 start of the offensive in Gaza. What is almost astonishing, more
00:42 astonishing about it, is that six of them were officers, two colonels,
00:46 three majors, one captain and four sergeants. That is a really big blow
00:51 to the Israeli defence forces. To lose such experienced men in one
00:57 prolonged incident admittedly like that is not good news for them. But
01:01 the fighting continues in northern Gaza. The Israelis insist that despite
01:06 the losses, that Hamas is being degraded, that the end is pretty much
01:13 getting closer now for Hamas. More and more people are surrendering. The
01:18 number of Hamas fighters being killed is going up. But the fighting still
