This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 28th of August.

These are our main stories.

Israel's carrying out a major military operation in the occupied West Bank,

targeting at least four Palestinian cities at the same time.

As Ukraine's president says the incursion into Russian territory is part of a victory plan.

We hear from a resident in the city of Sujah in the Russian Korsk region.

Japan issues an emergency warning as a powerful typhoon approaches.

Also in this podcast, Afghan women defy new Taliban law by posting videos of singing. Zadito Ambrasoni mohr or moushi da hanam roe

Mohayo me kunit oh

and more than 4,000 athletes from around the world are in Paris for the start of the Paralympics.

We'll start in the Middle East.

Since the Hamas attacks on the 7th of October, the focus of much of the world's media has been on Gaza and the increasingly

tense border between Israel and Lebanon. But violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has also

been surging. Hundreds of people have lost their lives and now a major

Israeli military operation, the biggest in years, is underway in the north of the occupied

West Bank. The assault by land and air began after Israeli soldiers entered refugee camps in the Jordan Valley.

At least nine people have been killed.

Nor Oda is a former spokesman for the Palestinian Authority.

Since the early hours of dawn, we've seen a large

contingents of Israeli forces raiding and occupying Jeunine

and Tulkar, particularly targeting the refugee camps over there,

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