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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Monday the 8th of April these are our main stories

Israel says it's withdrawn ground troops from Southern Gaza to prepare for future operations including in the

overcrowded town of Rafa. The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog says the Zaparicha

power plant in Russian occupied Ukraine has been hit by the worst drone attack for 18 months.

Elon Musk has reacted angrily to a ruling by a Brazilian judge that anti-democratic posts on the social media platform X should be blocked.

Also in this podcast,

after suffering armed robberies and running 385 marathons, the length of Africa, a British

runner finally ends the longest of runs.

We begin in Israel.

The country's defense minister says its forces have left southern Gaza to prepare for future

operations including in the town of Rafa.

Following weeks of a deadly Israeli ground offensive in the city of Khan Yunus,

Jov Galant said Hamas had now ceased to function as a military organization there.

But a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces, Peter Lerner, says the war is far from over.

The military campaign is continuously evolving, this is just another stage in the war effort as we completed our mission in the Hanunus area.

So then the troops rotate out and we have other troops that are operating elsewhere. So it's

important to understand it is a decline in the forces but there's more

operations that need to be conducted. Raffa is clearly a stronghold where there are four battalions untouched.

So we need to be able to get all of the hostages back wherever they are.

We need to dismantle Hamas's capabilities wherever they are and we will

will immobilize our forces accordingly.

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