northern gaza — along an israeli—designated route south. the united nations warns that clean drinking water is running out in the gaza strip — as hundreds of thousands of people flee their homes. meanwhile, people trying to leave gaza, wait at the crossing with egypt. they include foreign nationals. really in fear and every time ijust have to have the thought of me dying in a bomb in gaza. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu visits israeli troops near the gaza strip , telling them, �*the next stage is coming'. hamas and israel continue to target each other with rocket fire. the israelis say they're focused on finding the hamas leaders behind last weekend's attacks. he is the mastermind of the massacre, he is the prime minister

of gaza, he has utilised all of the tools of his government to conduct this attack, he has failed the people of gaza miserably, and we are going to destroy him and his capabilities. hello, i'm ben thompson. children are among those who killed in gaza in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles carrying people from the north of the territory yesterday. along a route designated by the israelis. the palestinian health ministry says 70 people died — the israeli military says it's investigating what happened. a week ago today, hamas, classed as a terrorist organisation by many western governments, including the uk, killed more than 1,300 people in israel and took dozens hostage.

israeli commanders are thought to be preparing a ground offensive in gaza. the defence force says the next phase could include �*combined and co—ordinated' strikes by land, sea and air. they've warned the 1.1 million civilians in the north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. the authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. today, israel's prime minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for — what he called — the next stage. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson has the latest. every day, hamas sends rockets into israel, and waits for israel's response. after last weekend's attack, israel says these air strikes are just the beginning, and that people living in the north of gaza should leave now. gaza's main road has become a lifeline for

people flowing south, a humanitarian corridor labelled safe. not always. a strike here yesterday killed at least 12. the bbc has verified the location identified women and children under five are among the dead. israel says it is investigating. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited the troops gathered at gaza's border today. the next stage is coming, he told them. are you ready? the israeli army has been pounding gaza from here across the border and also from the air. israel says it doesn't deliberately target civilians, and that this is directed at the people who do. today, israel said it had killed the organiser of last weekend's attack. he was released from

an israeli jail more than a decade ago in a prisoner exchange deal with hamas. israel says it was he who planned the attacks on communities like this. gunmen arrived there last saturday, caught on a security camera, relaxed, unhurried and well—prepared. they brought everything they needed to kill and kidnap large numbers of people. grenades, gaffertape, plastic cable ties. three members of one family are still missing among them, carmel and her sister—in—law. their family home shattered. it looks like indiscriminate violence, but it wasn't. this was a targeted attack.

some of the people who lived here are now thought to be just a few miles away inside gaza, a different world. this community has lived for years with occasional rockets or infiltrations, but destruction like this signals a different kind of vulnerability, and the build—up of israeli forces here a different kind of response. but what will that response mean for hostages inside gaza? i don't know the intelligence, they don't tell us anything. they don't tell us. nobody calls me to tell me there is negotiation for them. frankly, nobody knows if they are taken. you are angry? i am very angry. there is not even a place for being sad for me. israel's soldiers are now massing at gaza's borders, their weapons pointing towards both hamas and their hostages. for the army that failed to protect its people at home, how much harder will it be

to protect them there? lucy williamson, bbc news, southern israel. the united nations says nearly a million palestinians have fled their homes in the gaza strip in the week since israel launched its military response to the wave of killings by hamas. the entire enclave is being hit by israeli missiles — from gaza city in the north to rafah in the south, at the border with egypt. you may find some of the images in jon donnison�*s report now upsetting. outside the main hospital in rafah, ice cream trucks. the morgue is full. "some of the dead have been here for two days", says this man. "these freezers are meant for food, not bodies", he goes on. and this is right in the south of gaza, where people are now being told to go. hundreds of thousands are now

heading in this direction. the question is, where do they go? the nearby united nations school is packed with those seeking shelter. but it was already at full capacity before this latest evacuation order. "as palestinians, what did we do for this to happen to us?", she asks. she tells us she ran out of the house barefoot with nothing when israel bombed her neighbourhood and came straight to the school. at noon today, many were praying, one would think for better times. "i don't want to live here", says mahmmood, a father of four. he says there is not enough food or clothing, he just wants to go home. many of those here are children, still smiling despite it all. around half gaza's population

is under 18, and some are old beyond their years. ramez is just 15. this is his fifth war. "i can barely stand it", he says. "and look around you, all these kids, ask them, do you want to live or not? "we just want to be secure", he goes on. "0ur dream is to live, that's all we want." jon donnison, bbc news. 0ur correspondent, rushdi abualouf, has moved from the north of gaza to khan younis in the south. my colleague matthew amroliwala spoke to him a short while ago. i had to take the journey from gaza into southern city of khan yunis after the israeli army ask all the people live in gaza city where i used to live, and in the north to go south. i am in khan yunis since yesterday. and the scene, the scene that

i witnessed is really tragic. people are sleeping in the public spaces. hundreds of thousands of people are deployed to the schools. i'm in the hospital, the main hospital in khan yunis. also, hundreds of people are taking the hospital as a refugee. suddenly, this city has to accommodate, treat, and feed half a million people displaced from their a northern and middle area, gaza city. and as the hamas officially said, about 400,000 people took this journey yesterday and today from khan yunis along salahadin road, then to khan yunis. more than a million people in this city and people, the local authority here is struggling to find accommodation for the people, to find a essential needs. water is running out in the hospital here. medicine is running out. they are trying to manage very

little fuel, doctors told me, they are left to run the generators and very small amount of life saving kits that they have since israel is closing all the border. and egypt until now said we can't guarantee that if we send the aid in, israel will not allow it. two things, because you touched on one of them, which is just describe for me what infrastructure, if any, is there to take that influx of people and describe it a little more? was there panic amongst the people who were trying to move at such short notice when you started yourjourney? yeah, when i started myjourney, i had to take my family and then i found people in trucks, people using cars, even people walking on on foot for like,

you know, 5 to 6 kilometres. when i approach salah al—din road road, i saw like hundreds of cars, motorcycles. i saw people walking cows, camels, sheeps. it's a chaotic scene. it's a scene that i never saw before. it's a convoy that is about ten kilometre long, very chaotic place. and then it took me to drive about ten kilometres, about 3 hours. in a normal time, it takes 15 minutes. and you talk about you, your family moving and of course, so many people like you in the conversations you've had. do people think ultimately they will get back to their homes? they hope, you know... this is the second largest city with about 4,000 people already living there. and suddenly this small city found like, you know, the authority

here had to accommodate another 600,000 people and they were struggling even before this move. the city was struggling because it's part of the israeli blockade imposed last saturday. so, after one week, without water, without electricity and without internet, this city was already exhausted by helping their own people. and now they have to take care of about 6,000 people, over a million people. there are some of them. they sleep in the courtyard of the hospital. i did ask someone who told me that back in 2014 his house was destroyed and he somehow managed to rebuild it. and he said, this time my house was destroyed again. i had to take the hospital as a shelter. 0ur correspondence talking

about having to make thatjourney. more now on that air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving northern gaza — along a route designated by israel. children were among the dead. our team at bbc verify analysed two videos of the strike on the vehicles heading towards southern gaza. both videos have been verified, these first images show a lorry carrying at least 30 civilians, moving south. and these are still images taken from a subsequent video from the aftermath of the strike. they are too graphic to show in detail. the video shows men running to a lorry, part of the same convoy, trying to help those who've been hit. there are at least 12 visible dead bodies in the video. paul brown from the bbc verify team has been investigating the authenticity of the gaza convoy pictures, spoke to matthew

amroliawala about how they verify video such as this. we have the ability to verify this stuff in active conflict zones. it is a really important way to understand major developments and weed out disinformation of which there has been a flood over the last week. we use satellite imagery and other online resources to try to get a sense of where and when things have happened. in this instance, we knew this was likely to have taken place on this road, a major road running north to south in gaza. it is one of two evacuation routes. it is 45km road, we used satellite imaging to scan through it, starting from the north where the convoy had probably left from, trying to find details that matched the graphic videos that were circulating online. in this case, we found road markings, a sign that helped us to pin down the location. we can even use online tools

helping us to work out the angle of the sunlight, the shadows, giving us an accurate reading as to what kind of time of day it would have been. we found it was around 5:30pm local time yesterday. what were you able to ascertain about who might have been responsible? on that... we are unable to say. we only have footage of the aftermath. there have been claims and counter claims about who was responsible. we were able to see, in the footage at least 12 dead bodies, several cars that were on fire, probably with victims still inside them, and a scene of carnage. more broadly, give me an idea of the insights that this kind of work has provided through the course of this week. the team at bbc verify has been flat out on this all week, we have been able to

ascertain it quite a lot. in the chaos of the attacks as they happened last saturday, we were able to identify key locations and flashpoints, identify where breaches in the fence were, by attacks on civilians were taking place. we worked on a few major projects with other colleagues at the bbc this week. one was identifying a timeline about when the attack at the rave that took place beside the gaza border. and more recently, yesterday, we had an online piece looking at the converts how things played out there. we had footage showing the militants arriving. we were able to geo— locate that to the north—eastern corner of the kibbutz. and then, we had footage seeming to show hostages being taken away into another area. using the kind of information we can build up a timeline about the things that were going on.

0urteam our team looking into the videos are circulating online, trying to establish what we know and making sure that the video is what it purports to be. let us get the latest now from jerusalem. 0ur correspondent tom bateman sf. it has been a day of significant events. i wanted grab what we had from the idf tonight, talking about it was �*s military plans. they say it will be a combined coordinated strike from air, sea, and land. it very much feels like that is imminent, now. they say that this will be a comprehensive offensive, i do not think that there was ever any doubt about that given the scale of the forces we have seen being amassed over the previous days around the gaza perimeter. the state were going into some detail about, as you say, how this would involve assets that they have in place over land, sea, and air. they talk about, in quite a

lot of detail, the logistics operation. basically, getting kits, ammunition, weaponry to the soldiers on the front line. they say that thatis on the front line. they say that that is basically done, as far as they are concerned, but they still need to get some more to the troops. i read this as them saying that they have most of their plans ready. now, i think that we were seeing signs of that, but, it does not fundamentally answer the question about timing. at the same moment, we have also had the same moment, we have also had the israeli military challenging, when they had the 24 hour deadline yesterday, for 1.1 million people to head south of the gaza strip into the southern part. and then, another window today, six hour window until 4pm local time when they said to rhodes would be left in safety for the people leaving their homes. —— they said that to rhodes would be

left in safety. they said that they understood the issues with that and said that there were some expand ability around the time frame. the signals are not entirely clear, but i think that it is becoming increasingly obvious that it is a matter of either hours or days until the ground offensive begins. yes. the ground offensive begins. yes, and uuite the ground offensive begins. yes, and quite clearly, _ the ground offensive begins. yes, and quite clearly, as _ the ground offensive begins. yes, and quite clearly, as well, - the ground offensive begins. yes, and quite clearly, as well, we have had that video issued by the israeli prime minister on twitter or on x, talking about the meeting with soldiers on the front line with gaza, saying: are you ready for the next stage? the next stage is coming. in that statement, we know that the reservists pulled up, it feels like the pieces are moving into place. feels like the pieces are moving into place-— feels like the pieces are moving into lace. ,': ~:: :::::: , , , ., into place. 360,000 reservists have been called — into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up _ into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up since _ into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up since last _ into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up since last weekend, l been called up since last weekend, and since the attacks took place, it

has been a huge mobilisation. the statement also talks about the potential need to expand operations geographically. remember, the northern boundary between israel and lebanon is another area where we have seen a week of dangerous skirmishing. fatalities on both sides and the continuing fear that a flare—up affair could lead to a much, much wider conflagration. the line there is one of the most volatile, and potentially most explosive, boundaries and the middle east. and so, if the military activity also stepped up there, we would see a very quick spread of this conflict, i think. and the state are trying to allude to that in times of talking about the potential need to expand the theatre of operations. do not forget, also, the west bank has been on fire this

week with continuing clashes between israeli forces and palestinians, at least, many palestinian deaths last week. far higher numbers than we would see in normal times. there is always a fear about what could happen injerusalem which lies at the heart of this conflict. as the idf, the israeli defense forces, as they ready themselves for this ground invasion, these fears will only be increased about this thing spreading. only be increased about this thing sreadina. ., ., ., ., ~ ,, spreading. tom, for now, thank you that male — spreading. tom, for now, thank you that update. tom _ spreading. tom, for now, thank you that update. tom bateman - spreading. tom, for now, thank you that update. tom bateman joining l spreading. tom, for now, thank you | that update. tom batemanjoining us live from jerusalem. in lebanon, a journalist from the reuters news agency has been killed. the funeral for issam abdallah was held in al khiyam. the reuters videographer is the first civilian to have died in lebanon. mr abdallah was covering clashes between israeli forces and lebanon's

militant hezbollah group. two otherjournalists were also injured in the incident. pro—palestinian protests have taken place across the uk, including in london and manchester. organisers say more than a 100,000 peoplejoined the demonstration in london, outside the bbc�*s new broadcasting house. more than 1,000 police officers were deployed. live now to our correspondent simonjones who's in trafalgur square. simon, we have seen protests moved there in the capital over the course of today. the metropolitan police they have made seven arrests. yes. they have made seven arrests. yes, they have made seven arrests. yes, the focus of — they have made seven arrests. yes, the focus of the _ they have made seven arrests. yes, the focus of the protest _ they have made seven arrests. yes the focus of the protest has shifted in the past short while here to trafalgar square. up until then, in the past short while here to trafalgar square. up untilthen, it had largely been focused on downing street where people stopped to hear speeches. a lot of them were shouting, one thing the government to make changes. in terms of what has happened here, it was an arrest outside downing street that seemed to cause the protest to move here. a man was led away and a large group

of people carrying placards moved in this direction. we did see a small number of scuffles here in trafalgar square, some placards being grown, and also some fireworks being let off. 0verall, and also some fireworks being let off. overall, i and also some fireworks being let off. 0verall, ithink and also some fireworks being let off. overall, i think it has been a large policing operation. it has been largely good—natured. people i have been speaking to so that they wanted to come out onto the street to make sure that their voices were heard. i spoke to one woman who was practically in tears when she told me that several members of her family in the past week had been killed in gaza. she said that the family home where her uncle lived was bombed without any sort of warning. people were saying that they want a change in british government policy, the british government policy, the british government saying that israel has every right to defend itself. people marching through the streets here have been holding up placards and have been holding up placards and have been holding up placards and have been chanting. there is another

firework going up behind me, they have been calling for a free palestine and an end to the bombing. in terms of what has been happening here today, people want to come out of their numbers. there have been thousands of people on the streets of central london, the protest gathering outside the bbc headquarters before marching down towards westminster outside downing street. they ended up here in trafalgar square. the police say that the operation is continuing going on into this evening. it will continue for as long as will be needed, certainly, the atmosphere did get more tense. things appear to have calmed down now. i think that the police will be hoping that the protest will start to dissipate and at protesters will start to dissipate feeling that they have over the last few hours make their voice heard. for over the last few hours make their voice heard-— voice heard. for now, thank you. simon jones _ voice heard. for now, thank you. simon jones live _ voice heard. for now, thank you. simon jones live in _ voice heard. for now, thank you. simon jones live in trafalgar - voice heard. for now, thank you. i simon jones live in trafalgar square simonjones live in trafalgar square in the centre of london. to update you on the two key lines we are following for you this hour: news from the israeli military saying that it now plans an operation that

they say will include combined and coordinated strikes from the air, sea, and land. they said that forces have been deployed across the country, increasing operational readiness. those are their words for the next stages of the war. they say that an emphasis on a significant ground operation. a reminder: the bbc live page has all that you need to know, plenty of details about a very fast moving story with a day of huge developments including that story we have been telling you about their from story we have been telling you about theirfrom our story we have been telling you about their from our bbc verify team, children among the dead as part of that convoy making its way from the north of gaza to the south on what were deemed to be israeli routes promised to be safe routes. stay with us, headlines coming up for you very shortly. you are watching bbc news. hello there.

the weather for quite a few of us has been feeling a lot colder today. the colder air has been travelling southwards across the country over recent days, but it's across southern england and wales that the cold air really arrived. and so for hereford, we went from 22 degrees yesterday to 13 or so this afternoon — a drop of nine degrees celsius. now, for many areas, we did have some pleasant spells of sunshine. a few showers around — those showers falling as snow over the tops of the scottish mountains. those wintry showers continuing to be driven in on those gusty north—westerly winds with the showers always most frequent across the north and western coasts and hills. now for northern scotland, the skies look quite different as those showers worked in some rough seas here in banff, thanks to those gusty onshore winds. and overnight, it will stay pretty windy for northern scotland, particularly in shetland, where gusts will continue to run into the 50s and 60s of miles an hourfor a time, driving in further showers. elsewhere have showers still around some of our coastal areas. but inland, it's a dry night with clear spells and temperatures

getting down low enough to give a nip of frost in the countryside, something gardeners might want to take note of. our lowest temperatures under these these sunny skies as we start the day down at minus two degrees. now, there will be lots of sunshine around for sunday, but showers probably merging together to give some longer spells of rain for northern scotland, showers for west scotland, one or two for northern ireland and a few for the northern isles, where it will still be quite windy, but not as windy as it was on saturday. temperatures across the board below average for the time of year. now from monday, i think there's probably going to be a few mist and fog patches to start the day. and although the weather is predominantly dry underneath an area of high pressure, around the periphery of that high, you might see a few showers coming up the thames estuary, one or two for the far north of scotland. i think the emphasis is on a dry and sunny day for many of you. it will stay cool though for october, temperatures 11 to 13 degrees. we start to see some further changes in the weather pattern towards the middle part of the week. after a fine day on tuesday, we'll start to see some rain moving up with this area of low pressure

coming in off the bay of biscay. now, the rain's likely to be quite heavy on wednesday as it spreads across england and wales. it crosses northern england thursday and pushes on into parts of scotland and northern ireland probably stays quite unsettled beyond that, with temperatures returning closer to average for the time of year.

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