from the air, sea and land. earlier — israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited troops near the gaza strip — telling them, �*the next stage is coming'. the bbc confirms young children were among those killed yesterday in an air strike on vehicles leaving northern gaza — along an israeli—designated route south. the united nations warns 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 i just have to have the thought of me dying in a bomb in gaza.

hello, i'm ben thompson. israel's military says its forces are deployed across the country and are ready for the next stage of the war, which is expected to have significant ground operations. a spokesman said the coming phase could include, what he called, �*combined and co—ordinated' strikes from the air, sea and land. the goal, he said, was to �*completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas�*. it's a week since 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. israel has warned the 1.1 million civilians in gaza's north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. the military spokesperson said they should not return until israel said they could do so.

the authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. on saturday, israel's prime minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for 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 people —— 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—prepa red. 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. 0ur correspondent injerusalem, tom bateman, told me about israel's plans for the next stage. comprehensive, offensive.

i don't think there was ever any doubt about that, given the scale of forces that we've seen being amassed over the previous days around the gaza perimeter. but this statement going to quite some detail about, as you say, that this would involve assets that they've got 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 at the front line. they say that that is basically done as far as they're concerned, but they're going to still need to get more to the troops. but i read this as them saying that they have most of their plans ready now. i think we were seeing the signs of that, but it doesn't fundamentally answer the question about timing, because at the same moment, we have also had the israeli military, when it's been challenged about the 24 hour deadline that was given yesterday for 1.1 million people to head south from the north of the gaza strip

into the southern part. and then another window that was given today, a six hour window between 10 am. and 4:00 pm local time, where they said two roads would be kept left in safety for those people fleeing from their homes. now, when they've been asked about effectively how impossible it is for that number of people to move in that period of time, they've said, well, we understand the issues with that, suggesting a kind of expandability around the time frame. so some you know, the signals are not entirely clear, but i think, you know, it's becoming increasingly obvious that it is a matter of either hours or days until a ground offensive begins. yes. and quite clearly as well, we've had that video that was issued by the israeli prime minister on twitter or on x. they're talking about meeting with soldiers on the front line with gaza, saying, are you ready for the next stage? the next stage is coming. and also in that statement, we know the reservists

who have been called up, it very much feels like the pieces are all moving into place. you have 360,000 reservists have been called up since last weekend and since the attacks took place. it's been a huge mobilisation. the statement also talks about the potential need to expand operations in a geographical sense. and remember that the northern boundary between israel and lebanon is another area where we've seen a week of really very dangerous skirmishing, fatalities on both sides, and the continuing fear that a flare up there would lead to a much, much wider conflagration. that line there is one of the most volatile and potentially explosive boundaries in the middle east.

and so if there were...if the military activity also stepped up there, we would see a very quick spread of this conflict, i think. and the statement, i think, trying to allude to that in terms of talking about the potential the potential need to expand the theatre of operations. but don't forget also, you know, 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'd see. see, in normaltimes, there's always a fear about what can happen injerusalem lies at the heart of this conflict. and i think, as the idf, the israeli defence forces, ready themselves for this potential ground invasion, those fears will only be increased about this thing spreading. the united nations says nearly a million palestinians — that's nearly half the population — have left 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. he spoke to us 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. a two things, because you touched on one of them, which isjust it isa it is a small city, they had to accommodate another 600,000 people. they were struggling even before this move. the city was struggling because it is part of the israeli blockade that was imposed last saturday. 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 around 6000 people. 0ver1 million people. some of them seepin 0ver1 million people. some of them seep in the courtyard of the hospital. i asked someone who told me that back in 2014, his house was destroyed. and he somehow managed to rebuild it. he said that this time,

his house was destroyed again, he had to take the hospital as a shelter. the bbc has confirmed that young children were among those killed in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving northern gaza on friday — along a route designated by israel. the palestinian health ministry says 70 people died — the israeli military says it's investigating what happened. 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 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. live now to paul brown from the bbc verify team — who's been investigating the authenticity of the gaza convoy pictures. thank you for being with others, paul. they are difficult to look at, but it is important we clarify and verify exactly what a show. talk to me about the process that you go through, you and the team, to make sure that video is what it purports to be. , . , , sure that video is what it purports tobe. , , to be. yes, absolutely, as you say, very graphic— to be. yes, absolutely, as you say, very graphic imagery. _ to be. yes, absolutely, as you say, very graphic imagery, very - very graphic imagery, very disturbing, but it is important to help us understand what is happening, and to communicate it to our audience. happening, and to communicate it to ouraudience. so, being able happening, and to communicate it to our audience. so, being able to verify this in an ack fear of conflict area, it helps us to understand these major developments and we doubt this information, of which there has been an absolute flood over the past week. we tend to use satellite imagery and other online resources to try to get a sense of where and when an incident took place based on the footage we

are looking at. in this particular instance, we thought it was likely to be this salah al—din road which runs north— south through gaza, one of two evacuation routes leaving the north and heading down to the south presumably to safety. it is a 45 kilometre road. we scanned the route and started from the north, where we figured that they would have left from, try to match details that we bought, from the satellite imagery, with those we saw in the video. in this case, there were some road markings buildings, it helped us to pin down the location. we used online tools analyse angle of the sun and the shadows to try to work out when the situation took place, when the footage was shot it looked to be around 530 local time. that when the footage was shot it looked to be around 530 local time.- to be around 530 local time. that is the key thing. _ to be around 530 local time. that is the key thing. it— to be around 530 local time. that is the key thing, it is _ to be around 530 local time. that is the key thing, it is a _ to be around 530 local time. that is the key thing, it is a painstaking - the key thing, it is a painstaking process to match so many different

elements until you get a clearer picture, and you are able to say with some confidence: that is exactly what it shows. you touched on it at the beginning, paul. this is a war being played out on social media as well. there is a lot of misinformation out there. people can be overwhelmed with videos, statements, and pictures. it is about breaking through that this information to find out what is going on. that is what you and the team are doing.— team are doing. exactly, that is what we are _ team are doing. exactly, that is what we are here _ team are doing. exactly, that is what we are here for. _ team are doing. exactly, that is . what we are here for. increasingly, there is footage that comes out of that will be misattributed, it will be old footage that has been presented as new footage. it clouds the whole picture about what is going on, and that does not help anyone. and it can lead to real—world consequences, it is particularly dangerous in situations like this when people are fleeing their homes, trying to find safety. if they are not well informed, if the people who they are speaking to are not well informed, it can be

really, really dangerous. gfiifi are not well informed, it can be really, really dangerous. attis a oint, really, really dangerous. attis a point. isn't _ really, really dangerous. attis a point, isn't it? _ really, really dangerous. attis a point, isn't it? it— really, really dangerous. attis a point, isn't it? it is— really, really dangerous. attis a point, isn't it? it is not- really, really dangerous. attis a point, isn't it? it is notjust - point, isn't it? it is notjust about telling the rest of the world what is going on, it is also about the people caught up in the conflict. interesting, also that all of the players in this conflict are using social media to get their message out. tonight, the israeli foreign minister put in this conflict are using social media to get their message out. tonight, the israeli foreign minister put his statements up speaking to troops on the border, saying: we are ready for the border, saying: we are ready for the next stage. we can see that video here. using social media as a direct way to address people. yes. direct way to address people. yes, that is right- _ direct way to address people. yes, that is right. the _ direct way to address people. ya: that is right. the narratives and counterclaims, all of that all plays out on social media on various channels. it can be quite confusing at times, trying to figure out exactly what is going on. that is why we dedicate ourselves to this work, why we have a whole team of people working on this round the clock. we have been flat out on this particular conflict for the last seven days trying to figure out what has been happening and where it is happening. in the chaos of last saturday, when the attacks began, we were quickly able to ascertain where

breaches in the borderfence had taken place, where attacks on civilians were taking place. and that really helps us to build a picture of what is going on in real time, almost. to really get an understanding of the scale of this kind of attack.— kind of attack. people will be fascinated, _ kind of attack. people will be fascinated, paul, _ kind of attack. people will be fascinated, paul, by- kind of attack. people will be fascinated, paul, by how- kind of attack. people will be fascinated, paul, by how you| kind of attack. people will be - fascinated, paul, by how you are able to do thatjob, given that a lot of the footage might be grainy, it might be rushed. particularly when you reference the events of last saturday, you know, it is not always very clear what is going on, or indeed, the footage itself is not very clear. you cannot always hear people talking in those videos. what is the hardest bit to get right in yourjob? is the hardest bit to get right in our “ob? . , , ., , yourjob? the hardest bit would be exactl as yourjob? the hardest bit would be exactly as you _ yourjob? the hardest bit would be exactly as you say. _ yourjob? the hardest bit would be exactly as you say, when _ yourjob? the hardest bit would be exactly as you say, when we - yourjob? the hardest bit would be exactly as you say, when we are i exactly as you say, when we are dealing with grainy footage that the details are not particularly clear, and when we are dealing with regions where there is perhaps unclear satellite imagery. we often use

street view, these online tools that allow you to go to street level to see these things. in gaza, we do not have those things, that is an available online. we really have to baseit available online. we really have to base it on what we are seeing from the satellite imagery. that makes it a lot trickier, a lot more time consuming, but it is really important that we do this. yes, and that is my point _ important that we do this. yes, and that is my point at _ important that we do this. yes, and that is my point at which _ important that we do this. yes, and that is my point at which we - important that we do this. yes, and j that is my point at which we believe it, but thank you, paul. paul brown from bbc verify. it is really important that our work gets done, paul and the team, making sure that we can clear up some of that information, the disinformation that is being published online. that is bbc verify and paul brown there with the latest on that palestinian convoy and the video that shows as a little bit more about what went on. in lebanon, a journalist from the reuters news agency has been killed, in what eye witnesses say was an israeli attack, near alma al—shaab, close to the israeli border. 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. just align it to our you on the response from the uk prior minister, rishi sunak, issued from downing street tonight: he says that the uk will do everything we can to support israel in restoring the security it deserves. that is a statement from downing street, marking, of course, the one—week sense since the start of the attack that was carried out ijy of the attack that was carried out by hamas. rishi sunak describes the attacks as an act of pure evil, saying israel has every right to defend itself. he said: iam unequivocal, we will stand with israel, notjust today, notjust tomorrow, but always. that statement here from the uk prime minister regarding those events as we mark

one week since the attacks carried out. pro—palestinian protests have taken place across the uk, including in london and manchester. 0rganisers say at least 100,000 peoplejoined the demonstration outside the bbc�*s new broadcasting house in london. 0ur correspondent simonjones was following the crowd. yes, the focus of the protest has shifted in the past short while here to trafalgar square. up until then, it had largely been focused on downing street where people stopped to hear speeches. a lot of them were shouting, wanting 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.

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: 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 say that israel has every right to defend itself. people marching through the streets here are holding up placards, they have been chanting, there is another fireworks going up now behind me. they have been chanting for a free palestine and calling for an end to the bombing. in terms of what has been going on here today, people really wanted to come out in the numbers, and i have been thousands of people on the

streets of central london. a 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 their operation is continuing, going on into this evening. it will continue for as long as will be needed. certainly, the atmosphere dear to get more tense. things appear to have calmed down now. i think that police will now be hoping that the protest will start to dissipate and at the protesters will start feeling that they have come over the last several hours, made their voices heard.— over the last several hours, made their voices heard. simon jones who was in downing _ their voices heard. simon jones who was in downing street _ their voices heard. simon jones who was in downing street and - their voices heard. simon jones who was in downing street and then - their voices heard. simon jones who | was in downing street and then later in trafalgar square in central london. just to say: there is more on the ongoing situation in israel and gaza on a special edition of the bbc global news forecast. so with us server on 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 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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