good to talk to you, bel trew, thank ou hide. good to talk to you, bel trew, thank you for— hide.ew, thank you forjoining _ hide. good to talk to you, bel trew, thank you forjoining us _ hide. good to talk to you, bel trew, thank you forjoining us live - hide. good to talk to you, bel trew, thank you forjoining us live on - hide. good to talk to you, bel trew, thank you forjoining us live on the l thank you forjoining us live on the programme. let's look at the scale of what has happened. 0urteam let's look at the scale of what has happened. our team at bbc verify has been investigating some of the main targets, including residential buildings and mosques. here is our security correspondent, frank gardner. israel's bombardment of gaza shows no let—up, following the deadly hamas raid on saturday. this is what parts of the city looked like before those israeli air strikes, and this is what it looks like now, after being pulverised from the air. so let's try to put all this into context, with this map of gaza. it's one of the most densely populated places in the world. 2.3 million pe

the other thing, and this is thinking back to what bel trew was just talking about, what you experiencead moved not once, not twice but three times — each time trying to escape the fighting, because every time they moved, it came closer to them and it becomes more and more untenable. if this is going to be conducted on the kind of scale that we are anticipating, notjust to break up hamas, to render its military infastructure irreparable, but to uproot the political oraginsation altogether, then it is likely that we are going to see much, much worse destruction. mark regev, he was on newsnight, we played the clip earlier, he gave a little glimpse of that in that interview, in terms ofjust how much change they think they want to see before this actually ends. yeah, they want to create a whole new paradigm, they want a gaza without hamas. and after what happened on saturday, clearly the popular pressure and the international support for such an objective is overwhelming, and that gives benjamin netanyahu a very substantial following wind. but how practical is it, though? i suppose that is

let's speak now to bel trew, who's the international correspondent for the independent. just responsible for this explosion at the hospital, may be just explain who is saying what at the moment. from the palestinian side they are very clear that it was an israeli strike. they immediately said, the gaza health ministry said that it was, it had to be an israeli strike because they were such a high death toll, such a huge explosion and that has been echoed by hamas's partners throughout the region, iran has also blamed israel but other regional countries also say that israel are responsible, condemnations from qatar and turkey. the israelis at first when i was talking to the military as this happened, they say they were investigating, they sent me one statement and then contradicted it by saying they were not responsible, blaming the palestinian islamichhad, one of the groups in the region, they say it was a failed rocket launch, they have multiple videos they say is evidence for failed rocket launch. they sent us this morning satellite imagery of the area affected, saying t