here's our middle east correspondent, tom bateman.ooming on gaza's horizon. last night it came in waves from israeli warplanes. with apartment buildings amongst those hit, paramedics rushed to save those they could. like ten—year—old de a la, comforted, despite the worst news a child can hear. i want my mum and dad, she says. her parents and her brother were among ten civilians killed in the air raids. the apartment was one of —— above one of the militants and fate chose where they lived and a target chose where they would die. they were a dentist, his wife and son, they died for nothing, this is outrageous and my heart is burning for them, says this man. god willing, the response will be fierce, says another. the raids targeted three senior commanders in the islamic jihad. it is gaza's biggest militant groups after hummus. israel struck part of its leadership as targeted killings returned to its tactics of toys against palestinian armed groups. tensions are bold in this region for over a year and is liable blames islamichhad to bring

let's talk to our correspondent tom bateman who is injerusalem.t is happening?— about what is happening? give you a sense of where _ about what is happening? give you a sense of where we _ about what is happening? give you a sense of where we are, _ about what is happening? give you a sense of where we are, this - about what is happening? give you a sense of where we are, this is - sense of where we are, this is damascus gate here. it is one of the main entrances to the old city and three there is the muslim quarter, so it is full of palestinian shops and homes and businesses. the israeli flag match has been heading down the hill here and there are now thousands of marchers congregating here and what we have seen in the last ten minutes is an area just here where the press are an palestinian and international press suddenly came under attack by matches having sticks and stones and plastic bottles love towards us here. two people have suffered head injuries and been treated by paramedics and israeli police are moving in pretty slow to try and get t

our middle east correspondent tom bateman reports from the gaza strip.ction had no chance of escaping by themselves. this block bombed by israel's warplanes housed a family with disabilities. when the warning came, they had to be carried out. eight families were left homeless. translation: people saw disabled people fleeing the house. _ they were asking, why did the house have to be destroyed? have these disabled people fired rockets? we have nothing to do with what is going on. now neighbours and charities gather in solidarity. another set of homes in gaza gone. people uprooted again in the land of the dispossessed. israeli intelligence had called and told them to get out. translation: they said you have five minutes to evacuate the house. - i told them you're mistaken, this house is full of disabled people. he said no, immediately evacuate the house. without any more warning, it was one missile. the block was hit as israel targeted islamicjihad. israel said a militant used it as a command centre, calling it a legitimate target which it ensured was evac

earlier i spoke to our correspondent injerusalem, tom bateman, who gave me an update on the violence.al event and what we saw today was the marchers head down to this point. this is damascus gate you can see here, the walls of the old city and the gate there that heads into the muslim quarter of the old city. this very narrow alleyways where there are palestinian homes, businesses. they had all shuddered down as thousands of israeli flag marchers headed down the hill here and congregated at this point here at damascus gate. we were just up the steps here in an area of both foreign and palestinian press, covering the event when a big group of marchers started pelting us with stones and sticks. and bottles. also chanting racist slogans at people. a couple ofjournalists were sheltering behind a wooden door that they had picked up to try and avoid being hit. we know now that three journalists were hit, two suffering head injuries. the police say that they arrested at least two people involved in that. there we pushing people back but it seemed to take a while and as you mentioned further