Cease fire for an intensified efforts to get the needed aid for these people. Efforts to get the needed aid for these maple efforts to get the needed aid for these neale, a,. ~ these people. Mohamed taha, thank ou. I want to talk to you now about the announcement, the moment we heard from the idf. Ourteam our team started to notice and intensification of air strikes and we had an appearance in front of the cameras by the spokesperson for the idf. Take a listen. Translation win we have intensified our air strikes. Two underground targets in infrastructure. As a continuation of our offensive strikes over the last few days, the Ground Forces are expanding their operations this evening, acting forcefully in all dimensions to achieve the goals of the war. Early on today, we exposed the war. Early on today, we exposed the hospital with the underground expanse how they have converted the hospital for terror activities. A masss cynical usage of the hospital be revealed to the world and we will continue to do so. We will continue Attacking Gaza and its surroundings, and again, south to the gaza river, there are better conditions. We have called upon them and reiterated the called upon them and reiterated the call to the people to move. Lets call to the people to move. Lets iet call to the people to move. Lets net the call to the people to move. Lets get the latest call to the people to move. Lets get the latest from call to the people to move. Lets get the latest from jeremy call to the people to move. Lets get the latest from jeremy bowen in jerusalem. , , jerusalem. Some responses came in. Its been called jerusalem. Some responses came in. Its been called unhinged its been called unhinged aggression. There are some her hopingm now, what theyre also going to be doing is massively increasing the level of Military Action of violence directed at the gaza strip. And while israel has said to people in the northern part of the gaza strip that they need to leave and go south, and a lot of people have a lot of people havent to. And because humanitarian conditions in the south where the israelis have let in very few supplies and where theyve cut off supplies of water, food and medicine as they have to the whole gaza strip because of the lack of facilities there. Some people have gone back up north to their homes. The un has talked at length about this. So there are lots of civilians in that area where theyre operating who must be having an extremely terrifying and and rough night. And there will undoubtedly be even heavier civilian civilian casualties than there have been up to now in the three weeks of bombing now. That is important, notjust because its the loss of life. So regev said they will continue to be on the Receiving End of our Military Blows until we have dismantled their Military Machine and dissolved their political structure in gaza. When this is over, gaza will be very different. So based on what hes saying there, he seems to have answered my question to myself about whether this is the ground invasion. Absolutely seems to be because hes saying this will continue until theyve achieved their objectives. And just to remind you, the stated israeli objective, which has come from many ministers in the government and the prime wipe hamas off the face of the earth. So that is a very ambitious objective, but its something and we heard the Idf Spokesperson talking about the increase in intensification, but attack specifically on Underground Hamas targets, terrorist infrastructure. Can you just talk us through how that happens . Well, hamas have been digging tunnels by Common Consent and also by. Some have been seen and some of the hostages, the four who got out, talked about that, that theyve been digging this network of tunnels. Some people say it could be hundreds of kilometres long under this very small area. The israelis did a briefing this afternoon where they said there were even bunkers underneath the main hospital in gaza city, shifa, where thousands of people have taken refuge. The israelis say that includes quite a lot of the hamas people who went over to the border, those gunmen who went over there killing and taking hostages. So israel says its going after these bunkers. Now, what theyre also going to be doing is massively increasing the level of Military Action of violence directed at the gaza strip. And while israel has said to people in the northern part of the gaza strip that they need to leave and go south, and a lot of people have, a lot of people havent, too. And because humanitarian conditions in the south where the israelis have let in very few supplies and where theyve cut off supplies of water, food and medicine, as they have to the whole gaza strip, because of the lack of facilities there. Some people have gone back up north to their homes. The un has talked at length about this. So there are lots of civilians in that area where theyre operating who must be having an extremely terrifying and rough night. And there will undoubtedly be even heavier civilian civilian casualties heavier civilian casualties than there have been up to now in the three weeks of bombing now. In the three weeks of bombing. Now, that is important, notjust because its the loss of life. Its important, too, because of the effect it has in driving the responses to the conflict. And the very heavy number of palestinians whove been killed by israel, i think has for some, even among israels allies, has eroded the legitimacy of what theyre doing. Perhaps thats why israel has decided finally to act on the ground, because they sensed, i think, that the mounting casualty figures were bringing up more and more pressure for a ceasefire. And today in doha, the qataris have been acting as intermediaries between israel and hamas. Hamas have offices in doha, the capital of qatar in the gulf, and the information earlier on was that negotiations were going pretty well to try to get a deal to release more hostages. A deal to release more hostages more than 200 are in there and also to perhaps even have some kind of humanitarian cease fire. Well, they were stalling then by late afternoon, and certainly, with this offensive going on, i dont think theres any chance that those talks are going to progress. Thanks to jeremy bowen thanks Tojeremy Bowen with that. I want to bring you up to where we are right now. I want to take you back just a few hours earlier. Look at these pictures in the gaza strip. This is some of the intensification of air strikes from israel into gaza that we saw as evening fell earlier today. It was just a couple of hours later that we got the formal announcement from the israelis, the idf, that they were stepping up their operations in the air and from their operations in the air and from the ground. Ground forces are expanding their operations tonight. So, we first got news of this intensification from our colleagues intensification from our colleagues in Southern Israel. Then came the official statement from the idf. Lets take you to the live pictures right now. Its coming up to the 2am in gaza. The blackness has been lit up in gaza. The blackness has been lit up with sporadic orange air strikes from israel. We can hear the crack of those missiles, too. Buildings without power, without lights, which is why that scene is oblak. Lets take you to the live pictures in the hospital in khan younis. It has been relatively calm there. We did see an ambulance come and go within the last hour. Taking you to some other live pictures we have. This is the israel gaza border. You can see some lights there in the blackness. Weve been keeping across these pictures. The other Significant Development weve had is from the united nations. The new york general is simply meeting, they have passed a Resolution Calling for the immediate sustained humanitarian truce. That passed 120 votes. It is not legally binding. We will have little impact. Lets take you to our fourth and final live feed of pictures. This is Southern Israel. The saying that they too have been hiring rockets, theyve firing from gaza into Southern Israel. But the strikes from israel into gaza have intensified over the last few hours. We also know that power, fuel are in short supply in gaza and now, Internet Communications have been cut. Messaging apps are not working. Phone lines are down. Getting information in and out right now of gazais information in and out right now of gaza is a challenge. Stay with us here. Im lewis vaughanjones. This is bbc news. Hello there, good evening. The unsettled conditions will continue as we head through this weekend and into next week. It wont be raining all the time but, of course, the ground pretty saturated in many areas, particularly here in central and eastern areas of scotland. For the next few days, heavy, thundery downpours across quite a wide area of the uk again. Blustery winds, too. And if we just take a look at the Rainfall Accumulation Chart for the next few days, you can see just how extensive that wet weather is likely to be. Drier, though, for western scotland, but where we see those bright colours again for Eastern Scotland over the high ground, there could be another 50 100 millimetres of rain. Why is it happening . Well, low pressure is centred out to the west of ireland, sending bands of showers spiralling around it. Brisk south easterly winds again overnight tonight, just pushing these showers on shore into Central Eastern areas of Scotland Aconstant stream of showers here. A constant stream of showers here. Clearer spells further south, and the winds will start to pick up, with another rash of showers approaching the south coast of england by the end of the night. Overnight lows of around 7 11 celsius, another mild start to saturday morning. There could be a bit of mist perhaps over the pennines tomorrow morning and for North Eastern areas of england, but the mist and fog wont be as extensive as it was earlier on this morning. Thats simply because its a lot windier. So, some more showers feeding into Eastern Scotland through the day tomorrow. Showers further south. Heavy, persistent rain moving into South West England and south wales by the time we get to the end of the afternoon. Some squally gusts of wind, too, developing east of the isle of wight, across the kent and sussex coasts. There could be some gusts of 50 60 mph along with some very wet weather on saturday evening. That rain pushing further northwards as we head through Saturday Night and into sunday morning. So, its a wet start to the day on sunday for northern ireland, Northern England and southern scotland. Some more rain, as you can see, across eastern areas of scotland. A cold northerly wind. Very blustery conditions for northern scotland. Sunshine and showers again for much of england and wales throughout the day. Temperatures here, 11 15 celsius. Theyre not due to move very much. Now, low pressure stays close by as we head into the start of next week, so more bands of showers spiralling around, certainly a lot more wet weather. Heres the outlook for our Capital Cities as we head through the week possibly stormy conditions again on wednesday into thursday. Live from washington, this is bbc news. Large explosions seen in gaza as israel says its intensifying its bombardment. Translation intensifying its bombardment. Translation over the last few hours, we have translation over the last few hours, we have intensified translation over the last few hours, we have intensified our. Hours, we have intensified our bombing over gaza. The Ground Forces are also extending their operations this evening. Hamas retaliates with operations this evening. Hamas retaliates with a operations this evening. Hamas retaliates with a series operations this evening. Hamas retaliates with a Series Of Retaliates with a series of rockets fired at cities in Southern Israel in the last few hours. The escalation comes as the Un General Assembly passes a resolution for an immediate durable and sustained humanitarian truths. Truths. Truce. Hello, you