Israelis have been killed. The Gaza Ministry of health says 400 and 13 palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza, including 78 children. The israeli army also says more than 400 Palestinian Militants have been killed after infiltrating Southern Israel, with dozens more captured. Israel says it is still trying to regain full control of eight areas where hamas militants infiltrated following saturdays attack. The number of israeli civilians and soldiers taken hostage has been put at 100 by the Israeli Embassy to the us, though some have been freed. In northern israel, hezbollah rockets targeted three military positions, with israel responding with barrages of artillery into Southern Lebanon. The Un Security Council is meeting in new york to discuss the situation. 0ur middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the latest on the conflict. And i should warn you, her report has some distressing images. A devastating bombardment. Israel promised overnight that hamas would pay the price for its unprecedented Surprise Attack. And in gaza, this was the result. Translation what happened to us is complete destruction, and there are 150 people at this building. We cant live there now. But today in israel, more gunfights, as Israeli Security forces pursued some of the armed palestinians who infiltrated a day ago. Here, they chased militants in a stolen car and killed them. And here, the shocking result of the earlier mass assault. The bodies of an israeli family shot dead, waiting to be taken for identification and burial. Over here, youve got another one of the body bags that, disturbingly enough, you can find along the roadsides of Southern Israel right now. Here, were not very far from an Israeli Military base that was overrun by hamas militants and has since been recaptured. Its now known that among the dead, there was a 20 year old british man, nathanel young. Hed signed up to serve as a soldier in israel. Nathanel always had strong jewish pride, his brother said in a statement. From a young age, hed always wanted to play an Important Role in defending his country. Its something hed talked about a lot. But for many, the fate of their loved ones is still unknown. Outside the main hospital in ashkelon, Rachel Ezra Berated a visiting mp. I want you to help me find my boy, oz, and his girlfriend naomi, aged 24 and 23, she tells him, distraught. This hospital has been overwhelmed, treating some 400 people, soldiers and civilians some shot, some injured with the continuing rocket fire. It was very difficult. It was tough. A lot of casualties have been brought one after one, one after one, very quickly. There was a reminder today of the potential for this conflict to widen. The Israeli Military carried out artillery strikes in Southern Lebanon after mortars were fired towards israeli positions. But gaza is still the main focus. Its believed dozens of israeli hostages, including women and children, are now being held there. We will not forget. Hamas terrorists target israeli civilians, israel will target hamas and islamichhad terrorists, wherever they will be in gaza. And for israelis and palestinians, there are signs of a long war ahead. Yolande knell, bbc news, ashkelon. I want to bring you some developing news and a warning straightaway it is distressing. We are getting reports from a Search And Rescue service that at least 250 bodies have been removed from the site of a Music Festival that came under attack by hamas militants on saturday morning. This Music Festival was taking place in Southern Israel, not farfrom gaza. And on saturday morning, it came under attack. This is a road not far away from that festival. You can see the burnt out cars and there are Eyewitness Reports of gunfire. This is a map giving the rough layout of the area, so the area of re im, not farfrom gaza, not farfrom their the area, so the area of re im, not far from gaza, not far from their is where this Music Festival was taking place, lots of young people there, an open air festival. Place, lots of young people there, an open airfestival. And place, lots of young people there, an open air festival. And we have had pictures of people fleeing and running from the sound of gunfire. We have had reports of people being taken hostage, too. But what we havent had up until this point is any kind of numbers of the people impacted. The first reports we are getting, and i should say we have not independently verified these numbers, this is reporting from zaka, a Search And Rescue organisation, claiming that at least 250 bodies have been removed from the sight of that Music Festival that came under attack. 250 bodies, at least, have been removed from that Music Festival venue, that open air Music Festival that was taking place in Southern Israel not far from gaza and was seemingly attacked by militants crossing from gaza into israel on saturday morning. And as i said, that number of at least 250 bodies found has not been independently verified by the bbc, but it is being reported relatively widely now from zaka, a Search And Rescue organisation. We are working ourselves to verify the details of exactly what did happen there. 0ur correspondent anna foster has the latest developments behind me, these Flashing Lights are where the road was closed off. This has been almost a staging post in the last few hours. We watched ambulances coming in and helicopters landing on the road. It looked like they were evacuating casualties out of these areas. It is very dark now. But the skies have been regularly lighting up in the last few hours, as there has been a regular barrage of missiles being fired out from gaza and when they come, you see these Points Of Light Shooting into the sky. You see the missile intercepted by israels iron dome system, which really catches most of these missiles coming in. But the sound when that happens, really sort of loud booms that you feel shaking all the way through your body and sometimes, people around here jump when that happens, even though people around here are used to it now. Also worth mentioning is the amount of Israeli Military and equipment and hardware moving into the area at the moment. A lot of tanks are coming into Southern Israel. We know that one of the priorities for the idf was securing these Southern Israeli communities after they were infiltrated by hamas militants who broke through the fence yesterday morning. The question is what they will do after they secure the area. You can see all the time whats going on. You can see probably flashes in the background. I can hear a plane going overhead. Sometimes, you get the sound of a drone as well, they are distinctively different. You can hear the plane shooting over, the drone is a sort of consistent whining sound. Again, you can hear the booms that are going on. Its been constant actually, lewis, for the last few hours. And it shows you that this conflict, as it is, but certainly the escalation that weve seen in the last 48 hours or so is really an early indication, i would say, of what is likely to happen in the next few days and potentially the next few weeks. And, anna, just talk us through roughly, if you can, just give us a sense of the geography of how far you are from gaza and other key points around you. Well, gaza is less than ten kilometres over here. So sometimes, when youre seeing those flashes that you will occasionally get on the horizon there, gaza is really close, and that is something that these Southern Israeli communities have been dealing with, living with for quite a long time. Because these missile attacks, which weare seeing an awful lot of yesterday and today, are a regular feature of life here. Certainly, when you go down the coast, were in ashkelon, but when you go down to sderot and you look out onto the gaza strip. These two areas really do rub shoulder to shoulder, and perhaps this is one of the reasons why hamas were able to carry out what was a Surprise Attack yesterday morning. The tension and the increasing tension is no surprise. But the way they were able to break through the fence, to infiltrate using paragliders and by sea, with very little warning certainly from the Israeli Security services that this was likely to happen. From the us as well, of course, which is one of israels big allies, nobody seemed to know that this large scale attack was about to happen. And questions, along with the shock that is happening here at the moment, a stunned community. There are also questions being asked about why intelligence did not pick up such a large, imminent attack. Looking ahead, are you getting any sense of what might happen through the night . Well, its difficult to know. We have been talking about this potential Israeli Ground incursion into gaza because that is something that is crucial, really. When we saw the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu talking in the hours after these attacks yesterday, he promised a substantial response from israel and that would certainly take the form of a ground operation. But of course, you have a lot of civilians, Palestinian Civilians in gaza, as well as hamas militants. And of course, that is a place, its very tightly packed. Its not a place where people can go out and escape. If youre palestinian, you live in gaza, israel controls the edge of the strip. So its difficult for people to move away from an operation that might be launched. Also, dont forget those hostages, the videos we saw on social media yesterday of hostages, of israeli hostages taken by hamas militants and taken potentially back into gaza. That will be something that is at play when the Israeli Defence forces are trying to decide how to respond to this next. If there are israeli civilians being held hostage in gaza and the belief is that is the case, perhaps as many as a hundred of them, but its enormously difficult to tell at this stage all of these things will have to be considered very carefully as israel plans its next move. Thanks to anna for that. The Un Security Council is meeting in new york now, behind closed doors. We will bring you the reaction to that meeting when we get any. But before that, we heard from the permanent representative of israel talking to the United Nations. The past days have been devastating for each and every israeli. Israels suffered an unprecedented attack and the number of casualties is catastrophic. Truly unfathomable. Over the past two days, following hamas� s Surprise Attack on israel, my country has suffered hundreds of fatalities. Yesterday, in the Early Morning of the Jewish Sabbath and on a jewish holiday savage Hamas Terrorists fired thousands of rockets into israel. But this was only the beginning. As rockets rained down indiscriminately upon israeli towns and cities, hundreds of Hamas Terrorists infiltrated israel and began a barbaric pogrom. A barbaric pogrom of unparalleled magnitude. Ruthless terrorists gunned down innocent israeli civilians in the streets, murdering anything that moved. As the Security Council prepares to meet today, israel has one sole demand hamas� s war crimes must be unequivocally condemned. This unimaginable atrocity must be condemned. Israel must be given steadfast support to defend ourselves, to defend the free world. Israel will not accept any false, false, immoral comparisons between a savage terror group that targets innocents and the Democratic State of israel, this is not the comparison that the un or the Security Council can do. There is no reconciling with genocidal terrorists. Israel will exact a heavy price on hamas, so that what we witnessed will never repeat itself. Also, the permanent observer of palestine to the United Nations gave his speech earlier. We know only too well that the messages about israels right to defend itself will be interpreted by israel as licence to kill. To pursue on the very path that led us here. 370, and the number is rising by the moment, of palestinians that have been killed already in one day, including children, some barely a few months old. Entire families were killed in their sleep. Will this bring security . Will this advance peace . Where is the International Protection the Palestinian People is entitled to when the occupying power violates International Law and harms those it is obliged to protect . Arent palestinians lives worth saving . The Palestinian Civilians killed, the palestinian children killed in occupied palestine could have been spared. Isnt that a moral and legal obligation and a contribution to peace . Why nothing is done when those killed are palestinians . We need to think hard of what logic we want to see prevail here. If this is about vengeance, then many palestinians will feel they have much to avenge. If this is about peace, then the way to it is not through further entrenching oppression and occupation, but by ending it. You cannot say nothing justifies Killing Israelis and then provide justification for killing palestinians. We are not sub humans. Those comments coming before the Un Security Council meeting. When it wraps up and we get some comments afterwards, we will be back in new york for that. Lets go live now to jerusalem. Can i start by asking what we know or dont know about these events with the Music Festival . Just getting reports in. Yes, in the last hour, that zaka organisation, which is a group of volunteers that recovers Human Remains from this kind of attack or natural disasters, they have been scouring the area near the gaza strip all day and they have reported in the last hour that they have recovered more than 250 bodies from the sight of that Music Festival. And bodies still remain there. So thatis and bodies still remain there. So that is a huge total of people who have been killed. But it wont come as a shock because we knowjust how bad that attack was and we have been hearing, your viewers have been hearing, your viewers have been Hearing Testimony from people who testified that the shooting carried on for hours. There were gunman approaching the revellers and festivalgoers on both sides and they chased them through the countryside and into the forests and back to their cars and established roadblocks. And we have seen pictures today of the remains of those Cars Burnt Out and shut up, and there were bodies lying in the streets in the surrounding area. So this is confirmation of what many had feared, that this had been a complete massacre of festivalgoers carried out by these militants who had infiltrated israel from gaza. Incredibly distressing details. What do we know about where we are this evening, any sense of what happens now one extra through the night . Look, i think this kind of detail just reinforces the shock that israel is in. You heard from the Security Council just israel is in. You heard from the Security Counciljust how determined israel is at the moment to exact retribution, revenge and to destroy it hamas militarily, whether that is possible or not is a different matter. But they are Gathering Forces as we speak of thousands upon thousands of troops are being sent down close to the gaza strip. We dont know when they will be in operation, but we have been left in no doubt by Military Leaders here and politicians that they intend to do something out of the ordinary in order to respond to this extraordinary attack on israel. And we have seen a ferocious bombardment continued throughout the day to day. More than 350 dead in gaza, the total in israel between 600 and 700, and that total may rise. But the big question now is what happens to the hostages . Israel has admitted and acknowledged there may be 100 hostages who have been taken from israel into the gaza strip, some of them are soldiers, but we know some of them are families. We have seen pictures of elderly people being taken across, of entire families including children and then being paraded on social media throughout the day. This is a National Trauma in israel and it will mean that politicians and Military Leaders