Where 260 people died. Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks fired on a group of 20 civilians. This is the scene live in gaza well bring you the very latest from both sides of the border. Hello. Welcome to bbc news. The conflict between israel and hamas has entered its fourth day. All indications seem to be that full size are preparing for a long and deadly struggle. This drone video shows the scale of destruction wreaked across the gaza strip over the past few days. Israels army claims to have hit a further 200 hamas targets in overnight bombing. Israel has ordered a total siege to cut off water and food and supplies to Gaza Prompting criticism from the un chief antonio guterres. And calls for a humanitarian corridor to be set up. Almost 190,000 people have been displaced and half a million are unable to get food rations. Meanwhile israel says it has secured control of its border fence with gaza and has recovered the bodies of 1500 hamas militants who were behind saturdays attacks. Rocket sirens continue to sound on Southern Israeli towns. Hamas has threatened to start killing israeli hostages of which there are thought to be more than 100 if israel performs more Civilian Houses without warning. The numbers killed on both sides continue to rise in the meantime. Around 900 people have died in israel since the Surprise Attack was launched on saturday. 770 people have so far died in gaza from israeli air strikes since the health ministry. And at least another 18 people have been killed and 100 injured in the west bank. Israeli air strikes have continued through the night in gaza. Israel says it struck around 2500 sites linked to hamas since the beginning of the missile strikes. This is the same live in gaza this tuesday morning. You can see in the background the plumes of smoke rising above the horizon. They have continued to rise throughout the morning. There have been several huge explosions that we have seen on the live feed and our correspondent who is in gaza has said he has never seen anything like this in his 20 years as a News Correspondent in the region. Our international Editorjeremy Bowen Is International editorjeremy bowen is in Southern Israel. He sent us this report on the violence and bloodshed happening on both sides of the border. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attacks has onlyjust begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups, undeterred, kept up their own barrage of israel. Rockets. 0ur bbc team was in ashkelon in Southern Israel, not far from the gaza border, when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to gaza that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more firepower the next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much bigger than other incursions since hamas took over in gaza in 2007. Lines of cars outside a Military Base on the road to gaza were parked by reservists as they reported for duty. Getting ready. Saying their goodbyes. Parents came to the base for a few minutes with their sons. Were praying and hope for the best. And its tough times now. And were telling him to try and concentrate on his mission. Without thinking too much about other friends that got injured or killed. Israels prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, broadcast to his nation. He said hamas has made a mistake of historic proportions. We will, he said, exact a price that will be remembered by them and israels other enemies for decades. And now israelis are waiting for their government and army to act. Sderot the israeli town closest to gaza littered with the debris of war, felt like the essence of israels trauma almost deserted, except for security forces. Hamas has rocketed sderot for years, but never before stormed in. At the centre of the hamas Killing Ground was the police station. They broke in and used it as a firebase to shoot civilians as well as soldiers. Blood from israels dead and wounded smears the walls. Even here, in what is always a Front Line Town for israelis, this was not supposed to happen. They expected their military, backed up by the intelligence services, to protect them. And the fact that that didnt happen means that recriminations about who might be responsible have already started. But at the same time, there is a strong sense of National Unity with the country under attack about what happens next. In the places that hamas attacked, Israeli Military as well as the few civilians left arejumpy, still shocked. A Ground Offensive didnt feel imminent. And in gaza, a few miles away, casualties come into the main hospital the first few hundred of many more. It will get worse. Palestinians and israelis once more caught on the anvil of war in a conflict a century old that is as deadly as its ever been. Jeremy bowen, bbc news. Lets bring you a line coming in from the eu. The Foreign PolicyChiefjosep Borrell has said he had invited the Israeli Foreign minister eli cohen tojoin invited the Israeli Foreign minister eli cohen to join the eu Foreign Ministers meeting to discuss the situation in israel and he has also invited the Palestinian Authority posing Foreign MinisterRiyad Al Maliki to address the meeting and present the views of the Palestinian Authority. That is coming into us from the european union. The eu trying to sort some discussion around the situation in israel with the Israeli Foreign minister and the Palestinian Authority puzzling Foreign Minister. Lets move live now and go to ashkelon, a few kilometres north of gaza and israel. It has been hit by a number of rockets from gaza and anna foster is there right now. What is the latest on what has been happening where you are . The on what has been happening where you are . ,. ,. , are . The Southern Israeli communities, are . The Southern Israeli communities, the are . The Southern Israeli communities, the once i are . The Southern Israeli | communities, the once so are . The Southern Israeli communities, the once so close to the perimeter to that fence around gaza have had the sort a few days i think too many of them would just be unimaginable. They are used here to living with missiles, again this morning there have been missiles, rockets, a lot of them home made but they come across from gaza and they land in these communities and cause huge issues for people who live here. 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