Strike hamas targets and we dont want civilian casualties. Want civilian casualties. We have uraed want civilian casualties. We have ura ed the want civilian casualties. We have urged the israelis want civilian casualties. We have urged the israelis use want civilian casualties. We have urged the israelis use every urged the israelis use every possible urged the israelis use every possible precaution urged the israelis use every possible precaution to urged the israelis use every| possible precaution to avoid urged the israelis use every possible precaution to avoid harm to civilians the israeli army has mounted the first raids into Northern Gaza to dismantle and disrupt hamass ability to fire rockets. But the bigger incursion is pending. Israel has given the palestinians 2a hours to evacuatei Million People from Northern Gaza before the expanded operation begins. One hospital al awda to the south of gaza city has been told tonight it has two hours to evacuate. The doctors are still treating the wounded. We will be live injerusalem with our International Editorjeremy bowen. And we will have the latest from our correspondent anna foster who is on the northern border with lebanon where concerns are growing that his brother might soon enter the war. Both sides have today exchanged fire, with a reuters cameraman killed in the confusion. Good evening. What would you take with you if you were told to evacuate your home in 2a hours, knowing that soon after, it may well will be demolished. 1. 1 million palestinians woke to that reality today. A leaflet drop from the skies, warned them, that for their own safety they should move immediately, south of the gaza river. By daylight there was a steady stream of traffic heading south on the road from khan younis, in defiance of a hamas order to stay and ignore the directive. The gaza strip is 25 miles long, and 6 miles across. There are two governorates that have been told to evacuate. North gaza, where you will find jabalia, the largest refugee camp in the strip. 115,000 people squeezed into half a square mile. It is one of the most densely populated places on earth. And then theres gaza city, home to 700,000 people. Today the un warned that the forced location of so many people would have devesting consequences. This order is affecting more than 1 million palestinians including children, olderand million palestinians including children, older and sick people forcing them to relocate with little or no transport and with scant guarantees for their safety. Amid continuing hostilities. The eckerd the Secretary General call for this to be ended and avoiding a calamitous situation. There are many people in gaza residents who fear this could be the start of another permanent Mass Displacement like the one they suffered in 19118, the naqba, the catastrophe, but that theory pre supposes that these lifelong refugees would be allowed into egypt. So far the Rafah Crossing Into the sinai remains closed, as the egyptians resist the international pressure. One of those trapped in the south is the mother in law, of Scottish First minister, hamza youssef. Elizabeth el nakla, is a retired nurse from dundee, visiting her husbands family around 10 miles south of gaza city. This will be my last video. Everybody from gaza is moving towards where we are. 1 Million People, no food, no water. And still they are bombing them as they leave. My they are bombing them as they leave. My thought is, all of these people in the hospital cannot be evacuated. Where is the humanity . Where our peoples hearts in the world to let this happen in this day and age . May god help us. Goodbye. In this happen in this day and age . May god help us. Goodbye. God help us. Goodbye. In the last hour we have god help us. Goodbye. In the last hour we have heard god help us. Goodbye. In the last hour we have heard from god help us. Goodbye. In the last. Hour we have heard from netanyahu who is reassuring his population, he said his countrys retaliation was only the beginning but he did not elaborate on what might follow or for how long. Irate elaborate on what might follow or for how long for how long. We have only ust started. Our i for how long. We have only ust started. Our enemies � for how long. We have only ust started. Our enemies have h for how long. We have onlyjust started. Our enemies have only started. 0ur enemies have only started started. 0ur enemies have only started paying the price and i will not go started paying the price and i will not go into further detail about what not go into further detail about what still not go into further detail about what still lies ahead. We have only ust what still lies ahead. We have only just started. In my talks with President Biden and other leaders around President Biden and other leaders around the world and resulting from any other around the world and resulting from any other efforts, we are mobilising for israel any other efforts, we are mobilising for israel air any other efforts, we are mobilising for israel air Raid International support for israel air Raid International support i for israel air Raid International support. I met today with the us secretary support. I met today with the us secretary of state, we guarantee the continuation of this work with more ammunition continuation of this work with more ammunition that arrives in israel and more ammunition that arrives in israel and more means of warfare. We will eliminate and more means of warfare. We will eliminate hamas and we will bring about eliminate hamas and we will bring about victory. It will take time, however. About victory. It will take time, however, we will end this war. Much stronger however, we will end this war. Much stronger than ever before. In spite of that order to evacuate there has been no let up in the israeli bombardment of gaza. Over 6,000 bombs have been dropped in just 6 days, with entire neighbourhoods demolished. Those living in israel also on edge. In tel aviv, the Air Raid Sirens sounded again, as more rockets were fired towards israel, and in the west bank, in lebanon and in eastjerusalem, palestinians came out in protest in response to hamas call for a day of rage. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen is there and sent us this update. To win a war, a country has to break the will of its enemy to fight. History suggests air strikes alone wont do that. Even ones as heavy as israels in gaza. So israel will have to send troops into the rubble if, as it says, it wants to destroy hamas. Telling civilians to get out is part of preparing the battlefield. Leaflets are non lethal airdrop but full of menace told more than a Million People to move south. It happened to our grandfather, said this man, now its happening to us. It raises the ghosts of the past. Many gazans trying to escape israels anger. A descendants of almost1 million palestinians who fled or were forced out of their homes at gunpoint in israels independence war in 19118. Palestinians call it the catastrophe. Hamas sent their answer more rockets and told people to stay put. In israel, lloyd austin, the us defense secretary, brought his israeli counterpart support and weapons. And another reminder not to break the laws of war. Terrorists like hamas deliberately target civilians. But democracies dont. This is a time for resolve and not revenge. Refrigerated containers hold bodies awaiting identification, some of more than 1,300 israelis and foreigners killed by hamas. But israel says hamas will feel its revenge, not civilians. Palestinians protested in the west bank. 11 had been shot dead by the israeli army by late afternoon. Almost all the violence between israelis and palestinians before last weeks hamas assault was in the west bank. It is very tense and could get much worse. Jerusalem was quiet, but not calm. 0nly older palestinians were allowed to pray at Al Aqsa Mosque by Israeli Security forces. The Mood Injerusalem was grim, full of foreboding. The holy city is at the epicenter of the conflict. Palestinians said they feared that israels anger at the hamas attack could be directed at them. It feels as if this crisis is going up a gear. Extreme pressure on civilians in gaza. Tension here in jerusalem. No one knows where this is going, but its certain this is a dangerous moment, the worst middle east crisis in a generation. Until last weekend, israel believed the long conflict with the palestinians could be contained. That illusion has gone. Jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. Jeremyjoins me now. Good to see you. The deadline i think is under two hours away now. One of the hospitals has been told to evacuate immediately. There are 300,000 reservists mobilised, the army on the border in the crouched position, ready to go, when do you think the order will come . I position, ready to go, when do you think the order will come . Think the order will come . I dont think the order will come . I dont think it is going think the order will come . I dont think it is going to think the order will come . I dont think it is going to come think the order will come . I dont think it is going to come in think the order will come . I dont think it is going to come in two i think it is going to come in two hours from now. There was a briefing, on the record briefing given this morning by the israeli army in that they said, yes, we except it may take longer than 2a hours. They did not say how much extra time they may be building in. Im not sure the israelis themselves are entirely ready in terms of the build up that they want. Armies have a lot to do to get all of their forces in a row to put on what is a very complex operation. I think there is intelligence things they need to sort out as well. They went to go after the leaders who are in gaza, of hamas. So i think they would very much like, perhaps to start their operation with some kind of a enormous strike that kills, i dont know, some secret Command Bunker or Something Like that. But i have no idea if they have managed to obtain that kind of information. If you look at everything that has happened. These instructions, its called advice, it is an extraction. Move south or else, to the civilians. The state of siege it has been put in, which they have even cut off the water. And all of the military activity going on, they are preparing the battlefield. They are going to do and offensive, no doubt about it. Is going to do and offensive, no doubt about it. ,. ,. ,. , about it. Is that the plan to make it as miserable about it. Is that the plan to make it as miserable and about it. Is that the plan to make it as miserable and bulimic about it. Is that the plan to make it as miserable and bulimic as it as miserable and bulimic as possible from Palestinian People to separate them from hamas, is that the aim of the Israeli Government . I the aim of the Israeli Government . I think putting pressure on palestinians, yes, it is definitely one way to try and put pressure on hamas, but the thing is an awful lot of palestinians are not behind hamas, anywhere. Hamas, all of the palestinian leaders from the two main factions, in the west bank running from jerusalem to parts of the west bank, i should say, they are governed by fatah but not in a very effective way, parts of the west bank, part of that and part of the occupied territories. And hamas are in gaza. To be honest, neither is beloved. Both have followers some very faithful but most palestinians over quite a few years now have become deeply cynical and depressed about their political prospects. The prospects for independence which is what people, a lot of them dreamt about. The prospects, in other words, forfreedom. I think there is a sense in which extremists have been able to function, have been able to thrive, and that kind of desperate atmosphere. There has been no Peace Process for an awfully long time. Not one ever. There was an attempt ten years ago by The Americans under the 0bama administration, a few president s ago to try and get the thing going again, but it failed. The question that everyone again, but it failed. The question that everyone blasts again, but it failed. The question that everyone blasts tomorrow. Again, but it failed. The question that everyone blasts tomorrow is again, but it failed. The question that everyone blasts tomorrow is how many of the people will have gone and i was asked that earlier and i was recounting a story from back in 2008 i was in gaza city sitting on a suitcase during this interview she started rooting in her suitcase and pulled out a key. This key was to the front door of the house that they had lost in 19118 when they were expeued they had lost in 19118 when they were expelled from their ancestral land. She said to me, this is the second time i have lost my home to the israelis. I think that will be in the minds of some people win in Northern Gaza, they might not be of hamas but they are part of the resistance and they will see the echoes in history. Resistance and they will see the echoes in history. What they know as the catastmphe echoes in history. What they know as the catastrophe the echoes in history. What they know as the catastrophe the great echoes in history. What they know as the catastrophe the great trauma echoes in history. What they know as | the catastrophe the great trauma and palestinian history it is when palestinian history it is when Palestinian Society that existed in those lands was splintered and dispersed. The area, for example around gaza with the israeli farms, complexes, towns and big for tile fields, they were palestinian villages there, palestinian farms, the town of ashkelon which is very much an israeli town had a different name and that sort of stuff. So yes, i think when people hear, palestinians here, the israeli saying, you have to get all of those ghosts come up again. They start to rise up out of history, frankly, history is never far away here. People are very conscious of what happened notjust in the immediate past but back in the time of their grandparents. Add to that, because of the extreme nature of the people who formed his war cabinet were sustained in the government in taking part in prominent positions of the government of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu there were people talking about a second marker one and the concept of transfer, ie expelling palestinians, is something which has been widely discussed in sinus thought almost from the outset nakba. Zionist. And with one small thing all of the history comes pouring out. That is one piece that you have displayed was the man in gaza saying, it happened to my grandfather and now it is happening to us. , grandfather and now it is happening to us. ,. ,. , to us. There was one other thing that happened to us. There was one other thing that happened today to us. There was one other thing that happened today which to us. There was one other thing| that happened today which made to us. There was one other thing that happened today which made me think of you you will of heard from the sad story from the reuters cameraman has been killed on the northern border we are seeing him here in the picture. Our sympathy to the team there on the border and who have suffered that. It brought back memories, of course, of what you suffer 20 years ago in a very similar position. It must have come back to you as well. Zf} similar position. It must have come back to you as well. Back to you as well. 20 years ago, more than back to you as well. 20 years ago, more than that, back to you as well. 20 years ago, more than that, is back to you as well. 20 years ago, more than that, is when back to you as well. 20 years ago, more than that, is when israelis i more than that, is when israelis were pulling out of south lebanon. I was working with lebanese cameraman and a lebanese driver and the israelis opened fire from across the border and killed him. Then they had a go at killing the cameraman and myself with a heavy machine gun, they did not succeed but he was killed. But yes, journalism and especially in war zones can be a very dangerousjob and especially in war zones can be a very dangerous job and sometimes journalists are targeted and sometimes they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yes, its. What can i say. I am full of sympathy for that family because i remember and will never forget that funeral and going back to beirut the day after he was killed and going up to explain to his wife exactly how he died. That was a pretty bad day. It is a reminder on how much we depend on these first eyewitness accounts from reporters in times like this, but it is a very dangerousjob and we like this, but it is a very dangerous job and we are grateful to all. Thank you very much for coming onto the programme. Dr sanam vakil she is the director of the middle East North Africa programme at chatham house, a think tank here in the uk. Thank you for your patience, i know you have been standing by. I was listening tojeremy you have been standing by. I was listening to jeremy there, its extraordinary this story in the middle east was not really in the headlines a week ago, the National Security adviser at the white house was telling us that the middle east was telling us that the middle east was taking less and less of his time. Oh begone, we are on the brink of what . fin time. Oh begone, we are on the brink of what . , ~. , of what . On the brink of disaster. That is where of what . On the brink of disaster. That is where we of what . On the brink of disaster. That is where we are. Of what . On the brink of disaster. That is where we are. This of what . On the brink of disaster. That is where we are. This speaks j of what . On the brink of disaster. I that is where we are. 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