Of gaza, he has utilised all of the tools of his government to conduct this attack, he has failed the people of gaza miserably, and we are going to destroy him and his capabilities. Hello, im ben thompson. Children are among those who killed in gaza in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles carrying people from the north of the territory yesterday. Along a route designated by the israelis. The Palestinian HealthMinistry Says 70 people died the Israeli Military says its investigating what happened. A week ago today, hamas, classed as a Terrorist Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, killed more than 1,300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. Israeli commanders are thought to be preparing a Ground Offensive in gaza. The Defence Force says the next phase could include � combined and co ordinated strikes by land, sea and air. Theyve warned the 1. 1 million civilians in the north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. The authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. Today, israels Prime Minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for what he called The Next Stage. 0ur CorrespondentLucy Williamson has the latest. Every day, hamas sends rockets into israel, and waits for israels response. After last weekends attack, israel says these air strikes are just the beginning, and that People Living in the north of gaza should leave now. Gazas main road has become a lifeline for people flowing south, a humanitarian corridor labelled safe. Not always. A strike here yesterday killed at least 12. The bbc has verified the location identified women and children under five are among the dead. Israel says it is investigating. Israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu visited the troops gathered at gazas border today. The next stage is coming, he told them. Are you ready . The israeli army has been pounding gaza from here across the border and also from the air. Israel says it doesnt deliberately target civilians, and that this is directed at the people who do. Today, israel said it had killed the organiser of last weekends attack. He was released from an israeli jail more than a decade ago in a Prisoner Exchange deal with hamas. Israel says it was he who planned the attacks on communities like this. Gunmen arrived there last saturday, caught on a security camera, relaxed, unhurried and well prepared. They brought everything they needed to kill and kidnap large numbers of people. Grenades, gaffertape, plastic cable ties. Three members of one family are still missing among them, carmel and her sister in law. Their family home shattered. It looks like indiscriminate violence, but it wasnt. This was a targeted attack. Some of the people who lived here are now thought to be just a few miles away inside gaza, a different world. This community has lived for years with occasional rockets or infiltrations, but destruction like this signals a different kind of vulnerability, and the build up of Israeli Forces here a different kind of response. But what will that response mean for hostages inside gaza . I dont know the intelligence, they dont tell us anything. They dont tell us. Nobody calls me to tell me there is negotiation for them. Frankly, nobody knows if they are taken. You are angry . I am very angry. There is not even a place for being sad for me. Israels soldiers are now massing at gazas borders, their weapons pointing towards both hamas and their hostages. For the army that failed to protect its people at home, how much harder will it be to protect them there . Lucy williamson, bbc news, southern israel. The United Nations says nearly a million palestinians have fled their homes in the gaza strip in the week since israel launched its Military Response to the wave of killings by hamas. The entire enclave is being hit by israeli missiles from gaza city in the north to rafah in the south, at the border with egypt. You may find some of the images in jon donnison� s report now upsetting. Outside the main hospital in rafah, ice cream trucks. The morgue is full. Some of the dead have been here for two days, says this man. These freezers are meant for food, not bodies, he goes on. And this is right in the south of gaza, where people are now being told to go. Hundreds of thousands are now heading in this direction. The question is, where do they go . The nearby United Nations school is packed with those seeking shelter. But it was already at full capacity before this latest evacuation order. As palestinians, what did we do for this to happen to us . , she asks. She tells us she ran out of the house barefoot with nothing when israel bombed her neighbourhood and came straight to the school. At noon today, many were praying, one would think for better times. I dont want to live here, says mahmmood, a father of four. He says there is not enough food or clothing, he just wants to go home. Many of those here are children, still smiling despite it all. Around half gazas population is under 18, and some are old beyond their years. Ramez is just 15. This is his fifth war. I can barely stand it, he says. And look around you, all these kids, ask them, do you want to live or not . We just want to be secure, he goes on. 0ur dream is to live, thats all we want. Jon donnison, bbc news. 0ur Correspondent, rushdi abualouf, has moved from the north of gaza to khan younis in the south. My colleague Matthew Amroliwala spoke to him a short while ago. I had to take the journey from gaza into Southern City of khan yunis after the israeli army ask all the people live in gaza city where i used to live, and in the north to go south. I am in khan yunis since yesterday. And the scene, the scene that i witnessed is really tragic. People are sleeping in the public spaces. Hundreds of thousands of people are deployed to the schools. Im in the hospital, the main hospital in khan yunis. Also, hundreds of people are taking the hospital as a refugee. Suddenly, this city has to accommodate, treat, and feed half a Million People displaced from their a northern and middle area, gaza city. And as the hamas officially said, about 400,000 people took this Journey Yesterday And Today from khan yunis along salahadin road, then to khan yunis. More than a Million People in this city and people, the local authority here is struggling to find accommodation for the people, to find a essential needs. Water is running out in the hospital here. Medicine is running out. They are trying to manage very little fuel, doctors told me, they are left to run the generators and very small amount of Life Saving Kits that they have since israel is closing all the border. And egypt until now said we cant guarantee that if we send the aid in, israel will not allow it. Two things, because you touched on one of them, which is just describe for me what infrastructure, if any, is there to take that influx of people and describe it a little more . Was there panic amongst the people who were trying to move at such short notice when you started yourjourney . Yeah, when i started myjourney, i had to take my family and then i found people in trucks, people using cars, even people walking on on foot for like, you know, 5 to 6 kilometres. When i approach Salah Al Din Road road, i saw like hundreds of cars, motorcycles. I saw people walking cows, camels, sheeps. Its a chaotic scene. Its a scene that i never saw before. Its a convoy that is about ten kilometre long, very chaotic place. And then it took me to drive about ten kilometres, about 3 hours. In a normal time, it takes 15 minutes. And you talk about you, your Family Moving and of course, so many people like you in the conversations youve had. Do people think ultimately they will get back to their homes . They hope, you know. This is the second largest city with about 4,000 people already living there. And suddenly this small city found like, you know, the authority here had to accommodate another 600,000 people and they were struggling even before this move. The city was struggling because its part of the israeli blockade imposed last saturday. So, after one week, without water, without electricity and without internet, this city was already exhausted by helping their own people. And now they have to take care of about 6,000 people, over a Million People. There are some of them. They sleep in the courtyard of the hospital. I did ask someone who told me that back in 2014 his house was destroyed and he somehow managed to rebuild it. And he said, this time my house was destroyed again. I had to take the hospital as a shelter. 0ur correspondence talking about having to make thatjourney. More now on that air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving Northern Gaza along a route designated by israel. Children were among the dead. Our team at bbc verify analysed two videos of the strike on the vehicles heading towards southern gaza. Both videos have been verified, these first images show a Lorry Carrying at least 30 civilians, moving south. And these are still images taken from a subsequent video from the aftermath of the strike. They are too graphic to show in detail. The video shows men running to a lorry, part of the same convoy, trying to help those whove been hit. There are at least 12 visible dead bodies in the video. Paul brown from the bbc verify team has been investigating the authenticity of the gaza convoy pictures, spoke to Matthew Amroliawala about how they verify video such as this. We have the ability to verify this stuff in active conflict zones. It is a really important way to understand major developments and weed out disinformation of which there has been a flood over the last week. We use Satellite Imagery and other online resources to try to get a sense of where and when things have happened. In this instance, we knew this was likely to have taken place on this road, a major Road Running North to south in gaza. It is one of two evacuation routes. It is 45km road, we used Satellite Imaging to scan through it, starting from the north where the convoy had probably left from, trying to find details that matched the graphic videos that were circulating online. In this case, we found road markings, a sign that helped us to pin down the location. We can even use online tools helping us to work out the angle of the sunlight, the shadows, giving us an accurate reading as to what kind of time of day it would have been. We found it was around 5 30pm local time yesterday. What were you able to ascertain about who might have been responsible . On that. We are unable to say. We only have footage of the aftermath. There have been claims and counter claims about who was responsible. We were able to see, in the footage at least 12 dead bodies, several cars that were on fire, probably with victims still inside them, and a scene of carnage. More broadly, give me an idea of the insights that this kind of work has provided through the course of this week. The team at bbc verify has been flat out on this all week, we have been able to ascertain it quite a lot. In the chaos of the attacks as they happened last saturday, we were able to identify key locations and flashpoints, identify where breaches in the fence were, by attacks on civilians were taking place. We worked on a few Major Projects with other colleagues at the bbc this week. One was identifying a timeline about when the attack at the rave that took place beside the gaza border. And more recently, yesterday, we had an online piece looking at the converts how things played out there. We had footage showing the militants arriving. We were able to geo locate that to the North Eastern corner of the kibbutz. And then, we had footage seeming to show hostages being taken away into another area. Using the kind of information we can build up a timeline about the things that were going on. 0urteam our team looking into the videos are circulating online, trying to establish what we know and making sure that the video is what it purports to be. Let us get the latest now from jerusalem. 0ur Correspondent tom bateman sf. It has been a day of significant events. I wanted grab what we had from the idf tonight, talking about it was � s military plans. They say it will be a combined coordinated strike from air, sea, and land. It very much feels like that is imminent, now. They say that this will be a comprehensive offensive, i do not think that there was ever any doubt about that given the scale of the forces we have seen being amassed over the previous days around the gaza perimeter. The state were going into some detail about, as you say, how this would involve assets that they have in place over land, sea, and air. They talk about, in quite a lot of detail, the logistics operation. Basically, getting kits, ammunition, weaponry to the soldiers on the front line. They say that thatis on the front line. They say that that is basically done, as far as they are concerned, but they still need to get some more to the troops. I read this as them saying that they have most of their plans ready. Now, i think that we were seeing signs of that, but, it does not fundamentally answer the question about timing. At the same moment, we have also had the same moment, we have also had the Israeli Military challenging, when they had the 24 hour deadline yesterday, for 1. 1 Million People to head south of the gaza strip into the southern part. And then, another window today, six hour window until 4pm local time when they said to rhodes would be left in safety for the people leaving their homes. They said that to rhodes would be left in safety. They said that they understood the issues with that and said that there were some expand ability around the time frame. The signals are not entirely clear, but i think that it is becoming increasingly obvious that it is a matter of either hours or days until the Ground Offensive begins. Yes. The Ground Offensive begins. Yes, and uuite the Ground Offensive begins. Yes, and quite clearly, the Ground Offensive begins. Yes, and quite clearly, as the Ground Offensive begins. Yes, and quite clearly, as well, the Ground Offensive begins. Yes, and quite clearly, as well, we have had that video issued by the israeli Prime Minister on twitter or on x, talking about the meeting with soldiers on the front line with gaza, saying are you ready for The Next Stage . The next stage is coming. In that statement, we know that the reservists pulled up, it feels like the pieces are moving into place. Feels like the pieces are moving into place feels like the pieces are moving into lace. , ~ , ,. , into place. 360,000 reservists have been called into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up since into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up since last into place. 360,000 reservists have been called up since last weekend, l been called up since last weekend, and since the attacks took place, it has been a huge mobilisation. The statement also talks about the potential need to expand operations geographically. Remember, the Northern Boundary between israel and lebanon is another area where we have seen a week of dangerous skirmishing. Fatalities on both sides and the continuing fear that a flare up affair could lead to a much, much wider conflagration. The line there is one of the most volatile, and potentially most explosive, boundaries and the middle east. And so, if the Military Activity also stepped up there, we would see a very quick spread of this conflict, i think. And the state are trying to allude to that in times of talking about the potential need to expand the theatre of operations. Do not forget, also, the west bank has been on fire this week with continuing clashes between Israeli Forces and palestinians, at least, many palestinian deaths last week. Far higher numbers than we would see in normal times. There is always a fear about what could happen injerusalem which lies at the heart of this conflict. As the idf, the Israeli Defense forces, as they ready themselves for this ground invasion, these fears will only be increased about this thing spreading. Only be increased about this thing sreadina. ,. ,. ,. , ~ , spreading. Tom, for now, thank you that male spreading. Tom, for now, thank you that update. Tom spreading. Tom, for now, thank you that update. Tom bateman spreading. Tom, for now, thank you that update. Tom bateman joining l spreading. Tom, for now, thank you | that update. Tom batemanjoining us live from jerusalem. In lebanon, a journalist from the Reuters News Agency has been killed. The funeral for Issam Abdallah was held in al khiyam. The reuters videographer is the first civilian to have died in lebanon. Mr abdallah was covering clashes between Israeli Forces and lebanons militant