Hello, im ben thompson. Israels military says its forces are deployed across the country and are ready for the next stage of the war, which is expected to have significant ground operations. A spokesman said the coming phase could include, what he called, Combined And Co Ordinated strikes from the air, sea and land. The goal, he said, was to completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas. Its a week since 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. Israel has warned the 1. 1 million civilians in gazas north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. The Military Spokesperson said they should not return until israel said they could do so. The authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. On saturday, israels Prime Minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for 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 Salah Al Din Road has become a lifeline for people flowing south, a humanitarian corridor labelled safe. Not always. A strike here yesterday killed at least 12 people. The bbc has verified the location and identified women and children under five among the dead. Israel says its investigating. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the troops gathered at gazas borders 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. Ali qadi 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 be� eri. Gunmen arrived there last saturday, caught on a Security Camera relaxed, unhurried and well prepa red. They brought everything they needed to kill and kidnap large numbers of people grenades, gaffertape, plastic cable ties. Three members of the gat 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. Be� eri 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 effort, i dont know the intelligence, i dont know anything. They dont tell us anything. They dont tell us afterwards. Nobody calls me to say there is negotiation for them. Frankly, nobody really knows if they are taken or not. Youre angry about that . I am very angry. There is not even a place for sad, to be 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. Live now tojerusalem and our middle east correspondent tom bateman. Weve heard statements from the israeli side making it very clear that this war is about to move to a new, significant phase . New, significant phase . Yeah, a statement new, significant phase . Yeah, a statement from new, significant phase . Yeah, a statement from the new, significant phase . Yeah, a statement from the israeli new, significant phase . Yeah, a i statement from the Israeli Military in the last couple of hours. Quite a lot of detail in there and i think the biggest detail weve had yet about its preparations for the coming Ground Assault but it doesnt really give a sense of the timing, actually. I think its more about the scale of the operation, making clear the logistics that are involved and might sense is that the preparation is still going on but theyre talking about this being an offensive by land, sea and air and that they need the assets in place to do that and theyre talking about the supply lines needed once troops go in to keep supplying the front. They talk about massive mobilisation of reservists thats taking place in order to be able to achieve that. About 360,000 people, the biggest call up in israeli history, since the Yom Kippur War 50 years ago. So this is very much about the size of the operation. Then we saw Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the troops. He was wearing a flakjacket. He basically said to them, are you ready . He said that they should be prepared for what was coming next. So clearly, and this is a moment on saturday night when israel emerges from the shabbat, the day of rest, when people start watching the news again, particularly observantjews who have their phones and tvs turned off for 2h hours. There was a bit of an information blitz about what was being done. Benjamin netanyahu trying to project a sense that this thing is coming. We still dont know when. ,. , thing is coming. We still dont know when. ,. ,. ,. ,. ,. , when. Yes and there is also a lot of di lomatic when. Yes and there is also a lot of diplomatic activity when. Yes and there is also a lot of diplomatic activity designed when. Yes and there is also a lot of diplomatic activity designed to when. Yes and there is also a lot of| diplomatic activity designed to calm things in the north of israel and particularly on the west bank. Explain whats been going on there today. Explain whats been going on there toda. ~ ~. , explain whats been going on there toda. ~ explain whats been going on there toda. ~ �. ,� ~ , today. Well, Antony Blinken, the us secretary of today. Well, Antony Blinken, the us secretary of state, today. Well, Antony Blinken, the us secretary of state, was today. Well, Antony Blinken, the us secretary of state, was in today. Well, Antony Blinken, the us secretary of state, was in israel secretary of state, was in israel earlier in the week and he was in jordan after that, meeting jordanian and palestinian leader, mahmoud bass and palestinian leader, mahmoud bass and then he went to the gulf states, the leaders of qatar yesterday and today. Qatar is a very important country because historically it has mediated between israel and hamas. Leading figures of hamas live in qatar. Then he went to saudi arabia today, so important meetings with the Saudi Foreign minister. I think one of the things the americans are trying to get parts of the arab and muslim world to do is to be more clear and forthright in their condemnation of the attacks by hamas. Mr lincoln going to cdl these, head off that the saudis put out a strong state condemning israeli actions in gaza which isnt the kind of statement Antony Blinken was looking for. The other key thing about meeting the saudis is a warming of the ties between saudi arabia and iran, its archrival in the middle east. There was a very rare phone call recently between mohammed bin salman, the saudi leader, the crown prince, and the iranians president mr raisi. That doesnt happen very often. 0ne iranians president mr raisi. That doesnt happen very often. One thing the americans want to gather is what kind of messages were going on, what were the iranians saying . Hezbollah is funded and backed by the iranians and they will tell them whether to dial down or dial up any activity against israel so that is a key relationship, to between the israelis and the saudis. It is complicated in the middle east. Thats why Antony Blinken is going around these capitals trying to work out where things stand, to try and avoid a wider conflagration, to try and stop this spilling out further into the region. Qm. And stop this spilling out further into the region. Into the region. Ok, thanks very much. The United Nations says nearly a million palestinians thats nearly half the population have left 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 injon donnison� s report now distressing. 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 . , hanan 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 mahmood, a father of four. He says theres 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 at all these kids. Ask them, o 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. Many thousands are still on the move. 0ur Correspondent, rushdi abualouf, has moved from the north of gaza to khan younis in the south. He spoke to us a short while ago. I had to take the journey from gaza to the Southern City of khan yunis, after the israeli army asked all the People Living in gaza city, where i used to live, and in the north, to go south. Im in khan yunis since yesterday and ive seen the eyewitness, its really tragic. People are sleeping in the public spaces. Hundreds of thousands of people are deployed to the schools. Im in the main hospital in khan yunis. Also hundreds of people are taking the hospital as a refugee. Suddenly this city has to accommodate and feed 500,000 people displaced from their northern and middle area, gaza city. As the hamas officially say 400,000 people took this Journey Yesterday And Today from khan yunis along Salah Al Din Road, then to khan yunis. More than a Million People and this city and people, the local authority are struggling to find accommodation for the people, to find essential need. Water is running out. In the hospital here, medicine is running out. They are trying to manage very little fuel, doctors told me, are left to run the generators and very small amount of life saving kits that they have, since israel is closing all the border. Egypt until now said we cant guarantee that if you send the aid in that israel will allow it. Khan yunis is the second largest city with about 4000 people already living there and suddenly this small city had to accommodate another 600,000 people. They were struggling even before. The city was struggling because its part of the israeli blockade imposed from last saturday. After one week, without water, without electricity and without internet, this city was already exhausted by their own people and now they have to take care of about 600,000 people, over a Million People. Some of them are in the courtyard of the local 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 and i had to take the hospital as a shelter. The bbc has confirmed that Young Children were among those killed in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving Northern Gaza on friday along a route designated by israel. The Palestinian HealthMinistry Says 70 people died the Israeli Military says its investigating what happened. 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. Theyre 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. Very graphic imagery, very disturbing but it is important to help us understand what is going on and to communicate it to our audience. Being able to verify this footage in active Conflict Areas helps us understand these major developments and weed out disinformation of which there is been an absolute flood over the last week. We tend to use Satellite Imagery and other online resources to try and get a sense of where and when an incident took place based on the footage that we are looking at. In this particular incidence, we thought there was likely to be this Salah Al Din Road which is a major Road Running North to south, through gaza and was one ofjust two Evacuation Routes for civilians leaving the north and heading down to the south, presumably to safety. Its a 45 kilometre road, so we scanned the route, starting from the north where they would have left from and tried to match details that we saw from this Satellite Imagery with those we saw in the video. In this case the layout of several buildings, some Road Markings and a sign helped us to pin down the location and we even used online tools to analyse the angle of the sun, the length of the shadows, to get an idea of when this incident took place or at least when the footage was shot and it looked around 5 30pm yesterday local time. Yeah and thats the key thing, isnt it . Its about a painstaking process to match so many different elements to getting a clearer picture and youre able to say with some confidence that is exactly what it shows. You touched on it paul at the beginning, this is a war being played out on social media too and theres a lot of disinformation out there. People can be overwhelmed with videos, with statements and pictures and its about breaking through some of the disinformation and working out exactly whats going on and thats what your team are doing. Exactly, thats what were here for. Increasingly theres footage that comes out that will be misattributed, it will be old footage thats being presented as new footage. It clouds the whole picture of whats going on and that doesnt help anyone when it comes to real world consequences, particularly dangerous in situations like this when people are fleeing their homes, trying to find safety. If theyre not well informed and the people they are speaking to arent well informed, this can be dangerous. Thats the point, isnt it . This isnt just about telling the rest of the world going on. Its also a valuable source for the people caught up in the conflict. Also interesting too the way that all players in this conflict are using social media to get their message out. Just tonight, we know the israeli Prime Minister putting his statement out, talking to the troops on the border and saying we are ready for the next stage and we can see that video here. Using social media as a direct way to address people. Yeah. The narratives, counterclaims, all of that is played out on social media on various channels. Its quite confusing at times, trying to figure out whats going on and thats why we dedicate ourselves to this work and have a whole team working on this around the clock. Weve been flat out on this particular conflict for the last seven days, trying to figure out whats been happening and where its happening. The chaos of last saturday, when the attacks began, we were quickly able to ascertain where the breaches in the border fence had taken place, where attacks on civilians were taking place and that really helps us to build a picture of whats going on in real time, almost. To really give an understanding of the scale of this kind of attack. Yeah and people will be fascinated by how you are able to do thatjob given that, you know, a lot of the footage may be grainy or rushed, especially when you reference the events of last saturday. You know, its not always very clear whats going on or indeed the footage itself isnt always very clear and you cant always hear the people talking for example in the videos. Whats the hardest bit to get right . Thats a good question. The hardest would be, exactly as you say, when we are dealing with grainy footage w