Your headlines with. Tamsin pep. Thank you and good afternoon from the newsroom. At 12 01, its trail has dropped leaflets in gaza warning residents to move for their own safety and to distance themselves from Hamas Terrorists who they say are using civilians as human shields. 1. 1 million residents have been told to move to the south within the next 24 hours for their own safety. The united nafions their own safety. The United Nations says such a move is impossible without devastating humanitarian consequences. The humanitarian consequences. The first minister of scotland and humza yousaf has posted a video on social media today from his mother in law. A retired nurse whos in gaza. Everybody from whos in gaza. Everybody from gazais whos in gaza. Everybody from gaza is moving towards where we are. Are. 1 Million People, no food , no 1 Million People, no food, no water, and still theyre bombing them as they leave. Where are we them as they leave. Where are we going to put them . But my going to put them . But my thought is all these people in the hospital cannot be evacuated. Wheres humanity . Wheres. Wheres humanity . Wheres peoples hearts in the world to let this happen . In this day and let this happen . In this day and age. And may god help us. Age. And may god help us. Meanwhile, the Israel Defence forces continue to amass tanks and soldiers near the gaza strip border with a Ground Invasion. Looking increasingly likely. Tension is also building in israels northern border with lebanon, with idf troops bracing for the militant Group Hezbollah to open up a second front in the war. The us secretary of state has met the palestinian president this morning in jordan. Anthony blinken is touring middle Eastern Countries trying to stop the israel hamas war spilling over into neighbouring countries. The meeting comes after Mahmoud Abbas condemned violence against civilians last night after having previously failed to do so. Palestinian state media reports that he told the secretary of state he rejects the force, displacing of palestinians in gaza. The some palestinians in gaza. The some north london jewish schools are closing today over concern for the childrens safety amid the israel hamas war. Its reported that three jewish schools in north london told parents they would not reopen until monday. Meanwhile, number 10 has announced an additional £3 million of funding to go towards providing extra security for the uks jewish population. It comes uks jewish population. It comes as the Jewish Security charity cst recorded a 400 increase in anti semitic incidents since the outbreak of conflict in israel. Outbreak of conflict in israel. To other news now. Nigel farage has been re banked for personal and business accounts. Lloyds has accepted the gb news presenter after ten other banks rejected him. Mr farage was involved in a public row with natwest in july after the group closed his Bank Accounts due to his political views, he says hes pleased to see one high Street Lender isnt politically prejudiced. A teacher has been prejudiced. A teacher has been killed and two others injured in a knife attack in france. The attack happened at a high school in the city of arras in the north of the country. Local media reported the attacker shouting, allahu akbar , and its shouting, allahu akbar, and its understood the suspect was on a security watch list in connection with radical islam, though its not been independently verified. Frances independently verified. Frances Anti Terrorism office say they are now investigating. The eu is are now investigating. The eu is investigating the social media platform x, formerly known as twitter. After disinformation was spread in the wake of the hamas terror attacks. In a letter sent to the platforms owner, elon musk, the European Commission said they were indications that x is being used to disseminate illegal content despite being flagged by authorities. Elon musk says the commission should list its examples publicly, even after various media reports of questionable content. The investigation is the first under the eus new tech rules on harmful content. The prime harmful content. The Prime Minister is in sweden today meeting with Northern European allies as leaders were expected to focus on the threat from russia. But the gathering has been overshadowed by the conflict between israel and gaza. Rishi sunak reminded the summit. They are the first line of defence across much of the region. Region. Ukrainian president zelenskyy also addressed the joint expeditionary conference in a post on social media. He called for a full scale defence from three nations against russia to hamas or other terrorist. This hamas or other terrorist. This is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker. By saying play gb news now its back to markham. Pip tomson. Back to markham. Pip tomson. Thank you and welcome back to the live desk with israel now warning at least 1. 1 million gazans to leave the north of the strip within 24 hours. These leaflets dropped into gaza city to tell civilians to evacuate immediately while theyve been told that for their own safety. On those leaflets , they should on those leaflets, they should head south to the wadi gaza and achieve some kind of safety in the south. Israel, meanwhile , the south. Israel, meanwhile, massing troops and armour on the border ahead of any anticipated ground offensive. But you can see from these latest pictures were getting that people are taking warnings seriously. Taking the warnings seriously. But hamas has told residents to ignore the warning and not leave their homes. Charities on leave their homes. Charities on the ground say that israels evacuation request is impossible while the un says Mass Relocation cannot be done without devastating consequences i liz, lets get the very latest now with our reporter charlie peters, who can update us in tel aviv and charlie, while the focus is on the civilian population and the humanity consequences, yet more reports of rockets being fired from gaza towards ashkelon in the south of israel this morning. Thats right. In the last hour, we had 150 rockets reported sending up from gaza to ashkelon. Ashkelon has gaza to ashkelon. Ashkelon has been the scene of many rocket barrages since saturday. On saturday, hamas fired 4500 rockets into israeli territory after it launched those attacks out of the gaza border east into southern israel. The number has dropped now. The idf claim to dropped now. The idf claim to 200 to 400 a day as they seek to sustain a long term Bombing Campaign and turn this war into something that doesnt last a week but stretches into the months the idf may fear. And so as the barrages come out from gaza, we do see the idf now seeking with their air forces to strike back and hit more hamas military capabilities and also at the same time, that convoy gathering at the east of gaza and all around the border in order to prepare for that likely ground incursion before they can move in and heavy armour and infantry can go into one of the most densely populated parts of the world, more shaping and more softening by artillery and airstrikes needs to happen. And so this warning has gone in a warning that its been called impossible by charities on the ground, partly because there are just two main supply routes out of north gaza into the south, both of those routes are likely to have been damaged somewhat by the heavy bombards that we have seen by the Israeli Air Forces in the last six days. The hit over 750 targets last night. And over 750 targets last night. And at the same time, of course, people are taking shelter in the north of gaza. At least 1. 1 north of gaza. At least 1. 1 Million People, many of them in hospitals, many of them in schools. The safest place to be schools. The safest place to be dunng schools. The safest place to be during this period of heavy conflict. Can they get to the conflict. Can they get to the south . We will see. But already reports have shown that many people are taking it upon themselves as regardless of what hamas, the un or the idf are saying. And they are trying to extract from the north of the gaza strip. Gaza strip. Charlie, we know that the us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is or is now embarking on that. What you might say final round of diplomatic talks, if like. He has met today. If you like. He has met today. Hes on his way to qatar now, but he has met with the palestinian president who has told him the palestinian president that they reject the forced displacement of palestinians in gaza. The yes, palestinians in gaza. The yes, but of course, the Israeli Military at the same time is trying to expel and reject the force of what it describes as hamas military capabilities. Hamas military capabilities. It seems more and more likely that any diplomatic efforts, including International Support from the us , are unlikely to from the us, are unlikely to succeed in this situation. I think we can see this mornings demand for over a Million People to flee from the north of gaza as a very clear understanding of where this war is going next. It will mean more severe and heavy bombardments into the gaza strip and it would also allow, i think, the idf to use more complex and more severe munitions. We do know that munitions. We do know that advanced munitions were delivered to the israelis by the us on tuesday night. And we also know that in the past the idf has deployed so called bunker buster rounds into the gaza strip in order to decimate those tunnels and shelters and bunkers that hamas militants use underground the gaza strip to both prepare their rockets , hide both prepare their rockets, hide their fighters, and potentially also keep hostages. Also keep hostages. Yeah, now youve got a very busy scene behind you there , busy scene behind you there, charlie. Just explain for us whats happening with obviously at the moment, the defence minister, yoav galant, saying now is a time for war. And clearly the whole country is mobilising in one way or another i thats right. The army here, they have activated over 360,000 reservists, half a million soldiers need to be kitted out to defend the country on all fronts and they also need to prepare that invading force for that likely ground incursion into the gaza strip. But the whole nation is on a war footing here. Yesterday day, we were at a Convention Centre where suppues a Convention Centre where supplies were being gathered to send to civilians and soldiers alike. Where i am today, this is alike. Where i am today, this is a restaurant. Last week it was taking hundreds of covers a night. Now its being transformed into a kitchen to feed an army. They are sending out 30,000 meals a day to feed soldiers here across israel, especially those in the Northern Areas, which are predominantly reservists. The army is struggling to supply its troops. Thats partly why this invasion is taking more time to start. They need to soften the ground with more artillery , but they with more artillery, but they also need to get the right equipment and logistical suppues equipment and logistical supplies to their troops. You cant just generate half a million forces overnight, but it is going to take more time. But i do think that bombardment over which is going to come, of course, more severely into the gaza strip after this warning, is a clear indicator that this invasion is now almost certainly coming in the next few days. Charlie, in tel aviv, thank you very much for updating us there on the ground. More, of course, from you throughout the afternoon. Joining us now to discuss this, to analyse it is the former head of Counter Terrorism at the mod, Major General chip chapman. Chip, lets just start chapman. Chip, lets just start with with the warning that that israel has issued. Why do you think they issued this warning at this time . Is it because that massive ground offensive is imminent , or massive ground offensive is imminent, or could it also be because of the diplomacy that Anthony Blinken, the us secretary of state, has tried to bnng secretary of state, has tried to bring to this situation . Bring to this situation . Well, the first thing is weve still got precursor operations going on that is that the israelis seek to destroy the rocket launchers and the logistic bases for those rocket launches. And thats why i think youll see those diminishing over the next few days. Indeed, that was next few days. Indeed, that was they used that sort of in 2021. Operation guardians of the walls. They used geo intelligence linked to Machine Learning and supercomputing to satellite swarms, take out those targets in real time. So youve still got those operations going on and securing the home base thatis on and securing the home base that is the area on their side of the border. Before you get to of the border. Before you get to the strike operation around gaza city. And the reason theyve city. And the reason theyve issued the warning is because the israelis do seek to try and work in an ethical context. That is, that theyre targeting should follow the rules of war to be proportionate and necessary and to have distinction that you dont want to go after civilian targets. To go after civilian targets. They wont go after hospitals for example. They want to go after military targets. And after military targets. And unfortunately, of course, some of the military targets of hamas are amongst the civilian infrastructure. So it makes sense from an israeli perspective to do this. They also use other techniques like using social media, whatsapp and texting to tell people to go away. But the israeli concept for victory, which came out in a 2020 paper, does say that they have to be wary of legal and psychological snares and hamas saying that people should stay. There is one of those legal and psychological snares that they that they they face because ultimately this is about colliding narratives who seem to be good, who seem to be bad and bad, bad , bad pictures of bad, bad, bad pictures of civilian bodies doesnt look goodin civilian bodies doesnt look good in anyones so do you share the analysis of sir alex younger, former head of sis secret Intelligence Service, that hamas has laid a trap here and that israel is maybe about to fall into it in terms of this ground offensive . Not necessary , ground offensive . Not necessary, ali. So rather like 9 11, you could say that the 1500 people who were killed on saturday, you could treat that as a mass criminal murder and you could say to hamas, please hand over all those people who were responsible for that taking place, that patently is isnt going to happen. And therefore, you go back to all those things that things that lead to the causes of war. We go back to 2500 years to thucydides. You know , causes of are fear, know, causes of war are fear, honour or interest. The sad thing is all three of those are present, and that leads to a toxic mixture , which almost toxic mixture, which almost inevitably means that israel will go and do something because they want to try and change the strategic calculus. As the strategic calculus. As the defence minister has said, for the next 50 years, they need to absolute destroy hamas and i use that in the terms of a verb from the military that is to kill or so damage an enemy force. So thatis so damage an enemy force. So that is rendered useless. Thats what they seek to do. It wont, however , kill the idea of hamas. However, kill the idea of hamas. But we must realise, i think, that there is a difference between the desire for a palestine state from accommodationists, such as the Fatah Movement and hamas, who are there to, you know, they want israel to be exterminated from the map as an absolute difference between them. But clearly there are those within in the new israeli war cabinet. The times is reporting general or former generals involved in operation planning saying there are no easy, easy opfions saying there are no easy, easy options here that you cannot, as you say, wipe out an ideology by going into these streets. The going into these streets. The last time they tried it in 2014, i think they lost 166 troops and hamas was back in action pretty quickly because of this system of tunnels on a military scale. Of tunnels on a military scale. Is this the right thing to do . Is this the right thing to do . Is it achievable . Well, you need to again, look at what israel looks at for the theory of victory in Something Like this. So the operation must be done at acceptable cost to the forces , at acceptable cost the forces, at acceptable cost to the home front. I cant endure for forever. And it must be done in a way that is irrefutable and that comes back to this notion of it must be so endunng to this notion of it must be so enduring that it doesnt lead to a threat from that flank for the next 50 years as theyve defined it. It. Chip as ever, thank you for your analysis. And of course , your analysis. And of course, well await to see the developments of the coming hours and days. Thank very and days. Thank you very much indeed. Well, to get more of an idea of the latest situation in gaza, we can talk to head of development at the Global Relief trust, atika ramon, thank you very much for talking to us. Atika we are being warned of potentially devastating humanitarian consequences here if israel , as it appears to be if israel, as it appears to be doing very shortly, launches this massive Ground Invasion. This massive Ground Invasion. What do you understand is the situation on the ground now and how how incredibly difficult is it for these civilians to find. Shelter um, the an