Hours here, into the bbc newsroom. We believe those pictures there. I want to return now to washington, dc. We have been talking about the strong relationship between the us and israel. They are long standing allies. And the us has committed new support now for israel. Talk is through what we know. Support now for israel. Talk is through what we know. Well, as you sa , these through what we know. Well, as you say. These are through what we know. Well, as you say. These are a through what we know. Well, as you say, these are a new through what we know. Well, as you say, these are a new and through what we know. Well, as you say, these are a new and very say, these are a new and very significant details that have emerged from the pentagon confirming president biden� s promise, essentially, to support israel in any way it needs. There was a statement that was released by the defence secretary, lloyd austin, and i willjust read that to you. He said that he has directed the movement of several Aircraft Carriers as well as Guided Missile Cruiser and a Guided Missile Destroyer to the eastern mediterranean. He says that the us has maintained ready forces globally to further reinforce what he calls a Deterrence Posture if required. The us has also taken steps to increase the Us Air Force Fighter aircraft squadrons in the region, and he is also said that the us will rapidly provide the idf with additional equipment and resources, including munition. And that the First Security assistance will begin moving as early as today and more will begin arriving in the next couple of days. So a very Swift Response from the us government, even as there has been protests. You might be able to hear in the background, Palestinian Americans are here in front of the white house, protesting the aid that the us has been giving to israel and saying that that should stop. But as we have been hearing in the last couple of moments, the us really quickly escalating its support to israel. , ~ ,. , quickly escalating its support to israel. ~ ,. ,. Quickly escalating its support to israel. , ~ ,. , israel. Thank you very much for that. We will israel. Thank you very much for that. We will be israel. Thank you very much for that. We will be back israel. Thank you very much for that. We will be back with israel. Thank you very much for that. We will be back with you i israel. Thank you very much for that. We will be back with you when there are more developments out of washington. Ijust want there are more developments out of washington. I just want to give you a sense now of what has been happening in gaza itself over the last few hours. 0ur reporter Rushdi Abualouf was speaking to us live from gaza. When a Loud Explosion was heard. I want to say straightaway that we have had confirmation that he is safe. This gives you a sense of what is happening there. When i drove this morning. Loud explosion that sounds like it was quite close to you, rushdi . Rushdi, can you hear me . Are you 0k . That sounds quite close, yeah. That sounded very close. Are you 0k . Do you need to go or are you 0k to stay . That was very close, yeah. Rushdi, can you hear me . Yes, ican. Ican. Are you 0k to stay where you are . Or would you like to move . I dont know what is. No, i think we should move. And rushdi then did move, and we have had confirmation since he spoke to us there that he is a safe and the team are safe. Now lets take you life to gaza because there are these live Camera Position still broadcasting, you can see the darkness there. 0ver broadcasting, you can see the darkness there. Over the last few hours, there have been missiles and patches of orange and fires. At the moment, you can see it is pretty dark. And we have been told Electricity Supplies are in short supply, Electricity Supplies are in short supply, as well as other things. The internet is difficult and patchy there, and basic humanitarian supplies, there are growing concerns for theirs. You can see that our Life Pictures are broadcasting and we are still monitoring exactly what is happening. Let me show you some of the latest videos that our bbc verify team have authenticated. Because as you will be aware, in situations like this there are is plenty of footage circulating on social media and it is difficult to know what is true and what is not. These are some of the videos that we have authenticated. A warning some contain distressing scenes. Lets start with this incident. This incident we believe to have taken place earlier on sunday. It shows a gunfight involving Israeli Forces on the route 4 highway between ashdod and the gaza border. That was the aftermath of the gunfight. Lets have a look at the next video now. Bodies of an israeli Family Waiting to be identified and laid to rest. 0ur bbc verify team have written a post for our live page, explaining how they went about checking this video, and working out where and when it was taken. Just repeating that these videos are distressing. Weve also received footage of people in gaza scrambling for cover during an israeli missile strike. The images youre seeing took place in a neighbourhood in north west gaza. Bbc verify have matched the buildings position, is on the northern side of sheikh zayed square mosque area. Then this moment was filmed right next to the bbc Broadcast Position in gaza. Lets take a look. Loud explosion as you can see, a building being flattened by an israeli missile strike. It was destroyed very close to the bbc� s Broadcast Position in gaza. The footage was filmed on saturday. A video has been released by the Palestinian Militant Group hamas. The storming the Erez Military Site North of the gaza strip. The alqassam brigade. As weve been reporting, many people who were at an outdoor Music Festival in the desert not far from the gaza border when militants opened fire there, here is the aftermath of that festival. A long winding road. Parked cars abandoned and destroyed. Eye witnessess said people tried to escape but were unable to due to the gunfire. Ijust want i just want to stay for a moment focused on that incident at that outdoor Music Festival. Some viewers again, just to repeat that these images are particularly distressing. This video shows partygoers who were at this Festival Running across the desert. They are running from the festival as gunmen were opening fire. Gunshots so we arejust so we are just going to leave these pictures. We will come back to them a little later. I want to take you straightaway now to these Life Pictures that you can see it there. Lets just take a listen. It is pictures that you can see it there. Lets just take a listen. Lets ust take a listen. It is time for lets just take a listen. It is time for an immediate lets just take a listen. It is time for an immediate end lets just take a listen. It is time for an immediate end to lets just take a listen. It is time for an immediate end to the lets just take a listen. It is time for an immediate end to the violence and the bloodshed, and it is time to end this blockade and to open. When israel now tries to justify yet another assault by the same. No one should say or do anything to encourage it down this path. We know only too well that the messages about israels right to defend itself will be interpreted by israel as license to kill. To pursue on the very path that led us here. 370, and the number is rising by the moment, of palestinians that have been killed already in one day. Including children. Some barely ate a few months old. Entire families were killed in their sleep. Will this bring security . Will this advanced piece . Where is the International Protection the Palestinian People is entitled to when the occupying power violates International Law and harms thoseit violates International Law and harms those it is obliged to protect . Arendt palestinian lives worth saving . The Palestinian Civilians killed, the palestinian children killed, the palestinian children killed in occupied palestine could have been spared. Isnt that a moral and legal obligation and a contribution to peace . Why nothing is done when those killed are palestinians . We need to think hard of what logic we want to see prevail here. If this is about vengeance, then many palestinians will feel they have much to avenge. If this is about peace, and the way to it is not through further entrenching oppression and occupation, but by ending it. You cannot say nothing justifies killing israelis, and then providejustification justifies killing israelis, and then provide justification for killing palestinians. We are not sub humans. Let me repeat, we are not sub humans. We will never accept the rhetoric that denigrates our humanity and reneges our rights. A rhetoric that ignores the occupation of our land and oppression of our people. There is no right to security that trumps the right of a nation to Self Determination. The fulfilment of our right to Self Determination is the only path towards shared peace and security. We chose the peaceful path to achieve our rights but israel continued using blunt force against palestinian lives and palestinian rights. Israel cannot wage a full scale war on a nation, its people, its land, its holy sites, and expect peace in exchange. 0ne and expect peace in exchange. One needs to address the root causes of the problem. And by doing so, we will be addressing its consequences. We have been calling for a different rationale. A different approach. Justice, not vengeance. Freedom, not occupation. Peace, not war. 0ur call should be heeded. The alternative is playing out under our very eyes. Israel has announced dozens of times that it had handled the palestinian problem by war against our people or peace with arabs since 1948 until a few days ago, in the statement of benjamin netanyahu. He held during that speech in these United Nations a map denying the existence of palestine. A map of aggression and annexation. To all the peacemakers, to all those that believe in the un charter and International Law, one cannot lose sight of the bigger picture. We need to stand up enshrined in the resolution of the security council. And to take the necessary measures to ensure compliance with their provisions. We need to uphold International Law, not abandon it. Everybody in the room behind me who will be meeting in a few minutes agree on the endgame. Israel expects and demands political and military support while advancing goals that are fundamentally at odds with International Legitimacy and consensus. Its policies are an assault on our humanity. 0n International Law. 0n peace. And are a threat for its own people. Can there is supporting israel ignore its colonialist and racist agenda . That would be self defeating. A different path is possible. I repeat, a different path is possible. But it cannot ignore the lives and rights of the Palestinian People. It must guarantee them equal measures of freedom and security. You cannot stand for peace if you do not stand up to occupation. Do it because it is the right thing to do. Morally, legally, politically. And because it will save lives. Peace will save lives because it is the only way forward. I thank you very much. We have copies for those who are interested. I will give it to you. Are interested. I will give it to ou. ,. So are interested. I will give it to yom so that are interested. I will give it to you. So that was i are interested. I will give it to | you. So that was the you. Yes, yes. So that was the palestinian you. Yes, yes. So that was the Palestinian Ambassador you. Yes, yes. So that was the Palestinian Ambassador to you. Yes, yes. So that was the Palestinian Ambassador to the | you. Yes, yes. So that was the Palestinian Ambassador to the un, and as we mentioned, that Un Security Council meeting believed to be getting under way in new york in the next ten, 12 minutes or so. Those are the remarks ahead of that meeting. We will be back in new york when we get any more details from it. With me is ambassador, husam zomlot, who is head of Palestinian Mission to the united kingdom. Thank you for coming onto the programme. Ijust want thank you for coming onto the programme. I just want to take you back to Saturday Morning when you first heard but hamas had done. What went through your head . Went through your head . Regret that the international went through your head . Regret that the International Community went through your head . Regret that the International Community has went through your head . Regret that the International Community has not| the International Community has not heeded our warnings. Regret that this was allowed to fester for decades. Regret that there is attention now on the bbc and All Over The World only because blood has been spilled. I wish we did not get to this moment. 50 has been spilled. I wish we did not get to this moment. Has been spilled. I wish we did not get to this moment. So you listened a number of get to this moment. So you listened a number of things get to this moment. So you listened a number of things you get to this moment. So you listened a number of things you regret get to this moment. So you listened| a number of things you regret there. Do you regret the loss of innocent life in israel . Life in israel . Every loss of life is regrettable life in israel . Every loss of life is regrettable and life in israel . Every loss of life is regrettable and tragic, is regrettable and tragic, absolutely. The question is how to we stop this . How do we provide an Alternative Path . How did we learn the lessons and the mistakes of the past . How do we treat the Palestinian People after 100 years of suffering . How do we stop this demise into the mayhem that you have described . Do not underestimate peoples will and desire for freedom, to end occupation and captivity. This isnt about the last 48 hours. This has been ongoing for more than 100 years. It started here, by the way, in this very city. It was britain that gave our rights away without even consulting us, and then this whole international approach towards us has been a dismalfailure. This is about approach towards us has been a dismal failure. This is about time we really gave a different path because there is no other alternative. As our ambassador to the un just said, justice, not vengeance. Not vengeance. And peace, not war. And we, the Palestine National movement, we have recognised israel, we have committed to negotiations, we have committed to negotiations, we have committed to International Law and resolutions. Israel was supposed to do one thing, and its occupation and stop its colonial settlement expansion. All these successive governments and the International Community was supposed to provide accountability. The u s led International Community did not do so. We are here today, and the question is the most important question, how do we stop the israeli massacres that are going to happen against palestinian. � . I against palestinian. . I appreciate against palestinian. . I appreciate the against palestinian. . I appreciate the historical context, and we will come back to that. Just on the last 48 hours, do you support what hamas launched on Saturday Morning . What hamas launched on Saturday Mornin . What hamas launched on Saturday Mornin . ,. , morning . This is not the right question morning . 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I am here to represent my people, hamas actions . I am here to represent my people, the i hamas actions . I am here to represent my people, the Palestinian People, what they are going through. I am not here to condemn anybody. If anybody that needs to be condemned, it is what you call democracy in the middle east, that is doing it but you havejust middle east, that is doing it but you have just reported, middle east, that is doing it but you havejust reported, targeting civilians. This is notjust happened in last 48 hours. Civilians. This is not ust happened in last 48 hours. In last 48 hours. Hamas was ust targeting. fl in last 48 hours. Hamas was ust targeting. T fl in last 48 hours. Hamas was ust targeting. Willi in last 48 hours. Hamas was ust targeting. I will tell in last 48 hours. Hamas was ust targeting. I will tell you i in last 48 hours. Hamas wasjust targeting. I will tell you one i targeting. I will tell you one thint. Targeting. I will tell you one thing. Hamas targeting. I will tell you one thing. Hamas is targeting. I will tell you one thing. Hamas is not targeting. I will tell you one thing. Hamas is not the targeting. I will tell you one thing. Hamas is not the palestinian government. The Israeli Government is giving orders for its organised army. Please do not throw any symmetry here, do not equate. And dont equate between the occupied and the occupier. This does not serve justice to understand for your audience and viewers the real situation. Since israels establishment, it is at one military doctrine. When it fights, it goes and fights civilians, kills civilians so they pressure their fighters. Since 1948, this has been repeated in gaza and will be continued to be repeated, the position is not a blame game. The real conversation is how do we stop this vicious, deadly cycle . You real conversation is how do we stop this vicious, deadly cycle . This vicious, deadly cycle . You ust condemned this vicious, deadly cycle . You Ust Condemned Israeli this vicious, deadly cycle . You Ust Condemned Israel for i this vicious, deadly cycle . You Ust Condemned Israel for killing h condemned israel for killing civilians and you will not condemn hamas for killing civilians . Hagar hamas for killing civilians . How many times hamas for killing civilians . How many times have hamas for killing civilians . How many times have you hamas for killing civilians . Firm many times have you interviewed israeli officials . Hundreds of times. How many times have israel committed war crimes on your own cameras . Do you start by asking them to condemn themselves . You do not. I will answer that question, you do not. Do you know why i refuse to answer this question . I refuse the premise of it. At the very heart of it is misrepresentation. Because it is the palestinians were always expected to condemn themselves. We have been denied our rights for a long time. So this is the wrong Starting Point. The right Starting Point is to focus on the root causes, to try to get out of this extreme dark tunnel. And the mainstream media, for 75 years, you bring us here whenever there are israelis who are killed. Did you bring me here when many alice unions, more than 200 over the last few months . Do you invite me when there is such israeli provocations . We started by saying tragic, the palestinians see every day for the last 50 years. You know the situation in gaza, you havejust described it. This is the biggest open air prison. So im saying this just to say perhaps this is about time. This rhetoric, very dangerous, we start giving people the real ugly truth sometimes. What the real ugly truth sometimes. What is the solution the real ugly truth sometimes. What is the solution in the real ugly truth sometimes. What is the solution in your the real ugly truth sometimes. What is the solution in your eyes . International law. That is it. The equal application of International Resolutions and law. And legitimacy. As you did in ukraine, did you bring the Ukrainian Ambassador here and start asking him to condemn his fighters . We need to fully and equally apply the rules that were created by the League Of Nations after the horrors of the second world war. We need to make sure israel is not the exception it has been for the last years. We need to make sure nobody is above the law. Britain is renowned for the rule of law. I think that is the solution. Israel is an occupying force, it is responsible to provide protection for the people under its occupation, and should they commit crimes and crimes against humanity in the coming hours and weeks, it must be held accountable by the International Community. Must be held accountable by the International Community. Thank you ve much International Community. Thank you very much for International Community. Thank you very much for coming International Community. Thank you very much for coming on International Community. Thank you very much for coming on the very much for coming on the programme. Thank you. I want to take your life to gaza city, the live pictures we are monitoring and keeping across the skyline there, the darkness of the skyline in the gaza city. We are keeping across all the developments there. I am Lewis Vaughanjones, this is bbc news. It has been a weekend of contrasts across the uk with heavy rain for scotland, some sites have seen close to a months rainfall since friday, especially across argyll and bute, perth and kinross. This is led to some flooding. At the rain is continuing to clear it is down to this evening, there are still a number of Flood Warnings in place. Do keep an eye on those on the bbc weather website. Across england and wales and northern ireland, lots of blue sky and sunshine and it is felt warm for this time of year. The unseasonable warmth is set to last until at least the start of next week, then we will see some cooler air and rain week, then we will see some cooler airand rain will week, then we will see some cooler air and rain will return for most of us. 0vernight tonight, it is largely dry. It is dried out across scotland, we could just see a few shower is edging west, pushing down towards north east england. The misty and murky conditions developing towards irish sea coasts. It is a very mild start to the day tomorrow, temperatures remaining in double figures throughout the night. And as we head through monday, again it is quite a great start towards this western coasts, but the cloud will start to lift. A lot drier of course on monday for scotland, may be clouding over with some outbreaks of light patchy drizzle across parts of light patchy drizzle across parts of argyll and bute. Temperature starting to come up in scotland. Still warm for a northern ireland, for wales temperatures in the low 20s. Highest temperatures for london and east anglia, where we may well get 24 25 c and east anglia, where we may well get 24 25 c again. Another met Office Weather warning for heavy 0ffice Weather Warning for Heavy Rain Across Western Scotland for tuesday, mostly because the ground will be saturated. Further south, we hang onto that warm air, there will be a lot of sunshine. Hazy at times with some high cloud again to stop quite murky at worst theres western coasts. Temperatures is well about the seasonable average. A few wednesday, this cold front will be sinking southwards. Windy conditions across the north of scotland, a few showers. And on this we can encode front as it pushes southwards and just sweeps away all of that very warm feeling error. As we head through wednesday, temperatures gradually starting to drop. It will feel cooler across the board on thursday with again some outbreaks of rain pushing northwards on friday. Goodbye. Live from london, this is bbc news. The number of palestinians and israelis killed during two days of intense fighting continues to climb with israels realiatory strikes on gaza witnessed by our reporter. Damaging an entire street, like, an entire neighbourhood. Because when i drove this morning. Explosion that sounds like it was quite close to you, rushdi. Car wrecks lining a road, some overturned and others completely burned out, near the israeli festival stormed by palestinian militants. We also hear from a friend of an israeli woman who believes she was kidnapped by hamas fighters at this festival, near gaza. About half an hour after, i found that video that was seen here before of her on a motorcycle taken away from her boyfriend. Hello. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Welcome to our continuous coverage. The number of israelis and palestinians killed has continued to climb, a day after hamas militants stormed into israeli territory from gaza. The Israeli Military says the country is still at war in its efforts to take full control of israeli territory and communities from hamas. Here are the Key Developments this hour the number of israelis killed is reported to have risen beyond 700. Meanwhile, the Gaza Ministry of health says 413 palestinians have been killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza, including 78