This situation becomes for the palestinians. The strip under constant bombardment today, a force of 300,000 israeli troops now in position for the ground offensive. We will hear tonight from an Israeli Government spokesmen on when that order might come. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen is in southern israel, he has been in the remains of the be� eri kibbutz today, where at least 100 people were killed. We will speak to the un in gaza, the hostage negotiators, and we will keep one eye on that important vote in the us congress tonight, where republicans are trying and so far failing to elect a speaker. Welcome to the programme. It should come as no surprise, after all the death and destruction inflicted by hamas, that the hearts of israelis are hardened to the fate of gaza and its people. The Prime Ministers Office released pictures today of israeli children that had been butchered and burnt. There was no mercy, it seems there will be none in return. The Gaza Blockade will be enforced, the bombardment is to continue, and the fighting will not stop until hamas is finished as a military force. That total blockade means gaza is now chronically short of food and clean water. Fuel is low. The International Red cross warned today that without generators the hospitals will be turned into morgues no dialysis, no oxygen, no incubators for children most at risk. The bombardment has killed nearly moo palestinians, nearly a third of them children. The us secretary of states is in israel to hearfor himself what the battle plan is likely to be. He assured Prime Minister netanyahu of washingtons unwavering support, while again warning iran and its proxies not to take advantage of the situation. But he also stressed precautions must be taken to avoid harming civilians of any nationality. The secretary of defence will be travelling israel tomorrow. The uk government has announced it will send Surveillance Aircraft and two ships to support israel. The aircraft will begin patrols tomorrow. In southern israel, the studies which continue to emerge are truly appalling. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen has sent this report from the kibbutz of be� eri and a warning you will find it distressing. More of gaza has been flattened by israeli bombing. Israel insists its targets are all based on intelligence, to kill the men who massacred israelis and to continue the job of breaking hamas. But hundreds of civilians of all ages have also been killed. And israel has been accused of answering the war crimes of hamas with ones of its own. Anthony blinken, us secretary of state, flew in. He offered solidarity, more military aid and assurances for benjamin netanyahu, israels Prime Minister, that america has israels back. We are here, we are not going anywhere. He compared hamas to the killers of Islamic State and said, the way israel fights them matters. The value that we place on human life and human dignity, thats what makes us who we are. And we count them among our greatest strength. Thats why its so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. At this Police Station in tel aviv, israelis report relatives who have been missing since hamas attacked. Yonatan� s mother disappeared from kibbutz be� eiri on the gaza border. His family believe that if peace diplomacy worked, the Americans Last tried ten years ago, israelis and palestinians might have been spared this agony. Yonatan is here to give a dna sample, but hes hoping his mother is alive as a hostage. Vivian silva, his mother, is one of israels best known campaigners for peace with the palestinians. She was Holding Meetings only a few days before the hamas attacks. What do you think your mother would be saying about everything that is happening right now . That this is the outcome. This is the outcome of war, of not striving for peace. Weve been, you know, israelis have, lets say, living on our soul. And this is what happens. You know, its very overwhelming, but its not completely surprising. We couldnt. Its not. Sustainable to live in a state of war for so long. And now it bursts, it burst. Vivian was making light of it at first last saturday, until she couldnt. We may be witnessing a massacre. Enough sense of humour, im just telling everybody, telling you i love you. And i write back, i love you, mum. She writes, theyre in the house now. I said i have no words, im with you. She writes, i feel you. And that was it, thats the last message. Their kibbutz was one of the first targets of hamas last saturday, as its right on the border. They shot dead the people in this car, stormed in and set about killing israelis. By the time the army fought its way back into be� iri, you can see the ferocity of the fight. It was too late to stop the massacre. The body bags of residents are still being brought out of the ruins. Volunteers from an organisation that recoversjewish dead for a religious burial took us to the house where vivian silva lived, horrified by everything theyve seen. Its not people. It cannot be people making Something Like that. It cant be it doesnt go with people theres not even a studio in hollywood that could make a horror movie as bad as what we have seen here. I cant understand, somebody take kids. They didnt just kill them, they mutilated, they burned, they. Severed. Its impossible to describe. The army didnt allow us much time in the street where vivian silva lived and brought up herfamily. She moved here long before hamas emerged, for space and country air. We hoped to find out more about what happened to her. But if there were clues, they were consumed by fire. Vivians house and her neighbours were gutted. We dont know if shes alive or dead. Her family, like so many others, waits for news, good or bad. Herfamily, like many others, wait for news, good or bad. Its totally burned down. The remains of the house and destruction at the kibbutz are evidence for most israelis that it is dangerously wrong for Peace Activists like vivian to argue that a century of attempted military solutions to the conflict have failed. The survivors have left the kibbutz. Now it is a staging area as the army waits for the order to enter gaza. As the soldiers prepare, israels government fails at this time, government vows that this time its forces will destroy hamas. In gaza, and in the middle of the night, people are receiving Text Messages telling them to leave, before the building is demolished. These are pictures that have been sent from our reporter in gaza, rushdi abualouf, showing the scale of the destruction. You can imagine how quickly people have to escape, without taking any of their belongings. But where to go, when the bombs are falling . The latest estimates put the number of displaced people to more than 330,000 this is an increase of 30 since yesterday. They need everything water, food, and a place to rest. And a great many of them have descended on gazas 13 hospitals, which are already overwhelmed. The International Red cross said its likely that some of them will tonight run out of fuel, which means no x rays, no oxygen, no hope for those seriously wounded. Heres our correspondent, jon donnison. Across gaza, whole neighbourhoods are being flattened. Israel says these are Precision Strikes against hamas. For palestinians, it doesnt feel that way. And they are defiant. I will never leave here, he says. Here i am, pulled from under the rubble. Outside the main Shifa Hospital in gaza city, bodies are lined up. The Health System is overwhelmed, Short On Medicines and running out of fuel to provide power. Hospitals are also one of the few relatively safe places. In the grounds outside, the displaced are setting up makeshift camps. We are sleeping here with the bombing above us, 15 year old mohammed says. I hope the world will have mercy. Some of those here have lived through half a dozen wars. They slaughtered our children, destroyed our houses over our heads and here we are in the streets, says 65 year old taisir. Dead bodies are stacked over each other, children and toddlers, he goes on. In khan younis, in the south of gaza, they are burying the dead where they can. These funerals will not be the last. Many more will grieve before this war is over. Jon donnison, bbc news. With me is professor lina khatib, the director of the soas middle east institute. We watch that report together. I am struck by how many of the victims in these reports are pacifist who have worked with palestinians, who picked palestinians up from the areas crossing. The other people in the south most at risk, but in a way they are at the same be closer to they are at the same be closer to the palestinians, is that right . We have to the palestinians, is that right . Have to remember that in this conflict not everyone is in extremes, not everyone believes in violence, and there are pacifist on both sides. When youre talking about Pacifist Souare is really, who live near gaza, these are the people who are also observing the suffering of the palestinians in gaza, and this perhaps makes a more likely to want to help because of observing the suffering of fellow human beings. The suffering of fellow human beinus. ,. , beings. Rather than those in Tel Aviv West Bank beings. Rather than those in Tel Aviv West Bank and beings. Rather than those in Tel Aviv West Bank and jerusalem l beings. Rather than those in tel. Aviv west bank and jerusalem who beings. 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Hamas wants this to be a message to israel that this is an existential pass now, and for that reason, they are attacking everybody. They regard everybody as a legitimate target, to instill fear in the israeli population, because they know that the israeli state exists to protect the jewish they know that the israeli state exists to protect thejewish people and the israeli citizens, and so in attacking the civilians, hamas is basically trying to say, this id of the israeli state is not viable. So, the israeli state is not viable. So, the ascending a psychological message to the rest of the israeli population, preachers, another tool of warfare. This is psychological warfare, as well as a Military Attack causing actual physical casualties. Attack causing actual physical casualties attack causing actual physical casualties. ~. , casualties. What about the message to their own casualties. What about the message to their own people casualties. 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Not necessarily believes in hamass methods or as a political or military entity, but for a lot of people they are so desperate that they are just getting behind hamas for lack of other options. Just they are just getting behind hamas for lack of other options. For lack of other options. Just on the wider region, for lack of other options. Just on the wider region, because for lack of other options. Just on the wider region, because we i for lack of other options. Just on | the wider region, because we are going to talk about that a lot this evening. This is putting enormous pressure, and it certainly will open the pictures come out of gaza in the weeks ahead, enormous pressure on arab and egyptian government. For saudi arab and egyptian government. Tar . Saudi arabia, that had just until saturday thought that its a plan to go ahead with the deal with israel, the united states, was kind of making progress, of course it was talking to the Palestinian Authority about this deal, to try to find some sort of solution to this conflict, now that has stalled. And the same for egypt. The president is facing an election soon, now he has a very complicated problem in his hands. Good to see you. Thank you for coming in this evening. Lots to discuss and we will get into somewhat of that during the course of the programme. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Lets look at some other stories making news. The waiting list for planned nhs england treatment has risen again to a new record high. More than 7. 7 Million People were waiting to start routine treatment at the end of august its highest number since records began. Routine treatment ranges from Hip Replacements to surgery to remove cancerous tumours. Former formula i boss Bernie Ecclestone has been given a suspended prison sentence forfraud. The 92 year old billionaire pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown court. He admitted failing to declare more than £400 million held in a trust in singapore to the uk government injuly 2015. He received a sentence of 17 months suspended for two years. The uk economy grew by 0. 2 in august, according to the latest figures. The office for National Statistics says there was strong growth in services which was partially offset by falls in manufacturing and construction. In contrast, some sectors fared poorly, such as arts, entertainment and recreation. Youre live with bbc news. Around 150 people are thought to have been taken hostage by hamas. Last night we received a bit more information from the Israeli Defence force on where they are being held. They believe they have been dispersed among tunnels under gaza in locations that were not known to be used by hamas, prior to this conflict. But remember this is notjust an israeli Hostage Crisis. There were 23 nationalities among those killed on saturday. The us say 27 americans were killed, ia still unaccounted for, its believed some of them are among the hostages. Theres 18 french citizens that are missing including several children the french Prime Minister elizabeth borne said they are sure some were abducted by hamas. 17 british nationals killed or abducted. We dont have a breakdown yet on the numbers that have been taken. So how do you get them out alive . That is the task of negotiating teams. With me is scott walker. Hes a former hostage negotiator, having resolved more than 300 what is the arc of a Hostage Crisis like this . This what is the arc of a Hostage Crisis like this . ~ ,. , what is the arc of a Hostage Crisis like this . ~ , i. What is the arc of a Hostage Crisis like this . ~ ,. ,. , like this . As you can imagine, in the early hours like this . As you can imagine, in the early hours and like this . 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I am hopeful for a lot of them to come back i am hopeful for a lot of them to come back. ,. ,. ,. , the enormity of the loss and suffering that is felt in israel, and everyone connected with israel, is immeasurable. No ones needs reminding, or they shouldnt, of the history, of the people who were killed simply because they were jewish. It is particularly hard of course for those whose loved ones are hostages in gaza, and whose fate is yet unknown. The question they all have, of course, is how did the state miss it . How did hamas, a proscribed terrorist group by many western governments including uk and us, find it so easy to penetrate the defences in southern israel . And why did it take the army so long to respond . 0ur security correspondent, gordon correra, has been taking a look. It began with a volley, but that was just to provide cover for what else hamas was doing. Commercial drones carrying explosives were flown towards a security fence. These pictures are from hamas. We are using them to show how the curry that the attacks. Bbc verify has been able to confirm them as being north of gaza. 0ne dont take at an unmanned gun emplacement. Crucially, they also knocked out Communications Towers and cameras, leaving israel blanc. With rockets flying overhead, hamas fighters flew out on motorised hang gliders. This is also north of gaza. At the same time, explosives were used to blow holes in defence some locations. At least 1000 gunmen were no inside israel. They overwhelmed Border Checkpoints like this one, adding to the chaos for israeli forces, who were struggling to communicate and understand the scale of events. There is a complex attack would have taken months, perhaps years of preparation. Hamas has put out this propaganda video, claiming to show some of the trini although we cant verify what it was filmed. The fact they managed to plan all of this without being spotted marks a significant intelligence failure. The even deceived israel into thinking they werent interested in another conflict right now. Israeli troops arguably our overreliance on technology that was now disabled were thinly spread. Here we see a tank taken out, as the is failing to stop a direct hit. Some gunmen headed to the military bases. It was saturday morning and a religious holiday. As early forces were taken by surprise. Some soldiers killed in their products. This all meant that government were able to head to other settlements nearby, and carry out the killings at places like this kibbutz and music festival, meeting little resistance for hours, until the full picture of what was happening became clearer and more forces could be deployed. It would take days to regain full control of the gaza border. Lots of frustration and anger, and will put some of that to the former israeli ambassador and a few minutes, her before that was a senior spokesman for Prime Minister netanyahu. Does this leave him politically . Stay with us. Hello. The outlook for the next few days as we look towards the weekend will bring quite a lot of sunshine, but, with that, a decidedly chilly feel some chilly days and some cold nights. Some places will see their first frosts of the season. There will be a few showers around. Some of those could be wintry over high ground in the north. During today, Southern Parts have seen cloud and some outbreaks of rain. That was how it looked in hastings. And some really heavy rain is on the way for friday in association with this area of low pressure, this frontal system, pushing up from the south. Turning really wet overnight across parts of england and wales. There could be enough rain in places for some flooding. But some mild air will be pushing up with this weather system, so overnight lows across the southern half of the uk in double digits. Further north, a little bit chillier, but not as cold as it was last night because it will be quite breezy, and there will be this little weather front bringing some cloud and some splashes of rain. So, for tomorrow, outbreaks of rain particularly across parts of england and wales, although there will be some sunny gaps. Turning really quite windy across central and Southern Parts and also very windy up to the north. Sunny spells and showers for scotland and for northern ireland. Here, getting into some chilly air, 10 13 celsius. Some mild or even warm conditions further south it could get to 20 celsius in london, but that will not last into the weekend. Now, we will see gales during friday night across northern parts of scotland, but its the Wind Direction that brings the real change in the feel of things. These north westerly winds bringing Colder Weather southwards across all parts of the country. Now, that said, there will be quite a lot of sunshine around on saturday, but showers in areas exposed to that north westerly wind and those showers turning wintry over high ground in scotland. Temperatures of 7 celsius in stornoway, 1a celsius in london and in plymouth. On saturday night, there will still be a few showers. We could see snow down to say 200 or 300 meters above sea level across parts of scotland. Under largely clear skies, with the winds easing, its going to be a cold night. Many places getting close to freezing, some places getting below freezing. A touch of frost for quite a few locations, i think, on sunday morning. But a mostly fine and sunny day, not as many showers. The winds will be lighter, but it will still feel rather chilly. Temperatures for most between 8 13 celsius. Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Anger grows in israel over the governments handling of saturdays hamas attack. Much more to come on the israel gaza war but first, its time for sport and for a full round up, heres the bbc sport centre. In the match we could see the scots become the first side to qualify for the tournament in germany next year. All they need is a point in seville against european heavyweights spain. It is currently 0 0. Worth noting that scotland would qualify if they remain that way but also would qualify if norway drop points in cyprus although they are ahead through villareal forward