Of a deepening humanitarian crisis. More than 2,800 people have been killed in israeli air strikes. President biden is expected in israel on wednesday. Mr biden will be briefed on israels aims and strategies in response to the attacks that killed moo people. And he could meet regional leaders as well. In its strongest warning yet, iran, which backs hamas, has said it could take pre emptive action in the next few hours. Faith leaders are among those calling for peace. In london, the archbishop of canterbury joined jewish and muslim clerics in making an appeal. This is the scene across gaza right now. Through the morning there have been a number of missile strikes. The smoke since then has cleared, as you can see in the background, with damaged buildings overlooking the harbour in gaza. We know that the siege of gaza is continuing and our bbc report on the ground has told us that gaza and the area around it is on the edge of catastrophe. Lets go straight to southern israel and our chief
Welcome to Southern Israel. We are less than a mile from the border with gaza. In the last few minutes three more rockets fired by hamas have landed not far from here. Throughout the day we could hear and see israels in doing attacks against Northern Gaza. Continuing attacks. You can see the city where many of the residents have fled south, fleeing israeli air strikes where the attack still continue. In the latest and diplomatic development, joe biden has confirmed he will arrive in israel tomorrow to hear first hand from the israelis about their plans for an expected Ground Invasion. It follows the attacks ten days ago here in Southern Israel by hamas which killed 1300 israelis, including other nationalities. Hamas is an organisation designated as a Terrorist Group by many western governments, including the united kingdom. 0vernight local officials in gaza say they were more israeli air strikes, in gaza say they were more israeli airstrikes, more in gaza say they were more israeli air
These suffering and tragedy stories are in every corner, every person you are meeting, whether it he is a doctor struggling to find a couple of hours to sleep, whether he is a businessman who has left big business behind in gaza city and has to live with his family, has to live in a shelter or school. You go there and you find a queue of people just waiting for hours to get five pieces of bread. There is not enough for the 50 people and the family they are evacuating with. You go there and you find someone is begging to buy water, but water is not available. Israel resumed bombing the water area today. There is no electricity to run and stop pumping the electricity to the houses. 90 of the houses in the south of gaza which is accommodating now over two thirds of the gaza strip overall population, they dont have water. They have to buy water. Un, you know, big tankers, they transferred the water from other parts of the city, the most Populated Areas here in the centre and people queue t