Organisation by many western governments, killed more than 1300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. We can show you these live pictures of gaza city right now where it is shortly after 2am in the morning. Mac that is the situation right now. Very dark. The shortages of fuel in the gaza strip. We will continue to monitor throughout the programme. In a drone strike, the Israeli Military said on saturday that it has killed a hamas commander who led part of the assault on israel. Ali qadhi is the second hamas chief to have been killed in a day. Meanwhile, on the ground in gaza, thousands of civilians are on the move. Thats after israel warned over one million living in the north to move south beyond the Wadi Gaza River here an order the World Health Organization has said is a Death Sentence for those already sick and injured. The authorities in gaza say more than 2200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing, including children while attempting to evacuate along a designated safe route. Earlier on saturday, israels Prime Minister visited an army post and asked troops whether they were ready for the next stage. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. 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 Salahadin 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. Women and children under five among the casualties. Israel says its investigating. Israels Prime MinisterBenjamin 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 prepared. They brought everything they needed to kill and kidnap grenades, gaffer tape, 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. The United Nations says nearly a million palestinians have fled their homes in the gaza strip in the week since israel launched its Military Response to the killings and kidnappings by hamas. The entire enclave is being hit by israeli strikes from gaza city in the north to rafah in the south. The Border Crossing there with egypt has remained shut since the hamas attacks last weekend. Crowds of palestinians and foreign nationals have been gathering at the crossing after news that an Evacuation Route may temporarily open. You may find some of the images in this report now from jon donnison distressing. Outside the main hospital in rafah, ice cream trucks. The morgue is full. Some of the dead have been here for two days, this man tells us. These freezers are meant forfood, not bodies. 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 . At the border with egypt, Hundreds Of Palestinians who are lucky enough to have foreign citizenship, are hoping to get out. Among them, clutching her british passport, is maryiam. Im really in fear and every time ijust have to have the thought of me dying in a bomb in gaza. Its not a good thing. Every place i go, i run away and ijust find bombs and ifind dead people. And maybe one day i will end up like them. Its a really scary thing for me. But egypt says it wont open the crossing, even forforeign nationals, until israel agrees to allow aid in. And hamas also controls this border and has a say on who is allowed out. 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. 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, � do you want to live or not . � we just want to be secure, he goes on. Our dream is to live, thats all we want. Jon donnison, bbc news. You sort the scenes there from gaza. Our correspondent Rushdi Abu Alouf is one of the very few journalists reporting from inside gaza. Hes in Khan Younis In The South of the territory from where he sent us this update. Iam back i am back bekier in the city of khan younis after taking the journey with thousands who are displaced and coming all the way into khan younis. It has been one week since israel launched the retaliation against hamas of following the deadly attack across the border. The humanitarian situation here is really at the edge of catastrophic. City which already has 400,000 people has to accommodate more than i people has to accommodate more thani million people, feed them and accommodate them. Again, one of the few journalists inside gaza. You are looking at live images of gaza city. It is around 3am on the ground there. Weve just heard from the Palestinian Health ministry saying 300 people, mostly children and women, have been killed in gaza in the last 24 hours. Some 800 more have been injured. Tensions are high in southern israel as israeli troops build up their presence ahead of that likely counteroffensive. A short while ago, i spoke to our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale in ashkelon in southern israel. It is great to see you. Can you give us the latest about what you are hearing from the Israeli Military at this hour . You get the sense Something Big is about to happen soon. Resort israels Prime Minister visiting the troops and massing on the border with gaza and he spoke with President Biden again tonight and then we had a statement from the Israel Defence force this evening which states that they are preparing for a wide range of offensive operations from air, land and sea and is the important bit with a significant emphasis on Ground Operations and it will have to be significant if israel is to achieve its goal of brushing, Destroying Hamas. You get the feeling something is going to happen soon. We dont know the timing is, if it is hours, days away but certainly this makes it seem something is imminent. We believe more than 100 hostages are being held by hamas potentially inside gaza. How does it seem that the hostages may affect or change any plans for an invasion by the Israeli Military . The Israeli Military . Well, i was speaking the Israeli Military . Well, i was speaking to the Israeli Military . Well, i was speaking to the the Israeli Military . Well, i was speaking to the sisterl the Israeli Military . Well, i l was speaking to the sister of one of those who she believes well, she is either dead, her sister, orshe well, she is either dead, her sister, or she has been taken hostage and she said she hoped she had been taken hostage so that she had a chance of being returned and their hope, the families of those who have loved ones who have been taken back hamas, many of them would not want to see full scale Military Operations launched by israel until it there was at least negotiations and a potential swap of Palestinian Prisoners by israel for the hostages being held in gaza, but, you know, you do not get the sense that the Hostage Situation and it is in the minds of israeli politicians, Military Commanders is not going to derail their goal of Destroying Hamas and given the sort of language we are hearing from the idf about their preparations, you do not sense they are going to hold off for that long. They are going to hold off for that long that long. Bbc defence correspondence that long. Bbc defence l correspondence jonathan that long. Bbc defence correspondence Jonathan Beale. Israels Intelligence Services have long been considered one of the worlds most sophisticated. But hamass attack caught israel completely by surprise and was the worst breach of the countrys defences in about 50 years. New york times staff writer Ronen Bergman has been investigating how this could have happened and who was involved in the planning. Bergman is also the author of rise and kill first the secret history of israels targeted assassinations. Hejoined me earlier from tel aviv. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. We are one week on from the attacks. Talk us through what appears to be a massive failure of intelligence on the part of israel and according to your reporting what appears to have gone wrong . Reporting what appears to have gone wrong . There is nothing on the israeli side gone wrong . There is nothing on the israeli side that gone wrong . There is nothing on the israeli side that did gone wrong . There is nothing on the israeli side that did not the israeli side that did not go wrong. Their were mistakes and failures on three different levels. Intelligence that was supposed to supply reliable alerts enough time before the attack and just 50 years and one day after the previous major intelligence blunder was not able to supply, as it happened, was not able to supply any alert that this is coming. Hundreds of hamas operatives, militants were working for at least a year, i believe even more than that, but looking at documents of hamas, have initial plans that were drawn in november of 2022, so at least a year. They were in active preparation, drilling, planting, thinking, collecting intelligence, doing all sorts of drills and exercises and israel did not know anything. In order to mobilise 2000 people over the fence after major assault on the fence you have to have a lot of people in the know how loop and these kinds of forums which so many people consider to be may be the easiest to penetrate, israel did not know anything. This is a major intelligence achievement for her hamas and a major failure for israel. Her hamas and a maor failure for smut her hamas and a maor failure for math for israel. Let me Popping Cuickl for israel. Let me popping quickly because for israel. Let me popping quickly because you for israel. Let me popping quickly because you mentioned that israel seems to not be prepared or not know that this attack which had been in the making was about to take place. According to your reporting. Why is that . Why do you think israel seem to be caught flat footed . Not to put all the credit, the negative credit to israel, there is also, from their Point Of View, positive credit for us for planning secretly and executing this horrifying massacre credit for hamas. I think hamas has learned the lessons for hundreds of years with israel, with or without guidance or help. It was able to identify the channels that israel was monitoring just into 2018, hamas was able to uncover a group of alleged ngo activists working in gaza but were in fact is really commandos and their agents working undercover, and they were monitored, they were installing a massive Bugging Device to encrypted hamas switchboard. Hamas were able to get their equipment, withdrew underfire and they left get their equipment, withdrew under fire and they left the equipment, the classified equipment, the classified equipment that they were working with, so hamas was able to identify these channels and other channels that israel was looking at, using, apparently, other channels that israel did not know about and i think that israel was also caught in some kind of conception which apparently was also guided by hamas deception that relatively to hamas, this is a moderate time. , ~ to hamas, this is a moderate time. , ~ , time. New york times staff writer ronen time. New york times staff writer Ronen Bergman. To find out more about what an Israeli Ground operation could look like, i spoke to retired Lieutenant General mark schwartz, who served as the us� s security co ordinator to israel and the Palestinian Authority. Thank you so much forjoining us. Israeli military as weve been hearing say The Next Stage Is Coming and we are hearing it could be some sort of invasion into gaza by land, sea and by air. In your mind, how prepared is the Israeli Military for this kind of mission . Thank you for having this kind of mission . Thank you for having me this kind of mission . Thank you for having me this this kind of mission . Thank you for having me this evening. This kind of mission . Thank you for having me this evening. Im| for having me this evening. Im confident that the Israeli Military, as it has stated publicly, they are increasing their level of readiness and are working the integration of over 350,000 now serviced into their tactical formations reservists. 0bviously receiving continuous supply to sustain their operations in gaza in preparation for the ground offensive and as youve reported and particularly your reported and particularly your report is on the ground there in gaza and down in southern israel, youve got the Combat Formations that are in their Tactical Assembly areas and doing final preparations and those final preparations are probably a few days away, not hours away. What is often forgotten about is the logistical sustainment that is going to be necessary, for dealing with the really hard to assess the number of casualties that will be taking place both by the Israeli Military but also there will be casualties of the terrorists as well, you know, and more important in civilians that will caught in the crossfire of this assault, this Ground Assault, and obviously from the sea as well, onceit obviously from the sea as well, once it commences. Interesting of course once it commences. Interesting of course to once it commences. Interesting of course to hear once it commences. Interesting of course to hear your once it commences. Interesting of course to hear your point once it commences. Interesting of course to hear your point of. Of course to hear your Point Of View that this may not be imminent, but it could take a day or two longer. But in the meantime, what kind of defence is hamas capable of putting up because of course this invasion would be taking place on their own home turf . Bud would be taking place on their own home turf . Would be taking place on their own home turf . And that point is very important. Own home turf . And that point is very important. They own home turf . And that point is very important. They are own home turf . And that point is very important. They are on | is very important. They are on their home to rain, they have their home to rain, they have the ability to prepare both above the ground and as h