Militants have continued to fire rockets into israel, towards tel aviv and other areas in the south. The World Health Organization has condemned israels evacuation order; it says forcing Hospital Patients to relocate would be a Death Sentence. President biden has spoken with the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, and urged him to provide safety for civilians amid the bombardment. Diplomatic efforts to prevent the violence from spreading have been stepped up, with mr biden� s secretary of state, antony blinken, visiting cairo. Hes expected to press egyptian officials to restart talks on getting aid into gaza through the Border Crossing. The us is sending a second Aircraft Carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean near israel. The Uss Eisenhower will lead a group of ships aimed at deterring further attacks against israel in particularfrom iran or the lebanese militant group, hezbollah. We start the hour with this report from our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Sirens wail. Running from rocket fire, this was tel aviv overnight, with israel striking back at gaza and the us continuing its shuttle diplomacy. It blames hamas militants for this war and its fallout. The humanitarian crisis in gaza. Innocent palestinian families and the vast majority have nothing to do with hamas. Theyre being used as Human Shields. Applause. In gaza, Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinians have been fleeing the most intense bombing theyve ever seen after israel ordered a Million People to head south. With desperate scenes, many are now Seeking Shelter in overcrowded un schools, with no aid coming in. At the border with egypt, palestinians with foreign citizenship are hoping the crossing will open so they can leave. Among them, clutching her british passport, is mariam. Im, like, really infearand, like, every. Every time ijust have to have the thought of me dying in a bomb in gaza. Like, its. Its not a good thing. Like, every place i go, i go run away, and ijust find bombs. And ifind dead people. And, like, maybe one day ill end up like them. But its a really scary thing for me. Israels military says its getting ready for a comprehensive offensive against hamas by land, sea, and air. The Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, visited Ground Troops waiting just outside gaza. The next stage is coming, he told them. Are you ready . Its just over a week since hamas fighters crossed out of gaza and attacked israeli communities like bury. Gunmen were caught on a Security Camera bringing all they needed to kill and kidnap. For israelis, the pain of the deadliest day in their countrys 75 year history is raw and fears are growing for those held hostage like anab� s aunt. There is children without mother, there is mother without children. There is a husband without wife. Icant. I cant think about it there. We have to do everything to bring them back. This is. We owe it to them. The scale of this new conflict between israel and hamas is unprecedented, and every day its human cost is growing. Yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. We spoke to Foreign Correspondent nick beake, who gave us this update. Yes, this is about seven miles from gaza, ashkelon and there has been a distinctive bars of israeli drones in the air. Also the Fighter Pilots are going overhead. That is the situation on the ground. We just heard from the israeli officials that there will be a window, three hour window, today in which people can move from the north of gaza to the south along one specific route. Yesterday, there were two routes that were opened up for a bigger window. These timings are very much slipped. That is what the israelis are saying. All the while, of course, the United Nations saying this is completely unacceptable. The World Health Organization, for example, trying to move people from the north to the south they say is just not feasible. They say specifically when you look at 2000 people who are Intensive Care and in maternity units, they are moving from the north to the south, that is tantamount to a extremely Strong Language from them. All the while israel saying it is carrying out a proportional response to the attacks by hamas just over a week ago and this is all part of an act of self defence on their part. Our correspondent mohamed taha from bbc arabic told us more about the latest on the situation. 2000 deaths in gaza and 1300 on the israeli side. Amongst these, 12 journalists in gaza and Southern Lebanon, which is a really big number. The big front is the gaza front they are building up to invade gaza in the coming may be ours. There was talk about rain in tel aviv that might delay the decision little bit. But the attack will be imminent. The picture that we can see at the moment on the screen, these are the pictures from gaza. People are trying to flee their homes as the israeli army issued a recommendation for them to leave their homes before the offence. Hospitals are in a dire situation as the Israeli Forces are asking 22 hospitals in Northern Gaza to evacuate their patients. The un said that this is. This is kind of Death Sentence to the patients in these hospitals. In the second front, the front of hezbollah in lebanon, where there are lower level, if i may say so, comparing the level in gaza. Low level of exchange between them. In the last hours, two deaths happened in the israeli side by. By. By. Rockets from hezbollah. A member of hezbollah died from an israeli attack. The third front is the west bank where the Israeli Forces executed an incursion in the region. The full front is the syrian front where the Israeli Forces are saying the iranians fourth front. They say they are moving their troops in syria and they struck aleppo airport. On the other hand, you know, also, The Americans brought the second carrier in case the iranians would do any further movements. All the updates. The audience can see it on the live update, the live page on the bbc website, where our colleagues are updating it around the hour. Also, our correspondents went around gaza. One of our correspondence saw the situation in hospitals, in schools, where these Tens Of Thousands of people left their homes and trying to find somewhere to live. They have built tense in the street. They are trying to squeeze themselves in hospitals. And in schools, as well. But the situation could be escalated also because of the egyptian position, that they do not want to open the borders to allow Tens Of Thousands of palestinians to go to mount go go to sinai. They are trying to keep these borders under control as they dont want their National Security compromised. This situation is getting worse in this direction. We have a few lines to bring you from various news agencies. Reuters saying hezbollahs tv station has said a missile fired from lebanon, Southern Lebanon, has targeted and israeli village. A Guided Missile was used in the attack. We have also got Afp News Agency saying that israel is striking Inside Lebanon in response to anti tank missile fire. Reuters also saying the Israeli Military has declared a zone within four kilometres, around two miles, of the lebanese border, as off limits to Public Access, saying it was deliberately disrupting gps services and on the Southern Front with gaza, as part of its operations. Some of the latest details on what is going on in Southern Lebanon. Also, from the Israeli Military, they are giving us figures saying at least 279 of its soldiers are now known to have been killed since last saturday. It says that the number of confirmed hostages in gaza is 126. We are also hearing from the Israeli Military, saying they will continue to enable Palestinian Civilians fleeing the gaza strip fleeing the fighting in the gaza strip to relocate south within the territory, adding Hundreds Of Thousands had already heeded israels evacuation order. There had been a timeframe given on those orders of about 2k hours and they extended it, saying there were six more hours on the safe routes they announced yesterday. They are now saying, from the Israeli Military, saying that it will continue enabling palestinians fleeing the fighting in the gaza strip to relocate south within the territory. Those are the latest lines coming to you. We will keep across all of them and bring you all the latest developments on bbc news. Sam cranny evans is an associate fellow of the Royal United Services institute, the defence think tank, and is a researcher in modern warfare. Sam told us more about israels capabilities ahead of the expected ground incursion. A really important part of the context is the hamas side of the equation and what level of resistance hamas decides to put up. We have seen an evolution to the past conflicts from 2008 through two now of hamas capabilities where they were fairly ineffective against the Israeli Forces initially and have become more resilient and determined as time has gone on. The israeli capabilities in that regard are sort of. Conventional combined capabilities. They will use a lot of armoured vehicles, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft, so, helicopters and that kind of thing. In close coordination with each other in the cities, once they get in. The nature of the fighting, the length of the fighting, the length of the fighting, will really depend on that first element, the hamas resolve to fight and its determination to make a stand. Urban warfare in particular tends to carry a high risk to civilians. As you can probably already see from the announcements, the civilians are trying to encourage gazans to leave the city. And evacuate it. There are very few cases throughout history of where thatis, cases throughout history of where that is, you know, super successful. Very often, you kind of have a proportion of the city that will lead but not everybody. Sometimes they will be kept against their own will, this was the case in mosul and iraq are where they were used as Human Shields to try to prevent Coalition Forces from bombing isis. Yes it is likely that there will be continued civilian casualties. They have maximalist aims, dismantling hamas, its military capabilities and its ability to govern. That indicates they are very committed to a prolonged operation. Again, coming back to that initial context, adults will depend on how much resistance hamas puts up, how willing they are to fight and risk their lives against the Israeli Forces. It is likely to be months. In the us, the pentagon has ordered a second Aircraft Carrier group to the Eastern Mediterranean. According to us officials, the Uss Eisenhower is part of american efforts to deter hostile actions against israel or any efforts toward widening the war. Earlier we spoke to Brendan Kearney a retired colonel with the Us Marine Corps who gave this assessment of the us military build up. I think theyre all prudent moves. The United States was fortunate enough to have the gerald ford Carrier Battle Group already in the med when all this, sadly, started here over a week ago. Its still going to take 8 to 10 days for this new Carrier Battle Group to get there. And its also going to take about the same amount of time for a Marine Amphibious ready group to come from the persian gulf, sail up through the suez to also get to the eastern med. And they willjoin us aircraft, us air force aircraft, that have already been Pre Positioned in the far east there. So, its. It� s a build up of forces, but its prudent. Its probably a wise move on the part of the american administration. I think, again, putting the forces over there and putting them in a position where if you have to use them, they are available. I dont think theres any preconceived decision on the part of the United States government to go ahead and get involved in this conflict. Weve managed to stay out of most of them over the years when it comes to israel and these periodic conflicts with the arab nations and certainly with hamas and hezbollah. But if it comes to that, by having these forces there, the United States is going to be able to launch a very, very powerful strike against whether its hamas, hezbollah, obviously sending a message to the group thats in charge of both of them, which is resident in iran right now. The Israeli Military has declared a zone within four kilometres of the lebanese border off limits to Public Access on sunday and said it was deliberately disrupting gps services there and on the Southern Front with gaza as part of its operations. Hugo bed shaker is in Southern Lebanon. Live now to our correspondent hugo bachega, who joins us from tyre near the border in Southern Lebanon, where there have been renewed exchanges of fire. This seems to be the latest incident along the lebanese israeli border. We are still trying to confirm the details of what happened. We are hearing from Israeli Emergency Services saying one person was killed and at least two injured in a community in northern israel that was hit by missiles that was filed from lebanese territory. Unconfirmed reports suggest these are civilians. We just had a statement from hezbollah, the lebanese group, confirming that they had fired Guided Missiles towards israeli territory. Hezbollah is saying this was in retaliation for the killing of a journalist here in lebanon on friday. These are the latest incident along the lebanese israeli border. If it is confirmed that these are civilians who have been hit, and if it is confirmed that this is the death of a civilian in israel, it would be the first civilian casualty in israel as a result of the tensions along the border with lebanon. Tensions have been high for days. We have been talking about these rockets, about shelling. It has been happening in places along the lebanese israeli border. Here, the fear is that lebanon could be dragged into this conflict. We have been reporting almost every day now since this war between israel and hamas broke out. Incidents have been happening in places along the border. This seems to be the latest incident happening. Again, missiles hitting an Israeli Community in northern israel. One per person confirmed dead and at least two injured. figs per person confirmed dead and at least two injured. Least two inured. As you say, the hue least two injured. As you say, the huge concerns least two injured. As you say, the huge concerns about least two injured. As you say, the huge concerns about this least two injured. As you say, the huge concerns about this conflictl huge concerns about this conflict spreading. There have been huge efforts in recent days from all sides to make sure that this doesnt spread. Antony blinken did a tour of four orfive nations and spread. Antony blinken did a tour of four or five nations and the spread. Antony blinken did a tour of four orfive nations and the king of jordan visited various countries in europe. We had from hezbollah saying its fully ready to get involved when the time comes we heard from. Huge concern about the conflict growing, isnt there . Exactly. We have seen a massive effort in public and also behind the scenes to try to prevent an escalation in this conflict. A number of countries have been warning hezbollah to stay away from the war. We heard from the number two of hezbollah, who said that the group was ready. It was prepared and it was following what was happening at moment by moment. And that hezbollah would not be intimidated by these warnings being made by the us. And other countries. So far, we have seen that hezbollahs actions have seen that hezbollahs actions have been limited to these incidents, cross border incidents. The United States has said that there hasnt been any evidence that hezbollah is preparing to have a larger involvement in this conflict but, ob