around khan younis — that's a city israel told civilians to flee to for safety, earlier in the conflict. hospitals say they're overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says it's been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours — although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un children's charity unicef says there's simply nowhere safe for people to go. all this comes as the us state department says it's too early to say for sure whether israel is heeding us advice to protect civilians in gaza. but it did say israel was making more targeted requests for civilian evacuations in southern gaza. well, let's go live now tojerusalem and to our correspondent yolande knell. just talk to us more about these evacuation orders and warnings from both the us to israel and israel to gazans? ,., , both the us to israel and israel to gazans? , , gazans? indeed. in the past few days israel has put — gazans? indeed. in the past few days israel has put out _ gazans? indeed. in the past few days israel has put out evacuation - israel has put out evacuation orders, particularly for the south of the gaza strip, affecting tens of thousands of palestinians, many of them people who have already been displaced by the fighting. it is telling them to leave areas to the north and east of khan younis and what we are hearing from one resident, they said it has been a very sleepless night with intense israeli shelling, its ready bombardments, and we are hearing from others on the ground that israeli tanks have continued to advance notjust on the outskirts of the city to the east from the direction of israel but they have also cross the main road from north to south and had such a position is the just outside to south and had such a position is thejust outside khan to south and had such a position is the just outside khan younis. we really expect khan younis to be a big focus on israeli military operations in the days ahead. it has said it is going aggressively after hamas and other armed factions. and it does believe that senior hamas officials are in underground tunnels and khan younis, hiding out. there is a big concentration of hamas fighters on the part of the south. of course, israel's main goal in its defence is, it says, to dismantle hamas, topple it from power in gaza. the usus had been asking as well to protect civilians there and said it is too early at this stage to see whether israel had heeded its mornings —— the us has been asking. as well as getting more precise instructions to people about which areas they should believe and why they should go to, not like in the early stages of the war where there was a blanket warning to people in the north of the gaza strip to relocate to the south. yolande knell, thank _ relocate to the south. yolande knell, thank you _ relocate to the south. yolande knell, thank you so _ relocate to the south. yolande knell, thank you so much. - live now to unicef spokesperson, james elder in cairo, who has recently returned from gaza. thank you so much to your time. with regards to your time in gaza, tell us more about what you saw. figs regards to your time in gaza, tell us more about what you saw. as bad a situation, us more about what you saw. as bad a situation. as — us more about what you saw. as bad a situation, as atrocious, _ us more about what you saw. as bad a situation, as atrocious, situation - situation, as atrocious, situation as i have seen almost in my two decades of doing this kind of work. hospitals are absolute war zones, blood streaming on the floor, children with multiple wounds, the burdens that you see on the little boy or girl that come with shrapnel —— the burns. and of course those people not in hospitals, three and, in panic. every time you turn a new corner there is a new suburb with 5000 people who have made a makeshift home. they do not know where to go, the anxiety is palpable because every time they move it is to somewhere further away from the other essentials of life, notjust freedom from bombs but access to water and sanitation. it is terrifying, i have had women and children holding my clothes saying, please, give us water, get us out of here. it is as bad as i have ever seen, and despite the promises made that's what happened in the north to women and children would not happen in the south, i can bear witness that it in the south, i can bear witness thatitis in the south, i can bear witness that it is absolutely every bit as for rowson —— ferocious for those people enduring at now, with abouti million more people there than previously. million more people there than previously-— million more people there than reviousl . . . , previously. gaza has a very young imputation. _ previously. gaza has a very young imputation. talk— previously. gaza has a very young population, talk to _ previously. gaza has a very young population, talk to us _ previously. gaza has a very young population, talk to us about - previously. gaza has a very young population, talk to us about the l population, talk to us about the impact on children. i saw a social media post about a young boy he was a massive football fan who had had his foot amputated as the result of one of the blasts. so his foot amputated as the result of one of the blasts.— his foot amputated as the result of one of the blasts. so many amputees. i went one of the blasts. so many amputees. i went around — one of the blasts. so many amputees. i went around hospitals _ one of the blasts. so many amputees. i went around hospitals with _ one of the blasts. so many amputees. i went around hospitals with the - i went around hospitals with the ministry of health, we think at least 1000 children have lost limbs, probably significantly more. certainly one day ago when i was at nasser hospital in khan younis i saw children missing limbs. and that it isjust the children missing limbs. and that it is just the shattering of dreams, you rightly said it is a young population, which means when you get the right conditions, education, skills, you create a democratic —— demographic boom. i see young people learning perfect english and becoming electrical engineers from the internet. a fourth year medical students came to me with perfect english, desperate because her medical studies have finished, she said i have three years, i have wanted to do this my whole life, i have got my stethoscope, i want to help until doctors do their raspberry people. it is traumatising for children and it is not a place to recover from trauma at the moment, it is a place to have trauma reinforced. gaza is not a place for children right now. it is home to just over1 million.— just over1 million. with all of that considered, _ just over1 million. with all of that considered, how - just over1 million. with all of that considered, how and - just over1 million. with all of that considered, how and to l just over1 million. with all of- that considered, how and to what degree are health care workers able to cope? degree are health care workers able to coe? ~ ., , , , degree are health care workers able to coe? ~ . , , , , to cope? with a spirit is defies the imagination. _ to cope? with a spirit is defies the imagination. by — to cope? with a spirit is defies the imagination, by working _ to cope? with a spirit is defies the imagination, by working 36 - to cope? with a spirit is defies the imagination, by working 36 hours | to cope? with a spirit is defies the| imagination, by working 36 hours a day, by sometimes making do without lights for operations, by sometimes making do without anaesthetic for operations. 0ne doctor said to me that part of his major tormentors when he is at hospital he is not with his family and he is well aware his family is highly at risk of bombardment —— part of his major torment is. he is torn between wanting to save lives and to be with his family. the health system is on its knees, i have been to referral hospitals, battleground hospitals, where a church, which has also been hit by fire, is an emergency word. —— an emergency ward. because so many families are bunking together, your whole extended family, grandparents and cousins, we have seen lots of families wiped out so now some palestinians are deliberately splitting their family, thinking that if we are going to get hit at least we only lose half the family, half will survive. haifa hit at least we only lose half the family, half will survive. how does it affect you _ family, half will survive. how does it affect you on _ family, half will survive. how does it affect you on a _ family, half will survive. how does it affect you on a personal - family, half will survive. how does it affect you on a personal level? | it affect you on a personal level? you are able to leave, you are in cairo, you can dip in and out of that situation. what does it mean for you, that situation. what does it mean foryou, individually? that situation. what does it mean for you, individually?— for you, individually? great question- _ for you, individually? great question- i— for you, individually? great question. i do _ for you, individually? great question. i do not - for you, individually? great question. i do not dip - for you, individually? great question. i do not dip out, | for you, individually? great| question. i do not dip out, it for you, individually? great. question. i do not dip out, it is for you, individually? great - question. i do not dip out, it is a budget, the silence, the smell of children's rotting flesh on a bus. —— it is burnt in. i have no words for it, but at the same time it would be indulgent to talk about me, the role is to talk about what is happening to children and women, clearly there is a gap right now, clearly there is a gap right now, clearly those people making decisions are missing the fundamental elements of empathy and compassion, quite possibly too of understanding international humanitarian law. the consistent message we hear from the warring factions, orat message we hear from the warring factions, or at least one side thereof, is it safe zones. they are zones, they may be safe from bombardment, we would hope so, but they are not safe in an international law centre or a moral sense, because safe would mean food, water, medicine, protection. we are seeing hundreds of thousands of people on their last legs go to a place without a single toilet, to church, to deserts, to bombed out buildings, without any access to water. as the doctor said, we have —— from the skies and disease stalking, it is the perfect storm. —— as the doctor said, we have death from the skies. we might see a similar number of children being killed from disease if the attacks do not stop that from the attacks themselves. do not stop that from the attacks themselves-— do not stop that from the attacks themselves. , . , ., , themselves. james elder, “oining us from cairo. — themselves. james elder, “oining us from cairo, thank h themselves. james elder, “oining us from cairo, thank you. _ well, it's not only the gaza strip that remains in focus. the west bank has also seen a steep rise in violence in the last few weeks, with clashes between israeli settlers and palestinians. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen, has been in the area south of hebron, where an entire village, has just been destroyed. where thejudaean desert tumbles down to the riverjordan lies a tiny community of palestinian bedouins. it's called arab ilm lihat, and it looks timeless. but the shock waves of the war in gaza have reached here, changing lives and threatening them. the village — really just a family compound — lies a few minutes from an illegal outpost ofjewish settlers who came calling a few nights ago. this man, a 23—year—old son of one of eight brothers here, videoed what happened. shouting. the settlers accused them — falsely the family said — of stealing their goats. 0ne, wearing a police jacket, loaded his assault rifle. they thought they were about to die. translation: he was shooting at my uncle so i ran down - there and confronted him. we were pushing each other and screaming, head to head, and i was filming him. then, around 20 settlers came. now they said they had to trust god as israel's police and army protect the settlers. this time no one was killed. they know there will be a next time. before gaza, two or three settlers with pistols might steal sheep. now it was more than 20 with assault rifles. the settlers want to force them out and this family believes the israeli government has given them the weapons to do it. in three days of travelling through the occupied west bank, palestinians have said consistently that since the war in gaza, jewish settlers are better armed and much more aggressive. south of hebron, soldiers checked us out. 0ne told an israeli colleague that he was a traitor for visiting palestinians. they filmed us but took much less interest in what had happened a few miles down the road. the village had been bulldozed, activists said, last night. the 200 palestinians left four weeks ago after a barrage of threats from armed jewish settlers. the school was destroyed — britain helped fund it. the project was called supporting palestinians at risk of forcible transfer. activists said settlers did it to make sure the palestinians would never come back. someone drewjewish stars of david. a settler leader cancelled an interview. the police said they were waiting for a complaint. in fact, the palestinians have petitioned israel's supreme court. we went to the village with a former israeli special forces soldier who now campaigns against the occupation. they are demolishing palestinian villages, beating palestinian farmers, stealing their olives. they are trying to open a third front, an east front against the palestinians. why? because they want this without any palestinians. they want the land without palestinians. palestinians see all this and the rest of the settler violence on the west bank as confirmation of their worst fears, that there are powerful elements inside israel, in the government as well as the settler movement, who want them out and who are using the enormous crisis surrounding the gaza war as an opportunity to further their agenda. south of hebron, palestinian farmers are ploughing with the donkey because localjewish settlers have threatened to steal or break their tractor if they use it. arabs and jews started fighting over every grain of soil in the land both sides believe should be theirs more than a century ago. here, it still comes down to that in every rocky field. you're watching bbc news. a couple of developments to bring to you, this is from the israeli government spokesperson who says fighting in the second stage of the war will be difficult. that is being brought to us by reuters news agency. france has said it is imposing sanctions on the hamas gaza chief. we will follow those developments closely. now let's turn our attention to the uk. the uk home secretary james cleverly has touched down in rwanda — where he will sign a new treaty with the country. the government hopes it could restart plans to send some asylum seekers there to have their claims processed, after the supreme court ruled against the policy. the uk government is putting more measures in place that could include allow parliament to vote and confirm that rwanda is a safe destination for asylum seekers who come to the uk. on monday, mr cleverly outlined plans to reduce legal migration to the uk — which included increasing the salary which skilled workers would need before they could get a visa, by almost a half. 0ur political correspondent peter saull reports. immigration has long been a tricky issue for the government. successive conservative prime ministers have promised and failed to bring the numbers down. the new plan — a ban on foreign care workers bringing family members with them. an increase in the minimum salary for skilled workers of almost 50% to £38,700 a year, cutting the number ofjobs where overseas staff can be paid less than that threshold, and a doubling of the amount british nationals will have to earn before partners from abroad can come and join them. it is surely right that we don't use migrant labour to undercut british salaries. we want a high—skilled, high—wage economy and these proposals reinforce that. he had been under pressure to act and while his predecessor suella braverman said the changes had come too late, other tory mps welcomed the measures. but concerns have been raised about the impact on the economy and the social care system. instead of going after and trying to deal with the core problem, which is we have a care system which is cracking on its knees, not sustainable, they are going after the people who provide that care. an announcement is also imminent on what the government calls illegal migration, specifically people who cross the channel on small boats. 0vernight, the home secretary has been on a plane to rwanda where, later today, he is due to sign a treaty. the new agreement is designed to address some of the concerns raised by the supreme court, which ruled that the plan to send some asylum seekers to the african country was unlawful. but this is a policy that is still some way off becoming a reality, even if ministers say they will do whatever it takes to get it off the ground. peter saull, bbc news. the details of the agreement are yet to be announced, but the immigration minister, robertjenrick, told us he wanted to get the scheme up and running as soon as possible. it's been blocked in the courts up till now, but the treaty that we are about to sign will create a fundamentally stronger relationship with rwanda which answers the concerns of the supreme court about that scheme and that, coupled with a strong piece of emergency legislation that we will be bringing forward to parliament shortly, will, i hope, enable us to finally get the scheme up and running. live now to our chief political correspondent henry zeffman at westminster. henry, what do we expect to see from james cleverly, and hearfrom him, over the course of today? it is james cleverly, and hear from him, over the course of today?— over the course of today? it is a very brief— over the course of today? it is a very brief at _ over the course of today? it is a very brief at the _ over the course of today? it is a very brief at the city _ over the course of today? it is a very brief at the city is - over the course of today? it is a very brief at the city is making l over the course of today? it is a | very brief at the city is making to rwanda with a clear and single purpose which is to sign a treaty with the rwandan government. we have not seen details of that yet but what we think it will do is basically upgrade the status of the existing deal that the uk government has had in place with the rwandan government for some time. currently that it government for some time. currently thatitis government for some time. currently that it is a memorandum of understanding, but by becoming a treaty it will have the force of international law behind it. the government hopes that will at least partly reassure the supreme court and the uk legal system that the rwandan government can be trusted to stick to assurances it has given the uk government about how it would process asylum claims. i uk government about how it would process asylum claims.— process asylum claims. i want to take a minute _ process asylum claims. i want to take a minute to _ process asylum claims. i want to take a minute to consider - process asylum claims. i want to take a minute to consider rishi l take a minute to consider rishi sunak�*s defeat in the commons. this was in relation to the his