Welcome to the programme, im lewis vaughanjones. You join us as Significant Development have been taking place, in the last hour or so, we heard from the idf, a spokesperson, saying backGround Forces are expanding their operations tonight. And we have seen an intensification of airstrikes on gaza. First thing we are going to do is show you the live pictures we have, these are the feeds coming in, this is gaza which over the last few has reported increasing bombardment and an intensification of airstrikes. The other thing to tell you about gaza tonight is that communications have been cut, the internet seems to be down, telecommunications down, potentially as a result there was airstrikes but we do not know for certain why. But we do not know for certain why. But we have now got numerous reports that the communications within gaza are down. We also have another live feed from gaza to show you as well. We are keeping across these two live feeds for you as the airstrikes from israel into
as a terrorist organisation by the several western governments. these are some of the latest images we ve received overnight. you can see massive explosions over northern gaza as seen from the israeli city of sderot. the united nations says there are now 1.5 million people displaced in gaza. more than 700,000 are reported to be sheltering in un facilities. it warns its sites in the south of the territory are now over capacity, and that s causing severe health and protection risks for that group of displaced people. we ll have more on the diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in a moment. but first, let s get a sense of the situation on the ground in gaza. we start with this report from jon donnison. and a warning there are distressing images from the start. four weeks in to this war, the death and the suffering is endless. and in gaza, no place is safe. the un says this school injabalia in the north was hit this morning, killing at least 15 people. thousands had been see