Days of intense violence. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attack is only just begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups, undeterred, kept up their own barrage of israel. 0ur bbc team was in ashkelon in southern israel, not far from the gaza border when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to gaza that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more fire power. The next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much bigger than other incursions since hamas took over in gaza in 2007. Lines of cars outside a Military Base on the road to gaza were parked by reservists as they reported for duty, getting ready, saying their goodbyes. Parents came to the base for a few
this is live, looking across at the israel gaza border, from israel. i was there yesterday when the ceasefire came into effect. it became very quiet as the ceasefire took hold. those plumes of sport those plumes of smoke gradually started to dissipate stop this is where the hostages being held by hamas will be returned to israel today, they will be brought into egypt. and this is the point at which palestinian detainees are being brought to, day two of the deal, it is expected to last two more days. israeli children s hospital have released a video of hostages reuniting with their loved ones. this is the moment nine year old ohad, his mother and grandmother, greeted their relatives they were released by hamas on friday. i was talking to one of the families relatives a couple of days ago, about the nervousness, at that point they did not know if they were going to be in the first group of releases. many of those pictures have been shared on social media. some of the rel