Hello. Israel says it is monitoring the flight of Palestinian People from Northern Gaza. The flight of Palestinian People the Un Relief Agency, unrwa, says hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in the past 12 hours alone. And nearly a million, thats almost half the territorys population, in the past week. Israel says those still in the north should leave as soon as possible, and its specified two roads it says are safe for people heading south. People were told on friday to relocate before an expected ground offensive. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has said his countrys bombardment of gaza is just the beginning. More rockets have been fired into israel, and israeli airstrikes are continuing across gaza. Military sources in israel say a senior hamas commander you is among those killed. Israeli forces are continuing their build up near the boundary with gaza. In the north, israeli troops killed several people they identified as terrorists, who were trying to c
Assessing the first week of the israel gaza conflict. Hello. Imjackie leonard, the host of the Global News Podcast. Today, weve teamed up with a new bbc podcast, the conflict, for a special programme, answering your questions about whats going on in israel and gaza. Werejoined by the host of the conflict, the bbc s chief International Correspondent lyse doucet, who is in ashdod in israel, north of gaza, and also by our International Editor jeremy bowen, whos injerusalem. So welcome, lyse. A relatively easy question to kick off with. Can you give us a sense of the size and location of gaza in relation to israel . Who lives there . Whos in charge . And who are its neighbours . Well, thats a sort of a wikipedia of the gaza strip. The gaza strip is a coastal strip of land on the mediterranean. Once on one side, its on the mediterranean. The other side, the southern side, its connecting to egypt. And then its other neighbour is israel. It is described as one of the most densely populated pl