Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
Well,
the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a couple of days ago there is no way Israel will halt its war in Gaza.
And a week or so before that,
the Israeli press quoted Israeli Defence Force sources saying Israel would launch a major offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
if there was no hostage deal by the end of the US President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East.
And that visit is over, and it looks like a major offensive may be underway,
with the IDF saying it has hit scores of terror targets.
The attacks have mainly been in northern Gaza,
and there is Ismail Abu Aita, a Palestinian man in Beit Lahir.
We were sleeping, and the houses were full of children, women,
and displaced people whose homes had been destroyed and now living in tents.
Suddenly, at 1.30 a.m., and without prior warning, they bombed the house.
Many children and women were killed, and their bodies scattered in the streets.
Well, that was Ismail Abu Aita.
And Yusra Abu Shereh is a young mother and aid worker in Gaza City,
about 10 kilometres away from him, away from where the attacks have been concentrated.
She is the Gaza coordinator at the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance.
And I asked her to describe what she's seen in the last 24 hours.