Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning in Gaza because while the destruction has been immense over the last 21 months,
it hasn't been equally spread.
One of the areas which hadn't been hammered quite so hard
as others was the centre of the strip around the city of Deir al-Bala.
That was until today.
On Sunday, the Israel Defence Forces had issued evacuation orders for the area,
which as far as we could tell were a first.
And today, by air and on the ground, the IDF began a major offensive.
Thousands of Gazans, many of whom have already been multiply displaced, fled again.
Among them, Leila Ezzat Al Shana and her family, two of whom are disabled.
She's had to head a few miles north to Naserat.
I was living in Al-Puraish camp and I was in Deir el-Balaq but there is two evacuation orders which has led to all the people in loose areas around half of the Deir el-Balaq and half of Al-Puraish camp which is so crowded with with lots of people to evacuate loose areas and to go to Al-Mawasi and go to another areas which is There is no place to go to and the people are so crowded.
So there is no place even to buy their tents.
There is no transportation.
People are losing their minds and they are falling to the ground due to the lack of food.
The BBC, along with other international media organisations, is not allowed into Gaza.
Rushdie Abu Aluf is a Gaza correspondent.