14 Oct 2023

Reporting from Israel: Lyse Doucet

From Saturday Morning, 9:35 am on 14 October 2023
This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes. (Photo by Yahya HASSOUNA / AFP)

This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Photo: AFP / Yahya Hassouna

The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is reporting in Southern Isreal, currently in the coastal city of Ashdod, which is coming under fire from Hamas.

Doucet says the Israel Gaza war is "a situation Israel has never confronted before", and that the shock and anger in Israel in reflected in a sense of now doing whatever it takes, including going in on the ground.