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 Beitlehia.

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 a house, many children and women were killed, and their bodies scattered in the streets.

Well, that was Ismail Abu Aeta, and Yusra Abu Sherech 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. Since the morning, my eyes are full of tears. Because

many of my friends lost their families.

Everyone here in Gaza is drained.

The bombing, the sound of airstrikes didn't stop since the last night.

So it's scary, but in the meantime, we are worried about the people in the streets that lift their areas in the north with nothing.

Can you just tell me about your situation a bit?

Because you've got children and you're also doing this aid work.

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