00:00 We are here near the town of Sderot, a couple of kilometres away from the
00:04 Gaza border. If you look behind me over my right-hand shoulder, you should be
00:07 able to see an enormous pool of smoke hanging over Gaza itself. That is the
00:12 result of ongoing and continuing Israeli bombardments. They have not let
00:17 up over the course of the last week. Over my other shoulder, you should be
00:21 able to make out one of the many checkpoints that have been set up
00:26 around the region. Roads around Gaza leading towards the territory have all
00:32 been sealed off to unauthorised vehicles. That is a matter of safety
00:37 because there is still a danger of both infiltrators and rocket attacks. As we
00:41 arrived here, we saw people running for cover, trying to avoid one of these
00:45 Hamas rocket strikes. They are not regularly coming under rocket fire. You
00:50 might just be able to make out one of the shelters. I can see about four from
00:53 where I am standing now. You have just 10 seconds to make it into cover.
00:58 Driving down towards the south on Friday morning, what we have noticed
01:03 is a definite ramp-up of massive military activity. We have seen
01:06 convoys of trucks carrying Merkava tanks headed towards the territory.
01:10 We have seen military vehicles on pretty much every road that we have
01:13 been on. Encampments of troops that have been set up. Indeed, not far
01:18 from where we are, dug-in self-propelled artillery positions
01:23 which were regularly continuing to fire in the direction of Gaza. There
01:28 was also a helicopter overhead that has been regularly sweeping the area,
01:32 circling and doing figures of eights overhead. Very likely it has been
01:36 looking for Hamas infiltrators. Despite the Israeli military saying
01:41 they have been combing the area, looking for such infiltrators, trying
01:45 to keep the area secure, it is extremely difficult to find them
01:48 because they are still managing to come over the border and into
01:53 Israeli territory, trying to keep up their fight through these tunnels
01:56 that Israel is finding remarkably difficult to find.
