we'll see you for the next . >> medical center for disabled people destroyed by an israeli airstrike. three are dead, and more are struggle to go stay alive. >> hello, we have continuing coverage of events in gaza. we'll also be looking at israel's so-called knock on the roof. it says it gives a warning before striking. this family is given 57 seconds is what they got. people are killed in ukraine

as an artillery fire hits apartments. and brazil failed to reach the world cup final. was the whole thing worth the billions of dollars spent? we'll hear from the president. >> a fifth day of strikes. 135 palestinians now killed. one of the most horrific attacks was on a center of the di abled. two patients there as well a worker there were killed. stephanie decker went to that center. we have this report. >> reporter: may is disabled, and the center that cared for her was targeted in an israeli airstrike. she survived but her injuries are severe. >> we received four casualties.

three of them are disabled. the injuries are burns on their bodies. >> reporter: not much is left of this care home. we asked whether it had any links to any armed faction here, and we were categorially told kno no. this was a place for those who could not care for themselves. >> reporter: this is not fair. where is the united nations? where are our human rights? this is a disability center. what did they do? >> reporter: the missile seems to have come through the roof. it hit here in the ground floor of the center. it's absolutely destroyed. you can see a mattress left. there is a wheelchair which tells you exactly what people were here, disabled people. >> reporter: this attack has brought outrage here. this is a daily reality of israel's airstrikes, but there

are many questions why israel would target a place they know houses the handicap. only the israeli army can answer that, but many people tell us that they're no althoug no longer surprised by the brutality of this war. because no one is trying to stop their suffering they say the international community is to blame, too. stephanie decker, al jazeera, gaza. >> bringing another report from one of our other correspondents. following one family who tried to bury their father and then became targets themselves. let's take a look. >> reporter: when it comes to this war, and this is war, gazaens say, perhaps the most frequent sound is grief. [ crying ] >> reporter: the most frequent image is of children missing their uncle or a woman mourning missing her husband. mohammed was a pious man. he spent time praying and

helping his nephews and nieces. he was 66, but his family admits that he helped fighters fire rockets. today they dropped a bomb on him. today his family mourning. his family said that he helped the fighters so he could make money, and also because he believed in it. >> it is our land. palestine. destroyed our lives. >> reporter: mohammed's cousin said a traditional prayer. and mohammed's youngest relatives came to show thanks. mohammed liked visiting people and helping people, and he educated his children. as the crowd of nearly a thousand walked out of the mosque they're reminded in this war actually the most frequent sound is the loudest.

[ explosion ] israeli becomes shake the earth. shockwaves travel through the spine. this one landed just 300 feet away from us, and the aftermath: part of this video is too grizzly to show. that man in the blue is carrying a dead toddler. israel said the target was palestinian fighter. the scars felt by the children who were just a few feet away. the women were inconsolable. >> prayers were just ending as

this strike happened. you can still smell the explosive powder in the air. there is a lot of tension right now because just a mile down just 30, 45 seconds ago there was yet another attack. >> reporter: today israel vowed to step up its campaign, which means in this war there will be more sounds and more images like today's. nick schifrin, al jazeera gaza. >> i want to tell you something else now. a practice known as roof knocking. we have a clip to show you in a moment that will illustrate it clearly. basically it's firing a warning missile that would land on the roof of the target. we have video to show you right now from gaza on friday. let's start it now. >> reporter: right, that's the knock on the roof, as it were. a small explosion. the clock is running now. have a listen of how people react and then the big

explosion. [ explosion ] >> that's the end result, 57 seconds later you've got an

airstrike. and you saw clearly the people knew what was coming. they're saying it's a warning, get the father out of the house. they knew what was coming, but probably didn't know it was only going to be 57 seconds away. let's go live to jerusalem. as i said, 57 seconds is not a long amount of time. bus israel comment on that particular number? does it comment on what it would usually provide timing wise? >> reporter: well, let me just first start by giving you the latest. ten minutes ago we heard rockets, sirens sounding here in jerusalem, and we heard at least two themselves. tumpthumps. this could have been rockets fired at jerusalem. 53 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel, and two of those have been intercepted. we'll give you more details when we get them. we have been speaking to an

official at the israeli defense ministry, and he told us that the knocking on roof policy use as device that is a projectile that does not include explosives. it knocks on the roof of the house where they want people to be evacuated. it's usually a few minutes before, between the warning attack and the actual subsequent attack or bombing of that target. he refused to tell us exactly how many minutes, but he said a few minutes. and in the case of this video, clearly just under a minute between the warning and the actual attack where the building was bombed. now, this has been a contentious policy used by the israeli army. it's been criticized before because even when it's used, and even when more time is allowed sometimes residents of a civilian building would either ignore the warning or maybe try to leave too late, and in many

cases people have been killed. so the question, the important question to ask now is does this policy protect israel from allegations of indiscriminate killings of civilians? that's what it's supposed to do, and that's why this policy is in place. >> and we're happy to put that to the member of the israeli army. can i go back to what you were saying about that most recent news. i just want to get an an idea, you hear the warning sirens, and you said two thumps. were you able to discern what that might be? is it intercepted or is it striking? it's good to get an idea of what is happening from the other side. >> reporter: well, first we do here the sirens going off, and then a few seconds later while the sirens are still sounding you usually hear a thump or two or three. two days ago we heard three thumps consecutive thumps.

now what we do know is that the iron dome defense system is deployed around jerusalem, and basically this system intercepts the root o route of the rocket, and if that rocket is going to land in an open area they leave it. they don't intercept it. but if they predict that it's going to land and hit a residential area they intercept that rocket. so the two thumps we may have heard may have been two interceptions of two consecutive rockets. the last time this happened in jerusalem was two days ago. we heard the sirens in the evening, and later we found out that this rocket landed on the outskirts of jerusalem, and not inside jerusalem itself. >> good to get that perspective from you. in jerusalem for us. we also heard earlier spokesman for israel's prime minister who explained why this whoa offensive won't be blowin slowing down.

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>> an update for you on the situation in gaza. [ explosions ] >> israel said it won't stop it's military offense in the gaza strip. 130 people killed so far. attacks struck while those were bury their dead. there was another bomb. this one hit a medical center for the disabled. and then we've got this as well. watch this. [ explosion ] >> a major airstrike there after what israel calls a roof knocking procedure. that's when there's a warning before an airstrike. i've never seen in my 30

years live in gaza such a high level of intensity. there is more than on 100 people killed, 700 people injured including civilians, women and children. this is already far too much after only five days. what we see, it's the civilians must be respected. once again civilians hav should be respected. people doing the job for all the health actors in the gaza strip should be able to access all the places. this is very complex, and this should be improved. we're ready to scale up at a very substantial level our operation here in the gaza

strip. yes, we'll support the health, and distribute to kids to be able to treat more than 200 severely injured people. what we did was to repair a water pipeline that was destroyed over the last days, which ar allow 70,000 people to have water again. >> all this conflict in gaza is prompting intense discussions at united nations in new york. we're waiting to hear more from the u.n. security council on a draft statement. james bays, our diplomatic edi editor. >> what is a draft statement, and i believe it is a statement from the security council. it is not legally binding but it is still the word of the

security council on the situation in gaza. it has taken the best part of three days to come up with this wording. and at one point the arab ambassadors walked away and said if you're not going to agree to a statement we'll draw up our own resolution. if you don't like it--they were talking to the u.s.--you can discuss it. they have managed to agree on a form of words. i'm told by arab diplomats that it's not as strong as they would like, but it does call for de-escalation of the situation, and reininstitution of the november 2012 cease-fire. there will be a statement by the ambassador of rwanda, who holds the presidency this month. but that's not the only thing

going on, kamal. we're not getting totally clear reports, but we understand there are a number of initiatives that are taking place. we'll talk about them in a moment after we hear from the president of the security council. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, i come before you on the action taken by the security council. the suprem security council members express serious concern for the protection of civilians on both sides. the security council members

called for de-escalation of the situation a situation of calm in the november 2012 cease-fire. the security council members further called for protection of civilians. the security council members will expressed the support for the israelis and palestinians with the aim of achieving peace settlement based on the two-state solution. i thank you. >> people in the middle east were hoping that you would announce at 9:00. can you tell us why it was extended to 2012 while the

bombing and continuing continue in the area for three hours? >> it was the presidency put it at 12:00. thank you so much. >> brief statement there from the rwanda representative to the united nations who is the current president of the security council. and it looks like we have someone else approaching the podium right now. reaction from the palestinians, i believe. >> good morning. we have listened to the president of the security council leading to unanimous position of the security council. this position calls for ending this military operations and aggression against our people, and we hope that the israeli side that is causing this

mastiff amount of death and destruction against our people in the gaza strip, which has exceeded the number of--the number of 1,000 of martyrs and injured. more than 130 palestinians, most of them civilians, in fact, they say 78% of the number killed are civilians, including many children, women, and elderly. and more than 900 injured, and a large number of houses destroyed. so this position by the security council calling for this ending the hostilities we understand it to mean to have an immediate cease-fire in place, and to go to the cease-fire that was put in place, negotiated between hamas and israel through the

brokership of egypt. we hope this aggression to be stopped immediately because our objective as palestine, as arab group, as all of our friends and now as the security couple is to bring this aggression and bloodshed to an end. we hope the israeli side will buy it. we were ready, and we work very hard north to see the security council acting and stopping this carnage earlier. from the moment that this aggression started. we were ready for a product from the security council two days ago. when the council did not rise up to the occasion we were grateful to the arab group, the palestine

committee in the united nations in which they expressed an extreme outrage and they put a draft resolution on the table. that contributed supreme court council to adopt the statement read to you by the security council. we hoped for this statement to be adapted last night. we worked very hard with our friends, especially the arab representative in the security council, and ambassador of jordan and his team. we worked all night long. we were hoping to have this position declared last night, but the reality of the security council led to officially adopting it at 12:00 today. we will observe very closely whether israel will abide b.

we hope they do. if they don't we have a lot in our arsenal, and we will not allow the security council to rest for a minute. it is its job to maintain international peace and security, and it is its job to stop this aggression against our people. and i want to thank the ambassador of saudi arabia who is leading, and he played all along a very principled position, very convincing, very strong position in allowing us to reach this moment, and we are together in this situation. we'll meet on monday to stop this aggression against our people. and two days ago foreign ministers met, and their effort contributed to the results that we've seen at 2:00 today.

>> that's the saudi ambassador abdallah al mouallimi speaking. james bays, why don't i bring you straight in. what he wants and what he kept saying was cease-fire and that it was the u.n. security council's job to secure international peace, and that is what it must do. >> reporter: the language is not as strong as they wanted. i told you they thought about maybe coming up with a resolution which i think the u.s. would have vetoed or

abstained on any way. but it was immediately fully respected cease-fire that has been watered down to see the reconstitution of the novembe november 2012 cease-fire. no word immediate there. i think that's quite significant. as i was saying a short time ago there is some important developments we understand going on behind the scenes. the u.s. obviously, egypt, qatar, tony blair's office, also turkey are involved in important talks about a possible new cease-fire or a way of reintroducing the old cease-fire, and also foreign minister meeting in vienna in the coming hours may also be talking about gaza, we understand. >> regoing to go back to the u.n. security council. just one moment.

okay, having problems with the interpretation. james, we have the palestinian representative speaking there. as far as israel's reaction, israel is dealing with hamas, and it does not recognize it is part of that palestinian body. it's likely that israel would ignore this. >> and we heard prime minister netanyahu saying he would not back down to international pressure. he's going to do what he's going to do. we know, though, there are some countries that have leverage, and i think the meeting i just mentioned in vienna is going to be important. it's foreign ministers from some of the most important countries in the world coming to vienna on the last part of negotiations on iran's nuclear program, itself a

very important diplomatic event. we're told on the sidelines that they're going to be talking about gaza. that's interesting because some of the countries represented there have different positions. most of the countries say they want a cease-fire. the u.s. has said in all of it's statements it does not want escalation, but it has not talked about a cease-fire. and it continues to say that it depends israel's right to defend itself. i think interesting discussions among the international community will take place. as i say, other discussions are going on in the region. we've not got a great deal of detail in what are being discussed, but i understand a lot of meetings, a lot of diplomacy with the aim perhaps of a cease-fire. but last time i warn you, last time we were in this position it took days to negotiate a cease-fire. >> thank you, james. james bays, our editor at the united nations, where we've been hearing from representatives

speaking on the security council issue on palestine. looking for some sort of resolution. they have got a draft statement. plenty more you know where to find it, www.aljazeera.com. the blog being updated 24/7 with the latest to come out of the gaza strip. the notion that conflict began with the united states, i think, is plainly false. ultimately, it is the people of iraq who will decide the future of iraq. >> he is a man known for his mediation skills. george mitchell helped broker peace in northern ireland. he also tried his hand in the middle east, serving as u.s. chief envoy to the israeli and palestinians under president barack obama. >> for both sides, the