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also ahead. rescue workers in ukraine gather flight recorders and nearly 200 bodies from the scene of the malaysia airlines disaster. and blurring the borders in iraq. a potential break up along with syria threatenses to further deeper divisions in kurdish communities. israel is denying that one of its soddiers has been captured by the armed wing of hamas. israel's permanent representative to united nations says the alchasm's brigade is false. it identified the soldier and the military tag number. here we have more from gaza. >> reporter: scenes of celebrations in the occupied west bank, after the military wing announced it captured an israeli soldier. >> translation: the israeli

enemy has been hesitant to reveal the in the of their losses. the magnitude of the lose has force the them to admit to their lose. what the n my did not admit to is the loss of their own soldier. how can they conceal the disappearance of tag 6092065. >> the group didn't say whether the soldier is dead or alive. >> israel denied it. >> all day the hospital has been dealing with hundreds of people, injured and killed. and then for a brief moment - this. this is an honour to the palestinian nation and victory for the palestinian people. we are proud of the men of resistance and of the palestinians. >> if it's confirmed that hamas

has the body of an israeli soldier and has taken one alive, it would be a big achievement for the group. in 2011 it swapd corporal gilad schille at for prisoners. swapping israeli prisoners is a great bargaining tool. if it's confirmed, gaza may be hit harder by the israeli army, and now, no one here wants another night like the one in shajaiya. >> early hamas leader and spokesman spoke to al jazeera, and he squirmed an israeli soldier had been captured. >> they dlarld all the information about the military operations. when they said they had captured the soldier, it's true.

ltcol is the israeli army spokesman, joining us on the phone with tel aviv. what can you tell us about the news that one of your soldiers has been captured. >> good morning. at this time i can't confirm the report. we are aware of it and looking into the detail. we'll be confirming, denying over the course of the day, once we have clarification. >> can you account for him, lieutenant. do you know where he is? >> i can't understand. i can't go into details until we have all. individuals are talking about individual incidents. we have to clear it up and then move on. >> let's talk about your army's operation in gaza, and the death toll, the latest of how 501 people have been killed. thousands injured. the megs of invading gaza, if it

was to take out the tunnels, why are so many civilians being killed. how many tunnels have you destroyed in your ground invasion so far? >> overnight the activities continued. during the mission we have several engagements with the enemy. hamas terrorist, suicide bombers, multiple different cases with these terrists utilizing a civilian environment. shooting from houses. launching mortar fire barrages on the troops. this is the type of enemy we are fighting. indeed, a lot more professional from the south perhaps, and better trained and they are utilizing civilian environment to their best capability. they are abusing and exploiting the civilian population, putting them at risk.

this is the unfortunate outcome. yesterday was an extremely sad day for israel and palestinians. >> and yesterday, hamas says they are not putting civilians at risening, the israel -- at risk, the israeli army is telling civilians to get out, and attacking them as they get out. the pacts we -- pictures we see showed civilians being attacked by the israeli army as they plead. >> three days beforehand we appealed to them to flee. the tunnels are used to conceal rocket launches. we appealed and spoke and you have covered extensively our appeal to the civilian populations to leave. unfortunately they chose to ignore the reporting and open

statements the palestinian leadership in gaza, the hamas leadership, calling and urging them to stay in the house, in the position, do not come, do not leave, and we have reports of them being held hostage and told and ordered not to leave the town. this is a huge challenging situation. when we say we are coming, we mean that we are going to come to this position. we are going to deal, we are determined to deal with the infrastructure. >> yes, there's terrorist infrastructure. >> it's in this area and other neighbourhoods, we see a multilayered infrastructure, and for hamas the civilian population is one part. >> we see that this area is devastated. the terrorist infrastructure, the reason you say you had to launch a ground invasion into gaza to tart the tunnels --

target the tunnels, can i ask, how many tunnels have been destroyed? >> absolutely. >> over the last two days we saw others, we saw an ong incident. indeed they are extensive, they are penetrating into the state of israel, a reality we are not willing to live with and that's why we will continue our operation. i can confirm there has been a decline in the figures of rockets being fired at israel over the last 48 hours. it's progress and attributed to the fact that we are on the ground conducting with terrorists. meeting them in their backyards and i would say the civilian population of gaza is paying a toll. hamas is lentable for the situation -- accountable for the

situation. >> it's not hamas killing the civilian population, the israeli army is killing them, and as you said, some 16 tunnels that you destroyed in gaza, a lot more civilians killed in gaza, a lot more civilians killed than the number of tunnels that you destroyed. >> i'd like to continue where i was. the infrastructure that hamas has for terrorism, the tunnels, the amount of cement that has gone into the tunnels could have built skye scrapers, could have built shopping interests, could have built infrastructure that would be for the good and well being of the population. let's talk about the operation itself. they chose to pull all the cement under ground for their terrorist outrageous destructive beings and intentions. we are not willing to live with

a neighbour like this. they will pay a price. they are paying a price. hamas is being pursued. >> they are bringing in much-needed supplies in gaza. it's an area occupation and siege. let's talk about the operation itself. >> i have to correct you. the tunnel penetrating into israel have one goal - death and destruction of israely. that's all it is for. there's nothing from israel. israel has crossings open, even during the campaign, hundreds of goods are going in today, yesterday, ever yes day there's -- every day there's goods for the population. there's conflict, one party. the idea, and hamas, and the terrorist infrastructure, there's one party that cares about the civilian population of gaza, and it's not hamas. >> you say the tunnels are aimed at the death and destruction of israel, and we are seeing a

proportionate death of civilians in gaza, and a destruction of gaza. what is your justification for that? >> actually, the situation is, indeed, dire, and a human tragedy, but the human tragedy is a result of hamas's policy, as a result of the way that they are utilizing the force from the staging ground. they are using the civilians as a part of their tragedy. that is what they are doing. we, as a military force, a professional military force. we can only find our hands according to the rules of law. we are finding ourselves and limiting ourselves. if we want to be killed, we have to match the capability technically to do so. we have used limited force, and there is a civilian fault. >> 500 palestinians killed in

the past two weeks. >> a huge proportion of the population is paying for it. we appealed to the civilian population, that we are coming here. we say by farm, at 8 o'clock in the morning, you have to leave here because wear coming. we are telling the enemy where to wait and what time he is coming. >> are you telling them where to go, and telling people in one of the most densely populated areas in the world, where to go when you tell them to leave their homes and livelihoods. >> absolutely, we'll tell them where we'll be. it's better that you don't stay in a combat zone. you can move to a place you will be safe for three or four days, you'll be out of your house. making sps with a united nations school, and we are operating with the united nations closely, to make sure they have all the tools and needs and aid that

they can have in order to facilitate their activities, when we appeal to the population, we expect them to listen, because we take our business seriously. we do intend to combat this terrorist organization. >> we have to leave it there. thank you. >> let's go to our correspondent in gaza, nicole johnson. she is standing by for us, and early morning in gaza, nicole already reports of attacks on more civilian targets. that's right, there has been shelling across different parts of gaza strip. it continued in the neighbourhood. it seems there's combat, ground operations going on there between the israeli army and fighters from groups like the al-kassam brigade. it could be the israeli army is trying to flatten the area, saying its mission is not over.

it want to get to the tunnels. people from the neighbourhoods say their homes and districts have been destroyed and they are seeking shelter. we had reports from heavy tank shelling east of han unies, walls? the southern part of the the gaza strip. in han younis it's been confirmed by the gaza ministry of health that a family home was hit. 17 were killed, including women and children. and in rafa a 4-storey building was hit. the ambulance is on the scene, pulling people and bodies out. the death toll is nine, including four children and an 8-month old baby. >> that's or correspondent nicole johnson joining you from gaza. well, the u.n. security council has been meeting in new york about the bombardment of gaza, it's the second-such

meeting and our correspondent has been following events and send this report. >> it was a late night for members of the security council, meeting past midnight in new york on the situation? gaza, it was the second emergency meeting on the subject in three days. this took place behind closed coarse, with another briefing from a u.n. official on the latest death toll and humanitarian situation. not much anxious coming -- action coming out of the council of the the p, the rwandan ambassador, said that the council expressed concern about the situation, called for a cessation of hostilities and expressed concern about humanitarian law and application of civilians. that's one thing that is increasingly of concern for all members of the security council. how to proceed and act on that is not something we are seeing unity in terms of council

members. that is perhaps why they held this meeting behind closed doors, and why no concrete action or formal statement was made by the council. there'll be another opportunity, however, on tuesday, when the council meets again. and palestinian ambassador said that he would continue calling on the council to make a stand, to take action to stop what he described as israel's aggression in gaza, so the debate will continue. >> still ahead. i'm wondering what kind of world we are living in right now. >> air travellers are stunned as tributes are paid to the passengers are shot down in eastern ukraine.

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celebrating by the al-kassam brigade. israel's ambassador says the claim is false. >> there's no kidnapped israeli soldier, it is untrue. >> the members of the security council express serious concern about the growing number of casualties. >> the u.n. security council is concerned over escalation and fighting. the number of palestinians killed is more than 500. there are some stories of survival. seven-year-old basan badi was pulled out alive from beneath her home. she spent seven hours under the rubble after being brought to al-shiffa hospital. she's one of lucky ones. nick schifrin reports from the main hospital, which is struggling to cope. >> reporter: this is war, and war spares no one. not the medic at gaza's main

hospital. an israeli shell struck this man's colleague. a cameraman died in the same strike. for a moment, they mourned them together. today caregivers need to be given care. one hour before he died his daughter called him and asked "when will you be back?" . >> this war doesn't spare the 4-year-old who lost her uncle and her home. she and thousands fled to the shifa hospital courtyard. they thought it was the only place safe from the bombs. >> this man has 14 relatives being treated for wounds. when we died god showed us hell. >> reporter: it doesn't spare the mother who lost her husband.

her arm was pierced with shrapnel. she tries to tell her son not to be scared, but for her it's overwhelming. >> 10 feet away a mother tells her son thank god you're alive. and on the very next bed-mohammed holds up his brother. shrapnel entered his 2-year-old thigh. they moved from house to house, each was bombed. >> translation: they began bombing near my uncle's house, we went to the neighbours, and were bombed there too. and they fled israeli air strikes in the neighbourhood of shajaiya. after down they took what they could carry and got out as fast as they could from horror. all night, and all morning the israeli military bombarded

shajaiya. it struck homes, cars more civilians died here in one night than in the previous threes days of conflict. what you can't see a palestinian fighters using this area as a base. in that fighting they killed 13 israeli soldiers. during a brief ceasefire we drove in, the deeper we went, the emptier the streets. >> this is in the middle of the neighbourhood. this is a u.n. school. it's been gutted by an israeli strike. if you look down here, you see how empty the neighbourhood is, and you hear the sound of israeli drones - they are across the street from the school. you see this, a house that's been destroyed. on our way out we met a family. israel told everyone to leave days ago. some are heeding that call now. can you tell me what you saw this morning and last night?

>> reporter:. >> translation: we heard shelling and artillery, the sound was terrible. we saw shelling and death. we saw the dead with our own eyes. these days death comes often in gaza, and it doesn't discriminate. three days after the malaysia airlines jet was shot down in eastern ukraine, pro-russian separatists say they have removed 200 bodies from the wreckage. separatists have achieved the black box fight recorders from the jet downed by missiles. >> the rescue team was gone, no body was found, and you can see the damage left behind. clearly decomposing corpses need

to be removed. the problem is crucial evidence is being tampered with before investigators have arrived. a shrine has been built at the ship owl airport. fellow travellers left messages of condolences. let's go to scott heidler. what is happening where you are? >> the reason we are here is this is where key wants those bodies brought to. this is - we know now overnight the separatists administration said that 251 bodies have been found, and 96 body parts. so this is the place that the tral government wants -- central government wants those bodies brought to. this is a place outside the battle feed, more than 300km. they want them brought here,

because it's easier and safer access for the family members to come, and investigators and the teams will have to identify. they will come here, a crisis center, and a facility, a makeshift morgue. that's why we are here. they are back and forth over where the bodies are going to go between the separatist fighters, those administering the area, controlling the area and the central government. this is important to those nations who had citizens on the plane. this is where kiev wants the bodies to come. >> and the nations who had citizens on those planes have, of course, been looking to russia, to say more about this. have we heard anything from the russian government? >> no, nothing more in detail about the ongoing investigation. we know that the united nations

security council is going to hold another meeting about this, passing the resolution when it comes to dealing with the situation. russia denies involvement. there has been accusations from the government in ukraine, supplying the weapons or having people in the fighting area that fired the missile. that is the accusations that have been levelled against russia by the ukranian government. they te nighed those. we know the security cone on monday will -- denied those. we know the security council on monday will pass a resolution. >> the united nations nuclear monitoring agency says iran's enriched stock can no longer be made into weapons, that means iran has complied with the terms of app agreement reached last november and paves the way for the release of frozen funds.

tacks to secure a -- talks to secure ta deal have been extended for four month. rival militia groups have been battling for control of a main airport. three were killed in fighting, resuming after ceasefire efforts failed on saturday. a powerful group controls the airport. three al jazeera have spent 205 days in an egyptian prison, falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. peter greste and mohamed fadel fahmy received seven years, baher mohamed received seven years and an additional three because he had a spent bullet in his possession by he picked up at a protest. more on that campaign to free our journalists, and the rest of the day's news on the website at

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