♪ you are watching al jazeera, live from doha and coming up, on the program, hamas has captured an israeli in the strip and many have been killed and they are calling for an immediate cease fire after the deadliest day of fighting and ukraine is waiting to hand over the investigation of the airliner to western countries and sending in troops for this. ♪ we have two major stories

developing this hour and the ukraine and the airliner and the latest on gaza and the israeli army says it cannot confirm or deny if a soldier has been captured by hamas and the group says it seized a soldier in gaza city and 508 palestinians have been killed since they began the offensive ton strip and 18 soldiers and two civilians have been killed also, from gaza nicole johnston reports. >> reporter: scenes of celebration in the occupied west bank after hamas military wing announced they captured an israeli soldier. >> translator: the israeli enemy has been hesitant to reveal the actual number of their losses, yet the magnitude of the loss operation by al-kasam forced them to admit to losses and damages. what the enemy did not admit to

today is the loss of their own soldier, tag number 6092065. >> reporter: the group didn't say whether the soldier is dead or alive. >> at this time i still cannot confirm the report. we are aware of it and looking into details and we will be confirming, denying this over the course of the day once we have final clarification. >> reporter: all day gaza's hospital has been dealing with hundreds of people injured and killed in the area here. and then for a brief moment this. [chanting] this is an honor to the palestinian nation and victory for the palestinian people. we are proud of the men of resistance as well as the palestinians. >> reporter: it's a concern that hamas has the body of an israeli soldier or has taken one alive, it would be a big

achievement for the group. in 2011 it swapped corporal for over one thousand palestinian prisoners, captured israeli soldiers are a great bargaining tool for hamas but if it's confirmed gaza may be hit even harder by the israeli army and right now no one here wants another night like the one here. nicole johnston, al jazeera, gaza. >> moving to al jazeera, stephanie decker in gaza for the latest and stephanie the israeli death toll is rising and 22 israeli soldiers killed and four in the last few hours and update us on the situation in gaza and whether the bombing is continuing. >> yes, we are still hearing explosions and you can see behind me the eastern border and

that area is still being bombarded and further south from there which is north of here and these are heavily pop laid areas along the border and the campaign and to try and push back the people along the border and try to clear it is still on going. you mentioned the israeli soldiers, four of them this morning, what we heard is there were two infiltration attempts by fighters using these tunnels and managed to get into israel, southern israel and there was an exchange of fire and the army saying four of their soldiers have been killed and the army managed to kill ten palestinian fighters because they said they killed more israeli soldiers than that number but i think we also have to remember this is very much a propaganda message coming from the factions here, very murky and cannot always confirm how many died on their side. this is not a number they are willing to share with the media.

but, yes, i think we have to put it in perspective that hamas this time around for the first time there have been two wars here in the last six years and this is the third and giving israel its hardest fight yet. the tunnels are still operating and managing infiltration attempts and managing to kill more israeli soldiers than they had before and israel says this is a huge challenge and not fully aware of the intelligence but as we see and hear it's very much active but this time around the fighters here giving israel a much, much harder fight than they have before. >> reports from doctors you have been speaking to that israel is using white phorosphrus gas. >> this is a report that came out from the health ministry here and they say and confirm

israel is using that but we have not been able to confirm this on the ground. it's something we need to look into with the hospitals and injuries and speak to doctors. we have not seen the actual -- we have not seen this confirmed and we need to take this with care because this is a propaganda war. if confirmed however it's not the first time israel has used it on gaza, they used it in 2008 and 2009 and it burns through flesh and you cannot make it stop unless you kill the oxygen or use some kind of chemicals and using it on civilian areas they will tell you it's a crime against humanity but we have to stress this is not confirmed. >> we will leave it there for now as we continue to hear the bombs in gaza on day 13 on the palestinian territory and more than 500 killed, 24 israelis killed including 22 soldiers and stephanie in gaza thank you very

much. let's turn our attention to the major story this hour, the ukraine prime minister says he has no doubt that malaysia airline was shot down by pro-russia separatists and ukraine is ready to hand over the investigation possibly the netherlands and most were dutch nationals and four days since the plane was downed in east -- eastern ukraine. >> regarding the investigation it has not changed, it's a complete international full-scale investigation and ukraine is read to pass the role to the western part -- partners and netherlands could possibly lead the process. >> reporter: russia backed rebels are accused of interfering. >> this is still an absolutely terrible situation. it's an absolutely shambolic

situation. it does look more like a garden cleanup than a forensic investigation and there is no doubt that at the moment the site is under the control of the russian-backed rebels. and given the almost certain culpability of the russian-backed rebels in the downing of the aircraft, having those people in control of the site is a little like leaving criminals in control of a crime scene. >> reporter: our correspondent reports from where they have a crisis center and a make-shift moring. >> 251 bodies and 86 body parts found in the crash site and the ten kilometers and this is the city the ukrainian and central

government in kiev want the bodies brought up to. they are in refrigerated rail cars some 300 kilometers south of here and they want them here because this is outside of the battle zone and making it easier for family members to visit and pay last respects and also the identification process the government here has created a crisis center, facilities for those family members come here and a make-shift morgue and there is a discussion going on with separatists of where they will go and not an agreement on that and they sit in the rail way cars 300 kilometers to the south and where will the bodies go and where will family members be able to see it. >> heavy shelling in the city of donysk and trying to take the city from separatist fighters and want to speak to a correspondent in donsk here on al jazeera. moving on, since the war in gaza

started a few incidents where small rockets were fired toward israel from lebanon. a man has been arrested for the attacks and injured setting off a rocket and he went to lebanon border with israel and met his family. >> reporter: as he walks the streets, a border village in southern lebanon people rushed to him to check on his brother who was in a prison hospital. >> translator: we are all very proud of him. this woman told us. he did his duty and should be released. >> reporter: this is where he launched his rockets from. there was one rocket launcher here under the tree and another one over there, a third one under that tree. there were six rockets in total, three reached israel, one of them exploded prematurely and injured him, two dismantled by the lebanese army and for the government he violated the law

and will stand trial and unlike the sympathy his family got from the people of the village some people condemned his act and thought it was futile and could drag lebanon with a destrucktive war with israel. he is a college professor and veteran fighter against israel. his brother recalls how his mother used to stand and watch as injured and killed palestinian fighters were brought to a make-shift hospital next door. she used to cry and we would cry with her he says. then the mother herself was killed by an israeli shell. and he was only nine years old. when he grew up he turned into a fighter against israel when it invaded lebanon in 1982. >> translator: i was not surprised my brother had always been a rebel and always wanted to stand by the oppressed no matter what it cost.

>> reporter: he named his youngest son after the leader. his 14-year-old daughter says her father always spoke of the injustice in gaza and everyday she prays for its people before she goes to sleep. >> translator: a sunni on good terms with the group despite tensions in lebanon and fought alongside them in the 2006 war in lebanon. but fighting along assad and when he fought against other groups he disapproved. >> translator: it was an out cry against infighting between muslims and shia and colleague and friend says. >> translator: he wanted to tell people if they wish to fight it's israel they should

fight and the compass always points to palestine. >> reporter: rockets were a symbolic act to tell the people in gaza they are not alone. and i'm with al jazeera, southern lebanon. >> still ahead on al jazeera. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation, it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> reporter: what the u.s. top diplomate has been saying about israel when he thought the microphones were off, plus we will hear more about a man accused of firing rockets from israel to lebanon. ♪ >> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight.

>> we have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. >> every single one of these buildings shook violently. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli / palestinian conflict, stay with al jazeera america, your global news leader. r

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welcome back, you are watching al jazeera live from doha, reminder of the top stories, israeli army can't confirm or deny whether one of its soldiers has been captured by hamas, the palestinian group says it ease sooed a soldier in fighting in gaza city and united nations security council had an emergency session on fighting and demanded an immediate cease fire and 509 palestinians have been killed since the offensive began and 24 israelis have now died. and ukrainian prime minister says he has no doubt that flight mh 17 was shot down by pro-russia separatists and four days since the plane went down in eastern ukraine but official investigation has yet to begin. still in ukraine there has been heavy fighting and shelling in the eastern city of donsk and

forces are trying to take it from fighters and we are live from donsk with the latest and what has been happening where you are. >> reporter: we are still close to the airport, the shelling is on going, actually standing next to a residential block that was hit by one shell at least. windows of this block are completely smashed out and just close by there is a bomb shelter which we went into and now hundreds of people inside, the elderly, women, babies, men, basically keeping shelter in this and underneath this residential block and they are very, very frightened and i spoke to one woman and they have completely taken people by surprise here and hoping in a way the tragedy of the malaysia airline has been brought down and lead to a cease fire and some sort of peace agreement between the ukraine army and separatists but it seems to have

the opposite effect because ukraine army has taken the fight and have been held up in the airports close by to where we very since may and now it seems their tanks are trying to go in and separatists are trying to hold them back and hold them off in the western part of the city. >> certainly the timing of this operation is quite significant as it's happening as the recovery operation for malaysia mh 17 is underway and tell us about how difficult it's going to be for the ukrainian military to retake donsk, how stiff of a resistance are they likely to face. >> reporter: it's going to be extremely difficult. the separatists have to be preparing for a possible ground invasion and they have basically blown away rigorous roads and embedded themselves in places in the city. we know the ukrainian army were able to take back slovonsk and

it was a difficult fight there and used air strikes and ground artillery and donsk is a huge, immense target with one million people and difficult for the army and there is a risk, serious risk for casualties and there are 300,000 people in the city and also many more people unable to leave, unable to get out. >> okay, for the photos thank you very much and we will continue and keep an eye on the situation in the eastern city of donsk in ukraine as military offensive to retake thetown seems to be underway. more on offensive in gaza, john kerry is traveling to i egypt on monday to broker a deal but on sunday he was caught on tape making unguarded comments about the offensive and patty reports

from washington. >> reporter: as the fighting claims more lives u.s. president barack obama talked to benjamin netanyahu to express serious concern about the rising death toll on both sides. his secretary of state john kerry is travelling to the region to work on a cease fire. but first he spend sunday defending israel, saying this is israel doing what it needs to do to protect itself. >> israel. >> we support israel. >> we support israel. >> that is what he said when he knew he was being watched, this is what happened when he didn't. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation, it's a help of a pinpoint operation. >> under scores the need for a cease fire. >> we've got to get over there. thank you, john. i think, john, we ought to go tonight and it's crazy to be sitting around. >> reporter: asked about that and he again backed israel. >> and benjamin netanyahu also

appeared on t.v. and went unchallenged on the claims that the people of gaza have ways to get out and says hamas wants a high death toll so the u.s. media will ask tough questions but when asked if he would give any concessions, his answer, no. >> this will deal all devastating blow to the authority and president abbas and to the region where other terror groups will see this kind of criminal behavior is awarded. >> reporter: the obama administration is calling for immediate cease fire and then negotiations, netanyahu has rebuked previous calls from the u.s. to ease the siege on gaza, privately they may not like what they are seeing but in public they are not making demands on israel to make it stop, patty with al jazeera in washington. 40 people have been shot dead in nigeria and men raided the town over the weekend killing dozens of residents and

burning down houses. witnesses say the killing spree was similar to a boko haram attack earlier this year and close to the boarder school where 200 school girls were kidnapped and still missing and this happened back in april. [gunfire] in libya 47 people have been killed in clashes between malitia groups battling for the airport in tripoli and ministry confirmed 120 people had been wounded. fighting resumed after cease fire efforts failed on saturday, a powerful malitia group now controls the airports. the u.n. nuclear monitoring agency says iran eastern riched iran stock cannot be made to weapons and says iran has complied with a tentative agreement reached last november and pave as way for the

unblocking of $2.8 billion in frozen assets in western banks. talks to secure a comprehensive deal have also been extended for another four months. three al jazeera journalists have now spend 205 days in an egyptian prison and accuse offed heing the muslim brotherhood and jailed for 7 years last month and mohamed was given 7 years and received an additional 3 because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest and al jazeera demands the release of our journalists. the war in syria and the current crisis in iraq has redrawn borders in both countries. the ethnic kurdish population controls the frontiers of northeast syria and northwest iraq but the group is dividing on competing power centers in the region and al jazeera

reports from the crossing in northwest iraq. >> reporter: this is a natural boundary between iraq and syria, two countries that are breaking up. in this corner of northwest iraq the kurdish government is the authority on the ground and it is moving towards the session from iraq. but this is a political fault line. the northwest of syria is run by the pwd, an off shoot of the kurdish workers party or pkk and kurds believe this carved up their ethnic home land which they call kurdistan and there are kurdish regions and run by long-time rival whose do not cooperate and each blame the other for the movement of people, the traffic however seems to be one way. >> translator: there are no corridors to reach the kurds and

people are suffering because of the war with the self declared islamic state and the crossing is the only exit point and pyd doesn't allow people to leave. >> reporter: this is connecting the regions in iraq and syria, the other has been closed since the kurdish took over positions abandon by the army during a sunni offensive in june. >> pyd do not allow people to cross and i tried to talk to them about the situation and said they had orders but didn't say from whom. >> reporter: they are against breaking away from syria and accused working with the government in exchange for that and there is no autonomy among kurds. >> it's part of four countries and special circumstances in each and they can decide for themselves, we are not seeking to include these regions in our state. >> reporter: but iraq's kurds control land-locked territory and have good ties with

neighboring turkey but iran and syria they called for iraq to remain united and the competing regional players have their own kurdish allies, it's a complex web of alliances that blurs borders in a region where a new map is being drawn, i'm with al jazeera, northwestern iraq. families of 283 people killed during the bosnia war buried remains of loved ones and they were in a masked graves in the village and most were muslims but there was one roman catholic. after 10,000 people are still missing from the conflict 20 years ago. five people have been shot and killed in nicuagua and leaving the 35th anniversary of the dictator by the rebels. police say a group claimed responsibility for the attack. china's president has held talks with venezuela counterpart in

caracus and he was decorated with liberator and china is the second largest place for oil and valued at more than $50 billion. now to cyprus and 40 years since the invasion split the island in two and are living separate lives in the north and south. in a moment we will hear from paul brennan in the north and first simon mc-greger would report from the south. [sirens] every year the sirens sound, 5:30 a.m. great lakes -- they began the invasion and they mourn those killed in the fighting and white crosses with the 6,000 soldiers who fell and 600 others went

missing. the president later went along with leaders of other play part. the service of remembrance was lead by the archbishop. >> translator: i feel like the invasion happened today, a huge country invaded us and nobody carried, not the u.n., not the echt u that claims its democratic. >> this is a day dominated by feelings of loss and mourning but increasingly they are matched by a sense of frustration and anger that the politicians on this side seem unable or unwilling to solve this problem. for the latest how this day is commemorated on the turkish side of this we go to paul brennan. >> reporter: for separatists memories of the 20th of july 1974 are different now from south of the line and soldiers

who landed on that beach in northern cyprus came not for invasion but salvation. turkey sent troops to defend the separatists being targeted and killed by greek malitia and the gratitude was visible by the crowd cheering on the modern day people. turkish president said it has been 40 years of peace on the island. >> translator: . >> reporter: the status quo cannot go on forever and we will not allow it to go on forever. many turkish people share the same frustration and question whether the soldiers are still needed here and there is the real common ground between greek and turkish separatists. negotiations are on going, both sides met this week and the leaders are scheduled to meet next week. but a sustainable deal cannot be

brought in and there is little evidence of that, paul brennan, turkish occupied peninsula. >> reporter: you can keep up with al jazeera.com and there are plenty of stories there on al jazeera.com. i'm ali velshi at the world economic forum. we are hosting a debate on something called the circular economy. how do we take words and ideas like trash and waste and make them part of history? [ ♪ music ] this is al jazeera. i'm ali velshi, we are coming to