hello from al jazeera headquarters in doha, this is the news hour. coming in the next 60 minutes, reports emerging a hospital has been hit by an israeli tank shelling gaza has the bombardment enters its 14th day. fury grows over at the chaos and recovery effort at the seen at malaysian airlines crash in ukraine.

plus, a farmer fights back. why one nigerian is risking her life to put food on the table. we start with breaking news from gaza where israeli tanks have shelled the hospital killing at least four people there. it's the third hospital that israel has attacked since it began the latest assault on gaza two weeks ago. the total number of palestinians killed in the territory is now at 532, more than 3,000 have been wounded. joining any now on the phone is the executive director of the alwatha hospital which was destroyed on thursday in israeli shelling. first of all, from the medical sources that you have perhaps been speaking with at al aqsa hospital, can you tell us what

happened there today? >> well, what is happening right now, which i just heard and i was informed that an order came from the israeli army to evacuate the hospital, which was at the al aqsa hospital, and they're asking them to evacuate it as they have done again and again. i don't know why the israeli are targeting hospitals whereas they know internationally that are forbidden and not allowed to such a hospital bringing life to people. right now there's five dead in the hospital, 50 wounded. they have targeted the long-term treatment section of the hospital and the management section of the hospital. there is no way to understand why the israelis are targeting this, and nobody in the whole world is trying to understand the bombardment. as i talk to you i hear a heavy

artillery from a warship or from the israeli side coming very close to us. about a kilometer or two kilometers away from us. this is just missing the children, the women living in fear in gaza and we have no shelters. we have no place to hide. no place for the children or for the women, and they thought that the hospital is safe. right now israelis are being inumain acting like an animal. they have targeting everybody and every home in gaza city. >> from your understanding from people at the hospital, have they now evacuated this hospital, or they continuing to try and treat some of the wounded from the latest attack? >> they are still continue to look for bodies. they continue to treat the endangered ones. they are not evacuating the

hospital, but the word came out from the israelis that they're asking to evacuate as they have done at the other hospital after destroying it piece by piece, brick by brick just to terrorize the people, and the people here in gaza i hear in the streets and the mothers and the fathers and the sons of the people who died in the hospital, they will continue to fight even if they all died, they will continue to fight. so they get their freedom or their rights to live freely in the 21st century. >> when i spoke to israeli officials, they're adamant they only target military sites. can you say that there -- was there any indication of your hospital or this one having been used by armed factions in any way? >> not at all. not at all. i am walking in the street and i go to injured and destroyed places. i don't see fighters. i only see children, women, men

laying on the streets cut in half, bleeding, their head is blown off. are these the threat to the israelis where we have handicap people unconscious sleeping in beds? no. the israelis are saying that it can be protected. it is clear right now who are the aggressor and who are the terrorizing in area, and they must leave gaza now before tomorrow because more casualties are both sides. we need to stop this internationally and locally. >> give us an idea. i understand you're a doctor. who controls and runs hospitals like this one? is it a private organization, or is it affiliated with any political or military faction? are doctors in control of the hospitals? >> the doctors and management are in full control of the hospital, as i was in full

control of my hospital. there are no people coming in and control the hospital. this hospital is to treat people who are ill and suffering from this fight. we have no control over anybody. the only control we have over is our hospital, and we're in full control of it. it includes the management, and we have the full control. there is no outside factions that is managing or controlling the hospital. we are here, and gaza is very small. everybody knows each other. we know everybody in gaza. these are families and women connected to each other. so gaza is pretty small. we're not talking about the united states. we're not talking about europe, a huge country. gaza is only 360 square meters, so everybody is connected. everybody knows each other, so we are all one family, one person, and they need to protect themselves by whatever mean z

aas israeli have the right to defend themselves, we have the right to defend ourselves even if we are the occupying, we're not the occupier. >> you mentioned that the medical staff have not evacuated al aqsa hospital. are they not concerned they may be targeted again if they already got some kind of message from the israelis to evacuate this hospital? >> the feeling of responsibility that they have in their heart as a human to protect and give life to the patients overwhelms them. they need to treat the wounded. people who are in our profession, they don't think of themselves. they think of others and how to help them out. >> what do attacks like this, your hospital has been attacked, al aqsa has been attacked and there's a third hospital. what is this doing to gaza's

medical capabilities? it's capability and infrastructure to deal with wounded and injured people? >> it limits our capabilities. cuts supplies of medications off to the patient. people live in misery so they can [ inaudible ]. we will continue to fight until we get at least the freedom of not being occupied from the sea and the air and the land. they will continue to do that. . >> thank you very much. thank you for shedding your knowledge of what's going on at the al aqsa hospital and showing that with us. let's go to our correspondent stephanie dekker live in gaza. stephanie, from my conversation there with a doctor, it seems

there is a possibility that area could continue to be shelled. what are you hearing is going on there? >> reporter: well, we've heard that there's been another shelling in the last half an hour or so that landed close in the yard, so absolutely it is a concern that will still happen. the reality here is anything can happen at any time. people will tell you nowhere feels safe. we just came back from a u.n.-run school where hundreds were seeking shelter. one girl asked are we safe here? is netanyahu going to attack the school? i said no, no. don't worry. this is the panic people feel here even when they ran to a u.n.-run shelter. they're petrified they'll be a target. in 2008 and 2009 a u.n. school was attacked, so people don't feel safe anywhere. now hospitals are being targeted. patients who can't leave who are not independent, who are dependent on help, which shows you the psychological damage

that's being done to people here who feel absolutely petrified wherever they are, even fe they're supposed to be in a safe place. >> stephanie, forgive me if this seems like an obvious question, but for the viewers not very familiar with the situation in gaza, when we talk about u.n. installations, what sort of protection do they have in being a u.n. installation? what mechanism is there set up, if any, to sort of guarantee that a u.n. school or installation should be a really safe area? >> reporter: let me just update. i just got a note from the producer who says that israel asked the al aqsa hospital to be evacuated now. we'll see how that develops. not even has been evacuated. they perhaps got another call, so it's certainly something to monitor. if they're asking them to be evacuated, they have an attention to strike it again. to get back to your question, the u.n. installations here

are -- well, the u.t. tells israel where they are and gives them the coordinates and they shouldn't be touched. that's the deal here. under international law that should be a safe haven for the schools. of course, we had an incident when they found ground rockets in one of its schools, although one school wasn't used. that certainly doesn't help the case. israel does say that militants here, hamas and islamic jihad use civilian installations to store their weapons to launch rockets from. in general, these places are civilian shelters at the moment, and it goes to show when you have people there who still don't feel safe, we spoke to the head yesterday robert turner, and he said they're overstretched but rely on israel to hold true to protecting their installations. otherwise, they can't do their work and they can't protect the people. they're already struggling to feed them and provide shelter and mattresses and blankets and clothes. the list goes on for a lot of

children. there's a lack of milk, diapers, there's a lack of electricity and water all over the gaza strip. it's a dire situation. we'll see to see how it happened. robert turner said if they didn't get help from the international community, it would be difficult to provide for many seeking shelter here. >> we're going to let you just take a break for a second and gather things for us. we'll probably come back to you in a minute. let's go over, if we can, to the member of the executive committee of the palestine palestinian liberation organization. joins me now live from ramallah. we have disturbing pictures out of al aqsa hospital. i mean, as i said, disturbing that civilians are wounded. this looks like a mess.

a person like you, you're not a member with hamas and you're with the plo and have been engaged with israel in peace talks. will this kind of military activity strengthen the commitment of palestinians to peace or encourage people to think about other options as a way of as they could see it getting their rights back? >> well, israel is engaging in war crimes and state terrorism. it is targeting and killing civilians. it has destroyed the very foundations of any meaningful negotiation. also it has done that earlier with the ongoing settlement activity, land theft and home demolitions and all these things have indicated that israel is not only not a peace partner but is a rouge state that exists outside the law. there is no way we can come to

any peace agreement with such a country unless it abandons its terrorism, unless it abandons its policy of extermination and assault and attack and bombing and destruction and unless it abides by international law. otherwise, this is going to be a situation where israel insists on holding the people in captivity and killing and bombing them to smithereens. we have to take it to face judicial accountability in all the world courts that are supposed to try war criminals. this is one. i think what they're doing is pooling all palestinians together. we are all palestinians, and this is pointing to the core issue. the ongoing israeli occupation and the ongoing israeli imp

impunity. we cannot accept the situation to continue as is, and the people paying the price are innocent civilians, women and children killed by the hundreds. it's time that the world intervenes to end this. >> how confident are you that that is the direction that the world and international diplomacy is heading, though? >> i think this is a real test for the meddle of the international community not just from netanyahu buzz obama and john kerry talking about self-defense and the palestinians using their own children as human shields are drawing fire like kerry said by using the civilians. these are entirely unacceptable. talk about israel being under siege as if we're occupying

israel. we don't have the army and tanks and the bombers and apache gunships and so on. >> the israelis say that the palestinians use civilians as shields and move in and out of civilian installations and that endangers the lives. do they bear any responsibility for the sort of, you know, civilian casualties we're seeing there? >> look, that kind of language is racist, and i'm amazed that they even dare make the statements. not only do they target you and kill you, but they rob you of your humanity and most basic feelings towards your own children and family. this is racist and this is rationalization for their war crimes, and they must stop. nobody uses children and families as shields. gaza is the most densely populated area in the world, and israel knows if you thrown a stone you will hit a civilians

let alone use your f-16s and apache gunships and tanks and so on to shell and bomb. you dare tell the palestinians you have to leave your homes, entire areas and communities have to evacuate or we will shell you, and then when they leave their homes, they were shelled in the streets. if they don't leave their homes, the homes are bombs while they're inside it and die under the rubble. this is incredible. there is no justification for this deliberate cruelty for these massacres. that's why any rationalization, any public spin, any type of laying the blame on the victim again and again and again, dehumanizing the palestinians, i mean, this has the stuff -- it's not a game of verbal virsuoity. this is human reality where real human flesh and blood is torn to

pieces. this has to stop. the occupation has to end. the siege of gaza has to end. israel's impunity has to end. >> we'll leave it there for now. thank you so much. i believe we're joined by mark, who is the spokesman for israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. good to have you with us. can you explain why was al aqsa hospital hit? >> i can tell you that since this operation has started, there have been numerous examples of the terrorists using hospitals, schools, other civilian infrastructure, even humanitarian infrastructure to conduct their activities for their command and control to shoot rockets into israel, and we're always as surgical as we can. we cannot allow them to shoot at us with impunity. we don't target humanitarian infrastructure. we target terrorists trying to kill our people.

>> are you saying that this hospital, that you have information that this was being used for military means and purposes and that that was what's going on? >> i have no doubt that hamas using, has used and continues to use medical facilities including hospitals. >> with all due respect, i'm asking you specificing about al aqsa hospital. are you telling me this hospital was a center for armed activity? yes or no? >> i'll ask specifically military and gaet back to you straightaway with an answer. i'm not aware with the particular situation, but if you allow me to finish the sentence we know specifically during the last round of fighting a year and a half ago that the senior hamas leadership in a bunker under a hospital in central gaza. journalists in gaza today have

reported and that is the situation today. underneath the main hospital in gaza, hamas has established its main command and control. you have al jazeera cameras outside the hospitals. why don't you go downstairs and have a look if they'll let you. >> you tell me -- the answer to my question was you don't know what was going on in this hospital, and yet, you are sure -- >> that's not what i said. >> i'll ask the question -- i'll and the question a third time. are you telling me this hospital, al aqsa hospital, which we have pictures of it being hit or at least pictures of civilians being wounded there, that this hospital was, in fact, some sort of palestinian factional operational theater? >> i answered the question. i'm happy to do so. there's a clear pattern of behavior that has been documented and recorded of hamas

use -- >> i'm not asking about that. i'm asking about this hospital, sir. >> i answered the question. i'll repeat my answer if you want me to, sir. >> i didn't get an answer. why did you hit this hospital? >> i'll say it again. i'm saying i'll get you a specific answer. i repeat what i said. i'll get you a specific answer, but i know that hamas has -- >> you don't know at this point -- you look for an answer -- >> i'll give you an answer as soon as i can. sir, if you would have sent me the question before, i would be happy to tell you we don't target civilians. you interrupted me. the entire interview you've interrupted me five or six times. do israelis get special treatment? >> i'm giving you the treatment, sir, i would give to anybody to answer for an event of this magnitude playing out on the screen, sir. >> surely hamas has to answer,

because you didn't dispute what i said what i said hamas uses civilian infrastructure including hospitals for its war machine. you didn't dispute that. you left the professor say that hamas does not use human shields and that's racism, she said. this is widely reported. even the united nations itself. you didn't interrupt her. the united nations reported two days ago that hamas was storing missiles in one u.n. school and you didn't interrupt her when she said we don't use human shields. president abbas has condemned hamas for not accepting the cease-fire and for rejecting the egyptian proposed arab league deal. you didn't interrupt her. do they get special treatment? >> i interpret interrupted and asked whether they bear responsibility. coming back to what this interview should be about, which

is not me but what's going on at the hospital, it's not really about what we were reporting or what we are here to say. it's about what human rights organizations are saying. let me quote you a report by human rights watch july 16th, chsz israeli air attacks in gaza investigated by human rights watch -- not al jazeera, and not sammie from al jazeera -- have been targeting apparent civilian structures and killing civilians in violation of the laws of war. have they got it wrong as well? are they asking the right questions? >> no, they are correct, but their interpretation is wrong. in a combat situation, you cannot target civilian infrastructure. if, however, civilian infrastructure is being used by the war machine of the other side, it becomes a legal target. if there's a bridge, you can't

target it. if the other side it moves forces across the bridge, according to international law that then becomes a target. if hamas is storing rockets in civilian areas and shooting them at you will, we can surgically take out those rockets. what is the alternative? to allow them to shoot at us with impunity? >> i'm very glad. you seem to be heading in the direction to give us some clarification. would you apply that to a hospital? if israeli forgss think there's military activity in a hospital, are you telling me under international law you have right, as you put it, to surgically hit a hospital? please just a yes or no very clear answer to that one. >> i'll give you a very clear answer. i said in the whole previous round with gaza we knew that hamas leadership was under the hospital, and we never hit the

hospital. that's the truth because we won't intentionally hit civilians. you can say it's a weakness, because we refuse to hit that sort of target. therefore, that's why hamas was under there. >> which was this hospital hit? >> if we can surgically hit targe targets, if we can limit to a minimum the possibility of -- >> how do you surgically hit a hospital? >> no. once again, we didn't hit a hospital where we couldn't avoid it. if you see a -- >> that hospital has been hit, though. >> once again, sir, if a target is being used, a civilian target is being brutalized by the enemy in a military zone. you could have attacked me to be fair for attacking a u.n. school and said you violated u.n. property, but the hamas is there. surely you understand the logic of our argument. you are allowed to hit targets

where their military machine is using. that is part of their war effort. >> surely you understand my very simple question, do you apply that to a hospital full of patients? yes or no? do you believe you have right to hit a hospital like al aqsa, yes or no? >> once again, the in the example of shifir hospital and unfortunately we knew the entire hamas leadership -- if you agree with me. you only want to talk about the example. all right. >> i want to talk about the example that's go on and unplaying and unfolds on the scree screens, sir. definitely. i do want to talk about that. >> i'll and you -- i'll ask you a question. if your al jazeera cameramen can take pictures of hamas rockets coming from a hospital, i'd be

happy to answer your question. they can't take pictures like that because they know if they take pictures they'll get into trouble with the local authorities. that's the truth. why is it that 2,000 rockets are fired on israel and we haven't got a single picture of a rocket being fired from an urban area? >> we have to leave it there. thanks so much. now i believe we have with us a doctor who is the direct oif of shifa hospital and is gaza's deputy health minister and joins us on the line. can you tell us the situation at the al aqsa hospital right now? >> good afternoon. there are many tanks that hit the al aqsa hospital, and this hospital belongs to the minister of health and serving a busy area of this in which it has

300,000 civilians in the operation. this area is not -- there's houses around, but yun you know, this serves a big number of civilians. i cannot imagine that any rocket or any military action comes out of this hospital. the surgical ward and operational and the medical ward, the ambulance station as well. >> can you, first of all, give us an update on the casualties in this hospital right now from this strike. >> five people killed and 60 injured up to now. >> is this hospital being evacuated? we understand that further warnings from come from the israelis that it should be evacuated. >> up to now, no. i cannot imagine to evacuate the hospital. where do you go?

>> let me interrupt you. israeli officials, they say that palestinian factions have a history of using civilian installations for military activity. can you say that was not the case in the al aqsa hospital today? >> surely not the case. this hospital, i know the hospital and it's a very busy hospital. >> let me interrupt you again. israeli officials say there are cases they claim of schools having weapons stored in them, of u.n. installations being abused by palestinian factions in that manner. are all of those reports untrue? >> this is absolutely lies. you know, the international people did a renovation of the

hospital two months ago. i see on w.h.o. and they're aware of what's going on in the hospital. nobody is concerned to make this hospital something for the israelis. >> all right. thank you very much for your thoughts on that. let's move now to the other stop story. ukraine's prime minister says he believes flight mh17 was shock down by russian-backed separatists. an official investigation is yet to begin. scott hideler has more. >> reporter: the remains of 251 victims from the flight are in these refrigerated train carriages where they have sat for more than 30 hours. the destination is unknown.

the european monitoring miss visited the rail station and under control of the pro-russian separatis separatists. they could end up in a city in the east. it's north of the fighting and beyond the reach of separatist control. >> translator: we are ready to accept the bodies and we're prepared for the wreckage and lablt facility are ready. we set up a call center to help family members of the victims and coordinate the investigation. the teams are waiting to get on with their job receiving the body and accessing the large area where this plane went down. there's much work ahead, and a recent flare-up in fighting could make it more difficult. the bodies make their way to the netherlands for identification. ukraine's prime minister agreed control of the investigation to the dutch, and again underline russia is to blame. >> translator: it is also absolutely clear that the drunken pro-russian terrorists cannot operate a missile system.

these are separatists who have been trained, and we have information confirming that the training took place on russian territory. they received financing, weapons, training and education from russia. >> reporter: russia's president pushed back saying now is not the time for politics. >> translator: no one should and no one has the right to use this tragedy to achieve their own selfish political goals. these events should not divide the people. >> reporter: back at the crash site workers move a large part of the wreckage, something to complicate the investigation and and they vowed not to do in this already contaminated rhyme scene. >> let's go to the eastern city of done donesk. what's the situation there from the fighting that has unfolded? >> reporter: the shelling is ongoing, and it's in various different parts of the outskirts

of donetsk. there are blumes of black smoke throughout the city. it's emptying out. people are fleeing. people that we spoke to in a bomb shelter, around 300 women and children and the elderly that moved out of the city now to a safer area. the residents all around here are being warned by the ukrainian army to move out of their blocks and houses. it seems that the ukrainian army is really making a push to take the city back from the separatists. >> what posture are the separatists taking? >> reporter: well, we've seen columns of tanks and also heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns be hauled to the front lines. so they are taking a stand, maybe possibly a last stand against the ukrainian forces. there was an appeal from one of the key leaders of the

separatist movement here to the russians to ask them for direct assistance, and, of course, we know of a situation right now that president vladimir putin is under an immense amount of international pressure not not to help the separatists here. >> all right. thanks so much. we're going to leave it there for now. we go over to peter sharp from kiev. earlier today we heard from the ukrainian officials saying that any explosions in the center of donetsk, that's not us or our army. we have strict orders for no air strikes and artillery strikes in the town center. are the authorities now confirming that they are making a push for the town center? >> reporter: they made it clear that this is an active phase, but they have not gone into specific details of what units are involved. with we heard on twitter that two battalions of the right party former national guardsmen

have now moved into the area, and an assault is going on. here in kiev it's interesting. it's 700 kilometers away from the crash site. i was struck by the people here. some of the young people, too, who said basically they felt in a way responsible, in a way guilty. it seems inexpolimripoliceable nothing to do with it. today we saw president poroshenko laying flowers outside the dutch embassy. two hours after it, the people of kiev started to gather there and lay flowers. i think the city is very much caught up with the events 700 kilometers away. >> indeed. thank you so much from kiev. the hotspots go on. in libya 47 people have been killed in clashes between rival militia groups. the groups are battling control

of the main airport in the capital of tripoli. they confirm 120 people have been wounded. fighting resumed after cease-fire efforts failed on saturday. three al jazeera journalist have spent 205 days in an egyptian prison. they're falsely accused of the muslim brotherhood. moem hamed was given seven years but receive an additional three years because he had a spent bullet with him he picked up at a pro test sight. al jazeera continues to demand they be freed. at least 40 people have been shot dead in northeastern nigeria. armed men raided the town killing dozens of residents and burning down houses. witnesses say the killing spree was similar to a boko haram attack there earlier this year. the town is the main cross road

for farmers brings their produce to markets. attacks like this force thousands to abandon their fields, and that he is some of the fertile land deserted fresh produce is hard to come by. we traveled to some of the worst-hit farming communities. >> reporter: when boko haram killed more than 100 people in his village in february, he and his family escaped to a town nearby. last month they ran out of money. he had to go back and till his land. fighters with the radical group hit again. he was shot, ten other farmers were killed. >> . >> translator: where do we go from here? nowhere. >> reporter: what appears to be a deliberate plan, boko haram is systemically targeting farmers in northeastern nigeria. many are driven off their land in a region that provides a bulk of the country's food. farmers are killed in their

fields, but entire farming villages are being wiped up. the space is taken over by the group's fighters. the husband and father were rounded up and shot dead along with her five children and mother they slept on the streets of the town they fled to until someone gave them shelter. >> translator: we're suffering badly. we don't have clothes to wear. sometimes we sleepary hundred. >> in bore notice agricultural officials say 10,000 heck ters of rice paddies were abandoned last year. the farmers associations also say several thousand farmers have been affected. officials there are still surveying the damage that they say farmers are not coming for the seasonal services. >> they're not responding.

they feel they will not be safe on their farms, and this will create an impact on the food supply in this area. >> reporter: the impact of boko haram's violence can be directly felt in markets across the northeast. many people here are telling us life is becoming more difficult every day with food prices steadily rising and some items disappearing altogether. the price of a sack of onions has doubled in the last three months. wheat and fresh pepper are scarce. terrorists are nowhere to be seen, but many farmers are still risking their life to do the job. she has no other way to feed her nine children after boko haram killed her husband. what she gets in return is $3 a day.

let's return now to our top stories. israeli tanks have shelled the al aqsa hospital in gaza killing at least five people there. it's the third hospital israel has attacked since it began the latest assault on gaza two weeks ago. 532 palestinians have now been killed. >> this attack is from the israel army. there are administration units and they're under attack. their bombs are in our hospital now. we cannot do anything for our injured people. >> a number of israeli soldiers have been killed by fighters in gaza. the military says four soldiers died on monday morning, two civilians have also been killed. israeli defense minister allen says he's prepared to expand the

offensive. >> translator: we're prepared to continue the operation as long as necessary, and if there is a need, we'll recruit more reserve combat forces until we bring quiet in the gaza strip. >> ben white is a freelance journalist and writer and activist specializing in the israel/palestinian conflict. he joins us live from london. let me put the question first to you. it has been suggested to me by israeli officials that they have the right to respond and fire upon a civilian target if they believe that this civilian target was used by military groups. in your understanding of the international law, does that apply to a hospital? does that give anyone the right to attack a hospital? >> i was watching earlier and watching him talk about israeli military surgical strikes while on the other side of the split screen surgeons in gaza are desperately trying to save lives

even as the hospital is hit. what they have not said for obvious reasons is actually lawyers advised the military about what they have target or not and have described palestinian civilians who ignore evacuations warnings as effectively quote-unquote voluntarily human shields. what the israeli military does is strip palestinian civilians of their protective status under international law and then claims they don't target civilians. of course, during the last two weeks another aspect of israel's attack has included the targeting of dozens of family homes, which israel puts out as being quote-unquote command and control centers for hamas and other groups. at the beginning of the attack, at the beginning of this offensive two weeks ago, the israel military changed their words as picked up by israeli human rights organizations have originally claimed they were simply striking it because the

house blojelonged to a hamas activist. in other words, places like amnesty human rights watch on past occasions and already on this occasion pointed out that israeli attacks are already in breach of international law. that civilians can't be stripped of their protective status in the way that mark and others claim. >> indeed, i'm reading some of the reports by human rights organizations here accusing israel of deliberately targeting civilian structures. let me put this to you. when i put that to israeli officials they say, well, you know if human lights organizations have credible evidence, they can bring it to us, and we have a credible sort of investigative system where we can look into things. what sort of history has there been of shall we say israeli investigative systems punishing anybody for the source of human rights abuses which human rights

organizations are saying the israeli forces commit? >> yeah. unfortunately, this is an important point and key part of the russian army for many palestinians wanting cases to be brought to the icc. the israeli military has proved itself consistently incapable of investigating itself. to give you an example, during the attack on gaza in the last couple of weeks and for obvious reasons this wasn't noted by many people. israeli military decided not to pursue any charges against israeli forces involved in the killing of a palestinian teenager and child near hebron in the west bank shot dead while picking plants by the war, and that was just sort of deemed to be not worthy of an investigation or that they followed according to procedure, et cetera. there's a culture of impunity in the israeli military. if you take the case of of the operation in 2008 and 2009,

despite the numerous cases of documented war crimes and human rights abuses in that offensive, hardly any israeli soldiers were pursued for a criminal investigation and military investigation. one included the theft of a credit card by an israeli soldier. so we see a culture of impunity from the sort of large scale operations that have been taking place in gaza recently through to the smaller scale atroscities on the west bank. >> thanks so much. ben whooit there -- ben white there in london. this is news coming in to us here. it looks like the fighting continues to gaza. the latest line is that three people have been killed and five injured in a new attack in the district of gaza which was pounded heavily saturday night and sunday morning, and this follows, of course, the shelling of a palestinian hospital, al aqsa hospital in the west of gaza city.

clearly casualties continuing as the shells continues there. perhaps somehow related to this, the lebanon-based group hezbollah is declaring its support for hamas and the palestinian resistance. that's after he called the president of hamas on sunday and praised the steadfast palestinian fighters in gaza and says hezbollah standses by them. since the war in gaza started, there have been a few incidents where small rockets were fire towards israel from lebanon. a man has been arrested for the attacks. he was injured setting off a rocket. he went to the lebanon's border with israel and met his family. >> as he walks the streets, a border village with syria and southern lebanon, people rush to him to check on his brother who was in the prison hospital. we are all very proud of him

this woman told the shia. he did his duty and should be released. this is where he launched his rockets from. there was one rocket launcher here under this tree, and another one over there and a third one under that tree. there were sixty rockets in total. three reached israel, one of them exploded prematuring and injured him. two were dismantled by the lob lebanese army. elstand trial, and unlike his sympathy the family got from the own village, some lebanese condemned his act and thought it was futile and could drag lebanon into a destructive war with israel. this 46-year-old is a ph.d. holder and a college professor and a veteran fighter against israel. his brother recalls how his mother used to stand here and watch as injured and killed palestinian fighters were brought to a makeshift 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. he was only 9 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. he always wanted to stand by the oppressed, no haert what it cost. >> reporter: he named his younger son after hamas' leader. his 14-year-old daughter says her father always spoke of the injustice in gaza and every day she prays for its people before she goes to sleep. he was a sunni and was on good terms of the shiite group of hezbollah and fought alongside in 2006 in the war.

when hezbollah fought alongside the syrian president, he was disappointed. when sunni islamist militants fought with each other and against other groups, hussein disapproved. it was an outcry against infighting between muslims, sunnis and shia. >> translator: in order to tell people if they wish to fight as israel, they should fight and the compass should always point towards palestine. >> reporter: since rockets were a symbolic act says his brother to tell the people in gaza they are not alone. >> of course, if you want to keep up to date with what's going on in that coverage of the offensive in gaza as well as all the other news stories in ukraine and elsewhere, you know where to go, aljazeera.com. we have a live blog there and

video on the ground from gaza. all of that is waiting for you at aljazeera.com. sports is just ahead here on al jazeera. we give german sports fans more reasons to celebrate. action from the german grand prix is coming up. @

america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now all right. let's catch up with the sports news with raul now. >> thank you very much. new open champion rory mcilroy says he can dominate golf the way tiger woods used to do

following his third major championship victory. the 25-year-old still has a way to go to match woods' 14 majors, but he says he has the game to win many more big tournaments. he moves up to number two the in world ranks following the victory. richard parr reports. >> rory mcilroy lifts it at the open in day one. >> it's incredible. it's cool they put your name on there before you get it. that was a nice little touch. >> he began the final round with a six-shot lead. sergio garcia made sure mcilroy's victory wouldn't be a procession with three early birdies in his round. >> narrator: mcilroy had got a birdie and two bogies in the two holes as performance picked up in the seventh and then a birdie putt at the 9th.

he returns to 16 under. garcia bid ended when he dropped a shot in the bunker on the 15. both he and american ricky fowler finish at 15 under. >> i gave myself enough of a cushion today, because there was a lot of guys coming at me, especially sergio and ricky. just to sit here and look at this thing with my name on it, it's a great feeling. >> mcilroy had moved to 17 under on the 16th and a hole later he saved par with this chip shot. the young northern irishman got a standing ovation as he walked up to the 18th green. he sunk his putt to claim the open championship in two strokes. he's the first player to win three majors by the age of 25. >> i have a big team over there. my friends and family.

this is actually the first major that my mother has been at when i've won, so mum, this one's for you. and i just can't wait to get back and defend this thing. thank you very much. >> mcilroy just needs the masters to complete the set. richard parr, al jazeera. as richard mentioned he joins jack nicklaus and tiger woods as the only players to win three marnls by the age of 25. nicklaus won four majors by that age and won 18 titles over his professional career. tiger woods was more prolific early on at least winning five major titles since he was 25. since 2008 he's been stuck on 14. then we have mcilroy who has won three majors in total and in his current form he may stand a better chance than tiger to overhauling the great jack nicklaus over the title of 18

major titles. roseberg gave german sports fans more reasons to cheer. a week after they won the world cup, the german mercedes driver extended his lead at the top of the formula one world championship by winning the german grand prix. his teammate hamilton finished third after starting down in 20th on the grid. andy richardson reports. >> a week after the world cup victory and with rossberg on pole, they hoped for more home success at the grand prix. there was drama at the first corner as the mc layer ren filmed. unfortunately he wasn't hurt. a crashing qualifying and a gearbox change penalty and hamilton was in 20th place. he quickly made his way through the field. the mercedes driver clipped jenson bupt ton, though, when he

attempted to overtaken and was apologizing to his former teammate when he went past him a week later. his race ended when he caught fire, and the russian got out of his car safely. the rate didn't go as planned, and the driver spun out on lap 50. hamilton had worked his way up to third when he was held over by three quarters by williams at the second. this mercedes first germ an gp win in 60 years. >> definitely will be celebrating a little bit tonight, and i hope you will do. great to continue the soccer world championship today a little bit. i look forward to the next race. >> he now has a 14-point lead over teammate hamilton. andy richardson, al jazeera. >> the last few minutes india's

cricket beat england to win the second test match. they needed six more wickets to complete the win, that they achieved just after the lunch break. they had 223 in the second g to give india a victory by 29 runs. they have a 1-0 lead in the best of five series. that's your sports for now. thanks so much. well, as we leave you, let's give you the latest pictures out of gaza. we can see there -- there we go. it's a smoke-filled skyline in gaza city. live pictures out of the mediterranean coast strip as reports talk of new casualties. three people killed in the east of gaza strip after an israeli tank shell lands in a family home. in the west of gaza city, medical sources say five people killed when israel shelled a hospital. we have more news at the top of the hour, so stay with us.

>> 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.

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