snapshots of the lives. of the stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's wild. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmaking this. week nice documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera. palestinian factions in gaza and israel agreed to a cease fire ending the worst violence in years. alone welcome on peter w. watching all to zero life my headquarters here in doha also coming up political drama continues to be played out in sri lanka with the parliament passing

a no confidence motion against the newly appointed prime minister. members of the u.s. senate renewed calls for sanctions against saudi arabia in the wake of the murder of the journalist jamal. to resume a face is a long and politically dangerous day trying to sell a brick city deal to her own capital. a cease fire agreed between palestinian groups and israel is so far holding the egyptian brokered truce came after a major escalation in the fighting that saw seven palestinians killed leaders say they'll abide by the agreement as long as israel does the same the announcement was met with celebrations in gaza and protests in israel we have two correspondents following the latest on the cease fire we'll speak with hoda abdel-hamid in gaza shortly for us as go to stephanie in west jerusalem stephanie just get us right up

to speed what's been going going on over night. it's been quiet the ceasefire is holding the moment it's more of what's happening here the headlines is a potential diplomatic fallout from that we are expecting any point the defense minister avigdor lieberman to hold a press conference the leaks coming out of the meeting that he's been holding with his party is that he intends to resign over this or we would have to wait and see basically that meeting yesterday the security cabinet meeting almost seven sure and i'm going to interrupt you because we're getting live pictures of having taught lieberman there about to give us his announcement let's just open the microphones and soon get a sense of what he's just about to tell us. first a look at the news everybody. with

a few words and also we have to answer any questions. that the way i assume that everybody has tried to guess what the reason for this meeting is and i think that you've guessed correctly. here i wish to inform you that i wish to say i'm going to resign my function as the minister of defense of israel why now for my what happened yesterday the ceasefire yesterday. together with all of the arrangements against hamas is. giving into terror there's no reason there's no other reason but giving into terror. and what we're doing now as a state where. getting silence for peace for.

a brief period. forgetting about the long term. it's not a secret that in the last months that been a difference of opinion between the prime minister myself and i would just. mention the. the subject about the petrol from qatar i thought i said that that was an error and it was only after the prime minister made a written. agreement that i had to agree to letting petrol into the gaza strip. also the. the strategic. route between my lair and the dead sea i thought that we had to give up but the prime minister made a written agreement and. prevented that from happening

also regarding other subjects i wouldn't detail all of them there was a difference of opinion. despite the difference of opinion. i've tried to stay as a. faithful member of the knesset as long as possible to keep all of the differences within. but it has failed. from my point of view the two point critical point which i said that is impossible to carry on one is the fifteen million dollar bill that went into the gaza strip from hamas fifteen million dollars in cash that was taken into cases and everybody who says that there is inspection or control over that what will

happen with the money after. they have gone over the border. it's not clear at all. and by the way what anybody who is following what's following the arabic channels has to understand why this money fifteen million dollars why they. first of all went to the families. to the terrorists that fought on the. on the border with israeli soldiers throwing grenades and died to these families for the first that are going to receive part of this fifteen million dollars in other words. on one side. talking about money against terror and on the other side we're giving terrorists money allowing them to take money in cash to terrorists in the gaza strip.

and this is. absolutely impossible. and regarding the second point this is the same cease fire. which. i believe the five hundred rockets which were fired at israel. was. not a not enough and it's impossible to. carry this on and i know all of the excuses and all of the explanations and i understand all of the reasons. and all of the information. and there's always the north and the south and there's west and east. and there's the. close circles in the fast circles up and down there all of the excuses regarding the logical order for the interest of defense we have first of all to finish the story of the self

the story of the self is foremost and. what we found. it also affects other areas. i wouldn't. be able to continue my function as the defense minister i would not be able to look in the faces in the eyes of the people in the south the schole family or coding family or the other citizens who are within the range of hamas. who are taken prisoners by hamas and i think that we have to. take into account all of the . the the advance in gaza into also the. firstly the arrangement between all of the for all of those would have been taken

prisoner and have disappeared and know that hamas have to understand that. nobody should go close to the ranch or. from first's until for until sunday i want to explain what happened on thursday between wednesday and thursday five hundred million dollars went into the gaza strip by friday hamas had paid three hundred had taken three hundred thousand people to the borders to combat the israeli soldiers there were four hundred injured one hundred one dead . the rockets that were. fired this was the day after they have received five hundred thousand dollars the day after palestinians came into. green houses and burned them down this and of course all that happened. in the.

i want to say that i had never been stuck on the chair and that i was always moving between cheers and was. as a party we want to principles and i want to mention the. fact that over taina was the only party that all of them voted against the offensive in the knesset and the opposition moved part of the coalition in important things and also. we are. in the matter of shalit. it was very difficult to sit opposite the families and to explain that i wouldn't be able to take part in the. shalit matter i was have voted against it in the knesset. and of course it's clear that

this was certain also my entrance as the defense minister also the policy to turkey. my. eye was clear i voted against it. and. clear that my stance was correct. of course from now. we also as a sober taina. due to a flood of. objections from the commentators and i am sure that we will be able to stand also in with all of the. finger said to be pointing at us as we have done in the past in lesser matters. all the things which come

through facebook and twitter etc what i. also request is that as soon as possible we should. ensure a date for new elections. and we have to stop. the. the fact that it is the terrorism is unclear and that we have to decide what our stance is and what we want to do in other words i hope that until sunday. in the with the heads of the parties we can come to an agreement on the date for the elections and. understand what the correct way forward is. firstly the live television.

difficult to hear the question i'm sorry. i don't intend to. to talk about these matters. of course the security matters are not something to. be talked about in public but apart from that i think that the what we have been doing in the last months is absolutely correct i went in came into the into the government everybody knew what my stance was and. i can't on the one hand

prevent every. opposition attack against gaza and then today ask forty eight hours have passed. and this is more that's what happened if you ask me there's no reason why the same terrorists and heads of terror in gaza should be. feel should feel that they can do whatever they want and they can demonstrate against on the front on our front years. they never talk about. jewelry. about living together in peace. the. two hundred and fifty two hundred seventy million dollars. finances they have a year they use for the purposes and

i think there's a reason to get money because of them us and gives these gifts monies to the clocks . he gives the money to not to the clerks in hamas gets into. don't give her one penny the people who receive the money. only those who. hand in hand with hamas. i think that also in this case they responsible it is of everybody that the cabinet of the government and i don't wish to attack anybody individually. i opposed this from within for two and a half years and what i. have given the two point main points

the fifteen million dollars in cash to the hamas in the gaza strip and also the ceasefire after five hundred rockets having been fired or close to five hundred rockets in the south of the strip this is. more than i can stomach. and of course. occasionally one has to you're watching al-jazeera we're live in west jerusalem a little bit of israeli political history there for you happening in real time avigdor lieberman the israeli defense minister confirming he's tendering his resignation that will take effect within forty eight hours he was prepared very quickly to go on to answering the inevitable question of why now he said his country is in effect giving in to terror that's a direct quote from mr lieberman he said we are getting silence for brief periods but not in the long term he said the decision to take fuel into garza from katsav was a mistake he said he tried to stay on as

a faithful knesset member he said his reasons for tendering his resignation basically boiled down into two main areas fifteen million dollars into gaza in cash again was a mistake in his opinion he said unequivocally that a lot of that cash went to and i quote the families of terrorists he also said his second main area that he felt very uncomfortable with given the five hundred rockets have been fired at israel he couldn't look the families in the south of the country in the face doing the job that he's done since may of twenty sixteen stephanie decker is our correspondent following that story out of west jerusalem so steph clearly he felt his position was completely untenable. that's correct or you just pretty much wrapped up what he said there he doesn't agree with the ceasefire two main points the fifteen million in cash that was hand carried by the qatari envoy the weekend before all of this happened the deal was

that that money could only go to civil servants and not to any members of hamas military wing but he said that he didn't believe that there could be accountability once the money cross the border and he also didn't agree with the cease fire because he mentioned those almost five hundred rockets fired into israel from gaza city city as you mentioned he couldn't look the southern communities in the face having said all this peter there have been rumors before also today the israeli media citing sources close to lieberman who say that he's been planning this for a while and that what happened yesterday the ceasefire that he publicly doesn't agree with was the straw that broke the camel's back so what now well likely we understand from the israeli media that has been briefed by netanyahu the office he may assume the role of the defense minister what happens to the coalition well the government won't collapse because even though if lieberman's party pulls out there

are five seats netanyahu man tains a one seat majority well it's not enough certainly for the prime minister so i think more than likely we will be going to early elections again there have been has been talk about early elections before this country hasn't had elections on time since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight but yes it is a major development when it comes to internal politics and it goes to show that gaza is such a difficult issue not all agree on and you know the pressures of that huge amount of outgoing fire from gaza something we didn't even see during the two thousand and fourteen conflict has now had this you know internal diplomatic fallout stuff thanks very much let's turn now to our cuba eldar he's a senior columnist moments your reading of this resignation for us. hi peter. as was said before it's not a big surprise it was a matter of timing actually you can add to. liberman's

interest of doing it today and not yesterday it's not just the ceasefire the fact is the other fact is that his close aides some even say his puppet is now the mayor of jews and this is a very good jumping board to words the next elections actually he couldn't abandon them before our while he was busy and in this campaign so we can add this to his calculations the other thing is that we are looking at early elections sooner than later it will happen netanyahu is busy with the submarine affair he is surrounded with scandals his base is getting weaker is political base is getting weaker he is and was

criticized also by enough tally bennett his coalition partner from by you. for being too soft on the hamas. you know lieberman met just a few months ago in cyprus it was published with a special envoy from qatar and what were they discussing if not you know installing money and. and building the infrastructure in gaza his line clearly or his starting point looking at the news conference is still ongoing would appear to have been i've been misunderstood but his critics might have said look you're trying to lead the defense establishment within the israeli government in a direction that we don't necessarily want to go. the israeli army chief of staff and the head of the mossad and shin bet they all

supported strongly supported the ceasefire and ending the closure. on gaza and allowing. more and more goods into this area so he doesn't have partners in the military a sub regime and he and bennett to do their policy they don't think about that cracking down on hamas and killing more people will put us in a better position it will bring us back to square one and more casualties and more fatalities and more problems in the international and regional rina you know netanyahu just visited on mon and our we were playing in abu dhabi so he is looking at the region he has to be careful not to cross certain red lines between you know the israelis and hamas and the and lieberman was part of this is

just it's you know it's cheap politics it has nothing to do with substance when you talk about it being cheap politics however akiva eldar is this may be good news for mr netanyahu because if we now know that those private arguments within the realms of israeli politics over gaza have now gone public the man who said i can't accept what we are arguing about or where i think the argument is going he's gone away so is it easier for mr netanyahu to close down even if this does mean elections in israel. yeah i agree with peter that now he will have to deal with you know one person down from the radical right that he will still have to deal with was bennett who was actually struggling with with. who was lieberman. regarding the policy for we should. go

harder on hamas or not so he is still there and honey al is very fragile with just a very slim majority of sixty one. he is not very happy i can tell you was was this is the fact that he wanted lieberman back and lieberman was only five seats in the knesset out of one hundred twenty he got this very central very important position of minister of defense many people in dili could in the party were not very happy it was this that giving it to another party so now netanyahu can offer it to someone else from his party or even to bennett and satisfy him but i think that for him this is an opportunity to go for an early elections before he himself is indicted and. what what we see is an

erosion of his popularity of his writing in the public polls and perhaps this for him will be an opportunity to position himself as a pragmatic and someone you construct you can trust and as. you know the responsible adult in the government ok we'll leave our conversation akiva eldar as ever thank you very much well he joins us live from gaza hota the reaction where you are. well actually while avigdor lieberman was a hamas spokesman issued a statement in which basically said that his resignation was a political victory for the resistance and also an acknowledgment by israel that it had in keurig over the past few days now i spoke earlier to another have massive official asking him you know maybe having to live a man who will announce his resignation what does it change for you here in gaza

new said that it won't change absolutely anything i said did he have an impact on the cease fire talks what was his position. this is collation that we saw unfold over the past week when he said that everything was actually in the hands of prime minister netanyahu so at least publicly to have most leadership say that it's not really worried about who will come after door liberman does it in a sense or up to a point to maybe make it easier for hamas to work with israel in. one of the problems that we think mr lieberman had with his job was the way that it was nuanced and so that anything he wanted to do a certain things that he maybe wanted to do had to be run by the israeli cabinet and they had to kind of sign off on it so whoever gets the job they know that that's part of the constraining mechanism that encapsulates how they do their job.

well i did try to get a reaction to that it was exactly my point in the conversation and we also spoke to someone from the leadership of. jihad well they were both saying that doesn't matter who the person is in israel especially at this particular time that all these mediation efforts are going through egypt and now also know winston churchill and who are apparently are going to take a bigger role in the coming days you said it doesn't really matter who's the person at the moment everything is in the hands of prime minister netanyahu and the message at least what they told us that the leadership is getting here is that prime minister netanyahu is also keen on this ceasefire on that and working out to find the final details of a long term cease fire he said that it seems to be a priority if that's the message they were getting through to me now i asked what is the priority for how much here and they said yes it is also a priority for us there is an acknowledgement that people here have been going

through untold suffering that the strip hasn't recovered from the last war in two thousand and fourteen and they really can't afford another war we heard every day or lieberman complaining about the fifteen million dollars in cash now i don't have the breakdown of where it all went but some of that way and some of the families of those who got wounded or who died during those protests along the border fence but they got like a wounded person just got two hundred dollars of certainly not a massive amount of money that would help them in any way turn around their lives so that injection of money yes was welcomed here but if it's not enough to get this trip back on its feet he's been in the job two. months two years and six months old how will the people remember him. i think they probably remember him as another defiant israeli defense minister i think people in gaza assume. look too closely at the different personalities in

this sense whether it is. government would this happen it was the one before the result is always the same. one how men's leader was telling me earlier that actually it has nothing to do with people it has to do with the national interest. of the country he would certainly i mean people know he is a very tough man they do know that he would he does i mean and we actually also heard him that he considers that all of gaza is basically one big strip full of as he says terrorists he did advocate for another all out war because in his view not all the old out war in gaza would then bring quiet. about four to five years that was the words of a living man a few months ago so certainly will it bring a sigh of relief that people here think that things will change very quickly i

don't think so i mean the problems in this trip have become so many and they're in all directions and really trying to bring some sort of normalcy will take a long time and certainly you know at the end of the day people have been demonstrating for months and they want a lifting of the look a they want improvement in their lives and they want to just be able to continue going on to be connected to the world like many. so i don't think anyone would expect that anything of that anything that will come anytime soon even though people at the moment happy that they have more electricity which is something that sounds a bit strange but going from four hours to sixteen hours a day is certainly something that has been welcomed and actually standing here someone did ask do you think they will cut electricity again this is the level of people's worries here in the gaza strip thanks very much if you're just joining us . right so. to speed with what's happened since we came on air with this half hour

about zero world news the man you're looking at is lieberman he's still holding that live news conference in west jerusalem at about three minutes past the hour he announced his resignation it's not with immediate effect it will kick in after forty eight hours he was basically describing the cease fire with hamas following the events in gaza over the past twenty four thirty six hours is giving into terror not wishing to put words into his mouth he was basically saying it has been a complete capitulation he said we are getting silence for a brief period but not in the long term he said the fuel being taken into gaza was a mistake he said he tried to stay on as a faithful member of the knesset there were two major areas over which he felt particularly uncomfortable one was fifteen million dollars in cash going into gaza the second was not being able to look the families in southern israel in the face because of their proximity to areas where the missiles were being fired from let's

just get a son but now from mr lieberman come on man not nor do. i wish to inform you that i'm going to resign my function as the minister of defense of israel why now from what happened yesterday the ceasefire yesterday together with all of the arrangements against a mass is giving into terror there is no other reason no other reason but giving in to terror. well the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been defending his decision to accept the egyptian brokered cease fire with palestinian armed groups mr nurse in yahoo said quote when making decisions crucial to security the public can't always be privy to the considerations that must be hidden from the enemy as the us and yahoo has faced criticism for the true steel within his own government. well of course whenever you wanted including the latest on the developing story out of west jerusalem and gaza on the web site www dot call up next on this channel it's inside story here and. we'll see you very soon.

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