that was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i.b.m. i don't need an id just write a check it was that easy i.b.m. had that much clout i was the first marker processor buyer for i.b.m. in the early eighty's the idea of a personal computer which was was an oxymoron right i mean personal computer what and what would you use it for anyway but it got legs and we started the p.c. business the first year they shipped fifty thousand units and so we went from a thousand a week to forty thousand a week and at that point the p.c. was launched. from almost the very beginning you heard electronics and semiconductor production was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they weren't telling people was that it was really

a chemical and lay industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and that's why they have clean rooms that's why they have bunny suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself over i got those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would have to dip i'm in severe gases and with a sponge and just with armed with severe i dunno what it was is i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldn't get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobody's business. well what happened was people started getting sick was very strange kinds of illnesses things that didn't seem to make a lot of sense didn't seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was

a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the chemical exposure on the job. one put music on yeah right i want to turn on the music for mom but some good music on today. right there. because i mean there's a thing i charged it up. in the sink. and one nine hundred seventy five i was eighteen years old and i started working in the electronics field i went to a spector physics and they just hired me just like. i was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. and get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all the way that i had to.

invest in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of fifty percent lead arc size she didn't know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in one thousand seventy nine and that was full term my months and we're just really happy about it. that was he doesn't even know to cross the street and not know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything. number one or you'd better know it if i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or physics at the time it was unnecessary it just. breaks my heart that i could avoid it this way you go we're filing this lawsuit against your

employer and it's a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe developmental disabilities and it's a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. marks condition isn't like a cold take antibiotics and you're going to be fine in five days this is life. you're. just overrides all that and you do what you gotta do to stay i still do that. i'm sorry getting. but. i discovered i.b.m. had a corporate mentality. which they kept for thirty years and it kept track of the causes of deaths of their ploy it's the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the

company as a whole this was thirty three thousand deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u.s. . but then when you look at specific plants like the i.b.m. plant in san jose there was some extraordinary access cause of death one was brain cancer the other was not hodgkinson foma another was melanoma of the skin and in the women breast cancer was three and four fold higher than expected. that was the heart of this center was a lawsuit. in the santa clara courtroom today the first trial out of more than two hundred similar lawsuits filed against i.b.m. former i.b.m. workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i.b.m. san jose facility in the late seventy's to early ninety's i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this can't be used in this case

a lot of hernandez is not dead she's going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it prejudiced the jury if they saw what these excess costs deaths were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a single person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of the factories and of discussion. but that's not the way that we approach environmental or occupational health in the world. we are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the electronics industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing we've been at this work for forty years. if you look at the publicising generated by again you would think that we lost

everything and that's simply not coming. after the trial i.b.m. matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims did not go to trial. what can you tell us about the settlements. i'm not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and. can you give any details at all did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlements all i can say is that the matters were resolved that's what i'm allowed to say. here in silicon valley chip companies in the other electronics production companies

used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once they're used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. but what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didn't quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually they're going to eat their way through the tank. solvent that the electronics industry used in production in silicon valley in the seventy's and eighty's are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. that spreads really quickly and it's really hard to get that dropping back that's what we're dealing with except we're dealing with multiples of gallons

of the stuff that is in the groundwater. in late one thousand nine hundred one there were over one hundred families in one little neighborhood who had serious problems and the state health department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods. with a chemical industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this but even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into you know fall into a large body of water. so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff you're exposed to the more harm it causes you but what we're seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that it's when you're exposed to it the time of exposure so if you're in third trimester and

you get even a perp or billion apart for truly an exposure it can actually cause significant damage. we formed this silicon valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e.p.a. step in with their authority in the superfund program yesterday. yes. yes. and i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e.p.a. to come in it's time for e.p.a. to exercise your authority and to everybody's great surprise they agreed to do that . so hewlett packard became a superfund site until became a superfund site national semiconductor advanced micro devices i.b.m. you name it they were there and they were all superfund sites and.

the cost of cleanup before i.b.m. as well as all the other companies has been tremendous it's an enormously slow and tedious process. if you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site and most of the people living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. and those same chemicals that are still right under where we're standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and they're actually coming into the offices of these software engineers a google. and this is the one that e.p.a. said might take three hundred years to clean up. this is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that we're really talking centuries of cleanup not just

years or decades. the problem is that it just keeps reoccur. please when companies started moving away from silicon valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their back. their chinese government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldn't refuse. you need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together well they have all of that in china. just. please please.

please one of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable companies like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldn't and couldn't make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesn't have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production. to. come in the new. ball. anyway focused on this is. how you can see as you go by the one you don't we see you know some of the.

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killing twenty four people including two pregnant women and two babies israel says it has also killed a senior hamas official it's going to name has more from the israeli border town of ashkelon now a short time ago hamas leader ismail haniyeh said that a return to call him which is how it's usually categorized during these skirmishes and a ceasefire is dependent on israel stopping the airstrikes and earlier today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that it holds hamas fully responsible for all the rocket fire and that it is paying a heavy price earlier this evening the israeli security cabinet concluded a five hour meeting in that meeting the cabinet instructed the israeli army to continue the airstrikes and to prepare for escalation saying that the top priority is the state of israel and the security of its residents at least thirteen people

including two children have died in russia after a plane made an emergency landing in flames the air a flight jet had just taken off from sheremetyevo airport north of moscow and was bound for more months when a fire broke out on board the pilot had to turn around and make an emergency landing after the plane was in the gulf to planes. at least twenty members of the security forces have been killed and dozens wounded in a car bombing in northern afghanistan. officials say armed fighters belonging to the taliban and to police headquarters after the blast and opened fire on security forces in the city of political marie. a volunteer with the white helmets is one of the latest people to be killed in rebel held last west syria which continues to be bombed by government forces and russian warplanes the man died in an airstrike on a village and province which has been under attack for six days now an underground hospital has also been hit by an air strike knocking it out of service that brings

you up to date with our top stories i will be back with the news hour for you at twenty one hundred g.m.t. . it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa swallowed crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at

the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. youngest has died and fifteen others were injured after an explosion at a factory in chengdu china. occurred at around seven pm in a workshop that appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct. no one would be surprised . if it's in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known. so the fact that apple suppliers

have an explosion in chengdu in the plant means that they have very poor housekeeping or production processes that's terrible. what's completely unacceptable is that five months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. it's outrageous lean excusable that they had a second one five months later. they set up these chains exactly the way they want them they monitor these chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly what's going into their products at every point along the way.

but we have a town hall i fix it i began said will show you how the sum of all that happened. to i have an i phone five here and i'm a show you a little bit about what's inside what makes it tick and some of the design choices that are made putting it together to the first thing out bill has on the bottom is to proprietary penta loeb screws this is a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get the phone open we can start to see the guts. this isn't really a phone it's pretty much a full blown computer that can make your phone last for eight hours or you need a really big battery. batteries and phones last about four hundred charges every cell phone i've ever had to use pop the back off you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or two you have to replace

a battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they don't like that model so what they are doing is building the batteries and the phone and using proprietary screws on their an attempt to limit the lifespan of the following. about eighteen months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. my fix is a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything so that's the challenge it's a big challenge because there's millions of devices out there and luke and i are reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though that seems like a boring product because we're selling people a capability with able to do something that they wouldn't have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for me to repair their own stuff. the amount of raw materials that go into the products that we use are stagnant over five hundred

pounds around material go into making in a down south. so here's an example of a circuit board in this you waste bin this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this circuit board in the most environmentally friendly way it's still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. when we know so far this is a boat that you know. nothing is different. than electronics industry is close the ways that through this the american manufacturers are. they're selling a thing and they're saying well you have it but you don't really own it. there's no way we're ever going to sell you a screwdriver the. ford would never sell you a car and say we're not going to make tires available to you to keep your car running after thirty thousand miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry

that's built on secrecy and we're one organization that's trying to pry open the hood a little bit show people what's inside. and we've kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside don't worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product when it stops working you go buy a new one. when we originally started i think so it was just a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. and over time we've realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are huge concern. over the last few years i've been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. we're looking at getting

circuit boards manufactured. this is the big rechargeable battery and this is the main circuit board in here so considering it's just a flashlight you can see it's a surprisingly complex circuit board and i've got these basic schematic for the circuit board once we decide it will leave them with me and. finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all three of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. and i believe. her section.

visiting factories we've found that it's surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. in general any factory of it's not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone that we don't want to do business with. this is the big line from the factory so this is where they're edging it bringing all these nasty ass and then other chemicals and. you've got a little bit of acid believe you you can see acid on the outside of the machine. i walked over to where there were some storage tanks and it was basically acid all over the floor and the moment i looked over that they told me i mean when i get

back away from here and this isn't giving me a good feeling. as far as making sure everything's done correctly environmentally it doesn't seem like that's a priority for them. and their you know the mouse river in there so the fact that it was so dirty was the price you have to pay for the last thirty years of development you. don't want to buy from them. what do the work you've done to somebody. from all that i hope. i didn't finish the front for me. just by the tail end.

of the one. hundred or. so since it will be so so i said no she brings my scent at the time to buy them just. as what the idea what that's like a model of model. how they're going to do a lot of the numbers on so that it. doesn't you know but fuck you know about you since you took. the woman sitting down when you would see these sudden and so when we should. do that sort of signal hum i pop. in the us but to get don't you think you. should say it is constantly changing. them all of those.

you. spend a lot of time travel you know generations and. you see. this is definitely the most professional of the factories visited. the fact that we're being taken through this water treatment facility is a really promising sign. you start out with incredibly yucky water and it goes through a progressive series of filters and other processes and eventually you end up with a fully acceptably clean water. the coolest thing when the water is. through the treatment facility some of the water comes out of this and they have been here in the factory and i said well i know the water treatment is working ok as long as the fish are still alive

a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die but it's clear to me that this would definitely be a factory to buy from up the one we visited. from the institute of public and environmental affairs module. thank you. ladies and gentlemen i'm truly honored and humbled to be the first chinese citizen to receive the school award. thank. i set up this institute of public and environmental affairs. and our first project is to.

a national water pollution database. though this records comes from the government sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bat what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than one hundred and ten thousand records of violations in our database. april two thousand and ten we file letters to twenty nine by t. brands to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. all of them responded to except the one that is an apple. apple just give us one statement that is we have

a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain. that's in. my june contacted me and we began to work together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the united states i'm sure in singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apple's the chain that it had a very heavy environmental impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shocked and sort of in denial that this type of problem to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. i think it's important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the id industry. they all share printed circuit board

manufacturers they all share or chip manufacturer is you know despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on environmental impacts in the supply chain. you say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know it's it's always you ask and it's all you look for so if you are there and you have a checklist of what you mean you need it now and that checklist does not include what's going on at the end of the pipe of your wastewater treatment plant it's actually conceivable that you know exactly where it's being made you just don't know exactly how it's being made and what the impact is. that's what's going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. forty years of operating the environmental protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. we still have this industry which is discharging so much waste

not just normal waste hazardous waste. in just one supplier and generate more than one hundred thousand tons of hazardous waste in one year. how could we dispose stuff you know in the safe way so how much a time bomb this industry's gonna create. in electronics at this moment of time i believe we're in the dinosaur age. or using too many resources too many role materials and the life of the computers paperclip three to four years.

for a small company in r. and. a mission is to produce a fair trade computer. in the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers under one of the boards. from i noticed that there was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. so we started designing and building a database of craven reuse with computers. this is my father's environmental drill and all my trusty and just you know it's just it's just. how can you build a computer would have trusted how could you build a computer without lead mercury p.v.c.'s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. that was our gold

the material we use is wood so it's technology of one hundred years ago but it's perfectly good our computers will last seven to ten years because the home users non-technical people can repair and replace i'm never placed in memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability. today is is there a major launch in europe. we've lots of invites sent out to people. we were awarded the world's first european. for integrated desktop computers it was the world's first ever achieve some wart at that time i thought wow the the gates.

are just so flooded in for us that was not the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part it's hard out there like government agencies some people like that there is no room for environment so they are totally just bottom line. i'm looking at it now it's one little step at a time the what we need to do is it work harder build more computers and get people to join us. and the. americans toss out a lot of gadgets every day. if we look at the three million or so tons of electronic waste that gets generated the united states every year probably fifteen percent of that gets recycled. and some percent of that gets recycled in

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have you seen me. to. use a male voice here that hasn't paid fabian to deal with iraq. we think ok we'll send our you ways to china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. that pollution is getting lost into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. metals metal is a metal you know and it's there's no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still have a metal. in our work we fly through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets and we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as you're flying through a cloud. they're flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is what's

a chemical fingerprint. in california with getting rid of lead in gasoline we've reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know four days ago this air was over asia. when you have more pollution and you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and so you have so many they can't get big enough to fall and lead to rain. and it's giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and way too much water in other places. what happens if we push it too far. we'll start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. these are what people often refer to as tipping

points and not so that's what we're very concerned about happening. my attachment to my devices is more complicated now. it's hard to get excited about the next new model or upgrade knowing what they really cost to make. the industry in it's constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries with few government safeguards or inspections. we all have a share in this problem. but we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater environmental protections. the digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. we need to make sure it doesn't rob us of our

health and our planet. however while other look at the international forecasts weather is largely thought to dry across australia of libel laws the sunshine it on the grey side down towards the southeastern corner of the temperature started to pick up in victoria melbourne fourteen degrees celsius or twenty the little further north into sydney in twenty four for brisbane generally settled and sunshine stretches across a good part of the country turning

a little grayer into the southwest perth the twenty degrees on monday going down to around nineteen for tuesday but this should be all dry and fighting that's right. weather continues right across the bites eighteen celsius friday also want to close those showers just coming in here picking up into melbourne to around eighteen celsius process guys just around the east coast for the middle part of the way that broadens up because the cloud is making its way towards new zealand so clouding over across the south about it as a spectator will stay lousy dry having said that just getting up to fifteen celsius in cross just a nineteen or clint go on the into tuesday similar temperatures perhaps a little brighter there for oakland with some present sunshine coming through there's not a sunny side so you would see japan over the next a day or two twenty three celsius there for tokyo see it cooling for tuesday.

hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up. israeli as strikes killed twenty four people in gaza among them two babies to

pregnant women and members of groups. this as palestinian rockets launched at southern israel killed four people box we are now getting reports that a cease fire has been off. and our other top stories this hour thirteen dead after a russian air four passenger plane lands in flames just a moscow airport and priest planning saved many lives when cycling foti hit india what now for the hundreds of thousands it's left homeless. have called the next season's champions league after the three male to go through. hell to draw in the english premier league. we begin on the israel gaza border away days of attacks from both sides have

threatened to push the region into an all out war at least twenty four palestinians have been killed in this latest violence including two pregnant women and two babies four people have been killed in israel. this footage shows a building collapse in gaza after an israeli strike this as rockets rained down on southern israel let's look then at the areas that have been most affected around six hundred rockets were fired from gaza into southern israel including the border towns of sadr out ashkelon and ashdod israeli warplanes struck some three hundred. twenty targets inside gaza which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world two million people are squeezed into an area that's only forty one kilometers long and twelve kilometers wide. well live now to natasha going to get on the israel's border with gaza and what more information is there of the possibility of

a ceasefire coming into effect. well multiple israeli outlets are reporting that the u.n. qatar and egypt have presented a ceasefire agreement to israel and hamas and then that agreement would go into effect at midnight it is after midnight here actually have been scanning the sky as you were. talking and so far we haven't seen any rocket fire which actually is a very good sign although there was heavy rocket fire at the beginning of the evening there was a lull throughout the evening there has been consistent though intermittent rocket fire so that for us would be a pretty clear sign of whether or not a cease fire is afoot the death toll has continued to write to rise this evening we're approaching a thirty palestinians and israelis dead since the skirmish began early saturday morning this evening at the mosque leader ismail haniya had said that the whether

or not there would be a quote return to calm would be dependent upon israel and its quote commitment to the cease fire the israeli cabinet had a five hour long security meeting this evening and concluded by saying that he had told the israeli army to continue with the airstrikes and to prepare for an escalation earlier in the day israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had blamed hamas for the attacks into israel and said that it bears all responsibility and will pay a heavy price but both sides have reasons not to see the situation escalate though it has to be says that as harry fawcett reports that this is the most serious skirmish between the two since the war in gaza in two thousand and fourteen. a second day of fighting in and around goes abroad more killings and a growing sense of certainty that this latest outbreak could be the most dangerous

in recent months. israel's military said it was directly targeting. fight is announced the killing of a senior hamas commander in a strike on a car in gaza city. the israelis say was responsible for transferring iranian money to fighting factions in gaza. israel says hamas and islamic jihad fired hundreds of rockets from gaza. some were intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system others though got through israel says one person was killed in a direct hit on this factory in the israeli city of ashkelon another man died when a rocket struck his vehicle close to the gaza border that followed an overnight rocket strike on a house killing a fifty eight year old man the first israeli victim of a rocket fired from gaza since the two thousand and fourteen war. we are not commenting we do trust the army. will take care of us but we are really worried by the rockets. israel's prime minister confirms he told of the buildup of forces

and promised further strikes on gaza and. this morning and started the israeli army to continue massive attacks against terrorist elements in the gaza strip and i also ordered during force meant of the units around the gaza strip we are more artillery and infantry you on how must bear the responsibility not only for its own attacks on actions but also for the actions of islamic jihad and it is paying a very heavy price for this. because the health ministry says fourteen month old son was killed along with a female relative by an israeli drone strike on saturday israel's military says they died as the result of a misfired rocket from inside gaza. the cowardly zionist occupation has done this to this innocent family there were no resistance elements at all and near or around the family's house. the u.n. envoy on middle east peace nicol i'm not enough condemn the rocket fire and called

for a return to the relative calm but it prevailed says the end of the last escalation in early a. is to understand that the sick this equation will not war if they continue to kill people or they expect people to keep silent or pull to keep silence for the crime of israel though i think is always being the prize at the will and there is very clear if the target people people will target if it were in so there's a reason escalations have been contained thanks in part to un to gyptian mediation and the revealing sense that my the side really wanted a full descent into war this round though is already more dangerous with israeli civilian casualties on one side and targeted killings of hamas commanders on the other both sides have reasons to fight on as well as step back are a force of al-jazeera on the israel gaza border well al-jazeera asenath tasha just to be care about this we are getting reports of a cease fire that has been offered presumably this would be met by with some sense

of relief by residents there and of course in gaza but what reaction have you been gauging so far. well hasa said that a ceasefire agreement is contingent upon the israelis that's consistent with what the hamas leader ismail had said earlier this evening on the israel side we haven't heard any comment from the israelis or confirmation but let's keep one thing in mind for israelis have died since the skirmish began this is considered by many in israel a very high toll and the chatter if you will among analysts is that israel may not be quick to agree to a cease fire it's been quiet as i said since the stroke of midnight i have not heard nor have we seen any rocket fire coming from gaza so this is our very

rudimentary assessment of what's been going on since the stroke of midnight but this is also the first day of ramadan it's the holy month for muslims where they'll be fasting from sunrise to sunset so one would think that on the palestinian side there would not be a huge appetite to continue this escalation and quite honestly as we've heard multiple times before in covering this issue both sides actually do not seem to have much appetite for an escalation though as we've mentioned before this is the highest death toll we've seen since two thousand and fourteen thanks very much from ashkelon natasha going to aim well al jazeera is in gaza and sent this report. if you also by the end of the this residential building destroyed yesterday by an israeli raid within the district in gaza the building was in the most well known and famous commercial areas near a big mall and one of the red cross headquarters in gaza the building itself had

many shops whose owners began to come here to know the size of losses because they were ready with huge quantities of goods and commodities prior to the holy month of ramadan that will be followed by two main muslim feasts some shops have been completely destroyed most of the goods have also been destroyed there was also shelling to some buildings to host press and media offices. we just want to explore now how people on the ground residents have been coping with this escalation in violence eric yellin is an israeli computer expert who lives in central and he joins us now via skype thank you for taking the time to speak to us now you live very close to the border with gaza can you tell us what you have been seeing and hearing over the past two days good evening first of all and thank you for letting me talk yes i live about three kilometers from the gaza border since. early

yesterday morning we're going through a rough time i'm going out rockets coming into gaza. we're also blasts. can you describe for us the sort of protocol that ensues the emergent see measures that come into action when the siren sound from rocket fire. well over here we don't have sirens we have what we call the red alert so it's it's a loud speaker saying the words red alert. and as soon as we hear that since we are very close to the gaza border we have up to fifteen seconds. go into hiding story of if there is a safe room or a shelter nearby then we run into that shelter if there isn't a shelter then we just need to lie flat on the ground and that that's what happens if you're out.