israel's missile system simply unable to cope with the sheer number of projectiles heading towards some of these. injuries on the ground until of the if that be much more all this with my colleague mary of the most it loves of next on al-jazeera. with. you watching al jazeera and al breaking news this hour a 2nd day of israeli as strikes in palestinian rocket attacks these are the images that we've been seeing that have been international calls for deescalation though israel and palestinian armed groups have been ramping up their attacks in the most intense exchange of fire since 2014 has gathered pace and this of course as night has fallen and gaza. so just under 2 hours ago an israeli air strike brought down a residential tower block in gaza city the israeli army is saying that it informed

residents of the tower to evacuate before it was targeted it says that hamas has an office inside this building and this is the view on the ground as the tower fell rescue workers are searching for survivors by flashlight but there is no word yet on casualties across the strip gaza's health ministry says at least $28.00 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours this includes children now the palestinian group hamas said that they fired $130.00 rockets towards tel aviv israel's 2nd largest city and economic capital one of the. political so horrible. this is the moment one of those rockets hit abbas in hall on one of the city's southern suburbs one woman was killed air raid sirens are ringing

out now across tel aviv with residents of the city taking cover and then earlier on 2 women were killed in the israeli city of ashkelon just north of gaza the military wing of hamas and palestinian armed groups have been firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel the prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to step up attacks in gaza and i hope it's a motion mohawk but we are in the midst of a campaign since yesterday the idea of his being struck in hamas and islamic jihad in gaza we eliminated commanders we hurt a lot of the quality targets the conclusion of the meeting is to increase even more the force of the strikes and also the rights of the structure hamas will now receive blows that it did not expect. well al-jazeera software and harry force it a covering developments from gaza and southern israel obviously will be speaking to them both what in gaza any details on casualties as

a result of the collapse of this tower block. the minister of health just said that one palestinian died in the hospital he said and of the wounds he sustained earlier so which includes the this told up to $29.00 palestinians 2 of them including 2 women and 9 children more than 150 policy and injured so far from the front 2 days of israeli air strikes all over the gaza strip. after the destruction of 100 the residential towers we learned that there is one more for residential buildings the evacuated as the rain is will destroy them which means that tens of thousands of families will have to leave their homes on stay homeless until they somebody find a solution. in the residential places still some people in the 2014 will many thousands of families have lost their homes because of the israeli air strikes

and it took them years to to find to find more houses or to rebuild the destroyed houses we could from from the destroyed building we haven't heard about any casualties because people left before. the destruction of the building the building just right behind us here. if you could see it in the picture on the com it's one of the the buildings that were being warned to leave or to vacuum where we are expecting the israelis to destroy any time. any time from now we could also hear that being fired from gaza into israel. from all. over our office in the center of gaza from time to time also we could hear the israeli airstrikes hitting different targets all over the gaza strip some of them are empty empty fields some of them maybe fighters their. claim.

so far there is a big in gaza from the coming hours because we understood now that the coming hours are very important and it will show us the scale of both sides 'd escalation now we understood that the israelis moved to a promoted live in of bank of targets the which is destroying the residential buildings and they could also as they said they could also target military commanders and then also could be political officials also of the palestinian factions could be part of the bank of israeli bank of targets and response the palestinian fighting groups armed groups including hamas islamic jihad and other smaller group groups.

as we hear just an extruding that's very close to our office. it's they hit the building that i just mentioned a minute ago this is a warning growcott we call it a warning where it when the israeli drone hit the building with a small rocket which is the last or final warning which will be followed or expected to be followed by bigger israeli rockets which will bring it all down we would have to move now down. right on all very close to the office on. we expect that thirsts the destruction of. the of the this building could fly under each even our office because only a few meters separates between our office on this building that is expected to be destroyed any time. yes as you say there that was the initial strike that we

just heard is an alert to warn people to try and evacuate the building before a larger strike which is probably coming not long from now suffer what and this is do we know this target this is another residential tower block there's already already one tower block has collapsed as a result of a strike and this is a separate tower block that is now being targeted yes this building by the way as we know there are lots of media groups. offices in this building including a newspaper or t.v. other media group so it's not totally it is a digital it's for 'd official official use so what we know about this bill the it's famous in god's law that it's full of media groups and used papers radios local to use t.v.'s etc.

and now this is the 2nd warning. on the top of this building. and someone all of the stuff went to the next. knowledge that did to be awarded. for the destruction of this building right and this is not far from the al jazeera office which is obviously where you are located now it's 200 meters or less than far from our office and you were saying you were saying that in the tower block there are reports of one casualty though you were awaiting further information from the health ministry they are likely to. release release figures shortly but actually just want to give you just want to make sure that you are safe and you're able to take cover and go 2

. go wherever you are and you know. we are trying our best the voice on the fly. destruction or stones from this building all of my colleagues now all also aware that. something could fall fly from this building. the buildings were bush the void. of these. things hopefully peacefully. that is searching the building is not. talking about me and my colleague we are we are taking some. hiding in some corners hopefully it will end in a peaceful way indeed i will let you go for now and maybe we can speak on the phone

something later but for now thank you very much let's go live to a force that is in. southern israel near gaza sorry what have you been seeing or hearing it we have that been is there been an exciting ration in rocket attacks coming through. well yes i mean the last few minutes have been a lol but just before 9 o'clock local time serve out an hour and 20 minutes ago was when this enormous barash of rocket fire out of gaza began that there had been warnings stuff it was saying that there would be a response to the destruction of that 1st large tower inside gaza now it seems that it is the going to be the 1st in a series and that television would be targeted that is exactly what took place some are saying some $130.00 rockets were fired in a very short period and the damage in and around television is pretty extensive

given how much of that was apparently intercepted by the iron dome interceptors a lot else did appear to get through we've got reports of 2 fatalities so far in that round one in the city of holland south of tel aviv another in rishon let's see on that was the initial report we're also just seeing some military maneuvering around here some military jeeps heading south toward the border we've been seeing reinforcements arrive in the shape of armored vehicles and tanks earlier as well and so this is an extremely large attack on television the kind that we haven't even seen during the recent wars in the last decade or so and so it's a major development in this already escalating situation and we do expect to hear very shortly from both the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the defense minister benny gantz they're due to speak to the nation at quarter past 10 local

time so in about 3 or 4 minutes time the signs are that they're probably going to announce still further escalatory moves in this extremely dangerous and already deadly situation on the israeli side. we have 4 dead according to reports so far drought throughout the course of the day in this latest round. another 16 injured one of them in a critical condition and of course as you were hearing from gaza from stuff what a much higher number of both dead and injured 28 killed in gaza so far it seems that things are set to get worse. so injuries and fatalities there in southern israel but you are saying that areas that are being targeted or that deemed to be at risk people in those areas are evacuating. where are they and moving themselves to. well

a lot of israeli residents have safe rooms in their own houses there is an understanding that and into a lot of houses there is one room built that doubles as a bomb shelter a bedroom or a store room or the like as well as that there are many shelters just scattered around neighborhoods we're here at a junction next to a bus stop and there is a large very solid structure here again for that very purpose so that is a contrast that my colleague software has been drawing between the situation in israel and gaza and it's it's a very correct when there are. relatively frequent and easily accessible opportunities to shelter however there aren't many instances where there is this kind of mass attack in terms of rockets falling on one concentrated spot during one very concentrated period it's happened twice during the course of

the day so far once in ashkelon then after this initial threat by israel to bring down a big residential tower hamas said that what happened would be dwarfed but would be . would be eclipsed by what would be taking place in tel aviv later and that seems to be exactly what has happened and we are expecting a response not just militarily from israel but also politically from the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the defense minister benny gantz any moment now. harry is there a sense that people there residents and others were had an expectation that there would be this confrontation this flare up in tensions given that it comes off the back of existing tensions through the muslim month of ramadan which just reaching their final few days of that month now and that the holiday the muslim holiday of eve but also in the last few weeks or the last few days we've seen some of the

worst step violence in tension in jerusalem then there's been fears. yes i mean i and everybody was aware of the extremely heightened atmosphere inside jerusalem the the boiling situation there as those tensions rose throughout the weeks and especially over the last 4 or 5 days the scenes inside the luxor mosque compound on friday and then the demonstrations and skirmishes that we saw throughout the weekend and then on monday were known to israeli jews as jerusalem day when they were set to commemorate the what they call the reunification of jerusalem what international law and palestinians view as the illegal occupation beginning in 1967 there were concerns that moment monday could be the defining day that this all boiled over and indeed that is what we saw we saw

it happen in the compound with those dreadful scenes of extremely large scale israeli. large numbers of israeli security forces entering the compound using rubber bullets stun grenades tear gas batons against palestinians who had stones and other objects that were being thrown that was seen as a major tipping point especially by hamas inside gaza the later attempts to try to deescalate the situation did not do so and hamas issued its ultimatum that if by 6 pm on monday israel did not withdraw itself entirely from the luxor mosque compound if it did not withdraw itself from the shake your a neighborhood in east jerusalem which has been the site of a protracted battle over a potential eviction of palestinian families from their homes in which they've been for generations then israel would pay

a heavy price and that price initially came in the form of a rocket launch a long range wrong. launch a very rare event on the area on the outskirts of jerusalem and that is what began us down this this latest path bringing that tension to gaza to southern israel to jerusalem the outskirts and now. pretty much unprecedented way to tel aviv as well this extremely large attack which is the latest phase of what looks like a worsening continuingly worsening situation ok thank you very much from southern israel for now very full set of course as harry said we're expecting to hear from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to get an indication of israel's planned response obviously in the coming hours and days we'll go to that the soon as it gets underway but also in terms of other reaction there has been the arab

league has condemned deadly israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip calling on the international community to take action to stop the escalating violence that's an emergency meeting cattles foreign minister called for an effective arab position to stop attacks and violations while palestinians representative demanded urgent action to mobilize an international position to pressure israel we're joined now by our senior press kind of. we were just we were just beating to our correspondent in gaza and obviously howie there in israel that have been civilian casualties from this their affair is that the confrontation could get worse how critical is it for that to be some sort of international intervention now. well clearly there is no rush on the part of the biden and ministration to do anything. in fact although we've been tiptoeing around it but in fact that is the by the administration that has been the obstacle. for a u.n.

security council a statement and not the sitter's of emotion on what has been going on in jerusalem and gaza and without the united states will have to do something of course nothing major will happen at the united nations and nothing major will happen in the international community because of course we've all visited covering from from koran and hardly anyone moves on the question of is about a sign without some leading light from washington now as you were saying earlier that it will also depend to some degree i'm not optimistic but it would depend on the greedy how serious are the arab countries in terms of pressuring israel or oppression the united states to pressure as well because while they are not exactly in the best of shape they do have leverage whether it is diplomatic or

strategic if they do night or not an actionable plan to try to help out jerusalem and gaza something good. come of it i as i said i'm not i'm not optimistic and that's to some degree why the europeans the americans and the others are not moving in order to do something about stopping the violence stopping the israeli repression in jerusalem and the escalation in gaza so i want to give then do you think van that israel's recently zation of ties with certain arab states gives then more leverage potentially. absolutely harry and you know in the end of the day any diplomatic relations is a quid pro quo and i think what is happening in jerusalem special interest i'm not gaza what has happened in jerusalem and and just by the way that's why not then you

know is eager to shift. the eyeballs if you will from jerusalem where the popular peaceful resistance has happened to gaza where there's rick that they should that gun toter televisions and missiles and so on so forth because jerusalem is a is a catalyst not one if we're palestinians it does unite the palestinians of all walks of life but it also unites the out of people and the muslim world and in fact the international community on this question that so i think it was important for the for the peaceful resistance in jerusalem to continue because that does embarrass those out of regimes who have diplomatic relations with these aren't specially the recent ones but it does also affect cairo it does affects jordan amman and so on so forth so those arab and muslim countries with diplomatic relation with israel would definitely be using the jerusalem card if you will or

the humanitarian issue in gaza in order to say look we do have public opinion in egypt jordan and other places and ricoh not maintained a sort of diplomatic relations a nice piece with a with an israeli regime that continues to push the palestinians out of jerusalem continues to be seen. the mosque the 3rd holiest site in islam and continues to kill and create mayhem and destruction is interesting in occupy then there's but i suppose it. is important to talk about jerusalem isn't it at the. that seems to be at the heart of the very much the trigger of this latest round of violence that we're seeing and those planned evictions from the chef sharon neighborhood so hard to describe how high the stakes are and how critical is that

much of the core of the palestinian and jewish national identities it's not something that israel would have a compromise on even if it did mean an improvement in relations with its regional neighbors i guess. well you know i mean in the end of the day it's a question of choice right. a divide you know forced you to think you should or jerusalem. by force. by israel will not be to peace. you know is i will never ever live in peace as long as it occupies the palestinian people and occupies its their capital in jerusalem. an alternative to this deadlock is the palestinian proposal that they should have the 60 and they share the line so israel has a very reasonable proposal by the palestinian. where there will be mutual recognition and a sharing of jerusalem as a capital of more states so there is

a way out of the deadlock there is a way out of the violence there is a way out that is in fact recognized by the in the other international community including the united states the united states while it would not pressure israel it does or could not is the need for a 2 state solution certainly the by then in that session does and the need for is jerusalem to be capital of the palestinian state so that situation is clearly the best way out of the impasse but it is not to the liking 2 of 'd the more radical elements in israel and certainly not like it or the likes of that at the now governor and just as a quick historical mind there because we are all in this immediate event that is escalating and guys that we had the bombs we had the court players but just a bit of a historical perspective it has been almost 100 years is since nothing now has

ideological guru is age able to ski all of his 3 steps that i have on wall. which netanyahu follows today that basically says don't give the palestinian any glimmer of hope that they will ever ever be able to maintain a palestinian presence in palestine or prevent the jews the zionists from perception a total jewish control in palestine now than it was pursuing that kind of a reckless policy a century later and we've all known that decide not help peace that there's not helps the billeted and this is not making the israelis any safer so there is a way out and their way out is not taking the palestinians for granted is not as you put discus said to think about the scenes for fools because as you are with his get a good nights and i'm talking about nothing i was brutal. the palestinians are no fools they will never ever give up their homelands for

a bride or by intimidation and so it is clear i think for many israelis for all palestinians for arabs muslims and for their going to show that the way out of this deadlock is not violence and war it's not what bombardment it is a diplomatic solution based on sharing the land and sharing jerusalem that is such a proposition of the table but that the opposition will not maintain prime minister netanyahu in power and that's why once again we go back to square one it is the prime minister nothing l a serial liar widely known as such a great many pure data that is trying to use cynically the escalation in jerusalem that the coalition and israeli society and upper vocation coming out of. israel and gaza in order to not have to stop which a national unity government and emergency government like you did the last time

around in order to stay in power and not to go to jail and again as most of our viewers know prime minister netanyahu is on trial in israel on major corruption charges that will end up in jail like his predecessor it would almost but in order to avoid jail he must make in power to mean maintain power he is exploiting that ready to be the death of innocents the destruction in gaza and elsewhere in order to sleep in power and in fact that must stop a cave for the now thank you very much. right so just hearing now from. mickey to the. resistance. of the courageous. on the gaza strip who supported.

jerusalem when jerusalem. called. for when the young people. curation him. cold. for help called. and called upon mr muhammad. and the resistance group. that was god's. borzou also. true to. the time that stood by and let you know clear position over contributed to all the marks of those who. 2 defended in the condition their own these days romney who. was paving.

the way for liberation. and returning. to the at blistered land of palestine and then that you know today where the one member has to be when we are witnessing this new more. and in that confrontation with the enemy and we have a lot at cheve victory. and the battle of jerusalem and the defense of the children and the. people 6. no need to the time on the road do not. well you know we have forced the occupation forces. to push the extremists away from themselves ochs our most.

people have. ended off this false celebrations which is very cold. in the very center of the rishonim base of the condom said the break shell they have been accustomed to for the decades our people have a against them and forced those which are the missiles those aggressive and transgressive police done before forcing them to stay away from the sanctity of the mosque. and our people said no. no for the. displacement of our people from the. general area.