the way they tell the story isn't what can make a difference. israel pounds gaza with asterix hissing residential and government buildings while targeting hamas $44.00 palestinians including children have now been killed. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a star in swale overnight across israel hamas and its allied factions fire more than a 1000 rockets hitting as far away as tel of the. legend

israel's next palestinian israeli communities including the city of lives but the mayor says it's been like a civil war. and india's deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began more than $4200.00 people died of covert 19 as a virus rips through the rural hinterlands. it is the most severe escalation in violence since the 2014 war on the gaza strip and it seems there is no end in sight it is currently around 2 pm there and through the night and into the morning israel has hamad gaza with a strikes as rockets streamed out of the besieged palestinian territory to happen international calls for deescalation those continue to go ahead so far 44

palestinians have been killed. well earlier the israeli army launched what it described as its biggest air strike so far on the gaza strip destroying police headquarters and government buildings israel says fighter jets hit targets belonging to hamas and its military wing meanwhile palestinian rockets have also rained down on israeli towns and cities killing at least 5 people more than a 1000 were fired overnight targeting areas is far away as tel of even the north and down to be in the south of the country and street violence has also escalated in the cities with a mixed palestinian and jewish populations the israeli government has declared a state of emergency in the city of lid where around a 3rd of the population of 77000 palestinian israelis a palestinian man was shot dead and a synagogue and dozens of vehicles were set on fire the mayor has likened it to

a civil war let's begin by speaking to hurry for citizen southern israel talk us through the very latest where you are. well here the israeli military is talking about some of the latest attacks that it has been carrying out inside gaza territory a little earlier we saw a military helicopter over us it says that it is struck a launch team in the north of gaza strip before it was able to carry out a rocket launch also an unmanned aerial vehicle team from the air as well but there has also been an attack from inside gaza using an anti-tank missile on an israeli military jeep we've seen images of the aftermath of that in terms of one confirmed confirmed death in that attack and 2 injuries one of those injuries

understood to be critical the israeli military is also saying it has been attacking anti-tank missile teams in the aftermath of that so that seems to be in reprisal for what took place at alert here on wednesday as you say there is also this increasingly concerning picture emerging from palestinian jewish arab towns sorry palestinian israeli and jewish towns mixed in the rest of israel we saw those terrible scenes in lord on 2 nights running the israeli government has sent in the border forces usually deployed in the occupied west bank into lord and now the defense minister benny gantz is also ordering that they be deployed in 3 other jewish arab towns ramle acre and haifa and indeed the prime minister himself benjamin netanyahu has been to this morning to assess the situation there as for

the continued israeli side of this really relentless operation the. defense minister gantz also said that there was no end date that was in sight for it at this moment so it seems there is. we'll on the israeli side for this to continue and harry we've heard from the united nations and other members from the international community do you get a sense at all that any pressure is being put on israeli leaders to try and end this escalation. there is certainly pressure being applied the question is whether it will be forceful enough and indeed whether it will be listen to the british government through a same from the prime minister boris johnson has appealed for there to be deescalation on the homicide and the israeli side there are have been efforts

underway from egypt to to try to mediate as they have in the past during more minor escalations than this one and there are also reports news really media that israeli diplomats are talking about a decision in the next day from the biden ministration whether to send an envoy here to try to intervene with those same diplomats telling israeli media that there would be no. that that the israeli government would be taking its own decisions based on its assessment of the of the military situation the sheer number of rockets that have emanated from gaza in the last couple of days more than a 1000 so far and no sign of any last up that is as far as the israeli government is concerned reason for a very significant military action and there is pressure on the government from the potential successor to benjamin netanyahu if these coalition to go see a sions restart at some stage natale bennett the right winger blaming netanyahu for

leading israel to this disaster and saying that the military our military operation must continue to its full conclusion so there seemed to be few obvious. inhibitors to the israeli response so far like a harry a for now thank you howie for sit there for us in southern israel we can talk not to need to abraham who joins us now live from ramallah in the occupied west bank where there's also been tension in the last 24 hours to bring us up to date with the latest. 2 palestinians were killed after the israeli army raided different cities in the occupied west bank a 16 year old from a village near janine and a 26 year old from alpha water refugee camp and had run south of the west bank have both lost their lives in israeli fire after confrontations erupted after these raids by the israeli army and the in this raid they've arrested more than 40

palestinians some of them are related to or affiliated with hamas and some are previous prisoners and all told this time they have rounded up around 40 people just to give you an idea every day they almost round up around 10 to 15 palestinians so this is kind of a daily reality for palestinians living under israeli occupation we've seen a series of protests in the past few days in support of the palestinians in east jerusalem and in the besieged gaza strip and many palestinians are calling for protests to go to confrontation points and while the situation we can say is relatively calm we can say that we're not going to be seeing any escalation in the past we've seen some sort of lone wolf attacks by palestinians who are either ramming their cars at israeli military checkpoints in the occupied west bank or we've seen some shooting attacks or palestinians who are holding knives and joining

me now to talk more about the situation in the occupied west bank is mr fadge of koran he's the campaign manager at about as we can say that the situation in the west bank is relatively calm now how do you think people are feeling and how are you feeling about the situation now 1st of all thank you for covering this important topic and the situation in the west bank right now is sizzling last night there were protests in at least 15 locations but i believe what people don't know is for many parts of the west bank palestinians are put in burn. surrounded by walls 'd and settlements so even reaching confrontation has become much more difficult and that's why it may appear calm because palestinians are imprisoned in this closed but the feeling that we are getting because jerusalem is the heart the beating heart of palestinians and after the murders that happened in gaza is that these protests are going to continue to escalate there's a new sense of hope

a new sense of resistance a new sense and need for action on the palestinian street that to be frank we haven't seen in over a decade and so the expectations is that especially with the neck but the day to commemorate when palestinians were displaced in 3 days coming up that the protests are going to expand across the territories and we're having tonight a meeting by the p.l.o. executive committee members as well as. members what do you expect from this meeting and what do people the young people like you expect from these meetings. interesting glee at the palestinian authority the leaders of have almost been sidelined they are invisible for many palestinians particularly in the west bank and gaza even in 1048 because of their weak response and almost their non-presence and what's happening on the ground so the expectations are almost 0 what we actually see is that they are lost they are uncertain they do not know what to do and they're trying to actually work with the israelis to deescalate the situation

let's remember that 10 days from now palestinians were supposed to have elections to unify the palestinian people and this leadership delayed these elections because they expected that they would lose and consequently where we are moving towards now is very likely a place where this leadership becomes more and more meaningless and that's what we're seeing on the protests on the street with people hundreds of people chanting against the palestinian authority and what do you want to see happen in. the gaza strip in east jerusalem or even in the 1948. this is a moment. i believe we're not just myself but palestinians all across the world and all across these territories after years of segregation after years of being pulled apart or coming together to form a united front of resistance and what we want to see is a future we're. really don't have justice and have dignity and can live a life of empowerment and that's what we're moving towards i hope thank you very

much and as we heard even if the palestinian news werent on the headlines in the past few months or so it doesn't mean that occupation has gone it is still a daily practice that palestinians are living under and we are potentially looking at. many thanks for that neda abraham for us in the west bank from ramallah let's take a look at the live shots coming in from gaza it's about 10 minutes past 2 in gaza these are live pictures as i said from the i can see the plumes of smoke in the city and so far the total death count of palestinians that we know off at least is $44.00 let's get the very latest on the situation in gaza we can speak to. who is in gaza who resides in gaza bring us up to date on the situation.

let's start with the most recent is about to strike. and new in this the city over the sounds of the gaza strip the minister of hello said. the hospital friday in a sort of sea of 3 injured people. across the attacked one of the cars of an entirely honest. which according to the minutes of a number of casualties increased to 43 people including 5 women and 13 children and the number of injured also raised up to 300 injured we could see that just minutes in the background could hear the explosions also in the background that israelis have been warning more families to evacuate. their buildings and then they bombard them to set this up and up until now i think to the residential buildings that they hit yesterday and earlier today more 3 smaller

buildings belong to families. which means that the israelis have been moving to another another level of escalation which also means that the palestinian resistance to go on fighting groups also will. retaliate and move to another level of retaliation or response like that what happened earlier when the sun brigades. attacked israeli they can with on. the tank ok well call it coordinate which is a new development adopted by the palestinian fighting groups in the coming hours. in god that they are waiting to see what is the what is the next israeli escalation will be. many thanks for that stuff. with the very latest there from gaza we can speak now 200 is a palestinian leader and activist and a former member of the p.l.o. the palestine liberation organization the executive committee she joins us from

ramallah and just looking at your twitter page you happen to be eating about the situation in gaza what what is you want to standing of the humanitarian situation there today well it's not just the humanitarian situation you have and use of violence right of the strongest army and the region that are getting and since you're going to start getting residential buildings in an area that has been don't drink. beseeched without any means up in terms with not only force with shelters with no sirens and at the same time they claim it's very this claim center it's not just to manage that in it's a question 10 exists tension issue it's political it's legal yes it is human and it is not certainly military because as soon as you saw that militia is punitive is monitored and in many ways there's an expression of an unbridled occupation that

has existed with impunity for all these years that has never been held accountable since it was created 72 years ago since the other occupation if people use that group israel has acted with impunity and i'm staggered as the palestinians as it got to the population under its control and. so on i look at this and. that is you're not in a sorry 36 hour hours ago the focus was on east jerusalem in the plight of the people being forced from their homes and shake jata how much then fired rockets into israel now where where where we are today 44 palestinians that we know off that i dead and of course a number of israelis as well do you agree with how how mass is handled things. the question has not just have asked that all the palestinians have been getting is are at it that this escalation and it should under scrutiny were staggered in my objectives for them to get out at nick landing in jerusalem to get palestinians out

of their homes and neighborhoods to transform that kind of active history culture of jerusalem and to an exclusively jewish city which it's not all these things have really led to an escalation went by met and you have to cynically exploited that the energy on the ground and get it done the not to just stay out of prison as read your eyes as. more of corruption and anyway but this is not new this escalation as you know it has an emboldened of course like the trump administration exclusion it has been emboldened by biden administration's lack of action and that the sense of the europeans and its lid on government so now the question was do i now is there and do that give jerusalem to kick out better in years to target the holiest islamic site here and them and middle of or not don and to get away with it now they want more of the mass one of them everybody has one of them you are crossing not just that lines you lack of woking you have provoking the palestinians beyond

that and you are going to have provoking arabs and muslims and christians everywhere just stop it not only didn't they start to escalate it so now you have a sponsor and it might be these are the sports let's deal with the cause and had an astronaut great interest to manage them unafraid we don't have very much time i want to ask you you were in a position of power to do something you were a member of the palestinian. liberation organization you left that organization why did you leave that open eyes ation. how many of these and this is a domestic issue like that because i think that you have no rights being sidelined or it's becoming more and more in people. you know in their generation to stay angry and good ones are so eager to participate in decision making and as and it was going to react and create some sense out and it's not that back to discuss this but i think what's happening is and you know not just balance of biannually

attitudes on that the palestinians feel them powered as if people in a popular movement and it would listen if you want to develop as it is enough is enough you cannot hold a nation captive and you're kind of imagine that in on them and get away with it yes i don't want and it cannot be who is leading the palestinians is it has mass with what they're doing right now in terms of their violence because they will never win with the violence will they because in terms of fighting with israel they will always be outnumbered it's on the ground of course the people took the initiative and the masses bonded to the people are sort of the month but in terms of what's happening now as i said it's a popular nobody takes decisions and says not to go so now direct people run protecting their lives their homes their city jerusalem that some mosque people are going to directing that have to live in peace and dignity and freedom on their own

land without constantly being at that why isn't and the humanized by their work so if you want to talk about traditions i think there's leadership on the ground that military leadership grow up next time as. a moderate actions but and that's a political decision making there's a glaring vacuum so what happens now. how mass says it's going to continue what it's doing israel says it's going to continue with its violence where does this end more deaths. i think unfortunately it's the palestinian people who always pay the price it's an essential pay the price for tonight innocent palestinians in gaza that were a kid and $14.00 of them children and the women and of course in the west bank you have 2 people killed one teenager you have 400 people who are wanted injured the whole situation now is inflamed by listing as in 48 palestine at least

in the hands and the west bank and jerusalem and the palestinians and gaza so now as that one movement now i think we need to see that there were looks at palestine and the palestinian people as equal access people with access as people who deserve to live and not to constantly be darn good at it and that human eyes by this record and this is that important either of international community understands that it is never going to be any peace or security or step it before it is and as an occupying power and for that agent as you know and less to deal with the causes stop as as impunity and i gresham and oppression of the best in people and occupation and the palestinians have to have that i say in accordance with international law and international humanitarian law this is the only way otherwise this will go on and one generation after the other that is no normal occupation that is no normal and just that is no naaman oppression so let's be normalize the situation

and if you want a normal and calm situation then employers and international law have a system of accountability for it is there and sessions and go by the palestinian people with protection and everybody did up protection of the law and i'm just hearing from my producer that 48 people have now died palestinians have now died as a result of what's been going on. so just to give you that latest figure you talk about the international community we have a new president in the u.s. who says that human rights is at the forefront of his administration how much pressure is there on the united states on president biden to do something about the situation in israel and the west bank.

well certainly that's not pressure from congress. that has done exactly what it back as and could do with a few exceptions i don't want to generalize there's no pressure problem and the public except now we have an active solidarity could make movement and that to work in the in the u.s. but because i really am on my not. black labs matter indigenous people and that is and women's groups and some that is he is solidarity and b. but i beginning to see what's happening it's not longer the israeli learned that this prevalent that has this door to people's view of what's happening this is coming out. there are now also came out and said some people are beginning to understand that this is an occupation on that i'm very good and that if you are committed to human rights then you have to the spec that i took the palestinians and you'll have to curb israeli relations and hold it accountable newb

you have to start funding and supporting the israeli military and the israeli occupation and israeli aggression captive and the stimulus that is not going to anywhere unless the american administration and biden understands that sitting back and saying i have other doubt this is only going to make a reset you ation escalate and unless that magic and people act and we have seen demonstrations everywhere in new york and washington and chicago and europe and sun and of course everywhere in pakistan. being a saying you cannot drop this you're cannot beat israel with the gloves i give it but if that absolutely went with a sense of entitlement that it's not a doctor but not israel has to be had and has that has to stop that's the only way you can have peace many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera had an astro a palestinian leader an activist and a former member of the p.l.o. . thank you. we spoke to. the israeli

foreign ministry spokesman he says hemis is responsible for any palestinian deaths . if you get the masses using those buildings as their infrastructure for terror incidents is there a fact waters as the places where day i did their weapons obviously this is a military target we are doing as i said utmost effort in order not to eat any civilians but we will hear again from structure of the target station i'm asked because this is how come last words they're doing this is actually a double crossed you work right 1st of all they're shooting from civilian areas and using that signal it the civilians of the gaza strip as there is a human shields and the 2nd it works the masses it committed this that there are huge shooting and civilians in israel and we've seen that over many who are in

shelters and in this safe rooms are going to the last few hours in during the night because they are trying to hit civilians both the nice round and then for a massive evening. as human shields us all because a street is well he's doing out most in order to prevent collateral damage if there is collateral damage he sees not the goal of the east really military strikes in the gaza strip we are trying to keep it she is to keep the terrorist leaders up it's got it's a must arrogance nation and if infrastructure in order to stop it should be the launching of missiles on israeli civilians and in order to. to make the hamas understand that they will once keep us as hostages in should act israeli civilians whenever they want to this is the right of every suffering country please

let me finish to defend itself he sees it work of self it defense by israel it started by come us launching missiles on the capital a piece of all of jerusalem in a city that they can consider to be holy so just imagine out what happened in the last 36 hours over 101000 war crimes by come asked. the united nations has called for calm he some of what the chief antonio good test said through his spokesman the secretary general is gravely concerned by the serious escalations in the occupied palestinian territory and israel including the latest escalations in gaza which add to the heightened tensions and violence in the uk in occupied east jerusalem he is deeply saddened to learn of the increasingly large numbers of casualties including children from israeli airstrikes in gaza and of israeli fatalities from rockets launched from gaza. let's get some of the news

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makeshift emergency vehicle includes its own oxygen supply indian administered kashmir is facing a surge in infections with over 200000 cases recorded so far. it's going to recap on all our top stories it is the most severe escalation in violence since the 2014 war in the gaza strip from night until now israel has been launching a series of strikes destroying police headquarters and government buildings so far 44 palestinians have been killed. meanwhile palestinian rockets have rained down on israeli towns and cities killing at least 5 more than a 1000 were fired.