no matter where it takes us briefly i feel serious. and. impartial please tell your story we are following. al-jazeera. grief and anger in gaza as the death toll from israeli airstrikes on the enclave rises to 5318 of them are children. again i'm come on son to maria here in doha with the world news from algiers the rockets fired by hamas and its allied factions talk that it is ready towns and cities killing 5 civilians and one soldier.

violence flows in israel's mix to palestinian israeli communities as well prime minister netanyahu threatens to use an iron fist if needed. and india's deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began more than $4200.00 people die of cope with 19 is the virus rips through the group into lands. 5 pm in gaza with more than 2000000 people are living under the shadow of the most serious escalation of violence there since the war in 2014 the live pictures coming from there now the skyline of a city where throughout the day we have seen plumes of smoke coming out of buildings quiet just now but you would want to see what happens as it gets into the early evening and into nighttime hours because as we've seen in the past 24 hours israel has struck gaza's police headquarters and government buildings with its air

power reducing them to rubble families are displaced lots of them lost 53 of them. palestinians that is including 14 children. there is this is well which is coming from gaza the armed wing of the palestinian group hamas and its factions of launch more than a 1000 rockets aimed at towns and cities deep into israeli territory some have managed to get through israel's iron dome missile defense system reaching ashkelon . ashdod i'm sorry and even as far away as tel aviv and other parts of southern and central israel 5 civilians and a soldier have been killed in the cost of the conflict so father has been devastating and it is being paid by civilians. my daughter in law and my grandson died and my granddaughter is missing without any trace the jews target women and children my son's wife was 5 months pregnant this is terrorism they bombed them without any warning they didn't warn them the house had nothing but the kids. what

should i say this is a crime they were civilians a woman with children a baba and a shopper and these are the people who were at the scene they didn't have the militants nor an official we are civilians sleeping in a harness i would like to see and that will live some kind of positiveness to find a solution between. the palestinian well it was a really scary night. my friends who live in remote places where even more scared but they're used to this reality of missiles being fired from the gaza strip and all of israel's under attack it's a very scary situation to be and updates with the team. in ramallah in the occupied west bank 1st terry for sit in southern israel and you've got an update for us i believe on the israeli air strikes hitting gaza city and taking out a high ranking command. well yes this was a coordinated operation by the israeli military which it has been talking about for

a little while now and the israeli prime minister himself has come out and confirmed what took place among those killed 6 senior commanders close israel says to the head of the al kasam brigades leader the military wing of hamas. were killed and. among them. who is the gaza city commander it seems to have been an operation targeting those involved in intelligence and specifically in rocket production and technology it says that there are 10 other. kasam brigade members involved in that kind of technology and production who were also killed so 16 in all 6 of them senior commanders one of them the senior gaza city commander for hamas these are the prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that they had promised to deal with significant blows to senior hamas figures and that they had

done so and that there were things that hamas could not even imagine that israel was now in the process of doing earlier in the day there was a rocket a cornet rocket attack an anti tank missile fired on an israeli military jeep one person killed in that attack 2 others injured one of them critically and so there were other israeli attacks that took place targeting antitank asar units there was also a serious barat of 50 rockets coming out from gaza quick targeting ashdod in ashkelon 2 cities here in the south the expectation now from the israeli side is that there will be another major in response to the this coordinated strike on senior hamas figures in the coming hours ok thanks for that harry we'll talk to you again soon ari force that's in southern israel. abraham's in ramallah in the occupied west

bank what can you tell us at this point. we already the news haven't changed much when it comes to reality on the ground we have 2 palestinians who were killed in israeli needed to do raids to palestinian cities in the occupied west bank a 16 year old and a 26 year old both lost their lives after confrontations that would be adopted after the israeli army to its hostilities now these raids are not something new these are almost a daily reality for palestinians living under israeli occupation this time data did up around 44 palestinians but the majority are in the previous prisoners or idiots with a mouse but only all and in general we're talking about 10 to 15 people who are being arrested every day to give you an idea in april around 400 palestinians were by the israeli army and some. of these people are arrested because of their activism and

also there's a really. to because of their opinions on social media with heard from many palestinians on social media that they are criticizing the israeli occupation and they want to show more light and show the world how deadly ality is and how israel has the upper hand to be deterred he has a propaganda machine as far as these palestinians will tell you but they're trying to change that and that down there also has been criticism on against the palestinian authority and the palestinians believe that it's not seeking a serious that when it comes to dealing with their cause and many have told us that they've asked in authority is not part of the solution that is part of the problem of course palestinians officials busted in officials don't see it this way they say that they are meeting tonight in the presidential headquarters of the let's discuss what can be done in that aspect. but we are expecting them to take measures really

to the diplomatic. security council the arab league to give more support specifically political support to the palestinians and could them israel in the way that would make it stop its violations against palestinians in the occupied territory thank you need a break him in ramallah. let's get more of a sense of what's happening in gaza earlier our colleagues at al jazeera arabic spoke to the director of the hospital who says the attacks of put pressure on a medical system which was already stretched to breaking point. on the situation is more than dire simply because gaza strip as you know has been under tight siege for the past 14 years the siege has exhausted the entire health care sector in this trip in addition we were hit by the coronavirus pandemic which we have been fighting for more than a year now israel's recent unjust some political and aggression has come to add

insult to injury and as you see for your own eyes innocent women and children are victims most of their bodies are torn apart needless to say that our operation rooms have been suffering lack of supplies over the past 15 years consumables and medicines are in charge shortage in the entire gaza strip this hospital has been running on the same devices on our planet is for the past 20 years. all of this is happening in both gaza and israel there is sort of parallel crisis in israel's mixed towns the palestinian and israeli neighborhoods the israeli government is declared a state of emergency and lives where around a 3rd of the population of 77000 are how the stimulus varies a palestinian man was shot dead and a synagogue and dozens of vehicles were set on fire the mayor likened it to a civil war. this is a problem we're all trying to nationalize jewish demonstrators were filled and filmed attacking cars being driven by palestinian israelis causing crashes goodness

me and in the northern port town of her witnesses said protesters set a jewish owned restaurant and hotel on fire we'll talk about this joining us from tel aviv might have his own say in who is a senior analyst on israel and palestine that crisis group thanks for your time i don't recall in any of the previous gaza wars that we've seen going back 24 to in 2009 i don't recall seeing this sort of thing happen before why is it happening this time. this is indeed unprecedented this is a convergence of many different factors unfortunately in some ways the chicken has come home to roost israeli policies and mixed palestinian israeli towns has never really been one of coexistence there's been discrimination the same discrimination that you see in east jerusalem happens inside israel as well as far as housing policies discrimination. in rights in all various aspects of life crime and

negligence of the of the government which palestinian arab israeli parties have been calling out for years asking for higher budgets asking for the police to rein in on these violence none of that has been happening the government has neglected that and when we don't see the images of violence what we see what we have is a policy that is incendiary that sends its for jewish people to build more and more housing and doesn't allow the same thing for palestinian citizens and what we're seeing is the result together with the convergence of what's been happening in east jerusalem and in gaza but they must be some level of coexistence during quote unquote normal times all times without conflict. well palestinian citizens have been increasingly voting for their representatives to have increased power in politics and to try to change their situation through the political system you know throughout the coronavirus israelis appointed to the fact the palestinian citizens the pharmacists the doctors they have been actively involved in society they want to be a more input

a part of the system and integrated and to have more equal rights and achievements but as far as coexistence this is always been an illusion israel has has a policy of discrimination on all fronts what do you think of the israeli response so far mean the mayor of leeds talked about it being like a civil war but then prime minister netanyahu came out and said we will use them and i think he sit in iron fist to clamp down and talk specifically about palestinian on wrist he did i mean he's using the same rhetoric a israel has a policy of fragmenting palestinians into different groups it is using the same rhetoric for hamas as it uses for palestinian citizens and this is not going to produce any more calm or any better results. goodness it's quite a situation isn't it might have the insight and joining us from tel aviv to i thank you for your time thank you. in the news ahead

we'll find out what china is putting up a line of separation on the top of mt everest. hello some heavy rain is falling along beginning see river on thursday now by friday this is going to lift a bit further north it's going to impact shanghai with somewhat weather to end out the work week we're just getting clipped was some moisture for the eastern portion of honshu but tokyo by and large will stay dry you know the usual areas of concern towards southeast asia northern sumatra where we have seen some devastating landslides once again heavy pulses of rain through borneo as well however we are getting some breaks bangkok's just a mix of sun and cloud on thursday 34 jakarta also dry conditions for you on thursday over to india now where the storm risks really will be from go rate down

to careless states where we could see some of these strong pulses of energy bubble up also toward west bengal in bangladesh and a very what picture in the forecast for katmandu on thursday over to the arabian sea right now and we are seeing these pulses of energy this could form into a tropical cyclone could head toward oman or pakistan so do check back with us over the next few days as we nail out where it's going to steer cross the middle east high temperatures for the gulf states up to a high of $42.00. the . killing the debate you don't see the action and amplify your voice you're only given a certain narrative the media will mr bin true story no topic is off the table why in the world would we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal

occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just a store in this in this street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. route. with al-jazeera munter of the current situation in gaza and israel while for the past 24 hours israel has been carrying out what pated air strikes on gaza have in place headquarters and government buildings at least 53 palestinians killed many more displaced in the corner of your last shot you see other results of another recent airstrike and then out of gaza we've had the armed wing of palestinian group

hamas and its ally factions motion more than a 1000 rockets from the territories towns and cities deep in israeli territory have been hit some even managing to get through israel's iron dome missile defense system fight civilians and soldiers were killed. last hour i spoke to nothing bennett who was the israeli defense minister from 2019 to 2020 he said israelis won't stop attacking until they win against us. as long as hamas keeps a. deliberate attack in order to murder israelis across the state by the way arabs and jews alike hamas are ready murdered 2 arab israelis in the city of load. 52 years old and his daughter nadine 16 years old israeli arabs who were murdered a holocaust survivor 85 years old was murdered by hamas in her wheelchair if they

must think they can get away with this their wrong will hunt down every commander every post until we win and the 53 people have died in gaza or including 14 children are they all members of hamas who needed to die. indeed hamas killed them because we know they didn't kill behind yes they did not uncommon comfort women who they were israeli. women and children you are effectively murdering your own people make no mistake i spent the night in the shelter with my family in the city of atlanta we will defend ourselves and if hamas decides to turn schools into terror bases and hospitals in a cowardly manner into into terror bases they are responsible for murdering their own people you know i'm in the opposition now but make no mistake we are all united we stand strong united and there is one way for this to stop for hamas to lay down

its arms and then it will stop ok let's talk politics then mr bennett because you are in a position to actually tell us about the political situation that exists in israel and how it is contributing to what's going on at the moment the fact is israel doesn't have a well it's still in political limbo technically in fact you could end up being a future prime minister of israel is this affecting what is happening out the fact that prime minister netanyahu doesn't know his future that he has corruption charges against him is this contributing to the whole problem this is not a bill that then you know and it's not about left and right in israel and it will certainly back the minister guns and the government of israel at this very difficult moment when we get hundreds of rockets a night on israel we all stand united no one will divide us and we'll fight back. we've also heard from one another palestinian leader activist former member of the

palestine liberation organization's executive committee who told us israel has been acting with impunity you have here and and use of violence the strongest army and that agent at that getting and since you're going to start getting residential buildings in an area that has been totally closed and beseeched without any means up to exams with not effort with shelters with no sirens and at the same time to claim there's various claims have it's not just humanitarian it's a question a 10 exist tension issue it's political it's legal yes it is human and it is not certainly military because as it is used our military is as punitive is and monitored and in many ways there's an expression about 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 years ago as

it has acted with impunity has dug it as the palestinians as it got it up your nation under its control and outside of iraq but this is not new this escalation is new it has been emboldened of course like the tramp administration exclusion it has been emboldened by biden administration's lack of action and that the sense of the europeans and it's been on government so now the question was who do i now is there and do that give jerusalem to get out and in years to target that own list static site here and them and middle of ramadan and to get away with it now they would want have asked one of them everybody has one done you are classing not just that lines you act are blocking you have provoking the palestinians beyond and you would acceptable king arabs and muslims and christians everywhere just stop it not only didn't they stop the escalate.

taiwan says it may raise its coded 19 alert level in the coming days after 16 new domestic cases were reported on wednesday and in malaysia a nearly month long nationwide lockdown is just starting as the government tries to curtail the spread of the virus the details in this report from florence vary. from shanker son through arms restaurant has been struggling because of a slowdown in business the malaysian government has imposed a 3rd nationwide lockdown for a month starting on wednesday. while businesses and other economic activities allowed to operate restaurants can only offer takeaways approximately 40 percent of all the clusters in malaysia over the last 3 months have come from manufacturing in factories and the restaurant industry and dining in his only contribution is approximately 0.31 percent when we have this one month locked down but guarantee is

there that it's not going to come back again because you are closing the wrong people malaysia's still battling its 3rd wave of the pandemic which started last september the lockdown includes restrictions on travel and school closures taiwan says it will tighten prevention measures in all business venues after reporting 16 new domestic covert 19 cases on wednesday the health minister warns the alert level may be raised in the coming days which would include the closure of nonessential businesses taiwan has managed to keep infections low by closing its borders early in the pandemic and by conducting extensive tracing and imposing strict warranty nations thailand and the philippines have reported the 1st cases this week of a virus of aliens 1st detected in india the world health organization has classified the strain as a variant of concern indicating it's become a global health threat experts say vaccination programs are crucial to contain the

spread once we have a population works needed y.p. studies are shown human do we do have. a pretty sure you get good t.v. . but the problem is vaccinating enough of the population to reach herd immunity quickly statistics show that asian countries have vaccinated approximately only 4.6 percent of their populations on average largely al-jazeera a little more. and india has announced a new record daily number of corona virus deaths and 4200 of them the number of and . sections is also up again after it had fallen for a couple of days and is now counted more than $23000000.00 cases since the pandemic began elizabeth purana reports from new delhi that were. all modified to look sits on his mother's grave as it's being prepared he's not yet ready to say goodbye his story of mourning is one of thousands around the country every day. as india

streets empty because of localized lockdowns burial grounds and predatory i'm continue to work day and night and and india's poorest states with their pradesh and be hard 100 bodies of suspected car the 19 victims have been found floating in the ganges river. are officials at the scene and investigating we are trying to find out where did these the dead bodies come from how did they get here and their numbers. with kramatorsk around the country struggling to deal with a huge increase in bodies residents of gaza report an author they say they inform the local administration about a shortage of what for cremations. we told the administration that the dead are being thrown in the water because of the shortage of water from the well about 13 villages have been told in the water. be our government denies reports of what shortages it says it's carrying out post-mortems on the bodies to determine the

causes of death. elsewhere and india patients to continue to die because of oxygen shortages 26 in the southern state of. yesterday we had a requirement of 1200 someone does we got only 400 there was interrupted oxygen supply from 2 am to 6 am which caused a lot of deaths. cases are increasing in southern india where 18 people also died from oxygen shortages this week in the states of. and. despite the number of cases dropping in about half of india's states including the worst affected regions of maharashtra and one in 5 people testing. gets a positive result and that's because the virus has simply spread to other areas most notably the 5 states where regional elections were held in april elizabeth al-jazeera. china will set up a line of separation on one side of mt everest speak to stop the. break from

crossing the border as part of china's 0 contact strategy to keep climbers from the chinese and nepalese sides of everest for mixing with each other if they reach the summit on the same day extraordinary story trying to you has more from beijing. the coronavirus pandemic has reached the highest point on earth mt everest chinese authorities are planning to set up a barrier on the mountains peak to prevent an outbreak in neighboring the toll from crossing over into china climbing from the south side and a different route so the chance of infection is low the most important area is to peak where we should focus on coronavirus prevention mt everest stands on the border between china and a tall mountain near the center from both sides a team of chinese guides will be sent to the summit to create what's being called a line of separation to ensure distance is maintained between groups it will cordon off the northern side of the peak starting from one of the highest tibetan camps at

8300 metres the move follows the discovery of a car 1000 outbreak at the base camp in nepal at least 17 climbers were evacuated to the capital cap and year after becoming infected with the virus and now i think it's only a question of crime to spread the bigger outbreak in the best if we don't react now and i think that's the most important thing we would need information confirmation of how many cases what piers we need to isolate piers. for pest our person based care are a 100 percent per sting. but that needs to be done now this i think this is the only chance to talk to save the sister of nepal relies heavily on income generated from everest climate and has approved more than 400 termit this year that china's borders remain closed due to the pandemic and forest often begins on entering the chinese side of the mountain authorises hare has granted just 21 punnets to tribes

climb the seas mount everest has previously been plagued with problems of overcrowding and littering officials have instructed chinese climbers to refrain from touching objects at the summit but it's unclear how they intend to enforce the barrier an additional checkpoint has also been installed outside the chinese base camp and returning climates will lead to undergird testing and quarantine al-jazeera beijing. well nurses have been on the frontline of this battle against coated 19 from manila below reports on the stresses being faced by filipino nurses at home and abroad. d.j. salva door lives with his 92 year old grandmother who suffers from alzheimer's his father who is a dick and his mother who's had a stroke the last thing he wanted to add into the mix was cool but 19 but working as a nurse meant that it was always going to be

a possibility. and i was afraid my family would get sick if they got sick because i had that exposure they will use the shins who are called that bus at the . his fears came true he became a patient at the government hospital where he works his father then tested positive for cope at 19 and his mother and grandmother showed symptoms of us you were one of them so i am a health worker so i'm pretty sure i am the one who brought the bios home i believe but that they almost 6 and a half 1000 nurses in the philippines have contracted coronavirus in the united states a report last september said a 3rd of 200 nurses there who died of corbin 1000 were filipino yet many filipinos still choose to work overseas. filipina nurses are some of the most in demand in the world but here in the philippines they're overworked they're

underpaid and throughout the globe with one flu pandemic they've had to beg for their risk pay and benefits d.g. was one of a handful of nurses who joined the may day labor rights demonstrations not the 1st time nurses have taken to the streets to air their grievances. and health workers are happy to leave her bed. and thought that many of them are at night because. even the bombardment of her blood at. her body. couldn't bear. the difficulty of claiming colvin 1000 benefits has weighed on d.j.'s mind she could find work in another country that would mean leaving his family behind barnaby lo i'll just 0 manila.