fall out i don't know what the hell happened to the republican party and asks what makes for the grand old party everything a thing or everything and this is trumps party will the fire overtake the party will overtake the country faultlines capital attack the republican party off to trump on al-jazeera. israeli airstrikes hit more neighborhoods in. 2 buildings brought down the u.s.

secretary of state calls on israel to respect civilian lives. top hamas commanders a killed in the heaviest exchange of fire with israel since 2014. hello i'm adrian forgive this is a live from doha also coming up. grief and anger as palestinians hold funerals 56 people including children are killed. and leaders around the world call for an immediate deescalation the u.n. security council hold sort of urgency session but the u.s. is urging all sides to cease fire. it is just after 8 pm in gaza israel's bombardment of the territories shows no sign

of slowing. that israeli airstrike targeted another high rise tower block a 14 story tower was destroyed around 90 minutes ago 30 minutes earlier israeli jets partially bombed the building as a warning for people to evacuate hamas has launched another bausch of rockets from gaza it says it's in response to the killing of senior hamas commanders including its military chief that follows the launch of more than $1000.00 rockets last night 5 civilians in a soldier were reported killed in israel. let's go live now to gaza. is a journalist based on what's happening there now you know. well as you can see or hear around me the smoke is the skies of the gaza 8 strip the air

raids unfortunately a sick going on until the small men 3 people were killed in the site in the center of the gaza strip just a while ago another targeting laws in. in the north and. a little bit closer to gaza city and. a number of people have been injured. says have run to the place we still don't know what the numbers of the casualties are because the start getting into how it just took place but. 3 were killed and the number of people where when did as you mentioned yourself 150 rockets were launched from the gaza strip by hamas a break gates in retaliation as they said for the air raids that brought down a city tower and for the assassination the needers all of the gaza great gade. earlier today. you know why would al shaab have been targeted

by israel we've been while you've been talking we've been looking at pictures of the boat that it was brought down. well this this actually brings or talks for itself about the truth that. israel is trying to hide or mis mislead to that date is only it is only targeting towers that turn wrists are people who are lashing rockets towards. israeli towns but this is a tower that's mainly only hosts media offices are good i see sions and. probably a couple of dr offices and some restaurants it does not it is it's in a very populated residential area there's nothing around there could be there's no

space around it there's no space around the tower and if the cover is show you the place itself it is it is surrounded by shops by a bank by lots of restaurants like the opposite is the same craving which means that it is a place that is totally away from any kind of tourism and this just shows the truth about the israeli side of the story saying that it only targets those places that they know that have tourists are people who are lashing rockets towards them i think that the only reason that this tower has been targeted and jo had a tower has also been targeted which is not a coincidence that the major to towers that or hold the media offices or if 3 quarters of the media offices in the gaza strip gets to be targeted they are evacuated and they're targeted so this can't be any kind of coincidence this is

deliberate and direct targeting to the media voice in the gaza strip. that's journalist. his post in gaza al-jazeera as harry forces is in southern israel area we've been looking at live pictures from the start of a missile has hit an apartment building what are you hearing about that. that's right yes that was part of that very large barrage that was fired from gaza shortly after the destruction of that building as we were just hearing hamas saying that it was in response to that destruction and 3 people one of them seriously injured in stare out and as well as that of course the areas northerly in dan and around television also targeted as far as the israeli government is

concerned there is a meeting going on of the security cabinet this evening to discuss next steps about possible expansion of this already very much expanded military operation the prime minister has also been talking about the killing of those 6 senior hamas commanders inside gaza promising that more such action would follow khan. over the fully involved i said yesterday that the sons of darkness the terrorists of hamas and islamic jihad they bear responsibility a short while ago we eliminated senior commanders in the air mass general command including the commander of guards a brigade and of the commanders this is just the beginning we will strike them with hits they did not dream of. every house the israeli government likely to deal with the the international pressure that's being applied upon it at the moment to

want to stop its action. well there is a good deal of. words coming from international governments and non-governmental organizations calling on both sides to restrict their actions and to step back from the edge of a potential full blown war we've seen the attempts by the egyptians to mediate which have so far come to naught in previous rounds of escalation more minor than this one that has usually been the route to try to get both sides talking together through intermediary that intermediary being the egyptian in telecommuters so far no success in those efforts what we're also hearing from israeli media is that a senior u.s. envoy heavy armor who will be making his 1st trip as middle east envoy in the

coming hours to try to bring the buy did ministrations perspective into play and to try to persuade the sides particularly israel you would imagine given that that's where he will be heading 1st. try to persuade them to try to draw back somewhat now there were diplomats quoted with that story near israeli media earlier in the day those same diplomats saying that the israeli government would certainly make its own decisions and would not be. sort of pushed into changing its policy even from the united states the main ally of israel and all the indications coming from the top of the israeli government that they intend to expand accelerate and keep going with this military attack. harry force that live in southern israel for the moment harry many thanks indeed. we're hearing that the u.s. defense secretary has spoken to his israeli counterpart the u.s.

secretary of state anthony blinken is asking for both sides to cease the violence let's go live down to our white house correspondent kelly how kids what's the administration saying about this right now. it's clear that the white house has been working very hard in the last 24 hours doing an enormous amount of our reach to both israeli as palestinian officials at a number of different levels within those organizational structures in order to convey one singular message and that is de escalation and what we know now from the secretary of state anthony blinken is that if you order to try and achieve that because it appears that those public as well as private statements to nudge israel to deescalate specifically have not been effective as a result the secretary of state announcing that the deputy assistant secretary of state for israel and palestine affairs is headed or will be heading very shortly to

the region to meet with israeli as well as well as palestinian leaders in order to try and achieve containment of the violence to get it to stop and now we also know al-jazeera has spoken to a senior administration official about whether or not within these phone calls and communications if there was a message sent to israel that a ground operation would be a bad idea the official would not confirm or deny whether that question was specifically asked only saying that israel knows where the united states stands that it does not want to see this get any more escalated in terms of the fighting in fact just the opposite they're deeply concerned about civilians as well as children that are being caught in the crossfire and so as a result there is a number of different outreach that is taking place right now we know from the white house press secretary there have been more than 25 phone calls in the last 24

hours in order to try and bring the temperature down we also know that the united states is working with cut her officials as well as the gyptian officials that they say have channels to hamas. in order to try and bring the temperature down and as a result of this we also know that the national security advisor on his part here in the united states has also been speaking to his counterpart now in terms of the public statements what we're hearing from the administration specifically lloyd austin the secretary of defense is that the united states has communicated to israel that there is an ironclad support from the united states for its right to defend itself it also is saying that it condemns the attacks rocket attacks by hamas into israel from gaza but there are also statements of support for the palestinians coming from the bible of ministration namely from the secretary of state saying that we believe that the palestinians and israelis equally deserve to

live in safety and security they again are very concerned about the fact that they and this was communicated by the white house press secretary about 24 hours ago. a vixens that took place in occupied east jerusalem have not been helpful they have articulated this of the white house press secretary saying there was a candid conversation about this with israel and again because these conversations have not resulted in the deescalation of violence that this administration is seeking it is now dispatching a high level official to try and work with both sides as well we should point out that there has been an announcement by the white house press secretary in just the last hour that there will be an imminent announcement the coming days weeks with respect to a new israeli ambassador being announced by the biden administration our white house correspondent kelly heloc at the live in washington kimberly many thanks calls grew on wouldn't stay for deescalation from nations all over the world china

expressed deep concern and urged all parties to exercise restraint in order to avoid further casualties russia is calling on israel to stop all settlement activity and promised an inter a truce russia's. president vladimir putin and turkey's president rich uptight but it was spoke on wednesday with the early one demanding that israel be given quote a strong and to terence lesson for its treatment of palestinians he says the priority should be deescalation and the prevention of civilian deaths germany those says that israel has a right to self-defense against rockets being fired out of gaza and the un security council is bracing for an emergency session on the escalation later.

and. just to. as you can see rather israel an asteroid because it is ready a strike is targeted another high rise building this 14 story. was destroyed around what over 90 minutes ago now before that it's already jets that partially bombed the building as a warning for people to evacuate in response israel has fired rockets back into israel and we know that. one of those rockets that hit an apartment building instead of us which is about to kill us is from the border with gaza and we're hearing that at least one

person has been killed by missile fire in that a lot let's bring in somebody who's a palestinian journalist he joins us now live via skype from gaza what are your thoughts on what is going on at the moment and where this is all going and how it brings to it and how many more people have to die before dead ends. but i'm having much luck with. internet connection to gaza at the moment i'm afraid we don't seem to be able to speak to our guests we'll come back to him. as soon as we can the u.n. security council has been meeting to discuss the situation in gaza and israel let's go live there now and talk to our correspondent christiane salumi this is the 2nd

meeting that the security council has had about this this week is nick kristof. that's right the 2nd meeting has ended now and absolutely no word from the security council on the situation in the middle east there were 2 closed door meetings in his many days to briefings from the u.n. special coordinator for middle east peace toward venice and he. has warned of a spiral of violence leading to a possible full scale war in the middle east he's talked about this taking a devastating toll on ordinary people and has publicly come out and called on both sides to take steps to deescalate the violence but when it comes to the council speaking out not a word and we are told that it is the united states that is blocking a unified statement from the council from coming forth despite the fact that all

other members of the council did want to make a statement we reached out to the united states and they tell us that the u.s. is in gauging constructively to ensure that any action taken by the security council is helpful in deescalating tensions that we know is a disappointment to many of the diplomats here and the secretary general the spokesperson for whom told us that. a strong international response a unified international response is always helpful in a crisis situation but given that there is this gridlock in the council now we are beginning to hear from other countries individually at any moment we expect european countries to come out and make a unified statement perhaps along the lines of what was proposed in the council by norway china and tunisia earlier this week you know norway proposed even more watered down version of that today in an attempt to get some form of unity but

that just doesn't seem possible out zero's kristen salumi live at the u.n. in new york christen thanks. palestinian prime minister had a tire called on the united nations to intervene. in the medicine was on what we told the cabinet of ministers is doing all what it can to protect our people and to end the israeli aggression therefore we will immediately provide all the assistance needed by our people in gaza meanwhile we call in the un to ensure its resolutions are implemented to provide international protection to our people and to end the illegal measures in jerusalem and also to completely then just cede lead to guys a strip i also call on the other been muslim states elemental what they have recently agreed upon something abu salim is a palestinian journalist joins us now live via skype from gaza good to talk to you

at last sunny what do you make of the international reaction so far to all of this with bearing in mind i don't know whether you heard our correspondent there saying that the u.n. security council unable to to release a statement on this because it's been blocked against the 2nd time by the u.s. . this is political a. sense of national community that you and they are not nations or. quark or the. united. states i do not claim that they cannot pressurise but they don't care and they do a lot. to push and i think that i believe that. they might. say nice that they can put enough pressure on israel to stop aggravations and things land and. but they are biased with less for example in the beginning

of. the peace process in the beginning of 19 line ones. then i think bob. fine fine line shellings sentiment so all is building that that the man has thought that the time which means it was the practical think it is good and the end. does that sometimes russia go on. the war lord the. sensitivity or the other. which means i mean that they know that they can put pressure on israel or they. are on the other out of. power regarding the yuan it is obvious or they know i think nation and you know it is really they come out ok and you know you have been good. but in general neglect is.

i think that you and. your like action united nations systemically mission or get our underground. our family to this and then i mean who asked her to mediate here how quickly can it be brought to some sort of complete conclusion how many more people have to die before before that happens before somebody makes makes both sides see sense we're hearing now that i've got a 6 year old child was killed in that rocket the latest rocket attack which which had startled. very good question you remember exactly sure 2014 in the face a couple of days there where maybe 50 palestinians have been killed and the procedures. lashins. pays a lot of obstacles but after 50 or 51 days the palestinians more than

2000 palestinians have been killed since their reach. which means that we are afraid as a gaza we are afraid that. the truth will be from photos of thousands are seen and are going to die this is the line and we are afraid that that's why we are still in such the we are full of all that's agnes insurance right now and immediately to me that see how i mean by real pressure by they're not they're not this is such. the purpose of this aggravation and even that so that the political statement we hear is a fallacy nancy we. are hearing don't care about what the prime minister says or what was president biden says or the full sort of service that americans been ascensions that he would our people do not care about that he wants to care not to

see iraq as in the guy not to do to care not to see their buildings being good and phone him down and to be homeless they need that help and that he and for us to stop this admission the cost of. oil around for the for the a good bench and now others have been reluctant. and they not or any other important the other stops there is another point says the united states or any other so-called great guns pulled for example. based in say on going to more to put pressure on the on the soap the truth which means that how much is that hacking and then you can make this plain although they are making balance very and they really took part and very and hard which can put an end for this large it is as well as well is the main obstacle which means that the key of that if you can

is with sas resistance. plus some a good story to find the facts do something i will show them that a palestinian journalist in gaza. the palestinian authority set to meet in the next hour to discuss the escalating violence. him reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank one. that the palestinian leadership is focusing on is the diplomatic effort in trying to reach out to the international community has heard from several palestinian officials who say that the international community's response hasn't been asked strong as they hope for have also heard from the palestinian prime minister. who says that this is a natural explosion because the reason for it is the israeli crimes as far as how much they put the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has been holding calls with different leaders of the world including jordan say. as well as that offer

a president and if they use fire present joseph. only one of the al-jazeera arabic colleagues spoke to the director of our shifa hospital in gaza he says the attacks put pressure on a medical system which was already stretched to breaking point. and then 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 polluter 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 planters for the past 20 years. something of a parallel crisis on. folding israel's mixed palestinian israeli towns neighborhoods in lead the met described as being like a civil war in neighboring ramla ultranationalist israeli demonstrators were filled with attacking cars being driven by palestinian israelis causing them to crash on in the northern port town of accra witnesses to protest to set a jewish owned restaurant and hotel on fire but of his own side is a c.n.n. analyst on israel and palestine a crisis group she says the palestinian israelis face systematic discrimination. unfortunately in some ways the chicken has come home to roost israeli policies in 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 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. as a palestinian leader activist and former member of the palestine liberation organization as executive committee she says that israel has been acting with impunity you have and and i didn't use of violence by the strongest army and that egypt doubting and sincerely and getting residential buildings in an area that has been totally closed and beseeched without any means up to exams with not ever forced window shelters with no signs and at the same time to claim there's various claims have it's not just humanitarian it's a question 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 punitive and

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 a girl as and has acted with impunity as doug it is the palestinians as a get 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's collusion it has been emboldened by biden administration's lack of action and that the sense of the europeans and it's an ongoing so now the question was who knew i'd now is there and do that in jerusalem to get out and in years to target that allister islamic site here and then and middle of ramadan.