by a palestinian artist using a symbol of national identity to create postage and passport stamps. allows for somebody who's an awfully dull your life can fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict. come to palestine. palestine sunbelt a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera. explosions as israeli warplanes attacked gulzar in the worst violence since 2014. times the whole romany watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in.

a building housing media offices and homes as flattened in violence is not cool 69 palestinians including children. also fighting erupted in israel's mixed palestinian israeli towns and cities with one man likely get to civil war. and in other news not backing down antigovernment protesters in colombia and to me that i'm playing against police brutality. welcome to the program the aerial bombardment of gaza by israeli jets has continued military operations there and a 4th day now these are live pictures of the skyline where it's just past 8 o'clock in the morning it appears to be relatively quiet for an hour after a night of bombardment it's been the worst outbreak of violence since 2014 with no resolution in sight well over night explosions lit up as night sky in gaza just as our chorus. pondered was on the air.

and interior security building was hit it's no word of casualties yet $69.00 palestinians including 17 children have been killed in israel 7 people have been killed in attacks launched from the gaza strip but there's also been more fighting between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities are a false it has more from southern israel. in 3 separate strikes israel again showed what it can do at will to gaza skyline. the tower contains shops offices and homes and on its top floor the hamas affiliated said t.v. . occupants had been told by israel to leave. seconds after the attack began the building silhouette replaced by smoke and dust.

was across gaza a cloud of grief is spreading. taking hold of families just infecting a new generation. as the deaths mount so does the feeling that this is just the beginning they need to kill him then 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. less than an hour after the building was brought down another rocket barrage began. again israel's iron dome interceptors trying to deal with a huge number of targets. hamas said it fired $130.00 rockets several got through to the town of steroids a 6 year old boy killed in one direct hit on

a building. others exploding in the coastal town of ashkelon. earlier israel killed 6 senior hamas commanders close to the head of the military wing and involved in intelligence and rocket production a multi with more sure. a short while ago we eliminated top commanders of the hamas general staff including the gaza city brigade commander and other commanders and this is just the beginning it will hit them like they never dreamed possible. but there is another growing crisis for benjamin netanyahu and his government. away from this excel orating military escalation in and around gaza across israel from town to town there is an eruption of communal violence between jews and arabs despite their own pledge to bring it to an end with an iron fist. on tuesday night jewish cars at a synagogue were torched on wednesday it was

a mosque that burned. elsewhere arab businesses were ransacked jewish crowd chanted death to arabs. communities used to living close to each other doing business with each other riven by violence and hatred israel facing a social and security crisis on its streets as it wages an escalating conflict with gaza's fighting factions are a force at al-jazeera southern israel. now either prayers are being hurled at alexa malls in occupied east jerusalem after days of violent confrontations between israeli forces and palestinians hundreds of worshippers arrive to attend the early morning prayers that islam's 3rd holiest site religious leaders are calling for calm on the day that marks the end of the holy month of ramadan for muslims around the world plans to evict some palestinian families from czechs ciara in east jerusalem triggered the ongoing unrest. palestinian president mahmoud abbas chaired an executive committee meeting of the p.l.o.

and called for an end to israeli aggression and our people have spoken the word and we are one sure without occupation will now aggression what now is. it without except levels and settlements. and grisham days really gratian have exceeded all limits and has. done without and violated all treaties. laws and angry meant. u.s. president joe biden spoken to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the ongoing cold like biden said he was optimistic that the violence won't last much longer. my expectation hope is that. this will be. closing down sooner than later but israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets lined indeed your

territory but i had a conversation for a while with with the prime minister of israel and i think. my hope is that we'll see this coming to a conclusion sooner than later though mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . well president biden saying that his administration is constantly engaging with various parties from various sides in this conflict saying as well but it's not only that his officers are talking to israelis and palestinians they are also talking to other countries in the region such as cutter and egypt which have particular influence in an area in gaza in particular but president biden clearly walking a tightrope war here he has said he wants to recalibrate the u.s. relationship with israel given the exceedingly close relationship that evolved

under the previous administration as yet he has not done so his administration continuing to look at ways in which it is going to reestablish the relationship and those changes that were made under the trump administration still in place for example the u.s. embassy remains in jerusalem having been moved from tel aviv so a president biden clearly saying he wants to recalibrate the relationship at the same time using the phrase used by u.s. politicians for decades and that is that israel has a right to defend himself that is a statement being made by politicians in congress on both sides of the aisle vali nasr is a professor of middle east and international studies he says the u.s. doesn't really have much leverage over israel when it comes to palestine. it was a caught off guard by even the 1st phase of the conflict which was the expulsion of palestinians trying their homes in jerusalem which led to conflict in that city

which led to an end the israeli attack on the al aqsa mosque that then. led to this current current crisis and it was caught off guard and he was caught playing catch up every step of the way and currently i don't know what privately president biden might have said and heard from prime minister netanyahu and what gives them hope but publicly the u.s. is playing its old carpet supporting israel and it doesn't have seem to have any leverage that would actually dictate what israel will decide to do in gaza i think it's very difficult for the by the administration to do this because right now it's prime minister netanyahu isn't the drivers he decides to escalate in jerusalem he decides to respond to hamas attacks with overwhelming force and the u.s. is left to play catch up so it doesn't look like president biden is in a position to actually influence israeli policy and therefore in

a way he may claim to be moving back to the trump administration but the rules of the game still remain those that were written during the trump hearing let's talk tonight over him now who joins us from ramallah in the occupied west bank need to really i suppose it seems that is perhaps a general calm at the moment but there must be a great deal of the is about what next. exactly it is the 1st day of that but the mood is subdued here because of the situation in the gaza strip we've seen protesters take to the streets yesterday they went to several confrontation points with the israeli army and we've had more than 35 palestinians injured by israeli fire most of them where and how broad in the south of the west bank now there was more than the more than 2 thirds of those injured were injured

by live ammunition which is exceptionally high a high number of injuries that the israeli army used force against so it could tell you a little bit about the gravity of the situation and while it may look calm relatively on the ground the west bank as one guest we talked to yesterday he's a political analyst he says the west bank is sizzling people are frustrated because they believe that the palestinian authority is not taking enough decisions to counter the israeli violations on the ground remember by the end of this month so here we were going to be having the 1st palestinian elections in 15 years but then the palestinian president has decided to delay them because he said israel didn't give a positive answer when it comes to allowing jerusalemites to cast their ballots in these elections so there is a lot of frustration over the palestinian authority that they could to new israeli occupation and it's measures on the ground as well as the what's going on the

recent escalation in the besieged gaza strip occupied east jerusalem for the very much needed abraham for. well still ahead here on al-jazeera taking matters into their own hands we'll tell you about cuba's plans to be the coronavirus and we're live in new delhi with an update on india's david 19 crisis so do stay with us here on just 0. hello right off the bat i want to show you what's going on in the arabian sea we're getting some organized energy here over the next few days this could form into a tropical cyclone a few different models few different projections one is showing toward oman the other is showing toward aka stance of do check back with us as we see where this

system is going to steer still several days out give you a wider look at the middle east right now temperatures are falling across the love that's beirut at $23.00 degrees but temperatures are rising in the gulf we've got $43.00 for kuwait whole bunch of forty's for saudi and doha 42 degrees with a look at the next few days in doha where a locker temperature in into the low forty's $44.00 by friday so well above where we should be this time of the year also dealing with high temperatures for the eastern mediterranean across turkey on korea up to 29 degrees on thursday take you to africa now and fairly quiet across the horn of africa otherwise just are pulses of usual energy toward the tropics and further south it's calm now for the western cape cape town 19 but as we head towards saturday another push of moisture going to impact the western cape where we have seen devastating flooding lately.

100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw a map. but watch what the lasting effects of this agreement there is a regional set to 6 because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psych speak of lines in the sand on al-jazeera. oh. book about kill watching all of his or her mind top stories of internal security

building in gaza has been hit by an israeli air strike the israeli air force continued to bomb the strip for a 3rd night at least 69 palestinians have been killed including 17 children. will bring of the palestinian group hamas has launched more rockets to israel it said it was in response to the killing of several hamas commanders 7 people have died of israel as a result of the attacks from gaza but it was a tense situation on the streets of israel's mixed palestinian israeli towns and neighborhoods rights broke out in the city of but little of the shops owned by palestinian israelis have been targeted. more than 4000 people have died of covert 19 in india in the past 24 hours the number of new infections is also risen india's now recorded more than 23000000 cases since the pandemic began of course but elizabeth random has more from new

delhi. a modified 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 $100.00 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 with 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 bodies from around the world about 13 villages have been trolling the water. they are 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 patiently continued to die because of oxygen shortages $26.00 in the southern state of goa. yesterday we had a requirement of 1270 as 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 10 donna 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 for 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. joins us now. i mean the problem it seems is continue to rise in the urban areas but it's actually more concerned about it heading into the rural belt now. yes i mean these numbers a can stagger in we saw a slight dip earlier this week but even then more than 360000 fresh cases recorded on wednesday more than 4000 deaths in one single day yet again the worrying trend is that these numbers are coming from places that really cannot handle the caseload and that is rule india and the hinterland took to paint a picture of what it looks like over there you know these villages barely have primary health care centers so now what we're seeing is that one testing which is

already low in the country is even lower in rural india people have had to travel to nearby villages to bigger towns and cities to get a hospital bed with oxygen with ventilators and those 2 i mean those hospitals too are running out of supplies what what it's also done is put a lot of pressure on cremation so the cost of commissions have gone up primitives are saying they don't have enough food and we're seeing really tragic developments in some of injust poorest states overnight one of in one of in just poorest districts you know bodies severed bodies were found by local authorities buried near the ganges river now authorities are investigating where these bodies have come from but one of the spots where these bodies were found was close to a crime authority and so the hunch is the suspicion is that these are over 1000 bodies and because of costs and just the fear of the virus this is what people have been doing to to get rid of the bodies at home so worrying because the opposition

really piling on the pressure so will the government when it comes to sort of vaccine distribution and access to what's being said. the government has come under a lot of pressure and a lot of criticism from experts and also now politically over its handling of the or rather the lack of handling of the crisis at various levels so overnight the opposition parties major opposition parties have now signed a letter asking the government to do more especially when it comes to vaccines so they're out of your demands are saying the government should set aside billions of rupees for vaccinations they ask the government to import vaccines you know i mean india is the largest producer of vaccines but the way things are going right now they say we need to import vaccines they've also asked the government to ramp up domestic production and so ask other pharmaceutical companies in the country to pitch in and produce the 2 vaccines being administered in the country and most

importantly they wasik immediately the government undertake a mass vaccination program across the country and do it for free for the update great thanks very much but mean little that our correspondent in new delhi. starting its 1st mass knocks a nation rollout using to its locally produced germs the. 02 dollar vaccines are currently in phase 3 of clinical trials now they will be used to inoculate $790000.00 people in the 1st round of face cheaper has a total of 5 vaccines in different stages of development at augusta in the past more from havana. cuba has begun a mass vaccination campaign here in the capital the plan is to vaccinate all adults with 2 cuban developed cuban manufactured vaccines but those vaccines still undergoing clinical trials they're in phase 3 and the state is only fast track that regulates your approval because of

a surge in covert cases the earlier. the state has always concerned itself with scientific and technological development and science has been developed it's the only country in latin america one of the few countries in the 3rd world to have its own vaccine and not that many 1st world countries have their own vaccine removal given. yesterday i was summoned and tomorrow i'm getting vaccinated because this is cuba with or without the blockade you know. i think it's in the last stage of clinical trials people will take it out there are a risk but if they come and ask me if i want to get vaccinated i'll say yes. and i have and i did receive my 1st though i didn't have any action getting vaccinated was employed to. put down. cuba is the smallest country in the world to have developed its own coronavirus vaccines and the government says that

come august it hopes to have produced enough doses to cover the entire population but the economy is in terrible shape and right now there are bread shortages so a major question hanging over the government is if it's simply got enough cash enough hard currency so import the things it needs like syringes for instance for successful vaccine rollout. a report on the global covert one response describes feb 2020 as a last month those countries took a wait and see approach to the spread of the virus independent the world health organization analysts found a failure to react to early warnings allow the virus to spread into a catastrophic pandemic now the panel is recommending a new global response has to be set up now britain's prime minister has announced an inquiry into the country's handling of the covert $900.00 pandemic their view will begin next year and will focus on the case high death rate and the initial reluctance to impose a locked. lebanon's imposing

a nationwide lockdown on thursday and friday to control any krone virus spread over the muslim either holiday restaurants and cafes will be closed in place of worship will operate at around a 3rd of their capacity members of the public will have to get permits if they want to go shopping. thousands of antigovernment protesters have been marching in colombia demonstrations and to the 3rd week now calling for an end to police brutality and for economic support during the covert 900 pandemic. the reports now from the capital. 2 weeks of daily rallies have yet to excite us the energy of anti-government protesters in colombia the thousands took to the streets again on wednesday. 0 1 rally in downtown bogota featured union members teachers and other workers on tuesday president offered further concessions to lessen people's outrage promising free tuition for poor and working class students at public universities next semester. but protesters here say changes have to be permanent

and remain skeptical of the government promises. we don't trust the government they said the same thing many times last year they promised to get rid of tuition but only 12 percent since had access to it the same with health reform the truth is the government wants to fully privatized health in the country was monitors away in another part of town another massive rally here to majority or taxi drivers and students the focus ending the brutal police response to the protests was. deficient death toll of the past 2 weeks rose past 40 but dozens more are missing and i got the i will tell you know the truth is it scary to come out and protest but our desire for justice to know the truth of the disappeared the responsibility for the deaths is big of much greater than the feel we have by the afternoon

several rallies and roadblocks paralyzed most of all but the mayor tweeted a map of the city's public transport system black highlights showing where service was suspended. and is now also feared to gatherings are increasing. 19 sections as restrictions have become one forcible with daily massive gatherings cities across the country are now bracing for a longer than expected 3rd the. infections. the percent of intensive care units are for here in the capital and the mayor for years a possible hospital collapse we are concerned about the crowds at the marches and protests we ask the government and the leaders of the strike to negotiate quickly why to avoid further transmission of the virus we are facing a serious public health problem mortality maine greece if the crowds continue. now with the government still resisting negotiating the root causes of economic

inequality and refusing to condemn police by a lengthy demonstrators promised they will continue to protest alison that n.p.r. and as you know with. uganda's president yarima 70 has been sworn in for the 6th term as president of the same time police surrounded the home of his main opposition rival bobby wine now the ceremony follows the bloodiest pre-election crackdown in years and widespread allegations of fraud wine called the inauguration of. a major oil pipeline in the u.s. that was forced offline by a cyber hacked last week has now resumed operations but the incident led to severe fuel shortages the lead us east coast forcing some states to declare an emergency particle haim has the story. for a chorus of apologies and anger on the east coast of the united states i've been waiting here for 45 minutes just to get us growing gas shortages after the pipeline

that distributes almost half of the gas diesel and jet fuel to the east coast was shut down the f.b.i. says a group calling itself the dark side believed to be based in the former soviet union broke into the colonial pipeline computer network demanding ransom so the company shut the pipeline down with prices rising as a result 4 states have now declared a state of emergency in order to relax rules for transporting fuel on land and a government agency felt compelled to warn panic buyers not to put gas in a plastic bag or to port near an open flame complete with a video demonstration still the incident is raising questions about how vulnerable u.s. companies are to cyber attacks more than 300 $50000000.00 in losses are attributable to ransomware just this year and over 300 percent increase. over the last year. we have the capability to address and the dedication to address border

security cyber security threats. the security. of our homeland in all dimensions but a government audit in 2001000 found the agency that is supposed to evaluate the security of those systems is severely understaffed it had just one employee in 2014 and just 6 in till 2018 and the united states does not have any cyber security requirements to protect the 4300000 kilometers of oil. natural gas or hazardous liquid pipelines only voluntary suggestions infrastructure communities do historically lag other industries in terms of their spending on cybersecurity that was clear in february when hackers broke into a city's water treatment system in florida and sent a burst of a trading chemical into the water supply but the hacker changed the sodium hydroxide from about $100.00 perched per $1000000.00 211100 parts per 1000000

it was caught before it caused a risk but in washington d.c. right now another example of the threat hackers have started releasing the personal information of police officers on the web the city is negotiating a ransom afraid that confidential informants could be next the by demonstration is expected to soon release new cyber security guidelines but that could take a lot of time and the nation's vulnerability is right now unclear display patty calling al-jazeera washington. with me as a whole robin a reminder of all top stories an internal security building in gaza has been hit by an israeli strike overnight continued to bomb the strip for a 3rd day at least 69 palestinians have been killed including 17 children will bring of the palestinian group hamas launched more rockets at israel and said it

was in response to the killing of several hamas commanders 7 people have died in israel suffered.