now more than ever the world needs. making a healthier world. every. israeli airstrikes into the early hours of thursday 69 palestinians have been killed in the last file and since 2407 people have died in israel. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up violence spreads in israel's ethnically mixed towns and cities with one man likening it to

a civil war. another day of record coronavirus deaths in india as opposition parties asked the government to ramp up vaccinations. and ramadan in the times of a pandemic how some muslims in america educating their children about their face. spend another night of explosions and fires in gaza as israeli jets bombed high rise buildings and other targets there's a live picture of the skyline words just past 10 in the morning it appears to be relatively quiet for now israel has vowed to continue its military campaign that. overnight explosions lit up the sky in gaza just as our correspondent that was on that. an interior security building was here. casualties israeli forces have been launching

intensive raids on various locations in the area in response to rockets fired by hamas into israel it's the worst outbreak of violence in gaza since 2014 with the resolution in sight well 69 palestinians including 17 children have been killed 7 people in israel have been killed killed by hamas strikes violence has also spread within israel as into communal fighting at a scale not seen in decades broke out between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities are a force that reports 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 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. of the 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 leave 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 at the mall. 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 crowds 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. aid prayers have been held without incident as al aqsa mosque after it was stormed by israeli forces just days ago hundreds of worshipers attended the early morning prayers it is lambs 3rd holiest site religious leaders are calling for calm the day marks the end of the holy month of ramadan for most of us around the world let's go live to ramallah in the occupied

west bank al-jazeera needa abraham is there press up to speed with the overnight developments data. there has been a fresh air strike that targeted coming from israel and there has also been another barrace of rockets fired from the gaza strip into israel the israeli army says that since 8 pm on wednesday that. the military wings in gaza have fired more than $130.00 rockets and the kinds of them were intercepted by the iron dome in general the israeli military says that the system the irony dome system has intercepted at anywhere between 85 to 90 percent of the rockets that have been attacked from gaza and that these radio army it says that it has hit more than $500.00 targets in gaza since the beginning of the escalation on monday meanwhile the. has started to eat out in all incoming flights to the country to another

airport in the south of israel while the departing flights are still in taking off from being dorian at the same time there are still violence brewing inside israel and between palestinian israelis and jewish and jewish it's rabies and the latest round of violence there was in possum where palestinians have said to police these car. and. begins the feeling across the west bank. the mood in the occupied west bank is that it isn't necessarily as i say the general situation is that out of frustration at what's going on in the besieged gaza strip the situation in the occupied east jerusalem and also there is frustration at the fact that by the end of this month the palestinians were expected to have elections general elections but they were

called off by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas who says 3 season for that is that israel is not giving a positive on said when it comes to palestinians in east jerusalem casting their ballots in these elections they would have been the 1st in 50 years if they were going to be held so it on the political level they don't feel that they are represented by leaders that they've aborted for the economy situation is so dire it has been deteriorating over the years or so i have to the latest outbreak of. so all in all there is a lot of frustration in the occupied west bank and we've seen confrontations over night on wednesday between palestinians and the israeli army we have more than 300 . 35 palestinians who were injured by israeli arms fire and the majority of those were hit by live ammunition by the israeli army it is extremely or not

extremely it is unusual and the high number let's say not unusual but it's a high number of palestinians who were injured by live ammunition by the israeli army at this time. abraham lived in ramallah in the occupied west bank near the many thanks u.s. president joe biden has spoken to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu but he was optimistic that the violence won't last much longer. my expectation hope. this will be. closing down sooner than later. israel has ready to defend so if you have thousands of rockets flying your territory but i had a conversation from one of. the prime minister newsroom i think. my hope is that it will soon. come in your conclusions to move. on now from i was

serious mike hanna in washington 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 offices 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 walk 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 he has not done so his administration continuing to look at ways in which it is going to reestablish this 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. probably cory as state director of global engagement at the american university of beirut he says that the israeli government is responsible for the violence in palestinian comedic communities i don't know if enter communal violence is the best way to describe it is predominantly israelis private sector gangs often protected by the police attacking palestinians and then after a while the palestinians start fighting back so the pattern is that the israeli government and. the gangs of the young men have been working for years and years to

try to judea as most of palestine as much as they can they can't judaizing it all because there's several 1000000 there's about 5000000 palestinians living west of the jordan river in the occupied territories and israel proper but the plan that israel is their actions are always use have been to slowly push out palestinians. like shifts around using. legal means like a military actions that destroy homes and people try to get people to flee either out of fear or simply out of not being able to live normally anymore these clashes very much serve the interests of the ruling right wing majority including that narrow right now and in fact many of these groups that carry out these actions belong to parties that are among the right wing militant coalitions coalition groups so the israeli government will make noises about protecting all the citizens

but they will just let the violence continue and the government itself conducts much of the violence either through military actions or through the legal system whether next and still to come. after a surge in violence in recent weeks afghanistan prepares to usher in the islamic holiday with a 3 day ceasefire. and in senegal a group of volunteers ensures that the growing number of unclaimed bodies of coronavirus victims proper burials. hello there we're dealing with widespread instability across europe but i want to pinpoint where i think some severe outbreaks of weather could be on thursday running the wrist toward northern areas of italy and also through the czech

republic as well heavy rain to in and around moscow that will continue on friday and here we go as well seen a heavy push of rain once again for the south of france in particular for corsica island where we just saw months worth of rain in 24 hours another helping of rain goes through there and just seeing that widespread instability but a heavy pocket of rain too for moscow a look at this we have a familiar friend knocking on the door for the united kingdom just in time for the weekend on cue will swoop into the u.k. it will bring temperatures down introduced some stronger winds you know the name of the game right ok towards south africa have been kong and settled over the last few days so this is a picture on thursday cape town 19 degrees it is certainly been much needed after dealing with the flooding situation in the western cape but now i'm going to take you to ward saturday where we get another plume of moisture move in stressed by i don't think it will affect you as badly this time but cape town 35 millimeters of

rain. frank assessments. but the government needs to watch why. and my taking for the situation might not be you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a symptom of we're denies the minister in us and this is a message to the region the united states appears rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story on outages iraq.

hello again this is 0 the main news this hour there's been another bout of ass trikes in gaza as israeli jets bombed high rise buildings and other targets 69 palestinians including 17 children been killed. 7 people have been killed by strikes fired into israel by gaza's armed factions israel has found to continue its military campaign. violence also spread within israel as into communal fighting at a scale not seen in decades broke out between palestinian israelis and jewish residents in several cities. a 3 day cease fire is due to begin in afghanistan as the islamic aid holiday gets underway the deal between the taliban and the government follows a surge in violence in recent weeks afghan officials say the taliban fighters captured the key district near kabul on wednesday earlier in the week more than 80 people were killed in the bombing of

a school the taliban has tonight claims by the government that it was behind the attack let's go live now to kabul and get a live update from philly oh contre fori. what hope is that the cease fire will hold throughout he'd. well you know adrian this cease fire comes after an extremely violent month of ramadan here in afghanistan still even though like you mentioned it will be very short only 3 days it will be like a huge breath of air for all afghans who have been literally suffocating from all the violence that has been engulfing the country from what we've seen in past ceasefires even though it's still very early it has been in effect for only 12 hours since midnight local time last time it should hold according to past experience except for isolated incidents of violence has been really surging in afghanistan and we're not talking just about fighting between the taliban and government forces across the country we're fighting has been ongoing had been

ongoing in several provinces that has been in the south where the for eventual capital of helmand has been under siege from the taliban the government forces were able to push them away and if you mentioned yesterday which is only 40 kilometers from from kabul according to local sources the taliban were able to capture the district of north but according to the government and this is a quote they said that the afghan forces only made a tactical retreat of the taliban did not hold the district but i sighed from the fighting there have been dozens and hundreds of afghan civilians who have been killed and injured were the latest examples what happened in low gar and kabul just a few days ago where over $100.00 students adrian were killed in bomb attacks in low gar and here in dust in kabul so this ceasefire comes at a moment when afghans can really put their guard down for a little bit also

a statement by the taliban that throughout the ramadan they released 258 our forces this morning in kabul it's very refreshing to see families with children with their new clothes to walk around and be able to feel. free and also as the last thing the withdrawal of foreign forces continues the u.s. central command said they have completed 6 to 12 percent of the right to a gate and spain adrian lowered its flag. on the afghan mission here for the last time ending its military presence here in afghanistan adrian free of controversy reporting live from kabul for many thanks indeed. india has recorded more than 4000 deaths from covert 19 for a 2nd straight day the number of new infections is also risen it is now recorded more than 23000000 cases since the pandemic began our correspondent elizabeth ronna

reports from new delhi. well modified a 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 continuing to work day and night. and in india's poorest states although 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 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. 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 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 18 people also died from oxygen shortages this week in the states. and. despite the number of cases dropping in about half of india's states including the worst affected regions of. 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. is with us from the. number of infections continue to rise in towns and cities what's the latest on the spread into rural areas. well you know the numbers nationally continue to be staggering more than 360000 fresh cases recorded on wednesday and also more than 4000 deaths that's 2 days in a row that india has reached the 4000 mark when it comes to the death toll now both these numbers are under reported and we've been reporting on that that experts do believe that they are undercounted but especially undercounted in the rural areas where testing is even lower and the medical infrastructure is even more threadbare

and it's really struggling to keep pace with the rise in cases in shocking new developments 14 doctors 14 government doctors in a district in northern india have now resigned this district is called or now it is in uttar pradesh which is one of injust poorest but also one of india's hardest hit states the doctors 11 of them actually signed a letter alleging that they believe they are being scapegoated for the rise of cope with 900 cases in the district this saying that the local authorities have been subjecting them to punitive action asking them to prove that they have walked in review meetings despite the fact that doctors they say have been working round the clock so what you're really seeing is you know will india really really reeling under the pressures of this virus that probably did their position apparently on the pressure on the government what are the demands.

yes it's government the movie government has come under a lot of pressure and under a lot of criticism for its handling or rather the lack of handling of this crisis and so the opposition parties major opposition parties of the country came together and signed a letter with several demands to stem the crisis and focus a lot on vaccines so they want the mo the government to set aside $350000000000.00 rupees for vaccinating the people they want the government to import vaccines and also ramp up supply domestically and one of the ways that they are suggesting is that the government allow you know other pharmaceutical companies in the country to produce the 2 vaccines being administered in the country and finally you know right down states are scrambling for doses some of them have actually shot vaccination centers for a few days saying they don't have vaccines there's

a lot of confusion over policy of uprising and the opposition is demanding that the government the modi government immediately start a mass vaccination program across the country managed by the government but also paired for by the government and so the people should get vaccinations for free probably maternal my friends in new delhi that sounds perfect health officials in senegal say that there's a growing number of unclaimed bodies of corona virus victims in hospitals nicholas hawk reports from tees where he met a group of volunteers who are giving them proper burials. from the morgues refrigerators the abandoned body of another baby when mark o'mara a history teacher carefully carries it away he's a volunteer for a small muslim charity in senegal organizing the funerals for the unidentified the abandoned or the unclaimed he says all of them whatever their race religion or gender deserve

a dignified burial. in libya you can run into english would be dumped in musgrave's and these would be a good have seen the entire muslim community the dead to have rights the right to a bar a clean cloth a prayer and a dignified barrio in accordance to muslim rituals the charity says it has seen a 30 percent increase in unclaimed bodies since the beginning of the pandemic some are migrants who have drowned while trying to make it to europe others are street children and the homeless struck in traffic accidents and dying without identification. most of the bodies that they deal with are of children handed over to them by the hospitals because parents are unable to pay for medical fees and so they abandon their children the bodies are kept at the morgue here for 40 days with hospital staff hoping that a parent or relative will come and pick their children's body up but they rarely do

. hospital fees can range from $30.00 to $200.00 a small fortune for families already suffering from the economic fallout of the pandemic add to that the burial costs and a funeral becomes a luxury many cannot afford we tell families they can pay by installments to try and encourage them to take the bodies of dead loved ones away but they don't without the work of the charities who would simply be overwhelmed that's why the state have given the charities a special status allowing them to bury the dead outside the cemetery a final prayer with members of the public joining in to assist in the burial among them 13 year old man who quietly offers his words oh god forgive our living in our dead he says those who are present among us and those who are absent our young in our old our males in our females oh god whoever you keep

alive keep them alive in islam. nicholas hawk al-jazeera chess senegal. uganda's president 70 has been sworn in for his 6th us president at the same time police surrounded the home of his main opposition rival bobby why i'm sorry but it follows the bloodiest pre-election crackdown is widespread allegations of fraud why it is called the inauguration a sham and the u.n. says that repression has continued since the election catherine sawyer reports now from neighboring kenya. several heads of state and ugandan leaders attended the swearing in of president yoweri museveni but it hasn't been an easy election period starting with november where more than 50 people were killed by security forces during opposition protests it has also been a very controversial victory for the president several opposition leaders have

rejected that victory including bobby wine who came 2nd he said the election was rigged he said he's going to make public evidence proving this but we haven't seen much of that evidence what we've seen over the manse and hard is you know security forces using a lot of force on people they say are trying to destabilize the country we see opposition supporters arrested picked from their homes families i have spoken to us about their loved ones who are still missing human rights organizations and other bodies have accused the security forces of human rights abuses and say that the government really is rolling back the gains the democratic gains that have been made in uganda.

democracy. bobby wine says that he and his political party official the still being harassed he says that the military and police have been deployed to he's home and party headquarters he said they wanted to have a prayer day to day power to the swearing in but that was impossible to happen because of the huge deployment of security forces so a lot of people are saying going forward the president really should do much to deal with the security situation and also to heal the political divide in the country right now.