taken from their homes and executed under pressure venice well as defense minister vladimir by dream said the armed forces were to defend their country from the regular groups that and if their human rights needed to be respected and that events at the border would be investigated. israel intensifies its attacks on gaza the relentless bombardment forcing palestinian families from their hands. that is out there and life and also coming up the threat of a ground assault news's israel mobilizes tanks and thousands of troops and its border with gaza. palestinian

factions fire hundreds more rockets into israel warning of a heavy response to any incursion. these are live pictures from hebron in the occupied west bank where large protests have broken out in just the last. several indian state snook overseas to bike 19 vaccines as the number of infections climbs above 24. so israel has intensified its aerial bombardment of gaza despite international calls for calm and a growing number of victims overnight jets tanks and artillery how the besieged territory killing a mother and her 3 sons 10900 palestinians including $31.00 children have now been killed since you fence of began on monday how mass. responded in the early hours

far another barrel of $220.00 rockets at least 8 people have died in israel since a conflict escalated at the israeli military is deploying troops and has devised plans for a ground offensive this is the scene right now instructs you can see a little elements of the military hardware lined up along the israel gaza border and protests for the turning violent this is hebron in the occupied west bank and we've seen in the last few minutes a large group of palestinians have been demonstrating as ready security forces or they've now moved in the israeli action to spot protests across the occupied west bank indeed with crowds growing larger on friday as palestinians mark the muslim holiday of eat a 5th. it is standing by for us in gaza but 1st let's turn to force its forces in southern israel and just tell us more about what's happening what's the latest. well just in the last few minutes there have been

a couple of rocket launches very close coming over our position here iron dome interceptions taking place from the sirens and the alerts on our phones it seems there have been a few communities around the gaza area that have been targeted in this latest round of estimate of rockets coming out of gaza also during our time here in the last 30 or 40 minutes 3 tank rounds or long range artillery rounds rather fired from the positions behind us however in comparative terms and looking at how the day is played out more generally things do seem to be in a bit of a low and it follows what took place last night in the early hours of this morning which was anything but allow both sides really pounding each other in very big bombardments it's difficult to get into the prediction game but certainly in the past when things look like they are on the downslope you do tend to see each

side making a big attack on the other in the towards the end of the whole process so it's difficult to know you just yet whether it we can say that with any confidence what we can say is that there were major attacks last night as you said we were in ashkelon which was the main target of that enormous barrage coming out of gaza in the early hours of this morning and before that major artillery attack on northern gaza movement of tracked vehicles in the direction of gaza talk about a potential ground offensive which was then clarified is not happening much later but we saw the early stages of that taking place. just after sunset we watched the biggest movement of israeli armor we've seen so far here on the fringes of northern gaza. as the tanks moved south heavy artillery stationed behind them fired round after round of long range shells a prolonged intensive barash lasting over an hour but on the day that the israeli

military confirmed that it was preparing a plan for a ground offensive this is the kind of heavy armory movement that we haven't seen up until this point also consistent heavy artillery fire as well that plan is due to go up the chain of command to the political leadership for a decision to be made with darkness another line of tanks proceeding hours more heavy shelling the israeli army saying it was attacking from the ground and the air although through the night ground forces didn't enter gaza territory instead northern gaza was pounded by concentrated fire in the heaviest bombardment so far rescue teams rushing to a destroyed home on the outskirts of the city of beit lahia after reports that a family was inside 2 bodies were pulled out. he had been out helping the injured a call diverted him to identify the dead his daughter and 3 grandchildren

a brief quiet prayer a new burden of grief for one more family. effect of the shelling of an imminent or just threatened ground assault evident on the streets. hundreds of palestinians streaming south exposed yet more to a worsening conflict that if there is a lot of shelling and the children are all afraid even as adults have been in war since our childhoods we are afraid and cannot bear it anymore. earlier the israeli military had said it had carried out a series of major strikes against hamas destroying an intelligence unit in the south and anti tank units in the north from inside gaza repeated heavy waves of rocket fire at intervals throughout the day and night targeting urban areas in central and southern israel this was the impact on ashkelon repeatedly struck in the early hours of friday and are saying it also targeted ramón airport in the far south where israel had diverted air traffic for safety as i said that we would

exact a very heavy price from hamas and the other terrorist organizations we are doing so and we will continue to do so with great force the final word has not been said and this operation will continue as long as necessary. the israeli government is aware it's fighting 2 battles the other violent front line a threatening fracture within israel bringing racial violence to town after town among the incidents 2 jews shot and injured in the town of lod a soldier severely beaten in jaffa a heavily pregnant arab woman seriously injured by a rock thrown at her head. in southern television a jewish israeli t.v. crew targeted by jewish rioters a spasm of insecurity that like the military situation in the south has not yet run its course and let's pray to her life again and her yes this overarching situation spot by the age old underlying problems but these internal reactions if you like

it's a new development. it is and it's something that jews and arabs in this country alike are looking at with some shock and fear and disquiet there were it must be said some protests of solidarity some $1500.00 people massing outside jerusalem at a junction between a palestinian israeli and jewish town a place known for good relations but then so many of these places that have erupted in this violence have been places where despite the racial tensions persist despite sort of occasional sparks of violence people do generally rub along together they they work together they do business they go to each other's places of work in shops and so i think that's why this has been so confronting even more so in some ways than what people who aren't directly affected down here or indeed from the rocket attacks in other parts of israel so far the idea that just walking down the street

there could be this race based attack based on nothing other than race and so we've seen a lot of overnight last night a lot of palestinian attacks on jews there of there was also that attack on the palestinian israeli woman whose baby was delivered despite her own head injuries by doctors when she was taken to hospital the government is doing what it says it can calling up reservists issuing strong denunciations and saying that people involved in this will be dealt dealt with in an art with an iron fist however at the moment as i was saying in that report it is continuing. thanks for speaking to us there from southern israel let's now to his palestinian journalist also a resident of gaza. give us a picture of how things are in gaza now after the 1st friday prayers.

in less than an hour. right now we have witnessed a lot of targeting 2 homes in the central of gaza strip in the south in. house was targeted and 6 people of entity family were dead including 2 children 2 houses in the camp. which is in the central gaza strip was also were also targeted one of them was targeted by 8 rockets consecutively 2 houses also an apartment and a house in the south tower we need in the north think gaza strip were also targeted and fortunately the health center the health the health sector which is a regular very fragile health sector in gaza due to the located and the crisis of the cook at night scene is collapsing the morgues are full of bodies the hospitals are full of wounded. the whole situation is extremely bad.

israel sorry if you border is the egyptians have declared the opening of their off the border or to allow the palestinians to transfer the wounded it to their hospitals in egypt the airstrikes are still going on it does not seem that there is going to be a guest collation any soon because every time we hear that there are news of ending this operation still in. what we can see only on land what we can see in reality is not does not bring anything close to that reality. let's just have a look at the situation 1st of all in hebron we've seen. growing problems that hebron people at west bank a 30 kilometers or so south of jerusalem. just mentioned the 1st friday prayers of each finished we've seen. we've seen a confrontation between police and residents to the violence of course to see the.

by can into communal. violence in these religious to make cities across israel let's have a look at the situation in bethlehem as well. there again you can see security forces on the streets and people milling about fairly quiet at the moment but today clearly tensions are running high well the u.n. security council will meet on sunday to discuss all of this to discuss the conflict had been caused to meet on friday but that was rejected by the united states president joe biden called for a significant reduction in rocket attacks but he said the israeli response was not an overreaction wilson told reports now from washington d.c. . after 4 days of deadly violence between the palestinians and the israelis u.s. president joe biden is sticking with his calls for both sides to hold their fire the question is how. how we get to a point where they get to

a point where there is a significant reduction in the attacks particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired into population centers the biden administration had not made the israeli palestinian matter a top foreign policy concern mainly because of the covert 19 pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown analysts saying that was a mistake the team has not fully stepped out on the middle east it's adopted this posture that i think affected badly the obama administration as well which is this reactive tactical crisis management posture the white house has agreed to join an emergency un security council meeting on the crisis on sunday in the meantime it has sent a state department official to tell of eve to urge israeli and palestinian officials

to declare a cease fire a point underscored thursday by u.s. secretary of state tony blinken but we are deeply concerned with the loss of life. among civilians especially among among children. the palestinians have a right. to live in security and to live in peace just as israelis do and so. we are working hard to encourage. all sides to stand down meanwhile in congress strong bipartisan support for israel but from democrats a show of support too for palestinians caught in the fighting there is a respect for meeting the needs of the palestinians but there is a palestinian have struggle and this is about how mosque so i wouldn't just label it palestinian i would say hamas and hamas is.

threatening the security of people and israel israel has a right to defend itself from republicans accusations the u.s. has indirectly endangered israelis by trying to pursue a new nuclear deal with hamas as primary supporter iran if difficult to believe an american president would consider removing terrorism or missile related functions at the very moment iranian rockets are writing down on israel a sign of how challenging it will be for the biden administration to manage this sensitive part of its foreign policy rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. still ahead here on al-jazeera americans are told they can now on mosque if they're fully vaccinated against coronavirus. i thought we had a really good idea. the former british prime minister faces uncomfortable questions from m.p.'s over his lobbying.

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that play industry doesn't want any regulation it is willing to put the products on the not get the price of progress on al-jazeera. to take. better get your g. out to durham out of our top stories and israel has intensified its aerial bombardment gulzar killing a mother and her 3 sons $119.00 palestinians including $31.00 children being killed since the offensive began on monday. the masses fired another $220.00 rockets towards israel hitting the city of ashkelon at least 8 people have died in israel since perfect escalated the israeli military is deploying troops and military

hardware on the border and has plans for a ground offensive. and been outbreaks of violence at some protests looking up hebron which is in the occupied west bank where a large group of palestinians have been demonstrating israeli security forces have now moved in and both fair and in bethlehem. now a bomb has exploded inside a mosque in the afghan capital killing at least 12 people injuring more than 20 others a spokesman for the couple play says the explosives were placed in the mosque ahead of friday prayers the blast comes on the 2nd day of a 3 day cease fire between the taliban and the afghan government for the eve holiday there'd be no claims of responsibility for the attack. as of a shortage of coronavirus vaccines is forcing some indian states to try to secure more doses overseas while the state of print job has said it is joining the un back

kovacs came around her made his government says it hopes more than $2000000000.00 additional jobs will be available from august but it's also been accused of abdicating its responsibility by making states compete against each other for vaccines on friday the country recorded $4000.00 deaths and more than 340000 infections matal has more now from new delhi. indian government has said that it has been in touch with its vaccine makers and will be able to pick your around 2000000000 doses between all this and december today the local partner of the sputnik vaccine said that it has started a soft rollout of the vaccine in the city of hyderabad and of the next few weeks we'll see example up the government also says that sputnik will be manufactured in india starting july it has been priced at just below $14.00 per jos at the same time states have been incredibly critical of the government's handling of the

crisis oxygen the lock down but especially the vaccines because they believe the government has not had a mass free vaccine rollout and left the states to scramble for doses we've been reporting on how some vaccination centers in the country have had to shut because they simply don't have enough doses so now 12 states have come out and said that individually they would be floating global tend and spending billions of dollars to import vaccines they also admit that this is going to be a tall task given the situation in the international market right now you know countries that place orders a while ago are still waiting for their supplies companies are unable to fulfill those orders but states are saying that in the absence of a national plan they will do what they have to do to ensure their people i know collated because of the toll this virus is taking both in terms of the health of the people but also the economy when americans have isolated against having 1000

know long the need to wear masks in most places the u.s. centers for disease control has is going to recommend using face coverings in crowded settings which is buses planes in hospitals nearly 59 percent of adults in the u.s. have received at least one vaccine 100 has more now from washington d.c. . for most indoor spaces you can go without a mask now under the c.d.c. guidelines if you have been vaccinated now this is largely to reward those people who have gotten vaccinated that's 111000000 americans of course those under 12 are not eligible but it's also an incentive to those who haven't been vaccinated and some of the concern is that about 30 percent of americans in polls have suggested that they won't get vaccinated at all this is a way of saying to them there are rewards for being vaccinated but it creates some issues for state and local governments they have to scramble now to come up with new rules because those rules haven't gone away the c.d.c.'s rules are just

guidelines it is the state and local governments who actually come up with the rules but they are doing that right now j.b. pritzker the governor of illinois through a spokesman has issued a statement saying the governor firmly believes in following the science and intends to revise his executive orders the scientists message is clear if you're vaccinated you can safely do much more so the rules are changing here in the u.s. not fast enough for many conservative americans and of course there are for those who are immune deficient they'll still have to consult their doctor before deciding not to wear a mask but for anybody who wants to wear one they still can they can be safe and continue to wear them but millions of americans have been crying out for a change in these rules many of them are conservatives in congress who recently called the c.d.c. on the carpet for being too slow about this now we see the c.d.c. responding now if you have peacekeepers in sudan are refusing to be sent back to the home country soldiers were part of a joint mission to the foot by the u.n.

and the african union but now that says over and some is seeking asylum saying an ethiopian military offensive underway and it's a growing region could put their lives in danger there were more than spoke to some of them in a refugee camp in sudan's state. this is going to be part of good days home for the foreseeable future an ethiopian military officer from the to grey region he was part of a hybrid african union united nations peacekeeping mission in food and western region of darfur he's now an asylum seeker in the eastern states of qatar of near the border with his home country theo piano refusing to be repaired created back home because of the conflict in the taker a region so many so many problems so we. are hearing or listen why social media or and so we called to our family the. earth would because they are killing. from the children of the other people

so we are we've gotten through this whole process. you know. nothing would come to the. fighting integrate started in early november between the government and the regional to great people's liberation front it's kill thousands and displaced more than a 1000000 internally more than 63000 refugees have fled to neighboring sudan seeking refuge now to grants who are part of the military have joined the list of those seeking safety if i go back to. i can from special forces and special force he came immediately my brother's keeper my father was killed and. i don't know my family is here. you know i don't want to go back again 120 ethnic degree and peacekeepers who were part of the peacekeeping mission in dar 4 have sought asylum but they're not the only ones refusing to return home in february more than

a dozen to gradients who were parts of the un peacekeeping mission in south sudan have also refused to return if he had to contribute a large number of troops to forces in the early days of the conflict being revealed to grant peacekeepers were reported back to ethiopia but had concerns for their safety since then there have been reports of human rights atrocities and ethnic cleansing against the grants rights groups report that the government forces as well as soldiers fighting alongside have targeted many integrate because of their ethnicity and that sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in the conflict if you government has denied the reports of ethnic cleansing and said that stories of rape. by activists loyal to the to great people's liberation movement. all girls are being sexually abused a gang rapes a woman not only one or 2 men and then they do horrible things i know because i killed my relatives back and gray who has a network and they told me about that as well as the killings how can we return

with all that happening good day and those with him here say when they joined the peacekeeping mission they were part of a united army but the conflict integrate is drawn along ethnic lines and they say they no longer feel part of the military they have long served morgan argues the era of out of state. former british prime minister david cameron has told the parliamentary committee his motive wasn't money when he lobbied for a financial firm after leaving office m.p.'s are investigating the way he bombarded ministers with messages last year offering to help during the pandemic and he barbara has this report. david cameron shortly before becoming british prime minister in 2010 i believe it's time we shone the light of transparency into lobbying in our country and forced our politics to come clean now he's being asked to come clean to parliamentary committees are investigating cameron's lobbying on behalf of green silk capital a financial firm he worked for after he left office between march and june last

year cameron and his staff sent 45 emails texts and whatsapp messages to ministers and officials he says he wanted permission for green seal to issue government insured loans to help companies through the pandemic the motivation for contacting the government was that i thought we had a really good idea for how to help and help extending credit to thousands of businesses cameron says that in april last year at the time of his intensive lobbying he had no sense crean still was close to failing but company owner lex green still himself giving evidence to m.p.'s this week said he'd become aware of supply chain problems in march 2020 and discussed it with david cameron he was asked whether the furious lobbying was aimed at saving his firm but actually part of this push was to get cash into the business is there will be clear concern about the future of the business and the point is to general think it's important to make something very clear that means still itself and indeed is that chancellor put in

is there. and that john and a governor of the bank of england. greensill at no time sort funding for itself but cameron's lobby included 9 whatsapp messages to chancellery she soon ak complaining the treasury's objections to green so its application were nuts as well as a dozen text message. to the treasury's top civil servants the previous year cameron and lex green so had met health secretary matt hancock for a private drink to discuss a new payment scheme for national health service staff turning now to greens those proposals for our n.h.s. i'm not named. daily or weekly in advance do you accept that your lobbying on the n.h.s. wasn't but it's house but for the house the greens so spend its balance sheet i wouldn't accept that for one second because the in the end cameron's lobbying was unsuccessful greensill capital collapsed in march this year after its insurers withdrew their cover that's jeopardized $5000.00 steelmaking jobs in the u.k.

because the bank was key lender to the firm liberty steel one former minister has told m.p.'s green still had elements of a ponzi scheme something david cameron rejects and while he accepts he should only have gone through official channels he says he broke no rules the barber al-jazeera . so this is out there these are the top stories and israel has intensified its aerial bombardment of gaza killing a mother and her 3 sons $119.00 palestinians including $31.00 children have been killed since the offensive began on monday will have massed fired another $220.00 rockets towards israel hitting the city of ashkelon at least 8 people have died in israel since the conflict escalated the israeli military is deploying troops and military hardware and has plans for a ground offensive.