greece wants to wrists to feel safe it now has the 5th 1st vaccination program in the european union and it is putting special emphasis on vaccinating $85.00 islands popular with holiday makers like call food by the end of june many of these island economies are almost entirely dependent on tourism if greece's gambit succeeds it may see its economy grew by the 4 point one percent the european commission for costs this year saw a cry from the 8.2 percent contraction it suffered last year the doors are open it's not a question of how many people will walk through them jumps out on to los altos or athens. headlines on al-jazeera this hour israel is continuing its bombardment of gaza with another 7 people killed in an ass strike targeting ever can at least $133.00

palestinians including 30 children have been killed since the israeli offensive began on monday al-jazeera. from gaza always had to move away from the camera to seek shelter from explosions. that breivik have been carrying carrying out and tens of. shorting either from or on from the ground as well in the north of the god the club half an hour ago they have. the warning. lights a warning iraq. has just a few steps from our office. we are expecting. any time before how this could be bombarded by the fighting gets what's called. explore do than blast in the area. at least 11 palestinians were killed earlier friday during protests that swept across the occupied west bank clashes between israeli police and palestinian demonstrators continued into the night in occupied

east jerusalem chinois have been held for some of those killed during those early of protests in the occupied west bank more ronnie's are expected on saturday and what's happening in gaza has led to demonstrations in support of palestinians around the world one person died after hundreds held a rally in southern lebanon near the border with israel on friday they were joined by religious leaders who said their congregation stood united with the palestinian people in other news an outspoken supporter of former u.s. president donald trump has been elected to his senior leadership role in the republican party new york congresswoman and the stephanie was voted in as house conference chair highest ranking polls in the house of representatives this is seen as a sign on the party remains strong 6 months after the last election coming up next inside story stay with us.

young and frustrated by the israel palestine conflict a new generation is protesting with defiance and speaking up on social media but our leaders hearing their demands for change this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm how much in june some call them the new face

of activism against israeli occupation young palestinians and some israelis frustrated by their political leaders are making their voices heard. they've been at the forefront of protests against israeli airstrikes on gaza and the forced displacement of palestinians from their homes in occupied east jerusalem some smiled defiantly when arrested by israeli security forces much of it captured and shared on social media. messages of support from celebrities and social movements like black lives matter have been shared hundreds of thousands of times some activists posted graphics online to try to explain the history of the conflict and a video of the daily show host trevor noah reacting to the violence has been viewed more than 3000000 times if you are in a fight with the other person cannot beat you how hard should you retaliate when they try to hurt you i'm just talking about the difference in power

which is something we do all the time i mean think about policing if a man has a knife should the cops shoot him in many parts of the world like in the u.k. they say well we're going to do everything we can to try and not shoot the person even at risk to ourselves because at the end of the day they were a knife to a gunfight. when you have this much power what is your responsibility. all right let's bring in our guests in occupied east jerusalem but in my 50 a palestinian activist who was arrested by israeli soldiers during the shift of the protests in brooklyn mariah kaplan spokesperson for if not now a movement of american jews working to end american jewish support for the occupation and in gaza now the shoah a humanitarian worker a warm welcome to you all let me start with you today there is

a video showing you as you were being arrested by israeli security forces that went viral i want to play a few seconds of that for our viewers and then i'll come back to you with a question. i. think and it's going to be. later in the video we also see you looking at the camera and smiling defiantly as you are being detained so i want to ask you 1st what was going through your mind while all this was happening and also did you expect this to get the kind of reaction that it happens. no 1st of all i didn't expect expect this to get the attention that it got i didn't know that last and in the 1st place. basically it was going in my mind is that i was so angry i was so angry because. what's happening inches that is it is

exactly what's happening in jerusalem and it's exactly what's what happens in palestine in general and what's happened in palestine in 1948 i was so angry because it's still happening until today. i was questioning him like why do this why should nice to go through this for more than 70 years now. so since 1948 palestinian and the palestinians and palestine is an ongoing shifting of the land and it hasn't stopped yet it hasn't stopped stopped and said today and it's one stop and there is still an occupation so even if we win this is a cause that could be seen once top in its attempts and its in the end its occupation knows that when you see this kind of activism from a younger generation a palestinian activist that's emerging right now is getting so much attention in the media and on social media platforms when you see videos like the one that we

just showed a few seconds of showing muddy i'm smiling as she is being arrested very defiantly what does that make you think does that make you feel more hopeful for the future. well you can be on this show or. money on the course of this video and very similar to the. it can't but bring the whole thing for the longest period i think we have lost we have we have we have been thinking. that we are talking to ourselves we are complaining to house. shouting and screaming and saying no this can't go on for longer as if we are talking to a long. and having to having this year a generation with this such and such an amazing design that if it shows that this is the this is the truth this is when the truth passed it has to be t.v.

if it can stay for after a generation after generation and where nothing is a say in what happened before if it doesn't it doesn't work like this and finally the world need to know the need to see it and for me as a palestinian living in gaza to see this is as if it's so it is so that if that if brings back some hope for sure so i want to take a moment take a step back and look at something that happened at the congress in the u.s. there were progressive democratic members of u.s. congress on thursday and they were responding to the ongoing conflict with some questioning of the u.s. government's unconditional support of israel as cyclists we must with no hesitation demand that our country recognize the unconditional support of israel has enabled the ratio of palestinian life and the denial of the rights of millions of refugees

let me be clear every single death in this conflict is a tragedy every rocket and bomb that target civilians is a war crime. when you see what happened in congress when you hear progressive voices who are drawing parallels between the plight of the palestinians and the injustices faced by black americans they're also comparing israel's posture with apartheid era south africa what does that make you think does do you feel as though in some ways public sentiment is shifting just the fact that we are hearing rhetoric from people in congress that we wouldn't really have heard just a few years back absolutely i think there is a huge shift underway and i think you know seeing. represented slaves on the house

floor you know telling the stories of house to me in and of her family and these are the voices and stories that have been so systematically excluded and hidden from us and i think our politics are really being transformed by having an american woman in congress the 1st time and you know and i think as you said that sort of national and international reckoning that we are having about race and justice and . and you know i think we get young jewish people you know we're being sort of asked to apply that logic. you know try to you know we understand and here they were learning about the experiences of black americans. in this country and then we're being asked to not apply that logic in palestine and that's just something that you know we're not going to do anymore and that so many people are not willing to ignore any more money whenever i've reported out of occupied east

jerusalem or the occupied west bank or gaza in the past time and again i encounter palestinians who tell me how frustrated they are with palestinian political leadership and how ineffective palestinian politicians have been. let me ask you did you set out to be an activist i mean i see that you are a cellist with the palestine youth orchestra but you know is this really the only course forward to see any kind of change. first of all i'm a country nothing and this and that. no it's fine. basically we don't have anyone to present us as terrorists to me and this israeli propaganda and as our enemies the media is really powerful nobody would tell the stories of palestinians or. us palestinians living in israel or in

jerusalem for example what's happening in ships is is just an ongoing thing that happens every day injures and israeli minister ministry of interior sets its demography go on for jerusalem at 70 percent is your reading this needs getting the growing number of palestinians to move out of the city since 1967 until today hundreds of thousands of palestinians were displayed displaced by how by ways of house demolitions discriminatory policies and other different different ways so. so basically from the beginning that implemented colonial prisons of displacement land confiscation and other ways and but despite despite all the difficulties me as palestinians from to jerusalem go through to get out of here most palestinians choose to stay and stand up for the right and dignity and future. earlier today i

saw that you tweeted i'm very lucky i could sleep for 3 continuous hours north and east gaza experience hell last night i want to ask you what is the situation there like right now. i don't know if you heard the explosion but. the situation has been extremely tense we have experienced 2014 and what that was before it. i don't know trying to describe. it's hard but to put that and maybe in a 2nd in the simple way you are talking about a continuous form by men. of waves. continuous drawn fire fights fighter jets navy tank shelling that started last night and contributed to the deaths i was defending

to specially in the areas of east the north of gaza city and the north of the gods strip. which i mean all of my friends and the people i know about i don't know of and i'm communicating with we were just through the night trying to check on them and what broke and what didn't break and what does being the steroid who is the ski thing that home and all of that i mean that anxiety that panic that people read and read telling me they're seeing from their own windows people needing their homes and evacuating that awning away seeing the bombings that is that of also kept on spending at on the internet and among people of a lower than one of these bomb this from violent this heavy. that deflates was that. to me i. think it's the troops i get

think in this and at that in the it was was late that night and nothing happened now. that means that he of this is that it happened before and each time if it happens with. certain level of of intensity i even thought of the sentence i don't know if it'll make sense but a war doesn't have a limit it has thresholds and each time that is a certain threshold that gets that if it's moved it's flexible you know and it keeps on going off on and off so whenever somebody calls me and say how are you doing i tell them i'm funny because i know that that is always less and there is always a rare situation and however this teaches us that things can go much much worse and the more people you know what effect that of have left their homes a lot evacuated well i'm now sitting out in the nowhere and just that and i'm at

a public place or the other school. and i know many of them was unfortunately and they have no idea what's going to happen next. however in this this time these thieves these very difficult hours what is important that we keep ourselves sane mentally sane within within the house me and my. husband that's what about to be dealt with both because this is such a such a big majority vs the. mariah the stated mission of your organization is trying to build a movement of jews to in the israeli occupation what steps need to be taken in order for that to happen. well i'll say our mission actually. well i mean me occupation is a worthwhile mission ours our goals are more humble and that we're trying to end our community support for the occupation and really end the orthodoxy in our community that says that jewish safety is reliant on palestinian suffering and we

see that as an important step given how often jewish safety is cited as the reason for our government's complicity. in the occupation enough in upholding the systems of apartheid in israel and you know we are building on decades of jewish progressive organizing impulse and organizing on this issue and are really trying to do our part so that our community can be on the right side of this issue maybe let me ask you is palestinian leadership hearing these demands for change. basically. nobody i don't think is anybody hating life from the neither ship or it's. going to. like human rights organizations and what about i think what's who is that egypt individual is it like it's done by

individuals so basically the ones who started the movement and started the world are what are what we're doing and what's happening in jerusalem what's happening in. people the new and neighborhood offset of the quoted. could they used to along with and weapon that we have seen social media. use that as a way for us to express ourselves to reach the ones on the we're to city each city limits around the world and still in this weapon is they are trying to take us to take it away from us so coasts and accounts that's. we meet or talk about this time and that story's been deleted so basically no one presents us from governments organizations what we do is on the

individualistic we do it's by i would let me ask you a follow up questions you know because so much of this is being shared so widely you have a lot of people who don't typically engage in politics and they're widely sharing info graphics and videos that are expressing solidarity with the palestinians what i'm curious about is do you believe that this type of activism some people call it hash tag activism but do you believe that this type of activism you know on these social media platforms is actually leading to a deeper kind of engagement on the issues. before before this time before. what's happening today. before like in 2009 houses in. where displaced and settlers took these houses and until today they are still living in these houses before the news would talk about what's happening in shifts but they still could make it because nobody knew

about it doing my protest in shifts and i met a girl from another city in pakistan and i told her i hope this is what happened in 2009 which we didn't want to happen again and she didn't know what happened in 2009 because. didn't reach her because. israeli media is really powerful israeli propaganda is really poet for our needs our stories couldn't reach anyone in the world today our news our songs our shouts reaching many people around the world because we are the producers of our story we produce the story we take the photos we took take the footage we take the stories and share them to the world and this is why they started fighting against our stories and fighting against our ports i do believe that because we could share our

stories very widely and shero it worse is that a widely i do have hope that. that we will win the case in shifts but winning the case in chief doesn't mean when ending the occupation because what's happening in egypt isn't on the happening in egypt it's happening in the rest of the occupied territories and the rest of his telescope and stein nodding along to a lot of what merriam was saying there so i wanted to see if you had a reaction you wanted to add and i also wanted to get from your perspective your reaction would you believe that this kind of activism that we're seeing playing out you know in so many social media platforms right now is actually going to lead to a deeper engagement when it comes to discussing these issues. well i just star i mean i think what mary was saying about you know it's it's right now focuses on shifter out but solving the crisis in chapter is not going to end the occupation or end systems of apartheid and i think that's something that we're trying really

trying to lift up in our organizing around this and i think so often and what's very frustrating is so often it's described as i slighted in some cases of violence or you know a conflict between 2 equal partners and that's just not the case and that is completely decontextualized and as both national and marian has said it totally misses kind of the reality on the ground and it also ignores the fact that you know the tools that israel is using are furnished by the united states many of them by united states government you know our government gives $3800000000.00 of military aid to israel every year and so you know there are those are u.s. bombs and u.s. fighter jets that are flattening you know whole buildings and it's u.s. diplomatic backing that is trying to you know shield. the settler enterprise settlement enterprise from any consequences and so i think that i was really

touched by what mariam said about you know that being the producers of your own story and i do think that's really important again because as i said you know similar to representative slave sharing on the house floor you know these stories have palestinians and what palestinians have experienced at the hands of you know all this israeli violence and. this campaign to expand jewish supremacy that has been ongoing for decades and and that americans have to listen to those stories and so i think it's really important that people are seeing that i think social media has made that much more accessible and i think that people. now you know if i may i'd like to ask you a little bit more of a personal question you know one of the more horrifying aspects of all of this is the fact that children are continuing to die as an aid worker as

a humanitarian worker as a mother how does that make you feel to continue seeing that play out in gaza. well of course it's. we live here and all our lives and. moving i would think the 21st. light on the 3rd of the 6 and a half hour in 2014 while i was pregnant with her. maybe started initially then. now with this new chapter where she understands and asks a very difficult although very innocent that's made the fickle questions how can i protect her physically that there's something of course a limit to what we can do however how can i protect her brain her mental health their well being or how how she is raised as a human above all but somebody who understand also what's wrong and what is

right and what is just and what is injustice that's how are her parents and her grand prix appearance lived and so on and so on the problem is that how in the challenge that i feel is that how can i give her whole now only only these couple of days this fight how challenging of our buying they are and what fears i personally have now and today. of what may come next how tonight will be. or too long or home for that with oil or beyond in the coming weeks what is the balance that you can do as a parent that you can keep to keep them sane and human but also teach them the problem why why is this happening i mean you know with these 2 dates and

the mentions that the amount of engagement i downed the road and it feels a bit different to me feels a bit different than not no. only the the kind of quick support you know sending messages hope you're all right stay safe we're on their side it's one state that on the spot is more important is what's happening in palestine all of it and around it even a change joined that in order levanon what we're seeing today in the us that this is like everyone is awake that this is wrong and it should stop so i have some hope however i know i'm also realistic that this kid that's the un it will not change in a day or in a 2nd or that i hope that my daughters wait have a chance to. love to live a more less kind of traumatized experience and and being just

ordinary human being it's all right well we have run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests muddy my feet mariah kaplan and showa and thank you too for watching you can see this in all of our previous programs again any time by visiting our website of 0 dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me my mage i'm assuming the whole team here by for now.

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sites are underway the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. or. an israeli airstrike hits a refugee camp in gaza at least 8 people including 6 children are dead. there watching how jazeera live from doha with me fully back to all an extensive coverage of the israel palestine conflict. you know those in the occupied west bank after 11 palestinians are killed during a day of.