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when an island built for tourists suddenly has no visiting. one no one east travels to bali to find out. just 0. palestinian protesters are on the street served to west bank marking nakba the day in 1988 when tens of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes as a state of israel was created. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up on the program funerals were held for palestinian mothers and their children killed during an israeli air strike on their refugee camp in gaza. more communal violence between israeli jews and
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palestinian israelis as mobs through fire bombs into homes. dozens more bodies of suspected covert 19 victims are found floating in india's it river ganges as 2 of the country's poorest states trade blame. so yes the protests are underway in the palestinian territory and around the world as israel continues to bombard gaza from the air and from the ground this is the scene in better that's in the occupied west bank where anger over past and present injustices has been building palestinians are marking not bad day or a catastrophe when 750000 palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in the war that led to the establishment of israel in 1948 overnight at least 10
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people including 8 children were killed when an israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp large crowds gathered for the funerals in gaza earlier on saturday. well israel's bombardment of gaza from the air and the ground has continued through the morning. 140 palestinians have now been killed since the offensive began on monday all right victoria became be begins our coverage. rescue workers in gaza dig through rubble for survivors at the shattered refugee camp after a house that was hit by an israeli airstrike. also if it's my cousin's house we were surprised by an airstrike that hit the house without any warning we ran outside we saw the 4 story house get completely demolished it was completely leveled his sister and her kids were visiting and they were all killed all of them with. the 1st thing. this 2 month old baby called was one of 2 survivors who were
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rushed to hospital but at least 5 other children were killed. we are still trying to recover more bodies and figure out who is who this is truly a massacre that cannot be described in words we don't know how he managed maybe he just stayed alive to be a witness of what happened to the rest of his family. israeli jets tanks and artillery attacked other sites across gaza or on friday including a bank as well as the interior ministry. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the bombardment of gaza will not end anytime soon and i am addition to the senior leaders of hamas believe that they can escape from our armed forces but they cannot we can reach them everywhere we reach all these people and we will continue to do so they attacked us on our holiday in our capital and fired rockets at our cities they have paid and will pay
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a heavy price for that this is not over yet. the mass and its allies responded to friday's attacks by firing about raj of rockets from inside gaza the israeli military said most were intercepted. as the fighting continues the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows steadily was dozens of children have been killed since the shelling began and hundreds more have been displaced with their. families aid workers say many palestinian children are already traumatized by past wars this is why it's so critical that we have to have immediate cease fire and decisions were still. carried lifelong injuries mental health issues visible and physical disability as well palestinians are sheltering where they can but they say no wearing gaza feel safe right now the jury gave him be al jazeera well let
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us return live now to our in the occupied west bank and it reform our ports was standing by the. palestinians around the world marking. it's an important significant day always but it has a particularly tragic and significant point to see today. many palestinians have been telling us over the past days that they are protesting because they believe that the next is still ongoing it's not just an incident that happened 73 years ago but that all of what happened or most of what happened in 1948 is still ongoing now when it comes to palestinians lives under occupation the lab grabs there is expansion of the league in israeli settlements the settler attacks that are intensifying against palestinians the house evictions so you name it so for many palestinians this day not just remind them of what happened 73 years
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ago but it's it's it's it reminds them that they are still living under these circumstances this is why many protesters are taking to the streets of different cities in the occupied west bank we're seeing less numbers than we've seen on friday protests but they still young and we might be seeing more and more protests across different cities in the west bank 3 funerals have been held to run this morning for palestinians who were shot dead by the israeli army's fire in confrontations on friday and the number of palestinians who were killed. in friday was 11 and one of those palestinians days really army said that he tried to carry out an attack against israeli army needed an illegal israeli settlement and they didn't hand his body over to his family for burial this is not something new this is a policy that israel implements by withholding the bodies of palestinians believes
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where volved in attacks against its soldiers or sutlers and it keeps those bodies to kind of punish the families. so they can't bury their loved ones so this is the situation that many palestinians will tell you it's frustrating they're also frustrated that the palestinian authority they say that the. been giving a strong reaction when it comes to helping them fight the israeli occupation and many here have been telling us that if the palestinian authority is not a part of the solution than it is part of the problem and need to give us an idea of how things are living in the occupied west bank at this time what is the feeling how is it for you your family your friends. one word i like to talk about when i describe occupation to a foreign audience who might not know what this word means and it is instilling fear you're afraid to raise
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a child in this country you don't know how to tell them when they see armed israeli soldiers inside the occupied west bank in between cities sometimes humiliating parents in front of their children so there are so many details when it comes to a palestinians life that cannot be compared to any any other life on the planet they too tough control over anything they don't have control even over the top i'm if you're travelling from one city to another you are expecting to be passing by illegal israeli settlements by israeli military checkpoints you don't know what's going to happen sometimes people were telling us that their families were involved in car accidents that the israelis mistakenly thought that they would attacks and they got killed we've interviewed many people many people over the past few years who tell us that they were killed or the relatives were killed in cold blood and for many palestinians they believe that this reality has been absent from the
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international world maybe they are on the world's headlines one day or one week but this is what they've been facing they say that they are under so much injustice by the israeli army they say that the israeli propaganda machine always tries to pin them terrorists and this is why it's making the fight against occupation much harder even on social media we've seen many platforms limit the use of certain hashtag like now instagram has issued an explanation later saying there was a problem and they apologize for it but for palestinians they say that this is not just a small mistake that is. tension and. sad . a not make this is why they want to show the world what occupation means
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how their lives are taught to control by the israeli army this is why certain human rights organizations have started using opera tied to word a word palestinians have been saying that they've been living on there for so many years but they feel that the international community is finally catching up to that need only with the time being thanks very much indeed for the. better in the occupied west bank mistake you know 2 pitches in tel aviv sirens were going off and we're hearing that a rocket from gaza may have landed in the air there's certainly a pretty chaotic scene on the streets people rushing about the seems to be said amount of rescue services in the area we saw somebody on a stretcher a little bit earlier this is obviously somebody just filming on a mobile phone following a rescue services into a building by the looks of it of course earlier in the week tel aviv was targeted
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by rockets from gaza so it's a very chaotic day is. self is being targeted in it seems that a rocket has landed in tel aviv will try again but more information to let you know precisely what's going on as we get more information. well tomorrow is the director of strategic communications in spokeswoman at the u.n. relief and works agency and she says that palestinians is suffering from decades of compounding issues on top of the latest attacks. it is the place where the spare is extremely high and were civilians are trapped and where they receive every couple of years every 3 or 4 years they become the subject of a humanitarian crisis of international magnitude in the middle of this what is most important is to keep the focus on the palestinians themselves in the case of on palestine refugees which are the predominant part of the society in gaza so gaza is
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a place that receives these bombardments every few years and where the infrastructure is routinely completely destroyed it's a place that because of the many years of blockade has not at all been able to develop at best every few years the humanitarian the international community manages to rehab village they to rebuild some of the infrastructure where it works like health centers or schools right now the power supply across gaza dropped to 8 to 10 hours a day which really hugely disruptive the provision of basic services health services hospitals machines the water supply gaza is the place where the spare is really high where unemployment is soaring where the social economic conditions are really bad again primarily because of the blockade but also it's a place where covet has hit really really high vaccination rates amongst palace
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that in palestine are 5 percent that's very very low and while in europe has been at the forefront of responding and trying to mitigate the spread the government 1000 i have to reinforce here the message that covered 1000 comes on top of many many layers of conflicts and blockades and unemployment and the spare and the massive psychological crisis in gaza if you're a 15 year old today in gaza all you've known is gaza and being under blockade the psychological impact of that is huge on the youth who find no prospects when they are in gaza today. back to the pictures in tel aviv in israel's capital where sirens have been heard we are getting reports that a rocket has landed in the area you can see police you are seeing rescue services we saw images of somebody on a stretcher and clearly these pictures are being filmed by somebody with
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a mobile phone who's just following what's going on. in the week you might remember the palestinian palestinians said that they've fired around about 130 missiles these ready city of tel aviv a lot of them were intercepted by the underlying israeli on time defense system it seems that one rocket has now landed in tel aviv not sure from where it came remember that up until this point we have something like 134 palestinians dead in this 9 israelis at the last count have died. 11 palestinians killed during protest that swept across the west bank on friday and these pictures are in within israel in tel aviv where it's thought a rocket has landed and rescue services there and the police are dealing with the ensuing aftermath. well fighting between israeli police and
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palestinian demonstrators continued into the night in occupied east jerusalem there's also been increasing violence between israeli jews and palestinians israelis and what the president has called a senseless civil war now warning you may find some of the images in her forces report disturbing. after days of depressing racial violence across israel friday night in brought a new low throwing fire bombs into homes including that of 12 year old mohammed he and his younger sister burned his father said they'd been sitting in the living room when the molotov cocktail was thrown in he rushed mohammed to the bath the neighbors came to help but across israel neighbors a turning on each other on a scale that few can remember more gun violence and loud where 2 jewish men was shot the previous night by palestinians. and one of our guys tried to the from behind the mosque where he was shot we don't know the settlers or police or undercover forces the town has seen religious sites desecrated a jewish synagogue a muslim cemetery the prime minister was there again on friday.
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groups of writers are coming from the arab public and harming jews because they are jews i am explicitly saying that this is not the entire arab public and not even the majority of the arab public but it is a significant minority that harms violently and also harms the fabric of life we have built over the years between jews and arabs. and so to the crackdown israel's internal security agency detaining a senior cleric of the northern islamic movement for alleged incitement accompanying violent confrontations dozens more palestinians injured some critically netanya stands accused of fueling this fire courting and legitimize in the extreme racist right at the last election. to tackle gun crime within palestinian israeli areas years before. in the occupied west bank a violent flare up of a different kind of fronting soldiers in forcing
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a military occupation this was just west of ramallah. this was hebron. and this close to the illegal israeli settlement if they. were try. to defend our land we have no arms nothing as in gaza and israel the toll mounted quickly israeli forces using live ammunition shooting protesters dead hundreds were injured. in occupied east jerusalem jewish settlers and palestinians faced off one palestinian man was shot and injured. as well as erupting in the occupied west bank and continuing here in occupied east jerusalem this violence between jews and arabs is continuing to flare in israel itself the image that shocked so many earlier this week was the beating of side he's now given an interview to israel's channel 13 t.v. saying his assailants 1st asked him if he was an arab yes how can i help it was his
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reply the simple open innocence of that question now seems from another time. al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem just to keep you abreast of what's happening. not too much more information already getting in these pictures coming into us here in the neighborhood of. it said that the building has been hit by a rocket. course of. the dead and we're hearing that one person has been badly wounded you can see that tensions pretty high there on the streets earlier we were looking at rescue services. trying to make their way through the aftermath of what had happened police on the scene. trying to figure out what's going on. as soon as we got more information but at the moment all we know is that
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a rocket has landed in the neighborhood of tel aviv one person. well palestinian refugees from a camp in northern lebanon making their way to the border with israel to take part of protests groups of men from the camp boarding buses refugee camp which shelters some 30000 people it's controlled by palestinian factions one palestinian was killed on friday at the lebanon israel border in front confrontations with israeli security forces. and demonstrations being organized right around the globe in support of the palestinian people this was the scene in australia in sydney where vigil was held earlier to protest against israel's actions and from the u.k. to afghanistan and south africa to germany crowds building up set to join the calls following similar demonstrations held since monday and indeed we can go to the u.k. now where paul brennan is standing by for a sit in london where protesters are expected to march on the israeli embassy a poll that said this march coming in may dramatically heightened tensions what are
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the authorities expect. the march that was. is going to set off in about 40 minutes corner where i'm standing now and head down to the israeli embassy which is just the way. numbers expected between 10000 even 20000 by the organizers. among the having seen what they've seen on the television over the past week. people gathering.
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on the t.v. . and the. civilians being bombed of children being incinerated they have. people. around them a touch. from their homes. this is. not to solidarity with the palestinian people but in a in a message to the government. for their almost a week saying what is it you hope to achieve by marching to the. civil. rights over the past few weeks. in the context of. 3 years of the imposition of a system of power of people even human rights defining as meaning the legal
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he said. just in the u.k. alone in cities up and down the country there are also protests across europe this protest in paris which has actually been found by the police that because of fears that it might escalate into violence are we keeping an eye on the situation in our swell during the course of the day for the moment though back to this process taking place across the world paula thanks for that to pull brant and ben in london from london let's return to television and those images of the neighborhood where people are just trying to figure out what's going on you can see a lot of people talking about events and of just unfolded apparently sirens were heard we know that a rocket fell in the middle of the street and struck in all from that rocket hits buildings alongside the streets we understand it's reported that one person has been killed and one person has apparently been badly injured and rescue services
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that we've seen police and security forces that too the question is now what this will lead to how the israeli forces will respond so that's the situation in tel aviv right now. now the bodies of about 100 suspected 1000 victims have been found floating in india's river ganges in the past week most were recovered in india's poorest state of bihar that has the country's worst health care system there is only one doctor for every 28000 people a warning this report from our india correspondent elizabeth program contains images some people might find disturbing. the fires continue to burn in one of the many cremation grounds on the banks of the ganges river considered the holiest source of water by hindus many want to be cremated near it and have the ashes scattered in the water will say in recent times they've never had to deal with so
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many bodies. the daily concretes changing some days we cremate 4050 or even 70 bodies it's even reach 145 in one day but over the past week around a 100 bodies suspected to be of covered mine 1000 victims have been found floating in the ganges in the states of be hard and author pradesh in bihar they have been reports of a shortage of wood for funeral pyres because of the unprecedented number of cremations that's denied by the local administration that be hard is also india's poorest state with only line to 2 community health care centers for 120000000 people. but i've been there pandey travelled from his home town to the capital partner to find a hospital for his wife he told al-jazeera he can't afford the medical care or food for himself. or. i have to buy medicines every
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day we get few tablets from the hospital for free but there are 4 basic illnesses we got medicines worth around grand decent and that's it we have to buy everything from elsewhere they give food to the position but not put the relatives. she had lost his uncle to corona virus he is amount of many people in bihar who say their relatives would neglected because of a lack of health care workers there was only one doctor for every 28000 people. the health system across india has collapsed whether it is the i.c.u. or the general ward relatives are not being allowed to stay with patients and patients are dying there is no one to feed them water clean the sort clothes. health experts say most call it by a 1000 deaths in bihar and dia's rural areas where 65 percent of the population lives are not being counted only 2.4 percent of the deaths and be hard
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a medically certified. i have no more room. for him to bear. i didn't. even try. but really it is not going. to come to a hospital. cases of the virus and they have now tops $24000000.00 but more than a quarter of a 1000000 deaths but it's widely suspected that the actual figures are likely to be much higher elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi. in tel aviv live shots right there you can see a lot of debris on the street you can see a fire truck the security services around because sirens went off and a rocket landed. in this remick neighborhood of television about 2 kilometers from the city center of television one person has reported is being killed another
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person is apparently badly injured the rocket it seems landed in the streets and ensuring structural buildings and claimed a couple of victims in the process. now saturday is the final day of registration for kind of hoping to succeed president hassan rouhani following iran's election in june this year's vote comes at a critical time with tehran and the world powers engaged in diplomatic negotiations to revive the 2015 deal. it's interim and has more. we've seen some of the most high profile candidates hopefuls rather registering on this final day earlier this morning we saw. johnie he is of course the former speaker of parliament register and we just seen the head of the country's judiciary ebrahim bracy register as well now these candidates will be vetted by a governing body called the guardian council let's a 12 member body who will decide who is eligible to run in these elections that are
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we held on june 18th the candidates will have to meet a number of criteria including they have to be between the ages of $40.75 and they have to be rainy and nationals and of the countries majority religion the candidates we've seen so far come forth have also been the former defense minister as well as former president mahmoud ahmadinejad all in the hopes of trying to be to stand in this election the 2 most high profile candidates that we've seen so far is you see who has been within the country's branches of government since he was at the age of 20 he was a prosecutor he was appointed in 2017 after he was defeated in the presidential elections by current president hassan rouhani by the supreme leader to the head of digit to sherry now if he is approved which we believe he most likely will be he
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