this is an important part of the way people pick a book on here now to be was very good at bringing the news to the world from here . the air at. my . face or the army bombs the building housing al-jazeera and other media outlets in the gaza strip after giving those inside just an hour to get ads. my. i'm having a hit in and this is al jazeera line from doha also coming up funerals are held for palestinian mothers and their children killed during an israeli airstrike on their refugee camp in gaza. more communal violence between israeli jews and palestinian

history of these living children birds after far bombs are thrown into their homes . and solidarity protests are being held around the world sees alike pictures from baghdad's virus crates have gathered so the sellers ara-c. with the palestinians. my. start with those dramatic developments in gaza in the last hour or so israel has bombed a building that houses a number of international media outlets this is the directs the moments a direct hits on the offices of al-jazeera media network in gaza brought down the building claiming. to be. the jedi i'm not on board he's not on board. which was.

the come out of our carnal ala i was only the critique under-sea ledger. was a saudi it's millionaire here shop the year. overnight it's said least 10 people including 8 children were killed when an israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp large large crowds gathered for their funerals in gaza earlier on saturday 140 palestinians have been killed since the offensive began on monday. with those on the leases developments we can speak of science palestinian journalists are going to read a sentence you know you're joining us now from. oh she from pursuing assuming this is because the building that you normally work from has now been destroyed. i'm

actually standing in front of a tower where our office of his ear out was you can see the rubble behind me the rubble off the tower that has been targeted and brought to the to the ground. and. these runners to make it back to the building and it just looks very safe right now are due to be under some if anyone has been injured in the strike or did people manage to escape from the terror before the bomb struck. we were given one out where exactly the owner of the building was cold by these really are being all the civilians just your office said that associated press we were all given just one hour to evacuate not only a building which was targeted but what to know where this what the one next to it and that the buildings that are opposite to the entire area like the entire

neighborhood that is just around it we were all just given one hour to evacuate instantly so you can imagine people not being able to take anything except to their their selves and their their kids and fathers and mothers the elderly is then riding out of the tower it instantly before the tower was targeted i twist targeted by a reconnaissance mis sold so that was also a great terror and it was very very dangerous so people had to evacuate quickly so this one hour was not total time for evacuation and that you could take whatever you want in an hour you can. actually take more than one thing but no reconnaissance planes had targeted it before it was totally targeted by missiles that brought to to the ground empty we knew it the sea. 'd knew the reasons being given for this attack the israeli military was that the building contains

a hamas military intelligence the israeli army said where there were no we've managed to find the hamas military intelligence that they felt was necessary to bomb the entire time where. this building i'd like we haven't heard a justification until now was for targeting of this building i mean where do you go out with take that office and where it from and associated press we're talking about international media offices so this this office at this building does not have except residential buildings and sorry residential apartments and these cheap media offices so i don't know what it could have where is the alarm from this where is the military or any of hamas members or military members that could be in this building that people here at the residence all know each other 5 but the 1st 5 floors are for offices that are off during this time of escalation all offices are

up there not working so maze explain what is working are there to be the offices of as you read the a.p. and there is a dutch a lump arguments at the people so i don't know where is the threat that came from this building. we knew that they were hiding in the in the coffee room worth the lives talk about why people are reacting to this i mean you're certainly you're back out the scene there is the devastating sight behind you as you point. many residential floors in that building many families have lost their who. have you managed to speak to anyone in the area are they dealing with the fact that they are now you most and all they have the sense of the coots on their back at this stage i heard people reacting to this where you are. well let me tell you 1st start her

once this building was brought to the ground and it was totally distracted and it was safe for us to go which is like just 2 minutes after it was brought to the crowd palestinians ran to the side east and they were right here around the destructed building and they were chanting god is great to god is great and they said and it was in france of so many journalists and cameras shooting this scene that this will not. 8 will not let them back off and will not let their will not let them give up to the occupation forces and that they will go on and they will keep resisting really forces there how much they destruct and no mater how much they lose their lives so i think the spirit over at the 1st the 1st. impression that we can get from the people they say that that they do not want to show that they have been bitten despite their hurting they do not want to show that

they are bitten deep or if they are going to be giving off or they are going to surrender for what is going on no they will still like they say the step fastness of the policy of people will go on their resilience will go on despite all the destruction that is going on but of course this does not eliminate the amount of sorrow and grief that these people hold within specially that they have lost all their memories and dreams in properties in this destruction. to your stands are going from some of this is. just the remnants of the associated press and the al-jazeera offices in gaza that rubble really does. is all that's left of the homes and offices of these families and residents in that area there is a lot of focus though you know on the fact that this is the media has not been

directly targeted here the international media has not been directly targeted by its really forces in the middle of this assault but this is the 1st time is it this isn't the 1st time that organizations like al jazeera have come under attack in gaza just seen for us tell us more of the sort of the pressures there are when it comes to being a reporter working in gaza and the the the things that you have to deal with the violence that you have to deal with us are journalists trying to tell stories from gaza. that violence is great i mean. despite despite israel claiming that it is not targeting international media or it's not targeting media office in gaza i mean with 3 towers where they hold media offices in gaza being totally destructed i think there is

there and there needs to be another just occasion for this story it does not truly make sutton's i mean that can't just be a coincidence and the other thing we as journalists working in aware and then wars on are a place where continuous escalations keep happening and taking place i mean yes we are journalists but we are also civilians we have our families we have our people who are worried about us we have to go to dangerous places and cover. death for a different areas we would we inhale the smoke sit and gases. that we from the areas that we go in to cover i mean it's not easy the destructions and the missiles coming down with our cameras we're just standing by to take that to see him where something is being targeted or. martyrs are being killed i

mean the missiles the rockets that are falling around us it does we know we go to cover these areas if we go to covering these sites and we know that we're putting ourselves in danger but we want to because we want to show the world the truth we want to cover what is really going on despite what no matter what i am a mother of 4 children i've left my children and i've come to worry and i did not go home after even after even when we when we got the polls for the district that it's going to be targeted i you state here to cover it just like all my other friends from all other channels in media offices to come or what is going on it is not easy for us but we are going to continue doing this because this is our only way to expose to the international community what is really going on and gaza and what is really happening here you're not. joining us from. your office is not thank you. well that's take another look at the moment the

israeli military hits the gaza offices those in the al-jazeera media network and the associated press bringing down the aisle jhala building. the at. my. this of course is happening in the context of why it's a wider unrest in israel are just learning now of

a statement from the president's and c.e.o. of the associated press saying they're shocked and horrified spied the incredibly disturbing israeli attack on the building housing the a.p. office that being released through the associated press wires from new york that coming of course as we have been reporting over the last say a couple of hours and the associated press both having offices in that building which was brought in just over an hour perhaps coming close to 2 hours ago that is the moment the building is coming in the president the c.e.o. of a releasing a statement they are shocked and horrified by the incredibly disturbing israeli attack on the building housing the a.p. offices. there fighting between israeli police and palestinian protesters continued into the night in occupied east

jerusalem there's also been increasing violence between israeli jews and palestinian israelis on what the president has called a senseless civil war let's get more now from harry fawcett's he joins us from damascus gates. happenings very busy news day of course this conflict between israel and the palestinians is very wide reaching we're focused right now of course on the attack on the building in gaza certainly the violence has been ongoing for the last several days now spilling out its insist the communities across israel is what more can you tell us at this stage. i can will i can tell you that it's getting it's continuing it's not getting worse it's certainly not getting any better and it was another extremely violent night across israel. overnight last night we saw very late in the night those images

coming through of a young boy a 12 year old boy in just who was burned on his face a molotov cocktail thrown through the open window it seemed that people had been going along marking out the palestinian israeli arab houses. ahead of time this c.c.t.v. footage and then we heard from his father saying that he rushed into the bath neighbors came and helped but that was just one if perhaps the lowest point of the violence that we've seen erupting around the country there was also more violence inside the city of la or lead where palestinians and israelis were around a mosque and one of them said to have left the rear entrance of the mosque and was shot 'd his friend saying it was unclear if it was the police or if it was. jewish settler groups who had come and that is one of the main points that we need to make as well that there have been armed right wing jewish groups as well as criminal

elements from the arab sector of society both on the streets. pretty coordinated really using social media and in the midst of all this israeli government is saying that it is going to crack down hard it's giving the border forces full powers to do whatever is required benjamin netanyahu in his public utterances very much saying this is an arab on jew issue in the majority despite what we saw last night which was a number of palestinian israelis who were attacked in this latest eruption continuing eruption of racial violence. so the racial violence is of course very concerning happening across israel. but we're also starting to see retaliations there are more rockets being fired from gaza that are in a striking israel and we understand that work at south hates tell a v with more casualties on the israeli side stick can you tell us more about the

events that been happening in the last hour or so. that's right yes there was another a little bit earlier on in the day there was another pretty strong strike on television one of those rockets got through not to tell of itself but to the suburb of ramat gan as a major explosion on a busy shopping street at least and it was busy but there was a shopping street in which this rocket appeared to just rip through the front of a building one man killed in that attack that was after some reporting that the israeli military had done a lot of damage to the capacity of the fighting factions within gaza to fire such long range rockets so an answer of sorts to that coming from inside gaza and so yes this military escalation continues you've seen the terrible pictures coming out from inside gaza of these massive buildings not just the one housing the al-jazeera

building office but many others as well as residential areas where families have been killed equally you've seen a mounting if smaller death toll on the israeli side as well with these very very concentrated barrass of rocket fire so there has been some reporting about the possibility of a cease fire in the coming days for now at least the it continues. ok keeping across the story for us from occupied east jerusalem we appreciate it harry thank you very much indeed well palestinians in the occupied west bank are marking nakba the day in 1948 from tens of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes as the state of israel was created to abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and she joins us now. we can hear gunfire right behind you. but of unrest unfolding up to speed with what's been happening since we last spoke

. since we last spoke we are hearing that more power stadiums are coming towards this area which is near an israeli military checkpoint that is adjacent to and if they get israeli settlement called out palestinians have been protesting over the past few days saying they want to show their frustration that anger that they are supporting their fellow palestinians in occupied east jerusalem and in the besieged gaza strip but some are telling us that they are true to staying because they know that they have more than enough reasons to do so they have this radio that they've been living under for decades we've seen me going people who do not know and the only life they've known is the one that is under kewpie sion here and as you just heard. israeli army is using live ammunition against these folks who are usually only armed with the wrong sometimes molotov

cocktails which they prepare here locally or flight aware but use really the army is using live ammunition tear gas as well rubber coated steel bullets and these are still bullets kit that could still harm palestinians according to medical sources there are now 11 palestinians who were injured by live fire in different protests but may. only 10 of those who are injured by live ammunition are going to sort of village which is needed now because in the north of the occupied west bank it is the plays that is usually targeted by a lot of attacks by israeli settlers there are a lot of illegal israeli settlements and out. the village and presidents usually say the palestinian residents that they are helpless they are joining forming committees to defend the village to try and fend off these settler attacks and now they are participating in this protest because they want to say they want to come

right now they want to show the israeli army that they are not afraid and that they ahd they were telling us that next but it's still ongoing now in other locations local sources are telling us that there is a 12 year old boy who was shot by live ammunition in the back we are working to confirm those records but usually we are seeing young people participate in these protests these young people have born in the 1990 s. after the palestinian authority was established it's seen that leaders on and on tell them that they're going to have freedom that they're going to have a state but the only thing they're seeing is that the lives on which this state this should be established are sure to be more and more by the day ok need abraham there live from ramallah in the occupied west bank stay safe nida was told so you can soon thank you. now solidarity rallies are being held across the world's the

swiss the scene in baghdad a short time ago. the protests was gathered in tahrir square to show support for palestinians in gaza some of the kurds were seen burning israeli flags. even going to its name she joins us now from baghdad. seem like quite a significant presence at that rally. there probably about 5600 protesters almost exclusively men who answered the call by shia cleric solder to protest he called on friday for protests in every province in iraq to show solidarity for palestinians and here in the capital as i said hundreds of mostly good one turned out to show their solidarity was no to a couple of protesters definitely not this man yelling behind me but i spoke to

a number of protestors who said that they obviously feel that what's happening in the palestinian territories is a humanitarian issue that needs the response of the international community one man said i don't understand why the world is afraid of palestinian children i don't understand why the world doesn't understand that palestinians deserve dignity to live freely and deserve to have a state there's definitely a sense of empathy also here in iraq with the palestinians particularly in gaza they too are frustrated with the government i spent 10 days last month in gaza i did a number of stories and i got a very distinct sense of what's happening on the ground there what are the things that everyone should know as they look at what's happening there this week is that right before this conflagration began the hope was that the palestinians would launch their 1st elections in 15 years legislative elections people are extremely

upset in gaza with the hamas leadership they feel that it had failed them and analysts told me that they believe that hamas would have suffered great losses in gaza had elections taken place later this month now since then the elections have been. canceled but again people well in gaza while they're quite upset with the obviously occupation and about a 15 year blockade imposed by the israelis and the egyptians they won't say it publicly but they will tell you are either really not wrong with the hamas leadership and the inertia that it has created or the pandemic everything is just magnified in terms of the misery 100 times oh we spoke to farmers and fishermen. able to eke out a living because they're not evil. for their goods because. of the pandemic ok. and 3 percent of

a relation when i was there. and that is in the files to me and territories others are that they are relying on israel to donate vaccinations that is rather the international community. they had hoped that you know. about. me there's a lot of support still among iraqis for the palestinians ok that certainly is you're attracting a bit of attention there latasha we're going to let you get some space thank you very much indeed for bringing us that update from baghdad now we are getting reports that he barrows of rockets has been fired from gaza towards israel was a response to the bombing over the gelato or an for the attack on a palestinian refugee camp over night speech jeremy dear you see deputy general secretary of the international federation of journalists he joins us from brussels spice skype schizo have you with here on the program. first of all can i just get

your reaction to the bombing of the old gel attire we've heard from the associated press c.e.o. he's shocked and horrified response. equally shocked and horrified in expressing outrage that once again there is no attempt to cover up what is happening in gaza by directly attacking media facilities this is a 3rd attack now on a tower which channels these bury us media on top of that we've recorded 30 incidents of journalists being beaten or being detained we've got the internet shut downs and it's quite clear that this isn't an accident that this is systematic tarr thing of media in gaza in order to prevent reporting from there so you knew it would sink then and here you believe that this was an attack to attempt to silence

media voices and not accept the explanation given by israeli minute media that were hiding in that building. well i mean that's a lawyer aids the excuse when something like this happens but they seize now the good tower that act how do they explain the 30 attacks on individual journalists photographers report to simply doing their job how do they explain media and others having their internet services blocked in the past few days and this isn't if this was a one off incident you might be able to to say that was the case but back in december we put into the united nations special rapporteur complaints about the systematic our getting of palestinian journalists by the israeli forces throughout the past few years so yes we believe this is a very deliberate attempt to try to silence the story being told from gaza where

we're so waiting to hear any official reaction from the u.s. president from other international leaders but one could assume when that will be the same both sides should deescalate how would you advise journalists to deescalate their coverage of what's happening in gaza. well it's not it shouldn't be for journalists to censor themselves and deescalate because they are under attack but we obviously understand that in those circumstances journalists will seek to ensure that they are safe but it should not be just their individual responsibility under un security council resolution $1738.00 states have a duty to ensure that journalists are protected and to take all steps to avoid civilian and media casualties and that is not happening or when the security council meets tomorrow

a very clear message needs to go out to the israeli forces that they must stop systematically targeting media ok jeremy dempsey general secretary of the international federation of journalists thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera thank you let's move now to me he's the director of the palestinian center for human rights and joins us from gaza by skype thanks for speaking to us here on aldous era where now we heard there from jeremy dear this is a deliberate attempt to silence the media from telling the stories from within gaza and getting them out towards the world are you surprised by this. unfortunate. israel do have a clear and long good record of attacking me you know. that it. actually had been very consequential in

20082012004 the incredible. and they killed the injured. right and arrested quite a lot of during that it. wasn't unique changed when they were doing that or the nation because of the time that everyone was forgotten in the war that. this is a clear course and even this last. and i want to store the comedienne she really on target so far this is the target before i throw her out. and they target you just the other.