syrians don't have regular access to enough food despite the battlefield being largely quiet for a year aid agencies say the daily suffering of syrians is worse than it has been a nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship does not stop at syria's borders. this is al jazeera. you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. an israeli airstrike flattens a building housing al-jazeera and other international media. no place is safe an

israeli airstrike hits a refugee camp in gaza with one family losing 10 members. and one the war we're talking to here. palestinians march to mark the day palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes for the establishment of israel. a global show of solidarity from iraq to britain to australia thousands march in support of palestinians and denounce the israeli occupation. hello and welcome to this news hour as 15 hours g.m.t. that's 6 pm in an israeli air strike today destroyed. evan storey building housing

international media. this was the scene just a couple of hours ago when the building took a direct hit the building a house residential apartments and a number of media outlets including al-jazeera and the associated press it had been evacuated following a one hour warning from the israeli army in a statement al-jazeera condemned the bombing and said it was a quote clear act to stop journalist reporting on events israel's ground forces have continued to fire heavy artillery into the perceived enclave 140 palestinians have now been killed since the offensive began on monday in the past few hours 30 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel one person was killed in a tel of eve neighborhood after one exploded in a street nearby buildings were damaged by the shrapnel protests are underway in

palestinian territories and around the world demonstrations have been taking place in ramallah in the occupied west bank where palestinians are marking neck bad day that's when palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes for the establishment of israel the palestinian red crescent says 29 palestinians have been injured by israeli security forces on saturday 17 of them have been shot by live ammunition. we have multiple reporters covering this breaking story in the occupied east jerusalem area and abraham is in the occupied west bank we'll speak to them in just a moment 1st let's go to suffer. now demolished building in gaza. this is still being processed clearly this is a compelling significant day in this conflict just take his through what's happened in the past 2 or 3 hours. we don't know what to start either from the

latest escalation i was in your motor you have rockets that are being fired from a building that has been completely destroyed all over from. strike hitting everywhere all over the gaza strip but this me say that. there are people living in this building. together with the us has shifted press colleagues. very limited short time. warning from guys that are really army to leave the building because this is. the outcome of the of the warning because that is they want to destroy it we can see in the background now. the people who used to live there or work there just returned trying to find out some of their. precious things including maybe important documents or maybe some money or maybe

something. good 1 and precious memories they have to leave behind them and a few of the last 2 hours that definitive civil defense teams have been deployed in this area and all the so are these all pin that all because the destruction of the building. also damaged the nearby buildings on people who live in this. building other buildings close to a building also the house they had to evacuate on fire and shelter until they sold or fix the damaged or destroyed houses in another recent escalation significant dramatic development for the 1st time in the last. 6 days of this collision. fighting just they destroyed. the house of a hamas political. leader. this is the 1st times

and 6 days of escalation. of promoting or developing that are buying gets on a political figure out of immediately or following the israeli attack of. how it was in east gaza city. a wave of products over the last year in fighting groups just. to word spread share of our award believe they are what is but shivah because a lot of experience now we call it we can distinguish and we can let's say you realize where did the circus of. hitting now also why we are talking we can also see more followed through gaza into southern israel and the longer range sort of from from the early afternoon we we understand that the last

factions. fighting groups. higher scale of this kind of scale ation and stood in. the fire towards. which means they have also decided to go for fatah that escalation we are just we have we are now again on air and we will continue our coverage. we have a plan they mentioned that we have a problem be blood see is to continue. going to continue our coverage to continue telling the truth. everywhere suffered sit tight for the moment do stay with us because i want to take another look at the moment the israeli military hits that gaza building housing residential apartments and as we've been telling you you know just your media network and the associated press offices as well bringing down the entire building.

let's go back to my colleague software. just looking at the scene behind you it looks like a very dangerous location if that had been an earthquake people would be clearing the area but because it's garza there's no place to go. in the last 6 days of. the people of gaza hug know it or have nowhere to go to stay home it's like apart from the people now that you can see in the bag on some of them they came to check and see the base of the

ticket with their relatives but the majority of the gazans not water staying indoors because there is no proper. infrastructure to fit better so no safety like children is like in theirs and i lot on the other places so yes people prefer to stay home. as you said it's looks like it's a joke. this is the case in all. over the gaza strip places it's not only here the it's the quake wherever we go on to visit the place the destroyed place is the 1st impression you get is that there was the quick here yes when the israeli fighting jets used a heavy duty me silence that is all. we would look like there with the quick last night was a terrible night when family entire family have been killed mother mothers children neighbors from the same kind of destruction. been

using it seems that. promoting or going to get arguably and targeting. so they started in the beginning with areas then targeting fighters then they're warning houses warning people to evacuate their houses then they bombed them to day. to day we have a hamas political senior political officials they had ted hide to his house he wasn't by the way just saw. try to explain. trying to get it directly about the house so on so on for the rest of the gaza strip the also that this explains the. looks of civilians including children under women are victims of the latest escalation so the targets are not fights out of order

people who belong to a political or armed wings but. the shifa hospital which is the biggest hospital in gaza they have been telling us that. most of the casualties or most of the injured people are from civilians including women children and elderly people still we could hear more explosions from from the policy in effect groups trying to retaliate for a late this is right up back on the other hand we can hear also the explosions from the other side. i'm sure in the coming minutes as in the meantime stay safe thanks very much we'll talk you very certain well the al-jazeera media network has reacted to the bombing of its offices in gaza calling it a barbaric act in a statement al jazeera says this the bombing is a quote clear act to stop journalists from conducting their sacred duty to inform the world and report events on the ground it calls on all media and human rights institutions to join forces in denouncing this roofless bombing and to hold the

government of israel accountable for deliberately targeting journalists well moments before the media building was flattened the journalist and the building's owner did try to convince an israeli intelligence officer to give them more time to take their equipment that request was denied and you know look i feel every. hour from the associated press news agency we have a lot of equipment including the cameras and other things just give me 15 minutes and i can bring them all out. let's also that if you would. hold out at the 7 we need 10 minutes and you can see they're all around the press not people who are going to get weapons out well anything white says the sound of the ethical journalism network we spoke to him just a little earlier on the telephone from london he condemned the bombing which he described as unacceptable these images of shocking disgraceful and

worst of all the illegal. reckless threat to civilian life is completely unacceptable fortunately highlights once again the perilous risks facing journalists and media who are caught up in conflict zones in order to understand what's going on in a conflict people need access to information directly from the area where the conflicts taking place you know media are immune from all attack in conflicts like this and so on and israel in particular has been reckless in the past in its conflicts that have been instances where. foreign and international media have been targeted there been instances which have led the jerusalem press club and journalists inside israel to go to the supreme court in israel to condemn

the government for its failure to protect journalists and allow media to be able to operate freely so the the situation fortunately i'm trying to clean is no really you know unusual to journalists who know about and have worked in israel and in the palestinian occupied territories trying to report on what's going on. it annoyed talking to us just a little earlier live to him who's in in the occupied west bank we've obviously been focusing for all the reasons we could talk about at another time on what's been going on in gaza city but this conflict carries on a pace all over the occupied territories over the occupied west bank and across the border in israel just get us up to date with what's been going on where you are. the confrontations between the palestinians and jews through the army hospital intensifying all where the possible hours with this radio are requiring live ammunition and we just heard that one palestinian was transferred by. building for

that you probably can see here to hear that all the house wasn't being hit in the hot oil well i. only know a little there are different confrontations going to with this regular army and there are more than 31 palestinians who were injured by the israeli forces fire. but the majority of them are near nablus and 2 thirds of those were hit by live ammunition so in this scene behind me you can see all going to protest here in and beat a city which is near an israeli military checkpoint that is adjacent to the illegal israeli settlement of bits but there is also one significant importance to the school creation here there is a visiting houses the what is called what is known here as the civil administration

this is known as kooka which is the core of the government the israeli governments or did meet it in the territory which basically is the body that controls almost every single aspect of palestinians lives so even though they have some palestinian they put it to sions including the late palestinian chief negotiator sought at it but has likened the whoever is in charge in that office to being the actual prime minister of palestine so this peace holds a significance and that's why many palestinians are choosing to come here to protest but there are also other confrontation for wins that we are seeing in the occupied west bank including in village where there are lots of injuries there. and specifically in there are lots and lots of attacks by israeli settlers against palestinians their villages their village but the residents of the village have decided to form a committee to protect their village from the settler attack they are doing

sometimes night guards and this is one of the confrontation points where palestinians are clashing now with the israeli army has it been safe enough there today for anyone to mark the neck and a verse or. most of the protesters who wanted to mark next but wanted to wanted to come to a confrontation points with the regular army base say that it's not just the memory it's in the history that they were able to move past many here have been telling us that neck but for them is ongoing it's the what's happened to the palestinians in the 1948 is similar to what's happening here to palestinians in the occupied territory with the elite in this settlement expansion with the house if it sions with this that they're attacked so all of these events that are happening now in palestinians lives remind them of necktie so that's why they wanted to make sure

that they go to confrontation points now usually the israeli army uses tear gas rubber coated steel bullets which are still a dangerous but we've been seeing over the past you the use of high force to disperse the crowd that includes live ammunition and local sources of it was that a 12 year old in the north of the occupied west bank has been hit by live ammunition in his back so all of these. all of this use of this force can only be. escalating the situation even even further. thank you very much an abraham reporting live from the occupied west bank. let's. show you the very latest pictures from gaza you can see. the aftermath of what's going on there in gaza let's talk to harry forsett he's need to mask his

gate area harry as we were talking to need to get it for him in the occupied territories as well we have been looking and examining what's going on with the al-jazeera and the associated press media building in gaza city but this is continuing up and gaza up and on israel. yes that's right there have been strikes continuing from the israeli military inside gaza very considerable ones you heard our colleague suffered talking about some of those earlier there also been large barrages once again coming out from inside gaza the israeli. center has been struck again with ramat gan just outside the center of tel aviv a rocket getting through there in a 55 year old man be killed unable to get to a shelter it was reported with

a rocket piercing that the front door of his home and so this is a continuing military escalation in power level and particularly now with sunset approaching the focused returns again for many people to the eruption of racial committal violence that we've been seeing every night pretty much for the last week it was another extremely concerning night last night with some terrible scenes of people attacking people just on the basis of their race. can i just ask you to share with us terry your thoughts about what's happened with that media building in gaza city i know that's a building you've worked in one doesn't feel particularly comfortable when journalists have conversations with journalists about journalists but the the clear desire here to snuff out the ability to do the reporting to snuff out

the message via literally one assumes an implicit desire to snuff out the journalists. i mean i thought we were going to a package just then hence my slightly strange pause well i mean it yes i can certainly tell you about my experiences of that building i should probably also tell you about what the israeli military is saying it says that hamas used that building as it has said throughout what has been taking down these big buildings in this particular instance for military intelligence and it has been hiding behind media organizations inside the building as from my own experiences yes i mean i have been and out of gaza many many times over the last 4 and a half years and indeed more of again reporting in this in this region before that too and it is a place where our colleagues who work so hard in the most difficult circumstances

trapped as they are inside gaza with all the deprivations and insecurity that that entails. and spend a lot of time in there so it becomes a really. close so a 1000000 kind of a place where people eat watch television obviously work very hard as well. a lot of fun times in that building a lot of difficult times too. you know thinking about being out on that on that platform reporting. usually worried about either something happening outside worried about the cold sometimes worried about just how close the platform is to a pretty precipitous drop well that none of that exists anymore neither did the interactions that we used to have with the residents of that building many civilians families i should say who shared that very rickety lift up and down that building with us every day sometimes it stopped sometimes it worked and now they're

all homeless as well so yes i mean it is a personal thing you can't get away from it when you see somewhere that you know very well people that you know very well close friendships affected in this way harry tell you what will take your report and a brief warning for of us some of the images in the following videotape you might find some of it quite disturbing. after days of depressing racial violence across israel friday night in jaffa 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 in ludd 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 who is 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. 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 so dozens more palestinians injured some critically netanyahu himself stands accused of fueling this fire courting and legitimize in the extreme racist right at the last election failing fully to tackle gun crime within palestinian israeli areas for years before an 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. beating of side he's now giving 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 was his reply the simple open innocence of that question now seems from another time. we'll go back to our conversation with harry in just a moment or so but if you're just joining us here on the news just to let you know what you're looking at on the left hand side of your screen there you've got live pictures from gaza on the right hand side of his screen you've got live shots from close to the israeli garson border we've been reporting extensively since it

happened on the demolition the bringing down of a very well known landmark building inside gaza city that was home housing local palestinian residents as well as housing the al-jazeera media network and the associated press monitored other media outlets as well we've also seen those pictures where the owner of the building saying he was given one hour and only one hour to evacuate the building he asked the israeli military for more time to get equipment out of the building the israeli military signaled clearly no that is not going to happen that is what is left on the left hand side of your screen there that is what is left of the al jazeera media offices in gaza let's go back to my colleague mary forsett who's been looking at the bigger broader picture for us and the backstory to this we saw benjamin netanyahu there harry in your report just looking at the political framework here difficult to remember certainly over the

past $44.00 israeli elections such a level of cynicism within that bubble of israeli politics. well yes i think that is how a lot of people here are seeing what has taken place especially the in the run up to the election this is a prime minister who on the one hand has been. talking about arabs as a sort of threats to his life is an electoral prospects in the past saying they're coming to the polls get out right wing is and stop them from taking the election away from us that was in 2015 in this election he was courting the arab vote the toss in his early vote on the one hand talking about potentially using the supports of one smaller party that he had 70 indorsed to to help him form a coalition in a way which didn't work out while at the same time in the background stewarding the

relationship the marriage really between one religious nationalist party and one extreme far right racist party that has been. prevented has anyway in the 1990 s. were banned from the israeli parliament for their anti arab racism that victory for that party led by it's a mob and gear has really given a shot in the arm to extreme right racists across the country and so at the same time as he's saying to the border forces and the police go out used anything at your disposal which has been read in many sectors is seeing that they are now give being given a carte blanche to not have to worry about the kind of tactics they use to put down what he says is largely an arab. series of attacks against jews well i mean obviously that has been a major constituent part of this but there have also been a lot of jewish attacks against arabs as well people are looking at this and they're seeing a prime minister who is now coming out saying he's shocked by what's going on and

it must stop listening will hang on the senior leadership of this. political cost israel has to take some responsibility for this as well and that's also a message coming from. palestinian israeli politicians are saying we talked to you for years about the amount of gun violence within our communities and not enough was done now the victims of the the arab half of this or the arab part of this are jewish now you're acting and also saying that we all share some responsibility for leading the country into this place on the slightly more positive side there have also of course been the majority of people on both sides who want to see an end to this there have been sort of solidarity protests outside jerusalem with people saying we must work together there is that voice as well that we shouldn't totally overshadow it but people are very worried about another night coming potentially seeing a repeat of the kind of nights we've seen already this week super super briefly

please terry because we've got other conversations backing up in 20 seconds if you can that coalition government if it had come into being would never have worked anyway surely because it had so many disparate ideologies in play constantly in a state of flux up against each other. 20 seconds to sum up the craziness of israeli politics yes i mean that seemed to be the case in the aftermath it seemed those 2 people he was trying to court those 2 parties were trying to court would never have worked together but it's a scene of just how keen how desperate nelson you know is to hold on to power these trying things he's never tried before what has happened now in the light of all of this though is that his main sort of right wing rival who is looking to form a much broader coalition with a real sort of huge spectrum of the israeli political. political scene he looks like natalie bennett he's now coming back to try to form a government with netanyahu after all many thanks let's talk to marian bhagwati

she's a writer and research and she joins us now from ramallah in the occupied west bank marian bootie welcome to the al-jazeera news are such a difficult day for so many people who are your thoughts at this time. well my thoughts right now peter. is that right now in this segment as i was listening the term palestinians was hardly mentioned we are still referred to as arabs especially as settlers today gave a call out that after sunset to go into the streets of the west bank and that attack palestinians so it's really unfortunate that what i'm hearing is still us being referred to as arab still being referred to as a jews versus arabs conflict so yes this day is a very sad day today's may 15th which marks the launch or the ushering of the systemic dispossession of palestinians in 1988 and what we are witnessing is that still being. enacted across historic palestine so

that the feelings here are of frustration of anger of hope that people are slightly more brave and speaking about what is happening here especially because there is. a media blackout going on you see what happened today with the israeli army bombing the offices of al-jazeera and the associated press and i say but this was also civilian infrastructure more than this that areas of confrontation or clashes as it's been called in media. there has been interference with our internet connections there has been destruction in our ability to even send out the news so right now a lot of the feeling is that we are out of final breath and this is the time. to change this is the time to call a spade a spade and this is the time to journey to be free not just for palestinians but

everyone else around the globe who is also felt censoring not just being censored and when you talk about maryam. and hope where will that anger go can it realistically go any place and how does that anger kind of co-exist with the concept of hope. right any movement in history whether it was women's rights whether it was rights for the old you teach you community whether it is the confrontation of ethnic cleansing has been met with anger anger is an emotion that is very natural when you're being repressed when you're being beaten when you are getting messages from 1819 and 20 year old summarizes it saying we're just sitting like ducks waiting to be shocked or bombed or killed. so we really need to go beyond this focus on anger and move towards why palestinians are angry we are angry because we have hope we are angry because we see

a different reality the opposite of that would be apathy would be submission would be. becoming what israel has tried to do with palestinians and that is pacify it and it tried to do that with palestinians but israeli citizenship in terms of. assimilation in terms of are oppressing them treating them as 2nd class status and calling this a civil war within israel or naming it as going on gun violence rather than colonialism ethnic cleansing and the targeting of palestinians this this quota on the arabs versus jews you forget that almost 70 percent of the israeli population armies out they are arab jews so this argument is also becoming really old very misinformed and and that's where anger and hope comes from a comes from the knowledge it comes from the scene the information differently it comes from agree organizing the information to show

a fuller picture that's how anger comes in tandem with the pope it's interesting you talk there about the percentages because clearly there is a lack of nuance or a lack of understanding because when it comes to the into communal violence and i put them out in inverted commas up and on israel that we've seen in the past 567 days or so that's been described as mob violence and it so wasn't mob violence kind of suggest that to you it was something much much more complex than that. it's much much more simpler than that it is colonialism and settlers calling for that. let's not complicate what is obvious i think we done that enough and it has muddled. the palestinian case and has taken away from people's courage to see it as it is these are mobs that are attacking palestinians and groups and they are supporting their attacks against palestinians and israeli settlers are sending out messages to

each other saying this is unifying that's the right and the left to to fight the fight. and that's terrifying and it's really terrifying because a settler just that dawn today shot a 15 year old in the head near big bear little near them a lot so i do think it's simpler not more complicated mary not to see that in ramallah but to get your thoughts at this difficult time thank you very much. thank you peter thank you. well solidarity rallies are being held across the world this was the scene in baghdad just a short time ago i. demonstrates is gathering in serbia square to show support for palestinians in gaza some in the crowd was seen burning israeli flags. hundreds of demonstrators gathered ingenues u.s. capitol despite the recently been posed coronavirus locked up and calling on the arab countries to reject normalize sometimes in diplomatic relations with israel

not to sever did so last year. and this was the scene in sydney australia where a vigil was held earlier from the u.k. to afghanistan and south africa to germany crowds to protest against the israeli occupation of palestinian territories and its escalating offensive on gaza. protests are also being held across the u.k. pull brennan is in london we'll talk to him in just a moment 1st let's go to natasha going to who's in the iraqi capital baghdad natasha looks pretty quiet there now but just take us through what's been going on . well the protest for a couple of reasons the extreme heat coded related restriction and curfew probably bay the protests here quite small but hundreds maybe 5600 men mostly men i think at me in the producer were the only women in the crowd turned out terrorists where they answered the call by prominent she got clear of solder on

friday to spill into the streets of iraq in every province and show their solidarity for the palestinians this is the 3rd day in a row that in some form or another here in baghdad and particularly in the south of iraq there have been protests showing their solidarity for the palestinians you mentioned that some current israeli flags they chatted no no israel i spoke to a few of the protests. and one man said that he doesn't understand why the world can't appreciate that the palestinians are facing a horrible humanitarian situation he said he doesn't understand why it allows quote is larry lee aggression to continue to deny palestinians the right to live freely and alluding to the several dozen children who have been killed this week during this spasm of violence he says he doesn't understand why the world is afraid of palestinian children to some extent iraqis can empathize with the palestinians and

it's in this respect they can appreciate the sense of inertia and frustration they have with their politicians it's worth noting when i was there last month for 10 days there was a hope that legislative elections would be held for the 1st time in 15 years in the palestinian territories those elections have now been canceled but what has not diminished is the sense of frustration by many with the leadership in the gaza strip people won't say it publicly. you have to get them in kind of a rare moment but they will express their frustration with hamas since have asking them to power 15 years ago there's been an israeli and egyptian imposed blockade because much of the world views the group as a terrorist organization and what it means is that movement has been severely restricted for palestinians living in the gaza strip it means that their economic opportunities have continued to do window and so in that respect i can tell you that the iraqis say that they especially empathize with the palestinians natasha

thank you very much as you can i'm the. only news in the iraqi capital but let's go to paul brennan who's in london where protesters marched to the israeli embassy what was the atmosphere like. well i i hesitate to call it a carnival atmosphere that said there were sound systems and there was dancing and there was chanting but the mood was very stern and very angry because the pictures that people have been watching in the past 7 days as far as the you know that the attacks that have been taking place. of really galvanized i think opinion about the state of the situation particularly in gaza and the organizers estimated that they would have somewhere between 10020000 people come out here and it was difficult to judge because the streets that they were marching through were rather narrow and

difficult to actually count people but i would estimate there were as least 10000 people turned out that we just had a rain shower in about the last half hour and that's thinned the crowd out where i am the israeli embassy is about 120 meters 200 meters over my shoulder there and there's still a gathering of a couple a few 100 people down there waving flags setting off smoke flares and chanting still so opinion mood and sentiment is clearly very upset at the that the escalation in the conflict and particularly the loss of life that's now people that we've been speaking to here really very pained by the pictures that have been coming out of children women young people being obliterated essentially many thanks paul ryan and the near 2 adjacent to the israeli embassy in central london let's talk to your. policy fellow for. the palestine

policy network she joins us now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. neither side is tired enough to call the poor to this so what do you think the direction of travel is with this particular conflict some people are already calling it a war. you mean there has been a war going on in palestine for many decades now and i think it's important to can tell this isn't a new flare up of violence violence is something that has existed in palestine for palestinians for so long. this has been ongoing. since 1000 portier any even it moved for and it's particularly poignant that today is the day in which palestinians commemorate the beginning of that regime violent process so even when the bombs do stop calling on guards or violence will continue and that's something

that we have to reiterate and emphasize that this isn't simply about the bombardment of gaza and the massacre of palestinians in gaza but it's also about the continuous ethnic cleansing in jerusalem in haifa in yafa and it's about the the in caging of palestinians the displacement of palestinians all of this. is a violent process that won't just and when israel decides to stop bombing girls or as far as the palestine policy network is concerned your organization. is best placed to talk to someone else so that people maybe just step back from where we are now on day 6 of this conflict. i don't speak for my organization i speak for myself as a policy expert who works for but organization we don't have a one singular position but i think that international pressure has to be applied

on his or as one has to be held accountable for the war crimes committed saying that we not forget that israel is actually being investigated already by the i.c.c. for war crimes so the community really has to step up their game in the private on israel and they can do it this is the sad thing the rather mechanism they accountability mechanism that can be done but there isn't the political will to do so because unfortunately palestinians have been dehumanised to such an extent that this has this is now considered normal it is considered normal to see palestinians dying every single day. and so it really is a question of political will. ok for the moment do stay with us because i just want to show our viewers some of the latest live pictures coming to us from the. area as people there were trying to mark the day of otherwise known as the catastrophe

which was the day of the beginning of the expulsion of hundreds of students tens of thousands of palestinians as israel came in being that location of course was the epicenter that was ground 0 for what we're seeing at the moment the length and breadth of gaza and the length and breadth of israel as well there were protests there by palestinians against plans to expel residents they had grown since the start of the most the month of ramadan so now we're talking about $55.00 in a bit and weeks ago that. the arguments in the confrontations between the israeli police and the palestinians in the nearby old city and that all culminated in the beginnings of course we are reporting on in real time right now and those confrontations in effect spilled over into bombardment between hamas and the gaza

strip and the israeli military we've seen. more violence more violence is to oversimplify massively what's been going on on the streets of israel where you. israelis and jewish israelis squaring off against each other where we have the israeli military one of if not the biggest most powerful best resource militaries in the region. stockpiling what it has on the border with gaza we have the egyptian border into gaza shuttle to open today purely for humanitarian purposes and just in the past what 3 and a half 4 hours now we've seen the media tower the media building which was domestic homes to people in gaza palestinians in gaza we've seen. leveled to the ground following an israeli air strike we're talking to. a watery very difficult day for everyone this night by our anniversary and we're seeing those pictures from

ramallah instead of i guess because they feel they can't do it peacefully and they've got nothing to lose anyway instead of marking peacefully they're squaring off against the israeli military as they were doing this time yesterday and the day before. i mean i think we have to question a little the use of part of the term violence why is it used in certain circumstances the certain people why is it never considered violent to lay siege to a people to keep them in and out or prison where everything is controlled going in and. why is it only that palestinians are being violent and not the occupation or the siege of gaza that it's violent listing is have long tried. and participated and continue to participate in nonviolence the great march of returning garza was just one example of that several years back where palestinians on armed civilian palestinians marched in

a grassroots movement to the border fence that separated them from their homes of origin and they were gunned down and nothing was done the international community did absolutely nothing in that sense and in that incident not only that the b.d.s. movement one of the largest nonviolent palestinian movements in the world is criminalized across the world. and it's demonized and yet again you have we have people saying why are palestinians being violent i mean would you are someone who's being abused and being being violently attacked if they lift a finger are members instance in self-defense would you ask them why are they being violent and i think this is you know this is a question of narrative and who has power over the narrative and we've seen that very very clearly that israel has the power over the narrative and it is witching it up and it is it is changing things to make it seem like palestinians are instigators of violence when actually the israeli regime the state of israel it's

very foundation was violent and its very existence continues to be violent for the indigenous palestinian. ramallah thanks very much let's talk tomorrow and bashar a senior political analyst that's an interesting point that i guess the yarra raises the israelis have control of the narrative the audacity of what we saw today trying to control that narrative by killing the messenger killing the message and bringing down the block in gaza. well you know certainly language is power. we always say that knowledge is power but clearly in this instance when there's a long term conflict those who couldn't hold the language those who control the narrative control the discourse and in so many ways that's of course and has been part of the procession of so many over the last 3 days it's also part of the frustration of some of our own reporters and other reporters and everything to

trying to report the story and use simple phrases like both sides there's a hope beyond it why why because it's not exactly both sides it is that you know a side than a half or something on 'd one side could sort of another side on software so there's always a very heavy about phrases explosive especially because many of those phrases that are used even in the news wire services and the associated press and reuters and certainly in a lot of western media have been when the kid graft had been when invented had been when. designed in order to express a said. and balance of power in favor of an israel and that's why you see this prostration on the part of many palestinians and many other experts on the question of palestine every time they show on our on our network or other networks that they're always saying wait a minute it's not that about what happened this morning it's about what happened 70 years ago 50 years ago 20 years ago now no it's not about this expression about

expression it's not about what now says it's about debunking the to fake news that's coming on the part of these days radio 1st is there so this is an ongoing thing and it is quite frustrating for those who feel they are at the receiving end over israel's language of power momentum's going to take a 2nd to go through a statement we've just heard here al-jazeera from the associated press they are also reacting to the bombing of their offices in gaza of course clearly the a.p. bureau was located in the same building. as we were al-jazeera the news agencies president said his organization is quote shocked and horrified that the israeli military would target and destroy the building housing the a.p. bureau the statement continues saying it is quote an incredibly disturbing development and that the associated press narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life finally the statement from the a.p. says the world will know less about what is happening in gaza because of what happened today so we've heard those 2 statements one from the al-jazeera media

network and one from the associated press we're talking to marwan bashar chief political analysts covering all things middle east and has israel here with what's happening in gaza right now and with this media bombing has israel crossed a red line in a sense marwan a red line that wasn't there because of this kind of wishy washy attitude on the part of the new relatively new u.s. presidency u.s. administration. yes unknown yes i think the the the new government has been empowered to a large extent by but by by this with. the trump administration given when you know government to change huge boosts and clearly with the so-called bad ram accords it will open new horizons for israel and the growth region in north africa elsewhere so the somebody mr sheen was not only israel's. advocate as previous democratic

administrations where this was an administration at the service of his or. mike mike pence and also now that might but what is now no sign that we've forgotten the secretary of state and the trump. what was do you don't know if he was the u.s. secretary of state or these reign as secretary of state and i think that empowerment of that then you know government i think put it on our own our own on and on and on and on a direction that i think has turned out to be moralists reckless and i think we've seen that in this war on gaza and we've seen it specifically to dig theater i think what happened today and i'm still trying to get my head that around even if you know and there are so many buildings and guys of the attack on the meeting houses the media outlets. it smacks of desperation. i think even if

it's you know by design and they wanted to get out there and all these things that we spoke about they're only had about shutting down knowledge about attacking journalism about making sure certain information does not go off 'd in the next day or 2 and so it's over but it does smack of desperation because israel has for ever tried to you know church this image of being you know treat them loving democracy loving transparent kind of you know democracy certainly for the jews that tries to project this image for the rest of the war that it is the one and only democracy at least ok and from our work that i'm going to interrupt you there is no knowledge as an extension we have another conversation that i'd like to go to some very sorry about that my friend we will talk to you in the coming half hour i'm sure i promise you it will come back she when we can well the white house press secretary general sonthi has reacted to the bombing of al-jazeera has offices in gaza on twitter we have communicated directly to the israelis that ensuring the

safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility particle hane joins us live from washington patty i have to say is that it. well we don't know likely the state department is working on a statement the president joe biden is still we believe at the white house who's expected to travel later today there are some reports that they're working up a statement but yes that is so far what we have from jen psaki the white house spokesperson not a condemnation of international media headquarters being deliberately by the israelis no this is really lit up social media and you're starting to see more and more of the progressive left really try to put pressure on president by and he has been steadfast since this began in his support for israel he sent someone to the region to israel to try and calm the situation he said he hoped it would be over in a matter of days but he hasn't come directly out and said this is

a line too far and we're still not hearing really any condemnation from his white house in mind this is a president who has a long history with israel when he was vice president there was a settlement freeze in place and the night he was scheduled to have dinner with binyamin netanyahu they had nouns that there would be an expansion of building settlements that very night that he was supposed to have dinner with him it was considered a huge slap in the face to be to then vice president joe biden but still even after all of this he is saying that he still supports israel but we're starting to see letters from members of congress where israel used to be a completely bipartisan issue it's now very partisan on the left criticizing biden saying he's got to do more he has to use his billions of dollars worth of influence to try and get netanyahu called it down so far he has not. ok patty we'll talk to you again i'm sure in the coming hours in the meantime thank you very much let's

just wrap up this special news where we started with the consequences of what's going on in areas such as the area looking at right now the applied west bank there are protests and demonstrations going on there as local people mark the day the anniversary of the beginning of the expulsion of tens of thousands of palestinians when the state of israel was originally created let's just show you what's going on in gaza as well the al-jazeera media building having been taken out by israeli fire a little earlier passed in the past 3 or 4 hours what you're looking at right now is an israeli installation on the border between israel and gaza the owner of the building the associated press and al jazeera were given an hour's notice that the building in gaza was going to be targeted the israeli military standing its ground although if you look at his twitter feed is kind of reacting to what people are saying about this on social media when we come back in

a couple of minutes we'll get you across all the main developments as we go through and come towards the end of day 6 of this conflict between gaza and israel stay with us. frank assessment it's. a situation not to be an. informed opinion is the u.s. with. positioning in the middle east or is it just a symptom of. this is a message to the region for the united states. here to military in depth analysis

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