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but. residential blocks flattened in dancer israel launches its most intensive airstrikes on the besieged territory more than $150.00 raids in the early hours of sunday. this is out sara live from doha also coming up a desperate search for survivors under the rubble but 2 brothers who managed to call for help die in hospital. also ahead
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a vote this will give women more say in rewriting chile's constitution which dates back to military dictatorship plus. i'm told reached the baltic sea of sweden where a joint oxygen free dead zone is one of the latest symptoms of climate change. so israeli airstrikes on gaza are continuing for 7 this day hundreds of rockets were launched through the nights in the most intensive barrow's since the offensive began on monday 2 brothers who were trapped in the rubble of one of the buildings hit by those strikes have now died desperate search efforts have been underway after they managed to call rescuers for help they were pulled out from the rubble but both died a short time after arriving at hospital. 33 other bodies have been pulled from the rubble a 3rd of those were all from one family. 181 palestinians have now been killed in
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the enclave and that includes 52 children israel's prime minister has vowed to continue the offensive on gaza for quote as long as necessary or the head of hamas says the resistance will not give in. well we're going to team of correspondents covering the story and it would have him is a mother of milk but west bank forsooth is it the mount of olives and why these troops been so i mean the news didn't go as a as you know and let's cross to you know 1st of all she's outside of the hospital you know so the civilian death toll continues to rise and goes what more can you tell us. well yes until now while the rice said that there is a rise in the death toll the bodies are still being brought out of the rubble. the ministry of health has announced that their crews are fighting a lots of difficulty is in bringing out the people from the rubble because of the
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roads and the infrastructure that has been severely severely damaged due to the targeting and the destruction that seen the area and that's what is taking them a lot of time to actually save and bring bodies out of the rubble there's still a great number of people from the neighborhood that are lost just so while ago there was a targeting to a home in rough off in the south end of the strip and and now we're also where we're talking about the health of just a health center a dead as health care center has been targeted and evacuated and in such conditions where we are talking about where i was very early talking about the health care crisis in gaza said how the health care is already fried gyal it suffering from lots of crisis targeting now what health care centers or clinics
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this i think is says this is a very alarming situation that not only media offices are being targeted now where civilians but we are getting to the point where he's rail is deliberately targeting the health said. * with me here i have all the dr hot bob but he is from that and that means she has health and he is going to talk to us about the need to see developments in that the health. and the health center now you know we've been living under siege for 15 years and could only put one and half a year and today this regulation income is coming to complicate the situation much more than before in fact that you hear those explosions now they are targeting civilians and domestic as you know guys as highly dense it population we are too many implication living in 360 kilometers of square the health system that we have only 2200 beds the number of casualties are mounting but up italy today in the 7th
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day we have 1200 injured among them 50 percent of them are children and women among those who were killed were 180 some you can say that 52 children were killed and 22 women so they are targeting mainly c.v.t. and though these are the victims of this aggression i mean binyamin netanyahu wants to save himself from jail for that reason he decided to get the policy of children and again the boat that are sealed you have no hope you have no there's no way to go outside the situation is very complicated you have shut your medication because of corona and because of the siege and today they are killing and targeting the doctors and the facilities there because it is not only the one that you mentioned that advantage but they before yesterday they have attacked another itself such as that sent up which is called another primary health care center which used to vaccinate patients from cordona and children and to treat chronic patients and they have attacked partially to other hospitals beit hanoun hospital and the indonesian
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hospital and again they have attacked an area near a cantin center allocated for those 2 techniques with kona from outside so when the i thanking the head stuff and they are attacking their facilities this is against the international low and again they are not respecting engineer the convention and . they are still ongoing they have not declared their intention to stop this operation now and they will proceed if you will system was set in the collapse because a lapse if they do not stop at once those crimes committed against civilians also dr mahathir the undersecretary out the ministry of health mentioned a doctor he's rail is deliberately targeting those streets and roads that are leading to the hospitals in different areas of the gaza strip what can you tell us about that oh yeah you know this is shifa hospital this is a large house within gaza strip this is a culture that the that a person thought on you can say this is the one through which the head system but if inside gaza strip the main road leading to this hospital and where the street it was totally destroyed got by you know too much explosions and you don't want to hear the voice of the war plane that was before we used to hear the f.
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16 today they're using the f. 35 it's attacking us from afar but you don't hear the voice just you have the explosions and they have targeted not only their odes but even the houses it on the hospital put that these on taxes not protected it takes more time and the people are still under the rubble last night only in that night $33.00 but these were killed and they would have to leave they were cleared from there are bills and they're still searching what other people now with of course that diminishing chance to do to get people to live under this rubble up to recut i've seen the air in the air and i was telling. that to the administration the administration offices in the shifa and their reception has all been filled with beds patient beds because the rooms of the hospital are overcrowded how long do you think the hospital is going to or different hospitals in the strip are going to be able to
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hang on in such a situation where we are adding extra beds in the cordy doors to it to receive the large numbers of patients i'm telling you we have been having put on a one and half a year and the situation was but you have the complete katie before this crisis today getting this are going to show you up close it to put beds in. to receive a large number of patients there and they are marking very quickly if i mean when i attack last night when you see it like more than 50 injured and 53 were killed so imagine what would happen to the capacity of the hospitals that hospital we'd be put after that we hope that the patients would be going to egypt to extend a helping hand to us because our capacity is very limited under siege and under these patients thank you dr tatar for being with us. back here. is a desperate situation appreciate that thanks very much indeed to both of you to take you to pictures now at beit hanoun in gaza the smoke as you can see billowing up into the sky as israeli strikes on gaza continuing for a 7th day hundreds of rockets have been launched through the night you know on
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going through the morning and now into the afternoon and let's cross now to sami salim who's a palestinian journalist and a gaza resident and sami i can see the piles of rubble behind you there's a bulldozer in action there and standing by trying to figure out what's happening there to tell us more about the city. yes let's begin from. from 3 or 5 minutes ago that is school team have just evacuated a man from under-developed does not confirm if he's did alive but also that it's good teams. or anybody can provide him with oxygen. after i mean it's i have seen some people bring in and cooking gas to use it to cut . your own states to evacuate more people from one site i
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talked to the chief or to the lead that over there is getting here he said they are suffering so much because they don't have enough equipment even that doors are behind me does not belong to the civil defense and he. affirm that there is a. big shortage in their equipment in tory move rubble and to see if the will even the big machines or the electronic devices which can discover with out of it is. and that there have been or not. and also they are continuing good will be inspecting and it will that i will tell you now another point that i have me made a tour and talk to people here people who are living their faces are full of fear and sadness some of them they are waiting for their elective who are they don't know of their real lives bed or love or life they say they don't see they are been taught all of this if they are missing they don't know where they are amid them and
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even they search at the margin in the hospital or the c.p. we are seeing here of robin of. concrete including toys of children bugs saw fires and some in some house house thing houses staff which reflects that this is very very civilian and far from and in speak. another point that. chief of. the chief of the team told me that also one of the problems is that there is a shortage of water because of bombing there is a problem in there in electricity there is a problem in water bombs which means that they cannot. fire fighting trucks so even if there is a fire and the trucks cannot feed and water i don't know him now he didn't say that it is 100 percent probably not but he said there is a sort of
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a shortage and also there is a problem with sewage and electricity and internet service so far. are in summary i think so that troubling situation there as a rescue effort goes on in that makeshift rescue effort by the sounds with everybody doing the best they can in very difficult circumstances and a palestinian journalist culture isn't thank you let's cross now to another gaza resident we can speak to host a few years g. who's as a recess a resident of gaza also the area manager with the norwegian refugee council joins us now via skype jose for a 1st let's talk to as a resident of gaza just give us an impression of how the past week has been how difficult it is and just how people are coping. thank you actually. i'm struggling to find the words it's been difficult few days but situation is really. unstable. extremely tense people here are stressed
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exhausted. scared. personally i've been struggling in different levels like how to protect my family. how to be able to do my work and how to deal with my kids so it has been really difficult few days for all of us living here in belgium looking in from the outside one can only imagine how friendly in must be and especially before us the diet and your children how how do the kids. to be honest with you this is. not an easy question to answer we are we are struggling it's a big challenge for those. lies in the day before you know with the intensity of the bombardment and gaza city i'm living in the center of the city close to most of the targets and from last night.
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i'm sorry to say we've lost our connection with yesterday from the norwegian refugee council just tell us about the difficulties especially for a person whose rights of his as a father of young children you know just trying to deal with the what must be very frightening situation there in gaza as the rockets and bombs fall. well foreign ministers from the islamic world are holding an urgent meeting to discuss the situation in his opening statement to the organization of islamic cooperation saudi arabia's foreign ministry condemned what he called flagrant violations of palestinian rights that it says palestine foreign minister pushed the international community to put an end to israel's military operations i doubt he was hardly nobody all the free people of the world all the people who believe in human rights and justice should reject this the palestinians are facing a cowards occupation that kills children and terrorizes families this occupation must be faced it must be attacked and must put an end its occupation we need to
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know what should be done against the israeli aggression let's speak to our reporter need it to him who is in ramallah or in the occupied west bank and either as we listen to those foreign ministers talking to the i see what hope does that give or otherwise to palestinians. palestinians in the street then indeed for some of the protesters we've been speaking to in the last few days they don't even turn on their t.v.'s to watch was going on in these meetings such as the or see all i see because they believe that they've had condemnations they've had enough from condemnations from these organizations and they don't see anything when it comes to that reality of living under occupation changing we've been asking many palestinians about their views about the arabs and they say that they believe that the arab nations are with them and their hearts are with the palestinian people but when it comes to some of these we jeems and we've seen lately some of the countries normalizing relations with israel they believe that these regimes have an interest
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to. have relations with israel and ignore the palestinians plight under occupation this is again according to many palestinians we've been talking to over the past few days and they say that even more influential organizations such as the u.n. security council resolution asking israel are saying that all illegal israeli settlements in occupied in the occupied west bank including east jerusalem are not . illegal indeed then they need to be dismounted but you don't have any impact for these resolutions on the ground and this is why many palestinians do not hope that these meeting with any results does not deceive though i say of course the u.s. envoy has arrived to try and broker some kind of. evolved from at least towards some kind of peace. any hope you know from what biden the u.s.
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president is doing in his team. the u.s. official is still in tel aviv iraq a couple of days ago but we just spoke to a palestinian official he's a close aide to president and he believes that had to ahmed will be arriving to the occupied west bank and meeting with palestinian officials in the near future he believes the official we've spoken to is that the conference is a conversation that happened on saturday between the palestinian president and the u.s. president joe biden is very important and i'm quoting his words he said it in forced the palestinian issue on the u.s. agenda that it didn't have the palestinian affairs on its list of issues foreign affairs issues so there is a sense of relief here that the joe biden has made his 1st call to the palestinian president because of this skill ation and the official has told us that the palestinian authority is very keen on deescalating despite its differences with
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a mouse so they hope and they are they've been urging over the past few days the u.s. administration to intervene to deescalate the situation. or that said the picture from ramallah need a really heavy thank you very much for the. well press freedom i've cut serge cutesie has run of trying to silence journalists covering the story after a bomb to building housing international media saturday 11 story tower held offices belonging to al-jazeera media network and the associated press targeting media organizations is widely considered to be a war crime of course one of her force it has this. is a movement with a phone call from israeli army another gaza highrise became a condemned building minutes ticking down on a one hour warning. this the office of the associated press as it staff made instant decisions about what they needed to salvage to keep on working across the
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lift lobby staff from the al-jazeera bureau were doing the very same thing that's on the street outside the building's owner pleading for a stay of execution home not that that's ever we need 10 minutes as you can see there all around the press not people who are going in to get weapons out but there was no arguing but even about the timing it's hard. al-jazeera gaza journalists off what was live on air as he watched his workplace of 11 years vanish in front of him we partake frankly everybody to believe one can leave what the great work of all these are like that which under 12 string that you think of when something very dark up in this building was home to families as well as media companies more to add to the list of homeless in a besieged and played during days of intensive attacks from the sky the. in a statement al-jazeera said it condemned in the strongest terms the bombing and
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destruction of its offices by the israeli military viewing it as a clear act to stop journalists from conducting their duty to inform the world and report events and vowing to pursue every available route to hold the israeli government responsible israeli military said how must operatives were using the building and media companies like al-jazeera and the associated press with human shields. i want to remind the world. that in firing on our cities hamas is committing a double war crime they're targeting our civilians and hiding behind palestinian civilians we've heard that from the israelis i can tell you that we've been in that building for 15 about 15 years with our bureau we certainly had no sense that hamas was there we would like to see the evidence we're not sure whether hamas was there or not we don't know but i can tell you the impact will be that the world will know less about what's going on in gaza because that building was leveled amasses top
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gaza political leader issued this message during a visit to the qatari capital doha look. that has been besieged for 15 years. under siege from every direction. i must as military wing sent further major rocket attacks deep into israeli territory on saturday a 55 year old israeli man was killed when one rocket struck his home in a televised suburb in the midst of it all in the occupied west bank palestinian protesters confronted israeli soldiers on nakba day when palestinians marked the creation of the state of israel what they called the catastrophe scores were wounded many by live ammunition in occupied east jerusalem or scuffles around the neighborhood of shaikh shura where threatened forced expulsions have fueled the tensions. with violence on so many fronts still untamed israel's prime minister
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said he spoke to the u.s. president and informed him of israel's plans next steps. let's speak live now to our forces he joins us from occupied east jerusalem and harry firing still at this moment going on the bay side the explosions in gods are and understand there's been a rocket that's just landed on the beach in ashdod in israel. yeah i think we have some picture of that this was a little while ago but another major barrage that we saw the alerts flashed up about although obviously we're at some distance from it all here but this was a sustained attack again from inside gaza on ashkelon and i stored and votes as well. it seems that there was at least at that point a concentration of fire coming out of gaza there is also the question on the political level here as well the question about exactly what those decisions that benjamin netanyahu communicated to joe biden might be in the coming hours and days
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there is reporting in the wall or a news agency here in israel or other in israel. the correspondent there is talking about senior israeli officials indicating that israel now does want to start slowing down and bringing an end to this latest escalation with egypt potentially once again acting as the mediator no confirmation of course of that but there are discussions apparently about it and exhausting of the bank of targets there has been so much ordinance fired into gaza already over the last few days so always that the power has been it seems on the israeli side there have been constant rejections of suggestions of a cease fire while these tax. attacks have been carried out while these targets have been struck there is reporting at a very least that israel may be now willing to discuss starting to end this yet and
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as a backdrop to that a very different aspect to this said particular version that 2021 version of the israel gaza attacks has been this into communal violence that we've been seeing which has been of great concern violence still breaking. it is yes perhaps not quite on the same level that we saw earlier in the week but it is continuing the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling it the 2nd front of the current crisis and we've seen some more videos overnight of an apparently palestinian israeli driver being attacked by a jewish group that had set itself up on a roadside and pelted with stones the vehicle having to retreat another video from jaffa near tel aviv where the the victim in that case was a jewish man apparently walking home and a scooter stopped next to him to palestinian israeli apparently man got off that scooter and beat him up so this is considering there's also more organized violence
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being organized on social media with heavily armed jewish settler groups apparently setting themselves up in places like lord where we've seen a lot of violence also armed criminal gangs from the palestinian israeli sector involving themselves as well so this is and has been a real crisis serious questions being asked of the government about a its will and ability to try to intervene in those palestinian armed groups when they're victims of largely being arabs and palestinian or israeli citizens over the last few years and also the kind of courting of far right racist extremist sectors of the israeli political spectrum by the prime minister for his own political gain at the last election at the same time he is coming out and saying it must stop and saying that the police and security forces will be asked to use all force necessary to make it stop or her thanks but force of their appointees to sit
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in. let us move on to other news now and voters in chile are choosing delegates will be right its dictatorship era constitution many hope the new draft will address the social inequality that led to violent protests nearly 2 years ago i latin america at its newman has us now from santiago. it's a historic election in more ways than one. it's the 1st time chileans will have a say in the formal write a new constitution and document that will determine the country's economic political and social roadmap. lady at paris and her husband believe it's no small feat they said this will define our future that's why this day is so special and a quarter of them in order to make the necessary changes the social changes that we've been waiting for for so long that if the chileans are also electing mayors governors and city council members but the constitutional vote is regarded as the
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most significant. the current constitution written 40 years ago under the dictatorship is regarded by a great many as illegitimate and the source of many of chile's ills for the 1st time anywhere in the world 50 percent of delegates to a constitutional convention will be women 17 of the $155.00 delegates will also represent choose indigenous people their existence isn't even recognized in the current constitution. and another 1st to prevent long lines because of the pandemic the election is taking place over 2 rather than one day that means these votes won't be counted until sunday the end of the 2nd day in the meantime these bins will be taped completely covered with seals that according to electoral authorities will break of anybody tries to tamper with the votes and then there will be taken to a special security area and kept under guard by the army even so
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a lot of people don't trust the system this early don't know your that's why daniel who works in front of his designated polling station is staying out there now that obama would only have a common way to vote but more of us will go tomorrow because we've seen in many countries that when they leave the votes overnight someone changes them. while chile doesn't have a reputation for vote tampering it's a reflection of how discredited political institutions and politicians have become in this country where millions are waiting for a new constitution to prioritise the social rights of the majority rather than the privileges of a minority you see in human al-jazeera santiago. taiwan has warned the risks of doing business in hong kong have increased under a sweeping national security law imposed by china hong kong government froze the assets of media tycoon jimmy lie including shares in his media publications it is
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the 1st time shares of a listed companies large stake holder have been frozen using the security law is serving a 40 month sentence for taking part in an authorized pro-democracy protests in 2019 what's known as a current of our success story taiwan is impose new restrictions that battle's its worst outbreak since a pandemic began $206.00 new cases were reported on sunday in taipei in surrounding areas indoor gatherings that limited to 5 people and shops and restaurants are closed for the 1st time masks are required outdoors governments to peel to people to avoid panic buying saying it's well prepared. 30 people have been sentenced to death in the democratic republic of congo off to violence between rival muslim groups protesters were fights you have the right to celebrate the end of ramadan at a sports stadium in the capital of can shatter a police officer was killed several people injured $38.00 have been arrested and face charges including criminal association to rebellion and attempted murder.
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police in el salvador have discovered 10 bodies at the home of a former officer hugo saudi oh chavez aside it was arrested last week for killing a woman and her daughter the bodies of 7 women and 3 children then found during a raid on his property he's being investigated for sex crimes and a total of 13 murders warrants have been issued for 9 other suspects. all right i says have a quick recap of headlines here on al-jazeera and israeli airstrikes on gaza a continuing for a 7th day 2 brothers who were trapped in the rubble of one of the buildings hit by those strikes have now sadly died they managed to call rescuers for help and were pulled from the rubble but both died a short time after arriving in this city 3 other bodies have been pulled from the rubble a 3rd of those were all from one family $191.00 palestinians have now been killed
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in the enclave that includes $52.00 children. and i'm not only ran out of a how.

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