to secure enough seats on a body that could guide the nation's future president sebastian pinera as center right coalition won just one in 5 seats on the panel that will rewrite the constitution independent candidates picked up most of the votes 2 of the world's largest media companies are set to merge into the deal worth $43000000000.00 u.s. telecom giant a t. and t. says that its war of media business will be combined with discovery bringing together h.b.o. c b the food network and other brands. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera. the conflict between israel and hamas has gone into a 2nd week is mounting as strikes pushed the death toll in gaza to at least 212 israeli attacks of destroyed a building that housed gaza's religious affairs ministry of killed a cd

a commander of islamic jihad. palestinian armed groups of 5 more rockets from gaza into southern israel injuring at least 17 people residential towns were struck in the cities of ashdod and beersheba sending people wanting to nearby bomb shelters the pressure is building on the u.s. to encourage its ally israel to agree to a cease fire on sunday washington again blocked efforts of the un security council to come up with a joint statement on the violence had reports from washington. the president his changed his approach in that earlier today he was asked about the potential for a cease fire he said he would be talking to netanyahu but he didn't throw his support behind it at that point but apparently in the call that he held with netanyahu the president was explicit according to the white house the president expressed his support for a cease fire and discussed u.s. engagement with egypt and other partners toward that end and other news france has

announced that it will wipe the $5000000000.00 debt owed by saddam in an effort to help the transitional government rebuild the economy saddam is struggling to emerge from the u.s. sanctions that were recently lifted the head of the world health organization has described the disparity between vaccine robots and wealthier countries and poor of the nations as a form of the policies director general to draw saddam deborah yes us says the gap is huge he's called on manufacturers to make jobs available to the global vaccine sharing scheme sue the plant affairs cycler those blocks of the shore and west of india the structure of the country's response to its devastating covert 19 outbreak cyclamen top to cross the coast of the state where it's being described as the most powerful storm in 21st he is on his feet here on al-jazeera after today's edition of inside story coming up next.

israel says it's carrying out airstrikes on gaza to defend itself but according to the u.n. the right to self-defense along people living under occupation so international law is being respected and where does that leave palestinians who are fighting for their rights this is inside story. of their welcome to the program dick clark more than 200 palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes on gaza residential buildings flattened homes destroyed and

water supplies running out israel says it's targeting tunnels and military facilities in self-defense following rocket attacks by palestinian factions 10 people in israel have been killed in the past week a mass says its actions were in response to the israeli policy of forced displacement of palestinians in occupied east jerusalem and the storming of al aksa mosque by israeli forces last week and that spread into fighting between mixed communities of jewish and palestinian israelis the u.n. is warning the fighting could unleash an uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis international calls for a cease fire have been mounting palestinian and israeli officials both made their case i think emergency meeting held by the security council on sunday when you embrace your children and grandchildren to write leave. and of how you can honor those killed and those still love life. think of what

it feels to see your world crumbling down and not being able to protect them think of what it means to sleep not knowing which one of you will wake up remember that each time israel hears important leader speak of its right to defend itself it is further emboldened to continue murdering entire families in their sleep this is not the 1st time that hamas has indiscriminately fire deadly missiles that israeli civilians while hiding behind undecillion superior but this time it's different it was completely premeditated but by hamas in order to gain political power it was all a part of their vicious plan while hamas 6 the destruction of the state of

israel it's also vying to take take power in the west bank and to replace the palestinian authority well let's hear from the un to secretary general and to nick a terrorist who says to end the violence the peace process needs to be restarted. international law applies to everybody without exception all member states are supposed to abide by the resolutions namely the resolutions really cancel and obviously the unity of the significance alina xiv extremely important instruments the recent incidents demonstrate how important it is to restart effectively the peace process because it's the only way i am a true believer that we need to promote a 2 state solution living in peace and harmony between the 2 and with normalized relations with the region and the full participation of the countries of the region of the international community as a whole in creating the conditions for this peace process to move forward where the

u.s. and western capitals have backed israel's right to defend itself while other nations say the palestinians right to defend themselves is being ignored that right to self-defense of people living under occupation is grounded in international law and it dates back to 982 when the united nations passed a general assembly resolution that recognize the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence territorial integrity national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all vailable means including armed struggle to take a quick look at some other liberation movements throughout history algeria was colonized by france from the 18th hundreds until the war for independence in 954 when the national liberation front fighters launched an offensive against french rule the movement gained international support and algeria was recognized as a sovereign state in 1962. the 960 is also marked a turning point in south africa in the fight against apartheid the system of

government that separated people based on race and the apartheid groups maintain resistance with some using guerilla warfare apartheid ended in the early 1990 s. and a democratic government was formed in 1904 in ireland in the early 1900 the irish movement's struggle against british rule led to the deaths of hundreds of people including civilians but its cause gained popularity and led to the establishment of a breakaway government in ireland in 1919. all right let's bring in our guests in messina christina milian yellow is the reader in laura hill university in the u.k. and member of the legal team representing gaza victims before the international criminal courts in capetown in south africa tim murphy is head of peace building interventions at the institute for justice and reconciliation and here in doha in qatar south america is director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies

at the doha institute welcome all to the program sultan better if i could start with you now the israelis do not consider themselves to be an occupying force but as we've just been hearing in international law they are regarded as such right. they are i mean it is definitely an occupied territory as far as the low is concerned now the different interpretations by the israelis that really got some momentum following the 1988 were drawn of jordanian sovereignty over the occupied territories in the west in the west bank and those basically what they some israelis claim is that their land practically was occupied from jordan now there is no country demanding their liberation of that land and as such we are not quite as an occupying force and this of course contradicts all the norms

of international law as far as i'm aware and the definition of occupation goes as back as the 19th century and has been built on repeatedly which refers to any territory that is. controlled under the author of the of a hostile army and in the in the case of both palestine of course this was still if he continues and they are in control of the land and as such that brings not only the right for resistance for the palestinians but also a huge amount of legations and responsibilities on the israelis to protect human rights to protect properties to definitely not to destroy properties and forms of culture and so on of those people and and and certainly not to colonize it and do any unilateral annexation or such territories or

move populations to live in those areas ok to murthy in south africa we'll draw on your own experience in south africa in a 2nd but. the overriding narrative in israel is we heard united states well in various other nations is that israel has the right to self-defense in the face of rocket attacks in golf. well the principle of so defense is established in international 'd as well. but i think the principle of self-determination that's all right. such a consideration it doesn't help that the conclusion rockets are in fact flying straight into its very homes because it doesn't make the moral case much more difficult. but i think this is quite a complex situation that we need to be you know quite focused in terms of understanding how we see this a multiple. violations happening on both sides i don't so

a failure of the international system i think we need to prove that i'm able to actually be able to mediate and come up with a solution a enduring stable peace that can in fact enable these 2 communities to coexist and i think it's important to look at the role of power flecked as in the united nations system to be fighting not to be the united states you know and here what we see is as the administrations in washington change then that the you know the poster towards as well also in you know changes and we should raise the question why is this happening so shortly after 8 transition in washington and right what really needs a national system to address this crisis ok we'll look at that little bit later christina manolo you know them all very very well so if you have the occupied suppress palestinians as they are but if palestinian factions of foreign rockets on

israel as tim was just alluding to. all of the israelis not within their rights to try and stop them and take out the source. well. i've got also on political alert a jury on whether under international law and the weather could at least a and then be any forced all of the on an island he said movement up i have. only on an international tour will be in place for a lot of all your me including good stuff to learn a lot about all of your bio power which is. which easy well of course in this case i will allow it while all of my other was in this or that not all the way back to linkage it was a let me down a little bit but also got the look up because i think a bug is why they go in not fighting nation on the invasion of including going to the land where this buyout of the gauge manager is called all 6 aside and acting on

orders or the order they got that the problem is it was so that the buyer is whatever the bank claims there's a as a consequence all or not which of course he really i. thought piece in place it was anything that might pick up. in a population vote and where they're. calling the still plan and. god. saw the glee at the fact that bad consequences although a lot. lately and where the real indication on the international law being on the program are. saying that but you say that if the mass of iraq was because they've been poked and poked to provoke to provoke. settlement building with buildings and

crackdowns in the alexa mosque compound that we can classify the fired rockets in that situation by hamas and palestinian factions as self defense. i'm seated there international organized the will organize music center who writes back to the geneva convention 1949 additional thought all you want about on national ottawa for which it's peaceful vive international often the victim which people are fighting in economy nation and look at all of the racial involved in these contexts in which he shot all of saddam got a nice and humanity and 50 cent more mad they have to comply with international money tied a lot bt force him but the blood means people so it's finished on and of course none of you saw an article the police and the skinny doctor intention being against you don't object of course even organize a poor man assistant moments have to. wait the general thing for the under

international when you tell it can be no action oh i don't want on these days and tell them about a cut so the palestinians defending themselves from a kind of overall oppression oppression rather than initially a direct attack on gaza. well they're defending themselves from an overall systematic occupation that is trying to push them out of their land and to replace them with communities that are brought from all over the globe in the name of religion so they have a very clear case i think in terms of illegality of the situation and even if you were to think about what's going on in gaza and hamas resisting under international law as i understand it even if there is a resistance and the occupier is not in full control of the territory that does not

make their obligations in terms of international humanitarian law and us they still have to go back to the war to the loaf war and the 4 geneva conventions apply and that at the center of those is that expect for human rights and the respect of ownership and property and everything else that is in that in the occupied land and in fact a very important aspect which is that the load that should be implemented in that area is that all the land is not the law of the occupier so you bring in it is your your duty to sustain law and order but ultimately it is to start with at the law of the land and what israel has been doing is they've suspended the law of the land or selectively select you know taken here and there and they went as back you know back as far as the automatic goes to take and to put together what suits their cause what they the idea that and the agenda of the israelis and this is

what led us to where we are today what we're seeing in iraq is not is not just started in the last week or so this is a systematic approach that has been taken. ever since since 1987 with the occupation of the west bank and gaza this is a vote for. it's all about the report report that of course in terms of the $94748.00 to the tree but since the good night is the occupation of west bank and gaza israel has not. upheld any of the international standards and certainly have not found or materialized on implemented any of the un resolutions that were referred to by good terrorists in your report andrea ok israel has the lot this number of resolutions that extremely explicit and radically in black and white none of them has been respected none of them has been upheld ok we're going to look further at the legality of the process of justice and it's

going to him in in south africa in johannesburg and cape town of to say to murthy so what parallels can we draw with south africa and what people went through the jury in the era of apartheid and indeed which led to nelson mandela leading an old wing of the a.n.c. yes i think it's a very important to. store size these conflicts not simply a moment in time and try to understand the different dimensions to it so that the legality of your nation has been a stand. in south africa with civil the the illegality of a park a white supremacist regime which in fact separated peoples in south africa on the basis of the color of skin and what you see in palestine a similar you know separation taking place you know walls to divide

community. checkpoints you know to control the movement of people and that is why i'm seeing a parallel. so after being made the current situation in the occupied territories and in south africa. nelson mandela. many people actually remember more as a as a peace building as a reconcile. was the 1st. of the armed wing of the african national congress. with easily in 1061 and a campaign of the salting is still a sure thing and you know the level. no way to deal with b.p. today. but it was a concerted campaign military campaign to go out and take on the system but what became very quickly is that there is an asymmetry of power between state. and you

know a militia that is made all. come together to say that. we're the only on. the pan-african congress and that was also involved and military struggle against the apartheid state ok i'm just going to jump in there because we need to move in on the very interesting points that you make assault on just combat you briefly. is apartheid going on now in the palestinian territories. sure i mean if you take it up are tight as as definition if we go to the international convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid 8 literally say that apartheid is any any human acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining the domination of one group or another and this is what is going on within the occupied territories certainly and even within israel and this is

a discussion this been going on for some time it has gained more momentum in the 1970 s. and the general assembly resolution on this is very clear that was passed in 1976 and more than 109 states are parties to this convention now of course israel's position would be that were not part of the school budget but they're not party to a lot of conventions that are there to regulate the conduct of war and to regulate the relation of the state to its people and this is of course because the danger of the state it was the way it is done the way it is thought about as a dynamic entity that is growing day on day and is acquiring land and this is happening at against the background where the palestinians right from the 1973 have been presenting compromises if you recall back in 1988 the p.l.o. agreed or accepted the 2 important un resolutions 2 for 2 or 3 and 338 and that

came following the peace agreement that egypt had with the israelis and also the arab states having recognized p.l.o. as the only legitimate representative of the palestinian people and then the separation that's happened between jordan and the and the occupied territories to pass that responsibility on to the p.l.o. so that has led them into a road which then kicked. the oslo peace agreement in 1983 which was seen as a process and the hope that this process would lead them into an end to the conflict and instead of doing so it has ended just as a process they've made many many compromises and their return has been negligible ok and they're concerned it's been the opposite they've lost their land. there's no practical way of having now 2 state solutions because of that fragmentation of the palestinian right because of rene alternately to move on. to the program but

christina so we have this this ongoing apartheid which is a daily fact of life then we have this latest bout of aggression in gaza what elements of what we're seeing in gaza might constitute war crimes. well. i think that what i was a little question before is the face of the likes of the fans but no state has the right tool for me to work on its plans and assume i can genocide it yeah what's happening in these big cities in the last few days he got that there is a clear strong evidence already collected by a palestinian and you also did the d.c. . work crimes committed against the civilian population in gaza exactly like and how loud it was unarmed and not of p.d. not the military operation not for doing exactly the same up all of the supporters

will already denounce them by un mission the thing was in the bottom. of kenya clearly stuff that is that of auditing whereas the work that was young means mainly in east densher and i mean beastly we need a dangerous young ablation in xian objects in 24000 of those into law and international opinion of all political let that events all the more than 2000 incidents which may amount or crimes and don't we today these will begin a wing investigation before the demolition of the not guilty now that ends this matter to not be knocked the fuck up a big money we're going to get in but why did the examples of the. t.v. station broadcasting a bill be. gotten that got us where there is no military necessity and not entirely objective but. object peace of god be to or anything in it but that's what we've

got to have any meat i mean this next. sides and. let's nation area or i'm going to jump in there again because we've just got a minute left in the program i want to finish up with tim timothy in capetown just very briefly if you would in the end what brought change in south africa what we learned from the the peace process that to apply to the seemingly impossible dream of peace in the middle east. in the end it was not so much who the military commander transformed itself into a negotiated peace maker he established a peace agreement with the south africa. and in fact became reconciled after that at the 1st president of south africa so what we need in the occupied territory that is about well for people to become themselves you know. their quest to reach out and build bridges the military approach is important they

are going to get anywhere we're going to see more people into the story and we're going to see more lives lost so i think this is the enduring ness of south africa even about it is a model we should be exploring much more in terms of tracking that sustainable solution to the situation in the occupied territories. or just when we have run out of time do appreciate your time joining us to talk about this important story thank you to our guests that christina manolo timothy and insult america and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time life is a thing a website al-jazeera dot com and further discussion just go to our facebook page that is facebook dot com for its national a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me and the whole team here into how it's goodbye from.

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a scenario that happened last week when thousands were rioting in cities across the battle. after some protesters started throwing stones and that's one of my words police on horseback moved in to clean the area. hello i'm adrian said again in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the conflict between israel and hamas has gone into a 2nd week as mounting asterix push the death toll in gaza to at least 212 palestinians 61 of them children there's no end in sight to the cottage for gaza's 2000000 residents with diplomatic efforts to reach a cease fire or but stalled. this was the gaza skyline just over 2 hours ago we saw this huge explosion.