you're. gone you're. gone you're. gone you're. gone our. poor. i've rarely saw a rare pauper. palestinians rally against the bombing of gaza a general strike is taking place across the occupied territories and israel. hello again i'm here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera israeli troops continuing to amass along the border with gaza as air strikes hit both palestinian

homes and clinics. more than 20 people dead dozens more missing as a strong sign parts of india. and more than 5000 migrants cross into the spanish from morocco the largest single day influx into the city. starting this hour in the occupied west bank where calls for a general strike of led to confrontations between protesters and police in multiple different locations have been a number of injuries as well as checkpoint in ramallah. police have fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators in bethlehem as well and there are crowds gathered in nablus and hebron just to name

a few cities in the area anger growing not just in the territories but worldwide as well as the israeli occupation and the ongoing bombardment of gaza at this point 212 palestinians have been killed that includes 61 children in the past 8 days. now just a short time ago as well palestinian factions fired more rockets into israel one soldier was injured in the latest attacks israel says more than 3000 rockets have been launched since the offensive began at least 10 people in israel have been killed including 2 children. here is the team this hour with all the developments right hand side of the screen is harry forsett in bethlehem we've got imran khan in southern israel as well near to a crossing into gaza we've also got you. in gaza but we're going to start in ramallah neda abraham who hopefully you can hear me at this point. and need to

tell us about developments in the occupied west bank today. we are here in the lead a city near the league of israeli settlement of bet to tell where possibly improve the sisters have been coming here for the past few days but this time we're seeing the largest protests that we've seen since the assassination started in the gaza strip on monday and. there are hundreds of palestinians. moving them out. of here gassed by these raids are. we seeing more and more of the looting that we need been talking to activists than we've been saying to them that why are you what what do you want what do you hope to achieve from these protests and these this is not just about the latest escalation in the siege gaza strip and and the incidents that happened before they have to go to fight these jews and with the expulsion of but the attempt of the

bulge in the prophet is for the house of the chief to know but also because nothing save the fucked up of the years and decades of the things he knew mrs radio station on their land and this is why they say they're here. to have business compared to previous protests we've seen in the west bank given the level of feeling that we have and given what's going on in gaza. this is by far the largest we've been in since we started reporting on the belief that the state nation and insist gaza strip so even if i compare it to the. past few years we have seen those large numbers paid for this to meet me on the news are telling us that they are empowered by the sense of who need to know that what they. do you are the occupied west bank was occupied east jerusalem as well as those of israel so that she was many of them not to the city hall others were telling us that they hope they're

seeing and not just from the units but also from the change of this force other social media when it comes to palestine and issues that are being raised by celebrities and influencers talking about the israeli occupation and divide nations palestinians are subject to that this could be one of the reasons i've seen many people who in the past wouldn't go to protest but now they're there with their families and their children and they say that they feel that there's a spark of hope and they want to take on that chant and protest against these radio stations thank you need a abraham near ramallah in the occupied west bank before we get to the rest of the team just a little look at some of the other protests that are going on and gathering momentum all around the world libyans for example taking part in global solidarity rallies for palestine 100 the students gathered out in front of tripoli's university they are demanding an immediate end to israeli violence and the forced expulsion of palestinians from their ancestral homes to hundreds gathering there as

well in cities across the country despite recent coronavirus lockdowns to museums are calling on arab nations to reject the normalization of relations with israel remember morocco sudan the united arab emirates and behind all forged closer ties with israel last year. even down in south america the rallies of support have extended to hundreds hit the streets in argentina as capital crowds marched towards the israeli embassy and when osiris police prevent a demonstrators from reaching the building last week argentina's foreign ministry denounced what it called israel's disproportionate use of force. people rallied outside the u.s. embassy in indonesia's capital jakarta to protest against the bombardment of gaza indonesia says it will continue to press other muslim countries to push for an immediate cease fire ok back to our team are a force that 1st of all in bethlehem in the occupied west bank take us through what's been happening. for about an hour now there has

been this building protest within the center of bethlehem and in the march towards what is a checkpoint controlled by the israelis here at the end of the bethlehem conurbation and this is where we regularly see these sorts of confrontations the sorts of movements and this is a bigger one than usual in terms of numbers and we've also seen the israeli forces here used tear gas stun grenades we're hearing as well rubber coated steel bullets and indeed live fire throughout the week there has been the use of live fire at protests like this we've seen deaths we've seen many injuries as well and this is what we're seeing here right now you have to remember that bethlehem has been through an extremely difficult time in the last 18 months generally with the covert situation with the impact on its tourist industry we're around were just being told

7 people have been injured right here in this confrontation with tear gas inhalation were also around for. around 4 separate refugee camps in this area too who are looking at a political situation that continues to show no sign of any kind of improvement so all of these prostrations and grievances and daily experience of occupation and a need to recent human rights reports have called apartheid it's here in the occupied west bank where those frictions are most exposed with the israeli forces and the palestinians most frequently coming into contact like this and all of it of course sparked and sustained by what people are being what is happening and has been happening in jerusalem and gaza just taking you in the team role right where you are aren't you harry because we're looking at pictures on the screen at the

same time and clearly there's a lot of horsemen used on the streets there. where with most of the media here right now we are behind these really see the israeli troops and there have been some stones thrown none of them reaching out to all of the most dangerous the full potential weaponry is going the other direction just wanted to check on that thank you that's harry ford said best to him occupied west bank off to gaza we go now. reporting this house i've been in gaza today there the pictures i saw earlier showed it was quieter perhaps. here till now the raids are still going on there is targeting for a number of this past where the targeting is still going on and the raids are still on every every minute. a while ago there was

a severe injury just arrived to hospital. keeps calling for volunteers to come and eat blood because that is. the blood banks there is a huge shortage in the in blood banks in the blood banks in blood and also the medical requirements and medications that are missing in the hospital and acute shortage in these in that sector is well only 3 people yesterday where transparency through a border to the hospitals in egypt. to continue their treatment in there until this moment or today nothing none none of the other injuries caused been transferred to the hospitals. the hospitals of gaza had already before this aggression were already suffering of overcrowding and

a shortage in medical requirements and medications due to the copan 19 prices and now with this aggression the crisis have compounded even more there is there is an accurate shortage in india is the medical requirements and medications now also the power distribution company the only gaza company for electricity has in now said today that. some of the lines that have been partly destroyed have been restored by their teams but and only 100 megawatts are being provided in the entire strip now while the strip needs about 400 at least make a watts to provide electricity to different facilities and homes in the strip so the price is still severely going on and this means also at the same time the water price is the amount of electricity that we get very much. ok

lost the signal with you. there but you get a very good picture of the situation not just with their rides but also with the situation of deteriorating infrastructure and a lack of supplies in the on that note we'll go to and run news waiting patiently as we get to him in southern israel 24 hours ago in iran i was speaking to the head of in gaza who said that but no humanitarian corridors in this conflict maybe now there is the sign of a border crossing opening. well there was some confusion as to whether the carom solemn border crossing was going to open this morning the israeli army firstly very early saying that it was open and that they were going to let people in i don't know if you can hear that but we are hearing. shelling going on however let me just carry on what we've seen in the last 10

minutes or so 3 jordanian army mobile hospitals head towards the border which is just down there however we don't know if they going to be able to cross we spoke to the united nations they won't confirm whether they've crossed this particular border or not however nearly i was in the morning we did hear that aid was allowed in through the rougher border crossing which is controlled by egypt so you so we're hearing that at least 2 trucks came in carrying aid from turkey so we know that the corrie door is opening but it's a trickle we're only seeing 3 trucks so far down this road hopefully they will be more the palestinians as you heard from you know say they're absolutely desperate for this aid to get in but we're not hearing whether the border is actually open or not now last all this has been going on in the last hour there were rocket fire from coming from gaza and we did hear that one person had been injured and just very close to where i am now that person was picked up and taken to hospital so

tensions still very much high hopefully. for the gazans at least the aid will get through but it is a trickle we were speaking to call schembri on air he's the head of the norwegian refugee council he says how much aid gets through this border crossing it's still only a trickle of good stuff a man can keeping us up to date from near the gaza israel border on what may or may not be hitting in as far as a just have a look at the live pictures again remember today was the day that palestinian officials have called for a general. i can. buy territories and in israel this is how it turns out thousands of people on the street looks like ambulances there as well smoke in the background as well this is. and i think we've got actually let's get an update. with me to abraham on the situation there just the scale of things today nato our member being on a with you a couple of days ago and things started to get

a little heated behind you from your position and what's it like compared to today . the largest number to you since the start of this collation on monday and awad we haven't been seeing that much number of troops the staking to the streets here we're hearing near an illegal israeli settlement there is a building that one kostin official said whoever is in charge in that building is the de facto prime minister of palestine this is because this is the code got this is a piece of a section or the part of the israeli government that this consists of the israeli army that controls the aspects of palestinians lives almost all aspects of palestinians lives even when some of them want to work in israel they come here for permits of those who want to get treatment in hospitals in east jerusalem or in israel to come here so this is kind of one of the main manifestations of these

radio station here in the occupied west bank and this is why this symbolism is why many palestinians are coming here to protest now in the past the palestinian authority has tried to prevent some of these protesters from reaching here the argument that they're making in the past that they don't want to loss of life they know that there is an imbalance of power when it comes to the israeli soldiers the 3rd army and when it comes to the palestinians who are most of them on the verge of rockets others use molotov cocktails that they make them here on the side and some are using even fire to work so this was the argument by the palestinian authority which at times when it meant that palestinians from approaching this area marked for protesters. they say that the palestinian authority if it's not allowing palestinians to go and protest against the occupation then there are not helping

with the liberation that they are being because they have the security coordination with israel but they are taking the israeli side and they are maintaining the situation called long distance so this is been kind of the criticism of the protesters towards the palestinian authority thoughts and that's why many here have been saying that the intensity of what's going on in the besieged gaza strip is not allowing the palestinian authority to kind of prevent those protests on the contrary within the government asked the palestinian and the use to take to the streets and participate in the protests a good reminder there for maybe this goes well beyond what is happening in gaza right now and this is about decades of occupation. for the palestinians thank you needa. the rest of the day's news is coming up including empty supermarket shelves and empty streets the pandemic scenes which are not normally associated with east asia until now and taiwan's relations with hong kong plunged to their lowest point in years after hong kong closes its office in taipei.

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at play industry doesn't want any regulation interest want to put the products on the not get the price of progress on al-jazeera. to the editor. or. an update on the situation across israel and palestine this hour israeli forces have continued their bombardment of gaza with hospitals overwhelmed and now a severe shortage of electricity and water as well $212.00 palestinians have been killed including $61.00 children since the bombing began 8 days ago there is as you've been saying a general strike underway across the occupied territories and israel this is. in the west bank protesting against violence and occupation in this 20 palestinians

have been killed in the occupied west bank since monday. and protest against israel's actions have gathered momentum around the world for example indonesia where people gathered outside the u.s. embassy in jakarta to protest against the bombardment of gaza. on to other news in a powerful sight clone has swept ashore in western india killing at least $21.00 people cycling it took days now weakening after making landfall in goods it out on monday but it's caused damage in the states right down the coast. through goa and out to go down to carolina the severe winds and heavy rains forced more than 200000 people from their homes see levels of risen as high as 3 meters the winds have gone more than 185 kilometers per hour and india's delhi coronavirus death toll has reached a nother record high $4300.00 deaths reported on tuesday despite the number of new

covered infections continue to fall across the country around 260000 cases were reported on tuesday which is down 30000 from the previous day meanwhile reports suggest india is not likely to resume major exports of vaccines until at least october there's a purana is in new delhi with more on why the export of vaccines has been delayed. it was about 2 months ago that the indian government decided to considerably slow down exports because they realized that they didn't have enough at home and about a month ago they halted them india was the biggest contributor to the un's kovacs program which provides about things to no income countries and because it's had to stop that low income countries such as india's neighbors in need of a strong young come many in africa scrambling to find alternative sources but despite stopping the export something like 66000000 they either donated all thought before realizing realizing that they didn't have enough even though they've stopped the exports they still don't have enough vaccinations have fallen by 50 percent

over the past mom and states have been left now to try and make deals with foreign vaccine manufacturers none have been able to so far because the government even though it made everyone over the age of 18 eligible for vaccine from the start of may it hasn't ramped up production to meet that increase and i'm on when india has the capacity to produce the 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world. just keeping an eye on the situation in the occupied west bank today these pictures getting more dramatic by the moment is the us. on the left of your screen in ramallah close to where needed abraham was reporting from earlier ground level and then on the right hand side the burning in the streets the burning tires in bethlehem with the israeli forces in the foreground as well very tense situation this is the result of the call for a general strike to try to bring parts of the economy to

a standstill certainly from these 2 shots there are parts of the occupied west bank which are at a standstill today just keeping an eye on those live pictures for you bring you more of course throughout the day. just back to corona virus news in several east asian countries often cited for their success in controlling the pandemic are now grappling with there were stamp rights to further delays to a planned travel between singapore and hong kong also taiwan is talking to the us to get more vaccines as it reports 700 new cases in the past week but it has now with pride in seoul. supermarket shelves emptied by panic buying streets and businesses quiet while coronavirus testing sites are busy dealing with increased demand there are scenes normally associated with other parts of the world not taiwan considered a model example of how to contain the pandemic until now

a sudden spike in new coronavirus cases linked to this airport hotel used by airline crews has led to clusters detected across the island which is now virtually closed its borders. non-citizens without residence permit will be prevented from entering taiwan we will also suspend travelers from transferring through the country. this was the same health minister who led an event last summer to celebrate taiwan's apparent fichter e in keeping the pandemic out. still small compared with other places this outbreak of hundreds of cases is a worrying trend for an island used to single digit or even 0 new cases per day it's a sharp reminder of how east asia often uploaded for controlling the pandemic is still vulnerable to the corona virus and its developing variants especially given the relatively slow rollout of vaccines in places like here south korea and its

neighbors viet nam had also been recording relatively few cases from the start of the pandemic but now is grappling with its worst outbreak and the region's main financial hubs of hong kong and. singapore are also finding their not immune plans to resume flights within the travel bubble between the 2 cities have had to be delayed a 2nd time many asian neighbors eager to reopen like better vaccinated countries but aware of how quickly their own infection rates could surge if they do rob mcbride al-jazeera so. now hong kong's government says it temporarily closing its office in taiwan thailand's government said while it respect the decision it also regretted it tension between the 2 has risen since the pro-democracy protests in hong kong in 2019 beijing sees taiwan of course as part of china more with katrina you. there is a current affairs outbreak happening again in taiwan but the hong kong office said

that this is not due to that and what this closure is really also a reflection of the deteriorating ties between hong kong's beijing backed government and taipei and for contacts that's been deteriorating since $29.00 when we had these massive pro-democracy protests really bring hong kong to a standstill and we had subsequently this national security law which criminalizes subversion and under which we've seen more than 100 democracy activists arrested now during that time taiwan was incredibly supportive of the protesters even offering refuge to those who may want to leave hong kong and flee persecution as they called it now hong kong has had this office in taipei since 2011 it was opened under the previous administration which was somewhat more friendly with beijing in the goal was to strengthen cultural and business ties between hong kong and taiwan and when they closed today on tuesday did they did not give a reason except to explicitly say that this was not due to the corvet 19 outbreak

and it said that there was nothing more to add but according to hong kong media the reason for this closure could be because of the visa status now taiwan has its own de facto consulate in hong kong one of the functions is to help people leaving home to taiwan now the hong kong government told the employees of the taiwan office that they would not have their visas renewed if they did not agree to sign a document supporting china china's claim to taiwan and supporting the one china policy. spain's facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis after more than $6000.00 migrants crossed from morocco into the spanish enclave of say that this is the largest single day influx into that area many of them swam to get there and more than a 1000 children spanish government's deployed troops to say to patrol the border with morocco 2700 people have now been sent back. following this one from london.

this 24 hours if you like of unprecedented numbers of migrants or asylum seekers arriving in the spanish enclaves in north africa. have led to spanish anger perhaps concerned the prime minister peter sanchez has now canceled his trip on tuesday to paris he was due to attend an africa financing summit spain is extremely unhappy about what's happened now behind the scenes there has been speculation that the arrival in sea uter but also in the militia the other spanish enclave of morocco's coast was to do with a diplomatic raul over the policy front as you were referring to the group's leader brahimi holly was admitted to spain for hospital treatment in northern spain last

month morrocco protested to the spanish government saying that he had been taken admitted into spain under a false identity and without the knowledge of the moroccan government so they're clearly unhappy now in recent months they have been given a boost because the united states this earlier actually in december recognized moroccan sovereignty over the territory of western sahara so now it's clear that morocco has been unhappy. half past the hour these are the top stories israeli forces continuing their bombardment of gaza hospitals have been overwhelmed there is a severe shortage of electricity in water as well across the strip 212 palestinians have been killed including $61.00 children since the bombing began 8 days ago. now over in the west bank a general strike in fact across the occupy.