to be as foul smelling and as betrayed and as long lasting as possible i'm not sure what is inside that white truck behind this but. we'll probably find out pretty soon if the wind is going in the right direction and they decide to use it to green humvees there with the sort of arrays on their roof because of the tear gas firing vehicles and we have seen several very very sustained concentrated uses of that tear gas so it's not just the occasional gas grenades that you might be used to seeing specially near outposts like ours of media this is when they really swarm our location with masses and masses of the stuff as you say it is also pretty powerful stuff and i think that accounts for. the kind of injury numbers autumn's the tear gas that we're seeing i think we just turned on to the to the water cannon truck which seems to be at one thing they're all advancing slowly now so i think in

the next few seconds we're going to see another sustained attempt to push back the protesters but as i say we've seen this several times already through the course of the day and several times yes they are pushed back for a while but then they are going to and they know how to evade this to some extent and then come back in the way they do come back is why once things settle down once the military's had gone back inside the position here they get extremely close we're all here in protective gear as you can see some tear gas being fired from surrounding buildings now and i think we're going to see the main tear gas but raj iraq. we're hearing protective gear these separatists as a coming with nothing about for him to fears around their heads and t. shirts and sling shots and some of them with slingshots but throwing rocks so it is extremely dangerous thing to be doing given. what you're witnessing now the extent

to put implacable military forces here at the end of this road which is a well worn road on days like this this is exactly as we can see there we can see the trucks behind you there unleashing the 1st volley. of tear gas. the volleys they're being sent into war zones possessors us harry said correspondents are carried out with the protective equipment that helmets and so warn the protesters who are at the other end of that roads. have scarves rudra in their minds but they are in shorts and t. shirts really are jeans and t. shirts. certainly at the. nothing to protect them other than the cords on their banks more smoke rising up there is more volleys of tear gas in center and into the street below. and we don't have a hairy is there anything being there is at the volleys of tear gas and the coming

from the trucks themselves is anything being thrown out of the windows of the the buildings on either sides of that roofs can you can you see anything coming out of there also there also tear gas wiring. i'm sorry oh yes i can definitely tell you that yes there are 2 guys who are in positions in some of the buildings on either side of this road as well everyone really knows. where this road is where these compensation take place. and you can see i think pretty orders been given. to have the latest attempt to clear the road at least. so we've got one advance. firing 2 held in reserve one of them being the water cannon about right now is about to get going but we should also say there's the water cannon. firing up. at an apartment. and

a stun grenade going off in front of it those are used to sort of baffle and confuse and cause people to scatter although they can indeed cause injuries our own cameraman in damascus gate in a pretty slim the other day he was hit by a couple of fragments of those stun grenades he was only very lightly injured they don't usually do a huge amount of damage but in the wrong place at the wrong time they can and you can see and the smell is now coming it does seem to be that skunk water as well as the tear gas heading back in this direction. so this is very much the picture that we've been witnessing throughout the day and it doesn't seem like it's going to be dying down anytime soon i mean to talk a little bit more about where we are and why this is happening this is bethlehem this is. a city here in occupied east jerusalem that is really surrounded by and increasingly being cut off in encroached on by being a very large settlement blocks that are stationed in this part of the occupied west

bank. and it is a place which has been hit by so many things recently has been hit by the the coronavirus pandemic among other things the tourist industry for this important biblical christian city as well as the other religions here that the the the walled off hotel of course the various other things that bring tourists from around the world here all of that has ended during coronavirus so the economy has been massively hit there are 4 refugee camps around bethlehem so endemic poverty and dispirited people there given that the lack of any progress on any kind of. statehood any kind of address to their wish to to see a return to their homes in what is now israel. also just that the sheer nature of the. on going more than 50 year occupation which into human rights reports

just in the last couple of months has been classed as a party or rather the experience of palestinians in the occupied territory and in israel itself defined that way i mean however you define it here in new york a part west bank is where those frictions are most easily developing into faceoffs between the israeli military and palestinian protesters those frustrations those long held grievances and as i say for weeks now it's been simmering in jerusalem. these things almost whatever the precise nature of the person right proximate cause of these eruptions of violence once they get going it is extremely difficult to see them brought under any kind of. for them to slow down again so this is developing a sermon to me each each iteration of what we're seeing does really few the next

and so having done its work that. would occur in his coming back and of course right now the events which are in jerusalem at the election last compound were introduces a term i just over a week ago i really. think i make sure what we've seen since the violence i was a rocket fire coming back i remember it was your body here it was around the world you know. rubble either there or just barely i was. live together i was surprised by this street but i was watching i was i think you are still standing rather close to that machinery that's what's expanded in that sat just driving past is giving off an awful smell as you say it's getting off to how the noise is wealth i am. but that's certainly gives an idea of

. the machinery those are off against a few israeli soldiers standing behind me as well the fact that the water cannon vehicle has now moved or does that is an indication that the job has been done that they've managed to clear the protesters from the area or is it simply going for refills. to be crude. i hurried off down the street which is. exactly right through your cigars. yes you can see it has. cleared but that is by no means the end of it from what we've been experiencing so far here what we've been seeing so far here is that this is a phase that they will go in they will use overwhelming force for a few minutes as we've just seen and for

a time people retreat because it is extremely unpleasant i can tell you that i come back at a shot now i can tell you that when we were in damascus gate last weekend before things really kicked off there were still pretty violent scenes that. young boys and young men were running right up to the on one night at least the police the border force outposts getting very close to them throwing objects like water bottles mainly but some other objects as well from very close range at these armed figures they were it seemed particularly worried about that but as soon as the skunk water turned up everybody cleared so it is. as unpleasant as it is a very effective way of clearing streets and so that's what we have now relatively clear street but i think where we are set in. oh and we appears we have lost so we have lost harry for say it's lost a connection. and there it's in the. beth. we this is

so bethlehem so we're bringing you. a live feed from the reuters news agency this is still in bethlehem in the occupied west bank or hearing from harry false. the that streets that harry was standing on are certainly a well known flashpoint where a lot of protesters come. to clash with the israeli security forces we saw a few minutes ago around 20 minutes or so ago with. we saw a lot of protesters there burning tires in the street throwing rocks and so on and then the really forces brought in a tear gas and armored humvee with tear gas and then one of those infamous skunk water trucks that's chemically treated water with

a foul stench and what that has is it sticks to you it stinks very unpleasant smell the very effects of it has managed to clear that street so the clear street has been cleared for no but as harry was telling a. stay clear for much longer they are likely to come for joining us here on out just as $1410.00 g. and will see only. the palestinians have called for a general strike. of mass protest in taking place across the occupied territories. on the left hand side of your screen shot there from bethlehem in the occupied west bank and on the right hand side of your screen is where we at the top of just after 1300 g.m.t. we had spoken to our correspondents. here protests. when

gunshots were fired. we are trying to get out for you but just a reminder of what happened as she was inside of you a guest an activist he was thrown up processed sites gone far broke out there our understanding of what happened was there was a drone a draw in which usually is used to fire tear gas to clear an area and protesters in ramallah had sent up far works to distract that's drawn in return the israelis had fired back with live ammunition and in response palestinians had far back at the is really nice. with me on to so i understand at this point live you can see fires burning down there that processed sites now as we were speaking with needs certainly a lot of violence had broken i. recalled to the area and we were showing our

viewers pictures that people look getting loaded into the back of those ambulances we can their joy need to abraham needs just say give us a sense of what the situation is like right now and is there any updates on the casualty figures because when we spoke earlier anderson it was around 16 people who'd been injured can you tell us any more about the number of people injured in those events in ramallah just over an hour ago. the palestinian health ministry just confirming that a palestinian has died have succumbed to his they sustained here near ramallah and we're not sure if it's in the confrontations that happened before the big. fire that we've just seen or if it were so but we know that he was hit by live ammunition and was transferred in a critical condition to the palestine medical. hospital here near from

a loss and the palestinian health minister has just said that he succumbed to his wounds now we're hearing the points that the regular army and firm that 2 soldiers were wounded in that exchange that we've seen on here now when it comes to the protests we're seeing more palestinians back to the scene that we have been. more but it doesn't compare to what ben numbers that we've seen at beginning of the protests. we've been seeing here even families people with their children we're standing on a hill that's overlooking the confrontations and people you would hear thought that they are in a safe zone this is why they came to this hill but then when they heard the exchange of fire we've seen people lead to see with their children now we're seeing some people back but definitely nowhere near the numbers that we before.

her 1st given of the live shot there. of the sun drawn the hill overlooking the sea and needs of but just to give our viewers some concerts the large shot that we're bringing you from ramallah there's another ambulance speeding also where there are i can times 3 ambulances in that line showed a good number of protesters surrounding them as it is they're still confrontations of some kind happening in this area. yes and that's the reason why we are hearing those ambulances sirens that are taken policy taking palestinians to hospitals it's definitely relatively calm in comparison to how it was an hour ago but the confrontations still carry on. much of the word. and just as. tossers about these protests that

are being held so today was a day of a but there we can hear more. shows on the issue of that skews me tear gas canisters canisters the shots of some kind but clearly a very active situation. when i ground level there but need to this was a day of protest was it not a general strikes and happening colds. by palestinians a marxist say just say it was why was this general strike colds and why is it to send. ensued these scenes. just give you for various are not as familiar with this story here not as familiar with the situation just explained so is what has happened and i'm 40. so the incidents that have been happening in the. week or so and occupied east

jerusalem the scenes the israeli army. compound as well as the attempt to expel the palestinians forced to be from their house and shift our graphic all of these have incited protests in the west bank now that has been followed by the bombardment in gaza that has come after hamas has we fired rockets into israel saying that they are that the israeli army has crossed that line when it comes to jerusalem this has indeed made this even more tense and we've seen more and more protests now to meet the strike the call for this it started when palestinians in israel have called for a deal strike to highlight the importance of the palestinians living in israel and they want to talk about the discrimination they face there and then palestinians

here in the occupied west bank have seen the call and have been inviting more and more palestinians to take to the streets and to also join the strike and it later became one of the biggest issues of unity as many palestinians will tell you because many palestinians here say that their plight is the israeli occupation it's manifested differently in each area or one in those palestinians in israel say that is discrimination those in jerusalem say they face by elations they can't build and they're being kicked out of their houses. those here in the occupied west bank would tell you that settler attacks are and keep increasing the eagerness really settlements are expanding in those in the besieged gaza strip talk about the israeli siege as well as the wars that happen every few years so for them it was important that the whole palestinians in different location across the political

divide to be striking so that was the sense and we've seen many protesters. driton social media many business owners saying that they're going to close their businesses and even the government has instructed it's simply used to take it to the streets in the spring so the the feeling here was that these are going to be peaceful protests palestinians who are armed with nothing but rocks sometimes they prepared molotov cocktails or fireworks to disrupt the tune of tear gas but then we've heard this. shooting we can't confirm it was from palestinians we can't confirm who shot but this is the believe here this is the belief here that this is what happened you there aren't much weapons in the occupied west bank and if they are these really army which often raids palestinian cities would come and arrest people and collect those weapons so it's

a bridge or incident the palestinian president has been token talking in the past the both the importance of popular resistance and that palestinians should be taken to the streets but we've seen palestinians in the past say that they didn't see any hope that they were getting overpowered by the having the militarized israeli forces and that if you can see any hope now we're seeing palestinians telling us that they feel that there is a spark of hope that they can change things on the ground and that's why there was this thing about this so there may have been a spark in school but it's very difficult to feel when you see. see the. images of ambulances with more people being loaded into the back of. this is the familiar imagery we see of tear gas being fired at protesters protesters lobbing storms in return of slightly calmer scenes that process.

how long it remains calm for we can't say someone they're holding aloft the tire those tires of course usually set fire to that creates that blacks move back a curtain of black smoke trying to cure people from from view. just as the news is coming in here we understand that one palestinian protest has been killed by the israeli army at the entrance of d.-day in the occupied west bank. just remind viewers of the basis shows there you can see more black smoke billowing. protest site so that's one protester killed at the entrance to. the scene there at ramallah will come back to you know moments need let's head back

into the occupied west bank and the end of bethlehem. see what the situation is like best harry forsett. much calmer scenes behind you there is a bit of smoke drifting over your left shoulder there just talk us through what's happening. here that smoke is the remnants of tires that the protesters rolled up and started burning this is you know anybody who's been in the west bank going to them goes or any time over many decades would be familiar with that they they burn the ties and they stand behind them to you sling shots and throw stones and the like so that is the end of what was happening there but for now the israeli military forces have gone down another road some of them but mostly the back inside the. checkpoint base here which is built in to the

separation barrier which is right in the heart here of this road in bethlehem. that's more tear gas so i think you can we. i don't know if we can pan round to the other road going to. you know you can see in the distance there israeli soldiers and beyond them that familiar sound now to everyone here of tear gas being fired from the canister is on its roof the sort of. on its roof. so another pretty intense burst although less so than some of what we've been seeing earlier so this is this kind of pretty regular sort of catch i come back this way cat and mouse. well i mean it's it seems like the wrong terminology actually i apologize this is regular sort of waxing and waning of because there have been serious injuries here 9 live fire injuries live bullets sustained

by palestinians also 11 rubber coated steel bullets injuries at least one of those has been a it was a puncture wound that actually entered the palestinian person's leg as well as that more than 50 tear gas inhalation injuries a good number of those people taken to hospital say these numbers have not been updated for a couple of hours now so i think they are pretty much out of date but they are the most recent numbers that we so far have i think something else is happening down this road is the tear gas jeep coming back so so this is what we've been seeing throughout the day we also saw just on this road pretty much where those soldiers are right now walking back accompanying his jeep that is where a handful maybe 6 or 8 palestinian protesters were twice now we've seen just by themselves throwing stones making gestures at the military base behind this

border security forces base behind us and throwing stones at this very very heavily defended pretty much impregnable object which is this watchtower with all kinds of metal armory on it and the pattern has been that the soldiers have allowed it to take place or at least 8 they haven't responded for a few minutes and then obviously massing their forces getting their plan together and then rushing them with pretty overwhelming force we saw that in one instance a little while ago when they rushed in the court one of them forced him to the ground and pretty violently dragged him off and detained him so this is the pattern . i think we're going to see throughout the day. this is. the afternoon sun shining there. and it's impossible to read the future though but.

is there a chance everyone will just pack up and go home or does this kind of violence tend to escalate after the sun goes down. you know i don't think you have to be looking into a crystal ball to think that this is going to continue have been already calls for another sort of major assembly of people in this area at 6 pm it is now $530.00 so it is i think likely that this will continue as well as that another protest should take place in manger square outside the church of the nativity in bethlehem as well i think we can expect that to be less confrontational and violent than what we're seeing here but it is another expression of a protest of trying to confront and make no news people's feelings about what they've been seeing on their televisions and on their phones just as we all

have coming out of gaza and jerusalem and also their experiences on a daily basis this has been of all the places inside the occupied west bank. in terms of major cities this is the one that relies on tourism for its economic survival really and so the impact of coronavirus has been felt especially hard here . and also just the being cloistered inside and all of the various restrictions on movement that is added to these long term prostrations all of that sparked and sustained by what we've seen happening in recent days too so i think we can expect all of that to be expressed continually not just today not just later today but i think in the coming days to the best. so having hair is. a sissy that it's also a lot of significance for many cultures for many faiths it's a big tourism draw for many people if you like generally as this ongoing

violence has been continuing over the past few days. and i was just being expressed in a temple like bethlehem it's not one single community that lives there it's a mixed communities i mean how is this being expressed within bethlehem itself. i would i'm afraid i'm going to have to pass on that we've been all around the country south on the border in jerusalem this is we literally arrived just a little bit before all of this kicked off so we haven't had a chance to to really go around and talk to people about their experiences particularly of what's going on now however i think i can say that it is clear that there is a growing sense of anger with what took place inside jerusalem as you say this is known for it for the christian bible story the nativity story but it is still

a majority muslim area and so the idea of what has been going on in. the mosque compound in recent days. is always a really important issue for palestinians up and down the west bank inside gaza inside occupied east jerusalem as well and there is as well as that is what has been going on in the military strikes on gaza the pictures we've seen the numbers and individual lives represented by those numbers of dead and injured in displaced i think there is a will here as there is we've seen with with our reporting from outside ramallah in your paper. there is a will to to make the feelings here known in terms of confronting the israeli military in this way no matter the obvious risk the number of dead the

number of injured we've seen mounting here obviously nothing in comparison to gaza but it is still mounting here in the occupied west bank ok harry false that their life from birth they have thank you very much indeed we do appreciate it and really hope it stays we simply come as the day for press is but for harry thank you very much let's take you back inside gaza and i are joined by sami southern palestinian journalist and a residents of gaza where you joining us for right now. first of all and right now we are here inside the compound of ministry of health which is severely damaged last night and during bombing. we have just met their doctor i shuffle to that of the spokes here some of that minister told him he told me that.