i'll tell you that the demonstrations were extending the peak the mayor of big people to stick to social distancing rules then on friday was also infected. we don't become serious we're taking precautions i think the collapse will probably . with the surge now expected to last until the end of the month and no end in sight to the lack of ice use may become a deadly reality at least in the. this is 0 of these headlines this hour the 1st palestinian general strike in decades has been held in occupied territory and israel but ended with violence and bloodshed security israeli security forces fired live ammunition during protests in the occupied west bank 4 people were killed and more than 160 injured israel's

continued its bombardment of gaza at least 218 palestinians have been killed since the military offensive against hamas and other palestinian groups began a week ago the u.n. is calling for border crossings to be reopened to provide badly needed humanitarian aid to gaza a convoy of international aid trucks did start to roll in at one point but israel suddenly closed the crossing again citing security issues. it is critical that the air is crossing is also open for the entry and exit of critical humanitarian staff humanitarian access into and out of gaza for staff and goods must be sustained and appropriate measures taken to ensure safe movement within gaza overnight we received extremely worrying reports of additional additional infrastructure civilian infrastructure being hit in gaza including in the central coast in $1000.00 testing lab and other health and humanitarian facilities in addition we

continue to receive reports of significant displacement of palestinians within the gaza strip france has filed a resolution with the un security council calling for a cease fire a president and not crawl as used to major summits to push for peace he had talks with egypt's president of the fatah al sisi in paris while jordan's king abdullah joined by video link and already has a spade as facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis off the bull than 6000 migrants crossed from morocco into the spanish on klav. it's the largest single day influx into the area india's daily coronavirus death toll has reached a record high of more than 4300 fatalities were reported on tuesday boss the number of new infections continues to fall however many believe that's because less testing is being. of those that have blood sport use fear out 0 after today's inside story next.

dozens of palestinians killed hospitals overwhelmed and water and food supplies are now running out people in gaza are reeling from israeli airstrikes so what can be done to secure aid to those in need and how can this unfolding humanitarian crisis he stopped this is inside story. of aaron welcome to the program i'm just on the attain now it's a region that's been besieged for decades and we're living conditions were already

dire and now after more than a week of israeli bombardment gaza is on the brink of a deepening humanitarian crisis more than $212.00 palestinians have been killed that includes at least $61.00 children hospitals are overwhelmed and running low on medical supplies u.n. schools are full of thousands of people who fled for their lives with little to survive on clinics including one run by doctors without borders have been damaged water power and food are all in short supply agencies say existing aid will only last for a few days and they're appealing for help but reaching people in need has been a struggle for them is on the ground and one israeli air raid hit the council red crescent society office in gaza. children who've survived these attacks have often lost a parent or relative has had a young reports on the growing emotional and physical toll that they face. for 7 hours 6 year old suzy was trapped under piles of rubble. her home was who

bonus really airstrike in gaza her mother and 4 siblings died. and hospital she reunites with her father a budget they hold hands facing a new life without their family that had been up when. i was filled with all the anger of the universe but when i heard that one of my daughters was alive i said thank god because this girl might capture some even a little of my other daughter smile. there's not much room for innocence in gaza play time with their new toys is cut short for the sisters when the sounds of fighting come too close for comfort heavy heavy heavy heavy heart attack that no doubt that their father achmad muncy made you tube videos that were widely shared on social media to distract his kids from the violence the days after this recording he died in an airstrike oh this boy lost his

home. he holds back tears trying to recover some of his belongings. that i made of the wreckage a moment of joy for these children who managed to save their pet fish but experts fear these fleeting moments of happiness may soon be replaced by a long term trauma my older girl she's 70 years old she looked at me and said does god really feel what we are feeling now and of course i answered the head but i started thinking what is the mental state and the wind motion instead that she's going through all of this point to be asking such a. sister such an existential question the depths of loss can be overwhelming especially for children. you know would still. i get. i'm not really that much i get i feel anything i feel i don't know what to feel just. as bomb strike nearby and this girl prays

her repeated recitation is an attempt to drown out the sound of explosions. doctors say suzy will recover from her physical injuries but it's the invisible emotional scars that may require long term attention to lupus with al-jazeera. now before we go to our guests let's get the view from the ground there today we can now speak to roger in gaza she is a teacher and author the mother of 5 children roger thank you so much for being with us today during what's at a very difficult time i understand let me start by asking you how are you and how are your family thank you. i'm not well neither my family is we're not ok i mean living in this constant constant fear owned a horror is not making anyone ok is it i mean imagine yourself being.

terrified all the time or being bald or killed or losing any of your beloved this is not really something that anyone would love to experience of course russia can you describe for me what a day looks like there now for you and your your children how are you spending the hours. well or the day they're not during the day it seems to be a very short time when the sun rises until it goes down it's a very short time we don't feel it is just that and when the night comes it's like thousands of years because we just each minute passes we just feel like an hour. we are terrified by the bombings they really target all of the palestinian with in gaza they target them mostly of the night as a way of terrifying kids they know it's dark there we have no electricity or any

light so they target us in the 9th to spread horror among the children are among others among everyone. during the day we're trying to act normal do our normal things do our cooking cleaning and everything but we can't stop we can't help being worried all the time we just in constant horror call sickly that's the word rush i know there's a huge amount going on there right now what are your biggest worries is it the ass strikes or is that what we're hearing about these potential food shortages the medical supplies i know that a lot to think about but what is your main concern at the moment. look look i live in the besieged gaza we've been in a bloke a for about 15 years now with fault food shortage with water shortages no explicit whatsoever i'm not worried about any of those things i'm just worried about one day

i just wake up and i lose one of my kids i don't care about myself either i just don't want to lose any of my kids you know i want to tell you something that most not most every single family and gaza does now they all sleep at the same place at night we all gather ourselves and sleep of the same place and the same rule you know why this is so good to say and so sad to say but i'm going to say it anyway because we don't want to wake up like. us are alive and the others are dead if you're about to die or for her to die were to die all of us together no one would ever have to live to lauren the other one this is really sad what i'm telling you and it's a true fact each family here does that us and i do it i go there my children and put them around me and sleep so that i can feel them all around me without being worried about them in groups roger i'm sorry sorry to hear that and to hear about

what you think going through raja average us of there and gaza telling us about what's been happening on the ground there thank you so much for being with us during this difficult time. and your family or the best thanks again. well as we've just been hearing that ongoing violence has completely disrupted the lives of many palestinians in gaza the u.n. says more than 52000 have been displaced after israeli air strikes wrecked at least 4450 buildings including several hospitals dozens of schools housing displaced families were also hit and the power supply has now been limited to around 6 to 8 hours a day 2 thirds of the population was already suffering from food shortages before these latest attacks the world food program says it will need an extra $32000000.00 to provide aid for palestinians over the next 6 months rights groups say water scarcity and unsanitary conditions could also lead to another and $1000.00 infections only 5 percent of people in palestinian territories have been vaccinated

. let's now bring in our guests in gaza we have mathias he is the director of gaza operations for the un's palestine refugees relief agency or era in occupied east jerusalem one paris is a cycle interest with doctors without borders and in doha ibrahim freiheit is an associate professor and conflict resolution at the doha institute for graduate studies thanks all and welcome to the program now i want to start with you because i've been seeing these photographs of what's happened to one of your clinics in gaza thankfully though with no casualties i understand we've also heard that cutters red crescent offices in gaza were bombed there saying they were actually targeted 2 doctors were killed i believe in the last round of deaths over the last day or so can i ask you do you and your colleagues feel like you're being targeted there. thanks for having me 1st of all. we cannot say that we were there at the

targeted in this bombing that we can very directly say that all our clinics and this includes residences offices clinics. are under the knowledge of the israeli defense forces so they know the coordinates they know the exact locations so even if they are not targeting us they very know very well that they could damage or hurt anybody within our clinics with any bombing that occurred near or at the. the clinic that you make reference to has been rendered initially not not functional and in a normal day in which it would have been operational it would have people in the waiting room and the people working in the station that were at the that's not say the people around it and that same bombing in which we were not attacked but to dr side. well the t.s.a. and just adding to your agency look soft i believe more than 5 and

a half 1000000 palestinians how you'll facilities in an operational holding up. we are under severe pressure like the population here you know we are now in the 8 or 9 day of war to me it feels like a full scale war and we have had our installations affected so early this morning at 6 o'clock i'm talking to you from our office where i'm also currently sleeping with my international colleagues we had a massive explosion strike an explosion just across the road 15 meters away and the fear of the damage to the perimeter wall if you walk through our compound here you will see lots of debra's lying around i went into one office where there was a big stone underneath a desk which came flying through the roof if the colleague who really occupies that desk would have been there she would have for sure been killed and from this morning strike quite close to it is a school where some of the 50000 plus people that are seeking

a safe haven with us on ours and in some of its solar panels where he so you know it is installation terms hitting us directly of course the big drama is the lives of people we've had more than 50 children killed since this started and 18 of them at least with children at all 278 schools so it hits home very directly as senior colleague of mine had her sister and the daughter of their sister killed in an asse strike you know there are many many dramatic stories to be told and behind this i have gotten messages like we heard from john of people feeling just absolutely terrified sleeping together so that they can die together if that needs to happen so this is a state of war and this has to stop we have to have a cease fire the price for the civilian population. use a mixer would be. just tearing them from the tears about the children i do want to

ask you abraham we saw a very powerful piece from one of our reporters at the beginning of the show talking about how this is really impacted the children that the most vulnerable here schools and shelters have also as mathias was saying been reduced to rubble abraham how do you think this shapes the generation and their politics. well this is a really important question because i mean this is not something to date this has all started back in 2007 when israel was a better stick located on the gaza strip so what we are seeing today is in fact a continuation of the policy that stopped the over 15 years ago and this to answer a question is raising a generation of for 15 years students that are not in touch with the rest of the words there are people that hardly leave the gaza strip the. crossing is closed

most of the time so then of their leader and their life has been shaped by this environment the conflict that what we are seeing this is not also the test war with saying there was another war in 2000 and 4 pm there was another one in 2009 in addition of course to all the other incidents there of the assassinations the killing and no leaving just a split about being part of the whole this is reality so this is definitely we are this is extremely concerning of what we're seeing a generation vehemently is the 3rd generation in such an environment which shapes their thinking and then the use of the words and then of use of you know how the wind is responding to that disaster that a crisis of the moment even you were mentioning that the russia crossing and the blockade now i want to take a look at a map of gaza it only says on board as

a 30 just an israel and crossings are limited there are only 3 he's confirming now israel controls tell us then palestinians who want to pass 3 months of penance but best there is difficult to get now dejection government has recently reopened the rafa border crossing at the bottom of your screen that's a main exit point for most. people who are living in gaza and it's been using it to send ambulances and medicine and food supplies to the palestinians and fuel and goods passed usually through the karama abu salim border crossing on tuesday israel said it would open that crossing to aid that's only for goods though and as of tuesday it hasn't yet open to the erez crossing that would be for people and humanitarian stuff it's now been more than a week since it closed that border now the un was very vocal in calling for these crossings to be opened and has also criticized just how long it's taken saying that this was very different from how it was handled back during the 2014 gaza war so mathias i'll ask you to respond to that how is it different. well my understanding

is i wasn't here in 24 today but my understanding is that very early on in the 1st couple of days there was agreement between and send israel that there would be humanitarian corridors as they're referred to so both within gaza that would be you know a lot of in-fighting where people could move to do some shopping and where you humanitarians could do odd jobs get to our installations and so on as well as humanitarian crossing corridors across the border to bring in people and goods and move some people out and as you mentioned this is now day 8 or 9 and we haven't had this opening this morning apparently some fuel trucks came in but the truth trucks were turned around and we have not yet been able to bring in search capacity that includes medical personnel to help at the hospitals but also other people to help with security and other matters the most important consequence of all of this or

impact of all of this will be soon running out of food running out of fuel we heard from earlier that there is little electricity if there's no fuel supplies quickly electricity will be down even further and of course essential truth supplies we will then see the population suffering even more than it already is i'm on the tail said talking about food supplies and potential shortages i'm sure if it's not just about access to food the right the world food program is already why that prices are going to skyrocket as long as there are shortages and i imagine there are not just economic ramifications here but also those in terms of anger and desperation within the community that how will that play out do you think one. just. as we usually talk about this that this type of crisis that unfolds and the moments in which the bombs are falling down after the bombs still persist and people the

survivors the lucky survivors still have to live with a war torn country in a war torn society in which it's still others are killed and which most of its support structures both social medical and otherwise are. have come undone after so much pressure both from the occupation the blockade and the repeated bombardment so people are left in survival in constant survival mode and this brings about reactions that are just in alignment best agger is the at the forefront at times but. knowing the palestinian population there's also amazing amount and surprising amount of britain and wish for life wish to push on. abraham i'm curious in your mind as you watch all of this play out what do you think israel's strategy is here we've seen the destruction of humanitarian facilities that's prompted even more international outrage in some of these other talk about attacks or is this collateral and by the same token how is hamas doing all of this as they see the

suffering around them. well we are to see it get on but all the signs that your question about israel's policy. dealing with the crisis in gaza the very best thing actually we are seeing a political punished that is using as a price. on hamas and all the other political factions as disheartened that basically we have seen the. collective punishment. apologise it just click the punishment of leases like the tower that has been. bombing including. one of the towers that's housing media outlets like i'll just read on the hose is the press which is totally no one understands why just like look august something like that knowing that there are little military addicts in these places and also the international media as spoken out about this bus as well as not

listening and doesn't think is that all the families that are being displaced these places. that have no shelter no no place to go to and again as a question to do in order to do to punish that and violence goggles there the factions hamas and other put together faction bit we also see targeted. of the military and that's a little bit of a given political and military leaders also that they are are getting as the as in a number of places and then when able to. do you know assassinate a number of mass military leaders but the fact of the matter i guess is that we are. not a 1000000 people. under the british that will. be shown been by indiscriminately in order to achieve certain goals political and military goals

that have been by the way is like an evil to achieve animal because now if old mine do civil war we are seeing that would be doing i think and a response from have asked on the same exact. i'm just going to stop you there because i do want to bring the conversation just back to the aid and humanitarian situation obviously that the politics is ongoing and that that fighting now except to continue for some time i want to focus on the politicization of the aid aspect on the humanitarian aspect here. i know that your agency has been massively underfunded for many years and especially since 2018 when the trumpet ministration withdrew their funding i believe the bind of ministration has now pledged something like 150000000 just last month but that's premised on a policy of neutrality and i know you agency also faced criticism from the european parliament just

a few weeks ago for what they described as teaching and disseminating hate speech and encouraging violence within your schools i'd like to ask you to respond to that and also to reflect on how the political situation is is shaping the way that your agency actually functions. so thank you let me 1st of all respond very directly took a specific point of you know preaching hatred you know and he semitism in our 278 schools were 278000 children or 85000 children and 285000 children there is no evidence for that that is just an. founded allegation you know i have not met a single visitor from 2 who's gone to our schools who's come away not impressed with the quality of the education but also with the mindset and attitude of the children and you know that's one point we over this last year when we were in covert so often in lockdown and be at children's learning at home the british

council awarded $45.00 obama schools an international school award and 3 elements of that as as they assessed that was international understanding and promotional showcase and we're talking here of young girls poem is exhibited in the u.s. national park so i think the politicization of age here has to do with not recognizing that the u.n. actually provides a unique opportunity 428-5000 children to be exposed to an international global values we're trying to turn them into some kind of global citizenship and if that gets destroyed then we will lose big time it links to an earlier question in terms of impact on young generations you know so we need to maintain an independent u.n. presence here under these difficult circumstances one i'm going to give you the last wed here as an aid agency representative there with offices in 10 x.

and gaza we know that things are really tough in hospitals we know that as blood that's been on the ground feel the sand on the ground hospital supply fan on the ground as in an organization that is watching with people in gaza right now what is your message to israel and a message to hamas. to stop the bombardment as soon as possible to find a way and not only for a peaceful world but to allow the hope to come in and we've been the whole day expecting and on standby to come into gaza revive importance we're coming in with surgeons but nurses quitman but. we need to get this to the be boards when it's possible we need to be able to assure that people can access are going extend those limits of the you know hope services we need to. we need to be able to persist on our usual tasks we need to be able to provide people access surgeries to blood

transfusions to usual services the usual health care. to some mental health support to just all we're all here by their own society by the organizations that we've been pushing all this alliance you do since i but i read about your population want to mathias we wish you all the best with your walk and also thank you to all of our guests. paris and abraham fry out and thank you too for watching you can see this program again any time by visiting our website that's al-jazeera dot com and have had the discussion do go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. and side story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story after meanest and the whole team here and i have i thank you. that

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news reports. subscribe to eugene pulitzer prize al-jazeera english. hello adrian for going to here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the 1st palestinian general strike in decades has been held in occupied territory and israel but it ended with further violence and bloodshed 4 people were killed more than 160 were injured in the west bank on tuesday 2 israeli soldiers were wounded the event was called in support of people under bombardment in gaza al-jazeera as they to abraham was speaking to a demonstrates a live all their one gun fire broke out. what makes you.