israel carries out more air strikes on gaza hours after a major wave of protests against the attacks and people are out on the streets of the occupied west bank as preparations begin for the funerals of victims of israeli violence. santa maria here and with all of that news and the rest of the world news from al-jazeera more than 4 and a half 1000 people dying in one day from covert 19 in india it is another new

records and boats carrying migrants from morocco trying to enter the spanish town of suit a day after being blocked by the police. less than a day after palestinians across the occupied territories and israel held their 1st general strike in decades and the assault on gaza continues at full price looking at the live shot there we are the sounds unfortunate to say actually waiting to see a missile strike they have been warning shots into a residential building known as the. in the neighborhood of gaza city we've seen as israel calls them the warning shots with a fire a smaller missile advising people that the building is about to get hit so we'll keep an eye on this live shot. throughout this bogus and unfortunately as we say almost waiting for it to happen live on air. that's gaza now have

a look at earlier. one of more than 100 bombs and artillery shells which rained down on the street throughout the night and into the morning these 222 palestinians have been killed since the military offensive against hamas and other palestinian groups began a week ago. factions in dollars are also launched more than 50 rockets towards israel overnight most of them intercepted by the air defense system known as the eye and 12 people in israel have been killed since the start of the conflict that number includes 2 children. and was the palestinian day of rage today wednesday the day of mourning as funeral processions have begun in ramallah for 2 of the 4 people killed in the occupied west bank on tuesday 160 others were injured as well as 2 israeli soldiers are a 4th set our correspondent was in bethlehem when all of that was happening here is his report on how it unfolded. this is

a well known road at one end palestinian protesters driven by years of occupation what 2 recent human rights reports have defined as a party and good and sustained by events in jerusalem in gaza at the other implacable militarized position of the israeli forces blocking the way and more. this is how this day would play out huge shows of force pushing back the crowd then young men in small groups gradually approaching within tens of meters of israeli fortifications peppering them with rocks and glass marbles. the israeli tactics varying from attempting to russian detain them to overwhelming them with tear gas and foul smelling water to considerably worse so israeli forces are strengthening their position after those stone throwers got pretty close to the checkpoint here and as you can see on the road just in front of us a sniper team has taken

a position later as we reported live there was no rushing no show of force simply sniper fire from a protected position on unarmed protesters one man fell injured in front of us and was taken out by ambulance one among many here among dozens across the occupied west bank. near the illegal settlement of a dell close to ramallah the gunfire was at one point going both ways this is a rare shooting attack on an israeli military position during a confrontation a sign of the seriousness of this current upsurge in violence i think i want to live. it is just on the spot because we are living under this pressure we are living under this discrimination in. place of regime that's that's the. basically we should this has been declared a national strike and a day of rage observed to an occupied east jerusalem confrontations breaking out of damascus gate was. and it shaped your are where long simmering protest

against forced expulsions of palestinians has in part fueled this wider violence in the southern occupied west bank city of hebron a palestinian was shot dead by israeli forces who said he was carrying a knife a homemade gun and an explosive device. a brutal day to add to the tally of the last week or it will sit bethlehem in the occupied west bank. and update this wednesday morning with hoda abdel-hamid in occupied east jerusalem gaza 1st of all what is the team telling you about events there this morning. well as you mentioned earlier there is this situation where residents of a complex building near the center of gaza city between gaza city and jabalya refugee camp were told to evacuate usually that happens is what people refer to as a knock on the roof like

a small explosion warning people that something bigger will happen now make no mistake that smallest closure is a really terrifying and schools damage to the upper floors at least some of the building now that complex of 2 buildings as i understand it is 16 stories high each floor has about 6 flats so imagine all these families running for their lives and trying to pick up as many belongings as they can because they don't know if they will ever return to that place or will what when they come back next it will just be. rebels and imagine just the panic among them and also all discussions of what's going to happen to them next now elsewhere around gaza city we just spoke to our teams on the ground there they say there has been going on strikes have been ongoing but there appears to be more pinpointed towards. the armed groups ass's like training camps like intelligence buildings but not targeting at the moment

as we speak and that could change any civilian areas except of course this building that was told to be evacuated that at the moment is still standing. company from saying this but while we wait for that to happen. i wonder if we could talk to you about some other issues in israel more to do with the idea of a ceasefire or a truce and how this plays into israeli politics at the moment given that prime minister netanyahu is still a pitch to the caretaker prime minister. well the idea of the truce is actually floated in the israeli media officially both israel and hamas are denying that choose is in them and that could be also political posturing we do know that there's a lot of political pressure by the international community that has been ongoing

there has been mediating efforts for egypt the u.s. has weighed in france has weighed in jordan has waded in everybody's trying to bring us to sation. as quick as possible publicly there is no sign of that israel says it needs to continue its mission which is to debilitate the capacity of hamas basically sort of trying to push to can down the road if there's another round of facilities that would be in a few years because hamas would be so weakened by this operation how mass on its side says it will and it will also continue its military operation until it gets something in return he says is no choose without gaining something out of it all of these who could be the biggest winner is embattled prime minister benjamin netanyahu and now israel has been in a domestic political crisis for the past 2 years have been a ready for elections no clear winner always trying to form

a coalition government the situation as it is now is that the mandate was given by the president to benjamin netanyahu to form a coalition government he failed now it's in the hands of his political opponent. but as it looks now hearing people like naftali bennett and other opponents of benjamin netanyahu are now joining who are now supporting this military operation that's ongoing so that could really benefit benjamin netanyahu and if you're let the fails in forming this coalition government which at the moment all indications point towards that then benjamin netanyahu could really have a very good chance of. becoming the new prime minister of this country without going to a 5th election was the great survivor in israeli politics isn't he hoda abdel-hamid

with those updates from occupied east jerusalem thank you the u.n. security council held another emergency meeting on the escalation but as failed again to reach any consensus and as calls for a cease fire go ignored the humanitarian crisis in the strip is only getting worse the u.n. has called on israel to open 2 crossings to allow deliveries of badly needed aid supplies it is critical that the air is crossing is also been 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 covert $900.00 testing lab and other health and humanitarian facilities in addition we continue to receive reports of significant displacement of

palestinians within the gaza strip now hundreds of profoundest in ian protesters demonstrated outside the israeli embassy in washington d.c. on tuesday demanding an end to the israeli airstrikes on gaza. i think. at one point during the protest demonstration the latest read out the names of those killed in the attacks protesters demanded an end to u.s. support for israel and to the decades long illegal occupation of palestinian lands was the other coast to los angeles here dozens of demonstrators holding a rally outside the is ready on tuesday protesters chanted in solidarity with palestinians who are on strike in the occupied territories and in israel. and then protests in michigan. big protests in fact where president joe biden was visiting a car manufacturing plant michigan one of the battleground states that handed biden the white house last november during his speech he directly addressed the

palestinian american congress woman rasheeda sleep who's been very vocal on her condemnation of israel i want to say to you that i admire your intellect admire your passion and i admire you can. my for my heart i'm truly your grandma family. i promise you are you see in your own words. you're fired thank you for being. more on the situation in israel palestine to come but we will look at some other news now india where muslim organizations are demanding a judicial inquiry into the demolition of a mosque in the state of war to protect the 100 year old building in the town of about a bank he was brought down on monday district officials in the b j p ruled state said the structure was illegal a case legal case over the issue has been ongoing india did witness one of its

worst kamina riots back in 1902 after a 16th century mosque was demolished in order to protest by activists from the r s s which is the parent organization if you like of the b j p let's try to put all of this in some perspective in context with. a political commentator and journalist on skype from new delhi thank you for your time as always i think the 1st thing we should point out with the story is that the 1st. word of it came out 2 days ago on monday and yet we are still really waiting to hear some detail and even i would say we are struggling to find in a verifiable picture of it why is the story just not coming out. because everybody is preoccupied with generally saving their lives and dealing of course of course yes and it's therefore it is all the more strange intriguing why that's the government the state government chose to do what it did it appears to be in direct contravention of the high court order which were a directive which was passed on the 24th of april which stated that irrespective of

whatever this the directives this court or in the lower court may have given but they got the disposition there were demolition or removal of the mosque form that will stand in abeyance till the 31st of many surprisingly strangely the government moved and demolished the mosque it's just mosque is within is just 10 stands tall from from the from the provincial capital of luck no it's a kid district not much was heard of this it appears the government now says that if there was somebody as densher and units that were buried along but along with the mosque for which there was for no provision there was no permission but that notwithstanding the county high court had already given a direction so therefore it is very very strange and this is being viewed with a great deal of suspicion so then the question the obvious question is why why did

they do it and i guess that speaks to the wider issues that occur that there exist in india in the way that muslims feel marginalized under this speech j.p. government. yes let's not forget it oh there's been a long history especially as far as where to put this is concerned you mentioned earlier in the program that the bubbly much it was demolished they had also claims to a mosque and a lot of mercy and much of our decentralized government says has remained bob but the state government under the chief minister has made no bones about his muscular actually 2 words hindu supremacy and. he's moved to do in the manner he does he always but if prefers. approach and therefore this is what has got caught everybody has rights because right now people the prior to apply as far as people are concerned is to save their lives to put deal with the

pandemic and suddenly out of the blue comes this development which brought her 50 years in contravention of the high court's directives there's been a long history there is a sense of tremendous. disappointment agreement as far as the muslims are consent and ever since this government has has come into power and from time to time these this contradiction just comes to the fore the sense are i don't want to draw a direct line between this and the events of 992 in uttar pradesh when the 16th century mosque was demolished however that was a formative moment wasn't it and in the rise as well of the b j p. well it certainly it from 2 members in parliament they went to 282 and then a 184 and the rest is a see now they have an absolute majority and bottom so from being up on the

periphery they have now become the most powerful party pan indian party in and there is politics so yes there is this issue has b.g.p. tremendously particularly and from time to time its leaders are not of us for playing this card and reaping the put it could benefits that accrue governments are it's always a pleasure talking to you and getting your perspective thank you for your time. and further to what we were discussing there about the covert situation in india in a moment we'll see why so many journalists of lost their lives covering india's carpet crisis and also why only a fraction of people in some african countries are even willing to get the kind of a daunting vaccine even health care workers are skeptical.

that the japanese do with the sponsored point qatar airways hallow that well it's a conflicting picture across europe we've got that cooler wetter weather across northern and central areas but as we get to the south the sunshine really does come through we're getting some bright skies and lots of heat around here and things have been heating up in russia we've had high temperatures in moscow edging up to the thirty's but they are coming down now and as we get into friday will be nestling into the high teens for the rest of europe we've got quite a lot of what weather across western and eastern areas affecting parts of france and germany as well the british isles seeing some scattered showers and sunshine that's ahead of this frontal system that's moving in bringing in a lot of wet and windy weather by the time we get into friday look at that it's going to be a rather wet picture there temperatures coming down as well into the no teens but for southern europe lots of sunshine coming through the iberian peninsula seeing

those clear skies 28 degrees in madrid and it's a similar story for southern italy will be some thunderstorms affecting north eastern areas but greece is seeing a lot of that warm weather as well as we as we hop over to north africa we've got heat in the central areas with 35 degrees in cairo. qatar airways. kuli the. debate you don't see this the fiction and amplified voice you're only giving a certain narrative the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world would we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just historical truth and it's in the street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. there

with al jazeera and a reminder of the situation in gaza right now as we look at ground shots of the. tower and under which is a residential building israel has already done what it calls the door knock or the tap on the roof the smaller explosion which advises people that the building will be hit sometime in the near future so that is fortunate what we are waiting to see on that live shot if and when that building is taken down in an airstrike. factions in gaza have launched more than 50 rockets themselves towards israel overnight most of them intercepted by the air defense system the. 12 people in israel have been

killed since the start of the conflict including 2 children and funeral processions are underway for palestinians killed during the largest general strike in decades on tuesday 4 people were killed across the occupied west bank. covered news now for the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus deaths in india had a record high of 14 and a half 1000 were recorded in the last 24 hours even though we see the number of new cases coming down in recent days after itself reaching daily heights of more than 400002 weeks ago. now nearly 240 indian journalists and other media workers have died covering this pandemic most in the past 7 weeks even though they're on the frontlines many haven't been able to get vaccinated as india struggles with its 2nd wave this report from others but the new delhi.

for more than a year journalists in india have risked their lives against an invisible threat to capture the impact of that 19 on the world's 2nd largest population and few places have been hit as hard as india more than 275000 people have died from the virus including at least 238 journalists that includes who was the president of the press club in the state of water for the. his brother 1000 told al jazeera he died the same way as many others during the 2nd search outside a hospital without help. at least there was one hospital left and we did everything the court reporters called the district magistrate be called several government officials after trying a lot our hands were still empty we were told there were no beds and only one hole put a ventilator. despite news media being deemed an essential service in india during the pandemic the government hasn't prioritized vaccinations for journalists as the

2nd wave gripped the country over the past 2 months many states declared journalists to be frontline workers but few have an ocular 8 of them journalist mohammad emraan was a friend of the meds i got just that i had the government is claiming that journalists in the middle have been declared frontline workers and would be vaccinated at the earliest but none of that has happened because none of the journalists in number will have been vaccinated television news reported near the sri in the badly affected state of bihar says journalists there live in fear. it's very difficult for us very very difficult but someone has to report from the field someone has to work someone has to show. the real pictures so we're doing the work last year and this year too but this time there are many journalists in several states who have died and looking at those deaths we feel afraid but if you're going by safety it's very difficult to do the job researchers say off the journalists who have died since the pandemic began last year more than 2 thirds lost their lives in

the start of april this year just. maybe. just. me and. when it comes to deaths of journalists due to car that mine team india is among the top 3 countries in the world behind brazil and peru more than 3 journalists have died every day from car that 19 from the start of a pullback here and it suspected to have killed another $72.00 since then despite the vaccine shortages journalist organizations say those risking their lives to do their jobs should be protected by the government elizabeth per annum al jazeera new delhi. more covered news for you and people in france are enjoying the cafe terraces once again as the next stage of lockdown easing comes into effect.

i. know essential shops including paris these iconic. department store are also reopening theaters and cinema as a welcoming back audiences at 35 percent to pass city and people can stay out later and not a curfew has been pushed back from 7 pm to 9 p m. now africa has received just 32000000 doses of coverage 1000 beds in the whole continent about 18000000 people 18000000 i'm sorry have made it into people's arms now new supplies of dried up though after india blocked exports to battle its own outbreak the growing vaccine resistance in africa means doses that are available are either being destroyed or given away nicholas harkless of that at a coven 1000 vaccination center in goma in the democratic republic of congo nurses wait for members of the public to show up for free vaccine hours go by sometimes days before

a patient appears willing to get inoculated only about 5000 people out of 90000000 have taken up the offer of a vaccine among those unwilling to get vaccinated or health workers doctors and nurses who don't trust the vaccine. we don't know the real truth about the vaccine our government isn't very clear with us on who should be getting it elderly people or us we just don't understand what is in it and who it is for until they provide us with some clarity i refused to get an ocular the fear of the vaccine appears to be spreading faster than the vaccine itself since you bola outbreak there has been a general distrust in the country among health workers with people fearing that they spread viruses instead of protecting the population to the videos online like this one where a french doctor last year suggested that vaccines should be tested on africans before being administered to europeans. faced with such skepticism the government is giving away 1300000 doses of astra zeneca vaccines it received last march to

other african countries but they too are struggling to knock elate their populations in south sudan and cameroon only a fraction of their populations is vaccinated there are many rumors and much misinformation online but in regions where most people don't have access to the internet that alone doesn't explain why so many are not taking up a vaccine free of cost the u.n. says governments aren't doing enough to accurately inform their citizens and make doses readily available to them in uganda where there's only enough doses to vaccinate one percent of the population president museveni is leading by example u.n. officials admit getting people vaccinated in months in countries where it is taking decades to get children inoculated against measles or yellow fever is a challenge well actually we're getting vaccinated might seem to be clear cost it's actually not that simple you know this is a journey to get to the health center you either need to pay for transportation so

that's going to be your best she or you are taxi she or you have to go so there's a cost associated with getting your children back see it getting yourself back seat and that's a high price to pay and that's a massive challenge for there is a little family the india variant is already on the african continent but without enough vaccine doses available and few vaccinated the fear is the situation can only get worse nicholas hawke al-jazeera. now migrants are continuing to travel from morocco to a spanish enclave in north africa despite poor conditions there around 8000 people have crossed into say it by sea or by walking around the coast dozens of also reached spain's other wrong wave your opinion in surging morocco to stop them spanish government already sent back many of the recent arrivals that the barber has more in this report. tuesday in syria and still they kept coming some had swum

around the border fences sticking out into the mediterranean sea or used rubber dinghies others simply walked across at low tide one young man is known to have drowned dozens of been treated for hypothermia the adults were transferred to suit his main football stadium but those thought to be miners were sent to warehouses run by the red cross and other groups. the spanish government is now sending $400.00 extra troops and police to boost souter's border force while appealing for calm. in a lasting a migrate area and humanitarian crisis of this nature needs is for political leaders to show hatred or fear we therefore call on everyone that responsibility prudence and a sense of order prime minister pedro sanchez has canceled a trip to paris for a summit on international aid to africa instead he's travelling to see you to which is separated from morocco by a 10 metre high fence meanwhile madrid's dismissed suggestions the sudden rise in

migrants arrivals is linked to a diplomatic route. last month morocco reacted angrily when it emerged that brahimi the head of the policy front had been allowed into spain for covered 90 treatment the algeria backed group has fought for decades for western sahara as independence from morocco analysts had warned the ra of a colleague could push the moroccan government to limit cooperation over illegal migration and other issues brussels is now urging it to stop any more people trying to reach spanish territory the most important thing now is that morocco continues to commit to prevent the regular departures and that those that do not have the right to stay are orderly and effectively returned spain says it is expelling all those who vented suitor illegally but it's not clear if that applies to unaccompanied migrants under 18 who are usually allowed to remain. al-jazeera.