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israel launches airstrikes on gaza, killing a commander with islamic jihad, and its military insist. the operation is not over yet. at least 10 people are killed, including a child is likely to has. israel has started a warning. ah, you're watching al jazeera life from a headquarters in del hines area. obligates are also coming up. china is foreign minister says it's re unification with taiwan will never be stopped by the united states and the white alice sullens, china as ambassador, as beijing holds its biggest military exercises in the seas around taiwan. hundreds of thousands of her rockies supporting shiara leader looked at asada and gather outside parliament for a mass prayer. as up that last deepened,

ah, we begin with breaking news. israel has launched a wave of air strikes on garza killing at least 10 people in raising fear is a full scale conflict. dozens of people have been injured in the attacks, which is really forced to say where it's are getting islamic jihad. a senior member of the palestinian group was among those killed. it's accused israel of starting a war. the military has warned, the operation isn't over yet. you say it is joining us from gaza. you know, what more can you tell us about the series of attacks that have taken place over the past couple of hours? yes, very well. the latest from the ministry of health is that the number of people who have been killed in these rates has fries into 10 people. $55.00 people injured, of course, in the people killed, including a 5 year old child and

a 23 year old woman. a different rate, they're taking part until now in different areas of because this trip just a very short while ago. there was another raid here in the south and part of the city. so that's not very far away. the rates are all across the gulf strip, which means in the northern parts in the south and governess and in the city itself . here it goes. the city a residential tower was targeted palestine tower residential building. and the 7 laurie back tower was targeted by an israeli missile. of course the bodies that were carried from targeting where in pieces, so ease, rail claims back in that tower, they targeted or to see or sorry job, eddie, who is why me,

you had commander in the north and he is the person israel says responsible for the anti tank and the anti tank attack on these really tanks of on the borders of because the strip. so until now we have witnessed the show come out of these on, you had to see who is based in lebanon on the political chief of the line. you had saying that israel has crossed all the red lines, and this aggression has to be retaliated and responded. and it's a day of a test for all of the policy and faction responding to this attack. the said also, he said also that some of these is in or under fire. also, officials and brigades and sources have told us that they are

all together in best response or in their suppose that will be from because the strip towards this israeli aggression on the people of god's done. yeah. you know, somebody can because we don't have in the i'll come back home and stop my go one second because we do have more reaction. in fact, from an islamic jihad commander, let's just listed in for a moment. learn how to this is a declaration of all out war against the palestinian people. we will respond to that. this is a violation and disregard for all the efforts that have been made over the past days in order to restore him calm. we dealt positively with these efforts that the enemy was as usual, treacherous, and carried out this treacherous rate. well, now we clearly say that we will respond to this crime with all our might. so that some sound fair from, from the islamic jihad, you know, you were telling us a moment ago about a meeting taking place right now. some officials have been meeting to,

to come up with some sort of response. i believe. what more can you tell us about that? yes, well, they have declared or stated a statement from the joint chamber your by the policy and functions are why think routes as they call themselves here, saying that there will be a retaliation. a response on these really attacks that is by all the policy inspections and a resistance group together, and it will not be by one group or another. which means that this fight, that the people who have been targeted, the targets that have been targeted here in the raid in gods the are on basically on islamic g, tad. but the policy and fighting groups are saying that there is a consensus part dissipation in their response. and this is something that israel

has been warning the through the mediators, the japan, betty specially hamas that it should not be part of the response on, on these israeli attacks or rates on godsa. and that these attacks were only on his line. you have targets him that's how much should not be part of this. but again, on the other side, if any, a rocket is lynched. wrong god. let's say only is blaming you. had response to this israeli attack. israel always hold her responsible for any rocket that is fired from gaza. and so that means a retaliation. dec who has both is why you had and hamas in response. so this is how basically the equation is if, if it's live and you had responds the loan there, it's still how much will be held accountable by israel. but we have seen

a very clear statement by all the policy in fighting. again, saying that there will be a retaliation bite, all the fighting together. and this time in this war, not like the previous last year, maybe more. they won't be a decision taken or made by one group over the other. every, every single situation that will come out or a decision that will be made will be made as a group by all the fractions and their military wing together. ok, you know, thank you so much him the say this reporting for us from gaza. what's on bring in atlanta, chavez, who's an author, she's also an activist and lives in the neighborhood where the strikes took place. she's joining us from gaza. she'll be welcome to al jazeera. just tell us which, which area you're in. and what did you hear? yeah, i'm located in remote neighborhood. it's to the oh,

it's like in the middle of the city to the western and the western side of garza and the building is it's close to my home. and when i heard i heard about to defy loud bangs of the sleep, but i'll just tell myself looking up, running, wondering what happened. and it took a few minutes for me to follow up on the news because we didn't know whether it was rockets or shelling and there was panic in the area of people running. you can imagine this very large apartment building, which is about 13 floors and each floor consist of at least 5 apartments. and you can imagine the amount of horror that this caused to all the people living in the building. there were children playing because you know, it's friday the weekend and fridays are usually peaceful of families get together.

children play play outside. so this was really something that was totally unpredictable for us. and when you say that people started running, where do people run to in gaza while we're building an apartment building is attacked as, you know, and every escalation, every ward, the launch, the attack, what we're building like it's a normal thing. and people in the, in the building they just run down to the street, you know, because they fear that they're going to be other apartment targeted or, or maybe the whole building like what happened in some of the wars. so they just run in the street to get away from the cell because they don't know what's going to happen when you hear that. that's the policy and factions in gaza are publicly saying that there will be some sort of retaliation. what goes through your mind, are you worried that there could be real escalation in the next few hours next few days? perhaps? well, i mean,

we have heard this on our over and over and to be honest, as a mother, as the ordinary citizen here. you just, you know, think of what happened before. i mean, when it happened today, like my kids were staring at me and we'll just get each other. they're grown up now they're teenagers, but like, they were looking at me in a way pain. so it's happening again. we know what's going to happen. we know the whole scenario of you know, running from one place to another, not finding safety. i think children here, there are the ones that bear the brunt of these wars because as a mother, like for example, my children and other children here have 4 major wars on god, district and other escalations on un office relations. and during every war, it's all, it's always the same, you know, we're, we were trying to find safety. they ask questions and trying to find as

a mother trying to find answers to the questions and, and you feel so helpless of the parents because you don't have any answers for their question. so it's like the whole scenario keeps running your head and like we don't what's gonna happen if, if this quiz into all our cale war it's going to be like the other words, if not worse, and there's going to be trauma to, to trauma for us. and our kids, and i think this is something that many people ignore. they just talk about casualties and people being kills. but the ones who survive, they also suffer because because it's not something that you can easily forget or you can just, you know, wake up the next day and present them, nothing happening and go back to your ordinary life. so i hope it doesn't place because it's not going to be good for, for me, for my kids, for anybody in place. all right, it is the long term effects off off

a war that some people perhaps don't really seem to talk about. you're absolutely right there, but let me ask you this. it should be what is it like for you living in gaza? 15 years under and is really blockades and especially with the past few days with the crossings being close to people and guys are unable to get the goods and services that they need to lumen living under the siege for 16 years now. and it is not something that we have gotten used to despite you're willing to period here because it is a very suffocating feeling. like, you know, like of the lack of movement, just the feeling or the knowledge that something, what an f 16 might suddenly fly over and drop something over your head. annex. secondly,

good luck to the people who are going to the beach on time to have some family time together. and the strike just suddenly happens. shortage of everything, electricity, severe electricity actually specially in summer and in winter. not being a not being able to travel through treatment. she just think how many people have died in the past couple of years waiting to get access to proper medical care. trying to get a permit to go into israel or travel. i talk to get proper medical health care and the and the weight they dont waiting. so it is not something that i've ever gotten used to and i think it and it is a very it's, it's all form of collective punishment for civilian population. and i think it has had very deep, deep political effects on the population. people try to,

people just want to try to find a way to live an ordinary life. i mean, if you ask me and these people, all people always ask me this question. why don't you just leave garza leave to see, leave the wards and go somewhere else if you can. and it is not something that i'm ashamed to say, but i will not leave that because i am proud to be from this place. and it is the only for me it see that you just went out. it is the only way you can for me or i know ok. it is the only place for me which i can call home and some people think that this is selfish. like they asked me, what about your kid? and i tell them that my kids are not going to find a place called home outside the because the, because they were always be looked at the other. and i am a people, as it is to philip here to persevere to the states that i'll choose to stand with my people and to find

a way out of this out of the tunnel. and i hope i still think there was hope for us . what will you tell your children in the next few hours or the next few days? if there is a continued escalation, how will you prepare them on yourself for, for what's to come? ah, well my children are teenagers now and like i said, they have been through this before and what we mainly do just we pay together we, we pray together. we try, they try like my girls for example, like to paint the like to draw the they do other things to get their minds off of what's happening. and this is actually what they did in the last war. so, me, for myself, i also try to get my mind off of what, what's happening by reading by, you know, just doing things around the house and the knowledge that, you know, you know, that we like every, with every war we're not going to be,

we're not going to lose, we're not gonna be, we're going to lose this one. and i'm hoping that we're not going to israel is not going to have the courage to keep bombing us to keep killing our children. because they know that people will not just sit still and do nothing, they will, they will revolve. they will retaliate if that's what they have to do. and this is something resisting occupation is something that is guaranteed by international law, international law. so we, i guess they will do what they have to do and we will get, we will get together. this is what i'm hoping us, where we thank you so much for giving us your time and speaking to us from gaza. we really appreciate it. thank you. thank you. let's not cross over to occupied east jerusalem, bring in our correspondent john home and from there. so john, what are you hearing on your end well,

these really military spokes person from the israeli military, just been speaking on the television and saying a couple of things really, that the hope that this operation is short, but it's not finished yet. in terms of the strikes of carrying out and gaza, you also said that it wasn't just the leader of islamic jihad, one of the leaders of islamic jihad in gaza. that was killed, that there were other targets from the organization that they also killed during the strikes, but that he couldn't give the names yet. what he said as well, that was the really military. we're waiting for 3 days to carry out the strike, but they were waiting for the intel to be able to do it and to be able to, to, to get to the targets. he said that during this time, israel was sort of living under a threat because of what had already happened. and of course, that's the occupied westbank. when earlier in this week,

the israeli military arrested, always ready forces arrested a leader from islamic jihad there in the occupied west bank. so some more information that also israel is cooling up preservice in its southern command. obviously, garza is to the south. so for the southern command and the defense minister has approved cooling up 25000 reserve is so really is moving the moment the, the towns in the south of the country around gaza or in a state of emergency shelter is being opened up in some of the fire rescue is also been put on alert. the countries iron dome has been activated in the south and center of the country. that's the anti rocket and that it has in place to stop. what i think the israeli military is said is going to be an inevitable retaliation from gaza as the palestinian groups also in gaza. have also said so everyone really

seems to be poised. what's coming next. even as the israeli military says that they haven't finished the operation that they're currently conducting in gaza. so i so then the israelis and john are expecting some sort of response in retaliation to come out of gaza. yes. is really forces definitely expecting as much in public the stated as i think you were saying a little bit earlier and you know, the, the groups that have also said that there will be that will be action taking off these strikes into gaza. we're actually talking to a political analyst from here in israel and saying, why is this happening now a question that you've been asking me in the course of the last couple of i was and as well as the reason that the is very military have been giving which is that they felt that there was a build up there and they were waiting for

a possible attack against israel and they had to remove that threat. were also obviously in times just beginning of elections here in israel. the elections are coming up in november. the families felt that this was a way for candidates to show that they were strong. obviously, acting prime minister le pete is expected to, to be a candidate in those elections. this is a way for them to do that. that's one political analysis from someone here in israel. so different reasons that this might be happening at this time. but obviously not knowing where it might lead from this point. john, just one more for you all the have you with us and this is according to is really media who's quoting an egyptian officials, who said that mediation between israel and gaza was still under way. obviously, that indirect mediation going through the egyptians. are you hearing anything from the is really size about ongoing mediation or has that all stop

what we had heard before, the information that you've just got that is that was mediation from egypt between islamic jihad and israeli government, other in the week, but that didn't bear any fruit, and as a result of that, we're seeing the what we're seeing right now. so that's the information that we have up to. now note that, that negotiations have been continuing. that would be another interesting development. okay, john, thank you so much. john holeman is reporting for us from occupied in jerusalem. we're not going to bring in our correspondent, but i him who's joining us from neighboring are mine the capital of georgia. and of course usually based in the occupied west bank for us as i'm not so near the palestinian presidency has condemned what's going on in gaza. what more we heard from authorities we heard. 5 of the palestinian prime minister,

how much they condemning what he called these really aggression on the deceased gall district. saying that these were the occupation takes responsibility for the dangerous activation. the presidency, as you mentioned, as also condemn the estimation. calling upon the world and international community to intervene. we've seen dozens of people in my law to get us to, to call for unity calling for more retaliation from the armed factions in the gaza strip. events that have been canceled in my law elsewhere with senior positions across the occupied us band. also members of executive committee condemning the escalation. and this is because this to so all and old hosting has been the same. it will hold

responsibility for the escalation that did not go up just this time in gaza. house to new york if i just think i've already been feeling the burn the gone off to the occupation. yeah. right. tell us about the arrests incursions. uneven killings that have been going on in the occupied westbank recently. just put it all into context for so olden own 18 palestinians were killed by forces since the beginning of 78 of the occupied a 3rd of the 72 children in the north of the okay pied. bank included and just read us should in your journal to as you're clicking on that happen gayden in occupied thanks. so we would have been sensing an intensity in the situation in june and it has been awful. aggravated by the rest

of the junior climate. i do on monday, ever since he had members have raised the level of alert, they said that the members to be ready for an escalation and also with the rest of the reports that he might have been injured. and 2 weeks in the next day is really losing a picture of a satisfactory from jail. it's very rare for a picture of it was seen in the west bank as a way to kind of g. i'm there when it comes to the rest of each to try and assure everyone that is okay. i'll go look at that. i've been reading in the past hour. so writing and saying, you know, the bathroom in ga ga now is also on the occupied rough bag on the fact that israel

can enter the cities and towns of the west bank and killed can arrest people. so people are saying that maybe when it comes to gaza, it wants to also show support, shoot unity between the different geography of the past and the territory that's are still geographically. it will be occupied with the besieged goddess trip. thank you so much, but i am as our correspondent who's reporting for us today from amman, jordan, or with a cross over to washington d. c. because we're going to bring in our correspond my canada who's running us from there. mike is also a former bureau chief in jerusalem. so mike, if you can give us some history in context to the events unfolding in gaza right now and, and also just, i know you're keeping an eye out on whether there's been any official response from the bite and the ministration. so has there been no,

is still awaiting some official response from the bite of administration. there will be a breathing taking place in about half an hour, at which there may be some reaction at the events that are unfolding and garza. but there is a pattern here, and there are a lot of things falling into place now, which outside observers have seen before. i call up off reserve us the movement of israeli combat battalions to 3 parts of the garza border and most of all an election looming later this year. now that's a sequence of events that we saw back in 2014. or when israel invaded garza and occupied it for some 50 days. now i'm not saying that there's a that is a likelihood at this point, but it is a cause of concern. seeing this build up of truths and seeing this confluence of events that are very similar to what happened 8 years ago. so you got this kind of situation, which is also made more serious, graver,

by the apparent lack of mediation going on here. what we've seen in the past is each of getting very deeply involved in terms of, in direct mediation. now it does appear that that has been going on in recent days . however, that does appear to be on hold at this point. and that's another factor that preceded what happened in 2014, basically the egyptian mediators having to give up at a particular stage or all parties refusing to come to the table and talk any more. but layering into this as well as yet another factor, and that is the way to which palestinians have been internationally isolated over a period of time. part of that, the abraham records, in which case israel signed a peace agreement with the number of arab states removing a pillar of support for palestinians and their cause. so you've got a situation where garza and the people of garza are once again and the direct

threat. they all ceiling increasingly isolated, given the fact that traditional arab support in the past is no longer fully there. given the fact that the u. s. continues to insist that it israel has a right as it puts it to self defense given as well. the fact that the u. s. continues to pump an annual sum of money into israel, which allows it to continually real arm it's forces. so all of these factors are once again part of a pattern. the last major operation mouth major war was in may last year that lasted 12 days. so once again, you're seeing this pattern repeating itself. but as i said, the great concern about side observers is the possibility of a land invasion of gaza. thank you so much. my kind of reporting for us from washington d. c. and a mike was just telling us a moment ago about the role that egypt could be playing right now in mediating between israel and gas. i will now speak to kylie lana, who's

a political science professor and a senior fellow at the arab center, washington d. c. he's joining us from their life. thanks for being with us on al jazeera, particularly on that point about said the egyptian role. oh, 1st of all, what do you understand that to be right now and do you think it's in mediation is currently ongoing or has it stalled? yes, definitely. i think, you know, is trying to play a role at to de escalate distribution. we have tried to do use that. you've got that assign a time to do their best in order to prevent this from deadening in into a full, if it's shortest happened in may 2021. but this will depend on the action of both sides. the so you side as well as that, and you and we're inside. now we don't see science. this can ad deescalate, at the moment. at least you should have something to offer to us. don't you have not to refer you to the current fence on gazda. so we need to wait a little bit to see dr.