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you're watching al jazeera, these are the headlines this hour to israeli. settlers have been injured in a shooting attack in occupied east jerusalem. israeli forces say, the suspect is a 13 year old and was wounded while being taken into custody from occupied east jerusalem. our diplomatic editor james bay's filed this report. the information we have is that he is 13 years old. but i have to say that information is being challenged, that's come from the police. it's being challenged by his own family who say that the 13 year old boy happened to be there at the scene. it was a case of mistaken identity. he was the one wielding the hand gun. so there's a dispute over that what the police are saying and what the family saying at this time. what we do know is the victims of this attack to settlers of father and son, we understand the father, 45 year old, 45 years old son in his twenty's, the son we believe is more seriously wounded. but both are being treated in the
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hospital for the injuries. meanwhile, at least 42 palestinians have been arrested after a palestinian gunman killed 7 people outside of synagogue on friday. israel's millet traces it's increasing its presence in the occupied west bank. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is to meet his security cabinet later on saturday. he's promised immediate action after the latest violence in the us protests have been held across the country after police in memphis released video showing officers briefing and unarmed black men. tyree nichols light had died in hospital. several people were arrested during confrontations between police and protested in new york city. the 5 offices phase several charges including murder and kidnapping us. president said he was outraged, find the video and at least one pilot has been killed after 2 indian air force. 5 digits crashed mid air. the collision happened over the states of medea
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and medea project pradesh. rubber and roger took remembers from one of the planes were taken to hospital. there are no details on those from the 2nd. all right, those are the headlines. i'm emily, angling. the news continues here on al jazeera. after inside story aah, al jazeera. with know the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, head to the middle east days after israeli forces kill yet more palestinians. what is washington's role in the worsening conflict? and what wider challenges does the biden administration face in the middle east? this is inside story. ah.
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hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammock, m g m u s. secretary of state anthony blinking is visiting israel and the west bank on a trip to the middle east beginning in egypt. it will be his 1st to the region since a new far right government came to power in israel and comes just days after israeli forces killed more palestinians in jennine. we'll be looking at what to expect from the visit in more detail with our guests in a few moments. but 1st al jazeera, as i had my head, explains how that raid unfolded. palestinians in janine pay their respects to 9 people killed in an israeli military. wait on the occupied west bank on thursday. they are bird next to dozens of other palestinians who died over the past year in his really incursions into the jeanine refugee camp. this is the 1st time his way
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he forces have stormed the narrow alleyways of the janine refugee camp in the past several months. according to locals. their past trades were limited to the outskirts people here woke up to a pitched battle between his way the army forces and palestinian fighters in this road. in the densely populated camp the south african berg. i was leaving for work at 7 in the morning. i looked outside, soldiers were coming out of 4 cars. they took over this house here and another rooftop, and started shooting at the fighter's house for half an hour after which they shot anti tank weapons at the place. that's when we believe the fighters were killed or ms. lu, families here are frustrated and exhausted because these israeli military raids have become regular part of their daily routine. and they say they're stay up late every night fearing the next military rate. and they started asking this question,
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when will it be my turn for to my job lives next to a house that was rated? she says for months, she and her family have been living in fear of being killed, last injured or paralyzed i. it was a battlefield. i couldn't move in my house because it overlooks the shooting. i stayed in the inner rooms. i couldn't even go to the toilet if i needed to. i'm terrified. one of the victims of this new rate was a 61 year old woman locals. hearsay. she was shot dead in the neck by israeli forces on the rooftop of her home. the rubble of this house and its chart walls, bearing witness to what's become an eel daily nightmare for palestinians engineer, i had met her al jazeera, jenin refugee camp. the attack brings the number of palestinians killed by israeli forces in the 1st few weeks of this year to at least 30. i diplomatic editor james
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basin occupied east jerusalem explains what might be expected from lincoln's visit at a time of increasing tension. i'm standing at damascus gates, injury slim. now this is one of the main entry points of the old city is where palestinians from east jerusalem head on their way to the alex. so mosque to prayer on fridays and every other day of the week. and you can see people now if i get out of the way, leaving the friday press, it is normal. it is. com. it is quiet here. but inside there was a pre process that was pres, set for the masses of janine and briefly dozens of palestinians raised the palestinians flag and they chanted from i'll access janine parlour, sign is free. now it's worth telling you in the past, when we've seen the palestinian flag raise a moment like this is really the right place to be very quick to intervene, heavy handedly remove the flag, remove the protest as they didn't do so i think that's because it's a sensitive time right now, diplomatically israel. and that's because there is
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a visit coming up on sunday by the us secretary of state and pretty blinking. he'll be going to egypt. he'll be coming here. he'll be meeting the israeli government, the new hard line, israeli government, his birth visit here. said benjamin netanyahu new hard line government. our goal is going to meet the members of the public forissi important visit, i think because as i say, the 1st visit since the new government is board. but it's also worth noting the money international community. there's considerable disquiet now about the situation many around the security council table, and i can tell you the diplomats in new york have told me that they'd like to see the international community doing much more, getting more involved proactively involved, trying to restock, actively negotiations. they also like to see some more condemnation of israel's been doing no one standing in the way of anything like that happening. what funding
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in the way is the bite and administration it is decided not to get actively involved in any sort of negotiations. that's a been a decision from the top by president biden, and it doesn't look like it's a decision is going to change. but clearly the 2nd state is going to come here and see things for himself. but i think it's worth bearing in mind too, that the by the administration is so committed to what's going on in ukraine that perhaps it sees what's going on here. and what's going on in garza, janine, even though they're incredibly serious, it is as a distraction from its main foreign policy focus is a james base inside story in east jerusalem. ah. all right, let's go ahead and bring in our guests from chicago jihad abil. sylium is the education and policy associate of the palis and activism program at the american friends service committee. from tel aviv gideon levy, he writes opinion pieces on a weekly column for the hearts newspaper and from london. julie norman is associate
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professor and politics and international relations at university college london. a warm welcome to you all, and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. gideon, let me start with you today. mr. blankets visit had been planned for a while now. um, but it has gained greater urgency since sir this latest deadly raid by israeli forces in the occupied west bank. what do we expect from this visit? unfortunately, with very, very little because this visit will at its best try to calm down. so i to maintain that they started school, but look much more than this. the americans have now many other issues the but a student question unfortunately is quite in the law in the bottom of the list of interests. and it will be really about charlie trying to calm down the extremist in
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these early government. tried to calm down the violence and that no church will be very efficient because now everyone is very careful. and the sunday monday when he arrives here, 23 days later, bloodshed will be back because the core problems on so that he has no intentions to even start. and so reading program as you had from your perspective, let me ask you a similar question because the u. s. has been expressing alarm about escalating violence and wanting to put forth some type of measure to deescalate the violence. is there anything the secretary of se blinking can do or offer to, to help in this regard? i think the u. s. must hold accountable and the u. s. hasn't done so. and that's why israel has been doing all the things it has been doing violence in those banks and settlement of berlington in land land
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seizure, stealing of this thing and property property and you know, attacking gas every few months. so i think, you know, and this is a demand that many of those who support the stadium rights in the u. s. including us citizens and american organizations that want to see really change in us policy have been repeating for decades, accountable military it and use you know, the leverage that the u. s. has the really government and the state of israel to put pressure on that state to seize its violence and oppression of the palestinian people. julie, the usa department has said that the secretary blinking will discuss the importance of a 2 state solution, which is really in palestinian officials during his visit. is it at all realistic
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at this point to think that he can actually move the needle on this front? well, i think of getting started as i was saying, we really have to be realistic about expectations, israel palestine negotiations. any kind of piece talks is really not a priority for the administration at this time, especially with the war and ukraine and other and other things going on with that said, you know, israel, palestine is still important for the us. i think the bite administration sees this trip as important given the alter nationalists and the hard liners in the new israeli government to say very clearly the u. s. is still firmly on a 2 state solution and also a firm that with palestinians. that doesn't mean it's going to move any closer to that, but it's really just messaging to a firm that position. and i would also add you. this is also the backdrop of joint is rarely and u. u. s. military exercise of the week to kinda send a message to ron. so i would, i would say the israel palestine pieces part of this,
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but also israeli, and us coordination on security efforts to counter iran. i believe it's also part of this visit, giving you heard digitally there, talk about the fact that in, in the background of all this is going to be the specter of iran. let me ask you from your perspective, how much is iran going to factor into the discussions that secretary blinking is going to be having see iran is the best excuse not to deal with that, but it didn't wishing. and this one had manipulated the word then they and i did states to make you round the main issue and to really smash that. but as issue which is so much more crucial and so much older. yes, iraq will be on the table and a secretary being, i guess we'll do everything possible to calm down is that only on also on this to prevent any kind of adventures,
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which few israelis in the u government heavy mind. but by the end of the day, this is only a cover up because by the end of the day the by the issue is the core issue is the main problem. and both americans and israelis break away from me was the excuse that we have the right now own our head and say, and unfortunately on this issue on the issue, we have so little to expect. blinker will say, or the right words is right, is already by now. very experienced was ignoring condemnations because condemnations the only condemnations. there were the right that states the you are not ready to move from words to actions. and as long as the word does, the word word doesn't move from words to actions. israel can continue with the
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patient was the only thing was the bone and as much as it once she had, when he's in the west bank, a secretary blank and is going to be meeting with the palestinian authority president with our boss and other senior officials to discuss things such as the israeli, palestinian relations as well as you know, the u. s. continuing to say, how important it is to try to find a 2 state solution is i want to ask you 1st, do you think of these talks will be in any way productive? and secondly, that the housing authority has said now that it has halted security cooperation with israel. what impact is that going to have in terms of these meetings? i don't think that they will leave anywhere and even if somehow. ready secretary blank can manages to pressure than yahoo government to talk with officials to reach some sort of the escalation of the situation. i don't
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think that you will be addressing the fundamental challenges and problems that are the route of what's happening today. and by that i mean a government, the new government plans for further subtler expansion in the west bank. we heard about the plan to build 18000 housing units under what the new government calls the 1000000 subtler plant. and of course, you know, this is a government that commits itself to complete denial of indian rights of the philistines, right? for some determination. so i think without addressing these, these fundamental issues here are the question of the stand in existence, the very existence of a people on their land is threatened. now i so the addressing
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issues, i don't think there will be any progress and whatever, whatever things security blanket achieves will be nothing but a band that will probably temporarily cause the situation assuming he will be successful at that. now, regarding the palestinian authority and holding on the so called halting of security coordination, this has been multiple times july. let me ask you, the usa department is saying that sexual blinking is going to be meeting with president a c. c of egypt in order to advance the u. s. e to strategic partnership and promote peace and security in the region. how is that achieved? yeah, well, i was free. that's a, that's a big question again, one that i don't think we're going to see real concrete steps made on, i mean, usually when boynton or any high us official comes to the region, they do make appoint to usually meet with cairo as well. and just to ensure again
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that there is partnerships and relationships are kept warm, that things are moving forward kind of on, on their shared interests. but in terms of actually stabilization, the region you heard from states saying some of the items they'll focus on, are you elections coming up in the trying to support the new civilian government in sudan? so looking at some other states in the north africa region and how egypt and the u . s. might be able to support on those. all this, of course, with the backdrop of egypt own human rights record, which many in the us state department are very critical. and uncomfortable with, but obviously continue that all i ship for, for the sake of pragmatic reasons with palestine and with other interest in the region as well. so i would say those conversations of egypt are always, are always kind of shadowed by, by that reality. in the background. gideon, from your vantage point, or what do you think can be expected from mr. lincoln's travels to egypt.
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egypt faces a catastrophe and economy. catastrophe, and the question is the united states is ready for more than he does when he's really getting such budgets? it's really a question is, is the one who needs now? american taxpayer money or is it egypt where people are really starving? i mean, what is happening now in egypt in recent years is really a human turn catastrophe. i hope gluten will do something about it, but i can promise it, obviously. and obviously there will discuss also iran. this is always the sure which is a, about anything else. but mohammed, if you just allow me, i would like just to refer in one sentence to the discussion before because you mentioned again and again the 2 state solution. and i would like to suggest that whoever suggest now the 2 state solution doesn't mean to solve anything with
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because the 2 state solution, they all know it is dead long time ago and continue to talk about the 2 special solution we 700000 jewish settlers in there who, by their tories is not much more than a very bad joke. and in a mean to continue the patient, we have to understand the 2 states. so i don't know if it was never if it was ever born. but for now, it's really dead and we should change all the schools you had. how much has us policy changed in the region since the administration of former president trump? this is demonstration of former president. trump has accelerated a lot of the policies that are in favor. so for from the standpoint of you know, the philistine question, the question is, well,
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today feels empowered by a regional alliances. it was able to forge during the era alliances for the new israeli government. and the government before made it easier for, for these governments to proceed with plans to dismantle the union cause to build more settlement to continue deny minivans their freedom as of the termination because they feel empowered by these agreements. and by that, i mean, the courts, of course, you know, the administration has sort of defined as stance. it, we're moving the embassy and of course, with, you know, making sure that there are facts on the ground that,
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that cannot be reversed. and of course, by, you know, trying to undermine the distinction issue, the cause, i think an issue to another political one. and we're still dealing with this legacy . julie, we know that there is a tension between the bite administration and the government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. where is the relationship currently and in some sense is, is really government sort of waiting it out right now in the hopes that after the next election cycle, there will be another right wing administration in the u. s. well, i think from the bite administration's point of view, they are wary of this new netanyahu government, but their stance so far has been the usaa relationship is with the state of israel, not with any one politician or government. and that's the way that they say rationalize or justified kind of continuing relationship publicly,
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at least. and this is in contrast, a to trump, who is very cozy personally with netanyahu so that they've tried to frame it that way. from now who's government's point of view. it's interesting to see, i mean it's certainly there are some on the right it would be even closer to them and would embrace them even stronger. but they've, as you had mentioned they've, they've gotten a pretty strong pass so far from the buyer administration as well. by then hasn't moved to change anything about the embassy. he hasn't really substantially changed anything from trump policy towards the region. the style. yes, but really not the substance. so in some ways netanyahu can continue to coast with biden or with another administration. so i think he's been a fairly good position regardless of who is in the white house and 2 years. and julie, if i could just follow up with you, because earlier in the program, we heard from our diplomatic editor james base who was talking about the fact that many actors in the international community are, are hoping that there will be something that will advance negotiations when it
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comes to the israeli, palestinian peace process going forward, and they are really sort of watching this trip closely to see if there will be anything put forth that could, that could improve the situation in that regard. do you think there's any way that we could see secretary blink and in any way changed the by the administration policy even in a very subtle way towards israel? well again, i don't think they are looking right now to push for any kind of big piece deal or any kind of real change. i think the reality on the ground with both the israeli government as well as the k right now, does not make that bible much less the bite administration to own priorities or capabilities right now. i think we will see nudging on some of the areas we've talked about security coordination and whatnot. many in the us are hoping that blinking will push even somewhat on settlements. and these kinds of issues that
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have obviously been long standing, where the administration has been relatively quiet, even rhetorically on not been terms of really moving the needle. i see that it's somewhat limited. often the u. s. at this point leaned into more economic relationships. places where aid can go, things like that. but in terms of real political movements, i think it's probably me something more on the ground in the region that, that ships that a change with the p a or a change with something internally rather than something that blinking or the u. s . can, can really bring or impose at this time or just one of the thing we have less than a minute. how closely do you think the international community is going to be watching this visit? or there's always attention on israel palestine as you hide and getting has always said, you know, this is such a core issue at such a core conflict that effects though many people so there will be eyes on it. but i think everyone has also realistic about the expectations to there's a lot of moving parts right now in international relations that i think this visit,
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it is one piece and a lot of other things that are good that are going on with, with iran and ukraine, so whenever blinking is anywhere it draws attention, but i think most people are, are keeping their expectations well and the last, all right, well we have run into time, so we're going to have to leave our conversation there. thanks so much. all of our guess you had that was really gideon levy and julie norman, thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also during the conversation on twitter, our handle is at a j inside story for me. mm hm. mm hm. job and the whole team here, bye for now. a ah
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