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or is it just a different form? i think that democracy is a process facing realities. do you see that the fraction is already starting the g 7 in the u. s. on one side, china and the brakes on the other. i assume there is a huge risk of that to happen to the stores on tools to how does era the of the other ones are in jordan, this is the news ally from the coming up in the next 60 minutes. at least 500 people are killed off to on his radio strike targets. but i'll, i'll say baptist hospital in gaza, we're hundreds of civilians were taking shelter the, the attack spots protesting violence me off by the west bank has demonstrated just
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turn around on security for about systems 40 months ago. spots fewer we get across the middle east and beyond the protest and more than a dozen cities and living on the head below until sunday of rage against his right on the hospital attack comes just out. was up to you in run school in guns and was picked by israel, killing 6 people alluding dustin's most tuesdays attacked from jordan to cancel a visit by us president joe biden is on his way to israel for troops on the come to . the israel is here, the hospital in gauze. we have an ast right, getting hundreds of palestinians as the most lethal attack since the start of israel's assault on the besieged trip. on october, the 7th following an incursion by him asked into southern israel, the people 1300 his writings. 2 days as like talking to the l actually baptist
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hospital in central garza, at least 500 people are now confirmed. dead is believe thousands of civilians were inside the hospital at the time of the attack. so i'm a patients, well many were seeking shelter from his ready, bombardments. now leaving the day at least 6 palestinians were killed and another attack on a you and run, screwed. to meet you med thank. god begins on coverage bodies in the hundreds scattered across the backyard of a hospital. i seen many have described as a month ago. the result of a deadly strike. a lot of my son that you can see here on my phone, my wife just told me he died. he was sitting with us and all of a sudden he disappeared. hundreds of families with sheltering in the territory of the alley baptist hospital, displaced people looking for shelter. of the homes were destroyed in 11 days of non
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stop bombardment. we were told the red cross of the hospital to lift the civilian skin, which would mean and suddenly rockets and missiles started folding on all the civilians who with it, including women and children, who had the bodies dismembered as no one with sped pleasure. hospitals unprotected by the 1st geneva convention, it states that medical personnel and facilities cannot be attacked under any circumstances. so i need them, does that display strike a hospital? that means they have no limitations. they've given the green light to execute a palestinian. that means they can choose as harry, as well as that the less than an hour before the strike is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu said civilian safety in gaza is the responsibility of how much they're committing a double one car attacking civilians hiding behind civilians as human shields the entire world should come demmet and should support is one and it's just more vis.
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strikes comes just i was of to a un protected school was hit killing at least 6 people. and israel's blockade of gaza continues. it's 2200000 residents remain trapped with no search and safe place to hide from israel's attacks. to meet you met with in co, out you 0. well, let's get more on this now from topic because it will be joins us live from hon. eunice. that's in southern gaza topics and they will be sold at her risk. the bombing of our baptist hospital, 500 people killed. just bring us up to date with the latest on the effect. well uh, just the whole couple of hours uh, this hospital has been bonded by the east where the occupation forces cleaning the lines of more than 500 palestinians. do is 500 palestinians. uh, really uh the, the majority of them were civilians that were just residing and the complex itself, it took that to the state of the things that this place is entirely safe for them.
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whose people who are evacuated from the, from the house has another in areas of, of, of the gaza strip. they thought that they will be entirely secured inside these buildings . and inside even the, the, around the surrounding areas of this complex, this building has been bonded without any kind of, of, probably a warning to this current moment or the number of casualties are still looked at a bit unknown waiting for further confirmation by dependents need minister built inside the goal is to strip this incidence really can put other hospitals at the same level of risk as much. it might be also been bought that you are talking about different hospice on the site. the goal is this trip off quite similar to the, to the hospital of an alley or up which continue, which really contains a lot of presidents who are trying to be to be protected. well the are originally doing inside the complex. so for example, she thought hospital contains more than 30000 palestinians who are, who are just sitting on the grounds of the, of the hospital. and even they are trying to feel
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a little bit safe inside of this medical complex. yet in time because you've been telling us over the last few days, i mean most hospitals in gauze now close to collapse. so what's happening then to the casualties from the baptist hospital bombing and wherever they being taken? well, generally the medical health care system is that the goal is this trip is witnessing must get to ration in terms of the medical supplies. these are the occupation forces continues that continue to pass the injury of any medical supplies even if you to generate. busy enough electricity for the hospitals, hospitals right now started the goal is to strip a working under a minimum capabilities in order to provide different kinds of vertical cut. despite the fact that even the medical teams have been bombarded and even cooled by the is very occupation forces strikes. so the, the, the current condition inside these hospitals are really witnessing such a great shortage of everything of every medical supplies. and even if it medical drugs, different pharmaceutical warehouses were even deflected even the site the bank low
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decide because districts in different hospitals were also run out. so it seems that the current situation and these hospitals wouldn't really continue as the same level as it was before due to the is very ongoing, close to afford this and even the deep, the prevention of entry of medical supplies you have time to come, give them the ongoing is right, the blockade on those strikes you've just described. i mean, how the palace demands, getting the basics. i mean, food will, to shelter the humanitarian situation is clearly getting worse. will a town a city is really are struggling in order to to get the basic needs? is the goal? is this trip the depends on the local markets of the palestinian territory. inside the gorgeous truck, they are consuming every single product inside this market. so now we, we deal with the ongoing fluids of every opposes and the prevention of the entry, the food supplies, palestinians will, to police all of the possible products in the markets, which can bring us to, to a fix to pete and potential starvation if there was no,
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any international intervention took place to provide guns with the human to turn unites on target. you've now move south in the balance of strip down to find eunice . what's the situation that way you all that well, this situation right now in science, i knew a city as similar to other others, other other cities inside the goal is this trip. bombardment is everywhere and indeed the entire goal is this trip. simply because of just before a couple of hours different will but missed of a place and find you in a city to the leading to the desk of a subaru people and even to the injury of as was it also to mention to mention that in there there was a, during the last couple of days, a mess, a displacement waves of from the time stands are living is another and central areas of the gaza strip. thinking that this play is going to be much more safe. meanwhile, every single corner of the goal is to have had people bonded and hit by these, but the occupation forces now with the mode tends to be populated. it's population
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that have been right now and i'm new to city. it seems that this area has been more densely populated, a, which really can produce such a such significant pressure on blue to medical teams in order to keep refined to get treatments for the wounded people who are just turning to the hospital from time to another. all right, the atomic i will as a life as the in the found eunice and something gaza direct. thank you. well, the hospital must have got, has triggered mass protest and up in the occupied westbank with hundreds of palestinian protest as taken to the streets in ramallah. the demonstrates as much since the down to the people have goes up to these really is probably going to allow the baptist hospital, the confrontations with security forces. it's been reported at one palestinian demonstrate, has been killed by is really forces in a village near ramallah. what published the name president must more the boss has announced the attack on the baptist hospital as a hideous massacre saying palestinians will not be forced from the or whatever
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that is so cool. most of israel government has no red lines anymore and it should be held responsible and punished since the beginning of the aggression as being bloodshed. given to night semester, i decided to cancel my visits and come back home to be with my people during these hall times. well that's no, not enough like it. i'm sure we will not surrender. what is important is we will stay on all land. we will not leave all our and we will not allow anyone to force us to leave as they did in the past. the past will not repeat itself. 1948 to 1960 seven's events will not happen again. well is raining, prime minister has denied that israel was involved in the bombing of the baptist hospital in gaza and a social media message on x, formerly known as twitter mentioned yahoo said antonia will should know. it was bought by rec terrace in gaza that attacked the hospital and not the idea of those
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who brutally noted our children full. so most of their own children looking been con, joins of live now from occupied east jerusalem 3 months. so what more reaction to have, we have been from these railways about the bombing of the arab baptist hospital and gaza and of course that you in school shelter well was yeah, that's right. well was uh, the prime minister actually tweeted, uh, that was backed up by lots of more tweets when it was ready. officials that included present, isaac, because they will cite, included, have been against is part of the won't cabinet. they all squarely blaming islamic jihad for this attack. however, we have heard from this low jets, they've denied all of this. so this, this information will that's going on right now. and this is very typical of the x rays. they do this every time that is an attack and that doesn't quite go with that narrative or it doesn't quite go with what they want to present to the world,
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which is as well as the right to defend itself. now remember serena block, they all colleague who was killed engineering in 2022 that attacked actually during the early hours of it these, right. he said it was published and in government they monday the wall. so they pull out information. so it can, it distracts people. couple of days later they turn around when actually, sorry, yes, it was us. no one's been charged for that attack, but they did admit it was then with that happens this time around. i don't know, but it's a very typically is ready thing to do. also the contract you owns the building who run the building. the hospital that was boned have said it was these riley's m a said several other people have said it. that was the is ready, you heard from prime president, got rid of us. that was like confirming that right when sort of the palestinian and besta to these guys had visions also say it was the x rays. and now you see all of
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these purchase items. ready across the air above against the us and is ready at embassies the so we're all in the middle of this information will and expect these radius to continue that message. uh, blaming is allowed to have. but let me say, as long as you have to have, i actually denied it was then. um, ma'am, you know that you as president joe buttons on his way to israel and this hospital bumming will surely complicate his trip, remind us what biden's hoping to achieve a man of these. it's an unprecedented visit. firstly, let's get that out of the way completely. what he's doing is coming to a place that is in the active goals. and now yes, he did go to ukraine, but he went to ukraine to key, but it was relatively safe here. there's a very complicated situation. he's gonna fly into big glory and a half paused. he was supposed to go to johnston, and meet with problem is a, um,
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a sorry president of the c. c. i also of egypt is also i'm supposed to meet with king abdullah jordan and time at present about 3 of us that actually got cancelled . it was firstly, it was not me the boss who actually canceled on president joe by the i think he was incredibly frustrated that there was no ceasefire. so now he's actually flying straight to beckon gory an apple, the arab street, the palestinian street is going to be looking at this visit and the those to overall a rock narrative say one of the products in new street, just getting well. now at least we know who reads imposing, and there's no way we know that he's don't lying about trying to actually get a ceasefire. and the other one is, well, we've actually been abandoned by the west, but there's a much more interesting dynamic here as well. remember i just talked about my food a boss. my boss has no influence either. how mass? oh, well, any plan, sorry for the is right in the international community was the only real avenue open to him. and now he doesn't even have time while he doesn't have that relationship
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with the present judge bugging they, they're not going to talk. so that's actually been shut down. so that's going to be concerned for the international diplomatic community, both of the palestinians who simply say, well actually we weren't getting anything that we wanted, even the basics that we wanted a ceasefire and humanitarian cordele. we weren't getting that. so what is, what was the point of sitting in that meeting? i'm doing my, just the final thoughts to you. i mean, we've seen palestinian protest breakouts right across the occupied westbank. certainly in ramallah and other places. tensions katie high across the occupied territories and palestinians role 16, the angry president mark would have us. and that's absolutely right. but let me just tell you. i spent since october the 7th in the line you arrived here in occupied eastern eastern today. the protests that took place, what peaceful? uh they were small, but there were frequent that were happening throughout the day. that would be
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a $1200.00 people that come into been our square and the center of ramallah and then they would leave. but today's events have been unprecedented. the hospital bombing simply are in good policies to the point where they came into the square and they were charging present must we did last a step down and that's when the ph security forces got involved when they were challenging for goals. that when they were challenging in support of the people of gauze and the plight that they're in the stream situation, the rent they posted, you know, as far as the security forces allow them to. but the minute they started to criticize a president buckley with the boss, that's when they did, decided to crack down. this may will backfire against a president like me to boss, because he's stuck between a rock and a hard place. he understands that there's a lot of support for the people because are on the street. so the occupied westbank or by not going to see presence a button that may go some way to appease these protesters. but when you see
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pictures like the ones we've just been saying from that hospital bombing people, are they the palestinians a now united because this is palestinians that are being attacked in costa and remember your preferred west bank and gaza on the sidelines. they don't separate countries. a lot of the people in the occupied west by have relations have friends, have companies have family members some who they've never seen because of locate living in gauze these a these are connected people, so they all policy needs at the end of the day and those pages blew out the anger and them, and i haven't seen that. i got a sense of type of a sudden all right to out as it was and when come to live for us in bodies through some human. thank you for speaking alongside and by spence from arab countries palace times. i'm positive to the you and bring the israel for choosing. i've astride from that hospital in gauze. hill is the responsible for this massacre, this crime. and those are responsible for this crime should face justice
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and should face accountability and should be, you know, a punishment arising through the 11th of this crime. committed against a lot of people to be faced by them. we as on our group demand immediately a ceasefire, because the continuation of the war, it means getting more palestinians every moment, will to you and the 2nd to general antonio good tatters has also expressed outrage of the master code in a statement on the social media gutierrez, said i am horrified by the killing of hundreds of palestinian civilians and a strike on the hospital in gauze as today which i strongly condemn my heart. as with the families of the victims, hospitals and medical personnel are protected on the international humanitarian little. well, gabriel is on the joins us live now from un headquarters in new york gave. so
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a very strong statement from the un chief antonio, but that is what more can it tell us about that statement off of the hospital bonding and gauze? so yeah, that statement from gutierrez just came over in the last 10 or 15 minutes or so. you'll notice in that statement it's the 1st time we've heard any public comment from the secretary general since that hospital attack. you'll notice what he did not say though he did not call for an immediate cease fire, as the error of investors are demanding and pushing for. and he did also did not to place blame on that hospital attack. yet either we are hearing from the secretary general's office that he is working on a more extensive statement and we could be getting that in the next hour or so. so be watching that very closely. as you mentioned there, you saw the error within the last couple hours. more than a dozen ambassadors from arab countries spoke. they were unified in their front
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calling primarily for one thing, one thing only a, at least right now, and that's an immediate cease fire. now the u. n. c, a security council voted against that. a, yesterday, there was a russian draft resolution that called for an immediate cease fire that was voted down the us, france, japan and the u. k voted it down. it did not have enough votes to go forward. and now we're hearing and this is important. tomorrow or wednesday morning there is going to be a briefing by the top un officials on humanitarian, a monitoring affairs, a briefing that was called by the security council by russia and the u. a. e, where they're going to get a briefing about the hospital attack. but perhaps equally as important during that meeting. brazil has called for
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a vote on their draft resolution. they call that calls for among other things, a humanitarian pause in hostilities in gaza. so that a for an aide and you monetary and age can get inside. so a lot of moving parts at un headquarters right now, and a lot of things coming up in the coming hours as well. yeah, guys as a site, a diplomatic effort remains the extremely fluid at the moment we were hearing earlier that russia and the u. a were quoting for an emergency security council meeting over at that hospital bumming just focused through that. uh yeah, that was called a few hours ago. uh, that was by russia and the u. a. e. and this is the 10 am meeting on wednesday and i was referring to and at this meeting they are going to be briefed by 2 of the top, un officials on humanitarian affairs. we expect this to be an open meeting. and because russia feels quite frankly that because their draft resolution was shot
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down, they called for an immediate cease fire that was shut down about 24 hours ago, rushes basically saying, and even the air of ambassadors are saying the same thing. if the security council agreed to that, we could possibly have been in a situation where we had a ceasefire on tuesday and this hospital strike would not have happened. i mean, that's of course speculation at this point because of course, but that's essentially, so that's why rushing the way, again, both of whom have who voted for this draft resolution that was unsuccessful now are calling for this meeting at 10 am on wednesday now to get this briefing, so getting respect to be an open briefing will be able to hear what is being said. and at the same time, probably just as important is we're expecting brazil to call the vote on their draft resolution as well. it's unclear if that draft resolution will be voted for or not to the us and u. k. and france,
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they have not given any indications that they're willing to vote for that, which would cause for humanitarian pause. there are so many events happening right now. uh, related to this were so much diplomacy going on behind the scenes right now. the situation here at un headquarters is almost changing by the hour. yeah, gabe, just the final thoughts. you mean you touched briefly on the humanitarian situation? i mean, how worried is the united nations, the security council, etc, about the worsening situation in garza because the pictures missing and they're sitting on that tv screens are absolutely horrific as they are. i've been covering the un off and on for several years now. and i don't think i've ever seen the un so concerned about the humanitarian condition that they're seeing right now. and guys, and they, the, you weren't, as we all know, deals with a lot of humanitarian crisis is all over the world. but the sense of urgency that
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you're seeing from various un officials and various un, uh, departments and and, and so for example, under a is really something that we have not seen in many, many years. they are very worried because they cannot get the necessary humanitarian a to people that need it and even un facilities as we've been reporting today, tuesday with this un school that was hit. this is a several un schools that were hit in court including 2 that were housing just internally displaced people. and the fact that you in the un cannot get any sort of aid in there and they can not get their people out or other people in is really of this is a word we've been using for the last week, but it really is true. unprecedented. and that's what you and officials are saying they are facing an absolutely unprecedented crisis in trying to do their jobs by to
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monetary ends of trying to protect people, innocent people in this conflict and not only protect them, but provide aid comfort and security. the un efficient was there, say we simply can no longer do it. all right, so i gave her that is on the line for us, the from you and a headquarters in new york. i gave you as president jet biden's on his way to israel and has spoken to plans summit and jordan with arab leaders following tuesdays attack on the lastly our hospital in gaza. the white house announced the change and scheduled as binding to a call from the us. my kind of reports from washington good biden leaves the white house on an unprecedented journey. a us president, traveling to israel said, wages war the prime intention to visibly demonstrate us support in the most dramatic of ways. he goes with the cold backing up congress, the us send it to work to push through a bill, providing material a to israel,
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as well as he met a terry and relief for palestinians. the senate must above all work quickly and swiftly to draft consider and pass a strong, a package for israel as soon as we can. that includes military support, intelligence, support, diplomatic help, the senate minority leader as of the elements to the presidential to do list your need for the player. fed isn't ministration, will do everything possible to keep israel. of the com and the space it nude to conduct the required military operations for as long as it takes how many more hold of the house is still into a mile with majority republicans sharply defined to do but id already lead the ship and policy. yet admits this division, there is one point of agreement to my whole support for the state of israel. well, i think the resolution 1st to show that the american people in terms of
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representatives, support israel and condemn a moss and these terror attacks the deadline to refunding the government is fast approaching. but for most of the republicans, the priority is to get a pro israel bill through the house, the some top of the $3300000000.00 a year that congress has never contested the us so. so 1st country in the will to recognize israel. the recognition by president truman coming only 11 minutes off to the provisional government, declared it's they towed on may the 14th 1948 and president biden is likely to point to the drive to pos and israel bill and the senate and the house as clear evidence that recognition and support has never wavered. the mike kinda, oh, just the era washington, what yes, president joe biden says he's outraged by the explosion of the i'll actually baptist hospital in a statement. he said, i'm outraged and deeply southern by the explosion that they are in the hospital in
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gaza and the turn of the loss of life that resulted. immediately upon hearing this news, i spoke with the king of the of jordan unemployment. as of nothing, you all have israel and have directed my national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened. the united states stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life during conflict time removing the patient's medical stuff and of in a sense, killed a wounded in this tragedy that's different from mike can i join us live from washington dc. so it seems events are already overtaking president biden's visit to israel. mike, but jordanians have cancel the stomach with binding nearly as we've been saying, we saw that terrific hospital bombing and does one impact. but all of this have on vitamins trip to make, do you think of it was already had a major impact um present. biden was in his motorcade on his way to join face andrews when the to day. new environment is to confirm that that meeting in amana had been cancelled as with the prior to that the month. but the boss see kind of
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sidney and lita had also turned down the meeting. he returned to ramallah in the wake up the spot meeting, cause i so oh, really you've had any impact. the white house itself says that the meeting has been cancelled because of this event to give everybody a period of morning. but it does have an impact on the by didn't visit, not one of the reasons why president by didn't, is going to the region is to attempt to prevent a whitening of the conflict. that's what is the secretary of states has been doing during a whistle stop diplomacy to in the region in recent days, president biden wants to add his voice to this to reassure us allies that he's working towards calming the situation down. not wanting to see any spreading off the conflict, but we've seen that conflict spread in the course of the day of the demonstrations that are obtained in many areas in the region. so this has made president biden's visit far more difficult. it's raised the heat on what he's doing and it's costing
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shop focused on those critics of the united states and this relationship with israel in terms of that relationship at a time when many believe that what has happened is respectfully, it's all to the state of israel that is something as we. busy that president biden says is intelligence agencies investigating, but it's, it's me, comes at a very, very problematic time for president biden as he hits towards the middle east for this, virtually unprecedented visit. going to israel in a time of war. yeah. mike. uh and, and that's an important point to make because we have protest now taking place across many arab countries in the region. how much security concern is the president biden us your site. he's going straight into active was that.
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