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a funny enough of the police left behind us to black essential workers share their experiences of racism in the u. k. replaced i sort of a point where well, it shows the way black. it was on the weathering on the jersey to the the witnesses. so i'll just 0 that is ready for susan garza executed 11 on on the palestinian men in front of the families. the very 1st of this is i'll just say we're live for the also coming up. the number of palestinians killed in as well as war on guns that has reached 20000,
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including more than 8000 children. took some of the un security council votes calling for a home to the fighting and garza and to this full stay and the social media company, meta is accused of censoring pro palestinian content on its platforms, facebook and instagram. the un human rights office says it's received allegations of what could be a war crime committed by is ready forces. it says it's received information. a legitimate is ready for us is killed at least 11 on on the palestinian men in front of the families. in northern garza, they allegedly stormed a residential building, separated the men from the women and children, and killed a man who are in the twenty's and thirty's. then these are the soldiers. so to order the women and children into a room and i have a shot at them all through grenade injuring some of them. the incident is alleged
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to have happened at the and building where civilians were sheltering. you in his own israel to conduct an independent investigation. so i would say those are very close as killed those been in front of the salaries before rounding up the women and children and attacking them. also do you and is one of the alleged assault on tuesday, in homes and got the city could constitute a war crime and is calling for an independent investigation into those allegations . i'll just say we're a spoke to several eye witnesses. i got the actual, most of them are they still in the building. they forced the entry into residential flats. they did the buttons and the lower levels. i live on the 6th floor. i put my door and switch the lights on. but still in my house, i told them or a family, a household of civilians. they saw us men and their wives and children. my brother in law tried to speak and explain it all in the house of civilians, but they starting dead. after that they found that the men up and the women in the opposite house. then these rally soldiers opened fire and all the men,
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they told them to stay in the other side. they never show but tank from outside. you only don't mind how with how withheld on friday, the is rarely tanks and soldiers cold in the area. they still on the residential homes and open fi randomly more than 18 civilians were killed, including my sons 2 in those together and their wives and children. they were all executed, killed in cold blood execution, premeditated murder with intent. we did not resist. we kept saying we were civilians. my son in law was sitting on his tab with his arms up. i'm a civilian, he said, but the as ready soldiers executed him. that dead bodies are so lying that we kind of recover that body so burial, especially in the model. these really soul just on the block of slots. they force the way into every home, killed the men and to change the women and children. we do not know the whereabouts . they did the same on every floor. all women around it up in one room. by the time they reached us on the 6th floor, they started shooting old and then my father in law and his son was shot. they died
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instantly, these raised killed them. we kept the door open and did not show any resistance. we kept the lights on. as soon as these ladies just on the house, they started shooting. men then firing the walls within were groups by the half rounded up of the young children was stripped to that close and forced to the knees . all women were kept on the 4th floor in order to remove the head coverings. after that, they took one of them and downstairs, still naked. then they opened fire, killed them all, executed them in cold blood. after that order was given to the tanks. i'm going to show was fired on all the women on the 4th floor. the young go was killed. my 2 daughters and female neighbors were injured. lots of as long as even young boys, one not sped. they were old, but unplugging. the suffered broken bones and in the hospital had lost rep is really soldiers rounded up. all the women in one room then fired 3 mortar shells at us, then kept shooting their machine guns at us. before that they stormed our house,
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an open fire. i was hit with a bullet in my hand. my daughter in her hedge. my younger daughter was killed and my son is blind. my husband was executed in cold blood bull. my other daughter's suffered severe injuries, broken bones and flesh door and open. we were all hit by bullets instructional has been bleeding all over since 5 o'clock on tuesday. well, joining us here in the is tell our community is assistant professor of public policy at the institute for graduate studies. timer. this isn't the 1st allegation of civilians being killed by small arms. 5 by is ready soldiers inside they'll have it. that's pretty searing testimony from those witnesses and it's all given more weight by the fact that the un human rights office is demanding an investigation. it is a yes, i mean, it's hard fighting thoughts. what's, what's happening in to, to, to with us, these kinds and the gaza strip. it's good that, that you and agencies are calling for the investigation. and that's that i to
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position to do however they need, we need actual tools. actually, the question is, how are they going to do it? i mean, this brings me back like couple of a couple of weeks ago, and i have to talk about the domestic, the court of justice and the prosecutor cutting tons thrown in this. the commenting describes, i mean, they need to have some, some practicum, the conditions on the ground to commit these crimes. i know the, what is that ongoing now but, but at some point it will stop and someone has to investigate all these guns conducted by disabilities. so the question is how i mean yes, the calling for investigations, but there's no actual mechanisms for them to do it because none of the sensors are allowed into the gaza strip. so they have to pressure to, is it or to allow them to come into the goes a step. and if the knock that out to was that off, some un entities and the guys are like, even that's the, that's the custom that the, that it costs. and that goes at least that someone has to meet these people. take
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the testimonies, document these, these crimes for a length of time when, when the opportunity comes for an independent investigation to happen and help them not forget them. i hope them not forget them. i mean, in, in the meantime, i guess it is journalists on the ground to a, taking these testimonies to themselves, i suppose, could be interviewed at the end of the will. of course, i mean, but i hope, i mean, i mean the, i mean journalist testimonies, you know, the feed use whatever it would be considered as enough evidence by a specialized entity such as the ices c or even entities to take this evidence. i move forward with, with opening an investigation. i hope this wouldn't be the case. it's not about just calling or demanding. it's about something the actual act of, of, of, of gathering on the mentioning these guns building the 5 building the case against is it on, is there as automating doesn't when we think about how that all me is operating, it was just last week, friday, last week. that the 3 is ready, captives were shot dead by is ready for us is despite waving a white flag despite messages that they'd scroll down the building that they'd been
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hiding out and, and all the rest of it, they would, you know, they were admitted by these ready to come on to a broken that rules of engagement and shooting that those 3. what does that say about how soldiers are operating more generally if, if they are firing on people, you know, showing a white flag, i mean, more generally, some palestinian civilians in the span of this war. well. and this war and particularly the guns are sort of, i mean, i think is the soldiers have the hand to do whatever they want to commit any crimes . we $11.00 of the soldiers was investigated and the clinicals, the for the at a is an idea to be the cap, the, the, the, the dates age. right out of the offices were or condemned garza, he was saying that we were told act then ask accident ask. so don't, don't us. and that's the com, that's on it. imagine they've done this on 3 of that also just would have naked raising white flags and they just shot them. that's a distance to
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a lot about how they conduct the conflict with the stands. i mean it's, uh, i mean, the crime i've seen today, it's only one of hundreds. it's not even thousands of other crimes were not documented in the guns. let. let's not forget that, you know, meet the presence is very limited. then some southern edison that goes to the wood, they will have full access to the other parts of the gums in bit loud. yeah. and i thought that off, so me there is not the so i mean these ladies have have the freedom to do whatever they want the. so i'm sure that hundreds of other, the equally hold of funding crimes of had been committed, but no one has to come into them. and the big question is, what will the will do about it? what, what do you end to about? what would the icpc to about these things and this, this, this, this semester? because and then from the perspective of those agencies, obviously what is the talking about the branding campaign of israel has and does say that it is targeting him, us and it is trying to avoid civilian casualties. that is the line. it is hard to for his ro to make those sorts of denials when it comes to specific instances such
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as versus people being separated until the close quarters. yes, of course, of course. but the main thing is, i mean, you need that to get a position by specialize entity, especially with the licensee. they have to take a step even if they don't have access to the one does not have access to clean the something they couldn't. exactly. i mean, indicting porton for transferring options from, from ukraine to rush up from a safe place or safe place. and it's not that the back most of the, in the back to the families. and this, this was enough for dice, sep issue. and that a sort of, i guess, a present for steve and with or what we see on tvs, the commented by you on that is by i'll just see it either use entities standby since he is reluctant to meet the open investigation though. and this brings a big question on the position of days, so you understand it's valid to you. i'm on this what i think there's so many functions to be asked because i see it after this. what is over on a so tell me i come on, come with thank you very much for your time. my pleasure. and the palestinian
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ministry of health says the death toll has reached $20000.00 and goes up. 8002 children, bombardments, continue on to body a refugee camp on russell while he is ready. ami has ordered evacuations from central guns and hun, eunice. heavy artillery flying from his really military vessels is being reported on the beach, is a rough and hon eunice in the south. meanwhile, his very bulldozers have destroyed the shakes siobhan symmetry and the outside neighborhood of east and gaza. images from the symmetry show recently buried bodies lying among the rubble of tombstones. this is the latest documented case of a destruction of a symmetry in gaza. honey, my hood is joining us live from rough. uh, uh, honey. let starts on that last a series of images. we sold a symmetries being destroyed. what more can you tell us about this situation? a yes. hi, or will this is part of ongoing system at
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a destruction of the gods as for the, from north to south. and so far, we're not only seeing residential homes and residential, the blocks being completely leveled to the ground. but we also, within the past few weeks, we see an ad parks in the heart of gods and they were also destroyed. well, palm trees were uprooted, along with all of it. trees and other kind of trees across the different parts and neighborhoods of the gods as for what's going on is more of an organized, systematic crimes against palestinian and this time and not only this particular cemetery and gaza square. this is at the, the hearts of gauze, a city historic cemetery. there was a close, then no one was using its board for it to bury any of the day. but recently because of the, the, the, the, the gone go and relentless bombardment, people who were around the area, the news, the cemetery and various, uh, the, some of their family members and relatives who were killed on those airstrikes.
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similar situations happened in australia. district that said the eastern side of gauze and the where to cemeteries were both those that were talking about the vast majority of the graves on those 2 cemeteries were completely destroyed and just the ground was the ground and the brakes were turned upside down. you walk into an area that is completely damaged beyond recognition. you wouldn't know that this is a symmetry unless you start to start assembling and screwed. the they do the torn as bodies on the ground as the, the results of the, the work of the bulldozers and another significant light emerging in the last few hours. the idea that these really ministry is cooling. so the evacuation of 20 percent of central gaza and pods of hon. eunice in the south. what does that mean? so the people sheltering that
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it was, this is increasingly mounting the pressure on displace palestinian who have already been evacuating from the northern part and gaza city more than one time. in fact, some of the people who we manage to talk to within the past weeks that happened to evacuate the 3 and 4 times so that feeds into their permanent sense of displacement . but the fact now we're talking about almost 20 percent of the population. this is a large portion of the people who have really evacuated and became at the place as a result of what the, the ongoing bombardment and the push them further south. it only means one thing a, these really tactics to expand the military operation, which means more areas are going to be destroyed, more residential homes are going to be just throwing north more agriculture, land will be raised. and this will literally put pressure on areas that have been designated as safe area. and when in fact then we've, we've seen this live on tv and they are not safe at all. but the tragedy of all of
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this is the mounting and pressure on evacuation zones. on in the new areas, they are already packed with thousands of people to suffer from a shortage of extreme shortage of the food supplies, medical supplies, water supplies, and all the necessities important for their survival. as well as health facility that are unable to take more of this, it's an army of, of injuries, as well as those who are contracting infectious diseases as a result of the crowd with the over how this of these evacuations are due in the next hour going to be full of, of, of the, of the new things and then more more, the more misery and more suffering for those who are going to be displaced for some it might be the 4th or the 5th time honey. my food in rough and southern gaza. thank you very much. i are now is ready for us is continue tiring. now danny res, across the occupied westbank military vehicles answered several cities and towns
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including nablus and bethlehem. early on thursday. they rated homes and detained at least one palestinian invest that official is in ramallah in the occupied westbank came down. and this really fits into a packing of a huge lea, increase tempo rates across the west bank. and let me tell you how you just in the last uh we're hearing of an incident and kind of what we owe it to is done. so it's of nablus and there is really bill dozers have moved in, accompanied by the israeli army and started to demolish agricultural buildings that belong to a couple of palestinian families. they use those buildings to highways and to care for live stock. these really are me said the new permit for the buildings. and so they took them down. and also in the last out or so a 16 year old who was shot dead in bethlehem on weddings. the has been buried. he of course, was the $300.00 insert pass and to be killed in the west bank since the beginning
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of the war. and maybe this will get much more attention if what was going on and guys wasn't going on in gaza. but there are those who believe that this is happening because people weren't focused on what is happening every night. we're seeing raids of some description in almost a roll call of tons. it's the same places almost every single night that you get cold cube you i'd better you get jet a co until cut them near the end overnight there was intense lighting as well and back to my at north of uh of hebron. uh, 3 hours of sight to uh and so we're seeing this intensity of operations by the israelis overnight, new reports this fall of anyone being killed wednesday into thursday. but the given the fact that there is tension and every night when people go to sleep in the west bank, they're always wondering if tonight is the night that will be in oakland,
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their door, unofficial and romano. thank you very much. i the still ahead on al jazeera, a record breaking search, and the number of migrants trying to cross into the us from mexico. the hey there, it looks like the rings are going to pick up in eastern australia over the next few days. we can already see evidence of that along the border with new southwell state in queensland. some pretty good downforce around a bridge been at the same time things are heating up in the interior, alice up to 38 degrees on friday winds of turned around. so temperatures have come down, for example, in christ church and gives been few showers across both islands as well. but by and large, not a bad forecast on friday. then we've got this looking like it's trying to spin up
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between them of late peninsula and borneo island. and it's our usual pulses of rain through the mountains on some motor island on friday. now look at this cold air coming in to vietnam, 116 degrees denying just that 22. and oh yeah, these are remnants of a tropical storm spinning around in the soft trying to see if i take you to china. really that cool, chris sunshine, shanghai won. look hong kong, just 12 degrees. and if we look at the next several days, we was feeling 3 degrees friday morning in hong kong. this is well below the december average. it should be about 20 degrees. we've got snow storm warnings up and down the west of japan. got to tell you could see some blizzard conditions here as well with intense snow to come on friday the the,
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i'll just remind to about top stories this the promise to the ministry of health says the desk told in guns and now stands and $20000.00 of a night is really on a what are the evacuation of 20 percent of central gaza along with san units. as the heavy artillery showing on thursday morning from his very military votes targeting the features of rough and hon. eunice, in the southern gaza strip. witnesses se is ready for us, has killed 11 on alms palestinians in front of the families before rounding up the women and children, and attracting them to you and is demanding an investigation into the alleged attack on tuesday in kansas city, which it says could constitute a war crime is where the forces have been carrying out more rates across the occupied west bank military vehicles entered several cities and towns including nablus and bethlehem. early on 1st day. they rated homes and attained at least one honest. and now woman has been killed in southern lebanon by is ready selling the
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3rd civilian death in his many days is really cross border attacks have increased in recent weeks, striking, so the inside lebanon, that's go now to the hotel in eval saki in southern lebanon. tell us more about that across the board of financing, which has been intensifying recently, hasn't it's in a, as well, yes, sporadic escalation along that border. it is now week 11 of israel stepping up its military operations. air strikes, striking deeper inside lebanon, and overnight the target through the sites and the clean up the fast region that's approximately 20 kilometers from the border. an area where hezbollah has military assets. now that could have been in response to hezbollah, firing surface to air missiles that exploded close to is really helicopters. if flying in is really air, is place a close to the border. so really both sides sending messages to each other,
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a form of the terence, if you hit us, we are able to hit you. but this conflict is still largely confined to the border area. so an intensification of the frequency of the attacks have increased but the still largely confined to the border area. even the rules of engagement to a certain extent have not changed. both sides are still targeting um military vehicles. soldiers. yes, you mentioned 3 civilians. those 3 civilians were killed in the battle ground if you like, the 3 to 4 kilometer territory of a from, from, from the board, which really has become a no go area. if you drive in those areas, the likelihood of being hit is, is quite high. now israel also carrying out surgical strikes, direct hits, relying on intelligence and information due to if this is
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a technologically advanced army, i can hear the drones overhead 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. they know what moves that is, why, how's the law is finding it a little bit difficult to operate in these areas? it last 7 men in the past 24 to 30 hours, 18 men in just a week. since the start of the conflict lost $114.00, many, many of them in drone strikes. so this escalation is continuing intensification. the new here is really officials throughout the lebanon, se if hezbollah does not pull back from the border, then lebanon, as a country, not just has the law, will pay the price. so israel threatening war, but also saying that it prefers a diplomatic supplement has but law for its part is not phased either. saying that this is ready for any eventuality, no matter what the costs, what, what costs it involves. and it also says that this will not discuss the situation
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along this border. attacks will not stop until, as well as a tax on gaza stop. so how still it these continue to united nations peacekeeping force this thing, the situation is dangerous, both sides. so calibrating their attacks saying that they're hoping for a diplomatic supplement, but the likelihood of this conflict widening expanding and intensifying as also there are identified in southern lebanon. thank you very much. the web security council is expected once again to vote in the coming hours on a resolution that would call for the suspension of hostilities. in garza, the vote had been delayed for 3 days as diplomats negotiated with the united states on the wording of the draft. early of this month, washington vetoed a resolution calling for a ceasefire. gabriel, that was on the is that you in headquarters and asked the latest from the security council just within the past 3 days,
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there have been 7 different delays or postponements in this un security council vote on humanitarian aid getting into guys the main sticking point we believe now with the united states is this language in the draft as it's written now about a monitoring mechanism being implemented essentially would be the united nations that takes the lead in overseeing and facilitating this a getting into gaza. and then it's distribution to the people that need it the most . now, why are other security council members agreeing to these delays? we believe the reason is because they to want to get a draft of this resolution that is acceptable to the united states, at least. so the americans don't veto it. diplomat say they will be returning here to the security council on thursday, where they hope to have some sort of agreement on a resolution that can get passed gabriel's on to how does it at united nations in
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new york? human rights watch says meta has silenced posts in support of palestine on instagram and facebook. it says the suppression is systemic and global, amounting to what seems to be the longest wave of censorship about the content of content about palestine to date. the rights group reviewed $1050.00 cases of online censorship for more than 60 countries that will honestly, in english, nearly all of them featured peaceful content in support of palestine. the organization says that in more than $300.00 cases uses were unable to appeal, matches, removal of content, or accounts effectively. it's identified 6 patton's of censorship, content removal, suspension or permanent disabling of accounts and restrictions on liking, commenting, sharing or re posting. it's also found restrictions on tagging, well, following other accounts, limited use assessment, meta features and shadow binding unit uses. that means a significant drop in the visibility of
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a use as post stories and account. milady is a professor of media and communication accounts, or university. he says the reports findings on surprising of what i think this is a combination of a systematic pressure um from around the world, especially policy makers in the west. and in addition to the is really government on social media platforms like i'm at and x and others unfortunately met has been in the last some few months and, and especially of the 2021. the same show rock events in jerusalem had been um, uh, kind of from um, placing a very, very obvious um, systematic way of controlling gun monitoring, anything related to published on anything related to publish cindy and content. and
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what we've been kind of from listening or hearing from active is so from academic, so from a social media um, uh, organizations around the world about met that sensing the content. and i think now we've seen a document it by human rights watch. and unfortunately, this is another kind of way of keeping him to the pressure from the is really government, specifically the time for look at some of the other world news. now i'm voting in the democratic republic of condos. general election has been extended by 2 days across the country, withholding stations now closing on friday. the electro commission initially extended the pole by a day off the delays of some pulling centers in the capital. can shasta on wednesday and several other towns, some polls didn't open a tool on the 1st day is i think that will also reports of full to voting machines and allegations
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a vote to fraud opposition. candidates said the extension was unconstitutional. and that cooling for a rerun of the entire election, a regular breaking search is illegal crossings across the us. mexico border is overwhelming. the border patrol that more than 10000 migrants across the daily and recent days largely into the south western states of texas and arizona, julianna gal, yano, has moved out from mexico. so take a moment of prayer for waiting into the freezing waters of the rio grande. the youngest today just 2 months old. this is part of a huge search of migrants to reach the us border and recent days over 4000 a day in the mexican state of while we live alone. it's taking most of the months to get here. they're exhausted, but one after the other, they tell us what they've heard from family and other migrants that now is the time
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