then years after the arab spring. our battalion starts june 7th. this is news coming to you live from fierce fighting between israeli forces and palestinian militants shows no sign of letting up the. israeli airstrikes pound targets in gaza while hamas launches hundreds of rockets into israel and there's a new front in the conflict violence between jewish and arab neighbors inside

israel also coming up. from inside an isolated refugee detention camp in greece we look at allegations of police abuse that. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the conflict between israelis and palestinians is intensifying hamas militants have been launching hundreds of rockets into israel and israeli forces have been responding with devastating air strikes on gaza. this was the moment an israeli airstrike hit a residential building in the middle of gaza city on thursday morning the 6 story block was destroyed more than 65 palestinians have been killed in gaza since monday including children in israel at least 7 have lost their lives. yes collating

tensions are also spilling over into street violence in several israeli cities home to both arabs and jews here. with. this arab man was pulled from his car and beaten by right wing israeli nationalists . it's the 1st act of nationalist violence to receive direct condemnation from the prime minister. nothing justifies the lynching of arabs by jews by the lynching of jews by arabs it's unacceptable we will not tolerate this this violence is not us. the conflict can be seen across the skyline. hamas unleashed a stream of rockets fired towards israel in retaliation for the destruction of a building in gaza by israel. these are the most intense hostilities that the country has seen in 7 years. it is particularly bad in

mixed jewish arab towns with relevant lists rocket fire and dry getting what was the palestinians message to israel and the jewish settlers is loud and clear what droog i address my words specifically to america and to israel enough is enough to leave us. we will remain thorns in your eyes we will not leave our homeland we will not leave our country and for more and . the u.s. maintained its support for israel in its call for peace on wednesday my expectation hope is that. this will be. closing down sooner than later. israel has a right to defend itself and if thousands of rockets fly and your territory.

israelis defense was to target the hamas militants. they say many senior commanders have been killed. but the attacks have also claimed the lives of palestinian civilians. neither side is showing any sign of backing down prompting the united nations to warn a full scale civil war. speaking to lynn hastings she's deputy special coordinator for the middle east peace process and united nations resident coordinator for the occupied palestinian territory she joins us from jerusalem thanks for being with us ms hastings 1st of all give us your assessment of the situation there right. thanks terry generally speaking i think most of the videos have spoken for that very question but the situation is very alarming and i

use that word purposefully because it is something that the world needs to be paying attention to finally that the situation here is going in the wrong direction this latest escalation shows the depth of the problems between the palestinians and the israelis your office at the u.n. has warned that this conflict could turn into all out war what would that look like . well that's a good question. obviously the situation right now some could call it to be war what we are concerned about in addition to the situation in gaza is the spillover as your reporter has described into israel that we're seeing clashes all over israel and we are concerned about the regional impact as well. you what are you and your other colleagues at the u.n. doing to stop this fighting because many people do look to the u.n.

to broker a peace. of course just 1st and foremost in terms of what the u.n. is doing we are of course continuing to provide humanitarian assistance on the ground. and while some people don't see this as connected to the political situation it is very much needed to ensure that people's needs are met in these times so for example fuel is no longer going into gas which means hospitals water and sanitation plants and access to water itself will be severely limited when the fuel runs out on sunday so that's one thing that we're doing we're responding to try and save lives as this conflict goes on the 2nd thing of course is that the united nations has a mandate to try and broker peace the special coordinator himself has been working relentlessly with the various interlocutors here on the ground the parties others regionally and of course other member states of the security council and the

quartet for the middle east peace process this may not sound like a lot to a lot of your viewers but this is what will bring the escalation down and we need to focus on these types of efforts the humanitarian assistance and working with all the parties involved to ensure that there's an deescalation in place. your office at the u.n. is responsible for coordinating what you continue to call the middle east peace process where does that process. currently it is not. proceeding which i think is very obvious by what your viewers have seen and what we're just scribing here with rocket rockets flying everywhere and that's again why we need this escalation to stop so we can get people back to the table we're raising the security council member states who obviously have

a lot of influence on where this is going so as it stands now that's what we're doing we're working with all those who can influence the situation and bring this violence to a stop. what message do you have to the parties in this conflagration. well again obviously stop the fighting it's civilians who are suffering. as i said no access to water sanitation electricity health care is already suffering because of the. pandemic so that's the 1st thing there obviously needs to be a deescalation the 2nd thing is we need humanitarian access into and out of gaza that our staff needs to be able to get in and out and we need to be able to bring goods in. and of course stop that unilateral actions that are taking place many of those have already been described by a number of the member states before the security council and in other media.

briefings those include things like evictions in east jerusalem increasing settlement expansion and such their violence demolitions of palestinian property in both east jerusalem and in the west bank and the inability of palestinians to be able to build on their own land in east jerusalem and in parts of the west bank as well those actions did not serve a peace process at all and they need to stop as do of course rockets from gaza and other violence throughout the palestinian territory and now as i said before we're seeing in israel ok there's hastings thank you very much for your time today was lynn hastings deputy special coordinator for the middle east peace process at the u.n. thank you jim. and here are some other developments in the conflict there british airways has canceled its flights to and from tel aviv amid safety concerns there following many other international carriers who are currently avoiding the area

u.s. energy corporation chevron has shut down the tom our natural gas platform off the israeli coast as a precaution israel says energy needs will continue to be met and opponents of israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu say they're freezing talks on forming a coalition to unseat him after israel's inconclusive election. check on some other stories making headlines around the world today thousands of colombians have demonstrated in the capital bogota for the fifteenth's consecutive day of unrest the protests were sparked by anger over tax reforms but quickly spread to fury over police brutality the country's human rights and what's been says at least $42.00 people have died and more than $160.00 have gone missing since the protests began. republicans in the u.s. house of representatives have vowed to remove fellow party member loose cheney from a top position wyoming republican has been under pressure for her repeated

criticism of former president on trial for the vote cheney was the 3rd highest ranking house republican. and western powers of accuse china of massive crimes against the weaker muslim minority during a u.n. sponsored virtual meeting britain's un ambassador called situation in province one of the worst human rights crises of our times the u.s. says it will continue speaking up until china stops its quote crimes against humanity. migrants in greece have told d.w. they fear police detention despite being legally registered in the country w. has obtained footage from inside the power and s.t.d. detention center which is close to journalists w.'s funny reports on the accusations against greek authority says reza and his friends spend their days soon looking for somewhere to sleep in the cell and keep these from afghanistan any

thread you stood in greece is inside of seeka home join another of the believing though we have to be 1st we have to hide when the police catch us they beat us and forces out then we have nowhere to go we have to live on this street you know we've got to give a little i'm going to be able to meet you. social worker hope parker shows us this was where saddam see. tourists can find shelter in testimony the city used to be safe for refugees but more and more are hiding from the authorities if the police pick them up they're looking at either like the detention or a violent person back so most people don't want to be seen by the police after remeet shot up from a jury are also had documents he was speak to up on the street and spent months in a detention center i haven't. thought hunger striking because we didn't know 1st why are we here and for how long going to last one incident was

especially traumatic might they have brought this group of police. everyone. was really bugged like so many people. complain or support arbitrary detentions in holding facilities or prisons and human rights violations the authorities tell a different story the government says that push backs are nothing but george propaganda that so-called secret detention sites don't exist that we are on the way to her and our state which is a free removal detention center yet still. to the public eye. surrounded by the rope even fishel detention center is hard to find. an aerial view shows a facility that can hold up to 500 detainees surrounded by barbed wire fencing inside there reports of police violence real petain this exclusive footage from

border monitoring violence network an independent watchdog which documents police brutality and in the push backs the video was taken inside her nasty last year the monitor say violence is systematic the greek government has not responded to our interview requests we show the images to the united nations official responsible for refugees 70 incidents should it happen and it's important that the conditions of detention are. worked on collectively but at the same time the asylum service has been you know in the but if you look at the past 3 years the systemic change we're ready. to strengthen itself for the refugees there's little prospect of any immediate improvement in daily life this facility near to saloniki is supposedly an open camp the concrete war is being built around it to keep people in

ironically construction is being fine. by the united nations migration agency. and that was the w.'s funny reporting there you are watching d.w. news up next we've got a documentary for you on extreme tourism or talking war zones and disaster areas and stuff that you can get all the latest news information on our web site at g.w. dot com i'm terry martin thanks for watching. trying to it's. a lot of flushing weeks. glitter glitter glitter there fighting against prejudice i don't hold cable i. break a. little stores on the big stage. cheats

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