77 now. this is news coming to you live from berlin israel masses troops along the border with gaza calls of thousands of reservists readying for a possible ground invasion israel says its target is the underground network being used by hamas militants to launch rocket attacks on israeli cities. tense night as jews and arabs within israel turn against each other on the streets the israeli

prime minister condemns what he calls. this. hello i'm terry barton good to have you with us. the israeli military is preparing for a possible ground invasion of the hamas ruled gaza strip these are live pictures of israeli troops massing along the border with gaza israel is also calling up some 9000 reservists it says it's targeting the network of tunnels dug by hamas underneath civilian areas inside the. overnight how must fired more than 200 rockets into israeli cities at least 8 israelis and more than 100 palestinians have been killed in the conflict so far. plumes of smoke over

gaza. on the ground residents picked through the destruction caused by days of his reilley air strikes palestinians in gaza spent the muslim holiday of eat under bombardment here amongst the rubble there is little to celebrate. the israel defense force bombs what it says is a military call impound belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas in gaza. its retaliate for rockets fired at israel the conflict between israel and hamas is escalating. the i.d.f. has already attacked hundreds of targets and we continue to strike hamas whilst defending our citizens it will take more time but with both defending and attacking we will restore peace to israel. the air raid sirens sound yet again

israelis run for cover this time israel's aerial missile defense system into septimus sile. but other rockets have cracked the so-called. and the reach of hamas seems to be extending further and further into israel this is a neighborhood just 10 kilometers east of tel aviv in heavily populated central israel. as a mass launches more rockets from gaza negotiators from egypt held talks with both sides to try and find a truce. gyptian qatari and international mediators are talking with the resistance hamas and the israeli occupation but every time they make an effort to create a situation which allows the expression to start a new israeli decision to destroy tara was killed children the elderly and women. stifles these efforts when it's i mean we're not. and in gaza as not fools

where we residents of fleeing their homes as a new round of shelling hits the city. let's bring in our jerusalem correspondent here tanya kramer tanya dramatic developments there in the past 24 hours how are things looking there the sporting. well absolutely overnight there were massive strikes by the israeli f. host a naval and a tillery mainly in the northern part of gaza the army says that 160 planes were involved in those strikes and bombardments and they say the targets were mainly underground tunnels tunnel system that is used by hamas and islamic jihad's inside gaza now this has of coups caused immense devastation hardship for the residents in this area. which have reportedly not being warned of this bombing contained

according to the army again 55 rockets were fired from gaza into israel overnight there were no buckets overnight fired into central israel and also in a parallel development there were new violence when you try and and also riots and protests and confrontations between. right to his extremist and people from the arab israeli community in those mixed towns across israel that is seen overnight. israel is making no secret of the fact that it is massing troops at the gaza border is a ground offensive imminent tanya. well we know that there are preparations and we understand from the army that plans of being drafted but at the moment we get a sense that's the kind of pain is mainly focused on. the afros naval and

a tillery from outside of gaza there had been reports overnight based on a tweet that came out from the military spokespersons office that had created some confusion but the military confirmed dismounting dead no ground troops in gaza at the moment. what about efforts to end this fighting tanya how much hope is there for diplomacy here. why on an international level diplomacy seems to move or appears to move this slow we understand that now a u.n. security council meeting has been scheduled for sunday but i think the focus as you also heard in the report is on reaching the efforts and in previous rounds of us till a teaser to end of war is egypt kut-o. and the united nations has played a role in mehdi ating between the warring factions but we also have heard again

from the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu last night in the statement that the operation would take as long as necessary so at the moment we have no indication when those mediation meditation efforts will see any results tony thank you so much w's jerusalem correspondent tonya kramer well for more on the humanitarian situation in gaza let's bring in latish he's gaza director of the un relief and works agency responsible for the welfare of palestine refugees he joins us from gaza city thanks for being with us mr small to give us a sense of the humanitarian situation in gaza right now. good morning to you terry and thank you for giving me others over to join it is we'll talk about this situation is a mixture of things there is this bear yesterday was the 1st day or eat off them ramadan and i think people are in despair that they cannot celebrate this religious

festivity that is so important there is people terrifying after 3 days and 3 nights of intense rockets from here but intense problem are getting into gaza people are terrified and that's one reason why they're on the move are they are right there is a rising human cost among the people killed as you mentioned at the beginning there are $8.00 children that went to all right u.n. schools and then there is homelessness people are on the move that we have the reports i'm getting this morning is that there are 16 schools of all schools where people are seeking shelter in one school 2 is more than 2000 people so the despair and humanitarian needs are growing your agency ordered staff to stay home i understand from its from its clinics in order to keep them safe how are you assisting civilians in the situation. so we we are able to provide

primary health care through our country to health centers on the 1st day but then on the 2nd day my chief of health fantastic palestinian doctor she was the one who called me early in the morning and said this is too hard as she put it this is too dangerous we have to today at least keep the house centers closed this is coming from a woman who is very proud to say in 2014 we didn't shop one day so it gives you a sense of the seriousness back to your question we've kept all sanitation services open yesterday because of the eat holiday everything was going to stop anyway today we've resume sanitation so cleaning in the aid camps and tomorrow we hope that the situation will precipitate primary house care the next big challenge is to support people in our in our schools who are seeking shelter so we will do what we can to provide support the most basic support to the internally displaced gaza is under bombardment it's in the middle of

a pandemic how are hospitals in gaza coping at this point. be i really is my understanding i haven't been in the last 23 days of all these reasons my the reports i'm getting is they're barely coping fortunately the devastating 2nd wave of the covert and demi was starting to ease off so they were under pressure but it was starting to be manageable so far my understanding is they can cope with the casualty casualties and it and of course if this continued if there were a ground offensive the hospitals would very very soon reach maximum capacity and that would be as serious humanitarian problem understand that water is a concern clean water sanitation facilities in gaza there's concern about the fuel supply electricity what do civilians in gaza need most at this point.

well you know to be honest what they need most is. of course. what is needed most is to make sure they have their basic food needs covered for the moment there seems to be enough food in the markets but of course if people flee their homes as they have started doing since yesterday and are in shelters or with relatives food needs will increase you mentioned water at the best of times there is not enough war save or to supply so water were very quickly become a huge issue and then let me say finally that beyond the basic needs food and non-food items there will be mental health needs and we we are in 14 years of located we've had the great marches of return we've had cold and this mental health needs are increasing and we should not lose sight of that including if there are thousands of people in shelters there's bound to be gender based violence pressure on children so we must also from the beginning think about and address the mental

health or people and well being mr thank you for taking time to talk with us today that was mathias gaza director of the un relief and works agency responsible for the welfare of palestine refugee. and here. in several israeli cities the conflict is fueling mob violence in neighborhoods where arab and jewish residents normally live peacefully side by side the police presence has been stepped up and more than 400 people have been arrested so far. some want us a little attack on the streets of. a group of far right israelis pull an arab man out of his car in to be 10. mob attacks as well in the city of this surveillance footage shows palestinian youths attacking an orthodox jew. elsewhere clashes erupted between arabs and israeli police. the violence is fueling fears that israel could be headed for civil war. jews and arabs who live side by

side in israel's so-called mixed cities are deeply concerned by the fall of the royal couple it was never like this at this scale never produced 3 small crafts small fires. we need to live here together coexistence we need to be partners to each other such as. this arab owned ice cream store and bought was vandalized by a right wing jewish mob its owner says she was shocked by the violence. shut up most of my customers are arabs or jews we've been mixed together this whole time i never felt like there was something wrong they used to come up and try to talk to me in arabic that was normal i never felt anything wrong i don't want to have that you know for. many in these towns are just hoping the unrest will end soon.

but you know what is right there it is right it's right he said i'm up and it's just so. heartbreaking what happened and meant that i have to. put an end to this conflict on israel's streets appears a long way off the prime minister has warned that the violence is likely to increase in the coming days. and tensions from the israeli palestinian conflict have spilled over to cities around the world including some here in germany there been renewed protests in several german cities against israel's military offer ration over 1500 people gathered in the northern city of braman alone and there have been also and he's admitted incidents of vandalism targeting jewish places of worship police arrested more than a dozen men suspected of damaging a synagogue in bonn and starting a fire at a jewish memorial site indecl dorm germany's jewish community is calling for. more protection. just reminder of our top story at this hour israel says it is

massing troops on the border with gaza and calling up thousands of reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion the hamas ruled territory overnight the israeli air force stepped up the strikes on gaza as hamas launched hundreds of rockets for and sure israel if. you're watching g.w. news up next is eco africa the environment magazine i'm terry martin for me and all of us here g.w. thanks for watching. leave. do you feel worried about the planet. needs to. be on the green trends and so many extra remains cheery. joined chris deep dive into the green transformation for me to do.