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villagers find hundreds of bodies washed up along the banks of the. police. authorities call it. welcome to the program more bloodshed as the conflict between israel and the palestinians shows no sign of being resolved israel's military says it has launched more than 90 strikes targeting the gaza strip in the last day palestinian authorities say at least another 33 people have been killed a mosque militants have retaliated by firing hundreds more rockets into israel

diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis have so far failed to produce any breakthrough the united nations security council is convening in new york to seek a solution. i know i'm here on the join us now. calling out for survivors rescuers pull the injured from the rubble and retrieve the bodies of those who didn't survive. several gaza apartment blocks were bombed in the early hours of sunday. the human cost is still being counted. the number of people under the rubble is still unknown and as we've heard from the families in the neighbors it's a large number i was still working here. israel says it's overnight strikes targeting a senior hamas political leader and taking up tunnels and rocket launch sites the response from hamas came quickly israel says about half of the militants

rockets have fallen short or been intercepted by the aerial defense system. but others have hit their targets residential areas such as here in tel aviv one man died when a hamas rocket struck his house others narrowly escaped death. 2 more meters and it would have been my house. coming out of. israel's destruction of this gaza building hosting several media outlets has raised international concern israel says it was also used by a hamas intelligence operation associated press has demanded evidence and says the world will now know less about what is happening in gaza. on saturday funerals were held for 10 family members killed in an earlier israeli airstrike

only a baby survived desperate diplomatic efforts are underway to broker a cease fire and avoid more such tragedies. earlier i spoke to paul a spokesperson for the israeli foreign ministry i asked him why the israeli military is bombing the offices of foreign press organizations in gaza. we are not bombing the offices of chris sorrell 'd to syria or any other media what we're doing is bombing military to all gets in. the particular case you're talking about its business of building a big a cauldron which howells. offices for military intelligence it housed cum us offices of research and development for military equipment development and were installed on the building you know on the building. of the tree. at the same time it will also offices separate to become us and has let me sit in these that.

they said they were offices yes there are enough associated press and this is precisely the problem with behavior of some us is that they all did look at the clothing. in them so 'd in civilian populations civilian institutions in mosques in hospitals. and in this particular case in a building which also housed june of this the he taught the goal of yeah is the road military infrastructure of. terror organization while minimizing as far as possible civilian cost i think that the point that you didn't mention which which really needs to be emphasized is that there will minority civilian casualties in the sequence that you talking about and the reason for that is because we gave if anybody that is at fault is noticing now with advance notice in order to make sure that no june of this no civilians would be in that particular

checklist and we appreciate it. if if i can just follow up in there so we certainly appreciate the word i'm hearing from you but as you well know the israeli military has so far provided no evidence of hamas activity in the building associated press says it was in that building for 15 years and had no indication. was operating there they also say they actively check because they would never knowingly put their journalists at risk and they're calling on your government to provide evidence for the justification for attacking the building will you provide that evidence rather then providing the sound bites we hear from you which we do appreciate. i think you can imagine that might be a lot easier if i could provide evidence to you right now. during this this poor old cost and i really wish i could do that the truth of the message is that we're in the midst of a military campaign and i think you can understand that there's

a. lot of intelligence which is not something that we can at this point i hope as soon as possible and as much as possible that we will i think that there are 2 things that should be also that that could be done at the moment in the one off your intelligence services what they think of the credibility of our intelligence services and i think you will get a consistent message from almost. that they will tell you that. pretty good. israeli foreign ministry spokesperson speaking to me earlier we now have a. claim are in jerusalem and in washington. is standing by tony at 1st to you what's the situation on the ground any more violence today. well we seen an earlier just an hour before this broadcast and marry

a massive rocket barrage into the south of israel coming out from gaza and targeting you know. cities like a school and a start but also their ships there are also more airstrikes on gaza on different places stair. we also know that the rescue efforts continue after this strike in the early morning the nervous tension building there were people were still trapped under the rubble and we're also hearing from the hospitals now in gaza that they are really strange and possibly overwhelmed with the constant intake of injured people now egypt has said they're opening also they have opened at the border crossing to take in some of the injured people we also have tensions here in jerusalem we're hearing here in the past half an hour or so a lot of sirens and police here in the neighborhood that something happened people

up to. obviously still a very dynamic situation in this poll in washington the u.n. security council meets soon in new york what can we expect there. well the question will be how strong the biden the u.s. president who really condemns the latest action also because the democrats within his own party are really getting louder now and wanting the president to be more forceful but you know there is no dollar whatsoever that the. united states would bedo any military action against israel and we have to keep in mind that in recent years all the u.n. security council resolutions have not really being implemented specially when it comes to the right for palestinians to build their own state perhaps a foregone conclusion there we will see tonya e.g. there any chance of a cease fire any time soon. well i think there's

a sense that. for maneuvering both sides become a bit tighter. you know also the pressure by the international community might be it might grow as well as humanitarian situation in gaza which has already been very difficult here reaching by the hour however the situation regarding its sistar remains pretty unclear as security company by the israeli government has now ended their reports before that they might discuss a possible cease fire look at proposals now we're not so sure about this different reports of one saying also that it might or might opt to continue. operations now we know that egypt is trying to mediate together with other countries also the u.s. envoy is here. in israel he also spoke to the palestinian president mahmoud

abbas but at the moment you know nothing really tangible to see if anything is imminent or will happen here with regards to cease fire. in its i'll give you the last word here the u.s. is trying to make that cease fire happen is the biden administration regarded as an honest broker in the conflict. that's a good question i mean as we know president biden called talked into a separate phone calls with netanyahu and abbas yesterday trying to really kind of broke a cease fire and we also know where this and netanyahu just posted a couple of hours later on facebook is not willing to do so is so that is not a good sign for the biden administration in that regard that they really have something to say in this conflict at the very moment so that indicates more or less that the possibilities of diplomacy are very limited at this point for the united

states you know poll in washington in tanya kramer in jerusalem i think you both the conflict in the middle east has brought people onto the streets in cities worldwide to protest against the violence here in germany thousands have marched in support of the palestinians. campaigners around the world organized rallies to condemn the violence in the middle east and to commemorate not about the displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians when the state of israel was created in 1048 most of saturday's events were peaceful although in berlin police broke up at least one pro palestinian gathering and arrested several demonstrators still the people made their voices heard. i just want it to be peace between jews muslims and christians we're all human and

a matter of america. my message is that the bombarding and the killing should stop . in a war there are only losers there is no winner. in this case children are dying on both sides. and that's not nice. elsewhere in the city a smaller gathering backing these rallies but most of the rallies around the world have been in support of the palestinians. in france police fired tear gas in an attempt to break up a rally in the north of paris crowds gathered even though city authorities had banned the march fearing an outbreak of anti semitic violence. the there was also solidarity down under with a pro palestinian gathering in sydney me. as the renewed violence deepens the rift

in the middle east many are around the world are uniting in protest. now highlighting some other stories now making news at this hour thousands of people have been protesting in haiti's capital port au prince calling for an end to the island's kidnapping frightens criminals indiscriminately women children locals and foreigners for ransom the united nations says nearly 250 people were abducted last year 3 times as many as the year before. pope francis has held a special mass for mir in march he called for peace and an end to the violence that has left hundreds dead military seized power in a coup in february didn't the railing progress towards democracy. the operator of the largest u.s. gasoline pipeline says it has resumed normal. relations after being hit by a ransomware attack the disruption to colonial pipeline network stretching from

texas to the east coast triggered supply shortages and long lines at many gas stations. researchers looking to bring high speed internet access for users worldwide with standing mission in space space x. has launched a batch of greece says it has reduced overcrowding in its migrant camps the number of asylum seekers on its islands has fallen below 10000 for the 1st time since the height of the migration crisis in 2015 at their worst some of those camps were operating at 2 to 3 times their physical capacity but although the number of people in the camps is falling many are still choosing to make the hazardous journey across the sea. coast guard on patrol near the sea border with greece the officers asked an italian boat from the european border control agency for.