>> good evening. it is now exactly two weeks since israel began operation protective edge in gaza, and dozens more rockets fired across the border by hamas militants, and there are no signs of the deadly violence coming to an end soon. over 500 palestinians have been killed since early july, and 25 israelis, most of them soldiers, have lost their lives. the israeli defense ministry are using language that in any way suggest that mediation in this crisis is even on the agenda. report on the day's main developments. >> and huge funeral procession advances in southern gaza.

pouring onto the streets to mourn the 13 members of the same family who were killed by an israeli airstrike. among the dead are women and children, and there are more. palestinian medics say, in all, 28 members of that family were killed when a bomb flattened their home in the early hours of monday. the sound of heavy shelling, and we left our home to come and see what happened, but there was just no house here anymore. palestinian health ministry also reported that a tank shell hit the hospital in central gaza this monday, slamming into surgeries and an intensive care unit. picture's of the panic broadcast on the official hamas-run tv channel. rocket fire continues from gaza. is really troops are keeping up their air and ground offensive. the israeli army said they

averted another incursion from gaza on monday, releasing this video, which they say shows militants and a trading israeli territory by tunnels into two separate locations. >> it just goes to show and exemplify their intentions to attack israel, to attack the israeli communities. we are doing our best to protect the state of israel. that is what we are doing, and that is what we will continue to do. >> is really officials say they killed all 10 palestinian militants involved. officials say they killed all 10 of the palestinian militants involved. >> let's never speak to a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister who joins us live from tel aviv. good evening to you. thank you for speaking to us. air raids-- israeli have killed several, including children, in gaza. musty, more can be done,

be done to spare civilians. the deaths of innocent children. >> 100% correct. israel he does not want to see -- israel does not want to see a single civilian casualty, and definitely not children. what is the dilemma? the dilemma is hamas has exactly the opposite goal. kill is trying to really citizens, and that is with their indiscriminate rocket fire -- to kill israeli citizens with their indiscriminate rocket fire, and they are going through butels to murder and mame, -- gazahamas itself, itself, hamas has things that put the palestinians in gaza at harms risk. are shooting at the

population and using the population as a human shield. that maybe clear. >> let me just interrupt you. we hear that argument a lot, but there are one million people in a very small stretch of a densely populated area. where are they supposed to go? that is why we have urged them to leave the areas where there is combat. if we take, example, yesterday's intense fighting in a neighborhood in gaza, we were days before urging the civilian population to vacate that area because we had to move into deal with the hamas targets there. there were some very fermentable hamastarget -- formidable targets, and we had to do with it, but before we attack him for a period of days, we send messages to the people there to evacuate, because we did not want to see them caught up in

the crossfire. what did hamas do? hamas told them not to leave. hamas ordered them to stay. why? why did hamas ordered them to stay in what was a combat zone? i will tell you why. hamas wants to use the gaza civilians as a human shield. radical,have a very very extreme, very fundamentalist agenda. palestiniansof have fled in the past two weeks, forced to leave their homes, a great trauma, not the first time they have done it, and more than 40 people killed across gaza today alone, and let's not forget, the civilians are the greatest victims in this whole offensive, and what concerns me, and i am curious if this ends earns you, if this will result in not another generation harboring hatred towards israel, because that is a huge risk to future generations of israelis.

>> well, i will answer the two parts of your question. it must beart, remembered that israel did everything we could to avoid this conflict before it took off. the prime minister, as you know, was criticized for that, but we tried to avoid this conflict. once the conflict started, we accepted the egyptian-proposed cease-fire, and that by the arab league. the arab league is not known to be particularly friendly to israel, that hamas rejected it, and we accepted it. there was a cease-fire to end the conflict, and hamas close to the door on that option. to answer your second question about where does this all and, and the trouble is hamas is opposed to peace. hamas is the opposite of peace and reconciliation. my country should be destroyed, obliterated. they say every jew is a target,

men, women, and children, and if we come out of this conflict with hamas substantially weakened, with their military the sheen largely destroyed, -- military machine largely destroyed, discredited, that may be good. >> we even have the pope, the vatican, doing his very best, and many people would say, even wearing my american hat, looking from where i sit, after john kerry region, after hillary notton has left the region, sooner have they gotten on air force one and gone back to washington that israel announced to washington that israel announced the construction of more settlements, and that is a very strong message to the rest of the world that perhaps it is for peace.is not i understand that in the peace talks, but those who say that this conflict is all about

the settlements are mistaken. i know there is a certain conventional wisdom about that, but let's look at the situation in gaza. we took them all down. we were moved from gaza all the settlers, and those who do not want to leave, we forced them to leave. we pulled back to the 1996, 1967 borders, but after that, did we have peace in gaza? >> many turn to another situation, the situation on the ground today. there were a lot of questions about the wisdom of a ground invasion from the very outset of operation, protective edge, and several is really soldiers were killed in the space of one day, the highest one-day death toll since the 2006 lebanon war. happening in-think israel about whether or not it was a good idea to launch this ground offensive on thursday next week? do not take the decision

to send in ground troops into gaza lightly. obviously, we were well aware of the dangers to our own troops and the dangers of escalation, and we only took that decision after, first of all, hamas closed the door to the cease-fire proposed by egypt and the arab league, and, secondly, after hamas intensified its rocket barrage of our cities and infiltration through the tunnels, and i think we had no choice but to act against that very dangerous network of tunnels. now, i am hopeful that we will come out of this in a situation where we can have sustained peace and quiet for the citizens of southern israel and for the citizens of all israel and, of course, for the people of gaza, because this conflict served no one's interests, and remember, the israeli goals here are defensive. goals are that the citizens of my country no longer have to live in fear of incoming rockets from gaza. >> can i just ask you about a report that circulated during the weekend?

there has been considerable confusion in the international media, on social networks, and though on, about what was the fate of an israeli soldier. can you tell me what the israeli government position is on that work for it, that one is really soldier has been captured by hamas? >> i cannot comment on those reports. i apologize. >> all right, we leave it there. thank you very much, indeed, a spokesman for the israeli prime minister there in tel aviv. audrey, awe go to coordinator for the french medical ngo who joins us now from gaza city. just heard, audrey, from the united nations that more than 100,000 palestinians have now been displaced. give us a sense of what the scene is on the ground, the humanitarian situation on the ground, where you are right now. to say, the human situation is difficult to because there are a lot

of security constraints. there are right now airstrikes , so theings everywhere movements are very difficult for us, of course, to reach our patients to evaluate the situation, but also for our medical teams who are trying to get to the people who need to be brought to the hospital. is thatan tell you it is more than double the amount of people they should have. , and theseople fled are very basic conditions, water for each person, and some conditions are very difficult, and they are trying to help the people. >> clearly, you are stretched to your limits.

most of the ngo's operating there are in the same position, very much stretched. what are the main requirements of the ngo's, such as yours, operating in gaza right now? what are you finding that you are needing the most? >> our main requirements is just to stop the bombing. the majority of the pay since -- patients that we see in the hospital right now, more than half of the people are children. in women. -- and women. >> and are most of the people that are coming to facilities say that theyu have anywhere they could have taken shelter? or were they given any warning beforehand, because that is what the israeli government just told us?

operating, taking care of burn patients, doing dressings for them, and right now, we can almost not reach them, because there are too much too much deep -- security constraints. we have had a surgical team working for two days. there are five people working in and fromtal right now, the information i have, they still have a lot of casualties coming in. that, workingor with doctors without borders. thousands of kilometers away,

protests, and france is no exception, home to the largest muslim community there. rallies in a paris suburb took place nonetheless, soon descending into chaos, attacking a number of jewish owned businesses, and the mayor slammed what he called intolerable acts. nothing in france, a free country, which supports the peace process in the middle east, nothing can justify violence. nothing can justify people attacking synagogues and jewish groceries, shops, and institutions. nothing can justify it. >> the french prime minister speaking there. worldving onto some other news, the prime minister of malaysia has said today that pro-russian rebels in eastern ukraine have agreed to hand over the black ops flight recorders from the malaysian airlines

flight 17, which grassed -- crashed to the ground on thursday. all over 200 people on board were killed when the boeing went down. it was on route to kuala lumpur. it was also said as part of that deal with the rebel leaders, international investigators also be given safe access to the crash site. meanwhile, the remains of most of the crash victims are being removed on a refrigerated train, and they will be transported by the let your aircraft to amsterdam. the dutch prime minister said that that train journey carrying those bodies has now begun. asked -- go to donna donetsk. i gather you were there a little earlier today. >> earlier today, there were the toe and others who were able

visit the site, and they were granted access, but always under the heavily armed and very professionally armed or russian separatists. now, this evening, it has been a train with thee victims of the crash on it, the refrigerated train, has left the station, and the destination was supposed to be in one area, and the specialists were supposed to be on the train, but they were not. they came back and did not give any comment about what this change was about, so we do not know where it is going. a last-minute change of plan, but it does look as though this promise by the pro-russian hand over the black boxes to the malaysian delegation here is being kept. told byase, i am being colleagues at the hotel where this handover was supposed to take place, there was a huge

fuss going on, and there are armed separatist guards, and it looks like the purpose of that is to hand over these black boxes. until there is photographic evidence of this, he cannot assure it has actually happened, but it is happening this evening. the black boxes are being handed over. >> very strong language from the united states, with john kerry who spoke earlier today, he said, in particular, he cited when he called overwhelming evidence of complicity of the shooting down of the malaysian plane. how is the media in ukraine, in general, discussing the complicity of the separatists and this, and what sort of speculation, what sort of theories are making the rounds question mark >> most of the detainee -- ukrainian media see in eastern ukraine as a ploy to destabilize the country. that has the line that has been

taken. and there is the way the ukrainian media use the word terrorist, and they repeatedly say the plane shot down by terrorists, as if there is not even the faintest whisper of a doubt about who is to blame for it, but it is true what john kerry said, that the evidence pointing -- i am sorry. i used the word terrorist myself, leading to the separatists or the russians, the pro-russians -- let's not forget that a lot are actually russian citizens, that evidence is very strong, indeed. it is somewhat worrying, though, the amount of anger in ukraine about this, and they are so convinced that the separatists there is ae, because very strong continuation of the ukraine military action, and we saw that today, that there were strong attacks, both from the ukraine military and from groups of pro-ukrainian voluntary

donetsk itself. >> thank you very much. as we just heard, from new york, the united nations has approved a resolution calling for an international investigation into that downed plane. we will, of course, bring you more on that as the evening goes on, but it is a time now for a check on the business news. that story, the mh 17 plane crash, that means in or ms. pressure being felt by israel, and that is the top story this evening. >> russia had been focused last week when the u.s. increased its sanctions over the country over the crisis in ukraine, and the u.s. had pressed europe to follow suit, and since the downing of the flight, that is speeding the process along. ridge prime minister david couldn signaled europe intensify its sanctions on russia. >> for too long, there's been a

reluctance on the part of too many european countries to face up to the implications of what is happening in eastern ukraine. our power,to make influence, and resources felt. over the weekend, i agreed with chancellor merkel and president hollande about sanctions against russia. >> threats of further sanctions stocks down, and it is weighing on market sentiment here. some of the stocks ended the day in negative territory, even though there were some stocks that made gains. and let's switch over to the united states now, where the picture is pretty much the same. as you can see, the nasdaq and s&p totally flat among global geopolitical tensions having a downward pull, and american and

after the down tobacco maker was ordered to pay $23.6 billion to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer. food safetyn now, a scare has hit an american fast food giant in shanghai. a television station reported that a meat supplier was selling expired chicken and beef to mcdonald's and kfc. this is the latest canada comes in a series of food related issues to hit the country. joe now explains. tip-in, processed and transformed into nuggets. burgers picked up off of the floor. for saleeat repackaged to restaurant chains, like mcdonald's and kfc. the hidden camera images show the food processing facility, and the shanghai dragon tv broadcast the pictures on sunday. later in the evening, food

safety officials entered, but officials eventually gained when investigators tried to download surveillance video, companies service suddenly cut out. >> we were copying the database from the company network, and it was cut off just as we were about to finish. >> hidden in the so-called training room, officials found records of inferior quality meat repackaged for sale. a former quality-control worker said the company had consistently prepared fake food reports. >> they have two sets of paperwork. one was recorded during the processing, and the other was for the investigators. the american owners say they are cooperating with the investigation. to parent company apologized customers on monday, saying they have stopped using those products. the scandal is the latest in his drink of chinese food scares.

in 2012, kfc shares plummeted said that they pumped the chickens with excessive levels of antibiotics. >> thank you very much, indeed. the business news. time now for media watch, and i am joined in the studio. we have been talking a lot about the events in france over the course of the weekend, a big protest supporting what is happening in the middle east right now, particularly with the palestinians, and there was a lot of debate, wasn't there, about whether or not they should or should not be banned. >> that is right. in paris and a nearby city, they were banned, and this after a previous protest in july, in theestinian protest, vicinity of two synagogues, where there were clashes between the far right defense league extreme elements. in other -- in either case, they

wanted to avoid that, so they may be controversial decision of banning the protests, and let's take a look at what "le monde" had to say in its editorial. it said there is not a right to , but if you sent a look at the constitution, it refers to the declaration of human rights, which does acknowledge the right to protest, and they say wherever the protests were banned that there were actually serious incidents. it was worse, and wherever the protests were permitted in france, for example, in marseille, there was calm, so they say it worse and the tensions and atmosphere, so a failed strategy by the authorities. >> right. we are looking at a photograph that has gone viral. it shows a protester, if i understand correctly? >> that is right. it is a very tense story, so i am going to show you one area that is a little less tense.

it was a protester in the north of paris, who sort of copy i of one photographer. i suppose he looked quite dapper as he was about to throw his stone at the police, so he became the object of sort of fit thecatches, and he image or the stereotype of a dapper french protester, so there he is with baguette. to whatg a bit of humor is essentially an extremely serious situation, and there have been lots of graphic images regarding what is happening in gaza itself. saying,rnalists are especially on social media, there is no filtering process. >> that is right. it has been a feature since nearly the start of the current and the i suppose, guardian says this really is not adding anything to the debate.

a lot of people say since the advent of social media that we are told to understand more, that we need to see the slaughter of civilians, that it brings the war closer, and one person said she does not need to see more. i do not needgg99ññwçça7guc

07/21/14 07/21/14 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! another massacre was committed in the east. this was a massacre were nine civilians were killed. some of them children and women and 20 people were seriously injured. the death toll in gaza has risen over 3001 hundred 50 had been injured. >> the palestinian death toll tops 500 after a bloody