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the israeli newspaper reports kerry has drafted new cease-fire proposals, waiting to hear back from hamas. the liftingmanded of the seven-year blockade of gaza as a condition for a cease-fire. for more, we go to gaza city, where we are joined by our

reporter. can you talk about what happened -- what has happened? news broke of the shelling of london, whichl in is in the north of gaza. , theshed to the hospital biggest hospital in the north, where the dead and wounded were being brought. beingomen and children brought in on stretchers, wanted, i met one man, a 21-year-old, who had lost his mother. he has three siblings under the age of 18 and his father's second life. multiple witnesses have said they had sought shelter in the school and they thought they were safe. they were told to gather around 1:30 or 2:00 p.m. to be taken to

another school because there was some clashes in the area. point, multiple explosions hit the schoolyard. that ittary has alleged may have been an errant, us rocket, but the fact that there were multiple explosions in the same area the lie that claim and the israeli military later acknowledged it did fire into the area in response to hostile fire. in the morgue of the hospital, i saw at least one baby. this was somewhere where some of the poorest people have gone. they do not have anywhere else to go, relatives to stay with, this was a place of refuge they had sought and they came under this attack. 16 were killed and over 200 injured. was aast night, there

large airstrike on a house in a neighborhood of northern gaza. the blast severely damaged the children's hospital. morning the icu units. they were completely destroyed. the window frames were toppled over cribs. child, two and a half years old, he was being intubated at the time of the attack. the doctor was blown back by the force of the blast. glass flew all over the baby and the baby was killed. this was continuing as we speak. there is still the sound of drones in the air.

the bloodshed is also continuing. >> can you talk about what you're hearing so far? state is in cairo right now. what are people saying. the israeli security chance -- council is scheduled to begin theiscuss the proposal for cease-fire. it is a element is -- proposal to stop hostilities under which negotiations would continue. one condition is that israeli troops remain in gaza and continue to search and destroy tunnels. this is israel's main objective. a lot of people i have spoken to, to them, it sounds like they want, us to lay down -- they

to lay down its arms. they have held out for their main condition for a cease-fire, which is that the seven-year of gaza is listed. >> can you tell us more stories of the people you have met? particularly, what is the hospital like? >> any hospital you go to in gaza you will see many children and innocent civilians caught up in this bloodshed. almost -- the number of children that you see wounded, the number that i have seen killed has been astonishing. yesterday, there was a much fiercer campaign and attack.

in and thatps moved this is near the border in southern israel. people described the ordeal of trying to get out from house to house. arresting men from homes. tanke trying to escape fire, walking holding white flags in the air, holding their hands in the air like visitors of war. these are civilians. men took off their t-shirts and put their hands in the air to walk out. there are many dead and wounded. they are still bringing bodies in from a neighborhood attacked by the israeli military. a lot of indiscriminate tank shell fire on sunday. the bodies are decomposing and

are still being brought in. we are looking at a grave humanitarian crisis. >> the issue of power? >> about 30% of electricity to the gaza strip. four hours ofut power a day. it also affects the water supply -- the pumps to pump water to the palestinians. water utility here who says palestinians get three hours of water every three days. you can imagine what that is light for many people. when they do get water, they have to fill up bottles and jerry cans. these are very basic human rights. the very heavy display us -- displacement that has happened,

it has only exacerbated these problems. >> the effect of the mass protests and the west bank -- the largest protest seen in years on the people of gaza -- did were get through? >> as an act of solidarity that was shown in the west bank, people are rising up and supporting their cause. we will have to wait and see where this takes us. intothe cease-fire come effect and if it does, it is only scheduled to be in effect until sunday. if you look at the past campaigns on gaza by israel, it usually ramps up its violence as a cease-fire approaches. i think we will see a ramping up of virus goal -- of violence going into sunday.

>> thank you for joining us. stay safe. we go to theback, spokesperson for the united nations organization that runs the school that was just shelled, killing 16 people, hundreds.

now!is is "democracy ". palestinian families were in the school, fleeing israel's offensive against, militants. saidirector of operations the coordinates of the school have been given to the israeli army numerous times. >> the school was a designated emergencies -- emergency

shelter. they were fully aware that this was a shelter. we knew the situation was deteriorating. over the course, we tried to coordinate a window during which -- our staff. we would never confirm the window. >> that was the director of unrwa operations. i was shocked and opposed by what has happened. it is unacceptable. i condemn it strongly.

secretary kerry and i and many leaders have been watching -- been working tirelessly to bring this to an end. was u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon. christopherd by gunness. describe what you understand happen. accordance of gps a u.n. designated school. it had a blue u.n. flat on the israeli army.the we appealed to them and beg them and pleaded with them to allow a humanitarian -- a window of opportunity so women, children,

men, civilians, the sick, the --erly, a bees, the dying the elderly, babies, the dying out of thet situation. no answer came back to was possible. not do the civilian evacuation and the consequences of that were absolutely tragic. the carnage that you saw on your screens yesterday was the result. >> how many refugees had taken shelter in the school? >> the number of people sheltering has gone over 150,000. that is fast approaching 10% of the population in gaza. these are desperate, traumatized people, who have fled from their

homes in response to the escalating israeli ground .ffensive there's a desperate need for 95 4% -- 95% of the water is undrinkable. we have to truck in every single 150,000 water to people. that is just the water. there is food we need to bring in. mattresses, sanitation equipment. all sorts of things people staying in the shelters are desperately in need of. it seems there is nowhere safe in gaza. we have been hit and it seems

every single one of our shelters , all 150,000 of those lies taking shelter with us are at risk. >> the israeli military saying perhaps this was a hamas rocket? rockets are notoriously inaccurate. fewidea that within a minutes that a group of rockets could hit the same area seems beyond miraculous. if that is what the israeli army and military spokesman and others like them or saying, that is fine. it is useful to ask them why weapons fly into israel and they say they are completely inaccurate, apparently they can all landed roughly the same space within a matter of minutes.

>> why people come to this school, who were the palestinians that came to the school? residentsre ordinary based in northern gaza. that area had been particularly affected by the israeli ground is -- ground offensive. these are people who have been dramatically affected. many of these are refugees already. they fled their homes, many of them under fire, grabbing their children. these are deeply scarred people. there are stars you can see and scars you cannot see. i fear the scars you cannot see are considerably deeper than the scars you can. of thebe mindful appalling scars we saw yesterday.

unrwa released a press report that said rockets had been found in another school. two are situated between other schools that accommodate something like 1500 refugees. the release also says that because staff were immediately evacuated, the number of rockets could not be confirmed. >> we discovered that there was a cache of rockets. we immediately evacuated the school and we put a guard on the gate. what happened -- we began consultations to find international experts capable of making these weapons safe. what happened was, overnight, a group of refugees attempted to flee and break into the school.

we had to go back into the school. at that point, we discovered the weapons had gone missing. we notified all of the relevant parties. we notified the office of the secretary-general. there is a major review. the secretary-general has ordered u.n. security and the united nations action service are involved. there is a review of what happened and international experts on the way. the hope is that we do not have a situation where militant groups are able to go into hidel u.n. compounds and these weapons. we came out strongly in condemning them. we have been clear that this is a flagrant violation of the neutrality of u.n. premises. we have called on those groups and demanded they should never -- this should never happen again. it is imperative that all parties to this conflict respect

the sanctity of civilian life, united nation's property and compounds and there is respect under and according to international humanitarian law. look at the appalling consequences that we saw yesterday. the callous attack, the callous shelling. we are not saying who did it, but we want an investigation. we need to find out who was responsible. >> the human school yesterday that was attacked, 16 people were killed and hundreds wounded, that is not the one you are talking about where there are rockets. >> the places where the weapons found him it was in the course of regular weaponsons that the

were discovered. to be clear, there is no evidence that there were rockets in the school. yesterday. in -- in the school hit yesterday. israeli spokespeople made aqua -- accusations that there were militants in compounds. was evervidence produced to substantiate these allegations against united nations. >> other schools during this -- have they been hit? >> they have. there have been three direct --. in regards to

in another place, 300 people were taking shelter and one small girl was injured. when we went back to investigate, we cleared a --.hour window which marked one of my colleagues nearly lost his life. >> what are you hearing of a cease-fire? communitarian -- a humanitarian organization. mitigate theand effects of the failure of the politicians and the peacemakers. we pray there will not be failure. we are hearing what you are hearing. some kind ofng

cessation of hostilities. the 150,000 people taking shelter in our schools -- all of them are potentially victims of will we saw yesterday. they are fearful and traumatized and desperately hoping the cease-fire will hold. >> what do you tell palestinian refugees who are leaving their homes, who were told and in struct it in by the israeli and the, with calls pamphlets that are dropped, where do you tell them to go if they are bombed when they go to the designated shelters? >> it is up to individuals to make their choices. frankly, we cannot say. gaza has defense around it.

even within gaza, there is no safe place. if the parties of this conflict have shown themselves callous enough to be able to hit a u.n. compound, where hundreds of people have come to take sanctuary, we cannot guarantee the safety sanctuary of our people, it is appalling that in a war today, so many u.n. designated safe shelters that this sort of thing is happening. it has to stop. the elderly, the sick, the dying. they have suffered enough. enough is enough. >> your response to the military, saying they are engaged in precision bombing, hamas uses palestinians as human

shields. >> if rescission bombing has led to -- if precision bombing has led to the majority of those being killed being civilians, one has to ask how precise those shellings are. this is democracy now! democracynow.org. killed, hundreds won't. we turn to the west bank, which saw the largest protest in years. towardsarched jerusalem. two palestinians were killed and over 200 were wounded when israeli soldiers fired live ammunition. more protest today. we are joined by our

amira hass.t, she is the only israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from gaza and the west bank. describe the protest last night. >> it was high-spirited. everyone felt there is a big change happening. the people -- there were whole families and women and men, traditional and modern, middle-class, workers, everybody went, very determined to show the palestinians authority that --s is enough, that they are unforgivable silence, especially

during the first week. say this isity to the people being murdered in gaza. it is not a dispute between hamas. this needs to be stopped. it was a message to the israelis. today, as you said, there are demonstrations all over. but silent, not depressed, stressed funeral of the guy who was killed yesterday. from a refugee camp. feel it is a turning point. that is for sure. it is a turning point for jerusalem. youngsters forced their way because they are not allowed to get into prayers. they forced their way through the police checkpoints. changing, things are

and things are changing because people are shocked by what is happening in gaza and that they are unable to do a thing for them. >> what was the military response to the protest? i would not have gone near but thekpoint, youngsters were near the checkpoint rather early. they started with --. liveswas no danger to the of the soldiers, but they started shooting live a musician -- started shooting live ammunition. when i was walking towards the already heard several ambulances going

back-and-forth, carrying people who were injured. later on, i was in the hospital because of the child of a friend of mine who was wounded. all people were injured -- most of them were injured in the legs. beingters were lifted and taking care of. those who were less serious went to other hospitals. woman who wasung near theere checkpoint. she might lose her leg. many women were also near the checkpoints. they were probably targeted because it was shooting by smart -- shooting by snipers. i understand there was one of

on the part of palestinians. we gave the army an excuse to say the people -- they started the shooting. >> you have been covering the territories for decades. the word of a cease-fire coming through with secretary of state cairo.nd cairo-- in what is hamas calling for? i did not follow it. it is impossible to follow everything. in contact with my friends in gaza to hear from iem what is happening and leave the political things a bit aside, especially in the last

two or three days. in general, some things are of theg in the sense discourse of palestinians about what the demands should be. it is very interesting because the demands of, us -- demands of toas, they started reconnect with the west bank. this is a big change. they probably did it because they understood egypt is not -- they have lost all of the thetions with egypt after muslim brothers. this was one big mistake i see y were victorious in elections in 2006. gaza,then their hold on late into the fantasy that gaza can be separate entity or a

quasi-state, or they can run a government. repeating the mistakes of the p.a. before and now. the disconnection of the communities. what is happening now, the discourse is -- they demand to reconnectosure and with the west bank. list theou say closure, the blockade, explain what that is. >> gaza is not under siege since seven years only. they are under severe terms of her stretch of movement.

it has been since the beginning of the 1990's 1990's. this is something people tend to forget and i am always angry about that. the closure started when they came to power. it has intensified, but it --rted much earlier because to disconnect gaza and the west bank. when i talk about lifting the closure, they cannot imagine opening to the west bank -- opening the borders for raw materials, to having raw material enter gaza and to have some connection to the world. other people understand. people in gaza understand. they want to go back and live and be palestinians in this country and go back to the west

bank and have connections with the west bank. they are coming back to the fold. we do not know. it is like the israeli mixture of defense. he said don't mind -- people will be guarding the checkpoints, but i would never gaza.bus go back and rule that means we do not want gaza to be one unit. israeli government does not want it. it has not wanted it since the beginning of the 1990's. developing into a political discourse, a strategy, the change of this, i cannot tell, it is too early. see missing is --

not leadership, but a group which has the confidence of the people and can organize and lead sows --hese upsurge in upsurge in anger and people who are fed up with these occupations. there is no group, no reliable group that can lead and strategize this. this is what is worrying me. >> thank you for being with us. this is democracy now! when we come back, we speak to a doctor. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] [♪]

this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. chief of medical staff have been struggling to treat thousands of injured, despite power cuts. he recently wrote a story. why don't we start off on the effects of the u.n. school that was sheltered -- being shelled -- 16 people killed and hundreds wounded. have you seen any of those who were wounded?

>> it was my day off. [indiscernible] targeted hospitals and medical centers. 16 people died. yesterday, more than 100 were killed. dr. dabour, can you talk about the situation in gaza and how you are operating at the hospital? >> this is the largest hospital in gaza. the staff has been divided into three teams. they each take 24-hour shifts.

there are casualties and bodies arriving at the hospital. last sunday morning, -- took place. six rooms were operating at the same time. there was a big blood bag that was just sitting there. it continued all day long. people whoseo the bodies have been taken from the scene and the others estimated to be -- under the rubble. my latest shift was two days ago.

thursday morning from 3:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., we received about five bodies in five hours. we also received more than three dozen injuries. a lot of them are children and one whole family. this is the situation. the biggest problem is that it is not getting any better. day by day, it is getting worse. shortages are increasing as we speak. >> can you tell us about the photo of the little boy clinging to the paramedic that has gone viral? this boy was lucky for two things. his injuries could have been serious. dracula's thing, he did not. therewas -- of the top -- was a photographer at the time and he captured the right photo

at the right time. more than 200 children have been killed in 18 days. more than 1400 children have been wounded. ucky toere not very lik be caught on camera -- those caught on camera were not be very lucky. i want to stress the point that this photo, it might be forgotten with time. thousands. the misery of thousands is not being reported. they are just numbers and we are not numbers. came to the hospital injured with a strap no -- with shrapnel. being in the middle of awake and asleep. he was at home asleep and

suddenly his home was targeted. he kept screaming -- i want my father. that is why he clung to the paramedic. him and thedate thisrs operated and about area, there was shrapnel this centimeterse to two away from a big vessel in this area. he was lucky that it was not hit. i believe he survived. with all of the flow of casualties, i do not know his name or is he was united with his father or what was the fate of the rest of his family. i only saw three other of his brothers below three years. those should be fine now.

what happened to the rest of the family? didn't we see them? i am not aware. maybe this is for the best. people tendtery -- to like mystery. in my make it stick in the memories a little longer. before he gets forgotten with the massive amount of people here. , butu are a doctor you are a palestinian living in gaza. can you describe your daily life? daily life is basically sitting at the house, waiting for the next to come. my area is swarming with people who are taking shelter from the north gaza. i live closer to the west side of gaza city. in my house, there are three families who evacuated from the north.

this situation is the same for all of my neighbors. you can find some life in the streets, however from my house and to the east, only ambulances can pass through the street. this is in addition to the problems with electricity. only one hour per 24 hours we had electricity. today, a little less than three hours. situation is not in my area. it is in the whole of gaza strip. behind me, there are tillery -- there areg artillery shells falling. shells with my left ear.

this continuous shelling has been nonstop for more than one week. it started last thursday and we are on friday. there are explosions nonstop. 24/7. >> was the feeling of the palestinian people in gaza? is there support for the hamas rockets stopping? they tried to sell the theory that this is conflict between two states, however, we're not talking about a war between two states. we are talking about the gaza strip. we are talking about israel with

extensive army and sophisticated andonry, targeting an area people have been deprived from all means to live. if you look at the situation, you will find a thing that comes from gaza is a form of resistance. this is what the pupil thing. a person spoke and said there would not be -- unless there was a listing of the seige. if he accepts, or if hamas accepts, they will all start to be enemies of how mosque, because we have lost everything. they have no hope.

this is the minimum the people have been asking. this is not one hamas -- what hamas says. sayspect anyone would otherwise. >> can you explain the effect of the seas? what it is? it is not as clear when you talk about the siege, with the siege of gaza means. says gaza is being occupied and he says no, we left gaza years ago. can say whatever he says, -- the united nations gods occupy the strip. gaza hasf gaza, been siege for decades. this is true.

it has taken many forms. , from 2010, it meant that there was no movement outside the gaza strip and that there were shortages of denied entry of medicine, most food. howel used to calculate much food east person in gaza was allowed. this was published. now, the siege is taking another turn. we can get whatever medicines we want. they put a ban on the unity government, on the movement of finances to the gazan bank and they crushed the economy so revenues are up. they say you can have whatever

medicines you want. the siege is continuous. it has taken many forms. manifestation of this lives were in turn errable,ll -- were int they have not seen -- until the siege is listed. >> if there is a cease-fire, you have more than 2600 homes that .ave been destroyed thousands more that have been damaged. what happens if there is a cease-fire? in 2008, about 5000 houses were destroyed. unbuilt for remain about two years.

some construction materials started coming into the tunnels. after the tunnels, we started working. some construction materials to get into gaza. for two years, people were at whatever shelter they could provide. not tragedy, if it is listed, it will be defeated again for god knows how long. ndo fi e tunnels used a temporary solution are gone now. >> you have a final statement. large parts of gaza city are now being shelled i artillery. your final comments? as a doctor, if the situation

was an illness, i would prescribe this medicine -- the best medicine is stopped the assault immediately. .umber two, stop the siege number three, list the occupation. most important now is for the massacres to stop. number two, for the siege to be lifted. listen to the previous inhumane -- and allow them to be listed. number one, stop the killing immediately. >> thank you for being with us. i see behind your head, there is smoke coming up. if you shift aside, we will see what is directly behind you. please stay safe.

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