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welcome the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you're watching a weekly here an r.t. international. now israeli ground troops and in northern gaza early on saturday to take out several missile launch sites the move comes amid an escalation of tension between israel and hamas which already saw over a hundred palestinians killed and there are also phase this will be a precursor to what could be a full blown ground invasion into the anglais let's get more now on this story from paul asli he joins us from tel aviv paula the tension is clearly building what we expect to happen next. when israeli soldiers as you say have briefly entered the northern gaza strip but they say that the purpose of the mission was to destroy the watch rocket launching sites that are being used from there there was a brief exchange of fire four israeli soldiers have been wounded but the soldiers

have since returned to israel leaving none behind of course the question on the ground is whether or not this is a precursor to a full scale ground invasion by the i.d.f. for days now the army has said that it is. ready to send in soldiers but that ultimately this is a political decision that needs to be made this comes on the sixth day of israeli air strikes over the city of gaza there has been increased activity over northern gaza where israeli warplanes have been dropping leaflets urging residents to evacuate their homes they've also been leaving messages on their home phones and they cell phones as well as putting messages in the mass media now overnight and in the early hours of this morning they were rodger's of rockets fired at israel whenever these rockets go off there's a flurry of activity here and at the same time we are witnessing an increase in rockets that are being fired from northern israel now no one here really believes that these rockets are being fired by hizbollah and this is ever since hizbollah

and hamas just joined their ally ins over the last a supporter for the opposition fighters in syria but certainly not only to escalate in there are growing concerns in israel that this could ultimately become a war that is going to be fought on various fronts. ok thanks paula. slay reporting live there from tel aviv thank you. meanwhile palestinians are dying in the israeli bombardment of gaza the total number of those killed in the offensive has reached one hundred fifty seven israeli military is calling on residents living in northern gaza to evacuate as it plans to intensify far. i don't know and i said yes and i know what i mean by that but i was.

at a loss or a little subtle what a budget of a ton of a c. for. tell us about the devil will the music come up from what i did it was just over this at the moment. what israel launched the offensive on tuesday and is claiming it only targets hamas militants the united nations is calling for a ceasefire say three quarters of the casualties are actually civilians but israel is a bearing to press on with its campaign until hamas rocket attacks stop how we fare reports now from gaza. several days into the latest escalation between israel and hamas and the situation in gaza has not eased. his relative here's three preparing for more hard hitting campaigns to rein in how mass rocket fire along the israel gaza borders thousands were ordered to evacuate a worrying indicator that

a ground invasion may be imminent is that unless we were attacked by f. sixteen jets to destroy her home but that's the whole neighborhood level when the israelis began demanding people move out of their sea and their children say so we left the area and then did up on the streets rockets continue to be fined vigorously from gaza israel struck over one thousand targets many of which homes friday morning the air force targeted a building belonging to a family in shaikh redwine locals are adamant that it was just a residential building they also billion there are no weapons. nothing. hidden within this building as you can see i don't know why the family managed to evacuate before the main missile struck no one was injured but they didn't have time to take their belongings before the house was destroyed late thursday night

a peculiar strike took place at gaza's marina a boat owned by the international freedom flotilla coalition was the sole target of gaza's og was a humanitarian project designed to export goods from the besieged enclave to the outside world to boost the economy and act as a symbol of palestinian nonviolent resistance in the face of what they see as the israeli occupation of palestinian activists say israel struck the boat to ruin their work but it's unclear if militants were at the marina that night in what's normally a relatively safe area of gaza more than eight hundred gazans have been injured and the health care system is struggling to keep up with. medics to treat the injured that is gradually increasing before doctors are provided with medicine it will soon be tougher to provide such services with border crossings closed in an intensifying block and the israeli escalation in gaza.

as this war goes on it's the palestinian civilian population that is paying the greatest price the bodies continue to arrive at gaza's hospitals israel says it's got hundreds of strikes after exactly against gaza it feels very much like this is not the end of the latest israel gaza war. well the spiraling tensions were triggered by the killing of three israeli teenagers last month before pay paul murphy says israelis using the tragedy to justify its actions . of a murderous assault being pursued bloody israeli establishment you have a completely cynical use over the tragic death of the three israeli teenagers in order to pursue a preexisting agenda which is an imperialist agenda which is opposed to undermining hamas and which points towards anyway new ground invasion so it's

not a matter of the israeli establishment crying crocodile tears and saying oh well some civilian deaths are inevitable and they're certainly inevitable whenever you have open air prison complex gaza and then you subject this to hundreds of bombardments with the highest technological level weapons on a daily basis. well the mounting international pressure to end of audiences having little impact on the ground israeli leaders a value to continue the gaza fence he. ahd . it is not backing down either is it continue sharing israeli territory rocket fire from gaza struck a gas station on friday in the southern israeli town of ashdod israel also fired a tillery shells into lebanon this week and retaliation for three rocket attacks from there. all in all five israelis were wounded this week two of them seriously

i.d.f. spokesman peter lerner says it needs to do all it can to protect its civilians this is an unfortunate situation israel had no intention no wish to go and attack gaza but hamas put us in this corner where you know all civilians are unable to move their children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children could not go to summer camp they had to stay in the safe room that's an acceptable we're not willing to let this go and that's why the military has been charged to protect the state of israel hamas is responsible hamas is accountable we are responsible for safeguarding the state of israel that is our mission and that is what we will do and of course we are keeping a close watch on all the latest updates coming out of gaza and israel on air and online at r.t. dot com we'll bring you the latest as we get it. another story we've been

following this week relations between germany and america have suffered another blow germany kicked out the cia the cia chief in berlin after officials on mass to alleged u.s. spies working for state security anger over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged spies is laughable but said the political damage is serious and that party member expressed outrage to you saying there is no longer blind trust in the u.s. and the justice minister has demanded u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all artes peter oliver reports now from berlin. sent packing a with a flea in his ear. i just want to say that if you see it with human common sense in my opinion spying on allies and friends is a waste of energy. germany has now told the cia contact at the u.s. embassy in berlin to get his things and leave for the first time after

a series of spy scandals this is a strong message from the germans that they've had enough of washington's behavior you know experience of a cheaper foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to this stage that paints a picture of an abusive relationship in june of last year it emerged that the u.s. had spied on its european allies prompting this response from the chancellor spying on friends is not acceptable then it was revealed that mrs merkel's private cell phone was bugged by the n.s.a. washington promised not to do it again but refused to sign a no spy deal lynn still wanted to talk trade and rebuilding of trust between the transatlantic partners flash forward to april of this year when germany's request to see the chancellor's n.s.a.

file was turned down even then and was content to stand side by side with the u.s. president as he again spoke of their close friendship but the discovery of two potential double agents in germany and his many weeks and a lack of cooperation from the u.s. with the investigations looks like the final straw and it will be interesting to see what effect the expulsion of the cia official will have on an already strained u.s. german relationship now that berlin has shown its willingness to act peter all of a r.t. germany. this isn't the first time a merican intelligence has been caught snooping on its allies we can see from here the full scale of the snooping came to light in chino last year the agency was shown to have accessed up to half a billion jim in data connections every month a month later it was revealed that jim intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's internet wondering software and in october an international

scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of chancellor angela merkel had been tapped at the end of the year it became clear that the british intelligence agency was also we've struck being on jim intelligence and in february this year it was reported the n.s.a. had tapped then chance they get it show by him calls in the run up to the teeth eyes and in three u.s. led invasion of iraq a former cia officer who worked in germany thinks the expulsion of the top intelligence official sends a dramatic signal spelling the cia chief of station is unprecedented i don't know of a single example of any nato country expelling the cia chief of station and so this is quite a significant move by the germans they're saying no more of this there's no question about it i think this one is different because i think it is it is maybe one or two too far it basically is the germans are saying that we have

a high tolerance for the united states acting independently in our country but recruiting our government officials and turning them into spies is a step that we can't condone so that's i think it's a serious discussion going on but i think as i said before i think the united states and germany have so much in common politically and every other way that eventually will blow over. we'll have more needs here in about fifteen minutes time before that i would scan katie and venture capital. well. science technology innovation all the least developed from around russia we've got the future covered. we speak your language anybody will not advance. news programs and documentaries and spanish matters to

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