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midnight on sunday local time at home us says it won't stop foreign rockets across the border that is until the israeli troops leave gaza over one hundred palestinian bodies were recovered from the rubble during a lull in fighting on saturday that's bringing the latest death toll well to over one thousand is paulus where the israeli security cabinet has agreed to a twenty four hour extension of this united nations humanitarian cease fire that was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials are saying that they will however opposite of the cease fire if there are not any violations and that if in fact they are they reserve the right to act they're also saying that during this twenty four hour extension israeli soldiers who may be inside gaza where they will continue to locate destroy and dismantle tunnels and however we are hearing from a hamas spokesperson that they have rejected this extension of a cease fire and there was an initial twelve hour here in both could cease fire
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that was implemented on saturday that was it here too by both sides it was an extended for further still hours and it was during those four hours that the israelis complain that hamas broke the truce there were at least a dozen rockets in that time they were fired at south and central israel and now all of this is happening during a lull in the fighting that has allowed ordinary residents of gaza to use the opportunity to return to their homes and many did so they went back home to assess the damage to collect whatever belongings they could whether it was food or clothing or valuables it was also an opportunity for united nations aid workers to enter the strip to bring with them much needed medical and emergency supplies it was also an opportunity for body recovery and for injured people to be moved to various locations there was a funerals of will hold throughout the day saturday these of course had to be very quick because many people very fearful as to whether or not there's a lull in fighting would actually last. and the diplomatic efforts are ongoing to
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achieve a long lasting hole to hostilities but so far neither israel nor hamas have been willing to end the conflict permanently if we are now reporting on what the fighting has done and is doing to gaza. beit hanoun in garza's north deserted after israeli tank shelling hits this united nations run school killing sixteen and injuring scores of others before the war northern residents had it tough enough recently they've been plunged into incredible danger they were relying on the un to shelter and protect their children now even that is no guarantee. the red cross said they would move but they didn't arrive instead israelis launched missiles at us after which we started looking for our children some were dead others wounded ambulances arrived and each took four to six people we reached the hospital and then here where we look for our children it took four hours to find my
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son. one hospital room and one entire family caught up in a war from which they couldn't escape. eleven years old was one of those pierced by multiple pieces of shrapnel this family are one among over one hundred thousand who are currently sheltering with the u.n. we have informed the. times in. about this this call about its place how many people what is going on there. and everything the last time it was ten fifty five we called them and we ask them to give us a window of time so we can evacuated the displaced people who want to from them to be displaced. but the. fourteen year old fatima was in less pain than her sister. said i was hallucinating and terrified i started thinking
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of my father and screaming searching for my sisters and brothers i was afraid of what could have happened to them then my sister contacted our brother it was horrible i went to the school but we're told to move. there was an explosion and. people started crying and same they lost their relatives. i mean. they are criminals with their grief for this to happen to their children who could treat children like this each time they are hit by hamas rockets they get more violent with us civilians. this area remains dangerous most homes are of course evacuated but the hospital near the shelled school is not surveying the neighborhood from its roof and we see no letup in the heavy land and air bombardment the manager of the hospital tells me that every day including today the hospital is hit by shrapnel the fear here is a repeat of thursday's tragedy in the last three days i would schools have been
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attacked four times twice in. gaza. and the first one was injured the second day in a team from to investigate the incident and we agreed to a days earlier that we should have a window of time of two hours from nine eleven. all of the sudden ten thirty. this school activist and surgeon dr mads gilbert is adamant that palestinians have been failed by international institution is during this war where are the leaders of the world who are supposed to have some sort of global governance and upholding the international law the palestinian people that they can sum up that they are totally unprotected by international law by the great powers by the un by i.c.r.c. by anybody who are actually responsible to safeguard the lawful rights of individuals to be protected in war times she was even less action leaving families
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to their fate and the united nations struggling to find enough shelter as the rocket on stuart's sense casualty numbers chillingly high perry fear r.t. gaza. and our correspondent some thoughts of video taken from the heart of the conflict it does contain some images you may find distrust. of what we're doing now . we're going to move. on we're. apparently showing a man among the ruins of stored residential buildings he's thought to be the target of israeli government gunfire and the man appears to be hit by a bullet while lying stretched out on the ground already for talk to one witness this is the space of the day all together there were shots fired the first one but. three. the second one was. which caused him to fall
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down on the ground and the third one was i guess with them to make sure that they had got him basically he was as far as we are aware he was looking for his family he was frantic he was he was leading the way he was on the floor and he knew the enemy had time to do we want to do is find. in his day there was supposed to be a cease fire as well however as we said into the region there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting is. and israel is saying it's considering a continuation of the operation in gaza despite the truce and a flurry of international diplomatic efforts to bring it about my colleague paul scott talk to a pool hershon spokesman of the israeli foreign ministry explain why his country is not backing down. they say that all timothy's should be investigated and i agree and i'll tell you what we're going to discover we're going to discover that
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israel has taken unprecedented steps in in a very difficult circumstance to minimize and to avoid civilian casualties and we're going to discover that this evil machine with a killer strategy. is perpetrating war crime of the war crime of the war crime and that's what we're going to discover you say that israel is doing all it can to minimize civilian casualties are you doing enough for boys killed on a beach we're hearing about civilians being killed every single day we said repetitively we said it also quietly through diplomatic channels quiet will be altered with quiet calm will be responded to with this message was rejected out of hand they've been three cease fire proposals one by the egyptians one by the united nations one by the international committee for the red cross all three we accepted unconditionally we implemented them all three of which with the laws they couldn't care less attitude rejected and violated so i agree with you the this is
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a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas . or to some other global headlines in brief here on r.t. international into the world up there we go an american aid worker has tested positive for the deadly ebola virus in liberia it's the first case of a foreigner being infected in west africa he was working in monrovia and is now being treated at a local hospital the incurable disease it's claimed six hundred seventy two lives in west africa since february. and japan's a hot summer has taken at least ten lives the victims died of heat stroke on the west coast where temperatures were nearing forty degrees celcius of eighteen hundred have been treated in hospital for heat exhaustion many of them elderly and weather forecasters are expecting the temperatures to become even more extreme. the u.s. embassy in libya has been evacuated amid intensifying rebel clashes in tripoli the mission's stock has been transferred to a military escort the last time the u.s.
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shut down the embassy was two thousand and eleven during the uprising which toppled moammar gadhafi and the new libyan government is outgunned by various rebel groups and is struggling to prevent the country breaking up. let's bring you some live pictures right now from genoa italy where the costa concordia cruise ship has arrived to be scrapped concordia struck a reef and site near the italian island of giglio in two thousand and twelve thirty two people died in the accident the salvage operation has taken two years the scrapping process may take another two again those live pictures right there from italy. i will back off for a very short break your daughter international the latest news a recap of the week's top headlines more with the weekly very soon.
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a reason that they don't want to denounce or to tell friends that we should be completely outraged now let's break the set. today's news on the week's top stories on r.t. international australian police arrive in. ukraine to investigate the crash of the malaysian airliner that killed all on board. say they have had full access to the. planes carrying the coffins of the remains of those who died in the mh seventeen plane crash in the netherlands throughout the week as friends and relatives try to come to terms with their loss. and. from the day of the crash posing some tough questions to ukraine a washington keeps up allegations against moscow without presenting any solid evidence.
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