you see. children caught in the crossfire in a week of rage between israel and gaza. from both sides of intensified all week as the death tolls continue to climb we speak to peace activist. roger waters. when we're talking about gaza which will be in the barrel full of fish in the israelis shooting into. the president as chaos reigns on the streets as arab jewish communities clash violence surges on all sides. and cars. drive dragged from his vehicle and beaten unconscious. as tensions run high at pro publica rallies across europe as police disperse crowds condemning israel.

and other news medics still fighting for the lives of those injured in a school shooting in the russian city of tucson 9 people were killed a little victims have been speaking of heartache. her name was she was. she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future. thanks for joining us this morning you're watching the weekly here on art. hostilities have intensified between israel and garcia throughout the week with the 2 sides trading missile fire every day the conflict shows no sign of letting up as it enters the 7th day palestinian saying at least 145 people have been killed since monday including 41 children israel's reported 10 dead including 2 children in the

latest incidents early on sunday morning israeli warplanes struck several buildings and roads in gaza city health ministry said the strike left at least 2 dead and $25.00 wounded including women and children voters also showed a crater that blocked one of the main roads leading to the local hospital. and those were not the only disturbing images of children found among victims of missile strikes this week on saturday 10 people were killed near the al shanti refugee camp in gaza 8 of the dead children facilities the 3rd largest refugee camp in gaza it's known as the beach camp because of its close proximity to the mediterranean coast the victims were taken to a local hospital where the distraught parents gathered was one you may find this footage disturbing. the. israeli defense forces of stressed all operations are directed at rocket launch sites israel claim some us the liberally embeds its military infrastructure in

civilian areas and the i.d.f. says that it takes all possible precautions to avoid harming civilians when striking. the unisys chief of communications for the middle east and north africa juliet tumor says it's children who are suffering 1st and foremost. violence should stop violence wherever it is should come to an end violence will not bring it sushi and violence will only bring more violence and with that it means that the children will suffer 1st and they will suffer more state and so violence needs to come to an end only in the past 5 days now we have reported that at least $4040.00 children have been carried out in the gaza strip and it's a terrible situation 1000 people have been reported injured and we are giving supplies to medical facilities that's what we are focusing on right now and

we also were cleaning in the water area and we also documents we document what's happening worth noting that unicef has been present on the ground for more than 50 years in and in the gaza strip and across the state of palestine and so it is important that we do have supplies so what we're doing is we're seeing where the needs are so that we are able to send do supplies to those who need the most and the needs right now i'm most in the medical areas so that down. health workers are able to provide assistance to the wounded among the many children we do hope and that the violence does not escalate any further and instead on quite pleased to the conflict to take a step back to deescalate to consume their children to stop the violence and to bring its solution not via violence to this crisis. also as of today an israeli

airstrike destroyed a tower block housing the guards offices of a number of world media. against private apartments and business offices and was evacuated prior to the attack after an hour's warning from israel israeli army claim to mass was using the building to coordinate rocket attacks local reporter witnessed explosions and talked to an al-jazeera journalist who worked there gaza's also firing barrels of rockets at israel and the missile defense system the iron dome is stopping most of them from getting through overnight there was a large scale rocket attack on central and southern israel television the sound of a raid sirens and explosions filled the air with rockets lighting up the night sky at midnight immediately after a 2 hour ceasefire declared by the militant group come to an end on saturday to round of rockets was fired at the television claiming the life of

a 55 year old man who had to report he was unable to make it to a bomb shelter in time israeli military says more than 2000 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel since monday around half of which were intercepted by the missile defense systems in turn 350 fell on the gaza strip and the strikes on gaza have sparked fury among palestinians in the west bank leading to clashes between the arab and israeli communities throughout the week. 'd running high in east jerusalem where pro palestinian supporters clashed with police will to counting were deployed against the crowds while police remove balloons that have been put up in the colors of the palestinian a week ago protest of the possible eviction of palestinian families from a neighborhood in the city sparked demonstrations i thought to be the starting point for the current escalation between israel and gaza. the palestinian city of

hebron in the west bank also sore unrest spilling into the streets during the week cars were burned in the roads protesters clashed with israeli soldiers and other cities in the west bank have seen violence today. and violence has flooded israel to say on thursday some disturbing images emerged from the city of bad and arab driver was assaulted by mobs that he was seen being

beaten after reportedly being pulled from his vehicle when trying to flee these pulis listen to this report from the city. i'm in the israeli town of but young which is just to the south of jaffa and outside tell of if she was young students have gathered here and they are smashing cars that presumably they think belong to arabs there's also an arab owned ice cream shop down the road and the glass has all been destroyed b. i'm sitting in front of the building they've come here with israeli flags to show their support and this is imitation to the finance we've witnessed in the last few days which has been predominantly arab on jewish violence so the so the police are firing stun grenades and trying. to police firing stun grenades and they trying to get people to run away from here and. you can see the security officers coming down the road and they are trying to push the

crowd further and further away from here and a lot of the youngsters have moved down the road over that they have finally come in to try and deal with the situation and bring order and calm back to back to yum . yes. your movies the moment you know the arab driver wanted to drive into us he pressed the pedal to the metal and wanted to kill us luckily he couldn't do it because another car stopped him because otherwise he would have killed us this is our country and they come to kill us in our own country arabs who live here want to kill us no small children died in the streets because of the arabs now we've come here and the army and police are against us. we can't continue like this and it's not good what the jews are doing not good what they are observed doing the government is not doing anything so this is what is happening each side is doing what they want for 70 years weeping good neighbors it's

a really big pity that this is happening now we have to make sure the things remain good between us. this cart here was being driven by an arab men they took him out of the car and in an attempted lynch bets and he has been taken to hospital in the same happened over here with all the sorrow over here the same happened over here with this car down the road here and now they're attentively and share tensions high they've been also shouting at the journalists and checking which channels we all belong to so we're going to make our way out of here it's not the safest place to be. r.t. . it while major european cities witnessed violent pro palestinian protests with thousands calling on israel to stop the use of force in gaza demonstrators burnt flags and threw stones and bottles at the police who responded with tear gas and water come in the number of arrests were made. but it.

was. thought i was. right. if. i call you know neil spoke with former pink floyd from the other night of his roger waters who believes global civil society can force israel to surrender by palestinian land. unless some pressure is brought to bear upon the israeli government to stop the ferocious murderous attack upon on gaza they're not going to stop of their own accord their will is not going to suddenly disappear but clearly in the long term. these

really occupation of palestine is untenable it is not a future that compulsively supply public opinion is changing all over the world and they are not going to be allowed to get away with it by the by global civil society in my view again you understand i have to give israel's point of view all not they say and it's really court has ruled prior to 948 was in jewish. because of jordan it was taken away from them and this is not an equal conflict this is not when we're talking about gaza which will king a barrel full of fish in the israelis is shooting into it with hugely efficient weaponry and them and you talking to me about what some israeli spokesman is saying about what's going on in ghosts or and how that the next thing you'll be telling me is that rockets rained down on jerusalem or some it's equally nonsensical.

story which they've been said they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the river to the say a proper democracy with equal rights all rights equal equal human rights for every rich single citizen all people citizens all the jews all the arabs all citizens of a single state from the rivets of the sea that would work. that would have a chance a real real chance of working you know why because it speaks to the collective management of our human affairs that we're all going to have to adopt up we're going to save this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here. tragic events shook the russian republic of tatarstan on tuesday a man opened fire in

a local school in the capital because 9 people died including 7 students and 2 teachers more than 20 others were injured is a timeline of how the shocking events unfolded. let's look for the clip key i was in the close on the 2nd floor we heard bangs that sounded like explosions 1st because the classroom doors and not let the children get near the windows we told them to sit down along the walls and try to calm them down to live in the studio a man with a gun ran into the classroom and started shooting people who didn't shelter anything but before he did this heard an explosion right under our classroom after that our teacher told us to hide under the desks little christian like it was

a mass last segment we heard a shot and at 1st we just thought that it was furnished being smashed and then the shooting came closer the door was ajar and i saw that the man had a fall and the teacher began to hold the door shut we did not have a key and she told us to run while on the 1st floor one window was open and we all rushed to it will fall in the shah other but no one was hurt badly there were no deaths. in the city if you like this if you know if. it's for your good for your life and if it. was.

you know you're only. there on your part but. this is from that will going to pull you on numerous ambulances emergency crews and fire trucks are at the site later isaura teacher covered in blood getting pulled out of school and about 4 children being carried away.

9 people in a critical condition lifted to moscow for specialist treatment 2 children of undergone surgery medics are still fighting for the life of a boy with a chest injury have to use shots in the chest up to 15 people remain in hospital and they're said to be in stable condition auntie's danny hawkins spoke to some of those who were caught up in the tragic events. shock pain grief on the faces of all those who came to pay their condolences the images of children jumping from windows of floors covered in blood shocked the world hearing the accounts firsthand was worse. for we came to school as usual heavy thing was fine when the class began the teacher called me to the blackboard and just a few minutes later we heard several explosions but no one was concerned and the class continued only some time later we had the school director telling us to immediately close everything and leave the room where we didn't hear what everyone

was deeply shocked we owe our lives to our math teacher who saved us she ran to the door and locked it she was holding it very firmly alina and still seem in a state of shock and they were among the lucky ones for them the nightmare is over though nobody can say just how long the mental scars will remain for others the nightmare has just begun. its race to the school when he 1st heard news of the attack hoping he would see his sister evacuated to safety and bring her home she was too late coming out of there which is the doors of the room where my sister was together with her classmates weren't locked so the attacker broke into the room and shot the students. her name was and mine is old fought that's because our parents wanted our names to sound similar she studied in the 8th form she was 15 she was

a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future to finish the 9th form and get an education and i t. o's on the day school staff did all they could to protect the pupils risking and some losing their own lives in the process he would be the only one asking questions though could more have been done to prevent this tragedy how could it be stopped from happening again. we should probably strengthen the school security as now we have mainly elder people working there also we should organize drills like the ones for fire safety and explain to children where they should go and hide if such tragedies happen. the bloodbath in school 175 how to clear a villain but also some on likely heroes the son of the local imaam escaped the killer who broke right into his classroom only to run back into danger to rescue his injured younger brother who thankfully survived despite being badly hurt.

after we were taken out of the school to safety i went to search for my classmates the ones who managed to survive when i found them i went to search for my younger brother when i failed to find him i searched for his class teacher and then together we put my brother in an ambulance and the teacher sent me with him to there were 4 people with me in the ambulance one was my classmate who jumped out of the window on the 3rd floor to escape that nightmare the other was my brother who had his chest injured also there was a boy with his lip badly hurt by a glass fragment and one girl was sitting there with her hand almost torn apart. everyone i spoke to had one question why how is such cold merciless cruelty possible towards anyone let alone children. was confident that good prevails over evil and that khazan will emerge from the nightmare stronger. this tragedy has

united everyone regardless of their ethnic origin or religious belief people from other cities are coming to mourn with us we must stand together in order not to witness such events in the future he invites us to evening prayers at the mosque today and tomorrow our holy days for muslims. all breaking the fast understand the focus of today is on one of the darkest days in modern history. outside crowds continue to turn up an endless stream and aside from the pain on this day of mourning determination is also present not to let evil break the city spirit which today has shown its strength. daniel hawkins r.t. khazan. because an shooting suspect has been identified as 19 year old illness

galah v. if he was a former student at the school where the attack happened the perpetrator used a pump action shotgun for which he had a license c.c.t.v. footage emerged online revealing the suspect brazenly carried the gun all the way to school and we can see the route here he reportedly took from his house a journey of just over 10 minutes but questions remain as to why no passers by called the police to alert them there was somebody with a gun one of the number of issues the incident raised including what might have led the suspect to carry out such an attack those who knew him said it went completely against his character and once said the suspect pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody people in court said he showed no sign of emotion during proceedings psychiatric tests will be carried out to assess his mental state. careless return to our main story this hour now the intensifying situation between israel and gaza let's go live now to former israeli defense minister naftali bennett joins me live on the line thank you so much for your time mr bennett. we

have limited time i don't want to go into the whole who's to blame it's a conversation that's been had a 1000000 times and it's a circular conversation i feel so i'd rather start by talking about the death toll is rising on both sides does israel have a plan to bring this conflict to an end. up learning. any hamas operator commander and command center because last monday unprovoked hamas started shooting rockets at israel they decided when this role would start israel will decide when it. the problem with that it appears that israel's attacks on. a mass targets is also resulting as well as the death of members of hamas it's resulting in the the death of civilians i understand israel considers hamas terrorists it surely doesn't consider palestinian civilians

terrorists so how does it argue that any civilian death is acceptable. no civilian deaths as acceptable and that's why we have or the fact that hamas uses civilians as human shields 9 israeli civilians were murdered over the past week by this unprovoked attack and we're not going to sit back and just let the must decide when to start when to end it it's convenience does not mean that the civilians are considered collateral damage to it to israel no it means that to come us is murdering its own people by hiding cowardly behind civilians by hiding its command centers within buildings that belong. in the hospitals or schools this is a cynical 'd way of operating and the whole direct responsibility for all the

deaths and as i said 9 israelis were killed by hamas i completely understand the point you making there been israeli deaths have been palestinian deaths you consider hamas terrorists if you say you that you are you're going to accept civilian deaths though to kill hamas terrorists in your eyes is that not lowering yourself to the level of terrorist is 5 terrorists 2 civilian deaths an acceptable result. you know as i said israelis are being murdered day in day out. and fortunately we have developed a defense system called the iron dome which protects our people. come us can also develop an iron dome it's very simple an arm yourself stop attacking israel stop it trying to annihilate us and then there will be total peace in gaza the world is looking on now on what is happening been

a lot of demonstrations particularly in europe the fact that there have been a lot more palestinian deaths than israeli is not making israel look bad do you think in the eyes of the global public. so you think more jews should die how many jews should die for the world 'd to feel that this is acceptable now i'm asking you about public perception do you think that this is making israel look bad purely in terms of the numbers look i'm not out to seem to look nice or a nice i'm out to defend my people from an unprovoked attack the days that we're going to sit back and allow murderer starer groups shoot and 'd kill jews those days are over and if the numbers seem slanted all it means is that israel cares more about its own people than hamas about killing all people

israel is defending itself hamas is out to kill israelis and by the way they killed over 20. gaza citizens by direct hits of their own rockets if they use their 'd resources to build schools hospitals to build a future for their children they'll be peace if they continue building more and more terror bases this will go on for a while. israeli troops are on the border with gaza why they. for any. need for example to defend ourselves against potential. infiltration of terrorists into israel and vice versa we have all options on the table at all times but tanks and troops there are surely not expecting a invasion from the gaza strip. if there were 'd what i tell you

but surely that israel has vastly superior numbers of vastly superior military capability hence the disproportionate number of deaths surely that's not a realistic anticipation again you're talking about this proportionality let me show you something this rocket over here landed this morning in a home in iraq next to the bed of a 9 year old child this real thing landed what is proportional if this landed at your own family's home and killed your own family what is proportional that one is really should die because of unprovoked attacks that. if they want to stop this they can stop and disarm themselves stop fighting israel and they'll be peace period i completely understand the point you're making you're talking about stopping this but with the mentality that you're explaining and the

mentality of a mass neither side is going to give up neither side thinks they're in the wrong this will continue an eye for an eye everybody will end up blind or dead the way this is going binyamin netanyahu has said that this will continue the hostility will continue for years as long as necessary how can you see an end with that mentality from both sides that they blame the other side they think they're morally right. this moral equivalence that you're suggesting is utterly wrong last monday out of nowhere hamas started shooting rockets at jerusalem and across israel that's the fact and you know that so there's no equivalence no symmetry they started shooting rockets in israel we did not shoot rockets on hamas but if they think that they'll decide the moment that it starts but also the side the moment they're wrong when you attack israel you should know that we will decide when it

ends and it will end when hamas and its facilities and its commanders are neutralized mr bennett i greatly appreciate you coming on r.t. thank you so much for your time. and it is my guest former israeli defense minister we have to wrap it up i'm afraid of that back with updates and often. are.