i thought i was doing my best to get back to see which side will have the strongest appeal. children of course in the crossfire in a week of rage between israel and gaza there are jews of missiles from both sides have intensified with the death toll continuing to climb we speak to peace activist and pink floyd front man or your waters where we're talking about god so we're talking a barrel full of fish in the israelis a shooting in. stop the madness that's the play the israeli presence is chaos reigns on the streets with arab and jewish mobs facing off shops are vandalized cars a torched in one hour a driver is dragged from his vehicle and beaten unconscious and tensions run high profile listing rallies across europe to his police disperse crowds condemning israeli aggression and. was.

basically. also on the weekly medics are still fighting for the lives of those injured in the school shooting in the russian city where 9 people were killed relatives of the victims have been speaking of their heart or her name was she was 15 she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future. and i welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international which just gone 4 clock is sunday afternoon in moscow now hostilities have flared between israel and palestinians in gaza throughout this week with the 2 trading missile fire every day the conflict shows no sign of letting up for palestinians saying at least 181 people have been killed in gaza since monday including 52 children it israel 10 have died including 2 children back to show ya

aftermath of just one israeli strike in gaza city but be warned you might. find it disturbing now will be on sunday morning israeli warplanes struck several buildings and roads in gaza city 26 people have believed have been killed in this making it the deadliest single attack since the fighting 1st broke out on monday the pictures also show a crater that brought to my main road leading to a hospital and those that were not and those were the only disturbing images either of children found among the victims of missile strikes this week on saturday 10 people were killed near the refugee camp in gaza 8 of the dead were children the facilities the 3rd largest refugee camp in gaza that is known is the beach camp for its close proximity to the mediterranean coast the victims were taken to a local hospital where their distraught parents gathered with one might find the footage disturbing. a lot of the follow the.

israeli defense forces have stressed those are all operations are directed at rocket launch sites and claim that hamas is deliberately placed its military infrastructure in civilian areas israeli military insists that they do take 2 or possible precautions to avoid harming civilians during their operations unicef's chief of communications for the middle east and north africa juliette soon to say it is children who are suffering 1st and foremost in the conflict. violence should stop violence wherever it is should come to an end violence will not bring a solution violence will only bring more violence and with that it means that children will suffer 1st and they will suffer more still 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 we are giving supplies to medical facilities that's what we are focusing on right now and we also work meaning in the water and we also documents we document what's happening worth noting that unicef has been transparent 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 that the violence does not escalate any further and it's a calling on quite these 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. but also on saturday night radio strike destroyed a tower brought has in the guards or offices of a number of world media. it also contain private apartments and businesses to you and was evacuated a. riots the attack after an hour's warning from israel the israeli army kind of how mass was easing the building to coordinate rocket attacks un's head expressed dismay that over growing civilian casualties in the israeli palestinian conflict and mashed add to the destruction of media offices in gaza we talked to an al-jazeera journalist who worked in the building and you know how worse our picture cut now we will not be able to deliver

a picture to the word it's very difficult to me to see this image it's very hard for many years i'm working in this place covering the news coverage of the walls there turks in gaza now there's no brick sure from the obviously more so i think you know i feel very bad. i want to say that we will you will continue to deliver our message you will continue to cover the news in gaza why do we continue to tell the the message of the palestinian people and to deliver to all the all over the world ok this is you won't be able to stop our voice what attracted you are building this won't be easy no we will continue this would be of use there if their jericho were build again and destroy it we will continue from anywhere from gaza all the offices of journalists of gaza it was there it will be our office well gars results so far in waves of rockets at israel the anti missile defense system

they're called beyond stopping most of them from getting through overnight there was a large scale rocket attack on central and southern israel in television the sound of air raid sirens and explosions filled the air with rockets lighting up the night sky midnight that came immediately after a 2 hour ceasefire declared by the militant group you've come to an end now on saturday around of rockets was fired at a television claiming the life of a 55 year old man there quoting to reports he was unable to make it to a bomb shelter in time and training military says that more than 2000 rockets had been. fired from gaza into israel since monday alone her around half of which were intercepted by missile defense systems in turn 350 fell on the gaza strip i mean while major european cities have witnessed violent protest in protests with thousands calling on israel to stop the use of force in gaza demonstrators burned flags and threw stones and bottles at police who responded with tear gas and water

cannon a number of arrests were met. was was . cut. where the conflict has sparked tensions between israeli arabs and israeli jews have lived side by side for years. i. was. in a situation in prague palestinian demonstrators clashed with police water cannon was used against the crowds who are police from the leaves which have been put up in the colors of the palestinian flag the current escalation between israel and gaza are still working spots over the course of the palestinian families from the

neighborhood in the city to the palestinian city of hebron in the west bank is also seen on rest spinning out into the streets there this week tires were burnt in the roads as protesters clash with israeli soldiers there's been violence in other cities in the west bank to. sleep. and violence has flared it within israel as well on thursday some disturbing images

did emerge from the city about here i am an arab driver was assaulted by mobs there he was seen being beaten after reportedly being pulled from his vehicle when trying to flee. sent this report from the city. in the israeli town of young which is just to the south of jaffa and outside tel aviv should be showing students have gathered here i am day off 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 the i and fittings in front of the building they've come you know with the israeli flags to show the support and the. system attenuation to the violence 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 as. 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 of it they have finally come in to try and deal with the situation and bring order and calm back to back to yum. yes. removers 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 is not good with the jews are doing it's not good for the arabs the doing the government

isn't doing anything so this is what's happening each side is doing what they want for 70 years we've been good neighbors and it's a big bt that is happening now now we have to make sure the things remain good between us this can't hear was being driven by an arab men they took him out of the car and in an attempted lynch but 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 the attentively and share tensions time i 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. now throughout the week israel has been amassing troops along the gaza border having called up thousands of reservists and that has led to fears of an imminent ground invasion of the hamas ruled gaza strip israeli troops though haven't yet

entered the enclave but artillery and tanks have joined the air units and firing into the strip former israeli defense minister naftali bennett does insist that israel was attacked 1st and there's every right to defend itself let me show you something this rocket over here landed this morning home next to the bed of a 9 year old child this real thing landed what is proportional if this learned of your own family's home and killed your own family what is proportional no one is really should die because of unprovoked calm us attacks that proportional if they want to stop this they can stop and disarm themselves stop fighting israel and they'll be peace period. no civilian death is acceptable and that's why we have bore the fact that hamas uses civilians as human shields it

means that to come us is murdering its own people by hiding cowardly behind to civilians by hiding its command centers within buildings that belong to. you know hospitals or schools this is a cynical 'd way of operating and they hold direct responsibility to all the deaths the days that we're going to sit back and allow murderers terror groups shoot and 'd kill jews those days are over and the. numbers seem slanted all it means is that israel cares more about its own people than hamas about killing all people are planning to take down. an income us operator commander and command center because last monday unprovoked started shooting rockets in israel they decided when this round would start israel will

decide when it ends. by calling in an evil spoke to the former pink floyd front man and activist an average water is about all of this he believes that global civil society can force israel to surrender occupied palestinian lands 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. the israeli occupation of palestine is untenable it is not a future that compulsively survive 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 i can you understand i have to give israel's point of view all not they say and it's really court has ruled that prior to 948 land was

in jewish. and if it's 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 you can 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 such equally nonsensical. story which they've been they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the river to the sea 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 river to 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 if we're going to save this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here. still to come here a devastating tragedy that the russian citizen reading this week when a gunman stormed his old school and went on a shooting spree leaving 9 dead will be back with more just after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development

the only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in. the united states is not. is not a country. it's a country that is founded on slavery i mean apology it's a country that's failing today. even apologies that has created been founded on introduced over time both domestically and abroad as well.

welcome back our tragic event ship the russian republic of tatarstan on choose day a man opened fire in a local school in the capital khazan 9 people died including 7 students and to teach is more than 20 others were injured in the attack is a timeline of how the shocking event some felt. if you. look for the clip key i was in the close on the 2nd floor we heard bangs the 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 let you 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 we heard an explosion right on to our classroom after that i would teach a told us to hide under the desks. it was a must last segment we heard a shot and at 1st we just thought that it was furniture being smashed and then the shooting came closer the door was ajar and i saw that the man had a fall on the teacher began to hold the door shut we did not have a key and she told us to run we were on the 1st floor one window was open and we all rushed to it will fall in the other but no one was hurt badly there were no deaths. to if you like this if you know.

what my uniform or your life. so you really. don't know about what. this is from not warm water cooler when you were sampling says emergency crews and fire trucks were 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 were airlifted to moscow for specialist treatment 2 children have undergone surgery with medics still fighting for the life of a boy who was shot in the chest up to 15 people who remain in hospital in khazan but are said to be in a stable condition 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 shock the world here in the accounts 1st hand was worse well 1st of all 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 had several explosions but no one was concerned and the class continued only some time later we had the school director telling us to me to close everything and leave the room. 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. 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 fast 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. 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 fart that's because our parents wanted our names to sound similar she studied in a form which 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 teamed. zal thought nose 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 and 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 unlikely 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 let's go. 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 understandably though the focus of today is on one of the darkest days in total stands 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. . well the khazan shooting suspect has been identified as 19 year old fear of he was a former student of the school where the attack happened and the perpetrator did use a pump action shotgun for which he had a license now c.c.t.v. footage which was posted online does reveal how he brazenly carried the gun all the way to school you can see here the beauty turkey reportedly took it from his house and it was a journey that took him just over 10 minutes however questions do remain as to why no passers by called police to alert them it is one of a number of issues the incident has raised including what might have led the suspect to carry out such an attack those who knew him said it went totally against his character now i'm wednesday the suspect pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody people in the court said that he showed no signs of emotion during these

proceedings psychiatric tests and now being carried out to assess his mental state we discussed with experts the questions this type of tragedy has once again this. our society are not able to scream this before we've got many administrations a situation schools how come a profile of this what went through all of that and nobody saw that he was on the verge of committing this massive massive killings i think that's the serious issue that all of our societies have to tackle is to pinpoint from these persons and he'll become an awful lot of people with mental illness of one form or another they have extreme views and if you give these people guns you got to expect at some stage that these are going to go wrong so you you know the less comes into someone she the safer we were it is no secret that you go on the internet you can find out what to do and how to do it and this is a this is a problem for all societies bullying we know at least in the research that i've conducted here is the leading cause of gun violence in schools so bullying revenge

retaliation and side effects of psychotropic medications have been found to be the predominant causes of school violence one of the most important things that we need to do is we really have to work to intentionally create a very safe school climate working together collaboratively with parents with teachers with administrators to really identify those students who may be withdrawn who may be quiet you may have struggled a recent loss who may be a victim of bullying you may be struggling academically or they have behavioral issues and the more that people can come together and identify the more that we can be proactive rather than reactive emotional weekly are not international just kind of tahar passport in the afternoon here in moscow then forget we've got a website full of stories where you can keep yourself updated on world events and you can find that at r.t.

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