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like. thank god. for. children of course in the crossfire in a week of rage between israel and garza charges of missiles from both sides have intensified with the death toll continuing to climb we speak to pace activist in pink floyd from roger waters when we're talking about gaza which was in a barrel full of fish and the israelis is shooting into it. so. stop the madness that's the play healthy israeli president is chaos reigns on the streets with arab and jewish mobs facing off shops a vandalized cars torched and one arab driver is dragged from his vehicle and beaten unconscious and tensions run high to. rallies across europe as police disperse crowds condemning israeli aggression and.
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medics are still fighting for the lives of those injured in a school shooting in the russian city of kids and where 9 people were killed relative to the victims have been speaking of their heart or. her name was called for you she was 15 she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future. good evening just gone 6 o'clock in moscow you watching weekly here on r.t. international now hostilities have flared between israel and palestinians in gaza throughout this week with the to try to 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 in israel 10 people have died including . children there we're back to show you the aftermath just one israeli strike in
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gaza city recently but we warned you might find the pictures disturbing early on sunday morning israeli warplanes struck several buildings and right in gaza city 26 people are believed to 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 blocked a main road leading to a hospital by culture astronomy. witnessed russian tames pulling survivors from the rubble. right at this in place you know what streets of gaza city this building which is called i'll call it building it's about to build is actually not one these 2 buildings have been already destroyed by this really ever strike yesterday overnight risk you team still asked that there is a possibility all 4 women just inside the rubble that need to be saved they are not sure whether they are alive or how did at this moment and they suggest that they
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have so far riskier 8 people including an elderly heroes and one boy this is street of many buildings have been destroyed already by the israeli warplanes including 2 main building the residential buildings this one and the other one next to it has really intensive areas strikes are killing women and children inside their homes and it is important to note that israel did not send a free warning for these buildings this board before they bombarded them which is something only preceded it as israel used to warn to people before they attempted to strike at the building there is. i mean a nearby who is living next to my house his wife told him i want to make it easy time to his wife wanted to go to visit her if either here mother so she went to this building. zelig rating very unfortunately he is now under the rubble in
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a state of celebrating piccies now under the rubble and they're still searching for him by the way but few hours now this machinery have bee has been trying attempting to to rescue the people even sired this rubble of this forest storey building in a well there's 3 and as you see here it's it seems to it seems to these people are trying to risk you risk your operation is a bit difficult their houses been totally completely destroyed and this machinery is attempting to save what could be saved of the lives of the inhabitants of this particular of this particular building that is the scene for now for the moment in gaza city where the destruction is widespread destruction is largescale since we began the rescue operation we've seen a lot we've pulled 4 survivors from the rubble there have been managed to it is
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also important to know that israeli airstrikes and on the gaza strip of a diet have also here it is 3 turned roads throughout the gaza strip as the case with this street where this is 3 and where the street and the heart of gaza city that is the situation for the moment israeli airstrikes over the area have all not only concentrated on residential compounds in their houses but also in his treats and roads and that's that's what's going on for the time being close when the only disturbing images of children being found among victims of a missile strikes this week on saturday 10 people were killed near the refugee camp in gaza 8 of the dead there were children at the cemetery is the 3rd largest refugee camp in carson is known as the beach camp or is close proximity to the mediterranean coast. the victims were taken to
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a local hospital where their distraught parents gathered a warning you could find these patients disturbing to. the. israeli defense forces have stressed all operations that directed at rocket launch sites their own claim that have mass deliberately places its military infrastructure in civilian areas the israeli military insists they do take all possible precautions though to avoid harming civilians during operations. i was on saturday an israeli airstrike destroyed a tower block housing because their offices of a number of world media. it also contain private apartments here and businesses and was evacuated a prior to the attack after an hour's warning from israel the israeli army claim that hamas was using the building to coordinate rocket attacks the un's head
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expressed dismay the growing civilian casualties in the israeli palestinian conflict and lashed out at the destruction of media offices in gaza we talked analogies here a journalist who was working in that building. now how worse our picture cut now we will be we will not be able to deliver a picture to the road it's very difficult to me to see this image it's very hard for many years i'm working at this place covering the news coverage of the balls in gaza now there's no brick short from it is there obviously more something you know i feel very burg. i want to say that we will continue to deliver other messages little could you do to cover the news in gaza that you will continue to tell the the message of the covers to their people and to deliver to the souls of the world ok this is this you will do and be able to stop our voice by
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a tactic you are building and this won't be easy no we will continue this would be all these days if this attack were build again destroy it we will continue from anywhere from gaza all the offices of journalists of gaza it was it will be our office. ok let's get the view now from inside israel because we can talk to mickey rosenfeld he's a spokesperson for the israeli police based in jerusalem thank you very much for your time mickey for coming back on when i spoke to a few days ago we were discussing a lot of tension in israel between jewish and arab communities from your perspective has that now east or is it still a very volatile situation while the situation here in israel is much better it's slowly but surely improving i'm talking about within sight the israeli arab communities who have been involved in a tremendous amount of riots attacking police cars and burning vehicles of people of the public there is still heightened security that is continuing across the country with thousands of police officers and border police from tactical units
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that are ready to respond to any types of incidents whatsoever knocking about disturbances and riots but at the same time there are still being waves of rockets that have been fired into israel we just saw over the last few hours in ashkelon are stored in all major cities that have been struck luckily nobody was killed until now ok we'll come on to the rockets in a moment making again but yesterday i just want to get your view on this the u.n. high commission for human rights was very critical of israeli police saying that they had failed to stop jewish mobs from attacking israeli arabs what's your response to that accusation. i think we have to realistically look and understand the situation when you have thousands of israeli arabs who take to the streets and attempt to kill jewish people burn jewish synagogues and almost carry out programs that is something which is unacceptable fortunately there were a number of small groups small mobs of jewish people who decided to take the law into their own hands and a number of people were beaten as a result of course we continue to make arrests and find those individuals but the main problem no doubt what is happening within these radio community that has to be
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stopped this quick as possible and now units will continue to make arrests find weapons that have been used by israeli arabs prevent them from taking to the streets and burning police cars and attacking offices we've also made over 950 arrests over the last week and i'm talking about the majority being israeli arabs involved in violence and riots and 256 police officers have been injured likely in the confrontations and attacks again you lastly just outlined the situation on the people with jordan and lebanon because we had seen reports of people trying to cross from there into israel having been forced to beef up your presence there what i can confirm that overnight there were 2 suspects that managed to infiltrate from jordan they were armed with knives and bags they were arrested in the because of valley which is just south of tide derrius and they were arrested by police units and being questioned right now we know that they intended on arriving in the area of jerusalem to carry out a terrorist attack and heightened security is also continuing around the borders so
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where i would say basically had a peak level of security both in terms of the borders both down south as well as inside israel with the different israeli arab community. that you can i make you very busy. and his writing police spokesperson speaking to us from jerusalem we appreciate your time. now cars are is also a firing rockets wave of rockets at israel the anti-missile defense system called the iron dome that was stopping most of them from getting through overnight there was a large scale rocket attack on center in southern israel in tel aviv the sound of air raid sirens and explosions filled the air with rockets lighting up the night sky at midnight baquet immediately after a 2 hour ceasefire declared by the militant group came to an end on saturday to a round of rockets were fired in a hotel of if suburb claimed the life of a 55 year old man according to reports he was unable to make it to
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a bomb shelter in time israeli military says that more than 2000 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel since monday around a half of which were intercepted by missile defense systems in turn 350 fell on macarthur strip i mean while major european cities have witnessed violent private palestinian protests with thousands calling on israel to stop the use of force in cars the demonstrators burned flags and threw stones and bottles at police who responded to take gas and water cannon a number of arrests were made. i was outed was crude. i. was a. i i i. well as we heard earlier the conflict has sparked tensions between israeli arabs
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and israeli jews who have lived side by side for years. finished you should improve palestinian demonstrators clashed with police their water cannon just the troika against the crag's while police removed balloons which had been put up in the colors of the palestinian flag the current escalation between israel and gaza thoughts were being proposed sparked over the possible vacation of palestinian families from a neighborhood in the city of the palestinian city of hebron meanwhile in the west bank has also seen arm wrestling on to the streets this week ties were burnt in the raids as protesters clashed with israeli soldiers there's been violence in other cities in the west bank.
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it's fair to work within israel on thursday some disturbing images came out of the city of battle yam an arab driver he was assaulted by mobs he was seen being beaten after reportedly being pulled from his vehicle when trying to flee horsley sent this report from the city. in the israeli town of young which is just to the south of just such and outside tel aviv to be showing students have gathered here i mean and they also smashing cars that presumably they think belong to arabs there's also
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an arab owned ice cream shop down the road and the blast has all been destroyed b. i'm fixing this in front of the building they've come you know with the israelis now. to show the support and this is what tell me a sense of 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. 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 that they have finally come in to try and deal with the situation and bring order and calm back to back to yum. yes. an interim movies rely on it you know the driver wanted to drive into us press
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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 here showed so the crowd does continue like this is not good for the jews are doing is 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 no 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 bets and he has been taken to hospital in the same happened over here with all that aside i mean here the same happened with this car
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down the road here and now the attempted lynching 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. . now throughout this week israel has been amassing troops along the gaza border having called up thousands of reservists that's led to fears of an imminent ground invasion of the hamas ruled gaza strip israeli troops though haven't entered the enclave yet but artillery and tanks have joined the air units and firing into the strip. and my colleague spoke to former pink floyd front man and activist roger waters about all of this who believes that global civil society can force israel to surrender or keep my palestinian lands. unless some pressure is brought to bear upon the israeli government to stop the ferocious murderous attack upon on gaza
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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 again you understand i have to give israel's point of view all not they say an israeli 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 as shooting into it with is hugely efficient weaponry and them and you talking to me about what some israeli spokesman is saying
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about what's going on in coaster and how that the next thing you'll be telling me is that rockets rained down on jerusalem or something it's equally nonsensical. story which they've been saying they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the rivets of 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 human affairs that went for going to have to adopt to put in the safe this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here.
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the tragic event shook the russian republic of tatarstan on tuesday a man i can fire in a local school in the capital khazan 9 people died including 7 students. slit for the club queue i was in the close on the 2nd floor we heard bangs the sounded like explosions 1st we closed the classroom doors and not let the children get near the windows we told them to sit down along the walls and tried to calm them down to leave us on the street a man with a gun ran into the classroom and started shooting people couldn't shelter anything but before he did this we heard an explosion right under our classroom after that our teacher told us to hide under the desks the little person like it was
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a mass 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 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 shot but no one was hurt badly there were no deaths. if you miss it you know if. you. it was for a little fun for us i. feel
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9 people in a critical condition relative to to moscow for specialist treatment 2 children have undergone surgery with medics still trying to find a life for boy he was shot in the chest up to 15 people meanwhile they remain in hospital in cars and that are said to be in a stable condition parties down hawkins spoke to some of those who a quarter and the tragic events. shock. 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 the 1st for all who came to school as usual. everything 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 immediately close everything and leave the room. everyone was deeply shocked we
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owe our lives to our math teacher who saved us sure rounds of 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 that that's because our parents wanted our names to sound similar she studied in a form which she was 15 mark while she was
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a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future to finish the 9th form and get an education and i. thought nose on the day school staff did only 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 tried. shootings 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 let's
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look out at leslie's call it after we were taken out of the school to safety and 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 was such cold merciless cruelty possible towards anyone let alone children. was confident but good prevails over evil and that because. they're stronger. this tragedy has
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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 or holy days for muslims either futile or breaking the fast understandably though the focus of today is on one of the darkest days in qatar stands modern history. outside trials continue to turn up an endless stream of aside from the pain on this day of mourning determination is also present not to let evil break the city spirit which today has showed its strength daniel hawkins r.-t. . i think is and she is you suspect has been identified as 19 year old illness he
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was a former student of the school where the attack happened in the perpetrator did use a pump action shotgun for which he did have a license now c.c.t.v. footage which is since being posted online does show how the suspect brazenly carried the gun all the way to the school this is the route that he took apparently reportedly from his own house a journey that took him something like 10 minutes however questions do remain as to why now passes by police to alert them and it is one of a number of issues that the incident is race including what might have led the suspect to carry out such an attack those who knew him said it was totally against his character that all men stayed the suspect. pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody according to say that he showed no signs of a nation during these proceedings and psychiatric test now being carried out to assess his mental state we discussed with experts the questions of this type of tragedy has once again raise our society are not able to screen this before we've
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got many administrations a situation schools how come a profile like 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 today of all of our societies have to tackle has to pinpoint find these persons and he'll go on an awful lot of people with mental illness of one form or another all they have extreme views and if you give these people guns you've got to expect at some stage that these are going to go wrong so you know the less comes and says i'm going to be the safer we all are 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 summer and so yes bullying we know at least in the research that i've conducted here is the leading cause of gun violence in school so bullying revanche retaliates stand and side effects of psychotropic medications have been found to be the predominant causes of violence one of the most important thing is that we need to do is we really have to work to intentionally create
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a very safe school climate working together collaboratively with parents look at teachers with administrators to really identify those students who may be withdrawn who may be why it you may have struggled for heavy 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 work that we can be proactive rather than reactive. she's gone. the company will be back with more stories from the last 7 days in half an.
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