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children continue to be caught in the crossfire week of rage between israel. no signs relenting barrages of missiles from both sides intensify it all so. stop the madness that's the plea of the israeli president chaos reigns on the streets with our of being jewish mobs facing off. cars torched and a driver is dragged from his vehicle. conscious. also tensions run high to me in rallies across europe police. condemning it's
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really aggression. medics are still fighting for the lives of those injured in a school shooting in the russian city because 9 people were killed relatives all of the victims have been speaking out about their heartache. her name was she was 15 she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future. ok we will get to those headline stories in just a moment but we want to bring you some news coming into us right from israel least one person is dead and more the. 41 shippers have been injured after several
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rows of seats collapsed in a synagogue in a jerusalem suburb is according to local media and police 10 of those are reportedly in critical condition 10 people there the synagogue was parked at the time vincent approximately 600 worshippers were inside just to recap one person dead and a lot more injured dozens of people injured following a synagogue seats in the synagogue collapsing from a jerusalem suburban any and all significant developments from that story we will bring it to you now. flurry between israel palestinian encounter this week with the 2 trading missile fire every day the conflict shows no sign of letting up but palestinians saying at least 181 people have been killed in gaza since monday including 52 children in israel 10 people
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died including 2 children were about to show you the aftermath of an israeli strike in gaza city please be aware you may find it the stir being. early on sunday morning it's really warplanes struck several buildings and roads and kills a 26 people are believed to have been killed making it the deadliest single attack since fighting 1st broke out on monday the pictures all to show a crater a main road leading to a hospital local journalist romeo mcgorry witness rescue teams polling survivors from the rubble. right at this in place and history took gaza city this building which is called i'll call it building it's about to build these actually not one these 2 buildings have been already destroyed by these really ever strike yesterday overnight risk you team still us that there is a possibility all 4 women just inside the rubble that need to be saved they are not
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sure whether they are alive or how did at this moment and they suggest that they have so far riskier 8 people including an elderly gaels and one boy this is street of many buildings that been destroyed already by the israeli warplanes including 2 main building the residential buildings this one and the other one next to it as really intensive ever strikes are killing women and children inside their homes and it is important to note that israel did not send out free warning for these buildings this board before they bombarded them which is something only precision to 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
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time to his wife wanted to go to visit her father and here mother so she went to this building celebrity and unfortunately she is now under the rubble in a state of still. crating beach is now under the rubble and they are still searching for him by the way the few hours now this machinery have been has been trying attempting to to risk you the people leave inside this rubble of this forest or rebuilding in a way there's 3 and as you see here it's it seems to be it seems to these people are trying to risk you risk your operation is a bit difficult their house has 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 larger scale
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since we began the rescue operation we've seen a lot we've pulled 4 survivors from the rubble there have been many deaths to it is also important to know that the israeli airstrikes and on the gaza strip overnight have also hurt astri turned roads throughout the gaza strip as the case with this street where the sister eat and where the street and the heart of gaza city that is the situation for the moment israeli average strikes over the area have all not only concentrated on residential compounds and douses but also in his 3 pts and roads and that's that's what's going on for the time being. and those were not the only disturbing images of a young friend among the victims of missile strikes this week on saturday 10 people were killed near the al sheltie refugee camp in gaza 8 of the dead were children
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the facility is the 3rd largest refugee camp in the region and there's no one as the beach camp for its close proximity to the mediterranean coast the victims were taken to a local hospital where there are distraught parents gathered. some of the oh. really defense forces have stressed all operations are directed more insights from us deliberately places its military infrastructure in civilian areas including hospitals and schools locals we heard from though see things differently. you've developed we know that israel has technologically advanced aviation it's got everything. accurate and isn't it amazing then how they fired missiles at this house how can they target a house full of gets on the job that the message i sent this is the biggest disaster gaza has never seen before we're sitting around and expecting another
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strike that can kill our children. i want to tell israelis and the whole world look who's the oppressor and who's the oppressed who's the terrorist and who's not who's killing children and who's not 8 children died in one attack it shows who the real terrorist is. and having to welcome back into the program a mirror or in a mirror is a defense political commentator speaking to us from tel aviv good to have you sir israel has accused of firing missiles indiscriminately into civilian populated areas of israel and using civilians in gaza as a human shield does that happen. yes it does i'm speaking to you from tel aviv and where i am right now overnight 'd we had sirens we had to go to shelters and because israel has
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a very good missile defense capability most of these missiles not civilians but this was not for lack of wanting on the part of hamas now what is different this is not an israel palestine war it is a campaign between israel and the extreme elements of the palestinians israel would like to have some a range and some compromise wisdom moderate probably stimulus who are in control of the west bank that these the palestinian authority under mahmoud abbas hamas does not recognize israel and once every several years. you could exchange of blows unfortunate civilians on either side and what is really intense right now is to delineate the next round for several more years i would suggest one of the major problems is a mere it's not palestinian people don't see it as direct as not israel against
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hamas they would see it israel against the palestinian people on indeed probably islam as well. yes this is one way to look at it. it's i'm being i know how it is not israel's fault 'd or they need to get their message i care. yes yes but you know propaganda is something else but the reality on the ground is much more complicated because it's hamas versus use mustn't. the elections there 'd it's a triangle it's not just an exchange you will between 2 participants. and a 4th one the arab citizens of israel many of whom have. this past week and israel is now facing an intel of. 2 to gaza well yeah which is
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worrying as well just on the international situation here joe biden is spoken to israeli pm benjamin netanyahu as well as the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas telling both he remain committed to finding a 2 state solution to the conflict i mean is the further away or is that a possibility right now. but your seat this is the whole new. situation. that boss has no control over from us they are enemies and whatever he tells them they will not obey perhaps the gyptian it's have some sway over them and yes the peace process must be restarted strolled under. trumped and perhaps no peace by them gets away from china and other issues reluctant he will restart it if he sees any chance and russia the european union and united nations receives what is called the quartet they can call on from us they can set
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conditions for the put this is a must if hamas meets these conditions including the existence the recognition of the existence of israel there is some real hope ok this destruction it was interesting to have your view on the program thank you very much amir or an israeli defense some political commentator live from tel aviv thank you well armed groups in gaza have also been firing 2 waves of rockets at israel. missile defense system called iron dome is stopping most of them hitting their targets though overnight there was a large scale rocket attack in central and southern israel in tel aviv where we've just been speaking to our guests from the sound of sirens and explosions filled the air with rockets lighting up the night sky midnight came immediately after a 2 hour cease fire that carried by hamas came to an end.
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a round of rockets was fired. suburb claiming the life of a 55. according to reports he was unable to make it to a bomb shelter in time the israeli military says more than 2000 rockets being fired from gaza into israel since monday around half of which were intercepted by the fence system. of the conflict has also sparked tensions between israeli are jews who have lived side by side for years. and pro palestinian demonstrators clashed with police water cannon was the ploy against the crowds while police removed in century balloons which had been put off in the colors of a palestinian the current escalation between israel and girls and was sparked over the cost of all of victualling of palestinian families from contested on the
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outskirts of the city the palestinian city of hebron in the west bank meanwhile being seeing unrest. a lot of people spilled onto the streets during the week tires were burned as you can see protesters then clash with this really. violent as well in other nearby cities.
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violence has flared in israel 2 on thursday some disturbing images and words from the city of but yeah them are a driver was assaulted by mobs there he was beaten after reportedly being pulled from his vehicle some eyewitness reports that he was attempting to run the group in his car party's policy or filed this report from the scene. in the israeli town of but young which is just to the south of jaffa and outside tel aviv to be showing students have gathered here and they also smashing cars that presumably they think belong to arabs there's also that and have owned ice cream shop down the road and the glass has all been destroyed be ironed fittings in front of the building they've come you know with the israeli flags to show they support and this is in the tiny ation to the finance we've witnessed in the last few days which has been predominantly arab and jewish violence so each so the police are firing stun grenades and trying. to finding stun
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grenades and they trying to get people to run away from here at and see. if you can see the security officers coming down the road trying to push the crowd further and further away from here and a lot of the youngsters has moved down the road over the they have. finally coming to try and deal with the situation and bring order and calm back to back to yum. yes. removers we wanted 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. it's all good we can't continue like
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this is not good with 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 now we have to make sure that things remain good between us this can't here was being driven by an arab men they took him out of the car and in an attempt to lynch bets and he has been taken to hospital in the same happened over here. i've been here the same happened over here with this car down the road here and not 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 that's not the safest place to be policia r.t. . well throughout the week israel has been amassing troops along the gaza border and called up thousands of reservists raising the specter of an imminent ground
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invasion of the hamas ruled gal's a strip is really troops though haven't entered the enclave but tory joined the earlier units in firing into the territory speaking to r.t. today former israeli defense minister enough telling bennett ses israel was attacked 1st and has every right to defend itself. let me show you something this rocket over here landed this morning in a home next to the bed of a 9 year old child this real thing landed what is proportional if if this landed at your own family's home and killed your own family what is proportional no one is really should die because of unprovoked come 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 the physics of the bull
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and that's why we have war the fact that hamas uses civilians as human shields it means that. is murdering its own people by hiding cowardly behind this 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 if 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
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commander and command center because last monday unprovoked started shooting rockets on israel they decided when this round would start israel will decide when it ends. in moving the program on the tragic event shook the russian republic of tetris down on tuesday a man opened fire in a local school in the capital and 9 people died including 7 students and 2 teachers more than 20 others were injured in the attack this is a timeline of how the shocking events unfolded. q i was in the class on the 2nd floor we heard bangs the sounded like explosions
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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 live on the street a man with a gun ran into the classroom and started shooting people who didn't shall take him but before he did this we've heard an explosion right on to our classroom after that our teacher told us to hide under the desks. it was a mass last time and 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 fallen 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 show other but no one was hurt badly there were no deaths. basically. the theory is that if you like this you know what you want to do you
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lose. your body. but for me it's for your good for your life. so you're only. going to publish the article. this is from the world when you were a sampling says emergency crews and fire trucks were at the site later i sort of
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teach a covered in blood getting pulled out of the school and about 4 children being carried away. 9 people in a critical condition if they were early after to moscow for specialist treatment 2 children. in surgery with medics still fighting for the life of a boy who was shot in their chairs up to 15 people remain in hospitals but are said to be in a stable condition artie's daniel hawkins has been speaking to some who are directly affected by what occurred that tragic day. shock pain grief on the faces of all those who came to pay their condolences the images of children
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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 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 alina and still see when 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
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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 sold for you and mine is old fart 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. 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
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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. 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
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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. 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 out the mosque today and tomorrow or holy days for muslims eed or breaking the fast understandably though the focus of today is on one of the darkest days in total stands modern history.
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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's spirit which today has shown its strength daniel hawkins r.t. khazan. shooting suspect has been identified as 19 year old illinois gallon here we have he was a former student of the school where the attack happened the perpetrator used a pump action shotgun for which he had a license c c c the footage which was posted on live revealed the suspect brazenly carried the gun all the way to the school here you can see on our news mup here the rooty reportedly took from his house a journey of just over 10 minutes now as he was carrying a large weapon on the street questions remain as to why no passers by called police
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to alert them it's one of a number of issues the deadly incident house rains including what might have led the suspect to card are such an attack those who knew him said it went totally against his corrector on wednesday the suspect pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody people in the court said he showed no signs of emotion during the proceedings psychiatric tests are being carried out to assess his mental state we discussed with experts some of the many issues this type of tragedy has once again raised. our society not able to screen this before we've got it ministry sions the situation schools how can a profile like this one went through all of that and look at what he saw that he was on the verge of committing this massive business of killing i think that's the serious issue today that all of our societies have to tackle is to pinpoint trying these persons and he'll go on an awful lot of people with mental illness of one
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form or not they have extreme views and if you give these people grounds you've got to expect at some stage that these are going to go wrong so the less comes into someone she the safer we will are it's no secret that you're on the internet you know what to do and i have to do it and this is a this is a problem for all societies blindly now at least in the research that i conduct i have is the leading cause of gun violence. in schools so bowling ribands retaliation and side effects of psychotropic medications have been found to be the predominant cause of school violence one of the most important thing is 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 who may be struggling academically or vague.

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