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shocking images of children killed in the crossfire a week of rage between israel and. from both. of. their children to 3 of. the army to. stop the madness. is really president. on the streets with jewish 'd facing off. cars torched. his vehicle. palestinian. police.
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medics are still fighting for those injured in choose the school shooting in the russian city of. relatives of the victims speaking. she was 15 she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future. stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment and says well this is the week hello and welcome. hostilities between israel and palestinians in gaza this week with the 2 creating fire every day. the conflict shows no signs of letting up with
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palestinians saying at least 181 people have been killed in gaza since monday including 52 children in israel 10 people are dead including 2 children we're about to show you the aftermath of one is really striking gaza city please be aware he may find it disturbing early on sunday morning it's really warplanes struck several buildings and roads in gaza 26 people are believed to have been killed making it the deadliest single attack since fighting broke out on monday the pictures also show a crater that blocked a main road leading to a hospital as were part of the show multiple children in gaza have fallen victim to the show. was. just so the top the. list stupidest silliest.
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of for almost their children. would be good to have that made it necessary to prove that it was all the targets these rows after the targets of the missile says small children who did nothing wrong who were to pieces right at this in place you know what history took gaza city this building which is called i'll call it building it's about 2 buildings actually not one these 2 buildings have been already destroyed by these radio to strike yesterday overnight risk you team to last that there is a possibility you for one and just inside the rubble that need to be saved they are not sure whether they are alive or are did at this moment and they suggest that they have so far risk 8 people including elderly gaels and one boy this is street of. many buildings have been destroyed already by the israeli warplanes
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including 2 main building or 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 preceded as israel used to a warning to people before they attempted to strike and evolving 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 celebrity and unfortunately she is now under the rubble and instead of celebrating piccies now under the rubble and they're still searching for him by the way few hours now this machinery have been has been trying attempting to to
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rescue the people leave inside this rubble of this for restore rebuilding in a way that's 3 and as you see here it's exceed 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 destruction is widespread destruction is largescale homes know as little as this would began the rescue operation we've seen a lot for survivors from the rubble there have been managed to it is also important to know that israeli airstrikes and on the gaza strip. other diets have also hit
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its streets and roads throughout ringback the gaza strip as the case with this street where this is 3 and where does 3 and a hard job gaza city that is the situation for the moment israeli average strikes over the area have all not only concentrated on residential compounds in douses but also in his 3 pts and roads and that's that's what's going on for the time being or freedom of information group reporters without borders has accused israel of war crimes following saturday's earth strike but the sort of tower block in the gaza offices of a number of world news media. later also contain private apartments and businesses and was in fact he waited prior to
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be attack after a warning from israel the israeli army claimed hamas was using the building to coordinate rocket attacks the un's head expressed dismay at the destruction of the media offices in gaza and on the growing civilian casualties in the conflict over we talked to an al jazeera journalist who worked there. now of course our picture cut now we will be real will not be able to deliver a picture to the world it's very difficult to me to see this image it's very hard for many years in working in this place covering the news coverage of the both the attacks in gaza now there's no brick sure from it is there obviously more something you know i feel very burg. i want to say that we will we will continue to deliver another message we will continue to cover the news in gaza i do we continue to tell the message of the palestinian people to deliver to the all over the world
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ok this you will do won't be able to stop our voice by attacking your building and this won't be easy no we will continue this would be if this attack were busy don't destroy it we will continue from anywhere from gaza all the offices of journalists of gaza it will this will be our office. well armed groups in gaza have continually fired waves of rockets at israel the southern city of ashkelon is one of the recent targets of palestinian militants a synagogue was damaged and numerous cars destroyed no casualties were reported. on saturday a round of rockets was fired. to leave the life of a 55 year old man according to reports he was unable to make it to a bomb shelter in time the israeli military say more than $2.00 of rockets have been fired from gaza into israel since moving around which were intercepted by
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missile defense systems well throughout the week israel has been amassing troops along the border often called up thousands of reservists raising the specter of a ground invasion of the hamas rule of gaza strip it's really troops though how can those who have entered the enclave but artillery tanks join b. early units and firing into the territory speaking to r.t. early sunday former it's really defense minister enough telling bennett since israel was attacked 1st then has 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 lended at your own family's home and killed your own family what is proportional not one israeli should die because of unprovoked attacks that's
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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 adore 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 'd that belong . you know hospitals war schools this is a cynical 'd way of operating and they hold direct responsibility to all the deaths the days that were going to sit back and allow murderers terror groups shoot and kill jews those days are over and if numbers seem slanted
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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 on israel they decided when this round would start israel will decide when it ends. conflict has also sparked tensions between israeli are a. live side by side for years. this is east jerusalem crew palestinian demonstrators clashed with police there are water coming was deployed against the crowds well police removed in surgery balloons which have been put off and the colors of the palestinian flag the current escalation between israel and gaza will spark over the possible of diction of palestinian families from a contested land on the outskirts of the city. the palestinian city of hebron
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meanwhile in the west respectable onto the streets this week tires were burned in the roads as protesters clash with his really switchers there's been violence in other nearby areas to. believe. lethal. violence has flurried within israel as well on thursday some disturbing images
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emerge from. on the outskirts of tel aviv and our driver was assaulted by mobs there he was seen being beaten up for reportedly having been pole from his vehicle some eyewitness reports that he was attempting to ram a group in his car or she's pulled a sleazier sent us this report. to me its main town of which is just to the south of jaffa and outside tel aviv jimmie's youngsters have gathered here and they 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 b i n fittings in front of the building they've come here with the israeli flags to show they support and this is in which the haitian 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.
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the 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 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 that one of your movies we learned in our 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 so there are no small children died in the streets because of the arabs now we've come here and the arming and police are against us we have showed so the frog
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says we can't continue like this is not good with the jews are doing is not good for the arabs are doing the government isn't doing anything so this is what's happening each side is doing what they want us here for 70 years and having a good neighbor so and it's a big p.t.s.d. that is happening now and now we have to make sure that 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. i may have the same happened with this car down the road here and now that 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. ati. meanwhile major european cities witnessed violent protests with thousands calling
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on israel to stop attacking demonstrators burn flags threw stones and bottles of police responded with tear gas and water cannon a number of arrests were made. was . that. was. when earlier in the week i spoke to pink floyd co-founder and activist roger waters he saves the international community can force israel to surrender contested 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
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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 global civil society in my view again you understand i have to give israel a point if you all not they say and is really court has ruled thought prior to 948 the land was in jewish. and the huts because of jordan has taken away from them this is not an equal conflict this is not when we're talking about gaza which will can a barrel full of fish in the israelis as shooting into it with 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 ghosts or and how that the next thing you'll be telling me is that rockets rained down on jerusalem it's equally nonsensical. story of which they've been said they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the rivets of 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. that would have 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 to put in the save this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here i
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want to bring you something else happening in israel too worshippers are dead and over 160 injured as a result of a seething collapse in a jerusalem synagogue that's according to local media 10 people are currently in critical condition the synagogue was packed up the moment of the collapse with reportedly around 600 worshippers in attendance. a tragedy that rocked the russian city of moore a teenage gunman attacked his former school on tuesday we hear from some of the victims' families.
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join me every day on the alex song and short and i'll be speaking to the school. i'm show business.
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hello again tragic event shook the russian republic of tatarstan on tuesday a man opened fire in a local school in the region's capital 9 people died including 7 students and 2 teachers more than 20 others were injured in the attack here's the timeline of how the shocking events unfolded. let's look for the clip here i was in the close on the 2nd floor we heard bangs sounded like explosions 1st we closed the caution 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 leave us on the street a man with a gun ran into the classroom and started shooting people who didn't shelter
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anything but before he did this we heard an explosion right on to our classroom parts of that our teacher told us to hide under the desks the little person like it was a mass last segment we heard a shot and at 1st we just thought that it was furniture being smashed and then the surgeon came close at the door was ajar and i saw that the man had a hole on the teacher began to hold the door shut we did not have a key and she told us to run while we're on the 1st floor one window was open and we all rushed to it will fall and then the shot that but no one was hurt badly there were no deaths. was. really you know was this. was the fire you for going to let. him.
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talk. so you really didn't know that i know about what. you see sitting on the floor one of the usual numerous ambulances emergency crews and fire trucks were at the site late so i sort of teacher covered in blood getting pulled out of school and about 4 children being carried away.
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the suspect 19 year old illinois governor via pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody people at the court said he showed no signs of emotion during the proceedings psychiatric tests are being carried out to assess his mental state in the aftermath of the deadly events ortiz dunya hawkins spoke to some who were directly affected by water occurred that tragic day. schalke 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 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
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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 meijer to close everything and leave the room. with a show everyone was deeply shocked we owe our lives to our math teacher who saved us sure 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 raced 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
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her name was and mine is that's because our parents wanted our names to sound similar she studied in the 8th form which she was 15 mark why she was a very resolute girl she had big plans for the future to finish the 9th form and get an education and i. thought knows on the day school staff that 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 can 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
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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 want to start. 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
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possible towards anyone let alone children. was confident but good prevails over evil and that concern 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 small or holy days for muslims eat at the feet of 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
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spirit which to day has showed its strength daniel hawkins r.t. because. we discussed with our guests some of the many issues this type of tragedy has once again raised. our society not able to scream this before we've got many administrations a situation schools how come a profile like this one went through all of that and nobody saw that he was on the verge of committing this massive mess of killings i think that's the serious issue today that all of our societies have to tackle is to pinpoint find his presence and he'll go on an awful lot of people with mental illness of one form or not they have extreme views and if you give these people guns you got to expect at some stage at these are going to go wrong so you you know the less comes and says i'm going to be that the safer we were our 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
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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 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 why if you may have struggled flavia 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 identified.

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