senior public policy fellow at the american university of beirut. link to your article in al jazeera "believe it or not, justice will prevail in palestine." next up, look at israel's endgame. is it to push palestinians into egypt? back in 20 seconds. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. health officials and gaza say israel's unrelenting bombardment of the besieged palestinian territory has killed another 700 people over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll over the past eight days to more than 58 hundred palestinians. among them, 2000 children are dead. 1.4 million gazans, more than half the territory's population, has been displaced. many say there is no safe place to be in gaza right now. the world health organization is putting for far more aid to be allowed into gaza through the rafah border crossing with egypt. we are going to look now at egypt's response to israel's bombardment of gaza and the negotiations over aid coming through rafah. we're joined by sharif abdel kouddous, who won the george

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joining us now is rami khouri — senior public policy fellow at american university of beirut. e ask you festival, the biggest element of this for many people including israelis was the surprise element. h0 people including israelis was the surprise element.— surprise element. no one was exoecting _ surprise element. no one was exoecting it- _ surprise element. no one was exoecting it- i _ surprise element. no one was expecting it. i think— surprise element. no one was expecting it. i think the - surprise element. no one was l expecting it. i think the surprise was not the hamas attack, but their scale, sophistication, number of deaths in israel, the number of people that were taken prisoner or kidnapped or hostage, whatever you want to call them. prisoner of war is is properly a good term because this is a war. that was a surprise. it was notjust this is a war. that was a surprise. it was not just the fact they attacked. it shouldn't have been a surprise because israel has had a lot of experience with the lebanon border and hezbollah over the last 25 years. hezbollah has become

rana curry is a distinguished public fellow at the american university of beirut, a well published author and political common columnist. good to have you with. this is been a long time. >> thank you. >> there has been a constant exchange in this cross border clashes in israel's north over the past five days. right now there seems to be no agreement on what hezbollah will do. there seems to be limited confrontations, if you like. hezbollah is keeping its palette dry. is it the point that whatever hezbollah decides to do, have bigger role that will have in determining the direction of the war? >> it's not just hezbollah. there's a confrontation with israel and hezbollah. so both sides have to make a decision whether to get involved in an active war or to just do-for-tat symbolic actions. the reality is that hezbollah and israel have been actively at war on and off for about 20 years or so. they both have immense capabilities, technical and firepower it sattre and determination, and they realize that they are pretty ably matched in many ways. israel is still a bigger army but hezbollah has

buildings and american university of beirut shouting anti-american slogans. you worry about the effects of what this anti-american sentiment means for the region and what it means ultimately for a sustainable peace in the long run? >> i worry which is why i stress the importance of getting regional actors involved as soon as possible. i think it is not just anti-is and jewish. we have seen the rise of anti-semitic causes in the last 14 days. it is vital for the u.s. to work together with the arab states and listen to them because they're the ones in the region who understand the dynamics. i'm not suggesting for a moment the u.s. doesn't understand the dynamics, but there needs to be conditionality to the military aid given to israel. i fear an escalation, once there will be a ground invasion, an escalation of losses to israel and civilians in gaza. it is impossible to fight surgically in gaza. it is a heavily populated area. it is not feasible to fight without having collateral damage. it is feasible to try to aim to do it as israeli states, but we are likely

of american soldiers from lebanon is a clear message to the threats of the united states. seyyed mohammad hosseini, reporter of beirut radio and television. the professors of tehran universities gathered in front of the un office while condemning the crimes of the zionist regime in gaza and the killing of civilians and protested the inability of international institutions to prevent these crimes . they announced with the people of gaza that we came to announce to the world that we support the oppressed people of palestine and gaza in order to protect children and mothers, and because it has little resistance against the resistance forces and cannot fight, it has to attack people and children in order not to lose. america has common interests with the zionist regime to defend it and stand behind israel and the zionist regime of qasim. we want the nations, why are you so silent, this silence that doing this has no meaning at all. iranian clerics gathered to condemn the crimes of the zionist regime . while supporting the people of gaza, the demonstrators announced that the account of judaism is separate from zionism and the killing of zionists in gaza and the support of the supp

citizens have pulled the american and zionist flags on the ground, and now the un peacekeeping forces stationed in lebanon have to pass over these flags. the students of beirut university, together with the commanders of the martyr resistance, ask hezbollah to attack tel aviv. at the same time as the operation in gaza, the situation of the northern borders is red for the zionists. another storm may be coming. saeed zanneh, sedav- sima reporter. our conversation with mr. nasser torabi an expert on west asian issues and the zionist regime , we will continue, mr. torabi, before the news , we were talking about other fronts that the zionist regime might face. well, now we have witnessed the exchange of fire in the news and pictures that we had from the south of lebanon and the north of the occupied territories. hizbollah 15. now it is not clear whether hizbullah did this exactly or the palestinian resistance groups in lebanon, but in any case, the resistance that exists inside lebanon has been scrutinized. let's talk about military possibilities that may happen in the future. yes there are several possible scenarios in the military fields, but before that, let me tell you