may prevail instead of a resumption of the war that still rages inside this little girl's head andrew simmons al-jazeera gaza city. yes jim a now he's the director general of girls as community mental health program he's joining us via skype from khan yunis thank you very much indeed i'm just wondering how representative all of palestinian children but particularly children and girls that is that little girl in the kind of conditions that she is exhibiting. good morning everyone i think this report gives only something example of the difference between trauma in the trauma and other places in the world so basically her children live not in a status of the trauma but sort of ongoing trauma i think this case the prisons most of the policy answers are in gaza strip even though most of them force were not seriously injured at the physical level but i think there are traumas that are say critically. record that unicef said recently that one in four children is in need for some sort of psychological. support and they think that. most of the children are living under some sort or impacted by some so

andrew simmons has more from gaza. let me just take you through what's happened here there was a family staying in this house and i ask samir to walk through you'll see what has happened here they were sitting right here a pregnant woman a baby eighteen months old sitting here we're not quite exactly sure where the father is he is critically ill now he is a member was of the. police so that's why this was on the target list one would assume but it does highlight once again the danger of casualties who are not necessarily connected the family well you work that out for yourself that's spot there is where the first missile struck from. israeli warplane and then what you can see is the result basically now what is happening is that house is really pushing the message of that there can be some sort of lull in the fighting there could be a cease fire possibly temporary but they want to forewarn and they want to lift lifting of the blockade the israelis say in response that nearly two hundred rockets were fired but we're now

andrew simmons. gaza city. now a popular experience reaffirmed as the winner of iraq's election after three count the electoral commission still has. to live in the lead the manual recount took place after widespread allegations of fraud the results must now be ratified by the top court after which a session of parliament will be held within fifteen days well earlier i spoke to al jazeera correspondent osama bin about the challenges the new government will face. now what this means is that. it would be in a much stronger position to call for formulate a government that has already laid out forty demands that he wants all of this coalition partners to adopt but you have to remember that he is well short of one hundred sixty five people required to form a majority government who is going to be in this government is the biggest question and he's reached out to almost everyone and he's going to most probably include people including how the law mary and. to clerics who we've seen in the past very close to iran so t

center was among the buildings destroyed as a mass as a deescalation appears to have gone unheeded andrew simmons reports now from gaza an airstrike on a five story building it's a culture center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after schools of strikes on gaza. hamas says after its fighters and other factions fired nearly two hundred rockets and launched dozens of mortars it wants a truce. i think that no the resistance sent a very strong message that we could stop your economic kind of the terrorists and we can also add total crimes against our citizens having guns in the air attacks that made wednesday night feel reminiscent of the last three wars here this house in darryl ballard was struck by an israeli aircraft a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old baby died here the husband who's a hamas policeman is critically ill in hospital the first to see this scene with the next door neighbor. one. that i'm very angry a pregnant woman and her baby she happy marriage the two year there's nothing dangerous about her. there may be military reasoning from the

andrew simmons. gaza city. now it's been a year since myanmar's military launched a crackdown dating to what the u.n. has course the ethnic cleansing of the minority of a hang hundreds of thousands have fled to neighboring. for the refugees they have been holding peaceful protests demanding justice and a safe return to their homes there are now more than seven hundred thousand people living in camps near the border has become the voice largest refugee session and. signed a deal with myanmar to allow the refugees to return but a petri dish and process has been stalled mohamed and has more from quote a prolonged campaign cox's. the scenes out of critical on cancer day have been absolutely extraordinary thousands of or hinge or refugees demonstrating i have been to cox's our bangladesh this is my third time covering the range of crisis and i've never seen demonstrations of this magnitude the refugees had to get special permission from the bangladeshi authorities in order to stage these demonstrations what we saw m

bring gaza back from the brink again dance and people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera gaza city. or for the very latest we can join our correspondent stephanie decker he's live for us in west jerusalem of course the situation is very volatile the dust has not settled. absolutely however in the last couple of hours or so it's been relatively quiet all eyes now on what happens next particularly here in israel right now from what we understand in tel aviv the prime minister is meeting with his defense minister avigdor lieberman in about four hours time from now we will have an israeli security cabinet meeting convene also at army headquarters in tel aviv it will be interesting and crucial to see what comes out of that so hail everyone we've been speaking to and this escalation as has come and gone over the last couple of weeks both sides don't want a war if you look at the amount of targets overnight one hundred eighty now the rockets fired from gaza into israel according to the army around one hundred fifty targets hit by the israeli army inside gaza but if yo

well andrew simmons is at the house. where the pregnant mother and her child were killed.

protest there was forty eight hours of cross border violence between the israeli military and hamas andrew simmons ripples from gaza. there's a truce but just here on gaza's border with israel there's no such thing as calm you see anger soon followed by life sniper rounds. finding their targets schools of life changing injuries mainly young people while near rafa a middle aged man and a medic died. here those wanting to express themselves with words not actions families with children risking their lives mixing with activists do they believe that the fighting can and who do we use a truce won't hold for long the protesters have an objective until they get what they want there's going to be no call and. a cease fire called last because we have learned here the occupation has taken land by force we will get him back. not far away another rush with no cup of protection it's evident the numbers turning out having creased compared with last week's demonstrations the toxic mix of black smoke and tear gas remains much the same as previous protests the more to follow this demonstration is freedom and life

bring gaza back from the brink again gazan people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera of gaza city. and she joins us from west jerusalem say stuff you've got the guns are officials saying that from their side this escalation is what we're hearing from the israelis. well they're currently meeting the senior political leadership in tel aviv in about two hours from now there will be these ready security cabinet convening in tel aviv as well in army headquarters that has the prime minister the minister of defense the chief of staff of the army and other senior official that they will be deciding how to move forward on this just referring back to that statement from hamas a spokesperson they said that they are on there and it is over the ball is now in israel's court in that they feel they have responded adequately to the killing of two members of the military wing of hamas why because the escalation really snowballed after on tuesday israel killed two members of the first of all israel said it believed its forces were targeted by sniper fire across the border in

population are under the age of seventeen and some of them have already left three three was andrew simmonss being to visit a young girl his son living with the trauma of a severe head injury that she sustained in the twenty fourteen war. look into how you would never guess what this child has been through. namable food is six yet she's suffered both pain and anguish for most of her short life. she's aged two here in the twenty fourteen gaza war she sustained what was described as life changing head injuries intricate surgery in turkey and three months of recuperation there saved her life. it was an israeli air attack that very nearly killed nama. not this one. nor this. these are recent strikes a whole night of bombardment with outgoing hamas rockets and continued attacks from israel claiming it struck more than one hundred fifty m. a star gets before what's meant to be a truce. the sound alone was enough to make namma relive the war and. than any other when she hears the sound of what planes she gets very scared at and says i want to go back to turkey there's no warplanes in turkey. dead

mediators bring gaza back from the brink again people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera gaza city well stuff they call correspondent is following events for us from west jerusalem and stuff we have to monitor really the reaction from both sides because the dust really hasn't settled yet that's right there's a lot of rhetoric on both sides to hell and the attacks continue this morning airstrikes and some rocket fire but again reading between the lines of these escalations and they do come in goes to hell is this is that israel is striking multiple had mass and other military targets inside gaza but they haven't struck any areas where there are a gathering of actually members of those groups this is significant because.

israeli airstrikes and had mass rockets fired into southern israel let's get the latest now from andrew simmons what more do we know about this truce sandra. well we know merriam is that house has briefed a number of correspondents of his or included two separate officials saying that the truce was negotiated with the egyptian and u.n. involvement and that truce and let's say truce at this stage is not a long term ceasefire there is a difference and i explain later but there is a truce in place now twenty forty g.m.t. which is the best part of twenty minutes ago that truce according to how mass was in place we have not heard from israel as on this there is nothing on twitter right now as far as i'm aware but we will update you later should we know anything from israel there has been silence of the security cabinet there on the military briefing which preceded it on wednesday the last attack the last major israeli attack on the gaza city or was in fact the best part of let's look six hours ago and that was a devastating attack on a cultural center a large five story building it was all but destr

population are under the age of seventeen and some of them have already lived through three walls andrew simmons has been to visit a young girl who still lives with the true. others have their head injury she sustained in the twenty fourteen war. look into her eyes and you would never guess what this child has been through. namable food is six yet she suffered both pain and anguish for most of her short life. she's aged two here in the twenty fourteen gaza war she sustained what was described as life changing head injuries intricate surgery in turkey and three months of recuperation that saved her life. it was an israeli air attack that very nearly killed nama. not this one. nor this these are recent strikes a whole night of bombardment with outgoing hamas rockets and continued attacks from israel claiming it struck more than one hundred fifty amherst august's before what's meant to be a truce. the sound alone was enough to make namma relive the war on the. planet i thought when she hears the sound of what planes she gets very scared and says i want to go back to turkey there's no warplanes in t

may prevail instead of a resumption of the war that still rages inside this little girl's head andrew simmons al-jazeera gaza city. and we're showing you again this interactive page at al jazeera dot com about life in gaza twenty four hours in gaza looks at what life is like for one palestinian family living under the rubble in the gaza strip they'd really struggled set challenges so great from watch it on al-jazeera dot com if you're watching us on facebook live coming up we'll show you how boys in kenya are using site charts to fight deforestation and ahead on the grid we'll take you to the indian state of carolina where floods have ravaged many areas but the spirit of or not i knew a festival a still going strong. at the end . of the war. hello there well we are watching some humidity values starting to edge their way up here across the levant as well as down here towards the middle east take a look at the temperatures we're expectancy in kuwait now over the last few days it has been about forty seven forty degrees forty five degrees a little bit cooler but it's also going to be a little b

language arabic one of many measures in what most people in this village believe is a racist law andrew simmons zero they each in his room with the rebels in yemen say they've attacked the king holiday airbase in the southern side to arabia using an arms drone though they say they've targeted a runway used by the saudi and m. iraqi led coalition to launch air strikes on yemen the rebels unveiled a so-called one drone last year they've used it to attack a saudi aramco facility and an airport in saudi arabia police in the us state of oregon have broken up a right wing rally in the city of portland. devices called flash bangs were used to describe hundreds of demonstrators and counter protesters police say the crowds were ordered to leave after throwing rocks and bottles at officers those are the headlines then he's continues here in al-jazeera after head to head by foot. from the bronx at vote in britain. but real people to the election of donald trump . will govern our. people around the world again. to the political extremes. to what lies behind the recent rise in populism and authoritarianism.

and the top brass in the military give their views on what should come next right under simmons' there in gaza andrew thank you. now the president of the democratic republic of congo will not be standing in december's election joseph kabila his refusal to step down in twenty sixteen lead to violence and the delay of the vote he's now backing a close ally to replace him but as catherine so explains there is stiff competition for the job. after months of speculation and manuel ramazani should diary president joseph to be less trusted ally has been nominated by the common front for congress and as he successfully it was a surprise to many who thought the president would try to run for a third time even though he's bad by the constitution will choose other more politically vocal leader as she diaries a secretary of the president's people's party for reconstruction and democracy p.p.r. deen he comes from the same province in that is describing as mother as well as powerful generals in the military for that analysts say is seen as a safe bet. he's however and a utopian union sanctions list for human rights

palestinian killed in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets have been fired into southern israel andrew simmons has the latest. an israeli airstrike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after schools of strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and i was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the asteroid on the cultural center hamas said in its statement of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire guarded words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets something of this novel for go for this and. six i was going to four hours after that was to i think that the equation of the confrontation always was not so i think both sides are not involved we are not interested now now to the support of the white girl for dishes or a war we try to avoid that wednesday

military and security services from all religions and ethnicities and simmons following that story for us out of the bureau wester islam andrew clearly benjamin netanyahu is not given to rowing back on this where do you think this is heading next. well it's really every every aa is on the how this protest movement comes together evidently from that remark from netanyahu he's not shifting at all in that special committee you referred to was known about a few days back and it's already been dismissed by all concerned in the process movements as absolutely meaning nothing they there is a haze over exactly what's this special committee can offer some guarantee to those serving in the israeli army perhaps but that isn't enough it would seem when you look at the pictures of the size of that demonstration and work out that that was the druze demonstration which represents two percent of the population it's easy to work out that when we see demonstrations from palestinians who are citizens in israel which are jew in a week's time they represent twenty percent of the population it could be an even more dynamic picture in terms of prot

out of gaza we're hearing of nine targets hit in the gaza strip by israel and or simmons is live in gaza for us so andrew tell us more about what you've been hearing there. well lauren we've heard very loud explosions here in gaza city because there have been no less than ten and strikes in the past hour the first was here in gaza city and that was a military target it has to be said how mass headquarters of their special forces that is the brigades i have to say and there was also an attack on the navy building a different location in the city outside the city then just a few minutes before coming to a very loud explosion much closer about two kilometers away and that was a second house navy position barracks we don't know of casualties right now the other targeted areas. jabara. east of rafa we know that they've been targeted there two attacks on rougher it seems a total of ten in all now what started all of this off it has to pay said that there's hardly seems like proportionate response but that is a debate for later there was a number of rockets fired into israel we've heard that a confirmation effe