israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has rejected calls for an inquiry into the killing of palestinian protesters on friday it comes as video emerged of a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza it was filled as thousands of people began their protest against decades of land grabs by israel israeli military says the man was a member of the armed wing of hamas his family denies that from made his in gaza near the border with israel. we're just in front of a funeral ten for fifteen year old boy who actually received a bullet in his head while trying to save his friend who had received a bullet in his leg but if you ask anyone they say that they paid a heavy price they wouldn't expecting such a retaliation from israel but they will continue going on today's approach as they will continue to sit in along the border many people actually everyone tells you we have no other choice at this point we want freedom we want to live in dignity and some people will tell you we are living in an area you don't even feel that we are part of this planet and so i think there

in other words, there are very few significant ministries in which avigdor lieberman has not offered his leadership, his commitment and his determination to support israel. we are delighted he's here with us. i've invited minister lieberman to offer remarks and then you and i will down and have an impromptu conversation about the entire range of issues facing israeli security. i'd like to ask everyone to please put your cell phones on silent. this is an on the record event. we are streaming live with c-span. feel free to tweet out all the brilliant remarks of our guest but please keep your cell phones on silent. ladies and gentlemen, the minister ofdefense of the state of israel, avigdor lieberman . [applause]. >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity to express my views and thank you first of all for the introduction, first of all i'm happy to see that headlines today are not regarding the middle east and it's a very remarkable meeting in the korean peninsula o. it's really something. it's really, really good news. the second tpoint as you mentioned, i came to israel as an i

israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has spoken out about the violence in gaza saying there are no naive people no innocent people in the occupied strip israeli forces have killed thirty palestinians during protests along the israel gaza border which began ten days ago thirteen hundred palestinians have been wounded by live israeli fire palestinians plan to hold protests against israeli occupation for the next five weeks and smith has more from west jerusalem israel's defense minister of it all lieberman says that all the activists trying to challenge is in gaza a hamas military activist he says that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas in gaza of course not everyone in gaza is connected to hamas but what the defense minister is trying to do is continue the narrative that israel has tried to portray israel's government and israel's military that these are hamas led protests that these protesters are trying to breach the fence to invade israel to try and challenge israel's territorial integrity and so it's defending itself against that of course our re

again adrian for the good here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has rejected calls for an inquiry into the killing of palestinian protesters on friday it comes as video emerged of a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza it was filmed the thousands of people began to protest against decades of land grabs by israel al-jazeera has more now from gaza near the border with israel. more and more videos are emerging about what exactly unfolded at the border fence area on friday and from the evidence on many of the videos it seems that israel was shooting quite randomly at protesters now israel had warned in the days leading up to the friday protests that it will have this zero tolerance policy that it also had announced that it had the all these elite snipers about one hundred of them all along the border however after friday israel also said that among the protesters they were armed people there is no evidence so far of that noise there any evidence that petrol bombs where hurled across the fence as the israeli army says t

explain the significance of avigdor lieberman's statement. lieberman and the security establishment is essentially saying is the palestinians are terrorists people and whatever they do is the on the pale. i think the thing to focus on is the use of snipers. to gun down people at a sufficient distance from this you can see in the video we just saw, that is impossible that they could cause any harm to the israelis themselves. heavily armored israeli soldiers with sniper rifles that hundreds of meters are picking up systematically those who try to approach the fence or whatever. this is a policy that the government is proud of, that lieberman is praising thehe snipers who shotot down literaly thousands of people? i think it tells us a lot about israel's attitude toward palestinians, that they are subhuman. nermeen: i think one of the perceptions that is quite common, i mean you said earlier that palestinians are increasingly is an chanted with hamas and have mass is not very popular in palestine and with the residents of gaza. can you explain why

explain the significance of avigdor lieberman's statement. lieberman and the security establishment is essentially saying is the palestinians are terrorists people and whatever they do is the on the pale. i think the thing to focus on is the use of snipers. to gun down people at a sufficient distance from this you can see in the video we just saw, that is impossible that they could cause any harm to the israelis themselves. heavily armored israeli soldiers with sniper rifles that hundreds of meters are picking up systematically those who try to approach the fence or whatever. this is a policy that the government is proud of, that lieberman is praising the snipers who shot down literally thousands of people? i think it tells us a lot about israel's attitude toward palestinians, that they are subhuman. nermeen: i think one of the perceptions that is quite common, i mean you said earlier that palestinians are increasingly is an chanted with hamas and have mass is not very popular in palestine and with the residents of gaza. can you explain why pe

amy: meanwhile, israeli defense avigdor lieberman has drawn outrage for saying there are no innocent civilians in gaza. on sunday, lieberman told israel's public radio "there are in gazaent people strip. everyo is connecd to hamas. everyone gets a salary from hamas. all of the activists trying to breach the border are hamas military wing activists." both the international criminal court of the united nations have rebuked israel in recent days and warned its actions on the border with gaza can violate international human rights conventions. we will have more on the protests in gaza later in the broadcast. in brazil, former brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva has turned himself in to police and has begun serving a 12-year prison sentence for a highly controversial corruption conviction. his surrender came after a two-day standoff, during which he spent the night in sao paulo's steelworkers union building to avoid his incarceration. it comes after the supreme court rejected lula's bid to stay out of jail while he appealed his conviction, effectively removing him from brazil's

amy: meanwhile, israeli defense avigdor lieberman has drawn outrage for saying there are no innocent civilians in gaza. on sunday, lieberman told israel's public radio "there are in gazaent people strip. everyone is connected to hamas. everyone gets a salary from hamas. all of the activists trying to breach the border are hamas military wing activists." both the international criminal court of the united nations have rebuked israel in recent days and warned its actions on the border with gaza can violate international human rights conventions. we will have more on the protests in gaza later in the broadcast. in brazil, former brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva has turned himself in to police and has begun serving a 12-year prison sentence for a highly controversial corruption conviction. his surrender came after a two-day standoff, during which he spent the night in sao paulo's steelworkers union building to avoid his incarceration. it comes after the supreme court rejected lula's bid to stay out of jail while he appealed his conviction, effectively removing him from brazi

for the next five weeks more on that from burning in west jerusalem israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman says that all the activists trying to challenge is in gaza a hamas military activists he says that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas in gaza of course not everyone in gaza is connected to hamas but what the defense ministry is trying to do is continue the narrative that israel has tried to portray israel's government and israel's military that these are hamas led protests that these protesters are trying to breach the fence to invade israel to try and challenge israel's territorial integrity and so it's defending itself against that of course our reporters have seen on the ground from the side from the gaza side that essentially these protests are peaceful but the challenge for israel is that if it excepts the majority of peace people are protesting peacefully then there has to acknowledge the demands those protesters are making the demands for a relaxation of the blockade over gaza a chance to allow exports from gaza a chance to allow people to travel m

with the word emblazoned across it we have subsequently heard from the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman that he was a member of her must which israel guards is a terrorist organization and therefore a legitimate target his colleagues of course deny this saying these claims are ridiculous but this is what the israeli defense minister had to say. this is a veteran terrorist of the hamas military wing he was a rank equivalent to a captain in a mouse he received a regular salary says twenty eleven those remarks from the defense minister confuse the situation a little because we have heard from the israeli army that it does not intentionally target journalists at the same time it also contradicts statements that we received from the united states which provided him with a grant of nearly twelve thousand dollars now this is under a program that supports private sector development and wants to help his production company in gaza the u.s. state department does not deny the claims my understanding is that he was that it according to u.s. government guidelines but i don't have anything more what

back as he was running away during the massacre that's very telling you also at the top quoted avigdor lieberman the defense minister delivering a commendation to the israeli snipers who killed fifteen and wounded some seven hundred ninety people with live fire bullets were used which are bullets that actually explode once they penetrate the skin and break bones internally and then we saw israel root sheva israel national news which is a right wing website that's very close to the israeli education minister enough tally bennett declare that the palestinians have been seeking lots of dead bodies and for once we should give it to them so this is playing out openly in the israeli media celebration of the violence to mars and byrd who is a legislator from the left of center merits party the left wing merits party actually led a protest in tel aviv against the killings and in support of people in gaza to have an end to this eleven year old sides and the amount of incitement that she has received in mainstream israeli publications is amazing i mean she's now called a jew hater and a nazi and so forth

hello again adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has rejected calls for an inquiry into the killing of palestinian protesters on friday it comes as video emerged of a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza it was filmed this thousands of people began to protest.

reaction to this israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman says quote the sniper deserves a medal the photographer deserves a demotion so obviously this backing from this from the very top what's going on here puts it to use is the idea of the most moral army in the world that could be no doubt when you're at the front line under a lot of should these things. emotions run high because you have an argument there for that or not of course it does and you want to sort of the u.s. has a view and the use of. seen just now there's a fence between these snipers and the palestinians. did you see anything go over the fence do you see any protectors there was nothing there were people yes demonstrating as they have a. right to in what is the biggest jail in the world in gaza and this is from december but i do take issue with your correspondents characterization of this as violent clashes this is exactly the israeli narrative it isn't it is civilian protesters on one side and violent snipers on the other picking them off there is no justification for killing one protester but they have killed mo

the first time it has been accused of that it's army certainly and we had the defense minister avigdor lieberman said that the soldiers basically did exactly what they had to do and that in his opinion they all deserved to magill now the opinion here of these radio leadership and the army is that groups that they deem terrorist organizations like hamas and other islamic factions inside gaza are using these protests or hijacking them so to speak to sort of you know breach the border the you know the fence the barrier fence whatever you want to call it and even israel goes as far as to say planting explosive devices but the reality is you've got tens of thousands of people who are now protesting peacefully at this barrier if we're going to see these protests continue it is a different challenge israel is facing this hasn't happened in gaza before to this scale they're going to have to be very careful as to how they go forward also because the international community has already condemned israel saying it is used excessive force and there should be an independent investigation which of course the d

fight and something his supporters say that he could and should win israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has angered palestinians by saying that there are no naive people in dancer and that those taking part in protests are hamas military wing activists at least thirty palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since demonstrations along the garden israeli border began ten days ago thousands more been injured palestinians plan to hold protests against the israeli occupation for the next five weeks. doctors in goals are struggling to treat those palestinians injured in friday's protests or spittles have declared a state of emergency a severe shortage of supplies meant has more from one of god's. this is just one of the rooms and you have to understand that the whole hospital looks like this we have injured after injured now this young man was had received two bullets in his legs he needs further treatment he needs to get out of gaza for the treatment but that the moment he won't be able to and then we have this young man who is also in that situation these two were quite close to the

jacket marked press known for his use of a drone to capture footage israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman said that's why he was shot dead however i media denied murtaza was operating a drone when he was shot the israeli military conceded it had no evidence that either him or taj or anyone else was using a drone during friday's protest among the protesters were palestinians whose family members had been shot in the protests in gaza my fourteen year old cousin was recently shot. in both legs there. weapons where the bullets explode and a person's legs out on both of his legs so they're trying to save his legs one of the chants you hear these protesters use is in support of b.d.s. the boycott divestment sanctions movement which they see is the only method to force israel to comply with international law when you look at the boycott divestment sanctions list the b.d.'s less and you look at the things that are either created in the state of israel whether they're exploiting palestinian labor or building factories on stolen land there are a lot of ways that we can combat the profiting off the

israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has angered palestinians by saying that there are no naive people in gaza and those taking part in protests hamas military wing activists at least thirty palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since demonstrations along the israeli border began ten days ago thousands more have been injured palestinians plan to hold protests against the israeli occupation for the next five weeks well doctors in gods are struggling to treat those palestinians injured in friday's protests hospitals have declared a state of emergency juju a severe shortage of supplies or as this report. isn't an easy atmosphere in the ward the patients are in pain but this is silent where we have those around him at his most right. but not in the hoody cannot contain his despair he has three all three maimed to protest is the last one to be injured and his condition is double swearing he has already lost his left leg in an accident a few years ago now his right one is at risk. he lost his leg because of the two governments we have one would agree to transfer him the othe

protests while you you hinted at it there particularly when it comes to the defense minister avigdor lieberman saying that the soldiers did what they had to do and it is his words that they will deserved a medal israel's argument is security and this is again what you mentioned earlier the fact that it only targeted those that were in danger of breaching and even in israel's words planting explosives on that separation fence even the general come on saying that this wasn't a proper protest this was a communal mass effort to breach that security fence however of course looking at social media having been on the on the ground and knowing what we know that tens of thousands of civilians also came out in protest in a real unprecedented move we haven't seen this in gaza before firing at people running away from the border there this is why you have this sort of international outcry of excessive force it is not the first time that these ready or he has been accused of excessive force but what israel always comes back with is that they are acting in the interests of their national security. so tensio

israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman says that all the activists trying to challenge is in gaza a hamas military activist she says that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas in gaza of course not everyone in gaza is connected to hamas but what the defense minister is trying to do is continue the narrative that israel has tried to portray israel's government and israel's military that these are hamas led protests that these protesters are trying to breach the fence to invade israel to try and challenge israel's territorial integrity and so it's defending itself against that of course our reporters have seen on the ground from the side from the gaza side that essentially these protests all peaceful but the challenge for israel is that if it excepts the majority of peace people are protesting peacefully then there has to acknowledge the demands those protesters a making the demands for a relaxation of the blockade over gaza a chance to allow exports from gaza a chance to allow people to travel more freely and expound fishing zones these are what people wa

bill was trying to make that something that there'd be obligatory while the defense minister avigdor lieberman threatening to leave the coalition if that pause so it all has to do with this is putting him in a very fragile position i think this is also why we've seen this major u. turn just a couple of hours off in the prime minister publicly announced this huge deal to the media and on television and then a couple of hours going back because he needs them he depends on them he's more fragile than ever and also his political base is voter base there's a big out war on social media after he announced his deal with the u.n. and from what we understand from reports in the israeli media his advisor sat down analyzed and said listen this is a real issue to you this is a real threat to you and this is why we've seen this major u. turn stephanie thank you very much for that for the other to stephanie deca with the latest from the western thank you. china set to impose tariffs of up to twenty five percent on one hundred six u.s. goods the move is a reaction to planned u.s. tariff soft twenty five perc

prime minister's applauded the action of that of the soldiers in the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman he said that there will be no independent inquiry that has been called from the united nations to look into the fact that such a high number of people were killed seventeen dead and over eight hundred injured by life fire from. authorities so basically what they're saying is that this was a major security breach that this was not a normal protest that this was an attempt to break the border fence between gaza and israel but of course looking at the video what you see is unarmed protesters running away there's various different videos and some of them show different angles of people running away from the border fence and are being shot at that seem to pose no threat so i think it is a sort of new kind of confrontation if you will or challenge for these really army that you have tens of thousands of un armed protesters standing at the border fence basically just reiterating calling for recognition of the desperate situation they have been enduring for many years now and i think this is

however, on sunday, israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman told israel's public radio there willt be an inquiry. lieberman said -- "from the standpoint of the soldiers, they did what had to be done. i think all of our troops deserve a commendation." , can you respond, as we wrap up, what you're calling for an are response to what the israeli military is saying? know the victims of 2008, 2009 a no no the victims of 2012 and under the victims of 2014. and we know what israelis are doing on a day-to-day basis. i have represented those victims. i know what israel is doing, the kind of crime they're doing. [indiscernible] and then gaza with the siege, they're doing social the economic -- of accords which was intended to end by having me palestinian [indiscernible] i can assure you one thing, one accountable be held for all of the crimes and orders he gave to those criminal soldiers through the chain of command. they want to push us to one thing, to give up, to be the victims. never, ever we will give up. we will continue to fight for our freedom, for our dignity, for our people, for o