and a decade. president mahmud on bass spoke to his defense minister benny gant's for over 2 hours in ramallah. can says they discussed economic and security issues. it's inside story now. me ah ah, it's claimed the worst attack and i've done a son of taliban returned to power. the next day for a son is the group greatest challenge, but what is it and how much of a threat is it to the country and i'm the world. this isn't side story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm daddy and abigail. the u. s. is hours away from ending it's longest war, but with it's 20 your mission and i've gone on finally coming to an end. it leaves behind a new threats. i saw horse on, also known as ice. ok, has claimed responsibility for the cabal airport attack on thursday. it killed scores of people, including 13 u. s. service numbers, the highest number of deaths in a day for the american military. in a decade, the armed group was formed in 2014 and has been responsible for some of the worst attacks. and i've gone on in recent years, and it's been labeled one of the world's most dangerous terrorist org

but this meeting with natalie are sorry, with defense minister benny gant may not give the policy you know, 40, the boosted it had hope for because many palestinians really care, obviously about before mation of a palestinian state. not the maintaining of a status quo. so again, while this meeting is noteworthy in terms of the fact that there is a level of engagement going on with this new government. from the palestinian perspective, it simply is a maintaining of the status quo a status quo that does not involve advancing a piece process. ok, natasha getting the lie from where serious one. thank you. natasha federal palestinians were injured. israeli security forces use my fire and tear gas processes along because a border hundreds. so protest isn't gathered for a 2nd nice demonstrations. they won't issue to lists. it's 15 years, land, sea, and air blockades that have stifled causes. economy. by scripts of cold garza, the world's largest opening prison, nearly 2000000 people live with little access to the outside world. still ahead on al jazeera children orphans by decades of war in

a few months ago, the defense minister benny gant said that he thinks that the p a needs to be strengthened, that it needs to play a significant role. not only in the west occupied west bank, but in gaza, he added with the participation of the united states, europe and europe. countries and the prime minister bennett has said that he has 0 interest in seeing the establishment of a palestinian state and 0 interest and plans to push forward the peace process. his focus is on the economy and security. and of course the to go hand in hand from the palestinian authority perspective, the p a is thing what i would call a credibility crisis since late june. there have been protests allegations that there is rampant corruption within the p. a violations of human rights and a feeling among many protesters that there is to come the relationship between the p a and israel, when it comes to security. the p a is also facing a financial crisis. so there's definitely a sense that what we are going to be see is a maintaining of the status quo. and to underscore that is worth mentioning, that in october, hum

the for hottest julys have been in the past 5 years. israel's defense minister benny gant says, warn they're ready to strike iran in response to a drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of a man a week ago. the warning comes is israel urges the united nation is to take action. 2 people were killed in the attack, the u. s. the u. k. and other countries backing israel, assertion that iran was responsible, but actually just denied being involved for the upcoming has more now from west jerusalem. well, certainly it's been a tense week and i think that the political military and intelligence leadership would have been actually listening very carefully to what do you new iranian president had to say? there has been a lot of rhetoric coming out of israel ever since that tanker, which is really managed, was attacked about a week ago in the gulf of a man. israel immediately immediately pointed the finger at iran and then you had that pension. the border has been ongoing for the past few days. rocket being fired from southern lebanon into israel, and israel retail getting a lot of posturi