>> gary, another deadly day here in gaza, as you know, there was a strike by israeli defense forces, by the air force on what they say would be the house of a suspected hamas head of a hamas artillery unit. initially defense forces said they killed that head of the artillery unit but they have now backed off that? but we do know that ten members of the family who were living in this house, not the family of this hamas commander, but ten people were killed, including women and children. we talked to people on the scene who said they took away ten family members. they did unfortunately kill members of another family. they say they do not know whether or not they actually killed the hamas target they said they were going for. there were also controversial strikes on two media centers here, buildings where local and foreign journalists have been working. a number of local journalists were injured. although israeli defense forces did give advanced warning and they evacuated but a number of journalists did go back in. about an hour, hour and a half ago, a rocket was fired from central gaza.

the israeli defense forces has said that the journalists were not afraid target but that they were aware that there were journalists in these buildings and a statement released by the i.d.f. it said that a communications antenna used by how much to target israelis was in fact their target but the thing is that you have in these media houses international journalists and the israeli army is fully aware of that fact we also are aware that in one of the buildings all sister organization. offices were completely destroyed in the strike unfortunately just an hour before his staff members had gone home we are now however receiving reports that the journalists and people inside these two buildings have been ordered again to evacuate we all receive in the course of the israeli air force plans to strike these buildings again it's not something that the israeli air force is denying in fact they have stated that the army eight for one of these buildings is the office of have nots and that this is ultimately a target now the leaders of hamas have gone into hiding they are fearing for their lives thi

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this been started by the israeli defense forces israeli forces over israel we're not sure exactly what that is and the precipices here refuse to tell us exactly what it is but they have said that this is all of this is for a targeted attack on terrorist infrastructure inside gaza it is difficult to state how potentially dangerous all of this is it only really started back at the weekend with the. hamas militants firing rockets from gaza and reportedly today israeli defense sources say rockets potentially fired from over the egyptian border into the south of israel and also there has been an israeli strike at the weekend which killed four were inside gaza including three children the potential for this operation and for hamas is hamas is replies to kick off. a real war in gaza over the scale of two thousand and eight to nine when israel launched operation cast lead with the same. purpose with ground troops on the ground that potential is very real so we're seeing a rapidly developing situation here that may indeed have the real potential to start a war between gaza and israel. well cert

but it is very defense forces spokesperson has netted that an airstrike on a house that killed twelve palestinians was a mistake as its target had been a command that attack is believed to have caused the largest death toll in a single incident there has the latest. the reports we're receiving is that hoff of the people who have so far been treated at shifa hospital which is the biggest hospital in gaza city off of the people being rushed there are in fact children the hospital is simply not coping it's running short of space and also medical supplies at the same time there was an israeli air force strike there lived ten members of the same family killed when a three story building in which they were collapsed around him were also witnessing an increase in the target of german sister organization you see on your have an office in gaza city and just an hour after they risk their office because of electricity cuts that office was destroyed by an israeli air force strike the israeli air force has targeted two media buildings and the army is not apologetic for this it says that it was unf

moments of panic through through tel of eve and perhaps affecting the resolve of the israeli defense forces and the israeli people to perhaps escalate this conflict to a ground attack tanks and troops there's been a lot of reports of them massing near the border with gaza we know that thirty thousand reservists are ready to be called up if necessary also earlier today a visit by egypt's prime minister to the gaza strip there were supposed to be a truce on his visit which was broken almost immediately by both sides rockets being fired into southern israel and an israeli airstrike which killed two civilians one of them a child those bodies brought into the hospital as it was being visited by egypt's prime minister and harasses prime minister on seeing those bodies egypt's prime minister saying that he felt he couldn't keep silent and that israel must stop its aggression in gaza backing up hamas and the garzon people there all of this supposed to have been a truce period that wasn't held and firing by both sides intensifying now as a result of all these casualties and rocket attacks and bombin

a defense force does not conquer lands of another people the defense force does not assist in the building of settlements pointless occupation of millions of people only leads to radicalization of opinions hatred and the escalation of violence violence is a cycle that feeds into itself the cycle will not stop until someone stands up and refuses uncompromisingly to take part in it. earlier i had the chance to talk to my ear when about why she resisted i first asked her what the turning point was for her. so i actually went into the west bank which is something that most israelis don't do and if they do do they go into settlements but i actually went to palestinian territories both in villages and cities and i actually met palestinians there and actually saw what it was that we were doing and it dawned on me that we were actually occupying palestine that we were actually in fact in control of them and that they were merely resisting what our. regime that we had there so i went to that was the first village that i went to which is a village that israel has built a separation barr

well my colleague bill dogged intervened israeli defense forces spokesperson fatah leave it he said the journalists certain israeli strikes only have themselves to play. we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings hamas wisely positioned a whole system of communications and electronics for its own personal or operational work we targeted only these and ten as these communications center and i spread films earlier today showing this exactly and you can see an accurate hit on the roof none of the floors were targeted of course there was a little bit of. it as a result of the explosives on the windows shattered and so on but the direction was not to the floors but rather than ten as the communication centers on the roof i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake and we are now in operation defending half of this country's population and we are determined to continue with this operation until we bring some peace and quiet to this country the equation is very clear if there will be quiet in israel t

one hundred thirty targets struck over the second night of this aerial bombardment of israeli defense forces saying they were targeting underground rocket stores a lot of explosions there and an increase in the death toll inside gaza also widespread reports of troops and tanks moving the south towards the garzon border it seems now that this visit by egypt's prime minister more important than ever as the risk of a ground war in gaza as we saw over the new year of two thousand and eight to nine still looms. large in live from tel aviv thank you very much indeed for that time sadly talking to you again later on today. despite a number of civilian deaths including those of children israel's foreign ministry has hailed the precision of the israeli operation and my colleague rory sushi has been speaking to that spokesperson paul he's shown. this is been so far one of the most surgical pinpoint military operations in modern military history i think again you will see that the civilian to militant casualty ratio will show up israel to have unfortunately killed civilians but far fewer then than any

us into who that was is how or what seemed to be very rightly an eminent grounds by its very defense forces and as palestinians are continuing to ask world leaders to help put a stop to the assault the u.s. remains firm in its backing of israel president obama spoke to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu on friday to reiterate his support. the editor of a news junkie post says the consequences of further escalation in the conflict are not being properly addressed. is well as the. it's just. not working. i personally think that usually betting someone approach on the ocean which would normally be. all they are doing something very very stupid because if there's one thing that you need the muslim world and we've been seeing not only in mostly contrary but actually all over the world including in the us is there not. something that is not girly well thought out because what could very easily happen is not. on israel coming from a leader not also some own or as in joy of the one where you have about two million but is not as aware as there are some movement of the egyptian army that is v

while the israeli defense forces has sealed off roads around gaza declaring the area a closed military zone this is just another suggestion that a ground offensive could be imminent also israeli officials have been meeting with foreign diplomats and telling them that they plan to extend the army operations this comes after some seventy five thousand reservists were called out and we are witnessing an increase in activity along the israeli gaza border. now there continues to be heavy shelling from tanks along this border into gaza the tanks as well as armored personnel vehicles have been moved throughout this border over the past few days we are also hearing from the chief of these will be defense forces for an increase in the pace of a strikes on gaza this comes just after a massive air strikes on saturday completely destroyed the headquarters of the hamas government now this is a building where just yesterday the egyptian prime minister visited it is a building that has now been reduced to rubble at the time of the prime minister's visit they was supposed to be a ceasefire in effect a

hamas praised the attack near the headquarters of the defense forces. farther south, a home was hit by a rocket. room after room left in ruins. more than 60 rockets were fired from gaza today. the others were intercepted. across the border in fagaza several large explosioned. the skyline of the city covered in smoke. the city on edge. on some streets buildings were turned to rubble. >> there used to be a small well-known shop here that has branchs throughout the city selling wedding and party dresses. there is a bouquet lying there in the rubble. the tar bet of the strike was the police station behind it. >> after hours of intense negotiations, hillary clinton and egyptian president announced the cease fire. >> for it to hold the rocket attacks must end and a broader calm return. >> israeli prime minister talks with reporters. >> i know there are those who expect a broader military response and that may in fact be needed. but at this time the right thing for the state of israel is to exhaust this opportunity to obtain a long-term cease fire. >> througho

this is why my government is instructed the israeli defense forces to conduct surgical strikes against terrorist infrastructure in gaza. >> cnn's sara sidner is live for us in gaza city. we are hearing report that is a rocket hit tel aviv. is that right? >> reporter: well, look. we are hearing the same thing. but that has not been confirmed. however, we did hear even a chant from a mosque saying god is great, god is great, we have hit tel aviv. no confirmation it fell in the city. there was talk it perhaps fell in the sea. what we do know is that there have been more than 200 rockets that sailed over from hamas in to israel killing three people and here in gaza there have been a mass of air strikes. they have continued well in to the night. we have been here since early this morning and seen at least a dozen hits, plus. plus tonight, six more huge blasts. you can feel it rumbling and then you see the telltale black smoke from the buildings or whatever the target, whatever target that israel would manage to hit. this is all a reaction to actually something that happened last thursday wh

hamas praised attack, near the headquarters of the israeli defense forces. farther south, an israeli home hit by a rocket. room after room, left in ruins. according to the israeli military, more than 60 rockets were fired from gaza today, more than 40 landing in southern israel. others were intercepted. across the border in gaza several large explosions throughout the morning and afternoon. 100 strikes confirmed by israeli authorities today before the cease-fire. the skyline of gaza city covered in smoke. the city on edge. on some streets, buildings were turned to rubble. ar arwa damon got a look what's left behind. >> there used to be a small, rarely well known shop. selling wedding dresses, party dresses, a bouquet lying in the rubble. the target was the splice stati police station behind it. >> after intense negotiations, secretary of state clinton and president morsi announced a cease-fire. >> the united states welcomes a cease-fire in gaza for it to hold, the rocket attacks must end. >> a short time later, benjamin netanyahu talks with reporters. >> tra

and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ >>> well, moments ago we heard from the israeli defense forcesswoman, joining us now from new jersey, a senior fellow with the american task force on palestine. thank you for being with us. the first thing that i would like to ask is the situation initially hamas called this a cease-fire and then back tracked. explain to me why the misunderstanding, if you might know. >> well, i think everyone has been changing their language on what this is and both sides appearing to be taking the opportunity to get their final shots in. for all of the israeli defense force spokeswoman's efforts to sort of say that hamas is trying to kill as many israelis as possible and israeli is being careful, the fact is many civilians and many of them children have been killed. what's going on ultimately is that i think both sides have kind of overreached. they had their reasons for getting into this conflict on both sides. they both escalated at different moments, and now they're looking to pull back. but they want to do it seeming to their publics as if they have held st

of israel this announcement is valid until quiet is restored to the region signed the israeli defense forces command to talk more about this escalating violence i was joined by max blumenthal of writing fellow at the nation the nation institute and here is his take. i think one of the problems with the coverage we're getting in the in the u.s. and in and in what you're seeing in the international media networks like b.b.c. is a failure to recognize that it was israel that broke the truce when that it was israel that on november eighth made an incursion into the gaza strip near time units in the northeastern part of the gaza strip and killed a child then ahmed abu khattala and this was the beginning of what is now known as the escalation gazan fighters responded by attacking israeli soldiers not israeli civilians and that israel responded by killing more civilians in the gaza strip leading to the escalation so. it's really israel which actually broke a truce then proceeded to kill off my job ari was the head of the military wing but some brigades of hamas who was the man who was really in for

israeli defense forces then tweeted out this. it's kind of a poster that lists jabari's crimes and you see that stamp, eliminated, across it. an official tweet from an army we have never seen anything quite like this. the idf also tweeting this warning. we recommend that no hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead. the opposition taking to flickr this morning showing photographs from the ground. some are far too graphic to show you on television from inside hospitals on the gaza strip. al jazeera this morning blogging the air strikes. at one point its correspondent said missiles and bombs were falling faster than he could type. now, this is probably the last thing anyone in israel is worrying about and it might be silly to bring up, but these companies are all based here and they're going to have to decide today whether this behavior violates their terms of service. what they're going to do about it. for instance, twitter specifically says you're not supposed to threat

we're exacting it and israel defense forces are prepared for a significant expansion of the operation. >> and in gaza the streets are relatively quiet. that's because people are afraid to go out for fear that another israeli air strike could hit at any time. cnn senior international correspondent sara sidner joins me live from gaza city. sara, we've talked a lot about the air strikes, but is it just the air strikes coming from the warplanes hitting this city? >> reporter: no. there are strikes coming from the israeli naval ships that are just off the coast of gaza. and as you know, gaza is just a strip along the mediterranean. last night we heard bang after bang. it was amazingly loud, loud enough to keep us up all night. we're standing outside down the street from our office because we cannot get to our office at this point in time. we're being told to stop because there's a building just behind me, and i'm going to move out of my way so you can see it. you see that big building that's sand-colored? that's the official hamas television station and it was hit last night in a targeted

this morning israeli defense forces, the idf, dropped leaflets over gaza warning residents there to stay away from hamas operatives. >>> also on twitter, a clear message from the israeli defense forces saying we recommend that no hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, thoush their faces above ground in the days ahead. president obama also spoke last night with egypt's president about working together to try to preserve peace and security in that region. tension between israel and egypt's new islamist government has increased since the attacks with egypt recalling the ambassador to israel in protest. for more on the situation, we want to get to our senior colleague in the region. that is martin fletcher. he is live in tel aviv with the very latest right now. martin, give us a sense if you can. we already have a good understanding of the tensions between israel and iran. the tensions in recent days between israel and its neighbor to the sort of north, syria. and now this new test between israel and new islamist government in egypt. what should we be watching for? >> reporte

this morning israeli defense forces, the idf, dropped leaflets over gaza warning residents there to stay away from hamas operatives. >>> also on twitter, a clear message from the israeli defense forces saying we recommend that no hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, thoush their faces above ground in the days ahead. president obama also spoke last night with egypt's president about working together to try to preserve peace and security in that region. tension between israel and egypt's new islamist government has increased since the attacks with egypt recalling the ambassador to israel in protest. for more on the situation, we want to get to our senior colleague in the region. that is martin fletcher. he is live in tel aviv with the very latest right now. martin, give us a sense if you can. we already have a good understanding of the tensions between israel and iran. the tensions in recent days between israel and its neighbor to the sort of north, syria. and now this new test between israel and new islamist government in egypt. what should we be watching for? >> reporte

twenty four seven back and forth exchange on the likes of twitter between hamas and the israeli defense forces it seems the two sides who haven't yet met face to face on the ground have wasted no time confronting each other online policy r.t. tell of. oil escaping and i was ceasefire at this as well as on how the offensive in gaza is resonating in israel on twitter for of course an attack on the u.s. embassy in tel aviv paula paula from our days. in while they do and as a deadlock over how to respond to the ongoing violence in gaza and the measures a meeting of the security council brought little progress and let to russia to express frustration over the for dragging this going off reports. russia proposed it's a draft resolution to the u.n. security council it still hasn't made a decision on that we have heard from moscow's representative to the un voiced outrage that the organization couldn't agree on a statement in fact that it should come as a q some members of the u.s. security council for dragging their feet didn't specify which state exactly but he did hint at the west we have heard fro

down in history as the first war ever declared on twitter the official account of the israeli defense force announced the start of the pillar of defense operation and one of the us literally told the enemy to run and hide. but later hamas had their say using similar war rhetoric this exchange has been retreated thousands of times since and numbers do matter on twitter through hits likes replies and reach weeds more people than ever before turned to social media and the question is who is winning this online warfare and numbers speak for themselves according to the hashtags dot org website the gods are under attack crash tag is ten times more popular than israel under fire pray for gaza is twenty times more popular than pray for israel and gaza hash tag is almost twice as popular as israel in a nutshell this is the battle between a heavily funded state propaganda machine and citizen journalism from the outside looking israel's content is better produced more powerful shiny and glossy take these banners for instance which were posted on idea of official facebook page how mars has also been ma

we'll also hear from the spokeswoman for the israeli defense forces and from the leader of hamas. plus our reporters on the ground and a whole lot more. we begin with a look at what has transpired over just the last 24 hours. it is remarkable there was a cease-fire this hour, when you consider how this wednesday started off. take a look. add midday, no sign of a truce yet when a city bus is bombed in tel-aviv. at least two dozen were wounded. israeli police say terrorists left two bombs on the bus and fled. only one exploded. hamas praised the attack near the headquarters of the israeli defense forces but the group didn't claim responsibility. farther south in israeli a home was hit by a rocket, room after room left in ruins. according to the military, more than 60 rockets were fired from gaza today, with more than 40 landed in israel. the others were intercepted. across the border in gaza, several large explosions throughout the morning and afternoon. 100 strikes confirmed by the israelis today before the cease-fire. the sky covered in smoke, the city on edge. on some streets bui

twenty four seven back and forth exchange on the likes of twitter between hamas and the israeli defense forces it seems the two sides who haven't yet met face to face on the ground have wasted no time confronting each other online policy r.t. television and paul is keeping an eye on ceasefire efforts you can always check her twitter feeds for the latest updates. now a member of the israeli parliament told r.t. that the government has a necessarily escalate a confrontation with hamas we have to believe in mind about all of us of. all how they are civilians. a normal life exactly the same here. so we are politicians in israel exert pressure on our government and we think this . has been engineered. we call it electioneering actually the leadership. lived with was a mutual shelling between gaza and israel for a long time chose this time to. assault on gaza. from this school for edition coming elections and is about. what we are following developments in the middle east conflict on air and online where we've got a dedicated section for a live updates and comments. by russia's efforts to break the

israel southern command to worms but this is just the beginning of the operations by the israeli defense forces. also the bad news building just hours after a twenty four hour european strike brought over twenty countries to a standstill new figures suggest the eurozone is back in recession. and beijing ushers in the new top officials which will lead the country for the next decade in ten minutes from now we look at how the world might be changed by china's emerging economic might. live from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. with international news and comment twenty four hours a day the israeli military is converging on gaza as it continues to pummel the palestinians from the sea and land the operation pillars of defenses on the verge of turning into a new invasion as tel aviv says its prepared to go all the way under the pretext of self-defense three israelis and at least fifteen palestinians including children and a pregnant woman have already been killed is into the people just apparently just come under fire from gaza tom tell us more about that incident. absolutely bill yes just

here is a missile defense system called the iron dome and across southern israel, the israeli defense forces say that missile defense system has intercepted as many as 130 rockets coming out of gaza but of course, it can't intercept all of them. that's the reason the israelis say why they keep sending war planes over there to try and suppress especially the medium and long range rockets coming out of gaza, because one of the things that also happened today is that the outskirts of tel aviv we actually hit by a rocket as well. no one was injured in that. however, it is very, very concerning to the israelis if their main city, if the biggest city here in this country can in fact be targeted and the message we're getting from the israeli defense forces and government is that they're both capable and very much willing to keep on widening that operation. in the short term that will probably mean more air strikes, a lot more air strikes and in the longer term, or medium term, it could in fact mean a ground offensive. we're also seeing a lot of movement on the ground here, tanks and other vehicles

gaza the israeli defense forces maintain they bombed only militant targets while admitting they knew journalists were in the firing line. we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings hamas wisely positioned a whole system of communications and electronics for its own personal operational work we targeted only these and tennis these communications center and you can see an accurate hit on the roof none of the floors were targeted of course there was a little bit of. it as a result of the explosive some windows shattered and so on i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas is start getting civilians we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists there is a border to reject the roughest border it's opened do you know that every day we allow patients from gaza to get hospitalization in israel despite the rocket fire do you know that we supply electricity to gaza what other country in the world would act this way. to egypt now where protests have are in their fourth day e