, including in the gaza strip.raeli occupation, including in the gaza stripm live under the israeli occupation, including in the gaza strip. it is not so much a question of what you advocate, it is what you are prepared to unilaterally, categorically and clearly condemn. will you condemn those words that i quoted to you? i condemn all words that harm civilian populations, whomever they are emanating from and whomever they are emanating from and whomever they are directed against. you earlier referred to gaza as a present. you talked about the desperate conditions, humanitarian conditions that people live in. pretty much 2 million people inside the gaza strip. in that circumstance, why is it that, over recent months, the palestinian authority has been imposing its own financial punishments and sanctions on the people of gaza?|j financial punishments and sanctions on the people of gaza? i would not use, you know, these words that you are using. wejust had a session of the palestine national council, and iama the pale

hamas, not the palestinian authority, is in control in gaza, and the leader of hamas in gaza, i thinkd the prime minister now, yahya sinwar, he said of the continued protest, we will ultimately take down the border, and we'll tear out their hearts from their bodies. of course, he's talking about israelis, israeli citizens. what is your view of language like that? first of all, you know, i am the representative of the state of palestine at united nations. and i represent not only the palestinian national authority, i represent all palestinians, in the occupied territory and outside the occupied territory. so you represent them. tell me what your message to yahya sinwar is. i represent all of the palestinian people, including those in the gaza strip, here at united nations. with regard to the statement that you referred to, i did not read it. i am a man of peace. i work under international law. i promote and uphold international law at the united nations, in defending the interests of the palestinian people. i do not advocate war. i stand against aggression against all people, including

burnitz with al jazeera gaza. so ahead on al-jazeera four hundred fifty syrian rebels leave the raw along with their families as government forces continue their offensive to regain the southwest every trail as president visits ethiopia as the decade's long rivals pursue a new era of french. hello there it's been pretty cool for some of us in australia recently particularly in new south wales some places reporting their lowest temperature for about seventy eight years incredibly cold then and it looks like it'll stay pretty cool over the next few days elsewhere though we do have more in the way of cloud and a few showers that's drifting its way across parts of south australia and it will just be really a cloudy affair here as we head into monday that cloud gradually drifting its way across melbourne as well towards the west well a bit of cloud will be with us during the day on monday but it's likely to break up for cheese day and off temperatures fairly respectable to around seventeen or eighteen degrees now for n

on the gaza on the people in gaza by cutting salaries and energy supplies to gaza so that has i think exacerbated and maybe accelerated this the crises that we're now seeing these these frequent eruptions you mentioned egypt ok unemployment running at forty four forty five percent in that crucial sixteen to twenty nine age group could egypt i mean shares a border could egypt or should egypt gets involved in this is a prism talk to the egyptians they might be able to pull something out that. well egypt obviously does play a role they play a critical role in brokering the cease fire agreements. and they have an interest obviously in in maintaining a measure of stability on its border. with an already unstable gaza sinai border so. it has an interest in doing that on the other hand it does not want to inherit the two million palestinians in the gaza strip israel has been inclined i think to sort of more and more push gaza toward toward egypt egypt will occasionally in order to release some pressure. open the border crossing to allow some people and goods to move back and forth but these

an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border it follows a day of violence on friday that saw israeli astronauts and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty wounded stephanie jacka the latest from gaza . i. have masses military wing in the kasam brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on friday afternoon israel struck various ham ass monitoring posts along the border soon after an israeli soldier was shot from gaza he later died of his wounds sixty sites belonging to have mass were attacked by israeli forces late into the night a few rockets were fired from gaza in response and a cease fire was announced hours later it's the second ceasefire in a week but i don't think this would last for a long time along graduate i think it's better for us. unfortunately and we will have just. go through this or story after that we'll have the same story because many problems over the. people and. the pattern of escalation the fire as elation ceasefire bet

gaza's martyrdom.itive study of this. and what has happened since 2005 is straightforward. the previous history is ugly 2005, israel he hawks recognized that it didn't a couplee to keep thousand jewish settlers illegally settling in gaza using devoting aurces and large part of the israeli army to protect them. that was senseless. so they decided to move them from their illegal subsidize illegalnts in gaza to subsidize settlements in areas that israel wanted to keep, in the west bank. this was framed as a traumatic event but it was a play for world opinion. and they pulled out and it was called a withdrawal. they remained under total israeli occupation because the army wasn't inside. gaza was controlling it from the outside. there was an agreement reached between palestinians and israel on a cease-fire. the opening of gaza seaport and the airport that israel had destroyed. opening the borders. be free flow could between israel and egypt and so on. and it lasted a couple of weeks. in january, the palesti

strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time now for boats carrying aid for gaza have left in italy the freedom flotilla coalition campaign says his goal is to peacefully end the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory is expected to take just over a week to reach israeli waters until one boat to gaza and fisherman. syrian rebels who gave up their fight in the south west of now begun arriving in opposition held areas of the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of broke in hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since sent to the city of control it's a major victory for pres

for now gaza is calm the tensions linger even as the smoke subsides. for now it's cross over to our correspondent tanya kramer in jerusalem time yes and their agreement was reached a week ago but it didn't last so how is this one going to be any different. what i mean it's a return to calm and this was announced last night by hamas spokesperson it seems that this calm and quiet was brokered again by the egyptians and also by the u.s. and we have not heard anything official yet from the israeli side but in the past always the so the israeli army has given the all clear for residents of the southern communities around the gaza strip to go back to their normal routine as of yesterday they were told to stand near the shelters now as you know it all comes on the backs of these three months of protests around the gaza strip and the border tensions as well and the best weeks have been very very strong in the past couple of days now it's still to see whether this calm and it's always relative when you talk about a calm in gaza and the surrounding area will act

there is going to need to be some sort of new approach to gaza.nator nickolay mladenov working on that. i do believe the white house itself is working on a new approach to gaza. i think there is wide recognition as to how dangerous the situation is. that new approach, do we know what it might entail? i think the focus right now is less on the sort of big—ticket projects in gaza which have been the focus in the past and more an effort, in exchange for a calm front in gaza and a calm end these rocket and mortar attacks, an increase in the quick rehabilitation projects which might make a difference on the ground in gaza. it may sound a lot like what has happened in the past, but i think there is an effort to bring things online quickly, as opposed to larger projects which have gone on in the past. thank you very much. michael singh, senior fellow at the washington institute. and you can keep up to date with all the latest news from the middle east on our website. you'll find further reaction and analysis regarding the current situation in gaza, as we

every entry point and gaza has been closed for years except this one point which is a car on shalom this area itself fifty five percent of anything going into gaza right now is being stopped so we're talking about tons of goods going into that area can't go in any more this is since just yesterday when the president netanyahu made the announcement that the only thing that will be allowed to go in is humanitarian aid and food now all put aside we're talking about medical aid we're talking about we were putting livestock and up till today fuels were allowed but now we're hearing that fuels will not be allowed until at least next sunday for the businesses there which really hurting them here is construction materials furniture wood tronics fabrics all blankets also we're talking about generators all these things are going to be stopped from going in truckloads we're at the border and. they were turned back so this is the situation god of gaza was under siege before you can be sure that it's been up to bit by israel in the past couple of days alex you know there is always even in confli

hamas since the gaza war and twenty fourteen israeli jets targeted several neighborhoods in the gaza strip and the military says it's struck dozens of hamas targets meanwhile hamas has fired more than seventeen mortar bombs and rockets on israel nearly a dozen have been intercepted amassed says the attack was meant to stop israeli escalation and its myth is live for us and gaza but what more can you tell us about these deaths and indeed the trading of these two a tux. well so i can tell you that we've just heard in the last couple of minutes local media is reporting that a ceasefire egypt in egypt and security officials have mediated ceasefire between hamas and the israelis that comes into play now seven o'clock local time so just started a couple of minutes ago but before that news that i've just been given we've become perilously close to a very serious escalation as far as i've been able to see those two teenagers were killed in an airstrike that was hit a target just a couple of kilometers from where i'm standing and shook buildings all around me and we're right in gaza city the

the victims are buried and the weapons stay silent a truce is holding between gaza and israel. i'm not madison and this is all jersey a live from doha also coming up families speak of disappearance and torture in nicaragua as mark potter militaries patrolled the streets of a protest stronghold. oh. hoping to play to their own chuen a muslim minority in the philippines awaits a presidential order that could end forty year war and sweden struggles to beat back the flames as drought spreads a new fear across northern europe. no one staring to predict how long it might last but a truce does seem to be holding on both sides of the israel gaza divide we're now into a second day since the deal was agreed it's been brokered after several deadly attacks on friday israeli airstrikes and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets after an israeli soldier was shot four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty were wounded stephanie decker reports. how mass is many chewing because some brigades are burying their dead three their member. as were killed on friday afternoon israel s

one thousand wounded from gaza stephanie decker reports. hamas is military wing because some brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on friday afternoon israel struck various ham ass monitoring posts along the border soon after an israeli soldier was shot from gaza he later died of his wounds sixty sites belonging to ham ass were attacked by israeli forces late into the night a few rockets were fired from gaza in response and a cease fire was announced hours later it's the second ceasefire in a week i don't think. would last for a long time i think it's better for us. unfortunately we will have just. through this or. after that we will have. many problems over the. people in. the pattern of escalation ceasefire as elation ceasefire between israel and hamas well i continue on the long term plan to alleviate the situation for the people here almost two million people are living under this blockade and everyone says the same thing how impossible life has become here. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in isr

reconstruction efforts inside gaza so this comes as something of a surprise but i think it signifies that the israeli prime minister wants to make some kind of firmer act against this what the israelis a core a calling arson terror on the gazan borders and just to be clear harry ad gulzar has been under israeli things for many years now and has been suffering all sorts of things like met a few hours electricity per day and all sorts of shortages this is obviously anything to make it worth. well that's the thing that starts the thing which everybody is concerned about the fact that two million human beings live inside gaza that this measure as much as the israelis say that they aspire to improve the humanitarian situation and that this is this is directed against hamas which is in control of gaza the impact of this will be felt hugely by those who live inside the territory they the humanitarian goods are being exempted for this so from this so food livestock animal feed and medicine won't be included but half of the trucks that come to gaza every day about four hundred trucks contain

and egypt and hopefully relieving a little bit of pressure in gaza what about gaza and its relationship with the west bank that how will fatah respond. there are no two ways about it i mean five to his demanding full control of security in the gaza strip and i suspect hamas would be happy to hand that over to to the p.a. as long as they guarantee their ability to continue their right to resist occupation and to build towards any potential. encounter with the israelis now the p.a. is unlikely to agree to that and i think that's going to remain an issue of difference between the two the issue of the civil service and the people who have been either hired by hamas or added to the figures of civil service in gaza and the payment of the salaries that should really be easy to resolve if anything if nothing it will be resolved on the humanitarian basis given the level of unemployment in the in the area it's almost forty nine percent and as you know fifty three percent of the people live on the poverty line so paying salaries is really should be seen as a humanitarian act in the first instance

i'm a palestinian journalist from gaza and. israel has time and again said in the israeli army actually claimed to be measured and surgical in the way that they gauge with the palestinian protesters and whoever's present near the gaza fence and and then now i hear and it's very concerning to me that the killing of my friend actually and colleague said what tasha in gaza was because he was there with an intent to harm the israeli army has always cleared itself of any wrongdoing isn't it time for in an independent investigation what is israel afraid of how is it surgical to kill journalists in press vests and paramedics and white coats and children and peaceful protesters and then not have independent investigators or allow them to investigate israel has nothing to be a good thing i israel has nothing to hide and by the way i really appreciate the fact that you came from gaza out here which is. why you would wish more gazans would be able to come out and want to get into your blood you know you need a different you could live in

airstrikes bernard smith is in gaza. not since the twenty fourteen war has israel hit a target so close to the densely populated gaza city israel says this building was a hamas urban warfare training facility with a tunnel underneath there were also civilians nearby israel says they were warned in advance of the strike i mean the smaller rocket was fired first at the roof a knock it's called but the people there said they didn't understand this warning instead some rushed to help thinking someone had been injured these two teenagers were among that group they were killed when israel second a much more powerful strike came in since friday evening israel's military has hit more than forty targets across gaza the total to move some of it in consultations with the defense minister the military chief of staff and top security forces we decided on a powerful action against hamas terrorism the israeli army delivered its most painful strike against a mass since the twenty fourteen war it also released a video of what it says was

strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response to an i.d.f. tank targeted how mouse military posts now this is not something that is out of the ordinary these types of incidents happen quite frequently but again it just goes to show that there's always something going on the border in the tensions you know remain there because people are concerned that this could escalate once more now the israeli army had said that as of yesterday when the operation was ongoing in the gaza strip that sixty sites in three hamas battalion compounds were targeted and that those targets included weapons manufacturing sites a shaft to a tunnel that were going to factory used for underground infrastructure manufacturing talking about the tunnels that israel has repeatedly targeted in the past we wait to hear more from the israeli government today as far as what exactly is going on as far as if we can consider this to be an actual cease fire and what are the steps that the israeli government will take going forward adrian mohammed many thanks indeed i'm sure as moha

that the protest along the gaza vents and israeli strikes into the straight now palestinian factions say there's a deal for a new call. this is al jazeera live from to i'm richelle carey also ahead syrian government forces move closer to reclaiming complete control of the country's south. sense a tannic old terrorists in iraq was president attacks the clergy trying to bring peace between the government and protesters. and senegal rolls out the welcome mat for its biggest foreign investor china's global push as the u.s. pulls back on train. we are six hours into what's being called a restoration of calm between israel and gaza hamas says agreement was reached for a deal from midnight local time after a day of more protests and rising tension at least four people were killed inside gaza israel launched airstrikes and tank rounds and the israeli military says one of its soldiers was killed by gunfire. masses up to a from less true self. after hours of escalation in gaza has a ceasefire been reached well that very much depends on who you ask according to hamas a cessation of hostilities

the most extensive ass strikes on gaza in four years. they included hits in the heart of gaza city. israel says it was targeting hamas positions in response to a bar of rocket fire from the palestinian enclave. its iron dome defense system intercepted some rockets such morningside would send people running for shelter as . several israeli twenty injured. after consultations with the defense minister the chief of staff and israel's top security officials we decided on powerful action against hamas terrorism the israeli armed forces delivered the most powerful blow against hamas since two thousand and fourteen and we will increase the intensity of our attacks as necessary she believes the escalation comes off the back of months of clashes along gaza's border with israel over one hundred thirty palestinian demonstrators have been killed by israeli fire in me a weekly protest since last march. on saturday a funeral was held for one of the latest fatalities a teenage boy. or got upset at the fifteen year old child what was he carrying on with the carrying a missile he was standing at the

has more from gaza. an effort to restore calm haze seems to be holding however the swarming saturday the israeli army announced it and is ready to tank a targeted a hamas position on the in the northern area of the gaza strip after what it describes infiltrate is trying to cross into israel no reports of casualties there meanwhile the protest to say that they will continue to launch their balloons and kites carrying these incendiary devices that israel says is destroyed so much private land and and crops across the border how mass have announced that next week's protests on friday will be under the banner of our martin children a reference to the hundreds of children that have been killed in this conflict all eyes on israel now as to whether it will lift what it described last week as a temporary ban on oil gas and cooking oil so vital for gaza coming into the strip israel last week said that this was a temporary ban until sunday so we are expecting to hear news on that relatively soon to as i say meanwh

aid to gaza financially supported by one third so there was. not only bilateral it goes with the united states since we are still expecting president trump to come up with his blueprint so the hamas is saying don't forget us we are not only part of the problem we are also we have to be part of this solution on the other hand i think that the hamas knows one or two things about israeli politics and they they know that netanyahu is under great pressure from his own coalition from his own party they want to see results they there is a lot of criticism nowadays about it and how that is traveling to moscow while he never showed up in the early feels in the south even the labor party let alone the extreme right is now demonstrating cooling actually tonight there is a demonstration in tel aviv against the ten yo that he abandons the people who are now under another attack of rockets and constant fire and losing the fields to those kite attacks oversteps took his seventy thanks david being with us keep that from a longer use against civil aviation auth

strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time for boats loaded with they don't know on their way to gaza from the italian port of the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli water as it will then hand over one boat to gaza fisherman . france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern huta in syria the supplies will be carried by a russian plane it's the first time a western country has supplied material to government controlled areas of syria with russian help government forces read two piece of goods are from rebels in april after a seize lasting several years about fiv

struck at al jazeera gaza. ok that story still developing in real time is live for us in west jerusalem mohammed has a cease fire actually been declared and crucially been reached. peter it's a very good question and one unfortunately that we cannot answer definitively at this hour now if you ask how much does a ceasefire has been reached in fact the spokesman for hamas foes about whom he tweeted out a statement saying that with egyptian and united nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between israel and palestinian factions that's how much on the other hand you have the israeli army we have contacted them repeatedly since the statement was made and we've not been able to get any details they are refusing to comment the last we heard from the israeli army was in the past several hours where they talked about ongoing operations inside of gaza in fact statements have talked about hitting as many as sixty sixty five targets destroyed infrastructure of how muss saying that this operation w

i'm a palestinian journalist from gaza and. israel has time and again said in the israeli army actually claimed to be measured and surgical in the way that they gauge with the palestinian protesters and whoever's present near the gaza fence and and then now i hear and it's very concerning to me that the killing of my friend actually and colleague tasha in gaza was because he was there with an intent to harm the israeli army has always cleared itself of and you're wrong doing isn't it time for in an independent investigation what is israel afraid of how is it surgical to kill journalists in press vests and paramedics and white coats and children and peaceful protesters and then not have independent investigators or allow them to investigate well israel has nothing to do with both thing i. israel has nothing to hide and by the way i really appreciate the fact that you came from gaza out here which is. why you would wish more gazans would be able to come out and want to get into your blood you know you need a different you could k

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travel out of gaza and twenty seven t. was just one percent of what it was in september two thousand and eight that similarly very limited restriction or very significant restrictions on the entry and exit of goods to the point in which the g.d.p. in gaza today is about twenty percent less than it was in one nine hundred ninety four they've made kerem shalom the only commercial crossing that exists now for palestinians ruffa the crossing with egypt is largely a crossing for people and it's largely closed leaving only this crossing so closing kerem shalom more than you know the entry of food and medicines which may be exempt as you just mentioned the biggest thing is affecting the power of people to have a basic economy this is a manmade crisis that it's very hard the dignity of palestinians to earn a living to have money to be able to live a dignified life what was so what recourse then if any do the people of gaza have i mean if if this crossing is shut down and as he say no goods very limited once again coming anyway wha

now late on friday afternoon there was again protests along the israel gaza border according to the gaza health ministry some four people were killed and more than one hundred and twenty injured that came in response following that what happened is that you had the israel saying that it was issuing retaliate three strikes after its troops had been fired upon and so that sparked the latest round of violence well we are also hearing reports that the i.d.f. has been accused of using excessive force in some cases live ammunition. all of these protests along the gaza border happening for the past two months and they come roughly to the day that operation protective edge the last when gaza in two thousand and fourteen began and if you remember there was a war that left more than two thousand palestinians killed and some seventy three israelis dead so there is concern on the ground that the situation is continuing and potentially could intensify in the coming hours and we could see a full scale war. correspondent paula with the latest thank you. in the meantime another four palestinians have be

again smoke rises over gaza. on friday the israeli defense forces struck dozens of targets using but jets and tanks. four were killed in the latest strikes three of them have mass militants before a civilian this latest bombing campaign followed the death of an israeli soldier shot dead by a palestinian sniper on friday since like much the gaza strip is then rocked by wakely protests against a decade long israeli egyptian blockade in the ensuring months israeli forces have killed over one hundred forty palestinians sniper fire and strikes friday sniper attack was the first death of an israeli soldier in the same period. as tensions escalate talk of all out war hangs in the air. but mr bloom we are trying to be balanced and responsible but hamas as late as a whole scene is into a situation in which we have no choice but to embark on a broad and painful military operation. so. for now gaza is calm the tensions linger even as the smoke subsides. for now that's cross over to our correspondent tanya kramer in jerusale

strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something that could be a wider conflagration really at any time. well nathan stark is a non resident scholar at the middle east institute and joins us via skype from the usa to south carolina thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so as you're hearing from our correspondent there the indication from the israeli government right now is that the appetite doesn't exist for another war in gaza but if we see the rocket fire and this sort of tensions over the incendiary kites that are being sent over the border if that continues could that calculations change. well first of all thank you mariam i agree that neither hamas in gaza nor israel are interested in another war having said that as your peace made clear. whatever cease fire agreement has be

hall protests expected in gaza as palestinians to mount an end to the siege of the territory. a lot of a very very good this is al jazeera life from that also coming up more divided than ever we visit jerusalem's old city to see how palestinians will be affected by israel's new jewish state law be on sort of get bin and we are palestinians but there is racism between arabs and jews and it's obvious when jews see us wearing the he job they think we're going to hit them. will the next summit be in washington trump invites pushed into the u.s. to spite the fallout following their meeting in helsinki earlier this week. remaining defiant nicaragua's president the noun. says recent protesters and attempts to unseat him. and israeli airstrike has killed a palestinian man in gaza suspected of flying burning kites across the border fence twenty two year old abdul karim red one was a member of hamas mortars were fired into southern israel immediately after the strike the israeli army has reportedly been ordered to prepare for a military offensive in gaza if burning balloons and kites co

palestinians here have little power to influence the political decisions made either in gaza or israel no one wants another war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. four boats loaded with a are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters it will then hand over one of the boats to fishermen from gaza abdel moneim el amrani is in poland and spoke to one of the organizers. while i am here at palermo italy the ports of call animal in italy and behind me you can see allowed our boat and i do not make means return return to gaza return to palestine this is the main boat of the freedom flotilla which is about to be sail into what's gaza it's basically a fishing boat from norway that's been transformed for this trip and the people of the coalition of the freedom flotilla coalition they are aiming to reach gaza and give this

bad dad how much cold funeral for finds us killed by israeli airstrikes as an uneasy calm settles on gaza. wildfires rage across central sweden as the country faces its worst drought in seventy four years. the militias bringing fear to the streets of managua off to helping suppress antigovernment protests in nicaragua and we have a rising tide of rubbish that thrusting the dominican republic golden short. and i'm far a small have all the day sporting clearing formula one world championship leader sebastian vettel put ferrari on pole position for home german club create. an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border it follows a day of violence on friday the saw israeli airstrikes and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty wounded a ceasefire brokered by egypt sound the united nations status of the midnight local time stephanie decker has the latest from gaza. i. have masses military wing the kasam brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on

strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time hala duggan d. is a fellow at brookings institution's a center for middle east policy and he says both sides are nowhere near making steps towards any peace process. we used to talk about a failed peace process. for five years ago now there is no peace process whatsoever there is no international community or a mechanism that can intervene and attempt to find a political resolution and a pathway out of this this crisis that simply doesn't exist and you also have a vacuum on the palestinian side the palestinian authority in government in ramallah is. pretty much completely disengaged from the situation in gaza they are bystanders for the most part but also i think complicit in the crisis the h

breaking news the israeli air forces those massive air strikes that have massed targets in gaza almost exactly four years after a huge military operation resulted in thousands of. summit take to the white house announces donald trump is inviting the russian president to the u.s. in the autumn causing outrage in the american media. but to washington top spy in the united states he doesn't know how it's not possible that the president of the united states is inviting. in a couple months in the fall over at the white house. and three years of hardship and a red bull seizure and thousands of residents of two syrian towns after they were moved to government controlled territory in a prisoner exchange. giving our welcome you're watching r.t. international. we start with breaking news this hour because these rarely air forces those massive air strikes on how must positions in gaza let's get right up to date now courtesy of our cease all asleep he joins us from israel what's the latest paula. well we've just heard confirmation from the israeli army that this afternoon and israeli officer was k

agencies operations in gaza and that's a special marley was chaperoned out of the building on monday night but hamas god to protect children from the angry crowd. the head of the workers' union here says strikes by employees will continue and threaten to close down u.n. aid distribution medical centers and schools if the jobs are not reinstated. climbing was the sit in and said here we were not expecting this from a humanitarian organization like anwar we've tried to find a solution for three weeks since negotiations started but it looks like they have their own agenda from the start the u.n. refugee and works agency says it needs around two hundred seventy million dollars to sustain its work in gaza this year it says in the merge and see appeal for money from international donors has failed under here in gaza have suffered years of shortfalls in their funding as the crisis here has got worse this latest announcement not only has devastating implications for palestinian employees on the road but potentially for others work in general across gaza as the people here continue to suffer

and give this fishing boat as a gift to deficient men in gaza with me here is. the representative of the coalition on the boat so far i know you have been involved in the coalition for many many years and this is the first time you are traveling on the boat tours of gaza what can you tell me about your feelings well you know we're doing this to . send a message of solidarity and hope with the palestinians in gaza but our aim is actually to lift the blockade so we have made the way we stopped in many ports and our object is to raise awareness and to make people put pressure on their governments to stop being complexes with the crimes that israel commits against humanity so basically the you keep doing this trips even though the final destination is not guaranteed why you keep trying. exactly the same thing that i just said because we want to lift the blockade the blockade will not be lifted by just one boat getting to gaza blockade will be lifted if enough international pressure enough sanctions. to change its policy all right one last question on a personal note

of this melissa arm and israel has closed the only kirsch point of entry into the gaza strip some say it's economic warfare archies alex the pilot it's just the details plus we take a look at the twenty eight thousand computer hacks and cyber security with rusty see the senior director of intelligence services at cyber reason all that ahead but first we have some headlines researchers at the international monetary fund i.m.f. have said that continuing international trade tensions could reduce global economic output by half a percent by twenty twenty at a loss of an estimated four hundred thirty billion dollars the i.m.f. latest update to the world economic outlook warns the last could be that significant if quote current trade policy threats are realized and business confidence falls as a result the new york times estimated last week that the additional cost from trade tensions for average american household will be one hundred twenty seven dollars that i.m.f. also notably warned the united states a heavy export is especially vulnerable to retaliation in such a scenario where other na

ceasefire between israel and hamas appears to be holding after the latest flare up of violence in gaza two palestinian teenagers were killed in what israel says was the most powerful daylight attack on hamas it's two thousand and fourteen the united nations is saying that all out war was only now really avoid it there is bernard smith has more now from gaza. america why weren't fighters or even protesters the teenage friends were just playing outside in a park in central gaza when an israeli missile smashed into a deserted building next to them. the boys were killed another dozen people injured israel says the building was a hamas urban training facility now it's become another reminder of israel's a power over gaza. israel says the target was hamas in response to rocket attacks and israel has warned repeatedly of a harsh military response if hamas which runs gaza did not stop protestors from sending burning kites and balloons into israel and setting fire to crops all they can do just send bellew's since flight fight and we've seen that no israelis were killed no one while on the pales

today thank you for that live for us in gaza knowledge is there is stephanie decker is also in gaza with more on what life is like for palestinians living under these really brocades. away from the politics and away from the military escalation between hamas and israel it really is about the almost two million people who are blockaded inside gaza life looks like it continues as normal it does continue as normal but everyone you speak to here will tell you the same thing that might come increasingly more difficult than many people will tell you that what they're enduring here is not a life. we can't live i make a maximum of three dollars a day and it isn't enough we ask him if he can make ends meet. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around the thousand three hundred dollars. a month of the moment i come to make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night ma that's the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated but can't find work people are straight on to prest people are

projects which may make a difference on the ground in gaza. what has happened in the past, but there is an effort to bring things on line quickly as opposed to larger projects which have gone on in the past. and you can keep up to date with all the latest news from the middle east on our website. you'll find futher reaction and analysis regarding the current situation in gaza as well as reports from correspondents and eye witness accounts. president trump has confirmed during his uk visit that he instends to run for re—election in 2020. he made the comments during an interview with the journalist piers morgan. the us president also spoke about his meeting with queen elizabeth. he described the british monarch as an "incredible woman, so sharp, so beautiful." there's been a third day of anti—trump protests, including a demonstration as the president played golf at his turnberry resort in scotland, from where lorna gordon sent this. this has been described as a private visit to scotland, but president trump is not publicity shy. making his way a

strip at least four people died in gaza made protests and one israeli soldier was killed on the gaza border. syrian rebels in the southwestern province of connector have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces and the new york times says donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen secretly taped a discussion with him about payments to an ex boy and model he says she had an affair with the u.s. president. in other developments global markets a stalled after president threatened to slap five hundred billion dollars of trade tower ifs on china that's the total amount of chinese goods imported into the u.s. last year washington has already imposed levies on thirty four billion dollars worth of goods which beijing quickly reciprocated the international monetary fund warns these tit for tat tariffs could cause serious damage to the global economy. i raised fifty we're down five hundred now some people would say three hundred seventy five billion i'm not talking about million i'm not talking about pennies i'm talking about we're down three hundred seven

gaza strip two teenagers were killed during israel's largest daylight attack on how mass in the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen israeli jets targeted several neighborhoods in the gaza strip dozens of hamas targets were hit meanwhile hamas fired more than seventy mortar bombs and rockets at southern israel nearly a dozen were intercepted one exploded near an israeli border community but no injuries have been reported allison in the local media is reporting that a cease fire mediated by gyptian security officials came into force at sixteen hours g.m.t. ceasefire between hamas in gaza and the israeli military but that ceasefire didn't come into force before we came perilously close to a rapid escalation of a confrontation between israel and forces in gaza and our other top stories haiti's prime minister foreign talent has resigned after days of violent protests of a plans to eliminate fuel subsidies the unrest started after authorities unveiled a proposal to high fuel prices by fifty percent a phone taunt announced the plan would not go ahead but protesters still demanded that he