happen next, where to turn or exactly what the situation is. >> nicole johnson joining us live from gaza city. thank you very much for the update. >>> as has been reported, rafah in southern gaza has been pummelled by israeli air strikes. the bombardment means journalists are unable to gain actress. charles centraled ford reports -- stratford reports from an area outside khan younis. >> reporter: this 3-year-old's face was burnt because an israeli air strike hit her home. her mother was killed in the town of rafah in the southern gaza strip. in another bed is. >> sra and her daughter -- is isra and her daughter. both her legs have been amputated after her home was hit. >> i was trying to leave the house. a rocket exploded. >> reporter: her daughter suffered burps on her feet. her husband and son had their legs amputated as well. another daughter suffered burns. three members of the family were killed in the attack. >> there are many injured in rafah, there are not sufficient hospital facilities to treat them. >> these pictures were shot by a journalist in rafah, with the reuters newsagency. t

as we see in the background, this is gaza city. about 2city we have hours left on the cease-fire that the israeli government announced late last night. includes the gaza strip and mainly rafah refugee camp. rafah is living under very dire circumstances. i have been in touch with my grandmother, who was telling me rafah istuation in close to the catastrophe and the damage and the same scenes of people and bodies she is able to see in our neighborhood. people are reaching a level in the rafah refugee camps to put the bodies over the victims inside refrigerators. are filledrs with bodies of human beings, and those are filled, and we're seeing more and more ice cream freezers filled with children. one of the children is under 2 months. she was just killed by israeli missile 24 hours ago and her body is still inside one of these ice cream freezers. striptuation in the gaza is rather terrifying, with a lot of people who are injured. and on the ground, waiting for ambulances to pick them up. hospitals are not able to cope. the hospitals ha

there was an area struck in the commercial area of gaza city, not far from al jazeera's bureau in gaza city. this is also a residential area, and inevitably when we see strikes in built-up areas, there are, you know, inevitably casualties. still an unpredictable situation on the ground in gaza. >> it is, indeed. whether you are in bate lihir, are we seeing people starting to return to their homes. we understand that the israeli army was sort of withdrawing, pulling back its tanks. >> that's right. in fact, people in the area received text messages and phone recordings that they should come back. many people did, last night, but this area was bombarded overnight. i'm standing up the road from an area where a number of houses were struck just this evening. and it really goes to tell you that although people have been told to come back to the areas, they are not safe. and it really underscores how people's lives are governed by text messages, by the video, the voice recordings that they receive from the israeli military. it's a girches between live and death, a text message or phone recor

which is not very far from gaza city.ppears again, although the israelis have publicly said that they are going to be scaling back some of their ground operation, it's clearly continuing. >> yeah, this artillery shelling that you are talking about indicates that this is part of the ground offensive of israel? >> reporter: that's right. the ground offensive rather israel's ground offensive began around a week to nine days after their aerial bomb bart. of the gaza strip began. that's really when we saw the number of israeli soldiers, the number of dead -- the death toll of israel i soldiers kind of skyrocket. coming in to gaza on the ground is very tricky for this military, we can only describe it as urban warfare. this is a very small strip of land with a lot of people living on it. this ground offensive that they have take own has also struck a very large civilian toll as we well. but, again, as we have been hearing from the israelis that is that they were going to start scaling back on that kind of combat here in gaza. b

we have correspondents tonight in gaza city, as well as jerusalem and washington city. elise labott, what is the latest on the details of telephone deal? >> anderson, egyptian officials tell me israel and hamas have both agreed to come to cairo. obviously, on the palestinian side, it will also be led by palestinian authority officials. and the next 48 hours, for longer discussions on some of the underlying issues surrounding the conflict. now the hope is that once these parties are talking, this will create some momentum, some trust to keep the negotiations going and extend the ceasefire. anderson, really the result of intense diplomacy by secretary of state kerry, who i'm told put an intense amount of pressure on the israeli prime minister netanyahu to accept this ceasefire. egypt obviously involved. but also the foreign minister of qatar who officials tell me played a key role in convincing hamas to sign on. >> what has been the reaction of the white house? >> the white house is obviously saying this is an important step, and it hopes that this will build some momentu

we were heading south of gaza city, trying to go to an area giving you a view towards the israeli gaza border, and as we were heading out we had a loud explosion in that border area. the reports that we are getting is that an israeli tank was hit by palestinian fighters. we haven't been able to, with certainty, confirm that. that's the report we are getting. that created. tank shelling. in response, i suppose, in that area, so it goes to show, as you said, it's patchy, very sketchy. we moved from that area, up the road a bit. in the leaked-up to this one-sided semiunilateral ceasefire or whatever you want to call it, there has been activity in different parts of gaza. in the west of gaza city, there were rockets fired, we think about four, and in the overnight hours, five people from jib alleya refugee camp were killed in an air strike. the ceasefire declared by the u.s. recally side is not for all of gaza and doesn't include an area east of rafah, where there's a heavy military reaction going on and had been for the last few days. >> are there areas in gaza where it does apply and peo

karl penhaul live for us in gaza city. natalie? >> let's get more now from the israeli side of the border. senior international correspondent sarah seedner is in ashkelon not far from gaza. and karl reported they heard two sounds in southern gaza. they can't confirm what it was. but that's what they're hearing. and also we know that the israeli military announcing that they are moving to defensive positions outside of gaza. what are you seeing or hearing there from your vantage point? >> reporter: it's quiet here. and we've heard from the israeli military just moments ago that the cease-fire is holding according to the military spokesperson. so that's what we're hearing here. it's been, what, an hour and ten minutes since the cease-fire was supposed to be in effect. of course oftentimes both sides pound each other just before the cease-fire goes into effect. but there is a lot of hope that this one is going to hold. it is different from the last couple that we have seen. of course the ones where one side decided not to join in on th

a live look at gaza city and connect with our teams in cairo, jerusalem and gaza city here in the next few minutes. >> the 72-humanitarian cease-fire between israel and hamas has just ended. now we wait, of course, and see if the two sides can agree on any sort of extension and if the fighting will resume >> that's the big question. let's take you back to those live pictures from gaza city and as far as we can tell by just looking through this vantage point it's been quite quiet so far but, of course, this picture is quite deceiving. you've got to keep in mind that during this campaign, more than 1800 people were killed just in gaza. almost 10,000 wounded. the vast majority of them civilians, hundreds of children, of course, killed, as well. u.n. shelters were hit multiple times during this campaign so there's a lot of skepticism among palestinians there and other residents of gaza that peace -- this short amount of peace will continue even though the israel military claims that hamas broke the cease-fire and hamas kind of distancing themselves from that claim, as well but we are eager

of the city i mean gaza city this only going to be. really sure is going to. go we had one of those a bit thousand dollars to get it missed you know of to do good sure that all. the other thing is. caused by some. by the other two thousand homes that are destroyed but habitable now an addition to other thousands that the body destroyed but didn't have to build but would not be able to build one of your former university which was on blood aerated and the other before and after an edge of l. was a hospital talk about the amount of civilian targets that have been bombed just in the last month. if you want to talk at a number of conventions four major hospitals that are. out of service now as a result of the damages we can talk to the health centers. more than seventy calls to a city a community college ten thousand homes seventeen major difficulties each one of them used to employ hundreds of workers we're talking about three. connecting cities together that are. not working. through to the bulldozers of the israeli army. and of course it's much forgive the poli

just in the past hour israeli shelling has struck a building in gaza city.ael's mine minister says the offensive will continues in all of its goals of met. >> translator: the israeli army continues to work with full effectiveness to complete the objective which are long-term calm and secure if i ty fo secue citizens of israel. >>> the bombardment of rafah means that journalists cannot gain access charms starred today has a report warning you may find some of the images disturbing. >> reporter: this three-year-old's face was burnt because an israeli air strike hit her home. her mother was killed in rafah. in the southern gaza strip. in another bed, she has had both of her legs amputated after her home was hit also. >> translator: i was trying to leave the house when the rockets exploded. >> reporter: her daughter has suffered terrible burns on her feet. her husband and her son have had their legs amputated as well. another daughter has suffered serious burns. three members of the family were killed in the attack. >> translator: there are many injured in rafah

another 200,000 people have moved into the center gaza city since the war has started. main landfill site is in east garza. it's in the middle of the fighting. gaza's beaches empty, cafes deserted, and when the sea breeze comes in, the stench of rotting garbage and sewage drifts across the city. nicole johnston, al jazeera, gaza. >>> talks are due to take place in cairo. a palestinian delegation is already there. they want a full israeli withdraw from gaza, an end to the blockade of the territory, the release of hamas prisoners held by israel, and international assistance in the reconstruction of gaza. israel is demanding that gaza be completely demilitarized which would require hamas to give up its arsenal of weapons and a way to prevent hamas from rearming in the future. we'll have plenty more still ahead. and coming up this news hour, the lebanese army fighting to retake the town held by nig night -- fighters. >>> and in sports one of spain's most decorated players announces his retirement. we'll tell you who soon. ♪ >>> british police have arrested a passenger on boa

. >> israeli airstrike hit the only sewage treatment plant in gaza city. ntreated sewage is now flowing into the net it's raining and heading from gaza to israel. >> this is probably the target of the israeli airstrike. but the sewage pump station directly next door is also badly damaged. the director of gaza city sanitation utilities has come to assess the damage. the pumps don't work. it is not clear if they can be repaired will have to be replaced. >> this bumping station was brand-new, it was given to the municipal authorities less than a year ago. you can see the old plant here behind us. now, if you look at them both, you cannot tell the difference between old and new. everything is ruined. >> as a result, 20,000 cubic meters of untreated sewage are now flowing into the mediterranean every day. the supposed to be set from this pumping station on the edge of gaza city. but the treatment plant has also been damaged and can only work at half capacity. repairing it after the last gaza war took three years because israel delayed the import of building mate

on the left-hand side of your screen, i want to show you a live picture of gaza city, where some five hours from now, a cease-fire is set to take hold. all sides have agreed to this, israel, all the palestinian factions, they say they're going to meet in cairo, egypt which brokered this cease-fire, there's a lot of hope in gaza city tonight that this cease-fire will take place, and will in fact hold starting some five hours from now. on the right-hand side of your screen, live pictures of mount sinai hospital, there's great concern where a man is in strict isolation, who has returned from west africa with a fever, he is being tested for the ebola virus. not clear at this hour if he will test positive for that. we don't have word, we'll have the latest on that situation, in new york. that would be the first case of ebola in new york, if this man tests positive, we'll also bring you up to date with sanjay gupta on the two americans who were flown back from west africa, after testing positive, they are now being treated with a new and untested treatment. the good news is, the hope is, th

we go now to gaza city where we are joined by raji sourani, the director of the palestinian center forhuman rights in gaza. he serves on the executive board of the international federation for human rights. a past winner of the right livelihood award and the robert f. kennedy human rights award. welcome back to democracy now. can you talk about this latest news, the cease-fire is over -- it was supposed to be 72 hours, beenn israeli soldier has captured, 40, we understand, at least have been killed. amy.ank you, situation is all over the borders. by rockets,ing airplanes, artillery tanks, and business as usual as for the last 24 days. the israelis launching their offensive all over the place. the get deeper. over theeel that all gaza strip, especially in the eastern and northern parts. hour, half-hour, people were able to move with some journalists. otherwise, nobody was able to go anywhere. many the cease-fire began, have been found and discovered many -- streets. suspected by the israeli army -- four people, including handicapped people, girls and boys -- the distraction, massive. it

cnn's john vass is in gaza city trying to make sense of it all for us. john? >> miguel, the longer this goes on, the more it seems positions harden on both sides. now hamas continues to fire the rockets from gaza into israel, 13 we're told at least in the last 13 hours, averaging one an hour, despite the massive israeli military operation which we did hear from the israeli prime minister saturday night it is entering a new phase, some of the tanks and troops are redeploying closer to the border, an indication they're close to finishing, finding and destroying what they know of the hamas tunnel network that was essentially the object of the ground operation that we saw over the last week or so. despite this new phase, the israeli artillery and tank fire continues. number of targets have been hit in gaza city including a market in the last couple of hours, but there also seems to be intense fighting in the southern part of the gaza strip around the town of rfah, ever since this cease-fire unraveled on friday. palestinian officials say more than 100 people died on

charles stratford is in gaza city and joins me now from there. arles take us through what you have been witnessing today in gaza. >> well, we have been ingas city investigating what the united nations now is calling an unfolding humanitarian medical disaster. we have been visiting hospitals hospitals like the one we have seen since this crisis began, appalling facilities, constant people coming in, needing urgent medical treatment, medical facilities running out, medicines running out. we were talking to children as well who were saying that their parents were telling us that they have been unable to get to hospitals across borders, in egypt, for example, to try and get urgent medical help. we visited shifa hospital in gaza city, and this is what we found. >> mohammed was playing with his friends in the refugee camp when the airstrike happened. ten children and one man were killed. he is now paralyzed from the waist, down. it should not have been this way. surgery could have saved his legs. he had right papers to be evacuated into egypt for emerge

let's take you live now to gaza city. charles stratford is there. charles you managed to get south of gaza city and go to some of the more inaccessible areas. what did you see today? >> yes, we went south to a town which has been closed now for a couple of weeks, and like other areas in the north has suffered repeated heavy israeli bomba bombardme bombardment. and people haven't been allowed to get in. so we were down there about 2.5 hours after the ceasefire started. and this is what we found. >> reporter: we arrived near the border around 2.5 hours after the ceasefire started. already the tank shelling had begun. most of the ambulances waiting to ferry the dead and injured out could get no further blocked by a crate for from a shell. people were walking across the land carrying the bodies on stretchers. >> translator: it looks like an earthquake has happened here. louses are completely destroyed. there's no organization to get the ambulances in and the dead and injured out. the bodies are decomposing in the heat. >> reporter: we pushed forward thr

protests against the israeli assault on gaza continue across the country in the world. in new york city wednesday, a massive palestinian flag was unfurled from the manhattan bridge which connects brooklyn and lower manhattan. protesters marched parallel to it along the brooklyn bridge. we will have more on gaza later in the broadcast. in liberia, residents of a neighborhood in the capital monrovia clashed with police and soldiers wednesday after all entrances to the area were sealed off the midst fears of ebola. to tens ofis home thousands of people. residents there threw rocks and stormed barricades after awakening to realize they were trapped inside. police fired live rounds and teargas. over the weekend, residents and west point stormed a school where ebola patients were being reportedly without medical treatment. 17 patients escaped, but were later found and brought to a medical center. without of doctors borders told "the new york times" all health care facilities in monrovia are basically closed as the system has virtually collapsed. of the four countries affected in west africa,

saima is standing by in jerusalem and john vause is in gaza city. john, it's hard for any of us to truly understand what the past month has been like there for the two million residents and now the half million, it's believed, displaced. how would you describe daily life right now where you are? >> well, errol, it's worse, and it's bad, and it's getting worse by the day. they do need some kind of pause from the fighting. they need an opportunity to get that aid into gaza. there were a number of red cross trucks, red crescent trucks loaded up with supplies that did try to cross from israel into gaza on sunday, but because of the ongoing fighting, they could not make it in. maybe with this seven-hour humanitarian window they may be able to get in. with temporary shelters and medical supplies. because as you say, about 500,000 people have been displaced. about a quarter or more of the entire population of gaza. hospitals here are running very low on pretty much everything right now. there's a problem with no electricity ever since gaza's plant was stru

. >> all right, well our john vause joins us live from gaza city and matthew chance is in jerusalem. thanks to both of you for chatting with us at this point. nour, john, want to start with you in gaza. we don't yet know if this is just isolated rocket fire all hoe it does look that way at this point but we do know that hamas is denying responsibility. this is a vegas of the cease-fire, isn't it? but they haven't responded militarily yet. what could be israel's next move? >> reporter: well, i guess we're waiting to find out exactly who fired those rockets and what we have seen in the past when the cease-fire has come to an end, when it's all unraveled, hamas has often fired more longer-range missiles directly at tel aviv to make a statement that the cease-fire is over. these are fairly short-range rockets which were launched into southern israel so maybe that makes a difference here. we know that hamas has denied firing it saying this is just media reports coming out of israel to try and confuse the situation. islamic jihad, another militant group in gaza which also fires rockets into

what we have been hearing is the drones, those are almost consistently over gaza city and gaza itself. then on top of that occasion, we heard jet aircraft that would have to be israeli as well. a couple hours ago, there was an outgoing salvo of rockets. you would have been well aware of those, the sirens would have sounded in your area there's been flairs, gunfire, you name it. has been heard here in gaza city earlier tonight. it went on for about several hours, israel was the one who proclaimed it. israel according to hamas was the first one to break it after it began. israel says we did do that, but we started that before the 10:00 hour when that went into effect right now, all eyes focused on 8:00 a.m. local time, when this cease-fire is said to begin. >> i talked to a u.n. relief official who does a lot of work in gaza, they are sheltering more than 200,000 people right now, some 90 u.n. shelters. they say they're at the breaking point. are they going to be able to start to bring in more supplies and distribute those supplies? >> in theory, yes. if you don't have the shooting goin

an israeli air strike levelled this building in gaza city. israel says it housed a command center for hamas militants. gaza residents said it housed families. 17 people wounded. 20 minutes earlier they had a been warned by the israeli military that an attack you coming. >>> the fighting between gaza militants and israeli forces continues to take a toll on children. on friday, a 4-year-old israeli boy was killed by a mortar fired from inside of gaza. schools of palestinian children have been killed. we look at the daily trauma faced by gaza's children and how adults are trying to ease it. >> reporter: the immensity of the destruction in gaza. entire neighborhoods flattened, over 2,000 people killed. but it's the damage with the greatest reach that is the hardest to see. the psychological effect of the war on children. here at the child and family counseling and training center, they aren't just reciting the colors, they are rewiring their brains in a hope of achieving some sort of normality. something as simple as popping a balloon unsettles th

gallagher fenwick joins us from gaza city. gallagher, what is the feeling on the streets there right now? are people confident that this cease-fire might succeed where the others have failed? >> yes, as a matter of fact, a few hours back we were describing the mood on the streets of gaza as one of cautious optimism or cautious enthusiasm. that has slowly turned into confidence and trust as news of the army withdrawing is circulating through the streets. it is encouraging tens of thousands of residents of gaza to make it out of the shelters in which they have been hunkered down for nearly one month. this is day 29 of operation which is definitely winding down. so many people are kind -- are coming out and putting the cease-fire to the test. the previous ones have broken down, quickly unraveled, but this right now is the longest period of relative calm that the palestinians have been able to enjoy in gaza in nearly a month. >> gallagher, you are in the north of the gaza strip today. what was the feeling there? was it the same? >

a report now from gaza city. >> after 50 days of conflict and 50 days of loss the streets of gaza came alive tonight. it was a fight that cost 2,000 lives. but here they are calling it a victory. >> they are celebrating tonight because they believe the it ing is over and that has ended. >> they believe that they won despite the huge suffering that they encountered these days. >> if the cease-fire holds rebuilding can begin. it is a huge job. this apartment block was the latest to be destroyed in an israeli air strike this morning. it will cost billions and gaza will need help. >> we managed today at this particular moments to declare our acceptance to the egyptian initiative to have a cease-fire with ng that gaza supplies and reconstruction efforts that is desperately needed. >> israel said hamas has to stop for the truce to work. this one landed today in a playground. no one was hurt. >> for israel, the most important thing is protecting our people. and if this cease-fire does stick, and we see an end to the rocket attacks on our cities. if we see an end to the tunnel attacks, the ter

>> richard engel in gaza city tonight with those drones above audible in the background. richard, thanks. >>> also tonight, this imagery from gaza. it's digital photography. it was taken earlier in this conflict, but you don't often get to see this. it shows an incoming israeli air strike, a freeze-frame showing it in midair headed for its target right before impact. >>> just days before the release of a senate report on american interrogation techniques after the 9/11 attacks, president obama spoke at length on the issue today in what was perhaps his most candid comment on this, the president said among other things "we tortured some folks." we get more tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: after receiving a still-secret senate report into the bush cia's post-9/11 interrogation, president obama said today the united states tortured prisoners. >> in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. we did a whole lot of things that were right. but we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. >> reporter: the pre

. >> he joins us now live from gaza city. day after this cease five was supposedly in place, but instead gazans are again coming under fire. >> reporter: that's right. it's now exactly 24 hours since the most intense fighting of what was supposed to be a ceasefire began. and it's really in the area of rafah, which has seen some of the worst fighting. it is an area near the board wee are egypt. we understand in the last 20 hour hours alone, around 120 people have been killed. many more injured. and we also understand that fighting there continues. we also understand that in the area there is has been fighting, in an area of course where many of hamas' leaders call home. but here in gaza city, we have also seen violence, overnight there were several air strikes, we understand several buildings were targeted, including a mosque. but an hour and a half ago, when i was speaking with our colleague martin dennis, there was a loud bang while we were speaking, and i can just show you or rather we are exactly where that happened. in fa

they hit the shelter, we go to gaza city, they hit gaza city, we came here and they hit here, this isfe. >> reporter: he and his cousins came back for good despite the booms. the middle-class family inspect for damage, but 38-year-old is much less worried about his home than his daughters. how are your little girls doing? >> they had to grow up too fast and no childhood and face shelling and bombing and war and have nightmares. >> reporter: his oldest daughter, ten-year-old wouldn't get too close to me. when you saw me in my vest are you scared of us? yes, she says. why we ask. because you speak english she says and the israeli speak english as well. she has seen things that no child should ever see. this house may be intact, but the damage to those who live inside of it won't be easy to heal. >> reporter: as you mentioned earlier diplomates in cairo are attempting to negotiate a cease fire and israel is not at the talks but pialestinians are and the member of parliament have international efforts including those of britain's are useless. >> hard to see what contributions we can make

and video coming in from gaza city. celebrations after a ceasefire is reached between israelis and hamas. will it last? >> primaries today. and does the gop have the momentum to change the balance of power in the u.s. senate? and fox nows alert. a third american hostage held in syria. i am jon scottment nfox news confirmed that the hostage held is a woman. isis is demanding millions in ransom for this woman's release. >> kathryn harris has more in washington. >> reporter: thank you. an american aid worker was believed to be among the hostages in syria we have new details about the woman and where she is from in this country. the investigative source would not elaborate to fox news on the demands for her release including 6 million or a prisoner swap citing concerns for her personal security. and four days after the execution of james foley was issued. there was a bulletin that there could be problems here in this country. the it is difficult to predict the tribers for home grown extremist violence. lone wolf terrorism p

john vause is in gaza city. michelle kosinski has late reaction from the white house this evening. and elise labott has the latest, all the details from the state department for us. we'll begin with john vause in gaza. john, we're still seeing explosions throughout the night in gaza after the agreement was announced. now the ceasefire just two hours away. how do things look at the moment? >> well, don, we have heard that constant barrage of artillery coming, mostly from the eastern part of gaza city. there has also been the sound of automatic weapons fire. and we've also seen the flares in the sky. sometimes that means there could been an air strike on the way. that hasn't happened. sometimes those flares are used to light up the battlefield. so that could have been why those flares had been in the sky just a few hours ago. obviously the sun is out now. so they're not needed anymore. now shortly after the ceasefire deal had been announced, hamas fired a number of rockets into israel. but in the last couple of hours, it seems hamas has pretty much held its fire. but we have been told

offices of the factions that are housed inside those buildings. >> okay, jane, ferguson live in gaza cityyou. >>> now, since israel began its military salt on gaza, that was on july the 8th, 64 palestinians have been called. a thai national was also killed. 200100 palestinians have died in the violence, including 177 children, more than 11,000 palestinians have been injured and the u.n. says that most of the dead, in fact three-quarters of them, are civilians. >>> still to come in the progr program. >> we are required to leave here today and thank things. >> a call for action in the united states at the funeral of the teenager michael brown. >>> and we are in myanmar where school children are preserving and indeed promoting their own language again. run by human beings can run off the rails >> and borderland... >> a lot aof people haven't got a clue what goes on near the border >> al jazeera america presents labor day marathons >> this is not over... ♪ ♪ >>> hello again, these are the top stories here at al jazerra. the u.s. surveillance aircraft are flying over syria to spy on islamic st

air strikes have targeted others along the road to gaza city. a number of farmers have been killed in the field or driving to market in gaza city with their produce. in another field efind um and abu mohamed. they say their harvest has been so poor since they are scared to come and tend their crops. >> the harvest is bad because we haven't been here for a month. there's no water to irrigate the plants. we invested all our money into this crop. we're afraid to bring our sons to help because of the bombs. >> reporter: providing food for gaza's 1.8 million people is hard enough under israel's blockade. it is even harder now. now it's as little as 40. in gaza city market people are stocking up on as much production and as quickly as they can. there were air strikes close by as we filmed. >> the traders suffer because they come under the shelling. there are few people buying too because there are no salaries, no electricity, no water, no gas. it is a disaster. >> reporter: these mangos and other feud food and produce are imcorporate ported from israe

as promised, andrew simmons is live in gaza city. andrew, firstly, i have to ask you: what is the general feeling there in gaza for the palestini palestinians? >> one of really a forlorn, distraught feeling amongst the majority of palestinians and gaza right now. you've got to remember that a humanitarian catastrophfee is still playing out here. it may have been a three-day cease-fire, and it may have been some respite. there may have been sometimes a restock the hospitals to some degree for some people to go back to their homes. the majority of whom found that their homes were all but destroyed, it has to be said. we have spoken to so many of them. and now, of course, what some describe as low-grade violence compared with what was happening prior to that three-day cease-fire, but nevertheless, the death toll keeps increasing every day. another four dead confirmed today, and a feeling in many areas of what next? what can happen next? in terms of the cease-fire, we asked a number of people who were homeless in an area near the main hos

let's bring back john vause he's at gaza city for us. hn, there have been reports of israeli troops starting to withdraw from gaza. i'm told that some israeli forces are moving out because they think they've almost completed the destruction of those tunnels going from gaza into israel. but what are you hearing there on the ground? >> reporter: well, that certainly is the case especially in the north of gaza around the areas that were declared closed military zones which meant the residents had to leave while they carried out those military exercises to search not just for the tunnels but also for the rocket launchers and the storage area for weapons. earlier on saturday a message went out to the palestinians who lived there that by 2:00 local time they would be allowed to return to whatever might be left of their homes. many people, though, seemed reluctant to do that. a few have done that. others are staying away at least for the time being and also the word that maybe israeli troops are redeploying according to palestinian witnesses and

the ground i wanted to talk to someone in gaza so earlier i spoke with dr below or a physician at gaza city is all she the hospital i started by asking him to describe the destruction. of the city and i mean does this give the sort of you to be. jewish was going to oh oh we had one of those a bit if i was a guy was a good mistake you know of to do good sure that i would. the stink is. caused by some. two thousand homes that are destroyed but the hospital now an addition to other thousands that the body destroyed but didn't have to build but would not be able to build one of your former university which was on blood aerated and the other before and after an edge of l. was a hospital talk about the amount of civilian targets that have been bombed just in the last month. if you want to talk at a number of conventions for major hospitals that are. out of service now as a result of the damages we can talk to teen health centers. more than seven you know us schools to a city a community college ten thousand homes seventeen major fuckwit is each one of them used to employ. workers we're talking ab

you're looking at live picture the of gaza city, this is much different to the scene that most residents have been waking up to over the past three weeks. some new information at cnn this past hour, israel is saying it will withdraw all of its ground troops out of gaza, there are some reports that just as the cease-fire was taking hold, israel anyway says 20 rockets were fired from gaza into its country. and then intercepted by the iron dome system. some estimates are lower. it's a tense moment for the many people who have been suffering over the past few weeks, we'll connect with our correspondents in the region in "moment to bring you any new information that emerges. welcome back, everyone, i'm errol barnett. >> thank you for joining us. as you said, hamas is saying that it fired seven rockets. all of this happened before the cease-fire officially began. so right now, as you just saw, we are still seeing blue skies. over gaza. >> for the moment. we're going to continue to watch these pictures, of course. this is a humanitarian truce that is meant to last for 72 hours. as you see on yo

these are live pictures from gaza city. we've seen people out on the streets, both on foot and in cars, taking advantage of the pause in hostilithostilities. the truce will allow desperately needed aid to reach gaza. one day before the truce, more explosions and more deaths. officials report 1,459 people killed. this is video from israel, where a rocket hit destroying vehicles. israel reports 64 deaths including five soldiers killed on thursday. ban ki-moon and john kerry announced the truce. >> israel has to be able to live in peace and security without terror attacks, without rockets, without tunnels. without sirens going off in the day, and palestinians need to be able to live with the opportunity to educate their children and move freely. and share in the rest of the world, and to lead a life that is different from the one they have long suffered. >> israel's military reports no hamas rockets have been fired from gaza since the truce started. sima has the latest. it feels like a breakthrough. >> it really does. it's very

>> well, right now in gaza city, it's relatively quiet. -- we have the humanitarian cease-fire which is taking place in most parts of the gaza strip with the exception of rafa. i would say there hasn't been -- all the breaks in the early morning, which happened about 10:00 and 18 minutes a.m. was when a bomb shell hit a house in the west of gaza city, injuring 29 people and killing one. this is the only breach for the cease-fire so far. people are rushing in and outside the city trying to bring many things they need. people are going to bury their relatives and some of them are also taking them to hospitals. hospitals at the moment are still ill equipped in most parts of the gaza strip, apparently in the south part of the gaza strip as one of these hospitals that have been under heavy bombardment, therefore the ambulance crew had to bring all the cases into the ckuwaiti hospital in the west part. it is still ill equipped and cannot help people any further. estimate of people is 1,000 is injured. more than 300 were killed in the last three

air strikes into gaza city farmers buildings have been destroyed. a number of farmers have been killed in their fields or while driving to the market in gaza city with their produce. in another field we find um and abu mohamed. their family have owned this land for generations. they say the harvest this year has been poor because they have been too scared to come and tend the crops. >> translator: the harvest is bad because we haven't been here for a month. there is no water to irrigate the crops. we invested all our money into the crops. >> providing food for gaza's 1.8 million people is hard enough under the blockade. it is even tougher now. in this gaza city market people are stocking up on as much produce as they can. there were air strikes close by as we filmed. >> translator: the traders suffer because they come under the shelling. there are few people buying too because there are no salaries, no electricity, no water no gas it is a disaster. >> reporter: these mangos and other fruit and vegetables are imported from israel. they are higher now

gaza. friday in the holy city of jerusalem and life here appears normal. muslims arrive on foot for friday prayers, as devout jews practice their faith at the western wall. but the violence in gaza is on everyone's mind. in the mainly palestinian side of the city, residents say they people a deep connection to the suffering in gaza. >> send us some hope. >> a restaurant owner who lost his brother here in the conflict decades ago. >> same people. we not hate jews, we just hate not fair, who must live the same as everybody around the world. >> as traditional coffee and shisa pipes are prepared, violence taking place in the gaza strip just 60 miles away. the war in gaza feels far away or feels so close to you guys? >> no to us it feels close and we feel with the people of gaza. we worry about the people of gaza. actually it's far we're not getting harmed, we don't feel it materially. >> tour guides with little work, tourists fear visiting the holy lands during times of tension. >> i think it's hyped up a lot. >> it's been overly hyped. it's more dangerous in c