al fighter jets have started striking terror targets throughout the gaza strip so an escalation i suspect we may be seeing a bit more in that live shot from gaza but that's what the israelis have just tweeted there about their fighter jets and i've got would hear from our teams about israeli helicopters hovering over gaza as well attempting to attack the rocket launches this is what they're firing against i'll just rewind this actually this is some of the rocket fire coming out of gaza a little bit earlier which the israelis are trying to intercept and we've had seventy rockets have come out of gaza in the last twenty to thirty minutes but ok so that's what's happening right now. and we're going to talk actually we're going to get away from them now until the i meet owen who is a commentator and on government and military affairs we were going to talk to you mr owen about the events overnight but they seem to be superceded just at the moment your reaction at this stage i mean i guess this is what we've come to expect as far as escalations when these types of things happen. this is the sec

to surrounding the gaza strip with now more than a decade old full. surrounding and blockade of gaza which has led to a horrific humanitarian catastrophe inside you now have the situation where israeli control is complete including sending troops whenever they choose in this case it was special forces troops inside the gaza strip to carry out assassinations and so we can expect much from the united states then but what should happen now to ensure that this raid this israeli army raid and to harass is not going to need to . to an escalation that that actually leads to the kind of you know wars that we saw in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twelve where hundreds if not thousands of thousand civilians were killed. well this is not something that is has any capacity for the palestinians to make that decision this is something that the israelis will do or not do and they do so they make their decisions knowing that they will have the full uncritical support of the trump administration that the challenge that we face there is no existing press

well we heard news about an hour ago you mentioned the security situation in the south of the gaza strip in how you this it appears now that according to the gaza health ministry yet six people have been killed six palestinians some unconfirmed reports saying that one of those is a leader of the car some brigade this is hamas military wing. radio army has issued a statement saying that the army operating in gaza and exchange of gunfire all soldiers abass in israel army is admitting that there was some kind of operation that its soldiers undertook inside the gaza strip and then an exchange of gunfire ensued resulting from what we understand at the six palestinian killed in according to that statement with the soldiers a back in israel now we have residents of the gaza strip reporting over the last couple of hours the last hour or so explosions is also been reports of rockets fired out of the gaza strip one of those intercepted by the iron job this is israel's defense system to those rockets it only really interested missiles that are heading to a populated area but there's no record of an

throughout the gaza strip. the gaza strip in the government. and on the community on the over three hundred seventy rockets against communities and seven it's actually quite interesting this escalation because it comes actually in the middle of a period where exits were made by egypt and the u.s. and special coordinator to reach a calm to tween isn't some of which included something that my electricity came in the back to the ago of so that's not always upon us and trees web page with cash from qatar to ease the situation but at the moment it's unclear what will happen with those efforts and people in gaza quit continues rounds of violence that come back again and again it's kind of part of the life but of the three was everybody is of course by far it doesn't really need to know war are a longer military operation they are pulled down and trying to mediate as they've done before but unlike other previous rounds of the scene in the past couple of months there is no sign yet that those efforts will actually lead to a period of calm again i think

israeli special forces have left the gaza strip now though we are waiting to hear more from the israeli army on this we can now speak to aren't hind the military correspondent for the truce imposed she joins us over the phone from tel aviv what what can you tell us about this security operation what has happened here in gaza tonight and what might have fronted the israelis to do this. good evening actually all israeli troops left because the area shortly after the incident occurred what we have heard and what we have heard for it by the military here in israel is that a firefight broke out between the idea of troop militants in her new this evening and the israeli troops are not work ducted. the army i denied any of the reports there are many reports recommitting on what's up on social media. all across the social network has even the troops have been abducted during the firefight but it seems to have actually happened was that the troops going in to collect reconnaissance and not actually carry out an assassination which happened tonight but what happened was that the troops fired on a

going probably gaza strip on this album border that separates gaza from israel and also there are strikes that israeli air strikes have not stopped the ministry of health palestine has reported three killed and told now injuries we have also twelve we have on the israeli side we have twelve injuries as well five of them where in the bus that was struck by a rocket from gaza strip now of course all this is completion and has happened as a result of what has happened last night. there was a special operation israeli operation in the south east. of gaza as they got into a civilian car or they were in a civilian car they got into gaza strip of in a distant of three kilometers there was an exchange of gunfire between hamas. members and the israeli forces in that civilian car the exchange of gunfire led to the killing of a senior officer of the israeli forces and another being injured and then that's close air strikes to happen right away now what happened today from hamas. and firing all those rockets on israel sees that is. what the response that is supposed to be the normal response that is

it but had carried out over a hundred strike throughout the gaza strip. the gaza strip is going to. be on the three hundred seventy blockade against communities and doesn't it for. now as we mentioned the un is calling on all the warring parties to show maximum restraint has there been any attempt at mediation so far. well there are reports. and trying to mediate as they've done before but unlike other previous rounds that we seen in the past couple of months there is no sign yet that those efforts will actually lead to a period of calm again i think it's really crucial to see what happens in the coming hours both sides have said in the past week that they don't want to go to an all out war but what they're doing right now is that both sides want to show they're trying now the people of gaza tanya are living in desperate conditions and this latest violence only makes things worse are there any prospects for things improving there in gaza under hamas control. was actually quite interesting this escalation because it comes actually in the middle of a period where efforts were made by

killed seven palestinians and the latest strikes israel bombed hamas al aksa television in the gaza strip destroying the studios in gaza city as well as nearby buildings the israeli army says the strikes and shelling but response to about three hundred rockets fired from gaza into israel it says the iron dome defense system intercepted most of the rockets but some hit homes in southern israel while one struck a bus three palestinians were killed in the violence and one israeli soldier was critically injured now hamas says its rocket fire was a battalion into the deaths of seven palestinians killed during and and coersion by israeli special forces in the gaza strip on sunday. he is general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and speaking from ramallah he says israel's illegal operation and gaza created the provocation. what we see today is a result of an israeli aggression that took place unfortunately what israel did that went unnoticed most media outlets in the world as you say that israel is create a bit of a creation and then the palestinians respond and it becomes like pa

we are also hearing of rockets sirens being sounded in the areas of southern israel around the gaza strip and so what we wait to find out now is exactly how the palestinian side will respond from inside gaza the various palestinian factions are saying that israel will pay a heavy price for what has happened so far this evening so that leads one to suspect that there will be at the very least some rocket fire coming from gaza into israeli territory we can then expect an israeli response to that so weird a situation now where we're teetering on the brink of a military escalation at the least and we will see how serious that becomes certainly the prime minister of israel has the. serious enough to cut short his visit to france and is on his way back to the country now. we know that as you say prime is innocent yahoo is on his way back to the country we had seen signs of a cease fire the was it it's it's always you know even when they reach these agreements when you have even when you have a period of quiet between israel and amass there is always this skepticism that it will not be maintaine

there for us in washington we're joined on the line now by a senior hamas official in the south gaza strip ghazi hamad can you describe the situation there for us please. the. situation is very whole. thing someplace in gaza it's. like a war. because people think for something. so. collision more uprising more tension i think to destroy all the. time. we have. on the ground. people are surprised by. accident i think israel will. miss how much can you tell us can you give us any more details on what killed because the report. commander has been identified as. along with four of the hamas members was reportedly killed in clashes is that correct. there are also some. which. or some collaborators tried to escape to go to the. full. tried to cover. the president or the soldiers. striking. so i think it was. actually sent we have about six people were killed. some was. one of them is one of the permanent. brigades. i think of. become and so then. there are the is as always. why did the confrontation between israel and hamas and of course whenever this happens it is always the people the civilian

he would he does i mean and we actually also heard him that he considers that all of gaza is basically one big strip full of as he says terrorists he did advocate for another all out war because in his view not all the old out war in gaza would then bring quiet. about four to five years that was the words of a living man a few months ago so certainly will it bring a sigh of relief that people here think that things will change very quickly i don't think so i mean the problems in this trip have become so many and they're in all directions and really trying to bring some sort of normalcy will take a long time and certainly you know at the end of the day people have been demonstrating for months and they want a lifting of the look a they want improvement in their lives and they want to just be able to continue going on to be connected to the world like many. so i don't think anyone would expect that anything of that anything that will come anytime soon even though people at the moment happy that they have more electricity which is something that sounds a bit strange but going from four hours to sixteen

imus and israel over the past few weeks which led to these radio approval to allow fuel into the gaza strip but also qatari money to pay salaries for hamas employees in gaza but hamas feels that the israelis violated these understanding's by going into the gaza strip and killing palestinians even so the staying busy of that this is part of their normal retaliating against israel but those gains made over the last few weeks and months people in gaza won't want to lose them either will they are i'm sort of could you could you say that again just saying that those gains that you talked about the fuel that have been coming in the more electricity that have been in gaza those the gains that the people of gaza will not want to lose. what definitely the palestinians have been suffering as a result of lack of electricity for the past two years at least and also hamas has been. facing a very serious financial crisis over the past five years since the new to jim came to power in egypt but the palestinians are not in any way i read it to trade their dignity their freedom for for money and fuel for the

place in gaza and the violence came after a botched israeli military raid on the ground in the gaza strip on sunday we'll hear from our correspondent there in a moment about first this report. people in gaza woke up to a scene of destruction and. this was all that was left of the t.v. station run by hamas. the israeli military said it was a strategic target. he gave a warning that the strike was about to happen but the attacks still cause panic among local residents. as soon as we saw the rockets we ran away from the house we are civilians we don't have weapons and rockets so soon as we heard the shelling we escaped. fear also on the israeli side of the border. most of hamas rockets are intercepted by israel's defense system but some missiles have hit residential buildings including this one in the southern israeli town of ashkelon one man a palestinian laborer was killed here people in the city are afraid and we have been living here in adversity in a southern neighborhood for many years through at least four rounds of warfare the buildings are very old the building where i live has no p

times is closed in this case hamas prevented foreign journalists for a certain time to leave the gaza strip because of the incident on sunday having said that i have to stress that it's much much more difficult also for gazans to actually ever leave gaza they're very restricted in their movements even in times of first such as collations and also times of war. they don't have time to come or speaking to us from a church. service chancellor has addressed the european parliament in strasburg outlining her vision for a future europe i'm going to follow the e.u. leaders to reject what she called national ngo ism and repeated her calls for a common european approach to migration policy she went on to tell lawmakers that europe must take its fate into its own hands on foreign and security policy you thought you were on our boat we should be working on the idea of one day creating a real european army john mchugh. i saw it for ben's uncle your guy has shown claude he said four years ago a united european army would show the world that there will never be another war between european countries. it

it was an israeli undercover military operation in the gaza strip that went wrong. i have heard a palestinian describing what he saw. israelisow knows as using guns with silencers. once they started engaging and actual -- engaging in an actual firefight, israeli strikes began. we now have heard from hamas. this was an israeli assassination operation. we have heard from the israeli military that it was not the case. the israeli military spokesman did not specify what was taking place. all we know is that it was an undercover operation. >> why would the israelis have moved forward something on this now especially given the fact that the sides were inching towards scaling back on the fighting. >> that is the question being asked in the israeli media. they were edging closer. that millions of dollars in funds and diesel fuel went into gaza. things were moving towards some kind of different method. and then, this. what we have heard from some israeli military commentators, speaking off the record, they say these kinds of operations happen all the time. the only reason we

we can kill in the gaza strip. my complaint and our government that they are not using the for last four years since their last wide open ation in order to make sure that we capable of inserting wage between the almost two million palestinians in gaza strip and to some us israel has an interest to weaken hamas israel has an interest to make sure that life normal did enough hours so for electricity enough. enough air quit made in the in the hospitals the. quality of water is a make the potable water so we don't have an interest in human suffering in gaza and our government some will fail to do it they fail to realize the strategically we have to strengthen abu mazin the p.l.o. in the mullah and to weaken hamas in gaza not the other way around. so labor party has left the coalition government and the jewish home party threatens to follow suit on last its leader naftali bennett gets to see it defense minister could this be the beginning of a and for an attorney on his coalition i mean how could its potential downfall

palestinian violence in four years hamas supporters are celebrating after militant groups in the gaza strip agreed to stop attacks if israel does the same we'll go live to tell it before the latest also coming up german chancellor angela merkel presents her vision of europe's future and she calls for a european army it would not be an army against nato i mean really rather it could serve as a useful complementary force tonight no one intends to question the traffic alliances. and in the united states more than forty people are dead hundreds still missing in northern california reeling from the deadliest wildfire in its history and authorities are preparing to search for the victims. i'm brinkerhoff it's good to have you with us we start tonight in the middle east where militant palestinian groups in the gaza strip say they will stop crossword or attacks if israel does the same hamas supporters took to the streets after militant factions agreed conditionally to an egypt brokered cease fire this comes after the most serious upsurge in violence between israel and the palestinians since two tho

boston infection house which rules the gaza strip celebration lieberman's resignation as a victory a ceasefire which was mediated by egypt on tuesday appears to be holding stephanie decker reports west jerusalem. less than twenty four hours after the gaza ceasefire came into effect the diplomatic fallout. i'm here to announce my resignation from the role of the defense minister of the state of israel the question which needs to be asked is why not i aspire as i'm concerned what happened yesterday yesterday a cease fire together with the entire process of reaching a reassessment with a mouse is a capitulation to terror bush should pull out go in defense minister avigdor lieberman also said he disagreed with katter bringing fifteen million dollars into gaza last weekend to pay the salaries of civil servants and the fuel shipments that have increased gaza's electricity moves that are all parts of efforts to ease gaza's humanitarian situation the mass wasted no time in reacting to lieberman's resignation. this constitutes a victory for the resistance and a recognition of defeat and failur

an israeli soldier are reported dead after an israeli special forces operation in the southern gaza strip the dead include a commander of the military wing of hamas the islamic movement which runs gaza israel says a second soldier was wounded in the fighting the incident casts renewed doubt on peace efforts between israel and hamas some two hundred palestinian protesters have been killed during clashes with israeli forces since the end of march. our jerusalem correspondent tanya kramer is in gaza and joins us now on the phone tanya it's not that often that israeli security forces launched raids on the ground in gaza what more can you tell us about what happened last night. you know that fight and it's not entirely clear what the purpose of this raid was from what we understand says an israeli special forces commander entered the southern gaza strip late on sunday evening and according to a statement by the israeli army that they say this is of a special operation but we don't know exactly what they were doing that until every there was an exchange of time and that's often how military win

as a senior hamas official in the southern gaza strip he told al-jazeera an israeli unit escaped over the border after the operation. there is a special. hour went inside on us. and there are also some of the one and after that. to come which kerry. or some collaborators tried to escape to go to these reporters but they are surrounded by. brigades. and after that try to cover. the sky all the credit all the soldiers.

to the deaths of seven palestinians killed during an incursion by israeli special forces in the gaza strip on sunday night almost of about a goofy is general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and speaking from ramallah he says israel's operation in gaza created the provocation. what we see today is a result of an israeli aggression that took place unfortunately what israel did that went unnoticed most media outlets in the world as you say that israel is create a bit of a creation and then the palestinians respond and it becomes like palestinian aggression the reality is that there was a truce which was mediated by the egyptians we had come and nobody intended to exclude the situation at all especially people in gaza who were in need in need for the moving the blockade on gaza and suddenly the israelis send their best and most are in the groups to invade gaza and to assassinate people and of course if they were not discovered they would have caused horrible damage there was a clash and seven palestinians were killed by israeli invaders and by israeli planes which who bombarde

there's a senior hamas official in the gaza strip he told al jazeera that it is really unit escape to the border after the operation. there is a special unit. went. to the baraka and there are also some of the one and. the car which carried this special unit or some collaborators tried to escape and to go to these reporters but there are some of the. brigade. that tried to cover. the sky all the cars aggressive all the soldiers. striking here and. so i think it was. actually launched now we have about six people there were killed. some was. one of them is the one of the permanent second brigade. i think of it will not be easy will not become very force that has the latest from western . well significant military confrontation in gaza a deadly one which raises the prospect at least the risk of more to follow israel has now confirmed that one of its officers was killed in this military operation and another wounded it said that it did carry out a military operation inside gaza it rejected earlier reports that one of the soldiers involved had been abducted saying that everybody had been

on gaza strip and the siege of that they are forcing for the last twelve years on allowing the petrol to come into gaza for the electricity allowing some other material to be of there and they were discussing a few other things that would ease a little bit this siege of again but not definitely the peace process if we are going to talk about that this process we need first to end the separation between west bank and gaza between fatah and hamas and definitely to unify the palestinian and to have a reconciliation between the palestinians and to start a new government with the agreement of both sides and in this case then the palestinian will be united in going into any negotiations officially with the israeli side and this negotiation will end up in the you know the palestinian they are not going to negotiate terms over details but rather to end the occupation totally in the whole region and to give the palestinian the independent state on the borders of one hundred sixty seven including jerusalem and i think this is a whole a big deal we think that we need more than gyptian in this si

on gaza you are one israeli has died and twenty nine have been injured i rockets fired from the gaza strip the violence follows a covert israeli military operation in gaza on sunday which killed a hamas military commander and six other palestinians. new york times is revealing more details about the recordings turkey shared on the killing of jamal of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi as one of the so-called kill team tells a superior and a phone call to quote tell your boss the mission was complete u.s. intelligence officials believe your boss referred to saudi crown prince mohammed. and international pressure is mounting for yemen's civil war and the u.n. bresnan france all the natives to call for an end to hostilities chicks around the port city of the data. coalition is trying to retake it from if the rebels. i still says it was behind us so decided to attack in the afghan capital that killed six protesters. well members of the ethnic minority group has sala and are rallying for greater protection for that community following a number of attacks and such a guy name has mall oh the target

under lockdown and then crying wolf when when skirmishes or violent confrontations erupt in the gaza strip it's very interesting for me to hear the israeli ambassador speak about the gaza as collation all of the victims except one of this round of escalation where palestinian all of the victims were inside gaza and not outside of the gaza strip israel bombed a t.v. station it bombed residential buildings it leveled them to the ground those are acts that are acts of terror because they did terrorize two million palestinians the political climate of paralysis in the security council will only help to embolden this attitude because israel feels protected in shield that it will not face accountability in new york and so it can continue to exercise this brute force when it sees fit against a population under lockdown but there is no political horizon on the agenda of this israeli government much less now that elections might be in the horizon the current right wing government wants to see. the status quo continued it wants to continue receiving unfettered. american protection and to dodge accou

seven are dead after israel launched air strikes in response to missiles from militants in the gaza strip. forty two dead and more than two hundred twenty missing california reels from the deadliest wildfires in its history so far as is prepared to search for victims. i'm phil gal welcome to the program of a european union and britain have a greater draft text of my breakfast with troll agreement but his prime minister theresa may will present it to her cabinet on wednesday but she has faced stiff opposition. from some of her senior ministers and it's far from clear whether she can get any deal approved by the british parliament. more on this from barbara very soul in strasbourg on picket mass in london welcome to both bob levey so what do we know what's been agreed. what we knew about the text is that it's forty pages long and contains all the legal details the terms and conditions on which britain is supposed to leave the european union and on the to the on march twenty ninth off next year and there are of course some particular stumbling blocks one and that was the last point that nego

palestinian violence in four years a mosque supporters are celebrations after militant groups in the gaza strip agreed to stop attacks if israel does the same we'll go live to tell of the for the latest also coming up more than forty dead hundreds still missing in northern california really from the deadliest wildfire in its history as authorities prepare to search for the big. bird go off it's going to have you with a common defense force for a united europe that is the vision that german chancellor angela merkel trying to drive home today when she addressed the european parliament in strasbourg france echoing her french colleague president. urged fellow e.u. leaders to reject what she calls national eager wisdom and she repeated her calls for a broad based european approach to migration. if there's any doubt thanks chancellor merkel was greeted by applause. thank you for joining her speech the atmosphere was emotionally charged was thank god thank you i've been that while i'm actually enjoying this that doesn't bother me i also come from a parliament that had been a major point of contention

the turmoil on the israeli border as israeli jets strike the gaza strip in response to heavy rocket fire two palestinians have died in the attacks. was. an students and teachers pull into the streets of paris to show their. president emanuel micron's proposed education cuts which could endanger thousands of jobs. it's eleven o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all t. international live with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. attendance of an international conference in libya have been welcomed in the italian city in a bid to solve the libyan conflict civil war broke out after the ousting of colonel gadhafi a twenty eleven the presidents of egypt. as well as leaders of local tribes and militias from libya said to be taking part. one of those expected to take center stage in the talks has arrived at the head of the libyan national army general kiley. he controls most of libya and place a significant role of the country's future while the conference was initiated by prime. instead just said it contained but it isn't the only european country with an interest france has also

of all of the israeli border as israeli jets strike the gaza strip in response to have a rocket fire to palestinians have done. was . and students and teachers pour into the streets of paris to show their distaste president emanuel micron's proposed education cuts which could endanger thousands of jobs. instead of clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international line with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. attendance of an international conference on libya have been welcomed in the italian city of palermo in a bid to solve the libyan conflict civil war broke out after the ousting of colonel gadhafi and twenty eleven the presidents of egypt tunisia and algeria as well as leaders of local tribes and militias from libya said to be taking past the conference was initiated by prime minister become tape but italy isn't the only european country with an interest france has also been trying to establish itself as a regional peacemaker as were gassed if explains there could be a cheery motive behind the apparent good intentions. seven years it's been seven long chaotic ye

strike the soldiers are reported dead following an israeli special forces operation in the southern gaza strip that that include the commander of the military wing of hamas the muslims there who are the runs gaza and israel says a second soldier was wounded israel said jane asked rice and there was returned rocket fire from gaza which hit a bus injuring one person israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has cut short a visit to paris to deal with this issue. correspondent tony kraemer is in gaza city we asked her how this had happened. more of a house in the control nation that's coming from all sides to understand that and is there any special forces commandos had entered the southern gaza strip late on sunday evening much. of the national federation. mission but given that nature are exactly what they were doing what was their mission. there. with regard to the exchange of fire with the hamas military wing because it gave me really a three hundred all out of the border area they didn't follow i'm not that they're very they're trying to get you to come to him. it's very old you're the pure

and israeli bus is one of the targets hit by rockets from the gaza strip earlier is ready special forces killed at least seven palestinians in a late night operation. from doha everyone on kemal santa maria this is the world news from. chaos on the streets of the afghan capital after a suicide bomber targets a minority group demanding best security donald trump says the nuclear threat from north korea is over new satellite images suggest otherwise. and the man of god who are responsible for them not only did nothing they shoot it all for decades and the u.s. justice system expands its investigation into priests accused of child sexual abuse . so less than twenty four hours after a secret israeli military operation in gaza killed seven palestinians and one israeli soldier there has been a barrel of rockets into israel from gaza israeli officials say at least eighty rockets were fired many intercepted by their missile defense system one of the rockets did hit a nother hit house in southern israel the israeli military says it's now carrying out strikes throughout the gaza strip and at least

israeli airstrikes on gaza at least twenty nine israelis have been injured by rockets fired from the gaza strip the violence follows a covert israeli military operation on sunday which killed seven palestinians including a hamas military command stephanie decker has more from israel's border with gaza. it is the biggest escalation between israel and hamas since the two thousand and fourteen war we have seen intense powers's of rockets outgoing into these border communities in israel there's also been heavy air strikes inside the gaza strip particularly in heavily populated areas including the building belonging to a masses a locks a t.v. now we know negotiations are ongoing behind the scenes particularly spearheaded by egypt also the united nations to try and deescalate the situation. new details are emerging about the recordings that turkey has shed on the killing of sally journalist jamal khashoggi the new york times is a member of the so-called kill team made a phone call shortly after the death u.s. intelligence officials believe the cole strongly length to sell the leadership to the killin

trying to find to have carried out a series of ass strikes on territory in the gaza strip. the israeli defense forces claimed rockets fired from gaza had hit a bus local journalists. has. dozens of rockets that have been fired on the israeli gaza border one of the rockets struck a bus a civilian bus in and it led to an injury of five one of them was a serious injury that israeli media and israeli forces a claim that these rockets been fired by hamas which they consider as. terrorist military faction also we have dozens of rockets fired from. air strikes of israeli air strikes that respond to these rockets at the same time this is kill ation or the situation of the situation that is happening in the gaza strip that recently is due or a result of the operation the special military operation that happened yesterday by the special israeli forces there was an exchange of gunfire between the israeli forces and. members of hamas that led to the killing of seven members of hamas one of them was a senior leader in hamas and as well as a senior officer in israeli forces and another w

government accepted a cease fire in the gaza strip he says his party will will quit. bringing coalition with just one seat majority in the knesset. i mean it has an update from gaza where there is widespread skepticism about how long the ceasefire will last. there's a certain size of relief here in gaza that an all out war didn't break out this is one of the buildings that were targeted by the israelis it belongs to have not been in the civilian area and people around not only you can imagine the fear they felt that night when that explosion happened but also their property damage this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen so people here has been extremely worried about how things could develop now how mass on this side has put forward to the people here this cease fire as a political victory that coupled with the news of the resignation. minister. i must say that was actually. a victory and an acknowledgement by the israelis that. now people are happy that he has returned but this is certain degree this is. all

over this is here now from ghazi hamad he's a senior hamas official in the southern gaza strip and he told us that an israeli unit escaped to the border the operation. well you know there is a special. when. there are also some of the one. which. you had or some collaborators tried to escape to go to this very old. brigade. that tried to cover. all the cars the president all the soldiers. striking. so i think it was. actually that we have about six people with. some or some one of them is one of the few minutes ago. i think of it was. because. it's got more on this now we're joined by moin rabbani senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies and he's joining us live from new york bonnie thank you for staying with us on al-jazeera what do you make not just of the attack and the timing what was israel trying to do here do you think. well it seems fairly clear that this was a premeditated assess a nation of a senior hamas military command right at the christian though of egyptian and united nations mediated talks to try to reach a long term cease fire between israel and hamas the

zionist occupation and it is a failure of the policy of siege and devastating wars against the gaza strip this is the result of the palestinian people steadfastness. hamas had already celebrated the earlier ceasefire as a victory for the palestinians to. gaza is of course a large reason for lieberman's resignation but there is no denying that domestic political factors are also at play one israeli media report describes the resignation as the opening salvo of israel's elections the expectation is that the election reset for november next year will be brought forward to what's happening now in israeli politics is a major event because you have the defense minister which is the number two position in the government at a party in this government has resigned and he's resigned and basically showed his no confidence with the prime minister now it's not going to bring down the government right away it could it could lead to elections but he's showing he's positioning himself to be the opponent and it's and you know the opponent to the right of it and you know what the events of the last few day

the palestinian faction hamas which rules the gaza strip has celebrated lieberman's resignation as a victory a cease fire which was mediated by egypt on tuesday appears to be holding seven palestinians and one israeli were killed in the fighting triggered by a botched israeli raid into gaza on sunday and on wednesday another palestinian official man was shot and killed by israeli forces in northern gaza let's go now to her force it to use in west jerusalem so what else did leave them say. well essentially his argument is that by agreeing to the cease fire after hundreds of hamas and other palestinian faction rockets coming out of gaza striking israeli territory striking homes killing one person in israeli territory that netanyahu has capitulated to terror he has been making such arguments in slightly more muted terms for some time calling for much harsher military action against hamas after the months of border protests of incendiary devices being launched on kites and balloons and burning israeli farmland next to the gaza border fence and he has been saying this in the sense that th

gaza killed seven palestinians in the latest strikes israel bombed hamas axa television and the gaza strip destroying the studios in gaza city as well as nearby buildings israeli army says the strikes and shelling in response to about three hundred rockets fired from gaza it says the iron dome defense system intercepted most of the rockets but some hit homes and southern israel while one struck a bus three palestinians were killed in the violence and one israeli soldier was critically injured hamas says its rocket fire was in retaliation to the deaths of seven palestinians killed during and coersion by israeli special forces in the gaza strip on sunday stephanie decker reports now from the gaza israel border in fading late afternoon light the skies around gaza roared with rockets some intercepted by israel's iron dome anti-missile system this was the response from gaza's armed groups to an israeli undercover incursion into the strip on sunday night that killed seven members of how mass is military wing among them a senior commander and an israeli officer. israeli television was soon broadc

all of this coming after earlier today a faction inside gaza strip fired an anti-tank missile toward sraeli bus filled with soldiers. one soldier was severely injured. all of this though coming after a raise last night inside gaza conducted by the israeli military went wrong. this raid taking place last night. reports indicating the operation was meant to gather intelligence but went awry when the soldiers were found by the hamas militants in gaza. dana? >> dana: thank you, trey. back in the u.s., we're keeping a close eye on key elections in three states. vote counting is still under way in the arizona senate race with kirsten sinema is gaining ground on martha mcsally. and, of course, recounts are under way in florida races for governor and senator. president of america votes, former congress woman nan heyworth, good to have you both here. i want you to listen to what governor scott says about what happened on election night. >> there's never been a recount that's changed in florida, any sort of win like that. so while we're going through the recount, we won. the citizens of the sta

airstrikes on gaza meanwhile at least twenty nine israelis have been injured by rockets fired from the gaza strip the violence follows a covert israeli military operation on sunday which killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander stefani deca has more from israel's border with gaza it is the biggest escalation between israel and hamas is the two thousand and fourteen war we have seen intense barrass of rockets outgoing into these border communities in israel there's also been heavy air strikes inside the gaza strip particularly in heavily populated areas including the building belonging to her masses a locks a t.v. now we know negotiations are ongoing behind the scenes but particularly spearheaded by egypt also the united nations to try and deescalate the situation. new details are emerging about the recordings that turkey has shared on the killing of some of the journalist jamal khashoggi the new york times as a member of the so-called kill team made a phone call shortly after the deaths u.s. intelligence officials believe the calls strongly linked the saudi leadership to the