. >> reporter: president barack obama is trying to prevent what he calls genicide. ♪ welcome to the programthree-day humanitarian has expired and more strikes on the territory and medical sources says one palestinian child has been killed and eight people injured since israel air strike resumes. israeli army says at least 33 rockets have been fired from gaza, one soldier and one civilian have been injured. as for talks in egypt they left cairo and returned to jerusalem. gaza medical authorities say one child killed and 8 people injured in fresh air strikes and these are the pictures out of gaza as ambulances take the injured to hospital. strikes have been reported from the air, sea and land across multiple locations in the gaza strip. let's hear from mark who is the spokesman for israel's prime minister. >> israel wanted to see the cease fire succeed. we redeployed all forces out of the gaza strip and ceased operations against the terrorist in gaza and took up purely defensive positions. >> reporter: but hamas this morning has opened fire on targets in israel, on communities across the fron

thursday that america would carry out limited action to prevent what the president described as genicide is because the islamic state group has more gains in iraq and syria in resent days and threatening people to convert to its version of islam, pay a tax or leave. and it's made worse by the continuing political crisis in baghdad where the deadline for the selection of the new prime minister is approaching and deadlock for months as maliki is accused of causing it by excluding minority groups. let's go straight to jane on the line from northern iraq. jane, bring us up to date and hearing about possible air strikes at the moment they are only reports. can you confirm what is happening? >> reporter: well, there are air strikes just not entirely clear now from kurdish security sources where they would have hit. we understand that it was directed against an artillery battery used by the islamic state against kurdish forces. this is one of the reasons of course the islamic state has been able to push through so many kurdish defenses. it has artillery and mortars and equipment and weapons sei

air strikes against the islamic state in northern iraq and washington says it wants to prevent a genicide♪ hello and welcome, i'm from al jazeera's headquarters in doha and good to have you here with us, also ahead. the three-day cease fire end in gaza with both sides launching attacks against each other. uneasy alliance and the

concern in the briefing, patty, about the potential for genicide, concern about humanitarian situationiraq but reiterating that there will be no boots on the ground. >> exactly, the president is trying to reassure obviously war-weary country that this is not going to become another iraq war under his watch. there have been a lot of questions about how does this end, what is the exit strategy. and the obama administration in the briefing very careful to say there is no end date, trying to find that balance. the president though is saying that the u.s. will get more involved with it and more aid to the iraqi government anti -- iraq military if it's inclusive of all the different factions and sections in i, iraq and trying to get them to perform quicker. >> with the middle east has there been criticism of the u.s. president barack obama for intervening iraq with military intervention but not doing the same in syria? >> if there is any criticism of the president by politicians is he has not done enough. they are saying if he had done more to stop the islamic state group in syria this would

human rights groups are examining allegations of genicide by islamic state fighters against the yazidiand others who are in a grave threat and we have the story. >> reporter: here on the northern edge of iraq fighting has uprooted some of the most vulnerable people. these are a religious minority from the plains near mozel and fewer than 20,000 of them in total. their religion has elements of islam as well as christianity. when they took over mosel and moved through surrounding towns, all of the people fled to the kurdish region. there are religions with deep roots and iraq is the land of profits but with fighters from the islamic state group and threats for religious minorities to convert or die there is no room left for any of them. along with other groups from the same area they ended up in a camp near the kurdish capitol erbil and it's iraq and ancient traditions. she is an arab but her husband is a kurd and when they came everyone was under threat. >> christians and muslims and yazidis all left together. >> reporter: the sam family is kaki and known here as the kakia and it's an o

air strikes against the islamic state in northern iraq and washington says it wants to prevent a genicide♪ hello and welcome, i'm from al jazeera's headquarters in doha and good to have you here with us, also ahead. the three-day cease fire end in gaza with both sides launching attacks against each other. uneasy alliance and the president agree to government in afghanistan before a review of the resent vote. >>> i'm in emma where the community faces the challenge of trying to rebuild itself. ♪ the united states has started air strikes against the islamic group in northern iraq and the u.s. shot at artillery targets and wants to create an islamic state across the middle east and accused of killing minorities in the region and it has taken over large parts of iraq and syria and suspended flights to the region. tens of thousands of people have fled northern iraq and members of the ethnic minorities and include the jahiti and out of the towns and in mountains without water, food or shelter and many have died. jane has the latest in northern iraq. >> reporter: we are told by kurdish officials