was close to revealing its so-called peace plan for israel and hamas in palestine. indeed yes there have been indications in recent days that president trump is going to unveil his long awaited peace initiative as he would put it back in september after a meeting with benjamin netanyahu at the united nations president trump said that he would have the plan ready within two to four months now that would put it around the beginning of december we also heard last week the representative for the region trump special representative jason greenblatt gave a talk in london in which he says that the peace initiative would be ready for public perusal within a few days if not weeks so certainly there does appear to be movement on this so-called initiative drawn up it's believed by by the president's son in law and certainly there has been speculation that this initiative is going to come to bring to an end as president trump puts it the unresolved crisis that has been in that region for such a long period of time the problem is though is that the palestinian leadership will ha

hamas security hamas military are imposing. lots of. stoning lots of them something like like checkpoints in the area. borders coming the area to make sure that there are no more is needed under cover units like that unit which has just assessing it is one of has command that was and was yes what can you tell us about those targeted in khan yunis in the israeli way. actually this trade has been conducted by an injury done the company unit in it and see if it comes to the latest news is that they tried to kidnap one of the palestinian freedom fighters one of the hamas commanders but they could not they failed the bin and they exchanged fire they killed him that. during an exchange by other hamas. military other hammersmith god military their exchange fire with. with the israeli scud the cover scud during changing fire. and a strike intervene to save the discard which infiltrated. the three kilometers inside gaza from the same border. we can i can describe it that it is god has been trapped inside gaza and they could not leave. they could

hail of hamas rockets. israel has rocked the nation sparking military strikes from gaza civilian casualties and even ministers resigning shaken the ruling coalition. with a cease fire in place last for much longer will israel's reluctance restraint help stop another gaza war only embolden hamas to carry out more times. it would be iraq the former prime minister of israel welcome to the show it is great to have you with us so mr barak the latest. the latest escalation in gaza broke out after two hamas commanders were killed in a botched is rarely special forces rate hamas fired hundreds of rockets into israel in response while israeli planes bombed the hundred of sites in gaza over the past few days now as a military man tell me why provoke palestinians if it's known in advance that any sort of undercover military action there will end up in heavy response from the militants. i cannot fully explain the palestinian behavior but that threatens the normalcy of life of our. citizens on the gaza strip and. compel

we hold hamas accountable for any aggression against israeli civilians and hamas by its actions is bringing destruction to the gaza strip and the survive. the aftermath of a palestinian rocket strike in israel the south of the country has been targeted by hundreds of missiles fired from gaza some are destroyed by defense systems some find their target. how mass also attacks an israeli bus using what it claimed was a guided anti-tank missile. one israeli soldier was seriously hurt in this attack how mass is not shying from taking on israel after israeli special forces killed a senior militant on sunday i mean this is an open battle between us and the zionist enemy only it is responsible for this crime and its ramifications. so the hamas rockets continue and as long as that threat remains the attacks on gaza will continue to. our correspondent tanya kramer is in gaza city and joins us now on the line tanya any sign of deescalation there in gaza. it's very hard to tell the moment because it changes all of our it was a very difficult night for piecing gobs of adults across the board and seven i

hand in hand with hamas. i think that also in this case they responsible it is of everybody that the cabinet of the government and i don't wish to attack anybody individually. i opposed this from within for two and a half years and what i. have given the two point main points the fifteen million dollars in cash to the hamas in the gaza strip and also the ceasefire after five hundred rockets having been fired or close to five hundred rockets in the south of the strip this is. more than i can stomach. and of course. occasionally one has to you're watching al-jazeera we're live in west jerusalem a little bit of israeli political history there for you happening in real time avigdor lieberman the israeli defense minister confirming he's tendering his resignation that will take effect within forty eight hours he was prepared very quickly to go on to answering the inevitable question of why now he said his country is in effect giving in to terror that's a direct quote from mr lieberman he said we are getting silence

hamas to carry out more attacks. it would be iraq the former prime minister of israel welcome to the show it is great to have you with us so mr barak the latest. the latest escalation in gaza broke out after two hamas commanders were killed and watched israeli special forces rate a mass fired hundreds of rockets into israel in response while israeli planes bombed one hundred of sites in gaza over the past few days and now as a military man tell me why provoke palestinians if it's known in advance that any sort of undercover military action there will end up in heavy response from the militants. i cannot fully explain the palestinian behavior but that threatens the normalcy of life of our. citizens on the gaza strip and. compelled the i.d.f. to respond very aggressively to store usually or mainly through attacks and destroy some sensitive installations of hamas of course it doesn't end the whole story but as of now when we are talking it's a much more quiet let's hope it would be remain quiet if it won't remain quiet

after a night of air raids across gaza israel and hamas consider their next steps. you know i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also coming out turkey reveals new details about the death of saudi journalist and a by the people who killed him. summit and seven years of fighting libyan leaders and foreign powers meeting need to lead and a looming humanitarian crisis hundreds of thousands of congolese refugees are forced to leave. us. thank you for joining as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is holding an urgent cabinet meeting after a night of violence across gaza in which six finest indians were killed the israeli military targeted dozens of positions it says are linked to hamas and islamic jihad it also says both hamas headquarters and al aqsa television station were hit at the same time almost four hundred rockets have been fired by palestinian factions from gaza into israel around one hundred of them were intercepted the rocket attacks killed one palestinian man living in israel while several israelis have been injured and the u.n.

hamas security hamas military are imposing. so. stunning lots of them something like like checkpoints in the area. borders coming the area to make sure that there are no more is under cover units like that unit which has just assessing the. command that was and was yes what can you tell us about those targeted in khan yunis in the israeli way.

hamas which also have other groups inside the gaza strip let's say more radical groups and hamas has the call range the how does the car stop the rocket that sets of course is not only hamas that operate inside the ship it's a very complicated situation i think we're going to have to take so we see how the evening's going to develop what kind of negotiations behind going to go on to try and calm situation down but but again yes this is something that no one expected particularly just a couple of days all three. million dollars to the gold step with. the civil servants being paid per hour being let in and this is all part of the negotiation. and israel would have allowed that everyone sort of. with a question mark to see what exactly happened tonight and how it's going to unbolt all right thank you very much and now stephanie deca speaking to us. let's get the latest now from mike hanna who is live in washington and mike as stephanie was explaining we have a situation here where elite israeli forces entered gaza the southern city of khan yunis she was saying that six palestinians have

the next level between hamas and fattah that's a big problem and the palestinians are fed up but not till you're right to say that it's not the fault of hamas that there's a lack of health care or or the blockade but on the other hand human rights watch has a report out recently which pointed out the boats in the west bank and in gaza the palestinian factions hamas and the p.a. have been carrying out abuse torture deprivation of right how do people in gaza feel about the fact that they've got these rallies oppressing them from outside and in many ways have got hamas suppressing them from inside. yeah unfortunately no one can deny that and unfortunately nobody is surprised by. such findings of raf such reports by both sides realize that. are not be accountable to their people and they are not they're not helping as as they should be and these violations are being fight against by the civil society in both areas but there is a lot a lot. of resistance from these factions. absolutely and it's all political the israelis always say that all the problems in gaza are the fault of hamas whic

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 less its leader naftali bennett gets to seat of defense minister could this be the beginning of a and for an attorney on his coalition i mean how could its potential downfall affect or impact the peace process. you know in these well we are going to have. to most by next october we have new elections so it's only a may question where the election will take place in. whole five months will know all ten or eleven months from now that the whole difference about. a lot of the. informal members of the opposition in israel i still really believe in the hope that these events we'll accept the weight falling down over this government needs replacement by a better government for israel and israelis so the army wanted the ceasefire but always leave it on the i was allies do not and there were a demonstration is in israel demanding war do using these really public wants another operation you kn

i'm not going to give hamas the gift of toppling a government.ple the government, not hamas, but let's leave that aside for now. you decided to stay in the government, and i'll point you again, "the ship of israel's security has sailed in the wrong direction." it seems what you're saying, particularly in regard to gaza, what israel has done in recent years, including, let's not forget, several wars, the last of which in 2014, 0peration protective edge, killed more than 2,000 palestinians. the un says at least 65% of those palestinians killed were civilians, and we know hundreds of them were children. you're saying the besieging tactics in gaza, the fact gaza doesn't really have power supplies that work, it doesn't really have clean water, has a jobless rate of 60% or more, you're saying all of this isn't tough enough, that israel should be hammering gaza harder. is that it? no, i said we should be hammering hamas harder. i have no issue whatsoever with the gazan people. i have big issues with hamas, whose charter and actions clearly state that th

you can't play with hamas you know you have to play in a toy around with hammers hamas is serious it is willing to enter into negotiations but if you attack if you violate then you will receive some sort of murder spawn's we're just hearing as well now that a new cease fire has been agreed upon agreed upon and confirmed what are your thoughts on that given that we've. been here before with with with cease fires that are put in place and then and then broken well what do you what do you make of that . you see all parties in the region are in real predicament at the moment a cease fire a fairly a lot less a. slightly longer a sort of truce is needed by all all the parties the egyptians wanted for their own purposes the. palestinians wanted for their own purposes and the israelis as well so a cease fire is in favor of everybody but there are elements there finitely there are elements within israel that do not favor a ceasefire and probably one of those elements is the one who ordered that silly operation on sunday evening i sent to me thanks very much for being with us or i will if you

but it day after the israeli prime minister was in paris defending his policy of engagement with hamas he was back home discussing military plans both israel and hamas are facing public pressure for strong military action even though both sides have meant taint but they do not want a full escalation were around two kilometers away from the gaza border and we've witnessed airstrikes and rocket fire throughout the night it is the most serious escalation between the two sides since the two thousand and fourteen war and israel's security cabinet will we need to go on tuesday afternoon to decide what their next steps will be stephanie decker al-jazeera on the israel gaza border well let's get more on this now joining us from chicago is the only other name a co-founder of the news web site electronic intifada also the author of one country and the battle for justice in palestine mr always good to have you with us on there what do you make of the israeli account that this was a standard operation that went wrong why would israel versts such an operation at a time that the u.n. and egypt were

that hamas rules and governs it was. an effect of the controls and the second is that. this israeli infiltration into the gaza strip was directed at hamas and. the travel to use were a senior hamas military commander or another so i think on that score as well the other factions will defer to from us to take the lead and if it's false it would be different that israel targeted for example. or others options but in this case i think when asked to control any city in retaliation. and however how hamas responds we're waiting of course for that response could what's happened under the recent developments that we've seen in gaza that have seen real improvements for the people there well i think any city group answer of course relative given has been under a. blockade now over a decade and subject to continuous or regular periodic large scale as you know your source and so on or think the key question is whether this is very rash deliberate israeli attack on the gaza strip or is or is not going to is the prospects for it even

no, i said we should be hammering hamas harder.ver with the cars and people. i have big issue with hamas, whose charter and actions clearly state they want to annihilate everyjew in israel. they said specifically we wa nt israel. they said specifically we want all, to kill all thejews, and by the way, they shoot thousands of missiles at israel. i believe israel must be much tougher on our enemies, and yes, we have to kill every terrorist who shoots a rocket at us, something we've not been doing for many years. look at the record, mr bennett, i don't want to repeat myself, the last big assault on gaza killed 2000 palestinians, most of whom were civilians. we see in our media every week the images of the stand—off between palestinian protesters, sometimes they have stones, sometimes they have stones, sometimes they have flaming torches. they go to the fence, they are shot by israeli service personnel. we've seen by israeli service personnel. we've seen more by israeli service personnel. we've seen more than 100 killed, thousands woun

break of violence between israel and the palestinian militant group hamas overnight hamas fired hundreds of rockets into southern israel israel responded by targeting dozens of sites in gaza at least three palestinians and one is really have died in the flare up which was triggered by a botched israeli military raid in gaza on sunday. another night of violence is radio missiles rained down on gaza. among the targets a building described by the israeli army as the hamas military intelligence headquarters israel also destroyed a television station belonging to hamas no one was hurt in that attack staff fled the building after warning shots from israeli aircraft israel says its responding to constant missile far from the hamas controlled gaza strip. we hold hamas accountable for any aggression against israeli civilians and hamas by its actions is bringing destruction to the gaza strip and the survivor. the aftermath of a palestinian rocket strike in israel the south of the country has been targeted by hundreds of missiles fired from gaza some are destroyed by defense systems some find that

stalling and it is opted by the hamas is that going to come a time on this hotly contested border with any point you're going to reach the israeli side is going to reach out an olive branch and say look this can't go on as it is do you think there's any hope for some sort of reconciliation reconciliation some sort of talks to just come out of this a bit. let me ask you a question will there be any reconciliation talks between chechnya and islamic radicals and the president subducted talking about is there anybody who has a liaison talks between al-qaeda. so it's exactly the same case you need to be very clear don't don't create a false comparison between the democratic state of israel and the radical islamic terror going to zation called hamas which is called an islamic terror resistance organization they are completely connected to isis al qaeda hezbollah p f l p p i j and all kinds of iranian sponsored. terror organizations in iraq spending the entire middle east so there's no false comparisons that need to be made here the there is no hotly contested border this is a border that isr

well this is been the response not just from hamas from all the groups inside gaza they held a joint meeting and soon after that this off to new route six o'clock we had the rocket started we have heard from the spokesperson of the kasam brigade this is the masses major weighing saying that if israel continues to target gaza in response to the rockets which have massed emerges legitimate response to what happened in that botched security forces raid on gaza by the israeli special forces they say that they will target further afield in the sense that use their long range rockets something they haven't done as of yet even though they have used a very high number of rockets so this is a threat i think again we're going have to wait and see how the ground plays out wait and see what if anything behind the scenes negotiations can do there is pressure on both sides in this with for a strong military response on israel on the mast certainly president prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be under a lot of pressure from the border communities if you've been looking at the videos coming out

targeted the hamas both the border with egypt and always condition that situation is. expected to be it's going to hit because. the spokesperson of the islamic jihad said on behalf of the joint operation chumba chumba means that all palestinian or most of the palestinian factions that they are working together they declared that their parents you know infection decided to retaliate the crime yesterday to realize that as long as the palestinian people in gaza. they do not enjoy security and safety. commission will not join it but there has been. sorry time has just got to say that before all of this started last night that had been a relative calm that had sort of prevailed for just a little while then you obviously had the security operation that took place now you have some eighty rockets going over the border into israel do you anticipate that there will be a further response then from palestinian factions in gaza yes it's true actually soon after the operation yesterday there was a semi you can say that is simic ominous but today gration have been after that a senio

the next level between hamas and fattah that's a big problem and the palestinians are fed up but not till you're right to say that it's not the fault of hamas that there's a lack of health care or or the blockade but on the other hand human rights watch has a report out recently which pointed out to both in the west bank and in gaza the palestinian factions hamas and the p.a. have been carrying out abuse torture deprivation of right how do people in gaza feel about the fact that they've got these really is oppressing them from outside and in many ways of suppressing them from inside. yeah unfortunately no one can deny that and unfortunately nobody is surprised by such such findings of raf such records by both sides realize that. are not be accountable to their people and they are not they're not helping as they should be and these violations are being frighted against by the civil society in both areas but there is a lot a lot. of resistance from these factions. absolutely and it's of political these rallies always say that all the problems in gaza are the fault of hamas which is obv

israel if the hamas or any of the palestinian terror organizations would just lay down their weapons and stop you know inciting and stop terrorist stop paying terrorist families stop encouraging terror stop encouraging palestinians to kill jewish israelis the israeli army would react. if he has been really selectively showing the director of an n.t.i. which provides migrants explaining how she teaches refugees tonight. because you. are this is the. way that. this video that's being doing the rounds online is part of a larger investigation project by the canadian activist laura sullivan the clip allegedly shows rekha who's the executive director of the legal aid in geo advocates abroad in this video clip she seems to be telling the undercover crew who were filming her against her knowledge that she coaches refugees and migrants on how they should how they should speak to border police and to other officials. knowing. this is going to be very interesting. while many of you watching will be pretty unfamiliar with the name advocates abroad there are a legal aid n.g.o.s that's been operat

sponsors hamas terrorism iran hundred million dollars a year and. let let's give our prime minister this. chance to solve it peacefully i think it's a chance to solve it peacefully without doing what others in our neighborhood usually do i guide brought examples what usually happens in our neighborhoods with the gas is three different types of them yes sure ok we appreciate your thoughts on this mr s. going to have to leave it there that was a door skin russian israeli journalist and political activist thank you. know the president of the iranian academy of medical sciences a center powerfully worded appeal to the u.n. secretary general over the reimposition of u.s. sanctions he describes how the lives of many patients in iran are in danger sanctions have put off drugs from working in the country we did visit one cancer treatment center in toronto. security council must only condemn hamas but we condemn in the strongest possible terms this aggression by israel there is no thanks husband is a cancer patient and we are worried about his medication and

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 protection no protected area no shelter no protective stack case. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has sent troops reinforcements to the border with gaza and he's now weighing up the country's next move there is a lot at stake. last night spare a

celebrating what they see as a victory for hamas they gathered at the ruins of the accept t.v. station which was destroyed by an israeli. and across the political people doubt that's what is any ceasefire with hamas they called for an immediate military operation in gaza we had some contrast in the conflict. i think. would like to see and to go as far as for the war like what happened in two thousand and fourteen so i think that . the homicide at least they said that from the very beginning that we are committed to. down the whole thing but at the same time we need to understand that this israeli are also going to do so as they thought in this last. action they had achieved nothing good to the contrary if we look at the israeli media obscene mutely why being the government and say that there was a big failure by the government and the israeli army in even the you know dealing with the whole thing. so the israeli government on the one hand would like to have a cease fire right now the problem is is the israeli government and specifically the israeli people want to put an end to

but how much of a response have we seen from hamas what are we expecting and from the israelis to as prime minister netanyahu comes back to oversee this. well that this is good going to be the critical question going forward how these two sides will respond because we have seen several occasions over the last few months when this these truce talks were under way the missed military conflagrations would erupt and that both sides would manage to calibrate their responses so as not to lead to an all out war so with the question is whether the commitment shown so far by both sides to try and keep to that line will be shown again now certainly both sides have invested quite a lot politically in trying to get to this situation a situation we've seen recently with israel allowing fuel to go into gaza to power the electricity station allowing qatari money to go in to pay at least partially the salaries of civil servants of hamas employees inside gaza benjamin netanyahu the prime minister saying in paris earlier on on sunday that that leadership came with costs when it came to this kind of th

raid into the grounds of the seven palestinians one of them is a senior hamas commander was killed by the israeli special units and also the injury of many others are right now it seems to me that it's a myth and it's to make our own situation but that's not the end of it it seems to me that we are going to witness a very hot night this as a result of the unwilling. rocket and israeli.

goal complicity and cone sophie shevardnadze the recent exchange of fire between hamas and israel has sparked fears of another war is the middle east peace process on the verge of collapse well today i talked to a hood by iraq's former prime minister of israel. hail of hamas rockets over israel has rocked the nation sparking military strikes on gaza civilian casualties and even the meanest just resigning shaking the ruling coalition will a cease fire needs to be put in place last for much longer will israel's reluctant restraint help stop another looming gaza war or only embolden hamas to carry out more attacks. it would be iraq the former prime minister of israel welcome to the show it is great to have you with us so mr barak the latest. the latest escalation in gaza broke out after two hamas commanders were killed and watched israeli special forces straight hamas fired hundreds of rockets into israel in response well israel the planes bombed the. hundred of sites in gaza over the past few days now as a military man tell me why provoke palestinians if it's known in advance that any s

this was all that was left of the tv station run by hamas. the israeli military said it was a strategic target. it gave warning that the strike was about to happen, but the attack still caused 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. s soon as we heard the shelling, we escaped. >> fear also on the israeli side of the boarded. most of hamas's rockets were intercepted by the israeli defense system, but some missiles have hit residential buildings, including this one. a palestinian laborer was killed here. people in the city are afraid. >> we have been living here in adversity in the southern neighborhood for 11 years, through at least four rounds of warfare. the buildings are very old. the building where i live has no protection, n no protected area, no shelter, no protected staircase. >> last night's flareup of violence is the worst in more than four years and threatens to derail recent piece moves. the ununited nations and other countries in

was thought to be close to revealing its peace initiative for israel and hamas and palestine. here's indeed there's been indication in recent days that president trump is about to unveil his so-called peace initiative back in september following a meeting with benjamin netanyahu president trump said that he would release the initiative in two to four months is what he said then that would bring it up to around the beginning of december in the last week the representative for the region president trump's representative jason green blatt told the meeting in london that the initiative was about to be made public so clearly they were contemplating making whatever the initiative is a one drawn up it's believed by jared cushion of the president's son in law that they were going to make it public in coming days or weeks as it may be but obviously the situation in gaza may well put a brake on this particular process should it be under way and not that the palestinians would have been expecting anything from this peace initiative michael given the steps that this u.s. administration ha

the decision by hamas on the screens you can see them gathered on the ruins of the axa t.v. station destroyed by israeli missiles. let's bring in political analyst and post the mitchell brock good evening to you mitchell we've seen the background to the story now but we still waiting on official reaction from israel why do you think we haven't heard anything as yet well you know this is like putting a band-aid on a very big wound for israel i mean it would be great if israel and the hamas which is a terror organization could come to some type of agreement but the problem is is that they fired four hundred rockets in the past few days into israel over the past few months there have been hundreds of times that there have been citizens palestinians from gaza trying to charge the fence and charge the border and they've been flying a flaming kites into israel which have been destroying lots of agriculture have been threatening people threatening buildings and starting fires they are hoping to start fire simmers similar to the ones that are raging now in california so the israeli

israeli special forces conducted a ground raid in the strip killing seven palestinians including a hamas military commander an israeli soldier also died while another was wounded in the operation anaconda eunice in southern gaza the israeli military also confirmed it has intercepted two rockets fired from gaza after the raids the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has cut short an official visit to france to return to israel ghazi hamad is a senior hamas official in the gaza strip he told al-jazeera that an israeli unit escaped to the border after the operation. we know that there is a special unit. went. to the baraka and there are also some of the one and after that. the car which carried the special unit or some collaborators tried to escape to go to this very borders but they are surrounded by full. brigades. and after that tried to cover. the sky all the cars the present all the soldiers. so i think it was. actually launched now we have about six people there were killed. some was. one of them is they one of the permanent. brigades. i think of it will not be easy will not b

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

responsible the rand they say that iran is the one that is supplying weapons money and orders to both hamas and islamic jihad in the territories now the final figure we have at this stage is seven palestinians killed and one israeli killed who of course was a palestinian worker unfortunately was on the israeli side during the conflict we are expecting that these tensions will continue to climb so it seems like a daily thing that we used to hear about the violence and the deaths in the region how did we get to this point well the last war between israel and hamas was back in two thousand and fourteen and it really has been an unstable situation along the border over the last few weeks we've had the great march of return that has intensified tensions and there's a lot of discussion a lot of emergency meetings that are being held in israel today there was a six hour security cabinet meeting where the israeli side is still trying to decide how to deal with the situation and what to do so it's not certain right now that this will flare up into a full scale war but certainly the tensions on the g

we were all across the border in israel people gathered to oppose any ceasefire with hamas they were calling for an immediate military operation in gaza. contrasting views on the conflict. i think. would like to see and to go as far as. what happened in two thousand and fourteen so i think that. only homicide at least they said that from the very beginning that we are committed to. down the whole thing but at the same time we need to understand that this israeli are also going to do so as they thought in this last. scottish and they have achieved nothing to the contrary if we look at the media absolutely the government and say that there was a big failure by the government and the israeli army in even the you know dealing with the whole thing. so the israeli government on the one head would like to have a cease fire right now the problem is is the israeli government and specifically the israeli people want to put an end to this type of behavior and the way that hamas has been behaving in the violence and the terror of hamas which is seeks to destroy the very state of israel if the ha

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

raid into the gaza strip that led to the seven palestinians one of them is a senior hamas commander who was killed by the israeli special units and also the injury of many others are right now it seems to me that it's a little it's simic our own situation but that's not the end of it it seems to me that we are going to witness a very hot night this as a result of the unwilling. rocket and israeli. is this what you expected given the events as you described of last night you know well what can us and the so-called joint a minute joint military whom that that which is going prices have a system of jihad and other palestinian resistance to groups they are saying that the mansion will rockets again just as are eighty thousand villages this evening was a normal accommodation for the especially as wave the. opposition last night which led to the seven palestinians as i mentioned one of them is a senior of us a commander would then as it is again because some brigades. but it lit me also are remind you to do is that the mass is not interested in another minute to this commission. or hamas is n

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