the region so what is the way forward well there is plenty to discuss with our guest but first harry fawcett sets us up with this report's a toilet for human has been involved in the protests since the beginning his right leg had to be amputated after you was shot by an israeli sniper last be free as soon as he was able he started going back again every week but this weekend's first anniversary he says is different. i'm not going anywhere why should i go on saturday there are going to be a lot of people killed tensions have risen again this week after a rocket fired from gaza hit a family home north of tel aviv injuring seven israeli airstrikes the follow destroyed the offices of hamas as political leader among dozens of targets israel has built up ground forces on the gaza border threatening further military action this is all israeli should know that if a comprehensive campaign is required we were entered strongly and after we have exhausted all of the other options those options centered on the gyptian mediation towards a deal understood to involve calm on the border and an end to rocket

first over to harry fawcett in west jerusalem to talk us through the past couple of hours harry. well yes the first indications that something was going on were the sirens which were heard around the first time since two thousand and fourteen that those emergency sirens sounded and then the exposure and then some explosions heard in the air potentially the iron dome as some of the anti missile rockets were exploding in the air but the israeli military having said initially that one of those rockets that it said to being fired from gaza had been intercepted then corrected itself saying that neither had but there were no injuries no damage caused by them the israeli military spokesman then went on to say that it was not yet clear which of the factions inside gaza had launched the rockets both islamic jihad and hamas have denied responsibility but the israeli military is saying that as it always does that hamas is responsible for everything that goes on inside gaza the territory that it controls and everything that emanates from gaza the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu imm

the region so what is the way forward well there is plenty to discuss with our guest but first harry fawcett sets us up with this report a tunnel for you because we devolved in the weekly protests since the beginning his right leg had to be amputated after he was shot by an israeli sniper last be free as soon as he was able he started going back again every week but this weekend's first anniversary he says is different. i'm not going anywhere why should i go on saturday there are going to be a lot of people killed tensions have risen again this week after a rocket fired from gaza hit a family home north of tel aviv injuring seven israeli airstrikes the follow destroyed the offices of hamas as political leader among dozens of targets israel has built up ground forces on the gaza border threatening further military action this is all israeli should know that if a comprehensive campaign is required we were entered strongly and after we have exhausted all of the other options those options center on egyptian mediation towards a deal understood to involve calm on the border and an end to rocket f

harry fawcett is joining us now from. israel's border fence harry what's the situation right now what are you seeing. well the numbers here are swelling the instructions from the organizing committee remain in place not to burn tires which most people are observing to stay back and away from israeli fire not to do anything which could be viewed as aggressive now we're about three hundred meters away from the fence here which is where the israeli army says that it wants people to stay you can see behind me that the main body of protesters is much closer to the border and occasionally we're seeing people running in small groups even right up to the border fence itself so far we're hearing that eight people have been injured by light live fire up and down the border at the five separate sites of protests and we've seen people injured quite close to us one with a rubber bullet a rubber coated steel bullets and as you're seeing now tear gas continues to be used now the it come us interior ministry here in gaza is saying it's de

one thousand peacekeepers that james maes a diplomatic editor at the united nations that go to harry fawcett our correspondent in a west jerusalem harry as james said there an announcement from president coming as the israeli prime minister is headed to washington and also coming as israel is about to vote in elections in just two weeks now what are the implications of this decision by the trumpet ministration. well i think the implications are manifold but if you look at the implications for benjamin netanyahu for his likud party in this election then there are very good this is potentially the best kind of present that donald trump could have given to benjamin netanyahu as he fights what has been a hard fought campaign and one in which he does face a substantial threat from his main opponent the former israeli army chief benny gantz so this is another opportunity for benjamin netanyahu has just been hosting the u.s. secretary of state here this week and has been using his relationship with donald trump as a key element in his election campaign saying that he's in a different league from hi

the region so what is the way forward well there is plenty to discuss with our guest but first harry fawcett sets us up with this report. has been involved in the weekly border protest since the beginning his right leg had to be amputated after he was shot by an israeli sniper last april as soon as he was able he started going back again every week but this weekend's first anniversary he says is different. i'm not going anywhere why should i go on saturday there are going to be a lot of people killed tensions have risen again this week after a rocket fired from gaza hit a family home north of tel aviv injuring seven israeli airstrikes the follow destroyed the offices of hamas as political leader among dozens of targets israel has built up ground forces on the gaza border threatening further military action this is all israeli should know that if a comprehensive campaign is required we were entered strongly and after we have exhausted all of the other options those options center on egyptian mediation towards a deal understood to involve calm on the border and an end to rocket fire in exchang

responsibility of firing those rockets shortly we'll speak to him in on hamas for us over there harry fawcett in west jerusalem any official word from israeli authorities about what's going on right now in gaza. very brief in the last few minutes the israeli military has confirmed that it has begun carrying out strikes on gaza it says the details will follow but as you say there are already reports coming through from gaza of people seeing and hearing those retaliatory strikes for themselves explosions heard in southern gaza people on twitter talking about planes flying overhead and rockets being released from those planes so it is clear that i think what we can all expect to be a fairly major retaliatory strike is now under way benjamin netanyahu went to the defense ministry in tel aviv very soon after that initial rocket attack on television two rockets detected fired from the gaza strip earlier on thursday evening. defense consultations going on with senior members of the israeli military led by the prime minister and then fairly shortly after that meeting broke up less than half an hour a

unlikely and of course the palestinians have rejected it in advance in any case thank you for that harry fawcett reporting there live from western slim . that's spente more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including a daring rescue in mozambique where more than two hundred people have died and thousands are stranded since i q. and a dice struck a week ago and former brazilian president michel ten maire is the rest at a spot of a wide ranging corruption investigation and sports new rules to lower testosterone in female officer criticize unscientific be here to explain later in the program. the air. first three iraq where at least eighty three people are now known to have died after a ferry capsized in the northern city of mosul about two hundred people were on board the vessel on the tigris river they were celebrating the persian new year holiday of novels rescuers have pulled dozens of survivors from the water at the name is in baghdad forests joins us now with the latest natasha the death toll again going up. that's correct fully the death toll is now at eighty three fifty five people have be

brokered cease fire is now in place between hamas and israel decorous and west jerusalem for us harry fawcett us on the israeli gaza border will be speaking to them in a moment first though this report from lord manley. explosions throughout the night in gaza as israel launched air strikes. neighbors told us that israeli intelligence had told them to quit the building we fled and later it was hit. by the first rockets which was a warning was fired then the second and third were fired to the north and east of the building five minutes later the whole building was hit and we didn't know where to go israel says it was targeting hamas internal security and an intelligence base in gaza. this included a multi-story building housing offices used by hamas leader ismail haniya. the air strikes followed the firing of a rocket the landed north of tel aviv hitting his radio family home and injuring seven people that attack prompted prime minister benjamin netanyahu to cut short his visit to washington and return to israel he promised a forceful reaction israel will not tolerate this i will not tolerate t

occupied west bank the shootings happened in succession at road junctions we can get more from harry fawcett in west jerusalem. but we now have a sequence of events as outlined by the israeli military they say that the attacker stabbed a soldier at the aureole junction southwest of nablus in the occupied west bank stealing that soldier's weapon and firing it at civilians nearby before getting into a car travelling to another nearby junction and firing again at a bus station there we have a report that one israeli has been killed and two others have been seriously injured in this double attack there is now a major military operation underway in the occupied west bank as the gunman is searched for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told his weekly cabinet that the perpetrator or perpetrators would be captured and the justice would be brought to them there has been a closure ordered on the bar count industrial estate the illegal industrial zone inside the occupied west bank nearby where these attacks took place also other illegal israeli settlements nearby have been sealed off as

exchange of fire is raising fears of an escalation off the conflict let's get more on this from harry fawcett who joins us live from the israeli side of the gaza border areas who are saying a night of tensions what's the situation now. where as you're saying it does appear pretty calm this morning here on the border with gaza as well as those one hundred targets that was struck by the israeli military from the overnights these are the army's also saying that nine projectiles will watched from within gaza it's ward's areas around here surrounding the gaza border on news ready side six of those they say intercepted by the israeli anti-missile iron dome system one falling within gaza to falling into open territory on the israeli side of the border similar in their impact to what happened in tel aviv in that there were no injuries or damage reported but that firing of those rockets to the most populous part of israel the first time since twenty fourteen but missiles have been fired did bring about this response from the israelis and there are reports in the israeli media today suggesting that the

newspaper link to hamas is reporting a deal has been reached with israel to reduce tension in gaza harry fawcett reports . for twelve months now gaza's border with israel has been the scene of mass protests and major bloodshed gaza's health ministry says more than two hundred sixty people have been killed by israeli sniper fire at least seven thousand shows in egypt the organizing committee which is calling for a million man march issued instructions to the demonstrators stay back from israeli guns follow commands of organizers on the ground make new aggressive actions don't burn time is a clear sign that a deal was in the. works. the left of the occupation have to make this test to implement the positive responses we heard from the egyptian delegation week the palestinian factions and our people struggling to achieve our fair and legitimate demands. the great march of return protests began on the thirtieth of march last year initially called by civil society groups in gaza as a call to action against the israeli blockade a un investigation found that while some protesters used violence the vast

in israel's parliament the supreme court would have the final say let's go to our correspondent harry fawcett he's joining us live from west jerusalem tell us more howie about why liquid others want these arab israeli candidates parties barred from running well yes it is in the contest of what context rather what has been a very bitterly fought already election campaign and the focus of that campaign as far as the main players in it are concerned is a battle over a certain constituency of right wing voters and so there's been a lot of attent by both benjamin netanyahu likud and other right wing parties and as well as that the new centrist alliance of benny gantz the former army chief and yellow pede the former finance minister and so it is against that backdrop that this decision has been made and as well as that you have to remember that the committee itself is a political politicized body within the israeli parliament the knesset so the people within that group are trying to make a play for their own constituencies and so as well as all that they have allowed through this committee the repr

to israel's enemies we will do whatever we must do to defend our people and defend our states harry fawcett'shas this update from the israel gaza border. well despite reports of a ceasefire despite announcements of a ceasefire coming from senior hamas officials one of whom said that on tuesday the ministries and schools would be open again inside gaza there has been continued strikes coming from the israeli side and indeed rockets being fired out of gaza territory as well we heard some intercepted near our position here near the northern area of the gaza border in israeli territory and we could still hear strikes going on in the background as well that is the message we're getting from our colleagues inside gaza that after this ten pm local time cease fire arrangements that have been declared by hamas there were still israeli strikes continuing and as i say we have seen rockets still coming out of gaza as well all of this following what happened earlier on tuesday a rocket fired out of gaza territory hitting an israeli family home northeast of tel aviv seven members of that family injured in