me here now is a palestinian activist his name is salim but i meant he's from the palestine institute for public diplomacy and you've been one of the activists calling for the strike what are you hoping to achieve i think we look at the context there are massacres happening in gaza and. it is under siege there's a system of oppression in the heart there are no good reaching across all of the stone and i think it's important to rise is one and try to transcend the force recommendation israel has imposed on palestinians to afghanistan means in gaza in jerusalem in the west bank in $1040.00 and not just in the refugee camps and all over the world rising up together to try to the fight the system and you've been also octave in social media trying to get the world to know what's happening do you think that the discourse is changing it is absolutely changing for the longest time israel's narrative has been dominant and it's inoculated from any type of criticism and accountability and i think through social media and through very in the means of the means have been able to share their own story and really shake

continuing its telephone diplomacy, reaching out to key leaders in the region to negotiate behind the scenes. anchor: earlier, the advocacy director for the palestine institute for publiclomacy was on the phone, which is an independent palestinian organization, and answered the question, does the population in gaza really support the hamas group right now? reporter: we focus on hamas and the way they choose and the tactics they choose. we have to remember that israel's occupation, and it has been occupying gaza before hamas existed, so every time rockets are fired from hamas, it is in the political interest of israel to point the finger and turn the attention from theealroblem that they're not willing to solve, which is lift the blockades and basically free palestinian people from occupation and the regime they lived under. -- live under. the palestinian people see the only resistance they see and this is a calculus of hamas, that the only resistance and the only reaion coming from israel is with violence, so that is the population is also seen.hat the media were not there for the past two or three years and nobody was talking about it. the people lived under a relentl

advocacy directive from the palestine institute for public diplomacy exactly where this here on the program you've been day not the sites just tell us what you've been seeing. hello it is can you hear oh. yes hi there i was just telling our viewers that you've been down at the sites you've been at the. compound give us a sense of what you've been seeing where you were there. look. we cannot talk about clashes between 2 parties or attentions and this is clearly repression by heavy r. and occupation force against unarmed more shippers and people who are just trying to protest so this is a situation as you can see there is a lot of injured we also saw that you know the parrot paramedics were prevented to access at the site there was a clinic that was attacked also by stun bombs so it's it's dramatic but it's not happening in a vacuum. it's not at all. do you think then the israeli response to do whatever the israeli forces were responding to the do you think it was disproportionate. israel's response is always disproportionate we're talking here about jerusalemites palestinians who have been r