government claims some of them are in the country illegally now and they don't qualify for residency paul asli has got the latest on. these are a town of demonic doesn't have many claims to fame beyond landing its name to. some is part of the secret weapons program but now demonic is back in the news it's home to a community that course itself the african israelites. now this is a group of african americans who believe that they are the descendants of one of the lost tribes of israel in the case of judah and they see israel as the spiritual homeland we feel that this is are legitimate ancient land ancestral homeland we can document feastings culturally historically we could document the fact that that many of us are actually genetically culturally historically connected to this land we can't at this call we want to be part of that prophetic we wish to go forth in these very dark times on the planet and we know that we have that contribution to make and we've made that contribution for 50 plus years here in israel and we're known and we're known to people and. family members who over the past 2

incoming fire from gaza those sirens we're experiencing now are they were heard in tel aviv elsewhere paul asli are a correspondent and i reports. i was out in the streets and you could see people just rushing from the cars and throwing themselves in the side of the road to have any kind of barrier preventing themselves from those incoming rockets the sirens have been sounding throughout the course of the day it's a killing in the south of the country and also as far afield as a lashing out so far as many as $100.00 rockets fired at israel today they are also some $20.00 to $30.00 a long range missiles that were shot one of them reached a large now that is the longest ever long range missile it's some 250 kilometers away from the gaza border and there are reports of 4 people who were injured in a it comes as the israeli warplanes continue to pound gaza they are targeting a number of high story buildings and we receiving reports from him us that they've also hit and israeli guests platform in the mediterranean sea so the situation at the moment shows no signs of letting up the numbers we are rec

our correspondent there paul asli spoke next than to former i.d.f. officer about his experiences in gaza more generally and also now about the current tensions happening. when i'm seeing what's happening now in the gaza border it's killing me from the inside because you know i'm thinking. about what i read through and about the friends i lost fighting for this country for our robes and jews in the same way. i'm asking myself sometimes if it will all worth it to last part of your hands to the last part of your body part of your soul if this situation will continue and i'm uncertain myself every single time that yes as if she spent 6 years in the israeli army 3 of them in gaza where he commanded 130 combat soldiers an i.e.d. improvised explosive device ended his service and almost his life it was 6 in the morning id of tanks were waiting to return to israeli territory and because of sniper threats xiv advanced alone to open the gate separating gaza and israel the id blew up in his face i opened my eyes and you know the pain filled my body and i medical

it's led to rampant speculation now that it could maybe be the end of the political road for the pm paul asli is got the latest this morning. the israeli president rivlin has tasked the leader of the opposition and the leader of the haitian acted party period with forming the next government he has stated that he faces many challenges but he is confident that can do this the problem is that liquid attracts a whole cross spectrum of political parties with many differences between them but the one thing that unites them is the fact that they are all ante natal yahoo however the current polls suggest that people get only 56 out of what he needs 61 mandates to form that majority coalition government the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had 28 days to form a government and was unsuccessful in doing so i mean the truth is simple this will be a dangerous left wing government a lethal combination of incompetence and irresponsibility has approached enough to be bennett who is the leader of the young women at the right tarty now he currently has 7 mandates and pete has offered to make him prim