andrew simmonds is in gaza city. what are you hearing? >> there's tensioning on the report from the israeli military that two rockets landed in israel. less than an hour before the expiry of the ceasefire, and there's no conclusive situation with the talks in cairo. as you heard there, the brigade, the military wing of hamas, unless there was an agreement, for negotiators to pull out of cairo. at this stage there's no confirmation at all that rockets have been fired. that has to be said. it's a tenuous situation. we do not know how this will pan out. but there has been, you know, just some semblance of normality returning to some areas of this trip with many families doing what they can to try to get back into their homes, but vast swathes of residential districts destroyed. so many people stuck with their temporary shelters, with he'll tifs or the united nations -- relatives or the united nations school shelters. the situation now is that everyone is watching and waiting as the clock ticks on this deadline. >> i just wanted to ask you, b

andrew simmonds has this report from gaza. [ explosion ] >> reporter: on the ground in gaza city, air strikes like this may not be as frequent. each is as devastating as earlier in the conflict. as long as the rockets are fired from gaza, they'll continue to strike from the air, land and sea. and the ground forces remain massed on the border. among the deaths on saturday bodies removed from the rubble of a mosque. and more casualties from a series of other strikes. while the violence may be of a lower intensity. it leaves the civilians in a state of fear. here at the shifa hospital, the main medical center in the gaza strip, there has been a level of respite during the 3-day ceasefire. now there's concern nation. no one is sure -- consternation. no one is sure what will happen next. >> we expect a number of casualties at any moment. >> this doctor is dealing with one. many tragedies. these children are from many families. these babies and their cousins lost their mothers, and their fathers are injured. aunts will have to bring up the brothers. >> it's hard to do this. i have to leave

andrew simmonds is live in gaza city. hi there. a rare calm there. the ceasefire in place for some eight hours. and now there was a flurry of attacks, right before the ceasefire came in effect. what about now. has the fighting stopped completely since the ceasefire started? >> it has. as you point out, eight hours without any gunfire, without any air strikes. the last rocket was fired at one minute to midnightie the palestinians. you see a car. there are screens that are surreal to the people of gaza. i watch as the sun rose, and a whole batch of fishermen were going to sea in their boats, about to start fishing for the first time in three days, where they tried before but, of course, that was unsuccessful when the last ceasefire crashed, and so now we are seeing some semblance of normality return, but there is this humanitarian crisis here that is colossal by anybody's standard, and now the people are slowly returning to some of their homes, maybe had returned to their homes, at the last ceasefire only to find they've been destroyed completely. many

andrew simmonds is live in gaza city. it wasn't looking good for the talks in cairo. there are some reports and there could be another ceasefire on the table. >> that's right. we are hearing that there's another plan, an egyptian plan for a 72 hour ceasefire. now, how exactly that will work in mechanics terms with the israelis not there at this stage, whether or not there'll be rumours that they may be flying to talk with the israelis, and they may join in and come to a deal. there seems to be a change. there's a positive word coming out, that there is the hop of a new process. however the israelis have been kat gorical. in their stance in that that they'll not be negotiating a ceasefire unless the rocketsar stopped from being fired into the territory. it has to be said that so far hamas has made no admission of any use of rockets being fired into israel. it's been the palestinian factions who have been engaged in this. whether or not there has been a change this stance, and some communications through intermediari intermediaries, that is unclear. there's a signal abo

andrew simmonds is in north-eastern gaza, joining me from there. difficult time, andrew, for those trying to, as you say, pick up the pieces. how are they coping. who have you been talking to. this whole crisis has the profound effect on children. people under the age of 18 form a majority of the 1.8 million population. the destruction you are dealing with. this is stream. let me take you across here, where this is a residential area pods a business district. something like 2,000 families are living in the area as a whole. imagine the number of children amongst them. they had a warning about this barrage of attack from air, land and sea. many people in many other ors didn't get a -- areas didn't get a warning. many children scr died. in the two -- have died. in the two previous conflicts there has been a snowball on the effects of the minds of those that survive, those that have witnessed awful things. this time around the damage is more extensive and the injuries to the mind more so. how are the children coping? they are playing now, but this is s

andrew simmonds is there fours. from the shot behind you, it doesn't look like anything is left. takes for a look around, if you would. >> certainly not. behind me this crater is not from so many of the air strikes in the area, it's from where the diggers were trying to find bodies. they recovered some. if you look around, it's an absolutely obliterated district. this is a snapshot of what you see kilometre after kilometre - a big area that's been completely anhilated. that, believe it or not, was a school. the facade is all that remains. the side of it was a mosque, the minaret you can see all but destroyed. if i take you around here, you can see everywhere, more and more devastation. over yonder there's a digger. you can see there are men trying to recover not only belongings, but trying to find bodies. the recovery operations are going on all around. people in a state of shock because what happened here, the israelis say was a deliberate attack on palestinian fighters. now, there were fighters based here, we know, from hamas and other factions, but the vast majority were resid

andrew simmonds there in one. gaza's largest hospitals. they'll follow events through the gaza strip as the day progresses. >> for more, let's go to a representative from the center for human rites. he joins me from gaza via skype. thank you very much for joining us. you are a group, and an organization that tries to verify where fizz isles are, if there are -- missiles are, if there are any, and where they are stored. you tried to document what is going on. tell us what you found. are missiles stored in u.n. schools and facilities and homes of people as israel keeps telling us? >> we are a human rights organization, so everything i'm going to speak is going to be around the lines of international law and human rights, and, yes, we are a human rights organization, with a few officers in the gaza strip , a large team, including fieldworkers doing their best to monitor and verify cases, whether they are violations of international law during the hostilities as we did before. we don't don't pay our attention only to the fighting of rockets. t

andrew simmonds. more strikes in gaza today. what has been hit?> there has been a number of strikes. the worst, a child has been killed, a teenager was in deraa bella. we don't know the circumstances, but we understand a house was hit. then another strike in khan younis, an adult killed and a further in rafah, another air strike. there has been gunboats opening up overnight off the coast. artillery fire, described by some as this is low intensity warfare compared with the earlier days of the seem when higher numbers of people were dying. each day a list is coming out, there's a familiar pattern born out by the total figures, getting closer to the landmark, 2000 dead. and that is that the majority are civilians and many are children. all over gaza they are getting more desperate by the hour. what is the feeling towards the failed attempt for getting a failed ceasefire. >> we noted a change. we had been out amongst, and if i look at it behind me, this is how desperate it gets. these people are all over the eastern gaza city. they have proper homes,

and i got a call from kamara lee simmonds who come from the area who said she's going to help do whatever that is. i want us to help this family. you don't have to worry about the funeral. they going to have - they going to have to take off work, maybe months they going to have to sustain themselves. i said the other night, and people tuesday night raised a good offering. but i want to raise one for them and give it to them. this is not going to a fund, to an organization, this is for the family and their children. because we look out for each other. nobody plans a tragedy. not a dime go to no one, nobody. i want you all that want to help me help this family, whatever the results are whatever we got to go, we, as people that have valuation, ought to say "wait a minute, i could be sitting there", and the pain that they are bearing is unbearable. they should have not - at least not have to worry about things like daily moving around and bills. i want people, i want you to get out your best offering. i want - first of all, all of you that are ministers stand. everybody that's a preacher. all

. >>> let's speak to andrew simmonds, our correspondent in gaza. renewed fighting since the collapse of the talks on friday. what are the israelis targetting now? >> the situation right now in military terms is that there has been a steady increase in the lef of violence. it's -- level of violence. it's lower than prior to the ceasefire period. nine dead in saturday alone. many casualties. there has been a number of air strikes in the early hours of sunday, and one man killed in jabalia. and israel's stance is as long as the rockets come into the territory, they will continue with their attacks on the gaza strip. as far as the palestinians are concerned, we have spoken to a well placed source in cairo, and they are saying categorically that the israelis have to return on sunday to the talks, otherwise they will leave. hamas is saying that israel is making too many demands on a deal. they want a conditional lifting, partial easing of the 8-year-old blockade of the gaza. that is what the israelis want. hamas wants a total lifting of the blockade. not

let's go to andrew simmonds in gaza city. as we have been following events, it's a case of wait and see. i am sure a tense situation where you are. . >> that's right, a dangers case of ceasefire. the ceasefire was left with a loud crunch ahead of me, the iron dome intercepting a rocket. and a series of rockets were fired. the israelis say palestinian factions - 10 or 12 - all short range, not the long-range used in the past. as far as the people of gaza are concerned, many have returned to shelters ahead of the events at 5 g.m.t. this morning. but, of course, when the rockets were deployed, then, of course, many more people started to rush for shelters, especially from the east of gaza, most prone to attack from the israelis. no israeli attack so far, and a tense situation on the ground here, and no doubt a tense situation in cairo where right through the night talks were going on. six hours of intensive talks, and now hamas is saying that they are carrying on negotiating, and the palestinian factions are there, negotiating a

andrew simmonds is in gaza city and sent us this report. >> persistent attacks by israelis on the gaza strip. nine dead on saturday. another man died in the early hours of sunday of an air strike. the situation became intense not just because of military pressures, but because in cairo, the palestinian delegations are saying if the israelis don't arrive for talks, then they'll walk out. hamas said that it's gone far enough. they want unconditional agreements for talking. the israelisies are saying that they will not attend the talks while rockets are still coming into their territory. and they are. they may be shorter range rockets than earlier in this conflict, but nevertheless they are being fired. it has to be said that the violence is on a lower grade status than before that 72 hour ceasefire, but nevertheless it's persistent and it seems that the two sides seem a long distance apart, and a breakdown is possible now. >>> nisreen el-shamayleh is in west jerusalem and has more on the talks in cairo. >> the israeli prime minister is coming under pressure certainly and externally. he i

. >> let's get the latest from andrew simmonds. he is live in gaza, at the rafah border crossing. it looks quiet there now. there was a flurry of activity earlier. >> that's right, there's a process here. this is the only border crossing from the gaza strip that is not controlled by israel. over there is egypt, the other side. they are taking one bus in at a time, you can see the bus approaching. it's pulled up here, one at a time. i was talking to the palestinians on the bus that crossed, about 15 minutes ago, after going through the bureaucracy. everywhere on board were waiting for the time, the window of time to get out of the strip. they had enough. they were fortunate enough to have visas into egypt, and not a lot of people have those. now we are seeing a situation across the strip. it's surreal in place, the serenity of the fishermen return to their work and across the strip, people trying to get some sort of order back into their lives, and people returning to areas where their damaged homes often are beyond repair. and we are finding also that in the un shelters, the schoo

andrew simmonds has more now from gaza. >>> 50 long and deadly days of war, and now this. celebrations to usher in another ceasefire. this one, unlike the others, that failed, is meant to stick, bonded by political agreement. while the talking was going on, the fighting was intense as well. at least six palestinians were killed in israeli air strikes. >> and among the palestinian water fire landing in israel, police said a civilian was killed and six others wounded. first to announce the ceasefire breakthrough was hamas. >> translation: we are here today after long, long days in this battle, considered by the occupation to be the longest and the most violent battle in its history. we are here today to declare that we achieved victory over the israeli occupation. and we have been able to achieve what all other arab armies failed to do. >>> later came ward from the palestinian president who mounted a diplomatic offensive. >> i would like to announce that the palestinian authority accepted the egyptian initiative in gaza, starting from 7:00pm local some time. we hope it's the

ceasefire began with egypt negotiating separately with the palestinians and the israelis, andrew simmonds joins us from gaza. he is at rafah. what is happening at the border there. is there a sign of that crossing into egypt, opening up today? >> yes, we understand the border is open. this is the on border in the gaza strip not controlled by israel. it borders egypt. there's a large number, crowds arriving since down, convinced that this ceasefire is sticking. let's look at the numbers here. we have here people who have visas and people who have foreign passports, who are able to cross to egypt. and, of course, with the ceasefire now in place, the roads are safer, and people are getting here in large numbers. also, a large number - more than 1,000 in the past few weeks of medical cases, certified mead medical case, where they need specialist treatment in egypt have been allowed through, more to come. there has been a number of trucks going through empty, across the - into egypt, which will return loaded with supplies. we have not seen humanitarian supplies coming this way yet, but colossa

we'll go to andrew simmonds in gaza for us. andrew, is the ceasefire holding. >> it is. it would appear it's firm right now. if you had asked any palestinian the same question 12 hours ago, they would have been very hesitant because it was a rocky start. there were rockets fired on wednesday night into israeli territory, and three after the midnight deadline. that prompted a response from the israeli forces with at least three air strikes, bombs dropped on open ground. then it all went reasonable quiet, apart from the sound of drones overhead, which is occasionally happening. now - well, people are trying to resume some level of normal life. they are trying to get back to their homes. they are trying to organise themselves, come to terms with the enormity of what they have all been through, and they are also attempting to come to terms with the challenges. the challenges - well, they are too numerous to list. primarily there's the issue of the cost of the living, the extraordinary situation with so little in the way of housing now. more than 400,000 people displaced are

brenton simmonds is facing charges of kidnapping and autotheft. >> the venice film festival is underway, one of many around the world trying to attract the biggest celebrities and their field. many movies are being impeded from one festival to the next. >>. >> reporter: they love recycling in venice, even when it appears they come to the world of movies. there is director alex. she won an award at cannes, a few months back. tim ross made an appearance. william defoe is about to make the same trip. different festivals, different jobs. there seems to be a lot of playing the safe hand. this film's first shown at the berlin festival. it's been passed to venice. all of these movies are screened here at the ben i can't recally, and when the film wrap up, it's toronto, to be screened there. the festivals are fierce competitors, but there's a feeling they are reliant on each other. the reason - apparently there are not enough quality films to go around. it's a huge think all over the world. the good thing - i mean they are fewer and fewer. it's easier and cheaper. the qualities are not alway