stefanie dekker is there. she is going to tell us how violence in that part of jeff jerusalem affects life there. >> reporter: damascus gate, an integral part of life in occupied jer uselum, non-to be the busiest entrance into the old city. not anymore. the street market sellers have gone. there is now an erie silence here. >> these days, the israeli forces are suspicious of everything. if your hands are inside your pockets, their hands will be on the trigger ready to shoot. the situation is really difficult. >> damascus gate has become a hot spot during the last six months. it has made the israeli government beef up security here they stand behind barriers they didn't before. there are more security cameras. trees have been cut so there is a clear view.

stefanie dekker, al jazeera, hebron in the occupied west bank. >>> the u.n. children's fund say children are bearing the brunt of the suffering in yemen. anyone 34 children have been killed and more than 1300 injured. there were 848 documented cases of child soldiers with children as young as 10 being forced to fight. it's estimated that nearly 10 million kids require humanitarian aid. and the cases of severe acute malnutrition, that's where the body starts to waste away has riz frrisen from 160,000 this yo double that. the problem won't be solved unless the conflict ends. >> the challenge is not delivering assistance, the challenge is that the amount of people needing assistance is so big, the only way we're able to solve this is if there is an end to the conflict. children are suffering because they have been blown up, because they've been killed or injured in bombing, they are terrified as a result of the conflict. they're suffering because of the impact ton health system. we estimate 10,000 children will have died because of that. >> the death toll in the

stefanie dekker. >>> police in pakistan have questioned more than 5,000 people and detained more thanuspects over sunday's park bombing in lahore which killed 73 people. the arrest comes as the army launched a military crack down with the prime minister promising to stamp out such attacks. a faction of the pakistan taliban says it carries o carrie attack. and targeted christians. >>> around 5,00 5,000 security s are preparing to remove protesters who stages a sit-in on the streets of the capital. several thousand demonstrators have been camped at the main constitutional avenue close to key government buildings since sunday. supporters have executed a man who was hung on february 29th after killing a punjab governor over his call for blasphemy reform. let's get the latest. ca mile hyder joins us now. tell us more about the operation to remove the protesters. >> reporter: as you mentioned several thousands security forces personnel backed by paramilitary forces and the army in the background have given an ultimatum to the protesters about two hours ago to vacate that premises. now, we a

al jazeera's stefanie dekker reports. >> there is announcemen anonymi. then occasionally there are moments when the world does want to know your name. this mass forced migration is a result of the five year war in syria. a war with many different allegiances and groups. on the ground, and beyond syria's borders. three and a half years ago, the man who first tried to resolve the conflict resigned and had this to say. >> at a time when we need, when the syrian people desperately need actions, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calming uh calling in the security council. >> that hasn't changed. nobody seems to have a solution to end this war. so-called red lines were crossed. >> firsthand accounts from humanitarian organizations on the ground. these all strongly indicate that everything these images are already screaming at us is real. that chemical weapons were used in syria. >> reporter: syria's civilization has been described as one of the most ancient in the world. full of archaeological treasures some that have survived for almost 2,000 yea

stefanie dekker, al jazeera, occupied east jerusalem. >> winter and spring at the same time, how is that possible? >> an indication of how big a nation we are talking about here. let me show you a picture. this is scene you would have seen. about half meter of snow in fact even last night it was still pouring with freezing rain. now it has improved slightly since that but not very much. come down the coast about 600 kilometers in washington, d.c. and the sun has come out. it feels so different in fact it is officially peak cherry blossom season. we are not that far away as nation sizes go but clearly very much spring like. that is not the case across the whole united states. you may have seen in the news severe snow storm in colorado. it is still snowing not far from denver, the line has gone up through michigan as well. that is where winter is, the accommodate tucked up here. coming down to the warmth from the gulf of mexico that you tend to get tornadoes. it is possible to get some big thunderstorms in the next day or so but we seem to have avoided that particular issue in the last few

stefanie dekker, al jazeera, west jerusalem. >>> the charity group oxfam, continuing crisis says in yemen, there is risk of famine. houthi rebel positions near the capital sanaa. also pushed out reckless loyal to saleh saleh. ali abdel saleh. many protest to working hours, pay and rules that would make it easier to hire and fire staff. lower unemployment which is currently above 10%. >>> u.s. president barack obama has offered to declassify more documents on the u.s. involvement with is argentina's former military junta. he laid flowers at the memorial of the victims. led to deaths of 30,000 people. top u.s. officials initially backed the right wing junta. the first president to pay homage to the victims. >> today in response to a request from president macri and to continue helping the families of the victims try ofind the truth and justice they deserve, i can verify that we will declassify records, because we have a responsibility to confront the past with honesty and transparency. >> the u.s. justice department has charged hackers over cyber attacks, between 2011 and 2013, disabling ba

stefanie dekker is in west jerusalem for us. >> reporter: the session opened with a military prosecutor potential charge from murder to span slaughter. prosecutor told the commander after the shooting he killed the terrorist because he deserved to die. another account that we heard that the soldier told another soldier on the spot that he stopped my friend, tried to kill him and he deserved to die. we heard from the prosecute their the soldier told his commander of the worry of the explosives and his commander didn't believe him. this all goes against the soldier's defense which was that he believed that the 21-year-old palestinian who was already shot, wounded lying on the ground posed a threat to the soldier and his colleagues by potentially having explosives on him. we have gone through the video extensively with the man who filmed it, he says that it is clear that no one thought that the 21-year-old palestinian had any explosives on him. you can see it th in it in the o people roaming around in close proximity. so dramatic video in a case closely watched here and the prosecution has