these children are month 18 children that went to unrwa schools. i'm trying to get to with all of this is the price the survey population is paying is unacceptable. it has to stop. this terror on civilian population. we also have to think about people who have fled their homes out of fear. a few nights ago, there is fighting in the north. there were rumors of a ground invasion on the -- by the israel is and thousands left their homes in fear. not necessarily because they were destroyed -- i will come back to that -- but in pure of what would fall from the sky next. we now have today, three days later or so, 41,000 and more people in 50 of our schools. fortunately -- well, fortunately, the population remembering also 2014, the blue of the united nations and buildings that have the blue u.n. flag, still a relatively safe place. safer than their own home. so that is what is happening as unrwa, we are trying our best to stand up, are teams that will manage these centers properly and provide the nessary assistance. some immediate needs like protection,

as accommodation for refugees we have matthias ishmael with us now who is the director general of unrwa which is the united nations humanitarian aid agency for palestinian refugees mr small thank you for your time 1st of all i know you'll be incredibly busy do you know more about this the warnings from israel over your schools. good afternoon to you i have frankly not been directly informed of this far the message from the israeli side has been that installations that are colored in blue and have a u.n. flag like the one i am in awe protected so i am trying to check this out i have not been given this direct warning right it must be a huge concern for you though even if you just think about what happened to the media building the other day which was destroyed which houses the a.p. and al-jazeera the israelis took the view that there was elements there and bombed it anyway would you be concerned that they would take the same view of u.n. facilities. absolutely i mean we need to be clear we are in war here this is a war like 2014 and in many ways at a more violent level the price the civi

minister netanyahu has warned that the fighting will continue in full force and it will take time unrwa the united nations relief and works agency has opened 50 schools across the gaza strip for palestinians seeking refuge tens of thousands of people already sheltered there crammed in the classrooms. i know the money doesn't come when it's not only the war we have to be careful of the coronavirus how can we protect ourselves and our children. the u.n. agency is expecting more people to come if i learned a little from leg makes it more secure than. i think at the moment norway and gaza is secure but hopefully all actors involved in the fighting will respect the blue collar of the united nations but safety here is not guaranteed doing to do 1014 war several u.n. facilities was shelled $44.00 people were killed including 10 staff and the edges us in west jerusalem. as you see in that report it really does seem that children are paying the heaviest price in gaza $61.00 have been killed and a generation is being traumatized has cut it up as a young reports. for 7 hours 6 year old suzy was tr

talking about more than 40,000 palestinians who refuge in unrwa schools. very difficult to do the coronavirus was very hard for us to do it. amy: aya al ghazzawi, thank you for being with us palestinian , activist based in gaza who writes for "we are not numbers." she says hopefully we will still be alive when responding to media requests. coming up, we go to amira hass her latest piece is "gaza ves erased: rael is ping out entirealestinian familieon purpe." ♪♪ [muc break] amy: this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we continue to look at israel's attack on gaza and we are joined by amira hass, correspondent for ha'aretz. she is the only israeli jewish journalist to have spent over years living in and reporting 25 from gaza and the west bank. her latest piece is headlined "gaza lives erased: israel is wiping out entire palestinian families on purpose." amira hass, welcome back to democracy now! yesterday there was a general strike, a protest in a gaza inside israel in the west bank, around the world for palestinians -- four palestinians

in other news from gaza, the head of unrwa, the united nations relief and works agency in gaza, has expressed regret after saying the israeli airstrikes were carried out with sophistication and precision. a number of palestinian groups criticized matthias schmale saying his remarks "completely ignored the crimes committed during the latest israeli offensive against palestinian civilians in the gaza strip." the united states has joined mounting calls for further investigation into the origins of covid-19. a world health organization mission earlier this year found it was extremely unlikely that it emerged from a laboratory and more likely originated from an animal source. but some top health experts are questioning whether it accidentally escaped from a lab. this is health and human services secretary xavier becerra addressing a who meeting tuesday. >> phase two of the origin covid study must be lunch with terms of reference that are transparent, science-based, and give international experts the independence to fully assess the source of the virus and the early days of the outbreak. amy: moder

we have already, of course, restarted our assistance that was ended in 2018 through unrwa through the work through the -- through the u.n. and we also will remain engaged deeply with diplomatic conversations with leaders in the region. so, you know, obviously anyone here domestically will have to make their own decisions, but i would say that it is important to convey what our intention was, what we feel -- that we feel this was concluded as a result of the president's engagement, and frankly, discipline from the beginning, much faster than these conflicts have been in the past. go ahead. oh, go ahead. darlene, go ahead. reporter we also heard this week : a lot of democrats shifting their tone on israel. so, is it time for the president or the white house or the united states to also perhaps start thinking about shifting the approach ” its approach to israel? ms. psaki: shifting ” what are ” shifting in what way? reporter: you had a lot of democrats who were frustrated that the president didn't call for a ceasefire immediately ” that was one thing that a lot of people were upset a

undermined israel and international organizations by restoring $150 million in funding to the unrwa and rejoining the israel-hating united nations human rights council without much needed reforms. it's one hit after another. one punch to the gut after another. to our friends in israel. while we're funding hamas and their ability to fire rockets at our friends in israel. this is a pattern. i'll just tell my friends on the other side of the aisle to ask yourself a question for the american people watching all of this and say, do you want america to be first or do you want america to be last? because the current administration, the current policies of this body, the current policies of the senate are taking us down a road which we had long since left behind in the days of the carter era, in the late 1970's, we had long lines a at the gas pump, skyrocketing gas prices, inability to get jobs, stagflation, inflationary pressures, most people today don't really remember, i remember when my parents got their mortgage rate down from 14%, 12%, 10%, when they got to single digits, today those rate