the cease fire we'll speak with hoda abdel-hamid in gaza shortly for us as go to stephanie in west jerusalem stephanie just get us right up to speed what's been going going on over night. it's been quiet the ceasefire is holding the moment it's more of what's happening here the headlines is a potential diplomatic fallout from that we are expecting any point the defense minister avigdor lieberman to hold a press conference the leaks coming out of the meeting that he's been holding with his party is that he intends to resign over this or we would have to wait and see basically that meeting yesterday the security cabinet meeting almost seven sure and i'm going to interrupt you because we're getting live pictures of having taught lieberman there about to give us his announcement let's just open the microphones and soon get a sense of what he's just about to tell us. first a look at the news everybody. with a few words and also we have to answer any questions. that the way i assume that everybody has tried to guess what the reason for this meeting is and i think that you've guessed correctly. her

we have two correspondents following the latest on the gaza as strikes hoda abdel-hamid is in west jerusalem for us but first let's go to harry fossett he is in the hot also on the israel gaza border harry tell us first about the situation where you are is it calmer now than it was a few hours ago. it certainly seems as if we've reached a bit of a pause in events since the extremely high tempo of rocket launches and air strikes that we've been seeing since the this all began yesterday monday afternoon we've been here a little over an hour and while we can hear israeli drones in the air there have been no rocket launches no sirens that we could hear during the course of that time but as you were saying it has been a particularly violent few hours we have heard that six palestinians in total have been killed inside gaza three of them from the popular front of the liberation of palestine two of them from islamic jihad we're still waiting confirmation on the identity of the role of the six and on the israeli side of the border one palestinian from hebron in the occupied west bank who was in ashk

thank you very much for now caring for say it with the latest from west jerusalem. the u.s. has renewed its call for an end to the civil war in yemen some reports say at least one hundred fifty people have been killed in the past twenty four hours street battles have brought chaos to residential areas in the main port city of a data bomb that it does has been following the story from across the red sea in djibouti. fierce fighting on one of the front lines on the fringes of the port city of data this is one of the largest bottle so far in the war in yemen for the older fighters who control what they the losing the strategic port is not an option and they are putting up a stiff resistance because i have attempted another suicide attack but it fails we are advance on. the spite on the up promises by the so the coalition and pro-government forces multiplied through bottles in some parts of the city the conflict was already and top that face in one presidential area is still the city borders lie and collect relentless bombardment to kill numerous fighters and this is the ultimat

i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish and an arab city. and in 1967, the six-day war happened when the israelis invaded jejerusalem m and conqu it. we have lived under the israeli occupation ever since, always longing to go back to our ancestral homes. >> and my father's story that we left the home that he was born in and his father, etc., always was with us. >> whenever i walk here i feel as though i'm walking with a shiver in my body. like i feel at home. they used to have the stables down there. and actually, this is my father's room right there. for threes three years i would say easily 50-year-old trees. because my father, when he came here, he said he remember

for staying with us is the situation develops in the gaza strip i mean romans joining us from west jerusalem there let's keep up to date with some of the pictures and the developments in the last hour or so if you are just joining us rocket fire out of gaza and the iron dome system as it is known from israel which intercepts those rockets has been activated to stop that here are some of the latest. why would we have let me see actually i'm just getting an e-mail from our producer in jerusalem he's saying ace he launches of rockets identified from the gaza strip at israel and a number of them intercepted by i and. so these pictures they were not long ago it's pretty much not time now and see what else we've got coming up we've got some old we will have some pictures. to show you from gaza or do we have a live shot at the moment. let's just check the live shot and not too much to say there are voters who say it has not for now coming up twenty five past sixty but occasionally you do see that flash in the sky as the missiles out of gaza are intercepted a lot of you on facebook live watching it

deca reports from west jerusalem. less than twenty four hours after the gaza ceasefire came into effect the diplomatic fallout. i'm here to announce my resignation from the role of the defense minister of the state of israel the question which needs to be asked is why not i should aspire as i'm concerned what happened yesterday yesterday's cease fire together with the entire process of reaching a ransom and with hamas as a capitulation to terror bush should pull out go in defense minister avigdor lieberman also said he disagreed with katter bringing fifteen million dollars into gaza last weekend to pay the salaries of civil servants and the fuel shipments that have increased gaza's electricity moves that are all parts of efforts to ease gaza's humanitarian situation the mass wasted no time in reacting to lieberman's resignation. this constitutes a victory for the resistance and recognition of defeat and failure by lieberman and the zionist occupation and it is a failure of the policy of siege and devastating wars agai

one seat a one seat majority in the knesset the israeli parliament seventy deca reports from west jerusalem. less than twenty four hours after the gaza ceasefire came into effect the diplomatic fallout. i'm here to announce my resignation from the role of the defense minister of the state of israel the question which needs to be asked is why not i aspire as i'm concerned what happened yesterday yesterday a cease fire together with the entire process of reaching a reassessment with a mouse is a capitulation to terror bush should pull out go in defense minister avigdor lieberman also said he disagreed with katter bringing fifteen million dollars into gaza last weekend to pay the salaries of civil servants and the fuel shipments that have increased gaza's electricity moves that are all parts of efforts to ease gaza's humanitarian situation the mass wasted no time in reacting to lieberman's resignation. this constitutes a victory for the resistance and recognition of defeat and failure by lieberman and the zionist occupation and it is a failure of the policy of siege and devastating wars agains

way home let's go now to our correspondent that he is following the developments for us from west jerusalem what more do we know now harry about the attack the latest report that and is rarely soldier was killed and one wounded. well indeed these reports have been coming out from gaza since quite early in the piece now it has been confirmed by the israeli military that an israeli officer was killed in this operation and one of the wounded previously they had just been denying any reports of any abductions and saying that all of the troops had withdrawn to the israeli side of the gaza border fence now what we understand took place at least from the hamas side the the. faction which controls the gaza strip has been saying since shortly after this all took place that an israeli covert special forces team was inside gaza territory three kilometers inside from the border fence traveling in a civilian vehicle and that it carried out an attack in which a senior commander of the hamas military wing the arkansas brigades in communis. a man called nora baraka was shot and killed or at least was was k

there's been no official announcement from the israelis stephanie deca joins me live now from west jerusalem and stephanie tell us about reaction to the cease fire and whether it's holding. it is holding for the moment but people we speak to do say that it is fragile and we're seeing two very different reactions one is out of gaza which is of celebrations on the streets and people there really seeing this as a victory for them this is also how masses played it from the beginning after that botched special forces operation into gaza by israeli forces initially how mass was praising it as a victory because they say they managed to kill one israeli soldier but then they escalated by firing four hundred sixty rockets in the space of less than twenty four hours so the way that they are seeing it is a victory for them now on the other side we're seeing residents of southern israel the border communities particularly as drop out protesting on the streets tonight they're blocking roads they're burning tires they're around three to four hundred people there at the moment and they're saying that this

he was born into a christian family in west jerusalem so he was not a religious man but this did not stop him arguing strongly in covering islam that the western media distorts the image of islam. in the question of palestine in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine he traced the clash between two middle eastern people followed by his first book on structuralist literary critical theory here texts the book called the world the text and they pretty remains singular achievement of his literary signal. now after the publication of orientalism and soon after orientalism cultural imperialism that those two books became so important in the field of course crony of the studies that they overshadow his military work but the fact is that increasingly if you go from one university to another in u.s. europe the arab world etc you will see that the significance of his need to really work is increasingly coming to the surface and in fact i would even venture to say without understanding his military disposition his preoccupation with the question of my nieces we cannot understand orientalism and

hari fawcett in west jerusalem al-jazeera has this update from gaza where there is widespread skepticism over how long the ceasefire will last. there's a certain style of relief here in gaza an all out war didn't break out this is one of the buildings that were targeted by the israelis it belongs to hamas in the civilian area and people around there not only you can imagine the fear they did they felt that night when that explosion happened but also their properties get damaged this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen so people here have been extremely worried about how things could develop know how mass on this side has put forward to the people here this cease fire as a political victory that coupled with the news of the resignation of the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman saying that that was actually a political victory and an acknowledgement by the israelis that hamas has. all of them now people are happy that has returned but this is a certain degree of skepticism. all these talks about a cease fire has been very d

contain iran have emboldened both sides to go public with their discussions with reports from west jerusalem. it was a picture does surprise some shocked others and left many wondering. saeed meeting and greeting israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his wife sara the first visit by an israeli leader to a man in more than twenty years. perhaps this video resists even more questions israel's minister of culture and education to grand mosque in abu dhabi. was visiting the emirate to see israel's winded jew two world championship host countries of international sporting events are obliged to include all participants regardless of their nationality israel has a lot of relations with some of the gulf states and other countries and arab countries and muslim countries which we don't know about the average citizen doesn't really know what's going on we know there are connections we know that there is coordination specifically on issues of security regional security especially with the threat of iran and this has been going on for some turn there was no public condemnation from any of the re

other palestinians inside gaza let's get the latest from there is harry fawcett who is in our west jerusalem bureau harry bring us up to speed for us with the situation this morning ah things calm or not. well i mean in relative terms i suppose somewhat calmer from the very height of this is it went through from yesterday afternoon in say yesterday evening but there has been more violence overnight more israeli air strikes more rockets coming out from gaza as well and just as we were coming to our i got confirmation from our producer inside gaza that the policy health ministry there has concerned another death overnight inside gaza that brings the total to four to five days from the yet of the the popular front for the liberation of palestine and superimposed city islamic jihad that adds to one fatality on the israeli side of the city and the sound of ashkelon north of gaza that was in fact a palestinian citizen of israel who died in one of the rocket strikes there so this is still an extremely dangerous and tense situation given the given the amount of firepower that has been used on both s

joins us live now from west jerusalem and stephanie was saying some of the diplomatic initiatives underway particularly by egypt not going so well at this point that have been asked strikes inside of gaza. is there any indication if that will be the extent of these rainy response where if there will now be the steps that are yet to be taken. well i mean as stephanie was just saying this is continuing to carry on the rockets still coming out she was reporting. the explosions very close to the word our team is in terms of rockets being intercepted in the service is by no means over and the the range of targets does seem to be expanded from the israeli perspective inside gaza from what we've seen in recent escalation so this is a major event and i think what has taken so many people by surprise i mean us included frankly is that it is running counter to the narrative that we've been seeing and reporting on over the last couple of weeks when there did seem to be some real progress being made in these attempts to get a long term truce i mean we didn't expect any grand breakthrough or some annou

cut short on official business to paris to return to israel stephanie decker with more now from west jerusalem the message from the israeli military establishment is that this seems to have been an intelligence operation it's an intelligence operation that went very wrong and also of course you know the timing of this is crucial because we've had these ongoing talks about a long term calm in gaza between israel and hamas for the first time we had palpable movement on the ground when it came to improving the lives of the people inside gaza the humanitarian situation there is that desperate levels the u.s. has renewed its call for an end to the hostilities in yemen the street battles between forces backed by the saudi and iraqi coalition and the rebels in the port city who data some reports say at least one hundred forty nine people have been killed in the past twenty four hours there's been an explosion in the afghan capital kabul it happened near the municipality in the city center reports of casualties. sri lanka's opposition parties are petitioning the supreme court to review the president's

he was born into a christian family in west jerusalem though he was not a religious man but this didnot stop him arguing strongly in covering islam that the western media distorts the image of islam. in the question of palestine in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine he traced the clash between two middle eastern people followed by his first book on structuralist literary critical theory here texts the book called the world the text and they pretty remains singular achievement of his literary. now after the publication of orientalism and soon after orientalism cultural imperialism that those two books became so important in the field of course grew of the studies that they overshadow his military work but the fact is that increasingly if you go from one university to another in u.s. europe the arab world etc you will see that the significance of his need to really work is increasingly coming to the surface and in fact i would even venture to say without understanding his literary disposition his preoccupation with the question of my nieces we cannot understand orientalism and. har

benjamin netanyahu has cut short his visit to paris to return home how a force that has more from west jerusalem and israeli covert special forces team was inside gaza territory three kilometers inside from the border fence traveling in a civilian vehicle and that it carried out an attack in which a senior commander of the hamas military wing the arcus on brigades in communists. a man called nor baraka was shot and killed or at least was was killed in this operation a thirty seven year old senior commander. the u.s. has renewed its call for an end to hostilities in yemen street battles have brought chaos to residential areas in the main port city of whole data a pro-government alliance backed by the saudi and the rotty coalition is trying to seize control from healthy rebels thousands of civilians trapped in the fighting. commemorations have been held around the world to mark a hundred years since the end of the first world war france's president a man you met crumb led tributes to the twenty million people who died in the conflict and on the sidelines of the color ations in paris president dona

thank you very much sami i was saddam we appreciate you joining us harry force it is with us from west jerusalem harry any word from the israeli government or the i.d.f. on what might have taken place here. well the israelis are saying something they're saying that there was an operation that took place inside the gaza strip a military operation there saying that any reports of israeli soldiers being killed or indeed abducted are incorrect they say that all of the israeli soldiers have now been withdrawn into israeli territory other than that they aren't saying a great deal the greater level of information that we're getting is coming from the other side from the homicide. wing saying that these special forces soldiers were coming in in an undercover operation using a civilian vehicle that they were targeting the senior hamas commander that your previous guest was just talking about nor baraka this thirty seven year old regional commander in communists in the southeastern area of the gaza strip that he was killed six other palestinians sorry five other palestinians were killed seven injured and

israeli politics as long as the situation there remains unresolved stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. i mean has this update from goals there's been widespread skepticism over how long it will last. is a search and. an all out war didn't break out this is one of the buildings that were targeted. it belonged to the. people around. you can imagine the fear. that night. this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen people here has been extremely worried about how things could develop know how mass on this side has put forward to the people here this cease fire. that coupled with the news of the resignation of the israeli defense minister. saying that that was actually. a victory and an acknowledgement by the israelis that. now people. are happy that has returned but this is a certain degree of skepticism. a cease fire has been very difficult to reach. agreement over a long term ceasefire. but they do worry. that we so over the past two days might make. a long term agreement more difficult than it already was. well as the united natio

least three palestinians have been kills the latest with harry force that he's in our bureau in west jerusalem bring us up to date. well yes as you say this has been a very large scale round of rockets being launched from gaza towards israeli territory the closest we can get to it is what happened on july the fourteenth early this year when there were some two hundred rockets that were launched but that was over a longer period of time and that is what the israeli military is saying has happened in the space of just a couple of hours from this afternoon into this evening and as you say there is a bus that was targeted the driver of that bus injured we're also hearing that a nineteen year old who was standing close to it is in a critical condition after the the weapon which is reported was an anti-tank weapon struck that bus it's reported that that bus contained a large group of young men we asked the israeli military whether that was whether they were military personnel or civilians they have issued no comment on that so far aside from that there are several buildings in several israeli towns

israeli politics as long as the situation there remains unresolved stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. delineate hose this one of those widespread skepticism over how long a ceasefire will last. this is one of the buildings that were targeted. it belonged to the. people around only you can imagine the fear. that. this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen so people here have been extremely worried about how things could develop now how mass on this side has put forward to the people here this cease fire as. that coupled with the news of the resignation of the israeli defense minister. saying that that was actually. a big and an acknowledgment by the israelis that has. now people. happy that has returned but this is a certain degree of skepticism. all these talks about cease fire has been very difficult to reach. people. who worry. that we so over the past few days might make. a long term agreement more difficult. the united nations and you can sweeten have been pushing for more action and possibly an even different approach to t

groups in gaza it's in the hour who says he assumed the role temporarily stephanie decker is in west jerusalem with the latest . very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers in his government of course for the resignation of abu during even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth we are expecting to hear a press conference now just recently announced tomorrow morning

i think of it would not be easy would not become seventy deca joins us live from west jerusalem stephanie what's your reading of the timing of this. well it's unfortunate timing particularly because some headway had been made possible results seen on the ground when it came to easing the humanitarian situation somewhat inside gaza has been longstanding difficult complicated talks between israel have master intermediaries particularly egypt and the united nations so you had a cash injection from cotton this weekend fifteen million dollars carried in cash and also more fuel to power the fuel plants and well it tricity being allowed in so this is why everyone was so shocked certainly according to the israeli narrative the israeli army making a statement that this was an operation for israel security and not an attempt at an assassination or a kidnapping we've also now had a tweet from one of the senior a spokespeople spokesman of how massing that this is seen as a victory for hamas because of course one israeli soldier was also killed in this operation so i think we have to wait and see how

netanyahu has cut short his visit to paris to return to israel very false it has the latest from west jerusalem. a significant military confrontation in gaza a deadly one which raises the prospect at least the risk of more to follow israel has now confirmed that one of its officers was killed in this military operation and another wounded it said that it did carry out a military operation inside gaza it rejected earlier reports that one of the soldiers involved had been abducted saying that everybody had been brought back to israeli territory also saying that at least ten projectiles had been fired from gaza into israeli territory two of them intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system none of those projectiles resulting in any injury or death on the israeli side as for hamas it says that this was a special forces operation carried out by israeli troops three kilometers inside gaza and territory in the area of communists in the southeast that these troops were traveling in a civilian vehicle and that they attacked and killed a senior military leader of hamas of the arcus on brigades a man

is live for us in west jerusalem and what more have we learned about the attacks. well this was a deadly military confrontation which certainly leaves the risk at least more to follow as you've been saying the israelis have now confirmed that one officer one israeli officer was killed in this operation another was wounded that they did carry out a military operation inside gaza rejecting earlier reports that any of the troops were abducted and saying that all were taken back to the israeli side of the gaza border fence and also saying that as in the aftermath of all this ten projectiles at least were fired from gaza into israeli territory two of them intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system no injuries or fatalities on the israeli side from those as for how marse from their perspective they are saying that this was a special forces mission three kilometers inside gaza territory that the israeli soldiers were traveling in a civilian vehicle and that they attacked and killed a senior hamas military commander a commander of the ark of some brigades in the sout

i think of it will not be easy will not become very fast that has only this from west jerusalem. a significant military confrontation in gaza a deadly one which raises the prospect at least the risk of more to follow israel has now confirmed that one of its officers was killed in this military operation and another wounded it said that it did carry out a military operation inside gaza it rejected earlier reports that one of the soldiers involved had been abducted saying that everybody had been brought back to israeli territory also saying that at least ten projectiles had been fired from gaza into israeli territory two of them intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system none of those projectiles resulting in any injury or death on the israeli side as for hamas it says that this was a special forces operation carried out by israeli troops three kilometers inside gaza and territory in the area of communists in the southeast that these troops were traveling in a civilian vehicle and that they attacked and killed a senior military leader of hamas of the arcus some brigades a man

has cut short an official visit to france to return to israel every faucet has the latest from west jerusalem. a significant military confrontation in gaza a deadly one which raises the prospect at least the risk of more to follow israel has now confirmed that one of its officers was killed in this military operation and another wounded it said that it did carry out a military operation inside gaza it rejected earlier reports that one of the soldiers involved had been abducted saying that everybody had been brought back to israeli territory also saying that at least ten projectiles had been fired from gaza into israeli territory two of them intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system none of those projectiles resulting in any injury or death on the israeli side as for hamas it says that this was a special forces operation carried out by israeli troops three kilometers inside gaza and territory in the area of communists in the southeast that these troops were traveling in a civilian vehicle and that they attacked and killed a senior military leader of hamas of the arcus on brigades a man

he was born into a christian family in west jerusalem though he was not a religious man but this didnot stop him arguing strongly in covering islam that the western media distorts the image of islam. in the question of palestine in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine he traced the clash between two middle eastern peoples followed by his first book on structuralist literary critical theory here is text the book called the world the text and the critique remains as singular achievement of his literary. now after the publication of orientalism and soon after orientalism cultural imperialism that those two books became so important in the field of course growing on the studies that they overshadow his military work but the fact is that increasingly if you go from one university to another in u.s. europe the arab world etc you will see that the significance of his need to really work is increasingly coming to the surface and in fact i would even venture to say without understanding his literary disposition his preoccupation with the question of my nieces we cannot understand orientalis

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in one thousand nine hundred ninety two he went back to west jerusalem to the tel be a neighborhood where he was born he reportedly walked the streets searching for his family's old homes where he'd spent his early years and which he'd left forty five years before. but the story goes that when he found he was simply unable to ask the owners if he could look inside. i could not meet lost face to face. i stood by the door like a beggar. how could i ask permission from strangers sleeping in my own bed ask them if i could visit myself for five minutes should i bow in respect to the residents of my childish dream would they are ask who is that prying foreign visitor. what headlines already read when this way i know can't hear what it. was that led better and if it were. their fault that well i've been here when us have been back and. aesthetics here on my book. well. in that the. edward saeed worked hard in the us media to explain how the nine hundred eighty eight palestine declaration was in fact a compromise and this pave the way for the nine hundred ninety one madrid conference and then the

all right finale thank you very much harry fools that from west jerusalem. right well there is much more to everything we're covering right here is there a dot com for all the latest on our top stories breaking news and of course analysis that takes you behind the headlines but our top story this hour as you've been saying is news of. israeli special forces soldiers entering gaza the southern city of han eunice we understand that six palestinians have been killed they were targeting hamas leaders and more specifically they would targeting the senior commander of the. brigade nor baraka is reported to have been killed in these clashes we were speaking earlier to ghazi hamad to is inside gaza and he has said that this could well lead to an increase in tensions and violence in and around the strip and he confirmed that there had been hearing as strikes and that clashes had also taken place no official word yet from israeli officials on this but we know that benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister is in paris he's been there to mark the. of the end of worl

he was born into a christian family in west jerusalem though he was not a religious man but this didnot stop him arguing strongly in covering islam that the western media distorts the image of islam. in the question of palestine in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine he traced the clash between two middle eastern people followed by his first book on structuralist literary critical theory here texts the book called the world the text and they pretty remains singular achievement of his literary. now after the publication of orientalism and soon after orientalism cultural imperialism that those two books became so important in the field of course growing on the studies that they overshadow his military work but the fact is that increasingly if you go from one university to another in u.s. europe the arab world etc you will see that the significance of his need to really work is increasingly coming to the surface and in fact i would even venture to say without understanding his literary disposition his preoccupation with the question of my nieces we cannot understand orientalism and.

home it's going out to our correspondent harry for so he is following developments for us from west jerusalem what more do we know about the attack harry. well we have from hamas in the gaza strip the the most fulsome details that we're getting so far from their side they say that this was a special forces raid that took place by israeli troops that they were traveling in a civilian vehicle three kilometers inside gazan territory in this southeastern city of honey yunus and that as part of this this operation these soldiers targeted and killed a senior. brigades hamas military wing commander in canniness the regional commander a man called nor baraka a thirty seven year old and that as part of this is they were exposed there was a gunfight that followed and that in all six palestinians were killed seven were injured there were around israeli airstrikes that took place as well as these troops were pulling back out to israeli territory now the israeli military says for its part that there was a military operation that took place inside gaza involving israeli troops it says that there were no is

they don't want an escalation but it remains a very fragile truce stephanie decker of jazeera west jerusalem. james bays has more from paris where the u.n. . secretary-general met with the french president the israeli gaza conflict was part of the discussion. prime minister netanyahu had been judas stay overnight in paris and have a meeting here with president mccraw that meeting was canceled he's headed back to tell of the four meetings in jerusalem about the situation in cars still here though in paris the secretary general of the united nations and tonio good terrorists as he arrived for his meeting with president macro he told me the situation in gaza was extremely serious the u.n. has been warning some for top some time the special coordinator of the u.n. based in jerusalem nicholai mladin off that perhaps garza could return to a situation of all out war he's given those warnings to the u.n. security council and certainly diplomats there are concerned but there is no consensus on action and that's mainly due to the fact that the u.s. of course is a permanent member it has a veto on any

defense minister avigdor lieberman resigned on weapons day stephanie decker joins us live now from west jerusalem stephanie how much appetite would there have been for a snap election or is this a snap election. well most people will tell you that there will probably be early elections peter is just at the moment it's been avoided i mean after all the criticism and ultimatum given by an awfully bennett saying that if he wasn't awarded the post of defense minister he would be resigning many people expected him to resign but what happened just now is that he criticized extensively prime minister but benjamin netanyahu particularly how he dealt with the issue of the palestinians whether it came to prisoner exchanges whether how he handled the gaza border protests how he handled how mask the fact that he hadn't yet demolished tunnel ahmar the village in the occupied west bank the bedouin village but after all that criticism he then said well you know i am going to remain in government he doesn't want to be seen as someone which is how the prime minister had played it and put pressure on him as the on

armed groups in gaza netanyahu says he'll assume the role temporarily stephanie decker is in west jerusalem with the latest. very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers in his government of course for the resignation of abu during even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth we are expecting to hear a press conference now just recently announced tomorrow morning

stephanie deca is in west jerusalem with more on the story a very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers in his government of course of the resignation of out of the door even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth.

secretary general is in paris as well first staff who's in west jerusalem staff had been feeling of late how significant is this they're for. very significant very unexpected this announcement of the operation israel making it very clear that it wasn't intended to kill or kidnap they say it was the security of israel reading between the lines of perhaps an intelligence gathering operation have mass now saying the same thing that they basically intercepted a car with israeli operatives who were undercover as palestinians this is the way they will operate when they do operate inside gaza peter it does happen they were suspicious they called in their commander a firefight ensued we're not sure who fired first and then according to these really commandos made their way on foot towards the border area in pursuit by hamas and were evacuated by helicopter that was given cover by israeli airstrikes so an extraordinary story both sides however even have mass is that pertain this is a victory as you mentioned there one israeli soldier was killed in this operation of those funerals of those seven m

bit is a bit less this morning but you still have sporadic fighting how dr hamid live for us in west jerusalem thank you very much for that mom a dark me is economies send political analysts he says this could be an important moment in the future of the blockade of gaza. taking the facts that the situation is so fresh and any. attack might result in civilian casualties in the israeli side or the receiving side might take both sides to all of war but i think this is collision came at a critical moment i think both sides needed this is collation to go ahead for a new era i think both sides have realized of that series of wars that the military operations the wars are not the solution they need to have a different approach and finally the reach and the standings over. a period of calm in gaza during which. allows for the fear stan may be to have qatari money funneled to. him to give some space for something like solution for the blockade you know the wildness turkish president had on has given new details about the killing of jamal khashoggi he says a saudi intelligence officer told him whoever k

resigned on wednesday over a cease fire agreement with armed groups in gaza stephanie decker is in west jerusalem with the latest. very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know.

resigned on wednesday over cease fire agreement with armed groups and gaza stephanie deca is in west jerusalem with the latest. a very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers in his government of course of the resignation of the door even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth we are expecting to hear a press conference now just recently announced tomorrow morning t

benjamin netanyahu has cut short his visit to paris to return to israel kerry faucet has more from west jerusalem and israeli covert special forces team was inside gaza territory three kilometers inside from the border fence traveling in a civilian vehicle and that it carried out an attack in which a senior commander of the hamas military wing the office on brigades in communists . baraka was shot and killed at least was killed in this operation a thirty seven year old senior commander. the u.s. has renewed its call for an end to hostilities in the yemen street battles have brought chaos to residential areas and the main port city of her day a pro-government alliance backed by the saudi erotic coalition is trying to seize control from who the rebels thousands of civilians are trapped by the fighting and britain's foreign secretary will travel to saudi arabia on monday to call for justice and accountability for the family of murdered journalist. jeremy hunt is the first u.k. minister it's a visit since he was killed at the saudi consulates in istanbul more than a month ago there will also be a foc

strip and at least three palestinians killed it's harry force that's following this from from west jerusalem just take us through the timeline harry the most recent time on starting i guess it was a couple of hours ago now. that's right and what we first heard were rockets sirens alerts being referred to in southern israel close to the garda border gaza border areas and reports of from the israeli military of a massive barrage as they called it of rockets coming from gaza into israeli territory as you say we have reports of the bus being targeted reports of that was by an antitank weapon number of houses in various cities in southern israel being struck in steroids in ashkelon even in ashdod which is a relatively long distance from gaza report that has not been targeted by projectiles fired from gaza since twenty fourteen there are pictures all over the israeli television news of burning buildings of significant damage to civilian properties and homes so this is a pretty major round of rockets there are reports that more than one hundred rockets have been fired potentially more even than tha

was shot and killed by israeli forces in northern gaza let's go now to her force it to use in west jerusalem so what else did leave them say. well essentially his argument is that by agreeing to the cease fire after hundreds of hamas and other palestinian faction rockets coming out of gaza striking israeli territory striking homes killing one person in israeli territory that netanyahu has capitulated to terror he has been making such arguments in slightly more muted terms for some time calling for much harsher military action against hamas after the months of border protests of incendiary devices being launched on kites and balloons and burning israeli farmland next to the gaza border fence and he has been saying this in the sense that that israel had to do more militarily in order to secure its long term security now his critics have been saying in the past and they've been coming out again today to say that he has the luxury of being able to say that because he's been calling for war in the full knowledge that there was something of a safety net that netanyahu and the military establishmen

in west jerusalem with more on the story. very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers it in his government of course the resignation of the door even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth we are expecting to hear a press conference now just recently announced tomorrow morning that is from the aft

expect that this fight to go over with you would hope because stephanie decker joins us live from west jerusalem staff israeli forces operating in this way how much of a rarity is this. well they never announce and i think it's safe to say that israeli intelligence operatives do operate inside gaza whether this seems to been some kind of cross border special forces operation however you know how masters accuse israel of having what they call collaborators eyes and ears on the ground when it comes to intelligence gathering and i think by the nature of these operations you never hear about it so you know this is something that seems to gone very very wrong particularly at a time when the two sides seem to the making some headway when it comes to true cease fire negotiations an operation that the israelis are saying was not intended to kidnap or kill any operative any what they call terrorists but it was an operation to safeguard the security of israel and hamas is saying that you know they they found these operatives and then there was a firefight and israeli airpower then intervened to allow thes

israeli politics as long as the situation there remains unresolved stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. the u.n. say security council is due to vote on thursday about extending its peacekeeping mission in central african republic has rarely been a moment of peace since the conflict began five years ago an alliance of muslim rebels known as the select overthrew present government in two thousand and thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel just a dia was sworn in as interim president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the slacker and anti christian fighters then as the anti black continued the u.n. sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated and all signs have been accused of war crimes or one man wanted by both the u.n. and cia as government moves he was once a select a rebel that is now in charge of and they put the p.k. five in the capsule bungie and then this exclusive interview with al jazeera he tells nicholas hug he'll stay and defend his people in hiding but still i

israeli politics as long as the situation there remains unresolved stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. to africa where the un security council is due to vote on thursday about extending its peacekeeping mission in central african republic there's really been a moment of peace since the conflict began there eighty five years ago a lot as a muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois busies government in twenty t. a few months later rebel leader michel dettori was sworn into room president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the deep alaca continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces that were already there and since then cease fires have been signed violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes ordered wanted by both the u.n. and sales government is neighbor he was once a celica rebel but is now in charge of a neighborhood following in the capital buggy and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera he tells the killers her kill stay and defend his people in h