. -- party to support for israel. [video clip] pres. biden: there is no shift in my commitment to israel. i will tell you what there is a shift in, the shift is that we need a two state solution. it is the only answer. what i am convinced of is that we can move as i was able to negotiate before the cease-fire. i made it clear when i spoke with president abbas that we are going to provide for security in the west bank and renewed the security commitment as well as economic commitment to the people on the west bank. i indicated to the israel is that i thought it was important that they stop in jerusalem this intercommunal fighting by extremes on both sides. it has to end. i am prepared to put together and will attempt to put together a major package with the other nations to share our view to rebuild the homes, without re-engaging, fighting, some the opportunity to rebuild weapon systems. rebuild gaza. they neither help and i am committed to get that done. i think that my party still supports israel, let's get something

israel deserves ourht full support and for peace and security israel deserves the right to protect its people of reprehensible terrorist attacks and israel deserves to stop the murder of its citizens from foreign nationals residing there. there is no greater ally to reserve our secure interest and then to condemn in hamas and think them the resolution reaffirms to take whatever means necessary to stop the murder of citizens and foreign nationals residing in israel. is enough to make it clear they need to know acts of aggression would never be tolerated and thendi to take immediate action of the strong and unwavering support we should stop catering to the anti- israel radical left thank you for joining me today to stand with israel ask unanimous consent we continue to senate resolution 226ea submitted today and that it be asked to be agreed to the preamble agreed to the motions are considered made a made up on the table with no action or debate. >> is there objection. >> reserving the right to object. >> . >> madame president. to the unanimous consent request. but to be sure into the po

rockets into israel. israel is reportedly rejecting calls for an immediate ceasefire. on wednesday, president joe biden said isrl haaed a right to defend itself, whi penletagon chief lloyd austin said the un ed states has ironclad support for israel. the u.s.ro pvides 3.8 billion dollars in nonmilitary fding to israel. this is secretary of state antony blinken.>> we strongly condemned the rocket attacks coming out of gaza that are targeting innocent cilians.vi israel has a right to defendig itself. palestiniaavns hste a right to live in safety and security. amy: the united states has ockebld the united nations security council from issuing a resolution about the crisis. violence is spreading across israel with jewh ismobs attacking palestinians and mixed jewish and arab communities. extremist settlers were filmed attacking palestinian on chops tel aviv suburb. ultranationalist israelis dragging man a they believed to be an heir from his car and beating him mercilessly. some stlers were filmed on televisio

aid given to israel and the amount and type of u.s. support given to israel in the united nation and other other international bodies danny let me ask you the israeli army has said that it's going to be presenting a plan to political leadership for a potential ground operation do you expect that there will be a ground operation an offensive in gaza playing out in the days to come. well i ain't never knew the goal of the deputy minister of defense and the time when the fight with hamas you have to look at all options but who had seen kerry very carefully before taking that into vision we know their rights and know. our main goal is do what depth our city them days when you are there is plenty of germans and sitting in billboards all over there we have a strong military more than military. and we are consuming meat right now but if there were a should would continue and the brutal attack innocent civilians will continue we will have to think about it and we just think that we are trying to minimize the number of civilian casualties and t

in every sphere keeps putting israel above the law making israel enjoy an absolute culture of impunity and that's why it is and continue doing it if you have given i mean if i was to if i was to fake as it were if i was to fake as it were being a british broadcasting corporation a reporter i used to work work there i'd say it's hamas they're sending the rockets that's why we're seeing the pictures of dead children right now this is just retaliation against military people in gaza. how do you do your spawn do that daily as you do the t.v. studios. i would telling him as i just did now on sky news before i came to you that they have got to stop this reduction to stop roach the old was thought from palestinian reactions that rather than israeli action which always starts the fall like happened in jerusalem the evictions in ships are are distorting overlock some more sqlite in the height of the holiest month of ramadan and lit it and other of the holiest nights they keep that aside they leave it aside why why do you think they didn't because because much of the narrative has been fed by is

israel continues. there will be no resistance from within israel. the israelis will never wake up one shining morning and think, "oh, this is not nice, the occupationlet's put in into it." why would they after 53 years in they were toldithout occupation, isel will not survive? the only way to put an end to it is to make israelis pay be punished and then it will be their choice if there ready to take it up i can assure you most of the israelis will say no. amy: gideon levy, member of the oeÑo narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," climate change is forcing people to migrate in search of food and shelter, altering traditional lifestyles across the globe. in tijuana, mexico, haitians fleeing devastation are building a neighborhood as their dreams of entering the united states dwindle. while in mongolia, the traditional herding lifestyle is threatened as drought forces a new generation to the capital in search of opportunities.

to cause more suffering and harm to the palestinian people in gaza and by attacking israel and israel has to respond. in self-defense but in what way is israel protecting its citizens what we are seeing is a continued cycle of violence people on both sides continue to die and gaza doesn't have an inevitable a they will feel the brunt of this war. is trying to pinpoint the terrorists we don't have any business with the. people of gaza are suffering also under so lion attack residential buildings we're not talking residential building pinpointing the hamas terrorist or using these buildings to headquarters and are using the civilians as human shields 1st we call them to evacuate the buildings and after they are evacuated with backing the terrorists that are hiding inside these buildings so why doesn't israel take the 1st step to deescalate you are the more powerful force here. and no we are not the most powerful force that they are more powerful than these royals so if the you think that they're more powerful than these we'll let them try us and we'll see who is stronger why did they go

us israel relations to back and israel? us israel relations go back decades. _ and israel? us israel relations go back decades. they - and israel? us israel relations go back decades. they are - and israel? us israel relations| go back decades. they are very strong, very solid. there is wide cooperation in many areas, security, economic, strategic issues, intelligence sharing but also trade and culture and other areas. and i think that this relationship has been strong over the years with every president and every prime minister in israel. there have been times when the two sides, two countries were not always in agreement but they always knew how agree to disagree but not rock the boat too much. and relations remain strong and solid and cooperation remains steady today as well. president biden also _ steady today as well. president biden also spoke _ steady today as well. president biden also spoke of— steady today as well. president biden also spoke of work- steady today as well. president biden also spoke of work that l biden also spoke of work that needs to be done wi

when you look at what the effect on israel has been, as it led israel to make bolder gestures of peace? i think in some ways the last four years persuaded israelis the problem was gone and the problem did not require compromises or anything else. what we are seeing now is the problem is not gone, and the problem is no longer a cross-border problem, it is an internal israeli problem. 20% of israeli citizens are arabs. that is a problem that does not go away easily unless work it. i think israel is moving toward feeling we don't have to work that. in the coalition building discussions there is a tradition in israel, you don't have a majority coalition that includes arab parties. in some ways that requires everybody to have a super majority. nobody is able to get a super majority, and we seem to be on the verge of bringing in an arab party into a coalition in the way that would have been historic for israel, reaching out to everybody in israel. i think that has been set back a bit, and it creates some unsettling problems for israelis about what kind of society they are going to have. this

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israel is entitled to the right of self-defense israel is. and trying to live in freedom it is that some us that is responsible for placing a big piece of their terrorist operations in there in a civilian building an infrastructure and therefore making an immaterial target any country know what would have done the same sense with this threat but nonetheless israel did still give tranced notice in mourning to all tenants but at the end of day the responsibility for this is so he was a must for putting the media and jeopardizing the media in civilian areas which is in so an egregious violation of international law and arson let me just follow up with you very quickly about something you mentioned because you know the i.d.f. of course we know says that the building contained hamas military intelligence assets but you know a.p. c.e.o. gary pruitt he's called 'd on the israeli government to put forward the evidence that they have he said that a peace bureau has been in this building for 15 years that they've had no indication hamas was in the buil

this is what's been going on in the state of israel, israel didn't fire missiles into the gaza strip into jerusalem and they did not file missiles at anybody, israel is under attack and the terrorist forces that are attacking israel are the same forces backed by the same old terrorist states. that's what israel is dealing with, what was the provocation, there was no provocation, a boss who is elected one turn in the palestinian authority is said to be the moderate he is actually terrorist he was elected in 2006 for a four-year term gone on for 17 years, there were supposed to be another election but it look like hamas is going to defeat them, he looked for a pretext to call off the election which is exactly what he did, he lied and he said the israelis were destroying parts of the mosque on the temple mount which they were not, riots broke out there, hamas decided to join in and what did they do they started firing missiles at the israelis. when our president says, president biden says the israelis have a right to defend themselves i think they do have a right to defend themselves, t

there would be no israel. thankfully, israel's a leadershp is resolute, united and committed to victory. the united states should respond to this. we should alsoop ensure that israel has the military hardware to whether this crisis we should therefore endeavor to ensure that israel has more interceptors for iron dome than hamas has rockets to kill israelis or to pay for the murderous terrorists. the chief negotiator and appeaser the biden administration reenters the agreement and grants sanctions and relief to the regime in tehran and in very short order that appeasement pay off will be converted into rockets and at american troops in the region. while israel is under attack we have heard plenty of talk and mealymouthed statements from politicians. but in this moment of crisis, israel needs more than words. israel needs and deserves our full support to defend itself and its people to achieve a just and lasting peace. madam president, i will yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. i come to the floor

israel is entitled to the right of self-defense israel is. and trying to live in freedom it is that some us that is responsible for placing a big piece of their terrorist operations in in a civilian building an infrastructure and therefore making an immaterial target any country know what would have done the same sense with this threat but nonetheless israel did still give tranced notice in mourning to all tenants but at the end of day the responsibility for this is so he was a must for putting the media and jeopardizing the media in civilian areas which is in so an egregious violation of international law ours and let me just follow up with you very quickly about something you mentioned because you know the i.d.f. of course we know says that the building contained hamas military intelligence assets but you know a.p. c.e.o. gary pruitt he's called 'd on the israeli government to put forward the evidence that they have he said that a peace bureau has been in this building for 15 years that they've had no indication hamas was in the building or

which are not fair minded israel have been more un resolutions against israel in some cases than against north korea and against iran and if you ask european countries and most democracies who is more democratic who treats their minorities better they would all well admit that israel is a democracy israel does treat as minorities better when they have a critique of this or absolutely and i don't i don't see it israel's perfect i do think that you have to look again at the overall context that when you're in a situation where we're in the 4th war with gaza in 12 years that creates us and this will level of friction that maybe you don't have to worry about in england but there are look there's a lot going on in the united states right now that's been a lot rougher i mean obviously black lies matter is something that we do cover on this show but 50 percent of the population of gaza are children and warplanes of these really have dropping bombs on it and when you say protecting minorities i mean over 50 percent of israelis are being fully vaccinated against grew out of i was one percent of p

so far has sided with israel as it always does but if the situation deteriorates within israel d.c. their stance changing. it can help pressure the united states basically again the biden administration is following the traditional american script on all israeli palestinian matters and trying to reverse the you know of a shows of trump going to the extreme certainly extreme pro an accession position but yes the standard american position is that when the israelis begin a bombardment of gaza they throw wholehearted support to it including during the 1st period of incursion they block criticism of israel in international forums and they don't really call for a cease fire at 1st they give the israelis sort of some wiggle room to do what they want then increasingly washington starts calling for you know calm and a cease fire and eventually go goes along with the u.n. security council resolutions and things like that and finally either it peters out or sometimes washington puts its foot down now in this case i think we're at that stage so the question is when does the pressure build on w

as the prime minister of israel. the only thing that influences my decision is the safety and security of israel and keeping at citizens and soldiers alive. the main goal of this operation was to hit the terrorist operation, had bring back peace to date. not everything is known to the public and to whom us and it will come out in time. at the stage, what i can say is we did brave and new things. boy, elaine had a muscle allow these 2 are palestinian people into all free men worldwide. i bring to you this good news, good news of the victory. and it is the victory created by the palestinian people. it is a victory carved by the noble blood of the fallen marchers. all resistance groups on joint forces and delta, one heavy blow to the enemy. this blow will leave an indelible mark on these really occupation forces on their political security and military. we salute our resistance and their leaders, what they still tensions remain high across the occupied west bank. but dozens of people have been injured during demonstrati

, empowering israel. amy: refaat alareer, please stay safe, palestinian and academic activists. we hear your children in the background. he's the editor of the book "gaza writes back" and the co-editor of "gaza unsilenced." we will link to your op-ed in "the new york times" headlined "my child asks, 'can israel destroy our building if the power is out?'" we will be speaking with the head of b'tselem. next up, we talked to the director of operations in gaza for the united nations relief and works agency. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. you can sign up for our daily news digest email by texting democracynow -- one word, no space -- to 66866. we will send you our news headlines and stories every day as well as news alerts. at least 10 palestinians from the same extended family died saturday when israel bombed the gaza refugee camp. eight of the victims were children. 15-month-old baby named omar was pulled from the rubb

israel's strategy is not working. i can tell you that, when you're dealing with cruel terror organisations and you want to keep human rights and you want to make sure that you won't have massive killing, you need to make sure that, when you work on a military basis, you work only for one reason — to defend your people. so, we're doing our best in order to defend our people. we're sending our soldiers to fight. my point is, it's not working. this is what i'm trying to say. listen to what your own idf commanders are saying — as early as february of this year, they were saying that hamas and islamichhad have amassed an arsenal of, i think, 13,000 rockets between them. so, let me... we know that they now have higher—tech equipment, including anti—tank weapons they've never had before. netanyahu proclaimed he'd basically destroyed their military capability after the last offensive. he may well do the same after this offensive. this is fruitless, it's not working. israel needs a different strategy. so, all i can tel

what we have here is israel as the rest of the oppressed. illegally evicting 1st of all palestinians from their homes jobs then you have the. the abhorrence of peaceful worshippers in the mosque in one of the holiest months of the calendar from one of the holiest nights of the calendar not only did they attack peaceful worshippers but they desecrate at the sites sanctity of one of the most holy your sites in the. turbulence we're seeing in the middle east has its roots in the lines drawn by the u.k. and its allies decades ago and many of these protesters now feel that the united kingdom has a pivotal role to play in bringing peace to that part of the world and making sure that both israelis and palestinians have a fair right to a peaceful homeland but palestine solidarity campaign also organized the march in cape town in south africa hundreds of people turned out for the protest they want the south african parliament to adopt a boycott and sanctions bill against israel south africa's ruling a.n.c. and the opposition economic freedom fighters

a major tween israel and palestinian militants. israeli forces. from the. ground. into israel. has already. turned against each other on the streets israeli prime minister. nurses dream of competing at the olympics this summer and served. by the. good to have you with us israel says its massing troops on the border with gaza and calling up thousands of reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the hamas ruled territory overnight israeli air force stepped up strikes on gaza as hamas launched hundreds of rockets far into israel this comes amid renewed violence between arab and jewish neighbors in israeli. and the death toll in this conflict is rising. plumes of smoke over gaza. on the ground residents picked through the destruction caused by days of his reilley air strikes palestinians in gaza spent the muslim holiday of eve under bombardment here amongst the rubble there is little to celebrate. the israel defense force bombs what it says is a military compound belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas in gaza its retaliate for rockets fired at israel the conflict

the response comes soon after the rockets launched towards israel. it follows a day of destruction in gaza. this building housed international news agencies reduced to rubble in seconds. israel's defense forces claim hamas intelligence was using the media as human shields. there is no evidence that hamas had a presence in the building. about the attack journalists pleaded with an israeli intelligence officer for more time. to go. you know we have from the a.p. news agency all of our equipment is in there including cameras and editing equipment give me 15 minutes to get it out. depleting fell on deaf ears. the airstrike went ahead as planned. in another part of gaza a family of 10 had no warning before bombs flattened their home they were killed in their sleep all except for a baby. in israel hamas rocket attacks also killing civilians one man died when a rocket struck his building in a tele be a suburb. others narrowly escaped death. and it would have been my house. coming out. the international community is desperate to see a cease fire. the united

i am not occupying tel aviv, israel. it is the israelis occupying palestinian territory and that is why it is imperative to get out of this mindset that there needs to be 2 parties. it is one party doing the occupying and another party on the receiving end of that occupation. the lack of leadership comes from the fact that there is no israeli leader that is willing to end its military rule and no international leader willing to force israel to end its military rule. when you have a framework in which palestinians are left defenseless with israel taking over their land, their lives, of course people are going to defend themselves, and this is why it is important to really make sure we understand this context. this is not about getting 2 people in a room and shaking hands and throwing away old anger, etc. this is about an ongoing military occupation, the denial of freedom and it is a one-way occupation that israel could easily undo if it took a decision to do that, but it has never taken that political decision, and sadly

long standing ties with israel. the administration had to be nudged in calling or suppoing that cease-fire. you saw an evolution over the past week, 10 days, especially with pressure coming from within the democratic party. what you saw here in the u.s., while the violence was breaking out in the region, den -- in israel, gaza and the west bank -- here in the u.s., you saw this shift,e would not have seen 10 years ago. you would not have seen that many democratic representatives coming out so forcefully in condemning some of the positioning or actions of the israeli government. we saw several democrats really need to call for a cease-fire now. this is no longer the time to st say israel has the right to defend ielf. you need to do more to intervene in that situation, to make the violence end. today, you had senator bernie sanders, who had introduced a resolution in the senate to block $735 million arms sale from the u.s. to israel saying right now, given the situation, it was not normal to validate such a huge arms

and center for israel studies he says hamas is firing multiple rockets at once to make it hard for israel to hit back. well already the israelis have been moving that tanks. from signaling to have lost that that's a potential that they're willing to do that i don't think the israeli government would want to initiate a major ground incursion into gaza that could really escalate the situation. and lead to a colonial war which i think at this point israeli government is reluctant to enter so i expect it really to limit itself it possible to maybe a day or 2 more days of fighting but of course this situation isn't really under anybody's control not the israeli government's not hamas nor the united states and there's always the possibility that it could escalate the last time there were serious. escalation of violence in 2014 neither hamas nor is it so wanted a 50 day complex that's what they ended up with because neither one could control the chain of events and that's the danger that i think we're out today where suddenly they've been firing more lockett's into central israel than previously

israel is a democracy _ in a vacuum. israel is a democracy and - in a vacuum. israel is a democracy and they . in a vacuum. israel is a | democracy and they are functioning, functioning well, and i think they did a very good job irrespective of the difficult political situation they are in. you pointed out something very important which is the palestinian authority. they have no jurisdiction is the palestinian authority. they have nojurisdiction in gaza. hamas and the palestinian authority hate each other. the palestinian authority is fearful of hamas. present biden using the palestinian authority to reconstruct, i think it is an idea. i don�*t get is going to work because the palestinian authority can�*t get in there. mahmoud abbas has been in power reallyjust by his own choice for the last ten years with that he hasn�*t even put himself up that he hasn�*t even put himself up for election, has he? you are correct _ up for election, has he? you are correct and _ up for election, has he? you are correct and i _ up for election, has he? you are correct an

lebanon invasion of israel and and how the lebanese were able to deter israel today is wasn't there to strike a lebanon because of the resistance in south lebanon and now the sense of hezbollah and i think what's happening is similar obviously with the vast difference that you guys as much closer and much weaker. but at the same time today there are as there are more rockets and more devastating impact of the use of these rockets than it used to be in 2040 and i think as long as this won't. continue to bleed and unless and you know as long as occupation continues these kind of clashes are inevitable and i don't think i think the palestinians have thought the is or it is the listen that regardless of the pounding regardless of the suffering that they insist on resisting and under storing their rights and i don't think they're going to succeed in fact today you can see with this massive military militarized state where they i mean you and you numerated the power they have the military they've got the assistance they have. the diplomatic cover they got from the united states yes they are

divestment from israel and economic sanctions to be placed on israel as well as the israel legally accountable through the international criminal court. i firmly believe that we tried that route of the peace process and all that it yielded was a level of both sides of them. and in fact, rather than both sides of them, it was mostly that palestinians had to swallow whatever it is that israel was doing and simply accepted and were now not at that stage anymore. we're at a stage now where people are saying enough is enough. we live for generations under israel's military rule. it's time for us to have our freedom and if it means pushing for boycotts divestment sanction, that's the route that we're going to be taking. and it's just a question of time before we see that this palestinian leadership either fall or ends up ends up taking on that same language and pushes for divestment the same way that the ansi did in south africa. daniel, i want to get the last few seconds to you to see if you were to change any of the elements as you look at the real mass, the we're looking at the world as it is rig

divestment from israel and economic sanctions to be placed on israel as well as the old israel legally accountable through the international criminal court. i firmly believe that we tried that route of the peace process and all that it yielded was a level of both sides. is them. and in fact, rather than both sides of them, it was mostly that palestinians had to swallow whatever it is that israel was doing, and simply accepted and were now not at that stage anymore were at a stage now where people are saying, you know, if is enough we live for generations under israel's military rule. it's time for us to have our freedom and if it means pushing for boycotts divestment sanction, that's the route that we're going to be taking. and it's just a question of time before we see that this palestinian leadership either fall or ends up end up taking on that same language and pushes for divestment the same way that the amc did in south africa. daniel, i want to get the last few seconds to you to see if you were to change any of the elements as you look at the real mass that we're looking at the wo

isn't a credible media there isn't an honest mediator the us is a lot of the state of israel and israel is a major are also the us israel continues to serve the interests of the u.s. and the region so that and the u.s. continues to provide weapons and financial aid and diplomatic as well support to israel of international love and you can also look at what happened at the u.n. security council and the last 2 days it hasn't been able to meet and discuss the situation in israel palestine or in gaza why is that because of the u.s. pressure it doesn't want to put pressure on it or of stop so what we need is a reporter for mediation to say to succeed we need to acknowledge that what causes and we need also to have a credible international players who are ready to the i'm aware of that would cause it's all right we have run out of time so we're going to have to leave the conversation i thank you so much to all of our guests sally abbot yossi metalwork and yasser. and thank you for watching you can see this in all of our previous programs again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot c

violence also broke out between israeli arabs and jews in israel. a state of emergency has been declared in ludd and ever of protesters clashed with israeli police and. it's the worst violence since 2014 and there are fears it could become a full scale war world powers now pleading for both sides to put down their weapons . we are deeply concerned about the escalation between israel and those launching rockets from gaza and we call for. restraint and for calm. but now both sides are counting their dead. and hoping for victory. meanwhile a german chancellor merkel's administration has condemned the rocket attacks on israel by militant groups saying israel has a right to self-defense the hamas a mouse and its extremist allies of launched more than a 1000 missile strikes against israel since monday it's used to say mr kill indiscriminately mentions people in israel have had to take refuge in an air raid shelters and some have already been killed by rocket attacks that includes both arab and jewish citizens of israel's the german government condemns in

its 2300 hours g.m.t. 1 am in israel and the palestinian territory nightfall has seen israel continue it says strikes in gaza and hamas continue to launch rockets towards israel in the past hour israel's iron dome air defense system was launched to intercept incoming hamas rockets at least 10 people there have been injured meanwhile israel has launched a new wave of air strikes on gaza only hours after one of its rockets hit a building housing foreign media outlets including al-jazeera israeli prime minister binyamin it's now less vowed to continue the offensive on gaza for cold as long as necessary while the head of hamas says the resistance will not give in harry fawcett reports from west on the day's events. from israeli army another gaza high rise became a condemned building minutes ticking down on a one hour warning. this the office of the associated press as it staff made instant decisions about what they needed to salvage to keep on working across the lift lobby staff from the al-jazeera bureau were doing the very same thing that's on the street outside the building's owner ple

israel put down its weapons, there would be no israel. thankfully, israel's leadership is readily united and committed to victory. united states has responded to the terrorist onslaught with equal results. that means that we should get israel the time and space and resources to destroy hamas war machine and protect its own people. we should also ensure that israel has a military hardware to whether this crisis. hamas may have as many as 10000 missiles, rockets and mortars held in reserve. and meanwhile, the works to the north with many times that arsenal. we should therefore, endeavor to restore that israel has more interceptors for iron dome that hamas has rockets to kill as an israeli's predict wherever and however that i've cut off aid until the palestinian authority until we can be absolutely sure another time the taxpayer money is being used to buy and build rockets or pay pensions or for the murderous terrorists and finally, the biden administration also immediately and is misguided flirtation with bureaucrats in iran by recalling h

what i think we have to separate between israel and the, the west bank and gaza inside israel. every citizen jew, arab christian more slim, it doesn't matter. who has the right to vote, has full democratic, right? you know, we've, as you know, we've had 4 elections in the 1000000 in the west bank, gaza, nice to meet someone who don't know who don't have the live on the israeli, the patients. but the palestinians in the west bank and gaza have autonomy and have their own elections for their own leadership. the fact the leadership haven't held election in 15 years is not an issue that is where i have to deal with. that's an issue for the palestinian leadership, the palestinians in the world, and the palestinians offer to me on it. and i step of the process and the know of course they got that also me and they got that process. the fact they haven't had an election in 15 years surely can't be blank. we're not sure about that rights to take part in us the latest human rights report, but then i part of it but tempered them, but then they are they are the only thing you living in the

the the national federation of israel journalists i would expect the israel press council and i would expect the duration of the press club or not to know what's going on and to speak out against this action ok it's in point that the founder of the ethical journalism network joining us on the phone from london we appreciate it thank you very much for joining us on the news are there will be 1st palestinian american women to be elected to the u.s. congress has condemned the bombing of our offices that's live says israel targeting media sources so the world can't see israel's war crimes legs by the apartheid in chief netanyahu. goes on to say it's so the world can't see the killing of babies children and their parents it's so the world can't see palestinians being massacred so the 1st reaction there coming in from the congresswoman in the united states let's speak to. the palestinian journalist and gaza of residence she joins us now from outside the hospice so good to have you back with us on the show. give us a sense of what's happening where you are right now. we're here at the shifa

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israel is reaching that point. there is a cyclical quality to the conflicts between the israel and palestinians in gaza. it looks very unlikely that there will be a solution. how much damage has israel done? it feels it is killed a lot of senior hamas officials and destroyed a lot of these networks of underground tunnels and a lot of this damage will be long lasting and hard to do pr but it will be repaired and logic and past experience tells you we could face this situation again. more fundamentally, where is the political will to see some way out of this? hamas as an organisation condemned as a terror group by israel and the united states and countries in europe and it does not believe israel has a right to exist and it has a very clear agenda. the palestinian authority is looking at the side from this and he is a bystander and he might want to negotiate, for negotiations to resume but he is probably right no more conscious of his political authority among his own people being usurped by hamas who have emerged as

this is news live from berlin tonight israel calls up thousands of army reserves as the conflict with the palestinians escalates israeli forces pounding targets including residential buildings in the palestinian territories and in israel cities jews and arabs turning against each other the prime minister condemning what he calls mob violence also coming up tonight taking time to smell the roses the new code that 19 therapy that helps patients to recover lost since is and to learn how to smell again and tesla's a lung muskat since bitcoin into freefall he says the car maker will no longer accept the cryptocurrency because it uses insane amounts of energy. i'm burned off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin tonight with the escalating conflict between the israelis and the palestinians egyptian negotiators are talking to both sides but so far there's no breakthrough to report israeli forces are reported to be building up at the gaza border and the army has called up thousands of reservists hamas militants have watched hundreds

, but in this moment of crisis, israel needs more than words. israel needs and deserves our full support to defend itself and its people and to achieve a just and lasting peace.vote. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. madam president, i come to the floor this afternoon to talk about two issues of vital importance to the united states and the world. first, i want to say a few words about the current violence paralyzing israel and the palestinian territories. then i want to spend the bulk of my remarks on the future of nuclear proliferation in the middle east. first, here in america, our hearts are breaking for israelis and palestinians. the images are just bone chilling. rockets and interceptors streaking across the night sky. parents huddled with their children as air raid sirens ring out. tragic images of innocent israeli and palestinian civilians, including children injured or killed in the blasts. for many americans who are turning on the news this week, it might appear that the events of the las

israel. many people have suggested that _ israel. many people have suggested that the - israel. many people have - suggested that the demographic within the democratic party is changing and might that lead to a recalibration of the relationship tween joe a recalibration of the relationship tweenjoe biden and israel now? he relationship tween joe biden and israel now?— relationship tween joe biden and israel now? he is feeling the wind blowing _ and israel now? he is feeling the wind blowing from - and israel now? he is feeling the wind blowing from a - the wind blowing from a progressive direction. he has deferred to progressives on a range of economic and social issues. this is a last stand in his relationship with israel and foreign policy operating according to older instinct with a nested but clearly you are right. we saw a protestant split over the years but that part is an split within the democratic party became a demographic split with black latino and asian voters, young voters in particular and educated women having radically different views on israel, palestinians a

just said that this war is between israel and hamas. so it seems that how much is becoming the forefront for the palestinian cows? how will this affect the political dynamics in palestine and we'll be able to see relevant look, you know, you are asking the question as to the wrong, the wrong people, you are sending me an idea to present that even though you answer, that's how i feel your bill, a question on what the israeli has said, come on and you asked me to respond to that. who cares about what the representative in the you and have said, i'm in shooting my own action. this is really how we should see things with respect . are there any playing cards left in the hands given the off brand, the us and western government stance towards the palestinians registers? i think right now the unity is the we would like to see that she's 515 maintain. then we have to talk about, you know, the human is getting assistance after that. obviously we go to what you have to ask in the beginning to go on to focus again on the port issue, the pose issue

committing war crimes is hamas by launching rockets into israel. obviously sitting in ottawa it's impossible for me to say one way or the other with certainty that more crimes are being committed simply because there is always an intent elements to the commission of a crime that needs to be proved by an independent court however based on the information before us now available. we have reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes are indeed being committed by elations of international humanitarian law primarily through the lack of respect for the principles of distinction proportionality in precautions in attack primarily from the israeli side but not exclusively. you talk about proportionality with israel warning that it's going to bomb government schools where civilians are sheltering and with i'm reporting the bombs of hit way too close to schools where people are sheltering does israel have any recourse to the principle of proportionality is it adequately balancing the perceived military advantage with the risks to civilians and their property

while many are criticizing israel's response to hamas rockets being volleyed their way israel's own iron dome missile defense system is one of the best in the world with over 90 percent accuracy now couple that with offensive weapons often sold by the us israel is by far the most protected country in the middle east for more on this i was also joined earlier by former pentagon official mike maloof here's what he had to say. you have the very strong israeli lobby in the united states that insists upon it and you always hear the rhetoric out of any administration that it is a. bastion of democracy surrounded by 16 hostile countries so it's so with that picture painted we feel that it's one of the democracies that we help establish when in fact it's not the type of democracy that we attribute to the u.s. given how they've treated the palestinians and how the united states regards or how the israelis have conducted themselves particularly in their what appears to be an apartheid that they learned very very well from the nazis who committed them to the very same. treatment during world war 2

including tel aviv and beyond city in israel let me just. something related to the building that was destroyed today even gaza this building actually used also there are offices that used to provide media services for international channels including russia today as well and this is a fact about this building that the building has many. facilities like stores stores that sell out it loads and other outfits for for the locals so this is. a further israeli attack on these buildings which apparently are meant to the standing. of the. party in gaza as different several several buildings belonging been destroyed so far including the high rises that have had masses of like and and the. building that was attacked by the israeli warplanes describing a very tense situation in correspondent rami khouri. palestinian solo dorothy rallies are being held around the world including in new york marches there led to scuffles with israel supporters and several arrests were also in the city but united nations security council has held an emergency meeting on t

proper, to 1940 israel. this is an enormous shift in public opinion in the united states and the israelis bet on trump and trumpism and they backfired. they have a serious political problem. >> we only have about a moment left, so please keep your response brief. ammar: i wanted to say first of all, none of the palestinians were granted the citizenship that he speaks about. some of them want to unification with their families. they are not seeking citizenship. but none of them were granted the citizenship. in the words of your guest, arabs are responsibility for the violence. this shows how much discrimination is taking place, including by the officials that are being here, and somehow in the middle between arabs and jews. >> we are going to have to leave the conversation there. thank you to our guests. and thank you, for watching. you can see this in all of our previous programs again by visiting our website al jazeera.com, and for further discussion, go to our facebook page, facebook.com/ajstory, and on tw

trying so carefully with israel. well i think that we have to be clear that the by the administration has made it clear president biden himself has been very clear that foreign policy is simply not his priority the focus within foreign policy is on china and secondarily on the iran nuclear deal which does include israel of course but does not include the palestinians but that the israel palestine conflict is not on his agenda when this recent escalation broke out we're hearing the the rhetoric as mike just said we're hearing some shift in the river in the in the recalibration of language but we are not seeing yet any kind of recalibration of actions the very extreme positions that president trump had put into into place including moving the embassy recognizing israel's right to annex huge parts of the west bank recognizing as somehow legitimate settlement construction saying it's not illegal recognizing israel's annexation of the golan heights all of that remains in place and president biden has made clear he does no

palestinians go through another day of death and bloodshed as israel continues pounding gaza with all tillery and strikes and. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up from all spittle beds to electricity to water people in gaza real on the shortages. almost bad the u.k. is taking a major step towards normality as coronavirus restrictions are being eased across england wales and most of scotland. jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy la is in court for a new trial is facing charges of inciting pro-democracy protests. at 17 g.m.t. and 8 pm in gaza where yes not a day more than 2000000 palestinians are living through what they describe as days and nights of terror and carnage. this is the immediate aftermath of an israeli airstrike there for the 2nd week homes clinics factories and roads have come on the fire 200 palestinians have died among them doctors 59 children have been killed. in the past few hours israel destroyed a building where gaza's religious affairs ministry was located and in another airstrike a senior commander of a slum mcjob was killed meanwhile hundreds of mourn

all of israel is under attack. it is a scary situation to be in. >> let's talk to our reporter in gaza. we saw images of the high-rise buildings being destroyed earlier on in the day. i can hear some sound now. tell us what is going on. >> this is the usual in gaza in the last hours. from time to time, we could hear explosions everywhere in gaza city. we learned there is another israeli airstrike in another place all over the gaza strip south and north. it seems the israeli ankle of targets has been promoted and now it is the last biggest target was the national and islamic bank of the central area. this bank has been totally destroyed. the same bank was destroyed in the israeli or in gaza in 2014. israel claimed this bank has been dealing or owned by hamas officials. that is why it is within the israeli bank of targets. next to office 13, 13 airstrikes have been hitting the main road in the gaza city that links south and north from gaza city, which made the road unusable anymore. the building here, our office has

support for israel and the situation after several dayssc f violence.. this was his first official visit to the middle east and it comes less than a week after cease-fire agreement between israel and hamas went into effect. >> tony, welcome to your first visit as secretary of state. i have central running, we had a long discussion, but we are running late but i want to be brief and speak aboutut three things. the first, the act to president biden and you were firmly supporting israel's right of self-defense. i have to say that secretary previous capacity in 2014 we had another round against hamas aggression supported us by having iron dome replenishment that you personally shepherded through the system very quickly andhe we remembered and we are very grateful to you. you give meaning to this now again with replenishment of our interceptors that saved lives on both sides and we are grateful for that, too.at we will give meaning to our commitment to self-defense hamas breaks the calm and attacks israel, our response will be very powerful and we have discus

across the border in israel the damage isn't as bad but people are living in fear of hamas rockets. wrecked buildings and burnt out cars proof that not all missiles are intercepted by israel's defenses. right here is not simple it is living with a fear that you never know where the rocket hits their rocket attacks for which there are no alarm as you see people are walking around as usual and it's quite distressing. them. the united nations has called for a car. only. this latest round of violence only the cycles of this destruction and these. problems in the eyes of existence. must stop the u.n. security council held emergency meetings but all efforts to produce a statement on the issue were so far blocked by the united states israel's closest ally. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he won't be reining in his powerful military anytime soon. continue for as long as it takes to bring back peace to you citizens of israel it will still take some time. people living in gaza say the magnitude of sunday's airstrikes was unlike anything they witnessed before as coals for deesc