else in israeli hands. the egyptians got what they wanted out of it so you know sadat had realistic goals about recovering the sinai and the war led to the recovery of the sinai for egypt so you've got to see that as a win for the egyptians. for the syrians they don't recall the golan so you've got to see that as a defeat essential. for the israelis all smoothly they had reversed the course of the war but they had suffered very heavy casualties so you kind of have to see it as a bit of a defeat for the israelis in terms of being caught by surprise. because shoot. you know a person in his life has three four friends who are close to their hearts and in their souls possibly on a number of them returned with me so i definitely don't think there are any winners in your age there will be someone who loses more someone who loses less but there are no winners in wars and that's something which has stayed with me since nine hundred seventy three because he. actually was. going to lead up to us least most of the com

everything else in israeli hands. the egyptians got what they wanted out of it so you know sadat had realistic goals about recovering the sinai and the war led to the recovery of the sinai for egypt so you've got to see that as a win for the egyptians. for the syrians they don't recall the golan so you go to see that as a defeat essential. for the israelis all smoothly they had reversed the course of the war but they had suffered very heavy casualties so you kind of have to see it as a bit of a defeat for the israelis in terms of being caught by surprise. you know a person in his life has three four friends who are close to their hearts and in their souls possibly of another of them returned with me so i definitely don't think there are any winners in your age there will be someone who loses more someone who loses less but there are no winners in wars and that's something which has stayed with me since nine hundred seventy three because the. picture was. going to lead up to us least most of the company no more. we use

the israeli military i do trust the israeli supreme court which is very much trusted by all the world israel is transparent that is right well i'm sorry not what. i may say things which may be inconvenient truth they're also not true but i live here to speak the truth let's go to our panel that we're talking to here in the city indiana brit's here is a palestinian state is roe is a human rights lawyer is a former advisor to the p.l.o. would you can see how much does have some responsibility for the way in which it runs gaza for the way in which it incites attacks against israel for some of the deaths in part in the gardasil the only not every choice israel has made israel's always had an opportunity to choose whether to kill these people who are who are protesting or not to kill them and they have deliberately chosen to kill them the idea that somehow we are all linked to have mass that somehow we because people are linked to hamas that they are not human beings is absolutely ridiculous he knows very well that the only time that a soldier can shoot is if that soldier himself or hersel

i think you'll find plenty of pretty genocidal statements from israeli leaders over to me a similar iran said in response to me we were there we could while you were iran has every day threatening to you because when i ask about israel you got it for saying. said he would burn the entire country of israel ok assad harm us you know what even members of an israeli knesset it's very clear a country dunny you ask again we've gone off on a lovely diversion which you are the master of how many nuclear weapons as israel i don't know by the way another day version which i have to see i have to comprehend i don't see a diversion let me ask it if an iranian guest came on my show and i asked about iran's nuclear he said i don't know and i want to talk about it would you be ok would you be outraged of course and you sit here as a foreign minister with the israeli government saying oh i don't know what about nuclear wars because there are there was like sixteen united nations security. council resolutions against iran and there is against israel and there are going to israel i know about about your n

i think you'll find plenty of pretty genocidal statements from israeli leaders over to me here and said in response to me well you know that we could while you are iran has every day threatening to you because when i ask about israel you got it for saying. said he would burn the entire country of israel ok i sad how must you know what even members of the israeli knesset it's very clear about country danny you ask again we've gone off on a lovely diversion which you are the master of how many nuclear weapons does israel have i don't know by the way another day version which i have to see i have to comprehend i don't see a diversion let me ask you if an iranian guest came on my show and i asked about iran's nuclear he said i don't know and i want to talk about it would you be ok would you be outraged of course and you sit here as a foreign minister with the israeli government saying oh i don't know what about nuclear wars because there are there was like sixteen united nations security. council resolutions against iran and there is against israel and there are going to israel i know about

israel wants to keep and the democratic fashion of the israeli a stub richmond and the israeli social life. and. this is a very interesting challenge and it's a very delicate. kind of walking on that very thin rope between the two that look we have for instance the low offering that allows any jew that never visited israel doesn't know anything about his jewish history to become an israeli citizen and vote in the elections while if you are punished union . lived here for many years but you left the country and you've lived in berlin or in the united states in new york you will not be eligible to even get a visa to israel but you know since we want to be boast israelis and jewish there is we need the israeli minority which is the arab minority which is twenty percent of the population will feel comfortable and i want that it's my interest they will feel comfortable here and that they can say i am an israeli and they're israelis and we both live in democracy and you know i studied arabic and i'm very proud of that but my children and right grandchildren don't know a word in arabic and t

it will in the house where this morning israeli defense forces say that hamas militants have fired more than a dozen rockets into israel it comes in retaliation to israeli airstrikes that hit several targets in gaza there are no reports of casualties as it stands at the moment the i.d.f. say those strikes targeted a hamas tunnel and other military sites in the southern gaza strip israel claims that it took action after palestinian protesters started to throw explosive devices and fire bombs at troops on the border there now earlier a fifteen year old palestinian boy was killed in clashes there one israeli soldier was also injured in the unrest. i. was. friday's riots marked a hundred days since the start of the so-called march over to palestinians have been rolling border fence every week accusing israel of occupying their ancestral lands as they see it throughout the day demonstrators put in the home to the israeli forces who responded with tear gas and live bullets in code reports in the city. so i'm only one hundred meters away from the fence that separates gaza strip with israel and

of course, he is talking about israelis, israeli citizens. what is your view of language like that? first of all, you know, i am the representative of the state of palestine at united nations. and i represent not only the palestinian national authority, i represent all palestinians, in the occupied territory and outside the occupied territory. so you represent them. tell me what your message to yahya sinwar is. i represent all of the palestinian people, including those in the gaza strip, here at united nations. with regard to the statement that you referred to, i did not read it. i am a man of peace. i work under international law. i promote and uphold international law at united nations, in defending the interests of the palestinian people. i do not advocate war. i stand against aggression against all people, including the palestinian people who live under the israeli occupation, including in the gaza strip. it is not so much a question of what you advocate. it's what you are prepared to unilaterally, categorically and clearly condemn. will you condemn those words of yahya sinwar t

something the policy an israeli conscious is something which is quite different. you've heard what it meant when of what has been saying basically which is this is not discrimination this is a legitimate is rarely right to do so. well let me start by saying we the palestinians do not really have a problem whatever it is where it would like to call itself without they want to call it the nation state of the jewish people or whatever they want to but as long that infringes on the original price of the palestinian people who are the or original inhabitants of this land that's why the palestinians are calling this a bill as a racial and of racist legalisation by the state of israel and i could say this for a number of reasons first of all this new bill does not recognize the right of the art of palestinians in the state of israel in which constitute about twenty percent of the population of israel second. this building fairly to the other palestinians as none do is it even does not even recognize them as as a minority in the state of israel it refers to them as non je

this is why the israeli authorities use the term fence but in fact. part of the wall to me is actually worse than what you see here. the footprint is much wider you have. fifty or sixty or seventy metres plus a buffer zone and in terms of the damage it does to be environment in terms of all of trees uprooted irrigation systems because it's extreme much worse than the wall part here and in many cases the israelis have taken land that has been passed down through generations of palestinian families. spend all his life. but the arrival of the wall has brought disaster. relief. that both you look at the. moment is ahead it is about. the point is that the will of the children is at the whim of the. will from nasser was that the world will meet and with the destruction of the olive trees comes economic ruin as palestinians are left on able to work because they are forced to spend so long negotiating the divide. the bloody about. what i've been kidding with. bated. breath because. of being. in myself. with the look probably with the. blood but is it a little

the israeli military i do trust the israeli supreme court which is very much trusted by all the world israel is transparent is right well i'm sorry not what. i may say things which may be inconvenient truth they're also not true but i live here to speak the truth let's go to our panel we're talking to you here in the studio indiana brit's here is a palestinian state is roe is a human rights lawyer is a former advisor to the p.l.o. would you can see how much does have some responsibility for the way in which it runs gaza for the way in which it incites attacks against israel for some of the deaths and in the gardasil the only not every choice israel has made israel's always had an opportunity to choose whether to kill these people who are who are protesting or not to kill them and they have deliberately chosen to kill them the idea that somehow we are all linked to have mass that somehow we because people are linked to hamas that they are not human beings is absolutely ridiculous he knows very well that the only time that a soldier can shoot is if that soldier himself or herself is und

the israelis turned them down flat. israel's policy is that the iranian military presence in be completely withdrawn. the problem from moscow's point of views that while they understand israel's security interest, taking the iranians out of syria means that a sod -- that assad's government is not .ecure at any point in time the ideal outcome for russia would be a solution that holds the balance between israel and iran, gets the united states out , perhaps russian recognition in europe, about which we can talk, the creation of some sort of antiterrorist coalition with moscow and washington in the lead that allows moscow to do what it ssad rules then i saia over syria, possibly in a modified way but without any moscowges, and that cannot eject iran from all of syria and it would be counterproductive for it to try. underlying that kind of thinking is the fact that iran has long been seen in moscow in the following way. one, it is a state with which we must have an enduring relationship despite all the difficulties that exi

to me know if the israeli security cabinet is still in session. this is another question that we've been trying to get clarification on from israel's army there have been reports throughout the last several hours that there was an emergency meeting of israel's security cabinet that they were discussing what to do with regards to the situation in gaza again we have reached out repeatedly to israel's army they have refused to give us any details about if the security cabinet is meeting how long that meeting may or may not have gone on we expect that in the coming hours or at least by morning we should have more clarification on that point peter mohammed stay close in the meantime thanks very much well phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies she joins us live now from washington phyllis bennis welcome back to the news here on al-jazeera is this column is this a truce or is it just a chance to reload. well it's important that they use the word calm and not the word peace there has been no peace in gaza for many many decades and

responded by shooting at israelis and this is how disciple of violence goes on and. doesn't this look for israel you've got hamas sending out these balloons with explosives destroying what property hundreds of palestinians are dying in response. no hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations when they try to storm the fence or try to throw explosive charges at the soldiers and. just mention this happened over the last four months but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet if he's not the any interest to try and repel those or would be invaders by force sometimes after all other means have been exhausted yes it's true it's a don't resort to live fire. how would you compare the situation we're seeing now to the operation of almost exactly four years ago. the operation four years ago started by miscalculation and the background then was the abduction of three israeli youngsters in the west bank by a squad whi

home after more than seven months in an israeli jail the palestinian teenager locked away for slapping a soldier tells her story and calls for unity. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also ahead. cambodia's ruling party claims victory the prime minister who's left for thirty three years as back from war. he won't be back in his old party a day before a zimbabwe votes former leader wopper mugabe makes a surprise intervention. monsoon rains bring death and devastation to india's most populous state and more heavy falls are coming in the days ahead. the palestinian teenager who became a global symbol of resistance after being thrown in jail is now back in the home where her story the gad i had some amy has in the past hour held a news conference in the village of nabi sala where she was arrested back in december she called for palestinian unity and spoken for the need for education she was still sixteen when she was taken away after slapping an israeli soldier who entered her family's property go live to andrew symonds in a moment first the day of our unions and thanks

this is why the israeli authorities use the term fence but in fact. part of the wall to me is actually. what you see here. the footprint is much wider you have a fifty or sixty or seventy meters play. buffer zone and in terms of the damage it does to be environment in terms of all of trees uprooted irrigation systems cause it's extreme much worse than the wall part here and in many cases the israelis have taken land that has been passed down through generations of palestinian families. spend all his life. but the arrival of the wall has brought disaster. relief. at the. moment is a hit it is it. is that the will of the children is at the whim of the. nasser that the world will meet and with the destruction of the olive trees comes economic ruin as palestinians are left on able to work because they are forced to spend so long negotiating the divide. the bloody about. what i have been killed with. bated. breath. in. a year with a look probably with the. blood but is it a little too. but it is an official's little. visit the one in the hand. this was tha

for palestinians and israeli soldiers died in the latest violence on friday. syrian rebels in the southwestern province of kony trucks have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces president bashar al assad's government is not close to king but complete control of the countryside. and daniel ortega the nicaraguan president has turned on catholic bishops have been trying to mediate months of violent unrest or take a call them satanical terrorists and as for speaking on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. a protest is being killed at a rally outside the headquarters of a paramilitary unit in southern iraq his death brings the total number killed twelve three weeks of protests against poor government services and unemployment imran khan reports now from the capital baghdad but many have also been rallying in solidarity with the protestors in basra. the protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a small the gathering in seen in the last two weeks in the south of iraq it's

this of it ok let's put that point this was a point of the line with the issue i'm prominent british israeli historian former professor here oxford university. any other country would do what is rather israel has a right to defend itself is what we here i served in the idea. in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. and i served loyally empowered leigh because in my plan the idea was true to its name it was the israel defense force but after the drew nine hundred sixty seven war everything changed. israel became a colonial power and the idea became the brutal police force of a brutal colonial power but there is absolutely no serve the phone's justification for your throw of brutal policies in gaza over the last eleven years a whole series of war crimes were committed in israel continued to commit war crimes in gaza in every successive vicious assault on a day because of gaza will come home isn't out of prison not the problem that points that you keep saying you know israel has a right to defend itself israeli families are at risk but when you look at the numbers over the last ten fifteen years ju

sderot, one israeli town, was hit. in return, the israelis used their warplanes to bomb targets across gaza. what is your message to those inside gaza who resume the rocket and mortar fire? well, first of all, i'm not so sure that, you know, this cycle of violence was initiated by the palestinian side. i think it was initiated by the israeli aircraft and the bombardment by their artillery, in which a number of children were killed, at least four, and more than 65 have been injured, through this violence from the israeli side. i don't believe that there was, you know, but maybe one or two from the israeli side there were injured in this cycle of violence. from our position, that we declare very repeatedly, we are against the killing of innocent civilians, from any side, and under any conditions. that's why we believe that, if there is an international presence in that area, under the banner of united nations, that will provide protection for our people, and would put an end to any justification from the israeli side to

political issue for the israeli prime minister for the israeli government there's been a lot of pressure coming from especially his right wing coalition members to take firm action and it's already been pretty firm i mean they've been targeting with strikes very close to the sites where people have been launching these kites the policy up until this point has been to strike hamas linked targets from the air within gaza and territory now they're taking this economic measure the israeli army says that the government was responding to the recommendation of the head of the israeli military but the israeli military itself has been arguing in recent months for improving the humanitarian situation inside gaza because of the potential security impacts of its continuing to worsen we've seen all sorts of his national initiative even the american delegation gerrard and jason game greencard who are here a couple of weeks ago there was talk of them trying to engineer some sort of a deal involving investment into gaza reconstruction efforts inside gaza so this comes as something of a surprise but i th

factions in the showdown with the israeli occupation. this new and growing islamist trend which heralded the formation of such groups as islamic jihad and hamas found natural allies and several wealthy arab states. and. we attended a meeting and more than half of those in attendance would kuwaitis and not palestinians i found that surprising chairman artifact knew that how mass received support from the popular level in the arab gulf states below on the other hand wasn't allowed to solicit donations because it was bound by agreements with the host governments to receive support only from them. however support for this largest groups among the palestinians was still in its infancy wary of the new challenge to fatten the movie had soon stamped their authority on the intifada. knew the palestinian uprising had thrown the palestinians a lifeline that could help them realize their aspirations for a homeland. but this but the ideas that i thought there was all the. intifada for yasser arafat there is no such thing as an intifada for the sake o

well mohammed germ jhoom has more now on the israeli government's response from west jerusalem israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time. well living under o

of the sentences and that those who were killed in attacks on israelis and on the israeli military or their families get payments the israeli government says means that an encouragement to such action the israeli defense minister said that that festival as he called it was over and that every shekel would now be automatically deducted what happens is that the israeli government collects on behalf of the palestinian authority up to about one hundred fifty million dollars a month in terms of duties that are owed to it this would be withholding about three hundred million dollars a month according to the israeli government that amounts to about seven percent of the entire palestinian authority budget so it is a sizable chunk of that budget it's not entirely debility. but it is a large move against what the palestinian authority says is money that is owed to it and it is vital to maintain social welfare not least of the six and a half thousand people who are imprisoned in israeli jails and their families. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the g

to post israelis and arabs is the same spices course. we are actually the same the same flavors and to find different ways a lot of times. you can see the exact. rides out of a. kitchen used to lots. of israel the kitchen also use it as it is a fuse a kind of a fusion. so what's up the system we have yes we have become time salted fish. we have all kinds i was conscious we have a fine if you rush outside. we have to push the cows that. we have. to. go away and if not most probably because of all that rushing immigration. so we also have many tio. shop idiom for that and there are a lot of if you can see here in jerusalem there is a big community of video visuals my. through the entice ing brains of produce on sale here there is one unifying feature everything in the smoke is strictly kosher that's to see it conforms to jewish dietary laws forbidding sets in the us and so you'll find no shrimps at the fishmonger and no pool at the butcher. no one familiar with the muslim idea of hand then that's his food it is committed according to islam

government's response israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time. well living under occupation in gaza has left many desperate for change even if it does me

was injured in what the israeli minister described as a sniper attack. and shri palestinians were killed as a result of israel's response to that attack yesterday we had the un special coordinator to pull the middle east peace process nicholai mlodinow off who came to gaza of meetings with the hamas leadership he then went back around mid-morning to israel and then came back for a second meeting so you understand by that level of activity just how desperate the international community the u.n. are trying to forge some sort of last thing ceasefire we also understand that the egyptians have been very active as well the head of the egyptian intelligence currently in the u.s. we understood spoke to hamas yesterday. meanwhile the language from israel continues to be very full stright earlier today defense minister avigdor lieberman speaking in one of the cuzzi say that if israel is forced to go on red alert basically reference to the rockets from project cells that are far from it into israel he said that gaza will be on raids too and we know that there have

else in israeli hands. the egyptians got what they wanted out of it so you know sadat had realistic goals about recovering the sinai and the war led to the recovery of the sinai for egypt so you've got to see that as a win for the egyptians. for the syrians they don't recall the golan so you're going to see that as a defeat essential. for the israelis also mostly they have reversed the course of the war but they have suffered very heavy casualties so you kind of have to see it as a bit of a defeat for the israelis in terms of being caught by surprise. you know a person in his life has three four friends who are close to their hearts and in their souls possibly on a number of them returned with me so i definitely don't think there are any winners in your age there will be someone who loses more someone who loses less but there are no winners in wars and that's something which has stayed with me since nine hundred seventy three because he. actually was. going to lead up to us least most of the company no more

now, you can blame the israelis. but you can also blame palestinians for allowing enough justifications for the creation of that mess. maybe they were misled. maybe they had no other choice. but this is what you have. you have enough building blocks to create the myth of israeli -- >> were the palestinians misled during the four years? and how are they coping with their fears? we went to see a person who fought for victims w witut a futurere. >> i h had mycousin killed by the israelis. anand we were susupposed to hav party here. we lit candles for all those who passed away to give us life. so we lit candles. and we cried there. then we came back home, we danced. we also cried again. andd for us, that was the resistance. >> the regression in the last three years has been incredible in the relationship between palestinians and the israelis. is there any way that you found to go tothe heart ofisraelis and tell them don't be afraid of me? >> i don't believe in this fear. we are the people who are afraid of them. they are

society and add to the idea nation of the israeli arab community lots of questions that we hope our next guest so how will answer for us she's an attorney at a dollar which is the legal center for ad minority rights in israel and she is via skype from haifa. thank you so much for being with us first of all where will this new law are applied will it apply to occupied territory to east jerusalem to the west bank to the golan heights. yes the millions lot of. the national. groups as. part of. it since he has illegally and most. of these activities that means. it will work well or so there needless to say. that these areas as you say i mean the an extension of this territory by israel is considered illegal under international law so team that this law violates prohibitions under international law how can the israeli state it be held accountable therefore for violating international law. and what look you all at once will be pulling for oracle that is obscene these are the worst moves in the uk importantly loss of easily the personal citizens of this thing. to get work the court. a prot

live under the israeli occupation, including in the gaza strip. live under the israeli occupation, including in the gaza stripm live under the israeli occupation, including in the gaza strip. it is not so much a question of what you advocate, it is what you are prepared to unilaterally, categorically and clearly condemn. will you condemn those words that i quoted to you? i condemn all words that harm civilian populations, whomever they are emanating from and whomever they are emanating from and whomever they are directed against. you earlier referred to gaza as a present. you talked about the desperate conditions, humanitarian conditions that people live in. pretty much 2 million people inside the gaza strip. in that circumstance, why is it that, over recent months, the palestinian authority has been imposing its own financial punishments and sanctions on the people of gaza?|j financial punishments and sanctions on the people of gaza? i would not use, you know, these words that you are using. wejust had a session of the palestine national council,

arrived one was a member of hamas immediately after the strike mortars were fired into southern israel israeli army has reportedly been ordered to prepare for a military offensive in gaza if burning balloons and kites continue to be launched from the area. meanwhile state media is reporting ten government buses have entered a village in the southern connecticut province to evacuate rebels to adlib it follows more government airstrikes on opposition held territory in the province the syrian government has retaken large areas of going to trial as parts of a months long military offensive in the south of the country recapturing the province would put bashar al assad's government face to face with israel along most of its front here for the first time since twenty eleven. no one is a retired jordanian air force general and a military analyst he says it's clear the conflict in syria is coming to an end i think the only book at tremaine is the the ice a law book at which is between jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the des

was made at midnight local time it followed another bloody day along the border which saw one israeli soldier shot and killed and four palestinians die in retaliatory asterix and tank fire let's go live now to gaza city charles stratford is the chance what's happened since this cease fire agreement came into effect at midnight local time. it seems once again that we've been brought back from the brink of a full scale conflict in gaza but interestingly in the last how the i.d.f. the israeli military announced that one of their tanks targeted a hammer specific ssion in the northern area of the gaza strip off what it says suspects trying to infiltrate into israel the the army saying that off to that tank attack the so-called infiltrators went back into gaza shows you that although there is calm head calm is always a relative term when speaking about gaza there is this constant risk all of an escalation happening again but certainly with respect to how much his response last night to what israel says were the talks says the targeting of sixty eight have lost positions we understand those

was made at midnight local time it followed another bloody day along the border which saw one israeli soldier shot and killed and four palestinians die in retaliatory asterix and tank fire let's go live now to gaza city. stratford is that what's been the situation since this cease fire came into effect at midnight local time. but it seems agent that once again full scale conflict has been brought back from the brink it has been calm since that cease fire was cool that restoration of calm was cooled full last night at midnight as you say was the first israeli soldier to have been killed we understand by a sniper fire since the two thousand and fourteen war the israelis responded with so the i.d.f. so the israeli military say by hitting sixty eight targets sixty eight hammers targets in gaza things as i say have been calm overnight we were expecting more of a response from hamas certainly old indications suggest that like israel hamas does not want another war in now we understand that hamas did respond with three rockets before that cease fire was cooled two of which at least were inte

the israeli president says the legislation could harm jewish people and israel's enemies could use it as a weapon protesters against the all march to tell of even saturday. nowell of invading the housings of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism could i came today to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior to the nation state law will discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinians say they see the move as legitimizing apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into stephanie decker al-jazeera. let's bring in our gas from t

and west to loosen them with more on the israeli government's response israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a ceasefire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time for boats loaded with they don't know on their way

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the israelis termed it an accident the palestinians said it was premeditated murder. whatever the case the incident sparked an outbreak of palestinian protests that spread like wildfire throughout the occupied territories. the intifada or uprising was born. a little different that there intifada was the first time since one thousand forty eight of us palestinians living under occupation were at the vanguard of resistance from one thousand nine hundred sixty seven to one nine hundred eighty seven the goals of buy the sign was based on the premise that liberation would come from abroad we want exactly what the israeli people enjoy. democracy freedom and independence. at the same time the intifada is a message of hope it is a message of all not only to the best in years but also to their neighbor says today it is. for the first time since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the israeli occupied palestinian territories had become center stage in palestinian affairs. the fact that dominated p.l.o. were quick to see the potential of this popular uprising on a fathom the m

israel launches as strikes and tank fire of hamas positions in gaza killing four people and an israeli soldier is killed by palestinian fighters on the gaza border . and though i maryam namazie in london you know with al jazeera also coming up rebels start leaving syria southwest in the north as the u.n. calls for safe passage for one hundred forty thousand civilians displaced by the fighting. as warnings grow that person could crash out of the e.u. with no deal we look at what that would mean for people in the u.k. and in europe. and international observers keep a close eye on zimbabwe's first elections without longtime ruler robert mugabe. it's been another day of escalating violence at the gaza border with israel israeli as strikes in time fire aimed at hamas positions in gaza killed at least four people three of them from mass members and the israeli military says gunfire at the gaza border fatally wounded a soldier the first israeli killed since the protests began on march thirtieth at least one hundred forty nine palestinians have died in the border demonstrations as protest as a

the palestinian teenager who became a symbol of resistance against the israeli occupation has been freed from jail seventeen year old had to tommy was jailed for slapping and kicking an israeli soldier images and footage of the incident live streamed by her mother went viral on social media and the internet she's now back home and she remains defiant and her simmons house the story from nabil sala in the occupied west bank. released from a jail term that's much the same as hundreds served by young palestinians every year but the case of i had to mimi is profoundly different tasting freedom with a man who shared jail time with greeted by her father's she's already being revealed by palestinians as an icon of resistance to the occupation. dog at the bottom of the lot i was subjected to many violations during the interrogation the end. arrogated used bad words also i have the right to have a famous soldier during interrogation i never got that in the three interrogation sessions instead of one interrogator there were two they interrogated me for long hours in my plans for the future to cont

and we have not heard anything official yet from the israeli side but in the past always the so the israeli army has given the all clear for residents of the southern communities around the gaza strip to go back to their normal routine as of yesterday they were told to stand near the shelters now as you know it all comes on the backs of these three months of protests around the gaza strip and the border tensions as well and the best weeks have been very very strong in the past couple of days now it's still to see whether this calm and it's always relative when you talk about a calm in gaza and the surrounding area will actually hold it's a very volatile situation. so still a fragile situation there at the moment tanya can the international community do anything to ease the tensions do you think. well we understand that again this ceasefire or return to come as of as also last week was brokered by egypt and also by the you and there's also talk a bit of a wider plan by u.s. involvement in the region but nothing solid on that yet so all eyes are actually on cairo as well as on the you and pla

managed to see more with israeli troops in egypt. international correspondents accompanied to minister of defense moshe dyan on visits to israeli forces west of the canal. president sadat claimed the israeli operation and deficit was in the air television stunt an attempt to cover up israeli failures in the first week of. trouble in fact it was a really serious problem i knew it was not just a media operation but that israeli breakthrough was a personal blow to me as a commander of the second army. davis walk the area now coming under israeli control was a rich agricultural land totally different from the waste desert of sinai. egyptian special forces working in small groups use the last undergrowth to set ambushes for the israeli troops. it was clear. why was i was so confident because i knew they were up to the job i had faith in the troops and commanders. i had lived with them for a long time i was the commander of the fatah troops for three years and i knew them to be brave fighters real men and reliable. egyptian chief of staff

lawyer from doha also coming up freedom lost a palestinian teenager jailed for slapping and kicking on israeli soldier says the legal rights were violated i'm against him i mean there were no female soldiers here and i have a right to that i had two male interrogators questioning still as a minor they didn't every family member to be there which was my right. zimbabwe's former leader robert mugabe endorses the opposition candidate the head of monday's presidential election. and inflaming tornadoes spreading wildfires destroy homes families and livelihoods in northern california. the opposition in cambodia is calling for protests after the ruling party claimed victory in sunday's election which has been widely described as a sham by human rights groups prime minister hun sen who's been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation but last year he dissolved the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason when he joins us live now from phnom penh when someone's been the reaction so far to the election result. we're done i think most independent obs

israeli government of discrimination against them they are you know israeli palestinians they hold an israeli passport and yet they are treated they say and second class citizens now this bill has been a long time in the making six years it's hugely controversial also inside israel it was an eight hour debate that went and late into the night tensions were high heated debate let's take a look at how it all unfolded. its official israel is a state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty families with two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime turns israel into a fascist state yes. most controversial cl

border has killed an israeli soldier israeli as strikes and tank fire aimed at her last position in gaza killing at least four people three of them come out members. syrian rebels in the southwestern province of connection have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces and the new york times is saying donald trump's formal lawyer michael cohen secretly taped a discussion with him about payments to an ex playboy model who says she had an affair with the u.s. president. now the green party in the u.s. is hoping to benefit from the country's current political impasse at november's midterm elections the party believes it can take advantage of anger at the trumpet ministration and frustration with the democratic party around two hundred candidates and their supporters holding their annual meeting in the state of utah christian salumi hospital. in salt lake city utah against a backdrop of beautiful local scenery and national political turmoil the green party is holding its annual national meeting. these left leaning green candidates are hoping to capitalize