in the southeastern area of the gaza strip. the israeli military saying that it was an operation designed to enhance israeli security that has been read as potentially some kind of intelligence gathering operation by the israeli media and that these forces who were traveling inside a civilian car were challenged by hamas military officials and a gunfight broke out during which a senior commander of the hamas military wing the office on brigades in southeastern gaza was shot and killed there were israeli airstrikes which came in as these men were evacuated back into israeli territory and by the end of it seven palestinians and overlit been killed and one israeli another israeli officer wounded six other palestinians wounded what has been extraordinary in the time since then is that both israel and hamas essentially adopted the same narrative israel saying that this was not a targeted assassination attempt which would have been extremely risky thing to do and a counter-intuitive thing to do at a time when both sides been trying t

strip to surrounding the gaza strip with now more than a decade old full. surrounding and blockade of gaza which has led to a horrific humanitarian catastrophe inside you now have the situation where israeli control is complete including sending troops whenever they choose in this case it was special forces troops inside the gaza strip to carry out assassinations and so we can expect much from the united states then but what should happen now to ensure that this raid this israeli army raid and to harass is not going to need to . to an escalation that that actually leads to the kind of you know wars that we saw in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twelve where hundreds if not thousands of thousand civilians were killed. well this is not something that is has any capacity for the palestinians to make that decision this is something that the israelis will do or not do and they do so they make their decisions knowing that they will have the full uncritical support of the trump administration that the challenge that we face there is no existing pres

it order to run the gaza strip let's say some people will say that the p.a. . you under if their work of the palestinian reconciliation would take over the gaza strip whether they would be a two capable of dealing with the security situation because yes you have hamas which also have other groups inside the gaza strip let's say more radical groups and hamas has in the past rein them and has in the car stopped them from walk with such a course is not only hamas that operate inside the ship it's very complicated situation i think we're going to have to take so i wait and see how the evening is going to develop what kind of negotiations behind the are going to go on to try complication down but but again yes this is something that no one expected particular just a couple of days off with the million dollars into the gaza strip civilian civil servants being paid power being let in and this is all part of the negotiation. and israel would have allowed that everyone. with a question.

it but had carried out over a hundred strike throughout the gaza strip. the gaza strip is going to. be on the three hundred seventy blockade against communities and doesn't it for. now as we mentioned the un is calling on all the warring parties to show maximum restraint has there been any attempt at mediation so far. well there are reports. and trying to mediate as they've done before but unlike other previous rounds that we seen in the past couple of months there is no sign yet that those efforts will actually lead to a period of calm again i think it's really crucial to see what happens in the coming hours both sides have said in the past week that they don't want to go to an all out war but what they're doing right now is that both sides want to show they're trying now the people of gaza tanya are living in desperate conditions and this latest violence only makes things worse are there any prospects for things improving there in gaza under hamas control. was actually quite interesting this escalation because it comes actually in the middle of a period where efforts were made by

of gaza as they got into a civilian car or they were in a civilian car they got into gaza strip of in a distant of three kilometers there was an exchange of gunfire between hamas. members and the israeli forces in that civilian car the exchange of gunfire led to the killing of a senior officer of the israeli forces and another being injured and then that's close air strikes to happen right away now what happened today from hamas. and firing all those rockets on israel sees that is. what the response that is supposed to be the normal response that is supposed to come out of hamas or as a result to. the escalation that happened by the israeli forces yesterday in entering the gaza strip. ok great for the update there and of course there are strikes are still heard. yes until now there are strikes do still continue in different areas of gaza strip and also rockets. continue to be fired on israel we know also that there is a house that has been struck in israel there are no serious injuries until now except one that has been reported but until now this is how the situation is going on. and

throughout the gaza strip. the gaza strip in the government. and on the community on the over three hundred seventy rockets against communities and seven it's actually quite interesting this escalation because it comes actually in the middle of a period where exits were made by egypt and the u.s. and special coordinator to reach a calm to tween isn't some of which included something that my electricity came in the back to the ago of so that's not always upon us and trees web page with cash from qatar to ease the situation but at the moment it's unclear what will happen with those efforts and people in gaza quit continues rounds of violence that come back again and again it's kind of part of the life but of the three was everybody is of course by far it doesn't really need to know war are a longer military operation they are pulled down and trying to mediate as they've done before but unlike other previous rounds of the scene in the past couple of months there is no sign yet that those efforts will actually lead to a period of calm again i think

israeli special forces have left the gaza strip now though we are waiting to hear more from the israeli army on this we can now speak to aren't hind the military correspondent for the truce imposed she joins us over the phone from tel aviv what what can you tell us about this security operation what has happened here in gaza tonight and what might have fronted the israelis to do this. good evening actually all israeli troops left because the area shortly after the incident occurred what we have heard and what we have heard for it by the military here in israel is that a firefight broke out between the idea of troop militants in her new this evening and the israeli troops are not work ducted. the army i denied any of the reports there are many reports recommitting on what's up on social media. all across the social network has even the troops have been abducted during the firefight but it seems to have actually happened was that the troops going in to collect reconnaissance and not actually carry out an assassination which happened tonight but what happened was that the troops fired on a

and the latest strikes israel bombed hamas al aksa television in the gaza strip destroying the studios in gaza city as well as nearby buildings the israeli army says the strikes and shelling but response to about three hundred rockets fired from gaza into israel it says the iron dome defense system intercepted most of the rockets but some hit homes in southern israel while one struck a bus three palestinians were killed in the violence and one israeli soldier was critically injured now hamas says its rocket fire was a battalion into the deaths of seven palestinians killed during and and coersion by israeli special forces in the gaza strip on sunday. he is general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and speaking from ramallah he says israel's illegal operation and gaza created the provocation. what we see today is a result of an israeli aggression that took place unfortunately what israel did that went unnoticed most media outlets in the world as you say that israel is create a bit of a creation and then the palestinians respond and it becomes like palestinian aggression th

agreement that i had to agree to letting petrol into the gaza strip. also the. the strategic. route between my lair and the dead sea i thought that we had to give up but the prime minister made a written agreement and. prevented that from happening also regarding other subjects i wouldn't detail all of them there was a difference of opinion. despite the difference of opinion. i've tried to stay as a. faithful member of the knesset as long as possible to keep all of the differences within. but it has failed. from my point of view the two point critical point which i said that is impossible to carry on one is the fifteen million dollar bill that went into the gaza strip from hamas fifteen million dollars in cash that was taken into cases and everybody who says that there is inspection or control over that what will happen with the money after. they have gone over the border. it's not clear at all. and by the way what anybody who is following what's following the arabic channels has to understand why this money fifteen million dollars why they. first of all went to the families.

to the gaza strip the gaza to living in or even even if there is no bombing because if there is not claiming a bombing so people are waiting for bombing. that's why in the two cases it is fear and. anxious and even military wing i think that not all not all. are with confrontation with the military living. all right we'll leave it there for now summing up with saddam sharing his thoughts from gaza and i understand that we do have an image that we can bring you now but this is an image of one of those targeted in the raid in khan yunus we know that a senior hamas commander senior commander within the military brigade nor baraka was killed and these are the latest reports that we have but an image here of no baraka we understand one of those targeted in on eunice we know that six palestinians were killed in this raid. israeli special forces entering the strip in an operation that pay is to have come as a surprise just a time when tensions along the border appear to be easing as you hearing there. a deal had been struck to get more aid into gaza to get fuel into gaza or and also negotiations ta

nineteen injured then they go across the gaza strip. it is the last update that the palestinian factions declared that. targeting a bus that they have targeting a bus according to them the bus was carrying carrying soldiers according to the east of value north of gaza strip at four thirty this afternoon and this in there that targeting the bus with corny iraq it has come as a retaliation of the crime in the night and that meantime that. is damaging had spock's beard clear that if i insist on if which means that there is. a margin over the city if the aggravation continues that means you had with the expand or the palace you know factions are going to expand the old fire according to the jihad. sorry. sorry to interrupt you are rockets still being fired on from gas so we've heard reports of maybe two hundred of them going out tonight again please so i'm just wondering do you know if there are still rockets being fired from gaza things you know at this moment at this moment there is no oracle at this moment or maybe ten minutes ago or mor

strip so that's an admission that it seems to have had soldiers inside the gaza strip and then according to the spokesperson that they are now back inside israel according to residents in gaza they were reporting large explosions in the southern area of the gaza strip also rockets have been launched so it remains an active situation mariam either or and have to wait and see how it plays out this evening it is incredibly unexpected everyone will tell you that this comes at a time i'm when active negotiations have been ongoing and they've borne some fruit when it comes to garden addressing the humanitarian situation things have been relatively quiet the last two border protests have been relatively quiet if you look at the bigger picture of how mass trying to stop people from poaching the border fence you've had fifteen million dollars go into gaza this weekend taken in by the qatari envoy to pay salaries of civil servants you've had an increase of power. into gaza with people now enjoying over eight hours of original when before it was four and this is all because of these negotiations lo

militant palestinian factions in the gaza strip say they will halt cross border attacks they face around us the site the statement comes after the most serious obsession violence between israel and the palestinians since twenty fourteen the israeli military has stepped up its deployment along gaza's border but hasn't mobilized its reserve force we'll have a correspondent in a moment first this report. people in gaza worked to a scene of destruction. this was all that was left of the t.v. station run by hamas. the israeli military said it was a strategic target. it gave a warning that the strike was about to happen. but the attack still caused panic among local residents. as soon as we saw the rockets we ran away from the house we are civilians we don't have weapons and rockets so soon as we heard the shelling we escaped. here also on the israeli side of the border. most of hamas rockets were intercepted by israel's defense system but some missiles have hit residential buildings including this one in the southern israeli town of ashkelon one man a palestinian laborer was killed here peopl

strip throughout the night so many people in gaza didn't sleep as well as also in the southern israeli communities so there's a lot of lori of course that this might escalate further the situation is very fluid at the moment yeah this is the biggest escalation we've seen in some time tanya after a period of relative calm for both sides what were people in gaza telling you do they have any hopes that they could be a return to back home. yeah that's exactly the question i mean gaza is a bit at the crossroads because people in gaza just hoped that some understandings would be materializing between hamas and israel mediated by egypt and they have just seen two weeks ago that moloch tuesday came in as some new measures as well as some of the salaries of hamas and for using gaza where paid so people were thinking this going in a different direction but now they're brought back to reality and they said to me you know it's very difficult we're not really feeling in control here and of course every time these this violence occurs they're thinking off you know three previous wars and that that's

we can kill in the gaza strip. my complaint and our government that they are not using the for last four years since their last wide open ation in order to make sure that we are capable of inserting wage between the almost two million palestinians in gaza strip and to some us israel has an interest to weaken hamas israel has an interest to make sure that life normal did enough hours so for electricity enough. enough air quit made in the in the hospitals the. quality of water is a make the potable water so we don't have an interest in human suffering in gaza and our government some will fail to do it they fail to realize the strategically we have to strengthen abu mazin the p.l.o. in the mullah and to weaken hamas in gaza not the other way around. so labor party has left the coalition government and the jewish home party threatens to follow suit on less its leader naftali bennett gets to seat of defense minister could this be the beginning of a and for an attorney on his coalition i mean how could its potential down

it was an israeli undercover military operation in the gaza strip that went wrong. i have heard a palestinian describing what he saw. israelisow knows as using guns with silencers. once they started engaging and actual -- engaging in an actual firefight, israeli strikes began. we now have heard from hamas. this was an israeli assassination operation. we have heard from the israeli military that it was not the case. the israeli military spokesman did not specify what was taking place. all we know is that it was an undercover operation. >> why would the israelis have moved forward something on this now especially given the fact that the sides were inching towards scaling back on the fighting. >> that is the question being asked in the israeli media. they were edging closer. that millions of dollars in funds and diesel fuel went into gaza. things were moving towards some kind of different method. and then, this. what we have heard from some israeli military commentators, speaking off the record, they say these kinds of operations happen all the time. the only reason we

strip into southern israel and actually hitting with the area. killing one man and wounding at least ninety three other people you know that the feeling on the border today and last night was very tense there with the roads were blocked across the strip. small roads i knew those were also blocked and that was actually following a an attack on a bus full of soldiers yesterday afternoon in the northern gaza strip area apparently under the investigation now this incident showing that the driver of the bus bypassed the roadblocks that i was able to get and this attack on the bus was followed by the four men and six rockets and what about this truce that we've been reporting about we've heard that egyptian mediators were able to get home loss to agree to a cease fire but what about the position of israel well the israelis have this said that yes there is a cease fire nothing no one is going on the record to say that but you have the israeli media quoting got diplomatic and military sources saying that if you fire was reached with hamas the egypt the u

but had carried out over a hundred strikes throughout the gaza strip joint the gaza strip and gotten into the. numbers from the on the over three hundred fifty rockets against communities and something. tanya kramer reporting for us from gaza now some other stories making news around the world russian opposition leader alexina vali says he has been barred from leaving the country in a message recorded at a moscow airport the kremlin critic allege he's being prevented from traveling to the european court of human rights which is due to issue a ruling over his detentions they serve twenty days in prison last month for organizing anti kremlin protests. libyan leaders are discussing united nations plans to stabilize the country after seven years of turmoil it is the first time representatives of libya's rival governments and factions have met since may the talks are being hosted by italy and come a week after the u.n. abandon plans to hold elections in december. french prime minister at what has led a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the paris terror attacks some one hundred thi

boston infection house which rules the gaza strip celebration lieberman's resignation as a victory a ceasefire which was mediated by egypt on tuesday appears to be holding stephanie decker reports west jerusalem. less than twenty four hours after the gaza ceasefire came into effect the diplomatic fallout. i'm here to announce my resignation from the role of the defense minister of the state of israel the question which needs to be asked is why not i aspire as i'm concerned what happened yesterday yesterday a cease fire together with the entire process of reaching a reassessment with a mouse is a capitulation to terror bush should pull out go in defense minister avigdor lieberman also said he disagreed with katter bringing fifteen million dollars into gaza last weekend to pay the salaries of civil servants and the fuel shipments that have increased gaza's electricity moves that are all parts of efforts to ease gaza's humanitarian situation the mass wasted no time in reacting to lieberman's resignation. this constitutes a victory for the resistance and a recognition of defeat and failu

as a senior hamas official in the southern gaza strip he told al-jazeera an israeli unit escaped over the border after the operation. there is a special. hour went inside on us. and there are also some of the one and after that. to come which kerry. or some collaborators tried to escape to go to these reporters but they are surrounded by. brigades. and after that try to cover. the sky all the credit all the soldiers.

strip at least seven people have died at funerals are taking place in gaza the violence was triggered by a botched israeli military raid in. gaza on sunday we'll hear from our correspondent in gaza in a moment but first this report. people in gaza work up to a scene of destruction. this was all that was left of the t.v. station run by hamas. the israeli military said it was a strategic target it gave a warning that the strike was about to happen but the attack still cause panic among local residents. as soon as we saw the rockets we ran away from the house we are civilians we don't have weapons and rockets so soon as we heard the shelling we escaped. here also on the israeli side of the border. most of hamas rockets are intercepted by israel's defense system but some missiles have hit residential buildings including this one in the southern israeli town of ashkelon one man a palestinian labor was killed here people in the city are afraid and we have been living here in adversity in a southern neighborhood for many years through at least four rounds of warfare the buildings are very ol

strip the dead include a commander of the military wing of hamas the islamic movement which runs gaza israel says a second soldier was wounded in the fighting the incident casts renewed doubt on peace efforts between israel and hamas some two hundred palestinian protesters have been killed during clashes with israeli forces since the end of march. our jerusalem correspondent tanya kramer is in gaza and joins us now on the phone tanya it's not that often that israeli security forces launched raids on the ground in gaza what more can you tell us about what happened last night. you know that fight and it's not entirely clear what the purpose of this raid was from what we understand says an israeli special forces commander entered the southern gaza strip late on sunday evening and according to a statement by the israeli army that they say this is of a special operation but we don't know exactly what they were doing that until every there was an exchange of time and that's often how military wing because some brigades who usually gotten the border area and subsequently old they went back a

and the latest strikes israel bombed hamas as axa television in the gaza strip destroying the studios in gaza city as well as nearby buildings the israeli army says the strikes and shelling in response to about three hundred rockets fired from gaza into israel it says the iron dome defense system intercepted most of the rockets but some had homes in southern israel while one struck a boss meanwhile three palestinians were killed in the violence and one israeli soldier critically injured a mosque says its rocket fire was in retaliation to the deaths of seven palestinians killed during an incursion by israeli special forces in the gaza strip on sunday night almost of about a goofy is general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and speaking from ramallah he says israel's operation in gaza created the provocation. what we see today is a result of an israeli aggression that took place unfortunately what israel did that went unnoticed most media outlets in the world as you say that israel is create a bit of a creation and then the palestinians respond and it becomes like palest

there's a senior hamas official in the gaza strip he told al jazeera that it is really unit escape to the border after the operation. there is a special unit. went. to the baraka and there are also some of the one and. the car which carried this special unit or some collaborators tried to escape and to go to these reporters but there are some of the. brigade. that tried to cover. the sky all the cars aggressive all the soldiers. striking here and. so i think it was. actually launched now we have about six people there were killed. some was. one of them is the one of the permanent second brigade. i think of it will not be easy will not become very force that has the latest from western . well significant military confrontation in gaza a deadly one which raises the prospect at least the risk of more to follow israel has now confirmed that one of its officers was killed in this military operation and another wounded it said that it did carry out a military operation inside gaza it rejected earlier reports that one of the soldiers involved had been abducted saying that everybody had been

you are one israeli has died and twenty nine have been injured i rockets fired from the gaza strip the violence follows a covert israeli military operation in gaza on sunday which killed a hamas military commander and six other palestinians. new york times is revealing more details about the recordings turkey shared on the killing of jamal of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi as one of the so-called kill team tells a superior and a phone call to quote tell your boss the mission was complete u.s. intelligence officials believe your boss referred to saudi crown prince mohammed. and international pressure is mounting for yemen's civil war and the u.n. bresnan france all the natives to call for an end to hostilities chicks around the port city of the data. coalition is trying to retake it from if the rebels. i still says it was behind us so decided to attack in the afghan capital that killed six protesters. well members of the ethnic minority group has sala and are rallying for greater protection for that community following a number of attacks and such a guy name has mall oh the target was

and not outside of the gaza strip israel bombed a t.v. station it bombed residential buildings it leveled them to the ground those are acts that are acts of terror because they did terrorize two million palestinians the political climate of paralysis in the security council will only help to embolden this attitude because israel feels protected in shield that it will not face accountability in new york and so it can continue to exercise this brute force when it sees fit against a population under lockdown but there is no political horizon on the agenda of this israeli government much less now that elections might be in the horizon the current right wing government wants to see. the status quo continued it wants to continue receiving unfettered. american protection and to dodge accountability it does not want to talk about ending the occupation doesn't want to talk about palestinian statehood it sure doesn't want to talk about stopping settlements so for now the political horizon is all but nonexistent but at least. we can. assure that at

the turmoil on the israeli border as israeli jets strike the gaza strip in response to heavy rocket fire two palestinians have died in the attacks. was. an students and teachers pull into the streets of paris to show their. president emanuel micron's proposed education cuts which could endanger thousands of jobs. it's eleven o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all t. international live with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. attendance of an international conference in libya have been welcomed in the italian city in a bid to solve the libyan conflict civil war broke out after the ousting of colonel gadhafi a twenty eleven the presidents of egypt. as well as leaders of local tribes and militias from libya said to be taking part. one of those expected to take center stage in the talks has arrived at the head of the libyan national army general kiley. he controls most of libya and place a significant role of the country's future while the conference was initiated by prime. instead just said it contained but it isn't the only european country with an interest france has also

in the gaza strip israel attacked a hundred and sixty in twenty four hours and hundreds of missiles being fired from the territory. of the head of a major non-governmental organizations allegedly recorded discussing how she trains migrants to trick border control guards into letting them in. a high ranking police woman in france takes our own life in the latest in a wave of suicides among officers in the country position party states indicative of the conditions police face. and our sister. documents showing salaries and rewards islamic state fighters were paid for their reign of terror. good evening thanks for joining us this is. palestinian groups have declared in a joint statement a cease fire against israel after the situation on the israel gaza border suffered what's being called its worst escalation of violence since twenty fourteen warplanes have unleashed a torrent of bombs hitting targets in gaza after hundreds of missiles have been launched by militants. the joint operation room of the palestinian resistance factions declares that the egyptian efforts have resulted in reinforcin

of all of the israeli border as israeli jets strike the gaza strip in response to have a rocket fire to palestinians have done. was . and students and teachers pour into the streets of paris to show their distaste president emanuel micron's proposed education cuts which could endanger thousands of jobs. instead of clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international line with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. attendance of an international conference on libya have been welcomed in the italian city of palermo in a bid to solve the libyan conflict civil war broke out after the ousting of colonel gadhafi and twenty eleven the presidents of egypt tunisia and algeria as well as leaders of local tribes and militias from libya said to be taking past the conference was initiated by prime minister become tape but italy isn't the only european country with an interest france has also been trying to establish itself as a regional peacemaker as were gassed if explains there could be a cheery motive behind the apparent good intentions. seven years it's been seven long chaotic ye

and israeli bus is one of the targets hit by rockets from the gaza strip earlier is ready special forces killed at least seven palestinians in a late night operation. from doha everyone on kemal santa maria this is the world news from. chaos on the streets of the afghan capital after a suicide bomber targets a minority group demanding best security donald trump says the nuclear threat from north korea is over new satellite images suggest otherwise. and the man of god who are responsible for them not only did nothing they shoot it all for decades and the u.s. justice system expands its investigation into priests accused of child sexual abuse . so less than twenty four hours after a secret israeli military operation in gaza killed seven palestinians and one israeli soldier there has been a barrel of rockets into israel from gaza israeli officials say at least eighty rockets were fired many intercepted by their missile defense system one of the rockets did hit a nother hit house in southern israel the israeli military says it's now carrying out strikes throughout the gaza strip and at least

strip late on sunday evening much. of the national federation. mission but given that nature are exactly what they were doing what was their mission. there. with regard to the exchange of fire with the hamas military wing because it gave me really a three hundred all out of the border area they didn't follow i'm not that they're very they're trying to get you to come to him. it's very old you're the pure of heart that the rocket group fired according to the very young into southern israel and then all of this comes at a time when to cram going on understanding between what is going on are made here to thank you and to you and to keep the tension and heating possibly to a longer term calm but it makes it much harder to. use that tiny crime in gaza city. not to some of the other stories making news around the world several people are dead after a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the afghan capital kabul hundreds have gathered nearby to protest against the government's failure to prevent attacks by the taliban

trying to find to have carried out a series of ass strikes on territory in the gaza strip. the israeli defense forces claimed rockets fired from gaza had hit a bus local journalists. has. dozens of rockets that have been fired on the israeli gaza border one of the rockets struck a bus a civilian bus in and it led to an injury of five one of them was a serious injury that israeli media and israeli forces a claim that these rockets been fired by hamas which they consider as. terrorist military faction also we have dozens of rockets fired from. air strikes of israeli air strikes that respond to these rockets at the same time this is kill ation or the situation of the situation that is happening in the gaza strip that recently is due or a result of the operation the special military operation that happened yesterday by the special israeli forces there was an exchange of gunfire between the israeli forces and. members of hamas that led to the killing of seven members of hamas one of them was a senior leader in hamas and as well as a senior officer in israeli forces and another w

at least twenty nine israelis have been enjoyed by rockets fired from the gaza strip the vod and follows a covert israeli military operation on sunday which killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander. new details are emerging about the recordings to he has shed on the killing of sound the journalist jamal khashoggi the new york times as a member of the so-called kill team made a phone call shortly after the death the newspaper reports that u.s. intelligence officials believe that the paul links the saudi leadership even more strongly to the killing. i saw says it was behind a suicide attack in the afghan capital that killed six protest is they were all members of the ethnic minority group that has ira's and are rallying for greater protection for the community following a number of attacks that name has. the target was this group of protesters. but according to media reports afghan forces were able to stop a suicide bomber before he reached the demonstrators not before he detonated his explosives. earlier on monday there were calls for peace and protection in kabul we

over this is here now from ghazi hamad he's a senior hamas official in the southern gaza strip and he told us that an israeli unit escaped to the border the operation. well you know there is a special. when. there are also some of the one. which. you had or some collaborators tried to escape to go to this very old. brigade. that tried to cover. all the cars the president all the soldiers. striking. so i think it was. actually that we have about six people with. some or some one of them is one of the few minutes ago. i think of it was. because. it's got more on this now we're joined by moin rabbani senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies and he's joining us live from new york bonnie thank you for staying with us on al-jazeera what do you make not just of the attack and the timing what was israel trying to do here do you think. well it seems fairly clear that this was a premeditated assess a nation of a senior hamas military command right at the christian though of egyptian and united nations mediated talks to try to reach a long term cease fire between israel and hamas the

government accepted a cease fire in the gaza strip he says his party will will quit. bringing coalition with just one seat majority in the knesset. i mean it has an update from gaza where there is widespread skepticism about how long the ceasefire will last. there's a certain size of relief here in gaza that an all out war didn't break out this is one of the buildings that were targeted by the israelis it belongs to have not been in the civilian area and people around not only you can imagine the fear they felt that night when that explosion happened but also their property damage this is a place that still hasn't recovered from the previous war back in two thousand and fourteen so people here has been extremely worried about how things could develop now how mass on this side has put forward to the people here this cease fire as a political victory that coupled with the news of the resignation. minister. i must say that was actually. a victory and an acknowledgement by the israelis that. now people are happy that he has returned but this is certain degree this is. all

the palestinian faction hamas which rules the gaza strip has celebrated lieberman's resignation as a victory a cease fire which was mediated by egypt on tuesday appears to be holding seven palestinians and one israeli were killed in the fighting triggered by a botched israeli raid into gaza on sunday and on wednesday another palestinian official man was shot and killed by israeli forces in northern gaza let's go now to her force it to use in west jerusalem so what else did leave them say. well essentially his argument is that by agreeing to the cease fire after hundreds of hamas and other palestinian faction rockets coming out of gaza striking israeli territory striking homes killing one person in israeli territory that netanyahu has capitulated to terror he has been making such arguments in slightly more muted terms for some time calling for much harsher military action against hamas after the months of border protests of incendiary devices being launched on kites and balloons and burning israeli farmland next to the gaza border fence and he has been saying this in the sense that th

strip. benjamin netanyahu winning coalition if it would just a one seat majority in the knesset. the remains of eight more people have been found in northern california bringing the death toll to fifty six in the state's worst wildfire. some way to go before the flame. extinguished there is some hope that some of the missing. a new fire developed on tuesday night in southern california it's been called the sierra fire and broke out to the east of los angeles authorities say vegetation ignited and other reminder that president trumps contention that the fires could be prevented with better forest management is wrong the fires burning through california did not begin forests but in brush near development those flames are then encouraged by the effects of climate change there was some relatively good news in southern california by wednesday morning the woosley wildfire which spread to malibu on the pacific was said to be almost fifty percent contained but that still left the other fifty percent

hamas axa television and the gaza strip destroying the studios in gaza city as well as nearby buildings israeli army says the strikes and shelling in response to about three hundred rockets fired from gaza it says the iron dome defense system intercepted most of the rockets but some hit homes and southern israel while one struck a bus three palestinians were killed in the violence and one israeli soldier was critically injured hamas says its rocket fire was in retaliation to the deaths of seven palestinians killed during and coersion by israeli special forces in the gaza strip on sunday stephanie decker reports now from the gaza israel border in fading late afternoon light the skies around gaza roared with rockets some intercepted by israel's iron dome anti-missile system this was the response from gaza's armed groups to an israeli undercover incursion into the strip on sunday night that killed seven members of how mass is military wing among them a senior commander and an israeli officer. israeli television was soon broadcasting images of damaged homes and raging fires in towns borderi

throughout the day there have been rockets fired from the gaza strip into southern israel. the israel military responding. i received a text message from a senior hamas official confirming hamas' media wing inside gaza strip was just levelled by an israeli air strike. all of this coming after earlier today a faction inside gaza strip fired an anti-tank missile toward an israeli bus filled with soldiers. one soldier was severely injured. all of this though coming after a raise last night inside gaza conducted by the israeli military went wrong. this raid taking place last night. reports indicating the operation was meant to gather intelligence but went awry when the soldiers were found by the hamas militants in gaza. dana? >> dana: thank you, trey. back in the u.s., we're keeping a close eye on key elections in three states. vote counting is still under way in the arizona senate race with kirsten sinema is gaining ground on martha mcsally. and, of course, recounts are under way in florida races for governor and senator. president of america votes, former congress woman nan h

meanwhile at least twenty nine israelis have been injured by rockets fired from the gaza strip the violence follows a covert israeli military operation on sunday which killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander stefani deca has more from israel's border with gaza it is the biggest escalation between israel and hamas is the two thousand and fourteen war we have seen intense barrass of rockets outgoing into these border communities in israel there's also been heavy air strikes inside the gaza strip particularly in heavily populated areas including the building belonging to her masses a locks a t.v. now we know negotiations are ongoing behind the scenes but particularly spearheaded by egypt also the united nations to try and deescalate the situation. new details are emerging about the recordings that turkey has shared on the killing of some of the journalist jamal khashoggi the new york times as a member of the so-called kill team made a phone call shortly after the deaths u.s. intelligence officials believe the calls strongly linked the saudi leadership to the killing acco