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Tampering gunmen are accused of tampering with evidence of the shot dawn Malaysia Airlines plane. Israels bombardment of gaza moves closer to the most heavily populated part of the territory, gaza city. This was the scene a short while ago. Palestinians Health Ministry said 400 people have been killed in the 12 days since israels offensive began, four days of ground operation amlified the fear and desperation. Among the worsthit parts with alshaaf and other areas east of gaza city. People in the areas say the shelling was indiscriminate and they were trapped. Medical teams say its been too dangerous to attend the ipp john howard. Lets go to scope in the last few hours and minutes. Smoke has been scope rising above the gazan skye line. Live to Stefanie Dekker, in gaza, bring us up to date with what is happening. I can still here the bombing behind you there. What is the situation like . Its happening a lot. It has not calmed down. To the east is where the border is, theres a massesive plume of smoke, theres new smoke coming out. App indication of how an indication of how aggressive the military operation is. We have spoken to the Health Ministry, they managed to retrieve 40 bodies. Hundreds are injure, and they believe there to be many more. There are pictures out of there a little earlier giving us an indication of just how horrific it is there. We also got that sense from people fleeing when we drove to work, and were met with people walking, carrying children, plastic bags, exhausted, saying that it was a horrendous evening, living hell. There was street fighting and a horrendous campaign of shelling. Some described every come you have scans barrages would come in. We saw gruesome pictures of bodies on the streets of gaza, people fleeing with little they had left going to a secure place which they cant find in gaza, you were at Shifa Hospital, tell us about what you saw whilst at the hospital. The type of injury sustained by people coming there. Inside the hospital there was a constant stream of people coming in, also in civilian cars, ranging from injuries, shrapnel wounds, some severe burns. We saw is dead woman with extensive injuries to her head. An old lady, frail, sitting on the floor, a mattress in the corner outside the emergency ward. And high emotions. People coming in creaming, asking why this has been done to them, and people we spoke to today, and yesterday, an area where the intensive campaign is happening now. There was shelling there too. People petrified. A similar scope why the International Community isnt doing anything to stop this because of the civilian impact the military campaign is having, each though its aimed at hamas and the other factions. What we are seeing here is a humanitarian crisis that is only escalating at the moment. Thank you for the moment. Lets gross to nisreen elshamayleh cross to nisreen elshamayleh in jerusalem. Israel intensifying the military campaign, we have seen them on the border, we have seen tanks and a. P. C. S in the buffer zone. What are the objectives right now . According to the government and army, it is to deplete hamass capabilities to attack is ram, including israel. Including striking targets, underground tunnels, weapon facilities, this is what it has been doing for the past 12 days. I think until now no real success with the operation, because there hasnt about a halt in attacks by different palestinian factions fighting in hamas, firing rockets and using tunnels to attack Israeli Soldiers and civilians, we understand two soldiers were killed in an infiltration attempt and two in fighting with palestinians based inside gaza on the ground. We are hearing that there has been a request by hamas to allow for a 2hour pause, a humanitarian pause in hostilities. Reports that we are getting suggest that israel said no and rejected, but we cant confirm that israel denied hamas this 2hour humanitarian pause. We cant confirm that. We understand because they are trying to pull bodies out. We are hearing that the israeli army is saying that therell be no humanitarian truce before the eid itll day, officially rejecting the request made by hamas. Theres a lot of diplomacy, here in qatar. Talks of a catery brokered truce. What is said on the israeli side about this. Are they hope to the today of a ceasefire, a truce. That will be a disaster, well see casualties in gaza. This is why its important for the efforts to materialize. The International Efforts and diplomatic effort to reach a ceasefire. The israelis have not commented or said anything about plans to negotiate a thats fire. They have been quiet about that. We learnt that the qatari proposal or fishive to relaunch the attempt to achieve a ceasefire is not on the table. Israeli officials have not said anything about a ceasefire in recent days, and now you are saying that the israelis are saying no ceasefire or humanitarian halt or pause, it means we can see more of this operation expanding, and intensifying if these International Efforts dont are not able to achieve a ceasefire soon, which is very needed. I want to ask you about israeli public opinion, how supportive are they of this Bombing Campaign over gaza. When we see pictures of women and children running bodies on the streets of gaza, do israeli see the same pictures that we are seeing, and, you know, does it resonate with them at all . For one, israeli journalists are not allowed to go into gaza. Even if they wanted to cover that side of the story, they wouldnt be able to. What we are seeing and witnessing is a lot of support for the ground operation. Especially that it was launched after nine days of air strikes and naval streaks that did not stop the rocket attacks. As far as israel yi civilians are concerned, they want to see this over, i dont think they are concerned about the damage and the loss of lives and casualties in gaza. We want the operation to be over, they dont want rockets fired into their territories, and they dont want more soldiers kill. Nisreen elshamayleh live in jerusalem. Well, our colleagues at al jazeera arabic are covering this con flilent extensively conflict extensively and this is how they have reported the story. Translation in the past 10 minute 10 vehicles reached here. A young child was moved from the mrmg si room emergency room to the morgue as she succumbed to her wound. The death toll is rising every second. We speak to a res dent. Can you tell us what is happening there . Translation it is a massacre taking police in shajaiya in the full sense. Word, committed by israel against civilians. Theres no armed me amongst us. The streets are packed with dead bodies, women and children, laying in the streets. We are searching for brothers and cousins killed. We cannot find them. Translation ambulances, paramedics and media crews are targets. A federal local reporter was killed. We speak to his colleague who witnessed the accident. Tell us what happened. Translation we have been working together covering event in gaza over the past three days. The media was targeted. We survived the first, second was close. We survived a third attempt. We were chased by the israeli jet fighters. The fourth time we were riddled by rockets, and my colleague and a medical crew were killed. We were targeted despite putting on the words tv and press marked. We were targeted. The ambulances and paramedics were denied access. Our phones were disabled and we could not reach the red crescent for help. Translation to update you on the political position we speak to a hamas spokesman. What is your comment . Translation this is a war crime, a true massacre committed by israel. Its an unprecedented act of revenge by israel against women, children and the elderly. As the Israeli Forces failed to confront the resistance fighters or soldiers, as their remains are in the field, they committed the massacre against civilians, in an act of revenge. The resistance fighter directed a below to Israeli Forces. The israelis are pounding the strip from east to west, north to south. Youd think they could department the resolve of people, we are fighting and Holding Steadfast to the ground. We are defending the entire occupied territories. We have no alternative but to continue to resist until the last drop of blood of the palestinian man. We cannot give up. The occupation must end immediately. Let the whole world give up on palestine or support the occupation. Well embarrass the whole world, the arab and mousse limb countries, their steadfastness and resistance. The people of gaza were facing shortages of lifes tensions even before this result. According to the u. N. Agency, 80 of the population receives electricity for four hours a day. 900,000 dont have access to water or sanitation. 50,000 have been forced to flee their homs, more than at the homs, more than at the peak of the conflict in 2008, 2009. Head of the United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Office in the palestinian territories joins us. The humanitarian crisis was critical before the offensive. What are your colleagues on the ground in gaza telling you about the situation . The most reliable figures we have are from yesterday when we verified information. As of 3 00 pm yesterday, we had 69 people who have been killed in the conflict in the gaza side, and one israeli civilian killed from rocket fire in southern israel. We dont have any accurate figures of the last nights over last nights operation. We estimate that several people have, indeed k been killed based on earlier reports that we received. This yesterdays figures bring to a total of 223 people, 228 people, civilians, which is about 68 of the overall number of fatalities on the gazan side. Many are children. Weve had weve had or almost of00 children in 600 children injured in the conflict and 500 women. Civilians have suffered inordinately. In addition to that weve had an impact on issues you spoke about. Theres hardly any electricity, we had some fuel going in through the israeli crossing point. But you are right. About four hours of electricity on average per day for the population. About 900,000 people have limited or no access to water. Its difficult to move around in the insecure situation. Enormous amount tens of thousands of chin have been effected. Many civilians and children affected. I didnt mean to interrupt you, we have seen many people on the move, trying to flee. Is there anywhere safe in gaza today . Well, its very difficult. The u. N. Organization responsible for palestine refugees is hosting in its schools, because anre has the schools for refugee children, and they are by far the majority of the population in gaza. The schools are 49 schools are packed with internally displaced people that fled their homes, out of fear, because the homes have been destroyed or damaged. We have currently, i understand, over 60,000 palestinian families who have fled, and are hosted in the schools. We assume that there are several thousand others hosted by relatives. So, indeed, its difficult. There are not many places to go to. And the polices that it can do have been filled up. Are you concerned for the safety of your own staff. How are they able to work or help people in these conditions . In any conflict, and in this conflict its difficult to move around. We have to take numerous precaution, and make sure that we informed all the parties involved to allow for access. We do hour major was to facilitate the movement of those commodities coming in, the assistance coming in to gaza and overseeing the distribution under the u. N. Organization for rev gets, continuing through the refugees, continuing through the Health Centers to provide food. The world u. N. Programme is tasked with providing food. Health centers are operating. The main thing is that the gazans can get out there, repair the damaged electricity lines that can increase electricity to neighbourhoods, repair the water and Sanitation Systems so that sanitation can run and have access to water. In a situation like this when sanitation doned works, that in itself has become a health hazard. The other is a shortage of drugs in gaza. This is a chronic problem for the last two years, its been exas pated by the coming out of the conflict. There has been several trucks of assistance in terms of medical items going in through the crossing, september by International Organizations and donors, and supporting hospitals and Health Interests in gaza. We appreciate your time, in the office of palestinian trert tris. This year the shelling came after a night of intense bombardment in gaza. Nicole johnson watched it unfold. Reporter the eastern part of gaza was hit hard on saturday night. It was the heaviest tent shelling since israel started its ground operation. Flares lit up the sky near the border. Tent shells slammed into peoples homes. Wait, wait. We can hear shells and rockets falling on the streets and homes in the neighbourhood. They are falling everywhere. We have no electricity, everything is being cut off. For a few hours ambulance vehicles couldnt reach the neighbourhoods. The attack was so intense it was not safe to go there. The red cross cant reach the area, its too dangerous. People are stuck at home. Some people managed to flee to schools in safer areas, we are stuck. The streets are empty, all you here is shelling. We are living in fear, terrified. There are 18 of us. One room. Its the whole family. After a while, some emergency crews started to reach the area which have been heavenly schedule. Among the dead two women, and the son of a senior hamas leader. Theres random shelling and no communication with the Israeli Forces on when palestinian medical personnel can evacuate. It was a lock and difficult night. In daylight the tense shelling was going on. People will be hoping for a break. Long enough to pull out anyone injured or killed. Well, lets recap the Main Development in gaza. Israel stepped up its bombardment of the palestinian territory. The attacks are getting nearer to gaza city. The number of casualties is rising. The palestinian say 40 have been killed in the shajaiya neighbourhood. 12 have been killed in attacks by air, sea and Ground Troops, the total number now at 400. The u. N. Needs basic medical supplies. Israeli army radio says therell be no pause to allow humanitarian aid before the holiday of eade. Plenty more on gaza later in the newshour. Lets move to the other main story. Prorussian separatist have taken away the bodies of all victims recovered from the Malaysia Airlines shot down in Eastern Ukraine. The remains of 196 victims have been found. Theres concern over where they are being held. More than 100 are still to be located. World leaders demonstrates pressure be put on ukraine and rebels to give unfettered access to the wreckage. Live to our reporter. There has been concern about setters getting to the scope of the crash. Tell us if theyve been able to do so, and what is happening at the crash site . Well, the crash site is strewn over a huge area of 10 square kilometres. As i step out the way if i can show you what are the remains of a destroyed cockpit of mh17. You can see the mangled writteningage, the instruments on the flight tech and the chairs and metal as well. The pilots were removed. The bodies removed from the site. The blam boxes are black boxes are missing. The key to get here as quickly as possible and assess the wreckage and damage, that is where well find out if this was a missile that brought down the plane. I have to say in the past couple of hours, since we have been here. We went on for a little bit and came back. Journalists have been tramp lipping over what is a crime seep. We have done our best not to touch anything. The pilot case has been emptied. You can see the changes the investigators, when they get here, will be facing. Evidence here is being tampered with. What are you hearing about the bodies of the victims and where theyve been taken . Well, as you mentioned there, the authorities in this part of Eastern Ukraine said that they have taken around 196 bodies on to a freight train, which is going to be departing at some point, heading towards a town in the ukranian held territory. We understand that dutch investigators or malaysian investigators are trying to identify the bodies. That hasnt happened as of yet. There are 100 corpses of bodies missing. Clearly some may be in this huge area. Coalminers, we see them. Volunteers have been tapping out somping for the bod yes. A lot of distress for the victims families, and for the world, working out what has happened here, and who is responsible. Thank you very much. The plan took off from skip owl airport and the russian president is running out of time, says the dutch president , to show that hes willing to rep recover the victims, the comments made after a tense conversation with Vladimir Putin. Most of the victims were dutch. Reporter the dutch Prime Minister came straight from a telephone call with Vladimir Putin and delivered a blunt message for the russian president. I have told him that time is running out for him to show the world that he is soars about his offer to help. Now he has to show responsibility towards the rebels, and show the netherlands, and the world that he will do what is expected of him, to use his influence. As he spoke the people of the netherlands were counting the cost. The local church opened its doors and the heard of its conversation after learning 12 of its citizens for three families on board flight mh17. This common lost woman lost her sister, brotherinlaw and nephew, she came to remember and find comfort. As did many others who lost friends and neighbours. We are shocked, our hearts are crying. Its a situation we cannot understand. Its beyond all nightmares. Such is the scale of the disaster. Hardly a corner of the netherlands that has not been touched. Everywhere knows someone who suffered a great loss. They are marking it as they are here in public in a dignified display of grief. They are laying flowers in memory of two deer friends who ran a popular shop. A couple that ran the flower shop. Customers and friend are paying tribute in kind. When he learnt they were flying on Malaysia Airlines<\/a> plane. Israels bombardment of gaza moves closer to the most heavily populated part of the territory, gaza city. This was the scene a short while ago. Palestinians Health Ministry<\/a> said 400 people have been killed in the 12 days since israels offensive began, four days of ground operation amlified the fear and desperation. Among the worsthit parts with alshaaf and other areas east of gaza city. People in the areas say the shelling was indiscriminate and they were trapped. Medical teams say its been too dangerous to attend the ipp john howard. Lets go to scope in the last few hours and minutes. Smoke has been scope rising above the gazan skye line. Live to Stefanie Dekker<\/a>, in gaza, bring us up to date with what is happening. I can still here the bombing behind you there. What is the situation like . Its happening a lot. It has not calmed down. To the east is where the border is, theres a massesive plume of smoke, theres new smoke coming out. App indication of how an indication of how aggressive the military operation is. We have spoken to the Health Ministry<\/a>, they managed to retrieve 40 bodies. Hundreds are injure, and they believe there to be many more. There are pictures out of there a little earlier giving us an indication of just how horrific it is there. We also got that sense from people fleeing when we drove to work, and were met with people walking, carrying children, plastic bags, exhausted, saying that it was a horrendous evening, living hell. There was street fighting and a horrendous campaign of shelling. Some described every come you have scans barrages would come in. We saw gruesome pictures of bodies on the streets of gaza, people fleeing with little they had left going to a secure place which they cant find in gaza, you were at Shifa Hospital<\/a>, tell us about what you saw whilst at the hospital. The type of injury sustained by people coming there. Inside the hospital there was a constant stream of people coming in, also in civilian cars, ranging from injuries, shrapnel wounds, some severe burns. We saw is dead woman with extensive injuries to her head. An old lady, frail, sitting on the floor, a mattress in the corner outside the emergency ward. And high emotions. People coming in creaming, asking why this has been done to them, and people we spoke to today, and yesterday, an area where the intensive campaign is happening now. There was shelling there too. People petrified. A similar scope why the International Community<\/a> isnt doing anything to stop this because of the civilian impact the military campaign is having, each though its aimed at hamas and the other factions. What we are seeing here is a humanitarian crisis that is only escalating at the moment. Thank you for the moment. Lets gross to nisreen elshamayleh cross to nisreen elshamayleh in jerusalem. Israel intensifying the military campaign, we have seen them on the border, we have seen tanks and a. P. C. S in the buffer zone. What are the objectives right now . According to the government and army, it is to deplete hamass capabilities to attack is ram, including israel. Including striking targets, underground tunnels, weapon facilities, this is what it has been doing for the past 12 days. I think until now no real success with the operation, because there hasnt about a halt in attacks by different palestinian factions fighting in hamas, firing rockets and using tunnels to attack Israeli Soldiers<\/a> and civilians, we understand two soldiers were killed in an infiltration attempt and two in fighting with palestinians based inside gaza on the ground. We are hearing that there has been a request by hamas to allow for a 2hour pause, a humanitarian pause in hostilities. Reports that we are getting suggest that israel said no and rejected, but we cant confirm that israel denied hamas this 2hour humanitarian pause. We cant confirm that. We understand because they are trying to pull bodies out. We are hearing that the israeli army is saying that therell be no humanitarian truce before the eid itll day, officially rejecting the request made by hamas. Theres a lot of diplomacy, here in qatar. Talks of a catery brokered truce. What is said on the israeli side about this. Are they hope to the today of a ceasefire, a truce. That will be a disaster, well see casualties in gaza. This is why its important for the efforts to materialize. The International Efforts<\/a> and diplomatic effort to reach a ceasefire. The israelis have not commented or said anything about plans to negotiate a thats fire. They have been quiet about that. We learnt that the qatari proposal or fishive to relaunch the attempt to achieve a ceasefire is not on the table. Israeli officials have not said anything about a ceasefire in recent days, and now you are saying that the israelis are saying no ceasefire or humanitarian halt or pause, it means we can see more of this operation expanding, and intensifying if these International Efforts<\/a> dont are not able to achieve a ceasefire soon, which is very needed. I want to ask you about israeli public opinion, how supportive are they of this Bombing Campaign<\/a> over gaza. When we see pictures of women and children running bodies on the streets of gaza, do israeli see the same pictures that we are seeing, and, you know, does it resonate with them at all . For one, israeli journalists are not allowed to go into gaza. Even if they wanted to cover that side of the story, they wouldnt be able to. What we are seeing and witnessing is a lot of support for the ground operation. Especially that it was launched after nine days of air strikes and naval streaks that did not stop the rocket attacks. As far as israel yi civilians are concerned, they want to see this over, i dont think they are concerned about the damage and the loss of lives and casualties in gaza. We want the operation to be over, they dont want rockets fired into their territories, and they dont want more soldiers kill. Nisreen elshamayleh live in jerusalem. Well, our colleagues at al jazeera arabic are covering this con flilent extensively conflict extensively and this is how they have reported the story. Translation in the past 10 minute 10 vehicles reached here. A young child was moved from the mrmg si room emergency room to the morgue as she succumbed to her wound. The death toll is rising every second. We speak to a res dent. Can you tell us what is happening there . Translation it is a massacre taking police in shajaiya in the full sense. Word, committed by israel against civilians. Theres no armed me amongst us. The streets are packed with dead bodies, women and children, laying in the streets. We are searching for brothers and cousins killed. We cannot find them. Translation ambulances, paramedics and media crews are targets. A federal local reporter was killed. We speak to his colleague who witnessed the accident. Tell us what happened. Translation we have been working together covering event in gaza over the past three days. The media was targeted. We survived the first, second was close. We survived a third attempt. We were chased by the israeli jet fighters. The fourth time we were riddled by rockets, and my colleague and a medical crew were killed. We were targeted despite putting on the words tv and press marked. We were targeted. The ambulances and paramedics were denied access. Our phones were disabled and we could not reach the red crescent for help. Translation to update you on the political position we speak to a hamas spokesman. What is your comment . Translation this is a war crime, a true massacre committed by israel. Its an unprecedented act of revenge by israel against women, children and the elderly. As the Israeli Forces<\/a> failed to confront the resistance fighters or soldiers, as their remains are in the field, they committed the massacre against civilians, in an act of revenge. The resistance fighter directed a below to Israeli Forces<\/a>. The israelis are pounding the strip from east to west, north to south. Youd think they could department the resolve of people, we are fighting and Holding Steadfast<\/a> to the ground. We are defending the entire occupied territories. We have no alternative but to continue to resist until the last drop of blood of the palestinian man. We cannot give up. The occupation must end immediately. Let the whole world give up on palestine or support the occupation. Well embarrass the whole world, the arab and mousse limb countries, their steadfastness and resistance. The people of gaza were facing shortages of lifes tensions even before this result. According to the u. N. Agency, 80 of the population receives electricity for four hours a day. 900,000 dont have access to water or sanitation. 50,000 have been forced to flee their homs, more than at the homs, more than at the peak of the conflict in 2008, 2009. Head of the United Nations<\/a> office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Office<\/a> in the palestinian territories joins us. The humanitarian crisis was critical before the offensive. What are your colleagues on the ground in gaza telling you about the situation . The most reliable figures we have are from yesterday when we verified information. As of 3 00 pm yesterday, we had 69 people who have been killed in the conflict in the gaza side, and one israeli civilian killed from rocket fire in southern israel. We dont have any accurate figures of the last nights over last nights operation. We estimate that several people have, indeed k been killed based on earlier reports that we received. This yesterdays figures bring to a total of 223 people, 228 people, civilians, which is about 68 of the overall number of fatalities on the gazan side. Many are children. Weve had weve had or almost of00 children in 600 children injured in the conflict and 500 women. Civilians have suffered inordinately. In addition to that weve had an impact on issues you spoke about. Theres hardly any electricity, we had some fuel going in through the israeli crossing point. But you are right. About four hours of electricity on average per day for the population. About 900,000 people have limited or no access to water. Its difficult to move around in the insecure situation. Enormous amount tens of thousands of chin have been effected. Many civilians and children affected. I didnt mean to interrupt you, we have seen many people on the move, trying to flee. Is there anywhere safe in gaza today . Well, its very difficult. The u. N. Organization responsible for palestine refugees is hosting in its schools, because anre has the schools for refugee children, and they are by far the majority of the population in gaza. The schools are 49 schools are packed with internally displaced people that fled their homes, out of fear, because the homes have been destroyed or damaged. We have currently, i understand, over 60,000 palestinian families who have fled, and are hosted in the schools. We assume that there are several thousand others hosted by relatives. So, indeed, its difficult. There are not many places to go to. And the polices that it can do have been filled up. Are you concerned for the safety of your own staff. How are they able to work or help people in these conditions . In any conflict, and in this conflict its difficult to move around. We have to take numerous precaution, and make sure that we informed all the parties involved to allow for access. We do hour major was to facilitate the movement of those commodities coming in, the assistance coming in to gaza and overseeing the distribution under the u. N. Organization for rev gets, continuing through the refugees, continuing through the Health Centers<\/a> to provide food. The world u. N. Programme is tasked with providing food. Health centers are operating. The main thing is that the gazans can get out there, repair the damaged electricity lines that can increase electricity to neighbourhoods, repair the water and Sanitation Systems<\/a> so that sanitation can run and have access to water. In a situation like this when sanitation doned works, that in itself has become a health hazard. The other is a shortage of drugs in gaza. This is a chronic problem for the last two years, its been exas pated by the coming out of the conflict. There has been several trucks of assistance in terms of medical items going in through the crossing, september by International Organizations<\/a> and donors, and supporting hospitals and Health Interests<\/a> in gaza. We appreciate your time, in the office of palestinian trert tris. This year the shelling came after a night of intense bombardment in gaza. Nicole johnson watched it unfold. Reporter the eastern part of gaza was hit hard on saturday night. It was the heaviest tent shelling since israel started its ground operation. Flares lit up the sky near the border. Tent shells slammed into peoples homes. Wait, wait. We can hear shells and rockets falling on the streets and homes in the neighbourhood. They are falling everywhere. We have no electricity, everything is being cut off. For a few hours ambulance vehicles couldnt reach the neighbourhoods. The attack was so intense it was not safe to go there. The red cross cant reach the area, its too dangerous. People are stuck at home. Some people managed to flee to schools in safer areas, we are stuck. The streets are empty, all you here is shelling. We are living in fear, terrified. There are 18 of us. One room. Its the whole family. After a while, some emergency crews started to reach the area which have been heavenly schedule. Among the dead two women, and the son of a senior hamas leader. Theres random shelling and no communication with the Israeli Forces<\/a> on when palestinian medical personnel can evacuate. It was a lock and difficult night. In daylight the tense shelling was going on. People will be hoping for a break. Long enough to pull out anyone injured or killed. Well, lets recap the Main Development<\/a> in gaza. Israel stepped up its bombardment of the palestinian territory. The attacks are getting nearer to gaza city. The number of casualties is rising. The palestinian say 40 have been killed in the shajaiya neighbourhood. 12 have been killed in attacks by air, sea and Ground Troops<\/a>, the total number now at 400. The u. N. Needs basic medical supplies. Israeli army radio says therell be no pause to allow humanitarian aid before the holiday of eade. Plenty more on gaza later in the newshour. Lets move to the other main story. Prorussian separatist have taken away the bodies of all victims recovered from the Malaysia Airlines<\/a> shot down in Eastern Ukraine<\/a>. The remains of 196 victims have been found. Theres concern over where they are being held. More than 100 are still to be located. World leaders demonstrates pressure be put on ukraine and rebels to give unfettered access to the wreckage. Live to our reporter. There has been concern about setters getting to the scope of the crash. Tell us if theyve been able to do so, and what is happening at the crash site . Well, the crash site is strewn over a huge area of 10 square kilometres. As i step out the way if i can show you what are the remains of a destroyed cockpit of mh17. You can see the mangled writteningage, the instruments on the flight tech and the chairs and metal as well. The pilots were removed. The bodies removed from the site. The blam boxes are black boxes are missing. The key to get here as quickly as possible and assess the wreckage and damage, that is where well find out if this was a missile that brought down the plane. I have to say in the past couple of hours, since we have been here. We went on for a little bit and came back. Journalists have been tramp lipping over what is a crime seep. We have done our best not to touch anything. The pilot case has been emptied. You can see the changes the investigators, when they get here, will be facing. Evidence here is being tampered with. What are you hearing about the bodies of the victims and where theyve been taken . Well, as you mentioned there, the authorities in this part of Eastern Ukraine<\/a> said that they have taken around 196 bodies on to a freight train, which is going to be departing at some point, heading towards a town in the ukranian held territory. We understand that dutch investigators or malaysian investigators are trying to identify the bodies. That hasnt happened as of yet. There are 100 corpses of bodies missing. Clearly some may be in this huge area. Coalminers, we see them. Volunteers have been tapping out somping for the bod yes. A lot of distress for the victims families, and for the world, working out what has happened here, and who is responsible. Thank you very much. The plan took off from skip owl airport and the russian president is running out of time, says the dutch president , to show that hes willing to rep recover the victims, the comments made after a tense conversation with Vladimir Putin<\/a>. Most of the victims were dutch. Reporter the dutch Prime Minister<\/a> came straight from a telephone call with Vladimir Putin<\/a> and delivered a blunt message for the russian president. I have told him that time is running out for him to show the world that he is soars about his offer to help. Now he has to show responsibility towards the rebels, and show the netherlands, and the world that he will do what is expected of him, to use his influence. As he spoke the people of the netherlands were counting the cost. The local church opened its doors and the heard of its conversation after learning 12 of its citizens for three families on board flight mh17. This common lost woman lost her sister, brotherinlaw and nephew, she came to remember and find comfort. As did many others who lost friends and neighbours. We are shocked, our hearts are crying. Its a situation we cannot understand. Its beyond all nightmares. Such is the scale of the disaster. Hardly a corner of the netherlands that has not been touched. Everywhere knows someone who suffered a great loss. They are marking it as they are here in public in a dignified display of grief. They are laying flowers in memory of two deer friends who ran a popular shop. A couple that ran the flower shop. Customers and friend are paying tribute in kind. When he learnt they were flying on Malaysia Airlines<\/a>, one put up a picture joking nice, friendly people working hard to have the nice thought. It was tragic. Shocking. Because we knew them. They were very friendly, very nice. Its a big shock for a lot of us. As they and others across the country begin the process of grieving, they can wait and see how events in east ukraine unfold. Commemorations are being held in australia for the passengers and crew who died. Prime minister tony abbott among the mourners at a service in sydney. The citys bishop described the attack of the outcome of a trail of human evil. 27 australian nationals were killed. Coming up on the newshour, more on the conflict in gaza, including live coverage and analysis. Do stay with us on al welcome back, you are watching the newshour. A reminder of the main story and development in gaza. Israel stepped up its bombardment of part of palestinian territory. According to our corporate the attacks are getting nearer to gaza city. The number of casualties are rising rapidly, 40 have been killed in the neighbourhood east of gaza city. The total numbers killed in 12 days of attacks by air, sea and Ground Troops<\/a> stand at 400. The u. N. Says it needs medical supplies. Thousands of wounded overwhelmed gazas hospital. The israeli hospital says therell be no pause to allow humanitarian aid before the holiday of eid. Well go live to Stefanie Dekker<\/a> in gaza. Its been an intense few hours for residents of gaza city. Bring us up to speed as to what has been happening and what you see on the ground. Its been an intense night and morning. Thousands have been fleeing. In the morning, from 5 oclock in the morning, we left around s seven, and we saw many walking towards us, carrying children, cars with white flags, trying to make sure they did not get hit from above because theres a lot of air strikes and artillery. That is the main use that israelis are using. We went to Shifa Hospital<\/a>, the biggest hospital in the gaza strip , and a steady stream of ambulances coming in, bringing in the wounded and dead. We saw a dead lady with severe injuries to her head. We saw the elderly, its indiscriminate. Han civilians, a many civilians, a more weegean doctor. Told us that it is the worst he has seen it, its a massacre, israelis are indiscrime nantly firing. Israelis will tell you that is where hamas hides its rockets and tunnel systems, its a devastating impact that is happening on the civilians. People dont feel safe anywhere. I can tell you here in gaza city, a while ago, before going to the hospitals, we are building close to it. Showing you how loud that can be. They are coming closer. They are coming closer. That was close. So that just to show you how loud it is, and it is scary, we are certainly in a much safer place than those residents of shajaiya and other areas along the border. Its ongoing, and we can see if from the last year. We have a live shot of that. Massive plumes of smoke, there has been no respite. The concern is to get ambulances in there, to get whoever is stuck there out, believing there are many bodies, they want to bring out families. Looking for their relatives. Absolutely horrible scenes, we are hearing from the israeli armys twiser act that therell be a two hour pause in bombing starting at 1330 local which sw about now, 10 30 g. M. T to allow medical aid to go in, i guess, and to treat injured people. This is according to the idfs twitter account, the israeli army, if you real. They are responding to a request by the International Committee<\/a> of the red cross. Hamas requested a pause in bombing to allow the injured to be treated. Thats a new development. I can tell you that is welcome news for the people here, and the people that wanted to bring up the bodies, who wanted to get their relatives out. Its been intense. Earlier we were told it was requested that hamas said yes, they had requested it. It makes sense that there was an intermediary involved. Them agreeing to it im hearing artillery shelling. It hasnt kicked in yet. Its necessary. Absolutely necessary. Going in to see what is happening there. From some of the images seen and told from those fleeing. And the reality, 40 dead, but therell be more. Thank you Stefanie Dekker<\/a> in gaza for us as we just again are handwriting. Israel were agreeing to a 2hour truth. Starting at 1330 local time. Thats five minutes or so. Thats supposed to come in effect now. This would be to allow is for the injured people in gaza to be treated, a lot of people injured, 12 days since the offensive began, more than 40 had been killed as the israeli Bombing Campaign<\/a> intensified in gaza. There will be a bit of respite for gaza residents for two hours as israel agrees to a 2hour humanitarian truce in gaza. Joining me in the studio is a professor from doha. A lot happening in gaza. The death toll rising, theres diplomacy happening, notably here in qatar, trying to find a truce, a permanent truce to the fighting in gaza, are they likely to come up with anything . I think one of the indications may help us to be optimistic about the possible truce is this what i call israelis are using against palestinians, this kind of little bit of force and the scale of attack indicates that israeli assume something will happen. This is looking at the recent history of the region, in the last 10 years they were at the center of the wars. Norm towards the end of the conflict, the background of the conflict, this kind of level of violence against palestinians. I think all of this effort now will take place today or tomorrow. It will focus on one thing, that they should have a solution, and it should not be long term. I have to repeat this, because basically all of the shortTerm Solution<\/a>, in the last sex years have not had much work. Basically it should be a longTerm Solution<\/a>. It didnt mean that the israeli conflict will not be resolve. This is the first point. The second point is that the problem with delays all of this effort is the mistrust, is this mistrust between different players. What makes ban kimoon intervene is none of the players trusted as i mentioned before israeli do not trust turkey. Lets talk about the players for the viewers who dont know who they are. You have the qataris, you have the turks, the hamas just a few days ago almost ruled out egypt as a mediator in this crisis, in the latest crisis as they have always been the goto mediator for hamas and israel. Hamas distancing itself from egypt. Turning to qatar and turkey. You have the americans, of course, and then you have the u. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon. Of all the different players who is the most honest . First of all, let me comment on the little bit of doubt from hamas side to egypt. Thats on egyptians role. They want egyptian said to have an important role. They are not happy with the role that egypt plays to israel. Perceived. Thats right. They say we are not against egypts role. However, this should be taken into consideration. The palestinian suffering rather than the israeli fight. What we witnessed in the last 10 days is that Egyptian Government<\/a> has not moved towards that to respond to this concern. Now, the turkey qatari enlistors are based on 2012 truce, then by the Egyptian Government<\/a> Mohamed Mursi<\/a> was in power. Basically it mgesed at this point a long Term Solution<\/a> about the prisoners, about opening up the borders with egypt, trying to allow people to have it as well. All the elements have been taken into consideration on a true sign in 2012. What they are trying to do is say look, something approved why israelies are not suspecting commitment. What they are trying to do is say two or three times they did not respect the commitment. Now the time arrived, and took time to convince israelis, to inspect their commitment. Lets remember, theres no according to the national law, theres no military base in gaza. If you want to use international law, theres no definition. Theres no military base so you can attack. Theres no places where you say identify as a military basis. So basically what israel is attacking now are civilians, and i think the images that we watched this morning are part of the evidence about it, and the number of casualties you mentioned before, its more than 3,000 sorry, injure, this indicates that civilians are actually the main tart of this. Target of this. They are bearing the brunt. Thats it. They pay the heavy price. We look at the pictures out of gaza, civilians fleeing and coming to hospitals, seeking shelter at hospitals in gaza. Some of which have been forced to turn away people as they try to come and get treated. They are overwhelmed. The latest we hear is that israel has agreed to a 2hour humanitarian truce in the shajaiya neighbourhood of gaza to allow the injured to be treated. That truce is set to start at 1330. Whats that, starting 1330 gst ending local time, ending 1530. Nisreen elshamayleh joins us live from jerusalem. Tell us more about the humanitarian truce that israel agreed to. Well, what we do know is the humanitarian pause in hostilities for two hours was requested in the district of gaza by the International Committee<\/a> by the red cross we heard reports that hamas accepted to pause hostilities and rockets into israeli territory. And after that we heard that the israeli army rejected. We heard that this is officially confirmed. The army will commit to a humanitarian pause, from 10 30 g. M. T to 12 30. It started 10 minutes ago, 1330 to 1530 local. And the army announced that it will set up a Field Hospital<\/a> near the eras border crossing, the official crossing between israel and gaza, to treat injured palestinians. The israelie army tweeting that days ago they ordered shajaiya to evacuate and that hamas ordered them to stay, saying hamas put them in the line of fire. This is a line that israel used time and time again saying hamas is using the civilians as shields. It is, correct. We have heard this line so many times from spokespersons in the army. We also heard that several times in the army they did drop leaflet, send text and call residents in certain areas and tell them to evacuate. One of the major problems in gaza is people have nowhere to evacuate too. Schools are full. The gaza trip is densely populated. People have nowhere to go. You are right, the army maintained that it is against the killing of civilians, and it is hamas who is firing at israel from behind civilian and human shields. This is the line that the army and government maintained sense the beginning of this operation. There is diplomacy going on right now. We have talked about this earlier. There are diplomatic efforts under way to try to negotiate a truce. For the time being he would agree to a humanitarian truce. Is there momentum on the israeli side to agree to a more permanent truce . Well, two hours is a short time. I can tell you about the whole issue of a truce and a ceasefire from the israeli side is in the last 48 hours or so its not been talked about or mentioned ever since egypt had a ceasefire initiative. Israel agreed to it. Amhas related it and laurnaled a ground operation. We know theres diplomatic efforts, ban kimoon and the secretarygeneral ask in doha. Meetings with mahmoud abbas, meeting the leader, the political leader. This is all going on, and these efforts are needed in order to try to kick start the negotiations on a ceasefire again. What we are getting from israelis is that they are not talking about a ceasefire right now. Its not mentioned in local media reports. The qatari proposal for achieving a ceasefire is not on the table. This does not mean that israel would not accept a qatari proposal. But we think they are happier working with the qataris. The government in egypt is a similar government to that of mubarak. A government that israel trusts and is comfortable working with. Because it doesnt have a very friendly relationship with hamas. Thank you for the moment. Lets bring in on the phone from gaza from Shifa Hospital<\/a>, a worker at the hospital, an intrn. Hes a medical student and blogger. Thank you for joining us, tell us about the situation at Shifa Hospital<\/a> since the Bombing Campaign<\/a> intensified . Yes, the situation has been tense. Its a hospital, the medical staff. Just in the last four hours we have seen dozens of injuries, some injured during the night. In the homs by the continuous shelling. Now we are hearing rumours about two hours, firing in the distribute. Theres a lot of injuries coming at once. The inflow of casualties is unbelievable this has been the hardest night and the biggest two weeks since the operation started. Two weeks two hours ago i was at the operation room, and you have rooms in the hospital. There was a guy from the bloodbank. The bloodbank was ready because of the continuous sprags. There was no separation. There was no time to go to the blood bank. They go to the operation room immediately. You can imagine how much overwhelmed they were. In addition to this, you have one more pressure, maybe several thousand people who are thinking, or at the Nick Schifrin<\/a> hospital. They have loved ones either dead or injured, and the whole family moves to the hospital and have nowhere to go. In addition to the victims, you have people that fled to the hospital to seek safety. Maybe the victims that you have been seeing, are they civilian victims and what type of injuries have you within seeing . The biggest is two bodies, both of them from rah fire. One was a little kid, she was a girl. The brains came out. She was gasping and died on the scene. The other injury, shrapnel from the activity. And the same happened to him. There was too many shots at once. You have people coming in. Dead bodies, scattered with shrapnel. You can imagine how much damage this can do to a body. Do you have enough supplies at the hospital to treat the injured people running out. Weve been running out of supplies for about three months, even before the whole thing started. You could handling how much fruiting more than 2,of00 within days, how much pressure that puts on a hospital. And when you have we already have the supplies exhausted, and theres nothing coming in. It means that the whole situation is a disaster. Like its been for months now. Okay. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us. I know its a busy time for you. Thats a medical student on the line, a blogger that works at the main hospital in gaza, telling us that they are completely overwhelmed. Many injuries to be treated. In addition to the people coming, because of their injuries, the dead people coming to the hospital. There are a lot of civilians fleeing the bombardment trying to seek shelter at the hospital. We have majab in the studio. An incredible situation in gaza. We have seen this in the past, in 2008, 2009. In 2012, now we were in 2014, its happening again, back to square one. You would have thought the International Community<\/a> would have have learnt from previous wars. Unfortunately, the politics of the region complicated the whole region. Lets remember that egypt is not in a good shape, the situation in iraq. The geopolitics of the region is complicated. What makes the players, regionally or international. The egyptian example, in 2012 Mohamed Mursi<\/a> was able to mediate and stop the attack after eight days of the war. With less casualties and suffering to palestinians in gaza. Now in 2014 egyptian politically not in a good shape, making an initiative from their side more important, even washington itself, is not really confident about egyptian role, six because egypt in its initiative has secluded the united states, and wanted to do everything behind being involved anyway. And what has upset the united states. Basically there is a sort of the changing nature of the geopolitics make it increasing the palestinians. You know, we used to have more involvement from International Committee<\/a> like the europeans. Now with the consequence of the economic crisis, with the all the countries involved in important marts in the world matters in the world, inside or odds the re out of the israeli conflict palestinian question is not the core of the development in the region, it has been disappeared for a while because of changes. I do believe that all of those together, to put them, will help us to understand why International Community<\/a> is not on the scene or late, actually, to involve. To the game. Yes. Thank you so much. Lets remind our viewers of what theyve been talking about over the last few hours and the developments in gaza. Israel agreed to stop firing at gazry for two hours to allow the injured to be treated. For most of the saturday night and sunday morning Israeli Forces<\/a> stepped up their bombardment of the palestinian territory. According to the correspondents there, the attacks are getting nearer to gaza city. The number of casualties is rising rapidly. 40 people have been killed alone. The total number of People Killed<\/a> in the 12 days of attacks by air, sea and Ground Troops<\/a> stands at more than 400. The United Nation<\/a> says it needs bake medical supplies. Thousands of wounded people have overwhelmed gazas main hospital. All right. Well take a short break and sports news. Well have the latest on Rory Mcilroys<\/a> effort to win his first open championship. Back after this short break. All right. Farah joins us in the studio with sports news. Thats right, thank you. Rory mcilroy will tee off for the time round of this years open championship in a few hours time. He has a 6shot lead. The last player to have a big advantage at this stage was tiger woods more than a decade ago. Richard par reports. Reporter the threat of bad weather meant the open organizers brought on a 2tee start for the first time. It was a slick performance from rory mcilroy. The northern irishman got two eagles in the last three holes, to complete a round of 68. Rory mcilroy has two major chomp ynships to his name. Hes yet to win the hope and extended his lead to 6 shots at royal liverpool, and 16under. This is the third night in a row ill sleep on the lead. Im comfortable. It helps that i have been in this position before and ive been able to convert and get the job done. Alongside Rory Mcilroy Ricky Fowler<\/a> will play in the second sunday in a row. The american is 10under. We are good buddies. At the salt we want to beat up on each other. Throwing shots back and forth. It would be fun to see if i could go out and put a bit of pressure on him, see if i can get on to the next. A round of 69 for Sergio Garcia<\/a> moons he and johnson are a stroke behind the spaniard in the third. He has had seven top 10 finishes, but never won the old claret jug. Victor is looking to end frances 114 major drought. Hes fifth. Israel pounding gaza overnight. 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