The brunt of sundays quake, as you can see, the place looks like a bomb has been explode he on it. Looking through the rubble of flight 17 for remains. Plus art of celebrating some of the best and bleakest literature on the se sen sen te centeniaryr i. Lomg welcome to the newhellos hour. The 72hour ceasefire, their goal to come up with a permanent solution to the conflict. Meanwhile the people of gaza are leaving shelters and returning home. The u. N. Estimates that 72 of the victims of this conflict were slifnls. Heres a rks beings civilians. 64 Israeli Soldiers have been killed along with 3 civilians, a Thai National working in israel. Gazas Health Ministry says that 1875 men, women and children have been killed. More than 9563 gazans have been injured, that includes 2700 children and more than a quarter of a Million People are taking refuge in u. N. Shelters. For many gazans who are returning home all that awaits them is devastation. Reporting now. This is where Israeli Forces took cover while fighting an armed palestinian group. This flat in batanoon. Once the family if a of a home of seven. The people who owned this house are the lucky ones. Its Still Standing and one day they may be able to rebuild and move back in. But thats not case for many others. With tuesdays withdrawal of israels ground force he from the gaza strip and the start of the 72hour ceasefire, many have come back to assess whats next. Atia zanin told me where his home once stood. Now it is only a pile of rubble. Now he has returned to assess what happened after Israeli Forces told him to evacuate weeks ago. Getting cash has been difficult since the conflict began and most are taking out as much as they can. For weeks, he couldnt leave my house and i ran out of money completely. I have 25 family members staying with me and i couldnt get food for them. There is hope a ceasefire will hold. Many know from experience just how fragile it is. Al jazeera, gaza. From Andrew Simmons now who is live in gaza for us. Just hearing from that report, the people realize that ceasefires in that part of the world can be very fragile indeed. But are you feeling that people are at least optimistic seeing that its held for quite a few hours now . Reporter barbara, its right to get hard to get the right sus sijt words here. You succinct word here but from bait han an, the 45 kilometers of this small gaza strip, 1. 8 Million People inside it, people are in a sort of surreal state. It is a dark shadow hanging over gaza. Its seen so much violence over the years, so much fraught political situations over the years. But right now, there is a sense of desperation, a sense of this is more than 72 hours, a desperate hope but one thats grounded with a sort of sense of reality, a knowledge that life is so cheap here. And that, with time, there could be more violence that happen there could be a switch of a diplomatic line, a political tactic by either side, whether it be hamas or the palestinian factions or indeed the israelis. There could be a switch of tactics at any stage. And they would be back into a situation of violence. But were talking here about people desperate to get to some form of normality. More than 1900 deaths expected overall, possibly nearer to 2,000 by the time they found all the bodies. Because in so many areas, theyre still digging through the rubble. And so many people have returned to their homes only to find that theres just nothing left. And theyve returned to the shelters. I was in one house that was completely and utterly destroyed, with a dazed man with a bandage around his head just murmuring to himself and telling me that hed lost three of his daughters in their teens. Another girl was in a coma, the other we saw later on covered in shrapnel wounds with a bandaged arm. A man who was just destroyed inside. The people here, the trauma being suffered is something you really cant put into words. Its very deep. Its unprecedented, even for gaza. And there is a real sense of desperation here. But the guns have fallen silent and thats hugely important and there is some level of hope barbara. Andrew simmons live in gaza, andrew thank you. Palestinian Prime Minister says theres evidence wash war s were committed by israel during its conflict in gaza. The Palestinian Authority want to give the icc jurisdiction to investigate the crimes by all sides. It is you know, we know that if we will ask for investigation, they will investigate every action that was committed during this kind of war, 29 days. If it really entails actions being committed by alternative palestinian groups we are ready to accept that consequences, absolutely. But knock is compared, nothing is compared to you know, the atrocities, the carnage committed by israel against the innocent palestinians in gaza. Well as we mentioned earlier palestinian negotiates hav negoe arrived in egypt. Lets look at their demands. They want a full withdrawal from gaza, International Assistance in the reconstruction of gaza. Well for its part, israel is demanding that gaza be completely demilitarized which would require hamas to give up its arsenal of weapons. Israel also wants a way to prevent hamas from rearming in the future. Joining me is al jazeeras mar 1 bashara. Do you think theres any common ground, do you think anything will come out of cairo . Yes, i think it will. I think war has done enough destruction and enough damage to both parties, not only the palestinians and the netanyahu government, certainly israels deterrence is in shambles, the gaza strip is in shambles as is the home of 2 million or so. So this is about time for them to come around and put an end or at least oppose a ceasefire, to the tragedy thats been happening the last month that started with israels offensive there. Now, in terms of the first point, barbara, its already happened. So israelis have withdrawn from the gaza strip, we know that. In terms of opening the crossings, i think egypt has already committed to that, otherwise it wouldnt have hosted this thing. Egypt and other countries are committed along with european countries, are committed to help rebuild. Thats another discussion for another day. In terms of demilitarizing hamas, the 1,000 mile journey that i think theyre going to be starting that day, theyre going to be walking that journey. Not walking or flying. Its a thousand miles. Its not going to happen any time soon. Hamas is not going to give up its arms, the head of hamas says we will disarm if israel disarms. You and i dont think that will happen any time soon. Israels understanding or attempt at disarming gaza will be on the table. I think these negotiations barbara are going oto be as difficult as the war itself as the parties are saying. Already there is tension between hamas and the egyptians. A lot of tension between hamas and the israelis. Not easy negotiations but i think there is a clear ground that this is going to have to end soon. You mentioned the hamas, israel and egyptians. What about, the unity government, after years fatah and hamas not cooperating all of a sudden that was formed, some think that was the catalyst for everything. But unified, post28 days of fighting . It seems they are at least they are saying they are. What they are saying is it is a National Consensus government, none of the people in the government are from hamas, or fatah, but this is meant not have hamas up front in any government. Theyve agreed about it a long time ago. The one against this National Government was israel. One of the political objectives was to destroy this National Government. But the irony of it all after israel did what it did, and failing, this National Consensus government is actually a helpful, no one does, we might go into some far more extremist groups, far more offensive towards israel. So for the time being, the National Consensus government will come in. And the americans and the europeans would like it to take responsibility for things gaza and all of that would end up shoving it forward and nudging it towards even more powerful than it is today. Marwan, thank you. Much more to come on the al jazeera news hour. We will continue our coverage on gaza. And with its sewage system crippled by weeks of conflict, experts are warning of a Health Crisis there. Also coming up on the program a plane carrying a second u. S. Ebola patient arrives in atlanta, as the outbreak continues to climb. And in sport, one of spanish footballs most decorated players, announces retirement. Two star u. S. Army general has been killed at a military base in afghanistan by a gunman dressed in anen afghan army uniform. Another 15 wounded. In imul. Kabul. The assailant was also killed. Two lebanese soldiers have been killed fighting the Islamic State group on the border with syria. It comes as a group of ple lebae liquorics try to broker a peace deal. More than 30 are still being held by the Islamic State. Now 40 children from Northern Iraqs minority are reported to have died as a result of an attack, Islamic State fighters. Under threat their Largest Community is in iraq where Population Estimates range from 100 to 600,000. They follow a faith born in mes pomesopotamia, more than 4,000 years ago, which incorporates islam and christianity. Truck bombs in 2007 killed more than 400 yizidi. An iraqi member of parliament from the yizidi cult, says her people are being slaughtered. The kurds start to fight back. Spotting the enemy on an ever shifting front line. In just a few days, the kurdish fighters lost towns to the socalled Islamic State. They are ready to fight back, newly taken by the militia of the Islamic State. Translator half and hour ago we started an offensive attack to towns of the northwest of mosul. We have managed to seize control of these towns without fighting. We witnessed a sense of low morale among is fighters. Reporter those towns are near the iraqisyrian border. And on the iraqi side is forces have pushed north taking the towns of sinjar and jumar. Their growing momentum have set off alarm bells in the kurdish region. Want the Iraqi Air Force to strike. Urging the International Community to help fight what they call terrorism. Translator our goal is clear. And it matches literally the words of president massoud barzani. Quote, we will not stop and we will liberate all the places taken over by is. As more fighting is expected in the area civilians is continuing to flee. Cross to the kurdish areas during last few days. On sunday al jazeera cameras accompanied more people fleeing. We came here from sinjar because we were afraid. Our town was destroyed. We left all our household items, our our possessions, savings and i. D. Cards. Many people didnt have time to pack their belongings. Reporter driven away from their villages by fear these civilians could face precarious conditions. They are being hosted by the Kurdish Militia in makeshift camps. They need ogo back home. Mohamed val, al jazeera. Joining us from the phone in Northern Iraq is donatella rivera. Thank you so much for joining us. Youve traveled extensively in the north of iraq. What would you say are the main threats to the civilians there from the group called Islamic State . Well, weve seen the brutality that they have employed in mosul, iraqs second city which has now been under i. S. I. S. Control for almost two months. And in recent day their takeover of the sinjar area, the town of and other towns and villages nearby, weve seen a repeat of the same practices. The community, the Main Community there, being yizidis, are particularly vulnerable. They have been the target of attacks by splawk extremist groups over and over being islamic extremist groups over and over again. This is by far the worst, we are seeing tens of thousands, well over 100,000 as we know, some of them tens of thousands of them are trapped in a mountain area, cannot leave because the roads are now controlled by i. S. I. S. Militants. And their humanitarian situation is absolutely dire. They are lacking water, food, medicines, and their situation is increasingly precarious because its impossible to get aid to them by roads. So the only possibility are air drops, so far those have not reached everybody. The situation for the displaced is desperate for all but particularly those trapped in the mountain area. For the ones that arent trapped in the mountain areas and perhaps have been able to cross through roads before the Islamic State took control, what support is there for them . Are there any particular centers that are being set up and how are they handling all the internally displaced people . Well, at the moment, its absolute chaos because the numbers are so huge. So there is really a scramble to basically provide some sort of shelter, and begin very basic humanitarian aid. For those who have reached areas that are safe, ss going to take a few days, possibly more, due to get all the aid that those need. And i mean obviously, it used to be that refugees from syria would go into iraq to try and find safety there. Are you finding that there is now a sort of two groups both internally displaced iraqis and some syrians trying to scale from syria to iraq . Most certainly, there are syrians taking shelter in iraq. The number has now grown tremendously of the number of those displaced. Because there are so many people who have been displaced first of all from mosul and tal afar, and the sinjar area, the local communities, the host communities, the organizations, the Kurdish Regional government are quite obviously struggling to get all there aid that so many people need. So many people having arrived so quickly. Donatella rivera, from amnesty international, speaking to you from us from erbil, thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Frantic search for survivors of an earthquake on sunday. It left 400 dead. That number is expected to increase. Few International Journalists there sent us this report. There is only one road into the quake zone. And its clogged with emergency vehicles. Some are soldiers, some are students. And they form an army whose sole mission is to help those, who have lost so much. But their efforts are hampered by heavy rain. The quakes epicenter was the small town of long shu chan. Its flimsy buildings and the people inside them stood little chance during sundays violent jolt. This woman is wearing a shawl because she is in mourning. My mother would have turned 80 in two weeks. She was lucky, she had several grandchildren. One at university but shell never see him again. Reporter rescuers are still finding people alive but increasingly this is turning into a are recovery operation, with children among the dead. A parent looks on as everything he loved most in the world is pulled from the rubble. This impoverished and remote corner of southwest china is an active earthquake zone with three in the last 11 years. Relief and rescue teams have have been able to reach places like long tu chan. They believe people could still be buried under rubble. But those who survived are still reluctant to leave. This farmer and his wife are among those who have lost homes. But they now cook and sleep in fields they have now cultivated for decades. I am not leaving. I have nowhere to go and i dont want to leave my field. Reporter this disaster is much smaller in scale than the earthquake in szechuan that killed 700 people. That means little, now mourning the lost of so many people in this remote community. Three journalists have spent 220 days in a egyptian prison np in june Mohamed Fahmy and peter greste were given seven year sentences. Baher mohamed got a an extra three years. Greste and mohamed will appeal. Al jazeera continues to demand their release. Still to come in this news hour, an exodus from eastern ukraine. Government forces close in on separatist strong holds. Plus im tanya page reporting, where tens of thousands of jobs are at risk. It is a preferentialial trade deal with the united states. An early fight for silverware. Its a chilling and draconian sentence. It simply cannot stand. Its disgraceful. The only crime they really committed is journalism. They are truth seekers. All they really wanna do is find out whats happening, so they can tell people. Governments around the world all united to condemn this. As you can see, its still a very much volatile situation. The government is prepared to carry out mass array. If you want free press in the new democracy, let the journalists live. Gaza and israel, growing up under attack living with violence. The stories you havent heard 30 days of war hosted by John Seigenthaler only on Al Jazeera America im barbara serra, youre watching the news hour. A detail of stories. Israeli troops have been pulling out of the gaza territory. Peace negotiations currently going on in cairo. Fears are growing over the yazidi area of iraq, one authority saying they are being slaughtered by groups from the Islamic State. And more rescue teams have arrived in southwest china to search for survivors from the earthquake in sequester china. Beyond the human toll, the destruction left by a month of fighting in gaza has had a huge financial cost. Palestinian deputy finance minister says the fighting has cost between four to 6 billion to gazas economy. The United Nations relief and works agency says it needs to raise at least 187 million to provide emergency assistance. Aid agency oxpham estimates 15,000 tons of human waste is lying on the streets with many waste water pumping stations running out of fuel. From gaza Nicole Johnston