who helped treat survivors of israel's assault on the shejaiya neighborhood that left at least 72 people dead. and we will go to israel. >> israel did not choose to enter the conflict. we were implemented. restoring quite for the israeli people. will significantly damaging hamas's infrastructures and the rest of the terror organizations in gaza. we are undeterred. we shall continue the operation as long as it is required. >> as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu bows to continue attacking gaza, some israelis are speaking out. we will speak to an israeli peace activist. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the israeli assault on gaza has seen its bloodiest day so far, bringing the palestinian death toll to over 500. more than 100 palestinians were killed in a 24-hour period between saturday and sunday nights. the dead include 72 residents of shejaiya, one of gaza's poorest and most is the pot related neighborhoods, where israeli forces carried out their single worst attack so far. survivors called the carnage a massacre and the human secretary-general called it an atrocious action. 18 israeli soldiers have died on the ground assault on gaza since thursday in israel launched a ground invasion it said was aimed at cutting off tunnels used by hamas. 13 of the soldiers died fighting militants in shejaiya. a stateretary john kerry is headed to cairo today to back international efforts for a cease-fire. on sunday, he made the rounds of talk shows to defend israel's assault on gaza. but in between appearances, cameras captured his phone call with an aide were john kerry appeared to criticize the massive palestinian death toll. of a pinpointl operation. escalating and underscores the need for cease-fire. >> we have got to get over there. thank you, john. to bek it is crazy sitting around. >> we will spend the rest of the hour on the crisis in gaza. its decision to remove veteran correspondent heldin from gaza, following a wave of criticism. he was pulled from coverage of gaza last week after witnessing the israeli attack that killed four boys on the gaza beach. his route warts have placed the conflict in the wider context of israeli occupation, sparking criticism from supporters of israel's offensive. on friday, nbc said in a statement -- ukraine has launched an assault on the rebel hdonetsk about 50 e crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. all 298 people were killed when the plane was shot down. dutch investigators began inspecting the bodies which were being held in were for cars. the un security council is expected to vote today on a resolution demanding international access to the crash site in donetsk comeau which is controlled by pro-russian separatists. the head of the recently proclaimed donetsk people's republic has denied interfering with the crash probe and vowed to turn over the plane's black box to investigators. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has threatened further sanctions against russia citing mounting evidence rebels filed the muscle which brought down the plane. >> we know the trajectory. we know where he came from. we know the timing. it was exactly at the time this aircraft disappeared from radar. we also know from voice identification that the separatists were bragging about shooting it down afterwards. so there is a stacking of of evidence here which russia needs to help account for. >> in pakistan, a u.s. drone strike killed up to 15 people saturday in a village in north waziristan. it was the third u.s. strike in the region in less than two weeks. "the new york times" said the dead were militants. on sunday, the pakistani military bombed a valley in north waziristan, killing 28 people it said were militants. according to reuters, an earlier bombing friday killed 17 civilians, including six children. the attacks are part of a pakistani assault launched last month after repeated u.s. urging. the military ordered all of north waziristan to leave before the of salt, but some families are too poor or too sick to go. >> iran, the united states and five other countries have agreed to extend talks on iran's nuclear program or another four months after failing to meet a sunday deadline. saidweek, president obama iran had met its commitments under an interim deal but said some significant gaps still remain. in libya, health officials say fighting between rival militias vying for control of the main airport has killed at least 47 people. the violence is among the worst since the was-backed ouster of moammar could off the in 2011. in nicaragua, five people have been killed and two dozen wounded in the province of matagalpa after gunmen opened fire on buses during supporters sandinista government. the passengers were returning from saturday's gathering in the capital to celebrate 35 years since the sandinistas ousted the somoza dictatorship. in southern china, the strongest typhoon to hit the region in more than 40 years has killed at least 18 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. ,he typhoon also hit vietnam where he killed eight people. last become the same typhoon blasted the philippines where the death toll has risen to 94. australia has repealed laws aimed at curbing global warming by charging corporations for carbon emissions. the repeal of the carbon tax was a key promise of the prime minister tony abbott. his critics say australia has now become the first country in the world to undo progress on climate change. during the first year the tax was in place, emissions dropped by their largest amount in more than two decades. last year was australia's hottest year on record. has orderedorida the second largest cigarette maker in the u.s. to pay $23.6 billion in punitive damages to the widow of a smoker who died from lung cancer. cynthia robinson's husband died in 1996 at the age of 36. the jury found the firm r.j. reynolds had concealed the harms of smoking. willie gary, an attorney for cynthia robinson, celebrated the victory. clearly -- itt is is going to send a message to the big tobacco companies. not only to tobacco companies, but to all of this companies that feel, for whatever reason, profits come before people and safety. and that is just not the case. >> r.j. reynolds has vowed to appeal. last week, its parent company, reynolds american, agreed to buy rival tobacco giant lorillard in a $25 billion deal. in detroit, michigan, more than 1000 people from across the country gathered friday to protest the city's mass shutoff of water to thousands of residents who are behind on payment. nine people were arrested for blocking the departure of trucks from a private company hired to index shutoffs. according to the water department, more than 15,000 households saw their taps cut from march through june, with more than 90,000 at risk after falling at least two months behind on their bills. a you and panel has called the shutoffs a violation of the human rights to water. in new york city, residents rallied over the weekend to protest the death of eric garner , an african-american father of six who died after police placed him in a chokehold. police have accused him of selling we cigarettes. graphic video of thursday's incident shows an officer pulling garner to the ground by the neck and then holding his head against the pavement. as other officers crowd on top of garner, he repeatedly says "i can't breathe." moving.oon stops he was pronounced dead at a local hospital. the officer who used the chokehold has been removed to desk duty and ordered to turn in his badge and gun pending investigations. according to the associated press, three men have sued the officer in the past two years, alleging unlawful, racially motivated arrests. the protests come as newly reinstated new york city police commissioner william bratton is already facing criticism for reimplementing his policy of cracking down on low-level offenses. bratton was criticized for his embrace of the so-called broken windows policy during his first stint as commissioner in the mid-1990's. police have so far rested more than 240 performers who dance and perform acrobatics in the city's subway system, a sixfold increase over last year. critics say the crackdown targets young men of color, who make up the majority of street performers. two performers say they have recently been arrested. >> i was arrested a few months ago for hosting a puppet show. what they site as for his impeding traffic. it was dismissed before i went to court. they know it is silly. for the time i have been doing it, it hasn't been a problem. [indiscernible] >> and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. listeners andour viewers around the country and around the world. the israeli assault on the gaza strip has seen its bloodiest day so far, bringing the palestinian death toll to over 500. over 100 palestinians were killed in a 24-hour period between saturday and sunday nights. the dead include 72 residents of one of gaza's poorest and most of the populated neighborhoods. in the single worst attack so far, israeli forces shelled homes and fought militants in shejaiya, leaving behind a scene of carnage that survivors called a massacre. frightened civilians fled along streets strewn with dead bodies. wounded residents bled to death in their homes. an unconfirmed report said more than 20 children and 14 women were killed. hundreds of people were window then taken to the overrun shifa hospital, which struggled to find room for the bodies. at the hospital morgue, survivor said residents were bombed as they slept. >> shells were between the houses. they killed women and children. there is no one left. there's a massacre in shejaiya. go and see. >> we are residents sleeping at home. we are at home, civilians. we are not pro-hamas or pro-israel. we are poor people sleeping at home with children, women, and old people. all of the shells were randomly fired. at least each house got 10 shells. more than 1000 shells were fired . >> in a statement, the un's secretary-general condemned israel's attack as "atrocious action care code the mass killings have helped push the palestinian death toll to over 500 since the assault on gaza began two weeks ago. the dead include more than 100 children. over 3100 people have been wounded and more than 81,000 displaced. the you and for palestinian refugees has warned it's running out of food and medicine at the schools housing over 50,000 people. the number seeking refuge has nearly tripled since the ground invasion began on thursday. at least 130 palestinians have been killed during that time. >> the ground invasion has also called israel's first military casualties. 18 soldiers have died in gaza since thursday, including 13 fighting militants in shejaiya. on sunday, palestinian militants with the qassam brigades announced the capture of an israeli soldier, but israel denies the claim. on sunday, as israeli forces carried out their deadliest attacks so far, prime minister benjamin netanayahu vowed to continue the assault on gaza for as long as necessary. >> israel did not choose to enter, but from the moment it was forced on us, we will implement it until we achieve its result. restoring quite for the israeli people. well significantly damaging hamas is infrastructures and the rest of the terror organizations in gaza. we are undeterred. we shall continue the operation as long as it is required will stop >> benjamin netanayahu cited the backing of foreign allies saying he is "laid the diplomatic foundation that is given us international credit to operate." the obama administration has provided critical support leming israel's acted in self-defense blaming hamas for the civilian toll. the white house now says it wants an immediate cease-fire and secretary of state john kerry has been sent to join talks in cairo. for more, we go to gaza city where we're joined by democracy now! sharif abdel kouddous. you have just come -- we are getting the latest news. can you tell us what you saw? >> of come from the site of yet another massacre. 24 members -- at least 24 members of the same family were killed in their own home in an exit steam strike -- in an f-16 strike. during the sunset called a prayer come the time muslims break their fast. hit thisissile strike family in their home as they're sitting down deep. a grandmother, her three sons, their wives, and all their children were killed. i went to the site on where the highs -- where the house was. there's only a crater left. the surviving family members say they used to cranes and a bulldozer, working for 12 hours throughout the night to retrieve all the bodies. at the hospital morgue, it was a difficult scene. one of the dead was less than one year old. she was still in her pampers, d ead. a father of one of the women killed -- the bodies were dispersed. 14 and 1, 10 in the other. a father had to go to two hospitals to pick up one of his daughters bodies because half of her was in one hospital and have was in the other. this is the kind of tragedy we hear almost on a daily basis here in gaza. families are being wiped out in such massive numbers. one family lost 18 members in an airstrike last week. i went to the north the other day where eight were killed while watching tv when a tank shell, artillery shell hit their home. -- this is avery war and civilians are paying the highest prices for this. the killing doesn't seem to stop. >> the toll from sunday, the highest figure i saw was 120, more than one third women and children. there was this mass killing we just mentioned. you interviewed survivors and victims at the hospital. he went to the side of the attack. can you tell us what you know about what happened in shejaiya? >> from speaking to residents evacuating, it was very hard to get in. this attack again -- everyone says around sunset time. there was a barrage after barrage of tank shells that rain down on shejaiya, one of gaza's poorest, most densely populated neighborhoods. people said there was no help. they called for a militants is. paramedic workers said they could not get him because of the amount of shelling. people waited for hours. they were left alone. they finally decided to escape on foot. when we got there in the early morning sunday morning, there were just families streaming out, many of them carrying nothing. some were barefoot. were many families incomplete panic, trying to hail cars or trucks. they spoke of bodies strewn in the streets of shejaiya. it was hard to get into confirmed. some reporters did get in and confirmed reports and there was some footage of it. in the hospital, it was a very difficult scene, scenes of such indescribable anguish and loss. in the morgan shifa, there were two children, one was nine years old and her brother was seven years old next to her. what appeared to be relatives arguing about the name of the seven-year-old brother. his could not tell because head had been completely shorn off in this attack. these are the kinds of scenes of horror that become daily occurrence in gaza. there doesn't seem to be any end in sight to the bloodshed. >> we're also joined by dr. mads gilbert, under region dr. providing medical assistance in gaza, recently cemented a report to the u.n. on the state of the gaza health sector this year. can you talk about what is happening from where you are right now in shifa? we did not want you to wait. we understand our many people waiting to see you. i am, enforcement, breaking news to you in the u.s. israeli tanks shelled the in the middle zone of gaza about 10 minutes ago. four were killed, mainly patients treated and the surgical department, and 15 are injured. this is not the first attack on hospitals, unfortunately. the israeli army is directly shelling hospitals and killing patients and civilians. this is in violation of all international roles. it is completely income principle to me why the israeli army is not stopped when they attack hospitals and civilian populations. this has to stop. mr. obama has to step up and say enough is enough now. >> dr. gilbert, the renovation started thursday. what kinds of injuries have you been seen since then? >> i would just like to repeat that 10 minutes ago the israeli army shelled the hospital. this is a very dramatic step up in the situation. we so far have had over 3000 injured in gaza. among these, 1000 are children and 600 are women. that is far more than half. 515 have been killed. 120 our children and 50 women. the attacks and injuries we are seeing now, and the hospital is being crowd of an emergency with new attacks, burns, blast injuries, shrapnel, and what you can see from artillery shell bombings. lots of children still. it wouldrief hope that be a quiet morning. it has been very hectic. theambulances keep running. the worst that so far was the night before yesterday when the hospital received at least 400 injured and 73 dead. this was truly a massacre. the injuries were just horrible as your correspondent just mentioned. children came in without heads and totally dismantled by the shelling of the residential areas. , you came inilbert from norway to help the people of gaza. secretary of state john kerry has just called on your foreign minister to help negotiate a iase-fire, and apparently, believe he is find egypt. can you talk about the significance of this and norway's role? the significance from a medical point of view, there is one overwhelming lead up, and that is to stop the israeli bombardment. it is absolutely devastating. it is much harder than i have seen before in 2006, 2009, in 2012. the attacks then. it is targeting residential areas and now hospitals. of course, a cease-fire has to be broke in -- brokered immediately. it has to be done in a way that it is safeguarding the palestinian people and not just the pseudo-powers. the palestinian people are not yielding. they are standing tall. those in shifa are carrying the weight. i am only a very small part of this. way gaza will raise the white flag. if there are people who are dignified, they know their nohts, and they say this -- power, even if they try to kill us all, we will not surrender. so the cease-fire will save thousands of lives in gaza. we have now have 3200 injured, over 500 killed. israel has to stop the bombing. the siege of gaza must be lifted immediately. guardianlbert, the newspaper is reporting the israeli military is using shells and the offensive on gaza, weapons described as illegal under rules of humanitarian law. the way they're described is, they explode in the air above the target, sending out a count of thousands of tiny still darts , small darts. have you seen any of those wounds at shifa? >> i have been suspecting the same, because many of the wounds we see our precisely small fragment wounds. they're very hard to clean, to remove the small metal particles. if these are that type of bomb, i cannot confirm it, but it is no doubt a large number of injuries are fragmentation different sources of fragmentation. they could be in artillery shell and it could well be these explosives. >> dr. gilbert, the bombing of the hospital that you have just told us about, the news you're just broken, last week we spoke to the director of hospital who received a phone call from the israeli military telling him he was going to be targeted and wasesting that the hospital to liberally targeted. any indication that this hospital was deliberately attacked? question. a funny i mean, it is a hospital. the israelis know every single building in gaza. everything about gaza. of course, they know it is a hospital. there's no doubt. of course they know it is a hospital held with patients. theake it even worse, hospitals in the south of gaza are overwhelmed by patients because it is impossible to distribute the patients between north and south because it is so unsafe to travel. of course they knew they were shelling the hospital. it was just reported now on the news there were actually five killed in the shelling of this hospital in the midsection of gaza. es, shellingulanc civilians all amounts to war crimes. this is a war crime in the making. , thankdr. mads gilbert you for joining us. under we didn't dr. providing medical assistance in gaza. as we turn back to sharif abdel kouddous in gaza city right now. i should say dr. mads gilbert submitted a report to the u.n. on the state of the gaza health theor in 2014, even before israeli assault on gaza began. sharif, if you can talk about among the civilians that have died, a paramedic has died, another journalist has died. >> yes, amy. as i said, it was very hard for ambulances to get into shejaiya yesterday, but the paramedic drivers are extremely brave. they went into shejaiya to try to retrieve the wounded. one of them was hit in a direct hit. the picture of the and balance ambulance shows it is a chart, hunk of twisted metal. , an e-mail wasst sent to foreign correspondents, telling them hamas exploits shields andas human the israeli government will not be responsible for any damage or injury the journalist sustained while field reporting. the next day, a journalist was killed. let me also say the number of displaced is much higher than it in 2008, 2009. there's nowhere for people to go anymore. before the shejaiya attack, the numbers were 60,000 displaced. at the end of the day, it was 80,000. the u.n. was opening up different schools for people to come. they come with nothing. they come with maybe a blanket or pillow, but usually nothing else. they don't know when they will go home. they don't know if they will have a home when they go back or whether he will be destroyed. we often talk about the dead, but the vast numbers of wounded, 3000, these are not minor injuries. we are talking deep shrapnel wounds, amputations, and the psychological terror inflicted, especially on the children of gaza. it will have deep, lasting effects. by the u.n. plus own count, 60,000 children in gaza are needed in psychological treatment. needing psychological generation. this will last for generations. as i'm speaking to you, there has been shelling behind me and eastern parts of gaza city. this'll strikes happening. i can hear drones over me right now full top so this is something the gaza strip is bracing for, for more bloodshed. >> the fighting in shejaiya, that is where the israeli soldiers were killed, what do understand about the battles that occur between militants and the israeli soldiers? it looks like they put up a considerable fight. toit is very hard independently verify anything. what appears to have occurred is, according to different sources, either a tank or some kind of armored vehicle was attacked and destroyed by the armed wing of hamas and when the rescue team -- the israeli rescue team winning, four were killed. it looks -- began to different sayings, local ones, qassam is a much more prepared militarily than it was in 2008 and 2009, that it learned its atsons from 2008 and 2009 there is a gaza under gaza, with titles and a network where they operate -- with titles and a network where they operate. it seems to be true they fired many rockets into israel and the israeli military doesn't seem to be able to kill the militants. they're killing civilians and children. big -- ittwo very sounds like they're continuing naval artillery behind me. they continue to pop up into israel through these tunnels, which benjamin netanayahu says is the whole point of the ground invasion to destroy them. it seems that almost 20 israelis to come in so they can fight them. if you look to the right in the distance, i believe that is the shejaiya. you can see on the horizon, massive strikes, maybe two or three as the smoke is blowing up. i believe this is shejaiya where we had that massacre yesterday. these are the sounds we are hearing. a couple of clomid is from where we're standing now. >> sharif abdel kouddous, thank you. filing reports for "the nation" and we will have a link to those reports. speaking to us from gaza city. when we come back from break, we were be joined by raji sourani, palestinian human rights leader. he will speak to us from gaza as well. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron maté. we are staying in gaza. in gaza city, where we're joined by raji sourani, an award-winning human rights lawyer. he is the director of the palestine center for human rights in gaza. he is on the board of the international federation for human rights. he received the robert f kennedy human rights award in 1991, twice named and amnesty international prisoner of conscience. in 2013, won the right livelihood award. raji sourani, we welcome you to democracy now! we ask you to describe the situation, at this point, and what you feel needs to happen. what you see here, what you see in shejaiya area, were yesterday the israelis committed a massacre against civilians. many people. 75 have been counted. almost 400 dead. many injured with very serious injuries. 150,000 fled the area. [indiscernible] they are raising the entire area in gaza. that is gaza doctrine. civilian targets. they're doing were crimes, crimes against humanity. outrage.ery this is unprecedented. >> raji sourani, so many have died since the israeli ground invasion last week and that was launched after hamas rejected the cease-fire from egypt. prime minister benjamin netanayahu use that as a pretext saying hamas rejection gave him legitimacy and international backing. hamas amid their position is clear, they want a return to the november 2012 cease-fire, which had some provisions about lifting the blockade of gaza. can you talk about why this is so important, the effect of the siege on gaza? first, hamas resisted the group. they're part of our chemistry. israeli occupation sitting on our chest for the last 47 years. we have the siege, which is suffocating gaza with the tooling people in 300 square kilometers, to be like animals. suffocated socially and economic and otherwise. [indiscernible] we have one of the highest education and university graduates in the world. we have very skilled working class. of the most wonderful business communities. eight years of criminal siege. it is what the icrc and all human right organizations in toe years were subjugated three wars. and the november 2012 and this war. we're not here in defense of hamas. they're confident they can defend themselves. i think they're doing fantastic with the israelis in gaza. but we are in defense of the civilians who are entitled to protection according to international law and humanitarian law. and protections according to the law.a we are in the eye of the storm. we're the target. israel killed all of these women and children. of the so far that have been killed and injured, which we documented as a human rights organization, are civilians. , 25 members of family, three-story building, leveled. none of them to exist on life. hospital, subjugated to bombardment, 15 people have been killed in the last hour. .ow a shejaiya doctor all of these acts are against civilians. this is the fifth strongest army in the world with high intelligence. they are intelligent -- they are targeting civilians. >> raji sourani, i want to play comment from prime minister benjamin netanayahu who recorded this message, he said, for the people of gaza. >> i want to use this opportunity to speak to the people of gaza, heedhe warnings of the ideas of the israeli army. leave your homes and places to where you're told to go. leave. don't stay there. hamas wants you to die. and you should not die for hamas. they don't care about you. we want you to be safe. >> that was israeli prime minister benjamin netanayahu. that is posted on the israeli government page. raji sourani, your response? >> benjamin netanyahu committed crimes against humanity. he is a sponsor bowl of debt and what is going on this hour. i can assure you one thing, we will hold accountable -- we will hold them accountable one day. he will be brought to the court of law. he and his government doing against civilians will pay dearly for it. like osama bin laden and many others, the one who target civilians, kill civilians, destroys civilians and innocent people. he is doing and committing war crime and use doing [indiscernible] just -- he is asking people, almost half a million people, warning they should leave their place and evacuate or houses because they're going to bomb and shell and kill hamas people. where to go? is there a safe haven in gaza? is there a safer place in gaza? no safe haven in gaza. three under 65 square kilometers , 2 million living in it, and this is one of the most dense populated areas. see, land, air and sea, nowhere to go. even safe passage usually provided during time of war, it is not provided. you nnot feel safe any place in gaza. his message is wrong. his message should have been sent two weeks ago -- was sent two weeks ago through the f-16s, to be apache, through the drones, to the artillery and tanks which is bombarding every corner in gaza. in the eye of the storm, the siblings. prime minister, i think your message has been conveyed very strongly, but we will tell you one thing, never, ever we have the right to give up or be a victim for such criminals like you. >> raji sourani, the israeli government is saying they're doing this because hamas is firing a rocket that terrorized the israeli population from gaza. your response to that? >> [indiscernible] blood and suffering in civilians. the count here is terrible. the number is increasing. 536 have been killed. 86 of them are civilians, women and children, basically. we have hundreds who have been injured. yesterday, only yesterday, we massacreejaiya this which raised the number. only yesterday, up to 135 killed in one day. mostly, basically, young civilians. we have simple rules, which is the rule of law. there is no holy or unholy suffering or soil. every human should be respected. but nobody is respecting the palestinian blood. [indiscernible] deserves the cracking down. at least 2000 people on the west bank, killing 11 people and the west bank, among them four teenagers. nobody even mentioned their names. is it worth watching all of this war in gaza and holding gaza accountable for something that happened in the west bank? that is misleading and wrong. israel [indiscernible] occupation, like somebody standing in quicksand. they are sinking. israel doesn't feel the committing war crimes, crimes against humanity. that is because of the entire american legal and political support. and the entire support by u.k., france, germany. they feel they mean. there is no accountability whatsoever. cheap, ours so civilians are so cheap to kill and destroy. >> raji sourani, thank you for joining us, joining us from gaza city and in the background we hear the bombing and the attacks. raji sourani is an award-winning human rights lawyer, director of the palestinian center for human rights in gaza and the executive board of the international federation for human rights. he has received many awards including the robert f kennedy human rights award and twice named amnesty international prisoner of conscience, last are one the right livelihood award. -- last year won the right livelihood award. when we come back, we go to haifa to hear about an israeli peace protest of hundreds. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron maté. we look now the political climate inside israel were violence in gaza has been escalating. several peace protesters in israel have recently been attacked. on saturday, haifa's deputy mayor and his son were beaten when right-wing activists attacked antiwar demonstrators protesting israel's bombardment of gaza. right-wing activists burned a palestinian flag and shouted "death to arabs." on sunday, the captain of a youth soccer team wrote on his facebook page, "send left-wing voters to the gas chambers and clean this country of leftists." guests, rannto two bar-on, an israeli peace activist who participated in saturday's protest in haifa. he's a lecturer in mathematics here at duke university. he's been in haifa visiting his parents for the past two weeks. is with us, athal senior writer for alternet.org and best selling author. his recent book is, "goliath: life and loathing in greater israel." let's start in haifa. you,t to start by asking rann bar-on, what happened in this demonstration? >> hi, amy. 300 to 400ut activists demonstrating against the war. as we arrived, my partner and i activistsver 1000 from the right surrounded by police and others screaming "death to arabs." as we were protesting, they .oved toward us the police allow them to of toward us. the police allow them to attack us, to throw stones at us. later on as we were trying to leave, the police took -- the police did not attempt [indiscernible] they took over an hour to evacuate us while we were under heavy attack by stones and other missiles. many were injured. we had over 30 injured. two women are still in the hospital. there were gains in the streets beating up anyone who are a member of our organization -- demonstration. >> can you explain why you went in the streets to protest? >> absolutely. i believe what israel is doing a latent attack -- blatant attack. it is not self-defense in any way. continuation of israeli policy that has always been against the air population. what happened us in the protest is not new. this is something that has been continuing for many years. there's been much and simon from saying "death to arabs" and "death to leftist." >> i want to turn to max blumenthal. your book was pretty much a warning about this rise of a fascist culture. context.in the wider ca >> i guess i hate being vindicated for the facts are produced in this book, that i describe in this book. the facts on the ground inside israeli society. what we saw in haifa, what i understand, these right-wingers who attacked ron and other leftists who are heavily demonized in society, were incited at the highest levels by figures like the foreign minister, that these right-wingers arrived and buses. this was a very organized attack. it is apparent to me extreme right-wing elements have infiltrated the police, which allow them to attack leftists across israel, to attacked antiwar protesters. they infiltrated the much the way golden dawn has done in greece. the current conception of the street level right wing, which kind of acts as a street muscle for net not who -- netanyahu's organization, they're not just settlers or religious national levels. many protested the withdraw from the gaza strip in 2006. they formed a group which intimidates leftists and college campuses. they're still a major part of the army including the army corps. the violence risinger in gaza is not just related to particular military strategy, it is also influenced by the ideology that has captured the hearts and minds of these young men who ase learned to demonize absolutely subhuman. it is playing out unofficially through vigilante campaign in israel, but in gaza, what we are witnessing is the official revenge campaign orchestrated by benjamin netanayahu and the military. , i want to get your comment on what secretary of state john kerry was caught on tape saying. he appeared on a whole bunch of u.s. talk shows. while he was on camera andmic'd up, yet a phone conversation with an aide which he sarcastically responded to the news of an israeli operation. lipis wallace played the c and asked of john kerry thought israel had gone too far. >> it is a hell of a pinpoint operation. significantlyng and underscores the need for a cease-fire. >> we have got to get over there. thank you, john. i think it is crazy to be sitting around. >> secretary kerry, are you upset the israelis are going to far and in fact do you intend to go back to the middle east? >> i think it is very, very difficult and the situations. obviously, difficult. you people have come out of titles, you have a right to go in and take out those tunnels. we completely support that. >> that was john kerry on fox. you heard in the conversation he had with his aid, questioning the pinpoint bombings, max blumenthal. >> i don't know this was an accident. this may have been staged by kerry to save face for his bungled act of hollow diplomacy, which was actually a ruse to legitimize benjamin netanayahu's ground operation and create political space with the kind of massacres that we have been witnessing on this very broadcast. it was john kerry who helped draw the shame cease-fire proposal, which was introduced by the coup regime of egypt and sisi, who is jill thousands of muslim brotherhood members who are political counterparts of hamas. and never presented this proposal to hamas will stop tony blair served as the emissary between sisi and netanyahu. it was to paint rejectionists. declared the rejection of the cease-fire gave them all the political legitimacy he needed for the ground invasion. and now kerry is criticizing the outcome of the cease-fire proposal that he introduced. the inevitable outcome. now claiming he was to be flown back to the middle east and negotiate a new cease-fire on the tax payers dime. i call on john kerry to refund the american taxpayers for all the jet fuel he is wasted. he can dip into the heinz family fortune of needs to do that. this is an absolute failure of u.s. diplomacy and an abdication of leadership by barack obama who says that he is heartbroken by these images that he is witnessing from the gaza strip as he oversees an op the shipment of the very weapons that are used to bombard hospitals. hospital was just attacked and five are dead. four were in surgery when they were killed. >> singh israel never give up security control of the west bank, according to benjamin netanayahu. hamas was moderating his position somewhat, casually endorsing negotiations. how much of this whole operation d.c. is an attempt -- do you see is an attempt for the settlements in the occupied of the west bank? >> this is absolutely about cementing the occupation and netanyahu and his defense minister have openly declared their goal is to maintain the occupation perpetually with full u.s. support. what we saw after the kidnapping and killing of the three israeli teens, israeli intelligence knew the suspects were within 24 hours and within 24 hours, knew the teams were dead. they know is a cover-up. the entire israeli media was placed under gag and the israeli public was convinced the israeli military as a rampaged for the west bank was on a rescue operation. the point of this operation was to crush any resistance to the perpetuation of the occupation and to the government of palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas who basically has accepted the occupation as the head of the authority and accepted his role as a subcontractor of the occupation -- >> max -- >> accepting security coordination with israel. >> max blumenthal, we have to leave it there. latest book is, "goliath: life and loathing in greater israel." also thank you to, rann bar-on, speaking to us from haifa. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. captioning. e-mail your comments to (music playing) ♪ it seems like we can never keep enough mussels in the house here at fleur. our customers love them so much, and i'm not surprised, when you see how nice and plump they are in a nice rich sauce. but what's exciting about it is if you stay with me-- -chef, are those for table 25? 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