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here is nick schifrin. reporter: israel is calling it a grave mistake, three precise hits on vehicles filled with aid workers trying to feed the hungry. unusually swift investigation blamed mistaken identification, and decisions contrary to the standard operating procedures. the idf fired the burglary -- the brigade major and a chief of staff and it represented more -- and it reprimanded more senior officers. the top idf spokesman -- >> this is a tragedy. it was a terrible chain of errors and never should happened. reporter: along the coast the idf says and armed gunmen boarded the convoy and surveillance spotted a second gunman. further south the convoy split and that is when the idf admit

that one of its commanders mistakenly assumed that a hamas gunmen remained inside the convoy. >> this misidentification was the result of internal failures. reporter: between 11:09 and 11:13 the idf said it launched three strikes on three vehicles separated by more than a mile though they rode on a coastal road designated for humanitarian workers. >> the soldiers conducted the strike without any awareness that these were in fact wck workers -- vehicles. at the time they were certain they were targeting hamas. reporter: but the u.n. today and others say israel's problems run deeper. the war in gaza has been the deadliest ever for humanitarian workers. the u.n. says some 200 have been killed. >> we can see that this is not an exception. reporter: wes bryant spent 20

years in the u.s. air force where he called in airstrikes and led targeting cells. >> i think where you have an overall culture with a disregard for international law and a callousness and an over aggressiveness, the probability of these kinds of targeting mistakes increases tenfold. reporter: the u.s. is also pressing israel to help alleviate looming famine. after president biden pressured the israeli prime minister during a phone call yesterday, israel will open three new access points for humanitarian aid into gaza. the secretary, antony blinken -- >> the real test is results and that is what we are looking to see in the coming days and weeks. reporter: israel has blamed the u.n. for food shortfalls. they hope not to lose the

support of its closest ally. for the pbs newshour, nick schifrin. ♪ amna: a relatively rare east coast earthquake rattled much of the northeastern u.s. it freed nerves but caused no major cow -- casualties or damage. as the ground began to tremble in the new york area this morning, some reacted with fear. >> the building showed and i thought that the ceiling above me was going to collapse actually. amna: others with confusion. >> we felt the floor shake. amna: the u.s. said the 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit near whitehouse station, new jersey and may have been felt by some

42 million people in the region. new yorkers temporarily evacuated buildings. >> this crack was not here. amna: others documented some minor effects though there were no immediate reports of major damage. leaders came out and told people not to worry. >> we are masters of disasters. amna: while air and rail travel were temporarily disrupted, most people went back to their daily routines. the last major east coast earthquake came in 2011 and was felt from georgia to canada and damaged the washington monument. the u.s. economy is still churning out jobs and surprising experts. the labor development reported a net gain of 303,000 workers in march, 100,000 more than expected. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.8% thanks to the strong pace of hiring. in iran the commander of the

revolutionary guard vowed retribution for israel for an airstrike into damascus, syria that killed seven guard members. the threat came as thousands rallied in tehran calling for israel's destruction. and the leader of hezbollah warned that iran's response is coming. ukraine's military claims it carried out a major aerial assault inside russia. officials say drones targeted an airbase in the rostov region destroying at least six russian warplanes and damaging age others. hours later a barrage of russian missiles forced ukrainians to scramble for coverage. the strike killed at least three people. there is word that austria is likely to become mostly ice free in the next 45 years as climate change melts the country's glaciers. the austrian alpine club reports that its measurements found that all but one of austria's 93

glaciers receded from 2022 to 2023. >> you cannot save the austrian glaciers anymore because the systems are too sluggish. that means their disappearance is unstoppable. to prevent it, snow reserves at higher elevations would have to start warming so the glaciers could stabilize or grow but it takes decades and time is up. amna: the group says the glaciers shrink nearly 80 feet last year. back in this country, cleanup is underway in new england after an early spring storm brought heavy snow and fierce winds. at least two people were killed. some parts of northern new england got as much as two feet of snow. customers lost power. social media giant metta has announced an expensive new policy on posts generated by artificial intelligence. starting next month, all such

videos and images on facebook, instagram and threads will be labeled "made with ai." gingerly mod -- and on wall street, the strong jobs report fueled a rally. the dow jones industrial average gained 307 points. the nasdaq rose one 99 points and the s&p 500 was up 57. still to come, on the newshour, with the attack on the moscow concert hall and what it says about the u.s.-russian relationship. senator chris coons on u.s. military aid to israel and president biden's call for a cease-fire in gaza. david brooks and jonathan capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines and how muslim americans are observing ramadan this year. announcer: this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from

the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: president biden visited the site of the collapsed francis scott key bridge in baltimore this afternoon heading a firsthand look at the cleanup and recovery efforts to reopen one of the nations key shipping hubs. the deadly collapse killed six workers filling potholes. president biden met with the families of the victims and reaffirmed his commitment to the people of baltimore. he is asking congress to pay the full cost of rebuilding the bridge. president biden: everyone including congress should be asking one question, how can we help? how can we solve the problem? my administration is committed to ensuring that the parties responsible for this tragedy pay to repair the damage and be held accountable to the fullest extent the law will allow.

geoff: wes moore was with president biden today and joins us now. governor, thank you for being with us and welcome back. eight the u.s. army corps of engineers and a timeline to partially reopen the channel and baltimore by the end of april and fully reopen it by the end of may. what challenges and obstacles remain that could get in the way of that ambitious timeline? >> this is arguably one of the most significant maritime tragedies that we have had in recent history because what we have here is a situation, in addition to the six tragic lives that were lost and we continue to have their families in our prayers, we also have a situation that is unprecedented. a situation where you have a ship the size of the eiffel tower and the weight of the washington monument is now

sitting in the middle of the patapsco river and has the key brge, and iconic ridge that has been around for as long as i have been alive, on top of it. you have debris sitting in the water. how to navigate this is remarkably complement -- remarkably complicated. we have been working hand in hand with the army corps of engineers, the coast guard -- this has been a full coordination of federal, state, and local assets. we are thankful that the army corps of engineers has put together an aggressive timeline, we know it will take all hands on deck, it will continue to be a 24/7 operation, we will continue to put together all assets necessary to provide comfort for the families, reopen the channels, take care of our people and getting the key bridge rebuilt. geoff: the closure has an impact on the national economy.

what are the consequences of a prolonged closure of this port on marilyn's economy? are you concerned that customers could permanently shift to other ports in new jersey? >> i'm very concerned not just for what it means to marilyn's economy but for the nation's economy. this will hurt the farmer in kentucky. the largest port in this country for agricultureal equipment is in baltimore. this will hurt the automaker because the largest port for new cars is the port of baltimore. this will hurt the restaurant owner in tennessee because the largest port for spices and sugar in the country is support of baltimore. -- is the port of baltimore. it will have significant impacts on our national economy. it is one of the reasons we have been working around-the-clock and we are so grateful for the

support we have received from businesses. today we just launched something called the marilyn's tough, baltimore strong alliance which has 80 companies that have signed on. some have said they will not lay off workers. they have said they will not reroute their products. even if they have to do it temporarily, they are coming back to baltimore. seeing the way the community and the business community has been rallying around in this moment has been truly inspiring. geoff: six men died in the collapse of the bridge and four have not been found. how are their families faring? and what is being done to support them given that they likely don't have the resources to sustain the type of tragedies that have befallen them? >> our hearts continue to break for these families. i first had a chance to meet with the families when this was

still a search-and-rescue operation. i told them we would spare no expense and would do everything in our power and use all assets to be able to bring their family members home. and even as the mission has transitioned into now a recovery mission where this is about bringing a sense of closure to these families, i promised the same thing. that we would use all of our resources to bring them a sense of closure and comfort. these are men that went to work having no idea that though the work they were doing was dangerous, they had no idea it would be deadly. same thing with their families. we are going to make sure that we are wrapping our arms around them, lifting them up in prayer but also making sure we have support in place for them and their children. i introduced legislation that will provide scholarships and supports to the families of these fallen workers. geoff: and lastly, how has this

incident led you to think differently about regulating and inspecting existing bridges and ultimately designing the key bridge differently? >> the number one priority for me was always going to be keep our people safe. nothing matters more. and that includes our critical infrastructure and how people are moving around. we have always had a very aggressive push on making sure that we are having fortified, critical infrastructure, roads, bridges, tunnels so people can move safely from where they live to where they work, from where they live to where they worship, from where they live to where they go to school. we are going to make sure the process continues. i know as the full investigation is taking place as to exactly what happened in this situation,

not only do i encourage that investigation but i want it to be a speedy investigation and if there are people that need to be held to account for the catastrophe that we saw in baltimore, i want people to be held to account for it. making sure we have a hardened critical infrastructure is a highest priority but also making sure that we have learned the lessons and have clear accountability for people in the situation is crucially important. geoff: that is wes moore, governor we appreciate you making time for us this evening. >> god bless you and thank you. ♪ amna: the march 22 terrorist attack on city hall killed 45 people and injured hundreds. the deadliest attack in russia in 20 years.

russia blamed the u.s. and ukraine despite specific u.s. intelligence shared with russia about an impending attack from isis and that group having claimed responsibility after the attack. nick schifrin is back with what a u.s. morning and russia's unfounded accusation say about the u.s.-russia relationship and russia's intelligence services. reporter: before the band could take the stage for a rock concert, it became a living nightmare. [gunshots] reporter: those they did not slaughter, they tried to burn. >> these screams of people i understood. shots and screams from people who are frightened who are now maybe dying. this is pretty hard to ever forget. reporter: he bought tickets for the rock group to celebrate his wife's birthday.

>> we headed toward the entrance to the hall and almost immediately we heard shots. we ran down the stairs. we took refuge in the toilet stall. someone was praying. someone was calling their loved ones screaming emotionally to get us out of there. after a while, smoke began to seep in and we decided to leave. a girls body laid near the escalator leading to the first floor and she was dead. reporter: how did it help when you heard the terrorists were arrested? president putin has described them as radical islamists with a connection to ukraine. what do you think when you hear that statement? >> considering that their behavior is different from typical radical islamists, they did not try to commit suicide or

take hostages. they went toward the ukrainian border. it is possible the official version will be correct. reporter: vladimir putin provided the official version. >> a crime was committed by radical islamists. we also see that the u.s. is trying to convince sidelights so there is no trace of kyiv. reporter: a suspects phone with photos inside of iconic symbols of ukrainian resistance and the city hall. and russia's top intelligence officer has blamed the attack on ukrainian and american intelligence. >> we believe the action was prepared by the islamist radicals themselves and was facilitated by western special services. the ukrainian special services themselves are directly related to this. reporter: the u.s. and ukraine say that only isis was responsible. two officials tell us that the

u.s. warned russia of a possible terrorist attack and named specific targets including city hall. on march 7, the u.s. embassy in russia -- in moscow made the warning public. to include concerts. u.s. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours. despite the u.s. specificity, russia would call the intelligence "to general." before the attack vladimir putin disparaged the warnings. >> these actions represent outright blackmail to intimidate our society. >> there is a sense, a climate of conspiratorial thinking which is quite widespread in russian society these days, that russia is a proceeds -- is a besieged fortress. >> they have this sense of

extreme fragility as the russian state. and they think that the state which is fragile is under constant attack. even if they have this evidence that the real radical islamists were caught red-handed, they would try to develop a theory that there are some hostile forces behind this. reporter: he points out that russia did make some arrests immediately after the u.s. warning but he says vladimir putin has created a climate where it is impossible for society to question security services and impossible for intelligence officers to work with the west. >> people that came too close to the americans from the russian point of view and share too much with the americans, these people were immediately punished and sent to jail. the other problem is that if you

sealed your intelligence services from criticism, they will always fail you because they feel completely impenetrable. reporter: and so putin's besieged fortress failed to protect people. ♪ geoff: let's shift to the israel -hamas war and the explicit warnings from president biden and u.s. officials to the is really government that they are nearly out of patience with how they are conducting the war in gaza. the administration says it is way in changing its policy towards israel if the israeli military does not do more to help the humanitarian situation. chris coons for the first time

is signaling his openness to that idea and he joins us now. thank you for being with us. you said yesterday, we are at that point of potentially placing some conditions on aid to israel. what kinds of restrictions do you support? >> let me be clear. in rafa, in the very south of gaza, there are more than a million palestinian refugees pressed up against the border with egypt. they have nowhere to go and they are there because the idf has been carrying out a month-long campaign against hamas that began soon after the october 7 terrorist attacks and has gradually worked its way down gaza from the north, to the central and to the south. what i said is if israel big nor is our pleas for them to provide for these refugees to get out of the way of their military campaign, and they go in to rafa at scale, bombing and attacking

with large-scale infantry units, than i would consider conditioning aid to israel with the munitions that we provide for that combat because it would inevitably lead to significant millage -- civilian casualties. that may be different from what others are saying but that is what i was trying to convey to the israeli leadership. don't go in toronto with a large scale attack without providing for humanitarian relief and for civilians to relocate. geoff: the u.s. provides israel with weapon systems and munition not just for war fighting but for defense and deterrence. what about the argument that conditioning the eight would put israel at risk especially in this environment where you have actors like hezbollah, iranian proxies that would likely take advantage of that? >> i would not put any limitations on the critical defensive munitions like the iron dome system that we developed in partnership with

israel. i recognize that israel's greatest foe in the region, iran, is likely to be taking action against israeli interests in the coming weeks. and hezbollah is continuing to launch rockets and missiles and to the north of israel. to be clear, i would support ongoing military partnership between united states and israel for israel's defense. geoff: help us understand president biden's thinking on this. he has faced increased pressure to take a harder line for months. he has been steadfast in his support of israel. he told the israeli prime minister yesterday that continued u.s. support for the war in gaza depends on new steps to protect civilians. help us understand his evolution on this. >> in my view president biden is not abandoning the israeli people or the partnership.

but a number of us including myself have real differences with the prime minister is very conservative government with his ministers who have been acting in ways that has slowed or blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid into gaza. i was encouraged to hear that after yesterday's conversation between prime minister netanyahu and president biden at the netanyahu government has agreed to open the gate in the north of gaza where the hunger is at its most acute the port to allow for greater deliveries of humanitarian aid into gaza. and the route by which jordan is delivering aid in to gaza. that is a small but important step showing a willingness to change direction. i was encouraged that the idf has released its results of its review on its attacks of the world central kitchen.

the idf has disciplined several senior leaders and made it clear that this was in violation of their policies and practices. more needs to be done and more needs to change but that is an encouraging step forward. and it shows how president biden's engagement with this far right government of netanyahu has had some positive impact. geoff: on that point, why has the killing of those seven aid workers, why has that shifted the debate and the calculus of this white house and top democrats yourself in the way that the killing of tens of thousands of palestinians apparently had not? >> frankly, this has been steadily building over months. and i was last in the region, the head of the world food program raised with me the fact that there had been dozens and dozens of aid workers killed, overwhelmingly palestinians. i raised that issue directly

with prime minister in february. i pressed him to address the d confliction issue and he said he what. i think the world central kitchen issue has brought it into sharper focus because chef jose andres is well-known and well-regarded and world central kitchen has delivered critical hunger and humanitarian relief in so many other places around the world from ukraine to california to puerto rico. so it has helped sharpen the issue. but frankly, this has been building for months. the concern that many of us have about there being far too many civilian casualties in gaza over what is now a six-month conflict. geoff: that is chris coons from delaware. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. ♪ amna: it has been quite a week.

president biden delivered an ultimatum to israel and here at home a number of american adults told us they are prepared to accept violence in our political system. to discuss that and more we turn to the analysis of broke's and capehart. david brooks and jonathan capehart, associate editor for the shington post. rate to see you both as always. i want to pick up from that interview. you just heard the senator say he is open to conditioning aid to israel and under those conditions as he laid them out, this is a close advisor of president biden saying -- after the killing of the aid workers, does this feel like a tipping point when it comes to president biden's relationship with leaders in israel? >> we have seen this coming. how many weeks have we sat here on a friday night talking about how while the relationship

between the nations is firm, the relationship between the leaders of those nations, there is daylight coming in there and the president and the administration would say, don't do this, prime minister netanyahu and the prime minister basically saying, hold my beer. but the killing of the seven aid workers, the president went to world central kitchen's meal station in ukraine -- he is the owner of restaurants that the president goes to. this is someone he knows who has struck him personally. there needed to be a turning point. they needed to have something happen to get the president and the administration to be a lot more forceful and to get the attention of the prime minister. i think the president got after

the phone call yesterday. amna: david, do you see this as a tipping point? do you see u.s. lawmakers moving to condition eight? -- aid? >> there is a rough consensus which is that israel has to finish the job on hamas or it would be a disaster for the region. that has to happen. at the same time, there seems to be a consensus that israel has to do a vastly better job of protecting the aid convoys particularly if they are going to invade rafa, they have to get the million people out of there and they have to provide free passage to the north. and we have to do everything we can to pressure israel and some conditions on aid, we should do

what we can. it would be against israel's self to -- self interest and america's interest. i was cheered by the readout of the call. i had feared netanyahu would want to run for reelection as the guy running against the u.s. he accepted the conditions that president biden laid before him and he has already complied with a few. this pressure may be working. amna: there is the issue of protecting the aid workers but does this call into question how discerning israel has been in carrying out its strikes so far? >> there are two things to be

said to. contradictory. this is a war unlike any other. i have never heard of another war where the enemy is in 500 miles of tunnels underground. and the enemy's chief strategy is to generate as many civilian deaths as they can. this is a harder deal. having said that, i have been covering the middle east for a while and one has discerned a growing callousness towards palestinian lives and the is really population. i'm not sure how split netanyahu is from the israeli people themselves. it has to be explained that this is in your own self interest. this is a humanitarian disaster aside from being a moral atrocity. there is both the horrific conditions israel is fighting under but also over

aggressiveness as we heard earlier and a growing callousness towards palestinian suffering. >> and the growing callousness i think is what is bothering me and why i think the world central kitchen deaths is a turning point. the thing that bugs me is for years i have known and we have all known that the israel defense forces are among the most sophisticated armed forces in the world. and yet, time and time again, since october 7, we have seen these very sophisticated armed forces make mistake after mistake after mistake. mistakes happen in war but how does a mistake like the one that happened to world central kitchen happened when world central kitchen was working in coordination with the army letting them know where they were at all times.

how do you explain that? that is why i think -- add that to the president's relationship, though phone call with the prime minister yesterday and the changes that have been made, they have to keep going because if netanyahu does go in to rafa without a plan for what to do with the million people there, not only will he lose world opinion but i think he will lose the president and the united states. amna: if i may bring this back home, this is resonating in the same way with the american public. a lot of people are closely watching how president biden handles the moment especially in some key auto ground states. polls show a tight race between president biden and former president trump. 50-40 eight slight lead that president biden has within the margin of error but there are a

couple of key takeaways. one question we asked americans is if they felt americans have to resort to violence to get the country back on track and a majority disagreed or strongly disagreed but 12% of democrats and 28% of republicans and 18% of independents agreed that violence might be necessary. coupled with a question of whether they wanted to see a president or leader willing to break the rules to set things straight and 56% of republicans agreed in 20% of democrats and 37% of independents. what kind of picture does that paint for you? >> the violence question -- it should be 0% that violence is necessary. that did not concern me as much as the break the rules, someone willing to break the rules to get the country back on track. it is the trump campaign.

break the rules to get the country back on track. i broke the rules coming to the studio today. people break the rules all the time. amna: which rules? >> i went over the speed limit. people are not thinking ransacking the capital. they are thinking little things. when you are talking about donald trump, breaking the rules is breaking law and order, breaking norms and breaking democracy. that is why when you have 56% saying they agree or strongly agree -- i republicans, but still a big number from the nation overall is concerning. amna: how do you see it, david? >> i want to say that i followed the speed limit on my way here. amna: [laughter] >> i had the same reaction as

jonathan. i am not a big fan of -- resort to violence -- because i don't know what violence means in that context. people are really saying, how upset are you about how things are going. but that is the seedbed of authoritarianism. it is mostly on the right. it is a little on the left as you hear people saying that they have to tear down the system. that is authoritarianism. you can see it in the philippines, in poland. whenever you have a rise of authoritarianism it is because people think that breaking the rules is somehow ok to make the streets safe. the dirty harry defense. amna: i hate to ask you this in the last 30 seconds but what about the impact of the third-party, no labels effort? >> i don't think it changes the

landscape but good for "no labels" for paying attention to the people they were going to and asking them to be on the tickets. and those people going back and saying, no thank you and then going public saying i did my due diligence and i'm not doing this. amna: always great to see you both. thank you so much. ♪ ♪ geoff: we are less then three days away from the total solar eclipse that will be seen in the u.s., mexico and canada and there is major excitement. total solar eclipses are rarely seen in the u.s. and the next

one will be seen for some 20 years and they rarely last as long as this one well. totality may last four minutes. mondays eclipse will cut across 13 states with more than 30 million people living in the path of totality. and millions more are traveling to get a good look. and stores are selling or giving away the glasses you will need to our science correspondent has a viewer's guide on what you need to know. reporter: this is the one and only total solar eclipse i have ever witnessed. 2017. i was prepared to be blasé but instead i was blown away. you just have to see it to understand. certainly this guy does. neil degrasse tyson is an astrophysicist at the american museum of natural history in new york city. >> this eclipse, as much as

anything, is about how many people can get to it. >> the a clips itself goes over -- the eclipse itself goes over major metropolitan areas. major cities including minneapolis, niagara falls. people can sit in their backyards and experience a total eclipse. reporter: what would you recommend that people do, get in their cars and go? >> yes. if you are in a place where the moon has covered 99% of the sun, that little sliver that remains is equivalent to the light of 10,000 full moons. if you are not in totality, you are not in totality. reporter: i think we intuitively know that the moon is a lot smaller than the sun. so how is it possible for it to cover the entire diameter of the sun? >> we have a fortunate set of

circumstances as earthlings. no other planet has this feature. the sun is 400 times further away than the moon is and it is four hundred times wider. those factors geometrically cancel each other if you want to think of it that way so they look the same size on the sky. making for a spectacular making for spectacular eclipses. reporter: we are seeing the eclipse from the space station. >> this is that darkened part of the moon's shadow crossing earth's surface. and you get to see a fuzzy edge around there, not a sharp boundary. if you are in the edge, it means some of the sun is covered. it gets darker but not totality.

reporter: you don't want to look at the sun unless it is completely covered without some protection. >> you never want to look at the sun. you have protection. during an eclipse, you have more of an urge to look at the sound but these are especially designed to filter out and reflect away the harmful rays coming from the sun. when you put this on, you know they are working when you cannot see anything -- reporter: i've got nothing. >> you cannot see anything but you look at the sun and there is an image. reporter: you should look to make sure they are in the proper iso -- >> there is a iso certification on them and generally they will say "eclipse glasses." the moment the sun is completely covered, you can remove them and look at the completely covered sun. reporter: this is an important

but overlooked point, take them off when it is in totality or else you are missing out. in 2017 a telescope maker shot this fabulous view. this is a preview -- >> it does not happen this fast. the first contact is the moment the moon in its orbit around the sun touches the edge of the sun. the second contact is when we hit the diamond ring when the leading edge of the moon touches the opposite side of the sun. now the moon which is larger than the sun on the sky, is continuing to move when the trailing edge touches the sun again, the second diamond ring, that is the third contact. as the sun -- as the moon completely emerges from the disk of the sun and steps off, that

is the fourth contact. there are four contacts of note and the second and third are what are the most important. reporter: your natural instinct is to look at the sun but it is worth looking around and see what is happening around you. >> we have all sat under the trees like that for four and you see these mottled circles of light. it is easy to think to yourself that that is light coming through the trees. but it is actual images of the sun created by pathways through the leaves. during an eclipse, the circles of light turned in to crescents. reporter: the point is, take a moment to look around you and absorb the environment. the temperature changes. there is a quietness that comes. in theory, birds and bees do different things. >> the animal kingdom is

confused. among the animals, the ones that behave the strangest is the human spirit watch the behavior of the other humans. [laughter] reporter: where would it expert like you go to watch the eclipse? >> it happens that the path goes over dallas but the cotton bowl that seats 90,000 people. what a convenient place to gather. and this has been observed by the national oceanic and atmospheric organization. reporter: thank you very much. this has been fun. i hope you get to see it. and i hope we do also. geoff: lucky for us, miles will join us from the cotton bowl in dallas on monday and he will report on the excitement around the days events therend throughout north america. ♪

amna: muslims around the world right now are marking the month of ramadan. observing muslims abstain from food and water from sun up to sun down every day and gathered a break their fast during the meal. this year the is or-how war in gaza with mass civilian deaths and also sufferings among gazans has added a new layer to this holy month. we spoke with local muslims. >> my name is --. >> ramadan, every year this is something we look forward to and we count down the days. the whole vibe changes near ramadan. >> i have three young girls. we put lights around the house and decorate and we have a

welcome ramadan party. we tried to get together with families to make it so that this month is special for them. >> we come and pray here and at night we have special prayers and we do it together. it is a blessing. >> it is amazing and it is partly because everyone is hungry and the food is right there. you are really looking forward to this moment during the day. and you are doing it with people you love, your friends and family. >> we obviously fast from sunrise to sunset and we use this month to try to eat a lot but also give food a lot and give charity when we can so we can feel closer to those that don't have what we have. >> this ramadan, muslims around the world are thinking of our brothers and sisters in gaza and palestine in general.

and the conditions they are in. and we are praying for them. >> it is supposed to be a high time of mood and joy and you come in fielding helpless or maybe even angry. >> this might be the most difficult ramadan yet. they don't have enough food and sometimes even water. and we are always seeing the kids suffering and they are starving. their parents are going north to find food and coming back to their children under the rubble. we don't want to waste food at all. even if we don't like a food, we want to eat it because we think about what is happening in gaza where they are eating dirt pies. >> with what is going on in gaza this ramadan, i think it comes with increased awareness of the privilege that we enjoy, having family around us, having food and water and knowing that there

is so many in a different part of the world being deprived of these things. >> we are giving more this ramadan especially if there is a special fundraising for gaza people or a demonstration. we are trying our best to be with them and thinking about them. >> there were also other people echoing that saying that there are people suffering in and unprecedented way. and so we should dumb down our ramadan because the joy and the celebration is not the right time for that. the way i think about it is that it is time to do that even more. i have signs outside my house. this is something i want to celebrate to show that there is nothing that will take ramadan away from us. this is our month to celebrate

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