this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts are about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean supply things like this sacks of flour rocks etc it's the basics that they supply now they only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of knowing for that long so there's already a cute shortages. pusher we are worried because this is the only help we have to be able to live we have no choice where else are we supposed to get food from we can't buy it we can't work there is no where if they decrease the aid what shall we do there's about two million people in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another as people like these are going to be affected the most now the u.s. president has said that he wants changes to the way under all price you also once the international community to step up and donate a lot more aid he said that the u.s. is very generou

fact that there is a different reality inside the gaza strip than the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions on exports mohammed says trade won't pick up in unless the siege ends at the end of the film no makes everything right with her imagination in reality things aren't so simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip. parts of india's financial hub mumbai have been shut down by a second day of protests staged by members of the community delegates who are the lowest rank in india's ancient caste system called the strike in response to attacks by right wing hindus in the city of proof on monday they say the police didn't take any action against those who attacked them more than two hundred works by the artist michelangelo are on display you new york the exit bishan includes and dozens of sketches and drawings which rarely go on public display. went to have a look. art lovers examining the work of a legend a new michael angelo exhibit at the metropolitan museum of art in new york brings together one of th

al jazeera in the gaza strip. and time to take you through some of the headlines now for the first time in almost a year north korea says it will reopen communications inside the demilitarized zone with south korea the gesture is a prelude to talks that are scheduled for tuesday between the two rivals. north korea's leader kim jong un has given an order to open the panmunjom hotline between the north and south from three pm on january third to contact south korea regarding the right time for talks and sending a delegation to the peeling chuang winter olympics. or do we reach a gay park in south korea's government welcomes north korea's response to yesterday's offer to restore the public communication channel who would discuss practical affairs regarding yesterday's offer to hold south and north korea talks. u.s. president donald trump is threatening to cut off funding to the palestinian authority saying it's not interested in talking peace on twitter trump said the u.s. received no appreciation or respect in retur

businesses in the gaza strip have been struggling under an israeli blockade for a long time many are barely able to keep running and now a cartoon by an israeli rights group shows the reality facing one sweet factory alkaloid reports. a girl called nor buys an ice cream and wins a ticket to visit a sweet factory. where you have heard the. shot has now was a hollow yet. nor the fictional character in an animation made by an israeli rights group but the factory and its owner mohammed tell bonnie a real and some of the many problems operating under the blockade of gaza by israel in egypt. no discovers them as mohammed shows have around starting with a power cut. electricity is off most of the time in gaza. during my visit i haven't explained it since the siege began ten years ago most of his production lines are closed most of the time. he didn't want to fire any of his four hundred staff their families depend on the wages to employees had their hours cut instead. because the animation also shows the machinery they use has problems to israeli authorities restrict the import of anything

the gaza strip was to be administered by egypt. in the midst of defeat. conceived a plan that would change the future of egypt. a movement that would be known as the free office's. africa theater missile but that the hardware were different but out of range. of out of. a level of caliber. of the little logic i got a side that when you add the set of tookie but feel. that way to see it as mostly. washer good that a lot of. the of the samata were poor machete that al well from that are. three years after the end of the war the free offices struck. in july nine hundred fifty two they launched a coup d'état. egypt's king photo was dethroned and sent into exile. lieutenant colonel come on up to. the mosque to mine behind what was now cooled the july revolution quickly rose to be the country's defacto leader. in israel this news aroused deep rooted fears in kibbutz state but can't bring time into home of israel's founding prime minister david banker. and. then gorean all the time feared that one day a new kemal ataturk would rise in the arab world and would un

the gaza strip was to be administered by egypt. in the midst of defeat a man not done not said conceived a plan that would change the future of egypt. a movement that would be known as the free offices. a few cathedrals about the harbor were different that outbreak. of a black hole a level of copper. in the desert a lot of kind of i got a side that while i may have the us out of the clear but fear. that led to see a mostly. washer going down a lot of a. bed of the same lot of way. that he that i will offer him at the outset are. three years after the end of the war the free offices struck. in july nine hundred fifty two they launched a coup d'état. egypt's king photo who was dethroned and sent into exile. lieutenant colonel come on up to. the mastermind behind what was now cooled the july revolution quickly rose to be the country's defacto leader. in israel this news aroused deep rooted fears in kibbutz state who can bring time into home of israel's founding prime minister david banker. when gorean all the time feared that one day

in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel it controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials. israel says it won't lift the siege on gaza until a mass disarmed that hamas used to redistrict up until recently but now it's under the control of the palestinian authority and i says it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact and will have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position they take a man called al-jazeera gaza city at least one person has died in fighting between protesters and police in honduras as demonstrations continue against the reelection of president one orlando a man this defeated opposition candidate salvador mess malla when demonstrators in the streets of the capital you can see they accuse the authorities of manipulating results movember election dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more jailed since hernandez was declared the winner last month. and i live volcano and papa new guinea has erupted ag

fact that there is a different reality inside the gaza strip than the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions on exports mohammed says trade won't pick up in unless the siege ends at the end of the film no makes everything right with her imagination in reality things aren't so simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip. meanwhile civil servants and gaza been protesting again over the unpaid wages they say they haven't received salaries since rival palestinian factions signed a reconciliation deal back in october hamas and fatah reached an agreement that was meant to overcome differences between them but now they're blaming each other for the paid wages. well the number of homeless people in the u.s. is rising in new york one in ten schoolchildren spend at least part of last year without a home to call their own al-jazeera as christian salumi went to one school that's trying to deal with the challenges they face. when the island school in lower manhattan opens its doors in the morning principal swanny ram

the businesses in the gaza strip of long been struggling under an israeli blockade many have been able to keep their operations afloat but some forced to close due to lack of supplies and other difficulties well now a new cartoon by an israeli rights group tells a reality facing one business math and web reports from gaza. a girl called noah buys an ice cream and wins a ticket to visit a sweet factory. hey you have heard them in the sinai loud that assad has now moved on her no yet has new the fictional character in an animation made by an israeli rights group but the factory and its owner mohammed tell bonnie a real and some of the many problems operating under the blockade of gaza by israel in egypt. no discovers them as mohammed shows have around starting with a power cut and it just these off most of the time in gaza. during my visit mohammed explained that since the siege began ten years ago most of his production lines are closed most of the time. he didn't want to fire any of his four hundred staff and families depend on the wages so employees had their hours cut instead. becaus

fact that there is a different reality inside of the gaza strip the one they normally hear business is also been hurt by israeli restrictions on exports mohammed says trade won't pick up in less the siege and at the end of the film makes everything right with her imagination in reality things so simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip nigeria's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the armed group boko haram that managed to escape they were found among gooner that's close to the northeastern border with chad the army says many of the captives were being kept in forced labor camps. as the latest from the brutal. the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground on elephants of over the last few weeks in northeastern nigeria now these areas there fled from chile islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with niger cameroon and china they've been some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by

in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel it controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials. israel says it won't lift the siege on gaza. up until recently but now it's under the control of the palestinian authority it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact only have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position like a man called algiers or. the united nations as long as the largest humanitarian a pail yemen is asking for almost three billion dollars in the nation's almost three years of saudi led airstrikes and fighting with his the rebels left forty five percent of the population in desperate need of lifesaving assistance. at least six people have been killed and several injured following clashes between police and protesters and democratic republic of congo the anti-government demonstrators were organized by leaders of the catholic church in the country are angry at the delay in holding a presidential election after presi

fact that there is a different reality inside of the gaza strip than the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions on export mohammed says trade won't pick up in less the siege and at the end of the film no makes everything right with her imagination. in reality things simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm where bendigo show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen you can tweet me. on twitter please use the hash tag. when you do or you could drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always there's plenty more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that takes you straight to our page which has individual reports links even episodes for you to catch up on but that is it for this edition of counting the cost. for the whole team here thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera is next . zero explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how while influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the. resistance. t

strip and as one delegates who came from that region here to brussels put it he said the entire gaza is on the verge of collapse if that money does not flow. not just reporting from brussels for us thank you gary. now a one of a kind cello has made its debut at a concert in northern italy the instrument was sculpted from ice on top of a nearby glacier it's beauty and fragility are part of its sound and its origins are high in the alps. this is how eyes can sound when you give it the right shape. they call it the nice cello. italian musician giovanni salema plays it in a bubble inflated with cold air. inside it's minus eight degrees celcius but nothing puts him off his notes. the audience is in chant it. american schools thirty million are made the cello in a glazier does january he's created ice instruments before for him it's easy if you shape it like a cello it will sound like one. it's a sculpture it's a complicated ice sculpture no i scold her i have two kinds of r.'s i use the white what you see which is the body of the instrument is made of snow and water and the bridge which i

fact that there is a different reality inside the gaza strip than the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions on exports mohammed says trade won't pick up in unless the siege ends at the end of the film no makes everything right with her imagination in reality things aren't so simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip. israel's parliament has given preliminary approval for legislation that would make it easier for a court to impose a death sentence on people convicted of murder in incidents classified as terrorist attacks the bill still requires three more readings before it becomes law currently the best penalty can only be imposed if a panel of three military judges passes the sentence unanimously fifty two members of the knesset voted in favor of the proposal and forty nine were against. illegal should she be i think the extreme situations there is also simple logic and simple logic easy if someone murders a loss he will not spend the rest of his life in jail and he will be executed. saying in israel

this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts are about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean i know our supply things like this sacks of flour rocks it's the basics that they supply you know the only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of nine for that long so there's already a cute shortages. for sure we are worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food we can't buy it can't work there is no work if they decrease to eight what shall we do there's about two million people in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u.s. president has said that he wants changes to the way under operate you also wants the international community to step up and donate a lot more aid he said that the u.s. is very generou

fact that there is a different reality inside the gaza strip than the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions on exports mohammed says trade won't pick up in unless the siege ends at the end of the film no makes everything right with her imagination in reality things aren't so simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip. a turkish bank has been found guilty in a u.s. court of taking part in the scheme to violate u.s. sanctions on iran mahmoud hakon a along with us was accused of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through american bags disguised as food and gold sales focus since then he has been following the trial for us in new york hi kristen so tell us more then about who is. so how come the tila is the former general manager deputy general manager of hulk bank which is the turkish state owned bank that prosecutors say was at the center of the scheme to launder more than a billion dollars of iranian money through the turkish banks so that it could be spent in the united states and on int

fact that there is a different reality inside of the gaza strip the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions. mohammed says trade won't pick up in less the siege. at the end of the film makes everything right with her imagination in reality things so simple and industries are still crippled al-jazeera in the gaza strip and a few minutes the weather was still ahead on al-jazeera. by twitter and how it's changed the way the world sees america. more than just an education for children plus. tournaments and he's here with that story. by the time. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. well over the last couple days we've been keeping a close eye on a couple of tropical systems which have developed not particularly powerful ones but lots of heavy rain see this massive cloud head just to the east of the philippines now so to the west of the philippines that's been making its way through says central southern parts of the philippines mindanao for example so some extremely heavy rainfall system has intensified slightly sustained winds of around fifty fiv

now the ten year blockade of the gaza strip by israel and egypt has left its forty's with no means to properly dispose of rubbish piles of garbage and are putting public health at risk malcolm web reports from gaza. one of the many problems in a city under siege is how to dispose of its rubbish. it's a job to help clicked it using a donkey and cart. the blockade of gaza by israel and egypt means that if you refuse trucks and fuel is expensive this year you go like surely there is no other country in the world using donkeys to collect the rubbish if we had proper vehicles and enough fuel it would be faster and make our work much easier the gaza strip is home to about two million people it's almost entirely built up to the city's waste is loaded in trucks and taken here to a giant open dump. it's one of three one of them close to people's homes it's enormous it just goes on and on and it stinks it's hard not to god standing here just a few hundred meters in this direction is the separation wall built by israel around. about a kilometer over here is the edge of the city so there's just n

in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel he controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials is all says it won't lift the siege on gaza until hamas now mass used to rule the strip up until recently but now it's under the control of the palestinian authority and i says it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact only have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position they take iran card al-jazeera gaza city. and i love volcano papa new guinea has a rapid again triggering tsunami warnings for nearby coastal communities plumes of steam and ash being shot into the air from the cut of island by flights have also been cancelled volcano first erupted earlier this month causing thousands of people to flee from surrounding islands papa new guinea said on the pacific ring of fire an area of intense seismic activity. of course that's all that's all the two will have the results we'll stray and open as the world number two and a six year

in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel it controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials is all says it won't lift the siege on gaza until hamas now mass used to rule the strip up until recently but now it's under the control of the palestinian authority and i says it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact only have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position they take him on card al-jazeera gaza city germany's social democrats have given the green light to formal coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives party delegates narrowly approved this step at a conference in bonn michael's been unable to form a government since the elections in september when it came reports. it was a vote with profound implications for the social democrats for germany and perhaps the e.u. by a clear but not necessarily large majority martin schulze now has the authority to enter formal negotiations with anglo american the p

in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel it controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials is all says it won't lift the siege on gaza until hamas now mass used to rule the strip up until recently but now it's under the control of the palestinian authority and i says it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact only have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position they take him on card al-jazeera gaza city. pope francis is leaving a final mass in lima as is to our south america to an end to a million people are at the service at the last airbase in tunis capital ahead of the mass local bishops. after he accused victims of the sex abuse scandal of slandering a ship because they say. the crime mariana sanchez has been following the pope's visit and she joins us from lima so mariana it's been the pope's most controversial visit i think it's fair to say well what's been the far dicked on how it went. well judy if indeed it's bee

businesses in the gaza strip have been struggling under an israeli blockade for years many are barely able to keep running with some forced to close because of a lack of supplies and other difficulties a cartoon by an israeli right script shows the reality facing one sweet factory welcome way reports from gaza. a girl called nor buys an ice cream and wins a ticket to visit a sweet factory. where you have had him in milan allowed a shot in the snow was a hollow yet was nor the fictional character in an animation made by an israeli rights group but the factory and its owner mohammed tell bonnie a real and some of the many problems operating under the blockade of gaza by israel in egypt. no discovers them as mohammed shows have around starting with a power cut electricity is off most of the time in gaza during my visit mohammed explained that since the siege began ten years ago most of his production lines are closed most of the time. he didn't want to fire any of his four hundred staff and families to pen down the wages to the employees had their hours cut instead. as the animation also

so all those numbers you see there how does it all play out when one con is in the gaza strip for us with a look at how this will affect the families who are already struggling this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts for about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean supply things like this sacks of flour rocks etc it's the basics that they supply now they only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of nine for that long so there's already acute shortages. for sure we have worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food you can't buy you can't work there is no work and they decreased aid what shall we do there's about two million people in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u.s. president has s

the bottom line is you are not prepared, are you, to give up your weapons based control of the gaza strip and your continued determination to fire rockets into israel, to dig tunnels under your territory into israeli territory in order to conduct terrorist operations inside israel, you're not prepared to give up any of that and as a result, fatah and the pa continue to put sanctions on the gaza strip including blocking the payment of power supplies. your policy is damaging your own people? i'm sorry to hear that from your side. this is the language of israel. we are not terrorists and we are not launching rockets against israel randomly. we are defending ourselves against the fifth, the phantom 35, the most sophisticated weapons belonging to the israelis destroyed our infrastructure, destroyed our people. personally, i was a target many times by israel. they killed two sons of mine. one of them was getting a masters degree from salford university, manchester. so you are not speaking about the crimes of israel against our people about the sanctions, about destroying our infrastructure basi

in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel it controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials. israel says it won't lift the siege on gaza until a mass disarms that hamas used to rule the strip up until recently but now it's under the control of the palestinian authority the masses it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact only have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position they take iran card holders are gaza city still ahead and al-jazeera germany's social democrats vote for talks about forming a coalition with anglo-american but their leader faces criticism plus. one in five east of indonesia is facing a serious health crisis i'm stunned france and reporting from the us might region in the south of tampa where children are dying because of undernourishment and measles outbreak tied to the sport says or garcia gets his golf season off to a winning start in singapore details coming up with peter. hello there we've got an

but hamas actually as a movement have been losing power in the gaza strip the gaza strip used to be run by hamas they were the defacto power that's now changed to the palestinian authority there's reconciliation efforts going on between hamas and islamic jihad and i have to remind you that eight members not just a small i mean have been put on this latest terror list these reconciliation efforts going on between islamic jihad hamas and the palestine liberation organization those talks are underway to be interesting to see how the p.l.o. the palestine liberation organization actually reacts to this is what because they'll have to condemn this move so you'll have somebody who will condemn this move that actually isn't a pause or it hasn't reconciled with hamas and islamic jihad so all of this means for hamas is that nothing really practically changes for them but they say what this is actually quite crucial what they say is that this is internal u.s. politics is for the benefit of the americans it changes nothing practically on the ground for hamas will smell and that they will remain a l

strip and as one delegate who came from that region here to brussels put it he said the entire gaza is on the verge of collapse if that money does not through. this reporting from brussels for us thank you garrick. here watching d.w. news still to come a one of a kind chalo makes its debut we'll tell you why it's cool tunes are melting hearts cross italy. but first over to christophe siemens siemens rather announcing a first quarter jump in profits earlier but not everyone smiling about the company that's right sue me and here is why profit in the important industrial power business is down as the man for gas turbines for example declined further that's one area we're planning to lay off thousands of people and close production facilities here in germany now the move has triggered a bite spread criticism and protests at today's general annual meeting which is underway currently in munich because while cutting jobs in germany it looks like siemens is towing president trump's line to boost investment in the united states. as the world's rich and powerful gathered in davos fifteen capt

strip and gaza strip alone it's two hundred seventy thousand students that are and people always ask me when are you worried about further radicalization well not as long as the students are in our schools and therefore it's very important that these. fifty's continue and the same for health care activities in our emergency response. so far the e.u. has said that they are willing to make early payments but not pay extra money are you confident you will be able to close that gap well it was very important that several countries including several members of the european union advanced their funding to us to allow us to keep the schools open to keep the clinics open it's clear that at one point if the three hundred million that has been reduced by the us cannot be bridged then we will find ourselves hitting a wall and that will have major implications but not just implications for implications for the dignity of the refugees and regional stability which truly can be in the interest of no one. thank you very much. for the day is nearly done but as ever the conversation continues online y

strip since two thousand and seven it's already considered a terror organization by the united states of the hamas officials have also been added to the list. this is not. just for a big. no religion it's for this reason we are considering this statement of the foolish statement committed by people who know nothing about what freedom for. what is my day i was born in a refugee camp west of gaza city he was close to hamas a spiritual leader the latest shake up and yes and but he was relatively unknown until he headed the how massless that won the palestinian election in january two thousand and six and became prime minister he was elected to be the masses political chief in may last year and is seen as pragmatic and flexible in his attitude towards israel spinouts a rose in jordan has more from washington d.c. and rose why is this all happening now. well the u.s. government typically in the business of constantly revealing who should be on this list of terrorists as the u.s. government calls them and who should not be sometimes the decisions are made for purely political reasons someti

for over a decade the gaza strip has been sealed off by israel and egypt conflict high unemployment and poverty have made life extremely difficult at headquarters and the u.s. decision is being watched very closely there are no immediate consequences for the services but there is no doubt that if it stays this way and if we are not able to find it dition money from other donors and the united states doesn't change its decision we would be in serious trouble here in terms of continuity of our course says the refugee agency provides services that would normally be supplied by a state that runs health clinics and social services to over one point two million registered refugees. harshest critic is the israeli government says the relief organization perpetuates the refugee problem but people here say that without the little help they get the situation would be even more bleak. at the food distribution center in the shati refugee camp people are bracing themselves for an even harder time every three months they pick up their ration of oil lentils flour and other items. and taking it since i

this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts for about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean supply things like this sacks of flour rocks etc it's the basics that they supply now they only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of nine for that long so there's already a cute shortages. for sure we are worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food we can't buy it can't work there is no work and they decrease to eight what shall we do there's about two million people in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u.s. president has said that he wants changes to the way under all price you also once the international community to step up and donates a lot more aid and he said that the u.s. is very generous bu

a ten year blockade of the gaza strip by israel and egypt has left its municipal authorities with no means to properly dispose of rubbish piles of garbage and now putting public health at risk welcome web reports. one of the many problems in a city under siege is how to dispose of its rubbish. it's a job to help clicked it using it donkey and cart. the blockade of gaza by israel and egypt when few refuse trucks and fuel is expensive fish there you go like surely there is no other country in the world using donkeys to collect rubbish if we had proper vehicles and enough fuel it would be faster and make our work much easier the gaza strip is home to about two million people into most entirely built up in the cities waste is loaded in trucks and taken here to a giant open dump. it's one of three of them close to people's homes it's enormous it just goes on and on and it stinks it's hard not to gag standing here just a few hundred meters in this direction is the separation wall built by israel around. about a kilometer over here is the edge of the city so there's just no other space. to

strip since two thousand and seven where in a moment we are going to have reaction from palestine where imran khan is standing by for us in ramallah first though let's get the latest from roslyn jordan who's in washington d.c. you were also in tell us a little bit more about this u.s. announcement. well it comes just about a month or so after is my honey a called for a new into fodder or uprising in israel in response to the u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel though state department officials are not saying that is exactly the reason why they made this designation they do note that he has been involved in the planning and execution of attacks against both israeli citizens and at least seventeen american citizens and so what this does is basically puts a freeze on his personal assets it basically outlaws any financial support from u.s. persons for israel honey and it could set up a not just a travel ban but also the potential that he could false possibly face prosecution by u.s. authorities for his role in the deaths of those seventeen