deterrent. >> i'm a deterrent. i'm a deterrent. >> you have power simply because of your passport being israeli. >> sure. >> reporter: he's trying to stop the intimidation from increasingly violent israeli settlers. >> you see the car there. they turned -- burned it. >> reporter: by documenting aggression and calling authorities as they plant this flag ever closer. >> this is a war crime. we occupy this land. they try to move the community out to the big villages so israel can annex this area without the local people. i'm trying to stop it. >> reporter: an israeli human rights group reports incidents of extremist settlers tormenting palestinians is on the rise. >> he is there in order to drive all these people away.

>> reporter: avidor, a war veteran, is fighting a different sort of battle today and feels just as patriotic wearing this uniform, a t-shirt for combatants for peace, which has a straightforward goal. >> to spread the word that the other side is human, because you have to dehumanize in order to kill someone. >> reporter: formed 18 years ago, the group began bringing together former combatants, former enemies emphasizing community building and the all too rare approaches of dialogue and understanding. >> i learn about the palestinians. i tell them my story, because what do they know? they meet violent settlers and they meet soldiers. that's the israelis they know. >> i grew up just imagining the israelis or the jewish as one person who has holding a gun and just want to take everything that i have. >> reporter: tariq joined from the palestinian side with his uncle, ahmed, who says his own fear and hatred of israelis sparked desire for revenge.

>> i start to created myself to be a strong fighter. >> reporter: by the time he was 10, he says he was burning tires and throwing rocks. >> what do you say to foreigners who look at kids throwing rocks and being violent and say, what a violent culture. >> listen, we are not violent people, but our life forces us to be like this. >> reporter: as a teen he joined hamas. >> did you ever think about picking up weapons, arms? >> maybe in that time, yeah, maybe a -- i got a chance, maybe i will agree to, yes. >> you would have been a suicide bomber? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: but over time he was exposed to different ways of thinking about other palestinians while the oslo peace accords were being signed.

>> our goal, to have the state, a palestinian state. >> why do you think combatants for peace is the way toward that goal? >> because i believe in nonviolence way, and i believe it is the only way. throwing rocks or burning tires will not do anything. testimony not fix. it's just a way to show your anger. >> how did your anger play out? >> it's still like in a small cage inside me. i think things happening in gaza, like, it's where all my buddies keep burning from even inside. >> reporter: they tell us they've lost 60 family members in israel's assault on gaza, which has killed more than 35,000 palestinians. the u.n. figures about half are women and children. >> how can you continue to want it, have these conversations with israelis? >> i am sure that there is many

israelis, they against the war. they against the occupation. i'm working with them. >> you realize that we are both humans. we have the same needs and feelings, so i said, if i go to fight them, they will fight me back, and if i fight them back and they will fight me back, and i will fight them back, it will only just be violence, but if we talk to each other, they will hear me, and they will feel me, give me empathy. >> reporter: that evening israelis joined palestinians here in the west bank to watch a ceremony recognizing the displacement of 700,000 palestinians in 1948 during the creation of the israeli state. this israeli came here. >> why make a two-hour trip to come here? >> it's like my second family. this is the only place to give me hope. >> i'd imagine there are a number of israelis who would say

it's a pretty audacious thing to celebrate it. >> we are a palestinian group. that's their story. this is our story. we share the stories. >> reporter: he invited us to join him at a military cemetery on tel aviv on israel's memorial day. >> every one is a soldier. >> reporter: especially solemn this year in the wake of the october 7th massacre when 1,200 people were murdered and 251 taken hostage. >> one of the strongest connections to israel is through this, our love of the country. >> reporter: shuki was his friend and commander killed during the 1973 yom kippur war. >> every some years we have new conflict, new dead, violence keep on, and it's why i'm trying to work with other side to find a solution without violence. >> reporter: a siren sounds each

memorial day, and for two minutes much of israel halts to reflect on lives lost. combatants for peace stages its own commemoration on this day recognizing the loss on both sides. ♪ we feel each other's pain ♪ >> reporter: last year 15,000 people attended. this year's event was smaller due to the war. >> it's like medicine, these moments. >> reporter: that's where we met benny, who did not want us to share his last name, a soldier in the israel defense forces who had a realization after barging into a palestinian family's home during a raid. >> they were not violent. they were just scared. we got out and was set behind this big rock and thinking, wow, now i've been the one who caused the trauma. i've been the one who caused the pain.

we don't think this for each other. >> reporter: that introspection was part of what pushed him to join this group, that and the realization he did not know much about this parallel world. >> growing up i actually haven't had it. >> you're israeli. you shared the land. >> we did held a lot about our arabs, our enemies, syria, lebanon, palestinians. i had no idea those millions of people there. >> how much has october 7th changed the landscape? >> a lot of new trauma came. some people lost their faith. >> faith in? >> in this work, so shocked and scared, they felt like, wow, all i did and for what? just small pain came out. >> reporter: but for some it has strengthened resolve. >> i cannot play on the beach enjoying my life when i know

what is happening in the occupied areas under my name my taxes. even if effect is minimal, i feel i have to do it. this is a purpose. >> reporter: elie avidor found purpose out here among the palestinian shepherds and maintains hope, knowing through history humankind has emerged from the darkest periods. >> this is inhuman, to kill 40,000 people. how can we look in the mirror, but, you know, there was world war ii. we got over it. 100 years war between france and germany. apartheid in south africa. there's hope, and this can change. >> reporter: he's found his own practical way of combating injustice with empathy. >> i'm not doing it for the palestinians. that's to be clear, my love is to my country, but i know that my country is in trouble

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now there's a green way to take in the sights. danya bacchus hopped aboard. >> welcome aboard. >> reporter: it's a new path for an old ride, napa valley's wine train has gone green. >> it is right now the cleanest diesel engine in its class in the world. >> reporter: for 35 years, the luxury train has been wining and dining passengers. >> cheers. >> reporter: chasing stunning views across vast vineyards. now it's riding into the future with a newer, cleaner locomotive, one that uses less fuel, has near zero emissions, and follows stringent na na nathan -- environmental protection agency standards. nathan davis is the napa valley wine train's general manager. >> if you count the exhaust, it's zero when it comes out. it's that clean. >> reporter: that means good-bye to those iconic puffs of

billowing black smoke. >> nice driving this in the valley and not having a cloud of smoke. >> reporter: engineer artemis rogerson has lived in napa for years. >> people would complain about the train going by so it's nice having this. >> reporter: another america, a smoother ride. >> trains are normally noisy and bumpy. does it make a difference? >> we believe it does with the sound of the diesel motor when it's running. you just don't hear it. >> reporter: davis plans to turn his whole fleet green by 2025. for now this engine is leading the way renamed 1864 for the rail line's founding year. >> does this ever get old? >> never, it's fun every day. beautiful territory. i got the coolest job in napa. >> reporter: the classic train now on a slightly different track. >> it's a slow-moving industry, but when we move, we get momentum going, and we just keep plowing ahead. >> reporter: a symbol of vintage

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more evacuations in the midwest as floodwaters rise reaching dams and levies. julian assange agrees to a deal with the u.s. ending his long-standing legal battle. and we get a firsthand view of american relief efforts in gaza. a new round of severe storms slamming the midwest where entire neighborhoods have been destroyed. we're now getting reports of floodwaters in iowa breaching levees while's they're keeping a close eye on this dam. cbs' jonah kaplan reports from the flood zone. >> reporter: in southern minnesota an ominous warning about the dam. they say it's in imminent failure condition after flooding and debris apparently breached this structure along the blue earth river but so far no mandatory evacuations have been issued. >> we have about 18 inches of range over the last couple of

weeks. what's happened is we've inundated the ground. nowhere for it to go. >> reporter: it was a similar scene here along the iowa/south dakota state line. a train bridge connecting the states collapsed, which reached a record high level of 45 feet and 100 miles to the northeast, the city of spencer, iowa, is only now starting to emerge from the receding floodwaters of the nearby little sioux river which crested nearly six feet above its previous record. already you can see how high the water was and how much lower it's gotten. those cars were fully submerged. still the disaster is only just begun. most of these folks here, they don't have flood insurance. jeremy and sara took us inside their home as they surveyed the damage. >> it got up to the fifth step. >> sara told us she's never experienced anything like this before in spencer.

what goes through your mind when you walk through this? >> i'm still distraught, like shock. yes, i've cried about it and stuff but it's just insane to see what water can do. >> reporter: this might be for trains but a couple miles from here, the interstate, i-29 is also closed for floodin and the detour around it, it's nearly an hour out of the way. there are still flood warnings for about a dozen waterways according to the national weather service and those rivers, they flow into the mississippi and the missouri, both of which are still rising. in sioux city, iowa, jonah kaplan, cbs news. julian assange is now a free man. the 52-year-old wikileaks founder appeared in a u.s. court on the remote northern marianna islands monday pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy for publishing u.s. secrets. his sentence is time already served, 62 months.

cbs' charlie d'agata has more on the drama. >> reporter: he flew from the uk stopping to refuel in bangkok on the way to saipan. saipan's white beaches a world he languished for the past five years and had been in prison since 2019 after being unceremoniously kicked out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he sought refuge from u.s. extradition since 2012. the founder had faced 18 charges after releasing leaks provided by u.s. army intelligence by chelsea manning in 2010 including diplomatic cables and footage from a u.s. military helicopter allegedly showing iraqi civilians being killed in baghdad. >> come on, fire.

>> reporter: another wikileaks dump saw 20,000 emails leaked from hillary clinton's election campaign and the democratic national committee. assange's wife stella says her children are looking forward to spending time with their father for the first time outside of custody. >> all their interactions with julian have been in a single visitor's room inside the prison. it's always been for a little more than an hour at a time. >> reporter: there hasn't been a lot of political reaction out of the united states. former vice president mike pence said julian assange has endangered the lives of our troops at a time of war and should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law calling the biden administration's deal a miscarriage of justice. charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. in politics, divisions within the democratic party over

president joe biden's handling of the israel/hamas war are playing out in a key race in new york. cbs news projects george lahti mer has won the fiercely contested democratic primary in new york's 16th congressional district beating incumbent jamaal bowman. in the middle east the u.n. says it will suspend gaza aid operations unless israel improves protection for humanitarian workers. meanwhile, a floating pier built by the u.s. military to get much-needed humanitarian aid into the gaza has spent more time being fixed than it has delivering food. cbs' imtiaz tyab was invited by the pentagon for a close-up look at that operation. > reporter: we traveled across the eastern mediterranean with u.s. forces to gaza's devastated central coast. among the first journalists to visit the $230 million humanitarian platform. we saw trucks carrying pallets

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>> this is a pier not part of any operation. its focus is humanitarian assistance. >> reporter: critics say president biden should have focused on pressuring israel to re-open all land crossing for aid trucks into gaza but administration officials seem determined to make it work saying the pier will likely remain operational even longer than originally planned. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, tel aviv. and coming up, the growing problem of squatters illegally problem of squatters illegally taking over abandoned small businesses are the heart of america. but you don't have to go it alone. as the nation's largest nonprofit resource of expert, business mentoring. score has helped millions of entrepreneurs build their businesses, for free. get the connections, education and guidance you need with score. we're ready to help. find a mentor today at score.org.

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>> reporter: over the last three years she spent her savings, about $100,000 to cover legal fees, taxes, and lost rent. she finally found a buyer that will take the property with the squatters. but it's going to cost her. >> $800,000, i dropped the price. >> 800,000 jz. >> yes, sir. >> so you lost almost a million dollars on this? >> yes, i have. >> reporter: squatters' rights go back to the british legal system. the idea to ensure abandoned or unused property can be put to good use by people who need it but the good intentions of centuries old law -- >> a couple accused of squatting and killing a woman inside. >> reporter: -- has created nightmares. >> they turned this beverly hills mansion into a party hub. >> reporter: this is the front line in the battle to keep squatters out of an abandoned property. this property has been vacant for four years. it's an eye sore in the community here. the owner died during covid and

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the competition between the u.s. and china for influence in asia is playing out in one of the poorest countries in the world. elizabeth palmer has the story from cambodia. >> reporter: cambodia is home to the magnificent ruins in the heart of southeast asia. ground zero in america's standoff with china and it's here in one of the poorest countries in the region that china is buying influence on a grand scale. this is the head of the future farm think tank. >> what's the difference between the way chinese invest and americans invest in cambodia. >> the difference chinese are here, americans are not here. >> reporter: that wasn't always so. take national highway number 4 now pitted and potholed. it was built by the u.s. 70

years ago before america's diplomatic priorities shifted to human rights. meanwhile, china launched its road initiative with lavish projects, a bridge across the mekong river. huge hydroelectric dams and most recently a flashy new road. this is the latest show piece of china's multibillion dollar investment in cambodia, the only toll highway and it's brand spanking new. there's a problem, though. the expressway is empty. far too expensive for the average cambodian and it leads to a ruined town. once a laid back beach resort, chinese money has turned it into a bleak cluster of half built high-rises and casinos plagued with organized crime. cambodians realized these big chinese projects come with social costs and they wish there was an alternative. >> we do not want communism.

we do not trust author taronism. most of us still look toward freedom and democracies and these ideals. >> reporter: in cambodian high schools students still learn english as a second language, not mandarin. >> yesterday i went to the -- >> reporter: young people admire american and western values especially. but in this region money talks and china has put big piles of cash on the table. as the race for influence heats up, cambodians are waiting to see if america will match it. elizabeth palmer,

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>> gilbert, myself, this is the stars and stripe flag. >> reporter: she said helped sew and promote them. he was just one of several contributors who should be collectively recognized. how did it feel to not get that credit? >> at the time i didn't know i wasn't getting the credit, you know, and this was a labor of love for all of us. nobody got paid. you're there because you want to be. >> do you feel that the lack of inclusion of you had anything to do with your gender. >> hmm, maybe, but jim mcnamara got no credit and he's the one that taught gilbert baker how to sew. he passed away from aids in the '80s. >> sorry to hear about your friend. >> it's hard to go through because it's your friends, your roommates, your hairdresser. it's your people you meet on a friday, and then they're sick

and they're not going to get any better and then they're gone. >> reporter: that hurt turned into hope as rainbow flags helped wave in a new chapter in history with additional colors and stripes added over the years to promote the diversity and inclusivity of the lgbtq plus community. >> we have a number of flags to represent different elements. >> reporter: the history of the gay rights movement is honored here by tara russell's team at the los angeles lgbt center. >> the overall sense people were fighting for basic, just basic equality. it was a time of people often living in the closet not being able to be openly out. for those who did, it took a lot of courage. >> reporter: when the flag was created in 1978 how did it galvanize the movement. >> i think it gave people a symbol or imagery to identify with the movement and that's important when you're trying to create visibility and

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it's wednesday, june 26th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." ousted progressive jamaal bowman loses his seat and the most expensive house primary ever to moderate democrat george latimer in a race that became a referendum on israel. the other takeaways from the night. finally free.