>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we're following for you. with or without the cease-fire. prime minister benjamin netanyahu vows to destroy hamas network. west african government scramble trying to contain the spread of the deadly ebola virus. >> no place is safe in gaza.

that's what the u.n. and humanitarian chief valerie amos said today. the relief efforts so far have been stretched thin because of the continued fighting. more than 400,000 people in gaza have been displaced. 1400 mostly civilians have been killed. >> i've seen damage done to whole neighborhoods and infrastructure. this morning i've seen the catastrophic human cost of this war as pediatric ward in the main hospital in gaza with broken bodies that are the real and unacceptable consequence of an armed conflict waged with at times disproportionate force in urban settings. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying he won't wind down his operations instead calling up 16,000 more reservists.

>> as of now we have neutralized dozens of tunnels. we vow to finish this mission with or without a cease-fire. this work is important for the security of israel citizens. >> until then the fighting continues and the death toll rises. nick schifrin is on the ground in gaza. >> reporter: prime minister benjamin netanyahu not only said he would reject any kind of cease-fire that did not allow his troops to continue the mission to target those tunnels, he said he would continue his mission regardless there was an cease-fire or not. overnight into this morning we saw that mission continue with more israeli bombardment. this morning the only part of this mosque that is left is the dome. overnight an israeli airstrikes left the building gutted. above ground a young boy rides past the damage where the community used to pray where below grounds they're discovering tunnels where hamas

used to fight. they show a second mosque full of weapons and rockets. just a few feet away a 45-foot deep tunnel the military said that leads into israel. >> hamas is hiding rockets in places to prevent the israelis from going after them. look, hamas is taking steps to put israelis at risk but we believe the israelis need to do more. >> reporter: need to do more because the targets are not all tunnels. yesterday the war exploded in a local market. three-quarters of those killed are civilians. [ explosions ] >> reporter: shells kept landing multiple rounds firing into the crowd, and 200 wounded descended on a hospital at once. the hospital put out an urgent question. they need blood because they've run out. today in gaza nowhere was secu

secure. >> we cannot be safe any time, any place. >> reporter: on the same day at a market and u.n. shelter get bombed some families feel their only choice is to take shelter at shifa hospital. the people and their families have no water, no way to cook, but this is safer than anywhere else. >> you came here 24 days ago. why here to the hospital and not, for example, an u.n. school? >> israelis strike u.n. schools, he says, so we runaway. they run to a hospital that is now overwhelmed by injuried and the homeless. >> reporter: the u.n. announced 200,000 gazaens are homeless. they fled their homes filling areas outside of the shifa hospital or u.n. schools that have been shelters. that's one in seven or one in eight of all the gaza strip. if that percentage were spent to the united states, 35 million

people would have had to flee their homes. >> the u.s. condemned the israeli attack on the u.n. school on wednesday. the defense department officials said that israel did not cite an emergency in needing those munitions. a teenager who calls palestine and the u.s. home, he will appear on capitol hill tomorrow. he is a teenager, the teenage boy attacked by israeli police following the death of his cousin in jerusalem earlier this month. the 15-year-old said he wants to speak on behalf of the palestinian community. we have the story. >> reporter: back home safe and sound, he leads a prayer at his house in tampa. his wounds have heeled now but the family said what happened on a trip to see relatives in jerusalem is still a painful memory. his young cousin was burned to

death in what palestinians say was a revenge killing in the death of three israeli teenagers. his family said this video shows the teenager being brutally beaten. at one point he said he was blind folded and denied medical treatment. >> my ribs hurt a lot because i have a fractured rib. it hurts a lot. i have a lot of headaches. i'm always drowsy and my head hurts and i just feel like laying down and going right to sleep. >> reporter: the video has led to demonstrations but he has been asked to speak to officials in washington, d.c. something that the teenager said he's looking forward to. >> i will try my best to tell them what is happening over there. i will try my best to make them think about it, to make them think we're all humans. they don't deserve that. we should all have rights. >> reporter: the family said that without his status as an

american citizen, things for him might have been very different. his friends and cousins are still in jail, and the family refutes claims that he resisted arrest or was involved in any violence. >> he cares about his family a lot. it's not about himself. it's more about his family and, you know, that live there. and here. he's just a very caring person and wants to make a difference. >> reporter: for answer teenager this amount of attention can be unsettling, but he said he would speak on behalf of palestinians and send a message of peace. >> i want to make a change. i want the people over there to understand that one day we'll stop. one day you're going to end up being happy one day. we have to wait for that day. >> reporter: the u.s. state department is said to be shocked at the teen's treatment and called for a full investigation. this teenager said he plans to

visit his family in east palestinian again soon. al jazeera, florida. >> congressional leaders traveling to the white house to talk foreign policy. president obama and vice president biden meeting with leaders from both parties. among the items on the agenda, gaza. that meeting was held behind closed doors. passing funding bills hours before the summer recess. republicans say they want less funding, and democrats want less deportations an human rights are asking the president to do more for children at the border. where do they stand at this hour. >> reporter: this is an emergency bill to deal with that migrant crisis at the border. the president wants $3.7 billion. the senate is willing to give him most of that, $2.7 billion. it's a different story in the house. the house of republican leaders have a bill that would give the

president $659 million and the money would be spent differently. it would put more national guard troops at the border and the house bill favored by the republican leadership would also make it easier to deport these young migrants. house minority leader nancy pelosi saying the democrats will not desuppor support that bill. >> the problem with that bill. i was fully ready to accept a bill that was smaller in number for a shorter period of time. because you're talking about the same rate of events. but what they came back with was something so small and was different priority that did not meet the humanitarian needs or due process needs, safe repatriatation needs. >> even the g.o.p. leadership is having trouble getting support for its own bill because the conservative members say it's not tough enough. so speaker john boehner said

he'll allow another bill to be voted on as well and that would limit the president's ability to expand his program, which allows some young illegal migrants who were brought here by thei as kids by their parents, he wants to expand that program, which speaker john boehner said will aid to the lawlessness, as he puts it. >> the president's proposal. the president said give me $3.7 billion, but don't do anything to address the real problem on the border. just throw more money at it. i think that's totally irresponsible. >> now with the clock ticking down there is a good chance that nothing will get finalized on this emergency border bill before lawmakers head out of town today. >> lisa, if nothing happens what happens? >> reporter: good question.

well, both immigration and customs enforcement and immigration ice and customs and borders enforcement say they're going to run out of money by mid-august, mid-september dealing with these young migrants. they'll have to switch priorities around. if nothing gets done today the democrats say this is the first issue that has to be taken up when they come back in september. >> it's safe to say that if nothing happens something happens, lisa stark, thank you very much. the right is set to sign an executive record to improve conditions for workers of federal contractors. this follows an order the president signed six months ago which raised the minimum wage for 28 million such employees. the reports shows that new government contractors had the worst labor violations. a study by the urban institute reveals one-third of

all american adults are getting calls from collection agencies because of bad debt. that percentage has not changed much over the course of the last decade. mary snow explains why it is still so high. >> reporter: the number of americans with debt in collection is shocking. that number includes credit card holders well past due on their payments generally past 180 days. even worse, many of these consumers don't even realize they owe money. >> it could be anything from a magazine subscription to a gym membership to any one of the number of recuring payments that we have set up on auto pay, and if you change bank accounts or credit cards and you don't realize that account was on there, it could easily fall in collections. >> student loans and hospital bills are frequently over looked. on average the amount of debt owed is just over $5,000. but it can vary widely by person from less than $25 to $125,000.

in some instances outstanding payments are so small collection agencies will let them go. but those unpaid bills can mean big trouble on a consumer credit report. >> a lot of organizations use your credit report to determine things like your insurance rates, the interest rates that you'll pay on a loan. whether they'll extend a loan at all, and some employers even use it. it can make life much more expensive and difficult if you don't have a good credit score and having things in collection drives scores down significant significantly. >> reporter: delinquent debt is overwhelmingly concentrated in the south where 40% of those with credit are currently in collections. the studies authors say stagnant incomes in the region are largely to blame. this kind of financial spiral can be devastating for a family and a community. the good news consumers can learn what is on their credit report before it's too late. >> once a year every consumer is

entitled to their credit report from each of the three bureaus. once a year for free. >> reporter: mary snow, al jazeera. >> for one day ukraine's government said it is stopping it's military campaign against the separatists in the east. investigators have reached the crash site of flight 17 for the first time because of that. ukraine said it will left 700 experts visit the area to examine what happened when that airline was shot down. they're acting on request from the united nations and secretary general but ban ki-moon said he does not stand alone. ththe conflict may not be easily resolved, but the people on board that plane had no part in it. in iraq islamic state rebels have had a stronghold in mosul, iraq's second largest city, but now they're facing resistence

from the rebel brigades. we warn that some of these images may be disturbing. >> reporter: the self proclaimed islamic state has made its mark on the skyline of iraq's second largest city. two months since it took control of mosul and some sport from residents appear to be waning now. the blowing up of shrines comes consternation from people of mosul. now the islamic state intend to destroy this national icon, a mosque with its 12th century rest that leans like the towerinthe leaning tower of piza. now attacked by a small resistence groups that say they have killed seven isil fighters.

they say opposition is growing. >> there are groups from within mosul. and none of them are outsiders. so far the city is not in contact or receiving support from any outside violence. even the arms are obtained. >> reporter: but the isil appears to be forging ahead with little change in its tactics. this is a video warning iraqi soldiers. it can't be verified when or where these pictures were taken, but the is claims these are young soldiers. and despite their appeals they're shown no mercy. all of them shot dead. when the is took over mosul many residents from the sunni majority were pleased to be with the sectarian policing by shia dominated government forces. that may be changing now with the harder line being taken by the islamic state. any resistence from within.

andrew simmons. al jazeera. >> michael: still ahead on al jazeera america. the spread of the deadly ebola virus in africa, the teams now change their strategies.

>> a growing ebola outbreak that has claimed 700 lives in three countries. sierra leone said it would use it's military to enforce a quarantine. >> reporter: these are the protective measures that medics in liberia have to undertake before they can treat ebola patients. in order to treat them they're pickerly at risk of infection.

but now the ebola is spreading to the wider community, it has forced the government to institute it's own measures to protect the whole country. the president has ordered the closure of all schools. all public buildings on friday and one month compulsory relief for all non-essential staff. she emphasized how important it is for people to act responsebly. >> protect yourself. >> out and carry the message. >> reporter: ebola is transmitted through infected bodily fluids. if a healthy person comes into close contact with a sufferer they're at risk. >> the most efficient way it's transmitted when people are taking care of people who are

infected and they get directly exposed to bodily fluids, particularly vomit and blood and diarrhea and feces. that's really the way things are happening right now, why we're seeing such an explosion of cases. >> reporter: that's caused the withdraw of peace corps. volunteers. the possibility that air travel could help the virus cross continents can worrying governments. in nigeria, health officials are monitoring those who came in contact. there is a liberian man who died in legos. >> the people with contact and depending on the level of contact they had, and we're advising them to restrict their movements. all of them have temperatures to monitor their body temperatures on the morning and the evening,

and of course, avoid all full contacts. >> reporter: the man who first identified the virus in the 1970s believes the risk of infection through cattle contact is remote. >> spreading in the population here, i'm not worried about it. i would not be worried to sit next to someone with the ebola cyrus as long as they don't vomit on you. >> reporter: in west africa this is the worst outbreak ever reordered and aid agencies say it is now out of control. >> the peace corps. say it's among the organizations forced out of west africa because of the ebola outbreak. but doctors without borders continue to operate clinics in places like sierra leone. >> we deal with this every day.

you look people in the eye, and you can see that they're scared. you look at patience, you know that their chances are very small. it's horrible. >> in sierra leone, the country's leading ebola specialist died on tuesday. the virus has killed three nurses from his you want. unit. we go east of the out break, health officials say they're doing what they can to keep the disease out. they're watching the hospital reports, examining people crossing the border and warning the people against eating the meat of i would animals. the "world health organization" call forgive $100 million to respond to the problem saying there is an urgent need for doctors, nurses and others to help deal with the crisis. two u.s. citizens are among those stricken with ebola in west africa. there are reports that efforts are under way to the doctor an

and a missionary back from liberia. another is a three-day meeting of african leaders that is scheduled to begin in washington on monday. yesterday, they say the summit is still on despite fears of ebola still spreading, but they have canceled their trips to help deal with the health crisis in their country. the cdc issuing a travel warning for three west african nations dealing wit dealing dealing with ebola, ginea, liberia, and sierra leone. >> meteorologist: looking at the national forecast here. this is a visible satellite picture here. the circulation out over the atlantic. this is an area of low pressure. the planes are flying and giving all this information about how the storm may develop.

not all that organized yet. still forecast. and it could become a tropical cyclone in the next three to five days. it could go over the caribbean and then turn to the north just east of the u.s. coast here. what's impacting this is an area of high pressure keeping the storm to the south as it moves across the caribbean, and then an area of low pressure in canada with a front associated with that. it will help turn this thing and how far west it goes before it turns. and how intense it is could really impact the forecast over the next five days. we're continuing to monitor. this is the monsoonal moisture there. a landslide, and that was just yesterday. all of this moisture asker as the monsoon throughout the entire country and that's where it was july 17th. similar situation although not to that extent happens to the

southwest. you see the heat here developing. 92 in las vegas, and that creates an area of low pressure. that pulls up the moisture from the south. we're seeing flash flooding happening across the southwest as the temperatures really climb. not getting that moisture where we need it across california there is no flash flood watches in effect. just the weather watches, and warnings. we do have potential for flash flooding to happen today as these storms develop and the excessive heat warning remains in effect. showers and storms have the potential to produce flash flooding. we're seeing that across the southern planes in the southeast as that area of rain continues to push south. >> dave warren, thank you very much. distracted by their cell phones, more and more pedestrianing walking into trouble. but as they say there is an app for that. the details are coming up next on al jazeera america. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are your headlines this hour and sources telling al jazeera america the u.n. secretary general and secretary of state john kerry are set to announce a joint call for 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire. we'll bring you the details as they become available. meanwhile, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying the operation in gaza will continue until all the items leading into israel are destroyed. more than 1400 palestinians and 59 israelis have been killed in that conflict since it began. republicans say they want less funding, democrats want less deportations. well, the hazards of using your cell phone while drive--obvious. but in japan accidents involving pedestrians using their cell phones are on the rise. there is a solution and app that effectively turns off your cell phone while you walk.

as you're walking it gives a warning and suspends all the other apps. we than thank you for watching al jazeera. i'm del walters. what's the difference between gay marriage and straight marriage? i said, well, there really isn't a difference. >> in 2008, voters in california approved proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. two couples challenge the law in a case that went to the u.s. supreme court. half of the plaintiff team is chris perry and sandy steer. >> you grow up believing you are a second-class citizen from the moment you recognize you are gay or lesbian. and until recently, you didn't think you ever would be equal. >> the other couple involved in