starts as low as $129 a year. for an agent, call the number that appears on your screen. fire, agreeing to extend a humanitarian truce, but in gaza, hamas says no, sending rockets across the border. ate mid chaos and violence in tripoli, the u.s. evacuates its embassy. a surge of fighting across libya, said to be the worst since the fall of gadhafi. and headed for scrap, the "costa concordia" about to reach its final resting place. hello, everyone, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world.

i'm john vause reporting from jerusalem. israel says several rockets have been fired from gaza over the past few hours, after hamas rejected a 24-hour ceasefire extension. these are live images now from the israeli-gaza border. the u.n. had urged both said to extend saturday's 12-hour window. israel agreed. hamas refused, demanding the withdrawal of troops from gaza. so far, the israeli military appears to be holding fire, but its soldiers continue to destroy the hamas tunnel network inside gaza. this lull in the fighting has laid bare the ruins of gaza, especially the town of beit hanoun, reduced in parts to a landscape of rubble, with the pungeent smell of death.

>> reporte >> reporter: exodus from the front line. almost nothing left to lose. >> where i live now? where i go now? >> reporter: bits and pieces bundled on their heads. his mother's photo under his arm, he says he lost her in the 2009 war, now he's just lost his home. >> translator: there's nothing left. nothing left. it's a massacre. >> reporter: in the embers, these men find what they say is the family safe. a life savings up in smoke. amid the destruction, some creation. lambs born minutes before the truce began. >> we're only about 700 meters from the border between gaza and israel here. quite clearly there's been close combat here. these are the cartridge cases from a light machine gun.

[ sirens ] close by, a race to drag the dying back from the brink. as hamas militant gunmen saunters off to a new position, ready for when the battle begins again. four hours before the ceasefire, a massive bomb dropped here. mid-morning, rescuers struggled to burrow in. residents unhappy with us filming as they pull out a survivor. >> translator: we pulled out seven bodies, one of them still alive. another one still under the rubble. >> reporter: next door, they tiptoe through the debris. mohammed has rescued the family patriarch. my grand dad would say we're in god's hands. we've lost our money, but the most important thing is, we're still alive. he's salvaged birth

certificates, diplomas too. people with no state desperate for every scrap of paper to prove they still exist. in the hallway, a female relative begs us to feel her pain. back in the rubble, a man gestures why. his neighbor believes the answer is simple. do you think there can be peace between israel and the palestinian people? >> yes. two country. palestinian, israeli. >> but for now, all they can do is believe they can rise from their ruins. carl penhal, cnn, gaza. >> diplomatically there was hope the ceasefires could be strung together leading to some kind of

deescalation. so far u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been unable to broker a longer truce, because neither side seems ready to compromise. >> these are important considerations. each side has powerful feelings about the history and why they're where they are. what we're going to work out is how do we break through that so that the needs are met and we have an ability to provide security for israel, and a future,ic economic and social and otherwise and development for the palestinians. >> john kerry has been leading international efforts to stop the fighting. but a meeting in paris seemed to go nowhere. the french foreign minister spelled out what needs to be done to get some kind of lasting ceasefire. >> translator: together, we want to obtain as rapidly as possible, a durable negotiated ceasefire that responds at the same time, to israeli needs in terms of security. and palestinian needs, in terms

of socio-economic development in access to the gaza strip. >> cnn will be speaking to the major players in the crisis over the next few hours. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be on cnn's state of the union with candy crowley. also on the program, ben lods, that airs at 9:00 a.m. eastern time in the united states, 2:00 p.m. in london. the u.s. embassy in tripoli was closed only after all personnel were across the border. the department of defense has released these images of the evacuation. cnn's brian todd's has the details. >> an embassy in the crossfire, now evacuated.

with fighting ramping up over the past several days, a convoy of diplomats is escorted out of the capital and overland to tunisia. they had to move by land, because the airport in trippoly wasn't an option. battles between rival militias had intensified at the airport. this video shows an airbus erupting in flames on the tarmac. secretary of state john kerry was clear, the 150 americans at the embassy were at risk. >> we are suspending our current diplomatic activities at the embassy, not closing the embassy, but suspending the activities. >> jim jeffrey has evacuated u.s. embassies in the middle east twice. >> we try to keep people in as long as possible, but when you do have very clear and present danger, and that was the case in tripoli over the last few days, you suspend operations at an embassy. >> three years after the fall of

moammar gadhafi, libya has descended into violence. the u.s. is still haunted by the killings of four americans in benghazi. what role should the u.s. play in libya now? >> having removed gadhafi, the administration sort of took its focus off libya, and things had been getting worse for quite some considerable time now. i do think they should be much more engaged on the ground with the factions in libya. >> a white house official says the u.s. has been actively engaged on the ground in libya and will remain so. the exodus of american diplomats from libya, follows a partial evacuation of the u.s. embassy in baghdad last month as isis rebels threatened the city. and evacuations in cairo and yemen last year. damascus in 2012. has it become too dangerous to keep any u.s. embassies in the middle east open? >> no. the default position is to keep

highly skilled professionals on the ground, trying to advance our interests, even in a war zone, even with bullets flying around. we're used to it. we're good at it. >> still one u.s. official says the pentagon had been pressing for weeks to evacuate the personnel in tripoli. especially after the airport had come under attack, leaving americans no way to get out. >> a break here now, but when we come back, we'll have an update on an australian couple attempting to get to the crash site of flight 17. their daughter was just one of many on board that jet liner. >> and in italy, more than two years after it ran aground, the "costa concordia" makes its final journey. plus, we'll bring you the latest on the air algiery crash which left 100 people dead. ♪ by ♪ turn around brian!

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back now live to the israel-gaza border, where we're being told by the israeli defense forces that their operations in the gaza strip have now resumed. that includes aerial strikes, bombardment by naval forces and as well as ground activity. this is in response to ongoing hamas rocket fire over the last couple of hours. midnight here local time, the israeli cabinet agreed to a u.n. request to extend an humanitarian ceasefire. israel agreed to it for a 24-hour period. hamas refused and continue to fire rockets into southern and

central israel. the israeli forces had held their fire for a time. but now we're being told with this ceasefire, ten hours old, that israel is once again, resuming its activity in the gaza strip. you can see in the distance there, there is some smoke which has been rising over that part of gaza. and of course this now brings us into day 20 of this israeli military operation over gaza. the object of it, we are told, is to stop the rockets from being fired by hamas militants, but also more importantly, according to israel, to destroy a network of tunnels which militants have been using to launch attacks on israeli targets. that work continues. we're told 31 tunnels have been found. 15 have been destroyed. it was hoped that maybe this ceasefire could have lasted in some kind of unofficial way, but now it's over. this ceasefire has gone the way

of one earlier, last sunday, which only lasted a few hours as well. but of course on saturday, there was a 12-hour lull in the fighting, which allowed palestinians to get out, venture out, stock up on supplies, care for the wounded. but now it's back to the fighting. we'll bring you more details on that soon as we get them. the last remains of passengers from malaysia airlines flight 17 have now arrived from the netherlands, and once again, a solemn ceremony marked the arrival of coffins. 38 in all on saturday. forensics experts have positively identified one victim, they're not releasing a name, but say the deceased of the dutch. now the latest from the crash scene in eastern ukraine. >> investigators with us found new identification documents and we had a better look at the

bigger pieces of fuselage as well. one more thing, of course, very, very difficult for all of us, we did discover evidence of human remains. so what happens next is, more investigators from holland -- from the netherlands, and from australia, are going to add to the numbers already here on the ground. and we intend to take them out to the field tomorrow. >> and we have an update now on an australian couple we've been telling you about. their daughter was on board flight 17. despite the obvious dangers, they traveled to eastern ukraine to reach the crash site. on saturday they got there. now their story. >> reporter: nothing could keep these parents from flight 17's wreckage. not a bloody conflict, not a breakaway republic filled with armed rebels. >> of course i cry. we thought, we we survive this.

couldn't believe it. even being this close, they still don't want to believe that their own child fatima, is gone. the 25-year-old aerospace engineer aimed to be an astronaut one day and hoped space exploration could bring peace on earth. >> she would challenge me if i would give up. she has a training in not give up. >> and neither will her parents. the australians flew to ukraine, armed only with shock, grief, and hope, to find their daughter alive. >> go go go! >> we need to go. >> we met them on the ukrainian side of the conflict as they fought to get to the rebel-held territory of donetsk. local ukrainian government officials urged them not to go, warning them the fighting was getting worse. embassy workers on the phone begged them to say. >> you have not sorted this out. please do not contact me anymore. so the risk, we know, no

worries. refusing to listen, they left in a private car, crossing rebel. blockades, so their daughter's plane, that the u.s. says the rebels shot down. they are the first of the families to come here. seeing is not believing. >> i really want no condolences. i really say this to the -- no condolences. >> reporter: denial is powerful. a parent's grief, unyielding. meantime, roads leading out of donetsk in eastern ukraine have become parking lots. this was sfighting in the area intensified. as progovernment forces try to squeeze out rebels who have retreated to donetsk. if that city can be taken away from the separatists, it would be a significant victory for kiev. the russian government now says

31,000 people are staying in camps inside russia. we'll take a short breck, but it's taken two years, $1.5 billion and now the wrecked "costa concordia" making its final journey. and france announces plans to pay respects to the victims of the air algerie crash in mali.

back now live to the israel-gaza border.

we've just heard from the israeli defense forces that they've resumed their operation over the gaza strip, in response to at least ten hamas rockets which have been fired into israel over the last few hours. israel had, in fact, agreed to extend a ceasefire, which had been asked for by the united nations. hamas, though, refused to accept that deal. they said while israeli forces remained inside gaz a which they have been, searching for and destroying the hamas tunnel network, that hamas could not accept that deal. and so they continued to fire rockets. this ceasefire lasted about 15 hours or so. not that, about ten hours, rather. this is the result. we have israeli air activity, as well as ground activity continues in the gaza strip -- or recoupsuminresuming, rather strip, as a result of that hamas rocket fire. we're now to day 20 of this

operation, which israel says is necessary to try and degrade the hamas military capability, destroy its rockets, it's rocket launchers as well as that terror infrastructure as they call it. as far as hamas is concerned, this is essentially what they need to do to get the borders reopened. so they can end what they call the blockade and this siege of gaza which has been ongoing now for many, many years. also diplomatic efforts continue to try to resolve this, but they too seem to be going nowhere. right, the ill fated cruiseship the costa concorda has reached jgenoa. this has been the biggest maritime salvage operation to date, taking more than two years, and costing $1.5 billion. for more on this, bobby is on

the line from rome. barbie, what happened to the "costa concordia" from here? >> well, right now, they're just outside the port of genoa. they have to ease it into the dry dock. they're being hampered by strong winds off the coast of genoa. they're taking a pause while they wait for the winds to calm down. once it's in dry dock, they'll search the ship for the remaining victim, a crew member on the ship who's body has never been found. they're also doing a search in giglio where the ship was at for 30 months. but they haven't been successful there. once they have done that complete search, they'll start a very delicate and lengthy process of dismantling the ship. they have to take out all the passenger's safe and luggage and

personal effects. then they have to strip it of all the carpets and they'll start to dissect the ship. 50,000 tons of steel will be melted down to build other ships. they'll recycle the copper wiring. reuse some of the plumbings and fittings that weren't destroyed, in other vessels and things like that. the process will take about two years, they say, to take the ship apart, john. >> yeah, and just in terms of scale here, they've never really tried anything like this before, when we're talking about refloating the concordia. there was some concerns about environmental damage, possibly oil spills around the region. has any of that happened? >> well, they've been very, very careful and it's taken 30 months really to get this ship off the coast of giglio. in situations like this, ships this size are generally blown up, because you just can't move

them. they weren't able to do it in the environment it was. so they took precaution after precaution. the waters off giglio are the cleanest and the most tested of any waters in the mediterranean, they say, because people have really been watching anything that leaks into the water. they had a slight oil spill last week, when they were refloating the ship, 50 liters of oil spilled into the ship. they were able to clean it up right away. but this convoy that's been traveling with the ship for the last four days is equipped with massive oil spill clean-up crews, massive cranes and things like that. so they were ready to intervene in any sort of emergency. they were very lucky with the weather. had one night with a few storms. but if they had hit bad weather, it could have been a whole different stories. they had smooth sailing and just got to get it into port now. the delicate part is not over yet. they have to put this massive

ship into a tight port, it's a maneuver that's very delicate that everybody's watching very carefully. it's expected to take about six hours to dock the ship once they get started. >> and did you say once they go through the ship and decide what can be saved, bits of the concordia could end up on other cruise ships? >> absolutely. 50,000 tons of steel they'll meltdown will be used to build other ships, to build cars, in construction girders. a lot of those fittings that are not destroyed can be recycled. they changed the language a little bit talking about resalvaging the ship. calling it recycling the ship. 32 people died in the ship. a lot of people are of mind about whether you should use it. but at the end of the day, to

meltdown a ship to build another ship is not an uncommon practice. >> they'll try to get the "costa concordia" into port to begin not a salvage operation, but a recycling operation. thanks, barbie. take a short break, but when we come back, a humanitarian truce has broken down as hamas says no, and israel resumes it's military operation in gaza. more on that after the break. and also bloodshed spreads to the west bank. how protest there turned violent and left a human rights activist dead.