along as really on the path of reason, following international law, saying that these series of agreements made during the time of president yanukovych in february, and then in april at the geneva accord with international leaders that russia had always respected its side of those deals and that it was the west trying to follow the new president, mr. petro shen coe's scathing plan, so it was the west, the partners and ukraine's partners who had simply not followed the steps of international law, and the osce dragging their feet. and the first question that was asked him was by russian reporters saying, are you sending weapons into eastern ukraine, and it was interesting, because he never actually denied that russia was, which he has done to date, always, complete

denial that russia is supplying any kind of weaponry, more, this, just evolved into a long answer where he talked about as ivan said, inviting osce monitors to checkpoints to see for themselves. and also talking about the influx of refugees into russia from eastern ukraine. and the amount of shelling that is coming from the ukrainen side of the border into russia. this is something that they've talked about before, the fact that one russian civilian was killed because of shelling. so pitching the conflict in eastern ukraine as a humanitarian crisis, where there are thousands in russia's eyes, of refugees flooding over the border this way and that russia is really doing what it can to protect itself. and this is language that we have heard before, no real surprises therefore, in this press conference. but simply the position that

russia is on the side of right and reason, that the west, that mass media aren't trying to see things from the russian perspective, natalie? >> we will wait and see the west's response to sergey lavrov's comments that he has made. and stay with us we'll turn our attention to the situation in gaza right after this.

and welcome ers in the u.s. and around the world. >> we're closely monitoring the situation in gaza, the u.n. security council held an emergency meeting about three and a half hours ago. >> the acting president read a statement calling for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire between israel and hamas. the council also expressed grave concern for human life. both israel and hamas accuse each other of violating the

truce. >> now despite the u.n.'s call for a cease-fire, israel targeted gaza for rockets. >> you heard, i believe, a deflected rocket attack this morning. walk us through the status of the fighting today. >> reporter: yeah, we've actually heard that siren here in ashkelon this morning. and the idf forces responded by targeting the launch site. but that's really been the extent of it. and overnight, it's actually been quite quiet. so what seems to be happening is sort of a de-escalation. where when a rocket is launched the israeli military will respond to the site of that

rocket launch, but they seem to be holding their fire otherwise. so this is good news for the cease-fire, but it doesn't mean it has been formally accepted yet. we'll see if this lull continues, and if it does, maybe we'll see more of a formal cease-fire. >> as we look ahead as to what we can expect this week, if we take into account the temporary halting of u.s. flights to israel because of a rocket attack that was nearby, there's also been a special u.n. meeting to release a statement saying the death toll needs to stop, and of course the civilian casualties which are in the hundreds needs to end. do you get the sense that israel is feeling pressure, additional pressure, to accept a cease-fire now, where perhaps they wouldn't have this time last week? >> reporter: i think israel's feeling a tremendous amount of

pressure, both diplomatically and with the number of flights diverted from the tel aviv airport. the question is really two-fold, what kind of public pressure is the government getting. and in that response, public opinion poll showing that more than 80% of the respondents actually want the operation to continue and want the cease-fire. so it's dealing with different kind of pressure from the public and the other is whether or not military objectives inside gaza have been accomplished. and with that, i'm specifically referring to hamas's tunnels. one of the objectives was to dismantle the tunnel network. if the military feels that they have managed to dismantle a large portion of those tunnels, then they may feel that their objective has been reached, and now is a good time for that de-escalation and a possible cease-fire. so these are all the different

things that the government is looking at and trying to figure out whether or not they should accept this cease-fire now or whether they will continue with an operation later. >> certainly so many various factors, prohibiting a cease-fire from taking hold right now. our reporter there live from the city of ashkelon near the israel/gaza border. >> that is the side from israel. now let's take you to the inside gaza city where we find ian lee where he's there live. you've been seeing and witnessing what people are going through there to just get on with their lives amid the violence that's swirling around them. >> reporter: well, that's right, natalie. and right now i think people are fairly happy with the lull in the fighting, but as this war drags on, this humanitarian crisis is growing. people aren't getting the basic necessities. there's medicine shortages, talking to some of the u.n.

agencies, they're going to need more funding if they're going to keep this going. well, one of the most basic essentials of life right now is going all right. but we're not sure how long that can go on. take a look at this. as the sun sets over the gaza strip, one of the largest operations is over for now. no, it's not the fighting between gaza militants and the israeli military, but this massive mission was borne out of the conflict. the battle-weary civilians, nus eat. 109 metric tons of flour mix with freshwater. the lifeline of over 160,000 gazans at u.n. run shelters. with so much food insecurity, only the humming of these

machines is constant. on one side, dough goes in. fresh bread out the other. sorted and packed, it's ready to be delivered. . micro buses weave through the streets as if they have a 30 minute or less guarantee. finally, we arrive at this elementary school for boys turned shelter. volunteers unload the truck, all give a helping hand. we meet united nations world food program gaza director raoul who leads this humanitarian effort. he explains it's the people who aren't in u.n. shelters that keep him up at night. >> we have still a number of people still trapped in the affected areas. >> reporter: administrators go through the lists of names and

number of family members. tickets are distributed, then the food. i want to give you an idea of just how massive of a daily operation this is. this is just one school that feeds over 2,000 hungry mouths of the and right now in gaza, there's 84 shelters like this one. this can't last forever. money is tight, and supply rights, at times, questionable. we just want to return to our homes. this is all we want, we want to live with dignity, this man complains. they'll be here until the war is over. full bellies tonight. tomorrow, this will all start again. natalie, you saw that u.n.-run school right there. these are safe harbor for thousands of gazans, and at times they've been the scenes of

violence. the u.n. has accused hamas twice of storing rockets at these schools. they've also accused the israelis twice for shooting at these schools, but the real big question today is about a school, a video was released showing a mortar round hitting the school. and they say no one was there at the time. a cnn crew went to that school, and what we saw was shrapnel, pepper marks all over the buildings. we also saw blood on the ground. there's also, from this incident, we were there, we were at the hospital. over a dozen people were killed. hundreds were injured. so the question remains, how did these people get hurt when they, the israelis say that no one was at the school at the time. they're supposed to be these safe shelters, and as you saw, there's a lot of people at them, natalie. >> absolutely. and that situation right there

with that school did prompt the security council at the u.n. to have the emergency meeting condemning this humanitarian crisis. and, ian, you've been on the streets and seeing what the people are having to deal with just to get food and saying they don't know how much molonger th can hold out funding this. what is the feeling right now among the people that are wondering when their lives are going to get back and where they'll go for food? we saw the children there, they're of course keeping their spirits up. they're young kids, but just how long does the u.n. think they can continue to help people survive? >> reporter: well, when i talk to the world food program's supervisor here in gaza, he told me that they're doing all right for now. they're able to provide emergency assistance to people who are coming in. but there are hundreds of thousands of people that rely on

the u.n. during peacetime, during normal times. and their rations are starting to run out, and those are the people they're very concerned about, too. these are people who are living day by day. and if the u.n. cannot deliver food to them, they will essentially be left without and they will start to starve. so they want to have more of these cease-fires so they can distribute the food evenly. so far their supply routes inside have been fine, but that all depends on military maneuvers. if these roads that connect the south of gaza to the north of gaza, if they remain open and safe, they're able to provide and transport that food up north, but as we saw in the 2008/2009 war when the gaza strip was broken into sections, that's when they believe the real humanitarian crisis will start to grow quickly, as it will be harder to get food to

different areas. so that's one thing they're watching out. they have learned lessons from past wars, but this is something they can't sustain. >> all right, ian lee there for us. at least we can see you standing there on a sunny day and with no black smoke in the background. at least we'll take that for the moment. >> today, yeah. >> thanks, ian. coming up here. >> the fighting between pro-russian forces and ukrainian forces continues. >> also how that fighting is affecting the investigation of malaysian airlines flight 17. it is getting more and more difficult, not better, as far as getting investigators to the scene. we'll have a live report from ukraine about that.

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fighting in eastern ukraine claimed at least 13 lives on sunday and two of the victims are reported to be churildren. it's been a real stumbling block for investigators who have been waiting anxiously to get access

to the mh17 crash site. to the latest on eastern ukraine, matthew chance joins us from kharkiv. we don't have a connection with matthew at the moment. but we will try to reconnect with him. of course the osce observer is the person gaining access to the crash site, thanks to negotiation between the rebels and the government. but as you mentioned, it's crucial for them to see what's at the crash site. there are victims' remains still there, all this time later. >> yes. 70 investigators, and they haven't been able to do their work. but hopefully, that is going to happen. >> we'll try to reconnect with matthew on cnn later, so stay tuned for that. but first this, a second american aid worker has contracted the ebola virus.

she was working with samaritan's purse. the other is this man, a 33-year-old, he is now in stable condition in the isolation unit and is the third physician to contract the disease. >> the disease is passed by the exchange of body fluid. and that can be something as light as brushing the back of someone's hand and picking the moisture up from it. so we are looking very carefully, along with the cdc, doctors without borders and world health organization, and all of our procedures that are isolation centers there in liberia, trying to answer that question, but we feel like that we probably had an inaffected staff person that was in the mix and unfortunately that person died today, that was a lie beer yan staff person, and we feel like that may have been the source that passed infection to the other two. >> health officials say it's the

deadliest ever outbreak of the virus. now we want to get to -- actually, let me give you this information. according to the world health organization, there have been at least 660 deaths from the ebola virus since march. in sierra leone, the death toll is at 219. and in liberia, 127 lives. now we've been able to connect with matthew chance. he joins us now from ukraine with more on the osce observers. news this hour that they may get some access to the crash site today. what do we know? >> reporter: well, certainly within the past hour we've heard directly from the osce on the ground in donetsk. we have a team moving with them now from donetsk toward the crash site. it will be 39 experts from the netherlands and from australia to try to gain access to that crash site of mh17 to try and get some more of the human

remains that are still there on the ground. there have dozens of bodies that have not been repatriated, also personal belongings and clues that will lead to what happened on that flight. so that convoy from donetsk is under way. but we've also learned that military operations are taking part on the part of the ukrainian government in areas around the crash site as well has been confirmed to us near small towns close by to the crash site in the middle of rebel-controlled areas the there are battles under way now between rebels and government forces, that despite assurances from the government that there would be a cease-fire around the area of the crash site to allow safe access for the international observers. what the osce tell us is that they've spoken to both sides, both the ukrainians and the rebel side, and they are expecting good access to this

site, but they're not there yet. and so potentially, as what happened yesterday, they could be deterred from actually getting to the crash site because of the violence, because of the conflict that is raging around the area. >> all right. matthew chance live for us in ukraine. we will have more after this short break. stay with us.

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breaking news overnight. the united nations urging israel and hamas to stop the violence, calling for an immediate cease-fire. they did this at an emergency meeting overnight. the death toll rises over who is responsible for a deadly attack on a gaza school. we are live in jerusalem with the new developments. breaking this morning, russia firing back