nick schiffron in gaza this morning. we'll talking to doug waxman about the ceasefire that has fallen apart and what is next in gaza. >> congress was supposed to recess this morning, but instead the house remains in session, speaker john boehner scrapped a vote on a $659 million immigration plan, pulling the plug at the last minute under pressure from tea party republicans. a senate immigration plan could not get pass past a procedural vote. let's go to washington. john, why did the speaker prevent yesterday's planned house vote? >> he had no choice, really, because the speaker has rather lost control of his republican caucus in the house, and boy, do these people like to bring things down to the if i have ninth minute of the 11th our, of course crossed into the midnight hour, because the house was supposed to leave for the long summer recess yesterday and they are still here. the story of yesterday was we were told there would be no vote on this emergency funding for the border crisis. then at 3:00, there was a behind c

nick schiffron is live in jerusalem. what is being said about the attack on the three hamas commanders by israel? >> last point there is absolutely right, israel is congratulating itself this morning. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu releasing a statement very quickly after the three deaths were quirked, congratulating the exceptional work of the israeli military and the domestic security service that also spies inside of gaza. he said they worked soldier to joel injury so pro vent future hamas attacks. taking quit for this after five weeks of deadly war. critics would say israel has assassinated hamas commanders in the past and they are always replaced. the airport is functioning normally. we have rocket fire 10 to 15 miles away from the airport. hamas has struck the airport before, lead to go a 24 hour closure. that has not happened at all this time, despite the fact that hamas threatened all international flights last night. there's a small jewish community right on the border of gaza, at least a dozen mortars fi

nick schiffron is in jerusalem. nick, good morning.n a longer term deal have been taking place in cairo. any progress? >> one israeli official put it to me this way, the two sides are light years apart, but that really is about what each side ideally wants. lets take a look at both sides. we heard from hamas just in the last hour or show, a senior hamas official was speaking in gaza. he says hamas has a long list of demands, including lifting the israeli siege entirely and access to their own sea port. >> we are keen on having an agreement concluded, yet this demand must meet and satisfactory the demands of our people. the lifting of the siege, opening the sea port and airport, et cetera. >> the lifting of the siege, the sea port, israeli officials say that's not going to happen. the israelis want the complete demilitarization of gaza. hamas officials say that's not going to happen. what is going to happen over the next five days is the longest ceasefire they've had yet. u.s. officials talking to both sides about compromise, an agreeme

nick schiffron joins us live from jerusalem. good morning. what are these talks focusing on? >> good morning, stephanie. these talks between u.s. officials, israeli officials and hamas officials and their i understander meetries are focused on four things. the motor important one is the rafah border crossing between gaza and egypt. it's been closed for a year and a half, a lifeline for so long for so many people of gaza to deliver basic things like medicine. it's been closed. there's a big push for the that to be reopened. number two, easing refrictions on the border crossings between israel and gaza, construction material and humanitarian supplies, they are talking about doubling the number of trucks. so many rely on fishing to survive, there's a naval black cade of six miles. that is being discussed to being extended to 12 miles. the exchange of 50 or so palestinian prisoners arrested in the last six weeks would be exchanged for the remains of an israel soldier killed early in the fighting inside of gaza. >> that is what the p

nick schiffron joins us from em. good morning. are we looking at a return to the kind of fighting we saw before this latest ceasefire? >> >> stephanie, del, good morning. we are absolutely seeing a return to some of the heaviest fighting. we've seen some of the most violent images and one of the largest number of rockets fired from gaza into israel since this war began. it was 46 days ago that the airstrikes from israel into gaza started, which makes operation protective edge longer than the previous two israel-gaza wars combined. for now, the two sides are blaming each other and don't seem very interested in talking. >> >> for gaza and israel, the chances of a compromise are buried under the rubble. all night, gasses dug through the aftermath of the latest israel airstrikes. the man's legs were caught underneath. they evacuated more than three dozen wounded palestinians. the strikes left motorcycles still smoldering and buses completely gutted, their insides crumpled, inside's marked with shop necessarily. hospitals turned into m

. >> nick schiffron spending the last month covering the conflict oak is with us here this morning. how disappointing is the end of the ceasefire to the people of gaza? >> extremely. every time there was a ceasefire, we've now had nine failed ceasefires, life returns to gaza city. there are markets there still, despite the wars. >> kids coming out to the playgrounds, which is just fascinating how quickly they come out and become kids again. >> they come out even when one of those playgrounds is attacked. the desire to resume life, come out and be kids or adults or be parents or just ever a little bit of breath. you have to understand that so many of these people have been hiding in their homes scared. >> they've got cabin fever. >> and they are simply scared to be bombed, simply scared of israel strikes or drones, the drones are constant. as soon as they get just that brief glimmer that maybe there is peace, maybe a ceasefire, they come out and immediately when the strikes start again, they go into hiding again, so there is deep disappointment. >> 36 rockets were fired from gaza, so

nick schiffron is in jerusalem right now.t did this extension accomplish and why not a longer time frame? >> bottom line that's officials in cairo simply couldn't get the parties to agree to a longer extension. they say that today is crucial, both parties in cairo after 10 12 hour marathon meetings saying if there's no deal tonight, the violence could resume. that is the point of extension, try and give a little peace to the people of gaza, 100,000 people without their homes, so much destruction, u.n. officials, u.s. officials, egyptian officials desperate to find peace on the ground, because even a day or even a few days will give the diplomats the room to try to come to a permanent solution. >> what is holding up a permanent truce right now? >> well, a lot. both sides are extremely far apart on the fundamental core issues. israel wants demilitarization of hamas, no ability to dig tunnels. that is not something hamas is willing to do. it still that thousands of rockets. hamas wants a complete lifting of the israel siege, ope

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. >> nick schiffron will talk about his experience in gaza in the next hour. tune in to "30 days of war" airing this morning at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. >> president obama calling to release our colleagues, three aljazeera journalists sentenced to prison in egypt, now jailed for 222 days. they were sentenced to more than seven years on charges of supporting the muslim brotherhood and spreading false news. the president said journalists should be able to report freely around the world. >> the specific issue of the aljazeera journalists in egypt, we've been clear both publicly and privately that they should be released. >> aljazeera continues to reject the charges against our colleagues. we all maintain their in sense. >> two hurricanes bearing down on hawaii. nicole mitchell has been tracking the storms for the latest. >> by later today, hawaii time overnight for those are us back in the lower 48, this storm making that landfall, the first time in 22 years having a hurricane making landfall in hawaii and julio over the weekend skirting north of the islands.

nick schiffron is live now in jerusalem. tell us what happened in the west bank overnight. >> good morning. this was the early hours in the west bank. the israel military said it will demolish these house to say prevent things like that happening again, things like the abduction and murder of these strehl teenagers. it is called collective punishment taken against the families, not only the people who committed these crimes, but the families. the targets were three homes, two were destroyed. the orchestrator, according to the israeli military, as well as another a kidnapped and committed the murder, they sealed off the home of the man accused of committing this kidnap and murder. the israeli military itself actually said in 2005 that these kind of demolitions does not prevent these further attacks, but now the israeli army taking the step, believing that this kind of destruction can prevent terrorist attacks in the future. >> the clock is ticking, now just under 10 hours. what are we hearing out of cairo about the ceasefire

nick schiffron, gaza. >> a former advisor to palestinian negotiators is now with the project on middle east democracy in washington, d.c. and joins us from the west bank this morning. it's always great to have you on the program, thanks for being with us. i want to ask you about breaking news from jerusalem, israel place say that a construction excavator hit a passenger bus in jerusalem. my question to you is does this portend possibly a larger upracing in israel? >> it could very well be that. it could be a lorne person that they need to do something given the mass ask hers that are happening in gaza. >> sure, sure. >>--that's definitely the sentiment here. people do not like what they're seeing, feel not enough is done for the attacks on gaza and feel they need to put pressure on israel. >> israel says that it is stopping at least for a while its declared unilaterally this humanitarian truce for several hours. what does that truce mean, if anything, to the palestinians? >> it doesn't mean much. there have been truces before that have been broken with killings, in fact, not just a ret

. >> that was the voice of our cameraman shooting extraordinary images there, work he and nick schiffron have brought us from inside gaza. the story is far from over, keen with the ceasefire in place and aljazeera reporters are going to continue to cover this conflict and its aftermath. >> our reporters have done so at great risk. there's been the heartache that we have been telling, the stories over the last month. what are other stories that are being told tonight? >> i think we'll see a lot of -- we'll have nick on set coming back, he just arrived in from gaza this morning to tell us about a lot of things we haven't been able to get into these pieces. i think we'll see the strength of the depth of reporting, we've got more reporters there than any other network in the world. we're going to get more detail what it's like just living there. >> the guns have fallen silent for a couple of days now. will we see stories of life returning to normal? >> one would hope. what we've seen in the past 24 hours is people picking through the wreckage, start to resemble something of a normal life in