i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ.>> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the israeli assault on gaza has entered its third week as the palestinian death toll has topped 600, mostly civilians. more than 100 of the dead are children. more than 3700 palestinians have been injured. israel says it has lost 27 soldiers since the ground invasion began on thursday. earlier today, israel confirmed the remains of one of its soldiers presumed to have been killed in gaza had still not been found or identified. this comes two days after hamas said it had captured the soldier. >> so far today, israel has struck more than 70 sites inside gaza including five mosques and a football stadium. on monday, at least 103 palestinians died including 11 when israel bombed a residential tower block in gaza city. five children died in that attack. shelled hospital monday and became the third medical facility to be struck by israel in the past two weeks. the injured included about 30 medics. gunsh

i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the countryand around the world. the next phase of the violence that killed nearly 200 palestinians in gaza is in flux today with a cease-fire still on the table. on tuesday, the egyptian government proposed a temporary halt to violence in the reopening of gaza's border crossings, followed by talks in cairo a long-term truce. israel security cabinet has endorsed a proposal, but hamas has yet to officially respond. the hamas military wing has rejected the pact as a surrender, saying the cease-fire fails to meet any of its core demands. these include a lifting of the siege of gaza, the release of prisoners recently detained in israeli raids, and and to is really attacks on the occupied territories, and respect for the palestinian government. earlier today, israeli prime minister and human netanyahu vowed to widen the attack on gaza if hamas reject the cease-fire and if rocket fire continues. >> we agreed to the egyptian proposal in order to give an opportunity for the demilitarization of the gaza s

i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. are staying in gaza. in gaza city, where we're joined by raji sourani, an award-winning human rights lawyer. he is the director of the palestine center for human rights in gaza. he is on the board of the international federation for human rights. he received the robert f kennedy human rights award in 1991, twice named and amnesty international prisoner of conscience. in 2013, won the right livelihood award. raji sourani, we welcome you to democracy now! we ask you to describe the situation, at this point, and what you feel needs to happen. what you see here, what you see in shejaiya area, were yesterday the israelis committed a massacre against civilians. many people. 75 have been counted. almost 400 dead. many injured with very serious injuries. 150,000 fled the area. [indiscernible] they are raising the entire area in gaza. that is gaza doctrine. civilian targets. they're doing were crimes, crimes against humanity. outrage.ery this is unprecedented. >> raji sourani, so many have die

i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. we turn now to the koch cartel.ing new look at the koch plus families world and the ultraconservative john birch society. on charles koch's roots with the john birch society. >> for more we go to washington, d.c. am a joined by its author lisa graves for president of the progressive inc. welcome back to democracy now! can you lay out what these new revelations are that you have found out? >> yes, thank you so much for having us on. we been doing research in archives across the country. what we have discovered is not just that fred koch, charles and david koch's father was a member of the john birch society and helped found it, but charles koch himself followed his father's footsteps into the john birch society, which was a very extreme organization that spent the 1960's largely opposing the civil rights movement here in the united states. these documents, some of them we are revealing today, talk about rn charles koch's own words for the funding of the john birch society, trying to support its mission. what we have

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mating hamas. that's trying to get both sides to realize this is a horrific abyss they're sitting on the edge of and have to stop. >> indeed. aaron david miller and steve clemens, thank you both. >>> now a reid alert on the latest on russia and ukraine. the white house has an announcement that additional sanctions against russia could come as early as today. that comes as european leaders announce sweeping sanctions of their own on the heels of a u.s. intelligence report that says russia is vieltding a landmark arms control treaty that's been in place since 1987 and was signed under ronald reagan. ukraine military forces are ramping up their assault on pro-russian separatists in the east. two senior u.s. officials say the ukrainian military fired at least three short-range ballistic missiles into the separatist area just yesterday. the targets were not far from the site of that mh-17 crash. one of the officials also says russia continues to reinforce their troops along the border with ukraine. it is a busy day on the hill. and right now house democrats are holding a news conference on the border crisis. they're there with childre