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the problem is which palestinians is israel negotiating with, abbas or hamas in gaza? and as long as particularly when hamas joined the government in the west bank it made the situation even more difficult for israel as far as i'm concerned. >> who could stop them, the iranians, the turks? >> they've been rearmed by the iranians and by others. but i do think if the turks and if the qataris weighed in strongly that you might have some success. i know that there is a lot of speculation out there about seeing if we can get iran's help, how can we work together with iran and iraq? i frankly believe that is a fools errand. i think iran's agenda is different from our own. although in some respects our interests may coincide in terms of not wanting to see a spread of isis, this extremist islamic group, the notion that outcomes in iraq, that we have a similarity of interests is flat wrong. working with the iranians i would be skeptical of that. there are in other states in the region that have influence on hamas. and the question is whether that influence can bring to the poin

they put pressure on mahmoud abbas to choose between peace, or hamas. move towards hamas, as the second particular player within palestinian society was to bring west bank again. so basically trying to end the siege on gaza, and try to help people in gaza. the first test to this unity government was this operation against us. it's clear that the international community, israel and the united states in particular are not interested to work with the government. >> so far they are working with mahmoud abbas as a presidential authority. >> when he came, he met the prime minister. >> no one is interested in engaging with hamas. >> with the government or hamas. one of the reasons we see this kind of block before any kind of attempt to have ceasefire, because basically they won't speak with mahmoud abbas as a president, an authority or others. >> when you look at the pictures of what is happening in gaza, you can hear the artillery shells going off now. how does that end without negotiation of all the parties involved? >> it with will not succeed. we had all t

or egyptians would agree to lift the siege. there's a wedge between hamas after 2006 because israel is it not want unity between abbas and ham hamas. hen, they had 1,000 security guards to take on the crossing. otherwise, neither egypt or israel will allow them to hope. that's why one hopes that the national consensus remains, but when you look at the reality, there's pressure to break the consensus again. >> thank you very much. that's our senior political analyst joining us from london. >>> norway has beefed up security across the country after being informed of an imminent threat of attack for people linked to fighters in syria. we go to felicity. >>> norway is on high alert. they say they received reliable information an attack could happen in days. rebecca singh has this report. >> reporter: officials deal with what they're describing as a concrete threat. >> translator: while researching this case, the information's credibility was strengthened. we also have information to success that any act of terrorism against norway may take place shortly probably within a few days. we have no information about who, how, what goal or th

hamas has a right to continue, are supporting a terrorist organization. president abbas has a choice to make. he can continue to remain silent and stand in support or hamas, or assume the leadership by dissolving the unity government. the choice is his, be a part of the problem or a part of the solution. mr. president, israel is doing its utmost to avoid harming civilians, because we believe every innocent life lost is a tragedy. we deeply regret the losses, but blames hamas for hiding behind civilians and using them as human shields. it is only operating against terrorist targets and is taking steps that no other nation that any time in history as taken. what other nation supplies millions of dollars for humanitarian aid or set up a field hospital to treat the wounded on the other side even as the emny fires indiscriminately. giving the enemy time to set booby traps and deploy snipers. israelis spent four days warning the civilians in gaza that they could uproot hamas. that gave hamas four days to prepare an assault on our troops. every time we drop a leaflet or send a text message, we're endangering our children so that we may keep their children

pallor of the hamas not the palestinian authority refuse to recognize the state of israel abbas wants to make peace i hope that we pressure put on him pressure put on that and the hour or so that they will bring about peace talks again ok i'm is hamas disposition ok if i go to you i mean i certainly don't see two states there i see one very long brutal occupation and the west bank is getting smaller and smaller for the palestinians i don't i don't believe in this peace talk and two state solution stuff anymore it's a joke you're absolutely right and i think you asked the key question peter at the top of the program when you said will gaza suffering ever end i think of the suffering will only end once the world intervenes once the world puts a stop to israeli brutality once. states that have relations with israel pull way their ambassadors and force and force their israeli this is really about this back to tel aviv and all of this has to be done until the siege is lifted until palestinian few jews are allowed to repatriate and it's not true that hamas is not built hamas has done quite actually admirable job in gaza considering all the situations i was all the other cond

hamas normaltuation return to circumstances or accept the consequences. as i said, it's going to get worse before it gets worse. >> is there anything abbas can do? waye needs to assist in any he can to identify and apprehend the individuals responsible for the three israeli teens. it appears now that there are three suspects who have killing, to the burning alive, torture and palestinian teenager. a boss is on the sidelines. he is marginalized. >> we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. in afghanistan, abdullah abdullah has claimed the three -- claimed presidential victory even though his opponent is well ahead in the vote count. mr. abdullah said he received fewer votes only because of electoral fraud. president obama warned mr. abdullah that any attempt to seize power in legally could lead to washington cutting off aid. >> it may have looked like a victory rally, but no winner has been declared. of della ripped down a portrait -- supporters ripped down a portrait of outgoing president hamid karzai. he finally arrived. minister,inance abdullah abdullah, famed for his resistance to the taliban and. round the front runner i

or don't have. >> great question. the egyptians, the israelis, hamas, mahmoud abbas, all have been in cairo this week to get this going moved around and so far it's dead in the water so far. what u.s. and palestinian officials think he brings is he has leverage and relationships with all the players who count in the way president sisi does not. president sisi has no leverage with hamas because he helped oust morsi. and qatar and turkey are upset and they have a great rivalry with egypt. so if anything the israelis think they've frustrated the egyptian cease fire efforts. kerry has careful relationships with the qatari foreign minister, with sisi, and president obama has a good relationship with the turkish primprime minister erredo. >> woodruff: you reported when he thought he was off the mic yesterday, the comments he made about pinpointing the operation. >> it reflected really his unhappiness and his frustration at, of course, the civilian death toll and he's understanding there's no such thing as a pinpoint operation. i am told that this actually reflected the view of people in the white house and state department.

hamas leaders. as well as president mahmoud abbas. with israel intensifying the campaign, does it look like we might be seeing perhaps a troos or a ceasefire>> you know, it's important to remember that diplomacy was on the table last week after the egyptian initiative. the credibility of the initiatives was not accepted because of the relation shared between hamas and the new government in egypt. more important is actually what israelies are facing in last 48 hours. it doesn't seem that they are making any progress. it's clear that they are facing real problems on the ground. let's remember why this operation was, from the beginning. it was, according to the israelis, is to mill tarrize hamas, weakening hamas, to end the tunnels. none of those goals has been achieved so far. hamas is still strong. hamas is still attracting israelis, trying to target more of the military on the boarder. israelis are suffering cities inside israel. there's a lot of blame to the government of israel for waiting 12 days before starting the serious operation. let's remember. 50 soldiers stand by, 70,000 standing by. the second phase of the operation which the g

that high-profile decision by abbas and hamas to sort of combine their political forces and negotiate as one, try to govern as one. where's abbas been over the last three or? >> reporter: well, that's what palestinians have been asking in gaza. he kept very quiet for the first two or three days, but then he spoke up. and when he did speak up, he said something palestinians in gaza did not want to hear. he said he was against fighting, against hamas' rocketing of israel. he called hamas, this is the palestinian president of all the palestinian people, he called hamas and called israel in the same phrase, he called them both traitors in war. by which he meant the fighting must stop. that's not what hamas wanted to hear. they wanted to hear more support from their president but he is a man who famously is against violence. he wants nonviolence. but now he's more involved. he's on his way to cairo and may well be in cairo already. he's going to be meeting with british former prime minister tony blair and the egyptian leader about cease-fire talks, about getting involved in the truce talks, chuck. >> well, it does -- but will hamas abide by anything abbas agre

abbas is flying to meet with egyptian president sisi. and egypt is a main intermediary for any kind of ceasefire. but hamas which runs gaza does not trust egypt, orisi, so that's why it will be more difficult today than in the past. >>> john hendren is also on the ground in gaza. >> reporter: remind me is what remains of the home of a senior leader of hamas, and one of 40 people, all officials, who's homes were targeted overnight. it turns out there is something like 400 homes that have been targeted like this. 4,000 have been partially damaged, 400 of them totally destroyed. and again, one of 40 overnight. you can see that this is what his front porch looked like. and up here this is part of the four-story building that was his home. now his tail a long and winding one, and that's because in 2004, the israelis destroyed his previous home, killing one of his children. one of his children was killed in another offensive against the israelis, and then he and his wife were also injured when his first home was destroyed. so this is the second time around for this official. it is particularly interesting, because groups like human rights watch say tar

is hamas and the palestinian authority, led by president mahmoud abbas, on the same page when it companiy comes to the requirements to achieve a cease fire even a humanitarian pause, if you will, orl some differences between hamas and it is palestinian authority? >> the plo's position, the palestinian position in general, is definitely in favor of an immediate cessation to, you know, the hostilities and to stop more palestinian, innocent palestinians from getting killed. at the same time, we said repeatedly, i think this is an opinion shared by the u.s., by the international community, that unless we also do something in parallel to resolve the underlying causes of this conflict in gaza, the lifting of the blockade, allowing palestinians to live in dignity, freedom, in that part of the world, there is not going to be any solution. so israel recently refused the proposal submitted by secretary kerry to put an end to -- to start the cease-fire there. they are scuttling the efforts of the united states, which is the strongest supporter of the israeli militarily, economically and politically, and they are underlying efforts by other international players to have a cease-fire in the g

abbas. it follows his political agenda. there are no members of hamas oration present in this existing government. >> there is this alliance, if you will, that emerged causing a lot of language. >> there is an effort to reconcile. nobody wants the -- >> is hamas ready to accept the conditions you the palestinian authority accepted, a two-state solution living in peace, ending terrorism, stuff like that? >> this is the political agenda of president abbas and the plo. >> do you think they will? >> they will have to answer to the palestinian people. it's the palestinian people who will select their representatives, and i sincerely believe the majority of the palestinian people want to see an end to this conflict and a two-state solution, palestine and israel living side by side. >> we've been hoping for it so many years. thank you for coming in. >>> coming up, the immigration drama playing out along the border and here in washington. how badly is it hurting president obama? >>> two jumbo jets possibly only seconds from disaster. a chilling scene all caught on

. >> nothing concrete or significant, but president mahmoud abbas of the palestinian authority is also in qatar today and may be meeting today with the political chief of hamas which is a significant step, a significant meeting and could yield something, there is increasing calls from the americans and the israelis to let president abbas kind of fix this and be, and get a grip on gaza, which is an interesting turn around from israel's position when abbas and hamas signed a reconciliation packet in april and basically israel has been calling on president abbas to cancel that packet ever since, but now maybe they are going to give him some berth to help resolve this conflict. >> joining us via skype, thanks so much. thank you. >> >> sreenivasan: as you just heard, there's been a sharp escalation of fighting in gaza with those 13 israeli soldiers and approximately 100 palestinians killed in clashes early today. since the conflict began, more than 400 palestinians have been killed. the white house said today secretary kerry is heading to egypt to try to broker a ceasefire. president obama called prime minister netanyahu to express "serious concern" about the gro

abbas to have an important role in a ceasefire agreement. i don't think they are comfortable deal with turkey or qatar, because of the ties that they may have with hamas. we know that qatar has played a role in trying to basically be a channel between hamas and the international community. because so many in the international community boycott hamas and relevant and refuse to deal with hamas. qatar played the role of trying to portray and sep sore the international community, the demands and request by hamas for a ceasefire. this is what is needed. there's too many subdivisions among the different players in the region. >> for the moment, thank you very much. >> nisreen el-shamayleh in jerusalem for us. well, the people of gaza were facing major shortages of life's essentials before the latest assault by israel. now, according to the u.n.'s humanitarian agency 80% of the poop oulation -- population received electricity for four hours a day. 900,000 don't have adequate access to water and sap tigs. the u.n.'s relief work agency said 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, higher than at the peak. 2008-2009 conflict. the director of operatio

abbas has indicated his willingness to deploy palestinian authority forces along the so-called philadelphia root or border the route on -- between gaza and egypt. and that allegedly hamas other palestinian factions have used to smuggle in weapons, so feldman is saying this would probably enable the opening of the border crossing between egypt and gaza, which is a key palestinian demands, in order to achieve a ceasefire, but it's not clear whether hamas would accept having palestinian authority forces deployed along its border between gaza and egypt. >> interesting stuff. let reason, thanks very much for that. and as we can hear there that intense shelling kill continuing behind you. still to come on the program, why iraqis taking refuge in the kurdish region feel they may never be able to return home. stay with us. ♪ ♪ >>> hello again, welcome back. let's recipients minds you of the top stories now. pro-russia separatist have limited the access to the wreckage of the malaysia airliner. the u.s. says the aircraft was shot down by a missile in the rebel-held area. all 298 people on the plane were killed. >>> there has been no let up in gaza. for the second night troops a

hamas to change. the problem is they're getting the wrong message. they basically forged an alliance with president abbas and more or less it has been business as usual for most of the world. not during this action. everyone condemns it and we appreciate the strong statements from the president of the united states, the white house called me to express the prime -- the president's obama -- condemnation of this. everyone who is a father and a parent understands this. other world leaders have been very clear that this action is unacceptable. i think right now they should ratchet it up more -- one notch and tell president abbas and this alliance with -- end this alliance with hamas. to change andnce unite the population for peace, not terror. he heard from other leaders? >> the arabs are beginning to understand that israel is not their enemy. particularly golf -- the gulf states. we face common threats. developing nuclear capability. they face radical sunni forces in the region. unique, and some ways it is a real opportunity. israel and the air of world for the first time i can remember and many people tell me for the

government was informed that does not include hamas membership or hamas individuals and it follows the president obama of president abbas, which is to support a two-state solution, nonviolence. we don't see reconciliation moving forward under the circumstances, certainly after the kidnap and murder of three israeli teenagers in west bank. certainly after the rocket fire by hamas and so our focus is on working with the palestinian authority to engage in responsible behavior while isolating and changing the behavior of hamas. >> one final question. the 15-year-old american kid who was brutally beaten by these israeli police patrol whatever. we've seen the aftermath of what happened to this young boy. you're trying to get him out of house arrest so he can go back home to florida. is that right is this. >> first of all, we are always concerned any time an american citizen is subjected to any kind of treatment like that. indeed the israeli government has taken it seriously, conducting an investigation by their ministry of justice to deal with the issue of police brutality that appears to have taken place. we are working clos

hamas leaders among the dead but civilians are also being hit. some of which are located in built-up areas. mahmoud abbas is accusing israel of genocide. >> us is not a war against thomas or any other group, it is a war against the palestinian people. >> 40,000 israeli reservists have been called up in preparation for a possible ground offensive. the gaza strip may be facing even worse days to come. >> the latest developments from tonya cramer who joins us on the line from jerusalem. are there signs that either side is prepared to back down? >> from the ground, it doesn't look like either side is backing down. >> rockets are coming in, there are big airstrikes on gaza. ordinary people have to pay the very high place -- price of the situation and it took people there over the phone. egypt is a possible mediator, and the relationship is quite strange. >> threatening a ground offensive. it will they be playing into thomas's hands -- hamas's hands? >> they do not want to be dragged into a ground operation. it doesn't want to do it because there'll be more casualties and my turn public opinion. they believe that hamas has a clear advantage. there was a ground operation and it

the so-called hamas affiliateed technocrats that abbas has embraced have done nothing to curb hamas' violence, as missiles continue to rain down on innocent civilians in israel or even to express sympathy for the murdered jewish teenagers. even that is a bridge too far given the hatred that the palestinian government promotes. the incessant campaign of incitement carried out by the p.a. lays bare the myth that abbas is in any way a moderate or possesses any real desire for peace with the jewish state. in his speech, mr. gordon asserted that -- quote -- "israel should not take for granted the opportunity to negotiate peace with president abbas who has shown time and again that he is committed to nonviolent and co-existence with israel. madam president, how can any rational, sentient person utter that sentence that mr. abbas has shown time and again that he is committed to nonviolence and co-existence with israel while he partners with hamas, a terrorist organization that is raining rockets on israel as we speak. when he's directly responsible for a pattern of incitement that is training young palestinians in vicious racial bigotry and hatred, that is celebrating

or urging them to do something about? >> not obanly that, not only th, president abbas has come to terms with hamas, they are accepting a two-stateolution. they have a long-term quietness. it brings quietness to israel is to bring peace. we have formed a palestinian government with the listening of hamas and the palestinian authority was taking over gaza. so we were designing a well-orchestrated palestinian reconciliation on our terms, not on hamas terms. it's the whole world welcomed the palestinian government, the only country that has ejected it, that has worked against it, that had fought to destroy it is israel and this is the most important point in the israeli hidden agenda. >> but has hamas recognized that -- >> you know, hamas has launched 2,000 rockets into israel. i would like to ask the israelis, how many civilian israelis have been killed? one single person and the other person was an asian worker. 30 of those who were killed are israeli soldiers that were killed in gaza. so let's not exaggerate the israeli fear and they have 60 minutes to go into hiding and so on. >> so just quickly, sir, are you telling me that ham

or do more to inflame the middle east more. israel was looking for more support from the u.s. hoping the u.s. would say that palestinian president abbas needed to separate from hamas. the two sides have come together recently. the u.s. has not said that, disappointing israel, del. >> in this case schinick shifri live for us. >>> we turn to iraq. more u.s. troops are headed to baghdad to bolster security and advise the iraq government. turmoil erupting at the first meeting of iraq's new parliament. we cover the story from washington with libby casey and jane is live in baghdad. we start with you, jane. the elected leaders were supposed to meet today to form the new government on july 1st. what happened? >> reporter: well, del, it started off really nicely. they showed up for the most part. most of the voting blocs. they sat there and sang the national anthem and took their oaths in arabic. the kurdish members in kurdish. then one of the kurdish members got up to make a point about not getting money to the kurdish region. that's when the shouting started. they reconvened and went for a break, and a lot of them didn't come back. in fact, enough didn't come back that

cairo today, and i do wonder though what can come of those discussions if -- if abbas doesn't have sign-on or support from hamasbviously i think you need to engage the parties involved, you know. it's important to remember that there has been a reconciliation agreement between palestinian parties, and so there are, of course, relationships between mahmoud abbas and the other parties in gaza that are currently involved in the belligerency including, by the way, the al aqsa martyr's brigade which is affiliated with the fatah party, mahmoud abbas' party, so, you know, there's definitely channels there that could be used, but they need to be used effectively and used with genuine intentions to bring a cease-fire about that also genuinely addresses the problems that palestinians face in gaza under the siege. >> is it clear to you right now who is leading hamas though because we had two different reactions to the discussions of a cease-fire yesterday when that came out. i mean, there seems to be a divide, a long-standing divide between the political wing of hamas and the military wing. if they can't be on the same pa

abbas. they can thank him for condemning the kidnapping. end your alliance with hamas. he can choose either peace with israel or terrorism. can he choose peace with israel or a pact with hamas. unfortunately he chose a pact with hamas. we hope he will make a very very different choice. >> and can you see more of our interview with the ambassador. just go to gretawire.com. and with israel and hamas now trading air strikes and rocket fire, what should president obama be doing or not doing. former u.n. ambassador john bolton joins us. ambassador, before i get to the question of what president obama should do and not do. hamas started this rounds and these were not soldiers. these were three teens hitchhiking. how did -- i mean, prime minister netanyahu is very aggressive in this. how far can he go, will he go, should he go, what's he do? >> well, i think legitimately, he can treat this as one of a long series of acts of war against israel. ron temperature member just called it a crime. i'm sure i have called it a crime. it's a natural thing to say. but, in fact, it's not a crime. this was another example of warfare by hamas

hamas complicity in this. in the jerusalem post was put much more strongly or directly. she wrote, quoting here with all due respect abbas is responsible. for 20 years abbas and his colleagues have said jews are human scum. this message is communicated in all venues. palestinians of all ages are taught that jews have no right to live. >> well, i mean there's no question that abbas has not pushed back on any of that. that's been true from the beginning. there's also no question that the u.s. response, i think, in calling on restraint for all parties was totally unnecessary. why is that included on the white house response. calling on israel to restrain itself. that's something that netanyahu thought was in his own interest and was probably likely to do in first place. when the white house puts out a statement like that once again you see the moral equivalent we've seen from the white house on this issue for the better part of six years. >> you talk about the israeli response thus far. is the israeli response over at this point or do you expect to see more? >> one thing that isn't over, they are going to track down the two

or stirring any commotion in the middle east. no one seems to care about hamas. everyone believes hamas is a solution. >> would you agree that mahmoud abbas, the leader who is leading the palestinian authority, that his political situation is perhaps more tenuous given the extremist elements of hamas, than, say, binyamin netanyahu's position is, vis-a-vis the extremist elements in israel. >> totally. >> absolutely. i think that - and i think that this is - part of this tragedy, part of the ill fortune on both sides, for both sides, is that this all comes at a time when there's an absence of a peace process. when there isn't a diplomatic negotiating process. which means that abbas, israel's natural interlock uter - as you know, i no longer work for the deposit, i'm free to say that. i think mahmoud abbas is a partner, i think the palastinian authority is a viable and a credible enterlock tur and i do thing these kinds of operations, which again hopefully not, but could potentially escalate, pose a definite threat to mahmoud abbas. i agree with the premise of your question, yes. >> former israeli ambassador. >> thank you for joining us, we

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abbas, who's the head of the pal stestinian state in waiting. can he do anything about any of this? does he have any authority or sway over hamaset them to back down? >> it's a very delicate -- inter-palestinian politics are just as complicated as israeli politics. at the beginning when this thing developed, people we are saying abbas is going to be irreparably perhaps weakened. he seems to be emerging from that as storm some sort of go-between. he's in cairo discussing possible cease-fire arrangements and the stationing of his own policemen on the border between egypt and the gaza strip. a lot depends on how this ends up. if hamas emerges heroes from this conflict, that may come at the expense of abbas, and he will be perceived as having been weakened. >> an intractable problem. hopefully we'll be able to have you come back. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing t

abbas, the leader of the party. you signed a unity agreement, government deal, with hamas. does fatah approve of hamas's tactics in shooting the rockets areas? >> i think you have asked four or five different questions. >> i think i did. >> first of all, i don't think one should - i don't think that one should assume that the victim is guilty all the time. this is israeli approach, of blaming the victim, dehumanizing the palestinians. we are not talking about hamas, separate from palestinians. we are the plo, we are the umbrella, the representatives of all the palestinian people, and we want hamas to be part of a democratic pluralistic system. and we are not talking about hamas going off on its own, or islamic jihad, but talking about issues to do with the palestinian people - children or women killed in cold blood, massacred. they are not hamas, jihad, fatah. they are palestinian people who are being bombed and shelled and torn to pieces. this has to be addressed. israel is a party that rejected the ceasefire, and once again, everybody is asking why have the palestinians rejected. we haven't said anything about this. we have tried to get the terms of a ceasefire that would

hamas' control over the gaza strip. either reoccupy it or to try to in effect do a political jiu jitsu and in effect, authorize the palestinian authority, president abbas, to come back into the gaza strip and take political control. >> stay with us. i want to bring in some reporting from the ground. >> good morning to you. can you hear me? >> yes. i can hear you. good morning. >> tell us what you've been seeing on the ground there of this overnight incursion. >> actually, there are continuous bombings. last night from the attacks on the borders and the eastern gaza strip and this is, was -- i only have sleep for one hour. now i don't know what we're requesting to do. >> and how are people dealing with this overnight? >> actually we don't have any shelter. here everyone has his own home. we are trying to stay away from the windows and doors so as not to get hurt. and we are staying at our homes. just waiting for all of this to finish. >> laura, of course you're hearing the explosions we see on our screen here, some of the footage from last night. do you have any way of knowing how widespread the bombing was according to what you understand or what you c

or live like human beings. >> reporter: palestinian authorities showed up, they attacked the van saying it arrived too late. when egypt offered a cease-fire arrangement palestinian president mahmood abbas welcomed it whereas hamas said it was not consulted about the plan and fattah acknowledges it. >> there is no division in ending the aggression. there is no division in our right to resist. the question is how some people in hamas see this as the end of the war. >> reporter: while fattah wants an immediate end of the fighting hamas said it won't accept the truce unless israel ends its siege on gaza. >> reporter: al jazeera. >> an american teen was beated by israeli police caught on tape is scheduled to return to the united states. the 15-year-old is set to arrive in florida tonight early this month police beat him in jerusalem as he protested his cousin as abduction and murder. it caused outrage around the world. he was not charged with a crime but he was put under house arrest. >> bashar al-assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term today. the laughic inauguration ceremony that has killed more than 17 170,000 people. it was used as an inauguration speech to declare victory over terror, and said that oppos

or major destruction on the israeli said. its effectiveness. >> mr. barghouti, the palestinian authority of mahmoud abbas and the hamaship in gaza, are they on the same page right now? we heard the president say to hamas stop the firing of these rockets into israel. >> not exactly on the same page but let's remember that one of the main goals of mr. netanyahu, the prime minister of israel, the main goal of his attack, one of the main goals is to destroy what was achieved in terms of unity between palestinians. he declared that very clearly which is a counterproductive approach because at the end of the day, only a unified palestinian structure canning achieve real stability in this region. unfortunately, mr. netanyahu is playing tactics here. on one side he kept saying i can't make peace because he does not represent all palestinians and palestinians are zwid when and when we got unified he started to attack the unity structure. both sides are not on the same page. there are differences about you we need leadership. we need the leadership that can be responsible in making peace and can be responsible in whatever decis

or an uprising there? >> well, first, i know that's what hamas is trying to do. they're trying to instigate violence in the west bank as well. we expect president abbas what he can and what he's responsible for, to keep the quiet on that front, because hamas just wants that to blow up as well. as far as the civilian casualties, each one is a tragedy. we don't want a single civilian tragedy. we're not targeting a single civilian. and every time you see these pictures, they're heart breaking, but why is it happening? it's happening because hamas is firing 25,000 rockets on our cities. they're attacking us with terror tunnels dug into our territory. they're attacking us by land, sea, and air. obviously, we have to respond. when we respond, hamas, we're trying to minimize the civilians. the civilian casualties. we tell the civilians leave, hamas tells them to stay. why does it tell them to stay inbecause it wants to pile up the civilian casualties so any of these regrettable civilian tragedies should be placed on the responsibility of hamas. hamas is a terror organization, ruthless terrorist organization that not only wants to kill our people, it wants t