networks and this was ayman mohyeldin's goal all along.n he first left al jazeera in 2011 and moved to a mainstream u.s. network, this is what he had in mind, to bring this kind of coverage that is very rarely seen on the corporate media in the states, and he was succeeding in doing that. we do not know the reasons why he was taken out of gaza. you are taking one of the most experienced reporters out of gaza citing security reasons is not very credible. we do not know why they removed him. whether this was a fight about a bigger star and having richard if it was in, or about his coverage having a serious effect showing the true side of this assault, the true side of the conflict, and political considerations came into play. history,lk about the 2008-2009, right after president obama was elected, the period where the world was talking about the united states and the israeli assault on gaza began, al jazeera was the only network inside gaza. i wanted to go to a film he made , a documentary called "a war shows reporting war gaza during the oc

i think we have ayman mohyeldin. i'm glad you're safe and there, ayman. why do you think it is, ayman, and is it surprising to you that this violence has moved all the way to jerusalem? >> reporter: well, absolutely. let me give you a quick sense of what is happening here. it has kwi yited down in the last 20 minutes or so because it's the time of the residents where they are breaking their fasts and a lot of the people who have been engaged in the protests have gone back to their homes. the police themselves are taking a break and regrouping. you questioned about the anger. it really stems from what happened here overnight and that was, according to local residents and the boy's father, a young 17-year-old palestinian boy walking to the nearby mosque was kidnapped. his body was ultimately discovered several hours later. the boy's parents were notified. they went down to the police station and ultimately they believe it was their son that was killed. the body was so badly burned that they are going through dna tests, according to the police, to confirm hi

we begin with nbc's ayman inside gaza tonight with the latest. ayman? >> reporter: good evening, lester. six days into this conflict, all indications suggest the fighting is intensifying. they said they destroyed long-range palestinian rockets deep inside the territory. it also began calling and dropping leaflets on thousands of palestinians, saying leave your homes or risk facing danger. more importantly, the u.s. embassy evacuated about 150 americans that were trapped in gaza. from the skies above, and the sea, israel is stepping up its campaign to destroy rocket sites in gaza. warning residents by phone and leaflets, leave your homes or risk being injured. in the middle of the night thousands of palestinian families began leaving with what little they have. some of the children barely had time to put on their shoes before escaping. thousands, the u.n. said, have already taken refuge at schools now used as makeshift shelters. while some families fled the fighting, others moushd those killed in it. overcome by grief, this woman who lost three of her ch

i'm joined by ayman in gaza. from tel-aviv, martin fletcher. ayman, first to you, i heard the call from you and your producer as you witnessed this. tell me about the children and t parents and what you witnessed. >> reporter: it was a scene that was really indescribable. it was very, very painful to watch. we were at our hotel -- a hotel that was full of international journalists down by the gaza sea port at about 4:00 p.m. we heard two loud explosions and quickly saw smoke billowing down in the direction of one of the huts that was on the water's front line. then we started seeing a chaotic scene of children running down there and pulling bodies out of the scene of explosion. what we learned immediately afterwards is it was kids playing there. in fact, just minutes before we entered the hotel returning back to our hotel, i had actually stopped and started playing with these little boys in front of our hotel kicking a soccer ball around. we went our separate ways and then minutes later we heard the explosions. it turned out that the boys we we

nbc's ayman mohyeldin is in tel aviv. ayman, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it's been a few hours since the sirens here in tel aviv have gone off. but make no mistake about it, this is a city and a country that is very much on edge. on the first day of operation protective edge, more than a hundred rockets were fired into israel and israel has fired back into gaza. tonight there is growing concern that neither side is ready to back down. there are sirens wailing across israel over its two largest cities. >> look, wow! >> whoa! >> reporter: missiles over tel aviv intercepted by the defense system the israelis call the iron dome. but in gaza, there were no sirens warning of israel's assault on the strip. a woman escaping with her children. a man is heard shouting, where is the world? others just running by the wounded. in the rubble of israel's air strike, a man is trapped. with a little help, he is rescued. the might of israel's military unleashed on gaza. targeting suspected launching sites and the home of suspected militants. authorities there saying this on

we now have nbc's ayman mohyeldin back with us from gaza. we're glad you're safe out there and glad we finally got you on the phone. what's the latest there? >> well, ronan, just before you came to us previously, the sound of israeli fighter planes was hovering overhead as they flew down and dropped their loads on a target. not yet sure what that target was but we heard a loud explosion. it's been that way throughout the course of the morning. most of the fighting on the ground in gaza has been concentrated in the eastern part of the territory. and that's where you also cited israel has identified soldiers having been killed in the go gunfight there. the focus on the ground for humanitarian officials is the rising civilian death toll and the pressure that is being put under health officials here to try to cope with the spike in number of those fleeing the front lines of the fighting. the united nations says about 85,000 people have now been displaced and are taking refuge at u.n. schools across the territory. it is all right now a race again

we'll have a live report from nbc's ayman mohyeldin, who was caught in one of those cro crossfires. >>> then -- >> the surge of children and families illegally entering the united states led to a heated stand-off. >> they're not born here. >> i'll talk to a councilmember from california where that tense immigration stand-off took place. >>> and a turning point for civil rights in america when 50 years ago today president lyndon b. johnson signed the civil rights act. >>> we start in jerusalem where two separate kidnaps risks plunging palestinians and israelis into a worse conflict. protesters have fought israeli police throughout the day after the body of a palestinian teen was discovered hours after he was reportedly kidnapped in east jerusalem. many suspect the motive for the kidnapping and murder was revenge for three israeli teenagers whose bodies were found monday on the west bank and suffered the same fate. israel has named two men with ties to hamas as suspects in the kidnapping of the three israelis. so far, there are no reported suspects in the case of the dead palestinian bo

. >> ayman, stay safe there. we're going to stay with these pictures, but you stay safe. >> reporter: chris, we're still with you if you can hear me. it's very similar stuff that we've been seeing throughout the course of the morning. now, israeli police are here in this neighborhood. several streets around this main street where we are, half palestinian protesters throwing stones at them and in some cases, some of the journalists have been taking positions like where we are on the other side as well. israeli police are trying to break this area up, trying to break this area up using stun grenades like you just saw and firing bullets onto the crowds. the situation like this is what we found ourselves caught up in earlier this morning. throughout the morning there have been about 40 palestinian soldiers that have been injured. >> ayman, you stay safe. we're going to turn to iraq where isis continues their march to baghdad as their leader calls on all muslims to pledge allegiance to them. chief correspondent for nb

ayman, good morning. >> good morning, jose. a short while ago, about 15 minutes ago we heard a loud explosion, which appeared to be an air strike. it happened in the vicinity of the hospital just off to my right shoulder here in the green area. according to sources on the ground, including our nbc news crew who is actually out there filming right now, there are several casualties. most of them children. most of the shelling that you can hear the thumping behind me has been concentrated on the eastern part of the gaza strip. this one was right in the heart of gaza city. more alarming, it was within meters of the hospital. the largest hospital here in the entire territory. according to reports on the ground, again, it was the target seemed to have hit the outpatient clinic facility at the hospital. that is one of the reasons we're hearing about so many casualties. we don't have number of fatalities yet. our nbc crew on the ground is reporting among those injured are children. there are some reports there may be fatalities. we'll

nbc's ayman mohyeldin spoke to the teen who is an american citizen. ayman? >> reporter: good evening, lester. that palestinian american family from tampa florida says they are outraged by what has happened to their son. tonight they are focusing on making sure he gets proper medical care. this as the israeli government has made substantial progress in the investigation into the killing of another palestinian teenager whose death has led to a week of clashes. bruised and battered and with his mother holding on, he stepped out of an israeli jail and told the world what happened to him when police detained him during violent clashes. >> i remember standing and watching the group of people and then they came from the side of me. i tried to run away but they attacked me. >> reporter: after four days in israeli custody, the american teenager was released on bail until an investigation is over. his movements restricted, even though he's not charged with any crimes. >> they should have just released him under no conditions. >> reporter: outside the courthouse, bitte

joining me live from gaza is ayman mog d ayman mojadidi. >> if you had to base it on the rhetoric coming out from both sides, it's not an indication that any side is prepared to back down. there hasn't been talk of a ceasefire realistically for some time now. all kinds of diplomatic leaders traveling to turkey. but nothing substantial changed the reality on the ground. that is a dire reality for the people here. we're getting word an overnight strike on a home of at least the suspect eed hamas member killed7 people. we are hearing they were not given any type of warning in that overnight strike. and we understand as well from palestinian medical sources that women and children are among that. the death toll alone has climbed to about 39. we just passed noon here. you can probably hear the shelling going on behind me. it's an ongoing operation. that death toll is expected to rise in the coming days. a mild grim stone has been reached here. at least 500 people have been killed as a result of the ongoing conflict. in terms of palestinian militant factions, including hamas and islamic jihad.

ayman, good evening. >> good evening, lester. it was the single deadliest day since the conflict began, leaving scores of palestinians dead. we were at the hospital morgue as a stream of bodies came in throughout the day. one after the other, the bodies came into the hospital, revealed the horrors. in one neighborhood in east gaza, more than 60 people killed today alone. on the drive in, our camera captured those trying to get out. fear etched on their faces, their belongings on their backs. they were the lucky ones who survived. these were the ones who did not. israel says it's using surgical strikes to target hamas fighters. it says tunnels and rockets are being destroyed. but here, so is everything else. paramedics arrive with two more bodies. that's a palestinian journalist with his bloody press vest. first responders carrying one of their own. a 33-year-old medic who was killed when his ambulance was bombed while responding to a call. here those used to seeing death, it was too much. at the hospital morgue, there is no digni

ayman? >> reporter: lester, the palestinian teen's family says he was killed in the revenge of killing the israeli teens that were buried yesterday. they say his body was so badly burnt it wasn't recognized. israeli leaders are condemning the killing and calling for calm. in the neighborhood where we are and where his family lives, there's nothing but outrage. young palestinians in east jerusalem chanting for their fallen, angry at israel, vowing to fight, barricading a major road, burning tires and targeting israeli security forces with stones and molotov cocktails. at first the soldiers keep their distance, firing stone grenades at the demonstrators who gather more rocks to throw. suddenly, things change. as palestinians try to reinforce their position, one is wounded and carried in an ambulance. israeli soldiers seize the moment and assault the front line, firing stun grenades and rubber bullets. we are trapped behind a car full of reporters. >> journalists! journalists! >> reporter: yell

. >> ayman, stay safe there.e are going to stay with these pictures, but you stay safe. >> joining us now from east jerusalem, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. it doesn't look in any way this is going to deescalate very fast, is there? >> reporter: right now, there are definitely some growing concerns. let me give you a quick sense what have is happening here. this is the scene where we were yesterday. very different today. you can see a bit of traffic flowing and debris and broken rocks and stones and burnt-out buildings as a result of those clashes. off to my right is the biggest indicator why this situation isn't coming down any time soon. the blue tent is a funeral at any time set up by the palestinian teenager who was killed. they expect to see his body at some point. the israel police have not released his body. his body was so burnt it wasn't recognized at the time of his discovery. now they are collecting dna samples from the family to confirm it is who everyone knows who it is right now. t

nbc's ayman mohyeldin joins us from jerusalem with that story. ayman? >> reporter: good evening, lester. it's a palestinian-american family and their son from tampa, florida that are the latest victims in the turmoil that's going on here. so much so, that the u.s. state department says it's profoundly troubled by the boy's beating. the video of that beating has now gone viral and triggered widespread condemnation. the amateur video shows israeli soldiers subduing a palestinian teen, then repeatedly beating him while he appears motionless, before dragging him away with other detainees. these people say the boy is their son, 15-year-old palestinian american. >> i need him to be in the hospital. >> reporter: they spent the morning calling american embassy officials to get their son proper medical help. today we went with them as they tried to visit their son in jail. they weren't allowed in, but an american diplomat was. after waiting for hours in the sun, waiting for word that he is physically okay, it finally came. >> he doesn't remember much. i think be

ayman, thanks. >>> an awful situation in russia today. at least 21 people were killed, 100 hospitalized after a train derailed in the moscow subway. over 1,000 people were evacuated during this rescue operation that went on for 12 hours. this happened near the deepest subway station in all of moscow, 275 feet down, making for a particularly difficult fight for first responders. >>> in this country tonight, the national weather service now estimates more than 37 million americans who are in the path of severe storms right now, and may be in for hail and lightning and floods throughout the night ahead. and that's just the start of the extreme weather being felt in just about every corner of our country tonight. we get our report from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: day two of pounding rain in the northeast, from a fog dense liberty to a disappearing new york skyline. rain so heavy, it was halfway up the hubcaps. new york sidewalks were virtually barren. airports in the northeast held planes in a ground stop for hours. all of it a day after

ayman mojadidi joins us live. good morning, ayman. >> good morning, thomas. the really military is calling it operation protective edge. they say it's going to be a long haul struggle. when it's going to build up over the course of time. we've seen in the past 24 hours the israeli military mobilized up to 1500 reserve soldiers to the border between gaza and southern part of israel. in addition to that, we have heard over the course of the last 24 hours the air raid sirens that are so frequent here in the southern part of israel as well as other parts of the country. in the growing concern this is going to lead to a full-blown confrontation between palestinian factions in gaza and israel. overnight they say 30 palestinians were injured in the first wave of air strikes that were carried out by the israeli air force. among them women and children. among some of the targets as well that were destroyed included homes of what israel says perhaps were suspected hamas militants. in gaza because the dense population. it's going to have some kind of impact on the civil

ayman mohyeldin saw it all happen. he'll join us from gaza. >>> plus, the water crisis in california spawns record fines. republicans get busted using a spy cam at democratic fund-raisers. >> that guy has a shirt on. his house is very 80s. all in starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. a shift in the controversy surrounding unaccompanied migrant children that have come to the border. nancy pelosi reversed her position on calls for expedited deportation deportations asking is the only immigration bill we're going to have, one that hurts children? republicans have been pushing deportation as the solution to the humanitarian crisis on the border. and for a time, it looks like democrats would beth to go along with those efforts. the white house itself has said it favors changes to a 2008 law that would allow children from central america to be deported more easily. we are now seeing a number of democrats, including nancy pelosi saying, deportations are not the solution to the humanitarian crisis.

nbc's foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin is live for us in gaza. so, ayman, who is the go-between with hamas? we know it's not really egypt. we know it's -- maybe it's somebody in the israeli government that does something behind the scenes that we don't know about, but who is it? we know that it's not a u.s. official. >> reporter: well, there's a few layers to it. one is the palestinian factions together are speaking to egypt and that is being represented by members of the islamic jihad. and that is certainly being conducted through egyptian intelligence and through the egyptian foreign ministry. those two agencies are dealing directly with palestinian factions. but in terms of more of the pressure on hamas and the bilateral relationship taking place, hamas is having negotiations with the qatari government and certainly the turkish government. through them those two major international powers are the ones relaying the communications between hamas as an organization and some of the other international and regional players. >> meanwhile, what can yo

ayman? >> reporter: the comment that secretary of state john kerry made we see it here on the ground. israel has said time and time again it is using surgical strikes. they describe what's happening here nothing short of a massacre. in the eastern part of the gaza strip yesterday, the single deadliest day since this conflict began, the most people killed in a single neighborhood. air strikes and shelling that took place that have now pushed the death toll to more than 500 over the past two weeks in fighting. israeli bombardment. you can probably hear some of that shelling taking place behind me. we are getting reports that overnight an israeli air strike targeting a member of hamas killed him but also 27 members of his family. it is precisely that type of casualty toll that palestinian officials and medical sources say is disproportionate. human rights organizations are saying it is disproportionate the type of force that israel is using to try to stop palestinian rocket fire out of gaza. th

nbc's ayman mohyeldin joins us on the phone from gaza city. ayman, i want to start with that question of the now internally displaced refugees inside gaza. the u.n. reporting it's sheltering some 85,000 people. how secure are those locations from missile attacks? >> well, in theory those schools and those locations should be very safe. what we know for a fact is that all these u.n. schools have their gps coordinates given to the israeli military precisely to avoid any type of accidental fire or any type of accident that may involve indirect attacks as we've seen. now, in the past and including in this war, several of those u.n. schools have been damaged as a result of direct or indirect shelling by the israeli military. there's one case of a school here in northern gaza in which several people were injured as a result of an israeli attack on that school. again, it's not yet clear whether that school was deliberately the target or perhaps in the vicinity of it, but it underlines or underscores the point we've repeatedly made. because gaza is so

i think we have ayman right now. ayman, are you there? okay. first of all, are you okay. >> i'm here now in this -- yes. we're fine right now. as you can see behind me, it's a tense situation. we were in the middle of the street but had to move away from that to get in position here little bit away from the firing and rocket throwing. >> you're in jerusalem now. what is happening on the ground? >> yeah, craig. we're in the eastern part of jerusalem. you can see off to my shoulder here israeli soldiers have taken position in this neighborhood. they have been firing throughout the course of the morning tear gas, rubber bullets on to some of the palestinian protesters that have been demonstrating throughout the early hours of the morning. they barricaded both ends of the street. on the other side, there's a huge fire that has been burning for several hours. the protesters have been angered by the killing of a 16-year-old palestinian boy. that happened overnight. according to local residents, they say the 16-year-old boy was killed at the hands of

. >> ayman mohyeldin is in the middle of it and joins me tonight. >>> target takes a stand on guns and their stores. tropical storm arthur takes aim at the coast. and why american work-aholicks are donating a million years of labor to their bosses. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, the immigration crisis has turned ugly. some of the largest numbers of unaccompanied minors flee their homes. today immigration officials are not disclosing where 140 undocumented migrants have been taken. that's following a protest in murrieta, california, with protesters screaming, go home! and waiving american flags. >> at the center of the immigration crisis, three buses forced to turn around and head to a holding facility along the u.s. mexico border. inside, 140 undocumented immigrants from central america. mostly mothers and their young children. now, alone and scared walking into an uncertain future. >> they're not born here. they need to go back to mexico. >> this is how they were greeted when they arrived in murrieta california, 100 miles north of the border. >> move or you will be cited

as ayman just described, he didn't find anyone that has bad words about hamas.t's the same in israel but to a lessor extent. the left wing is against it but for the most part, israelis believe this now is the time they have to hit hamas. yes, there have been very few casualties among israel but that's not true for want of hamas who fired rockets specifically at israeli populations. that's been their goal. they have been unsuccessful because israel has been able to defend themselves. if hamas had their way, they would have killed as many israelis as they could. they say don't blame us for defending ourselves. but the people are increasingly behind the government saying this is the time to take out hamas and do what it takes. it's going to be tough, hard and it's much harder on the palestinians than it is on israel. a little sign that israel or hamas is in the mood to stop fighting, even though all attention is focused on john kerry and the secretary general of the united nations trying to get some -- trying to bring the two sides closer together and there's no se

tariq khdeir, a teen from tampa, florida, spoke to our own ayman mohyeldin after being released frompping on my back and beating me from behind. and here is when they were punching me and kicking me. >> what happened to your wrist? >> these are from the handcuffs when they took me to jail. >> nbc's ayman mohyeldin joins me by phone from jerusalem. ayman, what is the swas now because this has been so tense and they've been so concerned about other cities within israel, not just within the west bank blowing up as well. >> that's right. in fact, we are seeing at least within israel, a few security challenges that the government here is dealing with simultaneously. in the northern part of the country in the predominantly arab cities or palestinian cities inside israel proper, there have been ongoing clashes for the past few days triggered by the killing of this palestinian boy. and that has also fueled some of that anger that also we saw in east jerusalem over the past several days. and there is also the constant threat in the south of israel as the result of palestinian rocket fire from

joining me now is martin fletcher and ayman mohyeldin on the phone from gaza. ayman, i'm beginning with you. palestinian leaders have dubbed it a day of rage. we saw images of the turbulent protests over the last 24 hours or so. can you describe the scene now? >> well, the scene in gaza has been very much consistent what we've seen over the last several days in terms of the fighting here. the protest has been concentrated -- as a result of the images broadcast out of gaza there's a agree graphical disconnect and they see it as what they describe as an aggression that is pretty much gone unpunished by the international community. it's seen here in gaza is of anger. they're disappointed and upset of with what happened yesterday. there's fighting take place. the israeli military continues to shell along the eastern corridor of the territory that runs the entire length of the strip. and we've seen it throughout the course of the day as well. a lot of people leaving their homes. leaving the hospitals that are suppose supposed safe shelters. they're leaving the shelt

first up, the latest from the ground from ayman mohyeldin. he's an the phone from gaza. ayman?d, everybody here is kind of waiting to see if there is going to be some kind of cease-fire or truce announced this evening. it would certainly be welcome news for the people here who have endured so much. today the focus has been on the shelling of the u.n. school being used as a shelter. as it stands right now, the united nations is still sticking to its story saying that all indications suggest the shelling was coming from the israeli side and they do believe that it was an israeli shell that hit the united nations courtyard that killed at least 16 people, including women and children. in addition to that, they say this would have been the fourth -- hello? >> we've got you, ayman. >> sorry. i was saying the u.n. says this is the fourth such attack in as many days. now the israeli military were contending that saying that there was a possibility that the rockets -- that what hit the school was a rocket from hamas that was fired and landed in the school inadvertently. they also told n

thank you, martin and ayman. appreciate it. >>> so with turmoil raging in the middle east not to mention planes being shot out of the sky in ukraine, president obama is in california fund-raising right now. he's taking a lot of heat for not hunkering down in the white house about these issues. today's editorials say it all. "the new york post" questions the u.s. anti-leadership. "the washington post" asks, has president obama hit his low point and "the wall street journal" has the harshest of the day. obama to world: drop dead. the most provincial u.s. president in the last century. joining me 24 msnbc political analysts. mark halperin and jonathan alter. mark, is this line of criticism fair? >> the president is going to fund-raise as past presidents have, but i do think you hear even from democrats concern about him picking his spots, maybe wrongly. not timing his statements perfectly, particularly with regards to russia. you hear that from a lot of democrats. and the fund-raising is kind of a distraction. is he

ayman mojadidi is live. you have been reporting on it several days. to your point you made earlier, it could be an uptick in the next few days to all out war. is there any hope that this tension could quail down before it flairs o s up again? >> reporter: well, if you have to base it on the rhetoric that is coming out of the officials on both sides, that is the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu who told his nation that it could be a long and tough fight and from the hamas's political leader, it doesn't seem that there is any wiggle room right now. we know that turkish mediation is involved. they are trying to negotiate a ceasefire. through there seems to be more anger and violence than a chance for ceasefire. hamas has been clear about what will bring an end to the conflict. in order for there to be a ceasefire put in place, israel must release some of the detainees, particularly the hamas detainees it arrested in connection with with the kidnapping and killing of the three israeli teens last week. israel went on a campaign in the west bank

. >> ayman mohyeldin is following the latest developments from gaza, good morning, ayman. >> good morning, jose. the israeli military announced today a four-hour humanitarian window in which it said it would suspend the operations around the gaza strip. it excluded areas where israeli ground forces were currently operating, particularly in the eastern part of the territory. it also called on civilians who already left their homes to not return to the areas and also promised to respond to any attack that endangered the lives of israeli civilians that were coming out gaza. hamas responded saying it was a propaganda employ to exploit any type of media attention. it said it would not respect the cease-fire as long as israeli troops remain in the areas on the eastern part of the gaza strip. all comes on a day when the israeli government is coming under tremendous amount of international scrutiny. once again a u.n. school was hit. according to the initial investigations, the u.nited nations said they collected evidence at the scene of the attack. it was an israeli shell that landed in the schoo

>> we joined him and his father as they visited the grave to final the respects. >>> that was nbc ayman mojadidm. >>> the family of a grandmother who was beaten by the california police officer is plating a lawsuit. you can see the officer force the 51-year-old to the ground and hit her repeatedly. police say she was posing danger to herself because she was walking within traffic lanes at the time. she has been hospitalized and is undergoing psychiatric evaluation. the officer, though, has been suspe suspended. >>> police in new york city have apprehended a 20-year-old woman after she abandoned a baby on the subway platform. the, by the way, girl is believed to be 7 to 6 months old. she's in good condition. witnesses say the woman pushed the stroller off the train and on to the platform during the stop. the woman stayed on the train as it left the station. the baby is now with children's services. >>> we also have some insiring video of a 2-year-old walking for the first time with a help of prosthetics. the video has gone viral. take a look. >> look daddy! >> that little boy! indeed he'

ayman mohyeldin. first to you, martin. the idea if the israeli defense force is disputing reports that an attack near a hospital today which caused many civilian casualties apparently had come from israel's side. they say it's from a failed hamas rocket. can you clarify it all or is this still in dispute? >> well, that's what the -- the israeli army is saying very clearly and by the way, they responded very quickly, almost immediately after the rocket attack. they said it wasn't us. we weren't operating in the area at the time. they said there was two failed rockets. one failed near the hospital in gaza, the main hospital. and one fell on the refugee camp only about five minutes drive away from the hospital. so two rockets hit those two places. israel says they were failed rock rockets. i believe they said they were fired not by hamas but by the other islamic militant organization, jihad. they say it wasn't israeli fire. it's interesting they responded so quickly and so immediately saying that. so whereas the other day whe

nbc's ayman mohyeldin is live for us tonight in jerusalem. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. in the past few hours, more than 80 rockets have been fired and they have deployed hundreds of reserve soldiers to the south of the country. over the past few days,s have been rising, so much so that there is growing concern tonight that there could be on outbreak of all-out conflict. in gaza, calls for revenge today are getting louder. the palestinian militants vow to avenge fighters killed by israel air strikes and israel says it will intensify attacks to stop palestinian rocket fire. both sides exchanging more rhetoric while palestinian and israeli parents still grieve for their children. rahel frankell is the mother of a 16-year-old american teenager buried last week along with two other jewish teens killed by suspected palestinian militants still at large. >> no mother or father should go through what we're going now. we share the pain of the other parents. >> reporter: today, mohammad's father took me to the streets and showed me w

ayman, what happened? what can you describe for us?er: well, chuck, about 40 minutes ago or so just on the western side of gaza city at the gaza harbor, which actually has been for the past few days since this conflict began relatively quiet, there was a strike. now, we're not quite sure if it was an air strike or some type of artillery strike, but it definitely landed in the harbor, setting on fire one of the small things used by people in the area. we saw at least four children that were badly injured as a result of that artillery shell. they have now been evacuated to the hospital. in fact they were actually brought up from the beach front through our hotel lobby and into the back of the ambulance before they were driven off to the hospital. we don't know exactly why this particular area was targeted at this particular point but at this stage right now it seems that as a result of the shell there has been some casualties. >> when we hear that the israeli army has been trying to warn residents in gaza, civilians that attacks are comi

first, let's go to nbc's ayman mohyeldin in gaza city. ayman? >> reporter: good afternoon, joy. the egyptian initiative that tried to bring an end to the violence between israel and hamas was categorically rejected by the palestinian factions earlier today. pretty much as soon as the initiative was announced for that matter. the palestinian sides including hamas and islamic jihad, the two main palestinian factions, say they rejected the initiative for a cease-fire because it fell short of addressing the larger political issues they wanted to deal with. they don't want just a cessation of hostilitiehostilities, a cal, as it's sometimes referred. they wanted to address the lifting of the israeli siege on gaza that's been in place from about 2007 as well as the relief of hundreds of palestinian prisoners that were rounded up in the west bank by the israeli military after the killing of three israeli jewish teenagers. the palestinian factions say they've gone through this process in the past several times. the war in 2008 and the war in 2012. both of those cease-fires were supposed

. >>> ayman mojadidi has the latest from gaza. >> from the skies above, and the sea, israel is stepping up the campaign to destroy rocket sites in gaza. warning res debits by phone and leafl leaflets. in the middle of the night, thousands of palestinian families began leaving with what little they have. some of the children barely had time to put on their shoes before escaping. thousands the u.n. says have already taken refuge at schools now used as makeshift shelters. some families fled the fighting, others mourned those killed in it. over come by grief, she lost three of her children fainted. today mourners pray for the dead. 13 of them were from one family. relatives of gaza's police chief who israel targeted in the air strike since the war began. the police chief survived but at least 18 over others were kill. including his parents and four siblings. a palestinian child now orphaned by yet another war. for some, the violence has become unbearable. today the u.s. evacuated the citizens with the help of the u.n. making the journey was palestinian-american was his family from houston,

ayman mohyeldin joining me from east jerusalem. ayman, thank you so much. it's good to see you.'s talk about what's happened overnight. the israeli, the idf says that its defensive, the move toward gaza, we know what happened a number of years ago when there was an all-out shooting war with gaza. between gaza and israel. what about attempts to dial down the tension and what about the burial of this palestinian youth? >> that's absolutely right. a spokesperson for the israeli military told us a short while ago the intention of the israeli military is to deescalate. the policy as it stands right now is for de-escalation. they don't want to go into a shooting war with hamas or any other militant group right now in gaza. they are saying they've deployed additional troops, including some reserve units to the southern commune ifts israel. others in harm's way getting some of the rocketfire. they are going there mostly, primarily for defensive reasons, not for any offensive attacks or any imminent attacks. the spokesperson for the israeli military also told us they have been communicat

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you stay safe. >> that was ayman mohyeldin there. on the side of the car was yelling journalists trying to get their attention so they knew exactly who they were. you can see he's wearing the press emblem across that vest that he had on for his own safety. obviously take great precautions to keep our journalists and crews in safe situations like that, but scary nonetheless. >>> want to move on to business news for you today where the markets were mixed yesterday with the dow and s&p hitting record highs ahead of today's june's job report. steve sedgwick is live with more on this for us. steve, good morning. >> very good day to you. fantastic run on the equity markets. the s&p and dow very, very near record highs as well. the question is whether there's payroll fervor because of the holiday. tomorrow will give that push to the markets to send the prices higher. the numbers we're looking at is 212,000 jobs created. that will be the fifth month in a row that we get 200,000 jobs plus created. that would also translate to a rate of unempl

brian. >> ayman mohyeldin rounding out our coverage from gaza tonight. thanks. >>> in this country we have an update tonight on the condition of army sergeant beau bergdahl who was rescuedfter five years held captive by the taliban. the army says bergdahl has completed his six weeks so-called reintegration process and is now back to regular active duty at joint base san antonio fort sam houston where he's been recovering. the specifics of his day-to-day duties have not been disclosed. one military official quoted today saying it's a low-impact desk job. >>> tonight, two and a half years since a cruise ship disaster off the coast of italy, the costa concordia is back upright floating, once again on the move on a final journey and a final chapter in one of the more incredible maritime mishaps in recent history. we get our report from nbc's katy tur. >> reporter: for the first time in two and a half years the costa concordia floated today. successfully raised six feet in six hours off its undersea platform and away from the rocks. a baby step in the final p

>> ayman mohyeldin in telaviv for us tonight. >>> muslims were called on today to join the battle. he called for an escalation in the fighting, that rhetoric combined with new intelligence has u.s. officials worried, especially when it comes to air security and new measures at airports overseas, may be on the way for starters. nbc's tom costello is at a tsa checkpoint at reagan national in washington tonight. tom, good evening. >> hi, brian. good evening. government sources tell nbc news that they are so concerned about westerners joining the fight in the middle east that they may become threats to aviation back home. and so overseas in the coming days, we may see enhancements to airport security screening for those passengers headed for the united states. >> from western iraq, the latest threat from al qaeda offshoot isis. >> we are going for you, barack obama. >> reporter: while u.s. government sources believe the talk is mostly battlefield bluster, they are concerned about the number of fighters in syria and iraq coming from eastern europe and the u.s. fbi are director james com

for nightly business report, i'm ayman jabbers in washington. >>> placing a bid on fine art will soon be a click away. ebay and sotheby's are teaming up to make it easier to buy collectibles online. they plan to broadcast live auctions from sotheby's new york headquarters that way you can bid live in realtime from anywhere in the world. the terms of the deal not disclosed despite the news. shares of ebay were down slightly today. sotheby's was up 1% to $40.9. >>> shares of riverbed technology tumbled after the company blamed lower sales in north america because of a delay in closing some of its larger deals. following the announcement, the hedge fund reaffirmed its bid to buy that company, the stock nevertheless down 8.5% at $18.60. >>> home depot will start selling statuses 3-d printers in stores beginning today. they will have the product in 12 of its locations in california, illinois and new york. customers can use the printers to create parts like cup holders, making 3-d printing a little more mainstream. shares of stratuses edged up slightly. >>> domestic steel producers like u.s

ayman mohyeldin, nbc news, gaza city. >> reporter: this is martin fletcher in the deserted children's ward in southern israel just seven miles from gaza. now the beds are all stacked up and abandoned. it's almost spooky here. where is everyone? they're in the bomb shelter. past thick concrete behind steel doors is the emergency preemie ward keeping babies safe from bombs. we had only been there a minute when red alert. sirens warning of yet another rocket attack from gaza. more than 170 today. >> at least we're safe in the bomb shelter with the premature babies. [ explosions ] does that sound close? just moving the babies out of harm's way can be dangerous. >> you have to protect their brain and all of these movements can do some concussion. >> reporter: along the corridor in another bomb shelter more babies a day or two old. they need all the comfort they can get. so do the parents. again, we only just entered when there was another siren. the bunker was too small for all the mothers to fit in. >> it's very weird and also scary but this is our reality. >> reporter: it's all written i

nbc's ayman mohyeldin has the latest. >> reporter: from the skies above and the sea, israel is stepping up its campaign to destroy rocket sites in gaza. morning warning residents by phone and leaflets leave your homes or risk injury. in the middle of the night, thousands of palestinian families began leaving with little they have. some of the children barely had time to put on their shoes before escaping. thousands the u.n. said have already taking refuge at schools now used as makeshift shelters. while some families fled the fighting, others mourn hose lost in it. overcome with grief, she lost three of her children fainted. mourners pray for the dead. 13 of them from one family. relatives of gaza's police chief who were targeted. the police chief survived but at least 18 others were killed, including ahmed's parents and four siblings. a palestinian child now orphaned by yet another war. for some, the violence has become unbearable. today, the u.s. evacuated its citizens with the help of the u.n. making the journey with this palestinian-american from houston, texas. they were here visit