an what we are hearing from cairo, bits and pieces of what might be in that agreement, did not include anything about the demilitarization of hamas or somehow ousting hamas from gaza. it is clear that that is not going to be the outcome of this conflict. rather there would be some limited agreements about stopping the exchange of rockets and perhaps some limited opening of the borders of gaza. >> i'm glad you brought that up. of the israelig and egyptian blockade of gaza, that is reportedly part of this plan to end the violence. what would that mean for the gaza economy and for israel's security? >> from what we are hearing, what the egyptians are proposing is a two-phase agreement. in the first phase, there would be an opening to allow goods in israeliof gaza on the side of the border and with the egyptian border. discussinge also opening the seaport and the airport and gaza. but that is only a promise. to be honest with you, probably the palestinian negotiators see that that might never be fulfilled and therefore there would be little impact. there is some limited rebuilding other a pair -- rebuilding and repair of the damage that has been done. that italestinia

temporarily, and the fighting increased. >> those are scenes from the hospital that you're very familiar with. reports that hamas has fired 50 rockets from gaza into israel tonight. what are the israeli. defense forces and political leadership saying happens next? >> i think what they've been todaying consistently is that we're ready for any contingency, that means as troops remain on the border with tanks and artillery so they can fire into gaza as they wish. of course the israeli air force including f-16s and drones remain at the ready. the drones never really left gaza even though there was a cease-fire. they were constantly hovering above there. there are members who are pushing for to topping hamas from gaza. that's not something that the prime minister himself has ever approved. all he said was if the rockets condition we'll continue fighting. the strategy per se has not really been given out from him. instead, he focuses on the tactics of sirens for sirens, and rockets to rockets, and rockets will be responded to by airstrike. the only way out is cairo, get back to the democratic table. the two sides coming to an agreement in the middl

from france 24 television. appears to show a hamas rocket being fired from a densely populated civilian area in gaza. accuses hamas of firing rockets from schools, monk mosques, other public sites, using palestinian civilians as human shields. here's the exclusive footage from france 24, shot last week in gaza. >> 80% of gaza -- >> okay, you are right -- >> yes, can you hear me? >> yes, what happened? >> -- the camera -- this was a rocket, rocket just shot right next to where we're standing -- this is just some 50 meters away from the hotel where most of the international media is stationed. this right here is a launching pad for rockets used by palestinian militants. now, this type of setup is at the heart of the debate within the international community, but also between israel and the palestinian militants. the israeli army has repeatedly accused palestinian militants of shooting from within densely populated civilian areas, and that is precisely the type of setup we have right here. rockets set up right next to buildings, with a lot of residents in them. now, the other very noticeable element. it

an agreement, what we are hearing from cairo about what might be in agreement does not include anything about the demilitarization of hamas or ousting hamas from gazan interesting time in the u.s. we are picking up speed. job growth is improving. we have discussed this before. i think we need for the longer-term unemployed, we need to provide training programs, possibly relocation systems, things that help attach them to the stronger labor markets in the country. >> when i say it could be clinton against bush, people bemoan this and shake their heads. with oldn said people cars don't even have to change bumper stickers. smart" comes up at the top of the hour. back from atlantic city. great job yesterday, great story. what is in store? >> we will talk about the escalating tension between ukraine and russia. that is continuing to escalate as the ukrainian government is saying it has destroyed part of a russian military convoy across the border. >> russia saying it was not theirs. putin have vladimir denying any military presence in ukraine. we will try to get to the bottom of this with experts joining us. we will bring you the latest. successful? so

gaza city. martin, it's night right now. what does that mean? does that mean a lull? or does it mean more rockets from hamas, shelling from israel, tell us what's going on where you are. >> it's that kind of eerie quiet. it's plunged almost into total darkness because the power plant in gaza was damaged. the power lines connected to israel have also been damaged. that's an indication of somebody with a private generator. lasted for about half an hour. and it was just one series after another of flares. these were presumably fired by the israelis, probably coming from mortars, and they were over in the area, and that's an area, actually, the beginning of the ground offensive that pounded for several days. we have no idea exactly what may be going on or why those flares were used. but again, they went on for half an hour. then we'll show you another thing that illuminated the evening sky. this one was earlier after sunset and several hundred yards away from our position. and that was a very bright flash of light off to the left-hand side of the camera. and then there came the sound of thunder. and that is the

of intensity of more than a week ago, but the israeli defense forces say that hamas fired something like 110 rockets from gaza in to israel mostly short range rockets and mortars that are hitting the border towns none of the long range missiles capable of hitting tel aviv. they say that hamas broke the crease fire before it ran out on friday in return, israeli military has launched something like 150 airstrikes at suspected hamas targets inside gaza. israel has no intention of even addressing the demands of hamas until these rockets stop and until that happens they have no intention of stopping these airstrikes. >> schieffer: charlie, be safe, thank you. cbs news foreign correspondent clarissa ward joins us from gaza city, what is the latest down there? >> good morning, bob. since that cease fire we have heard steady stream of rockets being fired by hamas from gaza in to israel. us reas has been returning fire with airstrikes, with artillery, 16 palestinians have been killed so far. now obviously this bombardment is nothing like on the level that we've heard over the past few weeks. still has an affect. daily

gaza. i know you think hamas shpt be isolated from the peace process. if hamas continues to refuse israel's right to exist and continues to have ongoing attacks on israel through the rockets and tunnels, how can peace? >> hamas is part of the palestinian political social fabric. it exists. we can't wish it out of resistance. what i'm calling for is coming to terms with reality. we may not like the actors on the political seconds. in israel there are actors in the ruling coalition of binyamin netanyahu, who openly oppose a 2-state solution and call for committing aprofit nis, and yet we don't like it. but we accept them as a reality. so you deal with the reality you have, and not the one that you wish for. >> if extremists in the government reject a 2-state solution can be get with. hamas can be dealt with in the framework of dealing with a ninified palestinian political landscape. after all, there is a reconciliation agreement in place, in which hamas gave up its own authority in the gaza strip , in favour of a reunified palestinian government, and that

pressure on hamas, and to try and create some sort of system that will control the attacks of hamas from gaza to israel. >> what is your reading. current mood within the israeli cabinet and the security cabinet. is the israeli government at this point ready for a truce, or do you suspect that they want to go a bit further in order to strengthen the hand, come talks, because they'll have to happen at some point. is that - i don't think that right now - there's no indications that israel want to go for a ground attack and into gaza, they recruited 2,000 israeli soldiers. this does not indicate that there'll be a large operation. i think one of the possibilities that they will go to to the united nations to the security council, and will ask for a resolution that will impose some international supervision. i think this is more likely that it will be, and also simultaneously they will continue with the air strikes on the military targets in gaza. >> thank you for that. talking to us live from west jerusalem. thank you. >>> we have more to come on the al jazeera newshour, including thousands of pr

israeli military in his words made very significant progress, destroying most of those tunnels, hamas tunnels from gaza to israel. he said they destroyed hundreds of hamas rockets and missiles, the launchers that have gone into israel. he says that there will be a new phase in this military operation, once the current phase is completed. didn't want to spell out when that would be. but you did hear the defense minister also echo what the prime minister says, that they think they are well on their way. they say hamas has suffered significantly in the course of these four weeks of this war, and that they will -- this will result one way or another in a peaceful environment for the citizens of israel. i want to bring in reza sayah, listening carefully to what the prime minister of israel was saying, joining us from cairo, where the egyptian government is getting ready to receive a palestinian delegation, coming there to try to achieve a cease-fire. reza, you listened carefully to prime minister netanyahu. you heard him repeatedly criticize, blast qatar, which has a very close relationship with hamas fundi

gaza. israel, on the other hand, has also been unable to achieve its ultimate objective which is the removal of hamas and the end of any threat to israel's security from gaza, although it has severely degraded hamas' military capability at the moment. so, i think an argument could be made to both sides that you can't get your ultimate objective now, you've made some significant gains in one case from a security standpoint, in the other from a political standpoint, so why not end the violence now and permit a period of calm to take hold. then we'll see what happens. as you know, wolf, you're there and you know the region very well, this is the third round of fighting of this type in the past five years. and the hope is that this will be the last one, although that's a very difficult thing to predict at this time. >> what should the u.s. role be right now? what should the president of the united states, the secretary of state, what should they be doing? >> i think he should be encouraging independently the two sides to move in the manner that i've just suggested. wolf, i do want to make one point here, that it's been repeated all over and over again abo

i expected, this is what i heard from israeli military officials, they think they're close to eliminating hamas tunnels from gaza into israel. think they made tremendous progress on that front, also think they made significant amount of progress destroying a lot of hamas' other military capabilities. i believe the prime minister will make those points and explaining why it is time for israeli ground forces to start pulling out. >> yeah, you know, we heard from the head of the military southern command who is in charge of the operation there in gaza a couple of days ago, and he had mentioned that they were coming very close to completing the mission. giving some kind of a signal that perhaps there was going to be a change on the ground in gaza. they didn't give specifics as to how much time. there was talk from different peop people. it will be interesting to see if we hear that from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. i can also tell you, we have been talking about this for some days, the israeli public, when jews were interviewed and surveyed, up to 95% of them said we don't want a cease-fire. they were against

gaza, where we can only imagine that they are celebrating. let's listen in. >> translator: the resistance will go on. >> all right. so the resistance will go on is the message from hamasza. andrew simmons is also in gaza joining us from there. tell us if you have heard anything additional andrew to the announcement that had been made by egypt that a ceasefire will commence 2100 hours gmt. >> that is right. and now this information is sinking through. people are beginning to react. there has been a lot of fighting, which is not unusual in advance of a ceasefire. there has been an air strike on a islamic jihad leader's home. also activity with more rocket fire and casualties. we understand more information is coming through yet to be confirmed on that. so the fighting has gone right to the wire it would seem, and skit expected it won't be over until that's fire is imposed. this is a deal that the palestinians have come to, egypt has brokers, israel has made no official comment yet, it is expected that the palestinian and israelis will go to cairo to engage in the formalities, and then start the process. the process -- the highlights are that immediately there will be an

felt there should be a much greater objective of the operation and that is completely removing hamas from the gazaip. >> if that's the case, james, then do the public and the politicians and those sitting in cab get give the prime minister the benefit of the doubt? because after 72 hours, are they then expecting the israelis to continue their shelling of the gaza strip? >> reporter: well, i there is even a problem, so with the 72 hour period we've got here, and that's just unfortunate timing. it is, of course, the holy day, friday for miss muslims right now, and we know that sundown it will be holy time for the jews too. the palestinian delegation that we have heard about, we have seen a list of 12 members, three from the gaza strip, the west from the west bank or other parts of the middle east, they will be leaving we believe at mid taye local time just a couple of hours from now, i am told the israeli delegation will not be leading until saturday even so the negotiations won't be starting in cairo until saturday evening at the earliest. that's halfway through the 72-hour period. and we are alrea

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know exactly who it was that was responsible for the rocket fire from gaza from israel into gaza on tuesday, they say that because hamas has the security control of the gaza strip, they are ultimately responsible. and we heard from hamas saying that it wasn't their fault that a rocket went into israel, and they are questioning whether that actually took place. >> rosslyn, thank you. >>> the iraqi army is still battling the isis. sniper fire and roadside bombs. tikrit lies on the road between baghdad and mosul where there has been fierce fighting for the largest dam, which is now under the control of the army and the peshmerga forces. >> reporter: once again, the iraqi army tried to advance toward tikrit. and they weren't able to make any progress. there was heavy fighting and it's not going to be an easy fight. at the end of the day, the islamic state group is not fighting alone. they have the support of sunni armed groups. much of the attention is focused on the islamic state group, but there was a sunni uprising in iraq months before the government lost control of one-third of the country. so it is vital for the iraq

from spreading further. new fighting on the gaza strip as hamas hits a cease-fire with new rocket attacks on israel. the latest in a live report from the israel-gaza border. plus as a pentagon announces new airstrikes in iraq launch on the george h to be bush, one military sources telling fox news about how the attack is changing the situation on the ground

offensive against the palestinians the protests called on the government and the army to end hamas rocket attacks from gaza once and for all and isolated ten thousand israelis gathered for the first major demonstration backing the i.d.f. military campaign israel spent more than a month bombarding gaza in defense from hamas rocket fire land sea air assault killed nearly two thousand palestinians most of them civilians including children israel lost sixty four soldiers during the campaign. more headlines from around the world now clashes erupted in pakistan after shots were fired at the opposition leader's vehicle during a three hundred kilometer march to the capital imran khan was not injured led to skirmishes between demonstrators and government supporters tens of thousands of join the rally from lahore to islamabad in a major opposition call for the prime minister to quit over corruption and vote rigging. the world health organization says the magnitude of the outbreak is vastly underestimated have been nearly two thousand reported victims in the worst affected countries in west africa where medical servi

from the israeli military. we're also hearing on gaza tv an early report from the al kassam pri guide, military wing of hamas and in their words they are saying they carried out a unique area of the border crossing between gaza and israel. we don't know the nature of that so-called unique operation, but we are going to bring you that as soon as we can. it's first time during this confrontation that al qassam has used that wording, a unique operation. i think it's fair to say as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, they have no confidence about anything, about any sign of peace. we were briefly outside a mosque that had been destroyed a few days ago, but people went there to worship at friday prayers. the mosque at the prayer session was cut very short. they were there for about ten minutes and broke up that prayer session saying it is not safe for us to gather here in gaza city even and so they also left very quickly. people are right now bunkering down, going home and they are going to wait and see, kate. >> just one really quick and important point. are you hearing any shelling now? >> absolutely. from our

from secretary of state john kerry on the situation in gaza. again, the israeli military says an israeli soldier has been captured by hamas militants. statement just in, a paper statement from the secretary of state. he says the united states condemns in the strongest possible terms today's attack which led to the killing of two israeli soldiers and the abduction of another. it was an outrageous violation of the cease-fire negotiated over the past several days and the assurances given to the united states and the united nations. again, he goes on to say that this soldier who was captured should be released immediately. i want to bring in right now james o ash an abdi. this planned 72-hour cease-fire was design to give food, water, medical supplies to the people of gaza. if it was hamas that violated the cease-fire has the secretary of state just said and a suicide bombing in a tunnel as israel claims, if that is the case, did hamas squander an opportunity for the people of gaza. >> i don't think we know exactly what happened, but i think of those japanese soldiers in world war ii years afterwards coming out of hiding and thinking th

from gaza. what is your understanding now that apparently most, if not all of those, hamas tunnels from gaza into israel have been destroyed? >> first of all, they all have not been destroyed. >> most of them have been destroyed. >> a good number of them have been destroyed. the prime minister used the word redeploy. there is work still to be done in the gaza strip and the israeli troops will be on the perimeter of gaza. some will be inside of gaza. right now, there is a very large presence in southern gaza looking for our lieutenant goldin who has obviously been taken capture by the hamas. i think it is still a developing situation, but where we have finished our work, for example, in beit lahiya, israel told the palestinians to come back to the neighborhood because they finished the operation. >> that is in the northern territory. you used to be an israeli diplomat. why not send a team to cairo to meet with the new egyptian government of president el sisi. he is meeting with the palestinian delegation. you want good relations with egypt. >> israel has excellent relations with egypt with el sisi

assessments put the total cost to hamas between 30 and $90 million, some of that money may have come from foreign donors and other sources. >> hamas essentially runs the government in gazaharges customs duties on goods smuggled in from egypt. >> reporter: the millions spent on the tun else signifies a serious financial gamble for hamas at a time when according to the world bank a significant portion of its population lives very close to the poverty line. mary snow al jazeera. >>> all right. here to help make sense of how the tunnel situation is playing out in the conflict is rex ryan, professor of political science in montreal. he has written a number of books on various aspects of security in the middle east. he has spent time in gaza examining the tunnel phenomenon. and you recognize rex because he was in mary snow's story. thank you for joining us. >> good to see you. >> the israeli army is quoted as saying there may be as many as 50 or 60 tunnels, and the argument is these material used to build these tunnels are diverted from materials intended to help the gau san population. and hence it's why concrete and other materials are part of the blockage. is this true? >>

hamas what's the real significance there? some claiming on the other side it's kind of a negotiating ploy. >> well, i think the israeli position is that any rockets that are fired from the gaza and there were two fired there from there three hours ago are the responsibility of hamas, hamas is the palestinian group that's in control of the gaza government and so as far as the israeli government is concerned no matter what palestinian faction fired the rockets and there are numerous factions to undertake that activity as far as israel is concerned hamas is responsible. interesting that hamas statement though coming out basically not specifically denying it was them that fired the rockets but distancing themselves from the fact that these rockets were fired. israeli reports aimed at confusing the situation and so they're certainly not taking responsibility for those rocket attacks, errol. >> over to john in gaza city. the militant wing of hamas is not the only group there. if it wasn't hamas who was it, why would they do it? >> reporter: well, that's a good question, it could have been islamic jihad. they certainly had the capability to fire them into israel. it could have been

from gaza. there are other representatives from hamas. but they live in other arab countries. it's important to have the delegation from gaza. they managed to cross over the rafah border into egypt yesterday. so they are there. they will be talking indirectly with the israelis as to the american presence there, i'm not entirely sure how that is working out. but at least you do have the israelis there. you have the gaza representatives there. we're told, the list by hamas, it's long. and israelis are likely to agree to most of it. one of its demands, they want the airport reopened back. it's pretty unlikely it's ever going to happen but they do want the borders reopened. and there does seem to be a growing sense there does seem to be an easing over the past several years if there is long-term political solution here. for israel, though, pretty much true to demands. they don't want hamas to rearm. in the long term, they want gaza could be demilitarized. to make sure gaza is demilitarized, that's the tricky part and even if there is an agreement, making it stick is even harder, p

. >>> also - israel says hamas launches rockets from gaza with hours left in the ceasefire. >>> tonight - two very big stories unfolding rapidly. israel is accusing hamas of violating the truce. we get to that in a moment. first, a major announcement from the white house. the president addressed the american people from the state dining room saying he authorised targetted air strikes in iraq. a significant development after the group calling itself the islamic state attacked religious minority groups. to lisa in washington with more. >> the president met a number of times throughout the day. it's been a long day. met a number of times throughout the day with his security teems and authorised actions on two fronts, human tarely and humanitarian. >> today i authorised two operations in iraq. targeted air strikes to protect our personnel, and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians trapped in a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death. >> that humanitarian drop took place today. senior administration officials tell us that it was two c 17s and

here in gaza the longest that israel has ever waged against militants in gaza, hamas is defiant, continuing to fire those rockets from gaza into israel. now, the israeli forces have been redeploying especially in the north, tanks and troops and other personnel carriers moving back towards the israeli border, an indication that they are now winding down their ground operation that perhaps they have found and destroyed those tunnels that hamas had built from gaza into israel. so, sara sidner is across the border from here in israel. sara what is the scene there? what have you seen in the last couple of hours? >> reporter: we know there have been at least 13 rockets fired towards israel. many of them, though, falling short only one being taken out by the iron dome anti-missile battery one of which is behind me over my left shoulder on the israel-gaza border. what we heard from the prime minister and the defense minister late last night is something significant. it sounds as if they are saying look we're close to completing our mission but we're continuing the fight to get rid of those tunnels. we know that some of these

israel launched air strikes in what it said was retaliation for a number of rockets fired from gaza. hamasunching rockets from the territory. we were joined earlier live from gaza. we can now talk to her. what is the situation on the ground in gaza? >> well, at moment, the situation remains relatively calm. certainly this extension of the truce period for further five days got off to a shaky start. the israeli military said there were eight palestinian rockets fired from gaza into southern israel including one before the original truce period expired. think responded to that with several air strikes in the gaza strip. it was mainly open areas that were targeted. we have not heard reports of injuries or damage to property on either side of the border. for the moment, this truce remains in place, and the hope is this are will give a much longer window to egyptian negotiators overseeing talks between israel and palestinians to secure a longer term ceasefire deal. >> of course these indirect peace talks in cairo are forging ahead, aren't they? >> we understand the israeli delegation is back at

almost immediately after the deadline for the cease-fire expired, the rockets began firing from gaza into israel. hamass not taking credit for that. right now, we are hearing from islamic jihad, a militant group in gaza. they are at the peace talks or cease-fire talks rather in cairo. they claim responsibility for a number of rockets. they decided to fire the rockets off because israel violated the cease-fire by not agreeing to palestinian demands. they said it was in fact, the cease-fire was violated two hours before it even -- before the deadline came up because a number of rockets were fired from gaza into israel. this is what the spokesperson mark regev had to say. >> the cairo talks are based on one crucial assumption. that is cease-fire. the talks started because there was a cessation of hostile fire. by breaking the cease-fire, by really shedding violence and targeting our civilians as they have done this morning, it's clear hamas broke the talks in cairo. >> reporter: what he's saying about the rockets fired before the cease-fire. israeli reports aimed at confusing the situation. poppy, islamic

held them to that. >> a palestinian home in the west bank hit it seems by a rocket from gaza in a final flurry by hamas after the truce talks. the palestinians will have a long list of demands. >> first of which to lift the siege on gaza. israeli army should withdraw from gaza. up until now, israeli tanks are in the northern part of gaza. israeli planes are flying over gaza. drones and other planes. >> the seemingly relentless seems of devastation and suffering in gaza are what stirred international alarms and efforts to hold the violence. israel insists it's targeting only militants and ability to attack israel. some from gaza have been leaving behind shelters. this truce may have been possible by mounting pressures on both sides. will they be enough to forge something more and more lasting? chick childs, bbc news. >>> in a political development. a foreign british officer has resigned her post over the conflict. she became the first female muslim cabinet minister. she said she could no longer support the government's policy on gaza. she said the government's approach and language during the crisis is

gaza. a three-day cease-fire over hamas and israel beginning hours ago. israel withdrawaling troops fromstrip. can it last? live team coverage from the ground in gaza, jerusalem and hamas where negotiations are expected to begin. >>> an experimental drug. one home in the united states, the other joining him today. this, as the virus rampages across africa and a new york city man is quarantined. we'll have the latest ahead. good morning, everyone. great to see you today. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm debra feyerick in for christine romans. it is tuesday, august 5th. ift is tuesday. is a cease-fire in gaza entering the fifth hour. it appears to be holding. israel and hamas pressing pause on the bloodshed in that area. it's killed nearly 2,000 people, the majority of them civilians. both sides say keeping the peace is going to be difficult. gaza is in ruins. one-fourth of the population has been displaced and had to go elsewhere. according to the u.n., the damage tops $4 billion. karl penhaul is in gaza with the latest on the cease-fire. what is the mood of the people re

hamas. and israeli troops and tanks began to pull back from parts of gaza. netanyahu signaled that a wider pullback could be coming after the last of the hamas tunnels leading into israel from gaza are destroyed. >> ( translated ): the military will prepare for continuing action in according to our security needs and only according to our security needs. >> sreenivasan: an estimated 1,650 palestinians and 66 israelis have been killed during the fighting. meanwhile, the egyptian leader, abdel fattah al-sisi, is hosting a meeting in cairo with palestinian officials to try to broker a new, more lasting cease fire between israel and hamas. an earlier cease fire arranged by egypt broke down after only hours yesterday. earlier today, we spoke via skype from jerusalem with jodi rudoren of the "new york times." what do we know about the planned negotiations in egypt? >> well two, things. i mean, first of all, these negotiations are part of a plan that secretary of state john kerry and head of the united nations arranged, a cease-fire during which, the more substantiv

how do we prevent gaza and hamas in gaza from rearming itself? we don't have a problem with the people in gaza having development. our war is not against the palestinians. our war against hamas. we have had three different conflicts with hamas. and now in 2014, we're right back again. how do we make sure there's not a round four? and here, there's a question of what mechanism do you put in place, particularly with egypt, to prevent hamas from simply importing all these rockets from using concrete and iron which should go to build schools and hospitals, to build this underground tunnel network and manufacture these rockets. these are legitimate questions. i get e-mails, i would say, five e-mails a day from people saying we have a brilliant idea of how you can prevent those tunnels from going underneath your borders. i'm not aware of what the best technology is. israel is a high tech country. i'm sure we have bright minds thinking how to solve this problem. >> you're going to the state department to protest that statement? >> i've got a few intervie

from a mission to search and destroy hamas tunnels. this is what they told me earlier today. so here we are, we are literally at the gaza border and this idf team just got back from a mission. successful? >> he's from st. louis, missouri, right? >> i am. >> how did you get here? >> i moved here two years ago. it was my dream to serve here and here i am. >> so how long were you in gaza? >> we've been here 3 1/2 months altogether. been here since the very beginning. >> not much sleep? >> not too much, no. >> right behind us is where the gaza is. how many rocket-launching places did you see? >> we didn't see too many. we're here for the tunnels. that's what we're doing. >> how many have you seen of those? because we just got out of a tunnel? are you as shocked as i am about the level of sophistication? they are using israeli mortar, israeli electricity and instead of helping the palestinian people, they are building tunnels so they can go into israel and kill people. >> just tunnels to kill us. that's why we're here. >> have you lost any friends? >> yes. >> tell us about -- >> i'm from north carolina. >> we have two americ

that's the smoke. >> the israeli government has repeatedly accused hamas from firing rockets from densely populated areas in gaza and just last week the israeli military released another video saying it shows just that. this video caught on closed-circuit tv and posted online appears to show one of the rockets landing in israel about 20 miles from gaza. >> chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat joining us from jericho. thank you for joining us. we'll get your thoughts on the ongoing cease-fire negotiations, but first, i want to get your reaction to the newly released videos that show palestinian militants in gaza launching rockets from residential areas. it must bother you that -- i know you put the israeli -- you say the israeli government is to blame for the deaths, but these militants in gaza are putting the people in harm's way, no? >> i don't condone the firing of missiles at civilians. i don't condone the killing of civilians on either side. i stand all of the time, the moral ground of trying to tell palestinians and israelis that the the only way to solve this problem isn't going to be through missiles

the other thing to look for will be if representatives from hamas and islamic jihad from gaza show up an the talks there in egypt. up till this point, they have said they wouldn't attend because it's too dangerous for them to come out of hiding and attend those talks. there's a lot of things that still have to lock into place before 8:00 tomorrow morning or before we really see if this is going to come to fruition. jake? ing. >> of course, the devil in the details, of course. this is an area of the country. the israelis and palestinians can't even agree how to pronounce hamas. but let's go back to the israeli strike on that refugee camp in gaza city. have people managed to get out of these refugee camps in time to escape these most recent air strikes? and has humanitarian aid been allowed in as the israeli government said was going to happen when we were driving around gaza today, he we saw lots of trucks we assumed bearing humanitarian aid. did they get in? >> well, okay. oh let's take the last part first. we did see humanitarian aid that appeared to be getting in. i saw trucks marke

hamas' network of underground tunnels. another video claims to show soldiers uncovering hidden rocket launchers in gaza. hamas' twitter page in arabic has more than 80,000 followers. many tweets link to articles and releases from its information office. hamas' military wing has also released videos online of its efforts in gaza. the recordings have shown armed fighters winding their way through elaborate underground passageways. another showed militants emerging from one tunnel to attack an israeli border outpost. hamas' english language twitter account has been suspended. they've also posted taunting videos in hebrew on youtube but they've been removed by the company under its hate speech policy. iskandar says the goal with social media campaigns shouldn't be quantity, but traction. >> if you have a single posting from an idf page, or a hamas page, if it doesn't get any more than 200, 300 likes, it probably is... it's had little to no impact whatsoever, and hasn't circulated if it gets retweeted by someone who has 20,000 or 100,000 followers, then all of a sudden your message has been amplified. if you can't amplify your message, then you have little to no impact in the 21st century, >> reporter: those retwee

minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to destroy the network of underground tunnels hamas built. -- hamas dug from gazahard cantu, new york. >> the two american missionaries stricken with the ebola virus in africa are being air lifted home, flown from africa in an isolation pod. one of the patients is headed to the special unit in an atlanta hospital. dr. kent brantly's condition has gotten worse according to the aid organization where he works. >> he is fighting for his life. it is a very difficult day for him. he is a man of deep faith. he needs our prayer. >> dr. brantly chose to forego what his group describes as an experental serum giving the only dose available to his infected colleague nancy writebol. >> newly released audio confirms that former president bill clinton could have killed osama bin laden in the 1990s. the recording of the former president speaking during a meeting in australia was aired by skynews australia recorded on september 10, 2001. just hours before the september 11th attack. >> osama bin laden, he's a very smart guy. i've spent a lot of time thinking about him. and i nearly

from the main parts of gaza and into israel. it is because they are almost done destroying all of the tunnels that hamas built going from gaza and to israel. and getting word that the israeli military said the lieutenant golden who was kidnapped and captured by hamas, and now the israeli military is saying no, that missing soldier is dead. they found forensic evidence that suggested he was killed in action and not captured by hamas. this is one of the reasons that yesterday's ceasefire utterly collapsed before it began. the israeli military said golden was killed in action and not captured. the israeli military is shifting the resources from gaza back to israel in large part the situation changing. and the israeli prime minister netanyahu saying today that they will continue to strike at hamas and try to prevent any rocket launchers and infrastructure functioning and israel continued to hit hamas and firing rockets in israel. the fighting will continue and it will shift over the next few days, julie. >> what does this mean for hamas? >> reporter: right now, it sounds like hamas is arguing that they will fight israel as long as t

right now israeli ground troops are being pulled back from gaza after dismantling all of the hamas terrort they targeted. cnn's anderson cooper has the latest from along the israel-gaza border this morning. anderson, what's the situation? yeah, chris, good morning. i'm in ashkelon, a few miles northeast of the gaza border where it has been peaceful this day. as you say, some six hours now into this cease-fire. there have been no signs of any rockets fired from gaza, no signs of -- of open hostilities, that obviously is a huge change from what we've seen from all the previous cease-fire. as you said, israel, they have removed all their personnel, all their troops over to the israeli side of the border. they are maintaining what they call defensive positions. here in ashkelon there were some sirens last night during the nighttime hours shortly before the cease-fire, but there has been nothing since then. in fact, some people -- this is a beach community, tourists have actually started going to the water. talked to one woman this morning who says she hasn't been outside for days and hasn't b

military campaign in gaza israel spend more than a month bombarding the territory in defense from hamas rocket fire to land to sea and air assault killed nearly two sounds and palestinians most of them civilians and children israel lost sixty four soldiers during the campaign but as heresy reports for r.t. people in the west bank are now using another kind of weapon to support gaza and heard tell of. a boycott of his of goods in the west bank has gained momentum during israel's war in gaza given the trade between israel on the palestinian territories is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a mass boy called the goods could be a significant development when i became something of a chick with wood if it is made in israel or outside followed by some radius. all of. the money would go to the military who are the. who is bob being my brothers and it feels amazing it feels like an it's way for existence it feels like i'm resisting in a way and it's not just consumers taking the initiative shops themselves including large supermarket chains have joined in to some scenes previously fifty perce

staying at just being evacuated ahead of another strike in the area in response to rocket fire from hamas the gaza strip to be on the job and now for three weeks we can about the sort of destruction of the garden and there is barely any electricity because of that there is very few to reach systems working in addition keyboard supplies doing the thing about a phone network coverage going down and the internet to reading civilians have very little i mean addition they can access markets to get through huge areas are still on the heavy bombardment these are the forces have created a buffer zone three kilometers long with a basically a race to the ground homes that pushing refugees into the very crowded center of gaza which is also on to the involvement. in the hospitals that heading off that they only have five days left if you how they generate it off to that they'll have to shut down meaning that you can have injured sit in children basically without any access to medical aid at twelve at a time when they're being faced with an onslaught so it makes three main difficult on the ground extremely dan

gaza is springing to life two hours into a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire between hamas and israel. these are live pictures from gaza city. we've seen people out on the streets, both on foot and in cars, taking advantage of the pause in hostilithostilities. the truce will allow desperately needed aid to reach gaza. one day before the truce, more explosions and more deaths. officials report 1,459 people killed. this is video from israel, where a rocket hit destroying vehicles. israel reports 64 deaths including five soldiers killed on thursday. ban ki-moon and john kerry announced the truce. >> israel has to be able to live in peace and security without terror attacks, without rockets, without tunnels. without sirens going off in the day, and palestinians need to be able to live with the opportunity to educate their children and move freely. and share in the rest of the world, and to lead a life that is different from the one they have long suffered. >> israel's military reports no hamas rockets have been fired from gaza since the truce started. sima has the latest. it feels like a breakthrough. >> it really doe