the headline there is hifa. hamas announcing it fired the r1-60 rocket, the first time it used it, the first time of it reached 150 miles north of here. in tel aviv, we have a state of emergency, we saw a lot of people running for shelters, and heard airraid sirens going off again and again. and in jerusalem. you have two rockets shot there, and they landed outside the city, and so you clearly have a real escalation of rockets from gaza, and in the minutes afterward, you had a huge escalation from israel. we were right on the border, looking over gazas a the news came in. in 20 seconds, 18 air strikes, these are with f-16s, every time, barrage after barrage. mice ills were pounding gaza, and on the ground i spoke to a lot of people, a lot of children very scared and families hunkered down in the homes, expecting another long night. >> what is israel's political and military leadership saying about where this is heading? >> i think they are saying there is no end in site as the spokesman put it, they wanted to fi

situation in gaza, and we have a historian at the university of exita and joins us via skype from hifayou with us, clearly a lot of international concern about the high numbers offensive children in gaza and give me an idea of media coverage in israel and whether there is the same kind of concern being reflected. >> no, not at all and do not think there is a similar concern and the three main channels in israel regard this kind of ca a carnage is what they hope to give up resistance and casualties are not reported as a human catastrophe but far more as a strategy meant to the feet hamas. >> historically this has been a long conflict, is there racial discussion going on about the reasons and motives for hamas resistance? >> no. typical to the mainstream media coverage in the west as well, the story begins of launching of rockets in gaza out of the blue and the wider historical context and immediate context and israel to destroy hamas politically in june and forward the unity government let alone the gaza is not mentioned as a possible background for the desperate attempt by the hamas to

reaching all parts of israel, and for the first time, hamas has said that it has launched a missle at hifa, that is at least 150 miles from here. question have never seen that before. running for shelters at least four rockets were struck, for tel-aviv, at least two of them we believe were intercepted by anti-missle defense systems. there's a state of jerusalem, the city has opened up all bomb shelters so right now israel is is barraged by rockets. >> nick, are you seeing -- what about the activity right there in southern israel. so many rockets into southern israel, has there been more increased activity in that area as well? >> certainly rockets coming in here, but the main activity is behind me. >> and i think we saw 16 or 17 huge plumes of smoke, and these are missiles dropped by f 16 by drones at targets. targets according to the israeli army, hamas -- palestinians of course, a hot of them the civilians are wounded. if you listen to both sides you can really hear how far apart they are. >> after the kidnapping and killing of the three israeli sit hers, hamas -- and hamas is going to p

this there's in hifa there are power facilities.nd if you hit the power facilities, you get a bigger explosion. >> that's true. >> and now the most recent claims is that these rockets are over multiple cities. this is from channel 10, right? >> yeah. i'm waiting for the next update. so far there hasn't been anything. >> go back to that rocket. this looks to me like a rocket. normally these would come through the roof of an apartment building. again, they don't have a guidance on them. hamas fires them off in a direction. normally they have done coordinates before and they shoot in a direction hoping it's going to hit a populated area. sometimes they land in a field or away from a populated area. but in the past they've set up coordinates to attack specific buildings. so hamas is hoping to hit something because that would create an escalation and what hamas wants to do is hurt and kill people. so now the guy that's from the israeli defense forces and from the governments within jerusalem, tel aviv, and the country as a whole, remain

they may reach as far north as hifa. that would be a first.n all, hamas talked to or have 10,000 rockets, most made within gaza. israel says some rockets or parts are smuggled from iran, through tunnels across the border with egypt. israel has a stronger military, sophisticated antimissile systems and the iron dome. it's only recent, since 2011. israel says it can shoot rockets, some get through. israel uses f-16 war planes. in recent days, waves of assaults on the strip. so far the only casualties is in gaza. the fear is on both sides, as it escalates millions are at risk. >> thank you for being with us. palestinian americans, human rights cornery joins me now. >> you have friends on the ground. what are the biggest concerns? >> one of the biggest concerns is what israel will do next. anybody who looks at a map and knows about the region, that israel governs authority between the mediterranean sea and the jordan river. even though hamas is within the west bank, israel controls the region. the fear is what is the next step. >> there's a lot to

we've seen rockets flying out of here going 100 miles north to the city of hifa. they've unveiled rockets we haven't seen using before like the m-320, the r-160, if that means anything. these are rockets we believe are designed by the iranians so they have a much longer range. in 2012, we saw rockets being fired at israel's two main cities, tel aviv and jerusalem, and now are going a lot farther and with the unveiling of this new arsenal they can hit almost every square inch in israel. >> jonathan: you're on the ground in gaza city. what is your sense, talking to people, talking to palestinians? obviously, there's anger towards the israelis. is there support for what hamas is going? and what is the feeling is the end game here? what are they trying to achieve with these rocket attacks? >> oh, absolutely, there's a huge amount of outrage. you look at the death toll. the vast majority of the people who have been killed are civilians, non-combatants, not militants, a lot of them are women and children. so when you drive around the gaza strip and see the houses that h