one member of islamic jihad was said to be killed. that's confirmed by israeli and palestinian sources. a lot to tell you about. here's what the day looked like. >> reporter: day six of the battle between hamas and israeli defense forces. day six rockets crisscrossing the border. despite efforts to broker a cease-fire, the spector of the israeli ground invasion is still very real. this strike occurred around 2:00 a.m. when we were live. also two media centers -- whoa! that was a rather large explosion. that occurred -- let me just look out here -- i can't actually see where the impact of that was. it's actually set off a number of car alarms. but that was probably the largest explosion that we've heard just in the past really in the past hour. >> reporter: by daylight, the results of that strike were clear. and this is the result of the explosion that we witnessed last night. it's the police station or a police station in gaza city. local people say it was still being built, so there weren't a lot of police officers or anybody inside.

islamic jihad is a group that israel and the u.s. consider a terrorist organization. regular life in gaza city is pretty much ground to a halt. stores are closed and shuttered. streets which would normally be filled with people are largely empty. most people just try to stay indoors as much as they can, only venturing out when they absolutely need to in order to buy supplies for their families. otherwise, it's just too dangerous to go out. these days, for israelis along the border and residents of gaza city, there is no such thing as regular life. as the battle enters its seventh day, casualties, rage and grief grow on both sides of the border along with the fear that the worst may be yet to come. i'm joined by wolf blitzer in jerusalem, also here with ben wedeman and arwa damon. arwa, yesterday you were at the scene of what was the most controversial attack, a strike on what israeli forces said was a building owned by a hamas official, commander of an artillery unit. they say initially he had been killed, then stepped back from that. at least nine members of a family

and control and operational capability of hamas and some of their cronies the palestinian islamic jihad and such what you just said the words go all the way he's mentioned the words middle ages that in effect could be interpreted as destroying infrastructure roads water supplies that is surely targeting an entire population that's against the geneva convention and amounts to war crimes as well. well that would be but that is absolutely not the case as to what is happening and i think you would agree with me that you know over one thousand four hundred military strikes in the last week. with a casualty a civilian casualty rate of said lee yeah tragic incident of forty seven civilian deaths in one thousand four hundred cases i think you'll agree with me that he's really only is operating in a way which is taking every possible step to avoid civilian casualties how do you account for the loss of save the children charity i will ask you here save the children charity they are saying families are running out of food and water eighteen hours of power cuts are making matters worse you are in e

and you know it says these ads one of them there said defeat jihad . what does that mean to you i know the literal translation means struggle what does that mean. to me personally and to many people i know the jihad means working hard waking up to your family in your bills going to school going to work being a good neighbor treating people respect being loving and that's what that's what jihad means to me you know they're force for a couple of reasons the first reason is to try to say that you must if you don't support israel you are savage but as we see what's going on now in gaza it's what it's what israel is doing a savagery against people in gaza the palestinians not. being against israel if you're against israeli policies you should be because they are killing people as we speak right now in this interview people are dying in gaza there's nothing civilized about bombing homes and hospitals and schools and occupying the whole people she's trying to tell us that it's civilized to support apartheid against the palestinians that's what these ads are b

one member of islamic jihad was killed in that strike.members who were in the building at the time, but we know one member was killed. how big an organization are we talking about and where are they getting their support from? >> small. small, in the hundreds. probably no more. iran and syria, it was a primary supporter of islamic jihad during the '90s. but as syria, as syria begins to melt down that source of support has dried up. it is primarily iran. and i suspect that that support, its minimum expenditure for maximum effort. we have seen this time and time again, when small willful organizations are prepared to act in defiance of the majority, and this clearly is going to be an issue that the israelis and egyptians will be watching as both stake their credibility on the continuation of a cease-fire that has certain structural impairments that may threaten its success. >> aaron david miller, appreciate your time tonight. thank you. and your expertise as well. we'll talk to sara sidner in jerusalem. as you know, this conflict is differe

not only hamas but also islamic jihad as well. of course, journalists that we've been speaking to who were in the building at the time say that there was no presence of any militants in that building. and that this strike did not appear to be targeting any sort of militants, but rather that there were only civilians in that building. >> speaking of civilian casualties, there have been many within gaza. israel has said it's trying to be careful. of course, gaza thinks something entirely different. from your vantage point, what's going on? >> reporter: well, i mean, certainly the israeli side will say they're trying to minimize civilian casualties. they are speaking of the air strikes that are going on in gaza as, quote, sushrgical strikes. they're saying what they're trying to do is take out terrorist infrastructure. hamas and jihad infrastructure there. command control centers. also prominent figures among hamas. for instance, leaders of the hamas rocket launching squads as well. what's happened, however, in the past days is that

they said they killed one member of islamic jihad.confirmed that with palestinian sources here on the ground. one official from islamic jihad, which the u.s. and israel considers a terrorist group. want to bring in our arwa damon who has also witnessed the attack. that was significant. it was the second day in a row that that building had been targeted, one islamic jihad official killed. >> reporter: yeah, most certainly was. this is part of this ongoing expansion campaign that we have been seeing on the part of the israelis where initially when this all began, they were really targeting what they were identifying as being the launch sites, where the missiles were going from gaza into israel. and we saw where they targeted government buildings and yesterday and today, targeting a building that houses one of the tv stations that is affiliated with hamas and this islamic jihad official as well. but that was a building where, at least as of yesterday, there was a lot of media there. western medias were operating out of it as well. a lot

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so they support not only hamas, but also the jihad. >> islamic jihad. >> islamic jihad in gaza.the islamic jihad forces them also to be more extreme. one of the problems in gaza is there is nobody to really -- there is a competition among four or five different groups. the sell afterists and the jihad and many other groups and they're competing and iran is supplying arms to all of them. >> so who do you negotiate the cease-fire with? >> look, hamas has to take charge, otherwise they don't have a future. >> can they? >> i think yes. they don't have a choice. not only them, but the others, too. if hamas won't take a position, the people in gaza will say -- to those others, stop it. what are you doing to? there are people in gaza too. and none of us want to see them suffering. it doesn't give us any pleasure. >> we'll have more from wolf's interview with shimon peres in a little bit. among other things, peres has some advice for everyone about staying active and vital when you're approaching the age of 90. >>> huge celebrations ron on the streets of gaza in the hours after the ceas

one member of islamic jihad was killed in this strike.uilding was also killed. so two people killed in that strike. one of them confirmed a member of islamic jihad. the response by first responders was very quick. we were on the scene very quickly as well. our ben wedeman was there and we'll talk to him in just a moment. but, first, i want to go to our christiane amanpour, standing by in jerusalem, who has been covering this conflict for days now, who has been in jerusalem for days now. christiane, what have you been seeing there? what have you been hearing? >> well, obviously, anderson, everybody is hoping a ground invasion can be avoided so the real impetus now and the effort is on the cease-fire talks. we understand from israeli government official that the meeting of nine, if you like, is happening now. this sort of kitchen cabinet, the closest advisers and officials around prime minister benjamin netanyahu are meeting in jerusalem tonight to decide on the next moves. al jazeera is reporting the prime minister agreed to a 24-hour dela

there is islamic jihad and other groups. what is the likelihood that hamas will be able to stop other groups from some -- any form of aggression because as part of this cease-fire agreement, they are responsible for a cessation, a stopping of all aggression toward israel by all factions. >> okay, anderson. i heard a large explosi in the distance. as far as that goes, certainly hamas, as far as israel considers hamas to be the government in gaza. they don't recognize it. but they consider it responsible every time a rocket is fired out, every time there is some sort of disturbance of the peace, so it speak. so they will be obliged to some extent to try to stop other groups like islamic jihad, like smaller organizations, from breaking the cease-fire. and hamas has gained a lot out of this war. you have to remember that back in january 2006 when hamas won the parliamentary elections, the palestinian parliamentary elections, the united states and israel immediately took steps to isolate it, politically, economically, in every po

because the moment they went, he negotiated with hamas over jihad, released prisoners. you are sending and setting up a very dangerous precedent. >> okay. >> if hamas -- >> let's let naftali respond. >> these are lots of words that are just covering the simple truth. the simple truth is that we handed over a piece of land, 100% of it to the palestinians. they founded a state. ten days after they began shooting at us, every time we hand over land to the arabs they begin shooting at us. what we have in gaza strip is sort of an al qaeda-type state that's full of terror, and has one goal, and it's to eliminate israel. i want to tell you, erin, if there's one good news from this week, it's wall-to-wall consensus in israel, we have to defend ourselves. we have determined to do that. we've got thousands of soldiers just waiting to defend our children. and we'll do that. let's not confuse. there's right and wrong here. the wrong side is the aggressors who start shooting missiles at us. the right side is us who are defending ourselves. let's not make that mistake here. >> rula,

they are the ones who enlist for the jihad. we have political and ideological forces on one hand and the simple despair of young men on the other. the two have combined to create a deadly mix. the only way this movie will end well is if we tackle both sides of this problem. we need to get the military and foreign policy right. we also need to help change the sense of hopelessness and culture of hate that exists in these societies. we need to help these young men you just watched embrace life rather than death. kr >>> headline low. i'm martin savich. china has successfully landed a jet on an aircraft carrier for the first time. that original aircraft carrier was originally built for the soviet union. the j-15 is reportedly comparable to an american f-18. it could be a couple of years more before that carrier is fully operational. >>> the floods letting southwest england and wales are expected to get worse. look as these images of swollen rivers and towns under water. some drivers had to be rescued from their vex. at least one wo

an associated press photo showed jihad misharawi clutching the wrapped body of his baby, who was killed by an israeli round that struck his home on wednesday. white house press secretary jay carney told reporters thursday -- speaking later thursday, mark toner said the onus is on hamas to stop the violence. >> the onus here is on hamas. as jay carney just said from the white house, it claims that the best interest of the palestinian people at heart, but through its actions, it is showing a far different agenda. >> israel has also continue to prepare for potential ground invasion of gaza by calling up thousands of army reservists. the egyptian prime minister visited the gaza strip friday in a show of solidarity amidst fragile hopes he might broker a truce. bp has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $4.5 billion in the government -- to the government for the 2010 deep water horizon oil rig explosion in the gulf of mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. the payment includes $4 billion related to criminal charges, including $1.2

secretary, hamas and islamic jihad and the other terrorist groups do not share your concern about our civilian casualties or about civilian casualties at all. >> that was the israeli prime minister meeting with the u.s. secretary-general ban ki-moon. earlier today israel put an all-out ground assault of gaza on hold,age i'm quoting, to give limited time for a diplomatic solution. egypt sees an end to the gaza conflict, that's see. president morsi says, the travesty of the israeli aggression on ga did will end in a few hours ap christiane amanpour is here and watching what's going on. the diplomacy is intense right now but it's by no means a done deal. >> it's not a done deal but by all the signals we're getting, it looks like both sides feel they are just about there. obviously, you're not there until the whole thing is done and ready to be announced but the messages we're getting from egypt, which are very significant because egypt is the lead, there is no one else, its egypt which is the lead with hamas. the u.s. is talking to the palestinians via egypt. obviously, israel is at the

for those of us that are not familiar, what you mean that gives power to islamic jihad?people think who wants to give them any power whatsoever? >> well, what you had is in and part of this agreement, egypt must, egyptian president must halt all hostilities. any single bit of gunfire, rocket fire, missile fire, coming out of gaza will cause this agreement fell apart. that is like drawing a line in the sand saying that anybody with a weapon in the gaza strip could basically scuttle this agreement. we all know that there are certain players in the gaza strip that take their orders not from egypt or hamas but from iran. the temptation is often for these players to try to provoke israel into reactions. this is an old game that we have witnessed over and over in the dynamic between the israelis and the palestinians. so i have a sense from talking to diplomatic sources that israel is in a wait-and-see mode. they realize they might have to go in on the ground to deal with some of these longer-range rockets that have been provided to the gaza people by iran. one has a 45-mile ra

i think perhaps israel is trying to neutralize hamas and islamic jihad, their ability to reach televisa and jerusalem with missiles. israel would want to stop that in general. i think with the prospect of possible military action against iran by israel or the united states, israel fears these capabilities would be used against them. they would like to try to eliminate them militarily or neutralize them by getting islamic jihad to make an agreement with israel that is somehow validated by egypt and other parties important to these groups. >> is the conflict still about israel's desire for security versus the palestinian need for statehood? is it more than that? >> that of course goes on. i think israel is focused on iran trying to build up the nuclear capability and what israel might feel it has to do to prevent that. the prospect that there would be attacks launched on israel. >> what role of the americans playing? not much evidence of them. >> the role seems to have been marginal. president obama and secretary clinton have been on the phone with world leaders. the channel in cairo is a

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countries, because they belong to small extremist groups coming from different countries and, for jihad, like one group accused of committing the video that we have seen. so there are several groups coming from different places. we cannot ask saudi arabia or qater to be in control of these groups. but there are some efforts exerted in order to put some order. one of them is to unify the opposition under one leadership. >> the chief spokesman for the u.n. human rights commission has said that it's seems this incident is very likely to be a war crime. joining me from geneva is our correspondent. >> i have just been at a briefing where he said that. in response to a question that i put to him. although he stressed that this video still need to be verified, he said that it appears to showed soldiers no longer taking part in the hostilities and therefore to kill them would be a war crime under international law, under the geneva convention. noncombatants who are summarily executed, that constitutes a war crime. it went on to say the u.n. human rights council is gathering evidence of violatio

also to take out jihad military wings which they have done as well. secretary of state hillary clinton will land here in israel. meet with prime minister netanyahu and we have heard a couple high-ranking officials here in israel including the german foreign minister and the unitetheunited nations secretary-general. the actual cease-fire announcement could happen in egypt as the fighting continues here. bill: what have you observed in the past several hours where you are? what's happening on the ground, leland? >> reporter: you would think in the few hours before a cease-fire things would lighten up. not in the middle east. everybody wants to get in as many shots as they can. the israeli military has been launching strikes into gaza and there are a lot of rockets coming out of the gaza strip. the militants have been able to figure out how to overcop the iron dome missile defense system, launching multiple salvos at one location. they hit a house and also a bus. there has been one person killed, a couple more injured inside israel. the question going fo

so far neither hamas or islamic jihad has taken responsibility. lot of talk they are specifically under intense pressures from backers in iran in order to be able to try cease fire talks. >> leland life for us in tel aviv. thank you very much. check in with you lart. >> a look at lighter things this morning. >> we all know it is early. you only have a few minutes before you head out the door this morning. it is important to get a well balanced breakfast. what should you be eating? let's ask nicky fitness. if you begin with bad foods but there are good foods. >> there is recent study out of canada that says if you eat two breakfast sandwiches like that it clogs your arteries which leads to high cholesterol and strokes. instead go to lean protein and fiber. >> how can we achieve that? >> we can choose these breakfast foods full grains and fiber and nuts and things like that. >> i love the bare naked granola almonds in it berries. this has 40 percent of your daily fiber. >> does it taste good? >> especially if you dress it up with bananas. go lean cr

same rocket numbers of the same casualties in the same strategies that are being used even islamic jihad spokes person called really really really civilians do you read arabic yes i do i do sir ok which newspapers are you referring to i also speak hebrew i also speak turkish and i was. referring to which which arabic there is more of your version of events. you can that was a surprise when i hear israel or says documents. going on israeli territory but how many israelis have been killed how many israelis have been killed sitting here right now how is the one hundred and twenty palestinians let's have a listen lizzie been killed in the last week. ok greg go ahead because it's a weekend here on i want to be fair gemma's and doesn't want to hear it is since. ok hamas does not care about how many palestinian civilians are killed because they don't do anything in terms of building infrastructure protect they and therefore if you don't want to listen to me as i really are some schoolyards. the reason why israel cares about civilians. is still i mean i mentioned here gentlemen gentlemen nothing

it was done by islamic jihad organizations, going on for the last several months. israeli finally responds by taking the sites, all of which were delivered by iran, delivered to hamas and islamic jihad to sudan from iran, handed over to hamas by the egyptians. there is no doubt that israel would benefit from taking out this thread if they were about to strike iran, and it is a serious prospect that will give the same kind of opportunity for hezbollah in the north and got her bed, a collapse of the jordanian government next door. megyn: colonel north was talking about these rockets, coming from iran, israel is very worried about them because they are long-range and its mobile than. getting smuggled from egypt to hamas, we are told that under hosni mubarak, he used to monitor this, but since he has been ousted, the flow has increased and israel is very worried about this. do you think that this war is benefiting israel and its ability to take out these types of weapons for any potential hit on the wrong? >> we have motivations on both sides. ethereal that israel star

and then a few seconds after that some loud explosion in central tel aviv the group in gaza islamic jihad has claimed responsibility for firing a higher rainy and built rocket which has reached all the way to central tel aviv and exploded here in the city that is likely to a nerve and anger a lot of of israelis especially those who've already been cheering on their own forces which have been launching these aerial airstrikes over gaza now since since yesterday when they began with the assassination of jaggery the head of hamas is military wing those airstrikes have been continuing the selves through yesterday throughout the night and into today the casualty figures steadily rising from those but as is evidenced by what's just happened in tel aviv how massive and other groups including islamic jihad have also been firing rockets about two hundred fifty now since the beginning of this escalation of fighting back into israeli territory earlier today a rocket hit an apartment block a lot closer to gaza killing three israelis there the great fear now is that a ground invasion is now imminent w

. >> do you have any idea how many of these more sophisticated rockets that hamas islamic jihad have got ahold of, how many they still have left? >> a small number to our estimation. >> dozens or -- >> yeah. even less than dozens. keep in mind that iran will try to smuggle in more rockets of this kind since we have damaged this arsenal. >> so you have no doubt that even under the cease-fire, that hamas and other groups will try to get more rockets brought in? >> i hope it won't happen. i hope hamas will respect the cease-fire. but it is an option. it happened in the past many times. but we have to be alert for this kind of option. >> avital, i appreciate you being with us tonight. thank you very much. it's late and been a long day. thank you very much. >>> we have a lot more ahead. the political leader of hamas says his group was not behind today's bus bombing in tel-aviv. christiane amanpour pressed him about whether he would ever, his group would ever be willing to recognize israel's right to exist. what he said, next. eóoç=Ñp >>> that was the scene in gaza city earlier today be

he hasn't called for a jihad, he hasn't, you know, broken off relations with israel.s a legitimate player. the mood throughout the region is focused internally at all these countries. the old autocrats are all focused so inside for the need for creating jobs and dealing with the very tough realities they all face. they are less interested in formenting another conflict between the palestinians and israelis. there is a moment of opportunity because of the vulnerability, the unprecedented change that's happened. we can argue about how many settlers there are the real challenge is finding a way out of this. >> right. i agree. >> and alan, isn't the real story that israel and palestine were the only countries of consequence. but now there are countries of equal importance, syria, egypt, iran, saudi arabia. everybody now has a big thing happening in their country. does that put more pressure now on the leaders of israel and the palestinians to come together and bang their heads together, get a deal done? >> i think so. the world focuses more on 130 palestinians killed, hal

says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera where is the press was the european press with the talk of democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham and israel targeted media towers including the one in which our sister channels office is housed no r.t. journalist was injured the targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons neither journalists nor civilians at all and therefore journalists are worried the detroit cities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel says the. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out infrastructure personnel and capacity gazan reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story carry fear for r.t. gaza. despite the number of civilian deaths israel maintains the bombing of gaza was highly accurate this week my colleague kevin bohn interviewed an israeli official who placed all the blame for the collateral da

hamas has not been able to control all of the militant groups here in gaza for example the islamic jihad often acts you know that's really when it's. israel and so holding hamas responsible is kind of a collective punishment on hamas and what. i heard just in from the mass is still behind many of those rocket attacks though. yes the overwhelming majority of rocket attacks on israeli territory that pass through the green line down to hamas now where are you at the moment you said you heard some jets above you knowing that the media centers are safe so where you run oh yes well we're now in a makeshift media center in a car park here in west gaza city in what is meant to be the green zone but as you can just hopefully of hugs we said three or four explosions in the last one minute with you here we have sixteen drones continually flying above our heads here in west gaza city and what do you think those jets are aiming at at the moment you all obviously not far from where those explosions are can you have any indication as to what they're targeting. well they could be targeting for example p

we've created all kinds of names for it like al-qaeda and hamas and islam i can jihad, but in fact, it is radical islam. it's not war against all muslims. it's radical islam. what we've failed to do is to define the enemy so you know how to combat it. >> how widespread do you think this is because i think it's far more widespread than people are willing to acknowledge. >> i will tell you what they're advertising for right now who are martyrs that will blow themself not in the middle east but in other countries. for example, i mean, it's easy to get in and out of venezuela where we do have a diplomatic mission. it's easy to get if you're a member of hamas and hezbollah because we've tracked people down there. if that kind of thing starts happening on a global scale of going after our diplomats, our military bases, and our commercial interests, we're up the creek, buddy. >> everybody had it wrong about egypt and the arab spring. i said the muslim brother hood would come in power. you said it. very few people saw what was coming. what do you see coming next? >> i see the growth of an isla

the fighting may have temporarily stopped in gaza, but for the men of islamic jihad, the training andepare more and to rearm for the next fight with israeli occupation. >> these men say they want israel to launch a ground invasion, believing they hold the advantage after years of preparation. >> these fighters say there are tunnels and bunkers all over gaza and they will continue to use them if the israelis try a ground invasion. >> during the course of the eight days of fighting, jihad fired hundreds of rockets into israel and the israeli military clearly knows these fields aren't just for growing fruit. there are visible signs of a recent missile strike, just feet from this bunker. as the clean-up in gaza begins, all sides appear are regrouping and rearming. not rethinking the future of the conflict. talk of a long-term peace agreement with palestinians living side by side with israelis is quickly dismissed by these islam insist jihad fighters. >> we are on high alert all the time. waiting for any fight with the occupation forces. >> both israel and hamas have sent representatives t

four southern california men have been charged with conspiring to engage in violent jihad.s the men were planning to join al qaeda and they were planning to bomb the facilities and public places. >>> the indianapolis house explosion is now considered a homicide investigation. federal authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information in the case. >>> a fierce storm has brought floods, winds and heavy rains to oregon and washington state. at least one death has been blamed on the storm. 50,000 people are currently without power there. >>> kevin clash, behind the elmo character on "sesame street" has resigned. this comes after a second person has come forward with a lawsuit accusing clash of having sex with him when he was underage. now, in a statement "sesame street" workshops says the allegations against clash had become a distraction. >>> next in today's news nation, do you think egypt can convince hamas to stop firing on israel? how you can weigh in coming up next. and san francisco lawmakers will vote on a ban in nudity in public places. one of the things we thoug

that have both journalists and they said afterwards that they saw within three palestinian islamic jihad just inside the building itself when you go in and you ask around hamas inside the gaza strip and i for moment don't think that it is easy to be in gaza it is not but in the gaza strip right now hamas themselves rule they took responsibility they have base themselves in the hospitals in the mosques in and around the different sites they are the ones who should both take the responsibility and not just try and blame everybody else for what's going on you or the advisor to lead who initiated operation conflict four years ago around fifteen hundred people were killed about half a tank still continued do you think operation pillar of cloud will be more successful. i think that we have a serious issue when it comes to both the terrorists in the gaza strip to the stockpiling to what's been going on there over the last seven years ever since israel left all of the gaza strip nobody said that this is an easy situation i think that we both sides need to think carefully of what we do in the mea

islamic jihad has a different agend a.hey are backers in iran who are pushing for rocket fire against the gaz strip. we should have a shot up of this on our live view, you can actually see this bus that stopped. this harkens back to the days of the second intfada where you had bombing on the buses mainly suicide bombings. this doesn't appear to be that. but it is a mange failure for the israeli intelligence services in a critical time, whether it is going to derail the peace talks or not is yet to be scene. obviously the fact that secretary clinton is in town and able to be the a voice of calm could mean that everyone goes to cairo and gets involved in the cease fire and comes up with something. it was close but elusive. the question is can hamas and israel come to the cease fire or will the bombing offensive and rockets continue. five people everywhere killed in israel and the possibility of a israeli ground invasion which the united states pushed hard to keep from happening. back to you in new york. >> leland viter on th

the islamic jihad but comprised the lebanese with shia who had been underprivileged excluded from the politics and economics of the country and our ideological affinity, and he had been radicalized by the israeli persian and south lebanon in the early 1980's. was a very toxic mix that led them to take the steps in the assassination. >> why was he targeted? >> because he was an american and very visible presence in the greatest university in the middle east. there was no more high-profile example in that region than the presidency. >> was the american university put in beirut on purpose that in the 1850's was the root like? >> the route was and still is a very multicultural cosmopolitan international city where east meets west then and now muslims do some christians all mixed into a significant degree and the american missionary presence in the middle east was particularly significant in beirut and became the sort of launching pad for creating what became the greatest university in the region because of this connection. >> could that university have been put in another city and thrive?

>> most likely by the fanatical wing of hezbollah, a group known as islamic jihad that comprised lebanese shia who have historically been underprivileged, excluded from the politics and economics of the country, had ideological affinity for the regime. and radicalized by the israeli incursion into south lebanon in the early 1980's. a very toxic makes that led them to take dramatic steps that climaxed in the assassination amount of pressure are was the target? >> because he was an american. not only american, but very visible president of the great university in the middle east. there was no more higher profile example of an american involved in that region than the presidency of a you be. >> the american university, beirut, back in the 1850's, what was a paper like? >> was and still is a multi cultural cosmopolitan city. then and now muslims, jews, and christians all next and co existed to a significant degree. in the american missionary presence was particularly significant in better, and it became sort of a launching pad for creating what became the greatest university in the region bec

that israeli missile strike killed a senior official from islamic jihad.in gaza city, but many of the palestinians killed so far have been women and children. the deadliest strike killed ten members of one family. you're looking here at the rubble of what was once their home. three israelis have also been killed since the missiles and rockets started flying. cnn is right in the middle of covering the crisis. earlier our own fred piken witnessed a shelling on the border between israel and gaza. got a chance to see israel's response live on our air. he was speaking with carol costello when it all happened. take a look. >> there over in the sky you probably won't be able to see it here, there's an interceptor missile taking off right now. that is the iron dome ber septemberor. if you just saw the flash in the sky, that was a rocket coming out of gaza that was just intercepted right now. it appears as though at this point in time there is another barrage being fired from gaza into this part of israel close to the israeli border, and as i was just telling you,