he's expecting something more. >> kristin saloomey at the united nations. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was on a number of sunday morning talk shows. he once again made his situation clear, that the blame for palestinian being situation is solely on hamas. >> this is the difference between us. the hamas deliberately targets civilians and deliberately hides behind civilians. three want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. somebody says they use telegenically dead palestinians for their cause. they want the more dead, the better. >> are secretary of state john kerry is traveling to israel to seek a ceasefire. patty culhane reports. >> talked to prime minister benjamin netanyahu to express serious concern about the rising death toll on both side. secretary of state john kerry is traveling to the region to work on a ceasefire but first he spent sunday defending israel saying this is what israel is doing what it needs to do to protect itself. >> we support israel. >> we support israel. >> this is what he said when he knew he was being watche

for more on the united nations response, christian saloomey, thank you for joining -- kristin saloomey, thank you for joining us. do you think this statement comes across as the most stern one yet? >> valerie amos called this a gross violation of international law. a school where 3300 palestinians had sought shelter and just hours before the attack the u.n. had again reported the coordinates of this location and expressed concern about fighting in the area. some 19, at least 19 people were killed in the attack. many of them were children who were sleeping on the floor next to their parents. and the u.n. is expressing its concern that it has no safe haven for palestinians to retreat to. this is an area about the size of philadelphia, gaza, with just 139 square miles. >> they're being told, flee areas, get out of areas, but to where? where should they go? and again we don't have the answer for them. >> and adam, this is the sixth time that a u.n. school that was being used as a shelter has been hit in the conflict earlier this week, another 16 people were killed in another strike althoug

>> we've lost our correspondent kristin saloomey at the united nations. you can keep up with the situation in gaza around the clock on our website. you can see breaking news, video as well as regular updates from teams of correspondents in the field. just go to www.aljazeera.com. >>> an international team of police and experts have been forced to abandon a second attempt to reach the crash site of malaysian mh-17. that comes as a government spokesman said that the flight data recorded shows a crash due to a massive explosive loss of pressure after it was hit by fragments from the missile. we have more from donetsk. >> reporter: for the first time there is official confirmation of what many suspect is a surface to air missiles. ukrainian officials say that there was a massive explosive decompression so basically shrapnel or explosives were brought down mid care crashing down into the fields of eastern ukraine. this is coming from ukrainian officials, to reach the site of mh-17. they've been turned away once again for heavy fighting. extremely frustration f

let's go back and join kristi kristin saloomey. >> they've allowed convoys into syria without the syria government's permission. russia and china have vetoed four past resolutions on syria. the council has been historically very divided on how to deal with the situation there. but the humanitarian crisis has gotten so bad that they've been able to come in and take this special step. the supreme court council has decided that the situation is bad enough that it is now up to the u.n. to decide how to get the aid in, and bring the aid without the government's co consent. we know that russia was very protective of syria's sovereignty in this vote, as they have been in the past. there were some attempts to make this a, quote, chapter seven resolution. it refers to the u.n. charter paragraph of the u.n. charter that allows the community to use force they didn't go if a that far. the council has come together and decided that the need of aid is too much and they had to do something to improve the situation on the ground. >> thanks for the update, kristin. from the united nations. six of the mo

kristin saloomey joins us now from the u.n. we just heard from ban ki-moon calling for an end to the violence. what he's saying in new york is wholly different events happening over the past two hours on the ground. >> reporter: well, ban ki-moon over the last six days has been traveling the middle east and working with regional players to try to establish lasting cease-fire. he has been very strong in criticizing both sides in this conflict. we heard that again this morning in new york as he returned to new york from his travels. again calling for a cease-fire. and being tough on both sides in the conflict. he said that no country would accept the threat of rockets from above and below. at the same time, there is a question of proportionality. israel as the occupying power has humanitarian obligations. many palestinian civilians have died. more than 1100. 43 israelis, possibly more have been killed. to this point most of them have been soldiers. but listen to what ban ki-moon has to say. >> as marks it is time for immediate, u

. >>> christian saloomey has more from the -- kristin saloomey has more from the united nations. urgent need of humanitarian assistance and nearly half of those numbers are in hard to reach places. so the resolution passed by the security council on monday allows for cross border aid deliveries without the support of the syrian government and that is key. this resolution comes after an earlier resolution passed last february failed to approve the resolution on the ground. the u.n. says it has only gotten worse. able to come together and pass this resolution. and the u.n. says that it should allow aid to be delivered to about 3 million more people, people who haven't had secure food deliveries or medical assistance in a long time. and of course, aid agencies are hailing this as a break through and a potential life line for so many people in syria. but they say it's only going to work if there's action on the ground. it has to be translated into action on the ground if it's to have the desired effect. >> another violent weekend in chicago to tell us about. maria innes ferre has thi

over the are full access to the site pnl kristin saloomey is in the area.ve the dutch who lost more people than most on that flight said their -- sent their foreign minister to new york and that you spoke to him. what does he have to say about the international response? >> reporter: well, he said that he was heartened by the international shows of support, but his country is very frustrated that it's taken this long to get access to the site and to remove the bodies, which now does appear to be happening. and this is why foreign minister franz timermans did come to the u.n. security council to press for the fact that the victims get ogo home as soon as possible. clearly he represents a country that is mourning 193 of the dead are dutch nationals. and outside of the mission, the dutch mission to the u.n, we saw evidence of this, a makeshift memorial with signs and flowers left by people, signs that called on putin to stop the congregatioaggression, labeled r supporting separatists in eastern ukraine and this was frustration on the part of dutch citizens exp

our kristin saloomey has more from the u.n. >> reporter: the united nations estimates nearly 11 million syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance. half of hose are in hard to reach positions. allows cross border aid deliveries without the consent of the syrian government and that is key. this resolution comes after an earlier resolution passed last february failed to improve the situation on the ground. in fact u.n. says it's only gotten worse. so the council which has been so divided on so many issues involving syria was able to come together and pass this resolution. and the u.n. says that it should allow aid to be delivered to about 3 million more people, people who haven't had secure food deliveries or medical assistance in a long time. and of course, aid agencies are hailing this as a break through and a potential life line for so many people in syria. but they say it's only going to work if there's action on the ground. it has to be translated into action on the ground in order to have the desired effect. the u.n. says it will get the program up as soon as possible. >> well,