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cnn's paula hancock takes a look at the lives and deaths of two of the victims. >> reporter: two men,and 37. complete strangers, brought together by forces more powerful than they could imagine. 25, a palestinian cameraman is filming a documentary on the dangers of being a medic in gaza, covering a story he would become a part of. recently married, his wife six month's pregnant with their child. he accompanies the ambulance, one of the neighborhoods near gaza city hit hardest by the israeli fire. on that day, less than a week ago, much like any other in this bloody conflict he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. hamid and one of the medics were killed by the fire. a volunteer firefighter for the past three years, hanin decides to distribute food and gifts to the military waiting to go in gaza, but this day he would become one of the victims of the almost 2,000 rockets fired by hamas in recent weeks. hit by a shell, hamen is rushed to the hospital but dies. he becomes israel's first casualty, he leaves behind a wife and three children. they are just two of the more than 800 casua

cnn's paula hancocks has more for you. >> reporter: more children than hamas fighters have been killedar in gaza according to the united nations. innocent victims of a conflict they were born into. >> one child has been killed each our in gaza over the past two days. each of these children had a name and a future and a life that was cut horribly short. >> reporter: they went to the beach to play football. it cost them their lives. four children age 9 to 11 killed by israeli fire. another father loses a son. small bodies carried through the streets of gaza. grief over lives barely begun, yet already over. >> translator: age 5, age 9. >> reporter: names of young victims were read out at the u.n. by palestinian observer. children are often the biggest casualties in gaza, and surprising as almost half of the population is under the age of 14, in the midst of one of the most densely populated territories on earth, there are few places for the young to run and high. of more than 600 palestinians killed, 161 are children as of wednesday morning. of 3500 injured, a third are under the age of 1

and it is improving its popularity. >> paula hancock with that.popular among some palestinians but as she pointed out it's despised in israel and if hamas was destroyed could an even worse group rise to power, a group more determined to destroy israel? bob bair, first things first. one of israel's goals is to demilitaryize hamas. how realistic is that? >> well, i mean the way they are going today they can end up decapitated that organization and stroit. it was an organization that was popularly elected. it has a fairly responsible leadership. if you decapitated hamas and leave it open we would get something close to al qaeda. this poverty and war tends to radicalize people and this is what i'm afraid will happen in gaza. we have to go back to 1982. bin laden really start this movement when he watched the israelis bomb beirut. that gave him the al qaeda that started in afghanistan and then went international. that's what has a lot of people afraid. >> do you believe that's what will happen. if hamas is decapitated, who will fill the vacuum. do you

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. >> cnn's paula hancocks joins me from new york. of you inside these tunnels from just a couple of years ago, these multipurpose tunnels. tell me about them. what did you see? >> reporter: well, brooke, there are a couple different tunnels. basically those from gaza into israel, which are being used by hamas militants to launch attacks. and then the other tuns which i went into on a number of occasions which go from gaza into egypt. these are the smuggling tunnels basically used to bring in food, bring in gas, livestock, anything else that the gazans need. and also, according to israel, are used to resupply hamas. that is how they get their weapons into gaza within this blockade. certainly was interesting seeing these tunnels. they very basic. the ground is clay and sand, not particularly conducive to these tunnels. a number of collapses. we have seen over the years israel bombing them quite significantly. but they do seem to keep emerging, and egypt trying to cut back on these tunnels. hamas has a number of years in experience in b

paula hancocks, cnn, new york f. >>> a german astronaut calls it his saddest photo yet. alexander gerst shared a picture of gaza as seen from space. he tweeted from the international space station "we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over gaza and israel." this photo has been retweeted more than 13,000 times. an extraordinary perspective and image there and of course no one wants to see fireworks of this kind. >>> coming up on cnn, was it a legitimate execution or cruel and unusual punishment? >> a botched lethal injection is stoking the u.s. debate on the death penalty. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste like a treat

paula hancock has that part of the story. ♪ >> reporter: propaganda video, recruiting tool.all it what you will, but hamas wants israel and the world to see its military mite. created in 1987, its name means islamic resistance movement, formed specifically to fight the israeli occupation. but within the lawless territory of gaza, it became so much more. >> hamas began to expand its social and economic reach to include social welfare programs, subsidies and a variety of other cultural programs for palestinians in gaza. so it played and still to this day, has a political dimension, an administrative and social dimension and of course a military one. >> reporter: april, 1994, hamas carries out its first suicide bombing in israel. a car-bomb attack in a northern city kills eight. it's just the beginning. hundreds more israeli citizens will be killed by hamas, mostly in suicide bombings. a deadly pattern that leads the u.s. and others to label hamas a terrorist group. a moment of legitimacy for hamas, 2006, winning democratic palestinian elections in a landslide victory. it is on

paula hancocks, cnn, new york. >> paula, thank you very much for that.oining me now is lanny davis, a white house special council during the clinton administration and author of "crisis tales: five rules for coping with crisis in business, politics, and life." lanny, good to see you. always a pleasure to speak with you. heartbreaking stories. we just saw two of them and really many more when you include their families. you wrote an impassioned article after seeing a news report about civilian casualties in gaza. i read it. it's amazing. it's heartfelt. tell what's prompted you to write that. >> i watched a network news broadcast of a young palestinian girl in a hospital, paralyzed from the neck down. and i got sick. i literally felt nausea. and i had to turn away in pain. and i was equally outraged that the broadcast didn't mention the human shields that hamas has decided to use little girls like this in order to hide behind children while they shoot missiles intentionally aimed at israeli populations, intentionally aimed, not accidentally, but intention

cnn's paula hancocks has that. ♪ >> reporter: hamas shows off its military muscle. promotional video boasting of its fighters, rockets and tunnels. israel's military releases footage of it destroying the enemy, a show of strength against a group it and much of the west considers a terrorist organization. both sides have a clear aim, to cripple or destroy the other. but it's a goal neither can currently achieve. so the question is what will it take to silence the bombs this time? hamas is clear about what it wants. the leader said wednesday we want a ceasefire but israel must end the blockade now as a guarantee. then we can negotiate. israel withdraw troops from settlements in 2005, but has controlled gaza's waters, airspace and borders ever since, claiming they are protecting themselves against a more militarized hamas. human rights groups have called gaza the world's largest open air prison, and also say the blockade should be lifted. >> the israelis may have to ease their restrictions on imports and exports. hamas salaries may have to be paid by the cut eries. any

paula hancocks, cnn, new york. >> all right, paula.hank you very much. >>> secretary of state john kerry is being harshly criticized, especially by israel for his attempt at brokering a ceasefire. so joining me now to talk than and other aspects of this conflict is aaron david mill over the woodrow wilson national center. he is a former adviser to six secretaries of state on the arab-israeli peace process. he is also the author of "the end of greatness: why america can't and doesn't want another great president." quite a name for a book. so first question to you. you heard the israeli ambassador to the u.n., ron prosor, who was just on. he told me, quote, we cease, and they fire. is he right? >> look, the reality is that you have a conflict driven by two parties, both of which have needs and requirements that early are going to have to be met in some regard. and there is a narrative on each side. the israelis are trying to degrade and ultimately destroy hamas' tunnelling capacity. it's a repository of high trajectory weapons. and hamas

here's cnn's paula hancock. >> reporter: more children than hamas fighters have been killed so far in gaza according to the united nations. innocent victims of a conflict they were born into. one child has been killed each hour in gaza over the past two days. each of these children had a name and a future and a life that was cut horribly short. >> reporter: they went to the beach to play football. it cost them their lives. four children, age 9 to 11, killed by israeli fire. another father loses a son. small bodies carried through the streets of gaza. grief overlies barely begun, yet already over. names of young victims were read out tuesday at the u.n. by a palestinian on on everybodier. almost half of the population is under the age of 14, in the midst of one of the most densely populated territories on earth, there are few places for the young to run and hide. even those without physical scars, they're the invisible battle wounds of trauma. losing parents or homes or simply listening to the macabre soundtrack of a battle fought nearby. with such a large population unable to healeave

but in tel aviv is the former ambassador to the united states, and paula hancocks is in new york.ou have been to that school has the been bombed and report on the conflict from the ground does it surprise you to hear an accusation like the one you just heard? >> it doesn't surprise me not in this conflict or any conflict where there are go warring sides. each side has its version of the truth. we are trying to cut through opinion and cut through also propaganda and the messaging from the various factions and drill down the facts and the facts of that were that we throughout the course of the day and these past few days have reported that the united nations on two occasion has accused of hamas of storing weapons in its schools. we should also remember that the united nationss has accused the israeli military shelling two other schools twice in the last three days. those are also important facts because the u.n. is accusing both of the warring sides in this conflict of ignoring the neutrality of civilians and ignoring the neutrality of internationally recognized symbols like the uni

i want to talk about that with a cnn correspondent paula hancocks.ally been in some of the tunnels. that exist between egypt and gaza. >> these were smuggling tunnels. when i went down a few years ago, there were hundreds of them. the sort of things that were use f ful is to bring basic goods, building materials. of course according to israel they also brought the weapons into hamas. those tunnels we weren't allowed to see but it's well known this is how hamas resupplied itself. these tunnels are incredibly basic. the ground is clay and sand. so they're very dangerous. they often send children in to actually build these tunnels because they're small enough to try and burrow through. it is incredibly basic. obviously, many of them were collapsing on a daily basis. many fatalities of people building them. they weren't the hamas militants. the people working there, the people trying to make money -- >> the tunnels the israeli authorities are talking about are used for different purposes. israel says for launching attacks. hamas makes money from the tunn

cnn's paula hancocks reports. >> reporter: more children than hamas fight verse been killed so far accordingo the united nations, innocent victims of a conflict they were born into. one child has been killed each hour in gaza over the past two days. each of these children had a name and a future and a life that was cut horribly short. >> reporter: they went to the beach to play football. it cost them their lives. [ sirens ] four children, aged 9 to 11, killed by israeli fire. another father loses a son. small bodies carried through the streets of gaza. grief over lives barely begun yet already over. >> translator: age 5, age 9. >> reporter: names of young victims were read out tuesday at the u.n. by palestinian observer riyadh man soar. children are often the biggest casualties in gaza and surprising as almost half of the population is under the age of 14. in the midst of one of the most densely populated territories on earth, there are few places for the young to run and hide. even those without physical scars bear the invisible battle wounds of trauma. losing parents or homes or simply lis

paula hancocks, cnn, new york. >> both sides have resumed fighting after a temporary truce was abandoned. a cease-fire on saturday allowed some medical supplies to be brought into gaza, but by sunday, israel called it off after "incessant rocket fire" from hamas. hamas countered saying it had agreed to a 24-hour cease-fire but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismissed their call. >> hamas doesn't even accept its own cease-fire. it's continued to fire at us as we speak. israel has accepted five cease-fires since this conflict began. five. we accepted them and we implemented them. including two humanitarian cease-firesed in the last 24 hours, which hamas rejected as they rejected all the other cease fires. and they've violated them. you say israel resumed its offensive? no, we didn't resume our offensive. we had a cease-fire, they violated it, now they're violating their own cease-fire. >> it's important to remember israel's ground offensive in gaza was launched in part to find and destroy the tunnels built by hamas. these tunnels are far from holes in the ground as well. they ar

paula hancocks, cnn, new york. >>> let's talk now to a member of the palestinian parliament.ining us now live from ramallah in the west bank. i should point out that minister barguti and i met yesterday seeking shelter from israeli gunfire being shot as a demonstration. so mr. minister, it is good to see you again. let me ask you this. what have you heard about this reported proposal to extend the temporary cease-fire another four hours? >> well, it's rather sad that the negotiations are taking place a few hours of cease-fire, although we need full and complete and lasting cease-fire. today during the last seven hours, the palestinians had to take out of the rubbles about 151 bodies of people who were killed by israeli attacks, and many of them were injured, and stood there without help, without medical help, because israel did not allow ambulances to reach them, and they bled to death. so far 1,040 palestinians have been killed in these 20 days. 90% of them are children and women, civilians, and about 5,400 injured. mostly women and children. and that's why we need a cease-f

paula hancocks is hear with more of the story. you were there.ered the story from the very beginning. there was a manhunt under way for him at some point, right? >> reporter: that's right, yes. he's the suspected owner of the ferry though his defenders deny that. there were basically 2,000 police around the country looking for this man. half a million dollar reward for any information that would lead to his arrest and he, apart from the captain who, of course, was filmed escaping that sinking ferry, he was one of the most hated men in south korea. he was vilified by the press, the public, even the president criticized him for going on the run and for not coming forward and facing justice, though his defenders say he was a scapegoat. of course, as this manhunt was going on we now realize that he had already died, his decomposing body was found in a farm by one farmer, and that was back on june 12th. >> they have finally identified him. have they determined whether it was murder or suicide? >> police at this point say there's no sign of foul play b