attacks into gaza overnight and one incident shelling killed four palestinians in the southern town of rafah. in the ensuing ground invasion of now killed more than three hundred forty palestinians hospitals in gaza are struggling to cope with the influx of the injured. god. was was was. now israel defends its actions by saying it needs to root out how must lead is through targeting the homes and underground tunnels but the landing coersion is so far failed to subdue the militants who say they're ready for a prolonged conflict at the escalation this left three israeli soldiers and two israeli civilians dead the old diplomatic efforts to end the fighting of also failed and with old borders being sealed off gazans have no place to go in the very near future will be touching base with correspondent harry fear he's standing by in gaza a lot of reporters on the way but for now it was on wednesday the israeli palestinian conflict took the lives of four young palestinian boys they were shelled as they played football on a beach in gaza must warn you you're going to find some of the upcoming picture

instance of him becoming increasingly frequent on saturday over russian border guards came out of a rafah are originating from the ukrainian side the car was riddled with bullet holes the workers men when inside this cave gone home though they're just a week earlier rockets hit a russian border checkpoint near the scene of saturday's instant to a repeat of it the crossing of parts of that time with refugees trying to enter russian escape the walls of. the tunnel that was going to be put on prisoners in order to make them obviously they were distraught that was blue dogs are learning would you. believe. that. when you did the more you. got on your double of the recovered to school and you must move or you. have denied any involvement in what moscow calls border provocations but international affairs analyst looks at them a chorus things. no but the ukrainian army could be behind them and here's why it would be inconceivable to me that the insurgents the resistance people in the dawn bass who are the only other people who could do this would actually attack russian territory i think that wo

israel is pushing further into gaza, deeper into the south. >> yes, this is hon unis, right at the rafah border crossing. for hours today there was a huge fight between israeli forces and palestinian fighters, to the point that the ambulances that tried to get into that area, to evacuate some of the wounded, couldn't even get past a certain line there was so much shelling and so much fighting. but israel has remained or its troops have remained within about a mile or two of the border. they have not pushed further than that but joie, the air strikes the drone strikes the artillery strikes the tank fighting continues very far into gaza. >> nick schifrin, in gaza, thanks so much. next on our program, ireland's forgotten children, babies born to unwed mothers, sad truths about their brief lives. stories hidden away so many decades ago. >>> the government takes action against a risk on the rails. a follow-up to our story about oil tankers moving across north america. >> it's politics as usual at the department of transportation. study, delay, don't act. >> there's more to it, just days after

very, very few gazans were able to access through the rafah crossing.s is the main exit of gazans to the outside world. there are some gazans were permitted to leave via israel, but it is really not available to most gazans. it is for exceptional medical cases and high-level erp businessman and so forth. and so forth.sman the exit was closed and pressure started to build. in addition, the tunnels through which many goods were coming, particularly construction materials and fuel, were coming into gaza through these tunnels crossing the gaza/egypt border. regime following the 2013 cu basically eliminated these tunnels. with that limitation, almost complete elimination, hamas no longer had these goods coming through and can no longer tax them. they relied on those tax revenue in order to pay the roughly 40,000 employees who run gaza and have been running gaza even without pay for the last several months. what you had was a pressure cooker inside gaza and is began to build and build to the point where december 2013 we had a massive storm here and sanitation

open the rafah crossing and release those palestinians who have been detained after israel pledged they would not be arrested. it is easy to me, israel will say fine we can have a cease-fire and build a relationship on the base of the seafs. without those principles being retained and upheld i think they are in for the long haul. warner: now you have a government in egypt that doesn't want to open these, that is hostile to hamas. what are the prospects that in fact egypt would even want to do that? >> well, you're right this government in egypt, the government of general sisi is hostile to hamas. but general sisi has to listen to his street and what we've seen over the 24 to 48 hours is the egyptian press and people are turning towards palestinians and support of hamas and sisi has to see this. you are not going to see demonstrations in downtown cairo in favor israel. you're going to see demonstrations in downtown carey for hamas. and sisi has to placate his country. >> when he wanted to give the egyptian plan more time to work before the united states stepped in, do you think this plan

rafah in the south, kahn uniies. magaz. >> and others.ll had a lot of civilian casualties, including eight children. >> and the eight children that you refer to were killed in t the - in the strike in the refugee camp on month old, where the israelis and palestinians blame each other. do we know what happened there? >> no, it's unclear. israel is saying that both the attack on the playground area or close to the playground, as well as an attack outside the shifa hospital inside gaza. israels blame miss fires or palestinian rockets, that didn't make it out of israel. the palestinians said it's not the case, it's give to get to the bottom of it. a terrible incident to have eight children killed any time. it was the first day of eid. it was a small chance for people to get outside to try and enjoy themselves despite the terrible conditions, and the earlier part of eid had been peaceful. hamas and the palestinian factions had, amongst themselves, great to a ceasefire of 24 hours. it expired monday at 2:00 pm. things went downhill quickly afte

. >> in rafah this morning, five members of one family were killed by an israeli air strike. even as they search for survivors, missiles pounded the gaza strip. israel says it's targeting terrorists and two of the dead were palestinian militants, but the strike also killed their 9-year-old sister. her surviving bother said a quiet goodbye before they buried her with her father, mother and two brothers. imam jaber is the leader of the mosque where his family used to pray. all israeli people must be punished, he told us, because they hate us. they have no good will for babies, children or the elderly. how can you kill an entire family? as we interviewed imam jaber, the militants fired more rockets at israel. rockets have been fired. >> they don't have israel's advanced weapons, but the militants' missiles are striking further than ever before and shaking an israeli sense of security. a direct hit on a gas station in ashdod this morning injured at least three people. so far, though, no israelis have lost their lives. in gaza, more are dying every day, and they feel an impotent a

another air strike hit in rafah. two people were killed, and we are told that that house belonged to a senior member of islamic jihad, a palestinian faction here. >> thank you for that. nicole johnson in gaza there. >>> there are demonstrations in support of the palestinians across the world. last friday the islamic month of ramadan is observed as a day of solidarity with the palestinians. this is the scope in the iranian capital. marches denounced israel's factions in gaza. and its occupation much east jerusalem. >>> the french government says it's sending troops to secure a flight in mali where an algerian flight crashed. it had 116 on board, most french. we have this report. >> flight ah5017 left the airport in the early hours of thursday morning. bound for the algerian capital. weather was so bad that the crew asked permission to change the flight plan to avoid them. contact was lost. for hours search efforts were focussed on the border area with mali. but then the worst possible news. >> we have found the algeri

ass have been reported in the israel now these are the pictures that you're seeing from the town of rafah and gaza you're about to see some more now. rescue workers were searching a collapsed building for simple libraries one where you missiles hit nearby it had been hit by a pretty don't strike which killed five people that belong to an islamic leader in the seven year old girl was among the dead. was. looking. at the whole thing. israel has had over a thousand targets and it's also had ground troops on standby for several days now and the surplus harry fear reports local health workers are under real pressure already. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents in the road they came on the missile fire when she tried to wade once she was hit by a second letter but her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition this is to die today and the girl is still in the good scare no one kn

the egyptians are saying they may order the rafah border crossing down to the south to my left.nd they are talking about letting humanitarian aid in there. but you talk to the hospitals, itself, and that's where you see the shortage. i spoke with the head of shifa hospital as thousands of people had come in to that courtyard right outside the hospital. he said that he had enough equipment. he had enough supplies for one more day. that's it. there had been hundreds of people coming in for the weeks prior to this or the 10 days prior to this, during the air campaign by israel. in the months ahead of this, the blockade by israel and by egypt had really reduced the hospital supplies to very little. and so he had very little to begin with. and he has very little now because of all of these injured who have come to his hospital. so, he says he needs supplies by tomorrow. otherwise, he won't be able to k0e7 with the people coming in. >> an oppressing situation. i want to go back to something you said, it is eerie and has the stench of death. as we look forward to finding a solution pol

firing rockets but no deaths have been reported in israel now these are the pictures from the town of rafah and gaza. rescue workers were searching a collapsed building for survivors when israeli missiles hit a nearby that had been hit by a pre-dawn strike which killed five people belong to an islamic leader and a seven year old girl was among but that. is nothing that i think. israel has said so far thousand targets in gaza it's also had ground troops on standby for several days now and as for the last terror fear reports local health workers are on the real pressure already. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shaman master she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i have a lot of pain the girl went to visit her sister with her parents on the road they came under missile fire when she tried to avoid one she was hit by a second her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition this is to die today and the girl is still in the good care no one knows if she's going to make it. doctors tell me th

rockets but no deaths have been reports and israel now these are the pictures from that's how the rafah and the gaza. rescue workers were searching the a collapsed building for survivors legislative masel said you know why it had been hit by a pretty dumb strike which killed five people in the long so an islamic leader and a seven. year old girl was among that that. was a little. bit lucky friday night. israel has had over a thousand targets and gaza has also had ground troops on standby for several days now and the journalist harry fear reports local health workers are on the real pressure already. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents on the road they came on the missile fire when she tried to avoid one she was hit by a second letter but her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition and this is the day and the girl is still in the good care no one knows if she's going to

is raising the alarm over the growing number of civilians killed in the region by tele rafah heating residential areas. and earlier human rights watch confirmed the use of ground rockets in eastern ukraine condemning its use in populated areas the body has both sides to stop using the weapons if they are serious about limiting harm to civilians or ukraine's president claimed about a month ago that forces will never allow. are themselves to use force against the civilian population and that's actually the quote this just brought up by russia's foreign minister lavrov when he recalls petro poroshenko saying that threatening women and children is against the night's nature of the ukrainian army but unfortunately it appears that more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence is how the front lines in eastern ukraine are looking at the moment here forces closing in on the cities controlled by local militia we're getting reports of residential areas coming under fire in those antigovernment stronghold almost every day if we take a look at the town of goal of was surrounded you

it is in the spirit of reactivation of the european union and the mission in rafah, which would enable us to improve the populations of gaza and to assist in an effective return by the palestinian authority to rafah. finally and most importantly, we must restore meaning to political settlement. i rarely van opportunity to say this. the major lines of the solutions are well known and yet, no one -- no one is able to implement them. relaunching and concluding these processes are the only possible solution. europeans and arabs must side by side with americans mobilize to provide to both parties necessary guarantees to transcend these fears. indeed, as long as this wall of fear, this feeling that the other seeks one's utter destruction remains, nothing will be possible. the traditional recipes haven't worked, and they haven't worked for 20 years now, since the initial agreements and the parties are incapable of moving to peace by themselves. we need new ideas. we need the renewed efforts of each and every one to help them down this path, which they are hesitant to take. thank you. >> i now

there's a border between egypt and it's known as the rafah crossing. they don't want to reopen it.'ve al sisi here through the muslim brotherhood. and as far as al sisi is concerned, hamas is just a palestinian version of the muslim brotherhood. so they're reluctant as well to open those border crossings. so this is the problem for hamas that they're facing. and as far as the israelis are concerned, they don't want to give anything to hamas to say they've had a victory here. there's a visceral reluctance. again, it's a very difficult position for john kerry to find some kind of compromise. >> john vause, thank you for breaking it down for us. >>> rebels controlling the flight 17 crash site they have have been given resistance. we have the latest on the tug-of-war in ukraine. tylenol is clinically proven to provide strong, fast pain relief. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol it's one of the fastest growing crimes in america. in fact, there's a new victim of identity theft every...three...seconds. so you have to ask yourself, am i next? one weak password c

convince hamas that yes this will be different, we will hold israel to promises, what is happening at the rafah border crossing, a two hour drive or so a lifting of the siege and ability to move materials and people across the israel-gaza border. none of that israel has agreed to right now so israel needs to move toward that agreement or consider those things that hamas is asking, if hamas is expected to agree to this ceasefire and everyone needs to convince hamas that the promises that were made last time will actually be kept this time. >> so many issues and in the meantime, people keep dying. al jazeera correspondent nick schifrin thank you. >>> joining us from doha, qatar, is are osama qatan. secretary of state john kerry is on the ground trying to get an israeli ceasefire. he, we will not agree to a ceasefire and then negotiate, we reject that. he wants israel to stop military action on gaza and an end to the blockades that have been imposed by israel on gaza. with the amount of suffering the palestinian people have endured why not stop the fighting first and then figure out how things can

morning and the eastern flank of the gaza strip is being hit, from gaza city down to khan younis, and rafah. a very.many people hit in a shortly period of time. air strikes not far from here. and these attacks are going on all over gaza. >> as you said you are able to get around the city a little bit. but what if this deployment of israeli troops and tanks? do you have an idea of how they deployed themselves overnight? >> the information that we're getting is that these tanks which were inside the buffer zone area, this is an 800 approximately meter wide area, inside gaza but controlled by israel. that's where the tanks were initially. they then moved out of that area, a little bit further out. we now know that they have advanced further and they are in a road known as east road. this is a relatively sort of main thoroughfare on the eastern flank of gaza and it seems that's where the tanks are. and they are shelling from there, maybe two, three kilometers in some cases, deeper into gaza. so the tanks have advanced, and they're firing range -- their firing range appear to have further as wel

heavy fighting also reported further south in rafah.e're going to join our correspondents on the ground. we have one in and chris on the israeli border. what have you seen and heard in the last few hours? how does this israeli offensive appear to be proceeding? >> well what he we've been told by the israeli military, there's a small number of troops on the ground in the northwest of the gaza strip. what we've been seeing in the past few hours and hearing is the continuation of aerial bombardment. up north and to the east in the past few minutes. we've seen shelling also a few air strikes in gaza city. the israeli military is trying to target palestinian militants and tunnels in the border used to store and launch rockets. also sometimes to carry out cross border raids into israel to try to carry out attacks. there was such an attempt just yesterday with 13 hamas gunmen who were stopped with an irali air strike. here there's a lot of fear about the possibility of a widening offensive. people we spoke to here are terrified. >> chris, on t

overnight, israel said there were 160 air strikes on gaza, with targets across the strip from gaza city to rafahchard galpin has been following that for us as we saw earlier on "bbc world news." let's get some response to all that. i'm joined by a professor, the palestinian representative to the uk. thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you. >> it must be a dreadful situation, obviously, for you. the answer to many people seems pretty straightforward, hamas stop firing rockets. >> the question that should be asked is that who started the incursions against gaza with the air strikes? it is not hamas who started this. >> okay. you know as well as i do this is a tit for tat situation. both sides saying exactly the same thing time and again. in a way, if you really want the best for the people in you're communities, who started it is no longer relevant, if you want peace. hamas has to stop firing rockets, israel will stop. >> it is a promise that if hamas stops the rockets, they will stop the incursions in west banks, killing civilian people. there have been continuing systematically, killing, in

, israel said there were 160 air strikes on gaza, with targets across the strip, from gaza city to rafahit. the bbc reports now from the north of the gaza strip. >> reporter: it is very quiet here on the streets in the north of the gaza strip. most residents are staying indoors, trying to remain safe. there has been a lot of israeli air strikes in the past day or so. if you look at this one over here, it has been almost destroyed, locals say it was islamic jihad leader that was living here. he and his family weren't in the house at the time. but in another home nearby, there were six members of one family who were killed as the israeli military went after another islamic leader. they say what they're targeting here are rocket launching sites and known militants. but, of course, it is also a residential area. and now we're starting to see the numbers of civilians killed in this latest conflict mounting up as well as the numbers of wounded. >> that's yolande knell. straight to jerusalem and we speak to mark regev who is there. you called up 40,000 reservists. is that a sign you're preparin

a different story in the southern gaza city of rafah where people were picking through remains of a shelled out home. officials at a hospital said tank shelling killed four people and a bank was also badly damaged. now since the fighting began, on july 8th, more than 600 palestinians have died and the united nations estimates that 3/4 of them were civilians. 29 israelis have died, 2 civilians among them. before heading to israel, secretary kerry spoke from egypt about the cease-fire proposed by egypt, now supported by the u.s. and israel, but rejected by hamas. >> we're here working because we have seen too much bloodshed on all sides, including the death of two american citizens. >> now this is also new video this morning of more palestinians fleeing their homes. that's amid israeli strikes and shelling. at least seven people killed in this city. the united nations refugee agency reports that more than 118,000 palestinians have fled their homes and are now staying in 77 u.n. shelters. also new this morning, speaking at a united nations human rights commission, the high commercial said ther

to the south movement through the rafah crossing is limited and tiemeghtly controlled by eg. israel controls the air space above gaza, which has no functioning airport. out in sea there's a naval blockade in place. gazans fisherman can't go more than three nautical miles from t the coast. >> there is an american saying, fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. so we have many experiences with israelis and americans. we have no guarantee from them that if we will stop our resistance they will raise a blockade in gaza. so we want guarantees from americans, from other parties that they will raise a blockade on gaza. this is the right of palestinians. we are human beings. >> well, let's bring in dan who is a former israeli ambassador to the united nations. thank you, sir, for joining us on al jazeera. let's begin by a very broad question. does israel want peace in the occupied territory? >> recommend, i asewer you, wants peace. israel has made peace with every arab leader who reached out to israel and who we could trust. we did it with the president of egypt and ki

egypt opened up the rafah border crossing to evacuate some of the wounded. palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into israel, with more than 60 launched on wednesday, ringing the total to over 200 this week. thousands have taken refugee in shelters. in wednesday, hamas political leader offered to renew the 2012 cease-fire based on three conditions -- and and to the offensive, the release of prisoners initially freed under a prisoner swap recently rearrested in israeli raids, and is really respect for the palestinian unity government. israeli officials have rejected his terms and vowed to continue the attack. israel's intelligence minister suggested a looming ground invasion, saying israel "will have to take over gaza temporarily, for a few week." speaking in tel aviv, the benjaminrime minister netanyahu blamed hamas for rocket attacks on israel and for their civilian deaths resulting from israeli strikes. >> today we extended our operations. we will continue to protect our civilians against hamas attacks on them. -- contrast,tract is putting civilia

a different story in the southern gaza city of rafah where people picked through remains of a shelled out hospital. officials say tank shelling killed four people there. a bank also badly damaged. since the fighting started on july 8th, more than 600 palestinians have died and the united nations estimates that 3/4 were civilians. 29 israelis have died, 2 civilians among them. before heading to israel, secretary kerry spoke from egypt about the cease-fire proposed by egypt, now supported by the u.s. and israel but rejected by hamas. >> we're here working because we have seen too much bloodshed on all sides, including death of two american citizens. >> now that faa flight ban remains in effect for another few hours and it's world cup mentioning that former new york city mayor michael bloomberg did manage to fly into ben gurion airport on an israeli airline in what he says is a show of solidarity. the concern, of course, flying over what is now considered an active war zone as that malaysian airliner was doing as it was shot down over ukraine. we have developing news. we'll have that upd

i have no one except a sister who is married and lives in rafah, and that is far away. life will be difficult from here on out. >> imagine the feeling when someone treats his sister and her sons and daughters who were and 14 years 16, old. i carry them when their bodies were ripped apart. it was horrifying. >> militants in gaza have fired over 150 rockets into israel since tuesday. one israeli civilian was killed as he volunteered handing out food to israeli soldiers stationed near gaza. he was the first israeli to be killed by the rocket fire since the conflict began. a paramedic described his death. >> unfortunately, 30 minutes ago, an israeli citizen working near the crossing border was hit by shrapnel due to a mortar attack on the crossing. he was severely injured, treated at the scene by our medics and evacuated to the hospital where they, unfortunately, had pronounced him dead. >> in addition to bombing homes, israel's attack has further decimated a civilian infrastructure already in crisis after years of a crippling blockade. on tuesday, the international committ

. >> egypt is to blame, too, for not opening the rafah crossing through which i went, when i went tout the real responsibility is that of the israelis for the blockade hamas are not condoninghamas rockets but hamas will go on resisting will go on attacking until the blockade is lifted. >> isn't there a fear, though, among those who support. >> isn't there a fear that should israel concur and say we are going to open the borts, let the demands that hamas is making, let the political prisoners out the blockade that's imprisoning these people, isn't there a fear on the palestinian side that the fear or hatred of israel is so great they would then capitalizedize on that and take revenge, if you like because those borders are open? >> the genuine fear? >> i think that's at that complex argument. >> sure. >> the straightforward argument is this: that if i was a palestinian living in the gaza strip or in the west bank, may i say, where life is also hell, if i was a palestinian living in the gaza strip and my children were not able to go to school, they had too little food, they had too litt

you are to the going to see israeli troops going all the way to rafah or all the way to gaza city. >>u see going on. >> i am worried it can be more expensive than that. there is a chance the israelies will try to go after some of the launch sights of the rockets in the northern part of the gaza strip and may try to sever the gaza strip to prevent gaza or hamas from movements. >> and this is in heavily occupied urban area, is this right. >> it is a tragedy of this war and we should have a lot of sympathy for the people of gaza and israelment but the tragedy of this war is it is in a very populated area and complete leigh voy-- avoidable. the egyptian -- should have taken o hold. hamas could have held its fire and we would not be fighting today at all. >> how do you answer that? >> well, basically, are you correct in indicating the limited space involved in this conflict. gaza for all practical purposes, the whole strip is what, twiz the area of washington d.c. and when you think of the strongest air force in the region, you are talking about fifth or sixth strongest country in the worl

the southern gaza city of rafah was among the areas hit by israeli air strikes today.least 630 palestinians and 29 israelis have been killed since the fighting began this month. >>> later today the federal aviation administration will decide whether to lift the ban on u.s.-based airlines from flying into israel's main airport. the safety of flying to tel aviv is in serious question because of the violence between israel and hamas militants in gaza. at least one airline, u.s. airways, announced it would resume flying to and from tel aviv tomorrow pending faa approval. >>> a san francisco company is giving refunds to victims of hacking discovered last year. let's get the details now with jill wagner of cbsmoneywatch.com. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, frank and michelle. stubhub says that hackers got into the accounts of about 1,000 customers and bought tickets to events. a spokesman says no one breached stubhub security directly. instead, thieves hacked into other sites and stole log-in and password information later used to access stubhub accounts. we will le

. >> ifill: in rafah, hundreds took part in a funeral procession for five palestinians killed by overnight strikes. and in jerusalem, thousands attended the funeral of israeli soldier max steinberg. the 24-year-old man from california was killed in fighting on sunday. violence also spread to the west bank, where a palestinian man was killed in fighting with israeli soldiers in bethlehem. meanwhile, hamas rocket fire killed a foreign worker near ashkelon, in southern israel. the rocket threat prompted more airlines to call off flights into israel's ben gurion international airport. president shimon peres urged them to reconsider. >> may i say i regret that airlines have suspended flights. the real answer to the danger of flying is not to stop the flights, but to stop the rockets which are endangering the flight. >> ifill: but the u.n. high commissioner for human rights navi pillay held both sides responsible for the rapidly rising death toll. >> i unequivocally reiterate to all actors in this conflict that civilians must not be targeted. not abiding by these principles may amount to war cri

they can't move out through egypt either because the rougher border -- rafah border crossing is closedmas needs to show something for this campaign. they say they want a conditional cease-fire. they won't go to a cease-fire until they have some demands met. the other big thing that hamas is asking for is it wants the release of all of the prisoners who were rearrested over the last couple of weeks, and those prisoners were in the west bank, and they had been freed from jail a few years ago when there was the prisoner swap. the one israeli soldier who was swapped for about a thousand palestinian prisoners. it was a big story at the time. now, those prisoners, the palestinian prisons have about rearrested art past of the israelti clampdown and crackdown on the west bank and hamas says that it will continue its campaign until they are freed again. >> nicole johnston joining us from gaza. nicole, be safe. >>> two israeli soldiers were killed today in gaza. john hendren is joining us from jerusalem. john, there are conflicting reports right now about how many soldiers were actually killed.

southern gaza city of rafah was among the areas hit by israel air strikes today. at least 657 palestinians have died. 31 israelis have died. the fighting began earlier this month. >>> and today, the faa will decide whether to lift a ban on u.s.-based airlines from flying into israel's main airport. the safety of flying to tel aviv is in serious questions because of the violence between israel and hamas. at least one airline, u.s. airways, announced it would resume flying to and from tel aviv tomorrow, pending faa approval. >>> another lawsuit involving donald sterling sterling. he filed a civil suit against his wife shelly, the nba, league commissioner and the l.a. clippers. the lawsuit argues since his family trust was revoked, the basketball team should revert to his sole ownership. there was, the suit claims shelly sterling has no power or right to sell the team. it began with the nba trying to removing donald sterling. >>> the 49ers with a charity event at their brand-new home. it's a sellout. ribbon cutting was last week. the 8th annual pasta bowl starts toni

and air strikes continued on friday and the leader of the jihad was killed when the house was hit in rafahhey will meet for a plan of truce put forward by u.s. secretary of state john kerry. there have been calls for more protests in the occupied west bank abeast jerusalem over the violence in gaza and two people were killed in confrontations with israeli police. let's get to charles stratford live from gaza and charles give us an idea of what has been happening this morning. >> it seems as if there is intensity of some of the air strikes on to gaza from very early this morning and we hear at least 30 houses have been hit, at least 18 people killed including that islamic jihad commander you mentioned in the intro about 7:30 this morning we heard two large explosions on the hotel we are staying at the coast and it was around 20 minutes later there was a very large bang and smoke was rising from the neighborhood close by. we went to go and have a look to see what happened. we rushed to the site of the attack minutes after it happened. terrified neighbors play in the streets. ambulances were

. >> reporter: the rafah border rarely opened, only to allow aid in. or injured gazans out.amas wants that border open permanently. >> there is no commitment from the egyptian government and the leadership. and what we have heard from them all the time that israel is responsible and in charge. if they ask to close off a closing point. that will do that. >> reporter: the blockade of gaza has been in place since 2007. when hamas forcibly ejected its rivals and took control of the territory, one year after winning democratic elections. egypt, as well as israel, has been destroying tunnels dug under its border over recent months, determined to stop smuggling of weapons to hamas. it also stopped the import of basics like food, gas, and livestock, which made money for hamas. >> as a result, the hamas authorities in gaza struggle to pay the wages in gaza. and this created a lot of pressure on their rule. and it's one of the reasons we believe that hamas initiated a conflict with israel, firing rockets, and then inviting the current conflict. >> reporter: but as egypt loses influenc