saeb erakat, can you hear me? i think we're having some trouble connecting with the chief palestinian negotiator. let me just make sure that we haven't lost him completely. saeb erakat, can you hear me? it's wolf blitzer. we have him on the line but obviously we're having some major problems with that connection. we're going to try to reconnect with saeb erakat. we'll get the very latest on what's going on from the palestinian perspective. obviously there is a lot going on right now. there's no cease-fire. clearly hamas rockets and missiles keep coming in to israel and israel keeps pounding away. their primary objective right now those tunnels going from gaza into israel. then of course they're going after other targets of hamas as well. let me just double check, make sure we haven't lost completely saeb erakat. saeb, are you there with us? can you hear me, saeb erakat? all right. we're going to try to o fix that line. we'll update all of our viewers on what's going on. we'll speak to saeb erakat and get all of th

matched with the human cease-fire. >> saeb erakat. we're with you. hope that there is a cease-fire and hopes that it comes very soon. i know you and president abbas are working as hard as you can to achieve that. i'll continue this conversation tomorrow night. more news right after this. ow w? fine barbecue, good times and zero heart burn. and that's why i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heart burn because it gives me zero heart burn. prilosec otc the number one dr. recomended frequent heart burn medicine for nine straight years. you can beat zero herat burn prilosec otc one pill each morning 24hrs, zero heart burn body language can tell you all sorts of things. like someone is having a stroke. know the sudden signs. learn f.a.s.t. face drooping arm weakness speech difficulty time to call 911 and get them to a hospital immediately. learn the body language and spot a stroke f.a.s.t. that's why i always choose the fastest intern.r slow. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevato

saeb erakat, the chief palestinian negotiator joining us.ident obama saying, what's he doing about the middle east conflict, as his secretary of state is desperately trying to hammer out a longer term cease-fire. still no progress, not much progress on that front. israel's cabinet today rejected that seven-day proposal for a cease-fire. >>> meanwhile, israel's iron dome has been working overtime to intercept hamas rockets, so how much is the u.s. spending the to keep it running. what's going on in that front. stay with us. if you wear a denture, touch it with your tongue. if your denture moves, it can irritate your gums. try fixodent plus gum care. it helps stop denture movement and prevents gum irritation. fixodent. and forget it. >>> we're back live in jerusalem with breaking news. let's talk to jim acosta back in washington. so tell us what's going on as far as the president, the white house is concerned. this 12-hour initial humanitarian pause in the fighting as we've been reporting. looks like the israelis and hamas have both agreed, bu

saeb erakat on the agenda presumably to come up with a cease-fire.ower is a fascinating story. he was once nearly killed by israeli agents. cnn's brian todd has our report. >> reporter: september 1997. he was hours, perhaps minutes, away from dying. he had had been walking on the streets of amman, jordan, when two men injected or sprayed him with poison. "i heard a loud noise in me ear that felt like an electric shock." >> reporter: the israeli agents were captured. jordan's king threatened to put them on trial if the israeli government didn't provide an antidote. the white house intervened. president bill clinton trying to keep peace between jordan and israel pressured benjamin netanyahu to provide the antidote. netanyahu widely to have ordered the hit in retaliation relented. he was revived. >> once he survived this attack, this leader who was previously relatively unknown, became very popular. his stature goes straight to the top. he's the living martyr. >> reporter: he's now the leader of the hamas movement. he recently spoke to cbs news. >> tran

saeb erakat joining us from ramallah with the palestinian perspective. know he must be disappointed there's no cease-fire. he and president abbas have been working hard to achieve one. joining us now is one of the top military analysts in israel. what is the israeli military strategy unfolding at this minute in gaza is it? is it simply to take out the tunnels or go after the rocket launchers or is a bigger strategy to effectively destroy hamas? >> no, it's more of the same which means more of the same with the dale of the last, say, three days, it's doing now. on a lower pace. so to say less intensive than it was yesterday. >> last night it was very intensive. it was pounding. tonight it seems relatively calm. is that a new phase or what? no, it is a phase of wait and see. which means let's see if the palestinians, if they hamas aniand islamic ji hard -- i'm sure that mr. aerekat and his boss are yearning for a cease-fire. >> the military commander of hamas, there is officially the military commander is not such a figure. the real man in charge is muhamm

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