even though this was all given to the hamas to the arabs the arabs goal is this will struction no hamas missiles there be no israeli retaliation i wish that mr blumenthal would start telling the truth and stop lying and lying and lying more defending him that she liked and that she like organization the course for the murder of every jew that includes max blumenthal and his family. coming up all future the second half of the debate between max blumenthal and morton klein said. and i don't know how it works like. the crap. like. i've been aren't higher but isn't this great by a bunch. like. as in there's more than just the one. i'm the read and i'm fighting here one. hundred. welcome back to the show and now more of the debate between max blumenthal author of the lie of life and loathing in greater is going on more than klein the president of the zionist organization of america. i've heard a lot of a lot of heated rhetoric coming from the israeli establishment too and considering that gaza is completely closed off the people have nowhere to go don't you think that the way that this campa

presented to the hamas leadership in gaza. on't seem to be taking it very seriously right now. but you know, i understand what you're saying. what about the secretary of state? there's been a lot of speculation he could get directly involved, go to egypt, go to qatar, maybe come here to israel. what are you hearing about his direct involvement in this? >> well, i can tell you that from the beginning of this conflict, i think kerry was in china at the time, subsequently he was in afghanistan lately and currently, he's been in vienna for the iran nuclear talks. throughout that period, he's been been actively eb engaged and spoken repeated little with prime minister nettenia shoe, counterparts in qatar, jordan, turkey, president an abbas of the palestinian authority making clear that the united states is supporting it israel's right of self-defense and working to de-escalate the conflict with those parties. secretary kerry as you know very well is always willing to go where he's needed to make a difference in our diplomatic effort

hamas that dug the tunnels into israel. hamas that is dedicated to the destruction of israel. you have to be beyond dumb to not get this. >> it is also hamas that is setting up its own people as human shields. and by the way, all viewers should understand those figures come from hamas-backed figures. we do have some statistics on the palestinian authority, you know, when's the last time any of the journalists in gaza covered the expulsion of christian palestinians throughout the middle east. hamas is evil. israel is a force of justice, civil zeens. so much of the global media. >> is hamas, hezbollah, jihad, isis, al qaeda, aren't they one in the same? they desire a worldwide calafate and the death to jus around the world. isn't that their stated goal and everyone must convert or they will be killed. they are infidels. isn't that what radical islam is about? >> death to jus and christians. washington and both sides of the aisle will not face up to the fact that in middle eastern islam there is a sickness that has perverted the religion grossly. >> monitor -- >> all these factio

. >>> also targeted the hamas leader and a mosque. >> the overwhelming mood in gaza is the coming one of defiance even among people that don't support hamas. hamas' political popularity was probably falling before this israeli bombardment began. >>> former leaders of the kosovo army could face charges against humanity. >>> eu gives sanctions in russia over actions in ukraine. >>> plus wall to wall sarah palin for $9.95 a month. the former vice presidential hopeful launches her online tv channe channel. >>> hello and welcome. fighting is continuing between israeli forces and hamas in gaza after one of the heaviest nights of shelling since it began three weeks ago. shells have hit the gaza only power station causing it to shut down. huge black plumes of smoke as you see. this is the scene overnight where explosions and shells rained down on the city overnight. gaza's health ministry says at least 60 palestinians have been killed. israel says it hit 60 targets including the billing that has the hamas run tv station. plus this is all that's left of the home of the hamas leader. no casualt

but we will stay here with the hamas. we will stay here with the tunnel. t's why i think we should be allowed to do what needs to be done with hamas. >> you know, since you don't know -- or israel does not know exactly how many tunnels there are. and they say they are like cities, some of them we don't know how long this is going to take, correct? >> correct. but let me ask you, judge, were to tell you now there are doesenings of tunnels coming from mexico into arizona and al qaeda forces are getting ready to attack u.s. cities. what would you say? as long as it takes we will take care of it. that's what we are telling the prime minister do the right work with the hamas and fight the hamas as long as it takes. otherwise we will see hamas taking over jewish communities and kidnapping kids back into gaza. >> what do you say about the killing of civilians is doing as a result of what israel is doing. i know you say that hamas is putting their military, their munitions whatever in civilian areas. but how do you justify that? >> i think i don't need to justify i

we'll see what the hamas reaction is. we'll get reaction from a hamas spokesman shortly here in "the situation room." >>> meanwhile, in gaza, health officials are now reporting more than 1,000 people killed in the fighting. cnn's karl penhaul is on the scene for us. what's the very latest, karl, from where you are? >> reporter: well, wolf, there have been mixed signals tonight from hamas. we heard from one of their international representatives based in the gulf that hamas was ready to match israel's initial offer of a four-hour extension to saturday's cease-fire, but then on the ground here in gaza, we heard that one of the other hamas representatives said there could be no such deal. there was, of course, as atika is reporting one message that was loud and clear, and that was once again hamas' brigades firing rockets out of the strip and into israel. in fact, at one point just two hours after the expiring of saturday's cease-fire, the brigade are saying they fired more than 12 rockets. but in the course of the day, of co

the pa is a group that the un does deal with. but hamas is part of that. it all mesh together. >> tell technically there is a unity government of the palestinians, that does help a little bit, but there hasn't been a lot of unity between the various groups. so the fact that this seems to be a point initiative, and we're also hearing from a possible joint trip from both sides, going to cairo to actually speak to the egyptians. what we need to find out is how israel will respond. there are two very important meetings taking place at about the same time, at 7:00 local time, that's three hours from now, israeli's security cabinet will be meeting, then the plo political committee will be meeting. i think we'll have to wait, if this is going to actually stick, we're going to have to wait, i think a couple of hours. >> james thank you for that, and actually it's probably good for you to stay on board and have a listen to this next guest. sir, can you explain clearly for us and definitively for us this idea of the 24-hour truce and how you speak for hamas and isla

the rocket came in down the airport for two days. now you take hamas that's what they're going to shoot for in any future war because of the impact it has on the europeans and on israel. >> israel's point is world opinion. what's fueling world opinion. >> whatever happens, this is something that has happened over and over again. it's not the first time it's happened. whenever they try to deal with hamas, they say israel cannot do this. they don't want to have any fighting. >> i will tell you what is going to cause serious problems that is the disproportion casualty rate. >> but israel cannot live under the continued threat that they have had from the hamas people. >> do you think world opinion will assemble itself? >> i think it is assembling itself. >> the former national security advisor. why he says it's blundered. he was an advisor in 1978 to carter when -- >> i think he's isolated israel and we ought to make it clear that this is a course of action which we disapprove and we do not support and which may compel us and the rest of the community to t

if it want to take away from hamas, the basic argument it has which is we are -- we hamas are all youhave got, then i would stop the blockade. you can have guarantees against arms flowing but as long as the blockade continues, hamas will be in control of gaza and israel will suffer also along with palestinians. i think it's as simple as that. >> diana let me give you a chance to respond to that. you heard dan talk about the possibility of the pl on. retaking some more authority inu heard ambassador hunter's idea. is this in the offing? are things moving in that direction? >> i certainly hope so and i certainly hope with the secretary's presence here he will push on the vital issues one being the lifting of the blockade and the siege, number two opening the rafa and the release of prisoners and finally freed foul palestinians to continue this process will be only continuing violence for a very long period of time. it's important that we get back to basics and start focusing on the politics not just the security side of things. >> you heard the ambassador say it have en thens hamas when

efforts to halt the fighting between israel and hamas collapse and the air wars raging once again. rocket barrage, hamas calls for a truce by firing dozens more rockets at israel, many intercepted by israel's iron dome. >>> 30 million people from new york to washington are now in the path of severe thunderstorms that could trigger flooding and even tornadoes. we welcome to want our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in jerusalem. you're in "the situation room." and we're following the breaking news. an emergency meeting of the israeli security cabinet happening right now. it's midnight here in israel. the israel defense forces have just announced it's sending messages to residents of northern gaza to leave their homes for their own safety as the death toll from eight days of fighting between israel and hamas now approaching 200. with the collapse of a cease-fire today, there is little hope this air war will let up any time soon. hamas rejected the egyptian plan outright. israel says rocket fire from gaza continued even as israel defense forces paused

so there is no political address for the hamas right now. we have a political address, which is also in kind of at odds with hamas. there's a strategic interest between egypt and israel. against the muslim brotherhood, against the extreme islamism and make sure that maybe after this cycle we'll be able to make sure that maybe the palestinian authority will be able to take over the gaza strip. >> and i have to end it there, sir. just because we want to maintain a fair amount of time on this very complicated topic, and of course, we are -- we feel bad for any deaths on either side of this unfortunate war that is happening there. sir, ambassador, i thank you for your time. thank you for your perspective this afternoon, sir. >> thank you very much. >>> and of course, more deadly violence in tripoli and benghazi to tell you about now. at least 38 people have been killed in a round of clashes between libyan special forces and islamists militants. the country dissenting into the deadliest violence since the 2011 uprising that ousted former dictator

it was, according to the israelis, is to mill tarrize hamas, weakening hamas, to end the tunnels. ne of those goals has been achieved so far. hamas is still strong. hamas is still attracting israelis, trying to target more of the military on the boarder. israelis are suffering cities inside israel. there's a lot of blame to the government of israel for waiting 12 days before starting the serious operation. let's remember. 50 soldiers stand by, 70,000 standing by. the second phase of the operation which the government announced this morning. all of this putting a question mark about why diplomacy is important. israelis are facing a real challenge on the ground, and international community went to the effort to end the killing of the palestinians. a lot of the united states and european union, all - how they accept this number of casualties for no condemnation. >> okay. >> let's talk about the different players right now involved in the negotiations. you have the egyptian, the traditional brokers. you have qatar, turkey, the united states, obviously. out of all the different mediator

and i'll talk with the spokesman for hamas this hour. i'll also speak with the spokes olympian for the israeli prime minister and the former u.s. special envoy for the middle east, retired general anthony zinni. first my firsthand look at this growing conflict. at any moment here in israel, a rocket attack siren could go off. you can hear the sirens have just gone off. we're all being told to get to a shelter. so we're running >> we had to drop everything to get to safety. then an anxious wait for the all clear. before coming out to see if anyone was hurt or killed. earlier here, a rocket slammed into this gas station and a huge fire broke out still smoldering when we arrived. >> there was a rocket directly hit behind me. >> did it hit the truck. >> no, it hit there where you the see now the tractor. >> yeah. >> and, of course, because of the fire started from the truck and 11 cars were burned totally. >> how much warning is there for the folks to run to shelter? >> maximum one minute. maximum. usually it's less. >> sirens went off in tel

on this notion that there could be a huge split between the political arm of hamas versus the militaryrm of hamas, it looks to many analysts that is what has developed. do you think there is a split between the political arm versus the military arm? >> no, no wolf. the point is, president abbas spoke to jihad and others and they told him we are on board. okay, the minute you know, he was trying to form a adelegation and get in touch with the egyptians with secretary kerry, the israelis reject and actually last night and today was the worst day in the last days of fighting. in the last 30 hours, 154 palestinians were killed. i'm talking about 30 hours. they escalated, the israeli army escalated by the way and now they moved to destroy the infrastructure, electricity, water, imagine 1.8 million people without water, without electricity, without soage. there is no place to run or hide. so now, i asked secretary kerry whose inaware offing commitment and effort and who is capability and ability to be in touch with all concerned parties from president abbas to mr. netanyahu to the egyptians

this will be the first official hamas reaction to this u.n. plan. without a cease-fire there's been no let up in the nine-day air war. we saw rockets from gaza intercepted today by israel's missiles. the death toll continues, continues to climb. palestinian health officials say 221 people in gaza have died and almost 1600 have been injured. one israeli also is dead. among today's fatalities, four boys killed on a gaza beach by israeli fire. we are breaking it down with the correspondents across the region and representing both sides with the kind of analysis you won't find. correspondent ben wiedman is joining us from gaza city. israel says it's investigating the killing of these four boys on the gaza beach. hamas says it's a war crime. tell us what happened. >> reporter: what we understand is that this happened at about 4:00 in the afternoon, but before i get to that, wolf, we're hearing that more phone calls have been received by those areas that had received phone calls from the israeli military yesterday ordering them to leave those neighborhoods

here is the problem. hamasl continue to fight until it gets its main goal, the lifting of the israeli and egyptian siege. egyptian on the southern. israel on the north, west and east. israel gave no indication that it's willing to do that. hamas will keep fighting. now that israel is inside of gaza, it vowed to finish the job. that is to destroy the tunnels that fighters are using from gaza to get into israel. that is not something that takes a few hours. it takes days, if not weeks. when israeli officials tell their public, all will die in vein, that limits the chances for any kind of ceasefire. >> thank you for joining us. >>> for more on the diplomatic efforts to end the fighting in gaza, i'm joined from tel aviv, deputy spokesperson for his rail's foreign ministry. i want to start with what is happening with international flights, american flights to the airport in tel aviv. they've been suspended by the federal aviation administration for 24 hours because of the hamas rocket that struck less than six miles

and the more moderate forces. hamas is more wicked and you can't just lump them all together and essentially start having these forces and say all arabs are the enemy. >> who is the head of the un? >> banky moon. >> is he silent on this? >> no, he spoke out. but the united states is the only country giving diplomatic cover. >> is israel committing war crimes? >> they've said -- when the children are dead, schools hit and the un -- >> it's sickening. >> it was a horrible thing. the only solution here is political. i understand why the israelis don't want a political solution. they say you let the west bank goes and it's next to gaza -- i think netanyahu has written off the idea of leaving the west bank. >> i have a question. how much support does hamas have in gaza? >> they have a lot of support in gaza, without question. look, i start off with how this thing -- the israelis were besieged by rockets going into their country. it would be as if 75 percent of the american population had 60 to 90 seconds to get into shelter.

no friends of hamas in that room. theignificant successes in that room are very, very minimal. so they're holding out. they continue to fire. i think as israeli pressure continues to mount on hamas, maybe we'll have some way to negotiate. >> you spent the last few years as the israeli ambassador to the united states. some disturbing reports coming out. israeli police. on extremism among israeli jews. we saw some real brutality against the young palestinian, young palestinian cousin. what's going on here? israel? explain some of this extremism. because it's really, really ugly. >> it is indeed ugly. what's occurred here is years of terrorist rocket fire. we're in jerusalem here. right below us there were two major bus bombings during what the palestinians called the second intefadeh less than a decade ago. all of this has had a continuing corosive effect on israeli society. people get fed up and become more radicalized. >> the way the police report described the brutality in killing the young palestinian. they waited and w

the hamas rocket called the m 302. with a range of about 100 miles it allows hamas to reach deeper into israel than ever before. israel says hamas is getting outside help. in march, israeli forces stopped a ship containing m 302s that the israelis said came from iran and were headed to gaza. several rockets are also locally produced in gaza. israeli air strikes now aiming at rocket launch sites, production factories and other militant targets. israel's main defense, this system called the iron dome. strategically placed units around israel launched missiles against incoming rockets that appear headed for population centers. so far, israel says it's worked well much of the time, but hamas is looking for vulnerability. >> i think what they're trying to do is fire as many as they can in a short period of time because that overwhelms the iron dome sensors. >> the u.s. has spent nearly $9 million on the iron dome, just part of the $3 billion in u.s. funding for israel's defenses. the pentagon is keeping a close eye on whethe

in the west bank was responded by hamas in gaza. by rockets that's that's the real context of everything and you can't stop just there was there ok it's you have almost two hours to sieve what brought there now right now i'm not sure that the truth. will milt be respected because all reserve to each operation there are few hours in which both parties want to say the last word i think right now it's in the interest of israel and hamas to put an end to these so-called because above all we have to remember israelis interested only in one thing in maintaining they start to squall and any kind of fighting disturbs this goal the goal is to maintain the status quo gaza under siege west bank and the israeli occupation let's wait ok mico when you want to jump in there because we had the unity government here and we have hamas isolated relatively speaking if we can go back to two thousand and doesn't have a lot of friends in the neighborhood anymore is this convenient for israel this moment well this is a convenient or israel and i l

israel blamed the murders on hamas. said this would be the attack hamas normally would claim responsibility for. last night, a top israeli spokesman related his position that hamas is indeed responsible. randi kaye has more. >> reporter: they are abducted in the dark of night while attempting to hitchhike home from religious school until the west bank. it's june 12th, when the three israeli teenagers go missing. realizing they are in danger, one manages to make this call for help. [speaking foreign language]. >> it's the last anyone hears from them, three days later, june 15th, the boys still aren't home. benjamin netanyahu publicly blames the terror group hamas warning of consequences. >> this attack should surprise no one because hamas is committed to the destruction of israel and to carrying out terrorists attacks against israeli civilians, including children. >> but he offers no proof hamas is directly involved. [speaking foreign language]. >> translator: netanyahu's comments are stupid. the escalation in the west b

hamas blames israel. the idf put out a statement saying this was an errant hamas rocket that hit those facilities earlier today, but there will be forensic evidence and a full investigation, i'm sure, will go forward and eventually we'll learn who was responsible for that attack. all right, guys, thanks very much. ian lee, karl penhaul, reporting. >>> now to a cnn exclusive that we have for you. i want to take you 45 feet underground, inside an elaborate hamas tunnel that was running from hun yunis in gaza to southern israel. israel says its main goal is to destroy these tunnels used to smuggle weapons, launch attacks. here's our entry into the tunnel, watch this. >> let's go. no, i'm not scared. all right. all right. all right. okay. all right. ah, i guess the tunnel was built for relatively short people because if you stand up, you're going to hit your head. i'm not that tall. but you see, it's pretty -- pretty secure, this concrete. they spent a lot of effort building this tunnel. and they say it's 14 mete

the problem for hamas is twofold. he one hand, as amira explain, basically, it restores an acceptable status quo while on the other hand, has been endorsed by the arab league, but most of the western powers, and so on. them will be difficult for to either accept or reject this, so to speak, while at the same time i think the parties that are proposing this cease-fire are making it clear they're not really interested in any further negotiation of its terms. finkelstein, give us a sketch of the broader context for how this latest flareup began. >> before i do, i want to briefly comment on the cease-fire. the cease-fire, first of all, says nothing about the rampages by israel against hamas in the west bank. it was those rampages which caused the current conflict to escalate. it gives israel a green light to continue arresting hamas members, blowing up homes in the west bank, ransacked in homes, and killing palestinians come a which was the prelude to the current fighting. secondly, if you look at the cease-fire, it is exa

the boy's bodies were discovered in a field. hamas denies involvement and warns israeli reprizele would open the gates of hell. first, can i ask you about a claim that is being reported here by a previously unknown palestinian group calling itself supporters of the islamic state in jerusalem. it's claiming responsibility for abduction and killing. it's reported this website was supportive of the group known as isis. have you heard anything on that at all? >> well, there are small pockets of support for islamists in the west bank. this is a palestinian group we have not heard of before. no militant group has said it's responsible for kidnapping and murder of three israeli teens. israel is sure the group hamas is responsible. it named two prime suspects, two omen from the city at large who do have links to hamas. we have comments from the hamas leader saying they have no information about what happened, but actually praising any kidnapping there had been of the israeli teens. it's a complicated picture. it's too soon to say this newly n

the political arm of hamas which was the palestinian authority has openly embraced hamas itself. and this congress and the administration itself and the american people need to understand that there is a palestinian anti-terrorism act of 2006 which prohibits the u.s. from sending foreign aid to palestinian authority governments that includes hamas terrorists and says we are not going to fund hamas terrorist organizations. we are watching that the operations that were so utterly necessary, the israeli defense forces going into gaza and losing israeli soldiers and yes they have to defend. thousands of rockets have been fide into israel. and living under that threat of a people that outside your borders would raise their children to carry suicide vests to kill israelis to teach those things to the young people, that hatred is on one side of that border, it's on the gaza side and west bank and all around israel. it's not from israel out. i'm amazed how how patient they are, tolerant they are and how they have suffered and waited until it had to be before the order was ordered to go in

the top floor of a building, opened by hamas television. the israelis hit it in the past and again as a sign of defines. the mosque we saw doing live shots, broadcasting live from the roof of that building, each though their offices were gutted. that is the attack. israel faned a target. hamas institutions or homes. media outlet's, going after that, and israel responding. israel targeted many dozens of the leaders of hamas, their homes. none of them have been killed in the strikes. >> nick schifrin, al jazeera correspondent. thanks. as always, stay safe. >> for more, i'm joined by counsel general of israel. prime minister binyamin netanyahu said on friday that he ordered israeli forces to prepare for a widening of the latest gazzen invasion. president obama said he and others were working to restore the 2012 ceasefire. is there a conflict there. >> israel made clear that it wanted to join the accuracy fire that the jacob shapros and arab league proposed. hamas rejected and considered rocket fire. they are tunnelling under the border. we are

the same. one of hamas' top leaders lived today in turkey, he was the one who give the command for those hamas members from the west bank to kidnap the israeli kids and slaughter them. so basically those powers in the region they need to stop supporting hamas organization because hamas organization simply is a terrorist organization and she does not care about the lives of palestinians. she does not care about the lives of israelis either. >> let me ask you, why do you speak out? your father is the founder of hamas. you're the son of the founder of hamas. a terrorist organization. why have you chosen to speak out as strongly as you do? >> well, one day islam and hamas were my project. as a family we paid very high price for the sake of hamas, for the sake of palestine. and i grew up witnessing all the bloodshed and the dirty politics behind it. and at some point in my life i choose to move on. but today i feel the responsibility, you know. the children of gaza remind me of myself 20 years ago. how we were crying in the streets not knowing what's going on. and the politicians were sentence us to

popularity of hamas has waned definitely over the years. it has lost a tremendous amount of support from when it was elected in 2006 in democratic elections. talking to ordinary palestinians, there is a tremendous amount of disappointment with hamas, a tremendous amount of disagreement about the way they carry the domestic affairs inside the gaza strip and at the end of the day speaking to palestinians about the larger struggle and that is what they always fall back to, the larger struggle they're a people still under occupation, still besieged in the gaza strip, the first point of grievance with israel before hamas and no doubt about it. hamas is not by any way, shape or form popular in the gaza strip but this is a struggle the way palestinians see it and describe it as an exostential fight and that's how they see the latest chapter of this violence. >> our thanks to you both. thank you both so much. now joined by the ambassador to the united states. we have heard from both sides now, ambassador. this is -- what is the end here? israel has

it is the following. that hamas believes in some quarter that i cannot get a negotiation that it would find acceptable to its leaders or its members or the palestinians that they represent. and so therefore, their objective is worldwide condemnation of israel to isolate israel. does that argument have any resonance in terms of the people you have met with talk to, negotiated with. >> i don't see any evidence and we did not see any evidence in the time we were negotiating for the nine months of intensive negotiations. but hamas wanted to be part of that, that hamas was worried that the peace train was leaving the station, that they needed to climb on board. they have long argued that these negotiations have never led anywhere, will never lead anywhere, that it's just an illusion. and a mirage for the palestinian people. and that the only way to get israel to do anything is to struggle, terrorism, kidnappings and that. and their objectives in this conflict that they have enumerated all relate to opening up gaza, enabl

why did hamas reject the deal? >> there was no cease-fire proposal introduced to hamas. it was published in the media and we said that we were not able to discuss ideas about this in the media. it was supposed to be through political channels. we discuss any ideas that come through political channels and discuss it in a responsible way. because, we have said from the first day that we must have a cease-fire that will help and protect the palestinian people. >> what would it take for hamas to agree to a cease-fire ande? >> this is a minor issue. the cease-fires were broken by the israelis every time. they close the checkpoints between -- the prisoner exchange agreement and the rights of the palestinians in the right -- west bank. we are talking about the end of the israeli occupation. all of those issues are supposed to be discussed between the sides. we will publish that as a cease-fire agreement. everyone knows that -- >> in the meantime, it is palestinians who are dying in this conflict. 190 so far. is the price of hamas firing rockets at israel worth saying -- paying?

and the e.u. hamas accepted those terms and now netanyahu was cornered he was going to be forced to negotiate and so he does what israel historically has always done it tries to nip these. palestinian peace offenses in the bud in this case by attacking hamas and hoping and praying to evoke some sort of reaction then would you like to reply to that. yes please hamas initiated this conflict it started with barrage of rockets and missiles on israeli towns and villages it is constantly it was authored by israel a calm for calm deal that rejected the noni didn't reject the offer of a one on an aggressive campaign and again no other country in the. the world would sit idly by and just watch a barrage of rockets into its territory and not respond with blood they were put in sit idly by if moscow and st petersburg would be under the threat of rockets and missiles are you sure you that he wouldn't and so other other leaders in the western world such as countering merkel holand obama. idly by and the leader of is

it's resumed its attacks on the territory. hamas confirmed it fired rockets in to israel. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to al jazerra. we are live from doha with all the latest. also coming up on the program. ukraine's military says it's gaining ground in the push world the rebel held city of donetsk. australian police join a dutch security team in ukraine to secure the malaysia airlines crash site. >>> so the ceasefire in gaza is over. within the past hour israel has resumed its bombardment of gaza. take a look at these. these are live pictures artillery shelling has resumed and we have had reports of air strikes. the neighborhoods once again being targeted. they ridiculoused such devastation on thos neighborhoos before. there had been a brief ceasefire in place for 12 hours which had been extended by the israeli security cabinet but hamas rejected the ceasefire saying it didn't allow the removal of the israeli troops from the buffer zones and didn't allow families to go home. so if the pat hou in the past he israeli army resumed the bombardment

the party line. how many children has hamas killed? zero, the anchor says. how many women has hamas killed? zero. ny children have israel killed? over 400. how many did they hit? thousands. saying later, all of the martyrs are civilians. all of them. ♪ al aqsa began to broadcast in gaza in 2006 shortly after hamas won a landslide victory in palestinian elections. in 2007, they garnered international scrutiny with this children's program featuring a mickey mouse like character named farfor. who was killed by an israeli interrogator. beyond the clear hamas propaganda, al aqsa tv also broadcasts from the field. they're often the first on the scene of air strikes broadcasting some of the most searing images of the conflict. israelis say these are themselves propaganda, an effort by hamas to garner sympathy around the world. and part of the reason israel targeted al aqsa's headquarters, saying in part al aqsa was used to, quote, incite palestinians against israel and to transmit orders and messages to hamas operatives. we want to look closer at the lens the palestinians see themselveses through the res

the sea. why doesn't hamas abide by the cease-fire for the sake of its own people? >> look, this is a situation, these sides are both dug in. for hamas, they are determined that they will fight this war on their own terms. they say they will not stop fighting when the israelis ask them to stop fighting. fact we can still hear now what sounds like artillery coming so maybe this brief humanitarian window could in fact be coming to a close. it certainly sounds like incoming fire as opposed to outgoing many we'll try and work on that. as far as hamas is concerned, they say they will continue to fight this war on their own terms. they will not stop fighting when the israelis want them to stop firing. this isn't a cease-fire because the israelis continue to operate in parts of the gaza strip and while they are continuing to be there, they will continue to attack them. the problem we have now in gaza is that people here have now lost so much that they now need a reason to show for that. >> thank you. >>> just across the gaza border, in southern israel, support is high for t

we'll ask questions to both the israeli government and hamas. if you have questions, tweet me, @jaketapper. "wolf" live from jerusalem starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting live from jerusalem. i'd like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. a new call for a cease-fire is rejected. the fighting is clearly intensifying. israel's prime minister is warning of a protracted campaign against hamas. here are some of the latest developments. the palestinian authority led by mahmoud abbas today called for a 24-hour truce that could be extended for up to 24 hours. but quickly said hamas has rejected the proposal. another spokesman says hamas is open to sending a palestinian delegation to egypt. a senior israeli official tells cnn israel is prepared for a cease-fire, but nothing firm has been agreed upon. a strike today hit gaza's only power plant. hamas television says the house of a senior political leader was also hit. and a radio station run by hamas was also bombed. medical officials in gaza now say more tha

the authority. we have a problem here. hamasas agreed to a reconciliation process, and working with the palestinian authority, and now we'll see the authority in charge of conducting these negotiations. and one hopes they continue the cease fire, and we do see long term, concrete relief. in the form of open borders and an opportunity to grow the economy. it can take a long time for this to heal, and i don't want to see anymore damage done. >> dan, it is to a lot of people watching, you hear hamas mi militants saying this is a war to end all wars, and then a cease fire that people hope is going grow into something bigger. >> well, what jim just said, he didn't talk about whether or not hamas should be able to rearm. >> israel says they use every cease fire to rearm and refresh. >> i'm curious to see what jim thinks what hamas has built in the last nine years. a terrorist training camp, hundreds of millions of dollars spent, launching hundreds of rockets a day. so, i think from israel's standpoint, of course they want some kind of

the idea, and hamas, and the terrorist infrastructure, there's one party that cares about the civilian population of gaza, and it's not hamas. >> you say the tunnels are aimed at the death and destruction of israel, and we are seeing a proportionate death of civilians in gaza, and a destruction of gaza. what is your justification for that? >> actually, the situation is, indeed, dire, and a human tragedy, but the human tragedy is a result of hamas's policy, as a result of the way that they are utilizing the force from the staging ground. they are using the civilians as a part of their tragedy. that is what they are doing. we, as a military force, a professional military force. we can only find our hands according to the rules of law. we are finding ourselves and limiting ourselves. if we want to be killed, we have to match the capability technically to do so. we have used limited force, and there is a civilian fault. >> 500 palestinians killed in the past two weeks. >> a huge proportion of the population is paying for it. we appealed to the civilian population, that we are coming here.