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Mistakes again. >> torture is profoundly illegal. fighting an enemy trying to eliminate you using lethal weapons is obviously something thats been the conduct of war for centuries. but that doesnt mean there arent ethical questions here and the remove that a drone strike allows, the fact that you can kill from so far away, obviously raises moral and ethical implications, even if the result is the same. of you know, a kind of a mortar attack from a closer distance. so -- i think that these issues...

An israeli missile strike. and this as we hear news today that four israeli boys, and it looks like we have what appears to be rockets and iron dome defense system intercepting those rockets. i will keep an eye on this. and we heard of four palestinian boys that was killed in an israeli missile strike. it would know safer to go to the beach to play instead of their homes and they were hit. and they are among the 200 palestinians who have been killed since all of this started nine days ago. and l...

Border. it was a mortar attack. he was a civilian. the death toll in israel officials say would be much higher but for the fact that there is iron dome missile system. they say it saved countless lives. lastly diplomatic efforts at this hour continue in egypt. palestinians, egyptians as well as hamas are meeting together to try to make some progress on a cease-fire agreement. but also moving forward it appears israels plans for a possible ground incursion. back to you. >> more on the story as it...

Israel and gaza border area. we are hearing about the first civilian casulty in israel. 200 palestinians were killed in the cop flikt and 1200 injured, only several israelis were injured and tonight we hear that one person died because of according to officials of a hamas mortar attack. will it intensify and the ceasefire agreements broke down. will that intensify the fighting. as we go in the evening and overnight hours, the pattern is that things pick up and the question is will that intensify...

City came under attack, a city 15 mills from the gaza border. a rocket there hilt a car. it caused a massive fire of that vehicle. but there were no injuries. once the alarms go off in the sea, people have 45 seconds in order to seek shelter. and lastly, for the first time since the conflict got underway we have seen a couple of israel soldiers who have been injured. light and moderate injuries. they came under mortar attack at their base. the conflict continues to heat up. >> whats the latest o...

Cause problems. either attacks within baghdad which they have been doing p. they can still he is security and one of the worst case is if there are security situations at the embassy and we have to shut down or temporarily close or relocate or evacuate staff, those are worst case scenarios we need to watch for. that may not be a take over but that would be something to dramatically alter both the policy strategically and how they deal with iraq and the strategy in general. >> a possible, you thi...

Some old questions are getting new attention tonight concerning the murder of four americans in the raid on the u.s. diplomatic facility in benghazi, libya, september 2012. at issue, did the obama administration deliberately downplay the level of planning and execution now evident in those attacks? here is catherine herridge. >> if former cia director david petraeus and mike morrell are recalled to testify in benghazi, they can expect hard questions about the mortar attack in benghazi. republica...

Martha: some conflicting evidence is now emerging in the benghazi investigation. at issue is new information that shows that former cia director david petraeus and his deputy, michael morrell, whos become a real focus in this investigation, both downplayed the skill and the planning behind the mortar attack that killed two american security officers that night. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in d.c. catherine, was in the kind of attack that really could have been don...

Suggested they did not involve significant preplanning. and when pressed on the same issue, petraeus also downplayed the planning and necessary skill, stating that the mortars could have been fired from the back of a truck. >> a truck would not permit you, that stable platform necessary to put the rounds down. because every time you fire, the truck shakes. its not adequate for any sort of indirect fire. >> reporter: we asked general petraeus to further clawfy his assessment, and there was no imm...

Tyrone woods and glen doherty who were defending the cia operation from the rooftop. a third cia contractor was also on the roof and permanently maimed in the mortar attack. this recent bipartisan senate intelligence committee report that found a lot of differing points of view on the attacks. quote, the collective assessment of the tell intelligence community remains that the attacks were deliberate and organized but their lethality and efficacy didnt necessarily indicate extensive planning. in...