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Homes, the casualties, the children, are there humanitarian corridors that these people can undertake to avoid these kinds of bitter battles that are going jon. >> well, weve encouraged people to leave specific area where is we know we are going. unfortunately, as we have seen, hamas terrorists will launch rockets to next to hospitals. they will launch rockets from mosques, in civilian areas. weve cancelled several missions there in order to avert civilian casualties. but it is a huge challenge ...

Say, okay, do they have to get rid of all of them, the majority or is there a sense of that? >> there isnt really a sense of that. initially, israeli officials talked about two weeks. two weeks to go into these areas that are right along the gaza/israel border. to destroy the items they know about and look for tunnels they dont know about. by being on the ground they will be in a position to look for new tunnels. the question is, what these reinforcements doing on the border? why is benjamin net...

Batteries that hamas has placed in civilian centers next to schools, next to mosques, next to hospitals. they are not only targeting our civilians but using their civilians as human shields. but were acting with enormous restraint considering our people are under constant rocket attack. >> ambassador, i would suggest to you that just one rocket in any american city would result in massive overwhelming use of force. 1600 and on average thousands a year is the situation that your fellow country me...

Batteries that hamas has placed in civilian centers next to schools, next to mosques, next to hospitals. they are not only targeting our civilians but using their civilians as human shields. but were acting with enormous restraint considering our people are under constant rocket attack. >> ambassador, i would suggest to you that just one rocket in any american city would result in massive overwhelming use of force. 1600 and on average thousands a year is the situation that your fellow country me...

And claimed to have shot down what he believed to have been a ukrainian military plane, and saying we warned you, stay out of our skies. its around the same time this plane disappeared and thats another piece of evidence that ukrainian officials are citing to me as a sign that it is pro-russian separatists who were behind taking down this malaysian passenger jet. so thats their perspective, anderson. >> and our nick payton walsh getting information on the separatists and joins us from london. ni...

Nick, what are you hearing? >> reporter: ive just spoken again to the self declared security council of the separatists and the donetsk peoples republic. he checked with the people armed the self declared prime minister of the separatists and confirmed they do not have the black box. there had been reports on twitter, suggestions it was in their possession. he said if they did, they would say so. thats what hes telling us. he said if they do get their hands on and he said there are people on the...

Funerals. official says the death toll in gaza is now more than 200. in israel, a 37-year-old civilian killed in a hamas rocket attack this week. he was buried today. he is the only israeli fatality so far. wolf blitzer joins me from jerusalem. what do we know about it and what has israel said about it? >> the israelis say theyre very disturbed by it. they say they have launched a full-scale investigation to try to determine what happened. the prime minister netanyahus spokesman mark regev told ...

There are parts of gaza, particularly in the north where house after house was destroyed. many people, basically, had to live in makeshift accommodations for years afterward. the prospect of an invasion has people worried. thats why you have at least 20,000 people who have fled those areas of north and northeastern gaza. they are staying in u.n. schools because they dont want to be in the line of fire, if an invasion happens. john? >> ben wedeman in gaza for us with a few hours to go with this t...

[siren] you can see people running for cover there as the four-day conflict shows no signs of slowing down, and in southern israel, hamas rocket hit aghast station, setting it on fire, wounding three people. one in serious condition. meanwhile were getting new video there from the israeli military showing powerful airstrikes in gaza as the death toll mounts there with reports of at least 95 people killed since the start of this latest round of violence. all this as president obama says the u.s. ...

A huge plume of smoke came up, but coming to this whole area near gaza, its pretty tumultuous. earlier, for example, there was a direct hamas rocket attack, and it hit a gas station which is not far away from where i am right now. weve got zott some video i want to show you. at least 11 videos totally destroyed, a gas truck totally destroyed. the whole gas station was destroyed. one israeli who was handicapped stuck in a car wanting to go by some gas couldnt get out. pretty severely injured, but...