Good afternoon, im luke ruse russert in for alex wagner. Its been one week since israels Ground Invasion of gaza began and no sign of a ceasefire. A u. N. School where hundreds of displaced Palestinian Civilians were taking shelter came under shell fire. Reporters at the scene describe pools of blood on the ground, screaming and scores of crying families being rushed to the hospital. 15 people were reportedly killed in the attack including three children. This was the third time that u. N. Shelters set up in schools have been struck by shell fire since the con flick began. U. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon said he was, quote, appalled by the attack although the cause of strike is still unclear. U. N. Officials said they gave the Israeli Military precise coordinates for the cool and made it clear civilians were being sheltered there. They tried to coordinate with the israeli army, a window for civilians to leave the school that it was never granted. Israeli officials deny this claim and gave a fourhour evacuation period. Over the past two weeks, rockets presumably hidden by hamas have been discovered in two different u. N. Schools in gaza. Israeli Defense Forces say 46 rockets have been fired out of gas into israeli territory today. 14 of them were intercepted by the iron dome. Late last night the faa lifted its ban on flights to and from tel aviv. They would resume all flights to israel. Secretary of state john kerry is still in cairo working toward a ceasefire. The state Department Said today that kerry has been working the phones, but a senior u. S. Official told reuters that gaps remain between the parties and that kerry will not stay in the middle east indefinitely. Its expected to stay in cairo, though, at least until tomorrow morning. Over the past 17 days, 788 palestinians and 35 israelis have been killed and more than 140,000 gasans have been displaced from their homes. Joining me from washington is democratic congressman from new york 16th district elliott angle and with the House Foreign Affairs committee. Thank you for being on the program. Thank you, luke, my pleasure. We see the horrific news that the school was shelled today and we dont know if israel or hamas was responsible for that and we see it mounting into the 700s and dozens of Israeli Soldiers and a few civilians have been killed and this all stems from three israeli teenagers getting kids napped and shows no sign of ending. What is to be made out of all of this and where is an endgame here, congressman from where we started three israeli teenagers getting kidnapped with all of this death and devastation. About a week ago, egypt tried to broker what it called a ceasefire. Israel accepted the ceasefire and hamas did not. You cant have it both ways. If you dont accept an unconditional ceasefire and then your people are killed then i think youre partially to blame and so this is a horrific thing. War is always horrific. Its not a pretty picture, but i think that hamas for years has been using its people as human shields, building its bomb factories and its missile launchers and heavily civilian population even as you reported, missiles were found in u. N. Schools in the gaza strip. So i think that, you know, it cant be both ways. We hear a lot about the civilians being killed and its a terrible tragedy, but even more civilians are being killed every day in syria and we dont hear about that at all. Its only when israel tries to defend itself against rocket attacks coming in for the past several years, virtually every day being fired at its citizens and its civilians, israel finally said enough is enough. In terms of moving toward a peaceful solution, obviously, hamas is distrustful of the new regime in egypt and why they do not want to engage in the ceasefire brokered there. Hamas is on its last legs politically and they looked toward the intervention of trying to gain civilian support for their actions and they do receive that support, interestingly enough from the west bank and more moderate area. Is israel playing into their hand by prolonging this conflict and seeing their death tolls rise on their side . Look, i personally am for a twostate solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict and a twostate side by side and the palestinian state and the jewish state living in peace and harmony. Israel doesnt have a war with the Palestinian People and it has a war with hamas which is a terrorist group. We recognize israels right to exist and its not a legitimate nation and it wants to pushes rail into the sea and i dont know how israel is supposed to negotiate with an entity that denies its right to exist. Its something secretary kerry will be working on tomorrow and hopefully there will be some progress. Congressman eliot engel, thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank you. Joining me now is executive director of human rights ro, kenneth roth and bernard abishe. Ill start with you, ken. Were now starting to see this conflict boil into where a lot of civilians and on the palestinian side are being killed and youre hearing families being displaced and the u. N. Is reportedly witnessing war crimes being carried out by both sides and what does that mean for the future of the conflict if the u. N. Moves forward and says there are a lot of war crimes being committed here, but possibly by the United States ally israel. There are war crimes being committed by both sides. Hamas is committing war crimes by firing rockets into Populated Areas of israel. Israel is committing war crimes repeatedly by targeting civilian structures and by not paying sufficient attention to identifying military targets before they shoot with the consequence of killing children on the beach, bombing basically a cafe on the beach where people were assembled to watch the world cup, attacking children feeding ducks on their roof, attacking a house where people had gathered to break the ramadan fast killing 25 people. So the issue is not, you know, who is right to be at war and who is not. Who is abiding by a proposed ceasefire and not, but rather who is following the laws of war which are designed to spare civilians the consequence of war and we see that boeing sides have repeatedly violated those. Professor, i would like to point out something to you, what do you believe is the strategy here . Israel is saying theyre trying to move to destroy these tunnels that hamas has been using to get into israel and incite fear and terrorism, but it seems this particularly aggressive action by israel is nentanyahu is tryig to prove a point. Theyre sick and tired of trying to negotiate a status quo for peace. What is israel trying to claim by prolonging this conflict that derived by three teenagers being kidnapped and killed a few weeks ago. Just to be clear. They were never negotiating with hamas. They were negotiating with the Palestinian Authority. Im sorry. Which actually had hamas in a bit of a corner about two months ago and forced hamas to ak sep the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority in negotiations and in taking the palestinian cause to the international arena, to the u. N. And even to the International Criminal court. So, you know, israel has an interlocutor. It it isnt hamas. It never was hamas, but hamas was prepared at least in so far as it was forced to accept the Palestinian Authoritys capacity to negotiate. I think right now on the israeli side, you know, everyone is suffering from a bit of what might be called with sad irony, tunnel vision. Once 32 soldiers are dead, the conflict has to mean something and people dont have to give up their sons for nothing and what i fear is happening is that the the country is starting to lock on to this idea that the war aims are now to destroy the tunnels leading from gaza leading into israel and they discovered many more than what they expected to find and they also are speaking now after having debriefed a bunch of hamas fighters that there was a planned attack through these tunnels which i think has sent a shudder through the israeli population. And and now i fear go ahead. Go ahead . Yeah. Well, i fear that the Israeli Government now cannot back down from completing the job its now set for itself which means that its going to turn down any offer of a ceasefire which is clearly what we want in order to stop all of this madness. Correct. And ken, i want to bring that over to you because this is something that i when we first started covering this earlier in the week where conflict was moving, youre seeing both sides really dig in. Israel saying we want to eliminate all of these tunnels as the professor was just saying. Youre seeing a lot of palestinians in gaza saying we dont want to go back to the status quo. It was horrific for us, it was sewage in the streets and eight hours of power and we were trapped like rodents and we dont want to go back to that. How was peace brokered when both sides are saying, we dont want to go back to the status quo of three weeks ago. We want much more for ourselves. We have the prospects of peace are advanced. He was basically reading from the Israeli Government talking points which are a bunch of diversionary points. Things are worse in syria, true, but that doesnt allow israel attacking civilian structures or paying inadequate care to avoiding attacking civilians. Hamas using human shields, zero evidence of that. That requires of using force and palestinians there have been reports of rockets being held in school areas by hamas. No question that hamas is sometimes endangering civilians, but that is not using them as human shields which is to force them to stay there. Thats simply not happening. The argument that hamas didnt accept the ceasefire, well, they may or may not be right about that, but that doesnt give israel justification to ignore the geneva conventions and to target civilian struck urs. Why are they attacking hospitals . There was no hamas fighter near the hospital . Why are they attacking houses . Because they say a militant lived there, thats not justification. 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Which lets me know im getting a representative sample, but in addition to catrice, a young woman named katie caster was there, and she told me about her life. She grew up in a workingclass neighborhood in wisconsin. Her parents taught her to value education, that that was going to be the the ticket to the middle class. First in her family to go to college, moved on to get her masters degree from pepperdine state out of california, and she wrote to tell me that shes always played by the rules, valued education ask workand wo hard and she felt trapped because no matter how hard she worked she couldnt get ahead. If earning an education doesnt open doors for someone like me to rise above my socioeconomic class what does that say about our country . What does that say about our values, she asked . I try not to be cynical, but one shouldnt have to be rich or from a wealthy family in order to pay their bills, save some money, have fun, enjoy life. I didnt write this letter to complain, i wrote because i dont know what else to do and as the president of my country i hope you would listen to my story. Lchl l. A. , im shehere because i am listening to katies story and im listening to americans across the country, everyone working their tail off, believes in the American Dream and just upons a chance to build a decent life for themselves and their family and you are why i ran for president in the first place and im always going to be listening to you. [ cheers and applause ] the crisis that hit near the end of that campaign back in 2008 cost millions of americans their jobs and their homes and their sense of security, but our businesses have added 10 million new jobs over the past 52 months. The Unemployment Rate is at its lowest rate since september 2008 and this past year we saw one of the fastest drops in nearly 30 years in the Unemployment Rate. 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Usa usa usa so we have every reason to be optimistic about america. We hold all of the best cards. Weve got the best hand, but the decisions we make now are going to determine whether or not working americans like katie continue to feel trapped or whether they get ahead, whether the economic gains that we make just go to a few at the top or they help to grow an economy and grow incomes and grow middle class opportunities for everybody and thats whats at stake right now, making sure our economy works for every working american. Thats why i ran for president. Thats what im focused on every day. [ applause ] this is the challenge of our time. We cant be distracted. And if youre if youre in Public Office and you dont have an answer for somebody like katie, if youre not thinking about her and folks who are working hard, but still struggling every day, why are you in Public Service . Today im here to focus on one thing we should be doing which is training more american