they depend on the russian oil and natural gas. it s a true. that s why it s hard to get them to step up and do what we re doing. i hope it will get them into action. it affects their economy more, they re more directly impacted by the security threat from russia. let s talk about gaza and the middle east. kerry is heading over there. can the united states do something to help mitigate this? i think the united states can, but it s going to be very tough. until those rockets stop, until the efforts to infiltrate israel has to defend itself. i think what kerry can do is try to bring some of our allies in to get them to put pressure on hamas to stop the rocket fire and bring about a ceasefire. i think israel wanted a s.e.a.l. cea ceasefire. can we get hamas to agree to a ceasefire? is the size fire going to
of gaza, the civilian casualties, the children, pretty horrific right now. what s going jon. well in full gear, we re taking the battle to the terrorists. unfortunately, they intentionally positioned themselves in the midst of the civilian population. indeed, there is this overflow. i would say in our mission, over the last almost two days now, of the ground forces, we ve arrested a great deal. we ve exposed 13 tunnels which were meant to enable the palestinian terrorist, the hamas terrorists, to penetrate israel. going from gaza? 13 instances. have you destroyed those tunnels? we re in the action of operating to decommission them so they will not pose a threat anymore. because we ve heard there may be indications there s been another infiltration even as we speak of hamas commanders, if you will, coming through those tunnels into israel? well, we have incidents where
questions behind what if, what for? alexander field, cnn, new york. alexandra, thank you so much. this is a chilling family about this family ready to board mh-17, but turned away from the airline. we re going to tell you what happened. israeli forces now plunging deeper into gaza. next, we re going to talk live to israel s military spokesman about this ground offensive and these long-term plans. here i am. rock you like a hurricane
negev. we ve received word of one death there. a civilian killed? a civilian killed from indiscriminate fire from gaza. there are other reports that israeli soldiers may have been killed? i can t have that at this time. we ll update you. colonel peter learner, thank you for joining us. christi and victor, there you have the latest from the israeli perspective. you ve been showing our viewers what is going none zbaz it. it s very intense. and as i suspect as president benjamin netanyahu has said, it s only going to get more intense. wolf blitzer along with lund colonel learner, thank you so much, we appreciate it. think about this, a couple and their baby was supposed to board flight 17. then at the last minute, the airline said no, they could not. well, we ll tell you what happened, how they feel now knowing they could have been on that doomed flight.
he s the spokesman for the world health agency, via skype. christopher, thankful that you can be with us here. what is priority number one for you in gaza? right now, the number of displaced people seeking sanctuary is above 50,000 people. that s the same level of the gaza fighting five years ago. the main purpose is to shelter them, bring food, water all that the number of people in 44 schools in gaza will need. of course, the other major priority is the security of civilians. we all on all of the parties to respect the invulnerability. in the round of fighting years ago, hundreds of installations were hit. we ve also had a situation recently where we discovered 20 rockets in an unra school which wasn t being used.