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Other side of that truck and the shrapnel and stuff from the mortar shell hit me in the left leg, as well as the right leg. being in a segregated army at that time, when we actually combined our resources with the white troops there was no such thing as segregated because the people who were wounded, and if you were a medic, they don't care exactly who -- what the color of the person was or his skin or anything like that. only thing they wanted was aid. >> what was amazing to me about listening to that, joanne, he's in a segregated army. they couldn't use the same barracks, facilities and all....

>> i think it's extremely unlikely based on at least the photograph. and it's difficult to make conclusive determinations based on that photograph, but i would guess based on the kind of weapons that these folks have in the sinai, they're more likely to actually have direct access to military-grade explosives. they could take a mortar shell, they could take an ied and simply take some of the explosives out of it and repurpose it. obviously, this must have been a very powerful explosive, because a small amount inside of a coke can was enough to cause explosive decompression on board the plane, ...

The very same neighborhoods that the israeli military is bombing, at one point we saw eight rockets going out from a single launching site. another rocket went off of there a few minutes before we came to air. all of this because of the breakdown, failure of this cease-fire to get off the ground. as the sun rises in gaza, more explosions. air strikes progress overnight as the death toll continues to rise. in israel hamas launched an attack on tel aviv, the iron dome blocking those rockets fired from gaza. this defense mechanism did not stop israel's first casualty late monday. he was volunteer...

Whether a ground invasion would soon follow after that. you still have tens of thousands of israeli troops massed along the border between gaza and israel. the death toll here in gaza has climbed this morning to more than 200. we believe around 80%, according to the united nations, are civilians. yesterday israel saw its first civilian death. a man killed by a mortar shell on that border. so, the fighting here continuing unabated. neither side showing any signs of letting up. >> alex, you've been on the ground there for nine days, talking to palestinians on the ground. is there any sense they'...