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Coast. french troops were sent in to help calm the situation. they've been drawn now into the fight. we'll get the latest developments in the fight. first we have more into what's turning into a humanitarian disaster. >> reporter: this is what it's come in to ivory coast. they used to call this place an economic miracle, now bodies litter the boulevards. the french don't want this fight, but they are slowly being sucked into it. this is how they're moving about abijian now. what is now looking like a war in a french colony that was once so prosperous. the french army is struggling to support o...

Shannon? >> shannon: we will keep watching as it plays out. thank you. at least 12 people killed and hundreds injured in violence in syria and israeli air strikes killed two palestinian militants in the gaza strip. leland vitter is live in jerusalem with more on the many situations. hello, leland. >> right now there is a new israeli weapons system called the iron dome that is trying to protect parts of southern israel from the militants launching mortar shells and also rockets here into the towns in southern israel. only one town that right now is protected but the israelis say they have to ...

Station in jerusalem. a watchful manager called our equivalent of 911 and called it in but the police couldn't get there on time and it blew up. 50 wounded. a woman dead. 59-year-old woman dead as yet unidentified. no organization has claimed responsibility for it but we've had a similar -- we've had a terrorist attack just over a week ago when an entire family was murdered, two parents, three young children including an infant girl were murdered in their homes, and a terrorist organization actually afilled with the al fat that party that runs the palestinian party claimed credit for it and si...

Freedoms and threatens the peace of everyone. >> i remember watching the scenes from tahrir square in cairo when they were jubilant at the thought of mubarak going and then we cut to scenes from gaza where there were equally wild celebrations. as you say, they were not celebrating the expansion of democratic freedom in egypt. they were celebrating the overthrowing of mubarak and the possibility perhaps for them to do a similar thing potentially in israel. >> well, look, mubarak kept the peace. egypt kept the peace for over 30 years, and it should be remembered and appreciated. the people in ga...

The people in gaza, those who are affiliated with hamas want to see the chance of the peace and eradication of israel. they're supported by iran that has given them tens of thousands of mortar shells, rockets, they fired already 6,000 rockets and missiles on israel. clearly that's not a force for peace or for progress. there are other people in gazag but they're not given a choice any more than the people of iran are given a choice for freedom. they're knocked down, you know, if you can give me a deal, if god came down from the heavens and said, here, i'll give you a choi choice, okay, this re...