The one that expired six hours ago. This one approved by israel is described as a 24hour humanitarian ceasefire in response by a request by the u. N. Israeli officials were quick to note forces will continue to destroy tunnels and would respond to any violations of the new cease fire. We are awaiting for official response from hamas. Growing tensions and violence in ukraine. Government troops advance towards donetsk. Those Government Troops have sparked a mass exodus from donetsk. Roads closed for miles as people try to get out before government forces. As those forces rule new fighting is reported in areas near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. What is the government saying about the movement of the troops towards donetsk . Reporter well, Ukrainian Forces are confirming that what they are doing is trying to get closer into the rebelheld strong hold. Donetsk is the heart of it. They want to retake it. The rebel commanders are also saying that they are seeing the Ukrainian Tanks get closer to their forces. The fighting has intensified. We have seen this fighting over the last month or so specifically in this area in the last 24 hours it has intensified. There is more shelling. There is antiaircraft fire. What it is meant for the People Living in this town because this is a city. They are fleeing the center of the city. Roads throughout donetsk trying to get out of the city have been clogged throughout the day. Train service has been cut. We are hearing about increased number of refugees. Russia reporting some 4,600 refugees are spilling across the border into russia trying to get out of the heavy fighting. What is your sense . Barbara starr has been reporting that the russians are moving more material into and on the border of ukraine and some firing into ukraine from russia, as well. Are the ukrainians rushing in because they are embarrassed and frustrated over lack of ability to secure the area or moving so fast that this could back fire and the prorussian rebels could really hand them a defeat . It may seem fast to the International Community but it is simply because we are more aware of it because of the plane crash. This is something escalating and building over the weeks. This has been ongoing. We are merely paying more attention to it because of the terrible plane crash. So what we are seeing now is what has been happening. Russia has been building its troops. Ukraine has been trying to overtake this territory. What is concerning is since this plane crash what we did see is a bit of deescalation from russias side. U. S. Intelligence reports show russia is increasing the number of troops right in there and are trying to bring weapons from russia into the territory to buffer up the rebels that support them. That is the big concern, what happens with the increased troops and artillery from russia. One of the most bizarre incidents. We have a great group of people here to talk about ukraine, both military and aviation angles. Cnn military analyst david sooci. Bob bair. The ukrainian troops advancing on donetsk. What do you think is going on here . Do they want to retake the city or trying to reestablish control . I think they want to do this before russians move equipment in there. If you saw the types of equipment the russians are massing it is pretty serious stuff. The. 22 millimeter rockets pack one heck of a punch and can use it against Government Troops and it could be decisive. They want to preempt that. I have to tell you their concern over the crash site is waning. They are more concerned about their fight with the prorussian separatists than the security of the disaster site. Not a very good thing to hear. Is this an attempt to take control of the city entirely . And could this all back fire on the Ukrainian Forces . I think they are going to make a move to take the entire Eastern Ukraine. I think there is no doubt about it. They will put everything they can into it including their air force as we have seen. In as much as we can assess what putin is up to he is not going to let it happen. If he has to he will move in mercenaries and his own forces. I wouldnt exclude an actual russian incursion into the ukraine. It is not impossible. He has certainly made his stand on ukraine very, very clear from the start. He was not going to give it up easily. All of this brings into sharp focus the plight of mh17. There is still a crash investigation hopefully that will happen at some point. How corrupted is that area . How much has it been harmed at this point . From what i can tell it is harmed a great deal. We luckily have enough photographic documentation of where it was and what it was to put it together. We have to get hands on critical pieces that are hope are still there. Do you mean reconstitute the plane like flight 800 . Not at all. The press conference of evidence is showing us it is a missile. We just need items of proof to show that if it goes to court which would be simple to do. What i need to get and we need to get the chips from the trans ponders and things like that. Information is still on that airplane, information that may or may not be on the data recorder. Have you ever seen a situation like this where you have a hot war like this with a disaster like mh17 right in the middle of it . All of the factors are converging into one pot here. And the players dont seem to care about the other side of it. My assessment of the Ukrainian Army and the prorussian separatists both, neither care about the crash site. It is no longer important because the Ukrainian Government is fighting for survival as are the prorussian separatists. We are seeing the beginning of more intense fighting and the part that is going to suffer is this crash site. I also want to bring in allen diehl, former aaa investigator. Your sense of the crash site . Can investigators get in there and get what they need quickly and get out and certainly recover the victims of the terrible incident . Obviously, they have done much of that already as far as recovering the bodies. But obviously this is a war zone. I have worked in similar situations, at least one in africa. It wasnt quite like this. We werent under live fire. And, bob, what colonel francona talks about, do you agree . You say they are trying to score a knockout punch here, what are the options . Does the west have to step up efforts for the Ukrainian Government both from a cia perspective, what can they do . Ricks right and this is going to be decisive weeks, the next couple. What we need to do is get the europeans and bring them together because they are the ones that ultimately have to decide what sanctions are imposed on russia and will have to involve energy. That is what will hurt putin at this point. So far i havent seen much leadership out of europe. I dont know what it will take to get europeans to react. Kerry is there and has been pushing hard on gaza. You wouldnt imagine he has been talking about this. There is frustration in the netherlands which is close to russia. Allen, back to you quickly. You said you operated in these situations before and never seen one like this. David thinks you can get what you need out of it. What do you think needs to happen . The security around that site and what pieces of it do you need in order to prove conclusively what happened . Well, first of all, they need to get somebody, perhaps from the u. N. To take leadership here and secure the site. Obviously, there is wreckage that has evidence of shrapnel wounds. We know the separatists probably dont want that recovered. Putin probably doesnt want that recovered but somebody needs to go in and get that as far as evidence to the cause of this accident. And there is another humanitarian dimension which involves removing of the human remains. There is no intent to prevent that on the part of the separatists. You make a frightening point that the separatists and Ukrainian Government seems to be losing interest in the crash site itself. Is this crash becoming an asterisk in the larger struggle . I think it has been put behind. I dont see movement. I think people are going to sort of it will be recovered over a long period of time, completely contaminated. The ukrainians arent bringing up more. They are moving on to the question of will the russians invade. I have seen these things in the past where airplanes went down in iraq and tried to investigate it and it took years and years before we got an answer. It was a lost pilot. Colonel, its a frightening assessment. Will they be able to secure that area . Is there any International Force to go in and secure the area for long enough to do what is necessary . The only way is if you get agreement between ukrainians and prorussian separatists. They are not going to talk to each other right now. They want it out of the way and they just dont care. Stay where you are. We are going to come back to you later. In gaza, a grim exodus from one ruined town to another, palestinians in search of refuge from the violence. My fico® credit score. Yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. Good. I hate surprises. Surprise at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and see your fico® credit score. Really. So our business can be on at ts network for 175 dollars a month . Yup. All five of you for 175. Our clients need a lot of attention. Theres unlimited talk and text. Were working deals all day. 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The spokesman for hamas told me about an hour and a half ago they would take a close look at it and had clarifications and expected to get back to us soon. We havent heard whether or not they have accepted or not accepted. It is very, very murky. It is extremely dangerous right now. Dangerous because for all practical purposes despite the cease fire who knows what is going to happen next . I want to play for you this report that our own carl penthall filed from gaza. Reporter mixed symbols from hamas tonight, one of the International Representatives said hamas would be matching israels offer of a fourhour extension. Meanwhile another representative here on the ground in gaza said there would be no such deal. Meanwhile, there was one message that was loud and clear, new rocket fire from the gaza strip into israel in just two hours after the expire of the cease fire. Hamass brigade said they fired more than 12 rockets towards israel. However, the cease fire did hold for much of the day and that gave a vital opportunity to displaced to head home. In many cases they found it was simply going back to piles of rubble. We saw many picking through the ruins looking for possessions. It was also an important chance, as well, for emergency crews to hunt for corpses of the dead and the disappeared. The Palestinian Health authority said more than 150 bodies had been recovered in the course of the day and that pushes the total death toll from the confrontation sky rocketing to beyond 1,000. I think one of the most poignant scenes was a Young Palestinian man sifting through ruins of his family home. At one point he plopped a photograph from his grandfather from the war as if he was perhaps trying to rescue his memory and pulled from the debris a green folder containing birth certificates and a school diploma. It just reminded me really that this is a people without a nation state now in the midst of a brutal war and each one is hunting for any scrap of paper that prove said they still exist. With that report filed just a little while ago. Very dangerous situation continuing in gaza. You know all of our journalistic colleagues know how dangerous it is for those reporters on the scene covering this story. One point i would make about this proposed extension of the ceasefire, the israelis say even though they are going to accept the cease fire they will continue to try to destroy the underground tunnels that hamas has built from gaza going to israel. They want to blow the tunnels up. I spoke with Lieutenant Colonel peter lerner a little while ago. He said they think they are about half way through but need another week or so to get the job done in destroying the tunnels. A ve a. I heard your interview with the former israeli ambassador a little while ago. He was talking about stopping down hamas completely and ending hamas. That seems like a very, very high price to pay and talking about some sort of occupation whether with Israeli Forces or u. N. Forces. What is your sense about where this thing is going . How much wider is it going to get . If you listen to the israelis or michael oren and Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, they keep making the point that as far as israel is concerned hamas is like al qaeda or i. S. I. S. Or. The military arm of hamas is what they are trying to do. If you listen to other military analysts they say that is not going to happen, that hamas is simply too ingrained in gaza right now. The u. S. Is trying to work it out together with turkey, qatar, egypt, others to see if they can get some longterm deal to deal with the situation. In the meantime the fighting is presumably going to continue. You know this area so well. What is your sense . Where does the pressure need to be applied. John kerry, secretary of state, is dealing with european leaders trying to push the israelis. There is also another effort with arab leaders trying to push the palestinians. What is going to get this thing done . We will see how much pressure is put on hamas. The israelis are putting a lot of pressure on hamas. We will see if qatar and turkey and to a certain degree the Palestinian Authority if they can convince hamas to stop launching rockets and missiles into israel then the israelis presumably would stop their military operation in gaza. I think they would withdraw. The israelis say they have no great desire and dont want to reoccupy gaza. The israelis say they dont want to do that. Well see if they can come up with some sort of temporary solution. They did in november 2012, the last time fighting between israel and hamas occurred. The quiet continued for a while but resumed. This is going to continue we will see if they can work out some semblance of quiet to stop the people from dying. That would be the immediate objective. All of us would be thrilled to see the stopping of the horrible images that we have seen. Our reporters in gaza reporting, those are the images they are seeing and trying to show the world what is going on. Each of those deaths only emboldins more to join hamas or take the fight back to israel and it keeps going. Wolf blitzer for us in jerusalem. Thank you very much. Keep yourself safe out there. Tomorrow morning on state of the union Benjamin Netanyahu talks live about the crisis in the middle east. Nancy pelosi and Lindsey Graham will also join. And at 10 00 eastern Hillary Clinton and how she would handle the israeli gaza crisis. It is hillary like you have never heard her before on Fareed Zakaria gps. More than 700 americans are serving on the front lines in israel and gaza. 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Reporter estimated 750 americans currently serving the Israel Defense forces. Why are so many people determined to fight for a country they dont live in . We spoke to two american soldiers who wanted to share their stories. Two americans killed in the conflict in gaza, they werent obligated to serve israel. They decided to. Now they are hailed as heroes by soldiers who did the same. I was sad but proud to see two people who really did something they believed in. You werent required to serve. Why did you choose to . Im jewish. And i felt it was really important. Reporter ari platt was raised here and serves there. Foreigners who serves in israels army are commonly called lone soldiers. I chose the israeli army because as a jewish person the threat, the imminent threat of destruction, of all of the atrocities in our life from the holocaust and beforehand it was something i felt i have to help them out. Reporter more than 900 palestinians killed in the latest conflict. At least 40 from the Israeli Forces are dead. Max is from los angeles, from the San Fernando Valley where my brother and i grew up. Though i didnt know him personally, it hits close to home. Reporter an american and israeli citizen serve pd with the idf for three years. His brother is on active duty and his unit is in the conflict zone. You start imagining the worst. On one hand each time they release a name you breathe a sigh of relief because it is not him but then you realize that is someone elses son or brother or father. Reporter he says soldiers from his unit have been called back to duty. So far his team hasnt. Its not something i would ever want to put myself in, but at the same time this is what we have to do. Zlotnik and platt dont live in israel but feel they share a responsibility to fight for it. It if you want to be active and stand up for what you believe in it seems a logical progression. 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Travelers should be aware that they may be targeted for kidnapping, Violent Attacks or death. U. S. Citizens should exercise extreme caution and depart immediately. Here is how the state department explained the Embassy Evacuation to cnn. This really was a decision made based on the fact that our embassy is in the proximity of pretty serious fighting and we felt our people were at risk. We will go back in with our people as soon as it is safe to do so. This is really a generational fight in libya and we are going to be there right along side with them. Of course, safety and security of our people has to be our top priority. The u. N. And other National Groups and businesses evacuated from libya earlier this month. Remains of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight 17 finally began to return to the netherlands this week but the task of identifying them is just beginning. Doctors will have to look for as many clues as they can as chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta reports it could take months before families finally get the answers they need. Reporter after more than two days of lying in fields covered with debris in temperatures in the high 80s the first shreds of dignity finally appeared monday. Some 200 body bags to be placed in simple caskets. How many souls inside . No one could say for sure. 160 plus miles on rail through the planes of Eastern Ukraine before flying another 1,300 miles to the netherlands where the plane originally departed they were greeted by the queen and king as casualties of war. 298 casualties from a war they never fought. 40 simple wooden caskets on wednesday, 74 more on thursday. Dutch officials saying all of the remains brought here over the next few days. A team of 75 investigators representing countries and represent the passengers who were on board the plane. Those investigators now with that awful task of going through the remains trying to identify them. They will rely on basic things, clothing, jewelry, anything unique about the person, dental records, medical records and the Gold Standard which will be dna analysis. Translator there are a lot of bodies and body parts coming our way. All bits must be examined and must be very precise. You must make sure you dont give the wrong body to the wrong family. Reporter eight years after the Oklahoma City bombing a woman was discovered to have been buried with another victims leg. Just 60 of those who died in the World Trade Center on 9 11 were officially identified. Nine years after Hurricane Katrina hit the city of new orleans has 31 unidentified remains. It is a science but not a perfect science. In the direct after math of the crash emergency workers, volunteers and rebels moved freely about the site. We dont know where each set of remains were recovered from. And that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleamed from the remains themselves. Reporter none of this is easy for the families or the investigators. We know some of the remains may be charred or fragments. That degrades the quality of the dna. If entire families were traveling together their dna pool may be gone forever making matches nearly impossible. None of this is easy but all of it is necessary. The primary goal isnt investigative, legal or medical for that matter. It is to return the remains home to the people who love them. This is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. It is worth pointing out that because of some of the contamination that we talked about in the fields it could be harder to analyze the dna and make sure it is a positive and consistent identification. This whole process could take weeks if not months. Remember after the plane crash in tripoli in 2010 it took one month to identify the 104 bodies. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you very much. 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Start your journey at capella. Edu. As the investigation unfolds families are still waiting for officials to identify their loved ones. As we heard from our chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta that could take months. Joining us now are former accident investigator allen diehl, david, lets start with you, what challenges lie ahead for investigators as they get into the area . How big of an area do they have to secure . That is the biggest challenge right now to me is that you could be looking at an area six miles or greater than that to do the body search. I have looked at some satellite images from all source analysis and what they are showing me and the analysts there is that there are areas where they still havent touched and areas that havent been searched. There may be as many as 100 remains from people on the flight still out there and wouldnt necessarily be just where the damaged aircraft is or pieces came down . They really wouldnt. Without being too graphic in honor of the families they could not only be behind where the aircraft trajectory was but ahead of where the aircraft landed, as well. It is unbelievable to think of. Allen, looting has been a big issue here. Do you think investigators will have the information that they need . Will the evidence have been tampered with to the point where they cant understand what happened here . Well, i think we know pretty well what happened in terms of the missile destroying the aircraft. But there is an awful lot of details we would like to get and a couple things david alluded to that will be tough on the investigators and that is the bodies of children. I have had to do this on occasion. It is bad enough to handle aircraft wreckage and worse to handle human remains. When you find remains of infants or children it is really difficult. There will be a lot of tough days ahead for these investigators and it may stay with them for many years. Allen, on that point, if you are so confident it is a missile strike which i think we all are at this point, what is it you want to know from what remains in the fields . Well, more documentation. In an earlier segment on cnn i said i think we are going to end up in some kind of criminal trial in the hague over this. I believe the separatists, the people who actually pressed the buttons are probably going to insist that that didnt happen. So we do need to get, if you will, fragment from the war head so we can track it back and his skype just froze up, the wonders of technology there. David, the remains for many of these victims have been in the netherlands. Now we have one that has been identified. They havent told us who it is but the family has been told. How long do you think this process is going to take given that they were brought up and handled in ukraine. The biggest challenge with handling the deceased and not only from the forensics as to what they can give us information about how the aircraft went down but also with identifying if you have a deceased that has been there for three or four days even the dna access can be difficult because the dna comes from the blood and that can be tainted and have problems with it, as well. It really is a superchallenge the longer it goes. Plus, if you have deceased in the areas that have not been recovered yet that makes it more challenging. We could be looking at several months easily. I think you are back now, your skype all sorted out. You are talking like an investigator for a criminal trial. You want to have the goods so that when this does and you assume it will go to the hague or some forum at some point that whoever is responsible will pay a criminal price, is that right . Well, its not a vendetta that i have but i certainly think we need to think about that. Normally ntsb doesnt deal with criminal activities. Clearly from all indications this was an act, i believe probably was accidental, but we need to think about that. I know there has been an argument that when the fbi, for example, in this country enters an investigation they use very thorough procedures because they know they will have to take it to trial. Obviously the investigators out there now are not going to be doing that, but they need to lay the groundwork. I would expect putin or whom ever will throw the operators that pushed the button underneath the bus. We still need to try to gather all of the evidence to have a complete picture. There is one other thing that i almost hate to mention. That is i dont know about natural predation but another reason we want to get out there and locate the human remains. I dont know what sort of animal activity is in that area but as grim as that sounds that is very grim. Thank you very much. I want to say you mentioned earlier they need about at least 1,000 people out there to work on this. Quite a few people. At least hundreds. Thank you very much. Israels iron dome system was a game changer in the fight against hamas and could knock out rockets before they pose a threat and paid for in part by american taxpayers. Next, is our investment worth it . Thats keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. At humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if frustration and paperwork decrease. The gap begins to close. So lets simplify things. Lets close the gap between people and care. Whats your favorite kind of cheerios . Honey nut. But. Chocolate is my other favorite. Oh yeah, and frosted whats your most favorite of all . Hmm. The kind i have with you. Me too. The summer that summers from here on will be compared to. So get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. Find it for less and well match it and give you 50 toward your next trip. Expedia. Find yours. Really. 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Take a look as cameras capture a rocket fired from gaza toward israel. Follow the white smoke trail across the sky until it appears to turn away then explode high above the ground. How does this thing work . For that answer, we turn to cnns tom foreman. Reporter any time rockets launch headed toward israel, very hightech cameras, Radar Systems and computers start analyzing them. How big are they, how fast are they moving . Importantly, where are they pointed . Because at the same time the analysis and targeting phase is triggered. What that means is if it sees that some of these are headed off into the water or perhaps headed into rural areas where theres really not much to hit, they just let them go. The whole system says were done with you. Go off and explode, youll make no difference to anyone. But if it spots a missile out there thats aimed toward a building or town or place where people can get hurt, then those same computers kick into the destruction phase. That means that they communicate with batteries of missiles on the ground and they fire those and those fly up and get as close as they can to that incoming threat. Each of these defensive missiles, maybe only about ten feet long, but has some 24 pounds of high explosives and when theyre close enough, they detonate, obliterating everything in that part of the sky. It works pretty well, and its not cheap. It was developed originally by an Israeli Defense company, but this system has now been supported by about 235 million from the united states. Each of the defensive missiles, by the way, cost around 62,000, but the goal here is to keep making this bigger and more effective so it can reach out further, hit targets further away, engager missiles at higher altitudes. You know what thats all about. Thats about giving both the u. S. And israel greater defense against more robust enemies at a greater range. So, impressive but expensive technology. It does raise the question, can it keep israel safe from whatever its enemies can throw at it . Lets dig deeper into this with military analyst, colonel rick francona, and former cia operative bob baer, he joins us from los angeles. The iron dome has been a bit of a game changer here. The success rate in hitting these things is high but doesnt always destroy the warhead. Yeah, thats what were finding out, although its had Great Success in actually intercepting the rocket, it doesnt always hone in on the warhead. Its designed to hit the warhead and render it harmless. In many cases its hitting the rocket booster, itself, and knocking it off course which can be effective as well, but the goal of it is to destroy it in the air and turn it into small pieces. Bob, because they have this fairly effective system, and it seems israel may have gotten lucky so far, that none of the warheads and other rockets have penetrated it and taken civilian lives, but can israel exist it doesnt seem that they want to continue down this road where they knock out rockets and they deal with hamas every few years. Can they keep going down this way . Well, miguel, i mean, israels got other problems. Hamas is one thing. The rockets are not very sophisticated. Theyre homemade, most of them. Theyre fairly easy to knock down. This is a sophisticated system, no doubt about it. Lets take hezbollah, for instance. Theyve got tens of thousands of sophisticated rockets all aimed at israel, and you can, by swarming Israeli Defenses, including iron dome, you can actually get through and hit their cities and they know it. So israel does have to fall back on traditional Ground Forces to punish its enemies and this is what were seeing in gaza. Its, you know, iron dome is not enough to protect israel. So its got to have multiple levels of defense. And with regard to the money that the u. S. Spends on this, 235 million, obviously israel and the u. S. Are very, very close partners. Is it money well spent from a military and political point of view for the u. S. . I think on both fronts. From a Military Point of view, this is a pretty effective system. The technology seems to work. This is technology we can just import from the israelis. Were paying for this. Were focusing on a different set of antimissile themes. Were looking for long errange missiles. Our systems are going after longer range threats and israelis are going after the near hrange threats, between the two of us we can cover the whole range of threats. I think its a smart thing to do. Let the israelis focus on this and well focus on the other. Synergistic effect. Bob, while i have you here, the situation in libya, the u. S. Evacuated its personnel from the embassy earlier. Clearly there is great concern in libya because of what happened in benghazi a couple of years ago. Was this the right move by the u. S. . Oh, i think so. I think we lost all our important interlocutors there, once tripoli succumbed to the civil war. You know, you just take the precautions of pulling people out. Ive been in an embassy that was evacuated. We start taking rounds. Ironically, it was the russians that evacuated us in tanks and armored personnel carriers, but theres to point in losing diplomats. Theyre not combatants. Were not there to fight a war. So, yeah, pull them out, open up an intersection in tunisia or some place and be just fine until it quiets down. Were the only person weve had on thats been rescued by the russians. Fabulous, love that. Colonel, the actions taken in libya, in tripoli, obviously hindsight is 20 20. We wish we had those same situations in benghazi. Is this just overreaction by the administration or a necessary move . No, i think this is prudent. You learn from your mistakes. We had a problem in gaza, maybe we should have pulled out sooner. Hindsight being 20 20 as you say. N no no, i think this was a smart thing to do. Theres no reason to lose diplomats in libya. We can do what we need to do from tunisia, as bob says. I think this is a smart thing. Bob, if i could go back to iron dome and the situation in gauza right now, what is your sense of it . What does hamas want . I think hamas, at the end of the day, would settle for some sort of lifting of the embargo against, you know, the east, you know, the suffering of the population. Theres a clear suffering of it. The israelis would come back and argue, well, theyll misuse it, theyll import concrete to build tunnels. Thats why were at such loggerheads is they dont trust each other. In fact, we have no interlock t tors of both side. I cant imagine hamas is going to get that deal in a hot war like this, correct . Not a chance. I just dont see anybody stepping in and i just think the israelis are going to keep going until those tunnels are all gone. All right. Bob, colonel francona, thank you very much. You are in the cnn newsroom. Im Miguel Marquez in new york. We begin with the bloody conflict between israel and hamas. New temporary truce may be in the works. Heres what we know right now. Israel has agreed to a 24hour ceasefire extension. Hamas wants clarification on specific conditions of that ceasefire. More than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, mostly palestinians, have been killed so far. Hospitals are overwhelmed in gaza with some 6,000 people injured. Some doctors have been working for 24 hours straight trying to remove shrapnel and save lives. Earlier today, demonstrators took to the streets ma s in new, london, and paris to denounce the bloodshed. In telaviv, crowds marched in support of israels military operation in the gaza strip. Two Israeli Soldiers wounded in gaza died today. Bringing the Israeli Military death toll to 42. Lets get the latest on the ground. Cnns sara sidner is live in jerule