History. How long before somebody brings it to the United States . And for many, russias alleged role in shooting down flight 17 has cemented Vladimir Putin as a bond super villain. But not so long ago, putin and the u. S. Where is pretty chummy. So what changed . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. We begin with the world lead. Youve probably by now lost count of the number of times a ceasefire has been proposed, rejected, broken, accepted for a limited time discarded and the conflict between israel and hamas and gaza. Its been difficult to get these parties to stop firing at each other. Israel is prepared for a ceasefire, but theres no agreement a spokesman for israels Prime Minister will only say the ball is in hamas court, the militant Palestinian Organization that crows gaza by which has been labeled a terrorist group by the u. S. Government in addition to israel. Today the Palestinian Authority in the west bank announced a 24hour ceasefire but hamas rejected saying they never agreed to it. Just to be clear, thats palestinians rejecting other palestinians though an Israeli Government official also dismissed the offer as one not serious. Theres been so much spin and grievance and willful blindness to anything that anyone from either side has ever done to the other, it could be easy to conclude that this conflict will truly never end. So israels relentless military assault on gaza continues and hamas continues to fire rockets and try to send fighters through tunnels into israel. 56 israelis have been killed as of now. Almost all of them soldiers. Nearly 1,200 palestinians have been killed. And according to the u. N. , most of them have been civilians. Meanwhile, secretary of state john kerry came out today to defend his negotiations on the ceasefire and says talks in the middle east need to continue. We owe it to everybody to try to see if tuck find that way. If after you get to a table it problems that there is absolute reluctance to honor basic defensive needs of israel to deal with the rockets, to deal with the tunnels, to deal with other things, then at least you know youve made that effort to try to spare lives and to find a legitimate way forward. Im joined now by the spokesman for israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu mark regev. Mark, the u. S. israel relationship seems to be in a not great place right now and breaking right now in israeli media on channel 1 in your country and then the times of israel is what is purported to be a transcript of a conversation between Prime Minister netanyahu and president obama in which president obama is pushing israel to agree to a unilateral ceasefire. The report says that the document, if its authentic and it has been disputed we should say by the white house as being authentic, the report says that it came from an american official. Im wondering what can you tell us, is it true that president obama pushed netanyahu for a unilateral ceasefire . Look, the document i learned it like you from the media. I cannot confirm its authenticity. Ive got to idea. I wasnt on that conversation. I can say the following, since this crisis started, president obama, secretary kerry have been unequivocal in condemning ha has for its rocketing of israeli cities it, its condemned hamas for refusing to accept the egyptian ceasefire and other ceasefires and behind israels right to defend itself. On these crucial issues were seeing america and israel working hand in hand. Thats the most important thing. Has president obama asked netanyahu for a unilateral ceasefire . Is that accurate . Well, its clear that we all want this to end. And we want it to end in a way that it doesnt start up again in six months or a year. We want to find aid way to bring longterm stability and security both to the israeli people and to the people of gaza. To have this end in a way we just revisit this a year from now does no one any good. Youre not answering the question. But isle accept that youre not going to answer it. I have to ask you about these heart breaking scenes that were seeing from gaza. Now, mark, if my calculations are right, israel has in the last three weeks killed more palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli Soldiers killed in military operations since 2006, which includes the second lebanon war, operation cast led, operation pillar of defense and now operation protective edge. That is a lot of dead children especially relative to the number of soldiers that have been killed in israel in Israeli Military operations in the last eight years. At what point does the Israeli Government say, enough, were killing too many innocent children . You know, we had a special press conference in tel aviv last night, and the chief of staff of the israeli mirt, their most highest israeli official in uniform he said it in openly to the israeli public. It wasnt something for foreign consumption. He said every innocent victim in gaza pains us. And i think he was saying something very genuine, something very real that israelis feel. We dont want to see innocent civilians caught up in the crossfire between us and hamas. But i think the question that you raise. Its not just the crossfire though. It is. The question has to be raised, more than two weeks ago, israel unequivocally and unconditionally accepted an egyptian ceasefire proposal that was supported by the United States, by the arab league, by the United Nations. Hamas said no to that ceasefire. Now, hamas is responsible for all deaths on their side and on our side because they were the ones that kept this conflict going. Mark, netanyahu said no to the ceasefire draft that the kerry proposed. Not true. Not true. Not true. Lets be clear here. People are fighting, people are dying because hamas has repeatedly said no to a ceasefire. And unfortunately, civilian casualties in gaza are made there, are there because hamas has adopted a deliberate policy of endangering ga zag civilians using them as human shields. Just now theres breaking news out of a reuters correspondent, a third unwra school, a school by the United Nations group thats supposed to give palestinian support to palestinians, a third school was discovered now with weapons being stored, missiles hamas rockets. Mark, i agree with you. Thats horrific. Thats horrific. A systemic pattern of behavior by hamas. Thats horrific, i agree with you. To use civilian infrastructure. Mark, just recently, the idf attacked the home of a family in gaza, the abu jama family, the israeli human rights group. The target was likely a member of hamas military wing. He was killed in the operation, targeted and killed and so were 25 members of this family including 18 children. So you say youre not targeting civilians. Youre targeting bad guys. Youre targeting hamas militants but the civilians are being killed. Lets be clear here. And lets look at the real options that exist in the real world. As you said, and you agreed with me, hamas is shooting out of civilian infrastructure out of homes, out of urban neighborhoods, out of mosques, out of schools. Their rockets are raining down on israel. I think weve had some 2,600 rocks on israeli cities over the last three weeks. What are our options to say no, we cant shoot back . We cant shoot back because we might inadvertently hit a civilianle . Of course, well make a maximum effort to avoid sitting civilians. Our targets are the Hamas Terrorists trying to kill us. I dont think anyone is suggesting that you shouldnt fire back, mark. I think the question is, is what israels doing, a, is it commensurate with the attacks coming at israel, and b, is it actually going to be good for israel in the long run . I think there are a lot of serious questions about that, especially these people 1. 8 million of them living in what has been described as an open air prison. Now theyre not going to have power for another year or so because the only power plant in gaza was bombed probably by israel last night. I think the question is, be is this the best course. No one knows that. No one knows who hit the power plant. Weve done our own investigation and we dont know that it was israel at all. It could have been 10 of hamas munitions fired at israel short and they hit in gaza. Thats what happened yesterday at the hospital where the Shifa Hospital was hit by a rocket that malfunctioned. That could be the case today. But to blame it on israel automatically is incorrect. Could i answer a larger question that you raise . Please do. Look, israel has to strike back against those who are shooing at us those rockets. Now, on one hand, you cant give the terrorists immunity. You cant allow them to shoot because of the possibility of collateral damage. On the other hand, you have to be as surgical as is humanly possible in a very, very difficult combat situation. Think of it this way. If terrorists had found a Winning Strategy that by shooting at a civilian neighborhoods they had got immunity, what does that mean for terrorists around the world . Theyve found the winning way to win the war against the democracies. They have found by using civilians as human shields, they can target innocent civilians with impunity. Is that good for america . Good for canada, good for any democracy if terrorists finally found that winning combination . The only way to fight them is to be aspin pointed as possible in a difficult situation. I say it again, hamas is unquickly responsible for this tragedy first of all by rejecting the ceasefires and secondly by adopting tactics that deliberately endanger ga zag civilians and deliberately leads to their deaths. Were about to lose the satellite, mark regev spokesman for Benjamin Netanyahu, thanks for coming on. My pleasure. Since i asked regev about the authenticity of the transcript at the beginning of the interview, both the white house and Prime Minister netanyahus office have issued statements saying that the transcript is completely false. Coming up on the lead, well go straight to where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place for our own reporter in gaza who had to take cover just hours ago as a rocket came a little too close. Plus, well ask a representative from hamas why hamas rejected a palestinian proposal to stop the blood shed. 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We havent heard any close quarters bombing so far but in the course of the afternoon, we saw them in action over across the eastern border. They were dropping massive 2,000pound bunker buster bombs down there. I would guess, although we have no confirmation that they were trying to destroy some kind of tunnel complex across there, jake. Israel has been claiming that some of the strikes in gaza are actually botched hamas rocket launches. Were going to hold on one second. Are you okay there . Yeah, just listen. Sorry i stopped you there, but again, that was one of those f16 fighter bombers on a pretty low run over the skies of gaza city. Across here they go again. Are they dropping ordinants, karl . There were two strikes. I heard two strikes across there in the distance. It wasnt close enough to see the flare up and possibly over our small necktie microphone, you couldnt have heard it, but yes a couple of impacts there, an f16 coming over pretty low. Sometimes theyll swoop over low as a show of force to frighten any militantstant fighters on the ground. Generally what theyve been doing in the evening is firing off decoy flares as they go because had he clearly fear militant factions may have the sam surface to air missiles. Earlier in the evening when one did fly over, we did see some kind of rocket fire going out. It didnt appear to be the longrange abhamas rockets. It could have been fire from the ground to try to take those aircraft down. Youd need a lot of technology to bring that down. Because the israelis have been claiming that some of the killed and wounded in gaza have been individuals killed by hamass own rockets either misfiring or the launch was botched. Have you seen any evidence one way or another . In terms of them causing casualties by rocket misfires, no. We havent seen that even in the cases where the israeli mirt says this may have been a hamas rocket fire such as the School Incident the other day. We specifically went to the school to see if we could find any debris for any particular munitions. We didnt find any tail finns or debris from rockets. That said, we have seen misfires from hamas and other militant rockets. Remember although the Technology May have come from iran, syria, possibly even russia, that a lot of these rockets are home built and so there is a failure factor there. We have seen some of these rockets kind of implode as they head into the air. Weve seen some of the rockets fizzle out and break up on the ground. So there are pest fires. Somebody suggested are they getting to the bottom of their barrel, are they running out of an estimated arsenal of 10,000 rockets or they still seem to be firing them off regularly toward israel. Something in the inbullet technology sometimes and generally these rockets have been working in their terms very well, but we have seen misfires but we havent seen casualties caused by that with my own eyes. So i cant tell new terms of eyes and ears on that it would seem logical if there are misfires, the debris is going to fall somewhere. If you have debris falling out of the sky from a height, thats going to cause some damage. Of course. Stay where where you are. Karl penhaul, thank you so much. Meanwhile, hamas rejected a 24hour ceasefire put forward earlier today by the Palestinian Authority in the west bank. The head of the hamas military wing says theres no middle ground when it comes to a ceasefire. What exactly does that mean . Joining on the phone is a senior official with hamas. Mr. Ahmaad, i want to ask you, since hamas first rejected the first ceasefire proposal from egypt, hundreds of palestinians, hundreds have been killed. Israel says you could have ended the blood shed weeks ago. Why are you quibsed that rejecting that ceasefire was the better option for your people . Do you think that we are happy of killing of our people, our children, our babies and our women . I know the situation is very difficult. Just before three minutes, i lost my cousin. Just ten minutes ago, i lost my cousin. I was inform by family that my cousin is about 80 years old and the israeli air strike, they hit his neighbor and he was killed now. Look, we are doing the best in order tore but and many times i can confirm and you can ask that human for United Nations i am in touch with them. We proposed many times in order to stop and to make but we were shocked that israel said no. Imtimes times they said no. Today they proposed to news order to make a general pause from one side but israel said the representative of mr. Ban kimoon no. We will not comply with this. We will not agree for this. So sir, you keep saying the ceasefire is done. You keep saying that. Right . You keep saying no to the ceasefire. We have no problem really. For 24 hours we are ready to be committed fur this agreement. But israel want the palestinians only to stop and they want to continue their military operation in the palestinian territories to kill more and more people and more innocent people. So this is a. And also very important that israel they want to keep their thanks and also to continue military operation but the other side they want to stop. It is not fair. Sir, youre giving a bunch of reasons why you said no to a ceasefire. In the meantime, hundreds of palestinians were killed. Heres an example of one of the things israel wants to do. They want to be able to destroy the tunnels. Just one example. Yesterday sir, why did you build tunnels under israel . Why did hamas build tunnels under israel . Pardon . Why did hamas build tunnels from gaza into israel, the Israeli Government says those were built for only one reason, to kill israelis. Why were they built . I want to ask you the same question. Why israel putting some precaution in the border, why they have the iron dome. They want to protect themself. We are the palestinians under occupation. Were under oppression for 60 years or 67 years. We want to protect ourselves. We built the tunnels. We will try also to be more stronger in order to fight against occupation. So the tunnels were built to kill israelis. Just listen to me. The reason of all evil and problems in this area, this is because of the occupation. The occupation is the source of all evils and all for the bad things. Plo spent about 20 years in negotiation with israel and theyre now youre talking about the occupation. Let me just pause it for the sake of this conversation that i agree with you about the occupation. Okay . Lets just im not saying i do but lets put that aside for one second. I understand its an important part why hamas fights, why hamas sends rockets into israel. I understand your motivation. But my point is right now, hundreds of palestinians are being killed by israel because hamas as recently as today as recently as today rejected another ceasefire agreement. This one from the west with bank, from the Palestinian Authority. But if you go back to the beginning of this story, israel started attacks against us when they said that the were killed and they accused hamas without having one proof and there they arrested more 5 mun hamas members in the west bank, they attacked their homes. They have stolen their money. So they want us to keep what we did is a reaction for the aggression of israel. And until now, the prisoners that we have an agreement between israel and hamas for ot sponsorship of egypt not to rearrest these people. Israel has broken all the agreements and they did respect any agreements with us. We have to go. This kind of reaction really, this is kind of reaction for the israeli crimes against our people. I understand. We want to stop this, but israel should stop their air strike but i want to tell you something which is going to make the situation very clear. When israel kept 1,200 people. We have to go sir. These people are innocent people. They are not military men. They are not army people. Mr. Hamad, thank you very much for your time. I really appreciate it. And hopefully well talk to you again some other time. Were going to take a quick break. When we come back, two americans fighting for their lives and another dead after being infected with e bowl la. New fears the disease could be spread by travelers into the u. S. What are airlines doing to prevent it from coming here . And later from shirtless strongmanton international outcast, how badly has Vladimir Putin image been hit as world pressure mounts . Wouldnt stay here tonight. Obaby man thanks, captain obvious. Captain obvious id get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels. Com. And you might want to get that pipe fixed. 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Cnn is learning the cdc sent a team over no nigeria to track down anyone who came into contact with the ebola patient who died there a few days ago. They have other teams ready to go out the door. Health officials are very concerned about this latest outbreak because it reached a heavi heavily populated city. U. S. Health officials in west africa scram bring to prevent the deadly virus from reaching the states. Certainly serious diseases are only a plane ride away. The right now u. S. Health officials are searching for anyone who may have had contact with this u. S. Citizen patrick sawyer. He recently every from liberia to lagos and died from ebola on friday. With patricks death, its hit our front door because he was wellknown in the community. Like everyone knew him. So everyone feels like theyve lost their best friend or their brother. Right now two american aid workers in west africa infected are fighting for their lives undergoing treatment at an Isolation Center there. 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Liberia is closing some of its borders and screening all outgoing and incoming passengers to ebola at its airports. Certain tests detect ebola only after a person shows symptoms. Very frightening. Thank you so much. Coming up next, another team of investigators unable to get to the flight 17 crash site again today because of dangerous conditions on the ground. Now new reports that ukraine is firing missiles at rebels in the area. Is that just going to make things worse . vo friday night has always been all fun and games, here at the harrison household. But one dark, stormy evening. She needed a good meal and a good family. So we gave her purina cat chow complete. Its great because it has the four cornerstones of nutrition. Everything a cat needs for the first step to a healthy, happy life. Purina cat chow complete. Share your rescue story and join us in building better lives. One rescue at a time. 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Ukraine denies that saying it would accomplish nothing militarily right now but the fighting has only gotten worse since mh17 was shot out of the sky over ukraine. And the violence is creating a virtual forcefield around the crash site. The crime scene. Today for a third day in a row, heavy fighting kept crash investigators from the scene. Lets bringing in marie harf the deputy spokeswoman for the state department. There have been rounds of sanctions against russia that began in march. How will this new round that president obama announced with regret in this voice, how is this going to be any different and change putins calculus at all . Weve been very clear over many months we will continue to increase the pressure on russia if it does not take steps to deescalate. They keep escalating. The longer sanctions are in place, the tougher and more impact they have. Today you saw us put additional sanctions on three very key sectors of the russian economy, arms, finance and energy. These firms desperately want access to the u. S. Financial sector and to the eu Financial Sector look, president putin has a choice to make. He can either further isolate his country and pay the consequences or he can deescalate and move it in a different path forward here. So it is as the president said, really up to president putin make a decision here. I think hes made his decision. But on the subject of trying to get him change his behavior, other pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is reporting three u. S. Officials confirmed to her that the Ukrainian Military, the ones where the United States is allied with, has fired shortrange missiles in the last 48 hours against the rebels. The u rain cran foreign minister has denied it saying it would be useful for them to fire them because of the way the rebels hide their weapons. The first question, whats the truth here . The second question, would the government ukraine escalating hurt what the United States is trying to do in terms of putin and the prorussian rebels . Jake, i saw those reports earlier on cnn. I cant confirm them. The Ukrainian Foreign minister was here today. I saw his comments. Were looking into them as we have information one way or another, well let folks know. The broader point which speaks to your second question is that the reason there is so much enstability in Eastern Ukraine is because of these rush visits. The russian are giving them heavy weaponry, firing artillery into ukraine and they continue to arm and train separatists. There was no instability before russia supported these separatists and their movement there. So the Ukrainian Government has a responsibility to the defend its territory and to defend its people. Marie, is escalating defending its territory or is escalating making things worse so that the prorussian rebels and putin wont back down . We havent seen the Ukrainian Military escalate things. Again, i said were looking into those reports that you mentioned earlier. All weve seen is the russian side continue to escalate, send more heavy weaponry, send artillery over the border, continue the training even after this horrific civilian airliner was shout done by russian separatists. President putin has a real responsibility to back up his words with actions. We havent seen him do that. But he has a chance to as you heard the president a today. Im not coming down on the side of putin but doesnt ukraine have a responsibility as well as to deescalate things in our clint. I dont want to equality ukraine and russia. Ukrai ukraine has done everything in its power to get inspectors access. Its the russian back the separatists who have done exactly the opposite. When we come back, punishing putin. Why some are saying the only way to put the russian president in his place is by taking away his chance to be in the spotlight again at the 2018 world cup. Plus, heart breaking images. Children injured or worse. Dead in this fighting in gaza. Come up, the emotional and physical toll this prolonged battle is taking on the youngest and the most innocent victims. So factors like diet can negatively impact good bacteria . Even if youre healthy and active. Phillips Digestive Health support is a duoprobiotic that helps supplement good bacteria found in two parts of your digestive tract. Im doubly impressed phillips Digestive Health. A daily probiotic. Welcome back to the lead. As we reported the white house today announced new economic sanctions against russia, accusing moscow of continuing to support prorussian separatists in neighboring ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin denies backing those rebels or any involvement in the shooting down of flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine. Its not as if putins kgb background inspired a wellspring of trust in the United States when he took power. Still his image wasnt always this negative. Global exas ration with russian president Vladimir Putin is growing. As investigators struggle to find out what exactly happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in an area of ukraine crowed by russian separatists, the u. S. Government has been sharpening its focus on putin. President putin can make a huge difference here if he chooses to. Earlier today, secretary of state john kerry issued this warning to putin just hours after the state Department Said that russia violated a decades old missile treaty by testing intermediate range cruise missiles. That determination came on monday, the same day the white house announced a new round of economic sanctions against russia and then today, the European Union announced it was joining in was economic sanctions of its own against russian cans socalled putin cronies said to have benefitted from a destabilized ukraine. And russias hosting of the next world cup in 2018 could be the next target. The uks deputy Prime Minister nick clegg told the sunday times of london fifa should pull the plug on the games saying putin cant have his cake and eat it. It wasnt so long ago, of course, that the United States and russia were enjoying a much cozier relationship. I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. Now even former president bush says that he has a different view. And then the price ofwent up and Vladimir Putin changed. It emboldened him to follow an instinct that is pretty much zero sum. For the past decade, the russian Propaganda Machine has been turning out tough guy images of putin shirtless fishing, shirtless horseback riding. Judo flipping. But its not a joke. With putin refusing to give up political power. The and necksation of crimea and russias potential role in shooting down this flight the image of a strong man has changed into a geopolitical reality. He put himself in this box. Its a metamorphosis that is finally catching up with him. As David Remnick told anderson cooper. I see putin becoming isolated. Even at home, despite his popularity rating, i dont see that lasting forever unless he finds a way out of this. International pressure may be working. Last week putins tone seemed to have changed a bit about the crash. Russia will do everything it can for a thorough comprehensive, deep and rans parent investigation. 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All that this young survivor knows for sure are the names of his playmates who were killed. I saw a boy au cut cup right here, over there a man he looked dead and i saw a boy who was dead, too. Sadly, his experience is shared all too keenly by children in gaza. In this threeweek conflict between israel and hamas, more than 1100 palestinians have been killed. The u. N. Estimates that more than 70 of them were civilian. And in an area with half the population under 18, the dead include more than 200 children. The Israeli Army Says no civilians are being targeted, they accuse hamas of using residents as human shields but still, more than 200 children. Including the four boys killed while playing soccer on the beach. Or several others at an empty school being used as a shelter. Plos suggest most israelis support the attacks on gaza. But the Israeli Human Rights Organization bet sell lum has not lost sight of the human tragedy posting the names and ainges of the gaza dead online. Ahmad. Using youtube to voice their names. The group was banned from reciting their names in an ad on israeli radio. I think its a terrible statement of where things are in terms of the public psyche in israel these days, the dehumanization of palestinians in general and palestinians in gaza specifically. For those whose names have been spared from this list, the toll is still great. It is essential that the israelis see a human face of the price that is being paid by civilians. The ammunition and shrapnel and bombs and missiles killing these kids. They are almost had entirely israeli. But the governments of israel and the countries blame hamas. Any human life that is lost is a tragedy but ultimately, indeed, hamas, they are accountable for localizing unlawfully placing these rocks within the houses. In this residence, the blood of a new deceased grandfather remains on the wall. I saw grandpa, his head was cut. His arms and legs were cut. He was all cut up, they say. And these children in the middle of this conflict remain in danger, their names potentially the next to be recited, their families the next to be gone. Some children caught in this conflict are apparently in danger before theyre even born. An al jazerra reporter tweet this had picture of a baby pulled from the womb after her mother had been reportedly killed in an israeli air strike. Miraculously it, appears the baby will be okay. Thats it for the lead. Im jake tapper. I now turn you over to wolf blitzer live from jerusalem in the situation room. Wolf . Happening now, a situation room special report, breaking news. Ceasefire rejected. Hamas says no to a truce with israel. Even as the gaza offensive is clearly escalating. Tunnel warfare. Israel says taking them out is a top priority. Well have more of my report inside one of hamass underground passageways. Putin under pressure. The u. S. And europe step up sanctions against russia. Will it be enough to reign in moscow from the fighting in ukraine . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around th