johnson for joining us. coming up, a kindergarten is bombed in israel. a hospital hit in gaza. both sides blaming each other for the increase in violence but as the death toll mounts, there s another battle being waged online.
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is this the type of missile believed to have brought down flight 17? how many of these systems are out there? how easy would it be for terrorists to get their hands on them? also in world news, not all those killed in the israeli-palestinian conflict are israeli or palestinian. american citizens are now dying while fighting for the israelis as the consequences from gaza hit home on u.s. shores. hello, i m jim sciutto filling in nor jake tapper. we begin with the world lead. bodies used as the bargaining chips after days of dispute over how to handle the remains from the crash of malaysia airlines flight 17, pro-russian rebel who s controlled the scene have finally allowed a train to pull away this train carrying almost 200 bodies out of the 298 people who likely died on the plane. the train is bound for part of u crepe still under government control. ultimately, the bodies are supposed to be handed over to
the thousands of people fleeing the hardest hit areas there. where does that money need to go there? probably go immediately to the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees. the agency says they re suffering from a lack of funds. number of people who have south refuge at the more than 60 u.n. schools in gaza basically doubled in the last 48 hours. therefore, they need help desperately. so that s probably the first target for that money. but it may be just a drop in the bucket as that is number of people going into those schools seems to increase daily by the thousands. jim? ben, as you ve been speaking we ve been seeing a lot of pictures of the many chiffon caught up in this, gaza one of the most densely populated places in the world. ben, thanks very much and stay safe. i want to bring in our own wolf blitzer now. he s been covering the region
they said nearby. they didn t say they were in the third floor at the hospital where one patient was killed and four people visiting relative inside that hospital were killed. you look at the case yesterday where by some estimates, more than 100 people were killed in that israeli operation. almost all of them civilians. now, the question is, i don t know if you can really call that pinpoint. i think the secretary of state john kerry himself expressed some doubt about that characterization of this israeli operation. 5508 people killed so far. that s just the statistics before this building was hit up the road, according to the u.n., more than 70% of them civilians. more than 100 of them children. not pinpoint. secretary kerry just announced, ben, that the u.s. is going to give $47 million in immediate aid to gaza. i know you ve been covering just