You into the claustrophobic confines of gazas secret tunnels. Also in world news, its been called the worlds biggest crime scene and the top suspects still control it. How can anyone ever be brought to justice for the downtowning of flight 17 if investigators is still cant even get access . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Well begin, of course, was is the world lead. This should be a day of celebration in gaza, the first day of the muslim holiday of eid. Instead its not only a day of fighting and mourning for both sides, it also seems to be something of a day of escalation. And civilians continue to pay the price. Headlines about a possible serious cease fire are gone. In their place, tragedy. Ten people at least eight children killed according to Gazas Health Ministry in a strike on a Palestinian Refugee camp on the gaza coastline. Hamas the militants who control gaza who have been labeled a terrorist or the Organization Says israel carried out the strikes on the camp a
Kerry is expected to fly here to jerusalem at some point soon. Also right now, a belgium plane is on the way to ukraine to pick up the flight data recorders from malaysia air flight 17. The question now what, if anything, can those black boxes tell us. Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. Id like to welcome our viewers from the United States and around the world. An update now on the breaking news were following. The crisis in the middle east now affecting International Air travel. First, several u. S. Carriers started suspending flights into and out of israel. Now the faa back in washington is prohibiting those flights by all u. S. Airline because of the fighting between israel and hamas. The move comes after a rocket landed on a house close to ben gurion International Airport, just outside tel aviv. Cnns rene marsh joining us from washington. Rene, first of all, which airlines, roughly how many flights are affected . Why did the faa decide to take this extraordinary step
Stay inside their homes. Before darkness fell, there was just chaos at gazas largest hospital. Gazas Health Ministry says ten people died, and an explosion at a refugee camp, eight of them children. The Israel Defense forces say the blast and a separate explosion at a gaza hospital that wounded two people were both caused by misfired hamas rockets. But hamas and witnesses inside the refugee camp blame israel for those blasts. Lets go to jerusalem to our very own wolf blitzer, is there for yet another day here, and wolf, you talked to an Israeli Military spokesman earlier. What did he tell you about that blast at that refugee camp . Reporter he flatly Said Lieutenant colonel peter lerner, Israel Defense forces, flatly blamed hamas. He said there are numerous missiles launched inside gaza but then just fell, never made it into israel, went off, fell inside gaza, and caused significant damage, and he said thats what occurred this time, as well. Hamas totally denies that. They say there we
Does the temporary truce have staying power this time . Live Team Coverage and peace talks in cairo, ahead. Violence in the streets of a usually quiet missouri town. There was looting and vandalism. Gunfire from an angry crowd. Furious over the Police Shooting of an unarmed black teenager. We have the dramatic new video ahead. Quite a busy night here. Ill say. Good morning. Nice to see you. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We welcome our viewers in the u. S. And around the world. A vigil that turned into a violent confrontation with police. They attacked police cars. The reason behind all of this . The shooting death of an 18yearold boy, Michael Brown, at the hands of police saturday. Witnesses say brown was unarmed and did not instigate what happened. There was a physical confrontation with an officer and the officers weapon. The police chief says brown was shot 35 feet away from the police car but declined to give more details
Never even agreed to it. One of the big reasons, this comes a day after another deadly air strike near a u. N. Shelter that drew some of the strongest criticism yet from the United Nations and the United States. Anderson cooper is joining us from jerusalem on the ground there this morning with the latest. What is it looking like just a few short hours into this ceasefire, anderson . About three hours into this ceasefire israel has said theres been at least 23 rockets fired into israel from gaza since midnight east coast time. But i want to get you the latest details on the ceasefire. Despite the early trouble we told you about, were about three hours in with four hours to go. Israel agreed to hold its fire despite refusals by hamas. Israel say it is truce does not apply to soldiers working to destroy terror tunnels including tunnels into israel. The Israel Defense forces say it will respond if fired upon. A Senior Palestinian jihad operative was killed. We believe donian monsieur was t