Outfront tonight, thousands attacked in gaza, the United States condemning the strike, but stopping short of placing blame on israel. The woes press secretary saying israel needs to live up to its own standards d. The United States went further, saying israeli artillery was responsible for the deaths in the shelter. The Palestinian Health mince tremendous says 20 were killed in the attack. Our karl penhaul went to the school to see what happened. What did you see . Reporter erin, 3,000 people rub crammed into the school. It was before dawn. It was still dark, most of these people with sleeping. One shell cam through the roof, and another spashd through the latrines. One man who had been sleeping outside along with the other men said that when he woke up to the sound of is the explosion he looked around and saw el elderly men cut to shreds by the shrapnel. Another lady said there was smoke everywhere. She poured water in her eyes just to get the bearing and she felt the shrapnel raining
And one hour and 57 minutes. Thats how long it took for arizona to execute double murderer joseph wood after administering the lethal unjection. Well ask woods lawyer was this cruel and unusual punishment . He started gasping. It was several people describe it as looking sort of like a fish, you know, out of water and it was sort of a spasm that would go from his mouth down through his chest to his stomach. And we watched this and it went on for more than an hour and a half. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where we are following the third major Civil Aviation incident in only a week. Airport officials tell nbc news an algerian plane carrying 110 passengers and six crew members is believed to have crashed in northern mali. Algier flight 107 was on its way from burkina faso to algiers. They reported losing contact with the plane about 50 minutes after takeoff. Nbcs tom costello joins me with the latest from our washington newsroom. Bring us to up to date. 110 passengers on boa
Surrender. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell here in new york today. Secretary of john kerry in the middle east meeting with leaders on both sides trying to push for a ceasefire between israel and hamas. After meeting with president Mahmoud Abbas in the west bank, kerry said that progress has been made. The people in palestinian territories, the people in israel are all living under the threat or reality of immediate violence. And this needs to end for everybody. We need to find a way forward that works. And its not violence but today violence is concentrated east of gaza city in a poor district but palestinian ambulances cant get to the many wounded and dead there. And between emergency calls, they checked the supplies. He says he cant go where hes needed most. We get calls that there are injured there and bleeding to death, he says, but we cant go in. Last time he did manage to get in, this is what he found. First, a face like a corpse. Then she moved and breathed. 24yearold had
Between israel and gaza just announced. According to the details of the agreement which we are just getting in to cnn, the quote is forces on the ground will remain in place. This is only a humanitarian ceasefire. A brief pause in the fighting, all meant to get aid to civilians in gaza. We are going to hear from a top israeli official, israels ambassador to the United Nations in a moment. First we have sarah sidner in jerusalem, john vaz in gaza city. Whats happening there, john . Reporter well, erin, we have seen a number of rockets fired by hamas since news came through that there is a ceasefire deal in place. Obviously the rockets outgoing to israel. Sarah can tell you more about where they landed. We have been seeing a lot of israeli activity here. Heavy machine gun fire to the east. Also the sound of artillery as well. We were expecting an uptick in the activity here. They agreed to the ceasefires and launched a last barrage of activity, trying to get as much done before the cease
Houses the u. S. Consulate and some of the last americans in iraq. A little over an hour later, fighter jets took off from a u. S. Aircraft carrier in the persian gulf and hit an isis convoy of seven cars. The four planes circled back and launched another round of air strikes, hitting eight targets total and leading to estimated significant casualties. Earlier in the day, two fa1015 jets dropped mortar bombs near irbil. President obama also launched a new diplomatic squeeze on iraqs embattled Prime Minister. The white house is trying to oust Nuri Al Maliki who has been criticized for his failure to form an inclusive or governing coalition. That is difficult. Al maliki has so many enemies he may be afraid losing power will mean losing his life. One former u. S. Official in iraq said yesterday maliki knows if he steps down, virtually he is a dead man. Now, while many forces in the Region Support a change of government there, few American Allies are backing todays air strikes in general.