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Palestinians. The death toll in eight days there up to 137. The secretary of state Hillary Clinton is finishing up those direct talks this morning with the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Thats happening in ramallah on the west bank. And netanyahu, the Prime Minister, in jerusalem, another conversation shes having. Now she goes to cairo where shes meeting with the egyptian president mursi. Mrs. Clinton making it clear that she is not interested in a quick fix in gaza. The goal must be a durable outcome that promotes regional stability, and advances the security and legitimate aspirations of israelis and palestinians alike. Cnn reporters flanking the middle east today to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis in gaza and in jerusalem and in israel. Ben wedeman is in gaza city. Frederick pleitgen is in ashkelon city. We begin with sara sidner at the scene of that bus explosion that happened just a little while ago in tel aviv. Sara first of all describe fo
Reporter where the victims of this bus attack are. We know that now 22 people have been injured. Some of those were inside the bus, some of the people were outside of the bus. There are two very serious injuries, both of them teenagers according to hospital officials here and they are doing surgery as we speak. What we dough do know is that so far doctors are saying that all the victims are expected to survive and the blast basically blew out all the windows in the bus about you dbut did not comp destroy the bus. Certainly a terrible, terrible scare to the people here. And a lot of fear this is the beginning of something worse to come. You just talked about, in fact, hamas has praised this particular blast but has not taken responsibility. Police basically are saying they have not been able to get a suspect yet. They are sending out all of their equipment and people to try to find out who is responsible for this. And, as we said, they do not for sure think this was somebody who blew th
Cnns cedrick prankins was where air raid sirens went off. One sounded when i was on the air with Cnn International anchor colleen mcedwards. Heres what happened. Reporter the crews working on the ground and that seems to indeed be part of all of the rocket that has handed here. People here spend most of their days indoors there is another attack. Theres another rocket alert going on right now. Weve got to get out of here. Okay, go, fred. There you see it, a strike in ashca lan, just a short time ago, were seeing pictures there, weve got the pictures you up as fred and our camera crew get out of the way. The sirens sounding again in ashcalan, a sign that another strike is coming. Can we listen here . Reporter now we have the impact. Colleen, we can stay on. Were with you. Reporter you still there . Yes, were with you. Go ahead. Reporter okay. Colleen, basically what just happened is the air sirens went off, and we then ran to a sort of a shelter we have right here. This is a residential
We want to begin with our big story here. Coming up, hope for a ceasefire in gaza as the attacks keep coming, the blood keeps spilling. Heres what we know this morning. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has just wrapped up this meeting in the west bank in ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas. She will reportedly meet again today with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before jetting to cairo for talks with the president of egypt, Mohammad Morsi. The urgency underscored by the carnage in benghazi. Rockets are lobbying back and forth. Israeli air attacks killing 27 more palestinians bringing the death toll to 137 just in the last week. Now a spokesman for hamas sounded cautiously optimistic that a ceasefire could be at hand telling cnn we are close, we are on the edge. Cnn has reporters blanketing the region to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of this crisis in gaza. Fred pleitgen is in ashkelon, ben wedemans in gaza city. Ben wedeman, good morning, set the scene for me. Reporter