Hospital officials now say 24 people were wounded in this mornings bus bombing in tel aviv. No one was killed, though, but since the conflict with hamas began, five israelis have been killed. More than 70 wounded. Witnesses say they saw a man throw the bag into the bus, and run away, and it blew up. Official from both sides at this time yesterday, they actually believe that a ceasefire between israel and hamas was close, but diplomats today, they are furiously trying to get peace talks back on track, but there is still a lot of shock. Theres action newsing other the streets of tel aviv. Want to go there live to talk to sarah seidner. Give us the latest of this bus bomb that went off, and what is the reaction, the response to people there about the possibility of this violence ending. Well, you know, if you talk to people on the streets who have actually come up to us as we were in the hospital coming out on to the streets right outside the hospital where at least 22 people have been tr
Hamas militants [ gunfire ] there they are. Hamas militants in gaza keep unleashing rocket attacks on israel and get alarmingly close to jerusalem. A new provocation as they continue the air assault on what it calls terrorist targets in za. The death toll i rising along wiars of anallout Israeli Ground invasion. The Israeli Cabinet has just approved the callup of 75,000 Army Reservists in addition to the troops already positioned along the border with gaza. A visit to gaza by egypts Prime Minister failed to stop the bombardment and pull the region from the brink of allout war. U. S. Officials blame hamas for starting this conflict. But they are also urging to be measured in its response. The defense secretary leon panetta says israel and the palestinians need to negotiate a more permanent piece his words, a more permanent piece in the region. Our pentagon correspondent barbara starrs been watching whats going on. Barbara, what is the u. S. Military most concerned about right now . Wolf
Targets and avoiding civilian casualties. We now have reports that 100 people have been killed in gaza, 800 wounded in the past six days. Theres a lot of concern about where the civilians lie in all of this. Well, suzanne, i think any military expert will tell you that its not possible in a place that is so densely populated, as is gaza. However, israeli officials do tell us they do have a new set of weaponry, more precision weapons than they did this time this time last time around when they went in to gaza on the ground and by air. More than 1,000 people were killed. Now they are trying to do it in a different way, and they also you have the public military track and the diplomatic track going as well, and a senior israeli official told me today that they hope israel is hoping that they can, in fact, is he success from the diplomatic track. As you know, the United States is not interested in seeing an Israeli Ground fe into gaza, although reiterating its support for israels right to
All the while there was a flurry of diplomating activity. Secretary clinton met with Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas in the west bank and benjamin net ya knetanahu in ca. Lets go straight to Fred Pleitgen where sirens have been going off earlier. And joining us is ben wedeman in the gaza strip, gaza city. Fred, what are you seeing now in ashkelon . Reporter from ted pleitgen, have the rockets stopped in ashkelon . Reporter the rockets, yes, have stopped in ashkelon. It was interesting, because up until about a minute before our broadcast began, there were still booms that were heard in the sky. And about ten minutes ago we had to run for cover in ashkelon. Now it appears as though things are quiet. I can tell you from speaking to people here on the ground, theyre telling us this he dont really believe in this ceasefire just yet at this point in time. Folks that were speaking to at this cafe who have been watching the speech of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they believe this
Into gaza. Terms of a potential ceasefire are being brokered by egypt, turkey and qatari officials. Israeli Defense Forces targeted a Media Building in gaza, aiming at four senior hamas operatives they believed were inside. And two people died. It is not clear if they were the ones designated as the hamas targets. Hamas, which grew out of the muslim brotherhood, seized in our gaza in 2007. Since then, the group has become increasingly militarized. The death toll stands at 100 in gaza including women and children. And three in israel. Any others have been wounded on both sides. Israel credits its antimissional Defense System known as the iron dome funded by the United States for its low number of deaths. Cnns frederick platkin was live when the system intercepted a rocket midair. There, over in the sky, you probably wont be able to see it here, there is an interceptor missile taking off now. Thats the iron dome interceptor. If you saw the flash in the sky, that was a rocket coming out o