brokering peace with israeli troops still on the border this morning. leaders from israel and hamas sit down to negotiate phase two of the latest cease fire. we ll bring you live to the region. plus, fiscal cliff diving. the countdown to the new year is counting down to economic disaster. what will it take to reach a compromise and pull the country back from the edge before january 1st. the holiday season kicking into gear. we ll take you all around the country. meantime, relative calm between israel and gaza following the cease fire did not last very long. today a clash at the poirder left one palestinian dead and 15 wounded. as usual, we are hearing two different versions of this cease fire version. we have two reporters there.
only one that s had any leverage to the degree that it s had any leverage over what israel does and how it conducts itself in the region. now you have a new relationship between these two. just how much leverage does he have. historically mubarak was a historical enemy. now you have egypt setting themselves up as a partner to hamas. are you at all concerned about what s going on in tahrir square that the egyptian president may be a bit compromised to help out in the greater area? he s having to stick with things in his own backyard. i think what s going on in egypt today is going to have implications for the region. as far as it relates to gaza, when it comes to responsibility, international law dick cates that israel occupies gaza. the question of the well-being
aman, i ll begin with you. what are they saying about the glash at the gaza border today? they re saying that the palestinians, 300 of them approached the israel/gaza border on the palestinian side of it. they went there to access their farm land. that area is considered mostly essentially farm land for those families. a lot of people earn their livelihoods from there. they were going there to protest and demand that they have the right to go as far up to the border as possible. the reason why is because over the years israel has imposed a no go area limiting or prohibiting how close they can get up to that in a sense of 300 meters. it was at that border fence that they came under fire. as you mentioned, one palestinian was killed and several others wounded. now palestinian factions here have called that a violation of the cease fire on wednesday.
the territorial waters of gaza which restricts the fishing industry. the question moving forward is not simply about ceasing fire but also about easing these restrictions that are ending up resulting in a collective punishment of a million and a half people. i spoke earlier to someone who said the area isn t clearly identified. the farmers who go out there to do the job that yousuf is talking about, they re trying to get to their farm lands. whose responsibility is it to make clear what a cease fire means, whether you can go into this area, no go zone, and get to your land. that needs to be stage two. stage one is no more shooting. stage two does need to be a definition of territories, permeability of borders and whatnot. i think what we have here is an interesting moment where the united states has always been the senior partner to israel, has always been the one, the
what s happening miles away along this border, who is it that will do this? who is it that judges, yousef, whether it s a violation? sure. the bigger problem is it was very big. the other part of the problem is while the egyptians have good relations with israel and hamas, they have far more leverage over hamas. the so-called buffer zone that we see is exclusively on territory inside gaza. there s no buffer zone on the israeli side. there s no protection for the people of gaza from the israelis. that so-called buffer zone takes up 50% of the arabal lands in gaza which can produce up to 83,000 tons annually of produce. the same sort of restrictions along the border cuts off 80% of