The ceasefire went into effect. Well take you there in a moment. But first lets go to John Harwood joining us at the White House. The White House was insistent that their sort of quiet diplomacy and conversations with netanyahu and that team would lead to this. They believe that strategy was the best and it worked. Reporter well, certainly they want to claim credit for effective diplomacy. In reality it is very difficult to know how much of a role their diplomacy played both Israel And Gaza had diminishing returns the longer this carnage went on. Nevertheless, the president was, and his team, was intensively engaged initially behind the scenes then when they got impatient with the Prime Minister they ratcheted up the public pressure and the carnage ended. It did not go on for 50 days as it did in 2014. So that is positive. And the larger positive for the administration is that they can put this conflict behind them, get on to their other domestic and foreign policy goals. The president
Thank you so much for being here at this hour. A fragile ceasefire holds. But for how long . This morning there are new clashes between palestinians and israeli police in juice juice. Showing you this video of Police Firing Rubber bullets and Stun Grenades in response to what they say was a riot. This is just today. More than a dozen people reportedly injured. This comes just hours after a ceasefire set in, pausing the most intense conflict between israel and hamas in years. But not before more than 200 people were killed. Most of them palestinians. Leaving israeli and palestinians further apart than ever. This morning israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the 11day Conflict with hamas an exceptional success, the Operation Put against hamas there. Cnns Nic Robertson is joining me for more on where things stand live near the israel gaza border. What are you seeing there . Reporter kate, if there was going to be a flashpoint to reignite the conflict it would have been that we