Ceasefire talks going on right now, but so far nothing has been agreed to, but were seeing intense battles here in gaza. One of the Amazing Things is the israeli stated position here is to try to end all rockets from hamas being fired from the gaza strip into israel. Were still seeing a real strong volley, a consistent volley of rockets being fired from hamas into israel. Thats part of the reason why that travel ban is still in place. Israel continues to hit hamas targets. Theres several spots near where we are located where hamas has tried to fire rockets and consistently has been doing that. Israel has hit that spot, a couple hours, a couple days later we still see rockets being fired from that same spot. Israel hits it again. Theres a constant back and forth here happening not only across us but across the entire gaza strip. Secretary of state john kerry is in israel right now speaking with leaders around the region including israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abb
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In the middle east, after 12 hours, the cease fire is now broken. Hamas did it. By firing even more rockets into israel. A reported five. Hamas claiming at least two of those rockets were aimed directly at tel aviv. Of course, thats on top of the more than 2,000 it is said to have launched on the jewish state. Conner powell has the very latest in this report from gaza city. Reporter ill walk you through the new developments. Theyre shifting by the minute. What we understand right now is that today after the 12hour cease fire truce that israel and hamas accepted and abided by, israel offered a fourhour continuation of this cease fire. That was rejected by hamas. We saw over a dozen or so rockets being launched from gaz. Israels cabinet announced they are offering another 24hour cease fire, but that is now also been rejected by hamas. The terms and conditions of that cease fire would have allowed israels military to continue destroying tunnels here in gaza. That seems like a nonstarter f
Now. I am jon scott. And the violence in the current conflict with israel and hamas the 18th day with both sides facing heavy fire. Could a ceasefire be anywhere in site . Conner powell has the latest for us from gaza city. Reporter we understand there are serious ceasefire talks going on and we expected an a noupsment earlier in the day. So far israel nor hamas made announcement. There are no ceasefire but there are talks going on and what it might look like. But we understand the Israeli Security cabinet met and they are divided on whether to escalate or accept a ceasefire. Many in israel want to finish off hamas for good and destroy all of the tunnels and many in gaza simply think without a permanent lifting up the blockade around gaza, it is not worth stopping the fighting. There is real division about escalating or division. The big difference here in the past few hours, we are seeing heavy fighting in the palestinian west bank. Thousands of palestinians going out and protesting t
Prolonged campaign against hamas. For the latest on the ground we turn now to foxs own conner powell. Hes standing by tonight in gaza city, conner . Sean, we have seen this expansion of the military operation here by israel in the last 24 hours as you said, we have seen many more air strikes, they hit the Main Television, the hamas Main Television channel in addition to a home run by or owned by a senior hamas official. Also that power station. But were seeing strikes on other targets as well. And we understand that hamas is saying, until their demands are met, there will be no stopping them. Were hearing on the israeli side that many officials are saying, this is the chance to defeat hamas once and for all. It looks like we are set for a much bigger expansion of the fighting here, we continue to have rockets fired from gaza into israel. The death toll here is up over 1100 palestinians. A lot of children, 53 soldiers have been killed here. The Israeli Military continues to focus on tho