Talking about the murder of disabled jewish new yorker leon klinghofer by Palestinian Militants in 1985. Thank you very much for coming. The usual reminders to silence your cell phones, restrain from flash photography and plan to join us afterwords for the book signing. Welcome, my name is andy kahan, director of author events. Tonight we look back more than 30 years to the brutal murder of a disabled jewish new yorker at the hands of the palestinian terrorists, an incident that shocked the world and continues to reverberate through the culture at large and the lives of families affected. The initial murder, an innocent bystander, the killing of leon klinghofer, in an innocent bystander the killing of leon klinghofer Julie Salamon offers a view of the neverending cycle of the murder of innocents. Initially a long time banking reporter and film critic for the wall street journal, then a tv critic and our reporters at the New York Times, Julie Salamon has written notable nonfiction books
Ministers fight against hamas in recent polls. Hear why some say they want hamas dealt with once and for all. Hello. And welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Im rosemary church. Im errol barnett. With you here as cnn continues its special coverage. We start with gaza. Where Health Officials say shelling mixed with u. N. Civilian shelter today, as left eight wounded. But no deaths inside the facility. This comes as a strike on another u. N. Shelter killed more than a dozen people just a day earlier. Meantime, israels military tells cnn its calling up 16,000 additional reservists to fight hamas in gaza. For those of you keeping track, that makes 86,000 reservists called up since the conflict began july 8th. Palestinian Health Officials say more than 1,300 people have been killed in the fighting. The u. N. Says at least 70 were civilians. Israel reports 56 soldiers killed in battle. And three civilians killed by rockets fired into israel. U. N. Chief ban k
Da Dobbins Reserve air base, where that plane is expected to touch downen in a few hours time. Nancy writebol and kent brantly contracted it in liberia. In hardhit west africa, more than 700 have died from ebola in recent weeks. Ebola is so infectious is kills up to 60 to 90 of patients who catch it. Contracted through transition of bodily fluids include fever, muscle ache and general weakness. Following twitter or facebook you know there is a huge concern about bringing these two people back to the u. S. Who are infected and thats the question were asking today. Cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta with us now. Theres a lot of questions about this, and ill tell you, i asked the head offed cdc specifically that same question. He made an interesting and fundamental point. That is, they are u. S. Citizens. Theres not an exclusionary policy in america, even if someone who an Infectious Disease they cant come back in. The state department had the to oversee it, cdc gave approva
Were going to take a look at why antisemitism is on the rise. And perhaps the most disturbing news out tonight, chilling video of an american born radical jihadist fighting in syrias brutal civil war, vowing to bring terror and bloodshed to america. We have a report from the state department thats just ahead. Were going again in the middle east tonight with the deadly air strikes on an outdoor market in gaza and a u. N. Shelter. Lets turn right away to cnns john vause who is reporting from gaza tonight. John . Reporter don, israels military offensive is about to enter its 24th day, the longest ever and one of the deadliest attacks happened here on wednesday at a marketplace not far from downtown gaza city. What we understand is israel had announced this fourhour humanitarian window when they would hold their fire if hamas stop firing the rockets. Hamas never agreed. They continued to fire 26 rockets in just over two hours. Then israel decided to respond with a number of quick airstrike