On the other side of the border, air sirens screamed out in several cities. Israel says it intercepted dozens of the nearly 150 rockets hamas fired, including two targeted at tel aviv. Their shelling is intense on both sides. Cnns Anderson Cooper witnessed it firsthand. Hes been reporting live from gaza city and earlier i was on the air with anderson when a massive explosion took place nearby. Watch what happened. In that blast we know ten members of one family, also two Media Centers whoa. That was a rather large explosion. That occurred, look out here, i cant actually see where the impact of that was. Its actually set off a number of car alarms. But that was probably the largest explosion that weve heard just in the past, really in the past hour. Thereve been a numb beof explosions the past hour or two. But that one was pretty loud. We actually the rockets continue to be fired from gaza toward israel, about three or four hours ago there was actually a quite large rocket that was fire
So a question about domestic issues in israel. What is israel doing to aid and assist its israeliarab citizens . To aid and assist. Well, israeliarab citizens are, i talked about being uniquely blessed. They are uniquely blessed as arabs in the middle east to live in a free country. Israeliarabs enjoy the rights that no other arabss in the region enjoy, and they can be full members of Israeli Society. And i think israel should not be embarrassed of what has happened in the last 65 years regarding israeliarabs. We should be proud. Because we have built a thriving democracy. It is not perfect. You always have room for improvement, and in all societies on earth you can always improve it. But israel understands something. I say, well, israel should not be judged by the standards of dictatorships. You are democracy, and you should be judged by the towards of democracy by the standards of democracy. Thats true. Judge israel by the standards of a democracy that is threatened. Israel is the mo
Hello, everyone. You are watching cnn newsroom and im rosemary church. Im john vause. Wed like to welcome our guests from around the world. Still no flight for Malaysia Flight 370 so now the investigation is entering a new phase. Not before the blue fin drone wraps up the final part of its search. Its on its 12th mission under the indian ocean. You can see what its covered so far in the green, more than 90 of the search area. A possible lead fizzled out. Cnns Michael Holmes has that and more on whats to come from perth, australia. Reporter hopes that the object of interest might lead to something concrete in this search quickly dissipated overnight. It was an object about 2. 5 meters long and a meter wide. It was made of fiber grass, had rivets in it. They said this morning, quote, we do not consider this to be of use to our search for mh370. He went on to say at that analysis of photographs of the object was enough to warrant no further analysis of the material. Nobody ever overstated
Were following the breaking news in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 and in gaza where at least 16 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in what was supposed to be a safe haven. This was the scene after a strike at a United Nations schoolhousing palestinians fleeing the fighting between israel and hamas. The palestinians called the strike brutal israeli aggression. But israel says it may have been the result of a hamas rocket noting several have fallen in the same area. We have breaking News Coverage you will see only here on cnn. Lets start with the cnns karl penhaul in gaza city. Whats the latest on this u. N. Shelter strike . We have to be very precise about all the information to make sure that were not reflecting the version of only one of the warring sides, wolf. 16 dead, as you say. 200 wounded. This was a United Nations school about a mail and a half from the israeli gaza border near the town of beit hanoun. There has been intense fighting including ground
prime minister netanyahu, mahmoud hamas. is there indication talking to the protesters you get the sense they are listening to the political figures in this country and possibly contemplating winding down, or are you sensing that tensions are just rising? reporter: well, the short answer to that is absolutely not. the palestinians here in east jerusalem are extremely angry with both of israel leadership and with the palestinian leadership. the palestinian leadership to many of the folks here really does not represent them. they don speak on their behalf. there is a huge distance between what is happening in ramallah and on the ground. some won t be able to attend the funeral of this slain palestinian boy. at the same time, they also question the israel government. a tremendous amount of criticism. we spoke to the father of that teenage boy saying the israel