Debris and remains still unsecured as rebels grow impatient with the international monitors. Now one country wants to send in remain anned forces. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in jerusalem. Youre in the situation room. Were following this hours two breaking news stories in ukraine, the u. S. Believes russia is preparing to send heavy weapons across the border and tension is growing over International Access to the Malaysia Flight 17 crash site. Here in the middle east, reuters is now reporting that the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told secretary of state john kerry israel would begin a 12hour pause in gaza hostilities starting tomorrow morning 27 a. M. Local time about seven hours or so from now coming after israels security cabinet unanimously rejected a proposed oneweek cease fire with hamas. A proposal put forward by the secretary of state john kerry. Meanwhile, deadly violence has spread to the west bank.
President obama pushes for an immediate cease fire in gaza as the death toll rises on both sides. Two more Israeli Soldiers were killed on monday bringing the total to 27. And some 573 palestinians have been killed. So lets begin with the latest news in the flight 17 crash investigation. Cnns Nick Peyton Walsh joins us live. Whats the latest . Reporter we know that at 3 10 local time, 8 00 your time, the train carrying 200 of the bodies of the victim of flight 17s departed from the donetsk. They took a different route than anticipated. It was expected to travel straight to kharkiv. Theres been a lot of contrary information about when the train was supposed to leave, what direction it was taking. And it will probably take at least seven hours to make its way toward kharkiv where it will be met by an increasingly large number of australian, dutch, consular officials, those trying to go through the extraordinarily grim and difficult task of taking these bodies which are now a number of da
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
Illegal migration. Brace yourself, pull out the parkias, the polar vortex is back. 59 for a High Temperature on monday in the middle of july. Just crazy weather going on. Temperatures 30 degrees below normal, some people waking up to temperatures in the 40s. They find a way, with touch, with finesse. We got to talk about it. Germany takes the cup. So after biding, and stim howar, is the america cup whipped . Well talk about it. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. We begin in gaza where neighborhoods are reduced to rubble and lives are in ruin. Thousands of palestinians are fleeing parts of northern gaza, after israel dropped these leaflets warning civilians of impending air strikes. That offensive appears to be escalating. Two overnight deaths in gaza have pushed the Palestinian Death toll to 172. Compare that to israel where there has not been a Single Person killed. Thats despite hamas militants unleashing its own barrage. Israel says hamas fired nearly 1,000 rockets across
Itself. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says while hes sorry for the loss of life, it is unavoidable, claiming hamas is using cities as human shields. Carl goss has more. Theres been no letup this morning. Weve watching the goz sa skyline as we see pluming coming up, israeli bombs explode on targets below. We see the vapor trails in the air as hamas and Islamic Jihad militants fire off rockets towards israel. Lets bring you up to speed with the developments. Breaking this morning, an aerial drone from gaza infiltrated israel and was shot down by a patriot missile. Across gaza the conflict quickly escalating. Israeli air strikes hit three Training Facilities and buildings of hamas military wing. Thousands who live on the gaza strip now fleeing. Including hundreds of palestinian americans rushing to get out. It was really scary. I wasnt used to it, especially since i live in america. Reporter over the weekend the Israeli Military confirms boots in the ground with its commandos raiding