Cease-Fire Between Israel and Gaza Appears to be Over
MARQUEZ: Now, my colleague, Sara Sidner, rejoins us from Jerusalem where the cease-fire is over. Israel and Hamas both accusing the other of undermining the temporary halt to the bloodshed -- Sara.</s>SIDNER: Well Miguel, look, moments after the cease-fire, literally three or four minutes after it ended, Israel reported fresh mortars that had come over from Gaza. We know at least six mortars have made it over into southern Israel and the regional council area. Now, Hamas accused Israel of blocking removal of Palestinian bodies in the buffer zone. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza alone, mostly civilians. When both sides constantly point fingers at each other, any possible path to resolution becomes clouded. And we have to mention, you know, Israel has lost 40 soldiers and three civilians. Joining to us discuss all of this is Kimberly Dozier of global affairs analyst and Bob Baer, a former CIA operative. Kim, let's start with you. Considering the number of dead now topping 1,000 in Gaza, many, many civilians, as we mentioned, and the images that are coming out of Gaza, this huge and mass scale of destruction, and also seeing through to the hospitals in what is happening there, completely overwhelmed, women and children screaming. Is Israel losing the public battle, the world opinion battle, I guess if you will, are they losing that public opinion battle?</s>DOZIER: Well, they've already lost it across the Arab world. These are the kind of images that they have played on a much smaller scale over the years. The concern of U.S. officials is that these new fresh images, this fresh number of -- high number of dead will feed into the jihadist ideology of militants across the region, that young men watching this might not be able to get in to Gaza to help fight there, but they'll be able to join the fighters in Syria or other parts of Africa where Al Qaeda and other groups are taking root. From Hamas' point of view, fighting back continuing to fight back, that's kind of their model for being successful, staying in power, being seen as the protector and defender of their people. So, while it might not make a lot of sense to people watching from outside the region wondering why they're fighting this battle that they can't win against a much stronger military, politically wherever they stop, they'll probably emerge stronger at least in the eyes of their own people because of this confrontation.</s>MARQUEZ: Bob, the information and pr propaganda is important in any military action. Is what we're seeing right now, certainly Netanyahu has support at home, he seems to have it in the U.S., but is it making it more difficult for leaders everywhere as they are trying to decide what to do about bringing this to an end?</s>BAER: Well, first of all, Kimberly is absolutely right. We've lost the battle in the Arab world. The United States is getting an enormous amount of pressure to put an end to this conflict, to lift the siege on Gaza. And you have to look at it from the perspective of the Palestinians. Having, you know, 35 losses on the side of the Israelis is a lot, a lot for them. And for Hamas it's a big victory. So, they are -- I think they're winning this war in terms of propaganda. There's no doubt about it. And they will get jihadist support and the United States will be blamed and you'll see Muslims from Europe and the United States heading into the region. They're going to become radicalized. And unlike Hamas, these people are going to turn to international terrorism.</s>SIDNER: Bob, I do want to follow up on that, though, because there have been protests in London, for example, and France against the Israeli bombardment as well. You do have, you know, others looking at it. But also I want to talk about what Hamas looks like now to the world because they have mixed the cease-fire extension that Israel had agreed upon, a four-hour extension. And this is all for humanitarian reasons so that people can try and just a little bit recover. At least, have four hours of sleep if they can get any of that. What does it is do for Hamas' reputation in the court of public opinion?</s>BAER: Well. I mean, I think that -- I mean, Hamas, you know, was losing power and losing influence up until now. And I think this is one of the reasons they started rocketing Israel, they wanted to draw them into a conflict that they could fight on the ground in the Gaza Strip. They knew very cynically that the Israelis would have to kill a lot of civilians. You can't go into Gaza and make pinpoint strikes on the Palestinians. So, they were counting on a large number of civilian deaths. You know, whether this pays off in the end, I don't know, but Hezbollah in 2006 did this, drew the Israelis into Lebanon. And fought them to a standstill and Hezbollah lost influence there somewhat, but not completely.</s>SIDNER: All right, Bob Baer and Kimberly Dozier. Thank you so much for joining us -- Miguel?</s>MARQUEZ: Thank you very much, Sara. And be sure to watch "STATE OF THE UNION" tomorrow morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will be on with Candy Crowley starting and at 9:00 a.m. eastern and at 12:00 p.m. eastern time. Now, coming up, when MH-17 was shot out of the sky, bodies and wreckage rained down on the village below, even into the playground of an orphanage. Next, residents about -- talk to CNN about what they witnessed that tragic day and how it is still affecting them.