SUSPENSIONS AND DISCIPLINARY MEASURES FACED BY ABOUT 80 STUDENTS. >> CEASE FIRE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS APPEAR TO BE ONCE AGAIN AT A STALEMATE. >> FOX EIGHT'S CHRIS WELCH JOINS US NOW WITH THE LATEST OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST. AND CHRIS, MEDIATORS IN QATAR ARE SAYING ISRAEL IS SETTING UNREALISTIC GOALS. >> YEAH, STEVE, NATASHA, THOSE MEDIATORS ARE ALSO SAYING THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST TO TRY TO BRIDGE THE GAP. BUT THAT THAT GAP APPEARS TO BE PRETTY WIDE RIGHT NOW. ALL THIS AS THE FIGHTING IN GAZA CONTINUES. ISRAELIS IN TEL AVIV TODAY CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY. BUT DESPITE THE FESTIVE SCENE, FEELINGS WERE MUTED THIS YEAR AMID THE NOW SEVEN MONTH WAR IN GAZA. >> WE STILL WANT OUR CHILDREN TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A COUNTRY AND THIS COUNTRY IS IMPORTANT FOR US. WE CHERISH OUR COUNTRY AND WE WANT TO SHOW THEM THAT WE DON'T SURRENDER NO MATTER WHAT. >> IN NORTHERN GAZA, FIERCE FIGHTING IN JABALIA, FORCING MORE PALESTINIANS TO FLEE, ADDING TO THE NEARLY HALF A MILLION ESTIMATED TO HAVE ALREADY FLED RAFAH IN THE SOUTH IN JUST THE PAST WEEK, THE UNITED NATIONS CONFIRMING TODAY THAT AN INTERNATIONAL AID WORKER WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED WHEN THEIR U.N. CONVOY WAS ATTACKED IN GAZA A DAY EARLIER. A UN SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE CONVOY WAS CLEARLY MARKED AND ITS PLANNED MOVEMENTS HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED TO ISRAEL IN ADVANCE. >> I WANT TO UNDERSCORE TO EVERYONE HOW SERIOUS IT IS THAT AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN DANGER OF STARVING TO DEATH, THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR BLOCKING OR OR ATTACKING ING DIFFERENT CONVOYS AS THEY TRY TO GET FOOD TO THOSE IN NEED. >> ISRAELI PROTESTERS BLOCKED AID TRUCKS IN THE WEST BANK HEADED FOR GAZA, THROWING FOOD PACKAGES ON THE GROUND AND LIGHTING SEVERAL TRUCKS ON FIRE. >> IT IS A DYNAMIC SITUATION. >> MEANTIME, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS FACING MOUNTING CRITICISM FROM ALL SIDES. THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSED TO ITS CONTINUED SUPPORT OF ISRAEL, AND THERE ARE THOSE UPSET THAT IT'S BEGINNING TO LIMIT WEAPONS TRANSFERS TO THE COUNTRY. >> JOE BIDEN'S POSITION NOW IS DE FACTO FOR A FOR A HAMAS VICTORY AGAINST ISRAEL, BECAUSE IF HAMAS SURVIVES, HAMAS WINS, FURTHER FUELING CONTROVERSY. >> A RECENT STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT DETERMINED THAT IT'S, QUOTE, REASONABLE TO ASSESS ISRAEL VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW. >> ISRAEL HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO CONNECT THEIR MILITARY OPERATION TO A CLEAR STRATEGIC END GAME AND BACK TO THE CEASE FIRE TALKS FOR A MINUTE. >> MEDIATORS IN QATAR SAY WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO IS THIS YOU'VE GOT ONE PARTY THAT WANTS AN END TO THIS WAR THROUGH A DEAL THAT WILL LEAD TO A TRUCE, AND YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER PARTY THAT WANTS A TEMPORARY CEASE FIRE AND A RETURN TO THE WAR. AFTER AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS AND HOSTAGES. THEY SAY YOU
