The head of a United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees said Sunday that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) was taking "insufficient measures" to prevent civilian deaths in Gaza during its war with Hamas.

"If you look at the extent of the damage, the extent of the physical destruction but also the extent of the loss of human life...there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that insufficient measures of precaution and control and protection are being taken, including by the Israeli Defense Force, when engaging in Gaza," Pierre Krahenbuhl, the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Asked about Israel's claims that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, Krahenbuhl said there are "certainly behaviors that expose the population on the ground" because Hamas operates from densely populated civilian areas. He said both armed forces are bound by the rules of international law.

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He also said that weapons caches had been found in UNRWA facilities, which the agency condemns "unreservedly." But Krahenbuhl said that still does not justify attacks that have hit his agency's buildings.

"Nobody can suggest that because weapons are found in one premise that it can be in any sense a justification for shelling other schools and endangering the lives of displaced people in the middle of a war zone," he said. "This is very clear on international law, that these are premises that are protected, the sanctity of which has to be respected by all parties."

His comments come in the wake of an airstrike near the entrance of a U.N. school that killed 10 people. The school was serving as a shelter for 3,000 displaced Palestinians.

"This is of course another incident that generates both shock and disbelief," he said.

The IDF has said it is investigating the incident and did not offer comment.

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"Israel cannot have a proportional response if people are flying rockets at their citizens. Can you imagine if one of the contiguous countries to America were firing rockets at America? The same people who are criticizing the Israelis would be going crazy, demanding the president does more," Bloomberg said. "Unfortunately, if Hamas hides among the innocent, the innocent are going to get killed because Israel just does not have any choice but to stop people firing, Hamas firing rockets at their citizens. They have a right to defend themselves, and America would do exactly the same thing."

The White House has become increasingly critical of Israel in recent days for the mounting civilian casualties. Alongside Bloomberg, White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said Israel "absolutely has the right to defend itself and we are Israel's staunchest ally, but you also can't condone the killing of all these innocent children."

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That may be an insurmountable task, Bloomberg said.

"Whether there is a solution to the problem, I don't know," the former New York city mayor said. "There's no simple answer to these kinds of things."

The avian influenza sweeping Asia has killed 15 people, and jittery governments have slaughtered some 50 million chickens and other fowl to stop the disease from spreading. Indonesia added its name to the list on Thursday, saying it would cull 10 million birds.

Meeting in Rome, U.N. experts approved limited animal vaccination Thursday in the bird flu crisis to avoid unnecessary mass culling -- a measure Asian countries fear could devastate their livestock.

Ending a two-day conference, experts said cautious use of vaccination could create buffer zones around already infected areas to prevent the disease spreading further.

"The mass culling of flocks outside of infected sites in reaction to outbreaks might therefore be largely avoided and major damage to the livelihoods of rural households and national economies averted," said a joint statement by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health.

Vietnam — where 10 people have died — ordered a nationwide ban on sales of all live chickens and poultry products. Officials said the order was to contain the disease, but did not elaborate.

It was not clear whether authorities feared people might catch bird flu by eating infected meat. The World Health Organization says there is no evidence yet that the virus is spreading to people who eat properly cleaned and cooked poultry products. But countries worldwide, including the United States, have imposed import bans on poultry from nations affected with bird flu.

Thailand is the only other country where the virus has jumped to humans, with five deaths.

China has confirmed five outbreaks of the disease and reported 18 suspected ones, but it has not reported any human cases. Chinese officials again rejected rumors circulating in recent days of human cases, saying they were groundless and that there was no attempt at a cover-up.

Chinese officials faced similar accusations last year during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. The Beijing government admitted it had the disease after weeks of denial.

"I can say in a responsible way that there is no human (bird flu) infection in China," Vice Health Minister Wang Longde said at a news conference of government officials.

At the same presser, Vice Agriculture Minister Liu Jian vowed stringent measures to stop the virus before it spreads to people. But he acknowledged that "some parts of our animal disease-prevention system are weak and vulnerable, and the public has limited knowledge about the disease and ways to prevent it."

"The poultry population in China is quite big, and production methods are quite diverse. That has brought us some difficulties in controlling this epidemic," he said. "It remains an arduous task for China."

Thailand reported two new suspected cases: a 2-year-old boy from northeastern Khon Kaen province and a 67-year-old man from central Chainat province, Thai officials said. Thailand has 19 suspected cases in all, nine of whom have died.

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(CBS News) Alan Alda proved on the TV series "MASH" that you don't need a medical degree to portray an Army Medic. Now, all these years later, he's proving you don't need a degree in science to help spread the word about the latest findings. Tracy Smith has our Sunday Profile:

Who knew that doing weird-looking acting class exercises could help science students become better communicators?

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At 77, Alan Alda the actor has become Alan Alda the real-life professor, teaching scientists how to relate to people in ways they can actually understand.

"You don't think of knowledge as a curse, but it's a curse if I think you know everything I know and I talk to you in ways [where] you can't understand me," Alda said. "So that's not only the public, that's policy makers like Congress, who have told me over and over again they cannot understand scientists who come in to talk to them."

"So a scientist comes in, testifies on Capitol Hill, Congress doesn't know what he or she's talking about?" said Smith.

"Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?" Alda asked.

He trains scientists to be more sensitive to their audience, so instead of speaking what we might hear as scientific gibberish ("I study spatial planning and the valuation of ecosystem services to different stake holders"), we get this: "I study ways oceans are used."

"If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back," Alda said. "We're not going to have the future that we could have."

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He uses the same method that helped make him a star: improv.

"It makes you present, It makes you alive," he explained. "You're here and now, you're talking to another actor. You're not pretending to talk to the actor, you're really talking to the actor. That changes everything about you. And it changes the other person, too, because if you're working with a salami, you're not going to react to that person."

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"Do you think if things had gone differently when you were younger, you might have been a scientist?" asked Smith.

"I don't think so," he said. "I think I have other talents. I think I'm doing what I should be doing. I'm very interested in science and I want to hear from scientists, and I have experience in helping people communicate better. So I'm in a perfect spot. But to be a scientist, I think I'd be more like what Bob Newhart was when he was an accountant. He thought, 'If you come in within a couple of bucks, shouldn't that be okay?'"

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"A little more rigorous than that, yeah."

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But Agriculture Secretary Javier Usabiaga said at a press conference that a decision to make those exceptions could take months and would only occur after Mexico was satisfied that U.S. controls were adequate.

Japan, the largest market for U.S. beef, continues to question the effectiveness of U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease, suggesting Tokyo will hold out for stricter U - http://www.sharkbayte.com/keyword/stricter%20U .S. screening of livestock before lifting its ban on American beef.

Meanwhile, fewer cattle made it to the auction block at one of the Pacific Northwest's largest cattle auctions, but the prices they drew made cattlemen smile for the first time since word broke that mad cow disease had been detected in Washington state.

Only about 100 cows were sold Monday, with the market high 61 cents a pound for a 1,850-pound cow. That was only 2 cents down from a 63-cents-per-pound high for slaughter cows in late December, said John Top, co-owner of the Yakima Valley-based the Toppenish Livestock Commission.

"I loved it. I was tickled. I could have used another couple hundred head of cattle at these prices," he said. "Demand is good, short supply, prices are high. Simple economics."

The first Monday sale of the year usually features between 200 and 300 Holstein cows for beef slaughter. They are typically aging cows that are no longer producing milk or younger cows that have been unable to calve.

The auction particularly draws cattle from farmers in Washington's Columbia Basin and Yakima Valley, where the nation's first case of mad cow disease was discovered in a Holstein cow from a dairy farm in nearby Mabton.

Unable to determine which calf was born to the nation's first cow diagnosed with mad cow disease, federal officials plan to kill a herd of 450 calves out of "an abundance of caution."

The herd of bull calves from Sunnyside will be killed this week at an undisclosed and unused facility, said Ron DeHaven, the U.S. Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian.

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U.S. Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services J.B. Penn and Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Bill Hawks were in Mexico City Tuesday to talk with Mexican officials about lifting the mad cow-prompted ban.

Mexico banned imports of all U.S. cattle and beef on Dec. 24 after a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, was discovered in Washington state.

Javier Trujillo, director of safety and inspection at the Agriculture Department, said Mexico will consider importing meat taken from parts of the cow not close to the nervous system.

Trujillo noted that in the case of Canada, Mexico took four months before making exceptions for certain cuts of beef.

Usabiaga also said a decision will take time.

"In the area of health, there can't be any pressures, only facts," he said.

The U.S. shipped 106,000 head of cattle to Mexico in 2002, and Mexico was the top buyer of U.S. beef that year in terms of volume, importing 384,900 tons.

Trujillo said Australia, Canada and Nicaragua are likely to supply Mexico's beef needs arising from the ban on U.S. meat, and that Mexico is evaluating the sanitary status of Uruguay.

Both federal and state officials have declined to disclose how the dead calves will be disposed of, but have said the meat from the animals will be kept out of the food supply. The calves also won't be rendered for animal feed or other products.

"This should just continue to instill additional confidence among consumers," said Mary Beth Lang, spokeswoman for the state Department of Agriculture. "The likelihood of any transmission to this calf is very remote," she said. "This is an abundance of caution."

The calves range in age from 1 month to several months.

The herd is one of three under quarantine in Washington because of ties to the infected animal, a 6½-year-old Holstein dairy cow that was shipped to the United States from Canada in 2001. The other herds include cows that may have come from the same Alberta farm.

Officials are awaiting DNA tests to confirm the sick cow's origins.

"I'm glad that the USDA is responding openly to the situation and that the decision has been made to ensure consumers of the safety of the beef supply," said Patti Brumbach, executive director of the Washington Beef Commission.

Officials have said contaminated feed is the most likely source of the infection. U.S. and Canadian investigators still are trying to locate the other animals from the Canadian herd and trace the feed eaten by the sick cow to determine if it contained tissue that carried the disease.

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A UAE Coast Guard source confirmed Friday that the tanker, M. Star, was the target of a terrorist attack while passing through international waters near the Strait of Hormouz on July 28.

''UAE explosives experts who collected and examined samples found a dent on the starboard side above the water line and remains of homemade explosives on the hull," the source said. "Probably the tanker had encountered a terrorist attack from a boat loaded with explosives."

On Wednesday, an al Qaeda-linked group called "Abdullah Azzam Brigades" issued an online statement claiming that M. Star was the target of a kamikaze attack orchestrated by the group. It identified the suicide bomber as Ayyub al-Taishan. The group said that he blew himself up into the tanker in the Straight of Hormouz, between the U.A.E and Oman, causing major damage to the giant ship, which was carrying two million barrels of crude oil.

The attack only caused minor damage to the tanker's starboard side, but it raises serious concerns over al Qaeda's capacity to reach targets at sea, and its renewed interest in maritime Jihad.

Threats of attacks at sea have been monitored on several Jihadi blogs in recent months, as well as messages calling for the revival of this often forgotten Jihadi tradition. In April last year, jihadis published a religious study entitled: "Maritime Jihad: Its Importance, Rewards, and Advantages." The study called for a revival of maritime terrorism, and incited the Mujahideen to include it in their agenda.

"When a Mujahid at sea sets foot on a boat, he leaves all his sins behind his back, and when he steps off the boat, he is cleansed of sins like the day he was born, and god smiles at him," the publication says.

Another study - "Maritime Terrorism: A Strategic Necessity" - was published in April 2008, courtesy of an al Qaeda online publication called "Jihad Press." The study stressed the importance of including maritime operations as part of al Qaeda's strategy, especially around the Yemeni and Saudi shores.

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Al Qaeda has previously claimed an attack on another oil tanker, the Limburg. On October 6, 2002, the French tanker was attacked by an explosives-laden boat while carrying 397,000 barrels of crude oil. The vessel caught on fire and approximately 90,000 barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf of Aden. One crew member was killed, and the damage to the tanker was estimated at $45 million.

Abdullah Azzam Brigades is an al Qaeda-linked group based in Lebanon. It is thought to be led by Saleh al-Qarawy, a wanted Saudi terrorist who's on the kingdom's list of most wanted terrorists. He fought in Iraq under the commandership of slain al Qaeda chief, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi.

The group has claimed several attacks in Egypt, Jordan and Israel since 2005, and took credit for a failed rocket attack that targeted two U.S. warships in al-Aqaba port, in Jordan, back in August 2005. The rockets missed their target and hit a warehouse and a hospital instead, killing one Jordanian soldier.

The Israeli commission is looking into the government's decision-making leading up to the decision to send naval commandos to board the ship on May 31 and steer it to an Israeli port. The United Nations has also announced its own inquiry.

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Israel had tried to convince Turkey to stop the Gaza-bound flotilla before sailing, Netanyahu said, but "as we got closer to the date it became clear our diplomatic efforts would not stop it."

"Apparently the government of Turkey did not see potential friction between Turkish activists and Israel as something that goes against its interests, and definitely nothing that justified effective pressure on the IHH activists," Netanyahu told the commission.

He said the Israeli soldiers displayed "exceptional bravery in carrying out their mission and in defending themselves from genuine and lethal danger."

An Israeli military inquiry found that military intelligence had failed to predict the violent resistance on board the Turkish vessel, and troops went in unprepared, expecting only passive resistance.

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Yet most of the women received only five exams during the 10-year-time period - half the recommended amount. The study appears Monday on the Web site of Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society.

"I think it's very likely this is a widespread phenomenon in America, the failure of women to return promptly to get mammograms," said James Michaelson, study author and assistant professor of pathology at the hospital and Harvard Medical School. "Prompt annual return is really important to get the maximum life-sparing benefit of screening mammography."

Mammograms remain the best method for detecting breast cancer when it's most treatable, the Institute of Medicine said earlier this month.

Women who screen annually and are diagnosed with breast cancer die from the disease half as often as those who do not get annual exams, Michaelson said.

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Poor women, those without health insurance and those from non-white racial and ethnic groups had particularly low rates of receiving mammograms, but no group of women used mammography often, Michaelson said.

"That tells me it's the system that is failing, that is not helping women," Michaelson said. "We simply don't do a good enough job of sending reminders."

A worsening shortage of providers has also affected women's access to mammograms. In parts of the country, long waits for breast X-rays are common. That's because fewer radiologists are specializing in breast imaging because of long hours, low pay, heavy regulation and fear of lawsuits.

"Mammography is the stepchild of medical care. There's just not much incentive to do it - we're beginning to face a decline in access to mammography," Kattlove said. "We need better payment for mammography if we're going to have better access."

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Adolescents who use these products, such as e-cigarettes, hookahs, non-cigarette combustible tobacco or smokeless tobacco, are more likely to start smoking cigarettes within a year, according to the new research.

"We've seen the prevalence of youth cigarette smoking decrease over the past 20 years, but the rising popularity of these non-cigarette products is a fairly recent development that poses new questions for tobacco control and youth smoking prevention," lead study author Benjamin Chaffee, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, told CBS News.

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Chaffee said one finding that was particularly striking was that all the different types of non-cigarette tobacco studied were associated with approximately the same increase in risk of future cigarette smoking.

"These products are different in terms of how they are used and marketed, but as risk factors for youth smoking, they appear to be nearly the same," he said.

Teens who used more than one tobacco product were even more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes.

Previous studies have also found evidence that e-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products are a gateway to conventional cigarette smoking in teens.

In 2016, the FDA banned the sale of e-cigarettes and other such products to anyone younger than 18.

However, Chaffee believes more can be done. "Regulation of these non-cigarette products should reflect the fact that all of them are associated with greater risk of youth smoking," he said. "Measures that reduce the appeal of these products to adolescents, like banning flavors, increasing the minimum purchase age to 21, and taxation, would help keep youth from starting to use tobacco in any form."

For parents, schools, and health care providers, Chaffee said the message to convey to teens is that there is no safe form of the habit. "The healthiest alternative is always to be tobacco free," he said.

Update: Authorities said Monday afternoon a body had been discovered partially buried and inside plastic near the area where Carla Stefaniak was staying outside of San Jose. The body has not yet been identified, and officials are in contact with Stefaniak's family in an effort to make an identification. The original story appears below.

When Carla Stefaniak left her home near Miami less than two weeks ago, her family says she was looking forward to spending time in Costa Rica with her sister-in-law, to celebrate her 36th birthday. She stayed there an extra night alone. 

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Because of a prior commitment, Burton left Costa Rica on November 27, the day before Stefaniak was scheduled to fly home. Now on her own, Stefaniak took an Uber to her Airbnb, then had her driver give her a tour of San Jose. After returning around 5 p.m., she told a friend it was "raining crazy" and the power was out.

She said, "It's pretty sketchy here."

At 9 p.m. that night, all communication stopped.

That was highly unusual, according to her brother, Carlos Caicedo, who spoke to correspondent Manuel Bojorquez from Costa Rica, where he's joined the search efforts.

"It was her birthday, and she loves to be on social media," Caicedo said. "So, I'm guessing every single app that there is that you can communicate [on], I'm sure she was on it."

Caicedo said, according to the owner of the Airbnb, a security guard saw his sister get into a car with her bags at 5 a.m. the next morning.

Burton said that made no sense. "Because her flight was at 1:30, and she was only 20 to 30 minutes away from the airport. And she is never early for anything."

Adding to the mystery: The family says Stefaniak had checked in online for her flight, and ordered an Uber to pick her up later that morning.

In a press conference, authorities in Costa Rica said they're investigating the disappearance. Stefaniak's brother says he has personally contacted the U.S. Embassy and local law enforcement.

Bojorquez asked, "Do you feel like they are doing enough right now to try to figure out what happened?"

"We don't know; that's totally classified," Caicedo replied. "They won't release any information. It feels like it's kidnapping, but it also seems like it could be human trafficking."

Burton said, "At this point we have to be realistic. There's a lot of bad outcomes that are possible. We just got to hope for the best."

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's office has reached out to assist the family.

CBS News has contacted the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica and law enforcement there, but we've yet to hear back.

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If you have any information about Carla Stefaniak's disappearance, Costa Rican investigators ask you to call them at 800-800-0645, or use WhatsApp to call 8800-0645.