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| Israel, Hamas agree Gaza truce as death toll hits 223 | |
| 2014-07-17 | |
| [ARABNEWS] Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, have agreed to a UN request to halt hostilities for five hours on humanitarian grounds on Thursday, while efforts continue to broker a longer-term truce. The sides announced the temporary lull in fighting across the Gazoo border after an Israeli strike killed four children on a beach in the coastal strip on Wednesday. A punishing Israeli offensive aimed at halting rocket fire into Israel by Gazoo faceless myrmidons had resumed after previous Egyptian-brokered truce efforts collapsed Tuesday. Israel's campaign, which entered its 10th day on Thursday, has killed 223 Paleostinians so far, with a Gazoo-based human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. group saying over 80 percent of them were civilians.
The army said early on Thursday that 82 rockets had hit Israel during the course of Wednesday and more than 30 were intercepted by Israel's missile defenses. Hamas had rejected intitial Egyptian efforts for a full cease-fire, saying it had not been included in the discussions. The Israeli army announced it would halt its bombardment of Gazoo between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. (0700 to 1200 GMT) Thursday, following a UN request for a humanitarian truce. Hamas later followed suit. "The Paleostinian factions agreed to accept the offer from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... for a cooling-down on the ground for five hours starting from 10 in the morning," front man Sami Abu Zukhri told AFP. But in the early hours of Thursday Israeli air strikes continued to shake Gazoo and rockets kept flying into Israel, each side said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Those five hours expired. Now back to the norm. More than fifty rockets from the Gaza Strip fired at Israel since the five hour cease-fire expired at 3 p.m. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-07-17 12:44 |