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Israel and Palestinians Begin Tense Five-Day Gaza Truce
Israel and the Palestinians have begun a fresh five-day ceasefire in Gaza, agreed at the end of a three-day truce.
As the ceasefire was announced, Israel launched air strikes in response to alleged rocket fire from Gaza.
There were no more reports of violence overnight, and the two sides were expected to continue indirect talks mediated by Egypt in Cairo.
The Israelis launched a military operation in Gaza on 8 July to stop militant attacks from Gaza.
‘Forbiddingly difficult’
Hamas, which controls Gaza and is involved in the Cairo talks, has denied its members launched rockets at Israel on Wednesday night.
Israeli military spokesman Peter Lerner said on Twitter: “No need to jump to conclusions. I don’t know who launched 10pm (19:00GMT) rocket at Israel.”
There was no immediate report of casualties from either side.
Posted by Editor
on August 14, 2014. Filed under INTERNATIONAL NEWS.
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CHIZ~MAN
August 14, 2014 at 9:16 am
Hopefully something fruitful will come out!!
mj banda
August 14, 2014 at 9:25 am
I feel the israelis are just bullies and America is there to test it weapons
Hell my friend is here on earth, living in poverty is hell.
August 14, 2014 at 9:31 am
The reasons why Africans are the most religious people in the world are not far fetched. Africans go through religious indoctrination from cradle to grave. Africans are not allowed by family, society and the state to think, reason or live outside the religious box. In Africa religion is by force not by choice. Religion is by compulsion and not according to one’s conscience. Africans are brought up to believe that there is NO alternative to religion, when in fact there is. So in Africa, either you are religious or you are nobody – you are not a human being, you are nothing. There is too much social and political pressure on Africans to be religious and to remain religious. The social, political and sometimes economic price of leaving religion, renouncing religion or criticizing religion is so high.
So Africans are religious willy nilly. Africans profess all sorts of religious crap even when they know it is all nonsense.
Kwame Nkrumah
August 14, 2014 at 10:00 am
“Fear created the gods, and fear preserves them, fear in bygone ages of wars, pestilence, earthquakes and nature gone berserk, fear of acts of God. Fear today of the equally blind forces of backwardness and rapacious capital.”