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Saturday, July 26, 2014

A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of destroyed buildings and homes in the Shejaiya residential district of Gaza City, July 26.: A Palestinian woman looks at the rubble of destroyed buildings and homes in the Shejaiya residential district of Gaza City, July 26, 2014.


SHORT GAZA TRUCE TAKES HOLD...MANY BODIES PULLED FROM RUBBLE.
Israel's military pledged to hold fire for 12 hours but said it would carry on searching for tunnels used by militants. The Islamist group Hamas, which dominates Gaza, said all Palestinian factions would abide by the brief truce.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that the foreign ministers of all seven countries involved in the diplomacy - the United States, France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Qatar - had called for an extension of the truce.
"All of us call on the parties to extend the humanitarian ceasefire that is currently under way,
Stunned residents of Beit Hanoun wandered through destroyed streets lined with damaged houses or mounds of rubble where once whole buildings had stood. Some who had not seen each other for days embraced as they surveyed the wreckage around them.
Many of Beit Hanoun's 30,000 residents had fled the area. "We hope the calm lasts and they find a solution so fighting ends. We are afraid for our children's safety," she said, adding she will not leave her home. "There is no place to go."
Hamas wants an end to an Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza before agreeing to halt hostilities. Israeli officials said any ceasefire must allow the military to carry on hunting down Hamas's tunnel network that criss-crosses the Gaza border.
Israel says some of the tunnels reached into Israel and were meant to carry out attack on Israelis. Other underground passages serve as weapon caches and Hamas bunkers.
On Thursday night, 10,000 demonstrators marched in solidarity with Gaza near the Palestinian administrative capital Ramallah. Protesters surged against an Israeli army checkpoint, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, and Palestinian medics said one was shot dead and 200 wounded when troops opened fire.

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