For those few Gaza hospitals not bombed or evacuated during the Gaza war, the influx of wounded and dead made for a hellish 24/7 chaos in their halls, as well as growing refugee camps on their perimeters.
A rocket barrage fell on Israel, a boom sounded over Tel Aviv and then it was over — at least for now.
A third of the houses on the main street of this Bedouin town near Egypt\’s border with Gaza look derelict, but inside they buzz with the activity of tunnel smugglers scrambling to survive a security crackdown by the Egyptian army.\n
Talks in Cairo on ending the Gaza war showed no signs of a breakthrough on Monday, with Israel and the Palestinians entrenched in their demands hours before the expiry of a five-day cease-fire.
Rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel two hours before the deadline of a 72-hour cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.
A Gaza cease-fire was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Islamist Hamas-dominated enclave.
On a blistering afternoon in southern Israel on Aug. 4, about eight miles from Gaza at the intersection of Highway 25 and Highway 34, soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took cover in the shade of a makeshift rest stop — one of dozens set up throughout the south during the recent war in Gaza.
Israel agreed on Monday to an Egyptian proposal for a three-day cease-fire in a four-week-old Gaza war, to start at 0500 GMT on Tuesday, an Israeli official said.
Palestinian factions in Cairo reportedly agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire in the Gaza conflict.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called the 72-hour ceasefire agreed to by Israel and Hamas in their conflict in the Gaza Strip a \”lull of opportunity\” and said it was imperative that the sides make their best efforts to find common ground.
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