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UN calls for Israel-Gaza ceasefire

as Palestinian death toll soars

ISRAEL deployed ground troops inside Gaza for the first time today to raid a

rocket launching site as reports come in of another 52 deaths inside the

beseiged territory.

Four Israeli soldiers were hurt in clashes during the brief incursion to destroy

a rocket launching site in northern Gaza, the military said. It said they have

returned to Israeli territory.

It was the first time that Israeli ground troops are known to have entered

Gaza in the current offensive. But the operation was carried out by specialforces and did not appear to be the beginning of a broad ground offensive.

Sderot cinema. Israelis bringing chairs 2 hilltop in sderot 2 watch latest from

Gaza. Clapping when blasts are heard.pic.twitter.com/WYZquV62O7

Allan Srensen (@allansorensen72)July 9, 2014

Last night Israel announced it would hit northern Gaza ``with great force to

prevent rocket attacks.

Israel has carried out more than 1200 air strikes in the past week to try to

diminish Hamas ability to fire rockets at Israel, and the chief military

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Odd, angry shot ... This picture taken from the southern Israeli Gaza border shows rockets being fired from the Gaza strip

into Israel.Source:AFP

DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS INTENSIFY

Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisisgovernment was in touch with both

sides, his spokesman said.

He met Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair in Cairo last night to discuss

the crisis.

Washington has said it is willing to ``leverage its relationships to bring

about a ceasefire as the chief diplomats of Britain, France, Germany and the

US meet in Vienna later today.

Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini plans to visit Israel and the

Palestinian territories from July 14-17 and Egypt on July 18, her ministry

said.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said earlier that ``no international pressure

will prevent us from striking, with all force, against the terrorist organisation

which calls for our destruction.

Hamass Haniya sounded a similar tone, saying: (Israel) is the one that

started this aggression and it must stop, because we are (simply) defendingourselves.

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Gaza militants have also fired several rockets towards Jerusalem and Tel

Aviv, the army says, with no reports of injuries, as Israel continues to bomb

the coastal enclave.

Three of the four Tel Aviv rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile

defence system, and the Jerusalem-bound rockets fell short, hitting two WestBank cities.

Three rockets intercepted above the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. Another

rocket hit an open area near Rishon LeTzion, the army said in a statement,

after sirens and explosions were heard in Israels commercial capital.

Ghost town ... people hide in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on July 12, 2014 during a rocket attack by Palestinian militants

from the Gaza strip. Picture: Gali TibbonSource:AFP

Hamas, which controls Gaza, warned in advance of the rocket fire.

Shortly after 8pm (3am AEST), its armed wing the Ezzedine al-Qassam

Brigades issued a statement read aloud in Arabic and Hebrew on Hamass

Al-Aqsa TV, pledging to fire J-80 type rockets at Tel Aviv an hour later.

Afterwards, Hamas television claimed Tel Aviv had turned into a ghost

town after the threat and that dozens of Israelis were being treated for

panic attacks.

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Earlier, rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel and hit the Judea region, the

army said, using Israels term for the southern West Bank.

One rocket struck an urban area in Hebron and two other rockets struck the

area of Bethlehem, it said, giving no details of any casualties or damage.

Shortly before the rockets hit, air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem, just a fewmiles north of Bethlehem, before at least two explosions were heard.

Palestinian security sources said one rocket hit an inhabited area of Hebron,

and another struck a house in the nearby village of Sair, to the south.

There were no immediate details on the third rocket.

Seeking solutions ... Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) meeting with Middle East peace envoy and former

British prime minister Tony Blair at the presidential palace in Cairo, July 12, 2014. Picture: Fady Fars Source:AP

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Under siege ... Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a UN storehouse after an Israeli military strike in an area

west of Gaza City on July 12, 2014. Picture: Mahmud Hams Source:AFP

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palestinian-toll-tops-1000/story-e6frg6so-1227002294941

Gaza conflict: Israel extends

temporary truce as Palestinian toll

tops 1000

Israeli soldiers reunite briefly with families

Funerals held for two Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes

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Sixteen Killed in U.N. School Shelling in Gaza

Israel rejects Kerry's ceasefire proposal

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A girl holds a picture of an injured Palestinian child at a protest in the West Bank city of

Ramallah. Source:AP

Video

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ISRAEL early today approved a four-hour extension of a temporary

truce in Gaza, Israeli television said, as the Palestinian death toll topped

1000 with the retrieval of dozens of bodies.

Channel 10 said the security cabinet had agreed to prolong a 12-hour trucethat went into effect on Saturday morning local time by four hours, extendingit until midnight local time (2100 GMT-0700 AEST).

The decision came after US Secretary of State John Kerry and foreignministers from Europe and the Middle East urged Israel and the Hamas

movement to extend the fragile truce.

We all call on parties to extend the humanitarian ceasefire, FrancesForeign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters after meeting Mr Kerry and

foreign ministers from Britain, Germany, Italy, Qatar and Turkey, as well asan EU representative.

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We all want to obtain a lasting ceasefire as quickly as possible thataddresses both Israeli requirements in terms of security and Palestinianrequirements in terms of socio-economic development.

There was no immediate response from Hamas to either that call or to theIsraeli cabinet decision.

In Paris, riot police fired tear gas today as tensions rose at a 5000-strong pro-Palestinian rally that went ahead in defiance of a ban, days after similarrallies ended in violence.

The demonstration came after other protests last weekend in Paris and asuburb town that had also initially been banned descended into chaos.

Gaza school tragedy echoes around world

Palestine declares its Day of Rage

Analysis: No military might can solve tragedy of the Strip

After the 12-hour ceasefire went into effect at 1500 GMT, medics in Gazabegan digging through the remains of hundreds of homes, and uncovered

more than 100 bodies, medical workers said.

The grim discoveries pushed the Palestinian toll in Gaza to more than 1000

as Mr Kerry met his counterparts from Europe and the Middle East and urgeda truce extension.

Israel also announced the deaths of three more soldiers, raising its militarytoll to 40, along with two Israeli civilians and a Thai worker killed in Israel.

On the ground, Palestinian ambulances sped into Gaza neighbourhoods that

have been too dangerous to enter for days.

Palestinians ventured onto Gazas streets after the truce began, some eager to

check homes they had fled, others to stock up on supplies while it was safe todo so.

In many places they found astonishing devastation: buildings levelled, entire

blocks of homes completely wiped out by Israeli bombardment.

In northern Beit Hanun, even the hospital was badly damaged by shelling,

and AFP correspondents came across the charred body of a paramedic asemergency workers searched for more dead.

There were similar scenes in Shejaiya, where stiff bodies lay on the floor of aroom in one building, one caked in dried blood, all of them covered in dust.

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East of southern Khan Yunis, residents hesitated to enter the Khuzaaneighbourhood, saying Israeli forces remained inside the border area.

And in nearby Bani Suheila, where 20 people were killed in a single Israeli

air strike shortly before the truce began, women and children wept as theydiscovered their homes destroyed.

Hamas and Israel agreed to the humanitarian window early yesterday, afterIsraels security cabinet on Friday night rejected a US proposal for a seven-day truce during which the two sides would negotiate a longer-term deal.

Speaking after the rejection, at a news conference in Cairo with UN chiefBan Ki-moon, Mr Kerry said Israel and Hamas still have some terminology

to agree to on a ceasefire, but added they had fundamental framework on a

truce.

The two sides remain at odds over the shape of a final deal to end the fighting,however.

Hamas says any truce must include a guaranteed end to Israels eight-year

blockade of Gaza, while in Israel there are calls for any deal to include thedemilitarisation of the Gaza Strip.

The situation in Gaza has created tensions in the West Bank, where protests

against Israels role in the conflict erupted after Friday prayers.

Troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers early yesterday in separateclashes in the north and south of the West Bank.

That followed the deaths of six Palestinians on Fridayfive shot dead by

Israeli troops and one killed by an Israeli settler.

International concern has mounted over the number of civilians killed inGaza, including in a Thursday attack in which at least 15 people were killed

in alleged Israeli shelling of a UN school.

The facility was sheltering some of the 100,000 Palestinians who have fled

their homes during the fighting.

Rights groups say about 80 per cent of the casualties have been civilians, and

the UN agency for children UNICEF said on Friday that 192 children hadbeen killed during the conflict.

The Israeli army announced the deaths of three soldiers in Gaza killed

yesterday morning before the truce began.

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Rocket fire from Gaza continued yesterday before the truce, with three shotdown by antimissile defences and one hitting open ground, the army said.

It said militants fired 60 rockets into southern Israel on Friday, with another

15 intercepted.AFP

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