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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

As truce appears to fizzle, Liberman calls for occupation of Gaza


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July 15, 2014, 1:51 am Updated: July 15, 2014, 6:39 am 67

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his final press conference after talks over Tehran's nuclear program in Vienna, on July 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ JOE KLAMAR)

Israeli soldiers stand in a camp during an army deployment along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 15, 2014. (photo credit:AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)

US President Barack Obama speaks as he hosts an Iftar dinner in the State Dinning Room at the White House in Washington on July 14, 2014. Obama said he hopes Egypt's ceasefire plan can restore calm in Gaza (Photo credit: Jewel Samad/AFP)

A general view shows an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on July 15, 2014 to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Israeli army flares falling into the Gaza Strip on July 14, 2014 (Photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israelis and tourists run from the beach to take cover in a nearby hotel in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on July 14, 2014 during a rocket attack fired by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON)

A girl sits in her building bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon, July 14, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian relatives mourn during the funeral of four members of the Moamer family, including a 26-year-old militant of the Hamas movement, during their funeral in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on July 14, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Palestinians seen walking among the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah on July 14, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The Iron Dome Missile Defense battery near the southern city of Ashdod, July 14, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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Lazar Berman is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.


Ricky Ben-David is a news editor at The Times of Israel.



Israel’s cabinet said Tuesday morning it would accept an Egyptian proposal for a ceasfire with Hamas, after seven days of fighting, but Hamas was quick to reject the offer, resuming rocket salvos across the country. Earlier, two rockets hit the city of Eilat at Israel’s southernmost tip on Monday night, lightly injuring four people in the first attack on the city since the Gaza campaign began. In Gaza, Israeli attacks overnight brought the death toll in the Palestinian enclave to 192. The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold through Tuesday. (Monday’s liveblog is here.)



Read more: As truce appears to fizzle, Liberman calls for occupation of Gaza | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/ceasefire-proposed-after-a-week-of-israel-hamas-conflict/#ixzz37XnimGCI

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