{"id":34683,"date":"2014-07-26T06:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34683"},"modified":"2014-07-26T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T06:39:05","slug":"israel-and-hamas-begin-12-hour-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/israel-and-hamas-begin-12-hour-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Hamas begin 12-hour window"},"content":{"rendered":"
Israel and Hamas have begun a 12-hour humanitarian window in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Israel said it would continue to “locate and neutralise” Hamas tunnels during the pause, which began at 0800 local time (0500 GMT), and vowed to respond if it came under attack.<\/p>\n
International efforts to negotiate a longer seven-day ceasefire are still ongoing.<\/p>\n
Israeli strikes killed 19 Palestinians overnight, medical sources said. Two Israeli soldiers were also killed.<\/p>\n
Over 870 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 38 Israelis have died since the conflict started on 8 July.<\/p>\n
Foreign ministers from the US, UK, Turkey and Qatar are among those meeting in France later on Saturday to try to negotiate a longer-term truce.<\/p>\n
‘Confident of ceasefire’<\/strong><\/p>\n
A spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri said late on Friday that there was “national consensus on a humanitarian truce… for 12 hours on Saturday”.<\/p>\n