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Israel said it would prolong a day-old humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip through Sunday night, even as Palestinian militants there resumed firing rockets into Israeli territory, complicating efforts by international mediators to secure a longer cease-fire.
Saturday's truce between Israel and Hamasgave Gaza's 1.8 million people a respite from nearly three weeks of fighting. But by midnight it was unclear whether they would be able to celebrate a peaceful Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic feast that falls in coming days and follows the fasting month of Ramadan.
Hamas first said it rejected an extension of Saturday's 12-hour truce, with a Gaza-based spokesman, Sami Abu Zhory, saying the Islamist group wouldn't abide by the continued presence of Israeli forces in the territory. A Beirut-based spokesman for the group's exiled political leadership, Osama Hamdan, said later that Hamas had made no decision.
Three rockets and three mortar shells fired from Gaza landed harmlessly in Israel late Saturday as the 12-hour period expired—a far smaller number than on previous nights.
The Israeli military said it was holding fire but was prepared to resume fighting in Gaza. It warned people there against returning to neighborhoods racked by fighting before the truce.
After taking heavy losses in ground combat with Hamas, Israel appeared to be benefiting from the calm. The Israeli army kept drones in the air during the truce and said it continued searching for cross-border tunnels used by Hamas to infiltrate fighters into the Jewish state. The army said it "neutralized" four tunnel shafts Saturday.
The truce was the longest pause in 19 days of fighting. Palestinians who had fled their homes returned on foot to search for missing relatives, bury the dead and inspect damage from Israeli air and ground assaults on Hamas fighters who had dug into civilian neighborhoods.
Scores of bodies turned up amid the destruction. The Palestinian death toll recorded by Gaza's Health Ministry over 19 days of fighting had spiked to 1,047 by Saturday evening—an increase of 199 since late Friday. Israel said six of its soldiers died fighting in Gaza in the hours before the truce, raising the toll on the Israeli side to 42 soldiers and three civilians.
In Shujaiyeh, a Gaza City neighborhood where ground combat had raged since Sunday, dozens of people crowded the cemetery to dig graves for the newly discovered dead. Others, who had been trapped by the fighting, gathered belongings and left, some with mattresses tied to the tops of cars.
—Jay Solomon in Cairo and Asa Fitch in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to this article.
Write to Nicholas Casey at nicholas.casey@wsj.com
Read more here: online.wsj.com/articles/gaza-h…
Saturday's truce between Israel and Hamasgave Gaza's 1.8 million people a respite from nearly three weeks of fighting. But by midnight it was unclear whether they would be able to celebrate a peaceful Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic feast that falls in coming days and follows the fasting month of Ramadan.
Hamas first said it rejected an extension of Saturday's 12-hour truce, with a Gaza-based spokesman, Sami Abu Zhory, saying the Islamist group wouldn't abide by the continued presence of Israeli forces in the territory. A Beirut-based spokesman for the group's exiled political leadership, Osama Hamdan, said later that Hamas had made no decision.
Three rockets and three mortar shells fired from Gaza landed harmlessly in Israel late Saturday as the 12-hour period expired—a far smaller number than on previous nights.
The Israeli military said it was holding fire but was prepared to resume fighting in Gaza. It warned people there against returning to neighborhoods racked by fighting before the truce.
After taking heavy losses in ground combat with Hamas, Israel appeared to be benefiting from the calm. The Israeli army kept drones in the air during the truce and said it continued searching for cross-border tunnels used by Hamas to infiltrate fighters into the Jewish state. The army said it "neutralized" four tunnel shafts Saturday.
The truce was the longest pause in 19 days of fighting. Palestinians who had fled their homes returned on foot to search for missing relatives, bury the dead and inspect damage from Israeli air and ground assaults on Hamas fighters who had dug into civilian neighborhoods.
Scores of bodies turned up amid the destruction. The Palestinian death toll recorded by Gaza's Health Ministry over 19 days of fighting had spiked to 1,047 by Saturday evening—an increase of 199 since late Friday. Israel said six of its soldiers died fighting in Gaza in the hours before the truce, raising the toll on the Israeli side to 42 soldiers and three civilians.
In Shujaiyeh, a Gaza City neighborhood where ground combat had raged since Sunday, dozens of people crowded the cemetery to dig graves for the newly discovered dead. Others, who had been trapped by the fighting, gathered belongings and left, some with mattresses tied to the tops of cars.
—Jay Solomon in Cairo and Asa Fitch in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to this article.
Write to Nicholas Casey at nicholas.casey@wsj.com
Read more here: online.wsj.com/articles/gaza-h…
No, Trump DID NOT call the coronavirus a 'hoax.'
What's True
During a Feb. 28, 2020, campaign rally in South Carolina, President Donald Trump likened the Democrats' criticism of his administration's response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying "this is their new hoax." During the speech he also seemed to downplay the severity of the outbreak, comparing it to the common flu.
What's False
Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax.
Even the liars at Snopes could not bring themselves to agree with certain people here on DA https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/
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Simple question for leftists
How many more people need to die in England, France, Sweden, Germany- and very likely, an increasingly long list of other nations- before you figure out that ISLAM is the problem?
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WattsUpWithThat- the top climate skeptic blog on the internet- has been chosen as one of the top 100 science blogs!
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'The great oddity of the climate science debate
“Ad hominem attacks aren’t a final line of defense, they’re argument #1. …It’s about an attitude, the sense that righteousness excuses you from the need for hard thinking and that any questioning of the righteous is treason.” {By Paul Krugman. Quite true, as any skeptic quickly learns when discussing climate with an activist.}
Activists consider forecasts of models as like the Word of God.' ~ paul krugman
You KNOW something is right with the world when pro-'all-catastrophic, all-the-time and all-YOUR-fault climate change' activist (and supposedly economist)
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Hamas doesn't give a damn about the palestinians... for that matter most of the muslim nations don't give a damn about them, they are just an excuse to tear down Israel.