georgephillip
Diamond Member
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"Thousands of people in Gaza have ventured out from homes and shelters during a 12-hour ceasefire to find that whole streets and neighbourhoods have been destroyed in the last week.
"Israel and Hamas both agreed to a UN request to stop fighting from 8am until 8pm on Saturday.
"Shortly before the ceasefire took effect, at least 18 members of the al-Najar family, including many children, were killed in an air strike on Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
"The family had recently gone there to escape fighting in a nearby village, a Palestinian health official said.
"As the Palestinian death toll in the 19-day-long conflict topped 1,000, diplomatic efforts to forge a longer ceasefire continued in Paris. Foreign ministers from seven nations the US, France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Qatar called for an extension of Saturday's 12-hour humanitarian truce."
Israel's announced plans to increase the level of ethnic cleansing once the twelve hours pass.
Gaza ceasefire reveals full extent of Israeli destruction | World news | theguardian.com