12-hr Gaza cease-fire starts today: Israel
Saturday, 26 July 2014
The Israeli military says a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza will start on Saturday morning. The military, in a statement issued in Jerusalem on Friday, said the lull will start at 8:00am local time on Saturday and end at 8:00pm (local time). The statement warns that the military ‘shall respond if terrorists choose to exploit’ the lull to attack Israeli troops ‘or fire at Israeli civilians.’ It also says that ‘operational activities to locate and neutralise tunnels in the Gaza Strip will continue.’ A Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, said earlier on Friday that the group had agreed to a 12-hour lull, starting at 8:00am local time on Saturday, according to AFP.