20 years to rebuild Gaza

An international organization that evaluates the situation after wars says housing reconstruction in Gaza after the war with Israel will take 20 years. 

Shelter Cluster, co-sponsored by the UN agency and the Red Cross reported that 17 thousand housing units in Gaza were destroyed or badly damaged during the 5000 war and in need of repair due to damage suffered in previous military campaigns. 

Palestine and Israel agree Gaza truce

The Israelis and Palestinians reached a new agreement ceasefire in Gaza is expected that the official announcement is made in Egypt, where he negotiated the truce, said a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group dominating the enclave. 

"An agreement has been reached between both parties and we are waiting for the announcement from Cairo to determine the zero hour for their implementation," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in Gaza. 

Egypt mediates indirect talks between the two sides held since the beginning of the conflict, on July 8, confirmed that the "cease-fire" must "enter into force at 1600 GMT." 

"Egypt announced that Palestinians and Israelis struck a ceasefire, which comes into force at 19H00 local (16H00 GMT)," the state news agency MENA, which did not specify the duration of the truce. 

469 children have died from war in Gaza

 total of 469 children have died in Gaza since the outbreak of the war, said Unicef​​, the UN agency said, adding that hundreds of thousands of children need urgent psychological and social support. 

"They are in a state of trauma," said the head of the UNICEF office in Gaza, Priscilla Ironside, at a press conference in which she reviewed the conflict that erupted in July and its impact on children. 

Mutual accusations between Israel and Hamas resume hostilities

After a week of relative calm in the Gaza Strip, the hopes of a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Hamas wrecked again yesterday, resumed the offensive missiles in the conflict which has lasted a month and a half. 

The negotiations between the Israeli government and the Islamist group that controls Gaza, with Egyptian mediation, to achieve a lasting solution to the conflict between collapsed mutual accusations. Hamas launched a barrage of rockets into southern Israel, while Israeli aircraft launched against targets north of the Palestinian enclave. 

Three people, including a child, were killed and 40 wounded in an Israeli air raid on a family home, said Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Other Palestinians had been injured earlier in bombings in the northern, central and southern Gaza. 

The truce only sow further doubt on Israelis and Palestinians

espertarse without the roar of Israeli bombs without sirens announcing the imminent arrival of a rocket from Gaza suggests a return to normalcy. Yesterday, Gazan fishermen went to fish and markets opened their doors, hundreds of families returned to their homes in northern and southern Gaza to see if still standing, and parks and cafes in southern Israel again be frequented. 

But the impression is fictional and tranquility in both parties remains the fear of a resumption of violence and uncertainty of the clock negotiations that take place in Cairo. 

It is the fifth highest fire declared since the start of Protective Barrier operation in Gaza, on July 8. Some of them lasted for only a few hours longer and three days. All resulted with no results and the death toll continued to rise up to 2000 dead, 1900 of them Palestinians. 

Israel continues its offensive against the Gaza Strip..

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that there will be a ceasefire and the offensive against the Gaza Strip continue to fulfill military objectives proposed by his country. 

Netanyahu offered these remarks at the weekly cabinet meeting, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence. 

The operation "protector Margin" name of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, will reach its end at the time that the Israelis have peace and not "will negotiate a ceasefire, said the head of government. 

Meanwhile, in Cairo, Abu Marzouk, deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau, said that the Palestinians will withdraw from peace talks if Israel insists on not attending the roundtable. 

The Israeli delegation left the Egyptian capital early Friday, hours before the ceasefire concluded three days. 

Tel Aviv resumed its new offensive against the Gaza Strip early last July. 

Second day of violence in Gaza after the breakdown of the truce

The 30 air strikes launched by the Israeli military on the Gaza Strip during Saturday have killed at least five Palestinians. The Gazan militias, meanwhile, have launched six rockets into Israeli territory. This is the second day of fighting, after Friday's attacks on Gaza resumed after the end of 72 hours the truce agreed between Israel and Palestinian factions. 

Meanwhile, the delegation of the Palestinian factions in Cairo Trading believes that its claims are "clear and undeniable", but would have no problem in talking directly with Israel, said Saturday the Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmed, who heads group. Speaking to the press, Al Ahmed has expressed his hope that the next few hours will be "decisive". 

Expires on Gaza truce and resumed firing rockets

At eight o'clock (seven in mainland Spain), has expired 72-hour truce between Israel and Palestinian factions Sarraj: Hamas and Jihad Islámica- without having reached an agreement to extend it, as suggested by the Government on Wednesday Israeli. The negotiations, however, remain open in Cairo (Egypt), where both delegations are seated at the table. While on the ground, Palestinian militants resumed rocket fire, according to Israeli police and municipal sources, and have become air raid sirens sounded in the cities of southern Israel. 

The Army has stated on his Twitter account that for the first time since the end of the ceasefire, have launched more than 10 rockets from Gaza into southern Israel. One was intercepted by the Israeli missile defense system, Iron Dome, on the town of Ashkelon. Other, less intense, has not managed to cross the border and has fallen into Palestinian territory. The others have fallen on the open without being informed of casualties or damage. Three hours before the end of the ceasefire, two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, and also landed in open fields. Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the shooting. 

Egypt's efforts, traditional mediator in the conflict in recent days have focused on achieving an extension of the truce at least two more days. Israelis and Palestinians have held talks, always indirectly, in order to achieve a lasting cease-fire or at least an extension of the truce to continue negotiating.

War returned to Gaza after just two hours of respite...

The three-day truce yesterday scheduled to start between Israel and Hamas in Gaza lasted just two hours and instead ushered in a bloodbath, with over 60 Palestinians killed, while two Israeli soldiers fell in a transaction in which another was kidnapped. 

Thousands of Palestinians fled the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt, after a ground incursion by the Israeli army. 

The bodies of women, children and elderly appeared lying in the streets, while wandering the wounded screaming, ambulances were unable to reach all the victims and the city's main hospital was evacuated after being targeted by tank fire. 

Israel and Hamas breaking 72-hour humanitarian truce

The humanitarian cease-fire 72 hours agreed between Israel and Hamas a couple of hours after onset broke, with renewed fighting in the Gaza Strip and rocket fire into Israel. 

The ceasefire reached with mediation of the United States and the United Nations came into effect at 08:00 local time (0500 GMT), but returned two hours later to report violent incidents. 

Fighting in the southern Gaza Strip resumed around 10:00 am, after a tank fired artillery fire in Rafah, while Hamas fighters continued to fire rockets into Jewish territory. 

At least 40 people were killed in the Israeli bombardment of southern Gaza, according to the local hospital in Rafah. 

Hamas claimed that Israel broke the agreement with the heavy artillery fire in the south of Gaza. "The enemy has not done his part and so we have the right to respond," denounced the Palestinian organization leader, Musa Abu Marzouk. 

Already more than 500 dead by the brutal Israeli offensive in Gaza

In total, 508 Palestinians killed since vasi two weeks ago Israel launched its offensive "Margin Protector", reported the emergency services in Gaza today. More than 140 Palestinians were killed yesterday, half Shuyayia in the neighborhood of a violent attack by the Israeli army. Attacks that neighborhood were the bloodiest since the war of 2008-2009 in the Palestinian enclave. "Shuyayia is a civilian area where Hamas has deployed rockets, build tunnels and has its command centers (...) We warn civilians to evacuate the place, but Hamas ordered them to stay ...", the army was justified Israeli. For Israel, the day on Sunday was also particularly grim: Thirteen soldiers elite Golani Brigade were killed in action, bringing to 18 the number of soldiers killed, a figure not seen since the 2006 Lebanon war is also wounded 55 soldiers . Two Israeli civilians died since the start of the operation "Protective barrier". 

Israel resumes Gaza offensive after several hours of interruption

Tuesday resumed the aerial offensive against the Gaza Strip unilaterally six hours after accepting the ceasefire proposal presented Monday night by Egypt. The Israeli security cabinet, which met earlier in the day, had voted in favor of accepting the draft that proposes a reduction process of hostilities starting at 9am (CET 8.00 in Spain), which would lead to a effective ceasefire after 12 hours. "Security forces [Israelis] are attacking again," said a military spokesman in Jerusalem. During the six hours without Israeli bombing, at least 30 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel by Palestinian "terrorists", according to the Army. 

Israel issued a decision only an hour after a spokesman of the armed wing of Hamas announced that the organization rejected a text as he said, "is a surrender and worthless." A Hamas spokesman denied civil early afternoon they had been informed of Israel's willingness to accept a ceasefire. 

More than 170 Palestinians killed in Gaza in seven-day offensive

More than 170 Palestinians have been killed and some 1,200 have been wounded, mostly civilians, met today at the seventh day of the Israeli operation "protector Margin" in Gaza, while increasing calls for parties to declare an immediate cease-fire. 

Since last midnight, four Palestinians were killed and about 60 injured in Israeli attacks are part of a punitive operation with which Israel seeks to end the firing of rockets into its territory. 

A military spokesman told Efe that this morning militias have launched 75 rockets, 55 of which landed in uninhabited areas and at least 12 were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome system, while the rest fell into territory of Gaza. 

Since the operation began, Israel has been hit by more than 800 rockets and 87 others were shot down in flight. 

Israel does not rule out a ground incursion into Gaza

At least 200 Palestinian Islamist group targets were attacked on Tuesday. "This goes for long," he warns. 

The gradual worsening of escalation between Israel and Hamas in recent weeks has led to open warfare, whose exact size is not yet possible to predict. 

In response to continued rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Lebanon, Israel launched early Tuesday the military operation 'Marco Protector', with the declared aim to deal a blow to the armed Hamas infrastructure and its Member and other radical Palestinian groups involved in the shooting at civilian towns in Israel. (Analysis: Middle East and the return of History) 

Sources in Gaza reported that 23 Palestinians were killed and about 100 wounded in the first day of the Israeli air offensive. 

Israel mobilizes 40,000 troops for a "long and hard" military campaign against Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the order to the army to be prepared for a long and difficult military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which could include a ground operation against the Islamist movement Hamas, amid a climate of guerraque left today at least five dead. 

The Israeli security cabinet decided to call up 40,000 reservists to the possible ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. 

The mobilization would not be immediate and would be done in stages. 

Netanyahu gave the order during a security meeting in the Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz and the director of domestic secret service (Shin Bet), Yoram Cohen, a senior official involved reported cited by the progressive daily Haaretz. 

Israeli air strikes leave eight dead in Gaza

Eight Palestinian militants killed in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medics today. 

Israel air strikes are in response to dozens of rockets fired by Palestinian militants for days against Israeli towns. 

A spokesman for emergency services in the Gaza Strip said to reporters that six Palestinians were killed in an air strike in Rafah town and two others injured. 

A report by broadcaster Al Aqsa, which handles the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the territory, said that the dead belong to the armed wing of the movement, Al Qassam Brigades.