Cease-fire effort collapses as rockets, airstrikes continue

Gaza City (CNN) -- An Egypt-backed cease-fire between Israel and Hamas fell apart Tuesday as rocket attacks from Gaza were again answered by Israeli airstrikes. The rocket attacks from Hamas militants in Gaza never ceased, Israeli officials verbalized. For its part, Israel abstained from airstrikes for about six hours afore promulgating it was resuming them. A CNN crew witnessed at least five Israeli strikes just as the promulgation was made. Israel Defense Forces verbalized 47 rockets were fired into Israel during the cease-fire period, which Hamas never accepted. The faltering of the cease-fire endeavor designates there may be diminutive hope of visually perceiving a terminus to the near constant exchange of fire that has so far killed more than 190 Palestinians in Gaza. The first fatality on the Israeli side was a man killed Monday after being hit by a mortar shell, Israeli Rescue Services verbalized. He was an Israeli volunteer who was at the Erez border crossing to distribute food to soldiers. Map of the Middle East Israeli airstrikes resume Hamas, Israeli spokesmen verbalize cease-fire Israel: If Hamas keeps firing, we'll act Israeli bellwethers had concurred to the cease-fire, but from the outset admonished it would be ephemeral if the assailments from Gaza didn't stop. The Israeli Security Cabinet met early Tuesday morning and decided to halt aerial strikes beginning at 9 a.m. (2 a.m. ET). It resumed strikes about six hours later, by 3 p.m. (8 a.m. ET). Gaza crisis: Who's who in Hamas The barrage from Gaza perpetuated, with more than 140 rockets fired from there since early Tuesday -- or one rocket every six minutes -- according to the IDF. "Hamas have decided to perpetuate, and will pay the price for that decision," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu verbalized Tuesday. His Security Cabinet met again tardy in the day for emergency verbalizes. The Egyptian plan calls for all sides to cease hostilities in Gaza. It additionally calls for the aperture of border crossings, once the security situation is stable, and for high-level verbalizes among those involved. When the orchestration was promulgated, there was a split reaction from Hamas. Its military wing repudiated any possibility of a cease-fire, while its political wing had verbally expressed it was considering it. Ismail Haneyya, deputy chairman of Hamas' political wing, verbalized at the outset of the Egyptian efforts that there is a more astronomically immense issue than a cease-fire for Palestinians. He verbally expressed that what Palestinians genuinely want is a terminus to the Israeli blockade on Gaza that is suffocating the quotidian lives of the 1.8 million Palestinians residing there. Haneyya, verbalizing on Hamas-owned Al Aqsa TV, additionally inculpated Israel of not liberating Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, as had been acceded to under an earlier armistice. These, he verbally expressed, are elements the Palestinians would relish to visually perceive in a comprehensive cease-fire acquiescent. The stakes are high and climbing. By Tuesday, the death toll from a week of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza had reached 194, with at least 1,400 wounded, according to Palestinian health ascendant entities. The toll is now more preponderant than the number of people killed in Gaza during the 2012 conflict between Israel and Hamas. Trapped in war: 'This is tyranny' Civilian casualties Amid the diplomatic maneuvering, residents of Gaza are stuck in the middle of the perpetuated fighting. The United Nations has verbalized that most of the people killed by Israel's aerial assailments are civilians. No escape from Gaza violence Airstrikes pound Israel-Gaza border Airstrikes pound Israel-Gaza border "I exigently call on the Israeli Security Forces to put a cessation to attacks against, or imperilling, civilians and civilian infrastructure which are contrary to international humanitarian law," verbalized Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA. There are now 17,000 refugees taking shelter in 20 schools in Gaza, UNRWA verbalized, and the airstrikes have damaged 47 of its buildings, including clinics, schools and warehouses. The Israeli military verbalizes it utilizes a variety of methods, including phone calls and leaflets, to admonish civilians of impending strikes. "As part of our effort to evade harming civilians, we are sending messages to residents of northern Gaza to leave homes for their own safety," the IDF posted to Twitter tardy Tuesday. But UNRWA called on Israel to exercise maximum restraint and precautions to evade more casualties. "Clearly, at this stage not enough is being done in that regard," Krahenbuhl verbalized. Hamas on Tuesday closed a crossing between Gaza and Israel but sanctioned 25 Palestinians -- some of them needing medical attention -- to cross into Israel at Erez. The border crossing at Erez was closed not as punitive measure, but because the Gazan side has been targeted in airstrikes, verbally expressed Maher Abu Subha, the head of the committee for border crossings in Gaza. Employees at the crossing have been targeted three times in three days, and it was closed out of trepidation for the lives of the workers, he verbally expressed. The crossing can be reopened expeditiously if Israel can assure the workers' safety, he verbalized. Kerry delays trip U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was preparing a possible trip to the Middle East to lay substructure for a cease-fire, but he deferred the visit to give Egyptian efforts a chance to take root. One official verbally expressed the United States wants to give Egypt a chance to reassert itself as a puissance broker in the Middle East, as it did during the 2012 cease-fire. Gaza: Living life under fire Gaza: Living life under fire Doctor: Human shield around hospital Kerry perpetuated to follow that line Tuesday. "The Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire and negotiations provides an opportunity to pacify the violence and recuperate tranquil," Kerry verbalized from Vienna, Austria. "We welcome the Israeli Cabinet's decision to accept it. We urge all other parties to accept the proposal." Kerry vigorously condemned the rocket launches by Hamas in the face of the cease-fire plan, and verbally expressed he is yare to fly to the Middle East as early as Wednesday, if needed. The current Egyptian President, the ex-military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has more impuissant cognations with Hamas than former President Mohamed Morsy, who brokered the 2012 deal. Morsy was ousted by the military in 2013. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will peregrinate to Egypt on Wednesday to meet with the President and to discuss a possible cease-fire, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Abbas additionally is scheduled to visit Turkey. Earlier, Kerry verbalized by phone with Netanyahu and expressed U.S. concerns about escalating tensions. He reiterated that the United States is yare to avail establish a cease-fire, a senior State Department official verbally expressed. But "offering facilitation is not enough," Yousef Munayyer of the Washington-predicated Palestine Center told CNN's "Incipient Day." "It's consequential that the United States demand a cease-fire," he verbalized. "There is no military solution to this."