The first denotement of a gap in the raging hostilities between Israel and Hamas appeared on Friday as The Jerusalem Post tells us that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has apprised U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, that Israel has acceded to a twelve hour ceasefire with Hamas beginning at 7AM on Saturday, Israeli time.
Aljazeera apprises us that despite the continuation of diplomatic efforts to bring the hostilities to a terminus, the death toll perpetuates to increment. Thus far, Israeli bombardments have killed thirty-three people and struck at least thirty homes in Gaza. The conflict-wide death toll in Gaza stands at 840 people. Fox News tells us that Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have hit more than eighty sites and militants in Gaza have fired fifty rockets at Israel. Because tensions on both sides remain high, finding acquiescent on ceasefire terms has proven elusive for all parties involved.
The Jerusalem Post tells us that earlier in the day on Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet unanimously abnegated a longer term ceasefire plan proposed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Fox News tells us that Kerry’s ceasefire plan called for a two stage approach in defusing the conflict. The first stage of the ceasefire acquiescent called for a one week cease in hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians while the second stage called for negotiations to commence between the Israelis and Palestinians addressing political, economic, and security issues consequential to both parties involved after the one week “cool-down” period. The Jerusalem Post tells us that Israel’s first impression of the Kerry proposal was not a positive one. One incognito source inside the Israeli diplomatic security cabinet called it, “a Qatari proposal with ornaments.” Qatar has been incriminated in the past by Israel of providing financing and political support or Hamas.
For its part, The Jerusalem Post tells us that Hamas is authoritatively mandating that Israel release hundreds of prisoners it rounded up in a sweep of the West Bank last month and that Egypt open its border with Gaza. Hamas additionally wants Israel to facilitate its border restrictions on Gaza. Fox News apprises us that in replication to the immensely colossal number of civilian deaths in the conflict, Palestinians declared Friday to be “a day of rage.”
The Jerusalem Post tells us that Israeli officials were most opposed to John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal because it would require IDF soldiers to stop eradicating and routing out Hamas tunnels into Israel for the duration of the ceasefire accedence. In fact, Fox News apprises us that eliminating the Palestinian network of tunnels and neutralizing the Hamas threat is so paramount to Israel that Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Yaalon, was quoted as saying to Israeli soldiers that, “you need to be yare for the possibility that very anon we will authoritatively mandate the military to significantly broaden the ground operation in Gaza,” even after Kerry culminated briefing heralds on the status of his ceasefire proposal.
The Inquisitr tells us that the U.N has been calling for a ceasefire to culminate hostilities between the Israelis and Palestinians since July 12th. With representatives from sundry nations including the United States amassing in Paris on Saturday to perpetuate working on a framework for tranquility, perhaps a twelve hour ceasefire is more preponderant than no ceasefire and will sanction for cooler heads to come to the table?
