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IDF resumes strikes in Gaza’s Shejaia area after Hamas breaks humanitarian cease-fire

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, REUTERSLAST UPDATED: 07/20/2014 14:35

The IDF says its forces were shot at shortly after the two-hour truce, facilitated by the Red Cross, had begun at 1:30 pm; Palestinians say at least 50 killed in district, which IDF says is center of terror activity.

via IDF resumes strikes in Gaza’s Shejaia area after Hamas breaks humanitarian cease-fire | JPost | Israel News.

Hamas members on Sunday violated a humanitarian cease-fire in the Shejaia area of Gaza and fired on IDF soldiers with anti-tank missiles and automatic fire, the army said.

The air force has begun resuming strikes in Shejaia, firing on locations from which the army came under fire. Hamas had no immediate comment on Israeli allegations it had breached the ceasefire.

The IDF had agreed to a Red Cross request for the two hour humanitarian cease-fire in the northeast Gaza district of Shejaia which has been the target of heavy Israeli artillery and air attacks throughout Sunday.

Prior to the cease-fire, the IDF had been carrying out wide-ranging attacks on Shejaia, which the army considers a main center of terror activity in the Gaza Strip.

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