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Report: 'Cease fire' is over - UPDATE IDF DENIES IT - UPDATE NOW IT'S TRUE

Reports on the official Hamas website, as well as on the Hebrew websites Maariv-NRG and Walla, indicate that the 'cease fire' has come to an end.

Hamas's official website reported Tuesday that an Israeli drone has attacked targets east of Gaza City, according to Walla. The Maariv/NRG website also reported that Israel has attacked targets in eastern Gaza.

If true, this is the first Israeli attack in Gaza following the failed cease fire declaration.

According to the IDF, at least 35 rockets have been fired on Israel since 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, when an Egyptian-brokered truce was meant to come into effect. A direct hit was scored on a house in Ashdod but no one was injured. Two rockets were intercepted around 1:00 p.m. over the Shefelah coastal plain region.

It's time to destroy Hamas.

UPDATE 3:16 PM

The IDF denies attacking any targets in Gaza since 9:00 am.

UPDATE 3:33 PM

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner says that the IDF resumed bombing about half an hour after that Hamas report.

Following 6 hrs of indiscriminate rocket fire at #Israel the #IDF has resumed operational activities against #Hamas
— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) July 15, 2014

Peter needs to unpin the tweet at the top of his feed.

Labels: cease fire, Gaza, Hamas rockets, Operation Protective Edge

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:34 PM