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								Israel okays ceasefire proposal, but Hamas says no							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-okays-ceasefire-proposal-but-hamas-says-no/">Despite objections from Bennett, Liberman, security cabinet approves terms put forward by Egypt</a>
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							By <a title="Yifa Yaakov" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/yifa-yaakov/">Yifa Yaakov</a>, <a title="Lazar Berman" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/lazar-berman/">Lazar Berman</a> and <a title="Raphael Ahren" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/raphael-ahren/">Raphael Ahren</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-six-days-of-hamas-rocket-attacks-gazans-flee-threatened-new-israeli-strikes-operation-protective-edge-day-7/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/07/APTOPIX-Mideast-Israe_Horo1-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Palestinians flee their homes to take shelter at the United Nations school in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014.  (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)" title="Palestinians flee their homes to take shelter at the United Nations school in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014.  (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)" /></a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-six-days-of-hamas-rocket-attacks-gazans-flee-threatened-new-israeli-strikes-operation-protective-edge-day-7/">IDF fires back into Lebanon after rocket strike; two sisters hurt in Beersheba attack; rocket from Syria hits Golan; Shin Bet releases chronology of Muhammed Abu Khdeir killing; Israel declares area north of Gaza a closed military zone; drone downed over Ashdod</a>
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							By <a title="Ricky Ben-David" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/ricky-ben-david/">Ricky Ben-David</a>, <a title="Haviv Rettig Gur" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/haviv-gur/">Haviv Rettig Gur</a> and <a title="Yifa Yaakov" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/yifa-yaakov/">Yifa Yaakov</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-end-to-gaza-rocket-fire-israeli-air-strikes-on-day-5-of-hamas-conflict/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/07/b-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Israelis sit and pray together inside a street shelter, in anticipation of the Code Red siren alerting of incoming rockets, in the Southern Israeli town of Nitzan, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)" title="Israelis sit and pray together inside a street shelter, in anticipation of the Code Red siren alerting of incoming rockets, in the Southern Israeli town of Nitzan, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)" /></a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-end-to-gaza-rocket-fire-israeli-air-strikes-on-day-5-of-hamas-conflict/">Israel responds to three rockets from Lebanon with artillery fire; Army tells Gazans to leave some areas, as death toll in Strip reaches 150; UN Security Council calls for cease-fire; American woman dies of heart attack after siren in Jerusalem</a>
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							By <a title="Yifa Yaakov" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/yifa-yaakov/">Yifa Yaakov</a>, <a title="Itamar Sharon" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/itamar-sharon/">Itamar Sharon</a> and <a title="Ricky Ben-David" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/ricky-ben-david/">Ricky Ben-David</a>						</div>
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