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IDF tackles tunnels on first full day of ground op; Livni: ‘All options open’ to fight Hamas
Obama-Netanyahu speak; IDF kills 20 Hamas men, captures 13; defiant Hamas fires 80 rockets at Israel as soldiers locate terror tunnels; Abbas heads to Turkey for ceasefire talks; Eitan Barak, 20, from Herzliya is first soldier killed
By Ilan Ben Zion, Lazar Berman
and Haviv Rettig Gur
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18 July 2014, 12:46 am 17 Edit
- IDF Artillery Corps seen firing shells to Gaza, near the border in Southern Israel on July 18, 2014, after Israeli forces began a ground invasion in an escalation of the operation as it entered its 11th day. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
- Palestinians at an UNRWA school after fleeing their homes following an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 18, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
- Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with IDF chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (standing directly behind him) and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon (seated right), monitoring IDF ground operations in Gaza during a meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)
- This image made from video released by the Israeli military on Friday, July 18, 2014 shows troops after crossing into the Gaza Strip at the beginning of a ground offensive Thursday, July 17, 2014. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza on Friday to destroy rocket launching sites and tunnels (photo credit: AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces via AP video)
- Demonstrators throw stones at the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, as they protest against Israel's military action in Gaza, on July 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Adem Altan)
- IDF Artillery Corps seen near the border with Gaza in Southern Israel on July 18, 2014. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
- IDF forces seen gathering near the border with Gaza in Southern Israel on July 18, 2014. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
- IDF soldiers smile as they ride on a military vehicle near the Israel-Gaza Border, Thursday, July 17, 2014. (Photo credit:AP/Ariel Schalit)
- A protester with "Gaza" written on her forehead looks down during a demonstration against Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Madrid on July 17, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/Pedro Armestre)
- An IDF flare illuminating the sky above the Gaza strip on July 18, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/Mahmud Hams)
- 20-year-old Eitan Barak, who killed overnight Thursday during IDF activity in the Gaza Strip. (Photo credit: Flash90)