Liveblog August 12, Day 36 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)
Defense minister warns fighting could resume; UK to halt some arms sales if it does
Amid conflicting reports on progress to a long-term ceaefire, Ya’alon says Hamas attacks could restart after truce ends Wednesday night; IDF ships fire warning shots at boat; UN investigator Schabas defends record; new Turkish flotilla planned
By Itamar Sharon,
Ilan Ben Zion and Yifa Yaakov 12 August 2014, 12:17 am 18 Edit
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Ilan Ben Zion and Yifa Yaakov 12 August 2014, 12:17 am 18 Edit
- Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed, center, and members of the Palestinian Fatah delegation leave the hotel where the negotiations are taking place with Egyptian intelligence mediators aimed at brokering an end to the Gaza conflict on August 12, 2014 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. (photo credit: AFP/KHALED DESOUKI)
- Some of the more than 100 men and women who immigrated to Israel to join the IDF, Ben Gurion airport, August 12, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
- Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon visits an IDF navy base in Ashdod. August 12, 2014. (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)
- Freedom Flotilla member Dror Feiler, center, speaks during a press conference on August 12, 2014, in Istanbul (AFP/BULENT KILIC)
- William Schabas, right, and members of a Serbian delegation at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands in March. Schabas heads a UN Human Rights Commission inquiry into war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict (photo credit: AP/Jiri Buller)
- Hamas deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk (center) shakes hands with the head of the Palestinian delegation Azzam al-Ahmad (left) upon their arrival at a Cairo hotel after a meeting with senior Egyptian intelligence officials, August 11, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki)
- Illustrative photo of Palestinian fishermen paddling their small boat a few hundred meters off the beach of Gaza City while casting their nets in search of small fish on August 10, 2014. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
- James Rawley (R), United Nations' humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories visits a power plant supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip that was damaged due to the Israel-Hamas conflict on August 11, 2014 in Gaza City (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
- Palestinians look at a list posted on a door to a UN school in Jabalia that gives information on food aid distribution schedules for people that have been displaced from their homes, August 11, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Roberto Schmidt)