Liveblog August 13, Day 37 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)
Amid rocket fire, PA delegation chief confirms truce extended by 5 days
Rockets hit near Ashkelon, Eshkol; Hamas denies it fired; Israel moves troops to border as truce winds down; 5 killed by leftover IDF missile in Gaza; most ministers join Liberman’s call for boycott of UNHRC probe
By Ricky Ben-David,
Ilan Ben Zion and Marissa Newman 13 August 2014, 12:26 am 47 Edit
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with New York Governor Andrew Mark Cuomo, at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)
- This photo, taken in August 2014, shows Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli on a balcony overlooking smoke from Israeli Strikes in Gaza City. Camilli was killed on August 13 when working to document an attempt to defuse an Israeli leftover missile in Gaza. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
- A Turkish Air Force transport plane seen at Ben Gurion International Airport, on August 13, 2014, waiting to fly seventeen Palestinians wounded in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge to Turkey for medical treatment. The wounded will be taken in Red Crescent ambulances to the Erez border crossing, and then moved to Israeli Magen David Adom ambulances to be taken to Ben Gurion Airport. (Photo credit: Tsahi ben Ami/FLASH90)
- A Palestinian man reads posters calling people to boycott Israeli products and other companies following the latest war between Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s army, on August 12, 2014 in the mostly Arab East Jerusalem . The posters read from L to R: "Boycott them, the campaign for a renewing boycott", "Freedom is a choice, what do you choose?", "Blockade for blockade, boycott them, until they lift the Gaza blockade". (photo credit: AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
- A Palestinian woman uses a piece of rebar she found amid the rubble, for support as she walks past destroyed homes in a street in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on August 12, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)
- Palestinians look at an unexploded munition on a street in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 01, 2014. (photo credit: Mostafa Ashqar/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)