Liveblog August 17, Day 41 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)
As officials talk truce in Cairo, Israel braces for more rockets
Cairo proposal defers discussion of thorny issues; IDF could have conquered Gaza in days, says ex-NSC official; lift Gaza blockade for security, Hamas demands
By Elie Leshem,
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and Marissa Newman 17 August 2014, 12:14 am 13 Edit
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and Marissa Newman 17 August 2014, 12:14 am 13 Edit
- 20,000 pro-Israel protesters march in Kolkata, India, August 16, 2014. (courtesy Hindu Samhati)
- Demonstrators hold a placard reading in Hebrew: "Agreement with Abbas not with Hamas" as thousands of Israelis protest during a left-wing peace rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv calling for the Israeli government to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority on August 16, 2014. (photo credit:AFP/GALI TIBBON)
- Palestinian women walk between buildings destroyed during fighting between Hamas militants and Israel in the Al-Shaas neighbourhood, in the north of the Gaza Strip, on August 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, August 17, 2014. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Flash90/Pool)
- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (right) shaking hands with Yukiya Amano (left), chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during a meeting in Tehran on August 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Iranian Presidency website/HO/Mohammad Berno)
- Israeli author David Grossman addresses the crowd at a left-wing rally in Tel Aviv, Saturday night, August 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/GALI TIBBON)
- A Jewish peace activist watches a rally by Palestine Americans and their supporters during their protest march against the ongoing conflict in Gaza on August 16, 2014 in Los Angeles. (photo credit: AFP/Mark Ralston)
- In footage captured by al-Mayadeen, Hamas Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades fighters are seen preparing rockets to launch against Israel in a tunnel underneath the Gaza Strip, August 2014. (screen capture, YouTube)