Liveblog August 20, Day 44 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)
Fate of Hamas commander Deif unclear after Israeli strike; heavy rocket fire on Israel
Netanyahu slams ministers who criticize his handling of Hamas war, mum on attack on Gaza terror chief; rockets shot toward Tel Aviv, airport amid day of heavy fire; Hamas spokesman says no return to talks; rocket hits home in Hof Ashkelon region
By Lazar Berman,
Ricky Ben-David
and Marissa Newman 20 August 2014, 12:27 am 54 Edit
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and Marissa Newman 20 August 2014, 12:27 am 54 Edit
- Illustrative: The Israel-Gaza border, from the Israeli side, with rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 20, 2014. (Albert Sadikov/Flash90)
- Relatives of 27-year-old Widad Deif, the wife of Hamas's military commander Mohammed Deif, carry her body during her funeral procession at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on August 20, 2014. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement on August 20, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)
- A television monitor displays the statement by Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida on Al Aqsa TV channel in Gaza City on August 20, 2014. photo credit: AFP/ THOMAS COEX)
- Smoke rises from buildings following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)
- Palestinians gather around the rubble of a house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
- Israeli soldiers seen at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 20, 2014, (photo credit: Albert Sadikov/Flash90)
- Tax authority workers survey the damage caused to a house after it was hit by a rocket in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council on August 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)
- Illustrative. A man holds part of a rocket that exploded and fell inside the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
- Police officers inspect the remains of a rocket that struck a house in the Hof Ashkelon region of southern Israel on Wednesday, August 20, 2014. (photo credit: Israel Police Spokesperson)
- American journalist James Foley, kneeling in orange, in a video released by the Islamic State, which apparently showed him being beheaded by his captor, August 19, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/News of the World)