Liveblog August 25, Day 49 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)
Hamas confirms truce talks; rockets from Lebanon fired at Galilee; PM’s poll figures crash
Palestinians, Cairo said waiting on Jerusalem response to month-long truce offer; over 110 rockets shot at Israel Monday; family of slain 4-year-old says they won’t return to Gaza-area kibbutz
By Itamar Sharon,
Marissa Newman and Ilan Ben Zion 25 August 2014, 12:34 am 33 Edit
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Marissa Newman and Ilan Ben Zion 25 August 2014, 12:34 am 33 Edit
- Illustrative: A trail of smoke from a rocket as it was launched from the Gaza Strip toward the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, August 24, 2014. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)
- Palestinian travelers wait before crossing into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2014. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
- A Palestinian man sweeps the floor of his home that was damaged after a mosque across the street was hit by an Israeli airstrike on August 25, 2014 in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Roberto Schmidt)
- A Palestinian man walks with a child past the rubble of a mosque that was partially damaged by an Israeli airstrike on August 25, 2014 in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)
- Former president Shimon Peres with Doron and Gila Tragerman, the parents of 4-year-old Daniel, at Kibbutz Nahal Oz on August 24, 2014. Daniel was killed by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on August 22. (Photo credit: Flash90)
- The family of Daniel Tragerman mourns during the funeral for the 4-year-old boy at the Hevel Shalom Cemetery in southern Israel, August 24, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
- Daniel Tragerman, 4, seen during a visit at the presidential residence in Jerusalem in early August 2014. Daniel was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell that hit his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Friday, August 22, 2014. He was laid to rest on August 24. (Photo by Flash90)
- A man injured by a mortar shell is rushed to the emergency room after arriving at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon on August 24, 2014. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
- Palestinians inspect the damage to a commercial center after an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 24, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
- Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (right), pictured with Shaar Hanegev Regional Council head Alon Shuster, at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza Border on August 24, 2014. (Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90)