Liveblog July 16 (closed)
Kerry: US working hard to achieve Israel-Gaza ceasefire
Israel says yes to five-hour humanitarian truce; IDF says 4 Gaza kids were killed when army shot at Hamas target; 8,000 more reservists to be called up; PM says Israel will press on until Hamas is disarmed
- Young Israel children play in a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon on July 16, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
- Palestinians sleep in the yard of a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya early on July 16, 2014, after evacuating their houses near the border with Israel. (photo credit: AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)
- Rockets shot out of Gaza on July 15, 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
- The outside of a house in Tel Aviv damaged by rocket shrapnel. (photo credit: Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)
- Avigdor Liberman, foreground, and Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende, in white shirt, in an Ashkelon bomb shelter during a rocket attack on Wednesday July 16, 2014. (photo credit: courtesy)
- Debris lies scattered at the scene of a damaged apartment block after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
- Police explosives experts and Home Front Command workers at the scene where a grad rocket fired from Gaza hit a house in the Israeli city of Ashdod, on July 15, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)
- Firefighters extinguish a blaze caused when a rocket lobbed from Gaza struck kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (photo credit: Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
- Smoke from rockets fired from near Gaza City is seen after being launched toward Israel, on July 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Thomas Coex)
- Smoke from rockets fired from Gaza City is seen after being launched toward Israel, on July 15, 2014 ( photo credit: AFP/ Thomas Coex)
- US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his final press conference after talks over Tehran's nuclear program in Vienna, on July 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ JOE KLAMAR)
- Israeli soldiers stand in a camp during an army deployment along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 15, 2014. (photo credit:AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)