Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 18, 2014
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 18, 2014
Day 42 of Operation Protective Edge
PREAMBLE: Monday will mark the end of the seventh week since the launch of Operation Protective Edge.
At midnight on Monday, a five-day truce will expire, unless Hamas and Israel agree to extend it or reach a long-term deal.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday that what he called Hamas’s defeat in Gaza would not be followed by a diplomatic victory for the Islamists in the Cairo negotiations. Hamas on Saturday had rejected an 11-point Egyptian ceasefire proposal.
