Israel will keep up “defensive” operations against tunnels during a 72-hour truce in Gaza, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.
Kerry, announcing the ceasefire deal in the early morning on a visit to India, said Israel and Hamas will “cease all offensive military activities and neither side will advance beyond its current locations.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah Saturday, July 26, 2014, at the US ambassador’s residence in Paris (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)
“Israel will be able to continue its defensive operations for those tunnels that are behind its lines, and the Palestinians will be able to receive food, medicine and additional humanitarian assistance as well as to be able to tend to their wounded,” the top US diplomat told reporters.
A senior US official said Israel would make clear to the United Nations where its military lines are drawn in Gaza.
“They will continue to do operations to destroy tunnels that pose a threat to Israeli territory … as long as those tunnels exist on the Israeli side of their lines,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
— AFP
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