Live Update
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
UN calls for 6-hour humanitarian truce
The UN requests a six-hour break in hostilities from both Israel and Hamas for humanitarian purposes.
Channel 2 correspondent Udi Segal says UN envoy Robert Serry asked Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai for a six-hour humanitarian truce that Israel would initiate and Hamas would then join.
Israel is said to be weighing the proposal.
Hamas will submit its ceasefire terms to the Arab League and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is currently in Cairo, in the coming hours, Segal says