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Sunday, July 27, 2014
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, July 27, 2014
UN chief Ban calls for 24-hour truce
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls on Israel and Hamas to extend the humanitarian truce by 24 hours.
“The Secretary-General urges, in the strongest terms, both the Israelis and Palestinians to extend, for an additional 24 hours, the humanitarian cease-fire that was in effect and mostly observed until early this morning,” a statement from the UN says.
Ban “urges all those with influence on the parties to help encourage an extension of the humanitarian cease-fire and compliance with observing it, once declared,” it says.
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