Liveblog July 11 (closed)
PM vows to keep hitting Hamas till calm restored; US urges sides to avoid civilian casualties
Abbas: Stop violence now, discuss terms later; Liberman: Time to ‘go all the way’ in Gaza; 8th Iron Dome battery ready for deployment; Israelis injured in Ashdod, Beersheba as heavy barrages continue
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister, Moshe Ya'alon, and IDF Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz, get briefed in the South Front Command on Operation Protective Edge, on July 9, 2014. (Photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)
- IDF tanks and soldiers in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014. (Photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
- Flames rise at a gas station in Ashdod that was hit directly by rocket fire from Gaza on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014. The rocket caused explosions and three people were injured, one of them critically. (Photo credit: Flash90)
- Palestinians remove the rubble of the Ghanam family home after it was targeted in an Israeli air raid on Rafah, in the southern of Gaza strip, on July 11, 2014. Five Palestinians, including a woman and seven-year-old child, died when the home of a Hamas operative was hit, Gaza emergency services said. (Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
- Screen capture from a short video posted on the Fatah movement's official Facebook page showing women training in order to carry out attacks against Israeli targets (photo credit: YouTube screen cap/ PMW)
- An Israeli soldier sleeps on a mobile artillery unit at a position on the Israel-Gaza border, Friday, July 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
- Palestinian mourners chant slogans as they carry the bodies of eight members of the Al Haj family, who were killed in an Israeli missile strike early morning, during their funeral in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
- Israeli soldiers drive an armored personnel carrier to a position near the Israel Gaza border, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
- Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, seen from the Israel-Gaza Border, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Defense Minister Moshe Boogie Ya'alon (right) and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz seen during a meeting at the situation room of the Israeli Air Force on July 10, 2014, on the third day of Operation Protective Edge. (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)
- Palestinian relatives of eight members of the Al Haj family, who were killed in a strike early morning, grieve in the family house during their funeral in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
- Fire fighters and police units were on the scene of an explosion in Ashdod caused by rocket fire from Gaza, on the third day of Operation Protective Edge, July 10, 2014. The rocket had landed on a car, crushing it, and causing the building's gas tank to explode and burst into flames. (Photo credit: Flash90)
- Israeli soldiers inspect the damage caused to a house in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 10, 2014. (photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP)
- Israeli D9 bulldozers roll along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip following Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on July 10, 2014. (photo credit: Jack Guez/AFP)
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