Israel and Hamas have said they received a 12-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza that would apply today (26/07).

A total of 800 Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack, the majority are children

Israel and Hamas have said they received a 12-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza that would apply today (26/07).


The truce was to begin at 08:00 local time (11:00 GMT). Efforts to negotiate a truce for seven days is still running.

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Previous Secretary of State John Kerry said he was confident that a longer ceasefire will happen, although Israel has rejected the proposal.

Click over 800 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 36 Israelis have died since the conflict began on July 8.

A Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri Click, said there is "a national consensus against humanitarian truce ... for 12 hours on Saturday."

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it on Twitter ceasefire but said they would continue to "track down and neutralizes the tunnel of terror."

"We will respond if terrorists chose to exploit this gap to attack IDF personnel or shoot Israeli civilians," the IDF said in a statement.
Confirmation of this truce came after Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned that a ground operation in Gaza will soon be expanded "significantly." BBC