Today was the fiftieth day of Operation Protective Edge.
UPDATE: Egyptian officials say Israel-Hamas ceasefire in #Gaza is now under way: http://t.co/hjsRAP0ERH
— CNN International (@cnni) August 26, 2014
Israel and Hamas agreed to an open-ended ceasefire, which went into effect at 7 PM local time. If the ceasefire holds, it will be followed by a period of Egyptian-brokered negotiations.
How many more people would be alive today if Hamas had accepted Egypt's ceasefire proposal on July 15, or any of the others offered since?
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) August 26, 2014
Despite increasingly common claims that the best way to combat the terrorist group ISIS is to ally with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a prominent Emirati journalist, Hassan Hassan, forcefully argued in The New York Times that Assad, in fact, has “allowed ISIS to grow and fester.”
Gazan children with guns celebrate "victory" over Israel. Nothing like educating the next generation for peace! pic.twitter.com/nfUzHMubiY
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 26, 2014
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps has threatened to “accelerate” its arming of Palestinian terror groups. Iran has supplied rockets and even drones to Hamas in Gaza.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry 1 person has been killed and 45 injured by celebratory gunfire in #Gaza
— Ian James Lee (@ianjameslee) August 26, 2014
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