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1. Video Details Terror Tunnel Attack, and IDF Destructive Response
by Yaakov Levi   The IDF released a video Thursday morning detailing the attempt by Hamas terrorists to conduct a major terror attack in Israel by infiltrating through a Gaza terror tunnel. The 13 terrorists involved in the attempted attack were apparently surprised that they were being observed by Israeli soldiers, an IDF official said, and attempted to return to Gaza via the tunnel, at which point an Israel Air Force plane destroyed the entrance to the tunnel. In the early morning hours of Thursday, the army said, IDF soldiers identified a group of 13 terrorists attempting to enter Israel via a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip. The tunnel was one of several the IDF had recently uncovered that were to be used to smuggle terrorists into Israeli cities. IDF soldiers attacked the group. Several of the terrorists were killed on the spot. The tunnel has been destroyed, as well. In a statement, Hamas accepted responsibility for the attempted attack, claiming that “all its operatives had returned safely.” An IDF spokesperson said that the army had prior knowledge that the terror attempt would take place, and was ready for the group. The group was heavily armed, and had they gotten past IDF patrols, would have been able to commit a major terror attack, killing many people and nabbing hostages, the spokesperson told Israel Radio. Last week, the IDF struck several terror tunnels in Gaza, stating that the move prevented a steady stream of terrorists into Israel. Shortly before the tunnel was destroyed, one senior IDF official spoke about the discovery to Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity. "We recently found a significant terror tunnel leading out of Gaza, which we are gathering intelligence about to prevent further terror attacks and to prevent [the tunnel] from being used [again]," the official said. In a statement, the army said that "The IDF is prepared to defend the citizens of Israel from any threat and will continue to act decisively and as long as necessary until peace returns to daily life.” 
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2. 'Humantarian Cease-Fire' Holding - for Now
by Yaakov Levi  A “humanitarian cease-fire” that went into effect 10 AM local time was holding, at least for its first hour. The cease-fire, requested by UN officials, is set to last through 3 PM local time, giving Gaza residents five hours to stock up on supplies – and giving rocket-weary Israelis five hours out of the bomb shelters that have become second, and in some cases primary, homes over the last ten days of incessant rocket fire by Hamas terrorists. The IDF said that it would abide by the cease-fire as long as Hamas did. Foreign reporters in Gaza said that the army had sent text messages to Gaza residents' cell phones warning them that the IDF would immediately react if Hamas violated the cease-fire, which it agreed to. Reports from Gaza said that residents went out to go shopping and buy food and medicine, and to take money out of the bank. Hamas warned Gazans to "be aware that Israelis were tracking them to gather intelligence on their movements." The situation Thursday was far different from that on Wednesday, when a cease-fire that was supposed to go into effect was rejected by Hamas and immediately violated. That cease-fire, proffered by Egypt, was flatly rejected by Hamas, on the claim that it had not been “consulted” with before the terms were set. Reports Thursday morning said that Israeli and Hamas negotiating teams had arrived in Cairo to discuss the cease-fire proposed by Egypt. The cease-fire was first proposed by Egypt Tuesday night and was accepted unilaterally by Israel, as Hamas continued to pound Israel with rocket fire. Later Wednesday, Israel responded to the Hamas attacks, striking back at terror targets in Gaza. Earlier Thursday, Hamas “greeted” the cease-fire with a major rocket attack on Israel. Red Color alert sirens were sounded in communities throughout central Israel. Sirens were sounded in Tel Aviv and its suburbs, Raanana, Hadera, and in the Netanya area as well. Iron Dome batteries shot down several of the missiles, with others falling in open areas. No injuries have been reported. Minutes before, a barrage of rockets was fired at Beersheva. The Iron Dome system knocked out four of the missiles. No injuries have been reported. Hamas also accepted responsibility for an attempt by 13 terrorists to enter Israel earlier Thursday via a terror tunnel. In the early morning hours of Thursday, the army said, IDF soldiers identified a group of 13 terrorists attempting to enter Israel via a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip. The tunnel was one of several the IDF had recently uncovered that were to be used to smuggle terrorists into Israeli cities. IDF soldiers attacked the group. Several fatalities were reported. The tunnel has been destroyed, as well.
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3. Bennett: Hamas Committing 'Self-Genocide'
by Hezki Ezra  In a special interview on CNN Wednesday night, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett said that incidents such as the killing of four children on a Gaza beach earlier Wednesday were entirely the fault of Hamas – and were no accident. “I think it is terrible that Hamas is butchering its own children like this,” Bennett told senior CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. “I would never take my children and place them next to rocket missile launchers,” knowing that it was likely to be targeted by the IDF, he said. “Hamas is conducting massive self-genocide, taking women and children and placing them next to missile launchers,” said Bennett. The fact that the kids were playing on the beach is irrelevant, said Bennett, because “we find these launchers all over, at the beach, in hospitals and homes. You have the living room and the missile launching room. “What they are deliberately doing is seeking to kill as many Palestinians as possible in order to yell to the world to ‘Help us,’ “ Bennett said. “This is cynical and this is cowardly. If you want to send terrorists to fight Israel, send terrorists, not women and children.” “If someone is shooting at you, you will shoot back,” Bennett told Blitzer. “If that coward is hiding behind his children, they might get hit. This whole thing can go away in one moment, if Hamas stops shooting. The moment they disarm themselves, we stop attacking.” IDF Spokesman, Brigadier General Moti Almoz addressed reports of the four Palestinian Arab children being killed in an IAF airstrike, noting that the accidental deaths were the result of Hamas using civilians as human shields. "Hamas is hiding among civilians targets," Almoz said, on Channel 2. "Hamas continues to make cynical use of civilian casualties and we will continue to operate within a civilian environment." The IDF is still conducting an internal investigation on the reports. If true, he said, "the fact that uninvolved civilians were killed is a tragic event. It is important to remember the cynical use of civilians by Hamas in Gaza, which holds them hostage by encouraging them to stay in the line of fire as Israel take out terrorist targets." Last week, the IDF published video and photographic evidence of the use of human shields by Hamas. In a screenshot of a television broadcast from July 8, civilians gather on the roof of the home of a Hamas terrorist who was targeted by the IDF. They did so in order to act as human shields and deter an imminent IDF attack, explained the military. In one instance near the start of Operation Protective Edge, seven people were killed after locals responded to an Israeli warning flare by flocking to act as human shields at the site of the intended strike just moments before it was hit.
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4. Egyptan Offical: Hamas to Blame for Gaza Destruction
by Uzi Baruch  Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Arabi said Thursday that Hamas was not serious about a cease-fire – and that the terror group was deliberately trying to embarrass Egypt. Speaking in an interview in an Egyptian newspaper, Al-Arabi blamed Hamas for not only failing to come to a cease-fire, but for “shedding the blood of innocent Palestinians” by continuing to attack Israel. “Hamas does not want Egypt to fulfill its obligations as a negotiator between the two sides,” Al-Arabi said. “They do this at the cost of the blood of innocent Palestinians” who are caught up in the Israeli response to the rocket attacks. During the nine days of Operation Protective Edge, the IDF has caused a massive amount of damage in Gaza, destroying buildings that were used by terrorists to fire rockets at Israel. Despite Israel's efforts to avoid civilian casualties, some 200 people have been killed in Gaza so far, more than half of them Hamas terrorists. Hamas on Monday rejected Egypt’s proposed ceasefire, as Arab foreign ministers in Cairo called on "all parties" to accept the proposal. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the group would not accept a truce without a full-fledged deal to end hostilities, according to AFP. "A ceasefire without reaching an agreement is rejected. In times of war, you don't cease fire and then negotiate," he told the news agency. Earlier Thursday, a Hamas official said that Israel would have to “pay a price” if it wanted a cease-fire. Mohammed Nazel said that Israel “has to promise, with international guarantees, that they will stop attacking Gaza. Second, they have to open up all the passages between Gaza and the rest of the world. In addition they have to allow free movement in Gaza.” Al-Arabi said that negotiations on Hamas' conditions could be conducted under Egyptian auspices after the rocket firing stop. “The main thing is to stop the fighting,” he said, adding that the lives of many Gaza Arabs was at stake. Hamas terrorists launched a major attack on Israel's heartland Thursday morning, as Red Color alert sirens were sounded in communities throughout central Israel. Sirens were sounded in Tel Aviv and its suburbs, Raanana, Hadera, and in the Netanya area as well. Iron Dome batteries shot down several of the missiles, with others falling in open areas. No injuries have been reported.
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5. Protesters Continue Demanding Power Cutoff to Gaza
by Yosef Berger  While the government pushes for a cease-fire in the current round of fighting with Hamas, Israelis around the country took to the streets Thursday demanding a more definitive ending to Operation Protective Edge – at the very least turning off the electricity in Gaza in order to bring about a fall of Hamas control of Gaza. While a number of political figures and security experts in recent days have said that the only way Israel can end the threat of future rounds of rocket warfare by Gaza terrorists was to destroy Hamas, by entering Gaza and cleaning it out of Hamas influence, protesters in cities and major junctions said that cutting off power to Gaza was a non-lethal way to bring Hamas to its knees. “We cannot tolerate a situation where we continue to supply Gaza with electricity while they fire rockets at us,” say organizers of the protests. “It is immoral, unjust, and illogical for Israeli citizens to be paying for the electricity being used to develop and fire rockets on innocent citizens. Gaza has not paid for its electricity for a long time, and now owes Israel NIS 220 million in unpaid power bills. If you or I miss a month or two of payments, they turn off the electricity in our house, but Hamas chisels its way out of the Gaza bill with no consequences.” Former Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon last week vowed to stop Israel's supplying of power to Gaza. "We have to stop the entry of fuel and electricity to Gaza immediately," Danon stated. "You cannot fight Hamas on the one hand and provide electricity and fuel to transport the missiles fired at us on the other." Danon's statements echo similar calls by Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), who made a strong argument for the move earlier this month. "We need to break away from the population in Gaza," he said. "We need to set boundaries and say goodbye to Gaza until there is peace - no fuel, no electricity, no water, no food. "It makes no sense for Israel to give the enemy these things," he continued. "We are responsible for an area which has no authority.”
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6. Watch: Arutz Sheva TV's Daily Edition
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7. New Hamas Hebrew Video Threatens IDF Soldiers
by Elad Benari  The Hamas terrorist group has published another Hebrew-language video in which it threatens Israelis. After previously releasing a Hebrew version of a popular Hamas battle song calling to 'exterminate' Jews and Israel, Wednesday’s video directly threatens IDF soldiers and warns them not to launch a ground assault on Gaza. “Zionist soldier, don’t move. You’re in Gaza. You are being targeted by Hamas snipers,” says the video, after it shows snipers firing at IDF soldiers who are advancing towards Gaza.  Earlier on Wednesday, Israelis in the Binyamin region received a "warning" via text message from Hamas's "military wing", threatening continued violence against civilians. The text messages read: Your government claimed yesterday that it stopped the battle, but without our consent and meeting our conditions - and it thought we were rash enough to [agree to a] cease-fire. On the contrary, we hurried to strike anywhere in Israel - from Dimona to Haifa - and we made you hide in shelters like mice. . . Again, we warn you - if your government does not agree to all of our conditions, then all of Israel will legally remain open to our weapons fire. Izz - Eddine al-Qassam Brigades
Tags: Hamas, IDF, Gaza Region, threats, Operation Protective Edge
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8. Video Details Terror Tunnel Attack, and IDF Destructive Response
by Yaakov Levi The IDF released a video Thursday morning detailing the attempt by Hamas terrorists to conduct a major terror attack in Israel by infiltrating through a Gaza terror tunnel. The 13 terrorists involved in the attempted attack were apparently surprised that they were being observed by Israeli soldiers, an IDF official said, and attempted to return to Gaza via the tunnel, at which point an Israel Air Force plane destroyed the entrance to the tunnel. In the early morning hours of Thursday, the army said, IDF soldiers identified a group of 13 terrorists attempting to enter Israel via a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip. The tunnel was one of several the IDF had recently uncovered that were to be used to smuggle terrorists into Israeli cities. IDF soldiers attacked the group. Several of the terrorists were killed on the spot. The tunnel has been destroyed, as well. In a statement, Hamas accepted responsibility for the attempted attack, claiming that “all its operatives had returned safely.” An IDF spokesperson said that the army had prior knowledge that the terror attempt would take place, and was ready for the group. The group was heavily armed, and had they gotten past IDF patrols, would have been able to commit a major terror attack, killing many people and nabbing hostages, the spokesperson told Israel Radio. Last week, the IDF struck several terror tunnels in Gaza, stating that the move prevented a steady stream of terrorists into Israel. Shortly before the tunnel was destroyed, one senior IDF official spoke about the discovery to Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity. "We recently found a significant terror tunnel leading out of Gaza, which we are gathering intelligence about to prevent further terror attacks and to prevent [the tunnel] from being used [again]," the official said. In a statement, the army said that "The IDF is prepared to defend the citizens of Israel from any threat and will continue to act decisively and as long as necessary until peace returns to daily life.”
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