Gaza residents scramble to make most of five-hour truce

July 18, 2014 01:23

Residents of the Gaza Strip rushed out of their homes Thursday morning to take advantage of a five-hour "humanitarian truce' between the Israeli military and Hamas militants, a respite that began just hours after Israel bombed what it called a "terror tunnel' under the Gaza border, foiling a potentially "devastating' attack by heavily armed infiltrators.

Just as the temporary cease-fire ended at 3 p.m. local time (8 a.m. Eastern time), Palestinian militants in the coastal enclave fired a rocket at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, about eight miles north of the Gaza border, but no injuries were reported, the Israeli military said. Three mortar rounds were also fired toward Israel after the truce took effect at 10 a.m. (3 a.m. EDT).

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