Israel Renews Gaza Bombing After Hamas Rejects Truce Plan
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Israel renewed its air raids on the Gaza Strip after a Palestinian rocket bombardment left an Egyptian truce proposal the Israelis accepted in tatters.
Hamas, the militant movement that controls Gaza, said it wasn’t consulted on the Egyptian plan, and its military wing rejected it. Within six hours, the cease-fire efforts crumbled after Gaza militants barraged Israel with 50 rockets, according to the Israeli army’s count. The Palestinian death toll climbed above 200 in the fighting that followed, while an Israeli man became his country’s first fatality from fire since Israel ratcheted up its campaign against Gaza rocket squads last week.