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Day 28 – Two Terror Attacks; Secret Alliance; Ceasefire Announced

by TheTower.org Staff |

Today was the twenty-eighth day of Operation Protective Edge and the seventeenth day of ground operations in Gaza.

In The Tower today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the recent increase of anti-Semitic attacks perpetrated “in connection with protests concerning the escalation of violence in Gaza.”

A terror attack this morning in Jerusalem, carried out by a Palestinian man who commandeered an excavator to attack a bus, left one man dead and several more injured.

An analysis in The Jerusalem Post outlined an emerging “tacit” alliance between Israel and more moderate Sunni Arab states based on opposition to Hamas specifically and extreme forms of political Islam generally.

In a second terror attack in Jerusalem, an Israeli soldier was shot and wounded by an assailant on a motor bike. There is no clear connection between the two attacks but a Hamas spokesman praised the earlier attack and called for more violence against Israel by Palestinians living in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

In late breaking news, Egypt announced that Israel and Hamas have both agreed to Egyptian terms for a 72-hour ceasefire to begin tomorrow morning at 8:00. The last 72-hour ceasefire was broken by Hamas after an hour and a half with an ambush that killed three Israeli soldiers.

[Source: IsraeliPM / YouTube ]

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