5 Aug 2014

Netanyahu vows to continue campaign

8:35 am on 5 August 2014

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed the campaign in Gaza will continue “until quiet and security are returned to the citizens of Israel”.

Mr Netanyahu issued the statement after Israel’s seven-hour “humanitarian window” for parts of Gaza closed, the BBC reports.

The truce slowed violence in Gaza, although Palestinians said Israel broke it by hitting a house in Gaza City.

They said after the ceasefire started, an eight-year old girl was killed and more than 20 people were wounded when Israel bombed a refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Two attacks on Israelis were reported in Jerusalem and Israel said militant rocket fire from Gaza had continued.

Health officials in Gaza say 1868 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed and 9470 injured since the conflict began nearly four weeks ago.