PHOTOS: Israel, Hamas agree to extended truce
August 26, 2014
A Palestinian waves a national and a Hamas flag as fireworks light up the sky on August 26, 2014 in East Jerusalem as Palestinians celebrate in the streets the long-term truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has agreed to observe an "unlimited" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP, shortly after the deal was announced by the Palestinians AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images ( 532773039 )
Palestinians wave their national and parties flags as they celebrate the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis at the main road in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian man waves national and Egyptian flags while standing on top of a car as he and hundreds of others gather at an intersecition to celebrate the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on August 26, 2014 in Gaza City. Egypt said that a Gaza ceasefire that went into force at 1600 GMT provides for an immediate opening of Israeli border crossings to aid and reconstruction supplies. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532768652 )
A Palestinian militant brandishes his weapon as he fires rounds into the air after joining hundreds of Gazans gathered at an intersecition in Gaza City on August 26, 2014 to celebrate a ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas. Egypt said on Tuesday that a Gaza ceasefire that went into force at 1600 GMT provides for an immediate opening of Israeli border crossings to aid and reconstruction supplies. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532769889 )
Children hold up guns (one with an empty magazine) from a car as Palestinians gather in the streets to celebrate after a deal had been reached between Hamas and Israel over a long-term end to seven weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip on August 26, 2014 in Gaza City. Israel has agreed to observe an "unlimited" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday, shortly after the deal was announced by the Palestinians. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532767980 )
Palestinians chant slogans one holding a mock Qassam rocket as they celebrate the cease-fire in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. The two sides announced Tuesday that they had agreed to an open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, after seven weeks of fighting that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian family looks from a window to the rubble of the collapsed 15-story Basha Tower following early morning Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel bombed two Gaza City high-rises with dozens of homes and shops Tuesday, collapsing the 15-story Basha Tower and severely damaging the Italian Complex in a further escalation in seven weeks of cross-border fighting with Hamas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian children sit on a sidewalk as they wait for their parents to retrieve some of their family's belongings from a partially destroyed house across the street from a high rise apartment building in Gaza City (R) that was targeted by Israeli airstrikes overnight on August 26, 2014. The UN estimates that about a quarter of the 1.8 million inhabitants of Gaza have been displaced by fighting between Hamas militants and Israel since fighting started on July 8. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532759331 )
A Palestinian boy holds a plastic container near a public tap on August 26, 2014 in Gaza City. Most residents in the Palestinian enclave suffered from water shortages even before the recent fighting between Hamas militants and Israel but now Monzer Shoblak, an official from the local water board, said war damage meant that Gaza was pumping 50 percent less water. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532764068 )
Israeli men talk as the stand amidst the debris caused by a rocket, fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, after it landed in the courtyard of a kindergarten in the southern costal Israeli city of Ashdod, on August 26, 2014. Israel upped the pressure on Hamas, with warplanes hitting two Gaza City highrises on day 50 of their conflict as the warring parties mulled a new Egyptian truce proposal. JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532763905 )
Palestinian men flash the sign of victory on the top of a car in front of a man planting a Hamas flag atop a street light as people gather at an intersection in Gaza City to celebrate the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on August 26, 2014. Egypt said that a Gaza ceasefire that went into force at 1600 GMT provides for an immediate opening of Israeli border crossings to aid and reconstruction supplies. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532769552 )
Palestinians flash the sign of victory as they gather in the streets to celebrate after a deal had been reached between Hamas and Israel over a long-term end to seven weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip on August 26, 2014 in Gaza City. Israel has agreed to observe an "unlimited" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP, shortly after the deal was announced by the Palestinians. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532768503 )
A Palestinian family flashes victory signs as they celebrate the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis at the main rood in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian fires rounds into the air as people gather in the streets to celebrate after a deal had been reached between Hamas and Israel over a long-term end to seven weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip on August 26, 2014 in Rafah in the southern of Gaza Strip. Israel has agreed to observe an "unlimited" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP, shortly after the deal was announced by the Palestinians. SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532770585 )
A Palestinian plants a Hamas flag atop a street light as people gather in the streets of Gaza City on August 26, 2014, to celebrate the long-term truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has agreed to observe an "unlimited" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday, shortly after the deal was announced by the Palestinians. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532770324 )
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