On 1 August, 2014, the US and UN announced that Israel and Palestine had agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting at 08:00. There was dispute about the terms of the ceasefire: Israel and the US stated that they allowed Israel to “continue to do operations to destroy tunnels that pose a threat to Israeli territory that lead from the Gaza Strip into Israel proper as long as those tunnels exist on the Israel side of their lines”.
The ceasefire broke down almost immediately after it started. Israel blamed the Palestinians for violating the ceasefire, saying a group of Israeli soldiers were attacked by Palestinian militants emerging from a tunnel. Palestinian soldiers emerged from a terror tunnel, detonated a suicide bomb and took one Israeli hostage back through the tunnel.
According to the PLO, the Palestinian Authority and Gazan sources, The Palestinians attacked an Israeli unit, killing an Israeli officer (Hadar Goldin, who was initially thought to have been captured) while Israeli forces were still engaged in military activities in Rafah on Gaza’s territory before the truce came into effect. Tweets reported the battle in Rafah before the deadline for the cease-fire. Hamas also killed two soldiers in a suicide bombing attack.
At 09:20, CNN interviewed Gershon Baskin regarding his knowledge of the motivation of the Palestinian Soldiers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt0jiJnJRS8
