'Humanitarian' ceasefire agreed in Gaza

By Ruth Pollard in Jerusalem
Updated July 27 2014 - 11:08am, first published July 26 2014 - 4:06pm

A 12-hour ceasefire is under way in Gaza, following failed efforts to negotiate a week-long "humanitarian pause" in Israel’s 19-day long military offensive in Gaza that has claimed at least 884 Palestinian lives and injured 5840, the majority of them civilians.