Israel - Hamas War News Updates -- July 21, 2014

Israeli Minister Warns The Country 'Will Take Over The Whole Gaza Strip' If Necessary, As Latest Airstrikes Kill 28 Members Of Palestinian Family -- Daily Mail

 * Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinian militants who tunneled into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip
 * UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire following a meeting last night
 * Sunday was the deadliest day so far - 13 Israeli soldiers and more than 100 Palestinians were killed
 * Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called deaths after heaving shelling yesterday 'a massacre'
 * Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue operations 'as much as we need to'
 * The UN says 83,695 people have now been displaced in Gaza and that the figure is 'rising all the time'
 * Two Americans who were soldiers with the Israel Defense Forces have been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip
 * Israel have denied reports that an Israeli solider has been captured
 * The death toll among Palestinians from the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip reached 508 today
 * The U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo today

Israel has warned it will be take over the whole of Gaza if necessary as the U.N. Security Council appeals for an immediate ceasefire.

Israel's communications Minister Gilad Erdan said that the IDF must continue fighting and that he hopes there will not be a ceasefire in the coming days, unless all the tunnels into Israel are destroyed.

'We cannot stop the operation while it is still unclear whether the Gaza Strip will be demilitarized or not. If that means the IDF needs to stay in the northern Gaza Strip to ensure quiet, then we will have to reconquer the area near its northern border,' Erdan said reported The Jerusalem Post.

Today Israeli jets, tanks and artillery continued to pound the Gaza Strip, killing 28 members of a single family near the enclave's southern border with Egypt, medics said. At least ten Palestinian militants were also killed when the IDF blew up a tunnel with explosives.

The Islamist group Hamas and its allies fired multiple missiles across southern and central Israel, and heavy fighting was reported in the north and east of Gaza.

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Israel - Hamas War News Updates -- July 21, 2014

Gaza Blog Live -- Al Jazeera
LIVE UPDATES: Obama: We don’t want to see any more civilians killed -- Haaretz
Gaza hospital hit in fatal Israeli attack – live updates -- The Guardian

Gaza crisis: UN calls for ceasefire as deaths pass 500 -- BBC
UN Security Council Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza as Death Toll Exceeds 500 -- RIA Novosti
Palestinian death toll in Gaza fighting at 508 -- AP
Neighborhood Ravaged on Deadliest Day So Far for Both Sides in Gaza -- NYT
Gaza crisis: 13 Israeli soldiers, scores of Gazans killed -- BBC
2 IDF-enlisted Americans killed in Gaza fighting -- RT
Israeli shelling kills scores in eastern Gaza -- Al Jazeera
Four Die in Israel Hospital Shelling as Gaza Toll Tops 500 -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Five dead at Gaza hospital hit by Israeli strike -- BBC
Top Hamas leader: Ending Gaza border blockade is goal -- AP
Egypt may be flexible on its Gaza proposal to accommodate Hamas - officials -- Reuters
Netanyahu Says Hamas Wants to 'Pile Up the Bodies' for Sympathy -- NBC
Gaza crisis: Barack Obama and UN call for immediate ceasefire -- The Guardian
Kerry, UN chief head to Cairo to negotiate Israel cease-fire -- FOX News
UN Security Council Calls for Immediate Gaza Cease-fire -- VOA
UN condemns ‘Shejaia massacre’ in Gaza, urges end to violence -- RT
UN chief condemns 'atrocious' Gaza killings -- Al Jazeera
UN Security Council Urgent Meeting on Gaza Calls for Cessation of Hostilities -- RIA Novosti
Obama weighs in as Gaza death toll surpasses 500 -- USA Today
Obama: focus in Gaza conflict must be on ceasefire -- Reuters
Kerry returns to Mideast for cease-fire deal in Israel amid rising civilian death toll -- FOX News
Kerry heads to the Middle East to try and broker ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas -- Daily Mail
Thousands take to the streets of Vienna in Gaza protest (PHOTOS, VIDEO) -- RT
Israeli Gaza offensive inspires global rallies, Paris protest turns violent -- RT
Gaza crisis: Has a turning point been reached? -- Jonathan Marcus, BBC
The Tragedy in Gaza -- Lawrence A. Levine, Huffington Post
When Gaza fighting is over, there is a way to change for the better -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post