Gaza Strip

The Israeli missile tore through the vaulted ceiling and pulverised age-old sandstone. One direct hit destroyed the Omari mosque in Jabaliya and dealt another blow to Gaza's beleaguered heritage.
      
The site is believed to have housed a mosque since the seventh century and parts of the Omari were said to date back to the 14th century.
      

Israel and the Palestinians renewed a truce that had largely tempered a five-week-old war, but the deal got off to a shaky start on Aug. 14 with rockets from Gaza slamming into Israel and Israel retaliating with air strikes.

A Turkish aid group said on Aug. 11 it would send ships again to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza, four years after Israeli commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory and killed 10 people.
   

Israel voices rejections over Qatar’s policy regarding the deadly conflict in Gaza, targeting the country’s hosting of the 2022

Palestinian factions agreed on Aug. 10 to a new 72-hour Gaza ceasefire, Egyptian state television reported, quoting a Palestinian source.
 
Egypt is trying to keep indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks alive after a three-day truce expired on Aug. 8 and fighting resumed. There was no immediate announcement from Israel. 

Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza, killing a child on Aug. 8 in retaliation to rocket fire after a 72-hour truce expired without a breakthrough on a longer-term ceasefire.

Palestinian militants started the rocket salvos ahead of the truce expiry at 0500 GMT, and Gazans again fled homes in fear before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a forceful response.

Following the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Greece announced on Thursday that it would contribute 500,000 euros to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to help with its humanitarian assistance to Palestinians.

Mediators worked against the clock on Aug. 7 to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours.

Israel and Hamas appeared at odds Aug. 7 over prolonging a 72-hour Gaza ceasefire, with the Israeli government indicating it will back an unconditional extension but Hamas denying any agreement.

The Egyptian brokered cease-fire in Gaza may or may not hold, but this is an opportunity to assess who won what as a result of this carnage. Militarily speaking, “it is already clear that there have been no winners” according to the BBC’s defense correspondent Jonathan Marcus.