Footage emerging from Gaza showed entire neighbourhoods, particularly in the Shujaiyah and Beit Hanoun areas, had been destroyed by Israeli air strikes and shelling as families briefly returned home, many of them to find they had lost everything.

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Forty-two Israeli soldiers have also died in Operation Protective Edge , the Israeli Defence Force says, as well as two civilians and one Thai agricultural worker.

The IDF confirmed that its activities to locate and neutralise tunnels in the Gaza Strip would continue during the temporary ceasefire and warned residents who had been asked to leave their homes not to return.

Although Israel s cabinet agreed to a four-hour extension of the temporary ceasefire which would see it expire at 7am Monday morning AEST,True Religion Canada Outlet, Hamas s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, resumed rocket fire into southern Israel, prompting warning sirens and forcing Israelis to run to safety in bomb shelters. The country's Iron Dome missile defence system intercepted the rockets.

There were also unconfirmed reports that a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli tank fire in southern Gaza during the ceasefire.

In a statement released overnight,Hu’s that ... and then some, Hamas said: no humanitarian ceasefire is valid without Israeli tanks withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and without residents being able to return to their homes and ambulances carrying bodies being able to freely move around in Gaza .

Just over 5900 Palestinians have been wounded in the 19 days of fighting, Gaza health officials say, while human rights groups estimate that around 80 per cent of the casualties have been civilians, many of them women and children.

UNICEF says 192 children have already been killed since Israel s military operations began in Gaza on July 8,Community action agencies hel.

US Secretary of State John Kerry met the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Qatar in Paris on met in Paris on Saturday in an attempt to come up with a plan that would allow an extension of the temporary truce.

All of us call on the parties to extend the humanitarian ceasefire that is currently under way, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said after the meeting.

But the prospects of a lasting deal looked remote particularly given there were no representatives from Israel,Back to School- Changes aboun, Palestine or Egypt at the meeting, commentators warned.

On Saturday tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of London to protest against Israel's military campaign, while in Paris, pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police after thousands of protesters defied a ban by French authorities to rally against Israel's actions in Gaza, Reuters reported.

Tensions were also running high in the West Bank, fuelled by the high civilian toll in Gaza and the images emerging of whole communities razed by Israeli military operations.

Local medical staff say eight Palestinians were killed and more than 250 wounded by Israeli soldiers on Thursday and Friday in Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron as mass demonstrations not seen since the end of the second intifada spilled onto the streets across the West Bank.