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July 15th, 2014
07:01 PM ET

Cease-fire effort collapses as rockets, airstrikes continue

Gaza City (CNN) - An Egypt-backed cease-fire between Israel and Hamas fell apart Tuesday as rocket attacks from Gaza were again answered by Israeli airstrikes.

The rocket attacks from Hamas militants in Gaza never ceased, Israeli officials said. For its part, Israel refrained from airstrikes for about six hours before announcing it was resuming them.

A CNN crew witnessed at least five Israeli strikes just as the announcement was made.

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