Day 8 - Possible Ceasefire?

In about 7 minutes, we are supposed to find out if Hamas and Israel both agree to a ceasefire proposed by Egypt.  Who knows if the sides will agree.  And if they do, won't this whole horrible nightmare just be repeated in about a year and a half?  That's what happened last time.  I don't know what to think about it all. 

So, while we are waiting to find out what will happen, I wanted to share with you some of the pictures that I took along this operation, now in its 8th day.  A lot of them are pictures of headlines that struck me as...wow.

 The middle headline is super interesting:  "Hamas to Beersheba 'settlers':  Run before it's too late."  Lol no one wants to live in the middle of the desert...we just built an oasis here that everyone is envious of ;)

 This was the news on the afternoon of the first day of this chaos.

 This is a very true statement - we were terrified, and that's how Hamas works.  They play with your sanity, which is the goal of terror.  This is from the second day, July 9th.

 This is the community bomb shelter behind my apartment.  I was interested to see the door unlocked and open.  There are lights inside, and the shelter goes down about three flights of stairs to be very much under the ground.

 The temporary potty in the bomb shelter at work.  I didn't see any toilet paper around.

 Girlfriends at work.  No one was shopping, no one was at the mall.  And we were just quivering waiting on the next siren.  Had to have some fun.

Attack after attack after attack.

 Planning our walks with the dog to be close to bomb shelters.  We plotted out a nice walk that takes us by three shelters.

Trying to continue living our life normally, so here we are sitting in the community park by our house with the calming water and pretty lights.  After relaxing a bit, we got up and left, and about two minutes later, there was a rocket siren.  Normal, eh?

So, we've reached 9:15am and still no final word on the ceasefire.  Israel is holding up to the ceasefire as of 9:00am, but still no word from Hamas.  No rockets...yet.  The news commentator is saying that the next few hours are critical to find out whether the ceasefire will hold or not.  Great, of course I would have to get out of the house in the next hour.  I'll keep you all posted.

PS  My assumptions is that the ceasefire will not hold.  Hamas is big into theatrics, and they like huge finales.  Last night was quiet, and this morning has been very tame, with only a few rockets to the area around Gaza.  I hope my prediction is wrong, but I don't see Hamas laying down in such a quiet way.