In the Occupied Territories, Hamas is renewing calls for a ceasefire with Israel. The overture comes just days after Hamas called off its previous ceasefire following the deadly bombing of a Gaza beach that Palestinians and human rights groups have blamed on Israel. Hamas spokesperson Ghazi Hamad: “From the beginning of this government we repeated many times that we are ready to accept a cease fire from both sides and that the Israeli side should stop all their operations and the aggressions in the West Bank and Gaza. But there are no signals or indications from the Israeli side that they are ready to accept this. We hope that this time they can accept it and we can start a new situation.”