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A Palestinian girl look on as her family salvage usable things in their belongings found in the rubble of their destroyed house, during a 12-hour cease-fire in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A Palestinian official says more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Gaza war as Israel battles Hamas militants.
Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said that officials recovered more than 100 bodies alone on Saturday.
The higher death toll came as fighting lulled Saturday during a 12-hour truce, the only immediate outcome from a high-level mediation mission by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon over the past week. They failed to broker a weeklong cease-fire as a precursor to a broader deal, as they had hoped.
Instead, Israel's defence minister warned he might soon expand the ground operation in Gaza "significantly."