Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, the Israeli military spokesman, said that Israel had completed the destruction of "approximately 32 tunnels" built by Hamas into Israel, and that Israeli forces had killed "approximately 900 militants in combat." He said that Israel had destroyed more than 3,000 rockets belonging to Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad, that those groups had launched more than 3,300 rockets toward Israel, and that Israel believed they had remaining stocks of 3,000 rockets.

Cease Fire Begins