An Israeli soldier is looking inside the barrel of a tanks, at a deployment area near the Gaza border, Aug 7, 2014. For the Israeli residents of the towns and Kibbutzim on close to the Gaza border, life are starting to return to its course, after many of the people there left their homes during the fighting in the last four weeks. The 72-hour ceasefire that was achieved by Egyptian mediation is accompanied by indirect talks between Hamas and Israel for a long term agreement. [Photo/IC]

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