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gaza city plunged into darkness after its only power plan was taken out after an air strike. it may be another year before it can rebuilt. reporter: we re about halfway through that four-hour humanitarian window as announced by the israelis. hamas says they won t abide by this cease-fire. they say it s all just done for the media and in fact in the last hour or so we have seen hamas rockets fired from here toward israel and air raid sirens have been heard over an israeli city just to the north of gaza. until the israelis decided to put a pause on their military operations, this had been yet another deadly day in gaza. 76 palestinians had been killed on this day along accordingly to health official here. gaza s infrastructure is being hit hard. three weeks on and gaza has taken a pounding. crossing the border from israel and the destruction is everywhere. the buildings still standing seem deserted. the area around here are completely abandoned. the vehicles on the road is
LagosNigeriaNew-yorkUnited-statesMoscowMoskvaRussiaWest-bankTexasAlaskaMinnesotaLiberia between israel and gaza just announced. according to the details of the agreement which we are just getting in to cnn, the quote is forces on the ground will remain in place. this is only a humanitarian cease-fire. a brief pause in the fighting, all meant to get aid to civilians in gaza. we are going to hear from a top israeli official, israel s ambassador to the united nations in a moment. first we have sarah sidner in jerusalem, john vaz in gaza city. what s happening there, john? reporter: well, erin, we have seen a number of rockets fired by hamas since news came through that there is a cease-fire deal in place. obviously the rockets outgoing to israel. sarah can tell you more about where they landed. we have been seeing a lot of israeli activity here. heavy machine gun fire to the east. also the sound of artillery as well. we were expecting an uptick in the activity here. they agreed to the cease-fires and launched a last barrage of activity, trying to get as much done
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