Fighting resumed in the Gaza Strip early Friday after negotiators were unable to extend a 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military launched airstrikes on both Rafah and Jabaliya, and armed-militants fired cross-border rockets into Israel. A ten-year old Palestinian boy was killed when Israeli military forces attacked a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip. Two Israelis were injured by mortar, one soldier and one civilian. As airstrikes and rocket-fire return to the region, FSRN’s Nell Abram talks with independent journalist and film-maker David Sheen, who has written extensively on Israel’s anti-Arab and anti-African policies. His work has appeared in the Nation, the Israeli daily Haaretz, on Mondoweiss and the Electronic Intifada. He joins us from his home in Dimona, Israel.

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David, negotiators and mediators held discussions for three-days in Cairo, yet were unable to even extend the temporary truce while they continue to seek more lasting agreements. What do you see on the horizon?

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Independent journalist and award-winning filmmaker David Sheen joined us from his home in Dimona, Israel. You can find him on Twitter — @DavidSheen

(Photo credit: Helga Tawil via Flickr. Used under Creative Commons license.)

