News:

The Israel-Hamas cease-fire holds for a second day. (AP/Reuters/AFP)

Indirect cease-fire talks continue in Cairo. (BBC)

Hamas says It has not received an official response to its cease-fire
demands. (Ma'an)

Israel is reportedly seeking to "demilitarize" Gaza. (Jerusalem Post)

Gaza residents start to ask what was gained by the fighting. (Los Angeles Times)

A Hamas spokesman is reportedly attacked by Gaza residents. (YNet)

Indian and French TV report to show Hamas firing rockets near civilian
areas. (NDTV/France 24)

Concern remains about the potential for future clashes. (Washington Post)

The damage in Gaza starts to be assessed. (Washington
Post/Ha'aretz/The Guardian)

UNICEF says large numbers of children were killed in the Gaza conflict. (Xinhua)

Pres. Abbas declares gaza a disaster area. (Xinhua)

Hamas says it intends to keep its political and military wing
separate. (New York Times)

Israel says Hamas in Gaza ordered and funded the kidnapping and murder
of three Israeli teenagers in June. (Ha'aretz/Times of Israel)

Palestine seeks ICC support for charges against Israel. (Xinhua)

A survey suggests most Israelis think neither side won, but approve of
PM Netanyahu's performance. (Ha'aretz)

Israeli politicians say Netanyahu presented them with a "nightmare"
scenario involving the complete reconquest of Gaza. (Ha'aretz/Times of
Israel)

Some Israelis think the rightward political drift in the country is
solidifying. (New York Times)

Tunisia is concerned about potential returning jihadists. (New York Times)

New clashes erupt between the Lebanese army and extremists near the
Syrian border. (AP)

Iraq says it has killed 60 IS extremists. (AP/BBC)

Kurdish officials say their forces have had a major clash with IIS
extremists near Erbil. (Reuters)

Militants attack a police checkpoint in Egypt, leaving five killed. (AP/Xinhua)

Commentary:

Hussein Ibish and Aaron David Miller discuss whether the Israel-Hamas
cease-fire will hold. (PBS NewsHour)

Tom Friedman says the only way to stabilize Gaza is to strengthen the
PA. (New York Times)

Ephraim Sneh says, in order to ensure Hamas does not benefit from the
war, Israel must strengthen the PA and its strategy. (Al Monitor)

Zvi Bar'el says Egypt is still the powerbroker regarding Gaza. (Ha'aretz)

Ahdaf Soueif says the large number of dead Palestinian children tells
a story of Israeli impunity. (Los Angeles Times)

David Horovitz says Israel may have won, but Hamas certainly lost.
(Times of Israel)

Jonathan Marcus says there were no winners. (BBC)

Uriel Heilman also assesses winners and losers. (JTA)

Avi Issacharoff says the winners may be radical groups even more
extreme than Hamas. (Times of Israel)

Abdullah Erakat says Abbas's political power is another casualty of
the war. (The Media Line)

David Kenner says Hamas must now battle its various enemies inside
Gaza. (Foreign Policy)

Rami Khouri says Palestinians need a revised and unified PLO. (Daily Star)

Shlomi Eldar says Israel fears more terror attacks in the West Bank.
(Al Monitor)

The CSM says Israelis and Palestinians ask for world empathy while
showing each other not. (Christian Science Monitor)

Gregg Carlstrom says Israel's hawks have intimidated the last remnants
of the antiwar left. (Foreign Policy)

Osama Al Sharif draws his own lessons from the Gaza conflict. (Jordan Times)

Hassan Hassan looks at the role of various Islamist groups in Syria.
(The National)

Hussein Ibish asks why no one is acting against ISIS? (Now)

The National says Kurds must not act solely in their own interests.
(The National)

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed says PM al-Maliki needs to go abroad, the few
countries will take him. (Asharq Al Awsat)

The New York Times says the rise of ISIS in Iraq is alarming. (New York Times)

Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi says the Arab world is "drowning in
Machiavellianism." (Arab News)