Farmers work in a watermelon field next to Nahal Oz at the border of the Gaza Strip, 19 June 2008. The cease fire between Israel and the Hamas started today at 6 am in the morning  EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG

A still image from a videotape shot by a Palestinian woman on a recorder given out by the Betselem human rights group in Israel on 17 June 2008 shows club-wielding Jewish settlers as they attack a Palestinian farmer in the area of Susiya outside of Hebron in the West Bank on 08 June 2007.

Two Jewish settlers were arrested for attacking the Palestinian farmers. A Palestinian woman in her late 50s was badly wounded in the attack, and her husband and another relative were also battered.  EPA/BETSELEM

An Israeli soldier carries out maintenence on a 'Merkava' tank parked with many others in a military base along th Gaza Strip border near Kibbut Nahal Oz on 06 June 2008. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on return to Israel from the US that Israel is close to deciding what to do about the Gaza Strip as rocket barrages continue. Some 10 rockets were fired earlier on 06 June into southern Israel. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER