High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Israel Hamas ceasefire was a twenty six week Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel which started on June 19, 2008 and lasted until December 19, 2008. It is part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, more specifically of the Gaza Israel conflict, and began on the midst of the 2007-2008 Israel-Gaza conflict. The collapse of the ceasefire led to the Gaza War on December 27, 2008.