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Hopes to use the cease-fire to help israel strengthen its internal security including addressing the smuggling of weapons into gaza by hamas. mark greenblat, abc news, new york. brandi, rob, back to you. >> thank you, mark. very telling here that u.s. officials are describing this peace as tenuous. a cease-fire here. interesting number here, 0. that is the number of past cease-fires that have held together since hamas took control of gaza back in 2007 so there is not a good track record here whatsoever. so everyone kind of happy for the moment. there is no telling how long this will last. mayb...

First right now, the truce between israel and hamas appears to be holding for now. there have been no significant attacks in the hour since the agreement was first announced. >> but the basic hostility remains very much unresolved. abc's mark greenblat joins us now with the very latest. hi, mark. >> reporter: rob, brandi, good morning. just hours after the cease-fire went in effect, the israeli defense forces announced that they have already tracked at least five more rockets being fired into israel from gaza, in a sign of just how fragile the situation over there remains. in gaza, celebratory...

It hurts. he's lost weight. he ended up in the hospital. abc's mark greenblat is documenting this. >> reporter: for the last 13 days for nearly every wake hour, mickey cheney tried just about everything you could imagine to get the hiccups to stop. all to no avail. >> i drank red apple vinegar. i, sat upside down. drank water. >> reporter: the problem eventually landed cheney in a hospital in portland, maine, earlier this month. his worried wife says it's become a serious health concern. >> i've watched 15 pounds slide off of him in the past 12 days. >> reporter: it all began as he was at work...

Anything you're going do is going to have a potential. >> reporter: mickey cheney far from alone in his suffering. one journal says 4,000 americans are hospitalized every year due to persistent hiccups. as a teenager, jennifer mee's hiccups gained notoriety as the hiccup girl when she couldn't stop for five weeks. as for the cheneys, they're hoping mickey's hiccups have a happy ending, one they want to see sooner rather than later. mark greenblat, abc news, new york. >> longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted 68 years. began in 1922 after a 300 pound hog collapsed on top of him. >> wow. i feel...