Ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad in Gaza area takes effect …
Posted By admin on May 15, 2023
A ceasefire has taken effect in and around the Gaza Strip after five days of cross-border exchanges that have killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel.
The truce was due to take effect at 10pm local time (20.00 BST) on Saturday, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said. But, in the final 30 minutes before, dozens of rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel, prompting renewed airstrikes, AFP correspondents in the territory said.
Most of the rockets were intercepted by Israeli air defences.
Egypt, a longtime mediator in Gaza, secured the agreement of both Israel and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad to its latest ceasefire proposal, an Egyptian security official said.
Israels National Security adviser Tsahi Hanegbi thanked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and expressed the State of Israels appreciation for Egypts vigorous efforts to bring about a ceasefire, a statement from the Israeli prime ministers office said.
He said Israels response to the Egyptian initiative means quiet will be answered by quiet, and if Israel is attacked or be threatened it will continue to do everything it needs to do in order to defend itself.
A Palestinian source confirmed Islamic Jihads agreement.
We want to thank Egypt for its efforts, Islamic Jihad political department official Mohammad al-Hindi told AFP. He has been in Cairo since the fighting erupted on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Israel had again pounded Gaza with airstrikes targeting Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad after a new barrage of rocket fire into Israel to mark the funeral of its military commander Iyad al-Hassani, who was killed on Friday.
For days, life in Gaza and in Israeli communities near the border has been a daily routine of airstrikes and sirens warning of incoming rocket fire.
Residents in the crowded Gaza Strip cowered indoors as the fighting raged, with streets empty and only a few shops and pharmacies open.
The whole Palestinian people are suffering, Muhammad Muhanna, 58, told AFP in the ruins of his home. What have we done?
In Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, a dead donkey lay in the ruins of a row of buildings levelled in an Israeli strike.
No one is safe in their homes, said Imad Rayan, 64.
A spokesperson for the interior ministry in Gaza said on the final day of its campaign the Israeli military had concentrated on targeting civilians, residential and civilian buildings.
There had been mounting calls for a ceasefire to be agreed, including from Israels closest ally, the US.
The US deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman, in a call to the Israeli strategic affairs minister, Ron Dermer, stressed the urgency of reaching a ceasefire agreement in order to prevent any further loss of civilian life, the state department said.
Egypt had kept up its mediation effort despite repeated setbacks.
On Saturday, shrapnel from a rocket fired from Gaza hit a building site in Sdot Negev, just over the border into Israel, killing one man and wounding another. Both were day labourers from Gaza.
Islamic Jihad said its fighters were pursuing missile strikes on Israeli cities in revenge for Israeli assassinations of their commanders and strikes on populated areas.
The exchange of fire came after the Palestinian health ministry reported the death of two men aged 19 and 32 in an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
The Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said the two men killed in the raid were members of its armed wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The current bout of violence erupted on Tuesday when Israeli strikes on Gaza killed three leading Islamic Jihad members. Three other senior figures from the Palestinian militant group were killed in later strikes.
They are among at least 33 lives lost in the fighting inside Gaza, according to the territorys health ministry.
There have been two deaths in Israel, one of them the day labourer from Gaza.
The army said nearly 1,100 rockets had been fired from Gaza towards Israel in the current fighting, including 300 intercepted by its air defences.
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