21 july 2018
An indirect ceasefire understanding was reached between Hamas and Israel, on Friday at night, following extensive Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, and the killing of four Palestinian fighters, and one soldier.
Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, said that “through Egyptian, and international mediation, a ceasefire understanding was reached between the occupation and the resistance.”
Israeli sources said the United Nations Envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, held extensive talks with both Israel and Hamas, and added that the ceasefire was reached “because both parties are not interested in escalation.”
He stated that the ceasefire was reached without an agreement, but with the sole purpose of “returning to the era of calm.”
Hamas was pressured by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to refrain from responding to the Israeli strikes, in order to avoid a serious and extended military escalation.
The understanding was reached after Israel shelled and bombarded more than 68 areas in the Gaza Strip, after following the death of one soldier by Palestinian fire, and four Palestinians by Israeli army fire.
Despite the understanding for ceasefire, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Mladenov in a phone call that “the responsibility for escalation or calm lies with Hamas,” and added that “if the group continues to fire shells into Israel, then the outcome will be far worse than what they think.”
Lieberman also said that “the destruction and loss of live will be on Hamas,” Israeli daily Haaretz said.
It is worth mentioning that the slain Israeli soldier, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, is the first Israeli to be killed by the Palestinians in Gaza, since the Great Return March procession started on Palestinian Land Day, March 30th, 2018.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army killed 146 Palestinians protesters, including 17 children, two medics and two journalists, and wounded more than 16496 others.
Israeli army fire also caused damage to 58 Palestinian ambulances in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, July 19, 2018, an Israeli army drone dropped a missile at Palestinians, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian, identified as Abdul-Karim Radwan, 22, and wounding three others, one seriously.
Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, said that “through Egyptian, and international mediation, a ceasefire understanding was reached between the occupation and the resistance.”
Israeli sources said the United Nations Envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, held extensive talks with both Israel and Hamas, and added that the ceasefire was reached “because both parties are not interested in escalation.”
He stated that the ceasefire was reached without an agreement, but with the sole purpose of “returning to the era of calm.”
Hamas was pressured by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to refrain from responding to the Israeli strikes, in order to avoid a serious and extended military escalation.
The understanding was reached after Israel shelled and bombarded more than 68 areas in the Gaza Strip, after following the death of one soldier by Palestinian fire, and four Palestinians by Israeli army fire.
Despite the understanding for ceasefire, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Mladenov in a phone call that “the responsibility for escalation or calm lies with Hamas,” and added that “if the group continues to fire shells into Israel, then the outcome will be far worse than what they think.”
Lieberman also said that “the destruction and loss of live will be on Hamas,” Israeli daily Haaretz said.
It is worth mentioning that the slain Israeli soldier, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, is the first Israeli to be killed by the Palestinians in Gaza, since the Great Return March procession started on Palestinian Land Day, March 30th, 2018.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army killed 146 Palestinians protesters, including 17 children, two medics and two journalists, and wounded more than 16496 others.
Israeli army fire also caused damage to 58 Palestinian ambulances in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, July 19, 2018, an Israeli army drone dropped a missile at Palestinians, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian, identified as Abdul-Karim Radwan, 22, and wounding three others, one seriously.
20 july 2018
After Palestinians open fire at IDF troops on Gaza border, killing one soldier, Israeli tanks and aircraft retaliate with strikes on terror targets across the strip; political and security brass hold emergency situation evaluation in Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv; 3 rockets fired from Gaza, Iron Dome intercepts 2.
An IDF soldier was killed near Kissufim by sniper fire from the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, leading for a retaliatory strike by the IDF that killed at least four Hamas fighters.
The IDF attacked terror targets across the Gaza Strip with both tank and aircraft fire. So far, 15 targets were bombed at the Hamas Zaytun battalion headquarters. The headquarters were destroyed, while arms depots, training facilities, observation posts, the battalion situation room, the battalion commander's office and other infrastructures were hit.
At least four Palestinians from Hamas's military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade, were reportedly killed in the IDF retaliatory action. At least 120 Palestinians were reported wounded.
At around 8:30pm, a Code Red rocket alert siren was sounded in Shaar HaNegev Regional Council and Sdot Negev Regional Council. Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, with two of them intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system and the third fell in open area.
Several explosive devices were thrown at IDF force from the Gaza Strip following the fire exchange. None of the soldiers were hurt.
An IDF official described the fire exchange as the gravest incident since the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, putting the blame squarely on Hamas.
"Hamas will be held accountable for this incident as well as the series of the terror activities it has been executing over the past months," the IDF said in a statement. "Hamas has chosen to escalate the security situation and will bear the responsibility for its actions."
In the wake of the incident, the political and security brass, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, convened in the Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv for a situation assessment on Friday evening.
The IDF's Home Front Command instructed Israelis living in communities near the Gaza border to remain within a 15 second distance from a bomb shelter or a safe room as well as to avoid mass gatherings. The army also closed the Zikim beach for the weekend as a precaution.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrived to the area shortly before the incident.
Hamas said that "The mass participation in the 'March of Return' campaign and the lifting of the Gaza siege, alongside the steadfast persistence of the Palestinian public despite the attacks, terror and the occupation's escalation, is the proof that the Palestinian people are not breaking and are insisting on their rights and on lifting the siege, no matter what the death toll may be."
Khalil al-Hayya, a top Hamas leader, said "the protests will remain, flaming and existing, and its tools will multiply and diversify, including kites, until our goals are achieved."
For the first time, an incendiary balloon of the kind used in Gaza was found in the garden of southeast Jerusalem home close to the Palestinian town of Beit Jala. Police sappers dealt with the device.
The weekly protests led by Gaza's Hamas rulers against Israel are meant in part to draw attention to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after the terror organization assumed control of Gaza in 2007.
Lieberman: Hamas leaving us no choice but to launch wide offensive
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Friday morning that the Hamas terror group is leaving Israel with no choice but to launch a “wide scale and painful military campaign,” as incendiary kites and balloons continue to fall from Gaza on Israeli border communities.
“We are making efforts to weigh matters and be responsible, but the heads of Hamas are forcefully leading us to a situation in which we have no choice, to a situation in which we will have to embark on a wide scale and painful military operation that is not intended for show—a wide scale and painful military operation,” he emphatically repeat
Lieberman’s comments come against a backdrop of American efforts to kick-start international aid initiatives to alleviate the economic paralysis gripping the Gaza Strip on condition that Hamas renounce terror.
"We really are conducting ourselves responsibly and with restraint, even though the real problem with that is the erosion of deterrence, a change in the equation and, of course, the feeling of security which is no less important than security itself and having to come to terms with a reality in which at the end of last week the residents in the Gaza region were forced to run 20 times to bomb shelters," Lieberman explained.
Last week an IDF major was moderately wounded from a grenade thrown at him by Palestinian rioters on the Gaza border on Friday, while a Palestinian teen was killed by IDF fire east of Gaza City.
In response, the force opened fire towards the terrorists who threw the grenade in northern Gaza—in the area between Gaza City's Saja’iyya neighborhood and the old Karni crossing near Kibbutz Nahal Oz—and a hit was identified.
Gazans report dozens of Israeli bombs dropped in various parts of Gaza Strip
As night fell on Friday evening, after Israeli airstrikes killed Palestinian fighters that afternoon, and one Israeli soldier stationed at the border was reportedly killed, reports began coming in on Twitter from different parts of Gaza showing Israeli fighter jets dropping bombs. video
The Israeli army said one of its soldier was seriously injured by Hamas fighters near the southern part of the Gaza Strip, during what it called a military activity near the border fence, in southern Gaza, and later died from his wounds.
The name is of soldier has not been released at the time of this report.
The extent of the damage is unknown as of yet, and the airstrikes appear to be ongoing. As the loudspeakers sounded the call to evening prayer from mosques across the Occupied Territory, the sound of Israeli fighter jets filled the sky, and bombs began to fall.
The Israeli army said it targeted and destroyed 25 sites, run by armed resistance groups in Gaza, including monitoring and training centers.
The bombing came just hours after Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated that he was planning to launch a large-scale war in Gaza similar to the one in 2014, in which 2200 people were killed. In his statement, he said the ‘Palestinian people will pay the price’ for the continued non-violent protests at the border, which have been going on for 100 days.
One woman in Khan Younis filmed a bombing on her phone, and posted it on Twitter with the caption, “I have heard twenty bombs in the last 30 minutes”. Several people live streamed on Facebook from different parts of Gaza, as the bombs began to drop.
The Israeli strikes were carried out in several parts of the Gaza Strip, including sites run by the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed of Hamas, in Rafah and Khan Younis, in addition to missiles fired into the Zeitoun neighborhoods, east of Gaza city, causing several injuries.
The soldiers also fired at least eleven missiles into two sites, west of Khan Younis, causing serious damage.
The Israeli army claims it “was retaliating to shells fired against its soldiers near Gaza’s eastern border area, while Hamas said it was retaliating to the killing of four Palestinians by army missiles, Friday.
It said that Palestinian fighters fired shells into areas in Shaar HaNegev and Sdot Negev Regional Councils of Settlements, and added that the Iron Dome missile defense system managed to intercept two.
It stated that one shells landed and detonated in an open area in Shaar HaNegev. The reported shells did not lead to any casualties.
The sirens were heard amid an escalation along the Gaza border with Israel.
Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesperson of Hamas in Gaza, said that Israel has chosen the path of war and offensive on Gaza and its people, by murdering unarmed protesters, and added that these killings have raised the bar of retaliation.
“Israel will be held accountable for its crimes; our resistance has the moral and legal duties to protect its people, despite the dire consequences of its retaliation,” Barhoum said, “Shelling will be met my shelling – the resistance is ready, and capable of retaliation and of fighting for the liberation of its people, for breaking the siege and continuing the struggle for independence.”
Furthermore, Israeli navy ships fired many live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, near Gaza city, wounding one fisherman, and causing damage to several boats. The soldiers also sprayed many boats with waste-water mixed with chemicals.
An IDF soldier was killed near Kissufim by sniper fire from the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, leading for a retaliatory strike by the IDF that killed at least four Hamas fighters.
The IDF attacked terror targets across the Gaza Strip with both tank and aircraft fire. So far, 15 targets were bombed at the Hamas Zaytun battalion headquarters. The headquarters were destroyed, while arms depots, training facilities, observation posts, the battalion situation room, the battalion commander's office and other infrastructures were hit.
At least four Palestinians from Hamas's military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade, were reportedly killed in the IDF retaliatory action. At least 120 Palestinians were reported wounded.
At around 8:30pm, a Code Red rocket alert siren was sounded in Shaar HaNegev Regional Council and Sdot Negev Regional Council. Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, with two of them intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system and the third fell in open area.
Several explosive devices were thrown at IDF force from the Gaza Strip following the fire exchange. None of the soldiers were hurt.
An IDF official described the fire exchange as the gravest incident since the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, putting the blame squarely on Hamas.
"Hamas will be held accountable for this incident as well as the series of the terror activities it has been executing over the past months," the IDF said in a statement. "Hamas has chosen to escalate the security situation and will bear the responsibility for its actions."
In the wake of the incident, the political and security brass, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, convened in the Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv for a situation assessment on Friday evening.
The IDF's Home Front Command instructed Israelis living in communities near the Gaza border to remain within a 15 second distance from a bomb shelter or a safe room as well as to avoid mass gatherings. The army also closed the Zikim beach for the weekend as a precaution.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrived to the area shortly before the incident.
Hamas said that "The mass participation in the 'March of Return' campaign and the lifting of the Gaza siege, alongside the steadfast persistence of the Palestinian public despite the attacks, terror and the occupation's escalation, is the proof that the Palestinian people are not breaking and are insisting on their rights and on lifting the siege, no matter what the death toll may be."
Khalil al-Hayya, a top Hamas leader, said "the protests will remain, flaming and existing, and its tools will multiply and diversify, including kites, until our goals are achieved."
For the first time, an incendiary balloon of the kind used in Gaza was found in the garden of southeast Jerusalem home close to the Palestinian town of Beit Jala. Police sappers dealt with the device.
The weekly protests led by Gaza's Hamas rulers against Israel are meant in part to draw attention to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after the terror organization assumed control of Gaza in 2007.
Lieberman: Hamas leaving us no choice but to launch wide offensive
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Friday morning that the Hamas terror group is leaving Israel with no choice but to launch a “wide scale and painful military campaign,” as incendiary kites and balloons continue to fall from Gaza on Israeli border communities.
“We are making efforts to weigh matters and be responsible, but the heads of Hamas are forcefully leading us to a situation in which we have no choice, to a situation in which we will have to embark on a wide scale and painful military operation that is not intended for show—a wide scale and painful military operation,” he emphatically repeat
Lieberman’s comments come against a backdrop of American efforts to kick-start international aid initiatives to alleviate the economic paralysis gripping the Gaza Strip on condition that Hamas renounce terror.
"We really are conducting ourselves responsibly and with restraint, even though the real problem with that is the erosion of deterrence, a change in the equation and, of course, the feeling of security which is no less important than security itself and having to come to terms with a reality in which at the end of last week the residents in the Gaza region were forced to run 20 times to bomb shelters," Lieberman explained.
Last week an IDF major was moderately wounded from a grenade thrown at him by Palestinian rioters on the Gaza border on Friday, while a Palestinian teen was killed by IDF fire east of Gaza City.
In response, the force opened fire towards the terrorists who threw the grenade in northern Gaza—in the area between Gaza City's Saja’iyya neighborhood and the old Karni crossing near Kibbutz Nahal Oz—and a hit was identified.
Gazans report dozens of Israeli bombs dropped in various parts of Gaza Strip
As night fell on Friday evening, after Israeli airstrikes killed Palestinian fighters that afternoon, and one Israeli soldier stationed at the border was reportedly killed, reports began coming in on Twitter from different parts of Gaza showing Israeli fighter jets dropping bombs. video
The Israeli army said one of its soldier was seriously injured by Hamas fighters near the southern part of the Gaza Strip, during what it called a military activity near the border fence, in southern Gaza, and later died from his wounds.
The name is of soldier has not been released at the time of this report.
The extent of the damage is unknown as of yet, and the airstrikes appear to be ongoing. As the loudspeakers sounded the call to evening prayer from mosques across the Occupied Territory, the sound of Israeli fighter jets filled the sky, and bombs began to fall.
The Israeli army said it targeted and destroyed 25 sites, run by armed resistance groups in Gaza, including monitoring and training centers.
The bombing came just hours after Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated that he was planning to launch a large-scale war in Gaza similar to the one in 2014, in which 2200 people were killed. In his statement, he said the ‘Palestinian people will pay the price’ for the continued non-violent protests at the border, which have been going on for 100 days.
One woman in Khan Younis filmed a bombing on her phone, and posted it on Twitter with the caption, “I have heard twenty bombs in the last 30 minutes”. Several people live streamed on Facebook from different parts of Gaza, as the bombs began to drop.
The Israeli strikes were carried out in several parts of the Gaza Strip, including sites run by the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed of Hamas, in Rafah and Khan Younis, in addition to missiles fired into the Zeitoun neighborhoods, east of Gaza city, causing several injuries.
The soldiers also fired at least eleven missiles into two sites, west of Khan Younis, causing serious damage.
The Israeli army claims it “was retaliating to shells fired against its soldiers near Gaza’s eastern border area, while Hamas said it was retaliating to the killing of four Palestinians by army missiles, Friday.
It said that Palestinian fighters fired shells into areas in Shaar HaNegev and Sdot Negev Regional Councils of Settlements, and added that the Iron Dome missile defense system managed to intercept two.
It stated that one shells landed and detonated in an open area in Shaar HaNegev. The reported shells did not lead to any casualties.
The sirens were heard amid an escalation along the Gaza border with Israel.
Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesperson of Hamas in Gaza, said that Israel has chosen the path of war and offensive on Gaza and its people, by murdering unarmed protesters, and added that these killings have raised the bar of retaliation.
“Israel will be held accountable for its crimes; our resistance has the moral and legal duties to protect its people, despite the dire consequences of its retaliation,” Barhoum said, “Shelling will be met my shelling – the resistance is ready, and capable of retaliation and of fighting for the liberation of its people, for breaking the siege and continuing the struggle for independence.”
Furthermore, Israeli navy ships fired many live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, near Gaza city, wounding one fisherman, and causing damage to several boats. The soldiers also sprayed many boats with waste-water mixed with chemicals.
19 july 2018
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, issued a statement, Thursday, vowing retaliation for the death of one of its members, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam issued a statement saying that the Israeli missiles were fired at an observation post, east of Rafah, killing Abdul-Karim Ismael Radwan, 22, and wounding three others.
He was a member of the “Filed Observation Unit,” in the Gaza Strip, tasked with monitoring the border fence, and the Israeli invasions into the coastal region.
It denounced the assassination, and held Israel fully accountable for what it called “the cold-blooded crime, and foolish Israeli act that has serious consequences.”
“Israel will pay dearly for this crime,” Al-Qassam said in its statement, “Our exacted revenge will fit the crime.”
It is worth mentioning that Abdul-Karim’s brother, Ahmad Radwan, was killed by Israeli soldiers during a military offensive and invasion into Rafah, in 2002.
Al-Qassam issued a statement saying that the Israeli missiles were fired at an observation post, east of Rafah, killing Abdul-Karim Ismael Radwan, 22, and wounding three others.
He was a member of the “Filed Observation Unit,” in the Gaza Strip, tasked with monitoring the border fence, and the Israeli invasions into the coastal region.
It denounced the assassination, and held Israel fully accountable for what it called “the cold-blooded crime, and foolish Israeli act that has serious consequences.”
“Israel will pay dearly for this crime,” Al-Qassam said in its statement, “Our exacted revenge will fit the crime.”
It is worth mentioning that Abdul-Karim’s brother, Ahmad Radwan, was killed by Israeli soldiers during a military offensive and invasion into Rafah, in 2002.
16 july 2018
Israeli drones on Monday evening hit targets north of the blockaded Gaza Strip, triggering strikes by the Palestinian resistance in response.
An Israeli drone dropped a missile on a Palestinian resistance watchtower east of Beit Hanun. Israeli tanks also struck the vicinities of the Eastern Cemetery north of Gaza.
Moments later, a missile was unleashed toward a Palestinian resistance watchtower east of Jabalia, north of Gaza.
Israeli warplanes kept also hovering over the besieged enclave, sparking terror among civilians.
On Sunday, four Palestinians were wounded in similar raids launched by Israeli drones north of Gaza in response to alleged balloons flown from the enclave.
The Palestinian resistance responded by firing a missile toward territories occupied in 1948.
The missile reportedly landed in an open area in Ashkelon coast.
An Israeli drone dropped a missile on a Palestinian resistance watchtower east of Beit Hanun. Israeli tanks also struck the vicinities of the Eastern Cemetery north of Gaza.
Moments later, a missile was unleashed toward a Palestinian resistance watchtower east of Jabalia, north of Gaza.
Israeli warplanes kept also hovering over the besieged enclave, sparking terror among civilians.
On Sunday, four Palestinians were wounded in similar raids launched by Israeli drones north of Gaza in response to alleged balloons flown from the enclave.
The Palestinian resistance responded by firing a missile toward territories occupied in 1948.
The missile reportedly landed in an open area in Ashkelon coast.
15 july 2018
Head of Hamas's Political Bureau Ismail Haneyya on Sunday said that the Palestinian resistance will not allow Israel to impose new rules of war.
During the funeral of two children killed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Saturday, Haneyya said that many parties intervened to stop the escalation, adding that the Palestinian resistance has the "stronger word".
As for getting the resistance to restore calm on the front while Israel's planes are killing people in Gaza, the Hamas leader stressed, it is unacceptable for "this enemy" to impose new rules of war.
He vowed that resistance factions in the Gaza Strip would retaliate for any further Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave.
Haneyya affirmed that the Palestinian resistance will spare no effort to protect the Great March of Return protests which helped draw the international community's attention to the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
"Either the siege is lifted or you will face more intense and stronger marches," he said.
He continued to say, "The Deal of the Century was born dead. No Palestinian or regional party will dare to agree to a deal rejected by our people and resistance factions."
Haneyya touched on a meeting he had held earlier in the day with UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov. He said, "Everyone is looking for a solution while the answer is clear: lift the unjust siege on Gaza. The Palestinian people no longer believe your promises. They want real results that end the siege once and forever."
He said that Gaza border protests will continue until all their objectives are achieved, particularly ending the blockade and reviving the right of return in the memory of the new generations.
He stressed that while conspiracies are being plotted to liquidate the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian people in Gaza, Jerusalem and everywhere stand to say no to Donald Trump's Deal of the Century and any project that involves relinquishing any inch of the Palestinian land.
15 july 2018 Israeli Missile Injures Three Palestinians In Northern Gaza
During the funeral of two children killed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Saturday, Haneyya said that many parties intervened to stop the escalation, adding that the Palestinian resistance has the "stronger word".
As for getting the resistance to restore calm on the front while Israel's planes are killing people in Gaza, the Hamas leader stressed, it is unacceptable for "this enemy" to impose new rules of war.
He vowed that resistance factions in the Gaza Strip would retaliate for any further Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave.
Haneyya affirmed that the Palestinian resistance will spare no effort to protect the Great March of Return protests which helped draw the international community's attention to the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
"Either the siege is lifted or you will face more intense and stronger marches," he said.
He continued to say, "The Deal of the Century was born dead. No Palestinian or regional party will dare to agree to a deal rejected by our people and resistance factions."
Haneyya touched on a meeting he had held earlier in the day with UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov. He said, "Everyone is looking for a solution while the answer is clear: lift the unjust siege on Gaza. The Palestinian people no longer believe your promises. They want real results that end the siege once and forever."
He said that Gaza border protests will continue until all their objectives are achieved, particularly ending the blockade and reviving the right of return in the memory of the new generations.
He stressed that while conspiracies are being plotted to liquidate the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian people in Gaza, Jerusalem and everywhere stand to say no to Donald Trump's Deal of the Century and any project that involves relinquishing any inch of the Palestinian land.
15 july 2018 Israeli Missile Injures Three Palestinians In Northern Gaza
14 july 2018
Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in Gaza on Saturday evening announced that a ceasefire has been reached brokered by regional and international parties.
According to Safa news agency, Hamas's spokesman Hazem Qasem confirmed that regional and international parties have intervened to end the latest escalation in Gaza which started with a series of Israeli airstrikes on the besieged territory followed by a response by the Palestinian resistance.
For his part, spokesman for the Islamic Jihad Daud Shehab said that his Movement agreed to the agreement at Egypt's request, adding that the ceasefire will start at 8 pm.
He stressed that resistance groups in Gaza will commit to the ceasefire as long as Israel does.
Since the early hours of Saturday, Israeli warplanes have launched over 80 airstrikes on several targets in Gaza. The most heinous attack was the one that hit a building adjacent to a public park in Gaza city killing two children and injuring 25 civilians.
The Palestinian resistance responded by firing dozens of rockets and mortar shells at Israeli settlements neighboring the Gaza Strip. At least 4 Israeli settlers were injured.
According to Safa news agency, Hamas's spokesman Hazem Qasem confirmed that regional and international parties have intervened to end the latest escalation in Gaza which started with a series of Israeli airstrikes on the besieged territory followed by a response by the Palestinian resistance.
For his part, spokesman for the Islamic Jihad Daud Shehab said that his Movement agreed to the agreement at Egypt's request, adding that the ceasefire will start at 8 pm.
He stressed that resistance groups in Gaza will commit to the ceasefire as long as Israel does.
Since the early hours of Saturday, Israeli warplanes have launched over 80 airstrikes on several targets in Gaza. The most heinous attack was the one that hit a building adjacent to a public park in Gaza city killing two children and injuring 25 civilians.
The Palestinian resistance responded by firing dozens of rockets and mortar shells at Israeli settlements neighboring the Gaza Strip. At least 4 Israeli settlers were injured.
Israeli occupation army on Saturday morning closed Zikim shore of Ashkelon city in the southern 1948 occupied Palestine.
It was also decided to restrict settler gatherings in Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip after tension prevailed following clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli army in a statement published instructions restricting gatherings of more than 100 people in open spaces and more than 600 people in closed spaces across the Gaza border communities, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.
Israeli warplanes at dawn Saturday launched several airstrikes at Palestinian resistance posts, agricultural lands and empty areas in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian resistance responded by firing dozens of projectiles and rockets at Israeli settlements and military posts near Gaza border.
It was also decided to restrict settler gatherings in Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip after tension prevailed following clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli army in a statement published instructions restricting gatherings of more than 100 people in open spaces and more than 600 people in closed spaces across the Gaza border communities, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.
Israeli warplanes at dawn Saturday launched several airstrikes at Palestinian resistance posts, agricultural lands and empty areas in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian resistance responded by firing dozens of projectiles and rockets at Israeli settlements and military posts near Gaza border.