Palestinian militants in Gaza declare a cease-fire with Israel.
Reuters,
Aug. 7 - Gaza/Jerusalem The most major flare-up on the Gaza border in more than
a year may be coming to an end thanks to a truce declared late on Sunday
between Israel and the terrorist Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.
Rocket strikes on Israeli cities were sparked by Israeli troops bombing Palestinian targets over the weekend, although they had mostly subsided by the time the ceasefire began at 23:30. (20:30 GMT).
Israel and
Islamic Jihad both thanked Egypt for facilitating the ceasefire in separate
statements that were released afterward.
The
three-day fighting mimicked the buildup to earlier battles in Gaza, but it was
largely restricted since Hamas, the ruling Islamist organisation in the Gaza
Strip and a more potent force than Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad, had so far
refrained from participating.
44
Palestinians have been killed, over half of them civilians and children,
according to Gazan officials. Residents of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon, among other
cities, were forced to seek shelter as the missiles threatened parts of
southern Israel.
Israel
launched what it called pre-emptive strikes against what it believed would be
an attack by Islamic Jihad to punish the group's leader Bassam al-detention
Saadi's in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
Islamic
Jihad responded by launching a large number of missiles at Israel. Ziyad
al-Nakhala, the group's leader, declared at a news conference in Tehran that
Cairo will "try to achieve the release" of al-Saadi. Requests for
reaction from Israeli and Egyptian officials were not immediately answered.
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As
retaliation for Israel killing its commander in southern Gaza over the course
of the previous night—the second such senior officer it has lost in the
fighting—Islamic Jihad extended its firing range on Sunday to include
Jerusalem.
West of the
city, according to Israel, the rockets were shot down by an Iron Dome
interceptor. While Hamas claimed that all Palestinian fatalities were brought
on by Israeli strikes, the military said that others had failed, resulting in a
number of casualties in Gaza.
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U.S. President Joe Biden expressed support for the ceasefire in a statement and asked for a probe into any civilian deaths, regardless of whether Israeli airstrikes or rockets from the Islamic Jihad that apparently fell within Gaza were to blame.
After war breakouts in 2008–09, 2012, 2014, and last year, Palestinians combed through the rubble of destroyed homes to recover personal property while dazed by the latest wave of bloodshed.
"Who
desires war? No one. However, we also find it difficult to remain silent when
leaders, children, and women are slain "said a cab driver from Gaza who
only went by the name Abu Mohammad. 'Eye for an eye'
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