After the fall of 32 martyrs and 100 wounded .. Truce in Gaza mediated by Egypt

GAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel entered into force in Gaza early on Thursday, two days after Israeli shelling left dozens dead and wounded, Palestinian Islamic Jihad said.

An Islamic Jihad official told Reuters that Israel had agreed to the group's demand to stop its policy of targeted assassinations of militants and to stop firing at protesters across the border.

"The agreement on the ceasefire has been implemented in accordance with the conditions of the Palestinian resistance represented and led by Islamic Jihad," Hamas spokesman Musab al-Barim told Anatolia.

In turn, the AFP quoted an official in the Islamic Jihad as saying that "a truce agreement was reached after the movement agreed to an Egyptian proposal in this regard, after we informed the Israeli occupation of the truce."

An Egyptian official said the truce came "in light of the agreement of the Palestinian factions and Islamic Jihad to an Egyptian proposal for an immediate ceasefire and to maintain the peaceful return marches. Israel also agreed to an Egyptian proposal for an immediate ceasefire and an assassination halt, as well as a ceasefire towards demonstrators in marches." Back. "

Islamic Jihad said on Wednesday night that it had set specific conditions for accepting a ceasefire with Israel.

The Secretary-General of the movement Ziad al-Nakhala in a television interview that the conditions of the truce stop Israel assassinations, and stop targeting the weekly marches of return near the border of the Gaza Strip, and Israel's commitment to the understandings of breaking the siege on Gaza, which was conducted at the end of 2018 mediated by the United Nations, national and Egyptian.

Since the dawn of the Israeli army on Tuesday, the Israeli army launched an aggression on the Gaza Strip, which began with the assassination of the leader in the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad Bahaa Abu al-Atta and his wife.

The shelling killed 32 Palestinians and wounded 100 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The resistance responded to the Israeli aggression with dozens of rockets towards Israeli cities, where the occupation announced on Wednesday that it had fired 360 rockets since Tuesday.