The Israeli army on Friday (November 14th) announced that it had hit "Islamic Jihad's terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip." The raid killed at least two people, who were hospitalized in the south of the enclave, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The IDF had reported earlier in the day that five projectiles had been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. In a statement, the Israeli army then condemned "the violation of the ceasefire and the rockets launched against Israel". She said she was "ready to continue to act as much as necessary against any attempt to harm Israeli civilians".
In an attempt to curb the new spiral of violence, UN envoy for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, had been mediating with the Egyptians for "urgent de-escalation". A ceasefire agreement came into effect Thursday at 5:30 local held all day.
34 dead in Gaza
In the Israeli areas near Gaza, activities resumed quietly on Thursday despite fears of the agreement shattering and new rockets falling on Israel, after the 450 fired this week from Gaza.
The agreement stipulates that Palestinian factions must ensure "peacekeeping" during demonstrations against the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the return of Palestinian refugees to their lands, an Egyptian official close to mediation said. For its part, Israel must "ensure a cease-fire" during these demonstrations of the "march of the return", which have made more than 300 dead and thousands of wounded in the Gaza Strip since the spring 2018, added the same source. These now traditional events must resume Friday.
There are 34 dead in Gaza in the Israeli strikes since Tuesday the Islamic Jihad, an armed group of the Palestinian enclave led by another Islamist movement, Hamas, which was not targeted.
This sequence is the deadliest since clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians who made about sixty dead on May 14, 2018 in Gaza, the day of the inauguration in Jerusalem of the American embassy.
With AFP