An attempted ceasefire between Israel and terrorist teams in the Gaza Strip came into force at 2 a. m. Friday morning, with its dim nature highlighted through violence and threats that last up to minutes before the deadline.
Israel’s high-level security locker voted for a ceasefire in Gaza on Thursday night, which could end with 11 fatal days of hostilities with the Hamas terrorist group.
But several bursts of rockets and mortars from the Gaza Strip continued to target Israeli communities within 3 hours of the announcement until shortly before 2 a. m.
One user was injured when a mortar shell hit a printing plant on the Be’eri network near the Gaza border, the Israeli government said.
The projectile hit the construction directly, according to the chimney and rescue services. The 53-year-old victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, doctors said.
Palestinian media reported that the IDF is exhausting movements in Gaza. There’s no confirmation from the army.
Meanwhile, the wing of Hamas’s army warned that it will provoke widespread attacks, opposed to Haifa in northern Israel to the Ramon region in the south, if Israel complies with the pact.
“We had prepared a coup, from Haifa to Ramon [Eilat airport] . . . We will vigorously monitor the enemy’s habit until 2 a. m. and stop the massive attack we had prepared for our enemy,” said a spokesman for Izz al-Din. Al-Qassam brigades.
Previously, a member of the prime minister’s workplace said the security cabinet had “been unanimously formed with the advice of all security officials, the IDF chief of staff, the leader of the Shin Bet, the leader of the Mossad, and the head of national security. “The Egyptian initiative of an unseafiable bilateral ceasefire, which will come into force later.
At the same time, the statement adds that “political leaders strain that it is the truth on the floor that will mark the long term of the operation. “
After the meeting, a Hamas official showed reuters news firm that a “mutual and simultaneous” ceasefire had been concluded with Israel.
Hamas’s foreign chief, Osama Hamdan, said Hamas had obtained assurances about Israel’s policy towards Sheikh Jarrah and the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem.
Palestinian terrorist teams have connected hostilities in Gaza with prayer-related riots in Jerusalem on temple mount in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the imminent expulsion of several Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
“Resistance has a new equation and a new victory,” Hamdan said.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz denied Hamas’s claims about the guarantees on Jerusalem as “completely false. “
U. S. President Joe Biden issued a little before the ceasefire came into effect, saying he saw a “real opportunity” toward the broader purpose of building lasting peace in the Middle East.
Biden credited the Egyptian government for playing a role in negotiating the ceasefire and said he and key White House advisers were very concerned about an hour-by-hour effort to prevent bloodshed.
“I that Palestinians and Israelis also deserve to live protected and enjoy equivalent measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy,” Biden said. “My management will continue our silent and relentless international relations in this regard. “
Biden promised Israel to fill its Iron Dome interceptors.
He from the prime minister’s workplace said that defense officials had “reviewed with Israeli ministers the wonderful achievements of the campaign, some of which were unprecedented. “
Officials told ministers that Israel had “exhausted” all the army’s imaginable achievements in the confrontation with Palestinian terrorist teams in Gaza, according to the Ynet news website.
“Hamas is deterred and has suffered blows,” one official told ministers.
In a post-meeting statement, Gantz applauded the Israel Defense Forces, praising the army’s “unprecedented achievements in terms of strength, precision and strategic importance in combating terrorist teams in the Gaza Strip” during the battle, called Operation Guardian of the Walls.
Gantz said the army remained alert to further attacks from Gaza and, echoing the PMO’s statement, said that “the truth on the floor will be the continuation of the operation. “
Shortly after the meeting, rocket warning sirens sounded in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, indicating that Hamas plans to continue firing rockets at Israeli cities until the 2 a. m deadline.
Alarms were heard in the communities of Netiv Ha’asara, Erez and Yad Mordechai, but no warning was reported.
The ministerial panel met shortly after 7 p. m. in the context of dozens of rockets fired from Gaza on Thursday and the IDF’s continued movements in the coastal enclave.
Hamas and other terrorist teams in Gaza have fired about 3,700 rockets at Israel since 10 May, forcing others living near Gaza to take refuge against bombs 24 hours a day. Israel, in response, conducted a large-scale bombing crusade in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas-led ministry of fitness in Gaza said 232 people, adding up to more than 66 children, have been killed by Israeli movements in the past 10 days. According to the IDF, more than 120 of the dead were Hamas operatives and more than 25 were members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Monday night. The IDF also says that some of Gaza’s civilians were killed by rockets from failed terrorist equipment that exploded in Gaza.
Twelve other people in Israel, as well as a 5-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were killed in the rocket chimney and many were injured. Hamas and other terrorist teams in Gaza launched more than 4,000 rockets and other projectiles in Israel. .
The ministerial assembly came amid combined reports on the progress of ceasefire talks to end hostilities. According to Al-Jazeera, Israel had informed Egypt, which measured in the talks between the Jewish state and Hamas, that it was willing to end its military campaign.
Talks continued after Biden called for a “significant reduction” until the end of Wednesday, while Netanyahu promised to continue until the army crusade fulfilled its purpose: to “restore calm and security” for the Israelis.
The United States, Israel’s key best friend, has blocked the adoption of a joint UN Security Council statement calling for a cessation of hostilities, saying it could undermine efforts to reduce the crisis. Security Council solution calling for a quick ceasefire.
Shortly before the ceasefire was announced, the White House said the president had held talks the previous Thursday with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
He said the two leaders discussed “efforts to achieve a ceasefire that would end hostilities in Israel and Gaza. “
Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.
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