2023-05-13 21:43:57
Truce between Israel and Gaza after five days of war and 35 dead
After five days of war between the Israeli army and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, a truce began this Saturday evening.
The announcement of the ceasefire was greeted with joy in the streets of Gaza.
AFP
A truce came into effect on Saturday evening after a five-day war between the Israeli army and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza left 35 dead.
According to an Egyptian security official and a Palestinian source close to the discussions, Egypt, the traditional mediator between the belligerents, obtained the agreement of the parties on the principle of a ceasefire starting at 22:00 (19:00). GMT).
A few more rockets were fired in the quarter of an hour following the theoretical entry into force of the truce, followed by new Israeli strikes before an apparent return to calm and the population began to emerge by the hundreds in the streets of Gaza, deserted for several days. According to the Israeli army, two rockets were still fired from Gaza after 11:00 p.m., without causing any casualties.
“Calm” versus “calm”
“Israel’s response to the Egyptian initiative” means that “the response to calm will be calm, and if Israel is attacked or threatened, it will continue to do whatever it needs to do to defend itself,” it said. an official Israeli statement on behalf of Tsachi Hanegbi, national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, without confirming any agreement. Mohammad al-Hindi announced an agreement that included a commitment by Israel “to stop targeting fighters”. “Israel has made commitments it has never made before [et] the resistance has made progress on the ground,” he said without giving details.
For the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, Saturday passed to the rhythm of Israeli airstrikes, while in the Israeli areas bordering the fence encircling the thin littoral territory, the inhabitants were fixed on that of the sirens of alerts to the rockets, holed up in shelters. Shortly before the announcement of the truce, Israeli General Herzi Halevi, Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was pleased that Israel had “achieved important objectives throughout this campaign”.
In Gaza, a territory under Israeli blockade since the takeover of the Islamist movement Hamas in 2007, the Interior Ministry accused Israel of concentrating its strikes “on civilian targets and residential buildings”. According to the Israeli army, a Palestinian rocket fell in the afternoon on an Israeli agricultural area in Shokeda, less than ten kilometers from the Gaza Strip, injuring a Palestinian worker whose death was later announced to the hospital. The death brings to 34 the number of Palestinians killed in clashes between Israel and Gaza since Tuesday. On the Israeli side, an octogenarian was killed Thursday in Rehovot, in central Israel.
6 Islamic Jihad military commanders killed
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed the death of at least 13 Palestinian civilians, including seven minors. The Israeli army claims that four civilians, including three minors, were killed by Palestinian rockets that fell on the Gaza Strip. The military says it has hit 371 ‘terrorist targets’ since Tuesday and more than 1,230 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel, of which more than 370 were intercepted by the air defense system, which normally fires only when the rockets fire. threaten inhabited areas.
The Gaza Strip, a cramped territory plagued by poverty and unemployment where 2.3 million Palestinians live, has been the scene of several wars with Israel since 2008. In August 2022, three days of clashes between Israel and the Islamic Jihad had caused the death of 49 Palestinians, including at least 19 children according to the UN. More than a thousand rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, injuring three.
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