Crossfire resumed after end of truce in Gaza

Shortly after the expiry, at three pm local time, the five-hour humanitarian truce, Palestinian militias have resumed rocket fire, according to the Israeli press. Israel, meanwhile, has responded by launching a missile in Beit Lahiya, an open area north of the Strip. Nothing or no fatalities.

Israeli delegates in Cairo to negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza with Egyptian mediation have accepted the proposal of this country. An initiative that the Israeli Cabinet has not yet approved, as explained by an Israeli source told Reuters. The same source had said shortly before the agency that the initiative did have the approval of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sources of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have assured the Israeli daily Haaretz that there has been progress in negotiations but no ceasefire agreement. Including conditions are unknown at this Egyptian ceasefire proposal. When Israel announced this week that he accepted another diplomatic initiative (also with Egypt as mediator in order to target attacks) that ultimately failed, the Islamist movement said it had not been informed in advance.

The residents of the Gaza Strip this morning have taken to the streets to buy and make various efforts to begin humanitarian truce sought by the UN and accepted by the Israeli authorities and Hamas. Contestants had agreed to suspend hostilities between 10 am and three pm local time. But after truce period, three mortar fired from the Palestinian Gaza landed in Israeli territory, causing no casualties or damage. No militia has claimed the attack, according to Reuters.

The Government of Israel agreed during Wednesday night to stop the bombing of Gaza, which began on the 8th for five hours to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people trapped by violence. The Israeli gesture, which he joined Hamas has occurred at the request of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Robert Serry.

Israel announced that the truce was added a few hours after an attack of army killed four children playing on a beach in the Palestinian Gaza. Three other kids were wounded in a bombing on a pier by the beach in Gaza who had undergone previous airstrikes last week.

After bombing a container in said spring, near the beach – Al Deira hotel frequented by the international press, the Israeli army shot against a group of children who ran away from the beach of the first explosion. Mohammed Baker died, aged nine, with Zakareya Ahed and Baker, both ten, and his cousin Mohammed Baker, 11.

Palestinians killed since Israel launched the military offensive now total 224, according to Gaza medical sources quoted by Reuters. At least 39 of the fatalities are children. On Tuesday, Israeli  citizen died by Palestinian fire since Israel began the massive bombing of Gaza.

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