In detail, the Israeli army announced Wednesday morning the return to normal on the home front, after the entry into force of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian factions of the Strip. Gaza, after an exchange of bombardments which lasted for hours.
The Israeli Air Force had announced raids on the Gaza Strip, while several explosions were heard in the Strip, in response to missile fire from Gaza towards Sderot and Israeli settlements.
One of the rockets fell earlier in the settlement of Sderot, seriously injuring an Israeli citizen.
Two Palestinian sources told Reuters early on Wednesday that an agreement had been reached between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on a ceasefire, after the two sides exchanged gunfire. missiles following the death of a prominent starving Palestinian detainee. strike in Israeli prisons.
Two Palestinian factional sources told Reuters that a “mutual and simultaneous” ceasefire came into effect at 3:30 a.m. local time.
A cautious calm reigns along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, after hours marked by an exchange of shelling.
israeli bombings
After midnight, the Israeli military released a statement saying its planes had attacked Hamas sites, in response to barrages of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the statement said.
The Israeli army held Hamas responsible for what is happening in the Gaza Strip, stressing that it “will pay the price for security violations against Israel”.
70 rockets from Gaza
Earlier, Israeli Army Radio said that for the first time since August 2022, rockets were fired outside the Gaza envelope, hitting areas about 20 kilometers from Gaza.
Israeli media said the total number of rockets fired by Palestinian factions has reached 70 so far.
The death of Khader Adnan
The missile strikes from Gaza followed the death of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, a leader of the Jihad movement, on Tuesday at dawn after an 87-day hunger strike.
This is the first death of a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike in over 3 decades.
The Israeli Prison Service said Khader Adnan, who was awaiting trial, “was found Tuesday morning in his cell, unconscious.”
She added that he was later transferred to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead after attempting to resuscitate him.
Adnan’s death sparked a wave of anger and protests in the occupied Palestinian territories, which saw a general strike and clashes in separate areas with the Israeli army, before leading to an escalation between Tel Aviv and Gaza factions.
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