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Israel has withdrawn its ground forces out of the Gaza Strip and began a 72-hour truce with Hamas mediated by Egypt.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said military action would continue even after the army completes destroying cross-border tunnels.
As many people around the world celebrated the end of Ramadan, in Gaza Strip – battered by weeks of fighting – the holiday was marked by tears.
A 12-hour truce is in effect after Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza agreed to a UN request amid efforts to secure a long-term ceasefire.
Israeli forces say they were met with heavy resistance from Hamas when they pounded multiple sites across the Gaza Strip.
Mass casualties have been reported in the Shejaia district in north-east Gaza after an Israeli air strike.
Israel has resumed air strikes on Gaza following Hamas’s rejection of an Egyptian-proposed Gaza ceasefire.
The clashes broke during a ground operation on Gaza’s coast by Israeli commandos- the first ground assault since the offensive against Hamas began.
Egypt’s campaign to shut down smuggling tunnels running under its border into the Gaza Strip threatens to throw thousands of Palestinians out of work.
The UN chief has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the US Secretary of State has headed to the region with a peace message.
There are theories among Israelis and Palestinians about what has propelled the two sides towards their second war in four years.
The Hamas government has barred much of Gaza’s fruit imports from Israel, citing a need to cultivate local Palestinian agriculture.
Previous ceasefire deals after earlier rounds of fighting have often got off to a slow start with guns falling silent within a day or two.
Israeli Gilad Shalit has been freed after years as a Hamas prisoner, as hundreds of Palestinians exchanged for him received a hero’s welcome in Gaza.
Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday.
Militant groups in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday they had joined forces to step up attacks against Israel, possibly including suicide bombings.
Israel carried out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in Ashkelon.
Israeli troops and tanks left the Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said, ending an incursion into the Hamas-ruled enclave.
Human rights groups and critics say some in the Islamist Hamas group, which rules Gaza, are exerting pressure to impose Islamic law on the public.
The audience in the Gaza Strip cheered as the actor delivered the movie’s most memorable line. ”To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship Gog.”
