Israel has accepted a truce in Gaza
.
This was stated by an Egyptian security source.
"The Israeli side agreed," the source said, adding that Cairo was awaiting the Palestinian response as part of Egypt's mediation efforts three days into the new conflict in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, an Islamic Jihad source says that talks are underway for the truce.
Operation 'Breaking Dawn' "will continue for as long as necessary," Prime Minister
Yair Lapid
said in the morning .
"We are acting in a targeted and responsible way - he added after thanking the army for his work - to minimize the damage for those who are not involved".
In the early afternoon the anti-missile alarm sirens sounded, for the first time since the start of the conflict, in
Beersheva
at the beginning of the Negev.
As soon as the funeral in Gaza of Khaled Mansour - the high official of the Jihad killed last night by Israel - ended a large volley of missiles from the Strip towards the south of the Jewish state.
Alarm sirens also sounded in Rishon leZion, not far from Tel Aviv.
According to TV both in Beersheva and in Rishon, the missiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome.
The inhabitants of some Jewish areas around the Strip have been ordered to enter the shelters.
The Farnesina is following with great concern the escalation in Gaza
and the reports of victims among the Palestinian population.
Italy strongly condemns the launching of rockets into Israeli territory and reaffirms Israel's right to guarantee the safety of its citizens.
The parties are urged to exercise restraint to avoid an expansion of hostilities which would cause further casualties and suffering to civilians.
This new wave of violence - it is emphasized - is yet another confirmation of the need to relaunch diplomatic efforts to reach a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
At the start of the third day of fighting, the updated toll released by the Gaza Ministry of Health is 29 dead and more than 250 wounded.
This was reported by the Palestinian news agency Maan.
This toll was made known with the completion of rescue operations in a building in Rafah (in the southern Strip) destroyed in the fighting.
In that building, Maan points out, the bodies of eight people, including three women, were recovered.
Previously, the ministry had announced that the death toll had risen to 32 and that 215 were injured.
Gaza City, an Israeli missile hits the buildings
Since the start of the 'Breaking Dawn' operation in Gaza, Islamic Jihad has fired 580 rockets at Israel.
120 of them fell within the Strip.
This was stated by the Israeli military radio.
According to the broadcaster, the Iron Dome defense batteries intercepted 96% of the rockets directed towards inhabited locations in Israel.
Still other rockets have fallen in open areas, or into the sea.
Israel has so far attacked 140 targets in the Gaza Strip.
Among these, a military tunnel of Islamic Jihad.
He also killed two military commanders of that organization: Tayassir al-Jabari, commander of the northern zone of the Strip, and Khaled Mansour, commander of the southern zone.
Twenty members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group were arrested overnight
by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army announced on the third day of a military operation on the Gaza Strip.
During several raids, "about 20 suspects belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization were arrested" across the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by the Jewish state since 1967, the army said in a press release.
Alarm sirens rang out this morning on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
According to Israeli public television Kan, the Iron Dome defense systems intercepted two rockets fired from Gaza.
There is no news of victims.
The incident occurred while groups of religious Jews were entering the Temple Mount for the Jews on the Jewish Solemnity of the Nine of the month of Av.
The Israeli army continued to strike Gaza overnight in response to rocket fire, as tensions are feared in Jerusalem over the celebrations for Tisha B'Av, a Jewish holiday.
The Times of Israel reports it, stating that the places of the rites are manned by massive police forces.
Numerous pilgrims are already waiting to be able to access the Esplanade of the Mosques, where access to men under a certain age has been forbidden.
The Palestinian Jihad has meanwhile confirmed, as the 'Breaking Dawn' operation enters its third day, the death of the high commander Khaled Mansour, which is added to that of Tayseer Jabari, which took place two days ago during the Israeli raids.
According to the same source, the commander of the
missile unit of the Al-Quds Brigades, Raafat al-Zamili, 'martyred' in the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian media - the Times of Israel website also reports - then reported 7 injured in the Israeli attacks near Rafah, where a residential building was hit.
The Israeli army, in an English-language tweet, claims to have targeted alleged terrorist tunnels used by Islamic Jihad.
The death toll of Palestinians who died last Friday due to Israeli attacks in the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Islamic Jihad has increased to 32, including six children: the Ministry of Health in the Palestinian enclave announced today, adding that the wounded are 215.
ANSA agency
Big Brother contestants in Jerusalem in the rocket bunker from Gaza - Politics
Rockets launched this morning by Islamic Jihad from Gaza to the Jerusalem metropolitan area also forced local 'Big Brother' competitors to run into the shelter.
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