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The Israeli army opened fire on a Hamas military post in the Gaza Strip after a group of Palestinians broke through the border fence in Israel. This was announced by the Israeli army on Saturday. The group returned to the Gaza Strip a little later. It is only the night that Hamas announced a cease-fire under the mediation of Egypt and the United Nations
12:22, 21 July 2018
On Saturday morning, an Israeli army spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said that there had been no further attacks on the Israeli side of the coastal strip during the night. The ceasefire agreed with "the occupiers" was reported by Hamas spokesman Barhoum via Twitter on Saturday night.
The Israeli state, its authorities and the military qualify as "occupying" the radical Islamic Palestinian organization. A similar fight had been declared after Hamas's escalation a week ago, but it had not survived.
The conflict has worsened dangerously on Friday. Palestinian militants have fatally wounded an Israeli combat soldier on the border. An army spokesman told reporters that killing the army was something the army can not tolerate ". It was the first time since the last Gaza war in 2014 that an Israeli soldier died in a military operation in or around Gaza.
According to media reports, militant Palestinians fired several rockets and mortar shells again on Israeli territory. Eyewitnesses also reported that burning dragons had pbaded over the border fence as a source of fire. The inhabitants of the Gaza Strip were called to be near the shelters
Israeli jet fighters and tanks fired at targets all over the coast. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the south, the Gaza Ministry of Health said. According to the Hamas military wing, three of those killed were members of the organization.
The UN special envoy to the Middle East, Nickolaj Mladenov, who worked intensively with Egypt to calm the situation, wrote: Gaza must withdraw from the Gaza Strip. abyss, not next week, not tomorrow, now! "Those who" want to provoke Palestinians and Israelis to wage another war must not succeed, "writes Mladenov.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered an emergency meeting in Tel Aviv with military leaders Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had already stated that Hamas was pushing Israel with all its might to a "wide and painful military offensive."
In the summer of 2014, Israel and Hamas fought for 50 days, 2,250 Palestinians were killed or later died of their wounds, on the Israeli side there were 74. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 147 Palestinians were killed by soldiers Israelis and Thousands Wounded in Violent Demonstrations.
Palestinians call for an end to the Gaza blockade imposed more than a decade ago and a return to Israeli territory. reference to the flight and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people following the Israeli founding of the state in 1948. The recent escalation of violence has raised concerns about a new war between Israel and Hamas.
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