JERUSALEM: Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza have announced that they have agreed to a cease-fire with Israel.
The groups say Egyptian mediation efforts have succeeded in brokering a ceasefire ending an intense daylong round of cross border violence. However, it is unclear whether it will hold as warning sirens were heard in southern Israel early Sunday indicating incoming rocket fire once again.
Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets at Israel Saturday as Israel pummeled Gaza with its most powerful airstrikes since the 2014 war.
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed in an airstrike in Gaza City, while three Israelis were wounded from a rocket that landed on a residential home.
Israeli medical officials say three Israelis have been wounded by shrapnel from a rocket that landed on a house in southern Israel.
The Magen David Adom medical service says a rocket landed on a home in Sderot Saturday evening. It says paramedics are treating three people in light to moderate condition, among them a 52-year-old man with a chest wound, 17-year-old girl with a face wound and a 20-year-old woman with injuries to her limbs.
It marks the first injuries on the Israeli side in the latest flare-up in violence between Israel and Hamas militants.
The Israeli military carried out its largest daytime airstrike campaign in Gaza since the 2014 war Saturday as Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
The Health ministry in Gaza says two teenagers have been killed and ten others injured in an airstrike in Gaza City.
Witnesses say Israeli warplanes dropped four bombs Saturday afternoon on an unfinished building near a Hamas police and security compound, reducing the old structure to rubble. The four-story building is adjacent to a public park.
It marks the first casualties in the dramatic flare-up in violence between Israel and Hamas militants.
Striking in the heart of Gaza City is typically only seen during full-blown conflicts like the war of 2014 and could mark a sign that violence is escalating.
The Israeli military carried out its largest daytime airstrike campaign in Gaza since the 2014 war on Saturday as Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
