On Saturday evening, the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip entered into force, after 5 days of military escalation.
After a few minutes of calm in Gaza, with the ceasefire entering into force at 22:00 (19:00 GMT), a burst of rockets was launched in the airspace of the Strip towards Israel, according to Anadolu Agency.
Prior to that, the Israeli occupation warplanes launched attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip, which were met by rocket fire from the Palestinian factions towards Israeli cities and towns.
Earlier on Saturday, an informed Palestinian source told Anadolu Agency, preferring not to be named, that "Egypt presented a new formula for a ceasefire to end the Israeli escalation in Gaza, and it was approved by Israel, the Islamic Jihad movement and the Palestinian factions."
Anadolu Agency obtained a cease-fire agreement document between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, with Egyptian mediation and follow-up, as of "ten o'clock in the evening (local time) on May 13, 2023."
The document stated that "the ceasefire agreement, which includes stopping the targeting of civilians and the demolition of homes, as well as targeting individuals, will be adhered to immediately after the implementation of the ceasefire begins."
She added, "Egypt urges the two parties to implement the agreement and is working to follow up on that by communicating with them."
Since dawn on Tuesday, the occupation planes have carried out attacks on Gaza, killing 33 Palestinians, including 6 children and 3 women, and 6 leaders of the "Quds Brigades", the military wing of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, in addition to injuring 147 others with various injuries, while the Palestinian factions began to respond with rocket fire. I reached Tel Aviv and several cities in the center of the country.
Yedioth Ahronoth, After the cease-fire with the Gaza factions Ben Gvir calls for the implementation of a military operation in the West Bank
The extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, demanded the implementation of a military operation against the Palestinian factions in the West Bank, after declaring a cease-fire with the resistance in the Gaza Strip.
This came during a meeting held by Ben Gvir with members of his party (Jewish Power) about the cease-fire agreement with the Gaza Strip factions.
"I influenced the operation (the attack on Gaza), the next request for the assassinations in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)," he said.
He continued, "What happened in the operation is good and important, but we cannot enter into a period of containment and calm. The next operation must be in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)... Quite a few terrorists come out from there, and therefore, the next requirement is killing." The target is there too.
Ben Gvir stressed, "If Likud spokesmen think I will come with a tail between my legs, the situation is the opposite. I came with the feeling that I influenced the process... We will not dismantle the right-wing government, but we will not sit in a government that follows a non-right-wing line."
Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued the death toll rose to 34 amid the failure of the armistice efforts
The renewed Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip despite the Egyptian mediation efforts, which initially failed to reach a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian factions to end this new escalation, which resulted in the killing of 34 Palestinians.
The Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued, as did the firing of rockets by the Palestinian factions, despite the mediation efforts to end this new escalation, which since Tuesday resulted in the death of 34 Palestinians, including a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement who was assassinated by Israeli planes on Friday.
A senior military commander in the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential apartment in western Gaza City, according to what the Brigades said in a press statement.
And the Al-Quds Brigades said in a press statement that it "mourns its martyr, Commander Iyad Al-Abd Al-Hassani, a member of the Military Council and the official of the operations unit in the Al-Quds Brigades, who rose in a cowardly Zionist assassination on Friday evening in Gaza."
The latest toll issued by the Ministry of Health in the Strip shows that 34 Palestinians have been killed since Tuesday.
The ministry said in a brief statement that "among the martyrs were 6 children and 3 women, while 147 citizens were wounded."
Among the martyrs were six leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement and fighters from the movement itself and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Constant fight
On the other hand, the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip said on Friday evening that their fight against Israel continues and that they will continue their commitment to "the blood of the martyrs, whatever the cost."
This came in a statement issued by the "Joint Room", which includes the military wings of the factions, most notably the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements, in which it mourned the leader of the military wing of the Jihad movement, Iyad al-Hassani.
In its statement, it said, "The martyrdom of the leaders is proof that they are at the heart of the battle and the field, and at the forefront of the confrontation in the face of the brutal aggression."
Cease-fire efforts
Meanwhile, regional and international parties are making efforts to stop the Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip, but they have not yet achieved a breakthrough towards calm.
Egypt, the traditional mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, is working to reach a cease-fire, while international calls are increasing for an end to the most dangerous escalation since August 2022 between the two sides.
And at midnight Friday-Saturday, the Israeli Army Radio reported that the Egyptian efforts initially failed to reach a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian factions in Gaza.
Army Radio said on its official Twitter account: "Egyptian efforts have failed at the present time. The two sides failed to agree on a ceasefire tonight."
On Friday evening, a Palestinian source familiar with the truce talks, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed in a statement to Agence France-Presse that "Egypt presented a new formula for a ceasefire that the Palestinian side will study, and Egypt is also waiting for the occupation's response."
In this regard, the Army Radio reported earlier that the draft "did not include an Israeli commitment to stop assassinations in Gaza."
Since dawn on Tuesday, Israeli planes have been carrying out attacks on Gaza, while the Palestinian factions began, on Wednesday, to respond with missile barrages that reached Tel Aviv and cities in the center of the country.
Türkiye announces the neutralization of a senior official of the PKK/YPG terrorist organization in Al-Hol Province northern Syria
Turkish intelligence managed to neutralize Haydar Demirel, who is called the general official of the Al-Hol Province of the PKK/YPG terrorist organization in northern Syria. She added that the intelligence had been monitoring Haider Demirel since he held the position called the official of al-Hasakah Province in 2020.
Security sources told Anadolu Agency that Demirel, nicknamed "Bagger Turk", was located in the Tel Hamis area.
She added that the intelligence had been monitoring Demirel since he held the position called “Al-Hasakah State Official” in 2020, and that it had managed to neutralize him while he was training members of the organization.
Demirel joined the terrorist organization in 1993, where he underwent training at the hands of the organization's leader, Abdullah Ocalan Ami (93-94), and then participated in numerous terrorist operations.
Demirel became the so-called official of the Qandil region in northern Iraq in 2000, and moved to the Zab region in 2013, before heading to Syria in 2014.
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