palestinians took to the streets in gaza city this evening, as a ceasefire between israel and the militant islamichhad went into effect. crowds celebrated in the streets accompanied by emergency services and civil defence vehicles with sirens blaring and lights flashing. the truce came into effect just over two hours ago, signalling an end to the worst episode of cross border fire in the last few years. these are recent pictures from gaza. we are hoping to bring you some live pictures. this is actually the live shot across gaza city. the agreement brokered by egypt follows five days of violent exchanges which have killed at least 35 people all but one of them palestinians. there has been no comment from the israeli prime minister or other officials since news of the truce emerged. a palestinian source told the bbc that the new agreement included a commitment by israel to stop so called targeted assassinations. israel has been demanding a complete halt to rocket fire by
in the last hour, a ceasefire between israel and palestinians in the gaza strip has begun. these are live pictures from gaza. the agreement brokered by egypt follows five days of violent exchanges which have killed at least 35 people all but one of them palestinians. there has been no comment from the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, or other officials since news of the truce emerged. a palestinian source told the bbc that the new agreement included a commitment by israel to stop so called targeted assassinations. israel has been demanding a complete halt to rocket fire by islamichhad at its civilians. our reporter in gaza, rushdi abualouf, has the latest on the ceasefire. ten minutes before the ceasefire went into effect, islamichhad fired a barrage of rockets towards the israeli southern city. and some of the rockets were quite close to the southern city of tel aviv. the ceasefire agreement has gone into effect ten minutes ago, brokered by egypt. according
least were fired from gaza and israel, according to the israeli army they have targeted up to 400 targets for islamichhad. within five days of fighting. egypt will announce officially the details of that deal, according to the senior official of islamichhad. he said that they managed to get a guarantee by israel to stop the so called killing, the targeting, which israel started this wave of escalation by killing three islamichhad leaders. what islamichhad want is a guarantee by israel not to keep killing their leaders, and also they want israel to stop targeting the houses of the islamic jihad activists.
the so called killing, the targeting, which israel started this wave of escalation by killing three islamichhad leaders. what islamichhad want is a guarantee by israel not to keep killing their leaders, and also they want israel to stop targeting the houses of the islamichhad activists. which we have seen intensified in the last two days or so. they have completely destroyed four or five houses. rushdi, i wonder if you could just remind us why is this spate of violence kicked off? we ve had five days of it. what kicked it off? well, as they have traded rockets, both sides traded accusations about who started this. but what has happened is last thursday at two o clock in the morning, israel killed three senior islamichhad commanders.