Hamas, Israel agree on truce in Gaza

Hamas, Israel agree on truce in Gaza

GAZA, Aug. 9, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Aug. 9, 2018 shows the rubble of a building following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. The Israeli war jets launched 12 successive airstrikes on a building in west Gaza in response to rockets firing from Gaza into Israel, eyewitnesses and security sources said. Sources in western Gaza city said at least 18 civilians were injured in the new round of airstrikes carried out by Israel Thursday afternoon. (Xinhua/IANS)

Gaza, Aug 10 (IANS) The Islamic Hamas movement said that a truce with Israel on halting escalation in the Gaza Strip began from Thursday midnight.

The agreement, brokered by Egypt and UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, will end another round of military confrontation between Israel and Hamas, a source from Hamas told Xinhua news agency. "A calm-for-calm deal has been brokered by Egypt and by the UN Special envoy on condition that the Israeli occupation should respect the agreement," the Hamas source said on condition of anonymity. "The Palestinian resistance has the right to respond to any Israeli violation," the source added. Meanwhile, a source from the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of armed Palestinian groups in Gaza, said the agreement came into effect at midnight. Israeli war jets have struck more than 150 sites in Gaza since Wednesday overnight, killing a pregnant woman, her baby and a Hamas fighter, while Gaza militants launched more than 100 rockets toward southern Israel, injuring over 20 Israelis. --IANS pgh/

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