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Israelis, Palestinians enter 72-hour Gaza truce

Gaza - Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian guerrillas entered a 72-hour truce on Tuesday mediated by Egypt with a view to encouraging negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old Gaza war.

Minutes before the ceasefire took hold at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT), Hamas launched a salvo of long-range rockets, calling them revenge for Israel's "massacres". Sirens went off as far north as Jerusalem's outlying areas. There was no word of casualties.

 

Israeli ground forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip ahead of the truce, with a military spokesman saying their main goal of destroying cross-border infiltration tunnels had been completed.

 


פרסום ראשון: 08.05.14, 09:27