OREANDA-NEWS. Since Tuesday, 34 Palestinians have become victims of Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip, 111 more were injured. Such data are reported on Thursday by a news portal citing the enclave's Ministry of Health. Just last night, when a house was destroyed as a result of an airstrike in the area of ​​Deir Balah, eight Arabs, members of the same family, were killed. Among the dead, according to the Palestinian side, there are women and children.

Palestinian factions and the Israeli army exchanged blows for two days after the influential Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife were killed in a bombardment at dawn on November 12. In two days, over 400 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza through the territory of the Jewish state, and the Israeli military hit dozens of targets, primarily those belonging to radicals.

Last night, thanks to Egypt's mediation efforts, a ceasefire was reached. The ceasefire in Gaza took effect on Thursday at 05:30 local time, which, according to the agency Man, was confirmed by the official representative of the Islamic Jihad, Musab al-Buraim. Meanwhile, after the deal on Israel was reached, one rocket was fired, and air raid sirens were triggered three times on the territory of the Jewish state.