Palestinian girl looks at the rubble of a destroyed house following overnight Israeli missile strikes.
During the day on Thursday, normal life had resumed quietly in Israeli regions near the Gaza border, while in Gaza, citizens had also embraced the return of a relative calm.The ceasefire brokered by Egyptian and UN officials, the usual mediators between Gaza and Israel, was agreed as the flare-up raised fears of a new all-out conflict in the territory.
Israel’s military had said some 450 rockets had been fired at its territory since Tuesday morning and air defences had intercepted dozens of them in fireballs high in the sky. Israel’s military said the man targeted and killed in that strike was an Islamic Jihad rocket unit commander.
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