April 24, 2024

Athens News

News in English from Greece

Ceasefire between Israel and Gaza entered into force today at 02:00

The bloodshed stopped tonight, from 02:00 a ceasefire began to operate between the participants in the aggravated conflict – Israel and the Gaza Strip.

In honor of the end of hostilities, fireworks erupted in the skies of the Gaza Strip – people celebrate the “victory of the resistance” on the streets of Ramallah, TASS reports. Egypt’s proposed ceasefire initiative with Palestine was unanimously approved by the Israeli Cabinet in a vote, the government’s press service officially announced.

In the course of the current escalation of the conflict between the two countries, 220 residents of the Gaza Strip and 10 Israelis have been killed. Escalating decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict began at a mosque in Jerusalem and quickly passed into a hot phase – with mutual shelling, violent pogroms and chaos. Arabs and Jews walked wall to wall, the crowds threw stones at each other. Meanwhile, children were dying on both sides.

On May 10, Hamas and Islamic Jihad began a massive shelling of Israel – over three thousand were fired across the country. missiles… In response, the Israeli army called in five thousand reservists and inflicted airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip.





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