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The result of a rocket strike on Bet Lahiya on May 13, 2023.
(CNN) — Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have agreed to a ceasefire, Egyptian diplomats in Gaza said on Saturday, after days of violence that killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza and at least two people in Israel – an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from Gaza working in Israel.
The ceasefire is set to take effect at 10 pm local time (3 pm ET), the Egyptian commission on Gaza said.
There is a “good chance” of a ceasefire with Islamic Jihad, an Israeli official told CNN. The official asked not to be named discussing the diplomatic negotiations.
Sirens sounded repeatedly in Israeli areas near the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, and the Israel Defense Forces launched more airstrikes on targets in Gaza, minutes before the ceasefire was due to take effect.
Rockets continued to be fired from Gaza minutes after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect, a CNN producer in Gaza heard. The Israel Defense Forces continued to report sirens warning of incoming fire in Israeli areas near Gaza. At least several rockets were intercepted by Israeli air defenses, live images showed.
The word of agreement was about to end a day of fierce fighting.
A rocket fired from Gaza killed a Palestinian working in Israel and seriously injured another, Israeli medical authorities said Saturday, as cross-border firestorms show little sign of abating. .
The two men were working in the Negev desert in southern Israel and were hit by shrapnel.
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht tweeted Saturday that the two men are brothers.
The Palestinian man who died was the second fatality in Israel due to rocket fire from Gaza since fighting broke out on Tuesday morning.
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The violence killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza and at least two people in Israel — an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from Gaza who were working in Israel.
The incident came as the Israeli military struck targets in Gaza on Saturday as Palestinian militants fired more rockets.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had launched a series of attacks on sites it said belonged to Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
Israel accuses the group of planning the attacks and since the flare-up began on Tuesday six of its commanders have been killed. Islamic Jihad is the second largest armed group in Gaza after Hamas.
More than 1,000 rockets have been launched so far at Israel, the IDF said, hitting more than 250 targets in Gaza as part of the “Shield and Arrow” campaign, now in its fifth day.
Videos from Gaza showed that airstrikes appeared to hit at least two civilian homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, but no injuries were reported.
When asked about the latest strikes by CNN, the IDF said that in the last 24 hours, they struck operational residences used as headquarters and command and control centers by Jihad terrorists.
In its statement, the military said that IDF fighter jets and aircraft hit launch sites for mortar shells and rockets that “Islamic Jihad has used to fire projectiles toward Israel in recent days. ”
Sirens sounded in Israeli areas near the region on Saturday, as Palestinian Islamic Jihad continued to fire rockets.
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CNN video shows smoke rising in Gaza on May 13.
Clashes also took place on Saturday morning in the occupied West Bank and at least two Palestinian men were killed, Palestinian officials said.
Sa’ed Jihad Shaker Mashah, 32, and Adnan Waseem Yousef Al-Araj, 19, were shot in the head with live bullets, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. At least three other people were injured, the ministry said.
The clash took place in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet security agency said that IDF and Israel Border Police forces raided “a hideout of terrorist operatives” in the camp.
On Friday, at the start of an operation the al Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad called “Revenge of the Free,” Palestinian militants launched rockets toward Jerusalem for the first time, as well as Tel Aviv and Israeli settlements in the occupied that West Bank.
