After Firing 700
Rockets Into Israel, Gaza Declares Ceasefire
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 6, 2019 , 11:33 am
“When Hashem is
pleased with a man’s conduct, He may turn even his enemies into allies.”
Proverbs 16:7 (The Israel Bible™)
Friends and relatives attend the funeral of 58-year-old
Moshe Agadi, who was killed from shrapnel wounds after his house was hit
directly by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on
May 5, 2019. Photo by Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90
Approximately 700 rockets were fired into Israel from
Gaza by Palestinian Islamic Jihad backed by Iran and Hamas since the attack
began Saturday morning. Channel 12 reported that 173 were intercepted by
the Iron Dome missile protection system. Four Israelis were killed by rockets
and at least ten others were treated for shrapnel wounds. Dozens more were
treated for shell-shock.
29 Gazans were killed in IDF strikes, many of them
declared as terrorists by Gazan sources.
Israel responded by hitting approximately 320 military
targets in Gaza. The two crossings connecting Israel and Gaza were closed in
the wake of the attacks and the IDF shut down fishing rights off the coast of
Gaza. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT)
announced that all fuel imports to Gaza would be stopped effective immediately.
Around midnight, the terrorist groups released a
statement emphasizing that the rocket attacks would continue until the Israeli
government gave in to all their demands.
The battle will not end until the occupation responds
affirmatively to our people’s demands,” the Joint Command Center of Armed
Palestinian factions in Gaza said in a statement in the early hours of Monday.
“We will not allow the settlers [Israelis] to leave their shelters as long as
the enemy’s leadership denies its understandings with the resistance.”
One of the demands is that Israel allow the transfer of
$30 million from Qatar to Gaza for the Ramadan period which began on Sunday.
Qatar has been accused of allowing terror financiers to operate
within its borders and a state sponsor of Hamas which is classified as a
terrorist group by the U.S. State Department since 2010.
Gazan officials declared a ceasefire that supposedly took
effect at 4;30 am local time. The Israeli government refused to confirm
the reported truce but the IDF declared all security restrictions that had been
enacted in southern Israel since the attack began would be lifted beginning at
7 am on Monday. Israeli schools opened for the first time this week in some
areas in the south though schools in other regions closer to the border remain
closed. It is unclear whether the restrictions placed on Gaza will remain in
place.
An Egyptian official also confirmed the deal to AFP
on condition of anonymity.
No rockets have been reported as of 2:00 am on Monday.
Abu Mujahed, the spokesman for the Palestinian Resistance
Committees, a coalition of various terrorist groups in Gaza, confirmed that the
ceasefire went into effect. “The ceasefire agreement was reached on condition
that the occupation implements the previous understandings to lift the blockade
on the Gaza Strip,” he said in a statement.
Likud MK Gideon Saar slammed the Israeli acceptance of a
Hamas-declared ceasefire.
“The ceasefire, in the circumstances it was reached
under, has no gains for Israel,” said Saar. “The time between each round of
violent attacks against Israel and its citizens is shrinking, and terror
organizations in Gaza are strengthening. The fighting hasn’t been ended, just
pushed off.”
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