[News] Gaza stops fire as Israel agrees to Islamic Jihad demands: Islamic Jihad

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  Gaza stops fire as Israel agrees to Islamic Jihad demands: Islamic Jihad

November 14, 2019
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The Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement says it is holding 
fire after the regime in Israel accepted its key demands, including 
stopping targeted killings, as part of an Egypt-mediated truce aimed at 
ending the military confrontation between the two sides.

Speaking on Thursday morning, the Islamic Jihad’s spokesman, Musab 
al-Braim, confirmed earlier reports of the truce, saying the ceasefire 
came into force at 5:30 a.m. local time (3:30 GMT), Reuters reported.

Braim said Tel Aviv had agreed to both end its targeted killings of 
Palestinian resistance fighters and lethal gunfire at weekly Palestinian 
demonstrations against occupation near the fence separating the Gaza 
Strip from the Israeli-occupied territories.

“The ceasefire began under Egyptian sponsorship after the Occupation 
(Israel) submitted to the conditions set by Islamic Jihad on behalf of 
Palestinian resistance factions,” Braim told Reuters.

Earlier, Egyptian sources said the “ceasefire agreement comes as a 
result of Egypt’s efforts” and has been endorsed by “Palestinian 
factions including Islamic Jihad.”

The Tel Aviv regime had agreed to the Islamic Jihad’s key demands in 
exchange for the resistance group to stop firing rockets into the 
occupied territories and ensure Gaza rallies are peaceful.

There has been no confirmation so far from the Israeli side.

Nonetheless, shortly after the ceasefire, rocket warning sirens were 
reportedly sounded south of the occupied lands.

On Wednesday night, Ziad al-Nakhala, the Islamic Jihad secretary 
general, said the resistance group had laid out a list of demands for 
the ceasefire with Israel to Egyptian moderators.

“We gave specific conditions for a ceasefire,” he told the 
Beirut-headquartered Al Mayadeen TV channel. “If Israel accepts them, we 
will accept a ceasefire.”

“If Israel does not accept them, we are going to continue to fight for 
an open period of time,” he warned.

The Islamic Jihad’s “simple and humble” demands include an end to 
assassinations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Israeli troops not 
firing at innocent civilians during Gaza protests, and Tel Aviv abiding 
by the understandings regarding Gaza reached in Cairo during previous 
ceasefire negotiations, Nakhala explained.

he escalation erupted early on Tuesday, when Israel assassinated senior 
Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata, along with his wife, in a 
targeted strike on their home in Gaza.

A similar strike also hit the home of another Islamic Jihad commander in 
Syria on Tuesday, but missed the target.

Israel continued its deadly air raids on the besieged coastal sliver, 
killing 30 other Palestinians and injuring 97 others over the past two days.

Ata’s assassination sparked Palestinian retaliatory attacks into the 
occupied territories.

A total of 300 rockets are estimated to have been launched from Gaza, 
reaching as far as Tel Aviv and shutting schools in the occupied 
territories’ central and southern areas.

In a tweet on Wednesday, Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Hamza said Israel 
is hiding the true extent of destruction caused by retaliatory rocket 
attacks.

“We challenge the Zionist military censorship to reveal pictures and 
videos showing the extent of the destruction of factories, headquarters 
and settler houses in the occupied cities,” he wrote.

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