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<h1 class="reader-title">Gaza stops fire as Israel agrees to
Islamic Jihad demands: Islamic Jihad</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">November 14, 2019<br>
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<p>Gaza/PNN/</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>There has been no confirmation so far from the Israeli
side.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, shortly after the ceasefire, rocket
warning sirens were reportedly sounded south of the
occupied lands.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>“If Israel does not accept them, we are going to
continue to fight for an open period of time,” he
warned.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>A similar strike also hit the home of another Islamic
Jihad commander in Syria on Tuesday, but missed the
target.</p>
<p>Israel continued its deadly air raids on the besieged
coastal sliver, killing 30 other Palestinians and
injuring 97 others over the past two days.</p>
<p>Ata’s assassination sparked Palestinian retaliatory
attacks into the occupied territories.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In a tweet on Wednesday, Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu
Hamza said Israel is hiding the true extent of
destruction caused by retaliatory rocket attacks.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
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