{"id":3718,"date":"2022-08-08T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:08:55","slug":"gaza-crossing-opens-as-truce-holds-between-israel-islamic-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/08\/08\/news\/3718\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza crossing opens as truce holds between Israel, Islamic Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The entry of trucks loaded with fuel to southern Gaza ends a severe shortage which had prompted the only power station there to shut down Saturday. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories. Broadcasting News Corporation : Gaza\u2019s sole power plant also restarted Monday after fuel trucks passed from Israel into the Palestinian enclave following the start of truce ending three days of deadly conflict, the electricity company said. \u201cThe plant has started working to generate electricity,\u201d Mohammed Thabet, spokesman for the company, told AFP. The plant had shut on Saturday after running out of fuel following Israel’s closure of the goods crossing. An AFP journalist at the goods crossing to southern Gaza saw trucks loaded with fuel enter the enclave, ending a severe shortage which had prompted the only power station there to shut down Saturday. The arrival of vital supplies follows the start of a cease-fire at 11:30 p.m. (2030 GMT) Sunday to stem the worst fighting in Gaza since an 11-day war last year devastated the Palestinian coastal territory. Gaza\u2019s health ministry said 15 children were among 44 people killed in three days of intense fighting. Despite a flurry of strikes and rocket attacks in the run-up to the truce, neither side had reported any major violations of the agreement overnight. The Israeli military said roads would gradually reopen in the border area on Monday. \u201cIt was decided to gradually lift the restrictions,\u201d which have seen Israelis living near Gaza remain close to their bomb shelters, the army said. US President Joe Biden welcomed the cease-fire and thanked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for his country\u2019s role in brokering it. UN Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland said in a statement: \u201cThe situation is still very fragile, and I urge all parties to observe the cease-fire.\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid\u2019s office late Sunday thanked \u201cEgypt for its efforts\u201d as it agreed to the truce, but said that \u201cif the cease-fire is violated,\u201d Israel \u201cmaintains the right to respond strongly.\u201d Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed group designated as a terrorist organization by several Western nations, also accepted the truce but said it too \u201creserves the right to respond\u201d to any aggression. Starting on Friday, Israel had launched a heavy aerial and artillery bombardment of Islamic Jihad positions in Gaza, leading the militants to fire hundreds of rockets in retaliation. In addition to those killed, Gazan health officials said 360 people had been wounded in the Palestinian enclave, which is run by the Islamist group Hamas. A senior Israeli diplomatic official said Monday that \u201cmost of the civilians that were killed in Gaza were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets\u201d that fell short or misfired. Three people in Israel were wounded by shrapnel, while 31 others were lightly hurt while running for safety, emergency services said. Islamic Jihad member Mohammad Al-Hindi said the cease-fire deal \u201ccontains Egypt\u2019s commitment to work toward the release of two prisoners.\u201d They were named as Bassem Al-Saadi, a senior figure in the group\u2019s political wing who was recently arrested in the occupied West Bank, and Khalil Awawdeh, a militant also in Israeli detention. Gaza resident Nour Abu Sultan, 29, said the three days of conflict were \u201cterrifying,\u201d and that she had been unable to sleep during the \u201cshelling and rockets, the sound of aircraft above us.\u201d Dalia Harel, a resident of the Israeli town of Sderot close to the Gaza border, said she was \u201cdisappointed\u201d at news of a truce Sunday despite her five children being \u201ctraumatized.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re tired of having a military operation every year,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need our military and political leaders to get it over with once and for all… we\u2019re not for war, but we can\u2019t go on like this.\u201d Islamic Jihad is aligned with Hamas but often acts independently. Hamas has fought four wars with Israel since seizing control of Gaza in 2007, including the conflict in May last year. Israel has said it was necessary to launch a \u201cpre-emptive\u201d operation against Islamic Jihad, while the diplomatic official said the group had been planning an attack by sniper fire or with anti-tank missiles. The army has killed senior leaders of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, including Taysir Al-Jabari and Khaled Mansour. The senior Israeli diplomatic official said Islamic Jihad had been dealt \u201ca very serious blow\u201d which had \u201ctaken them back decades.\u201d News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories. Broadcasting News Corporation : Gaza\u2019s sole power plant also restarted Monday after fuel trucks passed from Israel into the Palestinian enclave following the start of truce ending three days of deadly conflict, the electricity company said. \u201cThe plant has started working to generate electricity,\u201d Mohammed Thabet, spokesman for the company, told AFP. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}