Palestinians demonstrate along along the Gaza-Israel border east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb 23, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
GAZA — The frontier fell quiet early on Tuesday, after a Palestinian official said Israel and Islamic Jihad had reached a “reciprocal and simultaneous ceasefire” mediated by Egypt and the United Nations.
“This round is over and Palestinian resistance promised its people that every act of aggression by the Zionist occupation would be met by a reaction from the resistance,” Khader Habib, a senior Islamic Jihad representative, told Reuters.
The Israeli military said it reopened roads near the Gaza border on Tuesday that it had closed when the fighting began and that train services would resume in the area.
It was agreed that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is mutual and synchronous
Ihsan Ataya, Senior Islamic Jihad representative based in Lebanon
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"It was agreed that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is mutual and synchronous," he said, adding that his group's members "will respond to any breach or violation of the ceasefire."
The ceasefire ended two days of tension that broke out on Sunday between Israel and the Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip after Israel shot and killed a PIJ member and then tried to remove his body with a bulldozer.
This picture taken with a mobile phone on Feb 23, 2020 shows men trying to collect a body as a bulldozer approaches them, along the Gaza-Israel border, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (MUTHANA AL-NAJAAR / AFP)
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said in a press statement that eight members of a family were injured by the shrapnel of an Israeli Iron Dome missile, which exploded over their home in eastern Gaza City.
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During the past two days, Israeli war jets struck dozens of PIJ-linked targets in Gaza in response to the PIJ's rocket attacks on southern Israel.
