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Cease-Fire Declared After Attacks In Gaza, Southern Israel -- CNN
Gaza City (CNN) -- After two days of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel and attacks by Israel on Gaza, a cease-fire has been declared, an Islamic Jihad leader told CNN on Thursday.
"We have agreed on an Egyptian-brokered truce -- as long as Israel commits to it," said the leader, Khaled Al-Batash.
Sources said the truce started at 3 p.m. (9 a.m. ET).
The announcement came shortly after four Palestinian residents were critically wounded in an airstrike on tunnels near the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Palestinian medical sources told CNN.
A Hamas website reported five people were injured in two attacks.
Security sources said one of the attacks struck west of Rafah, destroying two tunnels; a second attack struck east of Rafah on open land.
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