{"id":46311,"date":"2022-08-08T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israel-confirms-cease-fire-with-gaza-after-3-days-of-deadly-strikes\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:45:00","slug":"israel-confirms-cease-fire-with-gaza-after-3-days-of-deadly-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-confirms-cease-fire-with-gaza-after-3-days-of-deadly-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel confirms cease-fire with Gaza after 3 days of deadly strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lior Hayat, head of Israel&#8217;s National Public Diplomacy Directorate, said in a statement that the cease-fire would take effect at 11:30 p.m. local time (2030 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the cease-fire is violated, Israel reserves the right to respond forcefully,&#8221; Hayat added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also thanked Egypt for mediating the cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Friday, Israel unleashed a series of airstrikes targeting PIJ sites in Gaza, killing at least 43 people including 15 children, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the PIJ and other militants in Gaza fired more than 950 rockets at cities in southern and central Israel, causing no fatalities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43606 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/asx.jpg.png\" alt=\"Members of Israel Defense Forces Artillery Corps are seen near the Israel-Gaza border, on Aug. 7, 2022. Israel confirmed on Sunday it has agreed an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip, ending the deadly Israeli airstrikes and the barrage of Palestinian rockets for three days. (Ilan Assayag\/JINI via Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Israel confirmed on Sunday it has agreed an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip, ending the deadly Israeli airstrikes and the barrage of Palestinian rockets for three days.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}