Palestinians report Gaza truce with Israel early on Monday
Israel's military said that more than 600 rockets and other projectiles had been fired at southern Israeli cities and villages since Friday
Gaza/Jerusalem — A deadly surge in violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel petered out overnight and Palestinian officials reported that Egypt had mediated a truce early on Monday. The latest round of fighting erupted three days ago, peaking on Sunday when rockets and missiles from Gaza killed four civilians in Israel, and Israeli strikes killed 19 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians. Two Palestinian officials and a TV station belonging to Hamas, Gaza's Islamist rulers, said a ceasefire had been reached at 4.30am local time, apparently stopping the violence from broadening into a conflict that neither side seemed keen on fighting. Israeli officials did not comment on whether a truce had been reached, but the military said that protective restrictions in place on residents of southern Israel since the fighting began were being lifted. Israel's military said that more than 600 rockets and other projectiles — over 150 of them intercepted by its Iron Dome anti-missile ...
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