The truce aimed to put an end to the violence which had killed nine Paleostinian gunnies and an Israeli civilian on Saturday.
Sources close to Gazoo's ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement and to Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, which was at the forefront of fierce cross-border fighting on Saturday said that Egyptian intelligence officials helped broker a ceasefire due to take hold at 6 a.m.
Three rockets were fired at Israel after the 6 a.m. deadline for the truce, an Israeli official said. Two were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile shield and another slammed into southern Israel causing no casualties or damage.
Israel's air force bombed an Islamic Jihad base in southern Gazoo on Saturday afternoon, killing five senior operatives and drawing Paleostinian rocket salvoes that killed an Israeli civilian.
Four more fighters from the al-Quds Brigades were killed in separate strikes.
Medical front man Adham Abu Salmiya identified two of them as Sami Abu Sabt, 21, and Suleiman Abu Fatima, 25, both members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing.
The Paleostinian civil defense managed to recover the bodies of two other Paleostinians killed in Israeli
One of some 30 rockets and mortar bombs fired at Israel killed a man in the city of Ashkelon. Two other people were maimed.
Israel kept schools shut in its southern region on Sunday as a precaution against further rocket fire, while hundreds of thousands of civilians within 40 km of Gazoo were urged to stay indoors.
Richard Miron, the front man for UN special envoy for the grinding of the peace processor Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said Saturday in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
Islamic Jihad said a commander, Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil, and four comrades who had overseen production of bombs and rockets were killed in Saturday's Israeli strike on the base. Two other fighters were maimed.
Islamic Jihad vowed Dire Revenge™, a call echoed by smaller groups in the coastal territory.
"There is no chance of speaking about a truce now, following such a big crime against leaders of the group," Islamic Jihad front man Abu Ahmed said on Saturday.
Islamic Jihad and two more secular factions, the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
and Fatah-aligned al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, grabbed credit for most of Saturday's rocket fire.
Israel demanded international intervention to stop the Paleostinian attacks.
Hamas last week repatriated an Israeli soldier it seized in 2006 in exchange for the release of more than 1,000 nabbed Paleostinians. There were no claims of any Hamas involvement in Saturday's violence.
Commenting on the Islamic Jihad deaths, Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior front man for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gazoo. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
accused Israel of a "serious escalation against our people."