New Israeli attack after ceasefire agreement

A Palestinian was killed in a new Israeli attack on Gaza, hours after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire was agreed.

One person was injured in the attack in the southern border town of Rafah, and Israel said they were preparing to fire a rocket. Egypt is trying to win a ceasefire after Israeli retaliation killed nine Palestinian soldiers in Gaza and one Israeli civilian in Ashkelon. .This is the most serious violence since the exchange of prisoners between the two sides, assesses the BBC. At the beginning of the month, 477 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli prisons in exchange for the soldier Gilad Shalit. Another 500 Palestinian prisoners will be released at the end of the year as part of the agreement between Israel and Hamas.

In the latest attack, eyewitnesses say that militant Ahmad Jargun was killed

In the latest attack, eyewitnesses say that militant Ahmad Jargun, a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), was killed.

The injured person belongs to the same group. The ceasefire was supposed to start this morning around an hour after midnight, but Israeli officials say that the exchange of fire continued today.