Posted on 05/10/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
Media outlets in Egypt are reporting this evening (Wednesday) that the Egyptian government mediators have managed to reach an agreement on a ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization on the Gaza border which has gone into effect.
A political official confirmed that advanced negotiations for a ceasefire are taking place. However, despite the contacts, red alert sirens were heard in the Gaza periphery.
Israel has not confirmed that a ceasefire has been reached, and red alert sirens continued to be activated in southern Israel after the ceasefire was reported to have gone into effect.
The IDF reported earlier that over 270 rockets were fired during the afternoon at the settlements of the south and center of the country. One rocket hit an empty house in Sderot, while another rocket was intercepted after being fired at Tel Aviv.
Alarms sounded throughout the afternoon in the Gaza periphery communities, Ashdod, Sderot and Ashkelon, and also in Tel Aviv, Givatayim, Ramat Gan, Yavne and Gan Yavne. A rocket hit the roof of a kindergarten in the Eshkol Regional Council. The building suffered damage, and there were no injuries.
The defense establishment announced that the David's Sling missile defense system, which is designed to intercept longer-range rockets and missiles than the Iron Dome system, carried out its first successful interception in a combat scenario when a rocket fired at Tel Aviv was intercepted this afternoon.