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\n [Breaking news update, published at 2:18 p.m. ET]<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n \n A ceasefire has been agreed between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to Egyptian diplomats in Gaza.\n <\/p>\n \n The ceasefire will take effect at 10:00 p.m. local time (3:00 p.m. ET), the Egyptian commission in Gaza said.\n <\/p>\n \n Israel did not immediately comment on the reported ceasefire.\n <\/p>\n \n [Original story, published at 1:13 p.m. ET]<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n \n A rocket fired from Gaza killed a Palestinian working in Israel and seriously wounded another, Israeli medical authorities said Saturday, as cross-border fire showed little sign of abating.\n <\/p>\n \n The two men were working in the Negev desert in southern Israel when they were hit by shrapnel.\n <\/p>\n \n Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht tweeted Saturday that the two men are brothers.\n <\/p>\n \n The Palestinian man who was killed is the second person killed in Israel by rocket fire from Gaza since hostilities broke out on Tuesday morning. Clashes have claimed the lives of at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza.\n <\/p>\n \n The incident came as the Israeli military struck targets in Gaza on Saturday as Palestinian militants fired more rockets.\n <\/p>\n \n The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it launched a series of strikes on positions it says belong to Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.\n <\/p>\n \n Israel accuses the group of planning attacks and has killed six of its commanders since the eruption began on Tuesday. Islamic Jihad is the second largest armed group in Gaza after Hamas.\n <\/p>\n \n More than 1,000 rockets have been fired at Israel so far, according to the IDF, which has hit more than 250 targets in Gaza as part of its “Shield and Arrow” campaign, now in its fifth day.\n <\/p>\n \n Videos from Gaza showed that airstrikes also appeared to have hit at least two civilian homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, but no injuries were reported.\n <\/p>\n \n Asked about the latest attacks by CNN, the IDF said that in the last 24 hours they hit operational residences used as headquarters and command and control centers by Jihad terrorists.\n <\/p>\n \n In its statement, the military said IDF jets and fighter jets struck mortar and rocket launch sites “used by Islamic Jihad to fire projectiles at Israel over the past few days.”\n <\/p>\n \n Sirens sounded in Israel’s areas close to the region on Saturday, as Palestinian Islamic Jihad continued to launch rockets.\n <\/p>\n \n Clashes also took place Saturday morning in the occupied West Bank and at least two Palestinian men were killed, Palestinian officials said.\n <\/p>\n \n Sa’ed Jihad Shaker Mashah, 32, and Adnan Waseem Yousef Al-Araj, 19, were shot in the head with live bullets, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. At least three other people were injured, the ministry said.\n <\/p>\n \n The clash took place in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank.\n <\/p>\n \n The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security agency said the IDF and Israeli Border Police forces were attacking “a hideout belonging to terrorist operatives” in the camp.\n <\/p>\n \n On Friday, at the start of an Islamic Jihad Quds Brigades operation dubbed “Revenge of the Free”, Palestinian militants fired rockets into Jerusalem for the first time, as well as Tel Aviv and Israeli settlements in the West Bank busy\n <\/p>\n \n Talks to reach a ceasefire between the warring groups are “on ice right now,” a diplomatic source familiar with the negotiations told CNN on Friday.\n <\/p>\n![\"CNN](\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230513120958-03-israel-gaza-strip-attack-0513.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill\" "\\"\\"")
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