Egypt, the traditional mediator between the warring parties, has secured the parties' agreement on a truce. Several rockets were fired again around 21:15 p.m.
(18:15 GMT) from Gaza, according to AFP journalists. On the Israeli side, an octogenarian was killed Thursday in Rehovot, in central Israel. The deadly escalation, the most violent between Gaza and Israel since August 2022, began Tuesday with air raids that allowed Israel to eliminate three military commanders of Islamic Jihad.