Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for his mediation efforts to end the latest escalation with Gaza

An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire was agreed upon and took effect five days after Israel launched Operation "Shield and Arrow" in response to ongoing attacks by Gaza's Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in the months prior. 

The Israeli military first carried out targeted assassinations of PIJ senior leaders and continued to strike critical and offensive infrastructure across the Gaza Strip. The terrorists responded by firing barrages of rockets at Israel.

In response to almost 1,000 rockets directed at civilian locations, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "the campaign will continue as long as it takes."... Read More: i24