Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have agreed to a ceasefire following a weekend of fighting.
In an update on Sunday evening, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said the number of Palestinians killed had risen to 44, including 15 children and four women.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerBeginning on Friday, Israeli forces pounded Palestinian targets through the weekend.
They described their attacks as pre-emptive strikes - against an anticipated Islamic Jihad attack designed to avenge the arrest of one of the group's leaders, Bassam al-Saadi, in the occupied West Bank. In response, Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel, threatening much of the south of the country.It emerged earlier that a- Khaled Mansour, the group's top official for the southern Gaza Strip - had been killed.
A strike in the southern city of Rafah also killed two fellow militants and five other civilians, including a child and three women, the group said.
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