Israeli Forces Launch 87 Overnight Air Strikes Against Gaza Strip

• Israeli Forces Launch 87 Overnight Air Strikes Against Gaza Strip
  by MEE staff, https://www.middleeasteye.net/, 27 Oct 2018
  Islamic Jihad, which fired rockets into Israel after five Palestinians killed, says ceasefire reached after biggest offensive in Gaza since August
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  The Israeli army carried out scores of air strikes across the besieged Gaza Strip in the early hours of Saturday, in the highest-intensity offensive on the coastal Palestinian territory since the summer.
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  The Israeli army launched at least 87 air strikes, Israeli news outlet Ynet reported, saying it was in response to some 34 rockets fired from the enclave into southern Israel.
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  Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the rockets, saying in a statement that they were in retaliation for the Israeli army’s killing of five Palestinian protesters on Friday. “The resistance will not accept the equation imposed by the enemy on the basis of killing on their part and silence on our part,” the group said in a statement.
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  Following the exchanges, Islamic Jihad’s media office announced on Saturday morning that it had accepted an Egypt-mediated ceasefire with Israel.
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  Locals told Middle East Eye that one four-storey building in central Gaza City that was turned to rubble overnight had hosted charitable institutions and research centres.
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