以色列宣佈在加沙實行七小時停火
No accounts of violence have been reported Monday since the time Israel said it would begin holding fire for seven hours in most of the Gaza Strip to allow Palestinians access to humanitarian aid and for displaced civilians to return to their homes.
However, just hours before the truce was scheduled to start, an Israeli airstrike killed a militant Palestinian leader. The Islamic Jihad group said its commander in the northern part of the the Gaza Strip, Daniel Mansour, died when the strike hit his home.
Israel positioned tanks near the Gaza border Monday before the cease-fire went into effect.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, says it it skeptical about the truce announcement, and urged Palestinians in Gaza "to take caution."
The truce, beginning at 0700 UTC, was announced just hours after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed at least 10 civilians who had sought shelter in a United Nations school.
The Israeli military later said it had targeted three suspected militants near the school, and said it was "reviewing the consequences" of the strike. It also said Monday's truce will not apply to Rafah where military operations were set to continue.
It is the third time in 10 days that a U.N. school has been the target of lethal explosions that have drawn international condemnation. The latest attack also drew a strong rebuke from U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who called it "a moral outrage and a criminal act."
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called it "disgraceful" and "appalling."以色列宣佈在加沙大部分地區實行7小時停火，以便巴勒斯坦人得到人道救助，並使離家躲避炮火的平民得以回家。自停火開始後，星期一沒有關於發生暴力事件的報道。
但在預定開始停火的數小時前，以色列發動空襲，打死一名巴勒斯坦激進組織領導人。伊斯蘭聖戰者組織說，加沙地帶北部地區該組織指揮官曼蘇爾的住宅被以色列炮彈擊中，曼蘇爾被打死。
在實行停火之前，以色列星期一在加沙邊境附近部署了坦克。
控制加沙地帶的哈馬斯表示，對以色列宣佈實行停火持懷疑態度，並敦促加沙地帶的巴勒斯坦人“保持警惕”。
停火將在格林威治時間7點開始。就在宣佈停火的幾小時前，以色列對加沙地帶南部城鎮拉法發動空襲，至少導致10名平民喪生，當時他們正在聯合國的一所學校裏避難。以色列軍方隨後表示，當時轟炸的目標是學校附近的三名激進分子嫌疑人，並說目前正在審查這次空襲造成的後果。以色列軍方還表示，星期一的停火不包括拉法地區，以色列將繼續對那裏實施軍事行動。
10天來，這是聯合國學校第三次成爲致命轟炸的目標，國際社會對此加以譴責。聯合國祕書長潘基文強烈指責最近這次空襲，稱其爲“違反道德的暴行和犯罪”。
美國國務院發言人莎琪說，空襲聯合國學校是“可恥”和“令人震驚”的。
