Live blog: Gaza under attack

Now at Shifa Hospital in Gaza city: Eid celebrations at the taste of victory, from the families of the dead and wounded

Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a group east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

2,143 people have now been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the agression.

Meanwhile al-Majd, the Palestinian news site affiliated to Gaza's security services, has said that "ceasefire has not been announced yet."

One Israeli was killed and two others were seriously wounded by rocket fire in Eshkol Regional Council.

Khalid al-Batsh, Islamic Jihad official and a leading member of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo, has told spoken to Anadolu about the key articles of a ceasefire deal, scheduled to be announced on Tuesday evening.

• Opening of the borders and freedom of movement between Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• Extension of fishing waters from six to 12 miles.
• Start of rebuilding process in Gaza

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said that any end to operations must not include "any significant political achievements for Hamas, which is a terrorist organisation which doesn't accept our existence here."

Livni added that a truce must be "part of an overall accord with those who seek peace." 

"Gaza is victorious today because of our people's steadfastness, and the heroism of the resistance. Gaza can announce that the way is prepared for the liberation of Jerusalem."

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri announced that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestine has been reached.

"A ceasefire has been achieved between the two sides - we are waiting for the official announcement from Cairo."

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have agree on an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire starting late Tuesday, reported the Anadolu Agency.

Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday fired 93 rockets at cities in Israel as the latter continued pounding the blockaded strip with deadly airstrikes.

A barrage of 23 mortar shells struck the southern city of Eshkol on Tuesday, 11 of which were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

The armed wings of Palestinian factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility for firing rockets at Israeli cities and sites on Tuesday.

U.N. refugee agency UNRWA has issued an appeal for $295.4 million to help thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel's weeks-long onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

"The agency is now appealing for a total of $295.4 million to support up to 500,000 displaced people, including more than 300,000 who are expected to continue sheltering in UNRWA schools," the agency said in a Tuesday statement.

The agency said that Palestinian civilians caught in the ongoing violence required assistance meeting their immediate needs.

"The most immediate needs include food and non-food items, such as hygiene kits that help prevent the outbreak of diseases," UNRWA said.

"Other priorities include primary health care and psychosocial support," it added.

 Scores of Palestinians suffered temporary asphyxiation due to teargas used by Israeli forces to quell Tuesday clashes near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Israeli forces used teargas and rubber bullets to disperse scores of stone-throwing Palestinians, according to eyewitnesses.

Four Palestinians were killed Tuesday in separate Israeli attacks across the blockaded Gaza Strip.

"Two were killed when Israel bombed residential areas of eastern Gaza City," Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.

He added that two others had been killed when Israel targeted a vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip city of Jabalia.

The latest fatalities bring to 2139 the total number of Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since hostilities began on July 7, according to al-Qodra.

He said the victims included 578 children, 261 women and 102 elderly Palestinians

Palestinians carry out funeral prayers and mourn the death of a two Gazans killed after Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza City on Monday evening.