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After 11 days of near-constant bombardment, Israel and Hamas have so far chosen to honour the agreed-upon ceasefire, which took effect at 2 am, local time on Friday.
As a result, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh have claimed victory.
Meanwhile, humanitarian officials are warning that the damage to the besieged Gaza Strip will take years to rebuild, as Israeli air strikes forced around 91,000 people to flee their homes, according to the UN.
In total, the air strikes killed at least 248 people in Gaza, including 66 children, while rockets launched from Gaza by Hamas killed 12 people in Israel, including two children.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, on Friday there were 59 people being treated for severe wounds in Gaza, while nearly 1,900 reported light or moderate injuries.
The Israeli army has said that it hit some 1,500 targets in Gaza with air strikes during its operation. The army also claimed that around 4,360 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel, of which it said about 3,400 made it into Israeli air space. The Israeli army did not provide details on how many of those rockets were shot down by its advanced Iron Dome missile defence system.
The Hamas movement did not confirm the number of rockets it fired during this latest period.
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