Hamas says it agrees to ceasefire in Gaza

Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza have announced that they have agreed to a cease-fire with Israel.

The groups say Egyptian mediation efforts have succeeded in brokering a ceasefire ending an intense daylong round of cross border violence.

However, it is unclear whether it will hold as warning sirens were heard in southern Israel early Sunday indicating incoming rocket fire once again.

Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets at Israel Saturday as Israel pummeled Gaza with its most powerful airstrikes since the 2014 war.

Two Palestinian teenagers were killed in an airstrike in Gaza City, while three Israelis were wounded from a rocket that landed on a residential home.

Israeli medical officials say three Israelis have been wounded by shrapnel from a rocket that landed on a house in southern Israel.

The Magen David Adom medical service says a rocket landed on a home in Sderot Saturday evening. It says paramedics are treating three people in light to moderate condition, among them a 52-year-old man with a chest wound, 17-year-old girl with a face wound and a 20-year-old woman with injuries to her limbs.

It marks the first injuries on the Israeli side in the latest flare-up in violence between Israel and Hamas militants.

The Israeli military carried out its largest daytime airstrike campaign in Gaza since the 2014 war Saturday as Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel.

Source: AP