© Ashram Amra/ APA ImagesChairman of the political bureau of the Hamas Palestinian Islamist movement, Ismail Haniyeh prays over the bodies of Palestinian teenagers Louay Kahil and Amir Al-Namara, who were killed in an Israeli air strike at a mosque during their funeral in Gaza City on July 15, 2018.
After two Palestinian teenagers have been killed, and hundreds more wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, an Egyptian-led ceasefire was called on Saturday night between Israel and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements, who had fired several rockets into Israeli territory, injuring at least three people.
According to international media, and the Israeli army,
Saturday's Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza strip marked the most intense daytime assault on the coastal enclave since Israel's 2014 offensive which left nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead.The two slain Palestinian teens were identified by the Gaza Health Ministry as Amir al-Nimri, 15, and Luay Kaheel, 16. They were killed when Israeli airstrike targeted a semi-abandoned building in western Gaza.
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