OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/GAZA — The Israel-Hamas
ceasefire held into a third day on Sunday as Israel admitted Jewish visitors to
Al-Aqsa Mosque, where earlier confrontations with Palestinian protesters helped
to ignite the cross-border fighting.
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There were no unusual incidents reported at the
Al-Aqsa Mosque complex — one of Islam's holiest sites — as Israeli social media
accounts showed a few dozen people in religious garb strolling around the site
under guard.
A Israeli spokesman described it as a regular scheduled
visit after a break that began on May 3 for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Israeli occupation force raids in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque
during Ramadan, as well as planned evictions of Palestinians from homes in
occupied East Jerusalem, prompted
Hamas to fire rockets into Israel on May 10.
That led to the fiercest fighting between Israel and Hamas
since the 2014 Israeli aggression on Gaza, which concluded with a truce before
dawn on Friday, brokered by Egypt with support from the United States.
Neither side reported violations on Sunday morning.
Egyptian mediators have been shuttling across the Gaza
border and met Hamas's West Bank-based rival, Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, in an effort to sustain the ceasefire.
Palestinian officials put reconstruction costs at tens of
millions of dollars in the Gaza Strip, where medical officials said that 248
people were killed during the 11 days of fighting.
Medics said rocket fire and a guided missile attack killed
13 people in Israel.
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