General Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Jerusalem Post – Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire that would end two days of hostilities between Israel and terrorists in the Gaza Strip appear to have succeeded on Thursday with an Islamic Jihad official saying that a truce had been reached.

“Following intensive Egyptian contacts and efforts, the agreement for calm has been restored in accordance with understandings reached in 2012 in Cairo,” Islamic Jihad official Khaled al-Batsh wrote on Facebook, referring to a truce that ended an eight-day Gaza war two years ago.

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