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Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza Strip early Sunday morning as part of a surprise cease-fire agreement reached late Saturday night by Israeli and Palestinian leaders to end five months of fighting.
The agreement also called for Palestinians to stop their own attacks at 6 a.m. Sunday. But rocket and mortar fire from Gaza continued to strike southern Israel.
"Let's hope that's just the problems of the beginning," The Associated Press quoted an Israeli government spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, as saying. "But if Israel is attacked, we will respond. If there are Palestinian factions that are not part of the cease-fire, it's hard to see how the cease-fire will hold."
In other news, no fewer than five Kassam rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since the beginning of this "cease fire".
