Jerusalem: Israel has agreed to halt a massive aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip during a visit by the Egyptian Prime Minister, Hisham Qandil, provided militants also hold their fire, an Israeli official said.
Mr Qandil arrived in Gaza for a three-hour visit about 6pm Sydney time.
"Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu has agreed to an Egyptian request to cease fire during the visit to Gaza this morning by the Egyptian Prime Minister," the senior official said on Friday.
"In our response forwarded to the Egyptians, Israel has said that the IDF [Israeli military] will cease fire on the condition that during that period there won't be hostile fire from Gaza into Israel."
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Israeli war planes carried out multiple air strikes on the Gaza Strip, including several hits on Gaza City, early on Friday, the third day of an intensive operation against Gaza militants.
"There have been 130 strikes overnight until now," the Hamas interior ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan said.
The Hamas emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya said 19 Palestinians had been killed, several of them children, and a further 235 people injured.
The Israeli army said it had carried out 466 air strikes since it launched "Operation Pillar of Defence" on Wednesday with the targeted killing of the Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jabari.
The army confirmed that "strikes are continuing," and that 11 Palestinian rockets had been fired from Gaza at Israel overnight.
The military said a total of 280 rockets had been fired at the Jewish state from Gaza since Wednesday afternoon, including two that landed near Tel Aviv. Three Israelis were killed on Thursday.
The Israeli air defence system Iron Dome intercepted 131 of the rockets, the military said.
Agence France-Presse
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