Friday’s pause in the fighting comes after several weeks of tough negotiations between Israel, Hamas, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar. It is the first significant break in combat since the Hamas infiltration attack into southern Israel on October 7, which killed some 1,200 people and saw around 240 taken back into the Gaza Strip as hostages.
Who else in Gaza has rockets to fire at Israel?
There’s also PIJ (Islamic Jihad) and ISIS, but they operate at the behest of Hamas.