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Mourners attend the funeral of 7 Palestinian including Islamic Jihad movement commander Khaled Mansour, were killed in Israeli air strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2022. The death toll from violence in Gaza has risen to 29, including six children, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said today, correcting a previous statement. The health ministry also said that 253 people in Gaza had been wounded since the hostilities with Israel broke out on August 5. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement on Sunday confirmed the death of its senior commander Khaled Mansour in Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Photo by Ashraf Amra/APAimages

An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect at 11:30pm local time (20:30 GMT). Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced the ceasefire in a statement, adding that they have a right to “respond to any Zionist aggression.”

Mondoweiss correspondent in Gaza Tareq Hajjaj reported that Israeli airstrikes were ongoing in the last hour leading up to the ceasefire.

The Gaza Health Ministry reports that 43 Palestinians, including 15 children, have been killed in Gaza since Israel began airstrikes on the besieged strip on Friday.

Mourners attending the funeral of seven Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2022. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/APAimages)

How do parents in Gaza, who are dealing with their own trauma and fear, help their children endure yet another Israeli attack? One parent tells Ziad Ali she attempted to lie to her daughter by saying the explosions were just fireworks, but her child already knows too much. “My daughter did not believe me. I was such a mess. She told me — ‘Mommy, this is a war, not fireworks.’”

Merav Michaeli, leader of Israel’s Labor Party, taunts two million Palestinians who are under siege in Gaza: “No sovereign state would accept a siege on its residents by a terror organization.” She is showing that the “change” government in Israel can be as good at “mowing the lawn” — which means killing civilians who have nowhere to flee in Gaza– as Netanyahu so that it can hold him off in the November election.

Amid the latest Israeli onslaught, Gaza’s sole power plant shut down after Israel closed its border crossings with the besieged strip and cut off its fuel supply. “The state of electricity in Gaza is already terrible without the continuous bombardment, and with it darkness becomes another kind of war,” Gaza resident Khaled Hassan tells Mondoweiss.

Palestinian families aren’t done crying over the 232 loved ones they lost in Israel’s last “war” in May of 2021. Hospitals haven’t finished treating many of the 1900 people who were injured in that attack, and now this latest round of aggression is piling on the cases they have to treat. Neither were the humanitarian organizations able to rebuild all the damaged sectors in time for the latest onslaught.