Despite announcing the extension of the humanitarian truce for 24 hours, the Zionist forces fired artillery shells Sunday towards East of Rafah and Al-Bureij killing three Palestinians

Despite announcing the extension of the humanitarian truce for 24 hours, the Zionist forces fired artillery shells Sunday towards East of Rafah and Al-Bureij killing six Palestinians.

Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said two men were killed in shelling near the border in central Gaza, while two were killed near Khan Yunis in the south. Two other men were killed in al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Separately, a Palestinian child, Fadi Baraka, had succumbed to his wounds in a hospital in Egypt, and Baha al-Din Ahmad Said succumbed to his wounds in al-Maghazi refugee camp, bringing Gaza total death toll to 1,058.

In the meantime, the Israeli army had admitted that an Army Reserve sergeant called "Rafael Barak" was killed during fierce clashes with the resistance on the edge of the Gaza Strip last night, bringing the death toll to 43 Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli enemy.

This came as Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas resistance movement, announced they bombed Tel Aviv with two M75 missiles and that they also bombed the Zionist city of Ashdod with five Grad rockets. Israeli websites said several rockets fell in the coast of Ashkelon and Gush Dan to the south of "Tel Aviv" and Petah Tikva.

On Sunday, the Zionist army announced it was resuming its military operations in Gaza, 10 hours after Israel said it would observe a truce for another 24 hours, in a move which was not reciprocated by Hamas.

Hamas said it would not halt its fire without Israeli armor first withdrawing from the Palestinian enclave. "No humanitarian ceasefire is valid without Israeli tanks withdrawing from the Gaza Strip," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said.

But the group later announced that it has agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce. "In response to the UN's intervention request to monitor the situation... it has been agreed between the resistance factions that a 24-hour humanitarian truce will start from 2:00 pm (1100 GMT)," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement.
  
Zuhri said the ceasefire would take place ahead of the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.