Thirty-four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli shelling at the Gaza Strip, 111 more were injured. 

Such data has been provided by the news portal Donia Al Watan referring to Health Ministry, TASS reported.

Just last night, when a house was destroyed as a result of an airstrike in the area of Deir al Balah, eight Arabs, members of the same family, were killed. There are women and children among the dead, according to the Palestinian side.

Palestinian factions and the Israeli army exchanged blows for two days after the influential Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife were killed in a bombardment at dawn on November 12. More than 400 rockets and mortar shells were fired in two from from Gaza through the territory of the Jewish state, and the Israeli military hit dozens of targets, primarily those belonging to radicals.

A ceasefire was reached last night thanks to Egypt's mediation efforts which entered into force on Thursday at 05:30 local time.