Day 3: Gaza rocket fire ongoing as top PIJ terrorist killed; truce talks intensify

Sirens sounded in southern Israel on Thursday morning hours after the army announced that it had killed the commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket launching force and two other PIJ operatives in Gaza. The alerts were heard in Kissufim and Nirim, kibbutzim in the northwestern Negev desert adjacent to the Gaza Strip. It was around eight hours between rocket attacks from Gaza as the Israeli military continued “Operation Shield and Arrow” and amid reports that Egypt was attempting