Israel’s air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, which were triggered by a rocket barrage on Israel overnight Friday, have prompted the European Union to issue a statement urging both sides to exercise calm.
The organization’s chief foreign policy and defense coordinator, Federica Mogherini, issued a general call for both sides to engage in talks.

The Israeli military said its soldiers thwarted a cyber attack by the Hamas terror group over the weekend, without elaborating on the nature or target of the offensive.
The Israel Defense Forces said once the digital threat was neutralized, fighter jets destroyed the building housing the headquarters of the terror group’s cyber unit.
“Hamas no longer has cyber capabilities after our strike,” IDF spokesperson Ronen Manelis told reporters.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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The building that was attacked by the IDF on Sunday evening was the office of Twafiq Abu Naim, the interior minister and head of the security services of Hamas, according to the IDF spokesperson.
Abu Naim was jailed by Israel in 1991 and was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal.
Upon his return to the Gaza Strip, Abu Naim became a political leader. He is responsible for the security mechanisms of Hamas, which are often used to commit terror acts.
Read more at JPOST.
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Hamas leadership has reportedly approved a UN and Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, according to reports in Palestinian media.
Foreign diplomats are quoted in media reports as saying the proposal, that is set to go into effect at midnight, is now being presented to Israel.
 
Earlier, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said that restoring calm in and around the Gaza Strip is possible if Israel agrees to stop all retaliatory strikes in the Palestinian enclave.
 
Read more at Times of Israel.
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A Gaza rocket launched at Ashdod today took the life of Rav Pinchas Menahem Pashwazman, a young Gerer Chasid in his 30’s.
The rocket was part of an escalated attack by Hamas this afternoon as the terrorist organization conrinues to ramp up their violence against Israel.
Pashwazman is the fifth person killed by Hamas terrorists since the attacks began over Shabbos.
 
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An Israeli man was critically injured Sunday afternoon, when a rocket fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hit his car in southern Israel.
The incident occurred in the Shaar HaNegev district in the vicinity of Kitbbutz Yad Mordechai in southern Israel, when a rocket made a direct hit on a private vehicle, destroying the car and leaving the driver critically injured. Hospital officials at Barziliai hospital in Ashkelon later said that the victim had succumbed to his injuries.
Hamas later released a video showing the attack. The video has since been taken down.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Senior Israeli officials on Sunday said the Hamas terror group has asked for a ceasefire to end a weekend of sharply spiraling violence during which Palestinians fired over 600 rockets and mortars at southern Israel, prompting retaliatory airstrikes from Israel against hundreds of targets in Gaza, according to Israeli television reports.
According to media reports, senior Israeli officials said Hamas sent a message via Egyptian mediators that it was seeking to end the heavy fighting. The Israeli sources were not identified in the reports and Hamas did not confirm it was seeking a cessation of hostilities.