Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations

    GAZA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The second week of the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire in Gaza Strip witnessed 13 violations by Israel, a Palestinian militant group said on Thursday.

    The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement said that most of the breaches occurred on the border areas of the Gaza Strip when Israeli soldiers fired at farmers who approached their lands near the security fence that separates between Gaza and Israel.

    Other violations of the second week, which started on June 26, included firing at Palestinian fishermen in the sea and the presence of reconnaissance planes, the Islamic Jihad added.

    The six-month ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel took hold on July 19, which calls on Palestinian factions to stop firing rockets into Israel, Israel is required to stop its attacks into Gaza and ease the blockade it imposed on the Strip when Hamas took over the territory more than one year ago.

    The Islamic Jihad violated the ceasefire in its first week by firing a rocket into Israel to retaliate for an Israeli army operation in West Bank though the territory stays out of the ceasefire.