Published on Aug 7, 2014
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Israel withdrew ground forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and started a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas mediated by Egypt as a first step towards negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old war.
Minutes before the truce began at 8 a.m.
(0500 GMT), Hamas launched a salvo of rockets, calling them revenge for Israel's "massacres".
Israel's anti-missile system shot down one rocket over Jerusalem, police said.
Another hit a house in a town near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
There were no casualties.
Israeli armour and infantry left Gaza ahead of the truce, with a military spokesman saying their main goal of destroying cross-border infiltration tunnels dug by Islamist militants had been completed.
"Mission accomplished," the military tweeted.
