Egypt has succeeded Sunday in brokering truce between the Islamic Jihad and Israel after a day of violence that killed nine Palestinians and one Israeli.

Egypt has succeeded Sunday in brokering truce between the Islamic Jihad and Israel after a day of violence that killed nine Palestinians and one Israeli.

The ceasefire came into effect shortly after dawn, Sunday, after a day of violence that was ignited by an Israeli air strike that hit Rafah in South Gaza Saturday killing five Islamic Jihad activists.

The strike was later followed by a number of strikes that killed four other Palestinians.

The Islamic Jihad responded to the Israeli strikes by firing rockets at Ashdod, Gan Yavne, and Ashkelon killing one Israeli and injuring four others.

The Israeli police said 31 rockets were fired at Israel since Saturday's initial Israeli air strike.

AFP quoted sources it reported were close to Hamas movement as saying that the Egyptian intelligence had managed to broker a ceasefire effective early Sunday morning.

“The efforts and intensive contacts led by senior Egyptian intelligence officials led to a national consensus to restore calm," the sources told AFP, adding that “the Islamic Jihad is committed to the truce as long as the occupation commits to it."