Dunya News - 72-hour ceasefire ends after only a few hours

A 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups has been broken after less than three hours, with a hospital in Gaza saying 40 people have been killed. Palaestinians breifly returned to, in many cases, the remains of their home to collect any belongings they could carry. Israel have accused Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups of violating the truce, but did not elaborate, amid Israeli media reports that gunmen had fired at Israeli soldiers in the Rafah area. An official in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip had "flagrantly violated the ceasefire".