A cease-fire was reached in Gaza on Thursday following two days of bloody Israeli escalation. The Islamic Jihad group said it will hold fire after Israel agreed to an Egyptian-mediated truce. Musab Al-Braim, the Islamic Jihad group's spokesman, said that a cease-fire has been reached in Gaza that came into effect at 5:00 a.m. local time (0300GMT). Al-Braim said that based "on implementing the demands of the Palestinian resistance groups ...