Israel and Hamas entered into a truce brokered by Egypt after 11-days of hostilities that killed at least 232 Palestinians, including 65 children. Calls for humanitarian aid have begun to help rebuild a battered Gaza.
Here is how the conflict unfolded:
May 10
Hamas & Palestinian Islamic Jihad issued their ultimatum to Israel
Israel asked to remove its forces from the al-Aqsa mosque
Hamas launched its first barrage of rockets into Israel
Israel responds with deadly strikes on the Palestinian enclave.
May 11
The Israeli air force bombed a Gaza tower block
Hamas responds by raining rockets down on Tel Aviv
Several reported clashes between Israeli Arabs & Jews
May 12
Over 850 rockets are fired overnight from Gaza to Israel
Unrest flares in mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli towns.
Israel declares a state of emergency in Lod, near Tel Aviv
Emergency meeting of the EU, Russia, US and the UN called
May 13
Israel threatens a full-scale invasion of the strip
Israel mobilised 9,000 of its reserve forces along Gaza border
Israel launched twin attacks from ground and air on Gaza
May 14
Israel targets Hamas’ underground tunnels,
Israel claims dropped more than 450 bombs in 40 minutes
Hamas said 20 of its commanders were killed
Demonstrations across occupied West Bank, 11 killed
May 15
Air strike in Gaza's Shati refugee camp kills 10
Building housing Associated Press and Al Jazeera TV struck
US President Joe Biden expresses his "grave concern".
On May 16
Israel says destroyed the home of Hamas' political leader
UN chief appeals for an end to the "utterly appalling" violence
May 17
Islamic Jihad says one of its commanders has been killed
US blocks a joint UNSC statement calling for a halt to the violence
President Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement calls for a "day of anger".
Violence erupts again in east Jerusalem and across the West Bank
May 18
France's President meets his Egyptian counterpart & Jordan's King to push for a truce
Biden speaks to Israeli PM Netanyahu on phone
Biden: expect "a significant de-escalation on the path to a ceasefire"
Late-night meeting of Netanyahu's Security Cabinet
May 19
Israel drops 122 bombs on Hamas tunnels.
250 rockets, mortars launched towards Israel
Netanyahu briefs foreign diplomats that Israel wants to end fighting
May 20
Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire, ending a bruising 11-day war
May 21
Hours after truce Israeli police storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, fire tear gas