“Plasters on an open wound”: Gaza ceasefire after intense rocket salvos

An Egyptian-mediated ceasefire has brought a relative calm to the Gaza frontier, after two days of the fiercest rocket salvoes and air strikes seen since the 2014 war.

More than a dozen people were killed inside Gaza by Israeli air strikes, while a Palestinian working in Israel died when one of the hundreds of rockets launched by militants struck his apartment.

The violence is the worst in years and began after an Israeli undercover operation was uncovered in Gaza earlier this week.

Listen to report by Eric Tlozek on The World Today on ABC radio.