Gaza factions have called their second truce with Israel in less than five days in an attempt to keep more than a week of hostilities with Israel from escalating. According to Israeli media Haaretz, a leader of the Islamic Jihad faction, Mahfez Azzam, said Egypt mediated the cease-fire, which went into effect today. The factions had called a cease-fire last Sunday, but it was broken after a volley of rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israel and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes in which some two dozen Palestinians and one Israeli were killed. The violence began with a militant attack that killed eight Israelis on the Egyptian border recently.