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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Stephen Kalin GAZA/JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians renewed a truce that had largely tempered a five-week-old war, but the deal got off to a shaky start on Thursday with rockets from Gaza slamming into Israel and Israel retaliating with air strikes. Hamas, which denied involvement in firing some of what Israel counted as eight rockets shot just as an earlier truce expired on Wednesday, and accused the Jewish state of violating the new truce by launching air strikes. Israel had no comment on the deal the Palestinians announced in Cairo. Hamas official Izzat Reshiq denied the Palestinians had breached the truce, and denounced Israel's air strikes as "a violation of the calm." The Israeli military said its air strikes were "targeting terror sites across the Gaza Strip," and these attacks were followed by two more rocket attacks at Israel from Gaza.More...