Gaza Strip
Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers and presidential envoy Amos Hochstein will serve as co-chairs of the truce enforcement and monitoring mechanism until a new civilian official is appointed.
The arrangement is fragile, and Hezbollah’s intentions of keeping to it are in doubt, Professor Eyal Zisser tells JNS.
Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf toured the Gaza border on Thursday.
Last month, the army foiled two earlier attempts to smuggle weapons from Sinai.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli forces shot at several suspects arriving in vehicles to the restricted zone.
“The IDF will not hesitate to use force to stop attempts to smuggle arms to Hezbollah.”
There was no realistic agreement that included an Israeli-controlled buffer zone in Southern Lebanon, according to presidential envoy Amos Hochstein.
“If Israel decides to act [against Tehran], it will notify the United States as soon as possible,” is allegedly among America’s stipulations.
“I don’t think there’s a single Jewish person that doesn’t have within one or two degrees of separation knowledge of a hostage or a family relative of a hostage,” the U.S. presidential envoy said.
Four terrorists entered the border area in violation of the ceasefire.
“We are lying to ourselves when we say that this agreement will prevent the restoration of Hezbollah,” MK Dan Illouz tells JNS.
Some 30% of Israelis think the truce will collapse “after a short time,” according to a survey by “Channel 12.”
