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Col. (res.) David Hacham, a former Arab-affairs adviser to Israeli defense ministers, says any expectation of a significant change in Hamas’s extreme worldview is fantasy; the latest violence is part of a Hamas bid to “change the rules of the equation” with Israel.
Palestinian officials say they also expect to receive 1 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in September.
Despite intelligence-sharing between the neighboring countries, Cairo has not invited an Israeli prime minister to visit since 2013, the year Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power.
The violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett travels to the United States to meet U.S. President Joe Biden.
Retired Israeli general and former politician Effi Eitam says he can no longer remain silent over what he sees as the country losing its principles and character.
The Israeli Defense Forces began utilizing bulldozers to build new mounds that will give security forces better control of the border area.
It comes as Israel and the United Nations allowed the transfer of Qatari funds to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Cairo is reportedly impatient about the lack of progress in the Egyptian-led indirect talks between the terror group and Israel.
During the three-hour riot, Palestinians hurled explosives and fired at Israeli forces, and tried to scale the border fence, according to the IDF. Border Police Sgt. Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli was shot in the head at point-blank range.
The event, which is to be modeled on the 2018-2020 “March of Return” border riots, is part of an effort by Hamas to pressure Israel into granting it access to Qatari cash.
Israel went ahead with opening up shipping, despite recent rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The two leaders discussed “diplomatic, security and economic aspects of Israel-Egypt relations, as well as the Egyptian mediation in the security situation vis-à-vis the Gaza Strip.”
