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Fighter jets attacked a Hamas military compound used for training and the production of weapons, as well as a tunnel, the IDF reported.
“Iran sent 10 ships full of weapons to the West Bank and Gaza ... most people do not know about these ships,” says the Syria-based terrorist group’s secretary general.
Some protesters ran towards the fence, triggering tear gas and limited bullet fire by Israeli forces; 14 people were injured in the clash.
“Isn’t it forbidden to educate [children] to take up arms?” tweets Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee.
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.
The violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett travels to the United States to meet U.S. President Joe Biden.
Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej argues that as past Israeli leaders dealt directly with late PLO leader Yasser Arafat , the government should do the same with Hamas.
Incendiary devices launched from Gaza spark multiple fires in the Western Negev area • Terrorist groups in the Strip announce the date of the next border riot.
The Israeli Defense Forces began utilizing bulldozers to build new mounds that will give security forces better control of the border area.
Calls for the 85-year-old to resign have grown since the death of anti-corruption activist Nizar Banat in June.
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.
