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While the deal partially involves the Palestinian Authority, it is being negotiated between Israel and Hamas; thus, P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas is not party to the agreement.
“We hold Hamas responsible for everything coming from Gaza,” said IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.
Jerusalem should not allow itself to be dragged into a war in Gaza that would run against national interests; it would divert Israel from its strategic long-term interests in the northern arena, where more powerful enemies are present.
Approximately 16,000 Gaza Arabs took part in rioting at five locations along the border on Friday, throwing firebombs, burning tires and throwing rocks at Israeli troops.
Hamas military leader Yahya Sinwar reportedly demands that Israel pay Gaza’s rulers $15 million a month or face increased border violence and arson terrorism • Israeli policy in Gaza will be dictated solely by its security interests, the Israeli prime minister asserts.
Understandings call for a complete cessation of violence, including incendiary balloons and weekly border riots, in exchange for easing of restrictions on Gaza Strip.
It underlines two deadly terror attacks in the Barkan Industrial Park and Gush Etzion, as well as attempted stabbings of Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
Among the eight sites in Gaza struck by the Israeli Air Force were a training camp, weapons’ storage facility and military compound belonging to Hamas.
But it’s not as bad as Puerto Rico after the hurricane? It’s not. I think the Hamas guy said the he knew “we don’t have it as bad as other places,” and he mentioned Syria, Yemen, all of Africa, Cambodia, Venezuela—it was a long list.
The New York-based group “interviewed 147 witnesses, including former detainees and their relatives, lawyers, and representatives of nongovernmental groups, and reviewed photographic evidence, medical reports, and court documents.”
Israel’s Defense Ministry ordered the Kerem Shalom goods crossing and Erez pedestrian crossing from Gaza to Israel to be reopened on Sunday morning, noting a decrease in the amount and severity of riots along the border in recent days.
Ziad al-Nakhleh will remotely lead a powerful and well-armed guerilla-terrorist army that has its own arsenal of rockets in Gaza, weapons-production centers, Gazan battalions and terror tunnels.
