The calm after the storm began in the early hours of the morning. Around three o’clock, the alarm systems went silent on the Israeli side, the army ceased its attacks on Gaza.
Previously, around 60 rockets from the coastal strip on the Jewish state had been fired, some of the intercepted screen “Iron dome repeated,” from the sky. Israel, in turn, attacked Hamas targets in Gaza, including the house, in the office of the chief of the terrorist organization, Ismail Haniya, had been found.
For safety, remained Tuesday in the communities close to the Gaza strip, many schools closed, events were less than 300 participants is limited, work will be coordinated in the fields near the border fence with the army. The tension remained. And with it, the question is whether the situation will escalate or is it a weapon would still be achieved.
attack as a distraction?
As mentioned during the clashes in the past few months, is also this time, as sure that none of the pages has a serious interest in a war. A guarantee for peace but it is not. Above all, the Hamas is currently under political pressure, what is likely to be a reason for the recent crisis.
Although she denied the responsibility and claimed to want the situation to escalate. The Israeli army is, however, sure that the radical Islamists were behind the missile attack on a residential building in the center of Israel on Monday morning. Seven people were injured – the reason for Israel’s retaliation.
attack as a distraction? It would be a cynical manoeuvre by the Hamas, in order to draw the attention of the population in Gaza, again on the arch-enemy of Israel. Because the people in the meantime, the own leaders for their misery responsible.
people in Need. In the Gaza strip, hundreds of thousands in need of humanitarian assistance.Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP
“The Palestinians are incredibly angry: on Israel, the United States, the Arab States, of which they feel left in the lurch”, says middle East expert Ronni Shaked from the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “But more and more often they blame now the Hamas, because they realize that do nothing to change the situation in Gaza.”
hundreds of people gathered Recently under the Hashtag #we want to live in several places in the Gaza strip, reported Palestinian Journalist Rames Gul. “There should be peaceful protests, especially the young men. Some held empty pots, and cried:
The youth unemployment rate is more than 60 percent, there is a lack of drinking water and electricity. However, Hamas has to blame for the misery in the coastal strip, do not want to listen to the leader. Brutally they left the rallies. “They beat up young men and detained, journalists have been intimidated. 15 of my colleagues has been arrested,“ says Gul. He had been warned to report more about the protests.
A serious Challenger to Netanyahu
While Hamas pushes your opponent, fighting on the other side of the border fence by Benjamin Netanyahu to his political Survival. With the former army chief Benny Gantz and his Alliance blue and he has white for the first time a serious opponent.
in Addition, state attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has announced that it will soon be officially charged with three corruption cases against the Prime submit. Now the opponent before throwing him to react to weak to the attacks of the Islamists.
A success for Netanyahu. Donald Trump recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan.Photo: Susan Walsh/AP/dpa
The operations of the Israeli army on Monday evening was coordinated by Netanyahu of Washington. There, he was able to score a foreign policy success. To flew while at home, the soldiers of the first attacks on targets in Gaza, US President, Donald Trump signed in his presence a decree, with the America, the Golan heights recognizes as part of Israel.
Netanyahu beamed mischievously for the cameras. It is a campaign gift of his political allies had, and the Netanyahu for quite some time. Israel had conquered a part of the Golan heights during the six-day war in 1967 from Syria, and in 1981 annexed. This contradicts the international law, from the Rest of the international community of States, the step was not accepted so far.
reservations of the Gulf States in the matter of Golan
Within Israel’s claim to the Golan in many Parts of the company, undisputed. You justified it with the strategic importance of the area in the North, especially after years of the Syrian civil war, in which the arch-enemy Iran has established more and more in the neighbouring state. “We don’t want to experience another attack like this Morning in the North of Israel,” Trump said at the press conference on Monday.
will show Whether it is at the end of this step does more harm than good. Many Gulf States have criticized the President and were, therefore, exceptionally, with the Iran agreement. From Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, it was said that the recognition will have a negative impact on the peace process in the Middle East. Most recently, the United States had tried to gain the support of some of the Gulf monarchies for Trumps “the ultimate peace plan”.
For Netanyahu’s next after the successful short stay in the USA at home tense. Once again his country has come over the war is over, for the time being. From Gaza, it was said on Tuesday afternoon that Israel stood as a condition for a cease-fire, an end to any activities along the border call as well as the cancellation of the planned protest on the anniversary of the “March of return”.
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