The attacks over the past three days have claimed the lives of 31 Palestinians in the Strip, including six children.
Three days after Israel launched “preemptive” Operation Dawn against possible retaliation for the arrest of an Islamic Jihad leader in the West Bank, calm is said to be about to return to Gaza. This was brought up this Sunday by the Egyptian authorities, who have acted as mediator in a ceasefire agreement between the Tel Aviv military and the terrorist group, which is expected to close at 8 p.m. local time. will come into effect. If confirmed, the pact would end hostilities that have claimed the lives of 31 people in the Strip, including six children, since Friday.
The consensus between the parties, as revealed by the Haaretz newspaper, would include Israeli concessions to reduce the fuel shortage in the Gaza Strip. An extremely serious situation that the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the Strip, warned this Sunday, assuring that the enclave’s hospitals would run out of fuel within 48 hours to power their emergency generators. . The reason: the closure on Saturday of the only power plant in Gaza due to the blockade that preceded the campaign of attacks by the Jewish state against Islamic Jihad.
The possible ceasefire would come after a few final hours of extreme convulsions, during which Jewish state forces continued the siege as the terrorist group fired 400 projectiles – between rockets and mortar shells – into Israeli soil. However, the military indicated that 97% of the artifacts were intercepted by the anti-missile shield. But this didn’t stop panic and chaos in cities like Tel Aviv, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Sderot and Jerusalem, where dozens of people had to be treated for bruises as they fled to shelters.
The warning sirens that sounded in Jerusalem for the first time on Friday since the latest outbreak of violence sparked fear on a day when hundreds of Israelis commemorated a Jewish holiday in the holy city, with nationalists visiting the Esplanade of the mosques, known in Judaism. as the ‘Temple Mount’. On the other hand, in Gaza, Israeli forces have since arrested some 20 members of Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, in addition to another 20 who were arrested on Saturday.
The terrorist organization, for its part, confirmed the death of the group’s leader in the south of the Strip, Khaled Mansour, in an airstrike in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. This execution and that of Taysir al Jabari ‘Abu Mahmud’, one of the main leaders of Jihad, who was assassinated in Gaza on Friday, are some of the reasons that the head of Israel’s intelligence and internal security services (Shin Bet) has brought forward. , Ronen Bar, for the government to agree to the ceasefire.
According to Bar, the ‘Dawn’ operation would have delivered more benefits than expected, especially the ‘strategic goal’ of closing a gap between the terrorist group and Hamas, which has remained relatively quiet during the confrontation. Instead, delaying the campaign could undo that feat and lead to a bloody scenario, such as the May 2021 Eleven Day War, in which 260 people died on the Palestinian side and 14 in Israel. It’s about, he stressed, “avoiding potential mistakes that could lead to a wider conflict that Tel Aviv doesn’t want.”
Source: La Verdad
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