The israeli army has increased the pressure on Thursday on the Hamas, and has also cut off access to fuel in the Gaza strip.
now was The time for retaliation. The israeli army has increased the pressure on Thursday on Hamas by multiplying the air strikes and by cutting off access to fuel in the Gaza strip to try to curb a wave of throws balloons fire from the palestinian enclave.
over the past week, the israeli army has claimed responsibility for a series of strikes night against the positions of Hamas, armed islamist movement in power in the Gaza strip, in response to the firing of balloons incendiary some of which are at the origin of bush fires in the south of Israel, which are, however, not made a victim.
Stop the import of fuel
in an attempt To deter these attacks, the israeli authorities, who impose for more than a decade in a blockade on the palestinian territory, have in recent hours successively reduced from 15 to 8 nautical miles fishing zone in the Mediterranean for the people of Gaza, carried out air strikes and halted fuel deliveries to the enclave.
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Israel was already closed since Tuesday, the post of Kerem Shalom, where are the goods to Gaza, language of earth populated by two million inhabitants, of which more than half live below the poverty line, according to the World Bank, excluding, however, the fuel deliveries and the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance.
But on Thursday morning, the ministry of Defence of israel announced that “stop the import of fuel in the Gaza strip” because of “sending continuous balloon incendiary” from the enclave. In the night, “the combat aircraft and tanks have hit” a “military site used for the naval forces of Hamas’ underground infrastructure and observation posts,” said the israeli army.
Missile in a school
These strikes did not hurt, but a “missile that did not explode, fired by the israeli air force” has been found in a school in the Shati refugee camp, said a security source in gaza AFP, adding that “the teams of bomb disposal experts were on site”. A spokesman for the un Agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, has confirmed that the missile had been discovered in a school administered by this branch of the UN.
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After five months of closure due to the pandemic of Covid-19, which was relatively unscathed from the Gaza strip, local schools have resumed their activities last Saturday. “We closed the school and wait for the result of an investigation to determine what happened and assess the extent of damage,” said Adnan Abu Hasna to the AFP.
For its part, the israeli army investigation on this missile, said a military spokesman to AFP. And the regional council of Shaar Hanegev, a group of municipalities in israel located on the edge of the Gaza strip, has at least a bunch of incendiary, an explosive charge tied to balloons and injected helium, which had landed on israeli side Thursday morning.
money of Qatar ?
Despite a truce last year, favored by the UN, Egypt and Qatar, Hamas and Israel, which have already delivered three wars (2008, 2012, 2014) clash sporadically with rockets, mortar shells or balloons fire from Gaza and air strikes in retaliation of the israeli army. According to analysts, the palestinians, the firing from Gaza are often intended to put pressure on the jewish State to give its green light to the entry of the financial help of Qatar in the enclave, as provided in the agreement of truce.
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fire balloons incendiary are a “message” from Hamas to Israel to try to “improve the economic conditions in the enclave, ease the blockade and to implement part of the agreements reached by the two sides via Egypt,” said this week at the AFP Jamal Al-Fadi, professor of political science at al-Azhar University of Gaza.