A military court in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip has sentenced four people to death on charges of spying for the Tel Aviv regime.
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The Israel Air Force struck a cell that was planting explosives in the northern Gaza Strip, near the border fence, on Wednesday morning. Most others have been killed in clashes with security forces. But some al-Aqsa squads are still active in the enclave – while largely abiding by a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
According to the daily, Hamas members have resumed digging attack tunnels close to the Israeli border fence shortly after the 50-day war ended in late August 2014.
Israeli media reports have quoted military officials as saying they believe Hamas elements have sought to further inflame the violence in hopes of sparking a fully fledged uprising.
Abu Tharifah said that the Palestinian Authority had formed the committee of Palestinian factions, who urged Hamas to agree to the initiative because “time is not on the Palestinians’ side”.
The parents died as poor refugees in Deir Al Balah, in central Gaza, without ever going back to Palestine, without ever seeing Ali again, and without their pride.
Salafists have claimed responsibility for much of the recent rocket fire from Gaza toward Israel. About two-thirds of them are said by Israel to be attackers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Ofir Gendelman on Tuesday described the violent display as yet another example of the “glorification of terrorism” by the Palestinian Authority.
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Ali, who was born in 1951, ran away from home just months after Israel occupied the Gaza Strip (and the rest of historic Palestine) in 1967, without even informing his parents of his decision.
