An unnamed Israeli official from the prime minister’s office issued an explicit denial of any talks, saying “there are no meetings with Hamas“.
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Marine warfare has been at the heart of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, which Israel considers a terror group.
Today, reports have surfaced that Hamas naval units known as frogmen have have captured one of the most unique agents in Israel’s Mossad Spy Agency.
“Nothing new has been accomplished in this respect and all that happened this time is presenting papers and ideas that are discussed but it hasn’t reached the status of maturity”, Yousef said. The bus, which was carrying around 50 Palestinian passengers, was ambushed while on the way from Rafah on the Egypt-Gaza border to Cairo global Airport, according a report by the Middle East Monitor.
Hamas and Israel are bitter enemies and have fought three wars since Hamas violently wrested control of Gaza in 2007 from forces loyal to the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The agreement, carried out unilaterally by Hamas without consulting the Palestinian Authority, strengthens the political divide with Fatah and will eventually detach Gaza completely from the West Bank and Jerusalem, he argued.
However, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has maintained that any such co-operation between the two states would be dependent on Israel easing Gaza’s blockade. A third source, Israel Today, said that the dolphin was dragged onto a beach for inspection.
Al Saifi will remain in detention until issues with his paperwork are resolved, he said.
A second security source said Asseify was detained at dawn on Monday.
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Interior ministry spokesman Iyad Bezem said in a statement that the kidnapping took place late Wednesday night in the troubled northern Sinai region as the bus headed for the Rafah border crossing into Gaza.
