Most of the attacks have been stabbings, though shootings have also occurred.
Advertisement
“I think that is understood in the region, it’s understood in the world”.
“In eastern Gaza, heroes are digging tunnels underground, and in western Gaza, heroes above ground are conducting test launches of rockets”, Haniyeh said, according to a translation by the Jerusalem Post.
The stalemate carries grave risks for both sides: a continuation of the deadly wave of terrorism and killings; the collapse of the Palestinian Authority; greater isolation of and global pressure on Israel; and a corrosion of the moral foundation of Israeli and Palestinian societies, ever more inured to the pain of the other.
“Hamdallah told a local radio station in the West Bank city of Ramallah that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas provided Hamas an offer of forming a unity government for three months and then for general elections”. In Israel, 66 soldiers and seven civilians were killed.
Islamic Hamas movement rejected on Sunday the remarks of theUnited NationsSecretary GeneralBan Ki-moonon the question of digging underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has sealed off the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday as part of measures taken following the shooting of three Israeli soldiers.
On Sunday morning, 34-year-old Amjed Sakari, a member of the Palestinian security services, drove up to an Israeli checkpoint reserved exclusively for Palestinian Authority personnel.
“I don’t see anything that warrants living as long as the occupation smothers us and kills our brothers and sisters …”
Israeli soldiers keep guard near the scene of Sunday’s shooting at a military checkpoint near Ramallah.
In the latest violence Monday, the military said a Palestinian attempting to cross the West Bank separation barrier drew a knife when soldiers approached him.
The violence has killed 25 Israelis, as well as an American and an Eritrean, according to an AFP count. More than 160 Palestinians have been killed during the same period, many of whom were caught “in the act” of violence. The rest died in clashes.
“Palestinians – especially young people – are losing hope over what seems a harsh, humiliating and endless occupation”, the United Nations chief wrote.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius last week said his country will recognize a Palestinian state if its efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at an global conference fail.
Advertisement
“The French bid gives incentive for the Palestinians not to compromise”, Netanyahu said at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting, adding that he is “willing to resume direct negotiations without preconditions”.
