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Netanyahu under fire as rivals brand Gaza truce deal a capitulation, but how long will it last?
[YNETNEWS] Benny Gantz warns agreement gave terror groups what they wanted and will only lead to further violence, while Likud challenger Gideon Sa'ar says deal gives Israel nothing.
Gaza ceasefire can collapse within days or weeks — security source [IsraelTimes] A security source says the army’s assessment, which has been presented to the government and is supported by intelligence officials, is that without increasing diplomatic efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gazoo Strip, the current ceasefire will only hold for several days or weeks.
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group will not try to disrupt daily life in Israel ahead of the Eurovision contest next week, the source adds, according to Hebrew-language media. The government demanded that the flareup reach its end as quickly as possible and "with the most achievements possible," the source says. The source says the prevailing assessment in Israel is that one of the reasons Islamic Jihad agreed to the ceasefire was that for the first time since 2014, its targets were struck as well as Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,’s sites. Posted by: Fred 2019-05-07 |
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