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After 48-hour onslaught, truce holds firm in South
[Jpost] Two days after Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad...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... (PIJ) pummeled Israel with some 700 rockets, and Israel responded with a show of force not seen since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, an undeclared ceasefire held in the South on Monday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, made clear that this would not be the last round of fighting in the coastal enclave. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-07 |
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