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Hamas announces: No Gaza border protests this Friday
2019-11-15
[Jpost] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", announced on Thursday that there will not be 'March of Return' this Friday, according to a Channel 13 report. This would be the first time that the protests are cancelled since March 2109, over half a year ago.

According to the report, the Hamas announcement came in an attempt to deescalate the situation following over 400 rockets that were launched at Israel by the 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...
as a response to IDF operation 'Black Belt' that killed PIJ commander Bahaa Abu al-Ata.

The weekly protests along the Israel-Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
border began on March 30, 2018, they were planned to be a six-week campaign to demand that Israel allow Paleostinian refugees and their descendants to return to their former homes in Israel. That’s why the organizers, mostly social media activists, chose to call the protests the "Great March of Return."

Hamas’ failure to join the round of fighting between Israel and PIJ was one of the main reasons why PIJ agreed to the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, Paleostinians said on Thursday.

Sources close to Hamas explained that the movement chose not to involve itself in the fighting out of fear of dragging the Gaza Strip into an all-out war with Israel.

"The residents of the Gaza Strip can’t afford another major war like the one that took place in 2014," the sources said, referring to the seven-week Operation Protective Edge military offensive after Hamas fired rockets into Israel.

According to the sources, Hamas did not believe that the liquidation of al-Ata was sufficient to spark another war with Israel. "As far as Hamas was concerned, this was an internal issue concerning Paleostinian Islamic Jihad," the sources explained. "While Hamas did not try to stop the group from avenging the death of its commander, it saw no reason why its men should join the rocket attacks on Israel."
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