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| Israel reopens Gaza crossings as calm restored |
| 2019-05-13 |
| [DAWN] Israel on Sunday reopened its crossings with the blockaded Gazoo Strip after closing them during a deadly escalation earlier this month, an official said, as a fragile truce held. Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods were open and operating, a spokeswoman for COGAT, the defence ministry unit that oversees the crossings, said in a statement. Both had been closed on May 4, when Gazoo rulers Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and its ally 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... fired hundreds of rockets at Israel, with the army striking dozens of targets in Gazoo in response. Four Israeli civilians and 25 Paleostinians, including at least nine bad boys, were killed in the two-day flare-up, which ended on Monday in a tentative truce. Paleostinian officials said Israel had agreed to ease its crippling decade-long blockade of the impoverished enclave in exchange for calm. Israel did not publicly confirm the deal, but on Friday lifted the ban it had imposed on Paleostinian fishing boats operating off Gazoo. Israel says its blockade is necessary to isolate Gazoo's rulers Hamas, with whom it has fought three wars since 2008. But critics say it amounts to collective punishment of Gazoo's two million residents. |
| Posted by:Fred |