Israel on Wednesday announced it would reopen its border crossings with the 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, as well as the coastal enclave’s fishing zone, as a ceasefire with Paleostinian terror groups continued to hold days after a violent flareup.
Over the course of Sunday and Monday, 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...
terror group fired roughly 100 rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel. In response, the Israel Defense Forces launched several waves of retaliatory strikes against the organization in Gaza and ‐ in a highly irregular move ‐ inside Syria.
Fighting ended late Monday night with Islamic Jihad announcing it would stop firing rockets if Israel also halted
...KABOOM!...s.
In light of the relative calm along the border, Israel decided to fully reopen the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings and to again allow Paleostinian fisherman to operate off the Gaza coast, up to 15 nautical miles from the shore.
| I notice there is no mention of permits for Gazans to enter Israel to work. Perhaps this hudna will last long enough for that to be added later, though I’d not put money on it. |
"Following a new situation assessment ‐ and assuming the security stability remains ‐ it was decided to return to service the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings beginning tomorrow (Thursday) morning. In addition, the fishing zone will return to 15 nautical miles," Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians said in a statement.
The Kerem Shalom Crossing functions as the Gaza Strip’s main terminus for commercial goods, as well as fuel, while Erez is a pedestrian crossing used by Paleostinian businessmen and workers, as well as people receiving medical treatment.
Israel has routinely used the opening and closing of these crossings and the shortening and extending of the fishing zone over the years as alternately penalty and reward for the Gaza Strip, which many human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
group decry as a form of collective punishment.
| The Jerusalem Post adds: |
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., aided by Egyptian officials and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.