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The Palestinian Hamas movement, which has ruled the Gaza Strip for more than a decade, announced on Monday afternoon an “agreement” to end the shooting with Israel, which was almost daily in August.
“At the end of the dialogue and numerous contacts, the last one with the Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi, an agreement was reached to de-escalate and end the Zionist aggression against our people,” said a statement from the office of the Hamas political leader. in Gaza. .
The Israeli army has been bombing the Gaza Strip almost every night since August 6 in retaliation for incendiary balloons and even rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave into Israeli territory.
In response to the incendiary balloons, which sparked more than 400 fires in Israel, according to a data collection by the fire service, the Jewish state tightened its blockade on the Gaza Strip by closing the Kerem Salom crossing and detaining goods. on Palestinian soil, forcing the shutdown of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip.
This escalation in Gaza has intensified in the last week between the epidemic and the first cases of COVID-19 outside of local “quarantine centers”, raising fears of a rapid spread of the virus in a small and densely populated area. In Gaza, half of the two million people live below the poverty line, are subject to regular shelling and have no electricity.
According to a Hamas source, who asked not to be identified, all Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip agreed to stop firing balloons and incendiary missiles. According to the same source, Gaza will be refueled starting tomorrow, Tuesday, with fuel that will allow the reopening of the local power plant.
Source: ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ, AFP
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