Forty-four Palestinians were killed during the Israeli military operation in the Palestinian enclave. The Islamist organization requires the release of two prisoners.
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Until the end, Palestinian rockets and Israeli bombs crossed into the sky of Gaza, even overflowing a little on the planned time of the truce. Finally, Sunday, August 7, shortly after 11:30 p.m., under Egyptian mediation, Israel and Islamic jihad silenced their arms. A fragile ceasefire for which the Islamist movement says it has obtained “the commitment of Egypt to work in favor of the release of two prisoners”: Khalil Awawdeh, detained without charges, with flickering health after almost 150 Days of hunger strike, and Bassam al-Saadi, head of Islamic jihad in occupied West Bank.
This is his arrest, the 1 er August in Jenine, in the north of the West Bank which precipitated the murderous climbing. First, after threats, the Israeli authorities completed the localities around Gaza. Then Friday, shortly after 4 p.m., breaking the relative calm in the enclave, Israel launched a first series of bombings “to thwart an attack” against civilians, according to the army. These strikes killed the commander of the armed branch of Islamic jihad, Tayssir al-Jabari, but also a 5-year-old girl.
The Islamist movement retaliated by pulling nearly a thousand rockets in the weekend, without making victims. On Saturday, the Israelis killed another head of Islamic jihad, Khaled Mansour, Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Local Health, 44 Palestinians were killed, including fifteen children and 360 were injured. Islamic jihad and Israel are rejecting two explosions that would have made nine victims, including eight children and adolescents.
Bombings behind clos
Like last year, the Hebrew state led its closed -door bombings: the Gaza strip remained closed with a limited passage open to Egypt. Inside, the 2.3 million Gazaouis, under blockade since 2007 and still traumatized a year barely after the war of May 2021, were again trapped in overcrowded buildings, without humanitarian corridor or anti-bomb shelters .
on Sunday, the government and the Israeli media considered itself satisfied with the military operation. “We have achieved our objectives,” Israeli Prime Minister Yaïr Lapid said to the mayors of Israeli localities to Gaza. “We have eradicated all senior security executives of Islamic jihad,” explained the director of operations, Major-General Oded Basiuk.
If climbing has not been transformed into an open war, it is largely because Hamas, the widest Islamist movement at the head of Gaza, condemned the Israeli attack but did not launch No rocket. The organization, via the organ which brings together the Palestinian factions in the enclave, has probably been largely associated with operations, behind the scenes.
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