Four Palestinian youths from the Gaza Strip were killed yesterday at dawn by the Israeli army which claimed that it thwarted a "big operation" in the south of the Gaza Strip. In Cairo, the Arab League condemned Israeli threats to storm the al-Aqsa mosque today, saying it was
They pose a real threat to the Temple Mount.
In detail, a spokesman for the Israeli army claimed that the monitoring devices saw Palestinians armed with Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) who reached the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip, at which point, military forces were mobilized to the scene.
It was reported that when one of the Palestinian resistance fighters crossed the border fence, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on them, which led to their death, while there were no reports of injuries in the center of the Israeli soldiers.
In a subsequent statement, Israeli army spokesman Ronen Menelis categorically denied that the group was a "field officer." According to him, all four of them arrived in order to carry out an operation.
He added that given the group's behavior and equipment, it was possible to say that a major operation had been thwarted and it was not clear whether it targeted civilians or soldiers.
According to him, the operation began around 4 am, when the four gunmen approached the border fence, and then the "battalion 12" was mobilized.
The formation of such a group requires a long time of preparation, which means that it is "not spontaneous" to conclude that Hamas is responsible for it, Manelis said. "The expectation was that Hamas would prevent such events, especially because of the long time required by such an organization," he said. this group".
He said the group was armed with Kalashnikovs, each carrying a bag and food to cross the border fence and stay in the area, and had sophisticated weapons.
According to him, it was clear that they planned to cross the border fence opposite Deir al-Balah, and as they approached there was an exchange of fire when someone crossed the fence.
He also pointed out that the army still retains the four bodies, and that it is not responsible for «the policy of prisoners and missing persons», adding that «these days are very sensitive, in light of what happened in the West Bank».
Yesterday's events came at a time when the Israeli occupation forces are continuing a search campaign in the occupied West Bank, after finding the body of a soldier who was stabbed to death near the settlement «Migdal Oz» between the cities of Hebron and Bethlehem. There were conflicting reports about the relationship of three of the martyrs to «field control» of Hamas. Sources claimed that the three ran behind a fourth person, who was carrying explosive devices, and tried to reach the border fence, but the Israeli occupation forces fired at four of them, all of them martyred.
It was learned that the martyrs were Abdullah Hamaydeh (21 years), Abdullah al-Omari (19 years), Abdullah al-Masri, and Ahmed Adini (20 years). He also learned that the Israeli occupation forces arrived at the site where the four young men were killed.
Haaretz quoted Israeli security sources as saying that since the four were armed, the event was "not spontaneous" but planned by a faction in the Gaza Strip. The sources added that the target of the Palestinian group is not yet clear whether the abduction of an Israeli soldier or citizen or targeting Israeli soldiers near the border fence. For its part, Palestinian sources said that the Israeli warplanes bombed, at dawn yesterday, monitoring points belonging to «field control» east of the city of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
The sources added that the Israeli shelling came after hearing the sound of mutual gunfire from a light and heavy weapon amid the firing of a large number of lighting bombs near the gate «Tiger» and landfill east of Deir al-Balah.
She stressed that an active movement of the mechanisms of occupation was observed inside the security fence, while talking about an attempt to infiltrate inside the fence based on similar incidents previously.
In Gaza, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that Israel committed a crime yesterday by killing Palestinian youths "angry with the Israeli siege" on the Gaza Strip.
A spokesman for the movement, Abdul Latif al-Qanu, said in a press statement that "the state of anger and pressure experienced by our people because of the continued siege on the Gaza Strip bears the consequences of the occupation."
"The continuation of the crimes of the occupation and its aggressive behavior and the unjust siege of Gaza will prompt the angry and rebellious youth to do individual reactions in response," he said.
On the other hand, Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories Said Abu Ali asserted that the current Israeli planning and preparations for storming Al-Aqsa constitute a real threat to the Temple Mount. Extremists and settlers stormed the courtyards of the Temple Mount and desecrated Al-Aqsa today, which marks the first day of Eid al-Adha under the protection of the police and the occupation army under the pretext of the memory of the so-called "ruin of the Temple."
Abu Ali said in a statement that in light of the threats to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in the last few days and the settlement of Jerusalem, and the continuous Judaization and intensive, and the last was the call of settlers to storm Al-Aqsa on the first day of Eid, pointing out that this difficult challenge to the feelings of Muslims in the place Time and aggression on their rights and sanctities.
The Assistant Secretary-General said that the Arab League strongly condemns these Israeli practices and aggression, which is disregarded by law and human values.
The Assistant Secretary-General also condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Ramallah to establish 650 new settlement units and lay the foundation stone for the establishment of new settlement units, as a continuation of the approach of undermining power, the two-state solution and all prospects for peace.