Gaza Strip: crossing points reopen, truce still holds

A Hamas police officer signals a tanker carrying fuel to enter the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, August 8, 2022. AP - Adel Hana

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The truce still holds between Israel and the Gaza Strip, even if the interpretation that is made of the ceasefire agreement varies from one camp to another.

This Monday morning, after several postponements, the barriers were lifted and the goods were finally able to enter the besieged Palestinian territory. 

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For the Gazans, after almost a week of hermetic closure, the most important thing is the reopening of the crossing points, reports our correspondent in Jerusalem,

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The tank trucks have been supplying the power station in the Palestinian enclave again since Monday morning, the tanks of which were dry.

Return to normal also on the Israeli side in the kibbutzim and other border villages which had been partly emptied of their inhabitants.

Passive defense is gradually lifting the restrictions that had been imposed in this sector.

A broken truce

But if the truce seems to hold at this stage, Israel announces that it has no intention of releasing the Islamic Jihad leaders arrested in the West Bank.

The leadership of the organization in Gaza had announced that this measure was included in the ceasefire agreement.

This morning and last night, the Israeli army made new arrests in the Jenin area.

Also in the West Bank, the military demolished the houses of the perpetrators of the ax attack in the Israeli town of Elad on 5 May.

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The precarious truce entered into force Sunday evening between the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad and Israel is therefore apparently respected, after three days of hostilities which cost the lives of 44 Palestinians including children in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.

Until the last minutes before the start of the truce, obtained thanks to Egyptian mediation, the Israeli army said it had carried out strikes on Islamic Jihad positions in Gaza " 

" towards the southern Israeli territory where the warning sirens sounded.

The Israeli army said its " 

 " strike came at 11:25 p.m. (8:25 p.m. GMT), with the truce officially beginning at 11:30 p.m. Sunday.

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