Hamas announced on Saturday that mediators of the truce understand Israel's commitment to the implementation of the understandings, while the Israeli occupation forces continue to tighten it on the people of Gaza, with the arrest today three fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, despite yesterday allowed the fishermen to work.
In a radio statement, Hamas spokesman Abdel Latif al-Qanoua said that the head of the political bureau of the movement Ismail Haniyeh received a call Thursday from the United Nations envoy for peace in the Middle East Nikolai Mladenov, in which the latter confirmed the progress of the understandings that have been made.
He said that the Egyptian intelligence delegation, which visited Gaza on Thursday, told Hamas to follow the understandings of the truce and Israel's commitment to implement them, and expected to witness the next few days to implement some of the terms of understandings without mentioning them.
In the context of the Hamas spokesman said that the financial grant announced by Qatar recently will be a starting step on the way to implement the understandings.
For several months, Egyptian, Qatari and UN delegations have been holding ongoing mediation consultations between the factions in Gaza and Israel, with the aim of reaching "final" understandings to ease the siege on the Gaza Strip, in return for the cessation of the continuous return marches near the Gaza Strip border since the end of March 2018. Two delegations Hamas and Islamic Jihad - Wednesday - to Gaza after a visit to Cairo to meet Egyptian Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel and other Egyptian leaders.
| The funeral of the dead martyr Abdullah Jumaa Abdul-Al (Reuters) |
The arrest of fishermen
On the other hand, the captain of the Palestinian fishermen Nizar Ayash said that Israeli naval forces opened fire on fishing boats during their work in the sea west of Gaza City, and surrounded a boat and arrested three fishermen from one family were aboard the sea off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip.
This comes a day after the occupation authorities allowed the fishermen of Gaza to resume work, after it was stopped last Saturday after the aggression on the sector, which lasted until dawn Monday.
At the same time, Israel announced the expansion of fishing area off the shores of the strip from 6 to 12 nautical miles, in the framework of understandings with the Palestinian factions.
Hundreds of people were killed today in the city of Rafah by the bodies of 24-year-old Abdullah Jumaa Abdel-Al, who was shot dead by Israeli forces during the march.