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In response to the launch of
dozens of incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip
against southern Israel that caused 27 fires, the Israeli Air Force has attacked several military positions of the Islamist group Hamas in the first major review of the fragile truce that began last 21 of May. After communicating that the facilities "served as
bases for terrorist activities by the Jan Yunes and Gaza brigades,"
the Army warned that "it is prepared for any scenario, including the resumption of hostilities, based on terrorist actions from the Gaza Strip. Loop".
It is also the first litmus test of the new government led by Prime Minister
Naftali Bennett
and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister since 2023,
Yair Lapid,
since his inauguration this Sunday that ended 12 years in a row of Benjamin Netanyahu in power. .
As happened at the start of the escalation five weeks ago,
Jerusalem has once again been the source of tension.
On Tuesday morning, Hamas released incendiary balloons and warnings to Israel in the wake of the so-called "Parade of Flags." This event, which took place in the afternoon, was organized by several ultra-nationalist associations after it was interrupted on May 10 - "Jerusalem Day" celebrated in Israel as its festival of "reunification" after the war of '67 - due to the seven projectiles launched by Hamas against the disputed village.
The nationalist march was scheduled for last Thursday but the cabinet still headed by Netanyahu decided to postpone it. The new Minister of Internal Security, Labor
Omer Bar-Lev,
who a week ago criticized the call for the march, authorized it on Tuesday but with a different route that minimized contact with the Palestinian inhabitants of the eastern part of Jerusalem. Part of the 4000 participants were able to reach the esplanade of the Damascus Gate to sing, dance and wave the Israeli flags, but they did not cross this access to the old town, occupied by Israel in the war of '67, nor did they visit the Muslim quarter. Three Palestinians who were injured in minor crashes
needed to be hospitalized
in a shift that mobilized 2,000 police officers.
Lapid has condemned the cries of
"death to the Arabs"
from protesters at the Damascus Gate: "It is inconceivable how you can hold up the Israeli flag and at the same time shout death to the Arabs.
This is not Judaism or Israelity.
These people they are an embarrassment to the people of Israel. "
After Hamas warned with a response if "Al Aqsa is attacked by settlers" and declared this Tuesday "Day of Wrath", Israel deployed more defensive batteries due to the possibility of resuming the launch of projectiles launched from the Gaza Strip. against their cities.
"We cannot ignore this provocation (parade) but that
does not mean that we will end in a new military confrontation,"
Hamas leader
Mohamed Hamada
had declared in Jerusalem,
revealing that Egypt asked in recent days not to do something to break the truce after 11 days of the worst escalation since 2014, 255 dead in the Gaza Strip and 12 in Israel.
Along with the US, Egypt was key in the mediation for the return to calm although it is still far from propping it up with agreements and incentives.
Jerusalem-Gaza
The "Parade of Flags", which ended as is traditional at the Wailing Wall, put the two great arguments behind the escalation to the test. Israel noted as one of its achievements the restoration of deterrence before Hamas, warning that it would respond to each attack even if they were balloons with explosives. Hamas, for its part, vindicated its role as "protector of Jerusalem and Al Aqsa", presuming that everything that happens in the disputed city has
an immediate response from Gaza.
"The reality has changed", they assured from the pro-Iranian group Islamic Jihad that defined the parade of Jerusalem like "march of the hatred".
Islamist spokesman
Fawzy Barhum
has claimed that the Israeli decision to change at the last minute the route of the parade and even flights at Ben Gurion airport in order to deploy more "Iron Dome" was due to warnings from Hamas which, he added. , "shows that we have imposed a new equation."
"It is a parade of unity of the capital of Israel. Our message to the terrorists is that we are not afraid and that we can walk with our flags in any part of our country including of course our capital," said Matan Peleg, one of the organizers of a march that has been the first litmus test both of the complex new Israeli government coalition (seven parties of the right, center, left and another Arab) and of the fragile truce.
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