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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Israel will close crossing point to Gaza in retaliation for incendiary kites
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Gate of Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, whose closure was announced on Monday. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday the
close of the Kerem Shalom crossing point between Israel and Gaza. The
crossing is located near the Egyptian border and serves as the main
entry point for commercial goods and humanitarian aid. The closing
will lead to sharp cuts in the flow of commercial goods into Gaza,
although humanitarian aid, food and medicine will still be allowed
through, approved on an individual basis.
The move is retaliation for a wave of incendiary kites and balloons
with firebombs attached that have been launched in recent weeks from
Gaza into Israel. Israeli authorities say that the firebombs have set
fire to 7,000 acres of forest and farmland in southern Israel.
Netanyahu said that additional steps will be taken to try to stop the
kites and balloons:
<QUOTE>"About Gaza, I have been telling you for some time
that I do not intend to publicize in advance all the steps that we
are taking or planning. But the Defense Minister and I agree that
we will be heavy-handed with the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip –
immediately. In a significant step, today we are closing the Kerem
Shalom crossing. There will be additional steps; I will not go
into details."<END QUOTE>
An Israeli army statement announced an additional member to be taken
immediately. Gaza’s designated fishing zone will be reduced from nine
to six nautical miles off the coast throughout the duration of the
season. This is a reversal of a decision to expand the fishing zone.
The fishing zone is usually six naval miles wide but was temporarily
expanded to nine miles three months ago.
The statement added the following:
<QUOTE>"If Hamas continues in this direction, these decisions
will continue and will intensify. The Hamas terrorist organization
is responsible for what is happening inside the Gaza Strip and
coming out of it. Hamas is dragging the population of Gaza into
the abyss, and the Israeli Defense Forces will continue to work to
preserve Israel's security interests."<END QUOTE>
A Hamas spokesman said that closing the crossing point was "a new
crime against humanity added to the black record of the Israeli
occupation against our Palestinian people and our people in the Gaza
Strip." He added:
<QUOTE>"International and regional silence for the crime of
the suffocating siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for (nearly) 12
years has encouraged the Israeli enemy to carry on with its
criminal measures that violate human rights and international
laws. Therefore, Hamas calls on the international community to
act immediately and prevent this crime and its dangerous
consequences."<END QUOTE>
However, Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the
incendiary kites and balloons deserve even harsher punishment that
Israel inflicted on Gaza in Operation Protective Edge, the 2014 war in
Gaza which killed 74 Israeli soldiers and thousands of Gaza civilians:
"The way Hamas is conducting itself, it could pay a heavier price than
it did in Protective Edge. This situation, in which every day our
woodlands are being burned every day cannot continue,"
Liberman on Monday also announced that he was designing the
Lebanon-based al-Quds television network as a terrorist organization,
accusing it of being an arm of Hamas. This will permit Israel to
impose economic sanctions on the network. However, a spokesman for
the network said, "The decision on the al-Quds channel is another step
of terror that joins the other violent decisions Israel has taken
against the Palestinian people." World Israel News and Middle East Eye and YNet News (Israel) and Times of Israel
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**** The incendiary kite attacks began with 'The Great March for Return'
****
The "Great March for Return" began on March 30 of this year, when
thousands of Gazans demonstrated near the border fence separating Gaza
from Israel and sometimes attempting to break through the fence. The
objective was for Palestinians to exercise their "Right of Return," to
regain the lands where their ancestors had lived, prior to the 1947
war between Arabs and Jews that followed the partitioning of Palestine
and the creation of the state of Israel.
When the Great March for Return began, Israeli authorities were
concerned that if a group of Gaza activists broke through the fence,
they would attack Israeli homes. Israel's army retaliated first with
tear gas and then with live gunfire. During the first march, 16
Palestinians were killed, and hundreds were wounded.
The demonstrations peaked on May 14, which the Palestinians
commemorate as "Naqba Day" or "Catastrophe Day," commemorating the
founding, in 1948, of the state of Israel. In addition, May 14 is the
day announced by the Trump administration when the official US embassy
to Israel will move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
After that, the demonstrations on the Gaza border began to diminish,
but there were replaced by a new tactic, the incendiary kites and
balloons, which have been in use to this day.
The incendiary kites and balloons appear to have baffled the Israeli
military, which has not found a way to deal with them, putting the
Netanyahu government under pressure to solve the problem. The
announcements on Monday, including closing the Kerem Shalom crossing
point between Israel and Gaza, is retaliation for the kites and
balloons, but it remains to be seen whether the retaliatory acts will
prevent them. Reuters and Israel National News
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Kerem Shalom, Egypt,
Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Liberman, Operation Protective Edge,
al-Quds television, Great March for Return,
Naqba Day, Catastrophe Day
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Israel will close crossing point to Gaza in retaliation for incendiary kites
- The incendiary kite attacks began with 'The Great March for Return'
****
**** Israel will close crossing point to Gaza in retaliation for incendiary kites
****
Gate of Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, whose closure was announced on Monday. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday the
close of the Kerem Shalom crossing point between Israel and Gaza. The
crossing is located near the Egyptian border and serves as the main
entry point for commercial goods and humanitarian aid. The closing
will lead to sharp cuts in the flow of commercial goods into Gaza,
although humanitarian aid, food and medicine will still be allowed
through, approved on an individual basis.
The move is retaliation for a wave of incendiary kites and balloons
with firebombs attached that have been launched in recent weeks from
Gaza into Israel. Israeli authorities say that the firebombs have set
fire to 7,000 acres of forest and farmland in southern Israel.
Netanyahu said that additional steps will be taken to try to stop the
kites and balloons:
<QUOTE>"About Gaza, I have been telling you for some time
that I do not intend to publicize in advance all the steps that we
are taking or planning. But the Defense Minister and I agree that
we will be heavy-handed with the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip –
immediately. In a significant step, today we are closing the Kerem
Shalom crossing. There will be additional steps; I will not go
into details."<END QUOTE>
An Israeli army statement announced an additional member to be taken
immediately. Gaza’s designated fishing zone will be reduced from nine
to six nautical miles off the coast throughout the duration of the
season. This is a reversal of a decision to expand the fishing zone.
The fishing zone is usually six naval miles wide but was temporarily
expanded to nine miles three months ago.
The statement added the following:
<QUOTE>"If Hamas continues in this direction, these decisions
will continue and will intensify. The Hamas terrorist organization
is responsible for what is happening inside the Gaza Strip and
coming out of it. Hamas is dragging the population of Gaza into
the abyss, and the Israeli Defense Forces will continue to work to
preserve Israel's security interests."<END QUOTE>
A Hamas spokesman said that closing the crossing point was "a new
crime against humanity added to the black record of the Israeli
occupation against our Palestinian people and our people in the Gaza
Strip." He added:
<QUOTE>"International and regional silence for the crime of
the suffocating siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for (nearly) 12
years has encouraged the Israeli enemy to carry on with its
criminal measures that violate human rights and international
laws. Therefore, Hamas calls on the international community to
act immediately and prevent this crime and its dangerous
consequences."<END QUOTE>
However, Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the
incendiary kites and balloons deserve even harsher punishment that
Israel inflicted on Gaza in Operation Protective Edge, the 2014 war in
Gaza which killed 74 Israeli soldiers and thousands of Gaza civilians:
"The way Hamas is conducting itself, it could pay a heavier price than
it did in Protective Edge. This situation, in which every day our
woodlands are being burned every day cannot continue,"
Liberman on Monday also announced that he was designing the
Lebanon-based al-Quds television network as a terrorist organization,
accusing it of being an arm of Hamas. This will permit Israel to
impose economic sanctions on the network. However, a spokesman for
the network said, "The decision on the al-Quds channel is another step
of terror that joins the other violent decisions Israel has taken
against the Palestinian people." World Israel News and Middle East Eye and YNet News (Israel) and Times of Israel
****
**** The incendiary kite attacks began with 'The Great March for Return'
****
The "Great March for Return" began on March 30 of this year, when
thousands of Gazans demonstrated near the border fence separating Gaza
from Israel and sometimes attempting to break through the fence. The
objective was for Palestinians to exercise their "Right of Return," to
regain the lands where their ancestors had lived, prior to the 1947
war between Arabs and Jews that followed the partitioning of Palestine
and the creation of the state of Israel.
When the Great March for Return began, Israeli authorities were
concerned that if a group of Gaza activists broke through the fence,
they would attack Israeli homes. Israel's army retaliated first with
tear gas and then with live gunfire. During the first march, 16
Palestinians were killed, and hundreds were wounded.
The demonstrations peaked on May 14, which the Palestinians
commemorate as "Naqba Day" or "Catastrophe Day," commemorating the
founding, in 1948, of the state of Israel. In addition, May 14 is the
day announced by the Trump administration when the official US embassy
to Israel will move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
After that, the demonstrations on the Gaza border began to diminish,
but there were replaced by a new tactic, the incendiary kites and
balloons, which have been in use to this day.
The incendiary kites and balloons appear to have baffled the Israeli
military, which has not found a way to deal with them, putting the
Netanyahu government under pressure to solve the problem. The
announcements on Monday, including closing the Kerem Shalom crossing
point between Israel and Gaza, is retaliation for the kites and
balloons, but it remains to be seen whether the retaliatory acts will
prevent them. Reuters and Israel National News
Related Articles:
- Israel hopeful that Egypt's mediation has ended Gaza violence - for now (01-Jun-2018)
- Gaza Palestinians burn tires to hide protests from Israel's army (07-Apr-2018)
- Gaza Palestinian 'Land Day' demonstrations lead to violence with Israel's army (01-Apr-2018)
- US embassy to Jerusalem will commemorate Israel's founding -- Palestinian 'Naqba Day' (24-Feb-2018)
- Channeling Sisyphus, Trump and Abbas say Mideast peace not as hard as it looks (04-May-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Kerem Shalom, Egypt,
Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Liberman, Operation Protective Edge,
al-Quds television, Great March for Return,
Naqba Day, Catastrophe Day
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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