The International Spectator - Gaza groups, Israel seek political gains after flare-up
Neither Israel, Gaza’s Hamas rulers nor Islamic Jihad want to see the latest round of cross-border fighting escalate but each side seeks to consolidate political gains, analysts said Thursday.
“Most of the rockets fired (at Israel) by Islamic Jihad were aimed at uninhabited areas,” said Adnan Abu Amr, a politics professor at Gaza’s Ummah University.
And Israel’s retaliatory air strikes on the Palestinian territory mainly hit militant training bases whose occupants had deserted them hours before.
“The sides are sending the message that they do not wish to embark on unlimited confrontation,” he said.
After firing more than 60 rockets from Gaza into southern Israel since Wednesday evening and suffering 36 Israeli air strikes in retaliation, Islamic Jihad said on Thursday that an Egyptian-brokered truce had gone into effect to halt the spiral of violence.
Israeli former National Security Advisor Uzi Dayan said that the Jewish state was waging “a battle of deterrence”.
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Neither Israel, Gaza’s Hamas rulers nor Islamic Jihad want to see the latest round of cross-border fighting escalate but each side seeks to consolidate political gains, analysts said Thursday.
“Most of the rockets fired (at Israel) by Islamic Jihad were aimed at uninhabited areas,” said Adnan Abu Amr, a politics professor at Gaza’s Ummah University.
And Israel’s retaliatory air strikes on the Palestinian territory mainly hit militant training bases whose occupants had deserted them hours before.
“The sides are sending the message that they do not wish to embark on unlimited confrontation,” he said.
After firing more than 60 rockets from Gaza into southern Israel since Wednesday evening and suffering 36 Israeli air strikes in retaliation, Islamic Jihad said on Thursday that an Egyptian-brokered truce had gone into effect to halt the spiral of violence.
Israeli former National Security Advisor Uzi Dayan said that the Jewish state was waging “a battle of deterrence”.
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