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GAZA, July 28 (Xinhua) – Open military confrontation between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israelis looms amidst regional and international efforts to reach a long-term settlement agreement and avoid bloody conflicts . In recent weeks, Israel has carried out several air strikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians, while Palestinian factions were firing rockets against the south. Israel
. The Gaza Strip was killed in an Israeli bombardment along the Gaza-Israel border.
Israel said the bombing took place after a Gaza fire fired at an Israeli force stationed at the border, where an Israeli soldier was wounded. On Thursday, Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced that it was in a state of alarm, urging all armed factions in Gaza to be at the highest level of readiness for any Last Friday, four Palestinians, including three Hamas militants, and one Israeli soldier were also killed in one of the most violent tensions between the two sides since Israel's recent war against the Gaza Strip in Gaza City. # 39; summer 2014.
These developments have pushed Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations to make intense efforts to restore calm in the territory blocked by the Israelis
" Field developments in Gaza show that we are facing a state of intermittent escalation. "Adnan Abu Amer, a Gaza-based political expert, told Xinhua
that Abu Amer said that" we are in a state of escalation. he thought that both sides are not interested faced by a confrontation on the ground because it will cost them too much.
According to one expert, this recurring situation of limited clashes can lead them to a decisive stage that will eventually require a truce agreement or a large-scale military action.
Since the beginning of the "Great March of Return" on March 30, Palestinians have called for the lifting of the Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007.
About 148 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire at rallies
To avoid the collapse of an already fragile truce in Gaza, there has been much talk of international and regional efforts to negotiate an agreement between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire agreement -fire strong.
reports, the agreement is supposed to include Israel's humanitarian facilities to improve the dire situation in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the economic field, in exchange for the establishment of the Cease-fire agreement for several years.
The changing situation in Gaza has resulted in Israel reinforcing its blockade on the coastal enclave after imposing additional restrictions on the entry of goods, in particular of raw materials and building materials,
The Israeli decision came in response to Palestinian incendiary militias and helium balloons that were leaving Gaza for Israel, causing major fires. and losses in Israeli territory.
Hamza Abu Shanab, another political observer and writer from Gaza, believes that the on-the-ground behavior of both parties has become the main determinant of escalating or decreasing tensions.
He pointed out that both sides had no political goals for a new war. is more concerned about the growing threats on the northern front with Syria where he is trying to impose a different reality on the Golan front.
Gaza has been under a tight Israeli blockade since the Hamas Islamic movement seized the territory. to President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.
The blockade has plunged Gaza's two million people into poverty with unprecedented unemployment rates. 9659002] Over the past nine years, the Israeli movement and Hamas have been engaged in three major wars that have claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis.
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