PIJ Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhala claimed Israel had agreed to release its official Bassam al-Saadi in return for the ceasefire agreement. He warned his terrorist movement would resume fighting if he was not released.
Conflict
While the century-old struggle is mostly cast as a conflict over land, the Biblical viewpoint discloses something deeper: That it is a battle over whose god is truly God – YHWH of Israel or Allah of Arabia?
As we publish this, rockets are still being fired at Israeli civilians from Gaza, and reports are circulating that Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have agreed to an Egypt-mediated ceasefire. The coming hours will tell.
Conditions are ripe, on the eve of a Temple-centred Jewish commemorative day, for an eruption of violence from Islamist terrorist groups, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The Palestinian Authority, chaired by Mahmoud Abbas, continues its ‘pay to slay’ policy and increases salary to Arabs serving time in Israeli prisons for killing Jews.
The arrest was made Monday during one of several counterterrorism actions conducted across Judea and Samaria by Israel’s Internal Security Services and Special Forces.
Terrorists might come “into Israel” from the Palestinian Arab areas, but Israel nonetheless permits an Arab inflow to find work.
A day after learning that there have been over 3700 terrorist attacks this year, and that Israel will withhold NIS 600 million from the PA over its ‘pay to slay’ policy, reports indicate that government ministries are transferring money to Ramallah through a secret fund.
Hamas said Sunday that Israel may have bombed one of the “soldiers” it has been holding in captivity during Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021.
