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Monday, August 22, 2016
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Hamas: We won’t let anyone disrupt the calm in Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas official Sami Abu Zuhri says Hamas is not interested in an escalation with Israel in the south, and will not tolerate independent actions from within the coastal enclave it controls.
“We will not let anyone disrupt the calm and act on his own initiative,” Zuhri says, according to Israel Radio. He says that Israel would be accountable for any escalation.
The radio also quotes an unnamed Hamas source as saying that Israel passed a message to the terror group via a third party, warning it will not show restraint in the face of yesterday’s rocket fire from Gaza. But, the source said, Israel also appears reluctant to see an escalation following a rocket strike on Sderot and the subsequent Israeli response.
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