Hamas wants war: “The missile detonator is ready”. Israel cancels the March of the Flags
From Jerusalem – The "march of flags" has been canceled. The Israeli police said late Monday morning, after asserting the previous evening that "in the beginning" they were not against giving permission to mitnahalim ( settlers ) and far-right activists to demonstrate in Jerusalem. The police communiqué came shortly after a message from Hamas member Khalil al-Hayya threatening to resume rocket firing at Israel if the demonstration took place in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount / Temple Mount / Temple Mount in front of Israel. to the Al-Aqsa mosque.
The police decision, backed by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, did not appeal to far-right political leaders. Bezalel Smotrich, leader of HaTzionut HaDatit , accused the government of having the political agenda set by Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in Gaza. Itamar Ben-Gvir, a member of the Knesset and leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party , then said that he does not intend to give up and that he will still go to demonstrate on Thursday in the Old City, despite some of the organizers of the demonstration having accepted the "no" of the police. Some activists then proposed to move the demonstration from Jerusalem to the south of the country, in the areas bordering Gaza, under the slogan: "We are not afraid of Gaza or its missiles".
Immediately after the police decision, media close to Hamas published two messages from the terrorist group: the first, concerning the exchange of prisoners (Hamas wants 1,111 prisoners in exchange for the four Israeli hostages, two alive and two dead, or – as they suggest some media in Gaza – the request would even be for 4,444 prisoners), the second is instead a comment in which Hamas emphasizes that Jerusalem is "a red line".
In the early afternoon, on the strength of the police decision, the media in Gaza announced that on Thursday the Palestinians are called to gather at 5.00 pm (the time when the "flag march" should have been held) in front of Bab Al Amoud ( the Damascus gate, which leads to the Muslim quarter of the Old City) to then go to the Al-Aqsa mosque and celebrate the "failure" of Israel together with the cancellation of the march, "thanks to the threats of the Muqawama" ("the resistance", or the terrorist movements in Gaza).
At around 5.30 pm, the various factions of the Palestinian "resistance" in Gaza issued a single press release, in which they reaffirmed their political and military victory over Israel. The short communiqué describes Israel as the "cowardly enemy", "forced" to stop "aggression" and retreat into "disappointment" and "defeat". The statement then asks the entire Palestinian population in Jerusalem and the West Bank to "continue to face the enemy", "burn the ground under the enemy's feet in various possible ways", knowing that the "resistance" in Gaza is on their side. part and ready to support them "at the most opportune moment".
It is important to underline that Hamas had communicated its intention to end the truce well before the announcement by the settlers of wanting to reorganize the "march of the flags", an annual commemoration to celebrate the unity of Jerusalem, obtained with the Six Day War. In fact, at the beginning of last week, Hamas had declared its willingness to restart the launch of missiles if Israel did not allow the financing of Qatar, its main financier, to enter Gaza. But when the settlers last Thursday announced the "flag march" program, Hamas no longer mentioned the funding and started using the far-right demonstration as a new pretext to start a new escalation (strong of the fact, alas, that the international community seems unanimous in thinking that a demonstration by a minority of the Israeli population justifies the firing of hundreds of missiles on the civilian population).
Hamas feels strong and wants to restart the conflict at any cost. The Islamist movement, however, knows that the battle is not only armed, but also psychological. In fact, on Sunday evening, in an eagerly awaited report, entitled "What is hidden is even bigger" , Marwan Issa, the deputy of the armed wing of Hamas, spoke to the cameras of Al-Jazeera , the Qatari television network (major financier of the movement), showing unpublished images of Gilad Shalit's prison period (2006-2011) in Gaza.
In social media accounts near Hamas, Shalit's images were commented with laughter, mocking the images of the boy, who was underweight and clearly scared at the time. During the program, the broken voice of the Israeli hostage of Ethiopian origin, Avraham Mengistu, who has been in Gaza since 2014, was heard. In an unclear audio, Avraham is heard saying: “I die every day”. Bibi Netanyahu later condemned the program: "A petty game on the skin of the families of Israeli prisoners".
Meanwhile, on Monday evening, Netanyahu called a security meeting with Defense Minister Gantz, Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana, the head of Shin Bet (the internal affairs intelligence agency) Nadav Argaman and the Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabti to discuss the march of flags. Meanwhile, Hamas has made it known: "The missile detonator is ready".
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