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Israeli Troops Leave Hamas-Run Territory after Violent Clashes
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by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | March 27, 2010 at 06:51 am
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Violent Clashes in Hamas-Run Territory
Today Israeli troops have left the Gaza strip region after fierce gun battles with Palestinian militants in the Hamas-controlled territory.
An Israeli spokesman said troops had to use bulldozers to take down infrastructures set up by militants.
The region has been in conflict over proposed construction of Jewish settlements and by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing party backing refusal to listen to President Obama and put a freeze on the plans.
Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants were killed after Israeli troops found an explosive device planted on a fence near a border.
A string of rocket attacks have been launched by Hamas in the last 2 weeks, since conflict over the land dispute was revamped.
Since Friday, Egyptian police have also begun a crackdown on borders, and have arrested Gaza pipeline smugglers.
Ready to repair relations?
President Obama and his administration have been attempting to repair relations with Israel, and to move ahead with proposed peace talks with Palestinians.
It has been suggested that nearly half of Israelis support a freeze on Jewish settlement construction, and there has been increasing diplomatic pressure placed on Netanyahyu.
In a joint statement issued from the European Union, the United Nations and Russia and the US, increasing pressure to stop settlement construction bore down on the Israeli prime minister in the most tense conflict with the US in decades. The statement called for close monitoring of Israel and said that this was a diplomatic crisis of the highest order.
Israel's government responded coldly and curtly to the call for freezing.
Israel and Egypt sealed their borders with Gaza in 2007 after Hamas militants took over the coastal territory in bloody street battles with the more moderate Palestinian Fatah party.Since then, Gaza's Hamas rulers have depended on the smuggling of cash and goods to keep their government afloat.
Egypt is building an underground barrier of metal sheets along its border with Gaza in an attempt to block the tunnels used to smuggle weapons, contraband goods and cash into Gaza
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Susan Marie Kovalinsky
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at 04:09 on March 28th, 2010
@ Susan,
just some corrections. you said "It has been suggested that nearly half of Israelis support a freeze on Jewish settlement construction, and there has been increasing diplomatic pressure placed on Netanyahyu. " This is true for ONLY building on the West Bank. Jerusalem neighborhoods is considered part of Israel where the building additional housing was proposed but never instituted is seen by most Israelis as part of Israel.
BTW, so does the Abbas Government. But with Obama's attempt at public humiliation of the Israeli PM, the extremists in the Arab world including Hamas see this as a green light by the US admin to put pressure on the Government of Israel using terror in order to topple Netanyahu's coalition.
Actually in spite of what is believed to be the excuse, building proposal in the West Bank, for the "outrage" by mostly the Islamic world is in fact a bogus issue and excuse to once again de-legitimize Israeli/Jewish presence in the region.
The rocket attacks have been going on intermittently for months now but only more so since the Obama - Israel rift.