Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip September 21, 2018. (photo credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / REUTERS)
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The IDF will significantly reinforce troops in southern Israel to prevent terror infiltration into Israel from the Gaza Strip, the IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit announced Thursday morning.
The decision was made following a situational assessment by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot as well as senior IDF and Shin Bet officials.
“The IDF is prepared for a variety of scenarios and sees Hamas as responsible for everything that happens in the Gaza Strip and out of the Gaza Strip,” read the statement.
On Wednesday evening at least 1,000 Palestinians violently demonstrated at several locations along the Gaza border fence burning tires and throwing stones at IDF soldiers who responded with crowd-dispersal means.
According to official Palestinian news agency Wafa, 15 year-old Ahmad Samir Abu Habel was killed after he was shot by an Israeli sniper near the Beit Hanoun/ Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip. Another 20 Gazans were injured.
Earlier in the day two Palestinians were arrested after they were seen crossing into southern Israel from Gaza. A knife was found on one of the suspects.
Close to 190 Palestinians have been killed and thousands others injured since the outbreak of the Gaza border protests which began on March 30 and which call for an end of the 12 year long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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In an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth and La Repubblica Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar denied that the group was gearing up for another conflict with Israel but warned of war if the group is attacked
“A new war is in no one’s interest, certainly not our interest. Who really wants to confront a nuclear superpower with four slingshots? War doesn’t achieve anything,” he said.
“It’s important to make it clear: If we’re attacked, we’ll defend ourselves. As always. And we will have another war. But then, in a year, you’ll be here again; and I’ll again tell you that with war you achieve nothing.”
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