Amid cautious calm, diplomatic sources revealed that Washington and Cairo are in intensive contacts with regional and international parties to stop the escalation and prevent an explosion in the Palestinian territories. The sources revealed that an Egyptian delegation is preparing to travel to Tel Aviv, to hold extensive discussions and work on formulating a final agreement that all parties abide by.
According to the same sources, the demands of the Palestinian factions consisted in stopping the Israeli escalation in Al-Aqsa Mosque and stopping the military operations in the Gaza Strip. While Israel pledged its return to the armistice by not firing rockets and preventing unilateral operations targeting settlers.
Cairo is working with several international parties to resolve the points of escalation, and is also communicating with the two sides to convey the demands of each party, calling on both parties to unconditionally stop the escalation.
Cautious calm prevails after the Israeli army bombed sites in Lebanon and Gaza, early yesterday (Friday) morning, in response to missile attacks that Israel accuses Hamas of being responsible for, at a time when tension resulting from the Israeli police storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque campus this week threatens to end. out of control.
During the night, the Israeli army targeted 3 Hamas installations in southern Lebanon, and more than 10 military targets for the movement in the Gaza Strip, while Palestinian militants fired more than 40 rockets at Israel since midnight.
A spokesman for the Israeli army's press office said that the army used about 50 tons of ammunition to attack Hamas targets in Gaza, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation. He pointed out that 44 missiles were fired at Israel from Gaza during the night, 8 of which were intercepted by the air defense, 9 others did not cross the borders of the Strip, 12 flew towards the sea, 14 landed in an uninhabited area, and one missile exploded near the city of Sderot.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the mobilization of all reserve units in the military police and army forces after the Tel Aviv attack.
Netanyahu's decision came after one person was killed and 6 others were injured, including two critical injuries, as a result of a run-over and shooting attack in Tel Aviv, in addition to the death of the perpetrator of the operation.
The Jordan Valley witnessed the killing of 3 settlers by gunfire carried out by unknown persons. 3 female settlers were killed in an operation in the Jordan Valley near the Jordanian border, in an attack that is the fourth of its kind in the past three months, and came after a night of escalation on the northern and western borders.
And Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stressed increasing the security of settlements and settlers' movement axes, after a meeting with senior security officials. He stressed that the security establishment is ready to respond to any threat it faces.
While the Israeli army spokesman confirmed that Tel Aviv does not want escalation, but is ready for it if it is imposed on it.
Okaz (Cairo) @okaz_online
