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Israel sent a Bedouin criminal against Hamas. But quickly forgot about him
2025-06-16
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] Iran and Israel continue to exchange intense strikes. Against this backdrop, the operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which official Tel Aviv recently called “existential,” has temporarily faded into the background.

Israel threw all its forces against the Iranians, completely forgetting about its other project - an "alternative government" of the enclave headed by a loyalist Bedouin. Which, given the busy schedule of its "senior comrades", was left alone with Hamas.

ROBIN HOODS IN ISRAELI STYLE
The first news of “enclave loyalists” came at the end of November 2024, when a number of major Western media outlets (including, for example, The Washington Post) reported on attempts by the Israeli army to influence the flow of humanitarian aid through Gaza.

Allegedly, the main supply lines were laid through so-called red zones, where armed groups of unknown affiliation operated, emptying vans and appropriating humanitarian aid.

The Israelis turned a blind eye to what was happening, attributing the operations to the activities of “local militias.”

And not forgetting to emphasize that the latter acted on the principle of "rob the loot" and attacked only those trucks that had already allegedly been appropriated by Hamas. However, they kept silent about who exactly was leading the raids.

Towards the middle of 2025, the “pro-Israeli militias” acquired a face. Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of the influential Bedouin clan Tarabin, came to the fore.

Shabab's men, using his connections in the criminal world and support from the Israeli command, quickly took over the small gangs operating in the enclave and created the "Gaza Governance Committee." It positions itself as a future alternative to the Hamas government and proclaims its goal to be the "peaceful rebirth" of the enclave.

According to various sources, between 300 and 500 fighters are fighting under the Shabab, distributed among the “red zones” from East Rafah to Karem Abu Salem. At the same time, the “committee’s” base, from which the main raids are carried out, is located in close proximity to the Israeli outposts in the Philadelphia Corridor, near the border city of Rafah.

SUITCASE WITHOUT HANDLE
Despite the ambitions of Israel's plan to establish an "alternative administration" in Gaza, it quickly stalled.

First of all, the criminal past of the leader of the "Gaza Governance Committee" played a role. Shabab, who had previously been involved in robberies and drug smuggling, did not really fit into the image of a fighter for civil liberties created by the Israeli media.

In addition, he was suspected of having ties to the terrorist underground, including because the ranks of the “committee” include former participants in radical campaigns in Syria and Iraq, and the information work is carried out by people from the banned media outlet “Al-Furqan”.

Because of this, the sudden revelation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the authorities' support for the "committee" was met with extreme coldness by his Knesset colleagues.

The Prime Minister was quickly reminded of the sad experience of the United States, when support for the “gray militias” in Iraq in the early 2000s resulted in the emergence of new radical movements in the Middle East.

And some deputies, such as Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Our Home), even tried to provoke an image scandal (similar to the fading Qatargate). However, so far without result.

With the start of Israel's Operation Lion Force against Iran, the fighters of the Gaza Control Committee were essentially left to their own devices. Their opponents did not miss the chance to take advantage of this.

Hamas counterintelligence raids resulted in the arrest of several dozen members of the "committee," including a couple of mid-level commanders. Another fifty or so loyalists were killed in clashes in various parts of the enclave.

At the same time, the Palestinians have not yet managed to catch Shabab himself - he almost never leaves the “citadel” near the Philadelphia Corridor and commands the fighters remotely.

INTERNAL SQUABBLES
Although the committee's representatives are currently trying to avoid clashes with Hamas units and prefer to mainly hunt humanitarian caravans, their activity is causing increasing irritation among the current leadership of the enclave.

Moreover, the emergence of alternative centers of power in Gaza – even if they are more of a decorative nature – provokes squabbles between Palestinian factions.

One of the first to make a mark was the head of the Palestinian National Authority, Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Although he did not see the committee as a real force, he called its appearance in Gaza "a harbinger of the fall of Hamas" and advocated the immediate demilitarization of the movement.

Representatives of other competing forces later tried to put forward a similar idea.

However, such attacks do not yet correspond too closely to reality. Units of pro-Israeli militias still retain relative combat capability, but they are unlikely to be able to hold out for long without the direct participation of the Israeli army in the event of large-scale clashes.

Moreover, Israel itself is not in a hurry to pump resources into the Shabab forces, fearing the loss of strict control over its units. Especially in the context of the war with Iran that has begun.

Recruiting new fighters within the enclave also proved difficult, as the committee's overly obvious connections with Israeli military structures played a cruel joke.

Hamas, meanwhile, has set its sights on getting even with Tel Aviv for its attempts to undermine its position in Gaza from within. The movement was among the first to join the strikes on Israeli territory as part of Iran's Operation True Promise 3, while other proxy forces, such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, have so far adopted a wait-and-see attitude.

Hamas has enough resources to play simultaneously on two “boards” – both against the Israelis and their proxies.

Therefore, it is not worth excluding the possibility that the committee will soon go into a completely defensive mode, so as not to lose any remaining influence.
Related:
Yasser Abu Shabab 06/09/2025 Head of Gaza militia cited denying Israel support, demanding Hamas cede power
Yasser Abu Shabab 06/06/2025 IDF arming anti Hamas Clans in Gaza with captured Hamas weapons

Related:
Abu Shabab 06/10/2025 Gaza civil defence reports 10 deaths near aid centre, GHF still delivers 23,000 boxes (each box has 3.5 days of meals for 5.5 people)
Abu Shabab 06/09/2025 Head of Gaza militia cited denying Israel support, demanding Hamas cede power
Abu Shabab 06/06/2025 IDF arming anti Hamas Clans in Gaza with captured Hamas weapons

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli army declares Nitzana border crossing 'closed military zone'
2025-01-19
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military says that as part of its final preparations to implement the final stages of the ceasefire agreement, the Nitzana Border Crossing between Egypt and Israel will be declared a closed military zone as of midnight (22:00 GMT), reported Al Jazeera.

The Nitzana crossing is located 40km (25 miles) southeast of the point where Israel's border with Egypt and the Gaza Strip converge.

The Israeli military also said that the kibbutzim Yad Mordechai and Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) will be a closed military zone until January 24.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
WHO evacuates nearly 100 wounded out of Gaza
2024-09-12
Least genocidal genocide evah.
[GEO.TV] The World Health Organization (WHO) evacuated 97 sick and severely injured patients and 155 health professionals from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
in what its chief says is the largest medical evacuation since October 2023.

Patients were transported via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing to Ramon airport in Israel for onward travel to Abu Dhabi for specialised care, said WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus.

''Patients included 45 children and 52 adults with a wide range of diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, congenital anomalies, blood and liver diseases and trauma/injuries,'' he said.

''Despite severe operational challenges and insecurity, WHO and partners ensured the transfer of the patients and set up a receiving facility at the European Gaza Hospital where patients were gathered before departure.''
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Death toll rises for Israeli attack on crowd in Khan Younis
2024-06-25
[Al Jazeera] At least 10 people have now been reported dead following an Israeli attack near the Bani Suheila traffic circle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.

We reported earlier that Israeli forces attacked Palestinians who had gathered as commercial and aid trucks came through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern Gaza.

Security guards who were accompanying the aid trucks are among the dead.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian Resistance Strikes Israeli Occupation Forces Painfully in Gaza Enclave
2024-05-07
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] One day after the Israeli enemy’s premier Benjamin Netanyahu frustrated the diplomatic attempt to end the Zionist war on Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
, the Paleostinian resistance fighters dealt a major blow to the occupation forces in Kerem Abu Salem area,
…which the Israelis call Kerem Shalom
Gaza enclave.

Two Zionist soldiers were killed, and seven others were maimed, including one serious, in a missile attack launched by the Paleostinian resistance on an Israeli military facility in the area.

Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
Movement announced that its negotiation delegates left Cairo in order discuss the outcomes of the latest round of talks with their command.

Hamas Chief Esmail Haniyeh
…more usually spelt Ismail Haniyeh in our archives…
said that the whole world has been taken hostage by the bully boy Israeli government which suffers numerous political problems and shows a huge extent of criminality in Gaza.

Haniyeh added that the Movement is still keen on concluding a deal that halts war and secures a serious prisoner exchange.
Related:
Kerem Abu Salem: 2019-02-18 Hamas takes control of the only goods crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel
Related:
Haniyeh 05/06/2024 Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in 'very near future'
Haniyeh 05/06/2024 Israel Closes Gaza Crossing After Hamas Attack, Vows Military Operation in Rafah
Haniyeh 05/03/2024 Israel says Turkey's Erdogan is breaking agreements by blocking ports for trade

Related:
Kerem Shalom: 2024-05-06 Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in 'very near future'
Kerem Shalom: 2024-05-06 Israel Closes Gaza Crossing After Hamas Attack, Vows Military Operation in Rafah
Kerem Shalom: 2024-05-06 Bereaved father: "We are committed to our son's will"
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in 'very near future'
2024-05-06
[10News] Nike: "Just Do It"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the key Hamas demands “extreme” — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war.

The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after “in-depth and serious discussions,” the Hamas militant group said Sunday, reiterating key demands that Israel again rejected. After signs of progress, the outlook appeared to dim.

Israel closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza after Hamas attacked it. The defense minister claimed Hamas wasn't serious about a deal and warned of “a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza."

Israel didn't send a delegation to the talks mediated by Egypt and Qatar, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that “we see signs that Hamas does not intend to go to any agreement." Egyptian state media reported that the Hamas delegation went for discussions in Qatar, where the group has a political office, and will return to Cairo for further negotiations on Tuesday.

Another threat to talks came as Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close, accusing it of broadcasting anti-Israel incitement. The ban did not appear to affect the channel’s operations in Gaza or the West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from hard-liners in his government, continued to lower expectations for a cease-fire deal, calling the key Hamas demands “extreme” — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war. That would equal surrender after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the fighting, Netanyahu said.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a statement earlier said the militant group was serious and positive about the negotiations and that stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza is the main priority.

But Israel's government again vowed to press on with a military operation in Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city on the border with Egypt where more than half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents now seek shelter from Israeli attacks. Rafah is a key entry point for aid.

Kerem Shalom, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Hamas said it had been targeting Israeli soldiers in the area. Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 people were wounded, three seriously. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, called for an independent investigation and “accountability for the blatant disregard of humanitarian workers.” He also said Israel this week denied him entry to Gaza for a second time.

The closing of Kerem Shalom came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted “full-blown famine” in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on food and other aid entering the territory. The comments were not a formal famine declaration.

In expanded remarks as the full NBC interview was released Sunday, WFP chief Cindy McCain said famine was “moving its way south” in Gaza and that Israel's efforts to allow in more aid were not enough. “We need more ability to be able to get more trucks in,” she said. “We have right now a mass on the outside border, about enough trucks and enough food for 1.1 million people for about three months. We need to get that in."

Gaza's vast humanitarian needs put further pressure on the pursuit of a cease-fire. The proposal that Egyptian mediators had put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

Netanyahu claimed that Israel has shown willingness to make concessions but said it "will continue fighting until all of its objectives are achieved.” That includes the stated aim of crushing Hamas. Israel says it must target Rafah to strike remaining fighters there despite warnings from the U.S. and others about the danger to civilians.

An Israeli strike Sunday on the al-Attar family house in an urban refugee camp near Rafah killed four children, including a baby, and two adults, according to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital.

In later remarks for Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day, Netanyahu added: "We will defend ourselves in every way. We will overcome our enemies and we will ensure our security — in the Gaza Strip, on the Lebanese border, everywhere.”

The Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7 killed some 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others. Netanyahu is under growing pressure from some hostages' families to make a deal to end the war and get hostages freed.

Israeli's air and ground offensive has killed over 34,500 people, according to Palestinian health officials, who don't differentiate between civilians and combatants but say women and children make up a majority of those killed.

Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths, accusing it of embedding in residential and public areas. The Israeli military says it has killed 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim.

Earlier:
Hamas chief accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging truce efforts, delegation leaves Cairo
[NEWARAB] A Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
official said on Sunday that its delegation left Cairo after the second day of ceasefire negotiations with Egyptian officials concluded as the two warring parties accuse each other of sabotaging a deal, leaving hopes of an agreement fading.

Israel has yet to send a delegation to Cairo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that it would not agree to a deal which included the full military withdrawal from Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
, as demanded by Hamas.

Also on Sunday, Israel's cabinet voted unanimously to shutdown Al Jazeera network on Sunday taking its website and TV channel off air. In an unprecedented move, Israeli police raided the outlet's premises in east Jerusalem and confiscated equipment.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
Israel launched attacks on neighbourhoods east of Rafah which killed and injured several civilians, while jets struck areas near Gaza City and in central Gaza, Paleostinian news agency Wafa reported.

Hamas fired rockets at a military base near Karam Abu Salem crossing which injured several Israeli soldiers and prompted Israel to shut the aid border.

Hamas 'needs guarantees from US' that Israeli forces will not invade Rafah
President Biden lost hold of that leash, guys. So sorry.
[GEO.TV] Spokesperson for Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
Osama Hamdan has stated that the fighter group needed a guarantee from the United States that the Israeli military would not invade Rafah after the ceasefire deal.
Except that Israel — in the person of Prime Minister Netanyahu, has already promised they will. The ceasefire is only for so long as Hamas delivers live hostages. How many live hostages do Hamas & friends still have? Versus dead hostages, I mean. They’ve already said they can’t deliver all forty of those who are supposed to be alive.
"We are still talking about the main issues, which are the complete ceasefire and complete withdrawal [of Israel] from Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
," he told Al Jazeera in an interview.

"Unfortunately, there was a clear statement from Netanyahu saying regardless of any ceasefire or not, he’ll continue the attack against Rafah — which means there will be no ceasefire.

"Our understanding to achieve a ceasefire means there will be no more attacks anywhere in Gaza, including Rafah," he said.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel gives initial approval for Cyprus-Gaza sea corridor: Report
2023-12-28
[GEO.TV] Israel has agreed “in principle” to allow Cyprus, with the support of Britain, to open up a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza, Al Jazeera reported citing reports from Israel’s Hayom newspaper.

More supplies and equipment would enter the beleaguered Palestinian enclave through the corridor.

Up until now, it has only been able to do so through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and, more recently, the Israeli border crossing at Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom).

Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen relayed the initial approval for the corridor to his counterparts in Cyprus and the UK on Tuesday, saying it could likely begin operating “upon completion of the required preparations”, according to Hayom.
Related:
Cyprus: 2023-12-24 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: December 23, 2023
Cyprus: 2023-12-15 Hamas Leader Gives Conditions For Peace Talks Amid Conflict With Israel
Cyprus: 2023-12-11 SANA news agency says air defenses are engaging ''enemy targets'' over Damascus
Related:
Gaza: 2023-12-26 Minnesota cities went for EVs in public transit, but the buses couldn't handle the cold
Gaza: 2023-12-26 The US and Israel face a powerful new enemy in the Middle East
Gaza: 2023-12-26 Good Morning
Related:
Karem Abu Salem: 2020-11-30 Hamas bans West Bank dairy products from entering Gaza
Karem Abu Salem: 2015-05-26 Israel allows 660 trucks into Gazoo
Related:
Eli Cohen: 2023-12-19 Israel Foreign Ministry team reportedly draws up document on post-war Gaza; no overt role for PA
Eli Cohen: 2023-12-14 FM Cohen: War against Hamas to continue ‘with or without international support’
Eli Cohen: 2023-12-13 Advertising firm pulls Hamas hostage images screened across London due to threats
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Unknown Target Headquarters For Drugs In Syria’s Daraa
2023-02-04
[NPASyria] On Thursday mid-night, unknown attackers targeted a house, which was used for smuggling drugs, in the western countryside of Daraa, a governorate south Syria.

Local sources told North Press that unknown attackers targeted a house in the village of Alajami in the western countryside of Daraa that was used for preparing drugs to be smuggled to Jordan.

The sources added that the attack caused damages to parts of the building.

The targeted house belongs to Ahmad Mehawesh al-Khaldi known as Abu Salem al-Khaldi, who was arrested two years ago by security members of the Fourth Armored Division of the government forces.

The sources noted that al-Khaldi, who was a leader of a group of the Fourth Armored Division, is the biggest narcos in the region.

They said, "The arrest of al-Khaldi resulted from disputes over drugs smuggling operations with officers of the Fourth Armored Division."
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria kills ISIS leader in operation: State media
2022-08-11
[Rudaw] Syria on Wednesday announced a leader of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group was killed after he went kaboom! during an operation in the country’s southwestern Daraa province, state media reported.

SANA said the Syrian army carried out a "qualitative security operation" which resulted in the takedown of Abu Salem al-Iraqi in Adwan town after he went kaboom! after being surrounded.

The operation also resulted in the death of a member of the security forces and a civilian, SANA’s statement added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Iraqi was killed on Tuesday.

Iraqi’s death marks the second ISIS leader killed in the war-torn country in under a month.

In July, the top ISIS leader in Syria Maher al-Agal was killed by a US Central Command dronezap in Afrin district, with another top jihadist associate also injured in the strike.

Daraa province, where the Syrian revolution in 2011 originated, has been under regime control since 2018, but some areas still remain under the influence of rebel groups.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas bans West Bank dairy products from entering Gaza
2020-11-30
[JP] Hamas has banned Palestinian dairy companies in the West Bank from selling their products in the Gaza Strip.

The unprecedented decision drew strong condemnation from the Palestinian Authority and many Palestinians, who said Hamas continues to allow various Israeli products to enter the coastal enclave.

The move was a "despicable crime," PA officials in Ramallah said, adding that it would deepen the split between the West Bank and Gaza.

Trade and Crossings director-general Rami Abu Rish announced the ban in a letter to Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing director Ahmed Musalam. The Kerem Shalom crossing is on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Products from Al-Juneidi Company for Dairy Products and Food Products and Al-Jebrini Dairy & Food Industry Co. were banned, said the letter, dated November 22. The two companies are based in the West Bank.
...and they sound Arab-owned.
The ban aims to "support and strengthen local products," the letter said.

Many Palestinians criticized the Hamas ban, especially since the decision does not include Israeli dairy products.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas takes control of the only goods crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel
2019-02-18
[ELUNIVERSAL] The Islamist movement Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, took control on Sunday, from the Paleostinian side of the only border crossing of goods between the Gazoo Strip and Israel , announced the Interior Ministry of the enclave and the Paleostinian press agency Wafa.

According to Wafa, the Paleostinian Authority announced that Hamas "has expelled employees of the Paleostinian Authority in Kerem Abu Salem and has prohibited them from entering the crossing point," AFP quoted.

Hamas confirmed that the employees of the Paleostinian Authority had left the crossing point.

"The security forces at the Kerem Abu Salem crossing point have implemented procedures dictated by security imperatives," Interior Ministry front man Iyad al Bozum said in a statement.

"The employees of the Paleostinian Authority at the crossing have refused to cooperate in these proceedings for a few days and today we were surprised by their departure," he said.

Since expelling Fatah from the Gazoo Strip in 2007, Hamas has been controlling this enclave without opposition and, in 2017, in an attempt to reconcile the Islamist group agreed to hand over control of crossing points to the Paleostinian Authority.
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India-Pakistan
Indian court sentences 2 convicts to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts case
2017-09-08
[DAWN] A special court in India sentenced two convicts to death and two others to life in jail in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case on Thursday.

The four men had earlier been convicted of criminal conspiracy and murder in the planting of 12 powerful bombs in cars, scooters and suitcases around India's financial capital.

Abu Salem, who was convicted under sections of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act or TADA, was sentenced to life in prison. Salem had been tried after his extradition from Portugal.

Convicts Tahir Merchant and Feroz Khan were sentenced to death and a fourth, Karimullah Khan, was also sentenced to a life term, NDTV reported.

A fifth convict, Riyaz Siddiqui, was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Thursday's hearing sentencing ended a second trial related to the bombings. A first trial ended in 2007 with more than 100 people convicted, of which 11 were sentenced to be executed while the rest were given various terms in prison.

One suspect in the case, Yakub Memon, was hanged in 2015.

Several people suspected to have been involved in the bombings have yet to be tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
, including India’s most-wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim.
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