Thread by @ignis_fatum

Today’s thread for threats , statements, assessments and so on
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Jerusalem

Lebanese Al Akhbar newspaper : Israel conveyed message to Hamas that will actively de escalate the situation in Jerusalem and will actively work to prevent violence by Jewish extremists against the Arab citizens of the city (1/2)
#Israel #Jerusalem #Gaza

https://twitter.com/OkbiYasser/status/1386877901648375811

Hamas is demanding that Israel will allow the Palestinian elections to be held in east #Jerusalem.
Hamas also responded to #Israel’s threat for escalating strikes if and when the rocket fire continues by saying : “The response would be major and unpredictable “ (2/2)
#Gaza

Al Akhbar is being used by the #Gaza factions thin itself to deliver messages :
1.Hamas is upset about the Palestinian elections
2. Signal that rocket fire will continue eventually and that Hamas is “ready to fight if Israel wants to”
3. Paint the Israeli government as weak.

More from Al Akhbar : Abu Mazen informed the EU, Jordan and Egypt of his decision to cancel the Palestinian elections.
The EU has advised him to wait with the decision until Thursday, so that they can try to pressure #Israel to agree to hold elections in East #Jerusalem.

https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1386884325904424964

Hamas “interior ministry” in #Gaza released a statement that it updated the Gaza’s fisherman syndicate that they can go to sea as long as they want without fearing the IDF navy despite the naval closure still being upheld by #Israel.

The UN humanitarian coordinator in the #WestBank and #Gaza, Lynn Hinging, left the Gaza Strip y’day following the escalation with the factions. Hasting left last afternoon through the Erez crossing point to #Jerusalem.
It is unclear when she will return to the Strip.
#Israel

https://twitter.com/matantzuri/status/1386765411379826688

Sources in the IDF southern command to @WallaNews ; “Despite 1 night without rockets , the current escalation is not behind us , the border rioting and IED balloons are still ongoing and the rocket fire could resume any moment.“
#Israel #Gaza
news.walla.co.il/item/3431823

#BREAKING
PA President Mahmoud Abbas to deliver a special message regarding the Palestinian elections this Thursday , likely announcing then their de facto canceling by postponing them indefinitely. (1/2)
#Israel #Jerusalem #Gaza #WestBank

https://twitter.com/ShehabAgency/status/1387003812062408706

The official reasons will be the fact that the Israeli goverment will not explicitly state that it allows the elections being held in East #Jerusalem.
Israel’s official stance on the issue is “no involvement “, nor acceptance nor denial
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank

Abbas’s advisor Azzam Al Ahmed makes some mental gymnastics to justify the upcoming postponement of the Palestinian elections by blaming #Israel : “By adhering to the occupations allowances is to justify and perpetuate it”
#Gaza #WestBank

https://twitter.com/shehabagency/status/1387023685081522177

He also said : “We did not hold elections under the “shadow of the occupation” except once, and had it not been for Arafat's death, we would not have held the 2006 elections”
So he’s saying that the next elections will be held after Abu Mazens death?
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank

PLO Executive committee member Ahmed Majdalani : “If there will be no changes regarding the elections in Jerusalem , the elections will be postponed”
#WestBank #Israel #Gaza #Jerusalem

https://twitter.com/alresalahpress/status/1387034596672421891

Abu Mazens advisors are actively preparing the ground to blame Israel for the postponement of the Palestinian elections saying that Israel “conveyed an oral message that elections in East Jerusalem will not be tolerated” (1/2)
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Jerusalem

https://twitter.com/barakravid/status/1387036674530549761

Senior Israeli officials had denied those reports saying that Israeli “does not intervene in the Palestinian elections “ (2/2)
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Jerusalem

Hamas senior official Mahmoud Mardawi : “The decision to hold the elections took into account ,from the beginning, that the occupation would refuse to hold elections in #Jerusalem.
Whoever confronts the occupation in the Damascus Gate can impose elections on it “
#Israel #Gaza

https://twitter.com/shehabagency/status/1387046295664140288