Israel has offered a package of moves that would ease the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip in return for stopping the Great March of Return, local media reported.
Israel’s Ynet News site said the Egyptian security delegation presented the Israeli proposal to Hamas and representatives of other Palestinian factions. It included increasing the number of goods trucks entering the Gaza Strip through the Karam Abu Salem(Kerem Shalom) crossing and raising the UN temporary employment project to 40,000 people.
An Egyptian delegation held talks with Palestinian factions in the besieged Gaza Strip into the early hours of Thursday to try to calm the ongoing escalation between Hamas and Israel ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Return protests https://t.co/IrXGA56RAA pic.twitter.com/AHtKgtUNQ3
— Mada Masr مدى مصر (@MadaMasr) March 28, 2019
According to the news site, Tel Aviv has also proposed expanding the fishing area off the coast of Gaza to 12 nautical miles, developing the power lines from Israel to Gaza, increasing the facilities for exports and imports and allowing the introduction of some dual-use material to the besieged enclave.
The Israeli site pointed out that the Egyptian security delegation “will return to Israel today [Thursday] with the Palestinian factions’ response to the proposal”, stressing that all concessions made by Israel depend on what happens on Saturday.
Gaza pepares for 1 million at the fence on March of Return anniversary, as Israel kills two more men — https://t.co/7umUzYL6QZ https://t.co/T4hPU3U13G
— Deysa Torres (@DivineMsDee) March 24, 2019
Palestinians are expected to hold a Million Man March in the besieged Gaza Strip to mark the anniversary of the start of the Great March of Return which has seen over 250 Palestinian killed.
In preparation for the peaceful protest, Israel has sent reinforcements to the Gaza fence.
In a report released earlier this year, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) said Israel deliberately targeted children and journalists during peaceful protests in Gaza, putting it in breach of international law.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
The harm Israel inflicts on the spirit and reputation of the Palestinians, it inflicts a hundred times worse on itself. Israel’s cruelty, arrogance and aggression are poisoning Israel and its western enablers even more than it poisons the Palestinians.
A million Palestinians peacefully marching together must have rattled Israel’s cage- the siege is illegal so this isn’t a great handshake deal. Palestine has unity & Israel has none. I watch Maori TV news as USA splashes it’s palaver over main stream news. Trump is daily looking worse & he presses the redial button 4 his boring speeches. U actually don’t have to do anything but sit back & watch fake people self destruct all on their own. It’s called being hoist by your own petard.