Gazans set sail to break Israeli siege
A number of Palestinian boats set sail in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday as part of protests aimed to pile pressure on Israel to end a 12-year blockade on the seaside territory.
Palestinian protesters set tyres ablaze near the strip’s maritime border in northern Gaza, prompting Israeli forces to fire tear gas canisters to disperse them, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter.
No injuries were reported.
More than 200 Palestinians have been martyred and thousands more injured by Israeli army fire in anti-occupation protests in Gaza since March.
Protesters demand the right to return to their homes and villages in historical Palestine, from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.
They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its more than two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.
Israel will negotiate with Jordan an extension of a 25-year Israeli lease of border land under a 1994 peace treaty, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.Netanyahu, in public remarks, said Jordan wants to implement its option to end the lease, and Israel "will enter negotiations with it on the possibility of extending the current arrangement".Under an annex to the peace agreement, Israel leased about 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of agricultural land in the southern sector of its border with Jordan, as well as a small area known as the "Island of Peace" near the Sea of Galilee.Netanyahu says West Bank Bedouin village eviction delay not indefinite
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Jordanian King Abdullah II on Sunday cancelled two annexes from the 1994 peace treaty with Israel.“Baqoura and Ghumar were at the top of our priorities,” King Abdullah said on Twitter.“Our decision is to terminate the Baqoura and Ghamar annexes from the peace treaty out of our keenness to take all decisions that would serve Jordan and Jordanians."Jordan leased the two territories to Israel under Annexes 1/B and 1/C under the Jordanian-Israeli Peace Agreement in 1994.The lease is scheduled to expire on Oct. 25.Protests rocked the kingdom in recent days to demand the return of the two territories to Jordan’s sovereignty with lawmakers calling on the government not to renew their lease.Washington Post publishes Khashoggi’s final column
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Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel will visit the blockaded Gaza Strip soon, Palestinian group Hamas said Sunday.“The visit of Major General Kamel… will take place in the near future,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Anadolu Agency.According to the spokesman, Kamel had been scheduled to visit the Palestinian territory last weekend, but the visit was postponed.Qassem said an Egyptian delegation, which visited Gaza on Thursday, confirmed to Hamas leaders that preparations were underway for Kamel’s visit to the enclave.Israeli army arrests Palestinian intelligence chiefIsrael arrests two Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coastThe spokesman said Hamas is keen on the success of Egyptian efforts to cement a cease-fire in Gaza as well as ending the Palestinian rift.Last week, the Egyptian security delegation met with officials from both Hamas -- which has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007 -- and rival Palestinian faction Fatah.Israel has repeatedly threatened to launch a military offensive against Gaza if Palestinians do not stop holding weekly mass demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone.Cairo has mediated a Palestinian national reconciliation and a truce between Israel and Gaza-based resistance groups.Egypt commends 'decisive' and 'brave' actions by Saudi King over Khashoggi caseEgypt delegation meets Israel officials to discuss Gaza
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