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If Hamas dissolves its Gaza government, who will enforce its disarmament? - analysis

Hamas has its messaging, and it wants to stir the pot and confuse everyone by obfuscating whether it will give up power that it was never supposed to have.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Government Media Office Director Ismail Thawabteh (R) and Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem (L) speak at a press conference regarding the resignation of the head of the Government Emergency Committee and the acting head of Government Follow-up.
IDF Military Drone Unit train with their drones near the Syrian border, northern Golan Heights.

Dozens of drones entered Gaza Strip over recent months, fears Hamas could use in attack - report

At least 28 drones reportedly entered Gaza in recent months, raising concerns they reached Hamas, despite the IDF thwarting 89 drone smuggling attempts since January, according to Army Radio.

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV
Activists, including Israelis and Palestinians, take part in a demonstration in support of peace near Jericho

Trump’s Gaza plan can still work - but only if Washington changes course - opinion

Despite the crisis, the conditions for a diplomatic breakthrough may be emerging beneath the surface – if Washington is willing to rethink the sequencing and political assumptions behind its strategy

|BySAMER SINIJLAWI
Spike NLOS fired from Apache

Israel's defense industry loses major Asian customer

Move follows political pressure on the government to halt deals with Israel because of the war in the Gaza Strip

|ByDEAN SHMUEL ELMAS/GLOBES/TNS

It is not the economy, stupid

So long as Gaza continues to be governed by Hamas’s rule of the jungle, no Palestinian civil society, let alone a viable state, can develop.

JUNE 3, 2018ByEFRAIM KARSH
People watch as a boat prepares to set sail in attempt to break Israel's maritime blockade on Gaza, May 29, 2018.

Gaza escalation: A reminder that calm is fragile

No one was surprised by this escalation.

MAY 30, 2018ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Gaza May 29, 2018.

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Gaza’s agony is Egypt’s calling

The Egyptians bring both motivation and clout to the Gaza crisis that threatens them no less than it threatens us.

MAY 20, 2018ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Palestinians gather in front of the gate of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza during a protest against the blockade, in the southern Gaza Strip July 3, 2017.

Timeline: Two dead, 83 wounded in protests along Gaza border

The IDF dropped leaflets over the Gaza Strip, warning protesters against approaching the border fence, attempts to breach it and to carry out terror attacks.

APRIL 20, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A picture taken on April 13, 2018 from the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz across the border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers keeping position and Palestinian protestors gathering along the border fence with Israel. Several thousand Gazans gathered for a third consecutive Friday of ma

Ground-breaking progress in detection, destruction of Gaza terror tunnels

By combining the skills of all three fronts - engineering, intelligence and technology - the laboratory has proved success in locating and destroying five terrorist tunnels in recent months.

APRIL 15, 2018ByJULIANE HELMHOLD
A general view of the interior of a cross-border attack tunnel dug from Gaza to Israel, near Kissufim, seen on January 18, 2018

Nine killed during Friday ‘March of Return’

Despite Hamas’s claims, seeing the clashes close up revealed the reality.

APRIL 8, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, SETH J. FRANTZMAN
A Palestinian demonstrator hurl stones at Israeli troops during clashes at the Israel-Gaza border at a protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, east of Gaza City April 6, 2018.

15 million Palestinian crossings into Israel in 2017

Defense Ministry notes increase of 15% in crossings from Gaza, West Bank

JANUARY 24, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Erez crossing

PA has not sent medical shipments to Gaza for over three months

Source says Abbas is pressuring Hamas to cede its control of Gaza.

JUNE 15, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Palestinian boy Ahmed Abu Saman, 16, who was injured in a car accident, lies on a bed at the emergency department at Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest public medical facility, in Gaza City, March 29, 2017.

Jerusalem Post Editorial: Stabilizing Gaza

In acceding to Abbas’s request to reduce the supply of current to Gaza, Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel does not seek a confrontation with Hamas.

JUNE 14, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a memorial service for senior militant Mazen Fuqaha, in Gaza City March 27, 2017.

Netanyahu: Israel doesn’t want Gaza violence outbreak

He spoke two-days after the security cabinet agreed to cut by 40% the amount of electricity it supplies to Gaza.

JUNE 13, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, ANNA AHRONHEIM
PM Benjamin Netanyahu