In ultimatum, Hamas tells Israelis to ease blockade or face renewed violence

[Valin]

Times Of Israel

Amid surge in ‘lone-wolf’ perpetrators, Gazan terror group says assaults will escalate unless Israel ups electricity supply and permits Qatari funds to enter the enclave.

TOI staff

Aug. 20 2019

Members of the Izz-a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist terror group Hamas, take part in a march in Gaza City, July 25, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Hamas has reportedly issued a direct threat to escalate the violence along the Gaza-Israel border if Israel hinders the entry of Qatari cash into the Gaza Strip and fails to increase the supply of electricity.

The threat, published in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on Tuesday morning, follows outbursts of violence and tension along the border over recent weekends, and repeated warnings by Hamas and other Gazan terror groups that the blockaded Palestinian enclave was on the verge of an “explosion.”

“The factions have given the interlocutors a direct threat [to pass along to Israel]: If the enemy does not implement the understandings, allowing entry of the Qatari funds and increasing the quantity of electricity by this weekend, they will move to escalate on the ground,” an unnamed Hamas source told the newspaper.

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Gosh, and just when things were going so peacefully.