Ghaza Under Attack 2020:

 Israeli airstrikes on Gaza a few days after the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates 

The Israeli military has confirmed that it carried out air strikes on Gaza on Wednesday.

 According to Jerusalem-based journalist Harinder Mishra, the Israeli military claims that the attacks were in response to rocket and gas balloon attacks by Palestinians on Israeli territory.

The Israeli military claims that the airstrikes were carried out on the hideouts of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.  Details of Palestinian casualties and other damage as a result of the attacks have not been released.

Harinder Mishra said that since the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates a few days ago, there has been tension in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, after which a few rockets were fired from Gaza into Israeli territory.  In addition, flammable gas balloons were released, which burned many crops in Israeli territory.

Harinder Mishra said that no attack was carried out by both sides today (Thursday) but tensions remained in the Palestinian territories and there were demonstrations.

 Harinder Mishra said that there is usually a lot of talk in Israel about such attacks, but this time there has been almost silence.

Observers say Israel does not want to publicize its air strikes at this time because its representatives are currently in the UAE finalizing the agreement.  In addition, Israel hopes to improve relations with other Arab states.

 Therefore, the escalation of tensions with the Palestinians on this occasion is not in Israel's favor.

According to Harinder Mishra, Israel considers the recent agreement with the United Arab Emirates as its greatest achievement and does not want to get involved in any major conflict with the Palestinians and obstruct the agreement.

 Prime Minister Netanyahu has recently said that Israel is also working to launch direct flights between the UAE and Tel Aviv that will pass through Saudi airspace, meaning that it now also needs Saudi cooperation.

Harinder Mishra says that the Palestinians will not get anything from this agreement.  They are being harassed only on verbal deposit.

 Commenting on the situation in Gaza and West Bank, journalist Harinder Mishra said that the Palestinians were "deeply disappointed and angry" at Israel's rapidly improving relations with Arab countries.  He says the offer not to annex any more of the occupied West Bank to Israel under the agreement is "a joke because these areas are already completely under Israeli control."

Harinder Mishra says that Prime Minister Netanyahu never wanted to annex the occupied West Bank to Israel because these areas are already under Israeli control and he does not want to get involved in any conflict by annexing them regularly.  

 Some Israeli analysts say the justification for not annexing the Occupied West Bank is a major political gift to Prime Minister Netanyahu because of pressure from within Israeli to make it part of Israel. 

President Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said in a joint statement last Thursday that the peace deal would result in Israel suspending plans to integrate more of the occupied West Bank into Israel.

The Palestinians have called the agreement a stab in the back because they do not see a separate state.  The "indiscriminate rocket and gas balloon attacks" on Israel by the Palestinians are an expression of this anger and frustration.

Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, followed by Jordan in 1994.

 The UAE is now the third Arab and the first Gulf country to formally establish diplomatic relations with Israel.#GhazaUnderAttack