No end in sight for Gaza crisis - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Nov 15, 2013

Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a military parade marking the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel, in Gaza City November 14, 2013. Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks in November last year ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement calling on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY CONFLICT MILITARY) - RTX15DDP — Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a military parade marking the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel, in Gaza City, Nov. 14, 2013. — REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

Mohammed Abu al-Rub, deputy leader of Palestinian Tamarud movement, attends their first conference at the Muslim Youth Association headquarters in Cairo January 7, 2014. After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt's military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighbouring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials told Reuters. In early January, Cairo publicly hosted the first conference of a new anti-Hamas youth group called Tamarud, or rebel, the sam

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