![Israeli policemen confiscate Hamas flags during clashes with Palestinians near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 8, 2015. Four people, including an Israeli soldier, were stabbed and wounded near a military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, police and ambulance sources said, as a rash of such Palestinian attacks spread to Israel's commercial capital. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - RTS3LE4](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/10/RTS3LE4.jpg/RTS3LE4.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=XMU_pUCF)
هاضم بلوشا روزنامه نگار فلسطینی ساکن غزه است. او با بخش جهانی بی بی سی، دویچه وله و روزنامه گاردین پیش از این همکاری کرده است. او موسس سازمان توسعه و ارتباطات فلسطین است.
![Israeli policemen confiscate Hamas flags during clashes with Palestinians near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 8, 2015. Four people, including an Israeli soldier, were stabbed and wounded near a military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, police and ambulance sources said, as a rash of such Palestinian attacks spread to Israel's commercial capital. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - RTS3LE4](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/10/RTS3LE4.jpg/RTS3LE4.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=XMU_pUCF)
![A Palestinian boy wearing an Islamic Jihad headband joins other Palestinians taking part in a protest against what they say are recent visits by Jewish activists to al-Aqsa mosque, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 7, 2014. In recent months, a campaign for the prayer ban on Jewish worshippers at the site, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, to be overturned, led by settler activists, has gathered momentum, raising alarm among Palestinians and Muslims further](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/06/RTR4D8RY.jpg/RTR4D8RY.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=wE9iA5FN)
![Hazem Balousha](https://www.al-monitor.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/authors/HBalousha%20%282%29.jpg/HBalousha%20%282%29.jpg?h=55541bb6&itok=elKI6NtZ)
Hazem Balousha
![RAMALLAH, -: An Israeli soldier talks to prominent Palestinian democracy and human rights activist Mustafa Barghuti, 51, at Kalandia checkpoint in the West Bank city of Ramallah 29 November 2004. Barghuti became the latest Palestinian who has decided to run in the January 09 presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat. Barghuti, secretary-general of the Palestinian national initiative, said that he wanted to make the fight against governmental corruption one of the main platforms of his campaign. AFP PH](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/11/51800906.jpg/51800906.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=6q2PX7On)
![Hazem Balousha](https://www.al-monitor.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/authors/HBalousha%20%282%29.jpg/HBalousha%20%282%29.jpg?h=55541bb6&itok=elKI6NtZ)
Hazem Balousha
![Islamic Jihad militants ride on a pickup truck as they follow the convoy of freed Palestinian prisoner Ibrahim Baroud, upon his arrival in the northern Gaza Strip April 8, 2013. Baroud, who was convicted of his affiliation with the armed group of Islamic Jihad and for carrying out armed attacks against Israel, was released on Monday after serving 27 years in an Israeli jail, according to media reports. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXYD6V](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/10/Islamic%20Jihad.jpg/Islamic%20Jihad.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=1nmdMYic)
![Hazem Balousha](https://www.al-monitor.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/authors/HBalousha%20%282%29.jpg/HBalousha%20%282%29.jpg?h=55541bb6&itok=elKI6NtZ)
Hazem Balousha