RAMALLAH – Palestinian officials on Tuesday said the U.S. government is trying to break the region apart.
Their accusations came in response to the ongoing tour of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the Middle East over promoting Arab normalization with the Zionist regime.
"Arming Israel instead of keeping it to the international legitimacy clearly shows that Washington is an ally that shares the Israeli occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people,” said Saleh Rafat, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, in a press statement.
The remarks came as the Zionist regime’s tanks and aircraft carried out new strikes in Gaza on Tuesday.
The Zionist regime has bombed the enclave almost daily since August 6, allegedly in response to the airborne incendiary devices launched into the occupied territories.
The regime has also tightened the blockade. It has banned Gaza fishermen from going to sea and closed its goods crossing with the territory, prompting the closure of Gaza’s sole power plant for want of fuel.
An Egyptian delegation has been shuttling between the two sides to try to broker a renewal of the truce, so far without result.
A day earlier, the regime’s military’s jet fighters struck several positions in the eastern part of the besieged strip, killing four and injuring at least one other Palestinian.
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says the four were killed in a blast during "preparations to remove the criminal entity from our occupied land.”
The explosion which killed the four men has apparently taken place at a Palestinian Islamic Jihad military compound in the northern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya.
Hamas has warned that it will accept nothing less than the lifting of the Gaza blockade for calm to be restored to southern occupied territories.
Meanwhile a senior Hamas official told the TV channel Palestine Today on Monday that the retaliatory measures would continue until their demands were met.
"It is our right to break this siege,” Ismail Radwan said in comments capping another day in which terrorists in Gaza sent dozens of incendiary balloons toward Israel, sparking at least 36 fires in towns bordering the coastal enclave.
Their accusations came in response to the ongoing tour of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the Middle East over promoting Arab normalization with the Zionist regime.
"Arming Israel instead of keeping it to the international legitimacy clearly shows that Washington is an ally that shares the Israeli occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people,” said Saleh Rafat, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, in a press statement.
The remarks came as the Zionist regime’s tanks and aircraft carried out new strikes in Gaza on Tuesday.
The Zionist regime has bombed the enclave almost daily since August 6, allegedly in response to the airborne incendiary devices launched into the occupied territories.
The regime has also tightened the blockade. It has banned Gaza fishermen from going to sea and closed its goods crossing with the territory, prompting the closure of Gaza’s sole power plant for want of fuel.
An Egyptian delegation has been shuttling between the two sides to try to broker a renewal of the truce, so far without result.
A day earlier, the regime’s military’s jet fighters struck several positions in the eastern part of the besieged strip, killing four and injuring at least one other Palestinian.
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says the four were killed in a blast during "preparations to remove the criminal entity from our occupied land.”
The explosion which killed the four men has apparently taken place at a Palestinian Islamic Jihad military compound in the northern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya.
Hamas has warned that it will accept nothing less than the lifting of the Gaza blockade for calm to be restored to southern occupied territories.
Meanwhile a senior Hamas official told the TV channel Palestine Today on Monday that the retaliatory measures would continue until their demands were met.
"It is our right to break this siege,” Ismail Radwan said in comments capping another day in which terrorists in Gaza sent dozens of incendiary balloons toward Israel, sparking at least 36 fires in towns bordering the coastal enclave.
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