Egypt stops Palestinians shelling Israel following tunnel attack

Egypt is pushing Hamas not to retaliate following Israel’s strike against a Palestinian tunnel which killed seven Palestinians and wounded 12.

Israel Hayom reported that Hamas vowed to avenge and Egypt is pushing the movement to maintain calm. It added that the Palestinian organisations in the Gaza Strip called for revenge for its seven operatives who were killed in a tunnel blast on Monday.

The agency noted that in spite of the high number of deaths indicates that the organizations in Gaza underwent a pressure from Cairo to curtail responses to the killing of its militants and to not drag the region to a new round of escalation.

Among those killed was the head of Islamic Jihad’s armed wing in central Gaza, Arafat Abu Marshould, and his deputy, a Hamas field commander and other Islamic Jihad fighters, the agency revealed.

On the other hand, the Israel’s Kol Yisrael said that the Egyptian intelligence officials told Hamas that it was not the time to respond to Israel. The Palestinian movement agreed to pressure Islamic Jihad not to take any action against Israel.

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