On Tuesday evening, a mortar shell was fired into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. It was the first such attack since the end of Operation Protective Edge, but Hamas authorities announcing shortly thereafter that they had arrested a rogue cell of another terrorist organization. Hamas added that it wants to maintain the cease-fire for now, even as PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo said the “danger of the split between the Gaza Strip and West Bank has increased in light of failure to end the dispute (between Palestinian factions.)” Abed Rabbo also accused Israel of “sowing seeds of division” among Palestinians. Meanwhile, a recent poll indicates that roughly half the Palestinian population supports a return to armed violence against Israel. Read More
