Resistance will not stand by if Israel breaks ceasefire

Al-Nasser Brigade are prepared if Israel breach ceasefire contract Gaza – Mohammed Habib Protests spread in the Israeli army following the government’s decision to remove the mile-wide security belt along its border with the Gaza Strip. "Military sources have said the abolishment of the security belt comes as a step of measures agreed between the Israeli government and the Palestinian resistance as part of the ceasefire contract brokered by Egypt," an Israeli radio quoted.
Sources said government orders included restrictions on engaging with Palestinians along the border following the conclusion of Operation Pillar of Cloud, in addition to a marked increase in dual-purpose exports into the Gaza Strip.
Israeli analyst and Arab affairs expert Tzibi Vogel inquired the method by which soldiers are expected to handle arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, giving the example of a lorry carrying missiles. “Do we attack the lorry and prevent its passage into the Strip, breaking the ceasefire,” Vogel asked, “or do we prepare a new emergency plan for the next operation and do nothing to the lorry?”
According to the sources’ claims, the new regulations have encouraged thousands of Hamas and resistance supporters to confront the occupation troops along the Gaza border. One high-ranking officer serving in southern Israel said: “We are having a great deal of difficulty defending this zone.”
The sources added that Hamas activists had exploited the abolishment of the security belt to penetrate into Israeli army bases and that Hamas associates had destroyed Israeli military property, leaving them to watch “motionless.”
Officers and soldiers have protested the new instructions issued to them by Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Benny Gantz which they said were part of the ceasefire deal signed with the Palestinian resistance.
Meanwhile, Al-Nasser Salahuddine Brigades spokesperson Abu Ataya said in a statement released to the press that the ceasefire agreed under Egyptian sponsorship will not stop the resistance responding to Israeli breaches.
The resistance, Abu Ataya said, can “respond to these breaches and violations,” placing the responsibility of any future collapse of the truce on Israel and saying the resistance cannot trust them and thus prepare for Israeli “follies.”
In the latest of Israel’s breaches of the truce, an Israeli air raid struck eastern Deir al-Balah near the borders. Ahmed Nyyef al-Louh and brothers Rabah and Jihad Ahmed Abu Khammash were injured, two of them seriously.
The airstrike on the area known locally as “Dawwar Abu Thaer,” a few metres from the border line, was preceded by various breaches mainly in the eastern areas of Khan Younes and Rafah.
On the marine front, Israeli naval sources arrested on Saturday a number of Palestinian fishermen and confiscated their boat in the Gaza City Sea.
The president of the Gaza Fishermen’s Syndicate, Nizar Ayash, told the press that Israeli navy had “pursued small boats a few miles opposite the Gaza City coast and arrested a number of fishermen.”
Ayash said the 10 detainees were taken to the Port of Ashdod.
The terms of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel stipulate that the latter cease all hostilities against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, including ground incursions and the targeting of individuals.
The agreement also includes opening the border passes, facilitating the movement of people and good, not restricting the movement of residents or targeting them in border areas.
Haniyeh political adviser Dr Yussuf Rizka said there was “no chance” of accepting Israeli breaches on the terms of the agreement.
In a televised statement on Monday, Rizka said the Palestinians in Gaza had the right to enter the border area up to the wire barrier on the eastern border along the strip, adding “no [Israeli] soldiers are allowed to enter this area according to the agreed terms.”
The adviser also said it was not “helpful” for one resistance group to respond unilaterally to Israeli breaches that “requires battles,” pointing out the crucial role of the joint operations room in the recent Shale Stones battle.
On the other terms of the agreement, Rizka said the Rafah border crossing has experienced a relative improvement, adding “we have not reached the stage of what the Strip was like before the blockade.”
Rizka also dismissed the possibility of Egypt withdrawing from the Palestinian and Arab spheres due to internal turmoil, saying it was “too early to make an accurate assessment of what is going on regarding the truce.”