Daar komt de aap uit de mouw, ze staan al 12 dagen bij de grens te rellen en dat is sinds ze de salarissen hebben gehalveerd vanwege geld tekort. Dus de rellen en de incendiary kites and balloons zijn om internationale aandacht te trekken zodat sponsors hun portemonnee weer trekken.
https://www.timesofisrael(...)s-11-gazans-wounded/Israel strikes Hamas sites after border unrest leaves 11 Gazans woundedIDF responds to 12th consecutive night of riots along security fence as Hamas seeks to draw attention to its economic woes and put pressure on foreign donors, experts say
In recent days, Palestinians have also floated incendiary kites and balloons across the border into southern Israel, setting fire to farmland and unnerving Israeli civilian communities close to Gaza.
The unrest first erupted earlier this month, shortly after Hamas’ Finance Ministry announced it was slashing the salaries of civil servants by more than half, deepening a financial crisis in the enclave that has staggered under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade for the past 16 years.
Under arrangements stemming from past ceasefire understandings with Israel, the gas-rich emirate of Qatar pays the salaries of civil servants in the Gaza Strip, provides direct cash transfers to poor families and offers other kinds of humanitarian aid.
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it had begun the distribution of $100 cash transfers to some 100,000 needy families in the impoverished territory. Disbursements for civil servants’ salaries have suffered delays since May.
"It's a tactical way of generating attention about their distress," Ibrahim Dalalsha, director of the Horizon Center, a Palestinian research group based in the West Bank, said of Hamas. "It's not an escalation but 'warming up' to put pressure on relevant parties that can come up with money to give to the Hamas government."
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