(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - In a press statement on Wednesday, Egyptian foreign minister Mohamed Amr condemned Israel's air raids on Tuesday night on Gaza.
Amr said that Israel's policies would adversely affect Egypt's ongoing efforts to maintain calm in the Gaza Strip.
The minister also slammed Israel's practices against the Palestinian prisoners, which led to the death of a prisoner a few days ago.
He stressed the need for finding international mechanisms ending Israel's systematic violations against the Palestinian prisoners.
For its part, Al-Azhar university in Egypt strongly denounced Israel's latest aerial attacks on Gaza and its ongoing violations against the Palestinian prisoners.
The university appealed in a press release to the international institutions to shoulder their responsibilities and criminalize Israel's persistent violation of its truce agreement with the Palestinians in Gaza.
In this regard, noted Palestinian political analysts stated in separate press statements to the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israel's air raids on Gaza on Tuesday night were aimed to cover up its violations against the popular uprising in the West Bank.
Head of Al-Mustakbal research center Ibrahim Al-Madhoun said that the Israeli military escalation was not surprising and took place as a result of the tension in the West Bank, which was caused by the death of prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdiya.
Madhoun expressed his belief that the new Israeli government would be more criminal towards Gaza, especially since its war minister Moshe Ya'alon has hostile tendencies towards Gaza.
Political analyst Hamza Abu Shanab, in turn, stated that the Israeli occupation tries to repeat what it had done before its last war on Gaza by carrying out preemptive strikes on resistance sites at the pretext of responding to Palestinian rocket attacks.
Abu Shanab added that the Israeli occupation wants to disable the field activities of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza without engaging in direct confrontation with it as it had happened in the last war.
He opined that the occupation also tries to change its rules of engagement and take advantage of the tense situation in the West Bank and the alleged rocket attacks from Gaza to achieve security gains.
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