About two hundred Fatah supporters fled Gaza to Israel following Hamas crackdown. Fatah refused to accept those hoodlums in the West Bank which is full of its own thugs. Israel started returning them to Gaza, where Hamas arrests them on arrival.
Israel returns to the Rabin’s policy of letting the Palestinians kill each other out.

Syria government’s liaison with Hezbollah shot dead in Tartus by sniper fire. Hezbollah’s liaison with Syria, Mughniye, was killed a few months ago.

As promised to Hezbollah, Israel released “a number of Palestinian security prisoners,” merely five stone-throwers.

at today’s government meeting.

in a $1.9 billion deal. At $210 million a piece, Hercules is almost too expensive to risk in any major confrontation. The existing Hercules planes are lightly used because Israel has no need for long-range transport aircraft. The new Hercules model offers no major improvements over Israel’s 35-year-old fleet.
Lockheed Martin employs scores of high-ranking Israeli military figures for lobbying.

Hamas established control over Shajayeh district in Gaza, a home of Hilles clan. Hamas re-thought its year-long toleration of the Fatah-allied clans after five of Hamas guerrillas were killed a week ago in apparently a Fatah-organized explosion,
Hamas also took away weapons from many members of Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a militant Fatah offshoot in Gaza - financed, as all Fatah branches, by Israeli tax transfers.