GAZA, Palestine, June 15 (NNN-WAFA) – United Nations Envoy to the Middle East, Nicolai Mladinov, met on Friday, in Gaza, with Islamic Hamas movement’s leaders, to help defuse growing tension with Israel, sources close to Hamas said.
The sources, said that, Mladinov arrived in Gaza earlier on Friday from Israel, and met with the leadership of the movement in the Gaza Strip, which Hamas has been ruling since 2007.
Overnight and early on Thursday, Israeli war planes attacked several facilities and posts in eastern and southern Gaza Strip in response to two rocket attacks, carried out by anonymous militants. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Mladinov visited Gaza on Friday, when the Palestinians join the weekly anti-Israel rallies, better known as the Great March of Return and Breaking the Israeli Siege, which has been going on since the end of March last year.
The Highest Commission of the Great March of Return called on the Gaza Strip’s population, to join the weekly protests to reject Israeli plans to annex large parts of the West Bank.
Since the rallies started last year, medics said, the Israeli army killed more than 300 demonstrators and wounded more than 17,000 others by live ammunition.– NNN-WAFA
