Gaza’s interior ministry accused the Palestinian Authority’s Fateh group of sending security officials disguised as charity truck drivers into northern Gaza, sparking tensions between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority
The interior ministry in Gaza accused the Fateh of deploying security officials into northern Gaza while posing as charity truck drivers, according to the Gaza interior ministry.
An employee of the Palestinian Authority refuted the charges made by Gaza’s interior ministry.
Majed Faraj, the chief of intelligence for the Palestinian Authority, oversaw the force’s mission, a senior official from the Hamas interior ministry informed the Gaza-based Al-Aqsa TV.
According to the report, authorities were pursuing the remaining members of the force after six of them, who were escorting relief vehicles over the Rafah crossing with Egypt, were taken into custody.
An official representing the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, claimed that the statement made by the Gaza interior ministry about the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip was inaccurate.
Regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, the official stated that the Palestinian Authority was not interested in a discussion with the media about anything that would take focus away from “the suffering of our people in Gaza Strip, and the killing, starvation, and displacement they are living through.”
The Hamas official claimed, without offering proof, that “the suspicious security force that entered yesterday with Egyptian Crescent trucks coordinated its operations entirely with the (Israeli) occupation forces.” The Islamic counterpart of the Red Cross is called the Red Crescent.
Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV issued a statement on its Telegram accounts, claiming that militant fighters and police officials were told to consider any forces that entered Gaza without prior agreement with them as a “occupation force.”
Leaders of Hamas declared that any effort to keep their group out of Gaza when the fighting was over would be “delusional.”
