“Israeli policymakers recognize that they control the situation in Gaza. If their sense of moral obligation doesn’t compel them to correct it, at the very least their interests should,” writes Tania Hary.

Hamas does not want a new war with Israel and the tunnels it is digging into the Jewish state’s territory and Egypt are purely “defensive,” a senior figure in the Palestinian group told foreign journalists in Gaza on Thursday.

“The notion that oppressed groups are the beneficiaries of their oppressors is a common theme in colonial societies,” writes Edo Konrad.

Palestinian leaders in Israel have warned that they suspect the Israeli government is behind recent efforts to trick the families of refugees from the 1948 war into signing away the rights to their lands.

“When the Palestinian Authority does Israel’s dirty work, is it any surprise that so many Palestinians no longer differentiate between the two?” asks Hagar Shezaf.

Israeli authorities promise to shorten Muhammad al-Qiq’s administrative detention order, not renew it.

“The Israeli forces enter our territory every night, since the beginning of the current uprising, and this has a significant impact on the morale of our forces and on the image of these forces in the eyes of the public,” said Adnan Dameri, the spokesman for the Palestinian security forces.

Finance Minister Kahlon decides to take series of measures to help improve the PA’s economic situation in an effort to create hope on the Palestinian street that would mitigate the wave of violence.