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Can Hamas control individual rocket firing?

In a bid to advance the truce with Israel, Gaza’s resistance factions, including Hamas, seem to have agreed to avoid and stop indiscriminate rocket launches toward Israel and to hand over culprits to the competent official authorities for accountability.
A Palestinian woman watches from her home's window fighters from the Ezz-Al Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, taking part in an anti-Israel military show in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip November 11, 2019 to mark one year since their comrade Nour Baraka, a commander in the group, was killed in an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s Public Prosecutor, Diaa al-Din al-Madhoun, held at his office Nov. 6 a meeting with several resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, calling on them to tighten control over weapons and seize them from “abusers,” in reference to individuals using weapons individually outside the framework of national consensus.

The meeting came following the return to Gaza Oct. 28 of a senior Hamas delegation that had visited Cairo for meetings with Egyptian officials discussing the Israeli blockade and the truce with Israel.

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