The residents of Otaf are preparing for a tense weekend: "It's a disgrace that they paralyze the area, we are broadcasting weakness"

The roads in the Gaza Strip will be closed for the fourth day in a row, and the citizens are tired of being under curfew: "They disrupted our lives without launching a single rocket. It's time to go on the offensive."

The heads of the authorities also criticized the policy: "A completely absurd situation, the political echelon must give the IDF the mandate to attack"

Yanir Yagna, Amir Bohbot, Yifat Rosenberg

05/08/2022

Friday, 05 August 2022, 06:00 Updated: 09:29

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On video: Central roads in the Gaza Strip will also be blocked tomorrow due to alertness (Photo: Avi Rokah)

The vigilance in the Gaza Strip continues this morning (Friday), for the fourth day in a row, and the residents of the area are preparing for a tense weekend, in which the Islamic Jihad threatens to harm them and the soldiers serving on the Gaza border. The residents, who are actually under curfew, are beginning to lose patience.

"This is a disgrace that we have reached a situation where a terrorist is arrested and the Gaza Strip is paralyzed," said Lavala Albert Gabai, a resident of Sderot. "This conveys weakness, no matter what the final result.

We are silenced.

Without launching a single rocket they disrupted the lives of the residents of the Otaf.

It's time to go on the attack." "I expect that the government ministers, regardless of whether they are right or left, will come to Otef and express sympathy and give answers to the residents," he added.

The alert in the Gaza Strip will continue this morning as well.

A checkpoint in the Gaza Strip, this week (Photo: Flash 90, no)

Last night, after a meeting with Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, the heads of the Otef authorities also criticized the government's policy. "Citizens of the State of Israel and especially Otef residents should not be held hostage by any terrorist organization," said Mayor Sderot Alon Davidi. The government, the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff to attack the terrorist organizations and promises that you will receive all the backing from us. It cannot be that for three days there will be tension in the Gaza Strip, closed roads, canceled trains and businesses losing their livelihoods."

The head of the Sdot Negev Regional Council, Tamir Aidan, was also outraged by the policy: "The curfew under which the residents of the Otaf are under because of a group of terrorists is completely absurd and must end as soon as possible. I demand from the political level to give the security forces the mandate to act and inflict mortal harm on the terrorist organizations until the illusory equation is changed according to They set our agenda."

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"The curfew is absurd."

Kochavi during his visit to the Gaza Strip, yesterday (photo: IDF spokesman)

In the meantime, last night a senior member of the Islamic Jihad threatened that they are on "reaction alert".

According to him, the contacts between them and the Egyptian mediators continue, but the understandings have not yet been reached.

"The sheikh's arrest is a crossing of the red lines," he said, "the Egyptian mediator gave assurances about the sheikh's medical condition, but if Israel does not meet our demand regarding al-Saadi and Awwada, security will not return to its settlements."

Khalil Awawada is a security prisoner on hunger strike for 155 days in Israel.

The roads and the blocked areas

Highway 232 is blocked in the section between Mefalim and Saad, agricultural roads to the west are blocked, and the road from Nir Yitzhak to the south is also blocked.

The road will be temporarily open to traffic until today at 5:00 am, from the Saad intersection to Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.

Road 2410 is open to traffic for residents of the area traveling in private vehicles only and upon presentation of an ID, as is road 242 in the section between road 2410 and road 232.

Road number 4 is blocked from the Zikim intersection to the access road to the Erez crossing.

Road number 34 is blocked from the Yad Mordechai intersection to the Nir Am intersection.

Likewise, the entrance to Givat Kobi ("The Four Monuments") in Sderot, the "Black Arrow" monument, Givat Ha'Pamonim, Givat Nazmit and Givat "The Single Horseman" will remain blocked.

In addition, Zikim Beach will remain closed to visitors, train traffic between Ashkelon and Sderot will not resume, and Erez Pass and Kerem Shalom will remain closed.

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