At a Massive Rally, Islamic Jihad Leader Says Israel Reneged on Its Truce Committments (PHOTOS)

By Palestine Chronicle Employees

A whole bunch of Palestinians took half on Thursday within the first post-war rally organized by the Islamic Jihad Motion within the besieged Gaza Strip. 

A Palestine Chronicle correspondent in Gaza attended the rally, entitled ‘The Highway to Jerusalem’.

In the course of the rally, the chief of the group, Ziad Al-Nakhala, launched pre-recorded remarks, accusing Israel of reneging on its commitments underneath a truce that ended a lethal three-day Israeli assault earlier this month.

“The enemy remains to be evading the commitments it made to our brothers in Egypt,” The New Arab reported al-Nakhala as saying.

“The enemy authorities should bear full duty for that,” al-Nakhala added. 

On August 5, Israel launched what it known as a ‘preemptive’ army operation on the Gaza Strip. The three-day intense bombardment killed 49 Palestinians, together with 17 youngsters, and wounded over 350 extra.

(All Photographs: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)