
Palestinian Islamic Jihad stated that Israel’s “threats to target the movement’s leadership is a declaration of war, which we will confront.”
On Friday, Hamas rejected Israel’s offer to allow them to enter Israel to retrieve the bodies of five terrorists killed in a tunnel that crossed the border into Israel. Israel’s requirement was simple and clearly quid pro quo; some form of progress in negotiations for the return of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in the last war with Gaza.