Hamas Refuses Security Coordination between PA, Israel

Archive photo of Israeli police forces in the old city of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Archive photo of Israeli police forces in the old city of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Hamas Refuses Security Coordination between PA, Israel

Archive photo of Israeli police forces in the old city of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Archive photo of Israeli police forces in the old city of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Hamas movement rejected security communication between Palestine and Israel, stating that it only serves the Israeli occupation.

Hamas spokesperson Abdul-Latif Qanou said that any resumption of the security coordination is rejected and only benefits the Israeli occupation, adding that it harms the resistance and the national reconciliation.

The movement announced the statement even though none of the Palestinian and Israeli officials discussed the issue, but recent Israeli reports stated that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel has fully restored the security coordination over the past few days.

'Channel 2' reported that security coordination between Israel and the PA has fully resumed some 3 months after President Mahmoud Abbas suspended it to protest new security restrictions imposed at the Temple Mount.

'Channel 2' also said the Palestinian forces resumed full coordination this week, but provided no further details.

In July, President Abbas suspended security coordination with Israel to protest the installation of metal detectors at entrances to the site.

Following that, all security and political communications were halted including the security coordination.

There are several forms of communication between the PA and Israel that can be summarized in two forms: security, which includes security and military issues, and civil, which includes treating patients, money transfer, travel and other matters.

PA asked the revision and evaluation of all transition agreement with Israel and bringing the situations as it were before the year 2000; which includes any invasions of the Palestinian territories, cancel the role of the civil administration of Israeli army, and transferring civil jurisdiction to the authority to re-establish security coordination.

Israel rejected the demands, however, Hamas sources believe that the coordination is gradually being reestablished.



Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Fire Kills 8 Near Aid Centers, 4 Others

19 June 2025, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: Palestinians gather along the Coastal Road in the Al-Sudaniyya area of northern Gaza as they wait for humanitarian aid expected to arrive through the Zikim crossing on 19 June 2025. (dpa)
19 June 2025, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: Palestinians gather along the Coastal Road in the Al-Sudaniyya area of northern Gaza as they wait for humanitarian aid expected to arrive through the Zikim crossing on 19 June 2025. (dpa)
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Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Fire Kills 8 Near Aid Centers, 4 Others

19 June 2025, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: Palestinians gather along the Coastal Road in the Al-Sudaniyya area of northern Gaza as they wait for humanitarian aid expected to arrive through the Zikim crossing on 19 June 2025. (dpa)
19 June 2025, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: Palestinians gather along the Coastal Road in the Al-Sudaniyya area of northern Gaza as they wait for humanitarian aid expected to arrive through the Zikim crossing on 19 June 2025. (dpa)

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli fire killed at least 12 people on Saturday, including eight who had gathered near aid distribution sites in the Palestinian territory suffering severe food shortages.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that three people were killed by gunfire from Israeli forces while waiting to collect aid in the southern Gaza Strip.

In a separate incident, Bassal said five people were killed in a central area known as the Netzarim corridor, where thousands of Palestinians have gathered daily in the hope of receiving food rations.

The Israeli army told AFP it was "looking into" both incidents, which according to the civil defense agency occurred near distribution centers run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Its operations began at the end of May when Israel eased a total aid blockade that lasted more than two months but have been marred by chaotic scenes and neutrality concerns.

UN agencies and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the foundation over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives.

The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said on Saturday that 450 people had been killed and 3,466 others injured while seeking aid in near-daily incidents since late May.

The Israeli blockade imposed in early March amid an impasse in truce negotiations had produced famine-like conditions across Gaza, according to rights groups.

Israel's military has pressed its operations across Gaza more than 20 months since an unprecedented Hamas attack triggered the devastating war, and even as attention has shifted to the war with Iran since June 13.

Bassal told AFP that three people were killed on Saturday in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City in the north, and one more in another strike on the southern city of Khan Younis.

Israeli forces also demolished more than 10 houses in Gaza City "by detonating them with explosives", he added.

Israeli restrictions on media in the Gaza Strip and difficulties in accessing some areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify the tolls and details provided by rescuers and authorities.

Earlier this week, the UN's World Health Organization warned that Gaza's health system was at a "breaking point", pleading for fuel to be allowed into the territory to keep its remaining hospitals running.

The Hamas attack in October 2023 that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 55,908 people, also mostly civilians, according to the Gaza health ministry. The UN considers these figures reliable.