Breaking news in the gaza strip

Description:Quoting informed Egyptian sources, the paper said that the agreement calls for a one-year truce between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, which will be automatically extended for another four years. In return, the sources said, Israel would release Palestinian prisoners, including those who were rearrested after being freed in the Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange agreement. The decision announced Friday comes after Trump ordered a review of "US assistance to the Palestinian Authority and in the West Bank and Gaza to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with US national interests and provide value to the US taxpayer," the senior State Department official said. Bolton also took a swipe at the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, suggesting there was little to choose between it and the militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza. The US administration has already demonstrated meanness of spirit in its collusion with the Israeli occupation and its theft of land and resources; now it is exercising economic meanness by punishing the Palestinian victims of this occupation," Ashrawi added. The rights of the Palestinian people are not for sale," she said in a statement to CNN.

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