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This report discusses "Operation Scattering Illusion" that was orchestrated near the Abu Salem Vine Crossing, while analyzing its results, consequences and motives. It further highlights the Israeli aggression in the West Bank and Gaza before the operation that included assassinating resistance leaders, and the different massacres carried out against the Palestinian people with the one on the Gaza beach getting prominence. The resistance faced the aggression by carrying out a new operation on 25 June 2006. It was carried out by three Palestinian factions and lead to the killing of two Israeli soldiers, wounding seven others and destroying an Israeli tank. In turn, two resistance leaders were killed while six others returned to Gaza with an Israeli prisoner, Jlaad Shaleet. The report points out the factions were willing to exchange the Israeli soldiers in turn for 1000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. The report also outlined the consequences of the Israeli invasion of Gaza called Operation Summer Rains in which Israel kidnapped more than 60 Palestinian government officials and cut off electricity and water of the people living in the Strip. The report highlighted the fact that many in the Gaza Strip are suffering because of such Israeli action, discussing the Arab and international reactions on the formal and popular levels. The report has an appendix of the number of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
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