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Videos shared on Twitter and Facebook appeared to show soldiers shooting at Palestinians who did not present an imminent threat to their lives.IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis said on Monday that the army had made some mistakes, which it intends to investigate, according to the Associated Press. Earlier in the week, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told Army Radio that there will be no “commission of inquiry.”Separately, PA President Mahmoud Abbas met with newly appointed Egyptian General Intelligence Services chief Abbas Kamil in Ramallah on Tuesday.Kamil conveyed an “important message” from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Abbas, Wafa reported, without elaborating.Egypt has recently been placing pressure on Abbas not to move forward with cuts to budgets allocated to Gaza, according to two Palestinian sources who spoke to The Jerusalem Post.In a fiery speech last month, Abbas hinted that he was about to cut all budgets allocated to the Gaza Strip if the PA does not take full control of the coastal enclave.“If everything is in our hands, we will take full responsibility [for Gaza]. But if everything is not in our hands, [Hamas] will bear full responsibility for everything [in Gaza],” he said.Hamas has controlled Gaza since ousting the Fatah-dominated PA from the territory in 2007.
Palestinian Authority calls for international probe of Gazan deaths
IDF asserted Palestinian protesters attacked Israeli soldiers with Molotov cocktails, rocks.
