As Palestinians in the nearby West Bank have endured their deadliest year in decades, it has been a rare summer of quiet \u00ad\u00adin the Gaza Strip. Raed Asad hoped he could finally secure a permit to work on an Israeli farm or construction site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in late August, Israel put a halt to new work permits \u2014 accusing Hamas, the Islamist militant group that governs this blockaded territory, of being behind terrorist attacks in the West Bank. Hamas and Israel traded familiar threats. In Gaza\u2019s latest lurch between calm and chaos, Asad saw his long-shot chance vanish.<\/p>\n\n\nhttps:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/tensions-beginning-to-boil-in-gaza-as-fears-of-new-conflict-mount\/ar-AA1h2dWg: Tensions \u2018Beginning to Boil\u2019 in Gaza as Fears of New Conflict Mount<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Palestinians in the nearby West Bank have endured their deadliest year in decades, it has been a rare summer of quiet \u00ad\u00adin the Gaza Strip. Raed Asad hoped he could finally secure a permit to work on an Israeli farm or construction site. But in late August, Israel put a halt to new work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingbiblical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}