Today's D Brief: Delicate Israel-Gaza ceasefire; Army vs. Space Force; Shrinking SOF units; C-130 seaplane?; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
May 21, 2021 10:50 AM ET
The D Brief
A delicate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems to be holding, but no one knows how long it will last since “both sides claimed victory and gave a different version of the deal’s terms,” the Wall Street Journal reports from Tel Aviv.
And don’t look now, but tensions are flaring again today near the Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Israeli-Palestinian tensions soared nearly 11 days ago, helping trigger this latest round of violence, the Associated Press reports from Gaza.
Israeli police fired stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian protesters who gathered outside the mosque Friday morning “in a celebratory demonstration in which they waved Palestinian and Hamas flags and cheered the militant group,” AP writes. “Palestinians hurled rocks and at least one firebomb” during the exchange with Israeli police.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/05/the-d-brief-may-21-2021/174218/
