Gaza - exclusive to "Al Quds" dot com - Palestinian sources said, this morning, Wednesday, that the efforts of the mediators between the resistance and the Israeli occupation have begun to succeed in preventing a possible escalation that could explode at any moment after the Israeli military operation in Jenin , which led to the arrest of the leader of the Islamic Jihad . The Islamist , Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, in a barbaric manner, angered the movement.

The sources told Al-Quds.com that intensive contacts took place since yesterday evening and throughout last night, between mediators from the Egyptian intelligence and Qatar, and even with the intervention of parties in the United Nations, to try to prevent the Gaza Strip from being dragged into an intolerable escalation at the present time.

The sources pointed out that the Islamic Jihad movement responded to the calls after ignoring a number of them from the moment of Saadi's arrest until Tuesday afternoon.

The sources indicated that the Islamic Jihad movement had clearly asked the mediators to oblige the occupation to stop its attacks in the West Bank, and that it could not stand by and watch the continued killing and arrest of its members.

In the same context, Khalid al-Batsh, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said in televised statements this morning that contacts with the Egyptian side are continuing, and that the movement responded to the efforts based on the need for the Israeli attacks to stop.

Al-Batsh confirmed that members of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, are still on alert.

In the context, the Israeli occupation forces continue the state of alert, and are still closing the roads in the Gaza Strip, while reinforcing their forces with only 100 soldiers to deal with emergencies.