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Former Israel Security Agency Head: No Return to Pre-War Understandings with Hamas
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Former Israel Security Agency head Yoram Cohen on Wednesday told Israel's Kan radio that he opposed returning to the same understandings with Hamas that existed prior to the current war, and believed Hamas must be isolated much more aggressively. Cohen was the head of the ISA during the 2014 Gaza war. He said he would allow only humanitarian assistance into Gaza, including food and medicine, but would block sending in building materials. Cohen slammed the post-2014 Gaza war process in which thousands of international inspectors were supposed to ensure that anything that went into Gaza was not appropriated by Hamas, but the number was reduced to hundreds of inspectors and then to border crossing cameras which could not properly oversee the issue. He also criticized allowing Qatar to bring funds to Hamas.