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Fri 05 May 2023 10:12 am - Jerusalem Time

Haaretz: Hamas assessments in Gaza succeeded, and organized cells began carrying out operations in the West Bank

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Friday, that the Hamas movement chose to issue a statement on behalf of the Joint Chamber of Resistance in Gaza, to show its role in decision-making in the Strip, and to gain points in its favor as an organization still raising the banner of resistance. It was coordinated between the movement and the Islamic Jihad.


According to the newspaper, the estimates of Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas movement in Gaza, and Muhammad al-Deif, leader of the movement's military wing, were correct and succeeded in assessing the situation that the Israeli response to the rocket fire would be limited and brief, and this is what happened, at a time when the Islamic Jihad Movement considered it obligated to respond. On the death of Adnan.


It indicated that the last round lasted 27 hours, and ended with an agreement mediated by the Egyptian intelligence, during which more than 100 rockets and mortar shells were fired, and 3 Israelis were actually wounded, and a Palestinian was killed in the Strip and 5 were wounded.


According to the newspaper, the current right-wing government led by Benjamin Netanyahu did not issue a statement, like all previous governments, to stop the tour, at a time when the Israelis followed the declaration of Hamas and jihad in Gaza, but implicitly this was confirmed by the Israeli army's announcement of a return to normal procedures.


During the presence of the current government in the opposition, it often attacked the Bennett-Lapid government, accusing it of weakness towards Hamas, and promised that the matter would be different for them, but after 4 months of their rule, a first round of rocket fire took place from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, and the second from Gaza, and it remained Things are as they are without any change contrary to their promises, and the Israeli army attacked 16 Hamas targets, and Israel was keen to be calculated, and did not deviate from its previous policies, and therefore did not impose any restrictions on the entry of workers from Gaza, who bring 140 million shekels to the Strip every month, which is an issue It is considered an important element in the attempt to achieve relative stability in Gaza, and despite the fiery rhetoric of the right-wing government, it tries not to disturb Hamas, the main beneficiary of the current economic arrangements.


Haaretz said in an analytical report by its military correspondent, Amos Harel, that the impasse in Gaza is not new, and the current opposition is attacking the right-wing government, which is already showing confusion and impotence, noting that the previous government launched Operation Dawn against Islamic Jihad, and it was operationally successful, but it achieved goals. limited, and the evidence for this is that the Islamic Jihad movement returned to firing rockets again after less than a year.


And the Hebrew newspaper believes that the weakest link in the current government is the Jewish force led by Itamar Ben Gvir, who knows that the chances of him obtaining any political service for himself from the government coalition are slim, and that the attacks that occur, especially in the interior and Jerusalem, and the gap between his election promises and the actual failure to fulfill them. They cause him to weaken, and this is what may push him to withdraw from the coalition in the event that the attacks increase, which will increase his political losses, and this is what prompted him, after the escalation from Gaza, to make insulting statements to Netanyahu, who did not bother to invite him to the security consultations that took place during the escalation, along with Boycott the Knesset session and go with his party members to Sderot to support the Israelis there. However, this media presentation indicates that it is too early for Ben Gvir to resort to withdrawal and Netanyahu still needs him, and the public confrontation between them has served them to some extent.


And the newspaper adds: “But the troubles of Netanyahu and his partners do not end there. Added to the security deterioration with Gaza, the massive unrest caused by the judicial system plan, the increase in murders in the Arab sector, the exacerbation of the cost of living, and the constant sense of chaos that has surrounded the government since its inception. The unbridled behavior of coalition ministers and Knesset members who get involved in new incidents and extremist statements on a daily basis, contributes to these troubles."


According to Harel, the newspaper warns that the current government may resort to carrying out pre-emptive attacks against the Palestinians to escape from these problems that occurred in it, such as the assassination of a senior official in the Palestinian factions, which will not gain it broad consensus and support, but it may change the general agenda for a while.


Regarding the situation in the West Bank, the newspaper says that there has been a significant change in the transfer of operations from individual action to the responsibility of local cells affiliated with the military wings of Palestinian factions, noting that before the operations were carried out by Palestinian youths who did not belong to any faction, at a time when they were active. The Lions' Den in Nablus, and the Jenin Brigade in Jenin.


The newspaper believes that the common denominator between the attacks that are being carried out and the high murders among the Palestinians inside, is the availability of weapons in abundance, which can be obtained with great ease, which increases the number of attacks on the one hand, and murders on the other.


And it considered that the incident of arms smuggling by Jordanian MP Imad Al-Adwan is a glimpse of this reality, as it only expresses the tip of the iceberg in the face of the smuggling industry, of which hundreds of smuggling are thwarted, but the estimate is that the numbers of what is smuggled are much greater than what is seized. .


She pointed out that the proliferation of weapons in the West Bank increases the burden of the arrests that are carried out in the West Bank, pointing out that the situation may escalate in the West Bank because the account is still open after Adnan’s martyrdom, despite reaching a cease-fire agreement in the Strip, but Israel’s insistence on continuing to detain his body can That supports other backlashes. as you say.


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Haaretz: Hamas assessments in Gaza succeeded, and organized cells began carrying out operations in the West Bank

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