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Yoav Limor is a veteran journalist and defense analyst specializing in Israeli advocacy, global Jewish affairs, and Middle Eastern politics. A passionate advocate for Israel, he frequently appears on radio, television, and in print to provide insightful analysis and counter media bias.

This week’s security escalation showed that something in the balance struck between Israel and Hamas has shifted.
When Hamas finally dusted itself off in the aftermath of the Israeli attacks on Tuesday, it saw that nothing fundamental had actually changed in Gaza: the despair, the humanitarian crisis, the lack of diplomatic prospects—all these are still rampant in Gaza and are still Hamas’s responsibility.
The Israeli response was meant to give Hamas the necessary ‎leeway to contain the situation before it spirals ‎out of control.
The message to Hamas is clear: Israel remains one ‎step ahead, and all the money and efforts Hamas ‎has been investing in terror tunnels and training divers remain ‎in vain.‎
The goal of an elite IDF unit is to avoid confrontations with large-scale terror organizations, arresting wanted terrorists in the early stages of their activity before they gain experience. Or, at the very least, after the first attack they perpetrate.
If it was, in fact, the work of Israel’s Mossad, the assassination in Malaysia also serves as a warning to Israel’s other enemies, chief among them Iran.