Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Israel has fortified its border with the Gaza Strip by using a barrier that goes underground and is made of steel.
Tracking the escalation in tensions from the terror attack in Beersheva in March to the latest round of rocket attacks from Gaza.
While Palestinian Islamic Jihad is said to have launched the rocket, the Israeli military still holds Hamas accountable for any unrest in the area.
First such attack against Israel in seven months • Palestinian Islamic Jihad reportedly behind the firing.
On social media, Hamas “blesses the heroic operation against the Zionist occupation soldiers in the so-called ‘Tel Aviv’ area, which led to the killing and wounding of a number of Zionist occupiers.”
Nevertheless, Professor Boaz Ganor, executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, says this particular incident does not reflect any current trend in the Arab-Israeli arena.
Hamas says it is “following with great concern” recent visits by Israeli officials to Arab and Islamic countries in the region; Palestinian Islamic Jihad says the visit “betrays Jerusalem and Palestine.”
Gaza terrorists warn of fresh hostilities over Sheikh Jarrah unrest
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett takes lawmakers to task for inflaming tensions, saying, “we do not need provocateurs that will set the region ablaze for political purposes.”
These choices “do not represent our people, and constitute a breach of the national consensus and a suppression of the will of the Palestinian people,” they said in a joint statement.
“For two days, there was anti-Gazan, anti-Hamas anger on social media in Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, even though the march was organized by Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” said Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies.
The first to go was Hamas political bureau head Ismail Haniyeh, who left the Al-Sahti Refugee Camp for “the extravagant hotels in Doha, the capital of Qatar,” the report stated.
As part of the exercise, the second of its kind, the terrorist groups practiced rushing Israeli troops and outposts.
