Deadly tactics that have been seen in Gaza for a considerable period are now being seen in Judea and Samaria, such as “local manufacturing of weapons and advanced explosive devices; excavating tunnels; launching rockets; and fostering cooperation among different terror organizations.”
Also, the Times of Israel points out that “both groups enjoy significant financial and military support from Iran.”
“Tunnels and rockets from the Gaza playbook” are also tactics that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are trying to employ to give themselves an advantage over Israel. Both groups are determined to see the destruction of the Jewish state.
Given the daily threat of jihad to the State of Israel, more IDF forces are needed in Judea and Samaria, while the willfully blind advance false claims of “occupation” and expect Israel to surrender this region altogether to the Palestinians, and return to the pre-1967 borders.
“Hamas and Islamic Jihad seen importing Gaza military tactics to the West Bank,” by Gianluca Pacchiani, Times of Israel, August 16, 2023:
Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been exploiting the power vacuum in the northern West Bank to strengthen their military presence and replicate the fighting tactics against Israel that they developed in Gaza, according to a new report.
The analysis, published last week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), highlights the various indications pointing at a new military infrastructure emerging in the Jenin and Nablus areas — resembling what already exists in the coastal enclave ruled by Hamas since 2007 — thanks to the dwindling control of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority over the area.
Among these indications are local manufacturing of weapons and advanced explosive devices; excavating tunnels; launching rockets; and fostering cooperation among different terror organizations, similar to the “Joint War Room” they set up in the Gaza Strip.
Like in Gaza, the main actors on this new terror front are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Both groups enjoy significant financial and military support from Iran, and both groups regularly thank Iran publicly for the aid it sends to Gaza and the West Bank. For instance, in a June 30 interview with the Iranian Arabic-language newspaper Al-Vefagh, PIJ leader Ziyad al-Nakhaleh said that armament of the West Bank has been taking place in accordance with instructions issued in 2014 by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who put forth a plan to “smuggle arms into the area, or buy them from the Israelis themselves.”
In recent months, however, it appears that explosive devices have been increasingly developed in the West Bank itself, and are more powerful than in the past. For example, the report mentioned that a large explosive device that was detonated on June 19 against an IDF armored vehicle on its way out of Jenin weighed 80 kilograms (176 lbs), and was allegedly produced by the engineering unit of the Jenin Brigade, a cross-factional group that emerged in September 2021……
Ester Ruth says
I pray for Bibi to put an end to their evil plans and may the God of Abraham, Jacob, and Issac strengthen to totally obliterate Israel’s enemies this day.
Ester Ruth says
Where’s the comments? Where’s the outrage?
John Fleming says
I join you in your prayer. Am Israel chai!