“Hamas is diverting great resources to restore what it considers a pattern that allows it to enter Israel discreetly and carry out attacks”, Eisenkot said at an event at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a college north of Tel Aviv.
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On February 8, a Palestinian man died when a tunnel collapsed on him in the latest in a series of deadly Gaza tunnel collapses.
This oversight occurred in the several months prior to Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014, during which the IDF destroyed dozens of tunnels in Gaza, the document claimed, according to Israeli news outlet nrg.
Israel’s Shin Bet security service says Qeq is involved in militant activities linked to Hamas.
Eizenkot touched on the option of Israel carrying out a preemptive strike on Gaza before Hamas might attack Israel, saying only that preemptive action was “being discussed in the places where it needs to be discussed”.
The border area has since remained largely quiet, but Hamas has publicly boasted that it has rebuilt its tunnel network.
As for Israel, Shalhat noted: “The situation these days is not ideal for a new [Israeli] war on Gaza; Israel has little justification for such a move”. Israeli officials say they see no willingness on the part of Hamas’s political wing to escalate matters, but that its military leadership is less predictable.
According to Mordechai, Hamas agreed to treat ISIS operatives in exchange for money, arms, and goods, all of which have been in short supply in the strip following Egypt’s aggressive campaign to destroy Hamas tunnels between Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula.
Some reports indicated Iran had never stopped supporting Hamas, including an April 2015 story in the Telegraph that quoted intelligence officials who said Iran had sent “tens of millions of dollars” to Hamas.
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He said to Anadolu Agency that it is “unacceptable for Israel to launch a war against what Hamas named by the battle of preparation”. The case of Mr. Eshtawi, however, appears to be the first time that the al-Qassam brigades sentenced one of their own through a court martial, AFP reported.
