The Israeli Air Force attacked for the first time since the IDF’s military operation in the Gaza Strip last August, an underground military site in the center of the Gaza Strip that serves as a Hamas rocket development and production complex.
Hamas is the sovereign in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli attack came in response to the launch of 4 rockets from the Strip towards the Israeli settlements on the border of the Gaza Strip.
It was the Islamic Jihad that launched the rockets at Israel in response to the fact that the IDF killed in Jenin Farouk Salama, the senior military wing of the Islamic Jihad.
The Islamic Jihad is signaling to Israel that it will no longer accept the assassination of senior officials in the organization’s military wing the West Bank and it has renewed the “Gaza-Jenin” equation that was established after the war in the Gaza Strip in May 2021 and the equation of the “unity of the fronts” that directly links everything that happens in the West Bank to the relative calm in the Gaza Strip.
This is a dangerous development ahead of the change of government in Israel, which indicates that the Islamic Jihad was not sufficiently deterred following the latest round of fighting in the Gaza Strip, and that it is correct to resume firing rockets at Israel and is ready to risk renewing the attacks of the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas, which is the sovereign in the Gaza Strip, meanwhile remains silent, the military wing of Hamas issued a statement following the attack by the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip in which it was stated that “Hamas will lead the war on behalf of the Palestinian people to protect it and its land and confront aggression in any part of Palestine”.
It claimed that it fired several shoulder-fired missiles at the Israeli Air Force planes that attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
Recently, residents of Nablus and Jenin harshly criticized Hamas and Islamic Jihad for sitting quietly while Israel renewed its policy of targeted killings in the West Bank and killed terrorists from the “Lions’ Den” group in Nablus and the “Jenin Battalion” of Islamic Jihad in the city of Jenin.
It is impossible to separate the resumption of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards Israel from the results of the Knesset elections, it is possible that the Islamic Jihad is already trying to establish new facts on the ground before the new government in Israel begins to act and it is trying to dictate the rules of the game in which it is interested, therefore, the Israeli military response was appropriate and organizational Terrorists must understand that no government in Israel will put up with rocket launches into the territory of sovereign Israel.
