The relative calm on the border of the Gaza Strip is a false and deceptive silence, it is quite possible that with the establishment of the new government in Israel this peace will be violated because the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip may try and challenge the Netanyahu government and renew the strategy of “uniting the fronts”, that is, tightening the linkage between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and responding by firing rockets toward Israel for any Israeli military activity against the terrorist centers in the West Bank.
Qatar is putting heavy pressure on the Hamas leadership to avoid a security escalation during the World Cup games.
On the other hand, the Netanyahu government may also change the current policy and make the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip pay a price for operating terrorism in the West Bank alongside Iran’s support for the establishment of new terrorist groups in the West Bank through the transfer of funds and weapons to the Islamic Jihad organization.
Senior security officials in Israel say that Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations in the Gaza Strip are not content only with the extensive campaign of incitement against Israel through their media and social networks, but are operationally using terrorist squads and individual terrorists to carry out attacks in the West Bank and in Israel itself.
The Shin Bet recently thwarted an attack using an explosive device in Israel by a resident of the Gaza Strip with a work permit in Israel.
He was caught with an explosive device that he planned to detonate on a bus in the south of the country. The terrorist, named Fathi Zakout, a 31-year-old resident of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, underwent training in the preparation of explosive charges in the Gaza Strip and was recruited by a senior operative in the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip named Jihad Ranem.
A number of terrorists arrested by the Shin Bet and the IDF in the West Bank territories revealed in their investigation that they received instructions and money to carry out the attacks from the military wings of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of terrorists who were released in the prisoner exchange deal in 2011 and deported to the Gaza Strip were absorbed into the military leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, they are residents of the West Bank who know the area well and they are the ones who operate and direct terrorist operations in the West Bank and in Israel itself.
These actions of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip may ignite an escalation on the border of Gaza Strip, as you remember, in 2014 a Hamas terrorist squad kidnapped 3 Israeli youngsters at the Gush Etzion junction and murdered them, the squad got the orders from the Gaza Strip and following it Israel launched a major military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli fear of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip
The Israeli security establishment is preparing for the possibility of rockets being fired at Israel in response to the IDF’s successful operation in the Jenin refugee camp during which two senior members of the Islamic Jihad organization were killed and several other terrorists were injured or arrested.
The two are Muhammad al-Saadi, the commander of the terrorist group called the “Jenin Battalion” and his assistant Naim Zoubeidi.
The killing of the two is considered an important achievement of the IDF in the war on terror and the Islamic Jihad organization has promised to avenge their deaths.
The IDF’s operation in the Jenin refugee camp was aimed at capturing the Islamic Jihad terrorist Wissam al-Faid, who is responsible for preparing the car bomb that exploded near the settlement of Mevo Dotan about two weeks ago and was planning another attack in the heart of Israel.
Al-Faid was arrested and his investigation will probably lead to the thwarting of additional terrorist attacks he planned.
The explosion of the car bomb in the area of the settlement of Mevo Dotan and the double attack in Jerusalem, indicate the tendency of the terrorist organizations to escalate the security situation in preparation for the change of government in Israel and to try to return terrorism to the cities of Israel.
