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While the IDF is busy in Gaza and Lebanon, Hamas and jihad rehabilitate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank

While Abu Mazen is immersed in insults, the terrorist organizations have come to the conclusion that it is cheaper and more profitable to set up terrorist infrastructure from Judea and Samaria than from Gaza, when dozens of terrorist attacks have been foiled since the beginning of the year.

And while the epidemic is raging, coordination has ceased and salaries in the security services have been cut, signs of anarchy are already evident on the ground.

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Amir Bohbot

Friday, 04 September 2020, 16:45

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Edited by Shaul Adam

While the eyes of the defense establishment are focused on the Gaza Strip border, as well as on the borders of Lebanon and Syria, a worrying phenomenon is developing in Judea and Samaria - terrorist organizations have accelerated processes to rehabilitate their operational infrastructure.

According to data brought to the attention of Walla!

NEWS, Since January 2020, a wide range of Islamic Jihad infrastructure has been exposed and dozens of attacks, most of them shooting attacks, have been thwarted.

Despite the security and civilian rift, the IDF and the GSS have increased the rate of arrests - but signs of anarchy have already begun to appear on the ground.

Hamas is also increasing the pace of activity in the West Bank, and is trying to recruit new activists.

While Abbas is preoccupied with insults following the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, terrorist organizations have concluded that it is cheaper and more cost-effective to build terrorist infrastructure and roll out terrorist attacks from the West Bank than from Gaza.

According to data presented to Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, about 30 terrorist attacks by the IDF and the GSS were recently thwarted.

Most of the events that have been avoided are shooting attacks, but also include initiatives to abduct civilians and soldiers in order to release thousands of security prisoners imprisoned in Israel.

Hamas has internalized that the price they pay for terrorist attacks in the West Bank is much cheaper than the terrorist attacks in the Gaza Strip, so motivation to carry out attacks has increased.

Without the work of gathering GSS intelligence and the IDF's arrests, which together complete small pieces of the big puzzle, they would have turned them into terrorists, thus warning the defense establishment that the calm in the West Bank could be misleading.

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IDF soldier in clashes in the village of Beta near Nablus (Photo: Reuters)

On November 12, a severe blow was inflicted on Islamic Jihad.

After a long period of rocket launches from the Gaza Strip to the home front of Israel, it was decided to eliminate the commander of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza Strip of the organization Baha'u Abu al-Ata with targeted counterterrorism.

On the same day, according to foreign publications, the Air Force attacked Akram's home. Ajuri in Syria, the deputy secretary general of the organization, Ziad Nahala.

Experts estimated that if the bomb dropped that day was larger Ajuri would have been eliminated, but that night his son and bodyguard were killed.

The goal was to send a message to the organization's leaders that Israel would not agree to rocket launches from Gaza.

According to IDF intelligence sources, the organization has since changed the rules of the game in the Gaza Strip and contained restraint and discipline, similar to Hamas, but continued to make efforts to rehabilitate terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank, encouraging the Damascus headquarters and directing the Gaza headquarters.

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From Gaza to the West Bank.

Palestinian throws stones at IDF force in Hebron (Photo: Reuters)

It can be estimated that during July-August, Nahala's phone did not stop ringing.

Across the line, there were reports that the organization's extensive infrastructure in the Hebron and Bethlehem areas was halted by GSS and IDF operations, which cut short the attempt to carry out attacks, but the effort to recruit more activists continued.

Night after night, more than 20 activists were arrested and taken one by one to the interrogation rooms.

Jihad, like other terrorist organizations - Hamas, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front and even Hezbollah - continue to seize the West Bank as part of the playground for direct terrorist activity against IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens. But to understand what is really happening these days below the surface in Judea and Samaria To what extent the upheaval could lead to a serious security crisis, we should start counting steps from September 2019.

In the same month, Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen said at the UN General Assembly, while reading from a crumpled shelf, that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu carries out annexation Unilaterally of territories in the West Bank, it will instruct the authorities in the PA to cancel all agreements with Israel and at the same time announce, under American pressure, general elections in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.

Hamas will try to take over parts of the West Bank through the polls

Hamas has decided to approve any decision by Abu Mazen as part of a strategy to integrate into the election, and to try to take over parts of the West Bank through the ballot box.

At the same time, US President Donald Trump's speeches put Israel and the Palestinian Authority on alert.

Abu Mazen understood that he would not receive support from the White House, and continued to act at the international level to narrow the steps of Israel and the United States as much as possible, towards the possibility of implementing the annexation plan or the deal of the century.

At the end of January 2020, Palestinian territory began to burn.

The graph of the demonstrations in the office of Brigadier General Yaniv Al-Aluf indicated a sharp rise, and a week later there was an assault on the soldiers of the Golani Brigade in Jerusalem. Less than 24 hours later, an attack on the Binyamin Binyamin.

It was already more than a signal to Israel that Palestinian territory had awakened.

A month later, the corona virus also spread across the West Bank.

A group of travelers from South Korea who arrived in Beit Jala and Bethlehem, helped spread the virus widely.

The Palestinian Authority, with the help of the Civil Administration under the command of Brigadier General Rassan Aliyan, managed to stem a more radical spread. Dealing with the first wave in the Palestinian Authority was crowned a success, after a few Palestinians died and hundreds fell ill.

The corona did not help calm the area either.

A worker sprayed with disinfectants upon his return from Israel (Photo: Reuters)

Abu Mazen estimated that Israel intends to annex territories very seriously, decided on May 19 that the agreements with Israel were revoked, and declared a severance - civilian and security: the division commander and regional division commanders do not meet with Palestinian counterparts, no security coordination when IDF forces go into detention In Area A and if that is not enough, over time, the Civil Administration has been forced to contact Palestinian citizens in the West Bank directly, and not through the Palestinian Authority offices. The situation is cumbersome, oppressive, raises tensions and suspicions, but mostly shifts heavy responsibility to Israel. Brigadier General Aliyan instructed to expand the call center and open reception windows in the offices of the Civil Administration.

The date of annexation on July 1 has arrived, and nothing has happened on the ground.

Netanyahu's statements became nonsense, but the Palestinian discourse was deeply immersed in his commitments.

Even before the Palestinian Authority tries to understand whether this is a political-political prank, the second wave of the Corona in the Palestinian Authority broke out, but this time it is a completely different story.

Public discipline, as a mirror to Israeli society, no longer works as it used to, and the civilian disconnect from Israel also obscured the atmosphere in the first wave.

Military officials from Central Command unequivocally clarified that "any request received will be honored and more. We will assist in whatever they ask to deal with the virus, but the requests did not come because there is indeed a disconnect."

The price of terrorist attacks in the West Bank is much cheaper than in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip (Photo: Reuters)

The negative consequences of the epidemic are well visible throughout the territories.

Hebron has become the capital of Corona, behind which, not by large gaps, are other Corona hotspots in the West Bank.

There are hundreds of hundreds of corona and thousands of patients.

The inclusion capacity of Palestinian medical professionals is defined by experts as low to close to loss of control in certain areas.

The crisis is so widespread that it also endangers the Israeli public, not only in Judea and Samaria but also throughout Israel, since tens of thousands of Palestinian workers enter their work every day.

The pressure created by the corona in the territories did not harm the incitement against Israel and the motivation of the terrorist organizations to rehabilitate the terrorist infrastructure or roll out terrorist attacks.

Apparently, data from the Central Command over the past year indicate a decrease in terrorism and violence, but examples of what might happen in the area if the GSS and the Central Command get off the gas were not long in coming. In recent months, several attempts have been made, including in recent days at Tapuach Junction. Golani Brigade fighter Amit Ben Yigal and citizen Rabbi Shai Ohayon

Security officials clarified this week that it is too early to determine whether we are on the verge of a new wave of terrorism, given the data and political, economic and security realities. If that was not enough, the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, with the support of Muslim Arab states, only intensified the PA's sense of failure.

The image received in shock

Abu Mazen has climbed a tall tree and is having a hard time getting off it, security officials said this week, and instead of working on solving the problems, he is sinking into insult and a sense of loss and, worse, renewing ties with the Hamas leadership.

The picture of senior Fatah Jibril Rajoub with one of Hamas seniors Salah Aruri was received with a kind of shock in Israel.

This image mimics that black day in Gaza with one click of a camera, in which Hamas members threw Fatah operatives off the roofs, and shot them in the knees.

Security sources pointed to the process as very dangerous for the stability of the PA and Israel.

Some argue that this is Fatah's attempt to respond to Israel's growing relationship with Muhammad Dahlan, a senior Fatah official who is a sworn enemy of Abu Mazen, and perceived as the best of the agreement with the Emirates - another point that intensifies tensions and heightens PA criticism of Israel.

Perceived as the best of the agreement with the Emirates.

Senior Fatah official Muhammad Dahlan in Ramallah in 2011 (Photo: AP)

Palestinian Authority officials have admitted in closed-door talks to former security officials that they are waiting for the US election to see if Trump is re-elected, or replaced by Joe Biden, with whom they can push Israel into the corner and influence the White House thinking process.

The Defense Minister instructed the IDF not to let go of the arrests in the West Bank, and to deal with loopholes in the security fence, through which Palestinian workers with residence and work permits in Israel also prefer to enter. The concern is that exploiting loopholes in the fence, which the IDF does not really address, may be used in future. To Israel to carry out terrorist attacks.

In addition, the GSS operates according to a clear policy - no process or event can prevent a terrorist act.

Because movement in the territories is limited in light of the spread of the corona, the defense establishment assumes that terrorist organizations will be able to carry out fewer terrorist plans. But arrest figures show the opposite trend: monthly January to July are very similar to the same period last year, a figure that indicates a high level of motivation to carry out an attack in the immediate term. "Once there is GSS information on one activist or another, we make arrests even though there is no security coordination," explained Central Command officials.

They added that "although entering Area A today is more sensitive than in the past, we are continuing with all our might and at every opportunity. Even at the height of the Corona days, arrests were made."

Meanwhile, the extensive activities of Hamas headquarters abroad cannot be ignored, with an emphasis on the Gaza headquarters that operate around the clock to motivate terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria.

Palestinian security forces enforce corona directives in Ramallah (Photo: Reuters)

Another phenomenon that worries the Minister of Defense and is developing in Judea and Samaria is the cut in Palestinian security mechanisms.

Abu Mazen's decision to refrain from receiving the severance money, which constitutes half of its budget (about NIS 9 billion out of NIS 18 billion as of 2018), and in accordance with the cuts in the salaries of officials, police and security services, is a snowball.

Through the eyes of a Palestinian officer, this is a completely different story: his commanders tell him that there is a disconnect with Israel, and automatically Israel becomes a kind of enemy.

The relationship between the parties is cooling down, and over time it is difficult to rebuild the relationship and return the cooperation to the way it was in the past, and when the salary is cut - they are looking for wage completions elsewhere.

This is a dangerous point, because terrorists automatically enter this space as income supplements.

Security prisoners from the second intifada are being released

The problems throughout Judea and Samaria do not stop at these phenomena.

The Palestinian security forces no longer move freely from region to region because there is no security or civilian coordination.

Tanzim officials raised their heads and there were those who challenged the PA, while the terrorist organizations also allow themselves to accelerate negative processes, which gnaw stably because they do not really have pressure levers on them.

Security officials say there are clear signs of anarchy in the area, and a tens of percent increase in criminal cases.

Murder brother Majed Faraj (Head of General Intelligence Service in the West Bank - AB) is the closest expression of this. There are also quite a few arrests, where Palestinian security forces are beaten up. There are not many places they just can not get into them.

This A very negative trend must be added of the release of heavy security prisoners, who were sentenced at the beginning of the second intifada to sentences of 18-15 years, and are currently being released from prison, and are debating whether to return to the circle of terror.

Meanwhile, the released prisoners are well integrated into the process. B) In the name of Hamas, which is intended to recruit activists for the organization.

It is a social circle that feeds support for terrorism and serves as a tool for recruiting terrorists, aides to carry out suicide bombings, bombings, shootings and kidnappings - incidents that could have materialized in Judea and Samaria without the GSS 'oiled thwarting machine.

According to security sources, there are some who do not stand out at all, and they pose a danger not only to the stability of the PA, but to the security of Israelis.

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