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Wake-up call from Gaza: The tunnel discovered reveals the IDF's dilemma with Hamas - Walla! News

2020-10-24T14:38:45.567Z


The main question facing the defense establishment is how long the organization will contain the Israeli policy, according to which a change in the status quo in the humanitarian and economic field must be suspended. Although Hamas is deterred and its leaders do not aspire to another round, the process of its intensification requires the stars to draw red lines.


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Wake-up call from Gaza: The tunnel that was discovered reveals the IDF's dilemma with Hamas

The main question facing the defense establishment is how long the organization will contain the Israeli policy, according to which a change in the status quo in the humanitarian and economic field must be suspended.

Although Hamas is deterred and its leaders do not aspire to another round, the process of its intensification requires the stars to draw red lines.

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Amir Bohbot

Friday, October 23, 2020, 5:31 p.m.

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In the video: A terrorist tunnel that penetrated into Israeli territory from the southern Gaza Strip was located (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

It has taken the defense establishment a while to realize that the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, is no longer blinded by Qatar's aid money.

At first, the aid resembled breathing air, but today Sinwar sees dollar suitcases as a form of protection: "Get money and do not launch rockets or carry out attacks."



The unwritten agreement gnaws at Hamas' central idea as a resistance movement, and establishes internal and external criticism of its leader.

This reality helps the other factions erode its status.



With the Hamas leadership election imminent, the Qataris were keen to see Khaled Mashaal return to the forefront of Hamas, while Sinwar wants to push all candidates aside, and lead the entire movement.

Sinwar sees in Gaza the purpose of everything and then everything else.

For him, investing thought and energy in Judea and Samaria is a second priority.

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The 20th tunnel exposed.

IDF fighters secure the exposure of the tunnel on the Gaza border, this week (Photo: Reuters)

Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh, on the other hand, prefer to promote broader interests that take into account the West Bank as one piece with Gaza.

Salah al-Aruri, no less influential than the others, but prefers to get closer to Hezbollah and Iran and align themselves with their interests.



Therefore, when everything is tense within the movement, the pressure can come out in a configuration of military friction with Israel.

To avoid this, Sinwar tries to establish his status by developing economic and political independence.

To broadcast to the Palestinian street in Gaza that he first cares for them, and then for the entire Palestinian people.



This is where the debate between Gaza and Jerusalem actually developed.

Sinwar wants big projects: an industrial zone, the promotion of broad infrastructure, and the creation of jobs while removing traffic restrictions for residents of the Gaza Strip.

He knows that with such achievements he will succeed in reaching the election period with effective persuasion tools.

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The IDF's barrier against the tunnels was successful, but Hamas will try to outwit the system

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When everything is tense inside Hamas, the pressure can come out.

Fishing during his work on the shores of the Gaza Strip (AP Photo)

On the other hand, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz opposes big steps, and prefers measured and moderate progress in any change in the status quo, whether in the humanitarian and economic spheres, or in progress in negotiations on prisoners and missing persons.



During all this time, the prisoner and missing person coordinator, Yaron Blum, is trying to breathe new life into various channels.

The main question is how long Hamas will contain Israeli policy, and when it will try to break the tools and not just by launching rockets.



Against the background of the various processes this week, a Hamas terrorist tunnel that penetrated tens of meters into Israeli territory was exposed.

In the last three years, about 20 tunnels have been exposed, and in the past a former IDF spokesman Brigadier General Ronen Menalis said, "Once it is a coincidence, a second time it is a coincidence, the third time it is a fact that the IDF has a method of locating tunnels."



Therefore, there is no need to add more praise and compliments to the teams involved in hunting the tunnels and then interrogating them, but it should be emphasized that every first shekel that reaches the Gaza Strip goes first to terrorism and then to food, health and infrastructure.

Stretching at the top.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh visits a refugee camp in Lebanon last month (Photo: Reuters)

In the current situation, Hamas is still deterred and does not want a broad or limited escalation in time, so it is preventing Palestinians from crossing the border to look for work in Israel or launch rockets.

This is how the organization lectures the Qataris, as well as the Egyptian mediator, who is trying to promote achievements for it against Israel.



Security officials told Walla!

NEWS that this is one of the most effective and efficient years for Hamas in preventing terrorism and punishing those who have committed terrorism.

At the same time, the IDF claims that the rocket launches in the past month are attributed to dissidents, apparently from Islamic Jihad, whose leaders warned Israel not to die in the Israeli prison, a Palestinian administrative detainee, who will remain there until at least November.



In general, it is right to be careful about the excessive use of the word "rebellious," because the Hamas leadership has a wide range of interests, and it knows how to pull the strings behind the scenes.

There were times when the IDF used the terms "lightning" and "short circuits" to describe rocket launches from Gaza.

The Southern Command delves into the question: Why was the tunnel dug?

While writing these lines, the Southern Command was still busy uncovering the tunnel, questioning of its route, the preparations for neutralizing and go into the question: Why dig a tunnel terrorism as Hamas deterred when traffic is negotiating brokered with Israel and the humanitarian situation has only worsened amid the crisis of global sources?



Hamas is a resistance movement extreme not to give up its grip on the weapon, not even at the price of reconciliation with Fatah and the Palestinian Authority. but the smartest moves on the Israeli side will still be able to force Hamas to engage in less extremist ideology encourages terrorism and more in the practice of life.



for example, Hamas 20 years ago would rise with desire It is clear that kidnapping and killing soldiers - today the situation is different.

This does not mean that in the future we will not see the organization striving for a kidnapping attack.

Sinwar vowed with his release from prison to do everything to free his friends from prisons in Israel.

Still a resistance movement.

Hamas fighters in a vehicle with a rocket launcher in the Rafah refugee camp (Photo: AP)

It can be estimated that Hamas dug the tunnel for two situations: one, an unbearable economic crisis within the Gaza Strip that in order to escape it will launch a campaign against Israel and open it with the operation of a tunnel, the abduction of a soldier and infiltration.

Alternatively, Hamas has prepared a tunnel in case he is surprised by a campaign launched by Israel against him, so he is required to respond quickly and bring about immediate achievement.

These are necessarily reasons why Hamas continues to intensify, and build its strength and practice while relative calm prevails in the southern region.



The nature of this tension necessitates the political echelon and the IDF to ask themselves which Hamas the army will encounter in the next war, while they are promoting the series.



The IDF is carrying out covert operations as part of the war between the two, while the IDF is preparing for a future war, by maintaining intelligence superiority, improved firing capabilities, and rapid maneuvering of Hamas' centers of gravity.

Hamas is not deterred, but neither does it want escalation.

Women on the streets of Gaza wearing masks (Photo: AP)

Hamas, for its part, is following the US election, waiting to see which president will sit in the White House the day after the vote.

The Hamas leadership still thinks the election of Donald Trump is the fulfillment of all their nightmares.

Elections in Israel, if they take place, can also affect his decision-making process.



Alongside all this, one should not skip the readiness of the Southern Command, which will very soon participate in a multi-system exercise at the General Staff, while operating the 162nd Division.



The second tree training will be of the various headquarters in the Southern Command by the end of the year.

Despite the era of the Corona, the chief of staff insists on conducting large-scale training despite fears of soldiers being infected in the Corona.

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