The terrorist organization Hamas, which controls Gaza, and the Taliban, which took over Afghanistan this week, are tightening ties, which is causing great concern in the security system in Israel and in the moderate Sunni countries in the Middle East and the Gulf.
This is in view of the potential threat posed by possible cooperation between the two sides, on its armed and trained arms.
Hamas has confirmed that the movement's head of the political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, spoke by telephone with the head of the Taliban's political bureau, Mula 'Abdul Gani Breder, and congratulated him on the "defeat of the American occupation in the country."
With the rise of the Taliban to power, the bases and training facilities of the Afghan army will be made available to terrorist organizations, as will the possibility of large-scale weapons and ammunition being smuggled from Afghanistan to the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, a senior Hamas official told Israel Today that the rocket fire on Israel on Tuesday was an operation by one of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad cells, which acted on its own.
Following the rocket fire, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz toured the Gaza Division yesterday.
According to Bennett, "We will act at a time, place and conditions that suit us, and not anyone else. For us, the address in Gaza is Hamas."