Within 18 hours of the assassination of the senior jihadist, the head of the northern brigade in the Gaza Strip, Taysir Jabari, the organization realized that they were already in the middle of a round and that it was time to name the campaign.
"Unity of the Arenas", that's how the military arm of the organization chose to call the "Dawn" operation.
It accepted responsibility for most of the rocket barrages fired over the weekend at Israeli towns and cities, and even assisted several military organizations in the Gaza Strip, including armed groups of the "Resistance Committees" and Fatah, which joined "the war effort", while Hamas was absent from it.
Senior Jihad officials claimed this weekend that the fighting is not limited to the Gaza Strip, and that "the organization is ready to continue the campaign and cause a state of exhaustion in Israel."
Until now, Jihad has managed the fighting alone on a number of levels, both operationally, logistically and communicatively, while managing risks and making decisions independently from Hamas.
Even the contacts with the mediators were held directly in front of him.
Hamas tried to downplay bellicose threats and warnings that required action, and published messages with traditional statements emphasizing the unity that prevails between the resistance factions while emphasizing that Israel will pay the price for its "aggression".
However, in Gaza it is estimated that the silence of Hamas does not necessarily indicate what is to come.
The organization's leadership does not wish to drag the jihad into an escalation that would put the Gaza Strip into a wide campaign, but as the round gets longer, the chances increase that Hamas will have to take a stand and intervene.
Buds of criticism that he abandons his role as a militant resistance organization, and serves as a "collaborator" of Israel are already beginning to emerge against him, and this, as we know, is not something that Hamas is able to contain.
A terrorist of the terrorist organization "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" // Photo: AFP,
The Gazan public has not yet recovered from the "Guardian of the Walls" operation.
The pressure created recently in the street around the economic distress in the Strip worries Hamas leaders who fear that the unrest will be turned against them.
The current escalation further increases this fear, and therefore Hamas hopes that the mediation efforts will bear fruit.
In Gaza it was announced yesterday that the central electricity station has stopped its operations due to a lack of diesel fuel.
The hospitals were put on alert and some went to work in emergency mode.
Urgent cases were given priority in providing treatment, and the director of Shifa Hospital warned against the consequences of stopping the electricity supply and the lack of medicines.
In the Gaza Strip, 24 Palestinian deaths have been reported so far, including a 5-year-old girl, a 23-year-old woman, and another woman.
The worsening of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, or alternatively deaths from its ranks and non-involved combat may prompt Hamas to action.
A plot twist could come from a possible entanglement related to one of these levels.
The incident that happened last night in Jablia in the north of the Gaza Strip and where 5 Palestinians were killed, including 4 children, puts Hamas in a problem.
Even without referring to the circumstances of the explosion and its origin, the Palestinian networks have already established a claim that "Israel is responsible", and the story was described as a "massacre".
In Gaza, it is estimated that the more Hamas feels that it is pushed aside and loses relevance, Sanwar may "wake up" and show who is the boss.
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