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| Senior Hamas official says Gaza should keep quiet to boost West Bank ‘resistance’ |
| 2023-03-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] In leaked tape, terror group’s West Bank chief says strategy, as Ramadan approaches, is to keep ongoing tensions in territory high to deal Israel a ’strategic blow’ As Israel’s security establishment was gearing up for the sensitive Ramadan period, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,’s West Bank leader said that the group wants terror activities to be restrained in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... for the time being to escalate violence in the West Bank, in a leaked recording aired by Hebrew media on Sunday. Saleh al-Arouri, a founding commander of Hamas’s military wing, said that the "resistance" in the West Bank "needs restraint" in Gaza "if we are talking strategically and in terms of [the] proper management of the campaign," he said in the recording aired by the Kan public broadcaster, in reference to the Ramadan period. The Moslem holy month of Ramadan has historically added an extra layer of tension between Israelis and Paleostinians and has often been a period of increased violence and flare-ups, particularly in Jerusalem’s Old City, with its flashpoint holy sites. In 2021, events in Jerusalem surrounding the Temple Mount and looming evictions of Paleostinian families from the capital’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood snowballed into an 11-day war between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip. Following weeks of tensions, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Jerusalem, which became the opening salvo of the conflict. Al-Arouri said Hamas has an interest in keeping ongoing tensions high in the West Bank, while "Gaza should govern itself" and wait for the opportune moment. He said calls to escalate the conflict from within the coastal enclave were well-intentioned but "exaggerated," and that the group needed to act strategically. "In order for the enemy to not be at peace when the resistance in the West Bank escalates, it may be that it will get to a situation in which Gaza can’t continue to be silent to the enemy. If the resistance in the West Bank escalates and gets to a certain level, the violence will likely expand to all of Paleostine and outside of it," he added. "The future of resistance in the West Bank is likely to lead to broad regional violence with the Zionist enemy, and God willing, will create here, for the first time, an opportunity to land a great strategic blow," al-Arouri said. Violent incidents and escalations in the West Bank have repeatedly led to rocket fire and confrontations with terror groups in Gaza. In August, the arrest of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... ’s leader in the West Bank city of Jenin led to a 66-hour conflict between Israel and PIJ, including rocket fire, but Hamas stayed out of the round of fighting. Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been high for the past year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks. Those tensions have ramped up even further in recent weeks, which saw a cycle of deadly Israeli raids and Paleostinian attacks, as well as an uptick in settler violence. |
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