Deterred in Gaza, Hamas Tries New Avenues of Terror
Jihadist leaders have decided that it’s safer to kill Jews in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
May 2, 2022
Deterred in Gaza, Hamas Tries New Avenues of Terror
Jihadist leaders have decided that it’s safer to kill Jews in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
This year the month of Ramadan, which concludes today, was marked by a great deal of violence in Israel—including the shooting of a security guard on Friday. Yet, notes Michael Koplow, the holy month passed far more peacefully than last year, when it saw the outbreak of a ten-day war between the IDF and Hamas, along with violent attacks on Jews in Israeli cities. Koplow argues that the more recent disturbances in fact reflect a deliberate change in strategy by the jihadist group ruling the Gaza Strip, which has learned a hard lesson from the last war:
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