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October 30, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/as-hamas-grows-bold-gaza-violence-could-overshadow-israel-election.premium-1.473085

Hamas Grows Bold in Gaza

(Ha'aretz) Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel - On Monday, 20 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. In Hamas' renewed fervor to stand up to Israel militarily, it shot itself in the foot when it distributed films showing rockets being launched from the heart of populated areas. Thus it uses civilians as shields, just as Israel has claimed all these years. Unlike previous rounds, the events of the past two weeks have clearly been initiated by Hamas. So far the Israeli response has been restrained - targeting crews that are launching rockets. But this could change if the rocket fire persists. Aerial photographs of the weapons plant in Sudan show precise hits on shipping containers, while buildings remained undamaged, strengthening the suspicion that the goal was to destroy equipment that had been smuggled recently to Sudan. The Iranians may have been bringing equipment into Sudan in parts and assembling it there.

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