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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21940/jihad-west-bank
Ending the War in Gaza Will Not End Hamas's Dream of Wiping Israel Off the Map
(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - The Iranian regime and its Palestinian terror proxies are working to move the fighting to the West Bank. Recently, armed cells belonging to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have escalated their terrorist attacks in the West Bank against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Israeli security sources said, "Intelligence assessments indicate that armed groups in the West Bank are seeking to manufacture rockets locally to target Israeli cities in central and northern Israel, such as Kfar Saba, Ra'anana, Netanya, Hadera, Afula, and Beit She'an....Iran has also reportedly recently supplied mortar shells and ammunition to armed [Palestinian] factions in the West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarem." Even if the war in Gaza ends, Hamas and PIJ will never give up the fight to destroy Israel and replace it with a radical Islamist state. The attempt to transform the West Bank into a second base for jihad highlights that ending the war in Gaza will not end the dream of wiping Israel off the map. The writer, a veteran Israeli journalist, is a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.