Communications

Under this paradigm, the regular aerial bombardment of Gaza—what right-wing Israeli military strategists Efaim Inbar and Eitan Shamir infamously called “mowing the grass”—remains the Israeli government’s preferred approach to the besieged territory, especially given what it perceives as the alternatives, explained Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National...

Gaza is more hopeless still. “It’s practically a separate state,” says a former head of Israeli intelligence, Tamir Hayman. Israel controls its borders, sea and air space so its 2.2m people feel besieged, as if in an open-air prison. Income per person is less than a third that of the West Bank. Hamas rules with a heavy hand, by decree. It is officially wedded to armed struggle...

The expert analyst SME Michael Instead, he stood out in the same meeting as in the Gaza Strip “nothing can be done without the permission of Hamas” and he was convinced that the terrorist group that controls the area with an iron fist “is participating” in the YIP attacks, “even indirectly”, pointing out, for example, that “they are giving them rockets”. However, it stands out...

Security expert Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies, who served in various Israeli intelligence command positions, told The Media Line that the expected escalation has the potential of being very serious. “As we all know from previous rounds with the PIJ, after events like these, they launched rockets toward Tel Aviv....

Former IDF intelligence chief Tamir Hayman said that Hamas’ leadership outside of Gaza often is more in favor of conflict, for one because it does not put them or their immediate teams in danger.