Amid rising tension and the decline of Western influence, Hamas may resort to jihad against "the Israeli enemy" as it continues its increasingly repressive methods of enforcing stricter Islamic decrees.
Hamas is now drawing encouragement not just from Tehran but also from the new Egyptian regime. Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elarabi's has an active policy of rapprochement with Tehran and reconciliation with Hamas leaders in Damascus and Gaza.
Saturday's air strike by Israel
In order to pre-empt a major Palestinian terror-cum-kidnap campaign scheduled for Passover holiday April 18-28, an Israeli air strike injured one Palestinian and killed three senior Hamas Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades gunmen in the Gaza Strip, who were "only one tentacle of the network Hamas has put in place in Sinai, Jordan, and on both sides of the Israel-West Bank border."
The Hamas Brigades called Israel's move a "dangerous escalation" which would have "consequences." as they dropped their long pretense of seeking calm.
Hamas's escalation before this new threat already had come "through a 50-round mortar barrage in March 19 on Israeli civilian locations abutting the Gaza Strip, several Grad missiles fired at the towns Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba, and Netivot and a bombing attack in Jerusalem on March 23, which killed a tourist and injured 65."
In between major attacks, the Palestinians have steadily maintained Qassam and mortar fire against Israeli civilians.
Special Palestinian military wing squads have been undergoing extensive training in methods of abduction so as to add more Israeli captives to Gilead Shalit, the Israeli soldier snatched in 2006 and held since in inhuman conditions.
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