In response to yesterday's rocket fire at Israel, the IDF tonight (between Saturday and Sunday) attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, including a factory to produce military equipment. The rocket was apparently fired in response to last week's killing of a senior jihadist in Jenin, in an IDF operation. To. Apparently, the rocket that was fired at Israel yesterday was launched by Jihad, but the IDF has already said in the past that the organization that controls Gaza is Hamas and is therefore responsible for peace on the border with Israel. This policy is fundamentally clear and logical, but since the jihad with the support of Iran and Hezbollah, according to a Palestinian security source in Ramallah, is now trying to drag the West Bank and Israel into a third intifada, it is possible that the policy should be updated, and adapted to these attempts by Iran to boil the West Bank, Although the fundamental view of the total responsibility that Hamas has for the Strip is very suitable for the reality that prevails there. In the last month, direct negotiations began between Hamas and Abu Mazen and the Palestinian Authority (see a previous report on this here), which if it goes well, it is possible that Hamas' control of the Strip will become a status quo agreed upon by all Palestinian parties, a status quo that will continue until elections are held again in all Palestinian territories.

The IDF has recently increased the pressure on the Islamic Jihad, and more terrorists from the Jihad are being arrested. In addition, the army and the Shin Bet are striving to locate funds of the Jihad which originate in Iran, and which are intended for the establishment of a new force in the West Bank; Now it turns out that the funds are also intended to topple the Palestinian-Israeli arena for a third intifada, most of whose soldiers will be disorganized terrorists, and they will sweep the Palestinian public and the old organizations after them.

"We are still not in a third intifada, but the Islamic Jihad is definitely trying to lead us there," a Palestinian source in Fatah told us yesterday.