Israel clarifies that Hamas is not responsible for the bombings against Israeli territory

Aug. 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli Army has clarified this Friday that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “still” has not launched rockets against Israeli territory, stressing that the only person responsible for the bombings has been the Islamic Jihad.

This has been assured by a senior official of the Israeli Armed Forces in statements collected by the newspaper ‘Haaretz’. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) believe that Hamas will not join the campaign as “they can only lose.”

In the event that they did, the increase in the number of inhabitants of the Gaza Strip who work in Israel, as well as the greater control over Palestinian exports by the Israeli state, would serve as an argument to pressure Hamas not to enter in the dispute, according to military sources consulted by the aforementioned newspaper.

The senior official of the Army of the Hebrew State has maintained that, for this reason, the Islamic Resistance Movement “is not anxious to be drawn into a prolonged confrontation with Israel”, as it happened in May 2021.

However, the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, has blamed Israel for the escalation of violence after killing the number two of Islamic Jihad, Taisir al Jabari, on Friday.

The head of the Political Bureau of the Resistance Movement in Gaza has stressed that “the crimes that the Israeli occupation has committed in the besieged Gaza Strip signal its hostile intentions to attack the Palestinian people under false pretexts,” Hamas said in a statement. .

Therefore, they have reiterated to Israel the need to put an end to “its aggression” against Gaza.

So far, the Al Quds Brigades — the armed wing of Islamic Jihad — have launched more than 100 projectiles at Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have targeted strategic locations with projectiles. in different parts of the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s counterattacks have claimed the lives of 10 people, including a child, and injured 65 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The exchange of missiles between the parties comes after the Israeli authorities announced a military operation, called ‘Dawn’, which began with the announcement of the death of a commander of the Islamic Jihad military forces, identified as Taisir al Jabari. , death confirmed by the militia itself.