After the head of the Shin Bet pointed an accusing finger at the Hamas organization, which the system sees as responsible for unrest and attacks emanating from Judea and Samaria, a Hamas spokesman responded: “The threats do not frighten our Palestinian people or the resistance leadership.”
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum refers today (Sunday) to the warning delivered last night by the head of the Shin Bet Ronan Bar to the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, against the background of the escalation in Judea and Samaria.
“The threats made by the head of the Shin Bet Ronan Bar against the leader Yahya al-Sinwar are not new,” the organization’s spokesman responds harshly to the threats. “They do not frighten our Palestinian people or the resistance leadership. They reflect the political, security and military impasse that the leaders of the occupation suffer from because of the equations that the resistance forces on them,” Barhoum said.
Against the backdrop of the dramatic increase in the number of attacks and attempted attacks in the Judea and Samaria regions, the head of the Shin Bet Ronan Bar sent a warning to the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar – and emphasized that he must consider his steps. This was published last night in ‘News 12’
The warning of the head of the Shin Bet comes against the background of the alarming numbers – 120 shooting attacks since the beginning of the year, twice as many as last year. The Shin Bet also detects an increase in the targeting of attacks and not only in number – it is the targeting of Hamas members from Gaza into Judea and Samaria, and this is how they see more and more activists of the terrorist organization that are involved in efforts to carry out terrorist attacks.
In Israel, they emphasize that if the push by Hamas does not stop in Judea and Samaria, they may start acting in Gaza in this matter as well. Meanwhile, as mentioned, the IDF is preparing to expand the operation, first in Nablus and Jenin, and later to other places if necessary. The assumption is that it will take a few months to reshape the security reality in Yosh.