The firing of rockets last Thursday towards the Gaza Strip led to an internal skirmish between Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which carried out the launch. Hamas was outraged by the shooting that was carried out without his knowledge and without his approval and they were surprised by it. The main anger of the terrorist organization was over the timing – during a change of government in Israel.
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Also, Israel’s military response, which destroyed a large and central factory for the production of rockets, dealt Hamas a very heavy and disproportionate blow in relation to the shooting. Unusually, Hamas even confirmed that the website that was attacked belonged to its military arm. Following the shooting, Hamas arrested the Islamic Jihad members involved in the shooting.
The Islamic Jihad organization carried out the shooting due to the assassination of the organization’s senior operative, Farooq Salama, in the Jenin refugee camp that day, but has not officially accepted responsibility for it. Four rockets were launched in the shooting – only one of them crossed into Israeli territory and was intercepted.