An Israeli soldier searches for rocket wreckages in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, Monday, after string of rockets was fired toward Eilat, with one hitting in neighboring Jordan, injuring four people.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
The Islamic Jihad organization said on Sunday that it has decided to resume suicide attacks against Israel from the West Bank. The threat came in response to attacks launched by IAF planes on the Gaza Strip following the firing of rockets on Israel in the past few days.
The group, however, admitted that it has become very difficult to launch suicide attacks out of the West Bank because of security coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
Islamic Jihad has only a few hundred followers in the West Bank. Members of the group have in the past carried out a number of suicide bombings in Israel.
PA security forces have arrested many of the group's members in the West Bank. The IDF has also arrested dozens of Islamic Jihad activists in recent years.
"Suicide operations require places for training and preparing explosive belts," said Abu Ahmed, spokesman for the Al-Quds Battalions, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad. "It's very difficult to do these things because of the policy of security coordination and the arrest of [would-be] suicide bombers." He said that members of his group were "suffering a lot" in the West bank because of the PA's security measures and "persecution."
Abu Ahmed described the PA's crackdown as a "national crime" against Palestinians.
Hamas, meanwhile, held the Arab League responsible for the latest escalation because of its decision to endorse direct talks with Israel.
"Our people in the Gaza Strip are paying a heavy price for the sin and mistake committed by the Arab League foreign ministers who gave a green light to the Palestinian Authority to launch direct negotiations with the occupation government," said Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas in the Gaza Strip. "Israel was in need of a cover for its continued aggression against our people."
Barhoum accused PA President Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab League of "surrendering" to US and Israeli pressure.
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Oh no, please do not tell us that this is the same group the world and the West is supporting, through those little flotilla ships of aid - assisting this Jihad, Islamic terrorist group, Hamas?! What a surprise! And to think, Obama is so concerned, he pressures PM Netanyahu to hold an investigation into the IDF for their actions of defending itself from the terrorist on board one of the ships.
The Palestinians voted for Hamas a few years back and the only way these same Palestinians can be "free" is if the world recognizes it must be freed from Hamas. However, no outcry from bleeding hearts, while the U.S. sends billions of America's tax payer dollars to Gaza! Great work ... and terrorism continues, while no one can grasp the meaning of freedom, democracy, and the supporting of our allies, rather than terrorists.
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