A fragile situation on the Gaza border

Alarming signs come from the Gaza Strip that the terrorist organizations are again trying to impose new rules of the game on Israel.

However, sources in the Gaza Strip claim that Hamas is in dire financial straits and is not interested in escalating the conflict with Israel and losing its financial support.

Terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to fire rockets at Israel. At the end of the week, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip and fell in an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. No casualties were reported, and an IDF combat helicopter attacked a Hamas position in the southern Gaza Strip.

It was the first rocket launch into Israel since the last round of escalation, during which more than 400 rockets were fired at southern communities.

According to sources in the Gaza Strip, the rocket was fired at Israel in response to the death of a 26-year-old Palestinian man on Friday at demonstrations on the border fence. The joint brigade of the Palestinian organizations in the Gaza Strip warned last week after the deaths of four Palestinians in demonstrations on the fence that Israel crossed the "red lines" "And that" the resistance will not compromise and stand aside. "

At the end of the week a cluster of balloons was also launched from the Gaza Strip, near a kindergarten in Moshav Sdot Negev, and another Molotov cocktail was found in an open area in Moshav Zru'a in the Sdot Negev Regional Council,

This is a renewal of the phenomenon of terrorist balloons after a long period in which it was suspended following the implementation of the understandings between Israel and Hamas.

It appears that the Palestinian organizations are trying to impose new rules of the game on Israel, contrary to the calm understandings, in order to deter IDF soldiers from firing at demonstrators approaching the border fence, in contradiction to the agreements with Egyptian intelligence about a 300-meter security zone In order to reduce the number of casualties.

On December 28, the headquarters of the march of return and the breaking of the siege issued a warning to Israel stating:

"We are examining the use of new options of struggle to resist the arrogance of the Israeli occupation, which is being used in dodging and deceit. The enemy is trying to gain time, and we are declaring next Friday the" resistance to normalization "while emphasizing the imposition of a total boycott of the Israeli occupation.

Therefore, it is quite possible that launching the rocket at the end of the week from the Gaza Strip into Israel is part of the new strategy of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip that is gaining popularity in the Palestinian street and trying to adapt to it so as not to lose its support.