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Despite last week’s violence, there is a quiet pact in force between Israel and Hamas

The movement that controls the Gaza Strip had to lob a few rockets over the border on Friday, just to prove it is not growing too close to Israel

November 19, 2019 11:40
A fighter from Hamas's armed wing in an anti-Israel military show in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, last week

By

Anshel Pfeffer,

Anshel Pfeffer JERUSALEM

2 min read

Israel and Hamas have been getting along so well over the past week or so that Hamas had to set off two rockets of its own on Friday night, just to prove to its Palestinian rivals that it had not grown too close to the hated Zionists.

Iron Dome intercepted the rockets and Israel responded a few hours later with a couple of airstrikes.

Unlike those of the previous week in which members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) were targeted, in Hamas’s case, Israel made sure to strike only empty positions.

The last round of hostilities between Israel and Gaza have left Hamas in a curious situation.