Islamic Jihad top dog Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh said that the “resistance fired rockets in response to the humiliating scene in Washington,” that is, the signing of the peace deals. Their jihadist intransigence remains constant, as I explained that it would in The Palestinian Delusion.
“Gaza factions respond with rockets to UAE, Bahrain normalization with Israel,” by Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor, September 21, 2020:
While Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were signing agreements to normalize relations with Israel in Washington Sept. 15, Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip fired long-range rockets over southern Israeli cities, wounding 13 Israelis, one of whom suffered serious injuries, and causing material damage. No faction claimed responsibility for the rocket attack.
A few hours after the incident, in the early hours of Sept. 16, the Israeli army launched 10 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons and explosives factory and a complex used by Hamas for training and rocket testing.
Factions responded by firing 15 rockets toward southern Israeli settlements.
On the same day, Sept. 16, the Israelis accused, once again, Hamas of being responsible for what has been happening in Gaza.
In a tweet on the same day, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, said they will respond in kind to any attack on the part of Israel.
The Islamic Jihad movement, for its part, announced that the resistance fired a salvo of rockets at Israel, but there were no casualties or injuries.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem, speaking to Al-Monitor, chose his words carefully in supporting the action without claiming Hamas’ potential responsibility, saying, “The Palestinian resistance is capable of keeping the Palestinian issue at the forefront of events [in the region] at all times, despite some regional attempts to undermine it. The rocket fire came as a response to the Israeli air bombing of resistance sites. Our response was swift and accurate to deter the Israeli aggression on Gaza. We will not change the rules of battle or impose new equations. The resistance factions, namely Hamas, will continue to face the deal of the century (the US Middle East peace plan) and its repercussions, and the [Israeli] annexation plan, with all means possible.”
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Sept. 16 statement that Gaza’s rockets aimed to disrupt the peace process between Israel and the Gulf. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned Sept. 16 that “if Hamas continues firing, last night’s retaliation will just be the tip of the iceberg,” referring to Israeli reprisal raids in the coastal enclave following the firing of a salvo of rockets.
Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh said in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV on Sept. 16 that the “resistance fired rockets in response to the humiliating scene in Washington,” referring to the UAE and Bahrain’s signing of normalization deals with Israel….
CogitoErgoSum says
See verse 9:29 of the Koran.
underbed cat says
This should not have been an unexpected response from Islamic Hamas Palestinian control.Information about the doctrine of sharia law, Quranic verses. and Quranic warfare is not willing to be peaceful. You would think they would be grateful for peace…but not if they think Islamically. A grave danger for all the west….and as a side note, China knows this apparently after terror disguised as a religion and peaceful grew mosques in in China started to experience riots and terror attacks. In my opinion.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic agenda of many Islamic terror organization of Hamas and Islamic Jihad of destroying the State of Israel and replacing it with an Islamic “state” is already as lost cause. This is because those Islamic groups with that goal are all fated to lose in the end. For that agenda of those two Jihad terror entities are greatly overruled by the God of the Bible.
For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank, by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. 135:4. Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
In conclusion, the jihadist’s members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad have joined a lost cause and a bad cause.
It may even rightfully be said that the jihadists of those two Islamic terror entities have taken up a stand for a bad cause. This is a bad cause to the extreme. The Bible instructs in much wisdom, as in “Do not stand up for a bad cause.” Ecclesiastes 8:3. [N.I.V.]
cornelius says
The plan is to provoke the Israelis into a heavy-handed response so that the peace deal will be still-born. Israel must do two things….explain to the world briefly and concisely exactly what is going on….that they’ve been attacked without provocation….
….and then….
…..respond forcefully to these attacks.
If the price for peace is passivity in the face of unprovoked attacks, then that price is too high. Israel’s new partners should understand that from the get-go.
And let’s not underestimate Hamas’s imagination. This might not be just an episodic rocket attack like those in the past. It might become sustained. Hamas may be willing to provoke a general war with all manner of consequences for Gaza in order to scuttle this new diplomatic opening.
Vladimir says
I believe that it is willing to start a general war because a general war against it’s primary backer these days-Iran-is coming soon in my opinion. And it’s an interesting dynamic too, because I believe that eventually all these Jihadis like with Hamas will join the main open resistor in the Middle East, Iran, and become Twelver Shia just as with Hezbollah. Maybe even the Alawites in Syria and the Houthis in Yemen.
gravenimage says
Hamas used to be primarily funded by Iran, even though it is mostly a Sunni group. This changed after the “Arab Spring”, with its rise in Sunni supremacism.
James Lincoln says
Excellent analysis, cornelius.
Ash says
I would never ever sign a peace treaty with the islamic Nations ever!!!!
gravenimage says
Hamas and Islamic Jihad fire rockets into Israeli cities as Bahrain and UAE sign peace deals with Israel
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More proof that the “Palestinians” do not want peace.
Peter Asukwo says
The God of the Jews, I mean the God of the Bible is quietly watching them, they are gradually dragging themselves arrogantly to the snare that will eventually consume them.