Gaza’s ISIS affiliate has issued a new statement today slamming Hamas for a spate of arrests against them, targeting suspects in a recent round for car bombings, and promising to carry out “reprisals” with missile attacks against Israel.
This has been a recurring problem for Hamas in recent months, as the ISIS affiliate knows Israel will respond to rocket fire from Gaza by attacking Hamas, even when their own military admits the rockets aren’t Hamas’ doing and that Hamas is trying to prevent the fire.
The recent car bombings targeted leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s military wings, and while ISIS didn’t claim credit for the strikes it was widely assumed they were behind the attacks, leading to the arrests.
Israeli officials, incredibly, continue to accuse Hamas of being secretly in league with ISIS, even as ISIS continues to openly pick fights with them and publicly acknowledges their intention to use Israel as a weapon against Hamas.
So Gazans can't get any resources but "IS" terrorists manage to get in with weapons?
Israel and IsUS sitting in the tree,k-i-s-s-i-n-g.What a charade,and the Palestinians pay.
Back in the day, Israel used to play exactly the same game with upcoming Hamas against the then dominant, but increasingly compromising, PLO. So Hamas quickly became the boogeyman that in propaganda terms Israel "could have no dialog with", and endless war was justified once again.
And with the peaceful signals nowadays being made by Hamas, the game with Hamas and ISIS is simply "deja vu all over again", as a famous cartoon character once used to say.
So ISIS is going to attack Israel in response to Hamas arresting ISIS operatives and disrupting their organization. That's just plain rude for ISIS to play Israel's victim card for them.