Many jokes were circulating in the streets of Gaza all throughout Sunday surrounding the death of Abdullah Abu Geba, a 35-year-old Palestinian laborer in Israel who was killed on Saturday by a rocket fired by the Islamic Jihad. In Gaza, they chose to commemorate him and defined him as "the luckiest Gazan martyr in the world."
Read more: Gaza Laborer Killed By PIJ Rockets In Israel Given Full Honors By Jewish State
In the aftermath of Israel's Shield and Arrow Operation in Gaza, the Islamic Jihad and Hamas jointly declared victory against the “Zionist enemy”. This claim is faulty for a number of reasons such as the fact that Hamas completely avoided joining the Jihad during the operation. Perhaps the biggest fact behind their false claim of joint victory is that there were only two murdered casualties on the Israeli side of the fence; one an elderly Israeli resident of Rehoboth and the other an Arab resident of Gaza working in Israel.
Read more: Jihadist Claims Of Gaza Victory Over Israel Overshadowed By Actual Data
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military arm of the Fatah movement under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is taking responsibility for a shooting attack in the north of Samaria in response to Israel Defense Forces attacks in the Gaza Strip. In a statement published by the organization, it was said that the shooting attacks were carried out in response to the "aggression of the Zionist enemy occupying the West Bank of the already freedmen and Gaza of the revolutionaries."
Read more: Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Issues A Death Threat To Israelis in Samaria
The third round of combat in four years against the Islamic Jihad has ended with a ceasefire announced that began at 10:00 PM on Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces are moving into the summation phase of the five days of operational duty. In total, during the current operation, six senior Islamic Jihad officials were eliminated, 422 targets of the organization in the Gaza Strip were attacked and the “David’s Sling” kinetic warhead was used in action for the first time, intercepting two rockets, one over Gush Dan and the other over the Jerusalem mountains.
Read more: Israel Releases Impressive Stats As "Shield & Arrow" Comes To A Close
One of the big questions remaining in the Shield and Arrow operation is why Hamas does not actively and significantly enter the round of fighting against Israel. It seems that the basic answer to the question is Israeli deterrence; starting with the implementation of the policy of targeted assassinations, through damage to the organization's infrastructure, to fatal damage to the organization in the event of a broad escalation.
Read more: Simple Economics Is The Reason Hamas Didn't Join The Fighting
