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Hamas deterrence

Palestinians inspect destroyed buildings following overnight Israeli airstrikes in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
May 16, 2021, 1:35 am
While all eyes are on Gaza, Gaza is only half the story
The terror group fired its first massive rocket volley on Monday hoping for a quick, decisive exchange. Instead, it dragged beleaguered Gaza into the next Hezbollah war
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Palestinian demonstrators gather near the border fence east of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on May 15, 2019, during a Nakba Day protest. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
June 13, 2019, 9:16 am
With Netanyahu vulnerable ahead of elections, Hamas ups the pressure
Between Gaza’s failing economy and Israeli-Egyptian blockades, terror group returns yet again to its tried and tested method to gain concessions and cash: A new round of violence
By Avi Issacharoff
A picture taken from the southern Israeli village of Netiv Ha'asara shows rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on May 4, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)
May 5, 2019, 2:42 pm
In ‘cash for calm’ bid, Hamas shows it’s ready to fight
The terror group’s vast networks of tunnels give it endurance as it rains rockets on Israel — in a bid to extort concessions at a sensitive time
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinians wave Palestinian flags as they try to climb the security fence on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on March 22, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)
March 28, 2019, 4:48 pm
Hamas says no ceasefire deal until after massive weekend protests
As Egypt scrambles to cement a truce, Netanyahu says he ordered the army to ready for an ‘extensive campaign’ in Gaza
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh flashes a 'v for victory' sign on March 27, 2019, next to the rubble of what was once his office in Gaza City, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two days earlier. (Hamas)
March 28, 2019, 12:41 am
What was this latest Gaza kerfuffle about, anyway?
Hamas risked outright war by firing on the Sharon region on Monday – and for what? To embarrass Netanyahu? To prepare for Saturday’s ‘million man march?’
By Avi Issacharoff
Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz gives a campaign speech in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2019, 10:15 pm
Gantz lays into Netanyahu over Gaza violence, says Israel must ramp up response
Blue and White party leader says PM ‘did nothing’ to preserve calm following 2014 war, chides him over leaks from security cabinet
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, center, and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, right, in southern Israel on July 21, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
March 4, 2019, 10:18 am
Why Netanyahu and Gantz publicly bicker most over the policy they most agree on
PM and ex-IDF chief together helped shape Israel’s careful, arguably wise Gaza strategy, but it’s hard to explain to a rocket-battered public, so they’re blaming each other for it
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Likud MK Avi Dichter leads a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2018, 4:19 pm
MK: We’ll stop kite terror, even if it means major conflict, killing Hamas heads
Former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter warns Israel may return to assassinating terror leaders, could target Gaza chief Sinwar
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a lunch meeting at the 54th Munich Security Conference on February 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/ DPA/Sven Hoppe)
February 18, 2018, 7:25 pm
PM credits Israeli counter-strikes for years of quiet in Gaza
After an IED attack on IDF troops, Netanyahu says relative calm maintained thus far by ‘putting pressure on Hamas’
By Judah Ari Gross
File. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a memorial ceremony for Defense Ministry personnel who fell in the line of duty, May 9, 2016, in Tel Aviv. (Dana Shraga/Defense Ministry)
May 9, 2016, 4:14 pm
Ya’alon: Ongoing Gaza strikes will elicit severe Israeli response
Attacks are triggered by IDF success in detecting Hamas tunnels, defense minister tells ceremony honoring ministry’s fallen
By ToI Staff
Amos Gilad, director of the Defense Ministry's Political-Military Affairs Bureau, addresses a conference on Gaza's economy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on April 13, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
April 13, 2016, 10:49 pm
Hamas, not economy, the source of Gaza’s woes, Amos Gilad says
No solution in sight, but military deterrence should prevent conflict in the Strip this summer, Defense Ministry official asserts
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian youth supporting the Hamas movement take part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, December 14, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)
February 7, 2016, 1:43 pm
Gaza staying out of current ‘intifada,’ Hamas claims
Terror group says it doesn’t want to go to war with Israel, despite cheering violence from sidelines
By Lee Gancman and Avi Issacharoff
Palestinians inspect the damage after Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 18, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)
February 6, 2016, 12:55 pm
Egypt flooded Hamas tunnels at Israel’s request, minister says
Steinitz also warns that Syrian civil war is more worrying than Hamas tunnels, because of Iran’s growing role north of the border
By ToI Staff
IDF soldiers by the Gaza border, near Kibbutz Nir Am, in southern Israel, on January 13, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 5, 2016, 6:29 pm
Israel, Hamas ‘exchange calming messages’ on Gaza
Both sides seek to clarify they are uninterested in tensions over terror tunnels escalating into open conflict
By ToI Staff
Hamas fighters attend a funeral procession in Gaza City on January 29, 2016, for seven members of the terror group killed when an attack tunnel into Israel collapsed. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
February 4, 2016, 8:39 am
Despite tunnel bluster, Hamas insists it doesn’t want war
Senior official in terror organization dismisses recent statements lauding new attack tunnels, says calming message sent to Jerusalem via diplomatic backchannels
By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff
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