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A rocket was fired Sunday afternoon from Gaza into the Israeli
border city Sderot, prompting an exceptionally muscular reaction from Israel in
what some analysts have called a strategic turning point. Running counter to
Israel’s usual tit-for-tat retaliation, the IDF seized the opportunity to attack dozens of Hamas infrastructure targets in the
northern Gaza Strip over the course of two hours. The IDF launched about 50 strikes in total, using both
tanks and aircraft.
“You can’t expect the State of Israel to allow [Hamas] to rearm
itself, to steal money from the residents of Gaza. They are levying taxes and
not constructing buildings, but tunnels,” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor
Liberman commented Tuesday morning at an army base in the
Galilee. Indeed, as Hamas continues to build underground tunnels and invest its
resources militarily – at the expense of its own people – Israel seems to have
discarded its previous approach of deterrence in favor of a more proactive
posture.
Even Hamas decided to comment on the apparent shift in tactic.
"The escalation is the Israeli occupation's desire to create new equations
in the Gaza Strip," Hamas's spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Sami Abu Zuhri, said on Sunday. A senior Israeli military source credited the new policy design to IDF Chief of
Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eisnekot, which was then approved by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon.
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