[IsraelTimes] Move reportedly marks first time the terror group has deployed fighters along security fence since weekly festivities began in MarchHamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, has reportedly begun returning its security forces to the border between the Gazoo Strip and Israel, the first time the terror organization has done so since the start of deadly festivities in late March.
The forces, part of a Hamas unit tasked with maintaining calm on the border and preventing rocket attacks by "rebellious" terror groups, were deployed on Sunday to at least two different points along the border, Hadashot TV news reported.
The report said the move was likely due to tensions between Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, and was intended to restore Hamas’s control of the border. On Friday, a member of the latter group mistakenly hurled a grenade at a group of Hamas fighters, killing one and injuring several others.
Despite the apparent effort to project calm, a report from the Kan public broadcaster said Hamas has been in a state of heightened readiness over the past month and has stepped up training for its military wing, in case of an armed conflict with Israel.
The Kan report said, however, that Israel’s defense establishment believes Hamas will forgo fighting in favor of improving the humanitarian situation in Gazoo, which faces a lack of electricity, drinking water, and proper sewage treatment.
The Hamas-run healthy ministry says 136 people have been killed since the start of the festivities. Many of those killed have been acknowledged as members of terror groups.