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| Who is Abu al-Ata: The man behind rocket fire from Gaza Strip |
| 2019-11-03 |
| [Jpost] While Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, is the ruling party in the Gaza Strip, the group has in recent years been losing control over the street. And the vacuum is being filled by Ata, Tehran’s main man in Gaza. The escalation in tensions between Israel and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... didn't completely surpise Israeli Intelligence. It seems on the surface that the recent rounds of rockets were unforseen, as border tensions with Gaza have been relatively less eventful over the past two months. Yet there has been an air of concern in the Israeli Defense Ministry lately over the man currently suspected of being the culprit behind the latest escalation with Gaza, Baha Abu al-Ata. The head of Paleostinian 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... ’s (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades in Gaza, Baha Abu al-Ata is considered one of the top forces of Evil in the blockaded coastal enclave. While Hamas is the ruling party in the Gaza Strip, the group has in recent years been losing control over the street. And the vacuum is being filled by Ata, Tehran’s main man in Gaza. While PIJ is a Sunni Jihadist movement, it’s supported by Iran, which directs the group through PIJ’s chief Ziad Nahala who resides in Damascus. Ata has been involved in planning attacks against Israel, manufacturing arms and upgrading long-range rocket launching capabilities. The second largest group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas, PIJ has been assessed by military intelligence as a factor increasing the risk of an escalation in the blockaded coastal enclave, since it is not under the direct control of Hamas and acts independently for its own interests. Ata was identified by the IDF as having ordered the firing of rockets towards southern Israel in April. According to the IDF, under Ata, PIJ is trying to carry out low-level attacks and maintain a low profile so that Hamas doesn’t figure out its ambition to undermine long-term ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. "There are dozens of countries around the world which are trying to improve the humanitarian situation in the Strip, but at the same time, there is one man inside Gaza and one man outside the Strip trying to torpedo that," former IDF spokesperson Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Ronen Manelis said at the time. Today Hamas is no longer the number one threat in the Gaza Strip. PIJ is responsible for several violent attacks on IDF troops during the Great March of Return protests along the Gaza border fence, including the first death of a soldier along the Gaza border since Operation Protective Edge in 2014 when St.-Sgt. Aviv Levi was shot by sniper near Kibbutz Kissufim. Another soldier was struck by sniper fire in the area less than a week after Levi was killed. In late January, an IDF officer was lightly maimed in the same area after his helmet was struck by sniper fire along the Gaza Strip security fence, in an attack for which PIJ grabbed credit. Like Iran's Soleimani and Hezbollah's Nasrallah, Ata may also now be in the IDF’s crosshairs. He too has survived several liquidation attempts, including during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. While the IDF continues to hold Hamas responsible for all that occurs in the Strip, one day the retaliation against PIJ will come. Related: Al-Quds Brigades: 2019-10-06 Resistance only way to restore Palestinians’ rights: Islamic Jihad leader Al-Quds Brigades: 2019-05-08 Hamas offers $1000 to Gaza families whose homes were destroyed by Israel Al-Quds Brigades: 2019-05-07 Most terrorists killed in Gaza escalation were from Islamic Jihad |
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