Quiet has been restored in Israel's southern communities after another round of tensions with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who launched more than a hundred rockets into israel following a Sunday incident on the Gaza-israel border where the IDF used a bulldozer to drag the body of a terrorist that came there in an attempt to plant an explosive.
Responding to the recent indiscriminate rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Hamas, who controls the enclave, with the surprise of their lives if a spate of attacks launched from their territory didn't come to an end.
“I am telling you as a prime minister, I don't rush to war… but we are preparing for Hamas the surprise of their lives. I won't say what it is, but it will be different from anything that came before”, he told Channel 20.
Hoping for a Change
Mkhaimer Abu Seada, a political analyst from Gaza, is hopeful that that will be Netanyahu's last threat as the prime minister of Israel.
“Palestinians would very much like to see somebody else taking that office”, he said referring to the upcoming Israeli elections set to take place in early March. “He has been around for more than a decade creating a stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and carrying on with his blockade policies”.
Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip in 2007 following a violent takeover of the Strip by Hamas that ended in…
