Why did Hamas attack, and why now? What does it hope to gain?
- Written by Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
In hindsight, the drivers of Hamas’s startlingly well-planned, land-sea-air attack on Israel on Saturday were in plain sight.
The operation reflects a pattern of four wars and regular outbreaks of violence between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza since 2005, when Israel withdrew its military posts and forcibly removed 9,000 Israeli settlers...
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