Something’s clicked apparently with Hamas’s military wing. Its members and leader, Mohammed Deif, the father of the tunnels project, have begun to understand that the IDF has finally developed a way to locate the attack tunnels that they dug underneath the border from Gaza into Israel. Thanks to this method, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades’ leaders have understood, the IDF is undertaking intensive and accelerated operations and has already discovered at least two tunnels.

The moment that the Brigades’ leaders understood this fact, they found themselves with a severe dilemma: Do they act immediately via their tunnels and other means before they lose their main strategic asset? Or do they refrain from operations and come to terms for now with the fact that Israel will uncover at least some of the tunnels and search for other methods to surprise Israel in the next round?

Their dilemma stems from two central facts. One is that the military wing of Hamas still isn’t ready for another round of fighting with Israel on the scale of Operation Protective Edge. The second is that the population of Gaza is unable to endure the pain and hardship which will be the result of any major military operation in Gaza that would only worsen the situation further. Not before they restore the destruction of Protective Edge.

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