GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Debka Report: Israel and Hamas near a Spring war

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: DEBKAfile

02April2011 1:00pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Saturday, after nearly two months of heightened Palestinian terrorist activity and low-key Israeli reprisals, both sides dropped their long pretense of seeking calm.

Ever since the massacre of five members of an Israeli family at Itamar on Feb. 11, Israeli government leaders have tried to sell the line that Hamas was not really seeking to raise the level of violence.

They continued to play down Hamas' motives through a 50-round mortar barrage in a single day (March 19) on Israeli civilian locations abutting the Gaza Strip, several Grad missiles fired at the towns  Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba and Netivot and a bombing attack in Jerusalem on March 23, which killed a tourist and injured 65 after two relatively terror-free years.

In between major attacks, the Palestinians have maintained up until the present a steady trickle of Qassam and mortar fire against Israeli civilians.

While intensifying its attacks, Hamas picked up the convenient Israeli mantra which claimed that the terrorist-rulers of Gaza wanted nothing but a ceasefire which would also embrace all the smaller terrorist organizations taking part on the shooting as well.

The Israeli army statement after the pre-dawn air strike over Gaza Saturday abruptly broke that pose by exposing Hamas's true intentions for the first time. He admitted that the Palestinian radicals had set up a major murder-cum-kidnap campaign for striking terror across the Green Line and favorite Israeli vacationing spots in Sinai, to be launched during the eight-day Passover holiday April 18-28...(read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Musician's letter decries ignorance of life in Israel, sets record straight

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Israelly Cool

30March2011 11:25amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: "Dear Mr. Waters,

I was deeply disappointed to learn that you have decided to build a wall between yourself and your Israeli fans. We love you here in Israel. Surely, you must know that from the warm reception you received when you performed here five years ago at the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom.

What you may not realize is that most Israelis believe in a two-state solution. But this vision is not as easy to turn into a reality as you may think. Instead of recognizing the situation’s complexity, you have joined the campaign to boycott Israel, appointing yourself as a judge in a conflict between Middle Eastern tribes. (How British of you!)..." (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israeli aircraft strike Gaza

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SOURCE: Federal News Radio

22March2011 5:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military says its aircraft struck two militant tunnels, two weapons manufacturing and storage facilities and two other militant sites across the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian health official Adham Abu Salmia reported that 18 civilians and Hamas security forces were slightly wounded. Facilities near the targets were also reported damaged.

The military said Tuesday that the sites were targeted overnight in response to 56 mortar shells and rockets fired from Gaza into Israel over the past week.

The military also said the tunnels were dug so militants could infiltrate Israeli territory to attack civilians and soldiers. (read full report)

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Abbas and Hamas Running Scared from Revolutionary Movement

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SOURCE: Israel National News

02February2011 1:40pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, worried they also may be struck by “revolutionary fever,” have banned rallies supporting the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

In Gaza, Hamas forces not only broke up a sit-in demonstration but they also beat journalists. In Ramallah, armed PA police confiscated journalists' cameras and ordered them to turn off recorders.

Arab activist Omar Barghouti told the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency, "Heavy-handed suppression of the youth-initiated and…peaceful celebration of the Tunisian uprising's overthrow of the dictator, Ben-Ali, indicates where the PA's loyalty lies." (read full report)

 

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Yaalon: Hizbullah Operating in Gaza

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SOURCE: Israel National News

28January2011 11:22amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Hizbullah agents have infiltrated Gaza and are teaching local terrorist groups more advanced tactics, Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Yaalon warned Thursday. The Lebanon-based terrorist group even has a special unit that deals with terrorists in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, he said.

The Hizbullah presence in Gaza began after Israel's withdrawal in the 2005 “Disengagement,” he said.

Yaalon, a former IDF Chief of Staff, said Hizbullah agents could enter Gaza “like the Iranian rockets are coming to Gaza.” Rockets are smuggled into Gaza from Egypt via a system of tunnels under the border.

Terrorists can move from Lebanon to Sudan, then to Egypt, and from there to Gaza, he said.

Hamas denied Hizbullah involvement in Gaza. “All the factions in Gaza are Palestinians,” said spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. (read full report)

GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 'Iran is playing games, using Hamas as a card'

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SOURCE: JPOST

27January2011 4:08pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  Palestinian Authority Negotiator Saeb Erekat said that a two-state solution was necessary for a wider strategy of promoting moderation and fighting extremists in the Middle East, UK newspaper the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

"If there wasn't an Israeli embassy in Cairo," he said, "Bin Laden would be there and if there wasn't one in Amman [Bin Laden's deputy] Zawahiri would set up shop too."

According to leaked "Palestine Papers," in October 2009 the PA negotiator told US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, "Ahmadinejad is in Gaza and Lebanon. Pakistan is going failed. The Arab states are doing nothing." (read full report)

GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: PA Leader Abbas Grants $2,000 to Family of Dead Terrorist

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SOURCE: Israel National News

27January2011 4:03pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Despite the Palestinian Authority's frequent denials that it supports terrorism, Palestinian Media Watch has uncovered a PA media report stating that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas has given $2,000 to the family of a terrorist who was killed trying to murder IDF soldiers.
 
The incident occurred several weeks ago, when a would-be "holy martyr" (shahid) carrying two pipe bombs ran towards the Israeli soldiers manning the Hamra checkpoint near the Jordan Valley. Screaming "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is Greater), he was shot and killed before he could detonate the bombs.

The presidential grant was awarded this week by the governor of the Jenin district, Kadura Musa, to the family of the would-be murderer in the family's village of Al-Yamoun. The governor noted that the grant is financial aid in the amount of $2,000 from Mahmoud Abbas. (read full report)