Hamas in Gaza is once again prepared for a military campaign against Israel, a senior member of the IDF's Gaza Division told officials from a Gaza border community this week.
"Such important things coming from the mouth of a senior IDF official certainly don't always give us new information that we don't already know," said a participant in the meeting, "but they certainly pose a view of the future that is definitely troubling and concerning, and they confirm the belief that the next round of fighting is only a matter of time, as if often said."
As noted earlier, the IDF official said the organization is not interested in a showdown with Israel and is actually busy dealing with small Salafist groups attempting to exacerbate tensions between Israel and Hamas, for example in an incident last week in which a terrorist cell placed an explosive device at the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip.