IDF: Hamas chiefs spurred to launch war after seeing Monday Temple Mount clashes

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The Hamas terror group decided to launch the current round of violence, at the risk of all-out war, when its leadership saw photographs and videos of Monday’s clashes between Israeli security forces and Muslim protesters on the Temple Mount, according to an Israeli Military Intelligence assessment.

Driven by both religious fervor and political ambition, the terror group hoped to establish itself in the minds of Palestinians and Muslims around the world as the “defender of Jerusalem” by demanding Israel remove its troops from the holy site and firing a salvo of rockets at Jerusalem when that didn’t happen, even though it risked Israel’s eventual response of punishing strikes on its tunnel infrastructure, rocket production capabilities and its senior leadership, Military Intelligence believes.

This messaging by Hamas be seen in a poster released by the group on its official social media channels on Friday, showing the profile of the commander of the group’s military wing, Muhammad Deif, with the caption, “He promise, he delivered,” referring to this Jerusalem ultimatum.

Hamas has also managed to insert itself into the ongoing domestic strife in Israel, in which Arab and Jewish mobs have taken to the streets in recent days, wantonly and viciously attacking members of the other ethnic group.

Hamas’s rocket launches at Jerusalem on Monday evening were widely seen as an intelligence failure by the Israel Defense Forces, as Israeli military officials for weeks prior to the attack had maintained that Hamas was not interested in a war. IDF Military Intelligence rejects this allegation, saying that it had warned the political echelon of the threat of an attack by Hamas nearly a month ahead of time, in mid-April, when significant clashes broke out regularly between residents of East Jerusalem and Israeli forces and amid the Palestinian Authority’s decision to indefinitely postpone Palestinian elections that were planned for May.

As a result of this warning, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi canceled a long-planned, highly significant trip to Washington, in which he was meant to share Israeli intelligence and assessments regarding Iran’s nuclear program and aggression in the region with the Biden administration.

According to Military Intelligence, on Monday, after determining Hamas’s intention, the IDF explicitly warned the country’s political leadership that the terror group indeed planned to fire rockets at Jerusalem, which it later did. A salvo of rockets screamed toward Jerusalem and the surrounding hill country just after 6 p.m. on Monday, catching much of the capital off guard. The military did not issue public warnings despite these concerns as it felt that it had sufficient defensive capabilities to respond to such an attack. Indeed, the rockets caused only a small amount of damage in towns outside the capital and no injuries. READ MORE