Weapons Used by Palestinian Factions in the August 2022 Offensive
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Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian militants traded rocket fire for air strikes again in the worst bout of violence Gaza has seen since an 11-day war in 2021 that killed hundreds of Palestinians and displaced 72,000 more, according to the United Nations. Unlike 2021, where the fighting was between the IDF and the fundamentalist Sunni group administering Gaza, HAMAS, the recent exchanges of rockets and airstrikes were between the IDF and a smaller, more militant organization and ally of HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). PIJ receives significant resources from Iran, making them formidable despite being smaller and having less infrastructure than HAMAS—who must at least appear to run daily affairs in Gaza and thus cannot focus all its energies on militant activities as does PIJ.
Weapons Used by Palestinian Factions in the August 2022 Offensive
Weapons Used by Palestinian Factions in the…
Weapons Used by Palestinian Factions in the August 2022 Offensive
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian militants traded rocket fire for air strikes again in the worst bout of violence Gaza has seen since an 11-day war in 2021 that killed hundreds of Palestinians and displaced 72,000 more, according to the United Nations. Unlike 2021, where the fighting was between the IDF and the fundamentalist Sunni group administering Gaza, HAMAS, the recent exchanges of rockets and airstrikes were between the IDF and a smaller, more militant organization and ally of HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). PIJ receives significant resources from Iran, making them formidable despite being smaller and having less infrastructure than HAMAS—who must at least appear to run daily affairs in Gaza and thus cannot focus all its energies on militant activities as does PIJ.