Did Hamas Infighting Enable IDF to Eliminate Jaabari?
Top Hamas terrorist Ahmed Jaabari may have been a victim of Hamas infighting, a report in a Gulf newspaper said
First Publish: 11/26/2012, 5:14 PM
IDF satellite photo of attack on Jaabari convoy
IDF spokesperson
The paper reported that Haniyeh and Jaabari, commander of Hamas's "military" terror wing, had been at odds of late. Jaabari, according to
the report, conducted a search of Haniyeh's house, apparently under
orders from Hamas top terrorist Khaled Mashaal, in hiding in Damascus.
Haniyeh objected, but Jaabari went ahead with the search anyway. Senior
Hamas terrorists were involved in the schism, with some taking Haniyeh's
side, and some taking Jaabari's, the report said.
Meanwhile, Israel had been planning a
strike on Haniyeh, the report said, and was using cellphone detection
technology to find him. Generally, top Hamas terrorists disable location
chips in their cell-phones so that Israel cannot use the devices to
track them down, but Israel is using new technology to find terrorists
even when their location chips are inactive.
Apparently, though, Jaabari's phone had
its chip activated, enabling the IDF to track him and eliminate him.
Although the report did not speculate that Jaabari may have been set up
by Haniyeh in revenge for search his house, Israeli sources said that it
was “certainly possible,” since Hamas is well-known for its infighting.
Jaabari's elimination was
Israel's opening salvo in the eight-day Operation Pillar of Defense,
which came after years of rocket fire by Hamas terrorists - much of it
directed by Jaabari - on southern Israel.
Labels: Conflict, Crisis Politics, Cults, Culture, Hamas, Islamism, Israel
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