(Commentary) Omri Ceren - In June, Hamas operatives activated long-in-the-works plans to escalate terror operations in the West Bank and military attacks from Gaza. Israel responded by launching operations aimed at eroding Hamas' terror infrastructure in the West Bank and its military infrastructure in Gaza. By the middle of August, Israeli security forces had secured both strategic goals. In the West Bank the Hamas coup plotters had been rounded up, their weapons had been seized, and Hamas' leaders had been captured. In Gaza, the long-range rockets had been blown up or wasted, the hang-glider plot had been disrupted, the drones had proven useless, and the tunnels had been destroyed. The country emerged from the summer's violence more secure rather than less secure.
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