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IDF Eyes Increased Deterrence
(Ynet News) Ron Ben-Yishai - The hit on Assam Subahi Ismail Batash in Gaza was a targeted interception. It's highly probable that the rocket fired by an IAF aircraft that killed Batash and his nephew stopped a terror attack. Batash had sent a suicide bomber to infiltrate Eilat through Sinai in 2007 and kill Israelis. As part of the conclusions drawn following the terror attack on the Israel-Egypt border in August, which claimed the lives of eight Israelis, it was revealed that Israel had prior, detailed intelligence about the Popular Resistance Committees leadership's intentions to carry out the attack, and how it gave the order to the Egyptian and Bedouin cell that carried it out. In light of the events, the IDF instated a policy meant to spare no effort in preventing any terror attack, attempted abduction or projectile fire emanating from Gaza or Sinai.