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Israel: Hamas Aiming to Boost West Bank Support, Terror via Charity Groups
(Algemeiner) Dave Bender - Hamas is planning to encourage attacks against Israel as well as sap support in the West Bank from the Palestinian Authority (PA) by exploiting the Islamist "Dawa" social and cultural movement, a security source told the Ma'ariv daily on Sunday. "In the long run, Hamas intends to create an alternative civilian infrastructure that will enable the replacement of the PA's secular government with an Islamic government whose ideology will be similar to that of Hamas," according to the Israel Security Agency (ISA). "Hamas' goal is to expand and strengthen its status among the Palestinians, bring them closer to its ideology, including the notion of Jihad against Israel, and even recruiting on its behalf supporters and partakers in terrorist activities."