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Hamas in Gaza Wages Perilous Campaign of Harassing Israel
(AFP) Night after night, Palestinians in Gaza approach the border fence with Israel, carrying stun grenades and firebombs to hurl toward IDF soldiers. These so-called disruption operations are sponsored by the Islamist armed group Hamas and include sending incendiary balloons into Israel, where they start fires in grasslands and on farms. Since the last war in May, Israel has eased restrictions on the entry of goods into Gaza, widened the permitted fishing zone, and approved a new system for distributing Qatari aid via the UN. Hamas dismisses these steps as not enough, and has resumed its campaign to "irritate" Israel, said Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a political science professor at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, who labeled it a risky strategy.