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Hamas Rebuilding Its Military, Increasing Efforts to Attack IDF in Gaza
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - Israeli security officials said they had observed increasing efforts by Hamas to target IDF troops in Gaza and launch attacks on Israeli communities across the border before Israel launched its surprise attack on Tuesday. Hamas has been rehabilitating its capacities under the protection of the ceasefire and rebuilding its military forces. Thousands of Hamas terrorists returned to northern Gaza after the IDF withdrew from the Netzarim corridor, joining the thousands of terrorists that remained in northern Gaza during the fighting. Hamas was reorganizing its battalions and brigades, using underground tunnels that were not discovered or building new ones, placing new IEDs in anticipation of an Israeli incursion, and setting up rocket launchers and cameras. Hamas set up roadblocks and took control of hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid, fuel and water. It collected taxes and demanded payment for humanitarian aid from the civilian population so that it could pay its operatives.