The Hamas military wing said it was launching a “maneuver” on Sunday March 25. Aping IDF communiques, the Palestinian terrorist group warned of “unusual security traffic and explosions,” stressing that the exercise was “part of its routine schedule and unrelated to current events in the Gaza strip.” DEBKAfile’s military sources report that there was nothing routine about the half-mocking Hamas communique. It signaled intense preparations for the Palestinian extremists’ next act of war on Israel, “The Great March of Return” – or the “March of Millions,” starting on Passover Eve, March 30, and unfolding up until May 15, when Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary of independence and the Palestinians mark a day of mourning for the Naqba. A tent city is going up behind the Gaza the border to house large numbers of civilians, including many women and children, who are intended by sheer mass to flatten the border fence and surge across into Israel. That is the Hamas plan.Before launching its “exercise,” four Hamas operatives managed on Saturday night, March 24, to cut through the Gaza-Israel security fence near Kibbutz Kissufim and reached unnoticed the big IDF crane and other equipment used for building a concrete wall fitted with sensors dozens of meters under group for blocking terrorist tunnels under the Gaza border into Israel. Still unnoticed, they poured flammable materials on the equipment and ignited it. Alerted by the black smoke, Israeli soldiers arrived in time to beat out the fire, while the four infiltrators escaped and slipped back across the border. Found later were containers of gasoline and glue. READ MORE
