AMMAN
— Jordanians reacted on social media platforms in support of last Thursday’s
attack by a lone Palestinian youth, Raad Hazem,
in a busy
Tel Aviv street that killed three and injured 15. It took Israeli police and
army units more than nine hours to finally find and ultimately kill the 29-year-old.
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But
while ordinary Jordanians lauded Hazem’s heroism and sacrifice, the government
avoided comment on the incident.
Political
analyst and head of the Jordan Strategic Studies Center
Zaid Eyadat told
Jordan
News that recent regional efforts to reach calm in the West Bank during the
holy month of Ramadan have been derailed. Over the last few weeks, Israel was
rattled by a series of “lone wolf” attacks in what observers described as the
most critical threat to Israel’s internal security in years.
Eyadat
indicated that Israel, the
Palestinian Authority, and a number of Arab
countries were hoping to avoid an escalation during Ramadan in order to prevent
an outbreak of violence similar to what happened last May, also during Ramadan.
He
said that there is a new development in the form of Palestinian armed attacks, which
are being carried out amid tight security conditions, and that this type of
operation is the next model of Palestinian resistance.
Eyadat
added that the danger lies in the Israeli response, describing it as severe,
broad, and violent, but calculated.
Political
analyst
Labib Kamhawi said that organized resistance in the form of traditional
Palestinian groups has been penetrated by the Israelis, and this was clear in
Israel's ability to arrest members of the so-called hidden or sleeper cells.
This
gave way to the emergence of forms of individual resistance, he said.
“Those
young Palestinians who carry out such individual attacks and are largely
unaffiliated with known groups pose a challenge for Israel,” Kamhawi said.
“They
are not funded by a known group, no one can predict their movements, and Israel
is unable to take preemptive measures,” he added.
Individual
attacks such as these put Israeli security services under tremendous pressure.
“It
is very difficult to have prior information about any attack, and that puts
Israel in a state of anticipation and fear,” Kamhawi said.
According
to him, there is a change in the form of Palestinian resistance, from relying
on a classic organization structure to evolving to individual resistance. He added
that whenever individual resistance succeeds, organized resistance loses its
political and social role, and support at Palestinian grassroots levels.
Kamhawi
added that individual resistance will not lead to the liberation of Palestine,
but it will reactivate the tendency among Palestinians to resist the occupation
and make it clear to the world that the Palestinian situation requires a
solution.
According
to analyst
Omar Raddad, "it seems that we are facing a new form of
resistance; it is unknown how long it will last, but there is a state of despair
among the Palestinian people".
Raddad
added that the future of these individual attacks is linked to the Israeli
response, which is informed by “weakness and fear”, and that “the situation
will continue to escalate and it will get worse for both sides unless consensus
is reached to find a solution”.
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