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April 23, 2020

The Coronavirus Crisis Has Made Hamas Change Its Tune—for Now

The straw that broke the camel’s back?

On April 2, Yahya Sinwar, the ruler of the Gaza Strip, threatened to “cut off the air to six million Zionists and take what we want from [them]”—presumably by overwhelming Israel with rocket fire—if his subjects were to face a shortage of medical supplies for treating coronavirus patients. But since then, something unprecedented has happened: complete quiet along Gaza’s border with Israel, with no attacks either by Hamas or by other groups. Eyal Zisser comments:

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