The Qatar-based al-Jazeera reported that Hamas has decided to increase security for senior officials in Gaza to protect them from an Israeli attack prior to an agreement on a truce.

Security has also been beefed up for senior Hamas officials who live outside of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian military sources report to al-Jazeera that Hamas intended to step up its security in order to protect its senior officials both inside the Gaza Strip and overseas.

The sources said that the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip under the leadership of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya had asked senior political officials and security officials to take extra safety precautions. Moreover, the senior officials were asked not to go to places where either their lives or the lives of civilians would be in danger.

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According to the al-Jazeera report, Hamas’ personnel security unit in Gaza beefed up its security measures for the movement’s spokesmen in the Gaza Strip and have asked the senior Hamas officials who reside out of the Gaza Strip to be more cautious and to refrain from excessive media appearances.

Palestinian military sources said that Hamas’ precautionary measures in Gaza had been ordered in response to information that was obtained by the Hamas government about Israeli intentions to escalate its operations in the period leading up to the impending announcement of a new truce agreement with Hamas.

According to the report, Hamas anticipates that Israel will attack a number of times in the Gaza Strip prior to the general elections next Tuesday.

David Bedein can be reached at dbedein@israelbehindthenews.com

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David Bedein
David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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