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Old 20th Oct 2023, 07:29
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Reference the question as too whether attacks on Israel had ceased. Just one days worth.

ISW: https://www.understandingwar.org/bac...ctober-19-2023

Palestinian militias continued indirect fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 19.

The al Qassem Brigades—Hamas’ militant wing—claimed responsibility for 15 mortar and rocket attacks.

Saraya al Quds—the militant wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—claimed responsibility for another eight rocket attacks.

The al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades—the self-claimed militant wing of Fatah—claimed two rocket attacks.

The National Resistance Brigades—the militant wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine—claimed one mortar attack on an IDF military base in southern Israel.

These attack patterns show how Hamas remains the most prominent actor attacking Israel from the Gaza Strip but also how other Palestinian militias have joined the fighting against Israel since the war began on October 7.

PIJ published a message saying “save our shells, you will be blessed with flames,” indicating that PIJ is following Hamas’ approach of reducing indirect fire attacks to conserve its stockpile and prepare for a prolonged war.

Saraya al Quds launched 19 mortar and rocket attacks on October 18 compared to the eight attacks on October 19. CTP-ISW previously reported that Hamas began reducing its rate of attacks from the Gaza Strip on October 12 to conserve munitions.

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An Israeli journalist indicated that Hamas is trying to attack natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean Sea.

The journalist claimed that the IDF has intercepted several attempts from unidentified militants to conduct rocket attacks on such rigs.Israel previously shut down the Tamar gas field, which Hamas struck in 2014, on October 9. About 58 percent of the energy from the gas field served Israel, while 15.5 percent was exported to Jordan.

The Israeli Navy stopped Hamas attempts to send its unmanned mini-submarines into the sea, which Hamas could use to attack energy platforms, according to a report on October 19.

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CTP-ISW recorded 13 attacks from Lebanon into Israeli territory on October 19.The attacks targeted locations across the entire length of the Israel-Lebanon border.

Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) claimed six mortar and small arms fire attacks. LH launched four ATGM at Israeli military positions along the eastern border and released a video of its recent ATGM attacks on Israeli tanks. LH has also continued to target Israeli communications and surveillance equipment over the last week of fighting.

CTP-ISW previously noted that these LH attacks create opportunities for further operations against Israel.

LH is allowing Palestinian militias to continue attacks from southern Lebanon into Israel. The al Qassem Brigades branch in Lebanon said on October 19 that its militants fired 30 rockets at western Israel.

CTP-ISW recorded rocket barrages fired toward both western and eastern Israel, however. The IDF disclosed that LH gave the al Qassem Brigades permission to the fire rockets from Lebanon.

This reporting is consistent with CTP-ISW’s previous assessment that LH probably approves attacks from southern Lebanon into Israel given the extent to which LH controls southern Lebanon.

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