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Did Hamas win Israel-Islamic Jihad war in Gaza? 

Hamas, PIJ stir resistance in West Bank; Egypt steps up, again, as mediator. 

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The Palestinian Hamas movement's leader Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory sign following a speech at a rally during his visit to the southern Lebanese city of Saida on June 26, 2022. — MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images

PIJ and the 'Unity of Battlefields'

The three-day war between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza last week didn’t start in Gaza, although Gazans again paid the heaviest price. The spark began in the West Bank, in Jenin, which is increasingly under the sway of Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement that rules Gaza, and its smaller and more militant counterpart, Islamic Jihad.

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