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"All measures of forced displacement have seen a drastic escalation since Oct. 7," Tamara Tamimi, a Palestinian policy fellow at think tank Al-Shabaka, told Anadolu Agency.

This article cites an Al-Shabaka policy brief titled The Dangerous Exceptionalism of Christian Zionism, authored by Halah Ahmad with Mimi Kirk and published on October 3, 2023.

“Israel has for decades been pursuing a maximalist policy of expansion in the West Bank, but different governing coalitions have approached the same objectives with different tactics,” Tariq Kenney-Shawa, a policy fellow at Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, told Al-Jazeera.

Israel’s targeted assassinations have never succeeded at dismantling Palestinian resistance movements. Now they threaten to set off a regional war.

Muhannad Ayyash, an analyst with the Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, told Al Jazeera that Israel’s “ultimate goal” was to “expand Israeli Jewish sovereignty over the entirety of the land, from the river to the sea”.

Tariq Kenney-Shawa, a policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network, noted “Massive attacks … give the Israeli government and military something to point to as a ‘win’ if they result in the death of Hamas leaders and large numbers of civilians because it fits into Israel’s wider strategy of deterrence through unparalleled destruction.”

“Israel’s military has failed both to secure the release of the hostages and to deal a ‘death blow’ to Hamas,” Tariq Kenney-Shawa, a policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network, said. “Massive attacks … give the Israeli government and military something to point to as a ‘win’ if they result in the death of Hamas leaders and large numbers of civilians because it fits into Israel’s wider strategy of deterrence through unparalleled destruction.”

Al-Shabaka policy analyst Muhannad Ayyash was a guest on Al Jazeera English's program Inside Story.

Yahya Sinwar’s appointment sent “a message that Hamas is still united, and its network is still capable of organization and deliberation, despite months of bombing and assassinations.”