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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a raid in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, only a day after wrapping up a fierce five-day operation there. The raid follows the high-profile assassination of Hezbollah’s operational commander Imad Mughniyah in February and was accompanied by rumors of Israeli reoccupation and a suggestion from an Israeli Security Cabinet member that Gaza and the West Bank be administered, at least for a time, by Egypt and Jordan respectively — a move that would separate the territories from one another.
Israel appears to have recovered from the embarrassment of the 2006 summer conflict with Hezbollah and is displaying a renewed aggressiveness — and Iran seems to have noticed. A Stratfor source indicated on Tuesday that Iranian intelligence officers, military personnel and rocket scientists had recently arrived in Beirut and were hard at work preparing Hezbollah for war. Though Tehran’s support of Hezbollah is nothing new, this surge in support could suggest that it is concerned about further Israeli military action in the Levant following the Mughniyah assassination.
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