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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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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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