On April 6, over 30 rockets were launched from southern Lebanon into Israel, injuring three and prompting a response by the IDF. While it seems most likely that Hamas carried out the barrage—the largest from Lebanon since the 2006 war—it could only have done so with the permission of Hizballah, the Iran-sponsored militia that controls the area. Oved Lobel argues that this attack is not an extension of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but of the Iran-Israel one:
Once again, as it did in 2021, [Tehran’s] integrated network known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chose to piggyback on tensions and provocations in Jerusalem to launch salvoes of rockets at Israel from Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria. . . . This is far from the first time the Palestinian fronts of the IRGC’s “resistance axis” have fired rockets from Lebanon, hence Israel striking Palestinian bases there in 2013 and 2019. Rockets were also launched, likely by Palestinians, in 2009 from Lebanon.
Both Hamas and the Iranian regime consider the Palestinian terrorist group to be a constitutive element of the IRGC’s regional jihad to destroy Israel. . . . As if to underline the point, the rockets last week were launched while the Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh, leading a senior Hamas delegation, was meeting with Hizballah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut to “coordinate positions and strengthen the resistance against the Israeli enemy.”
It is very important not to fall for the IRGC’s shell game. All of these ostensibly separate organizations, Palestinian or otherwise, are both materially and, in almost all cases—though not necessarily in the case of Hamas—ideologically beholden to Iran’s supreme leader and the IRGC.
Read more on Fresh Air: https://aijac.org.au/featured/recent-rocket-attacks-represent-the-irgcs-palestinian-face/