The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose group has been responsible for numerous suicide-bomb attacks inside Israel, recently admitted that the so-called security fence Israel has constructed along the Green Line border with the West Bank has complicated his group's efforts to successfully launch more bombings, according to an unclassified Israeli intelligence report citing media accounts.
"There is the separation fence which is an obstacle to the resistance [i.e., the terrorist organizations], and if it were not there, the situation would be entirely different," said PIJ leader Ramadan Shallah.
Apparently, senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzuk agrees. He reportedly told Egyptian intellectuals and politicans: “[carrying out] such [suicide] attacks is made difficult by the security fence and the gates surrounding West Bank residents." Marzuk's comment suggests that not only the fence, but the IDF presence and their activities in the West Bank also help deter suicide attacks.
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