Hamas has lowered its profile in the West Bank out of fear its men will be captured by the Palestinian Authority and the IDF, and is operating a number of terrorist cells in every major city that are completely compartmentalized to ensure survivability, according to the latest military assessments.

The Islamist group has been severely weakened in the West Bank in recent years, with the IDF conducting almost daily operations in Palestinian cities that began after Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. Since last year, the army has scaled back raids in some towns - such as Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Hebron and Bethlehem - and has allowed Palestinian forces, trained by the United States in Jordan, to carry out anti-Hamas operations.

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The co-operation between Israel and PLO against the common foe amazes me. Who would have thought a few years ago that Hitler's allies and the Zionists would once share an enemy in fundamentalist Islam?