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Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) While much attention has been paid to the humanitarian relief enabled by the weeklong truce between Hamas and Israel, national security experts note that the pause may have given Hamas the opportunity to strengthen and resupply its forces for when hostilities resumed Friday.
The truce has led to the successful release of dozens of Israeli and other foreign hostages and hundreds of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons. But both Israeli and U.S. officials had previously advocated for "pauses" in the fighting instead of a general cease-fire, suggesting publicly in the weeks before the truce that a general cease-fire would benefit Hamas.
However, as those short-term pauses were extended daily over the past week, they amounted to at least a temporary cease-fire.
The concern was that Hamas would emerge strengthened so its forces could respond to Israel s devastating ground and aerial assault in northern Ga
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