Hamas has made the same fatal mistake as the IRA

As Israel releases body cam footage showing the stark reality of Hamas terrorists’ brutal attacks on civilians during their assault on 7 October – and as its forces begin launching limited raids into Gaza to prepare the ground for a full-scale offensive by land, sea and air – the severity of Hamas’s situation is finally dawning on its militants. The mood amongst its members in the labyrinthine tunnels beneath Gaza is likely to have darkened dramatically.

Despite Hamas’s delusional boasting of bravely fighting to the death and ‘saving Palestine’, the penny is beginning to drop that these are the final days, both for the terrorists, and for Hamas as an organisation. Whenever Israel launches its onslaught, Hamas has already made the mistake common amongst extremist movements which resort to terrorism to achieve their objectives: they eventually do something so horrendous they destroy themselves.

The provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) learned this the hard way following their Remembrance Day bombing at Enniskillen in Northern Ireland in 1987.