Hamas has limited military capabilities overseas but can rely on other terrorist groups, such as Hizbullah, as part of its effort to strike at Israel in retaliation for last month’s assassination in Dubai of one of its top operatives, which has been attributed to the Mossad.

Unlike Hizbullah, defense officials noted on Sunday, Hamas does not have much experience operating overseas.

Hizbullah, with Iranian assistance, is believed by Israel to have been behind the bombing in 1992 of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, in retaliation for the targeted killing of Abbas al-Musawi, the head of the guerrilla group, by Israel in southern Lebanon.

Israel also holds the group responsible for the bombing two years later of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and wounded more than 300.

Israel is now concerned that Hamas will increase its efforts to strike at Israeli targets overseas, in response to the assassination in Dubai of Mahmoud Mabhouh, one of the key operatives behind the smuggling of Iranian weapons into the Gaza Strip.

Source: Jerusalem Post