A counter terrorism expert recently warned that Hamas is considering suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians once more; Colonel Jonathan Fighel, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center’s Institute for Counter Terrorism, said, “We’re seeing more and more Hamas flags in Hebron. The public atmosphere to Hamas is much more lenient. This allows the creation of operational terror cells. Hamas is taking into consideration the renewal of suicide bomb attacks”; Fighel added that “Hamas is gaining influence in the West Bank and acting more freely”