“We’ve been enjoying unprecedented quiet, Hamas hasn’t fired one bullet …  Hamas is trying to arm itself with rockets but it’s having difficulties importing (rockets) as it did before and it has to manufacture them. That is why they’re conducting all of the tests of firing rockets into the sea. There is also a shortage of materials to manufacture rockets with and they’re trying to improvise – and of course digging defensive and offensive tunnels, we are not fooling ourselves to think that they aren’t.” (Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon speaking in Haifa alongside US Ambassador Dan Shapiro, 22/02/2016)