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Hamas thanks student protesters, dubs them part of the Oct. 7 'flood' to annihilate Jews

2024-05-28

[CampusReform] A senior Hamas official thanked student protesters at American universities for their efforts following the creation of anti-Israel encampments at many college campuses.
"You make us proud!"
A senior Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
official thanked student protesters at American universities for their efforts following the creation of anti-Israel encampments at many college campuses. The official used language that likened the wave of student occupations to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, referred to by Hamas as operation "Al Aqsa Flood."

The comments were made in Arabic by senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal on May 18 and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

"We thank the great student flood which emerged from the American, European, and Western universities," Mashal said. "We have an opportunity to defeat Israel, Allah willing. We have an opportunity to dismantle the Zionist enterprise. We have an opportunity to change the world."

"And to make Paleostine a blessing to mankind, by annihilating the Zionists and their sinful enterprise," Mashal added.

Mashal said "three major steps" are "required" from those protesting against Israel for Paleostine.

The first step, according to Mashal, is to "continue what you started immediately following October 7."

"The activities and the programs that you have held throughout the past 8 months - you should continue the," Mashal said. "Continue your financial Jihad. We want a continuous financial Flood, in support of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, to provide the people shelter, aid, and food, in support of the mujahideen, and in order to buy weapons for them."

Mashal also called on individuals to "siege" Israeli and American embassies.

"We want a flood in the form of a siege of the Israeli and American embassies. We want constant rage that will stop this aggression. We want a media Flood that will deliver its message. We want the truthful Paleostinian narrative to reach far and to control all social media platforms and all forums. We want a legal Flood, like in the Hague. We should prosecute the criminal killers. We stand by South Africa and the countries that have now joined it — ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, Libya, and Egypt," Mashal said.

The second step, Mashal said, "is that we want to become involved in the battle of Jihad and resistance."

"Today, we have a greater duty to do more than all we have done before. Indeed, on several fronts, there is blessed participation in the Jihad, and we are grateful to the people behind it. We want total integration in the battle on the ground. Today, we want a Flood of Jihad and resistance," he said. "It is good for Mankind, because annihilating the Zionists is good for humanity as a whole."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas organized confab in 2021 to plot administration of ’liberated Palestine’

2024-04-23

[IsraelTimes] Terror group aimed to bring back Paleostinian refugees, kill Israeli fighters, use educated Jews for their expertise, and be recognized as Israel’s successor at UN

Two years before its October 7 assault on southern Israel, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", drafted a "strategic vision" for the governing of "liberated Paleostine" after the supposed inevitable demise of the State of Israel.

At a conference held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
in September 2021, Hamas and other Paleostinian factions discussed preparations for the future administration of the State of Paleostine, intended to make up the whole territory "from the river to the sea," including the area of the State of Israel.

The conclusions reached at the conference, titled "Promise of the Hereafter — Post-Liberation Paleostine," were publicized by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in an October 2021 report.

The confab was reportedly funded by Hamas and sponsored by Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.

Today, it is apparent that the conference was not merely a rhetorical exercise, but the expression of a clear intent by Gazook terror factions to destroy Israel, the stated goal of their October 7 onslaught, when some 1,200 were brutally massacred and 253 kidnapped to Gaza.

That objective was reiterated by former leader Khaled Mashal, who stated in a January interview that October 7 proved that liberating Paleostine was a "realistic idea."

The concluding statement from the 2021 conference outlines the steps needed to launch the new state, including how to deal with the Jews and the weeding out of informants to "purge Paleostine and the Arab and Islamic homeland of the hypocrite scum that spread corruption in the land."

Participants agreed upon the necessity to draft a Paleostinian Declaration of Independence immediately after the "liberation." To be drafted by experts, the document was seen as a continuation of the Pact of ’Umar signed upon the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem in 638 CE with its Christian patriarch.

An announcement would then have been issued to the UN, declaring that the state of Paleostine succeeded the "occupation state" [i.e., Israel] and would inherit the rights previously granted to Israel at the UN, based on the Vienna Convention on the Succession of States, including agreements on existing land and maritime borders with neighboring countries.

The Jewish population of the newly formed state of Paleostine would be treated according to their status: Fighters would be killed; those attempting to flee could be allowed to do so or detained and prosecuted for their crimes; and those who surrendered could be either integrated into the new state or given time to leave.

The issue would be dealt with "humanely, as is characteristic for Islam," the statement read.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
special treatment was to be granted to "educated Jews and experts in the areas of medicine, engineering, technology, and civilian and military industry," who were to be retained for some time so that they would not leave taking with them the knowledge they had acquired "while living in our land and enjoying its bounty."

The following step, according to the document, would be the return of Paleostinian refugees, through the establishment of temporary absorption centers near the borders with host countries [~~Lebanon~~ Hezbollahstan
<del>Lebanon</del> Hezbollahstan

...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
, Syria and Jordan]. A "law of return" would be applied to them, and they would be issued identity cards, the statement read.

The international community and wealthy Paleostinians were to assist in the repatriation and integration process.

The new state would also issue its own currency, called New Paleostinian Junayh. Junayh (a term related to the English "guinea") was the currency used in Mandatory Paleostine, also known as the Paleostine pound or lira. It is also the name currently used in Arabic for the Egyptian pound.

"It should be introduced domestically even now so that people will become accustomed to it," the statement advised.

To protect the new state, the document called for "popular committees" of trained men and women to "guard the resources of the land and monitor them," since "Paleostinian fighters will be too busy." It is unclear what resources are meant.

On the same topic of "resources," conference chairman Kanaan Obeid said that the terror group learned a lesson from the 2005 Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip — when 21 settlements were evacuated and most of the residential buildings were destroyed. Later, some 3,000 state-of-the-art greenhouses were bought by foreign donors for $14 million and transferred to the Paleostinian Authority when it still ruled Gaza to jumpstart the agricultural sector in independent Gaza. The local population however looted and destroyed the structures.

"The resources of the settlements were lost," said Obeid.

Obeid reportedly served as the chairman of "The Promise of the Hereafter Institute," set up in 2014 with the stated goal of plotting out different aspects of the governance of the state of Paleostine after the "liberation" — including the economy, politics, security, and society.

The MEMRI report further noted that a Hamas politburo member relayed a speech by Sinwar at the conference, emphasizing the need to prepare for the day after the "liberation."

Referencing the May 2021 conflict against Israel, when, over 11 days, Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
fired over 4,000 rockets and mortar shells at Israel, Sinwar said that that round of fighting "did not suddenly break out," but rather "the resistance had prepared for it with years of planning, training, military, and intelligence development."

The terror leader further predicted that the conflict with Israel "can end only with the implementation of the promise of victory and control that Allah gave us — that our people will live with dignity in its independent state with Jerusalem as its capital."

A former high-ranking Fatah member from Gaza who was well acquainted with the Hamas leadership recently spoke to Haaretz about another aspect of Hamas’s scheme for the "day after," namely the administrative division of "liberated Paleostine" into cantons.

The man said he was contacted by a well-known Hamas figure who informed him that Hamas was "preparing a full list of committee heads for the cantons that will be created in Paleostine." In 2021, he was reportedly offered the chairmanship of the "Zarnuqa" committee, named after the Arab village where his family lived before 1948, that was slated to cover the cities of Ramle and Rehovot.

The Fatah official reportedly reacted to the Hamas offer in disbelief: "You’re out of your minds."

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The Grand Turk

Hamas' Haniyeh, Erdogan meet in Istanbul to discuss relocation to Turkey

2024-04-21

Hamas’ politburo head Ismail Haniyeh met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his residence in Istanbul on Saturday. The meeting, which took place against the backdrop of reports that Hamas's political leadership is considering leaving Doha was attended by other senior Hamas officials, including Khaled Mashal.
Told ye

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Report: Hamas capabilities depleted, but terror group ‘remains in de facto control of swaths of Gaza’

2024-04-14

[IsraelTimes] Officials and sources close to Hamas tell Britain’s The Guardian newspaper that while the terror group’s capabilities have been depleted, it is far from defeated.

The report says Hamas “remains in de facto control of swaths of Gaza” and notes that fighters from the terror group have been spotted maintaining order on the streets of Khan Younis, just days after Israeli troops withdrew from the city.

The outlet also notes the tensions between the terror group’s leadership in Gaza and abroad, including “deep personal animosity” between Yahya Sinwar and Khaled Mashal.

Additionally, the report says Hamas is facing rising dissent within Gaza.

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Arabia

Qatar and US working to expel Hamas leaders from Doha, Saudi media outlet reports

2024-02-10

“If the Hamas war expands, we assuredly do not want it to expand here.”

[IsraelTimes] The United States and Qatar
Qatar

...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
are working on a joint plan to expel Hamas leaders from Doha, Saudi-funded news outlet al-Arabiya reports.

The media outlet did not provide further details and the claim has not been corroborated by any other sources.

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh resides in Qatar, as do senior officials Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashal.

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The Grand Turk

Hamas leaders hold secret meeting in Turkey - report

2023-12-18

[JPost] Shhhhh it's a secret
Senior Hamas officials held a secret meeting last week in Turkey, Israel's national broadcaster KAN revealed on Sunday night.

At the head of the meeting were Deputy Chairman of the Political Bureau of Hamas Saleh al-Arouri, who attended from his residence in Beirut, and former Hamas chief Khaled Mashal, who lives in the Qatari capital, Doha. Several other senior Hamas officials attended, according to KAN.

Turkey was deliberately chosen as the site of the meeting, as it was deemed safe enough for the leaders to meet there. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continually used anti-Israel rhetoric since the start of the Israel-Hamas War, declaring Israel guilty of war crimes.

The meeting was held to coordinate Hamas's next steps in the current conflict with Israel.

Hamas leaders have yet to determine their next steps in the war, both within Gaza itself and the role of Iran-proxy group Hezbollah in Lebanon, but KAN reported that another hostage-prisoner deal may be on the table. On Sunday night, Egyptian officials stated that Israel and Hamas are both open to a renewed ceasefire and hostage release, although disagreements remain on how it would be implemented.

The Hamas leadership chose to hold their secret meeting in a third country abroad and not by technological means, such as a video conference or an encrypted phone call, to allow everyone to sit and speak together in a secure environment to prevent Israeli intelligence from infiltrating.

Somebody infiltrated, clearly.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

The Hamas terrorist billionaires who live in marble-floored mansions and luxury hotels as they decry Gaza poverty after profiting from misery and terror

2023-11-07

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Estimates suggest some of Hamas's leaders have a net worth in the billions

Israel and other critics accuse the group of spending money on luxuries instead of helping the people of Gaza

But as the territory's 2.3million people suffer, several hundred millionaires are registered in the coastal Strip.

And while the majority of citizens in the densely populated territory - which is a quarter of the size of Greater London - languish in poverty, a select few live in marble-floored mansions and luxury hotels.

According to the Embassy of Israel in the US, three of Hamas's most senior leaders - Mousa Abu Marzouk, Khaled Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh - have net worths of more than $3billion each. The embassy also claims that Hamas's annual turnover is $1billion and suggests the group is second only to ISIS as the world's richest terror group.

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India-Pakistan

'Muslim Ummah must unite against Israel's atrocities', Hamas chief tells Fazl

2023-11-06

[GEO.TV] With Israel continuing its relentless bombing of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty. Fazl seldom misses a meal and is now so large he has his own gravitational pull...
met Paleostinian resistance group Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
's leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
and former chief Khaled Mashal in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
on Sunday.

The JUI-F chief is in Qatar where he is expected to reach out to the Arab world leadership to find a way to provide aid to Gaza which has been facing a dire humanitarian crisis due to the ongoing Israeli bombing of the strip following the October 7 attack by Hamas, sources told Geo News.

"The two sides held detailed discussions over the Paleostine issue", JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri said while shedding light on the meeting between the veteran politician and Hamas leadership.

"[The JUI-F chief] conveyed condolences and expressed solidarity with the people of Paleostine in wake of Israeli atrocities in Gaza," the statement on Fazl's X account read.

During the meeting, Haniyeh called for Moslems to unite in the face of Israeli aggression — which has killed nearly 10,000 Paleostinians since October 7.

"It is the Moslem Ummah's responsibility to unite against Israeli atrocities," Haniyeh said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
Mashal highlighted that the prevalent atrocities in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
and Paleostine are a slap in the face of so-called human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
advocates.

The JUI-F chief, while echoing Hamas leadership's views, said that the developed nations have the blood of innocent children and women on their hands.

Mashal appreciated Fazl's efforts for the Paleostine cause saying that the JUI-F chief is playing the role of Paleostine's ambassador in Pakistain.

The sources said Fazl was the first religio-political leader from any Moslem country who has embarked upon the war zone.

The party said that "the movement of Maulana Fazl has been kept secret since he wanted to reach the devastated people quietly and offer them assistance". He is carrying food and medicines with him, the sources had told The News.

The publication said that after addressing a mammoth rally "Toofan al-Aqsa March" in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and "Sindh Aman Conference", Fazl left for "some destination" from where he would reach the oppressed people of Gaza.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal: October 7 paved the highway towards the removal of Israel

2023-11-02

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal:

October 7 paved the highway towards the removal of Israel.

Russia and China can do more to help us, this is their opportunity to abolish American monopoly. pic.twitter.com/oZbwibIMlh
— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 2, 2023

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Terror Networks

Poor Gaza, rich Hamas-The Gaza Strip is one of the poorest places on earth, but its leaders bask in huge wealth.

2023-11-01

[GlobesIsrael] The Gaza Strip is one of the poorest places on earth, but its leaders bask in huge wealth.

Much like its underground tunnel network, it can't be seen from the surface but the underside of Gaza City is lined with cash. While Gaza is considered one of the poorest regions in the world, its leaders enjoy lives of luxury, many with fortunes of millions or billions of dollars.

Gaza suffers from an unemployment rate of over 60%. In a 2022 World Bank report, GDP per capita in Gaza was estimated at $1,257, approximately one-fourth the estimated $4,458 GDP per capita in the West Bank. These figures make it one of the world's most impoverished places. Many attribute its limited economic growth to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade that, since 2007, has imposed restrictions on goods entering or exiting the Gaza Strip. This argument, however, ignores a fundamental issue in Gaza, which is the wealth of the Palestinian leadership.

The Hamas leadership built its wealth mainly through the booming tunnel industry, with Hamas officials imposing taxes, generally 20%, on all goods smuggled through the tunnels. Unlike the secrecy surrounding the tunnels themselves, their role in enriching Hamas and its supporters has long been out in the open.

Today, more than half of the residents of Gaza live in severe poverty, but already in 2012, there were reports of some 600 millionaires living in Gaza, who made their fortunes thanks to the hundreds of underground tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. At that time, newspaper Al Monitor, as cited by The Tower, described the trade through the tunnels as the factor that "gave birth to a new class of rich people who managed to accumulate a huge fortune in a short period of time".

Many of the senior members of the terrorist organization that controls Gaza keep a low public profile, and some have spent a considerable proportion of their lives evading assassination attempts by Israel. For years, their wealth was also considered a mystery. Today, much is already known about the way in which these individuals, born and raised in refugee camps, were transformed into reclusive tycoons. But since the day Hamas shocked Israel with the deadliest attack ever launched from Gaza, questions have surfaced anew.

PRIVILEGES AND PERKS FOR HANIYEH'S OFFSPRING
A few hours after the outbreak of the Hamas attack on Israel, according to The Times of Israel, Hamas leader and puppet-master Ismail Haniyeh (61) was seen on video celebrating the invasion from his luxurious office in Doha, the capital of Qatar, while he and other senior Hamas officials cheered happily before prostrating themselves on the floor, in praise of Allah.

During his long years as a senior Hamas official, Haniyeh, who was elected head of the organization's political bureau in 2017, has accumulated an impressive fortune. He has lived in Qatar since 2019. His exact net worth is unknown, but today is estimated to be at least $5 million.

Haniyeh, who in 2018 was designated as a terrorist by the US State Department, has acquired impressive assets over the years. In 2010, Haniyeh paid $4 million for a 2,500 square meter plot of land in Rimal, Gaza's posh beachfront neighborhood, near the Shati refugee camp where he grew up. He registered the land in his son-in-law's name, according to Egyptian weekly Rose al-Y?suf.

Since then, Haniyeh has reportedly purchased additional houses and registered them too in the names of some of his 13 children. One of his sons is even known in Gaza as Abu al-Akerat, or "father of real estate". Haniyeh's children exploit their privileged status both inside and outside Gaza. Having obtained a Turkish passport, according to reports, Haniyeh's son travels to and from Gaza, investing in properties in Turkey, joining the family's international enterprises. Meanwhile, according to reports, Haniyeh's children own generators, and sell electricity inside Gaza, a rare commodity that they themselves get for free.

Already in 2021, The Jerusalem Post reported on intelligence information indicating that, from the early 2000s and up until 2018, Hamas controlled some 40 commercial companies in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Algeria and Sudan. Citing business intelligence website Double Cheque, it was reported that most of the companies were in the real estate and infrastructure sectors. "Hamas has chosen to manage its secret investment portfolio in Turkey because of the weak financial system in Turkey, which enables Hamas to hide its money-laundering activity and tax violations from the regulatory bodies". According to Double Cheque, these were assets worth about $500 million.

PERSIAN GULF REAL ESTATE AND FINANCIAL CONGLOMERATES
Haniyeh isn't the only one. Towards the end of last year, according to The Times of Israel, more and more high-profile Hamas officials moved from Gaza to luxury hotels in Beirut, Doha, and Istanbul, where they maintain a life of opulence and extravagance that the residents of Gaza - whom they claim to represent - would not dare dream of in their wildest imagination.

The person leading Hamas inside the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar (60), has also amassed a considerable fortune, estimated at $1-3 million, according to the BBC. Sinwar, who was born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp during Egypt's rule of the Gaza Strip, is the founder of the Hamas security service. Although he was sentenced to four life sentences in Israel in 1988, he was released in deal to bring back captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and was reinstated as a senior Hamas leader. In 2017, he was appointed chief of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

In addition, there is the person known to the Palestinians as "The Brain", to the Israelis as "The Cat with Nine Lives", and now also as the planner (together with Haniyeh), of the most recent terrorist attack. For years, Israel has considered Mohammed Deif among the most wanted Hamas leaders, as well as among the most elusive. To date, a total of three photos of Deif have been issued: one of Deif in his twenties, another in which he wears a mask, and a the third where only his shadow is visible.

Deif (58, born Mohammed Masri), who leads the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, was nicknamed thanks to having evaded seven Israeli assassination attempts, the last one in 2021. According to media sources, at June 1, 2023, Deif's estimated net worth was approximately $5 million.

Khaled Mashal (67), who was born in Silwad in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control, was also central to the terrorist organization. In 1992, Mashal played a key role in establishing the core Hamas leadership, and eventually rose to the top. Like Haniyeh and others, he also lives in Qatar today, and is known for having invested in Egyptian banks, and real estate projects in the Persian Gulf countries, amassing considerable wealth. He is considered one of the leadership's richest people. His personal wealth was estimated to be in the billions of dollars a decade ago by publications in the Arab world. It is currently estimated at about $5 billion.

Mashal's deputy, Dr. Musa Abu Marzouk, previously considered number two in the Hamas hierarchy, has also long since established his position on the Hamas list of tycoons. According to Dr. Col. (res.) Moshe Elad, lecturer in Political Sciences and History of the Middle East at the Western Galilee College, back in the early 1990s, Marzouk launched a fundraising campaign in the US among wealthy Muslims, and at the same time founded several banking operations. Elad told Globes that Marzouk had turned himself into a conglomerate of 10 financial enterprises, giving loans and making investments.

CRYPTO - THE INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS WORKAROUND
In addition to the tunnels tax industry, global financing networks, and international businesses, Reuters recently reported that senior Hamas officials had found a way to circumvent international sanctions: cryptocurrency.

American counter-terrorism expert Matthew Levitt told Reuters that the bulk of Hamas's budget, more than $300 million, came from taxes on businesses, as well as from countries such as Iran and Qatar, or charities. Hamas, which has been sanctioned as a terrorist organization by the US and Britain, for example, has increasingly used cryptocurrencies to avoid international restrictions, Levitt said.

Tom Robinson, co-founder of blockchain research firm Elliptic, told Reuters that "Hamas has been one of the more successful users of crypto for the financing of terrorism". After the outbreak of violence of May 2021, Hamas-controlled crypto addresses received more than $400,000, according to blockchain researchers TRM Labs.

However, reports Reuters, after large losses this year, and because of the ability to track transactions in the cryptocurrency accounting system, senior Hamas officials said they would stay away from these currencies. It is likely that these crypto losses will be easily recouped, thanks to support from Iran, which last year significantly increased annual funding for Hamas's military wing from $100 million to about $350 million.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hamas, Syria revive ties as Iran seeks to bolster anti-Israel ‘axis of resistance’

2022-10-12

[IsraelTimes] Delegation from Paleostinian terror group due to visit Damascus next week, 10 years after siding with opposition against Assad in Syrian civil war

The Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-ruling Paleostinian terror group Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, is reviving relations with the Iran-backed regime in Damascus after a decade-long rupture sparked by the outbreak of Syria’s bloody civil war.

Analysts say the shift pushes Hamas deeper into the fold of the Iran-led "axis of resistance" against Israel that includes Syria as well as ~~Lebanon~~ Hezbollahstan
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
’s

Hezbollah terror group and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels.

Hamas’s move comes amid fundamental changes in Middle East relationships that saw the Islamists’ long-time ally ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
restore full diplomatic ties in August with Israel, the Gaza terror group’s arch-enemy.

A delegation led by Hamas officials is expected in the Syrian capital next week, following a series of preparatory meetings.

Hamas sees itself as leading the armed Paleostinian resistance against Israel and is considered a terror group by the Jewish state, America and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. Israel, along with Egypt, maintains a blockade on Gaza that it says is necessary to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas and other armed factions.

The terror group last month hailed its newly warming ties with the Syrian regime of Bashir al-Assad as "a service to the (Paleostinian) nation" whose people also live under Israeli rule in the West Bank.

Hamas cited the "rapid regional and international developments surrounding our cause and our nation" — without directly referring to Israel’s restored ties with Turkey and relations with several Arab nations.

The shift comes as Syria’s ally Iran, now hit by a wave of protests, is sharply at odds with Western and some regional powers, especially over its nuclear program, which Israel sees as an existential threat.

IRAN-LED ‘AXIS’
The leadership of Hamas, which has ruled the poverty-stricken enclave of Gaza since 2007, has long been based abroad as Israel’s military has repeatedly struck targets in the territory during fighting with the terror group.

Hamas had its headquarters in Damascus but closed them in 2012 after the terror group, which emerged from the Moslem Brüderbund movement, sided with the opposition against Assad.

Its leaders then moved to the Gulf state of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and to Turkey, which had cut ties with Israel over a deadly Israeli commando raid on a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish aid ship that had tried to breach the Gaza sea blockade.

The Hamas delegation expected in Damascus next week is to be headed by Khalil al-Hayya, its head of Arab relations, said Khaled Abdel Majid, head of the Paleostinian Popular Struggle Front, a group close to the Syrian regime.

Hamas’s decision to ally again with Damascus follows numerous visits by its officials to Syria, both "secret and public," a senior Hamas source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Those meetings were mediated by Iran

...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both...
and Hezbollah, which have both fought on Assad’s side in the civil war, the source said.

All this reflects Iran’s wish to bolster the "axis of resistance" which also includes the terror group Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, said Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a political science professor at Gaza’s al-Azhar University.

As Iran’s talks to restore its frayed 2015 nuclear deal with major powers have faltered, it has turned closer to Russia, which is also facing deepening international isolation over its war in Ukraine.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, based in Qatar, last month traveled to Moscow and met Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

‘A MORAL SIN’
As the terror group returns to Syria, the senior Hamas source told AFP, it plans to "open a representative office in Damascus soon, as a first step towards the return of normal relations."

The former political chief of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, once enjoyed rare privileges in Damascus and had a personal relationship with Assad.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
it remains unlikely the Syrian regime will allow Hamas to rebuild a foothold that has "the weight it had a decade ago," said Jamal al-Fadi, also a politics professor at al-Azhar.

The Hamas leadership may also be wary of spending too much time in Syria, given that Israel regularly launches ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the country, mainly targeting pro-Iranian fighters.

"Hamas’s relationship with Syria at the moment will be subject to difficult security considerations," said Fadi. "It exposes its leaders and its ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s to the dangers of being easily targeted by Israel."

The budding Hamas-Syrian ties have exposed rifts within the Islamic movement.

Saleh al-Naami, a politics professor at the Islamic University of Gaza who is close to Hamas, described the deal with Damascus as a "moral sin."

"It also does not reflect the base of the movement and of the vast majority of its (political) elite," he wrote on Twitter.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the head of Hamas’s political committee, Bassem Naim, said the decision followed years of regional and international discussions.

"In the end, Hamas went with the majority opinion on the resumption of the relationship with Syria," said Naim. "There is no choice but for Hamas to be at the center of the resistance axis."

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Hamas claims to nab Palestinian who aided alleged 2018 Mossad hit in Malaysia

2022-01-10

[IsraelTimes] Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, says unidentified suspect admitted to involvement in slaying of Fadi al-Batsh, an engineer who allegedly helped the terror group build weapons; father demands death penalty

The Hamas terror group announced on Sunday that it had arrested a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Paleostinian who it alleged collaborated with the Israeli Mossad spy agency in the assassination of a Hamas weapons expert in Malaysia.

Fadi Mohammed al-Batsh, a Gaza-born electrical engineer and avowed Hamas member, was shot full of holes by two motorcyclists as he walked to dawn prayers in Kuala Lumpur in 2018, in a killing widely blamed on Israel.

"We arrested a person involved in the liquidation of engineer Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia. He admitted to participating in the liquidation, which was commissioned by the Israeli Mossad," the Hamas-run Gaza Interior Ministry said in a statement Sunday.

The suspect has yet to be publicly identified by Hamas authorities. al-Batsh’s father told Gaza media that he would demand the death penalty and ask that he be allowed to carry it out himself.

"I will request to do to him exactly what he did to my son," Mohammad al-Batsh told the Hamas-linked Shehab news agency.

After al-Batsh was killed, the scientist’s family immediately blamed the Mossad for his death. Hamas officially claimed al-Batsh as a member posthumously. The armed wing of Hamas described al-Batsh as a member of the terror group’s military wing and "a commander."

Israeli politician Avigdor Liberman, who was then serving as defense minister, denied Israeli involvement in the killing. But Liberman also said that al-Batsh was involved in designing Hamas’s missile systems.

"This man was no saint. It was not about improving the electrical grid or improving infrastructure and water... He was engaged in the production of rockets, in improving the accuracy of rockets," Liberman told Army Radio at the time.

"Even if it wasn’t us, there’s no reason to shed a tear," Liberman added.

Israel has a long history of conducting assassinations of its enemies, both in the West Bank and Gaza and abroad. In the mid-1990s, Israeli agents allegedly bungled an attempt to kill Hamas chief Khaled Mashal in Jordan, resulting in a diplomatic crisis.

The deadly attacks increased during the Second Intifada, when Israel allegedly assassinated hundreds of senior Paleostinian terror group members in an effort to halt the wave of suicide kabooms against Israelis.

In Dubai, in 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a key Hamas missile purchaser and importer, was assassinated in his hotel room in a killing widely attributed to Mossad.

The Israeli security services formally disavow most operations. But former officials have extensively discussed the policy in public interviews.

The Mossad has been also accused of targeting those who develop advanced weapons on behalf of terror groups, including Iranian nuclear scientists.

Top Iranian nuclear researcher Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was allegedly assassinated in November 2020 in a sophisticated hit led by a Mossad team.

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